#loud and louder

[ultimategenshintournament]

Ultimate Besties Tournament: Round 1

Propaganda below cut

Ragbros (submitted 2 times):

From a storytelling perspective, in a game where the premise is reuniting with your lost sibling, these two are excellent foils as siblings who are technically separated but always within reach of each other. I bet that drives the traveler batty, that these two could technically reconcile at any time but Don’t. If you guys aren’t using your free ‘reconcile with your sibling’ card, then give it to them. And one’s even got connections to Khaenri’ah and the Abyss Order! Are these two good siblings to each other? Well. No not really. But the way they were best friends when they were kids and are now bitterly awkward after Diluc’s fratricide attempt (I know he was in a terrible headspace but cmon man. Should’ve at least apologized afterwards.) yet still hang out even in the beginning of the game (see: hanging out in Venti’s story quest and family vacation in GAA 1) is very entertaining. The mask is off now, Diluc. Do you still care about your brother? Kaeya’s internal conflict is very tasty too, still considering Diluc family even if he doesn’t really count himself a Ragnvindr anymore (if he ever did…), and it’s a wonderful narrative metaphor for his conflict of whether he considers himself a Mondstadter despite loving his second home. Kaeya’s a character with a lot of depth from his origins alone, but his personal relationships with the other Mondstadt characters really elevate that and his internal struggles, and none are as important as the family that welcomed him into Mond in the first place. With the exception of the travelers (and Paimon!), I think this is the most important platonic relationship in the game.

Ragbros angst and love makes the world go ‘round

Loud and Louder (submitted 1 time):

They build off of each other's bits SO WELL. Peak silly behavior from them both :DD

*Disclaimer: "Ultimate Besties Tournament" is simply the best name I could think of. Characters do not necessarily have to be besties or even friends. This tournament is about the most interesting platonic dynamic.

*Second disclaimer: This is not a space to argue for why a relationship is romantic. None of the relationships between playable characters are canonically romantic. You can choose to interpret characters and their relationships however you please. But for the sake of this tournament, all relationships are strictly platonic.

[ikam177]

Some lovely people have tried to inform me that real hedgies can have clicky purrs and I am very much aware of that. I just think Shadow is built different.

Like, louder.

[summerhighlandfalls]

USED TO BE BEST FRIENDS THEN YOU FUCKED MY MOM

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Baking an insane amount of cake and cookies and bread when your bf dumps you vs reverting to being reckless on the job to save a dog because your best friend is leaving you to be with his son.

They are not the same thing and I know which one is more revealing!!

[cuntholicism]

hey mr and mr games how about another round of incohearent

[screampied]

what about this. toji or sukuna having us full nelson. BUT!!! they are standing up while holding us because they are SOOOOOOOO muscular 🤤🤤🤤

full nelson is just so🤞🏽. WHILE STANDING UP IS CRAZY our legs r gonna be in shambles. but i see the vision. mmmh the muscles bulging while they hold us up oh its sickening. manhandling yum i love it

[buckleyanddiaz]

neither Helena nor Ramon know that Chris once made a card for Eddie wishing he would have fun and be okay when CHRIS was going on a trip. they don't know that Chris saw Eddie sitting in the kitchen, tired and sad, and told him that he was brave. they weren't there when Chris and Eddie practiced their motto of 'talking about it makes it less scary'. they can't talk for Chris because clearly he thinks differently, he thinks with an empathy and understanding that they haven't realized in El Paso. but that's all that's been happening till now - everyone filling his blanks.

[sneezarify]

People who can’t/won’t stifle. There’s a special place in heaven waiting for u istg <3

[benkaben]

Objectively speaking, half of these relationships are extremely toxic and my guy Daon should just pack and move away at this point honestly.

Personally speaking however, holy smokes, toxic polycule?? For me??

[vulcanette]

🎥: @ soffy156

[nyxtickled]

if you see people being insufferable as fuck in your corner of the internet, and you’re tired of being one of the only ones with sense, don’t. leave. don’t throw in the towel. please. that’s one less person with some sense on the dash. who is that helping. u just made his echo chamber even bigger. oh god now look what u did. what’s that sound? binary fission. great. an idiot clone just took ur parking spot. god damnit what have u done

[3-aem]

i choose to believe he is sooo comfy from the scritches and not just doing whatever gets him treats

[royalarchivist]

More clips from the video of Technoblade and Etoiles playing together on United UHC! I actually hadn't finished watching the entire video before editing this compilation, so that twist ending REALLY caught me off-guard.

Remember to check out check out Techno's original video, and as always: Subscribe to Technoblade! 👑🐷🎗️

[ Part 1 || Part 2 || Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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Technoblade: Welp, I'm ready to die instantly. Tell me when you're done, I just almost walked off with like - without the Enchant table and anvil. Would have been pretty awkward.

Etoiles: It's my enchant table.

Technoblade: Ok.

Etoiles: I want to give it to the mode.

Technoblade: Just remember the anvil as well.

Etoiles: Yeah, you can grab the anvil.

Technoblade: Nope, I'm gone.

Etoiles: [Laughs]

Technoblade: I ain't carrying that thing! It's heavy!

Technoblade: I'm not used to this feeling of like, actually having stuff.

Teammate: Right?

Technoblade: This has never happened before.

Etoiles: [Laughs] Can I have that because I forgot my Enchant table?

Teammate: Oh my god.

Technoblade: Nope.

Etoiles: Yeah, like really.

Technoblade: I gave you ONE JOB!

Etoiles: [Laughs]

Teammate: Do you guys think hot dogs count as sandwiches?

Technoblade: Do you think it's too late to change teammates?

Teammate: [Warning that another team is coming]

Technoblade: Oh god, it's Ginger, run!

Etoiles: I'm running out, I'm running out!

Technoblade: Oh god!

Technoblade: Run run run run run. Run run run.

Etoiles: Just a prank, bro~

Teammate: Why is Etoiles behind them?!

Technoblade: I don't know, man. They're - they just-

Teammate: WHY IS HE BEHIND THEM?!

Technoblade: Wait, ARE YOU THE MOLE?

Teammate: The mole?!

Teammate: Etoiles is the mole!

Technoblade: Etoiles, you piece of trash!

Technoblade: I'M GETTIN' 5v1'ed, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Was a 4v1 not enough?

Etoiles: Sorry, Techno.

Tecnoblade: WHAT IS THIS 5v1?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Teammate: C'mon Techno, you got this!

Technoblade: Oh, yeah, let me just 5v1.

Etoiles: You got this!

Technoblade: AAAAAAAAA Leave me alone!

Etoiles: Techno!

Technoblade: WHYYYYYYY

Technoblade: Can I get like, free therapy after this?

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Sorlag, you are God’s most beautiful creature.

In searching of all the cosmos, we have not found a being of such perfection.

I wish only to bathe in the blood you splash upon me, the blood of all your victims.

And in an act of worship let you drink it.

*nervous laugh* Hi Sorlag~

Audio source

[rat-rosemary]

It had been a habit during Manberg and New Lmanburg. For all his faults, Dream was reliable when Tubbo needed him to show up

So when an emergency appeared, like a sinkhole opening by their crop patches or a sudden flood licking at the floors of the city, Tubbo would set up a spell by his shrine and pray.

It was a simple thing, not much more then a circle of salt and a candle, but Dream would be there in five minutes no matter what. Even after Tubbo called him over a few times to help practice his speeches.

Those times almost feel like a past life now. But still, after Tubbo had talked himself in circles for hours trying to think of a response to Jack's many needless complaints, when it was time to leave a new bowl of fish jerky on the shrine he found himself looking for a candle.

There's something almost embarrassing as he stops in the middle of the hallway, a box of matches already in his hands. Dream had been a comfort, sure, but he was also Dream. Yes, he was the God Tubbo prayed to, whatever, but him being Dream was always more important.

More then that, would he even come? It had been a month since the prison break, and no one had seen even a trace of him.

On the darkest nights, the one where Tubbo would not let Tommy walk out the door, he admitted that he was expecting Dream to abandon them. To sink back in the wild and snap the threads connecting them to him and to leave them fully human as they were born, yet somehow less who they were.

Tubbo sighed, hopping and switching his weight from one hoof to another before finally deciding to say fuck it.

Ranboo was staying in the arctic commune today, and Michael had been asleeo in bed for hours already. When would there be any chance as perfect as this to do something stupid?

He put the plate on the small shrine by the window, placing the candle on the floor in front of it and making a circle of salt around it.

He lit the candle, giving a prayer that was too well done for how much time it had been, and sighed as the candle goes out by itself as he finished the words. Dream probably was not going to-

"WHAT IS GOING ON?!"

Tubbo screamed, his limbs locking in place and barely allowing him to see his front door slammed open, Dream standing there with wide eyes, completly nude except for the fur thrown over his shoulders and dripping water onto his floorboards.

"wha-"

"WHY DID YOU OF ALL PEOPLE CALL ME ARE YOU FUCKING DYING??"

[ilions-end]

i wanted to read more about stentor, who gave name to the term "stentorian". he appears only indirectly in a single line of the iliad (when athena takes on his form to speak to the achaeans)

not much to find, but there's scholia saying he died from losing a shouting contest with hermes?? what do you MEAN a shouting contest i need DETAILS