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[dreadpirateella]

somehow I'm brave enough to post this (might delete later tbh) BUT RISE FANDOM!!! I WROTE A SONG!!

okok tbh this is like 3 verses and I do have the whole song written down but I don't like enough to share all of it soooo you get the first like minute and a half! I like the end of this the most!

and please don't steal my lyrics I'll cry :(

if it's not clear this is about the apocalypse timeline! It's like a 2nd person pov talking to Leo <3

Also ignore ALL of my ancient art on the wall in the background omg it's all so old 😭 DO peep the turtles right above my right shoulder, though!!! My babies!

(also shout-out to @beanies-in-the-clouds for encouraging me that these lyrics are actually good lol)

Lyrics/video transcript under the cut:

Hello there! I have been workshopping a song about the apocalyptic timeline in Rise for a long time! And I wanted to share my first like 3 verses, so! That's what this is, it's called "apocalypse" for now! Working title!

start of lyrics:

They bled and died

4, 3, then 2

They fought for their lives

but there's only so much that you can do

They gave it all

Everything they had

to save the world

to save their dad

But dad died pretty quickly

And your shield is gone

Your brainiac with a heart of gold

has gone to the yellow road

now it's you and the sun

now it's you and your son

[frostwinddandelion]

[stars-and-darkness]

the thing about caitlyn fucking kiramman is that i don't even LIKE her, but i also can't stop thinking about her. she could've been SO GREAT. like in s1 i didn't particularly care about her (she was just ... there. there was nothing offensive about her character, she just didn't stand out among all the others in the main cast), but in s2???? so much of what goes on with her in s2 is just so utterly delicious and right up my alley ... in theory. in concept.

but the execution is just so utterly atrocious, and combined with the rest of s2's general idiocy, it makes me so furious, but i still can't not think about the WHAT IF, ya know?

what if we maybe deferred the magical hive mind robots and the wizard cult and the multiverse to the next show (or never ... never's good) and the focus remained on piltover and zaun. what if we had a season or two more, so that the necessity of a redemption within the next six 40 min episodes didn't bog cait down (or ... you know. no redemption arc. i actually prefer that. let her be evil, lmao.)

if they had spent the time and the effort into actually exploring her inner world in order for us to see her slow descent into fascism, it could've been SO GOOD. if they had taken this kind, painfully naive yet so well-intentioned girl who descended down into zaun and saw the suffering inflicted by the system she herself has benefited from her entire life, put her through an event that actually challenges both her ingrained kindness and the newly-formed awareness of the oppressive dynamic that permeates the society she lives in and then asked the question: is caitlyn kiramman the sort of person who can suffer a huge personal loss like her mother due to this exact oppressive dynamic and still come out recognising that it's a symptom of the system her mother, PERSONALLY, propagated?

and if the answer is no, like s2 attempts to do, if, as someone much funnier than i am said somewhere on this webbed site, she takes zaun lives matter out of her instagram bio ... that's okay. hell, for me, a known enjoyer of characters who are terrible people, it's excellent. it takes the s1 character i didn't much care for and makes her into someone i would be extremely intrigued by.

but ... that's not what happens. or rather, an arc that would require a lot of work to do justice is so condensed that she goes from 0 to 100 in one 40 min episode, and i understand why it's so hard to swallow for so many people. and the worst part is that i can SEE the outline of what could've been, and it makes the switch that much more jarring. cait seemed to be going in one direction, until the memorial attack when she did a complete 180. worse than that, when she decided to form her sexy lil copaganda war crimes task force, she immediately pulled out the big guns.

(i have seen ... so much discussion on how much harm unleashing the grey on zaun actually did, and in case my opinion is somehow relevant to this discussion let me just come out and say:

how do you think gas works? we are shown, explicitly on screen, cait and the war crimes gang release it in the streets of an underground city where her family controls the vents. i think any discussion that doesn't conclude with yes, caitlyn did in fact bring unfathomable harm to hundreds if not thousands of people is a waste of time.)

more than that, while cait herself doesn't live in our world, the creators who wrote and animated this, and the viewers who saw it do, and we all have a cultural awareness of chemical warfare and its associations. it's insane to me that people go against common sense to defend her here, both because i don't think it can be defended unless you have a HEAVY case of fave-can-do-no-wrong goggles on, but also for me personally because ... why would we want to? she's finally being interesting.

all that said, and i cannot overemphasise this enough, gassing zaun should've been a moral event horizon for cait. it should've been the point at which even the people around her--most notably, bloody VI--turn on her. it should not have been the very first thing she does.

hell, she establishes the task force specifically BECAUSE she believes that the council attack, in mel's own words, was an act of one deranged individual, and she wants a small force that can extract/kill jinx, rather than a full-scale invasion that is going to harm innocents. so WHY is the first thing she and the task force do EXACTLY THAT?

the war crimes task force should have been shown to struggle in zaun for an extended period of time, during which cait grows more strained, as do her relationships with her loved ones. she should have been shown struggling with ptsd from the dinner party and guilt over not taking that shot at jinx when she had the chance. vi is the one who convinced her not to--what if she finds herself blaming her for that. what if vi (this post isn't about her so i'm struggling so bad not to derail it completely but oh my poor girl what did they do to you) is pulling away from her, more and more conflicted about what they're doing, both on a systematic level as enforcers rampaging through the undercity and on a personal level as an older sister (just give me vi actually struggling with being an enforcer, PLS, give me her feeling cornered and seeing no other way forward, give me SOMETHING). it would bring in an interesting bit of interpersonal conflict for caitvi that isn't predicated on cait fucking punching vi only for it to never come up again.

point is, we should have seen cait struggling under the weight of being the head of her house, the weight of expectations, the weight of her guilt, we should have seen her barely holding together and feeling like everyone in her life is against her (again! vi!), BEFORE she makes the choice to unleash the grey, to do exactly what she formed the task force to prevent, to take something her mother built to actually do some good (pls insert all the arguments why the kiramman vents are fucked up actually here, i'm too tired to bring them up) and turn it against zaunites, in her mother's memory.

moral. event. horizon.

(insert here something about how jinx turning the grey back onto piltover should've been a major moment for HER, and something to actually lock in all those unconnected and thematically insignificant cait-jinx parallels. how we should've seen her struggling just as much with her own rage and hate, which all stems from guilt--because cait isn't the only one who lost a parent that night. how that moment should have been a CHOICE jinx makes, not just a terrorist attack but the moment in which she chooses to fight for zaun--for selfish reasons, of course, because she's not an idealist, she's not a revolutionary--but does her motivation really matter if the result is an actual resistance movement? look, i have even more thoughts on jinx than i do cait, and if i go on i'll never stop so let's just--let's just go back to cait.)

instead, the gassing is the first thing she does, it's shown to us within a single music video, and then she's being hailed as a dictator. and as rushed a job as the first three episodes do in establishing how she got there, what really pisses me off about cait in s2 and what prompted me to furiously type up a post about a stupid cartoon when i should be translating latin texts for class is ... what now?

the timeskip between ep 3 and 4 is the most fascinating bit here! here's where she's at her angriest--her guilt is eating her alive, because she didn't take that shot, because she alienated vi (what a nice way to say she punched her and left her curling up in pain, alone, wow), everything that made her angry is still there, she still sees jinx's face in her nightmares, except now she has the ultimate power. she has avenues opened up to her that she didn't up until now, and she has ambessa whispering in her ear, fuelling her rage for her own purposes.

this should have been caitlyn at her worst. just as angry as before, just as guilty, but with the full power of a city under martial law under her fingertips.

in a world where we have revolutionary!jinx, we could've had the scene where cait lets ambessa put the Cloak of Dictatorship around her shoulders intersped with flashes of jinx digging out silco's old coat and shrugging it on. caitlyn's cloak hangs heavy and just keeps dragging her deeper underwater as she chokes on her own rage, but jinx nuzzles into the collar of her coat. caitlyn's cloak is a shackle; jinx's coat is a comfort as much as a promise.

in a world where we have revolutionary!jinx, we could've had cait have actual war on her hands.

(it doesn't even have to be jinx. i mean, i WANT it to be, but the war could happen without her, too. i just need IT to happen instead of arcane age of ultron.)

and this could do wonders for her character from so many directions--it could fuel her hatred more because zaunites aren't just rolling over as they did when she gassed them, now they're fighting back, and they're fighting dirty. it could push her deeper into ambessa's embrace because she sure as hell doesn't know anything about warfare, so isn't it lucky she has a decorated general as her mentor?

this is where i get to one more thing i'd have loved to see and that's ... no redemption. not every villain needs redemption, and they sure as hell don't need it to be sympathetic.

because arcane only had two seasons to work with, and because we HAD to have cait redeemed by the end, we get to see none of what would realistically have been her worst era. instead, when we meet her again in ep4 she is already tired, already done with all this, already disillusioned with ambessa. the most interesting part of her arc is completely skipped over in favour of a "redemption arc", and i use the that phrase HIGHLY ironically, given that it was less of an arc and more of someone from the writers' room pointing a gun at my forehead and threatening to shoot if i didn't agree with them that she was redeemed now and that it's all roses and daisies from now on.

ultimately ... i don't WANT her redeemed, but if we must, then i wish more thought and time and effort went into it, just as i wish it did with her descent.

and you know what? caitlyn as the main villain of s2 might've fit nicely into the whole theme of monster you created from s1. of how revolutionary ideas are significantly easier to hold onto when someone you love isn't at stake. you know, all the things that would make the big-collar-and-injured-eye visual parallels s2 draws to silco actually make a lick of sense.

s2 cait stumbles through a multi-season arc in nine episodes, and about as gracefully as a broken-legged foal.

[squishycat330]

THIS WAS THE REFERENCE!!! IT WAS BY MOTOBUG THEY ARE AMAZING!!! AND I AM VARY! VARY! SORRY I RIPPED YOU OFF SO BAD!!!!!! IT WAS NOT MY INTENTIONS!!! BUT I STILL HAVE TO POST THIS, HUGE CREDIT GOES TO MOTOBUG!!!

@motobug IM SO SORRY

so these are for a AU type thing I’m doing, it’s kinda a royal family type thing, I hope it’s not to hard to read my handwriting I spent hours re-doing it multiple time

💜Elena: she’s the Lord/Empress of the Shinobi Clan and mother of Espio. : she’s vary straightforward and quite sensible when making decisions for her clan. however she does have a soft spot every once in a while, especially for her son. : she rarely ever looses her cool she’s always calm and collected

: Elena loves her people and being able to lead them, even if she spends most of her time on diplomatic work revolving around it. :she also loves spending time with her family even more.

: she much like her husband tries not to use favoritism towards him in certain situations, sometimes coming off as harsh, but she always shows she loves him at the end of the day : her grate grandma was the ruler when the Clan wars started, it ended when Elena was 23/24. : she started ruling when she was 18, and spent most if not all of her time on the Clan War, but she did manage to find time to marry Etsio. : 6 years of her ruling was during the Clan War, and it’s been mostly at peace since then with a few disagreements here and there but nothing to brake any treaty’s :the year the war ended Ellena and Etsio decided to have a baby. (:she will send Ninjas out to gather information on the other clans they typically go unnoticed, and report back with various information :it’s safe to say if things went bad with the four clans again theirs would be ready, not to mention none of the other clans know where their located)

(:along with being the leader she was also a highly trained Ninja, Or Jonin which means ‘High ranking Ninja’) LIKES: serving her people, peace and quiet, her son. DIS-LIKES: war, fighting, being away from her kingdom. FAVORITE FOOD: jasmine tea. AGE: 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

💙Etsio: he’s Espios father and the most skilled Ninja in their ranks, he’s a teacher/trainer, he teaches various Ninja skills from weapons, sneaking/camouflage, fighting, etc, most of his students are 15 to 18, sometimes their well be a few that are younger, but he does have one of the most difficult classes.

:Espio is one of his many students, he tries not to give him any special treatment (and usually doesn’t) let it be known he loves his son vary much but he’s normally a lot more harsh on him then his other students : he’s vary strict but he does care about his students, although he’s a serious man he can ba quite playful and mischievous at times, messing with and joking around with people he’s close with and his students. :Him and Valdez are best friends they see each other as brothers even. They’d trained and grew up together. :Etsio was somewhat jealous of how His son favored Valdez over him :He was a Jonin guard and protected Ellena when he was 15, they got to know each other and eventually got together in secret until she took the throne and got married a year later when they where 19. Not long after the Clan wars ended they had their First child And only son Espio when they were 24, (they had their daughter at 37) LIKES: being a Ninja, learning, reading. DIS-LIKES: Arrogance, uncared for weapons. FAVORITE FOOD: Udon. AGE: 39/40 (he’s half a year older then Ellena)

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Espio: Son of Ellena and Etsio, and also the ‘Son’ of the Shinobi Clan, he left the clan when he was 15. :he was already in complicated classes for his Ninja training but he exceeded the others so much that he had to be moved up to his fathers class, (which he was vary proud of). :The classes he was in prior was Valdez’s whos basically like a uncle to him

:he’s always been calm and dedicated to learning, from ninja skills to different languages, and anything he’d find interesting really. :he’d spend hours reading all kinds of books, his parents and teacher found him many times asleep with a book

: horribly awkward in social situations, he can easily get embarrassed/flustered in these situation not knowing what to say or do, sometimes he’ll even go as fare as to go invisible so know can see him blush :he was always the more quite kid only talking with people he was close with, like his family or Valdez

:Espio doesn’t like physical contact, Especially when it’s sudden like Hugs, hands on shoulders etc, if it’s someone he likes/or is close to wich he’s mostly fine with

: Moma’s boy. . . . He’s always been close to her then his dad :his dad on the other hand he started to see more as a Sensai then a dad :he loves his dad he just can’t figure out how to show it : he’s actually closer with Valdez then him. :he’ll actually talk a lot around his mom

:Female chameleons are the ones with the heart chests, it’s possible for males to have them but it’s rare :most people make fun of men with heart chests or think it’s cute,

(: he speaks/ is fluent in 17 different languages Japanese, English, Chinese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic, Hungarian, Portuguese, Egyptian, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Russian,)

LIKES: Peace and Quiet, Reading DIS-LIKES: Physical Contact FAVORITE FOOD: Dango AGE: 13 to 15

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ella: Ella is the youngest and only daughter of the ‘Royal’ family, she’s still a baby/toddler but she loves her big brother

:Definitely likes her dad more

LIKES: her big brother, shiny things, pink DIS-LIKES: Green bell peppers, loud sounds, yellow FAVORITE FOOD: Sweet potato’s AGE: 0 to 3

(there’s not much on her . . . . Sorry)

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There’s two more characters Valdez and Haru, Valdez was from the Archi comics and was already mentioned a few times wall Haru is Espios ‘best friend’ she’s also his girlfriend when their older, I have much more for them, should I do more on those two?

Some of this is just the plots for certain One-Shots for this AU others (manly Espios) where just random thing I threw in

Sorry again for the handwriting

I had more to say but I can’t remember right now. . . . . eh I’ll post Valdez and Haru soon, I just finished the drawings for them in like to days meanwhile this one took 3/4 or more it’s been sitting in drafts for a week or two as well (I got sick when I started it so).

(update I changed some words in here for Japanese titles based on my recent research, I hope I used everything right)

[ellakomskaikru]

What do you think of Zuko demanding that Katara trust him in the southern raiders

He didn’t demand that she trust him. He said that everyone else seemed to trust him, and wondered why Katara still didn’t, in a frustrated tone of voice. Then when Katara explained why she felt the way she did, Zuko asked what he could do to make it up to her.

He didn’t demand that she set aside her feelings and trust him. He actually wanted to fix what he did wrong. And after Zuko and Katara returned from the trip, he didn’t demand that she forgive him. He gave her space, and then Katara decided on her own that she was ready to forgive him.

[nthtotaldramasideblog]

Naming Total Drama Characters like Ace Attorney Characters

Gen 1

Noah Tall

Like “know it all”. And also ironic cuz he’s short.

Courtney Law

“Court ‘n’ Law” also she it’s very on theme for her.

Owen Monie

“Owing Money” His family gets into debt.

Duncan Fighter

“Drunken Fighter”. It’s criminal behaviour, he is very aggressive. Also maybe he can have a relative called ‘Crim E. Fighter’ lol.

Gwen Blackbrush

Less overtly punny and more just referencing her artsy, goth, nature.

Heather C. Vulgaris

(Hear me out I’m proud of this one) The Heather flower’s scientific name is Calluna vulgaris. Vulgaris sounds also sounds similar to “vulgar” and while she doesn’t say anything explicit she is generally rude and you could argue her fashion choices are “vulgar”.

Sierra Pendant

She wears a necklace, but mostly because she wants to marry Cody so he can become “Cody Pendant” (Co-dependent).

Justin Credible

His looks are “just incredible”. I’ll admit I got this from a website which is a shame cuz it seems obvious

Ezekiel/Zeke N. Yeshallfind

“Seek & you shall find”. I also got this off a website.

Gen 2

Beverly “B” Ridge

B can be “Bridge” or Bev can be “Beverage”.

The only one for Gen 2 I’m really happy about now. Though I think Mike should have a normal sounding name but his initial spell “MPD”.

Gen 3

Ella Cinder

Like Cinderella

Scarlett Banner

Synonyms for “Red Flag”. Felt fitting.

Max’s cover name is Max Power. His Birth Name is Max Scout Monie

Max Power is obvious. The 2nd name is “Maxed out money”. Also works if we still consider Max to be Owen’s cousin.

Gen 4

Bowie Knife

Like the real life Bowie knife of course I had to do it.

Raj Anand

Anand is Sanskrit meaning happiness/bliss referencing his cheerful attitude, and it also sounds like ‘and’, like Raj and Wayne -> Raj Anand, Wayne)

Wayne Winters

Just for the ice hockey theme.

Happy to hear thoughts and suggestions.

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Some villains are all your unspoken sins personified.

The sins you didn’t commit out of fear and better knowing, the sins you regret thinking about,

the sins that scare you.

The late night thoughts you fear, the fits of rage you’ve learnt to contain.

The words you never speak out loud, the things you could be but actively chose not to become.

You fear that part of you, and you’re aware.

That villain is you, what you could have been. You fear that thought… you’re frightened, but also curious. What does that say about you? Does it mean anything? Is that yet another part of you that should be feared, the curiosity?

The genuine interest, the questioning? The wonder?

You tell yourself you never want to find out what kind of person you could be, but is that true? Is it fear or excitement keeping you up at night? The voices in the back of your head when that one person did you wrong… are they truthful, are they right, are they wrong, are they even there?

Is this you? The madness hidden within, is that more you than the person you are now? Is it somebody else whispering these things to you, telling you to do things?

Does it matter? The real question is, are you going to answer?

Are you going to do it? Or is it safer to pretend that part of you never existed and never will?

The villains… are they to fear? To blame? Take a look at yourself, and answer honestly: the things you did and the things you never did, what do they make you?

And now, the villain… an active choice or a scream for help? Would you do the same they did? No, would you? If there was no control?

What do you know about the madness within and the thoughts before and behind the actions? What do you know about the motive and the great scheme of it all?

Who knows what you’re capable of?

Who knows if you’re the right person to come with such statements, blaming others… who are you to blame them? Who are you to blame?

Who knows? How would they know? Don’t let them find out. Take that as you will.

[bri1234]

This scene will never not be funny to me 😂

[singleratsinyourarea]

Guess who Messaged me 10 minutes after I reblogged with these tags

“Clearly getting rid of Tumblr worked” BITCH YOU ARE ALSO AT THE DEVILS SACRAMENT I DONT OWE YOU NOTHIN

[buneeto]

till death do us part

day 2 : wedding

credits:

goroella: lumialle, necroalx, ATLUS

raoulkira: necroalx, apricothere, gasptheenemy, lumialle, ATLUS

church: yuyu

ray-mmd 1.5.2 (rui) kirakira (beamman, chestnutscoop) ikdiffusion (ikeno)

[introspecnio]

💌

[fell-zz]

Ella Purnell portrait and figure

[stars-and-darkness]

so, a few days ago i was watching arcane with a bestie, and it was her first time watching it. we actually got as far as the end of act 1 of s2 before she gave up on it, and something funny occurred to me by the end of the first episode. so i wanna talk about cait's war crimes task force for a moment.

LIKE, WHAT WAS THE SELECTION PROCESS FOR THESE PEOPLE

cait marches into the council meeting in her new sexy copaganda outfit (look, whatever her faults you can always count on cait to serve, and you can't gas civillians if you ain't cute), and the war crimes task force is already assembled, armed with custom hextech weaponry, and decked out in their own sexy copaganda outfits. all that without the approval or even the knowledge of the council.

and i just really, REALLY want to know what was the criteria here. bc like, let's look at them:

cait, who was a carnival guard like a week ago, then she got fired and continued to impersonate a cop for the rest of the season, but i guess with marcus's death and everything else that went down everyone just forgot that part, and she just never reminded anyone

vi, who is probably the best fighter of the bunch, and the only one who knows her way around zaun, but she was in prison up until a week ago, certainly never went to whatever piltover's equivalent of a police academy is, joined the enforcers earlier today, and has extremely complicated personal feelings both towards the institution of enforcers and their intended target (i will not go off on a tangent about how vi's character was butchered this season, i will not go off on a tangent about how vi's character was butchered this season, i will not--)

maddie, who literally called herself a junior officer earlier in this same episode

the guy vi got drunk with last night who i'm guessing was an enforcer before that moment, but considering vi is also here and she only became an enforcer a few hours ago, we really mustn't rule anything out

and the fish guy without a single line of dialogue in the entire show, so i suppose one COULD argue that he has the sort of skills that could get him on this task force ... but considering that in ep3 cait and vi just kick maddie and the guys out of the gang moments before they're supposed to actually face jinx, aka the thing they're down there to do in the first place, somehow i don't think so

and the council just??? goes with it??? it doesn't occur to anyone to ask hey cait, maybe bring some experienced officers with you?

SO WHAT WAS THE PROCESS HERE

[uwuguay]

mi post anterior no era por ningun post en particular, nomás soy gringofóbica y tengo el impulso de putearlos porque si

por otro lado me da mucha gracia cuando salen con que x es el país más racista. de donde sacan esa info??? fascinante todo

[ellakomskaikru]

Worst Azula take you’ve seen?

“Azula redeeming herself is impossible. She doesn’t deserve the opportunity to heal from her trauma and become a better person.”

So far that’s the worst Azula take I’ve seen. I understand not liking the character, but saying that a 14 year old girl is incapable of healing, becoming a better person, and redeeming herself is just incorrect. She was not ready for redemption at the end of ATLA, but she very well could be in the continuations of the story.

[artlyloser]

[ID: An illustration of two women in a skate park in the afternoon. We are looking upward from the bottom of a ramp and can see trees and a fence behind the girls. The bit of the ramp we can see has faded graffiti and a lot of scuffs from use. The woman on the left has very long orange hair put up in a ponytail with a scrunchy and right parted side bangs. She is wearing a cute candy themed outfit with shorts, thigh high socks, and knee pads. Her pink converse shoes are off and sitting next to her. She is standing on the edge of a ramp with a pair of roller skates dangling from her hands behind her back. While bending over the edge, she is looking worried about the drop.  Next to her is the other woman with short black hair covering half her face. She is dressed in cargo pants and a white tank top with red accents. Around her neck is a pair of noise cancelling headphones. She is sitting on the edge of the ramp with her legs dangling off and she’s looking up at the other woman with adoration. Next to her is a skateboard that is a similar red to the roller skates and on top is drinks and fast food. END ID]

Starting the year off with my two (current) favorite ocs of mine Ella and Blair <3