#theres a whole group of them that are about being a fan of the game

[sunsetzer]

I made way too many ff6 memes, here's some of my favourites

[lucrezianoin]

ive never ppl who hc astarion as ace be weird about people who dont but ive sure as shit seen a lot of people get mad fucking weird about ace astarion. lmao it genuinely is so annoying, theyll try and find excuse after excuse for why its wrong and bad Actually to hc him as ace. it dont matter. theres nothing saying he is or isnt in canon so why do people get so weird and annoying about it???

i mean i know why...

Yeah, I think there is a lot of weird debate around "sexualization" of Astarion, and somehow ace people or ace headcanons are always dragged into it. There is a lot of defensiveness, I noticed.

Because there is a subsection of fans who are extremely quick to harrass, mainly. On twitter, in particular, there is a group of fans that usually goes around retweeting fanarts of artists to insult them, if the fanart is not "chaste" enough.

This is an example:

It is a type of fandom policing that goes against any kind of fandom etiquette. But also... I like to call it the Frollo from Notre Dame Effect. Because that particular piece of art does not sexualize anything, the character is naked, but the art focuses on how he is treated in game (treated as one of Cazador's treasures and objects to be stored away). It is almost haunting, as fanarts go. But somehow, this group of fans saw it and felt something (apparently they felt it was sexy), and instead of realizing it was their reaction, the uncomfortability of it made them lash out against the art itself.

I am just saying this to explain that sometimes I feel that the backlash against ace headcanons is set in this context. At least the one I got was set in this context, where this user decided that me trying to talk about canon events in the game = me trying to accuse them of being horrible people for sexualizing Astarion.

So in my case, the person immediately used my headcanon as "proof" that I was one of those people who did not want to sexualize Astarion.

The thing is that it kinda sucks (at least for me) that you cannot have an ace headcanon without somehow being labelled as someone who wants full on purity in fandoms.

This is what I think, in particular, regarding the sexualization of Astarion:

I am glad that in game he is not shown in full sex scenes. A part from ascended astarion (and for a reason), we never really see any sex scene with him. His spawn one is one of the least explicit in the whole game, and even his initial one is pretty much mainly focused on the seduction act (compare them with the Minthara one, or Halsin, or Gale or Karlach in act 3!).

Ascended Astarion having the more explicit sex scene is not by chance, given that choosing to let him ascend while in romance is directly connected with the vampire-fantasy the game wants to sell, and passionate sex is part of it.

On the other hand, I really don't care what people do in fandom with characters. That is outside the narrative, and does not change or influence the narrative of the game at all.

[stupidrant]

RANT INCOMING!

I have to talk abt this as this has been in my mind for months and this i think is the only safe space to talk abt the fandom and their weird antics towards the characters/actors and overall games.Im not against criticism but theres a line between criticizing and going overboard with hating.

One thing i dont understand abt the god of war fandom is that they complain about alot of things not being “accurate” and thats doesnt make sense to me bc when has gow ever been accurate? I thought it was obvious from the beginning that SMS wasnt going for that and never truly will. Its always their own interpretation. They also have this weird hatred / ignorance towards atreus that i also dont understand? Yea he was a little annoying in the first game but thats understandable as hes… a kid. Ragnarok expanded his character pretty well imo and i feel like alot of these people for some reason cannot get past him in general? Maybe because they are afraid of him taking over the series and “forgetting” kratos (idk why thats in their minds LOL) or they just hate him just because. I feel like the fandom wants kratos to forever be this god who destroys things and whatnot and its all so weird. like they never gave him a chance. thankfully he has fans but majority hates him. Dont even get me started on how they treat angrboda. Its really so ridiculous to me that they can be so hateful for no true reason. they call her a bitch for yelling at atreus when all the women in the game get annoyed or disappointed in him atleast once. And they dont understand that she has only known this prophecy shit for her whole life and she couldnt do anything outside bc of the threat. ofc shes angry bro LOLL its also in her name like i dont understand 😭.  Atreus helps her get out of that mindset and assures her she can do whatever she wants now. Laya is so strong idk how she does it :( I also noticed they treat thrud as this “replacement” of angrboda bc they dont like her either cuz shes black or bc they hate her and everything related to atreus but as long as he has a character they can like thats not angrboda its fine. Its all so weird bc theres no competition between the two. There never was. I dont think they actually like thrud for her character they just want to be weirdos and i feel kinda bad for her and mina bc they really dont give a fuck. Im so shocked chris sunny and others even INTERACT with this bullshit of a fandom they are all really strong bc id say fuck all of you and go 😭 im not against criticism at all and i try not to take this shit seriously but its hard when you see a insane group of people take alot of this shit to the next level. this fandom is a bunch of whiny babies who hold onto their precious destroyer too much. The hate everyone has gotten recently is just so stupid and they often times try to make it their goal to hate. I see that SMS is trying to diverge their fandom to a broader audience and they are taking a bit more risks esp with atreus and i love that despite the backlash against him, they continued with his character regardless. I hope they do the same thing with the other characters as well and expand them no matter how much these people want to hate and act all high and mighty. I can understand certain critiques like the ending being too fast or maybe they couldve done blah blah better and whatnot but i think alot of people are overreacting and being ridiculously nitpicky with alot of things when it comes to ragnarok. 

Last thing and also kinda random thing SMS is very wrong for what they did to TC Carson and i acknowledge that completely and i hope they never do smth like that to any of the current cast either bc i would be fucking pissed if so LOL

[glareandgrowl]

you know what?! NO! I WON'T just stop there!

This has really frustrated me as a creator who puts pride and effort into the characters I create. I'm giving myself until the end of this 30 min playlist to put my thoughts together so forgive the mess it will inevitably cause.

I have seen the take many a times about Dangan games and it's characters that fans and enjoyers are upset their special guy didn't get the screentime they deserved due to whatever reason; It's understandable really. You see a character that has such potential in your eyes its a shame its all wasted away. But I have seen the idea thrown around that the lack of care for a majority of characters' deaths and roles in the story is based on the sheer number of bodies and stories to tell. With so many characters there would never be enough room to allow all of them to flourish before they die! That's just the curse of these types of stories.

I am here to tell you that is BULLSHIT! It's bullshit and I refuse to believe it!

I, for the longest time, have hated the writing of the dangan games. It has always seemed sloppy, rushed, and far too drawn out for its own good. And no, that's not because the trials can be a little funky and rough around the edges when it comes to details. Though, that does coorelate to the negativity I have towards them as a whole. No.

I full-heartedly believe what is to blame is the free-time events. In Dangan 1, it was a fun gimick. Theres a large cast of characters, it only makes sense that a select few would stick out to the player as an interesting one, with a desire to learn more about them.

Shoddy writing of THH aside, I do feel it was a bit of a bandaid on the issue of a too-large cast. If there were optional ways to spend more time with certain characters, they didn't need to spend all that valuable plot time giving them exposition and relevance! The players can find the relevance on their own!

Except... Instead of using the plot time they saved for making a better, more cohesive story, all they did was fill it with dead air, bloated trials and a clear favoritism for the few remaining survivors. (IE in THH Byakuya, Kyoko, Makoto (obv hes the mc I can't complain there.)) Instead of focusing on the group as a whole, its dynamics amongst the survivors at the time, the plot instead magnets to favorites in an attempt to make you like them more.

I know its been mentioned a million times, but the game makes it incredibly hard at times to imagine these characters as once being friends.

(I will say from what I have seen of the next two games they do remedy this at least a little bit, with the group dynamic at least being tolerable to borderline good in v3 (yes before you come for me goodbye despair was good too.))(it also does seem, imo, to be a problem specifically with THH, as the next two DO do a better job at characterization, aside from the rogue one or two "mystery" characters that are put WAY too much emphasis on. (cough cough Kokichi, Rantaro, Kyoko, Byakuya to an extent) Most of whom I don't really care for due to that specific emphasis put on them. Not that their characters are bad, the games just reaaaallly want the player to care about these guys. Which makes me not want to.

Back to individuality.

The argument of a too-large cast as the reasoning for characters being left behind in terms of narrative importance, i feel, would be easily remedied by removing free time events entirely. No more backstory exposition dumps and underwear gifts for friendship points. No more mono-mono machine. If the writers were instead FORCED to give each character their time in the limelight, if they were forced to actually give a shit about each individual personification as much as those freetime events lead you to believe, then the plot would grow to accommodate.

Half the shit in the trails is unnecessary. Half the shit in the plot is unnecessary. Half of it is pandering, or shipping bait or funny haha jokes! We're so quirky!

The plot needs to care about your characters as much as the writers do. Which should be as much as your audience does. And if it doesn't. if the plot only cares about giving the audience a reaction, or if it only cares about its surface level motivations and schemes, then all you're going to get is surface level, unmotivated, wasted potential characters.

Now. I've ragged on about dangan for a bit. Does that mean I hate the games, the stories and the characters? Hell no. Of course not. If I did, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't spend my time making fanart and writing fanfiction. I like the games. They're interesting, funny at times. The writing has its moments of sincerity. It's made me cry once or twice. I LOVE the ending to goodbye despair. I think its the best in the series by far.

I guess what I mean to say in the ending of all this, the TLDR if you will, is that the dangan games COULD have made the characters work. It could have made you believe each one was special and important to the story. If it cared enough to. It's no excuse, though.

(Also yes this is about Taka and how he was robbed. You could say the same about a fair few characters. I just spend hours a day thinking about his character anways so this is it's natural conclusion.

[the-s1lly-corner]

Pocky game with the knd villains

I am going insane with these repeating prompt group posts I'm sorry everypony

Characters: father, spankulot, stickybeard, knightbrace, cuppa joe, toiletnator, mr fizz

Notes: reader is GN, bonus hcs of who's favorite flavor is what, admin has only tried the og and cookies n cream though <\3

CWs: none

FATHER

this man has never heard of a pocky or the game so youre going to need to brief him on whats going on

open to playing the game with you! probably only thinks its just the one flavor but i think if he were opened up to all of them... i think he would still be a fan of the original flavor!

too hot... he kind of melts the chocolate after a minute.. :( it leads to both of you needing to go faster before theres a mess on your hands

likes the concept doesnt like the reality given the above... :(

hes also a little competitive so hes likely going to make it a goal to beat you to the middle- briefly forgets that the game tends to end with a kiss

not that that hes complaining, though

SPANKULOT

loves when you put two sticks in your mouth and pretend theyre fangs, he thinks its really cute!! especially if you try to mimic his accent and general speaking habits!

i can see him being a fan of the original flavor!

very slow eater, you might beat him to the middle before hes even halfway done with his side of the stick

hes just not that fast of an eater is all!

but with some encouragement he might be able to make himself go faster! definitely the one whos more likely to get flustered from the game

hes confident enough, but there is some obvious shake as he meets you... hes buzzing with excitement is all!

KNIGHTBRACE

not at all interested in the game once you explain what a pocky stick is :(

the only one who actually turns you down because of his whole anti candy thing

i mean he literally participates in a dangerous and intense scavenger hunt game JUST to destroy some cupcakes, and the only sugary thing we know he folds for is taffy

turns you down and most likely makes a comment on how bad the treat is for your teeth

no favorite flavor, either, for obvious reasons

CUPPA JOE

loooooooves the original but i can see him being a fan of the almond one! maybe matcha as well! can see him dunking the sticks into coffee! sounds good in theory... might try that next time i get some pocky..

doesnt know about the game but hes on board the second you explain what it is and what to expect

knowing him he might just go straight to kissing the second the pocky is in your mouths.. too bad the stick hitting the back of your throats is far from a pleasant feeling...

it... might be better to split the box with him and give him some regular kisses- hes a little too hyped up on caffeine to not just... go bonkers

STICKYBEARD

oh he definitely knows what pocky are as well as the game, hes been in the sugar business for a while hes seen some people make games with treats before... doesnt have a favorite flavor by the way, he thinks theyre all solid!

down with playing the game with you, if youre both already together or aware of each others feelings hes going to be teasing you and making side comments about the whole thing

as long as you dont pay much mind to his beard tickling your face, the game goes smoothly!

i dont think he would steal your half of the stick or demolish his side, the man can practice self control! besides, theres more sticks in the box! no need to rush things!

TOILETNATOR

ooooooooooh the second you offer to play the game with him hes all over it! when? how many rounds? right here right now? its actually really sweet with how excited he is!

looks like a banana flavor enjoyer but i can see him also liking the strawberry!

gets a little too excited so the round doesnt last that long

but i can also see him freezing in the moment because wooooooow he cant believe this is really happening!

if he could hed have a bunch of hearts popping in the air around him after you meet in the middle

basically begs to do it again and he gets super excited when you bring some pocky home

MR FIZZ

doesnt know about the game but he knows about the treat! has tried some of them! he looks like a cookies n creme enjoyer but i can also see him being a fan of the almond!

slow and steady, hes competitive but hes not going to slam the stick down his throat just to win or to get the kiss

its not his first choice for a cute couples game but hes not going to shoot you down

thinks its amusing that you get flustered from the game, if you do

especially since youre the one who brought it up in the first place

generally a positive interaction, as an aside unrelated to the prompt/post i can definitely see him sharing a drink with you- same cup two straws kind of deal

[possiblylando]

My hopes for the fallout TV show are not high.

Enough time has passed for me to talk about this in full since my thoughts have had time to solidify. As you probably know images (w/ descriptions) for the fallout tv show and the trailer itself released a few days ago. So I'll start with the good because this is primarily going to be a doompost rant afterwards. 1. The Sets, Costumes, Make-up, Props, Atmosphere, All of it is AMAZING. it looks GREAT. If the only metric to judge this on were those alone then this would be an easy 8/10-10/10. 2. I like the music used it fits fallout and its cool in the trailer. 3. theres a dogmeat in it thats cool theres always gotta be one of those its tradition 4. They thankfully seem to be doing away with the fallout 4 "trapped in the 50s" garbage they went with judging off the footage of the bombs dropping they showed.

And thats about it for my praises. Because this looks like it's going to be a lore dumpster fire. So lets start with the issues 1. This takes place in LA, California. You must be aware what other fallout properties all took place in that general sort of area.

and from those games theres a very important faction completely absent from these trailers. The NCR is completely fucking missing. I have had no luck finding any traces of them despite the fact people have posted pictures of their flag in the background of some shots I can not find it. The fact the NCR is just gone is a very bad sign. Maybe if I'm to be optimistic the reason is because they want to attract fallout 4 fans so they just showed the stuff from that game? 2. The Brotherhood of Steel. They just should not be on the west coast. They're an east coast faction with their remnants in the west being weak and scattered. They should not have an entire armed paramilitary force at the ready with somehow a second prydwin and I know it isn't the prydwin from fo4 its like some sister ship that happens to look exactly the same somehow. Which is a whole other can of worms because iirc they made the prydwin out of the remains of the enclave mobile base they sieged in the fo3 post game. 2b. The Brotherhood seems to be breaking their very own rules and lore. Now I want you to look at this image;

Off the bat nothing seems wrong with it, right? That guy in all black is a squire. Accompanying a knight. If they're just apart of a group then fine but these two ranks should not be put together if the squire is working under the knight. The brotherhood's entire chain of command is EXTREMELY important with the only times its ever broken are exceptions for the player themselves. Incase you're a normal person who just blew up their bunker in nv; The Brotherhood's chain of command is basically: "You can only command those one rank directly below you and only take orders from someone directly above you." So the elder can only command paladins and paladins only command knights ect. This is so important you can get exiled for breaking this rule. 3. Mutant Overseer in a control vault.

I doubt I need to explain why this makes no sense. 4. This is JUST megaton. Why is it in LA?

It could turn out to be really good but it seems like they only played fallout 4 and maybe skimmed a wiki cause there seem to be quite a few contradictions to the main franchise especially since this isn't an AU, this is CANON to the mainline universe.

[stranger-rants]

i try not to stereotype but its always wild to me when antis say billy would call them a slur while openly having steve as their fave or being a st//eddie because like,,,,,,

steve is the rich jock in the 80s, his parents 100% have membership to the country club, im like 90% sure theyd support reagan considering their financial situation, his dad loves a good game or tennis or even badminton if he wants to be a bit spontaneous, they definitely shop at whatever the us version of waitrose is, his parents have their own person tailor and if their outfits arent at least $100 they wont be wearing them outside and that extends to steve, they have definitely either used a slur and/or done that weird talking around it the "oh you know, those people who prefer embroidered tea cosies" or whatever.

like i dont want to say that steve would just parrot whatever his parents say and would just internalise their opinions, because obviously thats not true on most cases. but at the same time, theres a lot of psychological studies showing that kids do learn from their parents.

and weve already seen steve calling someone a slur on screen. i cant remember if it was queer or faggot, but he was also parroting the rhetoric that gay men are predators who prey on young boys. like where the fuck else did he get that rhetoric from? and even if it wasnt his parents, steve seems to have believed it enough to remember it and parrot it back at jonathan.

id like to think that steve wouldnt call me a slur, especially post-s3 steve, but its fucking wild to me that the "billy would call me a slur" crowd entirely ignore the everything about steves character.

like im sorry buddy, but if pre-s3 steve saw me, a trans man with tits too large to bind who goes out of his way to look as queer as possible, im pretty sure hed call me a whole myriad of slurs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ meanwhile i dont think billy would because hes a cis dude who purposefully presents more feminine. wed probably just have a chill conversation about judas priest or id introduce him to soda stereo.

and anyway its not like know if steve agrees with his parents or not since he never gets any development whatsoever now that hes relegated to group mom

Everyone learns from their parents in one way or another. Steve called Jonathan “Queer” which is what makes it so ironic that fans claim he’s such a great ally and/or that Billy would hate crime them. Quite honestly, given the amount of homophobic rants I have to hear from teenager boys on a regular basis in the year 2023, it wouldn’t shock me if any of the beloved male characters were homophobic. I don’t see Billy as being more or less understanding, but I do think Billy just doesn’t care enough about other people to be out there committing hate crimes. The only time Billy cares what other people say or do is when it puts him at risk

[mekatrio]

so glad my sister isnt home so i can loud and weird in peace but goddddd LUKE and ASCH..... and yknow i cant agree w the ppl who say that asch is static while luke is dynamic bc like, yes i understand where this point of view is coming from cuz luke has had Drastic character development arguably the most dramatic of any jrpg protag ever, its what hes known for and what any tota fan will never (rightfully) shut up abt, and compared to luke's development asch just seems like hes angry angry angry from the very start to the very end but like... yes, yes on the surface level it seems that way but no actually asch had changed a lot throughout the game, like he went from avoiding natalia and anyone else from his former life for a whole 7 years, to willingly approaching natalia just to comfort her, and he went from being the impulsive dude who immediately tried to kill luke at any opportunity he had, to actually communicating w luke and his group and actually waited for them at grand chokmah to relay information, and he went from blindly trusting van, being so easily manipulated by him, to turning on him completely.. like he actually has changed a lot, its just bc we see him so scarcely compared to all the other characters that it feels like he hasnt changed! and not just that but like, we are playing as luke, and maybe towards luke asch hadnt changed super significantly the way luke had towards him, but outside of luke, who knows how much he has changed... like his time w the gullwings, or noelle's pilot brother whose name i forgot, thats a whole other facet of his character that we know nothing abt!! cuz after being replicated, had asch ever worked w anyone outside of the order the way he had w those guys? theres just.... soooo much we dont know about asch :( 💔💔💔 but yeah NO i disagree i do think asch had changed the same way luke has changed... its just that asch is fundamentally unknowable as a character the way luke is to the player 😭

[chevvy-yates]

🖊 HIZUMI PLEASE!!!!!

You bring up the fact that I ALWAYS neglect Hizumi a whole damn lot. So thanks for wanting to know more about them in the first place. <3

Where do I start?

It's a bit weird gushing about this 'oc' that only exists as a cosplay still and that I see kind of as a self insert since Hizumi actually has my face and came to life through me as I wanted to do a Cyberpunk themed outfit over a year ago.

I can say, they will look probably a bit different than me in the game, when I create them; because they are half Japanese, half American (I am German) and I doubt this game has my face either. I have only a few facts I can share about them – not sure anymore if they already got posted here on tblr (in their about tag) or not, so gomen nasai if you came across them already! ———–—

Hizumi's oni mask is a keepsake from their little brother who's been too dumb (sadly) by joining the Tyger Claws and got murdered when he decided it was wrong and wanted to leave. Hizumi doesn't like Tyger Claws but thought it's best to dress like them as well so they are harder to be seen. Their style also leans heavily on the Night City urban legend of "The Demon of Kabuki". Everyone fears this oni and many dress up like him and you never kown who is the real one, so Hizumi too, uses it for their advantages.

Hizumi likes to roam the realm of the supernatural and believes the spirits are talking to them. Chigasaki got interested in it very early when they were diving into the world of Japanese folklore full of gods and creatures such as oni and yokai. They believe to have had an encounter with the Kami Inari at their home shrine* in Kamakura that lies deep in the woods behind the hidden village. *Sasuke Inari Jinja — my favorite place, a shrine in/near Kamakura near Tokyo — deep in the woods behind the city (its more like a big town for me). It's so beautiful and feels mystic to me, however I assume most Japanese people think it might be rather scary as I remember having shown my pics to a group (who thankfully spoke German) and they were scared of how it looked there with all the fox statues because theres tones of them placed everywhere within and around the shrine in the forest.

They have trained with a sword ever since Hizumi was 4 years old because their father used to be a skilled sword master and smith. Hizumi comes from a historic city named Kamakura* — a city that used to be the de facto capital of Japan from 1185 to 1333 and the seat of the Kamakura shogunate. Many warriors found their rest in and around Kamakura. *I've been in Kamakura 4x, full of historic stuff and too many shrines to take a look at. I can imagine very well that Hizumi grew up there in their childhood.

Hizumi is a lazy bitch. Only talks when necessary or needed, doesn't interfere much either. It's likely that Vijay or Ryder have to give them an exact order to do something — it's like when you enter a taxi in Tokyo and can't tell the driver the exact location, he won't start driving. You'll spot Hizumi mostly sitting or lying around being lazy but still observing. In battle however Hizumi is fast (makes use of sandevistan) and very skilled in using their katana.

They also like to be up on high buildings. It's where they feel safest and inapproachable in the city. Down in the streets there is only danger around you all the time called daily life. Up high on a skyscraper, they've got peace.* So, Hizumi likes to travel mostly over rooftops and is a huge fan of chilling on fire escape stairs, likely to observe enemies from above and also enter jobs this way if it's not in open space. *My inspiration for that comes from Shiey – a pretty well known urbexer who does youtube series exploring mostly lost places and climbing up high building without any secure ropes but also does journeys from there to there and even produces his own music videos. Shiey does that what I'd love to do most. be free from all this daily shit. I love his mindset and thought it fits perfectly for Hizumi.

———

I definitely want to bring Hizumi into the game but I've been mostly waiting for one sided cyberware to be made as I gave Hizumi only a one sided eye cyberware (which is available now since a few months), but I'm also struggling with what body to give them as Hizumi is nonbinary — I don't see her as female, neither as male and neither of the bodies currently available does really fit (I'll likey have to use vanilla female with flat chest) and then the next problem awaits me; their hairstyle … and the clothings at last. it's a pain.

But Hizumi is part of the big CP story, they do not appear all the time as they are not a full team member and travel a lot between Night City and Toyko but I want them to be a pixel char as well. And the same amount I'd love to take more "real" pics as well because I have a bunch of clothes that fit to them and I have my copycat demon of kabuki outfit as well (but currently none to take pics of me and I'm too lazy to do it myself).

So I think that was gushin or "information" enough for a certain while?

Also, since I didn't want to distrupt the numbering above I'll attach some pics of the Sasuke Inari Jinja shrine I talked about here the end of this post. Since they are also my own pics, my usual disclaimer attached as well: —

Please do not repost any of my art.

[rayn1lazd]

So, why do you like sunburn?

Ah well lets see here

I like it because these two characters can be their own characters, or just very simple f/m pair something i Haven't seen in the media

When i joined the fandom i wasn't even big fan of shipping after some time spending and watching the whole game i kinda got interested on Sunny and Aubrey relationship, we get to see them in the swings and aubs seems to be very comfortable around sunny after that fight they had and the first character in the group to notice that sunny is a bit pale and skinny and start to be very worried about his well being like "u should go outside more" "i hope u can find peace etc etc" and her constantly peaking on sunny in cemetery and the hobbeez, she also wanted to keep in contact with sunny??(going on the tree house)which seems to be very personal request

And after a while we got full picture what is there relationship before the incident

First we got the info that sunny gave time to aubrey whenever she needed to vent about her problems or just them vibing together

And the SWINGS? oh man the swings was the time i said myself "yahp theres something going on these two"

She even ask sunny first, if she liked the color pink raincoat she had and expect me not thinking she doesn't have a crush on him when they were kids???

And also i dont think omocat just did these sad transition of them in the swings as an accident

But overall i just like pairs that has that has this mystery stuff going on them, which gave a lot of space for ideas and cool hc in it

This might be a very messy explanation but i will make one later, if i have a mood

[petorahs]

pq2 thoughts after finishing it!:

i think. it is a g. game. it is a persona game i will admit!

no but srs i think its good if youve never played a persona game which i assume is why its on 3ds only. it really does feel like discount persona with all of the last three cast thrown in? and some of the gameplay improvements (this game's gameplay aged better than fes and p2's LMAOO) i guess its a compromise to reach fans who've never actually played the main games cause they dont own a playstation console or something.

at the same time it makes no sense for "new fans" to play because you need at least some background knowledge of the prev characters and plot to care.

in my case i knew everything abt p3 and p5, only osmosis knowledge of the plot of p4 so i ended up using the p4 cast the least in my playthrough :( so theres that. not worth playing if u dont care abt the other casts imo

...so we agree the characters are the selling point here, its advertised as a mega crossover and whatever but. people complaining that theyre "watered down" to base traits or even traits they didnt have in the first place are Right LOL except for a scant few characters who get a lot of expansion. but for the most part none of them are themselves (like yusuke... 😔.... akihiko.... aki not as bad as yusuke but they have the same writing problem)

no one expects the characters to rly individually shine when theres so many ofc, the game even pokes fun at the "limited screen time" joke but like. what else is there to this? 🤔 well

character interactions! those were good. everyone expected detective princes meetup to be really great but i loved the other pairs like haru and mitsuru (heirs with distant dads...), and the PQ OC girl with futaba :] (introvert friends!!)(theyre like sucrose and collei in this year's windblume if you go there)

speaking of akechi though. yea he's part of the list of characters that surprisingly did not get butchered and in fact expanded upon in this game. aside from akechi it's P3 FeMC.

others i liked were P5 MC (his dialogue choices are SO out there), shinjiro aragaki, ken amada, yukiko amagi maybe yosuke hanamura and P4MC but their personalities just stayed the same instead of getting possible new insight?

i liked velvet room guys too theyre goated frfr! yes including marie. even i was surprised (probably cause akechi gets to poke fun at her and the twins hdjdhdhd)(cute)

i cant put P3 male MC anywhere cause i will always be biased towards him 😔🫰 (he was great btw)

but the crow character expansion in particular intrigued me and leads me to accept this game as canon like some ATLUS USA reps intended. akechi: stripped away of his obligations is a cunning, introspective and overall respectable young man and the game showcased all of his core traits well. he purposefully isolates himself from the main group and gets called out on it, consistently is the one that makes the most sense in discussions, gets various little moe moments... he honestly seems like he doesnt know what to make of all this forced bonding with strangers but he cant help to indulge anyway. 😭 he's vocal in discussions about their plans but a passive :) face in the background during fun moments until he's addressed or curious. the way he furthers the narrative along like they wouldnt get as far as they did without him i feel. but between all of that he was the main character to me.

the end scene where he seems regretful that he has to leave and go back to his revenge plot.... hurts. because for all intents and purposes we just saw akechi if he didnt have all that baggage and was just allowed to exist as himself. a smart guy with a whole life ahead of him. but he didnt choose that.

😔

oh god that emoji is huge but anyway. FeMC!! ^_^ the problems of toxic positivity being addressed in her arc was great. they really tried to give her as much love as possible without being too happy (persona games tend to make their characters suffer anyway to even things out) and it was great! her writing reminds me of kasumire's mental illness but with less romance tease pandering.

ah yes and the obligatory Persona side game OC... hikari and nagi. honestly wished they didnt exist as much as i liked hikari's thing 😔 it got old and outright cringe man im sorry like surely the devs could come up with something better than this?? way to not explain enlil and mess with the in-universe power scaling too LMAO. 2/10 is being generous!

anyway its a fairly short game in persona standards so i cant really say it's time wasted when i got so many character interaction crumbs..... i guess i lucked out by liking the characters that i do instead of ones that kinda got shafted in this. (except for aki but 😔 i just kinda accepted his blown out of proportions awkwardness outside of P3)

it's..... a 6/10 from me overall! music and velvet room attendants + nanako cameo DLC carried

[eerie-asterisks]

hey, are there any enstars twinks that r just fluffy and wholesome?

honestly??? theres not really any enstars group or character thats completely free of something either horrifically sad or fucked up. but ill try and give a recommendation!!

so, i asked a discord server for help on whod theyd recommend and the general group consensus was that mitsuru is probably the character thats the most normal

hes a member of ra*bits (my second favourite group actually!!) who are generally the most normal group most of the time (if you ignore nazuna and his backstory....) they have their strange and devastating moments (most of which nazuna is responsible for...) but they have a lot of silly fun moments as well!!! (really this can be said for every group/character, but ra*bits are generally known for being the most wholesome in the current time period)

heres a photo of their whole group <3 (left to right: mitsuru, hajime, nazuna, tomoya)

mitsuru is very high energy, he loves dashing around and eating bread!! i also think hes got some of the best vocals in the game (you can find his solo here!)

heres some photos of him enjoying some bread....

and also some of him being a general energetic menace skjfnhsd

but really enstars is mostly just pick your poison. no character is fully innocent, everyone has moments where theyre the hero of their own story and where theyre the villain of someone elses, its really just a matter of what can you put up with and understand when it comes to favourites. but of course, there are characters that are generally guiltier than others.

we can look to eichi as a great example here (especially since i know youre at least slightly familiar with him), hes often condemned by newer fandom members just learning about his past (and even some older fans as well) as horrific and irredeemable (and tbh i cant exactly blame them), but even he has moments where hes the hero to someone. (i would so desperately love to tell you about his complicated relationship and history with wataru and how they essentially saved each other but thats a VERY long story and requires some understanding of a very important lore event known as "the war" which contains VERY heavy topics so. maybe another time.)

but yeah. while there are some enstars characters that are generally more wholesome than others, in the end, every character has strengths and flaws and has wronged another cast member to at least some degree.

[mister-kisser]

I just got done with my first playthrough of The Forest (2018) and I liked it alot. It was a really cool take on both open-world survival and survival horror. I feel most open-world survival games these days don't really havr very threatening stakes. Like nothing really drives an anxiety in you that you won't survive the day. And the survival horror genre as a whole isn't really what my interpretation of survival in games is. To me survival is finding and managing the basic needs for humam survival: food, water, and shelter. Most games I see that are called survival horror don't have you worrying about any of that. They focus more on managing ammo or health or just inventory space. The Forest is the first game I've played that I actually consider a true survival horror, because it has you managing your basic human needs and its *fucking scary*. The main threat to your survival doesn't present itself immediatley. The plane crashes and you just wander out into this northern forest landscape, and the only threat to your survival seems to be your thirst, hunger, and exposure. But you feel like somethings not right. You hear animal calls that don't sound like any animal you've seen before. You hear bushes being rustled just out of sight. You see movement in the tree line. This sense of dread may have been different for me since I knew what this threat was going in, so I can't say for sure the experience of someone going in blind. But my prior knowledge didn't really lessen the impact of the reveal. It might happen during the day while your building or gatheringbor hunting, gradually coming out of the bushes to observe. It might be at night my the campfire, it running past into the light just long enough for you to tell what it is. The cannibals revealing themselves will be shock when you first play, no matter how much about the game yoy knew going in. I fucking love that. I love how they don't just attack you at first sight, but start out by just observing, seeing if theres opportunity for an easy kill. I love how when they start to attack in groups, they fan out and surround you and attack all at once. I love how they have a sense of self preservation, backing off or running away when they're sufficently injured or one of their buddies is killed. Their behavoir is so fascinating, so wonderful. I used to think The Forest was a bit of a tuber game, seeing it so much on youtube lets plays. But its so much more than that. It's really a revolutionary take on survival games, and is the closest I've felt to fight or flight in a game. But now I make the switch to its flaws, which did not completley ruin my enjoyment, but were certainly annoying. There are a surplus of glitches to experience. Nothing really game breaking, but plenty that are annoying. Running into a bush or rock with the log sled sends you 15 feet in the air and takes a chunk out of your health when you land. When chopping up a body in a cave, the right leg *consistently* dissapears into the floor. Placement of buildings can be really wacky at times. The list goes on. The cave layout also feels wuite confusing. If exploring them wasn't required to finish the game this would be fine, but I was left running in circles trying to find what I needed to finish. There is a map of the caves you get that reveals itself as you explore, but it doesn't really help. Its not quite consistent with the actual layout and doesn't differentiate between the layers of the caves. I got to a point where I was frustrated and just wanted to finish the game so I went on the wiki to figure it out, which is not something you really want to do in a game with a mysterious story. Going on the wiki leaves you vunreable to spoilers, which I got plenty of. It's dissapointing to have ended it that way. But again I really enjoyed the game as a whole. The survival aspects, being under constant observation and assault by the cannibals, and just overall atmosphere makes it for me.

[frogletscribe]

give us big OC lore dumps plz!

Lmao okay! 😂 (I really takes nothing to convince me lol)

I think maybe I'll do a general one here for Anthe/Tenak/Kala, and then if theres questions/more specifics to add later I'll make another post.

Also very few of my OCs generally cross over with each other, but that's not set in stone. Everything is a constant work in progress and subject to change!

So specifically for the things surrounding Anthe, Tenak and Kala, we gotta keep in mind that the whole thing is based on the initial concept and trailers of Frontiers of Pandora, but that's about the full relation to the game as things are now. Their concept is extremely similar to the Sarentu but they are not Sarentu themselves.

8 children, most from different clans/villages from each other, were all stolen from their homes at varying ages, and brought to TAP for re-education and training under RDA guidelines. For the most part, these kids were just straight up kidnapped, and in general their clans/families may or may not still be out there.

This is a separate branch of TAP, focused less on human/Na'vi societal integration, and more on creating Na'vi soldiers loyal to the RDA. It is run by John Mercer and Angela Harding mostly from a distance, as a 'backup' to the main 'Ambassador Program' created in conjunction with Dr. Alma Cortez. Alma does not know about this branch of TAP.

Tenak and Kala are the oldest children to be taken. A year later, Anthe would arrive. By the time Anthe arrives, most of the children have been there between 1-3 years

Tenak Kala and Anthe both the oldest of the group, and the most still connected to their culture (which is not saying much).

Tenak and Kala are originally from the same clan, but didn't know each other well before being taken.

All 8 children are stripped of everything they own and made to fully assimilate into an extremely militaristic atmosphere. They are trained for combat as a close knit military squad and regularly sent out on training missions to help the RDA.

Within the group there is somewhat of a hierarchy, Tenak being the leader, Kala the group medic/mother figure, and Anthe as Tenak's second in command. The 5 remaining members sort of fall in after them with varying roles.

The group has a small hand full of human 'caretakers', most of which left once the youngest of the children hit about 10 years old. The only remaining 'caretakers' after this point were 'Teacher' and two other (currently unnamed) assistants. Teacher's main role was as more of a supervisor while the children were not in active drill training, as well as teaching them english.

Right before the Great War, Anthe and Tenak are brought into a briefing with John Mercer and Colonel Quaritch, who give them the order to infiltrate the Omatikaya and kill Jake Sully.

The next day, before the group is able to set out on this mission, the facility comes under attack and an order goes out to purge everything, including the group of Na'vi. Instead of allowing them to be killed, Teacher leads them to cryopods to hide, promising to be right back once it was safe and let them out. Teacher is killed in action before they are able to release the Na'vi from the cryopds.

15 years pass, at which point only 2 of the 8 pods open, releasing Tenak and Kala. The pair try opening the other pods but are unsuccessful. (At this point i am undecided if the majority of the pods malfunction and their occupants should be considered dead or not, but for now we are going with that)

Anthe remains trapped in their pod for another 5 years. They awake alone and confused.

And thats sorta where we are! There is more on like an individual level for Tenak Kala and Anthe, but those are the bits that are in the most "re-work purgatory" on my end.

Other OCs i have that have not been posted yet include an Avatar Driver that came with Jake and Norm to Pandora, and a bunch of assorted Fan-Clan shenanigans I haven't quite fully figured out yet, but one dayy

[riddlersbatsybat]

My personal AK!Riddler headcannons. Some of these play into my story so theyre biased, but I tried to keep those aspects out as much as I could.

Riddler has never had a seasoned/fully cooked meal. He mentions in the game he makes himself healthy meals, but the VA mentioned he probably doesnt eat much. The reason I think he doesnt properly cook his meals or seasons them is because hes so infacuated on Batman, he doesnt have time to be patient. He either completely undercooks his food, or overcooks it. On the rare occassion he cooks it correctly, its bland and tastes like nothing.

Firm believer hes petty and has thrown tantrums at the other Rogues. Hes extremely petty, so people dont mess with him much, but, when he throws tantrums he physically has to stop himself from looking like a fool. He only does it in front of Batman, but because hes projecting his fatherly issues on to him.

Riddler only lets people hes REALLY close to call him Eddie. He doesnt have friends but has goons?? So the closest to friendship would be Catwoman. He doesnt get upset when she calls him Eddie, which is his real name. Batman has to call him Nygma, Sir, Mr. Nygma. Could be because of his hinted relationship with her, who knows.

I believe that when Catwoman showed interest in Batman, Riddler did get really jealous. Its one thing to try to move on with another rogue, and another to date your arch nemesis. It was really a punch to his ego when he was pretty much replaced by Batman. The whole trial is about proving to Catwoman that Batman won't be there for her, so 👀👀. I don't really ship them, but its obvious theres something else going on between them.

Riddler definitely has Twitter, Instagram, or some other variation of that. Ever since his #CancelBatman thing, hes had to use bots to drown out the hate. Does he delete the website? Absolutely not. He needs to prove it doesn't get under his skin!

Due to Riddlers projections, I think riddler just wants his fake parental figure to play with him. Explain how a damn race car track is a riddle. Hes playing cars with his dad. Not that im infintizing him in any way- but- what other explanation is there for him to make a giant sewage racecar track without a riddle attached to it. Yes catwomans life is on the line, and theres other actual puzzles, so what the hell is this about?

I like to think that Riddler does have some admiration for the batman. He mentions to Batman that he should take care of his car more, so to some degree he admires the his tech.

Harley Quinn is the only one thats been able to beat Riddler at chess. No one else played with him, but after that he stopped wanting to prove his intellectual superiority among the Rogues. No one really cares about that except him and it keeps him up at night.

Scarecrow has a soft spot for him. Yes he still treats him like he would everyone else, but he just treats him slightly better than everyone else.

Riddler probably has a childhood hamster that died in a horrific way. He loves how hamsters look but hates the idea of owning one from how traumatizing it was. Not that he abused his hamster or anything, from what I've read they tend to die horrible ways for no reason.

I think he loves the little group of people that stan him, but finds them extreamely annoying. Yes, he enjoys the love and attention, but when fangirls 16 year olds claim to be his girlfriend, or grown women claim to be his wife? Not so much. He also doesnt like when his fans plan an attack and try to give Riddler credit for some minor idiotic plan. It hurts his reputation.

He hates being around large crowds of people. He hates being around stupid people, unless the attention is for him then he doesn't mind.

Probably knows the court of owls exists, but thinks theyre full of bologney.

Enjoys hot chocolate more than coffee, but this one was obvious.

He probably tried making a robot family at some point, with a mom robot, dad robot, and brother robot. It didnt work out

Workplace is a mess, but its his mess. He knows where everything is.

He hates the idea of being alone, but does nothing about it. He probably has cried himself to sleep, not only from Batmans trauma, but also his issues that he can't fix.

Lgbt supporter. Batman villains are queer coded, and has shown he has two lesbian henchmen, so I don't think he'd have a reason to be homophobic.

Disliked Joker the most out of the Rogues. Not only because of the spotlight hed get, but because he was rude to him a few times.

Asexual. Never been interested in sex, never will be, unless its for reproduction purposes, but even then he wont get into bed with anyone. He wants his genes to be passed down, but it would be with someone equally smart that fits his description of a perfect woman, but no icky stuff. He'll be a sperm donor but thats as far as it will get.

Not used to being physical. Hates being hugged, touched, or slightly bumped into. He doesnt seem to get much physical contact with anyone aside from metal and some occasional firm handshakes.

to add to that, his fight or flight mode activated once when Harley jumped on his back trying to surprise him. He gave her a black eye and immidiately appologized. joker was still alive.

has had girlfriends before, never liked any of them.

Riddler secretly calls Scarecrow his work best friend.

Doesn't do riddles during Rogues meetings because no one answers him.

[skzfairies]

about yuri’s idol friendships outside of ateez!

lia from itzy (jiri)

they met while training in JYP

they would always pratice dancing and singing together, and spent most of their free time together and would often go to karaoke booths or just sit infront of rivers and relax

lia would translate for yuri often since korean was still very new to her and it was difficult to find to study it while being a trainee

they always call each other during their solo vlives and compliment each other and embrass each other stop it 😭😭 they are so cute

they made a promise to see every new marvel movie together, or watch the nee series together, this promise as not been broken yet awhhhh

they make sure to always support each other, and always make sure to promote each others activity, they are each others #1 hype woman

yuri was fan girling the whole time itzy was on stage during mama, girl was having the time of her LIFE

ryujin from itzy (ryu-mi)

these two met through lia, and lia regrets introducing them to each other sm now 💀

these two are LOUD

basically inseperable omg

lia claims that ryujin is stealing her best friend and that she had yuri first

and yuris like LADIES 🤭, theres enough of me to go around 🙄✋

ryujin and yuri are literally so chaotic oh my god

they did a vlive once, and oh my god

they got yelled at for being way too loud, and they also got scolded for giving gross tmi’s 😭

they are literally soulmates

yuri said that she’s happiest when shes with ryujin :(

and ryujin will always make sure to mention yuri in her vlives

STOP get me a friendship like ryujin and yuri’s 😭

yuqi from g-idle (song-mi)

they both met during isac

yuri kinda got um, she got lost 🤭

and she ran into yuqi and was like, freaking out

yuqi was like, girl ??? you okay?

yuri was about to cry at this point stop it 😭😭 she felt like a lost little kid

“i just lost my group, haha, i’ll find them dw dw!”

yuqi was like, 🥺 (i hate this emoji I JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS THIS OKAY) , this girl is so cute let help her

yuqi grabbed her hand and deadass walked around the whole track with her until she found her group 😭

they laughed at how similar their names were and both talked about how ugly their track suits were 😭

they exchanged numbers after that, and yuri like, fell in love

she would not shut up about yuqi the rest of the day 🙄✋

get this girl a gf plz

whenever they are free though they always meet up for lunch or go shopping together

yuqi is the only one yuri goes in person shopping with 😭😭

yuqi is also so tiny nxt to yuri oh my god its so cute

jeno from nct dream (jeri)

um, no idea how these two met 😭

both yuri and jeno cant remeber i-

they are so stupid goodbye

they are pretty sure they met in the halls of a music show, or maybe they met at isac

they just, became friends ?

both of them competed in the pubg during isac

jeno was the first person yuri killed LMAOOO

jeno released an embarssing photo of yuri for that one 😭😭

it was her asleep in a cafe she was still cute though

kinda got in a dating scandal for that 🤭

but both of them were like 🤢🤢 never in our lifetime

literally argue ALL THE TIME

they bickered over what flavor of ice cream was the best during vlive over phone for 20 minutes 😭

hongjoong had to call her to get her to hang up plz

they dont really hang out a lot but they play video games together when they can and often help each other out of writers block

changbin from stray kids (yubin)

these two met during kingdom

they both did the rap unit together, and hongjoong literally had to carry yuri out of the studio to get her to leave 😭😭

miss yuri was literally star struck OKAY

she would randomly ask him questions that weren’t even on topic STOP

“yeah i think we should add more bass-“

“how do you have such big muscles changbin 😟”

changbin was like 🤨 but also like 😎💪

was so happy when she figured out that he was born a day after her

“now you can be destined besties with mingi and i!”

changbin finds her so cute stop

before hongjoong and yuri had to leave they got in a super deep talk about music and how beautiful it is

hongjoong rudely interuppted them so they exchanged phone numbers to continue their lovely conversation 🙄✋

yuri always ask him if he feels like hes living a double life as a dwaekki.... texts him at least once a week that LMAO

a/n: yuri has a lot more idol friends than this, i might do a part two later or else this post will be so long 😭