#elder god waifu

[my-wife-is-an-elder-god]

Definitely a normal tongue

Your wife, with her tongue fully extended out of her second mouth

(Honestly this was just to draw attention to the fact that she has not one, but two giant mouths- one being the entrance to her throat. So... do with that information what you will)

[kommissarkartofelov]

ACHTUNG: AUTISTIC VIDYA GAEM WAIFU MAKING maybe i should continue more since i am in a textually ranty mood right now if a game gives the player the ability make their own character, my litmus test for if its a good one is if i'm able to make a sufficiently cool/cute tomboy no bias

guess i'll start with my favorite one i've made, a half orc in skay rim named her amba after watching dersu uzala since i figured that thematically the orcs in the elder scrolls games follow the tolkien derived tradtion of orcs being based on mongorians n other eastern godless savages so i guess the name of the Nanai tiger god is sufficiently oriental enough.

gave her a sorta "vulnerable badass" vibe depending on facial expression n camera angle honestly once one has had their fill of the gameplay skyrim is a good gravure game

man i love kijiko's toyger hair, bless those who ported it from sims 3 to the various bethesda games

her previous incarnation, named her kei because i am a filthy weeb liked to (and still do) use it as a more or less placeholder name

felt that i strayed too far from what can be considered "lore friendly" with her design, having human colored skin and eyes. changed character editor mods from ECE to Racemenu. ECE has much more control over the sliders, freedom is good but freedom also has its price. and so i made a spiritual successor in amba.

surprisingly, at least to me she doesn't look that bad or even better with the vanilla face/body textures. also did finally beat the main quest while playing as her so by the time i made amba there wasn't much of a point to actually playing the game

i guess still talking about skoirom why an orc/half-orc? the challenge. it's too easy with the plethora of over a decade of mods and coom glopping to make one of the human or even elven races purdy

like yeah she's cute n all but just had to fiddle with the right sliders n get the right textures speaking of elves and challenge

wanted to try retaining the ayylmaoness of TES's elves

also mashed together various mod n dragonborn dlc meshes to make a stalkery outfit, prominently the excellent wayfarer outfit n the mask from the westwind assault armor, can't remember where i got the goggles though, might be either a dwemer one or from the wet and cold series of mods

also made a feral snelf because why not was lurking /tesg/ and snelfs were prominent at that time so i wanted to put my own twist on one

i love that racemenu gives the ability to vertex edit the individual headparts, especially the teeth

fuck this is getting long, gonna make a pt 3 of this quasi series on characters i made in the 3d fallout games, abandon hope ye who enter

[roachliquid]

H.P. Lovecraft's Hastur, the Lovecraftian God who Isn't: Part 1: The King in Yellow

(This post was made with the help of The King In Yellow wiki. For more information on the King in Yellow and the lore that surrounds them, they're a great place to start.)

Here's a fun fact about me: I really, really love the Sucker for Love games. These are deeply silly, deeply transformative games, based on dating characters from the Cthulhu Mythos in the form of anime girls. And my personal favorite, my waifu if you will, is Estir.

Estir is based on the character Hastur, and particularly the King in Yellow. She's a loud yellow goth, an unrepentant spoiled theater kid, and generally just a delight to play with. So of course she ignited my interest in Hastur - specifically, his incarnation as the King in Yellow.

So I did what any reasonable person would do: I went to the Lovecraft wiki, read up on the character, and started looking into the works where he's introduced and defined. And that's when I noticed something weird.

Hastur, in Lovecraft's original mythos, isn't a character at all.

In fact, the name is mentioned just once, and given no definition whatsoever. It's only meant as a clue to indicate that some people that Lovecraft is talking about are adherents to the King in Yellow.

With that in mind, I decided to look deeper into the subject, particularly the character's original literary origins. And what I found was, honestly, pretty damn interesting.

As many people already know, the name "Hastur" was introduced by the writer Ambrose Bierce, in his short story Haïta the Shepherd. In this story, the protagonist Haïta worships Hastur, who is simply a god of shepherds. Similarly, another story from the same collection gives us the name "Carcosa" - which, in its original incarnation, is nothing but an ancient city that fell for unknown reasons. The two concepts are in no way linked; the stories they feature in are dramatically different, and part of a large printed collection (two, actually, but this is the one I had on tap) of assorted ghost stories.

So how do we get from there to an Elder God? Well, that's an explanation that's going to take a while. So long, in fact, that this essay is going to be split into two parts: one covering the origins of the King in Yellow character, and the second detailing how he was adapted into a pseudo-Lovecraftian deity.

The first adaptation - as, once again, many readers will already know - was done by Robert W. Chambers, author of another short story collection titled The King in Yellow. Chambers, who was predominantly a romance writer, wrote this collection - specifically, the first four stories - as a brief foray into the horror genre. And the results are, surprisingly, incredible. The collection shows us stories from the lives of four different narrators, wherein characters - often romantically entangled, but not always - suffer some gruesome hardship or fate, haunted by the presence of a play called The King in Yellow. Throughout, he references terms introduced in Bierce's stories, including Hastur, Carcosa, and Hali, but his worldbuilding is very much his own.

At this point, it's necessary to explain in more detail the mythos Chambers built - both to introduce the topic to the unfamiliar, and to establish what the original details were before the addition of further influences. First, we'll be looking at the elements that are consistent or reoccurring throughout the stories: the King in Yellow (the play), the Stranger and the Pallid Mask, the city of Carcosa, and so on.

(Before I start, a disclaimer: None of these elements are fully described in Chambers' writing. The nature of the play and any element attached to it are deliberately left ambiguous, to cultivate the sense of mystery that pervades all of the stories. What they are, and what they mean, is largely left up to interpretation - but without that interpretation, they're nearly impossible to explain at all. With that in mind, some of what I'm going to say is informed my own subjective view.)

So the first, and probably best-known of these elements is the play, The King in Yellow. It occurs in the stories only in book form - its one and only performance having ended in disaster.

Details of the play are incredibly sparse. If you want to look at them piecemeal, I recommend browsing the relevant page on the King in Yellow wiki; for the sake of brevity, I will only be describing a bare-bones reconstruction, based on the sparse facts we are given and other context clues from the stories.

The play, most likely, takes place over two acts. The first act is described as "banal and innocent," and concerns a masquerade ball, most likely put on for nobles and/or royalty. During the second scene, as the masquerade is underway, a stranger arrives wearing a "pallid mask". At the end of the scene, all attendees are asked to removed their mask, and when the Stranger does not, he is confronted only to reveal that the "mask" is simply his face.

This is implied to be the end of the first act. As for the second, we're given even less information to work from. We know that nothing in it is technically offensive, but that somehow, its contents are disturbing enough to recontextualize the first act into something too horrible to stop thinking about. Based once again on context clues, it's probably that the characters die in some terrible tragedy, but even those details are never confirmed.

(One last note before we move on: A common belief, based approximately on some details mentioned in the stories, is that the second act is so horrid that reading it drives one "mad", i.e. pop culture insanity. However, this is never really established by the text itself; there is one character who has read the book and is indeed clinically delusional, but his condition appears to have stemmed from a traumatic brain injury, not the play's contents. It's mainly implied to be upsetting, in the same vein as any good Gothic fiction - the kind of thing that leaves you reeling for days.)

Now, while the mystery of what's actually in the play is intriguing, the truth is that it's barely relevant to the purpose it serves in Chamber's stories. The few details we are given serve more as context clues to understand the overarching narrative, bridging some of the gaps in the information each story brings to the table. This is crucial to helping us interpret these other details, because it's not just the description of the play that's vague - it's everything. Chambers was the king of "I ain't describing shit", in the very way that most people misattribute to Lovecraft.

So, as briefly as I can, I'm going to go over the other pertinent elements and the part they serve in the whole.

First, there's the other King in Yellow - the figure that the play is named for. Interestingly, while the play's storyline clearly centers around this character, it's never suggested that he appears in the play in person - as he certainly does not in any of the stories. Instead, he seems to be a specter that haunts these narratives - inexorable and terrifying, but never needing to manifest physically for his influence to be felt.

He is, however, preceded by certain symbols, ones which typically seem to "mark" the characters with certain and imminent doom. The first symbol is the book itself - anyone who reads it seems to succumb to some terrible tragedy, typically the imminent death of themselves and/or a loved one. The second is the Yellow Sign, which is used by the King's followers in the first story to mark themselves, but may appear on its own in the same kind of role as the book. And the last is the Stranger - a mysterious, pale-faced man who, in one story, is revealed to be a living corpse, and in two is shown stalking characters that the King has targeted.

Now, once again, I must reiterate that these details are ambiguous. It's never made clear whether these signs are curses that call the King to their position, or simple harbingers of a fate that's already on its way. In fact, one story assigns them no supernatural influence whatsoever - the entire spectacle seems to be no more than the delusions of one or two mentally unwell people. Even in sources where they do seem to have supernatural power, almost nothing is ever so clear that it couldn't be at least somewhat explained by coincidence, periods of heightened emotion, or other natural causes.

Which is fine. Whether these things are metaphysical or not isn't a meaningful question - in fact, I'd argue that the ambiguity itself is the point. It doesn't matter if you view the King in Yellow as a real figure, a figment of the imagination, or something else. The consequences, in every case, are the same.

Luckily, the other aspects of the lore are easier to cover. First of all there's Carcosa, the well-known city that the King is believed to rule over. It's a fantastical location, with spires so tall or a moon so low that the former sometimes stand behind the latter, a pair of suns, a number of "black stars" (possibly dead stars, AKA black holes) visible in the sky. In addition to these, some regular stars can be found in its sky: the Hyades cluster, Aldebaran, and two stars, Alar and Hastur, which appear to be purely fictitious.

Another important detail about Carcosa - so important, in fact, that the largest single excerpt from the play is about this topic alone - is that it's a dead city. No one lives there, or even knows where it is, apart from perhaps the stars themselves. Even the King does not seem to dwell there - the only clue we're given to his location, "where flap the tatters of the King," suggests that he dwells in the skies above the city.

One final, but relevant element I need to bring up is the prototypical "cult of Hastur" - which is, in its incarnation, naturally anything but. This concept comes from the very first story in the series, "The Repairer of Reputations", in which the mentally ill protagonist is being taken advantage of a second man who is either also delusional or a serious grifter, and has convinced the protagonist that he is the rightful heir to an ancient bloodline. He has been slowly convincing the protagonist that if they simply murder the right people, he can become the new king of America, all while amassing a seemingly large number of loyal followers through his job as a "repairer of reputations".

There's much that isn't clear here, but what is apparent is that this isn't much of a cult. There is one man whose delusions have been carefully cultivated, and a lot of other people who feel indebted to a guy who seemingly wiped their sordid pasts clean and are willing to do anything he asks, regardless of ethicality. They use the Yellow Sign to identify themselves, but what it means to most of these people is never made clear - the protagonist himself gives it immense importance, but much like every other symbol he views as grand and powerful, it never amounts to much more than a drawing.

So that is the mythos in its original form. Broadly, it paints the King in Yellow as an angel of Death, or even Death itself - a cosmic persistence predator who never fails to kill. He has no verified physical form, yet people seem to know what he looks like, and his signs are everywhere when he comes to claim his victims.

Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding this mythos. There is so much symbolism to unpack in the story, and many different suggestions have been put forth about works that might have inspired Chambers, additional themes and meanings in the stories, and so on. If you want to know more about this topic, once again the wiki has some excellent suggestions and observations, although of course a huge amount of the topic is still based on educated guesswork.

But this is the gist of it, or at least, enough to set the stage for our next question: how on Earth has this lore ended up mangled so badly? And while I'll be saving that topic for its own post, I can leave you with a hint: His name is the same as Lovecraft's birth month, and he is one of the worst Lovecraft scholars in history.

[roolsilver]

People don't like the Elder Scrolls games because they're well-executed, we like them because we can jump for 16 miles to become an acrobat, or craft a bow that can oneshot God, or pick 3,698 flowers and have to crawl home, or ride a horse up the side of a mountain. Also Patrick Stewart is there.

The love is THERE, the devs hid their love in basements and under tables and behind locked doors and inside random sidequests. Underneath 5 voice actors for the whole game. All the mods and other fanworks are letters of love back, showing that we see their vision for what the game could have been.

(We also see visions they didn't, like "what if I killed Thomas the Train as a waifu wearing nothing but a diamond tiara?")

Unfortunately elder scrolls games are my hyperfixation right now which means I’m dealing with a lot of characters that I’m sure could be great characters somewhere underneath all that crunch time and Bethesda but we’ll never know will we

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

Rpg Anon: 1. Besides Sayaka, no other Japanese Folklore? 2. I've been getting a bit better emotionally. Not fully but regardless. 3. While I do like Celes of course having a French Persona who similarly died burning on a cross and labeled as a witch (yes I know about the firetruck), Jeanne is a relatively nice person who wanted to help people (who still swore a lot in history), while Celes is honestly an absolute selfish bitch. In FGO, there IS Jeanne Alter (Jalter) who is literally the reverse of normal Jeanne and revels in being a bitch to others (tho she's warmed up to everyone by now and is now just treated as a tsundere waifu by the community).

Side note: this might be irrelevant and kinda disturbing to bring up but if we're talking about Jeanne, should we bring up her friend Gilles de Rais aka Bluebeard aka Mr. I abducted, tortured, raped, and mutilated litte boys for years to prove that god exists and will punish me for my sins, all in the name of Jeanne? This might just be me portraying his Fate version but the point still stands.

4. Yeah I doubt Siegfried is for Leon. Side note: there's Siegfried and then there's Sigurd. Different versions of the same person that are now regarded as two different people. Different romantic partners, different deaths, different choices and experiences. 5. While Yog is also another H.P. Lovecraft Elder God and I understand that you're giving it to Mukuro to represent that she's Junko's sister, I'm still not sure if Mukuro should have it cuz most elder gods are just really fucked up evil people. Maybe I can find someone better fitting.

No, it kind of just worked out that way. I didn't really limit myself to nation because Persona 5 doesn't. 3's Persona's are based on Greco/Roman gods, while 4's are based on Japanese gods, but 5's Persona's have the setting of infamous thieves that can just come from anywhere. In fact, Yusuke is the only one of the team who has an actual Japanese figure as his Persona.

These days, I don't think it's possible to be completely content. The world just keeps getting worse lately, and we just have to take our licks when we can. Don't think about getting help if you need it though, just do it.

Be that as it may, I still think Jeanne d'Arc is one of the best possible choices for Celeste when it comes to the focus on folk heroes/characters. Really, Junko and Mukuro are the only two who break the trend, since their Persona's are kind of the villains of their stories, but they're also the primary villains of Danganronpa. Celeste is undoubtedly a villain in Survivor, but in core Danganronpa, while yes, she's a bit of a savage and is the furthest thing from a nice person, she's not "evil." Any horrible thing she does is out of desperation and a selfish desire to survive, putting her needs above everyone elses. It's egotistical and selfish, but that doesn't make her inherently evil, so it stands to reason she would still have a folk hero. On the other note, in regards to Bluebeard, I actually did make him the Persona of one of the V3 students, since by this point we are undoubtedly going to cover them next. I won't say who, but I think it's pretty obvious.

Honestly, if I just had an alternative, I'd go for it. The problem is that Leon isn't exactly what one would call heroic. He's a better person than Byakuya or Celeste, but he's not really a nice person either.

Going back to what I was saying about Celeste, I'm thinking about it from the core series primarily, not including Survivor. In Survivor, Mukuro gets a second chance, and makes the wise choice to follow through with it and turn over a new leaf; which is entirely possible, as the events of Danganronpa IF (which as a reminder, is what I consider to be semi-canon. It didn't actually happen, but it COULD have). However, people in canon DR seem to forget that Mukuro, at least originally, was equally as horrible a person as Junko was. She is responsible for acts of terrorism, mass genocide of an entire high school, lobotomy and brainwashing, as well as stalking, kidnapping, theft and smuggling. To be honest, I DID come up with something better, but the primary two reasons why I didn't talk about it is because it's not a folk-hero, and I do intend to have it come up at some point in Phantom Thieves of Hope, so I'm going to avoid spoilers.

Fate Grand Order, while yes, is also an intriguing take on demigods and folk stories, has no sway here. Persona's are typically based off the original mythological figures, not incarnations of them from media. And yes, I acknowledge that I did pick both Maximus and Leonidas from their respective roles in Gladiator and 300, but they were historical figures who fought through similar battles, and I try to focus mainly on the legend than other stories told about it.

-Mod

[h-worksrambles]

What your favourite Xeno series game says about you

Xenogears: The elder statespeople of the fandom, you’ve been around since the franchise’s inception. You first played Xenogears as an impressionable teen in the 90′s and thought it was the greatest story you’d ever experienced despite not knowing what in god’s name was going on for most of the runtime (I’ll bet Evangelion is favourite anime too, huh?). Now that you’re an adult with the frame of reference and critical analysis skills to find the substance behind all the weirdness, you love it even more. Disc Two was really not that bad, guys. Part of you wants a remake, but you’re also terrified of how it could get screwed up. You have a visceral hatred of modern day Square-Enix.

Xenosaga Episode One: As far as you’re concerned, the writing took a step down since Soraya Saga stopped being involved in the series. You’ve dug deep into the behind the scenes history of the franchise and so you know that this was the entry in the trilogy that Tetsuya Takahashi and Soraya Saga had the most input on. As such, this game represents to you more than anything what Xenosaga could have been. You have likely read Perfect Works cover to cover multiple times and have written novel length fanfics in your head about what sort of things would have happened in the full six-part story. You’re always very meticulous about checking your email.  Xenosaga Episode Two: You tend to avoid internet discourse because you’re so tired of people in the fandom dunking on your fave. You like the battle system more than Episode One because at least the attack animations aren’t thirty seconds long this time. You never fail to remind Xenoblade players that this game did the break system first. THE SECOND MILTIA THEME SLAPS, YOU TROGLODYTES! Jr. is probably your favourite party member and you loved watching him take centre stage and digging into his backstory. You maintain that Albedo is the greatest villain in this entire franchise and you’re probably right. Xenosaga Episode Three: You know this trilogy was cut short, but you were still super impressed with how well this game wrapped it up. You maintain that Yuki Kajiura deserves to be brought up more when discussing the franchise’s music. Godsibb is straight up a better version of Zanza the Divine and you will die on that hill. You either love Shion or absolutely despise her, there’s no middle ground here. But those of you split on Shion can put your differences aside to give a much deserved ‘screw you’ to Kevin Winnicott. You will probably keel over in joy if KOS-MOS gets into Smash, so you make do with sobbbing into your copy of Project X Zone. Xenoblade Chronicles: The zoomer equivalent to the Xenogears fans. Whether you were around for Operation Rainfall, or hopped on later, this was your first Xeno game, and while you certainly like or even love the rest of the series, none of them quite hit for you like this does. The sense of scope never fails to impress you, even on replays and you can’t help but spin the camera all around as you play. You appreciate the ways the sequels have built on this game, but think this entry’s gameplay is still a blast. You still find using the vision system to turn the tables on a tough fight super satisfying. You love the world and story of this game and frequently watch streams or reactions because you can’t get enough of people losing their minds over the plot twists. People assume that you think Melia is best girl but you laugh because you know the greatness of the Heropon transcends all petty waifu or husbando wars. You’re also probably the most meme-y sector on the fandom and have binge watched Theaggyu’s videos god knows how many times.  Xenoblade Chronicles X: switchportswitchportswitchportswitchport.... You are one of the poor saps who still owns a Wii U in 2022, and given how the Switch has pretty much lifted its library whole sale, this game is probably the sole reason why at this point. Well that and the eShop. It kills you that this game so rarely comes up alongside the likes of Breath of the Wild or Witcher 3 in discussions of the best open worlds in video games. You’re something of a power gamer and you love to push the class system to its absolute limit to decimate bosses. You watch 1 minute solo videos of Telethia the Endbringer and have to resist the urge to drool. Truthfully, you don’t really try to defend the story from its criticism by the rest of the fans, because the writing in the side quests is where it’s at! You have an instant violent reaction to potatoes. You feel for the Xenosaga fans but you also kind of resent them because at least they got two sequels to their unfinished story. Xenoblade Chronicles 2: The Xeno series has ALWAYS BEEN ANIME so SHUT UP! Unlike the X fans who have just been kind of doing their thing in the corner, you’ve been caught in the crossfire of the 1 vs 2 wars for a while now and you’re frankly sick of it. This is your favourite combat of the series by far, and you have put a shedload of time into the DLC challenges. You adore the characters and wish people didn’t get so hung up on some of the goofier designs. When one of your friends tries the game for the first tile, you always send them Chuggaaconroy’s guide video. Still, for all the fandom debacle, one thing you share with the Xenoblade 1 fans is your love of memes. You might even say you...don’t forget them. When Pyra and Mythra came to Smash, you were there in the battlegrounds of Twitter to maintain that they were a great addition. You can never watch the ending without crying. The most likely fans to read/write fanfiction.  Torna the Golden Country: You may not have entirely loved Xenoblade 2, or at least had some major gripes with it. But this prequel fixed pretty much any issue  you have with that game while retaining what you liked. You’ve always felt the past Xeno games were kind of bloated and love that this can give you a substantial experience in 20 hours, instead of having to wait 20 hours for the game to fully open up for you. When people say X or 2 have the best combat, you laugh in Vanguard Switching. Lora is a treasure and did nothing wrong in her whole life. Jin and Mythra are some of the best characters in the series and so help you, you will call down Siren on whoever says otherwise. Whenever you hear the word ‘community’, you freeze up on the spot. I said that 2 fans always cry at the ending, but honestly this ending reduces you fits of sobbing that put them to shame. Xenoblade Chronicles 3: You need to let me into your house and use your time machine RIGHT NOW.  

[takerfoxx]

re: your post, This is the joke with Fate, generally speaking. They're not ALL cute anime girls: in Grand Order right now there are 131 male servants. Genderswaps happen arbitrarily at times but they at least TRY to justify them when they happen (Jacques de Molay: turned female by an elder god for sexy purposes, Ganesha: currently using a female host instead of appearing in person, Da Vinci: more culturally well-known as the image of the Mona Lisa than his actual appearance). Waifus sell obviously but historically a lot of the franchise's most popular characters, both generally and in Grand Order are the male ones.

[heavenlyblau]

god i am so lesbian for fem!todd howard. at least i tried to draw him as kawaii animu gyaru... heh

1 pic: phrase in russian that means: you can look in "my eyes" only when you'll buy the game"

this is so cursed i am sorry guys

[cosmermaid]

My Serana post from god knows how long ago blew up out of nowhere, just waiting for the next idiot who can’t see her characterization as anything more than “Hawt vampire waifu” to claim I don’t understand Elder Scrolls lore because I spoke about Serana as an actual character rather than something that makes their pp hard.

[my-wife-is-an-elder-god]

How do I fix... this?

(This doubles as a teaser image)

I fixed the old tech issue, but then this happened. My text boxes all of a sudden are lengthened vertically instead of horizontally, and there's no visible setting that would fix it. Deleting the old and making a new text box doesn't work. I've tried every "basic" and "style" setting, nothing seems to work.

(Also if you noticed this is a different font than last time, it's because capcut deleted the font I mainly used halfway through editing, and I picked the closest match)

[lonesilverw0lf]

@heliosthegriffin , I hope nothing happens to make you stop this series. You’re doing an excellent job bringing this to life! Everyone else has some great ideas too!

It was either the grappling gauntlet, or Destiny 2 has a Strand ability that allows you to swing like Spidey. However we’re trying to keep him in the fighter’s role as much as we can, so that’s out. Well that, and the main way to obtain the paracausal powers of Light and Darkness is to die…so yeah. Unless there’s a magic gauntlet attachment that mimics the Strand grapple or Samus Arans grapple? The AC hidden knife attachment is worthless here anyway.

I was thinking the illusion trinket was his first foray into enchanted items and his awakening as a loot goblin. Now he can finally go to the pool or beach without drawing the wrong attention. Nice to wear t-shirts again. Those long sleeves that hid his arm scars could get pretty hot in the summer. Now he just obliviously draws the attention of every thirsty person in a mile radius once his shirts off.

Neo using the Webway to get around and pull off her pranks? Nice. And with an innate gift to navigate such an ever shifting maze she makes the perfect guide. It only she doesn’t screw over the guys for a laugh. Thankfully she doesn’t have any major ambition or else that would be very dangerous. It’ll be another reason to keep her safe. If the wrong people get their hands on her and her gift… However I wouldn’t introduce it just yet. Jaune can’t rely on her for accompany him through every time, she’s a Fey. Before Jaune can really take advantage of the Webway he needs a tool of his own to navigate the place. Even with a map it’s easy to get lost in the 40k version.

@lar-mx I like the concept of changing styles between cycles. Reminds me a little of Elder Scrolls lore with the Kalpa Cycles. In fact there’s a manga I read called “Gift Magen Gacha de Level 9999” that has a semblance of that concept. Check it out if you’d like. And what if this cycle is the oddball? Magic was plentiful until Salem happened and mankind had to shift to technology to survive, merging the styles. So it’s a form of prototype from the god’s perspective?

I was just going to ask if someone had an idea for what we could base the androids off of. I don’t play those kinds of games. Nice artwork though.

But here’s an idea for more internal struggles for the Gynoids is them competing against each other. For example (just pulling out names here): the waifus from Hikke, Blue Archive, FGO, Sora no Otoshimono, and Sekirei are from different ‘brands’ or ‘batches’. They all have the same general programs of Master/Servant, some other consistencies, but then a few things that differentiates one batch from another. Like Blue Archive have that halo thing, the Sekirei have a back tattoo, the Sora angels have the collar, and so on for the quick physical example. They can work well within their own batch(sisters) but tend to struggle with other batches(cousins?). They prefer to keep with their own whenever possible and Jaunes tactics can have them mixing batches for more problems. They don’t tell him these problems because ‘it should be obvious’, forgetting that he’s still struggling with the surface knowledge of this new mess. The ‘Master’s Favored’ hierarchy is still in place, but they’re vying for position, each has their own interpretation on how the hierarchy is structured, batch hierarchies within the overall hierarchy, and they’re also trying to outdo the other ‘brands’?

Ok, now that sounds more complicated than I originally thought typing it out. One can make a whole anime unto itself with just this. I hope this made sense, lemme know if it doesn’t. For simplicity’s sake we can just use one batch to eliminate all the above noise.

I had a thought for the hive mind one though, she’s palm/doll sized. Easy to carry around and conceal, cute watching her do small chores, perhaps fly/float short distances, can ‘group speak’ like the LGMs from the Buzz Lightyear cartoons, 0 offensive anything other than cuteness overload, but her true strength is in her ability to communicate with others at the same time. Like if Soldier Winter is trying to catch Weiss to study how they do magic and Winter is scanning/jamming any communications, the hive mind can act as unjammable, untraceable scroll replacements. So Jaune and crew can still communicate despite Atlas jamming their normal calls. She(the doll) can mimic the voices, facial expressions, and body language of the one who is communicating through her like those snails from One Piece. And with her size as a doll, nobody would think anything of it if a few girls just so happened to have the exact same doll.

This next part is just to give Jaune some guy help if Ren is being kept out of the crusade as his only normal friend. Or are we adding Renora to the Crusade and I just missed it? CDRL can be friends, but they also seem to near idolize him. Not very good energy there. He’s surrounded by so much estrogen he needs some testosterone on the side.

I did mention how Sun and Neptune could arrive being Junior detectives, but in retrospect don’t like that too much. Really who hires kids to be Junior detectives? Not to mention the feds don’t have the time and resources to go after some goon in Velvets words, so why send detectives? Then I said they have a Miguel and Tulio energy, but I wasn’t entirely sold on that either for some reason. Then I got the idea that they need a bit of an arc since the show didn’t do much. So in a world without Grimm at large and No Huntsman academies to give kids propaganda and a place to feel needed, what do they do?

So perhaps they’re lowly con artist, troublemakers, or something. Something to give them excitement, something cool, but nothing seems to really stick. They hear about the Shadow Knight through some underground websites and decide to see if they can join the fun. Vigilantism is cool! They’ll settle for sidekicks if they have to, but they want a piece of that action! They’re in it for vainglorious reasons at the start. However they don’t realize what that all entails or what’s really going on. It’s only after they meet up with Jaune they start to get the picture. It takes some serious soul searching, and probably more good intentioned troublemaking on their end, for them to actually get in on this. Yay, more headaches for Jaune. You think he can get an aspirin company to sponsor him for how much he goes through? At least give him a discount. What’s the strongest dose Amber can prescribe?

Perhaps Port can give these two a couple of sessions in being a man.

Sun becomes a Monk type clearly, it’s part of his origins. He eventually finds the same staff used by the figure that inspired the Legend Sun Wukong. It’s not mecha shift, but the metal parts are Starsteel and the wood is a now extinct specimen enchanted to grow and shrink on demand. And when he unlocks his Semblance he can really become the Monkey King. Not sure what path he is best for him, so I’ll yield to @noneatnonedotcom expertise. I do know he’s a bit off specs with more charisma than discipline for his class.

To add a little spice to Sun, what if he learns a form of magic later on? I mentioned one of Sanderson’s magic styles, Feruchemy to be precise, which allows one to store attributes to use later. I thought about Jaune using it, but that could fit Sun better. Spread the love a little. It’s nothing game breaking to me, you can only use what you store, can’t use anybody else’s, and have to actually have the filled metalmind touching your skin to be of use. An internal support system. But it could be a good boost to someone so behind in the game, alternating his speed, weight, and strength on a dime to push his already unpredictable Monkey Style even further. Having that punkish look, with metal bands, rings, and piercings, it wouldn’t be hard to hide this in plain sight.

Neptune is a too cool guy, but he seems to be really lacking in the self worth department. Turning down Weiss to the dance simply because he can’t, flirts with any girl that breathes, prefers intellectual to nerd, tries too hard, denies his aquaphobia, and so on. It just screams to me no real confidence. I haven’t read the side novels, but I bet he was bullied a bit due to his geeky nature in his youth. So he puts up this cool facade to hide himself.

Perhaps he finds himself in a situation where he can’t just ‘cool’ his way out of and has to actually use his innate nerd to be of use. It could be a good start into gaining some real spunk. To keep with his godly origin we can give him a Starsteel trident, but that can be even more difficult to use for Neptune than Jaune’s already hard to use Crocea. Its true value is by large bodies of water and his fear of such is a bad combo. His wimpy nerd arms aren’t much help even lifting there either. I was thinking about a sort of Bard role to use his natural charisma, but that’s pretty magic reliant and normies don’t have any. (Witcher Jaune and Jasiker Neptune, hehehe. I kill myself) Although I can see him knowing his way around an instrument, but maybe something a little ridiculous like a Hurdy Gurdy? It’s definitely not the usual cool of a piano or a guitar. Unless there’s some enchanted lute that he retrofits into a more modern and concealable guitar. Like the strings themselves are of magic creatures/origin to make the music work? So perhaps a multiclass spearman fighter with a bard? Or to fall in line with his namesake, what about a cleric? However he doesn’t realize it’s a water deity to actually use the trident to its full potential? Or a Warlock in a bid to get stronger fast? He seems to be the type to get tricked by a sexy sounding voice. Another sign of insecurity by trying to catch up the easy way? Or he can lean into his nerdy background and become an artificer? A support role specializing in ancient technology? The tech guy who can fight? He finds a prototype trident and fixes/upgrades it to function properly? I’m having trouble with this guy if you can’t tell. Ideas, None?

The other metal magic Allomancy would be actually game breaking here. I don’t wanna give Neptune something that broken. Enflaming and suppressing emotions, pushing and pulling on metals, and that’s just a couple of abilities in that bag. However it would be another nice balance between the two friends. And nobody wants anything to do with the third style, Hemalurgy. Expect maybe Adam on his downhill slide? That style is of Ruin.

I had a passing thought that if Jaune would learn any magic, it would be the Thuum. The language of creation and the gods. However that wouldn’t be until way later in life when he’s slowed down by a lot and decides to take time to learn some of it. It won’t be in this story, but much further down the line. After he grows his wisdom stat by a lot. Like he’s an older man by this point. He’s still a fighter and commander, but has that little extra if he really needs it. He never grows as strong as say the Greybeards, but even knowing some of the language is a massive boost. Maybe he gets a visit from his older self, or a vision? It was just a dumb thought. Cool but dumb.

I’m going to amend the idea of an ocean world, not the Plane of Water to make that distinction, where they find the not Black Pearl that may perhaps fly? What if instead of a Grimm sea monster BBEG, because that would fit better in the Plane of Water, but they have a cursed Grimm ship? Like how Davy Jones was cursed then his ship and crew were affected, a ship was cursed by Salem or one of her generals. Anyone who crews the ship would be a grotesque humanoid Grimm fusion, and anyone they captured or are unlucky to have been aboard when it disappears before sunrise would only replenish their ranks if any have fallen. Even the ship itself from its maw of the bow, to the Grimmified canons, to the rigging, to whatever other nasty tricks it hides, is alive and fights. The curse also conjures a storm when they sail at night to only add to their dangerous nature. And you never know when it’s going to appear because it sails under the water until it breaches to hunt its prey. If you get lucky and not have it come up right underneath you like a Great White shark, you might be able to survive the night. And if it’s feeling threatened then it can just slip back under the water again. Kill the Captain, blow enough holes in the ship to sink a fleet, slay every last cursed crew mate, douse the ship with napalm, run it aground, it’s still sailing. Only the comparatively few islands are safe from the vessel. There are times when it sends the crew to attack the islands, but those places learned to be well defended. Still doesn’t help anyone’s nerves.

With such a dangerous entity haunting that world, there’s no way the gang will just pack up and go home even if the ship decided to not bother them. And none of the guys know anything about sailing so there’s that problem too. But how can you stop something that can’t be stopped? Well, consider spoilers for the weakness. In a sailor superstition coins were placed under the mast for good luck. What if there is a Grimm mask merged into the main mast in the deepest belly of the ship? Like the trash Grimm from chapter one. That’s the weak spot, but nobody know about it for obvious reasons. It could be a flash of instinct/insight that someone realizes the source, after a few failed attempts of course. They can be discussing how to try again because they’re stubborn, Jaune can mention his experiences with Grimm mask trash piles, and Yamamoto makes the connection. Yang/Ying can use their bull headed nature and fly/plow through the ship to pry it off. Or the girls make good use of their artillery styled magic to expose it, after they trap it in ice or upon some rocks courtesy of Weiss/Bleiss. Can’t go under if you’re stuck on top of an iceberg.

For some reason I can’t get the picture of Yamamoto from One Piece out of my head as the one who has the epiphany. She ate a Zoan type Devil fruit(she can turn into an animal) and fights like a beast. A barbarian who can shapeshift? I found like one page talking about that kind of build.

I bet that sunrise never looked so good after the battle. Laughter, crying, and partying doesn’t stop for a week. Pure happiness and joy of that magnitude makes for a great Grimm deterrent. Sure there will still be Grimm swimming around, but those can be dealt with much easier now that the big one is out of the picture.

Magical girl discussion thread 2 electric boogaloo

@heliosthegriffin @lonesilverw0lf @lar-mx

new thread have a meme

[tindalosonlean]

Mh'ithrha? You mean like Mythra? Is she one of your waifus or something?

I shouldn't be surprised that you guys don't know him. He's invisible to the human eye

He's the Arch-Lord of Tindalos, the strongest Hound of Tindalos. Although he is not an Elder God his eternal battle with Yog-Sothoth is legendary. None of them will ever relent

Some were lucky enough to see him in their hallucinations tho

And Waifu?????????

I'm offended

[campcampfanfan]

Ranking every CC episode (except the specials)

You read the title! Every episode except the specials will be ranked here and now, by your truly. TW for swearing. Also, spoilers, obviously. Remeber these are all my opinions, and enjoy!

Episodes I don’t like too much/ Don’t watch:

54:The Candy Kingpin

I know, I know, probably an unpopular take. I don’t really like Dolph, and think the series could have done without his whole… thing. I like him as a character, sorta, but I also don’t really like him. I honestly forgot this episode even existed until I looked it up, and the only thing I remember was Gwen and David’s conversation. The whole story was… eh? Whatever, it was still fine-ish in the long run.

53: Reigny Day

Enough said. Everyone’s lowkey kind of a jerk in this episode, except for Neil and Max for like two seconds.Also, Dolph jokes. Don’t like it.

52:Cameron Campbell the Campbell Camper

This one was pretty meh. I, once again, didn’t remember it existed until I looked it up. It wasn’t Cam’s best episode (I’ll get to that later), and it was kinda bland. Bland doesn’t mean bad though, but it just wasn’t the best. Only thing I remember was the wholesome Dadvid moment and Max saying a funny line. Enough said about that.

51: Anti Social Network

Now, I wasn’t too sure where to put this, because this was in theory a good episode. I just don’t like it. I’m not sure why, but Max being a tiny perv is very funny to me, because that is exactly what a ten year old is like. I just didn’t really find it interesting or catching my attention, but it wasn’t a bad episode.

50: The Order of the Sparrow

I get why you like this, I totally get it. It’s funny and lots of Dadvid, plus Gwen singing for the first time. Honestly, Gwen singing and David’s mental breakdown is what got this higher than Anti Social Network, but it’s still racist. I get it, it’s comedy, but it’s still really… interesting. I know the CC people are trying their best, and it’s a delicate balance, but I still skip over the first few minutes.

49: Jeremy Fartz

We love a hilarious mess up, Max cursing, and David making fun of someone, but it’s also a really awkward episode? Like, it makes for a really good backstory for Jeremy and joining the Woodscouts, but it’s such an odd episode. Not bad, just odd. Whatever, I still like it. Sorta….

48: Fashion Victims

Oh boy, Russian Waifu comes back. I love Ainsley, she’s my precious baby and Max’s purified Doppelganger, and I love her so much. But Sasha’s not my favorite character in the show, and she got especially mean in this episode. I love the whole Vera thing, but really dislike this one. I watch it once in a while, but not too often. Also, we love positivity from Tabii and Erin.

47:Time Crapsules

We love Gwen blushing, improvement from Max, and making fun of baseball. But this episode really hit me with second hand embarrassment for both Gwen and Max. You know when you can’t sit through an episode without getting second hand embarrassment? Yup, that’s this one. I wanted the guy coming through the door to be David and I’m salty, ok? This is my list, and we stan Gwenvid on this account.

46:Campfire Tales

Dolph’s story was boring, Space Kid was great, We love ghost parents. We l o v e Slenderman! AU David in this household, and I want to see more of them. Oh yeah, outfits were great. Max is a baby in this episode, and I love his fear because it makes you see that he really is a little boy with feelings. I also laugh at everyone’s faces after Space Kid’s story.

Ok Episodes/ Ones I do like:

45:Preston Goodplay’s Goodplay

Oooooo, this is a tough one. I love Preston as a character, because I too am a theatre kid who dislikes most people and wants to be famous for her storytelling. I can relate. I love how David talks to him, and how Preston comes to his realization that he doesn’t need to please everyone. Also, canon French Speaking! David is canon. Amazing. He’s still Candian! Anyway, Clown College was odd, but whatever, I can roll with it.

44: The Quarter Moon Convergence

We totally saw Zemug and no one said anything. No one! Why was no one talking about this! We saw the elder god! Anyways, I love Harrison and Quartermaster working together. It’s funny, it’s clever, and I want to see more of it. I do not like the subplot with the other characters, and it really took me out of the main story. Other than that, pretty interesting idea, and I love my pure magic boy!

43:Who Peed in the Lake

Ew. That’s all I need to say about it. It’s extremely funny, I like the motives, and I love detective Max. However, Nikki and the final answer are disgusting in this episode. It gross, it’s gross, it’s gross, but it’s so funny. I know I have the humor of an eight year old, I don’t care.

42:New Adventure

I love how this episode was played out. Funny, clever, and overall pretty ok. Plus, guess who shows up? Dirty Kevin, my friends! Best trash boy :)

Overall pretty good! Not too many complaints, but not too many great things either.

41:The Fun Raiser

Hmmm… This was an… interesting episode. David and Gwen scheming is my new religion, and they are both idiots. Who the hell thought this plan was a good idea? David? I mean, he’s a little bit dipsy, but has SOME common sense. Gwen? Maybe, but you know, she’s logical. You know what? I’m being too picky. I love my dumbasses, they are the best. Also, Gwen sitting on David is everything I love in my life and everything I need. Harrison makes a very good point, Nikki probably found Jasper’s skull, and Max is my scheming child. Whatever, eh episode, love the plot, but I have cringed at it.

40: Foreign Exchange Students

Like I’ve said before, this episode is out of place. It’s not bad, it’s just… blandish. I know, I know, Russian Waifu was in it, but this episode was only ok. I love Vera and Brian, and the ending is super funny, but other than that, eh episode.

39:Attack of the Nurfs

I honest to gods forgot this episode existed. I ended up rewatching it, and had a few good laughs. Gwen in this episode, for the little time she appears, is so funny. David’s sparkle eyes always make me laugh, and Max ends up making me laugh most of all. Nurf takes “talking to yourself” to a whole new level, and I relate my man. Get that therapy!

38:Camp Cool Kidz

This episode is eh....? I love my tiny rebellious children, but I really hate Ered in this episode. It just feels… so unlike her. I get it, it’s the start of her ark, but really and truly I disliked her character in this episode. On the other hand, Nikki is me trying to flirt with other women. She’s my little baby Pansexual, and I love her to death. Honestly, I really enjoy Nikki episodes, so yeah. Also, the literal moment I began to love Gwen with the “Stab her bitch!” line.

37:Quest to Sleepy Peak Peak

Honestly, I almost never watch this episode, but I still really like it. Nerris’s lines, the battle between two magic folk, the one liners, the ending, oh it was really good. However, some of the parts were boring, it’s not the best, but it’s still pretty good. Whatever, I like Nerrison and magic, so boom.

36:Escape from Camp Campbell

Honestly, what a classic. First episode, Gwen being overall great, “No Running”, Max being a  tiny Satan, Nikki and Neil being amazing. But, once again, it’s the first episode, which means some things aren’t the best. But! I do enjoy this one, and watch it sometimes.

35:Mind Freakers

Eh… It’s pretty ok. We love Harrison and Neil being jerks to each other, and we love Max having an identity crisis, but all I could really think through this was “Poor Max” and “This is a really stupid and petty fight”. It really is petty, which isn’t bad, but I feel like ti was an odd episode. Not bad, I thoroughly enjoy it, I just couldn’t swallow normal for a few days….

One I really like/ Second highest ranking:

34:Romeo and Juliet 2: Love Resurrected

Bon Bon~! Yay! We love David for having a Tinder, for Max’s amazing performance, and the drama! That being said, it’s overall a pretty good episode! Not the best, but pretty good!

33:Mascot

Welp, I feel like you all know what I’m getting at. The jokes are well landed, Muack appears for the first time ( and steals the show, and that’s the tea), and my girl Nikki is so precious. Quartermaster is weird as hell, and speaking of which…

32: Quartermaster Appreciation Day

I know, it’s gross, it’s weird, I hate the relationship almost as much as I can, but this episode is so freaking funny. So many of the jokes are well timed, some classic lines come from this episode, and Quartermaster being his weird self is a major playing factor.

31: Space Camp was a hoax

More Gwen and David being two idiots sharing one brain cell? Hell yes, lay it on me. Space Kid is so funny, and his inner dialouge is fantastic. Also, Nikki cursing is incredible, even if it isn’t really on screen. Gwen’s line “Is this what success feels like?” is a major mood, and I just generally think it’s a good episode.

30: Ered gets her cool back

We love Nerris and Ered’s relationship in this household, ok? Older sporty sister spends time with dorky younger sister who has more common sense? Bigger sister gets better at being with other people and learns a lot form the experience? Nikki”s outfit? All major amazing things I love in this episode. But, the plot was a little eh, and I got second hand embarrassment.

29:Jasper dies at the end

All I have to say is H O O E Y

28:Cameron Campbell can’t handle the truth serum

Dolph’s autstic? Oh, ok, that’s pretty cool! We love representation. Anyways, this was an odd episode. Not good, not bad, just… odd. The therapy and plant jokes made my dad have to come in and check on me because I was laughing so loud, and most of the other jokes hit well. But it was… eh plot wise. It was pretty good joke wise though!

27:Journey to Spooky Island

Jasper, Quartermaster’s ahem… thing, and Max screaming were the best things in this episode. This episode is pretty great if I do say so myself, but this is ranked lower because I did not need to imagine Quartermaster like that. Excuse while I go burn out my eyeballs.

26: Camporee

Fuck Pikeman. All my homies hate Pikeman. No seriously, he is my least favorite character on the show. His sexism and gross advances really get to me, and the way he treats Gwen is disgusting. Now I have that out of the way, I actually enjoyed this episode, except for Pikeman. Hot take, I know. I’ve seen the Pikeman X Reader stuff on Wattpad. Whatever, back to the topic. Episode was good overall, especially the lesson. Each person’s talents were fantastic, and the ending itself was great. 

25:Camp Corp

We stan business Gwen and her telling Nancy to shut up.I love the plot, forcing three people who usually don’t work together to solve a common problem. I love that, and it does make for an interesting story. However, there are some flaws to the episode, but it’s overall pretty fantastic!

24:Follow the Leader

Are you kidding me? This was a great idea. Funny, creative, inventive, and overall pretty good. Playing with how each character leads was a great idea, and very inventive to give them all a common goal. Why it’s so low is personal pettiness. Pikeman, and Jasper was probably on the island when it blew up.

23:Squirrel Camp

Why is this so high up? *Looks at notes* Oh yeah, it’s so stupid I actually like it. No, but for real though, I know people don’t like this one as much as I do, but I think it’s pretty funny. Sure, dumb idea and kind of mediocore, but to me it’s so fun and entertaining. I’m sorry if you don’t agree, but you can make your own list if you’d like. It’s such a weird plot it’s entertaining. You get me?

22:Panicked Room

I just really like this episode, no rhyme or reason. It’s really funny and romantic, and the interactions were so good. David and Gwen through this episode were amazing for the mere seconds they were on screen, but it was overall pretty good!

21: City Survival

I couldn’t remember much of what happened in this so I ended up rewatching it. We love Dirty Kevin, David’s reaction to the city, and David being a homeless twink. Gwen also has the fancy outfit in this episode, and I am all for that.

20: Cookin Cookies

Three girls accidentally start a meth lab and go all breaking bad? Hell yes.It’s funny, the completion of everyone getting father figures, and it’s an overall good idea. It’s creative, good, it’s amazing. I really wanted to know what the main three were doing though, I’m actually kinda curious. Anyways, good story, and very enjoyable.

19:Keep the change

I found this episode very entertaining! Dadvid, Campbell getting better, funny moments, and a good plot! It’s really a great episode, and establishes what the season will be about. In fact, I believe I have themes for all the seasons:

Season 1:Beginnings

Season 2: Family

Season 3:Friends

Season 4: Change

18:Parent’s Day

Ok, Ok, know, Dadvid, but really I feel like this episode is a tiny bit overhyped. I love the Dadvid, Candy and Carl (Except I really don’t ship Neil/Nikki anymore), and how Max’s … situation is handled. Yes, I am on the side of thinking Max’s parents are abusive or at least ignorant. They just don’t care, and that’s where Max’s attitude comes from. It was well handled, and I very much like this episode.

17:Dial M for Jasper

I love Jasper with all of my heart, and watching his backstory was both heartbreaking and amazing. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Watching it made me hate Campbell more than I did, and I expect the episode where David finds out about Jasper would be heartbreaking. David most likely screams and curses at Campbell, and takes off. I’m hoping Gwen runs after him, but that’s wishful thinking.\

16:David gets hard

The ending is amazing, I love learning about Nurf’s trauma, and watching Gwen,Max, and David scheming is incredible. It was interesting to see Nurf's side of the story, and it was pretty good. Enough said.

15:Cult Camp

Yes, it is high. The song is amazing, the plot is amazing, and Daniel’s stupidity is amazing. He is a very good villain, and it works with the comedy of the show. If everyone wants, I will write an essay on Daniel and what he means to the show. Anyways, good episode, funny and inventive.

14:Bounjour Bonqueesha

Oh, what to say about this episode! I love Bon Bon, but her breaking up with David an hour before their date? Not so cool. Whatever. Watching Gwen comfort David made my day, my week, my month. It was amazing. The “I’m a girl” line was extremely funny, because me too Nikki. Me too. Anyways, loved it!

13:The Lake Lilac Summer Social

Oh, what an episode! Gwenvid, Makki (I sorta ship it? Eh?), love triangles, Gwen going ship crazy (me too, man, me too), and David being level headed for once. Uh, so glad this episode exists. Only bad part, Pikeman and Jeremy. That’s literally it.

12:Operation: Charlie Tango Foxtrot

The ending was gross, but whatever. No judgement. Funny episode, and I love how the experimented with the points of view. Petrol’s side was a nice gag and it was overall a good episode! No complaints other than the weird ending.

11:After hours

Honestly, this is a tie with the next one. It is a great look at what happens after all the kids go to bed, what Gwen and David have to deal with, and what goes on outside the camp. The Gwenvid is strong with this episode! It’s really funny and creative. Also, ChibiKawaiiCat97 is absolutely a real username out there, I’m sure it is. Gwen deserves all the good things.

My Favs!

10:Scout’s Dishonor

Neeancy, my child! Yeah! Also, Neil cursing out of nowhere? Amazing. It’s so high up because it actually was the first episode I saw a clip off! It’s what got me into Camp Camp overall, but it’s not listed up there because I do like others better.

9:The Forest

I know, not number one. It’s an amazing episode, with a great plot and a good lesson, but I physically cannot watch it without sniffling. Yes, I know, I’m pathetic for crying at this, but I really see the pain. You can feel the fear in his voice, and it always makes me so sad. Whatever, I still love this episode.

8:Into Town

I mean, I have no rhyme or reason, I just love this one. I can’t even think of a flaw for this one! It’s kind of an amazing thing! A lovely episode with good visuals and amazing dialogue!

7:The Butter Fingered Effect

An amazing episode about change. I love Neil cracking, Ered becoming a nerd, Nikki becoming a scientist, and the counselor outfit swap. I appreciate Gwen wearing David’s clothes, because that’s amazing. I like the theme of change that fits with Season 4. Good episode with almost no flaws!

6:Eggs Benefits

I love Max and Nikki interacting, trying to take care of the egg and Nikki basically having a panic attack. I just love Nikki episodes in general, ok? Don’t judge. Whatever. Preston and Nurf, were um, problematic, to say the least. Whatever, the ending was funny, and this episode is dear to my heart.

5.Camp Loser says what?

Wow… Gwen in a wood scout uniform is actually really pretty! Entire episode was pretty much a fanfiction come to life, and we love the team for that. Uh, I yearn for more fanfic like episodes. God, if you have followed me for long enough, you’d know I would love for the fans ideas to become canon.Anyway, good plot, glad Daniel came back in this way and Pan and/or Bi David is canon

4:Nikki’s Last Day on Earth

I wasn’t expecting that! Honestly, I didn’t see the twist and thought it was a good idea! Funny, creative, and shows off Max’s jerkiness. We love Max development and amazing plots. We also love a Mother and Daughter relationship between Gwen and Nikki. More of that please1

3:Gwen gets a job

This is so damn creative, I love this episode so much. Gwenvid fuel, Max being a terrible person, Gwen breaking down and David comforting her. I bet Gwen never heard a speech that encouraging in her life…

2:Party Pooper 

I know you thought this was going to be number one! Haha, tricked you! But really, this is an amazing episode. The way Gwen bonds with her father, the beautiful scene at the end, the background, everything. I love a good “Gwen is underappreciated” episode, and that’s why this gets second. Almost no flaws! Which leads to number one….

1:Something Fishy!

What an amazing episode! I have never seen “Shape of Water”, but this one is just incredible. Gwen is an underappreciated overworked mess, and she finds what seems likes the perfect option. But turns out it isn’t what it seems, and it’s amazing. Also, this episode has so much Gwenvid fuel, it’s amazing. The art is amazing, Gwen’s dress is amazing, it’s all perfect. No flaws here for me!

[sorrowful-prince-pelleas]

I think that the reason why I don’t care much for the Foreigner class as a class is that it’s kind of a mess - it’s supposed to be for those that faced Elder Gods and survived with their sanity, but at the same time you have servants that are just straight up associated with Space that qualify. Which makes it a kind of messy class with no real genuine distinction.

I think the biggest issue is that Abby was the first introduction - because that meant that the next Foreigner had to also be an Elder God, which is a shame since it didn’t really work well for the other two.

Like, Hokusai and Yang Guifei don’t really have Abby’s connection to their Elder God - they feel like ordinary servants (like you would expect from say, a Caster) - they don’t have any real connection to their Elder God besides aesthetic connections, which makes them feel like wasted potential. What about Hokusai represents any aspect of Cthulhu, a monstrous and horrific being that drove countless artists to near-insanity just by waking? The fact that they appear in absolutely no major stories is also unfortunate since you can’t even have them grow and develop and show the more monstrous sides to them.

Abby still isn’t perfect in that regard, but actually having a connection to her origin and having a story chapter really help her be very understandable as a vessel for Yog-Sototh.

First, there’s the innate connection between Salem and Lovecraftian lore - a large chunk of his stories take place in Massachusetts, in a city that’s meant to be a pseudo-Salem - Arkham. Her best friend is Lavinia Whataley, whose family possessed the Nercronomicon and who summoned Yog-Sototh (and had kids with them).

Yog-Sototh also appears in another set of stories - those concerning Randolph Carter, the name Raum takes as her uncle, and who used the silver key to to meet with Yog-Sototh.

So a lot of Abby being a vessel for him makes sense in-lore, and it works a lot better than “here’s a supportive and hot waifu that plays musical instruments and I guess she also has the power of Cthuga I guess”.

With Abby there’s an intentionality that’s missing with the other two, and that makes the entire genre of “Foreigner Outer Gods” feel weird especially when we get more Foreigners that are just normal but either come from or are tied to space.

[nessaiscute]

I’m going to rant for a bit, bout something that i have a lot of feelings on.

Will people PLEASE stop reducing the new rune factory game to a ‘wafiu simulator’ its rude af and to be fair its bullshit cause by a loophole anything can be a ‘waifu simulator’ even your pericous lesbain games like last of us can have fangirls fighting over which of the two girls is the better ‘waifu’ and if im being blunt yall need to learn to leave people the heck alone and let them have fun, cause 1) there are plently of women who enjoy those games and even IF the people who enjoy them are mostly men just how are they hurting you by going on bout how much they love their waifu i thought yall’s biggest beef with men is that they can’t love women so when if men want to try to be better whats the issue? also, Elder scrolls 6 is going to blow complete ass cause one skyrim did (don’t @ me im right) 2 bethseda is dealing with like 4 to 6 different lawsuits so the idea of them even having money to make the game right now is in all hoensty up in the air. and don’t even get me started on the bull that is god of war. 

All and all just let people be bloody exicted for Rune Factory 5 its going to be a great game im even going to go out on a limb and say its going to get game of the year cause its going to be THAT good. 

[thrallsnpuppets]

"Rae'ultha has been wrapped in a ball of tentacles hiding in their room for ages." Je'keleca said to their doctor of sorts.

"have they travelled to outerplanes lately? Nasty flesh eating parasites in some of them." The doctor was making notations on a magic tablet by gently directing various eldritch runes towards swirling vortex files, "some brain worms can cause major depressive episodes for they latch on to dopamine receptors."

"Rae'ultha was discussing missionary work to spread the great word of Cthulhu." Je'keleca mentioned, "There minister proposed extending a tentacle or two towards some of the middling planes, those that exist in a material sense. To convert corporeal beings into sowing chaos amongst their kind."

"Pretty standard. Most middle planes don't cause this sort of melancholy. May I still test for brain worms?" The doctor inquired, "perhaps they made a stop on the way to the middlings."

Je'keleca made a small squeaking sound of anxiety by squeezing air through appendages before blurping.

The doctor groaned deeply in response to comfort the squidlian.

"there is nothing to worry about we will resolve Rae'ultha illness in no time." The doctor rumbled.

"Doctor..." Je'keleca uttered, "The plane was Midkuth. That which converges upon itself."

The doctor inked.

"Midkuth...?" The doctor rapidly typed out the runes sending them to their file. The tablet glowed red and the doctor responded with a horrified screech, "Were they summoned there? How can a missionary group allow first timers even get within a few vectors of those that live with in Midkuth? Even season ministers and the elders of our race have consumed themsleves for merely existing on that plane for a mere remote decimal of their life! We are meant to sow chaos not be driven mad by the attempts to control it."

"Doctor... Rae'ultha mentioned something about having a sycophant warlock and they being his patron." Je'keleca said.

"lead with that." The doctor grumbled, "I wasted enough of my energy contemplating brain worms I could fathom a Midkuth sycophant... Is it all least one that resembles our kind? A bastard eldritch half breed? An elf? Orc even?"

"Human." Je'keleca said.

"Take me to Rae'ultha immediately." The doctor demanded.

Je'keleca wound their tentacles into tight knots chanting quickly as they chose the correct wormholes to take through the voids of nothingness to reach Rae'ultha's domain.

Rae'ultha preferred a somewhat damp cave like plane filled with bioluminescent wisps that faded in an out of the walls made from black quartz and raw granite. It looked much like the nursery where Rae'ultha had hatched minus the scragglings that fed baby squidlian.

Rae'ultha had curled into a ball and wedge themselves under a lip of stone, shaking mildly.

"Rae'ultha." Je'keleca rumbled their voice against the walls of the cavern in a summoning invocation of their friend.

"The panoramic avocado and it's friend raptor jesus." Rae'ultha said in response, "Holla."

Je'keleca reached out to the doctor for comfort, "They've been like this for days."

"Let me try something..." The doctor said, "nice shoe laces."

"I stole them from the president." Rae'ultha shifted from the crevice, "Waifu?"

Je'keleca, "What does any of this mean?"

The doctor sighed, "I was afraid of this. If Rae'ultha had been summoned during the middle ages, they would have responded 'by gods great toe'. Unfortunately, they had been summoned during the techno-petrol wars. There, magic has all but been lost and most folk had succombed to genocide by previous wars. In the techno-petrol archanium majoris is rendered in a free-form through cybernetics."

"Bingus." Rae'ultha pleaded.

"Somehow during this period, magic and technology merged into something volatile. The chaos trapped within copper and crystal displayed upon black mirrors. We, as eldritch, are embodiments of chaos. To be summoned into this time our incorporeal beings mesh with the matrix of their magical laws. Therefore, there laws that confine us there and then is within their cyber systems." The doctor continued, "The warlock in question was probably completely unware of their new found patron. As a result, completely unmitigated feed of information and azoth was transmitted using cyber science directly into Rae'ultha's brain."

"is there any hope of recovery?" Je'keleca whimpered.

"We will have to run some tests..." The doctors lowly grumbled and shook their face like structure on their carapace, "Before the Techno-petrol wars, I'd say yes. For they used simple arcane minor. And they controlled it well. During... Arcane majoris combined with the ignorant will of a human...? Only the warlock will understand what Rae'ultha parrots. We would have to find the warlock and convince them to undo what they did."

"We would have to go to Midkuth?" Je'keleca asked worriedly.

"I'm afraid so... Though I know a hunter of sorts, a flayer that would be happy to seek this warlock and convince them with enhanced techniques to release the device which may contain the mind of your friend."

"So mote it." Je'keleca said, "I'll accompany the flayer for I have experience in middle planes."

...

"Kyle," His mom shouted from the bottom of the stairs but he ignored her, "Kyle!"

He was browsing through his new program code to help comb for crypto.

"what?!" He slammed his fist against the table.

"There's an agent here to talk to you." His mom shouted.

"a what?" He screamed and left his room, "what do you want now?"

He froze at the top of the stairs and saw armed law enforcement standing at the bottom of the stairs staring upwards.

"Are you eldritch_warlock316?" The agent asked.

When it was discovered that all alien civilizations were destroyed by eldritch gods we wondered why they hadn’t done the same to us. Then we learned that the human mind can drive an eldritch god insane.