#from human to something else entirely

[superellysan]

Not me thinking the hole in the dragon’s stomach looked like pussy yesterday only to realize today that oh yeah that might have been the point

Falin is literally being reborn

10/10 framing I love this series so much and TRIGGER is killing it on the visuals

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

A doodle of a couple misc hcs I have about Gman's anatomy

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

something about trust

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“How… does it feel?” Locus asked haltingly. Lopez shrugged. “<Weird. But I expected that.>” Locus hummed, his brow furrowed like he was lost in thought as he scanned Lopez’s face. Lopez grabbed Locus’ wrists, bringing his hands to his throat.  “What are you--?” “<One way to test it. Take my head off.>” Locus’ eyes widened, his expression turning panicked. He tried to pull his hands away, but Lopez held him steady. “<You are the only person strong enough,>” Lopez said firmly, giving the other no room to balk any further. “<If this synthskin doesn’t fix the problem, I want to know now, not later.>” Lopez could feel the way Locus’s hands shifted, his fingers flexing as he fought some internal debate. Lopez couldn’t read his mind, but the flicker of those marble grey eyes was telling as Locus looked at his hands around Lopez’s throat, then to his face and then back again and again. “<It doesn’t hurt, if that’s what all this fuss is about.>” Not strictly true, having his head removed wasn’t exactly a pleasant feeling. But better to do it now, with some degree of control, than in the middle of a fight or an accident. The sensation of feeling everywhere his skin touched was strange though, the normally very localized sensors spread out across the surface of the synthskin. Was this how humans felt things all the time? No wonder they were so easily distracted. Neither of them moved. “You’re certain?” Locus asked finally, his voice little more than a whisper. Lopez raised an eyebrow and let himself grin just a little at being able to convey the sentiment properly. Maybe there were some advantages to the synthskin after all. “<I wouldn’t have said it if I wasn’t.>” A nod, then the pressure. Lopez knew Locus was strong, for a human, but the feeling of his hands tightening around his neck and pulling at his jaw, the base of his metal skull…  His head didn’t budge, and the pressure eased. Lopez clicked his tongue, releasing Locus’ wrists. “<Good. That is one problem fixed, at least.>”

[wildsaltair]

respectfully I need to climb him like a rope ladder and do him so good we both ascend into the clouds and never recover

[mossterunderthebed]

[somefisher]

Fuck my stupid lonely gay life

[pa-pa-plasma]

i don't think i'll ever get over how people treat kids that aren't good in school as worthless no matter what. "oh it can't be that bad" my guy idk how to tell you this but the last time i went to a normal high school the principal called me into his office to brag about how he failed me in all of my classes before the semester was even finished & i should quit while i'm ahead cuz i'm too stupid ("officially" diagnosed as such by a school counselor & a psychiatrist!!) to succeed. & this is considered normal

[icewindandboringhorror]

Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol

[sysig]

Damned Masterpost

Original run

ZEX wasn’t there for that, Dex!

Getting started

Kissing Strangers 💋

Captain Dating Sim

If I become lost...

It started with a whisper

Perfect comedy routine

Flowers for you!

ZEX loves wild horse!

Dexter’s first visit

Pivotal bright spot

Sunshine Captain ☀️

But ZEX loves humans!

Uniform ♥

Hard learning curve

Big Guy Teisel

VUXisms

ZEX’s hair <3

Haunted by Kayako

Zelnick has two hands

Zelnick’s gone :(

ZEX’s MU (blood)

Them (blood)

Leaving weird impressions

Last man standing

Wake up somewhere better (blood)

Despite everything, he’s still ZEX

New Daay

DAX profile

DAX Expressions

VUX duo Expressions

Lover’s tiff Expressions

Action heroes Expressions (blood)

Roughed up VUX Expressions (blood)

Too busy flirting

The Little VUXmaid ---

What if DAX was there

DAX’s Special Counseling

Homesick

After ZEX’s MU

Hope we die (blood)

Max’s visit

Karaoke Night

The girlies are fightinnggg

Different sensibilities

ZEX’s hair, again

Protect him, please

VUXémon

The three of them

Wander I mean Dr. Doran

More Dr. Doran

“Wake up” configurations

More VUXémon ft. Larry and Kabu

Dismissed ---

First re-meeting ♥

Chill, Sub-Commander

Each other’s VUX

Pyramid Head fight (blood)

Dr. Vargas

VUX silliness

Therapy went great

Nightly squabbles

You must snuggle

Obeying commands

Locked In

Damned, but make it Osmosis Jones

Wants to fight so bad

Some familiar faces

Drix Uniform

Main three’s profiles

Other

Stanley profile speculations

Max wants out

Crystal Gem VUX

All those missing eyes

2024 Sketchdump

[mad-hunts]

[muninnhuginn]

thinking about lain and connections. how everyone in the show is seeking connections with others and how many of the humans believe the way for everyone to become truly connected is through the wired.

but lain herself comes from the other side of this. she had the wired, she basically *was* the wired. and yet she chose to try and become human, to give herself a pretend little family and to go to school and to forget she was ever anything else.

but when people were trying to merge reality and the wired, when people were trying to make themselves gods, lain stopped it because she wanted to do right by alice. lain may have struggled to make human connections, but she did make the one. and that was enough to change the entire tide. that alone was enough to let her sacrifice everything she'd gained and return to an existence that terrified her where she would never be acknowledged again.

[hollytree33]

I’m back!!

[skrunksthatwunk]

just finished s2 of kaiji and it was good i really liked it but i hope i never see that fuckass pachinko machine again!!!

[hsslilly-blog]

first half of 2016 is interesting for claire. she’s having to retake classes and visit admin every other day because she thought dating her professor was a good idea. it was not. he’s out of a job and it doesn’t look like she’s graduating in may! she thinks it’s stupid because it’s not like she was using the relationship for grades. rolling eyes emoji. and then addison is not on speaking terms with her because #fuckclaire and her stupid selfish hypocritical self. and then they’re cast in a movie together and they have to act as if they’re best friends. did i mention the cult? claire is having a bad time and you know what happens when she’s having a bad time. a weird man is always there to prey on her and this time he calls himself her benefactor, and claire loves a title. maybe things will get better now #TRUST. oh also addison’s mother dies and sebastian is here too.

[assblastergaster]

okay so we know that the hidden cutscene at the end of veilguard is NOT implying that these new secretive enemies have been pulling the strings all along (1). given that whatever this invisible threat is is innumerably old (feared by the evanuris), i think it seems feasible that the true implication is just that they have been watching closely the events that have unfolded as a consequence of something they caused eons ago. a domino effect just like the first 3 games

like we learned more about what the evanuris actually were in this game, but not what their world was like (especially because the veil is kept in place). which leads me to the question: what draws the elven gods to need such immense power and control if they have already defeated those who were their greatest enemy? why does ghilan'nain need to form the blight into the greatest weapon even before they are banished? the titans were already dead by the time it was created. they were the only ones mentioned as their enemies in the game, and the forgotten ones (not to mention the forbidden ones???) were decidedly not their concern. (2)

again, no, I don't think it's what doomers on reddit are thinking (regardless of writer adamant denial! smh): this secretive enemy was not whispering in Loghain's ear, nor meredith's, nor corypheus and the other magisters, to get them to do what they did. they were simply there, watching the events that were directly tied to the fall of the Evanuris and creation of the veil take place. the fifth blight might not have been so bad had Loghain stepped in, the Mage/Chantry war may have been avoided had Meredith not put Kirkwall on the chopping block, and the blights may not have had entire armies to fight with if not for the tevinter magister's intrustion on the golden city. yes, they say "guided" and "whispered," but these are some fuck off bad guys who have only revealed themselves after 4 games, which is the same amount of time it took us to find out that the Dalish Gods, the Chant of Light, and the ancient Tevinter Gods are all fake. they are not telling us the whole truth and nothing but the truth in a 1 minute 7 second post credit scene. and why would they? why not lie and say they've caused the worst events in recent history? why not scare a weakened world into thinking they can't do anything to stop bad things from happening, making their coming harvest that much easier? as far as the world knows, the blights are over forever, so they might become powerful enough for to fight back as they move on—shouldn't The Executors/Mystery Bad Guys try to nip it in the bud? (or, of course, they surreptitiously guided and whispered the evanuris into becoming each other's downfall, leading to the events we see pictured and that's what whispered means)

"the poisoned fruit ripens" is the key phrase. they didn't make all of these people do these things (ripen), but they are seeking to reap the benefit of the fermented fruit. note that none of the events covered take place BEFORE the creation of the veil—even though we know of several events that took place then—meaning they probably don't have complete, ultimate power. they were likely competing with the Evanuris and the Qunari's progenitors, as we know in that codex entry that indicates that one of them was building fortifications for intruders from beyond the sea, and from Taash's tablet.

perhaps the "poisoning" was the creation of the veil, or the creation of physical forms from the fade, or the destruction of the titans, or anything of that huge caliber. i can't say for sure what i think is most likely. but i do believe that the fruit ripening is them waiting for an opportune time to pluck the world and plunge it into their control.

(1) Epler confirmed this. (different link if you dont have bsky account)

(2) i think this is probably intentional—and not the forgotten ones lore being abandoned, given that Anaris was literally an enemy in veilguard—the Dalish had a bunch of lies put into their head and may have twisted the forgotten ones into more of a threat than they were; such that their actual strife with the gods was about something other than their own struggles for power. perhaps they were a faction of former evanuris who believed in focusing on enemies beyond their borders rather than war against the Titans and the Dreadwolf, which is why he is known to be the only who consorted with both factions. OR the opposite—perhaps they welcomed these foreign enemies. they are also often mentioned with the void, which these Executors seem to be associated with, and were not locked away in the veil prison like the Evanuris.

[thanatika]

low-coherency rambling in the tags