#ssss ensi

[rukkilill]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Veeti Hollola & Ensi Hotakainen Characters: Veeti Hollola, Ensi Hotakainen Additional Tags: Teaching, Year 0 (Stand Still Stay Silent), Prologue Era (Stand Still Stay Silent) Summary:

Veeti's life has changed in ways that he never expected.

You can get used to almost anything if you're willing to do your best.

[ssss-character-smackdown]

SSSS Character Smackdown - Melee Round

Ensi is wily and canny, she has brought many grosslings to their doom. She deserves to sit and have a meal, right?

Uh oh, who mentioned many grosslings and a meal? And Ensi being dead? noooo

[wooltoesocks]

i need more ensi hotakainen content

[bogkeep]

sorry i'm still SSSS blogging today. i meant to draw but instead i reread adventure 2 and. hm

like, it starts out fun, you have characters interactions and dreamsharing and interesting locations and new outfits and hotakainen backstory!!!! that's the stuff i think fondly of when i think of adventure 2. it sets up for an emotional throughline for the hotakainens that would be so so tasty to follow and explore, especially considering what happened to tuuri in the last adventure!!!

but then... nah. when tuuribird shows up, something that should've had a BIG impact, especially on lalli - there's almost no reaction among any of the characters. it's just "oh okay." and like, i get that the whole deal with the finns is that they aren't very open about feelings but come on. come on!!!!!!

i think that is the point in the comic where things start to feel off for me. it SHOULD be exciting, you have connected all the characters and you're digging into the main plot and not just fighting small fry along the way, but........ ?????????

it's also around that time where minna starts working on the infamous bunny comic, and some of the author comments from that period of time made me wince. the whole ssss reading vibe gets Weird!! it's really hard for me to extract the experience of reading the Comic from the experience of witnessing its creator getting converted and baptized in frozen lakes and following a higher calling to create a comic whose message is frankly rather stupid!!! also i don't read the comment sections but clearly shit went down in some of them, maybe because minna said some awful stuff in her streams??? i don't know!!!!!! i don't really need to know!!!!

and then the comic just gets boring and drags on forever. look, the worldbuilding and the monsters are cool, and the art is always lovely, but the true joy of ssss for me has always been the characters. and then they don't really... do or say very much with each other for the rest of the story. like they're following the plot beats, but so much of the comic us just monster fights, beasts fighting each other, the plot HAPPENS but there's no emotion tied to it. the most egregious example is when lalli and onni have the spirits of tuuri and ensi with them, and they have a conversation - and we don't see ANY of that. it happens off screen. we get NOTHING. there's ZERO emotional reward. the characters are for all intents and purposes unchanged. there has been no arc or change in their dynamics. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE!!!!!

it feels like the beats of the story were all planned out, but not fleshed out at all, and when minna got this far she no longer cared about these characters, or like telling this story served any purpose. the potential is there! it's easy to imagine another timeline where this story is rich in character interacton and growth. instead we get a hollow shallow shell of a comic. welp!

i so badly want to admire minna's decision to end the comic "properly", but i really feel like it might've been better to have just abandoned it when her priorities shifted. it's so sad to see the characters getting neglected like dolls in a dusty toybox. it really breaks my heart that she doesn't believe ssss has any value beyond "empty entertainment" when it meant so much to so many. SIGH

people who couldn't be bothered to finish reading adventure 2 are right actually. there's nothing there.

[usuallysublimepenguin]

Thank you for the ask Anon! Since I’d already done Tuonela with this palette, I went to a different place - where this Vuvalini must surely be called Ensi

[ninethousandbees]

runs in the family

[sunderedstar]

hidden in deep sedge and reeds (9776 words)

Fandoms: Stand Still Stay Silent

Rating: T

Pairing: Ensi/Ukko-Pekka

Warnings: body horror, vomiting

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Ensi is seven, and the world is a feral, lurking thing.

And no one seems to pay attention when her father vomits in the ship's toilet. He chokes the sound back, but it's still loud on the hushed water.

[sidescout]

How about Ensi with frigid?

Thank you for this excellent request! 

[spockandawe]

meet the parents

Ensi: Hey mom, hey dad, I'm back from my scouting trip, this is my new husband, and guess what, surprise, I'm having twins

Ensi's parents: .......

Ensi: His name is Ukko-Pekka

Ensi's parents: Does he... have a last name?

Ensi: Dunno. Honey?

Ukko-Pekka: What's a last name?

Ensi: There you go

Ensi's parents: So, sweetie, how did you... meet this boy?

/flashback to Ensi riding a wild moose through the trees, lassoing a feral forest man/

Ensi: The usual way

[rukkilill]

You will not do anything without my explicit permission, do you understand? I’ll leave you behind if you are a risk.

[ssss-character-smackdown]

SSSS Character Smackdown - All in the Family

Ensi Hotakainen - named the 'first one', born shortly after her family escaped the pandemic, and one of the first Finnish mages - highly respected, quite powerful, but ultimately vulnerable to magic greater than her own

OR

Ingrid Pedersen & Gøran Anderson - as a 'low-effort hippie' and a dope fond of his goatee, they were not the most likely pair to become founding members of a great military community, but their son Trond became a highly respected general

[artofxollos]

hey who wants to see something... cursed

[polar-night-scout]

Inktober day 8 - Eye

[johanna-belle]

Onni! I know children don’t get their luonto that early but c’mon, baby owls.

[autistic-lalli]

SSSS Characters as Troubled Birds

Onni

Sigrun

Emil

Tuuri

Lalli

Reynir

Mikkel

Ensi

[sunderedstar]

sunlight through deep moss-water (9032 words)

Fandoms: Stand Still Stay Silent

Rating: T

Pairing: Emil/Lalli

Warnings: possession, eye scream, body horror

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Emil makes weird dreams.

Not on purpose, probably. Still weird.