#anyhow i'll be around

[velvees-archive]

PW:AA Spoilers (1-4)!

one of my favorite things about miles edgeworth is how profoundly human he is. we're led to believe he's abandoned all morals leading up to 1-3. then, his interference gets your client a not guilty verdict and you start thinking there's some good left in him. come 1-4, his facade slips and you glimpse upon how caring he truly is, what with him trying to keep phoenix out of dl-6 (and, as a consequence, away from defending him) + paying maya's bail after she's held in contempt of court.

he subverts every expectation you have about someone who falls under his character archetype. i was especially moved by his dialogue in the detention center.

exhibit A:

Phoenix: Can I ask you about the murder? Edgeworth: Wright. I'll ask you again, just leave me alone. Phoenix: ... Edgeworth: Please try to understand. I'm not doing this to prove I'm tough, or because I look down on you. I just don't want you anywhere near this case. Understand?

exhibit B:

Phoenix: Edgeworth? Edgeworth: It's only been a matter of hours since you last visited. Yet you've made incredible progress in your investigation. I'll admit it, I'm impressed, Wright. You were always single-minded in your work, though. Once you start on something, you always see it through, don't you? Phoenix: About the "DL-6 Incident"... Edgeworth: Right... DL-6. I didn't want you to find out about it. That is why I refused your offer to defend me. I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought you weren't up to the job. I just wanted to keep you away from DL-6.

he's quick to reassure phoenix that this isn't about pride or faith in phoenix's capabilities, though he'd used petty insults to ward phoenix off earlier.

i'm of the (unpopular?) opinion that of phoenix and edgeworth, edgeworth is a far warmer person. it's why i can't quite buy yamazaki's edgeworth in most cases, but that's a topic for a different post i already have drafted.

this also isn't meant to undermine the gravity of edgeworth's mistakes as the "demon prosecutor". it's very likely he put away innocents while burying his past. i do strongly believe the first game (and every game in the first trilogy, really) rounds the characters in a way the second trilogy often couldn't, though, and it's that charm that makes the first trilogy feel timeless.

[sysig]

I’m turning you all into marketable plushies, you watch (Patreon)

Bonus eyes because embroidery brain:

[vargaslovinghours]

Happy Vargasversary! Only one meme this year, but I do have a few Vargas-themed online dolls and Picrews for your viewing pleasure lol

I’m so sad about Flash!! It’s just not the same with Ruffle, at least there’s Flashpoint. Anyway, pretty sure I made this Scriabin before the shutdown haha

I can’t find this one, which is such a shame! I think it’s a total classic :0 Something something computer Scriabin haha, there’s no long hair option! Wires are a good enough stand-in

Had to do it the other way around too of course. Don’t tease him! (Do tease him)

Kitty!Edgar! Being able to add things like his glasses, goatee, striped “shirt”, even his bangs! So many lovely options 💕

Feeling normal, covered in blood. I always love when Makers include the Red String, it is Excellent ✨

Rinamaru‘s Anime Avatar Creator, THE maker GOAT to me ♥ Got a sequence of Edgar newly face-cut-up, with the bandaid on his nose, and then “fully” healed hehe

Ladyverse!Jake and Edgar! ♥ I think I was going to make Scriabin as well but there weren’t enough features that’d suit him so these two got the feature instead ♪ I can’t find this one either, I think it’s a Picrew though...? Update: Smol found it!! Thank you!!

Smol also made the boys with one of her fave Picrews! For only really knowing Vargas from my incessant talk (lol), I think she captured them quite lovely :D

I also had to give them a go of course haha, I’m very happy for the option to remove eyes lol

[baekuras]

Because I am lazy with reinventing stuff I have been looking at some fallen angels (mostly Watchers because there is a list) and it's so funny to me that there is/was an angel around to "Cure the stupidity of men" Like thanks I need no more

also there was one guy which bascially was a constellation myth for Orion and he and Azazel(/Lucifer/Satan/whoever pointed Eve to the apple) were punished by hanging out between Heaven and Earth...forever or a long time but that got me to think...this would mean that (insert name of whoever tempted Eve in YOUR specific texts) is also a constellation, and if it's Lucifer it'd be the Morning Star which from what I remember either refers to Venus OR the brightest Star in the Sky aka Sirius aka part of Canis Major aka the constellation right next to Orion Fallen Angel shenanigans in the Sky? it's more likely than you think

also smth smth them being turned into Constellations and humanity using Fallen Angels, aka the givers of forbidden knowledge (you know..like reading and stuff) to navigate smth smth

[b4kuch1n]

1/ this bout of comms almost done and 2. spawndate in 3 days so I have! been fixin up some stuff for the itch store. that'll go live on the 29th! right now there Is a pack of the lineart stuff I did last year for folks who found that agreeable, still free to grab! for practicing coloring, or if you wanna mess around with colors when ur not feelin like doing lineart, or if you wanna try to figure out colors in a drastically different style than what you usually go for. or if u just wanna look at it that's cool too. small announcement that is all see u in a few

[mad-hunts]

imagine how drastically different spending a day with barton could be as his friend though... like, it's literally a coin flip between him doing something illegal but perhaps objectively kind of funny in a 'wtf is happening?' way, to him doing just completely morally bankrupt. and for the first thing, i'm talking about barton stealing all of the candles of a certain scent from a store because he liked it and because 'they're already making enough money.' or, for the latter, barton not telling your muse anything about how everything they're doing that day is to prepare for him to MURDER someone. which then all of a sudden comes to a climax when he kills them like that is a totally okay to do (and this is sarcasm, OFC jsjsj) while he genuinely thinks he looks like this to your muse afterward when he just committed a damn atrocity:

[loregoddess]

you know what, I've never actually heard legit elevator music in my life, time to rectify this

[secret-keeper-speaks]

wow. two universes interacting with me at the same time...is kind of...uh... a lot. anyways, in less important news, today is the last day of school before winter break. the kindygarteners get to have pajama day and we don't, and george and harold are obviously quite grumbly about it. this happens every year, they haven't had pajama day since kindygarten, and once the day comes, they get all down in the dumps. not like it involves me. i personally don't care for pajama day. they never gave them anything they considered good, like sweets and stuff like that. i don't quite get why they miss it if they didn't get to do anything 'fun'.

[still-july]

going feral over elliott smith (again)

[sysig]

Maybe something with Mousey being jealous of Hunter and Smoker for one reason or another? hehe

Day 7 - There might be a reason for that

Bonus:

[mysunshine-youremoonlight]

its not even 9pm why am i having the 9pm thoughts :(

[todayisafridaynight]

through all the practice sawashiro fights ive done this morning ive decided he has a really weird grudge against eri for whatever reason

[damnprecious]

going to events is dangerous

not me coming home from a medieval market with another old time'y compass and a little handheld telescope

[mad-hunts]

the tiny fox is caused by the fact that she does not have issues with them directly ( she is too much of a cryptid to care about them ) but since she normally has issues with anyone, i think it was fitting to put at least a itty bitty fox on there 🦊 everything else ? she is proudly fluttering her lashes right now !!

barton audibly let out a loud ' huh? ' in shock whenever he saw that all of the boxes he put on the bingo card were, once again, checked off by another person. but this time it was by none other than ahri; the nine-tailed fox who he never would've thought he matched with, but then again, surprises were kind of bound to happen whenever it came to a thing like this. barton honestly fumbled for what to say for a moment before he pursed his lips in an attempt to hold back a smile and let his eyes dart from side to side, as if he was trying to make sure no one else was present in the room. and this was seemingly because he wanted to... run to close the door to his room? okay, well, that was a bit weird. but i suppose that is to be expected from him by now. as long as he didn't do anything else weird —

oh, wait, i spoke too soon. barton was now punching the air out of a sense of victory and started to laugh, ❝ yes! oh my god, fuck you, doctor orion. damn douchebag who said i'd never be able to find one person who would like me for me because i'm 'unlovable.' well, i actually found two, you dunce! ❞ barton was practically vibrating with happiness as he purposely flopped down on his bed and sighed dreamily. he took a moment to just bask in his self-satisfaction, with his eyes closing, before he realized: 'oh, yeah. i should probably say something to ahri.' barton honestly did fumble with figuring out what to say for a bit considering the fact that he got two bingos so close together was a bit flustering to him.

but hey, he could manage. barton sat up then before placing both of his hands below his chin. ( BYEEE ☠️ THIS PICTURE )

❝ so, uh, how do you feel about garlic breadsticks? and just italian food in general, actually? because if you wanted to, ❞ barton paused as he attempted to push down the flusteredness he was (still) feeling. ❝ i know this really good italian restaurant in town, so maybe we could go on a date there? it'll be my treat... i promise! it's just that i noticed you put a big marker over the 'love as consumption' thing, so i think we may just get along splendidly. ❞

[elecman108]

I'd like to say I was drawing more this month, but tbh, with work on Outbreak and one of my coworkers getting sick (on top of going from good mental health at the beginning of the month to baaaad mental health towards the end) I really don't have much to show for it.

So here's my Shapeshifting Horny Fey Artist who's in an artistic slump going on adventures in the material plane and having existential crises... Or more likely, my man is memeing on himself.

[baekuras]

ladies and gentleman we back to "crying at 5am on a worknight-when will it ever stop?!" and i am sure my period being like a week away is not helping, even tho this feels more like general dread and helplessness and frustration and general mid 20s angst and not more usual pre-period drama it's not making this any better and i am mostly annoyed and angry between sobs....which is an interesting mix of emotions but not unusual