#octavio wallace-dhar

[rolilith]

ntftbl gifs (2/10): octavio + l0u13 in ep1

[upst--rs]

POV: You are dating a picky eater.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

Octavio would download classy photos of Wainwright Jakobs and put "sigma male" quotes about picking up women on top of them then post that shit to his socials

[borderlandsmostwanted]

Thought it might be fun to do a poll!

[borderlands-ate-me]

Octavio and Fran in that one scene:

[lauraartiss]

I don't care what people think, I love New Tales from the Borderlands and I love this idiot 😭

[snappedsky]

Borderlands: Skies the Ultimate Treasure Hunter

Trophy Earned: Skies' Ending

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New Tales From the Borderlands Epilogue

Rhys stands behind his office desk, typing furiously on his keyboard while on a call with his ECHO communicator. Only a few hours ago, the Tediore warship crashed into the middle of Meridian City. With no call from Susan Coldwell, Atlas has declared the war over. But there is still so much work to do.

“The site is still too dangerous to salvage,” an Atlas soldier tells him. “But so far we’ve only found Tediore soldiers, most of them dead.”

“Keep looking!” Rhys orders, “give medical treatment to anyone still alive! And if you find anyone who isn’t Tediore, tell me immediately!”

“Sir...if there’s someone specific you’re looking for...”

“Just do as I say!” he barks before cutting the call.

Rhys sighs heavily and starts to sit back, before remembering he still hasn’t gotten a new chair and catches himself to stop from falling onto the floor.

He leans over his desk, running his hands through his hair. “She was on that ship...did she manage to escape? Surely she wouldn’t have...she can’t be...”

He thinks about the Teed Talk, and his stomach twists into knots.

“I should have never let her go off alone. Why didn’t she listen to me...”

He hears the office doors open and he stands, exasperated. “What is it? Can’t you see I’m-.”

He stops when he sees who’s walked in.

Skies pants like she’s just been running. Her hair is a mess- more than usual- and she’s covered in bruises and scrapes. She’s not wearing her usual trench coat; her pants are ripped up the legs and her t-shirt has been turned into a tank top, with the left side completely stained in blood. Rhys stares at her, dumbstruck, as she stands in the middle of his office.

“Sorry,” she says quickly, “I know you’re busy and I should’ve called first, but I lost my ECHO and I can’t call my ship and it was so hard to get up here, with all the lock downs and emergencies, and you would not believe the day I just ha-.”

[bean-pole-art]

for this year's pride month I have decided to do icons of canon and my personal LGBTA headcanons for the blands characters. here are the aces 🖤🤍💜

please be respectful towards my hcs. feel free to use these as ur icons! credit is appreciated but not needed

some specifics under the cut!

headcanon for greyace Mordecai

and aroaces headcanons - Maya, Octavio, Tyreen and Zarpedon

[incorrect-borderlands-quotes]

Octavio: I got diagnosed with cool guy syndrome yesterday, haha! Octavio: So now I take Adderall, haha!

[citrine-elephant]

gonna release my himbos into a spooky 70's style murder-forest and see what happens

[pandoransunset]

Fascinated by the choices they made with his 3D model.

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[rolilith]

ntftbl gifs (7/10): "anu?! day keeps getting weirder…what the hell are you doing here?"

[angeltannis]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE CRINGEFAIL GAME 💛

[lovinodrawz]

Colored sketch @dogrom made some time ago.

I love these two and if I hear again New Takes from the Borderlands suck, I will explode

[kyndaris]

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Following on from the massive Pokemon Violet, I felt it imperative that I tackle something smaller in scale for my next game. I was, after all, planning to travel overseas soon anyways so sinking 30ish hours into a 100-hour game and then return after three weeks away didn’t feel like the best use of my time. Don’t get me wrong. It’s doable, true, but it wouldn’t be much fun. And so, I picked a game that I knew could be completed in record time and still have all the craziness that the series has come to be known for: New Tales From the Borderlands.

Following on from the events of the first Tales of the Borderlands and the divisive Borderlands 3, which was known for the way it riffed on internet culture, New Tales From the Borderlands stars characters that are no longer denizens of Pandora. 

Welcome to Promethea and Meridian City! 

You would think that going to a different planet and seeing what they had to offer would be a breath of fresh air after being stuck on a desert planet for so long. Pandora’s story has been retrod countless times and so, yes, I did think it was refreshing to see a game take place in a different part of the Borderlands universe and provide new things to savour (even if Meridian City did feature in Borderlands 3). Unfortunately, when it comes to the Borderlands franchise, one cannot escape from the fact that even in space, capitalism knows no bounds. And in this action-adventure game, instead of a rockrolling adventure with space treasure hunters, New Tales from the Borderlands focuses on tackling the issues of unscrupulous megacorporations and their primary interest of making money and more of it by an means necessary. Mostly in the context of corporate wars of one-upping each other as often as possible.

In New Tales from the Borderlands, players step into the shoes of three different individuals: Anuradha Dhar, Octavio Wallace-Dhar and Francine Miscowicz. The three of them are, as our erstwhile narrator Marcus called them: absolute nobodies. ONe is a scientist working for ATLAS. She has big dreams and on the day that Tediore invades the city down on the planet below her where her adopted brother lives, she had just been fired from her job for releasing living test subjects aboard a space station. Octatvio, on the other hand, is a street-wise entrepreneur wannabe. He might not be the smartest tool in the shed, hustling from one get-rich-quick scheme to the next, but there’s a lovable charm to his character. And then finally, there’s Fran, the owner of a froghurt shop that was damaged during the last megacorp attack on the city. She, unlike the others, has a penchant for punching things. Given her proclivity for anger, her desire for violence is quite understandable.

After having one of the worst possible days in their lives, our heroes come together to get revenge on Tediore. In so doing, they stumble upon something beyond their own comprehension. Escaping from the vault located down in the sewers of Meridian City with a healing shard, they strive to make something out of their terrible circumstances and start a business.

So begins what felt like a days long journey that sees them to try to hawk their idea of a healing ray device, fail in their plans as they get captured by Tediore before getting embroiled in a ‘save the world’ scenario as they face down chairwoman: Susan Coldwell. It’s an oddly paced story that comes off as both whacky and endearing in equal measure. The characters all have large chips on their shoulders, which serves to impede the start of their adventures, but are all neatly resolved by the end. Which actually has five different endings that are dependent on the relationships between characters and their overall team score - represented, of course, with skateboards. Why? Well, L0U13 simply wouldn’t have it any other way. And after seeing these mechanics in so many games I’ve played, why not denote relationship status with skateboards? It seems to work just as well as any other metric.

But what I loved about the game was seeing Anu, Octavio and Fran coming together to solve the problems before them. In my blind playthrough, the team were a bunch of strangers at first. However, as the game went on, they started to trust each other better. I still didn’t get the arguably ‘best’ ending but all of my team members survived AND they were able to pursue what they were individually interested in. 

Just like the Telltale game that came before, New Tales from the Borderlands game mechanics are quite simple. Yes, there are areas where Anu, Octavio and Fran can explore their environment, usually a tightly confined place, but most of the gameplay comes in the form of choosing a response for a conversation or pressing a button in reaction to a quick-time event. 

In fact, much of the game felt like sitting down and watching a movie unfold with me, the player, with the occasional prompt to have me press something on the gaming controller. 

Still, in comparison to the first Tales from the Borderlands, I was impressed by how smooth and fluid the motion of each character was when I could explore the environment. They also included a few fun options by having Fran engage in a turn-based battle with her anger management bot! And the writers were quite smart when it came to dealing with battles.

Whilst the Borderlands franchise usual MO is to have vault hunters shooting up a storm in a vault, Anu, Octavio and Fran don’t have the luxury of being armed with guns. Even if they did, none of them are particularly skilled with them. Rather it’s their wit and ingenuity that see them through. 

And while I couldn’t control most of their actions - seeing as they were mostly scripted - I did enjoy how they were still able to defeat what felt like huge threats by taking advantage of whatever skills they did have and what opportunities were provided to them in the environment.

Was it the perfect game to wind down after playing through Pokemon Violet and trying to catch ‘em all? Yes, I think so! It was just the thing I needed to serve as a palate cleanser after getting too rundown by another very long and huge open-world game. Will I be playing a lot of these types of games? No. They work in small chunks and I think I need to be in the right mood for them. But they do serve as a fun way to just sit back and enjoy a story. 

Oh, and the fact that Fiona makes an appearance at the end, voiced by the ever lovable Laura Bailey (who made a cameo at the Encanto Bowl performance that was shown on Disney+ with toddler Ronin) was just icing on the cake! Here’s hoping for more expansion of the Borderlands universe and figuring out the mysterious of the ancient alien race that came before.

[creating-tabs]

--THAT THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING?!