#also I’m very very tired so might return tomorrow (today technically) to make some edits

[nicomoon69]

ignore the slight style inconsistencies, I am tired :3

oc lore dump under cut!!

little background:

the isolated area in which these characters live is about the size of Eurasia. there’s five main islands with littler ones mostly near the bigger islands. two islands belong to the humans and two belong to the elves with the last island being mostly neutral.

there’s been a war going on between the humans and elves for as long as anyone can remember. while they may not be actively fighting there’s a lot of hostility and distrust. no one exactly knows how it started.

elves are split up into two sub races: Sylvestrean elves and Mageian elves. elves specialized in their own type of magic over a long period of time, creating the difference between the sub races. Sylvestrean elves are in touch with nature, their powers based on the elements and all that is living. Mageian elves focus on more abstract magic, usually a something that enhances a skill and is something that they’ve developed and passed down through their family.

regardless of sub race, elves have an increased life expectancy compared to humans and age slower. they worship the moon goddess Ela and worship of any other god is a punishable offense. while they aren’t as developed technically compared to humans especially the Mageian elves are catching up. most of the elven states/countries/regions are ruled by nobility.

humans despite being one race are much more of a mixed bag than elves. some humans live like they’re form medieval times, but on the other end of the spectrum there’s human who live in a sort of steam punk society. they also have no innate magical abilities but can practice magic through other means and are thereby also not limited to one thing. this however is generally frowned upon and will even get you a prison sentence in some places.

humans generally live a way shorter life than elves. they worship the sun god Sol, though there’s also some that will pray to Ela since laws surrounding religion are less strict. humans have all sorts of governments, there is no one way to do it. due to that humans are far less united than elves.

Lavern Levesque (they/he, 24)

pirate captain of ship the Levesque (though if you ask anyone in their crew they’ll tell you he’s usually too busy tinkering to care about what direction they’re sailing). former trust fund baby (parents were no1 wine exporters in the nation) but after their entire family got burnt to a crisp in a fire that may or may not have been caused by the mafia they’ve been homeless and on the run. at some point in his homelessness career he and the rag tag group of friends he collected over the years stole the Levesque from some poor chap who was doing business. that was when Lavern Levesque was truly born. ever since he’s been busy scamming the rich and robbing the snobbiest they can find. (they’re also in a committed relationship with the daughter of one of the people he tried to scam- oops??)

Ida (she/her, 26)

formerly part of the mafia (that’s gonna be a real awkward conversation with Lavern at some point) and currently on the run. with little options she’s been doing a lot of physical labor for whoever will hire her which finally led her to the Levedque. due to the captain’s lack of involvement with hiring she didn’t know who she was going to work under, which led to an uncomfortable realization. ever since she’s been hiding her past and trying to get over her middle child related trauma (imagine having 8 siblings and you’re exactly in the middle, yeesh) as well as living with the guilt that she was in fact a part of the reason Lavern’s family is dead.

Hedvig (they/it, ??)

not much too say about their past since they suffer from heavy memory loss and barely remember their name. it has a suspicious amount of buried combat knowledge though and magic that lets them shape whatever they want into any form as long as the matter is non-living. was found by Eleanor (she’ll pop up later) on her parent’s ship and immediately left a bad impression by being scarred, wet and not speaking the common language.

Finn (he/they/she, 16-18)

he’s honestly just a poor little guy. he was the product of an affair between a human and an elf, which since a young age put a huge target on his back. despite trying to hide it Finn could never fit in with his peers or even his family. his step father resented him and his mother wasn’t in a position to defend him. this all reached its boiling point when he was about eleven years old and was put on a ship to another island. unfortunately, his ship got caught in a storm and he washed up on the shore of a dangerous island. ever since he’s been stuck, the island’s forest having all sorts of dangers. he’s seen countless people wash up, attempt to leave or get resources and get killed by the island’s mysterious forces. his survival has relied solely on what has washed up and what little he could find.

Elanor Sylvian (she/they, 32)

part of the royal Sylvestrean family, she’s the eldest daughter of the king and queen. she was raised to be the next queen, not exactly having a childhood or many friends. as ruler she would’ve been responsible for making sure the nobles under her were doing their jobs well. she set out with her parents to a meeting between nobles which was when she found Hedvig on the ship. due to her having studied many languages she luckily could understand Hedvig, who only spoke in a which was thought to be extinct Mageian dialect.

[makeste]

BnHA 6th Popularity Poll Reaction Post - Risky Spoiler-Dodging Edition

hey guys, so seeing as the results from the 6th popularity poll were leaked today, I figured I would do a separate reaction + analysis post this year, rather than piling it in as an extra on top of the chapter reaction post tomorrow. I figure this makes more sense anyway, since they’re really two completely different things. also this way I can write as much as I want lol.

also, just fyi, I am still completely unspoiled for chapter 293. and probably the smart thing to do to keep it that way would be to log off tumblr and hold off posting this until tomorrow, but I apparently have no impulse control today so oh well. anyway, so I’m hoping you guys will keep this spoiler-free if you don’t mind! as always, I would prefer to just jump right in completely unaware tomorrow like Troy returning to the study room with the pizza boxes lol.

okay so this first part is just going to be my predictions. fyi I am writing this part on Wednesday night, and then I’ll add on the results part on Thursday or Friday (ETA: Thursday, apparently, since I am impatient.)

okay so first of all, just as a refresher, this poll was open to Japanese voters from Aug 3 to Sep 30. meaning chapters 279 through 285. meanwhile last year’s poll took place around the tail end of the MVA arc. so between then and now we had Heroes Rising, the Endeavor Agency arc, and the War arc up to the part where the 1-A kids took on Gigantomachia in Gunga, and started battling Tomura in Jakku. so technically only a couple of arcs, but a LOT of stuff going down in them. oh and season 4 of the anime as well

so! firstly, I predict that my truculent africanized honeybee son will hold on to his crown at #1, coming off a year in which he did some internship-boosted soul searching, borrowed OFA in movie canon, and finished out the voting period as the my-body-moved-on-its-own character development MVP. like CALL ME CRAZY lol, but I’m pretty sure his title is safe. and then after him will be Deku and Shouto as usual

Aizawa should hopefully also have a strong showing because the dude had a banner fucking year. reunited with his old dead friend, took on Tomura with his hopelessly inept hero pals, and then chopped his fucking leg off. he had better be in the top 10. his fucking leg died for this, idk what else he has to do

Endeavor also stands a decent chance of doing well given the internship arc and the final episode of season 4. which I’m sure will go down just swimmingly if that does happen lmao. especially if he somehow manages to rank higher than...

Dabi, which I don’t think he will btw, but you never know. anyways though, but I’m thinking Dabi’s going to have a stronger showing than in past years (in the last poll he only got 367 votes and was ranked 19th). mostly because of his fight in the Gunga mansion, and his cheekily censored name reveal to...

Hawks, who is also going to rank pretty high here, I think. might be he loses some points for killing off Twice, but his back was basically to the wall there. and he has always been very popular, and I think season 4 will also give him a boost, along with his heavy involvement in the first half of the War arc

Tomura was already in 6th place last year and I think he cracks the top 5 this year. he’s gotten exponentially more popular since the MVA arc, and got a boost in the last poll even though his flashback had only just barely happened, and he hadn’t finished Awakening yet and all that stuff. anyway, so he’s only gotten cooler and more tragic since then so I think he makes a big play here

Kirishima, Momo, Tokoyami, and Mina should also hopefully do well, since the poll opened right in the middle of all that Gigantomachia action, and Toko had just got done being an absolute badass and protecting his birb dad. I don’t think he’ll quite make it to the top ten, but he should

and last but not least, I’m hoping that Mirko will come out and take the polls by storm, although I have no clue how popular she is in Japan lol. she’s clearly Horikoshi’s favorite though. she SHOULD be everyone’s favorite, but I mean, we’ll see how it goes

anyway that’s it as far as predictions! and so now, through the magic of writing stuff at different times, we will fast-forward to the part where we actually find out the results!

OH MY GOD YES, STEAMPUNK KHLKSLLKL. HERE FOR IT. JOLLY GOOD SHOW. 5 STARS

Kacchan looks SO COCKY and SO HAPPY and SO ADORABLE, YES I SAID IT. he is adorable as FUCK. I don’t quite know what it is about this particular Kacchan that just screams “LOOK HOW FUCKING CUTE MY STUPID, LOUD SON IS WITH HIS BIZARRE WINDOWPANE-LOOKING CONVERTIBLE SUNGLASS GOGGLES and his POORLY TIED CRAVAT”, but I think it’s because he looks like if a Digimon character and a FMA character had a baby

anyway, so it looks like most of the people present here are more or less who we expected to see. except that I can’t tell for sure if that’s Dabi or Shindou, and if it’s Shindou I’m going to punch somebody in the face so you will have to excuse me

Iida wearing a TRENCHCOAT and a TOP HAT with ENGINE EXHAUST GOGGLE ACCENTS is my new favorite Iida of all time. take note how there is no possible way he can wear those goggles with them sitting on top of his hat like that. plus he’s already got glasses on. these are just purely for aesthetic and IF THAT AIN’T JUST THE STEAMPUNK WAY

Deku out here speaking softly and carrying a lead pipe. Kacchan you best look out. seems like he’s done watching you take first place year after year while he languishes in the number two spot. your only hope is that he trips while attacking you because his boots are unbuckled

Shouto’s standing over there with the rest of the non-first-and-second-place characters, but what are the odds his results are actually within spitting distance of Deku’s same as always. anyway he doesn’t mind, though. also his outfit is by far the most sensible one here, but if you look closely he’s got some sort of fire extinguisher/jet pack thing strapped to his back that’s got a control switch on his belt. Shouto are you jetpacking or putting out fires

Kirishima out here all “I’m not sure what steampunk is so I’m just going to take off my shirt and pose”

AIZAWA WITH THE EYEPATCH SKLKSDLKFJLSKJLDFKJSLDFFJLDKSJFL:KS. SIR. SIR. also, lowkey furious that Horikoshi refuses to show us the automail leg that he is clearly sporting here but which we just can’t see, SHOUTO MOVE GODDAMMIT

Endeavor has TWO fire extinguisher-slash-jetpacks. THE BETTER TO... WHATEVER. look at you here in the top ten again. you really live for that controversy

HAWKS OUT HERE WITH HIS STEAMPUNK BEATS BY DRE AND HIS WEARING A RING ON EVERY FINGER. nice to see you’ve still got your wings there, kiddo. then again Deku still has both of his arms too so who even knows what is going on

BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH, IS THIS DABI OR SHINDOU. as if I don’t know the truth deep down in my heart. y’all I am gonna flip lmao. it’s not that I dislike Shindou, strictly speaking. but just... I can’t explain what it is, but if you put him and AFO next to each other and told me “you can only punch one”, I would be having a serious crisis. just, THIS FUCKING GUY, idek. STOP SMILING

Tomura looks like he just wandered onto the set here by mistake and has no idea where he is or what is going on. it’s because you’re wearing a bigass severed hand that’s blocking your entire view, Tomura. just take the hand off your face my sweet murder dumpling

anyway! so I managed to also find a link to the full poll results while somehow managing to avoid spoilers, and then I wanted to compare the results to last year’s poll, and so I made... this

hopefully you can all see this. if you’re on desktop you might be screwed, but on mobile you should be able to click and enlarge it. I mean, assuming you actually give a fuck about boring poll analysis spreadsheets lmao

anyway, so there were actually 13k fewer votes cast this year which is a bit of a surprise. is the series not still growing in popularity? do people apparently have better things to do during their quarantine lol

anyways but despite this, and despite getting 8k fewer votes overall, Kacchan still managed almost twice as many as his closest competitor. well fought, Deku. please put down that pipe

I somehow always underestimate the power of ship popularity to influence these things. but for example, it looks like Present Mic got that Vigilantes Trio bump. ride that wave for all it’s worth my man! hell, you got me on board

Iida fucking Tenya somehow got some sort of POWER BOOST out of NOWHERE which I can’t explain at all lmao, but I’m here for it. NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN

Sero managed to get the exact same number of votes in both 2019 and 2020. clearly the most loyal fans in the business

Mirko being all the way down at #20 is, of course, a travesty, and I hereby nominate her to be the one to punch Shindou in the face

ngl though, the lack of a single female character in the top ten hurts just a bit. it’s not overly surprising, but still. the worst part of it is that even if you kicked Shindou to the curb and moved everyone else up one slot, it would still be all dudes since Mic beat out Momo by a margin of a little more than a hundred votes. hard to stay mad at Mic for too long, though. ah well

Tomura actually lost a bunch of votes which is a genuine surprise to me. I know the villain standom isn’t as dominant in Japan as it is in Western fandom, but still. you can go ahead and punch Shindou too I guess

Tokoyami lowkey doubled his vote count over the past year while hiding down there at #18. he is slowly becoming more powerful. biding his time

anyway so I think that’s it! I mean not really, but I’m getting kind of tired lol. so just, you know, insert the usual gripes at Overhaul’s ranking here, although we can be happy about Magne making her way onto the list (r.i.p.), and Mineta and AFO taking a very satisfying slide down (all the way out, in AFO’s case; good riddance you bum). Hadou also got a huge boost which is awesome. Mustard’s persistent ownership of the #36 spot will forever remain a mystery to me, but oh well

anyways, this was fun. and I really do feel like everyone is looking away on purpose so that when Deku brains Kacchan with that pipe in about two seconds from now, there will be no witnesses, oh my fucking god

[sugirandom]

365 days of writing: day 104

Day 104: setting the bar high

Note: Sorry, this got pretty long

               Today’s entry is 104 which are the same numbers as my birthday…sort of lol. That’s a weird reason to make my happy but I think it’s pretty cool. I’m not that superstitious with numbers but I think it’s fun to look at numerology and stuff like that from time to time.  I did get my blood test this morning but since it was only one test it was no big deal and over in an instant. I also think that since I’m more hydrated it’s less painful. That’s my theory anyway as to why it doesn’t hurt as much because when I was dehydrated I know they had to poke around to find my vein but when you’re hydrated it’s easy to access the veins. I think that’s how it works anyway but I’m not a doctor so…yeah.  

After getting my blood test I went to Walmart and ended up buying my stepdad two gifts. I got two things because I’m not sure if he can use a google play points card or not but they had no Amazon cards. I know he plays Pokemon Go but I’m not sure if you can use google play points towards tokens in that game or not. So, I bought him a copy of Spaceballs on DVD because I know he likes it and I’m pretty sure he might own it on VHS but I doubt he has the DVD. To be honest that gift wasn’t planned at all and it was just there in their discount DVDs rack so I think things worked out favorably. The only real issue is that I have no wrapping paper to use and didn’t think to buy a gift bag since I wasn’t planning on buying this and was near the checkout lane when I picked it up and it might be tacky to just give it to him without any wrapping or way of concealing it. I’ll check with Poppy if we have either wrapping paper or a gift bag…we might have some downstairs.

When I got home I ended up talking with quite a few people on the dating site I use. I downloaded the app since it’s easier to use on the phone than the website it. Another guy and a transwoman contacted me so I’ve been casually talking to them. I’ve recently met two different people who have almost identical taste in Anime to each other lol. At least they have different taste in other things or I’d think they were the same person ha ha. We have some titles we like in common though so that works. The transwoman is…not really like me at all so I’m not sure what attracted her to me but…she’s pretty attractive not gonna lie. She seems nice as well and I think we could still get along well so long as we have similar values. She’s a very active person and I think she mentioned being in the army. IDK if we’re going to hit it off or not but we at least had a nice chat and exchanged numbers so we’ll see how it goes.

After studying languages I watched two episodes of Dragon Ball and an episode of Linebarrels of Iron. I’m in the middle of the first tournament saga in DB, I got passed the training and the preliminaries part so now we’re in the meat of the competition I guess. I’m honestly curious how Cartoon Network handled some of the censorship for Dragon Ball, I don’t even remember when they played Dragon Ball since they did BBZ first but they had their work cut out for them with all the sexual jokes in Dragon Ball and I honestly see how editing would be problematic in parts. I’ll have to talk to my best bro about it since he seemed to talk mostly about how the censored the other kind of dirty jokes (i.e. farting, toilet humor etc.) and didn’t touch on the censoring of sexual humor quite as much. I’m so curious how the episodes looked to him because he’s only seen Cartoon Network’s dub and a few small clips of Dragon Ball in Japanese. I’ll have to teach him all about the original, I think he’d love it even more ha ha.

Anyway, Linebarrels of Iron is getting a little better. I wanted them to improve for episode seven and they did. Sadly they seem to be following the trend that some of the Gundam Anime I’ve seen have where it doesn’t pick up till like somewhere between episode 5-7. Sometimes this can be done well but it can also be frustrating. Oh boy, this show is handling my kind of Alternate Dimension theory though so this means I’m going to be judging it even harsher. The antagonist is apparently from an alternate world that’s more advanced than the main world and well the girl who gave Hayase his power is too so ummm I’m worried that they might not be equipped to handle this well but who knows maybe they’ll do an ok job. Maybe they’ll be what I hope and actually be turning the “Soldier of justice” trope on it’s head and even do a decent job on alternate dimensional theories. My habit is to assume this won’t be the case but I guess I can dream. The show itself seems to have ratings that overall say “Good” or “averagely good” so we’ll have to see.

Also as a little aside, the antagonist is voiced by Jun Fukuyama (the Seiyuu who voices Lelouch) and gotta admit Jun-kun makes a good antagonist. His voice is very Lelouch-like in this Anime though because the antagonist is really confident and seems to have flashy ideals that would either excite or frustrate Lelouch. It’s funny because the protagonist Hayase has the same hair and eye color as Suzaku despite being extremely different in personality mind you. So, I’m just gonna pretend I’m watching Lelouch versus Suzaku. I mean the antagonist even tried to recruit Hayase! That’s just asking me to make the comparison. If this guy was more attractive maybe I’d ship them just by the comparison alone. Ha ha, anyway I’m going to hang in there and hopefully it’ll get even more interesting as I go along but as I said they set the bar high by including stuff that’s up my ally.

Well, I’m not sure what else I’m going to do before Poppy comes home yet. I guess I might call her and ask about whether she has a bag or not. I really hope so because I’m not all too fond of wrapping presents and I might wait till tomorrow morning to make the card for my stepdad. I’m sort of tired so I might even wrap the present tomorrow if I really have to. We’re leaving at 11 so I have some time in the morning considering I wake up early.

Oh I listened to one of Linkin Park’s albums on Spotify. Yeah I kinda was so disappointed with Minutes to Midnight that I stopped paying attention to them for a while but then I heard one of their songs from Living Things on the radio and liked it so I checked it out and it’s pretty good. It probably also has something to do with the fact that it reminded me of Glenn and Cyrus from Chrono Trigger something intense for some reason. I’m sure that I’ll start finding ship songs for all my CT ships and since I’ve gotten to this point with CT I’m passed the point of no return. I probably already knew that though. Ahh, having a fandom that only has one game (the sequel has a different cast so that’s why I didn’t include it) and a disappointing OVA that doesn’t even feature the main characters sure is rough. That’s ok though, I think I might still contribute to the fandom even if it’s really old and probably small. This pain is like Super Mario RPG all over again. I don’t consider Paper Mario games real sequels to it sorry. Oh Square Soft why do you hurt me so? I don’t even like 75% of what you produce but when you struck gold man did you strike gold! That honestly makes me wonder if I had played Chrono Trigger as a kid if I would have actually liked DBZ back then. I wonder if I would have actually been very different in terms of my fandoms if that were the case. Wow, I would have actually related more to my male friends at the time if that were the case. Huh…oh well, I was meant to like stuff when I was meant to like it, just an interesting thought because I technically had the potential to discover CT back then if I hadn’t been lazy/distracted since the music was introduced to me when I was eight or nine. Oh well…

               Okay, I guess I’ll go for now then. I have to try to call the hospital and schedule my hysterectomy. I had no idea they’d have someone from the hospital call me directly, I kinda thought the woman I talked to before was the go-between but oh well I guess it’s fine so long as I get it scheduled. I’m hoping it will be relatively soon and that I won’t have to wait until June. Well, bye for now..hope you enjoyed my ramblings.