✧˚ · . @explicitsubsidy asked: / [ ordinary things: accepting ]
[ patch ] sender carefully patches one of receiver's wounds
“This certainly isn’t my expertise,” Topaz grunts through clenched teeth as she tightens a bandage carefully, light brows furrowed in concentration. “Let’s not make this a common occurrence. I don’t particularly care about your reputation, but I’d rather not wager on whether rumors are true or not. I’ve never been a gambling woman.” Satisfied with her mediocre work, she sits back on her haunches and wipes the sweat from her brow with a forearm.
“Don’t make me regret investing in your well-being… Kafka.” Oh, she’s more than acquainted with her name. The long list of outstanding warrants rests in the back of her mind, but she opts to lay it to rest for now. After all, it wasn’t her job to take care of the arrests like this.
The young Stoneheart does not cut nearly as striking a figure as her companions, though Kafka does not much care for that. She knows better than to underestimate an influential figure of the IPC, and while there is fun in toying with the bigger dogs to see which may bite, there is something equally enticing about their whelps.
Preying on the week gets boring-- gets easy-- but Topaz herself balances just the right amount of power and naiveté.
"Mm, but you're quite the natural." Kafka's back is to the other, a sign of trust in the language of prey. From a glance she can just make out the movements of the girl's arms as they work a spare roll of gauze. The bandage job is, admittedly, not the worst that the Stellaron Hunter has ever received. She rolls her shoulder once, twice, tests the movement again just to be sure, then shrugs her coat back on.
There is a deliberate slowness to how she rises to stand, how she turns her head to peer at Topaz properly. Her eyes are dark where they gaze over the rim of her glasses, lips curled into a too-sweet smile. "What, don't trust me? I hadn't taken you to be so cruel. Surely you haven't anything better to do than help out a friend."
Her lashes flutter on the last word, the corners of her lips twitching to betray her amusement. This is just as much a game to her as anything else.
She makes to leave, brushing her shoulder against Topaz's as she passes by. It's just a moment, but she makes sure it feels like far longer. Her whisper is heady, just so quiet that it might be easily missed. She knows it won't be.
"Don't worry, I'll be sure to make such an investment worth your while."
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The thing about OCD is I'm sooooo good at brushing my teeth and taking a shower and getting ready for work on time every single day. I'm also sooooo good at trapping myself in a mental torture dungeon and weaponizing any attempt to get out of there by gaslighting myself. "You're crazy, you don't know what you need. However I, the torture machine in your brain, do and you need to listen to me or else you and everyone you love will die painfully and full of regret <3"
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preview is disappointing but gotta say this is kinda sexual
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I don't have any evidence but I feel there a palpable sense of 'desperation' among waifu-brained FromSoft fans who are trying to deal with a game that is not very interested in catering to them.
Certainly there are no female characters who are sexualized themselves, with Malenia, Ranni, and Fia being the most obvious examples of this, their being almost completely unsexualized.
Malenia is a broad-shouldered woman who literally does not have sexual organs, and Ranni who we outright see naked at the end of her questline has a featureless body of cracked ceramics and rope.
It's atypical: Compared to Dark Souls 1 especially the difference is really apparent. (Quelaag, her sister, and Gwynevere off the top of my head)
And you've noticed it, too, right?
That 'desperation' in the shit fanart and posts I'm talking about?
A lot of people appear unwilling to accept those facts for Elden Ring's prominent female characters. (Like outside of wishing to fuck them they're just unfamiliar with drawing or talking about those characters.)
It's arguable even that Elden Ring has no waif-like characters whatsoever. (Although the likes of Roderika and Hyetta dispute this, their lack of popularity notwithstanding.)
A first since even Sekiro had Emma, with Emma's character being a woman who was evidently far too normal to have ever been considered a waifu, despite her having more lines and screentime than the Doll, the Firekeeper, and more, combined!
If this pattern continues with the female characters introduced in the DLC, I wonder what we'll see, then xd.
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