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jjinpang · 6 months

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disorganized honest thoughts on angeal and genesis

Read someone's view on crisis core as "a strange game where I only remembered charas from ff7 proper". And I thought to myself. that is an accurate review.

really long ramble-y thoughts from a person who has not kept up with ff7 past crisis core under cut you have been warned

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I have learned to like both of them quite a bit after rolling them around in my head for several years, but on first playthrough I did not like angeal or genesis. and I don't think back in a "what a fool I was" way. I think my original view on the two is actually still valid. I think angeal and genesis are both pretty badly written and have very little substance in game.

I understand the limitations of the psp greatly restricted the amount of story they could cram in. but then you write a different story or change your game system. This is not a valid excuse.

My understanding of how they WANTED to position the characters is Angeal, zacks' heroic ideal, a bar for him to gauge whether he's made it or not. While sephiroth was genesis'?????

because angeal barely spends any time NOT in the opposition, or even coming UP in conversation I really can't tell.

Genesis was positioned to b a foil to zacks. which still rings true in crisis core, but not straight forward enough???

Both Genesis and zacks were fixated on being a hero. I could see it being a clash of ideals. "what is a true hero" type thing. but in that case genesis being a peer of both angeal and sephiroth makes the connection muddy.

This is just a completely biased counter suggestion to the story we got but:

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I feel like we could have gotten more bang for our buck if genesis was actually a peer of zacks, maybe even excelling where zacks was not, but feels threatened by the growth zacks is showing empowered by his sunshine puppy attitude. Both look up to sephiroth.

genesis continues to idolize sephiroth even when sephiroth proves to be not as perfect as advertised, while zacks has his qualms. it's about becoming a hero for zacks while it's about becoming sephiroth for genesis.

Later there is some drama surrounding who gets promoted to class 1st ( only zacks / only genesis / both but genesis causes some trouble and has to leave etc etc)

zacks and genesis eventually have to duke it out one heroic ideal to another. zacks wins -- we still get basically the same conclusion we got at banora in crisis core proper.

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You might have noticed this suggestion is Angeal-less. While Angeal is probs one of my fav of the charas introduced in crisis core he did not need to be there methinks. (save on disc space, leave him on the drawing board) HOWEVER In my haphazard suggestion above, maybe it could have been that zacks idolized angeal while genesis idolized sephiroth -- the two class 1sts. But for whatever reason angeal has an "accident", that way sephiroth can still have his "oh no all my friends are gone" dilemma. and a good reason to start going down a dark path.

Meanwhile Genesis had more of a reason to be there -- it's 2007 and GACKT is RIGHT THERE jk jk -- Zacks needed his own foil. that said this "Angeal maybe didn't need to be there" opinion is a bit colored by how square has handled zacks throughout the years. Positioning sephiroth as his heroic ideal over angeal. However even in game they didn't really paint a clear picture of how Angeal was zacks' mentor.

Everyone knew the PSP has limited resources throwing new characters at the problem was kinda a bad solution.

I say this having actually loved playing the game, and knowing full well if they actually did something like what I wrote above I might have enjoyed it less. who knows, nagging about a story that's already written is something nerds(me) do to fill the void in their hearts.

anyhoo have nowhere to put my thoughts so putting them here.

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emkini · 2 years

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I think about Zuko and Ursa a normal amount

#atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zuko #ursa #atla fanart #em draws #illustration #I had heart of stone from SIX playing on loop while drawing both of these #because I enjoy hurting myself #I am on a fucking roll right now apparently #cannot go five seconds without drawing something #the stuff I've been posting is so incredibly self-indulgent but y'know what. I do not care #normally i'd have a modicum of shame but nope #if I want Zuko to look sad in his mom's robes then that's what he's going to do <3 #privileges of being an artist #yes it's 4:30 in the morning shut up #id in alt text #edit I fixed his wack ass face

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biblically-accurate-dca · 5 months

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@vanweek2024 day 1 - freedom

couldn't think of anything good for an actually serious drawing for this prompt so i just did this

#my art #vanweek2024 #vanessa fnaf #i made this like 9 days ago bc i knew if i didnt i'd be rushing all the prompts #but now im rushing all the prompts anyway (i've finished like only 1 more drawing since then HFJZJGJ)#i went with a more cutesy anime-like style to pay homage to what i was basing it off of :3 but i dont normally draw vanessa like this #it kills me that despite all the yellow she's still so purple. even when she's escaped she'll never truly be free from it #vanessa sb #<- ignore this im retagging stuff BFJSJG

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saphushia · 2 years

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swapping between watching etho s7 and bdubs s5 is going to do permanent damage to my brain

nearly forgot! i'm trying to remember to turn on timelapse recording more often, so while it's just a sketch page, there's a timelapse of the first pic if you're interested ^-^ (flashing img warning, but no colors/palette testing so not as bad as usual? probably.)

once again i forget to start recording until i've already started but nevermind that not super interesting given it's a sketch page but i know some of yall just think the process is neat :)

#beef design! yay! prob gonna go through infinite tweaks as time goes on but #that's just how i do it lmao #normally i'd fill in beef's hair black but i was worried it'd ruin the beard shape i worked so hard for kdsfgbjk #beards hard. i'm gettin there tho #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #vintagebeef #hermitcraft season 7 #hermitcraft season 5 #<- gonna start tagging seasons when i'm drawing stuff directly related to eps ^-^#or try to remember at least lmao #hermitcraft #hermitcrap #mcyt #art #fanart #nho bdubs good because. because. ar. armss. arms out <3 #timelapse

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bmpmp3 · 5 months

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11 fish

#art #traditional art #watercolour #inspired by the fact that in my studio classes recently - i and every other student who does watercolor or ink based work #always inevitable has viewers more drawn to our swatch test pages instead of our actual work LOL #i dont mind it too much i get it but it is funny so i thought yknow i have this tiny pad of watercolour paper that i dont feel like using #for normal drawings (too small) so i drew a shitty fish on each page and used it as a tester page whenever i was doing my #for-fun cartoon drawings <3 not looking at it at all just putting down the colour to check the consistency of paint #i think its kinda fun. its an interesting conundrum because that pure spontaneous quality u get from my test swatches Cannot be emulated on #purpose. i can get close and loosen up. but inevitably unless i make all my normal drawings test swatches while colouring in other stuff #my normal drawings will never truly have this quality. which i dont mind! but i thought itd be funny to find a way to still make something #with this intangible test swatch quality since people like it a lot! and it does look neat #also each one was a specific painting session. some were smaller sessions with only a few colours used #and some were really long sessions! and of course u can see how much brown and black and beige i use #and u can spot the traces of rosie in the green and pink HJKSDAHJKDSl hes always here #very interesting thing to play around with! i'd like to do something like this again i think

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maddieandangel · 5 months

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Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

#hollow knight #little ghost #hk ghost #the knight #hk hornet #hornet #alright. as of writing these tags it's been a week since the original dream so! let's see what i remember dgsgsgf #i was playing a game. which was a sequel to hollow knight ((Not silksong though))#there was some new sort of divine infection in hallownest and hornet had asked ghost to investigate it. they ended the last one after all!#the red glowy spike gate thingy is what you jumped into to enter the 'infected' areas #though it actually led directly to a hub world type of place. which was kinda like an expanded base for the grimm troupe?#more like an entire lair instead of a camp. also some greek gods were there for some reason lmao. they had their own special rooms too #so sidenote but- new headcanon that there are grimm troupe members named ares athena artemis &... venus lmao. not aphrodite for some reason #also monomon was there?? i think??? except she was cooking????? she had a sidequest to deliver something to someone though i dunno hdgfhdgh #i remember going back to the grimm troupe lair a couple times throughout my 'playthrough'#anyway. the 'infection' this time around was more of a glitchy physical corruption thing? rather than a mind corruption.#though there were still aggressive enemies to fight. but i remember getting a map from cornifer early on and he was. probably infected #i think part of his body was covered in electricity or something? so he wasn't fully visible? but he was still acting normally #there was also a moth who was the seer but then later wasn't the seer (but was still the same moth) dghgdhf. i delivered stuff to her #that glowing white wall thing in the drawing was like a one-way gate. you could only cross it from the other side and ghost came from there #i guess things looped back up somehow i dunno ghdgfhgf #anyway. ghost's red eyes. those are significant! those happened while i was walking through a corridor. it had pools of shallow water #(shallow enough to just walk through) and also creatures that were lightseeds but red.the implication was that they were full of Blood lmao #and as i went along killing them--as one does--as i walked through the hall. they started turning the water red too #there was also narration about this as it was happening ashdgsf. specifically the narrator said the water turned red before it actually did #ghost's eyes slowly turned red too. but aside from that they were fine! since. they're the player character and the player is perfectly fin #BUT. when they encountered hornet again. she thought they were infected. and that she lost the only family she had left </3 #she didn't attack though. instead she just jumped into the red spike gate without a word. decided to try to fix everything herself #but eventually you'd encounter her again down below and she'd fight you. didn't actually get to that in the dream though #aand i'm out of tags </3 i wanted to talk about what i'd do to make this make more sense as an au or something now that i'm awake but. :c

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wereh0gz · 2 years

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Random headcanon

Sonic as werehog suffers from back pain and is generally more comfortable moving on all fours instead of walking on two legs because the transformation is more suited for quadrupedal movement and not bipedal

That's why he looks like he's slouching all the time he physically cannot stand up fully straight without being constantly uncomfortable

#ramblings #this by extention means ruby has chronic back pain from forcing themself to stand up straight to look more normal #even though it's far more confortable to walk and run on all fours #puts a lot of pressure on their back #... i wonder if this could also apply to furry characters #especially those with digitigrade legs #hm #anyways back to sonic #everyone tells him his posture sucks but he can't help it #if anything it's better for his body to not stand up straight so he doesn't put as much strain on his spine #he could probably use a massage #or a back brace maybe? but those are designed for humans so that might not work well for him #maybe tails could design one specifically for him #knowing him he wouldn't wear it much tho #with his distaste for wearing clothes and all #well he mostly just doesn't like wearing pants so he might still wear it #hm now i'm thinking of maybe designing one for him #maybe i'll doodle him wearing one in between the other stuff i said i'd draw

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bluegekk0 · 10 months

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i love when i post a vent drawing and one of the reblogs just has to be a "haha pk kill kids" joke. this is exactly why i never post any angsty stuff with fpk. people will use it as an opportunity to dunk on him, and i'm just not in the mental space to deal with this stuff, not with how much he and the au mean to me. and not with how awful i've been doing recently

#i finally had a nice evening and i think this just killed my mood #normally i'd try to ignore this kind of stuff #and i know that with pk it's inevitable that people will make those jokes #but it just had to be under a vent drawing of all things #ugh #gekko.txt

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vargaslovinghours · 2 years

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Todd is baby, so - Baby Todd

#💟#Doodles #Art #Edgar #Scriabin #Todd #Shmee #Baby Todd AU #These are scribbly and largely unfinished because I had A Lot of ideas and I needed them out of my head as quickly as possible lol #Normally I'd save these for the sketchdump but a) there's too many lol and b) I'm too excited about them #I just wanted to draw cute stuff that's my explanation lol #This is just my ultimate form of making Todd extra tiny and hold that was my justification and goal all along lol #I love these kinds of domestic AUs and the Vargases already have a kid! Now he's just a bit younger haha #Details details - Todd would be at around 8-9 months here #Able to hold his head up and sit on his own but not quite to walking and talking fully - more than a little human blob but not a child yet #He just shows up in a little basket on Edgar's doorstep lol is that how it works - it'd be so much worse if it was Nny's doorstep #Edgar gets a call in the middle of the night like ''Uh...........so I think there's a baby'' ''What do you mean there's a baby''#How could they have a baby they haven't even gone on a date-#I also thought a neat way to differentiate (because I always draw Todd as a tiny little chibi baby lol) would be Shmee #Since Nny slices him up when Todd's a kid - would he do the same to a baby's bear? Is Shmee even Shmee in there?? Hmm hmm #And more thoughts of ages - is Edgar 8&1/2 years younger? Probably not right?? But that would set Todd's birth year way later!#It's fine just don't think about it too hard lol #Or do I mean I have lol #It's all just for cutes and being a good and Definitely flustered but also Definitely father and dad to a baby ♥#It is honestly really fun to draw him so so so tiny hehehe ♪♫

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eggwishing · 9 months

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#this is supposed 2 be august im figuring out how he'd look as a person Not just in the more stylized way i draw him #i think i made him look too young here . n also too similar to omori Unintentionally #cos he does Not when i draw him my normal way #but maybe he could just be babyfaced #could pull a dorian gray with him #that would actually be so funny LMAO #cos he doesn't age either #but nah im gonna explore it some more #he's supposed 2 be all gangly and i want 2 find a good face that would match it #idk why i think of the other father when he started 2 turn into a pumpkin but it does kinda fit it #loooong face #ocs #august #ik how mindy would look #exactly like all the posters and stuff of chubby little chinese girls with red cheeks n hair buns #that i'd see everywhere growing up #i tried to google n find some of the ones i remember but nothing came up v-v

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that-foul-legacy-lover · 5 months

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y'all i promise i was GOING to brainrot about moth but then genshin dropped the teaser for the Arlecchino animated short and now my head is full of nothing but Father

#hush n shush wifi #not brainrot #I'M GOING. INSANE #I SWEAR THIS IS STILL A FOUL LEGACY BLOG #BUT GOOD LORD ARLECCHINO IS SO SO SO #MY GOD.#I CAN HAVE TWO FAVORITE CHARACTERS RIGHT #i'm going mad waiting for her jesus christ #i'm so impatient #i really should be focusing because i have important things next week monday and tuesday that i am scared for #but you know what father will be my reward #uh ask questions about arlecchino and my oc i came up with more stuff #listen i write oc stories in a constant state of revision #anywayf ataehfneafhn fATHER #arlecchino brain syndrome is when there is brain and there is only arlecchino #and it's only going to get WORSE...#FATHER!!!!!! FATHER FATHER FATHER FATHER #if i could draw i'd totally make an arlecchino/marine askblog #not that literally anyone would care but still #AGHHHHHHHHH #okay normal again (lie)#arlecchinoposting

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welcometogrouchland · 10 months

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We talk a lot about there being zero content for a niche thing you're into but ohhhh my god. Oh my GODDD WHY IS IT SO TORTUOUS. OH MY GOD WHY. KILL ME. PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY LIKE OLD YELLER. OH MY GOD WHY

#ramblings of a lunatic #you mean to tell me... if i want content of nightwing!damian...i can't just scroll through the tags for hours...i have to MAKE IT???#blasphemous. insulting and disturbing. no thank you #i can barely draw regular style dick OR damian now you're telling me i have to come up w a design for future damian?#and then proceed to draw it consistently? in scenarios? I'd rather be turned into paste #seriously though I'm at a loss as to how there's so little content of nightwing!damian that isn't reverse robins #did you guys not read nightwing (2016) issues 16 to 20???#did u not read the part where dick sees a vision of himself as a twisted corrupted nightwing (called deathwing. hehehe stupid)-#-who is brought back to the side of good and the light by an adult damian going by nightwing??? did u not read that and be reborn?????#wild. crazy even. we could not be living more different lives (@the hypothetical audience I'm tyrannically rambling at)#anyway. I'm normal (i have such a backlog of dc art i have no reason not to post other than. irrational fear)#(there's some cute stuff? i did an alright doodle of damian dick and the harpers that i really liked. have a comic i wanna redo (again)-#-i have some redesign drafts sitting in my folders??? maybe i should just take requests. maybe that'd be easier)

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iwakuraz · 16 days

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