#i dont even play rivals of aether

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[therealhoodiewearer]

about me post (i'll update this sometimes)

my blog is 18+ (i have a sfw blog now tho @thefakehoodiewearer)

my favorite color is ourple

i play guilty gear strive, rivals of aether, terraria, minecraft, osumania/quaver, geometry dash and notITG

i like to listen to very normal music here is an assorted yt music playlist

i am very bisexual and horny and erp on main, im a relatively vanilla softdom most of the time but i can get kinkier when i get in the mood :3

for tumblr purposes, i am a femboy, however i do not bottom (most i'll let you get away with is eating me out and thats if i really like you)

i also draw once a blue moon

and yall can ask me any questions that this post didn't answer (they dont even have to be questions just talk to me)

[hellothepixel]

Im playing Rivals of Aether and trying to get all of the milestones.

I unlocked (in order) Olympia, Ranno, Clairen, Pomme, and most recently Mollo. Of these Olympia i have the most experience with, but my recent goings with Pomme and Mollo were extremely fun. Clairen holds a special place in my heart even if I dont play her as much. Ranno is good.

These were some of my favourite characters in the game. Next ill probably tackle kragg, since he's very advanced and has a cool milestone goal. I'm not sure who I'll do after tho. Probably absa.

Anyone want to suggest which character i should focus on next?

[aeferkssr]

── SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS ──

pairing ;; aether x reader (pronouns not mentioned)

warnings ;; idk christmas? pack it up grinch /lh

notes ;; HEY IM ALIVE and so much shit has been happening with my life lately but yeah i wanna say im fully back now but dont get too excited!! yk what yeah im back now :)

going to your lover's house for christmas is something you did not see yourself doing ever. even the though of having one to spend christmas with made you giddy. a few years ago if someone told you that you would be spending the most wonderful time of the year with your boyfriend of two years you would look at them in shock and then quickly laugh them off.

AETHER's family was having a christmas party to celebrate the holidays. it was a family reunion of sorts, as all of his aunts, uncles, cousins were packed into the large house. why not celebrate it with a family member to-be? you're ears painted with red at both the cheeky smirk on his face and the backhanded marriage proposal.

after greeting his family - some of which he didn't even know he was related to - you two sat down in his living room with your back against his chest and his arms around your waist. you're knees were tucked into your chest as aeher shoved his face deeper into your neck. you adjust the reindeer headband on your head as you crane your head to kiss your lover on the head. feeling this, he raises his head and returns in ten fold, pressing light but frequent kisses all over your face as you giggle from the ticklish feeling

"can you two not be annoying for a day?"

aether ceases his attack as he too fixes the santa hat that got slightly knocked off prior

"its okay to be a hater, lumine"

he says breifly before childishly sticking his tongue at his twin and resuming showering you with kisses. lumine looks at him from the side of her eye then leaves the room, muttering something under her breath. both of you look at lumine leave the room and then back at each other. you two laugh and share one final kiss. (for that moment, that is)

───❄️───

some time has passed and you and aether have switched positions: you were sitting on the couch, one hand mindlessly scrolling through your phone while the other scratched aether's head and playing with his long blonde hair. aether on the other hand, was fighting sleep like his life depended on it all. he's aware that it's absolutely okay to sleep with his lover, in fact you encourage it, but he doesnt want to. but oh, dont you make it hard for him. the way how when you scratch that certain spot it sends pleasant shocks down his spine. he can only grow an even more lovestruck grin (if thats even possible, for his love for you rivals all the forces in this world) as he looks up to you.

you look down at him when you notice his stare. his droopy eyes and wide, love stricken grin brings heat to your cheeks and a smile rivaling the sun to your mouth. your hand that was scratching his head moves down his face to caress his cheeks, flicking away the hair decorating his oh so handsome face in the process. you stretch your thumb to the other side of his face to squish his face. aether groans as the corners of his mouth come closer together

you both laugh at his half-hearted attempt to push you off as you share another kiss. your moment, however, got interrupted by music playing from the alexa in his living room. you only recognized the chorus of the song but that part you knew well. you look down to aether as he seems to have an idea

"a penny for your thoughts?"

aether slightly puckers his lips to show that he's thinking. he seems to have idea when he shot up from your lap and grabbed your hand to the more open area of the living room with you following behind him, very confused. he pulls you over to where he is as he lifts his arm, prompting you to spin around. you're lips form from confusion to joy as you spin round and lean closer to your boyfriend.

"aether, do you know how to dance?"

"nope!"

he replies before taking your hand in his and wrapping the other one around your waist. your free hand on his shoulder as you hold back a small giggle. you two then glide around his living room to the beat of the music, a slow yet calming song.

you two "slow danced" for the remaining of the song before another one played, this one more up beat than the previous. you and aether smile at each other as you two jump and spin around each other, singing along to the horribly catchy christmas song. your hands were in fists, mimicking microphones as you sang to each other.

if you weren't singing you were laughing, the both of you not a care in the world. with this, you failed to notice lumine and paimon (the infamous baby paimon who was said to finish seven bottles of formula in a single sitting in her younger days) standing at the door way.

"yeesh, they're horrible"

the toddler says as they cover their ears from the out of pitch singing of christmas songs

"yes but," lumine looks back to paimon "they're in love. theres really nothing we can do about it"

"if this is what love does to you, remind paimon to never fall in love with anyone!"

paimon says as she walks away, probably looking for more food to eat. lumine takes one more look at the couple (who are now sharing a passionate kiss with the younger blonde dipping down his lover) , smiles, and turns back to follow her baby cousin

"no promises"

[red-sterling]

thanks for answering!! i hope you don't mind if i send more charas...how about green and/or lillie?

fhgjkfdg aw yea thank u!! hopefully this doesn’t publish before i’m done typing lol

also this definitely needs a readmore bc i got emotional abt Green oops

Green

favorite thing about them

first of all: the fact that Green canonically has a rivals to best friends arc with Red fills me with so much joy and YES they are on their alolan honeymoon you cannot convince me otherwise

okay like. gen 1 Green just perfectly encompasses what it’s like to be a ten year old in a way? like ofc he’s written like a kid bc he is a kid, but i feel like the writing on him just feels so genuine as compared to some of the other 10 yr old rivals you get in other regions. even though he’s kinda a brat at the start, he kinda eases up a bit as you go along your journey and starts giving you progressively nicer/more praise-y end lines when you beat him (going from “i picked the wrong pokémon!” to “so, you are ready for boss rocket!”) but still retains this childlike rivalry and competitiveness and i love that about him

and like. fucking beating him at the Indigo League still completely breaks my heart because even after he did become the champion at age 10 the first thing that happens is you beat him and Prof Oak just yells at him for being bad at things and like. ow. 

this is why i headcanon that Red actually took awhile longer to get to Green like please. please give my boy a chance to be happy and proud

also Red was caught up with Team Rocket anyway so i imagine he must’ve fallen a little behind at some point? anyway

the development on him across regions is so choice!!! he’s so much more mellow and even kinda melancholic when you find him in gsc/hgss, like he’s calmed down over a few years and he obviously misses Red so much but like, it’s clear that Red is kinda the reason Green does settle down and he seems to have worked on his character and become a nicer person - and he still has that sassy flair to him! he’s just got that gradual slope from asshole rival to kinda aloof gym leader to friendly/sassy battle legend and aaaaa i love my boy so MUCH

also huge point: he’s so fucking driven??? he’s got the most drive and the most passion for battles/pokémon in general out of all the rivals i feel. he’s only closely matched by Silver, but Silver seems to be more aggressive than passionate, and somewhat out of necessity too (like, Giovanni abandoned him what was he to do), whereas Green just really like. he genuinely just cares so much about battles and about pokémon in general! he literally calls you in hgss and just rants about how many different kinds of pokémon there are in the world!!!

also in Alola he’s like???? just so sweet?????? he congratulates you and is like hey you’re really strong lets battle like!!!!!!!!! supportive boy!!!!! he has come so far over so many generations and i cry

also on Four Island when you play frlg he legitimately says “Be smelling ya!” when he leaves and how do you not love this idiot

least favorite thing about them

i mean. while i get that you beat Green right after he becomes the champion in the kanto games i feel like there should’ve been more pomp and circumstance for him and i’ll never forgive gamefreak for giving this boy his dream, then making you rip it away from him, and then watching his own gramps yell at him for fucking up like. again it’s that drive, i get why Red keeps such good pace w Green but i just feel like he worked so hard and he deserved so much better than that

also while i’m very biased towards him bc Big Emotions, i feel like if i knew this boy irl who was constantly i’m so great and you’re a loser i would probably punch him eventually lmao. in theory it’s kinda endearing but as a real person that’d be grating 

favorite line

on one hand, “smell ya later” is so fucking iconic, but on the other - 

“I’m Blue. Man, this guy called Red brought me down in a heartbeat. I haven’t seen him in a long time…I wonder where he is and what he’s up to… Come to think of it, you look a little bit like Red. Yeah, you do. Just…Just a little bit. Whatever…”

my namelessshipping heart

ALSO NOT CANON BUT GREEN RANTING TO YOU ABOUT RED AND GETTING SO DISTRACTED THAT HE FORGETS TO GIVE YOU THE POKÉDEX????? BIG GAY

brOTP

for long elaborate headcanon reasons, i see him as being a good brotp with Kris - i headcanon her as also being really driven the way Green is, but more quiet about it, she’s kinda a good balance to him and they probably do pokemon research together. i also feel like she kept him sane while Red was still missing/before they found him on a fuckin mountain

OTP

do i really need to tell you that i’m 100% namelessshipping

like they perfectly balance each other. Green has all this energy and all this spunk and Red is just like… so opposite of him y'know? he’s quiet and he’s more measured in his behavior i feel, he doesn’t really rush into things as much, and yet they both really just took Kanto by storm when they were kids, and i like how they have this foil dynamic and are both still so successful? they’re so different and they complement each other in that way, and they both find success in their own ways

like one of the reasons i hate that Green’s championship gets undersold so much is that he did beat you to the punch, and he has been one step ahead of you, and there’s so much passion there and it’s so loud - and yet you as Red are just as driven, you take down Team Rocket, you’re always right on his tail, so close but not quite there, you’re the only one who can keep up with him and you’re the only one he cares enough about to slow down for

so like. idk with even all my headcanons about namelessshipping aside (and i can infodump those another day lol), i feel like the in-game representation of them just works. they just work so well together, they balance each other without ever holding each other back, and there’s something really beautiful about that in a relationship y'know

…..i feel bad abt not putting as much infodump about isshushipping now but oh well

nOTP

i don’t really have a notp with him? i kinda like. i basically just do namelessshipping, but i don’t get a visceral eugh when i see other ships with him, just kinda a well it’s not nameless so i’ll be on my way. idek what other ships w him are popular?? i’ve been in nameless hell since 2012 so 

random headcanon

while Red is still living on Mount Silver, Green is not coping well with having him so far away, and so Green massively overworks himself to the point that he keeps just not being in his gym sometimes bc he’s bouncing between the gym, training multiple teams, pokémon research, and ofc going to visit Red whenever he can. this leads him to be kinda temperamental after he’s been working on 2 hours of sleep a day for like a week until he just has an emotional meltdown and crashes, and then he gets right back into it because he has no self preservation

…….. nicer headcanon; Red can only cook two (2) foods, so Green cooks all the food for them when they move in together. he has attempted to teach Red how to cook, but Red pretends not to understand so Green will keep making him food. Green knows Red is faking it and doesn’t call him out bc he thinks it’s cute

unpopular opinion

look i’ve played through classic red version a few times and when i say he wasn’t that much of a jerk, i do genuinely mean he was not that much of a jerk. he’s like ten. ten year olds are just Like That. i guess this isn’t too unpopular anymore but it was Back In The Day and in some parts of the fandom he’s still seen as a jerk and like Bro He Is Ten In RGB/FRLG cut him some slack

also genuinely unpopular - Green is taller than Red. i know namelessshipping has fallen into the bara Red and twink Green trope but i refuse to let go of tall Green/short Red fuckin fight me why dont you

song i associate with them

a lot of the Pray For The Wicked album by Panic! at the Disco gives me Green vibes, more for the sound than for lyrics necessarily, but for some reason Roaring 20s just like. has the sound of Green to me. it’s somewhere between flamboyant pride and underlying insecurity that i think really encapsulates Green (or at least his subtext)

favorite picture of them

i genuinely love his let’s go concept art he’s such a sweet good boy?? 

and for the life of me i cannot find the op source on this but this is my fave pic of Green/namelessshipping in general that i’ve had saved since like 2012 maybe???

yeah if anyone can help me source that i’d appreciate it bc reverse image search only brings me to pinterest and random wattpad links :/

update: source seems to be the artist くる (pixiv id=982894) on pixiv, even though the original post got taken down (ty anon!)

Lillie

favorite thing about them

by now i guess you know im a sucker for character development, but i think they did a really good job with her!! i feel like her turn is a bit more in moments than it is with Green, who gradually evolves (lol) over the course of Kanto/all the gens overall. you see more discrete moments where Lillie starts to shift and gain confidence in herself and i am so proud of her ???? like the way she gets excited when she sees Olivia doin’ her z-move stuff, she starts buying her own clothes and getting ahead of you, etc etc

and like, she still has moments where she’s scared, there’s still some fundamental Lillie in there yknow? you don’t lose any of that softness that characterizes Lillie, she just like… she gets better, she develops without losing her Lillie vibe and i love that abt her. she overcomes a lot of the shit she had to deal with when she was stuck with Lusamine, she stands up to Lusamine eventually, and ghfdkjsg gah she’s a sweet gorl i love and appreciate her

also like. the writing on her backstory is so subtle in-universe. like yeah she literally looks like Lusamine’s daughter and you see her in the opening cutscene leaving Aether, but as the protagonist - like as Selene lets say, there’s little hints about where Lillie came from, and if you suspend your disbelief and put yourself in the pc’s shoes, there’s subtly to her character arc that i like 

also like. when she changes her outfit and starts being more protagonist-y, like more confident and kinda bubbly instead of shy??? love that shit it’s so cute can i have custody of this child pls

least favorite thing about them

i like. sometimes feel like she’s too soft of a character for me to really get into? like i love her and Hau, they’re sweet good friends, but i tend to personally gravitate towards characters that create a little more tension (ie Green and N)

(though on that note, Hau can be kinda savage. he just calls Faba out and sarcastically calls Gladion “a ray of sunshine” at some point i think?? Lillie is just very tender and i will support her forever, but i think that also makes her almost too soft to keep me fixated on her yknow. it’s not even a flaw in her character but just not something i fawn over as much)

favorite line

“I’m so glad I got to meet everyone. I’m so glad I got to meet you.”

like that ending kills me but that line almost feels like. I Feel That So Much like i feel so happy to have met all these new characters and to have played these games, and i feel like some of the player’s energy and enjoyment of the game is channeled into this last line of hers 

also GET IN THE BAG

brOTP

probably her and Hau?? idk, i don’t have a specific brotp for her but i like her just hangin around w the other Alola kids, so like her, Hau, Gladion, and the protag kids. they’d raise hell together and Lillie continues to be the only one with some impulse control

(Gladion also has some impulse control but keeps getting annoyed by Hau and so he gets dragged into their nonsense anyway)

OTP

Selene and Lillie is. Good. idk what the ship name is but it’s canon

nOTP

i dont even know if people ship her with Gladion but incest is a big no-no in my house

random headcanon

when she goes to Kanto, i bet she’d pick Bulbasaur as a starter if she was given the opportunity - and if not, she’d probably catch a wild Vulpix 

unpopular opinion

idk if have any unpopular opinions for her?? 

song i associate with them

i have no reason to associate this with her but the Rainy Day theme from acgc just. has a vibe about it. i think a lot of ac music feels like it suits her

favorite picture of them

i found this art of her through a lofi remix of her theme awhile back and it’s so pleasing to look at? her hair is nice and the colors are so warm n happy gjhkfdgf

if you read this far, congratulations!!! and i’m sorry

[azureshadowmoon]

5.1 thoughts below the cut

- Starts off with a ‘problem’ being the aether of our friends is starting to become television static and we need to get them back asap. It’s going down by who arrived first. I’d  think this would mean death flags for Thancred but we’ve slotted him into the Eden raids so, no. This is gonna be a fixable issue, how we fix it tho...

- Exarch and Alisaie have crushes on the WoL and its too cute

- Stones?? Rocks??? We’re gonna auracite our friends, put them in a box and mail them home??? Someone is probably gonna steal that. Someone is definitely going to steal that. Dont steal our friend rocks please.

- The Grand Cosmos was... okay? It’s cute and the mechanics are new, but I got Dohn Mheg vibes. which... yeah, its fae folk, its gonna be cute and obnoxious. I liked it! But it was rather quick. I give it a 7/10 because the ballroom.

- Alphinaud and Alisaie interacting like siblings again makes me warm and happy. This expansion put them through a lot and to see Alisaie’s little soft smile and Alphys giggle, gah. So sweet. 

- Angelo??? the fucking artist??? did Alisaie name her mashed potato pig after an artist????

- please dont make the mashed potato pig a main character 

- actually, yes, lets bring angelo to the source. untemper Ga Bu and make him a main character. I want more beast tribe friends. let alisaie adopt the monkey.

- Halric makes me sad and creeps me out at the same time. The character design for him captures a lot. His first words are mother followed by tears, followed by him bewilderingly taking in his surroundings. Poor boy doesn’t even know where he is, does he even remember Tesleen? Alisaie? I sense memory jogging quests in the future.

- Its miss chai! My cat mom! I’m so glad Kai-Shirr is still around. And then mister chai out here being the Best Mayor and winning my heart all over again with his efforts to make Kholusia a better place. His character development is just the best. For Eulmore, indeed! 

- I know this is likely tying up loose ends now. Curing the light touched and ensuring Eulmore can stand on its own feet. Which means in future patches we’ll have to fix loose ends with the others, being Urianger and the pixies (titania content when??) and Y’Shtola and that rival cult tribe thats still out there somewhere. 

- I don’t trust Wrenden. I’m getting Ilberd vibes and I Dont Like That.

- Okay so not rocks. Yes rocks? I’m getting mixed signals are we sending the Scions to the source in a box or what. 

- Honestly, my first thought when it was mentioned the spell was the issue is to just... wake up our G’Raha Tia. If the crystal tower magick is what did it, we got another one on the source. 

- My second thought was how hilarious it’d be if we got the auracite stones mixed up and accidentally switched the scions bodies like? comedy gold. 

- Krile putting on the plot armor onto the sleeping scions so we can spend the next few patches trying to send them over, bless her. Bless tataru, I cant wait for the whole squad reunion. 

- Estinien?? Hello?? Actually, no, I’d be wierded out if you did greet me. I think I was already wierded out when he greeted Krile with a smile. “I havent seen you since heavensward thanks for saving my comatose ass” but I’ll just nod and smile. I think he got the message anyway.

- oh hey, double echo. Is krile viewing the same vision? Or is there like, lag or something? Does the echo have like, censored versions of itself? Or did we get the exact same version like a tv show rerun? 

- Gaius lived which, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to his character development. 

- The blue and red twins from Ghimlyt are still around? What even is their story other then being Varis’s butt buddies? they’ve been around and survived long enough that they’re becoming important characters. I don’t know if thats a good thing or not. 

- WE PLAY AS ESTINIEN???ESTINI???ESTININAN???vfsgebhfgbrgh 

- Ultima 2.0 looks ... like Eve from Nier Automata. That was my first impression. It’s cool looking, and different, but still an ultima weapon. Garlamold still hasnt given up that project, huh? Now they’re putting Garlean people into them. 

- “peer into my head did you?” dont be snippy with me, lets see you get these headaches like a youtube add in the middle of a video, see how you like it. 

- Anytime anyone mentions Minfillia’s passing, especially her mom, I’m like... I’m not sure? It didn’t feel like she passed, but the way they’re going about it make it seem like she did. I don’t think her story is over. She may be dead, but I don’t think its over, if that makes sense. 

- Civil war amongst the garleans makes me think we’re gonna be going there soon. With all the trouble going down, it’d be easy to sneak in there and find our man Gaius. 

- The white robed figure... Lahabrea? I don’t want to think so, but with the Ultima weapon 2.0 and Gaius spider senses going off, I think that’s our biggest suspect. Unless a new ascian is introduced. Zenos still has issues, this isnt new. But hey! At least we know we’re not his Prime Target anymore. No more Krile kidnapping, phew. 

- A little disappointed the black rose is gone just like that. And by Zenos hand. I don’t think thats the last of it, but it might be. I hope not. 

- Ardbert ... sounds like he did in heavensward. Is there time travel bullshit going on? Undead? Elidbus said he was gonna get warriors of light to hunt us down. Did he actually rip them from an alternate universe or...? 

- And thats a wrap. It was a enjoyable, a few laughs and sad moments, but it mostly felt like buildup for the next patch. I don’t mind. We finally got filled in on whats been happening while we’ve been on our little vacation. Predictions for the next patch? We’re going to continue helping with the spell to send our friends home, I’m hoping leading us to Ill Mheg where titania helps us, and some Y’Shtola content as well. I don’t think we’ll run into Ardbert so soon, but we might get an idea of why he’s in Eulmore (wrenden I don’t TRUST you) 

Also. The Nier raid? Good. 

[isaacathom]

so did hau actually beat kukui earlier?? did he beat the e4 before i did? because the issue is, i was the FIRST person to ever complete hapus trial. i was the very first person to do her trial. so youre telling me that in between me beating hapu and me climbing mt lanakila, my rival, who was just Elsewhere (aka aether house, i believe) went and beat hapu (and mina as well since he hadnt done that), also climbed the mountain, OVERTAKEN ME IN THAT TIME, and beaten the elite 4 to stand as the final boss???

is he even the champion? why is he there. did kukui say he could have this role. i dont understand why he’s there. im happy he is, but its a cute callback to gen 1 and how blue was the champion, and its a new experience for someone like me who hasnt actually played gen 1. but how in the fuck did he get to this position. i dont understand.

like it didnt say champion. so i think he’s just a random trainer, in the scheme of things. so did kukui decide he could be the “champion” until he had his first match, at which point he would either become the Champion or not.

also this battle has been a rollercoaster so far because he’s basically two shot my toucannon and my arbok EXCEPT that both of them toughed out the hits and in that turn fainted his pokemon. wild.

hOW MANY FULL RESTORES DOES HE HAVE???? LET THE LEAFEON DIE. this is the second fucking time he’s swapped out this leafeon and he’s restoed it 3 times. absolutely outrageous.

done. thats the closer, homeslice. usum, complete. took longer than sumo did but ive been doing a lot of stuff instead of it, so i think it would have taken roughly the same number of hours? just spread over more weeks. 2, instead of 1.

‘ill be sure to let lillie know’ hell yea. Hell yea the squad is here. is gladion here too? or just the girl squad? HEY its my boy. come on gladion. please just come have fun. bloody hell. oh i love that scene with team sk- hey its sina and dexio. what a weird inclusion considering zygarde is like, HYPER O- wait what location is that. noooo go the fuck back, where was that. what mountain was that. is that in like..... poni canyon???? get the fuck back here zygarde.

wait where is gladion going. excuse me???? EXCUSE ME???? WHERE IS HE GOING. HELLO???? WHERE IS GLADION GOING. i love everyone waving him off and it makes complete sense for him to want to go off and explo- oh and lusamine came to wave him off!!! oh thats sweet. but wheres he going. wheres my angry son going. where is my sweet angry boy going. odds are solid its kanto but like, yknow. also did he tell his goddamn sister hes leaving. he clearly didnt tell his mum because her arriving at the pier to wave him off was a surprise, which implies he basically ONLY told Wicke???? wild. fool boy. tell your damn family.

awww that raticate sprite is cute!! anyway yea hello wheres he going. AW are they gonna have sprites for all the totems??????? oh these are delightful. oh theyre so cute.

and its back home for me. i do like how cozy the home looks from the outside. id love to live in a place like that. a stones throw from the ocean, surrounded by greenery, under the full moon. bitch im. i want that.

oh damn ive never actually seen the uh. the movie thingo that plays on the title screen? oh that looks lovely. the full moon lunala i mean, not the rest. full moon lunala is by far the best. i love lunala.

oH DUDE i have a picture of me with hau and lillie on my desk. oh thats lovely.

hau hold up i havent even had breakfast yet.

wicke are you going to tell me where gladion actually went. no? alright then.

[oogaboogaspookyman]

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