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gnostichymns · 23 days ago

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Maybe your fight was at its end, or maybe it felt as though it had only began. It doesn't matter– your story's end comes in an everywhere of nothingness and an all consuming void, like you are being pulled through space and time by a string tied to your very soul. It is an eternity, or maybe it is only a moment, and then you are right back where you began it all: an empty set, your castmates waking up all around you, unharmed and untouched by all you had seen in another world. Your skin has already forgotten its wounds, or perhaps they were never yours to begin with... Your "Director" is nowhere to be found, and all his strange assistants have vanished without a trace. At the very least, it seems as though the world is just as you left it. And yet you can't quite shake that something has changed...

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strobelightstrobelast · 11 months ago

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Part 1; MK Music HCs These have been haunting me for a while so enjoy!

Note: All these characters listed are MK11 versions, although I might make another one of these for MK1 later. Characters included are Johnny, Sonya, Jax, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Raiden, and Kenshi. I will be posting other parts, this one was just getting reeeally long.

Johnny

He listens to a mix of 2010’s pop music and sad dad rock. You’ll hear him go from California Girls(Katy Perry) to Headstrong(TRAPT) to The Diary Of Jane(Breaking Benjamin) right back to Party In The USA(Miley Cyrus) and he will have no visible whiplash whatsoever.

I think he’ll listen to whatever’s on as long as it sounds good, but he generally sticks to the aforementioned genres.

Sonya

She’s a Dolly Parton fan at heart, but she thinks it’s embarrassing and would rather be shot point blank than have anyone else find out. She doesn’t strike me as someone who would listen to much music in public, unless she needed to ignore outside noise to focus- in which case she would blare Breakcore music.

Jax

I don’t think he listens to music too much, but I can see him listening to club music to try and hype himself up. I think he would also enjoy a bit of classic rock(think Nirvana or Oasis), but probably wouldn’t seek it out other than changing the radio station. He seems like the guy who would rather let the radio play whatever for background noise than actually create a whole playlist.

Not technically music but it still kinda counts, I think he would listen to those ASMR videos where they pretend to do your hair or makeup- He has no urge to get his hair or makeup done but he finds them relaxing when he’s struggling to sleep.

Kenshi

He doesn’t like listening to music much, it distracts his senses and somewhat disorients him. The only time he really listens to music is when someone else is listening to it nearby. He won’t really complain, but he doesn’t care too much about it. He really dislikes heavy metal, above any other genre, although it's only because they tend to mess with his senses in a way he isn't comfortable with.

Liu Kang

He won't complain about any music that’s playing, but he only really listens to music on his own when he needs to focus. He’s partial to Vivaldi when it comes to classical music, but isn’t really picky when it comes to what he’s listening to as long as it aids him in focus.

Out of all the music that’s been played for him, he’s more drawn to music that has a sort of ‘hopeful in the face of hopelessness’ feeling to it. Songs similar to Let Go(Frou Frou) would probably be the type of music he prefers. He has a personal hatred against math rock, but he refuses to share it with anyone because he has no reason to dislike it other than thinking the time signatures are stupid.

Kung Lao

He also won’t openly complain about whatever music is playing, but he tends to gravitate towards a strange mix of sappy love songs and deceitfully cheerful suicidal songs. This Charming Man(The Smiths) and Vampire Empire(Big Thief) are definitely on his playlist, but I think he would also listen to Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Third Eye Blind, maybe even some Hollywood Undead if he was in a certain mood.

I don’t see him liking classical music too much, but he thinks the 1812 Overture is cool because of the canons. Tchaikovsky is the only classical music composer he respects.

Raiden

He pretends to not like modern music, staring off into the distance disapprovingly whenever Johnny tries to show him some of his music. I think he secretly likes 90s club music, but refuses to admit this to anyone. Unlike Sonya, he doesn’t even indulge in this he just balls it up inside because he thinks it’s ‘unbefitting’ of a god.

#mortal kombat #mk11 #mortal kombat 11 #mortal kombat hcs #mortal kombat headcanons #music hcs #johnny cage #sonya blade #jax briggs #kenshi takahashi #liu kang #kung lao #lord raiden #mk raiden #ignore the post time i lost track of the hour and next thing i knew it was 5am

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gabessquishytum · 2 years ago

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that person with the ABO true mates thing has the right idea tbh. on a similar note, imagine instead dream is the 3rd child of some important medieval noble family. he's resigned to live a life of boring diplomacy and living in his father's shadow and probably being married off for some political alliance (he is the 2nd son but he's also the 3rd child and imo death is generally a lot more well prepared for anything he might have thrown his way as the "spare" but we already knew that)

but one day dream and some of his family are in the town square, perhaps returning from a long journey. they maybe were off trying to negotiate a deal for dream's hand in marriage, but dream was so miserable about it that the talks were useless and everyones coming home upset. theres a lot of people around and its generally very busy, so it isn't very surprising that dream brushes shoulders with some stranger, but before he gets the chance to tell him off for it since he is still a bratty little prince, he gets thrown into a full blown heat. like, falls to the ground, clawing to get his clothes off because theyre too much, panting because he cant catch his breath type. (i personally am a huge sucker for bottom dream regardless of whether he doms or not, but after seeing an ask about househusband/alpha!hob i really cant get the idea of dom bottom omega dream and service top submissive alpha hob out of my head)

anyway, he gets back home just fine to wait out his heat, and as soon as he's done he's hell bent on finding whoever it was that sent him into that. night would probably want him to go find whoever it was (thinking of night in overture making a whole pocket dimension for dream and a lover), but maybe time would want to still get a political alliance out of this. he ends up doing some cinderella type thing to find hob back and he's so in love he conveniently ignores that hob is a mercenary/thief/sword for hire/bounty hunter/whatever and has probably most definitely also stolen from dreams family before. besides, who cares about a little bit of money when you can order your new alpha mate to fuck you halfway to hell and back? all im gonna say is they have NOTHING to worry about when it comes to heirs

-🖋

I see submissive alpha hob? I go feral. Literally this whole thing is GOLD.

I’m imagining after his heat, Dream uses his status (maybe with Night’s help if she’s in a good mood) to summon all the unmated alphas in town to his family’s home, and has them all walk past him while he smells every single one. Hob literally only showed up for the opportunity to steal some stuff from the place, so imagine his shock when little lordling Dream pounces on him and declares that they are true mates!! Hob obviously isn’t mad about it because Dream is the prettiest little darling he’s ever seen… he’s also an absolute terror, spends half his time snarling and the other half sulking. Hob loves it, loves him within about an hour (especially when Dream drags him off and takes his knot in a store cupboard - they’re not even married! the scandal is delicious!).

Dream is insatiable, but Hob is more than able to keep up. Hob doesn’t give a shit about manners or being respectable, and he’ll gladly join Dream in skipping out on diplomatic dinners and other dull things. The “honeymoon phase” doesn’t show any sign of stopping after a year of being mated - Dream rarely shows his face outside of their bedroom before noon, because he’s busy. It’s a good thing that Hob has access to high quality food now, because otherwise he’d be dropping a lot of weight with all the strenuous activity Dream expects from him.

Dream’s family aren’t best pleased with the match, but even they can’t stand in the way of true mates, and Dream is only the third child so it isn’t the end of the world. At least Hob keeps Dream out of trouble and full of pups.

#🖋 anon #the sandman #dreamling #nsft #cw omegaverse

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telaraneas · 10 months ago

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I desperately need SOME sort of explanation for the hussie proposal in the horse void so start there please lol

ok yes cool! this is probably gonna be very half baked because like i said all of these things intersect but ill try to explain myself here

as a thief of light, vriska is a child of void who desperately wants to grasp light and wield it for her own (ive talked about this in the past in more detail). her death was a failure in doing so, because death in homestuck doesnt remove a character from the comic, it removes them from the plot. characters in the dreambubbles are tangential, they are not /the main story/. vriska was introduced with the gaggle of side characters who were never going to escape this fate and make it onto the main cast post act5, and if anything her struggles to avoid this fate and claw her way into the main cast only succeeded in dragging tavros down with her, but not in supplanting his original position as fated for the main cast (see what i meant when i said all of these things are connected)

anyways.

vriska ultimately dies and is denied access to the "relevant" and "real" parts of the story, relevated to the dreambubbles, the place where all the offshoots and side characters who only exist tangentially to the main cast dwell. in fact, the ONLY reason we get to see her in this scene- the only reason this scene happens- is as a conclusion and punchline to hussie's preceding scene (the one where he dies via LE).

hussie represents at once the pinnacle of void (shit that doesnt matter and doesnt make sense, and exists just to be funny and is mostly entirely detached from "canon" events in the plot at least nominally), and also the author and thus an avatar of light (he's literally writing the plot, in charge of what is and isn't relevant).

from what i understand, the immediate surface level meaning of the proposal scene here is as a dig at the common reader interpretation, both joking and serious, that the reason vriska outgrew her role as a side character and started dwarfing other characters in relevance to the plot across both halves of arc 5 is because hussie is in love with her, either as a character on in a waifu sense. hussie proposing to vriska and then continuing to stalk her is a jokey confirmation of this.

however, importantly, we later learn that what hussie was trying to give to her was, in fact, EXACTLY WHAT VRISKA WANTED: a ticket back to the world of the living- the world of relevant characters. this scene was a literalization of hussie as an author supposedly giving vriska more screentime and relevance than warranted purely because he likes her.

however, this ticket to relevance is delivered wrapped in void. vriska is wandering a random dreambubble in the literal void (and even when you read it youre clicking through a void in a unique sequence only repeated during callbacks to this exact scene), we're surrounded by horses (signifiers of void due to the fact that they're funny and have dubious relevance to the story despite how often they pop up- a manifestation of void as things that exist in the story but are irrelevant to the "important" things in it). most importantly accepting this ring would have been tantamount to accepting a romantic overture from hussie which vriska literally does not want, but also symbolically refuses- vriska desires light and abhors void even when her own means are grounded in void, and hussie as a character is planted squarely in the domain of void, his intermissions being silly and fourth wall breaking and not in line with the light-filled aspects of the story that vriska desperately aspires towards.

as such she rejects it, and only realizes her mistake several sub acts later. instead, it is tavros and john, two breath players, who pick up the ring and, by acknowledging it as a tangible object they squabble about, accept it into the comic's actual story

i have talked about breath being the domain of plot contrivances in the past and as such its the best possible way to take this inherently silly object from the story's void and bring it into the realm of the rest of homestuck, where it can later be imbued with light to the degree it becomes the object several plotlines circle around near the end of the comic

notable in this is also that vriska's active attempts at seizing relevance end up failing, but the actual ways to (nominally) bring her back to the realm of the living are 1. bequeathed onto her in forms she sure as hell would not know to be grateful for in the moment (see also john punching her in retcon), and 2. doom her to retain irrelevance even while living (id have to go more in depth into the retcon as a whole to explain what i mean, but needless to say if vriska had accepted hussies marriage proposal she would have been stuck in the realm of silly half-canon void nonsense with him even if she had nominally ceased to exist in the dreambubbles)

#homestuck #homestuck meta #sure ill tag these #completely lacking in structure and idk if any of this makes any sense but eh

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dukeoftheblackstar · 1 year ago

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Love, I Guess?

Summary: Sometimes you just need to ask the question that seems to become a staple in every relationship known to exist.

Pairing: Plo Koon / OC/Duch/ Reader (idk how this works — sorry!)

Word Count: 1.6K

Rating: (no smut) Fluff, maybe? Foolishness, high probability.

Notes: I just wanted this out of my wip box. I'm also leaning towards OC being akin to my OC, so pardon the inconsistencies.

Color thingies because I'm deranged to not use them: Orange: Plo Koon Pink: You/OC/Reader

Perfect divider by @idontgetanysleep with itty, bitty, cutie-patootie Plo Koon face ♥

“Please tell me this is not about yesterday’s discourse.”

And it was indeed about yesterday’s discourse that you’ve found yourself feeling ‘severed from cromulency’ as he had eloquently stated. It would have been apropos to succumb into ‘a mood’ had ‘cromulency’ actually existed in the books, but a play on linguistics to lighten the mood is so very and innately Plo Koon that any attempt to sour yourself failed.

You’ve known for centuries that behind the rebreather and the goggles, he was so damn—well proud of that joke that the creases on his face were a compound of both tense and lax. He didn’t laugh, but the very overture of his symphonic voice laced with an effervescent tune was enough to give it away.

Oh, and the elbow nudge that was always quite comical even for himself. He’s expressed his dislike towards it; how very not-Plo Koon it is for him to do and yet, here he is — nudging his elbow onto your side as if silently egging you to burst into a fit of laughter.

You would’ve — of course with all the love you hold for him and him alone, but today was the day of fuck-all because he should’ve answered it correctly.

“It’s still me but like… In a teeny, tiny, worm’s body.” Came your bone of contention. “You know what? Okay. Okay. Okay. What if I was clean? Like lab-grown clean, hmm? Not some slimy, under-bedrock worm in dirt.” You shuddered at the thought; to be covered in filth? Death would be more promising.

“You could also just be as you are now, little love.”

Plo emerges from the quaint room adjacent to the bed in a rarity of blue. Cerulean tunic-like robes that pooled and dragged as he walked with the grace of a true Baran Do Sage about to zap the living daylights out of a runaway thief in Dorin. Trotting like a majestic, seasoned, stallion with absolute panic in his eyes as he turns to realize that you have still not donned your custom rebreather while Dorin gas heavily permeated the air-tight quarters.

“But why not though?!” You bleated, brows congregating in complaint as Plo settles on the bed where you’ve made yourself quite comfortably sat.

For someone as fearsome as him, having even merited high reverence from the likes of the Grand Master himself, Yoda, and a few adversaries he’d have either done battle with or have known of his prowess, Plo had never once cut you with his talons or held you in such a manner threatening to the pristine state of your skin that bruised even at the slightest of bumps. In fact, the custom rebreather has a higher chance of leaving darkened welts under the grove of the mask than Plo’s talons with how it would lock onto your skin since your anatomy provides little to attach it to.

You watched him arduously detach and reattach the mask over your face until it was canted enough to situate over the lower chambers of your face. He’d veer his head periodically as if to address you in silence, asking if there were any discomfort in process of — to which you responded with soft ‘Nhn’.

Placated by the fact that you are now masked as he was, Plo takes his place beside you on the shared cot, draping both your legs under the covers. With a datapad in hand and his claws tapping and gliding over the screen, he pulls up a schematic of the rebreather that now clung to your face.

His talons lingered for a moment and you swore on all things of great value to your existence, that he smiled a little too dotingly at the fact that you’ve actually done well in crafting one for yourself. It’d be an understatement to say that he even caressed the screen with such a delicate touch before closing the tab to pull up something in relation to the GAR.

Plo had not given any comments about it, even upon close inspection that you’ve matched your self-made antiox mask against Dorin gas in the same pattern as his — his lineage, his family, his ancestors of Koons. You’d think you’d have room within your soul to wonder if your self-made rebreather is Kel Dor - approved, or at least Plo Koon - approved, but you knew it was. It probably isn’t as durable as Plo’s, but the gesture alone speaks volume — or at least that’s what you could come up with each time he’d get a chance to hold it. He’d do so with so much care that part of you believed it was shit to begin with that it’d crumble between his large hands.

At times he’d remind you to clean it, not that he needed to. He’d talk about certain parts of the rebreather native to himself at random as if dropping hints on how to further upgrade your own mask without overstepping as you have ‘vehemently’ insisted that this was your personal project to perfect. Even so, you appreciate every obvious hint that included a hand-written note on where to find it, tucked in pockets of your clothing.

“That’s just mean, Plo.” Huffing as you folded yourself onto the bed, back turned as you hauled the covers over your frame angrily. You began grumbling, only to squirm under the weight of his touch along the contours of your side and defensively toss yourself away.

“Why must you always torment yourself with queries you already know the answers to?” Resigned, Plo leaned firmly against the headboard and left the datapad idle over his lap. “Are we not past that at this point, my sweet?”

You continue to grumble under your breath, rolling your eyes even and standing on a defiant ground —taking a moment before your cheeks have turned to cerise hue.

“It’s a thing that you’re supposed to ask someone… y…you like.” And before Plo could put a word in, you pulled the magazine from under the bed and showed him the marked page of two earthling lovers and their 1000 questions of professed love.

“My darling, what we have is not something undercut as ‘like’. Am I loved less today than yesterday?”

You wanted badly to say ‘yes’ to that for the sake of banter, but the genuine worry in his voice reminded of the peculiar situation that you and Plo have; a not-quite lovers, not-quite exclusive, not-quite looking for someone else, and not-quite permitted but somehow accepted kind of setup. Evenly perturbed that he might take it to heart, you thought well of your next response — the make or break of all responses.

And with a steady heart determined to not only preserve love that transcends beyond realms of tradition and normalcy, unbridled by any word of law or doctrine, you scour the depths of your existence to offer yourself in complete surrender — to bear him words that would solidify the unbreakable connection that spanned the entirety of your respective lives.

“Yes. You are loved less today than yesterday.” And so you speak, now propped on your elbows.

“Quite a dilemma.” Replied the ever-resigned Plo Koon, gaze scanning the contents of the magazine and nodding curiously before turning back to his datapad.

Sensing your disappointment as you slowly lowered the magazine and dropped it onto the floor by your side of the bed, Plo turned his head to address your tantrum-stricken visage with a palm that had engulfed the entirety of your face.

You utter a lengthy whine with apologetic and impatient undertones that did very little to deter him from having his attention drawn once more to the device.

“So you really won’t love me if I was a worm, then?”

You’ve started to take this little game of ribbing to heart given that you’ve had a long day and sometimes, all you need is for Plo to be a little less unhinged on the proper side and more clement to silly whims of the heart.

You hear a daunted sigh as the massive hand of your beloved Kel Dor retracts to his person; as if you were so much in the wrong you’ve upset Plo Koon to a degree that is most unfavorable for you both.

“My little wonder, just as I would tread the path of the Jedi once more in another life, I would not indulge in the slightest of change, for it is that consistency and restraint that had led our courses to cross. It is that same resilience to the unearthly call of pleasure and attachment that has allowed me to not only bear my heart and soul to you, my sweet, but to shake the very core of my devotion for the Order and its teachings. I do not just ‘like’ or ‘love’ you, my precious one — I simply am one that is yours as I am in the Force. I can only hope that is more than enough.”

Plo takes your hand into his with an attempt to reassure your worries with a gentle squeeze. And even behind the protective goggles, you knew within you that those silver eyes of his bore so much gratitude for not only the presence of your company, but the existence of you in his life as he would often remind you of.

You smile, reaching up to his face with a freehand, tracing the intricacies of the metallic contraption that sustained his life outside Mother Dorin’s familiar embrace. And in that moment with such tenderness in your voice, you simply could not help yourself but bestow upon him the honesty that burns with your heart — and you so you speak.

“So you would still love me if I was worm, Plo?”

And with unmatchable enthusiasm, he replies.

“No. I will most certainly not.”

~ Fin

This is a tribute to my favorite meme of all time because idk what it is with that picture that beckons me to live another day, but it does. And also, it's the worm question. Icky, icky, worm question. Thank you for reading ♥ - Duch

#♝#plo koon #plo koon x reader #plo koon fic #plo koon x oc #ploduch #the wip is out #i can now hide #plokoonxreader #plokoonxoc #plokoonfic #ρℓσ∂υ¢н

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an-aura-about-you · 5 months ago

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ok so I know I'm a Flambeau/Lady Felicia shipper deep down, BUT it would probably do Mrs. Devine a lot of good to go for him instead and get off her fixation on Inspector Sullivan because Sullivan is either clueless to her overtures or pretending to be to try sparing her feelings. surely a fling with an international thief is exactly the sort of thing a widow who's properly out of the grieving stage and ready to mingle again needs, right?

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socialmediasocrates · 1 year ago

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with pace and a fury defiant- intro and links

hindsight being what it is i really should have posted this sooner but i am very prone to getting excited about a project and forgetting that nobody but me actually knows what in the fuck i'm going on about anyway pretty picture and info below

with pace and a fury defiant is a (mostly) canon-complaint Baldur's Gate 3 fanfiction centered on the relationship between Astarion Ancunin and drow paladin Balafay alean'Arabani. What happens when two deeply wounded people fall in love? They dance around it for a few (tens of) thousand words and maybe require external intervention before one of them starts being honest--it's not even Astarion, this time! Novelties, lengthy diversions about the little miscellaneous details of life, and the mortification of being known abound.

It's mostly about learning how to be a person and how to love other people; it's a little bit about what happens when you learn to love someone only to realize that they've never learned how to accept it. It's also about drow politics, Elder Brains, and the world trying to end for the umpteenth time in the last couple hundred years.

This is the link to the series.

The parts active now:

GIRLFAILURE- local morons turned morons on an adventure dance around the mortifying ordeal of getting to know someone

GIRLBOSS- when you die and come back, wrong or right, you probably should actually address it

ah, it's more courageous to overcome- sometimes it takes a trip to the underdark and a run in with an ex to make you realize how much the people in your life mean to you (roughly following the remainder of Act I after the goblins)

Upcoming:

crowned by an overture bold and beyond- sometimes the thing you love the most is deeply and fundamentally broken, and that's alright; maybe sometimes our edges match (Astarion/Balalafay, following Acts II&III; some things could change)

there is no me without you- what happens after you save the world? you chase down the fool you saved it with (Astarion/Balalafay; post-game)

i will be your sword and shield- it starts in hell and it ends in hell, but in between there are flowers (karlach companion piece)

at worst the world will sing along- they're two of the most damaged, infuriating people she's ever met, and unfortunately she's in love with them (shadowheart companion piece)

run, run lost boy- the strange little man with mirrors for eyes has an infectious smile, and the problems only start there (gale companion piece)

call me the kintsugi kid- she never dreamed of princes on white horses until recently, but now she dreams of nothing else (lae'zel/wyll companion piece)

if we were young again- a knight and a thief married for love, but that was before the tribulations (zevlor companion piece)

no grave can hold my body down- and so the wizard fell head over heels for the knight; and so the knight stuck her foot in her mouth like seven million times (rolan companion piece)

still more glorious dawn awaits- the band gets back together (tentative sequel and epilogue for the whole party)

lmfao there's def gonna be others i'm obsessed i already have au's on the brain

Other links:

The pinterest and spotify playlist for the main fic

The pinterest and spotify playlist for sword and shield (karlach)

The pinterest and spotify playlist for run, run lost boy (gale)

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #astarion x tav #drow tav #bg3 #bg3 fic #with pace and a fury defiant #ok i'll pin it this time FINE #FINE FINE FINE #moth the hack writer

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arcplaysgames · 2 years ago

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Grinding a bunch of confidants. Loving Haru, I think she'll wind up being a good Empress once I see her ending.

Futaba's arc is done and her ultimate persona is A Dark Planet Lit By No Sun, I see.

Oh wait no its a Tron Sphere. I can feel the Daft Punk bass thumping from this thing.

I dunno what to say about Futaba except she is a textbook Hermit. The Hermit is all about the pursuit of knowledge to the neglect of all other things. It can be someone taking a spiritual retreat to find their inner quiet. It can also be a haxxor girl recluse learning to be a programming supergenius.

The important part of the Hermit is the duration. At its best, the Hermit takes a long break from society and returns to share the knowledge they discovered in their solitude. At worse, the Hermit is sequestered too long and loses that connection to society.

Futaba's journey to relearn how to interact with people and to be in public spaces is an extremely good Hermit arc. She has the hidden knowledge she left the world for but her path back is clear in front of her.

Ten out of ten! Like, just... textbook execution.

PICTURED ABOVE: Reverie trying to get Akechi to attack him in public.

Took Yusuke on a date and he asked Reverie to keep guiding him through new experiences, and somehow the game still doesn't let you mack on him. Fucking unfair.

And then, finally, after dodging me for weeks.

It's Maruki's final day here, and he's doing everything but a villainous striptease for our amusement.

It's okay to escape your problem, oh Maruki. Bro. Oh, you are going to be such a problem very soon.

I do love this performance though because the lines in the script are some red fucking flags, but the VA doesn't lean in at all and maintains the soft, earnest kindness the entire time. I'm hyped for Maruki to, idk, wrap a golden lasso around Mementos and ruin everyone's lives with his batshit savior complex.

GREATEST SCREENSHOT IN THE FUCKING GAME. THIS MOMENT IS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION. THIS MOMENT IS WORTH PUTTING UP WITH RYUJI IN HAWAII.

(i say worth the price, P5R was a gift, thank you cardiganism)

At this point, it's a running gag that every SLink ends with the person revealing they know Reverie is a Thief.

This is the first time that's felt dangerous.

I'm actually impressed with the game's restraint for not changing the BGM to something a little tense, because I sure felt fucking tense when he said this.

Maruki, you are so intensely fucking dangerous.

...... oh that's subtle

Okay, did you try your hypothesis out on your ex-fiance? Because that'd be severely fucked if you did that, homes.

Can't wait to see the degree to which you absolutely fuck everything up. Sincerely: go wild, man, do some damage. I bet it'll be spectacular. You are what ethics boards have nightmares about.

Back in the MSQ, its time to send Sae the calling card. Makoto volunteers to get it to Sae.

AND THEN

RIGHT AFTER AKECHI LEAVES

okay so we're double crossing the double-crosser. fabulous.

Is Joker going to be the one to do it because Akechi might take that as an overture of love at this point.

And the fuse is lit.

Akechi, you are a stone cold bitch and I hope it stings when your ass hits the curb.

NOW I MUST SLEEP BUT TOMORROW: finally figuring out what the FUCK is going ON.

Love it when a framing device comes apart.

#p5 #persona liveblog

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gear-project · 8 months ago

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Annon-Guy: Alternate Costumes

In terms of Alternate Costumes in Fighting Games, what's your personal opinion on them? Does it depend on a number of factors where you prefer the default appearance, the alternate costume or both?

For example, in most Capcom Games, Chun-Li fro, Street Fighter generally has her classic outfit (except in SF6 where it's the alternate) with her getting her Alpha Outfit as an alternate.

Even in BlazBlue, Noel has both her New and NOL outfits available, plus in Guilty Gear 2 Overture, Sol has his EX Sol Costume which gives him his Classic Look. Not to mention Johnny's extra beard "accessory" in StrIVe...

Granted, there are costumes which are meant to be fanservice like. Like in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, EVERY fighter (except Skullomania and Thief Arthur due to Guest Character Status) has three costumes to equip. Barring Shermie, Terry, Jeane, Miss X(?) and Skullomania, they start off in a goofy/fanservice outfit with a second fanservice outfit as an unlockable. Their third unlockable outfit is their original outfit from the main KOF Games, which is the only time they're not embarrassed (including Mai, who's default is fanservice 😂).

This is a very huge topic, to be honest... and really it can become anything in terms of potential development ideas that have either existed or have yet to exist.

But, to keep things simple, I'll just say that my absolute favorite approach is the way games like Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising do it:

By giving each character "bits and pieces" of various outfits and weapons to mix and match and customize their appearance, players are able to put their own color and spin on their favorite characters and "make it personalized".

Soul Calibur and Tekken are probably the most famous for it because of their 3D DLC packages, and even Dead or Alive as a series is pretty infamous for it as well.

But games like Mortal Kombat 11, MK1, and even Melty Blood and Under Night In-Birth are doing it now!

Even Street Fighter is taking the World Tour approach and letting players create their ultimate character.

It was long ago, but Guilty Gear Isuka utilized Robo-Ky Factory, a means of letting players create their own ultimate creation for the game.

Guilty Gear Strive, while it currently does the bare minimum, is necessarily NOT going to take a more "dandy" option at some point. We can only wait and see how they approach this part of the game's development, but the more people ASK for it, the more they'll STRIVE towards such a goal!

#DLC #Alternate Costumes #Alternate Outfits

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pharaohgargamel · 1 year ago

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Топ 10 лучших музыкальных произведений 🎵😺

Top 10 best music🎵😺

Сегодня я решил написать статью о моей любимой музыке.

Это в основном классическая музыка хотя есть и просто известные композиции. В этой подборке конечно же не все мои любимые композиции а только 12 из них.

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Today I decided to write an article about my favorite music.

This is mainly classical music, although there are also well-known compositions. In this collection, of course, not all of my favorite tunes, but only 12 of them.

1. "Пляска смерти" (фр. Danse macabre) - Камиль Сен-Санс.

Красивая музыка совершенно не имеющая никакого отношения к своему названию. У многих славянских людей она ассоциируется в первую очередь с песней из мультфильма "Незнайка", однако полный её вариант совсем непохож на это. Музыка написана Французским композитором Камилем Сен - Сансом в 1874 году.

2. Влтава ((Vltava, также известная под немецким названием Moldau) - Бедржих Сметана

Композиция из цикла "Моя родина" написанная в 1874 Чешским композитором Бедржихом Сметаной.

3. "Ученик чародея" (фр. L'Apprenti sorcier) - Поль Дюка.

Композиция написана в 1897 году. Однако наиболее широкую известность принесло музыке использование в музыкальном анимационном фильме «Фантазия» (1940). Самое известное произведение Французского композитора Поля Дюка.

4."3 часть концерта для флейты с оркестром" Карла Филиппа Эммануила Баха.

Композиция написана в 1738-40 годах Немецким композитором Карлом Филиппом Эммануилом Бахом.

5. Увертюра к опере "Свадьба Фигаро"( - Вольфганга Амадея Моцарта.

Композиция к известной опере написанная в я 1786 году Австрийским композитором Вольфгангом Амадеем Моцартом.

6. Сюита из мюзикла "Вестсайдская история"(англ. West Side Story) - Леонард Бернстайн.

Сам мюзикл добыл свою популярность именно из за мелодий. композиция написана в 1957 году, Американским композитором Леонардом Бернстайном.

7. Увертюра к опере Сорока - воровка"(итал. La gazza ladra) - Джоакино Россини.

Написанна в 1817 году Итальянским композитором Джоакино Россини.

8. 2 часть "Шотландской симфонии" - Феликса Мендельсона Бартольди .

Написана в (1830—1842) годах Немецким композитором Феликсом Мендельсоном Бартольди.

9. 5 симфония - Людвиг Ван Бетховен.

Всемирно известная композиция написанная в 1807 - 1808 годах Немецким композитором Людвигом Ван Бетховеном.

10. "Фантазия и фуга соль минор" - Иоганноа Себастьяна Баха.

Одно из всемирно известных органных произведений написанное в 1708-1717 годах.

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1. "Dance of death"(fr. Danse macabre) - Camille Saint-Saens.

Beautiful music that has absolutely nothing to do with its name. For many Slavic people, it is associated primarily with the song from the cartoon "Dunno", but its full version is completely different from this. The music was written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1874.

2. Vltava ((Vltava, also known by the German name Moldau) - Bedrich Smetana

Composition from the cycle "My Motherland" written in 1874 by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana

3. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (French L'Apprenti sorcier) - Paul Dukas

The composition was written in 1897. However, the music was most widely known for its use in the animated musical film Fantasia (1940). The most famous work of the French composer Paul Duc.

4. "3rd movement of the concerto for flute and orchestra" by Carl Philipp Emanuela Bach.

The composition was written in 1738-40 by the German composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

5. Overture to the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Composition for the famous opera written in 1786 by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

6. Suite from the musical "West Side Story" - Leonard Bernstein.

The musical itself gained its popularity precisely because of the melodies. the composition was written in 1957 by the American composer Leonard Bernstein.

7. Overture to the opera Magpie the Thief"(Italian: La gazza ladra) - Gioachino Rossini.

Written in 1817 by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

8. Part 2 of the "Scottish Symphony" - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Written in (1830-1842) by the German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

9. 5th symphony - Ludwig van Beethoven.

World famous composition written in 1807 - 1808 by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

10. "Fantasy and Fugue in G minor" - Johann Sebastian Bach

One of the world famous organ works written in 1708-1717.

На этом я кончаю свою подборку музыкальных композиций. Надеюсь вам понравиться. Это моя первая статья в таком роде, поэтому возможны кое какие неточности. Очень жду ваших комментариев! Отдельное спасибо тем кто дочитал до конца!✨😃😺🎼🎵

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This concludes my selection of musical compositions. I hope you will enjoy. This is my first article of this kind, so there may be inaccuracies. I look forward to your comments! Special thanks to those who read to the end!✨😃😺🎼🎵

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