#Zheng

[cliopadra]

🥃

[dimplyowl]

Okay has anyone written any meta about the differences between our two first mates, Auntie and Izzy? Because I just finished rewatching s2 and was struck by how similar their situations are, and their temperaments, and yet how very completely opposite they behave in nearly identical situations.

Cause like. Both their captains are insanely infamous, badass pirates who have an image to uphold, Ed as Blackbeard obviously, and Zheng as the pirate queen who conquered China. They both become romantically interested in someone who honestly has no business being a pirate: oluwande and Stede, both described as soft, not masculine, yes in the end willing to do violence if necessary, but it’s not their preferred way of handling conflict. People who, maybe rightly, the respective first mates consider potential threats to their captain and crew.

But just the way that auntie handles the situation compared to Izzy. Auntie doesn’t meddle. She is vocal about what she thinks of Oluwande, about her concerns about Zheng being distracted, “compromised”, not focused on the mission. But she’s ultimately acting as an advisor for Zheng, which is exactly what her role is. She doesn’t try to control Zheng, she doesn’t remove Zheng’s agency, she doesn’t threaten Zheng or tell her that she’s pathetic for mooning over Oluwande (I know we never get to see any mooning onscreen but cmon, there has to have been some). When the Revenge crew escapes her ship, and she knows she fucked up, Auntie doesn’t run salt in the wound the way that Izzy would take pleasure in doing. She starts to say “I told you so,” and Zheng very firmly tells her “Don’t”, establishes a boundary that Auntie respects, because ultimately Zheng knows she fucked up and she’s not a child who needs to be taught a lesson or managed. Auntie respects her and her personhood.

And compare that to Izzy, who consistently manipulated Ed to get in between him and Stede, threatened Stede’s life on multiple occasions, essentially mutinied against him, sent the cops after them, and then berated and threatened Ed over being heartbroken.

Like, even down to nearly dying. Auntie has a severe gunshot wound in her shoulder that she will clearly die from if she doesn’t accept help. She’s spent the entire season being tough, unwilling to show weakness, equating softness to weakness, but in the end she decides to accept help, to accept a little bit of softness, to change and accept that softness can be good. Izzy in contrast, declines help, knowing that he’s done. He knows he can’t fit in to this new world, this new piracy, where people can be soft and vulnerable and still fucking kick ass. He’s been resistant and outwardly aggressive to this idea, and he chooses to die rather than accept that softness. Ofmd is ushering in a new era of pirating, and Izzy doesn’t fit in it, and doesn’t want to fit in it, and ultimately, narratively, that’s why Auntie survives and Izzy doesn’t.

[smudgeandfrank]

Kitty Zheng is the kitty QUEEN! ❤️🐈‍⬛❤️ She can be very sweet and calm if you are willing to serve her! If you don't? Well... good luck against those fast and sharp claws. Oh, and never separate her from kitty Olu! He's the break in her day! ❤️🐈‍⬛❤️

[vexwerewolf]

Can you build the one punchiban?

It's 5:40 AM but here you go.

-- IPS-N CALIBAN @ LL6 -- [ LICENSES ] IPS-N ZHENG 3, IPS-N CALIBAN 2, SSC Black Witch 1 [ CORE BONUSES ] Superheavy Mounting, Overpower Caliber [ TALENTS ] Executioner 3, Nuclear Cavalier 3, PANKRATI 2, Vanguard 1 [ STATS ] HULL:4 AGI:2 SYS:0 ENGI:2 STRUCTURE:4 HP:19 ARMOR:2 STRESS:4 HEATCAP:7 REPAIR:7 TECH ATK:-2 LIMITED:+1 SPD:4 EVA:10 EDEF:8 SENSE:3 SAVE:14 [ WEAPONS ] Integrated: HHS-075 “Flayer” Shotgun SUPERHEAVY MOUNT: D/D 288 (SUPERMASSIVE MOD) // Overpower Caliber HEAVY MOUNT: SUPERHEAVY WEAPON BRACING [ SYSTEMS ] Personalizations, Armament Redundancy, Ferrous Lash, SPIKE CHARGES x3, TOTAL STRENGTH SUITE I

I call this one That Doesn't Seem Physically Possible.

So fun fact: Ferrous Lash doesn't require that your target be in sensors. It has a flat range. That flat range happens to be 8, and you can punch someone 9 spaces away with a charged D/D 288 because we put Supermassive on it.

What this means is that you can prime your D/D 288 and use your other action to Ferrous Lash an enemy straight into your mech, where they will fall prone. The next turn, you can punch them so hard they see the face of god, knock them 9 spaces in the direction you punched them, all of which you travel with them due to the Caliban's Pursue Prey trait.

Your charged D/D 288 does a minimum of 13 damage (14 if you're in the Danger Zone) with a potential maximum of 38 damage (44 if you're in the Danger Zone), but I think that might actually be the least interesting thing about this build.

[noctilia]

From the web serial Katalepsis by @hungryhazel

[zegalba]

[nerd-elf]

@deskgirl I did it! I’m not sure this was what you envisioned here, but I had to put the magical sea gull and sea witch as the supreme beings 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[timadrawsbugs]

Here, I'm gonna offer you a dump of the mechs and pilots I've been working on. Been going crazy with these, and I"ve been having SO much fun. Each character and the mechs are from the game I'm currently in, but I'll be doing more in time! (And expect to see Dirk in future projects ;) ) The green haired one is Midas, then Oliver, and my baby boy Dirk, in the order I did them. And then the first mech is Dirk's Pegasus, the Turing's Testimony (ver. A.A.), The one with the big gauntlet is Midas' Zheng, named Poseidon, And the Barbarossa at the end, by process of elimination, is Oliver's Tree of Eden. I reaaaaaaallly enjoyed doing these, and if you want one of your own, I've posted a pilot + mech bundle to my kofi, so please, please, PLEASE lemme draw your pilot and their mech. I wanna draw more mechs :)

[tabletopbrainrot]

I am once again begging the DM to give the enemy mechs more structure

I punched two different things through a wall, and crit killed a third thing.... I am almost ready to fight another god*

[flax-en]

[lore accurate zheng]

[emilostingender]

Nice argument, but I cast fist 😎

[avsiel]

[izzyandcrew]

The crew of the Revenge are having a card game tournament! Vote today to decide who wins the prelims and goes to the winner’s table tomorrow.

[Table 1][Table 2][Table 4]

[unsolvedanomalies]

Alternate IPS-N Zheng whose love for the asymmetrical might have been pushed a bit too far.

[vexwerewolf]

[lawofcollage]

Some vaguely Jim Jimenez, Zheg, Oluwande, and Archie art

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