#rendain

[battlebornmemehq]

I remade an old meme of mine, hopefully it’s better than the original. 

[leaddyart]

hello

name's Lead currently uploading a backlog of stuff from Twitter between 2019 and now

finished and more polished pieces + stuff im proud of

doodles and sketchdumps

finished commissions

Mix of original content and fanart; One Piece is current obsession

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FAQ

Q: What’s that Franky design with the pink tipped hair and beard?

A: My personal muse of Franky nicknamed BF-365! Mister All-Year! A Battleborn and Among Us AU convergence of the character. Hard to explain. Also Married to Law and is trans

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Q: Are your commissions open?

A: Dunno! Go ahead and ask thru @auralpsynox DM

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Q: What do u like

A: One Piece, Pikmin, Kirby, Sonic, Battleborn, Borderlands, DnD, Silent Hill, Deltarune, Crash Bandicoot

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Q: Will you ever open asks?

A: no plan to

[battlebornoriginals]

This fandom is dead I can say what I want

After The Prologue Rendain gets on Deande’s computer and finds a folder labeled OnlyFans.

He opens it and it’s just full of pictures of folding fans.

[an-aussie-button-masher]

The Best of the Worst: Five of Gaming’s Best-Written Villains

   Thanos. Darth Vader. The Joker. It’s no secret that a story is often defined by their antagonist - when thinking of memorable characters, a lot of the time, you’ll think of the bad guy. Good villains can make or break a story, and the best-written baddies are usually the ones that last in people’s memories. Of course, not all memorable villains need to have complex backstories and motivations - Bowser’s just been kidnapping Peach over and over for 37 years and he’s practically the face of video game villains. While there’s nothing wrong with such one-dimensional antagonists, there are plenty of more complex, engaging gaming villains as well. I’ve assembled a small list of them here; this is hardly a comprehensive list, but by the end you’ll see just how interesting these gaming bad guys can be.   Spoilers abound below!

Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)    “It’s cute that y’all think you’re the heroes of this little adventure, but you’re not. You’re bandits. You’re the bad guys, and I am the goddamn hero.”    You can’t discuss interesting video game villains without talking about the psychopathic CEO himself, Borderlands’ Handsome Jack. He’s among the most infamous gaming antagonists in the world, and for good reason; his charming and entertaining persona mixed with his horrifically twisted actions make him a classic “love to hate” kind of character. His popularity even led to being the focus of an entire prequel game detailing his backstory and plenty of references throughout the rest of the franchise and beyond.    While many villains tend to think their actions are justified and pretend they’re the “good guy”, Jack takes it a step further by being so deluded by his own incredible narcissism that he genuinely believes he’s the hero of Borderlands, and everyone in his way - including the actual protagonists, the playable Vault Hunters - are just filthy violent bandits. He thinks that summoning a godlike creature to commit mass genocide on a planetary scale is the heroic thing to do, and doesn’t think twice about imprisoning and enslaving his own daughter to further his goals!    All these abhorrent actions are done with a smile on his face and constant jokes and petty threats, as though the main characters are barely worth taking seriously. Case in point: one of his most famous monologues is about him laughing himself silly while scooping a man’s eyes out with a spoon, all while mocking the player and telling them to just “let the hero win already”. Nice guy!

Flowey (UNDERTALE)    “Did you think you were the only one with that power? The power to reshape the world, purely by your own determination. The ability to play God! The ability to SAVE.”    If you had the power to quick-save and reload the real world like it was a video game, what would you do? Try to fix your mistakes and right wrongs, or wreak havoc before reloading and getting away with it without consequence? In UNDERTALE, the main antagonist Flowey shows just how terrifying it can be when a villain shares the same meta powers as the actual player.    He initially seems friendly and harmless - the first character you meet, and he’s just a happy little flower, right? Well, it’s not long before he proves to be the most dangerous and sociopathic character in the game. He’s aware of the player saving and reloading, and calls you out on certain choices like saving other characters you’ve killed - or going back to kill characters you previously spared. Eventually he gains the power to save over the player’s file, deliberately crashing the game and saving over your own death just to show how helpless you (and any other video game character) are in the face of such power.    Most of his backstory is only found in the game’s “evil” path, the Genocide Route, so to really learn about him you’ll need to prove that you’re even more twisted than he is…and he won’t let you forget about it in future playthroughs either. 

Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)    “In the end, what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses…a slave obeys.”    “Would You Kindly” - a well-known phrase within the gaming community, one that accompanies a famous plot twist dropped by Andrew Ryan, one of the main antagonists of Bioshock. Throughout the game, the player is directed all over the fallen, violent city of Rapture by their “ally” Atlas, with no choice but to do exactly as he asks. This is pretty standard affair for linear story games, of course, but Bioshock gives this normally-ignored gaming rule a dark spin with just three simple words.    Andrew Ryan, the creator and leader of Rapture, reveals at the end of the game that the player’s character, Jack, is actually brainwashed to respond to the phrase “would you kindly”, a phrase that up until then had simply seemed to be a quirk of Atlas’ speech pattern. Future playthroughs are given a completely different feel after this reveal, now that the player knows Atlas is actually manipulating them for the entire game. I chose Andrew Ryan as the antagonist to write about here instead of Atlas because he’s still ultimately the reason behind most of the game’s conflict, and his final scene is one of the most harrowing moments in the series.    Shortly after revealing the player’s trigger phrase, he uses it against you - ordering you to run about his office in a cutscene, to really drive home how completely helpless you’ve actually been all game. After that, he even orders you to kill him! As the player whacks away at Ryan’s skull with his own golf club, it’s not so much a victory for the player as it is for Ryan, proving he was right all along: Jack, and in turn the player, is but a slave, with no choice but to obey. Keep that in mind next time you’re railroaded into following orders in any other story game…

Alister Azimuth (Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time)    “You ask all these questions, ask yourself this: how relevant is the past when it can be changed? Your father would have said not very.”    When a heroic character turns bad, it’s usually because their motivations have changed. They decide the villain is right, they decide whatever they’re fighting for isn’t worth it, that sort of thing. This isn’t the case for General Alister Azimuth, however; for the entirety of Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, Azimuth remains steadfast in his goals from start to finish, while it’s the main heroes Ratchet and Clank that change their minds.    Azimuth is initially a mentor figure to Ratchet, and blames himself for the exile of their species, the Lombaxes. He and Ratchet work together to find the Great Clock, a massive time-keeping device at the centre of the universe (give or take fifty feet), with Azimuth intending to reverse the mistakes of his past and bring back the Lombaxes - including Ratchet’s lost family. When Ratchet & Clank learn that the Great Clock is not a time machine, and that tampering with it will have catastrophic consequences, they decide against Azimuth’s plan. Unfortunately, Azimuth is so focused and single-minded on his goal that he ignores the duo’s warnings, and when they try to stop him he turns against them at the end of the game.    Azimuth is a very headstrong, reckless and aggressive character that believes he can brute-force his way through any issue - just like Ratchet was, before he met Clank all those years ago. Narrative foils often make for the most compelling villains! Ratchet likely would have ended up just like Azimuth had he not met Clank.

Lothar Rendain (Battleborn)    “Don’t you see? We needn’t all perish! We can save something! What value is life that is already condemned? What are you fighting for?!”    Doing whatever it takes to survive isn’t exactly an uncommon motivation - it’s a pretty basic demand of living, after all. When it’s the end of the universe as we know it and you take honour out of the question, however, it can lead to some not-so-heroic decisions. Battleborn brings us to a universe dying at the hands of the Varelsi, inter-dimensional horrors eating every star in space, and introduces Lothar Rendain: a battle-hardened military commander that has his species’ survival at the top of his priorities. So, what does he do in the face of seemingly unavoidable death? Make a deal with it, even at the cost of everything and everyone else in the universe.   Rendain’s motivations are at least understandable - in his words, he’s “saving something instead of nothing”, and it may as well be his own people. It’s just a shame he goes about it in the most despicable fashion possible. He’s sided his forces with the Varelsi and turned on the rest of the surviving universe, aiding the Varelsi hordes in exchange for them ensuring his own species’ survival once the last light winks out. After thousands of years battling an apparently unstoppable foe, you’d probably be desperate to figure out a different solution too.   Personality-wise, he stands out as a darkly serious villain compared to the more chaotic and gung-ho heroes, almost as if he was pulled from a different story entirely. He avoids all the usual mistakes of being the “bad guy” too; he doesn’t needlessly kill any underlings that fail him, he takes any advantage he can get in a fight (like siccing a dozen gigantic bosses on the heroes at once instead of playing fair), and he even gives them chances to join forces with him in the interest of saving his own troop’s numbers. All in all, he’s a cunning antagonist with reasonable motivations, yet still so completely irredeemable and evil that finally defeating him at the end is just as cathartic for the player as it is for the heroes of the game themselves. 

   All this goes to show that all the interesting motives and engaging characterisations doesn’t always make for a nice person. There’s hundreds of fascinating and memorable villains out there, far too many to fit in a single article. If you have any suggestions of engaging evil-doers that fit this list, feel free to let me know! Thanks for reading!

[grinbrothers]

Battleborn Part Final: Preserving Video Game History! - Grin Brothers

The Grin Brothers finish Battleborn. Souldin's weakness is cliffs, Raphael's problem with Rendain's plan is that the Varlesi can be easily shot.

With the end of this series, Grin Brother's main playthroughs will be on a break until 9/3/2020! Raphaham Presents, Tea Times, and GB Mini's will still pop up sporadically in the meantime though, so I hope you enjoy those until our next playthrough pops up in March!

18+ Warning Art by STARteam2017: https://starteam2017.deviantart.com/art/Full-color-Com-R18-Warning-Sign-for-Sould1n-722348987 Grin Brothers Opening Art by RireNe-RN: https://www.deviantart.com/rirene-rn/art/CM-Journey-begin-750165576 Nanka Art by Mgcoco: https://mgcoco.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Nanka-725553565 Hat Art by STARteam2017: https://starteam2017.deviantart.com/art/Com-Hat-728146655 Grin Brothers End Slate by Yukiokocchi: https://www.deviantart.com/yukiokocchi Battleborn was available on PS4, Xbox One and PC but likely has it's servers shutdown by the end of this year. I hope you enjoyed this historical preservation of the game's campaign.

Date Made: 26/1/2020 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCFgLZmjBeMCt-QbSoDhVA Tumblr: http://grinbrothers.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrinBrothers

[incorrectbattleborn]

Rendain: I have an army.

Ghalt: We have an Orendi.

[supremeoutcast]

When Rendain tries to darken the universe but ends up getting thrown into the void himself.

[cosmicfails]

How to Summarize the whole plot of Battleborn Original (I think...): 

http://submit-your-oc.tumblr.com/post/132380062195/imagine-your-ocs-like

[shellalana]

Nog Too Long Ago

“You know, I should feel slighted that I wasn’t invited to one of your fancy shindigs... what do you UPR call it again?” “The BUF Festival!” “Ah, yes. Your Bright Universe Festival... Festival. Ahem, as I was saying, I should feel slighted, but they gave me the next best thing.” Rendain pretended to examine his nails as he regarded the solitary clone left aboard the Nova, his hands chained together behind his back. “Uhh... a hairpiece?” “What would I need with- no, not a hairpiece!” Slighted, Rendain adjusted the collar of his shirt, smoothed back (what little he had left of) his hair, and recomposed himself. There was no way he was going to let someone as low as a UPR clone get to him. “It’s you, dear boy.” “I’m your BUF Festival gift?!” Oscar Mike started to gag inside his helmet, wishing he could be rid of the damn thing. “Of a sorts,” Rendain continued, not wanting to lose the point he was trying to make. “They left an idiot like you to guard the ship, making it easy for me to get onboard. Your AI, this Nova you have, she would be invaluable to the Jennerit. Now if you’ll show me to where her core is located.” “Ha ha, you just played yourself, flat top. If I’m so stupid, why would I know where that is?” The clone blew raspberries in his direction... only to realize he was covering the inside of his helmet in his own spit. “... point,” the Commander conceded, but that wouldn’t be enough to dissuade him. Armoured fingers clawed at the back of the clone’s shirt, lifted him from off the ground to Rendain’s full height. “Then I should just kill you and be done with your prattling.” “No no no no, wait! At least... before you throw me out the airlock...” “Hmm, a good choice, I hadn’t thought of that one. I was just going to rip your head from your body.” “Or not that! At least give a man one last drink before you do... not that. For the holidays?” With a roll of scarlet eyes, Rendain lowered the UPR clone back to his feet, and meandered over to the nearby table where a large pitcher sat, along with several empty glasses. He poured one for each of them, held one out for the clone to take, and then suddenly remembered his bindings. “How... do you drink with that helmet on?” “I don’t. You got a straw?” “Enough!” Rendain threw back the drink and sneered at how sweet and thick it felt as it coated his throat. He was more used to wine, drinks that had been aged for centuries under just the right conditions. But it was a burst of laughter from the helmeted RDC trooper that quirked a brow. “What are you on about now?” “I’m pretty sure that eggnog’s gone bad by now!” “Bad... what do you m-... oh.” Ghalt had been bugging him to throw that eggnog out for week’s now, and he’d finally taken it out of the fridge to do just that when the ship had been boarded. Oh, the story he’d tell the others, how his forgetfulness finally paid off in defeating the feared Rendain. The twisting pain in Rendain’s gut had him doubled over, almost to his knees as the curdled nog worked its magic on his insides. A horrible gurgling followed, descending with the pain until- “Bathroom!” “Airlock’s looking like a great idea now, isn’t it?!” Oscar Mike called after him as he disappeared down the hallway in search of relief.

[riddlester]

Has this been done already?

[shoukettu]

Inktober battle 5 (last)

This was fun to do. Let’s see if I do it again next year.

[battlebornmemehq]

WHO’S UP FOR SOME BATTLEBORN MEMES? ...No one? Oh it’s 1AM.... *sigh*

[dxstrxyer]

he needs more content 

[timetravelingart]

Rendain for Inktober Day 2

[battle-shitpost]

rendain:you have challenged me to fight SIX times since we’ve started talking 

caldarius:make it seven 

* caldarius punches rendain in the face *

-mod G

[bootlegdemon]

the last star

                                                       the tyrant