#I really really liked the latest chapter

[galakianexplosion]

Severed Dreams, Holy Intervention

To note; this is a fake scenario based on the last opm chapter. I just felt a bit silly and wanted to get angsty about it 🤭😇

[raddestrose]

Xie Lian would make a great ao3 author, on the grounds of he’s been living through the author’s curse for 800 years

[zuzu-draws]

[The Strongest sorcerer in the Modern Age VS the Strongest Sorcerer in History]

[princechaikka]

WHEN ME AND THE YULLENERS HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG

[kacievvbbbb]

I don't know especially with the lastest chapter (ch 265) this just feels so much like Yuuji.

Like especially in the first season people kept asking why he is doing all this, why he wants to save people, why he's beating himself up so much over people he barely knows. People kept wanting to know Yuuji's why and he couldn't explain it he was holding unto the promise he made to his granfther as an explanation but that wasnt really is.

And then you have Mahito who tried to force his own defintion of who yuuji was unto him and beat him down until Yuuji believed it too. He's just a machine killing curses because thats his nature vs Mahito killing humans cause thats his nature. They are beings of instinct slaves to their nature, cogs in the machine. And Yuuji internalizes that so much it weighs so heavily on him the idea that his job isnt to save people but kill curses doesn't sit right with him.

but then at what should be his lowest point he stares his biggest tormentor in the face and said you know what I don't particulalry care what you or anyone else thinks about my reasons. I don't think you have to have grand or innate reasons to do something. Sometimes you just do! and what yuuji wants, more than anything; more than killing curses more than keeping the "weak" safe, is to save his friends. And it's too late for a lot of them, Yuuji was too late but goddam it he won't be late for this. So fuck Sukuna he's bringing Megumi home.

[thenegoteator]

han jia.... i love her. that is all

[yuseirra]

they used to be so soft

[sanshinexx]

i just think he's neat

*holds gently and cries*

[unordinary-diary]

did a little doodle of Farrah

[randomnameless]

More artbook stuff!

Dev notes under the profiles of Aubin, Bruno, Mordon, Berenice, Adel and Travis!

Exposed arms gives "wild" point?

Aubin being from the desert wasn't a definite point, but one that was cemented later on ? I really liked how he recruited/noticed Magellan wasn't himself lol, but as far as "axe guys" go, I really appreciated the fact that Aubin's "reliability" was depicted at first with him willing to throw down his life to let his men escape (something that is alluded to in his Jeremy rapport!) and, on promotion, he gets a shield which, idk, but imo gives him a more "commanding" type than your regular, say, FE axe guys.

Aubin's a nice guy and a nice unit all things considered, and I'm glad the devs really wanted to make him a "reliable" type of guy, especially since he's the first (iirc?) guy you can recruit instead of execute (at least plot wise, Alain decides to hire him instead of killing him!)

Talking about traditional axe guys...

Here's Bruno! Designed to be the Pirate Boss 1.1, but ultimately promoted to playable unit!

I can't say much about his face - even if his large character portrait zooms a bit on it.

Selvie seriously studying his "gluteus maximus" was a bit of a joke rapport convo, but it was fun ngl, Sharon's was the usual "giant brigand with a heart of gold", but fwiw, I prefered his conversations with the Tricorns, both Travis were they come to terms with the fact Travis dumped him to look after his sister, and with Berengaria with Bruno wanting to recreate their bandit/brigand group (which they do, even if Berengaria marries Alain!).

As for his VA, I noticed how possessed!Bruno sounded more composed and articulate that the non possessed one lol (cluing us on a second PT that yep, this isn't the regular Bruno talking) but I won't lie, hearing his seiyuu give his all during the various attacking phases was also a big reason why I didn't bench him lol. And that scene where he joins is really something, you can hear how hurt/upset he is/was when Travis left the group, I agree with the comment, that scene was cool.

Mordon!

"Reborn" ? Was he supposed to die in the original scenario? Poor guy lol.

Even if he might only have been saved to make the Norbelle route available with, uhh, minimum grinding (I say available, not doable since you'd need a lot of grinding to be able to defeat her and get the end of her story lol), I'm also glad he was added!

"Beer-filled belly" lol, while I've read around that some people disliked his character because alcoholism shouldn't be laughed at or something, imo it's obvious the devs went with the "jolly old man" trope, acting sometimes as a mentor, sometimes as a drinking buddy (and the reason why we got to see drunk!Eltrinde).

Cute that the town girl who appears in his ending was retrospectively named, even if she appears twice in the game, maybe to help refocus Mordon's character on someone who, first and foremost, is happy to help people around?

(as long as there is money or booze, he says)

Berenice time!

"tough, strong and cool" women are really something we see mentionned around, and the secret between Berenice's thighs is revealed, much like Mario's mustache!

There's not a lot of notes about Berenice, but fwiw, I really like her interactions with the Clive/Adel duo, and even to some extent, with Gary.

In an era where "strong, no-nonsense women" are supposed to be brutes or look down on people, Berenice being friendly with her pals but still reckoned as a powerhouse with her own feelings about chivalry and helping her comrades was a welcomed breath of fresh hair, even down to her weakness with horses : while it could have been designed as a moe point, it's later explained and revealed that it's a detail that has to do with her standing (rather lack of).

And I also totally don't like her because her Bastard Cross animation is some shit straight up from GBAFE where the Hero critical animation also throws their shield to slice people.

Nope!

Adel and Clive, UO's christmas knights lol

Adel's being a mood maker really shined in Clive and Monica's second rapport convo lol, but I agree with the devs, I hope they'll continue on spending time together (for drinks?) in their later life.

Fun fact, in this artbook's cover, we can see Monica dragging Clive away from Berenice and Adel sharing a drink ^^

For a mood maker, he still has his "serious" moment when he and Clive try to guess who is the "very mysterious" knight Laurent, and in his recruitment chapter not wishing to fight his previous comrades and trying to talk/sway them to Alain's cause.

I wonder if Travis being designed as a "cute guy" influenced his maiden convo lol

i'm half wondering if every drakengard noble is a twink, no wonders why Gloucester worries and believes he can't be an aristocrat

All jokes aside, Travis having an aristocratic/noble background wasn't something I guessed from his design, but as the devs intended, from his various mentions of reading and his love of books.

Coming from another fandom where some devoted people keep on harping about feudalism when the entire playable cast goes to school and has no issue with literacy - save for one specific character - Travis, and thus Fevrith's take on literacy is also, a breath of fresh hair.

I also love the progression of his relationship with his sister, and how it ends with them being together in a non jugdralian way at the end of the war like they promised to at the end of their character arc

(unless Travis marries Alain?)

The only thing I'm a bit miffed on with him is how he is a Drakengardian character while his background doesn't make any sense in the Drakengard arc, like, assuming his dad (who was the royal master at arms! Berengaria was invited to royal ceremonies) died when Soldraga fell, how come he never mentions to Alain that, indeed, his cousin has been living in Drakengard for the past decade, and since the castle fell, she's most likely been in hiding? Joseph's all "we just heard rumours Virginia's been spotted in Drakengard!" when Travis, as Count Zechshelm's son, could have told him since day 1.

Still, he is redeemed imo for being the only loser fooled by Ludwig's "perfect disguise" lol

and immediately loses points because ffs why must he tank things with his face when enemies have under 5% of chances of hitting - which means OHKO - him???? Damn the dodgetanks units!

[generic-sonic-fan]

Not trying to be edgy here but I love it when Sonic struggles with his own protagonist-centered morality. Make that blue hedgehog think that everything he does is objectively correct just because he acts with good intentions, please.

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[evansbby]

i NEED reader to end up with wg!ari. like i love steve and he’s been so sweet to her in the latest chapter but honestly i can’t get over what he did to her. :( and i know that things are gonna be tough with the new info about ari and kira, but i love how he was towards reader in the last chapter. idk how things will be resolved but my heart wants her to be with ari so bad 😭 however, i know that whoever she ends up with will be the right decision because all your fics are incredible and you are a genius 🥰 im eagerly, but patiently, awaiting the next chapter and can’t to see what’s next in this incredible story.

— a very loving but very shy evansbby supporter

awwww why do i find it so cute that you called yourself a shy evansbby supoorter??? 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 DON’T BE SHY I DONT BITE 🥹💞🫶🏼

and hmm, a lot of people want her to end up with Ari but i think almost equal amount of people want her to end up with Steve! And honestly, yes Steve did force himself on her but like… lowkey highkey so did Ari 😭😭😭

like… if we look at the facts, both men are actually awful bc they both forced themselves on her and both have also taken advantage of her when she was drunk/high 🥺🥺 but it’s a dark story sooooo yeah!

all I’ll say is that i HAVE decided who she ends up with and it took me MONTHS to decide this and it still might change! but i have my reasons and it was honestly the hardest writing decision I’ve ever made 😭😭 like wg!Ari is sooo dreamy but wg!Steve is sooo charming and just AHHHHHH IT WAS HARD!

[waning-and-waxing]

Instead, all you see is light.

Gold, surrounding you and spilling out of you, through your bones and your skin into the white of your clothes.

[phantomjesterrr]

Worst thing about two characters of similar ages where one dies and the other lives is imaging the other, now older looking at a picture of the deceased one. Knowing they're going to be young forever. They never had the chance to grow up.

[nomsfaultau]

(Potentially) Daily ask №5

Philza edition!

Stares at him with a mix of hesitation confusion fear disgust respect and concern, hhhhhh I have some feelings about that guy. I put him off as the last character to get an ask cause I genuinely didn't know much about him and cause I didn't really like him either. But here we go!

I can't tell how powerful he actually is. Because the foundation has these things called reality anchors which it canonically traps the reality bending entities with. And Phil was still walking around freely and was powerful enough to make contracts with. But if the reality anchors didn't work on him cause he's so powerful, why didn't he just, yk, break his collected out immediately?

Does he genuinely not understand how traumatizing is a lot of the lovely murder sprees he goes on are, at least for Tommy from what I've read? Like, yeah he's a god but surely he must've researched psychology enough to understand that it's highly stressful?

Are there any repercussions to using his godly powers? Perhaps that's why he doesn't use them often. Loss of humanity?

Why does he actually cling to his humanity via collecting people? Seems like a very illogical and unproductive thing to do if you don't want to get manipulated or hurt in other ways over it.

..I don't have any gift for him but uh.. 👍 good job keeping them alive, dude?

Thanks! I wrote him to be a very complicated guy. This one will dip into some of the deep lore behind the magic system that isn’t entirely explored in Fault bc well the main characters have more pressing problems.

1 and 4 since theyre impossible to untangle. What scp lore I use is up in the air honestly, but Philza is not a reality bender. The Blood God would count as one, though that’s mostly in the ‘unfortunate accidents’ department, and Wilbur very much is a reality. Well breaker but still. Luckily the Foundation doesnt realize he’s an Apollyon since Wilbur keeps that thing locked down anyway. Creatures like Phil are what I personally call Conceptuals, which are personifications of two ideas. They get a lot of names in Fault tho, since it covers Philza, The Blood God, Wilbur’s voidlings, etc. These entities are not real* in the same way a person is, as they lack a body and usually have to anchor onto a vessel. They are beings purely made of a soul, and thus are more controlled by the components of a soul -Memories, Emotions, Name, Bonds. People and Real things meanwhile are more than their essence, and can do stuff like change, act out of character, and most pertinent to this question, break their promises. A person has a body to anchor them but an unbound soul is compelled to complete it be it a bargain, challenge, vow, pulled along by their Bonds. Voidlings to their bargains, The Blood God to his challengers, so on.

Philza is a special case, because he is an entity so powerful that he made himself Real. That’s not a vessel he’s using like The Blood God; he made himself into an actual person. And because he has made himself Real, unlike every other god/void/entity he technically can break his promises. But he doesn’t, because Bonds with his Collected chain him to personhood (and it would be a crappy ethical dilemma if he doesn’t have an actual choice). Philza is like actually billions of years old, and humanity is a blink to him if he doesn’t force himself to live in the present. He can’t care about everyone because they’re dead so fast, but he can become attached to a very select few to anchor him. It took millions of years to overcome his essence enough to even be fully sapient, let alone feel human enough to become one since his form reflects how he feels. Like imagine trying to get in the head space of an ant so completely that you become one. Without Collected, it’s harder for Phil to maintain his personhood though he can probably manage a couple decades without one. And having fought so hard to be a person, Phil isn’t willing to lose it, since again it took millions of years last time and humanity could be gone by that point. As a person he gets to be so much more than an embodiment of fire and fury, is able to change who he is, has purpose and goals and cares beyond the mindless rage he used to be. He gets to be real, all for the low low price of loving and being loved by others. Who the hell wouldn’t? So Philza would sacrifice anything to maintain the Collected system, his promises, and thus his personhood.

And unfortunately his current Collected are suffering for that long term goal. Philza made the Collected Contract with the Foundation because all his Collected were captured and short of setting the entire world on fire he couldn’t find them. Philza is a very destructive guy, but he adores humanity, so that wasn’t really on the table. So he made a promise to the Foundation, and had to follow it or risk unraveling himself. It’s a slippery slope fallacy, but in eternity once you’ve done something once you’re guaranteed to do it infinite times, or so goes Phil’s logic. In his own words: “Morals are a slippery slope. That’s why I made myself a ledge. A precipice so I can know where I need to stop before I fall entirely.” In his mind to snap even one promise gives him free rein to break the next, and the next, each easier to justify than the last until there really is nothing tethering him to his own sapience. The only tenet Philza has is to keep is promises, because he doesn’t know if he can remain a person otherwise.

He doesn’t break his Collected out. He can’t unless he breaks himself.

2. Philza has no morals because in his opinion an immortal can’t have any; what is considered ethical will only shift out beneath you like sand as society changes. He generally aligns with the ethical framework that his Collected have at the time, and Wilbur and The Blade are pretty fine with murder so he’s lenient on that front currently, whereas with his last Collected he was a clean and proper stay at home roommate, his white picket fence completely free of blood stains…until the Foundation ruined that. Philza personally doesn’t have much care for human lives beyond his Collected given they’re just going to die in not even a century anyway. That isn’t to say he isn’t aware of murder being bad/ traumatizing to some people. In fact, prior to the Foundation Philza and the rest took pains to sanitize themselves for Tommy’s visits, cremating the evidence, burning the blood off their hands, etc. They were being actively hunted down and are trying to protect themselves, but also letting a kid see what that life is fully like, all the fear and violence of it, is messed up. Perhaps they sheltered him too much. Tommy didn’t know how to recognized he was being followed.

Once in the Foundation, Philza is less cautious about it, though technically is committing far less murder due to the Collected Covenent. He’s practically behaving himself. Philza makes two mistakes in the Hallway Massacre: 1. Tommy’s killed like so so many people at that point so he doesn’t think it’s a problem, especially as he’s murdering Foundation workers who have hurt Tommy. 2. Philza thinks the Foundation has broken their promise and so he’s free. Technically he’s correct, but the Foundation lies well enough that he later regards the Hallway massacre as a mistake, mostly for political rather than traumatizing Tommy reasons. Philza views the Foundation as a far greater source of trauma for Tommy, and all the murder was for the purpose of breaking Tommy out and so justified to him.

In truth, Tommy had already caused as much carnage as he saw during the Hallway Massacre by that time, albeit likely in smaller, more spaced out batches. The reason that moment stuck with Tommy so much was because he saw it as the consequences of choices he made rather than something he was forced to do. Moreso, all his time in the Foundation he’d been told they were violent monsters that would slaughter humanity without reason. This directly conflicted with Tommy’s experience of being forced and forcing others to be violent; until, of course, Philza proved the Foundation right.

In Later massacres during the amnestic arc Philza wasn’t aware he even had Collected that could be traumatized, and anyway only Tubbo was really there to see it. Any later murders on Phil’s part are typically in battles. He does recognize that Tommy doesn’t prefer to fight, and honestly Phil prefers that he doesn’t too since Tommy getting captured mid battle is how the whole group got picked off one by one. Tommy tends not to see most of the fighting. Philza recognizes that Tubbo abhors murder and would ideally solve that through smoking them to sleep through battles so they don’t get traumatized via their partial omnipresence. But Tubbo refuses bc of moral principles or whatever, and so Phil can’t minimize much trauma there without acting against their expressed boundaries, and since the majority of his Collected want to fight and he refuses to let them be killed/hurt/captured, murder time it is. Potentially if they were on better terms he’d smoke Tubbo anyway on the grounds that it’s better for their mental health, but Philza feels ant present Tubbo wouldn’t understand he’s ‘acting in their best interest’.

3. One large factor is that it’s very hard to be a mile long dragon inside of a itty bitty room, although much like he pretends to be human Philza is likewise only pretending to be a dragon. And also it’s hard to hug his tiny little mortals when he’s big. Plus while his Collected are immune to his fire, the smoke generated from burning matter can be hazardous unless it’s hot enough to be a complete combustion.

And unless his human form is killed (which takes an awful lot of effort) Philza can only switch forms through reframing his entire mental schema. His inner world controls his body, and switching between believing you’re a human and a dragon is quite difficult, let alone reverting to his uncontrolled true essence which Philza takes great pains not to do. It’s a tricky balance between loosening his self imposed reigns and fully unbridling his self. Too much and he might lose sapience altogether. When feeling untethered to his humanity, he does also become more draconian. Philza finds it easier to go from dragon to human since all that’s doing is adding more chains, and you can’t really go overboard with that. Though it is certainly easier to go between a human and dragon, which are pretty similar if you think about it what with their brains and meat and what not, than between an animal and fire/fury incarnate.

4. Answered above. And yes it is all illogical to some extent, since love rarely is purely rational. But immortality would be hell without other people. Going insane is even less rational, so Philza picks the former.

5. Philza sweeps a bow. It is unclear if it’s sarcastic. He then pulls out a wallet, which upon opening dumps out long rows of photos, and tries to corner you to gush about his kids. He is a dorky dad first and a deplorable threat to society second.