#faceless (game)

[ali3nboyfriend]

i’ve never seen anyone design anything the way the destiny franchise designs aliens, and i think the reason their alien designs are so unique and interesting is because they’re just completely unafraid of making them ugly.

other media wants their aliens and monsters to have aesthetic appeal above anything else; even if something is meant to horrify you, they want it to be good to look at. anything that makes a design unattractive past a certain point is usually left on the cutting room floor. and this is an understandable practice! humans are a very aesthetically inclined species!

but look at the aliens in destiny!

they’ve got weird stuff going on! cabal faces straight up look like a scrotum! psions are soooo egg-shaped and malnourished looking, and hive have a bad case of muppet mouth on top of looking like human skeletons with bug parts grafted on. eliksni are gangly and awkwardly shaped and in-game they are constantly hunched over.

a lot of the times (except for with the hive), these features are covered with armor and helmets, and i think that's pretty unfortunate because the base designs for these guys are so interesting to look at!!!

the same principals go for unique enemies like rhulk and nezarec. they're ugly!!! and that's the appealing part!!! rhulk's head is long and almost perfectly cylindrical and his feet can't decide if they're hooves or paws; nezarec has a face like a rotary phone and a second, vestigial thumb, as well as weirdly shaped monkey feet.

and it would be one thing if these features were presented to evoke horror -- but the thing is, i would argue, they're not. they're just presented. it's never a matter of "look how scary this thing is." even though we meet most of these aliens as enemies, their looks are allowed to just... be what they are. they don't look like that to scare us. they just look like that.

and i think that's a really fascinating lesson in monster/alien design! i love monster designs that are objectively appealing and nice to look at, but i honestly wish more media did things like this, because it makes the universe so interesting!

[alitheakorogane]

"Dude, I think the game is glitching and that character's files seemed to be corrupted..."

Translation on the second picture: "We are always watching you."

Based on Self-Aware Genshin Impact AU and Faceless Ayato trend.

This one took me like days and my drawing app crashing to do this, for like 10 times and at risk of losing my progress due to the tendency for the app to crash and affect the file, that I have to restore it by replaying the speedpaint video the app had made.

The language in the Mondstadt-Teyvatian script that was shown in-game, and was made into a font by StationaryCottage from Reddit.

Link for the font

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The non-text version:

[lupiiny]

“Speak the names, and a man will do the rest.”

[nataliescatorccio]

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES

[pininiu]

“Maybe if you bleed gold, you’ll be able to afford what you need”

When you get consumed by the soundtrack more than anything, and I also can’t get the idea of the golden blood in greek myth out of my head

So yeah I drew my own Vesper, I named mine Wisp

[midnightdemonhunter]

SO EAT YOUR FRIENDS THEY'D UNDERSTAND CAUSE THEY WOULD TOO

[remitro]

i started playing sky today!!! i really really like it so far :3 i LOVE that we’re faceless!!

[tomialtooth]

To have a face is to have personhood. So by making Bell wear a balaclava, Bell's personhood and identity is denied.

Bell's balaclava therefore serves two purposes. In universe it serves both as a tool to sever the connection between Bell and their former identity and to dehumanize them to the rest of the safe house crew. Getting attached to Bell is dangerous and it's easy to get attached to something with a face. By removing Bell's face from the equation with the Balaclava it becomes easier for Park and Adler to avoid becoming attached to Bell.

Out of universe it allows the player to imagine however they want Bell to look like without having to add actual character model customization to the game.

[no-face-no-shame]

- A post about how certain trans hcs may make more sense for a character than other trans hcs

"Hm I don't fully agree with the example given but generally the post is good"

- Opens the reblogs

- Half of the reblogs are trans women talking about how much they hate trans men, or rather "transandrobros", and how those disgusting freaks (trans men) try to make everything about themselves

- Starts blocking and looks into the camera like in The Office

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu- Faraway Wanderers/Tian Ya Ke by Priest

Xiao Chiye/Shen Zechuan- Qiang Jin Jiu/Ballad of Sword and Wine by Tang Jiuqing

Jeremy Knox/Jean Moreau- The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic 

Roz Lacertosa/Damian Venturi- Seven Faceless Saints by MK Lobb

[facelesscharactersoftheday]

The faceless characters of today is Capitano

[demacianpuppet]

I'm surprised nobody posted this tweet here yet, but this means my days of writing are numbered.

[butchfalin]

country boy, big city

[vntxtears]

The mini creepypasta they made after faceless ayato happened a long time ago but at the time I couldn't finish this fanart

I actually finished it for a university project lmaooo

I also uploaded a small speedpaint to tik tok

[ctrb92]

The last months have felt like a little bit of a drought for kdramas and bls. And now everything is coming out all at once. I don't have enough time to watch everything.

[sunst3rr]

i know what youre asking for