#mostly about the retconning

[foxx-queen]

so datv retconned a lot of lore which is. a whole separate issue. but there are two things in the lore that's been established in this game that don't make a lot of sense to me

obviously big spoilers below

firstly, the archdemons are apparently the 'weapons' of the evanuris, rather than the evanuris themselves. they were high dragons that the evanuris bound their life force to, essentially making them immortal. a big part of the plot is that we have to kill the gods' archdemons to make them mortal, and then kill them.

all the other evanuris are dead. but if the archdemons were their weapons/anchor of immortality, why/how are they dead? according to what this game is telling us, when the archdemons were killed to end the blights, that would have made the god it was bound to mortal, but it wouldn't have actually killed them. these gods were still extremely powerful and capable of living for a long time even without their archdemons, so i don't think it was the passage of time. that doesn't make sense either when we look at solas, who like them was 'sleeping', and who was never bound to a dragon to keep him alive.

secondly, apparently the full horror of the blight is contained within the veil. when the magisters pierced the veil, they released part of it into the world, which became the blight. ghilan'nain and elgar'nan want to pierce/destroy the veil to flood the world with the blight.

solas wants to stop them flooding the world with the blight. but he's also planning on destroying the veil to make the world what it used to be. but if the veil is all thats containing the blight, how was his plan any different to what ghilan'nain and elgar'nan are doing? he says he was planning to move them to a different prison, but he says nothing about how he was going to deal with the blight. and even though at a certain stage in the game, where rook knows about the veil being the only thing holding the blight back, we can ask him how his plan is different, it's all in the context of how he's going to unleash demons on the world. nothing about the blight.

like sure we could say its because he's a hypocrite but its a fundamental part of the plot that does not make sense to me

[archersartcorner]

I think the Bad Kids deserve to cry a lil. As a treat. IT’S CATHARTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

[aroaceleovaldez]

i stand by that a better, more sensible, and more intriguing plot for TSATS would have been, instead of retconning literally everything:

Bob is dead (because he was very explicitly absorbed/killed by Tartarus Himself in House of Hades, alongside Damasen), and nobody is going into Tartarus to save him. He made his sacrifice and is gone. However. Remember how the Titans, including Bob, were just kind of kicking around for several years? Particularly. On a cruise ship full of mortals. And Bob happened to be kicking around in general for an extra year versus all the other Titans. And he mythologically sometimes has a mortal demigod son who partook in the Calydonian Boar Hunt (Dryas of Calydon). Yeah.

So turns out, Bob/Iapetus leaves behind a demigod (demititan?) child. And because Nico was pretty much his only friend, he named Nico his child's godfather. And while he's not being left in charge of the child, as a son of Hades and godfather to this kid, Nico is duty-bound to fulfill Bob's last will and go find this like 2 year old to make sure they're safe. So Nico has to undertake this very unusual quest (that raises many questions, such as "demititans are a thing?" and "DOES THIS MEAN THERE'S POTENTIALLY MORE-?!" and "SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS?") and is kind of freaking out because. He's the son of Hades! He's notoriously bad with living things, and animals, and definitely small children! Even if he does find this kid and assure they're safe, he is the last person who should be undergoing any kind of quest involving even potentially having to babysit. Fortunately, his boyfriend is the human embodiment of sunshine and calmness and good vibes, and also once helped a nymph give birth, so he feels Marginally More Confident in theoretical demititan babysitting and offers to come along on this Epic Journey of Figuring Out What In Hades' Name Is Up With This Demititan Baby Business.

Proceed with wholesome epic shenanigans quest of Nico and Will scurrying around trying to locate this random OP baby while Nico has an existential crisis about the nature of his powers because he doesn't want to let Bob down! Both for Hades Kid Honor Reasons and because Bob was his friend! But what if he's destined to fail this quest just because of who he is? Because he's simply not built for hanging out with the living/mortals? And Will reassuring him that He Will Probably Not Traumatize The Weird OP Titan Baby And It'll Be Fine, and simultaneously getting a peek into the weird other life Nico leads hanging out with immortals much more than the average demigod, which Nico considers his norm. Bonus shenanigans of both of them getting caught off-guard and culture shocked from where each other's respective worlds (Nico's mostly-immortal versus Will's mostly-mortal) cross over and learning to navigate those for each other - Nico finally starting to make some mortal connections and get glimpses at modern mortal American life, and Will trying not to get his brain literally incinerated while Nico's happily casually catching up with some of his old friends who happen to be literal gods.

[ultfan]

me when tumblr recommends me someone defending dr3 in the tags and i read through the entire thing and get mad bc they don't understand what brainwashing really is.

[ancenth]

Mirror BPR Style Swap ⭐🌸🥀🔥🌼🐍

100% inspired by @lazarish's Laby style swap, I saw it and needed to do it too

[bloo-the-dragon]

*holds nebula like hamborger* what am i to do with you.

[vanlegion]

After careful thought...

I am now convinced RVB is, in a nutshell at its core, two twenty year long dimetric slowburn romance tropes comprised of viewing each from the lens of 'I'd die for you/I'd live for you' while accounting for the repercussions of those choices on the lives of those around them while also examining at the same time the 'Inability to let go/ever start' and how it ultimately locks your mind in a perpetual state of 'What if?' without taking the risk of DOING all by asking the simple fucking question

Ever wonder why we're here?

[circus-k]

worlds most microscopic design changes

+ tech explanations cause i don't think i've even once said anything about what they do

[leliwardens]

i know the doylist explanation for the inconsistencies in leliana's song vs origins is limited resources/time to make a connecting dlc to set up several plotlines for the next several years and even has a bit of watsonian explanation with leliana purposely changing, omitting, stretching, etc. details to fit this or that (and further confirmed in wot she does this to cope), and in keeping with the doylist mindset likely the intention is/was in origins she was telling the truth even if it was radically changed later per canon

but the angst lover in me i really like to go with the watsonian explanation in origins itself is she is straight up mostly lying to the warden about the details of everything because even at that stage she is still struggling to trust people and fully lower her guard, even more so for a romanced!warden

[j-esbian]

(one of) the most frustrating parts about the portrayal of drow society is that it wants to create Reverse Sexism without uncoupling itself from some. pretty foundational patriarchal ideas. it ascribes to the (tired, essentialist) notion that men are inherently good at certain things, and women are inherently suited for different things

but rather than the basic subversion of “women are warriors and men are the homemakers” or even early feminist thought experiments like “traditionally ‘women’s priorities’ are given importance over ‘men’s’ (ie things are governed by council, importance is placed on childrearing, etc)”, menzoberranzan is “this society still holds to patriarchal values and women are not as good at these things which is why it’s demonstrably worse”.

the biggest tell is that they have to control the male population to maintain female dominance, the implication being that in a fair fight, men would easily overpower them. it assumes the misogynist ideas as fact that “women are inherently weaker” and also “women are duplicitous” so the drow fighting style is based on stealth and sabotage rather than “”honorable”” face- to-face combat (letting lie also the assumption that the only avenue for ambition is through military violence, and therefore still making it so that they are reliant on men, even as disposable shock troops, for their success).

the only things that keep women in charge are by stacking the numbers on a systematic level, and through sexual domination on the individual level (because clearly the only real power a woman can have over men is her sexuality).

it is a society where “men act like men” but women don’t act like women; it is evil because an act of god created an aberration against the “natural order” of things, and there is no one to tend the hearth (because if the women won’t do it, no one will)

[k8felge]

nothing hurts more than seeing ur fave character depicted in an official au story or elseworld where details ab them r different but it explores the character in a new way -- its good in a vacuum, but u know it isn't the Definitive Version of that character. Just a new exploration (cool!). but because the adaptation brought in so many new fans and/or was a huge success it ends up being treated like its the Definitive Version and all discussions of prev versions are overshadowed bc of it... even worse when studios / execs see the success and try to pivot to this New Version only and never try to explore new routes for the character ever again (can you tell this is about comics yet)

[kowaindar0u]

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Okay I think I got everything current. Didn't change much, but added his pre-sani backstory.

Will he ever get a last name? Who knows

[blushinggoku]

Been watching some dbs related videos and I'm sosoo glad I gave up on that anime because oh my god the story gets worse with every arc. Wtf are they even doing anymore

[joonebugg]

The fact that my OC's came from a shitty afterdeath roleplay in a wattpad comment section bc the person wanted to add bg characters is crazy to me

[fithragaer]

i hold the rarest dragon age opinions of neither hating nor loving anders and cullen

[scarletwix]

Exodus?? Exodus????

They've really been out here saying "anyone can have redemption!! Oh, except you two" to the Maximoffs since 2006 huh