#it’s actually driving me insane

[v1olent-l1ttle-th1ng]

Weekly Empyrean/Onyx Storm Theories Week 3: Who turned?

WHO TURNED AT THE END????

Ok so when I read it for the very first time, my initial thought was Garrick. He’s one of the missing riders at the end, which definitely makes it likely. I also think Xaden would have been more upset if it was Bodhi. He seemed fairly chill with the whole thing in my opinion. Especially with the whole ‘you need to be my replacement’ theme throughout the book. Garrick also told Imogen, “I’d better find some fucking way to do something” once he brings her back after Quinn’s death. Getting more power by turning venin is definitely doing something.

The more I re-read, the more Bodhi also fits. I mean he’s ‘overlooked’, ‘next in line’ and told to ‘stay behind.’ In Imogen’s POV, we even see him “on his hands and knees, retching” which I think easily could have been him drawing from the earth instead.

I honestly think this could go either way. Rebecca said on one of her tour stops to “pay attention to who is missing at the end” and to “someone who didn’t feel like they are enough.” To me, Garrick fits the first one more but Bodhi fits the second one.

I’m still leaning SLIGHTLY more towards Garrick. Mainly because Xaden says, “How could he do this? Choose this after watching me stumble and fall over the last five months.” Garrick is really the only person who has been with him for almost the entire time. I mean Bodhi isn’t in quest squad, so there’s no way he’d see ‘Xaden struggle’ as much as Garrick.

Other points that support it being Garrick:

-On Hedotis Mira says, “Garrick has stood by Xaden’s side no matter the cost”. Standing by his side by turning venin so his best friend doesn’t have to go it alone seems likely.

-“I’d better find some fucking way to do something” seems like something someone who ‘didn’t think they were enough’ might say.

BUT if we wanna say it’s Bodhi who turned, he is fairly overlooked throughout the book. Xaden constantly telling him to stay behind and protect the throne. Their conversion in Onyx Storm when Bodhi wants to fight for Aretia with the rest of them, Xaden tells him, “You’re staying with the first years.” Bodhi argues with him and asks, “Because I’m not a weapon like you are?” Which draws on the ‘feeling inadequate’ point and then Xaden plays the whole, “Because you’re first in line” card.

ALSO, jumping back to Iron Flame, let’s take a look at the dreams Violet was having. Up until now, we were assuming it was Violet’s dream, however we now know that she was actually in Xaden’s dream. In the dream, Berwyn tells, who we now know was Xaden, “You’ll turn for love, but he’ll turn for power.” Could the ‘he’ be referencing Bodhi? Especially after Theophanie asked him, “Do you not grow tired of being a less-powerful version of your cousin?”

Other points that support it being Bodhi:

-Bodhi tells Violet “I’d kill to go, but you need to take Garrick with you”. Helping to solidify his feeling lesser than.

-While Bodhi’s demonstrating his running landing Violet thinks, “No one thought of him during Battle Brief yesterday, and he should have been the first name that came to mind.” Soliciting the whole ‘overlooked’ vibe.

-The same conversation when Theophanie asked Bodhi about ‘being a less powerful version of Xaden’, Bodhi finds out his signet can’t counter hers. Cue feeling like not enough. Bodhi says, “My signet is always the balance”, but it’s clearly not in this situation, which could leave him feeling less than.

Anyways, I honestly still don’t know which one of them it was, these are just my reasons for each!

[hmstartnell]

Someone send me anything relating to Solving please!!! I need motivation to write this fic. It’s been in the works for over a month and I keep opening the doc, looking at it, sighing, closing it and scrolling on tumblr for 3 hours

[possamble]

hiii everybody are you normal about Falin showing Laios the same little spell that Marcille showed her? are you normal about Falin remembering it fondly enough that it was one of the first things she showed her brother while trying to teach him magic?

[dasketcherz]

ONE OF THE DIRECTORS OF TTS SHIPPING JAYVIK?? YKNOW, THE SOULMATE LAB PARTNERS FROM ARCANE???

oh sir Tom Caulfield.... you would've loved varigo...

and that makes me wanna scream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA /VPOS

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

Me repeatedly coming back to look at this image every hour

Everybody shut up this is all I’m going to be thinking about 24/7 from now on

[remxedmoon]

(you worked yourself to death.)

yeah i wasn’t kidding when i said these would be coming soon. <- haha funny joke marshall. so!! remember when i said that this post would be coming out last weekend? guess whose tablet broke a few days after saying that! so sorry for the delay!! this is long overdue. here’s a link to the drive, as always! everything in this part of the update should be in the miscellaneous folder (outside of the menu icons, which are in the menu folder. wauaua).

unedited versions below the cut, plus some notes. fair warning 90% of this is just ui stuff lol

so! all of this was already done by the time i posted the enemies. the delay isn’t *entirely* because of the tablet issues, i just managed to get distracted by making: even more redraws! i’d say new update soon but after what happened last time i shouldn’t jinx myself. but! almost All of the art for the initial mod release is done!!!! exciting!!!!!!

please be nice to me (silly) this is my first time doing frame by frame animation in… give or take 5 years? i followed the original animations pretty closely, so they don’t look Awful but i am Aware of the jank. i’m not an animator!!! they’re Good Enough for my purposes.

hey did you know that the original teleport map is slightly off center. did you know that. that’s not the case for the redraw for the record but it did make things a little harder. despite that, i think you can tell i was having fun with the dormont part of the map. i would’ve put more detail into the house, but we never really get a more detailed look at it??? and i didn’t want to make assumptions. so that part’s just traced from the original 👍. anyways shoutout to the clocktower being Curved for whatever reason

outside of those, all of the added art is actually just spritework. i didn’t know this at first, but there’s a TON of copies of sprites from the icon set. Basically Everywhere. so those are added now! and should work properly! also added a few sprites that were Missing from my original batch. not going to put them all here, but a few Important ones (which i actually had to make new art for) are the rock paper scissors cheatsheet, the Larger versions of the craft signs (used in the calamité fight and. probably somewhere else idk), and the craft signs for the tutorial kid fight!

aaaand i think that’s it! for stuff from this update. yeah no there’s more coming buddy. my tablet already broke one time this week there’s no way it’s happening twice. i’m not working on portraits Just Yet (though the temptation has been There), but i’ve got the title screens, a few backgrounds, and the ending cgs done! along with a few other assorted cgs sketched out. because im out of my fucking mind. so, uh, see you soon!! enjoy!!

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[demaparbat-hp]

Mutual damage (a WIP)

[smollkittykat]

it's the two armchairs in the deancave.

it's the "what about Cas?"

it's the movie he made him watch.

it's the imitation of one of that movie's characters that follows.

It's the defiance of everything he ever believed to be true for one human, right?

It's the "this is Castiel." to an almost forgotten mother that told him that angels would always watch over him.

It's freeing his brother he can't stand from a place worse than hell.

It's seeing resemblence in a monster he was taught to hate.

It's the mixtapes of songs his mother fell in love to.

It's learning to smile.

It's the "don't ever change."

It's the first unanswered call in 15 years with his hands in his hair and sobbing on the ground.

It's the declaration of desperation, to do anything to keep the man he loves safe.

It's throwing his life away on a normal hunt to see him again.

[stuck-in-jelly]

"human hands and arms and hearts are made for carrying."

[yingyoyingsh]

Origins poolverine save me

[catgy]

Gem and Pearl as a moobloom and an enderman :D

Was inspired by this post :)

[itsabouttimex2]

Dumb little headcanon I’ve had rattling around:

The monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain share the feelings of whomever their master is… which currently happens to be Sun Wukong.

What he feels, they feel. What he thinks, they think.

It’s an instinctual, ritual link between the de-facto king of the mountain and his fuzzy little subjects.

If there’s a certain way he’d like to act but restricts himself from, the monkeys acts on those instincts without refrain.

If he likes someone? They like that someone, too.

And if he really likes someone?

Well.

So. One day Wukong goes missing. Maybe heads out with a goal in mind and stays out a little longer than he expected.

It’s an inherent magic that can’t be turned off or delayed. As long as at least one person is on the mountain, the monkeys have a king.

So, without the Monkey King on Flower Fruit Mountain, there’s only one other person that responsibility can fall onto, only one person who reasonably can serve as (temporary!) ruler of the mountain.

Macaque.

Without his knowledge, he’s been given the “reins” to FFM, which now seems to bend to his whims as he pleases, showering him in convenient stretches of shade to brood and whine under, tossing peaches and bananas into his open hands, peeling pebbles from before his step with each foot forward.

But it goes a little further than even that.

Now the local little fireballs acting like the resident wet rat, pouting and kicking rocks as they grumble in their little monkey language, cowering from the sun and conversation and generally being unpleasant and annoying.

Until Sun Wukong comes back, that is.

And the transfer of power from ruler to ruler on the mountain goes a little slower than usual, and suddenly all these sullen little monkeys are flying into his arms with squealing hoots, nuzzling his cheeks, pressing little monkey kisses to his nose and ears.

After all- they feel the same way that their master does.

[hoomanbeaning]

[earl-of-221b]

You’ve got to understand…..you’ve got to understand that in Nezha 1, the sons bow to their parents and masters….as is normal and traditional…

And ten minutes into Nezha 2…Ao Guang rushes half water half man, like a burst flooding dam, to catch Ao Bing in an embrace…saying if his son dies Chentang Guan is all going down with him!

And Shengong Bao sees his disciple alive and immediately perks up, “Ao Bing!” Immediately starts rattling off a plan to save him…

And Li Jing puts a warm hand on Nezha’s shoulder, plays jianzi the shuttlecock game with him…Nezha accepts the most painful heartfelt hug from his mother…

And Ao Bing flings himself onto his dad to hug him, purposefully…

The love and care, and how totally brazen it was shown in the hugs….totally arresting…

[stellophile]

Viktor is one of the most passionate and kind characters in all of Arcane.

Remember the scene where he's explaining the hexcore function to Jayce? Remember the pure, unbridled passion and excitement?

Remember how when he was angry at Jayce on the bridge, how he didn't yell?

Remember how, even though it ended up being the Wrong Thing, while under the Hexcore's manipulation, all he wanted to do was Help? All he ever wanted to do was help those who needed it?

Remember how he was so so devastated when Heimerdinger told him and Jayce their inventions needed more time, becuase he Didn't Have More Time? That 'they could be improving lives now!'?

Viktor is kind, soft, and passionate, please understand this is an integral part of his character.