"wow I can't believe pacat had the balls to make laurent so unlikeable in book 1" TO YOU. I liked him since day 1 he was a snake and a bitch and he was terrible to damen and I loved him for that
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I'm too tired to write the full Essay™, but someone said in the tags that Stampede took away Knives' fear and it made me realize that the core issue I have with Trigun Stampede is the fact that the characters lack the emotional depth of Trigun Maximum. Like, I'm enjoying Stampede, and it's emotional, but Knives and Vash especially have had their emotional complexity watered down in comparison to the manga.
In the manga, they were as much at war with themselves as they were with each other and world around them. Knives was expressive, animated, and always playing up the megalomaniac god complex in public, but in private he was exhausted and scared and even expressed guilt towards his sisters for being careless in how he orchestrated the fall. Vash was an upbeat pacifist who was constantly fighting his own urge to take the "easy" way out and kill to solve problems.
It's what made the manga so heartbreaking. Neither of them were entirely right, but neither of them were entirely wrong. Knives shouldn't try a genocide, but he was also a deeply traumatized child who was shown how cruel humans could be to plants. Vash should try to do as much good in the world as he can, but holding onto the ideals of pacifism in a hostile environment does more harm than good and he learns that when he's finally pushed to the point where he has to choose between killing and saving someone important to him.
I don't think it's impossible for Stampede to recover in Season 2, but the foundations aren't great. Changing Nai to being cold as child seems like such a small change, but Knives starting out as the optimist who loved humanity is so central to that internal conflict... I don't know. Maybe they'll come back to the point of Rem being important to Knives and make use of the fact that he intended for her to survive and that might save it. We'll have to see.
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realizing i do this thing that i really really hate which is when i’m originally super excited about something but the default reaction is something negative i’ll eventually just start spouting off a million disclaimers every time i bring it up. like yeah i’m majoring in creative writing haha don’t worry i know i’m never gonna make any money haha i’m definitely going to just get a practical job and publish on the side maybe if i’m lucky!! like NO bitch have some confidence in yourself😭😭 goddamn i’m such a pushover
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medic tf2 doodles?!?!?? in this economy!???!?!? (art from yesterday)
most gentle and sweet middle aged german man in the whole entire world smile vs planning to swap all of your organs with a series of interconnected frogs smile
a doodle i did of Medic and Archimedes.... he looks too round in this drawing, not smug and evil enough..... also Mitzi from the RAE appearance :D
i LOVE the voicelines Medic has with Haunted Archimedes, he's not disturbed or even slightly put off by the fact that his zombified dove is 1. talking and 2. has a violent and constant craving for brains. he's just like. being a slightly irritated pet owner about it. he's just like "ugh yes archimedes vants all zhe brains doesn't he. now shut up". also i think this is the most on-model medic drawing i've ever done wtf
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cute wyll & astarion dialogue that can trigger when you explore the cliffs around wyrm's rock fortress. wyll would fish when he was younger! I would imagine he continued to do so, while travelling the sword coast as the blade of frontiers :)
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Our friend Ti (variant) was playing ISAT yesterday and we were in vc with them. They were nearing their time to get ready for work and were like “should I fight the king now or should I just save and we can do something else until I have to leave” and the three of us—Undead, myself, and Butwhy—all knew this was their first king fight. We also knew how much it was hyped up by the game.
So what do we do?
“Dude you should fight it now and we can figure out something to do if you have time afterwards”
“If they have time?? It’s the king fight, do you want to boost their ego?”
“I’m being optimistic! It didn’t take us an hour to beat the king!”
“It sure as hell felt like it-“
>”OKAY ILL FIGHT THE KING GOD”
-they were prepping to level up from 50 to 55 [and instead then siffrin 55 to 58] before fighting the king and we played it off as we were soooo bored waiting and pleaaaaase Ti just right himmmm you’ll do fine at your levels I promise we’ve beat him at lower you’ll be okay
>Fine okay
We go through the whole Schtick, doing voices and playing it off as if the first king fight will be horrendous and difficult we all hell, even telling our horror story of the first time we fought the king (aka “the first time we did this and saw his bar go up that fast it was like ‘OUGH-‘ it was scary”)
And then they die immediately
And it was BEAUTIFUL
I love messing with my friends on their first playthroughs
And their husband (undead) had just fought the king for the first time the day prior so he was IN ON IT he joined right on board with Butwhy regarding how long it took
We also brought up the Jordan’s and AF1s again btw cause Butwhy and I still think it’s the funniest thing ever
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