#big sword (berserk style)

[vertigoartgore]

2013's Uncanny X-Men Vol.3 #4 (LGY : #568) cover by cover artist Chris Bachalo and inker Tim Townsend.

[sabrerine911]

Big Buff Berserker Lady and her counter argument (GW2)

Featuring my half-giant Beth Ravencoft

So, these days I got into a brainstorm on how I could do a dual wield build in Oblivion remaster(hopin to save enough money to get it for my b-day), since they couldnt bother to stitch in a dual wield style(they couldve just given us a shield with a sword skin dammit!). So I had an idea...Sword and Torch with fire spells!

Fully inspired by the berserkers in GW2, wich made me extremely nostalgic for GW2.

Havent played the game in like 3 years and its one of my absolute favorites(used to do a lot of crossover art like this when I played it)

Soo I decided to reinstall it, connect my old account to my Steam version and now I gotta set up my PS4 joypad again, but in a comfier way since Steam has more custom template options.

Granted I know the game wasnt designed for em, but I was pretty decent with my old PS4 joypad setup, did quests/raids and other events with no issues. so im excited to get that fully set.

(didnt miss the limited inventory I had tho XD)

As far as the art goes I wanted to sketch her in the og Berserker pose. Bit of a bummer I cant quite recreate her accurate ingame, but then again if she was accurate she would be way too bulky for any Norn lady body. Ingame art direction-wise she'd look like a very bulky male norn but way curvier with a fem face, so, way too specific of a build XD

[ewingstan]

I know it's been beaten to death how much worse Western superhero comics tend to be at action compared to manga. But what I don't understand is how much Western comics seem to need a punch-out within every issue. It's as if the creators are convinced an issue's readers will set it down and never pick up a comic again if they don't include a shot of a hero getting punched into a wall, or give a busy action shot of characters with fists rigidly in the air somewhat close to another person's turned cheek. In a genre that has undergone a massive shift towards being more plot-and-character-driven over the decades, why are they still insisting on spending so much page-space on fights?

It's not like such kinetically-focused artstyles are impossible to replicate; Zack Morrison has shifted to an almost completely text-based medium, but the scarce illustrations in each page accompanying the text still do a better job at showcasing interesting action with real weight and motion than the best of an average 24-issue run.

And it's not like the artists at work at the big 2 are just worse, they do have their strengths, and strengths that the superhero medium is uniquely suited to fill. I love Valerio Schiti, R. B. Silva and Pepe Larraz's poses and anatomy, or Kris Anka's detailed and fantastical character design.

(Side note: while the costumes and inhuman bodily features allow for way more interesting designs than most genres, big 2 artists outside of Anka still insist on hampering their own possibility space by limiting themselves to one body shape per gender. It's maddening.)

But while all those artists can use those skills well, and can even employ them well in fight scenes, they're almost never good as fight scenes. They're usually only good as "having this character in a fight allows me to draw them in a cool pose swinging a sword," not as "this allows me to convey a sense of motion, weight, and power behind each blow in an interesting way."

An example: I love this panel by Pepe Larraz in Powers of X of a dramatic fight scene within a larger montage:

But for all it's impressive composition, it doesn't really convey any more real sense of motion than his drawing of a statue:

All this to say that while action scenes can have their uses within Western comics, they probably shouldn't be used to fill long stretches of an issue. Why not write the books so that the artists can play to their strengths?

Now, I'll say the one thing that modern Western comics tend to be good at is the "victory through clever and unexpected use of powers" trick. This has always been the most satisfying for me, and something that artists are usually able to deliver on well. I previously wrote about "Jojo-style" action scenes in comparison to "Berserk-style" scenes of people hitting each other for page after page, and I think the comparison is especially apt here—whereas they don't seem to be able to convey the same visual flourishes which allow panel #3024 of "Guts cuts a guy in half" interesting, the western superhero artist certainly seems to have cool effects and dramatic reaction shots as part of their toolbox.

But even these are almost inevitably preceded by a mandatory boring punch-out. Jojos didn't bother with normal fistfights! They just say "you can't punch this guy. for reasons. figure out how to beat him at video games." Doesn't waste my fucking time!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Thank you Sonic x FE anon for combining two of my obsessions because I need to ponder it now. Sonic really is a lord archetype because he's blue he can use swords what more do you want. And of course he's gonna have a low str high dex high spd build optimized for dodge tanking and doubling.

The only real trouble is how you'd translate his speed into movement, because giving him infantry movement feels like a crime, but giving him sigurd gaming would be overpowered. Maybe he just has natural cav movement? Maybe this is a Sonic Boom situation where the show just keeps spraining his ankle whenever he's not supposed to spindash out of a situation.

The actual Sonic Rpg Sonic Chronicles was kinda genius for having turn based combat where a character's canon speed decides the number of turns they have, so only Sonic and Shadow had three actions per round of combat, while medium speed characters like Amy and Knuckles had two, and slow characters like Big and Omega had one. Maybe Sonic can naturally quadruple attack instead of having increased movement? Elincia style...

And that's just talking about Sonic. Knuckles to me screams armor effective considering the history of strength type characters esp in Sonic Heroes, and Amy has that high str low accuracy axe user / berserker swag. (She has a hammer, but we all know a hammer is just an axe.)

Tails is very obviously a flying unit. He has bombs a lot so that might be spellcaster equivalent, esp thinking about how Tails is often depicted with more long range weaponry such as, again, bombs and various blasters. Or a tank. Oh my god he could be a ballistician.

It COULD work. it could work. Maybe throw in some Disgaea style height mechanics. Hell this whole thing would probably work better as an disgaea-esque srpg than a fire emblem one, considering that disgaea is about Being Silly and Big Numbers Go Brrr.

I see the vision. I see it (and now it's all within my reach /ref)

👀

[dreaming-tonite]

Opening the discussion on what class members of the batfamily would be if they are dnd pcs because in true nerd fashion, all my current hyperfixations must have intersection points even if it means creating one myself:

Bruce — battle master fighter (ngl superiority dice confuses me sometimes but imo it is such a versatile and tactile class to play)

Dick — college of swords bard or hexblade warlock (not as focused on the charisma/performance aspect of things but still makes attacks using charisma stats over strength stats)

Barbara — I’m torn between school of divination wizard or knowledge domain cleric subclass because the former seems a bit too on the nose but it does make sense?? Tho i also think cleric honors her role as support (also clerics are so underrated, spirit guardian is literally one of my top spells)

Jason — path of the berserker barbarian OR oathbreaker paladin (im not a big fan of the black-and-white alignment styles of like “oathbreakers are innately evil” but the fact that this is the common idea makes for great plot potential)

Tim — bladesinging wizard (ngl im not sure about this one but i picked wizard for the int stats)

Cass — gloom stalker ranger (literal definition of you wont know what hit you until you are hit)

Damian — half-elven(*) assassin rogue

(*under personal preference, everyone is human unless specified because the charm of batfam to me is always that theyre not “meant to be” heroes but consciously become one. HOWEVER, elven al ghuls just seems like such a cool concept)

[altocat]

Do you know any metas on FF characters fighting styles and what it says about the character? The archery guy on TikTok said really big swords were bodyguard weapons and used for getting distance. That says something about Cloud and Sane Sephiroth’s characters and fighting philosophy.

Cloud's style I can see based on what you said. Sephiroth is harder to gauge because Masamune is (very) likely to be a supernatural weapon and the logistics are slightly more skewed.

That said, the big sword vs. long thin sword is a popular trope in anime. Especially in my personal fave, Berserk. Which was one of the pieces of media that influenced FF7.

[scary-grace]

☕️ feanorians 👀 i know you have thoughts...

I do indeed have thoughts about the Feanorians, and I will admit that some of my gripes with the Feanorians are gripes with their fans. But when I’ve read the Silmarillion, it seemed that a strong-ish argument could be made that the Feanorians are the villains of the story, not the tragic heroes. Sure, the initial sin is committed by Morgoth in murdering Finwe and stealing the Silmarils, both of which are inexcusable, but from that point on, the terrible things being done in the narrative are largely being done by the Feanorians to everybody else. And no one — absolutely no one — is compelling them to do it.

I like a good tragedy as much as the next person. To me, one of the key features of a tragedy is its inexorability— the smallest details and circumstances, all piling up on one another to force an outcome no one wanted, with no one able to stop it until it’s too late. The Feanorians as a group (and their plotlines) are missing that inexorability to me. Finwe’s ghost doesn’t appear to Feanor Hamlet’s-dad style to order him to seek vengeance. Feanor does it on his own, which means that destruction of his own family and the thousands of people who die over the course of the War for the Jewels (and subsequently the War of Wrath) are his responsibility. Nobody pushed him into it. He was warned against it by just about everyone. And yet, off he goes.

I referenced Hamlet in the above paragraph, but when I’m thinking of tragedy, I kind of revert back to the Ancient Greek tragedies — Oedipus Rex and the Oresteia. Oedipus does everything a hero is supposed to do, but events set in motion by a single decision that wasn’t even his to make create a catastrophe that he’s powerless to avert. Orestes, meanwhile, knows damn well why he shouldn’t kill his own mother. He knows what will happen to him if he does. But he’s compelled to anyway, by culture and by honor and by grief.

The cultural factor doesn’t exist for the Feanorians. There’s no precedent in Noldorin culture for what to do if your father is murdered, and there’s no commandment to drag your entire family down with you in a quest for revenge that’s doomed to fail. And the ignorance factor doesn’t exist, either. Every decision is squarely in Feanor’s (and later, his sons’) hands, and they have all the information they need to make choices that won’t result in three Kinslayings, five disastrous battles, one child-kidnapping, and an attempt at forcing marriage in a culture where consent is the entire ballgame. The Feanorians act with malice. They disregard their own people and their own allies. Morgoth doesn’t make them commit the massacre at Sirion (you know, the one that even the Feanorian fans can’t defend); that’s one hundred percent pure Feanorian initiative. That’s not the behavior of tragic heroes. Those are the actions of villains.

So my thoughts on the Feanorians are that if the Silmarillion is a tragedy, they’re the villains, not the heroes. If the Silmarillion is a fable, they’re the bad example. (Tolkien reinforces this in The Hobbit — I don’t think it’s an accident that Thorin goes berserk and tries to kill one of his closest allies over a big shiny rock.) If the Silmarillion is a history, their response to Morgoth is the architecture on which thousands of years of tragedy are built. However they got to where they are at the moment of Finwe’s death (the Valar yoinking them all from Middle-earth was a bad move), at the end of the day, they’re still the ones holding the sword.*

*(Part of my insistence on the Feanorians being the bad guys is a response to some corners of the fandom trying to exonerate them for absolutely everything by blaming their victims. I’ve seen people say the first Kinslaying was Olwe’s fault for not giving up the ships, that the second Kinslaying was Dior’s fault for not giving up the Silmaril his parents retrieved, that the third Kinslaying was Elwing’s fault for — existing, I guess. And that it was just so mean of Thingol not to immediately submit to the people who murdered his brother. Anything to get Maedhros and company off the hook.)

Thank you for the ask! Sorry if I rambled a bit — once I got into trying to actually articulate my problems, it got a little complicated.

[sleepynegress]

On Greta Danesti...

I'm just taking this time to correct a certain anti-Black, (and anti-Romani) sadly typical fandom troll's misogynoir fuckery in the tag and establishing who Greta Danesti is in canon Castlevania animation lore. This is Greta Danesti's official character sheet:

She's the village headwoman of Danesti a few miles away from Alucard's castle. This is what her voice actress, Marsha Thompson looks like:

It's pretty obvious her character design took cues from the actress, who is Afro-British. In show canon, however, her family escaped from the Roman city of Carthage, which today, is located in the African country Tunisia. Alucard correctly speculated where her people are from while conversing with her, here (s4 e5):

Greta then confirms that her people did escape the Romans, but she now fully embraces her "family" in her village who are "from all over" and the responsibility of taking care of them.

This same troll used the g-slur to insist that she is Romani.

She is not. This troll used an early character design here, to make her case.:

And though it does have similarities to Romani clothing... It also looks like it takes cues from Tunisian clothing and likely local and non-local European clothing of the era with "fantasy" elements sprinkled in, as well, which would match the fact of her village's people coming from all over:

There definitely should be more Romani rep in media as it is so often whitewashed, but Greta is not Romani.

FYI, these women actors actually *are* of Romani descent: Fairuza Balk of The Craft, Oona Chaplin who played Robb Stark's wife in GOT (she's also Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter[!]), and Noomi Rapace from the Swedish movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says her father may have been of Romani descent, as well.

And because I can predict it, as people like to find ways of discounting blackness in every way...

Yes, there are plenty of non-Black indigenous POC in North Africa, including within Tunisia. Another fun fact... Africa has more indigenous human genetic variation among its peoples than every other people on the planet has with everyone else on the planet[!]. All this to say non-white POC AND Black people are indigenous to Tunisia.

I feel I have to say that because there is a lot of anti-Black anthropological fetishization of North Africa. Egypt is a major example of that (see: Rami Malek, an indigenous Coptic Egyptian who self-identifies as African man of color and has likely had to clarify that *often* because people keep wanting to mislabel him as an Arab, but I digress...) And sadly, there is a decidedly anti-black movement to totally disconnect certain North African countries' identities from a continental African one, and to largely see it as mainly a part of the MENA world (it is both kiddies, BOTH). Here is an informative article (linked in the image) about that struggle:

So, this got heavy...but between the post insisting that Greta is NOT Black and the one saying she's not bisexual because that same troll is purposefully and maliciously being obtuse about how words go together... I figured clearing some things up and educating folks might be helpful. BTW, the fact of those issues in the article makes her blackness all the more resonant as rep in pop culture. And hey, poly folks have disagreements, just like the het folks do... -Still bi. I'm gonna end here with two images from the linked article of anti-racist Tunisian protesters (MENA and Black):

P.S. I also side-eye those keen to make her muscular... I mean yeah she wields a big-ass hammer and shortsword/dagger, but the tendency to masculinize black woman characters deserves a hardy eye-squint. Especially, given that the show has *no problem* making muscular women look like that and they DIDN'T for Miss Greta.

See: Zamfir and the Berserk-style sword-carrying Vampire warrior, Striga. Both of whom had that flex going on.

[marth-garhengi]

Things I Want From DA: Veilguard That I Know We Won't Get:

These are almost all things DAI did poorly. Though I cannot stress enough that I love ALL the DA games, nothing is perfect...

- Kill Moves

Kill moves in DAO were amazing and there were only like 10. Worst decision by DA2's dev team was not to add them. Who the hell doesn't want to see their characters doing a sweet finishing move to round out a tough fight, in ANY game?? Ragdoll in RPGs sucks and always has, Killmove Supremacy forever (for all classes, not just melee!)

- Companion Tactics

It sucks that Bioware keep deciding to take great RPG elements out of their games and this one is so sorely missed. DAI dropped the ball big time by dumbing down companion tactics. It's a Party based game! I want MORE passive control over my companions, not less!!

- OG Tactical Gameplay

I can understand the thought process behind giving players the option to play tactically OR casually in DAI, but in practice both options are worse than the alternative. Having to switch Tactical on/off in the middle of combat just makes the gameplay more jarring, as opposed to the more accessible Pause Wheel style of the previous titles. It wasn't broken, it didn't need fixing.

- Unlimited Abilities

Another DAI fumble, tying into the previous point. Don't give us 300 ability points and then force us to pick only 8 that we can actively use. RPGs are great BECAUSE of the wide variety of playstyles and abilities you can choose for your characters. Slowly turning them into Gods is part of the fun! It's a reward for all the grinding and the early game slog. Much of the joy of obtaining a new skill or power is lost if you're forced to sacrifice another ability to use it, AND means you're wasting points when levelling. TL;DR for this and previous point: Combat wheel good.

- Manual Attributes

Another gripe I had with DAI that boils down to; Stop taking RPG elements out of your RPG. If the player wants to make a mage with insanely high Constitution, LET THEM. Making attribute points exclusively obtainable via passive abilites was taking a neat idea too far. Sub-point: All armor should be accessible to all classes. Attribute thresholds work.

- Less Collectathon-y

It's Dragon Age, not Banjo Kazooie. Nobody liked trekking through the hissing wastes for all those stupid shards. People realised that video games don't need a bazillion things to collect DECADES ago. Comparitively, the Astrariums were fun and engaging! A few little logic puzzles that unlock a loot cache? Good and fun. Spending hours running around grabbing little rocks in every map to unlock a loot cache? Boring and lazy addition to gameplay. Less of that forever.

- Horse Riding that doesn't Suck (Or No Horse Riding, period!)

We all played Inquisition. Enough Said.

- Arcane Warrior

Please Bioware I'm begging you to let me be a Mage with a sword again it was so fucking cool please it's all I want forever.

- Oghren

Bring back my Alcoholic Berserker Homie, he was so much fun and I love him and miss him.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[drgnflyteabox]

Hi! I meant something like an headcanon if you don’t mind, about them and how they are in general as vikings and lovers, how the throuple functions (who’s the little spoon etc!) thank you again!! Sorry If I didn’t explain myself correctly ♥️

No need to apologize you explained it perfectly 🌸 I just wasn't familiar! So cute though!!! Here are some thoughts on this// (kinda long? My bad)

In regards to sleep, I think pre-nun Johnny and Simon moved around a lot. They switched spooning positions between the two, sometimes slept apart if it was too hot (big boys), but the most revisited position was Johnny with his arm and leg thrown over Simon's body and his mouth drooling on Simon's pec lol

Post-nun? I think it's usually reader in the middle. I love the symmetry of it if nothing else... also the feeling of entrapment slowly moving towards a feeling of safety, or being cradled <3 (stockholm but a lot to consider here)

This Johnny is a carver over a draw-er (lol), just because I couldn't come up with a reason for him to have paper. He's made tons of little wooden toys for all the kids of their village, for Simon (as we saw), for Price, etc. Everyone he likes probably has a little wooden sword or a wolf or something cute.

When there's a hunt, Simon likes to reserve some walrus ivory for Johnny to carve. It's expensive, and they use it for trade (cool article), but it's a little affectionate gesture <3 <3 fun fact: they may have learned this from the indigenous population! Especially the Inuit

nsfw - when they have sex, I think they switch. Not only do they both kinda take control over reader, but they're used to fighting as foreplay between each other. Definitely have both topped and bottomed in the same session like, several times.

Simon is definitely the more in control of the two, and Johnny definitely loves that, but Simon has power bottomed in this relationship I just know it......... imagine it....

Though Johnny is the carver, Simon has helped build boats for travel / raids / etc. He really likes the physical labour, the intricacies of it, the flow state he gets into. He hasn't really shown it, but his backstory in this universe is much like the comics / games / etc. Building helps him get away from his mind - he likes being a creator and a caretaker of people & things.

Without going into too much detail, he definitely had an abusive father and his scars aren't only from fighting. You might learn a wee bit more about that soon tee hee.

The throuple will evolve as the story goes on. Reader is pretty conflicted, on the fence, etc. for obvious reasons. They have a hard time communicating, also for obvious reasons, but their physical language will transcend speech.

Simon is one of the most prolific fighters (in part because he's visually striking with his skull mask and scars), but Johnny is crazier than he is. Bloodlust, berserker-style crazy. Remember that scene in the heli where he sounds like a fucking demon asking Price to kill Makarov? Yeah.

They love to fight, as well. Raiding is fun for them, but their true Viking calling and passion is conflict with other Viking communities & non-Vikings... they're not necessarily "good" people, but they are historically accurate in both their violence and their kindness. It's dizzying for nun to wrap her wee head around.

When they first met, they got boners fighting each other tee hee. Simon and Johnny's love story is a bit of a "Romeo and Juliet" kind of deal. Different communities, etc. Got together with Kate & John's blessing. Each have one or two scars from each other.

Love marks <3

When they discussed about "outsourcing" a woman for a wife, it wasn't necessarily a thought out plan. They saw you, they liked you, they took you. This scene in chapter one really encapsulates it lol

Simon, Johnny, and nun are all fluid in their sexuality; I won't label it, but their approaches to attraction / sex obviously differ greatly. I don't really know much about how queerness was received for Vikings, but for this world they're pretty damn chill about it. For nun? Well... she's learned a heap of shame.

Convents in the medieval ages may have been a place for women / afab people to live maybe with some more freedom (especially in regards to intellectual pursuits), but unfortunately this age was not called the dark ages (roughly 500 - 1500, but the story takes place around 900 - 1000) for no reason. Context, geography, etc. matters. Readers convent was pretty conservative.

Cool person though: a nun, Hildegard of Bingen, was one of the first ever people to describe a female orgasm on paper. If only reader was rockin' with Hildegard </3

The dresses the nun is dressed in probably looked like this (historically accurate as far as I know??), with socks like this:

[silverserpent]

Silly Game Time: Who are some of your favorite fighter characters? And what do you like about them?

They can weild any weapon (swords, spears, axes, clubs, knives, bare hands, etc.); they can be of any class or variety of combatant (ones who rely on strength like brawlers or berserkers, ones who use finesse like martial artists or technique masters, ones who balance defensive and offensive equipment like knghts or samurai, etc.); they can be of any race or species (from fantasy or sci-fi); they can even have access to special powers to improve their combat skills (magical, psychic, technological, superpowers, etc.).

What matters is that one of their primary skills, roles in the story, and traits as a character is physical fighting.

I KNOW this is an odd choice, but hear me out: Alan Becker's stickmen.

First off, their choreography is something AMAZING. Very fast paced, and always doing AMAZING cool stuff. Here's a poorly cropped clip of one of their calmer fights.

And here is what they can REALLY do.

And also... they are children.

Look at them. they are playing with action figures. Look. Red just crashed the party by involving the piggie.

And they made the ULTIMATE TREE CHOPPING CONTRAPTION with no foresight whatsoever.

THEY ARE PLAYING TETRIS AND CHEERING EACH OTHER ON. While Green just dances because there is music.

And they all have very established personalities and fighting styles, even though there are no words uttered! Orange is mostly the guy who comes up with very smart tactics; Green jumps around a lot and is very flashy; Red gets up-close and personal, hotheadedly rushes into the stupidest losing battles, and will love every animal they find; Blue is an incredibly powerful support guy when he has access to potion, fights ranged, likes to cook and deal with plants; Yellow is a big big engineer who has little foresight on whether or not the thing they make is a good idea, and the most likely to hang back, and provide support. Yellow is my big favorite, because of course. Their first move when they find a cool item is to take it apart.

And they are good natured and kind and friendly! They goof off and cheer each other on and prank, and they will help without hesitation, and there is also a big dramatic story and they are SO FUN.

One of my WIPs I need to return to was inspired by them, because I wanted to captivate the feeling they gave me.

this got away from me a tad, but hey :"D

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

Credit: pixiv.net/artworks/70581957

Motherfucker.

Hajime is Dr. Romani. This is going to connect with Izuru later. But still, of course Hajime is one of the dealy beloved human characters of Fgo.

Chiaki is Frankenstein's Monster (call her Fran). She looks great and all but besides the love of electricity and childlike mannerisms, not sure Chiaki fits Fran's animal like berserkness and tragic need for love.

Mahiru is Boudica. I can say for certainty this is solely due to Red hair and mother like qualities. Pretty sure we shouldn't compare Mahiru to someone whose entire purpose in Fgo is being that meme person who really hates the Roman Empire (ironically the founder of Rome is her best partner in battle), has big boobs, has a terrible skillset in battle, and is defined by her backstory of losing the war against the Roman Empire and had to watch her daughters be relentlessly raped by them before most likely being forced to join them which lead to her falling into despair and killing herself.

Ibuki is Nobunaga. This is solely cuz of the amount of fourth wall breaking chibi style comedic relief and crazy hijinks. (Nobu Nobu Nobu? Nobu Nobu Nobu Nobu Nobu! Nobu? Nobu Nobu! Nobu...)

Mikan is Skadi. I have no idea why. What does shy and clumsy as fuck Mikan have in common with a wise nordic giantess with insecurities about being single and unmarried?

Hiyoko is BB. BB and Hiyoko might both be detestable trollish pieces of shit who keep fucking people over and getting away with it, but comparing Hiyoko to essentially AI Junko Enoshima on crack is a bit too far.

Kazuichi is Nikola Tesla. Electricity. Master Inventor. Eccentric mofo. I approve.

Sonia is Marie Antoinette. Princess/Queen like character. I can see that. (Tho we should also try to look out for Marie Alter cuz that bitch is crazy as fuck and wants everyone to experience how it felt when the guillotine beheaded her). Tho Sonia wishes she was as much a cinnamon roll as Marie.

Gundham is Ozymandias/Rameses II. Boisterous mofos collide. I approve. (Sidenote: Ozy is voiced by Dio. KONO OZY DA!!!)

Izuru is of course Dr. Roman's true identity as King Solomon, King and Progenitor of All Magic. All magic apparently stems from him, motherfuckers. All hail the character we will never get and wish he would come back.

Nagito is Edmund Dantes. Only cuz of Memes based on similar looks. Nagito has nothing on Dantes's year long pursuit for revenge. Tho I guess they both were "saved" by the woman they loved most in the world.

Twogami is Julius Caesar. Only cuz they are chubby charismatic likeable people.

Peko is Tomoe. FUCK YEAH I APPROVE. Peko would totally be Tomoe. Why do you think I made Tomoe her Persona in my headcanon. It fits her SO MUCH TO A T.

Fuyuhiko is Rama. Why? What does Fuyu have in common with a guy who kills demon kings with an army of monkeys cuz they stole his wife yet was also cursed to die whenever him and his wife would ever meet? (Poor Rama in fgo, all he wants is to be with his wife again but destiny keeps screwing him over by killing him seconds before his wife reaches where he is).

Nekomaru is Iskandar/Alexander the Great. Solely due to being super muscular likeable badass motivators of living a great life. Nekomaru clearly doesn't want to conquer lands and rule the world.

Akane is Francis Drake. Only cuz of giant cleavage window alone. Akane ain't no pirate queen with literal flying sea ships with giant laser cannons.

And Teruteru is Fergus. Only because both of them are a super perverts with mindsets primarily filled only about banging women and having sex. Teru is no ripped Chad with a drill sword that shoots rainbow lasers from the ground. (Sidenote: Fergus's drill sword, Caladbolg, translates to "Hard Blade". Yes it's a dick joke.")

//I mean they look good?

-Mod

[sabrerine911]

Big Buff Dual Sword Berserker lady meets Meta Enjoyer Condi Berserker Featuring my Half-giant Beth Ravencoft and a Berserker Asura

So, ive been running Condi Dual Sword/Torch berserker for Beth since I got into the game a few years back. The fiery raging berserker always fit her the most(since she is an oc character I recreated ingame, with her whole established fighting background/style) The bummer back in the day was that I couldnt get it as quite the high numbers as say longbow condi builds. And well, she is a raging barbarian that cant use any bow, so Im not breaking that immersion XD I do remember back in a discord I was in(not anymore) that someone was trying to nail down that I have to basically give up Rp for efficency and just accept that or that im gonna be a bad dps in the squad. Well recently I managed to push my Duals Sword Beth build to 26-27k(without Relic of fractal yet) on the Golem and thanks to an INCREDIBLE dual sword build made recently by MrMystic on youtube I managed to push it to 34k(still without the relic, hoping to get SOTO soon)

All this to say, im very happy that I dont have to worry about my build efficency being overshadowed by longbows on harder content, as a raging barbarian class XD With all that said, love every berserker, including the longbow ones, always happy to have em around to unga bunga together.

As far as the drawing goes, I wouldve done it regardless if I managed to make a better build or not XD Beth is not limited to her ingame version in these XD

[grimtoucher]

Watching Berserk with my mom. She agrees that Guts and Griffith are total faggots. Why are they gaying around at the speed of light? I thought this was about a guy with a big sword fuckin around Doomslayer style

[mouse-romance]

Her name is Neretta, and she's a farmer.

Or was, after she was dragged into a war in which she doesn't belong.

Neretta grew in Dun Modr, and slowly became a local hero by scaring away bandits and saving the sheeple. By a chain of events, her name came up in an Alliance meeting, and they determined that for diplomatic benefits with the kul'tiran, they should also send regular people on top of the legendary champions... And she was on the list.

Neretta didn't even understand what the Alliance was.

She knew they were "the army", the top dogs who ruled everything. She also knew that the Horde were "the beasts that come and destroy", but she really never saw an orc, nor a tauren. She only knew the underdeveloped trolkin near her village, so she assumed they were all like that out there.

Her parents told her that legendary warriors always wield big weapons, never shields, so they pushed her to abandon her classic fightstyle to adopt a more "classical berserk" kind of stance.

She hated it.

But the new world would be unforgiving for a farmhand like her, so she adapted.

Her first official quest made her go onboard a ship that sinked due to some terrible enchantment. The sirens called beyond the waves, and before she could even realize it, her body impacted against the sea.

She struggled to stay afloat, her big weapons were dragging her to the depths. She knew that unarmed she was nothing, so she should drown before letting them go... But she then noticed all the debris around her and figured it out.

She let her claymores drown, not with herself.

She gasped for air desperately, clinging on a wooden table afloat.

She dragged herself to the shore. Grabbed a battered plank to protect herself, using a rusty dagger as her only weapon, now replacing the ornamental claymores crafted by her ancients.

The new world was indeed unforgiving... So was she with her old styled sword and shield stance. How easy it was for her to fight now with something as simple as a plank and a shiv.

She started doing what she did best, saving people. And in the midst of her struggle, she finally put an end to the cursed seas by slaying the queen of the sirens.

Even in death, she was beautiful.

She figured that it was her first time slaying a mythical beast, a monster of legends... But there wasnt time for her to waste, as she was received as a small time hero by everyone who survived the crash.

That feeling felt strange at first, but after more and more local victories, people started trusting her, probably more than what she trusted herself.

She ascended to the rank of "Guard", which is much more than what she could ever expect.

She watches now the city, knowing that tomorrow or another tomorrow she will be called back to the roads. She is ready, it's where she belongs, helping the common folk.

But for now, she is spending the night in the city.

[doubleddenden]

Time to talk about things I'm excited about again

New Fate/Samurai Remnant trailer! it's only in Japanese for now, and it was quickly privated from the original uploader

HOWEVER, there's still a lot of cool things to look at here.

First of all, i'll be honest, I saw this originally thanks to a twitter user that archived it and looked at the various stuff you can get with it, so a lot of my "official" info that isn't visually made clear in the trailer will be regurgitated from what they've said. here's the thread and another video (just in case this one gets taken down)

Okay, so time for a deep dive under the cut:

first off

Musashi (which that IS Musashi and this is not a Scathatch=Skadi or similar situation) is apparently a Berserker

The MC is most likely Iori- there's a few reasons why this is significant, both in terms of actual history (which plays a role for Fate, obviously) and Fate lore in general

A. Historical relevancy: Iori is one of the children that IRL Miyamoto Musashi bought/adopted from his original parents, and taught them his signature sword style.

B. Lore relevancy: The Musashi we're familiar with in Fate is from another world where she's female- at least in terms of Fate/Grand Order lore. Musashi sort of gets rejected by reality/gets tossed in and out of alternate dimensions here and there, and other than official story canon, she does play a fun and significant role in Summer 4. Here she appears in the Summer Singularity of Las Vegas as a Berserker and also keeps trying (and failing) to convince the group she is actually Iori. It's a fun story but hard to argue as canon due to the nature of event singularities and especially summer ones

3. I'm very sure you can tell if you look closely, but the black haired servant with the white shirt is definitely a Saber face- I think this one actually has Artoria's VA. I posted previously after the last trailer, but they have Artoria's hairstyle and the little ahoge that's pretty much signature to Saber Faces (sans Alters). To me they seem of Chinese origin judging by dress and swords, and it also seems like they have some water ability? Which is strange but cool. If anyone's smart enough to try and figure that one out, go for it. I'd personally look through old Chinese folktales or rulers that have some association to water, or maybe was a man suspected of being a woman/vice versa (which is why Artoria is a woman instead of a man). Maybe a swordsman that traveled or migrated to Japan, too.

4. This is DEFINITELY a Holy Grail War, it's the only way someone like Jalter could show up like this- However the fact that she's even here to begin with must mean there's something wonky going on, since her existence in FGO is pretty much only because of Chaldea's interference. It could also just be a separate instance of fuckery going on, especially considering we have ANOTHER Avenger class here- Angry Mango himself (i can't remember how to spell the name). Maybe another tainted grail?

5. Speaking of Angra, he looks different- like he's not using Shiro as a base body anymore. He has face stubble- Kiritsugu, maybe? It wouldn't be the first time Kiritsugu and Shiro have had similar Servant counterparts. It could also be another of Musashi's kids imo.

6. Speaking of Shiro, or more specifically Fate/Stay Night

This place looks familiar, almost like the shrine where Saber and Assassin fought each other in FSN, aka the shrine Caster was holding out in. Now this might be a stretch, but what if this is Fuyuki from the past? If this is Iori's time, this would be around the 1600s, roughly 400 years prior to Stay Night. The fact that the new Saber Face is also here seems rather significant imo

7. The extra Servants look cool- I'm betting the big guy with the green is maybe another Hercules form or possibly Samson, which would be a first for Fate I think. He does have long hair, anyway.

8. The music used is similar to the Shimousa fighting music from FGO's Shimousa arc

Anyway, the early September release date for Japan is pretty awesome. I doubt it'll release that early for us, and in fact that may be why they retracted the video? unclear. Personally i hope it comes out later so i can actually save and buy it instead of passing it up for a wedding lol

I can't wait for it, it looks fun