#And hell also Sage

[colorsisgoodactually]

OOOOKKAAAYYYY... I should really be sleeping buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttt yeah no I'm gonna jump on the "Professor Victoria" is Maria's sister train.

A few things that I've clocked that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere (though I could be missing them) that strike me as notable clues:

I always found it odd even before we had any kind of information about T that her note specified "Gerald AND MARIA'S lives too." If their interest was purely academic it would make more sense to just say Gerald's life. Or perhaps even Gerald and Shadow. But why Maria? In universe Maria was a just a sick kid. The only reason that someone would specify her was if they had a personal interest in Maria as well. Which would make sense if you were an estranged relative.

Gerald's sons are said to have split his passions for archeology and robotics, and the implication seems to be that his kids have followed suit. Ol' Eggy is clearly the son of the Robotics kid, and if I'm remembering correctly I think it's Maria's interest in learning all about the earth is tied, at some point, to her father's archeological interests as well (in the sense that she's kind of taking after him in a way). Tori being a history professor fits neatly within this established trend.

It's been pointed out that Victoria ends the same way as Maria but what I've seen nobody point out is that it also contains all the letters of "Ivo." Coincidence? Probably. But still neat. And given that there's been a LOT of coincidences so far it wouldn't surprise me if that was intentional on Flynn/Sega's part.

Okay but if there's another Robotnik running around how come that's never come up. And how come she just goes by Professor [Her First Name] I assume Tori's answer to that will be something to the affect of, "If YOUR last name was Robotnik would YOU go around advertising it?!?!

All told I'm fully in support of this theroy and for one welcome the newest member of the increasingly wild Robotnik family tree.

[thinkingabout-girls]

hey girl your personalized hell seems to just be you locked in a room with yourself. care to elaborate on that

[rigorousdoor21]

i'll put the post in the replies. but i've been haunted by it for the last 2 days until i finished this. i love you blue team

[couch-house]

been posting abt trans girl metal on main. some of this is repost, but here's my current pile of sketches abt her. they mostly. make sense in context but here theyre all out of it lol. i just think if you turn into a big dragon youre engaging in girl behaviors

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Where was demon slave and deadly sin ritual when the Umbra were being wiped out.

[puppppppppy]

Atla live action 😐

[8cfc00]

getting into podcasts featuring age 35+ people and characters has actually been sooo enriching for my well-being and understanding of life cuz like... the teens and twenties arent that big of a deal, there is so much to still learn, create, be and do beyond them... life is never perfect but has the potential to be cool as shit at every age man

[matt-murdick]

Finn & Sage (TVD) + textposts

8 / ?

[teenageukulelescreamo]

also hi I am alive I promise??? Work and life have been a ton but I’d very much like to get back to drawing and making fun stuff soon!!! I’m just dealing with stress, seasonal depression, juggling work things, etc- but I am okay don’t worry!!!

[the-sage-libriomancer]

you know, it never occurred to me, but is Orihime’s hair supposed to be brown? i mean she’s usually depicted as orange-haired, but everyone makes a big deal out of Ichigo’s hair being orange and i feel like they’d point to Orihime too if she had a similar hair color.

[pnsge]

kinda going insane hehejhe looll 🤪🤪

[steelhazes]

i will never understand it when new players - and emphasis on new players - decide to story skip, and the further the story skip is, i firmly believe the worse it gets. it's not just shooting yourself in the foot lorewise. that doesn't really have an impact on gameplay, if at all. but when you decide to do combat content with other people, how tf do you parse all of the mechanics thrown at you when you skipped the entire learning process it takes to be able to get at the point when you can do so relatively easily??? how do you find fun when you die over and over to a boss and you have no clue as to what's going on or what killed you???

[amiibo-king]

i know i already made a post abt how this song belongs on sage lesath playlists the world over but justin case some of u havent heard it yet. here

put it on ur sage playlist. u know u want to

[gay-jesus-probably]

yknow how i mentioned I'm thinking of writing a spite fic that's just TOTK but the narrative is allowed to acknowledge that imperialism is really fucking evil? Yeah so I might be outlining that fic and let me tell you i have Plans. I've now got a whole backstory about the Gerudo sage, namely what kind of person she must have been to be in the position to meet Rauru and Sonia (aka accompanying Ganondorf to Hyrule Castle, meaning someone he put a lot of trust in), while also being the kind of person that Rauru and Sonia would consider a viable option for a Sage (aka someone clearly opposed to Ganondorf). That's an interesting contradiction, and made me wonder why this woman would be part of Ganondorf's inner circle, but also look like his political opponent on a surface reading, and I wound up following that to the logical conclusion and now her story is making me really, really sad.

Also I found the helmets worn by the four non-royal sages to be really ominous and creepy, along with their complete lack of names, personalities, and that one scene with the four of them spontaneously swearing eternal loyalty to Rauru with zero prompting yet still speaking in perfect unison. That has Implications. I have done things with those implications.

Oh and I thought it was kinda bullshit that Sheikah are completely brushed off in this game, so I dug into wtf is going on there. I mean, it's weird that to fight a war against the Gerudo, Rauru decided that it would be a good idea to try recruit a Gerudo woman to fight against her own rightful king, instead of like... recruiting a Sheikah, y'know the people that can be trusted to be diehard supporters of the Hylian throne. That's a really weird absence, and I've decided that the fourth sage was originally a Sheikah, and they wound up turning on Rauru (over legitimate greivances!), and the resulting backlash caused the split that formed the Yiga Clan, AND caused them to be allied with Ganondorf.

[dna-d2]

TOTK Spoilers

So I beat Tears of the Kingdom and that final fight did not go how I expected for reasons I barely comprehend.

Again, Spoilers, obviously

So I’m down in the chasm, just got past that one cutscene where the Sages show up and I’m about to fight Ganon. I’ve got like seven sunny dishes and a whole lot of full restoring meals and I think I’m ready, I’ve got like 17 hearts, 2 stamina wheels, fully upgraded armor, and a bunch of decently strong weapons, AND the Hylian Shield. I got this, or at least I can gauge what I need to do for the next attempt.

I went into the second phase with no more sunny dishes, and all but 7 of those hearts have been lost to gloom

So second phase begins and the sages come in, and by the end of it I’ve died like twice, and thank HYLIA for fairies and the fact that I brought 5 of them with me. It went fine, I guess, I actually forgot there was a second phase it was so normal, BUT THEN

THEN THE THIRD PHASE

And Ganondorf pulls out what I think is one of those health bars that signifies you’re supposed to lose this fight because EXCUSE THE ABSOLUTE MOTHER FUCK OUT OF ME IT KEPT GOING??????

And I’m fighting, thinking “Okay okay I know I’m probably not supposed to win this” but I’m trying anyway because goddammit my dad might have raised an asthmatic, but my momma did NOT raise a quitter!!!

AND THEN MY LOST GLOOM HEARTS ALSO STARTED DISAPPEARING and I’m just like “HEY HOLD ON AM I GETTING THOSE BACK WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS I WORKED HARD FOR THOSE” and all the other sages seem to have been knocked the hell out and I’m just desperately blocking for the first time in the entire game and taking pot-shots when I can when he gets down below half and I’M STILL ALIVE????

And that’s when I realize SHIT I THINK I’M SUPPOSED TO WIN THIS FUCK FUCK FUCK

I have like 5 hearts left overall and that’s just because of the last two fairies giving four back when I get revived and NOW I’M OUT OF FAIRIES AND HAVE LIKE A QUARTER HEART LEFT, MAYBE HALF and I’M FUCKING STRUGGLE-BUSSING

He’s down to like a tick and I decide FUCK IT and just jump in and start slashing like I got 3 max hearts left and NOTHING TO LOSE

AND I WON?????

I didn’t even feel happy or excited or anything because I was just sitting there confused, like how the hell did I do that??? How the fuck am I still alive??? And what the fuck-HOLY FUCK HE’S TURNING INTO A DRAGON SHIT-SHIT-SHIT-

And after that it was actually pretty easy. Got all my hearts back, jumped off a dragon a few times, used my fall-damage-proof wingsuit, shit went great.

Overall, great game, loved it, but I’m still in a state of shock that I managed to beat that boss fight ON THE FIRST TRY???????????

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Edit: Quick sketch of a moment taken 5 seconds after/before disaster(s)

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Not pictured: Ganondorf in the background sticking his entire goddamn fist down his throat

(Like bro you did NOT need to do that what the actual Shit)

[fore-seer]

it occurs to me ive never finished a real playthrough of awakening that wasn’t like. for the support log or constructing a main file where i cap everyone’s stats and break the game. i’ll admit all the grinding was kinda fun for me but i’m very excited to experience this game without doing all that