#kalli rambles

[kittykallikat]

Wriothesley character story and quest spoilers//

I'm having emotions over the wolf man

The fact that Wriosthesley started making his gauntlets at such a young age and out in the streets is making my heart ache. He had to use trial and error as well as picking up any skill or information that he could to improve on every iteration. I can't help imagine this poor baby spent many lonely nights working on them with feverish intent to stop his parents and save current and future children from their clutches.

And he most likely used them to kill his parents too when he returned back to that hell. Imagine the constitution and resolve he needed to end their lives with his own two mechanical fists.

[kittykalliarts]

I DIDNT MEAN TO POST ALL THAT IN A ROW NAURRRR

[priceseyes]

alright, so I'm in the midst of making a fallout au for my COD!OC athena 'birdie' kallis alongside her partner, captain john price. therefore, I thought it would be cool to summarize this whole au a bit for y'all:

*NOTE: there's an age gap between the two with athena/birdie at age 23 and price at age 42. soooo, about 19 years age difference.

As usual, before getting into the references, I’d to give a bit of lore on these two and their relationship: 

The year is 2287, local vault dwellers John Price and Athena ‘Birdie’ Kallis have just recently gotten married to one another after a few years of being with each other. The two first met when Price had saved Birdie from being attacked by a deathclaw as she was trying to fight it off herself, from that point on the two have been living under vault 111 and have been happily married for a month now. 

However, everything goes sideways when an atomic bomb drops close by and they are taken away from one another, with Birdie being taken in to be experimented on within a cryogenic chamber. After waking up without her husband by her side, Birdie makes a plan to find her way back to her John within the world that’s turned itself into a wasteland, she also manages to find herself a dog, cal!

Meanwhile, Price wishes to do the same, wanting to get back to his beloved wife and so, he enlists the help of a local vault nearby, vault 141, in order to help get his birdie back.

[scottishgremlin]

back on my fence bullshit to try and finish up a wip for the kally/tanner lads like myself because we need more content of them!!

[karasushika]

🫀 - kalypso

🧠 - eighteen

🫁 - it/its/she/hers

🦷 - lesbian

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main blog :: @karasushika

hannibal blog :: @kuroshika

nsfw blog :: @kawaishika

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pro-woman, pro-lgbtq+, pro-choice, pro-palestine.

[mordsfesch]

Brainrot moment:

Tatort München sollte dringend damit anfangen Kali als eigenständigen Ermittler zu etablieren. Mir kann keiner sagen, dass Udo und Miro das Ganze noch mehr als fünf Jahre machen. Und die große Frage ist doch, wie sie/der BR den Run beenden wollen. Der Tod beider wäre zu groß und dramatisch, wenn einer stirbt wären die Schauspieler dann doch vermutlich ziemlich pissed. Und wenn beide in Rente gehen, können Cameos bei Specials und Jubiläen möglich sein, was für alle eigentlich die beste Möglichkeit ist.

Und ich vermute doch mal stark, dass Kalli dann (übergangsweise alleine?) München übernimmt, wenn Ferdinand das mitmacht. Die machen doch keinen extra neuen Tatort auf und neue Bosse für Kalli fände ich auch geschmacklos. Die brauchen dringend mal wieder junges Blut, keine ü50 Schauspieler (no offense Udo und Miro, I want you to be my dads).

Dann sollten sie aber auch dringend Kalli mehr als standalone Charakter und als Sympathieträger aufbauen, sonst wird das schwer. Dazu kann ja schon mal gehören, dass er Fälle stärker übernimmt, alleine in Showdowns ist, stärker zur Lösung der Fälle beiträgt, Täter alleine festsetzt, generell mehr Screentime...Im Moment ist er noch sehr in der Assistentenrolle.

Nun ja, hoffentlich kriegen sie die Transition gut hin. Da werden wohl aber auch die drei Schauspieler eine große Rolle spielen. Wenns schief geht und total verhunzt wird, sterben Ivo und Franz beide total sinnlos und Kalli verlässt den Polizeidienst aus Trauer. Dann könnte der BR ein komplett neues Team einfügen. Aber da gehen die Fans auf die Barrikaden.

Thoughts?

Re: Ausstieg Udo und Miro. Die aktuelle Planung scheint ja zu sein, die 100 oder zumindest 99 Folgen vollzumachen. Aktuell sind sie bei Folge 94, iirc. Es ist also noch ein bisschen hin bis zu ihrem Ausstieg, aber er zeichnet sich natürlich bereits am Horizont ab. Laut den beiden, soll es kein allzu großes Drama am Ende geben, weil es nicht zu ihnen und den Charakteren passt. Dem stimme ich absolut zu (außerdem will ich die beiden nicht leiden sehen). Auf der anderen Seite sagte einer der beiden auch, dass sie “nicht so einfach in Rente gehen werden”. Ganz ohne Drama wird es wohl also doch nicht gehen, was ja wieder zum Tatort passt. Wir werden uns wohl überraschen lassen müssen. (Wobei ich von Cameos absolut entzückt wäre und da auch eine kleine Headcanon zu habe). 

Ich glaube ja, es liegt gerade daran, dass eben nicht klar ist, wie genau es dann weiter gehen soll, dass Kalli als Charakter noch nicht so stark ausgebaut wurde. Wobei ich nicht sagen würde, dass da gar nix passiert ist. Gerade in den letzten Fällen hatte ich den Eindruck, dass sich da was verändert. Früher war Kalli oft nur vom Präsidium aus bei den Fällen dabei, jetzt ist er bei Dienstreisen auch mit von der Partie (siehe „Königinnen“ vs. „Wunder gibt es immer wieder“). In „Game Over“ wurde er bei einem Einsatz verletzt, was mich zwar nicht gefreut hat (poor little kalli), aber ja doch eine Art Ritterschlag im deutschen Krimi, gerade dem Tatort ist. Die Veränderung ist schleichend, aber vorhanden. 

Mal abwarten, was da sonst noch kommt. Dass da was kommen muss, damit Kalli als Charakter in der Lage dazu ist, in Franz und Ivos Fußstapfen zu treten, da gebe ich dir absolut recht. Ich persönlich fänd es super, wenn er bleibt und eine Kollegin an die Seite bekäme. Aber das ginge natürlich nur, wenn Ferdinand sich dazu entscheidet, das ganze wirklich weiterzumachen. Er meinte zwar in Interviews, er könne sich das durchaus vorstellen, aber wer weiß, welche anderen Möglichkeiten sich ihm bieten, wenn es dann so weit ist. Im Tatort mitzuspielen ist zwar eine tolle Sache, aber ich glaube, gerade junge Schauspieler:innen laufen da Gefahr für das deutsche Fernsehen schnell „verbraucht“ zu sein, weil die Zuschauer:innen eben nur noch an ihren Sonntagabend-Krimi denken, wenn sie deren Gesichter sehen.

[augustsjanes]

as much as i love the warm seasons... ceiling fans = dust allergies my beloathed

[nervouslywaitingforlife]

After a few hours... I've played through I7 and TWST and put a little comparison video here:

It ain't pretty but you can see how a TWST song compares to a Idolish7 song.

I'll just add some replies to your post here :D

White Rabbit's Fest feels very much like a Idol game or other rhythm game with how much stuffs happening on screen. Especially with seeing Deuce at the end and seeing Silver traverse the foggy posts when no one else could. (NGL that part of the event like a anime scene like from a sport anime lol)

I agree with you about Heartslabyul having the best Twistunes, they had a good amount and from all parts of the story. Though recently I have been missing Heartslabyul (book 1 and the characters) so this may be a little nostalgia.

There was a lot of places in Book 5 where there could have been different Twistunes, there's like 5 songs that have the same songs and the same notes in place. Also the dancing wasn't... It. When the anime comes out those boys better be dancing their hearts out if it covers book 5 (I should say IF with the anime).

I was surprised to not see Crowley in the tune he's supposed to be in, not even like the fairy gala tunes where Vil and Crewel is standing of to the side.

Also not gonna lie I wish we saw a Culinary Crucible tune, seeing as those events are over in JP, just seeing all of the boys cook with maybe some vignettes hiding here and there. I think it would be fun and see the dynamics those events had better.

The tapping sounds is a issue in a few games that I've played, in I7 (the comparison video) some of those different taping sounds aren't the best. "Try out Some Instruments" oof... I remember playing that song for the first time it was something... I fear when I'll have to redo them when the event comes around again.

For the reward on not missing a note, there's no difference whether you perfect combo a song or just full combo it, I remember doing one of the event songs (like fair gala where you have to play it twenty times) and not getting anything different. Though with what you were going to say, I agree, getting to full combo on hard should be a challenge and not just give up the ghost when you get halfway.

TWST should be using their rhythm system just as much as their battle system, it's one of the main selling points of the game imo. It feels like an add on occasionally.

I was THERE when the guest room dropped on eng, I remember what I was doing when it came out. It's more the exam battle with more variation and different rewards. I like having a room you can change but it is still restrictive with how many furniture you can have and how you want to love it.

Looking forward to your rambles about the guest room 0°0

With more interactivity in the games and the characters, it would be nice to actually see characters talking. Like have two characters sit at a tea set and have them talk (like the partners in cards that you would usually improve in alchemy class).

Or little minigames to get items like colouring the roses or playing a game of spelldrive. And seeing the little chibis move around.

Don't apologise about rambling, it's free. Just talking gets the juices flowing and thoughts coming into the head, you started them flowing with by just asking how I would change Twsts song system.

K so in a post I made about how bad twsts rhythm game section is when compared to other games like Idolish7, my friend @prince-kallisto asked me a good question.

A good enough question that it took me a while to respond, and I've got a rant too long to stay in the comments and here we are. Below is all of my rambles about it if you want to hear it!

For me twst has it's own unique rhythm game section but they just don't use it much any more. Let me explain, so in most other rhythm games, the background usually has a video playing like in Idolish7 where it plays some music videos as you play. Project sekai and ensemble are similar in this aspect as well.

Though for twst, it has a mechanic where depending if you hit the dot or not, the character will or won't do an action. This is most obvious in book 1 & 2, in the painting the roses twistunes and the spell drive games. One that I can think of that does it well is in either "play a spell drive bout" or "Play at the tournament", where your tapping has Ace put up a shield. And if you don't put up a shield for a hit or two Ace actually flies off and can't be seen for the entirety of the tune.

This is what makes twst different when compared to other rhythm games, with how you play changing what the characters do. Which is what's been missing in more recent twst tunes like the only one in book 6 and the songs that have characters singing like Give your Gift from GloMas or Perform at the SDC (which on another note these songs are way too long btw).

It's also inconsistent with how many twistunes how many books have, some like book 5 have way to many whilst book 6 only have one. It's kinda sad as someone who might enjoy book 6 would want to redo the twistunes to remind themselves of that story or something but only have one bad twistune. So it feels like a after thought in some cases, though there could be more added, like for book 6, I though there would be one when Yuu, Epel, and rook were on broomsticks to STYX but there wasn't.

Also the repetitive ones are very annoying, like the ones in book 5 and the ones in the twistune events.

There's also an issue with some songs where where you tap doesn't sync with the song well. As usually in other games, you would be playing with the song and hitting the notes the characters are singing but in most you aren't and are doing your own thing.

Something that I was surprised with and still am is that cards don't do anything on the twistune side of things, as in most rhythm games the cards you get can either add to your score or save you from losing your combo or double your points for a set amount of time. But they don't. I think this would expand the twistunes a lot and could lead to them expanding it more and not just the battle sides of things.

Also the thing that started this off, a majority of songs aren't that hard, even on hard mode. There are a few like "Perform the Starsending" and "Get cooking" from book 4 which are good to go back and try to get better at them. But there are only a few songs like this. The hard difficulty should be hard and make me want to replay the songs enough to get all the rewards.

Lastly songs can be forgettable, some aren't like the song for the mostro lounge twistunes or for White Rabbit fest. But others are so forgettable or just don't work with the twistune formula, mostly because they sound like background music not rhythm game music. A recent example for this is "Rush through the Rain!" From cloud calling / Leona's hometown event, the music is repetitive, not interesting and easily forgettable.

Uh yeah that ends my rambles about twsts handling of their rhythm games. :) Basically they should improve on the mechanic they have and learn how other rhythm games actually handle their games.

[kittykallikat]

Scylla and Remus being the tragic previous incarnation of Neuvillette and Wriothesley is doing something to my brain

I might get some things wrong while im hc and speculating, so take it with a pinch of salt and correct me for innacurracies ajajsjdk

But Scylla working with Remus; one kingdom being in the depths of the sea and the other in overworld is such a neat parallel to the Fortress of Meropide and the Court of Fontaine. Though now, the dragon and the wolf has switched places. Scylla entrusts Remus with the goblet of Primodial Sea which is essentially the dragon sovereign of water's blood (heart of you wanna go there). Though later Remus betrayed that trust by hunting Scylla's subjects as well trying to replace all of the Sea with golden ichor.

Wriothesley's fortress guards one entrance to the primodial sea. While its not a goblet, I can't help but be a lil delulu how Neuvillette entrusts Wriothesley to watch over the gate that guards what is essentially his heart and blood.

[kittykalliarts]

YOUR. YOUR NEWEST ANIMATIC. OF THE. OF THE SKRUNKLIES 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I CANNOT PUT TO WORDS HOW MUCH LIFE AND JOY YOU PUT INTO THEM IM SO IN SHAMBLES I LOVE THEM SM AND!!!! AND!!!! JFJJFJDHDHSGSGSHSGSHUDGSYSFHAAHAHGGGAHAGA

oh my god thank you!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖 hngnghgnghgngn

im so happy that a lot of people liked it!!!!! it was my first time making an animatic and i used an unorthodox method to put it together so i was worried that it looked too scuffed X'D

but it brings me joy to see everyone gushing over the blorbos so in love ;;;;w;;;;;

[priceseyes]

y'all, I want to start a detective AU on here soon between price and birdie (athena) and also have it take place in a cyberpunk-like setting because your girl is thinking thoughts.....👀👀👀

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

so.

tragic familial murder-suicide vampire rock opera

[oakwolves]

It’s late and I’m (as usual) rambling about Ace don’t mind me 🙈

I can say that as an All-Star you can say Ace got a whole lot more in terms of content (some all-stars don’t even get date quests) however I am greedy asf and believe he should’ve joined the main HSS cast instead of being paywalled. He doesn’t even have to be a part of the main story line they can just pretend he doesn’t exist like they did with Ezra and Kallie for a while (/j)

I’m going to be honest I’m not a huge antagonist fan typically. But they def did something special with Ace and his arc give me 10 more of those

[titleknown]

...Rambling about the subject of degrowth, god, I worry it feels silly and stupid that part of my concern can be summed up metonymically as "I just hope action figures and digital art can continue to exist as artforms in a better world" and "I hope we can actually make new technologies without it being an ecohazard"

Because it's not just that full-blown "return to pre-industrial-revolution" idea I'm afraid of, it's the whole "nice" equivalent I see pushed by a lot of people in the degrowth crowd and; increasingly; mainstream environmental circles.

Like, a lot of the core idea really is "A sustainable; equitable world means severe material chokepoints on what you can do, create, and enjoy," I see it brought out as a consistent drumbeat underneath it all, with my much hated Giorgios Kallis merely saying the quiet part out loud.

Like... these people have never had a nice thing to say about the hobbies and artforms that I find fufilling, those hobbies are the ones they always dismiss as a Global North Luxury, they always only cite analog low-tech stuff like painting or folk art or biking, which are nice if those are your favorite things but...

...They act as if these things are totally fungible and interchangable, and that it's just a reshuffling of priorities and not; again; a cutting down of options via utilitarian chokepoint, like the kind we endure under capitalism just with different value judgements.

Like, one of the big promises of leftism in my eyes is its idea that we don't have to choose between human freedom and a just world and a thriving ecosystem.

And it terrifies me to the bone to see people; especially people in the ecological sciences saying "No, you have to choose," in a way I have nowhere near the skills to disprove, a spectre that haunts me...

[draggingyoutothedust]

oc in question

should i rewrite my old pjo oc fanfic in honour of the series (i wrotw it when i was nine) (i am now thirteen) (id likw to think my writings improved)

[kittykallikat]

A personal headcanon I have for Wriosthesley is that his gauntlets and his signature catalyst being a mechanical device aids him using his vision. Since vision theft is a thing in the fortress, he had to hide it and probably wasn't able to use his so by the time its safe for him to use it he would struggle quite a bit.

I like to think he has good mastery over it now but it's also a cute thought having him mirror Razor somewhat who needed to be taught how to use his electro vision.