#And didnt make her playable

[kiarafeather]

Okay, can we talk about how good Caroline is drawn here? Like she so fine 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[pcktknife]

have you ever thought of redesigning ellen joe from zzz? i feel like she had a lot of potential but only having a shark tail and nothing else is such a weird decision 😭

damn have i ever even said anything abt playing zzz over here? i dont remember...anyways yeah i have. i made a vague tweet like a day or 2 ago about her actually lol. my guess is she's a thiren/beastfolk and happens to be one of the more human looking ones like nekomiya n seth but when u do a shark person you kinda gotta have more than just the tail cause she really just looks like a girl with a tail

[jacqcrisis]

Hmm, I've never done the tiefling party without sleeping with Astarion and I've already done Gale's Act 1 romance, so what happens when Al goes to sleep?

Oh well that's kind of cute if odd phrasing, but I dig it-

The scream I scumpt.

Alfonso. My man.

[resizura]

listen i’m not saying that old resident evil was peak female rep and without its faults but its so sad to me seeing how quickly the female characters in the franchise got sidelined or fell to tropes

[silverselfshippingchaos]

Your guy!!!

MAXXIIIIIII HI BABEEEE!!!!

[sieglinde-freud]

kinda glad i played fates, specifically birthright, before awakening bc i think if i played fates blind and then ran into the awakening trio as enemy units, and the fact that inigo can actually DIE, being as attached as i am to them like i think i’d be inconsolable. i’d cry real tears for days. worst descision intsys has ever made

[kheprriverse]

Opinion that eow was being worked on at the same time as totk. A lot of larger gaming companies work on multiple games at the same time, i wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo does it as well with a few of their IPs. So I think regardless of if we got playable zelda in totk we were likely to get eow anyways.

[robotsafari]

keep in mind the reason i act like this about kingdom hearts is because the last time i engaged with kingdom hearts was 2013 so i was like an 8 year old so i come back to it like a decade later and im like THIS ISNT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE THIS ISNT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE and i hadnt even gotten to known everything about that beautiful wife before she got desecrated by time travel

[chainreh]

guess who just finished three hopes lol

[dubiousdisco]

Saw some dude bro saying nrs is being dumb not trying to capitalize on the "johnshi shit" and lovers of women bc they are the only ones still making content for mk and he really is so wise. I would indeed consider paying 5 dollars for ship stuff and pretty outfits. Perhaps even 6 dollars for an entire woman character. Oh the thought excites me...

[arolesbianism]

Ok but if we ever get playable Charlie I will be in absolute shambles because you just Know I would rush to read all her quotes and be emotionally destroyed by some mundane shit

[xx-psych0-rabbit-xx]

this is the third time i try wording this post if it doesnt work again the jamba cult wont be the only ones interested in committing self destruct

so you got kirby right.kirby will help Anybody but doesnt let themselves get stepped over n will fight them if theyre being cruel, but kirby will always extend an hand after, throughout this whole game you repeatedly make friends w enemies n call for old friends kirby has helped before to help, kirby sees dedede is possessed for the hundredth time n does not hesitate to help, same w meta knight even if he has a cold loner exterior

then youre introduced to the villains (focusing on zan n hyness here but def smth to be said even regarding franciscas duties not allowing for friendship time even tho they work closely together n flamberge being so protective of her she jumps into violence) n zan is.so loyal to hyness she has no care for the cults other subordinates, she strikes their generator to explode the station knowing this will likely harm most of the cult members that came w the generals, n has no problem doing it bc it benefits her n hyness, then during the altar fights we see her loyalty is so extreme bc he saved her n shes so deeply attached to him she tolerates any mistreatment from him, all for that, n after all that hyping up on her side of how much she adores n trusts him, hyness calmly slaps her aside after shes ran out of use, hes casually violent towards the mages for his benefit bc he sees his hatred for ppl from literal eons ago as more important n eventually sacrifices all of them to bring void into life, their god, who while perfectly resembling kirby, is filled w nothing but negativity

like.god theres sm even tho the games ridiculously short.both kirby n hyness saved ppl theyre close to before, but only one threw them away bc he was first in priorities, both kirby n the mages dont give up on ppl they love, but the mages (n specially zan) passively accept when said person is being cruel, kirby sees their friends need help n immediately runs to it n does everything they can meanwhile hyness hears zan calling for help n hits her to get out of the way, kirby calls for friends n works along side them while hyness literally make ragdolls out of the mages bodies n forces them to play along w every move he chooses n uses them as shields n weapons instead of fighting along side them, kirbys friends have grown n improved since they met sue to kirbys kindness while hyness is stuck in the past when he was done wrong n the mages r stuck at "but he used to be so kind", n again the whole thing the product of hyness' work is a child god filled w suffering n hatred, kirbys environment fosters n creates love, hyness' however couldnt result in anything but hatred n hurt

just extremely fun the friendship themed game decided to go w foiling the good side, filled w love, saving n always having ppl there for you, while the bad side is filled w hate, loneliness, abuse n unhealthy attachments.the special anniversary game is ultimately that kirby loves a lot, n love will beat up even an angry hate god, n thats beautiful

(n this isnt even going into stuff like hyness being canonically stated to have charisma which is often smth cult leaders have for manipulation, or it being possible to read his corruption wasnt as unwilling n fast as previous ones n kirbys love wins anyways n they redeem Literally All The Bad Guys.despite its v odd pacing KSA has sm stuff in its themes)

i post about this every week but srly i am so insane abt the relationship themes in KSA wdym everyone else isnt chewing the walls abt it too

[correctproseka]

Ensekai really really fumbled the bag in Mizuki's storyline by using they/them pronouns and i can prove it

Ok so, ill start this by saying this does NOT mean that Mizuki's gender can't be "nonbinary" or that they cant use they/them. In the end it'll just mean that most of the characters would not know that at this point in the story and all views on mizuki, trans girl or nonbinary are objectively correct so far.

That ensekai fumbles translations is something we all know, the event names for example, a huge one is going on as i write this. Why the fuck is it not pandemonium like everywhere else??

Other fumbles we can't really blame ensekai for, song translations, as weird as they can seem, are chosen by the voca-p themselves

(even if they make it sound way more aggressive)

But on the stories? I complain a lot, they make the characters not look as gay, sometimes change their personality slightly and.

Sometimes. It kind of nearly ruins the story, which is Mizuki's case.

So, WHY did ensekai do that, and why is it different on jp?

Well, for starters, japanese does not have pronouns in the same way english does, they DO need to use pronouns instead of . "Mizuki said mizuki wanted this" every single time, so no pronouns, for a rhythm game is out of the question.

And they thought that they/them was a second best choice.

In japanese games and anime, people tend to see a gender funky character and immediately go for they/them, for one. But also not really the only reason.

The reason might have been the two usages of pronouns in japanese.

Introduction and character reference.

So, to introduce themselves, Japan uses a few pronouns such as atashi, watashi, ore, boku... Boku is a masculine leaning pronoun, and the one Mizuki uses. Its not the most masculine (from the ones i said, that would be ore) and in cases can be considered gender neutral, and sometimes, rarely, girls use it. Mizuki is one of these girls.

Another one is Rui, who's the only one to know Mizuki from middle school, calls them "Mizuki-kun". -Kun is ALSO male aligned but can be used gender neutrally, but there's also a difference here. Rui calls EVERYONE -kun, Shizuku, Saki, Emu. You name it. He uses -kun for everyone. So thats not a valid reason.

Another question you can have is: did ensekai ever use a different pronoun for Mizuki?

And the answer, surprisingly, is yes. Before niigo knew mizuki irl there's two times they use she/her.

Which really sucks, because that would mean Mizuki uses she/her online, but ws soon as they meet her, its now a they/them? Without any conversation about it? And if we assume there WAS a conversation about it...

Then WHY THE HELL is Mizuki scared of telling their secret, when they have already done it in this scenario?

Thats not the case, niigo clearly thinks Mizuki is a girl- a cis one at that- currently.

In a way, the only people who would make sense knowing Mizuki's pronouns is the Kamiyama people (not Ena), they're the ones that know how Mizuki is at school, they're the ones that know her secret.

And yet, if Mizuki uses they/them, even the bullies respect it. And if she doesn't use they/them, then that means An and Rui of all people misgender them. Its a mess.

So not only does it breaks the immersion, it can also mean that either the bullies are not transphobic (really, if they didnt want to LOOK like they're transphobic is it that hard to avoid pronouns?? They're paid for that come on), or that the PLAYABLE CHARACTERS are.

Mizuki being so scared of saying her secret when everyone uses they/them for her is honestly. Fucking bad story telling. If they wanted to have made Mizuki's gender a secret there's a lot more ways they could've done instead of they/theying Mizuki in the story. Such as marking the gender as "unknown" or just. Leaving the story as is, people would be dumbasses and make them think mizuki is cis? So??? Let them be wrong when the time comes. This way it pretty much ruins her events.

And thats not saying Mizuki cant use they/them, but at thid point the characters would NOT know, the point that Mizuki tells the secret is the point they should know.

And.. in the end. That makes the fandom worse.

Jp does not have fights on which gender Mizuki is, they do not care. Its Mizuki and they like Mizuki for who [Mizuki] is as a person.

Meanwhile the en fandom gets called transphobic if the headcanon is a transgirl and also if the headcanon is a nonbinary transfem. It makes no sense and is only worth to make fights happen.

[midnight---hollow]

Ok i need to yap for a second

I love how well written and thought out the ipc is in honkai star rail. I feel in general we dont always get the best discussions about capitalism and giant corps because said giant corps are usually sponsoring or are creating them most of the time so there is usually bias. I just saw some of the boothill story lore leaks and im not gonna talk about them here cus leaks but it gave me real big appreciation for how the ipc is handled.

Im personally a real big fan of complicated situations in my fictional stories. Ever since mob psycho ive gained a new lens of trying to find sympathy and reason for any situation, keeping my own opinions and preferences while still understanding the other side. I feel star rail has done a great job at show casing the many sides of the ipc even if i for one really dont like the ipc and its my least favorite organization

(I feel i should also say this is an opinion piece and im not informed enough on the real life issues as i would like to be. I just want to yap my opinion out and express why i find joy in this and maybe even come back later with more research to make another post but with references and proof to explain why besides what i remember and like. If i do get anything wrong then please inform me cus i would like to learn more about this and plan to)

|Spoilers for basically all the ipc related things in hsr|

I started out hating them cus i just dont like capitalist corps and they just rubbed me the wrong way. When the arum alley event happen i was originally pissed at it because even though it was confirming my beliefs of “big corp bad” it felt cheap and like almost every other story told by a big corp trying to tell us big corps are bad. Yknow the “look at this obviously in the wrong guy dont be like him, look at him get his comeuppances in the end and ignore how we actually are alot more complicated and worse than this super evil and obvious example”

arum alley then did something i didnt expect. It gave nuance to the story. It started out with that obvious example yes but the next one wasnt that obvious, the next part of the event talked about how some workers feel they wont be able to sustain their lives as independent workers and feel they need to work for the big corps for a safe job and it started getting into the logistics of big corp vs independent business. Yeah we where fighting them but there where reasons and concerns and fears to be given. It wasnt just big corp bad it was “yeah big corp bad but here is why and here is also how its good” and it brings up the questions on what can be done so we dont need to rely on big corp

Topaz and her whole arc is another situation i find interesting. Topaz is a character i dont care to much about to be honest but i think she plays a good role in this whole ipc debacle. To me she feels like she represents someone who used the system because they needed to and made it work and flourished in the system. Her planet was basically unlivable and she lived in a capitalist waste that failed. In comes the ipc and they are almost what her world was but better for they offer to help and save them. All they need to do is sign their lives away to join the ipc and they did and their planet flourished because of it. Topaz herself was able to rise the ranks into being a cornerstone. I think her story shows both the light and dark of the ipc because they saved her planet but they only did it because it benefited them, if they didnt sign their lives away it is very likely topaz and everyone on her planet would have suffocated from the toxins and died. They had no choice but to join the system and its stated in game that topaz’s planet is one of the few that where able to be saved.

That’s probably what i like most about the playable ipc characters, it reminds us that these big corps arent just mustache twirling bad guys, it reminds us there are people there just trying to keep going and some of them are genuinely trying to do right and think what they are doing is right. Again topaz for example, she genuinely believes what she was doing was for the good of belabog. She saw a planet so similar to her own and i think she did what she thought was right and tried to help them (i dont think what she did was right but i can see where she comes from in thinking its right) i also think its showing that when she learned their was a way out for belabog that allowed them to not give their lives away to the ipc she gave in and stopped trying to convince them. She risked her own job security to allow them that right and because she didnt force an entire planet of innocent people who just got out of a horrible situation to sign their souls away (including the children mind you) she got demoted. Im not saying that she deserves a pat on the back for doing the bare minimum esp after she tried killing us, she is a rich, a conerstone, owns an exotic pet that she throws into battle and design her gun after, is a high member of said capitalist big corps, im just saying this is a very nuanced and interesting situation that i like to think about because there are so many thoughts and arguments

The whole belabog vs ipc thing was interesting in general for me because i think it was just such a good concept to bring forth the conversation of the goods and bads of big corps. Technically the ipc does have the right to want their century old debt repaid (ignoring the fact we later learned the robots where never used i think idk the end was confusing ngl) yet also at the same time we as people have a hard time siding with them when belabog didnt even know they where in debt because they where so isolated because of the stellaron and they just got out of the stellaron crisis and are trying to make their world habitable and yknow survive. We cant blame them for being unable to pay a humongous debt when these where the same people who stood in awe as march shower them a photo of their planet that she took while on the express. It creates a situation where yeah technically the giant corp has a right to take that money because its theirs but its still feels so cruel to make them have to cough it up right now with only a few days time. Belabog is basically forced to sign that deal because there is no way they could have payed that off they where doomed the moment topaz set foot on the planet. I remember talking to each of the people in belabog and getting their opinions on the matter and constantly having to rethink my stance because there where so many good points for why they should and so many for why they shouldnt. I can go on and on about this but this bit is already to long.

Aventurine!!! Aventurine aventurine oh where to start. Unlike topaz i actually like aventurine alot he is just such a well written character but we arent here to talk about how amazing him and the games writing is we are here to talk about the capitalist cooperation he is a cog in. Aventurine in a sense has a similar story to topaz but its more cruel and less happy. The ipc didnt save him, the ipc what going to arrest him and its thanks to his luck and a deal with the devil (or in this case a bet with a snake) that he was able to become aventurine.

I havent seen the writen stuff for him in his characters story because i dont have him but i will say from what i saw during the main story, something i question alot is what the ipc did during the avgin genocide. This might be a small tangent but the avgins said they had the support of the ipc. What happened that caused for the entire avgin civilization to be wiped out when they had the help of people with better weapons and armor and equipment. Apart of me is nihilistic enough to think the ipc didnt really care for saving the avgins and might have used the katakans attack as a way to know out the two groups that where causing them the most trouble but at the moment i dont know if theres anything supporting this theory so its just a crack theory

Aventurines spot in penacony is again interesting. Penacony is a prison planet of the ipc, that was taken over and turned into a party paradise thanks to the hamrony, family, and a stellaron. Aventurines goal was supposed to be to put penacony back in the ipcs control and to be honest i cant tell if thats his plan or not because of how crazy and confusing the story was (i loved it) but that being said it is another example how how grey ipc is. It isnt just a big bad corp there are people with lives and in avens case, people trying to gain their freedom with any risks necessary. I also think again the ipcs role in penacony is like belabog, very interesting, just for different reasons.

Penacony is based off America and in this case im assuming the ipc is their Britain. I feel like if you ask most people they would say that the ipc is the only group in penacony they hope fails (minus aventurine again i feel everyone wants aven to succeed even if we want ipc to fall) but i think the family being as grey as they are (basically a cult and also a representation of newer day amarica and its “its us or them” mentality in a way. I can make another yap ses about that lmao) adds an air of mystery and confusion on who we want to succeed since they are on two very different sides of the board so if one wins the other loses. It makes it feel like a fight of two big corps against each other and not really knowing who to support. Do you want to support the capitalist or the cult, pick your poison. We need the rest of penacony for me to go more in-depth on my opinion of ipc here and to rant but i can say its already making me question and argue both sides with what we have seen so far

That was fun for me. I havent ranted on tumblr in a long long time but hsr has been my recent hyperfixation and again boothill makes me crazy. While writing this is made me start to think about how much i wanted to talk about the hidden story of immigration i feel penacony is aso trying to tell. I think penacony is handling so many deep and interesting topics and im very excited for the next update. This has made me hyped to talk about the immigration stuff but i want to do reaserch and gain a proper strong stance besides “thats just my opinion.” I think this is an interesting topic and yapping about it made me want to do more reaserch on the topics of capitalism and big corps cus i hate them but i also think its important to know about it and understand there is more to the issue than just stingy old white rich people. I havent even gotten to jade yet. When we learn more about her imma have some words prob

Srry this was long but anyways cant wait till boothill comes out so i can get him and his light cone

[ihaveforgortoomany]

2.2 rambling (major CN spoilers)

Again we literally have Mr Karson playable, literally the guy who was erased by the 1929 is now in our suitcase, sure he is not exactly the same (see the Mandela Effect ramble I made earlier) BUT

BP YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT MAKE SCHNIEDER NOT BE PLAYABLE NOW OR REAPPEAR IN THE STORY!

(The copium is SO strong now, literally she has no reason not to appear again in the story, maybe we get to go to Italy in the future?)

But really holy shit wydm I have to wait a couple months just to fully understand this chapter? Im looking forward to seeing Matilda in 2.3 (lawd knows whats gonna happen to her) but the fact that were not gonna see a direct continuation is driving me up the wall you cannot drop a bomb like that and expect me to be normal.

(Also I didnt mention this but hello Sotheby got swallowed by a fish? Um? Completely forgor since well everything this patch??)

[gold-rhine]

if hoyo paid me moral compensation pulls for every faked death in hsr how pulls much i would get, base rate 10 pulls:

first fake death was i think pyro trailblazer by cocolia, but i will actually let it slide, it wasn't cliffhanger, it had narrative purpose, it has clear explanation (the rock god giving powers)

dan heng getting stabbed and unlocking dragon fursona instead of dying. i will not let it slide bc it had no fucking explanation. he didnt even get his reincarnation's memory! just his powers. bc his dead self's ex stabbed him? like?? 10 pulls.

tingyun. actually i think hoyo owes me at least 20 pulls for this one, bc i had to go thru like 40 minute insufferable quest for her fucking funeral, where they realised that players met her for 5 seconds and no characters interacted meaningfully with her, so no one cares, so they had to invent an npc coworker we never met before to show up and give 20 minute infodump about how he loved tingyun and how cool and kind she was bc she brought him souvenirs or whatever. and THEN i had listen to smug clowns being like ooh hsr is so mature and serious, they killed a playable character, for like a year. and then they brought her back. actually, 30 pulls.

penacony had an actual fake death plot device. they should really sell the concept to bollywood and telenovellas

aventurine getting dramatically killed by raiden, making a big deal about walking to the other side of death or whatever, and then nothing fucking happened and he showed up at the end for 30 seconds to be like yeah im fine lol. 15 pulls bc i had to sit thru like 3 hours of solo aventurine yapping psychodrama that went nowhere

cliffhanger about robin being killed +10 pulls

cliffhanger about gallagher killing sunday +10 pulls

firefly. who was fake killed 3 times. and last time she was fake killed was already AFTER we've been told about fake death plot device monster. they were seriously expecting us to buy that shes gonna die. 40 pulls for audacity

some ppl thought sunday died at the end of penacony, at that point i didnt believe it for a second, but i will still take 10 pulls

might be forgetting something with how fucking many fake deaths are in this game but i think thats it?

so far, 125 pulls, so i could guarantee at least one 5 star