#ask marianne

[blurbery]

paper rings 💍💞

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Neat trick.

[silent-shanin]

It all started with a scratch

[macwantspeace]

The prayer: In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes, and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara, and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. The response: Right-wing media launched an all-out assault on Budde that revealed exactly how power plans to deal with dissent in Trump's second term. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld literally called her "Satan." His colleague Sean Hannity described it as a "disgraceful prayer full of fearmongering and division." Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones called Budde’s words “radical leftist.” The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh declared that "hell exists for people like Mariann" and called her "exhibit A for why women should not be pastors, priests, or bishops.” Your choice: Two minutes of love or two minutes of hate.

[payasita]

can we hear more about carlos if you'd be so generous (genuine)

OH GLADLY. so ive mentioned hes the protag of a thing im making, so i wanted the broad strokes of his premise to be simple: he's a reaper! made to go up and bring souls to wherever the hell they go after death, ect ect. he was pretty good at it!

but the setting im writing here is a pretty standard "death but its a bureaucracy" type thing. something something small business growth, higher demand, things get streamlined, job title changes, ect

so he was Less Good at the desk job angle. but he worked at it! once again, he's one of the best!

is it what he was originally created to do? no. is it what he thought he'd be doing for eternity when he decided he found the most personal fulfillment in being good at what he does? not really. is it so drastically different that it's actually atrophying some facets of his personality a little? maybe. is he happy?

the important thing is, he's good at it!

[whaliiwatching]

her throne is his lap

[risingsunfish]

Happy birthday, Claude and Pasha— now it's time to answer some questions! This one came from /u/HB_DS2013 on Reddit, getting straight to today's hard-hitting Pasha issues— and, perhaps unintentionally, prompting a sequel to Pasha’s post-April Fool’s blues here on Tumblr.

Stay tuned for more responses! (Still taking questions BTW!)

Twitter

[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[ahhhh-118]

Hello! I am curious what is Marìanne's relationship with Rocky? Also what is her opinion or relationship with the Lackadaisy crew? Does she have any thoughts about them and what is her job exactly?

Does Marìanne have a family? Does she knows about the Marigold?

That's all l could think of, by the way your oc is so pretty and I love that she has snake fangs (I do have another lacka oc that's base on a sliver fox and snake.).

Have a good day/Night!

AHH! Hello! Thank you for the Ask! ❤️ and thank you, she’s my lil snake (even if she denies it) and that’s awesome! I love your art style and how you draw your ocs, they’re all so pretty 🥺❤️ Below gonna drop as much lore as I can! (Of course it might change because my brain likes to keep adding on 🥲)

This is gonna be two separate parts just to space things out! Let’s start with some Maríanne stuff!

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MARÍ’S FAMILY:

Has an older brother with a 12 year age gap, his name is Estefan Villanueva (his name was changed it might change again). He took care of Maríanne when she was much younger. When he got older he found himself a husband with a kid. His future husband helped him raise Maríanne along with his own child.

Her parents are out of commission. It didn’t end well for them. Maríanne thinks about them sometimes but was mostly raised by her brother.

There are some extended family members in Mexico but some died during the revolution. But she has some aunts, uncles, and cousins still kicking!

MARÍ’S JOB:

Oh, yeah, it fluctuates. When she first arrived at Lackadaisy, she started working at the Daisy’s Cafe as a waitress. Taught Ivy the ropes when she came to work there.

Then to keep her mind busy, she becomes Mordecai’s assistant and does a bit of accounting (mostly in her head).

At the same time she starts to work out again and regains her strength, she catches the attention of Atlas. He put her as a trigger man but she always got hurt because she refuses to kill the enemies with a gun (this mentality won’t last forever) and only fights with her fists. She really tries Mordecai’s patience.

The last straw was when she took in a rival gang member and that’s when Mordecai insisted that she doesn’t join their trigger man ventures anymore. Of course, she is still brought along as extra muscle but only for negotiations, but she just cooks books with Mordecai for the most part.

DOES SHE KNOW ABOUT MARIGOLD?

Oh yeah. Yeah she does. When she finds about Mordecai joining them and betraying Lackadaisy, she’s pissed. Once she finds him, she tackles the hell out of him. After almost killing each other, they talked things out like civilized people (if pointing a shotgun and pistol at each other was civilized). They soon made a deal and allied with each other.

Onto her relationships!!

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MARÍ’S RELATIONSHIPS/THOUGHTS Pt. 1:

Rocky 🎪🎭🎻:

As part of my “The Rattlesnake and the Jester” AU, they met on the road. After a few coincidences of meeting each other while Maríanne was traveling to Florida, they decided to stick with each other because why not, better than being alone. They do split off but not my by choice. Once they find each other again at Lackadaisy it was a joyous day!

They have a close relationship, always getting into trouble with each other. Performing together on the streets almost everyday made them in synch with each other, it frightens a lot of people when they mimic each other perfectly or say the same sentences at the same time. Chaotic in the streets and chaotic on the dance floors. Swear up and down, they can communicate telepathically by squishing their foreheads together. Their love is a little codependent (totally won’t backfire) but it’s a good one.

They act so stupid and goofy when they’re together, so much so it makes people underestimate them. Together they’re a dynamic duo and can swindle people in a heart beat with their combined charm. One moment you’re like “aww look how stupid they are” and next thing you know, whoops! Your wallet is gone. 🔥Partners in crime!🔥

Her first impressions of him: “He’s cute, funny, charismatic, weird, talkative, but I like it. I love hearing his frantic rambles and poetry, even though I don’t understand the bigger English words.”

Current thoughts: “I will die and fight for him (yep they’re getting together). I still think of him the same way but I understand his rambles now. I like joining in his chaos but I will pull it back once it gets too dangerous or it risks other people’s lives. He’s my safe space and wherever he goes, I follow. I don’t want to lose him again. “

Mordecai 🔪⏱️🔫:

Her mentor (Mordecai never agrees with it but it’s the truth). Back in New York, Marianne’s brother owned a shelter/soup kitchen where Mordecai and his family stopped by from time to time. Marianne’s brother hired Mordecai to be his accountant once he got to know him. Baby Maríanne always followed Mordecai around when he came to the shelter and watched him work. Despite being annoyed by this clingy little child, he’d let her watch because she stayed quiet.

During their prime lackadaisy era, it was no different. Maríanne would come into his office and watch him work or even help him (or tries to, she just ends up being more of an unpaid secretary instead of a fellow accountant cuz Mordecai is very picky).

First Thoughts-“I admire him and I aspire to be like him (people often wonder why). I try to adopt his menacing and stoic demeanor, but it never works. Next best thing is trying to be as agile and quick thinking as him. I really trusts in his advice and judgement. Often finding myself looking to him for answers but I’m not afraid to question them. He keeps me grounded and I’m grateful for the amount of times he kept my mind busy with work. Better than dwelling on the past. Occasionally, I fear him and fear for him. I don’t understand how he can be so cruel but I’m jealous on how quickly he can turn off his emotions. How does he sleep at night?”

Current thoughts: “Can I still trust him?”

Note- Think of Athena and Odysseus from Epic the Musical

Zib and the band🎺🎷🥁🎹🎻:

She loves them. They’ve helped her get through her toughest days and always went to them on her break. They’d sing and dance with each other to the annoyance of most. They f e e d into her gambling addiction (always tempted to gamble her house keys, cuz she believes she’s that good) and she always plays poker with the band. For fun she often plays their instruments, always reaching the trumpet more (iykyk). Marí always hangs with them until Mordecai has to drag her by the scruff to bring her back to work.

She’d mostly do some late night drinking with Zib and they both just wallow in self pity together. ✨Depressed drinking buddies✨ She’d often go to him to learn more about poetry and (before their reunion) would ask him to explain Rocky’s poems to her.

First Thoughts: “They’re fun! I understand why Mordecai refers to them as “lazy hooligans” but I always finds them as a place of peace to let loose. A bunch of talented cool cats! Deep down I want to sing with them on stage but the dance floor just calls to me.

Current thoughts: “They deserve better.”

Viktor 🔧⚒️🛻:

A friend but only talks to him on occasion. She know that Viktor pities her but she doesn’t take it to heart. Marí slightly fears him but sees him as a place to run when they’re creepy men tailing her.

First Thoughts: “Tall. Tall scary fluffy man. I find him incredibly intimidating but I want to be as strong as him. His unwavering strength encouraged me to get strong again. I always feel tempted to ask him to throw me at the enemies. Like a surprise attack! But he’d probably stare at me. I’m definitely going to use his stare as a negotiation tactic.”

Current thoughts: “I pity him.”

Sorry for the long post! Second part coming later today!

[tea-cat-arts]

Welcome to my Pokémon AU (courtesy of my general insanity + feedback from the fe3h discord server I'm in) featuring the Golden Deer

[evilpenguinrika]

🥂 🧼 💌 for marihilda? Maybe?

I'll never say no to Marihilda!! The cutest ship ever 💗💙

Cutest Ship Asks

🥂 | what would happen if they got drunk together

Hilda 100% can hold her liquor. She can drink anybody under the table. Mari on the other hand? Not so much. I feel like Marianne would be a lightweight and is a babbling and sleepy drunk. So Hilda would have to look after Marianne a lot, which is a-okay with her because Hilda wants to make sure Marianne is taken care of with the UTMOST care! I also like to think that Marianne would try to do her best to match Hilda's tolerance so SHE could take care of Hilda for once, but it never ends the way she expects it to. But it's okay! Next time, Marianne, you'll get your chance!

🧼 | their feelings on showering together

Marianne would be a blushing mess at first. Hilda would tease her for getting so red at the mere suggestion. But I think once they've showered a few times together, Marianne probably is used to it and doesn't get all embarrassed and blushy anymore! (which secretly upsets Hilda because she loves teasing the poor girl about it. she can't help it, Mari's so cute when she's flustered!)

💌 | a love note from one to the other

Hilda's love notes includes cute drawings or positive reinforcements and flirty words!

Marianne would have several different iteration until she got the one she's confident in (seriously, there's like so many crumpled pieces of paper because they didn't sound or feel good enough for Hilda). And it's the absolute sweetest, tooth-rotting, fluffiest love note ever with lots of praises and appreciation towards Hilda for always taking care of her and for always being by her side

[kogglyuffs]

ghostly rumors

[omg-hellgirl]

Wasn’t it just a rumor that Marianne and Keith slept together? I thought people just assumed like they assume Mick slept with Anita.

In both cases, these are not rumors. Marianne admitted all this in her book. She slept with Keith even before she got together with Mick:

That was the night I ended up with Keith. It was a wonderful night of sex. My night with Keith was the best night I've ever had in my life, as a matter of fact. And although I did, of course, know Keith a great deal better than I knew Mick [...]

"Oh, darling," I say to Keith, "that was such a divine night!"

Keith is pulling on his boots and out of the blue, he pauses, cocks his head and says: "Y'know who really has it bad for you, don't you?"

"Oh, no, darling, who's that?"

"Mick! Didn't ya know?"

Another excerpt:

While Performance was being filmed, I felt, quite erroneously, that I had nothing to worry about. I never imagined Mick would be fucking Anita. I see Anita as very much a victim of all this, the vulnerable one who should have been looked after and protected. Her breakup with Brian over the previous year had been devastating. It was only natural that she would find Mick's incarnation of Turner irresistible. Their characters were propelled toward each other, and she already had a hard time distinguishing what was real and what imaginary.

[...]

Even the customarily fearless Keith couldn't handle this one. While filming was going on Keith deliberately stayed away from the set. To go up there would have meant a head-on clash with Mick. Keith knew that if he had ever done so, it would have been the end of the band.

Now excerpt from Keith's book:

I mean, if I’d stolen her off Brian, I didn’t expect Mick not to knock her off, under the direction of Donald Cammell. I doubt whether it would have happened without Cammell. But, you know, while you were doing that, I was knocking Marianne, man. While you’re missing it, I’m kissing it. In fact, I had to leave the premises rather abruptly when the cat came back. Hey, it was our only time, hot and sweaty. We were just there in, as Mick calls it in “Let Me Down Slow,” the afterglow, my head nestled between those two beautiful jugs. And we heard his car drive up, and there was a big flurry, and I did one out the window, got my shoes, out the window through the garden, and I realized I’d left my socks. Well, he’s not the sort of guy to look for socks. Marianne and I still have this joke. She sends me messages: “I still can’t find your socks.”

That's it. I believe Anita has also admitted her affair with Mick on other occasions.

XOXO

[silent-shanin]

if ur looking for ideas... vampire!marianne who's very shy about her fangs + hilda who thinks they make her look adorable?

MariHilda vampire AU with Hilda's new lifegoal being bitten by Marianne

[mermaidhugs]

B2 bernadetta/marianne?

my brother INSISTED i upload the sketch as well

the yuri

[xjulixred45x]

Is Dead Plate considered by the kids as a Doomed Yaoi?

Not really lol(for me), but i understand why people think like that.

Dead Plate plays a lot with Rody and Vince's polar perspective on Love. Rody having a devoted and sacrificial love for Manon, while Vince only knows SELFISH love, he doesn't really know what it means to put affection on something(not even the bistro), he said it himself , he is a professional, he has no room for that. Everything Vince produces in the game feels empty and self-absorbed, showing this.

so when Rody comes into his life, a person who not only loves someone strongly, but does something he clearly doesn't like FOR THAT PERSON, Vince becomes obsessed with reaching that level of selfless love with his meals, which is why he wants to use Manon to cook for Rody and thus "cook with love" because he adores her so much...

but nothing changes, not only does Rody not try Vince's food, but he continues to feel that the food is EMPTY and UNLOVED, UNPLEASANT, DISGUSTING.

Vince, in his desire to want to replicate the "love" that he really cannot express/have, did not change anything because HE IS selfish and self-centered. He can't change it.

Vince is obsessed with Rody because of HIS SACRIFICED CONCEPT OF LOVE, not because he has a romantic interest in him.

(Even if the creators make AU's and drawings where they hint that Vince could have a deeper interest in Rody, it seems more than obvious to me that these are just NOT APPLICABLE TO THE GAME or simply a What If if the story had been different. even in those same drawings Rody shows no interest in Vince and only tolerates him for being his boss).

Honestly, I like the Rody x Vince ship because of the dynamic and the fanarts, but honestly the interactions they have in the game seem purely platonic to me/boss to employee/murderer and possible victim/detective.

In conclusion, no. but it is up to each person to do what they want with their Toxic homosexuals.

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(español)

No realmente, lol. Pero entiendo porque la gente piensa así.

Dead Plate juega bastante con la perspectiva polar de Rody y Vince sobre el Amor. Rody teniendo un amor devoto y sacrificado por Manon, mientras que Vince solo conoce el amor EGOISTA, el no sabe realmente que es ponerle afecto a algo, el mismo lo dijo, es un profesional, no tiene espacio para eso. todo lo que Vince produce en el juego se siente vacio y auto absorto, mostrando esto.

por lo que cuando Rody llega a su vida, una persona que no solo ama fuertemente a alguien, sino que hace algo que claramente no le gusta POR ESA PERSONA, Vince se obsesiona con llegar a ese nivel de amor desinteresado con sus comidas, por eso quiere usar a Manon para cocinar para Rody y asi "cocinar con amor" porque el la adora tanto...

pero nada cambia, no solo Rody no prueba la comida de Vince, sino que se sigue sintiendo que la comida es VACIA y SIN AMOR, DESAGRADABLE.

Vince en su afán de querer replicar el "amor" que realmente no puede expresar, no cambio nada porque EL ES egoista y auto centrista. no lo puede cambiar.

Vince esta obsesionado con Rody por SU CONCEPTO SACRIFICADO DEL AMOR, no por tener interes romantico en el.

(incluso si los creadores hacen AU's y dibujos donde tiran guiños que Vince podría tener un interes mas profundo en Rody, me parece mas que obvio que estos son justamente NO APLICABLES AL JUEGO o simplemente un What If si la historia hubiese sido diferente. incluso en esos mismos dibujos Rody no muestra ningun interes en Vince y solo lo tolera por ser su jefe).

sinceramente a mi me gusta el ship de Rody x Vince únicamente por la dinámica fanon y los fanarts, pero sinceramente las interacciones que tienen en el juego me parecen puramente platonicas/jefe a empleado/ asesino y posible victima/detective.

en conclusión, no. pero esta en cada quien hacer lo que quiera con sus homosexuales Toxicos.