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[somegrumpynerd]

I love ur artstyle they all look so squishy and cute <3

Ahksbjdbkjbdkjbdkj thank you!! ;-; I do want everyone to look kinda round and squishy and plush and I'm really glad you like it ^^

Also, because I actually had time for once and I wanted to do a doodle, attempted squishery:

[jax-me-anything]

Holy crap DO check out this awesome fandub of the askblog by the way, and give it some love!! Jax's voice is amazing here and the editing is so cool! ☆))

[knightwhoisni]

*drifter seeing the protoframe they'll romance for the first time voice* i think i hauve the infestation

[wodniars-void]

Twitchy I saw these tags and want to enable you. Please say more? (If you have the spoons.)

Thank you for enabling me Cori!! I have brought you a very large ramble :3 This was so fun to expand on!!

I was mostly inspired by the ideas of Social Darwinism in the early 20th century. Extremely basically, the elite thought they were rich because they inherently deserved to be, and the lower classes and poor had something inherently wrong with them that made them poor. They were strong and thus became stronger, the weak only got weaker. To be extremely honest, total horseshit. But interesting to draw from for fictional societies!

In Scala ad Caelum, Keyblade Wielders are the dominant class. In fact the inferiority of Non-Wielders literally defines them in the sense they are Not Wielders. They are the non-default, the Other, the Lesser, the amalgamate masses. To be a keyblade wielder is the default, valued state, and to not be one makes you worth less. It's evident in the language we use to discuss these societies, even out of game- we define them by what they are not. If you're not a wielder, you're lumped together into one massive undefined group.

In contrast, within the Keyblade wielders are different rankings of superiority. In Dark Road this is possibly signified by the different colors of emblems that each student wears*. KHML appears to have its own emblem code, but it's difficult to tell as we have so little footage. Purely based off Dark Road and hoping it applies retroactively, there appears to be three classes within wielders. Bluebloods like Eraqus with gold emblems, Vala with the only silver emblem, and those with white emblems. Xehanort has one that is dark grey, but given his unique situation, we can assume a dark grey emblem is an outlier when signifying class. For our purposes we'll be excluding him and focusing on the other three groups.

Bluebloods are the highest class within the wielders, and have long bloodlines of keyblade wielders. Think "blood purity" or castes. It's commonplace for families of wielders to marry each other in pursuit of maintaining keyblade wielding abilities in families of "good standing", societal power, etc. They're like the nobility of the city, and as a result hold the most political control. The most politically powerful group of Bluebloods are Ephemer's descendants, since he founded the city. In a room full of Bluebloods, everyone listens to them.

Then there are wielders from mixed families, people with only one wielder parent or a "diluted" bloodline. Obviously they can be and are just as competent wielders as Bluebloods but they're by default an inferior social class. This is the majority of keyblade wielders**- by Scala times keyblades aren't exactly rare, and a lot of people don't have the hangups that the Bluebloods do about social standing. Really, as long as you can claim the heritage of at least one Wielder and are a Wielder yourself, regardless of other economic or social status, you're in this group.

Lastly and lowest are wielders of no social standing. They're often people who's keyblades just appeared to them one day, with no notable lineage of previous wielders. Sometimes the keyblade just chooses someone new! They're socially higher than non-wielders, but with no bloodline to stand on, they have to work to be recognized as highly as their peers.

Now to get the discriminatory part.

The upper class of Bluebloods generally holds the belief that Keyblade Wielders are such because they deserve to be in some way. Their hearts have a lot of very strong light, they come from families of very high standing, they hate darkness more than anyone else, etc. They're superior because they inherently deserve to be. The light deigns them superior by their very nature as Wielders. This bleeds into the inverse- Non-wielders aren't wielders because they have some inherent flaw. There's something inherently lesser about non-wielders that makes them undeserving of keyblades. They're weak or susceptible to darkness. The keyblade scorns them, which is makes them Lesser. Being Lesser makes the keyblade avoid them. It's a cycle, at least in the eyes of high society. (Needless to say, all of this rather untrue. A keyblade is either passed down via bequeathing or chooses a wielder. Literally anybody could get one.)

Only the most intense corners of the Bluebloods get particularly persnickety about this, at least publicly, but the effects of this attitude resonate through Scalan society. The societies are sort of a product of this strict class system. Keyblade wielders tend to mingle with others of like standing. For example, the Baroque society appears to be a particularly lower class society, largely comprised of wielders from mixed familes or no previous lineage. This is a bit of headcanon, but I would assume that Nept is the "highest class" among them, given he was able to become an Operations Master and is a member of the "Society Legal Investigations Committee". (yes, I watched the beta cutscenes to quote that directly, lol) Regardless, Nept being both in a position of leadership and in some sort of organized committee indicates he's probably of higher status than the rest of the Baroque society. Freya is possibly next highest, and Remus the lowest- he's kind of the one who gets bossed around and all. In my heart Freya is an Ephemer descendant though <3

Similarly, Player is almost definitely on the lowest rung of the social ladder. They'd fall into the category of wielders who's blades just Appeared to them, disregarding the whole reincarnation/fell from the sky thing. As far as anyone's concerned right now, they're some random kid who got their hands on a rusty old keyblade, and that's it.

This brings me to Brain. Brain is a notable exception to the extremely strict class dynamics, because he isn't engrained in them the way Scalans are. He's almost elevated above the class system because of his status as a Union Leader. He is at the true top, the most idealized place in society. Even the Bluebloods and Ephemer's descendants have to respect that. Not that most of them are very happy about that, but hey, societal conventions bind us all. Really the only person who rivals him in terms of political and societal importance is whoever leads the city- like say, Frigga in Fallen Stars.

I originally went down this train of thought as some Brain's Twitter Takeover worldbuilding, and I really quite like it, so I'm holding myself back a little to try and sift out what's general KHML ideas and what's potentially BTT :3 I cut a couple paragraphs of accidental spoiler overflow lol. I'm really excited to see what KHML does with these ideas of bloodlines!!! I'm sure it'll be a great story!!

*Side tanget: I tried to figure out if the emblem colors would correlate with my groupings, and that is a whole ride. It essentially comes down to which class the white and silver emblems represent. The gold emblems almost defiently indicate Blueblood or other high class status, as Eraqus wears one, but the other two are much more up in the air. For convenience I've included the list I compiled glancing at all the Dark Road sprites. It's my personal thoughts that the order is Gold -> White -> Silver -> Dark Grey, but hey, you do you. Gold: Eraqus, Baldr, Hoder, Urd, Vor, Heimdall, Helgi, Vali, Odin White: Hermod, Bragi, Sigrun, Vidar Silver: Vala Dark Grey: Xehanort

**second tanget: I know I said the middle class of wielders is the largest and then showed DR was mostly upper class so I had to make some clarifying comments. I believe that the Dark Road class is top-heavy because 1) Xehanort and Eraqus' class wasn't the only one at the academy (To quote the khwiki's DR summary, "Odin summons the No Name Keyblade from its display overhead, and leaves the room to evacuate other students.") 2) the process of different groups of people having more kids at different times 3) the many socio-economic aspects of going to Keyblade School and 4) not everyone WANTS to be a wielder and thus might not go to school for it if they don't have to. For all intents and purposes assume that the events of Dark Road happen at like, a fancy private school. The sample sizes there are Different.

This is all speculation and I may even have a bit of a conspiracy board going here but I had fun and that's what matters! KHDR they could never make me hate you <3

[ghoulish-activities]

I’m really excited for the ghoul care guide. Also, how did the domestication process for ghouls work? Was it more like dogs where they were attracted to human garbage dumps, more like cats where they moved in to eat human pests and domesticated themselves, or something else?

I'm happy you're excited, the ghoul care guide has been in the drafts for a while, I'll most likely redo it, but I at least have the draft of some points done.

But I never been sure if people were interested in this, as my long post have sadly a long track record of getting little to no interaction.

Domesticated ghouls

Idea came to me when researching for the taxonomy post, it has been primarily inspired by dogs being a subspecies of grey wolf. But I think ghoul domestication was much more similar to cat domestication.

Cats domesticated themselves, some might think it's nothing, but technically we classify domestic species as being selectively breed, but cat domestication was a natural selection. Which usually is indicative of feral or wild species. Making cats a bit weird.

Also I think there's a lot of breeds, just main categories are water, earth, air and fire. Quintessence being completely different species who is closely related to the rest.

So I think at first ghouls were accidentally domestication by being summoned, tamed and living along side humans before being sent down (I'm taking about the beginnings of ministry, the nowadays ghouls can stay after retirement or be sent away, it's not important in this argument) and offsprings of summoned ghouls would be more likely to survive (lack of natural predators + protection form ministry). In turn being (somewhat) obedient to humans would be a desirable trait to be summoned and have change to reproduce with surviving kits.

Later ministry when started thinking about project ghost started a program to make ghouls of more distinctive characteristics for each other (distinctive dominant elements) (and if you assume ghouls aren't (in majority) sent back it could be the start of that).

Now despite ministry moving away form the elements and instruction of multi ghouls into a band, there's still many domesticated ghouls with those distinctive breed characteristics. Even tho "pure breeds" are extremely rare.

So for example "water ghouls" is an umbrella term for the water dominant breeds that used to be more distinctive, but now many are more feral or/and mixed.

Quintessence have a similar story, but they much quicker became mixed as there wasn't worry of elements as they had primary just one.

I. vulgaris vecare and I. via lactea vscare can easily interbreed and have fertile offsprings, being the most common hybrid in the genus.

Thank you for an ask, I appreciate it greatly. I hope you didn't mind my rant and that I gave a satisfying answer.

[copia]

he is such a man who squirts cream directly into his mouth

[quietlyblooms-gone]

memories that linger | love and deepspace

there's always been something pushing against you. and not in the metaphorical, woe is you sort of way, but in the way that... well, you can't quite put your finger on it. there's nothing metaphorical about it, you think, but anyone else would swear it's just your luck. you believe that, too, when you aren't so displeased with the way things are going. there is something that tries to force your hand, change the choices you want to make.

you realize that sounds crazy. that's why you keep it to yourself.

you've stopped resisting the push so much these days. you feel it like a hand upon your back, urging you forward and into the hunter association's ranks despite your dream of publishing your manga. it feels simultaneously wonderfully right and terribly wrong, though the development of certain events quickly steals your attention away from that invisible hand. you want answers. you need them, and you'll march in whichever direction that leads you to them.

additional details

in this verse, i'm writing chiyo as the mc and toying with the concept of past lives like the game does, though i may also sprinkle in a little itty bitty bit of fourth wall stuff -- like chiyo having the thought, " this is like a game, and someone else is making my choices. " as a treat <3

but the focus will be more on fate bc chiyo really hates it as a concept, and that's so much fun to write in this setting :' )

when interacting with other mc's, we can decide if we'd like our characters to just so happen to be in the same boat, having grown up with grandma and caleb, etc. if not, i have no problem writing chiyo in her main verse! there's plenty to work with either way and i'm happy to adapt!

bc chiyo's parents and grandmother play such important roles in her development, they're alive and well until wanderers kill them just before chiyo's freshman year of high school. this event leads to josephine taking her in. she was a friend of the family and as good as a second grandmother to chiyo.

i'll likely think to add more when i'm not sleep-deprived and as i progress in the story, but if you have any questions, just let me know <3

[amphibifish]

i've had so much drawing 2 get out of my system and more tomorrow because OUGHH yeah thinking about them and i haven't had time to draw it's just been building up in me. anyway i miss skaðishes kind of awesome .here's a very rough sketch of her i'll have to truly design her later but im set on the hair and whatnot so the clothes r like whatever LOL

[soullistrations]

just finished episode 14. more rewatch thoughts!

ahhh more asahi/kageyama parallels! really loving the back-to-back scenes of kageyama contemplating oikawa’s challenge and asahi remembering the disastrous dateko match. and then later, kageyama going full people pleaser to try to sync up with asahi. like! gotta keep an eye on how all this setup plays out in the inter-highs.

the way this episode dwells on daichi’s hope and determination, and brings back suga’s hard work behind the scenes to get the first-years caught up on their hand signals—he’s committed! to training his underclassmen! ah! it just speaks to why they work so well as captain and vice captain. and then to see them being so pleased as punch at ukai doing some research (the kind of stuff that in the past they’ve largely been in charge of) oh it makes me happy

suga and tanaka is an underrated dynamic but so fun—like, they are the first two team members we get to know outside of kageyama and hinata, but then seeing suga on tanaka wrangling duty at the pep rally made me remember that i do really love how these two work together. they’re like. they’re both really chaotic but suga knows when/how to hide it, unlike tanaka, who will be murdered in his sleep by ennoshita if he’s not careful

i love kiyoko’s speech so much. i love this glimpse into who she is as a character.

the blatant foreshadowing at the very end with kageyama and hinata--"you think your dumb ass will be on my level one day? you really think you'll be the best in japan? or the world?' like YEAH DUDE

[sunb0ts]

I am literally SO HAPPY this game was so GOOODDD it's making meNHB JSKDBHFBHF

[astridcookie]

astrid….it is 12:12am you need to sleep….

oopsie

[somegrumpynerd]

He's reading c:

[zooblesbutchpuppygirl]

Giving them a goodnight kissie right now <3

[maxwell-mtv]

I'm over halfway done with the comic I started about a month ago. It's only three pages but it's going to be something that means something to me. Here's a little teaser while I work hard to actually finish a project for once lol

[transgender-catboy]

It's been on my mind a lot lately

[murobrown]

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