#combat is improved

[habunshu]

i have to keep living with hope in my heart no matter what.

[ohnoitsz1m]

Uhh post canon Barney

Man who has not had a break since the rescas and refuses to start now. Alyx and Gordon are hiding his gear as we speak while Kleiner distracts him.

I was sposed to do Alyx too but I blinked and it was 3 am so. Next time

Oh also I forgot to make a note but he does carry a sidearm

[princehendir]

Insane how many problems are caused by the fact that "RPG" can refer to a game with certain gameplay mechanics and to a game in which you roleplay a character and how the overlap of people who are fans of these 2 things is getting smaller and smaller and also now both these groups hate each other.

[sivon-acidwyrm-collections]

My somewhat normal headcanons+notes about the Retainers

I don't have much to say about this other than I really wanted to share how I see them, since they make me a little sane. A little....

Here's the two retainers with no text, just staring at eachother, heehoo

[jeebits]

regarding sanford ..

[iexistapparantly]

When youre REALLY digging in there to get the eyelash that fell on yo face

[daily-madcom-drawings]

Day 53

Bug

[mav-the-artist]

UNSTOPPABLE NEVADEAN CHAMPION

[yamperzzz]

Thought I'd dump more old MadCom art/stuff here from between 2021-23 because it worked so well last time LOL

Breakdancing Tricky at the request of an old friend. Nowadays, I don't like drawing floating feet.

This was a map I made for an RP event I was trying to host, I might take some parts of this as inspiration for the bandit trio OCs.

Random enemy design I made, would be cool to see it come to life some day! The file is titled "star fragment" but I can't remember the significance of it.

I'm pretty sure I posted this here before but I still love how I drew Skinner here lol

Old Sheriff art, including some concepts of Sheriff clones who existed for a reason I've since forgotten.

Finally, here's some unfinished art as well as a logo for a faction made in collaboration with an old friend for the same RP I mentioned earlier. MBI was intended to be a multiversal agency similar to the FBI tasked with keeping instances of multiverse shenanigans in Nevada under control. Ultimately, none of this came to fruition.

[flowersforthemachines]

my biggest crticism of the Veilguard is that the sickle guys shouldn't be there. they should be removed from the game, instead introducing an enemy type that heals you and cheers you on as you fight

[distressedwalnut]

I love Emilia... her design is so fun

THIS IS FUCKING INSAAAAAANNEEEE HI GEN!!!!!! IT'S BEEN SO LONG!!! YOU'VE IMPROVED SO MUCH I'M JUMPING OFF THE WALLS RN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Knight having 4 move is... fine. It make them terrible on any higher level play, and people tend to minize the impact on casual play too much (it still really fucking suck), but it give the class flavor.

No the real issue is that they also almost always suck suck as a unit. IS always want to give them terrible speed and inexistant res for good defence, expect no speed mean that they still take major chip damage, can't kill anything and get vaporised by any mage or hammer. So what left for them? Good defence, expect since they have 4 movement they lag behind and can't hold chockpoint, their only use. Wich they often can't even hold better than most of your combat unit, since they don't actually have that good of a defence. And most of FE map don't have choke point in the first place. Oswin and Effic dynamic of having an incredible statline in bad classe is actually compelling. And I guess wendy being that bad is funny in it's own way.

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[amygdalae]

i tag dlc spoilers but i dont bother filtering them myself because I like seeing little morsels of what ive got ahead of me on the dash tbh ^u^

[seriouslyseravellan]

it's so fuckin funny to me that one of the devs was like "oh the combat in veilguard will be ACTUALLY FUN" like... bitch i LIKED the combat in origins and 2! it was actually fun for me! the issue was that you fucking CHANGED it for inquisition, and now you're changing it again! it doesn't even feel like dragon age combat anymore! what is wrong with you

[jestarcana]

All I can think about now is a Persona 5 and Rule of Rose crossover, mostly because of how the airship is so obviously Jennifer's palace like holy shit

(Also your art is fantastic, poor Mona as Brown, RIP)

OH GOD you're right though, and that's such a fun exploration thinking of these crossovers. Is it bad my immediate thought for Jennifer in a P5 setting is relief for her gameplay mechanics? Like yes please give her a break and let her do turn-based. She shouldn't have to suffer her game's horrendous controls slkfdjs

And thank you!!! YEAH it hurt my heart thinking about Mona here... no one's having a good time 😭

[ratwithhands]

I'm curious. I've seen your art and something that's come to my mind is what actually got you attached with the Subway brothers. Your narrative on their different AU forms is so unique which is what brought me to that question

Alright, rat history time.

So basically back in 2021-2022, I was working on an old OC storyline (about 3 years old by then) and I was in grade 9 so I was like “A new Pokémon game? Pfft, like I care” and just didn’t watch any of the stuff related to PLA when it dropped. I still got recommended Twitter posts about it on Instagram and I ended up seeing this one.

I tried looking up Ingo cause I was like "oh, funky design, looks like a captain or something" but I didn't end up finding anything so I didn't press further. Anyways in March break of 2022, I got bored and decided to put some game streams on in the background while I drew. I saw Alpharad's PLA video and decided to watch it for a bit when I saw Ingo.

I was like "Hey you're the guy from Twitter!" and since I knew his name now, I looked him up and found his Bulbapedia article. I found him much more interesting than the rest of the PLA cast since he had history outside PLA, and I ended up reading up whatever I could find on him. I also by extension discovered Emmet this way, which only served to suck me deeper down the rabbit hole. By the end of March break I had a fan OC and 2 AUs made with more on the way, as well as a YouTube recommended page with nothing but theory videos on Ingo and decade old Submas content.

Around May I decided to decommission my OC storyline for personal reasons, and by this point Submas was starting to occupy more of my creative work anyways. Since I didn't have my storyline to put my energy into, I started funnelling literally any story ideas into Submas. This led to nonstop content for a shockingly long time, and ofc I'm still coming up with stuff now.

Long story short, I got attached to them by accident! It was a "right place, right time" sort of thing since they came in as I was starting to get sluggish with my original content and I ended up being more interested in writing for them.

As for narratives, I am effectively playing dolls with these guys. Usually the kind of stuff that I write for them is meant for OCs, but I dumped the 60+ person cast so I put that energy into them instead.

Most AUs will either have a core theme, an out of pocket idea, or both to make things interesting. Usually I just come up with a dumbass idea like "what if we brought ReBURST back for a rerun" or "what if Emmet signed a contract with an eldritch space spider" or "what if Submas could see into the future" and stuff like that, then it picks up themes as I keep writing. For some silly examples:

Burst is based on Pokémon ReBURST and the idea of human-Pokémon fusion, but there's focus on skill, how characters misperceive it, and resentment as a result. There's also a spotlight on inferiority complexes, bottled up guilt, and blind confidence depending on which main character you look at

Journal is about a diary that helps Ingo to regain his memories, and it focuses on remembrance and regret as a result of him reading it. Spotlight on lacking awareness vs hyper awareness and the monotony of living as people around you leave

Oracle is exactly what it sounds like, with the twins being able to see into the future. It focuses on cooperation and the importance of working together, but also learning how to work alone. The spotlight's on jealousy and gratitude for this one, though the latter greatly outweighs the former in this case

I also just have AUs I made to try deranged shit for funsies, like Sapioflora, Cybernetic/Z-Λ, Team Supernova, and Idol. Those are mostly for exploring goofy ideas that may or may not go anywhere.

Right anyways basically I just saw Submas after watching PLA gameplay and found the twins more interesting to write about than the project I'd exhausted by then. The narratives are like that because the AU ideas I make are actually OC concepts that I modify to fit Pokémon specifically for these two or ideas about the two that I'd like to explore. Hope that answers the question ^^*