#i'm also pretty sure i've done this before a looong time ago but there are more verses on this blog now so an update doesn't hurt!

[dokuhai]

CHARACTER OUTLINE

italics for situational, bold for always applicable.

FLAWS.

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | liar | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | spiteful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky | absent-minded | abusive | addict | aggressive | childish | callous | clingy | delusional | cocky | competitive | corrupt | cynical | cruel | depressed | deranged | egotistical | envious | insecure | insensitive | lustful | delinquent | overthinker | guilt complex | reclusive | reckless | nervous | oversensitive | perfectionist | pessimistic | naive

STRENGTHS.

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm | protective | proud | diligent | considerate | compassionate | good sportsmanship | friendly | empathetic | passionate | reliable | resourceful | sensible | sincere | witty | funny

SKILLS AND HOBBIES.

art | acting | astronomy | animals | archery | sports | belly dancing | bird watching | blacksmithing | boating | calligraphy | camping | candle making | casino gambling (hitman au) | ceramics | racing | chess | music | cooking | crochet | weaving | exercise | swordplay (it's a skill because she's a shinigami but def not a hobby lmao) | fishing | gardening | ghost hunting (hunter au) | ice skating | magic (hunter au) | engineering | building | inventing | leather-working | martial arts | meditation | origami | parkour | people watching | swimming | puppetry | pyrotechnics | quilting | reading | collecting | shopping | socializing | storytelling | writing | traveling (hunter au) | exotic dancing (hitman au) | singing | yoga | gaming | surfing

tagged by: @godkilller ​​​

tagging: i'm doing this 2749826384 years later so i'm absolutely assuming everyone's already done this lmaoooo but please feel free to steal and tag me if you want!!

[best-enemies]

the true Thoschei shipper experience: learning about binary star systems and immediately going “ah yes, these are the disasters from my blue box show”

Very well said, anon!

In fact I've been reading articles about it for over an hour. This one by Space.com covers is pretty well.

And I need to warn you: I went down a rabbit hole so this is a long looong post, no I am Not high despite what my arguments might suggest, no I don't have a lot of free time I am working from home unsupervised by my superiors and with free access to internet. Also, I had a lot of fun researching this.

Binary stars can be divided in categories based on their orbits. There are, for example, Wide Binaries and Close Binaries.

Close binaries, on the other hand, evolve nearby, able to transfer their mass from one to the other. The primaries of some close binaries consume the material from their companion, sometimes exerting a gravitational force strong enough to pull the smaller star in completely.

Ughhh so Thoschei coded.

But I have found something that's even MORE Thoschei coded.

At the end of that Space.com article there's a mention to a star called "Nemesis". You can read more about it on this Business Insider article, it was the easiest one to understand that I could find.

Basically it's a theory proposed in the 1980's by a physicist called Richard Muller from the University of California. He suggested that our Sun is a binary star.

And according to the scientists that give credence to this theory, if Nemesis was a real star, it might have been responsible for the mass extinctions that happened on Earth about 66 million years ago.

The thing is that scientists were, to this day, unable to find that star. The physicist who proposed this theory, Richard Muller, believes it is allocated 1.5 years from the Sun.

Now, a lot of scientists think that there's no evidence that Nemesis is real. In that article, Nasa claims it's a hypothesis and it has been disproven.

But let's move to the most heartwarming part of it:

My whole point with this post is, sure, that theory/hypothesis may be proven false, but I just think it's funny how similar Nemesis (even the name!!) can be to the Master.

In the beginning Nemesis orbited the Sun, just like Koschei (the Master) orbited Theta (the Doctor). Theta had always been different, always acted like he was special.

Then, they fell apart. And Nemesis, just like the Master, could've been responsible for the mass extinction that happened on Earth - the Master has been writing plans like this on his personal journal ever since the Doctor decided Earth was more interesting than him and humans were more fun to hang out with than with him.

(Although the last screenshot suggests that the star isn't actually responsible for the mass extinctions. So, Master, it's your chance to shine! As my professors have said, it has been done before, but not the way you do!)

I love that this scientist suggests that Nemesis should be called Companion, instead, because that's what the Master was supposed to be. That's what the Doctor wanted him to be. That's what they promised each other when they were young.

Fun fact that I completely forgot about while writing this post because I am an idiot: Gallifrey is in a binary star system. However, it seems like it has an artificial origin. So I don't know how to apply it to the post but we can apply it as a metaphor to them too because, I mean, how many fanfics of them running around the red fields under the twin suns have we read, right?

SO yeah I think I have gone too far with this and I just noticed it's actually been three hours but hey it's a friday night and I'm sick so!

[chiclet-go-boom]

responding more to the tags you put in, but following up with this because i love talking games in general and ffxiv in particular right now since i'm playing it:

it's wild how random experiences out in the wild can offer drastically different takeaways. by the time i was through heavensward (and honestly, looong before that) i was hooked on the storyline of ffxiv. card carrying convert, preach to the rabble, willing to be the living embodiment of the meme, the whole shebang. i find it fascinating (by which i mean honestly curious, that wasn't sarcasm font) that you finished that expansion and (at least by your wording) you were fairly 'meh' about it.

i mean, heavensward was fantastic writing! great charactization! poignant, heavy moments and a bunch of clutch saves by your truly, the one and only Warrior of Light.

i don't know the acronym "swl" - star wars something? secret world legends, maybe? but if it had a better storyline, i'm blinking and need the cliff notes. tell me all! Secret World was absolutely fantastic for lore and world and if that's what you meant, i would agree in a heartbeat but I'm pretty sure you meant a different game?

and its also wild that you had such rough, terrible dungeon experiences to the point that it completely soured you on the game. i completely get it, i had some issues years ago when i first played the game but mostly it was to do with my internal terror of group content and looking back on it, it was not so much the actual dungeons and players in them but me. in this go-around of playing (coming up on two years) I could count on two hands the number of parties where somebody said something tasteless, on one hand where somebody was being a general douche to everybody in their vicinity and, like, two instances of somebody being an absolute cow to me in particular. Considering the bajilions of dungeons I've done it feels like, that's good numbers!

World of Warcraft, on the other hand....

i am sorry to hear it, of course. random pugs are fucking random for sure and it sounds like you ran into the worst of the lot because karma wasn't on your side for awhile. that has to bite.

it may very well be the fact that i've stuck to my guns over the last decade that, when playing games that have multiplayer components, my safe space is finding one (or maybe two) other players who have my sense of humor and then just glomping on like a limpet. i make no apology for it, i am happiest holding hands with just a couple of people (no seattle polycule for me!)

i cannot do large guilds, they are soul-sucking in the worst ways. i feel like a cog, i act like a cog, i hate not knowing anybody or anything and trying to carve out a space can feel terrible if you can't immediately find somebody to click with. so i keep it completely locked down to the teeniest circle i can manage, do that whole "be your authentic self" deal (only, you know, in text) and basically meander through things at my own speed. if that means i play solo until the game won't let me anymore, then that's what i do/did. i am very capable of entertaining myself!

that ffxiv is now working towards making the main story and all the content that's required for it solo-able has been a godsend honestly. i wish more mmo/mmo-lite games did that. back in the day, playing with the rest of humanity was fresh and exciting and its own draw. nowadays... not so much? :P

if dancer ever gets tambourines, i will totally let you know first thing.

ffxiv needs to step it up with the dancer weapons. I’m tired of metal circles that all look the same with slightly different embellishments. Give me some tambourines. A set of cymbals. War fans. A circular saw. Let me smack a god in the face with a monster truck tire.