#and the tldr of the difference from other tsunderes is that

[felikatze]

harriet is to me very interesting as the obligatory tsundere because she breaks tradition in that regard

yes she has the short temper and is easily flustered, but a tendency with tsunderes (especially in more low-brow anime) is that she will be in some way superior to the protagonist and lord that over him. also slapstick violence! because, you know, violence is funny if its against men /s

initially harriet is a classist ass because she's born with a silver spoon in her mouth and she is completely used to everyone bowing to her talent and status. she gets to have this haughty persona because she's never been challenged before.

thus, she is easily flustered when she is challenged. reinhardt can get through her defenses so easily because he simply does not give a shit. he does not care about her status at all. (at least, he pretends not to care outwardly, but that's another can of worms).

Harriet is flustered because he is so far below her standards that she cannot fathom how he could do this. so she walls off and calls him an idiot which he also does not care about because he just throws it right back.

rich noble talented harriet is called an idiot by a beggar. of course she's angry.

(he just likes metaphorically pulling on her pigtails cuz her pouting face is cute. she is a wet kitten in a cardboard box.)

harriet learns that sometimes, there will be people she can't plead status to (like her father, or bertus) and people who will ignore her status (reinhardt, and basically all temple staff)

he forces her to interact like an equal for the first time in her life. she's all bluster. so she only manages to change their dynamic and gain his respect when she starts showing actual skills. ykno. accomplishments by her own merits.

i feel like this is first really seen in the fuckin. what's it called. king of the jungle arc. where she started learning useful small magic instead of just spell of huge explosion, which ends up having way more utility for the whole thing. like underwater breathing. or spell of flashlight. and then she does end up being one of the last people still in the game!

and even later then that. after the darklands arc she grows closer to her class bcuz reinhardt is too busy trying to cope with ptsd. and there we already see character development from her because in this situation where reinhardt is obviously struggling mentally she forgoes her usual banter and instead just has an emotionally honest conversation with him. and they do bond! as equals!

i do actually understand how her embarrassment from reinhardt's teasing would evolve into a crush? because again he's the first person to challenge her. it's not just love at first sight. he challenges her to be better.

again, he's the person who needles her into learning magic based on its utility and not the prestige of the spell. he's the one who shows off her skills to her classmates in the jungle arc. he's good at making other people better themselves. it's vry understandable for someone to want recognition from a person who does that.

and after the beach arc, where again, they have an emotional conversation and actually bond and show each other respect, their dynamic takes a definite shift.

harriet starts teasing him back. and he hates it. instead of attacking his own lack of status, she starts firing back his variety of insults, namely questioning his actions and motivations whenever she can, and now he's on the backfoot in conversation.

after a moment without teasing, its now full force from both sides, and shows off the utter truth;

they're both tsunderes. and always have been.

[trashcan3001]

They aren't the same at all, lol

I keep seeing people trying to compare Wind Breaker and Tokyo Revengers for some reason. The only thing they have in common is a focus on kids who are delinquents.

They are different in every other way, so here are simplified plots so you can go and read/watch whichever one you like lol. (If you don't like one, don't interact with it, isn't life so nice when you are in control of what you see? :P):

Tokyo Revengers: Time travel fix it where the main character goes back in time to save his middle school girlfriend from a death via gang violence in the future. Realizes something else is amiss when the perpetrator is just a normal dude as a kid and ends becoming his friend. As the plot moves forward, it is clear that the gangs he and his new friends are fighting with are being created specifically to make his new friend a bad person and he needs to stop them. Or are they? It seems the power to time travel isn't as simple as he thought and by the end of the plot it is this supernatural phenomenon that becomes the deciding factor in if the future will be happy for all and not just some.

Main character is not a good fighter, eats punches like a champ though and literally refuses to back down even when he looks ready to die via blood loss, is kind and compassionate and cares deeply for all the people he becomes friends with and grows stronger as he continues on his time travel shenanigans, packing strength readers will be very proud of.

The time travel is the main feature of the plot, not the gang fighting. The gang fights is actually a part of the time travel things as the first main antagonist created these fights for their own agenda.

Manga is finished anime has completed its third season

Wind Breaker: Main Character enrolls in a delinquent school to prove that he is strong and can get the top dog spot even on his own. Gets a reality check when it turns out the students of this school are loved by the town because they take care of the common folk by taking out the gangs that are running rampant. Main character, having a bad past where they were always alone, now gains friends and learns that he doesn't have to be alone and that he isn't the unlovable thing the world tried to make him out to be. Journey with him and his first year team as they battle with the gangs on the streets to keep people safe and grow as people.

Main character is a very good fighter who has a mild form of albinism(I think) where only a part of his hair and only one eye is affected. This made people in his past treat him terribly and thus he learned to fight or he would be hurt instead. He is a tsundere in the most non annoying way (I was shocked that I liked him that much!). He is kind but due to his past and social anxiety, he has a hard time understanding people liking him and their compliments. He learns over time.

The gangs and school delinquency is the main focus of the plot as it is in joining this school and gang and fighting for others that makes the plot move forward.

Manga is still going and anime only just started

TLDR: Tokyo revengers is about time travel fixing things, gang stuff is just the backdrop where this happens. Wind Breaker is about getting to the top of a literal delinquent school, making friends and growing as a person is the consequence of this school situation.

They are not the same, so watch/read both or one or none, just know what your getting into before complaining lol.

XOXO,

TC3001

[zizz-asdf-re-r-o-u]

Headcanon time: Who might be on the aroace spectrum in a sex game?

I missed arospec week by... a few weeks lol. And hey look i'm making a Nukani headcanon post instead of a questionable theorizing analysis for once! If you have contributions for characters I don't have enough info on (especially Quincy), please add on!

Disclaimer: I'm aromantic but allosexual. For me, this means I experience sexual attraction, but not romantic attraction. In my local kink scene, I actually personally know several community members + friends who are asexual or aromantic or both, and some engage in sex while some don't. And lastly for demographic proof only, I'm in an unofficial discord server where some unspecified members are asexual, but they still play this porn game, so yes not everyone who plays this game are into romance or sex.

TLDR: someone can be asexual or aromantic or on the aroace spectrum and still have sex but that varies for everyone!

Now that that's out of the way, here are my headcanon times! None of this is true or ever will be true due to the marketing of a porn harem game, but I think it's fun to headcanon! Feel free to disagree cause I know how people reacted to that "Is Aster trans" reddit post.

Speaking of Aster. I think he's also aroacespec! In his SR room 5, we got text narration ONE time that he gushed or orgasmed or something with a vague hot rod behind Eiden's back. But we've never seen Aster naked nor involve his genitals with another body in the 5 H scenes we have with him. And unlike EVERY other character, he’s only described to have orgasmed once. He also constantly talks down on morvay’s sexual habits, and while it’s a running gag that’s played for laughs, isn’t it possible Aster actually thinks this way? But is still willing to engage in sexy times with Morvay because they're essence creatures so that's how you exchange essence, and they’re basically an old married couple & deep down they do care about each other. And remember what I said about aromantic or asexual people who still engage in kink or sex.

Next, Karu my beloved chew toy. At the time I wrote Garu/Karu analysis part 1, I thought both of them were firmly allosexual but also presented some evidence someone could use to argue Karu might be demi or aroace or something else. But the more I think about it, the more I think yeah, he might be. Or he’s just a tsundere. I swear I'm not delusional and am a logical canon-based theory fan. (Btw, according to google searching, it is possible for different alters to have different sexualities, so this does not apply to Garu).

Quincy- I have never watched a Quincy intimacy room (including his SR & R cards that I have unlocked) but my vibes based off all the other story content with him makes me think he might be in the umbrella, so Grey-ace, Demi, etc. From what I’ve heard other people say, Quincy has had a lover in the past but currently only has sex if Eiden begs for it. This might fit into the definition of people who don't really care for sex themselves, but is interested in it for their partner. If anyone has Quincy cards and has more information, please let me know!

Huey: ok so we have almost no information on him. But he didn’t have sex with his clan members. He was definitely not romantically invested in any of his clan members nor do I recall him having hints of being sexually or romantically invested in anyone else, which does not equate aromantic or asexual but its still possible. And that’s all I got. Anyone got additional input?

Eiden: ah our beloved Eiden. Let’s ignore that in meta, he’s supposed to be the audience self insert (even though he’s the least self insert type MC ever) and therefore he is not going to “prioritize” one ship over another.

Anyways, so I am 100% sure he’s not asexual. BUUUUT he has not expressed romantic lovey dovey attraction to his clan members. More significantly, he does not seem to pick up MULTIPLE clan members’ romantic hints towards him. Yes in Fateful Aegis, Eiden says “I love you too” back to Yakumo, but it’s prefaced with something like Your grandparents love you and I love you too-ish, which to me indicates found family love. Kuya has said the Chinese/Japanese equivalent of “I love you” (“the moon is bright/the moonlight is beautiful tonight”) and that totally went over Eiden’s head. Dante & Edmond are also intensely crushing on Eiden… but they’re tsunderes so it’s probably gonna take forever to get across. The other members are different types of dedicated but open relationships rather than traditionally romantic relationships (except for Rei, who’s still getting there). And I think this is a great thing! All these varying relationship styles that are given the same weight & importance & Eiden has such appreciation & care for all of them, despite not providing traditionally romantic affection back.

Aromantic people can still love their friends & family! We’re not heartless emotionless creatures. We just may not experience or be able to comprehend romantic attraction. And i don’t think that’s a defect nor a bad thing.* And I think it’s especially cool when we compare Eiden’s bad hookup habits in the real world with how he has multiple regular partners that truly value him and a new found family in Klein. If he was aromantic this whole time, it’s kind of a positive perspective, isn’t it? Some aromantic people do experience “squishes”, which is a term for when we feel emotional desire for a platonic relationship. Obviously none of Eiden’s relationships are truly platonic due to the sexual element, but they all lack the romantic element from Eiden’s side.

(Anyways, Eiden won’t ever “reciprocate” romantic love because it’s a harem game, but shhhhh. Also to anyone who says it’s an Asian game and the characters aren’t going to say “I love you”…. Well in their newest intimacy rooms, both Kuya and Yakumo literally just did. Heck one of Forest Night Kuya’s sprite dialogues repeats that!)

So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this pointless headcanons!

*Speaking from my personal experience, I’ve have several sexual partners over time, but I never had the desire to date them or be romantically invested in them. And a weirdly telltale sign, that Jaidenanimation pointed out quite nicely, is that when she listened to romance songs she was like “wait that’s what people experience when they’re in love???” I’ve read a TON of romance and have heard a TON of love songs, but I cannot relate to any one of them. I literally have not felt any of those feelings. And when I have sexual partners, the horniness is definitely the forefront compared to any “falling in love” feelings. I did have what I now realize were several “squishes” in high school/college. What squishes feel like to me, are like “I wanna be your friend & you’re really cool & I cherish you! Like a lot! And also I don’t mind if you fucked me!” which emotionally feels different from “I’m in love with you!!!” (Which yeah i still don’t know what “in love” feels like, and I’m fine with not knowing!).

[kingdoms-and-empires]

Something like this probably won't happen in the actual story...😂

MC is sick and ends up having to stay holed up in their dorm/room(?) for the rest of the day. According to Mary and Aurelian (he's 16 and attending the academy in this scenerio), they get a certain way when they're sick (MC is basically like Kaguya Shinomiya when she got sick that one time https://youtu.be/rvfVVtp-q5o).

How do the ROs react to F!MC acting this way when sick? For Nysthe, Cheris, Veriel, Max ngl he might just stab her while she's down lol, Zera and Voryn.

Sorry for the long ask! (◞‸◟；)

On another note, I loved the new update! (＾▽＾)

Lmao, have the MC revert to speaking their old world language lmaoooooooo

Nysthe would...uhhh...

Cheris would be dutifully helpful and spoon feed the MC soup to make her feel better, and honestly would stop others from entering since Cheris can go all mama mode

Veriel would unashamedly try to cuddle with MC as he'd pretend to be sick too, only to then actually get sick lol! But my boy would probably think it worth it since he can get with his crush and see a different side to her. Although if Aurelian and Mary tried stopping him?

Max would get annnnnnnngry cause he wouldnt want to have the girl he hates humanized and vulnerable. He wants to hate, he wants to blame all his misfortunes on her but how can he when MC is too damn cute?! He'd be doing that anime tsundere blushing and fed her some really good soup commoner soup that his mom made for him. He'd also tell this to the MC as she eats happily, and when she finally passes out, he'd share that he hates her and her family. He'd share everything, and feel better about it. But then he'd feel that hatred hollow as he lifts the sheets to cover the MC as he leaves.

So TLDR?

MC:

Max:

Zera would not know wtf to do (when he got sick no one nursed him back to health or cared) and would bring Astrid along to try and help him take care of MC. He'd be trying to help but his shenanigans would only make Astrid roll her eyes until she kicks him out as he keeps fucking up and finding himself in typical anime situations that look like he's trying to take advantage of MC. Poor Zera, he tries to help but...

Voryn! The dude would whip something up from his garden, serve it to MC, and smile while she eats happily with his eyes closed cause while he plays it cool and calm on the surface the dude is melting down inside cause he cant believe the MC is acting so adorably. He is, quite literally, internally screaming

[r0w0fie]

~Help finding a nsft horror J-Drama CD~

You can skip down to the bottom for some Tldr. TW list below the cut. Certain words will be censored. MC = you the self insert main character. Questions are encouraged. Dm's open. Open to dark j-drama audio suggestions! Suggest me the juicy m4m yandere CDs.

I don't know where to start this off, especially since it's pretty niche. Okay so, years ago on Youtube long before the rise of asmr & voice acting channels, there were channels dedicated to posting translated nsft j-drama CDs & audios.

I cannot find the channels anymore, I cannot find people talking about my particular audio, I cannot find the playlists saved on my YouTube. I have tried many variations of wording on Google & tried Reddit. I even asked some of my friends if they have any idea, but like I said, it's niche. I would try searching through the chaos that is this site but we all know about the anti-nsft endtimes that occured once upon a time.

These channels sometimes got taken down but not all the time due to them being small channels & the videos being in a different language. Though maybe after all these years they're finally gone?

They were pretty raunchy, some were cropped from a longer audio & some were part of a series. Some were yandere, tsundere, boyfriend and all the additional tropes. The MC's most of the time were female or gender neutral, some were m4m. I doubt the thumbnail art were official to the CD/audio & some channels would link to their or others Tumblr account/s or mention sources.

There were many good ones but there was ONE in particular that has FOREVER stuck with me.

Tw: yandere, dark story, nsfw/l, death, s-icide, messing with the dece-sed, tanning of human skin, mental health, unhealthy relationship.

So, judge me all ya want but here I goooooo.

This particular translation was either part of a series of CDs/audios containing the same character & story or of a much longer audio that was then trimmed. The voice acting for the love interest was one of a very mentally ill character & there is nsft naughty audio. The self insert/MC is very likely to be female due to the . . . Overt noises that occur.

The romantic interest was a male yandere character who comes across the MC washed up on a rocky cliff coastline. They are hinted at having jumped or fallen, especially since previous bodies that washed up are from s-icides. I believe the MC had amnesia and the love interest was nursing them back to health from the brink of death.

This was the first body he had come across that was alive and during this audio he was admitting his feelings towards them. The audio clearly spoke back to the characters previous experiences getting to look after the MC (you) & getting close with eachother.

I can't remember how they got to this point in the dialogue but either the MC figured it out or the love interest admitted that his leather bags & furniture were made out of human skin. The skin coming from the cörpses he fished up from the cliffs which he would then tan.

I do believe he might of also turned his family into pieces of his "art" but I might be incorrect as I was also listening to other CD's/audios during that time. I'm not too sure if he k-lled his family, they had an accident near the cliffs or whatever else.

He was a very lonely character who is very unwell in his mind. He might of also had thoughts of also j-mping off the very same cliffs, but that might have also been the MC. Either or.

Eventually they end up doing the down & dirty in his bed. A+ for having actual good audio for the nsfw noises. A+ for my first ever audio sound experince. A+ for derranged voice acting. A+ for making my skin crawl from absolute creepiness. A+++ for being forever stuck in my mind ever since then.

This audio has stuck with me for many years even with how dark it is & because of how dark it is. I would love to find it again! I wish to experince this creepy audio anime man once again and his very unhealthy relationship with you the MC.

Tldr; crazy yandere male love interest who turns washed up cörpses skin into furniture & bags. MC also found washed up but was alive, is nursed back to health by the love interest. Admits to them about his "art" pieces. Ends up having smëx. Drama CD/audio is most likely part of a series or of a longer audio, I discovered it on YouTube many years ago. I cannot find anyone talking about this audio.

[marumafan]

Hi! I don't know if anyone have asked this before (I'm still reading the novels so I'm not at this point yet). But when do you think is the "moment" where Wolfram falls in love or fully dedicate himself romantically (not merely "I'm your fiance" sort of situation) to Yuuri and vice versa? Like something Yuuri did to turn that love switch on (I don't know the best way to present this question because the entire story is the great part about their relationship growth)

Hello Anon!

It's a matter of interpretation. There's no explicit "and this was the moment when X fell in love with Y" line in the novels, so I'll give you my interpretation.

If you have been following me for a while you'll know I'm convinced that Takabayashi-sensei is determined to make Yuuri and Wolf 'equals' in every way. So for me, they both 'realized' they were in love with one another in the same way.

1) Attraction

When it comes to 'attraction' I think they were both attracted to one another since novel 1 . With Yuuri it's easy to tell because we can 'read his thoughts' and when he met Wolfie he was gushing all over the place like ' gosh darn it this beautiful angel'. More specifically I'd say that by the end of novel 1, on chapter 10, we can really see that they're both attracted to one another.

for Yuuri you have this line: " From the far side of the corridor, the blond with wavy hair comes running. The intense navy blue uniform suits him; the mazoku Prince Wolfram. I muttered in a sigh 'Although he's a man, he's this beautiful, Günter'. Yuuri is telling Gunter how hot he thinks Wolfie is.

And Wolf a few lines after this: He glances here and there without looking at my face. It might be my imagination but his usually white, smooth cheeks were a slight red.

"Appearing without any treasure, don't embarrass my older brother and me!"

So anyway Wolfie was blushing because he was about to pledge to Yuuri and I'd say probably because he also kinda realized the double black was hot.  (Wolfie mentions in novel 2 that Yuuri is cute and Yuuri tells him he's cuter... plus all the other stuff )

2) Developing feelings

It didn't happen right away for neither Wolf nor Yuuri (despite the way their relationship was portrayed in the anime). Yes, they liked each other, but they didn't know each other well. The more time they spend with one another, the more they liked each other. Yuuri realizes that Wolf isn't just a hot tsundere, but someone who's always doing the 'right thing' (according to what he knows)... just like him. And Wolf also realizes that Yuuri isn't just a hot rookie, but that he actually also likes to do the right thing (according to what he knows).... just like him.

The thing is that they have very different backgrounds "so the right thing" meant different things for each of them, but over time and getting to know each other, and Yuuri changing what the 'right thing' is in Shin Makoku, they started seeing eye to eye and understanding each other better; and liking each other more.

3) Falling in love

This is my interpretation due to the way they act before and after what happens.

I think that they both realized they were in love with the other when they 'almost lost' the other person.

This happens for Wolf first during the Caloria arc.

Yuuri has travelled without being summoned by Ulrike. Gunter gets shot (killed?), they find Conrad's severed arm, and Yuuri is missing. It looks really bad.This is when Wolf barges into Shinou's Shrine having absolutely lost his shit demanding to see Ulrike. When she tells him Yuuri's alive, Wolfram is so incredibly relieved (his relieved smile in the manga gives me life), and after this he sneaks out (going against Gwen's orders) and goes looking for Yuuri. At this point, Wolfram doesn't give a flying fuck about anything other than finding Yuuri.

After finding Yuuri he pretty much tells him 'i love you' in the words "if that happens, then we'll fall together", in the scene where they both could have fallen down the cliff. (Wolf also slaps him back "as a reply to his marriage proposal" which I have argued several times he had replied to in the past (in novel 1), but he made it more clear in this arc after all of this.)

For Yuuri, this happens at the beginning of the Seisakoku arc, when Wolfram gets shot.

Yuuri and Wolf are on a ship that's being attacked, suddenly Yuuri can't feel Wolfram's hand that was holding his, and when he looks to his side Wolf is on the floor shot through the heart. Yuuri first tries to heal Wolf and when he can't (and thinks Wolfie is dead), he loses his absolute shit and turns into the maou (which he never did for any other "character death/injury" he had witnessed). He's about to fuck shit up when Wolf's like "Cut it out, I'm fine".

After this, they don't get to spend much time together, but Yuuri gets obsessed with Wolfie, and thinking about how he almost died.... He 'sees' Wolfie in places he couldn't be and finally, when they meet again, Yuuri tells him his ' i love you' in the words " I'm tired of pretending" before the bed scene, right after telling him he was happy Wolf was there with him.  (Also in the last novel he says Wolf is his 'most important person' which is code for 'the one they love' in the novels. Interestingly enough, the time when Wolfie almost died is brought up at the exact moment when he says the 'most important person' line.)

4) After realizing they've fallen in love

Wolf: For Wolfie is easy to see... he's not jealous anymore. He doesn't insist on the marriage, and he's more at ease with Yuuri and lets him do whatever. (When you love someone you just want them to be happy, so he's not obsessing anymore). Also, I think Wolf kinda knows that Yuuri's in love with him too, before Yuuri realizes, since he tells him during the Caloria arc: That it was a good thing Wolf made Yuu angry back in novel 1, or Yuuri would have never proposed and would be having a "one sided crush on Wolf"... XD I mean... Wolf would know best what his relationship to Yuuri is right? (I've talked about this before, Yuuri's an unreliable narrator and doesn't tell us a lot of things)

Yuuri: 1) the bed scene: he pretty much confesses he's in love with Wolf, asks to sleep with him in his bed and we get the 'cut to black' scene. (which according to a story that sensei herself wrote this, in Shin Makoku naughty books, cut to black means sex, but whatever if you think I'm overreaching I won't die on this hill -> it can have other interpretations) 2) The 'Are you asking for a divorce!?' line when Wolf punched him (to save his life-> for those who haven't read that far). Yuuri is kinda 'married' in his head now, so yeah. Plus 3) every single extra story from Crossheart, to Misepan2, to Love Letter, where Yuuri's super mushy in love with Wolf.

-> Misepan2: Yuuri: “ When it comes to things that I can give you, I would give you anything, Wolf."

TLDR: It's my interpretation they realized they were in love with one another after almost losing the other.

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[ilayas11]

A Basic Guide to Destiny 2 Armor Mods

Specifically the mods in the second and third slots.  Because you guys probably have questions and I have some answers. Buckle in kids this is gonna be a long one.

I have decided to write yet another interesting and informative guide for poorly explained game mechanics in Destiny 2. And post it on Tumblr for reasons even I don’t fully understand. Today we will be talking about the mods in the second and third armor slots.  If you would like to know more about the mods in the first armor slot you can check out this handy guide. If you want to know more about mods in the 4th armor slot then you are shit out of luck cus I haven’t written about that yet.

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What are these mods and where can I get them?

I’m just so glad you asked. Let me start out by posting this awesome chart I made of all the mods covered in this guide.

So that’s one of your questions answered. Fuck yeah I’m on a roll today. Now about how to acquire these mods.  Some of them you have already. The game just gives them to you. Others can be acquired by opening engrams, and completing actives. Basically just playing the game like normal. Everyone’s favorite Tsundere Exo Ada-1 also sells a random mod for the low low cost of 10 mod components that changes daily.

Many of these mods can also be earned by turning in rank up packages to Banshee-44 (who is a decidedly less Tsundere Exo).

You can see what mods you have acquired by going to the Mods section of the Collections menu. The mods are organized by armor type. Hovering over the mod will tell you where/how you can acquire said mod. Any mods you don’t have unlocked will be grayed out.

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Ability Mods

These mods add extra bonuses and reduced cool down to your abilities, and some healing.  All of them are restricted by armor type; most of them are also restricted by armor element.  The diminishing returns is about 50% of what a single mod would grant.

This post is already in TLDR territory and we aren’t even half done yet. So I will be talking about mods in more general terms as as apposed to each individual mod (because ain’t no one got time for that).

The mod element and armor slot tend to stick to these defined roles:

Helmet: Generating super energy.

Arms: Generating melee and Grenade energy

Legs: Generating ability energy or health by picking up Orbs of power

Class Item: Focuses on using or generating class ability energy.

Solar: Healing and Grenades

Void: Class abilities and Healing

Arc: Melee abilities

Stasis: Kind of a caught all. Focuses on using or generating super energy and overall ability energy.

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Resistance Mods

These chest piece mods have a damage resistance for every type of element and some non-element specific damage.  Each mod offers 25% damage reduction from combatants with 40% reduction for 2 mods of the same type.   These mods do not work in pvp.  Elemental resistance mods can only be socketed into chest armor of the same element.

In addition to the elemental mods there are three different damage resist mods that can be socketed into any chest armor regardless of element.

Mele Resistance: Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at point-blank range (4 meters or less).

Sniper Resistance: Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range (over 29 meters away).

Concussive Dampener: Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.

Now, I’m not gonna suggest that should use this information to socket in concussive dampener and an arc resistance mod, then take your Riskrunner out of the bank and go punch some screebs...  

But you could.

Just saying.

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Gun and Ammo Mods

Unlike the ability mods a lot of the mechanics of these mods require some explanation so I will be talking a bit more in specifics and less in generalities. These mods are restricted by armor type but do not have any elemental restrictions.

Ammo Finder --- Head Slot --- Diminishing Returns Increases the chance to find a specific type of ammo (heavy or special) if you have the indicated weapon type equipped.  For more info on how often these ammo bricks drop you can read this reddit post  The TLDR is weapon final blows increase the chance of an ammo finder ammo brick dropping.

Targeting --- Head Slot --- Diminishing Returns Improve target acquisition, accuracy, and aim-down-sights speed for the indicated weapon. Everything stacks without diminishing returns but the aim assist which is 10 at one mod and 12 with two.

Reloading mods --- Arms --- Diminishing Returns It makes reloading the indicated gun type faster.

Dexterity --- Arms --- Diminishing Returns Faster ready and stow speed for indicated gun type. This mod has a lot of overlap with the Handling stat on guns.

Ammo Reserves --- Chest --- Diminishing Returns Allows you to carry more ammo for the indicated gun type. This is worth it for some weapons and absolutely not worth it for others.  Listing which guns this mod is good for and which ones it is not is beyond the scope of this guide.

Unflinching --- Chest --- Diminishing Returns Reduces flinching from incoming fire while aiming indicated weapon type. Flinch is the amount of moving that happens when aiming down sights (zoomed in) while being shot at. This mod lessens that movement.

Holster --- Legs --- Diminishing Returns Slowly reloads indicated gun type over time. The gun needs to be stowed for 5 seconds for this mod to start reloading, and will add more ammo to the magazine every 5 seconds so long as the weapon stays stowed. Stacking two of the same type of holster mods will not make this any faster. It will however increase the amount of ammo reloaded but only after the 15 second mark. Rocket Launchers, breach load Grenade Launchers, and Bows do not have a holster mods. Also the hand cannon holster mod does not work/stack with Eriana’s Vow.  

Ammo Scavenger --- Legs --- Does Not Stack Increases the amount of ammo gained from ammo bricks.  While having two of the same type of mod does not stack, you can socket for two different gun types. Some of these mods explicitly state the ammo type that gets the bonus others, like grenade launchers, work for both the special and heavy types.

This mod does not increase the amount of heavy ammo you gain from the Heavy Ammo wall spawns in Gambit and or Crucible. It only works with ammo bricks you pick up from the ground. 

Snapload Finisher --- Class Item --- Does Not Stack Finishers reload all your weapons. Requires one-tenth of your Super energy. This is absolutely not worth it.  Don't use this mod. Using this mod will bring shame on to your family.

Special Finisher --- Class Item --- Does Not Stack Finishers generate Special ammo for the whole fireteam. Requires one-third of your Super energy. This can be a great mod in high end pve content. Be aware if you are running this mod the game will not let you use your finisher unless you have enough super energy.  There’s nothing worst than running up to a finisher-able champion only to die horribly because despite spamming the finisher button nothing happens. Then your fire team is disappointed in you cus you used up another res token and died in a really inconvenient spot.   Ask me how I know.

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Let us pretend I understood everything you just said. What do I do with this information?

Say for the sake of this example you like throwing grenades. It would make this game a lot more fun if you could throw more grenades rather than less.  Socketing in a bunch of mods like Impact Induction, Innervation, and Bomber will allow you to recharge your grenade ability faster. While you are at it maybe throw in a Ashes To Assets in your head piece and get a little bit of extra super energy as an added bonus.  

Congratulations you have just made an armor build that all those crazy kids on the internet are talking about. Oh you thought this was a guide just about armor mods and not a beginners guide to how to make armor builds didn’t you? Well keep reading cus we’re about to next level this shit.

Let’s bring out some Sunbracers, a warlock exotic that grants unlimited solar grenade energy for a short amount of time after a powered melee kill and slap in a Momentum Transfer mod (Causing damage with a grenade reduces you melee cooldown) and see what happens.

That right there kids is a game play loop! One of them many that you can put together.  There's a lot of synergies that exist between the mods, exotic armor and weapons/weapon perks in this game. Exploring these is what really makes Destiny a lot of fun (for me any ways).  

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All Right I’m pumped now! Is there anything else I should know before I start trying to make my own armor builds?

Yes, yes there is. The first thing you need to do is understand the basic mechanics of the activity that you plan on taking a build into. Some actives have mechanics that make these mods useless. Like how damage resist and ammo finder mods don’t work in pvp.  

The next thing you should consider is what sort of game play the activity encourages. How easy is it to get kills with your abilities vrs your guns?  Are you going to be taking a lot of damage and if so what kind?  How difficult will it be for you to generate/pick up orbs of power?

Ultimately what you are trying to do is build an game play loop that supports it’s self and makes the game more fun and interesting to play.

I haven’t listed the cost of any of these mods in this guide because Bungie has in the past, and likely will in the future, changed the energy cost significantly. But the cost both in terms of the energy needed to socket them and having an available socket to do so is a major consideration. As well as having the armor of the appropriate element to even use some of these mods.

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The main thing I want new and returning players (for whom I wrote this guide for) to understand is you don’t need them fancy charged with light, elemental well and warmind cell mods to start making your own armor builds. The mods in this guide are easy to acquire and let you make effective builds for both low and high end content. Don’t get discouraged because you feel like you missed out.

The armor mods are an interesting system that is absolutely horribly explained in game. Speaking of explaining things If you want to know more about armor and armor stats in Destiny 2 Check out this other awesome (and much shorter) guide I wrote. Because I’m not above cross promoting my own work. 

(Also check out my blog. Some times I post pretty pictures I draw)

Cheers!

[telaraneas]

Your explanations on the progression of a Thief is very interesting. What do you believe a Thief of Heart would be like? In a general sense: How could something be raised in Mind?

RUBS MY LITTLE HANDS TOGETHER

IF YOU WILL INDULGE MY NONSENSE.... I HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE I CONSIDER A THIEF OF HEART. WHO IS A CHARACTER FROM MY *OTHER* CURRENT HYPERFIXATION. so this is going to be just me rambling at lenght about a character you probably dont know or care about, But. im gonna talk about WHY i think of them as a thief of heart, and what that implies. (mostly just cause its easier for me when i have examples, cause classpects are descriptive not prescriptive)

meet sasara nurude from hypnosis mic

this one anime guy has been eating all my braincells for half a year straight. here's the weird thing about him: he's one of the few characters in this work who is allowed to frame HIMSELF in the narrative. as in, there are characters who are "presents themselves to the world as one thing, is secretely another" but in those cases the work presents that gap as part of their character, right? like how a tsundere isn't just A Cold Girl, the "secretly sweet/ends up behaving differently" thing is part of the character's appeal

but with sasara, the work really just... his character appeal in a basic "this is how he seems to be written, this is the archetype he fits" sense has very little to do with who he actually IS, and everything to do with what he PRESENTS himself to be

the guy is a comedian, he's fun, he's an idiot fool who plays off against his straight man best friend, he's goofy and silly and doesn't think before he acts. this is how the work frames him, this is how he comes across, this is what his character bio says, *this is the character sasara concieves himself to be.*

the thing is that his actions tell a very different story

sasara is not just smart, he's one of the most logical-minded people in hypmic. everything he does and says is for a specific reason in pursuit of his goals, whatever that goal happens to be. he *scripted improv in real time* as in he knew exactly what his partner would answer to whatever he said, and as such continually set him up and thus steered the direction of entire skits (and just real ass conversations) based on Knowing What They Would Answer To Whatever He Did.

"but tumblr user telaraneas" you might say "this doesn't sound very much like a heart player at that point, aren't you just describing a mind player at this point??". well heres the thing: despite him doing this stuff constantly, he doesn't place much weight in it, or even seem to actually realize that what he's doing is weird or manipulative. he knows WHAT he's doing, but he doesn't think of it as "ah yes everything according to keikaku". to me it reads like he acts this way because it's the only way he knows to interact with the world around him, PERIOD.

but what makes him a thief of heart is that all of this nonsense is never for the benefit of Making Logical Actions; no, sasara uses mind as *performance of heart*

if heart is identity, soul, The Self, sasara is someone who doesn't HAVE a self, but everything he does is in pursuit of projecting a well-defined Self into the world. everything he does, says, thinks, avoids saying or thinking, is devoted to crafting a coherent narrative about himself and his life that he 1. can believe about himself, and 2. that will allow him to recieve emotional sustenance from others in the form of attention, affection, and anything he needs of them in that moment

and like a good tragic thief, this spills out into harming other people without him realizing it.

his arc is tied to that of his former comedy partner (who i think of as a knight of hope)- someone who, UNLIKE him, actually HAS a strong identity, not because he cares about it, but because he DOESN'T care about it; he lives by his beliefs and passion for the things he DOES care about... only to be pushed around by an impatient sasara who wants to make things fit neatly into the conception he has created for what he is, sowing his partner with doubt and making him start seeing HIS lack of a capacity for performance over passion as being wrong and his fault, and ultimately winds up with sasara driving him away without even realizing it was happening, and destroying the best thing in his life in his misguided attempts to protect it. without knowing it, he almost literally stole away his identity and unique style by burying it in "what would work better", because that's what sasara is used to doing as normal for himself since he was a child who first learned to fake a smile and define himself as "a comedian"

anyways, sorry for the random rant about characters you neither know or care about skfnskjd

tldr: a thief of heart can mean someone who is naturally born to mind, and uses it almost as an afterthought, as a tool to craft what he REALLY wants as a heart player- a coherent self-identity

(if by any miracle someone reading this both knows and cares about these characters. i have a billion words about hypmic. my sideblog for that is @cyrillean )

[someoneintheshadow456]

FFS I just found out the Grishas hair turns WHITE and their eyes turn RED when they go in Super Mode. And other details about our two main leads that are VERY clearly ripped from VC.

Alina is basically bootleg, shoddy knockoff Alicia (they’re both orphans who found out they were Valkyria... oops! I mean Grisha! Even their NAMES are similar!!!). And her deal with Darkling seems to be an indication that bits of Selvaria were thrown into the mix as well.

And Mal, being related to a former war hero, the army commander, and the LI to the heroine... seems to an attempt at making shoddy knockoff Welkin gone horribly wrong.

Both medias have the main female lead give up their powers... but the difference is Welkin never hated her for being a Valkyria. He said she may be a Valk but she’s still the same woman, and doesn’t have to sacrifice herself for the war. And even without her Valk powers, Alicia still kicks major ass and is one of the most broken soldiers in the game. And while she does marry Welkin... being a baker was her dream anyway and Welkin gives up combat too. And if VC2 is anything to go by she’s still as badass as ever.

MAL on the other hand PUSHED Alina to give up her powers and become “normal.” And Alina is a scrawny wimp without her Grisha powers. And Alina at the end becomes essentially a barefoot pregnant housewife to Mal without ANY of the things she had before.

Welkin never slut-shamed Alicia in ANY sense, even in the anime when Faldio was doing his clown ass love triangle shit. Mal however did just because Alina wore black.

Welkin is an all around nice guy but a little eccentric in the games, and a kook in the anime but still tolerable. Mal however is a sexist asshole and in fact, just as bad if not worse than Darkling.

Alisha was a nice girl who could also kick ass in the games, and a tsundere who warms up later in the anime. Alina however is anime Alicia except without the “dere” part.

As for Nikolai, he very clearly appears to be Anime Faldio - a noble guy who is also a suave playboy with ulterior motives.

And Darkling... is an attempt at making shoddy knockoff Maxie gone horribly RIGHT. The moment Bardugo revealed the Grisha are Jewish stand-ins, he suddenly goes from a monster to a victim. She essentially gave Maxie Selvaria’s backstory and TRIED to make him a narcissistic manipulator... but her attempts were so cartoonish that it just fell flat.

What made it worse is that Sega straight up said from day 1 that Maxie was an abuser. Bardugo however baited her readers into thinking Darkling was the LI and pulled the rug from underneath them in the last second.

The rest of the characters don’t appear to be copies yet, but I need more information to know just HOW MUCH Bardugo ripped from Sega because from here it looks like she already took enough for a lawsuit. VC may have had numerous story flaws, but it at least TRIED to give a damn.

TLDR:

[ilayastestblog]

A Basic Guide to Destiny 2 Armor Mods

Specifically the mods in the second and third slots.  Because you guys probably have questions and I have some answers. Buckle in kids this is gonna be a long one.

I have decided to write yet another interesting and informative guide for poorly explained game mechanics in Destiny 2. And post it on Tumblr for reasons even I don’t fully understand. Today we will be talking about the mods in the second and third armor slots.  If you would like to know more about the mods in the first armor slot you can check out this handy guide. If you want to know more about mods in the 4th armor slot then you are shit out of luck cus I haven’t written about that yet.

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What are these mods and where can I get them?

I’m just so glad you asked. Let me start out by posting this awesome chart I made of all the mods covered in this guide.

So that’s one of your questions answered. Fuck yeah I’m on a roll today. Now about how to acquire these mods.  Some of them you have already. The game just gives them to you. Others can be acquired by opening engrams, and completing actives. Basically just playing the game like normal. Everyone’s favorite Tsundere Exo Ada-1 also sells a random mod for the low low cost of 10 mod components that changes daily.

Many of these mods can also be earned by turning in rank up packages to Banshee-44 (who is a decidedly less Tsundere Exo).

You can see what mods you have acquired by going to the Mods section of the Collections menu. The mods are organized by armor type. Hovering over the mod will tell you where/how you can acquire said mod. Any mods you don’t have unlocked will be grayed out.

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Ability Mods

These mods add extra bonuses and reduced cool down to your abilities, and some healing.  All of them are restricted by armor type; most of them are also restricted by armor element.  The diminishing returns is about 50% of what a single mod would grant.

This post is already in TLDR territory and we aren’t even half done yet. So I will be talking about mods in more general terms as as apposed to each individual mod (because ain’t no one got time for that).

The mod element and armor slot tend to stick to these defined roles:

Helmet: Generating super energy.

Arms: Generating melee and Grenade energy

Legs: Generating ability energy or health by picking up Orbs of power

Class Item: Focuses on using or generating class ability energy.

Solar: Healing and Grenades

Void: Class abilities and Healing

Arc: Melee abilities

Stasis: Kind of a caught all. Focuses on using or generating super energy and overall ability energy.

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Resistance Mods

These chest piece mods have a damage resistance for every type of element and some non-element specific damage.  Each mod offers 25% damage reduction from combatants with 40% reduction for 2 mods of the same type.    These mods do not work in pvp.  Elemental resistance mods can only be socketed into chest armor of the same element.

In addition to the elemental mods there are three different damage resist mods that can be socketed into any chest armor regardless of element.

Mele Resistance: Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at point-blank range (4 meters or less).

Sniper Resistance: Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range (over 29 meters away).

Concussive Dampener: Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.

Now, I’m not gonna suggest that should use this information to socket in concussive dampener and an arc resistance mod, then take your Riskrunner out of the bank and go punch some screebs...  

But you could.

Just saying.

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Gun and Ammo Mods

Unlike the ability mods a lot of the mechanics of these mods require some explanation so I will be talking a bit more in specifics and less in generalities. These mods are restricted by armor type but do not have any elemental restrictions.

Ammo Finder --- Head Slot --- Diminishing Returns Increases the chance to find a specific type of ammo (heavy or special) if you have the indicated weapon type equipped.  For more info on how often these ammo bricks drop you can read this reddit post  The TLDR is weapon final blows increase the chance of an ammo finder ammo brick dropping.

Targeting --- Head Slot --- Diminishing Returns Improve target acquisition, accuracy, and aim-down-sights speed for the indicated weapon. Everything stacks without diminishing returns but the aim assist which is 10 at one mod and 12 with two.

Reloading mods --- Arms --- Diminishing Returns It makes reloading the indicated gun type faster.

Dexterity --- Arms --- Diminishing Returns Faster ready and stow speed for indicated gun type. This mod has a lot of overlap with the Handling stat on guns.

Ammo Reserves --- Chest --- Diminishing Returns Allows you to carry more ammo for the indicated gun type. This is worth it for some weapons and absolutely not worth it for others.  Listing which guns this mod is good for and which ones it is not is beyond the scope of this guide.

Unflinching --- Chest --- Diminishing Returns Reduces flinching from incoming fire while aiming indicated weapon type. Flinch is the amount of moving that happens when aiming down sights (zoomed in) while being shot at. This mod lessens that movement.

Holster --- Legs --- Diminishing Returns Slowly reloads indicated gun type over time. The gun needs to be stowed for 5 seconds for this mod to start reloading, and will add more ammo to the magazine every 5 seconds so long as the weapon stays stowed. Stacking two of the same type of holster mods will not make this any faster. It will however increase the amount of ammo reloaded but only after the 15 second mark. Rocket Launchers, breach load Grenade Launchers, and Bows do not have a holster mods. Also the hand cannon holster mod does not work/stack with Eriana’s Vow.  

Ammo Scavenger --- Legs --- Does Not Stack Increases the amount of ammo gained from ammo bricks.  While having two of the same type of mod does not stack, you can socket for two different gun types. Some of these mods explicitly state the ammo type that gets the bonus others, like grenade launchers, work for both the special and heavy types.

This mod does not increase the amount of heavy ammo you gain from the Heavy Ammo wall spawns in Gambit and or Crucible. It only works with ammo bricks you pick up from the ground.

Snapload Finisher --- Class Item --- Does Not Stack Finishers reload all your weapons. Requires one-tenth of your Super energy. This is absolutely not worth it.  Don't use this mod. Using this mod will bring shame on to your family.

Special Finisher --- Class Item --- Does Not Stack Finishers generate Special ammo for the whole fireteam. Requires one-third of your Super energy. This can be a great mod in high end pve content. Be aware if you are running this mod the game will not let you use your finisher unless you have enough super energy.  There’s nothing worst than running up to a finisher-able champion only to die horribly because despite spamming the finisher button nothing happens. Then your fire team is disappointed in you cus you used up another res token and died in a really inconvenient spot.   Ask me how I know.

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Let us pretend I understood everything you just said. What do I do with this information?

Say for the sake of this example you like throwing grenades. It would make this game a lot more fun if you could throw more grenades rather than less.  Socketing in a bunch of mods like Impact Induction, Innervation, and Bomber will allow you to recharge your grenade ability faster. While you are at it maybe throw in a Ashes To Assets in your head piece and get a little bit of extra super energy as an added bonus.  

Congratulations you have just made an armor build that all those crazy kids on the internet are talking about. Oh you thought this was a guide just about armor mods and not a beginners guide to how to make armor builds didn’t you? Well keep reading cus we’re about to next level this shit.

Let’s bring out some Sunbracers, a warlock exotic that grants unlimited solar grenade energy for a short amount of time after a powered melee kill and slap in a Momentum Transfer mod (Causing damage with a grenade reduces you melee cooldown) and see what happens.

That right there kids is a game play loop! One of them many that you can put together.  There's a lot of synergies that exist between the mods, exotic armor and weapons/weapon perks in this game. Exploring these is what really makes Destiny a lot of fun (for me any ways).  

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All Right I’m pumped now! Is there anything else I should know before I start trying to make my own armor builds?

Yes, yes there is. The first thing you need to do is understand the basic mechanics of the activity that you plan on taking a build into. Some actives have mechanics that make these mods useless. Like how damage resist and ammo finder mods don’t work in pvp.  

The next thing you should consider is what sort of game play the activity encourages. How easy is it to get kills with your abilities vrs your guns?  Are you going to be taking a lot of damage and if so what kind?  How difficult will it be for you to generate/pick up orbs of power?

Ultimately what you are trying to do is build an game play loop that supports it’s self and makes the game more fun and interesting to play.

I haven’t listed the cost of any of these mods in this guide because Bungie has in the past, and likely will in the future, changed the energy cost significantly. But the cost both in terms of the energy needed to socket them and having an available socket to do so is a major consideration. As well as having the armor of the appropriate element to even use some of these mods.

The main thing I want new and returning players (for whom I wrote this guide for) to understand is you don’t need them fancy charged with light, elemental well and warmind cell mods to start making your own armor builds. The mods in this guide are easy to acquire and let you make effective builds for both low and high end content. Don’t get discouraged because you feel like you missed out.

The armor mods are an interesting system that is absolutely horribly explained in game. Speaking of explaining things If you want to know more about armor and armor stats in Destiny 2 Check out this other awesome (and much shorter) guide I wrote. Because I’m not above cross promoting my own work.

Cheers!

[notfairestwriting]

okay now im wondering something: what would ray be like if his mother was, you know, actually a good person (or at least less awful to him)?

oh boy a Lot of stuff would be different... i think hed still be that reserved introvert type, but definitely a lot less uptight (tho he is hardworking almost by nature? so its not like hed be Easygoing either, just not so serious)

she gives him a whole lot of different kinds of emotional damage so i think hed be pretty much unrecognizable personality wise. a lot of it is self worth issues and emotional underdevelopment/repression, plus discouraging him from being sociable in general making him so unhealthily withdrawn. and theres also uh! other stuff i havent told most of you about yet.

he would definitely be a lot more of a team player, and more straightforward about caring for others rather than having this tsundere streak we all know him for. less feelings of general unworthiness but thats not gone completely since not meeting his father also kinda messed him up, just not as much as his mothers whole Existence. he would be generally more cheerful from being more encouraged to pursue things he actually has passion for, and his obsession with everything being predestined wouldnt exist. probabably would be a lot more naive too, since he wouldnt have seen certain things

tldr, mommy issues are a very integral part of his character from a psychological standpoint so hed pretty much be a different person ghfvfbj

[yewfallen]

@sheergrace sent:  [ 🤪 ] what is your muse’s sense of humour like? are they known for being joking, or serious?  ( prompt. )

awful. absolutely atrocious. i’d kick him in the face if he ever said a “””joke””” at me.

Lover: Feeebail…and what about that pledge you made to me? Febail: Eh? Pledge? What pledge? Lover: Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten it already? Febail: Ack, it’s just a joke, [Lover], it’s a joke. Don’t look at me all scary-like, I’m sorry!

—— FE4, Epilogue, Seliph’s Grannvalian Talks - Febail Inherits Yngvi

and from there, the ending line varies a bit depending upon who’s saying it but no matter who it is, they usually say something like “I wouldn’t know!” the other fantranslation patch keeps this conversation mostly the same, though there’s a slight wording difference where his lover will say something along the lines of “Can you blame me?!” 

febail is just kinda. unused to making connections with people his age and doesn’t know how to properly execute a joke, ending in cases like this where he might hurt someone’s feelings, seeing as he’s usually blunt or honest to a fault normally. this awkwardness and inexperience results in him assuming that if he’s close to someone, he should be able to speak light-heartedly with them and make jokes like these, but he just doesn’t... actually have a good sense of humor LMAO and he’ll need to learn it and his loved ones’ boundaries. as he tries to become better at communicating, there’ll inevitably be these bumps and hurdles, and i am sorry to anyone along for the ride.

i like to think this is one of the things that’s wholly different between him and his cousin lester. while they’re both guys with tough images and are tsunderes for a lack of a non-weeby term, lester finds the timing and execution of jokes and affection a lot easier than febail properly, helped by the fact lester did grow up around people his own age and has long been friends with them at that.

this difference between them can be noted in the case lester is the one to inherit house yngvi (whether it’s because febail inherited something else or because febail died in the war):

Lover: And what of your promise to me? Lester: I haven’t forgotten, of course! Lover: Good. I thought you wouldn’t, Lester. /  Just checking!  Lester: [Lover], you’re kinda scaring me here. Lover:  Heh heh... Am I now?  /   Oh, that’s just mean! And if you say much more of it, I don’t know WHAT I’ll do! Heh heh heh...

—— FE4, Epilogue, Seliph’s Grannvalian Talks - Lester Inherits Yngvi

lester interestingly now is placed in the same conversational setup as febail but knows in this case to not make a joke of it despite being the same guy who earlier in the game decided the way to reassure someone is this:

Patty: I just get tired of you teasing me, Lester. That’s all. Lester: Do I do that? Patty: Yeah, you do. You don’t even treat me like the other girls. Lester: You’re a girl!? Patty: …you creep!! Lester: Hey, it’s just a joke… C’mon, don’t get so angry. I’m sorry, okay? I guess I just sort of like you, that’s all. So I just sort of… you know. Patty: What do you mean, you ‘like’ me!? Lester: ‘Like’ as in ‘not hate’! Need me to repeat it!?

—— FE4, Chapter 10, Lester Talks to Patty

they’re both bad. febail is just somehow worse and even more dense about timing.

tldr: this family’s boys are awful at jokes. and also at talking to people.

[bunnyriviere]

my god i cant get my head out of this mess so imma rant, then MAYBE i can focus on my assignment like damn babe i thought your passion is stats, why are you obsessing over a guy that doesnt care enough. huh? care about stats instead babe!!!!!! i just want to only have to care about maths but i know my life is ruined if i dont have relationships, so i try. but i must suck at it so bad if everything just ends in flame like this, im so tired im teary eyes.

im on my phone and honestly dont know how to do the uh line to cut short the post so if anybody unfortunately see this im sr :(

this is not even about a romantic relationship, i dont even know why i just couldnt like a person like that but damn fine. this is about a male friend i made in grade 11 i guess. i have never liked men. im afraid of them and dont want to have to interact with them ever. i know its bad and i should change but i just really want them away from me im sorry..... so i wasnt even friendly with him, but i was polite, i know how to be a decent person. he was friendly and nice and friends to all which only made me think aw geez just stop being friendly i know this is not because you like me. but i was eating the snack he brought to class anytime he brought it without much thought cause he offered i aint gonna say no. all the while still not consider him a friend. not until a friend said im not being nice if im eating his food while still not seeing him as a friend. and i have always feel bad about not being friendlier towards men in general and he made the 1st move which made it easier for me to just go along. so i did and thats how we became friends.

hes really nice and i mean it. i think really highly of him. maybe its just me having bad luck so i havent met many that are nice?? i really believe they are just myth tbh, im about to settle for that thought. and this guy is really how i wish is the standard for all men. hes just that good, i have no complain. i truly like him and glad that my friend said something cause otherwise we probably wouldnt be friends.

again no romantic feeling. i just have to, remind the invisible audiences of this post i guess.

now we all know covid. and because of it, i couldnt come home and wanted to lay in bed even more than normal. so i didnt push for it when he said he couldnt meet anybody in the summer because he didnt want to accidently give somebody it. just saying that cause this is a 2 ways road right, nothing is ever only his fault, its also mine. i want to rant about my feelings but i dont want to dismiss any mistakes i made yk. so we didnt meet up then.

christmas came and before then we were talking about christmas gift and i didnt wanna any so i didnt prepare anything also. this person is too nice and i dont want him to feel bad. but anw i just thought maybe we can still meet up even if its not for gift exchanging. but i didnt ask or anything at all cause well, hes from here, he has family and friends that are definitely closer to him, and he had work. i know hes busy and if he wanna hang out he know where to find me. i just dont want to accidentally add something more onto his list of to do. he would be too nice to say no. and we are not that close i dont want to add more work for him. i dont have relatives or friends here other than him so im free anytime if he wanted to meet up. but that didnt happen, i dont think we talked at all. which fine i hate to admit but i was hurt. ugh hate showing how vulnerable i am. yuck. yikes. -100/10.

i just didnt think about it? i didnt try to reach out either so that was my fault too but just, if he didnt care then i wont either. so i really didnt think about him anymore.

came reading week! it really was 1 year from the last time i saw him honestly. he asked to meet up and if i want to go somewhere and tbh no im in the countryside rn is that the corect word so there are no place to go. but i remembered this 2ndhand place i like to go sometimes and i hadnt gone in a while so why not. so we agreed on that. and i know he was probably just tired, and there are people who sigh a lot, its not uncommon. but not seeing him for a long while and knowing this is a place i suggested, him doing that really made me feel bad. i probably shouldnt, but couldnt get the thought that he was probably doing this just because hes friendly not because hes friend with me. it fucking sucked. when we got out and he dropped me back at my home i still felt so bad he didnt get to enjoy himself so i asked if we could watch jojo together. yeah he loves jojo. i dont really care for anime im so sr i prefer realing manga lmao sr.

now ok maybe im still being dumb, probably. but tldr i truly believe people can be friends and affectionate even when they are from opposite sex. it didnt work out so well cause i got molested lmao cause some other guy thought that was cool to do. so that honestly worsen my uh wariness of men. but like i said, i think ive said it, i trust this person. honestly i do, we hug a lot and i had never felt afraid of it. i believe he wont do anything. im just really comfortable around him. so we cuddled while watching anime, that had happened before im really sr if you think thats wrong, i still believe that could happen.

but maybe its because i was tense from thinking he really didnt enjoy hanging out with me that much. i kept connecting remembering what the molester did and while i just knew i swear i knew he wouldnt do anything like that, i couldnt get it out of my head. i felt bad for that but there were just 2 things that happened so similar to what happened with the molester. haizz he kinda laced our fingers together but it wasnt handholding, same thing happened once before with m-dude and it felt weird but i didnt want to question that friendship so i didnt. and at some point of jojo i kinda jumped and he held me back, not pulled me back or anything but was holding me in place, and it was probably to make me feel safe but honestly if anybody even use a little bit of force i will just think of when i finally got the courage to turn around to confront the other dude for touching me, he held me back and i couldnt move at all. i think i froze a bit.

argh back to the main story. see how i totally suck? hahaha just blaming this friend for something somebody else did. im so sorry, i suck.

well after that we picked up talking again but idk! was it me overthinking? was it? because it felt like he didnt want to talk to me at all. it was, how to say it. he was friendly yes he talked hmm. damn how-- it felt like he didnt care for what i said. its a feeling idk how to put into words. and that sucks. he didnt seem interested in me before, felt happy enough when we cuddled, then back to being uninterested. i knew i know he doesnt want me romantically. damnit am i only good now for hugs. are we friends? what i meant is not sex but am i only good for physical stuff? i dont fucking know, the m-dude obviously just want a fwb and i was to trusting to notice. is this my gut feeling or my anxiety idk!

another side story. another guy suddenly expressed interested in me right when covid hit but it was because he couldnt get over his ex so i stopped talking to him for a while and picked it back up when i thought he was no longer idk being annoying about it. i thought he had to at least like me as a person to even express he liked me romantically. but apparently not. he looked so uniterested suddenly and denied when i asked, then stopped reading my texts.

so you see. i just cant if haiz ok do- do anybody like me? just as a person? idk.

god i knew i fucking suck for being so sensitive and anxious and im sr for wanting stuff but maybe i want you to look like you care a bit when i said you are reminding me of the m-dude, instead of saying ok we can talk less then. i already felt like you dont want to talk to me, you dont have to say that...

officially crying heyho.

just saying no you dont dont like talking to me when your actions were saying the opposite is not cutting it either... i also thought highly of the covid confession guy too but what happened now. im sorry for comparing you to others! but i learn from experiences... and this was sus... (yah its a joke i cant help it.)

and if i just agreed and stopped talking to him right it just, felt like a confirmation that yeah its true hes just letting me hug him not because im his friend and he knows i like hugs so he lets me. but its more like its convenient that a girl is hugging him so he wont say no. something like that. that sucks. thats all im good for. if i were his friend, it would include the talking too.

ah!! i know we are not close, we are both casual friend. he is definitely not on my top list to tell stuff to but damn i still like him enough to hurt. and to not asking for too much.

so anw i kept talking with the anxiety that never got solved and that made me frustrated and i picked at his insecurity to made him hate me enough to stop talking to me cause i couldnt bring myself to stop, id feel so bad. this is really toxic and i admit this is not the first time ive done it, to a different person but its the same thing.

hahaha act like i hate him while just want him to see how i feel so bad. yeah im a tsundere.

it worked so i stopped talking to him for a week and focused on talking to my other friends. friends i know without a doubt love me and want me because i really didnt feel that with him at all. sorry i know you were tired with covid.

that made me felt better and i was not in panic mode anymore, i can calmly assess things now. and before, i felt bad because i truly believed i was just seeing things, i couldnt see pass my anxiety and was blaming him for what, nothing. he did want to talk to me. but my mind was clearer after that one week and yeah i cant really make more excuses? yes i was sensitive and made things worse, but there must be something for me to pick up first. it didnt just come out of thin air.

so i sent him some texts saying that, because just leaving without a word is bad communication. i have to tell him and at least give him a chance to change i guess? did he need change? im doubting myself.

i- hm he just said yeah his look and way of talking really make him look like hes tired and uninterested, and laughed at my marie kondo joke. you know the one. idk! all i saw in that was yeah thats how it is, accept it. and i-- i, cant? i dont want to... i dont want to :(

but my mindset for just about anything is value the process, not the result, like as long as you put work in! thats great! and he- he was, talking... he put work in..... i would feel so bad to deny it. but at the same time, it was not enough... i hate! to say you need to do at least this and that! but it didnt feel like enough..... im sorry :(((( i am.

ive talked about my tendency to lash out. last time i didnt want it but i had to get away quick so i didnt mean it but i still did it. but this time i was truly angry. because i just wished there was more care for me but i know that was all there was, and i couldnt do anything about it. couldnt even ignore him. he was even drier then, and i got it, i lashed out at him, ofc he wasnt going to be friendly. but just why were you trying so hard... no, no it was not trying hard, you were answering texts at the speed of once every 2 days. why were you answering at all? you clearly didnt want to. but again so was i. did i really have a say.

so i sent angry texts at him. about how fake his friendliness was, did he really consider me friend, why did he keep saying no it was not that he was uninterested while it was obvious that he was. also that i want to fight him. i really do want to. hopefully he will beat me up hard enough that i can be in a coma and die in 9 months idk. (listen 9 months is enough time to make a new human, if im not awake by then, you need to let me go, thats my wish.)

he said that no he doesnt like to fight and thats the last text i got from him.

because ofc i dont hate him him, the whole him idk what im saying. just angry and hate that hes not matching me on how we value this relationship i guess. not besties like how he likes to joke, but eh, was hoping more than what i was sensing. i still sent a text being like ok fine do you still want to talk and if so how do you want me to do. but he didnt answer it in time so i decided for him that nah we wont talk anymore.

heyho i was sad, i am sad. and ok hear me out, HEAR ME, i dont use tarot for future but just for my feelings and how to deal with them, and my deck said ok babe this is the end, you will have to move on now. so i will.

tbh lmao for every relationships that i emotionally invested in. i always make an essay on my feelings because thats how i conclude things, and so i wont forget that my feelings are legit. so the moment i started this post, hes dead to me i guess.

wow this post is long. but i did really like him so.

im moving to uni city next month but i know he will leave in the summer so i wont have to worry about seeing him then. and probably not further in the future either, we go to different uni and are quite far away and our common are not gonna question things i dont think. dont think they would even notice, we are not in a group or anything. and even if i do end up meeting him. my feelings while was anger, but it stemmed from sadness and disappointment so it wouldnt be too bad. on the other hand... m-dude..... i am afraid of meeting you, lets please please please not meet damnit.

[nneefa]

What do you think about people that say Rinshi is forced and cliche? I know you don't like shipping discourse but I wanted your opinion since I saw that you really liked the ship.

You're right, anon, I don't like shipping discourse, but I'll answer anyway, since you asked and I'm in a good mood. :]

Let's see...

I don't think anything of the people who say those things. People are entitled to their opinion, and while I may not agree with them, I can certainly respect them. As for the opinion itself, since I get the feeling that's what you're referring to, I completely disagree with it. At least, the part about it being "forced."

The term "cliche" is typically used to express the overuse of something, lacking originality, like themes, characterizations, etc.; and while this can totally be applied to RinShi, in the sense that they're a "main boy/main girl" pairing, the term "cliche" can honestly be applied to, well, majority of the ships, since all ship-types have been used thousands of times in the past in all different sorts of media from shounen to shoujo. If we're going to apply "cliche" to RinShi, we have to be transparent and apply it to all of them, otherwise it comes off as hypocritical.

There are tons of manga where the main boy does not end up with the main girl; however, even those types of pairings can fall under "cliche" since nothing is original nowadays. Keep in mind too that Kazue Katou said out of her own mouth that every single last one of her characters at their base are stereotypes/cliches (i.e. Izumo is a tsundere, Yukio is the smart guy, Rin is the goofy, happy protagonist, etc.), so while I agree with the sentiment, at the same time, I don't see how that matters. For example, in terms of ships, Kenshin and Kaoru from Rurouni Kenshin are a "main girl/main boy" pairing, same with Yoh and Anna from Shaman King, but they're absolutely nothing like Rin/Shiemi. The characters are what shape the ship itself, not that it falls under a certain category. Even pairings who share the same similarities ("outgoing boy/shy girl" trope) like Naruto/Hinata from Naruto or Ichigo/Orihime from Bleach are nothing like them. Again, none of it is original in terms of themes, and yet all three have their own differences, so none of them can really be compared to each other. It all boils down to personal preference, as there are people who like one and not the other, and personal preference does not a bad ship make.

Now, to say that RinShi is "forced," I really don't see how that can be true. How is it forced? What makes it forced? I would like to know. I can see if Kazue had only developed the pairing from Rin's perspective or that Rin's feelings were shallow or that if Shiemi was in love with someone else (or no one) for the entirety of the manga and somehow ended up with Rin even though she never reciprocated his feelings or that Shiemi was a satelite love interest who had no goals or aspirations outside of being an accessory for Rin, but none of that even remotely applies to them.

Yes, they were immediately established as "the canon ship," but Kazue Katou actually took time and effort to develop them as characters, first and foremost, then as friends/mutual love interests so that by the time they did confess/realize their feelings, it made sense within the context of the narrative and didn't come out of nowhere. To call it "forced" in light of their development is to undermine and discredit the amount of work, time, energy, and effort Kazue put into writing them, regardless of whether or not we prefer them as a ship, and that, quite frankly, is wrong. If they're obvious/predictable, it's because Kazue wanted to establish it early, but the fact that she actually developed the ship over the course of the narrative was and is good writing. Our personal preference, in that, just because we don't like or ship them, does not take away from this fact.

tldr; RinShi is cliche, in terms of their theme as the "main boy/main girl" and/or "outgoing boy/shy girl" pairing, but so is every shounen couple ever, regardless of its theme, because everything lacks originality to some degree. But them being cliche, imo, doesn't inherently make it a bad ship. RinShi, however, is not "forced," because Kazue, upon establishing them, actually developed their relationship over the course of the narrative so that by the time they realized their feelings, it made sense within the context of the narrative. To call them "forced" in lieu of this undermines and discredits her writing, whether we personally ship RinShi or not.

[shireviews]

“back to school” (복학생)

by oryu

“Chiwoo’s got issues. Upon returning to school after the “incident” last year, he vows to keep to himself and stay out of trouble until graduation. Easier said than done: his bad boy reputation has made him the talk of the school, and Kyujin - class president and model student - won’t stop being friendly. Trouble arrives soon enough in the shape of Jihyun, a tattooed hunk from Chiwoo’s dark past. It’s gonna be a tough year…”

status: completed

warnings⚠️: abuse, slight sexual assault

i wish st*yv***nt was as interesting as this high school damn

tldr

✨the plot✨

cha chiwoo returns to high school after a gap year and scares off everyone in his class bc hes OLD! however, class rep kyujin is constantly making an effort to involve him activities and to spend time with him howevER

chiwoo rejects these advances because of his shitty experience with an obsessive dood named jihyun; and when jihyun transfers into their school, in their class, all hell breaks loose

kyujin starts to get jealous of chiwoo and jihyuns past together and jihyun starts to get jealous because chiwoo is making new boyfriends 

this basically keeps going back and forth and gets VIOLENT until chiwoo goes off on jihyuns ass for thinking that he can get away with everything because chiwoos always forgiven him in the past

kyujin + chiwoo endgame 

this was a really shitty explanation i promise the story is much more interesting and developed lol 

✨the character development✨

cha chiwoo

your classic tsundere

you grow to like how unresponsive he is lmao

ki kyujin

idk if its some bad boy complex or if yaoi has just conditioned me into liking abusive tops but i did not like him at first lmao but when compared to jihyun, kyujin is objectively a much better person

he basically annoyed chiwoo into liking him back if thats not preserverance idk what is

song jihyun

hes like a modern day seungho lmfao eh bad analogy

he has daddys money so he does whatever the fock he wants since chiwoo has ALWAYS forgiven him even for attempted second degree murder

jihyun is like the constant in a science experiment. constantly does shitty things and expects the same outcome

✨the porn✨

censoring system: light sabers

first smut scene: chapter 1

favorite smut scene: chapter 6 + 7

least favorite smut scene: theres literally like 3 smut scenes

i will now proceed to summarize my analysis of every single smut scene in this yaoi

if i remember correctly, the back to school manhwa itself has NO smut scenes

however, its 10 chapter sequel (”back to school: all grown up”) is JUST smut scenes so here we go back to school 5 years later THE REVIEW

chapter 1 + 2:

chiwoo is still TSUNDERE

kyujin be slurping chiwoos dick and asshole like a 7/11 SLURPEE GOD

squelch gloop twitch tremble fwop

he keeps saying stop but like ???????

ohmygod kyujin has seunghos horse schlong

chapter 6 + 7:

im telling you smut HITS DIFFERENT WHEN THEY LOVE EACH OTHER

kyujins slurping again

sorry theres fingering too

why is he blushing so much

multiple positions

is chiwoo in pain i still dont know ?????????

THIS IS PAINTER OF THE NIGHT LEVEL SMASHING BUT THEYRE SAYING I LOVE YOU LMFAOAOOAO

theyre getting promise rings im ugly crying this is so cute

chapter 8 + 9:

CHAPTER 8 GOT ME FUCKED UP BRO ITS AN AU WHERE CHIWOO AND JIHYUN ENDED UP TOGETHER AND KYUJIN+CHIWOO WAS JUST A BAD DREAM THAT JIHYUN WOKE UP FROM 

they smash afterward pretty standard

fin.

✨the v✨

the manhwa itself is actually pretty wholesome like the entire time i was waiting for a smut scene that never came thats what she said but then i read the sequel and they were just smashing every other chapter like damn ma 

back to schools art style is also probably in my top 3 i WISH seniors in high school looked that good tf 

i was listening to more&more - twice while writing this lmfaooo sorry v**a

🦋 make your puthy throb percentage: 95%

[toastie-the-know]

The canon bases of RudeAggro!Felix and Apologetic!Dimitri

(Since I actually spent an entire evening doing this, I’m posting it because I don’t want to feel I “lost” all that time haha! I sort of do this kind of stuff for work sometimes, so this is clearly the sad fate of a person who can’t leave their work at work and brings it into their hobbies 😂 )

I’ve read a lot of Dmlx fic (in English), and have seen a lot of art, and there’s a trend I’ve noticed in the characterisations of both Felix and Dimitri that stands out to me: Rude and aggressive Felix, and Apologetic Dimitri. More specifically, Felix being rude/aggressive to Dimitri, and Dimitri apologising to Felix. The characterisations stand out to me only because my hc characterisations are more like “tsundere” Felix, and polite Dimitri. There’s obviously an overlap between “rude/aggressive” and “tsundere”, as well as “apologising” and “polite”, but they are not the same thing, at least from the part of the world I come from (I played with the JP audio on English text). I wanted to figure out if I was missing something from canon, so decided to take a short dive and check out the source material.

This meta isn’t an attack on people’s preferences. Creators of fan works depict characters in a variety of ways for personal reasons, and it’s no one’s business to pass judgement on that. I’m not trying to legitimise my hc, or delegitimise othere people’s hc. All I want to know is whether there is  strong canon basis for the characterisations, which I might have missed. I’m also not saying that “unless a characterisation is based off canon 100% it’s not legit”.  I don’t believe in that statement. Looking at canon is one way for me to see whether the “RudeAggro Felix”, “Apologetic Dimitri” is more a case of creator extrapolation, or based off something very clearly there in the canon.

So I’m gonna look at three bits of text. 1) The words and expressions used in the support conversations, both JP and EN 2) The tone in the voice acting, both JP and EN in the support conversations, and 3) Dimitri and Felix’s lines in Azure Moon route chapters + in the monastery, but only in the JP (it was easier for me to search the JP text quickly, more effort required for the EN). Of course there’s more you can glean about their characters from other supports etc, but I don’t have that much free time… 

Heads up I’m a bilingual and bicultural Japanese/Aussie (have lived in both countries), so I’m pretty confident in my interpretations of the JP text and audio.

Rude and Aggressive Felix

There’s a lot of canon for this characterisation to be based on. Listing the words and expressions Felix uses when talking to Dimitri is pretty aggressive, and is meant to be demeaning if we take it at face value.

Felix insults/expressions of aggression 

Support C

その気味の悪い笑顔で話しかけるな。/ Go away. (I would add “Don’t talk to me with that creepy/spooky/grotesque smile of yours.”)

見ているだけで胸糞悪くなる。/ Just looking at your face makes me wanna retch 黙れ。獣は獣らしくしていろ。/ Shut up. And stop walking around on your hind legs. 獣 / beast 猪 / wild boar ならばさっさと失せろ、邪魔だ。話しかけるな、この化け物が。/ Hurry up and get out of my sight.  I don’t make a habit of talking to beasts.

Support B

猪 / wild boar 貴様 / an aggressive form of addressing “you” in Japanese, although in this sentence it’s not used aggressively 阿呆が。/ Do you take me for a fool?  (I took the Japanese more along the lines of “Are you stupid?”) 腹立たしい……。/Looking at your face is making me angry (No JP equivalent) / Farewell, Your Beastliness.

Support A

獣 / beast (but used in the context of the “the face of a beast vs the face of a man” line) 手が滑って斬りつけないうちに、答えろ。Answer quickly before my hand slips and I cut you in half お前の辛気臭い顔が、癇に障って仕方なかっただけだ / I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face.

Stepping out of the Dimitri/Felix support conversations for a bit, we know from Felix’s other interaction he is also rude and aggressive. Calling Dedue “dog” is probably the rudest and most demeaning example we have. Telling Ingrid to go and get married is also pretty rude. So overall we have a lot of evidence that Felix is ok with being abrasive, at best. Intentionally hurtful and malicious at the worst.

So Felix is rude to Dimitri in their support conversations, but the rudeness lessens as the support levels increase.  As you can see from the list above, the number of expressions of aggression go down between conversations C and A. Felix doesn’t call Dimitri “boar” once in the A support conversation. The last line “癇に障って仕方なかっただけだ / I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face” is a bit tricky, since I think there’s a bit of a divergence between the JP acting and EN acting. The JP is very clearly a "tsundere" intonation, meaning there’s a vibe of “I care but am too embarrassed to admit it”. The EN was a lot less obviously for me, so if you only got the EN there’s a chance that Felix’s  “I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face” comes across at face value - an actual insult.

Outside the support conversations, Felix uses the words “boar/beast” to describe Dimitri specifically quite often. But the intention behind the use seems to change (from an attack on one’s character to a nickname). Looking at the AM route, lines within each chapter + in the monastery phase, we find he uses the words ten times in total. That’s a descent amount, considering the number of lines he probably has overall (I’m not that dedicated to count all his lines… proper methodology would want me to do that though…). The last two times he uses “boar” it seems more of a nickname rather than as a way to attack Dimitri’s person.

A surprise find was that Dimitri uses “beast” five times overall , in the same contexts that I checked for Felix’s use (AM route, lines within each chapter + in the monastery phase in JP). In all cases he is describing either Imperial soldiers, or the baddies at Remier village. Never in reference to himself (which I thought might come up, but didn’t).So 

TLDR; There is canon basis of Felix being rude to Dimitri, but it looks like he mellows out a lot by the end of the game.  The JP flags the “tsundere” vibes a lot more than the English.

Apologetic Dimitri

I’m gonna start with the numbers from the chapters + monastery sections first, because these are the bits that clearly form the canon basis of “apologising Dimitri”. But with some interesting twists!

As a quick and dirty measure, I searched for the characters 謝 (to catch 謝る、謝罪 etc), 悪 (to catch 悪いな、悪かった), and すまない. I didn’t search for ごめん/ごめんなさい (gomen/gomennasai) bc I bet you three cups of coffee that you won’t find Dimitri using this expression.  ごめん/ごめんなさい is more typical of children and women, or super casual. So Edelgard and Claude might use these, but not Dimitri.  

Dimitri apologise a ton in the chapters and monastery sections. For all three words, we have 16 expressions of “sorry” from Dimitri. For comparison, I just checked the first five chapters for Claude. Chapters 1-5 Dimitri apologises 7 times, while Claude apologises once. So yeah, canonically, we find good grounds for Dimitri being a person who apologises often. We’ll see later that in his other supports with Blue Lions characters, he apologies to them also.

Dimitri apologises 6 times after Rodrigue dies in chapter 18. And 4 of these apologies are concerning his behaviour while he was disengaged with the war effort/unwell. These kind of feel a bit different to the “sorry to inconvenience you” type apologies that are more typical of his sorries (see list below)

To Byleth: 4, for being boring (1), for making a weird request (1), for Byleth helping out (2) To Edelgard: 2, once about making Edelgard feel bad bc she thought he was underestimating her, and once about the poor choice of gift he gave her during their childhood. To Lonato: 2, for the general badness of the situation To Claude: 1, (but unclear to me what exactly he’s apologising about) To Dedue: 1, for surprising him To Mercedes: 1 (need to check again To a Kingdom soldier: 1, because the soldier was looking for him To Lonato’s soldier: 1, for the general badness of the situation

Most of these apologies are of the “sorry for being an inconvenience” type. This could be interpreted in a variety of ways ranging from just being polite right through to low self-esteem. Whatever the construal, it does seem objectively that Dimitri says “sorry” a lot more than other male characters who might have as many lines.

Dimitri and apologising to Felix

Dimitri apologising to Felix, we have exactly one example in the chapter conversations. In chapter 18, Dimitri says to Felix “I have no words to apologise adequately” or something along those lines, regarding Rodrigue’s death. (And shortly after, Felix addressed Dimitri by name).

We have zero cases of Dimitri apologising to Felix in the support conversations. For a quick comparison in his other support conversations, Dimitri apologises to Ashe once, Sylvain once, Ingrid once, Annette twice, Mercedes three times (but the expressions he uses are different to the three I mention earlier). Interestingly, Dimitri also doesn’t apologise to Dedue.

These numbers might just be reflecting the fact that Dimitri and Felix’s support conversations aren’t really topics where apologies would be made. Dimitri and Felix’s support conversations aren’t about burdening each other, being a nuisance, or supporting each other. Their support conversations are actually about Felix coming to terms with Dimitri’s dual nature, while Dimitri himself seems seems unbothered by it.  (The only place in canon we really see Dimitri using his words to express remorse and discomfort over his dual nature seems to  be his A+ support with Mercedes).

Dimitri’s responses to Felix’s rudeness in support C are more like indirect affirmations of Felix’s characterisations of him (“A beast craving blood, am I? I assume you’re speaking of the events two years ago”, “I deny nothing, Felix.”, “Perhaps you’re right.”). Maybe a little bit resigned. There are a handful of sad-faces. It actually seems to me that Dimitri is in general agreement with Felix.

In support B, Dimitri is unbothered by Felix’s abrasiveness. When Felix gives him a hard time, Dimitri tends to push back (“As though I would be careless with something so valuable.”, “Come now, that was so long ago!”).  In this entire exchange it’s only Felix who is bothered by something, while Dimitri seems quite oblivious to Felix’s turmoil. The final line in this support is Dimitri saying “What is going on with him…”

Support A Dimitri is quite assertive of himself  (“ Do not waste your breath on questions with such obvious answers / 当たり前のことを聞くな”, “ You are wrong/ ……違う”), still a it resigned (“Always so ominous / お前はいつも物騒だな。”), but unlike supports A and B, showing awareness of Felix’s internal state, and thanks Felix.

Dimitri seems generally unbothered by Felix giving him a hard time, and Dimitri does not apologise for his character. Dimitri seemed ok with his dual nature, while it was Felix who was more bothered by it. But by the end of the game, if support A is reached, Felix also comes around to accept the dual nature. Dimitri and Felix aren’t really in an “apologise to each other” relationship, because it seems from Dimitri’s POV, there is nothing about himself that he needs to apologise to Felix for.

So TLDR

There is good canon basis for rude/aggro Felix. There is good canon basis for apologetic Dimitri. Dimitri apologises a lot in canon, but not really Felix. The one time he apologises is concerning Rodrigue’s death. But given that Dimitri does apologise to people often for inconveniencing them, it’s not hard to imagine how Dimitri would apologise to Felix for inconveniencing him in some way.

So I don’t think I missed anything in canon, but fan creators extrapolate these canon bases into various directions. Which is cool! Because isn’t that the fun of doing fan works!

The end.

Links out: JP Text, EN Text