#tldr; i like the funny menace guys

[thegreatyin]

okay so with the naturalist done let's go a bit weird

1, 9, 24 and 25, for The Boatman.

1 - Why do you like or dislike this character?

The chess games you can play with him are really fun. I love how the difficulty organically builds up over time the further you go and the more your PC perishes- it really feels like you're slowly bonding with the guy, getting more comfortable with him, getting more comfortable with the Neath in general, etc etc. Even if the watchful checks are a bitch by the time you hit endgame.

Seriously, look at this! Look at the progression!! It's so charming. I love it so much. I may be losing in my boardgames but I am winning in my heart.

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9 - Could you be roommates with this character?

Hell yeah!! The Scoundrel is already practically roommates given how much they've died already/die on a bi-weekly basis. I wouldn't mind a skeleton homie. He's a little... intense, but he's a cool guy. I think we could hang out together. Some time off that boat would definitely do him good.

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24 - What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

I mean... pretty much any form of death/the grim reaper in any sort of media, really? He's pretty archetypal. If it's a skeleton representing death, it's reminiscent of him.

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25 - What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

At first: eyy what's up my dude (fascinated by the new zone, passing 100% watchful checks with ease)

Now: EYYYY what's UP my dude (just chillin', failing a 63% watchful check 7 times in a row)

[zedif-y]

i think... consuming imp&skizz content is essential to learning impulse's character, because you start to learn that:

he is a bit of a bitch . a bit of a menace . a bit mean in the way you can only be when you're really close to someone (skizz)

he carries grudges like literally nobody else . he STILL gripes about sunglasses he lost like . 20 or so years ago

i mention this because i find it really interesting how . in the life series, skizz has consistently been pretty forgiving Even when he gets killed . ESPECIALLY if it was cool . (stares at ep 1 of limited life)

then you have impulse. who's usually shown in fanon as this chill, easygoing and friendly guy... man has been talking about killing bdubs SINCE THIRD LIFE . HE LEFT AN EASTER EGG ON THE HC S7 WORLD, A CLOCK NAMED "For Bdubs the betrayer :'("

like . dude has not forgiven or forgotten anything ever . and i love him for that

please stop flattening impulse into The Nice One pleasr please pleasepleadpelaee

tldr watch imp&skizz they're awesome and funny as hell . also listen to the podcast if thats your thing<3

[nitrokiraru]

madatowa drama cd notes as someone who has very limited jp knowledge. i am simply using my 4 yrs of high school japanese, google translate, and a dream. just posting this for fun so it’s not like an official translation or anything it’s just basically me describing what’s happening to the best of my ability and also being insane about them

major events that happened that i could make out as like a tldr

-mada reunited with someone he knew when he was little

-towa learns abt mada’s past, mainly around a guy named “kurahashi”

-mayu eiji and kotarou appearance :D being sillies as always

-two yowie moments. first one in an alleyway second one presumably in their home. both are freak nasty as usual madatowa shenanigans

notes:

track 1

-LOTS of fighting noises in this

-towa and mada have a coffee and say it tastes like shinkoumi. some dudes come up to em and try to fight

track 2+3

-somebody notices them and gives them a job. presumably to fight people

-towa fights some people and it riles him up

-this part has already been translated but i just wanna scream abt it here bc!!!!!! towa brings him and mada into like an alleyway or something and he goes “hit me. it has to be you.” and mada says something like “you really are a lost cause/what am i going to do with you, huh?” hits him n his mouth fills with blood and towa kisses mada to make him taste it dnnsjdjd ❤️

-they have a quickie in the third track in said alleyway like the freaks they are

track 4

-a character (acquaintance of mada) called him “kei” which was kinda crazy to me since nobody called him that in the vn

-theyre in south america i believe? it’s funny in drama cds when they go to a country outside of japan and still speak japanese

-this character knew mada when he was little??? omg

-KAGA MENTION

-somebody came up to towa and madarame and said “forget everything you saw/heard today”?!

-there’s a VA in here that lowkey sounds like koujaku dmmd but idk how to check

track 5

-it’s funny how some tracks in here are like 2 minutes and the next one is 20

-dude i forgot how good nitroplus’ like sound effects are these mfs sound like they’re in my ROOM

-towa n mada having a convo abt the previous day. i think they may be arguing slightly? tone feels passive aggressive

-birds chirpin’ and towa’s breathing. he just woke up

-he just said madarame in the softest voice ever… 💔💔

-i think he woke up on their bed and mada left before he did

-towa: where did you go?😕 *track ends*

track 6

-footsteps. towa in a coffee shop once again

-MADA FIGHTING THAT DUDE HE KNEW

-cut back to towa. beep beep boop. towa calling somebody? ITS MAYU KOTAROU AND I THINK EIJI OMGGGGG T__T I MISSED EM

-i missed mayus silly voice

-they keep talking about somebody named “kurahashi” related to mada and kaga

-sasaki and toono mention?

-mayu: did something happen between you and madarame? did you two fight? (in the most teasing lil shit voice ever)

towa: *exhales smoke probably abt to hang up the phone* i’m done. -__-

eiji: HE WAs JUST KIDDIN-

-eiji: mata!! (see you!)

kotarou: mata na.

mayu: mata ne~ ^__^

the difference in tones was cute

-towa walks out of da shop. the dude from before comes up to him and asks if he wants to know what he and mada have been doing

-he like grabs him?? menacing music playing

-ok towa said let me go i think he pushed him up against a wall or something

-this dude is asking towa if he knows abt mada before he joined the takasatogumi. some massive lore bits goin on here (i understand about 20% of it)

-from what i got: madarame and kaga had a promise. lots of talk abt this promise. lots of talk abt madarame’s history with his siblings and takasatogumi. this entire bit is probably really interesting lore wise but i can’t understand most of it…💔 apologies

- enter madarame from the distance to save towa from this dude’s grasp

-he walks away.

-madarame: that guy…what happened?

towa: nothin. we just talked

madarame: really?

towa: yea. (he lyin)

track 7

-they go back home (i think) and enter.

towa sighssss. towa and mada talk time it seems ^__^

-madarame’s voice is so soft when he’s w him…cries

-towa: mentions something abt kurahashi

music: gets Suspenseful

-towa talks abt the stuff that dude told him

-towa ran away into a room?! (once again this would make me more sense if i even understood the weight of that dudes words and the lore of what happened)

track 8 (pretty sure this is the beginning of disc 2? however i’m listening from dlsite so it just shows up as track 8)

-this track is 20 minutes oh god pray for me as i try to even figure out what the hell is happening

-towa goes to see kurahashi and some dude tells him he needs an appt lawl… he lets him in tho

-“you came after all, towa” *suspense music starts*

-there’s a new takasatogumi?¿

-the dude who calls madarame “kei” is here telling him this. actually i think this is kurahashi i’ve just been calling him “the dude” this whole time but maybe it is kurahashi LMFAO i’ll just call him that

-wait the interrogation/euphoria music is playing? they’re still doing this segment in the drama cds omg

-towas voice still remaining the sexiest shit ever god

-IS HE TRYING TO SEDUCE INFORMATION OUT OF HIM or is it just his voice. maybe both

-more lore bits abt mada that i can only get bits n pieces from

-towa provoking da hell out of this mf.

-literally what the HELL is happening some other dude came in i hear clothes rustling and towa said Unhand Me

-HELLO GLASS JUST BROKE THAT SCARED ME WHY ARE NITROPLUS’ SOUND EFFECTS SO REALISTIC

-ITS MADA LMFAKOOK HE BROKE IN AND ASAID “towa. u in here?”

-the guy who sounds like koujaku is back apparently w him. they saved towa :D

-OK WHERE DID EIJI MAYU AND KOTAROU COME FROM I MISSED SOMETHING. i did.

track 9

-more kotarou eiji and mayuuuu. looks like they’re with towa and madarame now

-ok they left lawl

-everything’s all chill now i think that last track was the drama. i can’t wait until somebody translates the whole thing so i can actually understand what da hell happened

-once again their voices when they speak to each other alone are just 💔💔..

-it got a bit intimate at the end there i think i’m abt to hear a secks scene ngl

track 10

-YUP THE JAZZ MUSIC PLAYIN AND THERES KISSIN

-blood and knife(?) mention oh it’s abt to get real crazy in here

-mada: want me to cut you (non-verbatim ish)

towa: yes…..!!

-i’m punching the air.

-*cut sfx* mada: did that hurt?

towa:… feels good

-towa is such a fucking freak (affectionate) my god

-i think mada is licking the blood up oh my goodnes i’m abt to pass out and i’m only 2 min in

-oh he’s . towas whimpering . i’m normal (yes they’re fucking now)

-towa: cut me more. i want it to hurt

-mada keeps cutting him and towa keeps doing that little whimper FAWKKKK I CANR

-after they finished

towa: you’re covered in blood.

mada: whose fault is that?

towa: yours, isn’t it?

-ok that just changed me and i am very glad i bought this CD so i can now listen to it for the rest of time.

track 11 (last one!! ;_;)

-outside ambience. towa talking abt da sky

-at the coffee shop again talking w da waiter

-melancholy music playing.. why am i feeling emotional

-if i heard this correctly mada and kaga had coffee together that tasted like what they’re having rn?¿ madarame talking more abt his past but like. fondly i guess

-madarame said something that kind of gagged towa but IDK WHAT IT WASSSS HE SAID “who knows”

ARKTA song once again for the ending! AND IM DONEEE

ok so. i’m not gonna give a full review since i didn’t understand all of what they were saying but i saw on twt some people are going to start translating it? so perhaps i’ll relisten once a translation is out and give my full thoughts but as of now i loved it regardless. i missed towa and madarame a lot i love their dynamic 💔 just a bunch of freaks fighting mfs occasionally and going anywhere but still sticking beside one other. im rly glad i actually bought it because i get to listen to it whenever AND it’ll probably feel like the first time once i finally listen to it along with an eng translation so i actually know wtf is GOING ON

anyways hi and thank u if u read this whole thing. ’m gonna buy the rest of them soon and also make a review post but probably not as long. the reason is because god i MISSED TOWAS VOICE SO MUCH LOL i must hear it again. that is all

[rainbowolfe]

A Deep Observation of the Daycare Attendant

Because I am very, very normal about them.

Were you saddened or otherwise put off by sassy, mean Sun? Then rejoice, you're gonna like this post.

Because as funny as it is, it's a sharp turn for this character to make. Even the cookbook calls out how "nice and helpful" Sun is (according to Freddy). While we don't know when it is, I think if Sun was super impatient and a perfectionist deep down, even with years of training him to tolerate children, it would still show subtly.

TLDR: The Sun we interact with in the Arts and Crafts section isn't "Sun" at all. It's Moon.

Overall

It's interesting how much Help Wanted 2 goes out of its way not to acknowledge Moon. And it's unlikely to be an oversight on Steel Wool's end, this game was being made at the same time as the Ruin DLC. Really, it's so blatant it has to be intentional.

The Carousel levels make no mention of how to keep him at bay in the tutorial. And in the Arts and Crafts Loft tutorial, the instructions are just "Use the flashlight if it gets too scary." When on every other level, it's upfront about what threats you'll encounter and how to handle them.

Speech Pattern

Half of Moon's dialogue in every game he's been in so far has been laughter. So we know he's a giggly, goofy little guy. But one of his new lines is captioned: "The merry-go-round broke down. (snickers)"

Which, not only reads like he's the one who caused it to break down (he doesn't bother you until you touch it after all), but that little snicker dotting the end of his sentence is a verbal quirk Sun's never had before. And yet, we hear it constantly during Arts and Crafts.

Something we also get to hear is his beloved "You're gonna get us in trouble" line. I wouldn't expect the exact same delivery, but it's significantly different. Gregory going behind the security desk is a far more severe infraction than eating crafts, and yet "Sun" sounds far less flustered. Nervous, because it actually is against the rules (and he physically can't go back there if something were to happen) but not so worked up he's stumbling over his words.

Body Language

A lot of thought is put into the movement of all the animatronics, not just Sun and Moon. And they each have a distinct way of moving.

Of the two of them, Moon has always been the acrobatic one. And when he's not doing flips or swimming through the air, he's contorting himself (like that weird helicopter thing he does) or miming.

Even the little details. Sun's limbs tend to flow together in big fluid motions. Moon's movements are jerky and fast (unless he's in the air). And his body parts move more erratically. His fingers twitch. His knees, waist, and elbows all bounce at different times like a cascade. He also spins his head completely around, something Sun almost never does.

Many of Moon's animations were cut, but you can see them all here.

Now, what's the first thing 'Sun' does when you do Arts and Crafts for the first time? The mfer cartwheels in.

Designs

The in-game models we're awarded give us a good look at the differences between Sun and Moon. Most notably is their eyes. Sun has completely white eyes without pupil-holes (they seem almost glassy). Moon not only has pupils, but has one white eye and one black eye (and both glow red).

When you trigger darkness too many times, naturally you're jumpscared by Moon. But when you simply run out of time, Sun jumpscares you... but he has Moon's eyes. Suspicious? Very.

Another odd detail is that in the Artist's Loft level, Sun is there in their Eclipse form. But when the lights go off, they fully transform into Moon.

Jumpscares

Honestly, Steel Wool made it easy for me. If I had started with this, it would've been the only evidence I needed! But alas, I already wrote the above when I noticed this. In Security Breach, Moon's jumpscare is the "menacing tickle-fingers". Sun doesn't have a jumpscare. Moon will do the same jumpscare whether in the daycare or doing the top-of-the-hour shutdowns.

[The mechanism of how these two actually switch is a bit unclear, so this covers my bases if there actually are two physical Daycare Attendant bodies]

In Help Wanted, he keeps this jumpscare, even when he's ruined. 'Sun' with Moon's eyes also does this jumpscare. Their jumpscare doesn't become an actual attack until the Cinder Carousel level with Jack-O-Moon. It's very similar to the way he attacks Cassie in Ruin.

Personality

Sun only has one rule. And it's to keep the lights on. (And to stay out of restricted areas). So he's the type to do whatever will keep the kids entertained. He even encourages chaotic, hyper behavior right off the bat, suggesting they "drink Fizzy Faz until we explode". A hyper child isn't a child that's going to sit still and perfectly do crafts.

But during Arts and Crafts, there are clearly a lot of rules. Do the Paint-By-Numbers in order. Do it exactly as the guidelines say. Don't eat the crafts. Don't move. Don't shoot him with the dart gun. Don't throw things at him. Don't make mistakes. Don't come into his loft while he's malfunctioning. Be creative on your own time. The rules are endless!

So why would Moon be averse to nap time/the lights being off? Well, he actually tells us outright. "You'll... hurt your eyes." Be it an intentional feature or a bug, but when Moon is the one in control of the body, being in the dark makes them hypersensitive to light. And it hurts. As we see in Ruin, enough exposure will make them lock up.

Plus if Sun is still in there (I suspect he's not during the first Arts and Crafts), it could just be that Moon doesn't want to switch at all. Something fucky had to have happened for him to suddenly be the one active during the day. That's probably why they're attempting to train him using Arts and Crafts. It clearly didn't work out and he lost speaking rights. Plus "switching" seems to forcibly put the inactive one to sleep (aka "in a nap").

It seems like the way they're programmed, one of them gets to use the "Sun" voice and one of them gets to use the "Moon" voice, and they can't just swap back and forth.

And that's my post! Can you believe I'm not even done? Next time I'll talk about how Eclipse isn't the combination of Sun and Moon, but the combination of Moon and Jack-O-Moon.

[meirimerens]

I love your headcanons/stories about Daniil's mom, as well as the art you've made of her! I was actually wondering if you had any thoughts about Daniil's dad. We at least know that he was a military man and wanted the same for his son but that's about it

i've talked about him a bunch scattered across like seven trillion dankovsky lore posts (mostly about how he reacted to his son being gay + the slow acceptation of it until he offered him a chokha as a university-going gift in a meaning of You Might Be Gay. But You're Still My Masculine Man Son + being kinda. Afraid of his son's boyfriend until the boyfriend becomes interested in his + dankovsky's shared beetles collection and he's like mmmmmh maybe he's a good guy actually) but i have a few other things... come here [grabs you]

dankovsky's dad's side of the family To Meeee is georgian [hence. daniil mikheilovich [georgian romanization] and not mikhailovich [russian romanization]] but has been in russia for longer than his mom's side has been. on mom's side i think either her parents or grandparents emigrated, on dad's side i think it's been longer; hence why the paternal last name eventually became. i don't know what word to choose. "assimilated" maybe? like a fully russian last name came into the picture [and then was passed down to dankovsky] instead of daniil's mom's maiden name that is still armenian. i think the dad's side of the family still stayed within georgian/caucasian communities for a bit, mostly mingling and bonding with other emigrants, keeping in touch with the culture of their country of origins, and that's probably in one of them that daniil's mommy and daddy met

i think he's also kind of a small guy like dankovsky. i see dankovsky as 170cm [1cm taller than in p1 (bc i need mark to be the 169cm he is i think it's funny) but also 13cm smaller than in p2 lol] his mom to meee is 155cm so teeny weeny but i think he doesn't just have that from her i think his dad is also like. either 171cm or 169cm idk who i see as being taller on here

i think he can grow a meeeaaaan fucking beard actually i had taken this image [the man iirc is armenian but i'm going purely off of vibes]

as a ref for dankovsky's dad's portrait when i drew daniil's apartment scene so i think dad can grow that type of beard. (i think daniil also Can he just refuses to do so he likes to be clean-shaved.) he'd be really proud of his big beard i think it's a great deal about his own masculinity and power to him.

he was [canon lore] a military man who truly tried to make a military man out of his son. in my mind it was also a way to try to counterbalance a certain like. Overcompensating. for his son being gay. i've written it more but tldr for a lot of fathers, their son being gay is an attack on their own masculinity/sexuality because they see the son as an extension of themselves, and i think dankovsky's father tried to make him a military man both because he thought he'd do good + it'd offer him an honorable life, because he saw dankvsky as an extension of himself as dads do and wanted to share this with him, AND because he thought teaching him to fight and shoot a gun would like compensate for the Gay Thing. now dankovsky's still gay but a fucking menace and sharp shooter to boot

i think he has a certain like. roughness that came with the time period right like a hold (and wish to hold) on masculinity which maybe made him a bit... not unkind, but unsweet. a bit emotionally reserved, but as like A Man Thing unfortunately. he was a little distant towards dankovsky as he grew up and The Gay Thing became obvious, but has had to like. kind of suck it up and live with it. he's re-grown closer just before he left for uni. i think he would mellow in the company of horses (i think he truly liked horses + maybe even was cavalry) and shared his love of them with his son teaching him to ride + mellow and offer a sort of almost childish wonder in the collection of beetles (which dankovsky took from him as well). i think dankovsky cherishes the beetle-collecting with him because it was among the few times were dad didn't try to Compensate for him and truly let himself be a little whimsical

i think he eventually left the military, i'm thinking he could have been discharged for an injury. i also think he's still alive during the events of the game [just like his wife/dankovsky's mom], however i'm thinking he could be working away from home. mom stays home because she has health problems but i think he's a bit healthier and can travel so he can get money to support her, even if she still works on her own

i like to think he might have played an instrumence... daniil's mom i see as playing the cello [and daniil taking from her] and i'm thinking mom and dad could have met over music. he could play... maybe piano... fiddle... panduri.... makes you think. but i think he stopped as daniil was being expected + growing up because he had Military Things to do. maybe with his discharge of it he got back into it...

i think his ass cannot cook. truly i don't. i think he's a foodie and loves his treats and traditional foods but even when he puts all his heart into it. he fucks it up.

yeas... yeas we see it... THANK YOU FOR ASKING....!

[miaiphonus]

hi guys! my name is leo, nice to meet y’all. i bring with me im sikyung, the man the myth the bastard. he fills the subplot of the former bully who tried his damndest to turn it around at shinhwa. time would only tell if he turned around, and even so many years later…well, the jury is still out, i guess! please reply to this with anything if you’d like to plot, and my discord is radkxng if anybody would like to message me there. it’s sometimes a bit faster. i’ll be available sparingly here as well! under the cut are some brief biography details and potential plot ideas! i should have his profile and biography done tonight as well, i just wanted to prioritize my intro so we could get to plotting!

so his mother’s a housewife, but his father is im sungho. he’s a fairly popular actor, known for his gentle smile.

she’s just a noncelebrity, someone he met one night. it’s a fairytale romance for a time, sungho is…suffocatingly sweet.

not that he is a good man, and it’s not long after they tie the knot and little sikyung comes into the world that things take a turn for the worse.

tldr not gonna go into detail but i guess he’s part of the Bad Dad Club. congrats. you have taught your child Violence

things keep spiraling because the family’s reputation is in good name — and sungho has money — until quite predictably things go a little nutso cuckoo. there’s this peer and his old school that sikyung was never able to get along with that he ended up roughing up bad. badly enough to get transferred, even.

at shinhwa, sikyung really does try his best to play his part nicely. he gets into some scuffles here and there, probably gets a fiery reputation, but on the surface it goes…mostly well.

and then he graduates and without anyone to keep him on track, and without any reputation to keep him honest, well. 

he can’t hold down a job very well, but it’s fine. he and his father, as much as he despises the bastard, work out a deal. sikyung keeps his mouth shut about what goes on behind closed doors, and sungho keeps his bills paid and his legal trouble nonexistent.

he’s still being a menace, and trying to turn it around, but it is simply sisyphean. idk dude just keep pushing that rock this is a skill issue atp

fun fact this url comes from an epithet of ares's that means bloodstained; i wanted something that highlighted both the roughness of sikyung's and the corruptive nature of his upbringing as well

his real gossip girl secret is that he's badtzmaru's number one fan

he does taekwondo if it matters, he thought it would help and it kind of does but it also kind of doesnt

potential plot ideas!! and pls if there's anything you can think of or if you wanna like, alter one of these we can try to talk it out!

someone who helps inspire him to change for the good

friends who make him Worse

someone who knows his victim/whatever/i am Willing to discuss the exact nature of that situation for the Drama

someone who thinks it’s So Fucking Funny to make sikyung mad for better or worse

someone who even when sikyung was Trying to be nice still got on his bad side - look i love a good long time enemies plot

basically give me DRAUMAUR sikyung is not a nice guy im sorry

he wants to be, desperately, to be honest

but he is not and has no idea how to even approach it

[queen-of-the-boos]

BAM ANOTHER ASK I STRIKE AGAIN

Band-aid 🩹 and Microphone 🎤 do not hold back when rambling give me everything in your head

Oh you asked for it.

1. If there was one thing about your f/o that you would want people to understand, what would it be?

Moon isn't pure evil. He's chaotic neutral. Yeah I said it. Most of my faves are. I'm not trying to woobify this robot I'm dead fucking serious he has so many neutral traits and it's like I'm the only one who sees them. I guess I'm insane? What else is new man. But anyway just.

He's programmed with security protocols and just wanted to catch Gregory. "Ouuu Gregory is just a kid" maybe so. But he's a fucking menace of a child. Look what happened to the others and the entire pizza plex because of that child. Granted the plex part was also because of a certain entity, but I digress. Moon was trying to stop Gregory in any way possible because it was in his programming.

THAT BEING SAID. He is also a meanie and silly. And you know what? I love that about him. I think he's allowed to be mean and be a little silly as a treat. If I was in someone's shadow all the time constantly being called bad and evil by even the official pizza plex merch, I'd snap too.

I think he just plays into the mean and bad role because it's all he's ever been known as. It's all he knows. Aside from how to take care of children. That can be an iffy mix. But yknow what? Contrary to popular and boring belief, some kids actually like villains better. I imagine there are little regulars of the daycare that adored Moon and he probably loved it. You know if he heard a little one say he was cool, he'd absolutely keep playing up and exaggerating his villainous tendencies. And that never became an actual threat until the whole virus incident.

Yknow something else. I like threatening Moon too. Yeah I said it. I don't care if he has a virus or not that won't stop me from loving every bit of him pre-present-or post virus. And no I don't think he's ever actually hurt a child before Gregory. I think he's scared them shitless but never laid a hand on one. I think he ENJOYED scaring them too. And I think that's fun sorry not sorry. Once again, being the opposite of Sun is all he really knows, and the virus just amped that up to 11.

Did you know that before they were programmed with the knowledge to care for children, they were both theater performers? Facts. It's no wonder poor Sun seems to have anxiety and Moon is so theatrical in his spooky personality. Sun always played the good guy and Moon was always the villain on stage. It's just their natural ways. Furthering my point.

Tldr; Moon isn't inheritly evil. He's morally grey. And programmed to be that way virus or not.

Wow that did get long. Sorry. Hm.

2. Does your f/o sing or play music? If so, how are they at their craft, and what's your favorite thing about it?

I hc Moonie both sings and has a music box for lulling people to sleep. They're a wonderful singer and I'd pay MONEY to fall asleep to their voice. Moon asmr when /hj

My favorite thing about it... Definitely when Moon plays waltzy tunes from his music box and asks me to dance with him- or when he does silly dances to his own music. He's really good at making up funny songs too! Some of them can be morbid, but I like morbid. I like him. I wish I could kiss him. "He doesn't have lips" shut UP yes he does they're right there carved on his big happy smile. Also idgaf I will kiss teeth like a sans selfshipper try me bitch (I'm sure you probably feel the same)

... I'm actually listening to the carousel theme for the first time and imagining dancing with Moonie under the daycare stars... But don't tell anyone....

[milkyfinch]

How to explain this simply… ok so hear me out…

Doc has a big hole. A huge hole, called The Perimeter (no seriously it’s fucking massive. takes like five minutes to bridge from one side to the other). 500x500 blocks, carpet bombed all the way to bedrock. It’s full of revolutionary redstone contraptions and farms, a show of technological marvel.

Grian, being the menace that he is, ropes his friends into poking around in Doc’s (extremely complex and sensitive) machines. They fuck up real bad. There were explosions.

Doc is understandably pissed and they start taking shots at each other over the weeks. It escalates real fast. No season goes by without Grian starting a war. It’s just how it is. (It’s a whole saga, absolutely hilarious and I highly recommend it.)

Now up to present day. Doc’s away on vacation. Grian goes “hey what if we cover up the entire Perimeter with dirt lol”. So him Mumbo and Scar, they spend like the next 14 hours gathering up 250,000 blocks of dirt (which, let me remind you would only cover a single layer across the top).

And here’s my favorite part- the hermits have weekly business meetings. Doc’s away this week, so Grian joins the call and says “hey guys you wanna mess with doc?” And hermits, without hesitation, went “say no more”. So a group of like 10 people spent the next 9 hours carefully building a plains biome on top of the giant hole.

I think that’s what makes it so funny. A flat layer of dirt is already funny. But the fact that they so carefully terraformed it to look natural, complete with trees and everything. Doc comes back and is like “where the fuck is my base???”

TLDR: they put a lid on Doc’s hole

[magenteel]

some thoughts on 317

i just need to babble a little so i can think of other things alskdjasdk

(this is based off of @hanashimas rough translations and nothing official but this is more of an art/visual thing so it doesn't rlly matter)

tldr: Deku’s giving me some BAD vibes and some thoughts on how the 2nd assassin was handled

main talking point: this.

lets analyze whats going on here a bit;

Deku met the 2nd assassin (unknown who he is, if he was given a 2nd quirk, etc. as of now)

assassin is pretty beat up, but it doesn’t look like he took the full psuedo-100%, hard to tell because of the scan quality but it looks like he was got in the face, chest and stomach

assassin is being held up by blackwhip, not restrained

speaking of blackwhip, the way the assassin is hung isn’t like what Deku usually does if he’s intending to catch someone, that usually resembles a loop around the person, but what he’s got here looks more like a pulley

Deku’s standing (or floating, looks like they’re over a staircase)  menacingly over him

All Might’s in the background looking like he walked in on smth he wasn’t supposed to

that is one intense stare you’ve got going o-

WAIT DID HE JUST FUCKING DROP THE GUY???

UM I DIDN’T NOTICE THAT AT FIRST. (not sure if the rough tls have all the panels/pages, but the action lines are a little telling and i’ve looked and haven’t seen a panel where the assassin gets put down normally so..... y i k e s. for now.)

YEAH SAME ALL MIGHT (he says “WAIT!!”) 

I’m just gonna come out and say it, I think this fight was more of a violent interrogation than an actual, y’know, fight.

Just the way these pages are composed, the numb sort of nonchalance of Deku, the way the villain’s held up by blackwhip, Hawks’ (surprised) wording of the fight; “It was an... Instant victory...!!” essentially it was a completely one-sided fight, and the way that phrase was overlaid over Deku’s damn menacing look before coldly just going “He didn’t have any info, btw he might explode” that just kinda gives me the heebie jeebies over this scene.

(panel to show Hawk’s reaction)

Of course theres the possibility that he could’ve just asked like with Nagant and Muscular, but that is NOT how this fight is framed, it was quick, offscreen and it looks like a total beatdown instead of a “Q&A” like we’ve seen with the last two fights.

Another detail is that the assassin hasn’t exploded, Nagant exploded the second she started siding with Deku, as soon as she held his hand she was done for.

This guy? He hasn’t exploded at all yet, Deku assumes he’ll explode but even after All Might goes tripping after Deku theres no sign of an explosion and it makes sense that all the assassins that made deals w/ AFO would be rigged like Nagant in case Deku gets the idea of salvation again. (muscular was just told to run wild, so i wouldn’t expect him to be rigged)

Meaning that that guy hadn’t defected.

So not only is Deku doing some questionable shit, but AFO’s plan is working; Deku’s not trying to save the villains (instead opting to drop them down a flight of stairs in this case sheesh).

Ofc its kinda funny with being all haha Deku snapped, but in the long run, this is Not a Good Sign, especially for the interrogator and the ‘lmao Deku snapped’ is turning into a more ‘uh oh, Deku might’ve actually snapped’ for me in this situation.

[janiedean]

Isn't it funny how the whole "stop caring about those evuhl men in wigs and start caring for real wombyn problems more!"-crap comes from those who don't really care for women once they disagree with them. If they really did care for women, they'd not force them to "choose" the pseudo-freedom of having to agree with them. Being freed from one oppressor but then only having one option isn't what being liberated is.

^^^^^

no but like... the thing is: never mind the whole transexclusionary bullshit, these people are a menace for any kind of woman they don’t agree with anyway and are also in themselves exclusionary in general *and* actually perpetuating more patriarchal ideas than they think because sorry but:

the fixation they have on genitals defining you for them is basically penises = anathema vaginas = empowerment, but like.... wow as if societal sexism wasn’t based on the contrary presumption, so you’re basically saying that whatever’s between your legs determines your social status, which...... is exactly what patriarchal societies do so what the hell are we even discussing here

the fact that with the whole vagina = empowerment narrative they have going on they also move ahead the whole ‘having children is a fundamental part of your womanhood™’ which is meant to a) exclude trans women b) saying surrogacy should be illegal means that basically they’re not only discussing the basic principle of bodily autonomy (ie: surrogacy can be a goddamned choice and a woman should be able to do whatever the fuck she wants with her body that included so maybe work in order to legalize/normalize it so no one is forced to) but basically says that no one who can’t have children biologically or won’t have them is Not A True Woman, which excludes any sterile cis woman and any cis woman who doesn’t have children from Being A Proper Woman, which is fucking ridiculous, but like... who the fuck only sees women as good for having children/said that a woman’s #1 role in society has to be having children? wow, patriarchal societies :))))))

(btw: last time I was at a feminist march and a terf organization ended up giving me a flyer with the above bullshit printed on I went up and left and never attended that one march again because I don’t want to share space with anyone who thinks women who say that shit care about women’s rights period so like... sorry I don’t want to share spaces with terfs ever, bye)

this whole obsession with penis = anathema brings to political lesbianism ie faking being attracted to women while pushing the narrative that being attracted to men is bad/brainwashing which means invalidating the sexualities of any single category who’s into men which wow includes people who aren’t straight women (see the amazing ‘bi women into men are dirty with male residual’ takes) *and* at the same time pushes the idea that women’s sexuality has to be what they say it is which lmao

meaning that since most of these idiots aren’t actually attracted to women but fake it they most likely don’t have sex where they’re proactive but at the same time they keep on bitching about how kink and bdsm and so on are misogynist in nature because if it’s a straight relationship either the guy is abusing you or fetishizing you depending on your role and if it’s not then it’s wanting to relieve those roles and if there are dicks involved SHAME SHAME SHAME so like... who has always been on the forefront wanting to dictate what women should or shouldn’t enjoy in bed? ah right, patriarchal societies and various religions/religious cults that preach women’s submission and say that you shouldn’t have sex outside having children/masturbation is bad™/sex is bad™/kink is bad™, so excuse me if this shit isn’t imvho feminist since policing what women want or don’t want in bed is inherently misogynist

this also shows they have a rather phallocentric idea of sex since it’s all about dicks dicks and dicks...... ah, wait, same as your regular misogynist dude who thinks that he doesn’t owe you an orgasm when you fuck but okay then :)

never mind this idea that women are inherently superior to men which automatically brushes under the rug the fact that women can be abusive to everyone either other women or men, that internalized misogyny exists and all the crap that it entails and excludes criticism of what women have to say on account of just being woman, which is ridiculus bc if another woman is sprouting bullshit maybe I should be able to point it out

also again... yesterday I disagreed with them about the trans women issue? I got hours of rape threats and death threats, which is exactly what I’d have expected out of the worst kind of redpiller incel, so where’s the difference? ah right the redpiller doesn’t pretend to care about human rights

also their crusade against FINDING OUT WHERE ARE THE INFAMOUS TRANS WOMEN actually hurts gnc cis women lmao because they go look at ‘BUT DO YOU LOOK SUPPOSEDLY MANLY OR NOT THAT MEANS YOU’RE NOT A TRUE WOMAN’ with all the peace of gnc cis women who happen to be tall/with muscles/whatever and the peace of some of us with pcos and extra testosterone who most likely would not be women enough because of having too much body hair or whatever else *shrug* like.... sorry but that also means that to them womanhood = also presenting in a very specific certain way according to beauty standards/societal attractiveness standards which automatically excludes every single woman that doesn’t perform femininity according to those standards, so again, fuck them because it means you don’t care about women, you supposedly care about a very small number of cishet abled standard attractive non-kinky most likely rich women who agree with your worldview only and if that’s feminism miss me with that bullshit 

and like... this isn’t probably 20% of the worst of terf ideology but tldr: those people are exactly as misogynist as the patriarchy they’re supposedly fighting and I don’t see why I should gaf about a group that pretends to care about all women and then actually doesn’t and as you said perpetrates the exact same rhetoric and societal bullshit that sexist/misogynist societies do. *shrug*

[chalky]

He’s the only character that will fuck up, acknowledge he fucked up, and do his best to make it up (even if he doesn’t always go about it the right way). He’s been forced into this role of a hero by many people when he’s really just an ordinary guy who doesn’t have heroic morals or standards. Other people can steal but the second he does it he’s a menace. Other people can grief his house and take his things but when he does it, he is exiled and abused for it.

I think it’s kind of funny how Tommy will commit misdemeanors and then will be treated like a felon. Nothing this guy can do will ever make everyone happy. He has gone through the most injustice out of everyone on this server, and people still ask for him to be punished for what is essentially accepted behavior by everyone else. He is criticized for not taking the moral high ground and sparing Dream even though Dream took two of his lives with no remorse and planned to hold him captive indefinitely. He is criticized for leaving Techno when he had made it clear he wouldn’t help destroy L’manburg and hurt Tubbo. Why is he put under such scrutiny and called the bad guy when he responds to these situations without complete grace and moral eliteness? Especially when the other characters involved have wronged him, why is he expected to be the one to take the moral high ground?? He’s just a guy!!

Anyway, tldr, I think he’s been punished for misdemeanors more than anyone should ever be punished. And that’s so crazily unfair, just let the kid rest.

tommy apologists, as a dream sympathizer, what’s your reason to defending tommy? just curious

[ultronnie]

Tell me about Dustin pls

A H H H I GOTTA DO ANOTHER HELL YEAH DUDE

SLEEP WHO? IDK HER-

anyways-

Full Name: Dustin Moore. Totally the douchiest name ever but he was a douchey douche for a minute.

Gender and Sexuality: He’s male and straight. Wowie, hard to come by a straight character in Re-Hash. A rarity! Wowie!

Pronouns: He/him~

Ethnicity/Species: Hyena boyo! The best to draw! Ah!!!

Birthplace and Birthdate: Again I don’t think I set a birthday for him yet. I imagine it’s somewhere around July/August, though. 

Guilty Pleasures: Shit. Didn’t think about this for him, actually. I dunno. He’s a pretty open guy. I don’t think he has any shame in his interests at all.

I will say though, he guzzles root beer like it’s his lifeline and Dustin gets self conscious about the amount he drinks if you point it out to him.

Phobias: He’s really afraid of failing. Lately he’s put a lot of pressure on himself to be a better person after he dropped outta college (long story there.) Dustin used to be a real dickhead. Like, a dickhead on a different plane of existence. He knows he was wrong for what he’d done to people in the past and just wants to be better.

Dustin also fears people leaving him. Certain things transpired that made him lose his original friend group from high school. Granted now he has a big squad that likes to smoke weed occasionally after they’re out til 2 AM doing nothing. But when he reconnects with THE MAIN BOYO KRIS who he was a total menace to waaaay back when, the two kinda reconcile. Dustin’s clingy (like how I mentioned Andy is) but he won’t outright say it. He likes to be around people and just desperately wants to be liked and seen as a friend.

Also, fuck clowns. Dustin hates clowns. I’m sure everyone saw It and all he did was curl in a ball and scream at everything.

What They Would Be Famous For: I’m not really sure. Dustin’s kinda just there. Not in a way that he’s boring but I don’t know if he’d do something that could make an everlasting impact on society. He’s hella good at skateboarding coz who the fuck doesn’t like a hyena who skateboards? That’s right, nOBODY-

COZ SKATEBOARDING IS HARD AND IF YOU CAN DO IT YOU’RE A COOL DUDE.

But yeah, not sure. I’d say if he were to be ‘famous’ it would be something in the same vein along skating or some shit. He did sports shit in high school but he wasn’t super serious about it.

What They Would Get Arrested For: Honestly, probably something stupid like getting pulled over and his friend (probably a rat stoner) has weed on him and he takes the blame for it coz he’s an idiot. This doesn’t happen but it wouldn’t surprise me if it did.

OC You Ship Them With: I don’t actually have anyone for him in a romantic sense yet. Kris joked that he used to think Dustin was cute even though Dustin was an asshole to him 24/7. But tbh I can’t even picture him with anyone romantically just coz he doesn’t seem like he’s ready for a romantic pursuit. Dustin’s more focused on making his life better and he doesn’t really wanna be tied down by something like that. 

But I’m sure he’ll find someone eventually.

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Andy jokes about stabbing him with his pocket knife sometimes, but he doesn’t mean it. Dustin’s suspicious of it, though.

But otherwise, nah. Dustin’s too lovable once he’s apologized to you six hundred times.

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: He likes a bit of everything. Although not a movie, he thinks Death Note is the shit.

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: He’s not too keen on the gazillions of superhero movies that come out (YES, I KNOW, A SHOCKER. RONNIE WRITES A CHARACTER WHO DOESN’T WANNA SHOVE EVERY MARVEL MOVIE STRAIGHT UP HIS BUTT THE SECOND IT’S ANNOUNCED.) Of course he still sees them but he doesn’t eat ‘em up like someone else *kriscozhe’sme* does.

Talents and/or Powers: He’s been skating since he was about ten. People always told him it’d be a thing he gave up on when he was older, but Dustin never gave it up. It’s a passion for him.

Also, like I said earlier, Dustin played a few sports in his lifetime. His former BFF basically dragged him into playing football and shit. He didn’t love it but he dealt with it for FOUR YEARS COZ HE’S A PUSHOVER.

It wasn’t too bad, though. But yeah, he’s more of a rebel than a saint so- fuck sports. Skate or die, bro.

Why Someone Might Love Them: In terms of in the universe, I think characters like him just coz he’s easily very lovable now. Like, his evolution from Grade-A Dickwad to The Guy Who Just Paid For My Coffee And Donuts For No Reason is a huge change for him. It’s not an act, either. He’s trying hard to be genuine. It comes off as fake but it’s really not. I promise.

Why Someone Might Hate Them: People hold grudges against Dustin for how he treated them in the past. Rude names, sometimes physical abuse. Nothing major like HE RIPPED MY LEG OFF AND BEAT ME WITH IT but just shit like shoving and pulling on this poor rat kid’s ears and shit. He was one’a those kids. We all know what I’m talking about.

Thing is I want my characters to be flawed. I don’t agree with him for this shit he pulled. It’s bad. But Dustin learns from his mistakes. He wants to be better, and if someone doesn’t forgive him, so be it. He knows he did them wrong and he doesn’t blame them for hating him to the very core even if he apologized a million times over.

Actually, it’s a funny story:

I knew a kid in high school named Austin just like this a year under me. He wasn’t really an ass to me at all but he was annoying as fuck. Loud, made dumb comments, sometimes was up in people’s faces talking MAD SHIT. And I just thought he was a FUCKING IDIOT.

Then my senior year I have a class with this bozo and he sits in front of me. And I’m like ‘fucking wonderful, I literally wanna slit my wrists and pour my blood in his hair’. And he fucking turns around and DEAD SERIOUS SAYS:

“Hey dude! What’s up?”

And he actually turned out to be pretty cool. We talked a bit and he always threw compliments and shit my way about my shirt or the ugly fuck that I was doodling on my paper.

I thought it was a crazy change, though. Took me off guard. I was wary that it was all an act. But I earned why Austin was such a different guy about six months later from a teacher there who told me that he once asked her about ‘why exactly people think I’m so annoying, I’m never that serious about the teasing and shit.”

And she said, “Austin, you can’t treat people like this even if to you it’s just a joke. A lot of kids have hard lives and to them it’s not just a joke.”

And boom. Instantaneous change.

Dustin had a wake up call like that and I’m debating on what exactly it was. There’s a few ideas but they’re all pointing to one thing:

It was something bad that made him stop being the worst person he could be.

Well shit, that took a different turn.

How They Change: Again, Dustin goes from a total assface to one of Kris’ BFF’s shockingly enough. The details are in the story, though. Don’t wanna write it all out on here.

Why You Love Them: Dustin was without a doubt my FAVORITE character to draw. I never drew a hyena character of my own before him (and Teefers of course helped with this). His ears are my favorite thing to draw.

I also like his progression as a character. It’s a nice redemption arc that isn’t super serious but it is poignant.

I also like his stupid dotted face. He’s a cute lil dude.

So yeah. That’s Dustin.

tldr; Dustin is a flawed skater hyena who just wants to be a good person. He hates clowns and just wants friends. Also, he loves root beer.