#Also 'two drifters off to see the world there's such a lot of world to see'
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The feminine urge to have enough energy so I could make an Apple Pie with Cheese animatic to Moon River 😩💅
#The song's meaning being about deciding to fall in love despite knowing that it could end badly.#Aka Willard. Who's had heartbreaks before but still decides to risk it all. Follow his heart and love Wallace#Because Wallace makes him happy :)#Also 'two drifters off to see the world there's such a lot of world to see'#Something something about the two of them being nerdy machine enthusiasts together who are curious for new adventures#ANYWAY IM RAMBLING#Wallace and gromit#Chicken run#Willace#apple pie with cheese
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I don’t want Old Moon to come back to life -- and I REALLY hope this arc doesn’t end with him being alive again, in any capacity.
In my opinion, bringing Old Moon back to life would be a terrible decision for everything, on all narrative fronts.
It’s true a lot of characters come back to life in TSAMS. When Lunar died, him getting resurrected was part of the story from the beginning (Monty located part of his nanomachine body and started work right away). Solar coming back to life has been a key point of this arc. Etc
But Old Moon's death was permanent. The story was that it couldn’t be undone.
So much of the story, angst, and arcs (New Moon’s entire life; Sun in so much pain from losing his brother) centered around Old Moon being gone for good.
What made Old Moon’s death so impactful WAS that it was permanent. He made the choice to die and Sun would never see him again. He would never meet Earth or bond with Lunar or Solar. The whole painful denial of closure.
But -- to be able to just… BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE, it cheapens everything. It retroactively makes everything, all the angst and character development involving the memory of Old Moon, lose what made it so good. (And now knowing it was possible from the very beginning??? Doubly so. So many sad moments are tainted knowing that Monty was sitting off to the side, awkwardly whistling and twiddling his thumbs.)
Because the story was written this way, bringing Old Moon back is one of those things that shouldn’t be touched. Some characters need to die and stay dead.
(I was even hesitant when Monty first brought up that Moon could talk to his old self. I was worried this meant Old Moon was still “technically alive”, which would lead to the cheapening of things. But, when they said Old Moon was just an “instinctual copy”/comatose at all times, I was a little reassured; that was manageable. The show even stressed that Old Moon wasn’t actually alive; Monty said it plainly that he couldn’t take over, he was just an instinctual copy. New Moon himself said “he knows he’s dead. He knows he's isn't going to come back.”
So…
Why are we playing with the idea of him coming back now!? After all that!?
And bringing him back wouldn’t FIX anything. Not for Sun or the family --
Recently, Sun disowned New Moon, and started talking about how toxic Old Moon really was towards him.
And we saw how Old Moon acted while comatose. Even in DEATH, Old Moon didn’t really want to change who he was or how he behaved. He even says he’s afraid of talking to Sun because of what he might say. If he won’t change after experiencing death, he is probably never going to. If he comes back, he’ll most likely go right back to being the exact same asshole.
And we know that Sun has developed enough to finally not take it. He would NOT let Old Moon treat him like that anymore. He is willing to cut a toxic family member out of his life.
So, what -- would the story just bring Old Moon back, have him be the same asshole that Sun has moved beyond, and then have Sun put his foot down and do a second disownment? I just don’t see the point in that.
Even if something really dumb happens, like Old Moon is given a SECOND BODY so that there are both Moons at the same time… are they just gonna have Old Moon be exiled from the family and become a drifter side character out in the world, who only shows up to cameo once in a while? That would not be satisfying -- and I doubt Old Moon would be happy being away from the family, seeing how the show hammers in how his family is the only thing he cares about.
(And you can’t have him hanging around as a permanent member of the cast alongside New Moon – you’d have to juggle two Moon characters, which just seems like a HUGE headache for everyone and could get confusing for the viewers trying to keep who is who straight. I’m sure that acting for two Moons in every scene would also be a pain in the ass for the voice actors. Plus, New Moon is just THE MOON of The Sun and Moon Show now; are they going to alternate between which Moon is doing the gaming videos??? That’d be a mess.)
(The only other option is to fuse both Moons into Moon-V.3. which is. Please no. We’ve already had a Moon reset, and this would essentially be the same thing, creating a whole new person. It’s redundant, we’ve done that before. Please do something else.)
New Moon is a real piece of work right now and I don't like this arc, but this is his story to conclude. Not Old Moon's. New Moon has to deal with the repercussions of what he's done to the family (and it's looking like Dark Sun has been controlling him or nudging his personality, so he might not be as guilty as we initially thought; we'll have to see the extent of how much control Dark Sun had). New Moon has to face the consequences of his actions himself. In a way, Old Moon ran away from his consequences when he let himself die, he never had to face up to what he did or atone with his own hands; New Moon needs to stay and face what he's done in this story, he needs to face what happened to the family. Even if it's revealed it's not entirely his fault, he needs to stay. (If he does stay, he will actually be better than Old Moon, who ran away.)
If Old Moon HAS to come back, there’s just one way I can think of that I’d want it to go, but this is already long enough, so I’ll save it for later. I just wanted to throw my opinion out here.
TLDR: I don’t want Old Moon to come back to life AT ALL because it will cheapen the story and his death, and if he comes back to life there’s no satisfying place for him.
#the sun and moon show#sun and moon show#TSAMS Moon#sams moon#wanted to get this out there while there was still time to
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I really need to info dump about my rooks so badly. Idk if anyone else will read it but I run this blog for me so I'm making it. I'm doing three different playthroughs at the same time, because I'm crazy. I have my blind first time playthrough which I have done with all the dragon age games. I progress a bit with this one then catch up to it with my other playthroughs. Then I made my lavellan playthrough because I didn't want to make myself wait until I finished my blind playthrough to get more content for that. I didn't plan to make a third character but I loved the crows so much I NEEDED to make a crow rook and to my surprise it has turned into my favorite of the bunch.
Nyxi is my blind playthrough rook. She's a human, a Lord's of Fortune treasure goblin, and a mage. I like to think she's a real girls girl. She's romancing Lucanis and I like to think she makes Solas listen to how attractive she thinks he is before they discuss anything concrete about saving the world. She's a lot like Kelly from the office, if kelly wasn't as self centered. I think she's been a drifter most of her life and while she likes traveling and hunting treasure, I also think she's really jealous of people who have a place they feel like they absolutely belong.
Sorcha is also a mage, but she's an elf and a shadow dragon. She's very involved with the anti slavery movement. I headcanon that she had a brush with slavers herself and got help from them. Then, she realized later on she could do a lot more with her magic. She realized she could actually us it to do something worthwhile. She's romancing Davrin, grumpy man taking care of a cute animal was too hard to resist. She has less headcanons than the other two but I still really love her.
Finally, there's Acanita 'Nite' for short (named after aconitum which is the scientific name for wolfsbane and also poisonous). She's my crow, and the only non mage of the bunch. And honestly she REALLY wants to be able to do magic. Who wouldn't honestly? She's been fairly happy with the crows and her life with them. But there are things about being an assassin she doesn't like and has always wanted to do something more worthwhile. I think that's part of the reason she's sent off with Varric in the first place. I think Viago was at least aware of this to some extent. I think she's probably more lonely than she let's on. People rarely see her as her, they see a crow or more recently "Rook" but they don't see HER. If that makes sense. Which I think makes even more sense for her to be the character who romances Emmerich. He is a very warm person from the start and is very interested in asking rook if they would tell him stories about themselves and their travels. She's also absolutely DELIGHTED to help with any kind of rituals or rites. She loves magic and he's very open in including her in it tangentially and sharing about it, he's literally a teacher. She doesn't care that it's necromancy, she's a crow a dead body is a dead body it doesn't really freak her out.
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Murder Drones AU/Fanfic: "Through The Looking Glass"
AO3 summary: What happens... When you look through a mirror and find out the world is reversed? Is it like looking at the same world but completely different at the same time? Is it like you're looking into a window to a different world? What happens if the world as you knew it was completely flipped upside down? What happens if you look in that mirror and the same person staring back at you... Isn't you anymore? But is someone completely different living life in your shoes on the other side of that mirror?
Beau Doorman is what he'd call an average worker drone... Except maybe not so average by the time you factor in the weird dreams and the crazy over the top inventions. Okaaaaay maybe not as average or as normal as he thinks he is. Any semblance he had to normal flew right out the window with the reappearance of the colony's local drifter, a fateful scavenging trip, and three new friends haunted by their ghosts of the past. With the reemergence of a terrifying program from the past, everyone finds themselves being thrown into a story about found family, loss, grief, and recovering from that grief.
Information about this AU and a link to its fic's first chapter below the cut!
"Through The Looking Glass" (abbreviated to LG from here on) is my personal take on a swap AU! In this AU, MD canon as you know it has been taken and flipped upside down or perhaps more aptly, run through a cracked mirror. This is a character swap AU but the characters and roles have been shuffled around in deliberately wacky and wild combos and not every character/role has a clean 1:1 swap or direct mirror to their canon role
Since LG is a swap AU, this is set to retell all eight (yes, I am aware only seven are out at the time of writing) episodes of Murder Drones but with the swapped characters. Do note this is not just a 1:1 retelling of canon and some scenes are entirely new or have been twisted upside down and all around compared to how they went down in the actual episodes to the point they're almost unrecognizable unless you notice the roots of the scene
As you can see from the AO3 summary I copypasted... This AU stars Beau Doorman as our main character, taking the place of Uzi's role. He was born and raised in Outpost-3 by his parents Alice and Khan Doorman. Unlike canon Nori... Alice did not meet the business end of nanite acid in this AU and has lived to the present day/the fic's start. She is well known around the colony for being a bit of a menace with her hobby of making all kinds of scrap inventions and weaponry
Beau is joined by his childhood best friends Vivian (V) and Thad who happen to be the two most popular kids and the power couple of the school. He has also managed to befriend the mysterious borderline feral drifter named Uzi that's been randomly turning up at his colony for months now before disappearing without a trace again. Nobody knows why that mysterious purple haired girl seems to crawl around on all fours or make warbles and chirping sounds... Or why her systems are seemingly constantly running at feverishly high temperatures
There's also those three disassembly drones that haunt the vertical corpse graveyard outside Outpost-3. Let's take a look at them now, shall we?
Serial Designation B (Braiden) is the appointed leader of the disassembly drone squad and the pilot of their crashed landing pod but he's... sort of known for not feeling much like a leader. He struggles with a lot of fears over failing the squad and letting the people around him down. In fact, he worries so much about letting people down he felt bad when he tried to scare off a certain worker drone he had befriended for their safety...
Serial Designation C (Cyn) is the fastest but physically weakest of the squad due to her body and core being prone to malfunctions. She has good days where she can move about normally but on her worst days she is prone to motor malfunctions as well as voice box malfunctions leading to her voice skipping words or getting stuck. She seems to harbor a lot of guilt over some ghost of the past...
Serial Designation D (Doll) is the strongest of the squad and in a way the secondary leader because B asks for her input or suggestions often when it comes to planning or hunting tactics. She carries the weight of the squad on her back most days and tries to keep B and C from falling apart on her, but she seems to know a lot more about things than she lets on...
None of the three seem willing to mention or talk about the missing fourth drone of their group... None of the three seem willing to discuss the mysterious three-pronged symbol that's popping up on the visor of their new worker friend either. Gee, I wonder why they look so scared...?
Visit the link below to read the first chapter of the AU! Do note this AU is still ongoing so it's not finished yet but I am working on it and post chapters as they're done. Also! My ask box is open if you want to throw a question or two my way about the AU (or my other AUs!)
(And one more quick note: LG here was the first fic I started writing if we don't count two quick shorts I did so the earlier chapters read a bit roughly. If you can bear it, I swear the formatting and wording gets better in the later/newer chapters now that I've had some practice. I will one day go back and edit the earlier chapters of LG to make it easier to swallow but I haven't done that yet at the time of writing this so you have been warned)
#murder drones#murder drones au#murder drones fanfic#murder drones fandom#swap au#murder drones beau#murder drones alice#murder drones khan#khan doorman#murder drones uzi#uzi doorman#murder drones v#serial designation v#murder drones thad#murder drones braiden#murder drones doll#murder drones cyn#infodump#au info#Through The Looking Glass#Looking Glass AU#Murder Drones Looking Glass AU
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CPN : XZS vlog chapter 5.5 Rome & Paris 📺
just some bits and pieces that we picked up from the recent vlog shared by xz and his team. honestly, their work just keeps getting better and better. no one does it like them. some people may hate on him for the ‘vlogs’ but at this point, the production quality is on par with something you can show on tv or a streaming app. xz’s travel show when….
as usual, everything is fake and interpreted with turtle/cpn glasses on. if you don’t like it then feel free to scroll — no one is forcing you. ‼️‼️
Let’s start with the date of posting which 3/29, out of all the days he could have shared this, why now? They usually go for Thursdays but not this one. We think it’s a late 3/28 gift, that day is Wuji recording and also when WYB came home from his Rome trip. What a nice coincidence, cause the vlog posted had Rome in it too. These two are really so particular with dates! I can’t. 🥹🥹🥹🥹
1. One thing that stood out to me was when he was looking at a design book. He was talking about designing typeface and letter, and how there are different formations in writing or presenting them. I don’t think that it was ever CPN that he likes to play with letters/ characters to give a different meaning. or to hide something. think : yibo’s motorcyle suit. this just confirms that.
( i have talked about most ( if not all ) of the design bits and hidden meanings per the photos above and more. it’s too much for me to link each one so just feel free to explore this blog. )
2. The way he was eating the lollipop and his pose is so WANG YIBO. I’m sorry, but that’s the first thing that came to mind. Yibo and his oral fixation is real and we see it on SDC most of the time. 😂 They really mirror each other’s habits now and do certain things that make you go “wait… that’s totally xx behavior and not his..”
people are wondering if they saw the fanart of them eating 🍭 at some point and copied it unconsciously.
3. The element of romance in this vlog makes me wanna scream! honestly. Sure, you can argue that the place ( especially paris ) is romantic or that he is doing fan service to the viewers — like, you’re in a romantic weekend with me in Paris. Yeah. Sure. that’s a plausible explanation. but for a clown like me, the elements seem deliberate.
The lines in Moon River:
I'm crossing you in style some day // Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker // Wherever you're going, I'm going your way // Two drifters, off to see the world // There's such a lot of world to see // We're after the same rainbow's end.
He sang the line ‘ i’m crossing you in style some day ‘ — yeah, ZZ. you will be with WYB one day in Rome and Paris. and the mention of a Rainbow. 🌈 I need someone to make a fan video with this as a BGM please.
Next is JVKE’s golden hour. This one has more 👀 lyrics. The whole “golden” and “see you shine” just screams his love for anything about the sun. the sun and his sunflower ☀️ and the mention of summer.
We were just two lovers // Feet up on the dash, drivin' nowhere fast // Burnin' through the summer // Radio on blast, make the moment last // She got solar power
I also don’t really buy it when people say “he doesn’t understand the lyrics, don’t think to much..” i mean. are you really lowkey insulting him at this point? he may not know like the details, but i’m pretty sure he understands the general meaning. and like, it’s not that hard to understand english words. come on.
The style for the intros were also reminiscent of the movie Roman Holiday. Maybe they looked up a movie and watched it. but anyway, the story of this is also a romantic movie.
Yes we know you’re not single. ☺️☺️☺️☺️
4. He wore a long wooyoungmi coat which I talked about here. So looks like that’s where the paper bag was from? but if he already wore it, why bring the bag like that? it’s not that precious of a cargo to hand carry anyway. i’m still eating the candy.
5. Same place, but years apart. ⏱️
6. How he was trying to ride the scooter makes me soft. I feel like the influence of riding things like this ( and even the hoverboard he owns ) is from WYB. 🥹 He can’t do motorcycles, but he is willing to try everything else. The whole image of him riding it reminds us of the loyiboard character design too!
7. When you see what’s on screen during the 2:28 timestamp, it’s a dog. Lol. thinking of your puppy back home? There are also two other shots where a dog is there, but not as deliberate as this one.
8. It looks familiar 🤔🤔🤔🤔
9. It depends on how you see it, 8 or infinity. I’ve really been up in arms with this CPN and feel like we will see more of it.
10. The message ZZ brings in this vlog is the best thing tho. from the caption of the video on weibo :
The best time is on the road, to listen In the heart, to draw inspiration, to travel far, to find a different self. Feel free to do what you want👣
I love how he is encouraging people, in a way, to get out there. which was always his message to fans, to have time to go outside and build themselves up. Don’t spend too much time online. Also the bit about feel free to do what you want. I really hope he gets to do that more. I hope he gets to make choices that lean more towards the things he wants. 💕
and this bit : ( to native speakers, feel free to chime in too )
“in the long run the straw weighs” = despite the light weight, everything becomes heavy if you bring it for too long.
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0064: Doctor Strange #169
Cover Date: June 1968 On-Sale Date: February 29, 1968
Doc is finally in his own magazine at last. Dan Adkins continues as the artist in residence while Roy Thomas takes over writing duties. We pick up directly from last month's Strange Tales story, but Victoria Bentley, while mentioned does not appear. For his first solo outing, Roy chooses to rehash Doc's origin with a bit of elaboration. I can't decide if this is lazy or brilliant. Lazy because it's a pre-written story that Roy just needs to throw in some additional details. Brilliant, because it reintroduces that character to what is a new magazine and offers a jumping on point for readers who haven't seen the character in Strange Tales.
In the last instalment The Ancient One told Doc to take a nap and that's just what he's doing here. Doc is ruminating about how tired he is, how he must be forever vigilant, how be many never see Clea again and also Vicky, for some reason. As he does this, Roy and Dan treat us to a nice candlelight striptease as Doc gets ready for bed.
Doc has some doubts as he falls asleep. This is actually an important little detail that will be made clear later.
Then Dan treats us to a lovely full page image that doesn't really provide any new information.
While the origin rehash may or may not be lazy this definitely is. We burn an entire page of real estate without moving the plot forward. Maybe Dan REALLY wanted to draw some clawed monsters.
As his self-doubt grows, we discover something a bit startling. Doc still smokes!
This seems to drive him to recall his past. We start in an operating room much like Lee's and Ditko's original version. Doc makes a callous remark about where to send his bill and walks out of the theater. Doc is approached by a Doctor Benton about some charity work. The doctor isn't named in the original version, but it becomes a plot point in the near future so pay attention! Doc scoffs and takes a call from a wealthy potential client, Mrs. Van Heusen. Perhaps she is the heir to the clothing company. I always liked their shirts. Mrs. Van Heusen needs a minor operation and this is the perfect networking opportunity for the world's greatest neurosurgeon who happens to like money more than anything. The ladykiller elements of Doc's past won't show up for quite some time. Doc is distracted by his thoughts of rolling in piles of green and his fancy convertible is suddenly plunging off a cliff. This is a bit more specific than the original origin, but Roy and Dan do have more pages to fill.
Doc gets beat up pretty bad in the accident. Next thing he knows he's waking up in a hospital bed.
This doctor has bedside manner just as bad as our magician. I don't really think it's wise or empathic to give such bad news to your patient the moment he wakes up! The origin proceeds like the previous version. Doc is too egotistical to work for anyone else, is unemployed, has a bunch of operations to try and restore his hands, becomes an alcoholic and a drifter.
The alcoholism isn't specifically mentioned in the original version, but could be implied by Doc's sorry state. Doc then eavesdrops on a pair of sailors talking about a mysterious old duffer called The Ancient One who can fix anything without using duck tape. I gotta say, Adkins' sailors look a whole lot cooler than Ditko's. Adkins pays homage by using some of the details from the original image although he switched those details around a bit. The giant earring is a nice pirate-y touch! Doc even has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth in both versions.
You and Dan then insert some details of Doc's journey to The Ancient One's pad. He includes a beautiful two page spread that is unfortunately broken up by a border through the middle. I don't know if this was an artistic choice or was the cheap printing process used at the time not precise enough to line things up correctly over the spine.
Doc makes it to the old guy's pad. The Ancient One is presented as much more sinister and he has a more impressive throne. He also gets much more dramatic lighting. Was Adkins a frustrated cinematographer at heart?
The Ancient One then levitates Doc and reads his mind. This version is told in a more linear fashion so the preceding events weren't a flashback. The Ancient One says he can't heal Doc's hands but offers to allow Doc to study with him. Doc naturally refuses, but is stuck at the old guy's pad until the snow falls. The Ancient One's attempt at a joke is omitted in the retelling.
The Ancient One then summons the receptionist, er, his student Mordo to take Doc to his room. Mordo is definitely more intimidating than in the previous version highlighting his greater size.
As in the previous version, Doc is bored and wanders around when he stumbles onto Mordo being a bad boy. Mordo realizes this isn't a good thing and casts a spell to prevent Doc from ratting him out. As before, the spell can't stop him from talking about everything or else the old dude will get suspicious. Mordo proceeds with his attack on The Ancient One. The mode of attack changes from The Vapors of Valtorr to The Flames of the Faltine and Adkins uses an entire page to depict this.
The order things changes a bit here. In the Ditko version, Doc sees the attack on The Ancient One first and then stumbles across Mordo being naughty which is when he casts the gag spell. The reverse happens in the retelling. The Ancient One dispels the flames. Doc is like "I gotta get in on this" which the old guy accepts and removes Mordo's spell. He then reveals that he has been aware that Mordo is a bad little boy and it's best to hold onto him where he can keep an eye on him. Doc's reminiscing ends as he hears The Ancient One scream. It was very polite of him to wait until his memory reached the end of the tale. What is in store for Doc next issue?
Like I mentioned at the start, I don't know if this is lazy or brilliant, but it is very well done. It's mostly faithful to the Lee/Ditko original with enough embellishment to make it more realistic and flow better. There's only so much that can be accomplished in eight pages. Adkin's illustration's are more than Ditko's using more shading and abstract color. His more imaginative panel layout also helps and gives us more expansive views of the action. This story being mostly grounded in a real location plays to Adkin's skills. Ditko still wins by a mile when it comes to weird. Roy Thomas inserts a few elements that will grow to plot points in future arcs. It's a great job overall.
I can't wait for the return of Nightmare. It's been far too long since we've seen him.
#doctor strange#doctor strange reviews#stephen strange#ancient one#baron mordo#Doctor Benton#marvel#comics#roy thomas#dan adkins
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Sonic the Hedgehog and Solarpunk Ideals
Alright, it's June 23rd which means not only is it Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, but it's also Sonic the Hedgehog's 32nd birthday. Let's all say Happy Birthday Sonic the Hedgehog.
Overall, that means it's time for me to do something I usually don't do on this blog--talk about Sonic the Hedgehog, one of my favorite series of all times. Specifically, how I feel it embodies Solarpunk at least a little bit. Hopefully you'll see where I'm coming from by the end of this.
Real quick though, special shout out to @modern-solarpunk for being my beta reader 100/10 owe you my life.
Alright let’s make one thing clear. I’m a Sonic nerd. I’ve been a Sonic nerd since at least the 5th grade. Sonic the hedgehog is one of My Things. IDK if I’d call it a hyperfixation, but it’s definitely one of My Things, and it’s been one of My Things longer than gardening or even Solarpunking and all the other stuff y’all know me for has been. I am about to talk y’alls ears off. Buckle up.
With that in mind, I’m not going to pretend that the Sonic franchise is a perfect franchise made by perfect people working under a perfect corporation. Even ignoring the timeline disasters, retconning, and rushed projects (*cough cough Sonic 06 and Sonic Boom cough cough*), Sonic the Hedgehog is made by a corporation in a capitalistic world who has done some… iffy things in the past, present, and likely the future. We are, here, today, strictly talking about two things--the creation of Sonic and the creation of Dr. Eggman. There will be a super special third topic I bring up later, but that's gonna be its own post. I’ll bring up a handful of things from the shows, comics, movies, etc. If I finish writing and editing and posting this whole lengthy diatribe and someone ignores this paragraph and brings up some inane unrelated shit that the Big Corporation Guys did That One Time Months/Years Ago I might snap. Yes, corporations are bad. Yes, I like Sonic. Let’s establish that.
Ok let’s actually get started.
Sonic the Hedgehog the Dude, Tiny Rebellions, and Freedom
Alright, so Sonic the Hedgehog is a series of games, movies, comic books, TV shows--it's a whole thing, it's an entire franchise. The basics of what you need to know here is that a little 3’3” superpowered anthropomorphic blue hedgehog dude and his array of equally-animalian and equally-colorful friends are ruining the robotics-based evil world takeover plans of a 6’1” egg-shaped human dude on the regular. Occasionally, there are other villains, and other storylines, and sometimes the motivations change, but that sentence boils down the Sonic the Hedgehog storyline to its base essentials.
The Sonic franchise was dreamed up in 1990 when SEGA needed a new mascot to compete with Nintendo’s iconic Mario. Personality-wise, he’s said to have been inspired by “a modern sensibility of wanting to get things done right away, righting wrongs as they presented themselves instead of letting them linger.” As we currently know him, with Sonic “What you see is what you get--just a guy who loves adventure.” He’s a free-spirited drifter who goes with the flow, valuing freedom above all else and wanting nothing more than to live by his own rules and whims rather than bowing to the expectations of others. He loves interacting with the many cultures on his planet (which we mostly see in Sonic Unleashed, but still), trying local dishes with friends frequently. Overall, Sonic is driven by a strong sense of justice and fairness, fighting for the ideal of freedom rather than the name of the law--and he always fights for the underdog. He likes to handle things on his own, but he isn’t above looking to his friends for help when needed--and acknowledges their role in his life and achievements regularly (if he can be a bit smug at times). He appreciates scenic views and nature, with a special fondness for places filled with plants--we see him do this lots in the series--and he hates when people destroy it for their own gain. He doesn’t hate cities, though, and finds they have their own beauty.
So what’s Solarpunk about this? In my eyes, a good bit. If you don’t know what Solarpunk is, it’s described on Wikipedia as ‘a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works towards actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.” Aesthetically, I like to describe it as a mix between sci-fi and cottagecore, with a particular leaning towards some steampunk and some cyberpunk elements, but in a brighter, cleaner, more hopeful way. It's important to note, however, that Solarpunk is also a practical and political action mindset--as much as Solarpunks dream of a hopeful future and work to visualize it, we also work to learn the concepts and take the actions needed to make it a reality. I’m not going to sit here and pretend that Sonic is super politically revolutionary, I’m here to talk about how Sonic fits into the aesthetics of Solarpunk.
As such, lets get into the point--I feel like Sonic is pretty Solarpunk, personality-wise. He just fits a lot of the core tenants--wants to right wrongs ASAP, whether they’re his wrongs or wrongs of the past. He values freedom, traveling, and beautiful natural places--a big chunk of Solarpunk is learning to appreciate and protect the natural species around you, and plenty of people have dreamed up nomadic Solarpunk societies. Even Sonic living by his own rules instead of bowing to expectations fits in Solarpunk--A Solarpunk Manifesto states that “the ‘punk’ in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture… and enthusiasm. it is about going in a different direction than the mainstream…” People in the Solarpunk movement care deeply about freedom, justice, fairness, and fixing the broken systems we deal with today--and often start the legwork by forming or taking part in community-based movements and initiatives. We lean onto those around us for strength and courage, to work as a group to think of solutions to problems, whether that be something small like trading DIY patch instructions to bigger things like planning and creating community gardens to even sharing news about unionizing and more. There’s acts a Solarpunk can do alone--like guerrilla gardening, or moss graffiti, or drawing and writing concepts of a brighter future--but we all know we’re at our strongest when we’re not just one, but many.
But one of my biggest arguments to Sonic being Solarpunk actually centers around his nemesis--Doctor Eggman.
Doctor Eggman as the Antithesis of Solarpunk
After all, it’s pretty hard to talk about how a hero of a series is Solarpunk without discussing the people and forces he fights against, and most of the time that’s Doctor Ivo Robotnik--better known to most as Dr. Eggman. He was developed more or less directly alongside Sonic the hedgehog, and as such the notes about his creation not only influence his character, but the character and vibe of most of the franchise so far. So who is Doctor Eggman?
Doctor Eggman is often described as the World’s Vilest Person--he’s evil, mean, cruel-spirited, and a self-proclaimed genius scientist who only really thinks about what he wants and what he needs to do to get it--getting pleasure in crushing anything that gets in his way. His main goal is to establish his Eggman Empire across the entire planet and build his own version of a utopia, Eggmanland--usually taking the form of a polluted, smog-filled city or a robotic theme park. His plans have varied from excavating natural spaces and turning woodland creatures into robotic slaves (Sonic 1, 2, 3), using doomsday devices to threaten nations and blow up the moon (Sonic Adventure 2), tie down planets for his own purposes (Sonic CD, Sonic Colors), or even using cosmic forces beyond his comprehension to flood metropolises or literally rip the planet apart (Sonic Adventure, Sonic Unleashed). In the comics and some shows, he even takes it a step further--a common theme with him is Roboticization, wherein people are forcibly turned from organic beings into robot slaves. Sometimes its a machine fulfilling this sometimes-irreversible process (Archie Comics, Sonic the Hedgehog Cartoon, Sonic Underground), while other times its an all-consuming virus that grows out of his control and turns almost the entire planet into raving robotic zombies (IDW Sonic Comics issues #12-29). He’s fueled by delusions of grandeur, believing that all of the world’s problems would be solved if he specifically were in charge of everyone all the time and had things his way, and makes robotic inventions and weapons to obtain power. He’s overflowing with self-confidence and pride, highlighting his ‘scientific genius’ whenever he can. He’ll leave temporary allies to rot if it gives him a chance to take all the credit and power for himself, he looks down on everyone else and sees them as insignificant, only interested in what benefits him. Fairness and community? With Doctor Eggman? Forget it, he’ll steal candy from a baby and then turn it into a robot if given the chance. And even with robotic helpers he makes himself, he quickly gets sick of them--Eggman doesn’t do friends.
I’d compare him to Elon Musk, but at least Dr. Eggman is actually a genius.
A Solarpunk Manifesto was published in 2019, describing Solarpunk as “A movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question ‘what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?’”. Eggmanland is not how we get there--Doctor Eggman is an embodiment of everything the Solarpunk ideology stands against, and not entirely by accident. Here’s a quote from Yuji Naka, one of the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog.
“Robotnik was created to be the opposite of Sonic, and to be the bad guy. At that time, there was opposition between "developers" and "environmentalists", and Robotnik was created to represent machinery and development.”
He represents it pretty well--his common motifs are imperialism and pollution, and his version of a utopia is often reminiscent of pre-EPA photos of US cities. Sometimes its done to a cartoonish level--but the point still stands. Whenever we catch glimpses of Eggman’s ‘Home Bases,’ whether its Scrap Brain Zone in Sonic 1, Chemical Plant in Sonic 2, Metallic Madness in Sonic CD, or elsewhere, we’re always seeing tons of mechanization, smog, pollution, and death robots.
Solarpunks aren’t opposed to technology--not in the slightest. But I feel its safe to say that any Solarpunk would be opposed to the over-industrialized, hyper-mechanized, pollution-riddled empire hellscape that Eggman would call heaven. (And you know damn well he'd be all over those Boston Dynamic robot dogs if he were real). To me, Eggman represents the grim-dark futures that apocalyptic stories tell us we’re barreling towards--the darker, less sunny side of the already dystopian cyberpunk genre. Solarpunk is the sun that burns away at smoggy futures, the light that reveals what we can have instead, the ideas that lead to actions to secure it. Its hope in a bottle--hope that we can enjoy and add to, a dream that we can help make into a reality. The ideals are chock full of resisting the real-life Eggmans who want to send humanity into a nose-dive of mechanization and energy-burning self-destruction for the sake of short-lived profits and smug ego-trips.
Is Sonic a strictly Solarpunk series? I wouldn’t necessarily say so. But I think if the themes and terms had existed in 1990, it certainly would have been cited as a bit of an inspiration. Whether the Solarpunk community would have been chill with a corporation citing the term as inspiration is a whole other deal.
Stay tuned for this posts' sequel, where I talk about how I feel my favorite game in the series--Sonic Colors--is Solarpunk.
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— WE ONLY SEE EACH OTHER AT WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS (part 1)
A/n. Yay it has been posted after 2+ months! The first chapter of the drifter! I also posted this on wattpad so please follow me there too!
Warnings. None
word count . 1330
On the twelfth hour of the first day of October 1989, forty-three women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible.
He got eight of them.
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There sat a girl in her own realm of consciousness as her eyelids were closed while meditating, though what was rather strange about this domain was it contained shards or rather memories stored into fragments of glass it levitated around the girl. The fragments were stored with (name)'s childhood both the good memories as well as the bad ones, yet growing up as a hargreeves most of her childhood was spent training and fighting off robbers.
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Sure most of (name)'s fragments of feelings contained sadness, sobs and crying especially the death of number 6 in the hargreeves home of course there was laughter but it barely happened with the pressuring gaze of
A fond smile dawned on (name)'s face as she remembered all the funny moments in her childhood. It was soon disturbed when a loud sound pierced through her head interrupting her meditation and at the same time the fragments had stopped floating around instead landing on the ground. Her head felt weird, everything was fuzzy and her vision started to blur. This wasn't something she usually encountered when in her domain, was something... InInterfering from outside? No it can't be... She used almost all of her power to make sure this domain is unbreakable.
Her headache got worse as she was stumbling before her vision went black.
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5 of the 8 hargreeves children stared in shock as they witnessed two of their siblings who were supposingly counted as 'missing' were right in front of their eyes, one unconscious while the other was getting rid of leaves from his hair perhaps the most shocking part was that they still stayed 16 despite being gone for over 16 years.
"Does anyone else see little number five and number eight or is it just me?"
Klaus asked while him and the others cautiously stepped closer to their now younger siblings.
A creepy giggled was heard yet no one other than (name) could hear it.
Upon hearing the giggle, (name)'s eyes shot open and she got up from the ground shaking a few leaves from her head.
'I'm back..?"
The now teenage girl thought to herself as she stared at the familiar structure of the mansions she grew up in, though perhaps seeing the faces who she used to fight crime with who are now grown made her even more shocked. She was gone this long? Though, as she turned to her right, she saw five... the same five who had rebelled against their father and had gone missing in the process. She sighed before walking back into her old home and into the kitchen wanting to eat or drink something perhaps if mom was still here she might make a snack?
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"What's the date? The exact date."
Five asked while sighing, taking a load of bread and walking to the table where everyone sat.
"The 24th."
"Of what?"
"March."
Perhaps after a period of silence, Luther spoke up.
"So are we gonna talk about what just happened?"
Luther asked directed to (name) and five who was busy making his snack while the other kept quiet with her cup of water in hand as she stared into her reflection, she saw her eyes turned yellow and a smirk was present in the reflection. She's just hallucinating right? No way 𝐢𝐭 can be back....
"It's been seventeen years."
Luther stated while five scoffed and rolled his eyes. "It's been a lot longer than that." Five said while space jumping back to the cutting board to make his snack.
"Where've you been?" Diego asked, while crossing his arms and eyes squinted as he watched five space jumps .
"The future. It's shit by the way."
Five answered while blinking away and making his favourite snack, so he did the thing that father forbidden him to do.. ha that does sound like what five would do.
"Wait, how did you get back?"
Viktor asked, still trying to process the information that five had just stated.
"In the end, I had to project my consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across every possible instance of time."
Five answered not even looking up, perhaps he was used to these questions? Though, even when he answered Viktor no one understood what he had said.
"That makes no sense."
"Well, it would if you were smarter." Five retorted at Diego, in which the latter immediately stood up perhaps ready to fight. Although, Luther held him back not wanting a fight especially when it's their father's death day.
"How long were you there?"
"Thirty years... Give or take."
Luther and Diego slowly fell back into their seats as everyone was stunned by the information.
"Psh what an oldie!"
A voice exclaimed as she sat on the table though no one paid attention to her. After all she was invisible, though not to (name) . (name) sighed and drank her cup of water, wanting to ignore the spirit that had came to annoy her once again.
"So what are you saying? That you're forty-six?
"No," Five looked up at Luther, visibly annoyed with his siblings' lack of understanding of such a simple thing. "My consciousness is fifty-eight. Apparently, my body is now sixteen again." He stated in a matter of fact tone, while taking a bite of his sandwich.
"Wait, how does that even work?"
Viktor asked,wanted to clear up his confusion though perhaps not wanting to answer anymore questions he simply walked off taking another bite of his favourite snack.
"Delores kept saying the equations were off... Eh, bet she's laughing now."
Soon enough, (name) began drifting off from the conversation as the spirit who was forcefully attached to her was swinging their legs on the table like a child.
"What else is there to say? It's the circle of life."
Five said while walking off, which snapped (name) back to reality as she finished her cup of water. Not saying a word she quickly went back to her old bedroom, she didn't want to answer any of Luther's or anyone's questions as of right now.
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As (name) stared into the mirror, her eyes were greeted with her 16 year old self. Although, she wasn't all that surprised. The domain she created made sure no time was able to pass through which meant she couldn't age, perhaps she might be able to age since she's now back on earth.
Although, she quickly catched on that their adoptive father was dead she felt no remorse for him. After all, he was the reason why she and the others were like this. Traumatised by their training ever since young. After Ben's death, the family was never the same.
(name) sighed as she fiddled with her uniform's clothes, she went up to look at her closet and all she saw was the same umbrella academy uniform with a few nightwear. Right, her father wouldn't allow them to wear anything else other then those two clothes since he thought that attire matters what you are thinking. He basically forced everyone to wear an uniform to put them in the right "mindset" according to him, though fortunately he allowed the children to decorate their room.
She looked up to her clock and saw the time, Luther planned somesort of memorial service for their father as a way of respect even though most of the family members have already lost all respect and love for the bitter old man.
(name) quickly grabbed her black umbrella and went outside to the courtyard where it was still raining , meeting up with Five and Klaus in the process.
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I must know more about Judah and Rabbi Loew! Please tell me who they're all about. What are their connections to Zemira?
EEEEE TYSM FOR THE ASK I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LATE ASS RESPONSE.......!!! I'm glad someone finds them interesting, they're easily the hardest part of Lesions of a Different Kind to write but I find them so deeply moving and fun to explore. I'm gonna copypaste some info from a fucking essay I wrote a friend regarding Judah.
JUDAH
Judah the Hammer is based directly off of the real historical figure of Judah Maccabee, the inspired guerrilla commander who was the mastermind behind much of the Jewish victories during the Maccabean Revolt. This was a real historical event in the 160's BC which saw a Judean revolt oust the Hellenic Seleucid Empire from its control over Judea, and an end to their Hellenization policies which threatened to erase the lion's share of Jewish traditions and identity at the time. The holiday of Hanukkah commemorates this story and the miracle of the oil.
In my Hellsing fic, Judah is the primary antagonist. Rather than dying in his suicide charge at Elasa, this version of Judah was turned into a vampire, and still walks the Earth. This event thoroughly shattered his worldview and his understanding of his role in it. As the antag, he forms an important foil with Alucard, because Alucard did much the same shit that Judah did - guerrilla warfare waged against a larger, more powerful empire, complete with being remembered as a total brute of a man - with the major difference being that Judah's war was victorious. He just didn't get to live to see it.
When I set out to design the prime antag for Lesions it was a tough call. I knew I wanted it to be an 'ancient world' vampire, and I wanted to keep up the trend of a historical figure being a vampire such as with Alucard and Erzsebet - which, yes, I like Hirano's other project Drifters quite a lot, don't @ me LOL. But then I also decided I wanted it to be personal to Zemira in some way, shape or form in such a way that would challenge her in a meaningful way and also be her worst nightmare incarnate. I was really hesitant to go there with this character for obvious reasons, but then I remembered that part of why I love Hellsing so much is that it isn't afraid to go there and tackle the uncomfortable topics in these big grandiose orgies of violence and philosophizing and grand tragedy. And I got to wondering about the dynamics between a medieval warlord like Vlad III and a warlord from antiquity like Judah Maccabee and how they would differ and relate to and from one another, and decided that that topic and the way people lionize historical figures and re-interpret them to fit the needs of their time. I've always found that topic intriguing as a historian because I first and foremost consider it folly, no matter what argument you're trying to make with them. But on the other hand, these were real people whose actions shaped the world we live in now, and I suppose I wanted to explore with the horrific matrix we call vampirism might do to a man like Judah, and how it would highlight and distort his character traits. I also, of course, wanted to make him a foil that Alucard could face down that would enhance his appreciation for Zemira's traits that are so distinctly hers (her rebellious attitude, her tenacious-to-the-point-of-stupidity tendencies, her disregard for power structures that don't respect her, et cetera) while also giving Zemira a "this you???" kind of antag that will make her question herself and grow into a stronger person.
Judah is an embodiment of Jewish rage. All the trauma, all the anger, all the suffering and all the cruel irony of two thousand years of antisemitism coalesced onto the shoulders of a single man. A man who, to his own community, is controversial and complicated. A cautionary tale to some, an inspiration to others. Sometimes for good reasons, other times for bad - but always drawing from the same core story of who Judah the Hammer was and what he did.
So from the time of his turning, Judah took it upon himself to wander the Earth as a foul-tempered arbiter of retribution for the horrors the Gentile world inflicts onto Jews. For every Jew murdered in a hate crime, he would take the life of a Gentile - with a particular hyperfixation on Europeans, as these were his sworn enemy in life, and that hatred extends particularly to Christianity, who he views as the torchbearers of Hellenic influence and outright calls them cultists; he's definitely disappeared plenty of villages throughout the rest of the world, mind you, definitely destroyed some mosques, but his main tunnelvision is upon Europe. I feel like if he were to put forward an insane Old Man Conspiracy Theory, it would be that Jesus was actually a Hellenized Jew or some shit like that and therefore a Greek and therefore the enemy. He is an ancient vampire and every bit the giga-powerful behemoth you'd expect from a being his age, but he chafes at the body he inhabits and has never fully accepted that he is what he is now (meaning he and Zemira both know what it's like to exist in a body that isn't home to them). He exists in the role of a spirit of temptation, but is in fact ace, and generally hates being touched. Oftentimes he wouldn't even kill for food, and in fact, still despises drinking blood and has never truly acclimated to it, only drinking from people he considered deplorable enough to take into himself and weaponize against their kindred, be it as a thrall or as something to simply sustain his existence. He prefers to carry and eat bones, as he dislikes waste and excess, and considers drinking blood to be a gross indulgence.
Is he grandiose, or pathetic? Tragic hero, or petty opportunist? DId he truly take up this mantle of being a spirit of vengeance out of a belief it was G-d's intention for him, or did he window-shop a hypothesis for an event (his turning) that he had no control over and traumatized him deeper than he could ever hope to recover from? Is he to blame for his callous reduction of peoples' lives to political 'gotchas', or is that a product of his time that anyone on a high horse about their morals would have fallen into as well? Does his vampirism make him a monster, or was he monstrous before an infectious Nosferatu's fangs got anywhere near him?
There aren't a lot of clear answers in the text about this because I mostly use him to pose difficult questions to the cast of Lesions, and how they react to him determines much of who and what they are. He's extremely difficult to write well and I've rewritten his scenes more often than any other characters, but I love him.
Yet even with all this grim characterization, Judah is a character that is just an endless blast to write for and daydream about. Whereas Alucard is all pomp and circumstance, elegance and dramatism, Judah is rugged, foul-mouthed just like Zemi, and with a crotchety old man mean streak a mile wide. When he moves about, his body acts like it's being controlled by a drunken puppeteer - very 'HOW DO I DRIVE THIS THING???' energy, because vampirism in Hellsing is often framed in Christian terms. Therefore, as a Jew, it's really hard for him to acclimate to it, and his fight scenes have major Drunk Monk energy. The text calls him "a boulder of a man" as opposed to Alucard's gracile and lanky build, and is shorter than him at six-foot-even (since people used to be smaller in the ancient world, generally).
He's an angry old man, he's a dude who's sad that his little brother died in front of him, he's your orthodox uncle with a bad attitude who tries to corner you at the family function to tell you how you're off the derech, he's Oscar the Grouch in vampire form, and his fight scenes are shockingly violent. Alucard kills people and makes a spectacle of it, but Judah's kills read like you found a video of a guy bludgeoning a fellow inmate to death with a lead pipe in a high-security prison that got released on Liveleak or something.
Also, my voiceclaim for him is Brok from God of War: Ragnarok.
He's a dick, but it's hard to look away whenever he's talking. And I love him for it. <3
RABBI LOEW
Shifting gears here, Rabbi Loew is, much like Judah, the very same Rabbi Loew as the real person who is fabled to have created the legendary Golem of Prague - in my Hellsing fic, he's done just that, and still resides in what looks to be a decrepit old mansion in Prague, but will reveal itself as a safe haven for Jews who are in a bad spot. He's essentially the Prophet Elijah figure of the story - he appears to people along with his golem in scenarios where they are deeply and truly lost and in need of guidance, giving them a comforting nudge in the direction they need. He's a repository for endless depths of knowledge, and opposed to the rest of the Hellsing cast who are so fond of carrying themselves with over-the-top aesthetic maximalism, Rabbi Loew is very simple, very soft-spoken, and although he can absolutely get angry and does so in the story, he hardly ever raises his voice. He's part of an important web of foils that includes Rabbi Loew & his golem (simply named Guard in the text) versus Integra and Alucard, as well as how he represents a defunct, dead-in-the-water version of the Integra/Alucard boss and servant bond due to his complicated and fraught relationship with Judah.
Rabbi Loew actually contributed some of magical binding seals used to tie Alucard to the Hellsing family, which furthers the golem parallel so core to the story. But the elephant in the room here is that Rabbi Loew does not have Judah bound in a similar manner. Judah comes and goes from the mansion in Prague at random. Usually, he swings by just to rest for a bit, and maybe pick a few obnoxious arguments with Rabbi Loew. There is a great deal of uncertainty in how they interact. On the one hand, Judah is four times Rabbi Loew's age, but the latter actually looks like an old man, where as Judah looks around his mid-to-late-fifties, and is found of calling him "Old Guy." Rabbi Loew is, well, a fucking Rabbi, and therefore commands a certain kind of deference and respect amongst most Jews, especially as a legendary figure - but Judah is a figure even more legendary in Jewish history, and comes from a time in which Rabbinic Judaism was not the standard (Second Temple Judaism, to be specific), thus meaning they are separated by time in more ways than one. I think secretly both persons look to the other for inspiration, but are always saddened and frustrated by what they find. Judah finds Rabbi Loew to be overly passive and toothless, despite their first meeting being Rabbi Loew coming upon the Hammer brutalizing and torturing a Cossack to death in a shockingly violent manner, and saying "Not that I'm opposed to cracking a few skulls when push comes to shove, but don't you think this is a bit much?" And despite Judah's dislike for the old Rabbi's attitude, he often finds himself yielding when Rabbi Loew checks him on his brutality. But when his Rabbi isn't around, Judah continues on his usual sporadic outbursts of vengeful violence on Gentile communities, believing that if he was cursed with vampirism, then he must become like one of the Plagues of Egypt itself. HaShem did terrible things in the name of justice then, and Judah sees himself as one of those further terrible necessities, instead of his own person.
Rabbi Loew hates this.
Rabbi Loew looks at Judah and thinks of how much good a person like him could do with the mind-blowing powers of vampirism at his disposal. The lives he could save, the atrocities he could prevent, the connections he could build and foster, if he so chose to do so. But Judah doesn't do that. Judah is resigned to being the Hammer of Israel, the Lion of Judea, the Beast of the Levant. He is so deep in a haze of dissociation that he sometimes believes everything around him is the nightmarish hallucination of a dying man (as though he's on an acid trip that never ended) that he doesn't at all consider that maybe he could make this extended lifespan of his mean something. He doesn't consider that wandering the Earth and murdering Gentiles to "keep the score even" isn't actually helpful. He thinks it's beyond his purview. And Rabbi Loew can't help but keep trying to Uncle Iroh this touchy motherfucker into a healthier headspace, but I think both men know that the old Rabbi doesn't have what it takes to truly get through to Judah. And so, detente. They share space and company and do care for one another, but it's a doomed friendship that can't go much deeper than that.
Because at the end of the day, just like any real Rabbi, Rabbi Loew is just a man. There are bells and whistles that call it into question (such as his unnatural long life, which I won't address here due to spoilers), but he's just an old fellow, doing his best to make the world a slightly less cruel place.
He gets the least engagement, but I love him too.
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A continuation of the Axi ask for @arcaneglitch (and anyone who maybe possibly is interested in my made up stories)
So let's talking about Destiny 2 Axilaes =)
For the basics, he's a warlock, broodweaver specifically, he was revived in the dark ages (OLD), and he's human (albeit with cybernetics in him)
I feel like there's a lot to talk about so I'll break it down via different segments
His Timeline & History
Axi was revived in an old Braytech facility in the Dark Ages before there was any sense of a collective humanity during the time where warlords controlled land used their Light for power. He noticed he was capable of some of the same things they were, rifts, floating, and being essentially immortal as long as his Ghost was alive. But unlike the other risen he noticed his light didn't seem to manifest as any particular element, all he was really good at was making rifts, and any time he tried creating any of the other elements he saw it ended in failure. He stayed like this for a while.
Along the way he got a travelling companion, who was another risen with the same kinds of powers as him but was able to manifest a fire element power. They wandered together and exchanged their healing powers for food in the settlements they visited, but eventually they had a falling out and Axi went out on his own. He met the Drifter a few times.
He made a habit out of stalking warlords and scavenging the carnage after battles for supplies, so in legend he became kind of a ghostly figure who haunted the scenes after wars broke out. He unintentionally befriended a dog, ended up with a pack, and used his pack to help him scavenge and vulture off others. Sometimes he'd even purposefully create hostility between two opposing powers just so he could steal and pillage unnoticed. He also started to see little green wisps appear when it seemed like something important was about to happen.
When the world started shifting into a place that had more order and discipline he kept his routine by joining up with a rogue crew of Eliksni pirates. When they eventually all died, he retreated back to earth alone and decided to live isolated in silence for a while.
On his travels with the Eliksni on other planets he'd taken an interest in the foliage and flora that existed in the Sol System and especially with paracausal plants, taking note of certain kinds that would be imbued with Light or Darkness. He studied them and learned to extract and use their powers. Some risen, and guardians at this point with an interest in his work would ask him for the consumables he made, which he offered at a price. Over time he started becoming a name associated with Dredgens since they would use his concoctions to commune with Darkness or overexert their Light. At this point he'd also began understanding the green wisps and learning to control them
Drifter asked him to join in on Gambit when it started, and he refused at first. Eventually he lost a bet and was forced to play a game, and he realized he loved it. He remained a consistent player and made a slight name for himself amongst frequent Gambit players.
When strand was revealed to the cast of the game he had finally stopped hiding the fact that he'd already learned about it and managed a basic level of control over it up to that point.
Cyberware
When Axi was revived he was already equipped with a strange type of cyberware replacing his arms, lungs, heart, eyes, and parts of his spine. Despite having cybernetic eyes his vision is QUITE BAD, which was odd, until he managed to find some information at Braytech about an "experimental aquatic proto-exo" meant to be exos designed to fully inhabit water. Sure enough, underwater he's able to breathe (though not without a little discomfort) and see perfectly.
He doesn't know why he's not a finished prototype and was left primarily organic, but it doesn't bother him either way.
Personality & Relationships
At his core Axi is the type of person who just wants to live a peaceful life. He has hobbies and interests, but he's not ambitious with his work. Unfortunately (as he sees it) he's had a bad track record of getting really attached to people. Some kids back in the Dark Ages, his old dog pack, his former Eliksni crew, Lucius (who belongs to @light-thedar-k), and Elijah (who belongs to @thetruenightzedge)
Axi doesn't have much empathy for humanity in general and only wants to keep himself and those in his circle cared for, so he's very willing to jeopardize others for the sake of his own needs and feels no guilt about it. He's emotionally stunted and has a harsh personality, he scolds a lot, he's bossy and strict. With strangers he's often cocky and always unintentionally (and maybe sometimes intentionally) carrying an air of "I'm better than you" with the way he holds himself and smiles condescendingly. When he feels like he's lost control of a situation he's quick to anger and over-dramatic frustration (and frankly just going fuckin feral). He loves games and gambling and bets, and he's a real sore loser lol. When people hurt the ones he cares about he tends to go overboard with the revenge.
Lucius he met in the Reef when he lived as a pirate, and her death was one of the first to affect him as much as it did, he saw her as a sister. Elijah he fought against a few times in Gambit, and they developed a very intense horny enemies to rivals to lovers dynamic.
Extra Trivia
He's gay and transgender, and transitioned before he was revived
His Ghost is named Anem
Since the dark ages he's always been able to have visions or gut feelings about the future, so in some degree he's like a psychic but he has low control over his ability unless he meditates consistently. He often has visions of the future while he's sleeping that feel very real, and also has dreams of parts of his life in the past, so oftentimes when he wakes up he has a hard time knowing whether he's in the present past or future, and gets really disoriented. He hates sleeping.
He doesn't like to cook
He adopted two golden age sentient AIs he found and named Ćiknawi and Hari and input into his jumpship and sparrow/skimmer respectively
He's really lazy
and you can have a little half assed drawing I did of him
#there's a lot more content i have of specific events but AAAA its already so long#kar post#axilaes#d2 axilaes#my art#kar's art#destiny oc#destiny 2
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You know, I was reading your post about the way ASP chose music for the show, since my head has been full of ANOTHER ASP interview about Rory's relationship with Logan lately, I started thinking about Moon River, which is the song they dance to at Richard and Emily's vow renewal. And "Two drifters, off to see the world/There's such a lot of world to see" is really such a perfect fit for what ASP said about them, and how Rory's never not known where she was going before, but she's kind of at a point where she just wants to... drift for a while and see where the current takes her. And that's Logan's entire ethos, which is really appealing to Rory at this point. (Also I could get into the contrast between Sabrina (what Miss Celine calls Rory) and Holly Golightly, BUT I'll refrain. For now. 😂)
Oh man yes yes thank you for indulging me and tingling my brain about this!!! Hahaha over-thinking the music of GG is a dear past time of mine and I can go on and on... I think I'll try to keep making posts about songs as I think of them! I know we all like to (rightfully) rib ASP for stuff she gets wrong or seems sloppy about, but there's really sooo much she gets so right and I do think the writers in general are more thoughtful than some fans think. There's a reason we're all still so stuck on this shit!
Anyway, yes, Moon River is such a beautiful, perfect choice! So is Wedding Bell Blues, the "Bill song" and namesake of the whole episode. The bittersweet overarching themes and foreshadowing about Lorelai's tragic love life parallel the similarly misplaced wedding song choice Sookie makes with I Can't Get Started - also I'm sure very purposely the namesake of that episode.
"I love you so, I always will And in your voice I hear a choir of carousels Oh, but am I ever gonna hear my wedding bells? I was the one who came running when you were lonely I haven't lived one day not loving you only But kisses and love won't carry me 'til you marry me Bill I love you so, I always will And though devotion rules my heart, I take no vows
Oh, come on, Bill (come on, Bill) Come on and marry me, Bill I got the wedding bell blues Please, marry me, Bill"
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Here I'm then with a drifters request ^^. What about some fluffy Naoshi hc's? I need some fluff in my life right now haha (tell me if it's too vague!)
I did it. idk if this counts as fluff however :/
I hope it's enough though!
lots of swearing because hey it's not a Naoshi fic without the swearing
Naoshi Kanno x F!Reader Fluff Headcanons (SFW)
So being stuck in the woods where a bunch dogs and cats walking on two feet referring to you as some weird-ass “Sky God” or whatever the shit they decide to label you as definitely going to grate on a guy’s nerves. Especially if your name is Naoshi Kanno.
Why in the hell is he even here? The man remembers seeing the blue sea fuckin’ plummeting into it in high speed and suddenly he’s in somewhere else where dragons and shit are hogging the sky who then burn a bunch of people to a crisp. Which Naoshi took care of because fuck that shit messing up with his head.
And now he’s in said woods, or jungle, he can’t fucking tell all he knows is that it’s hot as summer dog shit. Which wouldn’t surprise there’s way too many dogs in this place. And not to mention a goddamn Italian who can’t speak Japanese. Asshole.
So when you appeared all stupid with that dumb airheaded smile and speaking in his tongue he had to take a double take because what in the fuck, why the fuck was there some chick here??? Also what translation charms?? This world is too damn confusing he sometimes thinks he’s drunk too much and is dreaming at some bar or in the barracks drooling on the floor.
But ever since then, you’ve, for some reason, decided that you found him fun and have been following him around because…well fuck if he knows. This entire follow-Naoshi thing has been going on for some weeks now and…it’s not unpleasant. Not that he’ll ever admit that to you. Tch.
It’s not that Naoshi doesn’t know how to interact with women, he’s certainly asked his friends and comrades in the 343rd Air Group to send gals his way on account of him wanting to settle down after the war but you’re quite different from those more demure dames that he’s used to, huh? He finds it weird that he’s just accepted that he was kind of being pursued instead of being the pursuer. Not the kind of things a man thinks about while speeding through the air trying not to get killed before taking down everyone else with you but then again, Naoshi rarely thought too deeply besides where he’ll get his next meal, lay or drink. Or all of it.
In other words, Naoshi’s dumbly staring at you all unsure because for some reason you thought it’d be great to cut up those apples and peel mangoes you keep asking the Italian to help you get and feeding it to him because he was apparently being “too cranky”? He was pissed off because damn bugs keep getting stuck to his scarf and what the fuck keeps biting him?!
“The fuck do you mean cranky?! This hellhole’s got mosquitoes everywhe—“
That was the sound of you shutting Naoshi up by shoving a bunny-carved apple into his wide, spitballing, ranty mouth.
“You’re not you when you’re hungry.” You said, snickering like it was supposed to mean something but really it just made him chew on his fruit more, enraged. But just as he was about to speak, you shoved more fruits into his mouth.
The entire afternoon was spent with you being your weird 2024 self asking shit about him and his life and…being interested. Which he won’t lie was refreshing, but he hated the fact that it left him feeling unsure since his previous flings would ask him shit too but never with that look in your eye.
Naoshi still can’t believe you’re from a hundred and so years after he was born. “Are all the women in your time this forward?” He snorted, willingly snagging a bite of the mango you’ve peeled for the nth time, he doesn’t know nor care. It just feels oddly nice sitting down under a tree and not think about whether he’ll be sent to a mission that might mean his last, whether he’ll even have the chance to say goodbye to friends and family.
But your reply threw him off balance more than the first time his Kawanishi N1K failed on him and he thought he was gonna die.
“Only to the men we like.”
…Huh.
“The fuck?” Naoshi muttered, his voice not that loud, belligerence-laced tone that it usually was as he looked at you and oh shit, that blush is cute.
You only smiled to yourself all coy and bashful and he doesn’t know how the fuck you manage that but he stayed frozen on the ground, mango juices staining the corner of his lips while he watched you walk away.
And then his brain finally caught up with what happened and he scrambled to his feet, sprinting after you, catching your wrist.
Pulling you to him, your body pressed against his chest as he decided “fuck it” and smashed his lips against yours.
Was it uncoordinated as shit? It was but that didn’t matter.
Not when you tilted your head and your hands went up under his aviator’s cap to grasp at his trimmed black strands.
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2023 Game of the Year Countdown Honorable Mentions (part 1)
Money Puzzle Exchanger Arcade and NeoGeo, 1997
After adoring Panel de Pon last year, I have kept an eye on various older puzzle games just in case I end up liking them. This one transports me back in time to the old school arcades in every aspect. It’s available on the Switch eShop and they have updated literally nothing. Sounds super 90s, looks super 90s, and has awkward translations like so many of those rare arcade cabinets in the 90s. Charm is off the charts, but wow is it difficult. It doesn’t have the same learning curve that Panel de Pon does, and I have not been encouraged to sink as much time into it as a result. It’s clear that it’s meant to be played against a friend, and while I did convince two friends to try it, they both agreed that it was going to take too much time to learn the game and we haven’t done any VS mode. I doubt I'll ever be a huge puzzle game fan, but it's cool to find one occasionally.
Wild Arms 3 Sony PlayStation 2, 2002 This was the game I played this year with the most mixed feelings. I ended up not really liking the combat, the extremely high rate of random encounters, or the story that went way too hard in the sci-fi direction for the type of atmosphere the game originally sets.
However, the music was enjoyable (Secret Garden!), the ending was actually perfect for the genre (I’ll get to that), and the setting was something I never knew I needed before: a wild west JRPG. I dabbled with Wild Arms XF for the PSP a few years ago, but I’m not a big fan of non-Fire Emblem tactics games, so I dropped it. But both games have made me really want more wild west JRPGs. The setting already allows for all the tropes and story devices that JRPGs require, but is essentially untapped. Fantasy has been overdone in the genre. And sci-fi is less and less unique as many devs are turning to that genre, too. But the wild west already has the mysterious drifters, the native tribes, the outlaws, the lone lawmen, the legends, the unexplored territory, the rivalries, and the hidden treasure. And that all just comes with the territory of a wild west setting so none of it feels convoluted or overdone. I’m not quite sure why we haven’t had more set in this type of world, especially given how popular the American West is, or at least has been, in Japan.
I also really like Virginia Maxwell as the main character. I’m a sucker for female protags, and apparently this game suffered for it back in 2002 because teenage boys were too insecure for that type of thing, I guess? But Virginia also just looks like a super cool western chick who dual wields revolvers.
However, as I said earlier, there were a lot of aspects I just grew sick of and I actually dropped the game somewhere shortly after the midpoint, turning to YouTube to see the rest of the plot. And if I had wanted an absurd sci-fi story, I would have played a Xeno game. It seems very weird to create such a great wild west setting, and then just pivot to so much sci-fi. Even more so when you give the game a VERY wild west ending to boot. I actually adored the ending/epilogue to the game because it’s as perfect for a wild west story as the Mexican stand-off was in the opening sequence.
So yeah, very mixed feelings on this game. I’d love to hear what other people thought of it, if they’ve played it.
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Do you think Maria and Tess would immediately get along, or would it be a process to become friendly? Not due to woman vs woman bullshit but due to both having overly protective natures and Maria being (rightfully) hesitant/suspicious around Joel at first for his past actions that Tess has been his partner in all ways in?
yes! very much so! (full disclosure i have only watched gameplay of tlou and tlou2 and it was a while ago so im gonna be show specific here): i think if tess survived and made it to jackson to meet maria as she was in the show, it would be extremely tense—but still definitely smoother than it was in the show because of how much better tess is with people than joel.
her and maria would essentially be in opposing positions. maria would be protective of tommy and tommy first and tommy’s trauma first because that’s her mf husband, her partner, her everything (and i know most people assume from what is said in the show that tommy has only been in jackson for maybe a year or shorter or since he stopped contacting joel—i actually suspect he stopped contacting joel because/after he found out maria was pregnant. it makes communicating over the radio way more of a pressing risk. considering tommy and maria are MARRIED and she’s already months along, id think they would have been partners for a few years, if not at least half a decade. that’s a long mf time in the world they live in, even in the place as nice as jackson. so yeah maybe her and tommy haven’t been through quite as much as joel as tess, but they’ve definitely been through a lot and enough—so much so that they got married and are excited to raise children together. they’re a team).
and of course, tess would be protective of joel and joel first and joel’s trauma first because that’s her mf husband, her partner, her sub, her everything. she’d be pissed at tommy for leaving joel and then even more pissed at him for not radioing, mostly because it puts her partner in distress.
i do however think tess would be less combative with maria and more just cautious, because i do think she’d be objective enough to understand why maria feels what she feels. she’s heard how people talk about her and joel around the QZ, and she knows how threatening and dangerous they seem: it’s literally by design. she’d probably think maria would be an idiot to not be cautious of her and joel, honestly. i don’t think she’d be offended by it, moreso impressed.
i also think maria would’ve been far less cautious of joel had tess been there, because let’s be real—those two situations would look very objectively different to maria in terms of ellie’s safety, which is what she was concerned about in the first place.
and furthermore, i think maria would hear enough stories about tommy’s time with joel and tess to understand where tess is coming from, as a woman who also needs to do what she’s gotta do to survive. i think they’d see a lot of themselves in the other woman in almost an instant
so ultimately, there’d always be respect between them
also, i know i just mentioned them but @hypnotisedfireflies wrote a chapter of The Ensemble (so sorry im unable to link rn!) that i think covers this dynamic beautifully, based off a prompt i wrote to them on anon because i was too shy to tell them how amazing drifters is and didnt have this blog yet 🤪 i really recommend it to anyone wanting more maria and tess!!
#thank u so much for this i love talking about these two!!!!!!! must must must write something up#tess x maria#anon#jen talks#i also think theyd fall in love eventually#but ive talked enough#asked and answered
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Look, I know only like 5 people including myself care about Cara Dune The Character, but season 3 really missed a chance to give her a good character arc that could mirror a "redemption" arc for Din. (This assumes the show actually goes into that instead of solving it in two episodes.)
Cara may only be a secondary character but she's been one of the more significant ones, and she has had a lowkey character arc + character development each season.
Season 1: Drifter with no purpose/no longer caring finds something to stand for and rekindles her desire to fight the Imperials. She goes from an opponent to a trusted friend for Din. At the end she starts to set down roots on Nevarro.
Season 2: She's been actively helping clean up Nevarro and has found purpose in helping protect its people and continuing to fight Imps. She accepts a role of New Republic Marshal despite previously leaving the New Republic because she felt it "wasn't what she signed up for." She still prioritizes Din over her New Republic duties.
In season 3 we get the see the New Republic up close. Cara would've been the perfect character to see it through. She knew the Rebellion and fought for the same future as Luke, Han, and Leia. We could have seen Coruscant through her eyes, perhaps starting with her being honored for capturing Gideon. At first she sees the good intentions and glitter on top, but slowly the layers are peeled back. Perhaps she sees conflict in what to do about Gideon and is ignored when she says how dangerous he is. Maybe she mentions Nevarro, or the scattered Mandalorians, and is told "the Outer Rim isn't our business" and she questions why they're bothering to patrol it. She gets a medal for her actions but her input isn't valued by those in the Core Worlds. She starts to get disillusioned again - she has been "redeemed" in the eyes of the New Republic, but she sees the same things that caused her to leave ("protecting delegates, suppressing riots" instead of fighting the evil of the Empire and its ideals) creeping back and no one is listening to her try to help her friends back in the Outer Rim by offering the perspective of someone who's been there.
Cara potentially could've faced conflict if the New Republic went so far as to take up a position against the Mandalorians or she was required to go against her friend Din in this season or future ones. Maybe this once again leads to her striking off on her own - but this time she isn't a lone drifter but has a community to return to. Maybe Greef funds her own independent anti-Imperial militia based on Nevarro. Or, Cara becomes an ally working with the Mandalorians with Din vouching for her. This could also mirror an arc of Din learning to walk his own path, on his own terms, as a Mandalorian.
Perhaps Cara could even choose to become a Mandalorian herself, and finally finds peace in belonging in a new community in a way she hasn't experienced since she was on Alderaan with her own people. If the showrunners decide they have to have a romance, this would slot in a LOT more smoothly imo than "Bo and Din are allies using each other and things are tense whoops Bo's character suddenly got half-erased so we can pretend she was always straight heroic and now she and Din are friendsies." (Tbh my first choice is ace Din in canon, but I do like some Caradin and it's because they have a strong friendship.)
Anyway I'm really sad about Cara Dune being written out of the show because I think they could've done some really exciting things with the character. Cara Dune's song was not ready to be ended. Although season 3 in general makes me kinda glad she escaped.
#fuck you gina carano for ruining cara#im convinced she was cut back in s2 and cut entirely bc of gina and her crazy fucking transphobic stans#luckily cara dune has me lol#if cara dune has 100000 fans i am one of them. if cara dune has 1 fan it is me.#if cara dune has 0 fans I am dead.#cara dune#the mandalorian
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Gnos and Rag Members(post rebranding): Grohl De Palma and Gwendolyn Baek Pung
Origin of Rebranding: After Freddy's participation in the first Baal war and he proved his ability as a killer of god adjacent beings, he decided to expand the scope to a private military contractor. This decision was a devil's bargain, as multiple staff members quit over time out of protest.
Decades have passed since the rebranding, and now there is a new generation of new blood into the company. All the characters below are born after the year 2000's. However, their ages will be kept vague to hid how far out they are.
Name: Gwendolyn Baek Pung
Species: Fae-Pucca Subset
DoB: September 21st
Occupation: Gnos & Rag Assault team member
Affiliations: Gnos & Rag, Red Room(honorary, but does not associate with them)
History: The company dread knight who specializes at strengthening herself with people’s anger towards her. This talent got the attention of the demon Lucifuge Rofocarept, who as a fiend of spite decided to try and possess her for their own gains. Eventually the two form a parasitic relationship. While she is private on her past and most matters off the clock, she does form a trio of regulars with Grohl, and Edlyn, who are known to drink a lot and tend to get into fights with thugs.
Her reason for joining Gnos & Rag is her respect for Lenox. Their first meeting was memorable
Powers and abilities: As a dread knight, she has the ability to pull from other people's negative emotions to strengthen herself. The one she chooses to pull from is anger. She uses this to make sure her bullets hit their target from, to track them, and even to cause magic to fail by way of chaos magic. This has taken a number on her personality, where she has a tendency to act in self sabotaging ways to keep herself at max power during missions.
Due to being possessed by Lucifuge Rofocarept, she gains the following additional abilities per the nature of her pact.
Information on people's secrets
Knowledge of riches
Agares- Language Knowledge
Gusion- Additional Charisma
Botis- Forced Reconciliation
Gwen can also lend out abilities to people, as long as they make a deal with her and Lucifuge. The following abilities were lent out to the following people.
Buer- Knowledge and use of herbs and plants. Given to Grohl to help his unnatural ability to create artificial flora.
Marbas- Force Transformation. Given to Yumi to enable her fighting style.
Personality: Gwen is a very teasing personality, deliberately saying things to annoy, anger, and embarrass people in order to make herself stronger. She sees teasing and bullying people as both fun, but also important for her missions. As she becomes more acclimated to someone, she does like to tease them as her way of showing affection. The time she started teasing Lenox was something Lenox caught onto and turned the tables on her by calling this out. To which Gwen became insanely flustered, almost reverting to the nervous wreck when she first met Lenox.
Despite how mean she can be to the uninitiated, Gwen will not cross specific lines, namely something that would make someone sad. When this happens, she always makes it a point to make it up to them, or stop antagonizing all together.
After being possessed by Lucifuge, she began to develop anxiety over Lucifuge acting out against her wishes. This fear is so severe, that she gives Grohl and Edlyn permission to hit her if Lucifuge ever says something to them while they are in control.
Name: Grohl de Palma
Species: Cambion- Curupira
DoB: March 22nd
Occupation: Explorer, Head of intelligence for Magic of the World/Gnos & Rag, SPOILER
Affiliations: Gnos & Rag, SPOILER
History: A drifter from Brazil who after years of being mocked and pitied for having backwards feet, he made his name for himself in Gnos and Rag as the new head of security after Lenox was promoted to drill instructor and HR. He developed the reputation of being aloof and unsettling to the staff, despite not doing much to antagonized anyone. This aloofness actually attracted Gwen to him, who initially wanted to use him as a means of building up strength, but he remained unbothered he would be no matter what she said. Eventually, the two began talking about matters other than volleying jokes at each other, and became friends.
One of the other reasons is, internal organs have been replaced with a plant based organ system. Even the bio-punks think he was insane for doing this, since plant based bio-organics tend to be best in smaller parts. This has restricted his diet to other plants, fluids and minerals. Grohl was born with the ability to create plant life, but became stronger after absorbing a core from one of Kelv Rion's kaiju's, bringing him close to the level of a demigod. The mages across the world also desire to study him, since someone being able to create and manipulate plant life is something no one should be able to do.
Powers and abilities: Plant generation and control- Grohl is an anomaly in the Bio-Ska setting by being able to control, manipulate, and most importantly, create plant life. This ability has gone as far as being able to create small plants in barren wastelands. This does not mean the plants can survive without required resources, but he is capable of deindustrializing a city fairly easily. Not to mention, this affects Grohl's diet to the point where he can only eat or drink specific fluids, or fruits.
He can use this new body structure to grow vines from his body, as well as use them to create seedlings he can use to see others as if they are security cameras. Grohl can also imbue his seeds with magic in order to make them explode, drain someone’s life force, and set them as tracers to follow people.
Personality: On the outset, Grohl comes off as aloof, preoccupied in thought and indifferent to those around him. Anytime someone says something about his legs or something about his anatomy due to the plant structure, Grohl will always go into graphic detail. This serves to discourage people from asking rude or insensitive questions.
Underneath the indifferent and laid back demeanor is someone is defensive of those he loves. Grohl's love for Edlyn is very earnest and sweet, but also he gets defensive whenever Evelyn is accused by other insmuth of treating him as a trophy boyfriend, or when someone mocks her as broad chested or mannish. Both comfort one another about their respective body issues, and assure one another they are both beautiful no matter what.
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