#flurry rush

[sleeplesssmoll]

I still think Vertin is athletic, she's just out of her element.

There is more evidence against shrimptin than confirming shrimptin AEB:

Throughout the story, it's implied that while Vertin sucks at arcanum, she's very athletic by her actions and responses during combat. From her duel with Schneider to fighting that big scary thing on the island while carrying 37, she's a fighter. As a kid she's been in physical altercations with bullies. Smoltin was also able to lead the escape despite her lack or arcanum.

But during this event, I could see cases stating the opposite. It gave me pause and I wondered if I just got it all wrong. For example...

Vertin says she never liked the training exercises, swimming isn't her strong point, she doesn't get sports. She seems lost here. If you focused on these details alone, it does seem like shrimp behavior.

But! This could be explained by Vertin's disinterest in competition and anything school related. It doesn't mean she's "bad" at it but rather she doesn't care for it.

But when she's chasing frogs, sneaking around stealing food, and climbing trees, she is more monkey than shrimp. She also crosses the desert with the others while wearing a suit which reminds me of Sonetto mentioning the temperature training their subjected too. It's part of their training as literal soldiers. The SPDM kids are built different because they were forged in the Foundation's trials so Vertin has to have some level of physical prowess like the others.

Another counter point to shrimptin is that during the event she and Ezra beat down Spathodea, literal boxer.

In conclusion, Vertin is athletic but is uncultured in what to do with said athleticism. Instead, she uses it mostly for combat, survival, and carrying people to safety. BTW since no one asked, she's carried Sonetto, Regulus, 37 and maybe Jessica if you count her lifting her straight up out of the hole during Green Lake during her "rescue."

I am normal about this.

[ly0nstea]

I just flurry rushed off a fucking cliff

[stinkek]

[zephyrus-gremlin]

I can’t wait for this interaction if Wind manages to acquire Sand of Hours

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Halloween prompts year 2 day 6

Link stared at the boy he had just saved. He was...considerably younger than he had been minutes ago before the strange monster had attacked them and he feared that if he saw his reflection it would show something similar had happened to him.

Unfortunately, Links shield had broken in the impact of the attack and while he had protected himself from the blunt of it, he was still smaller than the black haired child he had jumped into the fray to save.

Link was not familiar with the language of this place, only knowing the boys name, and the name of the city they had been transported to: Gotham. He hoped the princess and her sages wouldn't panic too much when they discovered he was missing but he could feel through thier vows that the sages have already noticed something was wrong. Nonetheless, he had a child to protect and nothing was going to stop him from doing so, even being adopted by what Link believed was the king of this realm, Bruce Wayne

On the other hand, link had lost his childhood the moment he had drawn that sword, everything being stolen from him to prepare him to fight the calamity. He would not say no to having a belated childhood with nearly a dozen older siblings to protect him...did...did he even want to be found? Being found would mean he would have to return to Hyrule. To his old life.

He decided he did not want that.

Danny had similar thoughts. His parents never actually cared much, his best friends had abandoned him the moment Gregor came into the picture, and his sister never paid much attention to him either. He didn't have much of a life and the whole reason he had met elf boy and accidentally kidnapped him was because he was in the zone trying to vent his pent up aggression through beating the hell out of whoever and getting sucked through a portal a ghost had created to get rid of him.

Meeting Link was one the best things that had ever happened to him though he felt kinda wierd about the blond elf boy protecting him, especially since the little guy often killed his opponents, regardless of whether they where human or not, a fact that seemed to have the local furries fighters in a tizzy. I mean...they can't exactly beat up a small child but they can't let him keep doing what he's doing either but they can't put Link into the system cause him being a blond elf boy would make him a prime target for trafficking so adoption it was. Danny also had to be adopted too due to how attached Link was to him

[funsizedcrow]

Linktober day 16: Time

Screenshot redraw from totk. This one had me stumped for a bit, but then i remembered bullet time. Not pictured: me spending forever launching link out of towers until i got the right lighting and angle

[autumnoakes]

thinking about the inevitability of botw.... idk, there's something about how calamity ganon was only able to be defeated after he pretty much won. the champions all lost, and DIED the first time around. they were not set up for success. the calamity was a perfect storm - everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. the guardians and divine beasts were taken over by malice and turned against the kingdom. the champions all faced blights specifically designed to ensure their deaths. the hero fell trying to keep the princess safe. the kingdom fell into disrepair after the princess sealed herself away with calamity ganon to protect what remained. but after link woke up, freed the divine beasts... only then did they win against the calamity. it sort of feels like the calamity HAD to happen in order for it to be defeated.

and again, in a way, this led to the events of totk. because ganondorf CREATED calamity ganon. and it didnt take anything at all for him to wake up again. link and zelda just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[my-status-single]

I have NO BUSINESS doing master mode.

Guardians still scare the shit out of me man

How does one parry?

Who knows?

NOT ME BITCH!

[lunian]

dude I love that you are so hard and tricky to hit BUT THATS TOO MUCH

[spirit-tracks]

Is it funny that when I stumbled across Mineru's dungeon (by accident, mind you) I thought she might pass on her role as sage to Link?

It's sort of silly, but while I was doing the construct factory, i noted that Link usually travels to each of these temples with the sage of this Era, and the old sage gifts the new sage their secret stone. I thought since Mineru was the old sage that she'd need someone new to pass her stone onto, and since Link was completing the dungeon alone, she would give it to him.

She didn't, of course, the point of the dungeon was making her a new body so that she could continue to serve as the sage in this Era but goddess can you imagine if she made Link a sage. Can you imagine

[miloutic]

if link totk would have a secret stone he would be able to call upon heroes of the past change my mind

[theoretical-tactician]

I beat Tears of the Kingdom. And hoo boy. Gimme a hot minute to gather my thoughts. But I can say one thing immediately: FUCK WHOEVER DESIGNED THE FINAL BOSS.

[waywardsalt]

anyways. my very first attempt at malenia

[stinkek]

[sunnibits]

guess who finally finished botw after literally 7 years lmaoooooo

[autumnoakes]

can i say it now?

sage of time/time powers didn't make sense for totk zelda. at ALL.

when in botw, before the calamity, in aoc, did she EVER show an affinity for time powers? i get that it was like this sort of. hidden power kind of thing, but it still doesn't make much sense. not for zelda.