#vc shield

[crazytiles]

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[myrmica]

(staring out the window) (contemplating) fascinated by how little zam wanted to dwell on the subz problem. it felt very much like how she acted during vitalasy's first s6 stream. convenient to have other things to throw yourself into. but if this really was it. if he was gone (again) and you never took the chance.... so scared at the prospect of talking to subz about anything of substance when it came up earlier on in s6. the instant recognition, "i know why he would want to be banned. i'll do it. anyway..."

[totally-correct-shenanigans]

Murray: Why don't we just use them to cruise for chicks? Girls love a good spoon-bending!

Penelope: Weird. My scans indicate you don't even like girls.

[coldjustness]

HEY NOW! A reminder that Neve CAN throw a good right hook... even if the only reason she knows how is because Rana Savas took pity on her one day after she hit someone once and nearly broke her hand.

[thebreakfastmuses]

He has his work cut out for him keeping the four of you alive...

[quietlyblooms-gone]

🪢do they have a kink? if so, what is it? (maybe some lesser known ones or the ones she doesn’t bring into the bed as often? any guilty pleasures?)

🫂how do they feel about friends with benefits?

🛏️what’s their favorite position?

🤪what’s the wildest place they’ve ever done something sexual?

💋do they like to kiss while having sex? do they cuddle afterward?

🫶what does after care look like for them?

sinday headcanons | @goldcnpeaks was curious!

🪢do they have a kink? if so, what is it? (maybe some lesser known ones or the ones she doesn’t bring into the bed as often? any guilty pleasures?)

if we're talking lesser known/lesser addressed kinks, i think shibari is pretty up there. it's a little funny bc chiyo prefers being able to touch and hold her partner, but she's also into the lack of control she would have if she's all tied up. aside from that, the simple visual of the rope, contrasting against her skin, is also nice; it's almost equivalent to getting all dressed up for her partner. i'll also point out thigh-riding ( be it her or her partner doing tbh ) is very hot to her, though i'm not sure if she's aware of that one prior to being with someone. i think she doesn't really see the appeal until she's experiencing it. she definitely isn't aware of her breeding kink :' )) the first time her partner pulls out that flavor of dirty talk, she's in for a surprise :' ))

🫂how do they feel about friends with benefits?

answered here!

🛏️what’s their favorite position?

chiyo likes being on top period if her partner's willing to indulge her, but i'd say specifically she prefers being sat in their lap so they can hold onto each other. she wants to be as close as possible <3 runner up will always be being bent over something, and the more her partner leans on top of her, the better. she'd like to be engulfed and crushed tbh asdfg

🤪what’s the wildest place they’ve ever done something sexual?

answered here!

💋do they like to kiss while having sex? do they cuddle afterward?

answered here!

🫶what does after care look like for them?

it might vary from situation to situation, but chiyo's always going to be very soft and affectionate afterwards. lots of sweet, chaste kisses, cuddling up to her partner, likely cracking lil jokes and/or praising them. if they're up for it, she may suggest bathing together afterwards ( and promise to keep things innocent... probably asdf ). generally, if there's something her partner needs, chiyo's going to readily provide it. it's the kind of thing i think she'd want to discuss with her partner bc everyone's needs/preferences can vary -- she herself would be happy just to be held for a while and nap or sleep together like that.

[darabeatha]

@cyneris replied ; he has the most gorgeous eyes 😿 10 / 10 would fall for the gaslighting, gatekeeping, and manipulating 😿

ㅤㅤㅤ❝ These eyes of mine are only mirrors, my lord . Nothing else .. ❞ㅤThey reflect what is beautiful, what is longed for. They light up for you, because of you.ㅤAnd he cradles Esra´s hands in between his, shielding them from the sun's intensity with his leather gloves . ❝ However; only one word from you would be needed for them to turn into your light and your shield. ❞

❝ Remember that . So that when you leave, have the grace to thread upon wherever you desire, Esra. I'll be looking for you then, guiding you .

Each step you take . ❞

[fatelcved]

hmm chiyo sunday thoughts below the cut — more so bc of the subject matter than explicit content!

just thinking about the first time chiyo sees any sort of bruises or marks on herself after being intimate with her significant other. i think there’s a certain thrill in seeing them as well as a giddiness bc ofc her mind wanders to memories of how they got there. ofc she thinks about she was the one to inspire that sort of passion. marks and bruises are a physical representation of the feelings her lover has for her, so chiyo very much loves to see them.

her partner might be worried the first time they see the aftermath of their intimacy, but she is just “ no you didn’t hurt me shush 💜 gimme some more actually 💜 ”

[crownin-thestars]

Chat does anyone else wish that Steve for the minecraft movie would have not only been animated, but also silent? Cuz I feel like one of the things that makes the minecraft community so nice to interact with in game is how we use the character to communicate without vc. Crouch jumping up and down while punching is a universal sign of peace, holding your shield up means suspicion/skepticism of the other player, holding your sword and getting close to the other player is intimidation

[reallyrandomtj]

A bit depresso expresso without the expresso ( no coffee ) as I lost my 50/50 to Clara on my Asia account and lost to Himeko on my American account... I JUST WANTED JIAOQIU so I could decide if I wanted to add him as a muse!

Guess I'm more likely to add Feixiao or Moze once they release? Give me the pretty Foxian man @ HSR?!

To cheer myself up? I'm going to nuke everything with my mutuals characters on my American account because it has made me happy so far-- xD

[minban]

' don't you ever fucking dare do that again! ' she lashes out at cloud, hands sternly gripping at his turtleneck so as to force him to regard her, to stay grounded with her in the moment, ' why do you go around foolishly risking your life?! ' mya admonishes cloud, not sparing him the violent maelstrom of her words, ' i hate it when people do that for me! i hate it when someone wants to die for me! don't you get it?! i am sick and tired of that! '

it is, of course, no fault of his that this has come to be. her father has already taught her to despise the rhetoric of "he fought for you". fuck that! she's never asked for any of that! she's never asked to wake up one day, look in the mirror, and behold part of the reason why her father is dead.

' i'm so damned tired, ' the redhead continues, ' of standing by, powerless and useless, when people i love get hurt for me! or worse, die for me! ' she does not release him from her grasp, lest he dares to turn to dust under her touch. for all that, her touch softens, open palms laid on his chest. her agitated breathing slowly begins to even. ' i forbid you to die for me, cloud strife. do you understand me? ' ( lbr this is probably when mya confessed to cloud she loves him ajshdgfg )

@furiaei / then what is a hero, if not a sacrifice?

wounds mar his skin painting pale flesh in streaks of crimson, tearing through his clothes so that he is covered in his own blood and gore. and he heals so slowly, worn down and exhuasted from the battle he had so easily thrown himself in, using his body as shield for the woman he has come to hold close to his heart, his blade a shining metalic silver that protects her from harm. yet it scarcely protects himself, as he comes out the victor with injuries as his prize and an anguish in his wake, for mya does not appreciate all that he has done for her.

and it's such a silly thing that she does not wish for harm to come to him when it is to protect her, because had she not wished for him to be her hero? had she not brought this title upon him, when he was so tired and exhausted from all that gaia has thrown at him and continues to throw at him. he is gaia's champion, and the planet continues to expect that he will be a sturdy warrior, an unshakable protector.

so cloud does not understand why mya comes to him with anger in her voice and worry in her face, distraught that he had thrown himself in front of her so easily, so willing to face unimaginable dangers, and to face those horrors alone. he does not understand, when she sees her father in him, a whispered pain that she spoke of all that time ago, of his eyes bringing back memories of the past. he thinks that maybe, her father had been her hero once, and mya has soon started to call cloud her hero as well. so what is he to do, but to follow in the footsteps of a figure mya held so dear to her heart, so that he too may be held that closely as well.

"i'm sorry," he whispers through exhaustion, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and pulling her closer so that he may slump against her. "i wanted to protect you, to keep you safe." he needs for her to be safe, so that she may be a beacon of light at the end of the road paved in crimson and corpses, someone to look forward to seeing, to holding in his arms just as he is doing now. he needs her to be that for him, just as she has placed the title of hero so gently on his crown. he wonders if she knows how heavy it weighs him down, if she knows that he has begun to drag his body around beneath that crown lest it crushes him till he is hardly but a speck of flesh on the ground.

cloud buries his face into mya's shoulders, uncaring that his skin is still slowly and painfully stitching itself back together, that he has not stopped bleeding and that he is staining her red as well. he does not wish for the anguish that she presents to him, for her to be worried enough to yell at him, to grab him and shake him until he may see reason in her words. and he gets it, he does. had their roles been reversed, then cloud would not wish for mya to put herself in harm's way for him. and yet this is not the situation at hand, and he hopes it will never be. he hopes that he will always be the one with swords piercing his flesh, with his limbs being torn piece by piece off his joints, that he will be the only one to suffer torments, so that mya will be spared the brunt of the pain.

what a shoddy hero he is, that he can not even speak to mya about promises to ease her worries, to soothe the pain that she feels now. they would all be empty promises that he would never be able to live up to, because he would die for her, he would die for her as many times as he is able to just so that she may live. he will take as much pain as he is able to endure, pain that would not be able to endure, all so that mya may live peacefully. he will not promise her a word, but he nods his head while buried in her neck, so that she may know that he has understood her. so that he will not have to speak to her instead, for he knows that no words that come out of his mouth will be ones that she wants to hear.

[shinraffairs]

Date or Pass

" .... " The query catches him off guard. The President-- Rufus is someone who Tseng trusts implicitly. It would be impossible to define their bond with something as banal as date or pass. Was this, perhaps, some kind of joke? Or was Rufus feeling some kind of ... insecurity?

His gaze lingers on the other, trying to discern some kind of meaning from the sudden question.

-- And without finding anything at all, he looks away. "You surely know the answer to that, sir. "

[quietlyblooms-gone]

steeples my fingers. chiyo's partner has definitely walked in on her having personal time. i know this in my heart bc it's one of her worst fears which means it's gotta be canon no matter who she ends up with

[graunblida]

if lexa learned how to mask her channeling, she'd infiltrate the sul'dam to help break egwene and the others out

but like let's be real, can also see her bursting in, weaves and swords blazing, despite the potential for her to lose her agency and power. how absolutely metal of her

[encantresse]

in this maze of fabrics, she finds herself lost, but pleasantly and willingly, parting rows of hanging clothes like the sea, and scrutinizing everything from their stitching to dyes. dorothea peruses carefully, scarcely glancing up from the task at hand, except to cast a sideways look at the one accompanying her today.

an unlikely companion, some might say—one she was not known to spend her time with. and yet, the songstress finds herself a traveler returning to shore as the tide rises and falls in ways previously unknown.

it's a long, woolen skirt that catches her interest: a brilliant shade of red that adrestia bore proudly, with a high waistband of stitched pattern detailing vibrant flowers. she lifts it from its rack, admiring it until movement from the corner of her eye draws her attention back to ferdinand.

"beautiful, isn't it?" she remarks, lifting it higher so that he can see. "though it must be a nightmare to wear anywhere near the water. goodness forbid you get wet; this would weigh you down and send you to an early grave."

dorothea lets out a contemplative hum, content and well in her element. "say, is there a story like that in the book of fairytales i gifted you? a beautiful young maiden who meets a tragic end at the sea's hand?" she teases lightly, now turning back around to put it away. "kept apart from her beautiful mermaid lover, maybe?"

@nobilisseoblige

[ ♫ ] ─ * 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫

excavation / +1 heavy armor

[kyhora]

FRAUD ANALYSIS

(SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO REMAIN BLIND)

"TRUST NOT YOUR EYES, TRUST NOT YOUR EARS."

MY OPENING THOUGHTS

I have... SO MANY THOUGHTS. There was a lot going on here with Fraud and it has absolutely surprised me in its presentation. I'll be talking about specific things to make it easier for me and for you, dear reader, to better understand and process what in the Hell is happening here.

PROVIDENCE

I was stupid and thought it was initially a seraphim because they have similar designs, but yk what Virtues look like Serpahims too so I dunno what I'm on abt LMAO.

I knew from the start the eye in the cover for In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ was related to an enemy after following the logic of Hear! The Siren Song Call of Death's preview with the Gutterman's shield. Despite that, oh my goodness this is a really sick design, the transparent, glassy feathers, the eye and how it looks like a slab placed onto the wings, it looks so WEIRD and I love it so much, for our third ever angel enemy, they delivered hard on its design.

I have seen some theories/speculation that Providence looks way too detailed/refined compared to other enemies, inferring that V1 is incapable of processing Providence's appearence. While I'm not opposed to the idea, I don't necessarily subscribe to it, I think Providence is just a really big model which leaves a lot of room for details to be refined. If V1 can process a Virtue, it can process a Providence.

It looks obnoxious with that magenta beam, I don't even wanna know what it does on Brutal LMAO. Surprisingly brittle for an 8th layer enemy though or maybe it retains similar damage multipliers as a Virtues which is why the Electric Railcannon did so much damage to it, idk. I don't have much else to really say about Providence other than the fact it's a visually impressive pain in the asshole, can't wait to see it for the first time and want to kill it harder than every other enemy in a Cybergrind wave.

FRAUD'S AESTHETICS

Fun fact abt myself: I REALLY FUCKING LOVE LIMINAL SPACES. I love liminal spaces with all my heart, they're a really cool form of atmospheric horror (don't confuse this with the backrooms, I hate that shit). Fraud basing itself off of liminal spaces is really damn neat and honestly makes sense, since Hakita even mentioned how during development for 7-1: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS, he tried out stuff like myhouse.wad and ofc read House of Leaves. Besides his own inspirations, it makes perfect sense to use liminal aesthetics here, vaguely familiar halls and rooms met with a reality that defies logic, very fraud if I do say so myself.

Gonna post some pictues of rooms I really like and add any commentary if need be.

Really sick opening room, I love the weird wallpaper, the lamps, just everything here and how its placed is perfect. It perfectly gives off that liminal vibe that this layer is wanting to play into. I adore liminal spaces that feel like it was something built by something that doesn't know how to be human, it gives off such an errie vibe.

A friend on Discord found a theory on Reddit about this and omg it's actually kinda neat

I was squealling when I saw this for the first time. My friend in the vc I was streaming this too said it was all they could hear throughout the trailer LMFAOOO. If there is one thing I'll mention, it's that I think it's funny how apparently Fraud has television but Lust doesn't. What a bunch of bums /j. i do think Lust is more advanced and prolly have TVs, but this is our first official TV in ULTRAKILL

What a banger fucking opening. I adore this shot so much, and honestly it's reminiscent of those liminal space images of hotel hallways like these:

The transition of the hallway shifting to the checkpoint is so fucking awesome too. fun thing I noticed was that there was a low buzzing sound, like when you press yourself up to the walls of Limbo. Not sure if it implies anything or is an audio indicator of shifting realities.

WHAT A COOL ASS ROOM. I LOVED THE TRANSITION HERE SO MUCH, MY JAW DROPPED WATCHING THE WALLS SHIFT TO MAKE IT BIGGER. I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE IF THIS IS GONNA DO ANYTHING MORE THAN JUST THIS AS THE LAYER GOES ON. After seeing this trailer at least 50 times already, I'm curious about how this room instigates the combat, since there's plenty of shots that have V1 walking back to the room or walking into other rooms from the doors. Fun to think about the frustration of getting lost in this place, finding yourself back, and then BOOM ! ENEMY ENCOUNTER ! ! !

Such a banger shot too, I love these kinda infinite mirror-esque rooms for non-euclidian stuff. An interesting detail are that the lion statues actually have a lion head unlike the one Limbo. I love how much this feels like a hotel, it has that eerie transitional vibe hotels can have but has this "first class" vibe to it all.

Really fun shot too. Love non-euclidian stuff playing with gravity and such.

I know I already said my jaw dropped but like... MY JAW. DROPPED. I mentioned it to my oomfies before but it looks a lot like the The Empyrean from Dante's Inferno:

Will mention this here because I don't wanna post images that are basically the same; but the other side of the skybox is noticably darker. Maybe it's this layer's day/night cycle? Not too sure but feels logical to me. I love how this layer is leaning into the heavenly imagery, I'm so curious about what kinda lore bits we're gonna get, and considering how we got a new angel enemy, we hopefully probably get some new angel lore. If Virtues and Gabriel were the only angels to have resided in Hell, makes me interested in if other angels are coming down from heaven, either to help Gabriel, or avenge the council by killing him.

I love that we're jumping from rooftops to others, nice change of scenery from the claustrophobic, eerie rooms inside the towers. I am happy the layer is still paying homage to the "tower of lies" idea by having us climb up them, jumping between them, and all that stuff.

Once again with the nonsensical prop placement. Why does this room have tables and chairs when there's nothing to eat or any other reason to lounge about here. Really interesting environmental storytelling, I'm confused and I LOVE IT.

Doth my eyes deceive ?

A NEW HOOK POINT ? ? ?

Sick transition but what's with the door on the right ? I wonder if it means anything or is just a visual indicator for where to go... hrmmmm...

"I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN??????"

Cool transition to the TV again, but I love the sharp contrast of aesthetics here. Again with the nonsensical placement of props but at least all the props share a theme ? ? ? Makes me curious if the next level or the next segment of 8-1: HURTBREAK WONDERLAND is gonna involve the poolrooms. I really hope it does. It's a really cool liminal space aesthetic that I think would be reallly interesting see and makes sense to mesh in with the liminal space inspirations of Fraud.

If curious abt the poolrooms:

with all that trailer analysis done, time to yap abt my thoughts of everything we've seen with some theories and speculation of my own :3

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON ?

In Dante's Inferno, Fraud has 10 blogias (circles) that had specific punishments for different kinds of fraudulant behavior, but here in this Fraud ? Is the punishment here that the sinner is in a non-euclidian hotel being driven mad by the isolation and non-sensical rooms? It feels too much like Limbo if that is what's being done here, and besides, there's smaller buildings, there's rivers, there's all sorts of pleasant stuff here, what if maybe Fraud had its own renaissance like Lust ? Maybe the angels are doing something here with Fraud ? I'm honestly confused by what is happening here, I have no ideas for what happened to this layer, but for now I have my other thoughts about the explanations for the aesthetics, potential stuff going, on so forth. Just thought I'd bring up my confusion since I don't really have many ideas for the punishments here.

THE INFINITE HOTEL

With Fraud's aesthetics, I believe Fraud is going to be a hotel and each level is us descending into the kinds of rooms that would be in a hotel, like how in the first level we're in the hallways of what is presumably the place where all the rooms, while the second rooms takes us to a place that resembles the pools of hotels (hence why I believe in 8-2 poolrooms), and etc.

I also kinda see Hilbert's Hotel/The Infinite Hotel Paradox to be a form of inspiration for this place, an infinite hotel, houses infinite guests, and since mankind is dead...

explanation of the paradox:

If we look at Wrath, it feels like the logic of the infinite hotel checks here too, since the river styx began to become bigger following The Final War, and instantly became flooded after mankind's mysterious, biblical extinction. After so many new sinners entered the layer of Wrath, the river adapted to be the ocean, nothing changed, just more people in it now, and how the Ferrymen have grown acustomed to the new environment as well. Fraud after mankind's extinction made there have to be more rooms, and yet, all the "guests" have been accounted for.

A FALSE PARADISE

An idea I have is that Hell Itself rennovated Fraud to resemble the Lust Renaissance, to cruely trick the denizens of Fraud that they escaped the layer and found a comforting place in Hell, and in their delusion, unknowingly still roam around the endless halls of Fraud, finding a twisted pleasure in the false senses of hope the sinners are under.

Idk if I really agree with this idea, because why are there statues of Providence, why is there such heavenly imagery in this layer if this idea suggests it wants to be like Lust ? Maybe it instead wants to be a false Heaven ? But if that's the case, why are the towers and their architecture anything but ? I am lost over what this layer is wanting to be, it's obvious that every layer had their own punishments, either the punishments were directly shown to us in the layer (like Heresy's coffins, Wrath's ocean, and Violence's trees), or at least were mentioned, like with Lust's winds. But here in Fraud ? I have no idea what the punishment is here. Like. At all. It leaves me curious for what's in store and what is going to be explained, or maybe some theories are gonna be absolutely banger, who knows.

NEW ENEMIES & LORE

Soooo new enemies are coming, I believe we are either getting one or 2, potentially a new husk and 2 new angels. We already got Providence, a new husk feels right since it's been a while since we got one, and I am a firm believe that the angel statue from Limbo and the other layers is gonna be either our new arm OR new enemy. Plz. Give us more Angel lore. I'm on my hands and knees, Hakita, I need to know what they're like. I know we're in Hell so Heaven has far less involvement than if it was the other way around, but I still have to know. I GOTTA KNOW.

SOON™ (this year)

Also felt like talking about this because it's weirdly kinda confusing ? ? ? Looked into the general "soon" of New Blood and at times it's basically like. TOMORROW ? To which I think is not gonna happen if we read the description of In Absentia ΛΟΓΟΣ and how Hakita says they're still working on it (the first level I'd assume), so I dunno if in ONE MONTH they were able to just create the entirety of the Fraud layer that fast, hence why the (this year) addition makes me feel like they're releasing it maybe before the holiday season ? Who knows ! :P With the understanding that Fraud had troubles in development which led to the ULTRA_REVAMP update, maybe production got much easier after the enemy rework ? I've no idea honestly. But whatever happens, I'm gonna be there the MOMENT it releases.

Yeah erm that's kinda it for now hope you enjoyed reading the delusion of a mad person that squealed like a pathetic person during the trailer and the preview they did before the trailer. If anyone would like to talk by all means, talk to me in dms or message @cyhora on Discord ! ! !