#poor vivienne

[whatlovelybones-if]

congratulations with the release!!! by the way, i just wanna ask what would the ros set as the killer's contact name before and after they got together?

j park: [MC’s nickname]🖤 / 자기야💞

t kaufmann: dr. hottie🥵 / mine❤️

vivienne malhotra: [MC’s name] / loml💘

sebastián navarro: mcdreamy / mi amor💗

[drawingsphopho]

The reason why mods that change the hair of DAI companions always seem weird is because the characters represent themselves through their appearances.

Sera had horrible bangs because she cut them with a knife and values function over form. Blackwall looks pathetic and unhealthy because he’s been neglecting himself out of self-hatred. Solas is stupid and bald out of solidarity with ancient elvhen slaves. Cassandra... um... The Iron Bull has a buzz cut because it’s military style. The only person who doesn’t really make sense is Vivienne. I thought she would have beautiful, wonderful hair. Maybe it’s because she’s got to fit her hennin on her head. Or maybe no-one in Ostwick or Montsimmard knows how to take care of natural hair? Based on the few characters we see from those locations, that’s plausible.

[lizzybeeee]

Am I the only one who thinks it's fucked up that the Mortalitasi are parading about King Markus's corpse...as opposed to letting the next in line rule??

He's alive in DAI - old, but very much flesh and blood - and we know this because the venatori use blood magic on him to get him under their control. So, what is he in DATV then? Are they implying that he's a lich? That he still has his mind? That they've got a spirit in there?

What do they gain from this? Cassandra's, what, 64th in line for the throne? So there's a bunch of potential heirs just hanging about -> potential heirs who want the crown because we know that Cassandra's parents were executed for trying to overthrow him.

Cassandra may not be fond of her family, but I can't imagine her letting this slide. This is the type of shit that gets an Exalted March called down on you! Especially if she's divine?! Nevarran's can be 'death-focused'* yes, but they let the living rule and not the dead.

It's their belief that when their soul passes through the Fade it results in a spirit being displaced - so they have the Mortalitasi find the spirit a new home in the Necropolis. That is their job - they maintain the Necropolis and, according to DATV, sometimes deal with awry magic.

The potential relation to a Divine or the Head of the Seekers, the King of Nevarra, is having his corpse puppeted about by a mage...and no one seems to care?!

Is this not super fucked up to anyone else?!!!

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Edit - I put this down in the tags but I think it's important to point out: In all the previous games up to this point not once has a mage, manipulating a corpse like this, ever been portrayed as quirky or funny. This is not the norm of what the Mortalitasi are supposed to do - they honour the dead they do not puppet them.

Thedas is a world very strongly intertwined with faith, especially the Chantry. It is Nevarra's attitudes towards death and their burial practices that distinguishes it from other Andrastian nations - they still have the Chantry, the Templars, and the Circle of Magi just as the rest of Southern Thedas has.

It's impossible to imagine any Divine (Leliana, Cassandra, or Vivienne) hearing of this occurring and not taking action against this. It's extremely strange that Emmrich bemoans that half the nobility know this has occurred when this action should be seen as nothing short of an abomination to the faithful - including Emmrich.

[crushedsweets]

Beautiful girl

[crooked-wasteland]

I'm very much looking forward to your Stolitz/HB is a bad musical essay. I've had my own thoughts on HH being subpar as far as a musical goes but never really felt like I had the knowledge on musicals as a narrative style nor as a music genre to do it much justice; excited to see you tackle the topic in regards to HB! 🫡

I absolutely understand the hesitation. It isn't like I personally have a masters in Musical Theory, but I think we as a generation have had musical theories subliminally inculcated into our psyche from the sheer amount of exposure that we can understand what makes a good musical and recognize when those qualities are simply not there. No one has reservations talking about how bad Wish was as a musical, and what I am finding in my own deep-dive for this essay is that Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel suffer the same issues as Wish. The lead in music being Sam Haft who is not a musical theatre composer and frankly doesn't understand how musical theatre functions on a fundamental level.

For a small preview of a major point in my essay that I plan on expanding much more, Helluva and Hazbin completely lack an understanding of musical diegesis. This may be a new term for some. Diegesis is most often referenced in how music interplays within a movie or film.

Most of the time the music is not diegetic to the story. When we have big moments in our media with that swelling emotional music, we don't think that there is an orchestra just off screen playing this music for these characters. We are aware the music is an external component to the story. In this way, the music is most often not diegetic to the narrative.

Of course that isn't always the case. Take for example Guardians of the Galaxy and how the films utilize their soundtrack. Starting the movie off, we hear Come and Get Your Love as we would hear any other soundtrack, only for Peter Quill to remove his headphones and the music can be heard playing faintly over them. That makes the song Diegetic.

Another example is Shrek. All of the pop songs in the films are non-diegetic, but there are diegetic songs in, say, Shrek 2 with the Fairy Godmother singing Holding Out for a Hero.

To pull back to more direct inspiration, Happy Day in Hell is nothing more than an embarrassing parody of Beauty and the Beast's opening number Belle. However, Belle is non-diegetic. The Townspeople are singing their thoughts and feelings, but that is not what literally is happening. And Belle turning at the end isn't supposed to be taken as literally the town coming to a halt just to follow her and talk about how weird she is, but that the town as a collective sees her as an outsider and she gets that sixth sense sort of feeling of people judging her. Because they are, they just don't say anything. That is a key crux for the film.

Every single song in Helluva Boss and Hazbin are diegetic. We know this because Vaggie tells Charlie not to sing and we are told by Angel Dust explicitly that Charlie is, in fact, physically singing. Stolas' song ends with Stella telling Stolas to stop singing. Striker, Verosika, Moxxie, Stolas, Fizzarolli, Glitz & Glam, and Asmodeus all sing as a part of a literal performance.

In fact, Hazbin goes out of its way to shoehorn in-universe reasons to have a song rather than just allowing the world to exist in that heightened reality. Additionally, by having the songs explicitly being legitimate songs in the world, we actually face more issues with the world building because on one hand Vaggie is begging Charlie to not sing and is struggling with the secondhand embarrassment, only for the denizens of Hell to join in? Except the world has established that singing is not something people just do. It is the one time the criticism of "Why is everyone singing" and "How do you all know the words?" Are legitimately valid questions.

This all screams insecure and shows a clear discomfort with the genre of musical theatre as a whole. There is no depth of understanding how music in musicals function, just like Wish.

That isn't even touching on how San Haft's lyricism is identical to Wish's worst numbers with how he just borks the internal structure and meter of his songs.

[rattlebear25]

Touch his daughter and you are f*cked 😥

[misterrttegrimborn]

my baby..

(my edit)

[peachi-blossom]

The way my jaw drop after seeing that little girl dress up as niffty and the fact that her mother even said she wasn’t allowed to watch it until she’s older is fuck up like ma’am anybody with common sense would know that having their child cosplaying a adult character who is boy crazy and literally enjoys stabbing things is messed up and embarrassing for the child😭

Yeah, I genuinely don't understand why the mother dressed her toddler as Niffty for the con!

I was born in the mid 2000s before Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss were a thing. My parents raised me in a loving environment and they did their best to teach me to use words with patience when I was diagnosed with autism.

I grew up with Baby Einstein, The Backyardigans, Veggietales, Disney, Nintendo, Star Wars (through LEGO games), Batman (again, through LEGO games), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (I only watch from season 1 to the beginning of season 7), Transformers Prime, Transformers Animated (I watch the episodes in a random order on YouTube when I first discovered the show), Gravity Falls, and Five Nights at Freddy's (through Markiplier's gameplay thumbnails).

If parents are purposefully making their kids watch HH or HB, then that automatically makes them ABSOLUTE FAILURES AS PARENTS! THIS MOTHER SHOULDN'T BRING HER CHILD HERE WHEN ITS ABOUT HH OR HB! AS A RESULT, SHE IS AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE AS A MOTHER!

If adults are encouraging kids to watch both shows, then they should all be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES! I am looking at you, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen, and especially Vivienne Medrano! Y'all think it is okay for kids to watch both shows when it is NOT!

Grown adults' brain are fully developed, and yet they still don't know how to be responsible to children!

If I have children in the future, I will not let them watch both shows or bring them in the con when it is about HH or HB because of the horrible messaging here!

[ataraxianne]

I need a scene in Apology Tour where Verosika and Stolas are talking about Blitzø and she's like "Oh so you two broke up- I guess he was the one who left. He always did that, every time I tried to have a serious conversation or I was threatening to dump him he would simply leave the room like... you know, you'd wish he'd react?? Say something?? I always tried to make him start a fight, shout, maybe hit something so at least I would've known he cared??? Wanted to save the relationship??? But noooooo he would just leave undisturbed. Guess he dumped you in silence too, huh?" and Stolas there like

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

All of the Hazbin Hotel characters’ designs are bad beyond belief but imo the icing on the sour cake is Alastor. Who the hell(no pun intended) thought this shit was fucking okay?

I mean just look at his ass:

Who tf looked at this and thought “yup, seems legit” what is going on with his silhouette? His hair? His face(which I’ll be getting back to later bc I mean OH GOD)? His outfit? 🤮 You expect me to be happy with this? Also why the hell is he so skinny? He makes the Disney Princesses look healthy and realistic in comparison, because damn.

And that’s not even getting into the sheer anti-Blackness that goes into his character and thus his design: him being an evil cannibalistic voodoo practitioner, with his Blackness slapped onto him as a less minute attempt to make his portrayal seem “not racist” well guess what BitchziePop, it is. The man is supposedly half-Black on his mother’s side, and yet he does NOT look Black at all. He does not have Black features, nor Afro-textured hair, what a goddamn JOKE. *he also does not have a Black/biracial voice actor. so much for diversity I suppose.

And don’t even get me started on that big ass, creepy ass, goofy ass grin:

Oh dear.

[hnnny]

Welcome to the cringe corner! I am unwell :)

[whatlovelybones-if]

I'm on my knees!! Thank u so much for letting me play as a murder-happy protagonist for once, I'm finally living my true crime dreams. One question, will there be any love triangle routes here? I can't help but think the drama will be extra scrumptious here

thank you, dear bonnie! i exist to present a door of escapism for all you dexter/hannibal/true crime fans out there 🫶🏻

to answer your question: yes, i do have a love triangle route plan and suffice to say that it’s gonna be juicy asf 🤭

at first, i planned to make it between J and sebas but upon reflection, i think sebas will have too little self-confidence to even try pursuing MC when he finds out his opponent is their borderline insane childhood best friend. the real deal will be J vs the detective because J isn’t about to lose to a two-penny hotshot detective and the detective will have too much fun rising to the challenge of making the MC choose them.

do i think it’s going to become an angsty little emotional shit show as everyone gets too involved and hearts break one by one? yes, but i will never turn down a challenge to make my characters suffer as much as possible 😈

[liongrl321]

look at what i found on google lol

these is the same picture lmao

i dont usually like to repost things but i had to

this is such a cool parallel

[asterroses]

"i miss when the companions were mean" u guys cant even handle a woman who is a companion come on now .

[cherriesandcharms]

okay bc im playing on casual i have a bit more flexibility with my party make up (meaning i dont need to have cassandra and blackwall, my tanky warrior bodyguards with me 24/7)

and like. after we get to skyhold i wanna do an all mage party for a bunch of side quests where i know i dont need a warrior or rogue. just for the roleplay aspect. if they dont already hate mages they will after dealing with the cunty attitudes of vivienne, solas, dorian and my vir

[wellthebardsdead]

Azura with vivienne: KILL KILL KILL KIIIIIILLLL!!!!

Vs

Azura with Wyrm: *holding him in her hand* smol boy, tiny, tiny sweet boi, Boethia stop staring you’re scaring him!