#tho ultimately even if this ones the most cliche i think it works best

[side-of-honey]

waiter waiter!! more sharpshootin' clover au!!! (real talk you've combined my two favourite things and i love you for it. your art is super awesome!! keep it up tiger!!)

Aaaaaa thank you so much!!! I didn't expect so many people to enjoy it but I really appreciate it haha :D

And, well, since you asked... have this :)

I wasn't planning on making a whole comic whoops.. but here's Martlet! Clover's guardian who runs a woodworking shop. She does here best to set a good example and be supportive, but in doing so can sometimes accidentally put pressure on them.

[teruthecreator]

if you're looking for something to rant about, do u have anything to say to someone who genuinely hated amnesty? i thought it was really uncreative compared to balance and it didn't scratch that Taz itch for me.

i mean, ur asking someone who now literally Cannot re-listen to amnesty bc of the trauma i retained from the ending, so like. cant blame you! i think out of all three of their arcs, it was the one with the most potential but the least amount of effort done to access that potential 

i, honestly, was never the biggest fan of balance. high fantasy bullshit has never been my cup of tea. i didn’t read h*rry p*tter or lotr when i was a kid bc it all seemed so Boring to me. i stuck to settings based in our reality, but with a fun twist! like the series of unfortunate events, which i read three times over

basically all of this to say i preferred the premise of amnesty over balance. balance was like high fantasy bullcrap that slowly merged into sci-fi bullcrap, while the premise of amnesty was like spooky and mysterious!! but still grounded in some sense of normalcy, which is an enticing premise to me! maybe it was a little cliched, small town in the middle of the woods has Something Off, but i would argue most of balance was cliches too. 

my biggest problem w amnesty now, looking back, is griffin genuinely did not give a shit. you can feel it in the effort he put into making the narrative, you can SEE IT in the end, and it’s just really evident throughout that griffin Did Not Fucking Care. which, if you don’t give a shit, don’t make a story that is going to make others give a shit bc it’s only going to end up unsatisfying for the both of us in the end. 

i think talks happened behind the scenes, and it was ultimately decided that travis would dm the next big arc. but, dust was a bust (as he said he couldnt maintain mystery for that long) and the other idea he had was barely in the works. so, to fill time before trav was ready with graduation, griffin decided to dm amnesty. i don’t think griffin wanted to do this; i think he was tired of dming and tired of making stories. griffin SOUNDS tired throughout most of the ending so like, it can be assumed this was a perpetual concept. they also literally admitted to having graduation ready to go Right When amnesty went to shit, so i think this is a really solid theory. but, even still, i think it’s a goddamn shame the amount of potential they wasted to jump to graduation asap 

but i think amnesty has better characters than balance, ill be deadass. i cared WAYYYY more for the amnesty trio than the balance. balance was just boring men, while the amnesty pc’s had like. legitimate flavor. flavor that was squandered, mind you, but flavor nonetheless. 

ned is the best character they’ll ever make for a pc, and i will live and die by that. ned had an intricate and complicated backstory that explained parts of his present personality while still leaving some mystery to him. every interaction he had with the other pcs or npcs felt both Genuine and Not, but given his character being a crook it’s literally the most accurate out of the three. my biggest problem with amnesty is ned got squandered to appeal to griffin’s inclinations towards big story tropes and sci-fi bullshit

aubrey’s Whole Shit relied on her understanding her greater power. duck’s Whole Conflict was coming to terms with his greater power even when he has a long-standing history of problems related to it. sound familiar? 

it’s magnus all over again! which, tho it was trav’s character, you can tell in balance that griffin was heavily aiding trav in fulfilling this greater fantasy

in my opinion, ned was what the show should have focused on. because ned’s story had NOTHING to do with high-fantasy themes or sci-bullshit that griffin used as a crutch in both balance AND amnesty. ned’s story was about genuine connection, re-discovery of self, and the lengths it takes to forgive and let live. ned’s story was the closest to the human experience any of the pc’s has gotten thus far (graduation tbd), and you know what they did? 

they fucked it. 

they fucked it for angst bait, and for that i literally can’t even hear ned’s voice for half a second without being filled with anger and sadness. 

and don’t even get me STARTED on the wack bullshit griffin and justin did in terms of the relationships in amnesty. SORRY, HUH??? THE FUCKING COP WHO SPENT THE ENTIRE ARC TRACKING DOWN THE CRYPTIDS HE LIVED WITH AND LITERALLY WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN TORTURING MAMA GETS WITH BARCLAY??? THE GUY WHO NEVER WANTED TO INTERACT WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE???? 

and to any d*ckn*vas out there just kno ur opinion is shit. i have a whole Essay as to why that relationship is a genuinely Bad Representation of a relationship and i’ll make ur broke bitchasses go find it. duck was a TEEN and minerva was a GROWN ADULT when they met; even if they got together when they were way older it still means they met and interacted at the equivalency of when you meet your high school gym teacher. and the power imbalance that existed for the entirety of their friendship bc it was mentor/student that y’all just Glance over. yeah, right. i kno yall dumb bitches had really gross teacher crushes I See It. 

but given ALL OF THAT, do i think balance is better than amnesty? 

nah. imo balance was boring and i only really started to care by stolen century. amnesty i cared from Right Off The Bat and only lost it after they ruined their own show

so yeah lmao that’s it ghrbjhrgbhjrgbhj

[vivien-dot-exe]

Ask meme - every todoroki :eyes:

lmao BET

(this is super big huge I’m so sorry askdfjsh)

Shouto

NOTP

I don’t?? really think I have one. I’m pretty alright w/ all shouto ships tbh.

BROTP

todomomo. I get the ships but I kinda see em as them Good Supportive Friends that are just close enough that everyone Thinks They’re Dating n cannot believe they’re not but like. they never would. (am I projecting my best friendship onto shouto?? Maybe. fuck off.)

OTP

rn?? enjishouto lmao. I love love enjishouto man,, favorite child lovin,,,,

second choice

I ~guessss~ todobaku?? but tbh I’m not all that into most shouto ships. like we neutral most days. we just stay lovin bakugou + denying they’re friends???? so cute man,,

tied though is reishouto bc mommy kink. I won’t sit here and lie to you I just love gentle mommy kink sm

fluffy pairing

cliche fan fave - tododeku. we love a pair of supportive boyfs. I still do like seeing some tododeku art sometimes cause it makes our heart warm

angsty pairing

enjishouto again - I play things for angst so fuckin much dude,, if I can’t play my otp for angst then it probably isn’t gonna stick.

poly ship

can I say like. natsu/fuyu/enji/shouto. cause siblings that thirst over their hot dad together stay together

however hawks/enji/shouto is an incredibly tasty rarepair. there’s only one fic for it on ao3 but it’s So dang good,, 

weirdest pairing

I guess still enjishouto!! I have a very small amount of ships for the boy, man,,

Fuyumi

NOTP

n/a once again. every fuyumi ship I’ve seen to date or conjure up from crack shipping is cute bc she’s cute. I love seeing her in general.

BROTP

lowkey?? fuyuhawks. I can see them being excellent friends. I know romance takes are also good but. consider this: them chillin and acting goofy.

OTP

fuyunatsu. no question. it was my v first fuyumi ship and I will go down with it. (more explanation below)

second choice

fuyumi/miruko is really good!! maybe that’s just me being all ‘lesbians good’ @ the few fics n art pieces I’ve seen but Still.

fluffy pairing

reiyumi. we Love a girl n her mom huggin tight n kissing softly.

angsty pairing

fuyuenji. I’ve seen such good angst w/ these two man,, makes my heart heart Good ya feel?? them sad n guilty daddy’s girl feels Get Me

poly ship

sibling thorst: the ship (fuyu/natsu/enji/shouto)

weirdest pairing

if I was to make up a weird pairing,,,, bakuyumi. they interact Once but I like ships that are basically ‘we cook and it’s romantic’ (read: natsuki from ddlc anyone?). it’s a lil crack shippy and I’ve never ever seen any material for it, but wouldn’t it be cute to have bakugou cook w/ a cute older woman n have a cute romantic time while he’s all tsundere?? sighs wistfully,,

Natsuo

NOTP

hmm,, I’m honestly thinking I should take this option out. I really do think it cute to think the whole ass todofam w/ Anybody you know??

BROTP

natsushouto. like wow great job viv takin it Literally but as we don’t know much about natsu’s college life, I can’t exactly elect a best friend or nothin, and I Really love the concept of natsu and shouto acting like regular sibs. fighting n competing but hyping each other up, ya know?? sighs wistfully,, I actually really love brotherly dynamics a lot. like shipping em is usually my first thought but I also just???? like seeing em play around n be normal sometimes lmao. is that weird?? that it makes me happy?? idk.

OTP

fuyunatsu!! I love the concept of them constantly being there for each other, plus childish curiosity?? if you got sibs you know what that shit’s like. “you wanna try kissing??”

like listen not to be gross about it either but like. Puberty w/ that like entirety of the house to themselves. you can not tell me horny things never happened.

second choice

enjinatsu has Mad potential. I don’t get to see a lot of content for them but they make my heart happy. love the idea of both them being sweet to each other slowly in a path to forgiveness dotted with confessions and soft embraces,,,, or of course guilty dad thirst. both are Tasty

fluffy pairing

fuyunatsu is Cute. listen I want em to cuddle and support each other though they’re so different. like foils, ya know?? I am very weak for natsu having a weakness for fuyumi’s gentleness (though that could be said for the whole todofam. stan fuyumi)

angsty pairing

hmm,, I guess that’d be enjinatsu?? path to forgiveness enjinatsuo I can see being v feelsy and Tasty.

poly ship

sibling thorst Again.

weirdest pairing

man I don’t think any of these could be counted as Not weird. enjinatsu maybe?? as their dynamic is rather complicated n versatile + parent/child. I think the Least weird ship I’ve ever considered w/ him though would be natsuhawks, but I’ve not seen a lot of material for them nor do I have any ideas for dynamics. they just look nice together.

Touya (dabi)

NOTP

okay I’ll be real w/ you I lied I do have One notp and it’s dabihawks (hotwings). it’s. it’s okay, I’ll admit, but it kinda squicks me out in canon verses. like, reverse aus, genderswap aus, most aus really that slightly shift the dynamic, I’m good w/ dabihawks, but Not In Canon or any approximations of it.

(big rant on why, feel free to skip)

I guess antis just kinda fucked it up for me?? I was kinda neutral when it first was proposed, ya know like ‘oh that’s cute!! not for me but more power to ya!!’ but then dabihawks shippers started getting in hawksdeavor shippers’ faces n giving the usual arguments against age gap ships (as if a villain/hero ship was so uwu pure n unproblematic), and then there came the ‘hawks will betray the heroes and become a villain for dabi’ theories from them and it just. that was 2018 and it Still makes me uncomfortable to think about. 

I very much enjoyed hawks’ double agent thing!! but I knew an infiltration mission would end with betrayal from the beginning and that’s what I liked about it. him doing the absolute Most for the heroes even if it feels scummy to do so. I was Devastated for a moment when I saw hawks’ first meetup w/ dabi and it looked like he might be spying for them, but then we were quickly assured that it was a ploy and I was like Oh My God Thank God I Near Had A Heart Attack. but other people, the loudest group being dabihawks shippers, were dissatisfied with this and wanted canon to take a different direction and I Dunno Man, I just had very strong emotions about that and still do. 

I love hero hawks in all his double agent endeavor fanboy glory and people wanting to take it a different direction in canon felt like a blatant kind of???? idk defacing of character almost, even though that’s a mega mega mega dramatic way to put it loL don’t ask me why I got such strong feelins about it I couldn’t explain it if I wanted. I’d love to go back to being chill about it I really really would.

BROTP

idk, I think I might not???? have one for him. he seems kinda all or nothing to me, very intense w/ his emotions. if I was to Name one off the top of my head, maybe maybe togadabi, but even then I’m kinda hm on it.

OTP

first and favorite dabi ship is 1000% shigadabi. not even in most canon settings; I just like them chilling and being lovey (and going on large scale crime dates).

second choice

probably shoutodabi?? not Big on most dabi ships but love that older bro angst.

fluffy pairing

shigadabi bby!! if I wanna imagine dabi soft ever then shigadabi is a Lovely escape, canon absolutely notwithstanding.

natsutouya is also a good one to imagine, what w/ the image of them cuddling making my heart Warm

angsty pairing

shoutodabi. I saw this one reunion fic of them and I had So Many Emotions oh my god.

dabihaul is also a good candidate, though it’s less Angst more hurt little comfort. (not to mention I don’t ship it much myself lol a friend sold me on their interp) it’s not very emotional as I like my angst, more just got them whump aesthetics.

poly ship

good question. I’ve highkey not thought about it smH - maybe if I just,,,, *takes shoutodabi n shigadabi n smooshes them together*

idek how that’d work as a dynamic dude I Don’t KnoW LMAO

weirdest pairing

I guess enjidabi?? I think about it from time to time but I dunno how the dynamic would work but. very angsty whatever it is. lots of apology sexy times in my mind’s eye.

Rei

NOTP

n/a - rei is definitely one I will take any ship for.

BROTP

enjirei - I’m doing this out of order so I wrote the explanation on enji’s lmaO see below for details

OTP

oh man otp???? good question,, I’m a v big fan of reishouto tho. gentle mom lovin,,

second choice

rei/inko is also a good one!! something I still think is very cute from my early days in the fandom. just a couple of moms supporting each other and going on cute park dates,,

fluffy pairing

rei/inko is def the fluffiest. however, it can be argued that rei/anybody has good fluff material. rei is so,,,, ethereal lookin???? she looks like a flower or a ghost,, like breeze rustling sheer curtains in an empty sun lit room. gentle on the eyes but hella poignant. I can imagine her bein soft w/ everyone n everyone.

angsty pairing

reitouya. For Sure. rei taking care of her lost eldest who’s finally come home, ya know???? Sobs,,,,,,,, I don’t see shippy content of them ever but reunion fics/art Get Me

poly ship

this one might be a little weird, but inko/rei/mitsuki. I’ve only seen material for it Once but in my head it’s taking the cute mom ships of inko/rei and inko/mitsuki to make the Ultimate Supportive Mom Ship. and maybe masaru is there too supporting this bc I think he’s really good tbh I don’t want him sad or lonely.

weirdest pairing

uhhhhhh,,, idk man probably polyship is the only “Weird”/super rare one. mitsuki ain’t exactly gentle mom:tm: after all, but I think her spice goes well w/ it all, ya know?? inko n rei being gentle and mitsuki being the hype who arranges more fun dates n such for them to all take a cuddle pile nap afterwards,, and you know she’s the hype woman for the trio. 

Enji

NOTP

never met an enji ship I didn’t like tbh. they’re all good and I will fight on that.

BROTP

highkey?? enjirei. I ship em romantically sometimes, but I really like the idea of them divorced and getting other lovers but supporting each other fullheartedly. love that solidarity. like shit I could see them still living together n such but they just. drop the husband/wife shtick and support each other like friends.

OTP

enjishouto!! y’all been knew.

second choice

hawksdeavor is a longstanding fave. we love that fanboy/idol dynamic sm,,

fluffy pairing

oh jeez fluffy,, maybe enji/burnin?? I can see her being very energetic n supportive and being rewarded w/ soft forehead kisses. soft boss crush even if it’s one sided.

angsty pairing

both enjishouto and hawksdeavor provide Wonderful angst. the flavor is Immaculate y’all should try it.

poly ship

enji/the rest of the todofam/hawks/happiness. pls lma o

I am very much an enjibowl enthusiast, can y’all tell?? I just want him Smothered in love sometimes.

weirdest pairing

hmm,, enji/tsukauchi. I saw a doujin for it once and it was Lovely. an absolute crackship, but I love the hero/detective dynamic of toshinori/tsukauchi, but toshinori just doesn’t give it enough Spice in most interps I see. now enji being tsun n aggressive + level headed detective tsukauchi,, that was a tasty doujin for sure.

[tumblunni]

Also can i just give a big thumbs up to Blue's ridiculously sassy pose? Itll be so cool to see his infamous attitude portrayed in a much more animated game!

Also can i just add that i like it for being like 0.4% of evidence towards my headcanon of him being gay? Like yeah i know that "acting flambouyant" is the most minimal and stereotypical evidence but when youre starved for lgbt representation you start clinging to minor shit like this.

I just really like the idea of his jerkass behaviour stemming from being closeted and trying too hard to overcompensate, and him not really hating Red but actually just trying to pretend he does. Like.. The real person he's angry at is his own feelings. Cos i know its a cliche at this point to always ship any shonen character with his rival, but really it is kind of an inherant part of the trope? I dont understand how these writers could write this overexaggerated arch nemesis who's always doing EVERYTHING for the sake of one-upping you, always being everywhere and seemingly having no life aside from this. It just looks like he really really cares about what you think?? It comes off as less "he's stuck up" and more "he needs constant reassurance for his low self confidence and for some reason he demands it comes specifically from you." It really really hits that relateability for closeted teens. Making up excuses why this isnt really a crush, making up excuses to hang out with them all the time for TOTALLY NON CRUSH RELATED REASONS

And I just feel itd help the whole plot make more sense with how they say Blue used to be Red's best friend since they were babies, and he just suddenly started acting all bratty very recently. Why dont the games draw more attention to that, honestly? It must have been really traumatic for Red to suddenly lose his best friend and be goddamn bullied by the guy for seemingly no reason! And yeah, sometimes kids do just end up changing into someone horrid when theyre in that nebulous 10 to 12 age range, and then they mature and regret what they did. But i think in a fictional setting that kinda doesnt fly? Its not very good catharsis to have "he changed his mind and became good offscreen and you dont get to see it". So imagining what might have happened between the end of gen 1 and the start of gen 2 is a good way to make up for it.

I imagine in this hypothetical rewrite it would start with us just being introduced to Big Asshole Blue and assuming thats all he's ever been. But we start getting hints that Red is more upset about this than it seems? And we get flashbacks to Blue once Not Being A Jerk, and get to feel Red's worry that he must have done something to make his best friend start hating him. And maybe along the way we get to see Blue's jerkyness rewritten to seem more like he's just a normal kid struggling with some stuff and making the wrong choices, rather than legitimately evil. Maybe we get to see him being sad or self hating, and Red tries to reach out to him but Blue is so deep in his delusions already that he's all "i bet you just want to laugh at me!" Like we get to see that from Blue's perspective we're the rival, yknow? His assumption that you hate him is why he distanced himself. His assumption that you'd be disgusted in him if you knew his secret. Its like he preemptively broke off the friendship to avoid the pain of you doing it? And then also maybe add some more events of the two rivals begrudgingly teaming up to save the day, and having other bonding experiences that show that the friendship is still there deep down.

So then naturally the ending would play out the same with you defeating him, but instead of just his grandpa yelling at him and us being told he listened (offscreen) and changed his ways (offscreen) we like.. Actually..see that. You could have Blue breaking down and showing some genuine emotion during this moment, actually crying because he really did try so hard and he still lost. And because he linked his entire self worth to this toxic masculinity and idea that he had to be the strongest to even be worth anything. And he's just so convinced that Red is gonna mock him now and it'll be the end of the closest thing he had to a way they could stay close. And then his grandpa comes in and is all "bla bla bla you just didnt love your pokemon enough", and that rubs salt in the wound. But maybe the change is that at this point Red actually stands up for Blue? And talks about all the good stuff he did during the game and how he's still the same great guy he became friends with, even if they've drifted apart. And he worked just as hard to get here, gramps!!

So that really shocks Blue to his core and he realizes how stupid he was being, and him and Red become friends again. And then over time it would lead to Blue becoming more comfortable with his self confidence and coming out about his sexuality, and eventually we have the bratty but ultimately good dude we see in the future games. And also they are totally married, yes.

Seriously tho i can understand why people dont like this ship tho, cos a lot of the fics for it (and the related ash/gary one) are more like "lol somehow it is sexy for a guy to be a complete asshole to you for no reason" rather than giving him an actual redemption plot and yknow..establishing that he actually cares about the guy he is kissing. I think rival romances can be great if done well, but man there's so much problematic shit if it falls short of the mark!

[starvedfortime]

for people who are asking me for tips and tricks for apex, I have a few that I've learned along the way of my one year almost two year process of playing Apex

use shield cells before syringes

don't be afraid to use ammo (if you have lots of it)

if your teammate is down and you're in a team fight, do not worry about them, you can pick them up later! (unless you're lifeline)

the same goes if they go down all the way, grab their banner later

grab lots and lots of shield cells compared to syringes (I usually do two shield batteries 8 shield cells four syringes two med kits, although some people like to go almost all shield batteries and shield cells)

if it's first and second-round, it's okay to stay in the ring to loot boxes, it won't damage you as much as third or fourth or so on and so on(I used to be really scared of the ring)

if you're getting shot, slide and zig zag a lot and take cover (even if it's a small rock)

if you have an auto gun don't go for purple scopes!!!(unless its digital threat or you wanna use single fire)

r301 and flatline have both auto and single fire without hop up

play around with the guns in the firing range!! see what setup fits your playing style or tactic that you're going for, for that match. (not that it matters anymore in season 6)

me personally I like to go for either r-301/prowler, r-99/prowler, flatline/prowler, double prowler/r-99/r-301, prowler/hemlok. i could go on but if you can't tell already my favorite gun is the prowler(this was before season six)

go in the firing range and learn how each gun recoil works (example: r99 while aiming recoils up and to the right, so aim down and left)

don't loot in one area for most of the round, hop through different areas

if you're looting a box, just skim through it for what you need (syringes, add-ons like mags or stocks, ammo) unless you know for sure no one is around

don't play one character for too long, youll be stranded if you have no back up

once you get comfortable and know the basics of one character, try to practice another (Im comfortable playing Wattson, Loba, Octane Lifeline and kind of bloodhound, so now I am practicing Mirage)

you may not think of it, but choose skins that blend in with the map. like beige or green or white. or even black! (just an option tho)

there's no such thing as over using your abilities, unless it gives out your position.*cough* gibby *cough* bangalore *cough*

so don't be afraid to use bloodhounds scanner a lot. or lobas jumpdrive or wraiths phasing or mirage decoy or octane stim...you get the point

for the love of God if you are playing lifeline, heal your teammates!!! don't let your teammate revive your other teammate. you do it, thats kind of why lifeline was made

speaking of lifeline, if you see her reviving someone, shoot her, not the person who is getting revived. (you can easily kill them because they will have low health when they are up)

when you're up against an enemy, and you have to reload, DON'T

sounds kind of weird saying it, but if you have another auto gun switch guns. you really don't want to be caught while reloading when you can easily just switch to another gun.

try getting guns that arent the same as your teamamtes that way you dont run out of ammo.

just suggesting

if your style is more campy, try getting an auto paired with a sniper or if you still want double auto, get an auto of your choice and then either a flat line or r301 with purple scope (as i said above, you can switch from single to auto with those two)

every ammo type has different effects. better understanding of what I mean; this video explains it (very old, so not sure if its still the accurate)

if someones being toxic, mute them. some people say it doesnt bother them but it can still ruin the whole mood. you want to be excited and happy to play not angry or upset.

imma be a basic bitch here, but be positive. i sound so cliche saying it, but when im positive or have teammates hyping me up i do SO much better

ping loot for your teamates, know what they have. that way when you get in a fight theyll be just as prepared. its not fun when you or another teamate gets down because one person has white shields while someone has purple

if you don't use grenades that much or feel like you should be using more grenades and you play on ps4, set your settings to grenadier (im sure its the same for xbox but im not sure)

dont. ever. grab. a Mozambique. unless you're like some god or whatever just dont. as of now, Mozambique is THE worst gun ever. if you have no other choice grab it but if you find aNYthing else, switch it. heck, a p2020 is better

please dont destroy lobas black market unless everyone has gotten something. I've had so many people hit my black market and i haven't even grabbed anything nor has my other teammate. let the lobas destroy it.

tips for certain gear

give gibby and lifelines the golden backpack, they can revive faster and better with it

if there is a lifeline, give her the golden knockdown she can help revive downed teamates

the golden helmet shortens the cooldown on lengends tactical

prioritize giving wattson and caustic the golden helmet, more traps the better

prioritize giving the golden helmet to bloodhound, rev, crypto, gibby, rampart and lifeline if you wanna push

giving the golden helmet to characters like loba, path, wraith, bangalore, octane, and mirage are more for escaping

using finishers gets all your shields back

tips for each legends (from my experience)

wattson:

place fences behind doors if you are in a building

if you find an accelerator, use it right away unless you already have your ultimate

she will get full ultimate with an accelerator

if you start to get in the fight, immediately put down your ultimate

make sure you have backup accelerators(alteast two or more)

place your fences in zigzags if you are camping

if you do that the enemies have no choice but to walk through or go away (unless you don't have your ultimate down, then they can just throw grenades and destroy them)

grenades and any incoming artillery will be destroyed if you have your ultimate down

no matter what kind of building you're in, always put down fences

if you're playing her or have her on your team and you get hurt and have no shields and barely any health, make sure the ultimate is down and heal yourself first before using shields

healing yourself first is more efficient than using shields first since her ultimate heals shields, you can hit two birds with one stone (unless you have a phoenix kit)

have the habit of placing fences down fast, it does not matter if its precise

if youve just put down fences and decide to go somewhere else, you can pick them up so you don't have to wait for them to come back

place fences at the end of the portal, like caustic↓

lifeline:

if you're the only one low on health, do not use your drone, use syringes

I see a lot of lifeline players do this but they never put down D.O.C and i don't understand why

always put down your drone if your team is low on health or in a fight or reviving, if you're just looting and running around, don't put it down you never know when somethings gonna happen

you can use lifelines ultimate to trick people (the care package has a beam and when it opens it goes away so you can tell if someone is nearby if you see the care package light go away)

you can use the care package as a way of cover from bullets

open up the blue bins!!!!!!

loba:

you can use her jump drive to get into windows and tight spots

you can't run while doing jump drive though

her ultimate has a long range so go to places like the cities or the cage to get the most out of her ultimate

there's really no point if you put it in a small tiny place where you can easily loot everything within like 30 seconds

like lifeline she can use her ultimate as a way to block bullets, but it can be destroyed

use accelerators

octane:

I know his whole point is being fast but do not go so far ahead of your team(you can easily run into it an enemy squad or have your teammates left behind)

you don't need as many syringes as you would with any other character, he can heal but very slowly.

if you don't have a wattson or a caustic you can place the jump pad in front of the door and they can't get it in

unlike caustic or wattson, his jump pad never goes away so you can make as many jump pads as you want

if you are octane or have an octane on your team and you're down, you can use the jump pad to get away

caustic:

placing his traps next to the doors is perfectly fine but it's best to place them right in front of the door(like right where the door and wall meet)

just like wattson, he can pick up his traps

if you're playing with a wraith, always put down a trap at the end of her portal (that way if enemies follow you, they'll get gassed)

if you're camping in a building and enemies are trying to get in but they know you have the gas traps laying down, you can shoot them to release the gas

at the bottom of his traps there's a little green light that you can shoot that will destroy them (you don't have to hit exactly there but make sure you hit the bottom) you can only do this to enemy caustics

bloodhound:

if you hear any sort of noise, no matter how loud it is, and you know its not your teammates, use your scan

you can see footsteps but your teammates can't, ping them but dont spam

you have to time the ultimate right or else you'll just get shot down

using the ult has an animation, so enemies can shoot you during that moment

you can scan and see who the real mirage is by seeing if they have a triangle in the middle of their chest. the fake ones won't have it

gibraltar:

if you don't have a lifeline throw down your dome and it will revive teammates faster(along with shields and heals)

i honestly dont ever play gibby, like at all. along with bangalore.

banagalore:

she kinda useless

i love her but, my god

shes so boring 😭 i feel so bad

not much to her really

she can run fast when she gets shot

she REALLY needs a change or huge buff

wraith:

she really good if shes paired with a wattson or caustic or revenant

use her portal to get away from the zone or to bait enemies into the zone

if you ever hear her voice warning you, immediately warn your teamates

pathfinder:

use his zipline to get out of situations

get up on higher ground with his grapple or zipline

use the map beacons to see where your next ring is, that way you can see where you can loot before the ring closes in

you can grapple enemies, ziplines and cryptos drone

mirage:

the next best person to revive someone is mirage, he goes invisible when respawning and reviving teammates

send a decoy and go the other way

use decoys to see where the enemies are if you don't have a bloodhound or a crypto

crypto:

don't stay in drone mode for too long that's when you're the most vulnerable

don't take forever trying to scope out the area that your team is in

just see what's around you and logout of your drone

the best way to use his drone (in my opinion) is to scout the area and then go up high and look down in a birdseye view so you can see almost everything around you

his drone EMP can remove 50 shields, traps, and slow down enemies

if you're going to use your drone, stand in a corner or behind something so you don't get caught

revenant:

take advantage of his wall climb and get on higher ground

don't throw his tactical right at the person. if they are running throw it in front or behind them

use his tactical as traps, meaning; if there's only two doors throw one at each door

put his totem somewhere safe, enemies can shoot at it

that's all I really have on the legends. I'm starting to play different characters other than lifeline, wattson, loba, octane and bloodhound. if you have any more tips for each legend go ahead and tell me and ill add it here

[yeoldontknow]

Guess what? Chanyeol wants to go out with you, but because he's a precocious scamp, he insists you find his 8 fellow band members dates before your own date can start. SHIP SOME MUTUALS with the other 8 EXO members or you do not pass go and you do not collect Chanyeol.

oh my lord i havent seen one of these in ages. aw. these are always so cute and make me really happy so. ok!

thank you chanyeol for asking me out. it is HIGH TIME YOU GOT YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. i cant wait for our incredible dinner date.

@from-dae-do-dae - is going on a date with jongdae. not because she biases him but because they are actually really, really good for each other. i talk with fei basically every single day and here is what i know: these two together would be one of the most devoted, hardworking couples around. supporting each other with their work and their hobbies, making sure they count blessings in their days - constant positivity. theyre both insanely excellent communicators and also - DID YOU KNOW FEI IS HILARIOUS? she is. shes amazing. theyd keep each other laughing non stop. shes the soft gentle cuteness to balance the noise of him. i love it

@queenoftheimpala - is going on the loudest date with a mr byun baekhyun! ali is IRL my best friend in this world. she gets me and knows me even when im saying nothing, and much the same - i know her. she needs a baek. shes quiet until you draw her out of her shell, and much like her relationship with jungkook baek is the type to draw her out and make sure EVERYONE sees how hilarious she is. also they both do this thing that when they look at people they are fond of, it looks like theyre staring into their soul. these two like...would stare at each other and others and everyone would be like ‘holy shit, cutest couple alert right there’ and im just....hyping this up like a windsock person in the back lmao

@kpopandlock - jongin is losing his ass at 600mph knowing that hes about to go on a date with his future wife. again, i do not do this because she biases him i do this because jongin literally needs kara. let me preface this by saying its gonna be WORK at first because these two are the most bashful, coy lil cuties who like...feel so intensely they almost shut down because they feel Too Much. what could bring them together? ill tell you: dogs. cliche? maybe but its true. these two will be going to an animal shelter to play with dogs and while they play with dogs, they will realize they are the same person. kara tho, once you get to know her, is hilarious and energetic, and shed bring out his playful side. theyd compliment one another not diminish one another. also, shed help him find everything he loses. also, ultimate napping couple. 

@co-kai-ne - when i tell yixing that hes going on a date with sofi, his eyes literally light up. i talk to sofi almost daily and just...shes literally the softest? like, really caring and affectionate - funny! but also just so sincere and genuine that i feel like she needs yixing to compliment her. hes just sassy enough to bring out her whimsical side but the two of them would be so affectionate and genuine, theyd heal everyone the minute they walk into the room. hed be so committed and supportive shed feel like she can accomplish anything she wants, and shes so open he would be able to open up to her, tell her when hes low, and release his burdens. theyd be so soft id literally very every second. 

@pebble-xo - jade is about to go on her fifth date with sehun. this is my brunch couple - soft kids who love everyone Too Much but also are so sassy when they want to be. going out to brunch with them means either judging everyones outfits (because holy crap, jade can dress!!!) or really cute soft convos over champagne about how much they love life. also, have you seen jade? she and sehun = worlds most beautiful couple im dying

@yeol-stole-my-soul - junmyeon cannot wait to go on a date with his new fave partner in crime, maria. now listen, i know she does not bias but i talk with maria a lot and she is SO good at taking care of others, being supportive, being like...a mom, suho would be her partner in making sure everyone feels some kind of love. also, maria needs someone who will take care of her. affectionate, reminding her to eat well, take her vitamins, also someone who will speak with her very openly about issues. also - dad joke couple right here omg we will all groan when they start to goof off but secretly our hearts will be soaring.

@nunchiwrites - at this point, sweet nunchi and soo are a well established couple so when i shove them out the door for their date, theyre already pretty eager. nunchi is like...a literal actual soft angel. genuine and cute and kind and so sincere. shes quiet and so is soo, but trust me they both are so funny when they choose to be. this the couple that doesnt come out often because they enjoy having nice lazy reading days or because theyd already planned on doing their own thing, like going to nice restaurants or seeing indie films. this the couple we all secretly envy - their insta is so aesthetically pleasing we all die a little any time they post something. big mood

@yeolology - minseok literally is so excited to spend a night with bee. bee is like...the cutest but also fiercest and also sassiest angel around. who does that sound like? minnie. these two i feel like, while they might go on many dates, might never really make it to officially dating but thats ok! because they are friendship soulmates. i think in each other they will find a person they need, someone they can trust implicitly. mature, witty, and incredibly wise. they both are incredible playful and teasing (also beautiful, wow) but also VERY good at giving sage advice and making sure they, and their friends, feel supported. also, this couple will be made of nonstop laughter. my tiny heart

thank you anoni! i havent seen these in a while and this was nice to do

[mari-m-rose]

My thoughts on Magi’s finale

Let’s start with: My disappointment was SOOOOOO great at the beginning, middle and a little before the end of this disaster of an arc, that this is just a joke to me tbh.

In my opinion this arc was so bad, that the ending doesn’t feel as bad. Its worst part at most is how underwhelming and incomplete it is. But there’s a positive thing in it being so open: it feels the story continues. Tbh I don’t feel this is the end. I hope we get more content somehow and if not, I don’t mind it.

Its strongest point is that it didn’t feel like the cliche ending all shounen manga have (even tho I’m a fan of shounen manga cliches, their endings tend to suck). This ending only had one cliche which was alimo r’s wedding, which didn’t even had much focus than Mor’s outfit. But ofc cliches can be good and even amazing when an author gets the best of them...... this was not the case of course. 

The problem with Magi overall, in my opinion, is that it tried to be too creative, too revolutionary for a shounen manga, some cliches were avoided on purpose, sometimes with great outcomes but most of the time what we got in return was not better than cliches. That’s the problem. When you offer something new you have to make sure it’s better than what has been done before, not just different. And this why I think Magi’s popularity started to go down (well to be fair it happened during Alma Torran, and it continued on Kou arc). Then, probably the editors decided it was time to put some shounen manga cliches, to appeal to the boys at least. Cliches like the excesive use of Alibaba as THE ONE and only who solves all problems and who never gives up with a big smile!!!!!!!!! And using only the young king vessels and magi to fight the final boss (Sin), cause they are the cool ones and more appealing to a male young audience than older adults and women. Also the battle tried to be epic but faced the problem of everyone being too overpowered to fight with physical or magic strength. Thus it became a battle of words... which was weird, because these four boys didn’t know or understood Sinbad as much as his family did and they also weren’t the ones who would normally wish Sinbad to change his mind the most. But the boys were cool and could appeal the typical shounen manga audience, also they were powerful, so Sinbad’s people were thrown aside....and it felt weird. Suddenly the creative and different ways of Magi started to adopt very bad shounen manga cliches and tropes, like what happened with Nerva. At least I felt it didn’t belong to what has been done before. Especially since to Aladdin, Alibaba became the ultimate king (I thought Aladdin would also realize there’s no ultimate king at some point) and also every character, Sinbad included, fell for his words, even tho Mogamett stated that nothing can’t be left to a single being. Ofc we heard everyone’s opinions about what to do in the end, thus it was not Alibaba alone. But it still felt that Alibaba was THE ONE and only one who fixed it all, instead of it leaving us the feeling it was everyone’s power united. A few panels of characters we never get to see on a normal basis are not enough to give the feeling everyone helped. Their apprearances felt meaningless and piled up there, so that no one dared to say it was Alibaba alone. But we all know the one who made most was Alibaba and not everyone as a team, thus the premise of last arc which was Mogamett’s warning fell apart for completely. Which sucks, because Magi was about no one being always right or always wrong, but now there’s Alibaba.  People love to criticize other people for focusing on their ships only. But see, I loved Magi, all Magi, Magi overall. But Alibaba felt annoying at the end. All over the place, everyone adoring him, all focus on him. All interactions happened with him, he even has a panel with Titus lol. Aladdin lost the title of main character. He got some really cool moments, but not as much as a main character does and definitely not as cool as he did in previous arcs. Ever since Alibaba died, Morgiana’s potential was focused on loving Alibaba only. She also had great moments like her battle with Arba, but then she just stood next to Alibaba in silent, like a bodyguard, while her other interactions included: having quarrels with Alibaba and serving him food, and the worst: becoming damsell in distress (it’s my opinion). My babies, my main trio got destroyed for me. What’s next on the list: Sindria. Everyone scattered, I had the joy of them being happy in separated places but since Sin and Ja’far didn’t seem to be fine I was worried. Then Sinbad said awful things about his family, even tho the chapter before he claimed it was all for protecting them...yikes. And everything started to fall apart. This arc was focusing on Sinbad destroying the relationships he has been protecting all his life and that made him who he was. Those were my absolute favorite relationships, btw. Moreover he was throwing away people who have always loved him and been loyal to him. All of those beautiful relationships, gone...... I could go on: the pace: went crazy, climaxes all over the place, underwhelming endings subplots: murdered, slaughtered and new ones being born to be interrupted right away. character development: Alibaba and Hakuryuu the only champs. Everyone else’s character development happened off screen or didn’t happen or was left interrupted. Many questions unanswered, unrealistic ideal ending when Magi used to be resemble our world, at least politically speaking. Etc, etc.

And after all this becoming bad, what else did I have? My ship ofc, that’s the only thing I had left, because everything else I loved was ruined. So, sorry for focusing on my ship but everything else sucked to me, which makes me sad, but it’s the truth.

Thankfully my ship isn’t as destroyed as it could have been (well it had been destroyed since the beginning of this arc, but it could have been worse) thus I’m not as mad and angry. I’d rather have Ohtaka hint Sin is coming back and Ja’far saying with exact works that he’s sure he’s coming back someday, hence he will wait, ....than nothing. And I’ll grab that small moment and move on and continue to have fun with my ship and my friends and continue to be happy.

This arc for me sucked, but that doesn’t mean I’m still over Magi. I still love Magi so much.

To sum up, the ending was not the worst of this to me, that’s maybe why I think I don’t mind this small last disappointment compared to my great suffering when this started, .......which btw was almost 2 years ago.

At this point I only hope Ohtaka is satisfied with it. And if she is, I’m happy for her cause she worked very hard, so damn hard. But my gut tells me editors  limited her several times, especially during this arc .......thus Idk how to feel. I hope I’m wrong. But still the writing’s quality is so low I’d also rather think it was them and not her. Anyway, we will probably never know.

I’m sorry for this incredibly long rant, but I had to get it of my chest. Also expect a positive comment later.  Thanks for reading me and I’m happy to say: we all survived this mess! Let’s go party, we all deserve it. Hope Ohtaka is finally chilling too!!

[the-kipsabian]

Giv me. Didyouknowmadness and pixietown. Pls

didyouknowmadness ~

How they first met: ive honestly headcanoned it for the longest time that shane was. one of the first people mads runs into when she gets into the academy? like being completely lost as shes still trying to learn japanese and not being sure where to go like which of these buildings is the dorm and shes standing there muttering to herself in english and shane overhears this and. isnt amused cause ‘ugh another transfer student with ridiculous hair are you kidding me’. and hes just generally unpleasant tho tbh so is mads cause im just stressed and im trying to find my place whats your damage sir

Where their first date was: idk if it counts really as a date but. they had a moment in the arts center? like just the two of them, mutually agreed to be there together, with mads modeling for shane

When they had their first kiss: it was. probably just something real quick? like i’d imagine it comes down with mads having a bad day, and shane goes out on his way to do something that makes her feel better and it just. escalates from a hug to a little kiss on at least the cheek. that counts as a first kiss right?Who cooks: i wanna say shane more often, but they both definitely do tho?

Who proposed: shane. as out of these two mads is definitely the more direct one (and even then shes like. also not direct like at all lmao), but ultimately the decision to take the relationship further is in shanes hands tbh. he would arrange something small but cute, and definitely go on his way to incorporate his art into the proposal somehow

The dominate one: i dont. really think either of them is dominant? i’d say direct instead, which would probably fall on mads, but even then shes like. not that at all lmao

Their favorite pass time together: its either that they art in a comfortable silence together, or when mads plays a game and shane gives out every single little tidbit he knows about it

Who kissed who first: mmmmmaaaaads i answered this above woo

Who is the flirt: i dont. really think either tbh? neither of them are really flirts, neither do pda much at all tbh and shane is just reserved anyways so hA

Who is the romantic: mads. tho i mean if shane does stuff like that it usually turns out pretty romantic, but ultimately? its def mads

Who wakes up first: shane. he has shit to do in the mornings and mads is just like. she will never wake up. you know how she is (also i do have an ask about this in my inbox like, about this exact same thing mmmMMMM)

Who compforts who the most: this is. kinda hard cause at the same time shane wouldnt really need comfort but also shane would be really bad at comforting? but its shane tbh cause mads is. way more likely to have bad days and dealing with stuff and yeah

The cuddler: mads, definitely. which is weird cause shes the one not too much into pda but also cause the other one is shane lmao

The big spoon: ssssshaaane. mads likes to be the one getting cuddled woo

~~~~~~

pixietown ~

How they first met: their definite first meeting was the first day of class. but like an actual meeting of ‘hey im luke hi’ came about a little bit later as like. one of the first class assignments mads did was with ian? and while working on it with him luke just happened to be hanging about that day and oh hey i know you whats up and thats just. how it started woo

Where their first date was: like first official date that you could call a date was probably as generic as a cafe at the mall tbh. like one of their usual casual hangouts but with a lot more hand holding

When they had their first kiss: okay so i think ive talked about this before but this is the love letter scene tho? like mads has crafted like a full day and night the perfect love letter to give to luke after these two have been pining over each other for sssooooo fffuuuccckiiingg looooonngggg and when she finally has the courage to give it to him and he reads it, luke is immediately like ‘yes i like you too’ and pulls her into a hug before kissing her

Who cooks: mmmaaaads. i feel like luke would be a disaster in the kitchen tbh

Who proposed: luke. but its like. with the help of kit tho. like he wants to make this into one of mads’ beloved fanfiction style proposals and kit youre good with this stuff right help a yung man out here. so together they arrange something ridiculous cliche but adorable like ‘oh i hid the ring in this cake i got you in this restaurant’ or ‘we are in this movie theater and oh look they are rolling commercials first and whats this i paid them to play this video hey will you marry me’ or something similar. and as corny as it is, mads absolutely freaking loves it

The dominate one: i dont wanna say dominant aaaa that is so wrong in this context. but luke is like. much more direct with his things. and more open to pda

Their favorite pass time together: just. hanging about tbh. playing zilda games. also mads love to listen to luke sing obviously

Who kissed who first: luuuuke

Who is the flirt: oh my god luKE. hes far more direct with pda and while hes. not the best at flirting tbh? hes definitely the one doing it out of these two tho

Who is the romantic: i mean. they both are kinda? but its more of mads’ thing, as luke might. try to be romantic but goes off with the wrong idea until he learns better asndjaskd (this is canon on this route and you know it)

Who wakes up first: luke. mads is. impossible to get out of bed most mornings

Who compforts who the most: again, luke. mads is a disaster of a person she needs all the comfort lol

The cuddler: they both are tbh? it depends on the situation mostly tho. if its in public, its luke, if its in private, its mads. they just both like being around each other and hugging and cuddling tbh, just in different circumstances

The big spoon: luuuuuuuuuuuuuke without a doubt

[castlehead]

.

 obsession, an unhealthy amount, helps; though this also be a source of mental laceration, terminal guilt, and ire directed both from and to others. i am an insane revisionist. or rather i am a revisionist to the point of insanity. i live breathe bleed words however i consider who i am more in line with my name than the name of the type of person who produces what i produce. some people want that label - and pretty funny that by the desire it becomes exactly a non-label - which is quite sinister. i used to think people being fake was a cliche rather than something to take seriously - not in the sense of omission, like, what you tell your coworker vs. what you tell your wife, or even hiding oneself out of shame - but like literally not being yourself. and, moreover, that people were generally sincere and wanted to be sincere and work for that etc. but now i know people will not only be fake unawares but consciously be that way and leech and leech. and this is not even lit i am talking about just fucking life. you see. i have worked hard at the written word, very hard. too hard. indeed i say this as an objective fact and not to gloat as the whole damnable bunch of it got me nowhere and nearly killed me. like obsession to the point of basically destroying everything. so i have learned brevity, honesty, sincerity. i have learned to not see this online variorum of mine as anything special at all. the words i post, the things i say, how i form myself in this abstract realm. utterly unknown and unfamous i am but that is not my aim and good luck at getting noticed in the arts as my father is an actor and has been for around half a century and holy hell you will have no idea who he is. but i will continue to be me which means writing all the time among other things, because writing is fun as hell and conveying something is. i think this whole movement thing/idea is fun and everything but at the end of the day i write for nobody but me who is body ultimate. yet i wish to stir people. i want to throw the small swarm in my chest back at the hive and do good words. for it is an action, a penance to my god. or a prayer even. all it is are prayers. the elliptical nature of ammons’ dispositional axis proves that something does stick around tho it moves and this is called transcendence. time passes but it takes awhile for the effects of its discoveries to take hold, similar to the psychological imprint of a horrible event. that being said i know i have a long way to go still which is the greatest doubt of all, a most positive doubt. and in examining myself as eternally infant regarding understanding anything at all much less making something artful, i will - and funny, this - unknowingly stumble upon perhaps what might not change the world but tweak it maybe. and it’ll be better for me not forcing anything. like conrad aiken i am determined to be minor and i guess i would force my insignificance. which does not necessarily mean i cannot start at the keyboard with a great idea and wish to change nay the universe itself. that is how i do it: i think, this can really shake things up, write, and say to myself - ah what garbage - then decide after reading it and incessantly editing and whatnot that maybe it is good tho what i thought was good at one point or the best shit on god’s green earth three years ago i barely spend brainspace on nowadays and maybe tao lin is the founder of blablabla who knows. a movement is something else. it resembles a sort of like ‘ontical’ nature bc its being is outside of language but also a product of language and dependent on anything one might consider absolute or permanent. i am not saying that language is permanent, and we have hundreds of years – ‘whan that aprille with his showres sote’ [chaucer] etc. - of proof of that but its attempt is at permanence which in a funny way is a thing like ‘sense’ or ‘reason’. there is a core to things outside of what we name that is maybe a name before the flood. i like this name for she is an impenetrable name, as like this primeval definitionless state of being [dasein] i describe, or don’t. but any movement, no matter if tao lin starts it or fucking voldemort from harry potter, will unknowingly incorporate a prior zeitgeist that in its way is too an attempt to return to that impenetrability so as like it to become impenetrable, absolute, and so then immortal. i am sure you as others will see the concentric reality here. we want what we cannot have so arch our spines to look at our feet and deify the impermanent so as to dialectically, impossibly, remove that permanent, restless, shifting core above us, which is death itself. anyway: the most important thing is to work at it and work at it and to not let other things get in the way, not of you aping an influence, but of you attempting the sublime. knowing you are fated to eat up the ghost of what people have already done, and swerving the creative atom in a new direction despite. heh. “everything, everything, everything is poetry:” [a.r. ammons] artist is artist man. i am no writer, just DAN. myself. art is getting high. being higher than ever putting together something getting slowly clearer in your head whatnot. paterson williams etc. laundry list note on the refrigerator art - is art. all’s art. someplace to put it is art rather. or isn’t. artist? art? what

[houseofkooks]

aaaaa this is just a note 2 myself but CHIVES IF YOU’RE READING THIS know that it’s inspired by ur twt ahaha (idk if you’re on tumblr anymore but just in case!!!)

u mentioned lack of motivation and i think it’s something that we and a lot of people our age are experiencing. so i thought a lot about it and i just wanted to jot down all my little THOTS so that i can come back to them later as reminders and as encouragements (?) for myself but anyway yes here i go

mmmk so i didn’t learn a lotta things in college bc i rly just relied on short term memory for most tests. but i do faintly remember learning about different types of motivation in one of the health science classes. 

this is v similar to what i had in my textbook

so i read up on them again bc heck no i don’t actually remember wat each of them means.

short summary

amotivation: lack of intentionality resulting from not valuing an activity, not feeling competent to do it, or not believing it will yield a desired outcome. [me in the latter half of college, where a combination of all three made me a very big flop of goo with zero ounce of motivation]

external regulation: doing something bc you’re asked to. doing it for an external cause. [me @ work right now, just doing things bc my boss told me to, not because i really have to or because i really want to]

introjection: all about STATUS. doing something for eco-enhancements. doing it for your self-esteem [i guess this applies bc sometimes i have this dumb but thankfully fleeting thought that i need to do certain things in order to uphold my rep as someone who’s “smart.” idk but maybe this is some kinda complex that a lotta kids from rice might experience? but it’s just so dumb like the only reputation i should care about is the one that i earn from doing something i actually want to do]

identification: you’re able to identify the importance of a behavior. you have to do this in order to do something else. [like how i have to go to pt school to be a pt to earn money. i’m not sure where money as a motivator really lands in this spectrum, but this is the closest i can place it?]

integration: you do it bc you know it’s good for you, even though you might not like doing it. [EXERCISE UHGHGHGHGHG]

and ofc, the holy grail, the ultimate goal: INTRINSIC MOTIVATION. OOOOH. this is when u do things u like without having to be motivated by other things like money or external rewards. [this is me all day errday when i stare at jk’s face or watch any bts videos in general]

ok so the point of relearning all of that is to analyze my own behaviors and identify my own motivations. 

first i think it’s good to examine my intrinsic motivation. here are some things i enjoy in life. like actually love doing -- eating yummy food, traveling while eating, watching bts videos, going to bts concerts, buying bts goods, MAKEUP!!, skincare, baking, giving said baked goods to my friends, hanging out with friends (but only the few i’m comfortable with), hanging out with my mom, organizing my stuff so it looks clean and pretty, giving presents to people i love, giving things to people i don’t know, reading fics, reading books (tho lol i don’t do that anymore), watching dramas (tho y do they suck these days) and prob more but these are the most prevalent ones. 

now. all of these are not possible without money. I DON’T MAKE THE RULES bc i wish it weren’t like that either. but food, makeup, bts, even reading require MONEY bc guess wat i can’t have any of these if i’m on the streets struggling to keep my stomach full. SO MONEY IS VERY IMPORTANT DAPH. get your head straight and just accept the fact that you need money for all these things, as sad as it sounds. but the GOOD THING IS. that they don’t require a LOT of money. i mean my interests aren’t that costly or impressive. but nevertheless, ya better get ur bank account more loaded than it is rn or u in trouble.

ok 2nd point. a lotta jobs can bring me money, yes? i can keep doing what i’m doing-- sit at a desk, look at a computer all day, joke around with coworkers. theoretically it’s not that bad. i’m good at staying where i am, at maintaining the equilibrium in my life and i don’t like it to be disturbed. but HONESTLY how much money is this gonna get me? not a lot. how much enjoyment is it gonna give me? not that much. i mean honestly right now all i do is talk to my coworkers about their days and their children and their tv shows and it’s all good in the hood and it’s fun BUT I GET SHIT MONEY OK. now keep in mind, u gotta take care of your parents and grandma when you actually get a job. and when dad’s too old to work. which will prob be soon bc his job sux and his industry is dying and everything is sad and gloomy. SO U NEED MONEY. but anyway i digress bc i’m supposed to have moved on from money lol. ok OK now, a lotta jobs can bring me money. but let’s examine all of them. first of all, all the high-paying ones? I’M NOT INTERESTED. i don’t wanna be an engineer even if i could do it, i don’t wanna be a CS person, or a lawyer, or a business person. 

now here’s the part that hurts a bit every time i think about it. D o C T o R. yes i wanted to be a doctor when i was in school. but now that i think about it. did i really? do i really? nope. and this isn’t me being salty.

so when i was younger and more ambitious i wanted to be someone who made a difference. i wasn’t gonna go down in history and no one will know about me when i die except for my kids and grandkids if i even have any. but because when i die, i will have spent my entire life here in this society, i wanna actually contribute to it. so yes, as cliche and “don’t say this at interviews” as it sounds, i wanted to help people. and i still do! i want to be able to make a difference in someone’s life so that my existence isn’t just limited to my own little self. so when i was younger and more ambitious, the first profession i thought of that would fulfill this rule is to be a doctor. because that’s what doctors do! they help people. but as i later learned, to be a doctor doesn’t just entail just sitting there helping patients. and then thankfully, i was able to experience what physical therapists do, and i really really like it. it’s like helping people, but on a more long-term basis. you get to make more of an impact by forming deeper of a relationship.

if i really think about it, i don’t actually remember my doctors. like yes i’m glad they prescribed medicine to me so that i’m still alive, but i honesty don’t remember their names nor remember exactly what they did. well maybe a family doctor or OBGYN would be more rewarding, but at least for me, the people i remember are people i had to see for a long extended period of time. like my dentist when i had braces. and well i didn’t have therapy but if i did, i would imagine that my therapist would have had a larger impact on me than my doctors. 

wow this is getting unnecessarily long wtf lol

ok ANYWAY. i think when i go to pt school, my main motivation would be external in the form of identification. bc i have to do it. i have to go to school and get a degree so that i can become a pt and MAKE A DIFFERENCE in people’s lives in my own way, and also to MAKE MONEY yay. and when i do become a pt, i’m hoping this external motivation gets upgraded to an intrinsic one (or at least an integrated external motivation) where i actually enjoy what i do and want to keep doing it. 

NOW. NOTE TO FUTURE SELF. SO THAT PRESENT ME CAN PREMATURELY SAY “I TOLD U SO.”

YOU’RE NOT GONNA LUV UR JOB ALL THE TIME. you’re gonna have to do it for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. you wake up, go to work, come home and have maybe 4-5 hours to yourself, and then you have to go to sleep bc HOW ELSE will you stay awake to do another 8 hours all over again. and this isn’t school where u can just dose off and procrastinate. there are actual patients who need u to be on ur best behavior. so then you do this over and over again. and eventually it’ll all become the same. that’s just the nature of repeated exposure. it’s like ya i luv watching bts videos and reading fics but if u told me to sit there and do 40 hours of it every week and then week after week, heck no i’m not gonna like it!!! it’ll all be the same videos i watch and then i’ll already know what happens. eventually i’ll run outta fics or all the plotlines will start to feel the same!!! so yes. you’re not gonna love your job all the time because like anything else, it’ll suck when it sucks. you’ll probably have bad bosses or bad clients or just bad days. you’ll get tired of work like you got tired of school. BUT NEVER FORGET that you’re doing it because you kinda have to. and you know what kim namjoon the greatest bestest cutest wisest babs said?!?!?!?!! and prob a lotta other ppl but ima attribute it to my babs. THINGS ARE SAD TO MAKE THE HAPPY THINGS HAPPIER. (or something like that this is not a direct quote)

but yea. work will seem tedious and boring and repetitive, but that’s to make your weekends and vacation times more exciting. and it’s not like you’ll hate your job. you won’t like it every day but i’m fairly certain that there’ll be days you’ll thank me YES ME YOUR PAST SELF that i’ve made a good decision. because you’ll get to be doing what you’ve always wanted to do! to help people! to earn money so you can help even more people! and earn money so that you can do all the things you love!!!!!! yay me. yay you. hehe

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Gradually working my way thru learning about the yokai watch 3 villains, lol. Cant manage to restrain myself from taking just a teeny lil peek at spoilers! I blame that person drawing all the super awesome redemprion headcanon comicry with the cute oc YOU HAVE CURSED ME WITH YOUR GREATNESS

Ok so apparantly mafia ghost dude fuckin loves space and then GOT EXILED TO SPACE FOR 555 YEARS?? His only fuckin crime at the time was believing in ufos and everyone else was like 'nah bro' LIKE CMON UR LITERALLY GODDAMN GHOSTS BUT ALIENS IS TOO ABSURD FOR YOU??? So somehow this dude ended up making it to space and getting trapped on a meteor completely alone for like a bazillion years and holy shit no wonder he turned evil. Like what sort of ironic karma bullshit is it to be like 'i heard u like this thing how about we lock you up there forever unable to move or scream'.

Also seriously AGENT X WAITED 555 YEARS TO SET HIM FREE AND MAKE HIS DREAMS COME TRUE!!! He says he has no regrets! Aaaaa man i really think this whole plot would be even more emotional if they were a couple. Im just getting that vibe!! Im sorry i cant help it u give me two weird ghost dads in stylish suits and a I'LL WAIT FOR YOU FOREVER plot and a MY ONLY DREAM IS SEEING YOUR DREAM COME TRUE and just seriously man look at that quality ship angst. WHY NO HAPPY ENDING THO

And i'm just thinking now about how emotional their reunion probably was. Like i'm imagining Agent X has a hard time being honest about his feelings cos yknow ghoulfather is the boss of the organization and so far out of his league and such. (And he totally doesnt realize that he's his super valued second in command) So when ghoulfather comes back he's probably wrestling with his gut instinct to run forward and embrace him, because Seriously He Is Your Superior It Will Never Happen, Why Am I Like This. So he's just trying to play it all cool and be like "welcome boss i was totally confident that our plan would work and not incredibly depressed for the last few centuries umm here's your coat" And that thing where the character is crying but they dont notice until they put their hand to their face!! That! That scene!! Have one of those in there, yes! And then possibly mid sentence ghoulfather cuts him off and hugs him, and theyre both just finally honest about how much they missed each other. Aaaand then probably five seconds later theyre like *ahem* *professional voice* "well better get back to work"

Also the game probably wouldnt go into any detail with stuff like muscular atrophy or readjusting to earth gravity or the sheer level of phobia that must be in this man's brain from the constant isolation and how hard it must be to adjust back to talking to people when all he's had for so long is his imagination. But fics can explore all that recovery progress! This is our power, to heal the sad villains with our words!

I was just randonly thinking a sweet date scene for them early on in this plot could be Agent X and Ghoulfather going to a random italian restaurant NOT because its a date totally, but just because its been so long since he's been on earth and its something that could maybe cheer him up. But then they just end up complaining together about how modern restaurants in america are so often not run by italian people and have all this weird american versions of stuff, so it ended up not being very memorable after all. Also crappy wheelchair access! (Cos he'd still be recovering at this time) So yeah it ends up being weirdly fun and romantic for two hours of getting pissed off at terrible service. Getting pissed off at terrible service... Together~!

Also probably eight days later Ageny X suddenly realizes "holy shit taking my boss out to a candlelit restaurant just the two of us is MAYBE slightly flirty". I feel like he's a bit of a disaster at expressing his feelings and only ever manages to make the first move when its accidental. But also has like a natural charisma of accidental flirting which means half the damn mafia has a crush on him, lol. Oh also i was considering like a love triangle thing with rongo? But not any of the stereotypical awful love triangle fighty plots. Just rongo having a crush in agent x and sadly agent x was already in love with ghoulfather and doesnt recipricate. But theyre still best friends even though agent x turned him down, and now rongo is the only one who knows about agent x's crush on ghoulfather and he tries to play ultimate wingman between the two. Like 'i want you to be happy even if it isnt with me!!' So he'd probably be the most pissed off if ghoulfather ever betrayed agent x's trust, i feel like agent x would just blame himself for it and rongo would stand up for him like DAMN DUDE DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE MISSED YOU WHEN YOU WERE GONE, YOU RIGHT DENSE BASTARD? That sort of conflict between them, not the more cliche conflict of all three people in a love triangle just being all jealous and secretive and dumb.

Oh also unrelatedly i think Slackerjack and Rongo would be friends? Cos the only time ive seen that slackerjack has any dialogue about him he calls him "a good boy who's quite loud but means well". I can imagine Slackerjack being like that nice grandpa who comes to all of 'little rongo''s music recitals, lol. Or like that meme of 'momma needs her tunes' *death metal blares*. He has all of rongo's cds! Ok actually that mental image is super adorable of this big rockstar dude being like 'omg grampa look im here omg i have to make you proud'. I just feel like rongo is 100% adorable at all times and also has positive relationships with every one of his coworkers like the ray of sunshine that he is. He probably memorizes the names of every single minor minion and gives them all birthday cards. I love this big ol dork.

Anyway this has been Bunni Rambling About Potentially Redeemable Villains They Know Very Little About But Are Very Eager To Meet And Fandomize Over

They all just so good, u guys

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OH LOL I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT THE GAME ACTUALLY IS, LOL So here have my attempt at a summary post so far

also have a tiny quincy

The Basic Idea And Such

It’s a test game! To see if I can make a game! I don’t have a name for it yet but it could be funny if it was literally called “Test Of [some sort of plot important thing]” or something?

The planned gameplay style is gonna be similar to old games like Princess Maker, or for a more recent example Persona 5. Mostly just because I FINALLY figured out how to make a calendar system run in rpgmaker, woo!

~ Test screenshot time ~ (ignore the random ass map in the background lol)

So basically you select one of several actions each day that can raise either your relationships with characters, or your social stats required to unlock more characters and scenes. Its like a visual novel with a bit of gameplay!

You play as a travelling adventurer named Lyall who has (for some reason) arrived at this village and is living there for a while and I guess you try and date some people?? I really don’t have the premise laid down yet for WHY this is all happening, I just have the characters and I need to find an excuse for them to all come together and become a plot...

Oh and this is gonna be set in the same universe as that strategy army game idea I had about the cathedral fortress. Just as an excuse to develop the worldbuilding a bit, and show other perspectives far away from the plot I have for that. (Tho all the progress I’ve made so far is just deciding that Wesnar citizens have grey hair, lol.)

THE CHARACTERS

Our hero, Lyall!

A very stoic and buff mercenary who quests for glory in ye olde cliche hero times! But also a gentle giant who cares deeply for everyone on earth, and only looks badass cos he’s too shy to say much. You will take control of this marshmallow shaped like a professional wrestler, and guide him towards his dating sim destiny...!!

Our exposition fairy/sidekick/tutorial man/helpful merchant/best friend/general cutie pie, Quincy!

He does many of those things! And generally fills a supporting role in this story and brightens up every day. Lyall and Quincy have known each other for quite some time before the start of the game, and have that wonderful symbiosis that is jrpg merchant and jrpg hero guy. So he’s always here to help you out on this new and decidedly more terrifying domestic adventure! Tho I mean, the both of you are shy as hell in different ways, so it might be a bit of a mess XD

I’m absolutely most definately planning on making him a romance route, yes

(Name pending- possibly Dominique or other D name?)

A cheerful sparring partner for our protagonist, and his accidental rival in love! She’s totally hyped to be his best friend, and is oblivious to the fact that every woman in town has a massive crush on her. Plus she keeps challenging him to beat her at various stuff, and doesn’t seem to realize her attempt at friendly bonding comes off as boastful. Alas! So she’s probably one of the easiest relationship bars to raise. You can just get her ending by succeeding at her various trials, or winning/drawing with her in tournements, or going to the gym with her a lot, or having high stats in social outgoingness and stuff. And if you decide to be just friends instead then she’ll withdraw from her rival role and help out as the ultimate wingman! And possibly there could be bonus semi-endings where friend mode Dominique hooks up with one of the love interests you didn’t pick?

Now presenting: Mallory!

A misunderstood magus! Despite her super scary looks and general morbid personality, she’s actually surprisingly humble, softspoken and hella anxious. Kinda like goth eeyore? Her self confidence is rock bottom and her thoughts are always pessimistic, which is why it’s good that she has this polar opposite personality sock puppet to help her out in social situations. Even if it often ends up making her look even more scary! There are rumours that she might have once been some sort of legendary treasure hunter, who quit the business for reasons unknown, and never managed to regain her confidence.

She’ll probably be a romance option, but also her plot is primarily about helping her kindle a positive relationship with the locals and get rid of her false reputation as a terrifying demon. And like.. conquer her fears of talking to the cashier at the general store. Most relateable waifu! (aside from the puppet part...)

Also I was intending her to just be a regular black mage but a goth-as-hell terrifying white mage is a pretty novel idea!

And co-starring: Mack the sock!

Their dynamic is kinda like a ventriloquist who can’t control her puppet? Mack is very sassy comic relief and likes to blurt out what Mallory is really thinking. Also he may or may not be some sort of actual eldritch demon possessing this woman. But he can be easily placated with snacks!

[name pending not warrior lady]

She’s the sister of [name pending warrior lady] and is a stoic and sensible deadpan snarker. Even though she’s the younger sibling she’s kinda the breadwinner of the family, and balances her sister’s wild impulsivity. All they have left is each other so they’re super close, even though its hard to tell from how much they tease each other! Her and her sister run the village cafe, though it’s mostly her doing all the actual businesswork while buff sis chops logs in the background, lifts beer kegs, etc. Lil sis isn’t actually a romance option tho, its hard to tell from limited sprite edits but she’s supposed to be around 19 or so and the protagonist is somewhere around 27-30. So she just provides a supporting role to the plot, and you can do part time work at the cafe to raise funds.

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....Man, I think Haunter is my favourite pokemon again. I usually have a brief period of each generation’s best new ghostie temporarily stealing the number one spot, but i usually tend to lose the hype for them around a year later and they join my just Gigantic Pile Of Second Favourites I Cannot Choose Between And then I used to dislike Sableye, Banette and Rotom but they all took the top fave spot as soon as I was like ‘hey if i actually use on on my team maybe I’ll like it- I REALLY LIKE IT’. but I mean, when i love them more because of my personal one i had on my team, or my headcanons or fanfics or etc, I think maybe that’s a dishonest fave cos they’re not my fave on their own benefits? And Rotom stayed in the top fave spot for a really long time cos it not only had a lot of love as my main heavy hitter in platinum but also has a big role as the main mon of one of my fave characters. And like five other fave characters in random anime one off episodes! And then it was a pokedex! EVERYTHING ROTOM TOUCHES TURNS TO GOLD

Buuuuuuuuut.... Haunter was like.. My Original Favourite My first favourite pokemon was pikachu, and then chansey, but Haunter was my first favourite ghost and it says a lot that it still holds up even all these generations later when the type finally got fleshed out with as many members as other types. Man its so funny in retrospect that I’m pretty defined as The Super Ghost Fan nowadays but I wasn’t really into them for the first three generations of pokemon. There just wasnt ANYONE except the haunter line in gen 1, and only misdreavus got added, and then in gen 3 I didnt initially like banette’s design in its first pretty awful sprite so i felt like duskull was the only good one and i didnt like its evolutions. Another reason to love sinnoh: it added great ghosties, evolutions for past ones, and made a lot of past ones available at the same time, and i mean we got our first ghost legendary too! The generation of spoop hype! (until kalos was even more of that, but it was less of a big deal cos ghosts werent so rare now)

ANYWAY Haunter is REALLY GOOD AND GREAT Its design is so simple yet perfect?? Like I know it was designed to be one of the most literal middle evolutions ever, its just meant to be basically.. half of gengar. With its oldest pokedex entries that was back before they really decided what they wanted to do with the ghost type, it was all ‘its a mysterious creature from an unknown dimension and nobody is sure if its a real ghost’. So its unclear whether its design is really meant to be the head pokemon gastly growing its first baby arms, or like.. all three stages are the same pokemon slowly emerging into our dimension, with Gengar being the true form? In any case, I never really felt Gengar was very special, aside from the fan theory it’s a doppelganger of clefable. (I mean its name is literally a mispelling of doppelganger!) like.. it always felt like a letdown of a final form? it would be so great on its own, its just a nice solid silly ‘monster under the bed’ type of ghost, a fluffy bugbear with a lot of sass and the minor original trait of its face being super big and kinda in the wrong place compared to clefable. Makes you imagine it scares people by going full cleff mimic and then just turning around in an alleyway XD I actually had a fan pokemon as a kid called Gambal which was literally just a chansey equivelant of gengar, and had powers of bad luck and stuff. But then the name ended up going to an entirely different fakemon instead who was a rabbit thing that was a game corner prize. Oh and I also had a geng of celebi! Called Tanka just cos that was my name for all my ocs at the time. Its just a type of poetry that i thought sounded Hella Cool for no logical reason. But yeah, I drew like a million pics of every pokemon as a ghost version and its just funny how subconciously i was a ghost fan even before there were more than four ghosts in existance XD

BUT WHERE WAS I Oh yeah, gengar is dissappointing! And its unfair cos if it was an unrelated pokemon on its own, I would like it! It just doesn’t hold up favourably to how awesome haunter and gastly’s concepts are. i mean, look here we have two different quality takes on the ‘floating head’ concept and then its final form isn’t a floating head. HOW DARE YOU. I guess gengar kinda still keeps the aesthetic with its oversized face, kinda? Like its a giant head just mimicing being a regular pokemon? But I mean i think a giant head with arms and legs stops being a giant head. Its why Nanimon and Mamemon aren’t as cute as regular sperical types. I think the only exception is when its a giant head with ONLY legs, and they’re small rabbit legs specifically- like Lotad or Tokomon!

Anyway, nowadays I’ve grown more appreciation for Gengar (again) because I had one in my team and I love him so I can’t not love my best friend. He has an interesting story cos he’s actually That One Haunter, lol! That memorable npc in DPPt who trades you a haunter but its holding an everstone so it doesn’t evolve. I was still equally annoyed at her even though I’d planned to press B and keep it as a haunter anyway! XD But then the cute default name Gaspar made me get really attatched to him, and man i have so many super detailed story and personality headcanons for this little goofball. Eventually he did actually evolve into Gengar, cos I traded him temporarily to a friend in order to transfer him between generations, and i forgot gengar was a trade evo so i didnt tell her to not do it. I still feel really bad that i overreacted about it, i worry that maybe I made her feel guilty! Ultimately, it was probably a good thing, because I kept my other bestie Reaper the Sneasel unevolved forever cos i dislike Weavile, and like.. obviously he kinda sucks in battle because of this. I still love all my pokemon regardless of whether they’re useful in competitive, tho! Oh and mega gengar is pretty sweet, too! It brings back a lot of haunter’s appeal! I just wish that i never saw its feet, seriously. I thought that it was just a head and arms again, but apparantly it just spends 99% of the time phased into objects and its legs just look really awful and unfitting when you see them. It makes it like a top heavy buff design and that really doesn’t work?? It sucks cos i LOVE the other ‘skipped leg day’ pokemon Mega Swampert, so i dunno why I don’t like the same thing on ghosts! Dusknoir and Jellicent are my least favourite ghosts ever. So yeah my opinion on gengar now is like... mixed? i don’t dislike it like I used to, but I don’t really love it on its own benefits or anything, i just don’t dislike it cos i associate it with a sweet and cute bestie who saved me a lot in sinnoh due to his hypnosis attack. But I still think it’s a worse design than haunter, which is The Best Design In All Of Pokemon. Even when I flip flop on what my favourite POKEMON is, I still think it’s my favourite design! Rotom is maybe the most creative design CONCEPT amoung the ghosts, but Haunter is just... so good at what it set out to do.

LETS TALK AGAIN ABOUT HOW GREAT HAUNTER IS I mean just LOOK AT IT, its just SO GOOD Floating heads are great, and gastly was a great way to take that concept and make it ghostly! And its so cool that its basically a hitodama/will of the wisp/generic spooky flame face from every jrpg ever, except made more original because its made of like.. pure darkness smog mist instead. The colour choices for it are really good too, i always really loved the dithering effect they used to make it in the sprite-based games! Its one of the few pokemon where i love the regualr better than the shiny, even though the shiny isn’t one of those terrible neon green ones. It has one of the best shinies and that shade of smoky purple still captures my heart more! i think i would prefer the shiny if regular gengar was bedsheet white though, not blue and only turning white when it mega evolves. That’s weird. AND THEN HAUNTER IS JUST AN EVEN BETTER FLOATING HEAD It loses the cool smoke but it gains these pointy ears/cliche vampire hair shaped head protrusions that just work SO WELL. Like its a floating head that isn’t just a plain sphere! That’s the one part of floating head monsters that generally sucks, a lot of them outside of the creativity of pokemon tend to be super samey generic bald spherical angry man heads. A floating head of a guy with a cliche horror B-movie hairstyle is great! And especially when its a really unhumanoid jack-o-lantern face that’s just like.. replicating that hairstyle without actually being a hairstyle. thats my fave kind of humanoid type pokemon, I love when they’re still animals or monsters or even inanimate objects that are MIMICKING humans, not just a lazy thing that looks like an actual human wearing a costume. I’m probably in the minority but this is why I prefer Mr Mime to stuff like Machamp or Delfox or Incineroar. And then also I love how it takes Gastly’s grumpy eyes and softens them a bit to look more mischeivious instead of angry. Looking always in a bad mood is probably the biggest reason i don’t like Gastly the most, i just feel sad for it. Another reason why I love sinnoh lol, it had a big happy mischief face on its sprite! (shame platinum ruined it a bit, but HGSS was even cuter) And then its just such a creative way of giving a floating head some limbs while not ruining its floating head aesthetic. Floaty rayman arms is such a ghostly thing even though there arent many ghosts that use that design aesthetic!

Honestly thats the biggest reason haunter is so great, really. it just.. encapsulates ghost, even though it doesnt have like ANY cliche ghost design elements! its such a good original concept for like the simplest and most basic pure image of ghostliness in this world. It somehow feels like its exactly what ghosts are, without taking any shortcuts from other popular ghost characters. its so simple and iconic! Its a new thing that could fit in perfectly with all those ancient B-movie creatures and I’d never question it! Gastly is at least slightly based on a will o wisp, and gengar is a bugbear/monster under the bed/shadow creature/doppelganger super combination creature. But in the aim of making something in-between the two, they accidentally made something that doesn’t look very much like ANY of them and stands out miles above them! I think this entire evolution line has had such great staying power because every member of it looks really distinct from the others, while also vaguely fitting together with theme and colourscheme so they don’t seem distinct in a BAD way. Any of these would be equally beloved as entirely separate mons, but linking them together makes them oddly endearing as a weird ragtag bunch of buddies! Its like the addams family!

Oh, but my one and only complaint is that Haunter’s gameboy era design looks better than how it got changed once the graphics got better.

To be entirely honest, I think that the changed version was their intent right from the beginning, and the cooler aesthetic one was just an accident of the limited graphics. Cos I mean the anime had that design from the beginning, after all! BUT STILL, I love it so much more and I wish it could have been proper canon. or at least remained as its shiny form or something! (A mild blue hint instead of a mild purple hint is really boring, this shiny only looks good on gastly...) The glowy outline is probably the best part, though i do also like how the colours stay more matched with gastly instead of the smog colour becoming the body colour. Actually its not even that, its just a random less appealing deep purple, it might have been cooler if it remained that lighter shade of lilac? Also it sucks that haunter retained the glow around its hands at least in the gameverse until we got 3D models. It never had that in the anime so i guess they removed it to remain consistant but like.. WHY! It doesn’t look as cool with red glow on purple as opposed to purple glow on black, but I still really liked it. Like you could have at least kept the glow when it uses attacks or something?

Oh, and isn’t it so weird that so many ghosts have had all black removed from their design as the generations go on? Like.. I mean I don’t think they did this to haunter cos they feared it was similar to Jynx, it isn’t remotely humanoid and it doesn’t have a stereotypical face or anything. And it wouldnt make sense cos they kept it on gastly. But then also banette has gone from black to an increasingly lighter grey, and its EEEEEEEVEN lighter on merchandising! I waited ages for an official banette plush, and it is a really sweet little thing thats so perfect... but then its light grey? I don’t mind cos it makes my plushie feel like more of an individual at least. Also its annoying that mega banette started off as the same dark grey/black that banette originally was, but then its one of the few pokemon that got a big change between XY and SuMo, aside from new animations and stuff. now its light grey too! Booooooo! Other ghosts that’ve experienced The Greying: Duskull, Dusknoir already started off lighter than its pre-evo and then still got more so as time went on, and Misdreavus turned green and then blue instead of grey but its still the same sort of thing. Now the only real black/dark grey ghosts we have left are Yamask and Phantump, and its just.. so weird?? Cos like none of the black dark-types have had big colour changes except Sneasel. I dunno, maybe they’re doing this to make the ghost and dark types more distinct, making it more like purple is the signature colour of ghosts? But I mean its the type icon colour for poison and psychic too so this just makes the colourschemes LESS distinct... Also I just think that the dark grey banette and the black haunter looked so much better, so it sucks that out of all the ghosts it had to be the ones I love! And out of all dark types it had to be my favourite too! (And sneasel is my fave ice type too!)

...anyway GHOSTS and HAUNTER I LOVE THEM and I’m sorry i rambled for like an hour writing all this THEYRE JUST SO FUCKING CUTE AND SWEET

oh and one last thing!! I love how haunter established the trend of ghost types being more mischievious and misunderstood than actually evil Well, i mean all three of its evo line starred in that episode of the anime, but Haunter was the one that went with ash at the end and got one more episode of cuteness afterward. That whole mini arc was the MOST MEMORABLE PART OF THE SHOW for me, I couldnt believe it was so short when i rewatched it! I totally misremembered haunter sticking around for half a season or something, cos it was so endearing to me. And its still so endearing to me every time the games decide to make a new ghost be harmless or sad, or harmless and sad. or even harmful and sad! i mean i cried the most at banette even though its past of being an abandoned toy is supposed to just be a justification why its the most angry and dangerous ghost. I’M SURE I COULD HEAL IT WITH HUGS, yells bunni, as they essentially glomp the pokemon equivelant of a shark...

god i just love ghosts so much and specifically haunter the most much hug your haunter today also your banette also your rotom also pumpkaboo and litwick and phantump and duskull...