#Forsaken destiny 2

[prince--ofnothing]

Another day to be Normal on the Internet.

Remember that drabble I made ages ago? Well I'm turning it into a full fanfic on AO3 and just posted the revised version as the first chapter.

[solanumwarrior]

But if this is what you want

Why speak of right and wrong?

You

still go in for the kill.

Another glass painting! I genuinely love doing these 🌜✨

This little piece has been in the back of my mind not long after i did my TFS one, and now the baby is baked and ready to pull apart and eat

[crispy0nion]

Forsaken and Season of the Wish parallelism

[cannyparagon]

Felwinter

[theforsakenprince]

Forsaken // Season of the Chosen // Season of the Wish

"The line between light and dark is so very thin... do you know which side you're on?"

[abyssalcleave]

forsaken // the final shape

[lavenderarts]

Thin Line

Sometimes you forget which side you're on.

[telestoapologist]

[orangepanda15]

All of them together in their final forms. I am incredibly happy with how all of these turned out

[synnthamonsugar]

not bungie deleting the bi mara and lesbian eramis pics ...........

[kaiserouo]

i was scrolling through my reference and saw

A

[rob321453]

"Uldren's Corruption"

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Did a few designs for a "What if Riven fully corrupted Uldren into an Ahamkara?" scenario. Thoughts?

[flowers-of-io]

Destiny + text posts 16/?

[doomedyuri]

PRINCE ULDREN SOV in DESTINY 2: FORSAKEN.

Hey, you got a gun I can borrow?

[cannyparagon]

Cayde ran to do paperwork

[theforsakenprince]

Forsaken as a revenge story fascinates me but not because of anything really related to the revenge story itself but rather the context surrounding it. like, "revenge is wrong" stories are everywhere and almost expected at this point, and Forsaken is no different, really. Forsaken says going on this path of revenge will turn you into a monster, but... we as the player don't really care? And why should we! Uldren killed one of our favorite characters! And every expansion before this has us killing something, so it's not really out of the ordinary.

This feeling is especially reinforced by how much Bungie tried making the young wolf a self insert during y1 (which REALLY did not last long). We, the player (if you played d1/y1 anyway) are angry at Uldren for killing off the most popular character at the time. It's PERSONAL now. And sure, the ending does feel like we're kicking someone who's already down (Ghost says it himself: Uldren's already done for), but we got the bad guy! The end, right?

Nope! Our actions have immediate consequences! Ghost is scared for us. We have to watch Petra struggle with the events of Forsaken while trying to lead a city of people stuck in a perpetual 3 week loop. Mara is obviously not happy with us (and we know we have to deal with lightbearer Uldren at some point). We may not feel bad about killing Uldren, but it doesn't feel great either. And unlike most past Destiny expansions, Uldren isn't an obligatory unequivocally evil big bad alien we need to shoot because this is an fps, he's... just some guy we barely knew anything about before now. Sure, he was a dick to us, but watching his descent into madness throughout the campaign is downright uncomfortable. All our past enemies, in comparison, have been rather straightforward: they're trying to kill us? well we gotta kill them first.

Forsaken also marks a MAJOR tonal shift. It literally kills off the comedy relief. Every release after Forsaken has a noticeably more serious tone (and while humor isn't completely absent (Saint, Crow, Fynch, and Nimbus have their moments) Forsaken's story is a particularly dark one, and it seems to carry over the rest of the year as we first start to consider the "line between light and dark"). It was definitely much more noticeable at the time of release, but Cayde's death has an impact not only on the characters but the tone of the story overall (he is the perfect example of characters continuing to haunt the narrative imo) and clues us in as the audience that shit is about to get Real.

and what happens the next year? We find a Pyramid ship.

this post is kinda all over the place but MAN not a day goes by that I don't think about Forsaken and how good it is as a self contained story and as an expansion that sets up a lot of the major players leading up to final shape! it's not really controversial to say that Forsaken is one of destiny's best expansions (story wise at least I'm not touching that power grind with a 10 foot pole) but I feel like a lot of that sentiment comes from the fact that it came out after curse of osiris/warmind which. no hate to either of them but anything that came out after them would look really good in comparison.

anyway uhhh forsaken good uldren did nothing wrong (JOKE I feel like I have to specify this is a joke people have taken this statement from me seriously before)