#fickle games

[shokujin-art]

So... I started a side run with a new PC to add a top / defiant to the family ✨

Barely 40 days in, beating whitney's ass to save him from dismissal and kicked away 3 people at the same time to save Robin. I can sense Lyra judging him from her save slots 😂

[seeminglyseph]

Apollo's entire vibe in God Games feels like "Dad Said I Had to Be Here" and I feel like that's so Golden Child of him

[makoredeyes]

Hecking FINALLY did it 🫠

[redwinterroses]

headcanon that Scar is the only one we don't see die after winning a Life series because time is a loop and he moved on alone in the world, which then became the start of his The Crafting Dead series.

[polaroid-angel]

((ooc: wanted to try and change the setting from the last rp hehe hope u dont mind))

While Forcas was waiting for Valefar and Porter to arrive, a red canary quickly came by to sit on Forcas' head, looking at his face. Its eyes squinted upon seeing him, as if it was smiling. It rested its entire body on his hair, waiting for something. Someone. Some people.

This bird was a sign the other two were near.

(( @ur-local-demonlol ))

An odd energy. Some new arcana. Not malicious but dark. Not that he would jump to conclusions—he's not an ignorant moron that assumes everything at first glance.

He reached up to the bird, recognizing it.

"Hello, my friend. Good to see you again."

But it seems someone thought he was talking to them.

"Mm?"

"A-Ah, oh... Sorry I bumped into you that one time."

"It's no big deal, but your impulse to buy a gift for me was..."

"I just wanted to make up for the stuff you dropped."

[rebouks]

Hi yes hello, for them ☆ asks I would like "who gives the children ~the talk~" and "who is the favorite parent" for none other than The Ginge(tm) and Cookie c:

lmaooooo oh idk i think they'd tag team the kids for the "talk" for maximum embarrassment 😂 and idk who the fave is tbh! ig it changes on a whim and for each kiddo.. Robin definitely favours Oscar, he's such a daddy's boy n' so is Wren! but sometimes she doesn't wat anything to do with him and only wants Courtney so 🤷‍♀️ Byrd's a bit of a momma's boy tho, and Ava just kinda shares her lil love with everyone! she's a cuddly sleeper so i bet her ultimate fave is Alton rn since he's extra cuddly and the king of naptime 👑

[dayurno]

How does the breaking of Kevin's hand affect Transmigrator Riko's relantionship to Jean? You said Jean didn't believe he was changing, but what about the next months when Jean becomes his partner? Does Transmigrator Riko go to an awful grief period like SY does?

VERY GOOD QUESTION riko and jean never become friends even after transmigrator riko takes over and directly starts working on making kevjean’s lives more bearable—riko is switched around the time jean is 15, which means a lot of the bad memories jean associates with riko haven’t and will not happen, but what he does have is enough to know there is no world where riko just Turns Nice. at first jean thinks he is playing the long game and worries about what this could mean for kevin, who falls for it, and then as he grows older he learns to just avoid riko at all costs even if it means being subjected to the other ravens’ terrible personalities and constant bullying. t!riko still tries to intervene and help from far away, but the perfect court is much more fractured in this universe because riko doesn’t have as much centralized power as he once did, so he and jean only have kevin in common and that is about as far as their interactions go, too

this isn’t 100% set in stone yet but let me answer it in two parts. yes, riko does go through a grieving phase, and it wavers his position in the ravens for a bit. he is their infallible king, and kevin is the traitor who jumped ship, so why is riko so clearly miserable? it instills some seeds of doubt in him and his perfect court t!riko can’t afford at this point in the story, so he reverts a bit back into the original riko’s personality to hold down the fort. he’s still pretty miserable in private, because he’s grown to love kevin and because he feels guilty, and of course all of this does effect his performance, which in turn puts him in tetsuji’s line of sight again. all in all he’s not doing well at all, but he believes that it’s his penance for what he’s done, and things will not look up for him at all until neil josten shows up in palmetto and kickstarts the plot

now the other part: jean never becomes riko’s partner because transmigrator riko tells him to take kevin and leave when he breaks kevin’s hand. part of it is because he’s genuinely grown fond of kevin and needs someone to look out for him, but the other part is that riko can’t trust jean and especially not a jean that has never been broken into not hating him. it’s as much a decision for kevin’s sake as it’s for his own safety—the day riko breaks kevin’s hand is bloody in more ways than the original because jean is there and he’s not scared to brawl with a man he’s no longer scared of, and because he’s been waiting for the other shoe to drop and for riko to go back to the monster he was before he turned nice. kevin himself doesn’t want to leave at all: keep in mind he spent the last 3 years being actually, genuinely close to riko. he feels betrayed, yes, but he knows riko at this point; the decision to break his hand makes no sense and kevin wants answers. unfortunately he will not get them until much later, because he passes out and wakes up in david wymack’s guest room with jean, already far away from any answers he could get

[dryfrooot]

👀

[metanarrates]

what are your thoughts on the capitol?

weird. inconsistent. mostly i don't get why the capitol audience are alternately treated as the Worst Sickos Ever or Just Nice People Who Want Katniss To Succeed. it seems to flip-flop based on what the story needs. if the audience is nice, why are the death games meant to cater to a sensationalized, violent appetite? if the audience is cruel, then why is katniss confidently telling us that caesar flickerman's studio audience likes her for real? I don't mind stories that deal with the whims of audience, or even stories where there's factions of audience who want different things, but the audience is treated as a singular block and them apparently wanting different things at times is not commented on. it just feels very strange.

[sweet-milky-tea705]

Doodle request! Can you draw Mhin in a non la hat? (Its a traditional Vietnamese hat) or like any traditional Vietnamese clothing? Sorry but they are so like me so im slapping my heritage onto them.

Ty for the req <333

[juney-blues]

i was filled with an urge to start working on home stuck sprite game again, but was like "no i probably shouldn't it kinda sucks shit and is cringe"

then i started replaying it again for kicks (and to see what i'd even have to work on next) and my self deprecation was MISPLACED, my ass is fat and i have a winning personality and my shitpost game slaps actually

[howyouducan]

I took Veilguard Day off, and I work until Wednesday, the day before Veilguard. I think I am literally going to complete Trespasser on my own playthrough for the first time, the day before I play Veilguard for the first time. If that's not poetic IDK what is

[emptylotfiasco]

[blujayonthewing]

life hack: make 'gets frequently misunderstood' a part of your OC's core concept on purpose so that when your fellow players immediately misunderstand him you can go 'ahaha yes, just according to keikaku' instead of feeling physically ill with stress and dismay

[fogclan]

Sorry for the lack of updates!

I have a few more moons finished that I will probably post soon but I'm thinking about moving on to a different clan and trying something a little more story driven and loose? Maybe a lone survivor challenge or something like that.

Apologies for any disappointment this may cause. Clangen is great but doing the updates this way was getting kind of repetitive.

[skaruresonic]

man yesterday's "debate" with that dude on Twitter was like

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"Why didn't Sonic just warp directly to the Cannon in SA2?"

"Because the Core was flooded and needed to be drained first. If he warped there, he would have drowned because it was submerged."

[long detour, in which it is okay for them to bring up the Olympic Games' gameplay as proof as Shadow can swim, but not okay for me to bring up SA2's gameplay as proof he cannot because every character drowns in SA2, therefore it doesn't count. also I have not played the games, apparently, because I did not show them a screenshot of Shadow explicitly turning to the camera and saying "I cannot swim"]

"GOALPOST MOVING, U ILLITERATE CHODE. Okay but why didn't Sonic warp directly to the Eclipse Cannon to destroy it?"

"Because Sonic was inexperienced in Chaos Control. When he used it for the first time to escape the capsule, he landed in a completely random spot. You can't risk accidentally teleporting even farther away from your goal when the clock is ticking."

"HMM, AWFUL SUS HOW HE WASTED PRECIOUS TIME BY FIGHTING SHADOW."

"Yeah, but he was headed towards the Eclipse Cannon anyway. Also it's worth noting that the boss fight is structured like a race for a reason."

"BUT SONIC FIGHTS SHADOW TOO, IT'S NOT JUST A RACE."

"I didn't say it was just a race."

"BUT SONIC STOPPED TO FIGHT SHADOW WHEN HE COULD HAVE TELEPORTED AWAY FROM SHADOW."

"And Shadow would have hunted him down, because Eggman called Shadow to intercept him. If Sonic hadn't beaten him, he could very well have been killed and failed the mission. Besides, by virtue of being, you know, the fastest hedgehog alive, Sonic can manage both defeating Shadow while outracing him to the Cannon."

"BUT SONIC COULD HAVE DESTROYED THE CANNON FIRST AND THEN FOUGHT SHADOW."

"yeah I guess, if you wanna twist things that way. fuck me man idk what you want me to say"

"SO YOU ADMIT THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS DOESN'T MATTER AND I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG. WHY DID YOU FIGHT ME ON THIS?"

Lol just say you don't want to meet the narrative in good faith and bounce.