#and now Aggro

[capitalisticveins]

Do you guys think Aggro’s alive in Imperium?

[ryoko-san]

Babe, wake up, new sweetheart redesign just dropped (and aggro hehe)

I heavily associate LD songs (especially touch tone telephone) for my sweetheart lol so you can see how inspired i was haha

[tropicalcontinental]

Envelopment Vitri... She still plays Modded Minecraft except instead of styling on entites she styles on helpless players and infects their worlds and gives them a black mold infestation and fungal skin rashes and the like

[alackofghosts]

wolbert week day 1: a new life

a miracle is the sound of reality buckling

[aphel1on]

nah the fandom does acknowledge it’s because of his abyss powers he became like this. they believe it more especially after seeing the effect on chasca etc

YEAH everyone acknowledges he became this way because of the abyss but what i'm talking about is like. his character stories make it sound like he gained some sort of cognitohazard Strife Effect that makes chaos constantly break out around him and i've never seen anyone talk about THAT.

Specifically these lines:

In those three months, the swordswoman taught Tartaglia how to pass through the Abyss unhindered, and more importantly, nurtured the ability to stir up endless havoc from within Ajax's trouble-mongering nature.

Shocked by Ajax's great strength and curious about how he invariably became the eye of a vortex of discord, Pulcinella inducted Ajax into the Fatui under the pretext of meting out punishment, ordering him to start from the bottom and take up the duty of serving the Tsaritsa.

Kind of make it sound like it's not an effect of his personality but rather some sort of passive aura he's exerting.

Of course, the reason no one talks about this could well be because it makes no fucking sense, when his personality itself is already quite sufficient to explain all the fights he gets into.

...Could also easily be a case of me interpreting lore way too literally again lol

[vaguely-concerned]

never stops bringing me joy that, when brought to the precarious point where he actually genuinely has to like. step up and do something about the krew and their various behaviors and issues, kremy is the team mom. it's just that he's the kind of mom who spikes your orange juice with vodka so she can get some fucking peace and quiet to watch her shows tonight

[usercelestial]

Toxic Buddie shippers have turned into the a Republican state of mind after Tevan happened. Imagine hating on a queer post during Pride month. Insanity.

Literallyyyyyyy like they always show their colors the minute something doesn't go their way. They love to preach about representation and authentic queerness and yet when we actually get it, they act like this. When the queerness isn't palatable specifically to them, then suddenly it's all gay slurs and calling queer men predatory and abusive. It's wild to watch how quickly they switch from activist to homophobes. And the thing is they've always had this in them, they've never cared about good rep, otherwise they would pay attention to the other queer characters the show actually has. If they actually cared about what they preach, they wouldn't have hated every woman Buck or Eddie has ever dated, calling her disgusting names and insulting her appearance. But they are so willing to fall into slurs and homophobia and misogyny whenever they can utilize it to tear down characters they think get in the way of their ship.

[topaz-mutiny]

I love the four options for how to get to an island that may or may not have moved in 12 years:

Repair a shipwreck. Probably would take a long time even for a small boat, then 3 days travel, and there's an End of The World timer currently.

Attempt to parlay with nearby traveling ships. 3 days of travel without needing to repair a boat, however bribing with too much coin may cause the crew to slaughter the party in their sleep.

Attempt to parlay with an angry ghost pirate to hitchhike to the island. Still 3 days travel without the previous time needed for repairs - however, requires diplomacy and may end up being attacked by angry ghost pirates.

Teleport. While travel is instantaneous, the staff to do it with damages the user a non-insignificant amount and the user may miss the target location and end up in the ocean or cause further damage to the entire party (and also then still miss the target location).

And naturally, the D&D party chooses ghost pirates.

[theonewhowails]

in my head this is how Divine Inspiration works

[wizardofpalmsprings]

What I loved about the moment where Brennan pointed at Rehka and Izzy and talked about roll clarity (other than it making me lose it from laughter) is that it didn’t come from a place of aggression. He wasn’t legit upset with them, he was laughing his ass off while conveying the information - shit he was likely LOUD about it, but it wasn’t aggro.

[beck-nightengale]

I was testing a mod I made that restores Tharaêl's purple eye color with both versions of him (because he has separate IDs)... and then some crazy nonsense happened.

[creative-robot]

Ya know, if there is an End possibility on the server, AND they find it, what a season for there TO be considering all damage is essentially permanent. Everyone’s talking about Elytra and Chorus Fruit possibilities but uh. Guys. There’s a Dragon in there

[scarceghost]

so like I’ll put it all in a spoiler but I think inkertons lore is pretty interesting

Konche says that inkertons family often visited his museum and that they loved history. Since he says “children” that means inkerton probably had siblings too. Apparently they died in a tragic way somehow and since we don’t see any other squids around I’m just gonna assume inkerton was a sole survivor…

anyways, Roland finds him somewhere on a seabed and after that he never returned to konches museum. Sometime after, he appears at Roland’s side doing whatever was asked of him, even if it meant harming what was his neighbors. (Bottom siders).

eventually he just shoots Roland while being completely unfazed.

so here’s what I think happened:

Inkertons family either had a bad run in with pagurus (eaten) and inkerton was just near a marker, or they died due to a scrap related incident (trash day gone wrong with a heavy object falling on them or shellfish corp. got involved and inkerton wasn’t old enough to understand who was responsible yet.)

after that, Roland takes him in and obviously a history nerd isn’t going to know how to fight, so inkerton has to learn to be useful to his new boss. Roland occasionally teaches the kid bad morals and desensitizes him to the idea of people he once knew dying by his (hand? Tentacle?).

once he’s ready he follows roland around as his right hand man. Seeing the consequences of their actions and silently hating himself and Roland for it. Eventually his hatred was too much to harbor and Roland’s teachings bit him in the ass as inkerton calmly murders him.

now what’s his relationship with konche?

I like to think that he doesn’t visit the museum anymore out of shame and regret. He knows what he’s doing is wrong in a sense, but he is willing to do whatever it takes to live. (I got this impression from his dialogue where he said he kept “fighting” and that he’s “a worthless sinner”). Konche knows him and his family and seems to pity him, that was not the sweet kid that frequented his museum.

in childhood inkerton probably looked up to konche as if he were a teacher. Besides being a bottom sider meant he probably didn’t have many luxuries, so being able to visit a museum and learn was very special to him. If it were konche instead of Roland who found him, inkerton could have lived a happy life.

Inkerton is ashamed of his job, even if he enjoys some of it.

I mean just look at this scene here,

Konche looks over at him out of fear, and inkerton looks away and even MOVES.

look at where he’s going, there’s nothing over there! He can’t even look into konches eyes, that’s how ashamed he is!

And yes ok maybe it’s a stretch because it’s such a small detail BUT HEAR ME OUT..

in conclusion: they could never make me hate you inkerton

[elminx]

I'm doing my personal year-in-review of the magic I have done in 2024, and I noticed that I only re-upped a particular protection spell once this year, whereas in years past, I did it quarterly (on the solstices and equinoxes). And I was fine - definitely still fully protected - for that entire time.

I am not saying that it would be true all of the time, as different times entail different levels of protection just by default of the situation, but I thought it was worth noting here.

I will never be a "You don't need protections" person because I know (from past experience) that I very much need multiple layers of magical protection.

But maybe - maybe - you can do protections less often. (You being me, in this instance, because I don't live your life and have no way of knowing what you need).

[faunandfloraas]

I know it's been months but I still can't help but remember the two girls who were rude to me after I gave them freebies at the con and who they were there for lmao

[halftheway]

@dimension20official is a good show