#as to the eye misalignment

[helvetica12point]

Oh there's that bastard, the trigeminal nerve. Sounds great in theory until your jaw gets numb and tingly randomly because your eyes are fucking misaligned

The nerves connected to the human jaw

[giddlygoat]

i’ve seen people draw guck with a scar on his temple from the memory gun. i wanted to adopt that hc asap

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

No time to play. You are being sent away.

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[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The Grian!

[venacoeurva]

Trying out painting methods over the weekend, good excuse to make a ref for Rimeris’ eye

She’s prone to headaches due to the alignment issue, girl help someone please invent Tamrielic ibuprofen

[totallynotsilversora]

Can we appreciate and analyze how impeccable Vash’s skills as a marksman is bc I hadn't noticed anyone talk about it in length and this gif literally drives me insane:

Content warning: mentions guns / gun and shooting below the cut because otherwise this analysis would be moot.

This is coming from someone who used to only shoot air rifles for sport like how you'd see it in the Olympics with paper targets!

Ok so as I’ve said I've shot guns before (not at anyone ya sickos) and believe me when I say that Vash has such a good steady aim his arm doesn’t even bend when he moves it - he moves it from the shoulder/ his waist to keep that arm straight and relaxed as possible, which is crazy because that gun looks like a BRICK made of solid metal. There's no way that thing is light, there's definitely some weight to it, but the way he moves it is smoother than most people I've seen lift a credit card.

Now it’s not unusual in sport to have at least some tiny weight on the end of the barrel to keep it steady and act as a counterbalance but that’s like Olympics, not a fight. Vash may be superhuman but I don’t think carrying a cross like the Punisher would make fighting any easier, so it’s safe to say holding a decently heavy chunk of metal filled with lead isn’t easy either (I’m pretty sure the humans we’ve seen so far held their guns with two hands either due to weight or stability and they're not so smooth anyways).

So him tracking someone with a gun like that in only ONE HAND is kind of impressive even at that close range bc it doesn't matter how many times you hit your mark, your barrel would NOT be as steady as Vash in that gif unless you're this gif of Kobeni from CSM:

Even that scene in episode 3 when Vash is aiming at Knives (which I can’t find a good gif of) he doesn’t move the barrel at ALL until he has to lift it and follow Knives’ head. No shaking, no wobble, not even the SLIGHTEST figure 8 you’d normally get when you aim down a barrel - it’s a smooth turn of his wrists following Knives’ head up.

And that’s all from EXPERIENCE. Look at the two gifs below:

You can literally see how much he’s improved since he lost his arm - he’s expectantly super wobbly compared to the last gif in episode 2. He notably doesn’t “force” the gun to stay in one spot and aim where it needs to be - he raises it then let’s it “settle” on where he’s aiming to shoot before firing. A good shooter knows how to aim and take the shot before they lose the target w/o moving (called “following through”), but a great marksman knows that when it comes to shooting you should never fight against the body’s natural tendencies to move the way it wants to even when you’re aiming at something because you’re less likely to wobble or move when your body is relaxed and comfortable. Moving it away from that position will cause you to quiver and inevitably try to return to that same comfortable position against your will. That’s not just something you pick up on naturally - you have to LEARN that shit.

Which means Vash literally took the time to either completely unlearn every single one of his body’s natural ticks in order to shoot like a pro OR he learned how to work along with each one so his aim was always on point. Either way, it took him 150 years of practice to reach that level and it definitely paid off for him I think!

There’s a bunch of other ticks I noticed, too, like him keeping his trigger finger on the side of the gun if he’s not aiming to shoot anything in that moment but still has the gun in his hand so he doesn't accidentally misfire:

Or how he never keeps one eye closed bc the twitching WILL make you shake and lose focus so he always keeps both eyes open when aiming so he sees better:

But this post is long enough as is and I think we all get the idea that he’s that fricking good at using a gun.

TL;DR Studio Orange did a fantastic job convincing me that Vash is an INSANELY GOOD marksman and this is coming from someone who used to shoot air rifles for sport and had an incredible coach who would also agree with me and say this guy’s aim is surreal if he ever watched this show. Also his reload speed is absolutely demonic too like what the actual hell-

EDIT: added that scene from episode 3 just to show you guys what I meant (sorry it's low quality but you get it!!! Also the fact he's keeping his finger on the trigger bc he knows how unpredictable Knives is and could strike him down at any moment just shows how confident he is at keeping his hand steady bc if he were shaking he would DEFINITELY have misfired by now).

[toughttt]

My eyes didn't want to focus or act like eyes this morning and it was very disorienting and it ruined my whole morning actually

[funkii4-blog]

Kitana’s 2nd fatality is already being modded to have different characters over it and I’m thrilled because we’ve already gotten this out of it

It’s late and I’m about to go to sleep but I PROMISE in the morning I’ll edit this screencap so their faces align properly

[peridots-clodding-foot]

If you want a fun and new character design trait for ur ocs a really cool and epic thing to do is give your characters misaligned/lazy/crossed eyes. A really lame and tired old thing to do is misaligning a character’s eyes to make them look worse or crazy, hope this helps ❤️.

[demento-mori]

what if i started drawing loop with strabismus....

[falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand]

my entire family goes to bed at 9:30 because i live with fucking old people (im joking. somewhat.) and from then on i have to move around the house quietly. this wouldn't be a problem except that my door is incredibly and uniquely fucked up and nigh impossible to open even remotely quietly

[small-spark-of-light]

i have too much free time and wanted to experiment. i used no sketch

[morp]

I really dont know why it hurts me so badly now. Why im so hyperaware of it. This sucks. And it feels like no one takes this kind of thing seriously. Im sure no one would gaf if i didnt stress how awful it feels as someome with misaligned eyes to see people use it as a comedic prop.

[old-hunter-henryk]

For the ask: Varre with either Moment or Alone

Postings like this, by their very nature, were lonely. Varré, over the past few weeks, had come to understand this well.

The latest wave of Tarnished to arrive in the Lands Between was beginning to slow to a trickle, and with it, so did Varré’s opportunities to interact with them. The interactions he carried out may be shallow, sure, offerings of the same advice given to dozens before them here, a cruel remark there, pokes and prods to assess them and push them in the desired direction, but Varré valued those interactions all the same.

It seemed rather cruel, in Varré’s opinion, to simply throw people at a problem until one of them eventually figured it out, as seemed to be Marika’s strategy with the called-back Tarnished. Plus, it was inevitable she’d run out of pawns to call back, one of these decades.

Though there was that recent arrival from along the shore— the one with the misaligned eye— who’d seemingly never crossed the fog before— so one had to wonder.

Regardless, the Dynasty actually had an interest in the particular Tarnished it offered a place for, and tended to better-manage its members than the god-queen who beckoned men and women who could barely lift their swords to their repeated deaths. Tended being the key word. Varré hadn’t the faintest clue why he was stationed here instead of performing his usual duties as an attendant. Only the Lord and Mother themselves knew the answer to that.

If only he could get the Tarnished themselves to understand that, then this job would be far less irksome. He wasn’t one to question his Lord, but—

Varré was snapped out of his treasonous thoughts by the sound of boots on stone, signaling a new Tarnished’s arrival, and another welcome interruption to his solitude.

Send me a character + prompt from this list and I’ll write something about it!

[shrapnelstars]

Baba Is Home 💜💜💜