#he doesnt believe that he deserves a chance and sees that as objective truth LIKE OUH. in hindsight this could have been a post but

[neon--nightmare]

forest fire by ajj is SUCH a loveball fresh song to me bro

[laurent-ofvere]

can you talk about the different ways you could see the role reversal au scenario ending? does laurent successfully kill damen in your mind?

i can definitely talk about this! it got quite long so putting it under a cut:

okay so to be completely honest, i dont know how it ends because i have some combating thoughts about it. the one thing i can tell you is that it doesnt end romantically. its not a slow burn, its not happy. if laurent sees anything positive of damen here its taken completely objectively, he simply does not care about that and the only contradiction he ever feels about damen is when his mind is muddled in his arousal. 

so along that vein, something ive always felt really strongly about damen and laurent is that they would either end up as lovers who would die for each other, or nothing at all with no in between. they either find each other or they dont, its just the way ive interpreted them and how i feel. so given that (coupled with the fact that clearly, ive written a sordid version of them) i don’t see a positive ending. 

i genuinely was interested in a laurent who was dead set on getting vengeance. i think laurent is very cunning and very manipulative, and i think he’s willing to do unwise or unhealthy things at his own expense if he believe the ends justifies the means. the thing is, there was this tone we were given than at the end of the day, laurent didn’t stand a chance. in KR after they swordfight damen says “You would have come for revenge, and I would have killed you. That’s how it would have been between us.” and its an element that i think about a lot. obviously the situation is different here, laurent would have deception on his side and we’ve seen that damen can lose a round when he’s caught completely unaware, but i dont know. theres just something about it that i like, this one factor that will always be against laurent - he simply cant beat damen. its why in circling back to my first point, i believe they would either end up as lovers who’ve fought through their pain or in total destruction. and whether its right or wrong or whats deserved, the odds dont seem to be in laurents favor. 

so while i morbidly want laurent to succeed here, i cant in full sincerity believe that he does. i definitely dont think damen would catch on on his own, nor do i see him being tipped off. maybe laurents final attempt brings the truth out and they fight, and it leads to his own death? i truly cant see him returning to vere with a failure under his belt, definitely not with his failure and identity now out in the open. maybe they BOTH die in some big final fight? i dont have it fully sketched out in my mind, but something about that image REALLY intrigues me.

i would love peoples thoughts on this!

[crafiet]

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dw guys only one more post after this hehe

Is your character the most swayed by ethos, pathos, or logos?logos but a lil pathos too

If your character was granted a single use of Wish, what would they use it for?skip

What is your character’s favorite spell? If they don’t use spells: what is their favorite personal weapon/combat maneuver/skill/etc.?their magic system isnt a spell system, its just a tool. but she likes using a sword too

How does your character feel about keeping secrets from the rest of the party?thats part of the novel! she does eventually spill tho bc she believes they deserve to know and she trusts them

What type of creature in the world is your character the most intrigued by?i havent really focused on animals much in the novel

When they were a child, what did your character want to be, or think they were going to be, when they grew up?tough q. i don’t think she had a specific career in mind, she just wanted to be nice and loved and successful like her parents, that didn’t quite work out tho..

The player character to your left admits that they’re passionately in love with your character. How would your character respond?ill just go based off everyone in the groupcyri: this is funny bc in an earlier draft they were together. i think ary now would brother-zone himcaena: this is tough, bc ary thinks she hot af. theres a lil bit of sexual tension between them. but i think she would shy away bc theyre both hotheaded, but also too different and would clash in a relationshipash: this would be left field. i think ary would consider her feelings bc theyd be a power couple, but again she loves ash like a sister, not a lover.

If somebody (an NPC, someone from their backstory, etc.) your character trusts/loves asked your character to do something against the party’s best interest, who would they side with?ary doesnt have a lot of those but lets say its a certain someone whos been in the back of her mind for the whole novel. i think she would definitely be tempted, but ultimately refuse bc she loves the group and doesnt want to break their trust in her.

Does your character value their own best interest more than the party’s?no, her interest comes last

What decision would the party have to make in order for your character to consider splitting off from the group?if they suddenly decided “yeh lets start a war/lets kill everyone/lets take this sword and rule ourselves” those aren’t the ideologies of the people she knows and would have to go against them

How does your character imagine the way they will die?she always thinks itll be in battle. who knows.

What is your character’s greatest achievement?the plot of book 1!

Is your character willing to risk the well-being of others in order to achieve their goal?in the beginning she was more inclined, by the end of the novel no

What is your character’s opinion on killing others?no qualms unless theyre innocent

What is your character’s favorite food? Beverage?she likes sweet-bread and beer

How generous is your character? Especially to those they don’t know?youll see how generous she gets in the novel hehe

What is your character the most envious about, regarding anyone in the party?how good they all are. theyre just lawful, nice people at their core and ary doesnt feel like shes the same

The player character to your left and the player character to your right are both telling your character two different versions of the truth. Who does your character believe?im gonna change this to who she’ll believe of the group in generalash vs cyri: she’ll go with ash, bc ash is more logical and less likely to paint any sort of biasash vs caena: difficult, but i think again ash bc caena has the tendency to manipulatecaena vs cyri: cyri, bc hes more genuine

What is your character’s sexuality/relationship with sex?labels arent really a thing, so she likes boys and girls and whoever else. shes not a very sexual person tho

What is your character’s biggest pet peeve?liars

Describe how your character feels about the party’s current situation/objective/etc.theyre doing whats right, and thats what matters

Who in the party would your character trust the most to keep an important secret?ash

If your character knew that they were going to die in a month, how would they spend the rest of their life?she would probably settle down somewhere cosy, close to friends, and relax free of worry

What makes your character feel safe?her friends

If your character had the chance to rename the party/give the party a name, no questions asked, what would it be?skip lol they dont have a name

[fsnowemblem]

Would you do a big post about why you like Noire? I know like nothing about her but I think she's really cute and I wanna know what about her makes you love her so much

you asked for it m’dude

you FREAKING ASKED FOR IT

and i assume that at this point you dont care about awakening support spoilers

In general like her archetype of character, a seemingly fragile quirky character that can go insane/berserk, an example is A.B.A. from guilty gear, i love it so much that my first ever original character that i made is this archetype

I really like her backstory, not like in the sense that i relate, but like in the sense that is very interesting, having a shitty shitty parent that did experiments on her, she ends up being a guinea pig for hexes of her mother, and becomes very shy, very jumpy and she talks very softly and with kind of a broken voice, her mother ends up giving her a talisman that is supposed to be hexed so that noire can draw strenght from it so it will protect her, talisman is just a placebo thats just there for noire to vent up her frustrations, she starts yelling, laughing and becomes way more aggressive, it is not a happy story, when you see noire for the first time she has already gone through so much, that the very fact that she is there to fight still is kind of remarkable, she is so determined that a lot of the supports she has with other ppl usually are impressed by her will power alone, she comes to the army broken, sad and scared, like most of the kid generation to be fair, their world pretty much was destroyed, but she along with the others is so set in making things right that her fears and worries are not gonna stop her, in short terms, she is like actually the strongest and most incredible of the kids that went back in time

I touched on her personallity a bit but she is really cool, even tho she is kinda quiet and doesnt usually involves herself with others, she cares about every single person she interacts with and is ready to help and protect anybody at any time, the best example is the support with pannes kid, dude is as much as a scaredy cat as her and their support starts by her doing him a favor, no questions ask and no hesitation, followed by him being inspired by her conviction of making things right and overcoming her fears, so much so that he stops hiding all together, and that support also shows that she is smart as to when to snap and become all violent and shit and when to keep calm and make ppl listen to her, she has weaponized both her cuteness and her aggresive nature

She is a way bigger human than me, if my mother experimented on me to the point of me becoming her guinea pig, i wouldve been like, lol fuck you never talk to me again, as strong as blood bonds are, i am not one to take shit and expect to make peace later, she on the other hand wants to make amends, and even tho the tharja she makes ameds with is not her mother, she wants to avoid her to be repeated by the mistakes of her parents i think that is so cool too, she is incredible

I just love all the little details of her supports about just being so inspiring to the ppl she talks to and her determination being contageous while never hiding her fears, worries and hesitation, she pushes forward despite her being scared, broken and sad, while other ppl have to be pushed to the point where they will actually say how they feel, i like how honest and direct she is, and i also really love how if she gets frustrated with someone being blatantly lying or being dense as fuck she will just snap and yell the truth out of them or really clearly explain her point so then she can help them get better or help them realize something abuot them, her berserk form is kind of a last resourse in this regard but its super funny and endearing when she just looses patience and tell them in ther faces how it is

But enough about her backstory lets go to gameplay!

she has *the* coolest passive ability, vengance, when you get hit you do your damage, plus the damage you where dealt at i think the luck stat x 2? one of the stats x 2, not only you can level up that stat really easily, she levels it up a lot naturally  and you end up getting vengance like 80% of the attacks if not all of them, she is a fucking killing machine its amazing, she is a bit of a glass cannon tho so be careful when using her, but i ended up using her so much that she started to just take like hits that where just around 20% of her health and subsequently dealing one hit kills, and since she is an archer, she can learn the one hit kill skill that is i believe the same stat as the vengance one, so since she already levels it up so fast naturaly she either does a one shot critical, she does a straight up critical hit that will murder fools straight up OR she will deal damage BACK that destroys ppl, SHE. IS. INCREDIBLE

 She is very resistance heavy and in the tail end missions of awakening you are usually getting bombarded by wizards not only is that helpful, they usually attack her bcus she has the least ammount of health so you can just go destroying magical fools left and right, and this is like, just vanilla noire, the first time i played awakening, gregor (a mercenary) was the parent she inherited a skill from, i made her a mercenary after getting said vengance and one hit kill chance, she gained sol, so when she did some insane damage she cured herself up to full health, proceeding to just freaking MURDER, i went with pretty much just her alone in one of the hollow boxes thingies and she just destroyed the whole map by herself taking like 3 damage total, when gaius was her father in my 2nd or 3rd playthru, she had the vengance stat to 50% so her vengance triggered EVERY SINGLE TIME plus the one hit kill skill she was the deadliest unit i had but she kept her glass cannon-ess trait so i had a healer next to her all the time, that being said tho she was my go to, oh shit this unit is super tanky, les go girl 1 shot it, and she did 100% of the time, and the 3RD TIME (or 2nd, i dunno) Libra was her dad, so i ended up making her a sorcerer, and needless to say, i think she ended up getting less vengance triggers but her magic power alone was dropping any fool that decided to wear metal armor that day and not go prepared for the biggest magic damage in human history

I really cant stress this enough

SHE.IS. A. GOD. DAMN. MONSTER. I. LOVE. HER. SO. MUCH. 

Also needless to say, in one of my 3 playthrus, i just went straight up to grimma with her, she got hit to 1 hp left, did the vengance and got grimma herself to freaking 5 hp left GRIMMA, THE FINAL BOSS, THE finall boss that you usually have to use a falchion to do significant damge, she is the hero we need and deserve.

AND TO TOP IT ALL OF, HER MANIACAL LAUGH IS THE CUTEST SHIT IN THE UNIVERSE SHE LAUGHS LIKE A TRUE DISNEY VILLAN AND DOES THE MOST ADORABLE SQUEAL AT THE END OF IT HOLY SHIT, i played the game in english so maybe its just in the english version BUT DAMN DID THE VA FUCKING NAILED IT its like, so perfect how she goes from insane laughter to with that little little hint of her broken meekly voice, BOY HOWDY i fell in love then and there the first time i heard it, best part, she triggered a skill/got a critical hit so often that i hear BLOOD AND THUNDER!! and her laugh SO MUCH, AND IT NEVER GOT OLD I was allways allways aaaaallways all giddy bcus i love it so much, i have 3 critical triggers that i love with my whole heart in awakening, 1 is noires laugh, 2 is noire yelling blood and thunder and 3 is frederick saying “pick a god and pray” bcus hot damn all of them just give me goose bumps, also continuing in voice lines trends

HER VOICE ACTRESS IS SO GOOD i cannot even begin to think about a better job to do this kind of character her passive voice is so quiet, scared and broken and her aggressive one is SO aggressive there is no inbetween its either 100% or 1% volume and crazyness its incredible, her passive voice is like she is constantly in the brink of tears just by talking, and her aggressive one is in the brink of snapping your spine in half mortal combat style and going back to the archetype i like THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT DUDE, THIS IS THE PINICLE OF SHY GIRL THAT GOES INSANE VOICE

If you thought i was done gushing about her IM JUST BEGINNING, lets move to her overall design shall we?

comming off of the voice actress incredible job, her whole demeanor compliments her voice so well, its one of those designs that you just cant see it any other way (even tho i do some changes to it all the time xD) i just cant imagine her having that voice and *not* looking like that you know? she looks straight up incredible (i could maybe use actual breastplate rather than a boob window with a leather support underneath but hey, i guess nothing is perfect)

Her official art of her drawing back her bow but the arrow being all badly placed and shit is objectively the most adorable picture in the world

The tones of green they used for her are really cool i grew in a place with a lot of trees and i really find them soothing, her whole forest green design just kills me and compliment her browns of belt and leather so well, the diamond pattern is also rul cute rather than the boring line pattern virion has, complimenting her whole deal of her being as beautiful and precious as a diamond

The armor she has on her arm looks so good, and so contrasting to the whole outfit i think its really funny but really badass at the same time, why is she wearing a full on knight arm armor? i have no clue but. i. love. it. she is such a powerful unit that she just needs one arm to defend against scrubs aka all enemy units including grimma itself

HER SQUIGGLY EYEBROWS HOLY SHIT

THE CUTE ROBIN HOOD ASS FEATHER SHE HAS ON HER HEAD, THE HEADBAND, THE FREAKING GOLD HEADBAND DEAR LORD

HER

POOFY 

PANTS 

ARE 

SO 

CUTE

I also really really like how she has like 5 leather belts that go from the belt to her high boots, its real unnecessary and you would think goofy as hell but it ENHANCES the poofy pants so good, now it looks liek a renissance striped poofy pants and i am a sucker for renissance clothing, also, imagine her doing flips and twirls with those, they are gonna follow her flow like a god damn princess dress and god dammit she deserves it bcus she IS A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS 100/10 pants/belt combo, she also has the slickest quiver ever for her arrows, which she hangs on her waist and looks rul cute

HER BOOTS are the best boots in gaming, souper cute, super stylish and really cool looking i just love how tall and chunky they are, they are almost wider than her feet, top notch, the little hole pattern on them give them extra stylish points, they are very basic brown, which just goes to show, if you have a good premisse you can slack on some departments and still look cooler than most of the competition, the little beighe frills on the top of it just puts it all together, incredible, amazing, fantastic i would go on a date with those boots and give em smooches

Im a fan of short hair, i am also a fan of puffy hair and above all i am a FAN of poofy short hair, and she has both, excecuted to perfection, her little long hairs on the side to compliment her messy back, it looks incredible, the braided pattern on the top of her head that just SHOWS how much she cares about her cute hair and with reason bcus its the cutest hair ever, 1k/10 extremely kissable forehead to show love and support when words and praise are not enough, will make you think that she deserves an award for greatest person alive or something, so beautiful it will bring you to tears, so beautiful that will make any dark day a bit brighter, so cute that it surpasses any fuzzy animal on the planet, SO BRIGHT AND GORGEOUS THAT IT WILL BURN YOUR EYES, you get my point by now yes?

her poses of nervousness are cute as hell, makes you want to be there to support her in any way you can, but then you realise that you are looking in a mirror and that not only you see that you also need love and support, but you realize that you can give it, it makes you wanna be a better person, and make everyone around you grow with you, its a mirror into your best self, it will bring you to tears and want to ask for forgiveness to anything wrong you have done in your life

You know how sometimes too much of stuff that you like will sometimes not mix well and end up ruining something in the process? not this time m’dude 

every

single

piece

flows and fits so well with every other composing a beautiful song named Noire, a song so beautiful, amazing, incredible, outstanding and mind blowing that i dont think there will ever be a shining light as bright as this in the whole time i have the privilege of walking on this little dot in the universe that we call earth

so when i say that i like everything about Noire i am NOT joking, i love this character to death, and even  if i wrote this thread with a narrative of me starting really tame and gradually getting overly excited to talk about something that i really love culminating in some ridiculous shit, i really do love this character and i wish to write/design a character this appealing someday a character that seems pretty one note and simple but ends up rooting its way into your heart