#theres more lore to it but im not going to explain it now

[coriphallus]

DA: The Veilguard Spoiler review pt1 - Blood Magic

alright let's do this. let's write an in-depth review of veilguard. this will be long and this will be negative and i might eventually say some good things but everything i say will be undermined with a 'BUT'.

its now been around a week since i finished the game and had some time to parse my thoughts and this is why i didnt enjoy the game; NOT why you shouldnt.

so dragon age has a very special place in my heart and i am %100 the kind that has DAO as their favourite game. i have played these games religiously, and let me prefix this by saying i was not hyped for this game, i wont lie and say i wanted bw to succeed or i hoped the game would be good etc etc. if i liked the game, it would be a surprise. alas.

so theres multiple reasons for that, but the canary in the mine for me had been the announcement on blood magic, and yeah i was not shocked after DAI but i was still disappointed. so lets start with blood magic:

Blood Magic

DA lore has changed alot over time, and just like the media it took inspiration from (ASOIAF) i was under the impression that it used unreliable narrators deliberately, just as theyve poked fun at the concept with bethanys tits. it made sense then that the people telling these stories didnt know much about blood magic therefore they couldnt explain it fully but we've known some things for certain, from the text. blood magic uses blood as its source of power instead of lyrium (blood=life force), what constitutes as blood magic is open to interpretation (i.e phylacteries), multiple groups outside of the 'civilised society' such as chasind are not so staunchly against it, knowledge on it can be passed down from a mentor and that mentor usually happens to be a spirit. it can be used to enact control over people in a literal sense and thats considered by the narrative of all DA games to be more reprehensible than burning someone alive.

now i will derail this but i swear im going somewhere with it. i grew up in a country with majority white people, some blond, most with exposed hair who lived in big cities with cobblestone roads and snowy winters and starbuckses, and who would consider themselves westerners. some religious practices i know less about than most christians know about their holidays.

where my grandma lived was at the bottom of a high slope, and once a year when we went to visit her id see a thick trail of blood trickle down from the waterway to pool on her street, and at that dinner the family (and neighbours, sometimes) would bring a myriad of dishes and we'd feast. i would see butchers shops clean their curbs with buckets of water, mopping red tinted liquid down a drain. when i grew older and we were visiting my mothers village i watched the men subdue and kill a cow that we were going to eat that night. i watched them skin it and separate the meat from its bones, explaining what parts of an animal is used for which dishes because it was their craft and a young girl showed interest. as people we always live with the knowledge that our lives depend on death, whether it be a plant or an animal. existence is not moral and clean, and death is messy. getting blood stains out of a fabric once a month is the lived reality of more than half the human population.

i was not raised religious, nobody in my close family were, i didn't feel any sort of way when those men started to pray around the cow but i knew why they did it, even if it was performative for some, for the rest they had to show respect. the cow was meant to represent somebody you cared about, offering it in their stead symbolically. it needed to be respected, it needed to be butchered without pain. save from one serving of meat, as was tradition, were donated to the food banks.

now im sure some of you are thinking 'no matter how you slice it, its still a brutal act. made more brutal by the audience deriving some form of moral superiority' and yes, i used to think that too, because what is a religious practice for them is a show to me. but it is the norm where i grew up, and in the end a cow is dead regardless because we need to eat. and some people who needed to eat more than us got to eat too.

somewhere in germany news break out that some immigrants were practicing unethical and unsanitary butcherings, you see the footage of men in kufi and puffy pants and women covered completely in black sheets get ushered out by police. they shout some things in a foreign language, speaking the name of their foreign god. they show a censored room covered in blood and gore.

so i have to ask now, when you play veilguard and see venatori torturing and exploding a halla into a puff of red smoke which image does it bring to mind, what do you think of when you hear 'ritual sacrifice'? you may not have noticed this parallel but your brain sure did, as it has been noticing for your entire life and counting, the same reason you cringe at the barbarity of people consuming raw flesh, painting their foreheads with blood, killing animals you would pet. its alien, its gross, its wrong.

i cant play this game and take it seriously with its mask yanked off, gloating about its lack of nuance every step of the way. when you hit people red stuff comes out, red stuff bad. killing bad. murder bad. that it extends more sympathy to a fantasy deer than it ever allows for living breathing people of its universe, faceless and primitive.

in other DA games there were people over there somewhere who enslaved others, built their entire civilization on the ruins of gods they cannot comprehend, practiced bloody sacrifices and rituals that doomed the world for their own power, and even in their homeland they are nothing but canon fodder to be murdered and gawked at. their traditions, religion, entire culture is less than a set dressing, because whatever grosses you out are the bad apples, because the good ones cant be anything else and still derive sympathy from the audience.

and its true, you need to be an exceptional writer to make that work, especially if you dont have any real life experience to pull from. you need to stain your hands a little, and be prepared to be called dirty.

but i see it, i see those news reports everywhere i look in the game, i see the streets being cleaned and scrubbed so the tourists wouldnt call them backwards people, unclean, less than.

ive never played a game so repulsed by and is uninterested in its own universe than DAV, in every line of dialogue i can feel it trembling in fear. my companions tell me i dont need to watch a deer getting butchered, i can look away and proceed to electrocute hundreds of masked men some of whom are talking about comically evil things like patricide.

this has always been a point of contention in the medium of video games as the most prominent way to engage with the world has been through violence, and for me the DA franchise has always managed to tackle this by allowing its main character to be messy. yes, hawke cleaves thru countless faceless raiders but theyre also an illegal immigrant trying to get by with nothing to offer to the world than their violence. warden is deliberately recruited for that same violence, the only purpose of their existence is to fight as theyre made to shed everything else from their old life. and still, still you play these characters as they are allowed to grow, heal, carve out a little space for themselves where they can laugh and joke with their peers. it is juxtaposed to that darkness in their lives that makes those moments precious.

'what is good?' the games asked, and they answered 'doesn't matter, the world can be a better place with them in it'

veilguard asks 'what is good?' and answers 'you are.'

it doesnt matter whether blood magic is bad lore-wise (and that discussion is irrelevant to this decision made by the devs), because it needs to be narratively. like tabloid news the entire premise of the story is built on it. it needs to be inaccessible to and shunned by your party and rook because they need to be 'good' and in contrast, your enemies need to be 'bad'

and like dominoes it retroactively reframes the moral stance of every game in the franchise.

so, yes, i just laughed when i saw that announcement. i didnt know what else to do. but hang on to your knickers because it gets so much worse...

[saintforan]

Well now that you made it MLB I have to chant this, LOVE SQUARE LOVE SQUARE LOVE SQUARE. You know, for the extra brain rot. The fun dynamic of getting to draw two idiots pining and blushing around their crush in different scenarios without ever knowing.

ur so real for that anon, i won't lie, the love square is the main thing that got me HOOKED into MLB LMAOO so yea have it for sure that theres a love square here, and it takes the same direction as the series, although their dynamics are a lil bit different from it: made this chart to explain it better LOL

Down here is a bit of story about how they crushed on each other ir you are interested:

(im sorry for the amount of rambling that ur about to read here)

dogday crushed on catnap the day they met, nap joined the same hs dogday was in as a new student and dogday recognized him as this famous and rich engineer's (prototype cof cof) son, said son was well known to be the face of said engineer's company, and also was an insanely gifted and smart teenager. Well, another one of his atributes, although shadowed by his brain, was his very handsome and elegant appearance, so lets just say he was VERY attractive to dogday, and that made him interested, but it wasnt a full crush, yet.

Later on the day they both stayed late at hs for different reasons (long story short, dogday was on a club, catnap was finishing his admission process) and came out of it at the same time, catnap was waiting for someone to pick him up and dogday took it as oportunity to talk to him, cause catnaps cold robot-like personality was characteristic of him, but he wondered what his actual personality was like, so it's worth the try!

He went over to him and engaged into conversation, during this talk they realized they were unintentionally matching necklaces and well, that made them become friends easily, after this they became really good friends as they, although didn't have a lot in common, understood each other very well, and well after actually talking to him dogday developed a very big fat crush on catnap as he got to know he was actually really sweet when talking to a friend. From there on they became really really close, eventually they became best friends and dogdays crush on catnap got bigger the more he got to know him.

As for catnap, dogday was his first friend ever, all his life he was homeschooled because of his father wanting a child as smart as him that could inherit his company, and therefore never got to make any friends as he got basically forced to became insanely smart, he got sent to highschool because his father realized that his child didn't have any good social skills (not that his father considered that important, but he wanted his successor to be able to be a leader and without social skills thats impossible lol) and therefore sent him to study people lol.

When dogday came to him and they became friends he became very attached to him emotionally (sadly not in a romantic way) and therefore became best friends.

Now going into them as heroes! (If you read all the way here, I'm sorry for this amount of lore)

im going to refer to them as BC Catnap and LB dogday as i still dont know what their hero names should be lol (BC for black cat and LB for ladybug)

BC Catnap's crush on LB dogday is very much the same as the og chat noir and ladybug dynamic, but in this case BC Catnap crushed WAY harder than chat noir, to not make this post any longer, basically BC Catnap liked LB dogday on their first mission, he became attracted to the way LB dogday's hability as hero was, he admired him very much and that admiration evolved into romance bc at one point on their first mission, BC catnap got into a pretty dangerous situation and LB dogday saved him risking his own life, and after the mission was done LB dogday was pretty concerned for his well-being and handled him very carefully, and well, in poor catnaps life no one had cared for him that much before, so he fell for LB dogday's soft caring personality + the admiration he had for him before, he basically became LB dogday's N1 fanboy lmao.

From there on he became very flirty with LB dogday (the plagg effect strikes again, making his holders become sassier and flirtier) and he was very obvious with his feelings, LB dogday found the constant flirting annoying and therefore only considers BC catnap his work buddy cause he finds him way too annoying to be his friend, although with time they do became closer, and they start telling each other a bit about their personal lives without revealing their identities (Ex: LB dogday telling BC catnap about how hes crushed with his best friend ever since they met but although he pursues him romantically he doesn't want to push anything so he doesnt ruin their friendship, no, BC catnap doesnt mind that LB dogday is crushed on someone else, for him LB dogday is the crush he will love with all his heart no matter what bc he alr knows his feelings arent reciprocated, and hes alr with that but he keeps the flirting cause thats how he likes to be with his crush lol)

theres a lot more to this but this post is already REALLY LONG so i'll just keep till here

[dandysworldhcs]

Ok, watched the Catmeme Timeline videos. You're so right, Goob would be able to recite the entire lore verbatim. i firmly believe that he tortures Scraps and the media-literate book club with quotes. Shortly after escaping a Twisted, "Now that we have that out of the way, let me explain the Succeeds path out of the cat that wants to dismantle the U.S. government," and he's met with a cacophony of groans.

-Whatnot

IM GIGGLING me personally i think the book club would actually like.dissect the timeline.and find some deeper meanings and symbolisms in it

like for example on the "you can only choose one" section of the extended timeline the last choice is either a catgirl wife or keeping the cat thats accompanied you since forever but going back to the bomb launch, making it 'your final moments together'. you can choose eternal bliss and affection, or a fleeting, final moment with the one who's been by your side since the start. but, wouldnt the latter be eternal bliss as well ? wouldnt spending your final moments with your closest companion result in eternal bliss ? obv we know its not Really their final moment since the timeline continues after the bomb goes off but.you get it i feel like the book club is smart enough to look into it like that and though you Could argue its "not that deep" theyre having fun picking out all those hidden, heartfelt meanings. AND !! i think goob noticed those little details but just thought they were obvious and everyone saw them so he just.didnt look into it that much and just focused on the funny haha meme part of it. do you see my vision theres more stuff i could say about it however i just woke up -🔒🐾

[l-747]

FORSAKEN THEORY!!!! ⚠WARNING⚠: I am a crazy individual don't take me serious UNLESS YOU WANT TO.

Please read at your own risk because idk it might maybe be a really REALLY stupid theory that doesn't make sense idk im insecure abt sharing my crazy theories 😭😭😭

Alright, so, first of all, i wanna say that i base myself TOTALLY ENTIRELY on that one video of the game theorists about the Forsaken ARG. Here's the link btw: https://youtu.be/A8nCgsHb6TA?si=D7QL1OA4Nv_TbjzG So, OK, this Theory is absolutely based on the spectre, a bit of Elliot and TwoTime and their cult. Well, did y'all see that in the ARG, when you put the D8 C2 and those codesblahblah in the Buckshot Frenzy game that one message that appears when you knock on the door? well, the message is implied to be from Elliot, but theres the part of the message that goes like this:

"I am but a fractured soul, one who dared to stray too close to the sun and paid the price."

That part got my attention. Both because it sounds cool as hell but also because of the mention of the "sun". I'ts probably an analogue for something (i would think that it's an analogue for the Spectre, like in getting too close to a truth from the spectre due to curiosity/foolishness, but yk im kinda dumb so idk), but, i think of it literally as in the sun itself in Forsaken. And this is the part when i suddenly start thinking about TwoTime's lore because i was trying to learn everyone's lore bc im that much of a fan of Forsaken, and then i thought something when i found an image in pinterest.

TwoTime is in a cult that believed in resurrection, respawning, that believed in the Spawn. And the image that popped in my pinterest......

(If you wanna see where the spawn point came from, look at this tweet i found from searching where it came from lol: https://x.com/Dynabroth/status/1829209224729297067)

It's the sun. The sun is the spawn. And this made me go back to the message from Elliot. "Stray too close to the sun", if i take that literally, even though it's actually an analogue for the spectre (i think), wouldn't that mean that the Spectre is the spawn the cult believe in? I mean, that would make this make sense, atleast to me lol (it's from the wiki)

And this made me think that maybe the cult was actually all about the Spectre all along and that they actually believed in the Spectre's powers instead of respawning from the start. And maybe, the Cult was made exactly so the Spectre could gain more power, more influence, and more people he could torture in the unique hell of the Forsaken games. So that could mean the Spectre manipulated TwoTime to become demented on the beliefs of the cult, sacrificing Azure to gain his second life, which is: The Forsaken Hell.

BAAAAM, super cool explosive moment of truth with epic music on the bg. (i'm actually so sorry if this is cringe) So, now what? The spawn is the sun, the sun is the spectre, hence the spectre is the spawn and maybe poor TwoTime will be important in the ARG if this crazy assumption is actually correct (which will surprise me) and blah blahblah. Maybe what i'm gonna say is probably even crazier so this part is gonna be like, extra stuff, take it as an AU or some shit. You can stop reading if you got here lmao

💥💥💥💥PART TWO: MY FUCKING AU OR IDK💥💥💥💥💥

OK so, uh, this is basically the extra. Ok, uh, so, the spectre is the sun, right? ok, so, what about that moon spawn from the image from above? uh well, uh, um, um, um ,um ,mm ,,um,,,,,,,,,, so, it might sound a little crazy of me, but ok let me explain What if the moon was something similar to the Spectre? As in like, yeah, y'all understand me (kill me) ok so, the idea is: The Sun is often represented with an energetic and powerful personality in most media (that i know of) and the Moon is represented as the calmer one. And maybe, as i say the Spectre is the Sun, the moon might be like a calmer version of the Spectre. A sibling, relative, close friend or even lover idk, but related to the Spectre. And since we only have a lot of information about The Spectre, then i think the moon might be a forgotten god.

It wouldn't be such a crazy idea if Forsaken had 2 gods, the sun and the moon, right? There's other games and stories with those kinds of gods, like pokemon!!!!! with rayquaza, groudon and kyogre for example. And since the moon spawn in the image is the opposite of the Sun spawn, which means resurrecting and life and shit, the moon would mean Death. Freedom, the End. And maybe thats why in Forsaken, the survivors are always respawning after dying. Because there's no death, because the "Moon God" is nowhere to be found, forgotten in a somewhere so obscure no one can hear their pleas. (I don't have a name for them yet so i will refer to them as "moon god", the name would be something like the opposite of spectre.) So, the Spectre did something to the "moon god". probably hurt them, trapped them somewhere, hid them, anything like that, but the moon is gone, and eternal sleep for the survivors is too. Just because the Spectre wants power.

And here comes my super cringy AU part:

ok, so, Basically, in all of the messages and questions Elliot makes on the ARG, he always says basically the same thing:

"Will you continue searching even though you know how foolish that is?"

and again, this part of the message is also important:

"I am but a fractured soul, one who dared to stray too close to the sun and paid the price. Still, in my foolishness, i uncovered something. Something it never wanted me to see. Something that forced it to put me into this unique kind of Eternal Hell. I would give that something to you so that you could have a chance of ending this madness, but as expected, it took back what was stolen."

This is very important because it's implied Elliot "stole" something, found and searched for something very important that the spectre had to punish him. Something that would end the eternal torture that the survivors live. That something is the "Moon God", the god that can end their suffering, give them the eternal sleep or the freedom they need to escape this hell, And the Spectre knows that the "Moon God" is the key to escape, so that's why it locked away the moon.

AND ANOTHER AU THING: About the greek myth that it might reference (as said in the Game Theorists video) about the greek god Arke and how Elliot is representing the god as the messenger. So, it would be fun if maybe Elliot turned into a messenger post-forsaken??? the messenger of the moon, that's a cool title. Maybe Elliot is siding with the "Moon God", maybe, but this part is just like a headcanon or something similar. just for funsies. (I even made a design for messenger Elliot, but im a bit shy about it)

Sooo, this is the end of the post. THANK YOU VERY MUCH IF YOU READ EVERYTHING and thank you also if you read like 2 words and thats it, that counts too. This is cringey as fuck but i'm FINALLY GOING TO POST SOMETHING ABOUT MY THEORIES THAT I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT IN SCHOOL SO ILL SUCK MY SHY ASS UP

remember to take all of this as a silly little au or stupid theory bc i dont know if this makes sense 😭

[ecto-hazard]

Grey Explains the fucking Pikmin Series

Overview

the og pikmin 1 and 2 games were made for the gamecube. as a kid i played pikmin 2 and dont really remember playing pikmin 1 if i did. i was dogshit at the game, would get like two caves in, give up, and start over. but now that im a big boy/girl/they i got all the pikmin games on the switch, played through all of them and can say i have certified gamer knowledge on the pikmin series. theres four mainline games in the series, and they follow the same storyline (kinda). the stories of the games are relatively straightforward and easy to understand, but theres a shitton of information surrounding the story found in game about the characters and worldbuilding that really fleshes it out if you know where to look for it. a lot of this information has lead to some interesting speculation about the overarching lore. additionally, the games themselves are really fun to play and pretty unique as far as games go as they emphasize efficiency and multitasking in a way i havent really seen anywhere else

The games vary somewhat, but the overall concept is the same. in these games you play as a space alien who's crashed onto an uncharted planet which is heavily implied to be earth, but is dubbed in the series as PNF-404. the games focus on collecting items back to your ship with the help of a native species called Pikmin, who are plant people you can command in mass with different abilities. pikmin and you dont share a language and they probably dont have the brain power to pass the harkness test, but you can give them commands via whistle to get them do carry stuff and destroy walls and things like that. pikmin are strong in numbers, but are particularly fragile individually, so if you dont manage them properly, they tend to die a lot. pretty much everything else in the environment is bent on killing them and you, and since youre on an alien world, youre usually completely isolated except for the pikmin

another consistent detail is you and your pikmin are very small, so the terrain and obstacles you come across are are typically normal small things but Big. so overcoming the environment takes a lot of numbers to overcome your size. This scale is also convenient for the atmosphere of the game. being this small keeps your view of the world very limited, and leaves a lot of details up to interpretation, like whether or not humans still exist and the implications of that

ill talk a little bit about each of the four games in order, going over storyline, mechanics, worldbuilding, etc. theres two other pikmin games technically, hey pikmin and pikmin bloom, the former of which was such a commercial failure that nintendo tries to pretend it didnt exist, and the latter is just pokemon go but simpler. i havent played hey pikmin, and pikmin bloom really doesnt have a lot going on, so im not going to discuss those

Pikmin 1: the scary one

pikmin 1 is the simplest of the games, being one of the first gamecube games ever released. the game follows Olimar, an alien from the planet Hocotate, long before he get's his smash invitation. a fun fact abt him is that in japanese, his name is Mario backwards (O-ri-ma)

Our protag is on vacation in space in his ship called The Dolphin, he gets hit by a stray asteroid, and crashes onto PNF-404, which is as of yet undiscovered and unnamed. His ship is completely wrecked, and he has 30 days to find the parts of his ship before his life support fails and he succumbs to the toxic oxygen in the atmosphere. fortunately he immediately discovers an Onion, a pikmin mothership. it spits out seeds, which he rips from the ground as a fully formed pikmin. said pikmin can be thrown at stuff to get numbered pellets or kill enemies, which the pikmin drag back to the onion to get sucked up and make more pikmin

he names them that by the way. apparently they look like Pikpik brand carrots from his planet.

he finds the engine for his ship in the area, and after growing enough pikmin, get them to carry it back to the ship. the rest of the game is a cycle of finding 30 ship parts inside the 30 day limit. you unlock new areas as you get parts, and the new areas have new types of pikmin in them

in this series, each day is generally around 15 minutes of real time. at the end of the day, you have to take off in your ship to enter low orbit or be caught by nocturnal predators. pikmin similarly leave in the onion (which can fly). however, if you leave pikmin stranded too far away on the map, theyll die at the end of the day. so its important not to leave your pikmin doing something when the day runs out and youre gifted with a cutscene of watching them be chased down and eaten by the monsters in the area

pikmin 1 has three main pikmin types which reappear in every subsequent game. red pikmin are fire resistant and have 1.5x attack damage. yellow pikmin can be thrown higher than the other two and can hold bomb rocks used to break down rock walls. blues have gills and can survive being in water. you can save a pikmin whos burning or drowning by whistling at it before they die, but pikmin 1 has the strictest time limit having them die after about 1 second

pikmin enemies vary in fighting strategies, and even if you kill them, theyll typically respawn after a few days. some enemies have your ship parts inside them and killing them is required to progress. dealing with most enemies isnt too difficult if you know what youre doing, but youre guaranteed to have at least 100+ deaths on a blind playthrough, especially if you dont know how the enemies work.

at the end of each day, olimar writes a log. these logs are typically triggered by in game events, so theyll be related to what you did that day (examples being discovering a pikmin type, defeating a specific creature, having a large pikmin loss, discovering a new area, etc). he goes into detail about some of the biology of the world he's in, talking about how pikmin work in a sort of tutorial way, walking through how to defeat certain enemies, etc.

when nothing triggers a specific log, olimar has a list of logs he'll go through in order that arent about anything in particular, and this is where you learn the most about his character. Olimar's got a wife, two kids, and a dog, which is his main motivation to get home, and he starts talking about them more and more, thinking about what his wife would say if she saw him in this situation, thinking about his children growing up without him. and when you arent finding parts to trigger normal logs, when youre making no progress, he goes into detail about the dreading his life supports failure and starts becoming quite depressing. he says he finds himself used to being here. that he almost doesn't want to return to everyday life, maybe to just give up and live like a pikmin. he says he no longer cares what happens. he runs out of things to talk about. an unused log in the gamefiles only says "I am so very tired..."

theres two endings to pikmin 1, one where you collect all the ship parts (or the 25 necessary parts. for some reason 5 are arbitrarily unnecessary, but you have to almost go out of your way to not collect them). in that ending, the ships fully repaired and he takes off, wistfully looking back on the pikmin who helped along the way, seemingly unaware this will be the last time they see him, or even why.

if you dont collect all the necessary parts, at the end of the 30 days, olimar will attempt taking off anyway. the ship fails and crashes down again. the pikmin carry olimars lifeless body to their onion, and he gets spit out as a pikmin seed

Pikmin 2: license hell

pikmins sequel takes place immediately after the first game. Olimar lands on hocotate after escaping the pikmin planet, only to be met by his boss, the president of Hocotate Freight, and his coworker louie. the president explains that while you were gone, the company fell into financial ruin. apparently louie was delivering a shipment of golden pikpik carrots but they were eaten by a "ravenous space bunny." so now the company is in massive debt, and all that the president could sell off is your own spaceship which you just spent 30 days of your endangered life painstakingly repairing

but it turns out you brought home an earth bottlecap as a souvenir for your kid, and louie's spaceship (which can talk) identifies it as a valuable treasure that could be sold for well over the average hocotatian yearly salary. learning theres more items like this on the planet, your boss immediately sends you back with your coworker to go gather treasures to pay off the debt.

so thats the opening premise of pikmin 2. youre back on the planet (you crash again sort of, but the ship stays intact), there to gather treasures (which are just normal branded everyday objects like an actual duracell battery. they removed the brands in the switch port) but now with Louie TM. having two captains does NOT give you 2 player coop sadly but you can switch between captains for ultimate multitasking. theres also no day count limit to the game, though the day/night limits still apply.

pikmin 2 introduces several new mechanics, the main one of these is the cave system, which is a series of underground levels full of treasures and monsters, usually capped off with a boss battle at the end. you enter the cave with whatever pikmin you have on hand and cannot get more. the only way to exit the cave with everything you have is to reach a geyser at the end. you can exit prematurely, but all the treasures you collect are dumped. the benefit of caves is they pause the day time limit and killing the boss gives you upgrades like the ability to run fast, punch harder, and lie down and do nothing.

end of the day logs have been replaced with mail you get from the president and your family. the president goes on about how he's being hunted down by loan sharks, has to live under a bridge with dogs, and eventually meets with your wife and calls her cooking shit. you also hear about your wife becoming a gambler now that your pay is raised and how she's forgetting to take care of her kids and dog and keep losing ludicrous amounts of money. and also you get spam mail from prostitutes. olimars notes are instead allocated to the piklopedia and treasure catalog, which give a far more in depth look into his thoughts about the creatures and objects he finds on this planet. he's quite intrigued by biology and talks about what he encounters in a very scientific manner even though he doesnt seem to actually be a scientist. the piklopedia is also great cause you get to throw carrots at the monsters

red and blue pikmin are pretty much the same, but yellow pikmin got completely revamped. they can still be thrown high, but instead of using bombs, they now are immune to electrical hazards. which is a pretty big deal in pikmin 2 because while you can save burning, drowning, and poisoned pikmin, electricity instantly kills pikmin. yellow pikmin would consistently remain the electric pikmin from then on in the series, and are one of my favorite types

the two new types of pikmin can only be propagated in caves from preexisting pikmin. purple and white flowers convert your existing pikmin to the corresponding color. each flower has a 5 pikmin limit, so you cant just spam all your squad into purples. since these pikmin do not have their own onion, they are incapable of growing more of themselves the traditional way, instead carrying enemies to the onions of the main three types. they also are stored in the ship rather than an onion for some reason. which is kinda fucked up like what did they do before you got there. purples are the best pikmin in the entire series as they are super strong and have special pound attacks that can stun enemies. white pikmin are fast, can see buried objects, and resistant to the newly introduced hazard of poison. they are also quite obviously lesbian coded

pikmin 2 has a secret sixth pikmin type, also found only in caves, called the bulbmin. you find these things in groups of 10 following a big mom. if you kill the mom, the 10 babies scatter around and can be whistled into your squad. they look like normal bulborb enemies but are small and have a stem on their back. what you learn in the piklopedia is that this is a PARASITIC FORM OF PIKMIN THAT INFECTED A BULBORB????!!!???? this makes them immune to all hazards, but their monstrous appetite makes them a danger to the rest of your pikmin so you leave them in caves when you escape. you can convert them into other normal types of pikmin by using the flowers but also like. these are just fucked up. these never appear in future games and its a shame.

pikmin 2 has a soft ending when you collect 10,000 pokos (their currency) worth of treasures. no matter what youre doing, the game abruptly stops you to go to a cutscene where you leave the planet and the pikmin. olimar is glad to go home, but while he's looking back and reminiscing, he notices he fucking forgot something

he gets back to hocotate, and the president, fueled by the prospect of even more treasure and the fear of an incoming lawsuit, goes back to pnf-404 with you to find louie. you start getting emails from louie's grandmother for some reason, who seems unaware that he's missing, and she talks about how she used to forcefeed him bugs as a kid(?)

you find louie in a new fourth area at the bottom of the biggest cave in the game called the Dream Den. he's found sitting on a pile of junk which turns out to be a giant biomechanical spider that he may or may not be controlling. defeating the spider lets you get ahold of 5 treasures, four of which are the elemental weapons wielded by the boss, and one of which is just louie himself. he's labeled The King of Bugs (by himself) and apparently is worth 10 cents pokos.

the game never clarifies why the fuck he was down here, if or why he actually tried to kill you, though it speculates if it was out of his own volition, if he was controlling the bug, or if something but collecting him does unlock louie's notes for each creature in the piklopedia which are all uh. um. uh

also if you 100% the game, youre gifted a secret cinematic that reveals that louie was the one who ate the golden pikpik carrots and put the company in debt. so theres just something inherently wrong with him i guess

and thats pikmin 2

Pikmin 3: ipad babies

pikmin 3 is interesting. this game was released like a decade after the first two for the wiiU of all things. its a pretty good game, ive played it quite a bit, and i even got the Deluxe edition for the switch recently. compared to the previous two installments, pikmin 3 is rather short, which seems to be due to cut content, but theres quite a lot of interesting stuff going on in this game. its story is much more linear than the other two games which just sorta let you do things however you want.

Instead of following Olimar, youre instead introduced to a whole new planet Koppai. The narrated cinematic explains that Koppai is a planet suffering from a food crisis due to its inhabitants ravaging the planet of resources without putting much thought into sustainability. Specifically they only eat fruit with Piktamin U in it, and need to find food on another planet in order to save their planet. they send out unmanned crafts to find a planet with fruit on it. they specifically tell you these crafts are called SPEROs (pronounced sparrow). i dont know why they tell you this. its such a specific detail. the ship in pikmin 2 was a whole character and they didnt even give it a name but these fuckers appear on screen once and get a whole unique name.

they finally find a planet five fucktillion lightyears away that has edible fruit on it and name it PNF-404. They send 3 explorers on a spaceship called the Drake to go collect fruit to bring back. These guys names are Alph, Brittany, and Charlie, and are supposed to be named after the NATO phonetic alphabet but nintendo was too much of a coward to call a girl Bravo. compared to the previous games, these guys get much more characterization on screen rather than hidden away in game logs people may or may not read. Charlie's the captain, alph is an engineer, and britanny is a botanist

so these guys use their warp speed technology to get to PNF-404 so they can grab some epic fruits, but predictably

all three captains are separated from each other and land in different areas. you play a little bit as charlie in the intro sequence, just to sorta learn how to throw yellow pikmin you find, and overall do nothing but walk into a cave before uh oh something spooky happens

then you instead get to play as Alph for the first day. he discovers red pikmin and an onion and learn how it all works from mysterious data files that are just lying around in the physical world. so somebody's already been here and knows what pikmin are and how they work. curious

alph manages to find his WiiU certified Integration Tablet aka KoPad and uses it to track down where the Drake landed. despite fucking ejecting all three crewmates while landing, the drake is completely fine, but the other two arent there. Alph briefly gets a zoom call from Britanny explaining shes trapped somewhere before the feed cuts out. with the information that at least one of his coworkers survived and is stranded, alph immediately fucking leaves the planet cause he hears someone gargling mouthwash or something

alph discovers that they lost their Cosmic Drive key, which is necessary to travel fast enough to get back to koppai, and that most of the reserves of juice were destroyed in the crash, so he only has 3 days to find more food out there

the next day you land where brittany's signal came from, discover her passed out, and free her with the help of newly found Rock pikmin which are rocklike and can break crystal and are immune to getting squashed. the multiple characters in this game work similarly to pikmin 2 in that they're for multitasking with the added bonus that they can run across the map independently if you set a destination for them and you can also throw the captain themself to reach higher locations or cross gaps. You also acquire your first fruits, which are normal earth sized fruits. When collected by the drake, the game makes sure to show off all the delicious polygons and play a juicing animation so highly rendered it causes frames to drop

With britanny in your team, you go following another signal the drake picks up in the hopes of finding captain Charlie. Only you get separated again!!! Britanny ends up in a cave where she finds yellow pikmin, who in addition to their normal electric resistance can now conduct charges and dig faster. She and alph have to work separately to build a bridge to allow them to reunite. But if youre a speedrunner you use some funny out of bounds tricks to instead ignore all that and go find the cave where we last saw Charlie.

You defeat a sick ass boss called the venemoth phosbat and Charlie escapes out it's mouth after somehow surviving being eaten this whole time. While he was in there he apparently discovered a data file left behind by a Captain Olimar, who's been leaving all those files littered around. This one states that he found the cosmic drive key, and it's now urgent you find him so you can get it back and escape the planet

Following some signals you eventually find winged pikmin who can fly and can take shortcuts and avoid enemies so much so that they are probably one of the most powerful pikmin in the entire series even with the lower attack strength.

You then get a call from a mysterious caller sending a distress signal who is apparently a hocotatian and mentions olimar by name. This leads the team to believe this is olimar and you need to rescue him. But keen eyed viewers might notice something peculiar about Olimar here...

You find this guy unconscious after defeating a big hummingbird. Apparently these fucking spacesuits knock you unconscious when something scary happens. Which makes absolute sense. So you take him to the drake and have to wait for him to wake up. and the next fucking morning

it turns out Olimar stole all your juice and rubber ducky and ran off and exploded an opening into a new part of one of the previous areas youve been to. since you now have No juice stores, you have to get fruit immediately to avoid losing. everyone is expectedly pissed. Especially Brittany. Brittany is ready to kill a man. you find blue pikmin in this area and eventually save this guy from yet ANOTHER boss fight and after letting brittany deal with him you figure out this isnt ACTUALLY olimar surprise surprise

you learn where actual olimar has gone missing and head over with your pikmin to find him so you can finally get your cosmic drive key and get the hell off this rock. but when you get there, you climb up a weird hill to find him. and you find him similarly unconscious for whatever reason. and he's there with a. uh.

so this things called the plasm wraith and for whatever reason this thing like really likes olimar. like it really wants to keep olimar there. when you try to get him back, this thing becomes a blob that absorbs him, but you can beat it back and get him. but the pikmin are confused and dont know where to take olimar so brittany has to guide them through a series of ostacles and puzzles and beasts to get olimar out of there before the Blob takes him away again. its a really weird sequence where theres no fruit or way to propagate pikmin in this area, its just trying to manage keeping olimar out of reach while accomplishing tasks with the other two captains. an interesting detail is that all the creatures you destroy in this area dont die normally. they collapse into golden goo, indicating that the plasm wraith created them???? or that theyre extensions of the wraith?????

once you get olimar out of the main area, you enter the arena where the wraith goes nutso and absorbs olimar again anyway and enters Boss Battle mode. its got different elemental attacks like the pik 2 boss. once you actually defeat it, olimar is released and eventually released.

the koppaites are able to talk to olimar to get their key back, olimar explains that he's here to repay Another Debt and that this is in fact his third time here. they got their ship wrecked, so you offer to give him a ride to hocotate on your way back to koppai. he also apologizes for louie. louie does not apologize

and thats pretty much the game. if you collect all the fruit, the game hints that the crash that occurred might not have been an accident. you also see the plasm wraith is still alive and is pissed off that youre leaving so that guy just like. still exists. theres the side mode where you return as olimar and louie to get the ship back but not a lot happens there. an odd thing is that theres no post game after the credits. the only way you can do everything is if you collect all the fruits before you do the final boss, while in pik 2 you could go collect the remaining treasures after you finished the story

pik 3 deluxe doesnt have much difference other than additional side modes, but it does have co-op integrated in the main story mode. i dont know why the pikmin games dont have co-op by default to be honest.

I hit the image limit so look out for a pik 4 and general theory addition in the reblogs later on

[moonstandardtime]

im thinking about loop. as usual. but today im putting a fun spin on things and thinking specifically about my botw au loop.

heres my original drawing of them from last year + another image for cropping. it feels pretty self-evident to me but this may be an instance of the one xqcd comic. about accidentally assuming what is common knowledge.

so. loop is fi. fi from skyward sword not breath of the wild yes. heres a little lesson on the zelda timeline for those of you who havent read the hyrule historia book cover to cover.

pre skyward sword—there is a manga in the back of hyrule historia about the first hero. the one before sksw link, who is the "first hero". this actual (non-canon, probably) first hero was wrongfully imprisoned for vaguely specified reasons that i dont remember and thus wasnt really able to do his hero things. i guess. and hylia (not zelda yet) who was in love with him . well shes important i dont rlly remember how shes relevant to this link specifically. but link sacrifices himself for the good of the people and hylia sends up the sky islands that would later become skyloft and others. because theres a war happening i forgot to mention that. i think the master sword is relevant but can you tell its been a while since ive read this. because it has.

and now the master sword. i havent actually finished sksw and dont know the whole story even though i really. should by now. but i know the basics. fi is the spirit of the master sword and i think she was made by hylia to aid in that whole war i mentioned. or something like that. shes only present in sksw but technically shes in botw too bc the master sword speaks to zelda and uses her little chime and like. obviously thats a callback to sksw.

so. loop.

loop in this au is the first hero. kiind of. theyre more of the chosen hero (sksw) in terms of story elements but first hero in terms of like, situation? this gets into a lot of the Lore which ii wont explain. bc that would like triple the length of this post. but BASICALLY the rundown of the situation is that Loop is in a Situationship (aka messy QPR) with Change's First Chosen (aka Mirabelle); Chosen gets nabbed by the first King; Loop sacrifices themself to save her. the Chosen then puts Loop's soul in their sword bc of how much she cares for them. and maybe kills the King with it for dramatic effect.

and then the Universe and Change God are so moved* by this they decide if it aint broke dont fix it. and thus begins the Cycle. and also i suppose there is the Curse.

(*the universe just saw a Situation that tied itself up in a neat bow while also progressing things and was like yeah ok lets just keep doing that. and change went along with it bc they were actually moved by it. and wanted to play toys)

SO. now Loop is in the sword. dead. tragic. aand (fast forward several thousand years and heroes (and theres one in particular they remember so well. they dont speak of him. he doesnt matter anymore.)) here comes a Siffrin who. also dies! but gets to come back and try again. because life just isnt fair i guess. and this motherfucker is so useless (helpless) and doesnt know anything and they cant just watch it all go wrong again so. they break their several thousand year silence and help him.

jazz hands ✨️ there it is thats my loop lore. yayy

[the-s1lly-corner]

Creepypastas of your choice with a mysterious reader that has been with slender man the longest/was the first creepypasta

eyeless jack, laughing jack, slenderman, and jeff x reader who was the first creepypasta/has been with slenderman the longest!

NOTE that jeffs part is written as platonic since im still not comfortable writing romance for him, but the other two can be seen as either or! eyeless jack was chosen thanks to the admin personally hcing that eyeless jack and slenderman have beef over living in the same woods, laughing jack was picked because haha funny clown who is also old as shit reader is implied to be nonhuman, to explain how theyve been around for so long so! admin headcannons that zalgo was the one who made all the non-human creepypastas and they may or may not come into play here that aside, hope you enjoy!

EYELESS JACK:

now he doesnt want to control who you hang out and who you dont hang out with... however ej isnt all the keen on the fact that you sometimes hang out with the tall lanky forest demon.. but he holds his tongue. their basic beef is that they mostly fight over space; slenderman is possessive over his woods, and ej fled to the woods after he started eating flesh to live as a hermit... is a little suspicious on how you seem to know so much about the curse-thing that turned from from a human to a man eating monster.. though lets up if you open up about things (cough cough zalgos role in everything cough cough) soooo.... as for actual relationship stuff? honestly as long as you dont bring slenderman around you guys have a pretty solid relationship! especially since you know so much of whats going on you kind of fill him in on a bunch of stuff.. like how people fill in the new guy at work about the drama and lore of the workplace, you know? is a relieved that youre not exactly human, so a lot of his worry of accidentally attacking you while in one of his feral blood frenzy things is minimal... sits.. tension in the beginning that melts as time passes and explanations are given, you know?

LAUGHING JACK:

honestly hes just happy to have someone whos not super young compared to him/was there to see what was going on at least a century ago.. or more (fandom wiki says origin story takes place in 1800s, jack is OOOOOOOLLLD) so its nice having someone he can talk to about stuff from the past. and to joke about stuff from the past... and to have someone actually. GET IT. you know? really strengthens your bond, as well as reassures him that youre likely not going to die anytime soon due to your mortality... i always think about that stuff for immortal characters/characters who can technically outlive everyone, especially for jack since i feel he has abandonment issues... shrugs... you guys probably exchange tips and tricks for loads of things. just two old people in love but they both act like reckless young adults (assuming reader matches his energy). has no huge thoughts or opinions on slenderman since i dont think they would interact often :0

SLENDERMAN:

i mean i think it would be a given that you guys, against all odds, have stuck together and grown close. slenderman is reclusive, very much so. i mention that eyeless jack is a hermit, so naturally ej doesnt connect with many people. but slenderman takes that to a whole new level. i mean he barely even interacts with his proxies (still dont know how im going to write toby, masky, and hoodie. esp masky n hoodie since... theres the creepypasta/marble hornets thing.. shrugs... thats a problem for future admin)

so consider this a huge victory that he hasnt gotten rid of you in some way and has instead let you into his.. well i was about to say heart but i dont think zalgo considered giving him one when it was creating him.. though.. it is nice to have someone just as ancient as him, makes it easier to relate to people AND youre also a creature like him, made from zalgo? even more ability to relate to you.. though its a very quiet dynamic, slenderman isnt much of a talker so i hope you dont mind carrying conversations!

JEFF THE KILLER:

pushing once again that this segment is strictly platonic since admin isnt comfy with writing romantic for jeff so they just had an interesting idea for him!

very similar to eyeless jacks bit where you fill him in one a bunch of lore and how things work, as well as filling him in on the teeny tiny detail that demons and monsters exist. jeff is a little different in admins au/hc, since he kind of just. exists rather than being created explicitly to cause issues + hes new to the being a creepypasta thing (if you can call being on the run and being off the grid for the past decade or so new, admin is working on timeline stuff </3) (new in comparison to the other characters hush hush) so a lot of your dynamic is filling him in on things as well as perhaps even offering some sort of guidance in how to actually go about interacting with these creatures that he know.. just has access to.. torn between dad slenderman because hes not TOTALLY evil and cold in admins interpretation, but also that one jeff the killer vs slenderman fall out boy video lives rent free in his head. the beef would be insane, honestly... jeff doesnt have much of a sound idea outside of you being more of a guidance figure for him... person with their nonhuman guide my favorite trope that needs to be in more stuff especially in horror media where the characters are antagonists and shit

[koiifiishy]

I WASNT PAYING ATTENTION THERE WAS ONLY 2 EPISODES OF THE TKATB ONE???? GOT DAMIT LOL FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK

anyways.

played it twice, got a bad end the first time. im not sure how im feeling about this one tbh... i'm sure theres more content to play through but for now im content with just these 2 playthroughs.

again, very amazed by the passion! its not easy to make indie passion projects, and it takes so much courage to share your work online. another renpy game, the effects used were fun. i like how creators have been exploring all the options renpy has to offer! its also a program ive tried to play with here and there, im just really shitty with coding AHA,,, orz like im really.. really bad at all tech related stuff....

the writing isnt as smooth as the previous game. i havent looked at the creators page so this is purely speculation but it feels like a non native speakers writing? nothing too egregious, but there are some parts that come off as clunky and awkward. im ignoring any spelling / grammatical errors in this too - just thinking about the story's writing, i think it could use some polish; but overall i still understood what was going on.

from the two playthroughs i got i think sol and crowe have the strongest characters - which isnt surprising since theyre the main LIs. the sides were mostly just There for me. fun designs overall, but i wasn't feeling much personality. i think this may be an issue with the clunky writing though. im a little confused with the overarching story? the fairy tale narration, mention of gods, the caste system, but still being rooted in our reality(??) is throwing me off. i may not have gotten all the lore available in game with only 2 playthroughs (one dead end) & the fact that its only 2 eps in atm (FUUUUCK) we as the audience may just not know whats happening because there isnt enough content to fill us in; but something about it feels.. again, clunky. a part of me wants the story to tell us either we're in a totally different world than our own, or make it more clear that this city in particular is odd. right now it just confuses me.

overall it doesnt feel like theres enough for me to really base an opinion off of, whether or not i like this game. its not done. i can see why tumblr has taken a big interest in the main LIs, theyre very much in line with the general tumblr "taste". for me though, im neutral. i dont know enough atm, and im not going to scrounge around on any blogs for out of game info. honestly, i think the creator could give us a little bit of exposition and itd be ok! to at least explain to us where we are, who we are, what we're doing, etc. a simple "this is how the world is. i moved to the city from my rural home because of a debt, this is the school i go to and these are my feelings on my situation". rn it suffers from dropping us in with too little information.

maybe ill try to play another go later. for now though, i think ill look around for something else to play!

[tireddovahkiin]

Guys theres something very weird and big going on I just HAVE to rant (again) bc im starting to get a bit confused and concerned (in a good way)

So, as you all know, I'm currently VERY hyperfixated on Metal Gear, but I haven't really talked just HOW much did the whole experience of that game affected me.

Because... holy shit, did it affect me. Did this game change me in a way I never expected. I never saw THIS level of autism before for something LMFAO☠️

Here are some examples. Whenever I just THINK about Metal Gear just in general, just "admire" the game, it's characters, it's story, the soundtrack, it's motives and lessons you learn behind them, it's community, it fills me with this excitement... Immense joy, that makes my fucking heart rate speed up. I can barely contain it, it seethes inside me like a mass of butterflies desparately wanting to get out.

And when I look at the fanart, the memes, anything related to it, I cannot contain this bubbling happiness inside me, I start squealing and kicking my feet like a highschool girl crushing HARD💩

Metal Gear now lives in my head rent free for 24/7😭 I'm SO invested in that shit, I literally want to write down the ENTIRE detailed lore and organize it on a paper, then literally learn it from START TO FINISH. (And when I say it's complicated, not even the true OG fans can explain it in the correct order to the newbies.)

Everything about it gives me comfort, gives me inspiration, motivation, anything positive that comes to your mind.

NO game EVER has made me feel like this. No, fix that.

Nothing EVER has made me feel this way, except my most important f/os. But still, not to THIS level. Literally.

Except maybe TES IV: Skyrim, but that was when I was just a kid, which was a long time ago. This feels so special, so EXCEPTIONAL. It actually... changed me in a way😭? I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT URRRGHHH

I'm SO SO SO SO glad this game found me oh my GOD... Guys i fucking ADORE Metal Gear. This brainrot is insane, it's so powerful, it's EATING ME ALIVE FROM INSIDE OUT. Like, I'm GENUINELY TWEAKING OVER HERE AS I'M WRITING THIS. SHAKING FROM EXCITEMENT.

(Is this a clear symptom of autism? Bc I don't even know anymore🤧)

What's even more interesting, I'm not even done with discovering and learning about the whole lore! I watched the first Metal Gear Solid game, second, third, and fourth, and I'm currently on the fifth, Phantom Pain. And even AFTER that, I have to watch Metal Gear Rising. (which is a spin off fixated on another side character, Raiden, but still important to the MGS storyline.) I dunno how many parts does Metal Gear Rising have, but I'll find out. AND not only that, we will have a Remake of the third game coming this August! SQUEEEEE IM SO HAPPIHAPPIHAPPI- *vibrates*

This game made me feel every emotion possible: happiness sadness (MGS 4 IM LOOKING AT YOU), anger, absolute flabbergasting shock, nervousness, fear, awe, horny i mean what o-o

Yall know what I'm most scared about? Do you know that empty feeling of coming to an end with something that changed you as a person? That is now a very very special place in your heart? Ah yes, post-game/movie/series depression.🥲 nothing worse than that.

I'm scared that the post Metal Gear depression is gonna hit HARD. And I mean HARD. I'm already halfway through the whole thing, I think? And I don't want it to end??? I DON'T WANT IT TO STOP- WAAAAA MOMMYYYYYYYY😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Imagining myself finishing it all and then grabbing a paper bag and huffing through it as crisis begins to overtake me- /hj

RAAAAAAAGHHHH METAL GEEEEAAARRRRRRR

Anyways, yeah, sorry for such a long post, but thank you for coming to my Metal Gear ted talk :3 if you actually read this far then I love you sm mwah /p

[the-biggestman]

Ok, I finished Cory's SCP series and honestly it's okay. I can see the enjoyment in it but I think because I didn't follow it as it came out I don't have much of an attachment to it. And probably because Cory is there like less than half the time after a few seasons.

Anyways I did take notes because it made me actually pay attention so I'll just copy and paste them below the 'keep reading' if anyone’s interested :]

SCP thoughts

His little car little car Omg they went to college together fuck yeah Noooo pencil pushing whyyy BE NICE TO YOUR BABYGIRL “Aw geez sorry” FORESHADONWIG NOOO UNI Abandonment issues my lil guy And sassy Steve DONT PLAY WITH ME ABOUT UNI DYING

EPISODE 2 A date ooooooo Don’t talk abt my stupid blonde man like that UNI the big boss Buster KISS HIM- omg what is that you guys should’ve kissed

EPISODE 3 Cory asking the big question Totally a robot

EPISODE 4 I’m making cookies

EPISODE 5 Baja blast?

EPISODE 6 Omg I just remembered theres 200 episodes HES 24 BABY THAT MNA IS A BABY

EPISODE 7 Nap time Baby 999 noooo

EPISODE 8 UNI NOOOO BABYGRILNOOO

EPISODE 9 We love poorly rendered green screen fire

EPISODE 10 S1 FINALE They could at least- okay they got out of the shitty water Absolutely massive, it’s the size of a crocodile Oh he dead I FUCKING KNEW HE WOULD DO EENY MEENY MINY MOE There’s something you’re not telling me. Noooo. Says you, waddles away ‘Hard to destroy reptile’ dies from banging its head

Season 2 lets go baby

EPISODE 1 He’s so fucking stupid Oh my god I love him He’s such a kicked puppy DUNII THE GAYEST BITCH AROUND D: what do you mean hope not Omg can they like kiss, omg he’s using duni to remember uni omg omg

EPISODE 2 DR PATIENCE!!! They reused the same Cory eating sample Omg he’s still hungry It kinda does explain a lot because season 1 Cory still had his snark and silliness but he seemed to be somewhat serious for a good portion of s1 but now he’s more relaxed and easygoing

EPISODE 3 Cory covering for them, my man My ass can’t get over how they just flipped the eyes on the faces Omg it’s the blue girl, Laura yeah omg hiii ‘Eavesdropping’ you literally just spoke out loud ‘Dudeee, shut up’ Mans is fucking dead Cory I love you and your stupidity

EPISODE 4 He is not Canadian, I thought he was from like Missouri or someshit i have rewatched an old video, he is from new hampshire,, if i remebered idk ‘Nuh uh’ ‘fym nuh uh’

EPISODE 5 BRICKYYYYYYY Wait I’m an episode ahead with titles uuuum combining 4 & 5 Johnson had no chance of making it Bro lost Uni and is now devastated CORY CORY PUT THAT EGG BACK

—Actual Episode 5— It’s not Uni, tch, people have never seen hardcore quest Gasp DUNI, kisss ‘Pretty unique’ 👀 Oooooo lore

EPISODE 5.5 LLAMA!!!! ‘Wellll, okay’ This is my favorite episode. This is so stupid omg

EPISODE 6 ‘I bet babey’ Triana fucking died

EPISODE 7 oh my god there’s still so many more episodes 21 OUT OF 228 Cory you can’t use those goggles ‘Close to making their move’ evil duni laughter

EPISODE 7.5 as a non cereal eater I can’t add my 2 cents on what’s wrong or right NO NOT EATING SOUNDS NOOO ‘Thrown at you’ hmmmmm

EPISODE 8 DID SOMEONE SAY FALLOUT!!!??,?! DUNI, omg this episode has everything

EPISODE 9 Triana character development

EPISODE 9.5 Kind of a waste

EPISODE 10 Signature chin mole Hi nick. Cory ‘deviant’ crater, woooow Ooooo several hours stuck in a submarine, maybe hopper and Cory will kiss instead

SEASON 3 TIME

EPISODE 1 we get an intro ooooo Omg he is autistic just like me Gasp he gave the battery to Duni bcz he trust him more or um bcz they kissed and omg

EPISODE 2 Yknow they call Cory the master baiter Triana smile :D Stupid ass sound effect RADIATION??? F-F-FALLOUT!???? Hooper clones waaaaa?

S3 E2 We on pc notepad baby DUNI DUNII YESSSSSSSS I LVOE THEM SO MUHC OMG UNI LORE UNI LORE EEEEEEEEE NO NOT THAT STUPID ASs HAIRCUT just say fuck and damn oh my god so much uni lore so much uni lore omg yaaaaaaay cory and uni scp buddies tehehe wait im supposed to not know that uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh so duni is dr.bright oksy i guess

EP 3 im falling for triana propaganda aaaaaa cory seems like a hawaiian pizza person oh come on dont put puking sounds

EP 3.5 his pizza omg ooo prof. otis shit going on triana and cory please be besties tell him off cory tell him aaaaaa stomach ache noo one guys is actually screaming and the other is just going 'aaa' this stupid bitch but i get him

EP 4 'completely normal' triana loves one liners hell yeah ooooooo kinda banger episode of course cory's delicous wooo go laura 'THE WOKE TRIED TO SHUT ME DOWN'

EP 5 a farmhouse like in season 2 of fallout omgomg where they find nick and uni and things start to hit the fan omg i should watch fallout again i really want t o please noooo triana cory friendship ended

EP 6 girl besties yay stupid fucking roger joke cory triana besties yipe a bit gaay there cory but okay

EP 7 5 minutes early is on time, on time is late, and late is fired man otis is mean :( oh my god i love being mexican this food is the shit ew gross hmmmm predictable? WHAT?!!?!?! That twist wtf

EP 8 he's right tho, heights is different from falling because you're scared of the extermity of the height while falling from it is yknow falling from an insane height and dealing with the damage he's just like me frfr they barely talked what do you mean omg dont push this let them figure things out omg hes chil- OMG THERE GONNA BE FIVE FEET APART BECAUSE THEYRE SOO GAY :DDDD HAPPY FAMILY YIPEEE dont fucking push it do it slowly oimg

EP 8.5 but those ears oh my god no one caresabout otis they're french??????? 'munch munch' D: bricky noooooooo

EP 9 999 :OOO el babe cory is like luckiest person alive oh no the girls are fighting

EP 10 omg not amino oh fuck oh my god not that hell hole stupid ass otis with his head held up high whatahjgf;jds ps omg cory scp confirmed omgomgogmog no hes just a guy hes just s lil guy nojfas D: HOOPER SHUT UP weweweuwew bricky and cory <3 <3 duni :D or uh dr. bright hooper just kiss your platonic bf :OOOOO WHAT DOOMED YAOI

SEASON 4

EP 1 dorks noo no more duni Q-Q doggy :D

EP 2 uuuh nothing to comment on

EP 3 cyborg hooper oooo undertale refernce woow

EP 4 getting through this oh my god theres still so muccccccch UNIUNIUNINUNINUNINUNIN UNI OH MY GOD AAAATHERE TALKING OMGOMGOMG 'off the bitcoin' SHUT UP NO HE DIDNT DIE SHUT UP D: shit gonna hit the fan???? ooooooooo keeping secrets

EP 5 eeeee doomed yaoi

EP 6 almost a quarter through 45/228 what was that zombie noise ew dreaming of cory hmmmmmmm???????????????? laura get out of there girl leave

EP 6.5 WHAT NO WHGAT UNI HWAT WHATS GOING ON OMG ITS NOT ROLEPLAYED kiss? beep boop skipping bcz of a certain ahem someone

EP 7 found an archive of this episode, name is questionable thank you this episode i found more fallout episodes i guess i can see why this was archived, sucks that it has story in it cory???? transgender??????? genderqueer??? eyebrow raise

EP 8 had to go out of the playlist as well for this one triana D: what?? he just went back through the door? okay whatever, this episode is so silly with it's greenscreen explosions

EP 9 DONT FUCKING AKME A ROMANCE BETWEEN THEM THEY BARELY TALKED GIVE THEM MORE TIME TO GET THERE maybe my demisexual ass shouldn't talk i love their pixelated greenscreen explosions

EP 10 'ah-men' my guy laura in the closet wow, fork in a kitchen no their confess- THEY KISSED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn is he dead dead? this is why triana is mvp it defiently was supposed to end here

SEASON 5

EP 1 no they changed pov speeding it up so i can get through it bcz i skipped ahead and it changes back

EP 2 SKIPPED

EP 3 they changed to default skins too damn did he go back to scp??? stupid lil animations man what is going on

EP 4 new intro ooooo that stupid joke i love u

EP 5 just hooper????? UNI?????????? come on

"DALEPORT" wasteland????????? fallout????? decent episode

"YOUNG GIRL" back to drawn faces

"JOSIE THE HALF-CAT" omg these episodes give nothing

"Mal0" literally just the scp story

"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER US" i miss triana

"WHERE THE DRAGONS WENT" D: this episode was actually sad :O waaait

I've skipped up to 79/228 so far, hopefully things pick up soon

"THE STAR EYED CHILD" Evangelion shit going on

"THE MANNEQUIN" Walter White looking ass This is Alice?? OMG HIIII HIII HELLO shes crazy. im in love straight people oh my god

"CRAGGLEWOOD PARK" LAURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CORY'S PARENTS YIPEEEEEEEEE straight people 'so you're finally awake' crazy NO THEY'RE STILL DATING

"EVOLUTION'S CHILD" D: LAURA HOLY FUCK

"Ms. SWEETIE" OOOOOOOO SHIT GOING DOWN THIS IS JUST LIKE SONIC X WHEN HE WENT DARK SONIC OMG I LOVE ANGST

"THE DEER" SCARLET KING TIMEOMG

"A DOOR TO ANOTHER WORLD" damn, real evangelion shit no hes just a little guy, he wouldn't hurt a fly :> :OO shits happening EEEEEEEEEEEEE ALICE BABYGIRL NOOOOOOOO WHERE IS SHE CORY BRING HER BACK SHE WAS FINE AS HELL D: babygril nooo i am seated i am paying attention

"DEUS EX MACHINA" two guys as the last humans eyebrow raise

"NO MORE MONSTERS" raid shadow legends ad is crazy what is that snoring father son bonding time omg hes a furry thats crazy how can i make this about newscapecomics

"A BUNDLE OF STORIES" is that one line how people connect scp and creepypasta series only 2 pages? he is not a gamer- more like gayme---- 'arm' its her hand smh my head, writers

"THE PAINTING" bro calms down as soon as he sees hooper, craaazy

“HARD TO DESTROY REPTILE” I miss uni, as dr.bright and just in general :( Goes to scp, serpents hand, back to scp, BACK to serpents hand, now. You’ll never guess where he is…

“THE SCULPTURE” man dr.bright going downhill…

“A MALFUNCTIONING DESTROYER” iris top 5 fav characters <3 He just wanted a cookie Those 2 new scientist should kiss

“O, DEATH” RUBY IS SINGING HASTUNE MIKU, MELT OMG

“A HERO IS BORN” soooo, is she like dead dead?

“I AM TOASTER” Not a pickle rick joke Dr. Bright erasure, wha- gay did he just say that Sigh still tho, dr.bright erasure I knew they wouldn’t kill her off

“SCP-096 VS SCP-049” yipeeee!

“PUTTING 173 in the UPGRADE MACHINE?!” ALICE OH MY GOD SHES- reading the advertisement,,, These stupid ass scientists man And gay ass Dr. Bright Ruby, finally someone with balls

“WITH MANY VOICES” Cole you bitch Cory! Shut your fucking mouth!!!!

“THE SCARLET KING” OH MY GOD I THOUGHT SHE WAS ACTUALLY THERE Damn, he’s never getting Laura back Imagine he gets jealous of Ruby for living and not Laura

“THE TERMINATION OF 173” Dr. Bright loooooooves Tommy

“THE YOUNG GIRL’S PET” ‘Brother’???? Iris I love you 💕

"DR. BRIGHT'S SAD ORIGIN STORY…" DR BRIGHT LORE I AM SEATED ALICE IS HERE TOO TOP TIER EPISODE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE angst tehehehehehehe Iris ily DR BRIGHT REDEMPTION HES BACK IN TOP 5

"THE BROKEN GOD" SCP-001" lesbians i love them can they kiss already

"THE PLAGUE DOCTOR" "whats the worst that can happen" 5 YEARS LATER OMG EVERYONE GOT CHARACTER DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS kind of nvm dr. bright still the bisexual king as ever NO SHUT UP ABOUT MY HERO AC. damn i thought they did break up

"THE PLAGUE DOCTOR" ITS TIME OMGOMOMGOMGOMGOMGOGM IM GOING FERAL EEEEEEEEEEEE anyways congrats ruby and uuuh tommy? yeah thats his name

"THE END…" "bring uni back" i plead to the void as i know it wont happen dr.bright the man that you are they're bringing everyone back goddamn this egg i cooked is terrible ; =; HOOPER OMG KISS THAT BITCH I-I meant kill GO 999 D: cory come on man NO NOT THE LAURA PICTURE with the power of friendship! this is so silly he's banishing the straight in his mind IS THAT TRIANA'S NEW MODEL WAIT IS HE DEAD OMOGOMGOMGOG NO HE"S AN SCP HE LIVES RIGHT NO NO NONONONONONNONO THERES LIKE 50 MORE EPISODES HE LIVES RIGJHT???????????????? triana my first favorite i missed you waaaaaaaah 'the end' my ass, 172/228 episodes

"WENDIGO SKULL" I NEED TO DRAW TRIANA MY BABYGIRL WE KNOW HE"S NOT YOUR TYPE BECAUSE YOU LVOE WOMEN

I've skipped so many episodes, love Iris being main character but damn they are going so long after 'the end'

"THE HARD-TO-DESTROY REPTILE" I knew he would say that thats what you think

"THE FINALE" last fucking episode finally Iris just casually walking away omg I hope dr. blooms top surgery went well oh shit he's fucking dead,, that jerry guy is a bit of a loser tho TAKE THE SHOT omg its babyg- i mean cory i love that he has that stupid smile still uhm pretty underwhelming ending, leaves it open ended I guess but still

Final thoughts: you can really tell when the writers realized they had to keep going and were like..well shit. Things are given reason because they wanted to end it early but then didn’t, and characters brought back when you could have just kept them dead, wait I think that was only ruby.. nevermind. It was just underwhelming but I think I had so much hype for it in mind because of the fandom carrying it so much. It was pretty okay though, glad I didn’t watch every single episode because in all honesty it is just scp stories told in Minecraft and with the added bonus of the characters in the series.

My top 5 favorites tho because I kept going on about that:

1. Cory, obviously the baby

2. Uni,,, I’m really biased guys sorry

3. Iris, she’s so fucking silly I love her

4. Alice, queen I bow down you deserved so much more screen time

5. Triana, her or Laura but Triana at least got development

If you don’t count Uni then actual #5 would have been Dr. Bright, they got me back on the Bright propaganda with that backstory episode.

Yeah, I wanna make some art for this series but I gotta figure out designs and stuff so we’ll see if I ever post anything for this.

[habitsbf]

hi, I really like your account and you always post very interesting things! I would have loved to ask you to explain the seven trials of Habit because since am very new to everymanhybrid and i just cant understand it and i know that it probably plays a big part in the lore

(Sorry if this dosent makes sense i cant really write in english so i used google translation)

AHHH YAY IM GLAD YA THINK SO :D EverymanHYBRID is a pretty confusing series to get into. theres a LOT going on in it and im more than happy to help you understand better!! ALSO SORRY THIS RESPONSE IS SO LATE </333 ive been kind of out of it lately, but im back now!! i can only go so long without posting about HABIT...

the seven trials of HABIT is a tournament that HABIT hosted a couple years ago. everyone involved in the tournament was assigned a new name under "Rabbit #XXX" and 231 participants were accepted into the trials. this included ryan (rabbit #001) who was the first one eliminated, jeff (rabbit #002), evan (rabbit #003), vinny (rabbit #004), and at the time jeff told alex that he forbidden from joining the trials, but alex ignored jeffs warning and joined anyways under rabbit #231. the other participants were viewers at the time who could join via email, but not everyone who sent in an application was accepted into the tournament.

HABIT eventually created his own Twitter account (SEVENTRIALS) and officially welcomed all the rabbits to the tournament. he then divided them all into 3 groups: angora, english lop, and netherland dwarf, which are all breeds of rabbit. the groups were divided by numbers, 1-77 were angoras, 78-154 were english lops, and 155-231 were netherland dwarfs. each group was set to hold 77 members (its clear the number 7 is important to HABIT for some reason, it appears a lot here)

what is the purpose in all this? what is the purpose of the trials? well you see, we dont know exactly. theres been multiple speculations surrounding the purpose and we dont have a real canon verified answer for it.

one thing i would like to mention is a lot of what takes place in the trials matches up to how cults function. a lot of cults require their members to do things that will strip the members of their former lives in order to make them ready for a new path. im gonna list a few examples ↓

TRIAL ONE: the rabbits had film themselves burying a cherished item of their choice.

"LEAVE YOUR LOVED ONE BEHIND."

they had to part with a beloved possession that was important to them in some way. im not sure what jeff buried, but i know evan buried the prettiest knife he had, vinny buried his special edition of ocarina of time, and alex buried a bullet he shot with his dad.

"I REALIZE YOU MAY HAVE LIVES. THAT IS UNFORTUNATE. AND WILL CHANGE."

TRIAL TWO: when congratulating the rabbits who successfully passed trial one, HABIT says "GREAT, YOUVE BURIED SOMETHING. ALL YOU HAVE DONE IS LOST ONE MORE THING THAT MAKES YOU HUMAN."

TRIAL THREE: the rabbits have to lose a friend "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY."

"DO NOT TELL THEM WHY YOU ARE DOING THIS. BLAME IT ON THEM."

the rabbits dont even get to go by their own names, which is required in some cults. some cults make their members change their names as a way to sever ties with their past identity.

whenever the rabbits do something, he wants them to state and make it known "HABIT MADE ME DO IT."

HABIT hasnt said anything about this publicly, but HAS addressed it in 2 private chats he had with some of the rabbits. in the first conversation HABIT stated the purpose of the trials was simply "BODY COUNT", but in the other conversation HABIT stated the trials would come to and end when the last rabbit was eliminated, regardless of whether he had reached the seventh trial.

ALRIGHT THATS ALL IM GONNA LIST i definitely left some details out, but i just wanted to go over the gist of it and give a decent amount of info since this post was getting too long. if i listed every single thing that took place within the trials, this post wouldve been SUPER MASSIVE 😭 buuut if youre still curious about anything, feel free to shoot an ask my way :D

[badendfriendstournament]

Contestants submissions currently open!

Some rules and clarifications!

So, i think the criteria for this tournament needs to be shared, since its not only the classic bad end friends but we also got wayyy more characters here and i would like include your suggestions for the next year's poll.

Rules and basic criteria to count a character as a BEF

I decided to separate this characters in categories so its easier to explain:

"Main/secondary character is now evil!!!"

I think we all get this one. Certain characters end up on the other side of the battle, by choice or maybe bc he didn't have one!! Betraying their morals and everyone else. They maybe became crazy and/or are being mind controlled/ possessed

Now, this has its own subcategories to take account:

"Oh no! I got possesed or mind controlled!"

Very self-explanatory, character that is now controlled by the villain/antagonist.

"Multiversal typa shit"

CANONICAL AUs where the character has turned up evil/in an antagonistic role, by any reason

"TRAITOR!!!!"

When a character changes sides by "choice," they might still be themselves but felt betrayed/are being manipulated/they simply decided to betray the rest for their own benefit.

"Hell nah, they went feral"

Character that got turned into a monster/some kind of creature

"Evil alter ego takes control"

A second personality fully controls the character now.

"Ain't evil, just a failure"

As the tittle "bad end" suggests, we also include characters that ended up meeting a depressing fate without necessarily becoming evil

This one has some restrictions obviously:

The character needs some sort of appearance change

Something REALLY REALLY BAD has happened to them, a significant defeat.

DOPPLEGANGERS

To make it short, a character that is a replica/clone of the mc and their goal must be replaced/ defeat the original one. Its not necessarily required for them to be explicitly "evil," but if they wanna replace the og, they sure do count.

FANON BAD ENDINGS

There are lots of fanon bad endings on this AU, but the general rule is that it has to have some sort of logic on the character's original lore, or at least be based on a fate that is kinda plausible to happen. So we don't end up accepting every single Sans AU that comes across, lol.

These characters can't come out of nowhere. It needs a valid justification to make em accountable. "Theres a chapter where the villain tells the hero to become evil aswell bc they're their father, so in the canon says no, but the BEF is that he says yes." See? It was plausible and justified.

(There sure might be some exeptions to this rule such as Wirt and Marco, but at least Wirt making a deal with the beast doesnt come out of nowhere, technically talking Tom did curse marco on the original series, i know that their whole deal is too stretched but they have been here since the beginning so who are we to kick em off.)

NOT ALLOWED:

Creepypastas: we tryin to stick with canon here, you know? Creepypastas often just turn characters evil and into demons just because, thats not what we are going for!

Role swap AUs: Those definitely are not even considered. Since they're way too far from the actual canon.

Completely non-canon/very unlikely situations: "but he can get possessed by the villain!!" So as every other character, if its extremely rare for it to happen, don't even bring it up.

Robots (in a doppleganger sense): yeah obviously this rule doesn't talk about robot/android characters like murderdrones or something, but it's about robotic clones with not really their own conciousness Just, machines.

Fanon media in general: stuff like comics, fangames, or any fanmade product of any existing media with a bad ending will not be counted. No, you can't submit your fnf mods. im sorry

ABSOLUTELY NO OCS: no original characters, im being REALLY CLEAR WITH THIS ONE. No, your shadow2 the hedgehog original character do not steal cannot be counted.

NO PIBBY GLITCH.

Now that its all clear!

How do i submit a character?

Simple! You just have to send an ask with the character, their media, some of their backstory, and any detail you think is need to be mentioned!

So that would be it! Hope to see your submissions soon!

The submissions will end on april 10th 2025!

[neoncityrain]

were you into pokeask at some point? your style has the vibes.

yep! but uuuh. hmm. i tried to explain why i left but it turned to insane rambling so ill put that at the bottom under a read more if you want lol. in short i was a part of it, but no longer want to associate.

digitally i was phone art exclusive at the time, but if you were a part of the community or watching it for a long time you may know me by any number of these (since they got the most popular):

a lot of what i made suffered and came across as confusing / convuluted, turns out depression and getting actively abused melts your brain. WHOOPS. my stories are probably clearer now.... i still feel like an insane guy at a corkboard every time i explain my lore tho lmao

i still draw most of these characters lol! they mean a lot to me. shine (first image) was especially ironic and funny to me... but thats a story for another time

...

and now the INSANE RAMBLING TM. the big cheese. i know some folks who love reading drama, this ones for you.

as for why ive left:

i got groomed in pokeask and watched a lot of grooming happen. id say i was one of the lucky ones, even- i weaselled out of the guys attention by the fact that it was only through tumblr and i deleted the blog. but it also means that all i had is word of mouth now, so rather than pursuing someone i knew i had no actual evidence against, i started to try helping out others who got in the same situations. i dont regret it, id do it again in a heartbeat, but i was barely even an adult at the time.

i had callout posts made against me a couple times after i, letting my paranoia get the best of me, expressed- lets call it severe frustration??- with the actions of one of the biggest names in that community. admittedly not in the best way by a long fucking shot! but the post blew up. i just wanted that person and their little group away from me, but i did it in an idiotic way without thinking. so i got branded a bunch of the very things i was pissed at THEM for, and a bunch of "so you dont think [person who groomed someone close to me] can change?", and people talking shit behind my back in servers i literally was a part of, and xyz. i cant help but wonder how long my real name that i naively had given out when i was younger was on those posts? it was crazy

im on medication now but i still refuse to be muzzled of someone elses volition so i just dont go back to the community lol. they can think im a pedo all the fuck they want as long as those people stop oozing back into my damn life. its been five years and the last blocked person over this was TWO days ago but its so fucking fine. i already snapped long ago, now im just... tired. im soooo fucking tired.

i genuinely hope, so badly, that its gotten better. pokeask was very, very, VERY important to me and got me though a lot of irl abuse and sometimes even gave me the words i lacked to realise i was being abused. i hope things are okay and the new kids joining for the first time in the same way i did have even half as good a time as i had and none of the bullshit.

and please dont say youre sorry this happened either- i just like to be clear! its not your fault and yea it sucks but theres others who need to hear that more than i do, yk? i am but ye olde tranny sharing tales of yore. theres people actively in situations like this who need the help, i dont

_

and for anyone who may see this post, if youre IN the community and looking to argue against any the shit ive said: ive kept it vague for a reason. this is my personal experience. you can disagree with the way i went about shit, i do too i was a damn idiot about it, but you dont get to claim there was not abuse. thank you!

[the-s1lly-corner]

Hi. I don’t know if I’ve requested here before, but I have a (semi) great idea.

The rundown is somehow Caine found a karaoke machine! This leads to an iha where everyone + reader and Caine sing. (Honestly I just want to see what you’d think they’d sing).

Thank you!❤️❤️

KARAOKE TIME IN THE CIRCUS!

quick warning that you guys are about to be exposed to my music taste because i rarely ever listen to songs that dont fit my tastes so uh uh theres your warning, i know i have a warning somewhere on my acc where i say OOC is a possibility but i think it will really shine through here short post since its just me dropping what song i think each character would sing + links! this actually reminds me, ive had an IHA idea where its basically a musical episode where everyone cant talk, only sing but idk what the actual adventure itself would be and how music would tie in shrugs

CAINE:

as much as i wanna say hello world by louie zong, because AI stuff and bc ive been listening to it for the past hour on loop, i feel like that would be too on the nose and even completely out of character. so instead i suggest jerryterrys version of the boys are back in town

for one i am absolutely obsessed with jerryterrys version of the song above, as well as kiss me (kill me), i highly recommend you guys check out the music videos and put together the lore (CW for body horror in kiss me kill me, though!)

but like, my brain juices are flowing, like. i can see him singing the original, but imagine how unnerving it would be (assuming caine is actually going to be an antagonist) for the words to just. change and come out wrong in front of everyone

also i just want an excuse to gush about jerryterry

i love when people make song covers that sound like the original but theres something so terribly wrong

actually i love songs like that in general

caine gets two, because i can also see him singing charlie's inferno

POMNI:

oddly enough i can see pomni being into vocaloid and/or songs from anime. maybe its because her voice actor has voiced someone in JJBA and that fact is plaguing my mind, but i can now distinctly hear pomni singing some of my favorite songs in these genres... alas i dont have a set song in mind: so i will give you a song that does not fit the above at all, everyones favorite classic; come along with me from AT

JAX:

i give him, the main character by will wood because i can definitely see him singing this to be a little shit as well as genuinely. kind of seeing him enjoy the song

not much to say here since im not totally sure what jax would listen to :(!

RAGATHA:

okay i know i just brought up jerryterry's kiss me kill me, but that reminded me of the original kiss me because it does give me ragatha vibes

KINGER:

stumped on kinger, but first song that comes to mind is able by jack stauber i have nothing to explain this, but i will partially blame me listening to jack stauber a lot to be the reason

ZOOBLE:

cant explain this one either, i think its the tone of the voice but also im getting back into the scary jokes and

yeah

anyways icicles by the scary jokes , i can just see it

GANGLE:

okay so this one is less of a "i can see gangle singing this" and more of a "this makes me think of gangle" but imma put it here anyway since i dont have any other ideas for her !

today today by jack stauber

[babymorte]

@thesimplicityofchance replied to your post “What do you think of the new silent hill from what...”:

That's what I'm so curious about is how silent hill the town will connect. Because when I saw it, I got this running theory in my head silent hill isn't the town so much as it's the fog that like recreates the place where grief is most closely tied. But I haven't looked into the story for the new one so I don't know what they are actually gonna go with. I hope it's not just cults like you mentioned that would feel lazy.

​so imma spoil it a bit if you're okay with that cuz they kind of explained it in that demo thing that came out last summer (the short message) and basically they're calling it the silent hill phenomenon or something like that where it's like an evil or something i guess and it has to do with like ancient witchcraft and rituals kind of and like the fog is actually what causes it or something I don't know the short message was visually amazing but they tried so goddamn hard to make it make sense in the silent hill universe that they completely butchered the lore. also if you dont know the story of the short message look it up because it's infuriating and i have a feeling that silent hill f will be very similar...kinda like they were testing the waters to see if the new sytem and lore would stick kinda like what resi does with their multiplayers and making games with similar stories/settings/mechanics to other games that are coming out (village and re4 remake, every multplayer just being a thing to test game mechanics and not actually being a real game, etc) so like im not really hopeful for the new direction they're taking the lore but they're definitely taking it away from america which is fine i don't care where it takes place i mean i do because the lore now doesnt make sense and that just annoys me but like its also not that deep.

they only briefly mentioned the silent hill we know and love in a note you find like halfway through the short message and if you dont find it theres literally nothing linking the new lore to the old which is why i think this new game should be its own entity like a DMC situation or a yooka-laylee you know? im just so worried that it's gonna be a good game but a terrible silent hill game. like at least with re7 with introducing ethan it still made sense because its a tangible virus and you can follow literally anyone and see how they're handling the situation. silent hill is more nuanced and you kind of need to stick to the script. like look at metal gear survive they tried to change everything about it while still calling it metal gear and it was just not it.

sorry i have a lot of opinions on this and they're literally all over the place

[v3x4t1on]

I followed for the one piece x homestuck meta lore

yk what, anon. as a treat ill explain what ive been thinking about earlier

(spoiler warning for up to wci, i think. its hard to remember what lore was revealed when, sorry.)

for the context of this world, devil fruits probably exist. or they can be psionics, but im honestly not sure which route i wanna go. celestial dragons are for sure fuschiabloods, no doubt. the alternian government is just the marines and are led by highbloods. alternia’s hierarchal system fits pretty well into one piece i’d say. the empress would just be imu, but there would be more than one fuschia running around. perhaps the world is a lot more flooded than alternia and theres different islands so the maps pretty similar to the one piece world. thus, its a bit harder for the troll marines to enforce their laws.

gol d roger was a limeblood who forever changed alternian history by telling people of his hidden treasure, the one piece. this led to a huge wave of pirates, and more open opposition against the empress. limebloods such as gol d roger to this day are still being hunted down by the government due to the threat they pose to it. the oppressive nature of the marines is the exact same as the alternian government, so i hope i dont have to explain it too much.

hancock’s been on my mind a lot lately, her tribe as well. i think they’d all be jadebloods that were once cloistered and now live on their own away from alternian authority. hancock and her sisters were enslaved by fuschias at a very young age, eventually escaping and forming their independent tribe. she has a strong distaste for highbloods.

i felt like jade fit very well for hancock as well as her whole tribe considering jadeblood culture. jadebloods are also pretty rare compared to other castes are are almost always born female. cloistered jades are also isolated from the rest of society to focus on their duties, and have much more pacifist views compared to the rest of the world. yada yada i think it fits perfectly. i also think hancock and her sisters would be rainbowdrinkers… that could be why the rest of the kuja tribe worship/respect them. rainbowdrinkers are regarded as myth in alterian culture, but are worshipped/romanticized by cloistered jades like theyre all twilight fans basically

big moms pirates just feel like theyd be a group of juggalos to me? a huge family of purplebloods obsessed with violence and food.

the vinsmokes… oh man. judge was an indigo scientist who strived to create the most cracked goldbloods; living weapons of destruction that can hold in immense power. goldbloods are often used by highbloods to power things such as ships, and are typically regarded as just living batteries. since goldbloods are known for their great psionics, judge wanted to combine their powerful psionics with the strength of a highblood, since highbloods tend to live longer and have more natural physical strength. sora is forced to participate despite her efforts to foil the experiment. since the vinsmoke children are a mix of goldblood and indigoblood dna, their blood is an odd shade of green/teal; because of this, sanji ends up disguising himself as a tealblood. his abilities are not unlocked until much later, but the genetic modifications done to his body explains his fire psionics and unnatural strength. the other vinsmoke children are some of the mutants permitted by law since theyre being used to benefit the alternian government and empress in the long run.

i will probably write more posts but im just trying to get some of my thoughts out while i still remember. please talk to me about this im down to talk about anything. i can also classpect characters and explain why i think that if anyone wants

also reposting this for reference. please ask questions!!

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