#little worthy

[oodlyenough]

as a former crybaby child this anecdote started off hilariously relatable. fortunately adult edgeworth was there to bring it back to just unhinged

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[chronalshifts]

i think a lot of people are calling viktor’s reaction to waking up changed and then almost immediately leaving for zaun unrealistic and like… yes it would be. for someone whose mind has not been affected by the hexcore. he speaks differently, he hears sky’s voice through its influence, he can no longer feel the cold, or the warmth of jayce’s hug. he walks away from jayce because he can no longer feel the affection that kept them together, and he sees no logical point in remaining when they have no common ground anymore. he might not be a machine externally, exactly, but his mind certainly isn’t human anymore.

[soupforsoup]

One thing about Eliot is he's gonna go so in on a grift. A wedding caterer? Get the fuck outta his way he's got two hundred guests to cook for and these canapes aren't gonna plate themselves. A baseball player? Fuck the con he gets a damn sandwich named after him. A supermarket worker? He's doing his full day of work AND THEN starting a union uprising first chance he gets. Sophie is "the grifter" but Eliot is the one who can match and beat her freak for commiting to a character so hard it becomes your new personality for the next week

[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

[thepeacefulgarden]

You are worthy, you are enough, and you matter. No person or circumstance can ever change that or take that away from you. ❤️

[oodlyenough]

I voted "occasionally" because it seemed closest to my true answer, which is that I imagine the older he got the more he tried to stuff all happy pre-DL6 memories into a box, and Phoenix would've been rolled up with that along with his father/Larry/etc. But once in a while something would come up (a letter, a song, a TV rerun, whatever) that would dredge it up and punch him in the grief bone. Less genuine forgetting/not caring and more actively repressing everything from that time in his life.

[fumifooms]

Old man posture

[butchjesus]

ok but for real now. since tiktok has so throughly disappointed on this trend. who is your strangest hear me out / most bizarre crush? freaks and headscratchers only edition

[imclou]

My problem is that i have to work but they're the only thing i can think about

[inchidentally]

sometimes we see Oscar having do socmed alone and it's just so not his thing and he literally just… made guacamole while people watched

but then Lando's around !! and Oscah gets the chance to show off (in a way) athletically and he's a fucking peacock - I'm sure not at ALL affected by Lando spending time with gregarious Pato and Franco :))

and like !! Lando fully happily taking the supportive gf role with crying out 'Oscah!' and 'you've got this' and 'you've got more of the float than I did' 'he'd got the tekkers now' and immediately turning for Oscar's smile when he finally lands one

but the indulgent, familiar "where's this imaginary line then?" bc Lando ALWAYS makes the rules and Oscar ALWAYS acts long-suffering and it's just their little thing ok and it makes them smile into each other's soft faces !!

and ofc 'Oscah absolutely dom-in-at-ed' while Lando sticks his tits out and Oscar literally puffed up with pride and wearing the rings in celebration bc Lando knows you've gotta let alphas have their egos stroked (wink wink)

meanwhile Oscar's groaning and angrily slamming at the cacti and reacting with more intensity than any race in his life and getting all yappy and sassy

LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE PATHETIC LITERAL THIS ONE'S FOR U BABE IMMEDIATE FAILURE

and fucking kill me over how Lando immediately latches onto the joke and does that little expectant head lift and then they synchronize throwing their heads back to laugh fuck OFF

[quuuueto]

sketchbook tour

[chipper-smol]

So...... Loop and Odile huh?

v THE OTHER RESPONSE I DOODLED v

yeagh

[cracklewink]

I know its not canon but I always liked the idea that Flurry Heart grew up to be a normal pony. Never went on any princess-title-earning quest, no grand magical destiny, no real royal responsibilities. Just a normal pony (who happens to be an alicorn) free to enjoy life with her friends and hobbies

[desecratedclergy]

it isn't even a sex thing at this point I just think the only thing that can fix me is a kind priest with gentle hands and a patient disposition who truly views me as a creature of God, worthy of love, care, time, and attention because he believes I was made in His image

[oodlyenough]

I'm snipping this for other people's dashes but lolll I'm excited to ramble about my AAI1 complaints so let's go

Definitely the vibe I got from AAI1 is that it is preoccupied with the mysteries over a lot of the character drama that made the original set of games so beloved. You could see where it was trying to emulate success -- they have Kay to fill the sort-of Maya role to Edgeworth, they bring in tons of familiar faces from the trilogy (except Phoenix or the Feys, the characters I'd most want to see interact with him fhlgklg), 1-5 is like... long and extremely tedious but conceptually it wants to do the big "everyone works together to save the day" thing, with crucial evidence coming from Franziska, Lang, Kay, and so on.

But I think with Edgeworth they were sort of stuck between wanting him to be the main character but also not really having anything new to say about him. His arc in aai1 to me just reads like a truncated redux of the arc he already had in the trilogy, where despite not being the main character it was ... better... lol. He has these late-game revelations about how perfection isn't everything and I'm like yeah dude, we figured that out back in AA1? you good?

Then you get the Bratworth flashback case, and like ... I wrote about it at the time when I played but it was so weird because they clearly wanted to do a flashback but couldn't commit to writing Edgeworth, the player character, as the kind of asshole he was at the time -- they pepper his speech with uses of "perfect", but like, I simply don't believe 19 year old Edgeworth would go to such great lengths to clear Gumshoe's name instead of taking the easy trial win. The whole point was that he wasn't committed to #TheTruth back then, he was committed to winning at any cost. That was the whole point!!!

Also Franziska is my special little girl and half the reason I wanted to play AAI was more of her, but I found her mostly kind of flanderized and flat. Baby Franziska was the best because her OTT competitiveness and reverence for her father made sense there, but adult Franziska felt like she'd lost the development she got in AA3. And she was my fave part of 3-5! To have her show up in Investigations rambling about the von Karma creed when she barely cared about MVK in AA2 was such an eyeroll for me lol.

AAI did have some moments I liked, a lot of its original characters like Kay and Lang and Callisto are likable, and it was pretty funny. But yeah stuff like the jacket on the wall to me is just, as you say, one small example of where it felt like the game didn't really "get it". Incidentally I'm playing AA5 now and it is making AAI1 look like a riveting character drama in comparison, so :P

the bratworth jacket being framed on edgeworth's office wall in RFTA (and subsequently AAI) seems to me like the only real reason it's there is because RFTA is full of little easter eggs from future cases and that was a nod to AA3. i can't really think of any coherent character reason it would be there, or at least that it would still be there by the time AAI takes place, post-trilogy.

anyway: i'm just curious if anyone has any justifications they've invented for themselves. i can believe taking it down would not be first order of business after turnabout goodbyes, lol, but it seems... out of place... to still have it up years later. it seems hard to imagine that's a period of his life or career he'd be proud of or want to commemorate