#i'm worried too i think bcs two of my friends haven't.. reconciled yet

[noxtivagus]

i shld sleep oh my god

[shaanks]

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Shanks and/or Kid.

Quin my lovely friend! :"D Thank you so much! Let's do both~ :3c

Shanks

How I feel about this character:

I genuinely love him, like. I think he's fascinating from a narrative standpoint, the place that he has to stand kind of straddling the gulf between the old era that birthed him and the new era he's been charged with stewarding in, like. He's tragic in my mind, because from a character standpoint he has everything - looks, intelligence, potential, power, influence - and yet he either loses or has to let go of everything he really loves, and wants to keep around.

I love that he plays really loosey goosey like his job is Beach and he's a silly funny guy, but can get awfully serious at the drop of a hat, I love the way he carries himself and the very careful vocal cadence he holds onto. Fascinating 2 me.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Oh goodness, you see the problem with hims I feel him to be THE king slut of all time, so I can be persuaded about like. a TON of pairings for him lmfao. The ones I usually default to are the same ones everyone does, Buggy and Mihawk, altho due to the way Shanks is and the advent of the Cross Guild I've had some funny forays into Shanks trying to seduce Crocodile lmfao. (and like. Me. lmfao <3)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Luffy, Benn, Ace, the whole RHP crew tbh. It's odd bc I usually subscribe to the "all vice captains are insane about their captains" thing but I just haven't ever gotten that with Shanks and Benn lmfao.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

Weirdly, it seems to be an unpopular opinion that he's a good guy, so probably that? I can't think of anything else I think about him that's especially against the grain.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I just want him to live through this lmfao. There are several people in this that I love and am very worried about it, and he's one of them. I'd love for him to be able to reconcile with Buggy too, because so much of what's kept them apart for the last two decades has been misunderstanding of a difficult situation that happened when they were teenagers during a really traumatic event. I know that's not usually how things work in this story, but ya know.

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Alrighty :"D Round 2

Kid

How I feel about this character:

I find him endlessly endlessly endearing to be perfectly honest. Setting aside the fact that I'm so attracted to him it regularly makes me act very silly, like. He's so smart! He's loyal to a fault! His crew adores him, he sticks to his convictions (for better or worse), he will tell you what's on his mind and deal with you honestly, and expects that of the people around him. Even when he acts all gruff about it, you can tell when someone has earned his respect.

He takes responsibility for the people in his care, he's incredibly brave and charismatic, and goddamn does he ever commit to his aesthetic, and the bit. I love him is the tl;dr. It's so funny bc I made it like 5 jokes into dunking on him about Law in Sabaody before I realized I'd backed myself into a corner about him bc like. Personally imo 2 me, if you think about him with any kind of seriousness, I think it's hard not to love him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Oh man. Killer obv top spot, but I've also gotten really attached to the big Kid Pirates Polycule bc of your thoughts on that subject. I like the KidLawLu polycule too, altho that's more for fun play in my mind. Fascinatingly I think he'd have gotten on like gangbusters with Ace, though I'm as inclined to make that platonic as romantic lmfao, either way. (Also, again...me. I love him lmfao.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

In a more serious way probably this is where Kid and Law and Luffy fall in my mind. I love their dynamic and how goofy they all fucking act about it lmfao.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

That he's really fucking smart. He's an excellent tactician when he wants to be, he's a mechanical engineer, like. Those prosthetics aren't just a bunch of junk mashed together that he's forcing to move, they have artificial articulating musculature, they have functional hydraulics, they WORK. Hell, Damned Punk is a plasma canon that you can SEE has actual refined mechanical pieces to it that he's able to pull together without even looking.

Also not for nothing but figuring out magnetic polarity and then getting that shit to behave itself in reasonable ways so that you can use it reliably in battle requires intelligence and serious skill.

His wisdom stat is a lil low but my boy's fucking brilliant.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I get it. I GET why Oda [redacted current arc spoilers] for both him and Law. All I'm saying is he better fucking live through it. Him and his crew. I wanna see them again. :(

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Alrighty!!! This was wonderful friend ; u ; Thank you for askin about my boys, I love any chance I can get to ramble about em. <3

if anyone else wants to play, give me a character and I'll break their ass down!

[icharchivist]

I know you're hyped about hpm right now hehe so answer whenever you're able! I was just wondering, for Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, who did you choose to rule Orlais? I haven't decided yet and I'm very torn, so I'm trying to see what all my friends picked lol

LKJDKLFD it’s okay, thanks for the consideration tho

Huuum personally i generally do so Celene and Brialla become a couple again and rule together and i throw Gaspard out of the window.

Ultimately I basically want Brialla to be able to make change for the elvhen folks, which she can do either by manipulating Gaspard in the shadow or being an openly Elvhen Marquise by Brialla’s side.

and imo the second option might have better impact on the long term because 1) it is much more opened about what’s happening, it is clear the elvhen are given more opportunities, 2) Celene is a more stable ruler since she already has years behind her in Orlais while Gaspard would have to prove himself as a ruler which would make change Brialla wants to achieve perhaps more difficult

Gaspard and Celene alone to me are out of question, Gaspard is a warmonger who just wants to bring back expentionist days, and while i trust Brialla in manipulating him out of it, I don’t trust him on the long term and i’m worried that the more “in the shadow” approach with Brialla would make it easy to just swip her away once someone may bring up he’s manipulated. 

Celene alone is... I guess a stable ruler, but bc of the novels i really don’t trust her alone. She cares too much about what the court think and she had partaken in allowing massacre on elves in the alienage in order to keep a public face. And yeah this fucking sucks. But, if reconcilled with Brialla the fact she can publically recognize Brialla bring her to publically tell the very nobles she tried to appease “y’know what finally i’ll give Elven people rights”. She’s by no way an ideal leader but at least there’s a chance of progress there. Since she has a stable following for 10 years and a good track record with the nobility it would be harder to argue against her, and imo, the fact Gaspard’s and Floriane’s coup would have failed would make it harder for nobles to think about defying her again, so with luck it may strengthen Brialla’s position and Celene’s support; And ofcourse the fact she’s much more inclined toward peace than Gaspard is a huge plus.

There is also the “balckmail the three of them into a treuce” option but i think it ultimately would not change much to the country, nor elven rights, it would still give Gaspard legitimacy which i truly wouldn’t recommand, Celene would be free to just keep ignoring the issues which is Bad, and on top of that they would all be in Bad Blood with the inquisition which will reflect in the epilogue. (I know that bringing back Celene and Brialla together at least make the two of them very happy so they’re very grateful toward the Inquisition, i don’t know if a manipulated Gaspard would be as grateful toward the Inquisition, but i’m sure individual leaders would be glad as long as you don’t blackmail/threaten them)

So yeah, personally i bring back Celene and Brialla together. Not the ideal solution since according to the novels they had a fucked up relationship and Celene did horrible things, and it kinda kills me to repairs it, but i think at least politically on the long run this would be the best impact on Orlais.

So yeah, reuniting Brialla and Celene would be my way to go and that’s kinda my reasoning going in *waves hand* if that makes sense

Good luck deciding though :3c Have fun eheh