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[izzydaninja]

Future Chaos

Sonic: "After all these years... Who would've guessed you'd need my help?"

~In the future, when everyone's already gone, and Shadow's one of the last one's left... he finds it difficult to keep pushing forward, even when a new threat arises.

And yet, he's not alone.~

[An idea that was inspired by someone else's post. Something about Shadow giving up, and Sonic's voice/ghost tells Shadow he's more stubborn than that.

It literally gave me this idea for a Future AU. I already have a few ideas for it. :3 So, whoever posted that, THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION! (Sorry I don't remember who you are.. :^)]

[m-s-justice]

Warning for Unpopular Opinion:

I kinda hate Primis Richtofen

As a character, he's fantastic. But if I were to ever cross paths with him, he would be on the receiving end of at least 28 stab wounds.

Strap in for another Long Fucking Textpost.

I have three main gripes with the guy.

1. How he treats Victis/The Rest of Primis

Richtofen manipulates Victis into doing his dirty work, actively putting their lives in danger by siccing Undead Ultimis Richtofen on them, and then puts them on ice in a parallel to his Ultimis self doing the same thing to his teammates. Not to mention Victis is frozen in a HELL POCKET DIMENSION. And EVEN THEN, he’s not even the one to wake them up; it’s Ultimis Richtofen, likely prompted by Primis Nikolai. 

As for how he treats his team, holy shit. He deceives them the entire cycle. Sure, he didn’t technically lie to them, but omission of information is just as bad. The other three had no idea what they were walking into. They didn’t expect to have to kill themselves. And that’s the fucking thing. They didn’t sign up for this. Richtofen clearly never asked if the other three wanted to live in Agartha with him. Richtofen never considered that they have lives of their own, outside of the cycle. Richtofen considered his own goals above the lives of his team. In ZnS one of his opening lines is “Do you trust me, [whichever of the three he is talking to]?”, to which both Dempsey and Takeo respond that they feel like they have no choice but to and Nikolai who basically says no. And yet, RIchtofen keeps charging ahead, doing “what he has to”. Sure, he ensured that they didn’t get wiped from existence, nevermind the fact that they wouldn’t have even been in danger of that without Richtofen leading them there. Instead, Richtofen leads them in a fucking circle. They’re going to do the same song and dance, forever. Now, no matter how much personal beef I have with BO4’s writing, it’s implied that the only way peace could ever be achieved is through the Motherfuckers’ deaths. Accepting his own death is something Richtofen could never do, we even see it happen. When he dies in Blood, it’s not graceful. Rather than subject himself to death, he instead has everyone go through something arguably worse, a never-ending loop of suicide by proxy. What the actual fuck.

2. Dimensional collapse

Richtofen lets Dimension 63 (Morg City [SoE]) get eaten by Apothicons. To give him some credit, there’s probably not a lot he could’ve done by himself. Apothicons are known for gobbling down dimensions like rednecks at a pie eating contest. But also. There was Keeper intervention. Maybe let the Keeper use the Incredibly Powerful, yet Loosely Defined MacGuffin #52 to save the dimension before swooping in, stealing the Key, and then dipping? I don’t know man, the general lack of remorse in his actions, the whole “I have a universe to set right” line before dooming the entire place just rubs me the wrong way.

3. General Assholery

Richtofen is a bit of an arrogant prick. The apparent reason the others can’t peek at the Big Book of Plot Convenience is because they’re too stupid. He also refuses to answer any of their questions. No wonder the other three don’t trust him, what with his complete and utter lack of transparency and his compulsive need to beat around every goddamn bush in the Forest of Equivocation.

On a slightly different note, there’s one quote of his that stood out to me. It’s a start of session conversation with Takeo.

Takeo: “I fear that denying Dempsey the chance to better understand himself may have… consequences.”

Richtofen: “Even had he been conscious before his death, I do not believe that Dempsey had any… great knowledge to impart.”

What the hell. My Brother in CoD, you made him that way. An alternate you literally experimented on and tortured him and then froze him taking away all autonomy from him. Not only that, you selected that dimension. You chose that specific Dempsey. If you wanted a "smart” Dempsey, then literally go anywhere else and murder him instead. Holy fucking shit. And Primis Dempsey is also there. Mourning himself. And you’re out here insulting a dead man that you murdered behind his back. Richtofen did murder him; Dempsey was coerced into doing it. Even fucking worse, is that Dempsey confesses to Nikolai that he’s starting to trust Richtofen. The one thing Richtofen wants most and he doesn’t deserve it.

However, the actual worst part is that nothing comes from Dempsey not being able to properly meet with his other self. Dempsey pulls himself together by himself, which is very admirable, but does have the unfortunate outcome of confirming Richtofen’s position. There were no ramifications. That Dempsey was simply an idiot who had nothing of worth to contribute, other than his death.

PART 4: END OF POST WHERE I SAY MORE RANDOM BULLSHIT IN A SLIGHTLY INCREASED INCOHERENT WAY AS A MOCKERY OF A CONCLUSION

Ok now to preface this I’m not attacking anybody who interprets Primis Richtofen differently.  He's a fictional character and other people viewing art in a different way than me will not cramp my style.

I do think that he genuinely loved his friends and wanted the best for all of them. The way he goes about it is just one of the worst ways possible. Comedically terrible, falling on his face, fucking Looney Tunes-ing it up. 

Simultaneously, however, I think at his core, Richtofen is a selfish character. And that’s shown in both version’s actions. Ultimis is pretty blatant in his egoistic pursuits. I spent the entire post pretty much draggin Primis in the mud, so I’m not going to repeat myself.

To end this: I hate him so much I want to rip him to pieces. But I also really like him as a character, so I would sitch him back together. And then his insufferable face would send me into an irrepressible rage and I’d shred him again. Rinse and repeat.

[mirellapryce]

Niko: I don't go to school :) Edwin: As the responsible adults in the room I feel like Charles and I should tell you to go to school... Charles: But seeing as we both died there, carry on.

[amelia-yap]

hap borthday

[itsmebeff]

morph

[ph-cutie]

disco elysium has really fascinating negative steam reviews

[copepods]

you know its kind of crazy that the standard college experience is to expect to be driven insane with work and experience breakdowns regularly and develop a dependence on caffeine or some other worse drug and its just like, normal. kind of weird if you ask me

[saltygilmores]

Scott posted this to his insta today, and I must opine.

The answer is always going to be Patty and Babette!

Sitting between Jess and Dean means you’ll get third hand groped when their sexually tense arguments get really heated

A seat between Luke and Crusty is a death wish. Also, Lorelai and Crusty appear to be across the aisle from each other. Do they serve booze on this flight?

A seat next to Richard and Rory would be pleasant, I’d take it.

Emily + Sookie/ Zach and Brian would be fine too. If I sat next to Sookie I’d be across the aisle from Jess. Swoon. Maybe Gypsy and Mrs Kim also. Gypsy is fun and Mrs K would probably just read her scriptures for most of the flight and not bother anyone (maybe she’d try to lead the flight in a round of prayer or something). With Max and Paris, Paris is across the aisle from Tristan (and Louise) and that would get annoying fast on top of Paris’ itty bitty panic disorder while being trapped with her in a small confined space.

Michel would have nothing in common with April and ignore her, if Annoying April sat quietly with her coloring books or whatever (what is she like, 8? Kidding) and did not talk to me ever I will sit next to her.

Lane and Dave would be completely insufferable.

Lorelai and Kirk would both never shut up and I would have to mainline some kind of sedative to survive. + Rory is sitting in front of Lorelai and Lorelai is going to be hanging over the aisle trying to bug Rory the whole flight. I guess if I sat near Jackson and Taylor, I could listen to Jackson talk about produce which would induce nap time, and Taylor’s tales of all his white collar crime could be occasionally scintillating. For like, 10 minutes. This is a 14 hour flight 😖

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

The biggest argument that Anakin's story in the prequels is not about being failed by everyone rather than about giving in to your worst impulses is anidala. You could say that Obi Wan was too quick to give up on him, you can say he had a hard life, but can you really say that Luke was the first person to offer him unconditional love, knowing what he'd done, to tell him he could stop, to offer support? You can't, because Padme did all that. Anakin changed.

[aropride]

dear sports bra companies if you want to make your bras with small/medium/large/etc sizing that doesnt account for differences in band and cup size using sister-size logic FINE i cant stop you but STOP LYING. "28c, 30b, 30c, 32a, 32b = small" Okay. i believe you i guess. but you Cannot just Keep doing that without actually using ur Brain. there is no World where 28g and 36c are the same size are you fucking stupid You can't just keep adding band inches and subtracting cup inches Nothing fucking works like that You can't sister-size forever I hate yuo i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you

[lolust]

i love being high idc

[gorgeouslyuncoordinated]

Beach Days!

The full text on the shirt reads "I met the Guardian and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

[vetuhoh]

this is actually ABSURD. what do you MEAN kenney and tucker think the best way to form an alliance with cedric is to both go on the block. what is wrong with these people 😭

wooo!!! let’s start a three person alliance where two of us are put up for eviction by the other!!! let’s goooo!!!

this is the kind of shit that’s supposed to be your nightmare.

[angeltone]

We are NOT beating the pigeon allegations bro 💔

made me giggle

[neechees]

There's this vid going around of this tiktoker calling this town in AB "a very welcoming place" when it's incredibly racist

[purplespookybatx3]

yes not all happy/silly characters are dumb - but ALSO just because a character is dumb doesnt mean that they dont have any self awareness, deep emotions, situational awareness, care for people they love, or are a helpless baby who need people to watch out for them and make sure they dont like walk onto oncoming traffic or something

what im saying is that a character can be not be very smart and can still have complex emotions, motivations, struggles, intelligence in areas other than conventional intelligence... etc