#I know that some of the game mechanics are based off what u do with the boss fights and stuff

[mello-when-hi]

I am aboutta be so morally challenged >:D

[drunkonalcohol]

based of that one imagine of like gihun stuck in a time loop and not giving a shit about it. idk i how to use this app yall pls help me. How tf do u add pictures?

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"Red Light, Green Light, Again." 

At first, Gi-hun tried to do things the hard way. Making alliances, forming plans, agonizing over who he could save. Now? Now he’s here to put on a show.

Speedrun Start: Red Light, Green Light

The first time he played this game, he barely made it. The second, he figured out the timing. The tenth, he mastered the rhythm. The hundredth, he started experimenting.

Now?

The doll’s head barely finishes spinning forward before Gi-hun takes off at a dead sprint.

Someone screams. Players flinch. A few of them stumble back, expecting to see him drop dead on the spot.

Instead, he slides across the finish line a full minute ahead of everyone else.

The doll chirps, "Player 456, eliminated—"

BZZT.

The speakers cut out for a second, and then the mechanical voice corrects itself. "Player 456, cleared."

In-ho watches this from the control room, fingers tightening around his radio. "What."

Gi-hun stands at the finish line, brushing himself off. He glances up at the cameras, grinning. He waves.

Behind him, the other players are still frozen in shock.

New personal best.

Honeycomb: Exploiting the System

Sang-woo, as usual, hesitates at the candy tin, looking at Gi-hun like he wants to say something.

Gi-hun winks at him and picks the umbrella.

Sang-woo looks like he’s watching someone commit actual suicide.

The moment the game starts, Gi-hun flips the tin over and smashes it against the ground. The candy cracks perfectly along the shape. He stands up, holding out the umbrella with a flourish. "Done."

The guards don’t react. They don’t know how to react.

The worker monitoring the station scrambles to check the rules. "Is that allowed?"

"...There’s no rule against it."

In-ho, watching from the control room, rubs a gloved hand down his face.

Sang-woo stares at him like he’s just grown wings.

Gi-hun strolls past him, handing in his umbrella piece with a satisfied grin. "You should really read the fine print, buddy."

Tug-of-War: Advanced Mechanics

In his first few runs, he followed the old man’s strategy. It worked. But Gi-hun has had time to refine the meta.

He handpicks a team that should be doomed. No Sang-woo, no Ali, just a bunch of people who always died here.

And then, instead of playing by the rules, he yells, "JUMP ON THREE!"

His team jumps forward at the exact right moment, jolting the other team off balance.

Then he yells, "PULL NOW!"

They win in five seconds flat.

The workers just stare.

In-ho, in the control room, slowly pushes his hands together in front of his mask. "This little shit."

Marbles: Sequence Break

Gi-hun finds Il-nam sitting in the alleyway, waiting for him with that gentle old-man smile.

Gi-hun squats down, resting his arms on his knees. He tosses a marble in his hand, watching the way the light catches it.

"You’re the mastermind, aren’t you?"

Il-nam blinks. "What?"

"Come on, you think I don’t know? You disappear right before the big finale? The guards don’t shoot you? The whole ‘Oh, I just wanted to feel alive again’ monologue? Give me some credit, old man."

Il-nam’s face does something strange. "How—"

Gi-hun waves him off. "Relax. I’m not mad. I’m just bored. So how about this? I win this game, you pull some strings, and I get to skip Glass Bridge. Deal?"

Il-nam stares at him for a long, long time.

Then he laughs.

New skip discovered.

Glass Bridge: Tool-Assisted Playthrough

Gi-hun stands at the edge of the glass panels, arms crossed, while the other players stare at him, waiting.

The usual panic begins. The first few contestants get shoved. The survivors hesitate. The clock ticks down.

Gi-hun sighs. "Move."

He steps forward—and before anyone can react, he pulls a gun off one of the guards.

In-ho, watching from the control room, leaps out of his chair. "WHAT THE FU—"

Gi-hun calmly shoots out the panels, one by one, watching to see which ones break.

Then he hops across the safe ones, whistling.

Behind him, someone whispers, "What the fuck."

Even the VIPs are losing their shit.

"Where did he even get a gun?!"

"Who cares? This is amazing!"

Finale: Any% Completion

By the time Gi-hun reaches the last round, everyone is afraid of him.

The guards hesitate before addressing him. The remaining players stay far, far away. Even Sang-woo—ruthless, brilliant Sang-woo—looks at him like he’s something other.

And In-ho?

In-ho is watching from the balcony with the silent frustration of a man who has lost control of his own game.

Gi-hun tilts his head back to look at him. He gives him a mocking little salute.

The Squid Game has rules. But Gi-hun has had time. And the more he plays, the more he breaks those rules.

This is his game now.

He smirks.

"Let’s finish this."

Meanwhile, Jun-ho is sitting in the vents, completely horrified.

"What the fuck is WRONG with this guy?"

Idk maybe i should add Inho to the time loop as well, cuz I’m bored.

[eunashhimejoshi]

you're just so unfair ! 🎤

a beautifully rotten punishment in your selfishness . 💘

no filter vers !!

minji taught her yona to smile, thats why she hates this photo the most .

OK INFO DUMPY TIEM!!!

• Yona is not the first "Yona" to exist. no, no.. instead she comes from a long line of artificial humans perfected and bred into an ideal human with the most aesthetically pleasing characteristics . think,,, uhh,, how some dog breeds are bred to be small and cute reguardless of whatever health issues may occur. she is not the first in her line to compete in the alien stage, and unless she survives, she will not be the last. though, she is absolutely none the wiser to this. she has not a single clue she isnt the first pet that setteme (her alien guardian) has had.

list of yona issues !!

developmental issues, she exhibits a lot of self soothing behaviours, maladapative daydreaming/depersonalization as well (as a coping mechanism she picked up as a child that ended up spiraling), intense depressive episodes (since childhood), low empathy (not a disorder but its just there to note,,,), alexithymia,, and more but i forgor half of it,,

• on yonas alien guardian, setteme is very thirsty for the fame and success that comes from having a pet that wins!! to every single previous pet humans detriment, of course. since she was old enough to remember, yona was forced to watch every single previous alien stage season, every death, so that she would know what not to do. learn from their mistakes, pretty much. theres more but i dont really want to get tooo graphic into the things setteme did since yona would never talk about it and this isnt canonically public information whatsoever!! sooo uuhh all dat matters is how she is now!

• essentially, yona doesnt know how to be a good human, only a good pet! she has very little emotional range and very low empathy. she puts forth no effort into forming attachments, creating bonds, friendships, when it comes to other humans. theres really no point in making friends, in her eyes, on the off chance she did get attached it really would only dampen her chances of keeping a level head. she really doesnt understand why others are so stupid as to take those risks. she also isnt aware some humans just werent told this was a killing game.. cut my girl some slack..

• her limited emotional range isnt just restricted to humans, its also restricted to things about her personality, things that she assumes would make someone "human". she has no preference in food, or color, or style, because she cant find it in her to actually care. this isnt to say that she doesnt put forth effort, not at all. her loyalties lie with her guardians and when it comes to the segyuins, she immediately perks up with an innocent smile and does everything she can to appeal to them. because of this, to the humans she tends to stay isolated and is percieved as flat and robotic, scary at times.. but to the segyuins? shes a sweetheart, truly the cutest thing !! (so glad a lot of u r calling her kyutes,,, dats wut she wants!!) shes very much based off aegyo kpop culture,, in the worst way! its all she knows.

• the only way yona would have "friends" is if someone insisted on being in her space and life, though it would be very one sided unless yona somehow found something about them that drew her in. (in the 41st alien stage universe I dont think minji exists since shes my friends oc,, minji was yonas girlfriend,, but i do think it would be something like that!! yona genuinely did love minji, in her own way.. how it started was self serving things yona did as a child came off as sweet and romantic to minji [holding minjis hands to warm herself, giving minji things to temporarily hold was percieved as giving minji gifts] until eventually yona realized she actually did like seeing minji happy.. she liked being given affection by minji.. so her motivations changed from self serving to actually wanting to make minji smile.. before she knew it that genuine emotion, for the first time, snuck up on her.. and when the first round came along and it was yona vs. minji.. well... yeah. aaand thats essentially how you become close to yona!!! if that makes sense,,,? im yapping SORRY i just love them,...)

• OH OH SPEAKING OF THE SWEETHEART THING!!!! thats her entire theme!! sweetheart!! lovey dovey white and red outfits decorated in hearts and ruffles and bows! she writes and sings love songs to match despite not having felt love herself!!!

IF ANYONE WANTS 2 KNO MORE PLSPLSS MESSAGE ME ID LOVE 2 KEEP YAPPING!!

(alnst 41stlings come talk 2 me,,,, im too scared 2 just walk into ur dms,,,... but i wuld love 2 write relationships if anyone rly lieks yona!!!! ^u^ )

[rainbranch]

THIS IS MY CRY FOR HELP!! CLEMONT PLEASE COME HOME IN ZA...

I may have girlfailed him but ya win some ya lose some... by the time i make a yt video abt za theories/speculation i'll probably work the design out

I have a lot to say tho so hit keep reading for off the wall ramblings

First more doodles..

The doodles kinda have to do with some clemont related theories but honestly im j playing around with hcs and whatnot rn.

I do have a lot of questions about Quasartico.. like what are they doing on top of lysandre labs? Thats it

Hc abt where this puts clemont? If the timeskip is around 12 years he could be like 25?? I want him to either be a professor now (but i dont think we would need to replace sycamore) or just heavily involved in the wild area or energy related research. If he's involved with the plot I expect a bit about him being a terrible runner. I dont really think there's any reason to see his quirky inventions like the anime, especially since there's a lot of Civil Engineering going on, he definitely is still going to have things to say about Mechanical and Computer related things- but they can do a lot and won't really be affected by his anime portrayal.

Speaking of the anime- there were 2 separate times where an evil team attempted to manipulate Anime Clemont to use his technical knowledge for evil- i think we could see that on a larger scale here... I don't know how evil Quasartico is and tbh i have no clue. (I will be looking into ORAS postgame and emerald now though because i do believe there is a good chance we will be dealing with a Rayquaza-Zygarde rivalry/juxtaposition-- especially bc that is already being explored in the anime rn AND ITS THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE...)

As for Bonnie i beg and i pray she's doing her own thing. I would be happy to see her again and maybe specializing in pikachu clones?

Idfk what the game is actually gonna be about though- probably gentrification or corruption of technology and people being blindly reliant on it. Maybe even theres going to be a natural disaster that causes a lot of the tech to go down and the protags have to clean stuff up bc the city didn't have a backup plan. Only thing throwing me off is the promotion match thing at the end of the trailer. No clue what thats about lol!!

I have had ideas about a Clemont & Bonnie timeskip before.. tbh that top left side profile is kinda peak... this one was for my fan region which is based on a fantasy region from a different universe that is LOOSELY based off the American midwest. In this one he woulda been working with umm physicists? While Bonnie finds out about the judicial system. These r a little more closely characterized as their anime versions (esp with Clemont's pokémon lol). Uh the region is the Elogh region if i ever bring it back

PRISIM TOWER IS RIGHT THERE HE HAS TO BE HERE PLEASE CLEMONT!!!

If u read this whole thing u have full permission to discuss theories and speculation in comments and reblogs im so cuorirous.

[thydungeongal]

Hello dungeongal,

I was thinking about dming a scifi table in the style of a game called Starsector, dunno if u have seen it, but its a game about being a mercenary in space and things like that, and I'd like to see if u had any suggestions for a system (ik there is "theresattrpforthat" but I dont know if their asks are closed for now)

I remember u showed a sci fi system that is comically hard with some calc for the ships movement, but I dont remember the name of it

Either way, thank u and have a good time u beautiful goblin <3

The game in question was Traveller, and I can safely say that Traveller owns. I have only read the first edition of the game, but Traveller is a game very much in the "space feudalism" subgenre of science fiction, but as a game it seems best suited for playing space truckers, as it is a game that is very opinionated about the specifics of space travel, cargo, and the prices of goods on different planets. The latest edition by Mongoose Publishing has sadly abandoned vector-based space combat in favor of something "simpler" and "more abstract" which is just sheer cowardice, but I have heard tell that one of the supplements plugs it back in. @kalichnikov went into detail on those things in the big post that set it all off:

Now, Traveller is already pretty great, but it's not your only choice if you want a sci-fi RPG. Another one that I think is pretty good is Stars Without Number. That one is basically like what if someone took the core of old-school D&D and tried building a Traveller-like out of it. I like Stars Without Number but I think it both fails and succeeds at certain things: first of all, it's very much a toolkit game but without a lot of clear guidance towards what a campaign run in it should look like beyond "a sandbox," and while it is full of a lot of good advice and tables for filling and populating a sandbox and running a sandbox campaign it lacks that X factor of being specifically opinionated in its mechanics that I think gives Traveller several clear, intersecting gameplay modes. Now, Stars Without Number is still good imo in the sense that it's a really good way to get people creating a bunch of space nobodies really quickly and sending them on adventures with minimal friction, but it's not perfect. Also in its favor is the fact that there's a free edition available which already included everything you need to run it: the Deluxe version which is the one that costs money simply adds things on top of the already fantastic free edition.

Now, if you want something that is even more crunchy than Traveller and actively hate yourself, there's also Spacemaster, a science fiction version of my favorite stupid game, Rolemaster. Here's a table.

Now, all of those games are very traditional RPGs and I feel I would be remiss if I didn't mention my recent favorite, Ironsworn: Starforged. Starforged is a game that while a massive departure from the Powered by the Apocalypse framework is still heavily influenced by it, and I think it does some pretty dang cool things with that. It's a sci-fi adventure game that is specifically designed to facilitate solo play but which does also allow for more traditional guided play. It's very much a game about heavily internally motivated space heroes doing space quests and it is extremely character-driven. Besides the PbtA framework requiring a bit of getting used to when coming from more traditional games, the main difference in terms of how the act of play differs is that Starforged is deliberately anti-canon and asks the Guide to not make definitive statements about the setting until those questions become relevant, as it not only asks the group to cooperate in envisioning the galaxy but also very much want the Guide to also take part in discovering what the world is about. In that sense it's very much a game where the world is filled in as it is explored, and that is a deliberate part of its design.

Starforged does cost money, but its original iron age fantasy predecessor Ironsworn is available for free.

[not-your-bro]

Tell me rfn the kind of video games climbing class stays up until 3am grinding and getting way too invested in

OOH. this is an interesting question bc i think they have fairly different taste in video games.

chris is into games with deep mechanics, so he gravitates to rpgs, including turn-based. likes strategy games, too. as a example of his taste, chris loves pokemon, but he plays it in a way i do not personally understand, in that he's crafting the most optimal team and also not naming his pokemon. all that said, he isn't opposed to turning his brain off with fps games when he just wants to relax. in all games, he is a chronic cutscene skipper (a trait that makes josh grind his teeth). if he picks up an in-game document that he deems too long, he's like "i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened."

josh plays fewer games and has narrower taste. obviously, he's into horror in all forms, from AAA down to the smallest of indie titles (tho he prefers indie). i think he wouldn't have pegged himself as a fighting game guy, but he checked out mortal kombat bc of the fatalities and got really into it. he'd be into hideo kojima games. if i can include post-2014 games bc we're just having fun here, this would include death stranding (which chris would not understand the appeal of). josh would also love the weird, wide world of elden ring, in particular how it's stripped of things like quest logs. he would really enjoy making his own physical notes (which, again, would feel like homework to chris).

now, here's what they learned they can't play together.

moody, atmospheric horror that relies more on suspense or dread than fear. josh would love silent hill games (the good ones lmao), but chris would find them unenjoyable to play and narratively confusing & boring. warning for silent hill 2 spoilers here, but i made a joke in a fic about chris getting, like, too deep into sh2 before going, "oh. did this guy do something to his wife?" and i stand by that. i think he's just like whatttt is going on and when will this be over.

competitive games that rely too heavily on luck. obvious examples are mario party & mario kart games. josh gets too fucking moody when he feels he loses unfairly, and it brings the (mario) party down. and every time he suggests them, he's like "i seriously won't care, like it's not a big deal." but it is a big deal. in his heart. if he loses fair and square, he's fine, but he hates feeling robbed by bad luck.

...and here's what they do play together.

freaky asf horror games. like, the kinds of games with moments that are gonna have "streamers react to..." compilations on youtube. ideally, chris is playing and josh is watching, bc josh loves to watch chris react to games like this, especially if he himself has played them before. nothing more enjoyable than sitting next to chris, knowing what horrors await him but not saying anything. josh has a ps4 with p.t. (which he will never, ever delete) and he delighted in making chris play that. he also made chris play doki doki literature club, under the guise of "giving him a well-deserved break from horror." good one, josh.

chris's rpgs are long as hell and he gets very into them, so when he's particularly sucked in but josh still wants to hang, josh is like ok just bring your console over and play here, idc. now, josh knows chris is a cutscene skipper, so josh spends the entire time peppering chris with questions. what's happened so far? what's going on right now? who's this guy - what's his deal? at some point, they start making shit up, spitballing what they think is going on based on context clues, but also throwing in their own wild ideas just to make each other laugh. (after chris finishes the game, they read a plot summary to see how close they were.)

i think chris is a kingdom hearts fan, but again, not the way i'm a kingdom hearts fan. he thinks they're fun as fuck to play, but he has NO clue what's going on. in fact, playing kingdom hearts as a kid is probably what triggered his aversion to cutscenes. he was like that shit goes on FOREVER, and for WHAT? i'm enamored with the idea of chris foisting kingdom hearts on josh - like, "try it, bro, it's really fun. but just skip the cutscenes they're super long and confusing." and josh is like "now, now, christopher. a lot of work went into these cutscenes. we can't just skip them. that would be disrespectful." so josh lets them roll - initially as a bit, but then they both get invested, and next thing you know they're barreling through all 983094 games together.

resident evil 4. periodt. it has stuff that appeals to them both: horror/gore for josh, more action-oriented gameplay for chris, plus short cutscenes they can both find enjoyment in, because they're either freaky or funny or both. they would lament (as did i) that re5 and re6 have co-op but are so much worse, but they'd still play them once. and they'd both love the modern remakes + new re games. josh's favorite of those would be re7, and chris's would be re2 remake.

[jimmedicated-jambino]

hiii umm feel free to ignore this if u want. im not really good at words and articulating things and i know the full project and context is still yet to come but i would really like to ask what direction you’re coming from with this… cause im perceiving like, a sort of unempathetic “HA stupid shit idiot loser finally realized he needs therapy and medication to be worth something” undercurrent (yknow not maybe in those exact words but this general vibe) and i would really like to know if im totally wrong about this, cause i like your art plenty and it gets shared in my circle but something still pokes the back of my mind y’know? i hope the rest of your day is good :)

Ok I avoided mentioning this because I really prefer not to share details about my mental health and personal traumatic experiences, but I guess I should've said this sooner:

TW: Depression, su*cide attempt

Note: To be clear, whenever I mention "Jimmy" I am NOT talking about the character from the game. I'm talking about the Jimmy in my AU.

This AU is rooted in my own experiences with mental illness, severe depression, and taking medication. I have struggled with depression for the majority of my life and around 4 years ago I reached my lowest point. It got so bad that just being alive hurt. Living hurt. Everything just hurt. From the moment I woke up until the moment I fell asleep all I could feel was just pure pain. Not just emotional pain, it manifested into physical pain. And it was bad. I felt like I was rotting on the inside and my soul was trying to climb out of the torture chamber that my body had become. I was willing to do anything to make the pain and suffering stop. I was prepared to end my life and if I hadn't made the decision to try medication as a last resort, I can say with 100% percent certainty that I would be dead right now. I really couldn't take it anymore. I had reached the absolute bottom. I gave up.

Jimmy in this AU is sort of a projection of myself, both past and present. Good and bad. Not sure why my brain decided to pick this character specifically to project onto. I hated him with a passion when I first finished the game. Idk might have something to do with me having autism and adhd or something or all the jimcurly fanfic I started reading. I'm doing better now, but that experience will always stick with me. Because it's part of me now in a way and I found that using creative outlets to sort of cope really helps. Like taking parts of my trauma, creating something new out of it, and then just putting it out in the world and letting it go. It's not trapped inside my body anymore. It takes some of the weight off my shoulders. It's helped me heal a lot. I also have a tendency to use self-deprecating humor as a coping mechanism. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

Maybe I've been too hyperbolic about Jimmy's traits? I'm not sure. I tend to do that a lot to myself.

But, all of this au stuff isn't just something I pulled out of my ass or made up. It's all based on something real that happened to me. This is built on an actual person's experience. My experience.

Jimmy is also meant to be a lot more nuanced. There's an animation in progress that tells the story a lot better. It's like one of those animatic music video things ppl make and post on YouTube. The song is really important to this AU, honestly it's kinda like the theme song to me?? Idk It's called TENSIONNN by Webcage (such a bop legitimately) it's meant to describe the tail end of the "fallout" and the entirety of the "split" from Jimmy's pov. The most important lyric in that song and probably the lyric that this AU was created around is:

"I won't leave you now, It's too poetic"

It's poetic that Jimmy left with the intention of watching Curly crash and burn without him in his life, only to turn around and watch him succeed and soar. It's a tragedy. But it's ALSO poetic that Jimmy started to heal and worked so hard to get to a place where he could re-enter Curly's life and have a healthy relationship with him. Now they're together again, but this time they're not two impulsive, emotionally immature, 20 year olds. They're two adults that have had time to learn and grow as people. And that is beautifully poetic to me. Also super interesting to explore that concept.

If canon Curly and Jimmy sticking together was what allowed the events of Mouthwashing to happen, then them spending some time apart could be what prevents it from happening. Atleast that was my logic while writing this. I wanted to make a sort of fix-it AU to fill the "wholesome Jimcurly" hole in my heart bc fanfics like that are scarce as fuck (understandable bc of the source). I tried to write this whole thing as a fanfic, but I quickly realized that 1) I'm not good at writing anything longer than 1,000 words and 2) this story requires visuals to properly tell it in the way I intended.

Also, I'm having fun. Drawing and writing all of this makes me happy. Obviously, the story isn't very "fun" (I've cried for hours while writing and drawing the more depressing parts probably 20 times by now), but telling it is. I don't know. I'm just a guy that draws. A depressed guy that draws and is still healing. I'm in no way "cured" by the medication I'm on. I still have depressive episodes, but I've been managing them better. I'm in a much better place mentally rn and I'm proud of myself. I've been fighting an intense mental battle against depression everyday for 10+ years of my life at this point. I'm not like 100% happy, I'm just kinda chillin rn idk.

I'm glad you asked this question! I encourage other people to ask questions! It helps me grow as a beginner writer and storyteller.

I hope that answered your question. I appreciate you.

TLDR: No, that isn't at all what I'm doing here. Jimmy is a reflection of myself and my experience with having severe depression and how I started my healing journey. It's based on very real events and thoughts that I have had. No, I don't have any bad intentions. No, I don't hate mentally ill people. I'm mentally ill and neurodivergent. I'm diagnosed. (We're in this fight together, man why would I do that??) I'm not a mustache-twirling villain with an ulterior motive. I'm a tired, mentally ill college student with audhd that is recovering from severe depression that literally almost killed me and drawing these guys is my current hyperfixation that helps me cope with that. That's it.

Also Jimmy is my favorite character (in this AU!!!!) idk why ppl think I hate him. Don't artists usually dump all their trauma on their ocs and make them suffer incomprehensible horrors bc they love the oc?? I thought we all did that. I did that. That's what I'm doing rn. 💀

[inventors-fair]

Aftershocks: TDM Mechanic Runners-up!

Our runners-up this week, after much deliberation, are @izzet-always-r-versus-u, @misterstingyjack and @nine-effing-hells!

@izzet-always-r-versus-u — Together as One

It's fascinating to envision how this works with the stack. Every single creature can either get the counter or the spirit, and you have to wait for the whole thing to resolve before you get your response. Is that functional specifically? I honestly don't know, but like, of course it is—the intuition with enduring was a little difficult on prerelease night but folks are groking it enough. This card could also just get you a spirit for each creature you control, and on that note, I think it might be prudent to have each non-Spirit creature endure instead of just every creature. Although maybe it could be nontoken, just so you're not entirely screwed? Chaining these things together would be so incredibly strong in limited and even constructed. I'm imagining an EOT casting of this after a huge Anim Pakal swing and boy it doesn't look pretty. For the opponent, I mean. This is quite a strong card.

Really, the one-two punch of the flavor text is what seals the deal for me. Maybe Innistradian spirits are known for their flying, but blending some of those spiritual bonds with a world, perhaps, in which the dead are less ascending but more bound to their mortal bodies and the paths they once tread... It's possible to find a place where the flavor makes more direct sense. Maybe this doesn't have to be in a mainstream Innistrad set; as a Horizons one-off, I can imagine that there would be some pretty cool token/counter synergy that could justify a card where your spirits are standing their ground. Spirit and human fighters together feels awesome, this card feels like a first-pick, and I'm absolutely down for it.

@misterstingyjack — Sorrowful Singer

I have mixed feelings about this card, only because I want to justify a lot of the creative choices here when in reality I don't have to. In the end, it's quite powerful. Quite alone, too. The requiem, this memento mori, speaks to an aspect of black on Theros that's not often experimented with on the canonical cards. Erebos and the Underworld being a real God and a real location, respectively, puts a lot of the ennui in a different light. And yet, grief remains steadfast. Each player suffers in the song. Then death begets the return of another song, another portent, and that portent ensures nothing but a return to the grief that begat it. Am I reading too much into this card, or is it just doing a lot of work with what you've been putting into it? It's damn good, too, even if it's missing a comma between "dies" and "you" in the first creature line.

Omens on Theros are a phenomenal idea. Portent, scrying, the future—all of that is thematically there but the introduction of scrying (and its return to evergreen!) was about as far as that went thematically. I love the notion of omens and creatures with omens interacting with each other in a similar way that Adventures did on Eldraine, except it's less about "I'm returning from afar with newfound strength" and more "this is coming and there's nothing any of us can do about it" synergy. Maybe that's for the best, and maybe the mill strategy can be a little more localized into blue and black as far as archetypes go for limited. But what a way to start off this mindset, and I'm really impressed by how richly melancholy you've made this poor singer.

@nine-effing-hells — Augur of Emphara

Speaking of Theros, actually, here's a card that has a pretty cool flavor base and also deals with Omens on Theros, but with a purely mechanical bend that's really great turn one and speaks volumes about how the draft archetype wants to go later on. I love drawing cards, I love attacking with fliers, and I love a game plan where I get to swing in and, if they're not dead afterwards, draw enough cards to absolutely slay them on the crackback. I don't need much flavor justification to say that Ephara loves seeing into the future and also probably birds. I also don't need to justify having blue with a flying-themed and/or scry-themed bend in it. You've got...probably UW Fliers as an archetype, then overlap it with UR scry and GU cares-about-omens. Boom, there's your brew, there's your overlap.

Paying five mana for a 2/4 that maybe draws you some cards won't see people defending it in their decks. People won't understand the strength of omens and scrying until it's too late. Casting an omen and then scrying into other omens feels so awesome when those creatures finally come down, and I think the mechanics of how this card wants to work on board speak to that. This flocking is indeed auspicious, because you've got a 1/1 flier on board that's going to be drawing and pinging and doing great things overall. Multiple copies means that you're in for a wild ride... The more I talk about this card, the further I get from the flavor of it, and you know what, this card doesn't need to display anything that's not already on screen, and good for you in that regard. I think the card strength and the immediate draw to limited without having to think about flavor is a strength in and of itself sometimes, especially because bird portents just make sense. They do to me, anyway, but I also talk to animals, so I'm a little biased.

It's a long road to judge picks, commentary, notes and beyond. I'll keep everyone updates as I chip away, and once again, thank you so much for your entries, patience, and love of the game. TDM is a rockin' set and I'm glad to share it with all of you.

@abelzumi

[crazyyapper]

jumpscare

im here for the question as you asked for.

sooo, what's on your mind about the new upcoming ht chapter? do you have some theories or hopes for something?

also, what do you think about wanda......

and do you have some theories about....uhhhh.... ethan's "electric" mask?..... I heard, EG said it's will play some important detail in the game, so maybe u got something in mind what exactly that will be?

and after all.....how are you generally?

THANK YOU FOR THE ASKK!!

Okay so I am veryveryveyryeveyeveyveyeveyev excited for chapter 3 😁😁😁

For theories and hopes: I think Ethan will still be the main villain even tho it says it's about the witch, I still think Ethan will be the one chasing us around every where, I just think we will learn about Wanda/see her and what she does. I've also been thinking about the symbols in the game and why they might be in all those locations, maybe Ethan or the witch can use them to watch Tom? I think this since Ethan always knows where Tom is so yeah (even tho this does seem pretty unlikely 🥲). I also think there might be a chance that we will play through the perspective of another child, like Sam, since horror tale's mechanics are similar to ice scream and it is based off of ice scream (in ice scream you play as other kids in the later chapters) but I don't think it will happen in HT 3 since it talks about Tom in the description. For hopes/ideas? I'm hoping we will learn more about Billy and Emma and how they got kidnapped/ if they also ran away from their home. I also want to find out why Sam ran away from her home, for now I'm just thinking it's because of family problems/ abusive family? Since that's the most common reason for someone to run away from home. I think it would be cool if we see more about the dolls/kids? (Idk what to call them since they are dolls but still technically the kids I think) or something like we get chased by the dolls so they are used as like a trap by Ethan to catch Tom. Another theorie I have is that maybe after the kids are dolls for a while they become less alive, because in HT 1 we see that Harry looks at Tom when he is still a doll, but the other kids don't do anything like look at him which might mean they've been a doll for so long that they can't control anything anymore. I do think the kids are still alive, just trapped in the doll in a way, since Sam talks about saving them (which I'm guessing is Tom's objective in HT 3 and maybe the future chapters). Since a ritual is used to turn the kids into dolls I think they might be trapped by soul or something, and Tom would need to like reverse it or something? (I'm just waffling at this point 😭) I hope we learn more about Ethan's backstory, the fire that killed his father and if he was involved with the fire (since he has burn marks) AND why he was in the asylum. As for Wanda I don't really have any theories about hey, I'm just excited to learn about her character lol I just hope she isn't creepy like Ethan 💀. For Ethan's new mask I'm thinking maybe it'll represent Ethan getting more powerful/becoming more dangerous since the mask is like a dead rabbit? I thought it was like frozen because of the cracks and the blue and yeah, but it being electric actually sounds rlly cool. I have many ideas or theories about the mask, but I am really interested so yeah 👍.

Overall I'm great ty for asking, and I feel like I've yapped wayyyy too much but thanks a lot for asking these questions :3

[random-twst-things]

do u know what level crafter gauntlet open? I did searching yet find nothing like literally so i kinda clueless here

I hate how unclear some of the instruction are smh, I wish they make the tut much more detailed cus Im dumb and slow af

also please do share some tips for beginner I literally crying screaming throwing up ripping my hairs off over here cause I didnt understand a single shi

thxxxx and have a nice day btw🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻😘😘😘💕💕💕

- 🦙

The Crafter Gauntlet is unlocked at Room Rank 3!!!

I totally understand what you mean though, I had so much trouble trying to understand the game mechanics as a beginner 😭😭

I researched a bit and added a few of my own tips for beginners, hope this helps! 🩷✨

Some tips I can share for beginners would be:

Send and accept friend requests: When going into battle you're able to use their cards. Some of those friends could have some really useful cards to use. I've had many instances where a card from a friend that I needed really helped.

Do not skip events: Many events can give you valuable resources and materials. These events may not give SSR Rank cards but they will give you an R Rank or SR Rank card if you participate in them. They give gems, thaumark and keys and other useful materials.

Save your gems: The game is playable in f2p and gives a normal amount of gems to do so, but do save your gems and don't waste them unless you really want or need a card. When it comes to Sam's shop there is a set that comes with 10 magical keys and is only 250 gems though it's only available once a month. By buying this set, it does save you a few gems. A normal 10 pull is 309 gems.

Team: When it comes to forming your team I recommend teaming them up based on the cards Duo Magic and Buddy Level. Train the cards that you would like, level them up and team them up based on Duo Magic/Buddy Level. The Characters give each other important boosts during battles based on their buddy level and could be a great help.

Lesson's: History lessons grant EXP that contributes to the cards level. The additional rewards are "Blooming Honey". Flight lessons grant EXP that contributes to the cards vignette level. The additional rewards are "Snacks". Alchemy lessons help increase the Buddy Level of cards, additional rewards are "Alchemy Tokens" and spell upgrades.

Card Ranks: Three different types of Rank cards. A R Rank card has a max level of 40 that can be extended to 60. A SR Rank card has a max level of 60 that can be extended to 80. A SSR Rank card has a max level of 80 that can be extended to 100.

When TWST allows you to pick a card to start the game, these are some beginner cards lots of people and I recommend (their info in there as well):

Riddle Dorm uniform – Highest ATK.

Leona Dorm Uniform – Highest HP.

Trey Dorm Uniform – High DEF and great healing.

Cater Ceremonial – His power boost is very good during the early game.

Rook Labwear – Decent HP and attack which helps beginners.

Malleus Ceremonial Robes – Gives power boost.

Card's: I recommend leveling and upgrading your cards one at a time. You want to upgrade all the cards or at least a few cards in each element. By doing this you can have a pretty big upper hand when doing battles because elementary bonuses play a pretty role in the game.

Tests: You should do these and try them as much as you do with the lessons. Unfortunately for me, I didn't know how much of a help doing these would have and didn't do them. Doing tests can give you interesting and good things when you get good results. They also help train your cards faster.

I really hope this can help you on your gameplay and journey for Twisted Wonderland!! ✨🍬

I can always go into more detail or add more things if they still seem a bit hard to understand 🫶🏽✨

[aurheatum]

toa anniversary mun day

under cut

Name: 

Nel, i mean it’s Sarah technically, but once you start getting multiple notes in the mail with Nel on them I think it counts. Nelfes works too. I respond to most anything tbh

Pronouns:

she/her or they/them

Birthday (no year):

Dec 6th Saint Nicholas Day : )

Where are you from? What is your time zone?

Chicago. CST [GMT-5].

Roleplay experience:

Over ten years, started on Neopets and other forums. Moved to Gaia Online and then Tumblr indie space some time in 2011.

Got any pets?

Baby boy

Favorite time of year:

Springtime or Autumn

Some interests and things you like:

I’ve always been super into mythology, all of them. I used to think that Carl Jung was onto something with the collective unconscious but then Anthropology and the reality of multilineal evolution ruined that for me (college will teach you things); but that’s alright because humans their ability to create and interpret their surroundings with equal parts love and fear is still pretty cool.

Some funfacts & trivia about you:

-Agnostic but i work in an occult library (it’s pretty quiet; the new age bookshop across the street has all the events)

-One time on Gaia Online I was kicked out of an Okami RP bc I didn’t make my posts aesthetic enough, and I thought it was just the most heart wrenching thing -I’m not sure what people stand to gain back in Ye Old Runescape luring new players out into the wild and PKing them but I was gullible enough to follow some other players at like 7 yrs old and this would have happened to me if i wasnt SUPER good at clicking my mouse and running out of there. Surviving such a harrowing experience made me think i was truly invincible.

-I was supposed to write my final paper for my Japanese Buddhism class on… surprise, Japanese Buddhism but I really wanted to talk about Kenji Miyazawa’s writings instead so I spun it through a lens of his Nichiren conversion and its impact on his poetry. My prof saw right through me but I still got an A.

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play?

Tales of RPG series raised me as a person so u know. I like Persona 1-2 era SMT though I’ve played Nocturne and IV as well. What else? Okami, LOZ: Twilight Princess, farm sims and visual novels. Genshin, on and off.

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon:

Psychic; wooper family (clogsire im so glad u joined us)

How did you get into Fire Emblem?

My neighbor would bring over Path of Radiance so I could play it on my gamecube with my own save back in the day

What Fire Emblem games have you played?

Tellius duology. Sacred Stones, FE 13-16; currently doing Blazing Blade. Archanea one day.

First Fire Emblem game:

POR

Favorite Fire Emblem game:

Tie between 3 Houses and Radiant Dawn

Any Fire Emblem crushes? 😳 

It’s rhea okay. I wont lie and i wont pretend it isnt evidence of my spectacular taste either

If you’ve played the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays? - Awakening: Tiki (first S support was olivia bc i wanted a pink haired kid)  - Fates: honestly i’d have to revisit, i know i first married niles as m!corrin - Three Houses: I married each lord on their route tho it’s much funnier if you dont i think (First route was Crimson Flower but I saved at the split so I could marry Rhea first lmao) - Engage: Saphir 🥰

Favorite Fire Emblem class:

War Cleric or Qi Adept

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class?

I’d be the mage you have to drag around and treat with baby gloves only to learn like a single good spell I think

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation?

Leicester Alliance tbh

If you were an Engage character, which Emblem would you Engage with?

Based purely on mechanics bc i love them all prob Soren dlc, Sigurd, Celica, and Lyn.

How did you find TOA?

End of 2020/beginning of 2021 I was really trying to get back into rp but couldn’t get into the various systems on discord. One community that I was trying was affiliates with The Officer’s Academy and an active tumblr community rly caught my interest. The rest is history!

Current TOA muses:

Rhea 3H, Micaiah Radiant Dawn, and miss Hortensia engage

Who was your first TOA muse? If you don’t have them anymore, could you see yourself picking them up again?

This blog right here! I put her down for a bit and probably will again but. It’s not like she ever leaves, instead of brain there is Rhea u see (i bear this burden so u do not have to)

Have you had any other TOA muses?

I played Sephiran for a hot sec and Ingrid for around a yearish iirc. Both very fun

Do you think you have a type of character you gravitate towards?

Not really? I need to be able to connect with them on some level obviously, and I tend to prefer characters who have like a clear childhood or background for why they are That Way. Micaiah was actually p difficult for this reason but being able to really shape her based on what little we know also made me ever more fond. ♥️ I love to stare at pegasusknight and serenesforest supports pages late at night tehe

What do you believe you enjoy writing the most?

I don’t particularly plan ahead but I really love when threads reflect past character development whether in a thread with the same muse or different. TOA extended universe… I’d like to do that more I think but first I have to actually make a support page huh? Since Rhea’s back she’s made more bonds though and that makes me happy.

Favorite TOA-related memory: Definitely Unlocked 2021! It was my first event after really starting to warm to the TOA community and i was an awe of the scope of the events. The mods thought this far ahead?! We can do this?! Every event since has just been even more fun but the surprise and intrigue i felt then really stayed with him

*How do you pronounce TOA?

Toe-uh. Like Dee-En-Dee. you know.

Got any delusions that didn’t see the light of day that you’d like to share? 😉 

I think I mentioned I muse Hubert before, and also that I can't really seeing myself maintaining a blog for him? So other than that, no. I do think Nimh could be quite a bit of fun though *laughs*

[patron-saints]

tell me more about Antoinette. what is her favorite color. does she have any siblings. gow quickly did she fall in love with miles. thank u love her

what does Olivier think about Antoinette both as an individual and as Mrs miles and NOT as a soldier don't be boring

fma oc hours….. i love her too.

antoinette is a mechanical engineer who grew up in north city. she's 29, her and miles have two kids, and she's just as much of a briggsman as he is. she has a sister in north city who watches their kids a lot, but they do also visit and spend time with them there and it's not unheard of for the whole miles family to be at briggs together, on occasion. it’s not like a “oh they’re too busy for their kids” thing it’s more like a communal family raising thing. cuz antoinette and miles take care of her sister’s kids too.

oh. lol just saw the second question! yes she has two older sisters, she's the baby of her family. she was always the tinkerer even as a kid, playing with any spare scarp of technology she could get her hands on, much to the annoyance of her parents and her sisters, but it paid off, and she's one of the highest ranking engineers at briggs now. when an engineer is talking about miles, they mean antoinette.

her favorite color is orange, but red is a very close second.

i think we talked about her and miles meeting because they were assigned to the same chore rotation, and then continuing to run into each other randomly for a while after that, and i also think i said something to you about her asking him out first. which i maintain. i think she fell in love with him like… like that old cliche of like, slowly and then all at once? i think she actually may have had her kids younger and miles is their step-dad, and so i think like. i think she was really cautious about getting too attached to him at first, even though she approached him and liked him, i think there was a part of her waiting to see how he was with her kids. and he was. fantastic. and then it was just. immediately. i think they got married after dating/being partnered for three years, so they've been married for two when ed meets miles.

(additionally. the kids probably saw buccaneer as a very fun and cool uncle and he probably spoiled them and played insane dangerous SEEMING games with them but always made sure to keep them safe)

(there's a world where he lives and where they get to bring him into the family more in a different way) (but this is not that world)

and okay. bonus round. olivier. obviously i made the joke in recognition that both antoinette and her husband were in love with olivier and they told each other that when they told each other they loved each other. and i don't think. i don't know how much olivier KNOWS that them and everyone else is a little in love with her, but she might have like. some idea lol. i think she thinks that antoinette is solid, reliable, and witty, and i think she appreciates that she has someone she trusts running her engineer dept. i am TRYING not to be boring but olivier is so work based it's hard not to talk about work!

i think it means a lot to her that miles has someone. and that that person is good for him and good to him. i think they don't get to talk all too often but i think she likes her pretty well. not that she would ever SAY that. god forbid olivier mira armstrong show approval. but you know. she does.

[itsohh]

I'm going to chop of Ubisoft's dick I swear to god.

You know what? This isn't a terrible change. With the addition of Thorn, Lesion did feel a little meh. So it's nice to have another mechanical trap operator. These changes does kinda bring him back to more OG style but at the same time: lol echo treatment invisible get fucked.

I do love the super shorty as a secondary.

I mean this will make my friend really happy, she's always complaining about the inconsistencies of shotguns. Idk how I feel about the ads improvement. I feel like this is something I'm gonna have to experience in game to decide as it could make or break shotguns. (Ubisoft if you ever even THINK about touching the BOSG I will hurt you.)

Now for the shit I hate. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIIISSS CUNNNTTT??? Like bro if I'm the only one setting up then there's no way imma have time to do it??? Also revealing to the attackers??? Talk about a fucking nerf to mute and Solis. Like your better off leaving your drone at spawn now and picking it up to drone later on when u get close. Unlike your rushing there's no point. Being on to it and killing all drones in prep phase then having the object hidden used to be a strategic reward. I've had matches win because attacks didn't actually know where the objective was and vice versa.

Like I get this is a solution to a problem that they have created but FUCK OFF literally quick match was completely FINE. It's quick because it didn't go a maximum of NINE ROUNDS. This is such some BS babying level stuff. Like sure spawn peaks and run outs can be annoying but that's part of the game. You can counter them, like YES you should be checking every window! Your in fucking training for combat! If your invun for the beginning of the round what if your Kali and just long range snipe??? Like I can see this going wrong for plane.

I mean... Now that comp rank doesn't mean anything I can understand the changes with unranked cause no one plays it but also??? I want to play like quickplay the way it is now, if 'standard' is still the same length as comp then idk man that's gonna suck.

If standards legit just current quickplay then they really should have just been like 'unranks removed we now have baby mode'

Idk what maps have been removed but I swear to god if they touch my boys Tower and Plane I'm gonna cry. I know it's a controversial take by I love both of those two map as is. (And plane got a rework not too long ago) They can take stadium tho. Take it out back and put it down because it's the worst map in the game.

I'm just confused by those 'base changes' what does this apply to? Everything? Are they removing bans from the game???? Same with the overtime thing is this for all game modes, like comp and unranked or????

Idk what clearance level is?

I feel like Ubisoft is reworking the game so much like at this point.... Just make another game lmao. I guess then there's always the fear of the ow2 syndom so I understand but then r6s is a really old game. This sucks cause like I love the game I do (I know it's a bad game) but a the same time this doesn't make me excited to play the game. It feel like it's audience is being reduced, like I love hehe funny skin pizza mozzie gaming but those premap set up cookie cutter shit? I fucking hate that. I bet the roations aren't gonna be where I like it either.

Ive been playing a little bit of comp recently but I've always been a quick play player. I could forgive the recent operators being so...eh.

Like don't get me strong Solis is really strong pick but I hated the addition of her and Brava SO much. Solis isn't to bad but Brava? I hate her addition. On both attack and defence, like why would you ever pick twitch anymore? Twitch doesn't even have any like really good guns either. She has the marksman I guess but all her guns are meh.

Fenrir I feel like is just a glorified proximity mine 80% of the time. He's just kinda eh and meh. His ability doesn't activate fast enough to normally be a big threat and then the fact you don't get his codes back is lame.

Grim is a niche, he's not bad. I just feel like he isn't that fun to play? I think him getting stickies is cool but I still feel like people won't play him.

Sens is powerful AF in a 5 stack with good coms. But without coms? I feel like their good for like a couple of strats but they aren't very versatile and are a very situation operator.

Like these operators aren't bad but I feel like they don't really add to the game in a positive way. Perhaps it's just a personal preference but idk I don't find any of them fun. I'm not running to try play them. I don't feel like the game has gotten better with their additions. Just worse.

(I hate Brava (gameplay wise) so much. On both attacking and defending)

First thoughts on Ram was 'oh an operator that focus's on playing vertical that's good we don't have- wait yes we do, there's sledge'

After this shocking revelation she's a weird automated version of sledge idk how to feel about it. I don't think she's gonna be picked much after initial release. I think she's going on the bench with Senz.

I'm still gonna play the game but like R6S vs CoD on a fight to see who can kill their game the fastest.

I hate being that guy but I do miss the way the game used to be when I started, I miss the UI. I miss being able to pick your fire mode, I miss old house I miss old consulate. I miss not having to worry if my own claymores gonna kill me, I miss the sense of accomplishment in the game.

Like I started playing just before Oyrx was released (hate Oryx players btw because they always break above hatch and then attackers get the advantage when they take it) and the games lost so much charm? Im glad they are tying to get out that entire 'stadium eSports incorporated into lore' phase but I feel like Ubisoft has an idea for the games future and it's just not a place I like.

I mean sure the games dying and I think addressing the RNG with shotguns is a nice step (that being said I like the risk vs rewards with them tbh) but at the same time if they addressed the true biggest problem things could change

That right

TICK RATE BABY

UBISOFT INCREASE YOUR TICK RATE FOR THE GAME. FIX YOUR DOG SERVERS TOO.

If they just went and fixed all their shitty bugs, if they didn't make the game feel like it was on early access it would be sooo much nicer. Like ngl? CoD? Feels like it registers properly, it's poorly optimised and horribly unbalanced ptw ect ect but the fact it feels like I registers my shit? Breath of fresh air sometimes. R6S could have been soooo good if they just hardcore fixed all their bugs glitches, server issues and tick rate. Like I shouldn't be able to look do and slightly to the left and then melee through a shield.

Old man yells at a cloud but come on man, don't fuck with my quick play.

[nientedenada]

Where are the Mixed-Race Characters? Hiding out in the continuity errors, of course!

Originally posted on r/teslore. I've been inspired by /u/jotting_prosaist 's magnificent apocrypha: A Commentary on the Misinterpretation of “Notes on Racial Phylogeny” and the discussion in the comments. People really are interested in seeing more mixed-race characters in TES, and while we have an increasing number of such characters, and more on their way (if some of those Skyrim babies are ever born), there aren't that many.

But what if they've been under our noses the whole time? What if one of them is Belethor, our favourite Breton shopkeeper the Prima guide describes as Bosmer?

Now, before I go into the details here, I fully acknowledge that these racial discrepancies certainly began as continuity errors. But why not embrace them to give the NPCs deeper backstories and flesh out the world?

'Belethor' is a much more Bosmer-sounding name than Breton. That suggests the Prima Guide is based off an earlier draft in which he was a Bosmer, but that in game development, he was changed to a Breton. However, for in-world purposes, Belethor could have had a Bosmer or part-Bosmer parent who bequeathed him a Bosmer name to honour that part of his ancestry.

Aringoth, the owner of the bee hives in Riften, appears to be an Altmer, but is called a Bosmer by Vex and Brynjolf. Why can't he both?

Enthir appears to be a Bosmer but identifies himself in conversation as Altmer.

So they were like your kind? "Like the Altmer? Yes, I would say their culture quite possibly rivaled our own."

Hlidara Mothril in Oblivion is Countess Alessia Caro's Altmer advisor who is working with her to Imperialize Leyawiin. And yet, the court mage Tsavi calls Hlidara "Nibenean". What if, despite Hildara's Altmer appearance, she is more attuned to her Nibenese ancestry?

I'm sure there are more folk who are referred to as the "wrong" race. And interpreting the continuity errors as lore would make the world and the characters really interesting!

Further examples: Xatriks on Hlidara: Not to mention her Dunmeri name. Also Angaredhel. 

One dialogue mistakenly refers to him as "Angaredhel the Altmer" and his name is more typical of an Altmer name than a Dunmer name. However, two other dialogues correctly describe him as "Angaredhel the Dunmer".

And Mankar Camoran of course. Half of these inconsistencies may be actual mistakes though. Me:  Ooh, nice additions. I'm sure they start out as mistakes, but they can become lore. :) Someone asked why we needed more mixed-race characters.

Me: Because, given the world, there should be a lot more of them. We see mixed-race couples continuously in-game, but the people we meet rarely are presented as anything but pure [insert race here]. It's an impoverished version of a richer possible world. We can assume it's both game mechanics, and a limit on how much dialogue can be written for each character (most characters aren't going to tell you about their relations), but this lack of characters that don't fit inside homogenous racial slots has actually convinced a lot of TES players that race is, in fact, an immutable biological state in Elder Scrolls lore, even when the one text we have on the subject doesn't claim so. TES would definitely benefit from making this subject clearer. If you look at the game of Skyrim, I can think of two mixed-race characters: the Breton/Redguard Lylvieve siblings. That's ridiculously low. And we know absolutely nothing about their experience, so they're not interesting either in that respect. Until the games give us better examples (and ESO is doing a little bit of that), we're on our own imagining anyone interesting at all.

[apompkwrites]

hi!! ok here's a silly idea for reader impact: you know how people make asmr/x listener content for fictional characters on youtube? your fan theories post mentioned xiao's the type to read fanfic of his main, so how do you think he (and whichever other streamer boys u want) would react to finding something like that of reader/his main? whether it's romantic or just relaxing to listen to is up to you, i just thought it'd be cute lmao. ty, have a good day/night!! :)

reader impact || x listener audios

series masterlist characters: xiao genre: fluff/comfort contains: sad xiao because of nightmares :( summary: due to the growing popularity of genshin impact, some content creators have taken it upon themselves to create self-indulgent audios for fellow players. notes: ok but there are some really good ones out there... anyway, i started with just xiao but i'd be happy to try and do more :) and here's the post mentioned in the ask!

xiao -

xiao listens to these audios regularly.

he has a whole playlist for asmr audios with you!

they all share one theme, though.

they're all sleep aid audios.

i've mentioned time and time again that xiao has issues with nightmares.

because of this, he's tried whatever he could to have a good night's rest.

and one of them was to listen to sleep aid audios.

he was actually really excited to see that there were sleep aid audios for you!

he's tried sleep aid audios in the past but they never made as much of an impact as yours did :)

he doesn't really care about whether or not the audio is romantic.

he's touch starved though so he gets kinda excited when it is romantic :)

he likes the audios that mainly focus on comfort, especially ones based on comforts after a nightmare.

sure, hearing breathing and heartbeats make him feel better, but he likes it more when he can listen to someone talking to him.

he just wants comfort.

"hm? a nightmare?" you, or more specifically the person voicing you, hums softly.

xiao finds himself laying in his bed, staring at the same spot he always did whenever he woke up at ungodly hours. he had the urge to get up a turn on his pc, open up the very game that brought him comfort, and just flip through your voicelines.

but ever since he found this one channel that has borderline perfect impressions of you, it's been his go-to coping mechanism for late night problems.

your voice echoes throughout his empty room along with the sound effects of blankets and sheets rustling. you let out a quiet huff as you presumably sit on the bed beside the listener.

"and what do you want me to do about it? i won't magically make your nightmares disappear."

"just... be there," xiao sobs quietly, covering his eyes with his arm. it isn't uncommon for him to reply, even though most of the time he doesn't follow the expected script of the creator.

"you... want me to stay here? that's all?"

but the times when he does manage to follow it, he has a brief feeling of euphoria.

"...very well." and as he starts to allow himself to drift off, the final words he hears from the video are sure to override any nightmare threatening to cloud his mind.

"rest well. i'll be here in the morning."

[mmollymercury]

For the character ask game, Camilo ☺️

YAYY I GET TO DO THIS AGAIN!!

seriously ppl I love talking abt my hcs, don't be shy to ask me abt them😭💕💕

Camilo

⚧ - Pronoun hc: he/they. This is basically canon lol. If u didn't know, before the movie came out and press was asking questions abt it. Ppl used 'they/them' pronouns to refer to Camilo in interviews 💕 also... the fact that so many nb ppl adopted him... I mean, it shows guys. Birds of feather, innit.

🏳️‍⚧️- Gender hc: non binary💕💞

🏳️‍🌈- Orientation hc: idk abt this one, I've never really thought abt it before. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

🌌- zodiac sign hc: Camilo is a December baby, I'm pretty sure.... Sooo that'd make them a capricorn??? I think😶

🧠- MBTI/Enneagram hc: based on my researchhhhh (but as I've said before I'm very new to this stuff lol) he'd be a ESTP

Some things that helped me come to this conclusion:

Camilo is very extroverted. He does have moments were, if you look carefully, he kinda shrinks in on himself and resumes the 'dinosaur posetm', also known as Bruno's constant state- but despite this, he thrives on attention, I mean look at this pose:

You can practically hear him saying 'look at meee'. Next, I believe they'd make decisions based on the reality of the situation and speak very literally about things, example:

"Err, not if we don't have a house."

He does not entertain the option of that changing right away. He's focused in the now and is trying to get that dealt with first.

He's very confident but he also hides behind other people's faces, literally. I do imagine him to be quite popular in his own right but still, he's very closed off with his emotions and only thinks about catering others, that's literally his gift. So he neglects himself emotionally and pretends he's okay behind his happy demeanour. He's a devil and is the epitome of a little shit. But it's tough love sometimes, they do truly care💞

Now, this section, I like to call: no (with one exception)

❤- OTP hc: 🚫

🧡- Everyone I ship with this character: 🚫

💛- Brotp: Probably him and Mirabel, they're the best of friends💕💕. BUT DONT GET IT TWISTED, THIS ISNT ROMANTIC U FREAKSS😤😤😤🚫🚫🚫

💚- Notp: everything lol (not hating on oc x canon btw, u guys do your thing, I'm just talking abt canon x)

💙- Crossover ship: 🚫

💜- Crossover non-ship relationship I like: mhhhh never really thought abt it. I think Camilo would absolutely roast any person from my other hyperfixations lol

📖- AU I'd like to see them in: modern AU,,, again... Let's face it, he'd be a youtuber who'd make insane, chaotic vlogs with thumbnails on par with drew phillips:

❤🩹- Angsty hc: He lies about how he feels for the sake of others, just like the rest of the family; also uses humor as a coping mechanism. He often worries that people only see him as the people he can be and don't really care about him. Also, I think they'd definitely get paranoid about their appearance and question if this is them or just another shape shifted creation. I think he'd have moments of losing himself and shifting as other people to cope with stuff. He isn't really in touch with who he is because of this. He's got trauma, poor thing🥺🥺🥺

💖- Happy hc: He played with dolls as a kid, due to getting them as hand-me-downs. When abuela gifted him a stereotypical 'boy's toy' he used it to play with said dolls. Like: if it was a football, he'd turn it into 'circle world' and the dolls would play on it lol. Before he forgot him, he used to fall asleep to Bruno rocking him in his arms🥺🥺

😋- Funny/stupid hc: When he hiccups, it sometimes can trigger his shapeshifting. Sometimes, he'll transform into someone and try and keep the clothes that come along with them. It never works.

🪞- Appearance hc: I'm not sure what to put here lol, let's just say: I think he'd eventually ask to get his ears pierced. He was always jealous of how the girls got them done when they were little.

🥖- Food hc: THIS SHIT EATS LIKE IT'S HIS LAST DAY ON EARTH, ALL DAY, EVERYDAY. he's got one of those 'food critic' palletes, there's basically nothing he hates, he loves all flavours AND LIVES for the experience of all of them. He eats everyone's left overs, without leaving a crumb; first thing he does when he and Mira come back from school is complain about being hungry, Mira then says: you literally ate on the walk home bro-

I agree with the headcanon that shapeshifting into all these ppl, wears him out and that's why he's so hungry, however, I also think it's more than that: he just has a naturally fast metabolism and looooves food🥰, cos I like to think he still acts like this when the magic is gone. The family call him a human trashcan lol.

🛌- Sleep hc: he sleeps like he's been hit by a car, snores like an engine and drools all over his pillow.

🏡- Domestic hc: he has the best relationship with Pepa 💕💕😭 he's a momma's boy 💕, Julieta gets annoyed of his eating habits but she's grown to make extra of everything, just for him💞 I think she'd also let him eat the parts of a meal no one else really wants, before she serves the whole thing, for example: like the legs on a chicken, my mam used to do this for my sister lol x

He likes having a jokey, bickering relationship with Félix. They don't actually fight or anything but he'll make play insults like: "old man" and "grey hairs" just to have that playful back and forth banter. They'll both be laughing, knowing there's no malice behind the words🥰

🗡- Badass hc- He'll shapeshift into a bully's mam to get them to back off. Also he just hates on bullies in general, often crossing a line and being a bit of one himself, when trying to defend ppl.

❓- Anything else you want: this boy would watch dragrace, come on now-