#GOD I LOVE CHARACTER DESIGN!!!!!!!! GRAHHHH!!!!!!!

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its infinity castle thinking hours right now

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my super cool yttd opinions (tiers aren't in order)

reasoning below the cut!!! Not doing reasons for everyone, just the top two tiers and anyone else i want to mention. If you'd like to know just ask in a comment!! Also spoilers

nao and joe tier/s tier

-Joe Tazuna

genuinely my favorite fictional character of all time he's my number one comfort character and he means a lot to me and he's a silly guy if he is evil it will personally come and edit the very code of the game. PRAYER is my favorite song of all time and the emotion Joe ai scene is my favorite scene ever of anything ever

-Nao Egokoro

I love her so much I relate to her a lot and her character growth is so good and massacre ending and her father daughter relationship with Mishima and the two ships with her i love (naosara and naoreko) is a bonus

GRAHHHH (affectionate)/A tier

-Sara Chidouin

Shes such an amazing protagonist and compelling character i cannot wait to see what happens with her in 3-2 I love her

-Alice Yabusame

I love him so much too his backstory is so interesting and his relationship with reko and I love his design and also transgender!!!! He's so cool and funny I love him

-Keiji Shinogi

The most interesting character for me???? His backstory KILLS ME and I love yttd's criticism of the police system and he is so cool and 3-1b did i mention 3-1b also he is objectively fine as hell

-Gin Ibushi

THE GUY!!! THE LITTLE GUY!!!! he's so cute and I love him but I also love how he has character beyond "cute kid" like him volunteering himself for the banquet. If he's evil I'm genuinely going to be so upset

-Kazumi Mishima

is this because of multiple inside jokes? yes. Is it also because he's absolutely amazing? yes. as a nao fan I am not allowed to put him any lower its the law

-Mai Tsurugi

Here she is my favorite dummy she's SO. I always try and have her as my surviving dummy because I think it so perfectly ends her arc please come back i miss you bad

-Megumi Sasahara

I HAVE REASON TO PUT HER HERE OKAY OKAY HEAR ME OUT. I already said that I love how yttd criticizes the police system as a whole but I love how megumi is. She's so morally grey and is such a huge part of keiji's backstory and she's really the only character besides midori and meister that we haven't had reason to sympathize with and that's so interesting considering the other guys are like. The main villains. anyway she's cool play jackleg participants I have an au where she lives she's pretty

-Ranmaru Kageyama

Im linking the video essay on him i watched it's so good but he's so interesting. I love him in both routes and his relationship with Sara. Unlike other people I font think he was executed poorly, though I do think it should have been either impossible to get him killed early in that route or after he kills yabusame, since if you do fail the minigame it is a bit anticlimactic. Nankidai please save the talent for the rest of us. Overall I love him and his hair. sand.

video essay -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=70F6LZVPWv0

-Reko Yabusame

Once again as a nao fan I cannot put her lower but she's so cool!!!!! I love her design especially when she's in her Samurai yaiba outfit, and her relationship with Alice and backstory are so great. I love how they are characters without each other and their relationship is vital (like mishima and nao) and it's so cool also I'm a lesbian

-Q-Taro Burgerberg

hes so cool man. his development is so good man. I wish I could draw him man. I love him. He's so well written oh my god what the heck

Other mentions

-Shin Tsukimi

I used to be the biggest shin hater but I've since realized he's such a fire character. He's only here because of the fact that I still can't decide if I hate him or I love him

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hi mod, idk if a rant ask counts as a confessions ask? jshsjs but i've got no one to rant to abt solarballs so wee, this ask shall bear the weight of it lol

prefacing this now: i've primarily only interacted with the gacha side of the fandom till now,only even recently started reading the fics lmao

even before i actually knew shit about sb, it was always kinda on my radar whenever id search for gcrv's to watch? i never touched it tho? but i was on a binging spree of epic the musical vids, so yeah i clicked on this fun lookin gacha vid abt the song 'god games'

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yeah no that's where this shit started. i literally finished watching that video and dived right into the gcrv's and holy sHII, there's so fucking ✨many✨, and their all like 20+ mins long and the designs are so good??? the dialogue and plot is literally so fucking cool too. tbh i kinda made a lil mistake by starting off with the 'mythological solarballs au' react vids, since i was hella overwhelmed by everything LMAO

but that led to me finding out about broken au, then fast forward to permanent hatred au, second collision au and all that jazz. holy shit, the whole 'earth fucking dies then saturn and jupiter just go red eye whatever and go absolutely batshit', yeah no that shit grabbed me by the throat lol

didn't take me long to get emotionally invested to jupiturn, a surprise to absolutely no one 🧍‍♂️

but ugh i literally love this fandom and all the fanworks so damn much, like literally every single interpretation is just so chef's kiss to me LOL Jupiter's such a fun little character to tear apart and analyse though tbh every single one of these idiots are jshsjsh

also a very unfortunate side-effect, since like the past few days, neptune has just solidified his spot as my absolute fucking favourite even though i haven't watched the actual show yet (it's escaped for now lol, i wanna sit thru it properly tho hshjs) but yk how GHE is a hella famous thing in the fandom?

yeah no i can't touch any of it /lighthearted

the emotional devastation it brings to me, merely whenever i see like a neptune&iris thing in gcrv's and neptune's hurt or like- idk how to phrase it lol, but basically #neptune is not having a fun time, it legit hurts me 🧍‍♂️

not sure if it's cause broken au desensitized me, but earth angst doesn't really hurt me as much, tho i have only been in the fandom for like 2 weeks so idk much yet lol

UGHH I LOVE THIS FANDOM SMM, EVERYONE'S SO FUCKING CREATIVE AND EVERY SINGLE FANWORK IS ALWAYS SUCH A FUCKING TREAT GRAHHHH

(perks of also being a multishipper with no emotional attachments yet LMAO, all food is good food 👍)

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