#Her smug expression

[lastnightonthecyclone]

She was so real in saw vi like yes girl get his ugly ass he thought you’d die but he was WRONG

Madison Montgomery would be shaking

this was better than her making cordeilia think she was halllucinating and killing herself like saw 3d had NOTHING on this bitch and neither does Lawrence

[greghatecrimes]

Character 👏🏻development👏🏻

[buttercatrho]

something something shizukas expressions never facing up like leas does shows how the events she had to experience and live under changed her to be a more closed and defensive person even when expressing emotions that should portray superiority (eg smug) something something

[spiralheaven]

[fresh out of s2 voice] i am so normal about reunion

[cosmicrhetoric]

i was always a zoro nami insane dynamic truther but i forgot what it was like in the beginning

[d3spairisart]

TADC YURIIIIIIIIII

[binah-beloved]

The anon with a Binah plus here you go https://imgur.com/a/eyoZsOI

Don't wish to post images of my body so no hugging image but I do hug the plush it's nice

truly ideal.

[waraxarcana]

An incredible piece I commissioned from @namaeekaki for my absolute rarepair of a ship!!! The pose was heavily inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and oh man the vibes are so perfect for their dynamic as my unhinged mind has imagined them!

Hawkins trying to seduce Ikkaku away from her captain, and while the pretty words and attention do tempt her, she's a Heart Pirate first and foremost so she'll never give in. But it doesn't hurt to have a little fun and play his game for a bit to get intel, right? The cards might not be in either of their favor...

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

Daw! They're so cute, look at them!!

[devilsrecreation]

I’m very normal about them 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

Yk despite wanting to destroy the world, I have a feeling Jor and the others aren’t necessarily evil. They’re just…following their destiny based on the myths and actually want to help people. Jormungandr’s heart is in the right place, he just got too cocky in the end

It’s a shame they only had one episode. They deserved more screentime. LOVE how Hecka and Fenrir appear in that Epcot adventure though, I loved hearing her speak :)

[sannyo-appreciation-posts]

No angry face?

This is apparently Sannyo angry....? Is she even mad? Her expressions are too powerful.

she seemingly had an angry face drawn, but zun decided "nah.... smug is the way to go."

Unused Sannyo expressions:

in regards to her actual ingame expressions

Sannyo has...

^Smug faces + a smug embarrassed face

^tired post loss faces. More smug faces + a really cute sad face and a confused face

^a confused face and two "surprised?!" faces

But no angry face

Its kinda neat Zun made her the face and despite having chances to use it, Sannyo's smugness is too powerful.

Which makes sense, why use an angry face at all when your smug grin is as powerful as Sannyo's? "you darn fool"

[raayllum]

Moving forward, what do you think is going to be Claudia's motivating Drive?

Viren, at least, was always able to tell himself that he was working for the sake of the Greater Good, but that's not something Claudia has ever cared all that much about-- her first, last, and only real concern has always been her Family. With that pillar removed (not that I think Viren is about to disappear completely, but he's definitely not going to be directly involved with her in quite the same way), what does she have left to fight for?

I mean, obviously Revenge can be a powerful driving motivator-- the whole series kicked off with revenge-induced assassinations, so we know that's not exactly nothing, and I can definitely see it being something pushing Claudia further down her current path.

But (IMHO) the story has also been moving somewhat further away from Cycles of Revenge, and I just can't see that being a strong enough motivator for Claudia when counterbalanced against everything our Heroes are fighting for. (Especially with Soren still holding out hope for her and being a weak chink in her armor.)

What's the piece I'm missing?

In a lot of ways, perpetuating the Cycle has always, indeed, been about seeking Revenge for the loss of loved ones.

Rayla: When I first came here, I was on a quest for revenge. But the minute I saw that egg, everything changed. Now, this is a journey of redemption. / I became so obsessed with revenge that I risked losing the best thing I ever had: you. Ezran: I'm sorry about what happened to your father, and what happened to mine. But we don't have to avenge them. We don't have to strike back. We can't choose peace. Callum: Then it's a cycle. You hurt me, someone will get revenge against the elves. It won't end.

This is also one of the key things that, at first, set Soren and Claudia apart from the bulk of the main cast. At first, Harrow and Viren weren't seeking revenge (the Magma Titan) but then they both succumbed to it (killing Thunder) and it continued to snowball from there. In spite of losing their families, Callum, Rayla, and Ezran chose to shed the cycles of revenge their parents (Harrow and Runaan) had partaken in to try and break it instead.

Conversely, Soren and particularly Claudia have been largely removed from the Cycle of Revenge... until 3x09 and firmly in 5x09. Soren and Claudia lost a family member, but their mother is alive and chose to leave. While they've experienced forms of loss, they've never had to literally grieve a death. Although Soren has complicated feelings about his dad, he's ultimately more relieved than anything else regarding his dad's death ("Dad is dead, Claudia. You don't have to do what he wants anymore"—4x07) and angry/despairing when it's reversed (yelling no in show / Soren snarled. “Why couldn’t you just stay dead?”—TDP Reflections: Strangers).

Aaravos dangled Viren over Claudia's nose like a carrot dangling from a stick, and she followed. He didn't offer her revenge, but a way to save her father. But the same trick won't work twice on her. Claudia isn't going to try to bring Viren back again — it'd be a repeat and wouldn't progress her character any further — but she also can't walk away from Aaravos, because she's our sole primary antagonist outside the mirror and still might have a role in freeing him. And if she walks away from Aaravos, she's also going to be walking out of the plot, and we can't have that. Thus, I think power — and subsequent revenge — is about the only thing Aaravos would have left to offer her.

It gives her an incentive to 1) go after the prison and/or 2) generally do Aaravos' bidding, and if she couldn't defeat the trio without his help the first time, allying herself with him is the biggest way she can level up as a threat in terms of just like, power scaling.

There are also still a few bits of information that Aaravos knows but Claudia doesn't (that Rayla was responsible for Viren's death, and that Viren lied in 3x03; although for the latter, that's more something she couldn't or wasn't willing to accept) that could spur her further into well, going wonderfully apeshit.

Revenge is more of a fine motivator for her in 4x09 (tricking Rayla, although Terry gets her to turn around) and in S5 with the dragon (smirking and smiling about having the upper hand, making it scared of her) and in her altercations with the trio.

So yeah, my vote is on revenge — for better or definitely worse!

Obligatory fanon s6 fic plug in because of Claudia's revenge arc getting underway

[cmdonovann]

oops, i stayed up too late futzing with the shading on this. dnd character lineup! i wanted to compare their heights. (and somehow, nimbus is STILL getting taller with each level. this chart will be outdated by the time we play again.)

anyway. putting this in the queue so it gets posted at a reasonable time and not 3am. but i WILL be thinking about them all day tomorrow, i'm sure of it.

[herringstrait]

Got art for a fic so good it's making me want to rewrite half of it. Suffering from blessings

[constellationcrowned]

While using the tsourai tongue is a common habit of Kariom's for a variety of reasons, there is a specific instance of it regarding the Traveler that becomes a bit of a special thing between them.

Kariom, knowing full well that the Traveler's grasp on the language isn't perfect by any means (and after growing close to her, of course) eventually begins referring to her as a tsourai term of endearment in a loving/sweet way that she doesn't understand. It bothers the mortal woman to no end at first; because usually the star-reader relents and tells her what words mean when she asks but not this one, oh no, and eventually she takes matters into her own hands and attempts to study and translate just what he's saying to her via her own notes and knowledge, asking other people besides Kariom, and so on.

Naturally her brain breaks a little when she succeeds and things fall into place.

[lunaetis]

[ i'll make a proper hc post about this later when my brain works with me but i really like seeing how much more expressive eden is in the aetherium war event compares to the first time she was awakened. you could see that during the first few story chapters, eden was more stoic, quiet, less responsive. her expression rarely changes. sure, she was a menace from the get-go, but it's so nice to see how she's much more expressive now in the newest event. you get options to shape her personality, ranging from polite & respectful, to cautious, to confident and cocky ( mine is always a mix of them. eden is mostly humble & polite but with a touch of menacing answers here & there. she gets more confident as time goes but never cocky. ) and i love seeing that for her ? i love how the game lets her personality surface with her expressions and she's much more expressive with her facial expression & demeanor now. she smiles more often, speaks her mind, is still fearless but with a touch of humility, and i love that for her. ]