#and you know who is in this arena???

[crispycreambacon]

The Post-Exam Moodboard

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[phoenixcatch7]

Like I know it's self indulgence but it'd be so funny to see a full kardashian style Brucie Wayne, spoilt playboy prince of Gotham, local sunshine idiot on the front page every other week for darwinian levels of idiocy or billionaire levels of donations.

But he gets kidnapped or something and there's illusions or mind magics that make him think he's in the bat suit and then he gets dumped in the middle of a live world broadcast arena to fight some goons.

Like he doesn't think anything of it, batman's been kidnapped and forced into gladitorial arenas for sport many times before, maybe he always carries concealed weapons so he's still got like grapples and batarangs and stuff, but he's just going full doomslayer on these guys. No cowl. No suit. Just an open silk shirt and a pair of slacks. In full view of the world.

Tell you what, what about the whole justice league. Just a group of the motleyest people you've ever met. There's about as many famous people as there are absolute nobodies.

Several billionaires defer to the guy who writes articles on outdated lead in buildings and socio economic corruption. There's a renowned museum curator flying and uppercutting aliens so hard they get tossed across the room. There's a guy who spoke in science conferences about meta containment procedures running up the wall and delivering a roundhouse kick to three enemies at once. Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen. Of all people. Two world famous idiot ceo celebrities. And they're back to back whaling on armoured alien henchmen like a well oiled team. A ten year old podcaster shooting lightning from his fingers and no one in the group bats an eye.

Just.... Insanity.

[wild0moon]

they have the devil in them

[satisaranea]

the 50th arena likely being the only one that wasn't preserved for visitation due to how the capitol was played for fools is something that makes me laugh. believing that it would go off without a hitch, being a quarter quell. the bets are spun and tossed around, and money is spent in favor. the captiol splurges out on high-tech features of the decade and expects everything to go amazingly. to be marked in history as the most brutal year to come, with bodies pilled up higher than the mass grave can take.

and what they don't realize, is that little forcefield function right at the edge of the arena will come to haunt them forever. they don't know that a boy from the most down and out district, from the poorest part, will slice their dreams to shreds, one career's neck at a time — one step further to that cliff edge at a time. they don't know that he will look past their manufactured beauty, slip past the gore open up the arena's skin of potential, find its use outside of housing weapons.

they don't know that he will ally with a girl from the wealthier part of their district, and will hunt and stick together. and when she dies after they split up, he will comfort her: and he will hold her hand in gratitude of her allyship, and gentleness for how her life slips away from her. they don't know, that he will go toe to toe with the last career standing, a large girl with her eye hanging out of her socket because of him, while he runs limping with a slick bundle of intestines cradled in his hand.

they will not expect that boy to win. they will find that when he convulses, when the girl prepares her axe to throw for the kill, and he dodges — it will come back. and it will embed in a head of her own.

they will scramble to cut out parts of the games, blame it on a faulty camera ruined in the volcano explosion. they will hide their shame through delivered messages of confusion. they will then deal with that boy silently, like a knife to the throat.

[espritradieux]

I'm miserable they fucking mutilated my girl's backstory. What about her struggle about being the last of her kind? What about her trauma from her mother dying? What about her determination and thirst for revenge? What about hers and Maetria's conflicting views on their survival? What about the depth Lilith?

[devilrose]

Visor time, again

[blessedshortcake]

Ive never had a huge connection to Crackpot as a character but since ive been more and more fixtated on arena mode and the general madcom lore the appeal has been growing

Specifically ive been thinking about how likely it could be that he also exchanged whatever tokens the player gives him for magic since he never specifies what he uses it for only that it is "valuable" from where he is from

And the only time we saw the tokens be used save for trading with him is when we are buying wands or other magical items from Gambler who then also specifies that the Maker likes them. Crackpot clearly uses magic in the future when he has his cult going on so imo it would make sense

Sooo does someone back in Nexus city have a connection to the Maker that Crackpot can exploit or does he have like a direct connection? I didnt do any deeo research about it yet and I doubt Phobos would actually be the person for it so shrug. Any thoughts?

[mspaintbunny]

what fighting games do you play ?

mostly capcom titles, your street fighters, your darkstalkers, your mvcs kof is also up there, but i wanna try everything i have the chance to i dont have really powerful computer so i miss out on the newer stuff and only get to play at friends' places i looooooved getting to play bridget in strive even if i only did for a couple days, her toolkit is peak design 2 me and i wish i had gotten more time cuz i kept finding out new routes with her and i knew there was so many possibilities i didnt get to experiment with ive only also played tekken a limited amount, and while my experience with vf helped a little with fundamentals, it is its own thing i wished i had more time to mess with... alas shoutouts to fighterz also, i have that one on the switch lmao

oh yeah and smash bros if you count that, i was second at a regional using megaman once

[f1gure-skater]

Super niche, but I just saw someone comment on something saying that they can't comprehend the fact that figure skating qualifies as a sport and as a figure it kind of just ticked me off? Of course the skaters seen on TV are really good at it and they make it look easy but the amount of work that goes into training that isn't seen in competition isn't as pretty as what's shown on the screen. There's a lot of off ice training for cardio and strength in the form of fitness classes and there's also the on ice cardio training which is running program parts in addition to the full run through. AND THEN, so it looks good, there's ballet, and on ice movement, and theatre on ice etc. etc. etc. which makes you THINK it's more of an artform but I've gotten so many bruises from falling that I don't think I can call it art, more like pain. Honestly figure skating is a dangerous sport, there's so many risks that can lead to injuries, I've a couple of friends who have gotten concussed from bad falls and I call myself very fortunate for not having gotten any bad injuries that cause me to take time off (knock on wood) but all of the gross stuff that happens out of the shiny costumes is what gives figure skating the right to call itself a sport.

[ano-po]

The creepy thing about instagram and God is that I would think of an idea, just inside my mind, and then later I would see a reel telling me why it's a bad idea.

[jakeperalta]

thinking about when I couldn't get emails I can't send tour tickets and kept checking for resale but they were always £70+ and I was like no that is too expensive....... oh what a fool I was

[yourcrazyboyokris]

I agree with the people who say The Watcher is Nightcat, but there’s also the dating sim dialogue which confirms the same thing. This confirms that an iterator is cloning slugcats and we are not doing a single thing about it. Absolutely sadistic. A tragedy. Horrifying. The culprit will be identified in tags

[axellis-archv-2]

nobody look at me

[robindrake93]

So did Dr. Gaul just not want any winner for the 10th Hunger Games and that’s why she released her snakes into the arena, knowing they’d kill everything with an “unfriendly” scent or was that another test for Coriolanus. If it was a test and he failed, what was her plan for the Hunger Games winner?

[cryptvokeeper]

rip kuina one piece you would have lost your fuckin MIND over Rebecca

[caitas-cooing]

Everytime I read one of Lilith's designer's reflections I wanted to shake her by the shoulders and then smack her. Get therapy girl, like c'mon