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lowkeyrobin · 2 months

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Heyy :) Can you please write headcanons of dating quackity, but in his earlier eras? (like 2019-21 maybe) ❤

ooooo yes of course!!! ; fun fact I've been watching him since 2018 or so (I don't mean this in a "Oh I'm cooler than you way) ; thank you for the request!! this was fun as hell ; I tried to kinda do it in a chronological order but yeah, I did like stuff and then more details of relationship if that makes sense yk???

QUACKITY ; 2019-2021 era

warnings ; language, talk of drugs, jokes about sex

genre ; fluff

word count ; 858

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Raiding Club Penguin with him and Axel was a core memory for you. It was the first true time, however cringe it sounds, that you saw Alex as your best friend.

he'd always try to make you laugh, especially on stream

such a little tease

back in the olden days, we had those Discord server 'wtf is that food' videos

you guys rank some of them and how likely you'd eat them

also ranking Discord memes

so many of them were dumb shit or weird shipart from like 2015 deviantart LMFAO

"guys I know me and y/n are dating but that doesn't mean compare us to Shrek couples!"

"I thought Thanos was your true love?"

"He-He is! Oh my God, stop being so desperate, y/n. ugh"

once he got invited to the Dream SMP, you were all ears and proudly taught him how to play Minecraft

you made his alt skin with the tuxedo, which he didn't wear often, but used in lore some time later

youd often help him with lore ideas

he also got you invited into the SMP where he introduced you to some of his new friends

you knew schlatt and some others, but most of these people were new and it was nice meeting all of them

the fiances are established and then you and quackity are already a think and you also like karl, which creates a weird love rectangle with an open end because you and sapnap are sharing the other two 💀

lore goes fuckin crazy with that

while Karl's off making Kinoko Kingdom and Quackity's running Las Nevadas, you're building El Tropicana, off in the far away jungle biome

Alex would usually stream and translate Mexican soap operas, which you joined in for sometimes

you'd give the characters different voices and twist their words up a bit to make it more entertaining for chat

the amount of drug talk that went into that was wild

also the amount of queer kids bullied in those schools?? yikes on bikes

also the one with that girl who got in trouble for kissing a boy on the playground or whatever that was?? Jesus christ man

youd both act put the scenes on occasion and use Tiger as whatever kid was being yelled at if she was in the room with you

taking a break halfway through stream for him to play guitar and for you to karaoke to fuckin Bo Burnham

also making fake joints out of paper he had laying around and "lighting them up" aka setting paper on fire next to a PC and your faces

Jackbox streams with the Feral Boys until 3am>>>

Paranormal Activity in the middle of the night went so fucking crazy

teaching Bad how to play GTA is your favorite memory with those two

playing horror games and watching him play horror games with Karl while he visited him

how dare he leave you all alone (you couldn't go because you had a busy schedule)

your chats shipping the hell out of you and your dsmp characters

hella fanart and fanfictions man

try not to laugh streams where you always ended up laughing before the ten minute mark because of him

he purposefully does shit to make you laugh

reading fanfiction on stream was a regular activity especially for y/s/n

youd rank the book on a scale from one to ten and how accurate to real life they were

"nahhhh that one doesn't have enough Thanos, two out of ten"

"yknow what... were gonna have our own tier lists... okay?"

"damnit... does this mean I'm not getting laid later?"

"what"

promoting the quackityhq merch religiously

also stealing whichever beanie he wasn't wearing, either the LAFD one or the plain black and blue one

him tying you to a chair and forcing you to laugh was a common stream plot

tweets that were either very inconspicuous about drugs, very sexual, or very old married couple vibes

youd both be frequently trending on twitter

hot wings or dare streams with Bad >>>>

playing girls go games and hoping you wouldn't give his PC a virus

sitting in the inflatable pool fully clothed, playing with children's bath toys

he'd for sure be the type to fall for his best friend

whether it be all the way back then or just now, he could go forever without feeling any feelings but one day they'll show up and the nervousness begins

he'd lend you a hoodie if you were cold in his room and he just straight up begs you to keep it

lots of just staring at you while chat ships you, like genuinley just zones out on your pretty face

would probably doubt his feelings at first and talk to his mom about it and she's like "boy you have a crush. Go ask them the hell out, you're a handsome young man, I'm pretty sure they like you too"

"mOooOooOoOoM"

genuinley spoils you with no good reason and after a while you just accept it

he starts sending good morning and good night texts

he'll repost (or reblog) (he has a secret tumblr) fanart of you two, especially if it's shipart

will constantly send you clips of movie characters making out or kissing and say "this should be us"

#lowkeyrobin #mcyt x reader #mcyt preferences #mcyt oneshot #quackity x reader #alex quackity x reader #quackity oneshot #quackity headcannons #quackityhq x reader #quackity #qsmp x reader #gender neutral reader #gn reader #they/them reader

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stupidrant · 4 months

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Some atreboda headcanons, prompts & AU’s that ive thought of that i think you guys may like?

Idol!/singer!angrboda, fan!atreus

Vampire!angrboda, werewolf!atreus

arranged marriage that actually works out

Fated/destined/twin flame love

Sun!goddess angrboda, moon!god atreus

Atreus shoots a cupid’s arrow at angrboda not knowing she already had feelings prior 😒

“No matter where i go, i will always carry you with me”

princess of jotunheim x prince of midgard/asgard

Boat date while rowing through the waters of vanaheim bc she absolutely loves the view there

Atreus makes angrboda a knife 🥲

Angrboda’s baking chronicles ft atreus

Clumsy first kiss

Angrboda playing with his hair causes him to grow out his hair just for her 😭😭 (this is me hoping they grow out his hair next game)

Atreus likes to bite her affectionately

atreus the type to be like “bro my hand is mad cold we gotta hold hands” and angrboda fell for it now theyre holding hands 🙄

Atreus writes a song for angrboda

Siren!angrboda, sailor!atreus (slightly inspired by a convo with @bellaaldamas)

Cuddling in their animal forms 🦊🐺❤️

Atreus gets yelled at by kratos and is annoyed but if he gets sent to the corner by angrboda, he’s heartbroken 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Atreus has piles of drawings of angrboda trying to perfect every little detail abt her but he feels no matter how much he does a amazing job, nothing can compare to the real life 🥲

If there was a family photobook, angrboda would secretly take some of baby atreus photos 😎

While finding the giants, atreus visits angrboda frequently but recently he feels more homesick than ever before. He asks if he can see her again (he just seent her like 3 days ago) and the gods of [insert mythology here] says no 😠yet he sneaks to see her anyways 😭

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fromriches-tosin · 3 months

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For the third day of ReiJean Week, I'd like to offer you some headcanons/a fic idea I really hope to write one day. I usually avoid posting my shippy headcanons in the regular Jean & Reiner tags, but since we're having the event, I'll allow myself to do that. :3

The prompt I chose for this day is crossover:

AOT/the Hunger Games

warnings: nothing is discussed in graphic detail (yet), but... a little bit of everything, I guess? This is what you get when you try to combine those two franchises.

If you read my fics, it probably comes to you as no surprise that "The Hunger Games" books are a big inspiration to me whenever I'm writing for ReiJean. Putting Reiner and Jean in that specific universe is something I was looking forward to for some time now, and I even discussed this idea with @lexio11 (<3) at some point, but let's dive into this concept together:

Jean can of course be described as Peeta Mellark of the AOT universe because of his good heart and the wish to remain himself no matter what tragedies befall him. Jean knows that if to defeat the monsters you have to become one, it can no longer be considered a victory for humanity. He could also be considered Peeta of the AOT universe because of his relationship with Mikasa (who we can obviously compare to Katniss), and because of the contrast between him and his romantic rival. While Eren, just like Gale, symbolizes destruction, violence and death, Jean and Peeta symbolize second chances, forgiveness and life. We won't be diving into those parallels and love triangles because that's not what my fanfic would be about (obviously), but I wanted to get those similarities out of the way first.

Now, the main and very delicious difference between Peeta and Jean is that Peeta is almost always soft, kind and loving whereas Jean... Well. That's where this lovely lady comes into the picture:

I swear to god, whenever we talk about fem!Jean (@nine0505 <3), I have Johanna Mason in front of my eyes. She is fem!Jean to me, alright? I'll die on this hill. Anyway, Jean is obviously soft and caring at heart, but he also has a (charming) layer of bitchiness and saltiness to him — one everyone has to get through before they can see the real Jean.

So, yes, Jean is a perfect Peeta/Johanna hybrid in my head.

I wanted the fic to focus on the aftermath of the Hunger Games — Jean, a scrawny, bitter teen from District 7 (lumber), emerges victorious to everyone's surprise. Despite being fast and flexible, he doesn't manage to win anyone's sympathy or attract any sponsors before the Games begin (because of his extremely poor attitude and crude language, duh). He is also no match for the powerful and trained opponents from the richest Districts. So, how does he win? Well, by pure accident.

A sudden downpour causes one of the traps to malfunction and electrocute the Tributes three days into the Games. No one but Jean and one younger boy survive. That boy is Falco Grice — the only person Jean actually kills himself in a fit of rage and panic. Once he comes to his senses and realizes what he has done, he almost loses his mind and needs to be heavily sedated which in turns causes him to become addicted to certain substances that shouldn't really be used outside of hospitals.

As many Victors before him, Jean is forced to move to the Capitol where he is to become a plaything of the rich and the depraved. However, once he gets there, Jean discovers that... no one really cares about him. In the Capitol he's considered lame. Some people even call him a "Fake Victor" given the circumstances of his opponents' demise. Just because he managed to kill a child doesn't mean he's cool. So, Jean is ignored and made fun of. Even the other Victors look down on him because, let's face it, he's really nothing compared to them (the Ackermans, Jaegers, Leonheart, Hoover, Braun...)

Now, Reiner Braun.

I won't be diving into Gloss or Cato's personalities because that's not the point. It was just recently decided that the actor portraying Gloss might be Reiner incarnated (@marleysfinest @oxygenbefore1775 come here), and I really want to explore the idea of Reiner being one of the most cruel and ruthless victors in the history of the Hunger Games. A glorified killing machine and a voluntary Tribute hailing from District 2 who gained his popularity a few years earlier for having killed all of his opponents within two days (Jean's childhood friend, Marco, included).

When Jean is thrust into the world of the Victors, he feels extremely out of place and consumes any illegal substances he can get his hands on. He can't cope with the fact that he killed Falco, a child, just like he can't forget the horrible things he witnessed in the arena. He's even more snappy and mean than usual, but he's also one or two pills away from killing himself. And he would probably die in a puddle of his own vomit, but Reiner decides to take him under his wing — which he does quite brutally, threatening Jean and scaring him into obedience. He doesn't fuck around in the least. It takes them a moment, but when Jean finally gets ahold of himself, Reiner suddenly becomes gentle with him.

It turns out Braun is not the mindless brute and devil incarnate everyone has him for. Despite his behavior in the arena, Reiner is no less haunted than Jean. He had been turned into a monster both by society and his own mother, but he has since come to regret everything he did. And he recognizes Jean's pain, he recognizes that Jean is not as rotten as most people around them. So, he wants to stop Jean from destroying himself.

Braun himself has fallen victim to the Capitol and its inner games, and he's being abused in a similar way to Finnick Odair. However, given the gravity of Reiner's sins, he has become almost completely indifferent to what is happening to him. Once Jean overcomes his hostility and distrust towards Reiner, and gets to know him better, he starts to care for him (probably more than he should). Either way, Reiner and Jean become each other's safe space.

Jean of course can't make peace with what is happening to Reiner and eventually tries to persuade him to run away. This results in a quarrel, and Reiner goes ballistic on him. He categorically refuses to betray the Capitol, but in fact he's simply afraid he won't be able to protect Jean in the wilderness. Thus, Reiner is set on staying in the Capitol no matter what happens to him. That is until one of the local officials sets his sights on Jean...

Thanks for reading my chaotic blurb, I will not be revealing anything else in case I manage to turn this into a fanfic. :3 I'll see you tomorrow with headcanons for a different prompt.

#ReiJeanWeek2024 #reijean #reiner x jean #veecanons #jean kirstein #jean kirschtein #reiner braun #attack on titan #aot #snk #shingeki no kyojin

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hyp-fixator · 23 days

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art ask game: do you have a favorite color palette, have you done a lot of collabs, and whats your creative process?

Oooh fun fun

Some of my favourite colour palletes are ones that have warm tones or high contrast!! I love the palletes that are kind of like a neon sign too, ykwim? Black background with slowly growing colours to a fully saturated end product- THEY ALWAYS LOOK SO EDIBLE... I can never accurately pull it off though

I've done a few of collabs! Not a lot, but the main one I remember doing was a few years ago, a small group of people including me in a discord server decided to design a demon! I think I got the colouring stage? It was fun! Otherwise it was kinda like those "draw the gang" type collabs, nothing too serious/fully rendered

hmmmm my creative process...? I guess I can chat a little about how I figure out the designs for the P! Gang! (This'll be a long part so I'll put it under the cut!)

The first thing I do, almost always, is figure out the vibe of the character

I then correlate the vibe to an animal that gives the same vibe (Aka skate and a golden retriever)

If theres a theme or aesthetic the character goes along with I'll usually grab references from the web and perhaps doodle some ideas down (like I'll do with vinestaff and japanese kimonos)

If there's technology involved, expect me to have come across some cool tech that happened in real life before, and to see me add that into the design (like rocket's prosthetics/hyperlaser's helmet)

if I'm having a really tough time figuring out how to make a character look decent, I'll usually take a few minutes before I go to bed to sketch out some ideas- I did this for Boombox's jelly limbs and Slingshot

Afterwards I usually start drawing! Finding out a pose at first is a tough one, considering it has to show off the character while presenting the design as well- if their arm or something is hiding their chest, there's probably not a lot going on there/it's already shown somewhere else

The lines were a tough part to the process before I figured out the sizes I was gonna use- 3px for the main details, 2px for the inbetween, and 1px for the tiny details. (This is why I'm gonna go back to Subspace- his lines are totally out of whack compared to the rest of the gang!!)

My colouring process is hard to explain because I tend to just- do it. But I can try! Usually I start by placing out the flat colours and rendering it out one layer at a time. I try to get the colours down, they don't have to be perfect cause I'll end up tweaking them later. I render one colour at a time, (they're usually the same material,) and just go through that during the whole process! Depending on the material I also choose a lighting angle

After the colour I go in and edit them with overlays, colour the lines occasionally, and that's it!

Pop on the signature across the design, post it on the discord servers, tumblr, etc

After I post it I usually take a small hiatus from drawing to think and regain some inspiration, reblogging a bunch of stuff and then starting the process again!

I take my time with things like this, so itll be unlikely for me to post two at a time! Scythe and Ban were a special case because I forgot to put her into the poll and ban was the next guy I was gonna draw! (I personally can also see the effects of this on Scythes design cause I drew her second- I'm not as satisfied with her as I could be, which is why I'm also redoing her.)

Uhhhh yeah that should be it!

#art question #ask game #answered #tumblr asks

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heliads · 1 year

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Request for Clove x reader! Y/N is a young peacekeeper in their home district, District 2, by the time the rebellion reaches its borders. As the source of many of Panem’s peacekeeper recruits and the District with the closest ties to the Capitol, it’s no surprise D2 is the last one still controlled by loyalists… Fortunately, if Y/N defects, their inside knowledge could help the rebels gain more ground. It’s also a personal thing, the perfect opportunity to retaliate against the Capitol for indirectly causing their girlfriend’s death. UNfortunately however, on the night Y/N planned to defect to the rebels, they are suddenly plagued with second thoughts. Fears of the future. The consequences of turning away from their life’s calling as a Peacekeeper, betraying D2 values they’ve been taught since childhood, in order to see a new Panem where all-powerful men no longer reign and the Games no longer exist. There is no ever going back from treason; win or lose, they’ll have to commit to the rebellion until the very end. Y/N’s terror refuses to fade, so Clove’s ghost — a victim of a lifetime’s indoctrination, regrettably molded into a Career Tribute eager for glory — shows up to nudge them towards a decision. How much of her motivation is simply “I don’t want you to end up on the losing side” lol. Maybe their reunion is real, maybe it’s a dream after Y/N accidentally dozed off, that’s up to you! .…. okayyy so this may be a little too much, i’m sorry if I went overboard! Of course, feel free to add or remove any details you want! One last thing, can there be an exchange of “I love you” or “I’ll always love you” between Y/N and Clove before Y/N leaves Thank you very much in advance!!!

anon...this idea is incredible...bless you for giving me such exquisite angst inspo

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The silence lets you know that it’s time to leave. It has been unfathomably loud this entire time, booming noises and crashing dins ever since the war began. You’ve been doing your best to tune it out, but your attempts were never met with much success. Maybe it’s because you knew you could never really pretend that the earth shattering explosions weren’t there. It is impossible to ignore the war, even when you’ve got your head so far buried in the sand that you’re choking on the force of the lies.

Perhaps you tried so hard to pretend everything was fine because it had always worked before. The Capitol had protected you all your life, how could you not follow the scent of their riches like a guiding lantern through the dark? Even as the light reflected off of the sight of gaudy baubles that could pay for enough food for your entire family for months, you still thought that the glow was worth chasing. You always had.

Everyone had. In District Two, the Capitol is everything. You’ve heard it said before that Two is the closest thing the Capitol’s ever had to a friend amongst the rest of the districts. While the rest are busy throwing fits and holding revolts over things they’ll never be able to change, Two stays strong. That is the way of the world, you suppose, Two holding firm while everyone else crumbles to ash.

It’s certainly what the Capitol would like you to believe, at any rate. There’s a big chance that it was never true in the slightest. The rest of the districts could have been just as stringent loyalists, making Two just as ordinary as the others. Were it not for the fact that you’ve watched years worth of Hunger Games and been able to notice just how visible the starving bones of the other contestants are as compared to your golden, glowing tributes, it might almost be real.

Right now, Two’s fortitude might be the honest truth. The revolution has been baying at your doorstep for quite some time now. It was always coming, even if no one wanted to admit it. There was no way that the rebels with their stolen guns and bloody screams could ever ignore you for long. To topple Two was to bring the war to the very gates of the Capitol. Your home district was just one grand domino to be taken down before the finale.

You would have hated that thought once. You’ve been a Peacekeeper for a few years now, one of their best and brightest. It’s difficult to ascend in this career field due to the widespread corruption and the irresistible allure of a good bribe or two, but you’ve managed to make it work nonetheless. People have always wondered what gave you the spirit to keep going, but no one has ever figured it out. Can you keep a secret? It’s the same reason that you have to leave tonight.

It’s because of Clove.

There is a girl buried in foreign soil some miles away from you, if they ever bothered to bury her at all. They did not bring back Clove’s corpse to you, not in a way that they could ever recognize. You saw what happened in the Games, how those mutts looked eerily like past competitors. You don’t know what they did to Clove, your Clove, but whatever became of her body is in no way available to you.

Clove was the best of you. You can say that with a free conscience. It might be one of the only truths capable of being spoken without regret. Clove studied her entire damn life to win the Games, and she didn’t. There is no greater failure than that. Never mind the fact that she did everything right, that she killed everyone in her path and made alliances with the finest fighters there. In the end, Clove didn’t make it out, and that is akin to treachery in the eyes of everyone but you.

Some part of you wonders if no one talks about Clove’s death because no one expected it to happen. When Cato and Clove were reaped, everyone in Two clasped hands over ill-bought drinks and grinned to themselves over the thought of another Games victory in their laps. It was impossible that either of them would not win. The thought had not occurred to anyone but you.

You were terrified when you first heard that your girlfriend was entered into the Games. You had rushed to find Clove the moment visitors were admitted to the newly reaped tributes, hardly aware of anything but the pounding in your head. You believed in Clove more than anything, but even the microscopic chance that something might go wrong was far too much for you to bear. After all, you loved her, and sometimes that’s enough to rob you of any trust left in the world.

Clove told you not to worry. She wasn’t afraid in the slightest, you could see it in her face. As you watched, her eyes lit up with the thrill of the challenge. Two weeks and she’d be back with her laurels, she promised you. If you were good, she might even let you stay in her house in the Victor’s Village when she returned.

It was a joke, of course, and one made in good fun. Everyone in Two knew that Clove couldn’t go anywhere without you. The two of you were inseparable on the training field, in the streets, in your homes. The thought that she would ever live without you by her side was unthinkable.

It made no sense, then, that Clove would go and die and leave you alone forever. You saw her death on the screens with absolutely no preparation. It came out of nowhere. One moment, Clove had her knife to Katniss Everdeen’s throat, ready for another successful kill, and then Thresh appeared out of the blue and smashed her skull in with a stone.

She fell like an angel, wings cut by bloody palms. You had the perfect view as that spark of adrenaline blinked out of her eyes. Clove called out to someone before she went, you think. The audio from the recording made it seem as if she was screaming out to Cato before she died, but you watched her lips and you saw another word spoken aloud: Y/N. You. Unreachable, but somehow still the one she wanted before she went.

The Capitol wanted Two’s classic loyalty to stay firmly ensconced in the depths of the Games, so they edited you out of Clove’s story. In the end, you wonder if anyone will ever remember you with her, or if Clove will go down in district history as the solitary paragon of every virtue they had ever worshiped by knifepoint. Will your memory die with her? Perhaps, love, perhaps.

Clove was supposed to live, of that you were certain. You cannot even blame Thresh for throwing the stone, nor Katniss for being so damn good at inspiring loyalty that she could convince anyone to fight her battles for her. In the end, they were just kids trying to survive. Is anyone truly guilty of such an act?

Your anger, then, was towards the Capitol. Clove stuck by their rules, and what did her perfection bring her but death? Fine, then. If they want death, you will bring it to their door. The rebels arrived some months ago, this time not by force but by way of lightly creeping footsteps and secrets. They were scouting out potential allies. As it turned out, you would be one of them.

You did not anticipate switching sides at the beginning. You were fully prepared to die for Two. It would connect you to Clove one last time, if nothing else, and the thought of betraying the Capitol after all you have done for them was unthinkable.

The rebels’ arguments were good, though, and you know why they were so keen on appealing to you. As a Peacekeeper, you have access to information that the rebels would kill to have. If they could manage to convince you to join their side, they could gain a much needed advantage just before their fight brought them to the Capitol. With you, they can win.

Tonight’s silence marks your time to leave. There’s an informant waiting for you in the wilderness surrounding District Two. If you can manage to get there without being noticed, they can lead you to the rebels and you’ll have made your choice for good. You think you made your decision some time ago when the girl you loved died, but it’s something entirely different to commit to it like this.

It’s starting to gnaw at you, the weight of what you’re doing. You are turning your back on the Capitol for good, and by extension your district, your home. Your family are still staunch believers in the Capitol. They were the first ones to congratulate you when you first joined the Peacekeepers. Like you, they bitterly mourned Clove’s death. Unlike you, their faith in Snow was never shaken.

Are you the problem, then? If everyone around you has no problem with the way the district is run, why should you raise a different concern? Your entire life has boiled down to following the whims of the Capitol. Who are you to be so hurt by this war that you would turn your back on everything?

After all, that is what treason means: no more home, not until the war is won. You help the rebels crush Snow beneath their bloody heels or you die. There are only two ways you could ever return to District Two once you leave it. You’ll either be a victorious rebel or a dying martyr. Triumph or execution, those are your fates. For once, there is no Capitol-issued road map directing you as to which choice you could make, which is of course why you’re having such trouble with it now.

Your shoulders shake. The house is dark. No one else is here; you bought your own place with your Peacekeeper earnings, so there’s no one here to suspect you. Only the shadows watch and listen, only the restless pacing of your feet indicates that there might be someone here.

Then again, perhaps you aren’t so alone after all. The moonlight shines through a window onto a wrinkled photograph that’s been attached to a nearby wall. The pearlescent glow falls onto the face of a girl who’s been lost to time. It makes her eyes shine again, and although you haven’t seen them move in quite some time, you swear they wink at you now.

You shouldn’t be this indecisive, you know. Make up your mind and go.

It would be just like her to say such things, wouldn’t it? Clove always had a quicker temper than you. She’d snap like a wire in the second, forever the first one to attack. You have a thousand memories of her charging at you, knife in hand, ready to take you down. No matter how many rounds you went, she always came up swinging. Always. Always, until the one time she didn’t.

“It’s not half that easy,” you complain aloud, “I am throwing away my entire life on a feeble hope that this might pay off. It’s not something I can decide in a moment.”

Then make it something you can decide in a moment. You have no time to waste. If you get caught trying to decide which side, that’ll be the most stupid way you could ever die.

“I’d see you, then. Wouldn’t it be worth it?”

Clove’s ghost scoffs in your mind. It’s been more than a year since you saw her last, but you can still replay the echo of her derisive laugh in the back of your mind. Boots scuffing on a wooden floor, a knife sharpened on a whetstone, you can hear her everywhere you go.

Don’t play the martyr, it was never your best trick. You already know what you’re doing, don’t you? Just make up your mind and go along with it for once. There’s nothing left for you here.

You let out a sound halfway between a gasp and a laugh. “Not you? My whole life is here. Everything we ever built was in Two. You think I can leave it just like that?”

I did.

It’s said simply.

I did, and look where it got me. I chose the wrong side.

“You chose the Capitol.”

It chose me.

That’s the truth, isn’t it? Clove was a product of the Capitol in every single way. She was molded into a Career from the moment she was born. All of you have been harboring some illusion of self control, but there is none in this world, not really. You do your best to survive on the path that has been given to you, and if the thought occurs to you that you will live and die without ever making progress, you make the sound of violence in your head so loud that everything else is drowned out.

“So what, you want to protect me? Keep me from following in your footsteps?”

I want you to win.

It’s said with the usual sort of savage sneer that Clove had always mastered so well. You bite back a laugh despite the circumstances.

“That’s generous of you. Tell me, does your superior advice go any deeper than for me to stay on the winning side?”

It’s all we’ve ever needed. What, do you suddenly need a moral compass to guide you? It’s not like either of us ever had such a thing as a conscience.

She’s not wrong. You and Clove were the deadliest pair to ever hit Two. The district swore that its children grew more and more bloodthirsty with every subsequent generation, and the two of you certainly proved that right. That changed when you lost her, though. You couldn’t keep up the spirit when it was just you.

“I didn’t need it when I had you.”

You still do.

Neither of you were much built for kindness. This rare scrap of it now makes you want to cry and scream at the same time. In the end, you decide to use it as motivation to stand up and straighten your spine.

“They’re waiting for me,” you whisper. It’s not a goodbye. You don’t think you could manage it anymore.

I’ll watch your back.

You swear you can hear her smile. The two of you always had each other’s sixes when training for a fight. Even now, when you’re running to reach the rebels before you get shot by the other Peacekeepers, she’ll keep up the familiar rhythm. It’s enough to convince you what the right choice will always be.

“I’m going to miss you. I already do.”

I’m still with you, obviously. You’ll find me soon enough. I’ll wait.

You take one last shuddering sigh and walk over to the wall where her picture hangs. You tear it down with trembling fingers. Once the light is off of the photo, her eyes no longer shine, and you realize that time has long since dulled all details of her usually sharp countenance.

“I’ll always love you,” you say, and leave. The house is empty when you go.

Outside, the sky splits with alternating stars and plumes of smoke from errant bombs. The earth shakes with every other step. The silence is long gone now, but your window of time is not yet up. Your run becomes more sure with every growing second, and soon enough you’re slipping away from Two and into the unnameable wilderness. The fire in the sky above grows, engulfing your old world.

If there are any ghosts watching your progress, they grin to see you finally make your stand. Tomorrow, Two will wake up and learn that the last of its believers has abandoned it. The war will come, its hope will fall. You will be there to see it crumble.

hunger games tag list: @w1shes43

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smoglitch · 3 months

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my impressions on persona 5 royal so far (~25 hours in), having somehow not been spoiled about anything major before:

-it's a seiyuu otaku heaven. I didn't check anything before going in and I keep recognizing voices I like all the time. a real pleasure for the ears

-the music and sound design is great as always

-I like that you have a main dungeon with a set map where you can take your time. the mementos is a cool idea too, it's nice to still have the old school persona dungeons on the side and it's pretty well incorporated in the story-line

-about the story-line. it's definitely p5's weakest point. I get that it's a video game, but it's so dumb that I can't ever take it seriously. there's no way

-quite insane how takemi's design is. kunizuka and karanomori combined in one character (visual-wise. though there are some similarities in her personality). I love her more than I'd like to

-can't help comparing sae to mitsuru. love them both to bits

-dialogues get really clunky sometimes but I suspect there's a translator to blame here

-despite the story being bullshit, p5 is way more enjoyable than p4. and that is mainly due to the many quality of life improvements that have been made. so many little details that make a huge difference

-very fond of the game's atmosphere in general. I'm having fun

#lots of things to say about the writing in p5... maybe I'll end up talking about it again

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violets-in-her-arms-writes · 1 year

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Thanks @iloveyou-writers for this tag game!

Rules : fill in the blanks with as much or little detail as you would like and tag some writer friends to play too. (you can find the original post here)

Hi ! My name is Cécile (at least online it is, I’ve had enough stranger-danger talks in school to know better than to give my actual name). I usually write fantasy, science-fiction or urban fantasy, but I’ve dabbled in a few other genre (even poetry… It was a dark dark time XD), and I write about fate vs. free will, rewriting the past, the weight of immortality, over-powered women. And lesbians.

I am a sfw writer (most of the time... I’ve written like three sex scenes and it’s not good so you won’t see any unless I get marginally better at writing them 💀) , but I do tend to write about blood and violence – no sexual violence tho. Tropes you will never find in my writing include Dom/sub relationships because I don’t like strong power imbalance in my ships, but other than that I’m drawing a blank.

In my humble opinion, the best text I’ve ever written… has never been posted. Sorry. It might change one day but for now it’s going to stay in my drive with the 550 other projects. But if you’re curious, it’s a one-shot from the POV of a secondary character, who reminisces about the main character (Lorelei, love of my life) and all the secrets she carries and the weight of her (numerous) sins. I love it because of the dichotomy between what he says and what he keeps quiet, the things he allows to spill from his lips and what he’s trying to forget. At the end of the day, when he talks about her, he says nothing. Nothing true, nothing real, nothing of import. My all time favourite character is Lorelei Douxruisseau, she’s the High Priestess of the goddess of revenge Némésis, she’s immortal, has too much power, is half-mad and as a frankly codependent relationship with her goddess. She’s a god-killer, law-maker, rule-breaker witch and she’s my baaaaby.

(Yes, I do realize that I’ve only talked about a story I’ve never mentioned on tumblr, but that’s not my fault, this project is my favourite and I’m too far into it to just start making a wip page for it. The main novel (that I’m writing with my best friend) is sitting at 250k and we’re not even done with the first book, and the AU I wrote for it is already in its third installment. I wouldn’t even know where to begin…. I’m always down to talk about it tho)

(La Fledgling is my youngest child, I love her but she’s just babie, she can’t compare yet)

Something I would love (euuuh kinda) for you to know about my writing is more of a warning actually: I change WIP reeeallly often. I get tired of one, so I start writing for something else. I have at least three different projects ready to go at any given time so don’t be surprise if at some point I stop talking about my lesbian vampires to tell you about aliens or angels or even witches. I’ll come back to La Fledgling eventually but it might take a few months. ^^

Thank you for reading my ramblings about characters you’ve never heard of and probably won’t hear about again XD Now I challenge @flowerprose, @thewriteflame, @lena-rambles & @cherrybombfangirlwrites (who are going to get tired of me tagging them in so many things…)

#écriture #tag games #wip: witch's time

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simsycatx · 4 months

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Jennifer is in her late 30’s, single, and the proud Mother to one teenage son.

However, now her baby boy has left for college she’s found her home is a little too quiet. So she’s decided to rent out her spare room to a rather attractive stranger while it’s empty.

You can find her under SimsyCatx in the gallery. My ramblings about her, some extra photos, and her CC/DLC list under the break ☺

She also has a house - find it here!

I feel like Jennifer mostly set her own needs aside when raising her son. She always put him first and tried hard to make up for the fact that his father wasn’t in the mix.

When her son left for college she felt odd living in her home by herself, her house felt super empty and lifeless. She tried to persist just thinking it would pass but ultimately decided she couldn’t live alone. So she decided to rent out her son's old room.

In my head, she lets the room out to an attractive sim and she falls hard for them. Like a teenage crush, maybe because she mostly put her love life aside so everything still feels brand new and exciting.

I think she’s quite a vibrant and colourful person. She likes the finer things in life and she worked super hard to get where she is now. She takes super good care of herself and takes pride in her appearance.

She gives off strong real estate agent vibes, somewhere between renting out crappy apartments and Selling Sunset kinda realty. She does really well in her job and sells some beautiful homes but they are fairly average compared to massive mansions.

It's a shame there isn't a realty career in the game because that's 100% what I'd give her. I did find this mod by KiaraSims4Mods but I haven't tried it yet. I guess she could be a proper landlord (not just a room-to-let-er) but she doesn't come across like a landlord to me. But you do you if you play with her!

CC List:

By @twisted-cat Pudding Lipstick Cat Lashes Stalker Eyeliner Glow Lipstick Lemonade Skin Overlay Heatwave Blush Liquorice Lipstick

By @rimings Sweet Garden Pajamas Midi Dress Pearl Drop Earrings Barbies' Closet Collection Flower Earring Flower Necklace Flower Knit Sweater & Long Dress

By @x-pipco-x Giovanna Pumps

By @simpliciaty-cc Camille Dress

By @simstrouble Andrine Hair

By @emmibouquet Happy Lines Skin Detail

By @trillyke Wicked Love Skirt Mayra Bodysuit Lovestruck Top Lighthouse Denim Skirt Perfume Heels

By @theslyd Marais Classic Mule

By @serenity-cc Miranda Swimsuit

Kijiko's Remove EA Lashes Remove EA Lashes

DLC List:

Essential For Rent Spa Day

Non-Essential: High School Years - Make-up Cottage Living - Pearl necklace Island Paradise - Necklace Get Famous - Jewellery City Living - Jewellery Get to Work - Jewellery

#sims4cas #sims 4 #sims 4 create a sim #ts4cas #sims 4 lookbook #showusyoursims #simblr #sims community #ts4 screenshots #sims story #sims storyline #I didnt make her son but feel free to add your own #renter also not included so you can make them to be whoever you want #shes a really pretty sim and i love her

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leojurand · 6 months

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house of niccolò reread rambling thoughts: niccolò rising edition (part 2)

70% into the reread so i have a couple more thoughts about this book!

(which i'm enjoying a lot but man, if this were one of my favourites i would have a thousand things to say at this point... but we'll get to that eventually (in book 3))

2.1: the introduction of THEE dunnett fmc

this part of the story is mostly focused on bruges and nicholas's relationship with the charetty business and specifically marian. tobie and julius completely disappear, which is a shame! i really like tobie's role in the story; he's a great supporting character for nicholas. and i love julius, somehow! following him now, after finishing the series and knowing, is so much more interesting too.

but anyway, the character we get to know in this part is gelis!! marvelous gelis. she's such a funny teenage girl. i completely forgot her first scene with nicholas is them skating together and nicholas imitating people and telling her jokes... no wonder she was obsessed with him after lol. the funny part though is gelis interrogating nicholas's lovers after to know how he's in bed 😭 what a menace.

after rereading her scenes in this book i really don't get the review calling her a philippa knock-off? their roles are completely different and, no offense, but gelis has an actual personality lol because she has more than one scene!

my favourite part is her confrontation with nicholas in chapter 29, for many reasons. i love that nicholas comes out swinging, because he doesn't do that with anyone else! he always tries to tell people what they want to hear, and he turns up the charm. he did that with gelis too, at first. now it's almost like he thinks she's too smart to fall for it. there's also this:

“Now stop poking into my affairs and remember that I can hurt your sister a lot more than you can hurt me.”

★ gelis will remember that

2.2: it's a lovely morning in bruges and you're a horrible claes

one of my favourite things about this book as an introduction to the series, and especially as an introduction to nicholas de fleury, is that we get to see claes living his life in bruges, like a normal boy. we learn about his pranks but we also see them, we see what his neighbours think about him. we see him hang out with his friends, who aren't very good friends, unsurprisingly. i was happy to notice sersanders, who has a small role in to lie with lions, actually being nice to nicholas. he defends claes when felix is unfair to him; he helps claes take off his ice skates; it's sweet!

and it's little details like this that make nicholas feel very real to me. like he had a life before the series started, and not just a backstory for the readers to wonder about, but an actual life. it's very good! compare that to lymond in the game of kings. we don't see his day to day, we don't know how his life looked like in scotland. which makes perfect sense, but it creates distance between lymond and the reader, i think. nicholas feels more like a friend.

(something similar happens with gemini vs checkmate, i think, because in gemini we get little scenes that show the de fleurys' life and their bond as a family and it's beautiful. we don't get that in checkmate because everything is a mess lol and i think that's a shame)

tl;dr: i love getting to see nicholas being a normal boy being a menace in bruges, i think it humanizes him a lot, which is very important because of everything he's going to do in the future.

i probably could say more about what i've read so far but this is, once more, so long... so i'll just talk about whatever i forgot to mention here in the last part, when i finish :)

#house of niccolo #hon rr #niccolo rising #incapable of keeping things brief

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medievalcat · 7 months

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saw x spoilers under cut i guess im gonna start talking about the Details of the filme now lol

John throwing out his plans for the rack when he was "cured" implies he was going to stop being Jigsaw once he got his own second chance on life..................................there's so much to think about there...

Amanda asking John if he wanted to stop the game..........thinking about that too ....

Ok......I kind of thought Henry being in on the scam...was a little far fetched and I know the series can get far fetched but I feel like him being another "fake cured person" was kind of redundant given Parker's whole deal and ig also Gabriela (rip queen we all wanted you to be the final girl!!!).....the final scene with him made no sense and was not narratively coherent I kind of think it would have been interesting if after the "happy ending" we saw Amanda going back to the building to finally kill Cecilia for real would have been such a Moment. Which. I guess no one in Saw is dead unless you see them die but. Cecilia's ending ?? I kind of thought both her and Parker would die in a thematic plot twist sort compare and contrast to the fatal five, they're both so selfish that they hear "only one can survive" and end up just both dying

Joking that Cecilia and Parker are evil straight chain shipping

Cecilia dragging Valentina's corpse, cutting her open, and using her intestines as a rope to retrieve her cell phone has to be one of the most insane moments in the whole series. (Valentina's trap was way more brutal than I imagined. shudders and she was SO CLOSE TO LIVING) I knew she was going to be BAD but she was just so next level evil every time she did everything I was stunned

Amanda covering Carlos' eyes so he wouldn't see the last trap ;_; this puts her trying to help Corbett (and the cut scene of her singing to her to calm her down) in a new perspective, and of course Daniel, I don't think she ever agreed to involving kids in the traps and always tried to protect them :( (ig the ending was a weirdly happy ending because for the first time John and Amanda genuinely did save someone's life?) I know people are theorizing Carlos might become a Jigsaw copycat/apprentice in the future but I would like him to just live the rest of his life in peace (I love that the scam money went to him and his family though like his family was exploited by Cecilia, Parker, the scam, and now he gets everything they made back <3)

Amanda was tested three times but if the "plan b" happened that John anticipated, and she got put in the blood board with him, she would have been tested FOUR TIMES????

was this the first saw movie where we saw a group of cute puppies?

#i say things

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digirainebow · 11 months

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The only problem with timezones is I want to talk to the cool people but I get so tired and start talking absolute nonsense (like I'm doing rn) but anyways who's your favourite oxenfree character?

i am a connoisseur of talking nonsense so dont you worry. and oooo this is the most enigmatic question of all time for me. it shifts from moment to moment. i have tried many times to declare a favorite and it never really feels right because i love and think about them all about the same. i usually say clarissa is my favorite because she is the one i connected with first. i loved her from the moment i met her on my very first playthrough, and she has continued to be something i return to in low moments because she is symbolic of something very valuable to me when it comes to dealing with anger. but as i said in The Oxenfree Playthrough Video™, jonas is realistically more my favorite because gets the most reaction out of me. he's a blorbo, a scrunkly, whatever. evokes a lot of those feral stick figure memes with the blood. he is just suuuuch a little guy to me and so funny and so sweet and just like me for real. also more of the dealing with anger thing. that's a big plus for me always but in this moment? right now? i kinda wanna say? its ren? i do say quite often that i actually think about him maybe more than any of the other characters, i just usually dont vocalize it because i am often worried im embellishing and taking liberties with his intended character. and the thoughts can get very complicated for personal reasons that i wont get into and because it took a long time to get to this place with him as a character compared to the others. he was my least favorite by far when i first played. but i just cannot help myself but infer from his dialogue now that ive played like 80 times and picked all the options that there is just so much more to him than could ever have fit into the game. ren is cup fucking overflowing like there is so much of his emotional issues bursting out of the seams through the whole game and i am just so endeared to him and his thoughts and motivations. he is also just a little guy to me who is funny of course, but he isnt a little guy in the comfy, brotherly, jonas way. he is a poor little wet cat of a man to me with the most adhd a person can have. i want to know about his past and his future almost more than anyone else because, and it is wild, for how much ren talks and overshares, we really don't know a lot about his life before the island. we know like, ALL of the details, but none of the core. he "needs to be needed" and has a therapist and needed a baby sitter until he was 14 and we will just...never know the core of why! how much did michael's death hurt him? we know how it affected alex, and clarissa, and even jonas by proxy! but even if he wasn't friends with michael, he still grew up with him. and knowing how close he was to alex...y'know? and we just never really...find out a lot there. and somehow that absence of knowledge speaks more to me about his character than any direct info ever would? he cannot help but be kind of a damaged little dude who spews his needs and fears at the drop of a hat, but i don't think he likes being that way. he wants and likes to be jokey and deflective and just have a good fucking time. and i both feel bad for him because of that and understand completely? even if he himself has not gone through something traumatic, everyone around him has. so why wouldn't he just want to make a space where they can all just have fun? sorry he just makes me insane. anyway. yeah, ren right now. i think. clarissa or jonas usually. probably alex tomorrow. i will shut up now because i should, not because i don't have more to say. i will always have more to say about these characters. man

#im publishing this one sorry if its out of context followers but #hey here are the fav character thoughts i could not vocalize for the life of me in that damn video sdfsdfdfgjhhjfd #digi discusses #ive been feeling very paragraphs lately huh! :)#oxenfree spoilers #a few weeks ago was a BIG nona week. when i posted her whole firestarter monologue? yeah

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anguis-sapphire · 1 year

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you on’t have to answer this ask! just tumblr doesn’t have a proper way to reply to people like twit does >:c

worth nothing that this isn’t canon- it’s just kinda what I thought abt while designing them! I imagined that ace’s hairstreak is kinda an almost pushback against ciel after she kicks them out and they get pulled into meteor. kinda an “well,,, well I don’t need you anymore if you don’t need me anymore” kinda thing. sorta a way that they could distinguish themself and they could do fine on their own without her (which… totally goes great. not like this one event in your life leads to like. death spiral of everything else going wrong and you getting pulled into a place that actively manipulates you where you only have like. one or two real friends. good plan)

aaah hello!! Thanks for the ask - I am going to answer it if that’s alright, because you wrote a lot here and I don’t want that disappearing from a glitch or anything!

(Also linking my reblog of your post so I can remember what sparked you sending this)

(And including your other ask in this one so that nothing gets lost)

Okay, first of all: please know you never have to apologise for sharing thoughts, especially not if you’re sending them in my direction. That goes for everyone, because I always always love hearing about people’s characters and all the thought and detail that has been put into them!!!! It really warms my heart getting to see everyone’s passion and love for their characters shine through in the way all these little details are specified and thought about, and this is absolutely no exception, because Ace is one of the characters I really like!! ^-^

Secondly, thank you for the clarification on this!! That definitely makes a lot of sense as something Ace would do, even if you’re right that they definitely don’t end up in a great situation despite the impression they may be trying to give off ;w; I also really like that whole idea of “something done on impulse without that much thought actually ends up sticking and becoming/representing something meaningful”! Also, with what you said about their personality, that also definitely makes a lot of sense for a roleswap - it’s interesting to think about how different their personality is/would be in a roleswap compared to how they try and present themself in the game as a Team Meteor member, but how that came about does also make a lot of sense.

Thanks again for taking the time to send all this!! It means a lot that you did so, and I’m glad I was able to give you an opportunity to say all this. I hope you’re doing well ^-^

#a call from the void #posts made by me #ace (pokémon reborn)#pokémon reborn tag #fangame tag #out of the inbox #crimsoncrim #aaah now I really want to play the game again #it only takes a very small amount of seeing and talking about content from it to make me want to do that apparently #I feel bad that I didn’t say very much compared to how much you wrote #I’m just. absorbing the thoughts. they are very much appreciated

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owlixx · 1 year

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Mega Man ZX Advent Thoughts

Overall, positive

I felt like 90% of the transformations were too situational to be fun to use

The plant, the crab, the dinosaur, the bee, etc

Fittingly, I ended up mostly only using Models ZX and H just like last game, just like I would’ve predicted

HOW is the spinning slash still so powerful???

from watching speedrun sir Zero 1-4, it seems like each game nerfed the OP strat of the last game but not here

I got 0 chips but I at least got 2 life upgrades and a sub tank

Side content is actually easier to find and keep track of in this game admittedly

Really enjoyed seeing the ZX protag

I was sad that fairy leviathan was swapped back to a boy after being one of the very few female characters in the series

I felt even more detached from the elemental system in this game

Did they just…never think to add another element? In six games?

Like, I think they made the plant boss lightning just so he’d be weak to fire.

This game really did feel like a monkey’s paw of me wishing that Model L didn’t stick out like a sore thumb last game

I think having to transform between 20 characters makes it clunkier.

I would’ve much preferred for 4 different transformations to get multiple layers of upgrades so that each had as well-rounded a move set by the end as Zero 3/4

The map was better

Having a map at all on the bottom screen was better

It still drove me INSANE wanting to play as Model H but losing my map every time I did that

Unlocking new models should’ve just unlocked new tabs on the map instead of forcing you to lose the map as certain characters

I absolutely hate the scrapyard and I can’t believe I went back for a life upgrade

The plot, again, was just okay…

I think something is lost in localization because it all seemed so ill-defined and nebulous

God, it would’ve been nice if they had just not included that secret ensign cliffhanger, huh?

No music stood out to me this time

It was fun to see recurring features/details from ZX like the chandelier

I struggled with some platforming, I think

Much preferred the fast travel system here compared to ZX

I did play this one with the bottom screen actually visible

I will say that I feel like this map was less Metroidvania than the last one

Hardest boss was the weird green furnace that strangles you with vines, hated that guy

My headcanon is that Wily, Weil, and Albert are all somehow the same person.

I did have several screens in this game that just felt really good to execute cleanly, like more than usual

For some reason, I really hated the UI on the model switching. I was always getting confused about which one was selected and which way I was spinning the wheel. And a grid would’ve worked way better (I know it’s a grid on the touch screen)

Somehow energy crystals were even less useful in this game, easily the least useful currency of any mega man game I’ve played

Honestly, I missed having overdrives

I did use giga crush to start basically every boss fight

Got the final boss first try, although I did have to use a sub tank and I did play on casual mode

What even is a maverick at this point? Do we even see one in either of this games?

For the ZX subseries as a whole, I really like a lot of the gameplay concepts but I feel like the execution is a little lacking and I would’ve loved to see a third game.

For example, I really popped off for the finale of Zero 4 and ended up getting attached to the four guardians, but none of the original characters or moments in ZX(A) are nearly as memorable

I cannot believe that technically Zero (as model Z) ONCE AGAIN stayed behind on a floating base that was sinking

Swords > guns still

I just felt real gross every time I had to do one of the transformation gimmicks, like climbing vines or “docking”. I found myself trying to find ways around having to do them

I felt like it was kind of a waste to not use L/R or two of the face buttons to hotswap forms, since that was a staple of the X series

The cutscenes again looked amazing, it’s so cool to get to see it almost “behind the scenes”

I played with remastered voice acting, which I almost felt like was a mistake. The voice actors seem like they are being deliberately directed to overact so that it comes through when it’s bit crushed, so it sounds extra silly without the compression. May be why I had a hard time taking the plot seriously.

I did appreciate that human form still featured a gun, and that you were less often forced into it

I also appreciated the length tutorial and movelists for each transformation. As a kid I know that would’ve really helped me ease in to it.

I do kind of want to go back and play as Grey, having played as Ashe. I think it’s really cool that there’s an actual gameplay difference.

Side note: this means only 3 mega man’s left! 9, 10, and 11! 9 and 10 should be pretty quick since they’re styled after the original trilogy, but I’m not quite sure what to expect from 11. I’m really looking forward to playing all three games and then having my life back! Despite that sentiment, it really has been an incredible experience getting to see so many years of gaming history back to back. It’s hard to appreciate anyone one of these games without playing the others first, and I’m really glad to be having this experience when I am.

#mega man #Ds #mega man ZX #mega man ZX advent #capcom

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CHESS

This is the second draft of this little corner of my life I kinda wanted to share. The first one felt a bit too personal , it included my dad who I’m very fond of so I kinda scrapped it out and share this .

“I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing." - Vladimir Kramnik.

I started playing Chess when I was 11 years old and still do (22 years) , the origin started off with me playing checkers with mates in primary school , continued playing with my dad and he decided to start teaching me Chess. I think from that point on in my life I’ve always been really good at it , struggled in certain competitions but I enjoyed the nerves it brings . I can go in detail about accolades achieved from it but they don’t matter much to me now because in hindsight I just really loved the sport . I just have to mention since we talking about hindsight , I think the reason I’m quite good and confident in my ability to play Chess is the countless times I was beaten by my dad at the sport , some loses cut deep I think I was losing to him for months to go even years . It shocks me to mention this however I only became good because I could handle hundreds of games lost . It kinda consumes you because you can see if you made one specific move you could have won so you play again.

I think I’ve found something that completely takes my mind off things , I really leave reality and sense of self behind , a game can race my emotions so much that I forget where or who I am . I can play angry I can play sad but I leave it all on the board . It holds a special place in my heart and I think it’s also a coping mechanism of some sort if I try to psych myself lol , I guess you can control your own moves compared to a big chess board called life(not getting into it) .

I tagged that quote in the beginning to encompass this part of my life , as I’m older one thing I’m not beginning to understand about Chess is the sacrifices you make or are forced to make . In recent years of playing I’m the kind of player that doesn’t want to make sacrifices. If I could I would win the game with all my pieces on the board , sacrifices aren’t even that hard because you could sacrifice a piece and win the game . lol getting a bit sentimental here but lately the sacrifice feels like such a huge loss that I sort of runaway from when playing even when it could put it in a better place to win a match . Going back to the quote I wonder what it really reflects of my personality.

I’d hate to magnify a chess board and it’s pieces and draw comparisons to real life but I sometimes can’t help it lol , I think of people as Knights ,Bishops and Rooks , it’s shallow to say but sometimes even Pawns . I keep wondering if I’ll ever have a Queen ready to fight on my behalf , I guess I would have to be a King.

Well that concludes my current sentiments with on the things I think I dearly love , I’d leave it like that but I recently watched a game played Mr Einstein and he says :

"Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."

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lostplay · 1 year

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Game 39: Kingdom Hearts 3

I don't think I'm trending new ground here when I say Kingdom Hearts 3 is a disappointment. The sequel just promised so much about itself that it honestly had no hope of pleasing everybody. What I didn't think would happen however is how much the game spreads itself thin to make it feel like there is a bunch of things to do. There is a ton of great things to say about Kingdom Hearts 3, but there is a lot here that makes it feel a bit rushed when it comes down to it.

What I can absolutely praise Kingdom Hearts 3 for is the sheer amount of content we got for it. KH3 contains game & watch style mini-games, a full on cooking mini game, a bubble bobble type puzzle game, photo mode, and an entirely revamped gummi ship mode that let's you explore full maps. Throughout playing KH3 I consistently thought about how neat the whole thing was. Nearly every little thing here is thought through to the point that little details kinda just add an extra charm to how well they are crafted. I genuinely can't express how floored I was when I found out how many mini games the Game & Watch like titles had. Like honestly, I'm sure people would buy little handheld titles like this in real life. The fact that the gummi ship mode is like it's own little arcade shooter also really helped break up the pacing by giving a somewhat challenging and neat mode to play with when we just want to explore. The photo mode even adds a much needed collection element with the hidden mickey's being scattered throughout the worlds. Honestly as much as I hate the brainwashing technique; gamifying it was the way to go. Add that together with a bunch of different mini games in game, and you really start to see that what KH3 did was pay attention to everything, but the main game.

Games being easy shouldn't be seen as a problem, and I would rather encourage it over making something super hard. Providing a challenge is always a unique issue to any given game because each gameplay style is just different, from both players and games alike. So what did KH3 do? Why it made it have so many extra flashy super moves, power ups, summons, and tag team attacks that the only issue is picking the next attack. Really I can't express how easy this game is without mentioning the ride summons. I love the ride summons, I think they are super stylish and a fun thing to do as a sort of mini-game. Sadly though, KH3 doesn't really limit how often you can use them, and constantly feeds you the attacks roughly one minute in any given battle. That is, of course, if you aren't also given a team attack or transformation gauge, and even then it's all in all likely you have all three up to pick from. The game literally feeds you so much "super meter" attacks that I honestly forgot I had additional summons and magic to use. Kingdom Hearts has never been a super nuanced combat system, even at it's peak with KH2, largely the majority of the attack strings are just pressing X at certain times. Here though? You just get over stuffed with options that your brain and battles can't actually engage with combat unless it's something as long as a boss fight. Even then, the problem just becomes using these super moves on the bosses till they die; it truly feels like KH3 just doesn't trust the player enough to give them a proper challenge. Perhaps what is most maddening about this though is just the fact the combat is actually good? Something that returned, and what I love about Dream Drop Distance is the movement options. You are able to dash, jump, and even ride rails like you were in the previous game straight from the start. While you don't have full access to everything right away; you are given enough to ensure you can work toward more movement options later on. This combined with combat has always made Kingdom Hearts far more engaging to me as it gives it a lot more style compared to the previous two entries where combat just feels far too slow and stiff. Being able to block and dodge immediately is a standard, and the fact the previous two main games hide that away always hurt it's combat. As previously addressed though, any combat you do get into is often over before you know, overloaded with some super moves, or can just be walked passed. The only time it actually feels you are playing the game really is during mini-games or boss battles, and it really is a shame because I honestly do see the combat here be on par with what we got with Dream Drop Distance, although far more busted.

One thing KH3 solidly did right tho is the Disney worlds. While some have far more to do in others, or at least feel constructed better story wise, each one has plenty of weight to them. I don't think every world out there is particularly amazing, but compared to the worlds of the past, it feels like it's an actual place. Like Tangled's world for instance. While I can tell there is quite a bit of context taken out, largely the game provided enough there that made me absolutely engrossed with the world and characters. I felt like we were on a proper journey to deliver Rapunzel to the Corona kingdom, and it hit enough emotional beats to feel invested. Even places like the Big Hero 6 World where it kinda feels slapped on story wise still has an incredibly large city to explore. Nothing feels like it was left out, or repeated when it comes to the gameplay of these worlds, and it's something I'm finally happy to see come to fruition. Unfortunately, there is nothing to help save the story of Kingdom Hearts. While I know some like to argue that you just need to pay attention, or that the Disney worlds are the less interesting part; Kingdom Hearts 3 most boring bits are the continuing story. Like I have played through all the kingdom hearts games that are needed to be played through with the exception of the mobile game, and I can tell you that the only extra Kingdom Hearts game you need to play is Birth By Sleep. Without knowing the context of why Aqua is in the darkness helps a lot when the game finally decides to have a plot, it still doesn't save the rest of the story. Constantly they interject these Disney worlds with a random black cloak members, but in the end the only real take away is that sometimes characters outside of Sora will interact and it's nice. The rest of the time though? It's like they pop up and say "the plot is going to happen Sora BOOO" then screw off. Even the "final payoff" of getting these battles together is just Sora taking everyone's victories away. There is absolutely no fanfare for other characters in a way that matters, and honestly it's perhaps the biggest downer when it comes to Kingdom Hearts 3. Long way to say it, but Kingdom Hearts 3 is just a game that shoved itself with so many things that it legitimately forgot to be a proper conclusion to it's own story. Even with all the other games under my belt it's still a hapless mess, and one that even gets in it's own way when it's trying to be fun. Still to say I didn't enjoy it is a lie. This is legit one of my favorite Kingdom Hearts game because it just has so many neat things to it. I kinda respect a lot of aspects to it because a lot of the things they have been working on, or that they introduce, work so well. I just implore anyone wanting to play the game to not do so for the story or challenge, but because you can explore. Just don't look for any real substance here, it's just an average game with a very stylish way of failing to met expectations.

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