#his love died as he was helpless to save her and he didnt even avenge his brother and his friend trio crumpled

[hanzajesthanza]

if i thought the witcher was painfully realistic. i was wrong. it is a very clear fairytale that comforts and soothes. even in its realistic take on the genre, it inspires, even in its tragedy, it comforts.

evil is defeated epically in a final battle in the darkness, the valiant heroes fall together, the lovers die united, and all pass into legend and are remembered for ever and ever. and the spirit of our hero returns now and again to save and deliver us from evil… they become legend and in that legend they are immortal…

[annathetrickster]

the final part of my thoughts on shadow dragon, covering from chapter 18 to the endgame

(spoilers obviously)

3/3 whitewings check, officially done with arena grinding forever.

i don’t know why but i laughed pretty hard at this. the fact that someone survived to tell a story about no one surviving inherently disputes itself.  this is why time travel paradoxes are hilarious to me. 

why does some random thief have such an important item?

fe trope #43: random loli possessed by creepy old guy

tfw your youngest sibling is better than you

if tiki is like thousands of years old bantu must be millions, he probably turns into a dinosaur. ugly as heck but at least he’s a good guy.

im not big on dragon/beaststone users but it looks like they did a good job in warriors of representing tiki’s dragon form, this is also the first time i see it besides awakening. i do prefer this version cause its more ‘dragon-like’ compared to the weird seaweed dragon looking awakening version.

adopt ancient dragon loli? (yes) (no)

marth actually turns into an actual tactical genius capable of marching into the heart of the enemy’s castle with a handful of soldiers.

didn’t i literally just kill this guy like 2 chapters ago to avenge frey.

finally some ballistae ammo

oh no.. gradivus is glowing, im going to have to kill him arent i.

so basically camus saved her life and she obviously loves him and im most likely going to have to fucking murder him in front of her

i was hoping she’d join and be able to talk camus down, but that seems highly unlikely if he’s anything like he is in heroes.

wow 12 uses for hammerne, but who the fuck is lena??? im pretty sure i got everyone.

“my name is camus of grust, my kingdom killed your father, prepare to die.”

what a total badass. 10/10

he loves her too.. 

pls dont fuck me up like this..

i really feel bad for nyna here, she doesn’t want camus to throw away his life but she just can’t get through his pride. she’s completely helpless to save the person she loves, and she probably knows there’s nothing she can do about it at this point. 

i knew this would happen.. 

camus is just way too proud to abandon everything. no amount of reasoning would get through to him. regardless of what he thinks or feels, he’s determined to shut out those feelings and defend his kingdom to the death if need be..

the irony. also he said the thing.

way to go marth, you fucking murdered nyna’s lover.

an interesting side thought: i wonder how nyna would react in an AU where camus actually kills marth, ending his quest then and there. i think nyna would be devastated and maybe then camus would realize “sure i stayed loyal to my kingdom, but at what cost?” and then possibly abandon his knighthood.

camus definitely turned out to be an interesting character, much more so than i would have guessed.

camus literally just fucking died for his country, but this general has no problem swapping sides and letting marth walk right up and seize the castle. all while he fucking stabs his defenseless former ally.

i didn’t really think much of her as a character at first but nyna is the true MVP here. she knew what would happen if she gave marth the fire emblem yet she did it anyway. she genuinely loved camus, yet she knowingly sacrificed her own happiness for the greater good.  

OH, that’s lena. yeah good luck getting me to use her as anything other than a ballista repair bot this far into the game.

i had to do this at least once, although nothing really compares to the fe7 triangle attack, or even the super niche fe6 armor knight triangle attack..

im really surprised she’s alive, i was pretty sure she died. especially since she dies in the anime version.

fucking finally.. 20+ chapters into the game you can finally buy ballista ammo.

michalis plays a pretty minor role in this. im sure he probably has some interesting dialogue with minerva if you make her kill him but i never got around to using her.

even Imhullu is no match for his Wrysistance

interesting side note, the jingle that plays when you get falchion and the star sphere orbs is the same as when you upgrade units to 5* in heroes.

meanwhile she hasn’t aged at all, whats her secret?

i hope we can recruit her, i have plenty of mages but i’d make room fo-

Fuck.

literally no one has died anyway since i abuse the heck out of arena so i don’t rly need her revive staff. unless she can bring back frey from the dead.

i can’t believe i actually made wrys into my best unit.

you had 2 whole flashback scenes to think of some rallying words as we march into the final chapter and this is what you come up with.

“I am Wrys. a humble curate.”

actually wrys killed the dragon but sure

did i get some kind of bad end cause i didn’t support them together?

nope, even worse, a forced ending. i didn’t really ship them to begin with but to see that no matter what you do they always end up together just makes me even more hesitant to ship them. they barely talked at all during the entirety of the game, yet marth is supposed to have feelings for her? the only time this is even remotely addressed is after sheeda flirts with roger and roger tells marth that he loves sheeda. even then his reaction is just “.......” im sure if you did support them together this would make more sense. 

imo nothing good comes out of forcing 2 characters to be together, regardless of the choices the player did or in my case, didnt make.

its the same situation with alm and celica, i never really saw them as a couple because their feelings were never clearly expressed, yet they magically end up together in the end. maybe new mystery will change my mind, but for now i just dont buy it.

camus didnt die for this.

well thats going to do it for shadow dragon. i definitely enjoyed the game so thanks again to those of you that voted for it. i hope you enjoyed my thoughts on it as much as i enjoyed writing them out and sharing them. 

camus and nyna were definitely my most favorite part of the game, i also enjoyed marth’s development as a character. looking forward to playing new mystery soon.

[dreadedjenocide]

Cherry walk

Usually i have fun little dreams where my brain does some fun self insertion fan fiction and good time are had by all but this one was kinda fucked up. Even I'm like, "what the fuck brain!" And my brain is like "idfk! Skcnrjxjndkaxjbdievfkd!!!" So this dream had Captain fucking American and Thor god of poptarts and great hair trying to hunt down and stop 'me' who was some super human type with shifting powers. No one knew what my powers where because i had a bunch but my main goal was to get this scientist who successfully cloned things to help me bring back my son. Who had been murdered in WW2, in my arms, while we where gunned down by Nazis. Yes, WW2, my dream self was fighting in WW2 against the Nazis as a spy type but i was eventually captured and with other female spys and prisoners i was forced to go on a "cherry walk",(BTW ive never heard this term before but my dream self knew and so did Cap) In the dream a Cherry walk is being tied to a truck or other mode of transportation and forced to run until you collapsed so you would be too tired to fight off the soldiers when they raped you because Nazis are lazy. To make it more fun for them sometimes the women would be forced to hold a small piece of fruit between their legs and promised to be left untouched if they could hold the fruit. No one could, but they would take bets on who could hold on to it the longest and torment the ones who couldn't saying they wanted to be raped because they dropped the cherry sooner than the others. So after my cherry walks and when they got bored with me i was thrown into one of the camps where some how i still grew a baby inside me. I wanted it to die, i cried and screamed at it wanting it out but when it finally came out, instead of dropping it down an empty well i fell in love with him. I loved my son and protected him the best i could until the day they lined us up to be gunned down, i tried to sheild my toddlers body with my own but the bullets passed through me, and the American soldier trying to add to protecting my boy. I remember death and waking up covered in dirt and blood still holding my child, i was dead, i had died, i remember the bullets ripping through my body but hours later i was up and screaming in a pile of dead bodies with my dead son in my arms. Its was night and the camp empty because the nazis moved on to run from the end of the war. Much of those years where a haze because i wandered around for weeks with my child, and became a ghost to some. I put my babies bones tiny coffin and went on a flying rampage to hunt down Nazis. I was able to smell the blood on them, in a sense i was much like a vampire, but not a traditional vampire. No garlic, or stakes in the heart could stop me. I had a reflection and could move in the sun unhindered. It was just bright AF. So back to modern times, I'm more than a bit crazy because of my obsession with my sons bones, and being killed in so many ways over the years. Kind of takes a toll mentally. Thor and Cap stop me from taking the scientists i need but they cant stop me from taking the things i need but while im hunting down what i need, the grown children and grandchildren of my victims (nazis) hunt me and find my babies coffin. Thor and Cap fight with me and when they take my prize i snarl and walk to the edge of a building and jump falling through a shadow and disappearing. Back in my lair i talk to my sons coffin about how excited i am that i will see him soon but go mad when i find its empty and find a note with a nazi style logo (the kids started their own group to avenge their parents, how cute and ironic) so i kinda go insane and this time come to Thor and Cap trying to ask for help but Thor reacts by attacking swinging his hammer at me because the last time we fought things got really rough. Like half a building falling on us rough, but i catch his hammer. Stopping his swing and snatching it away, he stumbles back in shock and Nat (who was called in) whispers too loud "Oh, shit." Im a bit of a mad mess, rambling in German, French and Spanish, crying and waving around Mjölnir like it was a paper fan. All the while the windows rattle and walls crack, Nat is desperately trying to translate but all she can really get from me is: "THEY took my son, they took his bones, my son, hes gone, he'll be scared, they will hurt him, the children of the fallen have taken my son!" Cap is slowly trying to approach me at this point hes shirtless and kind of still bloody from our last fight (thank you brain 😄) Hes trying to calm me but hes backing me into a corner unknowingly because Thor is also creeping up. I start panicking and screaming, Nat pushes back Thor and is trying to speak to me in German but scream and throw an accusing finger at her half asking half claiming 'Nazi' at her. She spoke Russian at me telling she was a spy long ago, and points to Steve saying American, Captain America. I stop flailing around and clawing at the wall's long enough to ask him why he didnt save us from the camps, (i dont remember the name of the place where this character died) where was he? I sobbed in french telling him about the American who died trying to sheild me and my son and he replies back in French that he was fighting a different side of the war, and was frozen by the time they started shutting down the camps. Thor looks confused but Nat looks impressed with Steve and he sits on the floor with crossed legs and i sit across from him as he calms me down speaking in French. Nat is quietly translating to Thor and the scientist and the scientist looks heart broken suddenly. Steve promises me that they will help me get back my son but asks my to sit while he talks with his team. They go over my potential threat but outside of scaring a bunch of people i didn't hurt anyone and i didnt destroy anything until they showed up. (My dream POV is of them talking and me in the background playing with the hammer getting bored and wandering off) The scientist sadly explains that i might go crazy again because with the age of the bones its unlikely or rather, impossible that he would be able to clone anything because the DNA has to be fresh. He claims that he would feel more comfortable if they befriended me and could keep me calm because my powers are spooky and im unpredictable. Their conversation is interrupted when they hear a man screaming followed by others screaming and the sounds of chaos. They run to the sounds and they find me standing over Bucky as he lay writhing on the floor with blood shooting from his arm stump and me holding whats left of his robot arm. I also have blood dripping from my mouth and i look to Steve and say in an eerily calm voice; "He was broken..." Bucky screams in pain on the floor but no one can move in to help, there seems to be a force feild around us. Steve is desperately trying to get to his friend but its Nat who sees whats actually happening. Bucky is in so much pain because hes regrowing his lost arm. Much like in the birth scene in Hellraiser its piece by piece and not baby arm to adult arm. Steve can only watch horrified as meat attached to bone and new skin grows in. I hold Bucky in my arms singing to him, as this new pink arm twitches and lays limp at his side but soon starts to move at his command. He calms as the pain dies down and Steve and the others are able to move in. Steve is in shock and Bucky is crying with joy as he touches his new arm. Nat looks at me and asks what i am, i say i dont know but i know what she wants to be. Reflexively her hand touches her lower belly for a less then half a second but its enough. So this team of a Russian spy, a super soldier, a super assassin and a god track down nazi descendants to help me get back the bones of my son. They set a trap for me not knowing i wasn't alone to some how take my immortality for themselves and become man kinds better or something, Steves eyes where rolling really hard because he was so sick of this master race crap. Some how these people got it in their head that my sons bones where the source of my power and thought they could control me or steal my power through them. They crushed up his bones into a powder all save for his skull and ingested it. Realizing what they had done i collapsed leaving the rest to fight off these stupid wanna be occultist as i had a melt down. They kept the wanna be nazis away from me until i spoke again "You took my son..." Steve was the first to notice this, the shadows moved out of sync with the people. Bucky looked nervous suddenly and the air became thick and heavy. Time seemed to slow down and my eyes glowed red, my fingers grew out long black claws and i started to look less human. Seems that my transformation was triggered by losing the one part of me that kept me human. My son, dead or not, was my humanity that kept whatever had brought me back from coming out completely. I rose from the ground floating above it roaring out in some unknown voice that i would not spare one drop of blood but also taking their souls as well. The leader of this group panicking grabbed Davids skull (my son) and tried to call power from it or control me with it, trying anything as his followers screamed around him and where pulled into the liquid like blackness that surrounded me like a tentacled monster. Steve and the others where trying to kinda protect the other nazi group members but also mostly trying to stay out of the way. I pulled the leader closer as he clawed terrified at the ground trying to save himself dropping Davids skull on the way and i leaned in super close to him and told him how much he looked like his father, the one who laughed as he gunned down sick and helpless people. This one didnt die laughing but screaming as we did years ago. Nat gets my attention calling out to me, shes holding Davids skull in her arms like you would craddle a child. She speaks calmly to me, saying its over, and David wants to go home. I let out a sad almost laughing sigh and say, he doesnt want anything, hes dead. The air gets less heavy, and i say it again that hes dead and he can never come back. This time Bucky speaks up, saying that i can still love him but i have to let him go and i dont have to be consumed by revenge any more. As they talk me down i lose my demon like appearance and float back down but still look very vampirish. I fall to my knees and cry taking the skull from Nat and she puts her arm around me and Bucky actually moves into the other side putting his new arm around me as well and holding my hand. I just cry. Steve also has the urge to comfort me but holds off and asks Thor if hes ever seen anything like that before. Thor is very silent and shakes his head no, heard stories maybe, but long ago. The dream jumps to us having a funeral for my David and a proper grave. Bucky is holding my right hand, fingers interlaced with mine, and on my left is Steve also holding my but hand palm to palm, Nat is between him and Thor holding both their hands the same way. I say he would like it here. My mannerisms seem more controlled and less manic and crazy as i was before. I say my final goodbye to David and walk away. As we walk in silence for a few minutes Nat smirks says "So Thor, how crazy was it that she stopped your hammer and waved it around like a toy?" She needles Thor leaning into him and wrapping her arm around his. Steve smirks and Bucky looks confused and looks at me wide eyed. Thor replies, "It was a desperate time, obviously Mjölnir was responding to the distress of a mother in need... there is no greater pain than a parent worried for their child." Nat and Bucky nod, saying 'obviously' and Steve offers "Well, a parent in distress would be considered worthy to wield it, to save a child, thats worthy right?" Bucky leans over, holding my hand still "Uh, not to be mean, but you technically arent really human... not any more." I nod in agreement, "Technically, undead. Technically, hes correct. The best kind of correct." Thor still looks unsure but smiles through it while Nat laughs and we all walk arm in arm or hand in hand. Still not sure if i was really a vampire or demon or just some witch thing that drank and ate blood and souls. I know Bucky had my blood and having that bond made him feel close to me because through that exchange he was able to know my life. I tasted his blood to know him when i ripped out the last of the robot arm. Still not sure how that exchange came up. He was in his tube thing, not like he was in the kitchen making a sandwich. "Hey you want to grow back your old arm by consuming my blood?" "Golly! Do i ever!" Pretty sure thats not how it went. My dreams are fun not professionally written.