#truly The Struggler

[autism-swagger]

Seriously though can we talk about Daisy after she's freed from Hive?? She literally goes through dopamine withdrawal, symptoms of which include (but are not limited to) anxiety, panic attacks, dysphoria, depression, agitation, irritability, suicidal ideation, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, generalized pain, and drug cravings.

Not to mention the fact that dopamine withdrawal has to chance of becoming protracted withdrawal syndrome and can last anywhere from months to YEARS. Get my girl in a detox center NOW 😭

[eggsplice]

life when youve become a butterfly hive <3 and also butterflies as a hair fashion statement idk

[chorus-the-mutate]

This will probably never happen but I think it would be nice to see Guts and Casca's story culminating in them becoming the king and queen of Midland. Mainly because I think Guts' arc has always been about finding purpose and community in the world around him. And to see him prove himself worthy of an entire kingdom's trust and to find purpose in protecting these people in turn feels like the perfect end to his arc.

For Casca, becoming queen alongside Guts would not only be a nice new beginning for their relationship, it would be a great payoff for her character as well. Her arc has always been about her relationship with womanhood and how that effects her ability to gain agency for herself in a hostile world, her ability to protect herself and her relationship with power. If Casca became the Queen of Midland alongside Guts it would not only give her the permanent leadership position she deserves, it would also show that Guts and their people love and trust her enough to reign them all in when needed.

As for the Moonlight Boy, I like to believe that he would be saved from Griffith's grasp by his parents. And only then would he be able to gain the throne Griffith destroyed his family's lives for. Even if it there is a risk that the Moonlight Boy's relationship with the throne would be tinged with the trauma of being a mostly powerless vessel of Griffith, I think there's hope that he could find purpose as the next king.

It would also be a thematically fitting case of irony that Guts, Casca and the Moonlight Boy, three of Griffith's biggest living victims, would be the ones to reclaim their agency and their senses of purpose by stealing everything Griffith dreamed for. And with how Guts has come to learn the importance of community, how companionship and love tether him to his humanity, he would be a better king than Griffith could ever be.

[kingofdinosaurs]

idk

[lipstickontheglass1985]

why does everyone else get roommates who are like cool ppl they become friends with and i get this.

[vengeancemoths]

ousted from bed at 5:30 am should be illegal. so eepy

[xenosagaepisodeone]

people are always like "oh I would eat my own organs if I was in pearl steven universe's position" but I've been rewatching bits of inuyasha that my sister has been putting on, and honestly? Truly? Kikyo's storyline is a fate worse than death. imagine slaving your whole life away doing a job that restricts the way you act and the way people view you, dying utterly alone and believing you were betrayed, being reborn in the future where you can live the life you want with the guy you like, and then being flung back into your previous body with all of its emotional baggage. the girl you were reborn as Is you, but she is also very much her own person. so you have to watch what is kind of like an idealized tulpa of you crafted by the laws of causality live out the life you wanted and become the person you never got to be. and like, from a narrative perspective, you are just a plot device in this girl's coming of age story. you were born to suffer so she can learn some lessons about growing up. the writer respects you enough for you to be a rounded character, but your role in the story more than anyone else is "The Struggler". You can't even eat your organs because you don't have any.

[dungeon-strugglers]

✨New item!✨ Ebonclaw Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a monk)

These black iron gauntlets menace with spikes along the knuckles. While you are wearing these gauntlets, your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d6 piercing damage. 

If you kill a hostile creature of CR 1 or higher with an unarmed strike while wearing these gauntlets, you draw some of the creature’s life energy into yourself and regain 1 ki point. 

Curse. Each time you regain ki using these gauntlets, a darkness begins to take hold of you. When you do so for the 7th time, your spirit becomes addicted to the life force of others. You can no longer regain ki points when you take a short or long rest, but the ki points you siphon from each creature you slay is now equal to one roll of your martial arts die. Additionally, your maximum number of ki points is doubled. When you finish a long rest you lose all remaining ki points if you haven’t regained ki points using these gauntlets since your last long rest. 

When this curse takes hold, the gauntlets undergo a transformation, revealing their truly sinister nature. They now deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your martial arts die on a hit instead of the extra piercing damage. Ebonclaw, forged of infernal soul-stealing iron, shackles the wearer to the pain they can inflict with their clenched fists. - 🖌🎨 Like our work? Consider supporting us on Patreon and gain access to the hi-resolution art for almost 200 magic items (wow!), printable item cards and card packs, beautiful creature art and stat blocks, and setting pdfs with narrative hooks and unique lore!🧙‍♂️ Thank you so much for your support! 💖

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[knackeredforever]

It’s funny that most anime only dunmeshi fans know marcille as the struggler character who’s “going through it” when the anime isn’t even at the part where marcille is truly “going through it”

You people aren’t prepared.

[bthump]

Sometimes I wonder how Casca does it, like she's stuck with men who probably doesn't bathe often and they're drunk half the time. At least two of them have a crush on her and she's stuck dealing with Griffith and Guts gayness that ultimately backfires on her

Casca's truly the real struggler

[autism-swagger]

I like to think I'm funny.

[annabelle--cane]

As someone who is a Homestuck, each time you make a post about "Hal" I need 5.8 seconds to recalibrate and go from "huh, the ai guy?" To "OHHH right! The vampire!" So thanks for that. /Lh

notable fictional hals:

homestuck ai guy

2001 a space odyssey ai guy

shakespeare's king henry v, also known as "prince hal" or "harry" pre-coronation

the struggler vampire, henry "harry" "lord harry" "hal" yorke. yes I know he has the same name and nicknames as that king and his last name sounds like the medieval english royal house of york but truly there is no connection, this hal was born as just some guy. I think the "lord hal" title is a bit tbh I don't think he was granted a real lordship.

[anonymocha]

OOOOH may i hear more about the oc that sounds fun

YES YOU MAY LOOK AT MY BABYGIRL… It is a “Beyond” creature fished from the sea… And she is a lil silly. RAMBLING UNDER CUT…

She is like if Jiu Niangzi, Marcille (from Dungeon Meshi), Hitori Gotoh (pink girl from Bocchi the Rock), an electric eel, and a sea angel got thrown into a blender…

She’s an employee at Laplace with a mysterious background; A fishing boat caught a MASSIVE indestructible ‘egg sack’ from the west pacific ocean, which the foundation quickly acquired the moment it hits the news. Empyrean was soon ‘born’, straight to the adult form, and it would’ve gotten the Jessica treatment if it weren’t for their almost-instant learning in humanity’s customs (as if it’s all already preprogrammed) and physiological benefits (limited but infinite electricity maker). She was discovered to lack of any memories before her ‘birth’, or at least that’s what she said. Whether it’s true or not is still questionable.

Anyways, as a worker, she is an absolute mess of a creature who excels at creating and maintaining machinery but is a Struggler in Everything Else (exaggeration). They are a very friendly and warm presence in Laplace’s cold/serious setting, not in an upbeat/jolly kind of way but her relatively quiet and easy presence simply makes the mood less tense. But also because sometimes it does dumb shit like fucking up the coffee maker and making it explode. Always gives everyone a good laugh. Of course, she fixes it with ease.

When they do put their mind into an important project, their work is almost always flawless. She tailored many weapons for herself as leisure projects, powered and ammo-d purely by the electricity she conducts. Any machine maintenance/production project assigned to her goes swimmingly. And of course, Lucy maintenance yaaayyyyy.

+ Likes to collect electric trinkets. Her friends!!! They would pray with these machines every morning, connecting their hair (cables) to each of the machines. Nobody knows why she prays. She mentioned that she just ‘feels the urge to do so’.

An unserious and awkward goober with a lot of implications. :3 Also here are previous renditions of her:

Truly the lesbian fish of all time. If you ignore Meg. I will write more about her in a doc later.

[54625]

Hey man, not to impose but I hope you’re doing okay, depression can be a bitch. January is genuinely a month of just big emotions for a lot of people. Seasonal depression is truly a bitch, plus with all the crazy fandom drama, and any of your own personal struggles, it’s just a shit show. I hope you know you aren’t alone in the empty mood.

(I know this sounds like the basic answer) I think what could help when you are just starting out on learning how to verbalize, understand, and or live in some negative emotions, Journaling can be a great outlet for that.

It doesn’t have to have any specific goal/topic, there isn’t any arbitrary perfection standard you have to meet, and it’s all private so you don’t have to worry about judgment. It could literally just be stream of consciousness writing. And when you are done writing you don’t have to keep any of the entries if you don’t want to, you could burn them or throw them away. You have full control over it.

But anyways, I hope you get to feeling even a littler bit better at some point.

If it makes you feel a little better you were the first qsmp blog I followed, you are like a staple to me. (Not saying this to put any pressure on you, just more of a HEY I SEE YOU AND APPRECIATE YOU type deal lol)

(You don’t have to answer this just thought I would reach out cause I am also a big struggler in mental health and want you to get to feeling better)

This is all super thoughtful, thanks for taking the time to write this out for me

I'm fine really lmao, I always tend to suffer really bad with seasonal affective disorder, happens every year , and I've not had it nearly as bad this year as some previous ones . Luckily the days are drawing back out now though, and there's spring to look forward to !

And I'll be honest I've never even considered journaling as an outlet , I'll for sure keep that in mind , actually a pretty good suggestion

Hope you're doing good as well, I see you too, and wish you luck with whatever struggles you might be going through . We're all stuck in this capitalist hellscape together 🤝

[aikoiya]

I wanted your personal opinion on this, in this video (yes I’m aware I’ve sent this to you before) it was implied, or at least I took it this way. That ganondorf wasn’t always evil or at least he wasn’t a psycho murder. I know you’ve talked about ganons upbringing, and it seems that we both agree that ganondorf is a product of his environment. But I’m confused…in Totk if he wasn’t always evil why was he so easily taken over by greed after seeing the secrecy stones??

(We’re I’m getting this is the ganondorf Japanese ver of totk)

Ah, yes!

Do you mean this scene?

If so, then my theories aren't to say that TotK Ganon (whom I refer to as Wrath) wasn't evil, more so that he is, but he's thus because Kōme & Kotake raised him that way. Basically, pigeonholing him into the position of tyrant.

In my mind, he was raised to be a social darwinist amidst a warring country in a place that hosts a very harsh environment. Not to mention that he was also raised the only male in a society of all women, which is just a recipe for all kinds of mental health issues & developmental stunting.

In other words, everything around him was basically working against him & he responded thusly.

I think that growing up in constant conflict caused him to not know what to do with himself when Rauru came along & united Hyrule's peoples, thus bringing peace. He'd thrived on the warring life & I think that, in many ways, he was stuck in the past & wished to return to that time because, in his mind, everything made sense then.

Like, war? That made sense. Conflict? That also made sense.

Peace??? He has no idea how to live in a world of peace. Sees no inherent value in it.

Of course, I think this is the case for him on a subconscious level. Outwardly, he's a social darwinist, specifically the Struggler type. However, I don't think he's as sincere in his beliefs as he claims, because as shown in the game, he's a sore loser. And if he truly believed as he said he did, he'd have yielded upon realizing that he'd lost. Which, part of this could be influenced by narcissistic tendencies brought on by being born & raised as what amounts to a god-king in the Gerudo culture.

However, I also think that the stone & 10,000 years sealed away likely exacerbated his preexisting issues to the point where he was fine giving up everything in order to make everyone else miserable.

In a lot of ways, I think that the Dorfs, regardless of which iteration, are all extremely unhappy people & this results in them lashing out.

I think it's possible for him to be a good person, but he'd have to be raised by someone other than Kōme & Kotake.

However, even then, I think it's possible for him to be better, just not good per se.

Though, he'd need the influence of someone who was able to prove themselves to him. Someone able to meet him head on. Someone level-headed & honest. Someone who wouldn't be manipulated by him. Who can cut through the crap & speak directly to him.

They'd have to be able to pose their thoughts in such a way that it doesn't necessarily clash with his own beliefs, while still managing to give him a new perspective to contemplate.

[mythicalgeek]

As far as modern fantasy shows goes these days, The Dark crystal age of resistance and Willow are painfully understand gems, even though they are very different from one another (Dark Crystal being an epic dark fantasy and Willow being a fun campy quest adventure) they both go back to mythical forms of storytelling, there both passion progets with a lot of love and care put into them and I wish these kind of shows got more recognition because, they are some of the only fantasy shows we've gotten in the last few years that truly give me that sence of magic that so many modern fantasy strugglers to capture.