#she's got more spirit than that

[duckapus]

Idea: A little while after losing her voice, Download starts looking into alternative communication methods. There's a few nonstarters (one of the big ones is IRL sign languages because her character model's hands only have three digits each so they can't make all the right shapes), but eventually she gets inspired by the textboxes in Diamind and puts together a subroutine for her command box that'll open a window in front of her facing out and type out what she's trying to say.

When she shows it off to the others, Crash makes a quip about how she technically did end up using Sign Language, and she bursts out laughing. Which is definitely a shock, both because this is the first time since the Activation that she's felt like the cheerful, wide-eyed, energetic girl she's been when she first showed up, and because even though her laughter is random computer noises just like everything else that comes out of her mouth, it still manages to convey as much joy as a "normal" laugh...and according to some of the Admins in the room actually sounds kind of pretty.

[citrusai]

taash said "they were doing it" and people ran with the interpretation of an npc that doesn't know solas or the history of the elvhenan even when bellara interjected and said, no, that's not right. that's not how it was for the elvhenan. they formed bonds before they had physical bodies. and people ran to doompost or create weird anti-solavellan shit even though mythal & solas refer to each other as old friends and when she releases him there is no tenderness or love in it. it is the act of unchaining a dog from his post, the stepping down of a general. but to each their own ig.

[failyaoi]

Johnshi/Kencageblade/Swordblade kid oc just dropped (read tags for more info)

[pigeonxp]

"he loves the water so much we r thinking about putting in our own pool" helena diaz when i get you

[juniperhillpatient]

it’s like the mere thought of autumn is all I need to cure all mental ailments & fill me with brief near unnatural enthusiasm & zest for life like a game show host rather than a human being. I just looked at the clock & realized I’ve been happily working on work stuff fully off the clock for hours & it’s like 10 o’clock at night accidentally lmao is it my fault if work stuff is researching autumn & Halloween themed cocktails & fun activities

[voxofthevoid]

Heard my mother's soul leave her body today when I called her to let her know that I'm now bleeding out of an orifice I shouldn't be bleeding out of while she was at the hospital with her boyfriend who was also bleeding out of an orifice he shouldn't be bleeding out of.

[astraveil]

of course the game couldn't go without making me nearly cry over g'raha in an expansion. it is inevitable.

what a sweet, tender soul he is. i want to protect this at all costs.

[miss-sternennacht]

The last true playable Zelda experience.

As someone who's first experience with The Legend of Zelda series was literally The Wand of Gamelon, finally everyone will believe me when I say there is a game that stars Zelda.

[keeps-ache]

yippee woohoo :3

[afterartist]

Over 200 years and still most people don’t know how Frankenstein ends

[the-game-spirit]

I have been going so insane over the zelda timeline regarding totk like I am LOSING my mind

like. either 1. botw/totk is a completely new continuity. worst option. boring.

2. it is SO FAR in the future of the (probably downfall) timeline and there has been SO MUCH canon-typical time bullshit in between that the other two either bleed over OR the ever-funny hyrule warrior's convergence theory happens that it may as well be just a soft reboot and history is just. repeating endlessly. also kind of boring imho

OR 3. totk memories happen sometime after skyward sword. interesting. also a completely fucking insane idea.

it's a misconception that SS zelda and link founded hyrule! they almost certainly didn't!

did the zonai make the timeshift stuff in SS? the tower of the gods in WW? the ooccoo? a fascinating concept!

what about the triforce? who knows! i don't think minish cap has anything to do with it either and it does get sealed away at some point sooooo

but more importantly

is there a fucking dehydrated ganondorf sealed away underground for every single zelda game

most people would be like, 'no, of course not, thats so stupid how does oot ganondorf exist if totk ganondorf is in hand jail already' and 'ganondorf has a history of reincarnation/revival but that can't happen if he's still alive ya dingus' and normally I would agree! I did agree! I've been scratching my head trying to make this work since I started playing totk

except!!! except!!!!!! we have literally already seen this happen before!!!!

so. skyward sword.

skyward sword is a closed loop time travel story. I cannot stand when people try to shoehorn another timeline split in SS because no split happens. that's the point. that was hylia's plan. the first hero? before skyward sword link? hylia's chosen knight that defeated demise? that was always skyward sword link in the past. demise even confirms this in dialog. something something he's 'never seen a hylian stand up to him before.' idk the exact quote but it Very Much Implies demise has never encountered any incarnation of link before.

so. how do we kill the imprisoned (demise) in the future and then go back and kill demise again in the past in a closed loop?

because we seal demise's consciousness in the sword, and his body in the ground

the imprisoned is clearly mindless. even more mindless than downfall timeline ganon post-resurrection. it has one single goal, which is to reach the temple and.... the master sword. with the consciousness of demise sealed within.

we have confirmation that two versions of the demon king can, technically, exist entirely separate from eachother.

it isn't a stretch to think that if his body is sealed away, effectively dead and unable to spread his malice, that the spirit of demise's hatred (if its not sealed with the sword, like in totk) would reincarnate until the time comes that the seal weakens enough (the first calamity) that it doesn't need to.

obviously there are still problems here like. where are the rito? (personally I think they just fuck off to hebra, which only barely exists in any other game, and I wholeheartedly believe the WW rito are a completely different species)

if totk ganondorf is sealed under the castle before oot, but the great plateau is implied oot castle town, why didn't we find dehydrated dorf there? uuuuuuuhhhhhhh next question

(listen the great plateau doesn't really match up with oot castle town anyway, no other details really match, definitely not the typical 'death mountain to the north(east), lake hylia down south' geography we usually see)

is rauru totk and rauru oot the same or different? zelda actually calls the sages 'ancient creators of hyrule' in oot, and since rauru is the only actually ancient one there.... uh. its entirely possible! why does he look hylian in oot? uhhhhhh? magic? because seeing some giant talking goat person that has never been seen before might not inspire trust in the traumatized monster-fighting 9 year-old-turned-16-year-old. also isnt oot rauru ALSO the owl? its been a LONG time since I played oot so I genuinely don't know if I just made that up but if so the guy has a history of changing form I guess

honestly I think we do have to allow for a certain level of handwavy 'new game' leeway, just like we do with EVERY game, in order to make this work. the map is always different. some things are introduced that have never once been heard of before in any other game. some things DONT exist that have in other games. some things are so different they're nearly unrecognizable. there are little easter eggs and no, they don't always have to mean something.

[kakusu-shipping]

I have a really funny concept for an Azula reverse self ship (because I can't make a regular self insert work with her), and I'm trying to decide if it'd be funnier to make her a History RPF girlie or if the reason Zuko had to sit through Ember Island player's butchering Love Amongst the Dragons was because Azula had a massive crush on one of the characters and DEMANDED they went to see it every year.

[get-more-bald]

the fuck do you mean I have to leave....

[silbeni]

Vent again sorry !!!

Dad brought up politics again 💀 and I hate hate hate talking about it

I've tried my best to keep quiet but he pretty much knows I'm a leftist

[deiscension]

﹄ ◇ ; @melodicbreeze / WHAT'S SHI QINGXUAN THINKING?

💭 I know it's been few interactions but---

      ⌜◈⌟    ▌ ──  '𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙣𝙞���𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙪𝙥 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. Most people are knocked flat on their backs by the third or fourth round, but not my favorite bard in all of Teyvat!'

     𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, even if The Angel's Share is a far cry from the splendor of Chenyu Vale's mountaintops. A blessing in many ways. The lingering sting of shame isn't quite as quick to reawaken when both scenery and company are so different from that bygone era. In its place appreciation blooms: for the boisterous tavern patrons, the endless flow of dandelion wine, and a companion at her side who laughs alongside her 'til both their sides hurt and the bartender has to tell them to quiet down. She's been accepted by him without question. That's enough for her.

     𝐎𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. But without the shame to aid in smothering it, the ache for those long-gone days swells until her chest could burst from it. She's no longer Lady Wind Master. She never should have been. She knows this as well as she knows the back of her own hands. Is it so wrong for her to miss racing through the clouds? Is it so wrong for her to pine for the taste of sweet sake mingling with the scent of incense rising from the offerings of her beloved devotees? At times, being at Venti's side seems to exacerbate these pangs of nostalgia. Surely one of her favorite pagodas still stands atop the mountains, even if as overgrown remains. If she could somehow take him to one and manage to unearth a bottle of Thousand-Year Mulberry Mead along the way, then maybe...

   ...𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠? She's moved on. Besides, that mead had been brewed specifically as offerings to Adepti. More than a sip or two could easily kill a mortal. And speaking of--

     '--𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙄 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧!? I know humans are sturdier than they look, but surely there's a limit to what their organs can handle. Aiyah, how many bottles did we go through last night? Wait... can he drink as much as me in a single sitting? Hmm...'

[llycaons]

mexican gothic is really fucking good huh