#pending. of course

[micamicster]

To jump back a dozen posts in my beautiful mind we all know that garcia and morgan were not only in love but deeply sexually attracted to each other and they were kept apart by that special 2000s case of the week tv ism that didn’t believe in a) interracial couples or b) a fat woman being hot for real and not for jokes. Let us all bow our heads and shed a tear

[pochapal]

uu. uu, even.

[starbuck]

my dream is literally just to live in some random place, i am not picky, where i don’t know ANYONE and can focus on resting and recovering and growing into the best version of myself for a few years.

[sailforvalinor]

My brother and I are very saddened by the fact that Leon Kennedy has apparently lost his whimsy in Resident Evil 4 and stopped naming his guns, so we stepped up and did it for him. They are named Natilda, Armando, Shawty, Gibbs, Big Bertha, and The Snoot.

[summonthebats]

The Other Untenable Situation

The thing is House Hightower genuinely cannot afford to Not object to Rheanyra succeeding Viserys over his legitimate sons by Alicent. Pretty much no house could but the Hightowers in particular.

In general, the Andal, First Men and (based on Visenya the Conqueror being the eldest and her brothers consort) Valyrian custom is that sons inherit before daughters. To marry a noble woman and then effectively disinherit her sons is a huge violation of the social contract, as well as a huge insult to her house. To not object to that violently would indicate to their bannermen and their enemies that this house can’t or won’t defend its own, and that puts a massive target on their back.

Think Tytos Lannister. A house that won’t demand what it is due, and yes social custom does say the legitimate sons are due their fathers stuff before his daughters get a look in, is going to lose everything.

And House Hightower does soft power.  They do Soft Power really, really well.

The Citadel, the Stary Sept and the giant lighthouse that is their castle are the base of this. They maintain it by diplomacy and respectable (by Westeros standards) behavior and trade and their word being good and overall adherence to the social expectations of the society they are in. The High Tower was siege proof before Bran the Builder was born, they have thousands of years of respect to lose and good conduct to uphold. The social contract is vital to them.

In Westeros this all includes murdering anyone who doesn’t keep their end of the bargain. AKA, the Frey justicication for the Red Wedding.

So when Viserys married Alicent without first stipulating that Rheanyra would remain his heir no matter what the deal this society understood to be made was that if she gave him sons they would inherited his throne. Alicent upheld their side, there is no Maegor and Ceryse grey area with the glaring absence of heirs here.

Then Viserys broke the deal. House Hightower must either enforce it or their position crumbles.

And then they die.

[beeholyshit]

I never properly said how they met so...

[eyefocusing]

(nielsthecat main) the tome i mentioned is the list i made of what transformers my dad thinks should be girls. which is just the ones he thinks have cool names. im glad to see some of his conclusions being backed by longtime scholars

ah yeah i remember you posted abt that!

tbf i only decided recently that air raids a girly. i dont think about gender much so i dont think about it when it comes to characters much either. but air raids got the vibes. she just also hasnt thought about it much yet

[coldjustness-archive]

There is the straighten of Neve's shoulders and the dart of her expression forward. a neutral expression staring at the mirror that put her one step away from the crossroads. Everything in her told her to just walk, there was no reason for her to remain and hear what Valeria had to say. She didn't owe her anything outside of the job that she was hired to do by a close friend. Nothing outside of the oath she had to protect her City from those who would destroy everything. No, loyalty to Rook was not why she returned, it was loyalty to Docktown.

No, at this rate - Detective Neve Gallus only stayed because she owed that much to Varric, that and she would never be able to sleep again with a job left unfinished.

So as she watched the ever twisting and turning magical swirl of the eluvian, refusing to look at Valeria - she does not to speak at first. Trying her best to push away the frustrations that boiled beneath the surface, trying her damned best not to feed into the knot in her throat that brought a taste of bile into her mouth. Every time Valeria opened her mouth Neve's fist tightened on her scepter, each word she uttered felt like a promise broken before the sentence was even completed. It's going to be a long time before she doesn't feel this way..

The Detective lifts her chin, nose turning upward with the gradual turn of her head to eye their leader - their unbent and unbroken, and unwavering leader. Who was there for everyone, and managed to stay strong for those around her.. Except when it came to Docktown, she was there for everyone but Neve Gallus. Typical. "Rook." She starts, a neutral tone, "I can't stop you from doing what you want, so long as you understand that I don't expect you to be there." Nor will she ask, at this rate she knows Rook won't bother showing up. "People don't care about Docktown, they make claims, yes- but those of us who do actually care, are doing what we can."

Then her gaze darts over her again, looking her up and down before she hums, "If you insist, then by all means follow - but please, Rook, stay out of the way. You've done enough."

@ingllvar / continued from here.

[remesrobotics]

Slash Girl 

DWN.054β - スラッシュガール* “Time ta rip ‘em up!!”

Good Point - Foot speed Bad Point - Brakes Like - Hot coffee Dislike - Glass doors

7’ (213.36 cm)* - though bad posture makes her appear shorter. *Technically her height spec is “a head taller than Slash Man” and thus dependent on how tall he is, of which we don’t have a good, concrete number.

Purpose - A Robot Master 'created' by Dr. Wily, intended to be the ‘sister’ of Slash Man. Primary function is high-speed recon, wide-range intel/target acquisition and mapping. 

After Slash Man’s reassignment from forest-clearer to captain of the robotic dinosaur division, his speed proved too high to successfully lead, resulting in him frequently acting alone. Slash Girl, whose core components had been requisitioned from another robotics scientist, was shifted into development to match his speed, so he could have somebody to meaningfully coordinate with.

Though Slash Man was not directly a dinosaur by design himself, Slash Girl was given more dinosaur-like features to reflect Slash Man’s unit. “Raptor” was chosen for those features both to symbolize speed, and a pack-hunting nature.

*Her Japanese name is an intentionally ambiguous play on pronunciation and can be either interpreted as “Girl” or “Gal” depending on preference, though “Girl” is the more universally used (due to being the ‘baby sister’).

Skills

High sprint speed and powerful jumping capability.

Strong senses, capable of monitoring and transmitting multiple forms of data (visual, audio, thermal, etc.) at high speeds.

Melee attacks are primarily kicks. In a game environment, this would entail:

A fast ground slide, similar to Mega Man’s, but damaging.

A three-hit standing kick (high, middle, and low)

A front-flip into a one-foot ground slam, utilizing the brake-boosters in her shins.

‘Signature’ moves involve arm-feathers - the Slash Wing

As expected of its name, it can be used in a forward swipe similar to the Slash Claw, with a smaller shockwave that cannot cancel other attacks.

More importantly, though, SG can raise her feathers as a shield to block direct/discreet projectiles (indirect attacks may still hit around it). Any ‘elemental’ properties are absorbed by the feathers temporarily, either dissipating or used in her primary attack - 

A three-way spread projectile. Feathers stick to terrain to form temporary hazards. They take on absorbed elemental properties.

If the Slash Wing is copied, the single swipe would be an uncharged attack, while charging it will raise a barrier of feathers - releasing the charge launches the feathers. Feathers can absorb elemental attacks to take on their properties, but the usefulness of this when most RMs are powered up by their own elements is dubious.

Capable of swapping weapons with her brother, exchanging her wings for his claws. Slash Man's light frame actually makes more use of the Slash Wing for mobility, and Slash Girl's heavy body puts a lot more force behind swings of the Slash Claw, making their own weapons more powerful in their sibling's possession. However, they can only maintain use of those weapons for a limited energy duration, as Mega Man would.

Personality

Good at noticing small changes in the environment, making her an excellent tracker.

Puts a lot of effort into hunting; extremely task oriented. A ‘hunt’ could be of the physical sort, but also extends to recon/’research’ or even menial retrieval errands.

On all other accounts, somewhere between dumb lizard and idiot bird

Hunt-motivated, but quite lazy otherwise. Spends a lot of off-time sun basking.

Has good eyesight, but difficulty with glass. Can (and frequently does) walk into glass doors if they are well-kept, lacking decals, and not automated (and will still run into automated doors while overclocked due to internalizing their opening speed while not overclocked).

Arbitrarily territorial and over-protective. High likelihood to hyperfixate.

Acts like a badass, actually very easily startled, especially by thunder and lightning.

Due to quirks in her heating system*, the quickest way to increase her internal temperature without overclocking is to imbibe blisteringly hot liquid, which has given her a reputation for being a coffee addict (as it is her most frequent blisteringly hot liquid of choice). She has more or less burned out her machine tastebuds as a result.

Given reptilian similarities and shared functions as recon bots, Slash Girl fondly considers Snake Man to be an old uncle.

Totally dating Proxima Centaurii (OC of @dahlia-the-nurd)

Other

Due to her design emphasis on distance speed, she’s built to take g-forces and to absorb the impact of sudden stops, making her surprisingly tough and sturdy for a high-speed recon bot. 

Although her sprinting top-speed is higher than her brother’s she is far less nimble at close quarters.

Frequently overestimates her ability to brake; crashes are not uncommon. She even has foot spurs, and brake-boosters in her shins and arms, and she still manages to screw this up because she tends to use those more for augmenting her attacks than remembering what they’re actually for. If she used them properly, this would not be a problem. But it is.

Using her brake-boosters to augment her attacks causes unnecessary jarring wear on her joints and internals, as they were not built with that functionality in mind (they can take sudden, massive single impacts from braking, constant heavy pressure from g-forces, and rapid low-pressure joint movement and minor impacts from running fast in the first place, but repeated large impacts in a short time frame can cause compound problems). It also depletes her energy much quicker.

Higher base jump than her brother, but while she can grip to walls in a pinch, she cannot climb them very well.

Shares her brother’s sensitivity to cold but with lesser severity (usually only making her tired and sluggish). Completely lacks his milder vulnerability to high heat* and in fact gains a boost from it. However, her circuitry and other components tuned for maximum efficiency at dangerously high speeds are strongly susceptible to electric-based attacks.

Some ‘basic’ comprehension processing and databanks were removed to make room for the sheer amount of high-speed data she has to gather and transmit, rendering her effectively illiterate. She can still understand and speak English, Japanese, and other immediately RM-relevant languages, but she has no databank or even rudimentary capacity for any written language, on the assumption that she is transmitting all visual data she collects to somebody who can.

When she was built the first time, it was part of a full robot-dinosaur army scheme, which was halted by Mega Man. Slash Man nearly sacrificed himself to protect SG - still undergoing final diagnostics within a specialized egg capsule - and Wily was forced to terminate her programming prematurely in order to use her parts to save her critically injured brother. While she was completed properly at a later time, this incident remains an emotional mark on them both, but Slash Man more-so.

Additional artwork:

*Old "Technical Maintenance Info" textwall moved to a separate file; will link if asked.

[celestial-sword-dance]

((Gold and Gears got me thinking about robot pronouns))

((Pretty much all the inorganic lifeforms in the occurrences are referred to with it/its, so I started wondering why Screwllum seems to be the only one to use he/him. I went digging through the wiki for any documentation or voice lines that referred to him in the third person, and though both Ruan Mei and Silver Wolf use “he,” Herta’s preface manuscript also refers to him as “it.”))

((And I wonder, when even Member #27 Rubert I exclusively uses it/its, at what point did Screwllum adopt the use of he/him? Was it an attempt to humanize himself to organic life forms who might have otherwise seen his species as subhuman? Or was it something bestowed upon him by other organic species who saw him as one of the “good ones”?))

[radiaking]

anyway this has been rattling around in my head for like. ages now and i mentioned some of it but keep forgetting but dom pedro headcanons incoming

coop did work/jobs/bounties/something for dom's family for generations

he did not ask a lot of questions. found that got in the way of earning caps and/or vials he needed

maybe they weren't always horrible...not good but not horrible. regular wasteland bad.

by the time dom's father took over and was running things they aggressively swerved into horrible territory

coop still wasn't asking too many questions (you'd think he'd know better by now...and maybe he did but just didn't care anymore)

was sent by them to pick up some kid, 16ish year old. not unusual.

kid told him what they were up to (terrible shit, kid was a sex slave that ran away), wouldn't stop berating coop about taking him back there until he caved

double crossed dom's dad w/the kid and killed him

and thus begins dom's vendetta against coop

also dom knows who he is

[asterkallium]

https://www.tumblr.com/mudkipsdaily/699373606071943168/uh-oh-gamers

For your consideration...

thank you. my consideration will take 24 hours, please check back tomorrow.

[cult-of-dollbabies]

sometimes I'll remember that official marvel/DC comics have done werewolf 'AU' stories and I become less embarrassed of Abomination

[determination-personified]

Staaaaaaaaaare

[wormonastringtime]

going forward I'm gonna try to be more consistent with image descriptions. I might be going back to old posts to add descriptions as well. pinning this as a personal reminder 👍

[flhoarder]

Lucky for 41 channel 8 isn’t televised otherwise news hours you catch a Couprisful of RCM officers carrying guns pulling up to a major crime scene stepping out of the MC like Jamrock Autumn-Winter ‘51 Haute Couture with some rectangles on