#requiem rambles

[tattooedrequiem]

I was hyped for the Teen Wolf movie for like one minute before I realized Stiles wouldn't be in it and the shit they pulled on the actors... Rip.

[sunnysatori]

MITUNA MY BELOVED MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFEEEEEE

[nuzipilled]

How did Tessa become a worker drone?

oh! in my AU specifically, it’s more of an offshoot/canon divergence of my fic.

After Uzi restores the DDs memories and J decides to mope around like the sad sack she is while talking to the Tessa AI she’s cobbled up in her software, they figure out that with a little finagling, Uzi would be able to use that tulpa type creation, combined with everyone else’s memories of Tessa to upload a copy of her consciousness into a retired drone body. Obviously she’s still not entirely there mostly just because they could never perfectly be able to restore her completely (considering none of them have her whole story or life experiences) but it’s enough to be as accurate as they can get it. I think J struggles a little bit in the beginning because of this, but eases up as time goes on and eventually is able to foster a relationship with her and finally get the happy ending she wants. basically a less sad version of the way requiem ends. Divergence would occur around chapter 6 and 7 I would think

[cainlane]

the stark difference in hs/hs2 compared to hsr in terms of how hs (which. obviously kind of makes sense considering that we're playing from an immortal's perspective) seemed to gloss over a lot of issues that war brought to their & human world which is so fleshed out in hsr, especially if we're looking at this recent update? the brutality of a literal infant being killed because there are no other ways to cope with hunger, the cruelty that is brought out when humanity collapses and there are no rules to adjust to, the little sneak into how immortals bodies were affected by mother of life's demise (which i loved in particular because yeah, we're not playing from an immortal's pov, but they play an incredibly important part in the story) and the sheer hopelesness and insanity that are invoked through every word like YEAH. evoke those emotions in me! that's what the og hs series were missing and i'm glad hsr continues to eat with every episode

[floral-fawn27]

GOLD EXPERIENCE: REQUIEM

The Ultimate Stand

Hey there!! JJBA posting now lmao- Have my redesign of GER for my soon-to-be-collection-of-headcannons-au-ish-thing, Moar Stands! Had to do the Best Stand first of course 😌

I'll list the changes I made down here if anyone is interested!

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I didn't change too much but obviously added and took away alot;

1. I removed alot of the additional details on him (especially the green colors everywhere else), in order to make his eyes pop the most, as that's the only place where green is on the character (also fits because of course Giorno has green eyes)

2. I gave him hair! A major headcannon I have is that all the Joestar Bloodline Stands (even The World, technically) have black flowing hair

4. The wrist-cape thing is to emulate the appearance of a pair of angel wings, kinda giving the vibe of biblically-accurate angels, where they are so terrifying but beautiful- But also to look like royalty, as GER 'stole' the crown of Passione

5. The purple clothing and feather-like wrap around the waist is meant to look like Roman clothes (after all, GER was created in Rome), and to to give him an almost God like appearance

6. The black cape is mostly for silhouette-ing, but also is another nod at royal themes. It even has some red and splatters at the bottom to not only call back to the blood time-skip scene but also as another parallel to King Crimson

7. There are also red splatters faintly on the wrist-cape, as there is blood on his hands, after all.

Stay tuned for more 😈🙏

[felinoidrose]

"what is loneliness? it is thirst. a flower dying in the desert" feels very spock coded actually, especially when he was a kid on vulcan. the whole episode seems to be secretly about spocks emotions

[gremoria411]

*The following contains spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance*

This is a follow-up post to my earlier one covering the first two episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance. I’ll link it here but I’ll probably be covering a lot of the same points

I’m also going to completely give the game away right now: I don’t find Requiem for Vengeance to be a good show. Probably the nicest thing I could say is that that the designs are nice. It has some good ideas, it just really mangles the execution.

A lot of these are notes I made as I was watching the episodes, and I specifically rewatched episodes 4 and 6, because I’ve got a lot to say about them relative to everything else.

Characters

Is the only reason they made Iria a mother so they could justify her empathy towards the enemy pilot!? Like motherhood isn’t a necessary component of caring about other humans. You can just do that.

Follow-up: Iria doesn’t really express much affection towards her actual flesh-and-blood child during the show. He’s presumably in Zeon somewhere, but he never appears except in photograph. But her actions at the end of the show….. really don’t help.

Major Ronnay’s odd. Because he kinda feels like the only sensible character/the only character who’s aware of the wider situation - the war’s starting to turn against Zeon, and shifting to shepherding his resources to compensate for disrupted supply lines feels like a good decision at this point, not picking fights with the Earth federation’s newest prototype. Ronnay also marshalls the group’s evacuation from Earth. Yeah, he’s mean to the protagonists, but he’s under a lot of stress and he’s in charge of a worsening was situation. It’s just quite odd to see the only character who indicates a wider understanding of the conflict presented so negatively. That said, it’s not like he’s really immune to the bad acting and dialogue. When talking about dead civilians in episode 4, he sounds more bothered that they died for something so measly, as opposed to the fact that they were innocent people caught up in a war that had nothing to do with them.

I really don’t like Captain Zydoss. He kinda just exists to verbally explain other characters backstories, or to tell other characters that they’re in the right. There’s no real character here. Man straight-up says: “Those soldiers? They were just doing their jobs.” That is not a line I’m really enthused about hearing in a show like this, because it makes me question what the fuck the writers were trying to say here.

I kinda already made a post about this, but I really don’t like Yuri Kellerne in this. The design’s awful, he only shows up to say to the viewers “Yeah, Iria was right, also she’s a cool dude who doesn’t afraid of anything”. He doesn’t really do anything, and it just feels like a “see 08th MS team fans, it’s that character you like!”.

To be honest, I didn’t really have strong opinions on the other characters. There just isn’t a lot there to care about honestly.

Story

Okay, so “War is Hell” just isn’t a theme here. That’s kinda the main problem. There’s no real attempt to humanise the Earth Federation or present them as anything other than largely faceless. I’ve noted before that “War is Hell” is kinda the main thing that makes Gundam work in my opinion, because it’s really noticeable if it isn’t there. It’s just a very by-the-numbers military series. There’s no real “hook” or idea that it’s putting forward. It might’ve helped if Iria’s squad mates had been better characterised, so there’d be a sense of them having actual plans beyond the war. But, ultimately, they die because of the federation’s new mobile suit - not because war is an ultimately horrifying and tragic thing. The presentation just doesn’t line up for me at all.

I do think the emphasis on the watch is good, because it emphasises that time is running out for Zeon. But it never really comes up again after the first two episodes.

The voice work really brings it down, because there’s just no way for the scenes to have any real gravitas or impact when the voices are this poor.

I think another problem is that the opening episode(s) with the Gundam sell it as a threat too well - it effortlessly wiped out Iria’s entire team, as well as numerous other Zaku’s that challenge it while Iria’s scrambling around in recovery. It shrugs off machineguns, bazooka’s, a fuel tanker…… so any attempts by Iria to bring the fight to it just feels utterly stupid, because there’s no real reason it shouldn’t just wipe out another two Zaku’s. The fight in episode 4 is particularly obvious - the Gundam just slowly approaches, it’s doesn’t exhibit any of its trademark speed and never presses the advantage. There’s never a sense that any damage dealt to it is “earned”, it just takes a hit because the plot demands it.

Okay, the dress turning to blood thing was ambitious, and if it had worked would’ve been really cool. But fabric and liquid are hard to animate at the best of times, so one to the other in a show like this was never going to pan out.

You can really tell this was made by former transformers alumni. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, just some of the shots are very transformers-esque.

Wait, doesn’t Iria’s comment about not shooting disembarking pilots directly contradict the actions of the federation forces earlier in the show? Also didn’t she just tell her squadmate to kill him? Oh, getting out of his mobile suit and trying to escape in order to come back in a fresh suit? Oh well, it just wouldn’t be sporting to kill him now, better let him go.

“I wasn’t aiming to take out the pilot! This is our best chance to take out the Gundam!” “At what price, lieutenant?” I dunno, two enemy combatants that were just trying to kill you? And have killed your allies? In a warzone? Seems like an odd time to develop a conscience, Iria. It’s not necessarily off-brand for Gundam, but it’s just so hackneyed. Iria recognises the Gm pilot and later the Gundam pilot as human exclusively, but the infantry and tank gunners were apparently fair game.

Follow-up: Iria also randomly spares a Guntank in episode 6. A Guntank that could very easily shoot down Zeon HLV’s that Iria is currently defending. I feel like that was unwise.

To be clear here, I’m not criticising the decision to have Iria spare characters, I’m criticising the decision to present it in this way - it causes Iria to come off as hypocritical and careless to ignore active threats, and the rationale of why she’s sparing them never comes up.

The URMC guy helps the cast attack the enemy (such as in episode 4). Doesn’t that kinda spit in the face of his neutrality?

Oh hey, I was so busy talking about the poor character writing that I almost forgot to mention the false flag operation. Y’know, that thing that is illegal under wartime law? That the characters commit when they dress up as Federation forces in order to steal the GMs? Yeah, that. Like, I know it’s par for the course in shows like this (like 0080), but it still feels odd to see it presented in such a heroic fashion. It just would’ve felt better if the characters had acknowledged that it was a sketchy/desperate thing to do (like 0080), rather than playing it completely straight.

It kinda feels like they came up with the title first, and then introduced elements to fit with it - Iria being a violinist just feels very vestigial, and vengeance…… either isn’t a theme or it’s badly executed enough that I didn’t notice it (characters talk about it a lot, but not to any real purpose).

Okay, the combination of character animation, voice work dialogue and the fact that Iria probably has a concussion makes the fact that Iria decides to pilot her Zaku in episode 6 (unintentionally) really funny. Because she’s giving this big dramatic speech with swelling music, but it genuinely just feels like this is the shock and concussion talking, so I just expect her to step on to the truck and fall flat on her face.

We can swear now, great, good for us. That isn’t an excuse for the dialogue to be as bad as it is.

Alright, I fully fell off on episode 6. I’m sorry, it crosses the line from plain old regular bad to hilariously bad for me. It’s like the hyper-realistic faces coupled with the absolutely terrible animation and voice acting just blends together into something completely farcical.

“Machineguns are not effective, aim for the treads” *continues firing*. Also, did they just forget that guntanks have missile launchers?

There’s kind of no real sense of flow to the fights either. Everything moves as fast as it needs to. Stopping stock-still in the middle of a combat zone is a death sentence, so it’s really noticeable how frequently Requiem for Vengeance stops fights so its characters can have dramatic conversations. This is very, very noticeable in episode 6.

Wait hang on. Iria: “The Earth Federation’s Won, We’re just trying to retreat, please let us go” Gundam Pilot: “Then surrender, if we let you terrorists go you’ll just attack us again later” Iria then proceeds to not surrender. Furthermore, Zeon is withdrawing military personnel and war material like mobile suits, which they will use against the Earth Federation in the last months of the war. Isn’t the Gundam pilot completely in the right here? But the presentation of the scene seems to be trying to put Iria in the right. But what the Gundam pilot’s saying is correct. Zeon did start the war, and will continue attacking the Earth. So it feels like the narrative is presenting the Gundam pilot as being in the wrong simply by their nature as a child soldier thrust into this war. They didn’t have a choice, they need Iria (who’s a mother, by the way) to tell them they have a choice. The narrative places the fact that they’re a mother and child over the fact that they share a common humanity. It’s such a stupid choice.

“Zeon forces were driven completely out of Europe and Asia” that’s a funny way of saying “we were driven off the entire Earth”.

Other stuff (mostly Setting and Visuals)

I do like the little Zaku ears, they’re nice.

So why is the character covered in highly identifiable Zeon tattoos considered for an infiltration? Just a note.

The mobile suits are pretty dang gorgeous.

The Gundam pilot has a Nintendo switch.

Sooooo…… no mention of why they’re going to Odessa? No reason that might be relevant to anything?

I will probably do a small post on Loum. Because this is gonna annoy me.

Can the Gouf’s fly in this? It’s really throwing me. Because they shouldn’t be able to, but it looks really cool? Maybe they just didn’t want to model Gouf flight types.

Yes, Requiem for Vengeance, I enjoyed the Gouf Custom in 08th MS team as well. Can I please have literally any other mobile suit. (Yeah, it’s cool, but it’s not cool enough to carry your entire show).

Follow-up: it feels like the writers wanted to emphasise that the Gouf Custom in 08th ms team could totally have beaten the Gundam if it had needed to. Like yeah, but that’s not important. The point of that scene (in 08th Ms Team) isn’t some kind of dick-measuring of mobile suits, it’s to emphasise Norris Packard’s character and skill, that he made those decisions in service to the wider objective (and to iterate on Ramba Ral and Amuro’s relationship from 0079). It’s not there to demonstrate how strong the Gouf is. I mean, yeah they want you to buy the models, but come on.

In case the ratio of criticism-to-praise above didn’t give it away, I really didn’t like Requiem for Vengeance. It just fails to engage with the theme I consider central to Gundam: “War is hell”. It also doesn’t really humanise any of the opposing side, which while not a deal-breaker, certainly doesn’t help its position. There just really isn’t a lot of character on display here, so there’s little to distract from the bad dialogue, stiff animation and near-comedically poor line deliveries. The human animation and writing really kill the series for me, since they just cripple the shows ability to deliver any kind of impact on its points. Then again, when its points are “The Earth Federation is just SO MEAN you guys”, it’s probably best the delivery’s as poor as it is. I don’t really know what the shows trying to say but it certainly doesn’t seem to be “War is bad”.

It feels like the writers were able to grasp gundam’s thesis of “child soldiers are bad”, but took that to be “people who use child soldiers are bad”, not “the circumstances that war creates will eventually cause children to take up arms for a cause they don’t fully understand, leaving them to have short miserable live of perpetuating the harm they have suffered upon others, as just one part of the horror that war visits upon its victims”. This is emphasised by the ending, which is pretty shit. Despite the opportunity to return home and retire, like multiple other Zeon aces did. Iria instead fucks off and joins the Zeon remnant in Africa, while stating that many of the other soldiers there “don’t have a home to return to, are consumed by hatred or yearning only for a glorious death on the battlefeild”. THEN WHY ARE YOU THERE. Why are you perpetuating the conflict by throwing in with remnant groups? How the hell is this supposed to prevent child soldiers from happening? Go home.

Plus, the way Zeon’s presented here seems kind of…… dishonest. Like it’s not incorrect or canon-breaking, it just seems to skirt around a lot of details in order to paint Zeon as, for want of a better term, “less evil”. So, we have characters mention The Battle of Loum, without mentioning what Loum was. We have characters note the worsening war situation, without engaging with why Zeon’s on the back foot. The characters retreat back up into space, but it isn’t stated what they’re retreating from. You’d expect someone to mention the actual wider war situation. I know they’re soldiers, and they’re likely fed a steady diet of Zeon propaganda - but then why not let us see that propaganda, note how the characters engage with it. Do they agree, disagree? Do they take it as gospel, accept that the principality is covering up some things or rage that it’s blatant lies? How does Zeon, the nation, its leaders and its governance affect these characters? The choice to completely ignore it seems wrongheaded and, as above, dishonest. There’s no hint of Zeon’s fractious command structure here, that the upper brass are too consumed by infighting to heed the wider war situation. There’s no mention of Garma Zabi, late commander of the Earth Attack Force, who presumably the characters would have a lot of opinions on. Requiem for Vengeance doesn’t exactly paper over Zeon’s failings, it just doesn’t mention them. I find it interesting that of the “big three” Zeon Earth Commanders (Garma Zabi, Yuri Kellerne, and M’Quve) we only see Yuri, who’s arguably the softest of the three. Like, M’Quve is right there, you guys. There’s even a Tony Takezaki illustration that could be used as a basis to adapt his design to the new style:

And M’Quve would have been the perfect opportunity to showcase Zeon’s fractious upper command. So his omission just feels glaring (much like the illustration). Major Ronnay’s perhaps the closest to being a member of Zeon High Command, but he’s essentially the stock “Commander whose orders the protagonist disregards” archetype. I *could* describe him as the most humanised out of the cast, but that feels like I’m reaching. There is Joshua Stein (the commander in the first episode, who originally calls the Red Wolves in), but he feels more genuinely incompetent, rather than saying anything meaningful about Zeon as a whole - his failings are more personal, rather than symptoms of a wider problem with Zeon Command (and in any case he’s only got around three scenes, so it’s difficult to glean anything from him).

Slight follow-up, but we’re also not told anything about the Battle of Odessa. I noted in my posts in the run-up to the release of Requiem for Vengeance that it takes place shortly before the Battle of Odessa, which was the big turnaround for Zeon’s fortunes on Earth, leading to a mass retreat back up into space. This is a *big thing* in the wider war, because it is where the Federation finally gets its momentum (and mobile suits) going and essentially forces Zeon into the back foot, a position they never really recover from. For all the series loves to bang on about Loum, it never mentions Odessa. Part of this is excusable - Zeon would likely downplay its loss as Odessa to keep morale high, and the characters may not have received accurate reports yet, but I’d just like someone to mention it - “seems Odessa didn’t go to plan” or just something like that. Because it’s the whole reason they’re retreating in the last few episodes and no-one says anything.

I’d ordinarily be pretty easy on the whole “Zeon’s War for Independence” thing, since it’s an example of how the populace of Zeon was motivated to fight, but it’s a lie. It’s a lie told to justify the One Year War (and subsequent acts of spacenoid aggression). Like, there’s no problem with the characters believing the lie, but presenting it completely straight feels off. Like, if there was just one instance where it was acknowledged that maybe we shouldn’t trust the motivation of the guys who declared war and dress like space nazi’s, then cool, but the series doubles down on this impression by Iria’s statement at the end that the war didn’t really end as far as she’s concerned. Again, no problem with Iria believing that, by all accounts that’s how a lot of Zeon Remnant Groups saw the situation but it just reads oddly when talking about the One Year War. It kinda makes the series feel like in-universe propaganda or revisionist history, because at no point does it acknowledge that maybe Iria isn’t that reliable of a narrator.

Iria: “and so, to prevent more children from becoming child soldiers, I became a deadbeat mom.”

So yeah, Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance - the mechanical design and opening’s pretty nice, but they really can’t carry the rest of the show and over time the dull plot, uninteresting characters and awful voice acting really just sap away any initial goodwill I possessed. The fact that it seems utterly unwilling to engage with *why* the war happened and *why* Zeon lost is particularly irritating, since (by its nature as a Zeon-focused show) it’s in the perfect position to talk about those questions.

[tokiwarism]

pickles' singing in Givin' back to you makes me so happy, you guys do not understand. "I can't believe how good it feels to be." ugh i love the like grit??? or roughness??? in his voice

same with skwisgaar's line in Some time ago where he says "I disagrees! for you sees we don't needs nobody else, this must bes a one guitar band" and THEN THE FOLLOWING LINE BRO.... "ain't NOBODDDYY goods as mees" pickles in this video scares me.. his lack of facial hair is haunting

[yume-fanfare]

—tori, requiem, lux aeterna 12

—tsukasa, clown crown

[teamgalacticcyrus]

God I cannot stop thinking about Magnus with BPD.

Magnus just wanting to be loved but purposely pushing everyone away because that’s just what he knows how to do. Why should he have expected Dethklok to be any different? Of *course* they were gonna find someone else, of *course* he was going to be replaced. Why would he have expected otherwise? He was stupid to do that. Oh look. They love the new guy more than they ever loved him. Of course now that he’s gone they make it big. Of course they’re all rich and famous. It never would have happened with him, he’s just a nobody.

**FUCK** the new guy, who does he think he is anyway? That position was rightfully his. Magnus’. Dethklok wouldn’t have even been formed without him, and this is how they repay him? Only thing to do is get close to the new guy. The other 4 probably never even talked about him anyway, since he never meant a fucking thing to them. They hurt him so fucking deeply, and he never meant a thing. They’ve never felt real pain. It’s about time they fucking **learn** what it means to suffer, especially Toki.

And if they love Toki enough to save him, love Toki like they never loved him, then they can all fucking die too trying to help.

After all, Magnus was never meant to be anyone. Dethklok can die alone, and afraid, and unloved, just like they fucking left him.

It’s what they deserve for breaking his heart. He hopes they suffer.

[huntersrequiem-if]

Initially, I wanted Night's meeting to be on equal terms so to speak. You would pick if they were your RO or a friend or if you cared about them at all.

And it did make sense! Those characters are so old, it would be impossible for them to not know each other.

But at the same time, I had to remember how Night is. They're closed off and cold. They like staying in their kingdom.

So, yes while they know of Hunter, Night has had no reason to seek a deeper connection such as friendship or even romance.

...so you guys are stuck with... this version of them, for the time being.

[tattooedrequiem]

I'm going to go feral. I saw people using the DA term and they completely invalidated and misrepresented the experience. I just want to say, for my IRLs THEY ARE ALSO KINS. IRLs for me are kins that my mental illness latched onto and amplified. It causes me to have episodes where I freak out if I look at my body or in the mirror and I lose touch with reality. Please DON'T CALL THEM DELUSIONS AS A WHOLE. Yeah I have delusional episodes where I get those freak outs, but by calling them delusions you are also calling my kins delusions. It isn't fucking fun.

[starburr]

Ok time for some rambling because I don't do enough of it.

Gundam Requiem for Vengeance wasn't the best tbh but the mobile suit fight scenes were really neat. I appreciated how nice the GM looked, esp with the sorta flippy down visor. The main gundam was terrifying to an extent, and the zaku designs kind of grew on me. Although I was biased towards the gouf customs, those were really great to see.

Next up, back to transformers one again (gee I wonder why I can't stop talking about it) LIKE D16 to MEGATRONS journey is do, gosh it's so beautiful and tragic. Granted, he kind of held to some fascist ideals but it's so interesting how you see his inner conflict through his body language. How he takes that pain so personally, and unleashes it in a violent flurry of words and physicality. It's so beautiful I love the heartbreak in Optimus' eyes realizing what must be done, I LOVE HOW THE FILMMADE ME HATE THEM HURTING ONE ANOTHER LIKE. Yeah. Transformers One is so good. I can't quite organize the thoughts but hhhhhhhh it's so good

Ok then some Inside Out, nothing long really. I might hate Disney but I do appreciate how the team that worked on the film has all these different designs for the new emotions, some I like more than others (ennui and anxiety mostly but I love my original gang). There's quite a lot of texture and lighting into them, carrying over that soft fuzzy look. Ah right, and then the myriad of ship pairings. It's really lovely to see the fans so hard at putting out their aus, designs and ideas. I'm strangely fine with all the pairings like?? They make sense and they're cute and all that. Been personally drawn to nervenoodle a lot because they both look good together, and potential for interactions. Hence my headcanons but still, sometimes I just don't need to justify to ship something non problematic ànyway. Enjoyed the film, my pirated copy wasn't bad so yipee.

Ànd lastly for now, some Luca pondering. Yeah, I'll admit I have ideas for my AU and headcanons that most of the fans won't agree with cough cough poly underdogs cough cough but, it still isn't anything too tacky or problematic really. I'm still most obsessed with it over any other fandom, hence my AU although I'm still writing other stuff into it. Idk, it was such a good movie and I'm excited for potential in its future.

Oh well that's enough disorganized thoughts.

[sonic-adventure-3]

in the semi-hero endings of shadow the hedgehog (2005), shadow thinks he was responsible for the ark tragedy, and the deaths of everyone on board, including maria. all the possible sequences in the game are named and numbered. here are some shth semi-hero ending sequence names that physically hurt me:

semi-hero hero (the ending where shadow thinks his existence was a mistake and that he never should have been created, and intends to avenge the victims of the ark):

026 “along with my home”

076 “shadow’s second death…?”

170 “requiem for the heavens”

182 “compensation for a miracle”

212 “at the end of the journey”

260 “tears shed by the stars”

298 “galaxy’s requiem”

310 “lost to the universe’s abyss”

324 “the self-imposed seal”

semi-hero dark (the ending where shadow becomes the protector of the empty ark for the rest of time, regarding it as sacred):

135 “a vow for the victims”

153 “together with maria…”

219 “eternally drifting”

275 “the reason i was born”

279 “a genius scientist’s lineage”

305 “sleeping on hallowed ground”

309 “funeral procession in space”

323 “coffin of memories”

[runningfrom2am]

inspiration struck HEAVY this morning while i was getting ready for work and i hammered out two parts ahead on requiem soooo new part tonight when i get home from work!!

[jam-blue]

If you see him let me know