#negative posting

[kariskyline]

Gunvolt’s treatment in cannon bothers me to an unreal degree aka I’m get to rant about this series because I’ve never seen a series treat it’s mc worse

Spoilers for literally the whole franchise

I’ve had some time to think about it and calm down since gv3’s story and come to terms with it and something never sat right with me. And then it hit me. Gunvolt is the most punished character in the series and there is no good justification for it.

Drama tracks pre asg1

The things we learn about gv in the drama tracks are depressing. For reference, I recommend you watch the translations provided on slider’s YouTube channel, since they’ll be my main source for this section.

From what we can tell in the tracks that gv’s childhood pre quill is for lack of better words, absolutely crap. He was one of the subjects of the gv project, and only two that were successful, the other being Asimov. As far as we know he never had a name or at least was never referred to as such only being called subject 78.

As far as we know (because gv cannon likes raising more questions than answers and you have to DIG to hell and back just to find some answers) Gv’s time in sumeragi was miserable until quill decided to make a surprise adoption.

Asg1: and now things get worse

Then asg1 happens and we meet Joule, the other most punished character . Things go well for the pair until the end of the game. There are two ending, the Asimov kills gv and we move to the ix timeline and the gv lives but now Joule lives in his head ending.

The ending where he lives end in the simplest of terms is Gv killing what his basically his father and basically has to leave his friends behind with out a word and now has Joule living in his head. There’s not much of a happy ending here, bittersweet at most but hey at least he gets to live.

Asg2: everyone say hello to Quinn and Xiao

In one of the drama tracks where Gv meets Quinn, Gv and Joule are not having the best time. Joule’s not having a great time considering that y’know she’s basically a ghost and gunvolt himself isn’t having it any better. Now is how he treats Joule here great?

No

However, keep in mind that he’s only a year older than she is and feels like he failed her and has to deal with quill and sumeragi being after him. Not to mention he killed his foster father in an act of revenge. So yeah everything kinda sucks.

Then Quinn happens and she fills the role the of the anchor to Gv’s mental state in a sense in that in order for him to get better he has to come to terms with what happens and let Joule go.

And that partially happens through Michiru (I can’t spell her eng name for some reason) since no matter who you play, Gv ultimately makes the choice to let her go. And it’s for the better because an argument can be made that Joule staying around in her current state isn’t healthy in the slightest. Not helping that before the prayer fight, he internalizes what happened as failure, that there was a failure on his part. Even though, he really didn’t have much control over Joule’s powers getting snatched and Copen wasn’t really helping matters much either.

By contrast Gv never seems to talk about what happened in the previous game, never even referring to Asimov by name only calling him “mentor”. Not helped by him having nightmares about his near-death experience and as far as we know is more content with just leaving it in the past. Which is fine but I wish it would have been brought up at some point.

Honestly, it feels kinda weird that we never get any sort of interaction with Joule that has him or Joule take a moment to talk about what happened. Neither of them talk about their experiences with sumeragi, or the whole Asimov situation. It also doesn’t seem like he ever got closer in that case and I don’t feel like he ever did.

Asg3: the reason this post exists

Now we get to asg3 which is the reason why I made this post, because it’s kinda frustrating in every way.

First we learn that gunvolt’s powers went out of control. One of the conversations have him point out that it could be due to the AB spirits. However due to this he ended up hurting Quinn, afterwards he turned himself in to sumeragi.

Now gv3 does make it a point to say that sumeragi isn’t that bad which is a problem due to all of the child experimentation. Gunvolt himself also makes it a point to bring up that the scientists don’t represent the whole of sumeragi, which while fair kinda feels weird because those scientists were part of a whole project that probably had the company’s ok.

Now gunvolt has been a dragon for decades, which is the story’s justification for abandoning every other plot line

Now we get to a frustrating part in the story which is the duo refights. The problem isn’t that it can be interpreted that they’re a personified version of his guilt. The problem is that because their so late in the story that it feels like the neither the story or characters really press on it. Which sucks because Gv never seems to get closer with Quinn.

Skipping to the end because Asimov and Nova deserve their own posts. Gunvolt’s story ends with him being turned into a baby and going … somewhere.

Now why is this all an issue?

The core of the issue stems from the fact that most of these events happen nearly every time we see him. Every time he gains something he’s forced to lose it. The only times he wasn’t was when he let Joule go.

Copen in the IX timeline at least gets to be able to have some sort of stability and despite having to kill his twin sister at least gains something in the same respect. Compare this to gv where it’s gut punch, gain something, then it’s gone. Gunvolt becoming a villain wouldn’t have been better either.

His story is doesn’t feel fun to go through it feels unreasonably depressing. His story could’ve been better if you just let him be happy for longer than the start or the end of a game.

[ritties-moving]

capitalism breeds innovation is such a lie it’s only designed to make more money. every streaming service is the same, all social media sites are homogenizing, there’s like more than 3 companies just for getting food delivered and all of them have ridiculous fees. it’s a nightmare

[autisticlee]

conservatives: the trans are mutilating their bodies in the name of the religion called Wokeism and are indoctrinating our children to force them to be trans! it's all an agenda they're doing together to take over our country!

me, who found out I was trans on my own with no other trans people in my life, while being trans alone to this day, while also hating religions, and not doing Any Of That: What The Actual Fuck™ 😐

[icebrooding]

ik some people like the cutesy art style but man do i feel down a lot of the time when drawing gw stuff because i just feel like my art is too cutesy and too anime to ever be taken seriously, and some poor response has made me not want to post drawings of certain characters i like because i just can't draw them very well, and that kind of loops back into the whole 'i suck at this and maybe i should go back to my anime fandoms for drawing fanart rather than trying to shoehorn it in here' feeling i get a lot of the time

its kind of why i just end up making most of my posts jokes; i don't really have the confidence to post anything more serious i try to draw. and even then i have several typical non-serious things i've drawn that i can't bring myself to post either

i do love these crashes in confidence, i really do

[sidhewrites]

Being kink positive makes it really hard to be a hater of media rip. I used to love watching “the WORST book I’ve read this year” booktube videos but now its like I hear them ask, “Who is this werewolf smut even for?” Omegaverse fans, next question. “Why would you write this?” Because they find it sexy, can we stop focusing on the ewie yucky kink part and focus on the fact that the author used the word knot five times in a single scene? It’s bad werewolf erotica, but it’s not bad because it’s werewolf erotica like come on

[tm-sys]

if I have to wheel myself uphill to the front porch one more time because someone didnt read my instructions im gonna throw a fit

[deng-yi-deng]

seeing anything about the blood of youth now reminds me that it would have been really truly fun and enjoyable solid drama if Li Hongyi weren't starring in it.

sorry not sorry but that kid can't act his way out of a paper bag and it kinda ruined it for me.

i feel like right after i watch a drama i'm still like..yeah, that was good. then 6 months later i look at my MDL score and go...self, that is much too generous.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

BODY HAIR, LET'S ALL HEAR IT FOR BODY HAIR 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

[calmingdownnow]

they should make another pinterest but better. im so tired of looking for inspiration on there and seeing nothing but ads. am i doing something wrong? is there a secret side of pinterest that is tolerable? is there somewhere else i can go that's not littered with advertisements? stop marketing to me I don't want to buy your shitty ripoffs of better artists.

after typing this and reading it again i think i just want forums back. or like. ANYTHING better than the hell scape that is the current state of the internet. if anyone knows where to go let me know. I am also open to helping build a new place to be.

okay rant over

[genlossranbooautism]

You use "arospec people can still date and feel romantic attraction " as an excuse to ship cannon aro characters , I use it as justification to headcannon characters who canonically feel romantic attraction as arospec , we are not the same

[zagreusboon]

I don't feel good about anything right now

[imjustafallinghere]

My head fog is progressively making it harder for me to remember things and it's pissing me off.

I feel so tired. I just want my body to stop messing with me and my brain to focus for once.

[fernacular]

Some people on this website wholeheartedly believe a cat will only try to bite its’ owner if it’s under traumatizing levels of stress.

I assure you cats will bite for a variety of reasons up to and including “fun and me time”

[gotchibam]

*offers you this doodle of happy trans pikachus for pride month* :) 💖💖💖

[tm-sys]

Fun fact: if you drive for food delivery and don't read a disabled person's delivery instructions, you don't deserve the money