#hlmrt.txt

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my devices BSOD'd last year, now that i'm back on my feet, i'll remake this template and continue making references

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there we go. i changed the blog's theme. a simple, stylish blue...

and there's this little flavor text i added, but i cannot see it on the blog... where could it be?

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that takes me back. the shop where i got my ff12 cards was called "eruyt shop". they had other final fantasy trinkets and collectibles on sale. this shop has changed names, now.

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1. both silverash and vayne are political leaders who had to sacrifice their sibling

2. the concept of necessary evil.

enciodes silverash is among the top-meta dps in arknights, he is a warlord of kjerag, chairman of karlan trading co., and head of silverash family; one of the three ruling clans in kjerag. silverash has unique methods on economics, trade, international politics, diplomacy, and strategic planning.

behind the scenes, he is notorious for adopting a machiavellian method to end kjerag's centuries-long isolationism, notably installing forcing his sister as the saintess, and forming his own elite forces named tschäggättä.

sounds a tad like vayne, if you ask my co-translator.

silverash also used his longtime friend, gnosis, to become a traitor so silverash could have an excuse to get rid of the two opposing clans and the court.

admittedly, silverash is easier to sympathize with, because his sibling is not dead, just forced into a life she didn't ask for. and silverash is a playable character (dev has to make sure he's not too antagonistic). whereas vayne is indeed the final boss. he framed basch, a sympathizeable main character. he killed vaan's brother. and vayne tried to kill his own younger brother too. it is a challenge to make people sympathize with him.

what does this has to do with necessary evil/media literacy?

nothing is black and white. what silverash did is not entirely 'antagonistic', nor his actions make him a flawless protagonist.

it is the same with vayne. one cannot call him an entirely bad baddddddd worst guy in the world. nor he is a pure cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong.

one must be able to recognise their crimes, and still look at them with their character intact.

addendum: remarkably, the majority of arknights fandom has managed to dismiss silverash's grey-morality, painting him as a great villain. but that is not all, a number of people in xii has dismissed vayne's crimes and made him a fangless little cinnamon roll.

do what you will with these characters and read them however you want, but dismissing a core aspect of this grey morality is akin to eating plain rice without seasoning or any side dish. there are flavors to discover, if you give them a chance.

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vayne from the comic i drew

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ordinary bookclub meetings

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i would make a vayne solidor essay with all the meta ive gathered. but my accent.

i think i'd just use vocaloid for it. kaito or gakupo. or vy2

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halmarut fanart. halmarut fanart

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i miss GHIS. judge ghis please hmu

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migraine

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about the previous post: there was one time when kohl had me watch their favorite series.

"look, this guy has your hair", they said, pointing at the screen. and they were right. the man in the screen did look like me.

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no translations this week. we're playing dawntrail

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no translations this week, the main translator is sick with sinusitis. not only that, vayne solidor appears in their fever dreams. that's two.

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there has been a lack of activity across my blogs. do excuse me,

 recently we discovered a covert disorder

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friends and colleagues, forgive the weird typeset on the coming translations. the laptop died forever: black screen of death, and motherboard broken

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friends, archadians, countrymen... i am telling you, please read the tags of anything i post...