#absolute destiny

[your-absolute-destiny]

What’s Absolute Destiny? @harpes-pokeblogging-adventure

Normally, I wouldn't answer because it says you have a bisharp, but I'm making an exception because it's rude not to help people who don't know something.

Absolute Destiny is a game originally made for the Nintendo DS. It has a lot of mixed reviews online, but I don't really get all the reasons people say it's bad. They released a remake for it on the Switch a few months ago that has brought a ton of people into the fandom, but I don't have a Switch, I just played the original.

Absolute Destiny is a game about an absol person (all the characters are anthropomorphic pokemon. think kinda like pokemon crossing but a different artstyle) named Lucky, whose father is His Most Disastrous Majesty, King Tragedy, king of the absols. The absols are a group of evil pokemon who use their power to cause disasters and tragedies to control all the pokemon of the world. In the past, the arcanines opposed the absols and other evil pokemon and stopped them from destroying everything, but that changed when King Tragedy killed the king of the arcanines and captured all the rest.

Lucky decides he doesn't want to rule the world like his father, and hates the thought of being a tyrant like him and runs away. Once he leaves, though, the spirit of the king of the arcanines comes to him and tells him only he can save the world and sends Lucky on his epic quest.

Lucky travels the world, defeating the members of his father's council who have been assigned to control parts of the world, and making new friends along the way! His teammates are Clip, the manectric who was raised by mareep and acts as their protector, Willow, the feraligatr who was exiled for trying to start an uprising against the absols, and Jingle, a chimecho who's family was imprisoned for trying to heal the king of the arcanine.

Together they take down all of the evil dark types, and free the arcanines after defeating Lucky'a father! At the end, Lucky turns into an arcanine because of him rising above his evil family and background, and becomes the new king of the arcanine before banishing all the dark types for their evil.

A lot of people love the game because of how progressive and inclusive it was for the time, with a story about rising above your background to become a good person, Clip being implied to be trans in the original kantonian version, Willow mentioning having two dads, and Jingle's design turning the ribbon on chimecho into a hijab, among other things. A lot of people also hate the game for it being "anti-dark type" by portraying them as evil, but dark types are evil, so???

It's a good game!

[rowanisawriter]

you know. when i first picked up ace attorney i thought perhaps the thing between edgeworth and phoenix was being exaggerated but there is no subtext in this game. they really are like this. there’s no reading into anything they literally are just like this

[moistvonlipwig]

one of rgu's best takes about rape and incest is that rape and incest are not deviant. they are exceedingly normal. they are, in fact, the logical extension of patriarchal romance and the patriarchal family -- the same logic that underpins those structures facilitates abuse, rape, incest, and csa. many people, even those who nominally understand the idea of rape culture, conceive of rape as a deviation from cultural mores, and even more people view incest as an aberration, a twisting of the Family (which is Good) into something unnatural and evil. but rgu correctly identifies that rape and incest are outgrowths of patriarchal society, not alien intrusions upon it. incest is merely a symptom of the problem which is the patriarchal family itself. rape and domestic abuse are merely symptoms of the problem which is patriarchal & heteronormative romance and society itself. rather than rape being deviant, it is resistance to patriarchy which is deviant; rather than incest being abnormal, it is a girl holding out a hand to another girl in pain which is abnormal. because 'abnormal' does not mean 'bad' any more than 'normal' means 'good'. "fall in love normally, get married normally, have a normal family, and have a normal life -- but normal has nothing to do with us!"

[stoshasaurus]

one of my followers on twitter gave me the most incredible image of Osiris so naturally i had to redraw it

what is his PROBLEM

[hyakunana]

"My friend, my partner… my Guardian."

[sylenth-l]

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Bonus:

[the-crooked-library]

i think the primary reason why K/S has such overwhelming appeal is and always shall be that it is, at its core, a soulmate bond that has to be forged. the only way a t'hy'la bond can manifest is through shared toil, hardships, and undying devotion; it must be given effort and put together piece by piece - but at the same time, by the nature of its creation, it alters all realities on a cosmic level, to the point that Kirk and Spock must meet in every universe.

t'hy'la is not spontaneous. it is not a soulmate mark, it doesn't spring to life at first sight or first touch or first word. it is destined - because it is chosen, time and time again. you cannot have one without the other

[brodorokihousuke]

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (2013)

[oryx-the-nightmare-daddy]

"Another early idea where Savathun has actually merged with a Worm God, her body tangled and wrapped around the entire castle."

Witch Queen concept art by Dima Goryainov

[roses-are-yonic]

hey sorry about your girlfriend, she turned into a car. yeah, it's a metaphor for her becoming your vehicle for escape to leave your abusive family. yeah, you'll be going to a world without roads. yeah, the outside world has no roads. at least you can always build new ones! no? okay.

[thefirstknife]

Some lore tabs that killed me dead and I'll never recover from them. Seasonal gauntlets are about Zavala realising and coming to terms with the fact that he is mortal and has mortal pains. Also, finally, the full confirmation that Guardians resume aging when they lose their Light:

He moved his chair back and considered his knee. What had he done to hurt it? He had not exercised yet, he had not gone on his usual patrol… he had done nothing. Why would a knee hurt from doing nothing? The riddle dissolved. He was starting to age.

But also:

He allows a hand to rest on his aching knee. To venerate it. He feels it solid under his palm. It is his, it is real, it is both portentous and precious. He is aging. He will age. An absurd and joyous thought warms in his chest: how fortunate, to have lived long enough to grow old. How invaluable, to make the space between himself and the horizon matter. How much time is left? And is it best spent with his knees under a desk?

Genuinely crying over this. How fortunate to live long enough to grow old. Man. Also at the end he asks for a break for one week and Ikora offers him two weeks.

The next one just... I have no words. It has to be read in full. It's about Saint going through it, having memories of his past and also dealing with the guilt with what's happening to Mithrax. Truly every sentence in this one is a gutpunch all the way to the end. Excerpts:

The hum of activity was overpowering yet reassuring to Saint-14 as he stopped to watch an older Eliksni expertly weave fabric on a well-worn loom. The woven symbols were unique and unfamiliar to the Exo, but he watched in awe as an iridescent glow emerged within the vibrant cerulean cloth. Fit for a Kell, Saint mused to himself— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory echoed in his mind. All he could feel in this moment… was shame.

Saint remembering his crimes against the Eliksni and feeling shame.

He hurried past the weaver and through the crowd, landing squarely in front of a tea stand, a sample placed in his hand before he could open his mouth to refuse. He looked down. The opaque liquid steamed in his cup, pungent and medicinal. Like distilled Darkness, Saint realized— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory filled his sight. All he could feel in this moment… was sadness.

Tea reminded him of all the stuff with Osiris and he is not processing it well. I say excerpts but I have to put the rest entirely because like. Okay.

Saint placed his favorite keepsake, a small stuffed bear, on the Kell's throne. Gently, he adjusted the lavender ribbon at its neck; the crisp satin sat in stark contrast to the bear's hazy black eyes, to its slightly worn ear and well-loved fur. A gift, once a comfort to a child of the City. A gift, once a comfort to Saint in the face of loss, in the face of— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory swelled in his heart. Osiris. His strong laugh. His deep, soulful eyes. The warmth of his smile. Of his touch. Memories of comfort, but all he could feel in this moment… was guilt. Intense and overwhelming, like daggers cutting through him, sharpness bleeding through sweetness. Saint breathed deeply and stared at the medical equipment around the empty throne before him. "The cost of my joy," Saint whispered, and he wept.

He has a teddy bear. He once gave it to a child, but someone returned it to him when he was grieving about Osiris, to comfort him, and he'd kept it. And he put it on Mithrax's throne because he feels guilt that Mithrax is suffering because he helped him and Osiris.

I'm ending it all.

[your-absolute-destiny]

prophetic urls strike again

It's not a prophetic URL. It's a reference to my favourite game about an absol. He starts as an absol he doesn't turn into an absol.

[hi-crawler]

[moistvonlipwig]

it does crack me up how utterly miserable akio is even though his circumstances are far more within his control than anyone else at ohtori. like he thinks children are annoyingly naive but he still chooses to be a school administrator. he thinks astronomy is boring but he still chooses to look at his little planetarium every night. every day akio wakes up and is like "ughhh i have to go sexually abuse some insipid-ass kids today 🙄 fuck my stupid baka life" and it's like well actually bud you don't have to do any of that. but ok

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[OLD ART ALERT] A COLLECTION OF SCENES FROM THE GILLIONS CATSCRATCH ARC THAT BROUGHT ME GREAT JOY. i love fishy chips especially when its just gillion being delirious and violent and hostile

[hyakunana]

Until the End and Beyond