#ask;; suggestions and complaints

[emmetrain]

[ @cryogenic-achromatic asked: ]

It's been a while since Colress has paid his hometown a visit. Not since his time leading Team Plasma, if his memory serves him right.

The subway from Castelia to Nimbasa was easier than calling a cab or parking the Frigate closer. Arceus knows he'd rather not have that license taken away too. He could at least pretend to be a law abiding citizen.

Beheeyem hovers close behind as he steps off the train. His eyes narrow as he examines the subway. Has he even been inside the Battle Subway since it was created? He was always more of a PWT guy..

"Prism, can you tell if the route to the exit is the same as when we went on our gym challenge?" He tilts his head to face the alien.

The station had the usual chatter, the distinct scent of the trains and machinery, as well as the crackles of energy from the lively Joltiks hanging around from their electric webs all the way up. The depot agents in green were chatting in the corner, laughing over a joke and living in their own world for the moment. Their boss in white, however, had noticed the new face* among the crowd, well, not that Emmet could "see" faces, but the futuristic hairstyle got his attention.

As the interesting passenger left the train and an even more interesting conversation started taking place, Emmet marched to their stop, arms swinging wide as he made his way.

"I am Emmet!" he announced, abruptly stopping before the duo, the booming voice easily heard despite the crowd, "And that's a question I can help with, young passenger! We make constant improvements for accessibility and due to intense battles forcing our hand, so the route may be verrrry slightly different than the last time you have been here!"

Wasn't this man a little too young to be reminiscing about his gym challenge already? Not that Emmet could tell, with the permanent smile masking the unpleasant past that forbid him from pursuing any normal "milestones" others took for granted.

"Would you allow me to transport you to your destination? I have no challengers at the moment. I am free to serve you." If this man had been to station in recent years, wouldn't Emmet remember the hairstyle? It was... familiar, but not the "I beat this passenger and made them cry" kind. More like a dread, a slow poison setting cold horror, injected straight to his heart. What a strange reaction... And quite the impression.

"How may I call you, Prism's friend?"

[ingovercast]

@gcd-fcrsaken asked;; "How does your schedule look for the twenty-first?"

"Greetings, companion. I was going to direct that question to you, however, since you have asked me first... My schedule includes attending to the spring ball organized at Paldea. If I may... Why do you ask?"

Volo had beat him to it, so his should be the right to ask him--hopefully that was to case.

[bearotonin-international]

Apex predator, my ass. I’m going to pet the dog 🐻🐻‍❄️🐼

perhaps now is a good time for some responsible bear programming to remind everyone that as cute and cuddly as they may seem, bears are lethal apex predators and should absolutely be treated accordingly if ever encountered.

DO

NOT

PET

[avizou]

VIBE

[mollypaup]

i think a really great aspect of oofuri is how much it gets mihashi's ass for being overly timid and dependent. it would be really easy to write off the way he and abe interact as being abe's fault because he is overbearing, and a lot of people do, but it has some really great moments of going "hey, you cannot hide behind abe or depend on him to make every decision. it's not good for you, or him, or the team."

[menlove]

KNEW IT apparently this one girl at work that's left now hated me so much she would complain about me every single shift. that's so fucking funny

[blightoath]

my hot take for datv is that the lore for the lords of fortune and the crows is fine, actually, it's just poorly explored because they crammed too many factions into one game and didn't give each the depth of exploration necessary to actually make those changes make sense.

like, treasure hunters who want to also do some good in the world and return artifacts to different cultures? ok, neat twist on an old trope! i can buy it, especially from isabela--she's seen first hand the fallout a treasure hunter can suffer from stealing something incredibly culturally important (qunari chasing you) and also seen how that stolen culture impacts those left bereft (friendship with merrill). but there needs to be more engagement than just explaining in one line how it's supposed to work--because usually, theory and practice vary wildly (and i don't think it's problematic for a solution to raise more questions, it's just the nature of problem solving). so, the lords say they have cultural advisors who're supposed to tell you when something's important to a culture. ok, but to which part of that culture? you might be able to argue that the qunari are unified, but the dwarves aren't. elves are highly fragmented, and don't even look at humans like jfc. and to what aspect of a culture? smithing? literature? daily life? religion? also, how are you finding these experts? what's the vetting process? what if they lie for profit? or, backing it up even further to an organizational level, how do the lords of fortune enforce this philosophy of treasure hunting for good at a larger scale? how do you make people give up things they worked hard for when your cultural advisor says it's gotta go? is everyone satisfied? what enemies have you made along the way? and there's a thousand other questions all wrapped up in twisting the treasure hunter trope. but rather than fleshing it out and engaging in any number of those questions, even a little, it's left at the very surface level.

it's almost the same for the crows. like ok, i can buy that when zevran was talking about his childhood, the practices (buying children, abusive training, etc) were mainly done by house arainai, as that was what he had experience with. but perhaps not every single crow house and associated talon acts that way. or perhaps more have, but in the 20 years having the black shadow hunt the worst offenders for sport, some finally got the hint and have started to shape up. fine, variation between the houses and some learning curves. and i can even understand that an antaam occupation may unite the crows in such a way that they become a rebellious, freedom fighting rallying point when city governments and royalties don't do shit. but "freedom" is a very nebulous term and even when an organization agrees to a goal, rarely do they all agree on how to execute it. it's fine that teia and viago agree, but what about the rest of the talons? what does free mean to them? how many want to go back to the usual ways of doing business? who wants to use this as a chance to change? who's using the chaos as a power grab? who's saying the right things at one meeting but taking contracts against the effort on the other side? and how is all this funded? historically, crow contracts come from the rich and powerful--is that still the case? is that how some aspects of antivan royalty are fighting back? are they open to taking contracts from the poorer folk? if so, are they losing money? is there only so much they can do to help the city due to funding? there's a lot of questions here, just like with the lof, lots of juicy things to dig into when you present these factions with new twists... that's just kinda untouched.

there's some shallow writing in datv when it comes to the factions, and i think it's due to having too many of them. truth be told, the veil jumpers and wardens seem to be the big movers and shakers with the most thought and depth in their writing and quest lines. the the crows and shadow dragons seem second best, but the shadow dragons succeed in ways because their organization is intentionally without a formalized structure--most of the interaction, then, just feels like you're talking to a bunch of individuals rather than an organization meant to last and profit off it's ventures. lords of fortune and mournwatch then kind of hit third and suffer from not having the same level of depth and care given to them as the other two groups.

[dispotatorulzz]

Here's my sucksona. If you even care (yes I know his name is my name . it's EASY and I'm TIRED)

BASICALLY he's a gangrel that got fucked up by Viv and Vex and now his beast form looks like the right and his humanoid one is just fucked up forever to

Me rambling about em under the cut

First this alt of him

OK ANYWAY. ROUGHLY (may change this later) he kinda like. Works for the Weylin twins ???? He brings in bodies for them and aslong as he keeps up with that he's left to his own devices. Doesn't remember his own last name but he didn't really gaf anyways

I KNOWWWWW he's a masquerade breach.

ONE - it is la people up that late in that city have more to worry about than a gay furry running around

TWO- I do not gaf. I think he looks cool SO WHAT.

Ok beast time :]>>>

His funky little beast form was altered by the Weylin twins and now he's just like that . Since he's a gangrel tho he can shape-shift out of it and all that but they fucked him up a little and it altered his usual form to

The snake head doesn't have a brain also (they thought it would disorientate him to much). The eyes and mouth and everything respond to the tigers brain :]. If you cut off the snakes head it'd keep moving you need to cut off the tigers to go for the kill <3. Snake also cannot digest things ! Whatever it swallows will stay in it's stomach area and be coughed up later on, kinda like owl pellets but with literally everything it "eats".

The yellow bits on his back are a rattle !! It's fused to his spine so whenever he shakes it his whole spine does a fun little shake (could be problematic for him in the long wrong but it sounds cool as hell so . WHATEVER)

All I can remember rn is I didn't finish one of the pages for the beast but it is pretty big :)!!! I think vex would stand a little taller than the bottom line for the second set of pecs he's got (for his double wings <333)

[nobodybetterlookatme]

The love/hate relationship with my coworkers is so real lmao like why are they like this

[imthebentley]

Literally might be a manifestation of Crowley’s subconscious in car form, so like if he thinks I’m sassy it’s completely his fault.

[drysauce]

today's exam was good. restored a tiny bit of my faith in humanity

[emmetrain]

Plushie +2 (small size, from moral construct). A simple "congratulations" follows

Send "Plushie" for Emmet to fund his wedding to get a cute plushie as a souvenir from TeraFest'23 ( @moral-construct )

"I am Emmet! I would like to remind you that Darkrai is still banned from the Battle Subway! But not from this booth!! Thanks for your order and for being here! I love you!"

Emmet is going to hand the small Darkrai plushie to Cyrus Nivalis now. "Visit me sometime. I miss you!"

[ingovercast]

Don't mind him. Just preparing food with a very large knife he definitely did not have in Hisui.

Here's hoping the twins like fish filets.

A chuckle enters the room before Ingo could, loud and earnest, as he gazes at his companion with the knife unfamiliar--Ingo would know. With a collection like he had, he was bound to notice what people around him used.

Walking up to him and tilting his head, a soft look coupled with a relaxed frown, he gestured at the fish. "Since when guest are allowed to cook. This is my platform, and I should be the one cooking for you!" He waited for an appropirate moment before bonking his head against Volo's. "Let me rectify my mistake--I will link up with you to form a two-car train! Since you started this cooking session, I will follow your lead."

[louisdotmp3]

sending a specific request to one coworker but including 5 other staff members on it so they can't ignore you

[yooniesim]

it’s really fun when i leave a joke on a popular simblr’s post and they don’t respond 😃 and then another popular simblr comments a similar joke 😃 and OP thinks it’s the funniest shit ever and makes sure to respond to them 😃

rip 😭 I'm sorry nonny that's never fun 😔

[trainerkyanite]

Man yknow i always knew there was a difference between oc askblogs and canon character ask blogs but

Dang