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GAT-X105B/EG Build Strike Exceed Galaxy

While I think Metaverse was a perfectly harmless, cute series, that doesn't mean it couldn't be better. I watched the Gridman movie shortly afterward, and that did way more of the crossover stuff you want to see in the same amount of time. As every main character got a new Gunpla, I'd like to take a second to talk about how I'd rather they'd have handled each season's representation in those reviews.

A big misstep with the Fighters cast is their ages. Sei is the same age as Sekai, and considering he wasn't revealed until EP3, finally revealing the version of him teased in Try would have been a great payoff. It's also a bummer how every Fighters universe character besides Fumina doesn't have an Avatar, and they had a bunch of already existing outfits that would be both perfect and great marketing. You give Sei his EP1 Amuro costume, Ral his original series outfit, and you give China, Rinko, and even Gyanko their MS Girl outfits, because there're kits of them and that'd be good marketing.

Also, not making the characters their proper ages mean they had to omit Reiji's daughter. And how perfect would her inclusion have been? Seeing one of the original characters getting their kid into Gunpla? Maybe when Reiji comes in on the Star Burning Gundam, he's wearing the Beargguy F backpack and she's along with him? It would have been an amazing end cap to Fighters, Try, and Metaverse. Fighters was probably the season that was handled the worst of the four, which is disappointing since it was the first.

The Kit: Onto the kit, it is the EG Strike Gundam with new armor parts and backpack, but you'd think it was a new mold considering how it has no leftover parts. It has some nice accessories and a lot of hard points for customization. I do worry about longevity, considering my original EG RX-78-2, but other than that I have little issue.

The Details: Quite a bit of black panel lining, as well as some black paint to fill a few small areas. Metallic blue on the peripheral cameras and rifle scope. I also filled in the clear red parts with metallic red where I could to hide the plastic underneath.

Overall, a simple but neat kit with some cool gimmicks. I'd almost recommend getting two just to mess with the customization stuff.

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I built some Gundams; I’m cool now, right?

So the other day I was at Hot Topic of all places when I noticed they had Gunpla model kits; they were like $16 each since everything in the store was on sale, and my initial thoughts were “oh, cool, I’ll build these and then they can be used in stop motion”… and then I ended up watching The Witch from Mercury and started Iron Blooded Orphans, and…

shit. I’m one of those tumblr Gundam tgirls now.

The first kit I bought from Hot Topic was the HG Rouge Strike + I.W.S.P., and… yeah. It was definitely a first model, lol.

I dunno if you can tell in the pictures, but… I didn’t use nippers for this thing. I started out cutting the pieces off the sprues with scissors, but by the end I was just punching them out with my hands xP . Miraculously, none of the parts snapped, but there are a LOT of nubs left on this thing, even after I tried cleaning it up with an xacto knife and nippers when I got some.

It’s a so-so kit. Definitely my least favorite of the three I’ve built so far, but not bad at all. It’s a rerun of an older kit, apparently, and it definitely feels that way. It’s a little flimsy.

My next kit also was done without nippers, but this time it was okay since it was an EG kit which quite literally requires no tools. This is the Build Strike Exceed Galaxy, to be specific, and to be honest I couldn’t find what anime it’s from.

I vibe with this thing heavily. It’s sturdy, the articulation is great, and its accessories are top-notch. Not only does it come with a gun, but another gun that can turn into a sword and a shield that can turn into a sword. That’s not even the best part; it’s got a backpack that’s actually a spaceship!

This was also the first kit I did that had color-separated eyes as opposed to the Rouge Strike’s annoying eyes sticker, so that was also a plus. Finally, last but certainly not least, we have my third kit; The HG Gundam LFRITH Ur, from The Witch From Mercury .

This thing is a beast. It’s big, it’s heavily armored, and it comes with a giant Gatling gun. It was pretty much what I thought the Rouge Strike was gonna be when I looked at its box… I LOVE it. It also helps that Sophie was one of my favorite TWFM characters and this is her mech :P

Not much else to say about this one, tbh. I bought nippers along with this thing when I got it online so it’s much cleaner looking than my first go at an HG kit.

here’s all three of my kits side to side. It really shows the size of the LFRITH Ur, lol.

This… is not the last I’ll be talking about Gundam. I have two more kits to be assembled, after all; the sister of the Ur, the LFRITH Thorn, and the Barbatos from Iron Blooded Orphans. Please excuse me while I go do that.

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EG Custom 1/144 MBF-02[Ex] "Gundam Strike Rouge Exceed"

It's finally here!! Strike Rouge was announced back in August but it's only now starting to show up in Australian hobby stores.

Last year I built the HGBM Perfect Strike Freedom Rouge, which came with a ton of spare parts as it used some recoloured sprues from the Strike Freedom (the kit that it's based on), and so I thought as they were recoloured pink they'd find a perfect home on a custom version of the EG Strike Rouge. Just like my other custom attempt with the Gunzack it was also a good opportunity to use up some of my other spare parts, which have now spread over two boxes.

This build incorporates the gun cover, v-fin, chest vents, and side-skirt beam sabers from the Freedom sprues, as well as various other bits of extra plating to build up detail, including some spares from my doomed RG Unicorn on the feet and ankle armor. I also found these little missiles from one of my Frame Arms Girl kits which neatly cover up a cut mark on the gun.

The EG Strike Rouge base itself is a super simple but rewarding build, with nicely chosen parts to build up colour separation but still maintaining a small parts count and simple build technique that's very beginner friendly. Alongside the EG Build Strike Exceed Galaxy and EG Lah Gundam it's definitely a kit I'd recommend to newcomers to the hobby. This version of the kit even comes with a few stickers!

I wanted to try scribing some panel lines into this kit, but I don't really have the tools, so it might have to wait for the next custom I try.

As well as painting in the front and rear auxillary sensor, I added some gold detailing, and repainted a few parts in reddish magenta and bright pink to give a more colorful and detailed look. I also added some turquoise stripes - I find adding simple stripes in a contrasting colour is a super easy way to make custom kits stand out a little.

I used some of the bright trans-green beam effects to pose the beam sabers with this kit, as just like the green eye-piece they're UV reactive, and look really nice in photographs. I think these ones are unused ones from one of my WFM kits.

I enjoy how nicely this kit poses, even as a simpler EG kit. Unfortunately the hips are a little loose, which is an issue I had with the EG RX-78-2 I'd built before I dismantled it.

Overall I had a lot of fun putting this custom together, and it makes me want to customize or at least repaint some of my other kits in the future.

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Hey! Are you interested in Gunpla, but worried about investing money into tools only to not enjoy it? Then try out the Entry Grade line first! It's a line of 1/144 scale kits designed around getting people into Gunpla and they only cost about $10-$15 USD. They don't require tools to assemble and while they may be lacking the accessories of their HG brethren, they come with great color accuracy for their scale and look great out of the box without any extra effort!

There are currently 3 EG kits available: RX-78-2 Gundam, Strike Gundam and Nu Gundam! And EG kits of the Lah Gundam and Build Strike Exceed Galaxy for the new Gundam Build Metaverse series airing next month will be releasing soon!

The line is a little small right now, and sadly there aren't any G-Witch options for new fans, but it really is a fantastic and inexpensive first step into the hobby. They're perfect for dipping your toes into the gunpla hobby to see if it's for you or not, without investing more than $30+ on your first kit + tools.

That said, if you did get into Gundam with G-Witch and specifically want to take the plunge with a G-Witch kit first, absolutely nab anything from the line. They're generally easy to build, pretty good with color separation and very accessible! The Gundam Schwarzette or Demi-Barding are definitely my recommendations for an easy to build but great looking kit from the line!

(Disclaimer: These are my own kits, and I've put a little work into them via panel lining and minor painting.)

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Gundam: Entry Grade 1/144 Gundam Build Strike Exceed Galaxy! Reach for the Stars!

Details:

The Build Strike Exceed Galaxy from the upcoming “Gundam Build Series” 10th anniversary video “Gundam Build Metaverse” joins the “Entry Grade” model kit lineup from Bandai! The parts are cast in color, and you’ll get an amazing result simply by assembling the model; it’s made to be fully posable while reducing the number of parts. The parts can be easily removed from the gates without using nippers, too! This mech is equipped with hard points in various places to aid in customization; the included boosters can be attached to the arms and legs.

Features:

From upcoming web series “Gundam Build Metaverse”

No stickers required thanks to thorough parts separation!

Parts can be easily removed by hand, so no tools are required!

For ages 8+

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Qlipoth returned to His version of normalcy. He built His Wall and did nothing else. There was no cackling Aeons to interrupt him, no sudden burst of light and noise, no spontaneous concerts or plays held on His Wall. Strange objects and celestial bodies, man made creations and debris, were no longer added to the Wall.

Qlipoth had no mind to think much of it. The absence of Aha goes unnoticed the longer it stretches on, leaving nothing moving His hammer or to infiltrate His awareness save for the Preservation, the instinct to build, to construct.

Other Aeons never visited Qlipoth. Aha had been a loud exception; or maybe Aha was the only one Qlipoth noticed.

He didn't notice Fuli's presence until it approached the Wall, the amber chrysalis around Aha's butchered remains specifically. Qlipoth didn't feel the cool chill of Rememberance until it made contact with the Wall arouns Aha; harsh fronds of ice on amber, the crystaline formations of Fuli's form sending frost over rock and stone where it touches the Wall. Qlipoth felt it suddenly, harshly, a spike of memory welling up over His metoeric vertebrae and making Him lash out.

His hammer hit amber with a crack that burst through the higher dimensions, sent shivers through galaxies. But Fuli was already out of range, stood proper in a way that reminded Him too much of Ena. The grumbing, crumbing sounds of his dissatisfaction didn't make the Aeon even shiver.

Fuli spoke much like Aha did, forgoing general wordless communication for pin-pointed mortal speech. It's voice is that of wind chimes, of frazil ice clattering together, hollow wind swept through glaciers. "Lord, you keep the Elation contained?" Qlipoth had no opportunity to respond, Fuli seeing well before He could. ait hummed, strings of glass shining as it tilted its head. "Ah, no, the Elation persists outside the remains. Thou art well thought, well meaning, well cognizant of such. There is no life in an Aeon yet The Laughter is extant. How The Enigmata resists consumption of such is elusive."

Qlipoth once more did not respond, Fuli filling in the silence with it's own gibberish. It's cold clattering sound almost sounds like laughter, if the Rememberance would ever be capable of such a thing. Qlipoth wondered if He could hit his mark on a second attempt. "Ah, no. No. The Amber Lord is much aware of the why and the how and the when of that the Elation. Thy knowledge of such exceeds that of the Elation itself, no? Puzzling. Lord, you know of the Laughter's whereabouts?" A pause, a shivering sound of vibrating sea glass, a distant eruption. "...I see. It's fragmented cadaver is within the Lord's grasp but where the Laughter itself persists is unseen. It cuts itself to a facade of mortality, of weakness."

Fuli hovered by the Wall, a few lightyears back to the many murals Aha had imbedded in its surface. Fuli halted at a massive relief, craved out in one of Aha's many images; a massive winged creature, intricate sparkling feathers swirling around fangs, claws, talons, grinning masks. Fuli made a light airy noise in the silence, leaning its eyeless head closer in inspection. Qlipoth stood poised to strike.

"The jester," Fuli chimed, "Shapeshifter. Clown. Hermes. Kutkh. Coyote. Raven. The Fool, always the Fool. It has no equal measure to it's idiocy. The Elation will remain a Fool until its self-appointed end."

Fuli reached out. It didn't touch the Wall before Qlipoth struck down, the weight of His power enough to shatter stars. But Fuli was not underneath His hammer, nowhere to be found.

It was some years before Qlipoth received the first message. It was nothing but a blink in the Aeons endless existence, but it felt like it had taken eons for it to reach Him.

Aha hadn't sent many messages before, having preferred to just appear by the Wall whenever it had something to prattle on about. But Qlipoth was still absolutely familiar with the cords, the sounds that Aha sent reverbrating through the dimensions; music, tinkling laughter, strings being plucked and tears falling and glasses clattering together in cheers. Revelry rhyming flawlessly with just a touch of malencholy, just enough to make the joy sweeter.

The message was different. A pinpoint of feeling, a silvery tone of a lone instrument. It no longer was the all-encompassing feeling of Elation, far less general and gargantuan. It was no longer the full range of emotion, of every mortal feeling at once, but rather whittled down to the feelings of one specific creature. It bobbed lazily and rhythmically through the stars before it hit Qlipoth with a small pop.

Hey! Can you hear this, you old man? Aha-- er, I didn't really consider if I could do this before... yeah, so I hope you can. I sent myself with those Masked Fools which was uh maybe not a great idea. Some of them are fun but most of them are jerks. Oh! And I messed up making this body of mine and have been stuck as a kid for waaayyyy too long. This whole human thing is weird but I'm having a great time you should try it out. I mean not that you would, you don't know how to have fun, but still-- wait, shit Aha isn't-- I'm not sure if you'll even hear this. Hopefully you do my friend.

It was less a message and more a string of disjointed thoughts, loosely connected by the emtions that ring through the words; happiness, curiosity, awe, nervousness, apprehension. It was small, specific feelings, far from the grand emotions Aha had cloaked around him, the contagious aura all sentient thought and feeling that encompassed the other Aeon entirely. The message was almost... quaint, compared to what it once was, but it's singularity was intense. The sudden onslaught of singular emotions was nearly too much, Qlipoth feeling everything that the creature left of Aha must have felt on that moment. It was such a personal, focused feeling that Qlipoth almost mistook it for someone else, that some other lower lifeform had somehow sent this to him.

But then Aha, just as it once did, names itself with laughter.

Qlipoth responded quickly. The low hum of planets shifting, gravity twirling celestial bodies around each other. The bursting of new stars into existence from the decaying remnants of old ones. The electric excitement of thunderstorms, the rumbling of volcanic eruptions. Qlipoth managed to keep himself contained enough to send back a message of His annoyance.

Sampo Koski is both absolutely, undeniably Aha and something else entirely. Both an old, familiar being and a complete stranger.

The messages come in quick succession after the first one, rapidfire thrums of Sampo's thoughts and feelings and whatever he feels the need to share with the Preservation. Which is anything, really; Sampo Koski finds candy made for children, strange bugs, and games of hide and seek just as interesting as the cosmic chaos Aha once brought about the universe. Sampo reads books and learns to use daggers and talks about the other kids he's stuck with under the Masked Fools' harsh training with as much interest as he did when reshaping planets.

To Sampo Koski, weeks and months pass between the messages he sends, their lazy, weak music taking its time to reach Qlipoth at His Wall. But to Him, time is a figment, before and then and now all overlap, the passage of time a coiling rope that passes Him by.

Sampo's messages are constant to Him, with near to no break between. Years pass as always with Sampo talking about the strange experience of growing up, the children who grew to adults as he stagnated. He spoke of the Masked Fools' auditions and the training he underwent until he'd had enough and pushed his form into adulthood. Qlipoth heard about the Taverns, the plays he took part in and scripts he'd followed on multiple planets masquerading as dozens of different people. Sampo constantly laughs about the Masked Fools' reverence to an Aeon right beside them, delights in how oblivious they are as years stretch on and he remains the same, how they can't comprehend the inhumanity that seeps through the cracks of his form.

It's almost a century before Sampo describes a new play, a new role for him to act out on a planet enveloped in frost. One of yours, Sampo whistles thousands of lightyears across the universe, a forgotten planet of Qlipoth worshippers who are barely holding on to life I guess. So they'll probably be a bunch of old bastards like you. I Hope this one will be more fun than the last few plays but uh... Sampo Koski sure doesn't have high hopes here.

Qlipoth listens as the messages shift, from Sampo's script and his roll as a background character to descriptions of the people of the Underworld, the orphans and young children, the members of Wildfire and the Guards he runs from so often. Qlipoth listens as Sampo's attention shifts over time, his messages fixated more and more on the Guards he evades as he commits crimes, smuggles goods and causes issues.

The feelings that come with each message are strange, and grow stranger; growing more and more in uncertainty, anxiety, a sort of jubilation and delight Qlipoth has never and maybe should never experience.

Sampo Koski talks about a particular Captain more than anyone. One of yours, Sampo says again, but entirely without the resigned boredom of before. He's the perfect Preservation type of follower. He's boring. He's... he's... I don't know. I like him.

Qlipoth rarely responds, Sampo more than content with holding up this one sided conversation. But He does when Sampo tells him he's staying on that cold, desolate, tired planet. He doesn't really know what was said, what He meant to say, whether He's worried about the Aeon or annoyed, or maybe He's curious. Whatever He says, in His rumbling star-shaking sounds, Sampo understands.

Don't you worry about lil' old me, Qlipoth! Sampo Koski just goes for what he likes, okay? I'm just having some fun. Not that you'd know anything about that, of course!... He intrigues me, that's all.

Qlipoth grumbles to no one, the feeling of intrigue and interest and fascination not His own as it washes over Him. He lifts His hammer and strikes down on the Wall just once, wondering how He became cursed with this other Aeon, all while the remains of Aha contained within His Wall burn in His awareness.

There was never a point where Qlipoth was not. No moment of sudden existence, no prelude to His divinity nor a point where matter gathered into Aeonhood. He always Was, and always will Be.

He does not know when life burst into existence or what started it. The specks of life were far beneath His awareness, growing and evolving and developing within the blinks of eons that passed by Qlipoth's notice. Maybe life was always there, maybe it grew from the shattered atoms of the Leviathans Qlipoth smashed to pieces as they krept out of the Nothing behind the foundations of His Wall. Whatever it was, wherever mortal life came from, He was oblivious to it.

It was once life developed to the point of sentience, to feeling, that Aha popped into existence. Qlipoth would spend the rest of His existence wishing he'd been aware of life, so maybe He could squish it out before Aha could become the longest lasting thorn in Qlipoth's side.

Aha was a molecular flash of light, a pop of noise sudden and so small Qlipoth shouldn't have even noticed it. But He did, suddenly so hyperaware of the atomic presence that suddenly manifested in the cosmos with Him. It stilled His hammer, made Him turn a few rare degrees away from His Wall, and lurch forward at the small being of air and light and noise.

Aha couldn't speak, couldn't think, couldn't grasp much of anything. Its form was incomplete, shaky and made up of the barely existing thoughts and feelings of sentient creatures that Qlipoth didn't know existed until this very moment. It could move, barely, flickering between atoms as a divine electron.

It couldn't speak. But it could laugh. It cackled, shrill vibrating sounds that echoed between dark matter and the empty space of the universe. It laughed, and laughed and laughed until it's laughter became it's name-- mere seconds right before Qlipoth swung His hammer and dissolved the Aeon into nothing.

Qlipoth settled back into His isolation and went back to building the Wall.

That should have been it. The molecular Aeon should have ceased to exist.

Mortal life evolved further, from shivering molecules to singular cells, to multicellular organisms and shimmering, immaterial beings of sensations. Qlipoth noted it a bit more now, more out of concern for His Wall or any other strange beings that will crop up, but nothing more.

Aha's burst into existence was bigger, more prevalant, just as sudden and overwhelming to Qlipoth's infinite senses as before. He never noticed the fragments of Aha, scattered between atoms, nor how they suddenly snapped altogether once more into a being more developed than before. Aha had a form now, mismatched swirls of varying limbs and claws and tentacles much like the immature physical forms of the mortal life Aha spawned from. Aha was made up of colours that didn't exist yet, sounds that had no place in Qlipoth's quiet galaxies.

The new Aeon was just as small to Qlipoth, but was still so much more than the first time it popped up those thousands of years ago. It instantly started to laugh, but it couldn't do much more than that, it's attempts at speech cheery garbled nonexistent words.

For the first time in Qlipoth's endless existence, He felt something, an emotion breaching the divinity -- annoyance.

Aha cackled and tried to speak up at Him, undulating limbs vibrating and thrown around in something like cheer. Qlipoth's reaction was near instant, a pivot from His Wall and a swing of His hammer. But Aha knew better then, no doubt remembering the scattering of it's being as it zipped across the universe and narrowly avoided being dissolved once more. Aha gigglees in a way that shakes stars and Qlipoth simmered with new feelings that burned across His gargantuan form. The miniscule Aeons gargled non-speech tempted Him to strike again, but Qlipoth just barely resisted and returned to His Wall.

Aha hovered around Qlipoth for an indescribable amount of time. It challenged Him, toeing closer and closer to the Wall, seeing how close it could get before Qlipoth snapped and swung at it. Sometimes Aha gets scattered again, not dodging quick enough, only taking a few centuries to reform, only for Aha to return to testing Qlipoth's patience. It's only fitting that the very first game is entirely built on bothering the much larger Aeon.

Annoyance, frustration, and rage were all becoming familiar feelings to Qlipoth. It's all fixated on Aha, the sole fixation of His emotions. The cause of it, Qlipoth eventually realized; when Aha is scattered or it's flickering attention pulled elsewhere, Qlipoth's entire existence returned to the unfeeling need to protect, to build, to close off the universe from the Nothing. The moments and decades between the Elation being shattered and reforming feel like intermissions, waiting for Aha to return.

Qlipoth at some point realized He welcomed the strange, small Aeon and the range of feeling it instilled in Him. Qlipoth stopped shattering the Aeon so much, only when Aha decided to be truly bothersome and started picking away at the Wall. It seems like the other Aeon can't be destroyed anyways, and maybe He doesn't always want it gone anymore.

There's other Aeons. They creep into existence, ascending to divinity. Qlipoth paid them no mind, not caring where or when or how they begin. Long seemed to simply always exist, perhaps having been outside of Qlipoth's notice this whole time. HooH appeared a few times to judge the Wall, their twin gazes seeming to find the structure satisfactory every time they appeared while Qlipoth continued to build unbothered. The Voracity is pummeled and nearly destroyed when they consume a segment of the Wall, Qlipoth leaving them to scamper back into the Nothing and lick their wounds. Oroboros lays low for centuries after that but does not tempt Qlipoth's ire again.

Qlipoth wouldn't care much about them, wouldn't know anything about the other Aeons or anything kept within His Wall really, if Aha wasn't constantly blabbering to Him.

"Aha likes this Trailblaze guy," it hummed, sitting on empty space up by Qlipoth's shoulder, kicking it's legs back and forth. Aha is larger now, no longer a molecule in comparison to His size but more of a pebble, a bug. It's form is made up of strange manmade objects, grinning masks and musical instruments and toys and ribbons. "They're funny! And much less standoffish than you are, you hunk of rocks."

Aha giggled at Qlipoth's rumbling reply, the sound of tectonic plates shifting and meteors crackling apart. Aha's voice was a symphony of many, hundreds of different tones and words spoken in hundreds of different accents and languages. Verbal speech isn't necessary, something Qlipoth always made abundantly clear in His otherworldly responses. Aha never listened, just laughed Qlipoth off and waved one of many gloved hands. It always was one for theatrics.

"Hey! It's not Aha's fault your a stick in the mud." There was the sound of a slow landslide, debris and gravel scraping over a slanted rockface. "It means you're boring, old, and not cool at all. Which you aren't! At least Akivili knows how to cut loose. They got some big ideas, something about trains and space faring or whatever. Aha is excited to see where that goes!"

A harsh sound of stone snapping, and Aha paused, leaning forward and holding up their grinning mask face with a twitching hand. Qlipoth refused to acknowledge them. "If Aha wanted to hang out with Akivili, it would be with them now." His grumble was a slow collision of planets. "My dear Qlipoth, are you jealous?"

Qlipoth didn't respond, which was definitely the worst choice He'd made. Aha giggled, then snorted, then cackled and vibrated as it shifted the surrounding stars around it's glee. Aha finally settled down and controlled itself after a few years, sitting down on Qlipoth's shoulder with a sigh. Qlipoth halfhearted swatted at the other Aeon, who dodged effortlessly after eons of practice.

"Ahhh, that's funny. You're funny sometimes, y'know that?" Aha exhaled, wiping at diamond tears from its eyes. "Aha takes back the 'stick in the mud' thing. Really, though, you're a good friend." A hummed sound of a mountain forming, earth's crust cracking. "It means Aha likes being around you and likes your company. It's a mortal concept-- Aha knows, it knows! That's very below you, oh majestic Amber Lord you, but. Aha likes it."

There was silence. Qlipoth, as always, had nothing to say, but Aha's lack of constant stammering and babbling is notable. It was almost a bit unnerving, until Aha sucked in a sharp, unnecessary breath. "Aaaaaanyways, what was Aha saying? Oh! Yeah, Akivili is interesting, but this other guy-- the Propagation? They've got a name but it's way too long and boring-- is kinda concerning. They are just gross and they have no personality! Seriously, they're becoming a bit of a problem. Just a massive bug hivemind... Aha tried talkin' to some of them, but they don't understand Aha's jokes. No class, I say. Oh, and Aha hasn't seen HooH in a while, because they tried to organize Aha into two categories last time. Aha blew up a planet of their worshippers after that but they didn't care. Hey, have you seen Oroboros around anywhere? Aha has been wondering what would happen if they try and swallow Aha, but..."

Qlipoth didn't like how Ena the Order looked at Aha.

Aha was a force of chaos, as unpredictable and uncontained as the growing mortal populations the Elation seems to love so dearly. It ran around the vast universe constantly, always on the move and causing problems. Aha returned to Qlipoth fairly regularly but still sparodically, sometimes centuries between visits at the Wall, and sometimes thousands of years before it returned to pester Him. Regardless, Aha always brought emotions back to Qlipoth's awareness, the capacities for frustration, annoyance, interest, irritation, and maybe contentment. Aha brought first hand accounts of the chaos it caused, too; planets destroyed or warped into strange shapes, galaxies rearranged so that their gravity sang a sweeter tune, populations of sentient creatures made to dance and weep and scream. Aha tipped the universe out of balance, danced on the edge of the Nothing and along all other Paths, all for entertainment.

Qlipoth did not like how Ena watched the Elation. Qlipoth did not watch any other Aeon like He did Ena; the Order crossed Paths with the Elation often, tidying up Aha's messes and rearranging the chaos Aha created. Even the kinder things Aha did, planets moved to spin at a calmer rate and starforms turned beautiful arrays of colour, were all fixed with Ena's mechanical, methodical hands.

Ena looked at Aha's uncertainty and rampant emotional chaos like She wanted to solve it, fix it, be rid of it.

The Propagation was expanding outside of Qlipoth's notice, His knowledge of it only due to Aha's complaining. Ena confronted him with a proposition, a deal. Spoken in vibrations, constant tones. The Propagation needed to be exterminated. Qlipoth did not care.

The Propagation was killing thousands of mortals, was overtaking the universe. Qlipoth gathered and spawned more minerals for the Wall. The Propagation could kill Aha, the Elation, along with the universe. The mention of Aha sparked enough sentience to make Qlipoth rumble with a mockery of a laugh.

Ena's hands crackled, porcelain and gold joints crackling. Ena's eye swirled and landed on Qlipoth, fierce with threat. Qlipoth finally paused and looked at the other Aeon, and accepted the proposition.

The Order is absorbed before Qlipoth confronts Tayzzyronth, Xipe the Harmony overcoming Order and standing alongside the Aeons as Qlipoth fractures the Propagation with His hammer. Aha watched with interest, cheering and screaming and celebrating far too loudly as Qlipoth seals the remnants of Tayzzyronth in amber. Xipe watched Aha's pluming sparkles and confetti, his raoucous chaos and disorder, and their giggle sounds like a symphony.

Qlipoth found himself content with Xipe. Ena held up Her side of the deal well.

Aha started adding to the Wall.

At first it was to annoy Qlipoth, grabbing meteors and debris and strange starforms and shoving them into the Wall without care. But the first time made Him vibrate and rumble with approval, sounding of the pop of plants rising from earth and stones being weathered down smooth. That had made Aha freeze deadly still more than any annoyed retort or swing of His hammer had before, made the Elation stare at Him strangely. Being met with even Qlipoth's stony gratitude rather than being the brunt of frustration seemed to make Aha glitch.

Aha, of course, proceeded to plunge it's hands into the Wall and rearrange the physical matter, not even bothering to run when Qlipoth slammed His hammer down on the Aeon. Aha's particles shattered against the Wall.

Aha reformed some time later, cursing Qlipoth out in every language possible, but Aha kept adding to the Wall. It was always strange, unnecessary things; sparkling gems, debris from shipwrecks, the fossilized remains of extinct animals, manmade creations that stuck out awkwardly. Aha shifted the Wall and created statues in the Elation's likeness, hundreds of thousands of Aha figures jutting from the Wall. But it never broke the Wall or interferred with its integrity every again. Aha's additions to the Wall barely made a difference, were barely noticeable. But Qlipoth found Himself humming with contentment each time Aha added another knicknack to it.

Qlipoth watched on as Aha waltzed along the Wall, nearly tripping into the Nothing as it danced and sang, recreated plays and theatre performances it stole from humans. Qlipoth could only feel when Aha was around, but it had taken Him until those moments to really feel some appreciation for a Path other than His own.

Other Aeons came into existence.

Yaoshi sprung to life from twisted plantmatter, intertwining into something greater. Aha first found interest in this, then grew bored of the single-minded desire to grow for the sake of growth itself. "You'd think growing and eternal life and all that would lead to more fun," Aha once lamented, "but Yaoshi makes those mortals so... dull. They become numb and wither away. Where's the fun in that?"

Lan rose in response to Yaoshi, a being of pure rage and a thirst for blood. Aha poked and prodded and mocked until arrows rained across the cosmos, green strikes of lightning briming with rage as Aha laughed and danced around them. Sometimes he hid behind Qlipoth who never even flinched as the arrows striked His back, and rarely did Lan hit his mark. Nous made Aha uncomfortable in contrast, but intrigued him in a strange way. "That bucket of metal wants to dissect Aha," the Elation would shiver, faces crying in exagerated unison, "wants to pin Aha to a board in her library. You should kill Nous." Aha wept further at the sound of stars crumbling with Qlipoth's refusal.

Qlipoth had turned towards Nanook when Aha regaled tales of being threatened, but thankfully found that the Destruction was unimpressed with the smallest Aeon, easily fooled by Aha's childishness. Fuli showed clear disdain for Aha as it stole human memories for itself, but unlike Ena at least they showed enough restraint to ignore Aha.

IX was a challenge to the Elation. Mythus was hilarious, and Terminus couldn't take a joke.

Aeons fell, too.

Idrila ceased to be and Aha quickly masqueraded as the Beauty, sending Knights of Beauty and wild journeys. Long fragmented eons ago, outside of Qlipoth's notice.

The arrows Lan sent racing towards Aha rarely hit their mark, but sometimes they did. Piercing rays of rage, hot-white anger would send Aha scattering in a burst of laughter. Aha would always, always reform.

Aha had always had an interest in mortals. In the smaller aspects of the universe. So often when rambling to Qlipoth it spoke of legions of starhopping amphibians, movies or plays it'd plucked from mortal memory and kept to itself, the overly intricate ships humans made to traverse galaxies, the strange games and music and drinks they created through their small existences.

"Have you ever left this Wall, Qlipoth?" Aha once asked, placing jewelry and gems on the Wall, "ever even like, turned around and looked at what you're preserving?" There's an echo of thunder, of earthquakes settling. "Yes yes, Aha gets it! It's all beneath you, it doesn't matter, blah blah. You old bastard."

There was a stitled moment of silence, save for Aha's constant humming, before it whined again. "But, really! You Aeons are all so high and mighty and stuck up sometimes. Have you ever even tried to eat some food? Like, something those mortals cooked up? Wait. Do you even have a mouth."

Qlipoth's minerals clattered against each other in response. Aha huffed, crossed it's dozens of arms, masks swirling upside down. "... Y'know, Akivili hangs out with mortals. And Akivili has a mouth."

He didn't respond, but the next swing of His hammer crushed a fleet of surveying IPC ships. Aha applauded.

"Aha made a puppet," the Elation reported to Qlipoth much, much later. It had been an extensive amount of time since Aha visited Him last, but Qlipoth would never let Aha know he kept track. "Aha put the puppet on one of Akivili's Astral Expresses. It was a lot of fun, but it wasn't Aha. So Aha blew it up! You should've seen Akivili's face!" Aha cackled, kicking it's feet and tumbling far too close into the Nothing. The Elation didn't even seem to notice how Qlipoth pulled it back behind His Wall, too busy rejoicing in what it did.

Akivili fell not long after.

When Aha visited next, Qlipoth didn't need to say a thing to have the other Aeon huffing, it's hackles raising and millions of bells furiously ringing. "Aha had nothing to do with that, you heap of rocks! To accuse your dearest friend, Aha, of that! For shame." Qlipoth's garguantuan body grinds against itself as He tilts his head, riling it up further. "Don't give Aha that bullshit! You were thinking it! Aha could hear the thought clattering 'round that pebble mind of yours. Really, it blows up one Astral Express and suddenly Aha is the Akivili killer. Ridiculous!"

Qlipoth just tuned out Aha's rambling, turning back to the wall and not noticing when Aha enters an unsettling silence.

Something changed in Aha ever since its stint on the Express.

Aha had always been a being of pure energy, flighty and erratic as it sought out thrills across the universe. Even the moments it spent on Qlipoth's Wall were full of energy, rambling about nothing and bouncing atop and across the Wall.

But the Elation had become quiet. It's journeys and chaotic jokes across the galaxies never stilled, but it became quiet in His shadow. There wasn't any rambling gossip, complaints about the other 'stuck up' Aeons or stories of the Elation Aha had created. It became pensive, a pensiveness overtaking it's constantly anxious energy. It was strange, and uncanny. Qlipoth found Aha's restless melancholy contagious. Qlipoth tried not to wonder, not to care.

"Aha has decided," Aha hummed out a single note, a voice of low cords, "to make itself mortal."

Aha was always reckless and idiotic, never one to think anything through. It's actions were always spur of the moments, never planned or deliberated over. It had never told Qlipoth what it wanted to do before. This wasn't the Aeon asking for advice let alone permission, more like it musing aloud, but Qlipoth still responded.

The sound of planets colliding, the slow and agonizing growth of the edge the universe. Stars crackling and burning themselves into extinction, intercepting galaxies leaving only destruction. Qlipoth's disgust and disapproval made the Nothing quiver. Aha was unaffected.

"Aha talked to Nous," it continued, laying back on one of the many meteors that make up His body. The Elation felt like a smoldering jubilation against His rocky surface. "She said it's impossible and got way too interesting, but Aha is gonna do it anyways."

There's never a point in arguing with Aha, not that Qlipoth ever bothered to before. He doesn't then either, doesn't say anything as Aha zips away without a word, leaving sounds of soft revelry in its wake.

Qlipoth found what remained of Aha later. Aha never returned after that last visit, and all that was left of it was butchered remains, the Elation flayed and left in scattered limbs and objects beside the Nothing. Whatever was left of Aha wasn't there, not among it's still living dismembered corpse.

The remains of Aha wasn't enough to spark any feeling in Qlipoth. As He built the Wall He only paused a moment with recognition, no feelings of melancholy, rage, annoyance. Qlipoth did not care.

But, as the eternally growing Wall approached the remains of Aha, Qlipoth moved it, shifted the Celestial Wall to encase Aha, wrapping around it in a cocoon of amber.

[butterbuni]

♥ Chapter 8 ~ Recommendation Entrance Exam P3 ♥

Previous Chapter

After lunch, we were separated into groups of 10 and were led to different rooms by the number we finished. I waved goodbye to Momo and Inasa as they were led to their rooms with their group.

I walked with the rest of mine into a long hallway with chairs set up against the wall, 5 on each side. Everyone took seats as number 20 went into a room at the end of the hall. This is so nerve-wracking. I don't have any of my new friends here to keep me distracted. I looked around the hall. There were not many students. I looked directly across from me to see Endeavor's son leaning back against the wall with his eyes closed. He's probably sleeping. How could he sleep at such a moment?

When he wasn't being rude, he looked really nice. I couldn't help but admire his features, which makes no sense because I've seen Endeavor, and let me just say the apple fell very far from the tree. (Endeavor slander? Yes.). Even with that huge scar on his face he still manages to be so beautiful. I should probably apologize to him for calling him a lil bitch. I laughed to myself remembering my outburst at him earlier. Star would have given me a lecture for not being respectful.

"Number 21!" A teacher called out as a student left the room.

A student got up and went into the room. Only two more people until my turn. I looked down as I twiddled my thumbs. What kind of questions will they ask? Did I prepare enough? Kean said they change the questions each year, so he wasn't much help. I rolled my eyes remembering when I asked Kean to help me and he shot me down. I picked up my feet pulling it up to my chest wrapping my hands around it. I looked up again and Endeavor's son was still sleeping. I would have to wait till after the interviews to apologize. I rested my head in my knees shutting my eyes. Maybe sleeping won't be so bad.

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"Number 24!"

My head shot up from my knees to see Endeavor's son leaving the room. IT WAS MY TURN! I quickly got from my seat fixing myself up and walked to the door. I took a deep breath in and opened the door.

I walked in seeing Principal Nezu sitting at a rather large desk. He looked like a white mouse bear hybrid. Nonetheless, he was adorable I had to keep myself from smiling like a dork at his adorableness. I took a deep bow introducing myself. "Good afternoon Miss L/n. Please take a seat," he said calmly pointing his paws towards a set of seats in front of his desk. I took a seat at one of the seats saying good afternoon.

(For this part I will not be saying "blah blah," He said or she said. Only because it's too much for the amount of talking here. So instead, it will be in Nezu: and Y/N: format. No, they are not texting)

Nezu: Your full name is Y/N M/N L/N. Correct?

Y/N: Correct sir.

Nezu: Are you by chance Kean's younger sibling?

Y/N: Yes sir.

Nezu: No need to be so formal Miss Y/N. Your brother was an exceptional student here at U.A. When I received a letter asking for you to be put in recommendations by him, I couldn't say no. How is the hero Flame doing anyway? I see him on the news quite often.

Y/N: He's doing great actually he got a job as a sidekick to Endeavor a little over a year ago. Although he is busier than he was when he was in U.A but he still has time to train me.

Nezu: Good. Good. So, from the practical exam it looks like your quirk is controlling the elements do you mind explaining it to me.

Y/N: I can manipulate air, water, fire, and earth. So far, I've figured out I can control metal and lightning. I can produce air and fire from my body, but I cannot control the air or fire around me. However, I am immune to burns from my fire. I can't produce earth or water from my body, but I can control the different forms of water and earth around me. Metal bending is when I can sense the fragments can of earth in the metal allowing me to control it. I mostly use it for my shoes. Lighting bending comes from using the energy in me and focusing it outward using my fingertips to aim. Though it takes too much energy for even one strike, so I don't use it.

Nezu writes stuff down on a paper and looks back up at Y/N: And your weakness?

Y/N: Oh! Well, I can't bend pure metal and I can't control the lighting once it leaves my body. I also cannot control all the elements at the same time, I've tried. My biggest weakness is my energy use once I exceed my limit I pass out. However, Kean says if I keep training to the limit I would be able to last longer.

Nezu: Wow! You have such a powerful quirk Miss Y/N. Do you mind if I ask what your parent's quirks are? I understand Kean's quirk is flame and lighting.

Y/N: My mom's quirk is water manipulation, and I don't know what my father's quirk is. I never knew him. Mom just said he disappeared after I was born. I'm guessing his quirk had something to do with the elements. The pictures at home only show Mom and Kean's dad.

Nezu: Why do you want to become a hero Miss L/N

Y/N: Well, I want to create a world where things are fair for everyone. Villains are the ones that are in of the way of achieving of that.

Nezu: You know that, that is naive thinking right?

Y/N: I know i may be naive thinking doesn't mean it's impossible.

Nezu writes more stuff on a paper: So, Miss Y/N why do you want to go to our school?

Y/N: Well, I want to become a hero just like Kean. It's been my dream since I was able to use my quirk. U.A is the best school where the best heroes graduated from. The question should be why I wouldn't want to come to U.A. The answer is no reason by the way.

Nezu laughs at my quip: Good to know. Well, it's been wonderful getting to know you. In about a week you will receive a letter with our decision.

Y/N: It was great getting to know you to Principal Nezu. I'll take my leave now.

Nezu: Please have the man outside call Number 25.

Y/N: Yes sir.

I walked out of the room as the man outside called for number 25. I looked around the hall looking for Endeavor's son to apologize. I sighed. He wasn't there. There goes my chance of redemption. I do hope he doesn't tell Endeavor. Kean will seriously be pissed if I cost him his job.

I walked out of the building looking around. Maybe Momo or Inasa are done with their interview and we could walk home together and exchange numbers. I looked around the front and none of them were there. I looked over at the gate and saw a familiar galaxy haired friend waiting for me.

"STARRRRRR!" I yelled running to him.

He looked up at me his face had a few bandages. He must've gotten hurt during his practical exam. He smiled in my direction waving at me.

"What happened to your face?" I asked as I approached him. "Just a few burns here and there. The bots they used were the size of a full-grown human being and they were fast for big chunks of metal. Do you think you could heal me up when we get to your place? I don't want to ruin my perfect skin," He said as we walked out of the gates.  "I don't know, can I?" I laughed. "Sure, I can heal you up when we get to my house. So how was your practical? Did you only fight bots?" "Yeah, it was just bots. They put a whole bunch of us, maybe 30 or 40, into a look-alike town to fight them. It was timed too. I saw some pretty cool quirks there. One kid sprouted tape from his elbows to destroy the bots.  Another kid was literally surrounded by electricity. It was pretty cool till I acted like you and went close to him while he was emitting electricity. I didn't even get that close till I fell the volts hit my face," he said placing his face in his hand and then winced, "Overall it was pretty easy. I think I racked at least 40 points. And the written exam WAS SO EASY. I'd be surprised if I didn't pass. So, how was your test?"

"Well.......," I scratched my head.  "I panicked just before the written exam. I met a girl, a super smart girl, who helped me prepare for the test. She has a similar quirk to yours actually. Her's is called Creation. The test itself was pretty hard but I think I did okay. I met Endeavor's son but I made a horrible first impression. He had this huge scar on his left eye and I just stared at it with no regard for his feelings. It's not like his attitude was any good but I'm not there yet. I also met Recovery Girl right before the practical. She was nice. The practical was way mor- oh look we're here. I can tell you more over dinner."

I opened the door, and it was very quiet. I sighed Kean and Mom must not be home. It's okay I have Star here with me. "Wash your hands looks like I'm making dinner," I said rolling up my sleeves.

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Built Shenlong today 💚 isn’t it so pretty

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Gods AU Part 3

Shrines and Temples

Karasuno

Daichi: His shrines are in every court and everyone has to swear on it, the judge and the criminal. If someone refuses they refuse justice and the gods which is a bad idea if you want to live. They are simple and the only thing needed is a piece of stone with his name and a scale or the horn of a capricorn. Every town has at least one temple of him, the priest/ess of the temple is the judge of the court there

Sugawara: His shrines are in most family homes aswell as in hospitals, you pray at them to thank Sugawara for your family and what you have. He also doesn’t need much for a shrine but as he is the god of generosity you have to be generous to receive from him which is why you have to leave/burn some food there (but only if you are in a situation where you can give others food). He has many temples, the priests/priestesses there are blessed to have a big healthy family and often are midwifes and similar jobs.

Asahi: Petkeepers often set a small shrine for him up so the animals are alright no matter what awaits them. Animals are drawn to his shrine and were observed to protect them, they mourn everytime one breaks so you have to make sure the shrines are steady and from a long living material. If you kill an animal around there you are refused Gentleness in your life for a special amount of time. Priests and Priestesses in his temple are liked by animals and have related jobs.

Kyoko: Many young ones set up a shrine for her in their room to pray for beauty or the suffering of their enemy’s which they are often granted aslong as they are respectful people who aren’t sinners or perverts. She only requires offerings if you want to receive something from her (ex. you want to be pretty ? Sacrifice a rose and a bit food and you got it). Her temples are sometimes used to execute sentences and shrines are also set up in prisons to ensure the suffering and make her able to feed of it even better.

Tanaka: Most of his shrines are temporary set up for a nice festival or the need of luck, he requires a Koi or a 4petaled clover and a prayer for luck and a goblet of wine and a long prayer for a successful festival. His temples are set up sparsely but his few priests and priestesses make sure he isn’t forgotten by having huge festivals, the temples are big because that’s where every festival takes place.

Nishinoya: Almost every household has a shrine for him, many are very big to ensure safety for the house and the habitants of former. He doesn’t require much, just a prayer here and there but many people still bring offerings as a thank you. His temples are set up in the center of the city and around it to protect the whole thing. The priests and priestesses are all guards and police officers.

Ennoshita: The god of fellowships symbol is used in teams to strengthen the bond and teamwork between the members. His temples are rare to find as most just at up temporary shrines but if you go in there with a group of people that mean something to you your bond will exceed normal fellowship. Prayers to him will make you a better team player.

Kageyama: His temples and shrines have to be near bodies of water and he requires to have water on it as an offering. Depending on the size of the shrine the amount tends to differ, a normal houseshrine maybe requires 1 cup, The temples have huge pools of water in or around them. You pray at him for protection of hurricanes and floods aswell as talent to strike you, to the latter he barely responds. If you devote your life towards him you are never gonna have to be afraid that you drown.

Hinata: If you want to build a temple for him you need to make sure that as long as its day the sun can strike it. Its tradition to pray at his temple every sunrise to thank him. Once a week on Sundays there's a festival which includes a ceremony of prayers and offerings at his temple. Offering to him are usually symbolic for the sun and therfore often shiny. Hawks will build nests on to of the temple and if you scare them away the sun will burn you. Prayers and offerings will ensure that the sun never burns you so if you see someone with a sunburn you can be sure they refuse the gods.

Tsukishima: Every place of education is a temple to him and the teachers are the priests/priestesses. He requires no offering and will punish you if you try to take money for education. Students often set up shrines in their rooms to study better. Other temples are to be set up where the moon can find them which is often near temples of Hinata. Its usual to pray to him every time the blue hour comes. Devotion and prayers towards him will give you slightly higher intelligence, better nightvision and lesser need for sleep during the night.

Yamaguchi: As he is the god of the stars he always accompanies Tsukishimas which is why their temples are next to each other. He rewards kind people with a mark, the kinder you are the more your pupils look like stars. If you have normal round pupils it's not bad either, just that you are average not exceptionally kind. His priests and priestesses are blessed with stars in their eyes and hair (galaxy style).

Yachi: Her temples are set up sparsely but she has many shrines. Her symbol is often carved in friendship bracelets to ensure it will be a long, good relationship. Exceptionally shy people pray to her almost every day to get enough courage to go through their day. Her priests and priestesses are often social workers. Those who devote themselves to her will always have the courage to fight for themselves and their friends.

Ukai: As one of the rather unpopular his he neither has many shrines nor temples but he won't be forgotten as long as there's one proud human. He fills the people with pride until they realise they don't deserve whatever is wrong. During this riots people draw his symbol on their flag.

Takeda: If he finds what you want is worthy to pursue he will fill you with the ambition you need to go through with it. Like Ukai he is rather forgotten. He works closely with Lev together.

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Oikawa: His shrines are set up in all homes of royalty, if not he can and will stop giving them his blessing which means they stop being seen as royalty immediately. Priests and priestesses in his temples are only the most determined people, exceptionally graceful persons or royalty. Devotion to him results into being elevated to royalty (extremely rare) of being blessed with his other domains.

Iwaizumi: Some people tend to make themselves shrines for him by tattooing his symbol over their whole back or similar things. A shrine of him can be found in almost every house to strengthen the habitants. Those who devote themselves to him seem to grow a huge strength and a small resistance against fire, as a result of this many of his followers are blacksmith, knights or soldiers.

Kunimi: People often build little shrines for him in their bedrooms to scare away nightmares and insomnia. His temples mostly consist of beds for the homeless and the ones with very bad insomnia. Being a priest/priestess for him can grand you the ability to put others to sleep.

Kindaichi: One of the gods with almost no followers. Holding grudges is considered bad so you pray to him to get rid of grudges rather then holding onto them.

Fukurodani

Bokuto: His many shrines and temples are always filled, no matter if laughter or sadness. His priests and priestesses are able to detect and manipulate emotions like no other, a side effect of that are heavy moodswings. Prayers and offerings are often rewarded with control over your own emotions.

Akaashi: One of the most popular gods with many shrines and temples. Every cemetery has a shrine of him where funerals are held, his symbol is traced in every clock and mastering the fine arts is impossible without praying to him. His priests and priestesses are funeral directors and craftsmen of clocks and other fine things (including arts like music or painting). Devotion /prayers to him will give you depending on the prayer mastery if an art or more time. People pray whenever something shall last long or don't last at all.

Nekoma

Kuroo: Being the god of love and passion he has shrines in every home of lovers. Traditional marriage ceremonys are held in his temples and lead by his priests and priestesses. Engagement and wedding rings have his symbol on them to give them a good marriage.

Kenma: Kenma is actually quite popular and has many temples and shrines where people pray to him for higher perception and a restful life. His priests and priestesses often do things where high perception and attention is needed to succeed as they are blessed by him to have those gifts.

Lev: One of the more unpopular gods with few temples but during phases in you life like preparing for tests or for games its not unusual to set up a shrine and pray to him so you can achieve your goal.

Yaku: He is Daichis right hand in court and there to execute the punishment. Temples and shrines of him are a bit rare but he has a small army of priests and priestesses. They are responsible for executing punishment.

Shiratorizawa

Ushijima: His shrines and temples are to be set up near growing plants which makes them grow better. Carving his symbol in something and burying it with seeds will make them grow fast, whatever you used will be entangled in the roots of the plant.

Tendou: He has many followers and many tempels, being the god of so many things makes the designs of his shrines and temples vary very much from region to region. People set them up to pray for the dead and the living in the regions where the focus lies on the underworld domain, in other regions however his temples are often used as creative studios for painting or composing.

Semi: Any sort of competition is held infront of him. He will take care of the fairness in competitions so nobody shuns his domain. Prayers to him will make you competitive which maybe will bring victory.

Goshiki: He has almost no shrines and temples and is often forgotten about. Praying to him will help you in times of desperation.

Other

Sakusa: His temples are hospitals, the doctors and nurses the priests and priestesses of said. He requires his shrines and temples to always be clean. Praying to him and cleaning his shrines and temples will lead you and your loved ones to a long healthy life. His priests and priestesses all studied whether medicine or psychology, their devotion to him helps them during their time in university.

Atsumu: Being the god of mischief he has barely temples but many shrines set up by pranksters who want to achieve perfection which is generally granted but always costs something, Atsumu will pack everyone that gains his attention. Praying to him will result in one heavy pack pulled at you and success in your pranks on others.

Osamu: Most of his shrines are set up in kitchens so the food tastes better. In his temples food is prepared and given out by the priests and priestesses. Devoting yourself to him will give you incredible cooking skills.

Terushima: Parents often set up shrines of him up for their kid to have fun while couples often build one for... Other purposes. The priests and priestesses are blessed with the ability to have fun in all life situations and give it to others.

Natsu: Her shrines are set up in nurserys, kindergartens and elementary school. Her prayers are the first ones children learn because they are very easy. She often comes to the human realm to play with kids.

Aone: While he is not a very popular god Aone still has a few temples and shrines. In his temples it always almost freezing, only his priests and priestesses can stand it without extremely thick clothing. People pray to him in the winter so they won't freeze. Prayers and offerings will get you the ability to stand the cold.

[athena-gundampla]

Definitely recommend the Entry Grade Build Strike Exceed Galaxy, it's a really impressive looking kit that's also super beginner friendly.

There are a decent number of tool sets, you can go with one of the Tamiya sets or also get one of the cheap ones off Amazon. Really all you need are nippers, a set of angled tweezers to place stickers, and a hobby knife to help clean nub marks.

Hey lan How does one get into gunpla cause I've been kinda curious to give it a go sometime having seen your models

Get yourself an entry grade kit if you want to just have a peek and not need tools or high grade kit and a basic tool set(or your own clippers, tweezers, pen knife and files)

If you like Lego, robots, cutting little things and putting stickers on stuff you'll have a blast.

Tagging the mighty gunpla catzard @athena-gunpla in case I forgot something

[materializingthedisembodied]

To preface this: I have not yet physically set foot inside Black Spire Outpost. All thoughts and observations that follow are based on several videos and photos, as well as an understanding of theme park design and first hand experience with all the stateside Disney theme parks.

The inclusion of Galaxy’s Edge/Batuu has forever changed Disneyland, is the short version - and as of yet, with it being brand new, and not having yet explored it in person for myself contrasted with spending the rest of the day at Disneyland classic, I cannot say yet whether those changes will strike me as positive, negative, or neutral. Doubtless though others, like myself, will find the changes impossible to deny in terms of visiting the classic park.

Before I go further, I have to define what Disneyland is in terms of the ‘fantasy’ of it and the flow of themed areas as you visit it. It is defined and anchored in contradiction - a series of ten brisk steps can deliver you from small town America with gas lamps, horse carts and friendly Victorian-esque stores to a tropical jungle, and stepping inside a rather generic building nestled into a fairly faithful (if sanitized) version of old New Orleans brings you to a brick-lined waterway and a nighttime swamp where there should instead be someone’s richly decorated home, perhaps. Disneyland flows based on dream logic - lands crossfade into each other abruptly yet languidly, so you can be at the icy base of the Matterhorn and then with very little travel, be in a shrunken garden that houses pixies. A haunted house sits next to a mountain filled with cartoon singing animals. And it all works - the mesh of fantasy doesn’t need to match, and so it doesn’t, so long as the tone remains even.

Black Spire Outpost does not match with this style of themed design, to put it succinctly. Disneyland of course brims with detail in its’ own way, but for Batuu, the style of design is far more like you are at Animal Kingdom in Florida. People (and aliens, and droids) live there. It is dirty. It’s all one setting with no magical transition, once you are inside. Even though things may be sci-fi in nature, they are still mundane - personal forms of transit abound. It feels and looks old, instead of a newly minted version of something old presented in an idealized way, as is the standard for the rest of Disneyland. It also feels isolated - neutral wooded spaces and transitions under rockwork and train bridges isolate it. There is nothing comparable to seeing Big Thunder from the porch of the Haunted Mansion. In a way, it’s like the design ethic of the 60′s (main Disneyland, gradually modernized but still intact) is being jammed right next to the modern shining example of the field. Both are lovely, and have their own merits and drawbacks, but they do not match when put in the same space. On that face of it, Disneyland now forever is at odds with part of itself - for better or worse.

About Batuu itself - it looks, in a word, stunning. It will change how I visit Disneyland going forward, I have no doubt. I want to get lost in the details and explore it. I am a devotee of Star Wars, and I love how weird, funky, detailed and odd it can be, and has grown not just in the movies, but the new canon books, animated series, and so on. What I look for is that it stands on its own, and shows us new things, not just rehashes the old - there should be new creatures, new droids, new music, new experiences. From what I have seen, I think there are, and I anticipate just spending time there to discover more. What I can say is this - from what I have viewed so far, at a remove - is that this expansion both exceeds and falls short of my expectations. In money and effort spent, details, textures, and making me want to go and just stroll around, have a drink in a shady corner of the land and watch it unfold, document its’ small details, just exist there and discover what it has to offer - it exceeds what I hoped for. In terms of emotionally connecting with it, being awestruck, or feeling like something I longed for came to life - it underwhelms.

Two examples of things that connect with me in that way - Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion, as a classic/retro one, speaks to me and compels me, fascinates me, makes me feel at home and comfortable via its design history and tone, the hundreds of small design choices that build up to the whole. Across the country, Maharajah Jungle Trek at Animal Kingdom is the modern example - you, as a visitor to it, feel small yet connected to what unfolds. A series of abandoned temples and human dwellings have gone back to nature, and the animals within captivate me - I feel the connection and fascination for real things, that is achieved through fantasy and design. The flying foxes, the komodo dragon, the tigers - I love them all, and yet visiting them feels not like a rushed series of zoo enclosures, but a adventure of discovery, of entering their habitats, where humans are just another animal. Black Spire Outpost, so far for me, achieves neither one of those connections - yet I very much want to visit it all the same and I cannot deny it looks like a superlative, if cold, example of modern theme park design done right and interestingly.

‘Til the spires.....

[athena-gundampla]

I was thinking about getting into models cuz I like puttin stuff together y'know, so where should I start with this kinda stuff? Like any specific model shops or suggestions or swagever

I'm not sure I can reccommend any specific model stores as I'm not sure what's most accessible and cheapest where you're living.

In terms of where to start, I think the best place to start is probably with some of Bandai's snap kits. Bandai's sprue engineering is pretty great, and their snap kits are all mostly colour correct from the get-go, with a few colour correction stickers depending on the kit. I think the simplest place to start is probably the Bandai Pokemon Quick Model Kits - these are designed to be pressed rather than cut out of the sprue/runners, and snap together very quickly, usually within 15 minutes.

I think most hobby stores with model kits should have some of these, and they're reliatively inexpensive.

Another place to start is with Bandai's Entry Grade kits. They've got quite a few, with 5-6 gundam themed ones, but also some from other anime franchises. The Entry Grade kits are a little more time consuming and complex, but completely novice friendly. I think pretty much all you need for those is a set of nippers, and maybe a modeling knife to scrape off mould lines and the little nubs left from where you cut it off the sprue. Again, what kits you get will depend on what's available near you, but I reccomend the EG Lah Gundam and the EG Build Strike Exceed Galaxy, which I feel are the highest quality. I've got reviews for both of these kits as well.

You should be able to get the correct set of nippers from the same store, usually you can find packs or just a few types of nipper individually. Bandai does an "Entry Grade nipper" but it's not really worth the cheap price as it's not really going to last. You can get these super cheap gunpla tool sets off Amazon, and those will definitely last a decent amount of time. I'm still using a lot of the tools I got from that initial set, and it cost me like $14.

If you want to step up from the Entry Grade kits, I think the best place to start with HG kits is the Witch From Mercury line, like the HG Lfrith. These are also pretty beginner friendly, but they're also more complex. Other HG gunpla is a little more difficult, requiring a lot of mould line removal, super close attention to detail when following the instructions, and in the older ones, a lot of colour correction painting. You can note older gunpla or bandai kits in general with the red rather than blue logo.

Definitely don't pick up any Real Grade or Master Grade kits as a beginner - I've seen some people reccommend MG as a beginner kit due to the larger scale, but I feel like the pieces aren't necessarily bigger and they're also pretty complex. RG kits have very small pieces and can be pretty difficult to put together as well.

If you're looking for non-gunpla kits from Bandai, they do a lot of Star Wars figures and vehicle models, as well as a few poseable Dragon Ball Z and Kamen Rider figures, and some static Demon Slayer statues. The Star Wars ones definitely aren't the *best*, as you've got to paint them a decent amount, especially the vehicles. The included stickers for the Star Wars kits are atrocious, and aren't worth the effort.

Otherwise, I think once you've tried model kit building with some of the Pokemon Quick Kits or an Entry Grade, Aoshima also does a few car snap kits, which also require pretty minimal painting.

If you're game to paint entire kits, I think the next level of complexity would be tank kits, affectionately referred to as "armour models". Tamiya's tank kits are definitely the most beginner friendly, as they dont require you to glue together each individual track link, but they do require you not only to cut out each piece from the runner, but to sand and file pieces to fit, and to remove flashing and mould lines that are a little more prominent. They're also not snap kits, which means rather than friction-fitting together like Bandai's kits, you need to buy plastic cement as well to glue the kit together. For a basic starter kit I think the best one is Tamiya's 1/35 M41 Bulldog, which has a pretty low parts count and shouldn't be too expensive. Tank kits are generally much more expensive than HG or even some RG gunpla, however, even ignoring the extra cost of tools and paint.

I know this is a suuuuuper long reply, but I hope you (and other curious beginnners) find it helpful!!

[gremoria411]

I have also just found out it’s only going to be three episodes, as opposed to a full series.

The protagonist, Rio Hojo, is essentially standard energetic boy, his design reminds me of Wistario Afram’s a lot, and I’m liking the style of protagonists we’re getting here. He’s also Hawaiian, which is cool. It’s a nice contrast to his avatar, who while I don’t dislike, I do think looks kinda generic in comparison (it’s probably the black hair).

I don’t really have any strong opinions on the mentor, Seria Urutsuki, other than the fact that she’s probably gonna be Mask Lady, the Char. However, Mask Lady?

Is that an Ippei Gyoubu lady? I freaking love it so much. Yeah, it’s a lot like his other work, but his other work is good and we get to see this one animated. I absolutely adore the jacket. It’s always wonderful to see the similarities between how he designs people and how he designs mechs, which elements are common, and which are not.

And now; the mobile suits.

The Lah’s just fine. I don’t really dislike it or anything, I’m inclined to believe that a lot of the design choices are due to it wanting to be an Entry Grade, and thus needing it to be based of a suit that already has an Entry Grade model (this being reinforced by the Build Strike Exceed Galaxy also being an Entry Grade). I do like the RX-78 design and it is justifiably iconic, It’s just we see a lot of them, and it gets routine.

The aforementioned Build Strike Exceed Galaxy looks lovely, and I’m sure it’ll make for some wonderful poses and designs, especially with all the effect parts.

I honestly don’t have much of an opinion on either the F-Kunoichi Kai or the Plutine Gundam. I’m not that interested in Cross Silhouette as a line, and Gundam Build Divers re:rise wasn’t that long ago. I would hope that if they’re releasing the Plutine that we may eventually get kits for the Dubious Arche Gundam and Reverse Turn X from the finale, but I wouldn’t expect it. Though I will admit I would love to Display the HGBF Plutine and the HG00 Plutone opposite each other now.

And now the two I’m actually looking forward to. The Shin Burning Gundam and the 00 Diver Arc. The Shin Burning looks to have such a dynamic pose, and it’s precursors were all typically suits that had an emphasis on Martial Arts, so it’ll make for some cool poses even before considering the wings or effect parts. I do think that the legs look a little odd though, probably the roundedness. The 00 Diver Arc is an odd one, since while I very much disliked the 00 sky, I had basically no feelings on the regular 00 Diver. This one looks to have a fancy energy sword system like the AGE FX or 00 Quanta, which I’m very much interested in (as well as those little sword bucklers on the arms). However, I do find the chest quite boring. Sticking a gun in the chest isn’t an alternative to actual visual design.

Finally, I don’t actually have a stake in the “Metaverse” as a concept, in series or out. I think that someone at Bandai just realised they’d accidentally created advertisement for such a thing in the form of the build series. I should probably also mention that due to the massive amount of MMORPG’s and similarly massive, all-encompassing online things in Japan at time of writing, it’s quite possible that it’s a very different climate to that of the western world in regards to how feasible a metaverse’d actually be.

Okay, so we gotta a bunch of information on Gundam Build Metaverse this week, and I got opinions on it.

I’m also gonna just quickly preface this with two things for context.

1. If you’re new to Gundam (since there’s always a bunch of new people with any new show, and Witch from Mercury is no exception), then know that the Build Series has massively lower stakes. The general target demographic is a lot lower, and it typically patterns itself a lot of Pokemon - the whole shonen-y vibe, the whole “to be a master” thing. I personally also like this, but it can be a bit of a tone whiplash going from “mainline” Gundam to the Build Series.

2. As above, I generally like the Build series for both the Anime and the model kits, with both Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try having some of my favourite fight scenes in the entire Gundam series. However, I absolutely loath the first season of Build Divers (I might do a post on it later), and as such a lot of what I don’t want to see is directly cribbed form that.

In a nutshell, though it’s lower-stakes, I’m usually here for the fights and the model designs, and a lot of what I focus on is gonna be those.

I’m trying to stay away from long posts unless it’s analysis or me gushing about something, so I’ll follow this up momentarily.

[fuzzyg17]

Best Lego Star Wars Kits

Invented in 1932 and introduced in the United States in 1962, Lego sets have always been a popular toy for people of any gender and all ages. The famous “6-99” age limit, Lego sets are famous for having the consumer construct a toy. Using different pieces and different ways to construct the toy, each Lego set is unique. The consumer can either build from the guide, or build something straight out of his/her mind. There are very little limits in what you can build with Legos. Personally, I like to build the main item itself out of the guide, then I fix the minor details myself. I end up with a very unique object, that is only out of my mind. Today I am going to talk about the best overall rated Lego Star Wars sets ever made. Using various websites who have made their own lists, I have put together my own list of the top six Lego Star Wars sets.

 6.  Poe’s X-Wing Starfighter 

This Lego set includes three Lego mini-figures, one BB-8 Lego figure, a mini shuttle, landing support, and the X-Wing fighter itself. At a respectable 717 pieces, the building time is from 30 minutes to a hour. What this Lego X-Wing has that sets it apart from the other ones is mainly the color and the design. A unique orange on black look, this X-Wing looks striking compared to mostly any other starfighter. Holding the design of a Resistance X-Wing, the look is much more slick, and more modern. An easy pick for the number six spot.

5. Boba Fett’s Slave 1 Ship

Boba Fett’s Slave 1 ship is probably one of the most well known ships throughout the Star Wars Universe. At 1996 Lego Pieces, this Lego ship is one of the most tallest in the whole collection. This set includes 4 Lego mini-figures, a Han Solo in carbonite stand, and the ship itself. There is no ship in the entire galaxy like it. This ship was feared by the whole galaxy, and the main owner being Boba Fett after he inherited it from his father, Jango Fett, when he died in battle. Working for whoever would pay the most, Bounty Hunters are ruthless, and would get the job done no matter the cost, doing anything for the money. Boba Fett was arguably the most famous of all, carrying out many duties. The best Bounty Hunter, the best ship to get the job done, the perfect duo.

4.  Assault on Hoth 

The wonderful recreation of the Battle on Hoth, this Lego Set is a pure beauty. With 14 mini-figures, this Lego set does not disappoint. This set includes 2144 pieces, and although it is not one main object, it does take a good amount of time to complete this set. With a Snow speeder, many turrets, the Rebel wall doors, generators, and a medical base, this set is any Lego lover’s dream. One of the best battles in the Star Wars Universe, deserves one of the best Lego sets.

3. Sandcrawler 

First appearing in “A New Hope”, this set is part of the Legos themed “Hard to Find”. Hence the name, there were limited quantities of the Lego set produced. This Lego set includes seven Lego mini-figures, six droids, a retractable claw, and a mini station post. Used by the native Jawas, the Sandcrawler would scavenge parts and objects across the vast deserts of Tatooine and later sell them to buyers. In this case, the Lego set recreates the scene where Luke and his uncle Owen bought R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Jawas. Having over 3,296 Lego pieces, this Lego set is a must buy for collectors. This Lego Set is also one of the most heaviest and largest on the Lego Star Wars Market.

2. The Death Star 

Ah yes, the Death Star. The infamous Imperial base/weapon. You knew Lego had to go big if they were to make a Death Star set, and exceed expectations they did.  The set includes 23 mini-figures, the most out of all Star Wars Sets. The Lego Death Star’s insides are exposed, showing the inside rooms. In the rooms, you can put the mini-figures in it, creating many scenarios in it. The set has the second- most pieces out of all on this list, 4016. Lego did release a second Death Star from the movie “Return of the Jedi”, but that Death Star is no match for the first one. The original is always better than the sequels, remember that.

1. Ultimate Millennium Falcon

The crown jewel of all Lego Star Wars sets, the pride joy, the ultimate collector’s item; The Ultimate Millennium Falcon. With 7541 pieces, this set holds the most pieces on the list. Shown in the picture above compared to a hand, this ship is big. The most iconic Star Wars ship used by Chewbacca and Han Solo, this Lego set never dissapoints. The set has 10 mini-figures, and can be placed inside the ship. The top is retractable, but personally, I would only move it when i have too, to minimize any accidents. The Lego sets with the most pieces are the most delicate ones. The Falcon is known as the “fastest ship in the galaxy”. The greatest ship with the greatest legacy, deserves the best set. Truly, the ship is a living legend.

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https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Star-Wars-Sandcrawler-Play-Set/34976659

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