#azure siegfried

[inkedmyths]

Inktuneber Day 2 - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Azure Siegfried but. But. Make him. Vampire. Hehehehhehe

[alyossan]

Commission for @/Diluc_files - an AU where Siegfried is an assassin and Rean is a prince!

[appelsider]

Black Workshop Breakout squad 😎

For @/ZaKoffense on twitter!

[lilactranslations]

Crow’s Makin’ Trails, Chapter 10! Dengeki Online has been putting out an ongoing biweekly four-panel comic centering around Crow Armbrust, and I’ve decided to translate them. Stay tuned for updates!

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[otaku-babu-vibes]

I think I found ship art of azure siegfried and ishmelga rean.. I never thought of it but I'm here for it YYYYEEEESSSSSS PLZ!!!!! ��💕

[trailsofmemes]

[therisenphoenix]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Crow Armbrust/Rean Schwarzer, Rean Schwarzer & Siegfried Characters: Rean Schwarzer, Siegfried, Crow Armbrust Additional Tags: Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts, Angst, Unintentional overdose, Self-Hatred Summary:

Rean keeps finding himself in situations where his life is in danger; but somehow, there is always the same masked man there to save him.

After the truth begins coming to light however, Rean begins to wonder; is the man really there to save him, or will he leave him to drown in his sorrow?

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

Me, part of the Fafner fandom, laying in wait for Fafner Behind the Line to come out on DVD and for someone to fansub it before emerging from my mythical dragon cave full of Fafner merch to scream about how much I absolutely love Fafner.

the fact that the fafner fandom just straight up doesn't even exist anymore.

[strwbmei]

I just woke up and i realize just how terrifying some of the honkai characters would be if they were yandere's beat with me here.

Mobius- would be controlling and sadistic and the fact that she is a scientist makes it worse

Aponia- she can control you without you even realizing and can see the future so she is one step ahead always, although i don't see her abusive she has her was and the fact that she has a good composure make it hard to know what she is thinking

Yae sakura (having been influence by the herrscher of corruption)- one word possessive as heck, pobably sadistic.

Raiden Mei- honestly this one could depend on which one. In my personal opinion her most dangerous phase is the HoT. Possessive, controlling and possibly abusive. I see her HoO more tame but could relapse

Kiana Kaslana- i see her more harmless compare to the others but if she is possessed by the HoV then we have a huge problem and the fact that the end she became HoF means she is basically the strongest character.

Otto- I don't have to explain this one.

Fu hua- She basically one of the most experience characters out there when it comes to combat. Although i personally think she is one of the tamest yandere (As long as it isn't azure empyrea) gotta sleep with one eye open.

Kalpas-Again i don't have to explain this one.

Veliona-rejecting this one is a death wish not only she is very powerfull in her on right but she can be sadistic.

Rita- this woman is dangerous on soo many levels that is not even funny. A very experience valkyrie and one of the most clever ones out there.

Raven- she is basically mercenary so too much details aren't need and the fact that she works for world serpent speaks volumen.

Kevin Kaslana- Another one thay doesn't need much explain why.

Dr.MEI- something tells me she is the type "by any means necesarry" need i say more?

The only yandere i see more or less harmless are: Bronya, Seele, Himeko, Kallen Kaslana, maybe Theresa and Durandal, Cecilia, Tesla and Einstein, Su, Elysia (maybe), Griseo, Siegfried, Sushang,etc...

Honorable mentions on high red flag: Jackal, Any other Herrscher really, Vita

Agreed with all of them!

Especially Mobius. She doesn't need much reason to kill someone or put them through something worse than death, so her being a yandere isn't too far off. I feel she'd be the type to threaten you first, instead of going full yandere right off the bat. Not even death could free you from her grasp.

Kiana, Aponia, Dr. MEI, Fu Hua, and Sakura actually have pure intentions. They've seen the worst horrors both humanity and honkai have committed, and all they want to do is protect you from any possible harm. Definitely the type to lock you up. Dr. MEI and Kiana, especially! All of them want to protect you, but only Dr. MEI and Kiana actually have the means to do so; Dr. MEI with her unmatched intelligence and wit and Kiana with her power second to none.

Kevin and HoT Mei, though... I feel like they'd use you as a coping mechanism/replacement for their past lover that they failed to protect. As a result, they end up being mentally abusive because you remind them of their weakness.

[cursedalthoughts]

Priority Research 7 Predictions - Iris Orthodoxy

Ah, the Iris. At the time of writing this post, we don't quite know if they're the CN 7th Anniversary faction or not, meaning they could be getting a gacha UR.

In this list I will also mention some possible DRs of them. Because I think they deserve more than what they already have - no offense to Brest enjoyers, she's very cool.

Colbert

Let's make one thing very clear:

Colbert was built in Brest in the 1960s, and served until 1972 as a light cruiser. Colbert did exist in real life, which would disqualify her from being a PR; however, she served at the beginning of the Cold War period, meaning I do not care.

Colbert was designed as an AA cruiser, the last of the ships France would classify as "cruisers" before adopting the term "frigate" for them.

She has a total of 16 low calliber 127mm guns in 8 turrets, guns which have a sub-4s reload time and have a considerable fire starting chance of 7%. Might not seem like much, but when you're getting bombarded with around 270 of these shells per minute, that quickly adds up.

Colbert could make for a very fun little DR light cruiser, even if realistically she will never be a PR.

Bourgogne

Talking about DRs, Bourgogne is a classic.

Being a sidegrade to Alsace at one tier higher (Tier 10), Bourgogne is an excellent pesky battleship. As usual with French battleships, she gets an engine boost; and if Alsace is anything to go by (I don't have Bourgogne lmao), she can easily reach 39 knots.

Her 12 380mm guns have a reload of 28s, to compensate for their low calliber at such a high tier; on top of having each a 36% fire starting chance. She's not quite HMS Conqueror or HMS St. Vincent levels of cringe, but she can be an HE spammer with no problems.

And if an enemy ship gives you a tempting broadside, her AP is not disappointing. Despite the low calliber, French shells are fast and hit hard.

Picardie

I sincerely hope we do not get Picardie in Azur Lane. She's utterly disappointing.

Picardie is a Tier 8 retrofit of Lyon, which swaps her perfectly fine and usable 340mm guns with pathetically weak 305mm guns. They have awful HE and AP penetrations, and not even her reload boost can save her.

However... Azur Lane has a track record of turning disappointing WoWs ships into fascinating PR shipgirls, so there's some hope.

PR rarity, of course. Just look at her bruh

Carnot

Certainly one of the ships of all time. Carnot is a supecruiser, much like Brest; but she's considerably different in terms of design. She has, for starters, ten 305mm guns; which is the most any supercruiser her tier has - Alaska, Ägir, Kronshtadt have 9, Siegfried has 6 (albeit 380mm), and Brest has 8. Her reload is subpar, however; at 22 seconds.

Her speed is very good, as it's mandatory of all French ships. Her armor is way too big to be good, as her deck sits high above the waterline, giving her plenty of large, flat, mediocre armor. Easy to penetrate with sufficiently large guns.

She works well as a PR, although I can see her being a DR as well.

Henri IV

Henri IV is the primordial French supercruiser. She's technically still just a heavy cruiser, armed with 240mm guns.

Once the queen of speed, Henri was nerfed to the ground a few years ago. Now, her acceleration speed is horrible, and her turning radius and rudder shift have also been nerfed, making her considerably less maneuverable.

Still, Henri IV could be an interesting older sister to Saint Louis; maybe even a DR.

Condé

While I'm not sure about Henri IV's rarity, I am certain Condé would be DR.

Condé is a bigger, better Henri IV, with quadruple 240mm gun turrets and access to a speed boost, a gun reload boost, and a burst fire mode which allows her to fire her guns every 1.5s for 2 salvos.

Condé is very good with what's known as a lighthouse build, which consists of making her as visible as possible.

The problem with Condé is the same as Yamagiri from the Sakura Empire prediction post - she's a Tier 11, and we have not gotten any Tier 11 yet. However, Condé is one of the most well known and beloved/hated Tier 11 ships, meaning she's way more popular.

[lady-byleth]

It really pisses me off how desperate Falcom is to somehow make Osborne into a tragic figure and loving father instead of an actual monster who thought starting a world war and the fucking apocalypse to get rid of the curse was a good idea

Like, the ends don't always justify the means.

There's a good comparison to he made to Crow here, who also didn't exactly keep his vest clean.

But Crow at least tried to avoid collateral damage at every turn, was a well established character before his betrayal, had a sympathetic backstory and spent his time as an Immortal trying to constantly sacrifice himself to give Rean a leg up against the enemies.

Crow managed to counter balance the terrorist leader actions with the heroic actions enough that, at least in my opinion, the heroic ones came out on top. From the beginning he worked with Vita to try and avoid the Great Twilight. His identity had to essentially be deleted and Azure Siegfried had to take over for him to do the opposite

Osborne's "redeeming qualities" all come way too later, after destroying thousands of lives, starting a world war, after so much death and destruction before we learn it's allegedly in the name of "salvation" that it just doesn't work

The entire time he's played as a straight up villain until suddenly, after 4 games, they pull a 180 and try to make him a tragic hero instead.

Osborne revealed to Rean he was his father moments after Crow, someone who meant the world to him and literally threw every good thing away to get revenge, bled out in his fucking arms

Why should Rean cry over this guy who never treated him like anything but a war asset, when Crow's life falling apart, his betrayal, everything Rean experienced in North Ambria, Siegfried's existence and Millium dying were all direct results of Osborne's actions?

If you want a tragic villain at least go the extra mile to make him likable before he becomes irredeemable

[darksaiyangoku]

Swords of Fate/Arc Kingdom

Fateverse Remnant/Arc Kingdom

Aside from the title rebranding, I've reworked who the Arc Kingdom versions of RWBY characters are going to be now:

Jaune Arc- Arthur Pendragon

Arthur Azure- ???

Nora Valkyrie- Percival

Pyrrha Nikos- Galahad

Mars Nikos- Lancelot

Lie Ren- Tristan

Oscar Pine- Gawain

William Meadow- Bedivere

Ruby Rose- Richard I

Weiss Schnee- Charlemagne

Blake Belladonna- Scathach

Yang Xiao Long- Miyamoto Musashi B

Sun Wukong- Diarmuid S

Sage Ayana- Siegfried

Scarlet David- Roland

Neptune Vasilias- Cú Chulainn

Adam Taurus- Senji Muramasa

Ozpin-Merlin

[laikaflash]

I’m babbling about heraldry from a fighting game again

This is sort of a redux of my post about the mostly horse-themed heraldic motifs on some of Siegfried’s designs. As before, I’m starting with his PS1-exclusive Soul Blade costume. Specifically, the back of it.

(Screenshot taken from SPGAMES’ video.)

I thought there would’ve been at least one drawing of this coat of arms in concept art, but all the illustrations of the tabard-and-chainmail costume I've found only show him from the front. I wasn’t even entirely sure what the charges (beasts) on it were supposed to be, but my best guess remains that they’re dragons. The same game mentions in Siegfried’s “Edge Master” story that he was named after “the famous hero”. That would be Siegfried from the Nibelungenlied, who gained nigh-invulnerability from a literal blood bath after slaying a dragon (except for the back of his neck, where a fallen leaf happened to land). It’s a nice touch.

Here’s my hypothetical (and likely ungrammatical) blazon for the coat of arms: Per pale, Gules and Azure, two Dragons, Or in Dexter and Argent in sinister, combatant.

It’s hard to find an example of a coat of arms divided per pale and with charges that aren’t counterchanged and I see why. (Seriously, my only other reference was Joffrey Baratheon’s.) Grumbling aside, it does follow the rule of tincture (metals on colors). For reasons that will be elaborated on later, I don’t think this necessarily meant to be Siegfried’s arms, as it may appear. The combatant attitude (pose) of the beasts is a fitting choice for him though.

From the same game, we can see another gold dragon on a red field over Ostrheinsburg during the siege by the unseen Marquis Andre. The blazon would be mercifully easier: Gules, a Lindwurm ondoyant Or. (This dragon has two feet and no wings, so it counts. “Ondoyant” means “wriggling”. Undulating, if you will.) I’ve posted about this before, too. The Soul Archive website specifies that this banner is his. It’s not visible here, but an engraving of the same Lindwurm can be seen on a render of a catapult in the linked post.

Though a little difficult to make out, atop the towers toward the left are the damaged standards of Sir Stefan. Scratch that. Those are imperial banners of the Holy Roman Empire. (I don’t think it worked that way, but I’m not going to harp on that.) The imperial eagle can also be seen on the walls in this stage (see below).

(Screenshot taken from Raivop’s video.)

These look metallic and, judging by the perspective and scale, huge. Little information is given about Sir Stefan aside from his hiring Siegfried as a mercenary, but the former’s description as an “independent knight” might mean that he was a Free Imperial Knight. Ostrheinsburg was his castle, and it is shown to be enormous. In the second image, you can see in the far distance a keep surrounded by several rings of battlements. Even in the ruined parts shown in subsequent games and concept art, there’s a sense of grandeur to it inside and out. It would seem that Sir Stefan was a powerful knight.

I have to wonder how long Marquis Andre was able to enjoy his victory before Nightmare took over Ostrheinsburg. I don’t remember if any of the canon said his fate outright, but it’s a safe guess that he didn’t survive.

Later games gave Siegfried and Nightmare equine motifs, at least in certain costume details. (And in the latter’s case, the pun comes with the territory.) In most of his designs over the series, Nightmare’s helmet had a long, prominent spike on the forehead and flaring metal plating on the back of it, reminiscent of a unicorn’s horn and mane, respectively. (Although, some designs eschewed those for a long, red mane from Nightmare himself.) Soul Calibur VI took this a step further with this winged unicorn rampant in his character portrait. (Strictly speaking, its attitude is forcené. Couldn’t get a pun out of that.) It’s a surprisingly majestic thing for this monstrous knight.

Funny thing is, heraldic unicorns were often more goat-like (with cloven hooves and a beard... and a lion’s tail) and symbolized wildness itself. For lack of sources, I’m a bit iffy on where winged ones fall in this, though.

For comparison, below is Siegfried’s character portrait. If you put just the backgrounds side by side, you’d see the beasts almost as mirror images, combatant if you will! My interpretation is that the broken horn symbolizes that Nightmare is still a part of him, however much Siegfried will try to sever himself from him. Thinking on it again, it’s occurred to me that, unlike antlers, broken horns don’t grow back. In that light, the broken horn may symbolize that Nightmare still has some power over him, albeit in a weakened state.

While the intent here may be that they’re two sides of the same coin, this could also be a carryover from his 2P outfit in Soul Calibur III. Note the winged horse on his tabard. In the leftmost drawing in the top image, the tabard itself appears to show a coat of arms.

(I forgot whose video I screenshot this one from. I believe it was of a mod.)

The in-game model shows a second winged horse on the back. I don’t know if I’m more put off by the charges being in the first and second quarters or the Argent charge on an Or quarter. By itself, a possible interpretation of the pegasus (pegasi?) is fame. I’d speculate that the intended symbolism here is related to the phoenix motif on his default outfit (the reddish feathers on the pauldrons, what appears to be a phoenix—assuming it isn’t a stylized eagle—on his belt buckle), i.e. a metaphorical rebirth. The pegasi may symbolize him rising above his past as Nightmare.

Personally, there’s a reason I headcanon a variation of the above as Siegfried’s coat-of-arms. While it’s hard to pass up the dragon motif for him, I think of the winged horse suits him as something of a reminder of how he started: a son of a knight. A coat-of-arms is passed down from father to son, so in my mind, it’s also something that keeps him connected to his own father.

[lilactranslations]

Crow’s Makin’ Trails, Chapter 7! Dengeki Online has been putting out an ongoing biweekly four-panel comic centering around Crow Armbrust, and I’ve decided to translate them. Stay tuned for updates!

Please support the original comic by viewing it (for free!) here!

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The only thing keeping Rean together