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duhragonball · 2 years ago

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Dragon Ball GT 13

✨GT Stands for Gigantic Twerp✨

All right, so The Luud Cult stole the gang’s Dragon Ball, and they’ve come to Planet Luud to get it back, but in a desperate play, Doltaki, the founder of Luudism, has turned all of his followers into dolls and fed them to the big idol of Luud in their temple. See, Luud’s not a god at all, but a powerful machine, one that runs on the most potent energy source of all: aliens that have been magically turned into dolls. Doltaki was trying to gather enough victims to awaken Luud at full power, but he’s willing to settle for a sub-optimal launch if it means Luud can kill Goku and Trunks.

The problem with this episode is that it seems to hype a pretty major-league threat, and yet as Luud activates, he transforms from this four-armed bat-winged demon monster....

To this. Goku openly laughs at how funny this thing looks. Luud’s name is just “doll” backwards, so it probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he looks like a mutant Kewpie, but I can’t help but feel like there are more bad ass dolls out there that they could have used. Hell, I’d even take a Barbie over this. Can you imaging a fifty-foot mint-green Barbie doll stomping around this place, smacking Goku and Trunks around? The kitsch value alone would make it worth the watch.

Anyway, Luud is just one more entry in a long chain of disappointing GT villains. They spent four episodes hyping this guy up, and he’s just another big dumb monster who says his own name and not much else.

While Luud fights the heroes, Doltaki withdraws to his chambers to continue playing with Pan, who was turned into a doll back in Episode 11. Doltaki normally tosses doll-ified victims into Luud’s energy supply, but he can’t bear to let Pan go, and he play-talks with her about their new life together. I fuckin’ can’t stand this guy and this is his second episode of doing this stupid schtick.

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

For all that was wrong with Dragon Ball Episode 29, at least Episode 30 was not “The Roaming Lake Part 2.” Toei hit rock bottom with Dragon Ball GT Episode 12 and for Episode 13 they started digging.

✨Positivity Page✨

Mercifully, Doltaki gets a summons from a mysterious voice, so he has to go into a secret room and take a video call in a room that looks suspiciously like something from out of Star Wars. And now we meet Doltaki’s boss, the real secret final boss of the Luud Cult. As long as he distracts Doltaki from his creepy playtime session, then I’m all for it.

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed.✨

Let’s go over the Goku/Trunks vs. Luud fight: It sucks. Luud is pretty damn slow, but he’s agile enough to keep Goku and Trunks from chasing after Doltaki. At first, it looks like Goku has a plan to distract Luud by goading Luud into attacking him. Except Trunks never head off to go find Pan, so they just end up getting their asses kicked. Was that not what Goku had in mind? Because it seems like that would have been a good plan, and yet they never spell it out, and Trunks completely botches it.

Instead, Luud knocks them around some more, and steps on them for good measure. Then Goku and Trunks turn Super Saiyan to knock Luud off his feet.

And yet, they immediately change back as soon as Luud has fallen over. They press their advantage and get in some good hits, but they do it all in normal base mode.

And this is what I want to talk about, because we’re 13 episodes into this show, and we’ve only seen Super Saiyan used on three occasions, and very briefly. In Episode 5, Goku transformed to quickly overwhelm Ledgic. In Episode 12, Goku and Trunks transformed to overcome Mutchy’s powers, and now this. The weird thing here is that the fight is far from over, but they’re only using Super Saiyan long enough to get out of a pinch.

So I think this is a deliberate choice by the GT showrunners. They wanted to throttle back on Super Saiyan transformations, either to make GT stand out from Z, or maybe because they wanted to make it feel more special. Or maybe this is all some sort of unintentional thing, and they just didn’t notice that they were using it less. The story goes that the reason Toriyama made Goku’s Super Saiyan hair yellow was because it would save time inking his hair on every page of the manga. So maybe he used Super Saiyan more than he needed to just to make the deadlines easier. But GT has no manga, and coloring Goku’s hair yellow on an animation cel is probably no easier than making it black. So that might be all it is.

All I’m saying is that, as a fan of this stuff, it feels cheap to alter the premise with no explanation. In DBZ, the characters could maintain the Super Saiyan form for several minutes at a time, at least. It’s hard to get a sense of how long their fights actually last, but we’ve seen characters just stay transformed throughout an entire battle. Majin Vegeta fought Goku, then went to fight Buu and he never powered down, for example. So when the characters don’t do stuff like that in GT, it seems odd.

It’s not that it can’t make sense. In GT’s continuity, we haven’t seen Trunks or Goku use Super Saiyan since the Kid Buu fight, which was fifteen years before GT began. So maybe Trunks has gotten rusty and he can’t do it as easily without wearing himself out, and Goku’s kid body can’t handle the strain as long as he could as an adult. Or maybe they’re much stronger than they were in the Buu arc, and the Super Saiyan form doesn’t provide the same boost as it used to. Maybe it’s only good in short bursts now.

My point is that there’s plenty of ways to spin this, but GT refuses to explain it at all. The message here seems to be: “Hey, did you like Super Saiyans? Well, fuck you, because we’re going to make it as unsatisfying as possible.”

Anyway, Dr. Mu is seeing all of this tom-foolery, and he doesn’t like it one bit. He called Doltaki to ask for a status update on the Dragon Ball hunt, and Doltaki reports that he has two of them, but he had to activate Luud to stop Goku and Trunks from taking them back. Mu’s like “Oh, did you get enough power to activate him at Level 3?” and Doltaki’s like “No, but Level 2 should be enough to handle them.” Except it’s not, and Mu is worried that Doltaki has jeopardized the Dragon Balls and Luud.

And you might well argue that GT doesn’t have time to give dull explanations for things like why Super Saiyan is used so sparingly, but you’d be wrong, because GT found plenty of time to have Doltaki indulge in his creepy doll fetish. And they still had time left over to have Mu explain his entire relationship with Doltaki. Mu created Luud and considers him one of his finest “mutants”, and he recruited Doltaki because he had the charm necessary to bring unsuspecting victims to fuel Luud’s powers. So the entire Luudism faith was just a front for Mu’s experiment in making a giant ugly robot that breaks stuff.

But Mu also tasked the cult with finding the Black Star Dragon Balls, in order to wish for galactic domination, or something like that. So in other words, this whole stupid cult gimmick they’ve been setting up for the past four episodes has been a waste of time, because it all comes back to this Dr. Mu guy, who’s an evil scientist guy instead of a cult leader guy.

Mu notices the doll that Doltaki is carrying around, and deduces that she must have a lot of power, since she was associated with Goku and Trunks. So he orders Doltaki to feed her to Luud, since that might give Luud enough of a boost to reach full power and win. But Doltaki refuses, because Pan is “the girl I’m going to live together with forever.” Fuuuuuuuuuuuck this.

Mu decides that if Doltaki won’t cooperate, then he can just be fed to Luud along with Pan. So wait, Mu has the same turn-you-into-a-doll power as Mutchy, Doltaki, and Luud? He even has the means to send both dolls into Luud, remotely. So what the hell did he even need Doltaki for in the first place? He’s been running this cult for twenty years, but why? If Mu has the power to do this at a distance, then he could just doll-ify hundreds of people on distant planets and send henchmen to bring the dolls back to Luud. It might take a while, but I bet it wouldn’t take twenty years.

Okay, so Luud absorbs Pan, and now he’s invincible? Why? Pan was weaker than Goku or Trunks, but now she has the power to make Luud stronger than both of them combined? What’s stupid is that this won’t even be the last time GT tries to use this trick.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Luud is a mutant?

A god? A machine? Who cares?

Just explain the nipples.

#dragon ball #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #dragon ball gt #really sucks #goku #trunks #pan #luud #dr mu #dolatki

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coicoa · 6 months ago

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MY FANDOMS

I have a lot, but to be frank I do not have an equal amount of knowledge about the original media. It is surprisingly easy to read fanfics about media you haven’t consumed yourself. I’ll read almost anything, but these are things I come back to regularly. I’m keeping a list here for my own organization and for others to see what I’m into.

DEFINITIONS

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION are fandoms in which I have actually engaged with the original media.

OF INTEREST are fandoms in which I have read or seen fan work of, but otherwise have limited or even no interactions with the original media (ie didn’t play the game or watch the show proper).

Unlike many others, I do not fixate on any singular fandom for a long time. I come and go to fandoms and enjoy the fan work whenever I feel like it. I could be okay with talking about my experiences with any of these at any time, except maybe for fandoms at the bottom of the Of Interest sections.

This list is not exhaustive, there are definitely more fandoms I go to but these are the ones that came to the top of my mind that I think are important both in the past and present.

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION:

Godzilla Film Franchise, especially Monsterverse and Heisei series

Minecraft (original game, not Story Mode, Dungeons, or Legends)

Jurassic Park/World Franchise

Pacific Rim

Marvel Cinematic Universe and Spiderverse series

Transformers Franchise (only Bayverse, some Prime + One)

How to Train Your Dragon Film Franchise

Netflix Wednesday

Gravity Falls

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, and Kane Chronicles (have not read Trials of Apollo or the Magnus Chase series)

OF INTEREST

Video games, from most to least knowledge:

God of War

Red Dead Redemption 1 + 2

Ghost of Tsushima

Genshin Impact

Resident Evil Series

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Undertale

Call of Duty (MW reboot specifically)

Twisted Wonderland

Elden Ring

Kingdom Hearts

Nier Automata

Animated series, from most to least knowledge:

The Owl House

Amphibia

The Dragon Prince

She Ra and the Princesses of Power

Avatar: The Last Airbender + Legend of Korra

The Amazing Digital Circus

Voltron Legendary Defender

League of Legends: Arcane

RWBY (the fandom that got me into fandom)

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zeebreezin · 9 months ago

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Fuck the schoolwork actually my interests are crossing over:

Shaw is an extremely counter-based character, his base damage is subpar and he doesn’t have great movement options but he’s born to frame trap. He’s got a meter gimmick where you can spend some Insight meter during a special that enables an auto-follow-up if the special is blocked (but not countered or dodged) that’s typically a mixup. Okizeme game off the charts. Can’t air to air to save his soul. Patch by patch people either want him banned or consider him bottom tier and there’s no in between.

B is a rushdown character because in no universe will I imply they have self control. Their main gimmick is their stance, What’s In The Box?!? Which sacrifices a lot of their movement and surprisingly good air to air for a rekka chain from hell. They just start swinging the doom suitcase around at random with a ton of quick overhead and low options. I imagine B would have a lot of moves with comedically long windup where they’re struggling to move the damn thing that are designed to be cancelled out of and into quick punches.

Acumen is the weird big body semi-grappler of this universe. Despite having pretty decent movement despite her size, a lot of its moves have a long startup. It makes up for this by being fucking weird and taking up half the screen. Brutal command grabs that apply Bleeding to its opponent, which speeds up some of her specials & offers follow up options. Definitely has some strange mechanic a la Faust Guilty Gear where her crouch puts her really low to the floor. Wild jump-in attacks.

Vivian is an aggressive footsies character, if you give her an inch she will take a MILE. A lot of her options revolve around extorting a gap in your opponent’s defense and rushing in with powerful dash specials, but she’s got surprisingly good long range pokes in order to get her into that position in the first place. While dashing in she can activate Crinoline Guard, a quick plus-on block follow-up attack that spends meter, but is designed to counter whatever abare people might be trying to do as she’s going in. No other real defensive options. Play smart or die.

The Rake-In-Violant is absolutely an okizeme character whose main gimmick is a stance change between her seamstress mode and the Rake disguise. The mixup is disgusting but he suffers from a lack of range and a lack of recovery options. The Rake is definitely one of the harder characters to use, requiring you to get comfortable with both the seamstress’s very defensive playstyle with a potent command grab, and the Rake’s rekka chains. Switching into the Rake stance begins to charge up Kiss Goodbye, a meter that, when full, enables a powerful special before forcing you back into Seamstress mode.

God did not make Beverley in this world, the Devil did. He’s the long range zoner everyone hates, except for the people who play him. All his moves are too long, and getting in close can be dangerous considering his Sundial Timebomb special, which essentially sticks a belt of live grenades to his opponents at close range, shoving them back and empowering his next normal attack by quite a bit. Fortunately, he has the HP of a paper towel and limited escape options besides Sundial Timebomb. This doesn’t stop him from being truly obnoxious until you can bust that nerd’s nose though.

I’ve put actual thought into how my OCs would play in a fighting game but first and most importantly: Beverley is god’s most annoying zoner and I need you all to understand this.

#zeeposting #august shaw #b #officer beverley #the rake in violant #the ravenous acumen #vivian fitzpatrick #okay there we go. I had to get that out of my system.#did I give Bev a modified bomb-bombnnière ? yes #he deserves it

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oddyssea · 5 years ago

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#ΣΩΦ➣『 kingdoms fall; empires crumble; and in their wake only dust and ruins remain 』( IC )#α➛Ω『 under the pale moonlight the apex hunter arises; bathed in its milky glow; the hunter king is born 』( MODERN GOD )#god power bottom mode activated #delicatesuunn

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number-1-kuaidul-fanboy · 3 years ago

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The Yugioh Arcs Ranked

I’m going to rank all the main arcs of the original Yugioh anime with the exception of season zero and Capsule Monsters, because I haven’t seen those. This is just my own personal opinion, it’s not objective in any way. In fact, from looking at other people’s lists, I think I might piss a few people off with how I ranked these. Remember, this is just my opinion. Also, disclaimer, I did watch this show in dub. While from what I’ve seen of the sub is infinitely better, I did get into the show and I do still think it is a good show in dub. Still, some of the story details might be slightly different for that reason. (Going forward with the spin-offs, I am watching sub.)

7 Dungeon Dice Monsters

This arc served one purpose and one purpose alone: to introduce Duke Devlin/Ryuji Otogi and establish him as a friend of the main group before he comes back in Battle City to… do basically nothing? Personally, I barely saw the purpose in Tristan/Honda and Anzu/Tea so introducing yet another cheerleader for Yugi who doesn’t do much on his own confuses me. Ryuji admittedly has more character than Honda and Anzu and the stuff with the Dungeon Dice Monsters game itself is kind of cool but the other arcs had much more to them so this arc is at the bottom just by default.

6 Noah’s Saga (Or Virtual World)

Onto the first filler arc. There are three arcs of this show that don’t accomplish anything for the overall story and this is one of them. If you don’t know, these arcs aren’t even from the manga. In Japan, Yugioh was based on a then ongoing manga so the filler arcs were created to give the manga writer time to finish the manga so the anime could adapt it. So while I understand the reasoning behind this, I think placing Noah’s Saga in the middle of Battle City was a pretty bad idea in my opinion, as it's nothing but a distraction that destroys the flow of the story and goes on for way too long. It’s not bad though. The deck master gimmick is fun and adds an interesting twist to the duels. It was also interesting learning more about the Kaiba family and especially Seto’s backstory. Overall however, this arc drags in parts and while Noah is still a good villain objectively, he's a complete brat and I personally find that annoying. Still, it was nice seeing Mokuba turn Noah to the heroes’ side through sheer goodness alone.

5 Grand Tournament (Or KC Grand Prix)

Another filler arc. I’m putting this one over Noah’s arc because while that one had the better individual moments and did more for the characters, this arc didn’t overstay its welcome like that one did. It also genuinely shocked me by having Kaiba actually defeat the main villain rather than going the stereotypical way and having Yugi beat him. That’s worth a few points in my book. (It was also just a really good duel.) I also liked Joey’s/Jonouchi’s duel with Yugi’s grandfather, his former mentor. It was annoying how he didn’t recognize him but it was still a nice way to show how far Jonouchi has come since the start of the series. Overall, this arc is just fine. I’d probably skip it if I ever rewatched the series but it’s not without its merit.

4 Duelist Kingdom

Okay, this is the point where I’m probably gonna piss people off. Don’t get me wrong, I still like Duelist Kingdom. It’s a really good start to the show, gradually establishing the characters and the game of Duel Monsters in a really natural way. It also includes some of my favourite duels in the series: Kaiba and Yugi’s duel on the tower, and Kaiba and Yugi’s duels with Pegasus. Speaking of Pegasus, he’s a great villain. He is made out to be undefeatable and actually lives up to that reputation due to the powers of the Millenium Eye. Yugi and the Pharaoh have to repeatedly switch minds in order to beat him, which was really interesting to see. However… This is not the best arc of the show. A lot of the duels before the finals aren’t all that interesting and go on for way too long. They’re not bad duels per say, just uninteresting and padded. When I first started watching this show, I was mostly using it as background while I wrote. The filler duels just didn’t grab my attention and I have no interest in revisiting them. The parts that made me look up from my writing were anything with Kaiba (who I latched onto very early for personal, coping reasons), the times Bakura went into evil mode, and pretty much everything from Yugi and Kaiba’s duel on the tower and onward. I knew about Kaiba attempting suicide but what I didn’t know was that the Pharaoh nearly went through with killing him and had to be stopped by Yugi. That was the moment where I realized this show was more than just “a dumb kids’ show” and was willing to go dark places, despite how much the 4Kids dub wanted to hide that. It was the moment where I actually became interested in the show. So yes, this is a good arc, but later arcs in my opinion topped it.

3 Waking the Dragons

Yes, I put a filler arc over the classic season one. Honestly though, this season was so good I didn’t even know it was a filler arc until I did my research. Sure, it moved the focus away from the Millennium Items but the character development for Mai, Yugi, and the Pharaoh felt so genuine and was really interesting. This season basically forced me to see the differences between Yugi and the Pharaoh by separating them for quite a bit of the season, which was another thing that really surprised me. I was used to this show being darker at this point. However, I never expected them to actually kill the main character, even if it was obviously just temporary. That’s a pretty ballsy move. I grew to really like the Pharaoh and Yugi this season. And Mai’s fall to villainy and the exploration of her trauma from Battle City was very interesting and tragic. This show writes villains very well and this season is a great example of that. I really like stories where the villains’ motivation is to destroy the world due to their hatred of humanity/the world. Valon, Allister, and Raphael all have genuinely sad backstories that perfectly explain why they adopted this viewpoint. Dartz not so much. However, he is still a great villain. He has such a presence and the way he manipulated all these people and even twisted their minds with the Orichalcos was delightfully twisted. However, his ‘redemption’ at the end was really out of nowhere and unnecessary and Pegasus’s involvement in this season was… weird to say the least. Overall, however, I really like this arc. I understand the backlash, since this is a filler arc and a really long one at that, but I personally really enjoyed it.

2 Dawn of the Duel

Yeah, the final arc isn’t the best one. Time travel stories really don’t appeal to me personally. However, in situations where the thing in question was already bonkers as hell before introducing time travel I’m more willing to let it slide and get into the silliness of the time travel idea rather than picking it apart. A lot of its logic makes no sense if you think about it even a little but seeing the conclusion to all these long running arcs was really satisfying. Bakura is also a great villain. I was wondering what they were going to do with him all series so for him to finally have the spotlight as the main villain and to learn that he actually had a sympathetic backstory was really cool to see. This is the arc with the least actual dueling so I can see why people who watch this show for the duels would be disappointed. However, I watched the show for the lore and the characters, which were the focus of this arc and personally, I loved seeing the ancient real life version of Duel Monsters. The battles felt more intense due to them being real. Also, I will admit that the final scene where they all say goodbye to Atem got tears out of me, which I didn’t think this show would ever do.

1 Battle City (Both parts, splitting it was stupid)

Okay, this is the season that made me a fan. It’s the point where I started actively blogging about it and even analyzing it a bit. First of all, this arc had, in my opinion, the best villain in the series: Marik. His redemption arc was the only one in the show that was justified or made any goddamn sense for that matter (besides Kaiba but I don’t really count him as a villain). Marik’s backstory did a good job making him sympathetic without excusing his terrible actions. Even before his darker side took over, Marik was a really good villain, using his millennium item to mind control and kind of terrorize his minions all while hiding in the shadows so when the heroes actually see him, they don't even realize it's him. Granted the story didn't do much with that plot point but it was still cool. Also, I didn’t think this show would actually go as far as to have the villain mind control Yugi’s friends and even force Yugi to duel one of them to the death. That genuinely surprised me, as did the Yami Marik twist. This arc also added a lot to the lore, which was the aspect of Duelist Kingdom that I was most interested in and was barely touched on in that arc. In Battle City however, we got the Egpytian God Cards, two more Millenium Items, the history of the Tomb Keepers, all of which were really interesting. This arc also has a lot of the best duels in the series, which I can try and list:

-Kaiba vs Ishizu (I hate the way destiny is written in this series, but Kaiba changing his destiny was the most badass thing ever. Even I can’t deny that.)

-The best Yugi vs Kaiba battle (Tied with their Duelist Kingdom one honestly, those are both great but this one had two god cards clash. I can’t help but love it.)

-Jonouchi vs Marik (The sub gave me chills and even the dub made my heart skip a beat and think they were actually going to break anime rules and let Jonouchi win. Also, the dub gave us the amazing “according to my math, six is higher than two” line, which I unironically love.)

-Yugi vs Marik (I mean come on. It’s the final battle and seeing Marik regain control and overcome his dark side was great.)

Anyways, that was my personal ranking. I think I’m generally in agreement with the fandom consensus except I feel Duelist Kingdom is a little overrated and Waking the Dragons is underrated. I will do this with GX when I finish it though I admit I have been really on and off about watching that show due to real life reasons.

#yugioh #yugioh duel monsters #classic yugioh #yugioh classic #yugi mutou #pharaoh atem #seto kaiba #marik ishtar #I talk about them a lot lol #marik and kaiba are my favourite characters in the original show

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celestialdragongod · 9 months ago

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That's interesting I never considered that perhaps the Etherious were more powerful than the holy magic. Mostly because that magic in this case is based off the Moon which just seems like and probably actually is very powerful. Though it does make more sense than them some how being "less dark" than a natural demon even though they were literally created (generally malevolently) by the dark wizard. Your arguments of it being strength or suppression (or both) do kind of make sense to me in these situations.

Strength: In the argument of Etherious being stronger or more powerful than the Holy Magic seems possible but I am still a little hesitant because the Holy Ground Magic in this case is based on the Moon (I don't know maybe I just have too much respect for or are too obsessed with the Moon). But with Zeref's power it is quite possible. Though I wonder if its really a case of all Etherious being stronger than the Holy Magic or just the stronger ones. I don't really know where Deliora ranks on the power scale of the Etherious but I'd imagine he's generally pretty powerful, seems pretty unlikely he'd be in the bottom tiers. Natsu is obviously END, the most powerful guy around so he would be fine as Dimaria says "He has the power of a God." I also wouldn't be surprised if there's different levels of Holiness. But yeah if its a too strong for the Holy Magic case it would be interesting if it was tied to their level of power. It seems like a waste after all to give Holy Magic trumping power to the "common" Etherious.

Suppression: If Natsu was able to run wild in the Temple due to his demon-ness being suppressed/inactive. While he definitely wasn't full demon mode in the temple I'm pretty sure he wasn't actively using demon power in the Tartaros Arc when he was eating curses, which seems a bit extreme even for a dragon slayer. Especially since from my understanding curses aren't magic and dragon slayers eat their element and in extreme cases magic, so not curses. (Forgive me, I'm not as familiar with the later part of the series but I am in the middle of slowly rewatching) So it seems like he may have some passive Etherious abilities? As for Deliora, I had been thinking even right after I posted that his demonic aura may have been suppressed by Iced Shell. It doesn't seem like that much of a stretch and it would allow them to get him that close to the Temple.

So overall the theory of Power Strength + Power Suppression might be possible. It does make me continue to think about cases like Mirajane and Minerva. I wonder if it makes a difference whether Mira is in her normal or take over form. Would her human form count as "suppressed" or powerful enough if it was one or the other. For her power level would it just be taking into account the active form? In Minerva's case it doesn't seem like a converted then mostly reverted demon would be strong enough to overcome Holy Magic. Her being reverted might count towards suppression if Mira's does but who knows. But yeah either of the theories make more sense then the natural demons having "too much darkness" and Etherious some how not. Which was the only thing I could think of even if I didn't agree and obviously found the idea hilarious. RIP I've been rambling a bit too hard oh well

Something I find interesting related to the Sub Zero Emperor / Galuna Island arc is that they tell us that demons can't even get close to the Moon Temple. But that's not completely true...

Because Etherious can get close to the Temple and they are also classified as demons. So it must be only normal demons that can't get near it. After all Natsu was clearly able to get into the Temple. I would also argue that it can't just be chalked up to whether or not Mashima decided to have Natsu actually be a demon when the arc was created, because Deliora was arguably closer to the temple than any of the demon villagers ever got. Deliora is also an Etherious literally known as the "Demon of Destruction."

Makes me wonder about demon classifications. Like I guess Mirajane and Minerva might still be able to get into the Temple despite having more demonic essence than the average human. Since their demonic essence is more compared to or related to Etherious than the Galuna demons.

Anyway I just thought it was interesting that natural demons have "too much darkness" and therefore can't go to holy lands but artificial demons like Etherious are some how fine?

#fairy tail #fairy tail spoilers #Natsu Dragneel #deliora #etherious #galuna #I feel like a little scientist #need to get a mix of like one or two dozen etherious natural demons and demon adjacents #to galuna island and experiment with whether they can get close to the temple #well probably never know but its funny to wonder #i rambled a bit

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kariachi · 4 years ago

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Okay y’all, it’s the big day. The latest of the Ben 10 movies, after which I will be fully caught up on the franchise and can unblacklist it finally because two days is too damn much already.

I’m going in with, pretty much no info? I’ve watched one trailer, don’t even know if there’s more, and gotten hints of spoilers. Enough to worry for my son but not enough to actually know anything. Which, given Kevin is about all I care about, tells you some of how I feel going into this. Am crossing my fingers and hoping this ends with him in a really good space and having nothing to do with Phil because I have been worrying about that since I learned he would be in this.

Don’t trust that man as far as my piddly arms could throw him and anyway I don’t want Kevin anywhere near any part of the Forever Dipshit unless he’s actively dismantling the fucker. Asshole deserves to get turned into a toaster. Haven’t heard any ‘oh your reaction is going to be fun’ sort’ve stuff from anybody, so fingers crossed.

But, we can’t know anything until we get into it, so, Ben 10 Versus The Universe.

An hour 12 minutes, yeah it looks like my initial estimate might be accurate. I will be here the entire damn day.

Ooo, it’s own intro, very nice.

Okay, 1) like that intro, very much in the style of the other series and I like that about it. 2) Spent it wondering if they were going to include Kevin in the rogue’s gallery runthrough and instead it literally ends with the Tennysons and Kevin in the Rustbucket, Kevin being his normal little shit self.

Maybe watching this when I was on the rag was a bad idea because y’all I am already in tears he’s enjoying himself so much. My precious son. Gods I love him.

Can I just sit on this frame for an hour, would that count? Can fill the time with telling you how much I love my son.

Ben 10 Versus The Universe: The Movie (The Game: The Gameshow: The TV Series)

They brought in fucking everybody for this. Kelly is at the bottom of the list but I am putting my trust in her. Seriously y’all I am so happy with her work on this show, I knew the reboot was going to be good as soon as I learned she was going to be working on it, she is a delight.

Okay, actual show, apparently we’re starting at what looks like a small base. I don’t know for what. it looks like they want me to think it’s military but also yeah no. The pool is throwing me off the most, I think. I mean wtf?

Oh look, Smythe shit. A steam-powered airship-zeppelin. And Ben as Heatblast handling the situation, as one does.

Ben is so tired. He needs a vacation from this vacation so damn bad. Somebody else handle the villains so he can get like, two weeks to actually relax.

Ah, it’s an industrial server farm. I don’t know enough about those or if it’s even a thing to give an opinion. Smythe wants it gone though, to the shock of nobody.

He wasn’t to wipe out telecommunications so we’re left with telephones as our most advanced mode of conversation.

Ben, meanwhile, is asleep. Can’t blame him.

Ben is bored. This shit is like clockwork, he could probably save the day in his sleep at this point. Especially from Smythe.

“I’m not even breaking a sweat, and I’m on fire!”

Ben saves the day, hardly even has to try (pretty much doesn’t) and in the end even Smythe has to agree this is getting repetitive.

Huh, Max and Gwen were in the doom-ball.

Max and Gwen are not impressed with Ben having been bored while they were under the threat of danger. Ben has the very valid point that they really weren’t at any risk, even if they were in a mine.

Max, while talking about staying ready for the unexpected, gets a phonecall.

Ben: “Bet you anything it’s Phil. He’s got some big emergency and we’ve gotta go somewhere and look at something.” Gwen: “You don’t have to be so smug. Not everything is a dire situation.” Max: “It’s Phil, we gotta go to his lab and look at something. He says it’s pretty dire.” Ben: “Like clockwork.”

Honestly I’d be bored too. This is why they needed to add Argit, something to mix things up, change up the style.

Unfortunately I didn’t get any ‘your reaction is gonna be so fun’ messages so I don’t think we’re getting Argit. But hopefully, given space and Kevin are involved, we will receive an opening for later Argitness.

Hello Phil. I still don’t trust you. You have been nothing but vaguely suspicious shit on top of vaguely suspicious shit every since the season 1 finale and with your history in the other series? Where you were a dipshit from the word go? I wouldn’t leave you alone with a beanbag chair.

Ben, not taking shit seriously, Gwen unimpressed, Phil stating that actually it may be the end of the world. Honestly fuck it save the children let it die. The reboot sequels can be Ben, Gwen, and Kevin traveling the galaxy trying to, ya know, survive and shit. They gather an Argit on the way who honestly is amazed these three didn’t die within a day and half. Tell me you wouldn’t watch that!

Do you even have a bedroom or anything, Phil, or is that building just all lab? Do you pull a Kevin and sleep on your tech?

I don’t trust this giant-computer room. It’s giving me FD vibes.

Anyway yadda yadda object heading straight for Earth, we continue

Ben is so excited to have something new going on

Phil thinks this is a massive meteorite. I’m going to guess warship because I’m fairly certain I remember Incurseans being involved somewhere and honestly.

Oh Ben

I’m like 3.5 minutes in

Ben: If I turn into Cannonbolt you guys can launch be at the meteor and the impact would make it go kablooey Gwen: You and the meteor would ricochet off each other sending you into deep space with no way back Ben: I’d never have homework again Gwen: Ben please

“After months of analyzing your Omnitrix-” I swear this show’s relationship with time will drive me to drink

Phil, do you really think you have time to try to properly prep the child for space? I mean you’ve got over an hour of movie but in-universe

...Phil, why do you have a g-force simulator? And where the fuck are you fitting it?

Okay, seriously, I am concerned at this point by the shit he has on hand. Also why are they focusing on FourArms, mix it up, there’s nine other aliens available

You guys realize you don’t have much choice but to send him anyway? I mean unless you intend to hunt down Kevin and sacrifice him instead which, honestly would be in line with his adult interactions so far and honestly space was good for him in the sequels so maybe it’ll be good for him here.

Ben is so excited and Gwen is so done.

Upgrades to the armor shit have been unlocked.

Problem being, the new armor makes Jetray look, very humanoid. I am not impressed.

Gotta hand it though, Boy can get some speed now. Holy crap. Hate to see XLR8 upgraded.

“We’ve only got one shot at this” Ben’s moving fast enough I think you’ve got a solid three or four

Gwen, Gwen are you having an existential crisis? He’s passed the moon, he’s not coming back down anytime soon.

Ben please

And Ben lost that game of chicken with the meteor, having swerved away at the last moment, presumably because the Omnitrix has the whole ‘you are not dying you fucker’ thing going on

And Ben has been flown right into a fucking vortex of some variety or another. Welp.

Thirty seconds until the meteor hits, nobody knows where Ben vanished too, Phil is resigned, Max is blank, and Gwen looks fucking haunted. Poor kid does not deserve this. She needs a vacation from this vacation too

Oh Gwen, baby

Welp, everyone is fairly certain Ben is dead. Good news is, you won’t outlast him by long the meteor should take out earth in about four seconds

Motherfuck- If you are going to just vanish can you not wait until one second before you’re supposed to hit a planet?!?! Fucking rude!!

Motherfucking Vilgax! I should’ve known! Only you would be so rude! Also how much shit was your little ramshackle pod encased in that it was mistaken for the largest meteor seen?

So, Vilgax is here on Earth and our only defense is Max, Gwen, and presumably Kevin. Either Kevin is going to tap into some pre-reboot murder instincts or shit is about to get bad.

Ben has been carried through the wormhole to, Kinet? I think that’s Kinet, give me a second- No! No it’s Petropia! Listen it’s been a while let me live. Why drop Ben here? wtf is going on?

Swimming through space because your ultra jetboots stopped working

Somebody is watching this child. Who? We know not.

Ben: *times out* Omnitrix: Fuck no *builds spacesuit*

Ben, worried he failed and doomed Earth. It’s okay, it was just Vilgax. Once you find your way back home it’ll all be good.

Sudden spaceship. Also is space just, purple? Is that what’s going on here?

Oh look, Incurseans. Hi.

Omnitrix takes a while to register an alien language and start translating, which makes sense that it would take a little bit for a translator like that to kick in, the tech trying to figure out what language is being spoken. Don’t think I’ve seen that before in a work, very nice. Also the language is literally Incursean so, that’s nice to know. Handy for someone like me.

...Ben is being arrested by the Incurseans for multiple violent crimes perpetrated across the universe. Did not expect that from them.

Also Azmuth, please explain to me what precisely you did with this watch before you threw it at Earth?

...How you could mistake Ben for Vilgax I do not know, but it’s nice to know it wasn’t Azmuth causing wanton destruction and chaos? I guess? This certainly explains how the bastard knew how the Omnitrix worked.

Takes Ben ten seconds of being amazed at and in love with the Omnitrix to register that they think he’s Vilgax.

The Incurseans know about Earth. I’m not sure if that’s a good, bad, or neutral thin in the reboot. The whole ‘arresting a fucker for crimes against the universe’ thing has thrown me off.

Ben plays along for a chance to escape, meanwhile you know Kevin would’ve snapped and argued and fought until they had to admit he couldn’t be Vilgax because Vilgax wouldn’t lower himself to biting.

(I mean it, look at that child and tell me he doesn’t bite)

Well, Ben almost escaped. Too bad Incurseans have those long-ass tongues

Humongasaur fighting an endless swarm of frogs

Ben just is having a day. Honestly it’s lucky Earth’s not going to get wrecked by a meteorite because otherwise he’d be fucked.

Team Tennysons is trying to track Ben down on Earth. Apparently Phil has found the Omnitrix’s signal and they’re tracking that. Three guesses who they’re about to find and the first two don’t count.

Phil: He crashed from space so he might be- Tennysons: Finish that sentence and die

Yeah, the red flashing doesn’t clue them in or anything

And the energy signature looks different. Gwen, darling, you are experienced enough to know exactly who you’re about to find in a cave in the middle of nowhere in the desert (because of-fucking-course, my goddamn disaster)

How is the red flashing not cluing you in? Ben is green, Kevin is red, and together they make one whole Christmas.

Kevin hauling ass, presumably either because something is wrong with his watch (my poor son) or because the Tennysons calling him Ben is freaking him out (my poor son) or both (my poor song)

Okay, Gwen, the tone wasn’t awful but still, was not nessecary to put that emphasis on ‘Kevin’ after the ‘it was just’. Alongside the almost aggravated look when you finally put the pieces together and realized it was him? I know you’re worried for Ben but come on. You hunted him down, he is innocent in everything.

Also can we talk about, something is clearly wrong? I guessed something was wrong with the watch, I think I was right- Kevin was groaning after timing out, holding his head, it’s not normal.

The first thing my son says is telling the Tennysons to get lost (quote “You heard him, hit the road” after Phil tells them to call him when they go back to their search), which isn’t surprising given the look on his face after Gwen’s ‘it was just Kevin’. Something is wrong and now he’s upset on top of that because, well, we know him and how he feels about not being appreciated.

Also holy shit the framing, with Kevin on top of a tall rock in an empty cave, with his back to the Tennysons, making up just a small part of the shot. Really emphasizing just how alone he is.

(Dear reboot give him his rat and prison-dad for fuck’s sake)

(Nobody sent me any ‘your response is gonna be fun’ messages, so I’m assuming I don’t get Kwarrel either, damnit. I can only hope for openings for later Kwarrel in the franchise)

Oh. Oh my son. Oh something has gone very wrong and he is shifting uncontrollably. He has isolated himself so nobody sees him like this. My baby. My precious little perfect child

Notice that he is shifting uncontrollably and he has still not taken off the watch, which would be the obvious answer to the dilemma. So why? Was he too busy freaking out to think of it? Or does on or off not matter anymore?

Tennysons: Why don’t you come along and let us help you? Kevin: Fuck you and your talking car too

“I built this. I should be able to control it.” Oh Kevin...

“And that’s amazing!” And Kevin has no fucking response (except to be a crushing wreck but, I’m deducting the half point and moving on). Praise? For his work? Is that legal?

My son. My heart.

“I didn’t do it all on my own. There was kinda this weird dream.” Said while he’s making his way down to the Tennysons because in the end all he needs is for someone to call him amazing, give him praise, notice him, appreciate him, acknowledge his worth.

The Tennysons recommend letting Phil help because he helped Ben and Kevin’s response is, quote “I’m. Not. Ben! And this isn’t the Omnitrix, it’s the Antitrix*.”

*First time Kevin’s watch has been referred to by that name in the show. Prior to this it was always called a watch or an Omnitrix.

There is so much fucking going on in Kevin tell me we’re learning some of it here I’m begging, give me the inner workings of my son

...pause a second, I don’t wanna look it up because I’m worried about spoilers, but does Kevin’s watch look different? The strap system is different, I’d swear it. Or maybe I’m wrong, it’s been a few days since a Kev episode...

Kevin pointing out that he’s not a Tennyson, denying ever doing anything to help them, wondering what their deal is, claiming they should hate him (my fucking son! someone get this child a dad and a rat, a blanket, some cocoa, and some fucking love and affection!)

By the way, I’m almost 20 minutes in and it’s been over two hours. Kevin is here now, things are probably gonna start going slower.

The Tennysons letting Kevin know they don’t hate him. Max straight up saying he doesn’t seem like a bad kid, just a lost one. Which honestly is very true, he is a good child he just doesn’t really... he’s a mess and there is so much in him and so much of it sour and just- He needs love. Proper, healthy love and guidance by someone who’ll look out for him, put his needs first. It’s why I want Kwarrel back- he, Gar, and reboot!Max have treated Kevin the best, been the most healthy adult interactions he’s had, through the franchise. Kwarrel could be the adult figure he needs in his life, but he got the one episode and nothing and just- I just want the best for Kevin.

“If you trust us, we’ll trust you.” And then Kevin agreeing to come along as long as his watch gets fixed.

Oh gods the smile as he follows them! Like, a moment of happiness for the child!

Vilgax set a city on fire. I take it he’s in a mood.

Yep. Definitely in a mood. Also how the fuck did you get out of the Null Void?

Oh look, we’re back with Ben. Honestly the least interesting part of this movie right now, though I love him.

Although I gotta admit, I never would’ve guessed the Omnitrix being used for a mistaken identity plot like this.

...okay unless he was thrown in the Null Void before you can’t charge him with that he was thrown in unlawfully. Or at least one would hope so. This is space so, the laws have been pretty fucked up in earlier series.

Y’all so not know the joy when you see “How do you plead” and go ‘he pleads not fucking Vilgax’ and then you hit play and Ben’s plea is “not Vilgax”.

Ben is fucking tired of people treating him like he’s Vilgax and you can’t rightly blame him.

Oh, look, Walkatrout. Hi guys! Nice to see you!

Oooo, hello spider-like babies! One second guys I gotta get you a screenshot!

I love them.

Also check out these fuckers!

Seems everybody and their mother is here to see this shit go down

Hi Tetrax. Care to tell us why you are here as a witness for the prosecution?

Welp, can’t see this going well

Tetrax, you lying shit, what is your angle? You have got to have something to gain from this.

Tetrax, describing Ben: “It’s like- It’s like a squishy little sack of organs held together with hair. And it’s head is enormous.”

Ben’s making another break for it

“-these are not the actions of the hero you claim to be-” Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Don’t sentence him to the Null Void you already know Vilgax can get out!

I’m impressed by how much these people believe in Vilgax’s acting skills. Like the fact that he’s acting nothing like himself and in fact 100% like the small child he appears to be only proves that he’s a good actor and not that, ya know, maybe they should check and see if they actually did grab somebody’s kid by accident. I mean it’s not like shapechanging watches are a one-and-done deal, a fucking 11-yo made one

And Ben gets dropped through a portal to, somewhere. It certainly doesn’t look like the Null Void.

Poor crying baby

“You don’t deserve to wield the Omnitrix, it belongs with it’s creator- me.” Oh fuck off, Azmuth. You let a squid have it for fuck’s sake.

Phil studying the Antitrix. Apparently the energy signature is very sporadic, but seems familiar.

Solar, Polar, please, we’ve got shit going on. Important Antitrix information. Could you not take a vacation? Take your mother to Disney World or something?

They’re at the fucking house because Phil has the most powerful radio tower in the country. Of course.

The Tennysons sent Kevin outside to handle them and he’s just standing in the yard watching them and eating chips. Telling them to shove off so his shit can get fixed. How is he not the most popular character in this franchise? Has he not earned a fucking spin-off?

Fucking Dark Matter running through the twins like tissue paper

Gwen, a firm believer in the art of ‘Kevin needs to fucking chill’.

My son sees cops and bolts. Nobody is surprised, given his everything. Honestly it’s probably the safest bet he’s got in anything in life- avoid cops.

“Whoever you saw on those security cameras it wasn’t me!” Kevin what did you do?

Is shocked to find the cops aren’t there for him, my poor son.

Kevin: *is just barely compared to Ben* This cannot be allowed to stand

“Proud? Of me?” Y’all the look on his face! My son!

Like he’s not entirely sure if this is legal but he’s not about to look it in the face! My baby!

Vilgax! Hello! I knew you and my son were both going to be here so I saved you a spot in the pit! Reserved seating, as it were

Fuck off, squid-boy, the kid built the watch fair and square!

Oh gods, tell me the ‘Vilgax was involved in the dream situation’ theory isn’t being proven here

Also the look on Kevin’s face when he’s noting having seen Vilgax before, somewhere between ‘wait a minute’ and ‘you, you are the one I must kill’

He was in the dream and my boy is freaked.

“Used you as a vessel to finally complete my own design” Vilgax you gave the child a dream with a blueprint in it. There is only so much credit you can give yourself. How did you even do that? Is this some new Chimera Sui Generis thing? Superstrength, tentacles, laser eyes, and fucking dreamwalking?

Is the Freddy Kruger of squid

As I said designing the piece means nothing if you go handing out the design to whoever. You can still patent the shit, maybe, but you can’t claim that whatever people made with said pretty-much-opensource design is your property.

Vilgax: It’s my design, give it to me Kevin: Fight me bitch

Kevin ‘Fight Me’ Levin

Ya know, I always though FD would be Kevin’s first kill but honestly it might be Vilgax.

I love him so much you guys. He is the most precious thing ever.

Kicks Vilgax’s arm as he’s going tor the watch, backflips away, perfect landing and out to kick ass

Vilgax if you wanted a kid who would just hand the watch over when you showed up maybe you shouldn’t have handed the design off to the most obstinate, anti-authoritarian, ‘you don’t tell me what to do’ child on the face of the planet Earth. You’d have probably had an easier time getting shit from Looma.

Poor gay couple who just got a car through the roof of their new house

Vilgax can talk shit all he likes, but Kevin is putting up a good fight. That’s another thing he maybe should’ve kept in mind, maybe don’t choose the kid who was doing perfect backflips presumably before he even got the stupid dream.

Okay, Ben is in the Null Void. They’ve tidied the place up since the OG series

Hello, species whose name I can’t remember off the top of my head. Good advice for the child thank you

Oh look, a Loboan, hello

There’s a whole mess of peeps. Including an Ectonurite, Vulpimancer, and Pisciss Volann

Dudes you already know Vilgax wants the watch why do you want to get his attention by getting it your own damn selves? It’s more trouble than it’s worth honestly.

These guys need to chill.

Yeeeep, deeefinitely need to chill

Ya know, Azmuth, if you wanted to show up and take your watch back? Now would be a good time? There’s a whole load of people here vying for it, earn the damn thing.

Hmmmm

Azmuth. Darling. Why are you in the Null Void? Why are you so firmly in the Null Void that fuckers know you and bend to your commands? The fuck did you do?

Everybody is talking shit about Ben today. He’s ten, let the child live!

Ben, out to kick Azmuth’s ass because he thinks he works for Vilgax because let’s be real, he’s had a fucking day and is also literally ten

Azmuth, just a rampaging dick wherever you find him

Also he has the Omnitrix back now

Jesus fuck, I just really want somebody to come step on Azmuth. Like, Vilgax is a dick but that’s his job, Azmuth is just, a fucking dick.

Azmuth you cannot talk about Ben being an infant and then turn around and say he should’ve known to kill Vilgax. He is a child.

Le gasp. Vilgax was Azmuth’s student. I’m going to assume you got thrown in here for not killing him your own damn self?

Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, annoying Azmuth into telling him the story of wtf happened with him and Vilgax

Young-Azmuth here is just, an image I never needed in my life. Give me Blukic and Driba back

Young Vilgax with goggles

And, shocker, Vilgax went ‘science is great but I can do you one better- universal domination’

Wow, Azmuth. Ya know if you’d had any braincells sufficiently developed you’d have known to kill him.

Azmuth. If you could have maybe one manner. A single etiquette.

Also, really? Sending the Omnitrix to Earth was the only option? You couldn’t destroy it now that it’s true destructive potential was known? Recode the damn thing to stricter parameters in a new coding language? Nothing else? Greatest mind in the universe and you couldn’t think of something, anything, besides sending it to a planet that would’ve been completely helpless if Vilgax had managed to get his hands back on it?

Ben: Okay, fuck you and your watch then, I’ll just go beat Vilgax myself Azmuth: Wait what?

Azmuth has set Ben a trial. You know the one, the ‘reach me within this time frame’ shit. If he passes he gets to keep the Omnitrix.

Attempt 1: No shapeshifting Attempt 2: Rath into Humongasaur

Attempt 3 starts with him having managed to end up outside of the trail area entirely

Azmuth is just a fucking dick. Ben points out that his entire goal is to save his planet from Vilgax, Azmuth blows it off because the fact Ben has his life’s work is more important. Gods just, being reminded how big a dick Azmuth is...

Azmuth, please keep in mind that the child is in fact a child

Ben and Kevin need to make friends so Kev can teach him some moves, he’d have kicked this Ectonurite in the head by now

Ben Tennyson, professional Good Child, saves the fucker that’s been giving him shit.

Ben figuring out new ways to use the Omnitrix and unlocking Goop!

Gods, Azmuth, now you gotta shittalk Goop too? Now you’re just being a speciest dick.

Ben saves a fucker, a fucker who’s been nothign but a shit to him, just barely fails the trial, and breaks down over not managing to beat it and save Earth. He’s so good you guys.

“Color me surprised that altruism still exists in this reality” you don’t get to make comments like that when you’ve been nothing but a dick the entire time you’ve been on screen

Azmuth has given Ben more time and a way out of the Null Void. Because it’s Azmuth, of course he’d rather stay there and wallow in his own bullshit that actually go out into the universe and do something about the problems he started.

Don’t waste your breath on him, Ben, he doesn’t deserve it

Dude he saved is now a Ben fan.

And Ben takes a sidetrip to save the Incurseans from a giant Null Void portal

And back on Earth Kevin is still putting a fight. He’s not winning, but he’s still fighting because he is a precious disaster.

The Tennysons trying to get it through his obstinate, broken little brain that he can accept help (and also that just because Ben does it doesn’t mean he has to refuse just to keep himself distinct from him (I am wording this badly but, I can’t word it right just now...))

It doesn’t work.

My son. Vilgax ain’t even tired and Kevin is but he’s still holding his own.

Holy shit Phil has a living room

And Gwen has become a hostage. Good job drawing attention to yourself kiddo.

Yes Gwen, bite the squid! It’s not doing anything but I appreciate the enthusiasm and the fighting back!

She hardly even counts as a hostage, Kevin went to straight punch Vilgax and the dude just threw her away. At least use her as a fucking shield!

“You must be under the impression that you are special, when in reality you were only good for one thing.” 1) Yeah, building what you couldn’t. 2) Kevin is a brilliant artist and engineer, good at athletics, with a natural talent for magic, all on top of a good sense of humor and a smile like the fucking sun, HE IS WORTH TEN OF YOU

Also, so far the movie has given me no reason to believe that he was given any parts or tools with which to build this watch so, on top of all that, all my earlier points still stand so far as far as Kevin being better than fucking Tony Stark with machinery. Is that why you threw the design at this foul-tempered, stubborn little thing, Vilgax? Not because you’re an idiot and he could build it, but because he’s the only one who could? I’ve seen no proof against it yet.

Okay giving us that, that fucking view of him after being tossed, fucking skipping over the asphalt, was not nessecary!!!

My son...

My son....

You did great sweetie! You were amazing!

My son.... My poor, battered, exhausted, son....

Also the fact that he straight up says he’ll try again later, which is just- I don’t doubt it. I don’t doubt he will wake up and immediately upon realizing his watch is gone head out to fight Vilgax again.

The fucking K on the antitrix turning into a V is aggravating for pit-related reason but also very thematically appropriate

Vilgax fucking chimerized himself. Fuck off, that’s Kevin’s thing. Just all about stealing from children

Vilgax steals his chimerism shtick and Kevin immediately starts regaining consciousness. My child

Extra toothy mouths too?! Fucking chill, squid-boy!

Kevin is up and moving and everyone is fleeing a pissed Vilgax in the Rustbucket. He is now on the hunt for Ben

Vilgax is, really putting them through the wringer and Kevin is not happy.

And Kevin, once they’re at Vilgax’s mercy, runs off to start shit once again with the fucker. Because my child is perfect.

He has hijacked fucking Glitch! Of course he has! My child! Harness the fucking Glitch!

He and Glitch, luring Vilgax away with ease because this man handles disrespect worse than Kev does.

The Rustbucket is scrap, but Phil might have an option.

And we’re back to Ben. When last we left him he’d worn himself out saving the Incurseans, straight passing out, and now, now we’re back to him.

The Incurseans saved him, and are apologizing for starting shit. Which is better than they were in past iterations so honestly I’m happy with them.

Incursean leader: You have legal permission to apprehend Vilgax Ben: I don’t know how to get home IL: We’ll take you Incursean Otherdude: We can’t enter warpdrive Ben: What about that wormhole I took before? IO: ...that would work IL: Great, let’s go!

They are going to scour the ship for Tetrax so they can bring him in for falsely accusing a 10-yo hero of being Vilgax

Back to the Best Boy and Glitch fucking psychoanalysing my child as someone who uses an abrasive attitude to ward of people who may hurt him but at heart is a good person

“Listen, if there’s anything I know, it’s how to adapt and survive. If anyone can deal with being alone with Captain Calamari out here, it’s me.” My son!!

And they’re caught. Somebody give Kevin a crowbar or something.

Holy shit Glitch sacrificed himself to give Kevin a shot! Fucking hell! That, I think that may earn back the half point lost for the Gwevin. Sacrificing yourself to save my son earns a lot.

Oh you did not just call my son sniveling and pathetic. You didn’t. You get the special pit with FD.

My boy is crying. My boy is crying. A squid is going to die. Thou shalt not suffer a Vilgax to live.

The first person to get me a picture of Vilgax being torn apart by Kevin 11k gets a drabble.

Glitch! Giving my boy the aid and encouragement he needs in this moment! You definitely get the half point!

Kevin, like Ben, is having A Day.

Did, did Glitch and Kevin just fucking biomerge? Taking my son up a notch? Oh yesss

Glitch has been working on becoming armor for Ben but, well, Kevin needs it right now and it did need a testrun. Kevin is so happy to get to use it first. Seriously I don’t know what happened in their backstory but, damn

My boy

Welp

Back to Ben and Tetrax really should’ve been ready to bail, taking so long is just unprofessional.

Azmuth paid Tetrax to lie in court. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Nobody. I’m shocked.

Ben is letting Tetrax go because he’s like 60% certain he helped in the long run

*snort* Okay, like that fourth wall break.

Kevin and Glitch, still fighting Vilgax, to the surprise of nobody given Kevin does not cannot will not stop fighting

They work well together, they really do. Glitch is more entertaining when he’s actually working off somebody rather than trying to just, be his own thing.

Ben cannot catch a break today

The Tennysons in an actual car plus Kevin and Glitch, all fighting Vilgax together because fuck it, better than going it alone right now

There’s still another twelve minutes.

My son. My Son. “A pity you didn’t stand down while you still had the chance.” “I’d rather go all-in and end up squashed than stand around and let some slab of squid jerky like you stand around and take over the planet.”

Ben is back on Earth and ready to join the fray. Sorry Squiddly but there is no chance in hell you can handle Kevin and Ben at the same time. Actually I’m fairly certain Kevin’s not gonna end up a Tennyson half because of this fucking obsession with Gwevin and half because Kevin and Ben as family would end the universe all on it’s own.

The fact Kevin then proceeded to call him Squidly just makes this day better.

A lot has happened since you left, Ben. Everyone has been having A Time.

And Vilgax smacks Kevin away, doing that final bit of damage to take Glitch out of the fight. Which means Kevin is out of the fight, or at least will be in a minute because honestly I’ll be surprised if nobody sits on him after that last stunt he pulled.

We’ve got nine minutes, let’s see if Vilgax can stand up against Ben, especially after all the fighting he’s already been doing. Neither of them is fresh, but Ben is fresher.

Vilgax is kicking ass so far. C’mon Ben, use Goop!

My son! Acting like he’s not worth saving because he can’t be useful. I am going to hunt down his father and the FD and destroy them both.

Glitch can drain the car and start repairs. The Tennysons are being helpful and Good.

My baby! He is just, confidence has plummeted. Kevin, baby, you are the best thing on this show! You are amazing!

Max, pointing out that Kevin managed to hold off Vilgax on his own, and that he and Ben together can kick his ass. Phil backing it up with a ‘the world needs you right now’.

Yesss, support for my son, this is all I want in this world

“Stand back, I’m going after my watch.” What did I tell you. He’s getting that fucking watch back if he has to eat Vilgax to do it. He worked hard on that thing!

Glitch is falling the fuck apart, Ben is down, Vilgax is about to win, and Kevin is not looking like he’s about to stop anytime soon.

MY BOY!!!!! MY FUCKING SON!!!! THE PERFECT BEING!!!!!!

He dove at Vilgax as he was about to use the Omnitrix’s key to unlock more power for the Antitrix and managed to snatch it back from the bastard! Because! He! Is! Perfect!

Vilgax has still gotten what so far seems to be a net positive effect, but at least he doesn’t have the watch

He thinks he’s Jafar

Vilgax standing there monologuing about his own greatness and Kevin just calls him a doofus and launches at him as Bashmouth

Then straight to CrystalFist when caught to make vilgax let him go, he’s amazing.

Ben catches him as he plummets, fully armored up, it’s time for these boys to wreck some squid shit.

Vilgax just keeps fucking growing. We’ve only got like five minutes left in the movie, just stop.

Kevin just, no hesitation. He is going to fight a giant squid so help him god

Welp. They managed to land some blows.

The boys have been taken out, Team Tennyson is at Ben’s side. “Glitch is- is gone.” “What about Kevin?” “I don’t know, Vilgax hit him pretty hard.“

Phil. Phil what the fuck are you hiding? You are hiding something and so help me if it could’ve helped my boy earlier I will-

Kevin and Azmuth need to meet because Kevin needs to punt him.

Oh look, the frog-bitch is out of the Null Void and bothering the Incurseans. They don’t deserve this, they’re good people.

Oh look, Ben has unlocked Waybig. Fitting, I suppose.

It’s gonna be a curbstomp fight, there’s only a few minutes left and we still need to wrap this movie up. Hopefully confirm my son is alive.

I was right. Good fight, still very quick. And now we gotta deal with fucking Azmuth again.

And, shocker, Ben gets to keep the watch.

Okay, we have confirmation Kevin at least limped away. He was alive as of the end of this film.

11/11 thanks to quality Kevin content and Glitch finally earning my respect. I’m still serious about the Vilgax thing though- first person, a reboot drabble of their choosing.

#achi liveblogs #ben 10 2.os #ben 10 #ben 10 versus the universe

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fairie-gothmother · 4 years ago

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In The Shadow of Starlight, Part 6: Gut Instincts

First part: The Fall

Previous: The Sheep Will Flock

How long had it been? Days, weeks? Troy lost track of time while he’d been slowly starving to death. Since his excommunication, each moment blurred into the next as whatever he possessed of the leech power fed off of his own body. Finally, he had some relief. He couldn’t help but be grateful for the scientist’s carelessness during the lab experiments. That was the first time he’d taken from any siren apart from his twin. It felt very different. This energy was more restless than he was used to. Maybe this what Ty meant by saying she could taste what she leeched.

Now that Troy had some extra juice, he felt incredible. Even after Lilith dumped him in Sanctuary’s garage on the bottom deck, he was amped. And what did Troy do when he was hyped up and left to his own devices? He beatboxed. The Calypso bobbed his head and swayed to the groove, bustling around the room and inspecting the equipment. He had to admit, it wasn’t a bad setup. He knew everyone was talking about him, probably deciding where to eject him into space, but he wished they’d hurry it up already.

He paused when a noise from nearby threw off his rhythm. A beep came again from a cluttered desk. With no regard to the desk owner’s privacy, he opened one of the drawers to find an Echo device inside. It was an older model, but obviously still in working condition. Troy glanced over his shoulder and scanned the room for cameras before putting the Echo on silent mode and slipping it into his pocket.

“Hey.”

Troy reeled around, startled from the voice and saw the blue haired siren descending the stairs into the workshop.

“Relax,” the sapphire siren said. She wiped the dust off a tool box and casually leaned against it. “Don't look so guilty. I, uh… Sorry for phase-chucking you across Tannis’s lab. You alright?”

Oh. He wasn't busted after all. Still, Troy couldn’t help but be suspicious. No way she cared to chat. Probably cared even less about hurting him. A golden canine glinted through his lopsided smile. “I did ask for it, didn’t I? But yeah, I’m good. No hard feelings, Meg.”

“It’s Maya,” she said, obviously annoyed. “Get it right next time. Okay, Trent?”

Excuse me? Troy furrowed his brow and glared at her. She wore a playful smirk and raised her eyebrows as if daring him to correct her. Interesting. She was messing with him.

“Alright then, Maya. Let’s hear it already,” he folded his arms across his chest. “Are you guys gonna launch me into the nearest sun? Or does the scientist want me as a lab rat for unethical tests? Whatever it is, please don’t tell me it’s life in prison. That’s boring. I deserve something creative.”

Maya shook her head. “Oh, no. You don’t get off that easy. You’re still helping us fight the COV.”

Troy cocked his to one side, analyzing the siren in a skeptical stare. As hard he looked for the smallest hint that she was full of shit, her body language suggested she was telling the truth. He huffed, “So what, no punishment then? I figured the Firehawk would want this handsome mug served on a silver platter.”

Maya gave a one shouldered shrug. “You said you didn’t leech Tannis on purpose. Sometimes powers are weird like that. With some training, you might be able to control it.”

Easy for her to say. If only it was as simple as meditating on a mountain to master his broken siren powers. “Ah, right. You’re from Athenas. I’m sure those monks taught you all about control and restraint, great power is great responsibility, blah-blah-blah. But it’s pretty safe to say that I’m a special case. Clearing my chakras isn’t gonna do it for me.”

“It would at least help with that attitude of yours.”

Troy began pacing and brought his flesh hand to his chin. “I don’t know. It wouldn’t be considered very zen if I accidentally ended up leeching you. Then again, you might taste like chamomile tea.” He cast a half-hearted sideways glance in Maya’s direction.

Maya rapidly drummed her fingernails on the tool box and said, “I take it back. I’m not sorry to phaselocking you.”

“That’s what I thought,” Troy snickered. “Be honest. How many times a day do you phaselock stuff just because you can?”

Maya closed her eyes and clasped her hands in front of her, mimicking a monk’s prayer pose. “I take a great amount of pride in my self discipline so if you must know-” She raised her left hand, and her fingers sparked. A ball peen hammer levitated from a workbench and hovered across the room into Maya’s hand. “I do it all the time.”

Troy scoffed. “Show off.”

The two were locked in a stare down. It wasn’t clear who cracked first, but neither of them could keep a straight face for long. A gentle blue glow emitted from Maya’s siren marks. Troy’s smile dropped as he looked down to his left hand, noting the harsh red light of his own marks.

“You really didn’t know that would happen to Tannis, did you?” the blue haired woman asked softly.

“No,” he answered honestly. “I’m still trying to get a grip on everything myself.” All his life he’d been broken. His parents treated him as a burden, although they never said it outright. He was constantly sick and needed extra help when he struggled with the use of only one arm. And Tyreen never considered him an equal. Even as one of the twin gods, he wasn’t seen in the same light as the God Queen. And now that he knew he possessed siren power without knowing it, his whole outlook was in question. What did it mean? What other parts of himself remained untapped?

Maya said, “Even if it’s only half, you’re still a siren. It’s not an easy life. Sirens have always been feared, hunted, extorted… worshipped.” Troy met her blue-gray eyes for a moment, then redirected his gaze to the wall. “We’re just trying to find our place.”

Troy’s heart skipped a beat. We?

“Yeah,” he said in a voice just above a whisper. He snapped out of it and quipped, “But, you gotta admit. Life would sure be a lot easier if I could phaselock grapes into my mouth all day.”

Maya scrunched up her face and flung an empty can at Troy, who reflexively caught it in his mechanical hand with a metallic clang. He waved it, shook his head, and grinned at her.

“Nice catch, wise-ass. Now, get in the drop pod,” Maya teased.

That tiny thing? Troy had used porta-potties with more legroom than that. “You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Troy groaned. The siren smiled wickedly as she held the hatch open and ushered him inside. He sighed knowing the ride back to Pandora would not be a comfortable one.

~~~

On a normal day, Ellie was a delight. Today was not a normal day considering her garage was used as solitary confinement for one of the most hated influencers in the galaxy. Maya recalled her saying, “He’s about as welcome as an outhouse breeze.” It took a while to convince the mechanic that her garage was just as she left it. Eventually, she cooled her boiling blood down to a simmer.

If Maya was being honest, she didn’t actually believe that Troy hadn’t messed with something. Call it a gut feeling. The same gut feeling that knew Ava would be a siren someday. The same gut feeling that told her to go talk to Troy just now. Her gut hadn’t lied to her yet so she didn’t question it. The ex-God King was absolutely still on thin ice, but she was willing to give him a chance. Maybe he just needed some guidance. Either that or he was a hopeless, cocky little shit.

Hydraulics hissed from the rising door as Maya entered the ship’s bridge. The orbital view of Pandora loomed outside the windows of Sanctuary’s observation deck. Crew members clacked away on keyboards at their posts. Lilith and Tannis stopped mid-conversation when they noticed Maya approaching.

“Troy’s on his way back to base,” Maya announced, slightly out of breath from rushing up three flights of stairs. “Cramer should be waiting for him when he lands. What did I miss?” she asked when she noticed neither of them would look her in the eye.

“Sorry I didn’t tell you about Tannis sooner. I decided the fewer people that knew about it, the better. These days, being a siren puts a target on your back,” Lilith apologized.

The revelation that the two of them were keeping Tannis’s siren powers a secret was shocking to say the least, but Maya wasn’t upset. She understood. Her own siren powers had been used by others to threaten an entire planet’s population. “I get it. I’m glad to have another siren on our side.” Maya smiled at the scientist, who awkwardly returned the gesture. It was cute when she made an effort.

“How are you, Tannis?” Maya asked.

“I'm fine. No need to fuss,” Tannis said. “It was actually interesting to experience the leech power first hand.”

Lilith knitted her brows. “Troy could have killed you. We still don’t know his intentions. Who knows what other abilities he’s hiding.”

Maya recalled the look of shock on Troy’s face while he held Tannis’s wrist, and the way he kept his distance from the two sirens afterwards as they processed what the hell just happened. After the conversation she’d just had with the Calypso, Maya felt the need to voice her opinion. “It seems like he doesn't understand his abilities either. I really don’t think he leeched Tannis on purpose.”

The commander was unconvinced. “Even if that’s true, we can’t underestimate what he’s capable of. This is still Troy Calypso.” Lilith stared out of the window at Pandora below. “For now, he’s useful to us. We’re going to need all the power we can get. It’s about time to make our move on the Holy Broadcast Center. There’s been a lot of activity lately. I’ve got a feeling something big is about to go down.”

Claptrap’s eardrum piercing voice called from the command console, “Incoming transmission!”

Speak of the devil. Maya’s heart sank as Tyreen’s smug face appeared on the overhead monitors. She was beginning to wonder if the COV had tapped their coms. Their timing was unusually coincidental.

“Hey, Lil!” the cult leader said in a singsong voice. “How’s life been as a non-siren normie human? Does it suck? I bet it sucks. Not gonna lie, these powers of yours are pretty sweet.” Lilith was seething. Tyreen had a knack for getting under her skin. The Calypso continued, “But hey, you don’t have to take my word for it. You know someone who knows all about my Firehawk upgrade. Just ask my brother.”

Damn. Word had finally reached her. Now Tyreen knew the Crimson Raiders were harboring her disowned twin.

“By the way, did that traitorous freak happen to mention the fact that he stole something from me? Can you believe it? Yoinked it right out from under me. I don’t want your grubby normie fingerprints on my stuff so if he shared it with you, I’m gonna need it back.”

Lilith calmly replied, “I assumed you’d know better since you were the one who dumped him in the middle of nowhere. He wasn’t exactly in any condition to exchange gifts when we found him. He’d been stripped and unarmed.”

Tyreen paused before shrieking with laughter. “She said unarmed! Please tell me you meant to make that pun.” She wiped a tear from her eye. “I needed that. No big deal. It’s a matter of time until I find it anyway. Well, I’ve got places to be. Big milestone event coming up. You’re gonna love it. Oh, and tell Troy I said hi before he runs outta juice and shrivels up. 'Kay? Laterz!” The Calypso winked before the feed was cut.

Maya’s fists tingled with the urge to meet that punchable face. She hollered back at the empty screen, “Troy will be the one kicking your door in, you cocky bitch!”

Claptrap said something about the video transmission’s crappy production value, but no one was listening. Lilith grit her teeth. “Using Troy was the plan, but that’s only if we can keep him alive long enough to get there.”

Maya squeezed her fists tighter, causing her fingernails to dig into her palms. Tyreen was always one step ahead of them. She couldn’t care less that her brother was in the Raider’s custody. Because of Troy’s dependence on her, she never even saw him as a threat.

Tannis chimed, “I have a theory, but you aren’t going to like it, Lilith.” All eyes turned to the scientist. “It is apparent that Troy cannot absorb the life force from living things through touch alone, with the exception of sirens. According to my experiments, it’s highly plausible that he can gain the same effect by ingesting it directly via anthropophagy or hematophagy.”

The room was silent apart from the humming of the spaceship. Maya blinked and said, “Tannis, no one understands you when you talk like that. In layman’s terms, please?”

Tannis sighed in disappointment but explained, “Troy should be able to regain energy from cannibalism or drinking blood.”

~~~

Sorry it took so long for an update. I’ve been working through a serious creative block. Showing my girl Maya some love in this part. This was a little shorter than usual, but I hope it was still entertaining. As always, thanks for reading my garbage! <3

#troy calypso #borderlands 3 #redemption #fanfic #fanfiction #Troy #calypso #au #in the shadow of starlight

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crystalelemental · 4 years ago

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I did it! I have completed Sacred Stones hard mode. That was...an event.

I’m torn. On the one hand, that was too bad, and honestly offered some fun challenge to the game. On the other, it’s hard to say what in that was Hard Mode, and what was me deciding to not use any of the grinding maps for the first time ever. It’s probably a bit of both, but without having a working knowledge of what Normal mode’s challenge level is like, it’s hard to say what Hard mode’s is doing different. That said, certain things were far more engaging this time around. And by certain things, I mean most of the game.

The first big divergence was Chapter 9 in Eirika’s route. I usually have Ross as a pirate, who can easily clean up the others on the water. Turns out, when you don’t, they all go for the house across the sea, and you have to have a flying unit ready to go down there before they can destroy it. I also decided not to use Vanessa, so Tana had to do this. At level 4. Yeah. That was fun. In fact, Tana turned out really well for a unit who struggled like hell to catch up. Level 4 is pretty behind by the time she arrives, but she still managed to be MVP.

Chapter 13 in Eirika route was a massive difference. I have to admit, I always looked at this one as kinda dumb, because it’s just a huge block of enemies you have to charge in to, and then another block of enemies showing up behind you after several turns. But oh man, without grinding and being decisively overleveled, this map was a challenge. And not like, a bad one. I beat it first try. But there was actually thinking involved in how to approach and handle situations that arose. I liked it a lot.

Chapter 15 was an interesting change as well, mostly just in the boss fights. Again, I’m used to just using my overpowered units to crush everything, but that doesn’t work here, so I had to plan. But it’s really just...Valter. He is scary. I never had to deal with him in this state, but oh my god. Tana was the only unit who could naturally avoid getting crit, or KO’d if Pierce went off. Everyone else was either (1) very much going to get crit, (2) going to get hit twice, or (3) did not have enough HP to survive a Pierce activation. Beating Caellach helps negate the critical hit problem, but the doubles and constant threat of pierce makes him scary even with that.

Chapter 16 is when shit got real. So hey, things I never knew because I don’t play on hard mode, apparently siege tomes can crit! So purge fucking annihilated me twice because of random crits! When I finally tried to play safe, a thief spawns in at the far right, meaning you have to go through them to get to the thief. And then if you have only one unit over there, you better make sure they’re good, because Luna tome Druids start spawning in. And Luna, while not the most accurate tome, hits like a truck, and has a high crit rate. So like, if it does hit you? It’s a problem. It took a lot of doing to get through this one.

Chapter 19 was bullshit hard. In a lot of these chapters, if I lost or got set in a bad situation, a lot of the time I could pinpoint when it was my fault. I didn’t check range, or damage, or account for critical hits (which I don’t know how to calculate, so that one’s tougher). But this map? This fucking bullshit? This one sucks. The constant reinforcements are devastating, there’s essentially no way to get a proper foothold on progress toward Riev. You have to tank it out. And the upper portion of the map similarly needs support. Meanwhile you have to get two thieves to two different places on the map to get all the treasure, and if you’re too slow about it, a bunch of Warriors and Generals spawn in on the bottom right near the chests and start wiping everything out. It’s a brutal time. But moreover, I feel like this was the only time where it wasn’t my fault if I lost. When I lost in this map, it was because Eirika decided she didn’t need to dodge any of the 35% hit rates, and just got bodied. Or Ephraim would, or Tana. Even with maxed out support conversations between Eirika/Tana and Ephraim/L’Arachel, there were still situations where the numbers just ran poorly, and there’s nothing I could do. So like. This is the one chapter that actually felt like full-on bullshit.

Chapter 20 was...terrifying, frankly. The outset was funny. The first time through I’m like “Oh yeah, I know how to beat this one, Myrrh is deployed to the left and kills everything.” And the first little zombie man got a crit with his Steel Sword and killed her instantly. So like. Okay, that’s my bad. But the subsequent attempt she survived, and it turns out the “Myrrh kills everything on this map” approach still works in hard mode. Tana helped. The slow progress around the map is pretty tedious with all the reinforcements, but it’s not until the very end when shit gets real. You know. When the fucking spiders and wolves start showing up. Those wolves are stupid fast, and the spiders stupid bulky, and there are so goddamn many enemies. I had to do everything in my power to just beat the boss and seize before we all died from the second wave of the things.

All in all, it was fun, but the last two main chapters felt like there were just too many bullshit reinforcements, and Chapter 19 in particular feels like the first time I’d consider the threats presented to be unfair. But I will give the game credit as being a lot more fun than I’ve ever gotten to experience, thanks to not-grinding.

Also, playing through Eirika’s route after playing Ephraim’s last...I gotta tell you, I like Lyon a lot better in her route than Ephraim’s. At least here he’s actually presented as kind-hearted and well-intentioned, as opposed to Ephraim route that wants to simultaneously push the idea of Lyon being that dick-envious of Ephraim that he’d willingly cause all of this, while also simultaneously being controlled by the Demon King anyway and thus not even offering the meager resistance he shows in Eirika’s route. At least in Eirika’s route, he tries.

All in all, pretty fun! I have no idea if I want to play another Hard Mode Fire Emblem game, though. Listen, it’s not the game, it’s me being a weenie. I don’t like losing characters, but I also don’t like having to completely reset progress. So like. I don’t know how I’d feel playing a harder game. I know Sacred Stones is considered super easy, so the idea of trying something harder is...concerning. Maybe I’ll try. But like. I need a minute.

#fire emblem sacred stones

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wisteriafield · 4 years ago

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Wisty Plays Cinders DS3 mod part 1

Initial Impression: “Lets make DS3 more like DS2″

We’re off to a good start

Demon’s Souls items are really noticeable in texture quality but it can’t be helped.

Expanding on initial impression

I start at the bottom of Firekeeper’s Tower

So many pieces of armor have passive effects

Gundyr’s location is now Corrupted Gundyr who is absurdly powerful and starts in Pus Form, there are fonts that form a ring around the arena of Dark damaging Curse that slowly encroach on the center creating a sort of hotplate.

Lots of NPC invaders

HP scales exactly like DS2 (exact 20 per level, always divisible by 20)

Roll stamina consumption is pretty nuts, being able to only roll 3-4 times can kinda fucking suck.

Many items and armors that were notorious for their rarity are now also placed somewhere on the map

It’s an unpopular opinion but I hate passive poise so much, fucking naked Ricards Rapier man has enough poise somehow to tank me, why is it like this. All it does is make the many more NPC fights so much more tedious when I don’t know when I’ll stagger them or not

FP regenerates a la Order of Ecclesia but slightly slower speed, every FP cost has been revamped

Infusions come with their own unique passive effects

Again, like DS2, any weapon can be infused now (unlike DS2 these infusions are actually worth a damn and don’t fuck up scaling, S dex scaling on elemental infusion my ass). I’m almost certain any weapon can be buffed too

Many original weapons and spells or adapted spells

Very much more Video Gamey in an attempt to be more open ended routing (Lordvessel in High Wall takes you to Archdragon Peak LOL)

Replaced bonfire locations, to an obnoxious degree in certain locations (more on that later), many bosses don’t leave bonfires anymore, defeating certain enemies or NPC invaders will make one

Ton of new covenants both returning and original each with their own passive and currency that you get just from defeating any enemy which you can trade in at certain people

Movesets for borrowed weapons unfortunately don’t replicate their home series animations (Velka’s Rapier R2′s are just Estoc’s, but at least it has Rapier Stance). Trick Weapons are here, but they don’t seem to have the same complexity or beauty (I only found Tonitrus so far)

There are memory items like Sekiro to rechallenge boss fights at any time, they have an altar in Firelink Shrine to apply debuffs to self a la Chalice Dungeons to reap greater benefits and chances for special items

Of course when playing God there’s hubris involved

Archdragon’s Peak was AWFUL

Ancient Wyvern is there, with the bonfire outside, BUT

You don’t teleport to the Dragon Kin Mausoleum after (so you have to run the Gauntlet again)

There is No Bonfire At the Dragon Kin Mausoleum

You have to make it through the entire area (don’t be like me and forget to activate the elevator shortcut to avoid the gauntlet next time.

You can either run straight through underneath Nameless King’s boss arena in which there are like 30 snakes not placed with any forethought, beef gate of the highest caliber, or go through the area normally, neither option is particularly appealing

Lastly, stat requirements for weapons are generally pretty fucking high, seems I’ll have to grind a bit in some places for new weapons (on top of actually needing 40 END in this mode because stamina management hell)

Still having fun, it’s a new trip through an old park. Wonder if there’s cyclical coop but you have to get yourself softbanned to play online (don’t really wanna even do family share)

They made an Irithyll Straight Sword Greatsword variant, a lazy but fun asset reuse, its got the hollowslayer moveset which is great because I have to grind for the HSGS in this mode.

#wisty plays cinders

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returnn-of-the-mac · 5 years ago

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Want some angst? Probably not, but I'm giving it to you anyways! Imagine if Sosu was actually affected by the radiation in the wasteland. So, basically, I'm requesting companions (And whoever you want to add in there) reacting to Sosu getting radiation sickness. Not turning in to a ghoul or anything, just, fumking suffering.

Oooh man this one was fun! I’d forgotten how much I liked writing angst! I hope you like it! (Also: I’m on mobile right now, so pardon the large gaps and the lack of a “read me.” I’ll fix that once I get back home😊)

Fallout 4 Companions React Headcanon: Sole Critically Ill From Radiation Poisoning

Sole and their companion had been venturing out toward the Glowing Sea when the pair stumbled upon a building apparently known as the “Electrical Hobbyist’s Club.” The place looked small enough, so Sole insisted that their companion stand guard outside while they scavenged around the decrepit building.

Danse: Danse shifted around uncomfortably in his power armor. “I have a premonition that something terrible is going to happen in there,” the Paladin muttered to himself, “I shouldn’t have let them venture in there alone. I was negligent of my duty as their commanding officer. Maybe I should-“ before he could finish his sentence, he saw a sickly Sole slowly crawling down the building’s ramp. “Soldier!” He bellowed, running up to his partner. “What’s…what’s going on? You look so frail.” Sole struggled to raise their head to look at their concerned companion. Then everything went black. Danse, now fully alert, promptly scooped up Sole’s limp body in his arms and used a Vertibird signal. He knew he needed to get Sole to Knight-Captain Cade as soon as possible. As he held his sickly companion close and waited for the aircraft, he verbally released his pent-up self-disappointment “Goddammit! Why didn’t I follow my instincts? I knew this would happen. If I had just accompanied [him/her], this could have been prevented. I’ve failed [him/her] just like all of the others who have fallen under my command.”

Piper: Piper was casually smoking a cigarette when she saw Sole crawling down the ramp. “Well there you are! I was beginning to brainstorm some catchy headline for a missing person’s article!” When she saw that Sole was unresponsive, she sensed that something was wrong. She immediately stomped out the remainder of the cigarette and rushed to her companion’s aid. “Blue! Oh Blue! What happened in there? Are you okay? Look at me Blue. Look at me.” Sole fainted. Piper gasped in alarm and held her companion against her, shaking them gently. “ [Name]? [name]? Say something. Anything! Please!” She desperately gave Sole all kinds of food and medicine in an attempt to help them.

Strong: Strong was standing with his arms crossed and pouting. “Bah! Why human leave Strong behind. Human not care about Strong. Strong leaving back to tower.” Before Strong could walk away, he noticed Sole crawling down the ramp. “There you are! Strong angry! Strong leaving!” Strong stopped yelling when he noticed his partner facedown in the dirt. “Human?” Strong flipped Sole over and realized that his partner was in critical condition. Strong picked Sole up and threw them over his shoulder. “Don’t worry, human. Strong help. Strong bring you to medicine man.”

Ada: Ada was rummaging for junk when she detected movement nearby. She scanned the area and noticed Sole crawling down the ramp. “[Sir/Ma’am]? My systems have detected that your functionality levels are critically low— a mere 2%. I will now run a mandatory diagnostics scan.” Ada scanned Sole and analyzed the findings. “The troubleshoot has indicated a dangerously high level of Radiation in your body. Immediate medical assistance is required. I shall send out a distress signal for help.”

Hancock: Hancock was taking a hit of jet when he saw Sole crawling down the ramp. “Hey there, pal. You ain’t lookin too hot.” Sole tried to look at Hancock, but failed to raise their head more than a few inches. Hancock frowned. “What happened in there? Take in too many Rads? When I suggested you to go ghoul I didn’t actually mean it.” Sole passed out. Hancock sighed. “I am not high enough to deal with this shit right now.” After popping a few Mentats, Hancock directed his attention back to Sole. “Now. Let’s see if I can work some magic here with the year of medicine I was forced to study back in the Diamond City days.”

Gage: “Damn. What the hell are they doin in there? We ain’t got all day!” Gage muttered. “Hey boss! Hurry the hell up in there!” Gage then noticed Sole crawling down the ramp. “You okay? You ain’t lookin too hot.” Sole managed to drag themself to the bottom of the ramp before blacking out. “Wha— shit!” Gage jogged over to Sole, crouched down, and started shaking them. “Wake up, boss. This ain’t funny. I’m serious. I swear, I’ll kick your ass if you’re messin with me right now.” When Gage realized that his partner was in critical condition, he rummaged through his inventory to find anything that would help. His search was unsuccessful. “Ain’t got much of anythin useful on me now, but I’ll get the good shit. Hang in there for a little longer, boss.”

Longfellow: Longfellow was eying a radstag when he heard movement coming from behind him. He turned around to see Sole dragging themself down the ramp. “Hm, what’s wrong, [name]? Throw out your back? That happens with old age. One day you’re a strapping, young buck, the next your a feeble, old goose.” Sole passed out. “Christ almighty! You’ve seen better days, haven’t ya?” Longfellow gently picked up Sole’s limp body. “Time to get you to a medic. You’ll be okay.”

Codsworth: Codsworth was humming to himself when he saw Sole crawling down the ramp. “[Sir/Mum]!” He cried as he rushed over to his limp companion. “What on earth happened to you?” When Sole was unresponsive, Codsworth activated medicine mode. He immediately got to work tending to Sole. After a few moments, Sole regained consciousness and was able to recover.

X6-88: X6 was sitting on a rock when he noticed Sole crawling down the ramp. He walked over to his partner. “[Sir/Ma’am], you do not look well. I am cutting this mission to the Glowing Sea short; we can resume it at a later date. You need medical attention right away.” X6 picked up Sole and teleported then to the Institute.

Cait: Cait was polishing her shotgun with an old dishrag she found nearby when she saw Sole crawling down the ramp. “There ye are. I was beginin to think you were gonna spend the night in there. Now quit fumblin’ around and let’s get a move on.” Sole suddenly fainted. Cait rolled her eyes. “Oh come on, quit fuckin with me. It’s not funny.” When Sole didn’t move, Cait began to worry. She walked over to were Sole was lying and crouched down. “Seriously, drop the act. You’re scarin me.” Sole didn’t respond. Cait began violently shaking Sole. “Wake up, god dammit! Please!” She the picked up Sole and tossed them over her shoulder and began her quest to find the nearest doctor.

MacCready: An annoyed MacCready lazily kicked a tin can across the dirt while waiting for his companion. “Hey, you know, if you had maybe told me you were going to be taking your sweet time in there, I wouldn’t have agreed to be the sitting duck!” He called out in frustration. Just then, he saw Sole slowly crawling down the ramp. “Finally. Jeez next time you search a place for a century and a half, you should-“ MacCready paused, sensing that something was off about his partner. “You good, [Name]?” Sole fainted. “[Name]!” MacCready ran over to his limp companion and sat them upright, using his arms and body as support. “No…no no no no. This can’t be happening. Not again. Tell me this isn’t happening again.” MacCready fought back tears as he frantically searched his bag for something to help Sole. “Hang in there, please. I can’t lose you too. Please stay with me, [name].”

Curie: Curie was examining a patch of carrot flowers when she noticed Sole slowly crawling down the ramp. She instantly sensed that something was wrong and rushed to their aid before they could even fully make it down the ramp. “Oh non [Madam/Monseiur]! Please, relax, stop trying to move. You will surely faint if you continue to expend energy in this state.” She got two purified waters out of her bag: one for Sole to drink, and one to hold on Sole’s forehead to cool them down. She gently held Sole as she injected them with a concoction of carefully selected medicine. After a few minutes, Sole was able to recover.

Deacon: “Hmm…do I want to go for the dreamy surgeon, the hunky park ranger, or the kinky fireman look for my next disguise?” Deacon wondered aloud as he waited for his companion. Just as he was about to change his disguise, he noticed Sole weakly dragging themself down the front ramp. “Hey! What do you think my next disguise should be? Maybe Angsty Teenager?” Sole fainted. “Too much? Yeah I don’t really want to wear a spiked choker, to be completely honest. Not my cup of Nuka.” Sole didn’t respond, and Deacon nervously scratched his head. “Earth to [name]! Hello? Anyone home?If you can hear me, say ‘Deacon is the coolest guy in the Commonwealth!’” When Sole remained silent, Deacon realized the gravity of the situation. He crouched down next to Sole and say them up, using his body as support. “Hey, I’m going to contact the HQ and get you some help as soon as possible. Hang in there, pal.”

Nick: Nick was reading a book when he noticed that Sole had been taking a really long time. “Wonder what’s holding them up in there? Maybe I should check on them.” Just as he started making his way to the entrance, Sole pushed themself through the door and started crawling down the ramp. “Oh my God, are you okay?” Nick asked, rushing over to his weak companion. He sat them against the wall. “You’re burning up. Here,” he said, giving Sole a purified water and some crispy squirrel bits. “I’ll contact Ellie and see if she can send out a distress signal out. Don’t worry, pal. We’ll get you fixed up.”

Preston: Preston was pacing around anxiously, waiting for Sole to emerge from the dilapidated building. “The General is taking way too long in there. [He/She] might have gotten into trouble. I have to check-in.” Just as Preston was about to enter the building, Sole weakly pushed themself through the door. “General!” Preston shouted as he rushed over to his struggling companion. He knelt down beside them just as they blacked out. “Goddammit, I’ve done it again!” Preston harshly whispered, tears streaming down his cheeks. “General, I’m so sorry I let you down. But I’m not going to let you die. I’ll contact the nearest settlement and get you treated.”

Dogmeat: Dogmeat patiently waited for his best friend to come back outside. Suddenly, his ears perked. He sensed movement coming from the direction of the building and knew it was Sole. Something was off though. He whimpered and sprinted over to the building at full speed just as Sole weakly pushed through the door. Before Sole could hit the cold, metal ramp, Dogmeat jumped in front of his friend and caught them on his back. Dogmeat widely whimpered as he sensed how critical Sole’s condition was. He didn’t want to leave Sole alone, but he knew they needed help. He began to bark as loud as he could in the hopes of catching someone’s attention. When that failed, he decided to take to the road to try to find someone who could help.

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flemingtech · 5 years ago

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13 REASONS WHY, ANDROID IS COOL.

“Welcome to your tape”.

Android is that operating system with a cool 'star-wars' name. It's also the world's most used operating system on smartphone devices. However, the coolness ends when iOS enters the party and steals all the fine girls. I won't be surprised if Android is a staunch follower of Saint Future.

Android’s biggest advantage over other operating systems is its ability to be highly customizable. There are amazing tweaks and clever features available but the catch is you need to know how to unlock them. Back in 2012, my uncle, using his Google Ideos phone, clicked the Android version bar multiple times in the phone's settings until a hidden animation of Android's Gingerbread appeared (Zombie art by Jack Larson). The young pre-adolescent boy (me) had seen the closest thing to magic in his whole life. I ended up spending my adolescent years trying to unlock every hidden code in Android.

Those who know how to root their Android gadgets can mould the phone in their image and likeness. It will be an honour to teach people how to turn on "god-mode", but that's an article for another day. For the rest who don't know how to root their devices, they still can customize their phones but within the boundaries of the manufacturer (Samsung, Huawei, LG, etc.). This article will mainly deal with tricks on Android within this boundary so let us begin with the 13 reasons why Android is cool.

1. Picture in picture mode. (This feature is not in iOS)

I’m sure most of you would like to listen to YouTube content while using other apps on your phone. Google has heard our cries and have incorporated a feature called Picture in Picture (PiP). This setting shrinks the video into a small player that you can move around your home screen and position over other apps.

To turn on PiP navigate to your Android settings> Apps & notifications>Advanced> Special access> Picture in picture. Proceed and tap YouTube. Toggle “Allow picture-in-picture” on.

To start PiP playback while a video is playing in the YouTube app, tap the Android home button. The video will shrink into the PiP window. To resume playback in the YouTube app, double-tap the PiP. To dismiss the PiP altogether, you can drag it to the bottom of the screen.

Sadly, PiP mode plays musical content only for YouTube Premium users.

2. Manual Restore Factory Settings

Android has a manual way of wiping all the phone’s data without going to the settings app. Turn off the phone and then press and hold the Volume Up key and Power key simultaneously until the Android system recovery screen appears. Use the volume down key to highlight the “wipe data/factory reset” option and then use the power button to make the selection. Whatever you do with this information is up to you.

3. Manual Restart

There are times when your phone screen may freeze and Android gives you a Ctrl+Alt+Del type of option. Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Down button and release it when the phone begins to shut down. That combination triggers a quick restart.

4. Screen Pinning

Suppose you want to show your friend a meme or video on your phone and you have some privacy issues. My search feed proves how dumb I am so I have privacy issues. (I can't believe I once searched what breed of cats is Doja Cat). You can limit them to only that app and they will require your lock screen passcode to access the other parts of the phone. This feature is called screen pinning.

Screen pinning is easy to set up. Go to Settings>Security, and enable screen pinning. Once you've turned on the feature, launch the app your friend needs to use. Then open Overview by tapping the square navigation button below the phone screen. On the window for the most recently opened app, you will see a pin icon in the lower right-hand corner. Tap the pin button to pin that app to the screen.

*Fun Fact: A single tap on the Overview button, the square icon in the navigation bar, brings up a view of all your open apps as tabs. However, if you double-tap on the button, you’ll immediately jump from your current app to the one you were previously using.

5. Developers Options.

This is a menu with cool features such as making the screen stay awake while charging and the ability to destroy your app activities once you leave it for those with privacy issues. To access this menu, go to Settings>About Phone. Click the Build number multiple times. It will start counting down until it says you are now a developer. Now when you go to the settings app there will be a new menu called developer’s options.

6. Animation Scale

Once you unlock your developers option you will find some settings are useless to normal users. My favourite feature in the Developers option is the animation scale. The animation scale controls how fast animations are displayed on your phone. How fast apps are displayed on your screen is controlled by the animation scale. If you set your animation at 0.5x, each animation will take half the time it originally requires to display on your screen thus your phone will feel twice as fast. If you turn off the animations there will be no delay between app transitioning. Its downside is that apps begin to misbehave. If you set it at 5x your phone will feel slow since each animation will take five times the time to display on your phone.

7. Notification Log Widget

I am sure most of you have ever cleared a notification pop up before you saw it and you don't know if it was important. You can still find that notification even if you have cleared it. Long-press your home screen, then go to widgets. Proceed and choose the settings shortcut. A menu will pop up and click on the one that says notification log. Technical data will be displayed and will even tell you what the notification said.

8. Force Apps to allow split-screen mode

Some apps refuse to allow split-screen mode but then Android gives you the ability to force issues. To do this, go to the developers option that we enabled previously and enable the option called "force activities to be resizable". Now any app that refused to support split-screen will do so even though some may look weird since they don't technically support that feature.

9,10,11,12,13. We are that cool that don’t have to explain ourselves further.

Due to the difference of Android manufacturers and versions, older android versions mainly may not support some of these tweaks. Anyway, I hope I have ignited the thirst of learning more Android tweaks in you, the reader. I'll close this article with a message for iOS users and until we meet next time, keep it fleming.

To iOS users: Stop comparing yourselves with Android, it sounds like y'all got self-esteem issues. We are already cool and content. But if you want to sponsor me on an article on iOS my wallet is ready.

#tech android 13reasonswhy

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mirkwoodshewolf · 5 years ago

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Chapter 12; Bringing everyone back

*Author’s note*

Okay so here we are with the aftermath of what happened in the previous chapter. I hope you all enjoy what happens here because the next chapter.....oh lord will it be a mouthful but until then you guys get this as a preview for what’s to come in the next chapter. Enjoy my lovelies :)

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@ixchel-9275

@waddles03

@platawnic

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I was sitting out along the roof of the building completely angry with this whole shit show. First I lose half my family, my wife, and now in order to bring them back, my wife's old mentor and dearest friend had to die in order for them all to come back. What the hell kind of trade is that?!

"Rauri?" I heard my mother in law's voice say.

"Why did she have to do it? There—there should've been another way. There could've been another way." Morowa came up to me and sat down beside me and said.

"As much as I wish it were true, I'm afraid there wasn't. Magic like that requires the greatest sacrifice and I would know. With my husband and my first daughter I—I didn't know the risk. But then I came to realize that powerful magic, always, always, always come with a price. And Natasha knew she had to be the one to pay for it."

She wrapped an arm around me and she continued,

"But we can't let her sacrifice be for nothing. If we don't finish the mission now, then she died for nothing. She knew how important (y/n) was to you. What a whole lot of people who disappeared that day meant to those of us still here. Clint's whole family. Your family, Dean's, Mitchell's, Steve, Scott, everyone lost people they knew and loved."

"I just—wish that it didn't have to be her, nor Clint."

"I know." She turned my head to face her and she pressed her forehead against mine as I felt her fingers comb through the bottom of my hairline at the back of my head. I closed my eyes and tried to draw in her strength.

'Morowa, we're getting the glove prepared.' I heard Steve say through her commlink. Morowa pressed her fingers to her ear and said.

"We'll meet you in the lab. You good to go?" she asked me. I nodded then she helped me stand up and we walked down towards the lab.

When we arrived, I saw Rocket making the final adjustments to the glove. It resembled an Iron Man design but what I noticed is that all six of the stones were put in the same positions as they were with the gauntlet that Thanos had them in five years ago.

"Alright the glove's ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their freakin fingers?"

"I'll do it." Said Thor as he began to walk up casually. At that point we all tried to stop him from grabbing the glove.

"Thor just wait. We haven't decided who's gonna put that on yet." Said Steve.

"Oh I'm sorry. What, we're all just sitting around waiting for the right opportunity?" Thor snapped impatiently.

"We should at least discuss it." Said Scott.

"Look, sitting here staring at the thing isn't going to bring everybody back. I'm the strongest Avenger, okay? So, this responsibility falls upon me."

"Normally you're right." Said Tony as he stepped in front of Thor who kept rambling on about how he should be the one to do it. As Tony tried to get a word in, Thor shushed him before pleading with him.

"Just let me do it. Just let me do something good, something right." Pleaded Thor.

"Look, it's not just the fact that that glove is channeling enough energy to light up a continent. I'm telling you. You're in no condition." Tony reasoned with him.

I'll agree with Stark on that, he may still be worthy of his hammer but due to his unstableness from years of drinking and deep depression, there's no telling what Thor could do with the glove and those stones.

"What do you think is coursing through my veins right now?" asked Thor to which Rhodey responded.

"Cheez whiz?" Thor pointed at him angrily before turning back towards Stark and answered.

"Lightning."

"Yeah." Tony whispered nonchalantly .

"Lightning."

"Lightning won't help you pal, it's gotta be me." Said Bruce. "You saw what those stones did to Thanos. It almost killed him. None of you could survive." Bruce said as he walked up towards the glove.

"How do we know you will?" I asked.

"We don't. But the radiation is mostly gamma. It's like.....I was made for this."

*3rd Person POV*

Nebula was the only one who wasn't currently at the lab. She stood before the time machine but as she walked up to the controls and unwrapped her hand to reveal a still blue hand. This wasn't the present day Nebula, this was the Nebula from 2014, the one who still sided with Thanos.

Apparently the connection between the two Nebulas was so strong that the Thanos of 2014 captured the present day Nebula and sent evil Nebula along with the Avenger so that she could bring Thanos to the future.

And that's exactly what she was doing as she began flipping the switches on and punching the coordinates from 2014 to now.

Meanwhile unbeknownst to the Avengers in the lab who were preparing Bruce to put on the glove.

"Good to go, yeah?" asked Tony as Bruce now held the glove in his large hulk hands.

"Let's do it." Said Bruce.

"Okay, remember; everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago...you're just bringing them back to now, today. Don't change anything from the last five years."

"Got it." Most of everyone minus Thor and Rocket were now in their suits in case anything went sideways for Banner because they didn't know how this was going to work in order to bring everyone back. It may work differently than it did five years ago so they needed to be ready.

Tony activated his suit and projected a shield over himself and Clint. Morowa did the same for herself and Rauri as her Jaguar helmet phased over her. Bruce turned to Tony and nodded telling him he was ready.

"Friday, do me a favor and activate Barn Door Protocol, will ya?"

'Yes boss.' Friday said. And soon the entire Avengers facility went into lockdown mode. With the heavy steel enforced doors, nothing could get in, and nothing nor anyone could get out.

"Everybody comes home." Said Bruce. As he slowly moved his hand towards the glove, it broke apart and adjusted itself in order to fit on Bruce's hand. Everyone around Bruce began to brace themselves as the glove continued to adjust it's size and shape into a bigger glove, resembling the gauntlet that Thanos had.

As soon as the gauntlet fully formed around Bruce's hand, immediately he was brought down to his knees as the powerful gamma radiation started to spread up his arm. Bruce had only experienced a pain like this once, but this time—it was almost twice as excruciating for him as he groaned and cried out in pain.

The gauntlet sparked and groaned as the power from all six stones began to course through Bruce's body.

"Take it off! Take it off!" pleaded Thor.

"No wait. Bruce are you okay?" Steve said. Bruce continued to groan as Tony said.

'Talk to me Banner.' Bruce cried out through his pants and groans.

"I'm okay. I'm okay." Morowa sighed anxiously as Rauri and her looked at each other and he moved closer to her and held onto her shoulder for not only comfort but support in case things went sideways.

Back with evil Nebula, she was finally flipping the final switches and the machine began to activate as she grinned in awe, hoping that by doing this she would finally get the approval from her father that she's rightfully deserved.

Soon Thanos' ship came out of the quantum time machine and burst through the ceiling forcing everything in the room to cave in.

In the lab Bruce panted through the pain as his entire right arm, even up onto his neck was charring away like coal in the fire. He got his thought straight before crying out in pure agony as it took all his might to hold his gloved hand up and finally delivering the fateful snap.

A flash of light came up and the next thing everyone saw, Bruce collapsed weak and completely fried. The gauntlet slipping right out of his hand.

"Bruce!" Steve cried out as he knelt down beside him. Clint and Rauri both kicked the glove away from Bruce.

"Don't move him." Morowa said as Tony lowered his shield as well as his helmet before activating the fire extinguisher mode on his suit to ice over Bruce's entire arm. The doors began to open as the protocol was now over.

"Did—did it work?" whispered Bruce exhaustedly.

"We're not sure. It's okay." Thor said as he knelt down beside Cap and pressed his hand against his friend's shoulder.

"Here Bruce, try to relax okay?" Morowa said in her soothing motherly voice. She placed both her hands at both sides of Bruce's temples and used her magic to try and heal him of his pain.

As Scott went to look by the back windows, Rauri and Clint looked up as a phone began to vibrate.

"Clint isn't that your phone?" asked Rauri. The two marauders slowly walked towards the table and as Clint looked down at his phone he couldn't believe who it was that was calling him.

It was his wife Laura.

The two men looked at each other in shock and Rauri gestured for him to take his phone. Clint slowly reached out for it and immediately answered it.

"Honey." He choked out.

'Clint?' Rauri could hear his wife's voice speak loudly and clearly.

"Honey." Clint choked again. It was then Rauri began to think that it actually worked. Because if Clint's wife is back then that means—she was back too.

"Guys....I think it worked." Said Scott in awe. But as Bruce's vision suddenly became clear, his eyes widened in horror as all he saw was a beam heading straight down towards them.

Next thing everyone knew, the entire facility was being bombed to smithereens. Everyone fell down hundreds of feet down to the earth in either a group or on their own.

*Rauri's POV*

What the bloody hell just happened!? Oh thank god I had this Vibranium suit on otherwise I might've been in twice as much pain. I slowly got up and shook myself off before phasing back into my human form, (guess when I hit that beam I must've unconsciously phased into my wolf form).

"Hello? Can anybody hear me?! Mum? Cap? Clint?" it was then I heard a groan. I stood up and only had to walk barely a foot for there amongst the rubble I could already see the quiver of arrows. "Clint!" I raced towards him and tossed aside any boulder surrounding him or could be a threat to him.

He groaned as he wobbled himself to stand up.

"You okay?"

"Well nothing's broken, at least I don't feel anything broken. You?"

"I think I'm good."

"What the hell was that?"

"I have no idea. Where are we?"

"The lower levels of the facility. Thankfully Tony had some secret tunnels as emergency escape routes but this place is built like a maze in case any threats try to follow us."

"Great, so how the hell do we get out of here?"

"Relax wolf boy, I know the way out. But first we gotta see if we can find any of the others."

"Right, right." I helped Clint onto his feet and as he turned on his flashlight to look up at the hole above us he cried out for Steve's codename.

But I could smell something, and it was close very close. Something familiar, something—oh fuck no.

"Hey Rauri, I got the glove, now let's—what is it?" I phased into my wolf form, my fur bristled and tail extended upwards in anger as I snarled just behind us. As a soft growl echoed through the walls, I knew Clint had to know now what I was sensing.

I saw an arrow shoot straight across and lighting up from Clint were those terrible alien dogs that had come to Wakanda all those years ago.

"Okay. Rauri come on!"

'No you go, I'll keep some of these guys busy.'

"Are you crazy I'm not leaving you here!" I shoved him with my head.

'I'm not asking now go. GO!' I snarled as I turned and leapt at the first alien dog I saw. I ripped it's head right off before snarling and took down as many more as I could, allowing Clint some time to escape.

*Morowa's POV*

"Morowa. Morowa can you hear me?" I groaned and opened my eyes to see both Steve and Tony standing over me.

"Easy there McGonagall." Said Tony. I glared at him for the comparison and I groaned out.

"What happened?"

"You mess with time it tends to mess you back." I exhaled and muttered.

"God I should've known this."

"Yeah well there'll be plenty of time to play the blame game. Right now we've got more pressing matters to address right now. C'mon." both men helped me stand up and we soon joined up with Thor outside. Down amongst the rubble I saw the familiar figure of Thanos.

"Shit." I muttered.

"What's he been doing?" asked Tony.

"Absolutely nothing." Answered Thor.

"Where are the stones?" asked Steve.

"Somewhere under all this." Replied Tony.

"Well he doesn't have them, that's all I care about. Let's keep it that way." I answered.

"You know it's a trap, right?" Thor asked us.

"Yeah. I don't much care." Tony said nonchalantly.

"Good. Just as long as we're all in agreement." Soon thunder and lightning boomed and crashed in the sky as Thor began to spark with lightning and lightning struck down on him, his sweats changed into his armor, his beard braided and hair pinned up, and he now wielded both his hammer and axe. "Let's kill him properly this time."

We walked down the hill to where Thanos was merely just sitting on some rubble without his helm on and his double bladed sword just standing in the dirt.

"You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life...the other half would thrive. But you've shown me...that's impossible." He spoke as we all circled around him, trapping him between the four of us. "And as long as there are those that remember what was—there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."

"Yep. We're all kinds of stubborn." Tony stated bluntly.

"I'm thankful. Because now...I know what I must do." Thanos stood up and walked right towards his double axe sword to get his helmet as he continued, "I will shred this universe down to its last atom. And then...with the stones you've collected for me create a new one. Teeming with life. That knows not what it has lost...but what it has gained." He picked up his sword.

At that point Thor began to spark with lighting as both his weapons powered up, while my Jaguar helm came over my face and I readied my old Dora Milaje spear as Thanos finished.

"A grateful universe."

"Born out of blood." Steve told him.

"They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them." Thor then let out a battle cry and took the first charge, followed by Tony then Steve and I. Beams, lightning, Steve's shield, and my spear as well as some mystical weapons were all fighting against Thanos trying to bring him down and end his life once and for all.

*Rauri's POV*

I had somehow managed to kill some of the alien dogs but there were still plenty more going after Clint. I raced on ahead and attacked and killed any on sight that I could sink my teeth into. When I finally spotted Clint, I raced ahead and helped him up onto my back.

He must've freaked out at first because I felt him punch my back but when he felt the Vibranium armor, he quickly hauled himself onto my back and I kept running forward. To buy us some time, he banged on a coupe of the pipes with one of his arrows before impaling it into another pipe on the floor.

Next thing I knew, I was being flung forwards as an explosion happened behind us. I groaned and shook myself from the rubble.

'You could've warned me in advance before yah did that yah git!'

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. God your wife didn't complain as much as you did." I snarled but we didn't have time to argue because the dogs who survived the explosion were coming in hot.

I snarled defensively as I stood in front of Clint. I heard one of his grabbling hooks fire and he said.

"Human form now Rauri!" I felt a grip at my collar and just as I phased into my human form, I was being shot upwards. He handed me his sword and I quickly cut through any dog that came up towards us.

Finally we reached the top and as we parted sides, I tossed him his sword back just as a dog came right for him and he sliced it in half. With a yell as he rolled towards the edge of the hole with his sword held high in case anymore of those bastards came up, all I heard was a slam and I knew it was over. He rolled back over onto his back panting exhaustedly.

"You're slipping old timer." I panted out.

"And there's the humor from her." It was then the blue alien woman uhh—Nebula I think her name was came to Clint and stood over him. But something was different about her. "Oh hey. We know you." He handed the gauntlet to her but she just stood there staring at it.

"Father. I have the stones." She said through a comm link.

"What?" she slammed her foot down and just as I phased back into my wolf form and snarled at her, she drew her gun on me ready to shoot when a voice echoed.

"Stop." I turned to see a green woman coming out of one of the exit points holding a gun towards bad Nebula.

"You're betraying us?" hissed bad Nebula. But then coming out from an entry point beside the green woman holding her hands up in surrender was—Nebula? Wait I sniffed the air softly and I knew that that was our Nebula.

She must've been captured somehow and this Nebula holding the gauntlet was probably her past self. Taking advantage of this, Clint stood up and came over to me and I curled myself around him protectively in case evil Nebula tried something. Evil Nebula turned her gun towards our Nebula and our Nebula said.

"You don't have to do this." There was a brief silence before evil Nebula hissed.

"I am—this."

"No. You're not." Said the green woman.

"You've seen what we've become." Said our Nebula as she lightly tapped the side of her face, revealing that the golden parts she had added were gone, revealing nothing but gears and wiring. Evil Nebula looked between her future self and the green woman.

"Nebula listen to her." Said the green woman.

"You can change." Said our Nebula. It was then the green woman lowered her weapon as she looked at evil Nebula. I could see the tears glistening in evil Nebula's eyes and she said brokenly.

"He won't let me." Suddenly she turned the gun towards the green woman who cried out no to her but then our Nebula drew out her gun and shot her past self in the chest. Evil Nebula slammed against the wall and slowly fell to the ground and died right there on the spot.

A single tear falling out of her eye.

Clint then stepped away from me and took the gauntlet back.

"Alright, let's get out of here." He said. I nodded and walked up to him and lowered myself onto my stomach so that he could properly mount my back. Nebula also got on behind him and we all turned towards the green woman and she said.

"I'll do fine running beside you wolf beast." I softly glared at her but I stood up and took off running with her running right behind me.

*Morowa's POV*

It took almost everything we had. Tony and Thor worked together to power up some powerful guns for Tony to shoot at Thanos who only used his axe bladed sword and spun it around as fast as he could to deflect the beams.

Even separate, they still couldn't bring him down. Thor's failed attempt to used Mjolnir as a final attack while Thanos proved useless as he used Tony as a shield and of course as soon as he was struck not only by the force of the hammer, but the lightning coursing around it, forced Tony across the field, knocking him out.

Steve and I worked together using hand to hand combat against the mad titan. As Steve was knocked down to the ground, I summoned the crimson bands of Cyttorak and shot them out to wrap around his arm which held his weapon.

Then using some fire elemental magic I learned in Japan, I forced the bands to spark into a blue fiery blaze hopping to burn this bastard's hand right off. Showing him every ounce of pain he's forced me to deal with the second his future self snapped his damn fingers and took my daughter away. But somehow he managed to rip the bands off and pull me towards him. Just before he could throw a punch my way, I flipped over him and got on top of his shoulders and pressed my hands to his helm.

Even with the protective helm, that didn't stop my magic from numbing his brain. And he was sure as hell trying to fight it so I immediately cried out.

"Thor now!" he came running right towards us with Stormbreaker and managed give him a good swing. I tried to keep him under for as long as I could, wrapping my legs around him to keep my balance while Thor let him have it. Unfortunately, he broke the connection and immediately grabbed me and first kicked Thor aside before slamming me down to the ground.

"Insect!" he hissed before slamming his foot into my ribs and I let out a scream of pure agony as I felt a few of them breaking. That's when Thor came in and got him off of me and as the two of them duked it out, I crawled towards a pile of rubble and leaned against it trying to keep my tears and sobs in as I tried to heal myself.

But I saw Thor sadly getting his ass kicked by Thanos as he now had Thor pinned against some rubble just a few feet away from where I was. Thanos was now using Stormbreaker against Thor trying to pierce through his armor but that's when I saw it.

His hammer flung against Thanos' back, thankfully just in time. Mjolnir levitated in midair before going back to the person who had thrown it. And I was in awe to see just who it was that person was, Steve Rogers.

He stood strong with his shield in one hand and Mjolnir in the other.

"I knew it." I heard Thor say. With a final kick to knock him out, Thanos turned his attention back to Steve. As Steve swung the hammer and trudged right towards the titan all I could think to myself was kick his ass Steve.

And that he did.

With an uppercut to the jaw, a few hardcore swings, even using both shield and hammer to throw Thanos off his balance, because I knew what raw Vibranium could do if struck with a heavy object, especially if that object has enough power to light up a continent for over 100 years.

He then unleashed the true power of Mjolnir by sending a beam of lightning right at him from wither under the ground from an upper cut strike, or straight on like a punch. Before Thanos could even try to get back up, I took my chance to pin him to the ground.

So sending out the mystic binds of Nazareth, I had Thanos bound to the earth so he couldn't even move a muscle.

"Let him have it Steve! Do it for our She-wolf!" I exclaimed. He nodded and immediately lifted the hammer high which summoned an army of clouds as lighting struck down and thunder rumbled the sky.

As Thanos was forced to feel every ounce of electricity run through his body thanks to Steve and I. I growled and roared out as I sent my own rage of electricity from the ground towards him so he was getting it from both above and below him and all he could do was take it.

Steve then jumped from a pile of rubble to get some air and he slammed the hammer down right onto Thanos' head. But the bastard managed to somehow roll away and he now stood up and grabbed Steve by the throat and body slammed him down to the ground.

As Steve tried to get up and Thanos came at him removing his broken helmet and grabbing his axe sword once more. I stood in front of Steve with both the Shield unbreakable and my sword of Valtor. I used my shield to block his and I thrust my sword towards his leg managed a slight graze but it wasn't until I felt his weapon slash my leg.

I cried out and he repeatedly tried to break my shield but I held strong as I pushed him aside and leapt towards him with my sword ready to thrust right through his head. But he kicked me right in my ribs that weren't fully quite healed and I went flying across the fields. I groaned as I tried to stand up and summon my shield again.

But Steve stood over me and used his to try and protect me from Thanos' repetitive attack. But piece by piece, crack by crack his shield was cut away until only half of it was left. Then with a final swing of his blade, he sent both Steve and I across almost a football field distance if not half that.

The both of us hurt and exhausted.

I strained myself up and crawled over to Steve and groaned out.

"C'mon Rogers. On your feet soldier." He looked up at me and just stared at me for a few seconds before finally turning over straining himself.

"In all my years of conquest....violence. Slaughter. It was never personal. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet.... I'm gonna enjoy it. Very, very much."

Soon enough his entire army, ships and battalion came down upon us. The foes we once fought off five years ago were once again alive, the alien dogs, the Leviathan ships that attacked New York back in 2012, everything that Thanos had, he brought down.

Steve and I looked at each other and he was the first to try and pull himself up. Exhausted and panting softly, he slowly turned towards Thanos before shakily reaching for the strap on his shield.

I could tell that his arm was basically broken at this point as he tightened it and groaned but turning his hatred towards Thanos. He turned towards me and held out his free hand.

"On your feet soldier." I grinned and took his hand and he helped me stand up. "You up for another round?" I rubbed around my ribs and took out my Milaje spear once more and I said.

"I could do this all day." We then turned towards the dark army and slowly walked towards it. Even if we were both gonna die, at least we'd die in the blaze of glory fighting side by side.

One last fight to try and save our world, our friends, our family. And it was an honor that my last fight would be fighting along side the greatest warrior and hero in American history.

'Mom.... ' My commlink cracked in my ear.

I stopped and I almost collapsed at the sound of the voice. Was it....

'Mom it's me (y/n) can you hear me?'

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I'm pretty sure my computer would burn and die if I tried to play the Sims 4 but tell me anyway which packs are the best to buy!

Sims 4 is actually easier to run than Sims 3! Especially if you only have a few packs and no mods installed! They designed it for longevity, and it initially came out in 2014. There’s even a laptop mode designed specifically for people with lower end systems.

And, fun fact, you can try it for free! Origin allows a free trial for the Sims 4, so if you’re worried it won’t run or you’re worried you won’t like it you can always download the trial and test it out! That’s actually how I got into the game.

Though I will note before getting started: Some of the newer packs require a 64 bit operating system or a Metal-supported Mac system. Anything released after October 2019 cannot be played on a 32 bit/non-metal system.

Though at the moment that basically just excludes you from the University pack.

Also note! Different people like different stuff out of their Sims game, so if it sounds interesting don’t worry if I don’t rate it highly. I tend to play with a more realistic slant, and for items I tend to like more modern aesthetics when it comes to clothes and items. With that in mind, let’s get to the list! I’ve divided them up by pack type (Expansion, Game, or Stuff).

Expansion Packs:

1) Seasons: Must Have

I will always, always, always shill for the seasons EP of any Sims game. Frankly, I am of the opinion that it should just be base game, but whatever. It adds dynamic weather and, well, seasons which are two things that will affect your game no matter how you choose to play.

Sims 4 is rather unique from previous sim games in that it adds a calendar system and holidays. Not only can you celebrate holidays, you can actually create your own and freely edit or move them around! I’m not kidding, you can get pretty wacky. Like, worshiping garden gnomes and punching each other in the face wacky. Or you can be a loser like me, make every single Three Houses character, and make them all have a lovely Christmas together because they deserve it :x

2) City Living: Good to Have

This one is down to personal taste. I love the city aesthetic, and the apartments are pretty fun to play around with. City Living also adds some interesting festival activities and four unique city districts. Another boon, if this is something you’re interested in, is cultural diversity! Sims 4 has been making a concentrated effort to include more diversity in their games, and a lot of outfits and objects in this pack reflect that!

All of the festivals and events will still occur regardless of if you live in the city or not, so you don’t have to miss out on all of the features even if you don’t choose to use the apartments 100% of the time. Though the bulk of the new game-play really is in the city neighborhood.

3) Discover University: Good to Have (Note: This is one of those 64 bit packs)

I admittedly haven’t played around with this one extensively since it just came out, but I think it’s great fun! I put Sim Sylvain, Sim Felix, Sim Dimitri, and Sim Dedue through college and it was a struggle (in the best of ways). Dorm life, subsisting exclusively on Ramen, and staying up until 2 am working on that term paper that’s due tomorrow... What’s not to love? I’m always a big fan of University packs because, again, I like to play pretty realistically. With mods I managed to get them into a collective $80,000 of college debt and can you tell that I’m an American yet?

Plus, this one added the teaching, law, and engineering professions to the game and I will never not enjoy making Dimitri a psychology professor for the irony.

University isn’t really necessary to your sims’ lives, but it certainly does help them out along the way. You can choose to ignore it if you want to, but I don’t really see myself doing that when I play, which means this pack will get a lot of use from me personally.

4) Cats and Dogs: Good to Have

If you’re really into the whole rustic aesthetic then this is definitely the pack for you. The town they added is very cute and one of my more well used towns (currently the residence of all of my Blue Lions Sims). If you want your Felix sim to have 6 cats then this is also the pack for you, because you can’t have pets otherwise.

You can also create your own veterinary clinic, which is a feature I’ve barely touched but I’m sure someone will get a kick out of! It’s similar to running a business or owning a restaurant from some similar packs.

God, and you can do some crazy fuckin things to these pets. You can basically cross breed to your heart’s content, so you can get some weird ass combinations. There’s also a paint tool, so you can have dogs with rainbow fur and cats with green paws. Oh and you can have pet foxes and raccoons, but they basically function as dogs and cats respectively.

All in all a fun pack, even if I don’t use all of its content 100% of the time.

5) Get to Work: It’s Alright

Here’s where I start getting a little lukewarm. Get to Work added three active careers (Doctor, Scientist, and Detective) as well as the ability to own and run your own retail store. And these features are fun! ... If you use them.

With the way the Sims 4 is built, having a Sim in an active career and a Sim family with more than one or two sims can be difficult to manage. You can only load one lot at a time, so if you follow your sim to work then you can’t play your sims at home and vice versa, you have to load through every time you switch. There are no “home businesses” either, so your sim either has to live “off lot” and travel (aka you have to sit through a loading screen) tp the retail store every time you do business, or you build a living space on the retail lot and try to wrangle the game into working. This means you have to manually bring your sims “home” to the store every day, and it causes some issues.

Personally, I don’t like being minorly inconvenienced, so after the novelty wore off I barely touched these features again. Most of the CAS and Build/Buy items are career or retail focused too, so I can’t say it has any must have items. I’m putting it at #5 though because I know many people love these features and happily play around the limitations.

6) Get Famous: It’s Alright

I’ll admit, I had a lot of fun with this pack when it first came out! It adds a lot of really cool stuff, like the reputation system, fame, and what is essentially a YouTuber career. There’s also another one of those active careers (actor/actress) if that’s your thing.

Fame also works in a very interesting way in this pack, too. There are “perks” and “quirks”, so your sim can have their own celebrity brand and hordes of followers, but have extremely volatile emotions or a fear of being touched. Kind of an interesting reward/drawback system that hasn’t been present in previous sim games.

Personally though, this pack doesn’t have much longevity to me. Just like Get to Work it was fun for a little while, but I don’t particularly like playing “famous” sims so many of the pack’s features go unused. The town, Del Sol Valley, is pretty underwhelming with only a handful of lots, and kind of a sunny desert-y aesthetic. Which doesn’t pair well if you like the rain and snow from Seasons like I do.

7) Island Living: It’s Alright

This pack is great if you love island-aesthetic items and clothes, tropical islands, and/or mermaids. Personally? I love all three of those things. I’ve been using quite a few of the outfits and objects and roleplaying them as “Duscur themed” for my Dimidue family. I mean, we have no idea what Duscur actually looked like, but the items are distinct enough from most of the typical items in the game that it kind of works?

Anyways, the reason this is so low is because there’s just not much to do in this pack. Mermaids and swimming and that’s basically it. There’s only one new career (conservationist) and three part time careers (diving, fishing, and life-guarding, which I kind of thought were going to be full time careers when I bought the damn thing...)

I’ll talk about this later, but the mermaids are by far the least interesting altered life state/occult in the game. Vampires (and I believe witches) have skill trees of powers and drawbacks, similar to those celebrity perks and quirks I talked about before. Mermaids have nothing like that, so they get boring to play with rather quickly. Watching their tail flop out while they’re in the bath is kinda fun though NGL.

The town is really cool though. I love basically all the pre-built lots and I love the items, but again if you like snow this probably isn’t a world you’re going to be using much. That, and to use many of the new features (like boats and ocean swimming and building houses out over the water) you must be in this world.

8) Get Together: Skippable

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seriously used any of the features from this pack aside from the town. The build/buy is a lot of Tudor style stuff, which I don’t tend to use, and a lot of the clothing is weirdly ugly clubbing clothes.

The clubs are really the big feature of this pack. Similarly to the holidays from Seasons, you can create clubs of sims that will get together and do activities. Basically any action in the game can have a club associated with it (from cleaning to “woohoo”) and you can have club perks that make your club more powerful, and sometimes infamous!

My main issue: If you aren’t actively using this feature it doesn’t really do anything. It just kind of exists as an extra sim panel in the bottom right corner of your screen. And I didn’t use it. Like, at all. That said, I know a lot of people find it very fun! I’m just not sure it’s worth spending $20-$40 of your money on.

Game Packs

I’ll just say right off the bat, I’m not going to talk about Realm of Magic. It adds wizards and wacky magical hijinks, but I bought it at the same time as University and I haven’t gotten around to playing it much yet. I will say, they added a ton of really cool objects and outfits! Especially the rugs. God, the rugs are to die for.

1) Parenthood: Must Have

Two words: Teen Angst. This pack fleshes out a lot of the younger life states. It adds teaching moments, punishments, “character value” traits such as polite or irresponsible, curfews, volunteering, sibling rivalries, mood swings, phases, etc. You want your kid to come home dressed like a bear randomly one day? This is for you.

I admit, I find a lot of the younger life stages in this game boring to play without this pack. I don’t think I could ever go back to vanilla sims after having used it, I find it that essential to my play style. Keep in mind though, this pack will only give you good mileage if you play families with sims of all ages.

2) Dine Out: Good to Have

You can own and operate a restaurant, which functions similarly to the retail stores and vet clinics I mentioned before. However, if you don’t want to own one then you can still plop them down in your town and your sims can travel there for dinners and such.

It’s really good for role playing dates and family nights out and such, but if that’s not your thing and you don’t care about owning one then this is not the pack for you.

3) Vampires: Fun, if You’re Into It

I actually played around with Vampires a lot when the pack first came out, which was honestly just a result of my life circumstance at the time (I was taking a literature course about vampires so I had vamps on the brain).

The vampire skills and vampire banes are pretty fun to mess with, and you can create a lot of pretty unique bloodsuckers. I had a Leo and Takumi sim, and the former was extremely weak to the sun and the latter could walk around in it no problem. Made for some fun role playing.

My two criticisms:

Vampires live forever, which means you’ll eventually get bored of playing the same sims.

Vampires don’t really sleep. They only sleep to recover their vampiric energy, which is only expended through the use of powers. It does not deteriorate naturally, so your vampire could be awake 24/7 for several sim days. Thing is, that just leaves you with too much time to do stuff. They’ll max their skills pretty quickly and then what do you do? Nothing.

Oh, and if you’re in to gothic-style stuff this is a must have for you.

4 & 5) Jungle Adventure and Outdoor Retreat: They’re Alright

I’m putting these in the same slot because they basically serve the same function: Vacations. One involves diving into ruins and hacking your way through jungles, the other is camping, but they’re both basically sim-vacations.

This is another one of those pack types where either you use it or you don’t, and if you don’t it doesn’t really do anything for you. Most of the game packs are like that, actually. Personally, I don’t take my sims on sim vacations very often so I mostly keep these packs around for the items.

Though I will say Outdoor Retreat added a ton of plaid so if that’s your aesthetic then go for it.

6) Spa Day: Skippable

This one basically just allows you to place and build “spa lots” in the world. It added the wellness skill, which ties into the meditation and yoga activities. There’s also saunas and massage tables, but I have rarely if ever placed them in a home lot for personal use.

Another use it or don’t kind of thing. I don’t even have a spa lot placed on my current world, so that just goes to show you how much I use this pack.

Some of the items are cool. Unless you really like those I’d say pass.

7) Strangerville: Honestly It Just Doesn’t Make That Much Sense As a Sims Pack?

Strangerville basically added a story and quest line to the game. I hear it’s pretty fun, but I don’t really play Sims for stories and quests, I play it as a sandbox game. So although I have the pack I’ve never actually played the “story” of it. It’s really not the best Game Pack to get as an entry to the series since it’s such a departure from the typical sims experience.

The town is alright, but again another desert so forget it if you like rain and snow. Unless you really really want the military career or you like the outfits and objects then I wouldn’t personally recommend. Especially for newer players to the series.

Stuff Packs

Honestly there are waaaaaay too many of these for me to rank and I wouldn’t really describe any of them as “must haves”, so instead I’m just going to put down my five favorites. But it’s really up to you to look at the items and decide if it’s worth your $10. Each pack adds a new “game-play” feature, though they’re very small and can be lived without pretty easily.

1) Laundry Day Stuff

This entire pack was actually voted on and “created” by Sims players so that’s a huge plus! More rustic-style items, and the game-play feature here is, obviously, laundry. Since I like playing more realistically, adding another chore was actually worth the money for me lmao. Plus all of the clothes are cute and comfy looking!

The Sims Team also has an amazing sense of humor and named an entire set of the items “Wicker Whims” after the WickedWhims sex mod for the game. Which, honestly? When a dev interacts with players like that it’s always really endearing to me.

2) Movie Hangout Stuff

The aesthetic of this pack is Boho-chic for some reason, so if you like that this pack delivers! The new game-play feature is popcorn and watching movies which can be fun for roleplaying families.

3) Kids Room Stuff

Another one that’s only useful if you play families, but it did add a cute little trading card game for kids. They can collect cards and battle them, similar to Pokemon. Unfortunately, adults can’t play, but I’m sure there’s a mod out there for that somewhere. A lot of the items look really good too, and I use them all semi-frequently. Kids tend to get the short end of the stick when new packs come out, so getting a bunch of hair, outfits, and items for them fills a good niche.

4) Perfect Patio Stuff

Lots of outdoorsy type items, as the name implies. Wicker chairs and outdoor counter tops and the like. This bad boy also brought the return of hot tubs (which probably has the cutest woohoo animation in the game, just saying).

5) Moschino Stuff

The items have a mostly modern, sleek aesthetic, and it adds the freelance photographer career to the game (which is currently what Sim Sylvain is employed as). I basically recommend it on those merits, because the clothes it added are godawful ugly and I’m otherwise not a huge fan of brand-sponsored packs. They’re nothing really new for The Sims, but luxury brands with hideous overpriced clothes aren’t really my thing.

Some Other General Advice for Starting Out

I covered some of this stuff further up but I’ll repeat in case people just skimmed this really long post.

I will warn everyone stay away from “My First Pet Stuff”! You are basically required to own Cats and Dogs to make use of a good chunk of its items, so you might just be wasting your money.

You can get a trial of the game for free if you just want to test it out to see if you’ll like it or if your computer will run it.

Never buy a pack at full price. I’m not kidding when I say they have sales for this game every couple of months. Even if there isn’t a sale there is a bundle option, which is significantly cheaper than buying individual packs! Discover University was $40 at full price. I purchased a bundle with Discover University, Realm of Magic, and Moschino Stuff for $50. Had I bought them separately it would have ran me $70.

In fact sometimes they give the base game out for free! I know they did a promotion like this this past summer. Sims really makes their money from Expansion Packs, so one of their marketing strategies is to give the base game out for free to entice you to play. Even if it’s not free, it’s always steeply discounted during sales. I believe you can get it for $6 right now. I have 1000+ hours in this game, so six dollars is pretty cheap for that much entertainment.

You can see every single item and outfit in a pack before you buy it. So if you’re not sure if it’s for you, just look! The items are listed right there on the Origin store page.

Mods are amazing. Custom content is amazing. If anyone is curious I can create a list of the mods I use/Custom Content I use for my various Fire Emblem sims.

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