#but the plot is still solid

[thetlctrash]

I just came across a draft for a TLC second gen fic I wrote where Kaiders daughter (Peony) and Wolflets son (Ran) fall in love after Ran is forced to be Peony’s personal guard.

Of course, it was called The Princess and the Guard.

Would anyone be interested in reading it?

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[hyakunana]

I hate the sewers . jpg

[tealfruit]

I'm sorry for continuing to reference the inheritance cycle but also I'm not bc it turns out the overall worldbuilding in those books for the most part fucks severely and also shaped my brain very much in my formative years

[arsenicflame]

you know what? we got the edizzy shirt sharing the wrong way round- ed is all limbs, a real twig of a man and izzy is built like a brick wall- if these two swapped shirts ed would be drowning and izzys would be obscenely tight

[trashcreatyre]

I think the main thing that pisses me off about like 90% of mephiles ships is that people will be like "how old is he??" Look that fanwiki says that he's ten and they RUN with it. Like they don't read further. I'm so convinced that most people don't even know the plot of 06 bc the shit I've seen people draw and write with the characters is just mind boggling.

[illarian-rambling]

Damn, what if I reworked Starbreaker to be exclusively in Anarac's pov instead of trying to balance 5 new povs in one book?

Thoughts?

[flyrobinflyy]

cradling chronic fatigue!tim in my hands until i finally figure out what terrible situation to write him in

[woodchipp]

I think I finally have an idea how to make Headspace at least a bit more thematically cohesive - make the locations represent the stages of grief. Headspace as a whole is Sunny's Denial, of course, but I think there could be more to it

(This still takes place in the same “rewrite” where Mari kills herself, by the way. Just to be clear.)

The playground in the forest at the start of the game could represent Denial more precisely. Mari's alive, Sunny's old friends are all by his side and it's an eternal summer because that's how Sunny himself wants everything to be 

Anger could be represented by a big, scorching desert with violent sandstorms; this could also allow Orange Oasis, a leftover from early development that was left in the final product for whatever reason, to be relevant to the plot. Maybe placing the desert after Sunny goes outside and sees the “new” Aubrey could give it additional relevance - Headspace’s Aubrey could become increasingly irate as you progress to indicate that reality is slowly seeping into Sunny’s fantasies. I don’t think the Unbread Twins would even need to be changed much - just make them pissed at being trapped in an endless cycle of baking bread and have them try to take out their anger on Omori and co. lol

I guess Sweetheart's Castle could represent Bargaining? Have something very bad happen to the kids in the desert and make that the catalyst for Headspace’s Hero becoming overprotective along the lines of “If I do a better job at taking care of them, things like what happened in the desert won’t happen anymore”. Maybe the plot could be tweaked so that Hero is the one who proposes to marry Sweetheart on the condition she doesn’t hurt the kids, but she doesn’t uphold her end of the bargain and throws everyone except him into the dungeon anyway

Deeper Well could represent Depression because figuring out what whirlpool leads where is bound to make you depressed it’s a water level and the obvious “depression is akin to drowning” metaphor is obvious lmao. It would probably have to be longer, though, since it’d be the last location. Humphrey would just be Headspace’s final boss battle instead of a whole separate location.

The stage Headspace would conspicuously lack (because it loops on itself after Deeper Well) is Acceptance. I suppose Faraway Town itself could represent it in a sense. Reconnecting with his friends is what allows Sunny to move on in the original game, after all.

This idea could also establish a sharp contrast between Sunny’s dreams and the real world in terms of characterization - he slots his friends into definite and simplistic categories in his mind while the ways they grieve in the real world are decidedly different and more complex than he realizes. 

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF GRISSOM ACADEMY

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, EDI, and Jack With: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Lt. James Vega, Ens. Jason Prangley, Ens. Rodriguez, David Archer, and Kahlee Sanders I never had a family- and these guys... Anyone screws with my students and I will tear them apart. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[skunkes]

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[resizura]

listen i’m not saying that old resident evil was peak female rep and without its faults but its so sad to me seeing how quickly the female characters in the franchise got sidelined or fell to tropes

[sparklyslug]

I started the Rings of Power show and listen I’m having fun overall but I am REELING that they’re getting me to feel the villainfucker vibes between Sauron and [redacted]

[rita-rae-siller]

She is complete…. The Timeline is finally done. Nothing like outlining 35+ years worth of backstory lore only to have to start writing the actual story outline 🙃

[randomnameless]

Land 5 aka before the final boss done !

Albion...

Well, it has a city named Bordeaux !

Ça fait un bail que Bordeaux et l'Aquitaine ne sont plus aux mains de la perfide Albion !

What else can I say...

The final stage bgm was kickass, I loved the architecture and the "subquests" with goats and the character who turns ennemies green was... A thing lol. Still Nigel isn't a deadweight so that's something nice.

Plot wise...

Ugh.

If anyone got it better than I do then please help me lol, because from what I understood, the pope (hereditary title in this verse) got only one child (tfw your line is super special magical plot related but you only get one kid) and told both of his right arms, Nigel and Sanatio, that they should never speak of her to anyone, including themselves.

So... Nigel secured Scarlett far away (uh...) 6 years ago and didn't tell Sanatio, per the pope's orders, Sanatio knew Scarlett existed but since her existence must remain secret, per the pope's orders, he... Uh... Never knew where she was ?

So when the pope decided to fold against the evil empire, and subsequently later died (something Gharnef is pissed about, because the pope's line is the only one able to destroy mc guffins) Sanatio thought that he had to pretend the pope was still alive to make sure Albion and the Orthodoxy would not descend into chaos ?? Like, Nigel couldn't tell him that "I shipped Scarlett to parevia aka an island that is as far from Albion as the UK is from France, under her dad's orders some years ago, let's find her to both protect and mount a resistance against the empire ?"

I knew Albion was scrapped because bankruptcy and all, but damn if in a game where Gilbert, Virginia, hell Alain and to an extent Yunifi and Morad exist, this felt contrived as fuck.

Besides, I know you are technically able to go to Albion before doing bastorias, Drakengard or Elheim (Bastorias or Elheim must be done though) but damn if doing things in order paints Scarlett in a crap light, after Erigor and witnessing the elves zombies and learning about the occupation in both Cornia and Drakengard with mysterious plagues around, and we open Albion with Scarlett worrying about her dad (while she was there when Galerius told us he was dead !) and wanting to show Alain the place where she picked up flowers when she was younger.

Special mention to her former childhood friend Raelys (?) with whom she reunites and wants to go to their special flower field again... Only to be ambushed by Raelys because while childhood memories are nice and all, Raelys' younger brother was taken hostage and she wants to save him.

Then we have Fodoquia's backstory... And Scarlett looks like an ass, especially for someone who was basically supposed to inherit Albion, who never cared about her country and her people.

Still in the few subsequent chapters she expresses her desire to help the people of Albion and her care for them (with still the memetic "I always thought about you" to get childhood friend when a majority of her rapports so far where about Alain, her feelings for him and jealousy at the other female leads or fluff) so there's that.

Ultimately I believe this discrepency is both due to the game being short on money but also the writers having wrote Scarlett as the "ojou" archetype, when the elf twins, even with their 5 lines about the plot of their land, and to some extent, Virginia and Yunifi/Ramona are concerned about their homes and people and written as such.

Plot happens and it's revealed, the empire is actually full of body surfers who were banned to the shadow realm for having sacrificed an unicorn and their big plan is to transmigrate everyone in living bodies, Scarlett's line is special because her magical powers are the result of experiments on humans with blood/parts/powers (?) of an unicorn, the failed results were duds and gave birth to the feathered people (angels) but Scarlett's ancestor was a success, the Cornian royal line is also special because it was founded by a young woman who was the only one granted immortality and not banished to the shadow realm eons ago, so she got some magic powers but gave up her immortality, and the laguz were originally elves who decided to become laguz so their bodies couldn't be snatched, but they forgot how to turn back.

Anyhow, for all of the unicorn imagery Alain got, I found it cool that the "our line was founded by the Maiden in the Unicorn and Maiden duo" thing is/was referenced in Ilenia/Virginia's skillset, it sort of helped to lessen the "uwu Alain is the saviour and chosen one" thingie that hits especially hard after Drakengard and Gilbert's last convo where he confesses he and Drakengard in general have always been jealous of cornia, so learning only Cornia's king can be the "chosen one" to get rid of the evil ghost empire...

Also, since you can skip Drakengard to reach that point and ignore her existence, I guess the "Alain saviour bcs he descends from the Maiden and has the magic ring" feels even weirder when Virginia is also in the party, but she can't equip the magic ring (granted if Alain were to die, would Virginia be able to equip it plot wise ?)

Fwiw, even if Gerard's infinity +1 sword can be used by Alain, I gave his magic ring to Virginia, his other grandkid by beating his ass with the Tricorns, plot be damned.

I mean, I usually dgaf about chosen ones plots, but when the second arc was all about a potential claimant/heir accepting to stand down and let their sib/cousin run the show, the game saying "only sib/cousin can save the world" feels a bit like a slap lol

Alain gave the "totally not-engagement ring" to Joseph, his dad in all but blood, and I rounded up several rapport conversations (wtf was Fodoquia and Bryce's lol) and mini quests.

Units wise... Ramona works well with the angels who have their discharge skill lol, and Bertrand spinning with his hammer will never cease to be hilarious.

I'm sure I'm not using Berengeria well though, because now she keeps on dying (ffs you have a giant shield can you just use it for once ??)... But Bruno makes up by hitting like a truck.

[apples-stables]

i feel like the world has collectively forgotten that Jakob Goldspur's wife, Evelyn, the previous BELOVED mayor of Jarlaheim disappeared heading to a GED mountain like, pipe opening and DISAPPEARED AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE SHE IS

[no1ryomafan]

I’m one of few people who care about Kei anyways and there’s definitely criticisms to be made towards her and Genki being made into the same person in arma-mainly for the fact it’s low key sad the only version of genki who’s hugely utilized just becomes a different character really-but GOD I was thinking about her character again and just-

Imagine being a sweet little kid who despite not having a mother you have a lovely older sister and a father. Then your sister dies, your father puts the mantle of you taking his place when he passes while speaking over your dead sisters corpse and THEN you see him be killed by an adult you thought you could trust. You’re then thrown into the hands of two adults who always liked you but aren’t your dad. Will never be your dad. You don’t resent them but you’re numb to everything to really care what happens next.

Then you forget about it all, grow up in a apocalypse but somehow turn into a ray of sunshine because your new father genuinely gave a fuck about you and raised you with care- until the memories come flooding back that your biological dad was the one to doom the world to begin with, making it feel like you have to lift the burden by KILLING your own blood. And the only relative left alive that isn’t evil is a artificial creation who has the dna of your bio dad and dead sister who you can’t even tell actually cares about you when he saids he’ll protect you until you ask someone else what it’s like to have a brother.

…FUCK MAN *flips over table*