#a fateful encounter

[geekgirles]

Emmelyn's fiery, shadowy form, my beloved 🥰🥰🥰

[lunarseaspirepodcast]

GC13 and David discuss A Fateful Encounter from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.

[yahoo201027]

Now: Naruto Shippuden

Next: IGPX

Later: Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

[nell0-0]

Doomed by the narrative

[geddy-leesbian]

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles–

❝The only thing that can defeat power is more power. That is the one constant in this universe. However, there is no point in power if it consumes itself. I will enlist the help of an old friend against our common foe. I will use one pawn to eliminate the other, and emerge with the spoils for myself.❞

➛DARK LEGACY

[artschoolglasses]

“Fine. If we must.”

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

[cccotard]

fated encounter with that ‘brat’ again

[beaulesbian]

killer in these few wano/ onigashima raid chapters is very funny to watch - dealing with luffy and kid's competitiveness, as well as witnessing luffy and zoro's insane shenanigans

and laughing about the chaos around askjds

"This crew'a a joke!" ashfjf he's right, to some extent

((love that luffy only had to say what the kaido pirates did - wasting the oshiruko soup, and zoro was on the same side immediately - this could be a great parallel to whiskey peak actually - when at that time luffy was angry for thinking zoro would hurt the people that helped them and gave them food, instead of getting his side of the story (that they were bounty hunters after them). and in this case it was zoro being angry (more like annoyed) for their cover being blown - which he made more difficult to keep with slicing a building in half). but once zoro realized it was about the food and luffy's anger was more important, they went into the fight together.))

(subtletly could never be luffy and zoro's thing, especially when those pirates spilled and wasted food. i like both of these version - in anime with zoro asking luffy if he's happy now after they caused more havoc and needed to run, as well as in the manga, if luffy's satisfied with the chaos.)

back to my previous point about killer:

yeah, tel them killer, at least your captain knows how to operate under cover during an important mission and doesn't make a scen- OH

and for the luffy & kid immediate competitiveness - it's always funny to see him so worked up with kid and law to be the best out of them

yep, idiots, all of them (affectionate) <3

"whuzzat?" "!!!" thank god killer has that mask so it can't be shown how much he's done with them, right?

[creaturefeaster]

any new epic drawings 0.0

I have some concept art I drew the other day that I've been meaning to get around to for some time, I guess, but nothing amazing x_x!

[illumiera]

one of my favourite things about elentari/miraak is that each of them independently react to their growing feelings for the other with a frightened, awed, wondering thought along the lines of "what has he/she done to me?" so, in other words, it's that they're both hopeless.

[franzkafkagf]

once i write that rhargar/elia longfic is OVER for y‘all😭

[kyouka-supremacy]

Infinite bsd universes thanks to the Book, can't there be one where Chuuya and Dazai get along??

[guujikaroko]

Re-reading LB1 and by God, it was a hell of an opener to the Cosmos in the Lostbelt saga. The premise of a world where "might makes right" superseded every other part of humanity is so brilliantly laid out.

It starts with the very story of the Lostbelt: a world where humanity had no choice but to become beasts. Leave each other to fend for themselves, kill each other without much thought, even eat their own. Nothing could be too barbaric, there was no place too low to stoop, because at the end of the day, survival comes first, and so they lived by abandoning everything else they had.

That theme of abandoning everything in order to live is also displayed through the Lostbelt's Crypter, Kadoc. The story first mentions Kadoc as someone kind, if not somewhat self-hating, a product of living as an average mage with too much to prove to others. Come his actual apparition in the story and he is showcased as the pettiest, most abrasive and arrogant guy around, but if you pay attention, you'll realize that it's his self-hatred dominating everything else about him. Kadoc died once without being able to prove anything and it pushed him over the edge; he discarded all other aspects of his personality (except in front of Anastasia, who reminds him to find a better way to live), favoring the cold ruthlessness that befits mages.

The narrative takes an interesting turn with the accompanying character, Patxi. He is Yaga born and bred; lived his entire life in that cruel frozen wasteland of a world in the only way the Yaga could. But, at the end of the day, he was different from the status quo. He ended up nurturing what the world perceived as weakness, always keeping his mother in his heart, which other Yaga pointed out as stupidity on his part. He harbored a kindness that was ill-fitted to his own world, but allowed him to know of another through his encounter with Chaldea.

The overlapping themes of "might makes right", "abandonment of weakness" and "transformation into monsters" can be seen in the Servants accompanying the journey: a Germanic warrior of old, a gunslinger of the Wild West, a swordswoman of the turbulent Sengoku period, a pianist accused by the world of a crime he didn't commit, a Greek huntress that can transform into the monster she slayed, a royal who was slaughtered without being able to do anything, the terrifying emperor of a merciless land, the tragic monster of the labyrinth. Even Avicebron and his antics in previous works might fit.

And most beautiful of all is the conclusion this story brings, and the hook into the next ones: the Master of Chaldea's realization of what they must do to take back their world. This Lostbelt and its Yaga, as cruel and cold and merciless as they are, are still a world and its people. But it must all vanish.

In the end, is it worth to fight for a lost world by sacrificing an existing one? The answer is nebulous at best, with many different opinions, but Ritsuka stuck to one thanks to Patxi, the Yaga who knew both cruelty and kindness. The years pass and it's still one of the most memorable scenes in the history of this game: Patxi, holding Ritsuka by their collar, refusing to forgive Ritsuka for forsaking the possibility of a different, better world. A world he'd like to live in, even if it's impossible in the end.

Bottom line, I love LB1.

[pavo-dence]

hades 2 olympian update just dropped so i’m throwing my hat into the ring on final boss predictions bc i got the new one right teehee

[lorelune]

there's a really heartbroken fic that rattles in my brain where you and jing yuan are exes from years ago and you never stopped yearning for each other, but in your time apart from each other, you both have become so emotionally damaged that you can't imagine ever dating again

[stgosupremacy]

i was thinking of the scene from Advice to Goh! (yes ik great title anipoke) where Goh talks about going to pokemon camp when he was 6, aaaand...we hear Goh say that

'Some kid held us up' from starting' (or along the lines of, haha)

And ofc Ash is just like throwing in something for a laugh like 'Yeah i bet he overslept or something you know' then realisation hits for him when we realise

The kid who overslept (or held them up)

was ash LMAO 😗

anyway i thought a bit about this and how it links to 'their fateful encounter' as Goh described it as when they met lmao (OK WHETHER HE MEANT THAT TO LUGIA OR NOT US SATOGOU FANS CAN DO BOTH OKAY and we know at least half of the fateful encounter he was on ab was pointing to ash like. c'mon.)

Because as far as I know, I don't really think Ash had encountered one of his companions before he went on a journey with them, correct me if im wrong, AND YES yall ik serena met ash as a child! They even met at pokemon camp too didnt they i honestly forgot ab that 💀but ANYWAY what i thought was making it different was that when it was time for her journey she went out of her way to find him after seeing him on the news.

But I'd like to say that for Goh and Ash it was more on the fate side for when they met on Lugia. See, neither of them knew they were both going to jump onto lugia, it was a complete coincidence 🥺

and they were meant to have met at pokemon camp when they were younger. if ash had woken up on time lmao they may have met at pokemon camp. which, is honestly a bit of a weird thought tbh 😂 sooooooooo maybe their encounter on lugia was really fate? idk im probs making stuff up again i just thought it was interesting <3