#tofukitten

[spiribia]

Sonic boom so loud it made my dash show this twice xD

I HAD TO DOUBLE CHECK I DIDNT double post it. my shadow clone

[sage-nebula]

Tails ~

What I like about them

Tails fits the definition of a classical antihero. While nowadays we think of antiheroes as brooding types who are willing to do less-than-heroic things to get the job done, in classical literature an antihero was a character who, while heroic, displayed personality traits that weren't often associated with heroes. For instance, a classical antihero might be wrangle with self-doubt where a classical hero is confident. A classical antihero may be physically weak where a classical hero is physically strong, so on and so forth. Frodo Baggins is an example of a classical antihero, and so, too, is Tails. And I like this because it gives us interesting avenues to explore his character from. Sonic is great, but as a traditional hero he doesn't wrangle with things like self-doubt or anxiety. What you see is what you get with him: just a guy who loves adventure. But perhaps in part due to being a literal genius, Tails is a lot more cerebral and there's a lot more introspection with him, particularly given his shortcomings and weaknesses. Exploring the ways he grows and learns to work with his anxieties and traumas, rather than against them, makes his character really interesting.

Also, he is so fucking cute oh my god.

What I dislike about them

His character writing has been, to put it politely, inconsistent over the years. He went through all that growth in the Adventure games just to have it completely ripped the fuck away from him in later ones (particularly Forces). It's not great and most days I pretend I do not see it.

Favourite moment

In the games: Either the moment he threw hands with Eggman when he thought Eggman had killed Sonic in Adventure 2, or the acknowledgement of his issues and his whole arc in Frontiers rolled up into one.

In animation: Either saying that Sonic was his "mom, dad, and picket fence" in AoStH, or the episode in AoStH where Sonic was turned to stone and so Tails spent the whole episode trolling Scratch and Grounder Home Alone style. Again, he is so fucking cute oh my god.

In the IDW comics: Either catching Sonic with the Tornado in the middle of the Angel Island arc, or crashing the airship into Neo Metal at the end of that arc, or when he said goodbye to the Cyclone because he had to sacrifice her during the Metal Virus arc, or when he figured out how to take down Surge in their fight against her in the city, or defending Sonic from Kit, or immediately building guns to go save Sonic in the Scrapnik Island mini series, or . . .

Least favourite moment

Forces 🙃All of Forces. I hate it so fucking much.

Also not a fan of how they made him fight Sonic in the Archie comics. Really, any situation which pits those two against each other is an automatic Nope.gif in my books. I will smack that back button so fast, don't test me.

A situation with this character that I want to see explored more

How he's developing his technology to utilize clean energy! We see that he's using hydro power to fuel the Mystic Ruins workshop in the IDW comics; I want more exploration on how Tails' development of technology is not only not detrimental to the planet, but actually works to reverse the damage that Eggman does. Technology doesn't have to destroy the planet; it can be a clean force for good, too!

An interesting AU for this character

Can I promote my own fic Beyond Oblivion? Because that's an interesting AU to me!

A crossover

I'm still very much in love with my Night in the Woods crossover, where Tails spends an autumn in Possum Springs during his solo journeys. All anthro stories take place in the same universe and this one happens in my head and in my heart even if Sega thinks it could never work in canon. Sega doesn't pay me, they can't dictate what I do.

OTP (or OT3+ etc…. just… favourite ship)

None. In fact, adaptations that have tried to give Tails romances (Archie, Sonic X, Boom) are off-putting to me because they try to give Tails romances. He doesn't need a romance for his story to be interesting! In fact, I think a romance arc for him is far more boring than the alternatives like exploring how he overcomes his inner demons or focusing on the clean energy alternatives he creates to improve the world. And even if you want to explore him with other characters, platonic relationships and platonic love stories are a thing! Tails' brotherly relationship with Sonic, his friendships with Amy and Knuckles—these are interesting stories and romance isn't a part of them. Destroy the heterosexual notion that every character must be paired off for a story to be good.

Other ships?

Nope.

BROTP

His big bro Sonic, of course! Like I said above, platonic love stories are a thing, and the platonic love story in Sonic and Tails finding a family in each other when they were both orphaned has been one of my favorites since I was four years old. I don't think that's going to change any time soon.

NOTP

I wish people who ship Sonic with Tails romantically a very do not ever interact with me, ever, in any capacity. Thank you.

An assortment of headcanons!

I have a lot! You can read some here, and here, and here :)

[aetherotransformer]

20!

20. Of all the places they've been to, which is their favorite? Do they like to go back there?

the wandering stairs in the crystarium because he wants to see his gf again

besides that i think ashen likes zenith, the sagolii desert and lakeland. basically just any wide open spaces that are sparsely populated. thavnair is probably her favorite city state she's been to because it reminds her a bit of home (ala mhigo); terncliff was also pretty nice

[dood1e-bug]

Seems like it didn't work.

The typing thing works if you're using the mobile app (and also the :readmore: needs to be on a new line, and there should be no space after the second : -- hit Enter and it will convert the :readmore: into a line)

If you're on desktop, it's this button

YEEEEES it worked YAAAAY

Thankyou so much 🙏😔

[kdinjenzen]

Okay I didn't wanna add onto the really long Golden Sun breakdown I did earlier with this BUT...

@hailstorrmmss and @tofukitten THESE LITTLE COMMENTS MEAN A LOT AND THANK YOU

[siverwrites]

Challenge: make a poll with five of your current favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

Tagged by @laughingpinecone

Tagging @azurefishnets, @tofukitten, @yunaffie, @monk-of-figaro, @nintendowife

[bubblymaika]

I’ll be doing the improvement meme later, but my friend @tofukitten showed me this meme and it works well considering I didn’t have time or motivation to draw for most of the year. I’m overall happy with how things are going. I might go back and forth between SAI 1 and 2 because of how differently pen pressure and texture work (my only complaint about SAI 2 tbh is the texture ;-;). I like the oil brush in SAI 2 a lot though, especially with the brushes in this pack

[sazandorable]

so cute!!!! :D

@starlightmango @tofukitten @serpentinegraphite @siriwesen @ezzoh

fuck it. worm on a string picrew chain. let's fucking go

happy worm creation my friends

tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)

[justaminuet]

@tofukitten the mount is very aesthetically pleasing.

[spiribia]

Excellent first chapter and then your author notes--

hehe. thanks so much!!

[sage-nebula]

(not Side Order spoilers but from the new trailer) I don't play Splatoon, but I have learned that a particular puzzle mechanic, the 8 ball, is very loathed. How do you feel about it returning in SO? XD

This is how I looked seeing the 8 ball in Side Order:

There was literally a level in Octo Expansion called Heinous 8-Ball Station. Heinous. HEINOUS. EVEN THE DEVELOPERS KNEW IT WAS HEINOUS.

I am so excited for Side Order. But I am not excited for the 8 ball.

[desultory-novice]

That's my running theory, yep! They could have made the Tree Crown's eye look like anything, including the eye inside Magolor Soul, but HAL designed it specifically to look like Dark Nebula's eye. 

And the whole “granting limitless power/unlimited power” thing that both items are said to do. The phrasing on those is so close. The fact that both of them are considered "treasures" worthy of stealing from the outside, but are secretly corrupting ones/parasitic lifeforms...

...I wonder now, if Dark Daroach had the chance to open his mouth, would we have seen The Eyeball inside him? Is Dark Nebula a fragment of the Tree Crown or are they two separate but parallel entities?

as Tofukitten has pointed out, going back to material from older games and giving them new context happens all the time in Kirby. I think it’s great that We’re seeing that happen here, to the “weakest” last boss!

what did you think about the epilogue final boss?

Quiz time! (Honest answers only!)

Who had "make Dark Nebula/Dark Zero relevant again" on their remake bingo card?!

I find it hilarious that Squeak Squad gets derided as being the Kirby game with the weakest/worst story, or the least representative game of the Kirby franchise, and then out of nowhere, Forgotten Land is like "Oh yeah, Squeak Squad predicted non-Popstarian Earth-based animal aliens who can only speak in squeaks/meows" and now RtDL DX tells us that YES the tree-themed artifact that grants you limitless power and the water-themed last boss sealed away in a treasurechest that grants you ultimate power are at the very least related to each other.

...For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about...

It is THE SAME EYE. Yes, all dark-matter aligned creatures have a singular eye, but they're not all the same type of eye. These two in particular have identical eyes.

And of course, if you go back and look at Dark Nebula's sealed form, the gold is remarkably similar to the Tree Crown's gold filigree. Suddenly, there's a lot more sense behind King Dedede having a sealed "Master Crown" in a treasurechest in his castle!

I may have more thoughts on this later, but I pretty much just wanted to brag that Squeak Squad got more relevance!

[yume-x-hanabi]

5 favorite things about your cat 🐈🌟

Oh dear XD

1. She’s cute. I mean all cats are cute but she in particular. No I’m not biased.

2. She’s very cuddly, but like, with a routine. When I go to bed in the evening, she jumps on the bed and flops over for me to pet her. Then she lays on me until I turn off the light, after which she lays next to be for a bit before leaving to do cat things. Sometimes she comes back during the night to sleep with me. When I lay on the couch, she sits on me for a bit too. And when she wants attention when I’m at my desk she’ll lay between me and the keyboard.

Note that she’s super sociable with me, but is actually a huge coward who will run away any time someone else comes over.

3. She's very chatty. And her meow is more like a squeak, so it’s very cute. She meows at me a lot, but she also talks back to the dishwasher when it beeps after a cycle. And when I play kitten sounds she calls for the kittens.

4. She’s nearly 6 and a half, but still has the playful energy of a kitten. She wants to play every morning, especially now that I wfh. I can often see her running around in the bg during zoom calls, she’s probably entertaining my students XD

cons: she wants to play with me. Very inconvenient when I’m working. Missy you can chase your ball on your own, you don’t need me to do it, no really you don’t. And of course when work is over and I can pay attention to her, she’s taking a nap. Of course.

5. Her antics are really funny. It’s kinda sad I’m the only one who gets to witness it fully because she suddenly calms down the moment I start filming, but she’s often jumping around in silly ways when she’s playing.

[kumapillow]

Lmao so did seimei just have a habit of naming his friends based on their colors ishdjd yuki for his fur being white as snow, kohaku for the amber eyes, now kuro for being a black crow...

I guess he did lol

I don’t know about Yuki (he wasn’t with Seimei in the flashback arc, so I think he’s the shiki of a different Abe descendant), but yeah, he did seem to look for the most distinguishing feature of an Another and decide the name he would call them based on it (^^) (which, most of the time, would be the color).

Maybe all of his descendants who can see Anothers got this quirk from him, that’s why Yuki got named as such ahaha

[siverwrites]

The sylvando ship is prob my fault x3. Anyway, F!

Haha majority of art was seen through you yeah :D.

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom

For actual consistent activity as opposed to once reading fic and then doing nothing for years then tossing out a couple tiny things myself and occasionally requesting during exchanges--(Chrono Trigger, I’m talking about Chrono Trigger so like 16-17 years yikes).

ANYWAY, 4 years and 5 months so far and still going and that’s Ghost Trick.

Fandom Meme

[pengychan]

OKAY @tofukitten here's what happened:

Jaheira died on me during the attack at Moonrise Tower, so turns out recruiting Minsc was not an option and I had to kill him

Unfortunately I was not willing to go back all the way to the end of Act 2 to save her and then bust my ass to get back to this point

I mean I will sooner hang myself by the thumbs than have to do the House of Grief battle again tbh

So I killed him

Then the hamster showed up to go to his body and squeak sadly

I felt bad

Still not bad enough to redo the fucking House of Grief battle

I reloaded the save before the encounter, beat him again, but instead of killing him I used a scroll of Hold Person to keep him still while I ran off with the entire party.

He lives, I guess?

No idea if this is coming back to bite me in the ass

It may very well come back to bite me in the ass

Also all companions talk about him like we killed him

But they also to have trouble grasping the fact the Jaheira in the sewers was not the real deal

Guess I'm the one keeping the collective brain cell at the moment

I don't go to BG3 but I bet the hamster made you very happy to see xD

I have yet to meet any hamsters but I'll let you know when I do XD