Гаргазес

(Персонаж придуман мной)

Изначально этот персонаж был придуман для фанфика «Смурфики» как племянник Гаргамеля, но позже, когда его история и характер начали формироваться, я решил сделать и его отдельным персонажем.

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Gargases

(The character was created by me)

Initially, this character was invented for Smurfs fanfic as Gargamel’s nephew, but later, when his story and character began to take shape, I decided to make him a separate character as well.

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After a break, we move on to the Magic household, or actually both of them. Elders and their children live separatedly.

On this lot live two elderly couples: Baltazar and Salamandra, and Gargamel and Hogata.

I use @midgethetree's edit of aging controller, so witches live longer than regular Sims.

I also use hereditary supernaturalism, so children inherit powers when they age to teens.

Going left to right:

Gargamel is Hogata's husband and father of Janka, Barbara and Łucja (or Lucy, I can't make up my mind about translating this name). He is evil wizard. His personality is 6/5/3/9/2 and his aspiration is fortune.

Salamandra is Baltazar's wife and mother of Eugene Magic (the wizard at the court of the Dariuses). She is good witch and works in alchemy (a.k.a. science). Her personality is 5/8/6/3/3. Her aspiration is knowledge.

Hogata is Gargamel's wife and mother of anka, Barbara and Łucja/Lucy. She is neutral witch. Her personality is 5/8/6/3/3. Her aspiration is knowledge.

Baltazar is Salamandra's husband and father of Eugene Magic. He's evil wizard. His personality is 4/7/8/3/3 and his aspiration is fortune.

Turquoise (on Baltazar's shoulder) is their dragon pet.

The second Magic household is much more crowded. It is inhabited by three sisters and their children.

The sisters run a magic shop, where they sell potions, cures and magic artefacts.

Left to right:

Łucja (Lucy) is the youngest daughter of Gargamel and Hogata. Even though, she is Eugene's wife, they live apart. They have three kids: Alice, Merlin (red-head boy with short hair) and Magus (red-head boy with long hair). She is infallibly good witch with her magic skills maxed out. She's got great relationship with Janka but doesn't get along with Barbara. She's got 10 points in logic and 5 both in creativity and cleaning. Her personality is 4/10/4/4/3, socially awkward, family-oriented, workaholic, virtuoso. Her favourite colour is white. Her first personality is knowledge and secondary is family.

The boy sitting in front of Łucja is her nephew, Arthur. He is son of Janka and Caligula, and elder twin of Octavian. He's also a half-sibling of his cousin, Arcadius (weird family relationships, let's go!). His personality is 10/10/1/8/0, snob, loves to swim, hates the outdoors.

Alice is the eldest child of Łucja and Eugene. She is a teenager who only recently unlocked her powers. She's learning magic and once she's old enough she will study at the magic university - Artes Magicae. She reached her rebellious teen phase as she fears casting good spells. xD Her personality is 7/4/9/8/1, hates the outdoors, love to swim, family-oriented, absent-minded. Her favourite colour is blue. Her aspiration is knowledge.

Merlin is the younger twin of Magus (yes, there are two sets of twins in this family. No, it wasn't on purpose) and the youngest child of Łucja and Eugene. His personality is 4/10/10/2/9, night owl, family-oriented, loves the outdoors.

Next to Merlin, his elder twin Magus is playing with a cat, Fang. Magus' personality is 4/5/6/10/10, brave, artistic, heavy sleeper.

Janka is the eldest daughter of Gargamel and Hogata. She is a mother of Arthur and Octavian. She's a neutral witch. She had a brief affair with Caligula Claudius, which resulted in twin pregnancy. Of course at the same time her sister Barbara had an affair with Caligula as well, bruh. Anyway, Janka gets along with both of her sisters. She works in medicine and is a licenced physician. She's got 6 points of cooking skill, 7 points of both mechanical and cleaning, 10 points of body skill. Her personality is 2/8/2/6/7, adventurous, workaholic, bookworm, kleptomaniac, artistic. Her favourite colour is brown. Her aspiration is knowledge.

The boy hanging on the chandelier is Octavian, younger twin of Arthur. He is son of Janka and Caligula, and half-sibling of his cousin Arcadius. His personality is 5/7/4/8/10, artistic, ambitious, genius.

Then we've got Arcadius, son of Barbara and Caligula. He spent his infancy and early toddlerhood living with his maternal grandparents, only then Barbara took care of her son. Like his half-siblings, he doesn't know they are so closely related. His personality is 4/9/9/8/5, heavy sleeper, bookworm, good sense of humor.

Barbara is the middle daughter of Gargamel and Hogata. She is a mother of Arcadius. She's an atrociously evil witch and has a familar cat called Fang. She had a brief affair with Caligula Claudius. She works in entertainment. She's got 6 points of mechanical skill, 7 points of creativity, 8 points of cleaning and 10 points of body skill. Her personality is 7/5/9/3/1, over-emotional, loves the outdoors, heavy sleeper, supernatural fan, socially awkward. Her favourite colour is black. Her aspiration is knowledge.

Fang is mid between genius and doofus, mid between lazy and hyper, independent, cowardly and mid pigpen between finicky.

Next up, the Monks!

part 6

An interesting thing related to things that annoy me in productions (Miracolous is an example, but there are other productions that make similar mistakes, mainly the older ones)

Bad writing annoys me the most but the other annoying theme is the status quo, Chloe pissed me off because it reminded me of something older productions did and it annoyed me so much

So you have an episode of the show where you think the character will become a better person later on, and then suddenly it turns out that this theme is in one episode, like the main character's dream, another reality, or the evil character got hit so hard in the head that her identity went to hell and therefore she was able to befriend the protagonist (Worst), possibly the motive that she was supposed to carry out some plan and she seems to become attached to the main character, and suddenly she makes new friends for the boss, who treats this character as an example of shit (Annoying)

Chloe's example is not the only one of its kind, e.g. in "Angelo la Débrouille" there was the character of this red-haired mean girl, and her uncle was this red-haired teacher, which is Tracy, in one episode there was a theme that they get to know her better and discover that she is quite a lonely and distrustful person, they make friends with her, only to find out at the very end that it is Angelo's own dream, it pissed me off so much

In the series "Monchhichi" (Yes, these toys have an animated series, quite specific and according to the Internet they had more series, which is interesting), but I'm talking about the 3D version, there was a lizard (There were two, context) and his boss told him to go to those monkeys to take something (I don't remember the plot anymore, I watched it without interest, because my niece actually watched it) so this guy hangs around with these monkeys and slowly befriends them, only to betray them at the end because the status quo must be maintained

There was also an episode of "Sabrina", an animated series about a young witch, although this mean girl was under a spell, but after its removal, at the very end, she showed something that indicated that she was not a bad person, unfortunately, do not count on development, it old cartoon series

There are probably more examples of this type, because I associate the series with "Disney XD" with a sloth who was driving a race car and his enemy was good because he got hit in the head, but then the main character didn't know about it, so they started to have a friendly relationship, then you know how it's over, it's so irritating, I'm not talking about still being affected by the tumor, but it could be an interesting development

Unfortunately, this also happens in the new ones, most of the ones I mentioned are more new productions, but mainly because it is more painful in the new ones

Okay, remember "The Smurfs"? Gargamel had a ginger nephew there, didn't he? Imagine that in one episode of "He made friends" with a fairy girl, unfortunately, it wasn't really friendship and it hurts a bit, because it would be nice to see this ginger kid get an existential crisis, unfortunately, the status quo must stay

I hate this lead and Chloe is a weird case because it lasted longer than one episode and it's even more irritating to me because we were given too much time for a redemption arc that didn't make sense in one episode it annoys me let alone in this case, when we were given too much time to accept its development, to get a rotten fish in the face after a long series

Another miracolous crime is lack of logic, more like self-contradiction, example of "Martha Speaks", more like my pick on or something like that, but Skits showed up after the shelter episode, right? Then explain to me one fact why these three puppies are still puppies? (Streak, Butterscotch and Mandarin)

These things have always annoyed me, even when I was a kid

I was thinking this morning about Jesse Manes. How he was a total monster. But at least in season one, he was an interesting monster. I wanted to know why he hated aliens so much. Did he have an encounter with an evil alien? What was the tipping point? Even in the beginning of season two I was still intrigued. Especially when we got the flashback episode with him as a teenager under the tutelage of Tripp. Would he have been someone who would have championed the aliens if Tripp hadn't been killed? Did he have something to do with Tripp's murder? I wanted to know more! But then in the last few episodes we got that debacle of the alien killing virus. The only good thing that came out of that mess was Michael going feral when Alex was kidnapped. The rest of the plot was completely ridiculous. I'm all for hand-wavey science (warp speed engines work just because), but how does this bio-weapon actually work? Does it look at a certain percentage of dna so it knows to kill direct descendants (i.e. sons and daughters) and not nephews, nieces, uncles, grandkids, etc? And is alien dna so similar that it would just kill all of them? What about when Michael figured out Jesse was going to kill Alex? Was he really going to kill him? Yes, he was a horrible homophobe, but would he have actually killed his own son to keep him from telling anyone about the bomb? And would he really have been dumb enough to shoot Michael at a crowded festival? Season one Jesse was cold and calculating. But I never took him as deranged. I think it's a travesty that they took someone so compelling and turned them into the modern day equivalent of Gargamel, who hated the smurfs just because. And what a waste of Trevor St. John.

I rewatched MOTTE and my sweet nephew was at my house. It was ,,I love it" performance and she goes: Auntie, why is Gargamel wearing red clothes? That totally cracked me up. Maybe it's because she loves Smurfs so much or because of GD's voice or clothes but this kid made my day. She totally thought he's Gargamel and dancers are Smurfs.

G(argamel) Dragon 😂😂😂😂😂

Okay, it’s time for me to rant about The Last Jedi:

Let me start off by saying that I am all for pushing boundaries, exploring the limits and really delving into the philosophy of Star Wars. I loved The Force Awakens, but I was very much ready for The Last Jedi to take the new trilogy in a new direction and catapult us beyond the horizon of everything we thought we knew about the world of Star Wars and its mythos. I was fine with the idea of Luke defying expectations and being disappointed by him, I was ready for grumpy Luke, and hell, I was even anticipating that the Big Twist™  would be that Luke was the antagonist. I was all for Luke going Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib on the galaxy and becoming an antagonist in the sense that Batman does at the end of The Dark Knight. I was ready for the plot twists, I was ready for the Rey and Kylo arc, but I was not ready for this mess.

What’s sad is that this has been done before. I may be biased, but Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords explores Star Wars in ways no other SW-related media ever has, yet it manages to do so within the realms of Star Wars’ “rules”. It feels believable, it draws from the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, it discusses the problems with the Force as well as the Jedi and Sith who both feel as if they are entitled to act on behalf of the Force. It deals with redemption, but it also has a message that “ultimately nothing matters” and Kreia’s ploy to destroy both the Jedi and the Sith, but more importantly, The Force Itself and it makes sense. You see her point, you understand her desires and motivations. Not only do you see the Jedi and the Sith fail and bring violence and turmoil to the galaxy within the game regardless of their motives and intentions, even turning Revan into a bit of a villain whether you were Light or Dark in your playthrough, but also makes you think of how you can say the same of the movies, how the Council utterly fails Anakin in the Prequels just as the Council fails the Exile and how redemption is always possible for all of your party members and even Kreia, just as it was for Vader. 

The Last Jedi has elements of this story, but has absolutely no depth. Luke is not only out of character, in fact in many parts I feel like he was in character but he was most of all inconsistent. His comments about the Force and the Jedi are interesting, how the Force is not a “right”, and for the Jedi to think they have a claim on controlling it is pure vanity. I LOVE THAT. But beyond that line... that’s it. We do not see this point explored. In fact, Luke goes back on this idea almost as soon as he says it. For someone who has cut themselves off from the Force (think: The Jedi Exile, which has a lot of potential) he still cares about the Light and the Dark and is biased against the Darkness. After giving a rather nihilistic speech about the Force, Luke still sounds like the Jedi Masters from the Prequel Trilogy, who he also just criticized for being righteous hypocrites. He berates Rey for being drawn to the Darkness, yet decides she’s the Last Jedi? Nowhere do we see Luke come to this conclusion. 

There is no reason for Rey to be a Jedi. She can certainly be an arbiter of justice, or at least someone with the power to confront Kylo in the next act, but there is no argument for her to uphold the Jedi name. Yoda even destroys the old texts, which also feels like a slap in the face because the events of the Prequels are all kind of Yoda’s fault? Not to mention that scene was cheestastic as all hell. Yoda stuck to the code, did not give Anakin the training/guidance he needed, and did not heed the Classic Star Wars Bad Feelings™ of people like Obi Wan (at least in Phantom Menace, by Attack of the Clones he cares for Anakin and has hope in him) and Mace Windu, who never seems to trust Anakin or his future. Again, it is not Anakin’s fault that Darkness surrounds him. He was born into slavery, his mother is still a slave (which, for peacekeepers and do-gooders, shouldn’t Qui Gon and Obi Wan have done something about that??? Isn’t that what Jedi do???) and yet they still blame Anakin for his life’s circumstances, for things completely outside of his control, and for feeling things. The boy needed therapy, he would have been fine. This problem is brought back up in Ben Solo’s origins as Kylo Ren. For Luke to call out the Old Jedi Order (with receipts) and then do THE VERY SAME THING to his nephew makes no sense, especially since Luke was able to reach Vader by believing in him, by seeing the Light in him, and trusting him. What made Luke so cool in Return of the Jedi was the fact that he told Yoda and Obi Wan “No, I will not kill my father” when they kept telling him that Vader must be destroyed. And Luke was ultimately right. Where did that compassion go? Ben was just like Anakin, kind of thrown around like a bomb to go off, and I’m sure that will give any kid anxiety, so when Snoke comes along and tells him he’s powerful and worthy, it makes sense that he would be swayed. This is just like Anakin. Anakin was openly distrusted by the Council, but was welcomed and “understood” by Palpatine. I don’t see why Luke would overlook this.

Speaking of Snoke, the Big Twist that he dies makes no sense. Who was he is a big question, sure, but ultimately why did it matter? It doesn’t. It also makes me realize that the First Order is completely motivationless, and Snoke’s desire to train Ben/Kylo is made completely pointless. And if he was so strong in the Force, enough to reach out and influence Ben across the galaxy without seemingly ever met him and create a Force bond between Rey and Kylo, how the hell did he not even simply hear the lightsaber next to him rattling on the armrest? In Return of the Jedi, the Emperor is taken by surprise by Vader in a seemingly silly way, considering they’re both Force users and Vader just throws him over the railing and into the battery of the Death Star, but it’s more believable. Palpatine is so busy revelling in torturing Luke and the physical act of electrocuting him, in showing him that he’s right, that he does not see Vader turn. He is so vain that he does not see Vader change right beside him. But there’s motivation there. Snoke isn’t doing much when Kylo kills him, he’s too busy giving his Villain Takes the Time to Explain How The Hero Is About to Die speech to notice that his vision is right but ultimately a misinterpreted prophecy. It’s not believable.

Also, Palpatine keeps Vader on a tight leash but he gives him power, he gives him the illusion of agency. Snoke literally calls Kylo a snivelling bitch every three seconds. He’s like the abusive dad who puts down his spouse/kid all day every day and goes on and on and on about how weak they are and how they’ll never fight back or amount to anything only to get decked in the face during the climax. It was the behavior of an abuser, yes, which we know Snoke was from The Force Awakens, but this makes him an unintelligent abuser. Palpatine was a master manipulator. After seeing The Last Jedi, I have no idea why Ben would follow Snoke, nor do understand why Hux would for that matter. He’s not a villain, he’s a bully. How boring...

There is so much more I could talk about, but when concerning the mythos and philosophy behind Star Wars, what makes Vader so interesting and the rest of the movies so good, and everything else that felt wrong with The Last Jedi. I’m convinced Rian Johnson didn’t even see The Force Awakens and maybe watched the other movies a couple times and was somehow convinced he could make a Star Wars movie. Gareth Edwards’ movie felt like a Star Wars movie. It felt like a story that had always been there, from the beginning, we just hadn’t heard it yet. It was new, yet it kept the feel of the Original Trilogy. The sets and designs looked like they came out of the late 70′s production of A New Hope, but the characters were completely different than any other Star Wars characters we’d seen, they showed how even the Rebellion could be bad and how grey morality could work in a Star Wars movie where there is so much emphasis on black and white Good and Evil, and they killed off every single character by the end which was a bold move. The Last Jedi didn’t just introduce new ideas and explore the philosophies of Star Wars, it completely disregarded them and failed to feel like it belonged in the series. Even though the Prequels have a different tone to them than the Original Trilogy, they still have a feel to them that makes it consistent. The story and the mythos are there, even if the sets and the technology did not add up with what we saw in A New Hope. But The Last Jedi has neither, so I’m failing to see how this is a Star Wars movie at all.

There were so many plot holes, the Resistance plot line was essentially just a ship running out of gas, the First Order is magically able to track them through hyperspace, Hux turned from Space Nazi to Gargamel, Phasma is brought back for three whole seconds only for her to get her ass kicked again, Luke decided to give his ass-tral projection a Rogaine makeover and a different lightsaber, Yoda somehow looks worse than both his puppet and CGI counterparts in the Prequels, the guards on Canto Bight look like they just walked off the set of Spaceballs, and why did the movie end with a Star Wars Duracell commercial, y’know the ones we get this time of year about kids imagining they’re in Star Wars and how it makes Christmas special? That Resistance ring looks like it came out of a Cracker Jack box.

Honestly... what the fuck.

Doodling stuff to pass time while the whole family is here to celebrate the nephew’s b-day. 

And inspiration for getting me into the Gargamel as a smurf goes to @smurfwizard

Племянник Гаргазес спит в лесу, рядом с ним заснули даже смурфики.✨

(персонаж придуман мной)

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Gargases nephew is sleeping in the forest, even the Smurfs have fallen asleep next to him.✨

(character created by me)

Gargases and his cats - Jack and Lisa

The adult cat is Jack and the kitten is Lisa.

(The character was created by me)

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Гаргазес и его коты - Джек и Лиза

Взрослый кот это Джек а котенок это Лиза.

(Персонаж придуман мной)