#i also love lucio

[nofluxzone]

Asra's, Julian's, and Lucio's story arcs so far:

Asra: "I love you, I saved you, and I feel like it's my fault you died."

Julian: "I love you, I wish I saved you, and I feel like it's my fault you died."

Lucio: "You love me, you'll save me, and it's actually my fault you died."

[mika-writes-fanfics]

Sylus would have one of those fuck ass looking dogs. Fully believe mans would adopt something cursed like a borzoi.

[asmo-cosmetics]

maybe lucio doesn't have much magic of his own because his main magical ability is essentially like a ranger with a specialty in animal friendship. remember how he said that he got most of his animals in the hopes they were his familiar? and then presumably ended up keeping most of them in the menagerie because he got attached.

maybe they're ALL his familiars. the dogs are the strongest, of course, but maybe his talent, like asra's is fortunes, like mazelinka's is herbs, is finding magically-inclined animals, especially ones that need him.

two skinny, nearly feral puppies from a general lucio killed as a mercenary.

a cockatoo plucking himself rashed in fear of the exotics dealer he had been in the care of.

a too-small tank of far too many eels, fighting and cannibalizing each other in their stress and confusion.

all described as horrible, aggressive, vicious. all gentle and harmless to the count. maybe his magic isn't so weak after all.

[the-other-starstruck]

currently thinking about reworking lucios route after rewatching malacalicos video about him and his route being absolute shit for his character.

i feel like somewhere in there, there could be a really compelling story but the writers just didnt do it justice

lucios character is interesting despite HATING HIM AND WHAT HES DONE TO LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE

hes a brat and a bitch and it isnt appealing, and i dont think he deserves a happy ending. not unless his character really goes through a massive change, but even then he wouldnt come out of it being buddy buddy with everyone.

i sort of want a story for him where mc doesnt stay with him and doesnt put up with his shit, i want a route where we can point out his mistakes to his face and force him to confront them and feel an ounce of remorse.

i dont want him to forgive himself or be forgiven. i want him to sit in turmoil and realize that everything he ever did, the people he hurt, the ones he killed, the countless places he colonized and ruined, all of it was for nothing. he didnt gain power, he didnt get his deals, he died and that was it (in his route, in all the others he turns to the devil). it was all a means to an end.

i need him to be more devastated to find out he killed you after youve spent months together, fought together, and helped him better himself. i need him to be horrified with his actions and just FEEL SOMETHING. ugh

maybe thats all why hes the main antagonist. but good lord i just need him to stop seeing lives he ruined and going "oopsie!! im so silly"

[hellothereiplaygames]

Some thoughts on Asra's route...

Replaying Asra's route after having played Muriel's really hits different...

In one of the other routes Asra and Muriel appear to start a romantic relationship, and in Asra's route it's very clear that Muriel cares very deeply for Asra and dislikes the Apprentice. He mentions in one of the paid? dream scenes that he's worried about Asra and the Apprentice fading into their own world and leaving everyone else behind (again, apparently), and that he's determined to stop this from happening. His concern for Asra and initial hostility toward the Apprentice may be rooted in jealousy, not only because his oldest (and only) friend was more or less taken from him, but perhaps with romantic connotations as well.

In Book XI: Justice, Asra and Julian stage a mock trial by combat against Muriel. Though he apparently agreed to participate and is implied to have returned to the Coliseum of his own volition, presumably out of concern for Asra, who has been accused of being Julian's accomplice... he is still more or less backed into a corner and forced to play along with Asra and Julian's plan to stage a fight.

Now, to be fair to Asra, he states after everything goes wrong that it wasn't supposed to end this way, and it appeared that he was attempting to not only exonerate himself and Julian from their charges but somehow help Muriel overcome his past (he does disintegrate Muriel's chains during the fight no matter what choices you make). There was a point during this that I thought I could guess what Asra's plan was regarding Muriel's past, but being refreshed on how it actually pans out, I can't remember it now. Something about making the people of Vesuvia realize how barbaric the Coliseum was under Lucio.

The thing that stands out to me throughout this whole ordeal is that Asra knows about Muriel's trauma. He knows he was enslaved to Lucio and forced to fight and execute people in the Coliseum. He knows that Muriel is terrified of hurting other people, especially those he cares about. In Asra's route, the only person Muriel cares about is Asra, so hurting him is triggering for him. He literally is in a stupor after the board he was using as a weapon splinters off and hits Asra in the mouth, making him bleed. This is clearly meant to make the reader worried about Asra, but Muriel reacts as well, and appears hypnotized by the blood. I remember the first time I read this I thought he was going to have some crazy berserker-Hulk sort of reaction, but having read his route, it's way more tragic.

Though Muriel did seem to return to the Coliseum of his own volition, it does seem that Asra took this as a sign that he was coming to terms with his trauma. He was willing to exploit Muriel's care for him in order to save his own skin so he can be with the Apprentice. Though I recognize Asra's other toxic traits to some degree, I also have similar ones myself so they don't really stand out to me. This, however, where he more or less disregards Muriel's feelings on the matter, is actually really crushing. In Muriel's route, his whole thing is that he DOES NOT want to fight, he DOES NOT want to even spar with the Apprentice with blunt sticks out of fear of hurting them, so why would he willingly go along with this unless he was more or less in the same position Lucio put him in? Fight in the arena, or something bad will happen to Asra.

Asra knows this, and puts him through it regardless. During the whole fight, Julian's actions are written so as to make it seem like he's the one messing things up--he takes the "finishing blow" that Muriel was going to deal to Asra and gets knocked unconscious. Asra spends most of the entire time doing flashy, dramatic magic tricks that get the crowd cheering for him. After he "wins", he and the Apprentice are carried out of the Coliseum like heroes. Though Asra will try to soothe Muriel if the Apprentice so chooses right before the end, and he does look for Muriel in the crowd, he seems otherwise unbothered or unaware of the impact this may be having on his oldest friend. Which is pretty shitty.

Of course, Asra, Julian, and Muriel are all playing characters during their fight--Asra is the flashy magician, Julian is the rogueish BDSM dagger guy, and Muriel is the Scourge. Asra obviously can't show his concern even if he wanted to because he's supposed to be fighting Muriel. But putting his bro into this situation in the first place says a lot about his character. Though Julian is the one whose route is based around self-loathing because he believes he hurts everyone around him, Asra is the only one who gets what he wants out of this ordeal, and he even says so right before the chapter ends. Muriel was forced to relive his trauma and didn't get the resolution that was intended, and Julian gets KOed by a punch that literally sent him flying across the arena (though he probably enjoyed it tbh, he's a nasty little man like that lmao).

I wonder if this dynamic between Asra and Muriel was intentionally written this way in order to further amplify his tunnel vision when it comes to the Apprentice. Is this is how he acted in the past, causing Muriel to hate the Apprentice as he does and remark that he won't allow it to happen again? Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, but as a survivor of abuse and trauma it rubs me the wrong way much more than Asra's obsessive, clingy nature. Of all of the reversed ends, Asra's is the one that actually scared me and kind of haunted me, because it hits a little too close to home.

These are all just thoughts that I wanted to spill out because I thought it was interesting and I wasn't sure if anyone else has talked about it before.

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Massacre Time (1966), dir. Lucio Fulci

"The beating or torture of the hero is the most common element of the [spaghetti western] genre’s liminal narrative, reappearing in Leone’s For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly as well numerous other films... In Massacre Time (Fulci 1966) the whipping of the main character Tom Corbett is particularly elaborated on in a long, brutal scene... This liminal narrative is charged with Catholic overtones. It is surprising that this aspect of the genre has not received much comment by the few scholars that have analyzed it, though Frayling (1998a) does briefly describe it in his biography of Sergio Leone. Repeated in literally hundreds of films, this narrative is exaggerated at times to ridiculous proportions, heightened intensities, and often vicious brutality. Something is at stake here. These films symbolized and dramatized a central concern to a socially, culturally, and geographically displaced audience. What should be the relationship between the masculine individual, collective action, consumerism, and family?" - BEATEN, SHOT, CRUCIFIED: THE LIMINAL HERO OF THE CARNIVALESQUE WESTERN ALLA’ITALIANA

[consult-the-eldritch]

I love being dragged into a game where the fandom has LONG since been pretty much dead because now i can do what i want with the characters and not fear the fandom telling me how absurdly wrong and stupid i am /hj

The biggest downside is literally no one is making content for it SKBFKSHDJ

[vinsbicoart]

Some sketches! This time from some of the characters I use more frequently on Overwatch! (Although there are some people missing here)

[prime-adeptus]

hi!! do you still write for overwatch? if you do, could i just have a couple of lucio headcanons :D

GENERAL HEADCANONS | LÚCIO CORREIA DOS SANTOS

NOTES.⠀hi! I absolutely do write for Overwatch :3 I had a huge blast doing this, so thank you for your request! <33

“Come on, buddy. Let's go!” Based off of this voice line, I like to think Lúcio has a habit of saying his thought process out loud! Not in the way that’ll jeopardise the mission, but rather for the more mundane things like when he’s tinkering with something, or when he wants to sound out a new lyric.

In a similar vein, based on his Valentine’s voice line, he stutters and stammers when he’s nervous. It’s harder to hide it when he’s around you. Really, he wants to be cool, but when you smile at him, it’s like every line he was rehearsing the whole morning just leaves his brain! 

While his songs usually fall under the techno or electronic music genre, he actually listens to a little bit of everything. That one band you like that you think no one cares about? He knows about them, and he’d love to rave all about them with you.

It doesn’t take much to make him flustered. Compliment him once and he’ll be thinking about it the whole day. Whether it’s because of the compliment itself or because it’s from you, he’ll never tell. (It’s not like he’s subtle about it, but don’t tell him that!)

He’d love to have one of those cliché roller-skating dates with you. He gets to show off his sick moves, impress you, and hold your hand as you skate together? As far as he’s concerned, it’s his biggest win.

Sometimes you have to repeat things once or twice to get his attention. His mind is constantly flowing with new ideas, so he tends to get lost in them.

He knows a lot about music and will ramble about its history the moment you give him the get-go. He gets very animated talking about it, his eyes practically sparkling when he does so. He might get sheepish midway, but with some encouragement, he’ll get back on track.

Huge fan of slap bracelets and glow-in-the-dark trinkets. He can’t quite explain why, he just likes them. He likes collecting souvenirs from places he visits as well. Vinyls, CDs, old music players, anything vintage, you name it.

Overall, he’s a great guy to be around. He’s positive and optimistic, very encouraging and a good listener. If you don’t have plans for the day, tag along with him for a day out in the city! His spontaneity can lead to fun activities you can do together, like laser tag! With Lúcio, you won’t ever feel down. For him, being with you makes him feel the same way.

[sheeperzzz]

My two (2) contributions to the Overwatch fandom before I get back on my Sonic shit

[general-grey]

i sincerely really love Lucio's route, but I'm really getting the feeling that the writers made him more. 'palatable'. which is a shame because my neurons activate and go off like a happy alarm clock every single time he's being a bastard and a bitch

[spotlightstudios]

Separate post cuz the other one was getting long, but it's almost done!

[asmo-cosmetics]

it just bewilders me that anyone could write a character as perfect as julian and then so obviously begin to hate him. it's so weird how much open unabashed contempt these writers have for the character their game is basically about.

i've said this before but i think that the prologue was written for a different version of the game, before the team decided to make julian the heel to asra's face and the butt of every joke. "a gift from a witch who fears commitment" was so obviously meant to be foreshadowing for a major plot point, but they just hand-wave it away in the story with like two lines of dialogue and a prayer.

"no, no, that was a red herring!!" no it wasn't. julian himself is already the red herring, making his implied backstory another red herring is the definition of a hat on a hat. asra and julian were clearly written for asra to be the bad guy in the asrian divorce, but then someone (everyone? i don't know) vetoed it because god fucking forbid we make asra look like an asshole even once.

asra is the writers' favorite and it's extremely obvious. he basically has no flaws, to the point of legit cliche. oh mc my only flaw is loving you TOO much. so even though julian is already written with a very clear archetype of "guy who hates magic because he got his heart broken by a witch" that comes through in basically everything about him, they have to paper over it in the story because we can't make asra look mean!

so they just make up for their shitty coverup writing by being like haha isn't julian silly? he was wrong about everything and he doesn't like magic hehe haha. leeches! meanwhile the bones of the characters they actually wrote are in asra too, because it's clear he's meant to have his "villain moments," he's meant to have sharper edges and even be scary, but someone decided that he has to be an uwu softboy and ruined him in the process.

as always i am not looking for a debate, i will block you.

[crows-of-buckets]

I miss anders... I am being a fake anders fan I haven't drawn him in weeks. I miss him :(

[mallach]

top 5 ships >:)

oh god this is such a difficult question. like choosing my favorite kid..

if held at gunpoint and not in order of how much i like them

shumika. easy. the combination of someone who blindly wants to be dehumanized and has to be outright taught to care for himself at all + neurotic controlling freak who ruins his relationships with literally everyone else, and only starts to gain some 'humanity' through seeing mika both think thats hot and also slowly, clearly deteoriate is so. auhoruahourhguh. i like the sweet route theyve taken in es!! where they get mentally better together but i do still prefer the psycho shit happening in es!. i th;ink they should have formed a suicide pact.

wranduin. ive been their shooter since i was like fucking 12 years old you would not believe how excited i was reading war crimes finally & seeing wrathis cute new model. my sexy 5 year old dragon wife.. more seriously i do like how they oppose and compliment eachother. i do really miss the little bit of shadow magic anduin dabbled in during MOP and lament him going full paladin mode. it fits with warcrafts love of turning everything into a fatherhood trauma arc but still.. auuu...it was much cuter to have holy priest boy anduin learn to be 'bad' (stand up for himself) and 5d chess 12 steps ahead 'the end justifies the means' wrathi learn to be a little kinder/softer. also i just love wrathion being fucking insane him freeing garrosh only to have him fucking die immediately and cause the next 5 years of expansions is funny as fuck. love you king. he should get to terrorize the fuck out of anduin forever to cheer him up from his knight depression

madohomu. i dont even have to explain this one. i cant. theyre everything. theyre nothing. every single fucking oc universe i make i have to physically hold myself back from just doing another timeloop a la madohomu. killing myself

tamamori/kawase. "making a tulpa of my dead friend who is actively suibaiting me and calling me a bitch ass loser and walks me around on a dog collar" obscenely fucking funny premise. i hope tamamori never figures out hes trying to get dick from an alter. more seriously i do really love kawases character and i wish there were more unrepentant cunts like him. it is genuinely fascinating for tamamori to develop a real, romantic attraction towards an alter who ostensibly is meant to represent his own self-hate, guilt and shame with himself. self care?

lucio/sandalphon. i havent touched gbf in seeeeveral years but i still love lucio so much. comedy wise they have endless potential with lucio looking exactly like his dead wife and the fucking. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "laundry ^_^" scene still makes me crack up remembering it. the angsty aspect of sandalphon turning to someone who looks like his wife in his grief after losing him also makes me cackle like an evil maniac considering lucio does want to befriend him and see him happy. very moe smiling through the knowledge that sandalphon doesn't actually like him. giggle.

honorary mentions that are a little too recent for me to be totally ride or die for them: caelus/aventurine, durgetash (all durge/evil!companion pairings are really good too), xalatath/alleria & joker/goro

honorary mentions that i dont consume much content for now but sagely nod in great approval at: jaina/sylvanas, pate/creighton, lawrence/gehrman, varre/mohg (ONESIDED.), purple!hawke/anders, caejose, kristoph/klavier, adachi/p4protag & stridercest.

ive had 5 billion pairings ive loved over years there are undoubtedly huges ones im completely forgetting. #AMENSIAGANG

[dick-chugger]

This is the hottest a man can get btw