#late game spoilers

[flightofthefaeriedragon]

I think the wisps have their own reasons to find Neve and her work fascinating, but I have a tinfoil hat feeling they're encouraged to surround her as a distraction. Can't have her noticing any unwelcome magic. That would upset the plot.

[ffxiii-et-al]

Joshua Rosfield is a true shield of Rosaria, and I wish that he'd gotten that acknowledgement at the end of FF16.

I want that man to know that he is everything that he looked up to in Clive when he was a little boy. He is brave, he is smart, he is a leader, and despite his frailty, he is not weak.

I want him to know that his brother needed him, that all of his suffering was worth it and appreciated, and that Clive wouldn't have made it very far without him. That he is ultimately Clive's protector and hero, as evidenced when he appeared in Ultima's trap and reminded Clive of who he was.

He even gave Phoenix to Clive in the end, which was a massive sacrifice. Not only was Phoenix keeping him alive, but his Eikon seemed to be the only reason he'd ever felt 'special' or powerful in his life. Sacrificing that to protect his brother was beautiful, considering how against it he was while they were in Ash.

As his English voice actor, Jonathan Case, described, he is "always an Angel, never a God" in a world of gods that made him feel like he wasn't strong enough.

And yet, he never waivers in his resolve, jumping into the fray to help his brother and his friends. He wants to leave them a better world when he departs, since he assumes he's on borrowed time, being born who and how he was.

And yet, he is a defier of fate, and forged his own path in order to love, protect, and ultimately save his brother.

Joshua Rosfield, you are the greatest shield of all.

[ringthief]

but yeaaah,

I'm gonna admit I'm having a hard time finishing the story ...now that the hounds are dead...all the interesting 'villains' are gone.... - I do not care about Sombron at all. bwahah..... I will... try to beat the rest this weekend but ..

meeeeh.

I sorta rushed through everything (limited time.. didn't want spoilers rjeifjw) so lumera kicked my butt the first attempt at battle.... is the ending really good??

something I should really see asap? - I'll beat it either way but ... I keep groaning at the grinding ..

[ersatz-anomaly]

It’s impossible. It’s fucking impossible.

You only have 1 hour. It takes a minute to teleport each place. A few minutes to rush everyone to grace street. Biblical lion creature fucking saunters at a leisurely pace, taking 30 fucking minutes to get there unlike the Biblical Ox Creature and Josh who actually arrive quickly.

They take 5 minutes to merge into the stupid fucking egg. The egg cannot be transported back in time. It takes 1 hour to hatch. It takes 1 hour to hatch. It cannot be transported back with you in time. You cannot tell the lion the hurry her ass along BECAUSE ITS A LITERAL EMERGENCY. SHE TAKES HALF AN HOUR TO ARRIVE.

THERES NO WAY TO DO IT.

ITS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. NO MATTER HOW FAST I TELEPORT. AND DELETE THE TOP EIGHT SINS.

THE EGG IS ALWAYS READY WITH ONLY TWENTY MINUTES LEFT

YOU CANNOT TALK TO EVE TO AT LEAST FUCKING STALL HER.

YOU HAVE ONE HOUR. YOU CANNOT GET THE EGG READY BEFORE AT LEAST THIRTY MINUTES IN. YOU CANNOT TAKE IT BACK WITH YOU.

I. IT. IT CANT BE DONE WTF IM LOSING MY MIND

THERES A NEW GAME PLUS. BUT. HOW. HOW DO I COMPLETE IT. I DONT UNDERSTAND. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

YOU APPARENTLY NEED THE COMBO GUARDIAN. BUT THERES NO TIME. THERES NO TIMR. FAST RUN AND TELEPORT AND FAST TYPE. IT DOESNT MATTER. LION WALKS SLOWLY TO GRACE STREET. THE EGG CANNOT GO WITH YOU. BUT THERES NO TIME FOR IT TO HATCH. BUT NEW GAME PLUS. I DONT UNDERSTAND. IM SO CONFUSED.

WHAT THE FUCK AM I MISSING

THERESNOTIMETHERESNOTIMETHERESNOTIMETHERESNOTIMETHERESNOTIMETHERESNOTIME

[bug-molars]

Something's gotten into my game of Hades. Now they're trying to give me cards.

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[ryuuna]

in love with the fact that artemis gives melinoë gyros when she gets hurt

[dragondawdles]

the beastie <3

[vaguely-concerned]

there's something so incredibly sweet about how many times davrin notes in his journal that talking to rook helped him with something. he keeps bringing them out to touch grass and gaze at nugs out in the woods with him which I think must be very good for them, and their company clearly helps him work through and get more clarity on things he's been stuck on emotionally. it's just kind of lovely and a great little nuance in that relationship.

[smokin-salmon]

Fuck it. *Makes the old woman cry*

[webanglikethat]

Inho and Gihun have consumed my brain: a rant.

their dynamic is absolutely insane, like watching two halves of a broken mirror slowly shift toward each other, each reflecting something so raw, so !! unbearably !!! human !!!

they are opposites in the most obvious way: one, a cold-blooded killer who thrives on power, privilege, and pain (though they both come from a similar background); the other, a man haunted by his own humanity, stubbornly holding on to the last shred of his moral compass, believing in a better life, a greater future.

but it’s the tension between them that burns — the way they orbit each other, drawn together by something darker than either of them is willing to admit. and it drives me insane, insane I tell you.

Inho studies Gihun like a predator; he is disguised as an ally, draped in the mask of sympathy and empathy, but every moment spent with him … it’s like watching a snake move through tall grass, its every flicker of movement calculated, controlled and designed to ensnare, trap, conquer, destroy. he watches his every more, everything he does and he doesn’t do. it’s a real time dissection !! he watches Gihun's cracks, his weaknesses, his flickers of anger and despair. every subtle movement doesn’t escape him.

he needs to see that part of him, the part that’s been broken, the part that still hurts. and in a way, he’s intoxicated by it. it’s like he wants to drink from those wounds, to feel the sharp, stinging taste of anguish on his tongue, to experience that pulse of pain, just so he can savor it, dissect it, and make it his own.

he watches Gihun not because he’s merely intrigued, but because in his suffering, in his brokenness, there is beauty. a beauty that can only be savored when torn apart, shredded, dissected, bruised. and the more he watches, the more he feeds on that agony, the deeper he falls into the nightmare of this endless fucking twisted game.

Inho is too far gone. he’s lived through the games, seen how the system works, and he’s embraced it without shame. to him, the so called “blood money” he earned is a truth. he doesn’t hide from it. he doesn’t pretend it’s anything else. he has seen too many bodies pile up to think there’s any other way. Inho believes the only way forward is through destruction. he’s accepted the curse of the games. hell, he’s fucking embraced it ! the lives lost are nothing more than fuel for his ascent to power. people are pawns, and pawns don’t matter. it’s all part of the game.

Gihun, though… he’s not like Inho. he too has been brutalized by the games, crushed under the weight of the world’s cruelty, watching as the lives of those he loved dimmed. BUT! even so !! there’s this flicker of light in him — a really fucking stubborn and desperate hope to protect those who still live, to undo the wrongs. for all the pain he’s endured, he hasn’t completely surrendered to the darkness. he’s been pushed, stretched to the breaking point by the horrors he’s witnessed, by the blood shed that he can never wash away and still lingers even in his dreams … but there’s this part of him that still fights to hold on to the fragments of the man he used to be. he’s so stubbornly human.

and yet, it’s not the break that Inho is after imo — it’s the collapse. he doesn’t just want to see Gihun’s humanity crack; he wants to see him fold. he wants to make him question everything, even his need to protect others, even the value of his own moral code. to descend into madness, forsaking logic.

you can see him being fascinated when Gihun agrees to sacrifice people for the greater good. I swear, you can see Inho alive in that moment. I can’t explain it other than he’s feeding on him. he’s watching this man, so different from him, with scars that shine the same way, who once held onto some semblance of hope, succumb to the same darkness that devoured him.

he wants to see the man who refused to let the games destroy him finally fall into the same dark logic that built those games in the first place.

but here’s the thing — Gihun’s resistance, his refusal to just surrender to Inho's desires, drives him insane. Inho, for all his power, for all his twisted thrill at orchestrating this, isn’t immune to that same hunger. he sees Gihun as both a reflection and a challenge. it torments him. he wants to unravel him from the inside. the more he watches, the more he understands just how much it is tearing at him, how much he wants it.

there is a tenderness to it, a chilling, perverse tenderness, where one offers the illusion of safety while the other inches closer to the slaughter.

what drives me insane is that Gihun doesn’t know. he doesn’t know that the man he’s grown to trust, the one who’s quietly listened to his every confession, who has offered him that flicker of human connection in the desolate wasteland of the games, is the very demon he’s been chasing. the one that has orchestrated every nightmare he’s endured. and every time Gihun speaks of his mission, of his burning desire to kill the one who created this nightmare, to undo the games and get revenge Inho just listens intently, relishing in every moment of vulnerability.  and it’s delicious. Gihun is literally unraveling before him, piece by piece, and Inho hasn’t even revealed the true extent of his power!

the betrayal scene is going to be so good. SO FUCKING GOOD. it’s when Gihun talks about revenge, when he plans to end the game, to kill the person behind it all, that Inho feels that twisted thrill in his chest. because what Gihun doesn’t realize is that all those plans, all those quiet declarations of death, have been heard and they’ve been absorbed, broken down, and processed. Inho already knows what Gihun is capable of, what he’s willing to do, and how far he’s willing to go to get his revenge. it doesn’t matter to Inho. it never has. he’s already five steps ahead. Inho has studied Gihun like a surgeon carving through flesh, patiently unraveling his soul, savoring each fragile thread of hope only to tighten the noose, knowing that the moment Gihun’s trust shatters, so too will his humanity.

-> and like … Gihun’s humanity is his greatest weakness. his desperate hope to protect, to save, to make things right when he couldn’t before (example: in season 1 when a dying man reached for him and he looked away, in season 2 he helped a dying man) that's what Inho sinks his teeth into, because he knows that in this world, hope is the ultimate poison, the biggest gamble. every moment Gihun spends clinging to the idea that he can save anyone, that he can stop the game — that he can stop The Frontman — it draws him closer to the truth that will eventually shatter him.

and imo — Inho watches him with a twisted admiration, because in that desperate struggle, he sees himself or rather, the version of him that could’ve been if he had not embraced the game so fully. and in that, their paths, though seemingly different, are always converging. they are the same in the most brutal way: two sides of a coin, both marked by the same blood, the same violence, the same emptiness, and in the end, they are not so different after all. for all their differences, in the end — they are mirrors.

addition cause I saw this post and omg ?? it’s an intentional, almost possessive move. he’s not just playing along with their conversation; he’s LITERALLYYY replacing Jungbae with himself in Gihun’s mind, stepping into the role of someone who belongs in Gihun’s future.

Inho doesn’t just want power or control over the situation — he wants needs Gihun to need him, to see him as the one who’s always there, the one who understands him, the one who can stand beside him.

and to me, it feels like a possessive kind of longing that goes beyond mere rivalry or control. it’s ugh — just the way they orbit around each other, the way Inho needs Gihun to acknowledge him, to see him as more than just the “other guy that joined my team”.

and as much as Gi-hun is fighting to hold on to his humanity and the relationships that matter to him, Inho is just as desperately fighting to be the one that Gihun turns to in the end. it’s obsessive. it’s possessive. it’s dangerously romantic and I need them to fuck it out.

[flightofthefaeriedragon]

"At least you still have Varric to talk to."

LMAO

Solas, you asshole.

I love him (but Rook sure doesn't!). 😂

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[liiittlehand]

⚠️Slight hades spoiler warning ⚠️

Tending the garden gone wrong.

[kagoutiss]

what if there were 2 old fucks… can u imagine

[viarayy01-blog]

just waiting for it all to get better!!!!