#Limbus Company Starbuck

[i-love-apocalypse-bird]

My biggest flex is that I beat the pequod trio 1st try

Also yes I finished canto 5 and good god yes i adore Ishmael alot more

[illiaccrest]

Limbus: The many faces of Yi Sang

+ Dante

[masochnik]

RW X LCB CROSSOVER

[unma]

Starbuck is incredibly funny because he either gets lobotomized within the first 2 turns or hits you with a "not gonna sugarcoat it" and relentless stabbing's an id of yours to death out of nowhere.

[binah-beloved]

Queequeg teaching you how to tie knots with Starbuck... I want the buff harpooner to be autistic about rope at me...

me too.

you don't even have to ask, she's the one who sees you puzzling over the ropes and pulls you to the side. within a blink she hands you a small length of new rope and sits next to you, close enough to hug. her deep, calm voice carefully instructs you on how to tie better knots, simplistic, then complex, a very subtle smile twitching on her lips whenever you succeed. you don't need to learn so many, but you want to. you want to stay, listening to her talk more than you've ever heard, the tension in your shoulders gradually leeching away

Starbuck joins you at some point, and you barely notice. not the way you usually do, nervously and with the strain of interacting. everything is comfortable, somehow, paying attention to Queequeg's voice so you're not overwhelmed. at some point her hands come to guide yours, and you have to resist the urge to stare at the vivid, beautiful tattoos and scars that dot her knuckles, beautiful because they're her. she holds your fingers so delicately, helping you tie a Desperate's Knot for the first time

and for a moment she simply grasps your hands, the finished knot in your palms as she watches you, here and existing with her.

[offshore-brinicle]

Feeling a lot of things realizing Yi Sang was assigned as Starbuck because both just want to be kind to everyone and help others and it's Yi Sang's happiest ID even compared to his original self because it's the only ID where he can actually protect others both physically and emotionally and have people he can share life with

[projectmoon-smash-or-pass]

propaganda:

❌(image below)

❌ "i WOULD smash starbuck but his fucked up arms make it a no. sorry starbuck. maybe if your sprites didnt look so weird"

✅ "Smash for Starbuck just because his name is Starbuck. It would be funny as fuck to brag about fucking Starbuck"

❓ "Starbuck has that one Roblox face"

✅ "Get the image of his hair down he’s way hotter with his hair down I’d fuck the shit outta em with his hair down"

[cluescorner]

Thoughts on Canto V

Spoilers ahead. Also, disclaimer that I did not play it but instead watched it because I really like the story but I don't play the game anymore. I do not think playing it through would have impacted my experience, but do keep that fact in mind and let me know if you think my feelings would change if I had played it.

OH MY FUCKING GOD I REALLY LIKED IT! The characters were solid (though there are some problems), the theme of hoping for the future and allowing yourself to discover it for yourself rather than holding onto the past, and there were some incredible fucking moments.

Firstly, Ishmael. She was pretty stellar throughout. Watching her slowly degrade into becoming a mirror of the very woman she sought to destroy was heartbreaking, I felt like she actually had a real arc this canto that helped her become a less burdened person, and some of her deepening bonds with the other sinners were awesome. I particularly liked watching her interactions with Outis because Moby Dick and the Odyssey/Illiad are the two literary works from Limbus that I know well, and based on that info it makes sense that they would both understand and annoy each other. The moments with Heathcliff were also incredible because they've always had a really cool dynamic. Ishmael's relationships with her crew were also interesting and I feel like that could have easily been the best part of this cant, but ultimately that didn't end up happening (more on that later). I felt like the sudden character development 'Oh the other characters are my friends and they are my compass' thing was a BIG JUMP especially for Ishmael, but it's not a bad idea. I think it just needed more time in the oven, let Ishmael interact with the other sinners inside the dungeon and have her work together with them to get through things. Fortunately, Ishmael's VA + the Mili song really carried that ending so I still wound up getting caught up in the moment regardless. Speaking of Ishmael's VA...HOLY SHIT WHATEVER THEY ARE GETTING PAID IT WAS NOT ENOUGH!! Singlehandedly made me like this Canto so much more than I otherwise would have. An incredible performance all around, stand out moments include but are not limited to: Her ranting at the pirates about them not knowing what shame is, the euphoric hatred in her voice as she fantasizes about finding and killing Ahab, the grief as she discusses Queequeg and the hope as she sees Queequeg again, and OF COURSE WHEN SHE GOES AHAB MODE! Bravo Jang Ye-na, you carried this Canto through its weaker moments and helped the best ones become my favorite moments in this game.

Next, Ahab. I liked her a lot, fucking awful captain woman who reminds me of my old pastors. GOOD JOB MAKING THIS A FUCKING HORROR GAME THIS BITCH SCARES ME! I wish we could have seen more of her (and maybe we will in the future) because what we got was incredible. I was expecting a shitty boss but instead got another fucking cult leader. Her design is also a solid mirror to Ishmael's, further emphasizing the point that they are becoming more alike as this stuff goes on AND making the moment where Ishmael breaks the cycle of hatred more impactful. She is an incredible mirror of what happens where you allow hatred to consume you entirely, and the VA really reflects that. The only complaint I kinda have is that she probably should have been a lot more morally grey than she was. I feel like we just kinda got Kromer version 2 in terms of the role she played in the story and in Ishmael's life, granted that might change in the future so I will be very happy to be wrong if that's the case. But after Dongrang, I was expecting something a little more sympathetic or at least nuanced than 'evil cult leader captain lady hates that fucking whale and will kill her crew and makes that abundantly clear'. Again, I do like what we got so I can't complain too much but still.

I LOVE THAT BIG FUCKING WHALE! SCARY FUCKING BIG WHALE COMETH! ELDRITCH WHALE!

The Indigo Elder is so fucking cool. I wish he were here for more than 3 minutes and actually had something to do. They really introduced a man by having him tear the arm off the guy who we were struggling to survive against, said he was a Color and that he killed another Calamity, teased this really cool plan, and then...he's just waiting outside presumably 1v1-ing the whale but we get to neither see nor hear about it at all. I hope he comes back and we can see him do cool shit, because we had an incredible set-up with mediocre pay-off.

Ishmael's crew...I loved them so much I wish they were in the Canto for more than 1 level. They should have been introduced MUCH EARLIER in order to have their deaths have more of an impact. We should have been in the whale for longer, even if it meant shortening other parts of the chapter, just for the crew. Because those are Ishmael's ties and these are the people who Ahab's hatred is robbing the world of. What we did get of them was very strong, but Starbuck and Pip got nothing in terms of character moment and time. Queequeg got a little bit more (by the way I love that Queequeg actually looked like the design team at least LOOKED at a Polynesian person, I'm so jaded from other gacha games that I'm thrilled somebody actually looks like they're from the culture they're inspired from. She looks like a buffer, female version of one of my Polynesian neighbors it's great.) and it made her feel a lot more developed. She was a solid adaptation of Queequeg and her relationship with Ishmael was so sweet. The moments we got of them together were some of the highlights and it made me really want them to manage to escape together. Of course that was never gonna happen, but still. I also don't like how we don't even see Queequeg and Starbuck die. Are we supposed to assume Ahab killed them to manifest the ego? Did we kill them? I see some criticism around the fact that they stood by Ahab's side at the end and wondering why they did that. And I get that criticism because it is weird, but also that's just kinda what cult leaders can do especially when they're the only reason you've been alive for however long + you're slowly being overtaken by BAD WHALE JUICE. I 100% buy that they chose to follow the Captain because the Captain is always right and even when She does horrible things Her understanding is elevated above ours. And if Her fight is our fight, then surely it is ok for us to die here.

I feel like this is also a criticism that only I care about but why is the story suddenly like 'oh revenge is bad don't do revenge'? Like, I get it revenge is bad and that was kinda the point of Moby Dick. BUT WE HAVE LITERALLY DONE SO MUCH REVENGE AND REVENGE WAS KINDA SINCLAIR'S WHOLE THING AND IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE HEATHCLIFF'S! Why is revenge suddenly bad and 'oh no it makes you just like the other person' no it does not Sinclair did not suddenly become genocidal because he kept trying to murder Kromer. Is revenge only bad when it's successful? IDK, I just hate narrative inconsistency and this immediately jumped out at me.

Overall, I really liked this Canto! I have my problems with it, but they are relatively minor compared to all it does well.

[thecatkennel]

the crew of the pequod, lovingly catified. a younger version of ishmael is here too to show how not-fluffy she was in the past.

bonus pallidified versions. i would've redrawn faces or, at the very least, made ahab's peg leg the harpoon leg it becomes later, but i was very tired when i finished these.

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

what the tags to my posts have taught me is that the wurthering heights stans are eating devouring enjoying while im locked in Moby Dick Jail with the ahab starbuck emotionally draining yuri that lives only in my mind-

[daily-limbus-feet]

[gacha-incels]

after over a month it’s easy for some to forget the extreme misogyny that is at the heart of the PM/Limbus Company wrongful termination. I’ve seen people refer to it as a vague legal battle, twitter users overreacting, just protesters that “hate project moon” or simply that Vellmori “was fired”. This entire situation happened because Korean men on DCinside thought putting a run of the mill fashion choker on Sinclair and having Ishmael in a skin-tight diving suit meant there was a feminist working for Project Moon. In a logic jump that would make even Alex Jones blush, they said Sinclair’s choker obviously meant the artist sees men as slaves. Frequently in South Korea men like this often go on “feminist hunts” where they will try and get women fired and ruin their lives for expressing even the most basic support for women’s rights. When they found out a male artist drew the Sinclair and Ishmael IDs, they specifically stopped going after him because he is male. Instead, they found out there was a female artist working for Limbus Company, Vellmori, and subsequently tried to ruin her. In their digging they found deleted tweets of hers which, again, showed support for basic women’s rights and condemned sex trafficking and molka. Then, in an act of q-anon tier paranoia, these men went through the Limbus Company CGs and found what they thought was hands drawn specifically to do the 🤏 emoji(korean incels go through their own personal 9/11 every time they see this image. I think they tried to cancel Starbucks over it once? ironically, I saw the latest summer male costume in FGO has the character always posing with pinched fingers. I guess the incels can let this one slide because that gacha is overflowing with scantily clad women who want to fuck you and a very concerning number of little girls in microbikinis?). They wanted Vellmori fired because of these years-old deleted tweets and illustrations of hands. They did this because they hate women. Vellmori was targeted because she is a woman. These men are misogynists who are part of a hate group.

Now, instead of telling these guys to stop bothering PM employees or the law will become involved (something they have literally done when their restaurant’s staff was getting harassed), Project Moon’s CEO quickly wrote a post acquiescing to these men’s complaints including the “ideological” posts by Vellmori, who he said was let go because of this. The reason why so many female fans have dropped the game and deleted entire accounts of fanart is because we saw Vellmori get fired immediately after the misogynistic witch hunt against her. She was fired for saying abortion should be legal, she was fired for condemning the rampant hidden cameras put in women’s public toilets and changing rooms, she was fired for condemning the Nth room case. In accordance to her contract, these years old tweets had even been deleted. She was fired because delusional men thought they saw pinched fingers in her art and wanted her to suffer for it.

If you are on the fence about the boycott spearheaded by Korean fans, you need to ask yourself if accepting this rampant misogyny is worth playing a glorified casino game over. No matter how “generous” you see Limbus Company, it’s a gacha game like any other. If they wanted a “live service” game, they would have made one. If they wanted to simply tell a story, there wouldn’t be a .png casino tab with an option to pay up to $70 multiple times to gamble with, nor incentives to log in daily. They made a gacha game because this style of game makes the most money.

[schizoidcel]

## WHAT/WHO I WRITE FOR ☆★

bolded characters will be prioritized! unless a request that dosen't involve the bolded characters/involves only some of the bolded characters have a more interesting like. theme? topic? like yall get me right

italic characters i'll only write platonically for:3

🖤 𐐪𐐩 : TADC !! . . (ON HOLD)

pomni ♡ ragatha ♡ jax ♡ gangle ♡ zooble ♡ kinger ♡ caine

🤍 𐐪𐐩 : LOBOTOMY CORPORATION !! . .

ayin ♡ benjamin ♡ carmen ♡ elijah ♡ gabriel ♡ michelle ♡ giovanni ♡ lisa ♡ enoch ♡ kali ♡ daniel ♡ garion

angela ♡ malkuth ♡ yesod ♡ hod ♡ netzach ♡ tiphereth a ♡ tiphereth b ♡ gebura ♡ chesed ♡ binah ♡ hokma

🖤 𐐪𐐩 : LIBRARY OF RUINA !! . .

angela ♡ roland ♡ malkuth ♡ yesod ♡ hod ♡ netzach ♡ tiphereth ♡ gebura ♡ chesed ♡ binah ♡ hokma

katriel ♡ olga ♡ yan ♡ liwei ♡ stephan ♡ tamaki ♡ argalia ♡ tanya ♡ elena ♡ lowell ♡ cecil ♡ mei ♡ xiao ♡ martina ♡ chun ♡ myo ♡ moirai ♡ iori ♡ dong-hwan ♡ angelica ♡ mirinae ♡ zena

🤍 𐐪𐐩 : LIMBUS COMPANY !! . .

yi sang ♡ faust ♡ don quixote ♡ ryoshu ♡ meursault ♡ hong lu ♡ heathcliff ♡ ishmael ♡ rodion ♡ dante ♡ sinclair ♡ outis ♡ gregor

vergilius ♡ charon ♡ yuri ♡ aya ♡ jia huan ♡ effie ♡ saude ♡ sonya ♡ kromer ♡ demian ♡ samjo ♡ dongrang ♡ shrenne ♡ ran ♡ dongbaek ♡ alfonso ♡ smee ♡ pilot ♡ ricardo ♡ ahab ♡ queequeg ♡ starbuck ♡ caiman ♡ aeng-du ♡ catherine ♡ nelly ♡ hindley

︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶༉‧₊˚.

ׂૢ་༘࿐ i'm so insane for the lcb characters jesus . Ⳋ᧙

[offshore-brinicle]

So like with the whole meme of dead NPCs getting associated with food would Queequeg, Starbuck and Pip be sushi

[limbuscompany-culture-is]

Limbus Company culture is knowing for sure you're a kin from Canto V but you don't know if you're Ishmael or Ahab or Starbuck or Rim or AAAAAAAAAA-

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[resident-dumb-fuck]

scrolling through tags for characters that you didnt know shared the same name with other characters from different fandoms is so funny to me because like i'll look up the starbuck tag because i want to find someone's post about moby dick and the first thing i am met with is battlestar galactica. i'll look up ishmael because ishmael mobydick and i see limbus company content and also POPTROPICA??? for some reason??? where did he come from