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skitskatdacat63 · 12 days

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catie let’s discuss vettonso headcanons what are ur favs

*sends you to my vettonso tag* shsjkdkf kidding kidding, but wah this is so weirdly hard to answer despite the fact that I think about them literally every day of my life, ig they're just kinda intrinsic to me 😭 but I'll try my best!

I think Fernando really resented Seb for a while, especially during the championship fight years, and originally was very unhappy when Seb then went on to take his Ferrari seat away from him too. But then while he was gone from f1, he kept track of f1 still and realized Seb was going through the same ferrari bs and pain and failure to realize your childhood dream that he himself went through, and he then softened on Seb.

I find them literally to be the same person(but their narratives are offset.) And I think that's a big reason why they never really became friends, they're *too* similar to the point where it annoys each other too much fhfkkff Especially bcs theyre always ahead of one another in the narrative(fernando won his wdc before, fernando is in ferrari before Seb, seb is in Aston before Fernando, etc.) It's just weird to kinda witness someone that's so similar to you, but at a past stage in your life.

They would be the best and most annoying teammates ever. I think they'd both just constantly try to out-compete each other, and maybe it would be toxic back in the day and make the team fall apart like 2007 mclaren or martian rbr, but if it happened at Aston, I think it would actually make the team stronger and the car better. Like fighting for "who can give the best feedback" "who can do the most sim time" etc etc, I think it'd be really sweet 🥹🥹 I just imagine them making post-race debriefs last like 5 hours, except everyone else snuck out of the room at the hour mark, and they've just been debating abt the telemetry at each other, cause they only have eyes for each other <3

^ but yeah seriously think they have the type of competition that could bring each other together, not drive each other apart. Especially at their softened old man age. I guess I think, being forced into such close quarters with each other, they'd be able to realize how similar they are. Bcs otherwise it's just too easy for them to avoid each other. I mean I think a lot about the japan 2023 pics, them talking over the car that was practically the product of their joint effort, and that makes me so emotional 🤧

They absolutely love irritating each other, irs like a sport. I like to think though that Seb kept doing it soooo much pre-Fernando first retirement, and Fernando was always like 😐 just sooooo done with it, and often unwilling to fully play along. I love how seemingly Seb is one of the only ones who can kinda make his mask break, and have him show full annoyance. Like think about the "you must leave the space" clip, Fernando is sooooo annoyed, its just so funny. But yeah I love how Seb kinda forces Fernando in a way most others don't, if that makes sense? And then he comes back, rejuvenated, different mindset, and is suddenly willing to play along??? And now Seb is the tired one :( but Fernando has realized all he was blocking out before, and is willing to engage :,) BUT YEAH! see again, think about the fact that Seb literally paid a fee to not listen to Fernando talk. Mutually they are the only ones that annoy the other so much that they crack to that point, and I love it seemingly swapped over time. They're just such equals in that way.

Here's the interesting thing, I find them to be mirrors, right? I think like if they met each other when each were at the same place in their career(i.e. ferrari Fernando with ferrari seb, renault wdc fernando with rbr wdc seb), I think they'd have a better chance of getting along. Cause they understand where the other is at deeply, but the way it is in real life makes it so they're at different points and suddenly are at odds with each other. Ig that's why I wish we got them as teammates at Aston! It was pretty cute with alpine fernando x aston seb, but ah man if only we got the actual "conclusion", I would have loved to see what they'd be like when genuinely in the same parts of their career together. I think a lot about timeswap AUs I guess. Like both of them at ferrari being able to commiserate together, their wdc selves bragging about how many races they won(until they find out who the other had to beat to become wdc, and then they choke each other out.)

Me: ill try!!!

Also me: six paragraphs

Though I think if you asked me abt one of my AUs, I could come up with more than just daydreaming about their dynamic sjfkkg. Hope this was what you were asking for???? Also lmk, what are your favs!!!

#catie.asks.#vettonso

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elysiumheartrp · 6 months

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🗑️ ⚖️ 💚 !

Scrapped idea: God, so many. Newt went through like a million revisions before I ended up with this story. I made him for an OC server I'm no longer in and his story was completely different. The cyberpunk thing was actually an AU that I decided to run with once I had to revamp him because I stopped talking to the people from that server. He was originally from a plain modern universe and wasn't nearly as heroic--his original story was that he saw a serial killer murder someone and was forced to stay quiet, eventually falling in love with her. Once I stopped writing with the other person's serial killer OC, the idea became Violetta, but Newt reacted much differently. (His personality honestly didn't change that much, but I had more freedom over the outcome of the story, so his actions could be more impactful.) Camille is actually my partner's character because they saw all my old vent art of him smoking pensively and wanted to comfort him, LOL. (That's also the reason I don't write Camille on here even though she's a major character in the story. She feels more like Rose's character than mine, even though we share custody over her.)

Newt wasn't originally a documentarian but that development did come while I was still writing with the other person's OC, and it always bothered me that she just got away with murder and Newt helped (even though she did stop murdering for him). It felt out of character, but I'm much happier with his story now. It feels much truer to what I want the character to be.

Something stuck in limbo: Androids in this universe. I pretty much only develop them when I think about my OC Ken, an android con artist, but he's like the protagonist of a completely different story from Newt set in the same universe.

(I do love Ken though. I'll definitely add him as a muse on here eventually.)

I do know that androids are a very new technology, mostly found in Japan. There's going to be a specific company that manufactured Ken (I love my corporations) and they'll probably be the antagonists of that story, since Ken is a rogue android going around conning humans out of their money.

An upcoming idea that still needs development: I've been thinking about a new character but I'm shy to talk about her because it's always the same shit with me 👉👈 All of my plots are about obsessive love and it's getting ridiculous, and I know it's getting ridiculous, but, like, as a personal web of OCs, it's fine. It's once I start explaining it on here that I'm embarrassed by how I sound.

I separate Newt plots by documentary in my head and the other two were like, "what if a powerful person got obsessed with you?" and this one is "what if someone with no power became so obsessed with you that they'd go to any lengths to have power over you?" I was thinking about how famous people have stalkers and I started wondering what would happen if someone thought the only way to get attention (not just from Newt, attention from anyone) was to make themselves the kind of person that people make documentaries about. So I've been thinking about this new villain, even if I end up keeping her story to myself. Her name is Marnie and she kidnaps Newt to kill people on camera, and forcibly make herself the subject of a documentary people will be talking about long after she's gone.

#lore #oc: corey newton #oc: violetta mae #oc: camille newton #oc: ken kaneko #oc: marnie kidman #tw: violence #((thank you!!))

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attllhak · 3 years

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I'd like to know anything you'd like to tell me about Japanese swords (and any other weaponry), please! Swords are awesome.

Okay so I wasn't expecting even one ask about this but I ended up getting two, so I guess I'm sharing my absurd amount of Japanese sword and dagger trivia now.

Also I'm just dumping everything I learned here, so I'm adding a read more so if you don't want to see me dump a bunch of random facts I learned looking things up then you can skip this.

So this all started because I was looking for a sword to give Link in Surface Too Soon. And my thought process was basically that the sheikah are very much based on the Japanese and ninjas, so they'd be using Japanese weapons. This is actually pretty much canon, since Impa uses a kodachi in Age of Calamity, and the sheikah weapons in Breath of the Wild are all based on Japanese weapons as well. So, was there a Japanese sword that looked like the western swords that Link would be familiar with?

The answer is yes.

Wow that picture is bigger than I thought it was. Also I just stole this from Google, so.

But this is a tsurugi/ken sword. It is the only Japanese sword I found that was both double-edged and had a straight blade. It's a bit thinner than most western swords, but that's more whatever.

Tsurugi swords were only used from the 5th century until the 9th century, one of the oldest Japanese swords, and they continued to be made until the 10th century but they were usually dedicated to Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples at that point. They're also usually about 100cm long, which amused me because I went looking into the specifics of the Master Sword a bit later and someone put that down as ~108cm. So that amused me.

The only other straight-edged Japanese sword was a single-edged sword, the chokutō. This came from the same time period, and stopped being made some time in the 9-10th century. Some straight-edged swords are still made in Japan today, for ceremonial purposes, but while they're called chokutō they aren't the same as the old swords. These were probably based on Chinese swords that ended up in Japan.

Also, Japan separates swords by time period, and both of these swords are known as Jōkotō, which are the oldest swords.

I also learned that katanas come in two slightly shorter forms. Japanese swords are measured in shaku, which is roughly 30cm. A katana is any slightly curved blade longer than 2 shaku (60.6cm+), and there are two shorter versions of it. A tanto is actually a sword, but is used as a knife and I've seen it described as a dagger since it's never longer than 1 shaku (30-ish cm), though at one point were made up to 40cm long. They also don't have the ridge that most katanas do. They were usually carried by samurai for self defense. Samurai also tended to pair it with a tachi, which I'll get to in a bit. Katanas were usually paired with a wakizashi, which were anywhere between 1 and 2 shaku (30-60cm). They were more suited to indoor fighting than katanas, which is probably why.

Katanas (and from what I can tell, tantos and wakizashi as well) stretch through almost every sword era, from Kotō (which came right after Jōkotō at around year 900 and ended in 1596) right up until the modern day Gendaitō (which is everything from 1876 to today).

Katanas were created slightly after a similar sword, the tachi. Tachi are older, beginning production shortly after the tsurugi and chokutō began to phase out, with katanas only showing up at around the 14th century at the earliest, which is also when the tachi started falling out of style. Tachi were roughly 70-80cm long and more dramatically curved than katanas.

Like katanas, tachi also have other swords that were basically it but shorter/longer. I mentioned above that Impa in Age of Calamity used a kodachi, which is a slightly shorter tachi. It's a little shorter than 2 shaku, and might have been a primary sword, unlike the similarly sized wakizashi, which was a secondary blade. But one source told me no one actually knows exactly what they were used for, so. An ōdachi (or nodachi) is a really big tachi. They're roughly around 3 shaku (90cm), but as usual there's no set size. The ōdachi were really popular around the 14th century for some reason but fell out of style around the Edo period.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the Windcleaver and Eightfold Longblade in Breath of the Wild are probably both based on ōdachi, considering the size of them. I want to assume Impa using a kodachi is a point in my favour in this sense, but I have no proof of this theory. They look similar to ōdachi/tachi and are big, that's all I've got.

There's also the nagamaki, but all I know about that sword is that sometimes it's handle is as long as the blade. It has a long handle. That's it's defining feature and that's all I know about it.

Moving on to dagger, because I did some looking into those as well when I decided to give Impa a dagger in Surface Too Soon.

Yoroi-dōshi were extra thick tanto, made for piercing armor and close-quarters grappling. They're usually between 20-22cm, though some were shorter than 15cm. And that's when I stopped looking into them.

Kaiken were actually very commonly carried by women, and women who married samurai where expected to carry one when she moved in with her husband, and were typically used for self-defense or ritual suicide. Between 20-25cm, and usually single-edged and very rarely double-edged, they had a little pocket sown into kimono where they were kept. They're actually still used as a traditional accessory for some kimono today!

Which left me with the two daggers I flip flopped on for Impa, the kunai and the kabutowari.

I'm pretty sure most people know what a kunai is. It's in most media with ninjas. What you might not now is that they aren't throwing weapons, and actually weren't originally weapons at all. They're repurposed masonry and farming tools, used to shape stonework and for digging holes and prying. The sides were left unsharpened for bashing soft materials like plaster and wood. Only the tip was supposed to be sharp.

Ninja actually did use kunai, since it's a repurposed farming tool. Most ninja weapons were repurposed farming tools, since they were easy to acquire and not particularly suspicious if you got caught with one. I mean, if you've got a garden spade on you most people aren't going to assume you're going to use it as a weapon. They were meant to be hand-to-hand combat weapons, meaning that any media depicting it as a throwing knife is incorrect, since they're actually hold-it-in-your-hand-and-stab-someone weapons. (Amusingly? The only media I've seen use kunai for their actual purpose is the original Hyrule Warriors. Sheik uses kunai as hand to hand weapons in that game.)

Also, Wikipedia made it clear that they can be confiscated by airport security. Like, I could have guessed that but thanks? It doesn't say this for any other weapon, I don't know why.

Kabutowari I'm pretty sure most people don't know about. Also called 'hachiwari', they were carried by samurai and resemble a jitte (a blunt, baton like weapon. I didn't do much research on jitte so don't ask me about them). They're usually about 35cm long but could sometimes be around 45cm.

There are two types of kabutowari, the dirk-type and truncheon-type. The only thing you need to know about the truncheon-type is that's nigh-identical to the dirk-type but blunt, and so not meant for stabbing. The dirk-type was sharp, and was used to parry an opponent's sword, hook the cords of armor or helmets, or separate armor plates like a can opener, and could be used to pierce the unprotected or weak parts of an opponents armor, like the armpit area.

I gave Impa this dagger for the simple reason that it looks cool. That's it, that's the whole reason. Also, it looks like the Eightfold Blade in Breath of the Wild:

See the hook? I couldn't find any other blade with a hook like that, so I think the eightfold blades are at least a little bit inspired by kabutowari, but made a lot bigger so it could be a sword. I have no proof for this outside of that hook though, so.

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