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Harry Potter & shallow worldbuilding
I probably shouldn't wade into these waters, but once again, I am demonstrating that my self-preservation instincts are poor, and that my family refuse to listen to my rants anymore. [TW: Harry Potter and all that entails].
I was a little confused when I saw the trailer for Hogwarts Legacy (source of ire for me, and many many other people). I had thought that it was supposed to be set in Victorian England, but honestly, it looked a lot like it was still set in the 1990s (or the early 2000s, the films never came down on exact dates). Perhaps this is because the movies - upon which all subsequent media has based its design - relied heavily on Victorian and early 20th century design elements. Think Hogwarts' gothic architecture; the ministry's early London Underground tiles; and the entire interior of Grimmauld Place. This wasn't in any way a bad thing. Harry Potter, as a story, made good on a sense of whimsy and old British aesthetics. The wizarding world, having no need of technology, would not modernise its aesthetics at the same rate as the non-magical world. It was a design choice that was of great consternation to my mother. We went to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, she whispered to me 'why do they have wheelie suitcases? I thought this was set in the 1930s?'
It makes me wonder now, why doesn't the world in Hogwarts Legacy look much different to its predecessor? I suppose that they are wearing vaguely Victorian clothes, but shouldn't we be looking at some 1700s aesthetics, or is the wizarding world caught in a perpetual loop of Victoriana?
Truth is, the Harry Potter universe has fallen foul of the problem that irks most fantasy universes once they are analysed for too long. It isn't logically coherent. Like the history of Westeros, the history of the wizarding world repeats itself perpetually, never looking or behaving especially differently. In a series of children's books that were focused on the life of one teen, the cracks didn't show. Sure, Voldemort was in power twice, and before him there was Grindelwald (for all intents and purposes, Voldemort but European).
J.K. Rowling's world building is fine for what it was in the beginning (again, the life of one teen in Britain), or as fine as it could be. The world was not greatly expansive, but it didn't need to be. The best parts of it were whimsical and extensions of the cheerier side of Britain. There was the Knight bus, a purple routemaster. The entrance to the Ministry of Magic was inside a red phone box, one of the great symbols of British tourism. The primary setting was a boarding school. One of the most popular elements is the house system, which is just a more complicated extension of your average school house system. It is touted as a categorisation of identity, but it obeys all the rules of school houses. Siblings going into different houses is rare (to the point that it's only mentioned once) because family groups always go into the same house (unless your school just doesn't care about houses). The bigotry in the series is also British by design. It ends up being a simplified version of classism, that features more in subtext than text. This being said, there isn't a great deal of specificity in the world building. I still don't know where Hermione's home town is. I only know that her parents are dentists and they like to ski. Where does Malfoy live, apart from in a manor that has peacocks in the garden? These are the kind of flaws you notice when you have analysed the story for as long as I have.
The worldbuilding gets thinner the more expansive it gets. The students from Beauxbatons are more or less French stereotypes, Fleur especially. Durmstrang is the same, but Bulgarian. Much has already been said on Rowling's shallow naming conventions (Cho Chang, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and now Sirona Ryan). Without the crutch of something being British and vaguely quaint, the world loses all of its charm, and all of its logic.
Fantastic Beasts, for some reason, begins in 1920s New York. Most of the richness of the setting is achieved by production design rather than the script (incidentally, flashbacks set in Hogwarts still manage to look like it's the early 2000s). Conflict in the story is wrought from an American government that is more anti-muggle than the British equivalent. If it is allegorical in any way, I do not understand it. But let's not pretend Rowling's allegory has ever been any good. Claims that Lupin's lycanthropy was a metaphor for HIV and AIDs only serve to lessen the character. At best, it's an allegory for general prejudice. The assertion that Lupin, at the age of six, was attacked by Greyback with the express intention of passing on AIDs, is well, it's dicey. Rowling might have intended to create an allegory for stigma around 'blood-borne conditions', but failed to consider the extra baggage that that allegory might entail.
The same is true for Fantastic Beasts, where the nonsense is turned up to twenty. There's a group of muggles who somehow know about the existence of magic. They name themselves after Salem, despite the Salem witch trials being appropriate for neither this setting nor this geographic region. Any commentary on the nature of the Salem witch trials is hardly a commentary on the nature of America at large, but rather a commentary on a single Puritan colony. Rowling takes pieces of Native American culture for her lore, with no understanding of the cultural legacy at play.
It gets even weirder in the sequels, which zip through countries so fast there's barely any time for worldbuilding. There's a circus! Why! I don't know.
For no reason at all, there's a deer that chooses the outcome of an election. In a baffling moment, Grindelwald (as played by font of virtue, Johnny Depp) tells a group of wizards that they have to kill muggles because they are going to start a world war. He is wizarding Hitler, and that isn't a subtle analogy. In that same scene, Queenie Goldstein, a character heavily coded as Jewish, joins wizard Hitler because he promises her that she will be able to marry her muggle beau. The man that just gave a speech about killing muggles, is apparently all for marriage equality! By all means, it doesn't make any sense. It’s far from being respectful either.
There are of course attempts to make the wizarding world more diverse in Fantastic Beasts, but without any attempt to make these characters more genuine. There's an Asian woman, but she's Voldemort's snake and she's going to be beheaded by Neville in a few decades. The second film has Zoe Kravitz! Yay! But she's part of a needlessly convoluted tale in which a powerful white man hypnotises a black woman to be his wife, and then she dies? I don't know what to make of that. It's not good representation, and by gum it isn't good storytelling! The Fantastic Beasts trilogy has all the perspective of Emily in Paris.
Hogwarts Legacy can hardly improve upon this worldbuilding, because it comes from an unstable foundation. I might have been more understanding had the game been set in say, not Hogwarts, or even a Hogwarts that was fundamentally different from the Hogwarts that we already know. The worldbuilding remains as shallow as it ever was, and with all the bigotry retained. Of course, the main story is based on a piece of anti-semitic folklore, expanded upon in the books, and even more so in the game. The problem being that Hogwarts Legacy can only make sales based on nostalgia. It can't be that different from the world of the novels, because no one is bold enough to alter the world and alienate people who want nothing more than to experience their childhoods all over again. As such, the shallow worldbuilding is laid bare over and over again, to the point that it is no longer a setting in service of a series of novels. It now has to be a real, coherent world, which it fails at. We have to examine the nature of Hogwarts houses, and the mechanics of time turners (thank you Cursed Child), and the reasons why house elves don't want their freedom.
They'll never get freedom anyhow, because Hermione's attempts at activism are used for comedy. The world at the end of Deathly Hallows is not greatly different to the world at the beginning. Voldemort is dead, but we are not assured of any big changes. The world returns to what it was. For all that The Legend of Korra may not have lived up to its predecessor, it made an effective attempt at showing that the world had been altered by the actions of our heroes. In the Cursed Child, nothing is different. The story spends all of its time looking to the past and imagining increasingly unlikely alternate timelines (Cedric turns evil? Ron marries Padma Patil?). Hogwarts Legacy does not set up the world of Harry Potter, nor does it fundamentally alter it. The status quo is preserved. Like Westeros, it cannot change. The new game does nothing with the world, and acts in its detriment. Anyhow, it’s not a good work of fantasy. J.K. Rowling loves the status quo. That much is evident. Don’t buy this game! Support trans people instead.
#hogwarts legacy#harry potter#jkrowling#fantastic beasts#cursed child#rant#I've no idea why you can use unforgiveable curses in it also#what was the goal#make it grimdark?#it's still a kids book lads#it ain't skyrim#can't believe i'm inadvertently praising skyrim#transphobia#I know people get tired of activism#but you should also know that it's just bad storytelling#the problems were there early on#and they just got more evident when there were stories set outside of the OG series#the people behind this franchise really want to lean into diversity as a promo#but they can only do it in this really shallow way#that reinforces the Cho Chang of it all#and emphasises how the MC of all of the works (barring game for obvious reasons) has been a white male in a similar vein#it's somewhat repetitive the kids might say#but good lord fantastic beasts was bad#so I can't believe the game is any good#and it sure doesn't have anything interesting to say about victorian england#antisemitism
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Why the hell did Seo In-woo want to eat at Dong-sik's family's restaurant
#what was the goal#just check out what dong-sik's family look like?#dad cut his pocket money for the month so he had to go to a cheaper restaurant for once?#even dong-sik was bamboozled#although that's not fair dong-sik is actually bamboozled most of the time#he could've just taken him out to his usual restaurant#was he just craving bbq#seo inwoo#yook dongsik#psychopath diary
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Oh no it’s real
WHO THE FUCK CHOSE THIS PLAY STORE ICON
#the faces are terrifying#really need to know why they though that icon would be the best for a puzzle game#like???#what was the goal#like yes this is the face we are gana put on the flower#maybe the designer really hates his job and wanted to see if anyone would actually notice before posting it#or the one dude who actually knows what he is doing did it and then quite to see how long it took them to figure out how to change it#the only reasonable explanations
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10 years later
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#yuji itadori#fushiguro megumi#nobara kugisaki#itafushi#itafushikugi#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#least heterosexual group photo ive ever drawn tbh#u have the kings of subtle pda and their judgy lesbian third wheel#this does remind me a lot of the kind of art i used to do jhgdjghdfj#specifically that one furuba main trio piece i did forever ago. same vibe better art#anyway......i tried my best........ i tried so hard#i do not know how old they look . the goal was 25/26 but atp i've gaslit myself into thinking they look the same#especially megumi im so . throws hands in the air in defeat#but idk what else i can do cries at least i like it??? i think???????#i don't know!!! if they look younger than 25 whatever!!!!!!!!#why is it so hard fr me to make chars look older im gna slam my head against the door#maybe its fine. idc <- (lie)#in other news itfs are married fight me abt it . yuuji rockin the right hand ring fr Lack Of Finger reasons#also i am Eating nobara's fit . she might also look a bit younger than intended the more i look at her gDI why cant i have nice things#new hairstyle carrying tbh. i think she would a. grow it out and b. switch the side she parts it on to make Seeing easier#god just take it all tht really matters 2 me is low pony nobara and Rings On Fingers itfs#i did my time in yoi i know how to make wedding bands Work
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im always listening to tbp in the car and then I do with headphones for once and im reminded of the little. disney hunchback of notre dame gargoyle voice in mama
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Girls who suck your fingers after you've fingered them deserve the world. It's me. I'm girls.
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I am fascinated but the Panasonic G70
the mobile phone museum is a online museum featuring over 2000 types of old and funky phones that’s amazing for seeing old phones and getting info about them for stuff like writing/art or just because they’re so cool and i love them look at them
behold! some of my favourite silly creatures :3
#what was the vision there#did they mean for it to look like that#what was the goal#funky little piece of tech
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Not my dad sending me an unexplained picture of a bison/buffalo/brown animal at 9:11 pm
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Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.
I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.
2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)
3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited
Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.
Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he's writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).
Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they'd abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, "seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something." I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don't even know.
Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.
#shay speaks#crying and screaming#I was not intending this! I just wanted to be nice to someone and show my appreciation for their work!#make someone's day by giving them a personalized gift#maybe make them cry a bit in joy or something (because he said he would if I went through with making art for him and he knew my goals)#This is the silliest thing to happen from me making art and idk what to do with this information#positivity
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Baby weirded out the others in FNAF sister location..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#circus baby#ballora#funtime freddy#funtime foxy#bonbon#elizabeth afton#william afton#sister location#fnaf fanart#it’s so funny that baby gets kicked out of the ennard group#my impression has been that baby started to think like Elizabeth#so her goals etc started to skew away from the group and more what she wanted#BUT BABY herself seems confused in sister location about Elizabeth#how she ‘sometimes still hears her’#so her blurting out she’s actually cool with William is so funny#THE OTHER funtimes would get so ?? over that#baby fumbles her way out of the group#sorry to circus baby you weirded out the locals too much 💔
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Five Dollar Fridays!
Can you spare $5 this week? If not, please reblog this post so it reaches someone who can!
Otherwise, please donate $5 to one of the following verified fundraisers for families in Palestine and then reblog this post:
(verification) Musab's Family (£26/£10.000) [0.26%] *new goal and campaign, see here.
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(verification) Samer’s Family (€725/€30.000) [2.42%] *new campaign and goal, see here.
(verification) Sohaip's Family (£1.110/£10.000) [11.1%]
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(verification) Fadi's Family ($43.895/$50.000) [87.8%] *new goal, see here.
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Time stamp: Nov. 8, 2024
More information and campaigns under the read more.
(Conversions: $5 = kr52.36, €4.66, £3.89, CHF4.30)
Daily Campaigns @writing-prompts-for-palestine
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*** the follow campaigns have been terminated by GFM/are no longer accepting donations. I am looking for an update from the vetters or organizers.
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#check the original post for updated goals and campaigns!#ra speaks#palestine#fundraising#mutual aid#free palestine#palestine gfm#palestine fundraiser#five dollar fridays#<- this post will be reblogged every Friday until the goals are met and Palestine is free. i will reblog it in the evening with updates.#i have personally donated at least $5 to each of these. please spare what you can if you can this week.#every dollar helps!#but please reblog so this reaches as many people as possible...i feel weird tagging the big blogs but i might
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Being called "my girl" hits different
#dark academia#light academia#mine#spilled ink#spilled words#txt#dark acadamia aesthetic#quotes#spilled thoughts#words#love#couple#couples#romantic#relationship#relationships#romance#fictional characters#femme#spilled poetry#poems and poetry#writersblr#writers on tumblr#writerscommunity#this is what makes us girls#love goals#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#girlhood#love language#lovers
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"I've been waiting for ages for somebody to unmask them."
This moment tends to elicit negative reactions in a first read through, and I've got some opinions about why where Kabru is coming from here actually makes a lot of logical sense. So I thought I'd elaborate on that.
I think people hear this and go, "He thinks they must be hiding something because they gave money to someone? What a cynic." Or "he dislikes them because they did charity?? What's wrong with this guy!". And obviously, a lot, a lot is wrong with him. But I think this makes more sense than it seems at first glance! What people evaluating this judgement miss is why Kabru is paying attention to Laios and co to begin with.
Kabru knows of the Touden siblings because (he's a little bit of a stalker-) he is keeping an eye on all the relevant parties in events developing on the island, in order to be able to guide them to his preferred outcome. This includes adventurers because they are the ones actually exploring the dungeon! He's well aware that something as minor as internal tensions between party members could be key to the historical events that are developing. (He would love the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.)
His desired outcome is that whatever the rewards are of breaking the dungeon's curse, whether that's kingship or the ancient elven secrets of dungeons, are claimed by:
A) a short lived person
B) Someone who will be a good, effective leader and/or use those secrets and the power they carry wisely, with foresight, and to establish a political bloc for short lived people.
The person he can best trust to do this is, of course, himself. But due to his PTSD regarding dungeons and monsters, he's not able to develop the necessary skills to conquer the dungeon. Once he realises this, he starts looking for someone else who he can support to that end.
But most of the adventurers don't have any intentions of conquering the dungeon, don't have the skills, or are unsuitable in other ways. In fact, it seems like some potentially suitable people are the Toudens. There are a lot of good rumours about them going around - they actually seem to have a very positive reputation! That's what Kabru means when he says "unmask".
So when Kabru is observing something like them giving money to an old comrade from their gold-peeling days, he doesn't consider it a problem because "they're giving money to this person who doesn't actually need it" or because they must have some dark secret if they act superficially nice. I think he actually understands this situation and what it implies about Laios (in particular) perfectly well.
Laios and Falin gave money to an old comrade who got injured and couldn't work. That person then healed up but kept taking their money. Then he used the money to start smuggling illicit goods to the island.
The key is that for Kabru, the problem here is the same as with the corpse retrievers - people using the dungeon's resources to fuel dangerous, selfish, or violent pursuits cause problems for the island, attract more criminals and people with motives other than breaking the curse, and increase the chances of the whole situation ending in tragedy.
Kabru is willing to work with the Shadow Lord of the island if it gets him to his goal - he isn't scrupulous - but the criminal element of the island increasing is something he sees as a major issue.
Also, when you're evaluating someone as a candidate for power, riches, secrets, potentially kingship - then being curious about how the money you give to people is going to be used is kind of a relevant trait!
Interpersonally, Kabru's actually very easygoing - I mean, Mickbell isn't exactly an upstanding guy, is he! But Kabru likes him and they get along well. These traits wouldn't be a problem at all in a friend, or a comrade, or someone Kabru was confident he could use. But he can't get a handle on Laios, and Laios is someone who has the potential to be a major player!
On Laios' end, this is the same as with the marriage seeker who joined their party. She kept asking for things and he gave them to her, because he tries to be nice to others. He even gives her money! It's the exact same thing.
That's fine, but it became a problem because he basically wasn't interested in her motives, didn't notice she was trying to manipulate him, and it also didn't occur to him that the other party members would notice or be affected. We can assume the situation with the gold peeler is the same. When Kabru says that "It's not that they're bad people, they just aren't interested in humans," he isn't wrong.
The extent to which this is true of Laios is linked to his autism imo, (because it isn't just disinterest - he genuinely isn't able to notice nonverbal cues that people are lying to him or have ulterior motives) but to a greater or lesser extent I think it's a very common trait. Most people aren't actually that interested in other people who aren't close to them. Kabru is the weird one here. It isn't an issue except as a leader - which is why we see an immediate comparison to the Island's Lord, because that's how Kabru is evaluating them.
And disinterest in/lack of ability with people to the extent Laios exhibits it, it does, actually, make him a worse leader... it's just that as we see in the story, people can help him out. The rest of the party tell him the marriage seeker is taking advantage of him so he tells her he can't give her special treatment anymore. They're pissed and it's a crisis point - he couldn't have recovered their trust without Marcille and Falin - but that's exactly the point. With Marcille and Falin, he was able to recover their trust.
And he has other good traits that make up for it, such as his intelligence, strategic knowledge, open-mindedness and sense of fairplay.
Kabru doesn't disqualify Laios as a candidate based on what he sees about him from afar, though - he still tries very hard to get close to him, obviously hoping that if he manages he can steer Laios to defeat the dungeon and make up for his lack of people-skills in the aftermath. (Which... he does eventually achieve that goal!) He completely fails until the events of the story, so... definitely I think "They just aren't interested in humans" could also partially be a stung reaction to Laios' complete disinterest in him.
Anyway, that's my read on what exactly Kabru's "issue" with Laios is. Obviously, once he does find out what Laios' true nature is like - about his love for monsters - he develops an entirely new set of fears about Laios' priorities. But since Laios kept that a secret until the start of the story, he has no idea of that yet.
Given all that, I think it's interesting that he says that he doesn't think that the Toudens are suitable to defeat the dungeon, and that he's hoping they'll turn out to be the thieves. As some of his few potential candidates, people who he thinks may play a big role in the island's future, you'd think he'd hope they would be good people!
I suppose it's better, in his eyes, because it means that he's involved in something "interesting". They haven't just had their stuff stolen by regular criminals (boring, puts them further away from his goal) - they've been caught up in the beginning stages of "a historic event". The desperate and dwindling group forgetting morals in their quest to retrieve their lost comrade probably appeals to his sense of melodrama. Because he also just... loves drama.
Despite it being "uglier than anything he was expecting", he still pursues Laios as the person he wants to conquer the dungeon pretty much as soon as it becomes clear that he won't be able to do it himself and they are out of time. That's because... well, to be fair, there aren't any other options. And he fits standard A: he's short-lived!
and Kabru still hopes he can fit standard B, too, and be persuaded to use the power he wins for good. No matter how many nightmares he has about Laios, or whether he thinks about killing him. He doubts him, but ultimately he puts his faith in him and seems happy after the manga's ending that he made the right decision.
#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi manga spoilers#dungeon meshi meta#kabru of utaya#laios touden#labru#laios x kabru#dunmeshi#og post#kabru is such a big picture thinker. and he evaluates people more than he judges them imo#the hater jokes are funny but the people he judges most harshly arent laios and co. they're people like the island's lord.#but you don't see that as clearly because he isn't interested in the island's lord. he understands him. finds him contemptible but useful.#whereas laios lives in his brain rent free because he WANTS to understand him but doesnt quite.#even though he sees the elves as a major threat to his ultimate goals and dislikes the way they treat short lived races#he still understands and evaluates mithrun as an individual based on his own merits#he's one of the characters who is least judgemental in that sense because while he's always making judgements and evaluations#he's also constantly revising them whenever he gets more information#my beautiful machiavellian prince <3#it's genuinely a really laudable way of understanding others imo.#the only problem is that because he's driven towards his goals by his PTSD and survivors guilt#he pushes himself into situations (the dungeon and also interpersonally) that trigger him or even just upset him#without regard for what he authentically wants or his own wellbeing.
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woe be upon ye
#ouch#im thinking spared nari is gonna be devastated that he let his sons i mean disciples lay down their lives for him#though that was their job#but he was the one to give them that job oh regret#man nari hates the lamb so much after that (also himself#but its easier to hate the lamb) like they took his crown they took his sons they took his freedom they took everything#yet they still liberated him from his chains#is this what he waited a millennium for?#good thing we can resurrect them phew major crisis averted#narinder#aym#baal#the lamb#narilamb#lmao this does not deserve the ship tag but im just gonna tag every art piece where they feature together as narilamb#since thats the end goal#cult of the lamb#cw blood#my art
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She’s the most like me
#dungeon meshi#aj art#chilchuck#meijack#chilchuck backstory stuff#dungeon meshi spoilers#Sort of ?? Is it?#AHA. Ahah sh shsh sl#sjchdjjfv#THIS TOOK ME SO FUCKING LONNGGGG#I was thinking. About how Chilchuck would feel about Mei doing lockpick work#Since he mentions that and even recommends her to Laios in case he dies#So I was like. Idk I thought that was really interesting#Bc I can’t imagine that his initial response to her career goals was positive#Given his own experiences as an adventurer being so very Bad#Like his ass aged a decade in two years#So I wanted to draw what I thought that initial reaction would’ve been#anywayy
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do skully have pokemon?
Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.
(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)
#art#twisted wonderland#pokemon#poketwst#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#(sorry for leaving anon off for a while! i've gotten a rash of spam and i'm gonna wait it out a couple days before turning it back on)#also apologies for the rest of this not really being pokemon related#i don't have anything right now for part 4 of the event so i'm gonna use this space to go off about it#because. oh man.#a sad lack of the scullsman but a FEAST of everyone else#gotta love malleus and leona uniting in the common goal of hunting trey down for trying to game their whiny pettiness#(trey doesn't know what to do with someone he can't easily distract with cake)#also further confirmation that malleus WILL kill a small child and leona WILL point and laugh the whole time#also sebek's plans revolving around what he knows he's good at: screaming extremely loudly and hoisting nerds#and let us not forget what i consider to be the crowning jewel#which is jamil figuring out IMMEDIATELY where scully has taken his prisoners#only for everyone else to just. literally refuse to do anything about it.#jamil just standing there and going 'WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE! WE CAN JUST! GO GET THEM!!!! WHYYY AREN'T WE GOING'#visibly losing his entire mind and it's beautiful#top 10 twst event moments honestly#also some delightful character consistency from jade being all#'actually my dicking around is a sign of my immense trust in your abilities to get things done :)'#'but also consider: there are currently two housewardens chasing a child'#'alternately angrily screaming poetry and begging them not to sue'#'and if you will pardon my city of flowers...there is no fucking way i'm missing that'#lock shock and barrel did not sign up for this. how did these idiots turn out to be somehow weirder than the three of them.#twisted wonderland must be a frightening place indeed
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