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Reya Plays Midnight Cinderella: So peel away the bark...
...ācause nothing grows when it is dark.
AAAAHHHH IāM SO BEHIND IāM SORRY
Might wanna start here if youāre confused. Over here for the previous post.
So recently, Cyikemen/Cybird has threatened to take down videos of people playing any of their games. They donāt exactly specify what sort of video content, justĀ āvideos of the gameā. In fact, Iām looking at theĀ āRegulations Regarding Copyright Infringementsā right now and the company says theyāll threaten legal action for postingĀ āany images gained through the main scenario or game to blogsā etc. etc. Look, thatās not how copyright infringement works, buddy. Iām critiquing your game and what I have here is completely within fair use. I also use the spoiler tag when my posts contain spoilers.
Unfortunately, I donāt have the time nor resources to do anything should this developer come after me for some messed up reason, so my MidCin posts will henceforth use less pictures from the main stories and I will summarise plot points rather than go into nitty gritty detail.
Enough of that. Letās play a game! How many of the bachelors below can you identify?
āHold on!ā you say.Ā āI see what youāre trying to get at here. Youāre trying to point out how similar the guys look. Well, thatās just the art style!ā
Oh? Letās play another game. Match the men on the left to the same character on the right!
The characters above come from the webcomic Namesake. A free webcomic that updates three times a week. All of those images were randomly taken from completely different pages.
āWell, uh, webcomics are different from visual novels!ā
Yeah, no, thatās not going to fly either.
Anyway, itās all fun and games until a post needs to be written, so letās get down to business.
In the last installment, Louis and Sid finally got married the wind willed itself a body our protagonist sassed Sid Sid the mullettail bachelor calls Aria sassy despite her not doing or saying anything to indicate sass, and flirts with her while claiming to not be flirting with her.
It turns out that our Mullettail man is actually engaged to Elise, daughter of āthe wealthiest man in Wysteria.ā BecauseĀ āthe other womanā trope is such a unique way to create tension in a romance. So wow. Much creative.
{Image: A closeup of a somewhat surprised-looking Sid. Heās in his formal outfit, which consists of a long blue jacket layered over an orange waistcoat layered over a white waistcoat layered over some sort of black shirt layered over a white shirt. Heās on a balcony overlooking a hedge maze. Itās daytime. Aria is saying to him,Ā āI didnāt know you had a fiancee, but you knew all along. Yet you still kept making moves on me.ā}
Er, that is a really weird statement, Aria darling. Of course he knew all along that he had a fiancee o_O
Our princess leaves Sid to think over his actions.
{Image: Same scenario as the previous image. Sid is now smirking. The narration text reads,Ā āHe enjoyed sparring with her, and listening to her bold retorts; she always kept him on his toes.ā}
Donāt take much to keep you on your toes, does it? Pretty sure a lot of women would say something similar to what Aria said. Thatās not sassy or bold. Thatās just pointing out how much of jerk you are.
And then Aria gets kidnapped RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU SAW THIS COMING yāall should have your hands raised.
This time around, Nico does the kidnapping because, um. Alright. So. According to him, some rich dudeās ābeen funding extremist groups in Steinā and by kidnapping Princess Aria, these groups will... āfreak outā? Yes, those are the exact words Nico uses.
{Image: Closeup of a serious-looking Nico wearing hisĀ ācasualā outfit. He is inside a sparsely decorated bedroom. Heās saying to Aria,Ā āIf they hear that Wysteriaās princess has been kidnapped, they might do something rash and reveal themselves.ā}
I... donāt quite fellow.
Nico further explains that heās discovered who the rich dude is: Archduke Sannes, father of Elise.
Sid comes to Ariaās rescue because the Knights Incompetent are, well, incompetent. And he promptly lets Nico run off becaaauuse......??
Anyway, condensing time! Itās revealed that Sid agreed to marry Elise because he suspected Sannes of funny business and wanted her to supply any information on her father. Sannes frames Sid as the guy funding extremist groups, Elise gives Sid up because Aria obviously loves him, Elise agrees to testify against her father, Sid finds evidence proving Sannes is the bad guy, Aria does absolutely nothing useful, and we conclude the Honey ending.
Whatās in the Sweet ending? Pretty much the same thing, except the bureaucrats still donāt trust Sid and want Aria to marry Louis instead. Our protagonist begrudgingly makes Louis prince elect. Sid makes his father adopt the now penniless Elise and leaves his family. Louis and Sid stage Ariaās death. Sid whisks Aria away and they live [presumably] happily ever after or something.
And thatās it for Mullettail! This post was brought to you by the following Sailor Moon wannabe outfit:
*UPDATE* Next post is up!
#Reya plays#midnight cinderella#otome#games#visual novel#VN#mobile games#sid grandier#Mullettail#spoilers#sameface syndrome#this is NOT copyright infringement#can't stop won't stop#lazy art#Namesake#The Blind Griffin#the other woman#i greatly question the characters' decisions#bad writing#bad reasons#lazy character designs
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VOLTRON HOGWARTS AU
bc who doesnt love sorting people into hogwarts houses and hogwarts aus!!!! Lance, Hunk, and Keith are all Fifth year students. Pidge should technically be in Third Year BUT I refuse to believe that Hogwarts wouldnāt let people skip grades so Pidge is officially a Fifth Year. Shiro, Allura, and Matt are all Seventh Years! Coran is Alluras Uncle/Godfather and is a Professor.Ā
Lance: ok, so Iāve seen Lance sorted into alot of different houses, but this boy is such a Slytherin!!!! This boy is ambitious and strives to prove himself!!! Heāll do whatever it takes to prove heās the best and hes shown leadership potential that past few seasons and just. Mira, this boy is a SLYTHERIN, no doubt in my mind. His best subjects are Care of Magical Creatures, DADA, and Astronomy!!! Lance is also a Halfblood-his Dad is a Muggle-and he moved to England from Cuba when he was 10 so, at any given point Lance is complaining about the cold hell that is Scotland in winterĀ
Pidge: Slytherin,,, like no question about it. Pidge is literally great in EVERY SUBJECT but also??? couldnt give two shits about magic in general. Her absolute favorite subject though is Arthimancy. (Pidge is also currently working on getting the internet to work within Hogwarts) Pidge is a Pureblood who became OBSESSED with all things Muggle Tech when they were barely able to walk, and she even went to Muggle School up until she got her Hogwarts letter because her dad thought it was important she was familiar with Muggle Culture
Hunk: HUFFLEPUFF!!! This boy loves his friends and is so incredibly loyal and strong and hardworking and is unafraid of toil!!!!! His best/favorite Subject is Potions!!
Keith: Iāve also seen Keith placed in other houses, but to me, heās a Gryffindor through and through! This boy is more likely to stab first, and ask question never. He likes to just storm into a situation sword flying without thinking it through, and is perfectly willing to sacrifice himself to save his friends. Best in his year at DADA and loves Astronomy. Keith is a technically a Pure Blood, but he was raised in a Muggle Orphanage and never knew about Magic-he thought he was just a freak because when he got mad, Things would happen that he couldnt explain but always got blamed for-so heās pretty much Muggleborn.
Shiro: Gryffindor! because honestly? boy just feels like a Gryffindor. Hes also the Head Boy and Stressedā¢. Heās great at DADA but his favorite subject is Herbology
Allura: Gryffindor as well!!!! Girl is so strong and willing to thrown down. Shes Head Girl and LOVES IT and Her favorite subject is Transfiguration!!Ā
Coran Coran the Gorgeous Man: Coran is the Groundskeeper and Professor of Care of Magical Creatures and Head of Hufflepuff!!!! He claims he has no favorite, but everyone knows his favorite student is Lance because they bonded over a love of super dangerous creatures (Coran is pretty much Hagrid, lbr)Ā
Matt: Iām between Matt being in Slytherin-because he was abucted by aliens, rescued by rebels, FAKES his own death, ready to Thrown Down at any given point, and seems like the type to know everyones dirt in 0.25 seconds (who do you think Pidge learned it all from?)-or Ravenclaw because, well the obvious, and heās a massive dork who probably wears socks w/ sandles and thinks its High Fashion. He wasĀ a prefect, but due to an incident involving Shiro, a Hippogriff, Fireworks, and Glitter that was found all over the Castle MONTHS after the event, he was forced to step down from his prefect duties.
(Klance sidenote: When they meet at 11 Lance has an instant crush on Keith, but since he doesnt know what the butterflies in his stomach mean yet or know how to handle it, he forms this rivalry with him and Lance constantly pulls Keiths Mullettail(oh look its Canon making an appearance). They do become close friends in Third Year after an incident in the Forbidden Forest during a joint detention with Coran. Lance realizes his crush on Keith in Fourth Year, while Keith doesnt figure it out until Fifth Year. And because Keith is hella impulsive, as soon as he realizes he likes Lance as More Than a friend Keith plants one on Lance in the Middle of the Great Hall. Lance freaks out and runs away, Keith follows and says his iconic āGet back here, WE WERE BONDING!ā They talk and become boyfriends and whatnot)
#i love Voltron and I love the Harry Potter Universe#so Naturally I think about Hogwarts aus ALOT#Klance#Voltron#voltron legendary defender#hogwarts au#TALK TO ME ABOUT HOGWARTS AUS I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS
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that awkward moment when you want to give your character a gorgeous hairstyle but it goes against their characterization
#personal#a dot original#ššš#also how much do I have to pay to never see the mullettail ever again
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Reya Plays Midnight Cinderella: Crap, where was I
LETāS SEE HOW MUCH REVIEW I CAN TYPE UP IN UNDER AN HOUR
Confused? Start here. Lookinā for the previous post? Itās here.
In the last post, which was waaaay too long ago (sorry), our protagonist is conveniently injured enough that she has to stay at the Grandier mansion. Not entirely sure why Sid, the bachelor with the modified mullet, couldnāt just bring her back to the palace. Also conveniently, Giles couldnāt send over a tutor because weāve already established that Sir Rattails the Grey is awful at his job as royal chamberlain. So Sid ends up having to tutor Aria. His very excellent method of teaching consists of:
{Image: A closeup of Sid in an office/study-type room with bookshelves. It is daytime. Heās saying to Aria,Ā āRead this whole thing and remember it all.ā}
Later, Aria will non-sarcastically credit her amazing learning to Sidās amazing teaching skills because the writers appear incapable of showing rather than straight-up telling it like weāre some school children in need of hand-holding.
During her stay with Sid, she learns that he is the son of Duke Grandier and not just some bum with bad hairstyle sense.
Thereās some boring flirting that happens, like:
{Image: Closeup of a smirking Sid in the same office room as the previous picture. Heās saying, āIām not gonna make moves on someone with so little sex appeal.ā}
{Image: Closeup of a smiling Sid in the same scene as previous. Heās saying,Ā āI only kissed you that time because you seemed to want it so badly.ā}
Our princess, being the oh so sassy gal the game tries to convince us she is in this route responds with a very sassy,Ā āYouāre the one desperate enough to ask for a kiss as payment. I was just completing my end of a money-saving business transaction.ā
JUST KIDDING she does absolutely nothing even remotely sassy even though Sid repeatedly calls her sassy throughout his route.
Dear writers and/or translators, yāall desperately need a dictionary
Aria finally returns to the palace for the princess crowning ceremony thingy and she does well because Mullettail taught her (by... making her memorize a book?) and soon after Giles pressures her to start thinking about choosing a prince consort.
{Image: Closeup of a glasses-wearing Leo in his office during daytime. Heās telling Aria,Ā āThe king is perfectly healthy, thereās no rush. Itās just something you should keep in mind.ā}
Wait what. You canāt have the king bedridden at the beginning of the story (this is universal to every route) then change your story logic to suit a stupid plot point. In fact, this line wasnāt even needed because it never came into play in Sidās story. Both of them. Yes, Iāve finished both of Sidās routes. Spoiler: they both suck. Writers, did you have a useless lines quota to fill or something?
Giles has Sid investigate potential prince consorts, much to the princessās surprise. Itās because Sid is an information dealer, Giles tells her. The wind shows up a lot in between because itās mad that I keep trying to ignore it. YOUāRE NEVER GOING TO BE A BACHELOR, WIND, JUST GIVE UP ALREADY
Ahem. Aria ends up meeting with Louis because heās the best candidate so far. She notices that he and Sid have a weird relationship and asks Alyn about it.
{Image: Closeup of Alyn in his blue outfit. He is in the stables. His reply is,Ā āItās almost some love/hate thing that they canāt seem to let go of.ā}
Confirmed, Louis x Sid more convincing love story than protag x anyone.
Welp, itās been over an hour already. Letās end with an outfit that I like:
Iād totally wear that.
*Update* Next post is up!
#Reya plays#midnight cinderella#otome#games#visual novel#VN#mobile games#sid grandier#Mullettail#i do not think it means what you think it means#whatever happened to internal story logic#quotas#useless#bad writing#breaking wind#spoilers
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Reya Plays Midnight Cinderella: I LIIIIIVE AGAIN
...so why the hell am I still playing this game when I could be doing more productive things? Masochism at its finest.
Confused? Start here. Or go here for the last story review post.
Apologies for the lack of MidCin reviews; the last several months have been rough. Anyway, a lot has happened, very notably a menu change:
{Image: TheĀ āhome pageā of the game. The bottom menu strip has been updated.}
See those two arrows near the top? The leftĀ āHis Roomā arrow leads to this:
{Image: Swiping toĀ āHis Roomā leads to a picture of your chosen bachelor. In this instance, I have it set at Leo. There is a closeup of him in his office and he is saying,Ā āMorning. Did you sleep well?ā}
You can change bachelors in theĀ āHis Roomā settings. So far, each guy has three lines he can say. Ironically, I got that above line late in the evening. Normally, I wouldnāt really care too much about such an addition. BUT. Since you can swipe to and from the rooms, and since itās really REALLY sensitive, I end up accidentally swiping toĀ āHis Roomā nearly every time Iām trying to scroll down and itās really REALLY annoying.
Speaking of annoying:
{Image: Random scene from one of the routes. Yes, thereās mention of the breeze in there. The new menu strip now covers the bottom third of the text box.}
I tried going into settings to make the menu go away during play but there doesnāt seem to be a way to get rid of it. @cyikemen please change thisĀ ācause itās just in the way.
Alright, brief story recap: Aria wants to sneak out to meet her now former student Matilda to let said student know that our protagonist has been chosen as princess elect and that sheās sorry for not finding the mythical wish-granting white flower. How irritatingly saccharine of her. Whatās wrong with having a protag who went to the princess choosing thingy because she wanted to? Why make up some silly excuse for her to be there? Why throw in this student who ends up having zero impact to the story in general?
Since Sid is our chosen bachelor du jour, heās the one who catches Aria when she trips down the stairs due to her high heels. Why she sneaks out in high heels when she knows sheās clumsy and unused to wearing heels, we shall never know
Sid decides to help her out of the castle despite not being 100% certain of her identity, which is strange considering his job as info dealer. Need I note again the complete lack of palace security? Aria thanks him for helping her to her studentās house but he responds that he didnāt do it for free. He wants a kiss as payment. She says ok. He leaves and she starts to make it back to the palace herself. He thinks to himself:
{Image: Sid in an alleyway at night. He has blue eyes and black hair with hints of dark blue. His hairstyle is... um. Weird? Itās like, um, past-ear-length and somewhat shaggy in the front while past-shoulder-length in the back. The back portion is thin and pulled into a side ponytail. Heās wearing a dark-blue trench coat with fur collar over a blue shirt thatās closed with buckles instead of buttons. Heās saying,Ā āNow thereās a woman with real sass.ā}
Uh, all Aria did was agree to a kiss as payment. That has nothing to do with sass. I was going to find an example of sass for contrast and decided to point to one of the rare times our protagonist was actually sassy for once.
...Iām going to name Sid Mr. Mullettail because seriously, what is up with that hairstyle, itās like a longer, modified mullet combined with a ponytail on a guy with thinning hair.
Anyway, Aria gets harassed by a couple guys (of course). She tries to escape the leering men but runs into a dead end (wait, shouldnāt she know the area she tutors in better than that?) and injures her head somehow. Sid shows up to save her (of course) and she faints (of course).
Our protagonist wakes up in the Grandier mansion (of course) and itās apparently better for her health to stay there for a bit instead of being taken back to the palace (of course). So Sid has to tutor her while sheās there (of course).
I was going to write more but iCloud crapped out on me and itās already taken me four days to write this due to work and interruptions.
(Side note: I started playing Sidās route waaaay before the menu strip change.)
Also, spring outfit for springtime:
{Image: My avatar wearing a pink floral kimono.}
*Update* Next post is up!Ā
#Reya plays#midnight cinderella#otome#games#visual novel#VN#sid grandier#Mullettail#of course#how not to write#bad writing#questionable hairstyles#questionable decisions#questionable everything#CONSPIRACY
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