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macrocest · 2 months ago

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There are 44 works in our Cestember ao3 collection as of today!

That's double since the last time we updated! Here are more that have been added since the last two recaps:

child's play by Anonymous

Tales of Zestiria, Tales of Berseria | Edna/Eizen (Tales of Series)

Written for Cestember 2024, prompt: “student/professor”.

Time paradox by mikeellee

Danny Phantom | Danny Fenton/Jazz Fenton

What would happen to make Danny Fenton finally lose his head? Jazz ponders about this. Jazz is no longer in the present but in a bleak future… But where is Danny? Her sweet baby brother? Jazz will finally have an answer to her biggest question.

Still Cares by Klavier (FictionalEvidence)

Dahlia kissed Iris as if she was making a promise to come back to her.

I can make your dreams come true by KittyDaydreams

X-Men (Movieverse) | Laura Kinney/Logan

Laura has a fantasy. An old woman says her potion can make it come true. It probably won't work … but what if it does?

Dream by Klavier (FictionalEvidence), Kristoph (FictionalEvidence)

Klavier wakes up after having a very interesting dream. He isn't aware that he's being watched by the person he's dreaming of and fantasying about.

A Brother's Helping Hand by GoldenBi

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling | Albus Severus Potter/James Sirius Potter

James had snuck into Slytherin dozens of times since he’d been at Hogwarts. It wasn’t particularly difficult to get a password, Scorpius was always willing to give him the new one if he explained that he needed to see his brother. Scorpius always gave him such a hopeful look that James nearly felt guilty that he didn’t go there to talk to Albus. No, he only went to watch.

Shameless by Klavier (FictionalEvidence), Kristoph (FictionalEvidence)

Klavier is turned on by the idea of exposing his naked body and having public sex with his brother. Kristoph agrees, but only once.

The Hole by DespairNagito (orphan_account)

Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | Naegi Komaru/Naegi Makoto

There was a hole in a wall for Komaru and Makoto to use if they would be in a trouble.

Darkness by Klavier (FictionalEvidence), Kristoph (FictionalEvidence)

Klavier hated his brother for everything he had done and couldn't believe he kept coming there. Maybe the idea of humiliating Kristoph was stimulating enough to make him coming back to him. He sometimes would leave his older brother on the edge to see him begging. To see Kristoph doing those sweet eyes and begging him to let him come. Or maybe the reason was to punish his older brother by getting him pregnant?

I can see right through you by KittyDaydreams

Superman - All Media Types | Clark Kent/Martha Kent

When Clark comes home, Martha is wearing a skimpy, daring outfit. She’s wearing it for her, not him. She swears.

Ruined by Klavier (FictionalEvidence), Kristoph (FictionalEvidence)

Kristoph couldn't believe his own eyes how obedient Klavier was to him. His younger brother, who has just won his first case as a prosecutor, was fully naked in front of him and was completely shameless about it. He even licked his lips, waiting for his reward for doing a good job in ruining someone's entire career.

Sweet Dreams by DespairNagito (orphan_account)

Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | Enoshima Junko/Ikusaba Mukuro

Junko was always turned on by the idea of raping her twin in her sleep.

Warm Me Up, My Child by SnarkyGranger1

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | Alphard Black/Andromeda Black Tonks, Pollux Black/Bellatrix Black Lestrange

A familial bonding moment.

Doing homework with Professor Maddie Fenton by KittyDaydreams

Danny Phantom | Danny Fenton/Maddie Fenton

Maddie Fenton is lonely after the disappearance of her husband, Jack. Danny Fenton is nervous about going away to college. There's a way they can help each other through role play.

I See You by FictionalEvidence

Ema went to take a drink from the kitchen, but something stops her on her way. Or much rather – someone.

You Didn't Tell by FictionalEvidence

They didn't know, but at least had fun.

here, there be monsters by liqherstorevagrant

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | Regulus Black/Sirius Black/Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Rodolphus Lestrange, Regulus Black/Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/James Potter

Regulus’ older brother suffers much at the hands of their cousins, and for the longest time, his sacrifice bore Regulus’ name. That is, until one day, when the devil comes a’knocking, and now no amount of sacrifice can prolong the inevitable.

Please by Klavier (FictionalEvidence), Kristoph (FictionalEvidence)

How is it to just start your career as a prosecutor and beg your brother to fuck you, Klavier?

Movie Night by kryptophaps

Original Work | Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)/works)

Eve finds Jenna frustrated after a failed night and tries to help her cool down—in an appropriate way, of course (while she keeps the inappropriate ways of doing so to herself).

Warm My Backside by KittyDaydreams

Firefly (TV 2002) | River Tam/Simon Tam

River has a hankering … for some spankering and only one man can do it for her.

Her Latest Invention by KittyDaydreams

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket | Klaus Baudelaire/Violet Baudelaire

Klaus stumbles on his sister’s latest invention. It opens his mind to new ideas.

All night long by cassetteinability

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | Regulus Black/Sirius Black

“You’re a wreck, Siri,” Regulus said, cutting off Sirius’ thoughts instantly. His eyes roved over Sirius’ body, lips tipping up at the corners when he spotted the cooling come surrounding his navel, the hair leading to his cock stuck together and matted down. “Good dreams?” Regulus’ tone was mocking, if not sultry, and his eyes were glinting with mischief and delight at having caught Sirius in such a precarious situation, but Sirius refused to let him win. “I always dream of you, Reggie.” Written for Cestember, prompt 1: wet dreams

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ivorysodapop · 10 months ago

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Hiya! Nice to meet you!

I'm Allie or Ivory, she/her, 21+ :D thank you for visiting my page!!

Currently into: HAVING A DEADLY A3 REVIVAL MOMENT. Nothing is worse than getting back into a fandom and you can't even experience the source material like you used to be able. Coping by putting them all in the Sims 4 also with Enstars characters and so a lot of my art rn is of that. I don't really even play Enstars those are Rizo's boys.

Ghostdadxian AU Masterlist (MDZS canon-divergence au where WWX comes back as a ghost and basically adopts MXY) Tag: #ghostdadxian au

Check out my oc slideshow if you dare!! (OPEN TO COMMENTS) The verse is inspired by Fire Emblem and ONE DAY it WILL be a game. Prommy. About a kingdom in the sky and on land and dragons and stuff. Literally always obsessed with them. If I'm not in fandom I'm drawing THEM. I also participate in ArtFight. Tag: #gsr verse

Other interests: Fire Emblem (13, 14, 16, 17), Rune Factory, MXTX works, Qianqiu, Persona 5, Youhaji (manga), Bokumonogatari, Ace Attorney (played up to 4), Genshin (not up to date), Tales of Zestiria

DMs and asks are open!! But if you want to talk about a fandom, please be at least the age it's rated. Ex 17+ if you dm me about MXTX works. I can't control what content you take in but, ya know!

Buy me a ko-fi for the doodle of your choice! Or check out my actual commissions!

#not art #about me #everyone who came for ghostdadxian au THIS POST IS YOUR FAULT #there are a lotta you! tysm I lobve you guys

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silverjojo08 · 2 years ago

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On video games and writing and Fire Emblem Engage

Mainly just me musing about how I don't think the story is bad. Sorry for being annoying tbh. This is meant for my personal circle of mutuals, but maybe other people can get something out of it. Please be nice to me; I am not a professional reviewer and don't claim to be writing anything objective or anything lol. I'm also not really editing heavily for grammar or anything (if anything I try to keep a bit of order structurally but I love a comma splice idk lol).

This piece has gone through many versions in my head as I try to nail down exactly what puzzles me about the perception of the writing as being "bad".

Initially I think I was going to do a full plot breakdown and point out how logically every moment fits together and how foreshadowing + late reveals enhances certain previous moments. As I write this down, I don't think that I'll be doing that here. I almost considered a deep dive into the themes of motherhood and found family presented in the game. Not sure I'm going to do that either. At one point I also considered fully getting into common complaints (particularly some brought up from one of my folks who I deeply respect, Mr. Forte himself), but also I don't think I'll really do that.

So, what am I writing here? Maybe it's a mix of all of the above. Maybe it is none of the above. I don't really know. But I do want to talk about how this game just really vibes for me; and while I don't intend on necessarily changing anyone's mind, I want to at least provide some perspective on why I personally enjoy it so that others can understand my perspective at the very least.

Perhaps I will succeed in that. Perhaps I will fail. Let's find out together. (Again I'm doing like very minimal editing. Please excuse grammatical errors/typos. If anything is unclear, ask and I'll try to clarify. But I'm bad at tumblr so either tweet at me or send it through an ask please.)

Prologue: Who? What? Why?

To start, I'm in my early 30s. The video game that made me love video games was Super Mario RPG, and my earliest gaming memories include me watching my dad beat up the robot evil Santa at the end (also him playing some NBA game on SNES). FE games I have played start to finish: 8 (Ephraim), 11, 12, 13, 14 (all 3), 15, 16 (all routes), and 17. FE games I have played a bit of but didn't finish for various reasons (mainly I got distracted and forgor 💀): 1, 4, 5, 7, and 9. None of this actually matters that much, but maybe there's a generational and/or fandom divide of some sort and this provides useful context.

I am not a writer by trade nor hobby. Writing is actually one of my least favorite things to do (this is potentially related to OCD brain "just right" stuff), to the point where I chose my college major specifically based on which had the least amount of classes that I could actually complete without having to write essays. I am a math person. I do like consuming and dissecting written fiction though.

This piece is meant to be mostly explanatory. I want to give my perspective as best I can. I decided other writing styles would be too combative for what amounts to something we're consume for enjoyment. I just want to pass on some understanding of how I feel.

I think the best way to do this is generally avoid spoilers, but I will include a specifically marked section where I discuss all spoilery things that come to mind (anything that I intend to come back to in this spoiler section will be marked with a *). Any non-FE games mentioned will not be spoiled beyond kind of a general "a reveal happened in a way that bugged me" type of stuff, if even that is a concern here's a list of the games vaguely mentioned so you can crtl+f: Tales of Zestiria, AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies. It all happens within two paragraphs, so you can just skip them if needed.

(Also I may accidentally use he/him pronouns for Alear because M Alear was the one I played with first, but I do generally think of FE avatars as the same being regardless of gender and try to use they/them when speaking to things both versions experience, which is like everything besides the hair colors being flipped and class options?)

Chapter I: What Is "Bad Writing" To Me?

Ok if you're reading this I assume you are at least in high school, and for that reason I'm not going to walk anyone through that level of analysis. In no way is this meant to be a lecture and I'm not trying to give any particularly deep literary analysis. That feels kind of like a pretentious thing to do in this situation.

So, bad writing? To me the biggest thing I consider bad writing is when an idea is not communicated well. This could be contradictory messaging, poor delivery, puzzling execution, etc. Obviously this can happen to various degrees of "bad", but I will not consider a story to have bad writing unless the writing breaks the experience in some way.

A broken experience is not the same to me as a negative one. To me a negative experience is just a matter of taste in the end and not a matter of "bad writing". Boring writing is not the same as bad writing even if it makes the experience painful. A broken experience has to be bad to the point where you just do not understand what they were attempting at all.

One game that comes to mind on this is Tales of Zestiria. I loved the characters in that game, and the main story itself is largely logical. But it was written so messily that there's a point where it becomes truly incoherent. To this day I have no idea what was going on with Dezel and Rose's personal histories despite a major climax of that game being built around the moment things get revealed for them. Again, it was overall a fun game, but it was definitely one I would claim had some bad writing.

Another situation that comes to mind that can be a spark for bad writing is when a reveal sours previous experiences. Misleading an audience can work really well in some ways. Ace Attorney 5 (Dual Destinies) has a reveal that has made me not want to replay it at all, but I don't believe the reveal is poorly done. Conversely, Somnium Files 2 (Nirvana Initiative) had one reveal that invalidates a significant part of the playing experience in a way that's hard to describe without going any further, but I think playing with audience expectations can only go so far until you make the audience feel like you've stolen part of the joy of the playing experience by severing an emotional connection.

I've been trying to describe this all in objective terms, but obviously it is very subjective. It's totally a "I know it when I see it" thing in the end. This section might be pointless. I don't know.

(There were too many blocks of text so look at Alfred; he's so nice and funny and good. I will give him the pact ring every time I play as M Alear lol.)

Chapter II: What about Fire Emblem Engage?

I guess this is kind of my point. I don't understand how any of this is applicable to it. The plot is fairly simple especially to start. You go from point A to point B with plenty of easy to follow narrative. Characters behave in logical and understandable ways. There's nothing functionally "wrong" with the story.

I think there are some pacing issues with the last stretch of chapters in that things happen too quickly for the player to properly respond even though the concepts are cool*. There's a lot of infodumps in these last chapters too that feel a little misplaced*. I agree that the tea supports (and shared gimmicks in general among certain groups of characters) are a bit overwhelming to unlock in succession. The DLC sucks* and only small parts of it truly add to the main story's narrative. There's the usual Fire Emblem incest and pedophilia grossness trying to peek its head through*. It's not a perfect game by any means.

I think I need to break up overall story discussion and character usage discussion, so I'm going to do that right now. If you've read to this point you generally get my point maybe on why the writing works fine for me and can stop here if you don't want a full peek into the deepest and most illogical recesses of my mind?

If you're not stopping here, together we ride or something idk did the title for this song come from Smash? Whatever.

Chapter III: The Story

***SPOILER WARNING, SKIP TO THE NEXT PART IF YOU WANT TO AVOID SPOILERS***

Alright so I lied when I said I wouldn't go into this fully dissecting the plot or other people's criticisms. I'll do that a little bit here.

The biggest moment of "controversy" I think that happens early on is the loss of Lumera. What I've seen is that many people feel it didn't land well with them due to the game having not built up the relationship all that well. And I intellectually get that perspective. If a story beat doesn't land well to you then I can't tell anyone they're wrong for feeling a particular way about things. But while I understand people may feel this way, I truly do not understand that viewpoint. That we don't know Lumera is kind of the point. Alear also doesn't know her well at that moment. You're supposed to feel like it came too suddenly and is weird for it. The full gravity of the moment is not clear until later on in the game, and I think it was executed very well because the entire game revolves around this specific concept of chosen motherhood and family.

But maybe I'm moving too quickly. Backing up a bit, another criticism of this early game situation is I've seen people say they don't "have reason to care" how Alear is feeling this early on. And like, I truly don't know how to help you with that. When I start a game I generally don't start at 0 waiting for the game to make me care about the main character. I am already on their side and hoping for the best for them? I went in mainly thinking Alear looked goofy but like a nice kid who deserved nice things and the game did build well on it for me.

I think there are some questions on the nature of the emblems and the rings that go somewhat unanswered. There's a lack of clarity on how the rings function, and how stealing the rings after winning a battle works. Given that we see them levitate at numerous times, I suspect that is mostly the answer. But I do understand if that's a point of contention for some since it's not directly clarified.

The emblems are similarly somewhat explained as kind of heroic essence put to form, which genuinely is enough of an answer to me. But I do understand some may find that lacking. There are also many issues with the writing of the emblems which I sympathize with especially as a comic book fan who hates it when my faves are misrepresented in other titles. That's a genuine flaw that could have been corrected by having people working on the script who cared more about accuracy.

The pacing absolutely becomes an issue in the later chapters of the game. The Zephia and Griss death scene is extremely touching and well-written, but to have a scene that long and that complex in that moment of the game is very awkward. It would have been better suited as a Memory Prism type of bonus scene like FE15 had (for several characters there were scenes that added context but did not exactly fit in the main story such as a flashback discussion with Emperor Rudolf). It is necessary to understand the characters, but there's not a truly comfortable place to put it that doesn't seem insane especially given the length. This deeply ties into how I feel about the DLC as well, which is that Good!Zephia/Zelestia gives crucial insight to the effects of positive nurturing and actively choosing to build bonds, which is perhaps the strongest and most important theme of the game. Every instance of chosen family in this game is framed and shown to be a truly critical event for the individuals, as are the instances of chosen neglect. The usage and execution of this theme to me was extremely powerful in execution and just worked without feeling too cringe or forced. It's good stuff. I love love love what they did here, and I say this as a person who has never wanted to be a mother of any sort.

To go on a bit more about this: Griss (and by extension Gregory, but focusing on Griss here for simplicity) and Alear are such strong reflections of one another. There's some obvious aspects like how Griss is visually edgy and Alear is visually bright, Griss is rude and confident while Alear is kind and doubtful, etc. But the strongest comparisons and contrasts between them involve their mothers, and I think it's just incredibly well done. Comparisons include both of them get their sense of fashion from their moms, get their unit classing from their moms, somewhat blindly follow the words of their moms, had terrible upbringings and cling to their moms as their first emotional support, etc. But the contrasts? Oh baby. Zephia adopts Griss because he's a standout while Lumera adopts Alear because they're a failure (by Sombron's measure, not literally). Griss spends years by Zephia's side learning from her while Alear has to mostly guess at what Lumera had planned for them. And perhaps most starkingly: Griss gets to die alongside Zephia while Alear and Lumera are always mourning one another. Griss is such an incredibly well done rival character. It's no wonder he's the one who gets the special cutscene where he reveals the truth to Alear. Forever my GOAT!

Sadly though it's time to switch gears and talk about the DLC: it truly sucks. I said it on twitter after beating it, but I really think that they messed up on anticipating what would be a compelling scenario for the players to play through while also coaxing themselves into a snafu regarding spoilers. There's some good stuff there, but it's almost directly undercut by necessitating that it can be played early in a playthrough before the player has gotten to the revelations about Alear's biological parentage.

The DLC does attempt to carry over the themes of the main game, but without being able to openly acknowledge that these are some of the last of Alear's siblings (even if not by blood exactly) it becomes hollow. The only real payoff on the theming is the Nel and Veyle support chain where even if they aren't sisters in the traditional sense, Veyle is desperate for that kinship as she is so young and has spent so much time alone. It's very touching and something that could have been touched on with Alear as well if only the writers weren't forced to write a detached arc to avoid spoilers.

Yes this is probably where I should get into the alt Alear being the "twin" of the main one. They needed to either go all in with that and have Alear confirmed as sort of a multiversal set of twins or back up off it and confirm that they're only narrative parallels because doing literally all of this and then having Nel have feelings for the other Alear is gross. They did so well avoiding weirdness with Veyle in the main game, and then completely blew it in regards to Nel. It makes no sense you can romantically S support her and invalidates all the themes about family presented to that point if characters who literally share a father and share similar traumas don't find healthy kinship with one another.

But beyond all that, we don't really get to see enough of Nel and "Nil" to be convinced by their dedication to one another especially in comparison to other familial relationships like between the recruitable royals, Four Hounds, and Four Winds. It feels like things are just happening to happen without feeling the gravity of terror that we are told Sombron caused them. Again, the obvious parallel to Alear being forced to fight Veyle purely due to their father's machinations isn't allowed to be explored due to the spoilers thing. Subtlety can be a structurally clever thing, but this doesn't even feel like the DLC writers were aware of that basic fact. This is the only aspect of the whole game that I feel truly misses the mark for me. It feels like a bland copycat of the main game written by someone who only skimmed a wiki article of the main story. I truly really believe they would have been better served making it a proper postgame arc because then maybe the emotional connections could have been fully explored.

I also almost feel as though they'd have been better served writing a story set in the past around red Alear. I understand that would have made it difficult to have playable units from the DLC in the main campaign, but I would have gladly missed out on them if that meant adding to the main universe instead of mostly meaning nothing in the end besides an edgy boy (and I genuinely like Rafal, he's funny) realizing he isn't as edgy as he thought he was.

Back to the main game though. Alear becoming Corrupted and begging their sister to not give up was extremely cool and dangerous and insane in a GOOD way (though again, the cutscenes were somewhat long but long for the sake of the main characters is different than long for side villains). Then you play the actual chapter and nothing truly significant is happening that makes the experience feel noteworthy. I think the design and gameplay are more of a problem with this than the specifics of the writing itself, but both of those generally work to the benefit of storytelling in this game so to have an obviously contradictory moment like that undercuts the drama of the scenario. It's a great idea done in kind of a "just ok" way. Would have been better off omitting that chapter entirely and just jumping to the emblem-izing of Alear immediately. Maybe the writers were just too ambitious with the idea of using the Corrupted for a good reason, and couldn't bear to cut it out? I don't dislike indulgent writing, but I dislike when I can tell the writers are just doing something because they thought it was cool and no one felt like being the one to say "ok this doesn't quite fit".

Another gameplay and storytelling problem is the final boss fight. Bringing back the other final bosses as evil emblems was brilliant, but to not bring them back as recognizable models, not give them their portraits, and not give them their voice lines (and correct me if I'm wrong, but they all have voice actors from their own games or Heroes) made it difficult to identify who was who without looking up their classes online. That really undercut most of the drama in them being used in that battle. I understand this may have all added costs to the game that they maybe didn't want to pay, but that lack of detail made a very cool inclusion feel kind of middling.

And the boss himself? Sombron is actually an interesting dude to me. But again, all his backstory and evil plans probably should have been dumped in a monologue separate from the final battle. I think this is yet another case, similar to the Zephia and Griss scene, that would have worked better as a memory prism than as just a character telling the audience directly in what sort of feels like an inappropriately detailed explanation. I appreciate that they did not force this into being another story centered around multiversal crossovers in a media landscape that is currently overwhelmed by such stories, especially if the "Zero Emblem" hook has no intention of being followed up on. Though arguably that's yet another thing the DLC needlessly complicated. Is there just an infinite number of Sombrons looking for an infinite number of Zero Emblems? Even more proof that the DLC should not have happened as it did.

Last thing worth addressing in detail is the pedophilia that has been sadly very prevalent in the series and arguably emboldened by the introduction of the S support system. Even if one wants to disregard the internal age data, characters like Anna, Jean, and Hortensia should not have been romanceable in any language. I thank the English localization team for scrubbing out most of this and making them as platonic as possible.

Ok I think that's basically everything about the plot I can think of right now to address directly. Solm royals could have gotten more, but whatever. I thought they were fine as the hyper-competent Batman-like country that's like 5 steps ahead of everyone. I don't have any other things to speak about on the main story events.

*** THE SPOILERS ARE DONE, CONTINUE READING HERE ***

(Your reward for reading all those paragraphs is a nice picture of my daughter Veyle, who is precious and good. I was so worried they would be weird about her and barefeet aside they thankfully were not.)

Chapter IV: The Other Characters

There's a couple of obvious social groups of characters who have largely overlapping gimmicks. Tea time enthusiasts (Celine, Louis, Jean), aesthetic obsessives (Goldmary, Rosado, Hortensia), gym rats (Alfred, Etie, Boucheron sort of). Firene has perhaps the biggest problem of having so many gimmicks done so close together. There is still a lot of depth in those supports still (notably in the A levels after many might have given up, such as Alfred-Etie, Alfred-Celine, Celine-Alear, etc). I don't really have a defense for this, but I do understand why especially early on it would cause people to write off the cast of the game. It didn't bother me much maybe because I benched everyone but Alfred and Louis right away (I needed to keep Clanne and Framme around, they're really funny lol).

But overall I didn't mind any of the characters for their gimmicks besides Seadall (his disordered eating being treated as a joke was just extremely offputting and it was really 50/50 on whether a support might focus on it) and Goldmary (she is just an asshole and to me it wasn't funny, not every joke will land for everyone I suppose).

The cast felt extremely likeable and well-rounded. I will sound like a broken record here, but again they really reminded me of what I enjoyed about the FE8 cast. Just pretty much all likeable and good characters.

Chapter V: Everything Else

Here's like everything else that comes to mind but I don't have enough in my brain to properly write sentences on them and I kind of want to be done with this lmao:

Yes, I think it's a little silly how some characters manage to get away without the game directly stating how. Alear and co are nice and not brutal so you can assume they allowed the escape, but it's still weird at times. Poorly choreographed.

I will never unironically use the term "ludonarrative" (no shade if you do, but it's not me). However the introduction of the Lucina ring bringing back hope to the crew while being a supportive ring for gameplay purposes and all is just really special stuff. It's good. Similarly, the ring you get at the end of chapter 17 is an amazing moment.

I'm not particularly bothered by the rings being former characters. I don't feel they were used poorly or anything. They're wise old heroes helping the new gen, and they serve that purpose well. Only Marth has a bit more to him than that due to his history with Alear, and I think it plays out well without being reliant on prior knowledge. Again very sorry to Eirika fans, I've seen the essays there on the inaccuracies and you're all valid.

The time travel is very clean and properly defined imo. Much more limited than in Three Houses in-universe which is good, however the best explanation for the rewinds will continue to be Mila's Turnwheel (in that there is no time travel, just some premonitions that allow the characters to evade danger).

I love Pandreo and Zelkov so much. Oh my god. They're so funny and just good men. Excellent dudes. Amber, Rosado, YUNAKA. The cast is just lovely. I love them.

Sommie is so cute for real. Just brilliant idea to include a nice pet for your home base. If anything, they should have given it more wigs for the main royals or some of the emblems. Also Sommie is totally the Zero Emblem.

Chapter VI: Conclusion

Let me get TMI here. I do understand that personally I experience and perceive emotions in an unusual way compared to most people. I've not been diagnosed with anything specific to that level of wiring (just OCD and anxiety), and as far as I feel it doesn't seem necessary. But it is what it is, and I am who I am. Maybe all of this is pointless to write and it truly is just a matter of taste and personal emotional expectations. I don't know. I just know I liked the game, and what worked on me really worked. Hope this was fun to read even if it doesn't give any particular insight.

I did not intend to compare any other FEs in this piece mainly because it's not about them. Legit sorry if I inadvertently cause some sort of discourse.

tl;dr It's Peak Fiction™

#fe17 #fe engage #fire emblem #essay

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trickerycleric · 1 year ago

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non-comprehensive list of guys i think use walking canes. btw

g'raha tia (ffxiv)

y'shtola rhul (ffxiv)

thancred waters (ffxiv) (he uses one only on bad pain days)

fourchenault leveilleur (ffxiv)

aerith gainsborough (ffvii)

vincent valentine (ffvii)

temenos mistral (octopath 2)

agnea birstani (octopath 2)

partitio yellowil (octopath 2)

cyrus albright (octopath 1)

anduin wrynn (warcraft) (this SHOULD BE CANON but blizz loves to ignore the fact he's disabled)

khadgar (warcraft)

miles edgeworth (ace attorney)

mikleo (tales of zestiria)

dohalim (tales of arise)

robin (fire emblem awakening)

maribelle (fire emblem awakening)

seteth (fire emblem 3 houses)

linhardt (fire emblem 3 houses)

william macbeth/black (kekkai sensen)

mary macbeth/white (kekkai sensen)

i want to play bg3 so im endinig this here for now

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paradoxoflucidity · 6 months ago

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𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐈𝐑𝐎𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 .

hello? has this message reached you? if you have seen this, then there is somebody in the dream world who is calling out to you ; they are wishing to meet you once again.

PARADOX OF LUCIDITY is a 18+ multifandom role-play group based on Discord. P.O.L focuses on the aspects of having fun while writing with a world built around your characters. Our rules are more laid back and emphasizes the joy of writing with others exploring your characters in a new situation. Won’t you join us?

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( ACE ATTORNEY . ) - miles edgeworth, justine courtney, phoenix wright, ema skye, apollo justice, raymond shield, shi-long lang, naruhodo ryuunosuke, susato mikotaba, kazuma asogi, yujin mikotaba, barok van zieks.

( ALIEN STAGE. ) - any characters from alien stage.

( BANG DREAM . ) - kaname raana, shiina taki, misumi uika, wakaba mutsumi, yahata umiri, yuutenji nyamu, togawa sakiko.

( BLEACH . ) - any characters from bleach.

( BOCCHI THE ROCK . ) - niijika ijichi, ryo yamada, ikuyo kita.

( CHAINSAW MAN . ) - aki hayakawa , power , any characters from chainsaw man.

( DANGANRONPA . ) - maki harukawa, kaede akamatsu, ouma kokichi, kiibo, any characters from danganronpa v3.

( DELTARUNE. ) - any characters from deltarune.

( ENSEMBLE STARS . ) - himeru, sora harukawa, aira shiratori, mayoi ayase.

( FINAL FANTASY . ) - lahabrea, emet-selch, elidibus, y'shtola rhul, athena, any characters from final fantasty xiv.

( GENSHIN IMPACT ) - wanderer/scaramouche, xiao, lumine, kazuha, lyney, freminet, albedo, childe/tartaglia, any characters from genshin impact.

( HONKAI IMPACT THIRD . ) - any characters from "honkai impact third."

( HONKAI STAR RAIL . ) - black swan, argenti, geppard, gallagher.

( HORIMIYA . ) - any characters from horimiya.

( HYPNOSIS MICROPHONE . ) - otome tohoten, ichijiku kadenokoji, samatoki aohitsugi, jyuto iruma, hitoya amaguni, kuko harai , sasara nurude, rosho tsutsujimori, jyushi aimono, doppo kannonzaka's brother, kanata yumeno, nayuta yamada, rio mason busujima.

( IDENTITY V . ) - ganji gupta, 'joker' / weeping clown, naib subedar, eli clark, lucky guy, helena adams, freddy riley, florian brand, andrew kriess, victor grantz, luca balsa, william ellis, any identity v survivors, any identity v hunters.

( KATANA ZERO . ) - any characters from "katana zero".

( KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! . ) - yamamoto takeshi, ryohei sasagawa, hibari kyoya, rokudo mukuro, chrom dokuro, xanxus, squalo, any vongola guardians, any characters from "katekyo hitman reborn!".

( KISEKI . ) - randy orlando, elie macdowell, tio plato, wazy hemisphere, rixia mao, noel seeker, elliot craig, alisa reinford, crow armburst, jusis albarea, machias regnitz, laura s. arseid, fie clausell, emma millstein, sara valestein, estelle bright, joshua bright, any class VII characters.

( LEAGUE OF LEGENDS . ) - soraka, jinx, ekko, talon, shieda kayn, vi, yone, k'sante, any characters from league of legends.

( OBEY ME . ) - beelzebub, barbatos, simeon, diavolo, thirteen, raphael, mephistopheles, solomon, any characters from obey me.

( PARADOX LIVE . ) - naoakira saimon, yohei kanbayashi, shiki ando.

( PERSONA . ) - zen, any characters from persona 3.

( PRETTY CURE . ) - any characters from pretty cure.

( PROJECT SEKAI . ) - haruka kiritani , ichika hoshino, hatsune miku (25ji), ken shiraishi.

( PUYO PUYO . ) - any characters from the "puyo puyo" series.

( REVUE STARLIGHT ) - maya tendo, juuna hoshimi, nana daiba, futuba isurugi, kaoruko hanayagi, mahiru tsuyuzaki, karen aijou, any characters from re:LIVE!!.

( SHOW BY ROCK!! ) - aion, rom, senshi, any characters from "show by rock!!".

( SONIC ) - any characters from "sonic the hedgehog" series.

( TALES OF SERIES ) - lailah (tales of zestiria), any characters from tales of zestiria, any characters from tales of vesperia, any character from the tales of series.

( TOWER OF GOD . ) - khun aguero agnis , rak wraithraiser , any characters from tower of god.

( ZENO ) - any characters from zeno.

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ac-liveblogs · 3 years ago

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Also update on Zestiria: I’ve now finished Mikleo’s uh. Little subplot where he gets mad at Sorey and leaves the team. And wow, if I thought the most milquetoast vanilla low-stakes no-drama relationships were the best ever, I probably would’ve liked it, but I actually spent the entire thing lamenting the fact that the game went out if its way to establish that

a) People that feel negative emotions too intensely CAN turn into monsters

and

b) Water specifically is extra susceptible to this corruption

And the game felt it too spicy to use either of these things with the character that is feeling negative emotion and is associated with water, so instead Mikleo just stalks the team around sulking in the background before dramatically saving them later.

This kind of makes me less interested in the stakes established in this world? That danger clearly won’t be affecting our main characters in a way that matters. Sorey and Mikleo are cute, sure, but their drama was really shallow and I really wasn’t feeling it.

I like some spice, sue me.

I’m also confused about this game’s moral compass/what the lessons Sorey is meant to be learning are at the moment, but I’ll see how that goes.

#ac plays tales of zestiria #on the plus side edna is cool and her drama with her brother might be fun #edna i believe in you

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willowlly · 3 years ago

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hi! i'm paju (or willow) and i'm looking for blogs to follow! i made my first tumblr account in 2011, and then left in 2018. now i decided to remake my blog in 2021.

please like this post if you post for (some of the) following fandoms AND ARE AN ADULT. you don't have to post adult content, i just don't feel comfortable interacting with minors (since i myself am an adult.)

GAMES Pokemon (Especially if you post LEON!!! and KBDN, aka Raihan/Leon) The Legend of Zelda series - any game (especially if you post a lot of Mipha) Okami Final Fantasy X (Tidus and Yuna) Tales of Symphonia/Graces/Xillia/Zestiria (Jude, Hubert, Mikleo) Xenoblade (1 and 2) (Melia, Fiora, Nia) Ace Attorney/The Great Ace Attorney (ALL Ace Attorney games)

and many more because i. play a lot. for example i also love Persona 3/4/5, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, Ai: The Somnium Files etc to name a few. and a lot more. Undertale and Deltarune as well. and StarFox...

ANIME D.Gray Man (Esp LAVI!!!!!!!!!) Natsume Yuujinchou (Natsume) Fate Zero (Waver, Iskandar) Wolf's Rain

CARTOONS Avatar: The Last Airbender The Legend of Korra Steven Universe Miraculous Ladybug She-ra and the Princesses of Power RWBY

and literally any FATE! but characters: Tamamo no Mae, Waver Velvet, Iskandar/Rider, Karna, Astolfo, Altera, etc... lol i love too many Fate characters lbr.

and please don't be offended if i don't follow! if you post for a lot of stuff i'm not into, i might not follow. and like i said before, i won't follow minors.

thank you so much. ;w;

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hopeisour4letteredword · 3 years ago

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Hiya, I just recently found your blog and I love your art, especially your fluri and klapollo stuff! I'm very curious, have you played any Tales games beside Vesperia? (Also which AA games have you played too?)

hi there, thanks for the kind words! i'm partway through playing tales of berseria with a friend right now, and i own zestiria but haven't gotten around to playing it. as for ace attorney, i've played the original trilogy, aa4+5, aai 1&2, dgs, and i'm currently playing dgs2. i also played a few cases of phoenix wright vs prof layton, which i loved but unfortunately had to return to the person i was borrowing from before i could finish it.

#choc talks #anon #not art #i actually watched a lets play of aai2 but whatever same difference

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romijuli · 3 years ago

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💖- Tales of Zestiria 👀 or Ace Attorney!!

My family STARTED zestiria but I don’t think they finished, and I DEFINITELY missed a lot of it, but I think rose is neat

…I’ve only played the first ace attorney and have some knowledge of the other games haha. But!!!! I love edgeworth he is just. So much. SO MUCH. Get yourself a man who will fly from Europe to be a defense attorney in your place when you fall off a fucking bridge

#asky meme #unsolicited tales opinion TALES OF THE RAYS WAS SO GOOD AND I MISS IT #why did it close the English server so fast?????#Crestoria was also very good I love those children and vicious but also that server lasted much longer #and I think died worldwide

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mewnia · 4 years ago

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Do you have any sexuality headcannons for Tales characters in the games you played?

Oh boy, I do! Let’s see, I have to dig around my brain for them...

Symphonia:

-I’m actually pretty content with these characters. Or at least, I haven’t thought too hard about them. Their relationships in the game are very straightforward and solid to me. I do have a bunch of headcanons that don’t have to do with sexuality, though, which you can find here!

Vesperia:

-Yuri is Bi, mainly because while I do ship him with Flynn I also wouldn’t mind if Flynn and Yuri were just really good friends. He’s pretty cute with Estelle, too. But! I also like to play with the idea of Yuri being Trans.

-Flynn is Bi! For the same reasons, mostly.

-Estelle is Pan! I’m pretty sure she would accept anyone as they were. She’s very headstrong and loves all kinds of people. So I feel this is very fitting.

-Rita is def a lesbian

-Judith is Aro! Because I can’t really see her being with someone, I feel like she cares more about familial and friendship bonds than romantic ones.

Abyss:

-I want to say Luke is ace, but he’s also like 7 so

-Jade is for sure dating Peony, but it’s a side thing because Peony is still emperor and there has to be a successor and all that jazz. But those two are definitely gay.

-Ion is gender fluid! I catch myself using they/them pronouns a lot with Ion

Graces:

-Asbel is still a suppressed gay who has convinced himself he’s straight

-Sophie is Aro/Ace

-Richard is gay, in love with Asbel, but values Asbel’s happiness more than his so he stays quiet about it.

-I’ll probably get flack for this, but I see Pascal as Aro! I just canNOT accept that her and Hubert are technically canon. No. Can’t see it. Feels forced.

Xillia:

-Jude is trans, but I’m also fine to leave him as a dude who just isn’t very masculine/doesn’t have many masculine interests.

-Milla is Pan! Also uses She/They pronouns!

-Leia is Bi, you can’t tell me otherwise

-Julius is totally gay

Zestiria:

-Sorey is Ace! And gay

-Mikleo is also gay, these two are just so nice for each other.

-Alisha is Bi! I like to think she started to have feelings for Sorey, but once she saw Mikleo with him she decided to respect that relationship.

-Rose is total Lesbian

-Edna is Aro/Ace!

Berseria:

-Velvet is Aro! As much as I love all the ships, I feel overall she wouldn’t have an interest. But her friend Niko was definitely trying to flirt with her and catch her attention.

-Magilou is Pan!

-Eleanor is a closeted Bi

And that’s pretty much it! I hope it suffices, they are just my own head canons. There’s quite a few Aro ones which is probably just me reflecting myself onto them.

It’s always fun to talk about this kind of stuff!

#tales of symphonia #tales of vesperia #tales of the abyss #tales of graces #tales of zestiria #tales of berseria #headcanons #tales of #anon

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irrationalthot · 3 years ago

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what video games are you playing right now, and also do you have like a top 5 all time favorite list? 👀

oh! yeah right now I'm playing a lot of Stardew Valley, Dead by Daylight, and I just started Tales of Arise.

Occasionally I play a little bit of Apex - I used to be really into it but I've kinda been disenchanted with shooters lately. :/

top five overall is HARD. Probably (2‐5 in no particular order, but ff9 is definitely number 1):

1) Final Fantasy 9

2) Sonic Adventure 2

3) XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

4) Persona 4

5) Fire Emblem Three Houses

Honorable mentions include Assassin's Creed, Kingdom Hearts, Ace Attorney, the Zero Escape series, Danganronpa, and Tales of Zestiria.

List is always subject to change depending on my mood. 😅

#my thots #answered #anonymous

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ruakichan · 3 years ago

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Another state of roo gaming conglomopost.

I may have mentioned it offhand, but I recently moved to a place that has no internet. I’ve had to rely on my phone & mobile data for online access, and the area has like... 2 bars on 4G on a good day with the weather and stars aligned. So while I’ve been able to access mobages that aren’t too hard on the data, like Exos and Alchstars, games like GBF had to be put on the ‘log in and that’s it’ backend. I tried to do GW and that was just ... lololololol.

So I’ve been doing some console gaming! Namely Ace Attorney Chronicles and Tales of Arise. Gonna talk briefly about that! While I am avoiding spoilers and will talk in generalities, if you’re wanting to avoid any talk about those two, please be mindful of the cut!

Onward!

First off, Ace Attorney. I’ve played all the games since the franchise was first localized, so was pretty happy we got these since we missed out on their initial release for the handhelds. That said, it’s definitely the AA formula—including the good and bad. Love the wacky cast, offbeat humor, and off-the-wall wild storylines, especially since most of it is a huge lampshade to Sherlock Holmes stories (including outright mocking the “logic” of the Speckled Band), of which I’m also a huge fan of. But it still has the biggest issue I always had with the AA games: soooooo muchhhh unnecessary text that takes forever to get the point. So I have to take this game in baby steps. I think I’m only on the last case for the first game right now.

Don’t like the prosecutor. I actually just let his lines autorun while I play my mobages when he’s up on the screen. So much racism. Sooooo so much. There’s a lot of it in the game, due to setting, but my god this guy won’t shut the fuck up, and I have to deal with enough of that IRL. I also just rushed through the fourth case cause of it. Not what I want in my escapism, thanks.

Overall though, I’m enjoying it, though the “Jury System” ignites a righteous rage in me in how unfairly irrational it is and I want to shake every single person on that board.

Next up, Tales of Arise, which I’m currently devoting most of my spare attention to these days (I’ve recruited the last of the main cast right now). It’s been a while since I really enjoyed a Tales of game; Xillia 2 was my last one that I really got into; I enjoyed Zestiria to an extent but the battle system was just tedious. (Did not play Berseria since nothing about it got my attention and Crestoria was such a shitshow at launch.)

Don’t like the theme song for Arise, especially after White Light from Zesty being such a banger. Intro felt lackluster too; I know UFOtable can do better, so seeing this one was a disappointment.

Sakuraba is my absolute favorite composer for video games, but Arise’s BGMs are so, so bad. So generic and lacking any strong motifs, I really felt that he phoned it in. I can’t tell any of the songs apart, but at least they’re so generic that it’s easy to tune most of them out.

English dub is pretty good! I always try to give dubs a chance and I think they did a nice job with this! Only one that I’ve side-eyed has been Law, who is my current favorite character, so I’m a bit sad about that. Characters are decent enough; no one for me to get fannish over, but no one I’m like ‘god get them off my screen.’ They’re there, they’re inoffensive.

Battle system, once you get the ball rolling, is fairly fun and fluid, especially the Fatal Strikes or whatever they’re called in this game. Boss battles are extremely grueling at the moment—they are very tanky and spongy, so battles can last a long time. Unfortunately sometimes there’s a lot going on on the screen, with a lot of systems the game wants you to manage, so it can be easy to get one-shot by a mistake you didn’t even know what was coming. But nothing too frustrating. I feel like the game wants to encourage a lot of grinding but doesn’t actually give you a lot of places to grind at (Zesty had this problem too). Button layout is a bit weird and gave me huge Graces vibes; unfortunately you can’t change the config. But still, I’m definitely enjoying it better than Zesty’s, but it isn’t as fun as Vesperia’s or Xillia 2′s.

Story wise... oh man. I know Tales of can be a trope-y series, but this one just plays everything straight. Everything I predicted just from being exposed to it for a few minutes, has come out exactly as I thought. No subversions or aversions here LOL, no shocking revelations. It’s also not a very compelling plot? It’s just a plot. Maybe it’ll get better now that I got all my party members and we can focus on fleshing out the story more.

The story is also fairly serious and there aren’t a lot of light-hearted moments, even in skits. I really do miss this aspect since it’s one of the reasons I like Tales of games—the humorous parts really help connect me to characters more, as it makes them feel more rounded and human, than just SERIOUS! ANGST! all the damn time. I can play a Final Fantasy game if I wanted that.

Speaking of skits, the presentation style is weird. Like, it’s hard to explain without someone visually watching it, but I really don’t understand why they went this route of faux comic book/storyboard scenes. I guess to save money on modelling actions but at this point, just do talking heads? I dunno. I got used to it, but it’s still really jarring when they come up.

Anyhoo, it’s still a decent enough game, though I’m still waiting for something to really ‘wow’ me.

#roo gaming

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