#connection | sol

[solomiracle]

mc dies and everyone's sad and stuff meanwhile solomon is looking absolutely giddy. everyone's like "solomon wtf is wrong with you" but he's just like "nah it'll be fineee just give me like 3 hours" and giggles as he wipes away the dust on his necromancy books

[fairmerthefarmer]

Marzipan <3

I was immediately drawn to Marz I’m my first exocolonist playthrough mostly cause of her being the biggest kid and I loved that she was still considered pretty. Her whole thing with her augment kind of explaining some of why how she was how she was is so interesting to me.

(she also was kind of the worst as a child but what I adore about her is how much she can grow, also she actually likes it when you aren’t a yes man.)

I have an urge to do fun typography with exocolonist illustrations but my Adobe fonts weren’t loading on procreate and it’d probably be better just to use illustrator instead but I just kinda fave up for now.

[sleepyminty]

UUUUUMEI-

[trashyandtiredsol]

An assortment of Kurt Wagners cuz yes

[shield-and-saber]

i have.... so many mixed feelings

on the one hand, i really really appreciate that sol is someone who is flawed. i love the fact that you can compare brendok sol to jecki's master sol and see how he has matured over 16 years, how he's found more balance, maturity, and certainty in the force, and i truly love seeing that growth

on the other hand, i quite honestly feel betrayed. which i'm realizing now was kind of the point, but i still hate it. you mean to tell me that not only was he reckless and selfish, but he didn't stop to consider another culture's practices, or to consider that maybe he didn't have enough context for the things he saw? he's a grown man, a fucking knight, and he didn't stop to even consider any of that??

i guess it's an extension of the theme that the jedi are not perfect and they are flawed, though still well-meaning, and i do like that approach. idk. anyone else kind of reeling or is it just me?

[psychedelicvanillabean]

yuri on ice is like hannibal if hannibal was into ice skating instead of killing

[blazingflareon]

i gain nothing. they gain everything.

[birdthatisbored]

Hickey smoking in the scene in episode 9 where Tozer tells him he saw Tuunbaq inhale Collins's soul ohhhh my godddd I don't have words but you know what I'm saying right?

[bluerasbunny]

and another oc, same universe as orion and phoenix, from humble origins as an AU of a robot jester into a fully fledged OC;

sol lucero lunette! sporting the worlds biggest superiority complex, a massive skeleton in his closet and an insistence on rules, he makes for a very interesting character! by far my favorite of my ocs, even if he's a pain in the ass to draw...

GREY AREA TO HIDE SMTH SPOILERY! forgot to put his age on the sheet but he's 15!!

[ncfan-1]

I have a few wants for Mae’s story next season, with the hope that she gets her memory back relatively quickly being a pretty important one, but it’s not the only want I have for the way things go for Mae that I consider important. There’s something else that feels even more important: namely, that Mae find people in her life that deeply love and prioritize her.

There’s something very pointed going on in Season 1. “Everyone seems to want you,” Qimir says to Osha, but by comparison, nobody ever seems to want Mae. When they’re children, Sol professes a connection to Osha, and Mae is little more than an afterthought; as an adult, Sol ultimately leaves nothing for her but the worst parts of himself. Qimir is visibly fascinated with Osha from first sight, and ultimately doesn’t seem to have thought much of Mae even before she attempted to desert his side; he seems to brush her off the way you’d brush a speck of dust off of you.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that Osha should have chosen to stay with Mae in Episode 8. It doesn’t make sense from a storytelling standpoint, not at this juncture. This is the culmination of Mae’s character arc this season, where she is finally able to stop clinging to Osha, to accept that what she wants more than anything is for Osha to be happy, even if she isn’t with her. For Osha to choose to stay with Mae at that point would feel wrong, for Mae has to prove to the audience that she has reached this kind of peace regarding her relationship with her sister by accepting that Osha doesn’t want to stay with her without bitterness. As for Osha, this is the culmination of her character arc this season, which has been about taking her life and her power into her own hands, and it would be strange for her to stay with Mae when Qimir has offered to help her do what she wants. It wouldn’t feel right from a storytelling standpoint; for things to make sense, they have to part ways at the end of Season 1.

But even if Osha frames it as making sure that Mae is safe from any reprisals on Qimir’s part, and even if it’s what make sense from a storytelling perspective, what it ultimately amounts to is that Osha doesn’t choose Mae, either. Nobody ever chooses Mae.

And it’s so uneven. I’m not saying I want Osha to be this alone, too—I don’t. But it’s wrenching to watch this woman who has nothing and no one at the beginning of the season still have nothing and no one at the end of the season, because even the memory of Osha forgiving her and loving her again has been taken away from her. Even her memory of the one person she had left who actually loved her has been taken away from her. She had nothing then, and she has nothing now.

Like I said, it feels pointed, the way Mae is never chosen, and what I’m hoping is that this means that it won’t be the case anymore in Season 2. Vernestra, you say, and yeah, I have high hopes for that dynamic, but no matter how things shake out between Mae and Vernestra, that is never going to be a relationship of equals, and I don’t think it’s ultimately going to be the kind of relationship where Vernestra would choose Mae, not meaningfully. Not over every other option.

That’s what I want for Mae, really. Someone who will love her deeply and choose her over everyone else, every time. With her memories and without. Knowing what she’s done, the good and the bad, knowing what she’s capable of, the good and the bad, knowing her past, knowing her faults and knowing that those faults aren’t all of who she is. Someone who would choose her without a second thought.

Because I feel like there’s going to be a scene like the one in Episode 8, where this time, it’s Mae who chooses. But Osha had more than one option. Either Qimir or Mae were viable options. Osha had a solid foundation to rely on, whatever she decided to do. But as it stands, Mae only has Osha. Osha is all Mae has. And if we do get a moment like that in Season 2, where this time it’s Osha asking Mae what she wants, if she wants to go with her or not, if Mae’s options are still “Osha” or “be completely alone,” then it's not the meaningful choice that Osha had, is it? My point is, I want Mae, whatever she decides, to have actually had a meaningful choice. To not be completely dependent on Osha for love and acceptance. To have someone else she could turn to if she decided that she didn’t want to go with Osha. To not have her choices be: Osha—or no one.

[waterfall-ambience]

hi i'd just like to say a huge thank you for everyone's support on the sol comic, the response has absolutely blown me away (i think its my best-performing tumblr post?? holy hell you guys) and im so glad to have been able to make something that has resonated with so many people :]

[harpuiaa]

i've been dead and gone bc of school and jobsearching and everything happening all at once but ive been playing the boktai series games lately and i'm enjoying it a lot. I just got past the third boss in boktai 2. I don't know why but i'm enthralled with these games, i highly recommend them

[neon-vocalist]

hello tumblr vtuber fans!

[age-of-moonknight]

“Ekleipsis,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #2.

Writer: Declan Shalvey; Penciler and Inker: Eder Messias; Colorist: Yen Nitro; Letterer: Cory Petit

[sideblogdotjpeg]

sol bufo who by all logic should be so extremely dead right now. should have died three times over in ezry. should have died in crown of dreams. turned to fucking stone last e. frog that should be so dead. frog that narratively should have been the character that was killed off to motivate the actual heroes of the story. except hes took on shroomrots spores and shaped himself into someone who could keep on going, and popping back up, no matter what.

and then he meets swag. who carved out his survival in blood and teeth and pain. who ran away all his life just so that he could survive, and stay alive. but by the time sol met him he was already long dead. he worked for mothership for years. hed already been alexandrited by the time we see him! no matter what sol couldve done, swag was sentenced to succumb to the fate mothership had always planned for him.

swag fought and lost against his doom and sol won. peregrines. im sick to my stomach about it

[casanovascomments]

hm