#ghost motif

[raayllum]

something something callum and runaan being the voices in rayla’s head

[griefyards]

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Brokeback Mountain (2005) // Moon Song, Phoebe Bridgers // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes // A Ghost Story (2017) // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Candy (2006) // Letters to Vera, Vladimir Nabokov.

[ibrahimmo]

🚨A Child’s Call for Survival in Gaza🚨

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[gl1tchxr]

warden slayer

and without all the effects so you can see my pearl design

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[buboplague]

fire type trainer zinru

[ainosgarden]

the blood the cord the trio one single line, no beginning no end

hd portraits under the cut

the father

the son

the holy spirit

[sincerely-sofie]

Quick, post Hollow Knight sketchbook art from circa five years ago and go to bed before anyone notices (but a second time because Tumblr is being weird about the first attempt)

[starry-bi-sky]

Everything is as it should be. 

And then—

—A bang of a door slamming open, the sound booming, echoing through the tower. It rattles the cogs of the working clock, and Clockwork calmly reaches over to prevent the spider plant beside him from falling to the ground. It’d be a waste of such a lovely gift. 

“CLOCKWORK!” A voice cries, rattling hoarse, but bellowing from the stairwell. There is something wrong, a note of desperation that is all but rare to hear from the source. 

Clockwork continues his silent watch of his looking glass, but a fondness reflexively creaks and crawls through his chest, infecting the rest of him and filling up the ligaments of his being with warm sunlight. 

…Only for concern to chase after and nip at its heels shortly after, dousing the warmth, and preventing him from enjoying the joy the voice brings him. His head turns. 

“CLOCKWORK!” The voice — a boy. A boy? —repeats, growing louder in rapid approach. His voice cracks down the middle like a lightning strike, dragging the rest of the sound out rasp. “KRONOS!” 

Now he turns in full, alarmed. He hasn’t heard that name in— well, he’s not heard another person call him that name that weren’t the Observants, in a long, long time. He’s never heard the boy call him it. He steps from his podium, the boy’s name falling from his mouth — distorted and unrecognizable to his ears — and strides towards the stairs. 

From the stairway, rising like the sun, is a golden light and a crackling buzz, thickening the air with a godly-made ozone. Rising, twisting, sunbeams stretching through the air in shimmering tendrils, lashing out as if reaching for someone. Clockwork’s footsteps still. 

That couldn’t be. That foolish child didn’t—

Within seconds, the light has become blinding, and the boy he heard has flung himself to the top. Shimmering gold writhes furiously around him like a sandstorm, acting as sword and shield to all that dare to come too close, and blinding Clockwork to the boy. The source of the storm's energy is balled in his fist, burning and bright and molten sun, filling his clocktower with an overwhelming heat.

Clockwork is unaffected by the heat, but the plants shoved in every crevice around him begin to wilt. Yet still, he is frozen in place by the shock.  

He knows what that is—

The boy lunges at him. Clockwork lurches to catch him.

He raises the sun to Clockwork’s head and before he is blinded entirely, Clockwork sees eyes of green and fissures of gold sunken into the child’s face. The overwhelming power of the Titans burning him inside out—

The vision cuts out.

[mantimae]

I think I’m in an art slump,,, not rlly liking anything I draw, which is absolutely stellar during art school finals time :’) <- sarcasm.

Anywho, drew the lad to relax a lil and apparently drawing him calmed me down so much my Fitbit was convinced I was asleep cjcmkdmdm

[codenamethebird]

More Hades 2 rambles from me! Though this time round it's a continuation of a point I made in this post.

Specifically, that I think the final boss of the Surface will be a living human mortal.

A couple people on that post disagreed that it would be a human, mostly just because of boss fight mechanics. Which I do get, but this is my not so little refute of that idea (all in good fun of course, I very well might be wrong! I just have thought a bunch about it since then and wanted to ramble about it).

I'll be getting into later how the game could have a hard mechanically satisfying human final boss later, because first I want to talk about how it would make sense naratively. Not because anyone remotely argued this point, I just think it's interesting haha.

So let's go back for a moment to Hades 1, and it's final boss, Hades himself. On a mechanical sense, it makes total sense, Hades is the god and master of the underworld Zag is trying to escape. He would be the final obstacle. But what really makes Hades work as the final boss, is the story and emotional reason he's there.

The plot of Hades is ultimately about Zag's messy relationship with his dad. And that final boss fight is an ongoing conversation with him. While irl you and your questionable dad constantly fighting to death is not a great way to fix your problems, these are weird bound to underworld greek gods. Death is their weird love language for like half this cast haha. There is a reason Death is one of, if not the main love interest.

Okay now that I've established that, let's look at the one final boss we do know from Hades 2, Chronos. Now it's Grandpa's time to shine. Unlike Hades 1, he fits a lot cleaner into a more traditional villian role. The monster who literally takes over your house and takes your family hostage.

In that way, it is a personal fight for Mel to save her family, but Mel lacks a specific personal connection to Chronos himself. Obviously there's the whole Grandpa thing, but she wasn't like raised by him or anything. He is a convient big bad she can hate simply and wholeheartedly. While he does try to challenge her beliefs at times, Mel will never listen to him because of the whole family kidnapping thing, and Gramps equally doesn't want to engage with her either. He just wants to be a dick to her.

While I'm a firm believer in the "We (the gods) are actually the bad guys" theory, I don't think Chronos is secretly an angel. He did you know eat his kids and that entire scene with Hades and him just reeked of shitty dad vibes. While Chronos might be better for humanity, I think he really is using them as a prop and doesn't genuinely care about them. (This is a derail, but I do think the human army side of things including Prometheus will turn on Chronos at some point. Specifcally that they are already planning to).

But yes, basically, while I adore Chronos as a villain, you get none of the character growth from either party that you got between Zag and Hades in the first game. Obviously, we are still in early access, so there's more dialouge to be had. But from what we have seen, those two are not changing the other. So this is my roundabout way to say that must mean the Surface boss is the one that is going to be all about Melinoe's character growth.

I don't think I need to explain why fighting a human would be a fascinating place for character growth for humanities #1 hater Melinoe. Mel's the Hades equivalent in this game (not the Zag), who will not listen to anyone who disagrees with her. Getting beat up by a human might actually start to get it through her head.

But also I want to dig into why I don't think the final boss will be another Titan. I've seen Atlas thrown around a bunch as a possible final Surface boss. Also Typhon... I'm certain there are others. But I don't know what they would add to the narrative, especially as a final boss? I think there's more evidence for Atlas, so I'll focus on him.

It would make some sense, he was the leader of the titan rebellion and much like Prometheus, in certain versions of the myth he was also freed from his punishment by Heracles! Which considering Heracles suspicious lack of dialouge so far, and the dialouge he does have being a god hater, I do think he's the one who freed Prometheus in this game.

But other than those connections, what does Atlas add to make him an interesting antagonist to Mel? He's not particularly tied to humanity, and while his punishment sucked he did lead a rebellion against the gods (and traditionally the reasons have nothing to do with humans).

Mostly, in my opinion, if the game was going to have a titan also be the final boss for the Surface, it wouldn't be Atlas. It would be Prometheus. He's the powerful titan who has a legitimate gruge against the gods and who can engage with Mel in interesting ways, challenging her stance against the gods. But they have already used Prometheus, I don't know how they could write Atlas (or whatever titan/god) in a way that would be more interesting than Prometheus, and rival the Hades boss fight for thematic weight. Also, it would be 2 titans in a row, which isn't nessisarily a bad thing, but still.

I've also seen people throw around it might he Ares, which I will admit would I would be way more excited for that another titan. Theres some interesting ideas to be had with an Olympian who has betrayed the gods. But we already have dialouge with Athena where she says how Chronos' armies motivations wouldn't line up with Ares'. And I feel like going from a dude only obsessed with war to someone fighting for some kind of higher cause would be a jump in character. Not impossible, but a little weird.

And ultimately, I just think that a Human would serve the purpose better as an antagonist to Mel who would shake her worldview on living mortals in particular. A fight with Ares would mess with her relationship with the gods, but not as clearly with humans.

Okay now that I've talked about themes, how about what people actually had an issue with lol, how would a final boss with a human make sense from a boss fight perspective. I have three main ideas, that don't really contradict each other and could all exist in the fight.

1st idea: multiple enemies. We've heard that there are human armies, the final boss could possibly be a leader of them. We could have hords of enemies, could have select recognizable commanders that have different skill sets, etc. None of the Surface boss fights have multi bosses in them (they have random mobs but none like the sirens or Theseus and Asterius), so I don't think it would be strange to have it. And while stretching the definition of a human boss a bit, these other bosses could be ghosts and other kinds of beings (I just think the main boss should be a breathing human).

2nd idea and tbh my main one. Have them be a Witch! Or some other kind of magic user. I feel like this should be obvious, but a lot of the theming around Hades 2 is witchy/magic stuff and it's wild we don't have a major witch enemy yet (other than obviously Hecate, but for obvious reasons I don't count her).

I'm thinking some kind of High Priestess of Chronos kind of character, we still don't know exactly how Chronos was revived and this could tie in, but there's a bunch of ways you could spin a magic user! I think it would be a prime place to put a narrative foil to Melinoe. A fellow Witch whose family was stolen away by the gods who is looking for justice. Maybe when finally looking into a mirror, some of the stuff Melinoe's been told will finally breach her thick headed skull haha.

I don't think I really need to get into the technical about how a witch fight could be cool. But one idea, tying into my first point, a magic user could have mind powers and compell powerful beings to fight for them. This could be the Zag boss fight of borderline crack theories or even maybe the aforementioned Ares who maybe got captured during his war path. A magic fight doesn't need possessed enemies, but it could be cool.

And finally, my 3rd idea. You might be going, but how could a human be more powerful than Prometheus? Well first point magic, but more seriously, just have them be boosted by Chronos and/or other allies. I mentioned a theory about a high priestess sort of character (the power of God and ani--), but more specifically, if they do go the route of a foil to Melinoe, she has her boons from the gods. Much like Theseus in Hades 1, the final surface boss could gain the boons of Chronos/Prometheus/and the like. Maybe even a Chaos boon, they have already aided Chronos once, and there's a decent chance the humans might betray Chronos at some point so Chaos might be chill with them. This could also be a way to introduce more titan characters and the like without needing to make models for them haha.

But yes, tldr, magic human gives us both the thematic weight of it being a human, witch stuff to parallel Melinoe, and just cool powerful magic fight as a final boss (and it could parallel the Hecate boss fight, the first boss u fight and the last being magic based).

[raayllum]

Andrés Cerpa, “The Vault”

[kenobihater]

so we all know the explicit sakai deer imagery, right? despite stags being associated with kazumasa, deer are still an appropriate symbol for jin as well (fast, silent, peaceful rather than predatory by nature but still capable of killing). since jin = deer, what would ryuzo best be represented by? maybe there's some textual hint, or hidden dialogue that we could go off of? maybe it's not explicit, but-

yeah, no. the game literally awards you this trophy right after you recruit him. the only way i think they could get more explicit with the shady wolf analogy is by calling the trophy "the big bad wolf", or "wolf in sheep's clothing".

ryuzo - passionate, unpredictable, violent ryuzo - being compared to a wolf is fitting, even more so when you consider the trophy refers to multiple wolves, meaning the straw hats. he was taken in by them, an unruly, masterless group, and he became their leader. despite betraying jin, he doesn't lack loyalty entirely; he only remains loyal to those he views as family after they took him in following the tournament.

his primary motivations in the narrative are staying fed, and providing for his family. he doesn't care about playing nice, or fighting clean, or lessening collateral damage. if his belly is full and his family is fed, none of that matters, and i can't think of a more apt description of that mentality than wolfish.

[ibrahimmo]

🚨🚨Urgent appeal 🙏🚨🚨

This is the beautiful one and this is my house where I lived the most beautiful memories and my beautiful car This is my little child who was born in the war in Ahmar because of the gases and ash of the missiles.

My little house where I lived the most beautiful memories was destroyed and my car became beautiful because of the barbaric bombing I appeal to you for full support so that I can reduce the financial deficit and travel abroad for my son's reasons.

Thank you all and thank you to everyone who contributed to my right and thank you to everyone who participated in a comprehensive participation Please save us from death 😭🙏💔

[animentality]

metavision is super boring as an ability because all it means is that the character must now yap about everything they see for an entire chapter.

I wish someone with a visually interesting skill was the protagonist. I might as well read a novel, listening to Isagi chatter.

[exfil]

isn't it crazy that twice in mwii, both in las almas (you'll need to improvise to survive) and in chicago (like good old times, eh LT?) - at central moments of the story no less - soap is left without weapons (you'll need to improvise to survive). having to fight himself out of a hopeless situation with his bare hands and ingenuity (welcome to guerilla warfare).

and both times, there is ghost in his ear telling him what to do (look for supplies- things you can make tools with), guiding him (i just need a weapon - make one), encouraging him (that's the way, johnny) praising him (a man after my own heart), all to ensure that he makes it through.

twice, soap is left without weapons or training to fall back onto. and twice, he survives anyway. because he has ghost. (be smart with what you've got. that's the trick...)