#im sure that wont go wrong

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

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[foxx-queen]

i keep thinking about the datamined conversation between halsin and minthara and what gets me about it is that if you side with halsin and turn minthara away, thats objectively the bad choice.

like at this point, you've rescued minthara from moonrise. you know now that she was being controlled to act against her will. you've gone to the trouble of rescuing her from her tormentors, and you've experienced what it felt like as they tried to destroy her mind. you know what will happen to her if you turn her away. and if you do, you're willingly condemning her to that fate. you've essentially allowed her to experience freedom, to regain her sense of self, only to tear that away from her again.

whereas if you side with minthara, and halsin leaves, that's the only consequence he experiences. that he's not a companion anymore. at this point, we've saved the grove, we've saved him, and we've lifted the shadow curse. we've helped him achieve what hes been hoping to do for over a century. leaving your party won't see him lose his free will. he can return to the grove and live his life.

the choice is essentially either condemn someone to a fate worse than death, knowing exactly what that entails vs not letting someone travel with you anymore. its pretty clear cut to me.

its just interesting to me that they've switched the morality of it around given that minthara is considered the 'evil' companion by so many.

[elecmon]

have you accidentally caught canela in his underwear or naked?

but he's a candle?

[bonefall]

Willowpelt sounds SO autistic, it not being funny wraps around into being funny again.

My secret is being so autistic and so surrounded by so many other autistic people that I forget what tismless people even do. Everyone in BB ends up getting a touch of ADHDautism. As a treat.

But yeah when I was jotting it down I realized it too. Like wow, I really hit this one with the autism beam. Me and you, Willy, we will both have adamantine opinions. I cannot condone your hatred of apples but you do have a good point about oak trees.

[relzz5xg]

THE QUIZ SAYS IM ARO AVE BUT I DONT FEEL ARO ACE???

[kateis-cakeis]

"No, it must go free."

"Dragons cannot be used like that! They must be left unshackled, free to roam the earth."

"Dragon’s are magical creatures! They belong to no man! They are for the benefit of all!"

These are Merlin's lines during his confrontation with Borden (34:50 S4Ep4)

I know many in this fandom assume that Aithusa was under Kilgharrah's care after they (using they/them here because of the canon 'he' vs the fanon 'she') were born. But there's nothing to actually suggest that's true.

Instead, with Merlin's lines here, it heavily suggests dragons raise themselves. They go free, unbound from men (even Dragonlords it seems), and are left unshackled - in a world that lets them.

And this is directly seen in S4Ep13 as Aithusa seems to just be hanging about when they fly down to heal Morgana (and while they do fly away after, maybe they just felt the need to check in and got attached to Morgana at some point :P so I don't think it was an explicit betrayal)

Likeeee, let's say this was the Triple Goddess's way of prophecy being like yeah no, to letting Morgana just rot on a forest floor :P

But based off this, I think it's more than likely that dragons in BBC Merlin mirror many lizard species - where they just lay the egg and leave. This seems true and coincides with how Aithusa's egg ended up in a tomb to be protected (hundreds of years before the Great Purge).

And because a Dragonlord is needed to hatch it, this very much seems to be the case - that dragons are not raised but rather left to the wild to fend for themselves.

So Kilgharrah was never looking after Aithusa, and Merlin was never meant to either. Both left Aithusa to their own devices because that's how a dragon is meant to grow and live. On their own.

I know from the deleted scene in S4Ep1 that Daobeth was destroyed by dragons, suggesting that dragons can work together and be known to one another - so it's not like they're entirely solitary.

But I don't know! I think this is one of those things where it's like there's an assumption that's turned into a kinda blame game. (A bit like how some people believe in that Kilgharrah theory that feels sooo out of place to canon and the real story of the show).

Anyway, here's a different interpretation that doesn't put the blame on Merlin, or Kilgharrah, or Aithusa. Little dragon is allowed to make mistakes!

And hell, Kilgharrah's theory about Aithusa doesn't have to be wrong, 'the light of the sun' being a positive and fitting meaning could simply be about a new dragon at all. It could be about post canon even. There's a lot there, Kilgharrah only had a theory, he literally says 'I believe'. Cut him some slack!

sdfhhsdf all this to say, I think you can do some fun worldbuilding with dragons based off canon, and this is just one example of that.

Dragons roam free and have no parents :D It's fine, that's nature and magic ;)

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

I promised SeraPent art in that one weird analysis I did awhile ago, but I couldn't think of any poses I liked enough to make full pieces of, so all you're getting are these random ass, kinda crappy doodles I did awhile ago lol

I made a couple more but don't like them enough to post-

Also yes the 3rd one is a WOY reference I'm going INSANE-

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[solcarow]

orv adaption announcements …………..

[arolesbianism]

I don't play limbus company but I have been informed of the Don news and am now rotating her violently in my brain despite only knowing second hand information about her. Depending on how her story plays out I might have to read limbus story stuff because just the concepts behind her character is making me go rabid why must she be so good she's banana blond

[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

the results for a job application i did for a social services job back in december 2023: have you ever considered you're just too MID to ever be employed??? also consider learning how to make decisions and solve problems.

me: fucking hire me anyway and train me to be less mid, perhaps??? and also, maybe train me to make good decisions and problem solve, or let me me pass it onto everyone else, so then i dont have to do it lmao.

[knightelf]

making myself mad for no reason by remembering this customer that has been coming in who got two kittens and decided Beforehand they were going to be outdoor cats. clenches fist

[intoafandom]

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[petorahs]

☀️ i am so sad, i heared that they wont include anything from fes or portable, so no femc, no answer or the like. I hate it here, why this disrespect to my girl Minako i will fight somebody at atlus HQ

oh. well i will say it straight (the only thing straight about me i fear lol) but thats likely not entirely true, ☀️ anon. idk if youve seen this post but it sums it up pretty well https://www.tumblr.com/petorahs/719925542729695232

and the full article published a while later:

bad ign reporting aside, i was also pretty upset at first since no femc and the answer! but then i saw a good point someone made about the femc case:

persona 3 reload has reportedly been in development for four years. and in that four years thats standard time to build a game from the ground up, maybe even too little – anyone who's been in game dev can tell us that. p3re doesnt reuse assets, too, it's completely from scratch. so having femc isnt simply a matter of model swap. they'd also have to program the UIs and make everything pink - sure, that could be "easy", but there's also the changed social links and team dynamics (more writing to be done), weapon system and all that (more coding)? so its like... i'd be actually surprised if they managed a femc during those 4 years. its quite a lot of work to re-adapt base p3 as is i feel and modernizing it. also i feel like atlus themselves wouldnt want to do their character and her fanbase wrong so of course they wouldnt fkn slap on a few pink menus and call it a day. they surely want to rewrite the s links and everything too in accordance to her. art takes time.

(with all that being said bullying atlus for femc is warranted actually maybe then her inevitable dlc might come faster lmao )

similarly, im fine with no "the answer" now despite being its #1 defender. theyd have to completely rework the 30:2 hour grinding to story ratio which is just not sustainable on a modern gameplay perspective. that also takes time.

its why i made this post actually. i somehow trust them, and i feel like most of us can stand to chill a little and have healthier expectations. as in not overbloated and not have the bar set in hell either (altho we should also do that too)

and i know, like anyone who's played this game, it means so much to so many people. and thats why its maybe impossible to please everyone, because its so many different things: a game that saved their life, a funny goofy lighthearted one where you catch demons, the most depressing persona game ever (altho i feel like p2 would beg to differ on that one-), or for me personally, a game that just made me cry man.

and because it means so much, everyone wants to see it be the best it can be!! and that means having hamuchan. i get that all of this riot energy is out of love for the game, really. but. yeah.

a remake seems like it's "less work to do" since the foundation's "already there" and i dont know how many people worked on p3re but like. i highly doubt theyre just sitting on their asses pissing off fans on purpose lol. (or maybe they are and im just too optimistic damn 😭)

[scramble-crossing]

i don't even get that sho betrayed the wicked twisters. he told them that he was just helping temporarily. and he did that. and then he left. what was the betrayal exactly lol

It's not about him leaving the W.T

This is semantics and I really don't feel like going and picking over neo to double-check, but I don't think Sho ever implies that his help is temporary as much as it is sporadic. He comes and he goes, but from the W.T reactions to his permanent departure it certainly doesn't look like they were expecting him to stop coming back. Nagi is desolate. Rindo says that they're doomed. Heck, this is the moment where Fret's cheerful mask slips for the first time in the game! And anyways, regardless of what Sho did or didn't imply, leaving them when they had just learned that they were playing for their lives, going as far as to say "Now I can finally ditch you zeptograms" is a massively dickish move, if not a betrayal in and of itself. Remember, they relied on him. Rindo and Fret especially, they're just kids, and they clearly depended on Sho a great deal, and would've absolutely felt hurt and betrayed when someone they'd come to see as a sort of mentor or guardian sneered and then turned their backs on them right when they need him most.

But I'm actually talking about when he attacks them in Week 3!

And this is more in the realm of personal interpretation. The way I see it, it's incredibly likely that Sho knew or at least could've guessed that Rindo's Soul Pulvis are dangerous fairly early on. He's whip-smart and has an extremely high imagination. Not to mention the fact that he spent all of Week 1 investigating it (which is a whole other can of worms, with him twice, once with the DRS and once with Susukichi, willingly putting the W.T in harms way in order to test his little hypothesis). He should've known that it was a danger to the city. He probably did! But that didn't stop him from waiting and watching it grow so that he could eventually harness the power himself, almost definitely so that he could make another attempt on the Composer's seat.

We know from the Secret Reports that he attacked the W.T in a mindless frenzy, that it wasn't something he meant to do. I don't think he necessarily meant to hurt anyone other than Joshua. He thought he could control Soul Pulvis. He couldn't. And then afterwards he has to scrape himself up off the pavement and confront the fact that he zetta fucked up and now all of Shibuya's in danger of being Inverted. It's like his Taboo Noise all over again, he makes a gamble for the city and nearly ends up dragging the whole thing under (with some help from the Conductor, of course) in his single-minded pursuit of approaching godhood, the difference this time being that he looks at what he's done and realizes that he doesn't want it to be this way. So he helps the W.T. He becomes an indispensable part of their plans to save Shibuya, which, in the end, works because of his understanding of what Soul Pulvis is and how it can be overwritten.

But back to his fight. The way I see it, Sho was a mentor figure to these kids, someone who they trusted to have their backs (at least when the mood struck him, anyways). He abused that position to test a theory. Then he left them, right when they were at their most vulnerable. Then he came back, to help them, they think, until he absorbs a power that he knows is highly volatile, attacks, and nearly kills them. Beat outright tells them that Sho doesn't care about anyone, but himself. I think this is wrong, I think he does care about the W.T. There are multiple times when he helps or guides them even when there's nothing immediately in it for him, seemingly because he really does want them to have a shot at making it out of this game alive. I just think that he still cares about himself a little bit more.

The Secret Reports outright say that Rindo is terrified of Sho after his fight. Whatever his motives were, whatever he meant to accomplish, it wouldn't really matter that much to Rindo, or any of the other Twisters. They trusted Sho, and he broke that trust. They (or at least Fret) seem to come around to him again a bit later in the week, but they're obviously more standoffish and nervous around him than they were before. If it wasn't a betrayal in a textbook sense, I think the W.T definitely took it as one.