#they fit surprisingly well

[samsayswhatever]

lyrics of my current playlist in combo with dbd characters

[dokidokitsuna]

PARALLEL CANON

Imagine, if you will, the bad end to Side Order: Overlorder wins, everyone is pulled into the Memverse and loses their free will, and what was once a therapeutic VR space becomes an existential prison, grinding down countless souls into passionless sludge.

What ‘PUNISHMENT’ awaits the protagonist now…?

Oddly enough, they remain themselves-- Agent 8’s rebellious spirit must be definitively crushed before they are allowed into the normal workings of the World of Order. So they are locked in the Spire and given a task: complete all 30,000 floors without dying once (no hacks, after all) and they will be “freed”. Of course, each time they fail, they must start over from 1F.

The overwhelming challenge comes with a greatly expanded palette, but even as it becomes more saturated, the strength of their enemies increases in turn, far past the limits of the laws of physics, or even the laws of time and space. The further they go, the harder it becomes to even comprehend what’s going on around them, let alone react quickly enough to win.

But Agent 8 is nothing if not determined. The hope of being freed, and at least being able to learn what happened to Marina, Pearl, Acht, and the rest of the world, is all they have left.

For now they are totally isolated, with only a standard-issue drone and the cries of the Jelletons for company. As far as they know, they are the only sentient being within the Spire…

[sunroseofthewood]

What if Evi was resurrected by Odium?

[cogs-incorporated]

Total Drama Island, welcome cogtestants.

[docksidedoner]

(slaps roof of tugboat) this bad boy can fit so much military trauma in it

[canisalbus]

How tall IS machete exactly?(with and without heels)

Hh this is really really tricky, I'm genuinely truly abysmal at perceiving and comparing the heights, weights and sizes of anything ever. I think he'd be around 6 feet / 180 cm without heels, and the heels are something like 3 to 4 inches / 8-10 cm on average? That's not counting the ears, which could add roughly 7 inches / 18 cm if fully perked up.

Since Vasco's boots have more moderate heels and they're still very equally matched, he would probably be closer to 6'3 / 190 cm with shoes on?

Don't take this as gospel, I'm twisting myself into knots trying to visualize this stuff. They're supposed to be big dogs, both above average height in their circles, but not so tall it would really catch your eye in a crowd.

[val-of-the-north]

Backstory thoughts on Merciless Roenna

Woah here I go again, overthinking random DS2 NPCs no one gives a shit about lol. Today it's Roenna, an invader I liked almost instantly, but it tackles a few other guys as well so here we go.

She was born in Tseldora during its economic boom after the discovery of brightstone. Not among the rich, but the peasants, so she wasn't exactly raised in a comfortable environment. I see her as having had violent tendencies as a child and often acting upon them. You know how some children squash bugs or snails just because they can? Some even come as far as to injure small animals. I think Roenna was a bit like this, as well as being easy to rile up by other kids, with disastrous consequences.

Only, most of the time, children develop these kinds of behaviors because they experience abuse at home and it's their way of lashing out. Let's just say her home situation wasn't that great, and it became even worse when she started being more openly violent. Instead of dealing with their own daughter like good parents should, they dropped her off at Tseldora's church to be raised and "corrected" by religious doctrine. It's the reason why she wears the Priestess set (minus the headpiece), which is also found specifically in that church.

Church life seemingly worked to suppress some of those behaviors... but in reality, she resented literally everything about it, and would simply cultivate her more morbid fascinations when she was alone. She was still mostly taking it out on small animals and insects, though she probably got the urge to stab at least a few people as she grew up lol. But at some point, she met (not yet Ruined) Aflis, who was just a humble mage apprentice at the time. Tseldora seemed to have had a community of them. It's the only place in the game where you can find the white variant of the Hollow Mage enemy, and Aflis wields one of their same Bat Staffs.

They got introduced by way of him seeing her crush some poor creature in her hands, which she tried to deny when first confronted about it. However, she quickly realized he wasn't judging her action, but rather mourning the loss of a perfect brewing ingredient, which would catch her interest a fair bit. So they started talking from that point onwards.

She then began sneaking out to perform weird occult things with him and his master at the time, which is where she learned how to brew concoctions of all kinds. Her tendency to dismember things finally proved useful, as when potion ingredients weren't parts of plants they were usually parts of living creatures. So Aflis left it to her to do the honors... not because he couldn't, but because it allowed her to waste some of her suppressed urges in a productive manner, which felt really liberating for her.

Basically, she had finally found an outlet AND a place where she wasn't considered an affront to the Gods for parts of herself she cannot control, which is also one of the deciding factors as to why she chose to leave with Aflis when he was called to Aldia's Keep for his assistance. Sadly, she could never fully join whatever wizard circle he was part of, either because they simply didn't have the means to "rescue" her from her position as priestess, or because it was an all-male group. After all, it does seem like there were only guys there.

Regardless, she kept attending these meetings in secret, and had to balance her two lives accordingly.

Despite being a pretty maladapted individual she was surprisingly receptive and nice to people like her, pushed into a clerical role by their families just so that they could get rid of a burden... I like to think it's what happened to (Pilgrim) Bellclaire too. This is based on the fact she actually owns a Priest's Chime she never uses. Pilgrims are also people who travel somewhere for religious reasons, so her connection to clerics doesn't stop there.

There wasn't anything as deeply wrong with her as with Roenna, but she was still considered not worth the effort by whoever her family was. That is why an older Roenna would take an interest in the younger apprentice cleric and nudge her towards Aflis and his tutelage. And if obtuse gender roles were the reason Roenna could never formally join that wizard circle, Aflis would make sure to completely ignore that limitation for Bellclaire. She is wearing their white, male-only wizard robes after all!

(Though that may also be a gender-nonconforming moment, it's hard to tell lmao. I guess it's up to anyone to decide... honestly, for more on her (and Felicia the Brave), check out this fun post from my friend @katyspersonal [x]. We love these minor characters a lot lol)

Though, unlike Roenna, Bellclaire wasn't ostracized by her fellow clerics. She was simply a bit odd with her mannerisms. Meanwhile, Roenna had always been viewed differently by her clerical peers because of her reputation as a violent person, her volatile personality, and her tendency to disappear for a long while, which started a bunch of crazy rumors about her. They mostly thought she was out there murdering people when no one was looking (though to be fair, she probably thought about severely injuring some very exasperating individuals at least once in a while)

All the more reasons to finally ditch the clergy in favor of mad and gruesome experiments in Aldia's funhouse... and she must have risen to the top quite steadily with how useful she was. She does wear a Warlock Mask, which I don't assume they handed out to absolutely everyone. She had found a place where she belonged, after so long...

Her friend Aflis also became someone quite important for the Keep. He wears the Dragon Sage Hood, which denotes the rank of Archmaster, an incredibly high position.

And hey, both seemed to have left in time to not be consumed by evil, hungry parasitic spiders! But I doubt they would have succumbed to them even if they still lived there...

So yeah, this was a fanfiction and a half, but I think this kind of background fits her quite well.

[brown-sugar-89]

anon is right, let's all give creampuff cannoli a collective hug

He wouldn't mind just 2 or maybe 3 of these, he's got that single dad side of a personality

[quattrovageena]

today's menu, once again: regarding the logistics of hxh duos relationships

so. ging and pariston. paying a little bit of attention to how they interact, we bump into what can be seen as a contradiction, namely their closeness (or lack thereof)

regard:

pariston about ging

his internal monologue seems to imply he is learning/confirming (note the 'do' in 'we do think alike) something for the first time. this isn't the sort of thing you'd expect someone to figure out after having spent a great deal of time together. it sounds a lot like pariston is finding this out as the reader is too, which is peculiar. perhaps the zodiac meetings weren't great for getting to know ging (especially if he's usually absent)

on the other hand, however, ging about pariston...

complicated. note, this translation is unfortunate in that it leaves out a crucial detail (which is that ging is actually referring to pariston as the shortened 'paris') that just furthers this sort of contrasting view they have of their relationship; ging calls him by a nickname, pariston politely and perhaps professionally goes with the distant 'ging-san'. going back to the screenshot, however... this is interesting. if it were just that they were coworkers like any other zodiacs, calling it a complicated history seems a bit much. so what gives?

the type of scenario i can picture is one in which they know of each other a lot longer than they have actually interacted (like a summer friendship, across many years but only ever meet occasionally) which is fascinating. was communication done through netero (who might've enjoyed the idea of these two butting heads -> actually the 'we do think alike' might very likely be a confirmation of something netero himself told pariston), building an image of the other up in their minds. were they constantly throwing a wrench in the others plans without direct contact? potentially, ging and pariston both seem to agree the latter really wanted ging's attention for ages, so was the fact ging is so distant a factor in fueling pariston's strange focus on him? much to ponder.

final sidenote: there might also be a difference in how confident they are of having understood the other. pariston seems to strongly believe in ging's qualities and skills (duh), but be more cautious about making judgements about the man himself too early, meanwhile ging, while having a good grasp on paristons modus operandi...

...might be a bit overconfident...

(also hehe note the smug-fruity pose in ging's mental image of pariston. definitely much to ponder)

[ccloudchan]

Monster High theme song but it’s an mv of Castlevania and every time she sings “drop dead gorgeous” Alucard is on screen….especially S2 Alucard.

Edit: HOW CAN I FORGET OLROX!!! OLROX IS BEAUTIFUL!!

[cruelplatonic]

current headcanon is that vox grew up in a midwestern coal mining town. he wanted everyone to think he was a born and raised big city guy but no, he's from a tiny unincorporated town in indiana

[rush-the-stars]

perhaps it is time to dust off the western omegaverse au with wolfwood. perhaps.

[narcissosbythepool]

PriceGaz - Breath of Life

[nights-at-crystarium]

behold,

I made another gw2 bootleg and took five billion pics of him (it's difficult without gpose and mods). Sadly his superior shb appearance isn't really possible with current hair options.

You can see my other xiv guys made in gw2 here C:

[ifindus]

Culture - for the second day of @hetalia-rarepairweek ✨

I have recently been told about the British superstition of magpies and how of saluting magpies will ward off bad luck. The saluting is to show respect to the bird often connected with bad omens so that nothing bad will happen to you 🍂

[malaidarling]

25.8.24 // trying a new cafe and a new method for studying vocab. i think i really like it.