#R-R-R-RAKAN SPEAKING! (rakan posting)

[over-the-time-flow]

Nobody seems to be having a good time right now, as Rakan gets scolded by Glemy Toto, his superior, for letting Amuro and Tiffa get away. He had ONE job! But Rakan assures him that not all is lost; he can still get them back.

With the call over, Shagia reports in that he and Olba still have no clue about Kamille's whereabouts, further souring his mood.

The brothers pay no attention to Rakan's scolding, however, and instead get excited over the Satellite Cannon in their twin mind link psychic DMs.

i ADORE how this game handles these two btw. this is the funniest the frost brothers have ever been and they were hilarious in their source material to begin with

Meanwhile, Jamil thanks Raul and the trio for their help in Amuro and Tiffa's rescue. The trio, conversely, is just as thankful for being rescued along with them, and for getting the chance to join up with the Frieden crew; they'll need all the help they can get, considering their circumstances.

However, Noin and Kid (the Frieden's chief mechanic, and a child prodigy at that) wonder if it's really fine to take the trio along, and not due to distrust, but due to logistics; see, the Excellence looks mighty advanced, and specialized at that. Won't they need to make it back to whatever facility they got snatched up from?

Raj saves us with his quick wit, however; he says that there's nowhere to return to, as the Zeon troops completely trashed the facility during their assault.

Jamil then moves onto proper introductions, which makes Mizuho realize that she's heard of him before. Isn't he some sort of war hero? Jamil is not fond of such titles, however, and dismisses it offhand.

The rest of the crew introduces themselves as well. Sara Tyrell is the Frieden's chief operator, Tonya Marm is the helmswoman, and Kid is the chief mechanic. srw r moves sara from the vice-captain post to operating duty and tonya from operating duty to the helm, thus erasing poor ol' shingo, the frieden's original helmsman

While introducing himself, Kid makes sure to tell the trio that he's more than willing to aid with any modifications or remodeling they ever plan to do on that Excellence of theirs.

Raul appreciates the sentiment, but understandably a bit cagey about letting other people work on the Excellence, he says that they do already have Mizuho as a dedicated mechanic. Kid can't hide his disappointment, but does hope he and Mizuho can work together in the future... though he doubts she's as skilled as he considers himself.

Next up are Roybea and Witz, who in this game's universe seem to just be regular ESUN pilots who got assigned to the Frieden rather than freelance mercs. Witz plays tough and says he's not too sure about our skills, but he'll be fine as long as we don't get in his way... and Roybea shuts him down by mentioning the crew seemed more than capable this last fight.

Fa introduces herself with just her name, and Jamil wants to introduce Garrod next, but he's not there; he hasn't left Tiffa's side since the battle ended... understandable, since she was taken straight to the medbay to get some rest. in any case, he's Garrod Ran, and they met him when he snuck in to rescue Amuro and Tiffa.

Speaking of, right now Amuro's explaining to him what happened as they watch over a sleeping Tiffa. It seems that when he fired, Tiffa couldn't help but sense the final thoughts of all the people they had just killed. Amuro warns Garrod to be mindful of the immense power of the Satellite Cannon. haha yeah im totally not gonna be using it every single mission dont worry bro

With personal introductions done, we move to organizational introductions; the Frieden works for the Earth Sphere United Nation (ESUN)'s specialized taskforce, the Preventers. Despite being total pacifists, even they had to take up arms to deal with the sheer barrage of threats that pounced upon the Earth Sphere in recent times.

With this, Noin finally properly introduces herself; she's not just a pilot, but also a direct contact between the crew and the Preventer chain of command. I think this means she's technically the highest-ranked member of the cast? In any case, Fa takes the chance to ask Noin if she's gotten any news about Kamille, but the Preventers seem to have had just as much luck with that as the Frost Brothers, and she has nothing new for Fa.

With Amuro and Tiffa rescued, they're all out of newtypes with known whereabouts, so they're going to be put on standby as they merge with another ESUN-run organization, GEAR (Guard Earth and Advanced Reconnaissance) thanks fukuda. Specifically, they'll be stationed at their japanese branch.

Roybea is already looking forward to some quality time with japanese girls, but Jamil and Sara remind him that it's not unlikely that Neo Zeon troops will give chase; Amuro and Tiffa are high priority targets of theirs, and they won't give up on them so easily. They can't let their guard down until they've made it to their destination...

[featheredpocketmirror-blog]

    “Ass kicking” sounds cool. Do I kick someone’s ass? Or do they kick mine? Do I kick my own ass? I could kick my own ass...

[fatebreaking-a]

Sorry to bother you but i am out of the loop. What did Riot do with seraphine?

// @crying-elf-lass // First of all - excellent choice in pfp, Marcille is great.

Now, trying to keep as much bias out of my post as possible... ( though there will be some, and I will miss some things! )

There are three parts to consider. Gameplay, narrative, and niche in the world.

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First, we need to talk about the history of Sona in League of Legends.

Narrative & Niche: Sona, as a champion, has existed for many, many, many years. Her lore was 2 paragraphs and she had no short story. Her canon appearances ( excluding an Odssey short story which I will take about later ) were limited to other champion’s stories ( her adoptive mother, Lestara, helped Quinn to become a ranger-knight, she helped Ryze secure a World Rune in Call of Power ). Several years ago, Riot changed the lore of Demacia ( Sona’s current home ) to be one that denies magic. With the addition of petricite, a magic nullifying material, and several changes in lore, Demacia became the host of several magical problems ( dragons, Evelynn, Nocturne, Fiddlesticks ) and a unit of anti-magic specialists ( mageseekers ).

Throughout that time, up until 2 months ago, Sona’s lore did not receive a single meaningful change or update. This is a period of over 5 years, in which one of Demacia’s only mages / magical creatures ( Poppy, Lux, Sona, Shyvana, and later Sylas ) did not get any sort of answer as to what is happening with her. Several other champions did get an explanation of sorts, with some manner of handwaiving - for example, minotaurs are part of the Demacian army, so magical creatures are not out and out excluded. Yordles are known to be seen differently by different people, so Poppy’s existence is also possible to explain ( we learned this with an interaction between Ziggs and Jinx in Zaun ).

This left Sona writers in a general state of confusion. Is Sona in jail? Is Sona a registered mage? Not to mention that Sona left Ionia ( where a war between Noxus and Ionia occurred ) and the timing of that was unspecified.

Which led to a giant gap in terms of “what is this champion doing and what is her situation”. And each of us tried to fill that gap in our own ways. Some of us had Sona leave Demacia, some had her retreat into her mansion and play less music, some had her be defiant, and so on. Because the last thing we learned was that she was in Ionia, helping Ryze with the World Rune, some people put her in Ionia semi-permanently.

And we also had to contend with the existence of Sylas, who flipped Demacia on its head and caused something of a mage hunt. The finer details of that I exclude, it’s enough to say that certain mages were rounded up and put in prison where once they were exiled, and Lux helped some magically inclined individuals escape. There’s a nuanced conflict there between several members of Demacia ( Garen, Jarvan, Lux, Xin Zhao, Tianna, etc ) but getting into that is not the point of this.

We still didn’t know anything about Sona. So Sona writers and players and enthusiasts tried their very best to fill in the gap with what we did know, often incidentally. We did know that Sona was once in Ionia, that the Ionia-Noxus war happened, that she moved to Demacia, and that she is a famous musician with a magical instrument. Prior to the removal of the Institute of War ( a part of lore which said that ‘summoners’ were real and nations used Summoners + Champions to settle conflicts ), Sona was known globally and was basically Runeterra’s #1 musician when it comes to the etwahl, perhaps more. We also know that Sona is an extremely empathetic person, and her music is borderline spellbinding, to the point where it was easy to guess that she could affect people’s emotions and was an empath. None of that was out and out confirmed, but it was easy to make that logical conclusion.

Very recently, Sona’s lore changed. In it, a lot changed. We learned that she left Ionia with others, rather than just alone and with her etwahl, and it was to escape the Ionia conflict ( not because Lestara, her adoptive mother, wished to possess the fabled etwahl ). Essentially, this new lore painted Sona far more as a war refugee, and painted Lestara in a far better light as well. Along with this lore update/rework, we also got a short story ( that still left what she’s doing now up in the air!) 

However, this came after a several year wait. And in that time, Sona enthusiasts had no choice but to come up with answers to all their burning questions by themselves. One Sona writer followed the ‘Sona is the aspect of harmony’ track, another followed the ‘music as a means of community togetherness’ track, another put her as an oversensitive empath who uses music to heal the pain of her people - and we all tend to agree on one point - Sona is an extremely empathetic person who uses her music for the good of others.

And as we waited, several other champions appeared, some of them overlapping with Sona’s music theme. Bard, the wanderer who listens to the songs of creation itself. Jhin, the murderous theater performer and assassin who believes the world his stage. Rakan, the battle dancer who uses the songs and rhythms of people to fight and move before they do. And Sona’s niche, what was unique about her, grew smaller and smaller.

Finally, we had something that felt unique about Sona.

Gameplay & Design: 

Sona as a champion has existed a very long time... And is the aura and music champion. Her q does some damage, her w shields and heals ( and reduces damage with her passive ), and her e speeds people up ( and slows with her passive ), while her r is a rectangular ult wave - thinner than Nami’s, but still relatively wide. The kit as a whole is pretty simple, but it has a history.

Sona players are... innovators. They like to do things like buy Kirchei’s shard because it’s most efficient, or take Sona mid, top, jungle, and adc. And over the last two years, Sona has received nerf after nerf after nerf saying, “No, stay in the support role”. You can still pull off certain lanes, but it’s extremely difficult because her aura abilities give you mana back if you tag an ally... making them difficult to use in a solo lane, or to roam alone.

Also, as one of the older crew of champions ( pre Jinx when Riot started using other body types for women ), her figure is... well, she’s got an hourglass figure, and her dress does not hide her breasts much at all. And it’d been like this for ages and ages, which meant that in League’s toxic culture, being a Sona one-trick led to a variety of hateful comments which I won’t repeat here.

Sona has a history of being treated like either an overpowered support or a terrible one, in part because she lacks any form of CC before 6 ( barring her e chord passive ).

So if you’re a Sona enthusiast, a big part of you wants Sona to have agency and not just be a pretty face damsel in distress. Even I, who have a second blog where I write Sona as an extremely soft character, don’t have her be a damsel in that interpretation of her. This is made worse by the community and a lot of art that ships her with men who treat her badly, along with an endless slew of adult images that degrade her, and often make fun of her disability - that she can’t speak. It’s sad and it’s degrading. And even within the last few years, she was written in a story in the Odyssey skin line...  as a prize for Kayn to take. That is an official Riot story which essentially treated her like a prize to capture for Kayn’s own goals - not as a person, but as a carrier of a key, as an object, and she lacked agency. Thankfully over the last few years, Riot has started giving women more agency, but... it’s been a problem for a long time.

Recently, along with the lore rework, we got Sona in a skin that makes her look and feel like a badass - PsyOps, her legendary skin. She breaks free of her confines and rages against those in her way in a very Syndra-like fashion, uncaged. And this was very cool.

And now, we have Sona where she is now.

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Seraphine as a champion has recently been revealed, along with her abilities and lore.

Narrative & Niche: 

Seraphine’s lore is essentially this.

She, born of Zaunite parents, went up to Piltover. She was able to hear the souls and songs of people ( magical empath ) and hoped to unite those around her with her music. Then, she went down to Zaun, a city full of impoverished and disenfranchised peoples, to try and do the same thing.

In other words, “This champion uses music as a means of bringing people together. She aims to aid the disenfranchised.” There is nuance there, and it’s not the exact same as Sona, but the similarity is striking.

Furthermore, several key points in her lore are things that Sona writers have already imagined for themselves. A hypersensitivity to others, for example. Having such a strong sense of hearing that she can hear things others can’t. Sona is known to be able to essentially echolocate ( or at least, she had been known to do so in her older lore ). 

I will admit that the idea of ‘hypersensitive hearing or empathy’ is not the sole domain of Sona writers. Athena Cykes of Ace Attorney has a similar problem ( as revealed in her backstory ). And similarly, she wore a special device to help her filter that out. It’s not a completely unique idea, but again - the problem is striking. Sona, a highly sensitive and empathetic person, was often interpreted to be too sensitive to others. And now it’s on Seraphine, in her lore.

Seraphine’s whole lore is that she’s essentially an extremely popular and famous musician who brings people together with music... and that’s what Sona was.

She was all those things.

So to some people ( myself included ) it feels as though Riot has reworked Sona’s lore so they can give some of the overlap to Seraphine. Empathy / soul-seeing ( a Morgana, Kayle, Neeko, and Sona special... ) and the whole music thing...

And this is leading people to say, repeatedly, “This is just Sona 2.0.”

For Sona enthusiasts who have been waiting for Sona to get content or lore for years and years, this feels like a slap in the face.

Gameplay & Design:

Seraphine’s abilities are as follows.

When she uses 3 abilities, her next ability is empowered with additional effects ( essentially repeating ). Her q does damage ( based on missing health ) and is a skillshot, her w shields and speeds up people ( and heals herself if she’s already shielded ), and her e slows people ( and roots if they’re already slowed ), while her R is a rectangular ult that charms those hit and makes them walk towards her briefly.

That’s really similar to Sona.

When Sona uses 3 abilities, her next auto-attack is empowered with additional effects. Her q does damage. Her w shields and heals people ( and reduces damage output from an enemy if her passive is up). And her e speeds allies up ( and slows an enemy if her passive is up ). And her R is a rectangular ult that stuns those hit and makes them dance in place.

The similarity is striking. Seraphine does lack the ability to heal allies ( on first glance, I may have misread ), but she looks extremely similar to Sona... which is a frustration.

This year, we got Yone, Yasuo’s brother. And the reasoning behind this, when most other champions are written to give unique inputs/outputs, is that this is an alternative choice for Yasuo players when Yasuo is banned and will improve game health.

However, I suspect the same logic does not hold for Sona and Seraphine. Sona is in a class of enchanters, where several champions can do things similar to what she does already ( with some differences, of course! ). If you can’t play Sona, you can play Karma, you can play Taric, etc - not the same, but similar. It’s my suspicion that with the introduction of Seraphine, we will instead have the problem of Akali/Diana several years ago - these champions are so similar that whichever one is stronger will be played while the other one will be ignored completely.

Furthermore, Seraphine got a lot of attention. A lot of attention. She has a fake twitter account. 

And she is releasing with two skins, one of which is an ultimate. Release. For Sona players who only just got their legendary ( with the understanding that DJ Sona exists ), this feels like a slap in the face. It’s easy to feel overshadowed, and as much of the community is saying right now, this is ‘Sona 2.0′

Now some people are saying, ‘maybe Sona gets reworked’, but that will not be a great answer. If you like playing Sona’s current playstyle, swapping to Seraphine because Riot changed Sona completely will be alienating, and only exacerbate the feeling that Seraphine is replacing and overshadowing Sona.

But it gets a little worse than that too. Seraphine is designed for mid/support, to be played in both lanes. However, Sona enthusiasts have received nerf after nerf to Sona in other lanes, which only makes this hit that much harder. There’s a theory that Seraphine’s kit is essentially a scrapped Sona rework kit. If Seraphine’s build is the same as Sona’s, it will be... tragic. It will be disappointing...

And it’s already exhausting.

Neither Sona nor Seraphine enthusiasts are without the metaphorical gutpunch, and this is likely to divide the community even further. And heaven forbid you like both.

For Sona enthusiasts, this is a slap in the face. Our favorite champion being overshadowed and overhyped by another who gets so much on release, when we’ve longed for content for years is hurtful. 

For Seraphine enthusiasts, this is a punch in the gut, for seeing their champion essentially be treated like a clone of another is unkind. Any nuance or effort put into Seraphine will be drowned underneath ‘Sona 2.0′. And the overlap between both champions and their respective abilities and character traits will wear anyone out.

And that’s not fair to anyone.

( Disclaimer: I wasn’t able to stay 100% unbiased, but if you read all of that, thank you. )

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藝術家 韓服

**(Chinese version)

地址: 36 Jahamun-ro 10-gil, Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea

问题1: 在韩国必须体验的事之一? 答案1: 穿着韩服到景福宮，拍照留恋。

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I want to note the following, particularly since more blogs are following me by now, that I am always trying to be as canon as possible hence why all my headcanons are in such detail. Since there are many different Rakan-concepts inside this fandom, particularly when you’re browsing fanart, I have to say that I do not like it that Rakan gets reduced to only two roles. These might be part of him, but I also think the fandom has generally a wrong view about it. If you like the fandom-interpretations, and that’s honestly fine by me, you have to consider that I roleplay my Rakan d i f f e r e n t l y  to that.  Point 1. Rakan the comic relief? Ever since the release of Xayah and Rakan there are many people who make fun of him; he’s getting reduced to his rather ‘seemingly’ carefree personality. But he’s not always like that. He’s definitely messing up a lot; I’m pretty sure he still annoys Xayah a lot of times but he can be very serious and mature. This actually has a lot of canon support; which I am trying to roleplay him more serious in these moments when he really has to be. I mean, all these running gags about chocolate for example are nice, I do them sometimes too, but that’s not him. Not every part of him, in the end. The same goes with dancing and singing - let’s be honest here, he’s a show-off. His thoughts are sometimes difficult to follow as well, but these are not the only things which define him as ‘Rakan’.  For example, Rakan cannot deal with death in general. I’ve written like....two? headcanons about this already; but it’s still important to note. He’s simply more than an entertainer, technically speaking, he’s more than just a comic relief. In his short story, which was officially released by riot, it’s shown how strong Rakan’s emotional connection to other living beings can be; how he does lament even stranger’s deaths. And, in fact, he has so many voice lines in which he’s trying to keep Xayah calm and collected. She really needs this support; this time when he’s taking over the mature and protective role to remind her about important things.  We also see, once again in his voice lines, that he has a deep connection to magic just like any other vastayan; and that he is fully aware of the current situation. He is seeking peace: he wishes for human to see the world like the vastayans or at least partly to understand them - and not fear them. This is actually a very mature view of the world; and a better view than most vastayans even have. Rakan’s role in this whole mess is far greater than people seem to see. So I am trying my very best to show these sides of him to make people understand why Xayah trusts him as much. Why the Lhotlans in general trust him as much as they do. I roleplay him like he has a great role for all Lhotlans; and my interpretation does have canon support. (Even some hint from Riot.) Point 2. Rakan’s and Xayah’s relationship The cinematic was barely even out and people already said ‘#relationship goals’ to these two - which is fine. They are, indeed, an extremely strong couple who will support each other until their deaths. However, I personally interpret their relationship differently (in fact me and my Xayah do). We have canon support for our interpretation; we are not turning away from it. People in general seem to think that their relationship is very lovey dovey when it’s in fact not. Their relationship is actually quite angsty; not only because it’s canonly a fact that Xayah does not care about dying - she does not hesitate either if it serves her cause. (Which you can see in the cinematic for example). They actually share many voice lines when Rakan is constantly worrying for her wellbeing; when he reminds her to live and not only to fight. All what people seem to see are them flirting on the battlefield; them always being so nice and loving to each other once alone. However, in canon I highly doubt it that they have as much time. Or that Xayah even allows it. Think about it, Riot actually confirmed that Rakan....took a very long time to make her fall for him. They are not all fluffy.  I actually made a post about this a while back, so you can go and read it there if you like. 

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This is my indoor voice. It’s also a tag dump, duh.

     Tagging! Of tagging! Or something, I don’t know.