#achilles eclipse

[betweenblackberrybranches]

What a merry band of misfits

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

What do you get when you mix your at the time favorite book, favorite musical, and a fandom you got back into with mermaids? For me, this au lol.

I was reading Song of Achilles and thought Myrmidons was close to Mermaids. Then I added DCA as Patroclus and Achilles cause why not lol.

Might be hard to see but the lyrics are "You're too sweet for me. You're too sweet for me" from my at the moment song I was obsessed with Too Sweet by Hozier.

At some point just added Epic too cause, Epic was the reason I got into greek myth which led to reading Song of Achilles.

For this au, the gods are sirens with the main 13 being huge with special siren abilities. Example, Hermes' voice is like sonar and can be carried across oceans.

Other gods/sirens are only slightly taller than mermaids and have a stronger and sweet voice. Since Achilles is half siren, his voice is considered beautiful whether talking or speaking and his voice does carry farther than the average mermaid. (In legend, it is said when Patroclus died, all oceans could hear Achilles' cries and screams, his siren voice full with grief and no longer sweet, but harsh and cold.)

Haven't worked on the au in a while and there might be changes if I continue to work on it lol.

(Also, was because of Song of Achilles I learned Neo was the son of Achilles from the line "Neo, avenge your father, kill the brothers of Hector")

[defomin]

here's a list of all my favourite queer love couples I've came across from all types of mediums (update 240422)

The sign (series) Phaya and Tharn

Supernatural (series) Dean and Cas

Unknown (series) Qian and Yuan

Couple of mirrors (manhua) You-Yi and Wei

Only friends (series) Sand and Ray

Cupid's last wish (series) Korn and Win

Portrait of a lady on fire (movie 2019) Heloise and Marianne

Maurice (movie 1987) Maurice and Alec

Giovanni's room (book) Giovanni and David

Young royals (series) Wilhelm and Simon

Moonlight chicken (series) Jim and Wen

A tale of thousand stars (series) Phupha and Tian

Kiseki dear to me (series) ChenYi and AiDi

To sir, with love (series) Jiu and Tian

Song of Achilles (book) Achilles and Patroclus

Good Omens (series) Crowly and Aziraphale

Laws of attraction (series) Charn and Tinn

God's own country (movie 2017) Johnny and Gheorghe

Dead friend forever (series) Phee and Non

Thirty years old (manhua) Wei big bro and Ian

Thirty years old (manhua) QuiYi and YiCheng

Last twilight (series) Mhok and Day

Red white royal blue (book) Alex and Henry

Moonlight chicken (series) Alan and Gaipa

Semantic error (manhwa) Sangwoo and Jaeyoung

Semantic error (series) Sangwoo and Jaeyoung

The eclipse (series) Ayan and Akk

Moonlight (movie 2016) Chiron and Kevin

Yuri on Ice (anine) Victor and Yuri

19 days (manhua) Tian and Guan Shan

Only friends (series) Boston and Nick

Wolf in the house (manhwa) Minsuk and Bexan

Kinnporche (series) Kinn and Porsche

Mehr and Moshtari (poem) Mehr and Moshtari

My beautiful launderette (movie 1985) Johnny and Omar

Red white royal blue (movie 2023) Alex and Henry

Mignon (anime) Mignon and Young-one

Egoist (movie 2022) Kosuke and Ryuta

Manner of death (series) Tan and Bun

Brokeback mountain (movie 2005) Jack and Ennis

Gap (series) Sam and Mon

Kinnporche (series) Vegas and Pete

Dead friend forever (series) Tee and White

Pitbabe (series) Pete and Way

Moonlight chicken (series) Heart and Li-ming

The sign (series) Khem and Thongthai

The plague (book) Tarrou and Rieux (not canon, lol)

Kiseki dear to me (series) ZeRui and ZongYi

Pitbabe (series) Alan and Jeff

Laws of attraction (series) Thee and Thaenthai

Freefall (movie 2013) Kay and Marc

Pitbabe (series) Charlie and Babe

Carol (movie 2015) Carol and Therese

Doukyusei (anime) Kusakabe and Sajo

Couple of mirrors (series) You-Yi and Wei

Good Omens (series) Nina and Maggie

The eclipse (series) Khan and Thua

Call me by your name (movie 2017) Oliver and Elio

19 days (manhua) Jian Yi and Zheng Xi

The falls (trilogy) RJ and Chris

Supernatural (series) Claire and Kaia

Maurice (movie 1987) Maurice and Clive

Kinnporche (series) Time and Tay

Kinnporche (series) Kim and Porchay

Demian (book) Demian and Emil

Only friends (series) Top and Mew

The sign (series) Dao and Nee

Laws of attraction (series) Rose and Maya

Young royals (series) Stella and Fredrika

Only friends (series) April and Cheum

Manner of death (series) Sorn and That

History 4: close to you (series) Li Cheng and Mu Ren

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

What happened to Achilles and Icarus?

(was it the creator?)

🪭

Actually, it wasn't. It was actually a bad dimensional hop mistakenly taken without Frank or anyone else. They basically flopped into the ball pit out of spite and the computer turned on the portal out of spite of them telling it 'you can't tell us no, Franky said yes!'

The dimension they fell into was actually Ruin's dimension, where Virus Monty proceeded to beat and torture them for a week (a month main universe time) because the portal glitched and exploded again all by itself and Moon and Solar had to rebuild the portal to get them.

Frank was seething and almost broke the computer for taking his Blood Moon away from him from just a one-off comment. Moon and Solar held him back. Frank continued trying to break it the entire month.

Once they were back, they were absolutely traumatized. They'd been separated, tortured, starved of blood, and covered in injuries. Frank held his boys after they got them back and proceeded to go in the portal and kill Virus Monty himself after seeing how hurt they were while Moon, Solar, Eclipse, and Stitchwraith (they needed two teams of two since they were separated and so injured) fixed Achilles and Icarus.

They still flinch if someone raises their hand too quickly or if someone separates them for more than ten minutes. Achilles and Icarus hang onto each other and Frank nonstop and have to go to a professional therapist because even Earth couldn't help calm the panic attacks that come with being separated, which are violent and dangerous to those around them.

Being separated from each other has made Achilles literally claw through a door and break off his claws while Icarus was ramming the door from the other side so hard he broke his shoulder.

[cowboyintheory]

fic requests

i already posted this on my side blog(ultrawallflower1212) but i just wanted to post it to my main account too :)

I really wanna write more this summer so if anyone has any prompts or requests I’d be happy to try and fulfil them :), the list of fandoms/ships I write/will write for are in the tags,my ao3 is emoking101. I’m not super comfortable writing explicit content but I’m fine with writing rated mature,I also tend to steer clear of most stuff that needs heavy archive warnings but I can/will write heavy angst if asked.(There are more ships but I’m only allowed 30 tags.)

[lvcisx]

drawpile

[ultrawalflower1212]

Fic requests

I really wanna write more this summer so if anyone has any prompts or requests I’d be happy to try and fulfil them :), the list of fandoms/ships I write/will write for are in the tags,my ao3 is emoking101. I’m not super comfortable writing explicit content but I’m fine with writing rated mature,I also tend to steer clear of most stuff that needs heavy archive warnings but I can/will write heavy angst if asked.(There are more ships but I’m only allowed 30 tags.)

[animatedshortoftheday]

La Diplomatie de l'éclipse (2022) [8 min] by Clémence Bailly, Sélim Lallaoui, César Luton, Axel Mechin and Achille Pasquier | France

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[sunnie-angel]

ahhh this my first time sending an ask! So pumpkin carving + Jason's s/o reader who got murdered somehow (it could be targeted or not) what do you think he'd rage like Achilles? Maybe try bring them back?

i'm so honoured to be your first ask 🥹 fingers crossed that i'll see you in my inbox again in the future. i hope this was what you wanted!

jason todd has always known his capacity for violence could be devastating. apocalyptic. has had that knowledge thrumming in his veins since the day he woke from the dead. but that knowledge has always been tempered by you. you with your sunshine smiles and hands so tender. you hold him back from the abyss, a chain around the snarling beast's muzzle, and he loves you for it.

a bullet, wrong place wrong time wrong target, blots you out. takes all that sunshine and sweetness away. even as you're gasping out your last breaths, you beg him not to lose sight of himself, of the peace that he's earned. but those are promises he cannot keep, not while he's keening and cradling a body that has betrayed him by not housing you anymore.

sing oh muse of rage, but its not the rage of achilles they should be worried about. it's the blood that runs like water through the streets, that decorate the walls of shady warehouses and gang hideouts. it's the man that's rending flesh from bone with his bare hands like its nothing. nothing matters to him anymore. nothing but the promise that even though his killer is still living, yours won't be.

terror grips the city, the kind of noxious toxic fume that not even the bats can put out. there's a new kind of monster out there and he won't rest until the debt's been paid. cronies and henchman all scrambling like rats from sinking ships turn up floating in the harbour. kingpins and commanders in pieces in the gutters. its the kind of chaos that consumes, that eclipses the heartache with the repetitive thunk of fists on flesh, the slick drag of blade against skin.

and then it's over. every last person even tangentially connected to your killer is dead. there's no one else to kill. and every day jason has to wake up to a bed with a cavernous void where you should be, drink from only one mug in a matching set, stumble around the pile of laundry you had been meaning to get to. it's no kind of living.

but there are whispers, whispers in the underground of a pit with special powers, hidden and guarded by a league of mercenaries, of assassins. it scratches at the doors to memories he'd thought long locked away. for good reason. but it's a chance, it's a choice, one he thought he would never have. jason leaves gotham behind, still echoing with his rage, one foot in the grave already and only your closed casket to keep him company.

you can request more head canons as part of sunnie's soft autumn

[aramais]

the sun & moon understand each other, or: jay and gillion

@jrwi-art-exchange gift for @burning-sol :-)

moonlight, merriam-webster / here before, vashti bunyan / sun and moon, kalpana shah / untitled, aimee j / lunar eclipse, katrina guevarra / dear soulmate, laufey / rising sun and falling moon, tiago mestre / the valley, the oh hellos / the song of achilles, madeline miller / sun + moon (purple), katherine clarke langlands / lost in thoughts all alone, hiroki morishita / salt flat eclipse, saskia fleishman / the calling, the amazing devil

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Enjoy the Guys™️

Left to right Callisto, Achilles and Altair, my three dca OCs who are all big of heart but dumb of ass😔 good luck y/n

And here another version without the foreground shading and frame

[foreststarflaime]

Ok so I was translating the Iliad for fun last night as one does and oh my god it’s them?? Genesis Rhapsodos is a homeric hero in this essay I will

“Sing to me, goddess, of the accursed wrath of Achilles son of Peleus, who caused countless pains for the Acheans, and sent forth many stout souls of heroes to Hades, and made them spoils to dogs and to every bird of prey, and the will of Zeus was accomplished, from when first the son of Atreus ruler of men and divine Achilles stood apart in strife.”

-Homer, Iliad, I.1-7 (translation is my own)

But like the more I think about it, the more it just…fits him perfectly? Strap in boys this turned into a long one, I’m putting my ‘useless’ degree to good use

So a huge drive for Homeric heroes is pursuit of kleos (κλέος, meaning glory), it’s what their societal values are built off of, and it’s what Genesis builds his life off of too. It’s why he can’t let himself coexist peacefully with Sephiroth—for Genesis’ glory to spread, it can’t be eclipsed by Sephiroth’s. Kleos is earned primarily through being remembered in song, and you don’t see Shinra making any propaganda with Genesis in it (at least disproportionately not as much as Sephiroth).

And that’s another thing—Genesis’ desperate will to live. A big part of the appeal of kleos is that it grants you a sort of immortality, to live forever in the minds of humanity as long as the songs about you persist. There is a way to earn kleos without being the best hero around, and it’s to be killed by the best hero around—in passages where heroes go on killing rampages, there’s little catalogues of everyone they kill, like little graveyards of poetry that let them live on after death. It’s not a dishonor to them, rather the opposite since they died bravely fighting someone they just couldn’t beat.

This isn’t the way Genesis wants to earn his kleos, though, and he’s desperately afraid of it. We see in his reaction to degredation that he will do anything to avoid his own death, lashing out against everyone in pain and fear. He wants more than anything not to die, but he doesn’t want to end up a footnote in the rampage of someone greater. He wants Achilles’ fame, but fails to see that this fame was conditional upon his death. The most famous part of Achilles’ story that survived, after all, was his heel.

And then there’s how his friends fit into the story. As you can see in the quote from earlier, Sephiroth fits well as the Agamemnon to Genesis’ Achilles. Agamemnon leads the assembled Greek forces because he has the most men, the most fame, but Achilles (putting aside the matter of whether he is or not) doesn’t want to be seen as inferior to him, and is infuriated when Agamemnon does something he sees as a slight against his kleos. From Genesis’ perspective, this fits Sephiroth exactly. From Sephiroth’s perspective, naturally this is not the case, but therein lies the problem—he’s in a different genre from Genesis, one that becomes incompatible when put in the context it’s in, and this dooms them to tragedy.

It’s a similar problem with Angeal. Honor and glory are similar enough to be the best of companions, but they are not the same thing, and it’s something that is easy to forget. The difference is most clear, again, in the context they’re in. Genesis is so busy chasing immortality in kleos that he forgets that honor is not immortality, and Angeal’s will to live fails when his honor does, and he loses him.

Angeal and Sephiroth are both their own genres, causing misunderstanding and ensuring the tragedy that occurs, but they fit in just enough with the context of Homeric heroes to not let Genesis see his mistake.

Important for him also is the definition of monster to a Greek—two different creatures mashed together in a way nature isn’t supposed to go. That’s it. And by that definition, he is a monster, though we’d still call him human by our definition. And that’s just…ouch. In the fundamental rules of his world, he is inarguably a monster.

But the tragedy of that is that he’s just so painfully human, as are all Homeric heroes—so horribly, humanly flawed in such a loud way that the world cannot ignore it, and is pulled down with him.

Okayy wrapping it up with a few fun facts because this is turning into the essay I didn’t mean it to be, his last name Rhapsodos (Ῥαψῳδός) is a Greek word that translates roughly to bard, and specifically to a bard that recites epic poetry. Like the Iliad. It’s so unbelievably perfect for him, good job square enix! And the fact that this quote from the Iliad has goddess instead of Muse like the Odyssey, it was fated! Also, not that noun genders really mean anything, but the Greek noun genesis (γένεσις) is actually feminine, so win for genderqueer Genesis propaganda

Anyway where did my afternoon suddenly go, this was supposed to be a short fun thing, I should really be working on my thesis (which coincidentally was inspired by him, I’m in too deep send help) if you read all this I love you forever lol bye

[loaksky]

— 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦

the lowdown — the one where lo'ak misunderstands your friendship with his older brother.

the who — lo'ak x fem omatikaya!reader

the word count — 806

the tags & warnings — ANGST (as i sort through my drafts, i realize this is common theme lmaooo), miscommunication, language heh.

part two | masterlist

“You should tell him,” Neteyam says honestly, feet circling the pool of water below you.

He knows you all too well, knows that relying on his boneheaded brother to make the first move is like watching grass grow.

You sigh, swallowing down any excuse bubbling at the base of your throat. You and Lo'ak always watched the eclipse after dinner, quietly laughing amongst yourselves as you rehashed the days' events. Tonight, like many recent, you're submerged under the light of the bioluminescence, eclipse long finished and Lo'ak nowhere in sight.

“I'm just working on something top secret right now,” he told you a few mornings ago when you asked where he was sneaking off to.

Tonight, he didn't notice that you'd seen him sneak off with one of the elders' daughters.

“I'm scared,” you admit.

Neteyam gives you an incredulous look.

“There's nothing to be afraid of, ________,” he assures you. “It's easier to convince you to be brave. He's a coward when it comes to his heart.”

You sigh again, fingers fiddling with the hem of your loincloth.

“I don't know what to say,” you reason. “What if he thinks I'm stupid?”

He lets out a laugh, warm and comforting.

“Besides, we've all been friends since we were little,” you swallow. “What if he only sees me as a sister?”

His laughter hardens.

“Trust me, ________, he definitely does not see you as a sister,” he hums, brow bone raising suggestively.

You give him a sidelong glance, shoulders tense.

“Tell me what you'd tell him,” he says. “Do you think that would help you?”

You ponder it for a moment before shrugging.

“I don't know,” you whine, scrubbing your fingers down your face. “Maybe?”

Neteyam straightens, angling his body away from you.

“Here,” he says. “I won't even watch. Just say what you'd say to him.”

Your voice is lost for a moment, like you no longer have the breath or will to shout into the thin atmosphere that you desire Lo'ak Sully with every fibre of your being.

“I... I like you,” you say, voice shaky. “I like you so much, I feel infinite. Like I can touch the sky.”

You clear your throat, eyes latching onto a pattern of freckles on Neteyam's shoulder, willing the words to come out. You feel silly when the words catch on your tongue and your eyes cloud with tears.

“I can't imagine being with anyone but you,” you choke. “I want you more than every blade of grass, every flower petal combined. More than anything I want you to want me, too.”

Neteyam's neck cranes, face softening when he sees you reduced to tears.

“Please.”

“Aww, c'mon, don't cry,” he whispers, hand coming to wrap around the back of your head so that he can smush your face into his shoulder.

The chirp of the insects and the trickle of the water is shattered by the snapping of fallen branches. You and Neteyam part quickly, ears twitching as you survey your surroundings for any imminent danger.

You nearly sigh in relief until you catch a familiar glimpse of gold and hear the clicking of the stones beaded through his braids.

“Lo'ak!” you call, rising to your feet.

He'd come, he had finally come. But now he's weaving through the forest, climbing across logs, over branches and through thick vines.

“Wait, Lo'ak, where are you—”

He whirls around, fist shaking as he stares down at you.

“Are you serious?” he seethes.

He's mad, you realize, and your stomach ties itself into knots when you notice the fury blazing in Lo'ak's eyes. You'd never seen him like this. He'd never raised his voice at you, even when you hurt yourself so severely, the remnants of a gash roots from your achilles to your knee.

“Did you hear—”

“Yes, I heard!” he affirms and tears well in your eyes.

“I'm sorry,” is all you say, ashamed that the way he finds out about your affections is like this.

“I bet you are,” he laughs humorlessly. “Do you realize how embarrassing this is?”

You recoil at the venom in his voice, lips parting in disbelief.

“Embarrassing?” you repeat.

Lo'ak has been your friend for years, has talked with you through every milestone, every win, every defeat. To know that he's embarrassed makes your throat close and your heart fall.

“Yes, ________!” he spits. “I can't be friends with you knowing that you–”

“I didn't choose to feel this way, Lo'ak!” you cry, the back of your hand coming to wipe at your snotty nose. “I'm sorry.”

“Yeah, ________, me too,” he grunts, throwing what had been balled in his fist to your feet. “Fuck this.”

He storms off, and you're left standing in the middle of a quieting forest, the shaky beadwork of a novice choker staring up at you.

an — thank you everyone again for all the love on my first fic, i'm so appreciative. just trying my hand at some angst & trying to get the creative juices flowing. this is independent of the full one shot coming soon so if you'd like a pt2, lmk hehe.

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[intrepid-fictioneer-7]

I've come to the conclusion that, in my humble opinion, Higashide is the writer in TYPE-MOON who makes the best ships involving Heroic Spirits.

Which might sound really weird. After all, the central couple in Fate/Apocrypha is Sieg/Jeanne d'Arc, and it's a pretty divisive one. No offense to those who like it, but it's always a dynamic I thought made no real sense narratively and didn't have much chemistry. Sieg on his journey of self-affirmation and personhood didn't need a romance (except maybe with Astolfo, with whom the dynamic is much more fun). Jeanne, the historical figure who rejected a marriage proposal, wore male clothing, and whose famous nickname refers to her celibacy, getting into a romance just never vibed with me (especially when it felt like the parallels/relationship between her and Shirou Kotomine were far more relevant). Add to that the ending copying Last Episode without what made LE have a strong impact, and it makes the whole even less appealing.

But despite that, Apo is also the work where there is the surprising ship of Shirou Amakusa and Queen Semiramis of all people: the semi-legendary Assyrian queen credited with making one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world falling in love with the young charismatic Japanese Christian who rebelled against the shogunate and failed. It's a very strange crossover ship between two people who never could have met if not for being brought back and it somehow works in being endearing.

(Achilles and Atalanta kinda count I guess, but it's a one-sided ship with little reasoning, that I care so little about, and is eclipsed by the more compelling foils each get, Chiron for Achilles, Jeanne for a Jackie the Ripper-driven mad Atalante.)

Higaside having grown and improved as a writer by the time of FGO, what followed this growth was him not doing a repeat of Sieg/Jeanne, but writing better ships mostly involving Servants. Asterios the Minotaur and Euryale the Gorgon; last Byzantine emperor Constantine IX and fictional Popess Johanna; heck, you can even see the relationship between Mordred and Dr. Jekyll this way (it also works as simple close friendship). Being characters from usually completely different mythologies and historical cultures, there is care done to make it clear why they fall for each other and as a result these couples are very different from one another instead of being the same formula everytime. In a game where a lot of (female) Servants are made to fall for the last Master of Chaldea for sometimes very little reason, these are a breath of fresh air.

For all my problems with her, Sakurai does something similar, though her ships are usually people who canonically were together in their legends: Sigurd/Brynhild, Aslaug/Ragnar Lodbrok, Julius Caesar/Cleopatra, Ozymandias/Nefertari, Tomoe Gozen/Kiso Yoshinaka, etc. They can be one note and there is a repeated thematic tendency of hers of writing "inhuman woman discovering humanity by falling in love", but they tend to be very cute and I easily understand that these people are in love even beyond death, so I root for them to reunite. Higashide also has "canonical" pairings, but the results are more muddled here: Siegfried and Kriemhild are adorable as a divorced couple where there are clearly still feelings, no matter what the tsundere wife says. But Rama and Sita are just...there. I understand the point of their separation, but it's not very engaging and Rama essentially disappeared after the American Singularity, while Sita was yeeted to Arcade. A mark against Higashide, but not as bad as Sieg/Jeanne and overshadowed by the numbers of better ships he wrote in FGO.

And there's Orion and Artemis, where I'm split. Super Orion and LB Artemis was really good and poignant. Orion the teddy bear and ditzy Artemis are a realy bad joke that overstayed its welcome.

FGO prioritizes Master/Servant relationships, both because the last Master of Chaldea is a blank slate for players to self insert into, and also because human×Servant is the type of ship Nasu specializes in (Shirou/Saber, Rin/Saber, Kuzuki/Caster, Caren/Angra Mainyu, and to a lesser extent Bazett/Cu, Yukika/False Assassin, and Ayako/Medusa in FSN; Fate/Extra as a whole; Ritsuka/Castoria in FGO). But even there Higashide made better choices than when he penned Sieg/Jeanne. Charlotte Corday is a surprisingly well-done choice for her archetype, it seems like it's going to be another Kiyohime but no, he actually makes her a good character you get attached to.

And then there is Kadoc and Anastasia. Words cannot describe how much I love them, how their personalities clash and complement each other in the best way, how aesthetically good they look put next to each other, etc. And it's not even just that we got a MasterxServant relationship outside Ritsuka, though that helped.

Basically, Higashide has become my go-to source for good ships, especially intra-Servants ones where Ritsuka is not involved and characters are allowed to not orbit around their Master. Sakurai also provides in that last aspect, but Higashide is doing that and also giving that crossover flavor you see in things like that one Cartoon Network ad with Johnny Bravo and Velma, and that works really well for me.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

what r the names? you said you were naming the bloodmoons.

I have finished naming the gremlins. It took a while (I've been working on it since this morning after the thread), because I made it so there are two AIs per Blood Moon.

Sun's Blood Moon: Spectra & Void

Moon's Blood Moon: Apollo & Helios

Stitchwraith's Blood Moon: Blood Moon & Harvest Moon

Eclipse's Blood Moon: Phobos & Deimos

Lunar's Blood Moon: Luminosity & Prism

Solar's Blood Moon: Hypnos & Thanatos

Earth's Blood Moon: Galaxy & Cosmos

Ruin's Blood Moon: Ultraviolet & Infrared

Frank's Blood Moon: Achilles & Icarus

Jack's Blood Moon: Zodiac & Horoscope