#problematic game

[ultraviolet-ink]

power imbalance!

Honestly, depending on the definition, these could fit a LOT lmao!! Time for me to act as terminally online as possible 1. I'll hit my ships first:

SessRin, he's a demon who knows how to fight, Rin is a human

InuKago, just one "SIT BOY!" and boy is DOWN

RyuuSusa, she can kick his ass and also she taught him everything he knows

BaroRyuu, Barok is more experienced in the legal system and Ryuu is a novice

NaruMitsu, Edgeworth is the literal Chief Prosecutor lol!

JigoHart, Stronghart is Jigoku's blackmailer and he is also the Lord Chief Justice. It was HIS word that got Jigoku his position as the Foreign Affairs minister. That's the biggest appeal of this ship

2. It's so easy to twist the definition to turn even the most vanilla ships problematic, it's a fun little thought experiment lmao! I am always here for drama and tension, it's the Tele lover in me XD

3. Honestly, see the above for Ace Attorney ships that aren't canon that I would definitely read for the trope. I would also read some Stronghart/Ryuunosuke for that vibe!

Ask Prompt Here!

[problematic-polls]

are you prolife or prochoice

[medeaaasworld]

Woke up thinking about this part from extra content:

like—are we just going to ignore the fact that Andrew comes to Wymack to drink and talk about Kevin??? So often that Wymack just assumes that every time Andrew starts talking it's about Kev??? And the first time Andrew doesn't drink because of Kevin is when he drinks because of Neil???

[wegog]

And I'm more than just your dear beloved wife, aren't I? Seeing as I am the blasted Queen.

The fact that Zeus presents Hera in the first place as his wife (while Hera distinguishes herself primarily as the queen) is interesting because it's the complete opposite of how Hades speaks of/treats Persephone...

My Queen

Our Queen

The Queen

bonus:

True rivals for Hera and me!

No, Zeus, sir, it could never be a competition...

[catlaila]

hello mr kevin day i am so sorry but i am afraid you have been diagnosed with a terminal disease called beautiful princess syndrome. there is no cure

[antivan-beau]

isabela lords of fortune cameo coming in like

[inadvisablebutinevitable]

Last thought before I disappear off the face of the earth (go back to work)

HC that the biggest jerejean shipper out of all the foxes isn’t Neil, or Kevin, or even Renee

it’s Nicky Hemmick.

He’s flirting with Jeremy bc ofc he is and Jer doesn’t realize that he’s joking. Turns him down politely and tells him that he’s flattered but he has someone else in mind right now.

And Jeremy’s not trying to be obvious but Nicky has spent a year with Andrew and Neil’s subtle-as-fuck flirting and he sees the way Jeremy just hovers around Jean the whole night, the way Jean gravitates to Jeremy when he feels uncomfortable and the victory on Jeremy’s face everytime jean smiles. It’s not hard to draw conclusions, not even for someone as outwardly oblivious as Nicky.

and because Nicky has never ever given a single fuck about subtlety he straight up corners Jean and asks “hey, you know that Jeremy has been trying to get in your pants the whole night right?” Jean cannot get over how crude that was and curses him out in French and English but Nicky knows a crush when he sees one so he just stares back triumphantly as Jean tells him to jump in the ocean with a thousand pound weight.

(Nicky doesn’t know how much the comment fucked with Jean’s sense of security tho and Jean spends the rest of the night convincing himself that Jeremy was being normal and Nicky’s a bitch)

anyway somehow Nicky ends up being one of the only foxes to know abt jerejean’s not so unreciprocated pining and every time he sees them on tv or watching game tape he’ll shout “JUST FUCK ALREADY” at the screen at risk of getting yelled at for hours by Kevin

[squarecloud73]

*I worship you Tumblr please don’t remove it

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

"I have little brother energy though I'm older" "You were being the passenger princess" *beating them with a stick* Stop Stealing Our Jokes!!!!

[nekojetto]

Julian from the Arcana game

I feel so late in the fandom /o/

@starkkawajiri encouraged me to start the game by saying "I think you will like Julian /o/" AND DAMN I was not ready it is this true??? x,DDD haha thank you again Stef x,))

I like him so much. The fact he looks and act like a serious super evil vilain but he's actually a total looser, melting as a shy puddle every five minutes killed me everytime. the last sketch is my real reaction during his whole story btw not only the beguining!!

I did these sketch after I just started the game so no spoiler here x) I'll post my other sketch with spoilers in an other post later

[ultraviolet-ink]

For the ask game: age gap?

where do I BEGIN with this one? The ships that I have are:

RyuuSusa (7 years)

BaroRyuu (9 years)

HomuMiko (9 years)

GumLang (5 years)

SessRin (literal centuries)

InuKago (centuries once again lmao)

HaddoTin ( who knows their actual ages, but it's GOTTA be at least 25-30 years)

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, and what I can think off the top of my head lol! One is DEFINITELY entrenched with Discourse(tm), but the rest are super vanilla haha

2. It's definitely my favorite, because I am a DILF/MILF/PILF enthusiast, and I always project on the younger party lmao. Sometimes you yearn for a silver fox that's had such lived experiences realizing "oh shit, this young person is making me feel NEW things!"

3. I am a connoisseur of BratBoss and ChieFeen (20 year old Edgeworth/34 year old Wright and 34 year old Edgeworth/21 year old Wright respectively). MitsuNaru is already my OTP in mainline AA, so this is just a cherry on top! Ask Prompt Here!

[xamiipholia]

Since it’s been a year since Burning Shores came out, some thoughts on Seyka:

TL;DR: Great character, really happy with her as a love interest for Aloy. They do some really interesting things with her that I never really see addressed so I wanted to talk about them.

She is tangibly shown to be much more of a match for Aloy through gameplay. Compared to other npcs, she solves things faster, does more damage, is a much more formidable melee combatant, faster climber - she even has a fucking Valor Surge using her Focus that does pretty significant tear damage to large machines like Slaughterspines. Environmental storytelling- Seyka’s skiff has at least 2-3 Tiderippers’ worth of parts, meaning she’s been out on her own killing the things to build boat motors, and she has some ambient dialogue that strongly suggests she’s fought and killed Slaugterspines before. Is some of this npc tech advancements in Burning Shores? Maybe, but it feels intentional. 

Seyka has a natural probing curiosity about the old world that for the most part Aloy’s other companions didn’t have without some significant hand-holding from Aloy to get them started, and some of her close friend (but not base team) characters just don’t have at all. I don’t mean this as a moral judgement, everyone is different and has different strengths and priorities , but it’s absolutely critical that a partner for Aloy have that kind of curiosity - it’s such a big part of her character. While she lives in this new world, she’s never going to be entirely a part of it. Like she says, she finds belonging in individuals, and not really the tribes. I don’t really see Aloy settling down in Meridian or Mother’s Heart. She needs to have a life of exploration and discovery and Seyka seems cut from that cloth too, whether she was always that way or being marooned gave her a fresh perspective.

Seyka did risk death using the focus and decided to do it anyway- in Rheng’s notes he calls for capital punishment for her. The threat is never *too* present but honestly I think that’s a broader critique of the series and pretty consistent with the writing of conflicts in Horizon. I agree they could have played up the dramatic tension a bit, but this is a person who weighed the risk of a military execution by a totalitarian state and immediately decided it was worth it to save her sister and others. I think Aloy can intimately relate, given what she went through for Beta.

Even though it’s a DLC, she has a TON of screen time, probably comparable to Kotallo in HFW, and Horizon does SO much storytelling through gameplay and ambient dialogue. I think she’s given a LOT of narrative space to breathe. She’s also has her own musical cues and leitmotifs that do a ton of foreshadowing work through the DLC - in terms of musical cues and framing she’s very associated with the acoustic guitar, and the flute melody in ‘Her Sky, Her Sea’ has for Aloy and Seyka the same function that ‘It Can’t Last’ does for Ellie and Dina in TLOU2 - next time you play Burning Shores, listen for it. That and the guitar cues from ‘The Idea of Home’ and ‘For His Entertainment’ do a lot of emotional work. It’s great stuff.

Okay and lastly- YMMV on this one - I’ve def talked about it with friends before but I don’t think I’ve said it on Tumblr. I’m a firm believer that meta narratives and the way that stories are situated and created in our own world matter and that art deserves to be taken seriously and dissected. I love Horizon, but it, and Aloy as a protagonist, are absolutely drenched in white savior and colonial storytelling tropes. Every time I play Frozen Wilds, all I can think of is Jack Sparrow going “and then they made me their chief”. There’s a lot of iffy stuff in the games, as much as I absolutely love them. We’ll have to see how H3 goes, but Burning Shores is MUCH better about this and honestly Seyka is a huge part of it. The story centers itself on a queer woman of color who is pretty tangibly presented as Aloy’s equal with her own strengths and weaknesses throughout the story and takes the lead just as often if not more than Aloy does, which I find really refreshing. It doesn’t entirely fix Aloy’s white savior issues but I think it’s a really good move for the narrative that continues the themes found in HFW about community and connection.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (2017)

[luciosfanpage]

[emahriel]

as my good friend and i like to remind each other:

don't yuck people's yum. if you do so, at least keep it in the dms. no point in making people feel absolutely miserable for liking a certain thing, for having an oc you don't like - whatever it is. people constantly hating just for the sake of hating truly sour the fandom experience on social medias. there's a problem if the only way you feel better is by making others feel like crap.

and you, who shares the things you love online, who creates original characters and talks about their ships - know that you will never be able to please everyone and that's okay. don't let it stop you from sharing what you love, if it brings you happiness then keep doing it. you don't owe anyone anything, if what you like somehow upsets people, they can very easily just block you and move on. it's really that simple!

[mislamicpearl]

Arin at the end of s2 part 2:

Imho he has every right to be mad lol (I do want him to come back though).

Click here if you want to reblog.

[blueskittlesart]

ugh sorry about all those people. you are definitely my favorite loz artist! and whenever you post about persona (my special interest) i get unreasonably happy :D

i’m glad there’s people who like the personaposting because i haven’t thought about anything except those games in probably like 3 months