#even though im catholic 😒

[gorillaxyz]

NEAR IS SO EDWARD VI CODED.

[ferrocyan]

not to be a weeb but i do think about tarts personal pronoun changing over the years

in arr its アタシ (atashi, its girly and kinda childish) then changed to ワタシ (watashi, technically proper except being written in katakana suggests shes a bit awkward w it) in hvw except when she avoided using that around edmont or the other high house members (even francel tbh, haurchefant and emmanellain are the only exceptions) then in stb zenos made her slip back to オレ(ore, the masculine pronoun which is rude to use irl but its normal for anime boys. in katakana its more casual) its just one time though tart mumbling to herself abt thinking of zenos as her friend.. best friend... (ominous) or it was until he killed himself and tart fully became an ore girl around the alliance soldiers. she didnt rly like this abt herself tbh... so after falling at the ghymlit dark she told aymeric "うちに帰��せてありがとう" (thanks for bringing me home) うち(uchi) taking on a double meaning as both home and a feminine personal pronoun so it also means "thanks for bringing me back to myself" oh im crazy i dont even speak japanese ignore what i say this probably doesnt work lmaooo [if aymeric ever brings this up again tart will absolutely murder him] anyway so in shb and edw she uses ワタシ again except around reeq she would use オレ tbh but its fine this time its different trust me. anyway the big bombshell is when tart the catboy calls the scions to introduce himself after his "fantasia" and uses 私 (watashi. the normal way you write it) in this context i mean it to say that tart has shed his awkwardness and despite the complicated Circumstances around his gender change he is comfortable in his own skin. so even just from that its easy for the scions to accept who he is now. but then. when the rite of succession is over and tart rejects wuk lamats offer to stay as her companion, he starts to use 自分 (jibun, meaning oneself) why, oh dont worry ab--(a page from the website japanesewithanime dot com falls out of my pocket) "The pronoun jibun 自分 is associated with military officers, police men, detectives, professions that follow a strict rules, and where knowing your place in the hierarchy is fundamental." ahem i said dont worry about it hes not a clear reflection of zoraal ja or anything, definitely not someone feeling like hes losing his place in life bc he doesnt know how to exist as his own person and not a weapon for the military. definitely not a problem so bad that sphene cant stand to see him denying his own personhood and she kills him about it. yeah no its all good. so tart as souleater definitely uses オレさま(oresama, the most pompous male pronoun in existence. however not in kanji like 俺様 bc his ass is faking that pomposity) onstage. in fact he should call himself このオレさま(same thing but with emphasis. you want to smack this brat upside the head so so bad) once it would be so funny. hearing tart say jibun outside the arena gives yaana whiplash but honeyb is just like "okay repressed catholic i know what you are 😒" okay thats all i have to say thanks

[thirstyforred]

in the light of the FUCKING STELLAR NEWS of The Witcher 1 Ramake and copy-pasting my discord ramblings from few weeks ago

another Rod though, bc y'all love to enable me 🥰

somewhere between the acts of tw1 Foltest throws a tournament. for some reason, maybe Adda's 30-something birthdays (sic) or her engagement with Radovid (tho im half sure they got actually engaged after the striga shenanigans).

anyway there's a tournament in Vizima and you will very easily guess who competes 😌

and bc it's not enough for temerian nobles to be slightly annoyed that the wet weasel is surprisingly good at this knightly sporty stuff, Adda makes a move that's 100% calculated to make everyone mad. as the lady in name of whom this whole even takes place, it's customary that she would, symbolically, give someone her ribbon or something as a mark of her favor. and it's not completely out of the left field to give it to Roderick, he is her adjutant or whatever.

But everyone hates it. Foltest is like 'daughter of mine, your very likely future husband is watching, wtf"

Radovid is like 17, so whatever he thinks it's personal

temerian nobles are like bleh cunt de Wetter 🤢 bc he's just that annoying

Jacques is trying to make a good face, but apparently, none of his lectures about maybe Rod growing some spine were ever listened, and also operation "getting into Adda's good graces" was supposed to be secret, and it's hard to keep it that way when now everyone assumes they're fuckin 😒

Rod also hates it, but only after agents of Redanian Intelligence visit him and break his arm

it does bring out memories of the last time…

Rod ofc gets his arm fixed in like an hour, thanks to being in a gay catholic cult. but he thinks "well, last time something like this happend, it was bc my father decided to be a bitch, and then i did nothing to retaliate, but what if? this time i was the bitch?" and then he challenges r5 to duel

yes, radko is like 15 years younger than rod, but he didn't spent all these 15 years of his life training. no, he was getting bullied by his cousins, and then traumatised by mages, and then he just became a kid king

(im extremely fond of the hc that both Siegfried and Aryan are Radovid's cousins, their moms are related, and Radko was back then a bit younger than the other two, and anyway aryan sort of seems like a mean type, and thinking about sieg successfully bulling someone is very funny to me, and besides radko is just this vindictive over-reactive type)

ppl try to laugh it off, like yeah sure, count de Wett, that's sure a great joke, amazing jest, splendid prank, but you can't duel a king, lol different social standings or something like that

so rod pulls out his fantasy nilf ID, to prove that actually? with the death of Joachim de Wett, now he, rod, hold the title of prince (of whatever the fuck they were princes of back in nilf)

(the fact that joachim died executed for treason is strategically glossed over lol)

so as a prince, who was deeply offended and bodily harmed, he actually can duel whoever the fuck he wants

since in the north princes are most often just a stepping stone to being a king, no one actually thinks to argue with him on that 🤷

JdA who makes it his whole thing to know what his men are capable of, take rod on the side and tells him: I won't stop you, bc chaos is the ladder, ya'know, but for fucks sake, try to just humiliate him and not straight up kill the king of redania, ok? can you do that for me?

and rod is obviously :flunched: bc jda believes he will win? and asks him to not do something, for him specifically? :flunched: :flubbed:

(but truth is that jacques is ready to, worst-case scenario, set radko on fire, bc well, in the end rod is also his horny lemming pet project, and ppl can't just damage it. and it's bad enough that adda is writing on rod like he's a blackboard 😒 )

foltest is willing to let this whole thing thru, bc he just thinks it's a prime entertainment at this point. and well, it's more of adda's problem anyway. maybe it will teach her something, unlikely, but still adda gripes with the fact that she knows rod is lying about princedom, bc he hates his father and would never invoke him like that, meaning he's very pissed now. but also the fact that it's actually only partially a lie? and adda somehow forgot that this dude she's sleeping with, who seems to be in love with her, is actually in position where wouldn't get chased off if he tried to ask for her hand in marriage? but he never even mentioned it before?

just adda lying to herself that she's not stressing about whether or not rod would want to marry her if he can

radovid is delusional about his chances and manages to guild trip siegfried into helping him 'train'. actually he's just gonna guilt trip sieg into being his second/representative in the duel. about which siegy is obviously not very ecstatic

come to it, siegfried can totally wipe the floor with rod, and everyone know that, but like, he doesn't actually want to support radko in whatever this is

ok, but spinning this concept a bit more, it could actually be turned into a quest, or even a whole new act extravaganza

reds hire me to write tw1 remake!

player would be in power of solving the situation, helping rod or rad (lmao), or just somehow screwing both of them

like you could stick to Adda's 'storyline' and by influencing her make her choose which of them she should continue showing support and thus win. or maybe make her stop them both idk

i mean there's like 3 endings here, but just the ways of getting there are multiple

even adding yaevinn and elves to the mix wouldn't be thaat hard, they for sure would try some terrorist shit, hey, maybe gerult can actively help them in it? let's cover all the possible choices :cryingevillaugh:

alvin is there, completely entranced by gay cult and very cool grandmaster

salamandra is there, professor high as kite, they're selling so much fantasy coke

replace Siegfried as radkos champion, congrats rod gets to die in shame and jda is pissed bc now someone else will have to curse adda lol