#stop making this shitlord so relatable please

[deadbeatdadjokes]

2023 will be better I hope

[tiergan-vashir]

as someone who genuinely doesn't understand, why is it specifically that liking futa/gay stuff is so bad? some people are assholes about it sure, but there're plenty of people who aren't. what makes it so specifically much worse than liking straight stuff? especially given that futa/trap are 99% of the time not being used for/as actual trans people.

H’okay. I’m going to naively assume you actually want to know why, but I’m also going to shove all of this shit under a cut, because it’s going to be very, very long I’m pretty sure people are likely tired of seeing this by now and it might even be triggering for some folks.

The TL;DR of it all is that:

Fetishizationdoesn’t exist in a bubble - it propagates harmful stereotypes and ideas that hurt living people. So even though you’re probably using those words and phrases to describe your ERP video game smut character and not a living, breathing trans or intersex person - by helping keep those words commonplace and in use by others, you’re helping spread stereotypes and ideas that harm real, live people.

Even if you - yourself - are not using the word to describe actual trans folks, you’re normalizing it’s usage and some other dumb fuck you may have been interacting with WILL use it to describe an actual trans person.

All people want is Respect. Respect for their bodies. Respect for their life experiences and struggles. Respect as fellow humans. If you can’t give them that over some shit you really really want to use for your ERP cat girl smut in your japanese vidya games, then you’re honestly just a dick. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Massive trigger warning for me talking candidly about all of the above.

Fujoshi and the “gay stuff”

A quick disclaimer.  I’m not a gay man.  I’m a pansexual nonbinary person.  I don’t feel super comfortable speaking as any kind of authority figure at all on a topic that veers so closely to gay male experiences.  I’m going to speak on what I’ve heard, directly, from actual gay men I’ve spoken to and what I’ve seen with my own two eyes.  However, other gay men might have different opinions than what I’ve written here and if it differs from my words,  those words have more weight, because … ya know, this is their lives.  They’re the authority on their own life experiences.There’s next thing I want to get out of the way is that not “gay stuff” that’s bad.   There’s nothing wrong about being gay.

People explicitly mention fujoshi, because they’re essentially yaoi-super-fans.  Yaoi in particular gets a bad rap, because while I’m sure some exist that depict healthier, more realistic relationships - a whole lot of them simply reduce gay men down to sexual objects for the pleasure of straight women (it’s written by and for straight women after all) and often comes packaged with A LOT of harmful ideas on gay relationships that don’t actually have anything to do with what real gay relationships are like.

It would be one thing if every single woman in the universe looked at Yaoi and had the immediate understanding that “the shit I’m seeing in my japanese anime mangos about two slender effeminate men categorizing themselves by uke and seme while doing the horizontal mambo with pretty questionable consent practices and having hands WAY too large to be human is pretty divorced from the reality of what actual gay male relationships are like.��I should not bother any actual living gay man with this stuff and I should respect them as people.”

But again - fetishization doesn’t exist in a bubble.  While some consumers of yaoi have enough awareness not to be gross about it, there are WAY too many others who get very accustomed to seeing gay men and their bodies purely as objects for sexual gratification - not people to be respected.  Some of them even still consider gay men and gay relationships “sinful and forbidden” - and their yaoi characters as their “sinful gay babies!” that are only acceptable within the confines of spank-bank material.

This is where people get pissed.

To rip from a previous post of mine:

I have heard stories from gay male RPers about how fujoshi RPers were super down to RP yaoi shit with them …right up until they found out WHOOPS, wow you are an actual gay man and not a fellow straight woman? No. Sorry. I can’t RP with you. Your lifestyle is sinful and wrong.

Or they see two gay men kissing and cuddling and start talking about those two living, breathing men as though they are some yaoi-comic stereotype with an uke and seme instead of… just regular, actual human beings with complex romantic and sexual lives of their own.

In 2017, a really beautiful animation came out about a young school boy struggling with his budding crush for another boy.  

The joy of seeing really adorable animation showing a rare depiction of young, innocent gay love was temporarily tarnished by the fact that in the beginning there was a flood of comments was about “omg YAOI. IT’S SO GREAT SEEING YAOI.” “ANY OTHER YAOI FANS HERE?” (the comments section has since cleaned up a lot, thankfully, but it definitely happened).  

Any decent human being would’ve seen the animation for what it was - a really sweet animation depicting young love that LGBT folks could actually relate to.  Fujoshi on the other hand had become so accustomed to seeing any romance between two boys or men as material for their sexual fetish, that they couldn’t even turn it off when looking at an animation about one underage minor having a crush on another, two little school boys in a romantic, non-sexual context.  

In those folks’ eyes - those two boys were not seen as sweet characters representing budding gay love that lots of LGBT folks could relate to - they immediately became objects for sexual consumption.

This is not to say that anyone who is writing a character that doesn’t align with their own gender/sexuality is an immediate shitlord.  

I’m a pansexual nonbinary person writing a pansexual cis male dude in a very LGBT FC.  I don’t really write or draw Tiergan in too many sexual or romantic contexts to start with, just because of the way his character is. 

When I did do so however, I noticed I was fine drawing or writing heterosexual romances with my character, but when it came to anything remotely approaching Tiergan being intimate with men - I was intensely anxious about making any of my gay/bi male FC-mates uncomfortable.  My FC-mates are awesome people and their feelings are important to me. I wanted to honour those feelings and their life experiences.

I ended up just talking to folks to see how they felt, what I should do, how I should treat everything.  Of course gay/bi men are all different, because we’re all human and may have different perspectives or feelings on the matter so someone else may feel differently, but what I was told by everyone in all my discussions was that it boiled down to Respect. Treating gay/bi/pan men, their relationships, and their life experiences with the respect they are due and not simply as tools for getting off.

Fujoshi are often not respectful of gay men beyond their use as sexual objects - so why should anyone give them respect in return?

“Trap” and “Futa”

I’m going to go on a limb and assume you’re here because you read this post here.  Where I mentioned the Trans Panic Defense and how actual trans women find the word “trap” triggering because they get beaten to death IRL by cis straight men for “trapping” them.

If that really wasn’t enough, please look at this video by ContraPoints, which gets into more detail about why the word “Trap” is so hurtful from the words of an actual trans woman.

If you actually humored me and watched that video instead of blindly digging in your heels about how bad you want to keep using a word, it should be incredibly clear by now that the word “trap” is really hurtful to trans women and reminds them of the fact that they literally get killed by people just for walking down the street and making some cis dude’s dick tingle in his pants.

To put things in a different context, this is an extreme example, but there was a time the N-word was used regularly.   But now, you likely never do, because you know it’s offensive and hurtful to black people.  What’s the big deal though - right? It’s just a word.

But much like “trap” reminds trans women of the possibility that cis straight men might beat them to death in a fit of “trans panic” and the long history of trans women being viciously murdered even today for “trapping” men with their “trickery”.  The N-word reminds the black community of a long, vicious, painful, hateful legacy of racism, slavery, and oppression. That’s why civilized adults don’t use that word, even as an insult.

If we want a way less extreme example than the N-word, we have words like “Negro” and “Oriental” which are dated and offensive terms for Black and Asian communities respectively in the United States, because in the US it reminds those communities of painful, racist histories.

“Trap” reminds trans people of really bad fucking times. It reminds them that they can be murdered. Just stop using it.

Futa/Futanari, as mentioned in my previous post, literally means “hermaphrodite” which both intersex and trans folk find offensive to be referred to as because it doesn’t actually describe them.  So regardless of whether you’re using the word to describe a trans female character or an intersex person - it’s still offensive to either group, because that’s not what they are.

I’m assuming when you say you don’t use it on actual trans/intersex people, you mean you’re just using Trap/Futa to describe your character falling into a very specific anime hentai bucket.  However, every time you use the word “trap” or “futa”, even if you’re not talking to an actual trans woman - you’re normalizing the idea that it’s totally okay to keep using this word.  And even if YOU are careful not to blurt it out in front of an actual trans person, and use it only in reference to your pretendy-times triple-dicked cat girl character, you can’t count on all your buddies to do the same. Or your buddies’ buddies, or your buddies’ buddies’ buddies - etc.

If you ACTUALLY CARE about the feelings and comfort of trans/intersex folks, then you’ll not use the word “trap” or “futa” anymore, so that it stops being commonly, casually used.  All folks want is respect. Give that to them.

If after all of this, you still at the very least don’t see why using the word “trap” is no bueno despite the history of literal death behind it, I don’t know what to tell you other than that you’re placing greater importance on a singular word to describe your fap material before human beings, and that kinda makes you a dick.

What makes it worse than Straight Stuff?

Let’s do a quick exercise.

You have 10 seconds to think of one commonly used, popular term with the same ubiquity as trap, futa, or yaoi that encapsulates a harmful, fetishistic sexual stereotype specifically about cis straight white relationships.  You can even use Google if you want.

I specify white, because things like “yellow fever” have explicitly to do with race and thus don’t count.

If you can’t think of jack shit, it’s because “cis straight” is considered “normal” by our society - and anything that deviates from that is considered “exotic” or “different” and gets fetishized.  

If you’re a straight person, you likely have NEVER had to deal with someone fetishizing and objectifying you simply for your straightness, because it’s “normal”.  What is there to fetishize? They might objectify you for other reasons, like your gender, your race if you’re PoC, your weight (aka fat fetish), etc.  But being objectified through your straightness - if it happens at all - is so minuscule in comparison to what LGBT folks have to go through on the daily that it is insanely unbalanced.  It’s worse than “straight stuff” because LGBT folks have to go through it WAY, WAY more often than straight people do.

[fabulousluxy]

Art Returns this month + Rant

Hey you wonderful followers, I am back from my art hiatus since the Bowsette related death threats (yes really) have finally stopped, I have been workin’ a lot on my actual so I should have just some easy free time to dedicate back on doing art again.

BUT FIRST A LITTLE RANT. Please hide your sensitive eyes if you dont like swears

here was my experience this evening while working:

finished something for a client worked on that shit for two hours and then that shitlord asked to see my work (which is normal) yet he kept typing and then i caught the fucker trying to copy it when they accidentally hit enter to try to make a new paragraph but instead it posted what they were typing

my job is transcribing or captioning i had listened to his shitty speech and typed it all out and fixed it for him he attempted to copy it to not pay me because i show my clients a watermarked version of the work i have this was him in an attempt to get the work without paying me.

ANYWAY. art is returning

[queenofmorolianspiders]

In honor of weeding out the shitlords in my follows, here’s some headcanons for QB’s society!! I’ll have a few trusted friends go over these later to make sure that everything comes off non-offensively, but for now, AGGRESSIVELY SHOVES GENDER-RELATED HEADCANONS AT PEOPLE (I’m also probably forgetting a lot.)

also if you have ideas for things i should make up hcs for please hmu my askbox is always open to discussing/figuring out things for qb’s society.

[i’m very very very certain that i’ll need to edit this and make everything nicer and that there are better ways to say the things i’m thinking of, or the goal i’m trying to get at....]

QB’s people literally do not care what your gender id is, in the grand scheme of things. All they care about is how strong you are.

Wanting to change your body’s appearance to match how you feel inside is no big deal. There are literal permanent transition options that will match what you need/want/desire, if you so choose. Out of all the things you should be worried about, whether or not you feel comfortable with your body is not one of those things.

While the temporary names for children are based on things like the set of pronouns a person uses, (ie [parent a name]+wyn, [parent a name]+son), there are many more options. I honestly need to update that naming mechanic, esp since that convention came out of a bad binary. Maybe [name]+en. So in QB’s case, the names are Cedwyn, Ilywin, and Ceden or Ilien. Or maybe even Cedilien. 

I don’t know how many genders her society has language markers for, but I’m gonna guess at least 5. Or maybe one. Either way, it’s not 2-3.

A lot of her culture really hates converting to a language/culture that relies on a binary set of gender markers. So, languages such as English, Spanish, other (romance?) languages that require adding gender to things that are inanimate, etc. It’s so very frustrating, especially when THAT IS THE LEAST OF YOUR CONCERNS WHAT GENDER SOMEONE USES WHEN THEY’RE GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU

QB has been male before. This was less a “pretend to be a guy” and more “Hm, I feel like trying this out”, especially in her teenage years, when she wanted to make certain of who she was. Because it’s okay to see if an identity fits you or not, even if it’s to make sure that you are comfortable in your own identity.

sometimes, she still goes for a masculine appearance/body if the whim suits her.

QB’s people literally do not understand human’s aggressive nature towards gender roles. They understand how to use them against them, however.

 but they literally do not understand why you would kill someone for saying that they’re a different gender than was assigned/expected of them. 

like, let them die for other reasons what the fuck is wrong with you for killing someone because they said they were a woman like don’t you guys need more women.

people who don’t have any particular gender association and/or preference are normal and valid. there’s no confusion about it or trying to pin them down into anything unless it’s a kink.

qb’s society aren’t picky about sex and aren’t going to freak out about what is or isn’t in a partner’s pants. If they really want to have sex with someone, they’ll figure out a way to make it work.

QB is pan sexual for a reason. She doesn’t care. She’ll do you no matter what you look like, so long as she’s attracted to you. 

qb’s society probably has no stipulations or social faux pas about presenting. You can wear a dress and still be a dude, if that’s how you identify. you can look masculine and wear a dress and still be a chick, if that’s how you identify.

....i guess this kind of works with how “procreation/survival of the fittest” works for them as a culture. People who live to be longer than 40 of their years are allowed the right to procreate, as they are seen as “the fittest”. And, like, it never occurred to me SOONER to have it be a thing where people could like.... not necessarily have a “sex” change since idk if that’s even the right wording anymore, and i’m not sure how it’d work but like. if someone wanted to be able to carry, they’d be given the stuff to carry. if someone wanted to give, they could give. if that like, makes sense. tho i’m bad at explaining how that’d work esp since i’m just. really bad at this stuff overall.

fashion is not restricted by gender. If you can rock it, then it’s meant for your bod. You can have men wearing slinky dresses and dolled up to the 9′s, or dressed up like Bayonetta, and they’re still men. Why hold back a fashion/design because of bullshit like “gender roles”. Are gender roles based off clothes you wear gonna save your ass? Very rarely. 

granted, this won’t stop someone from telling you that your fashion sense sucks regardless

[junkobears]

More V3 Spoiler Related Anon Asks

I can’t wait for the day when I can just answer/post these without any cuts due to fear of spoiling my streaming friend... that’s gonna take months at the rate we’re going...  Also my response as fuckin’ usual got ridiculously long. To be fair these asks brought up a lot of points!

Welcome back, anon. I’m glad you guys use my blog as a way to vent out all your salty rants, haha. For real, I love seeing them! 

For one, lemme say that literally sending this ask that brings up very valid points about Chapter 5′s writing with regards to his character, in NO WAY makes you One Of Those™ Ouma fans. You clearly can look at his character beyond OMG PRETTY BOY ASSHOLE WHOSE SO TRAGIC AND DEEP AND UNPROBLEMATIC MUST DEFEND AT ALL COSTS, haha. This already makes you better than 90% of Ouma fans. And hating the awful SHSL Analyst theory is the icing on top, TBH.

BUT YES, both the Convenient Exisal Voice Changer and 300-page script annoy me so goddamn much in how blatant they are as plot devices, it’s incredibly distracting. Two of many reasons why Chapter 5 is my least favourite part of the game. I know the real reasons for having the voice changer - so you still have Ouma and Momota’s VAs around for one more trial since seiyuu appeal is a big draw of this series, and so it’s easier to keep track of who the Exisal is pretending to be at that point (although the mugshot + name should really be enough, and isn’t it mostly Ouma IIRC? but audiences are dumdums I guess). 

But it’s just... there’s no story justification for the voice changer at ALL. Why would that ever be a function in the first place? Are we just supposed to bullshit the idea that Iruma maybe included this on her handy Exisal Remote?? And if you really NEED it to be a feature... then why not foreshadow this ability with the Exisals in previous chapters - you could’ve had the Monokubs appear in Exisals earlier in the stories speaking with the voices of the dead kids to stir up shit (imagine Tenko or Kaede’s voice being used to torment both Yumeno and Saihara for instance?). Like there’s an easy 5-second fix to alleviate the issue of breaking suspension of disbelief, come on writers.

The 300-page script on the other hand... goddamn do I fucking hate that shit. One, no fucking way could anyone write THAT detailed a script whilst dying painfully from being poisoned and also having to set up five hundred different parts of your murder plan. Or was the implication that he had this script prepared in advance just in case? Which is even worse, if I’m honest. Cuz the Exisal/press plan is explicitly stated to be a last-minute plan Ouma thought of when he realized the mastermind had manipulated HaruMaki and the others into wanting to kill/stop him. 

I also hate it because it’s used a bullshit justification for how Momota managed to give off a FLAWLESS Ouma impression that NOBODY ELSE found suspicious or off-kilter in any way?? What the actual fuck. Remember back in DR1 (admittedly I don’t think this fandom has ever played DR1) when Junko’s literal twin sister could barely disguise herself as Junko, nearly broke character several times and a ton of other characters noticed how weird she was in comparison to the Junko they knew from pop culture? You’re telling me this dude who only knew this other dude for a few weeks at MOST, could pull off a better impersonation than Mukuro Ikusaba, Junko’s twin who grew up with her their whole lives??? Sorry, no, that just doesn’t really make any sense. Again, breaks my suspension of disbelief. And it would’ve set-up the reveal much better if Momota broke character several times during the trial, and having the others notice how weird ‘Ouma’ is in comparison to before, or something. Lazy, lazy writing.

You might be right that people theorize Ouma as SHSL Analyst mostly to explain away these issues, which just bugs me because V3 fans really are garbage at accepting that sometimes things are just bad writing, clearly it’s all Kodaka’s INTENTIONAL master plan... sure, hun. Also irritates because oh my god that’s Junko’s niche, guys. Does every ‘clever’ character in this series need to have their smarts explained away with ANALYSIS SUPERPOWERS? Can Ouma just not be a trolling shitlord clown who happens to be very on the ball with investigating from the shadows? Stop trying to replace the best character with your shitty woobie pretty boys, Kodaka/Fandom. For my heart, please.

And yeah, I never understood why the group immediately forgave HaruMaki for literally trying to get everyone executed at the trial (although unlike most of this fandom I can understand and sympathize with where she was coming from with trying to kill Ouma/ending the game... bless her “stab first, ask no questions” self haha)... like that should be a huge deal, guys. I liked that element with Asahina in DR1, as well, even if it did get brushed aside quite quickly even by Togami/Fukawa, at least it was BROUGHT UP in some form... like, Shirogane didn’t even try to bring that fact up as another method to divide and stir tensions within the group for the killing game? REALLY? 

In general V3 desperately needed an editor, for sure though anon. So many parts of this game either: drag on WAY LONGER than necessary (Library scene, anyone? Every after-trial scene?) there are random plot points that are brought up only to never become relevant, the pacing is completely out-of-wack, and a lot of things just aren’t adequately justified, explored or foreshadowed. I get the impression this just happens once a series becomes unexpectedly popular/best-selling - the creator is then given a lot more free reign. Which is almost always a bad thing, haha.

[shadowlink720]

FE: Birthright Randomised Chapters 8 and 9

(aka ‘Takumi is surrounded by idiots, also I broke the game. whoops.’)

welp, y’all know the drill by now, so let’s get right into it >:3

oh, but before I do I wanna ask a question; I’m considering changing some of the unit’s classes Like I could change Yukimura into an Archer with his already good Skill growth and make him a Crit lord like Takumi was in the original (b/c we can add competitive into the equation too)

another idea I had was to make Saizo a Malig Knight for the magic growth to be put to use? or give him a flame shuriken idk

and then there was an idea to possibly change Kagero into a Wyvern Lord to make use of that resistance and defence growths? pls tell me if these are ok ideas idek-

considering making Azama an archer as well for the same reason as Yukimura; become a crit lord

I’m gonna promote Kaden into a strategist when I can tho, and he’ll become an insane glass cannon with all the magic he’ll get from that 50% growth

please tell me if these are actually ok ideas or if I’m an idiot and I should do something else, I like to think I’m decent at this game but I’m not-

Anyway! Chapter 8! Let’s go! and find out who Takumi’s retainers are! And who Hayato is!

ahh yes, the Eternal Stairway .... everytime I get bad flashbacks of the Eternal Stairway map in Conquest ahahhh;;;;;;

I can relate to Corrin when they try to be funny but really aren’t hahah;;

Rinkah is ready slap a sneaky bitch right here

aaaaand there’s the Faceless it’s funny how they can pop out of nowhere given how huge they are (I know they aren’t actually Faceless because magic n stuff but it’s funny to think of a Faceless trying to be sneaky)

ya know, for Corrin being quite against fighting and all that, they certainly do make a lot of threats-

Well done, you killed some innocent people I hope ur happy, IAGO

speak of the shitlord and he shall appear .... unfortunately he is quite amusing tho, ngl, like Excellus in Awakening

aaaaand here we are in Wind Tribe territory!

Word of what happened certainly travelled very quickly unless Iago possibly went and told the Wind Tribe about it, which... would make a lot of sense, actually

Mozu; the person you definitely want to stop a conflict-

aaaand we’re fully in the chapter! ohh man I can’t wait to see who Takumi’s retainers aaarrrreeeee gonna do the battle prep first tho Yikes, Kaden’s probably not a good idea here since he’s on horseback; he basically won’t be able to move at all aaand the only person who can use Dragon Veins (so far) is Corrin. Fun. :’’’D but we will get Takumi so that’s a plus

... ya know what? to heck with it. I’m making Yukimura an archer, and therefore a critlord >:D

awwww yeah and he still has a C rank in booowwwwwsss >:3ccccccc

right, time to see who Takumi’s retainers arrrreeee

.......... y es

Setsuna is Azama oh heck yES-- please give me savage asshole Setsuna aishudfhdu

...... Setsuna is now Scarlet-

I don’t care if it’s annoying; I’m taking screenshots of like their whole conversation b/c it’s gold-

(it’s funny b/c Setsuna’s voiceline was ‘oooookay.’ in response to Scarlet-

Scarlet that’s not something you should be smiling about--

oh my farore-

Setsuna’s voice line was ‘no’ and it sounded sarcastic as heck--

Takumi’s surrounded by idiots, it seems

that... actually seems to be true

poor Takumi, man

aaaand we begin the chapter! gonna get that Dragon Vein right away by pairing up w/ Izana because holy heck-

have I said that Mozu gets really good level ups? b/c she does- (she killed the first guy in the map ayy)

no, Setsuna don’t go into the enemy’s range, you don’t have Azama’s personal--

SETSUNA

ok we can talk to Takumi now yadda yadda, Azura and Felicia are missing and all that

Takumi is still savage tho, ngl

right! let’s take a look at our new units!

not bad, he’s got a lot of speed, res and skill oo and he has Lucky Charm, which grants +20% to luck based skills trigger rate and he has a Disrobing Gale which gives more speed, niiice (Growth Rates = HP - 40, Str - 45, Mag - 20, Skill - 40, Spd - 40, Lck - 45, Def - 40, Res - 35) (Heart Seal options: Nohr Prince (lol) and Spear Fighter)

now, for the asshole

what a coincidence she’d randomise into a Shrine Maiden, huh? oooh her personal is Noble Cause! grants +3 damage dealt but +1 damage taken when supported by a damaged unit; nice nice and she has Surefooted which is.... useless b/c it’s only valid if the unit is a Ballistician, which is a dlc class hhhhhhhhhhh, but it would have granted +1 mov and add Acrobatics into it so all passable terrain movement costs 1 but also yo look at those sick base stats, man (Growth rates = HP - 45, Str - 40, Mag - 35, Skill - 55, Spd - 20, Lck - 20, Def - 55, Res - 40) (Heart Seal options = Wyvern Rider and Mercenary)

and now onto Scarlet!

not bad, Takumi has... generally better bases tho but she has Miraculous Save! which is like Miracle but for a unit that is supported by her, it’s trigger is also her luck stat :V and she has Magic +2, which is actually useful here given that she’s a Diviner :’D (Growth rates = HP - 40, Str - 20, Mag - 30, Skill - 60, Spd - 0, Lck - 30, Def - 15, Res - 30) (Heart Seal options = Spear Fighter and Outlaw)

.... I don’t get why things like Disrobing Gale and Raider Weapons have to strip the foe’s armour if there’s a weapon advantage tho-- oh well

WHY do I seem to get crits when I skip the animation, I just missed Azama getting one against an Archer guh--

ok but Rinkah just one shotted this poor, unsuspecting Diviner that already had his defence sealed by her he didn’t stand a chance, tbh-

and a level up for Izana! and he got Miracle! (why yes I do heal at the slightest bit of lost HP when the healer can’t defend themselves, you’d be surprised at how quickly they can level up--)

.... man Yukimura is gonna be insane when he becomes a Sniper he hasn’t gotten any crits yet but just wait, he’s still got a lot of strength--

aaaaall riiiight just Fuga left >:3 let’s get him debuffed with Kagerooo and probably Saizo too right, Vantage is gonna happen now oh nvm, Saizo defeated him :o and he levelled uuuup

and we got a Secret Book :V

ayyy now for a cutscene giving Plot about the Yato and the Seal of Flames and stuff

Well, Corrin, it’s literally the name of the game; the Fire Emblem :’’D it also makes ur sword a very intimidating chainsaw

time to see who Hayato is >:3c

.......... oh my farore

OH MY FARORE I told ya we’d meet again soon, Silas :’’’’’’’’D

Yeah, you’re shouting sounds very aggressive, Silas-

Fuga is confirmed to be the Team Dad, heck yeah

aaaand that’s Chapter 8! :o Let’s have a look at what Silas’ stats are like

oooh ok, so he’s also an Apothecary :o and he has Collector as a personal too hahah;;;; and look at his strength wo a h-- his defence is pretty decent too, which is good :o (Growth rates = HP - 25, Str - 30, Mag - 40, Skill - 60, Spd - 45, Lck - 20, Def - 55, Res - 40) (Heart Seal options = Wyvern Rider and Sky Knight)

........... heck it let’s keep going to the next chapter or, wait I’m gonna get some of these units’ levels up first

ok so I’ve gotten a few levels for the newer units (mainly Silas and Scarlet) so let’s go into Chapter 9! >:D there goes Kagero talking about Ryoma again lol and that Izumite’s laugh is pretty darn suspicious lol

Reina is the Archduke of Izumo-- holy heck--

there she iiiiiiis

her voiceline was ‘I can barely contain myself!’ it was perfect--

y’all’d’ve‘id’ve

Kagero is trying to keep the tone relatively serious-

Yeah, she’d be the first to know because she’d be there fighting both sides

aaaand there they gooo HAH, when Mozu and Corrin went away to get ‘special treatment’ Takumi’s voiceline was ‘what’ like he was offended that he wasn’t offered it or smth aihsifudfhd

oh man, Reina’s voice line was ‘Cry out in pain!’ hooooo boi

.... now that sounds a little more like actual Reina-

plot twist, it’s a gremlin

savage, Corrin

‘actually I was just wanting to see what we were missing out on, but it turned out we saved them hahah’

idk man, you’d be surprised

riiiiiighty hoo, time to start the chapter >:3c and we’ll get to see who Felicia’s retainers are! :D

this cavalier’s mcfreaking dead >:3ccccc

oooh Azama’s weapon proficiency went up! c:

And Iiiii’m gonna let Corrin hang around near the bottom of the map so that we can get to whoever Felicia’s retainers arrreeee

.... welp there’s Felicia’s retainers :’D (ngl I was kinda hoping Sakura would be one of them lmao;;)

........ Oboro randomised into herself ................................................ i’m ok well, she’s uh she certainly very gay now o<o;;; so that’s pretty great Felicia and Oboro would be pretty dang cute tho afjhdhfsakf

still would have been nice if she had randomised into someone else, though :’’’’’D

yup, she’s very gay I love it

HECK I MISSED A CRITICAL FROM YUKIMURA- ..... aaannnnnndddd another one

anyway let’s talk to Hinoka and then look at their stats

now let’s start with Oboro

so she has Misfortunate for a personal skill, so enemies within 2 spaces get -15 Dodge, but she also get -5 dodge o<o;;;; she also has Gentilhomme so basically she’s very gay and she’s... also a Diviner we’ve got a lot of Diviners hhhhhhh but she’s got a lot of Magic :o (Growth Rates = HP - 40, Str - 40, Mag - 30, Skill - 20, Spd - 45, Lck - 30, Def - 40, Res - 35) (Heart Seal options = Mercenary and Archer)

ok let’s look at Hinoka!

.......... she’s also a Diviner! :’’’’D BUT! She has Bibliophile as a personal, which gives Crit +10 when the unit has three or more tomes/scrolls :V she also has Heavy Blade, which gives Str +3 and Spd -1 (Growth Rates = HP - 45, Str - 0, Mag - 15, Skill - 15, Spd - 45, Lck - 55, Def - 35, Res - 25) (Heart Seal options: Sky Knight and Nohr Princess)

right I’ve cleared like, the entire map and am now getting the treasure chests one has a Speedwing and the other has 5000G, nice :Y

i..... really don’t like Zola’s attack, though :’D I need to get Mozu and Kaden over for countercurse and then healing

ok Yukimura learned Quick Draw! nice

ok now Zola’s dead, geez and we got a Master Seal, too :’D

oh yeah, here comes Leo :V ..... uh hm it, uhhh it’s frozen o<o;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

.... welp I guess I need to try that chapter again and then skip that cutscene, then, brb--

yeah nah, skipping the cutscene didn’t work, it still froze :’’’’’’’’’’D this is probably what people meant by breaking the game //sigh ....... you can bet that I will try to get Revelation to work eventually, though so uhh, if anyone knows any way to help me with that that’d be really great

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ok so slight update: I managed to get past Chapter 9 without the game freezing; I played through most of the chapter, and then saved in an extra data file, before i moved to run the game normally to finish the chapter while I did miss out on seeing Reina as Izana and all that in the cutscenes afterwards; I tried running the file through HANS after saving the file after the cutscenes had ended and it seems to have worked :’D so I’ll be able to move on to other chapters, which is nice :’’’’’’’’D