#Pursuing My True Self

[jasper-rolls]

Song: Pursuing My True Self Artist: 平田志穂子 (Shihoko Hirata) Composer: 目黒将司 (Shoji Meguro) Album: Persona4 Original Soundtrack Producer: Atlus

[zora-ark-067]

Rise Kujikawa…

An Idol.

Hmmm…

On the TV, too.

Worrying.

[ragecndybars]

Persona Dancing Soundtrack Tournament - Round One, Match #12

Pursuing My True Self - ATLUS Kozuka Remix:

The Snow Queen - ATLUS Tsuchiya Remix:

[zora-ark-067]

Uh.

B-Bad time? Bad timing?

Sorry about that…

Heya Ren!

Just got through Yukiko’s Castle!!

(@zora-ark-067)

Okay. Whatever.

[m0e-ru]

p4 quotes i think about alot i turned them into stickers

[kumakuma-circus]

not me listening to SNOWFLAKES on loop cuz it's low-key my favorite p4 song and realizing the lyrics like perfectly encompass yu's feelings about inaba and his friends and having to leave.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. UGHHHHHH. THE PAIN OF HAVING MEDIA COMPREHENSION SKILLS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[rawliverandgoronspice]

behold: my second least favorite string of words in the entirety of Tears of the Kingdom.

(it's a little less transparent why this time so I'll explain my thoughts under the cut)

So why do I not like this?

In so many words: because if you remove it, the scene still works, but you lose the moral certainty of what is going on.

This single sentence does so much legwork for the entire game (the kind I dislike), to the point where I'm about 60% sure it's the product of a rework that realized how ambiguous Rauru's position was as the Good Rightful King and needed to nervously reassure the players that Ganondorf Is and Always Was the Invader, Actually.

(no matter that it leaves the gerudos in this awkward in-between state of both invaders and victims, while never dwelling in the specifics of their history and their own agency in the entire thing; brushed off as a sin they have to expiate through loyalty to the winners of that particular strife, but without explicitely blaming them either to avoid the implications of what that would have looked like)

If you remove it, not only do you lose a pretty clunky line that detracts from Ganondorf's intimidating presence (who is he even speaking to? who needs to hear this right now?) that honestly speaks for itself when it comes to his experience with warfare, but also you lose any tension and any mystery regarding why he is attacking in the first place.

You also... kind of rob Ganondorf's motivations of their meaning. "Hyrule will bow down before me" leads to asking... why? What does he want? What does he see in those lands? And what little we get with Rauru and then Link during the final fight begs more questions; why do you prefer hardship to peace? Why do you value strength? What leads you to want to rule a land devoid of survivors, become a king without a kingdom? I don't think we ever get satisfactory answers. If you remove this sentence, on the other hand... Subtextually, it becomes pretty clear that his motivations is that he felt threatened by Rauru's power, which is ripe with subtext and questions about whether this is a legitimate reaction, whether his "no survivor" stance is due to a feeling of betrayal when his own people turned against him post the Demon King shenanigans... I'm not saying it would fix the entire game's writing, far from it, but it would already do *so much more*.

(genuinely, I think he could have stayed completely silent during the Molduga Assault, speaking only in the Show of Fealty before going completely nuts after Sonia's murder, and it would have worked MUCH better in terms of characterization but anyway anyway

EDIT: ALSO!!! that way he wouldn't speak hylian to fellow gerudos, which is weird inherently)

Without this line, the core of the tension between the gerudos and Hyrule comes front in his conversation with Rauru; it allows the cause of his hostility to be Rauru's invitations, that he would have taken as a threat, and would have still made him warlike and domineering without making him cartoonishly flat, because, once again, Rauru is not acting in a particularly more legitimate way when Zelda arrives in Ancient Hyrule; and it would have been... fair to point that out. And make for better characterization for Rauru, and Sonia, and Mineru, and everybody. But the priority was for Hyrule to be pictured as unquestionably holy; always legitimate, always truthful, always beautiful, always just.

Also, and this is more of a nitpick but: why would Ganondorf want Hyrule, specifically, to bow down before him also? Was he at war with the rest of the disparate tribes before, and just carried on his ambitions to the very very newly-founded kingdom as they allied under a new banner? (though it seems to be implies the lands were crawling under monsters in a generic sense, and not Ganondorf's attacks in particular) Why would he even consider Hyrule a legitimate entity worth taking over then, if it is so new, born from the will of a powerful rival, founded by what is basically a stranger to these lands? Why would he covet something so young instead of destroying it and just calling the lands Gerudo Lands II or Grooseland or something?

I don't think any of that was even accounted for, because, beyond everything else: to me, this sentence is so clearly and painfully crammed in here to shield Hyrule from any potential blame and immediately characterize Ganondorf as Bad without having to remove any of the causes that could lead one to side-eye Rauru's little pet project as equally questionable.

Beyond the clumsiness, it is cowardly --and, I think, a little damning.

[zora-ark-067]

^^.^^

I’m someone’s Sun Link!

A fox!

[belovedblossoms]

//Idk if this is gonna backfire but I'm opening up a starter call! Honestly, I'm gonna be a little selective on this and also make them at my own pace, I'm already a little behind on some drafts but as I'm doing them I also would like to have new threads with you guys too. So please bear with me! Like this post but please specify which of my muses you'd like to write with and also if you just want to plot together, I'm down with that too! I'm not the best at creating things off the bat but I'll do my best for them.

[belovedblossoms-m]

//I'm currently in the process of moving my blogs just to have a fresh start. It is still under construction but I'll be nearing to finish it soon and I'll pretty much be ready to get back into things. Like the important links and stuff are available and then I'll build my way up some more. I'll reblog this for the day people and update again eventually when I am fully moved.

@belovedblossoms is the new blog move

[fatexbound]

Anon said: The Fox was sitting at the shrine, prices of SP points were as high as usual, even if her social rank was barely above 1. Regardless, her eyes were absolutely huge towards Yu, sparkling with plea as she lets out soft whines.

Pay for my overpriced healing, please?

They all questioned how a normal animal like this fox could travel in the TV world with them, but considering that it proved to be somewhat useful with its mysterious healing leaves, Yu let it do as it pleased. Its pleading eyes caught his gaze the moment he searched through his inventory for any SP recovery items. All of those TaP Sodas he had bought had been consumed.

Sighing, he had no choice but to walk over to it and softly pat its head a few times.

"I have 17,000 yen at the moment. How much will it cost this time?"

[anzuhan]

why did they banish valkyrie to persona 4 in the new event

[zora-ark-067]

No liveblog tonight because of DISASTROUS LESBIANISM!

[ragecndybars]

Persona Dancing Soundtrack Tournament - Round Two, Match #12

Want To Be Close - ATLOS Remix:

Pursuing My True Self - ATLUS Kozuka Remix:

[callixton]

also no offense but if i don't end up getting into nti next year and i Don't get the student full length. when i am the only director in our year who actually plans to go into this professionally and hasn't decided to change paths post college. well i will be so so so upset

[void-multimuse]

Muse Profile: Kaito Kuroba

Name: Kaito Kuroba

Alias: Kaitou 1412, Kaitou KID

Age: 17

Pronouns: Any

Orientation: Genderfluid; Demi-panromantic and Demi-pansexual

Height: 5'6"

Occupation: Magician, Phantom Thief

Character Bio:

Kaito Kuroba is the son of world famous magician Toichi Kuroba, who died eight years ago in a stage accident. Having been taught magic at a young age, Kaito has grown to be more skilled than most professional magicians out there due to his constant use and practice in the craft.

Kaito is a fun loving, arrogant class clown with great athletic ability and acrobatics. He’s not much of a fighter though, and would rather avoid conflict than confront it head on. He has a tendency to dance around confrontation and prefers not to get involved in anything directly, rather work from the background to make things go his way.

Through discovering his father’s secrets, Kaito’s life gets turned on it’s head as he finds out that Toichi Kuroba was an internationally wanted criminal: Kaitou KID. He was murdered for the same reason in a coverup scandal that has gone unexposed in the eight years since the famous magician’s untimely death. With no way to trust anyone but himself and his father’s assistant, Kaito dawns the cape of Kaitou KID anew and uses the phantom thief persona to draw his father’s killers into the light and destroy the gemstone they killed him over.

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