#meta knight is a physical touch and acts of service sort of guy

[imelht]

Metadede Week Day Seven. Love Language

It had been a long string of days for the knight. He ran about Dreamland, getting a multitude of tasks done, as it was his duty. He never designated any time for rest, and if it came to him, it came to him out of utter desperation. At this point he had gone several days without rest, this was nothing out of the ordinary for him… however, his retreat to the depths of the castle for a seemingly unknown reason… was.

… … …

Many hours later, King Dedede, restless, sat up in his bed, and started out, seeking Meta Knight’s location.

Perhaps his restlessness was linked to his partner’s.

… … …

“Meta...?” The Great King whispered, opening the door to a room in the castle. The soft sounds of his voice were sharp in comparison with the stillness of the room. He peered into the moonlit room, sights struggling to see in the rather drab atmosphere. King Dedede narrowed his eyes, putting a careful foot forwards, holding the door open with a gloved hand. Soon his eyes adjusted, and he caught sight of the moonlit contours of the knight, brooding in the dark of the castle. Before Meta Knight’s hunched figure, a grandiose, crimson-paned stained glass illustration stood, the subtle moonlight shone through, illuminating the atmosphere of the castle floor. Meta Knight was looking onwards, his dull amber eyes boring forwards into the darkness.

“... ... ...”

It didn’t take anything of the larger man to tell something of heavy manner was on the knight’s mind. The knight’s drooping posture betrayed the weight of what ailed him. At this, King Dedede’s expression dropped, his eyes radiated the empathy he felt towards the knight’s gloom.

“Meta...” He stood, calling out again, and this time the knight responded. A faint click broke the silence, metal against metal it was, coupled with the slight shuffling of the knight’s cloak. He picked up his head and armored shoulders, and turned around. Dedede beheld his muted amber eyes, and his sullen poise, his mask was slightly ajar as if he’d attempted to hastily correct it at Dedede’s call.

There was a moment of silence. The two made eye contact, but through the silence it felt as if the duo were still communicating through their palpable bond.

“...yes... my liege?”

The knight’s usually puissant tone was weighed with subdue. The lids of his eyes seemed heavy, and despite his mask, the King could perceive it.

Another moment of silence. Neither spoke, though Dedede compelled himself to answer. It would have been rude of him to not.

“I...” His voice broke a bit with hesitation, but he cleared his throat, and pressed onwards, taking a slow step towards the knight, which elicited a small tilt of his partner’s head.

“I didn’t mean to come at a bad time... I just, I wanted to tell ya’ that I have something for ya’...”

“Oh Dedede...”

“Don’t “Oh Dedede” me, Meta Knight.” He stated, pausing for a second, key in getting his point across.

“I’m just trying to care for you.”

“I know...”

“Oh, do you now?” Dedede rose a brow in a sarcastic manner.

“Yes, your majesty...”

King Dedede was well aware of the knight’s stubborn nature. They were both quiet for some more time. Neither one of them broke eye contact, though Meta Knight struggled in maintaining it.

“Well, if ya’ knew, you’d let me care for you, Meta Knight.” He ceased speaking for another moment, before adding onto his statement prior.

“Can ya’ do that for me?” He asked, gentle of tone. He tilted his head softly, adding to the inquiry. Meta Knight bowed his head, hesitating.

“...yes, your majesty.” He answered.

“Good then.” Dedede replied, the content tangible in his tone-of-voice. He took a few quiet, light steps towards the knight, and neared him. As he did, the knight tilted his head upwards, the moonlight’s rays revealing the immistakable shine of fresh tears that had found their way down below the knight’s face.

Dedede sighed softly, looking his knight in the eyes, no matter how much Meta Knight attempted to avert his gaze from his own.

He made no comment on the tears, that was a fact betrayed to him by accident, and he wouldn’t be so disrespectful to point such a thing out, especially since he knew Meta Knight prided himself on his strength, both physically and emotionally.

What he did say though, came from his heart. He cupped the armored knight in his arms gently in a hug, and spoke, his voice cutting through the silent dark like a dagger clothed in vibrant light.

“…Whatever it is… it will be alright. I’m here for you, you know.”

It was all he needed to say. He held Meta Knight closely. His partner already had ceased in his silent water works before he had approached him, but his voice still broke with anguish.

“Thank you...” He replied through his melancholy. He was thankful of the reassurance in Dedede’s tone. He also couldn’t help but yearn for the warmth of Dedede’s robe and body. He’d a natural proclivity towards it, even though he wouldn’t ever admit it. His gloved hands instinctively grasped the luxuriously soft cloak.

The two stood there in an embrace for a moment, in silence again.

“You know I’m always here, Meta.”

Meta Knight nodded in reply.

At this, Dedede remembered what he’d forgotten due to the predicament. He produced something from the pocket of his robe, and held a hand out to the knight.

It was a batch of tumbled minerals.

“Hm?” Meta Knight tilted his head.

“For you.”

“I know that...”

“Then take them.” Dedede replied, waiting for him, looking from his partner’s eyes to the minerals in his hand, as if beckoning him to take them.

Meta Knight took the small polished minerals from Dedede. They came in an assortment of colors.

“You found these?”

“No, I bought ‘em as unpolished rocks, and I underwent polishin’ them for you.”

Meta Knight’s eyes softened. He knew how long it could have taken to achieve this level of polish on the minerals. The fact Dedede went through tumbling the rocks made Meta Knight wonder if the gift had a greater deal of meaning than the other pebbles Dedede happened to chance upon in his morning saunters.

Regardless, King Dedede was met with a tight hug. The great King blushed faintly and smiled softly, reciprocating the gesture.

“You’re welcome.” Dedede whispered, the moonlight shining through the glass onto the two. The castle became tranquil, as did the rest of Dreamland that night.

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s.e.e.s. as dnd classes

after my last post on the thieves, i have now returned to talk more about using dnd classes and subclasses as character study opportunities with the focus now being on sees (plus hamuko bc she counts)

since the post is lengthy, its going under the read more

so, for starters, minato/makoto is a shadow magic sorcerer. sorcerers are based on the idea that rather than learned arcana or given magic, you inherently have it inside you and can produce said affects with your sheer force of will, or your charisma. shadow magic sorcerers are linked specifically to the shadowfell, which is the negative energy to the feywilds positive energy, and sorcerers uniquely display quirks depending on their lineage; two i’d propose for minato/makoto would be “when you asleep, you don’t appear to breathe (but you still do to survive)” and “always cold to the touch”, since they seem the most fitting in my opinion for him. they get things such as strength of the grave, which says that on a successful saving throw on an otherwise fatal hit, you’ll drop to just 1 hp due to your constant state of being between life and death, and you also get the umbral form at 18th level, which allows you to change your form to a shadowy state that is resistant to all damage except for force and radiant that also allows you to move through other objects or creatures (man does that remind you of a certain battle a bit). 

in comparison, minako/hamuko is a totem barbarian in my full honest opinion. the reason i say this is because one of her defining traits is her hot headedness and impulsiveness to jump into situations, making her a prime candidate for barbarian due to their rage state and ability to tank hits. they get martial weapons, allowing her to pick up some weapon similar enough to a naginata, and the main aspect of the class is the ability to pick a totem spirit, which provides buffs depending on which animal you pick for your totem. personally, i throw my vote in for the wolf totem because it functions as a leader with the ability to land advantage melee hits on any creature hostile to you, the ability to track certain enemies and move at a stealthier natural pace, and the ability to just knock a large or smaller enemy prone when you hit them with a melee attack, all of which benefits minako/hamuko very nicely and lines up with her fighting style in both p3p and pq2.

alright so i know yukari uses a bow and arrows, and i know ranger exists, but also rangers are kinda bad in dnd overall and also yukari isn’t really a scout in any way. luckily dnd has an answer to this in the form of arcane archer fighter. arcane archers fuse magic into their archery methods in order to protect and deliver damage, mixing both yukari’s magic usage with her weapon of choice. they get the ability to literally redirect their arrows once shot to new targets and second wind, which lets them regain hp as a bonus action once per short or long rest. arcane archers essentially get an arrow type for like every school of magic, which makes up for the fact this would mean yukari has lost most of her healing spells since arcane archer fighters focus on dps more than they do support, though its not like ranger wouldve made up for that anyway.

so since junpei wants to be the leader so badly, i decided a champion fighter was gonna be the best bet for him, both because in a meta sense it is usually the First Pick newcomers do due to its simplicity of hit and hit more, but also because the class focuses on dps and raw physical power pushed to perfection, which junpei does end up getting when he learns to use a bat rather than a sword with the way he swings. this class and subclass is super straightforward: you get More damage to do the more you try to hit, and you get a higher chance of critical hits along with a more flexible fighting style and the ability to regain hit points with the survivor feat. they also get remarkable athlete, which lets them use half their proficiency bonus for any checks made while using one of their physical stats (so strength, dexterity, and constitution, all of which junpei def has) to have a greater chance at passing said checks.

akihiko's a monk. i literally don’t know what anyone expected. he’s a way of the open hand monk. open hand monks generally focus on debuffing enemies, which is akihiko’s staple in the party next to his all around good stats, which monks possess too in form of natural armor, increased movement speed, and having a hit die for throwing punches rather than dishing out 1 point of damage per hit, which increases as they get stronger. they can also heal themselves which akihiko has with his dia and diarama spells, but that isn’t the focus of it as much as it’s just a neat add on. overall, the guy’s a boxer and needs to dish out punches and monk does literally exactly that.

so i made a joke with a friend about how mitsuru keeps using marin karin because the ai of p3 is bad, and that led into the idea that mitsuru is a college of swords bard. while bards can be very stereotypically flirty, it’s just based on the fact their casting stat is charisma, so really any charismatic character can be a bard, which mitsuru does have with her formal way of speaking and her way of holding herself to establish authority. swords bard use, if you couldn’t guess, swords to fight, typically finesse weapons that they use dex for to fight, which with mitsuru’s weapon being a rapier, an actual finesse weapon in dnd, it’s an elegant weapon pick for an elegant class. they also get jack of all trades so they’re good at pretty much everything, which reflects the sort of type of person mitsuru reflects herself to be, and as a big joke, they get countercharm which allows them to perform and their allies get advantage when someone attempts to charm them. yeah. anyway mitsuru’s a bard. next.

for fuuka, i took more inspiration from her persona and how it encloses around her while she does her work to come up with an abjuration wizard. the school of abjuration specializes in protection and banishment spells, with outsiders believing it to be a specialization in denial and negation but truly being about ending harm and protecting the weak, which represent fuuka’s character and her bullying arc well. this class is mostly just what it says on the tin; they specialize in closing portals and rifts to other worlds, performing exorcisms, and securing locations that are too important to allowed equally magical wandering eyes and ears from engaging with. it’s also a high intelligence based class, which fits fuuka well. since she’s also a wizard, which gets virtually no hp and also no armor, so she needs to be protected, which everyone should want to protect her lmao.

aigis, for one, is a warforged in terms of races in dnd since they’re the robot race that only act on the goal they are given, But that’s just a side point to the main point of classes, which way of the kensei monk is definitely her. kensei monks train so extensively with their weapons that they become an extension of themselves, with aigis’s without a doubt being firearms due to her robotic nature already making them a literal extension of herself. they’re speedy and precise, both of which fit aigis and her programming to be the best combat unit, as kensei focus almost exclusively on dps output and the ability to just deal as much damage in one hit. unerring accuracy is also a feat kensei monks get, which allows them to reroll any attack they miss and again, really hones in on the combat robot thing aigis has going on.

now i know some of you probably went ‘are they gonna class assign koromaru’ and let me tell you i’m not going to cause 1 you wouldn’t be able to play him anyway in the theoretical sense, but also he’s usually seen as a companion to either ken or shinjiro, so he fits more as a companion animal that you see some classes get like rangers or druids. usually these animals survive as long as their owners lifespan and get extra health and sometimes magic so koromaru is a-okay in fighting still.

now for someone who i’m very excited to talk about: ken. being hellbent on revenge is actually a class in dnd! it’s called the vengeance paladin, which is a paladin whose oath revolves around singlehandedly bringing “evildoers” to justice, though what this justice is would be defined by the individual paladin’s definition of morality and their own vendetta. even in their basic description, oath of vengeance defines anyone who takes it as someone who sees their purity not being as important as the concept of delivering justice where justice is due, which fits not only ken’s theme as the justice arcana, but overall his entire relationship with shinjiro (which. oh boy paladin shinjiro and paladin ken parallels?). paladins get martial weapons which means ken gets his lance he uses, and on their spell list they get hunter’s mark, letting them mark targets to deal more damage. one another thing i want to bring attention to is their 7th level class feature, relentless avenger, which essentially makes it so any enemy that provokes an attack of opportunity can’t truly escape because the vengeance paladin can immediately take half their movement speed to follow after said enemy as apart of their reaction, which i think pretty easily describes the october 4th scene if you know what i mean.

and finally i’m saving the best for last cause i wanna talk about shinjiro. picture this: shinjiro’s a big tanky knight meant to service the people and protect them but a stray spell one day kills an innocent woman and suddenly he’s failed the one thing he swore his life to. giving up his oath, shinjiro turns into an oathbreaker paladin, a paladin who in someway shape or form has broken their sacred oath and now walks a darker path. now oathbreakers, while being stereotypically written as “evil”, don’t have to be evil themselves; being an oathbreaker pretty much is what it says on the tin, with them having failed to fulfill their oath’s rules in some way shape or form. breaking his own moral code and also abandoning his affiliation with sees pretty much solidifies shinjiro as an oathbreaker with him not necessarily being a bad person cause we all know he’s not. oathbreakers get things such as channel divinity: dreadful aspect, which lets them channel their anger into an intense magical intimidation, and paladins themselves are the only class to get the find steed spell, which fits castor’s horse riding-ness. they also get martial weapons and heavy armor, making shinjiro a big tank with an even bigger axe just like he likes to be. as a bonus thing, shinjiro Definitely has the tavern brawler feat (which gives unarmed strikes a hit die rather than a flat 1 damage) so he can wrestle with akihiko

BONUS: chidori’s a life cleric. her entire fountain of life or whatever the thing her persona does right next to her white gothic lolita aesthetic fit her as a life cleric. Or she could be a grave cleric with an atypical aesthetic, but then again, theres been pastel goth grave clerics before too.

BONUS x2: my friend and i had 2 ideas for ryoji while throwing ideas for this whole list around: death cleric, which is yknow, pretty straight forward..... OR deathlock great old one. deathlocks are specifically enemy warlocks that have been brought back from the dead by their patron because they believe that the warlocks job hasnt been done yet, and well, nyx i think counts as a great old one patron.