#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! ❤️🐈‍⬛❤️

[noctilia]

From the web serial Katalepsis by @hungryhazel

[zegalba]

[carmillas-girlfriend]

send an emoji to my ask box and I'll give my opinion on an Our Flag Means Death character:

🧜‍♂️- Stede Bonnet

🐙- Edward Teach

🦄- Izzy Hands

✒️- Lucius Spriggs

🍊- Oluwande Boodhari

🗡- Jim Jiminez

🐈‍⬛️- Frenchie

🐦- Nathaniel Buttons

🌧- Black Pete

💃- Wee John Feeney

🔪-Roach

🦷- The Swede

👃- Spanish Jackie

🐍- Archie

🐕- Fang

🍲- Zheng Yi Sao

🍃- Mary Read

🐇- Anne Bonny

🍺 - Calico Jack Rackham

🎨- Mary Allamby Bonnet

[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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[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*

[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.

[emilostingender]

Nice argument, but I cast fist 😎

[unsolvedanomalies]

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

[lawofcollage]

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

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[baylardian-1]

spooksona moment :3

[seamastersworld]

This is for my best friend all you same impression mythical creature Alex tai'yee of a griffin and svengeance of a zheng and stronghold of a nemean lion I hope you like it and happy 😊☺️🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[azpiiicueta]

best mona lisa impression (Roland Garros Version) 

[danielladigitalbunny]

Yakuza - Like a Dragon / Ryu Ga Gotoku 7