#I’m keeping it because lore reasons but it’s kinda funny

[tempestmothstorm]

erm sketch dump rn

[cannedbabs]

Rbti rewrite post :] (was gonna be more but I’ve had an eventful day.. will say later ofc)

Closeup of KCB, some more evolution of lore, and my day below cut!

((If I had the choice to redo this bug piece it would be to turn off his glowy eyes. Plot reasons. Also sorry I only ever post sketches, I fear if I do more it’ll sap my energy to get content out at ALL so))

I will say the plot has been wavering a LOT! I’ve been talking with some of my irl friends (all of them have lovely story writing or creative backgrounds which is amazing) and so it’s being patched significantly. Still not 100% finished, that’s why I haven’t made an entire lore post yet!! There’s a lot of loose ends and placement that needs to be figured out. But I feel like it’s only appropriate to state some at least :] you guys have given me amazing feedback and showed interest and I can’t thank you enough!

The “big bad” has been juggled around. I do like BEV, her motives are a little grey and need to be strung together accurately and cohesively. I also don’t want a twist villain, as much as that’s amazing I am not trying to rewrite WIR. Turbo in himself is a “big bad”, always will be, he’s the worst of the worst and completely irredeemable, that’s why the writing is so hard. “How do you put in a big bad that has to contest with one of the worst characters of all time?”

My answer is to make BEV solely target Turbo, and in turn it’s a domino effect for everyone, but then that makes this rewrite a little more Turbo centric than I wanted ((granted it IS because of my bias, but even then I realize he is NOT the main character of the previous movie))

These are out loud thoughts tho!! Def the story is gonna take a route where it’s more Ralph vs(?) Vanellope, where they realize their goals don’t really align but are trying to keep it from the other person (kinda like RBTI actually! But not as ‘drama needs to get in the way to actually make an issue’). Ralph is gonna be taking BEV’s side and Vanellope will be taking Turbo’s side, at least that’s the concept for now!

Talking about my day will be super short. Basically I showed my friend group (who doesn’t have the turbo autism I do, but Turbo has become such a referenced joke in my group. Instead of saying ‘this is my hyperfixation’ we say ‘This is my turbo’) the entire 2hr analysis video (thank you Randomalistic :]) and they loved it! Sat through it all front to back!! And I’m having a sleep over w them tomorrow and having a DnD session yippee!! But that’s the only reason why I’m posting this and not accumulating more for a bigger post.

I AM planning on working on ref sheets and even stuff like a ref sheet for their chat bubbles since they’re all different :] idk this became a super long ramble post idk have some funny WIR-related Jack box things my friend group made you earned it

[brittle-doughie]

Ok I’ve decided to give SOME lore about each costume since I’m now fully invested into this.

To give a main idea on what each of the costumes are, there were joke costumes(most of them). But they do theme around a playing card. Specifically rankings.

if you want you CAN make another mini fic about each of these, but I’m fine if you don’t. I just wanna give some lore.

Y/N barely had any info about the Vanilla Kingdom, as a result they took inspiration from something else. That being a Jack of Clubs… kinda. They didn’t really want to be a high ranking card since it was a joke. So Y/N decided to stick with a Jack since it was the lowest face card. Honestly Y/N suspect the outfit to look terrible.

(Yap session incoming)

For the Dark Cacao Kingdom outfit, this takes place if Y/N managed to take the throne instead of Affogato. Once they did so, Y/N immediately imprisoned Affogato in the dungeons and taking care of the rest of DoC. At first the everyone didn’t believe Y/N had what it took to be the ruler. But they soon realized (as in on the FIRST DAY) that Y/N treated their role as ruler like a job… if they were a workaholic. 

Unlike Dark Cacao, who only focused on the wall, Y/N worked on basically everything except the wall. Y/N saw the wall as more of a side project while helping the citizens, citadel, and basically everything Dark Cacao neglected was put on top priority. This led to Y/N having to constantly work, making sure that everything in the kingdom was fixed. This led to Y/N having to change into a Queen like outfit (they still believed they didn’t deserve to be king) and Y/N’s old clothes couldn’t keep up, leading to wear and tear.

Another thing that happened was that Y/N was ruler(or Queen in this case) for a month and a haft. Yeah Dark Cacao didn’t take back the throne immediately. And everyone did miss him. Including Y/N. So when Dark Cacao returned to the citadel they were ready to give up the throne and give it back to Dark Cacao… shame he had other plans instead.

Y/N was invited to the palace for a ball event at the Hollyberry Kingdom. So as a joke they decided to make an outfit for the event. The outfit was designed after a nobleman attire with a cape that had a heart pattern with ten hearts. This is because they wanted their cape to represent the ten of hearts. Since there was already a king, queen, jack, and ace( if you count Hollyberry as an ace).

Y/N had little to no info about the Golden Cheese Kingdom. So they decided to base their look of Golden Cheese herself. Sense she was a queen, it would be fitting if Y/N was a king. Bird wings and all. 

Also yes, the design is based on of Golden Cheese awakened form.

Ace…that’s it. 

Yeah this was made entirely as a joke. Y/. Thought it would be funny if it was considered the ace of the faerie kingdom. The only reason why it’s a dress is because they didn’t expect people to like it that much and only wore it as a joke…

Too bad the Queen of the kingdom asked for their name after stating theirs.

Can’t imagine what a Faerie Kingdom tuxedo or something alike would look.

[whumpy-wyrms]

cannot stop thinking about how whumpy it must’ve been when i was given the anesthesia and passed out earlier. like even before the laughing gas i was SHAKING and TREMBLING in fear i fucking HATE needles. but i was also smiling the whole time because my fear response isn’t fight flight fawn or freeze it’s just. to laugh. for some reason. anyway after i got the laughing gas i was smiling and giggling even more and also shaking a lot more in both fear of what was gonna happen and also probably the laughing gas. they told me to take deep breaths which i did, still freaking out though. i started panicking even more when they put the IV in my arm, like wow that was horrifying i must’ve looked sooooo scared wooow.. so much fear.. (whumpers you know where to find me). anyway i eventually followed their advice and took deep breaths, knowing that it would make the laughing gas effect me quicker, but i did it anyway because its all i could do.

(more under the cut because i couldn’t shut up and this got long)

and guys. guys. THEN. then i started thinking about Anton and imagining i was his test subject and he was just doing an experiment on me and let me tell you. the way pure CALMNESS just WASHED over my entire body. like before i walked into the room i was like “anton save mee save me anton haha lol”. and then anton DID save me. in a way. but yeah i mean i KNEW that would happen because thinking about anton literally always calms me down anyway but i just thought that was funny lmao. woow

okay so then they injected me with the anesthesia. i don’t think i really felt it. then they put a rubber thing in my mouth to keep it wide open, and i was just thinking “haha wow they gagged me that’s gotta be one of my favorite whump tropes.” i just stared straight ahead (i couldn’t really turn my head anyway with the way the chair was set up), struggling hard to keep my eyes open, breathing really deeply, barely able to form a coherent thought.

i do NOT remember falling asleep. like one moment i was sitting there eyes wide and breathing heavily, staring at the doctors on either side of me, and the next i was like all woozy flopping around in the chair, head lolling to the side as the doctors were telling me to wake up. it was sort of a blur, i had NO idea what was going on at ALL. i remember slurring as i talked, telling the doctors i wanted to keep my wisdom teeth. they laughed and asked why and i just kept repeating that i wanted them to let me keep them (they did let me keep them! i’m gonna put them in a little jar like a mad scientist). then i kept asking for my phone and they gave it to me. they put me in a wheelchair to take me to the car because i could NOT walk, i was stumbling around, completely unable to stand or sit up straight, and when we got to the car i just flopped into the passenger seat like i was DIZZY. and i was also a bit nauseous. blood in my mouth and all that. oh i also had gauze in my mouth which definitely made talking a lot more difficult

so i really barely talked, i don’t think i said much else which i’m kinda happy for because i was high as FUCK and did not wanna ramble about a bunch of weird oc lore to my mom. i KNOW i would’ve talked about anton and/or silas nonstop. but i just went on my phone instead which is when i made all those posts from earlier LOL. those typos were genuinely not on purpose at all. i could not type. i’m being fully serious.

here’s a screenshot from my discord server of me attempting to type “holy shit i can’t type.” and as you can see, it was, well, TRUE

anyway yeah i just curled up in my seat on the car ride home, i wasn’t on my phone much because i was still really tired and it was hard to keep my eyes open and stay awake. the car seat was leaned back really far so i was laying down and could not see out of the car windows (but my eyes were closed so it didn’t really matter). but i just remember feeling every turn of the car and trying to guess where we were driving as if i was a whumpee who’d just been kidnapped and was trying to memorize the directions. as you can tell i knew this situation would be whumpy as fuck and didn’t hesitate to make a bunch of silly connections.

so then we got home and there’s not much else that happened. i just took a lot of pills and washed out my mouth and put more gauze in and then went to sleep. it didn’t hurt that much at all because of. the drugs and stuff. i slept for a long time and woke up feeling back to normal, in the way i wasn’t high af anymore. yeah so now my mouth kinda hurts but i have painkillers so it’s fine. i ate lasagna like 20 minutes ago. i’m probably not supposed to eat lasagna. i did it anyway (i took very very teeny tiny nibbles it was very basil core).

anyway that’s it i think! dunno why i wanted to share this whole experience but i thought it was kinda funny the way i kept finding whump in everything hahaha (like i said, my actual fear response is literally to LAUGH and GIGGLE at everything in fear. this needs to be used more in this community imo. and i think… i have a new oc for that actually…. teehee….. ominous.. very ominous dot dot dots…..)

but really this isn’t as bad as i thought it’d be. it’s gonna suck to eat a bunch of soft food and stuff but overall it’s not bad. at least for me. obviously this was only my experience and everyone’s will be different. i do kinda see the humor in everything whenever i’m in a bad or painful situation so that might also be why this is easier for me, idk! hope u all found this at least a little entertaining because i know i did haha

[zabala0z]

Welcome back to the first episode of “Listening to TMA S5, blind” I’m your beloved host and guys. Guys guys. I actually am freaking out.

MAG 161: Dwelling

I’m actually screaming. Hearing the old gang actually made me want to cry. SASHA. SASHA I MISSED YOU :(( also Elias: “I’d like to keep an eye out” you think you’re so fucking funny. I loved the very off key singing of Happy Birthday. Accurate. I wonder if Elias/Jonah sent the tapes for a reason. It’s definitely not to gloat. Is this apart of a wider web of manipulation? The Web style? Also, the fact Sasha could’ve been head archivist. Jesus

Hearing the description of the entities, that they don’t care enough to keep humanity fed and watered unnerved me a lot actually. I don’t know.

MAG 162: A Cozy Cabin

GERRY!!! Nice to hear him as a human, without all the ghost-like qualities. Although hearing Jon rewind the tape over and over and over and over again just made me feel bad.

And then Sasha and Tim.

“we had the ill-advised hookup, the awkward aftermath, and the gradually rebuilt friendship, but – that’s all season two stuff. We’ve got like five more seasons before we get the heartwarming epilogue that makes it canon.”

“No. You took it too far! I’m unforgettable!”

So what if I just ended it all?

Also Jon’s monologue. For a bit, I thought he was “knowing” one of Martins poems that he made during this since Martin was the one who did not like staying at the cabin but no, I was wrong. But time to see the outside world

MAG 163: In The Trenches

I wanna go back to the cabin.

I love TMA so much because of how the format switches up every season. Like season 1 was pretty simple enough with season 2 having Jon add in those supplementals and having a new setting (the tunnels). Season 3 cranks it up with having live statements from recurring characters, statements read by others, and dropping some lore. season 4, while similar to season 1 in terms of format, has Martin reading statements, more god damn lore and some new settings. And now season 5 has uh all this. It’s so amazing and I love it and I’m terrified.

Hearing Jon describe everything going on actuslly made me horrified. Like I got spooked out by the statements but this made me feel so much dread like I’m not even kidding. I also wanna know more about that weird ass doctor and the man with the red flower. Avatars of The Slaughter I presume.

Also that phone. ???? What???

MAG 164: The Sick Village

Gross. While the previous episode made me experience horror, this made me feel disgust. Disgust that just burrowed into my bones (get it. Cause..the episode-). I had such a deep instinct of repulsion. Like actually. I also read the triggers just cause you can never be too careful and I remember thinking, “how can xenophobia be involved with The Corruption?”…apparently xenophobia was very prevalent

Now I know where the whole “Martin’s middle name” thing comes from. I’m glad Basira is alive. And heart broken at the tragedy there is. She’s always chasing Daisy and Daisy is always chasing another thing SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

I think Georgie and Melanie are in the tunnels. It’s been established before that Elias can’t see in the tunnels which probably means Jon can’t see them. I’m glad they are safe. They need it.

Helen! Nice to see her again, I actually cackled when she said “check up on the happy couple”. Nice to see a confirmation about the relationship. This is like the worst time to be dating someone though 💀 Helen’s so happy. I’m sure she has a ton of people in her hallways. I don’t know if she’s lying about the “friend thing, but it’d be funny if she wasn’t

Okay. That’s everything. Sorry for the long wait, I had to take a break after season 4’s finale and then ANOTHER one after listening to the first 3 eps. This is like, actually heavy. Kinda draining. But god, I’m actually going insane.

I want to know how this is going to be fixed. Like. There’s gotta be some happy ending. ??? Right??? Please tell me there is one.

[musings-of-miss-j]

i’m almost afraid to ask if you’d played the new archon quest yet, and if you have, how do you feel about hoyo’s decisions in it? if you haven’t, feel free to ignore this so that you don’t get any spoilers!

heyyy yeah i have lolololol <- (laugh of mild rage)

5.3 AQ QUEST SPOILERS AHEAD. i ended up talking a lot so there's your fair warning haha

okay so. i'd already resigned myself to not caring about most of the characters for a while now, because it seemed to me that hoyo was directing the focus more to the storyline. Which, fine, not every arc has to be character-driven, plus the rather extensive list of 'main characters' in natlan made it hard to really connect with any of them. on that note, why did they perma-bench kinich ?? can we not do waifu impact rn. i dont care about male characters but this is too much even for me

i wasn't bothered by the prospect of a plot-driven aq, like at all. i'd say i was even excited, but both 5.1 and 5.2 failed to wow me, so my the time 5.3 rolled around i was kinda dgaf about the whole thing lmaooo and for some reason i was wholly convinced that it wouldn't be the 'finale'???? not sure what gave me that impression but either way i entered with the conviction that there would be a sense of continuity beyond 5.3 and the end felt so abrupt to me.

and now the aq itself. um. first of all i was completely unimpressed with how trivial they made our ancient name seem. like all that fanfare over how difficult it would be and the was completely wasted, there was virtually no bump in the road and not even a cool cutscene of xilonen forging it???? that at least would've made it feel less like 'a wizard did it' if you get my meaning. ALSO. wasn't there a little thing where they said forging an ancient name for an outlander would cost the life of the forger???????? did they forget orrrr?? and the scene with the 'lost souls' lacked any substance in my opinion

okay fine. moving on, we have a farewell-feast kind of situation. i feel like that had the potential to be really emotional, but it felt like a pre-celebration rather than the last goodbye i would've preferred it to be. the whole thing had the atmosphere of a house party to me, no gravity whatsoever, i was expecting to see characters doubting our return and essential bidding us farewell for the last time but the excessive levity just made it all feel too chill for the situation at hand. the entire version i feel like they didn't do a fantastic job of really establishing and proving the high stakes. and the part where we suddenly leave for the dream ritual with ororon was laughable, absolutely goofy. bleh. it would've been cool if it was really somber with people mourning us before we departed, because to me it felt unrealistic that everyone was so optimistic about our chances of defeating something that may as well have been a force of nature to them.

arriving at the night kingdom, i loved seeing the characters we previously helped lend us a hand from beyond the grave. seeing bona specifically made me very excited!! aside from that, i was mostly unmoved. the cutscenes were well animated, but it suffered from the classic 'genshin keeps blurring out shit in the dialogue so i have no idea what any of these lore bombs' significance is and therefore i literally do not give a damn' problem. the part where they revealed what our friends said about us was funny because i was confused about whether they were talking about the traveler or mavuika lmaooo. the fight was cool. didn't like the repetitive 'traveler and mavuika lift the claymore after each speech' thing at all, broke immersion for me. and the fact that the whole thing seemed totally effortless was so disappointing. all that buildup, the prospect of battling an immovable force that plagued the land for centuries should've felt daunting and we should've at least struggled???? im not even bothered by the 'power of friendship' trope, it's more the fact that we didn't even break a sweat at any point???????

the traveler and paimon hug was so nice, as a certified paimon hypeman it made me smile very wide. the celebration seemed to have bothered a lot of people, but i personally thought it had a lot of potential much like the feast. they could've shown us traveler struggling to stay upright from the journey, visibly injured yet willing to play hero for a nation of people who've been resigned to death for so long. like a 'i can barely stay on my feet but nurturing this new-born hope is more important than my exhaustion' type beat, once i tend to enjoy in books. instead it again had high-school dance party energy to me.

then citlali drags us aside and the cheerful atmosphere slips away. i liked the sudden jerk back to reality that the reminder of mavuika's imminent death brought, actually, the sudden mood shift was fitting imo; 'we can hardly believe we survived let alone won so hearing it's not over feels more plausible than the thought that victory could've been ours' is a banger to me. then ronova and mavuika. ronova looked so cool, big fan (columbina it should've been you) and then the captain.

listen. his story was amazing, i can't lie. it was an awesome motivation. my complaint is that it could've been any khanreain (im too lazy to check the proper spelling leave me be) soldier. his motivation was somehow totally unaffected by his status as the first harbinger. his entire connection to the fatui might as well have not existed. and also. i wish they foreshadowed this somehow. i know he was covered in death flags from the start, but i could never have guessed he was trying to exact revenge for a curse in any way. i concede this may be a skill issue on my part, but his story is so compelling i would've much preferred it to be paced throughout rather than crammed into a five minute cutscene. i can imagine capitano mains are totally losing their shit right now and i dont blame them. the whole paradox idea and using the curse against the heavenly principles was very well thought out but how did no one object to him taking mavuika's place? like im just saying we didn't even hear a cursory 'no this isn't your sacrifice to make'. the decisive and rather sudden (imo) end was like a slap to the face lol it felt so abrupt.

so uh yeah. i wasn't impressed overall. how do you go from the peak that is fontaine to whatever this is. fontaine had an incredible plot, compelling characters and an epic twist to boot and this feels like none of that. also can i complain for a sec about whatever the hell they did to citlali. she was my favourite character by a mile in the teaser and i was so hype to pull for her and then they fucking made her whatever she is now????? where are the mystical shaman vibes hoyo. where are the terribly intimidating voicelines. where is it all. she's feared and respected in her tribe why is she hugging a plushie to her chest like that in the splash art what have you done to my girl. i was expecting mona vibes from her animations but noooooo fanservice instead. kiss my ass. AND THEN. MAVUIKA IS THE NTH PYRO ONFIELDER. i've been so mad about this since the beta bro. are you fucking with me. AND PYRO TRAVELER. HAS LIKE. 0.5 SECONDS OF OFF FIELD PYRO. i will implode. i will do something frowned upon in six continents.

i've pulled only for xilonen and nahida since the start of the fifth version and it looks like it'll stay that way unless skirk is really cool. man.

[whats-she-gonna-post-next]

May I request Snowbugs?? With Tango realizing he likes his ex’s (Jimmy) ex (Scott)?

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Ngl, don't know how I messed up the ask thing here... sorry? I think? I'm very bad at Tumblr for someone who has been here 10+ years.

Anyways, I am also sorry this took so long. My brain would not let me write forsome reason e en though I adored this prompt. But here it is! Please enjoy these 854 words that too way too long to write!

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It was a random Tuesday in the middle of March when Tango realized.

He’d made what he could admit was a less than stellar joke that had somehow manage to catch Scott off guard and causing him to laugh and-

Tango was in trouble.

He could listen to that laugh all day, watch as mirth tugged up his lips, as cool blue eyes turned warm, a knowing sparkle that invited you into the joke-

Tango was in big trouble.

When Tango and Jimmy had broken up, he’d counted himself lucky - though perhaps not entirely unsuprised - that they had remained friends. Jimmy had, after all, a habit of remaining friends with exes. Something that had originally worried Tango at the beginning of their relationship, but was comforting when the two had mutually decided that being together just wasn’t in the cards for them, that no one in their friend group had to choose sides, and that he got to keep the news friends he had made through Jimmy.

Like Scott, who’s laugh was finally calming down, who was shifting, turning to face Tango more fully, causing a beam of sunlight to illuminate his cyan waves, creating a halo of light behind him.

Tango was in such big trouble.

“I’m going to go catch up with Cleo,” his voice is amused as he grins full force at the blond, “before you make me pass out due to lack of oxygen.”

Scott pats his shoulder as he move away from Tango before he could try to pul, himself together enough for a response, leaving him to watch him go, a blush high on his cheeks and his mouth hanging ever so slightly open.

Scott was, in a word, amazing.

Tango had always kinda known that was the case, but it was hitting him suddenly how great he was. He was kind, and funny, and cute, and-

And Jimmy’s ex.

Tango buries his burning face in his hands, a defeated kind of groan pulling itself from the depths of his chest.

“You good there, Tango?” A voice calls, and the moment gets worse, lifting his head to look into soft, sweet brown eyes.

“Hey Jimmy, yeah, I’m- I’m fine, promise.”

“That’s good,” he pauses, staring off into the crowd where Scott that disappeared, “he’s quite pretty, isn’t he?”

Tango jolts like he’s been shocked, staring wide eyed at Jimmy.

“Wh-what- what do you- I mean, like- objectively he- I-“ Tango’s words jumble in his mouth, coming out incomprehensible as the smirk on Jimmy’s face grows. He tries for a few more minutes before sighing, slumping with defeat, “I’m sorry, I know it’s weird.”

“Weird? How so?” Jimmy sounds so confused that for a moment, Tango forgets his reasoning.

“Because… well… he’s your ex? And I’m your ex? And like… isn’t there like… a code or something? That says I shouldn’t even be interested in him?”

Jimmy takes a moment to absorb the words before promptly bursting out laughing. Tango’s face burns a deeper red.

“Sorry, sorry,” he apologizes between laughs, “I don’t mean to laugh it’s just, I forget sometimes, that you’re still pretty new to the group. You don’t know the lore yet.”

“The lore?” Tango asks, vaguely incredulously, “what do you mean *the lore*?”

Jimmy sat down beside him, bumping their shoulders together lightly as the laughter finally tappered off. It’s a familiar gesture, a casual touch that never failed to warm Tango, that Jimmy always used in place of a verbal ‘relax.’

“I really don’t mean to laugh at you,” he reaffirms, “it’s actually really sweet that you are worried about that, but it’s entirely unnecessary. It’s just that pretty much everyone in this group has an ex who’s dated another ex. Hell, it wouldn’t even be the first time one of my exes has dated Scott.”

Tango stares at him, mouth slightly agape. He tried to ask follow up questions , but all that came out of his mouth was a stuttered mess of vowels and consonants that had Jimmy off giggling again.

Eventually they both calmed down again, sitting beside each other in amicable silence for a few moment, catching their breath.

“I do get it,” Jimmy told him after a moment, “the idea of it does go against… a lot of societal norms, but it works for us.”

And in a way, Tango completely gets it. Everyone gets along, there is a general sense of compatibility and comfort. It had taken Tango a good bit of time when he and Jimmy first got together to get used to the general touchy-ness that came with simple hang outs. He could see why the lines might get blurred, how easily people fell together and apart. When he actually put some thought into it, it made sense, in a way.

“Is this your way of saying I have your blessing?” Tango asked, only mostly joking.

Jimmy smiled, soft and genuine, “If that’s what you need to hear, yeah, absolutely you have my blessing.”

Tango couldn’t pretend that didn’t relax him, just a little.

Maybe he wasn’t in as much trouble as he feared.

[amxthystiine]

limbus martin you say.. 👀

(MOTWE onwards spoilers)

My insane paranoid funny dramatic wannabe detective man who’s got vampire blood in him and has no fucking idea (it’s why he’s so fucking fixated on seeing justice served & why he gets concerningly violent and bloodthirsty at times, almost like he’s in a trance)

I’ve had him as an OC in general for a while now but it’s really fucking funny cause recently I have been thinking of him as a sinner, but he’s A LOT like (our) Don funnily enough 😭 (with maybe a little bit of Sinclair parallels with the slumbering bloodthirst + incredible potential to do their job well but shh)

main sin = Lust, obsessed over a specific job title of people due to seeing justice done [Detectives for him and Fixers for her], has Bloodfiend fuckery going on, probably has to kill their mentor at one point during their canto because they’ve become the opposite everything that Don/Martin stood for, etc

Except he’s very arrogant, argumentative and a show off who sees the others as below him - because to him he has to be right and if we’re talking moreso specifically Limbus lore I’m thinking of I think the guy’s be associated with K Corp because green fluid go brr & because I’m probably gonna make his Canto a murder mystery that he falls into because his promise in his contract was discovering who killed his parents (which is the reason why he’s so determined on becoming a detective - I think in this AU one would be a Seven fixer and the other a Cinq West fixer, they used to tell him tales of their cases all the time and that’s why he wants to become a detective - he wants the glory and to enact justice while also avenging his parents by carrying on their legacy)

The plot twist with him though might be that his current mentor, a Roland-style nihilistic “The City runs on suffering so my bad actions are justified because I’m doing what I need to survive and other people’s problems are not my own” bloodfiend Fixer who leads his own office (maybe a good Grade 3 or so? Idk man) tried to sire him as to force Martin to work under him (because he recognized the kid’s determination and that he was very perceptive and quick-witted) and failed, with his initial hunger being so intense he bit into his parents [might keep this plot point might change it, also lmao another Don parallel FUCK] resulting in him having to deal with Martin following him around and slowly becoming a bloodbag over time, deciding to take the kid under his wing and make him his protégée as to make the most out of the situation.

The reason why I kinda want to make HIM the murderer rather than his mentor is because I want him to just utterly implode internally, because he does a similar thing in his main lore when discovering he’s part vampire despite thinking he was the only normal person around town - because to him others are far more willing to do bad things for themselves, but his bad actions are justified to him, so if he suddenly realizes that the very thing he considers the worst thing to happen to him is actually HIS fault rather than someone else’s, he’ll realize that what he hates most INCLUDES himself, and that according to his own moral code HE HIMSELF is EVIL, so he is NOT going to be ok about that, especially while losing his mind during his canto due to bloodbag brain decay

And yes I have a possible solution to how his bloodbag transformation was so overdue - and that’s the K Corp ampule fluid, because it reverts your body to a state from seconds before, right? It can basically bring people back from the brink of death, so could it be used by said mentor to keep his transformation in check and from happening, with Martin taking some ampules when he eventually ditches the Office for Limbus Company, but they eventually run out in the time coming up to his Canto, beginning his slow descent into blood-craved madness.

Funnily enough I’d probably make his main weapon a gun (with maybe an alternative melee weapon, perhaps a small dagger???), perhaps making him the only ammo base ID, with his being one of the many things I’ve taken from that short time I played as this funny little guy in VTM,, like we know Limbus has a LOT of money in their pockets LET ME HAVE A GUN USING SINNER RAHHHH HE DOESNT EVEN NEED TOO MANY BULLETS

I haven’t decided on a logo or colour (probably a light shade of green) nor a word (probably in French considering he was French-Canadian in the VTM session I played as him and his full name is basically just Mint Martini because of his OG design 😔😔 [Martin Menthe])

God I’m insane about my attempted noir detective wannabe little guy and it’s funny cause this is the part of me that he kinda represents like he’s passion and willpower incarnate in both a good way (strong sense of justice/to his own moral code, confidence, dramatics, etc) while also in a bad way (violence/anger, overconfidence, believing so hard in his ideals being the only right ones, with these aspects of him being broken down and mellowed post/during Canto, when he does admit and realize that he too, can be as bad as he paints others in his mind sometimes)

Yes his mentor would be the final boss and yes the only reason I had insane brainrot about them was because of “It Had To Be This Way” & “Find Your Flame” 😔😔 they fucking bangs tho

Also HE’S A REALLY GOOD FOIL TO MY SELF INSERT LIKE

THE ONE WHO WILL FIND OUT THE TRUTH AT ANY COST VS THE ONE WHO’S FAKING HER WHOLE PERSONA

THE ONE WHO ACTS DUE TO HER EMOTIONS BEING CONSTANTLY IN CHECK, YEARNING TO FEEL MORE VS THE ONE WHO’S EMOTIONS MAINLY DICTATE HIS ACTIONS, DESPITE HIS LOGIC TELLING HIM OTHERWISE

but they also both are heavily repressing a part of themselves and during their Cantos this more unhinged part of themselves comes out in full force and hhhhhhh parallels :)))))))

Lust vs. Gluttony oh yeah baby woooo this shit was way too long lmaooo and I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned all the ideas I have for this little guy yet (here’s his main lore design rn)

[revserrayyu]

2.4 Xianzhou continuance thoughts [part 2]

**SPOILERS** for everything up until entering the Shacking Prison, so as always, read at your own discretion if you haven’t reached this part of the story yet. Fair warning that I may mention some things that happen inside the prison as well, but hopefully not much. Sorry not sorry in advance for me obsessing over Feixiao.

As much as I adore Jiaoqiu’s character, I’m currently debating on pulling for him. After testing him out a bit inside the Shacking Prison, I realized I don’t really have a team that would suit him best? Of course I plan to pull for Acheron in the future but I might just hold off for now so I can save even more for Feixiao. I do hope these two and Moze have a good team synergy though. They seem like such a tight group and I’d love to use them all on a team one day.

Tee-hee, One Piece mention. Random, but I’m such a fan of Jiaoqiu’s fancy braid.

Noooo, I don’t like that her unknown medical issue can’t be healed! I mean, it’s not unheard of that Bailu pretty much said the same to Jingliu, about how bizarre it was and how there wasn’t much she could do to help. I don’t believe Feixiao to be mara-struck though, or at least I hope not. While this quest continued on the thought of her transforming into a Borisin came to mind a couple times but I have my doubts. I haven’t delved deep into any leaks about her lore so I can only speculate at this point. Even if those deaths in Penacony were fake, I don’t need any more to happen here, please.

Good boy!! Keep your promise! Heal this queen! I beg of you! I won’t lie, him being so dedicated to keeping his promise (which I’d love to hear the backstory of) to her sorta kinda flips a little switch off in my head saying “ship,” and I’m on board.

Been chatting about this a lot with others, but the question as to why Feixiao has no tail despite being a Foxian is interesting. I personally assumed that the lack of a tail was a result of some harsh battle where she got badly injured, but even with this brief flashback, it doesn’t appear that one is visible here either. Maybe she lost it before this fight? Or perhaps she never had one? Could not having a tail be the cause of her condition? Or was it really taken off from her? I haven’t a clue and it’s another reason why I’m so fascinated by her. Hopefully 2.5 sheds some light upon her past, or at least her character stories once she becomes playable.

Here’s another moment where the whole Borisin transformation idea popped into my head, especially after seeing how capable they are with shape shifting. Learning that the Foxians and Borisin share a common ancestor, the idea changed to Feixiao possibly being half and half? If so, then the condition she’s suffering from might be the Moon Rage? Similar to what we experience when fighting the Borisin down in the Shackling Prison. Add Bailu’s comment about “enjoy some tasty food” and how hungry Hoolay was too.. hmm. Doesn’t help he and Feixiao both have white fur. With how much the Foxians detest the Borisin, keeping this part of herself hidden would but ultimately stressful and probably taxing on her physical and mental health.

Moze is just.. so unironically funny. We have this heavy conversation happening and he chooses to cling to something so simple a food, which is fair. Food is always a good thing.

When Feixiao mentioned she was going to meet up with an old war friend, no alarms rang in my head telling me that it could be another Foxian that I enjoy, which is a shame but also wonderful because the surprise of her and Yukong being friends was worth it. 30 years might not seem like a long time for them, but it’s a decent chunk for people like us.

And yet so much has happened during those years for them. The time does throw me through a loop though.. I always imagined that Yukong lost Caiyi and gave up flying so much longer ago? Because then Qingni (Yukkong’s adopted daughter) couldn’t be much older than 30, right? Caiyi had just returned from maternity leave before she lost her life and Qingni never even knew of her real parents until the events of Yukong’s companion mission. I dunno, I’m just surprised. I definitely thought the daughter was older than that and the tragic loss in Yukong’s life happened ages ago.

Everyone give your utmost praise to Jiaoqiu right now for keeping our gorgeous general alive!

For real though, what on earth even happened to Jingliu and Luocha? like they both showed up in the Shackling Prison at the end of the main Xianzhou story alongside Jing Yuan, but stuff also happened in Jingliu’s companion quest at Scalegorge Waterscape where Luocha was sent away with some Cloud Knights before Jingliu’s fight with Blade where the quest just sorta ends there afterwards. My memory is terrible and I’m not entirely sure which order these events play out, but whatever they’re up to, they’ve been awfully quiet. With how often Jingliu’s name is brought up later on, it gives me small hopes that she could return in the later half of the story. Wouldn’t that be nice to see her take down Hoolay again?

Poor Jing Yuan can’t catch a break with these accusations. This entire quest also feels like the first time I’m hearing so much of this Marshal, but I’m certain it’s just my memory failing me. The main story of the Xianzhou wasn’t my favorite mission out of the bunch, but I am enjoying this one, surprisingly.

I do love the bond these women share with each other. Yukong asks about the Alliance’s plan regarding Jing Yuan and Feixiao graciously provides answers knowing that Yukong can keep a secret. Respect! You love to see it!

Suddenly, the Prisoner of Deep Confinement relic set makes sense to me. I never really took the time to look into the details considering how little DOT units I actively use, but it’s pretty cool to see where the inspiration for it came from and it actually being worn like this.

Now when “Whistling Flames” was mentioned, I first thought of that ghost ship Yukong saw at Fyxestroll Garden for reasons I’m not entirely sure of, but after some light searching, it’s apparently the guild Tingyun was part of?

It sweet to know that Yukong still hasn’t given up searching for clues about Tingyun might actually alive, but if Ruan Mei somehow found Tingyun first, I dunno if I should be relieved or concerned considering our crazy scientist had a habit of.. experimenting.

With how much chatter the Wardance received from trailers and livestreams, I’m honestly shocked that there isn’t much about it happening in the story? It may be because I’m hyperfixating on Feixiao and everything else much more, but my interest isn’t nearly as piqued as I thought it would be. I haven’t done that one side quest revolving around March so I assume there’s more to it there, but so far her sword training arc seems more of a background story. I did find it cute how both her masters gave her gifts at the start, with Yunli providing her new outfit and Yanqing crafting the swords, of course.

Yo, generals! Come pick up your kids! They’re still arguing about nonsense!

And you’re both adorable with your pink hair. Now be friends!

I have a sneaking suspicion that this man could very well poison someone if he wanted to.

I don’t remember much about this brief scene.. something about Yanqing’s doubts and the obstacles he faces or whatever, but it was pretty.

Moving a highly dangerous criminal out of prison to somewhere else? Surely nothing will go wrong! And definitely not right before you make your own move either! That would be crazy.

To no ones surprise, things do eventually take a turn for the worst, but that’s all to be discussed next, so have this, because why not:

Because I clearly haven’t obsessed over her enough already. No way.

[skitskatdacat63]

misc lore drop day 42/?

I talked about it randomly yesterday but I’ll expand on it more today. I like how I’ll read one little thing, and then it inspires me sooooo much, like completely changes my perspective. Thank you random historical biography write-ups for completely changing my life. I guess sometimes I worry I’m being too ooc, both in the context of the “characters” themselves but also, historically. Then I read something that validates what I’ve been thinking, and it’s so relieving. But yeah. Fernando being raised specifically to NOT be a king. So fascinating. I think in real life, he’s obviously a pretty self confident, aspirational person, and I worried a bit I was making him a bit too insecure about being a king. However, with this context, it makes so much more sense. He’s still a very confident, self assured person, just one that’s been beat down into submission most of his life. I think that makes his belief in himself even more admirable, considering it's a trait he had to actively work to keep. His egotism is self defense, something that’s kept him going for years. It’s so Fernando for him to have people keep telling him his whole life that: “you’re not going to be a king.”  Yet he still keeps dreaming about it. 

Fernando not being raised to be a King has both positives and negatives. For one, the whole process of the arranged marriage doesn't break him as much as it would other people. Of course he's pissed and grumpy about it for a while, because it’s still a deal designed to cage him and keep him under some control. But it's also comforting. He never actually expected to become a king, even if it’s been his life’s work, but now he is!!! A lot of his grumpiness though comes from how he thinks someone who was raised to be king would react to this situation. “Oh, well, a proper king would not be pleased, so I am not pleased.” He has to stick to this rigid ideal of a king because that’s literally what got him into this position, refusing to let go of this ideal. Though it’s kinda funny that that’s where his self assurance of “what would a real king do?” goes to, considering a “real” king would have instantly pushed for war. It’s humiliating to forever have your accession tied to being basically a greater king’s consort. But. It does mean you become king. 

Obviously, this is one of the main reasons why he has trouble with Seb. Being a king,and then later an emperor, is natural to Seb because he’s been raised his entire life with that role in mind. Whereas it is a constant learning process for Fernando. He has that inflexible image In his mind of what being a king HAS to be like, because he wasn’t raised with any other given perspective. So he  doesn't understand Seb, who is a very unconventional king-emperor. The palpable difference between someone who has been a king since he was 9 years old vs someone who’s had been raised specifically to NOT be a king. When Fernando eventually opens up about this to Seb, Seb would probably be soooooo baffled. The way he was raised was very natural to him, he was destined to be emperor. He can’t even imagine what it was like to not be raised in that way. I guess it’s odd for him to imagine having to constantly be self aware whether he’s being kinglike or not, because he always has been assured that he was. Meanwhile for Fernando, it’s like trying to professionally play a game you only ever had watched from afar.

[averageartistamber]

INVISIBLE F*CKING THING BLOW IT UP NOW!

Okay, so do you ever have that one random side character/character of the week that you just end up really liking for some reason? Like, Neronga's kinda growing on me. Maybe it's because the concept of a kaiju that you can't freakin' see is strangely funny to me.

I'm most of the way through the first set of Ultra Goobers, got two more monsters left for now, before I get onto scripting and trying to put a video together.

Now Neronga’s wanted to do was get up each morning and feed on some free electricity from a conveniently nearby power plant, but then the humans had to call Ultraman …  Stellar admits that he could be kind of a jerk to his opponents early on in his time defending the earth. So Neronga was dunked, clowned on and utterly humiliated in the resulting fight. It caused him to become a bit of a joke in-universe, so he eventually sought out Red King’s tutelage in order to Lock The Fuck In and eventually give the Silver Alien Asshat some “well deserved” payback.

I wanna note that as easy as it would be to poke fun at this dude’s goofy appearance, I guess it’s more that he doesn’t put up much of a fight? There’s a meta joke here about how whenever he shows up, he’s an early episode (i.e. low tier or “free win”) monster.

Also can blud decide if he’s a quadruped or not. I think he is, but “stands up” to fight/defend himself.

He’s the one that turns invisible, so gonna find a fun way to depict that (maybe colored line art? He’s probably gonna end up a fair bit like his Rising design, with bits from the older ones (maybe the “hazard pattern” back from Shin if I can make the colour palette work?). The electrical blasts now come out of his hands/claws instead of his…uh…ears? What the hell are those?

Okay, so when I first saw images of him I thought he looked quite short (…Okay, by Kaiju Standards…), but then got caught off guard seeing an episode with him and noticing he’s huge when reared up (giving Shimo). Here I kinda wanna keep him short…Or a least he doesn’t gain much height when standing bipedally.

As for lore, for centuries the locals had whispered stories about how if you looked towards the mountains during thunderstorms, you could see Neronga standing on them, essentially becoming a giant lightning rod to feed on the lightning bolts. In the modern age, however, he has much easier (and importantly, much more frequent) access to energy due to human development. He’s gone from a folk story to kind of a nuisance.

Also with that “Baragon Suit Brothers” meme I posted a while back, I’m thinking it’d be really funny if Gabora and Magular actually are his brothers. He could be like the older sibling that ends up being the primary caretaker of the other two. Idk.

[n0phis]

How many projects do you typically have at the same time?

i typed several paragraphs and tumblr ate them

anyways. long ass answer ahead! tldr it depends on your definition but. a lot.

in terms of large things, i have a thumbnailed full song lore animatic— this is the entire reason i’ve been making animatics in the first place! i had 0 experience, so ive been practicing—, a personal project ill slowly be introducing (it certainly won’t get in the way of your mcyt fanart, though, i dont think i’ll ever be free of the brainrot), and umpteen edited audios for more funny animatics should the mood strike!

i also have those big like. group artworks. the profile views and the cwilbur designs and the hand art… all stuff that is currently in hibernation but not forgotten

i think the same can be said for any wip i have— which i have, if i was to guess, around 50 of? from the past few months. in fact i’m going to gather every single one (ok hi past me, i just did and these are all from the past 3 and a half months. every last one left unfinished. be warned for horror/blood and violence in some!)

i let myself kinda go with the flow in terms of fanart, i tried to finish everything i started for a while but it’s kinda hard to not get sidetracked LMAO. i think the crux of it is considering things i do from start to finish in one sitting as stylistic experiments/learning, whereas ones i shelve tend to become more ‘i will do this when i’m confident enough that i can do it WELL’. the whole daunting concept of having sat on an idea/composition for so long and ending up fumbling it when i pick it back up scares me off KEKW

i can safely say that i want to finish every single piece there (minus maybe the ask saga, which i forgot about until now and i dont think i remember enough to keep it going LMAO) though with most itd end up being partially/fully redrawn! idk, it’s a fun reservoir of ideas to grab from (i say, while never touching the old ideas because i want to execute them perfectly)

anyways! long insight into tham psyche and also a wip tour >:) o7

[melodic-cherry]

Okay I know nobody is invested in the story like I am but here’s some facts about the story I’m working on

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Background: this is all being based around the Muppets mayhem show and that canon. ( yes I know muppets doesn’t have crucial canon but I’m using this show as a base )  the character that’s most focus on is cherry, which I post about a lot on here. However, how she’s even involved in the story is because of…

How cherry becomes involved: when the mayhem is going on tour, Penny points out that they don’t have an opening act. Nora agrees, saying that they need to find somebody. Hannah gives her opinion and says hey, there is this rising star her name is Cherry maybe we can try to sign her on the tour? Everyone seems to be on board with this, but doesn’t know where to start but luckily enough, Penny knows cherry on a very personal level. So to put it into simpler terms… penny, basically tells Cherry that she’s going to go on tour with the mayhem, because… she’s like her aunt kinda? So Cherry goes.

Facts about the story that are important to keep in mind:

• teeth, and Penny are still in a relationship during this time

• Cherry has her own band named wild cherry! The leader singer is obvi Cherry she also does guitar. The drummer is named Joana Cherrys best friend. And idk what Lucas plays but he’s also in the band.

• with the mayhem I kind of grouped them together, with who I think would be close friends based in the story * obviously the whole band is but * Nora and Janice are close gal pals. Moog gets kind of close with Floyd and teeth as well. Obvi zoot and lips are close BUT I think animal has a close kin ship with zoot :3

• Cherrys childhood is touched on so here’s a brief on that: how is she even was able to get into? The music scene is because she’s been in that scene her whole life. Her biological dad had a rock band back in the 60s and when she was born he literally didn’t want to be a father. So she was kind of stuck going whatever they went the drummer in the band ( named Pete ) through out Cherrys, whole life raised her. To cut it kind of shorter with the band drama Pete gets custody of Cherry when she’s 12 and the band breaks up for good. It’s a media shit show type of ordeal. Raising cherry besides, Pete is his brother named Will. They’re both probably in their mid - late 60s. Pete is a shag dog muppet and will is a poodle muppet who’s a lawyer. ( I think one brother being a hippie drummer and the other being a lawyer is so funny ) this is just base info

• even though I post about teeth and cherry a lot it’s a very slow burn story between the two. It’s a lot of subconscious feelings at first that get pointed out later by characters in the story.

• I will be pointing out the mayhem’s family ex: Floyd’s parents etc. I don’t really have any base ideas on this so if anyone has any ideas if they’re reading this, shoot me a message I’m willing to hear anything I don’t really know what to add for family or more lore within the band.

• penny, breaks up with teeth when she catches the vibe that he has feelings for cherry she’s very angry for a lot of reasons obviously, but she never drops him from the label, but she definitely ponders this. But she doesn’t want to discipline everyone else because he’s being “himself” in her eyes 

• since this is based on the Muppet mayhem show I will be adding things that I wish I saw on the show. Ex: zoot will have a lot more talking lines and lips as well!

• so much more but- IM NOT GONNA CLOG UR TL

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So yeah that’s fun XD

[its-wabby-stuff]

yeah, i want to get an explanation for why he named himself splinter in universe. the turtles being splinters of his relationship with big mama reminded me of how leo is kind of a perfect combination of lou jitsu and big mama's personalities. his goofiness is like big mama's and his showmanship like lou jitsu's and his need to win. there are more similarities but you know. personally, I like the idea that big mama is older than draxum and that she's had so many lovers (bc she's a jorōgumo) but lou jitsu is her favorite in her whole life. i just think that supernatural lifeforms being a sucker for a regular degular person is cute. also lou is similar bc he dated a ton of ppl before big mama but wanted to marry her over everyone else <3 the hc of her name being big mama bc lou gave her that name is gold!! that's funny and sweet on big mama's end. she is so charmed by lou, bro. she totally has commitment issues haha. but it took lou 11 years to decide he wanted to marry big mama. he thought hard about that one which makes it more tragic T_T yes!!! you know how big mama canoncially has one of lou's mutant daughters? i hc big mama naming her after an artist lou liked bc she is not over him. i wonder how old the battle nexus is. i figured dating people and throwing them in the battle nexus was an ancient scheme of big mama's but maybe it was new. there's lots of lore we're missing in general :/ i think splinter is embarrassed of who he is now, so telling his kids that he used to be the coolest guy ever and now he's a little rat with no friends, insanely depressed, and kinda just sucks in general is humiliating. the person he is today pales so intensely compared to lou jitsu, he doesn't want to compare it

All good reasons, yes. 😌 📝 I love the comparison you made to Leo being like Lou and Big Mamas “child” cause I agree very much.

Honestly, knowing she’s a jorogumo (which I didn’t know about before) does make me think my headcanons are a little off. And the kidnapping lovers thing makes a lot of sense. Though I doubt many of the humans survive as long as Lou Jitsu.

Perhaps it’s just tradition that she kidnaps them when they propose.

She definitely has elapsed a lot of control in the Hidden City, so it’s very likely she’s older, or has old connections. Everything regarding the Hidden City seems a complete mystery that almost anything seems possible. Given a lot of the history, the Hidden City seems even older than New York, which would imply they weren’t kicked to the depths but chose them. And if the Hidden City is that old, are there more Yokai cities hidden under more big cities? Are there Small Town Yokai civilizations? Are they really all that suppressed if they have this many options?

(They feel like they have more control just because they are such a secret). These points kinda express how insane Draxum must sound to the other Yokai as well…

Whatever Big Mamas backstory, Lou Jitsu is proven one of her favs, and possibly the only human she’s ever actually (accidentally) fallen in love with. Alongside Lou’s own commitment issues, she was probably hoping they could keep what they had, which led them to dating for a decade.

Getting a tad personal here, but I’m writing a separated AU where Leo is in the custody of Big Mama. And one of the problems arises when Leo meets Donnie and wants to be friends with him. In a weird way, it might remind Big Mama of her relationship with Lou (too invested in the fates of someone other than herself) and she tries to stop it. It’s one of my favorite arcs, along with the Draxum one.

I’m glad you liked the nickname Big Mama coming from Lou Jitsu. I really like that one too. But if she’s been around so long, I wonder what everybody else thought when she changed her previous name (which was probably just another code name).

All this Yokai drama makes me wonder how long the boys could actually live for. Could be over a hundred years, especially cause Draxum wouldn’t strive for anything less. It’s just sad to think they could thoroughly outlive April.

[ihateliterature]

Sariel Route Review

So I finished Sariel's route yesterday and here are my thoughts on it. Obviously spoilers for Sariel, Clavis and Luke’s routes

A lot of people disliked Sariel's route for its apparent lack of romance, but I love it. Now, that's probably because I am in the incredibly funny position of being an aro playing otome games and making myself gag with how sappy they are, so for me the romance is not a part I enjoy in most routes, just something I have to deal with.

"Why do you even play then?" Says the clueless alloro.

For the characters, soft porn, one liners and, of course, the LORE! Give me a YouTube channel and call me MatPat cause I'm all about that lore.

Back to Sariel.

For me Sariel’s route was basically perfect, it had intrigue and suspense and didn’t stop the action in its tracks just so the characters can make googly eyes at each other for half the chapter.

First for the things I didn’t like. I don’t like Sariel’s backstory, it’s much too cluttered. They wanted to make him this super accomplished person before he came to the palace but also have him grow up with the princes. So they made him a famous 10 y/o gang leader. It’s so fucking weird and I’m amazed I didn’t see more people talking about it. It would have been fine if he had a group of five or six other kids and they were known in their own town for beating people with pipes and small robberies and the like. But the scale we are shown is just ridiculous, they could have fixed this very easily if they would have made him arrive at the palace just a few years later. A famous 15-16 y/o gang leader is still ridiculous but not as much as a kid that hadn’t even started his puberty yet. 

I liked the MC. She is smart, a quick learner, adapts easily and she’s a good improviser, all of this coupled with being really knew into that life and having little to no experience makes her pleasant to follow, she is probably my favorite MC, closely followed by Clavis’. She didn’t ride on her status as Belle and took her responsibilities as Sariel’s apprentice very seriously even if it was only a cover. I really liked that she proved herself to be not only a competent Belle but also a skilled Minister with the potential to greatly help the country in the future.

Hot take but I really like Sariel and MC’s dynamic. A lot of people hated it but I like it. I’ve seen people say that they felt like the romance kinda came out of nowhere at the end without any built up, but I disagree. There is definitely A LOT of pinning between them during the route, on MC’s part but also on Sariel’s. The reason why they only acted on it at the very end was because both of them, and the story, recognised that there was no time for romance and it wouldn’t have been appropriate.

Relationships between a superior and an employee in the workplace are complicated. Now, I’m no moral crusader and I would’ve adored to have Sariel fuck MC on his desk between lessons since Chapter 2, and frankly the whole game toys with power imbalance in relationships because that’s just the nature of royalty dating commoners. Unfortunately Sariel is not the type to abuse his position in that way (regardless of how hot it would have been, I should write a fic about boss!Sariel and secretary!Emma). Sariel was keenly aware of his position the entire time and acted accordingly. At the end MC becomes Sariel’s apprentice for real and they start dating but at that point I see them as colleagues more than master and apprentice, even the princes treat MC as a full on Minister by that point.

Here comes my favorite part . . . the KING.

I fucking hate the King. He is just like every pathetic guy I’ve ever met.

I think Cybird made a good job of portraying someone who is so shit, through the idealised lense of the one singular person who liked him.

Sariel had a toxic father-son relationship with the man. They’ve known each other since Sariel was 10 and the King was more of a father to him than to any of his children. But even keeping that in mind, Sariel still had to essentially care for the emotional needs of a man child, becoming his only confidant and carrying on his desires and hopes for the country alongside his own grief, because Sariel was the ONLY one that actually grieved for that man.

Look, I don’t like saying bad things about Jin’s mom, but she chose wrong. We are told that there were no complaints about the King before the previous Belle was chased out but I highly doubt this. We are told this by Sariel, who wasn’t there and has probably found out about this FROM the King. The man was also full of shit, he claimed to love the country but he never showed it. He let Sariel and his sons rule his country WHILE he was alive. I can understand the very end, when he was too sick to move, but there was Blood Stained Day. Not even an invasion motivated this man to get off his ass. The princes had to go and fight themselves and I don’t think that we, as a fandom, realise just how young they were. Most of them were in their teens, only Chevalier and Jin were adults, Chevalier, the guy who sacrificed war prisoners was 20 or 21 and Clavis, the mad man who ran to save them and almost died in a fire because of it was 19 or 20, only Jin could have been considered an actual adult at the time, and he was 22. And what was the King doing during all of this? Throwing himself a pity party, like usual.

He did this in basically every flashback, called himself incompetent and a bad King, and he was right. 

Not only was he a bad King and a bad father, but he was an atrocious husband. Anita is the clearest example of that. I can understand why he didn’t like the Queen and the other two marriages were purely political, but he wanted to marry Anita, this was something that he WANTED, no one could have or would have forced him to do it. Regardless of that he completely ignored her after she gives birth, he pitied her, sure, but he never extended a hand towards her. He saw how her mental health was going to shit and he cried when she died, for her and the twins, but he did nothing to prevent this, he could’ve but he didn’t.

The King was not a broken man, he was a pathetic one. He spent his entire life after his girlfriend was chased out throwing himself a pity party, ignoring his duties and hurting people. He was most likely depressed, yeah, but that doesn’t excuse abandonment, neglect and rape.

Oh yeah, let’s talk about the two giant pink elephants floating around in Sariel’s route, the two KNOWN sexual assaults inflicted by the King upon Leticia Lelouch and Luke’s mom. 

They are not mentioned, which is weird considering that two princes are the product of that and one happened WHILE Sariel was at the court. This man was utterly despicable. What he did to Luke’s mom can be argued as the King quite literally losing his mind out of grief and because she looked like the previous Belle (a stupid argument, but fine, I’ll take it), but what he did to Leticia was downright monstrous. He wanted to hurt her; he wanted to torture her; he did that out of pure malice, because a maidservant pestering him to have tea with his wife from time to time pissed him off so much.

Sariel is not stupid, it’s not that he is unaware of all of this, he is just consciously choosing to not think about it. He never tries to argue against it, he never tries to convince Luke that the King was “a good guy, actually”, because he knows what kind of man he was. When a loved one is proven to have done something horrible, many people are more inclined to ignore it, excuse it or deny it, because they love that person too much to abandon them, even after something like that. Sariel does the same thing, for him it doesn’t matter that the King was a horrible person, it only matters that he was good to him.

Sariel’s route portrayed this dynamic perfectly, it might have been infuriating, but I enjoyed this direction and the care the writers took to tell the audience just how shit that man was while maintaining just how dependant Sariel was on him, to the point of ignoring his wrongdoings any chance he got.

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Shattered Reality Theory?

- taleblrlorekeeper

Hi yes hello. I’m about to go autism hyper fixation mode let’s go

I call it that as if it’s a well known theory BUT ITS nOt bc I haven’t shared it yet

So basically this theory explains a lot of continuity errors and contradictions and the faulty way the VT world works Imo. (Which irl is only like that bc the irl creators didn’t keep track of everything but that’s fine) But basically what I believe/vibe I get is that the main dimension where all the main event happens is a larger fragment of a reality that’s now shattered. And other dimensions like the 13th Dimension like the Anti-challas for example (and the hundreds of other numbered dimensions 😭) are other shards of that reality. So basically the whole thing is barely functioning.

And also, it might not have a proper after life or “ghost dimension” … or “veil” and that’s why ghosts are so common and capable of ridiculous things??

Also an alternative minor theory attached to this one is that sometimes the reason that characters come back from the dead is because there’s no space for like more souls in the afterlife(?) or where ever ghosts are supposed to go. But also I’m kinda iffy on that one.

Basically the VT world(s) is like a broken world- similar vibe to when a planet is thrown out of orbit.

Funny enough though is that in the VT 5 year anniversary stream Johnny Ghost from the future/Alt time line tries warning Present Day P.I.E. (Ghost was retired at the time) that they need to get their Ghost to rejoin P.I.E. Because in future Ghost’s future Housekeeper “shatters reality.” But that implies it hasn’t happened but will- so idk but genuinely is a fascinating coincidence (there’s SO MUCH lore in that stream btw bahsjd)

I do believe that the Divine One (a canon deity made of 13 beings that also created Housekeeper) may have tried fixing or adopted their shattered reality?? And maybe housekeeper got mad and/or jealous and started causing problems idk tbh 😭

Also another part of how i picture this broken world is that sometimes it tries to fix itself (either that or it’s the divine one) so it’ll like repeat events and it’ll change what happened (which would explain certain contradictions. Example: Ghost originally being afraid of birds. Then way later Ghost is completely unphased by birds but Toast is terrified of them?? That happened in an anniversary stream too but it was either year 3 or 4)

Basically a bunch of cosmic horror / reality stuff 😭

(I picture it a lot like a dirty/scratched/broken CD that’s bouncing around, replaying or stuttering or skipping around in the cd player kinda lol but also it’s floating through space deeper and deeper into the void while grabbing the attention of interdimensional higher beings that see it as a cool toy)

Also Acalacams (if you know what those are) kinda tie into this as well as the Divine One but I’ll get to that later

This is also my personal headcanon but I’m curious to see what others think :3

God I hope this made sense 😭😭