#all super adorable tbh
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Just a young, talented Watcher meeting a friendly little wisp.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#Emmrich volkarin#da manfred#if you know you know ahah#my art#I say young but he’s already an adult here pffft#starting to salt and pepper#just the idea of Manfred’s wisp following him around#when he isn’t around Johanna cos she’s off doing her own work#Emmrich being so amused to have this one wisp follow him literally everywhere in the necropolis#having to explain to Manfred things while he’s in class#teacher telling him not to attract the wisps into the classroom#so many ideas#all super adorable tbh#ahhhh I love them so much
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ouh....gh..
#yokai watch#komasan#komane#i adore komane btw. hes been on all my teams throughout my playthroughs of ykw 1 - 3. hes super important to me#same goes for komasan too#tbh
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Imagine you and your f/o sharing a beverage with two straws (sweetheart sipping!)
(like in these pictures I mean. Could also be cute drawing references for you and your f/o maybe?)
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#of course there are sillier variants too like one having too many straws or someone annoying you both by third wheeling with their own straw#but idk just picturing me and him in this scenario (especially the first or second pictures) is melting me ;_;#kinda want to draw it but i'm not super confident ehehe. anyways i hope you all think this is cute :}#proship selfship#proselfship#antis dni#antis please dni#proship please interact#{crowsdove original posts}#sorry if i'm the only one that finds this kinda thing adorable 😅#i just think it would fix me tbh
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Thinking tonight about Caelus, and the nature of his loss and his grief after the Everything that went down in Penacony during 2.0.
Because Acheron, Black Swan, and Misha kind of knew of Firefly, they at least met her, but they didn't like really know her, and Caelus never even got the chance to introduce her to the rest of the Astral Express Crew. The only person who would have talked to her much was Sparkle, who is. Probably not really someone Caelus is interested in grieving with skznmsks
Anyway, all this to say, I like thinking about how alone poor Caelus is in his grief, because he was the only one who knew Firefly. He's the only one really mourning her. There's no one to talk about her with. There's no stories to trade or memories to reminisce with anyone over. It's not as though he knew her for long, but still. No one else knew her at all.
And I love the thought of all of this coming bubbling up, hot and acidic and bitter, during a conversation with Sampo, who Caelus just so happens to run into in the Golden Hour. Poor Sampo is kinda blindsided, he knew shit was going down in Penacony, but yeesh. And he just. Isn't quite sure what to say about it all, because he's never really encountered this before. His feelings about the Masked Fools are...a mixed bag, but he's been a part of them for a very long time, and when you're with a close organization like that, it's hard to feel alone, in grief or otherwise.
So Sampo sits there on their little bench that the two of them have occupied, and he thinks of his old friend April, how she'd died in his arms cackling and spitting her own blood after a heist gone wrong, and how after he'd dragged himself back to the World's End Tavern they'd all held a Fool's Funeral- which is basically just a big party where everyone gets really really drunk and reminisces and toasts the dead and celebrates their life.
He still thinks about her a lot, and he remembers how the time he'd most keenly felt her absence was on Jarilo-VI, the one place where he couldn't talk about her because he couldn't say anything to give himself away as an alien. The Fools still tell stories about her every time he goes back to the Tavern. His first toast of the night is always in her name. Even now, all these years after she'd died, Sampo is still learning new things about her. He's never had to grieve her alone.
Caelus doesn't have any of that.
He might never have that. As they speak, Caelus has no proof that Firefly was even her real name, or if she dreamt with her true appearance. He might not ever find out who she even was.
And just imagining that kind of loneliness hollows out a strange little pit, right behind his sternum, deep between his ribs.
So Sampo claps Caelus' shoulder and offers him a deal. Come find him outside of the dream. He knows a guy who can get them a lot of beer for really cheap-
("Is that guy you and your five finger discounts?" "Whatever do you mean, dear friend, I don't even know the meaning of the phrase, hehee.")
-and they can hole up in a bar or a hotel room or something, and get completely shitcanned. Tell him all about Firefly, tell him everything, and he'll tell Caelus about April and everyone else he's ever lost. Sampo will carry Caelus' memories of Firefly with him, and at least this way, Caelus will be a little less alone in remembering her. And the next time they cross paths, Sampo will be the one to bring her up, and to tell her stories, and Caelus can get to be the one listening. He won't have to be the only person to talk about her anymore.
Caelus rolls his eyes when Sampo avoids another remark about sticky fingers, but...ok, yeah. That sounds good. Nice, even. Thank you. Caelus bumps his shoulder against Sampo's. Sampo bumps back.
(They find each other again the next day, and true to their word, get themselves completely and utterly shitcanned. Caelus talks more than Sampo has ever heard him; every minute detail, every word choice, Firefly's every odd little mannerism and habit. Because Caelus wants to make sure this will outlive him, that even if the Stellaron dwelling within him finally burns him to a crisp and he really does up and kick the bucket, or even, godforbid, if he forgets, he wants to make sure someone remembers her. She deserved that.)
((And it takes quite a while, after that. Caelus doesn't see Sampo again until after everything has settled down. On his last day in Penacony, he finds the guy slinking out of a seedy back alley and all but runs right into him. Sampo happily leads him to some dive bar in an even seedier back alley that Caelus has never even heard of, and Sampo raises his glass. "To Firefly! Who sounds like she probably would have hated me at first, but I would have liked to have met her anyway."
And Caelus stares at him, almost looking startled, long enough that Sampo worries that he's read him wrong and brought this up too soon. He's halfway into planning how to talk himself out of this situation when Caelus finally throws back his head back and laughs, tells him that yeah, Firefly would have politely called him out on every lie he told, and all their conversations would take twice as long with the way Sampo is so full of shit.
And he can see it, the same way he watches and sees through everyone, that Caelus' eyes have a tightness to them, his knuckles are nearly white around the handle of his mug. But he smiles. He hits his glass against Sampo's far too hard and throws it back and gets foam everywhere like he does every time they drink because the guy's about as elegant as a raging bull, but those things don't lessen the genuineness of his smile.
The grief is there, but so is the elation, and those emotions aren't a sliding scale between one or the other. It is all of both and both at once, and that's what contents Sampo enough to throw his own mug back when Caelus makes a toast of his own, "to April!!".))
#caelus#sampo koski#hsr caelus#hsr sampo#sampo & caelus#honkai star rail#hsr#my fics#me a few days ago: my favorite silly little guys uwu#me today: ANGST#honestly I feel like this isn't even a super strong angst though#it's more just. bittersweet? melancholic? something.#I JUST. REALLY LOVE STORIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF GRIEF#and 2.0 laid the groundwork for that beautifully woohoo#I just remembered this probably isn't common knowledge oops but April is the cute red haired girl in Funny Bone#her name was revealed by the creators on twitter. she's named April like April Fools!#anyway I ship it hardcore now thanks bucket boi & studio#but anyway yes I love and adore the loneliness of the trailblazer's loss and grief after 2.0#because we know from Sunday that Firefly is “spiritually dead” but the trailblazer wouldn't have that knowledge#and they wouldn't know her identity or about any of her connections to other people#and I love that juxtaposed against Sampo and the possible strange nature of his own grief-#-given how the Masked Fools operate and how they see Elation in everything and everywhere#Sampo is no saint- like at all lol- but I do like him and Caelus getting along and being bros#and I don't think it would be terribly ooc for him to care about someone he sees as a genuine friend#he maybe rarely considers someone a genuine friend. but still dmxjjdjdk#listening to Sam's boss theme as I tag this... have been listening to it a lot ever since I finished 2.0 tbh#it's probably what inspired a lot of this haha#because it does sound strong and intimidating and imposing#but you can hear it#the heartbreak
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Will Wood lyrics that fuck me up every time (in various and different ways)
#my words#well I guess not I should really change my OP tag#Will Wood#I me myself#suburbia overture#really just the entire Normal Album in general hits me so hard#the way he just wails 'I swear I'm really trying' in AtKF is SHATTERING#there are a lot more I left out for just...the sake of not making a super long post#I only discovered will wood like 6 months ago but man I've been obsessed#there's still a lot I haven't heard it's mostly been the normal album tbh#but I'm excited to get through all of it I adore his writing
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Thank god Sasha was confirmed bisexual, otherwise people would hc her as lesbian solely and exclusively because she's kind of a bitch.
#like it's a stereotype at this point. happy bubbly character HC'd as bi or pan. weird almost alien-esque character HC'd as ace/aro/aroace#skinny depressed sadboi man HC'd as gay. physically stronger taller and more extroverted and confident man HC'd as bisexual#and of course. mean bitch HC'd as a lesbian#i really don't get the ''nice fun and bubbly = bisexual'' stereotype at all#like what does it meannnnn#is it meant to represent how they're more ''open'' to ''more people''??#and lesbians being mean represents ?? idk that they're more ''closed''?#also see how the fanon male gay characters are usually like sad delicate flowers that must be protected and fanon lesbians are#just more ''rough'' somewhat. or at least closed off and cold or distant somehow#''frigid'' is the word that comes to my mind (yikes)#btw I LOVE that Anne and Marcy are characterized as lesbians a lot of the time in this fandom#since they're definitely much more ''soft'' and like cutesy and sweet than big mean Sasha#i love lesbian Anne (extroverted. confident. likes playing matchmaker. super super social. local jock. quite girly when she has the chance)#and I love lesbian Marcy (soft adorable bubbly girl. surprisingly extroverted. VERY hyper. vv energetic. adorable n precious cinnamon roll)#i kinda like the idea of aroace Marcy as someone who clings to her friends so desperately because she sees them drifting away from her#and priorizing other types of relationships (romantic bonds) while she's left alone because THEY were her everything#and she gave her whole heart to them#but they never gave their hearts to her because they were waiting for someone else to give them to. a romantic partner.#something marcy could never be#but I also feel like sometimes the ''weird girl'' thing might give off alien vibes somehow (?) like she just clearly doesn't belong in this#in this world she doesn't belong to this species she doesn't experience what most humans experience#i have mixed feelings on aroace marcy but tbh i don't care enough to like. complain about people who see her that way lol#though I admit I prefer lesbian Marcy a lot more#my posts#btw one hc i really do adore is trans girl Anne. idk if it's ''too stereotypical'' in relation to her like about who she sees in the mirror#i find it so soft and sweet. how she learns to love herself. how she forms a sense of self. trans girl anne my absolute precious#amphibia
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Im on episode four, and Vanitas is surprisingly sinister- I was expecting him to be silly goofy and a little childish- but then he did that thing with Jeanne (or whatever her name is) and I’m just- dude?????? wtf???????
#tbh he reminds me of Dazai#secretly sinister and such#all characters should have a decent silly to sinister ratio#but like- I fear he’s gonna end up being super smart slightly crazy generally goofy kinda character#‘I fear’ like there’s nothing wrong with this type of character#I adore Vanitas so far#I wish he didn’t do that thing with that girl tho#the whole time k was waiting for him to say sile#*sike#like ‘I just wanted to piss off the kid for blah blah blah’#or some shit#idk#but nah I think he’s just got a crush#and he’s not at all normal about it#in front of his husband too!#damn!#in the very second episode I made a joke about Noé being the top#I fear I was mistaken in my judgement#but yeah- I love our little silly dramatic walking lore drop Vanitas#he reminds me of Dazai tho#entirely because I’m very fixated on bsd rn#im afraid that this’ll tear me sssy from bsd tho#I don’t need that rn#I still need to read so many books and write so many figs#fics#agh#this is only a mild detour#I’ll be right back in bsd soon#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas
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whshdfhfjf.,,,
#close up!! because i firstly Did Not render them with such insanity in order for tumblr's lack of general resolution to make it blur#look at all the lines!!! teehee i still really really like this style of digital painting it's super super fun to do!!! and also secondly#because i went back and added a tag ramble and as i seem to often be doing??? lately?? reached the 30 tag limit and went 'hm ok how else..'#anyway the tag essay on that one is now up and talks about the artwork generally and miscellaneous thoughts!! that said. i need a space to#ramble about beatrix at Length because look you don't draw and paint etc a character for like ten hours without having a lot of thoughts#anyways ! i digress terrifically. tag rambles are more like trains of thoughts masquerading as subways and you get on and it's unfortunately#a rollercoaster track. but this is My Blog and i can do Whatever I Want as long as i don't hurt anyone <- affirmations!! also Harm Principle#lately it's been like *kicks up feet* *opens tumblr tags* *treats it as own personal journal* and tbh Good for me!! anyways back to beatrix#fun fact ! the thing that pushed me over the edge to go watch the musical after looking through the tumblr tag was a very specific poll.#and the fact that the winning option was blue hair and pronouns made me double over laughing so hard i had to go see the source material#mm i feel like lately the academic Context has been tossing me essentially into a blender HAHA ;-; so everyone in adamandi is to some extent#a Mood. but bea-specific (haha be specific)(sorry!)(wow this is the same reaction mechanism of my friend who points out innuendos)(...)#i think it's the wanting to prove herself. like from the whole abuela etc thing there's proof here she's got a Stable Support System of sort#and instead what beatrix continues to do is push themselves. 'i guess u could say i'm married to my work? god that's depressing' // no one#here to enforce that // abuela tells me to rest says i'm constantly stressed and i'll just get depressed like before but i still have to try#like. that shred of desperation that pushes you to the brink to neglect yourself (well i guess physically but also your morals..) and like!!#the whole 'lose half your soul thing' proves she's self aware!! like they know what they're doing is super dubious yknow! but they're still#they're still doing it even if it goes into conflict with their morality system in a way and then they justify it to themselves (see pt 1#of ghostwriter) and the whole wanting to achieve at all costs Despite the self awareness. (i think? this aspect also applied to quincy. but#thoughts on him will come later). more beatrix specific also is the fact that they genuinely adore their work.. 'i just love it here where#you know they'll be printing forever and you are just part of it' because that does kind of resonate with me. also the being behind in the#competition is real!!! i'm maybe talking about Art as a subject because that same drive for it exists on my good days i think. even#even when nothing seems to be going right and you've ended up at the back the intent passion inherent in what you do is still there!!!#the genuine. care she has for reporting. is so !!!!! to me... other beatrix thoughts include 'why reveal yourself at the end' aka vincent's#'u should have stayed silent u had a smart plan' like rip to them but i would not // it feels with bea's complex character i can't imagine h#her Not doing that. like the guilt is real i guess. and i am running out of tags but! smth also about her fervent hope or smth that she'll#eventually get to where she wants. and the resilient determination.. 'i won't let their deaths be pointless there's more good i'm gonna do'#they're so so real for that. i'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing; seeing myself reflected in aspects of characters like this.. but it's#it's there regardless. smth smth just make your peace with the person you are ig!! tldr beatrix campbell my beloved. hehe#adamandi
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Behold, my latest and most enamouring new obsession:
Malina, Lady of the Chief of the Northern Water Tribe. As if Red Lotus child OCs weren’t niche enough
#my art#artists on tumblr#the legend of korra#lok malina#still feel like that’s too vague of a tag but I can’t come up with anything better for now#and yeah. she has completely stolen by heart and I don’t know how to feel about that#don’t think I ever was this attracted to my own art before#to be fair the design isn’t mine. it’s very heavily based on something nina drew back in 2021#because I did not have the energy or creativity to come up with my own thing#but the art is all mine and I genuinely adore it. super proud of myself which is a rare occurrence#anyways. kat and I spent three days digging this niche lower and lower and now have a he#*hell of a lot of lore about this basically nonexistent character#for lore about a lady from the North Pole a lot of it is rather hot… to the point my cheeks are burning non stop#I would say I’d let her do anything she wants to me but in my very specific aroace-adjacent case it’s more like#I’d let her tell me to do anything she wants to her#if that makes any sense and I have not completely lost my goddamn mind yet#okay. enough yapping. back to the art itself#lazy background because I suck at those and am not currently attempting to learn them. I’ll probably do that over the summer#about time anyway. my characters have been placed against an off-white background for far. far too long#this is the first piece in just over a year that isn’t tagged with sotrl. which is kinda weird tbh#I’ve been drawing my OCs almost exclusively for nearly 5 years so it is genuinely surprise I’m branching out#*surprising#less branching out and more diving from one hole into another but y’know#anyway. in my personal and very correct opinion she turned out absolutely gorgeous#her servants are way too lucky and unalaq is way too much of an idiot. no offence to vaatu but he could never beat out this#and I also have Kat’s personal and very correct opinion to back up my own. two against the void. once again we’re winning#I wanna draw her a lot more bc she has completely possessed my brain. I just wish character interactions were easier to draw 😭#I’ll figure it out. just need to fight my visualisation issues for a proper idea. brb#okay I’m almost at the tag limit so. in summary:#she 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
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i love thirteen & find her deeply compelling but i do still think her writing was trash and i can't really be convinced otherwise. & no i don't like timeless child but that's actually not the issue at all, that's really just a taste thing, my problem was the episodic writing was just like. not good. 95% of the time. i genuinely can't think of one non endgame arc storyline of hers that i remember enough to have found it interesting
#it makes me. really mad. tbh. bc jodie deserved so much fucking better#i'm not saying they were ALL bad i just can't for the life of me remember any positive standouts#i remember ghost monument being? okay? like a good set up but i don't remember the pay off at all#also i'm iffy on timeless child but i did adore spyfall for what it's worth#i thought that was set up super well#i do need to rewatch and see if my mind changes and like. i Hope it does. but skimming thru titles i doubt it#ted talks#doctor who lb
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its honestly kinda wild to me that both rosalina and toadette got playable roles in a mainline mario game before daisy. like thats a little crazy ithink
#skye's ramblings#there was mario run but like does anyone count mario run lets be real. and iirc toadette was also playable there#also ithink both of them were locked behind microtransactions of some sort. run kinda sucked tbh#crazy how much love nintendo gives toadette honestly. they gave her like one bigger role now shes in every game somewhere#not a complaint btw i adore her but it is a little funny. ONE unique toad design allowed#barring all rpgs daisy n toadette are my mario faves <3 game is giving me them AND peach... wonder is for the lesbians (me)#iwill not survive wonder and new super princess peach. universe give me monies pelase ..
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top 5 league blorbos and why? —mp anon
bonus: top 3 blorbos from other media
What a way to start my day off!! Omg I’ve wanted to think about this list…
1. Ezreal - ouguguuhhh… sorry what I mean to say is that I think about him daily and think he’s a very interesting and good character, love putting him in ships and situations, and think he’s also v funny
2. Sett - simply he’s super important to me and what I usually call my main to everyone lol! I find him very cool and interesting and every time I make skin concepts I think he’s VERY fun to make ideas for
3. Kayn - He’s just incredibly fascinating… like idk how to describe it in a way that doesn’t sound same old? I find his entire fork in the road, dynamic with Rhaast, dynamic with others, self-discipline, confidence, etc etc etc super easy to become invested with? And making my own skin concepts for him is super super fun to try and do
4. Neeko - I JUST LOVE HER ugh she’s my favorite midlane champion and I find her voice lines super adorable and well done w her cheery voice and delivery like. Oh my god she is just so cute and her design was the first champion design not in a music group that caught my eye from League, fun fact! I always told myself I’d play her if I ever played League and Guess What
5. Yone - It’s a hard toss between him and Aphelios bc I feel for them both deeply, but the dynamic w Yasuo that Yone has and his entire character concept oougugohugihu I love him so much and just want him to experience joy and laughter…
Bonus?
1. Oikawa Tooru from Haikyuu!! - I’ve written essays about this man and how emotional he makes me
2. Cole from Lego Ninjago - Yeah… yeah yeah yeah yeah
3. Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV - I just think he’s [gross sobbing noises]
#lol#answered#this is so hard tbh#there’s so many characters I super adore#I bumped like 4 character options for Cole and Noctis tbh#I’m surprised I was decisive at all LMAO
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Okay so, if y'all know me you know I adore tmnt. It was my obsession before I ever watched even the original YGO much less GX. And now I'm watching tmnt 2012 for the first time, I'm about halfway through season 2 and honestly you guys are so lucky I'm not live blogging it because well.... I don't like it 💀
I will say I'm enjoying season 2 more than season 1 so far but still 💀
#I'm trying so hard I really am#as a don stan I hate all the april stuff#as a lover of april I hate what they've done and will do with this one#I hate the whole karai is really splinter's daughter thing#the kraang make me want to die every time they speak they're so annoying#I dunno a lot of the humor is just not landing with me either for some reason#i never liked the 3d cg animation style i always thought it was super ugly which is part of why i never watched it until now tbh#I kinda resent just how childish mikey is which is silly of me I'll admit that but still#leo has always been my least favorite that hasn't changed#don always was my favorite so I really hate that so much of his character revolves around april it really adds nothing and holds him back#raph is fine it's hard to mess him up tbh i don't have any issues with him so that's a win 👍#plus I adore sean astin so bonus points#I do actually like splinter and casey though#historically I love casey the most of the human characters though so if they end up messing him up later I'll never forgive them#karai is fine I just hate the her being splinter's daughter thing. I also don't like her design at all. at all. they did her dirty af.#I don't like to compare the other shows to 2003 since nothing ~really~ compares imo but karai's 2003 design > every other karai design#I know there's some 2003 storylines and characters they do in 2012 so I know the comparison is inevitable but I think I've done well#so far in keeping them separate. i haven't had that issue with 87 or rise so I trust myself#but honestly my intense love and admitted bias for 2003 has never interfered with my enjoyment or opinions of other turtle media#-so that's not an issue here#I just genuinely don't care for 2012 so far. I didn't particularly care for rise either but tbh atm I like it more than 2012#the rise movie was great though I loved that legitimately. the show itself though? not really for me.#I'm gonna watch 2012 to completion and I really hope I change my mind but it's looking bleak so far#plus I already know a lot of the big story beats so there goes that lol#oh yeah I lied#I also like ice cream kitty 🤭#tmnt#abby's just rambling don't mind her#abby chooses violence#wake up babe new tag dropped
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i did not care for v6
except for maria she was genuinely golden
#uncaught-coolfish#apathy arc was good. this volume looked good. neo was good. that is literally it#fucking hell im gonna sound high but i have more positive things to say for v5. and v5 was ASSSSSSS#v5 looked super pretty. some of the fights excluding THE ONE were really good. freezerburn! ilia was written wrong but she was in it!#Everything else was either insanely mid or really really bad. also the racism which Against Popular Opinion had NOT GONE AWAY#v6 was easily the best volume in the mistral arc but that’s not saying much when#the mistral arc was genuinely the worst part of this show maybe. tee bee ach.#and I’m saying this as someone who vehemently loathes v8#but again. i adored maria in v6. out of all the new cast she’s easily the fave and while I think this shows comedy#has always barely landed. maria was funny. she was really funny. had a good little chuckle over that one I’m coming after you#AND YES. this includes THE fight 😔 it had good choreo but tbh it could’ve been better#also it was the beginning of the blake nerf patch. THUMBS DOWN#AND NO THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE SHORT BECAUSE I KIND OF LIKE THE SHORT. IT AT LEAST LOOKS SUPER SUOER PRETTY. I AM IGNORING THE REST#THAT SHORT TRIPPED AND SLOW MOTION FELL SO BHWF COULD STEAD CRAWL
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i’m so glad i have a cat now like his existence has made me so much happier in the few weeks of having him than i have in years
#he’s so cute#he’s just a kitten so he’s super tiny and is just a little boy 🥺#he’s so adorable all he does is play and eat and sleep and snuggle up against me he’s so clingy it’s cuttteeee#i legit just love him i can’t express it everytime i go anywhere i miss him LMAO i just wanna hangout with my cat all day#he’s my ESA#my reason to not kms#cause i gotta take care of him >\\\<#once he gets all his shots i’m gonna take him everywhere#but for the most part he just hangouts in my room with me all day :3#i just want to talk about him all day he’s so CUTTEEE 😭💞💘#i wanted a cat for so so long and i finally got one really randomly but it was perfect and he’s amazing#PLUS HES JUST A BABYYY#MY SON#he always makes biscuits on me 🥹💘#i’m so tempted to post him here tbh i just want to show everyone his cuteness 😫
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Games that I like and how they handle racism
Virgin Great Ace Attorney Chronicles vs CHAD Disco Elysium
#vu's posts#tgaa#disco elysium#i've been thinking about this for a while lol#my fixation before de was tgaa so. i'm bound to make comparisons#it helps that they're both VNs/point and clicks where you solve murders and such. it's hard not to compare em really#no but yeah i adore tgaa but WOW is the handling of the racism just. terrible#it's literally a shallow 'oh we're all people at the end of the day' thing. it's literally so insulting tbh#it's more frustrating since the writing is otherwise incredible imo!#also frustrating since it plagues my favorite character grrrrr#(and yes i mean van zieks <3)#he's so well written and it's just this one aspect of his character that's just so terribly done!#they could've just made him racist because of his time period or w/e. but as is his racism is tied to his trauma??#plus he NEVER faces consequences for his racism. hell KAZUMA never even calls him out on it and he HATES bvz like?#also doesn't help that ryuu (the victim of most of the racism) kinda just... lets it slide for the most part#esp once he finds out why van zieks is racist he's just like 'oh that's understandable actually. ur racism is justified here' like no!#meanwhile disco handles the topic with the nuance that it needs to be given yknow?#also it very clearly frames the constant racism that kim puts up with as something that Affects Him#and plus he doesn't just take it! he's a super composed guy but you can clearly tell how uncomfortable he is-#when ppl around him are throwing around racist bs#and plus despite being a very composed person he DOES snap at someone at least once in canon over it#(e.g. the ''don't you welcome to revachol' me' bit... which btw i will never be normal about <3)#(honorable mention to his 'i feel less bad for breaking in here now' bit when you go into the cryptofascist guy's apartment-#after he sees the racist mugs. he was so right for that fr)#ALSO back to my earlier point about it clearly affecting him. i feel like he does have some like. idk internalized racism?#like his whole thing with being proud to be a native to revachol and being proud that he never met his seolite grandparents#like MAYBE you could read that as him just really caring about his home city. but it also reads like internalized racism to me#ANYWAYS there's more i could say here but you get the point#tgaa racism themes are badly written while de racism themes are well written#va4 rambles in the tags
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