#rt-related or otherwise

[monarchisms]

i wish the person currently going through stuff i posted under the rt wank tag a very blessed evening

[mynnthia]

compiling my headcanons for what video games dungeon meshi characters would like, if they were gamers in modern day

some taken from this post and my reblog additions there. added more characters, with some suggestions by friends/mutuals (marked by *asterisk ).

this can also be a games recommendation list based on your fav/most relatable characters too, if you want

characters that are not are included are bc i dont have ideas for them. if i only list the genre name but not any specific titles, its bc im not familiar enough with the character/genre to pick a specific game.

this list is, of course, biased towards games im more familiar with. feel free to ask me to elaborate on my choices or make suggestions in the comments

Laios' party:

Laios: plays lots of Monster Hunter. loves Spore but he doesnt often play past the tribal stage. likes Pokemon but he's more focused on catching the pokemon than following the story. played WolfQuest and DragonFable back in the day. enjoyed the concept of Bugsnax but wasn't interested in dealing with the NPCs

Marcille: mainly Dwarf Fortress, RTS games, some colony sims. but also sometimes The Sims, and dollmaker dress-up games. i could see her also enjoying Rollercoaster Tycoon and making elaborately-themed parks. might also occasionally indulge in some visual novels if she's in the mood for narrative she has Stardew Valley so she can have something to play co-op with falin, but its not a game she plays a lot of otherwise. when playing with falin, marcille micromanages the farm to maximize productivity, and does the decorations

Chilchuck: puzzle games and hidden object/escape room games as a video game-equivalent to finding/dismantling traps and lockpicking. i think he'd also enjoy Bejeweled.

Senshi: mainly Wii games and Cooking Mama. occasionally plays Snake on his 15-year-old nokia phone. i dont think he would enjoy games like Overcooked or restaurant manager games, because he likes to take his time making food, not stressing about customer service

Falin: some *Legend of Zelda games – she likes the exploration aspect in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, maybe also some of the toon zelda games like Minish Cap or Wind Waker she also plays Pokemon (*Pokemon Go when she's traveling), and i think she would enjoy some indie games, like Penko Park or Chicory: A Colorful Tale. plays Stardew Valley co-op with marcille – falin mainly takes care of the animals, mining, and picking the crops. occasionally makes improvement suggestions that marcille didnt think of

Izutsumi: i could see her enjoying games with parkour mechanics, like *Assassin's Creed, or Mirror's Edge. or maybe something simple but requiring cat-like swipes, like Fruit Ninja. despite her impatience, i think she could also enjoy action games with interesting longer narratives, as evidenced by [this omake] (relevant portion pictured below), so maybe *Final Fantasy 7 – my friend who's familiar with the game said "she’d find Cloud and Vincent relatable"

[ID: a dungeon meshi omake, where laios' party watches a nightmare monster manifest marcille's dream. there are snippets of dramatic soap opera-like dialogue. the rest of the party are initially enthusiastic but get bored over time, meanwhile izutsumi remains enthralled]

Kabru's party

Kabru: definitely Crusader Kings. maybe also some rpgs with relationship/faction mechanics, such as *Fire Emblem (one of the older ones or FE:3H) or Fallout: New Vegas (hes maxing out the speech stat asap) i think he would also enjoy mystery games like Pentiment and Return of the Obra Dinn – he would love the process of getting familiar with the many characters and deducing "who did what" in both games.

Rin: she takes pride in being an indie gamer (translating her disdain for upper class magic academy mages -> disdain for AAA games). given her chain-lightning magic in canon, i think she'd enjoy games with AOE-type magic, so maybe games such as Vampire Survivors. my mutual also suggested she might enjoy indie mystery visual novels like *Paranormasight, and that her AAA guilty-pleasure would be *Final Fantasy 14 – that rin is "a hardcore ff14 raider. would join PUGs and shot-call every week. #holm and diya might also play ff14 casually with rin but holm would be fishing mainly"

Mickbell: mainly Bethesda games like Fallout and Skyrim– enjoys the bootstrapper power fantasy in them. the type to go out of his way to pick up all the loot he can, to later sell

Kuro: enjoys the same games as Mickbell, but for the open-world exploration and investigation factors

Toshiro and Tansu's party:

Namari: her interest in fighting and weapons could translate to brawler/fighting games and action games with a focus on weapon stats – so maybe *Street Fighter, *God of War, and/or *Dark Souls. might play *Monster Hunter with laios but for the weapons. i could also see her occasionally enjoying truck simulators

Toshiro (Shuro): has the perseverance for soulslikes and other high-difficulty action and/or metroidvania games, but would take his time overthinking item/weapon synergies sometimes. given [his fondness for bugs], i could also see him enjoying Hollow Knight

Tade: would enjoy the cute aesthetics and lighthearted gameplay of Animal Crossing and Katamari. would also like idol anime rhythm games

Kiki: i think she would enjoy horror games such as Resident Evil, but would play it while super chill. i dont have much reasoning for this aside from vibes

Canaries:

Mithrun: plays Doom. got into Hollow Knight but still hasn't finished it because he keeps getting lost. senshi introduces him to Cooking Mama later on, which he finds surprisingly therapeutic

Cithis: plays Hitman and enjoys staging elaborate accident kills. i think she'd also enjoy The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, with her background as a devious fortune-teller

Fleki: surreal indie games like Hylics. also plays Team Fortress 2, and is a scout main. occasionally joins lycion in Animal Jam

Lycion: active WolfQuest and Animal Jam player. occasionally joins fleki in tf2

Pattadol: plays Stardew Valley – shes comparatively a normie, but on the meticulous side. she would enjoy perfecting her in-game farm

Otta: plays Genshin Impact. the serious reasoning is because of her (earth) elemental magic and how genshin has an elemental magic system (from my understanding. ive never played it). the joke reasoning is how some genshin players play to collect "waifus", and how otta goes through a lot of women in her dating life

Other:

Leed: runs her own guild in World of Warcraft

Winged Lion: god-games like WorldBox or Simmiland. and Darkest Dungeon (this ones mostly a joke)

Thistle: plays the original Plants VS. Zombies. also plays Minecraft and is very serious about it, but hasn't updated his game in years (translating the fact hes a 1000-year-old kid frozen in time -> playing "slightly old" games popular in the early 2010s)

[ID: tweet reply by twitter user ranchuppi – "thistle calls it lord delgal's server but he is the only mod. whole royal family is locked in spectator mode. Hell. living hell on earth."]

[cawyden-gaming]

Rogue Trader - Heinrix hardened vs. merciful

It is interesting how different Heinrix reacts if you harden him. I made a overview over the points where I noticed his mercy/harsh influence (I hope I didn't forget anything, please let me know).

You can make him more merciful or harden him already in the first talk with him in your study (about Kiava Gamma quest) after he rejoins on Footfall - but ONLY if you had the iconoclast choice regarding Rykad Minoris.

For details see post here.

1. Kiava Gamma

Here Heinrix can be (further) made merciful or harsh depending on the choices with the Lexmechanic and mutants and his answers and reaction will change accordingly.

I will also make an additional post with all the details/differences, but it would be too much to add here.

Initially, while he thinks about using the Lexmechanic to get the information he is not deaf to his pleading - he is torn between harshness and mercy - ruthlessness and empathy - and RT nudges him further in one direction or the other:

Lexmechanic choice

Hardened

-> This is pretty brutal actually. The Lexmechanic types so franatically that the skin/flesh get's torn off but he continues with the bone. And then Heinrix + RT just leave him behind like this. There isn't even a mercy kill afterwards.

Merciful

-> This is also followed by a choice what to do with the Lexmechanic

Mutant choice

You can still get a mercy point here even if he was hardened before. But his answer will change if you made him merciful or hardened him with the Lexmechanic (or even before that).

Hardened

Merciful

Cogitator choice

Here Heinrix will react based on his mercy/harshness counter. If you let him decide he will either be merciful or harsh and if you made him merciful and then decide to let the cogitator finish he won't allow it and if you hardened him and then try to use the iconoclast version to make him stop he won't do it.

Letting the cogitator finish is actually a heretic choice. You can also ask him to stop (iconoclast) or let him decide or you can cut the power supply (fails the quest).

Also interesting - you need min. 2 points to make him merciful. With 1 point merciful and 1 point harshness he will go with the hardened route.

Hardened

Merciful

Cutting the power supply

If you cut the power supply you will fail his quest and end his romance. There is another dependency on mercy/harshness - if you have more points mercy than harsh he will give you a different response on your iconoclast choice. The heretic choice is to kill him.

If harsh he will even use his powers on you ("... your heart begin to beat twice as fast...") but I suppose it is a momentary loss of control due to his anger.

Iconoclast choice

Mercy > Harsh

Otherwise

Dogmatic choice

2. Dialog with Achilleas (Dargonus attack)

It is also based on his mercy/harshness flags.

Hardened

Merciful

3. Emelina

Hardened

While she is still alive at this point, she is likely about to get killed by him in a slow way.

Merciful

While he kills her here, it is actually the merciful choice as she isn't interrogated/tortured by him but she dies quickly.

But I love that in any case if romanced you get this one:

4. Guard on footfall

Heinrix will spare or kill the guard dependend on if he is merciful or harsh and dependend on RT dialog choice (see here for details))

But you also get additional dialog if you have corruption points with him.

With at least 2 corruption points (flag corruprionInterrogator):

And you get 2 different choices to talk with him about his reckless use of powers.

Otherwise (no or less than 2 points):

5. His endings

They are based on the InterrogatorQuestOutcomeGood/Evil etudes Kiava Gamma quest) and Stoic/Doubtful flags (Emelina quest).

I have left some of the endings out, the romance ones (because in one his endings do not matter and with the other it is one additional slide in combination with his normal endings) and those where he got killed by RT. There is also an additional slide for the Death Cult (DLC) in relation to him.

But basically - you either have a good ending for him where he is somewhat lenient (and at least without Jae survives) or the bad ending where he dies and he is either a puritan or radical. In the bad ending he becomes a fanatic.

-> Please note that there is a dependency with Jae that I am analysing currently. But if you don't recruit her this is what you can get

Good ending + Stoic

Good ending + Doubtful

Evil ending + Stoic

Evil ending + Doubtful

So basically, as he said - "The craven-hearted say that the career of every Inquisitor ends in either death or heresy." - this happens to him as well (at least in his bad endings).

Sorry, that was long.

I love how in Kiava Gamma you can see how he changes. At first he is torn because he needs information, it is his duty, his mission and as long as the cult proceeds even more innocents will get corrupted and/or die.

But while the Lexmechanic is already corrupted, he might still be saved - and his plea to rather die than getting his soul corrupted does affect Heinrix. But RT decides and this already changes him and his following responses with the mutants. To a point where at the cogitator you can't even stop him anymore if you wanted or if you want to proceed he won't do it. It is his decision. You had your choice to influence him and now he sticks to it (while you don't).

If you cut the power supply he get's really mad to a point where he seems to lose control (only if hardened) and even uses his powers on RT. I could only see this as intentional if he wanted to threaten RT but I rather think he was just angry and lost control for a moment.

With cutting the power supply he also ends the romance - as he said, there is no mutual understanding. Before he could always justify your reactions and tell himself it will work ("I thought it won't affect my mission...") but now it is clear it won't.

And if you hardened him, if you told him basically sacrifices are ok, letting (innocents) suffer and die for the cause is totally fine, then he will act accordingly - not reacting glad to see Achilleas alive but scolding him as efficiency, the duty is all that matters. Even with Emelina - he doesn't stop feeling just because he is hardened, he knows what he was doing but again - the end justify the means. The data was relevant, so no mercy kill for Emelina. The guard on Footfall was in his way - so again, he was in his right to act. If he has corruption points he will also reflect that he is reacting like Xavier - disposing of people that aren't of use anymore or in their way.

In the end, if hardened he becomes a fanatic - in his evil radical ending he basically get's corrupted (what he feared before, if you talk with him after his quests) and became a monster himself. Even in his good radical ending he is willing to use chaos as tool and it might corrupt him further.

The puritan evil ending is just a bit better - he doesn't get corrupted but is still acting like a psychopath without mery and empathy for anyone.

The best ending if he is not romanced and stays with RT is the good one and puritan (at least without Jae). He stays alive and does his job - until he will one day die, of course, but at least isn't a fanatic and not corrupted.

[cosmicjoke]

Goodnight, Dear and Sweet Dreams Act 2 Vol. 4:

So, I just read this story from volume 4 of "AoT's" short story collection, and hooo, boy, does it prove some things, I think, that I've been preaching just about forever, regarding Levi's choice during the RtS arc. Not that you need this story to prove it, since it's all laid out there in the original text, but I digress.

The short story basically revolves around Levi ruminating on Kenny's words about dreams and their power, and on his own choice to pick Armin over Erwin. Well, some people love to claim that the choice was only ever about Erwin, and that Armin played no, significant role in that choice, but this story (which we know are considered canon) proves otherwise. It proves, I think without question, that Levi's choice was just as much about doing what was best for humanity as it was about letting Erwin rest.

I'm just going to quote some lines from it and talk about them:

"When he'd first met this person - Erwin- he seemed to fight purely for the sake of humanity, holding up a lofty purpose. Indeed, that was how he lived, drawing many comrades to him. Erwin's strategies were thorough, realistic, and could even come off as merciless, but they got results. Levi trusted him on that front.

In his final, confused moments, though, even Erwin died seeing a childhood dream. Were dreams really something so powerful that they could both show people the path forward at times while also causing them to lose their way at others?"

I highlighted the above passage because this is setting up, for later in the story, the way Levi's choice was predicated on this exact difference between Erwin and Armin. Erwin's dream led him astray, mired as it was in guilt and self-loathing, being associated with such a negative experience in his life, while, as we'll see, Armin's dream, which carried no such negative associations, Levi hoped was what would give people back their own hope, something essential in order for humanity to survive.

"With the wall filled again and a plan coming together to hunt the remaining Titans, the world should have been in an undeniably better place. All the faces around Levi, though, did not look the same to him, but worse than before.

... Topping the list of glum faces was Hange.

... Hange's former habit of clowning around had grown muted ever since they became commander in Erwin's place. Even so, Levi could tell they were trying to maintain their personality from "back in those days", and he lost the will to curse them."

This part is important to highlight, for how it later relates to Armin specifically. How Levi has begun to notice the creeping despair and loss of hope in his comrades, upon finding out that their enemy is much more than just Titans, but in fact the entire world. Even Hange, who before was so positive and energetic, has grown sullen and withdrawn, visibly struggling to regain their once bright outlook. Again, keep this in mind, because it's vital in understanding what Levi thinks about Armin later on.

Levi notes the rest of his subordinates also have taken on a look of despair.

"His young subordinates looked sullen, too. They were kids, yet they wore the expressions of those who'd just crawled out of hell. Not that they were necessarily wrong to look that way."

Even Levi has begun to feel a sense of hopelessness, no longer having the will to show irritation at Hange's enthusiastic personality and not being able to blame the 104th kids for feeling depressed.

"He could see a big lake. Broad, with nothing visible on the other side. It was colorless, appearing only white from the reflected sun. The man who raised Levi -Kenny- had apparently looked upon this lake with the former king. Could this have been the sight he saw?

... 'Let's go see the sea. Salt water that stretches all the way into the horizon-'

A boy's words echoed in his memories. A void that looked into the future, that had yet to lose sight of a dream.

'When you picked Armin then and not me...'

He heard a voice behind him. It belonged to someone no longer with them.

'... Was it because his dream could reach even more people?'

His mind had created these words. In other words, a conveniently interpreted fantasy. Even though Levi knew this, though, he listened to them. Was it because he too wanted to believe in something?"

Again, I highlight the above section because Levi here is dreaming of Erwin, asking him if the reason he picked Armin and not him was because he believed Armin's dream could "reach more people" than his own. This is so important. It's Levi's subconscious, revealing to him through Erwin, what his own motivation had been in choosing Armin. Not Erwin, Armin. When Erwin says to him "Was it because his dream could reach even more people?", it's Levi acknowledging to himself that the purity of Armin's dream was what he believed could give people the kind of hope they needed in order to keep fighting and carry on, that indeed, that dream of a beautiful world beyond the walls, that dream of the sea, could "reach people", as in, humanity could still find salvation through sharing in the belief of a better world's possibility with Armin, through sharing in that hope. That it could inspire people the way Erwin had once done, and maybe even more so, because unlike Erwin, it was a dream genuinely rooted in hope, not guilt. The line about a "conveniently interpreted fantasy" is, I think, Levi's subconscious conjuring Erwin's voice telling him the reasons for his choice, because Levi wants to believe Erwin would understand why he made the choice he did, why he chose to deny Erwin the realization of his own dream in favor of Armin getting to achieve his.

I think Levi's vision of the white lake with nothing on the other side is meant to reflect an unknown future, and the emptiness of despair. The loss of hope. The situation they're all in now would seem hopeless, and that's reflected in the expressions of his comrades. They no longer see a way forward, or the possibility of their dreams being realized.

But what Levi thinks here, about wanting to believe in something himself, is him confessing that he wants to believe too in the possibility of a better world and future. Erwin had given Levi that hope before, along with everyone else, but now Armin is that person who could make them believe, through his own belief. That's why he kept thinking of the look in Armin's eyes. It was that hopeful belief Armin continued to have, even in the face of despair. It was Armin, after all, that was able the night before to pick Eren and Mikasa up and inspire them to believe they could still reach the sea and see the world beyond the walls, that there was still a reason to keep fighting, even if they couldn't get their old lives back. Erwin was no longer the person who could inspire hope, because he was too weighed down by the corrupting influence of his own, personal dream. Too wracked by guilt to be the leader they all needed. I think that's what Levi is referring to, also, when he thinks about, during the final battle, how the veterans mission must have ended when they got "those brats" to the sea. It was a passing of the torch. They were the past, and Armin and the rest of the 104th were the future. They would provide the hope humanity needed. Armin, specifically, was who would fill in the void of that colorless lake, who would return color to their dream, who would make it live again. This is also what Levi is referring to when he talks about entrusting the future to Armin, because he had the same look in his eyes as his fallen comrades. While their hope had begun to fade, Armin's had not. Erwin had led them to that point, in Shinganshina, and that was the fulfillment of his duty. He could take them no further, and I think Levi understood that. It was Armin humanity needed to lead them the rest of the way, then, who could again make them believe in there being a future worth fighting for, because Armin still believed it himself.

"As soon as Levi woke the next morning, he ran into Armin, heading somewhere with books and registers in hand. It seemed he was on his way to meet his childhood friends.

'Going to the disciplinary cells again to look after them?'

'What? Oh, yes... There's a chance that Eren could recall a memory that lines up with our information, so...' the boy answered. Though flustered, his eyes were not downcast. He found hope, even in their hopeless situation."

Again, think about this. While everyone else is losing themselves to despair and a sense of hopelessness, Armin isn't. He's the only one. As Levi thinks here, he finds hope even in their hopeless situation. This is why Levi chose Armin. He wasn't sacrificing humanity for Erwin's sake, he was choosing a boy who he knew would continue to find hope, no matter how bad the circumstances, and thus, be able to reach people with that hope. That hope is what would eventually save humanity.

That's further backed up by this ending passage:

"If the others saw the sea that Armin would someday lead them to, would some of the light return to their own faces? The sea Levi dreamed of had no color, but if it did exist, in theory it would be like the color of the sky, just like a deep lake. Similar, perhaps, to the color of the eyes belonging to the boy who had just blinked before turning around. Or, perhaps, the color of Erwin's eyes, forever shut.

He would have to see for himself. That's what it meant to be in the Survey Corps...

Past and future hopes intersected, only to vanish in the bright daybreak of reality."

Levi made his choice with the hope and belief that Armin, specifically, through the purity and hope of his dream, could give humanity back its own hope, and thus, its will to survive and keep fighting. Him thinking that Armin leading them to the sea, sharing his own hope with them, might perhaps dispel the despair taking root in the hearts of his comrades, that it could "return the light to their own faces", that's Levi hoping here that Armin's hope, specifically his ability to keep hoping, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, will somehow be able to give them all back their own, and be able to carry them forward into the future. Again, that indicates Levi's belief that in order for humanity to have a chance, it needed a leader that could give them hope, that could make them believe in the possibility of a better future, the way Erwin had once done for all of them.

The final line, about past and future hopes intersecting, again, speaks to how Levi viewed his choice. Erwin was the leader they needed to get them to that point, but Armin was the leader they would need to carry them the rest of the way. That's what Levi believed when he made the choice he did. That's what tipped the scales for him. When he thinks here about how he would have to see for himself if it was the right choice, about how that's what it means to be in the SC, he's acknowledging to himself that, like with every choice he makes, he can't know for sure if it was the right thing to do until the results of that choice come to pass, but how, either way, he can't regret it, because it was, for him, the best choice to make at the time.

I don't know how anyone can read "Midnight Sun" and come to the conclusion that Armin, and thus, humanity, wasn't just as much of a factor in Levi's choice as Erwin was, but I feel like, if people still don't get it, this short story should help clarify it for them completely.

Levi made the choice he did both because he didn't want Erwin to suffer anymore, but also because he believed in order for humanity to have any chance, it needed someone to lead it who still had hope in there being a future at all. That was Armin all the way. Armin never lost hope, he always tried for something better, always had hope there could be something better, even when everything truly went to hell with the Rumbling. Again, it was that hope humanity needed. Without it, what chance was there for any of them? It was always Armin who was going to save humanity, not Erwin. He was always meant to be the one. He was always the right choice. Again, because Levi believed Armin's unwavering ability to hope could and would inspire humanity to keep hoping, too. Because you can't win without hope.

When you realize that, you realize how absurd it is, when people claim Levi gave humanity up for Erwin. No he didn't. He didn't. He gave humanity the hope it needed in Armin.

[aballadforbarbatos]

Obey Me! Crushes on Social Media

includes the dateables as well as the brothers, so i'm adding a cut because it feels pretty long. the "social media" in question is just dewitter (twitter) and devilgram (instagram) because that's the socials i know the most about using :)

i was tempted to come up with some demon version of linkedin for lucifer though LOL

does lucifer own social media? devilgram doesn’t count, he can’t anonymously post about his inner feelings there. vague tweets (deweets?) about you. so vague that he’ll show you later and you’ll be like “what the hell this sounds more like one of your brothers than me. nice hair today? are you talking about asmo?”

mammon WISHES he could relate. mammon tweets about you every five seconds that’s how bad he is over you. lives in the same house as you and couldn’t send you a single friend request on anything, OR follow you first

leviathan is JUST as bad as mammon, please do not point it out to him. has no friends but if they ever stumbled across his dewitter account they’d KNOW who it is. it’s not fair that mammon can spend so much time with you and it’s not suspicious. you looked so pretty today. and yesterday. and you will forever and ever and he knows this because it’s you.

satan takes a picture of you and writes a cute little book quote that he thinks describes you perfectly. he shows you the post, all ready to hit send- you laugh and hit the button for him. it becomes kind of a joke between you, except that he’s dead serious, scouring through books for the perfect line for his perfect person. all his followers think he’s in a relationship with you, and he’s not about to say otherwise.

asmodeus has his personal devilgram account, but he definitely has a second account dedicated to fashion. you’re forced to model more and more outfits so that he can post them. definitely puts things like “look at MY pretty model” in the captions. he already has enough problems with his brothers, he doesn’t need other demons snooping around you too.

beelzebub doesn’t mess around. he doesn’t outright tell you either though- for obvious reasons. for every post you make he’s the first like and the first comment- although it’s typically riddled with typos since he’s normally eating when you post. he doesn’t really pay attention to his own social media accounts, but he never ever fails to pay you a compliment or well wish, even when he’s in the middle of something important. if only you took it as something beyond being a good friend.

belphegor- social media who? he HAS it, technically. it’s drier than australia and there are definitely cobwebs on his page, visible or not. the last post was also his first post: "..." if he ever makes a second post, it'll be when he wakes up and can't get back to sleep. upon posting “mc.” he finds he’s already drifting off, back to the sweet embrace of dreams and rest.

barbatos tweets “going through it” and then nothing else when he has a crush on you. rts it every once in a while when the pining gets particularly bad. once he typed out “GOING THRU IT” but never sent it. tweets “got through it” when the crush leaves him (never) or you pick him.

diavolo starts a “fan-page” of you. takes at least ten pictures of you every time you’re together and says that it’s for his fan-page on devilgram. the first time you heard this you were like “weird, but definitely not the weirdest thing that’s happened to me here! you do you boo <3”. fan-page of you- for who? nobody but him.

simeon is AWFUL with technology. it truly is a miracle that he manages to use devilgram. nonetheless, he does his best, and is always taking photos and posting them, typically with the caption "i thought you might like this :) @/mc". you respond eagerly, and at least one demon tries to remind you two that this can be a conversation in dms. neither of you pay attention to this reminder, and simeon invites you to the place that he took the picture. he later posts a picture of you lightly kissing his cheek. the demons become on very high alert after that.

solomon isn't subtle. "me, myself and mine" is the caption when he posts a picture of you and him together, and he tags every single demon brother and the royals and simeon, just for good measure. you laugh it off and comment "mine :)" underneath it. solomon gets a target on his back for an entire week before you clarify it was just a joke. this cycle repeats every couple of months as he tries to get more and more flirty comments out of you- when you post a picture of you kissing him with the caption "now shut up", he does. it's almost like an act of god.

bonus: LUKE only really has devilgram. he was worried about an "age limit" and it took diavolo, simeon, and barbatos to reassure him. lucifer tried to help but it just made everything worse. you're the first comment on all of his devilgram posts. any time you're not, you're apologising profusely, and he says it's all the demon brothers' fault, and you say yes it's all the demon brothers' fault. and then you spend the entire afternoon at purgatory hall. solomon takes great joy in rubbing this in their faces.

[moonspirit]

Armin is basically your guide to leaving the forest. He is what Humanity needs to retain its Humanity.

Armin is hated on so much after S4 for being "useless" and "not living up to Erwin" but people forget, Erwin was so good because he had YEARS of experience. When Erwin died, he was what, 40-ish? At 15-19, Erwin was much the same as any ordinary cadet, you can see in the flashbacks in S3 Part2, a very young Erwin crying with a wounded/dead soldier and trying to fend off a Titan.

Armin is the embodiment of what the survey corps stands for - "Understanding". He is a pacifist and optimist but not naive, he knows that he has to kill when push comes to shove. He doesn't like violence but agrees that it is necessary sometimes. There is nothing wrong with that. He's a very relatable character. Don't forget that Erwin recognised his potential. He literally looked shocked when Armin theorised Reiner to be hiding inside the walls in RTS arc. Armin is the first character in the whole show to internalize his enemies thoughts and actions and try to understand it from their pov. He always tries to talk first and when that doesn't work, he pulls the trigger. You can tell me "his talking doesn't work!" but that doesn't mean you don't try. He's convinced and manipulated people plenty of times. If your only option is always to kill first before anything else, then you're not in your right mind.

A character is not weak simply for wanting peace. Armin doesn't run from his conflicts, he always faces them head on whether he likes it or not. His yearning to choose the method with the least bloodshed is actually admirable - it's easier to just pull the trigger in a world like SnK where people hate you, no? Why go through all the effort of trying to make people understand? He's a very strong character because he stands by his convictions.

It's unfair to burden him with Erwin's legacy at this age. He's also selfless to a fault. While Erwin did care for his soldiers, he never hesitated to use them as bait. Armin lacks that trait - being ruthless. Instead he has shown time and time again that he'd rather sacrifice himself so others can go unharmed. Despite the lack of experience, he still came up with some of the best plans, strategies and deductions in the show, some of them conjured up within seconds, and all that when he was even younger than he is now. Reiner was sweating and shitting his pants when Armin figured out the Female Titan's intentions in under 30 sec. At 15, Armin secured the collosal Titan for the scouts with just 1 casualty - himself. Just a few examples. He lacks Erwin's experience and deals with a severe lack of confidence, but for his age, possesses a lethal brain and outstanding intellect.

One of his most forgotten contributions is during the Scouts vs Kenny's squad. It was his analysis of the anti-personnel ODM gear, and following strategy, that allowed the scouts to exploit the weaknesses of their opponents' weapons. They wouldn't have won those fights with such success otherwise. He's extremely perceptive. Notice that when he fucked with Bert's mind back in S2, it was bec apart from Reiner (who knew from long ago), only he had noticed Bertie boi had a thing for Annie. He pays attention to his surroundings. He picks up on every little detail. He knows where to hit where it hurts. His 'Annie' strategy with Bert in S3P2 fails because he didn't realize Bert was a different person, someone who had stopped Annie from being his weakness. That was a crucial lesson Armin had to learn, but he learned it. He's very good with his words. People don't want him to open his mouth and change their minds (eg, Connie with Falco, Daz & Samuel). He's a genius strategist and war tactician in the making, give him a few years and see what he becomes.

One of my most favourite moments is during the table scene with Eren before getting beaten up, the only psychological attack Eren fired at Armin ("You're only visiting Annie cuz of Bert"), did not sting Armin at all, it only shocked him that Eren would try to bullshit him into that false logic when clearly Armin knew better. So Eren chose to beat him up, but Armin still had the final word. "You're the slave Eren" absolutely got under Eren's skin.

He isn't dumbed down post S4, it's just that the stakes are infinitely higher.

There's a lot of blame on him for "not doing anything in those 4 years despite having a genius brain" etc etc. Armin wasn't commander. They were dealing with a hostile world which they were desperately trying to understand for the first time in a 100-year history of being isolated inside the walls. It is one thing to understand people inside the walls and fuck them up (like Erwin did multiple times) but another entirely to deal with several countries in a world you discovered overnight. Politics and diplomacy is hard af. I doubt Armin would have been able come up with some 20/20 vision plan at that point to end the whole conflict anyway. Pixis didnt. Hange also didn't. Nobody did! The island had other intelligent people too!

Regarding Erwin, the whole point of his death was to show that he was put to rest from his suffering. It is the end of Erwin's story.

I dare say that if Armin had become Erwin 2.0, the haters would have said "Oh, he's just a copy of Erwin, he's not his own person!" So, conclusion: he's not supposed to be Erwin. He's his own person with his own methods and he's 19, leave him alone and please compare people with comparable experience.

Dude also went through a ton of issues as a young kid and has a severe inferiority complex, guilt at being revived instead of Erwin and the constant pressure of living in Erwin's shadow. Add to that his best friend of 19 years disappears, forces him to nuke a port and kill people against his desires, then pushes him away, doesn't explain shit, snaps and goes on a mass murder spree - you have a guy under extreme duress and he's still thinking of the big picture on Paradis, that genocide is wrong even though it's his best friend doing it. He has already subconsciously realised that they cannot stop Eren without joining hands with the same enemies they tried to kill a while ago. So despite having a mental breakdown, he still goes to get Falco back, because as a person, he values humanity and understanding above everything and can't watch another one of his comrades lose his shit and feed a lil kid to a Titan.

I also believe that Armin knew Falco was a decent kid, considering what he was taught in Marley, and choosing to save him was symbolic in that Armin wants to save the one kid who sees through the fucked up hate. In this moment he was the closest he'd ever been to Erwin (since Erwin's death) with that calculated risk, but also very true to being *himself* , very Armin, because he jumped to his death, aka, selfless. Rescuing Falco was a v good call, not only because the kid is a shifter and therefore necessary to form the alliance, but also cuz if you are a manga reader, well, you know why. He slapped sense into Connie, rescued Falco, showed a young Gabi what compassion meant and won her trust , and laid down the foundation for the Alliance before even knowing Hange and Levi were alive. He always sees the bigger picture.

And don't even start with the whole AruAni hate, they had a thing going on right from S1 during training years. If anything, Bert's memories of Marley only reinforced his already existing feelings for Annie and he "understood" her. He didn't forgive her. He "understood" her. See what I'm getting at? AruAni only further supports the fact that children of war are just children in the end, and love can permeate even that imaginary barrier of being on "opposite sides". It's a beautiful ship and I'm fucking glad it's canon. Something to smile about in this depressing show T_T

Kenny's ideology of "everyone being a slave to something" applies to nearly everyone on the show. But not Armin. From his birth, he has only been motivated by one thing - curiosity to see, curiosity to understand, curiosity to experience. There is nothing that ties him down so much that he can't die and give up. He is arguably the most "free" character in the whole of SnK.

Eren sets out to achieve freedom at the cost of freedom itself. But for Armin, freedom is simply the beauty of simple, little things. They are the two sides of the same coin.

I'm not being aggressive in any way, my comment is only to throw some light on Armin's character. I respect everybody's opinions at the end of the day and I'm not engaging in any wars.

[thatzombiecat]

8 and 18 for the RT asks

Elayne von Valancius: Rogue Trader Character Building ask game

[8.]

What was their Triumph? Do they take pride in it?

[Triumph: Apex of Brilliance -- You managed to corrupt an entire star system and turn it into your personal den of thieves.]

Talons managed to subdue a star system in sector Calixis into their network with the help of Vincent and Elayne, all with the combined effort of the two of them. This was an ambitious project that made them significantly rise into the ranks of the Syndicate's inner circle and to finally form a cartelle of their own, to start taking them seriously. So of course, they both take the most pride in this, saying otherwise would be an understatement.

I also do have a hilarious headcanon that the raven haired baroness Heinrix courted in Narvellon-19 was in the close alliance / relations with Syndicate, but he didn't manage to get something out of her and/or force her to cooperate with the Inquisition, as Talons had already knew this move and prepared ahead and bought her and her family's loyalty. Elayne suspected that this might be her but couldn't be sure, and Hein almost caught her on it. So it might be possible that Narvellon-19 was possibly in the star system mentioned in Triumph ig? xdd

[18.]

How does Elayne approach conflict? Does she tackle problems head-on, or is coercion favourable to her?

She prefers the more peaceful resolution when it comes to conflicts usually. She's not too hesitant to bribe, to bargain, to manipulate others into swaying their decisions into her favor. She utilizes her skill of reading people well, knowing who to trust and who to not, adjusting her methods individually. The coercion option is of course viable, but is not something she strives to do and only approaches with it if other options are not proving effective.

Previous questions:

[1, 7, 11]

[3, 4]

[10]

[16, 25]

[19]

[24]

OC: Elayne Andar van der Ghiessen von Valancius

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I am Trance (he/him), and I am a 29 year old writing hobbyist. I write stuff.. occasionally, I'm not overly productive, though not for lack of imagination or ideas. I'm open to tag games, though I can't guarantee I'd be able to complete them

Outside of writing, I am interested in ants, and otherwise I like to play videogames. I play a few gacha games, and I like RTS games especially.

This blog was originally mixed, but I decided I wanted a separate one for writing, which is now this one. For me being normal (idiot), or to see a wall of reblogs of my personal interests, you'd wanna check @swordsmantrance, but I don't recommend it.

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Don't really know how to put my foot into the writeblr door, but this seemed like a sensible place to start.

I'm really into worldbuilding, and find myself doing that a lot more than actually writing the stories.

Currently I have 3 different settings going on, which I hop between so I can keep creating as my fancy shifts. Anything relating to my writing can be found tagged with #Trance's Tales

• The first is "The Veiled World" (#🌓The Veiled World🌗), a fantasy world with magic and stuff, where they had to invent a second magic system because the first one started going wrong.

• The second is "The Trace Systems" (#🌌 The Trace Systems) a dystopian sci-fi in which a security company has complete control. This also has supernatural elements to it.

• The other is a contemporary real world setting. A light-hearted(?) spin on occult and cultist themes. This is more like a single story, named "Aikaterini" (#⚰️ Aikaterini), rather than a whole world.

I'm going to try to post bits of writing here, hopefully you'll like it!

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I'm always up for a chat about stuff so feel free to pop me a message if you want to chat! In the meantime, I need to get more food because the ants are nicking it all!

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Posting this anon to edit the usernames out

"What do you think of this take? So every Loumand sex scene after ‘73 is rape because he didn’t know about Armand’s complicity in the trial and him manipulating Louis’s memory. Again, what do you think of this case-suffit?"

first, that og post in the quote rt was made before S2 even aired at all, so that needs to be taken into consideration. it's not visible in the caps but someone did tell op, thankfully.

otherwise, this is all kind of up to personal interpretation? it's not something that's being inspired by a racist perspective or anything, the way some fans are treating louis in relation to armand (as if he was armand's abuser). it's something that's not rly gonna have a "right" answer bcuz the show isn't gonna give commentary on this. it's something to consider. this is a lot of what the show is doing in general when it comes to portraying various abuse topics. it's not easy to sort this stuff out and in fandom spaces even less. ppl are ready to destroy u over a single word choice or a perspective maybe u have changed over time. this is one of those topics where nobody's ever gonna "win" and u gotta consider a lot of sides and find ur own answer. (I don't think the intent here was to start anything btw, I'm just saying that's usually what fandom does with most conversations. ppl gotta get out of the mindset of making everything an attack or a side to win. especially with abuse topics, ur mostly not gonna get a single answer)

[mariacallous]

Former U.S. President Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury on Thursday of felony charges for falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to an adult film star as part of an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election. The verdict, which found the presumptive Republican presidential nominee guilty on all 34 charges, sent political shockwaves through the United States as the 2024 election cycle gains steam.

But the historic court case also captivated readers well beyond U.S. borders. Below, we’ve rounded up the international reactions to the verdict.

Germany: The news dominated newspaper coverage in Germany and across Europe, with many outlets giving the conviction front-page, above-the-fold treatment. The coverage broadly mirrored that of U.S. outlets, with more ink spent speculating on how the guilty verdict would galvanize Trump’s supporters than reflecting on the historic nature of the conviction itself.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine simply trumpeted: “Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.” Leading newspaper Der Spiegel upped the ante with the headline “Guilty!” repeated 34 times. Tabloid Bild covered all the bases by asking, “Victory for Justice, or Dark Day for America?”

United Kingdom: Trump’s guilty verdict was splashed across the front pages of top newspapers and tabloids including the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Scotsman, the Mirror, and the Daily Star (the last of which proclaimed with its trademark subtlety, “Orange Manbaby Is Guilty on All Counts”). The Financial Times asserted that the verdict “puts America’s political system on trial,” while the Economist led with a banner headline: “Guilty as charged: The disgrace of a former American president.”

But the magazine also argued that the case was “counter-productive” ahead of the U.S. presidential election. The “prosecution has done more to help than hurt Mr Trump’s chances of winning back the White House, and, as the insurrection of January 6th 2021 ought to have made clear, that is a greater hazard to the rule of law than any fraudulent book-keeping,” the Economist concluded.

France: In France’s Le Monde, the verdict led the day as well, with the flagship French daily noting that the echo of that one word—guilty—“speaks both of the vitality of the state of law put to the test and of the unprecedented challenge that is emerging for American democracy.” Another French daily, Libération, highlighted that although the verdict frees Trump from the burden of having to report to court almost daily as he has had to do over the past month, he will continue to be “weighed down with the aura of being a repeat offender, unanimously condemned by a jury of 12 regular citizens.” Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11.

Switzerland: Swiss newspapers cut to the chase, with prominent coverage in Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger noting that “Trump’s political comeback will now become a campaign of revenge.”

Poland: Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza put the verdict into local terms, highlighting Polish President Donald Tusk’s conclusion that “Polish politicians must learn the lesson from America.”

Spain: Spain gave front-page treatment to Trump’s conviction in all the major dailies, though right-leaning outlets, otherwise engaged in ousting Spain’s current prime minister, had less time to spend on judicial comeuppance abroad.

Russia: Russian state-funded media outlet RT led its coverage with a quote from Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, calling the trial a “kangaroo court.” Another state propaganda outlet, Sputnik, echoed Trump’s talking points, calling the trial “rigged” and “disgraceful.”

Hungary: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump, has consolidated control over Hungary’s media landscape as part of the country’s worrying backslide from democracy, even as he is lionized by factions of the U.S. Republican Party and some far-right political groups in Europe. The pro-government daily Magyar Hirlap led its coverage with photos of Trump supporters waving flags as the former president’s motorcade departed Manhattan. Its other top U.S.-focused news story was on claims that a plan by U.S. President Joe Biden to ease restrictions on marijuana use “could endanger the lives of millions.”

China: The Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times led its English-language coverage with the slightly garbled headline “Trump convicted in hush money case, ‘to exacerbate political extremism, social unrest’” and threaded its coverage with quotes from Chinese academics such as: “The attitudes of both parties further reflect the rottenness of American politics, and that the law now seems to be used as a political weapon.”

Israel: The Trump verdict hardly made a dent in two of Israel’s leading papers, the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, where coverage of the ongoing war in Gaza still dominates the news cycle. Ynet, another popular Israeli news outlet, topped its coverage with: “‘Hang Them All!’: The Rage of Trump Supporters and the Women Voters Who Might Abandon Him.”

The left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz covered the political fallout of the trial through reactions from influential Jewish political groups in the United States, noting that Matthew Brooks, the CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, had decried the verdict as a “political prosecution of a political opponent.”

Haaretz also noted that shortly after the verdict, Trump lashed out at the district attorney who prosecuted the case, Alvin Bragg, calling him a “Soros-backed DA” in reference to the Jewish billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros. The newspaper explained that Soros’s name “has been frequently used as an antisemitic dog whistle” and quoted Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, as saying that Trump’s invocation of such “antisemitic, racist, and bigoted tropes” is “intended to undercut our democracy and fuel political violence.”

Qatar: Al Jazeera had multiple front-page stories on Trump’s trial on its website, from the moment the verdict came to an explainer on what it will mean for the U.S. elections. Al Jazeera correspondent John Hendren argued that the verdict will only energize Trump’s base: “It is interesting to see that so far nothing has really tainted his appeal among his die-hard supporters.”

Nigeria: The Vanguard, a leading Nigerian newspaper, led its headline coverage of the case with a quote from Biden’s campaign: “No one is above the law.” The newspaper added that “Trump’s historic conviction — which would have been a knockout blow in any other election year — is undoubtedly a brighter spot for Biden after weeks of polling showing him neck and neck nationally with Trump.”

South Africa: One country where the Trump verdict hardly made any waves was South Africa, which is in the midst of its own national elections, where the ruling African National Congress party is on track to lose its majority for the first time since the country became a democracy in 1994. There were no stories on Trump in some of the country’s top papers—the Johannesburg Star, the Mail & Guardian, or the Sunday Times—as they focused on their own election.

India: This was the case in India, too, where the country is poised to announce its national election results next week. None of India’s top newspapers, including the Times of India, Hindustan Times, the Hindu, and the Indian Express, prioritized coverage of the Trump trial.

Argentina: Clarín gave the trial—helpfully labeled “pornogate”—some coverage, with emphasis on the “fuel” it will provide to Trump’s campaign.

Mexico: Mexico’s biggest daily found space amid the country’s own presidential race to highlight Trump’s becoming the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.

[honeymouthedtales]

Not fic related, but what can you say about the issue surrounding hc? Some say its lost in translation but idk what to believe. I'm not fluent in Korean after all. I'm quite on the heavy side, so seeing haechan say such words, as his fan, is uncomfortable...

i tried to find an ask i was sent about a similar issue but it was jeno talking to haechan a few months ago, because my answer will be the same i gave that day. unfortunately it was on cc and cc doesn't allow to look for old tweets, nor is twitter helpful in any way so i'll try to answer again.

under the cut bc very long sry

first of all, it's completely normal to feel uncomfortable. those are your feelings and they're valid. your feelings are separate from the intentions of the person who said those words, so no matter what you're entitled to feeling hurt if you feel like your bias might be fatphobic and no one should be telling you otherwise. in any case, feeling disappointed is not wrong because as many people are saying he is a public figure and his words can reach (and hurt) many people.

this said, as someone who lives in korea, i do understand why some people who are korean are saying his words are being greatly exaggerated by ifans. korean people constantly comment on other people's weight. it's to the point that i think it's a way for them to make small talk. just like they ask people if they have eaten when they want to ask how they're doing, food is often used in connection to health. when people haven't seen you for a long time they usually tell you that you've gained or lost weight as well (happened many times with me) and people do tell others to eat well as a good health wish. that's why i think that telling people to get in shape and take care of your body does not necessarily mean that he thinks they are fat, it's just a way to say take care of your health. imo it would be wrong to read a deeper meaning in it.

back to my previous point. does that make your hurt unnecessary? no, because you can get hurt even he didn't mean to say something hurtful. if you get run over by a car it doesn't matter whether the driver meant to do it or not.

but i don't accept the narrative that hc is a terrible person who judges the members' bodies because he is fatphobic, and anyone believing this has clearly never lived in korea, where the kind of sentences he said are as common between friends (especially male friends) as using the weather to make small talk. if you want a real example, i dare you to look at the other nct dream members. all of them have, in other instances, made comments that according to our standards would be judged "fatphobic" while they were talking among each other. do we stan a group of assholes or are we going to acknowledge that there might be a certain degree of cultural difference at play between the way we consider acceptable to talk about other people's bodies and the way they do it?

i'd like to add something i said when this issue happened with jeno and haechan was called fat instead. i'm not haechan's babysitter. he doesn't need me to defend him when he's talking with his friends. if what is said among them is problematic, i'm sure they are all old enough to talk among themselves and solve the problems. what they don't need is some fans (often solo stans or akgae) inventing a narrative in their head, analyzing reactions to support their theories and then proudly saying "member x is an asshole" and deciding that they, as strangers, know their friendship better than dream, the actual group of friends. and this is just to get rt and likes, for the drama. it's meaningless to always praise dream for having a genuine relationship but then distort every single instance of genuine reaction we get from them just to make a hit tweet. if jn and jm were annoyed by that comment, i trust them to say something among each other without everyone butting in blindly.

finally, i'm sorry that as a haechan fan he disappointed you. i do think what he said is wrong. i think he should've minded his words better. i don't like when he says stuff like that. i don't believe he wants to be hurtful, but at the same time i don't think he saw a problem with what he was saying because most people around him don't. not only the other members, but also the staff, his family, other celebrities. it's alright being disappointed, but i hope we can all be realistic and stop pinning the weight of a behavior that is widely normalized on a single idol every time something like this happens.

I hope I explained myself properly. It's a delicate issue, and as a fan I have to juggle between dealing with my own feelings of disappointment and seeing many comments of people who are inventing things or being hurtful just because they finally have a good pretext to do it.

[mathlann]

hey! has been seeing your rogue trader posts for a while, and can't help but ask, who is the mysterious ym? I pieced together that he's mara/rt kid (???) or maybe i'm completely misenturpreted. also I'm very new to 40k to know if it's even possible between the species.

anyway pls take this ask as an opportunity to ramble about him, and/or your rt's relationship with the murderous stick bug, i'm very curious <3

Oh! Omg yeah I can tell you about him!

You didn't misinterpret, YM is absolutely those two's Warpspawn, to the misfortune of everyone around him. Originally he started out as goofing with @poetikat because decent sense says Cas and Marazhai should not be parents (together) but he got too fun as his own thing so just exists now, although he's still semi-canonical until I finish my second run. (As to whether half-Aeldari exist in canon: it's very complicated, but its one of those things, to me, where personal HC is king because its 40k, rules don't matter that much if its not battle related.)

The rest under the cut because this got kind of long lol.

I’ll go backwards and talk about his parents first, and then YM.

So, to start, I always kind of see Casimira/Marazhai more as kindred spirits rather than a full corruption thing. They both are heavily shaped by growing up with high-status backgrounds within very harsh “prove yourself worthy or die” societies, and despite being proud members of their respective cultures end up exiled from their homes and stuck somewhere entirely unfamiliar to them. And as much as I find romanced!Mercenary ending a little funny (why should I pay you? Your wife has Profit Factor tf?) I do like that it establishes that they still maintain a lot of independence from each other. Like sure, Marazhai is Casimira's [romantically] and he sees her as his equal but he doesn't want to actually be her xenos pet and does want to build something for himself outside of her.

Personally, I see their relationship as being on pause while he goes off to found his mercenary group (RIP Astartia Werserian). The Kasballica being the ascendant faction of the Expanse by the endgame proper and the Corsair!Yrliet "Alaitoc war" ending half a century later certainly gives Marazhai plenty of opportunity to find work. His mercenary group is one of the best in the Expanse by the end half of the war and only then does he come back to Casimira. Of course when they are back together they're never apart for more than a few years at most, in part because one of the convenient things about him being a famous mercenary captain and her being a Rogue Trader is that they always have a plausible excuse to be around each other whenever they want. Their relationship is never public knowledge, but it's not necessarily a heavily guarded secret either. Those outside their immediate circle who do know are (usually) smart enough to keep their mouths shut about it.

“The Young Master von Valancius” (YM) is born roughly a century or so post-game, after the war with Alaitoc. He was an unexpected solution to a long-standing problem, ie, “Casimira not having an heir” and “it being difficult to find suitors willing to compete with a Drukhari.” YM is officially Cas' son only, although anyone close enough to her and/or Marazhai could put 2 and 2 together relatively easily, he's an even mix of both of them. However, as far as polite society is concerned, YM is a Genetor baby with an unstable genetic code that led to some mutations, but is otherwise, fully human. It also helps that Cas' features were more dominant when he was an infant, thus any official Public Space Christenings and the like could go off without much trouble (so long as a cap stayed on his head). For the most part, the mutant facade holds into adulthood, although when among the Aeldari he can be taken for a short Asuryani, but only at a distance, his eyes give him away (too human, too hungry looking).

As he grows up, YM does develop a love-hate relationship with being Casimira's heir, given that he is half-xenos and being set to rule over a giant population of humans. Firstly, he deals with this by holding a very idealized view of his parents, i.e., they are exceptional, therefore he is too, and as follows, anyone who doesn't see that he's special must be stupid and not worth his consideration. This inflated sense of himself and his place in the Expanse is helped along by the fact that he identifies himself as Drukhari first, and internalizes quite a bit of Marazhai’s “True Aeldari” bullshit (can YM call himself Trueborn though? debate of the century: 17k dead, 563k injured). Of course, as the child of a former Dracon and a Rogue Trader, he also sits at that unfortunate intersection between “incredibly spoiled” and “weighed down by immense expectations'' that tends to make him a very difficult person to be around to put it kindly. Marazhai is usually the easier parent to please, given that he and YM enjoy much of the same violent pastimes. Cas is the parent he tends to come into conflict with more, and much of his acting out specifically manifests as avoidance, especially towards complicated or tedious tasks he feels should be beneath him. Unfortunately for YM, his mother is very strict about him actually being a competent Rogue Trader, and thus the Most Special Heir does, in fact, have to come down off his pedestal and learn how to file his own administratum paperwork and the like.

Other YM Tidbits that I'll List for Speed

(Mostly canon for him so far/Stuff I haven't previously mentioned)

Soul quality-wise YM isn't two feet from Slaanesh's jaws the way most Aeldari are. But his soul is stained in a similar but stronger way as his mother's. He doesn't need it to live, but a general appetite for suffering is just a part of his being and something he has to deal with. Also, realspace doesn't affect him, but Warp incursions definitely do. Although the effect isn't as strong as Marazhai or Yrliet would feel, it's still enough to be a problem that keeps him from being fully "present" during frequent/consecutive Warp travel without some kind of coping mechanism (usually murder).

There are four Werserians that he's raised alongside as a child. They are all close as siblings and he is loyal to them secondary only to his loyalty to his parents. He will occasionally even take their advice before anyone else’s, which is good because they're a lot more sensible and levelheaded than he is. But also, that Werserian strong moral fiber tends to come into conflict with the fact that YM is very much a product of his parents and thus can be very reckless with other people and hard to accept fault when his pride is hurt. This may or may not get one of them killed at some point.

Despite the fact that YM considers himself to be Drukhari, Commorite culture doesn't interest him that much, mostly because he understands he would not be welcome there. However, he does hold an intense fascination for Casimira’s home planet and Ashleen culture. Iocanthos sits in his head as Human!Commorragh, and therefore is probably one of the best human worlds by his limited estimate. The fact that Iocanthos is a place he will never see, with relatives he'll never meet, and only exists in his mom’s (rose colored) stories about it also adds to the romanticism of the place with very little opportunity for it to disappoint him. Unlike the human planets and populations of the Koronus Expanse, who he encounters every day, and who largely suck (Foulstone and Kiava Gamma especially).

Inasmuch as YM does develop a lot of unearned self-importance because of who he is, he does find himself privately frustrated by the fact that he doesn't actually have many ways to prove/validate himself in the ways his parents would've had to. There eventually gets to be a period of time in his young adulthood where he is much less invested in his education as the “Rogue Trader’s Heir” and starts getting himself into dangerous trouble mostly just to see if he can. Eventually Cas does agree to let him (discreetly) travel across the Expanse and the Webway with Marazhai for a few years so he can get his taste for adventure sated. This is absolutely throwing him off the deep end so far as gaining experience goes, and Marazhai is a lot less forgiving of YM’s fuck ups, but he does survive the ordeal in mostly one piece.

[ironwoodprotectionsquad]

Hey guys guess what we’re all cishet twitter user Jeramynoir said so!

Joking aside….ooooohhhh boy does the fndm chug the kool-aid huh? Look, we’ve been over this but with FG RT literally said they where both straight and we where just imagining the romantic undertones of their interactions and BMBLBE has the exact same ones as FG so their is nothing distincting itself from a ship that people thought had romantic undertones that RT shut down hard. So yes it is queerbaiting. We can all look at it and say “no they have feelings!” But homophobes and RT can say “no these are all sisterly interactions they’ve done things other sisters in other things have done” and we can’t really argue because it’s true. Annoying but it’s true. Plugging your ears and insisting otherwise won’t change that.

And we’re saying BMBLEBE takes away from Yang and Ruby’s reunion because IT DOES. Ruby doesn’t get to excitedly hug her sister and say she’s glad she’s okay. She doesn’t get a tender smile from Yang at seeing her again. She doesn’t get a reaction from Yang even about Ruby telling her Yang raised her. Meanwhile Blake gets to tackle hug her, Blake gets a tender smile. Blake gets all the moment and Ruby gets none. It literally is taking away from their sisterly bond. People who saw the scene would be very confused and wonder if they are even related in any way. We do know what these words mean it’s you that doesn’t know or understand.

[la-hannya]

"SeSsRiN iS cAnOn, GeT a LiFe AnD mOvE oN"!!!! cit.

Rumiko Takahashi NEVER said that Yashahime/Sessrin are canon, Sessrinners are living in their own delusion as usual because litterally every canon source tells otherwise but of course they prefer to ignore this truth. Rumiko, after Yashahime was out clearly stated that Sess is Rin's "hogosha" aka guardian/parental figure and in her recent interview also clearly stated that her series, ALL OF THEM, are over. She never acknowledged Yashahime as Inuyasha's canon sequel, we were never told by whoever to consider Yashahime part of the Inuyasha canonical storyline as if Rumiko herself wrote it unlike J.K.Rowling did with the Curse of the Heir that unfortunately is canon. On the contrary, on the Yashahime OFFICIAL WEBSITE is clearly stated that Yashahime is nothing more than Sumisawa's au scenario. Even the author of the YH manga adaption explained on a Twitter post that his work is merely his PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of Yashahime. So basically it's a doujinshi inspired to a fanfiction. These Sessrin pedos stupidly believe that given that Rumiko approved these works means that they're magically turned canon, but just so you know she needs to approve everything related to Inuyasha because of legal rights. She also approved the movies and the drama cds (remember the Inukik one?) but this stuff is never canon and never will be. Toriyama also had to approve Dragon Ball GT but it's still not canon. The day Rumiko will wake up and publicly announce we're supposed to consider the YH series and manga as canon then it's gonna be set in stone, but canonical sources tell otherwise and contraddicting themselves now would embarass and make them look like clowns who're not able to make up their minds. So no, not gonna happen. Not now not ever, sorry. Also, Rumiko never remotely hinted in her CANON story that Sesshomaru and Rin would be lovers, nor that Sess's feelings for her were remotely romantic when he showed to care for her. On the contrary, she always called out pedophilic behaviors in her story, when Miroku asked that 11 yo girl to birth his kids, all the other characters were disgusted as it should be. And Rin had exactly the same age when Pedomaru proposed to her in that disgusting drama cd that again, wasn't from Rumiko but from Sunrise.

So... nice try pedos, but no, your garbage pedo ship will NEVER BE CANON. You can cry as much as you want, just enjoy your fanfiction/doujinshi crumbs and go back to the sewer were pedos like you belong 🤷‍♀️😘

There's an Inukik one???

And yes, that's on point with what we've been saying for the past 3 years and even before that.

Also, even if it's not canon I dunno why they can get so up in arms "Like really? That's gonna stop you from shipping your THING? That is not canon. You gonna die because of that?" If we go by Anastasia's source, (*a person who worked animating some parts of HnY*) and that first leak— it's implied they were more "mom" options on the table and that when present with the idea of "Rin" mostly everyone on the meeting rejected it except ofc you know whos that kept pushing the idea (and we know that backfired). So, let's say it was Kikyo, or Kagura, or Sara Asano, or even Kagome, or EVEN some random woman.

It would still have been non-canon... 🤷🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

Facts.

Unless RT says otherwise, it would still be non-canon.

And even if that had happened. I have a feeling they would be rustled at us and the studio for not choosing theirs. Tbh, why care about that? Even if you ignore the saucerib in HnY. The rest of the thing mostly f*cking sucks. They had HnY on the backburner for years after TFA and they couldn't come up with decent writing? They would've f*cked over my ship or the others like they did theirs and InuKag's. The people I know here can come up with something better in a one shot in one day. Hells, weren't they tagging #justiceforsessrin on twitter because they hated how it turned out at the ending?

At this point I don't really give much about HnY. As long as they stay in their little corner and stay off my sh*t I won't give Fs so like I've told em before:

"Block me".

I just want to focus on my headcanons and writing skills to Git Gud. I'm more mad that thanks to a guy with a Loli fetish this fandom isn't what it used to be.

[kob131]

RWBY X Justice League: Superheroes and Huntsmen Part One Review (No Spoilers)

Dedicating this to @fallentitan98

So if I had to sum up the movie in a sentence, it would be-

“This should have been about 30-40 minutes longer.”

Summary:

So basic idea of the movie is ‘What if the Justice League found themselves in the world of RWBY as teenagers?’ This basic idea guides the whole movie, from the tone of the Justice League characters to how the movie is presented. 

Unforunately, both RWBY and ESPECIALLY DC are heavily dense properties with a bit of history at least behind them. So this causes some...issues.

Characters:

When it comes to a crossover event, judging characters is rather different since you have to judge them based on how they are portrayed in relation to their original counterparts. I will relate the DC characters to you but my focus will have to be on RWBY as that is my specialty here.

For DC, we have the likes of Superman/Clark, Wonder Woman/Diana, Batman/Bruce, The Flash/Barry, Green Lantern, Vixen and Cyborg. ... I grew up with the 2000′s JL cartoon, I just have the names of those four stuck in me okay?

With Vixen, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Diana- they seem consistent with the popular depiction of their characters. Cyborg is a bit sarcastic but well meaning; Vixen is frustrated by the situation but also confident and upbeat; Green Lantern is having issues which becomes an arc she gets and Diana is basically a warrior poet.

Barry is...off for reasons.

Clark has two lines in the movie that seem a bit too confident for him but that could be something that pops up in certain incarnations. Otherwise, he is the same Man of Steel as always- pure, wholesome, kind, responsible and having a grounded wisdom to him. To be truthful, Clark and his interactions with Ruby were my favorite parts of the movie.

And then we have Bruce. Bruce has an arc centered around a key aspect of the Batman character and how it can conflict with the core of who Bruce is as a hero- determined to save people. It can be considered massively missing the mark OR an exploration of Bruce’s character. It’s weird, much like the movie itself. But no, he is not a joke in the movie nor is he a generic brooding man. He is a calm, cool, smart and analytical man.

As for RWBY characters...things are off with them.

Yang, Blake and Jaune are perfectly fine. They’re relatively consistent to their Beacon characterization with Jaune lacking some of his patheticness, instead using his ability to support others both figuratively and literally which works because spoilers.

Ren and Nora have a...not-love triangle thing with Cyborg (this is not a spoiler, it does nothing) that feels like 95% of it was cut. Other than that, they’re consistent too.

And Ruby has an arc that involves Clark that makes sense for her character (especially if you watch Volume 9) but because the movie is like a skeleton- the meat of the arc is a bit lacking.

Gonna be honest- The RWBY cast feels the most off between them and the DC characters. Which makes sense when you consider the writer is from DC, not RT. Still, I would say it functions as intended. Just not very smoothly.

Animation:

The animation is actually pretty damn good. The fight scenes have good flow to them, a good sense of speed and momentum for the most part, interesting action. And the more casual animation works- faces emote and move properly, movements and gestures are effective in communicating the meaning behind the characters’ words.

This is one of the best showing for the CRWBY team yet.

Humor:

Almost entirely subjective. All I can say is it’s standard RWBY fair minus 2D anime cliches. Also no, this is not MCU humor. RT was doing this in RvB in 2004.

Plot, Pacing and Tone:

Okay, it is REALLY hard to talk about this without spoiling anything because good lord, is this movie densely packed.

Character interactions and plot progression are often mashed together with each other, which can often result in very awkward lines. Fortunately for DC fans, this is almost entirely on the RWBY end. Because much of the awkwardness comes from the writing needing to explain RWBY worldbuilding to the DC characters without having enough time for exposition. For example, Weiss outright calls Dust a ‘natural resource’, which while true has NEVER been how Weiss has talked about Dust in the past.

As for tone- it’s similar to Volumes 1 and 2. Some serious moments but general light hearted fun. Both DC and RWBY characters become the butt of jokes as well as moments to have more emotional and vulnerable instances. It’s not deathly serious like many DC properties nor does it have the same gravity as something like the 2000′s JL cartoons. But it’s not Teen Titans Go. It’s a mix of plot and humor.

Conclusion:

The whole movie feels...weird. I think this is what ‘rushed’ was originally supposed to mean. At 80 minutes, this is a rather short movie and it doesn’t really work. Humor and animation are fine because time doesn’t usually affect these. But the plot and especially the characters? There’s just not enough time to go through the proper steps. Things like the reveal of the villain or Ruby and Bruce’s arcs could work. They’re not exactly failures but they have been stripped of their meat. And the meat is what you taste in a movie, not the bones that make up the structure.

Bruce’s writing might set you off- it’s the biggest risk taken here. And the RWBY parts are a bit...off. So I can’t say this was fantastic or great. But it does give some good action, the character interactions between Ruby and Bruce, Yang, Blake and Diana; and Jaune and Green Lantern are great and the rest is given a real shot, just without the time to flourish.

All in all, an honest but stumbling effort of a movie.

[beardedmrbean]

Helsingin Sanomat has a comparison of pay rise figures from a number of countries with similar pay bargaining to Finland.

No wage earner will be surprised to learn that the Finnish figures (3.5 percent this year, two percent next for industrial workers) are the lowest of the lot, and well below inflation.

In Sweden industrial workers' agreed pay rises were 4.1 percent this year and 3.2 percent next year, in Germany workers get more than five percent this year and three percent next plus a 3,000 euro tax-free one-off payment to help with the cost of living.

In Belgium, pay rises are automatically linked to inflation so they have been set at 12 percent this year.

That number gets to the heart of the problem, according to HS. Consumer prices have risen some 15 percent over the last two years, and pay in Finland has not kept pace.

Collective agreements do not reflect the complete picture. Some of the comparison countries do not apply the rises to everyone, and in Finland the sum of wages is a better guide to how salaries have risen.

It includes wage increases for people who change jobs and for those who otherwise get a better deal than the minimum levels agreed by unions.

But even so, the paper carries quotes from the labour unions think tank suggesting the time for pay restraint has passed, and workers in Finland need a salary uplift.

Helsinki spying hotspots?

Russia has been making big claims about Finnish intelligence, reports Ilta-Sanomat (IS). Russian channels RT and Rossija24 both reported that Supo has been trying to recruit Russian embassy workers at various locations in Helsinki.

Among the claims is that staff at various service businesses in the capital have passed information about workers to Finnish intelligence.

IS sets out to test those claims, asking at various locations for comment. A travel agency refused to say anything, while a dog daycare business was a little more forthcoming.

The doggy daycare was supposedly a target for an officer from Britain's MI6. The Russian reports claim that an alleged officer brought his own mutt to be looked after in the hope of meeting Russian embassy staff.

Workers at the kennel service said they were amused by the claims, as they have "hundreds" of British customers and were curious as to who the supposed agent might be.

The claims themselves were given short shrift: owners do not really interact with each other and don't receive information about other customers. The information the business is interested in relates mostly to the dogs, which may be of limited use to espionage practitioners.

Overlooked superfood

It is bilberry season in the woods and forests of Finland, with plenty of the tiny fruit on offer to intrepid explorers.

Iltalehti, though, suggests that people take a second look at an often-ignored alternative: the bog whortleberry. Known as juolukka in Finnish, the bog whortleberry is slightly darker and grows on bushes higher off the ground than its cousin, the bilberry.

It's considerably more nutritious too, containing more vitamins than the more popular alternative. So if you're out and about in nature this week, do have a look for the hidden superfood.