#ah yes the disappointment

[sharpsuite]

for Chishiya: bluebell, daisy, marigold

↳ BOTANICAL HEADCANONS

bluebell : does your muse learn from their past , or are they prone to repeating the same mistakes ?

Chishiya learns from his past. He also learns from others mistakes, observing what happens from their actions and the resulting consequences. His mistakes are typically few and far, but when he DOES make them, it's definitely something he can account for. He almost never makes the same mistake again. ( A bad or reckless decision however, he might repeat if he views the payoff to be worth it. ) That's not to say he might not FEIGN the same act that the mistake came from, but have a new twist or to manipulate someone into a position or course of actions that he wants. So if it feels like he's falling too easily into making a mistake he's made before IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE HE PLANNED THAT. Chishiya not learning from something is absurd and if you find yourself thinking ha, he hasn't learned! then you're where he wants you.

That said on a more humorous note, clearly his speeches prior to his or another's death are clearly a mistake he's not learned from because he's given two and in one case the recipient survived, and on the other occasion he survived. Third time's the charm, if it happens again he's not doing any soul baring.

daisy : did your muse ever feel as though their innocence had been lost ? what moment in their life could be described as the end of their innocence ?

No, and that's simply because he didn't ever view himself as having any sort of 'childhood innocence'. Chishiya was...never really a child. He didn't have friends to foster a lot of youthful activities and engagement. In the few years his mother WAS somewhat involved, it was only to give him a strong academic basis. ( i.e. learning to read, talk, and do math younger than most others. ) Activities he did participate in where typical EDUCATIONAL and otherwise he often read or kept to himself. He never was particularly artistic, and was more incline to watch more educational shows than cartoons. He didn't have fanciful ideas of the future. He was exposed to the news and ugly side of humans fairly early on.

He's always felt empty. Nothing to lose if nothing's there, right? He was aware from a far too early age ; he can't remember when it might have occurred if there was EVER a particular instance of it. He remembers some particular instances of learning more details about the world, like the hierarchy and influence of money over things. But he was already aware of human nature and despite being DISAPPROVING, didn't particularly feel anything for the moments when he learned new instances like that.

marigold : is your muse prone to jealousy ? how might they handle envious feelings ?

answered HERE! / @cartelheir

[mettywiththenotes]

Realizing that the fist bump wasn't just a shounen-classic of symbolic acknowledgement between two enemies but also an alternative to holding hands because they tried that, couldn't do it and Izuku's arms decayed

If you look back at the pages in 423, the vestiges are clearly already coming at AFO with their fists closed, ready to punch, while Tomura comes straight out of the gate with an open-handed attack to kill AFO

At the point of contact, we don't know whether his hand is closed or open, but in the next moment, we see it is closed and pressed against Izuku's, meaning that they met in the middle once AFO disappeared

Which could mean 1) Tomura switched to a fist as he hit AFO so he could just fall back on the fistbump or 2) he switched from an open-handed attack to a loose fist within seconds of killing AFO so he didn't decay Izuku again

Either way, I believe this means that no matter what the action was, Tomura did not want to decay Izuku again. Actually, there is a great chance that he chose a fist because it was one of the only ways in that moment where they could make a physical connection and he wouldn't have to bring Izuku down with them

I need you to understand how amazing it is that Tomura actively CHOSE to bring AFO down with him as soon as he could and, at the same time, within seconds, prevent Izuku from dying while still reaching out in his own way so he could make that physical connection again for the last time

From this (Izuku to Tenko)

To this (Tomura to Izuku)

And this along with his last words? Smiling at Izuku and telling him to do his best? Believing he himself had no future but pretty much leaving the future to Izuku?? "It depends on what you do from now on"??? Literally what the hell Horikoshi

[daily-hanamura]

[notbecauseofvictories]

i would love to know the name of the mediocre horror movie so that i too may have thoughts

Unfortunately for all of us, it was Abigail (2024). There's something about a horror movie that's mostly blood and screaming...but with a tantalizing mention of a complex, cracked-mirror world slightly offscreen. It drives me nutty.

[kivaember]

now that im thinking about it. imagine rokumonsen yelling attacks when firing his weapons or using his plasma whip bc his source material for japan was old naruto episodes

[rivilu]

Highly recommend bringing Anders as the sole mage with you when recruiting Fenris at least once, because MAN the dialogue he has in that situation lives in my mind rent free

edit: here it is

[steelthroat]

*looking at my history notes*

"Okay so this is 4.7k words long, I usually can read at least 40/50k words of fanfiction a day so I should be able to..."

[moonylads]

careful, your inner coloniser is showing 🥴

careful, your inner cowardness is showing 🥴

[presiding]

What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?

(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)

thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -

short answer: she’s really cool

& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...

long answer:

i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.

since you ask...

billie is a cool character

when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.

then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!

she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.

but... the meta

mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.

skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.

i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.

most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).

i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.

ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.

while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.

it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-

- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?

.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.

lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.

you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.

in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.

all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3

billie's character potential

she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.

she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).

her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.

she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!

[filthy-mudeoki]

Episode 15 spoilers

I cannot explain you to the absolute chokehold this thing he does right here has on me

Don’t make me explain it … I can’t. All I can say is IYKYK 😏🥵🥵

I mean 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 come on 🥵🥵🥵

@kairadiamond you know what I mean bestie? 😩😩😩

[aromanticasterisms]

yknow i was a little miffed when yoimiya got her second story quest but i can't even be mad that cyno's getting his. he's been around since manga days he deserves it

[theaologies]

What do you mean Lady Macbeth is bizarrely anti Scottish and the love interest is both half English and (checks notes) turns into a dragon

[thetarttfuldickhead]

[fangirlwithasweettooth]

:)

[perelka-l]

Maaan dont tell me I'll have to do some proper nasty art to make it very much clear to people how much of a stain on the fabric of the reality I am. Because apparently it's not entirely clear. Sigh.

[trustmeifyoudare]

for class i have to read a book with one of those male writers