#I'll look at the wikis here and it gives me the same vibes as when I get super into a wiki about new age occult stuff

[some-pers0n]

I'm not sleeping tonight I just rediscovered the endless abyss of a rabbit hole that is plurality and otherkin wikis

[weltato]

The Ramble About Klavier (AA4 spoilers)

Going off this post I made a while ago, here's a ramble about everyone's favourite rockstar prosecutor :)

This is gonna be a long post, so I'mma put it under a cut, but the TL;DR is that Klavier's damage sprite hurts me physically and I absolutely think that Kristoph is the cause of it :)) Also, using Franziska as a bit of a comparison at points because I could go on about her as well honestly, but that's for a different post.

(obligatory headcanon disclaimer here)

*Warning for mentions of verbal abuse, if that's uncomfortable then please scroll on and stay safe!*

You still here? Grand.

This sprite hurts man.

(I couldn't find a gif file for young Klav, had to use the icky webp file from the wiki- I fucking hate webp it's such a stupid file type)

You see how it's the same? You see how both sprites are the same? They move exactly the same! Now, you could say that it's something related to the chord that plays every time we see the sprite crop up, but he's gonna be smart enough to know about ear protection when doing rockstar stuff. Could be a sensitive ears thing, or a cringe thing at the sound of the chord (bc it does sound bad, I'll grant that), but it's never said if Klavier has sensitive hearing or smth (afaik, bc I haven't seen SoJ yet). We know Athena does, but nothing about Klav.

So! Remember Kristoph? Remember how shitty of a person he is? Welp, in the same vein as Franziska's damage sprite making everyone go "ooh, MvK did bad things" I put forward that Kristoph also did bad things.

But not physically. Kristoph is a man who uses his words as his weapons until he just casually has to poison people and then stalk everyone for seven years bc a fangirl screwed up his plan.

The sprite when Klav's 17 is labelled as "Disbelief (Unused).

Sure, it's unused in-game, but they still made it and they made it exactly the same as present Klav!

But when he's older, it's simply listed as "Damage".

Damage is a word used for quite a few sprites tbh, since it's when they...well, take damage, from their opponent, either through scripted event or from player decision.

However! Going back to a point I made in the original post: Franziska has a different distinction. Her older sprite is listed as "Shocked" but her younger sprite is given the "Damage" title.

Look! Her sprites are different! It doesn't give any good vibes tbh, she's sort of holding herself higher up and more with both arms than with the one arm her younger self uses, but that's for a different ramble about Franzy. This is about Klavier.

Franzy goes from "Damage" to "Shocked", potentially meaning that whatever is being thrown at her doesn't hurt anymore, merely catches her off guard and this is a reflexive response.

Klav goes from "Disbelief" to "Damage", which tells me that his younger self refused to hear and his older self is now realising that things are SO much worse than he feared and that HURTS.

With Franziska, it's pretty obvious that MvK was a pretty distant parent in parenting terms. I mean, he was always there, sure, but he didn't really show much love and affection. Franzy realises this and carries on because that's how she was brought up. She can handle that. (Don't get me started on the cry sprite omg-)

Kristoph was the same.

All my homies hate MvK and those same homies should also hate Kristoph. His nickname was literally "The Coolest Defense in the West" - this man was known for being level-headed! He was known for being a cool, calm and collected person! You never know what's going on under that.

Klavier was absolutely verbally and emotionally abused. I don't think it was physical abuse in any way, and if anything happened then at most it might've been a slap in the face, but Kristoph doesn't strike me as someone who gets off on holding power over his brother by beating him. After all, Klav is in the public eye 90% of the time as a rockstar, he doesn't want to risk make-up being applied wrong and the paparazzi picking things up. Kristoph strives for perfection in everything (again, the wiki literally says this, although I'm aware that the wiki can be edited by anyone) and he sees it in his brother too: he wants Klavier to be perfect.

But then he went to be a prosecutor and a rockstar and that's...well that's not good, it might ruin the name he's made for himself if his little brother goes off gallivanting with people like that (poor Daryan). Kristoph sets impossibly high standards that Klavier just can't match because he's not the same as his brother, he's not like that, he cares about people and his decision to go study in Europe is met with more disapproval from Kristoph, but Klavier takes it all as brotherly encouragement because the boy is SEVENTEEN and there's an eight year age gap, surely Kristoph knows best...

Then we get to the final section of Turnabout Succession.

When presenting the nail polish, Klavier recognises it immediately because that's the brand his brother uses. When Apollo asks about his hesitation, he says it's nothing.

They never checked Vera's nails either and Klavier is unable to say anything because Apollo is on a roll and Klavier really hopes he's wrong, so he asks if the bottle belongs to Vera and Apollo asks back if he knows someone else with one of those...

"No." he says, "Just checking."

YES. HE. DOES! He knows immediately as soon as that nail polish is brought up, everything clicks and he's so distressed by it that he refuses to believe Kristoph could've done this. He's in prison right now, how could he poison someone??

And when the Judge isn't convinced by this, Apollo deals him the final blow.

"Prosecutor Gavin doesn't seem to think this is inconceivable."

No response. His face is unreadable, or maybe it's anguished, and when it's suggested to bring Kristoph up as a special witness, Klav says this: "I've known for some time that an impenetrable darkness lurked at the bottom of this. ...A darkness that has swallowed even myself."

He knows and it's time to face The Devil that orchestrated all of this.

Maybe he's known for a long time and only just removed the rose-tinted glasses he was seeing Kristoph through - and he's crushed by it.

When Kristoph is in the room, Klavier's words are especially defeated here. Kristoph even asks Klavier to explain what's going on.

"You're being accused again. By him. Again."

And when Kristoph asks if Klav agrees with this, he says nothing. What can he say? That yes, his brother is a dark man? That yes, he's manipulative enough to do this kind of thing? That, if given the chance, he do it again to get rid of everyone who's in his way?

Trucy even says in one of the pressed statements that Klavier "must be nervous with big brother watching!"

Kristoph even takes over from Klavier's Objection when Kristoph's pressed by Apollo about the likelihood of Vera wanting to poison herself. That bitch! He's so obsessed with control that he takes control over his own trial from his own brother who's trying to 'defend' him. When Trucy says the two together is a force to be reckoned with, Apollo notes that they could do with more teamwork.

In that pivotal last statement, Klavier acts more like his brother than he ever has in the whole game and Apollo picks up on that. Kristoph is the reason Klavier is acting different, the reason he's trying so hard to get Apollo to notice the difference - Kristoph is clearly the threat in the room.

Kristoph is cruel in public too, but only now that Apollo is cornering him. See, the abuse towards Klavier was only ever subtle in public and far more pronounced in the home, but in this trial there's nowhere for him to go and Apollo would pick up every detail. So, when Apollo brings up the stamp and Klav's taken aback by this, Kristoph takes that moment to pounce: "You've upset my poor brother to the point of uselessness. Allow me to clarify this matter[...]"

We all hate him, right? He's such a dick.

Klavier is quiet, just watching everything unfold since he has no way to confront Apollo when he himself believes that Kristoph is guilty, and when Kristoph worms his way out of things he belittles Klav: "Really, Klavier. You should be seeing through these weak-spined bluffs by now."

What can he say? It's the same kind of thing he was always told - that he should be better, always pushed further than he could go.

But then he doubles down. He's sick of this, sick of Kristoph always being the perfect brother. So he fights back and calls Kristoph the bluffer. Kristoph is shocked; never once has Klavier outright pushed back on him. So when Klavier starts to side with Apollo, Kristoph plays the game.

Now, I'm not going through the whole case beat for beat, but there's another point later on when Apollo goes "oh btw Phoenix didn't do this and lol here's evidence" and Kristoph tries to deny this by saying "oh but defense attorneys are only assigned the day before anyway" but Klavier objects and turns to Apollo, pleading with him because he needs to know the whole truth on this.

Even Kristoph is caught off guard because he thought he'd kept Klavier on his side but NO! NO HE DIDN'T! HAVE YOU SEEN HIS DAMAGE SPRITE HE'S HURTINNGGGG T^T

ahem-

Anyway, Kristoph tried to dismiss this and Klavier objects in his face and keeps his focus solely on Apollo - he even calls him by his actual name instead of Herr Forehead (which I think is kinda sweet actually but anyway-) and fuck man, this hurts me.

And as it closes in towards the end, when Phoenix's recording is mentioned and Kristoph says that his "brother is incapable of making rational judgments at the moment" (angy Wel grumbling) we soon get this:

I LOVE KLAV HAVE I SAID THIS YET!?

AND HERE'S THE KICKER:

KRISTOPH IS WORRIEDDDDD

AND KLAV DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ANYMORE YES!

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW GOOD THAT FEELS? HOW CATHARTIC THAT IS? THIS MAN WHO'S DONE NOTHING BUT CONTROL HIM AND USE HIM FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT AND BELITTLE HIM WHENEVER HE DOES ANYTHING EVEN OUT OF LINE IS FINALLY GETTING HIS COMEUPPANCE AT KLAVIER'S HANDS!!

OH it's great to watch, we love to see it.

Better still is the very end, after the breakdown, after Kristoph loses his cool:

The sass is strong in this line. To me, it's a final 'fuck you and everything you ever did to me' from Klavier.

We end on this line after the Judge says that nurturing is the task for all human beings: "Except for you, Kristoph. You aren't changing. You've stopped. You're not needed anymore."

And it's true. Klavier doesn't need Kristoph anymore. He's 24, he can live his own life and he doesn't need a cynical and condescending brother like Kristoph breathing down his neck every two seconds. He's broken free from Kristoph's control completely and he's relishing that.

So this is why his damage sprite hurts me to see. It's a point of pain and discontent, it's Kristoph lingering in Klav's head, it's the want to have a normal brother that loves him as he is and sees him as an equal. He got his first trial against him taken away, and we never know if there was another opportunity for the two Gavins to go up against each other again, but by the sounds of it there probably wasn't - and that's a good thing! If Kristoph had faced off against Klavier, it would have probably broken Klav's spirit to be a good prosecutor like we see in AA4 and to some extent in AA5 when he crops up in the Themis case.

On the whole, the damage sprite is a look into how Klavier hid from his brother's verbal abuse - by covering his ears and not listening to it. He didn't want it to be true, but it came at him anyway and he hated that. But it's also a parallel to how he feels about Kristoph: that is his brother and he can't bear the thought of Kristoph being not just a murderer, but also a scheming manipulator that's been skirting around the law he so desperately hides behind for seven years. Once again, he didn't want it to be true but it came at him anyway and he hated that he couldn't get away from it.

It's a good sprite, I won't lie. Great storytelling at the conflict between the two and that Klavier loves Kristoph probably more than Kristoph love him, but it still hurts me to see it because all I can think about is what kind of manipulation has Kristoph done to keep his power over Klavier. Kristoph is manipulative even to his own brother and there is nothing Klavier could have done about it. Throughout their interactions in the case there's this underlying current of "if I get out of this you're so dead" and that feels like it's been a thing forever between them.

I hope this makes sense because I should be writing my assignment rn and I just couldn't bc this has been taking up all the space in my head lol. I'm tirrrrrred, uni wears me out man >.>

[sammygems]

ight, as promised, i said that when the favourite straw hat outfit poll ended, i would share my personal favourite and least favourite outfits for the straw hats, and then i forgot to do it, so here it is now!

uh, disclaimer, these are my PERSONAL opinions, you do not have to agree with me.

i'll also say that as of making this post, i am still in the pre-timeskip, right at the end of thriller bark, regardless, i will be including outfits from post-timeskip, i just haven't seen them wore IN the series yet. i'll also give little reasonings for them!

Luffy

Fav - Raid on Onigashima

i'm pretty sure the raid on onigashima episodes were coming out right around when i started getting into one piece and i think this was probably the main outfit i saw Luffy in at the time, plus i just like it! i like the cape, i like the sash, i like the colours, it's a slay!

Least Fav - Wedding Suit from Hancock's fantasy

might be cheating to say this one, but like, i just don't really like it. for one, he never actually wears it, and probably wouldn't want to wear it either. also just, not a big fan of Luffy in all white.

Zoro

Fav - Main Post-Timeskip outfit

I have no reason really, i just like it.

Least Fav - Main outfit Pre-Timeskip

now, i don't hate it, i'm just tired of it. Zoro. please. wear something else, i beg.

Nami

Fav - Victorian vibes shirt from Thriller Bark

it's just so cute, i love it so much, the shirt vibes me victorian vibes. Nami's thriller bark outfits in general are so slay.

Least Fav - Slave outfit from Heart of Gold

don't like it. 1. she's enslaved (again), 2. it feels fetish-y and makes me uncomfortable

Usopp

Fav - Zou Arc Outfit

I don't know why, i just think he looks cute!

Least Fav - Main outfit Pre-Timeskip

again, same with Zoro, i don't hate it, but i'm tired of it.

Sanji

Fav - Raid on Onigashima Suit

Sanji just looks fine as fuck in burgundy. plus the gloves? chefs kiss

Least Fav - Film Gold beach/bathing suit(?)

this feels like a mess to me, Sanji did you get dressed in the dark while blindfolded??

Vivi

Fav - Ceremonial Dress

she looks so cute and pretty in it!

Least Fav - Levely/Reverie dress

there's something about it that i just don't like and i'm not sure how to explain it or what it even is exactly

Chopper

Fav - Enies Lobby

the little leather jacket is so cute on him

Least Fav - Obahan Time

eh

Robin

Fav - Water 7/Enies Lobby

iconic, slay, beautiful, gorgeous, queen, i love the leather. picking a fav for Robin was very hard for me.

Least Fav - Slave Outfit from Heart of Gold

same reasoning for me not liking Nami's. she's enslaved & it feels fetish-y and makes me uncomfortable

Franky

Fav - Strong World

the leather jacket is chefs kiss

Least Fav - Whatever this is

this feels wrong

Brook

Fav - Strong World

hippie 70s grandpa vibes

Least Fav - this (from Spa Island)

i feel uncomfortable

Jinbe

Fav - as the wiki calls it "Wano Departure Outfit"

i just like it, i think it's cute, i like the skulls :)

Least Fav - Film Red Elvis fit

just not a fan

[fanaticsnail]

Hello again! I'm coming with a challenge for a character you haven't write yet but since it's me you can imagine who is 😉 That's if you have the time and still taking Dance requests 🕺💃 A very Pretty Please and Thank You's!

I found the perfect dance genre for Bogard while looking for inspiration and I want to give this prompt to you.

This may be long but here I go.

Since, as you commented on my first headcanons, my reader OC already is an Art Dealer who is absolutely a white collar pirate, I want to give you the prompt of Bogard with reader who is a normal Art Dealer although the background story is the same: they were going to get engaged in their youth but she rejected him in the end because that wasn't the life she wanted and ran away to became an artist.

Ironically, she ended working indirectly with the Marine by geting artworks for highrank officers (like Axe Morgan's paintings and such) and helping with recovered stolen goods and treasures from pirates, like testing it's legitimacy and pricing.

They've seen each other from time to time throught the years but they know it might not have worked due to him being overseas all the time. Still the Spark is definetely there and they can't help to wonder what if. As NSFW as you feel comfortable 😉

Also, this goes for OPLA Bogard whose actor is like 36yo. While animanga Bogard may have like +50yo because he already was Garp's second 38 years ago, acording to wiki (I'm headcanon-ing that that Bogard was his father XD).

The songs I came with for Bogard are Danzon/Mambo from the 40's/50's but there are so many versions that I can't pin them. They're just categorized as "popular latin music" (I'd add Vintage because they're definetely my grandparents songs even if they have more modern versions):

¿Quién será? (definitely a mambo)

Sway (english version)

Even if it's almost the same music, the lyrics are very diferent. In spanish is more melancholy with the singer wondering if he'll ever love again and who'll be she.

Quizás, Quizás (no idea of the genre but this one sounds like a very slow Danzon to me. I specially like this version from the movie Cantinflas.)

Perhaps, Perhaps (english version, more lively, mambo-ish?)

Again very diferent lyrics but both convey the message and vibes I imagine. The spanish one is more sad, specially in the context of the movie with the wife feeling miserable and left behind by her famous actor husband.

Nereidas (definetely a danzon).

No lyric just vibes but that was totally the Cabaret music from my grandparents' period 🤭

And that's it. I hope I didn't bored you with all the explanation and may spark some inspiration. This genre of music is from my favorites for when I'm feeling specially vintage-y, and Bogard gives me all the Noir vibes.

Oh my goodness, my darling! Absolutely! I would love to write for Bogard!

I have never written for him before and I am excited to do more of a deep-dive into who he is. I've finally managed to get up to the Helmeppo and Koby training sequence in the Anime, so I'll be able to draw more on what he's all about to add to my little dance series. I adore the art dealer, antiquities evaluator character. It's giving: Indiana Jones in the best way.

Of the series, I am yet to complete the scenes for Koby and Garp - now I absolutely must add this noir-esk sea-dilf to the list!

I've also never had a proper NSFW request before, so this will be a fun dynamic to play with - especially with the dance series.

Thank you for giving me the prompt. I'll add him to the misc list!

You could never bore me, dear. I adore hearing from fellow writers, readers and lurkers.

To be completed of the Dance Series:

Koby's Foxtrot

Garps Bolero

Cabarat at Baratie

Bogard's Mambo/Danzon

Masterlist is here in the interim!

[wildissylupus]

Update on my Ana post

Ok, I will admit I needed a bit of a refreshing when it came to lore. I completely forgot about the letter, that was my bad. I will go into that now.

I searched up how many letters Ana sent to Pharah and it says on the character wiki that if was letters, plural. Which Pharah never responded to, and before you say "but how would she respond to them", they where in the same country when the whole Bastet thing was happening. Pharah's smart and Bastet was a known vigilante by the end of the story, there is no way that she wouldn't put two and two together.

So going back to my analysis I'm going to correct something, I think Pharah wanted to talk things out with her mother in person, she wanted Ana to make that first step into fixing they're relationship. She knew that Ana was in Cairo so she decided "If she wants to fix things she needs to take the first step and do it in person". Which Ana might have taken as it being too late for her to make amends, deciding it would be better to leave her alone. Leading Cassidy to knock some sense into her and getting her talking to Pharah in person.

I made a separate post explaining my speculation on the Anahardt emotional affair so I won't get into it again here, I'll just add to it. I actually started doing more research on Sam, which is hard cause we hardly have any (still more than Martina, please we need more information about both of them), Pharah describes they're relationship as "complicated" and Ana actively states that she "made a mess of his life", those are the words of someone who knows they are at fault. But the way Pharah talks about Sam, it gives me the vibes of recently reconnected. Meaning I don't think Sam is completely blameless when it comes to him and Ana. Cause though he wasn't a part of Overwatch he was still a public servant.

I honestly think that Sam and Ana drifted apart after the crisis, both of them being too busy in they're work to pay attention to eachother, they were better with Pharah but they still ignored her wants and as a result permanently damaged they're relationship with her.

In all honesty when I started looking into this part of the lore more I didn't expect Pharah to also have some daddy issues but here we are. Give this women a break.

[minmin-pal]

im just gonna nab that "dead man's questions" and stick it in between watching part 4 and 5, kinda gives me vibes of like spy secrecy type stuff lol and ngl i was about to search it up automatically but i'm glad i refrained from it now. so the plot follows a character whose passed away? is it some type of flashback or maybe an 'afterlife/ghost' adventure? i don't know which or if either are right so i'm just pulling stuff outta my guessing hat lol

i might just have to accept this inevitable heartbreak either way tbh, just watching characters go on an adventure, have fun, develop and just generally live makes it very hard not to get attached though ig that just comes with the viewing experience. the 'waiting for them to bring the person back' bit is so real though, ngl i always end up forwarding and end up ruining a series for me because "when is this character getting brought back???", to the point i end up not paying attention to the rest of the series lol(/lh) though i'll make sure to not do that when watching jjba :D W series fr

and oh! you've watched naruto? you said the 'original naruto' so i'm gonna go out on a leg and assume you didn't watch Shipudden?(/genq/nf) could I ask what were your thoughts on the story (however far you got into it?) maybe like favorite/disliked characters? parts of the plot you liked and didn't, did you have any critics of the series (both manga and anime, assuming you read the manga too)? (/lh) any opinions on the legendary Sannin? generally, just your thoughts on it i suppose

and oh yeah fair fair, the intro bit i brought up since i kinda tiptoed around it when i was searching up watch guides and didn't want watch anything that might've spoiled anythin lol (may have been too careful for no reason lmao) the intro was just the first clip i saw of the actual 3d bits (i'm in the 'not know' side whether that style/model was consistent with the actual 3d used in the show tho) but wait they animated the powers n stuff to be 3d?? that's actually super cool wha (/gen)

took me a while to understand that 'death 13' was the name of the episode, and ohh it never occurred to me about the 'copyright issues' bit though i guess it's the same reason why people will always use names like '"barbucks" for a shop in their story whose icon looks awfully like Starbucks lol. i usually watch my anime subbed, though which would you suggest for this one? do you usually watch in subbed or dubbed? but eh yeah, might not matter much but still ty for the heads up! (/gen)

no but truee, the foundation parts make the lead up to the big punchy monster powers bit even more satisfying though :( and jonathan, yeah yeah! i've seen very small smidges of him here and there, i briefly consulted the wiki page of his because i wanted to find a clip of his voice without spoilers and omg he sounds so cool! :D i didn't scroll down any further down the wiki though, there weren't any "spoilers ahead!" warnings but i didn't wanna take any chances :')

oh yeah, sxf is actually a pretty good example of a 'polished' anime artstyle similar to other modern animes tbf, the sharp difference when i try to compare the two in my head made me snort a bit ngl (/lh) the style and story (from what i've seen of jjba and sxf so far at least) are so stark in contrast but they're both so good too (/gen)

twt has already shoved in my face that apparently, eren dies for mikasa or something? i'm not in the know of all the details but the shock factor is definitely eh- minimized now i suppose lol, and oh a tier list might be a fun idea if your up for it! how do you manage to keep track of the ones you've read/watched? or is it just a 'welp i'm relying on my memory for this' type thing? (/hj/lh) sxf really carrying both jjba (with no one being safe lol) and aot in terms of fluff, i feel as though i'm jinxing myself and that the ending might not be happy either but i;m crossing my fingers it is lol, and yea dw abt getting off topic, it's fun to read tangents (is that how you use the word)

mangakas favorite drink are the tears of their fans :') (/j) but props to you for managing to get the titan lore, i've seen a lot of people say it just confused the heck out of them and some said they dropped it so i hope you were able to enjoy it :D (both the series and the 'head-ache inducing' lore /hj/lh) 

and yay no problem! i'll admit when i read your description of it, i tried to do the same actions? like laughing but not making any sound, i definitely looked very goofy while doing it but i remembered the term 'croak/croaking' so it was a fruitful endeavor :D (/j/lh) i apologize for the tmi ;')

 "Chainsaw Man is a character-driven story that manages to conclude itself in 97 chapters, and its due to the author focusing on the main characters and its themes," i didn't think it could be explained so simply in word form but that actually does make sense. "All the battle shounen stuff is just being used a medium to tell the actual story, it's not the story itself." just this description alone summarizes it well i'm assuming and now that i think about it, really makes csm stand out tbh. Almost all anime i can name off the top of my head (action/battle genre ofc) really does focus on "different states and nations all preparing to fight one another for [ cue overarching plot point ]." Character development and personal introspection don't tend to be the top priority, well aside from the 'shonen mc moments' such as ya know- tanjiro, izuku, etc.? (/lh) or from what i can gather at least lol

but honestly, i didn't know csm concluded at 97 chapters! the fact the author was able to just- start it, do what he wanted to do and end it as planned (or at least i'm assuming? i haven't seen any articles with the clickbait tagline of "csm creator dislikes/isn't happy about [ ... ]!") it got pretty popular too so that's awesome to hear, and yea true actually, i can see you and other people like denji and the fact that both the "Mineta Minoru is Expelled from U.A. High School/Shinsou Hitoshi Replaces Mineta Minoru" tags on ao3 collectively have over 5.8k fics says enough lol 

spy was definitely a very wholesome show and it's just so, so nice to watch the family dynamic form and grow<3 dunno why but i liked how they were able to incorporate bits of yor and loid's profession into their parenting styles what with yor helping to cause the iconic damian scene and loid with attempting to sneak in to change anya's grade lol, but oh! what's your thoughts on franky? ngl i kinda love all the goofy stuff he pulls and gets twilight to do lol, but yeah tbh yuri's bit of being secret police and his scenes with anya are some of the only highlights of his char i remember when watching ;; (/lh) obsessive brother still kinda shocks me with how it's pretty prevalent as a trope tbh but also what's your thoughts on bond? also what was your favorite and maybe least liked episode or mayb chapter of sxf? 

it's been a bit since i found the site but i can binge all the chaps now so heads up an ask abt that in a few hours :D (/lh/gen) your so right about that thoo, having characters that could just be irrevocably bad people can be done but managing to make them appealing/getting the readers to feel for them is such a sign of being a good writer, but also yeah managing to cause your readers pain thru them is to be applauded too lol (mangaka's really do enjoy their reader's pain /j/lh) 

how have all the scenes you've shown be so pretty, my brain would assume it's just specific detailed scenes but i have the very sneaking suspicion that the whole manga is styled like this and i'm very much looking forward to it,  even if i covered her facial expression her hair swaying and clothing ripples(is that what u call it) somehow portrays emotion so well, how even? (/lh/pos)

i was confused on who 'nameless white-haired guy' was until i read the next sentence and i just went "ah" lol, and oh kinda sucks he got gassed too much but damn that personality is just yikes lol (from what i've seen of the one scene ofc) and oh there'a dif other guy? in about 30 minutes i'll see this hoodie dude so i'll end up finding out, i know he won't be 'as bad' but i'm looking forward to seeing how bad? uhm, basically looking forward to the chapter, hope that made sense or the sentiment at least got across lol, and yea no worries i'm reading your response at the same time so there might be dead ends/random tangents in mine that i didn't notice so- sorry about that :') 

And ah yea that makes sense, I'd actually be pretty surprised if you were able to remember specific little details but glad to hear you enjoyed it :D the analogy of 'cramming before a test' hit me on a personal level lol (/hj) and oh, was nijimiya the girl mc? she really does seem like a sweetheart and help I never knew she had a younger sister, that's super cool! And yeah! The dude's character development was nice to watch too but alas ofc, tears lol

I remember reading 'Kichikujima (Freak Island)' quite a while ago, I remember it's pretty gorey though I don't know if it qualified as phycological horror? Don't remember too many details so I may be wrong, but oh yeah! I don't know for sure if you were reffering to these types but I kind of made some terms for it lol, idk they're pretty simple labels

Jumpscare Horror - self explanatory, there's a lot of jumpscares and "dun dun dunn" type music/scenes right before the jumpscare.

Gore Horror - I assume this is where kichikujima falls into? Typically, zombie and slasher movies fall into this one lol

Phycological Horror - what you just described :D and ngl ig the name for this one is self explanatory enough lol

I haven't met many people that actually enjoy phycological horror, what's oyasumi punpun if you don't mind me asking? I'm mildly familiar with junji ito's works, i only ever watched vids that dubbed over it tbh but is uzumaki the swirly one? Lackluster description ;; but I'm assuming that's the one, I also heard there was an anime about junji ito's work(s)? Have you seen it? If ya did, what were your thoughts on it? Ohh have you already watched neon genesis? I don't see many people talking about that anymore, what'd you think of it? Seeing your summary of your taste for manga/anime/etc., have you heard of dororo? I only ever watched the anime so I'm not sure whether you'd enjoy it or not, but it's one of the things that come to mind when I think of things that are 'depressing at their core' (/lh)

Figured they'd be under the isekai category tbh, the dif labels just confused me for a bit lol and yeah makes sense it'd depend on the story itself, blue lock is that one popular sports anime recently isn't it? Tbf it's been a hot minute since shield hero gained much media attention as it did before so I don't imagine much talk about it could've been going around lol

Very valid reasoning ngl TT always a genuine whiplash whenever you compare the male and female character designs, the 'probably do not see people of the preferred sex at all' comment both made me cackle and makes a lot of sense lol, the manga started at 1997 and since it's a 'weekly title', technically a chapter comes out every week, I assume that doesn't leave much time for socialization? I dunno but doing this for close to 3 decades, you'd think some actual body diversity or dif styling would be developed as the story progressed but- how did it seriously evolve backwards? This is biologically impossible??(/hj/lh)

I remember a review video I watched citing the author's response as basically saying the target demographic is teen boys anyways? I need to find the video but I'm definitely sure that was the gist of the first bit of his response, it's as if his made unique and customized molds for all of the male characters while using the singular body mold fkr every single one of the female characters ;; the fact he prolly just chooses not to is def a massive let down tbh :')

While scrolling down, my eyes instantly went to the pic so I went "Miles :D!" then woah second pic jumpscared me real bad lol, when you said you had an example in mind I didn't think it'd be such a good example yikes, the longer I look at the artwork the more I understand your point, it's making- a lot of sense, the "you can tell a lot about someone by the way they draw" part is true tbh, this whole bit is just giving me the icks ;;

But ahh, I'll be reading the killer in love manga now :D also very sorry for answering so late, I know it isn't compulsory or anything but really just have my sincerest apologies ;; /gen/pos

And yay alright, I'll try to switch it up sometime for variety lol, minjae, d'you have any that you prefer or prefer not to use?

I watched the outro as it's own clip and I swear the meme was scratching my brain since it seemed so familiar, I'm questioning how'd it even turn into that meme lol, did it take you a while to find out?

(may contain some grammar/spelling errors, srry abt that)

HI!!! :grin: aot spoilers and..... just walls of text under the cut i didnt answer some stuff since there really wasnt anything for me to add of worth-- i read everything though dw

you should read deadmans questions right after thus spoke rohan kishibe (which i forgot to mention is technically a prequel- i shouldve said that.. u watch it after tho cuz its only rlly fun if youve watched rohan throughout part 4 already) i think- (so between 4 and 5 as you said) i cant really... tell you without sorta ruining it so u just have to wait and see. i can say its like.. not the same person he was when she was alive (im messin up their prns on purpose. for extra concealing) and theyre kinda like trying to become happy by doing.. assasinations.. :grin:

my one piece of character death-related advice is to not expect their return in this series. like once theyre dead theyre dead basically would advise to not forward aswell- going backwards fine :grin:

yes ive watched the first naruto it didnt end on a bad note or anything, and i started shippuden and he was suddenly like fucking 16 so i put it on the backburner (for whats been... 4 years now.. i dont think ill get to it ever honestly naruto was fire though. when he would transform into that.. posessed fox form i ALWAYS had to rewind and watch the scene again. idk if its top 3 anime :grimacing: like people say but its not a bad show either (i watched it instead of reading it cuz it was Free) for characters i LOVED naruto. ofc i did hes the mc but like hes such a cool kid honestly. the kinda kid everyones friends with in primary school (apart from in show). the entire main gang was great but naruto and kakashi were my top 2 .. and gaara now that i remember him i liked him more than naruto when i watched it tbh-- he was just so angry and emo and fine ive matured past the age of calling fictional characters attractive but when i was 11 i was in love with him honestly heavily disliked sasuke. which is ironic cuz i hated him for the reason i loved gaara he was so angry and emo all the time-- but he hurt naruto with his edginess (technically gaara did too but i excuse it.) also he was just being a bit of a asshole. like anime rival esque asshole but an asshole nontheless this is getting long so i'll get to the show itself honestly. because its been so long i cant remember what i really disliked the stuff that i can remember are just dumb stuff that all older animes do i guess all the "sexy-jutsu" stuff were kinda off-putting plus jiraiya as a whole. i loved him but damn he was WEIRD i had to google what the sannin were cuz i genuinely forgot-- but i think theyre cool jiraiya is a bit icky, the blonde one (forgot her name) was pretty funny- i liked her dynamic with sakura and orochimaru i think his name was; was so cool. his entire look influenced who i am today i owe it all to him /hj

death 13 is both the episode name and the ability name of the person in that episode and- id wholeheartedly recommend subbed for jjba a LOT of the jokes only work cuz its japanese, aswell as the emotions in scenes personally i dont like dubs since i find that its usually more "colorful" in its original form (for that reason i generally cannot watch korean dubs of animes.. they just throw me off ever-so-slightly

jonathan looks better in the anime than the manga to me, but this is mainly because i dont really like anime characters with muscles as big as. uh.

the hercules-corona borealis great wall :grin: and in the anime they werent as ginourmous its a REALLY good thing arakis art style did not stay the same for the entire series honestly picturing the later characters drawn the way the first parts were drawn is honestly whiplash-inducing

(NOT AN OFFICIAL DESIGN. PART 5 CHARACTER IN PART 1 STYLE)

you really cant compare the jojo artstyle with sxf (probably because of all the muscles + how "harsh" jojo's shading is, and the personality in both styles)

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this is the best thing i could find ^ and honestly it looks cool as hell- the artist is really talented but with the art style i just cant envision it would be as lighthearted as sxf is it carries its own vibe to it

if youve already heard that eren dies it wont pack as hard of a punch (the punch being that THE main character died) but it will still tug on your heartstrings, if you dont know the specifics. i wont say its for mikasa, but more for everyone really eren. is honestly a result of knowing too much thats what i love about aot really.. theres no bad guys other than the big man eating monsters, but even those monsters arent truly bad everyones doing what they have to do, and thats most evident in eren once you sit down and absorb the lore its gutwrenching for remembering what i watched... i honestly have no way of tracking it. theres been a good few times i watched a show, and then realized id finished it already i probably shouldve done that, but theres no point to it now so i just use memory (which honestly shows if a show is good or not-- theres a lot of shows i immediately think of despite having watched them 3 years ago/ ex: death note, erased, jjba, and school live) (and yes thats the correct way to use the way tangents)

thats whats great about csm its not just ur average battle shounen, and its battling is second to its characters whenever i see debates abut goku vs naruto and such its just like the main thing anyone got from the series was the fights (which is fully valid) but like.. there usually isnt much character depth this is usually combatted by making the characters one character trait- something that csm flips over idk what im on about. its 11 pm and i havent slept in 2 days im so sorry if this comes off weirdly written

csm was a really short read and im so happy about that since as you said, fujimoto did what he wanted, finished, and was satisfied with it hes also working on csm part 2- which is not from denjis pov it has a whole different protagonist ive heard, and takes place somewhere else i wont be reading it, since i dont want to start anything i cant finish, but i do push you to once youve finished jojo/killer in love/ other things you feel like reading

it is really nice that yor/loidś work influenced the way they parent (esp with how yor tried to teach anya to defend herself from bullies) franky was a fun character- i liked his disguises he got from loid

bnd is cute i dont really have anything to say about him.. the whole looking into the future thing is cool though my favorite chapter has to be the one where loid is convinced yor is upset with him so he takes her to a bunch of different places.. but she was just in pain after a mission bad explanation but you get the memo i hope

i wouldnt say ALL scenes are the exact same quality as everything ive been showing, but everything is generally *really* pretty

^that was a generally regular scene, so thats just how the art is as a default its really beautiful (also that guy with white hair is the arata i mentioned-- he isnt bad in comparison to all the other ¨bad" characters.. hes just sorta a prick)

i honestly,,,.... shouldnt have said hoodie guy isnt as bad hes really bad but morally speaking white hair guy is even worse so he isnt as bad, but he isnt tame either, esp later on all your points are getting across just fine btw :grin:

i havent read kichijuma before, but i searched it up and it honestly looks really cool like really cool it has 24 volumes from what i read though so i dont think ill check it out

of the three you mentioned, i dont like jumpscare horror its just lazy same with gore horror if thats all there is to it i dont really enjoy horror mangas/animes much in general minus a select few, but for games im all for them (chillaś art's stuff is great) people i think don't like psychological horror because its more of a thing that gets to you (?) in contrast to with jumpscares or something, that it hits you and youre scared and thats sorta that you dont really shriek in fear over psychological horror, which is what some people look for in horror (yes uzumaki is the swirly one) oyasumi punpun,... is... about punpun and him traversing life (him and his family are drawn as birds. everyone else is drawn normally. he is human) i would usher you to check it out yourself :thumbsup:

also- i started dororo, but i never finished it i probably should tonight since i cant sleep ill tell you how i feel about it if i get to it (no promises though)

i get the one piece demographic is manga loving teenage boys but i guess its just dissapointing that he just... chooses not to put effort into his female characters

im so sorry :sob: i saw it on twitter afterwards and i immediately remembered what id said before it was the best example ever (and have fun with killer in love tell me all about how you felt about it :pray: )

i dont rlly mind any variation whatever u feel like

last but not least when i heard the outro music it took like 3 seconds for me to realize what it was afterwards my world was just flipped by its head (the typos are fien i made evern mroe) (and sorry this took me a minute i kept responding then drafting it then editing then drafting it again)

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 - Volume 1

I'm doing things slightly out of order here, but I'd like to get to all the side stuff that came out prior to Tamers before I move on from Adventure. This is the first Digimon manga that came out (aside from C'mon Digimon which is contained within this release) so it'll be interesting to see those humble beginnings.

Ch.1

-So I guess this is some alternate universe version of season 1? (Or maybe like a beta version?) The plot feels a little similar to Digimon World where digimon are a battling v-pet IRL and the main character gets sucked into the digital world solo.

-In this version of the story, Taichi has a V-dramon. Unclear so far what level digivolution a V-dramon is or if it's related to Veemon. Zeromaru is a dumb name...

-Goggles AND a cape? That's a bit much Taichi...

-I like how doofy Gabumon looks in this. The digimon are way more cartoony and expressive so far.

-Full color and actual, red blood!? This manga looks fabulous on my tablet <3

Ch. 2

-More Digimon World vibes. The Holy Angel Castle looks a lot like the ice castle that you can only enter if you have a vaccine digimon in the PSX game...

-There's a "should digimon have human partners?" element here that we haven't really seen in the show yet. I feel like this question is inevitable for most mon series.

Ch. 3

-Okay, I'll admit, I didn't see the pun in "Zeromaru" (maru is another way to say zero) until this chapter. I hate the name slightly less now.

-A Tonosama Gekomon and a HolyAngemon are a pretty bizarre combo lol

-I really love the art style in this actually. Chibi-mode Taichi was adorable in this chapter and the colors are really nice as well. I wish we got more full-color manga releases like this one!

-So Demon is gonna be the big bad in this? That's kinda nice actually cuz he got majorly short shrifted in 02. Seems like his design is completely different here. Kinda looks like Ogremon...

Ch. 4

-I kinda like how the wild digimon get names in this. Since every digimon from the same species seems to be pretty much identical, giving them names allows me to become more attached to them.

-Only just realized that I don't really know why Etemon is called Etemon. I tried googling it and the Digimon wiki's explanation didn't really help...

-Pretty wild that Gabo said "God is gone" lol. Also, Digi-world creation myth confirmed.

-The manga's McGuffin was introduced: V-tags. I'm guessing the "V" is for "Virtual," but if you're going to call everything "digi" that seems to go against the branding a bit...

Ch. 5

-Okay Gabo's incessant "You guys need to act more concerned!!" gag is getting really annoying. He says it like every 3 pages!

-I had no memory of Deltamon so I thought he was new, but I guess he appeared in an 02 episode? He's really ugly. Also, how many samey dino digimon designs do we need!?

Ch. 6

-These chapters are super short and since a lot of them are battles, they take like 2 minutes to read. Perfect for young kids I guess!

-That triceratops with pecs was pretty cursed.

Ch. 7

-When the digimon are hurt their skin cracks like they're made of plastic or something. Kind of a weird choice...

-Another thing that differs between the manga and anime is that we see Taichi perform first-aid care after fights. The anime doesn't really show a lot of wounds in the first place and usually the digimon just rest to heal.

Ch. 8

-I was surprised to see MarineDevimon who doesn't appear in the anime until 02. I wish I knew more about which chapters of this came out when because it apparently came out over the course of 5 years (1998-2003) -- Edit: this info is thankfully on the wiki

-In this chapter Gomamon says that Triceramon being a data-type means he's a "good" digimon. In the anime they said that even virus-types can be good. So maybe that's more of a prejudice than a fact? (Or it's just different in the manga).

-Gomamon is so baby in this!

Ch. 9

-This manga reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh! season 0 where everything is just slightly off.

-The digimon are more blatantly programs and apparently if you go inside them it's just a neon void? Also, I guess the 01 in the manga's title is a reference to binary.

-Let's see how much random stuff the digivice can do in the manga. So far it allows you to scan digimon for their HP and to communicate telepathically.

Ch. 10

-Already 2 out of 5 tags collected which means that this tag collecting thing is probably just one out of many arcs.

-For some reason the official release goes up to chapter 10 for volume 1 but the fan scans go beyond that? I'm going to stick to the official release because 10 is a nice clean end point.

This manga seems pretty typical for a game/anime-tie in for young boys. The chapters are very easily digestible and nothing too deep happens. The magazine it was serialized in, V-Jump was also home to things like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest, so the demographic is pretty clear. I'm really enjoying the artwork mostly. I wish there were more character moments but the reoccurring cast is pretty dinky at the moment. Let's see where this goes!

[hoetao]

ok you ask so i Will Be Elaborating. i have notes, wikis open, you know. the shit. i could probably give citations to most of those claims, but some of them are just based on vibes. maybe headcanons. i am honestly unsure at this point.

let's start with the obvious: yes, in my brain Wriothesley is Phoenix Wright-coded, while Neuvillette is Miles Edgeworth-coded. let me explain that first.

their appearance seems to match; both pairs have this "polar opposites" thing that i'll be coming back to frequently, but you can see it first in their design. while narumitsu goes for the funky blue-magenta, wriolette is classy white&blue-black&red (i know they both have greys/blacks but it's about the Themes).

well, Wriothesley and Phoenix might have an opposing color scheme, but they're actually kinda similar. the artstyles wary wildly, but in my head their hairstyles have at least the same vibe. i honestly think if we put a hat and a tracksuit on Wriothesley he would look very similar to Phoenix in Apollo Justice. they are both very much dog-coded (Wriothesley is a fucking cerberus or a werewolf or whatever. Phoenix is a golden retriever. unless you count his Apollo Justice era. then maybe like an evil dingo or smth)

they were both connected to law somehow since they were children (as, respectively, a murderer/convict and... uhh a kid who was accused of stealing some money? but you know, the tonal difference has to be there, Wriothesley is much more of a tragic character since the beginning, but Phoenix gets some more fucked up lore later). they both had hard experiences that left them with trust issues that they both cope with through humor and general snark.

Apollo Justice era Phoenix reminds me the most of Wriothesley here: they are both seen as criminals even though their situations are quite nuanced. their morals are quite flexible and they both do things that aren't really "by the book" for the greater good or to satisfy their own morals, even if they prefer not to. both Wriothesley and Phoenix survived a lot of physical trauma and have good pain tolerance/endurance.

they are both seen as laid back, dependable, sarcastic and sometimes kind of goofy. they are both big softies at heart and like children a lot, neither of them runs away from a bit of kids' tomfoolery. sometimes they even seem/act a bit fatherly (Wriothesley mostly to Sigewinne/the fortress occupants at large; Phoenix towards his little family of misfits and Trucy, ofc). what connects them especially is the general guard-dog vibe they give off - i don't think they could stop it even if they tried, and that makes them especially fucked up.

Neuvillette and Edgeworth are both seen kind of like dignified older men (even when Edgeworth really isn't). they are always seen in elegant clothing and they both even wear a jabot!!! also they both have an old person hair color. Neuvillette's design is funkier, but Edgeworth also dabs in some aristocratic details (at least in his von Karma era).

they are both kind of old souls (more or less literally) - seen by others as serious, unfeeling and stately. they are both largely unfamiliar with the more emotional and empathetic parts of themselves, or rather they don't have a great understanding of them, even though they both clearly feel A Lot. they are generally seen as complex, aloof and awkward.

they are both mostly referred to by their last name (did you know that no one knows Neuvillette's first name?), they act distant and cold because of... reasons. they are both in clear positions of power in the court of law, and Neuvillette even investigated/prosecuted a few times.

but i think that their most important similarity is: they both have a silly little hobby! Edgeworth loves Steel Samurai, while Neuvillette enjoys water tasting - i think both of those make them seem more... like real people. humanizes them.

both relationships have this "polar opposites that need each other to work at all" theme; narumitsu, of course, as defense vs prosecution in court of law, meanwhile wriolette is more of judgement vs correction as two parts of a whole - after one person sentences, the other manages the prisoners, tries to rehabilitate and have them rejoin society... or whatever Wriothesley is cooking honestly.

it couldn't be said that they met in the same circumstances, but just as narumitsu, wriolette first met during the trial in which Wriothesley/Phoenix was accused. both pairs have deep personal relationships forged on trust. there's also that theme of fighting for each others reputation, though flipped (Neuvillette for Wriothesley's title as the duke/Phoenix for Miles' as the Demon Prosecutor)

(i think its also funny how the four characters kind of uhh. fit together? we have a defense attorney, a prosecutor, a judge and a prison warden - no doubles! all roles taken!)

im pretty sure i forgot something but ive been writing for quite some time so. feel free to add your thoughts!!

you know what. wriolette is a lot like narumitsu

i might elaborate perhaps ... but for now ... be it a secret

[kaimerra]

Kaimerra's Stardew Valley Modlist

Here is my looong list of mods for my current SDV playthrough. I have a whole bunch already but I will probably keep updating this list as I go on...

Also, I'll work on adding more screenshots of some of the mods as well, I just don't remember to take pictures as often when I'm playing lol

Most of these mods can be found on Nexus however some of them may have been abandoned by the original creators but have unofficial updates found elsewhere. I'll mark these mods with an asterisk (*).

Make sure to check the dependencies/requirements of the mods you are downloading as some of them need other mods to function. Nexus shows you which mods you should already have before downloading a certain mod.

Feel free to reach out and ask me any questions you have about the mods I've listed below or about modding SDV in general

Quality of Life Mods

UI Info Suite 2* - adds useful info to your UI and when you hover on things; super essential in my opinion

Lookup Anything - lessens your trips to the SDV wiki and lets you lookup info from within the game

NPC Map Locations - shows where all the NPCs are on your map

Convenient Chests* - lets you categorize chests and quick-stash items into them

Convenient Inventory - lets you put away things from your inventory into nearby chests; also lets you favorite items in your inventory

Faster Path Speed - makes you faster when you walk on paths

Better Artisan Good Icons - changes all of the artisan goods sprites (wine, juice, pickles, roe, etc.) to show what kind of vegetable or fruit they are made of

Tidy Crafting Menu - arranges the crafting menu to make more sense and also gives you the options to change some of the crafting recipes for better balancing

Skip Intro - skips right to the game menu screen so you don't have to wait (every second counts!)

Gameplay & Dialogue

Stardew Valley Expanded (SVE) - adds a bunch of new characters, storyline, and other gameplay elements to the game! Highly recommend it if you've finished a playthrough of SDV and want to play the game like it's new again

Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion - adds more NPC dialogue

Happy Birthday - adds your birthday to the calendar; villagers will give you gifts on your birthday

UI Recolors

Vintage Interface v2 - gives the UI a more muted palette; this is the darker version, but a lighter version also exists

Maps

Grandpa's Farm - the farm map I'm currently using; goes with SVE and has a bunch of neat new stuff

Oasis Greenhouse - changes the layout of the greenhouse to have more space and include a cellar and hot spring

Map Recolors

DaisyNiko's Earthy Recolor - gives the world a more muted color palette

Rustic Country Town Interiors - gives the interiors of buildings a warmer, cozier palette

Medieval Stardew Valley Retextures

by Gweniaczek

Way Back Pelican Town - changes the look of the buildings all over town including the Calico Desert

Medieval SDV Expanded - changes the look of the buildings added by Stardew Valley Expanded

Medieval Buildings - changes the look of the buildings on your farm (farmhouse, coops, barns, silos, slime hutch, etc.)

Gwen's Medieval Graftables - changes the look of all craftable items

Cottagecore Fences - prettier fences

Gwen's Paths - prettier paths

Farmer/Player Mods

Female Famer Overhaul - adds a bunch of new hairs, shirts, pants, and more to the character creation of your farmer

NPC Sprites & Portraits

by Poltergeister and others

Seasonal Outfits - gives NPCs various outfits to fit with the seasons and events

Seasonal Outfits for SVE - does the same ↑ but for SVE characters

Animal Retextures

by Elle - gives the different animals in the game a cuter look

Dog Replacements

Cat Replacements

New Horses

New Coop Animals

New Barn Animals

Town Animals

Other Retextures/Recolors

Stardew Foliage Redone (Foliage Only) - changes up the look of the trees, bushes, and other flora within the world

Gorgeous Weapons - changes up the look of the weapons

Replacements for Iridium Tools - changes the look of the iridium tools (only) to match with the Gorgeous Weapons mod

Modern Gothic Interior - (use the non-CF version) gives all the furniture in your own house as well as other villagers' houses a gothic vibe

Scarecrow and Rarecrow Recolors - gives your scarecrows a more limited and muted color palette

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

Hi <3

I'd love to know more about your versions of Mary Read and Ann Bonny if you don't mind. What are they like?

ZHENYA HIIIIII (or Jenya) <3<3<3

So to be clear, the most I did for research is looking at the Wikipedia's and running off with it from there, which I feel like Jenkins would be proud of me for

I'll put this under read more and see how long the basic outline is

History

Anne ran off to be a pirate with her prev husband James, she fell for Calico Jack and he tried to be like "its cool dude, here I'll give you money in exchange", so that's pretty much the same like in her wiki

But cause of this, she was apart of Ed and Jack's crew under Hornigold

Mary was on a merchant ship when Anne disguised herself to sneak aboard. They flirted hard throughout the night and it wasn't until the pirates got on board Anne's like "oh yeah I was supposed to find their supplies. Go on this dinghy and you can probably escape"

But Mary said "fuck that I'm already seduced by the pirate life" and pulled a gun on the merchant captain. Anne tried to convince Hornigold to let her join crew, he's like "sure I don't care you just shot the captain so that was pretty badass"

Throuple with them and Jack but like, it's clear Jack doesn't fit the vibe, you know?

Both stayed on board when Ed became Captain but left with Jack wanted to go off

Stayed with him until his last mutiny where they just kicked him off themselves and manned the ship they had as a two-person crew

Now let's talk about Anne first - who I nicknamed Bonbon cause I loved the idea of taking real life pirates and naming them things like Izzy

She has about twenty or so braincells, most of them are fucking insane except for one which is dedicated to loving her wife

Like seriously, she worships everything she does and treats her like a goddess, Gomez vibes off the charts

Wears a Royal Navy outfit she stole from a guy

When Frenchie told her about his superstitions including women being curses on ships she 100% believed them

She one time tried to open a bottle to drink and just shattered the top off using a table - she picked off any loose glass pieces and drank it, trying to have it not touch her lips yet still trying to get all the drops

But this sometimes dumbassery and naivity makes up for her being forgiving and loyal and perfectly willing and hoping to kill in the most violent ways she can cause she loves it

Favorite hobbies include fashion and embroidery cause who the fuck cares if she's trying to be Not Like Other Girls when she can make a realistic volcano erupt on her wife's jacket?

Mary, who's probably my most favorite at the moment

Grew up poor, pretended to be her now dead brother Mark by mom in order to get Grandma's wealth

This caused some resentment to mom as while she kept trying to get them rich, she reminded her how this isn't something she deserves naturally

If you think this has strong Stede vibes, well it is

Born Deaf, so had to pretend to hear and verbally talk

Secretly learned sign from an elderly neighbor who lost her hearing

She grew up, joined the army, got married, he died, same things from wiki

Was on merchant ship when Anne came on, she picked up almost immediately her deafness and knew some signs (maybe from grandmother i decided) in order to have a convo

Hide and watched as pirate crew raided ship, knew she wanted to leave this cushiony life she had and yearned for true freedom from society, so she helped them and joined crew

Slowly started speaking less verbally and more with sign

Is an extreme sharpshooter, uses pistols as primary weapons and extremely fast with her hands so she can reload on in about six to seven seconds flat

Speaks usually eloquently and proper but sometimes sprinkles in "shitballs" and "piss stain" when pissed at someone

Can be seen as the more smart and rational one of her and Bonbon, but some highlights include:

Just, not understanding time. Leave her by herself for eight hours and she'll think a month's gone by

Very bad at decision making so will just shoot first ask questions later

Extremely competitive and a sore loser

Random things about them

If it's not obvious already, they are parallels to Stede and Ed, with Bonbon as Ed and Mary as Stede, just they actually communicate with each other XD. But I wanted them to have a mixed bag of their hobbies and personalities since I wanted them as their own characters

Bonbon will give anyone and everyone a nickname (Steeb, Teacher, Spriggy, etc.), Mary refers to everyone by their formal name (Edward, Isreal, Anne, etc.)

Mary wears her first husband's and Bonbon's wedding rings

Bonbon treats Mary so highly cause she knows how hard her life was and how she felt like she never deserved good things

Bonbon's nickname isn't actually for Bonny - its for Bonfire, a pirate name she's been trying to gain recognition for since she thinks Blackbeard is such a basic and stupid pirate name but got so well-known

Bonbon's nickname for Mary is Alyssum, a flower which has a beautiful meaning which I'll let you look up ;)

[dannyphantom-rewrite]

Character ref for; Jack, Maddie and Jazz,

Art by @gally-hin / @gally-hin-phantom

Okay so first off; in terms of Actual redesign, I didn't change a whole lot. I'm actually very fond of Jack and Maddie's design's, my only real issue was with their proportions. Like...look as a lady person who is also thiCC I do not have a fucking wasp thin waist and I'm sure I'm not the only one, lmao. As for Jack? Godamnit he looked like a brick on toothpicks. Just Let him be a fucking Bara man! Anyway of course I asked Gally to do this one bc they're fucking great at drawing different body types

I also cannot and will not take credit for Jazz's outfit. I didn't have any issue with her canon clothes aside from them being a bit plain, so what she's wearing here was literally pulled straight off of her original concept art, which I will link here.

Anyway, getting to the Actual character lore now, let's start with

Maddie Fenton

-Full name is Madeline (I haven't decided on a maiden name yet)

-Born and raised on a farm in Arkansas, had a southern accent that she trained herself out of in college bc it was just one more reason for people not to take her seriously. Still sometimes uses "y'all" completely unironically bc old habits die hard.

-She has a really big family, and they're proud of her accomplishments but feel like she's wasting her talent studying ghosts, because really, up until the Fenton portal was up and running there wasn't even any solid proof they existed. Her sister Alicia is the one outlier there, and even if she doesn't understand, it she completely supports her.

-She majored in engineering and minored in psychology at Wisconsin EDU. Her, Jack and Vlad were all in the same engineering class, and that's where they met.

-Maddie is particularly interested in how ghosts think, analysing their behavior, their motives. Not only that, but they aren't just dead people with unfinished business, they've built an entire culture in the Ghost Zone that is completely seperate from humanity, and she wants to understand all of it.

-skilled marksman and 9th degree black belt, (which is. The highest fucking level there is holy shit? I looked it up after I saw it on her wiki page.)

Jack Fenton

-He's from Minnesota (Amity park is in Illinois and him and Maddie didn't move there until after they got married) 

-okay, "but why minnesota specifically" you ask? Because. I crave. Foot ball discourse. 

-minnesota vikings vs green bay packers guys do you UNDERSTAND WHERE IM GOING WITH THIS 

-The funny thing is that Jack only watches football casually while Vlad is a fucking die hard so when these two got together to see a game it was like....

-Jack: Here to chill and have a good time.

-Vlad: Primed and ready to start a fist fight at any given moment.

-I am never not going to be salty about how Canon Jack was portrayed like a complete moron 99% percent of the time. Like no...theres a difference between Actual Stupid and ADHD induced dumbass-ery.

-Am I saying Jack Fenton has ADHD? Yes. why? Because I also have ADHD and I have always vibed So Hard with his Character.

-Jack is loud and easily excited about things that interest him. He's impulsive and fidgety and yeah, a bit absent minded. He has a mouth that clearly runs so much faster than his head. His train of thought doesn't get derailed so much as it stops and takes several different detours on the way to it's final destination.

-and that's only the tip of the iceberg, really, I'd need an entire essay to get into this completely, but I just really relate.

-Jacks skill-set / interests regarding ghosts vary a bit from Maddie's, most notably in the sense that he doesn't believe that they're static entities already set in their ways, completely incapable of change.

-Jack majored in engineering and minored in Biology at Wisconsin EDU.

-Jack's work with tech is a bit hit or miss. He definitely HAS the engineering skills, but the intrest isn't always there and he's constantly jumping back and forth between different projects. He tends to focus on the concept work and schematics and leave most of the assembly to Maddie as a result. It's an arrangement that works well for them, and has drastically decreased the number of unintentional explosions in the lab.

-A lot of Jack's work tends to revolve around ghostly biology and Ectoplasm, figuring out how ghosts are made, what makes them tick, what the hell Ectoplasm Actually Is, how it's used as an energy source, ect.

-and yes, that does also mean he handles the dissections.

-See that facial scar? Yeah, that's not actually there at the start of the series rewrite but it's very important for plot reasons so I had to include it. Can't say much more on the subject because SPOILERs owo.

Jasmine Fenton

-Jazz is a 18 years old, and a senior at Casper high.

-Which means she prepping to go away to college and won't be around to keep an eye on Danny.

-Obviously that doesn't mean I'm just writing her out of the story, oh no. Know why? Because she's also gonna go to Wisconsin EDU. ya know who else is in Wisconsin? Fuckin' Vlad.

-Jazz is autistic, Although she passes for neurotypical in part due to symptoms being completely over looked in girls due to gender stereotyping and also the fact that she doesn't have any special interests that are considered " "too weird.""

- Her hyperfixation with psychology started at a young age in an effort to better understand people, and social/emotional cues and all that.

-Jazz is well liked at school but she's not popular or apart of any specific group or clique. She's very kind and compassionate to people, and just about everyone knows her, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone who actually Considered her a friend. Except maybe Spike.

-I'm gonna have to give spike his own Character ref at some point, but he's this scary looking goth kid that's been held back twice. He's actually super sweet, just really fuckin' quiet and anxious. Him and jazz kinda ended up gravitating towards each other. She might do most of the talking, but they look out for each other.

-its not like jazz doesn't try to socialize, but it's difficult and she's found it much easier and less stressful to just. Keep to herself and let her interactions with her peers stay shallow and superficial. Sure, it's lonely sometimes but it's better than constantly worrying about saying the wrong thing or making some other misstep.

-One of Jazz's other special interests is football, and it's not so much the players or the game as it is the strategy of it? Started out as one of those things you do to bond with your dad, and she ended up getting really into it.

-She absolutley winds up getting into stupidly intense discussions with Vlad about it, too, lmao.

-Her and Danny probably bonded over SBNation bc that shit has both sentient satellites and ridiculously complex football mechanics.

-She's completely oblivious to the fact, but Dash has a massive crush on her bc holy shit this girl understands football (hey bud your toxic masculinity is showing put that shit away)

-I mentioned that Danny was in Cheer for a bit in middle school so it makes sense that she'd also be pushed into doing some kind of extracurricular activity.....so.....she was in a martial arts class for a bit thanks to Maddie and has a good grasp on self defense.

I think that's everything? I feel like I'm leaving things out tho? Idk if I did I'll come back and add on to this later and also pls don't hesitate to ask questions bc it really helps me flesh things out better.

[randomshipperhere]

Ensemble Stars: First Impressions

I've heard of Ensemble Stars back in 2017 when people were talking about it being adapted into an anime. Never thought about it that much and now here we are in 2019 with me recently having watched the first episode of the anime and being confused as heck.

Having binge watched about 5 anime series with a huge cast of characters prior to this, I really got lost and almost immediately forgot the characters and their names because I am keeping up with so much. That's one thing that I didn't like about the first episode. They shove you all these characters, say their names and kind of expect you to know them. I do like the introduction to the plot though, even I, someone who has not played the game, knows the gist of what's going on. Anzu is a transferee who wants to be a producer but the school is sort of an all males academy with a ranking system for all the guys in the idols course and the males she meet want a revolution. Got it.

Time for the characters! (The actual reason why I made this post)

Anzu

The MC, obviously, I love her already. Considering the summary for the anime, she's supposed to be the player right? I really like her name because it's unique and I can easily remember it because I can associate it with the word "answer". Congrats! We have recruited another girl in the "long(?) brown haired MC" club. She doesn't seem to be the clumsy type (so far) and more of a go with the flow type of character. Maybe she's just like that because she's in a new environment. Poor girl got fucked by Koga.

Subaru Akehoshi

I remembered him as the Kira Kira guy. He really likes money and shiny things huh? We just can't have an anime without one of its main characters being a really hyper guy. He's so cheerful and bouncy but can be annoying. At least its the tolerable kind of annoying.

Hokuto Hidaka

The cool type who is supposedly the mature one in the group. He has ambitions and is really helpful to Anzu even with his weird bargain thing. I like him and I would gladly see his character get more screen time and development.

Makoto Yuuki

It's so much easier to remember a name when you know another character you like with the same one. He's really nerdy and shy so he has a cute factor to his character.

Mao Isara

Didn't even know his name until I looked up in the wiki. Seems like a responsible student. He gives off a second in command sort of vibe to me.

Tetora Nagumo

Can't say much but he seems spirited. I like his hair.

Kuro Kiryu

He seems like a pretty cool senior. Probably a tsundere who would pat the MC on the head and say good job while looking away. He just seems like the type.

Koga Oogami

He is probably the asshole character you inevitably end up liking. I am keeping my hopes up for this guy! but... I want to punch him for landing on Anzu.

Tori Himemiya

Problematic child that I immediately fell in love with. Unless someone can compete with this sadistic baby that I have now adopted, I don't think I'll have another favorite character. His character really left a strong impression the second he got on screen for me. His really bright pink hair (that is very much like Yuno Gasai's) caught my eye and then when he began talking to the B1 ranked students like they were scums of the earth and enjoying their disobedience just made a switch inside my head go off. I love him, okay?!

Keito Hasumi

Seems to be a strict character.