#I may be onto something

[hwang-inhos-fish]

Self-proclaimed independent gangster Kang Sae-byeok with her pickpocketing skills and her switchblade, 5'9 (177cm), looming over tiny Kim Jun-hee (5'4, 162cm) like a protective shadow.

Determined, capable Jun-hee calmly and firmly speaking up for more introverted, reticent Sae-byeok when she herself doesn't feel like the verbal confrontation

They're both the introverts that leave the party early though (to make out at home)

Also Sae-byeok would be so protective of that baby

[psychidelias]

I propose that the (talkie) sewing machine is an absolute gossip, and tells Kochanski everything that Kryten mumbled about her when he sewed things. Also, has regular banter with the Cat when he makes his suits and Lister when he sews his patches on. And maybe because the sewing machine is used all the time as opposed to talkie toaster, they aren't as butthurt about their job and Rimmer makes conversation occasionally.

[ihatechosingnames]

IPC and related characters

With the release of Jade's kit, something clicked in my mind.

I believe the devs did their jobs on choosing the path and the kit for their characters (the elements are more random on most characters, not on everyone since a lot of characters fit their chosen elements, like March has Ice because of her special Ice powers, than we have Bronya with wind element while she is a soldier fighting in an ice age setting), because the kits of three of the Ten Stonehearts have something in common and that can lead to theorizing that is something in common with all of the Ten Stonehearts. I'm talking about the follow-up attack.

Two is a coincidence, three is a pattern and we have a nice pattern here. And also, their paths (Hunt, Erudition and Preservation) say a lot about them and their jobs.

Topaz is a character following the path of Hunt and it's so fitting for someone who goes around to collect debt. She is actively "hunting" debts. Her stone is a yellow topaz, which is a birthstone for November and it is said to inspire "hospitality and friendship" and "produces an enduring, radiant energy", fitting Topaz's personality, she is friendly and cheerful, when not at work mode. Also, the topaz is a stone for protection.

Aventurine is a Preservation character and all of his kit is around gambling. For someone who gambles a lot, having the role of being a shield seems to be contradictory. But I don't think so, Aventurine gambles with his life to protect himself (like he did by gambling with Jade for his own freedom). The aventurine stone is a stone that urges to take new opportunities and helps someone grow as an individual and it's associated with luck and good fortune. Exactly like Aventurine himself, which is blessed with luck.

Jade is a character that follows the Erudition and we have seen her in the last Trailblazer Mission, doing both works for the IPC and works for herself. Her granting wishes shop made me think about Yuuko from xxxHolic, a story about a shop where a witch grants wishes with the clients paying an exact price for their wishes. And their prices go from memories to objects and also good luck. It's kind of a complicated story made by CLAMPS with their other story, Tsubasa Chronicles. If you know them, you should have found the resemblance between Yuuko's and Lady Bonajade's shops. The green jade is a stone that represents the heart (in the chakra system) and also the green color of jade was the color to use for the dead. Its symbolism includes associations with nobility and wealth, both things associated with Jade, since Topaz comments that for her, Jade is akin to nobility and obviously Jade is associated with wealth, a lot of it. Another thing is that jade is considered a protector of generations and she seems to "protect" both her juniors, Topaz and Aventurine. We don't know a lot about her to say anything related to her job and her path, but from what we have seen in the quest, she uses a lot of knowledge to make deals, like she is aware of the other side's budget to make deals with advantages for her side.

Back with the one common thing. The follow-up attack. This one I associate with Aha, the Aeon of Elation, since in Simulated Universe, by following this path, the follow up dmg is increased, and, the virtual paths are linked to the real ones. So, the Elation has a relation with the follow up attack. So, how come, three people belonging to a group "devoted" to the Aeon of Preservation have all a follow-up attack on their kits?

We know that their boss is an Emanator of Preservation, one of the very few who are working inside the IPC, but he is also an eccentric that surround himself with "unique and extraordinary" people, because Talent is the most precious investment of all. Could it be that he is an Emanator but not completely of the Preservation? This is speculative but what if Divergent Universe shows that Paths can fuse? We already know that Paths can be assimilated in another, like Order with Harmony, and that Phantalya was trying to merge the Destruction with the Abundance, so, what if Diamond, while being an Emanator of the Preservation, is also a follower of the Elation? I know, we still don't know a thing about Diamond and we have still seven more stonehearts to be released before saying with certainty that follow-up attack is part of the kit of every stonehearts. And we also have characters that have follow-up attacks in their kits and have no relation with the Elation, while having characters related with the Elation (Sampo and Sparkle) who actually don't have anything like a follow-up attack.

In conclusion, this turned up to be more an analysis on their stones that on their kit, with a bit of "why the paths they have actually fit their story" and lots of questions. I'm sure, the follow-up attack is an important part for the Stonehearts, I'm gonna bet on it.

[wetlittlebeast]

Ok has anyone thought about

[pooksbedamned]

Chooses daily

It’s actually daily squid facts but one word is substituted with CHEDDAR

It’s the best decision I’ve ever made in my life

[lucabyte]

i CANNOT stress enough how incompatible the themes of these two pieces of media are. i promise my media literacy ability is actually good im well aware that these character mappings are absolutely nothing. that said. play with me in this space. in this sopping wet miserable space. its bad luck to kill a piou piou

original screenshots (and hypnosis 1904) for reference

[caramelc0rgi]

I do wish we kind of got to see more of Charles moving around in his wheelchair like something as simple as transferring from his wheelchair to a car, or go more into depth about all the kinds of wheelchairs he uses because throughout the movies it can be seen that he uses different kinds of wheelchairs to navigate around. It’s just little things like that that aren’t shown in such large franchises often.

[cable-salamdr]

(Sketch) To be loved, to be judged

[myuminji]

Doodles of loser behaviour (he gets kisses)

Another loser behaviour (he gets kisses, again)

they bring Roberto a headache on a daily basis

[cringefail-clown]

in the meat timeline, they lost the embodiment of breath, the aspect of freedom, thus the narrative binds them to the narrators wishes, twisting them to his desires

in the candy timeline, they lost the embodiment of heart, the aspect of the soul. they lose their sense of self, becoming more and more detached from who they are as a person

[lgbtlunaverse]

Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.

[tevanbuckley]

me pre 7x04: yeah idrc about tommy as a love interest.

911 writers: okay but what if he was soft and kind and gentle? what if buck looks like he’s just found god when they kiss? what if he doesn’t even flinch when buck stumbles over his words because this is all new and he won’t hold that against him?

Oh and he’s also somehow so huge he makes oliver “built like a brick shithouse” stark look small by comparison? what will you do then?

[ahalliance]

antoine + étoiles insane moments, p.2. aka the ass saga. p1 here

transcript + context for some of the clips below

[Video Transcript:

[First clip plays.]

Rivenzi: You want to see Etoiles’ ass, of course…

Antoine: Yeah, I’m gonna stare at your ass, Etoiles…

Etoiles: Fuck, what dread, during Popcorn [a talkshow Etoiles had been invited on the previous week], when I went up to the map and you said that, and I thought ‘whoa—‘

Antoine: Sorry

[Second clip plays: the moment during Popcorn]

PA/Domingo: Antoine Daniel has posted a tweet for us: ‘I wanted to look at this map of Africa, but Etoiles’ ass in the shape of a standing bell is driving me crazy. Smiley face with eyes in the shape of hearts.’

[Third clip plays: a continuation of the first clip.]

Antoine: Sorry, bro…

Ponce: Oh but that tweet, besides

Rivenzi: A standing bell…

Antoine: What’s more is that I never tweet and when I do it’s to tweet this sort of shit

Ponce: That’s exactly what I told myself. When PA read the tweet, I thought to myself, ‘but he never tweets!’ And he tweets to talk about Etoiles’ ass

Antoine: There needs to be a good reason, you see

[Fourth clip plays: a clip from the Team du Lundi’s minecraft server.]

JDG: Someone (in chat) said, ‘I can’t tell whether the atmosphere is good tonight or—‘

Antoine: It sucks, it sucks

Florence: You don’t need to ask every time, it always sucks

Baghera: Always sucks. Especially when Etoiles talks about ass [which had been a previous topic of discussion for him that night]

Antoine: Stooop, I enjoy it

Mynthos: You enjoy it?

JDG: It’s true tonight that it’s more weird than bad

Antoine: I like it when Etoiles talks about ass….

[Fifth clip plays: a second and different clip from Popcorn.]

Etoiles: —you’re not allowed to tell me that [Xari claimed to not know much about cinema]. I know you, I studied, because you’re my rival [in pop culture]. I really enjoy what you do in life, Xari, and you’re really knowledgeable about cinema

Antoine: What do you mean he’s your rival? And I’m just shit?

Etoiles: You, you’re my lover

Antoine: Oh yeah, sorry, my bad

PA/Domingo: One of the three is gonna die soon. There’s a whole situation, there’s a whole lore

[Sixth clip plays: a clip from the QSMP.]

Antoine: Don’t you want to get married, dude?

Etoiles: Well, I don’t have the time to fuck

Antoine: What the fuck?!

Etoiles: I don’t have time to fuck, dude. I just need to kill everyone

Antoine: No but just a marriage, you see. You’ve watched Game of Thrones— you haven’t watched Game of Thrones, you can’t know how marriages work in that series

Etoiles: I’ve watched it, but I’m married to the street, dude. I can’t give out my heart that quickly

Antoine: Yeah but you can give out your ass quickly, no?

Etoiles: No, frankly, my ass—

Antoine: What the fuck?!

Etoiles: Giving out your ass takes time, dude

Antoine: What the fuck…

Etoiles: Then again, I need to think about it. I’ll give you my answer. I need to discuss, and everything

Antoine: I’m tired of getting betrayed. You get married with someone else—

Etoiles: Never in a million years!

Antoine: —it’s like yesterday. Apparently Maximus got the mic from his ass removed while I wasn’t there. I was supposed to be the one to do it

Etoiles: Oh okay, so I’m your second choice?

[Overlapping]

Antoine: No! It was just to help him—

Etoiles: No, but, okay

Antoine: He got— listen—

Etoiles: There’s no problem!

Antoine: Fuck, nevermind

Etoiles: There’s no issue! Oh, so you’re opening my chest and stealing?

Antoine: I was just looking! Out of curiosity

Etoiles: Yeah, that’s it

Antoine: I don’t even understand what’s in it

Etoiles: Yeah, out of curiosity. Dude, your opinion on my cave?

Antoine: Well frankly it’s big

end Video Transcript.]

[wardensantoineandevka]

I will admit I'm a little salty that people, in an effort to prove that there is no good dialogue in Veilguard at all, keep comparing mission exposition to the high point narrative set pieces of prior games. I agree that some of the writing related to plot mechanics and mission exposition in Veilguard is a little too utilitarian, but that doesn't mean none of the dialogue is good or that prior games didn't also sometimes have this issue here and there.

I also generally dislike when people put the bar for good writing — and all writing too, not even just dialogue writing, ALL writing — at mic-drop sentences that still sound good completely divorced from context, because that really just reduces "good writing" down to like fake-deep philosophizing or witty quips exclusively. sometimes, a really good bit of dialogue sounds like a completely normal sentence out of context.

[applestorms]

on another note. it genuinely kinda surprises me how many people interpret ivan to be the type of person to Repress and Deny his feelings when, from all the evidence we actually have, he actually seems to be quite open about it?

he does do the dumb stare and watch from afar thing that till does with mizi, yeah, but even there i don’t know if i would necessarily interpret that as ivan like. pushing his feelings away. compare the difference between how till and ivan are framed in these two shots:

in till's, we are pushed way farther back, seeing his full face and a good deal of his body as he slouches back. the colors are bright, fitting in with most of the happier mizisua angst memories, and you can read till's expression pretty clearly, even with his face beaten up. it's cute and mostly innocent, the kind of thing that makes you want to gently push him out from behind the wall to watch him stutter and get all embarrassed but reach out and play with his friends.

in ivan's... jesus. i mean, he looks like a freak (affectionate). you can't read his expression, despite the fact that we are zoomed in much more closely, only really seeing his eye as the placement of his hand covers his mouth. there is very little body language to convey the same type of sweet, childhood Yearning that till has in his staring shot. instead, for ivan, it all comes down to the Eye, how intently he stares as he watches till and mizi. it almost doesn't even feel like he wants to join in at that moment, or not yet, like watching alone is enough to feed the starvation.

don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of Yearning and Angst in that boy-- round 3 alone is enough to demonstrate that. but what i think people sometimes forget to account for is the fact that ivan acts like that specifically because he has already been rejected.

up until [whenever this moment happens in the timeline] ivan seemingly has absolutely no qualms about getting all up close and personal with till. we see this in plenty of the round 6 flashbacks:

he is plenty comfortable getting all up in till's personal space, whether it be to beat him up or just exist near him.

i also like how in this shot (below) we can see him specifically stand up and move seats, just so that he can bother till during lunch and have his little vampire weirdo moment (aww).

ivan's behavior only really shifts after till has already rejected him-- which, i'd also like to note, seems to genuinely catch ivan off guard. perhaps he genuinely didn't even consider the possibility that till would ever push him away?? i guess it's hard to know the specifics of what he was feeling or thinking in that exact moment, but at the very least this speaks to the ease with which they existed around each other previously.

thus: ivan doesn't begin with the belief that till could never love him. he only starts to doubt whether or not his feelings are requited after he has already been rejected, after he pushed too hard and too quick.

after the failed meteor shower date, his affections become a lot more subtle-- sneaking around to take care of till when he needs it, but only when his eyes are closed. the love and obsession and watchfulness is all still there, but he takes more care to hide it better now. until... well, y'know.

he lets the selfishness win. :]

[mariyekos]

One of the things that makes me feel crazy on DMC5 replays is the way V phrases his request to Dante.

He doesn't say "we need your help to stop the demon." He says "A powerful demon is about to resurrect, and we need your help, Dante." The implication seems to be that V needs Dante's help to stop it...but if you've played it before, that's not what he's really asking. V needs Dante's help in order for the resurrection to take place. Because until Urizen is weakened V has no chance of rejoining him, so he needs Dante's help to weaken Urizen so he's primed for merging and bringing about Vergil's resurrection. The "we" V refers to could also absolutely be both V and Urizen in that case, instead of just some general "we" of humanity. So he's not really asking for help to stop the resurrection, but instead to bring it about, hiding the truth in plain sight and careful wording.

The DMC 5 localization can be wonky in some places, but in other places it just shines. "We need your help, Dante." Not to stop it. He never says that. It's to bring about the resurrection itself.