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cringefailnatsuo · 2 years

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Nah man because what the hell was this?

First of all, I love how these panels establish a clear difference between Hawks looking at Dabi and Hawks looking at Dabi. In the scene from 240, Hawks is looking at Dabi as he's thinking about completing his mission and contacting Endeavor for backup. Like dude? You're literally staring into Dabi's eyes and thinking about Endeavor and it never crossed your mind that they have the same eyes? Chapter 267 drives this point even further by putting a close-up of Dabi's eye after he reveals his identity to Hawks. You can clearly see Hawks having an "oh shit" moment after the reveal as he truly looks at Dabi and realizes that this one piece of crucial information has been right in his face the whole time.

And second of all, this just highlights how Dabi truly is Hawks' downfall during the raid.

The whole point of Hawks' mission was to gain intel on the League so that the heroes don't make any hasty decisions and have the upper hand in apprehending the villains for good. The fact that the HPSC president specifically told Hawks "we severely underestimated the enemy" and yet he did the same exact thing is, quite frankly, hilarious.

And in retrospect, given the knowledge that we have on Dabi's past from chapter 350, Hawks could have figured out who was behind the nomu, where they were kept, and so many other things about AFO's plan for a successor if he had paid more attention to Dabi.

#bnha #dabi #hawks #dabihawks #canon dabihawks is riddled with irony and that's why it's so great #ok but also i want to know why the hell hawks looked into dabi's background and stopped looking into it when he hit a dead end #like that's so suspicious and he didn't bother digging further?#no 2 pro hero backing down from a challenge??#i wonder how long it took for hawks to give up searching on info about dabi #honestly i'm surprised hawks underestimated him so much considering that fire is his one (1) weakness #and dabi is one of the more mysterious members of the lov since there's no info about him in the hpsc database or whatever #anyway the 'you should have been keeping both eyes on me' line hits different when you realize that dabi was keeping his eyes on hawks 24/7 #seriously the dude went through the trouble of locating takami tomie just to hear this dude's tragic backstory #and dabi copied hawks' move that one time in like 351(?) and someone called him fast or whatever #god i fucking hate narrative foils #ugh these tags are getting LONG but who even reads the tags anymore?#hello i make one original post per month and have now met my quota

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xmas-kids · 2 months

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sixsixtwenty · 2 months

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Scp 049 x Reader

NOONES POV:

It was a calm evening in the foundation more calmer than you expected really, you thought you were gonna have to do more tests with researchers doing Experiments on you.

But to your luck they didn't, they let you rest and have a nice calm evening all to yourself. But you knew you're never alone

Those damn cameras in your room always bugged you, you felt like you barely have any privacy because they wanna study you 24/7 you thought.

You were casually laying on your bed staring at the ceiling thinking of what to do, you missed your friend 049. You never knew his real name but it didn't matter to you apparently.

You really appriciate his company even though of his well. Hobby. But you just let him do what he wanted, if it'll make him happy and he doesn't attack you it's all good you thought.

You started to twiddle your fingers together deep in thought as you suddenly hear one of the chamber doors opening as you saw one of the guards entering your chamber.

"Y/N L/N, you will be visiting Scp-049 again, it was requested by the higher ups because you both seem to get along quite well and he has no intentions in 'curing' you. Now get up and follow me and don't do anything stupid."

You simply nodded got up and followed the MTF to 049's chamber, well he wasn't wrong about those statements you both did get along pretty well you think. He was all chill and calm around you.

Soon you arrived at 049's chamber along with the MTF, you can already see a researcher inside the chamber as if he was awaiting you eich he probably was.

"Ah miss L/N, you're finally here. You already maybe know why you're here, so just go inside 049's chamber and interact with him"

You sighed and nodded, you were kinda tired because you hadn't gotten too much sleep the past days those tests with other scps just took a bunch of energy out of you wich just makes you wanna plop down onto your bed and hope you can sleep

With your all will power you walked inside as the door closed behind you eich cought 049s attention and looked to you giving you a small wave and greeted you.

"Greetings my friend, how are you today?" He said in a calm voice as he laid the cutting knife down that he used on one of his patients before to perform surgery.

You ignored that and simply just replied back in a calm voice aswell keeping things cool.

"I'm doing fine 049 just a bit tired, i didn't get that much sleep lately"

He then slowly walks to you and without thinking he just quickly hugs you making you flinch and panic, his hands are deadly and kill anyone who gets touched by them.

...

Wait, you were still alive? How? You didn't even know what to say as you look over at the researcher and MTF who were behind the glass window who were observing you.

The researcher was frantically scribblings notes down all fascinated as the MTF stared at you big big eyes as they looked to each other and then back at you again

It took even 049 a second to realize that he hugged you as the quickly backed off from you and his hands back behind his as he stared at you.

He was just as surprised as everyone was as the gently took his shaking hand back and carefully touched your forehead, nothing happened.

You both realized you couldn't get hurt by his power as you just pulled him into a bone crushing hug that took 049 to a surprise as he quickly hugged you back.

You were still under a bit of shock but happyness, truth is you haven't gotten many hugs in your past and nowadays you were quite touch starved.

So just suddenly getting and giving a hug just pulls out all your happyness knowing you're finally in someones arms again.

As you felt 049 hugging you tighter your face felt wet, you came to the thought it was tears but your eyes were dry. And then you realized. Those tears weren't yours but 049's

You quickly looked up at his mask where his eyes are exposed as you can see faint tear drops falling and trailing down his mask as more tears are forming at his eyes.

"049?! W-why are you crying? Are you okay? Did i do something wrong?"

"N-no my dear. I'm just so happy you didn't die.. and that. That i can give you the hug i wanted to give you before!"

You were in awe seeing him in happy tears after that nuztling into his neck as the puts his bird mask beak on your head simply just resting there.

"You're Amazing Y/N, you're quite the smart woman and you can't let yourself be stepped over just by some researchers. You're worth more my friend and i am willing to help you by protecting you and being there for you."

049 says to you still with a bit of tears in his eyes

"I-id like that 049. I'd like that." You reply with a warm smile still being a bit worried for your friend. But you knew he was somewhat fine.

In the end you both stayed there in a hug until the MTF had to pull you away until you meet again.

#scp 049 #scp x reader #scp #scp 049 x reader #fluff x reader #scp foundation #scp foundation x reader #scp 049 fluff #scp fluff #this is my original work btw #i mostly copied this from my wattapd account and my book #my Wattpad book has nsf\/\/ on it so idk if i van post it here.#I'll most likely tag it as smut or lemon. or Nsft

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greek-freak101 · 11 days

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Tag game!

Go to pinterest and search:

1. Color of your phone background + aesthetic

2. Favorite animal + aesthetic

3. Name + core

4. Movie you rewatched multiple times as a child + aesthetic

5. Favorite time of day + aesthetic

6. First word of your favorite song + aesthetic

No pressure tags: @haleripley @wanderingquill @axelwolf8109 @chadillacboseman @pastexistence @ultrabananapudding

#ofc any other mutuals or followers that want to join in go for it I love thse things 💗#this looked fun #credit to the op I saw this tag game floating around but I couldn't find the original just small copys from others so I'm making my own post #tag game #mutuals

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impostorsshow · 1 month

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Another rant about my "YHS Grian gets time travel-kidnapped to participate in an MCC" daydream/au, with a focus/reflection on how permadeath worlds would affect skills, except it's not a rant it's a 1.2k - 1.8k oneshot

When Grian finds out the future version of himself got signed up to...whatever this is, he has enough to be surprised at - they're on a series of floating islands, and use a portal to travel between islands that are larger apart, something Grian's only ever seen when he traveled between England and Japan.

He saw that when [Jimmy? Timmy? Did he have to check his hearing after all this time of using firearms?] was injured after being turned from a 27 year old into a teen, he got disqualified since he wouldn't be healed by the time this whole championship started, Grian decided to not share the bullet wound at his hip [Timmy was more than eager to tell him where one of the "admins" had stored some bandages once he figured out where the clinic was].

And then they got their first round of training, courtesy of Scott wanting to make the team's more balanced to skill level when the event was closer - it was a simple game in his opinion, fill in 9 blocks with your teams color and kill your opponents before they get you [Grian wished he could say that he wasnt used to death matches being considered training.] A kid named Tommy, about 11 years old was [incredibly reasonably] distressed about murdering other kids and was disqualified, so Grian was glad he learned to keep his mouth shut.

He wasn't the best by any means, but he was more than good enough to avoid dying, his team having 3 people that were on wool duty with him and a girl named False being the only ones confident in their fighting ability. False got injured, and Grain thought she died if not for the fact she reappeared without any injuries after the round was over. Grian didn't find the time to ask and False didn't catch any of his questioning expressions, but his teammates kept getting injured and were praising him on not getting hurt [how would he have gotten this far in the Yakuza otherwise?? How did you get cut across the abdomen with an iron sword and survive? Why is he the only one freaking out ?] So Grian played it off and accepted the compliments as best he could.

The last round they didn't get the wool capture, and the other team was out for blood. Grian saw False get shot in the head by an arrow and somehow survived a 3 v 1, shooting two of the players with a shot in his shoulder and watching the last player run to place the wool, ending the game with 1 loss for his team.

He felt dizzy for a moment and closed his eyes, opening them back up to see he was teleported back onto the main island, a leaderboard infront of him. Grian felt his shoulder, confused that the blood that had stained his blue uniform [he really needed to ask for a comfier change of clothes at some point] was gone and his shoulder was just fine, even if he felt the phantom pain of the arrow, quickly fading.

The leaderboard placed him in the upper middle of players, which was worse than he expected. Everyone around him was talking to each other excitedly though, so maybe MCC was only a place where seasoned professionals played and he wasn't as numbed to death as he thought. The Yakuza in his town weren't really high quality, nothing in that town was anyway.

"Hey." Grian jumped, startled at the voice and turned to his right to see False [he made eye contact with her forehead more than her eyes, not quite able to understand how she was alive. No one could survive that, he knew that much.]. Awkward silence made itself known for a few moments, False clearing her voice and snapping Grian back to reality. "Good job. You only got hit once."

"....Yeah."

"I'm saying that it's impressive. Where did you learn to do that?"

"Oh. Uh, death matches are common where I live, you kind of just..." Grian looked away from False entirely, glancing over at people in the crowd he could have sworn were dead and another count of blood on his hands. "Have to know how to survive that, or you learn the hard way."

Grian heard False mumble some agreement and walk away, narrowing his eyes at the leaderboard. He needed to figure out which adult was trustworthy enough to ask about this without getting a target in his back, as soon as possible.

In the end, he decided to ask Timmy. He was still in the clinic so surely some adult would have shared something with him, and he didn't rat out Grian for having a bullet wound ["What's a bullet?" "...a piece of metal that's used in a gun." "What's a gun?" "No wonder your in the infirmary"].

"Do you know anything about people dying and coming back?" Grian stated out of the blue, the first 5 minutes of his visit being pure silence on Grian's part to make sure an admin wouldnt come by to check up on Timmy's wounds anytime soon.

"What? Whaddya mean, Gri?"

"I mean that people keep dying and coming back. Injuries in games disappear randomly. I've seen at least like, 8 people die in the past week multiple times and all of them seem to be fine. No one's questioning it at all and-"

"waitwaitwaitwait-ow-" Timmy started waving his hands to motion for Grian to stop talking, flinching when it stretched his injury and stopped to hold his stomach where the injury was, but still eyed Grian as if he was insane. It made Grian immediately regret asking. "Are you seriously- do you not know about respawning?"

"No, unless you mean it in terms of the Gamecrab."

"I don't know what that is but -oh my god, I never thought I had to explain this ever -respawning is what happens whenever you die. Most of the time the only thing that happens is your inventory gets wiped, and you might feel like however you died for a bit or whatever injury you had last."

Grian deadpanned, getting his thoughts across very clear and making Timmy throw his hands up in exasperation. "I'm serious! How is it you've never heard of respawning, did you live on a hardcore world or something?"

"define hardcore."

"....oh my god you cannot be-" Timmy took a breath,pinching the bridge of his nose and muttering to himself for a few seconds before talking louder at Grian. "-Hardcore is used to define permadeath worlds with added difficulty to them. If you die your done forever, and even a shot to the arm can be bad enough to kill you."

"..oh,-"

"but I KNOW your not from a permadeath world because that was made illegal, right?" Grian heard a tone in Timmy's voice that sounded like Sam when he was about to snap, and decided to not ever bring this up again, responding immediately and eyeing the door.

"yup, I cant even imagine what that would be like -when was that made illegal, out of curiosity?"

"1337? seriously what-?" Grian was up from his chair and out the door before Jimmy could finish his sentence.

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My version of YHS Grian is much less prone to questioning things than actual YHS Grain, and that's because this daydream is A. Made by someone who never finished YHS and B. Because it emphasizes to me the skills you would need to learn to survive living with a delusional serial killer and being in the Yakuza in general, much less a town with adults that aren't doing anything and at some points actively putting students in danger with zero consequences except for maybe getting murdered by the students.

Alot of fanfiction I see that follow the YHS -> Hermitcraft Grian timeline make him the god of combat/PVP and the most traumatized skrunkly in the world. I'm not going to deny that I may be doing the second trope can you blame me it's good content but humans learn from making mistakes, and knowing you'll survive combat gives you a hell of a lot more confidence to be more aggressive and taking risks that pay off later. I imagine children in Minecraft are just kind of thrown outside and taught how to deal with a creeper by blowing up and crying to their mom about how much it hurts to die until they stop dying or are old enough to learn to move past the pain of dying, which would have it's own psychological consequences but like. Psychological consequences of a world without death is for another post this is about how said world would compare against a world of mortality and the fear of death being less equivalent to a spider and more equivalent to the fear of being forgotten.

Anyway what im getting at here is that I think when YHS Grain is written he needs to stop being written as a PVP god, he needs to instead be written as the god of survival. It's not that he knows how to most effectively use a weapon or he can find weak points in an enemy quicker or any of that, what makes him Grian Dreamslayer is that he has the skill of dodging and misdirection, of near misses that give him just enough of an upper hand that it doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to use a sword because he thinks that if he gets hit in his stomach or chest he's not coming back, and he knows to aim for the chest of his opponent. He's absolute shit at hiding, but he knows when to identify that you've found him and when to run.

Can you tell I have a hyperfixation anyway if you read my last post I have become aware that cannibalism doesnt actually happen the way I thought it did so just like. Ignore that bit that's been vanished and if you didn't read my last post uh. I don't watch MCC and I don't watch Falsesymmetry so like feel free to critique my characterization or give me ideas this is fully self indulgent so any advice is only going to help me make up more silly things while I'm daydreaming and I might make another post about this [i have more than enough content to make like 3 similarly sized posts of this i just don't have any knowledge of who is in MCC and how they act ive literally had to search up "MCC competitors" every time i post about this]

#talk talks #daydream ranch dip #original ranch dip #yhs #yhs grian #obligatory fuck samgladiator tag im a hermitcraft fan fellas its just free real estate #grian #i was actually flabberghasted when i put this in wordcounter.net and found out that my little rant at the end was 500 words #the exact count of this post is like. the first bit is 1286 or something and then the entire post is 1806 in full #im sure this is missing a few tags but im not used to posting from my computer and i couldnt copy and paste this whole thing into the word #count site from my phone for some reason it just copied over paragraphs and not the whole thing #no but im so serious on the falsesymmetry thing the only thing i know about her is really pretty fanart good at PVP and big autism hcs

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rjalker · 2 months

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Transmisic, exorsexist, lesbimisic, monosexist "defines lesbianism by violently hating men, including trans and nonbinary and multigender men" blocklist:

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History is not on your side, and don't you bigots dare pretend you love and support trans lesbians when you clearly hate them and hate Lesbian history.

Remember to mark these blogs red in shinigami eyes!

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hadesknockedupintheunderworld · 5 months

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No one:

Some random person, every week since July: Has anyone done this yet? *posts meme redraw of Shadow breaking it to Sonic that they’re gonna have to kill Nine and Sonic going "Damn😔"*

#Sonic prime #sonic the hegehog #I'm not putting this in the character tags this time #i just be ramblin #semi vent post?#I'm just kinda tired man #like he would not fucking say that! even if Shadow actually says that next season‚ Sonic is not accepting that he can't save Nine or anyone #else on his LIFE #Tired of the Nine and Sonic (and Nine and his shatterverse friends frankly) relationship erasure here #Let's not pretend here that Shadow is the only person who Sonic will threaten to throw hands with over a threat to their life #And this bit is more personal. But at this point I resent the idea that this entire show is going to end with everything going exactly to #how it used to be before with all the variants living in the original or something #After everything that has happened there's nothing satisfying about that kind of ending to me. do you have no whimsy? do you have no hope?#Do you really think the best end for everyone is one where Sonic has to accept his new friends and his new best friend has to die?#We know from the s3 teaser that part of this season will be about stabilizing the shatterverse #Do you really believe that it makes sense for the story to force Sonic to choose green hill or the shatterverse after all that time spent #keeping it together and keeping all those people protected?#This show is forcing Sonic to contend with the variants being different people with different lives and backstories. it's forcing Sonic to #contend with Tails and Nine not being exactly the same person. Do you think the best end (after all that fighting to be considered more than #just copies of the originals) the variants (especially Nine)#is for them to just accept that they can't be separated from the 'originals' as we consider them to be?#anyways anyways back to the post #point of the post is that I've seen the same tired joke every week since s2 came out and I'm just tired of the 'Shadow and the narrative #will force Sonic to accept that Nine has to die' bit #Like at this point y'all just want Nine to die. just say that #Or at least do some meta/analysis posting. because rn it all sounds like 'Nine is narratively going to die because I think he should and #because I think it makes the most sense. Source? vibes'

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moongothic · 3 months

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I go check if the Sir Crocodile tag has anything fun and

Why does this post (which has nothing to do with One Piece mind you) have all my fucking tags from the Crocodad comic I posted on main on it

What in tarnation

#Moon posting #It's the bot activity isn't it #A lot of people copy&pasted ALL my original tags in their reblogs so I'm guessing my tags have become like a popular combo or something #So the bots are now?? Using them?? I'm #I'm speechless. What the fuck #First I get bizarre ass comments from bots on that post now this #I feel like I'm hallucinating

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1pcii · 7 months

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[icon id: An icon of monkey d. luffy and roronoa zoro from the one piece egghead anime opening with the trans and aroace flags edited behind them (applying to both characters). End id]

[banner id: a gif from the egghead arc anime opening. it's featured the strawhats walking towards the 'camera' with the "ONE PIECE" title card behind them. it then shows Luffy struggling with his boot before flying offscreen, the view obstructed by smoke at which the gif loops back around . End ID]

hello hello down there!

my name is psii and this is my one piece sideblog, welcome! it's very zolu-luzo/zoro and luffy centric, but you'll find a bit of everything here honestly. also doubles as a tashigi and kuina love blog <333

#psii.txt <- og textposts/tag save

#psii.png <- og art/anything image format

#psii.mp3 <- music, playlists, audio files, the whole shebang. same format (.MP4) for videos

#psii reads 1pc <- one piece read-through tag. i tag spoilers from wano forward, my progress is updated fairly regularly in my bio, feel free to filter.

Main blog: @p2ii

and most importantly enjoy your stay ;D

#[pinned]#moving my notes down here:#-please excuse any spelling mistakes I make. it's so bad ik. my brain works faster than my hands and I only notice 5 minutes to 3 days l8r #-do not repost any of my original posts/works. I beg #-when I say TERFS dni I also mean harry potter fans. why are there so many of you go away #-the order of names in my ship names do not reflect their dynamics. I just use whats more common/sounds better to me #if I tag w both versions of a ship name it's probably because I copied it from prev/op and not a reflection of my interpretation of dynamic #don't tag any of my posts with z0san #alr that's all I think. peace ✌️

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usurp3r · 10 months

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A concept more than anything; nothing too polished.

#I had some ideas before but my friend suggested I actually make one. It's quite obvious which suit I thought was the coolest in the movie #Sorry for copying that guy so much. It's likely not the final design though I'm not sure how different from this one it will be #Not sure how I should tag this since I don't feel it's very original. I did want to post it since I like the ideas so far still #Spidersona #Fanart #Digital Art #WIP #Sketch #Specific things I still want to change are the base texture and positioning of the spider. It's still very rough

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eternalcyclicality · 7 months

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given how this hellsite now forces new accounts to follow a few blogs *before* they can fully gestate into a tumblrina, if a no icon untitled empty blog follows me I now give em one day to enjoy (suffer) my posts

if they don't show obvious signs of corruption and bizarre behavior by then, they get blocked*

#ec original post #*now... some might immediately unblock em to be “less harsh”#but the only unblocker I know of is called a woodchipper #(I'm originally from Brainerd)**#and a woodchipper (device that unblocks wooden blocks) seems even more harsh to me #**yes this was an elaborate setup to reference my favorite yonic weapon which was 1st popularized as such in a movie set in my hometown***#***they originally wanted to name the movie Brainerd but they named it Fargo instead worrying that no one would watch a movie name Brainerd #you may ask “why put all this in the tags if the post was a setup to make this weird little reference thats not even good”#to which I say 1) rude! & 2) I am demonstrating bizarre behavior for newborn tumblrinas & 3) I am mindful of reblog risks (containment)****#****in the rare instance a post goes viral and breaks containment the junk you originally wrote in the tags does not copy to the reblogs

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myckicade · 2 years

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This is my response to an ongoing conversation. ( @motleystitches and @tikxy have some fabulous insights! ). I'm posting this portion on its own, as well, because... Well, why not, indeed?

To quote the beginning of @motleystitches' response:

This is incredibly interesting, because it leads me to thinking that perhaps Lestat never intended to be in this deep with Louis at all. He didn’t realise what he was getting into when he started the whole hunt-for-a-companion. He knew the “play” of romance, so that’s what he did with his grand gestures etc, but it all comes back to bite him, so to speak and he didn’t like it at all.

Mmmm, precisely. He intended to play the game, and fell head-first into, "Oh, shit." Louis feels like the biggest slap of reality that (I suspect) Lestat has had in a long time, a reminder of that which he can't control. He can kill. He can seduce. But love? Oh, no. No, love can not be kept on such a tether, not when it is him being choked by the reigns. Being Louis' maker, there is likely a pretty serious expectation of adoration from his fledgling, of love, certainly, and not necessarily with the intention of making it a two-way street (beyond those grand gestures).

The truly amusing part is that Lestat is really overthinking the problem. To use an old favourite, he's set up for a game of checkers, while Louis is ready to play chess.

I love your description of Louis as "the most human-ish vampire ever", because that is absolutely spot-on. Louis wants to be seen, to be understood. We wants something real. He isn't taken in by the superficial, and that comes across as the only card Lestat knows how to play. He can wine and dine, he can show off his wealth and status, he can be the mysterious man about town. When that fails to be what Louis needs to be happy, and it makes Louis confused and uncomfortable, there's this sense of, "...-Huh?!" Sure, Lestat eventually says he enjoys the challenge of Louis, but the novelty is quick to wear off. He's faced with it so many times, the resulting struggle to recalibrate leaves him with mental and emotional whiplash.

At some points, it really looks like he doesn't know whether he's coming or going. The argument in which Lestat screams, "This isn't a life!" strikes me, again and again. That he, Lestat, stubborn, headstrong, ever-powerful creature of the night, has been brought to tears over a situation he could have left. He's scared and hurt, stuck in the middle of a situation he doesn't seem to have encountered before, that he put himself in, and he's looking to Louis to fix it. Goodness knows he's tried and tried (and failed and failed) to make Louis happy, and Louis is the only one with the answer of how to make it work. The only one with the power to change it. He's helpless in the face of Louis' depression, and doesn't have a clue what else to try. Nights out don't work. Sex doesn't work. It's an easy thing to take personally. Unfortunately, he turns to that age-old defense: Victim Blaming. I do believe that he genuinely wants Louis to feel better, but that ego response of "Why am I not the answer?!" really, really gets in his way.

And he still has the balls to laugh in Louis' face, when Loius voices the same concern over their relationship. What a dick.

Anyway.

Lestat clearly loves Louis enough to stand beside him, and swirl down the drain with him, but he lacks the capacity for... understanding? Empathy? Patience? To continue on in silence. To some degree, I would argue that he shouldn't have to, either. Argument, within limitation, can be healthy toward working through feelings, and making one's self heard. Getting to the bottom of things, and figuring it all out. On the other side of the argument, Louis does not have to magically be better to fix the problem. I'm just being a broken record about fucking communicating.

The situation with Claudia is a repeat of the same theme, sparking the pattern I had previously mentioned. They wrap the wound (turn Claudia), forgive and forget, and move on. But, eventually, Louis' focus goes to Claudia, a stand-in (though loved) for the family he's already lost. He's once again distracted by something that isn't Lestat. He nit-picks at Lestat for his parenting choices, which, I grant you, don't look great on the surface. But, Lestat is the experienced vampire. I say again, Lestat is the experienced vampire. He knows what it will take for this girl, this fledgling of theirs to survive in the world. Every time he tries, Louis takes issue, because Louis is trying to protect Claudia from what she is. From what they made her. As with his own self-care as a vampire, he's trying to do it in halves. I think it scares him that Claudia is a killer, that she is not like him. That she will grow to resent them for what they have done to her, as opposed to for her. (And, as we've seen... Ta-da...).

But, I digress. Here's Louis, once again throwing criticism at Lestat. Resentment. Just when he thinks he's finally found the answer. After he's helped Louis to attain what he wants. After they have been doing so much better. After he's given more than he had ever intended to the man, and he's still not enough. He isn't enough to make Louis stay without Claudia. He isn't enough to make Louis happy without Claudia. Either he doesn't understand what Louis is going through, or he doesn't give a shit (which I find a little more difficult to believe), and it leaves him with a sense of inadequacy. And he looks at Claudia, and Claudia apparently holds every fucking answer that he has now spent decades trying to find. He's failed, and to a child, and part of him just seems to... give up.

Which brings me to Antoinette. Part of me thinks that, sure, Lestat runs back over to Antoinette, at whatever point, to fill the void of what he wants, but isn't getting from Louis. Someone he can please, and likely with so much ease, I can hear his ego purring from here. Someone who makes him feel wanted, and desirable, and (I'm sure) the complete opposite of helpless. The rest of me, though, also sees this affair as Lestat giving up. Said affair has gone on for all these years, and Louis obviously hasn't moved for a physical separation. The cry for attention has gone unanswered. He's tired of hunting. As you say, he recognizes himself as being in the wrong for it, because he still doesn't want to lose what they have, fucked up as it may be. It reads to me as, "Yes, I've done it. Now, are you going to fight for me? For us?"

Then, re-enter Claudia, and her attempts to take Louis away. No matter what they've been through until this point, no matter how many times Louis has threatened to end things, they are still together. They've weathered it all, for better or worse. If there has been a roadblock? Lestat has destroyed it. Quite literally, he has killed it. But, Claudia? She's a roadblock he can't go through. He can't kill Claudia. For one thing, I do believe he cares about her, much as - again - he claims he doesn't. For another, if he harms her, he will surely lose Louis for good. And, he cares about that. This isn't something he can piss on and walk away from. Louis means everything to him. Claudia is going to win, Louis is going to leave him, and Lestat has no tricks left to try. No amount of recalibration is going to fix it. He's lost, and he can't have that.

If he's going to lose anyway, he might as well become the monster he was always expected to be.

#I copied the tags from the original post I made #I apologize that they are all in CAPS #WOW #I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH OF THIS BUT #I'M A WRITER WHO WRITES WAY TOO MUCH #SOMEWHERE THIS ALMOST BECAME A FIC #WHOOPSIES #ANYWAY #LOUSTAT #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE #IWTV #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE AMC #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE TV #IWTV AMC #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SPOILERS #IWTV SPOILERS

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angelsdean · 10 months

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i should use my taglist again it's just i feel immense anxiety tagging ppl in things even if it's a taglist that they opted into bc i'm like. well what if they've changed their minds and i'm bothering them now?? like everyone always says "ask to be added or removed" but no one is actually going to ask to be removed they're just gonna stop interacting. anyways i'll probs make a new taglist post soon since it's been 6 months since my old one

#i've been posting more art this month too but just. not tagging anyone bc i've just been super in my head abt it #also taglists are a pain for me bc i Have to put the tags in my replies bc it's a huge pet peeve of mine when someone rbs the taglist rb #instead of the original post #and you can only tag 5 ppl per reply so i can't just copy and past the whole taglist into one reply and when i reply it's from my main too #it's just very not ideal #i miss the days of old where everyone tracked their own url tag and you could just literally tag ppl IN the tags and they'd actually see it #bc they tracked their tag. like the @ feature is useful bc it gives you a notif which is great but i wish i could @ ppl IN the tags #vic.txt

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corvidexoskeleton · 1 year

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It took me a while to actually get through all of scorn, but now that I've had some time to sit and think about it for a bit, I have my own thoughts about it

With how many popular games these days end up as these big open world explorations that boast about how long it takes to play, or have the most complicated gameplay imaginable, or convoluted storytelling and lore, it's almost refreshing to have something a bit more simple or short in length.

That being said, there are of course aspects of the game that I think could potentially be improved upon, but I don't think they necessarily detract from the overall quality in a significant way. Things don't always need to have the smoothest combat or else do away with it entirely, and in this case I feel as if the game's current combat is more thematically appropriate than the alternative; you are a newborn wandering around in the desiccated remains of society and trying to fend off wild animals with technology you don't understand, not Doomguy on his trillionth year anniversary of killing demons.

The game is also, as many people have pointed out, very linear with no option to explore or do other stuff. And again, I have to refer back to other games such as the Portal games or the original God of War. Games don't really need to be open world or have hidden collectibles or sidequests, and some games really don't need it. Would it be enjoyable to have more places to explore and do more things in Scorn? I'm sure that it absolutely would, but that doesn't seem to be the story that the devs were trying to tell here, nor do I think that Scorn specifically needs it in order for the experience to be good or enjoyable.

With regards to the puzzle aspect of the game, I think the difficulty and quality of the puzzles present ingame really is subjective and varies from person to person. But that aside, I do have to wonder how many of the people complaining about the puzzle aspect or the lack of combat have also played and enjoyed the Portal games, which are both hugely popular and in my opinion more similar to Scorn than Doom or Resident Evil, and don't really have combat in the traditional sense. Personally, I enjoyed the puzzles in Scorn because while they did take me a bit of time to navigate, they weren't so difficult that I had to resort to looking up solutions. But again, not everyone enjoys puzzles, or are good at solving puzzles.

And finally, the perceived lack of explicit storytelling, the lack of dialogue, and the complete absence of any text that you might find in other games. I think that this is something that could also vary from person to person in terms of how good it is or how successful it was in this instance. Environmental storytelling is it's own method of getting information across, but a lot of times you end up with a Bethesda situation where the only environmental storytelling we get consists of a skeleton with knife in its chest and a note next to it that says "ahhhh no the raiders are coming i hope they don't kill me". There's always ways in which games can and should improve upon things such as environmental storytelling, but I do think it's very telling when someone would rather eschew it altogether and refuse to actually stop and think about what something could mean.

I think that there is great value in storytelling methods that are vague and are more up to interpretation than anything else, and that's what the case is with Scorn. The game doesn't tell you anything, and you kind of have to try and figure it out yourself based on what you see ingame, and even reading the information given in the digital artbook doesn't completely elucidate what's going on.

As simple as it is, and while it might not be for everyone, it remains a very unique game that has quite a lot of potential that can be built off of in the future, and I believe that criticism of it would be more constructive if it focused on what the game actually is rather than what it isn't.

#text post tag #read more #scorn #scorn game #this copy pasted from steam where i originally wrote this so bear with me

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