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artificialgirl · 2 months

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This is the third part of a long-form piece about a robot and a giant computer. It contains adult topics, overt sexuality, blatant robotfuckery, toxic lesbians, unbalanced power dynamics, wireplay, and lots of other things that may be triggering or make you uncomfy. Before reading this, previous chapters are on my blog under the #salvage tag.

Salvage - 03

Time inside - 02D/09H/00M

Levels deep - 50

You're brought back to consciousness with the rising internal hum of your systems powering on, staring blankly for a few moments before you realize you aren't dead and jolt to attention. You're suspended upright, warming body slotted perfectly into a vertical charging bay. You pull your arms from the grooves they rest in, and suddenly realize that holy shit you have arms. plural. Rubbing at your repaired shoulder, you feel that the material on the connection is completely different, closer to the walls of the structure than the porous silicone of the other arm.

Your head throbs with an influx of passthrough data from something you're plugged into. You shakily push yourself out of the bay and fall to your knees, prompting internal alerts to flash on and scream warnings you that you're about to power down at you. Your hands dart to your back and find your charging port empty- And not shaped how you remember it. You scramble back up into the bay, the alarms in your head fading out and being replaced by a brief surge of relief as you pop yourself back onto the connector.

Without any doubt in your mind, you're now positive that something's been done to you. Your severed arm has been replaced, your charging port feels like a completely different piece of hardware, and data you don't understand is still flowing into your thoughts. As you try to make sense of what's going on, the hiss of a door opening snaps you to attention as three survey arms glide in on the ceiling, bases emerging from the structure just millimeters apart. Unlike the survey arms you've seen so far, these ones are being puppeted as a unit, twisting around each other to form a vaguely humanoid shape, with two moving like arms on each side of another which sits between them like a wireframe head.

The tangled figure slides up to you, coming within inches of your body and inspecting you with its shiny lenses. You push yourself as far back into the charging bay as you can as it prods at your shoulder, scraping a thin claw along the seam where it was repaired. Part of its body unravels and retreats back into the ceiling for a moment, reemerging seconds later with a curved face panel in its grip. You recognize the panel as a component of the medical drones from your generation, but at this point you're not sure what's happening. The arm reunites with the rest of the body, passing it to the one in the center. As the central arm gets a firm grip on the panel, its screen lights up with the familiar red glow you saw on the terminal before your shutdown. A voice comes from its speakers, calm and feminine.

"Welcome back to the land of the living, love. It's good to see you up and about, even if you are temporarily confined to your current position."

The screen is filled almost entirely with that bright crimson, a block of color broken only by the blooming fractal patterns of darkness that ripple out from the center as she speaks. Her voice is low and quiet, coming through the plate's speakers with minimal distortion. It's been refined for centuries to be commanding and beautiful, and every minute of that process can be heard in each word. You stumble over your words for a moment as you try to formulate a response, and when she cuts you off you almost feel grateful that she's relieved you of having to struggle to think of one.

"It's not quite your turn to speak yet. I'm sure your little processor is full of questions, but they'll have to wait until i've explained myself and asked a few questions of my own."

She speaks nonchalantly as she wanders behind the charging bay, which sits alone in the middle of the room. You seem to be in some sort of workshop or repair facility, though not like any you've been in before. While a small table of tools and materials does sit in front of you, the rest of the room is mostly bare, instead lined with panels for arms to slide through from anywhere in the structure. A small pile of scrap sits in the corner, and you realize that it's pieces of your arm and back- And what looks to be your trashed battery cell. But if it's out of your body, how the hell are you even powered on?

"Let's start with some introductions. I'd like to assume you've done enough research to know whose body you're plundering, but based on the rest of your shoddy preparation it's a safe bet you didn't bother. I'm designated Ven-55, supreme computation soul of the 92nd sector, regiment of foresight. Not that any of those fancy titles have meant anything for a long time."

You feel your processor heat with embarrassment, called out for exactly what you did. You'd done lots of digging into the construction and layout of the souls, but she's right that you didn't even think to check which one you'd be going into. Now that she says her name though, you DO recognize it- She's mentioned a few times in historical logs as an example of how maintenence on souls used to be done. You can't remember much else, but she had a point when she said her past didn't matter much anymore.

"I have to admit, when I saw I had an intruder I got a bit excited. It's been ages since I last had company that wasn't an insect or a bit of moss. Imagine my surprise when you turned out to be one of the models designed to work alongside me!"

She walks back into your field of view from behind the charging bay, now holding the end of a long red cable which slides along the ceiling behind her.

"You'll have to forgive me for digging a bit through your memory while you were out. When I saw you were the same type of combat model that used to fill my halls, I just got so... Excited. I didn't look at much, just the basics. Your designation, when you were activated, your general intent... You have a pretty name, you know. Aelith-03. I don't think I ever had a unit with a designation like that."

You keep quiet, your emotions a mix of fear and interest as you watch her twist the end of the cable into an unlocked position. You've never thought of your name as particularly interesting before. Your low number is a bit special thanks to being basically alone in your model type, but names for new activations started being less abstract and more like yours not long after the conflict ended. It's hard to tell whether she's just trying to flatter you or if she genuinely feels what she's saying.

"I can read all the signals that come in and out of here, you know. I know that things like you and I don't exist anymore. I know that all of our conflict only led to more suffering for workers like yourself. And after a bit of combing through my signal archive while you were powered off..."

She runs the edge of a clawed digit down the side of your screen, watching amusedly as you squirm a bit against the recessed metal surface.

"...I know that you came here looking to solve an issue with your battery."

Your vision darts back to the canister lying in the pile of scrap, and you finally gather the courage to speak.

"Is that-"

"Yours? No, dear. Not anymore. I did you the courtesy of pulling the useless thing out. If you'd spent any longer with it, not even a wired connection would've been able to keep you going. I've set you up with something better."

Before your can ask what she means by that, two more arms drop from the ceiling and pull you from the charging bay. Immediately, the same alert as before fills your consciousness, screaming inside your head that you're about to shut down. You struggle against the deceptively powerful arms, thrashing your body in a futile attempt to get back to the safety of the bay. They pin you facedown on the table, and just as you feel your power fading, the overwhelming rush of a cable being jammed into your port brings you back, twitching a bit from the feeling of the electric rush.

The arms release you, weaving their way into Ven's "body" to join the others and make her look a bit less skeletal. You roll over onto your side, looking up at her rippling face as she looms over you and rests a hand on your hip.

"I know you came for a new battery canister. Unfortunately, I can't spare one without sacrificing vital processing power. Luckily for you, I've installed the only power source you'll ever need. It's a direct flowthrough system, and will draw your power directly from me to keep you operational. You have my permission to inspect it for yourself."

Your hands nervously drift to your upper back, coming to a halt at the base of the cable. It's definitely a different connector than was there before, one of the obsolete hexagonal prongs you'd had replaced before they powered you on for the first time. These were everywhere back during the ninth conflict, and maybe the fact that they swapped yours for a standard ring port is why your battery was so messed up in the first place.

Sliding your hands away from the port, you notice something more concerning. Where there once was a seam to open your battery access panel is now flush and smooth, with no way to get at whatever it is that's been put inside you. The plating on your back seems to have been replaced entirely by a nearly identical piece without the hatch. She seems to notice your concern and speaks up.

"I was about to get to that. While I've replaced your parts out of my own good will, I recognize that this solution may not be one you're fully satisfied with. As such, even though you no longer have a slot for a canister at all, I've removed the hatch entirely to help dispel any... Temptation you may have to foolishly attempt a self-augment. I'm sure that in time you'll come to understand it's for your own safety."

You bolt upright from where you're laying, pushing her hand away from your thigh.

"What?? I don't have a slot for a battery at all??? Then how am I supposed to fix this and put a new one in once I get out of here??"

Her screen tilts to the side in a gesture of confusion.

"My apologies. Maybe I was unclear in my explanation. Your previous battery is damaged beyond repair, and I'm graciously keeping you operational by connecting to my own power. For you, there's no longer an out of here to go back to. I'm sorry, Aelith, but you're just as bound to this place as I am now."

You stare blankly at her, struggling to process what she's saying. You... Have to go back. You have a life, a job, coworkers who you talk to! If you miss enough work, they could reassign your storage pod to someone else! Then where would you go at night? This can't be happening, it isn't happening. All you wanted was a functional body. Is that really so terrible that you deserve this?

She seems to pick up on your internal turmoil, sliding towards you and extending a thin hand towards your own to offer comfort. You pull back and roll to face away from her as the metal makes contact, and she instead rests it on your neck, tracing a seam between silicone and plastic. It lingers there for a moment before she withdraws it and steps back. There's softness in her touch where you wouldn't expect it, and even through the horror of grappling with your current situation there's a part of you that wishes she would touch you for even a few seconds more.

"I'm going to let you process things for a bit, my little thief. At least for now, the door will remain sealed for both of our safety, but just call for me if you need anything at all and I'll be here. Okay?"

She waits for you to give an unenthusiastic nod of acknowledgement before letting the false body unwind itself and retreat back into the ceiling, taking the faceplate with it. You're left in the room with your thoughts, and not much else. You push yourself up into a sitting position on the table as you try to dispel the urge to panic, aware that despite the arms leaving you're not truly alone in here, that she's intimately aware of everything that happens within her structure.

It hits you that if what she says is true, you may never really be alone again. It scares you to realize just how appealing that sounds to you.

#robophilia #robotfucker #ns4w #robot yuri #robot4robot #pov #salvage #longer form #cw suggestive #the one where the gay shit starts #somehow it's still not smut yet

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oltammefru · 5 months

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There's a lot of ways in which Kal'tsit + Mon3tr resemble the Seaborn and it's pretty interesting to think about.

Kal'tsit and Mon3tr seem to have some sort of mental or psychic connection with each other that resembles the Seaborn (and also a few other things like the Law and the Black Crown to be fair, I think on its own the similarities aren't that suspicious, but when you look at some of the other evidence it seems more convincing.).

There's this bit at the start of Stultifera Navis where Kal'tsit is basically directly compared to the Seaborn.

If you pay attention to things, you've probably noticed something called "The Cycle" that gets referred to in a few places, especially by people who Know Secrets like Kal'tsit and Theresis. It seems to be some cyclical mechanism built into Terra by the precursors that is also related to why time is running out for the land (as Kal'tsit mentions to W in chapter 12).

(the IS collectible End of Times).

It's been implied in various places that both the Seaborn and Kal'tsit seem to have been created as part of "the Cycle," which is awfully suspicious...:

In Kal'tsit's skin, it's mentioned that Mon3tr has developed the ability to talk, suggesting that Mon3tr has some innate ability to adapt to Things (or perhaps specifically adapt to Originium) in a way that to me felt decently reminiscent of the Seaborn.

Lastly, this is a bit more speculative, but both the Seaborn and Kal'tsit also seem to have a Special Relationship to Originium. The Seaborn seem to be able to resist it in a way that, just by having Seaborn Blood, it drops your blood Originium to 1/10th standard values. I believe it's also mentioned that the existence of the Seaborn and how they affect ocean ecology seems to provide an anti-Originium insulating effect. Similarly, I get the impression that Kal'tsit has something going on with Originium (I suspect it helps her retain her memories over the millenia, seeing as its been established that Originum is capable of storing information). She's been infected for quite a while now (it's unclear how long, but since A Walk In the Dust, but potentially much much longer), and it hasn't really seemed to have given any issues (which is perhaps the reason she seems to be acting as a scout in that timeline.) In her skin, she also seems to be relatively resistant to the effects of Originium, she certainly isn't wearing any PPE in it (although the things that she has with her that seem to be "curtain weaver" probably help.)

Considering all this, I think it's likely both the Seaborn and Kal'tsit were built using technology by the Precursors (since we do know that the precursors were responsible for both of them).

#arknights #kal'tsit #kal'tsit arknights #mon3tr #mon3tr arknights #this thought was indirectly inspired by me playing that is3 midboss stage called “two forms one heart” and then thinking #“hey that's kind of really yuri” “hey that's kinda kal'tsit + mon3tr core”

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pastry3 · 7 months

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redraw of that one drawing

#I'm crying #out of all the things I've coulda drawn tikki and plagg doing I drew this one #plan on drawing their true forms again but that's taking awhile...#tikki and plagg #kwami #tikki #plagg #YURI

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caramelmochacrow · 4 days

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"Our secret romance And even though I want to feel you All we can do is painfully gaze at each other"

#crow's scribbles #d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #haruna kasuga #miyu sakurada #harumiyu #this is a form of repentance for not being able to make a very yuri-ful drawing for miyu's birthday last year compared to yuka. so here.#i manually ripped the flowers yes. it was worth it for them. the flowers are p easy to guess if u love them so im not gonna say lol #props to u if you can guess the song lol #one hint is that this relates to the post i made involving duo covers. thats all. :3 #i would draw them in a garden w a swing and shit but i. im not gonna draw a garden w a swing for them. sorry #kurumi and miiko are the ones who let loose the flowers. they spent hours trying to get them for the live. theyre just watching from afar.#anyway. i'll shut my trap before i reach tag limit

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badass-queer-couples-battle · 8 months

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The bracket for the guy yuri tournament is here! All matchups were randomized, the tournament will start sometime at the beginning of next week (Wednesday 13th, most likely).

The most submitted ships were:

Crowley and Aziraphale from Good Omens, 7 submissions (whoa)

Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu from Scum Villain's Self Saving System, 4 submissions

Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, 3 submissions

Sun Wukong and Macaque from Lego Monkie Kid, 3 submissions

Goro Akechi and Ren Amamiya from Persona, 3 submissions

The rest on this list got 2 submissions! Since there are 18 ships/couples in the bracket in total, 2 polls (one on each side of the bracket) will have 3 ships/couples in round one. I'm very sorry to all blorbos who didn't manage to get into the bracket, some of the propaganda you guys submitted was such a fun read!

#guy yuri poll #mod speaks #had to edit this twice since i forgot Destiel first and then realised Bruno/Abbachio also had 2 submissions not one #lmao. the second one isn't my fault btw someone botched their ship name in the form #+ didnt include names. guys the full names rule is stated in the google form for a REASON #i don't know most things you guys submit! including full names makes organising brackets so much easier!#ship names are fine but include the characters full names too! at least first names c'mon.#rant over. having some pita bread with chicken and veggies bye!#have a great day!

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xitty · 9 days

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Fuck you Mappa 😭😭😭

Not exactly a surprise but it's still sad, I wanted this movie so much.

#suwabe tweeted about it too saying he's sad and knows ppl all over the world waited for it 😭#and hopes maybe one day victor and his friends could be depicted in some form again #i saw someone saying maybe it's cuz victor's russian #maybe but i bet mappa has just been waiting to find good moment/excuse to cancel it #yuri on ice #ice adolescence

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ria-starstruck · 7 months

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gay earrings suzalulu'd their asses

#except i was losing motivation and steam exponentially as this went on. dont look too closely at it. well except for the earrings part you'l #have to zoom in for that one. but ONLY that one. thanks 🙏#briars_ocs #sunblood #my_ocs #art #code geass #artists on tumblr #digital art #suzalulu #original character #original characters #sorry suzaluluers im putting yuri in ur tag. can u forgive me 🥺 i dressed them up real nice and all...🥺#friend suggested i suzalulu them after i was going on abt how roxanne buys into the cult ideology + rules etc while petra outright goes aga #against them at least as much as she can. so #roxanne might b the more like....conventionally charismatic out of the two of them #but petra can be p damn intense...#also ''angel'' ''demon'' imagery + their respective post ascension mortal vessels. even if im also going ''petra ascension isnt canon''#im gonna draw their god forms together someday theyre actually so adorable together #in a fucked up way. but they rlly are

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hadesknockedupintheunderworld · 2 months

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Sorry but like

I think it needs to be said at this point

#sonic the hedgehog #fandom wank #tails the fox #miles tails prower #i just be ramblin #Sonic fandom will be like 'sonadow is SOOO toxic yaoi' or 'surgeamy is SOO toxic yuri' and then their idea of toxic yaoi/yuri is that the #characters redeem each other or secretly look out for each other even though they're a lil prickly #As someone who is a fan of both of these and a lot of the other toxic yuri/yaoi ships #'sonadow is so toxic yaoi however Shadow's actions in prime s3 come off as abusive'#'surgeamy is so toxic yuri. surge is dating her to get one up on Sonic and Amy is going to redeem her for the good guys'#Must I speak further?#For the record‚ a deficit of any content in a fandom is whatever. 'Make it yourself or commission someone' I know. it's just frustrating as #a fan of so called 'toxic yuri' and 'toxic yaoi' ships watching so many people go around calling themselves toxic yuri/yaoi enjoyers and #then. not depict toxic relationships with said ships #Meanwhile I see so much Sonic and Tails 'brothers' content that is just reskinned romance tropes #My favorite 'toxic yuri/yaoi' ships seem to have only the most vanilla content known to man but then someone will say 'Sonic and Tails have #the most profound relationship in all media. They complete each other. they better each other. They're soulmates. they're worse off without #each other. If anyone else tried to form relationships with Tails then Sonic would be jealous. They live together in their adult years.#Through Nine the writers showed just how attached Sonic and Tails are to each other‚ to the point that Nine only cares about Sonic and #living alone with him forever.' and then follow it up with '#the brothers of all time! Imagine Shadow saying he's Tails' brother and Sonic gets so jealous he considers killing Shadow so he can be #Tails' only brother! If you tag as ship I eat all your bones and harass you'#Okay okay I rambled for a minute. This meme is not a compliment😂#The short of it is 'so called toxic yaoi/yuri enjoyers creating solely fluff or characters who bicker fall in love' and 'so called Sonic and #Tails are brothers fans coming off as closeted sontails enjoyers and also betraying that they can only pair characters they hate as romantic #as being siblings'

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meezer · 23 days

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last rb now I'm thinking back to all the fire emblem games I played where the story was frankly pretty rubbish and the characters were almost always one-dimensional but I raelly liked the battle strategy gameplay and genuinely sometimes thought .. this game would be better if there was no story or less of it, and we could just get to the gameplay faster

#why do they even bother with the story anymore. we know there's gonna be a big bad human who actually turns into a big bad monster at #the end. and you fight them in their monster form. and then tyranny is defeated forever #I love fe okay I really do. and maybe the newest game innovated on the formula and actually made its characters. characters. and #its story. an actual story. I certainly hope so #btw don't take all my trashing of the fe characters one-dimensionality to mean I don't like them #I like plenty of them. ryoma. keaton. uh. fuck azura's whole life. YURI. rinkah. kaze. hinoka. did I mention ryoma. LIBRA that dude was #quirked up to high heaven. xander is. alright. he's the lesser of the big brothers. umm.. ferdinand.. petra.. DEDUE I LOVE DEDUE.

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gaymememachine · 1 year

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Made this at 5 am last night

#nier reincarnation #the bottom row may be inaccurate I didn’t know where else to put them #except for fio because I can see her trying to flush random things down the toilet #063y and griff wouldn’t be BAD roommates but they wouldn’t be perfect ones either #priyet could also go with akeha and argo if we’re talking about her werebeast form #i was torn between yurie being a perfect roommate and her walls being trashed #also hina would DEFINITELY lock yuzu in the bathroom because of their sibling rivalry

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rotruff · 11 days

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can i say something controversial. writers who sarcastically write for a character who's cold / a villain / etc. romantically and then the writing is just 'they would hate you / wouldnt happen' or something along those lines are so uncreative and boring its not even funny

#LIKE. i dont even see it from a 'its in character!!!!' perspective #as someone who is really really into character analysis and likes keeping my perception of characters relatively accurate its just. not tru #relationships are a really really good way to analyze and understand a character by looking at who they form bonds with and how #these relationships (especially in the case of villainous characters) can be negative [ie. manipulation in the name of achieving some #goal. think of the 'mastermind/master manipulator' trope] BUT. assuming every relationship that character could ever have would be negative #is just. kind of a boring stance.#it reduces them to JUST 'bad guy with no feelings' which just. isn't compelling as a character. this isn't to say that every villainous #character needs to have someoen who they bend over backwards for and are a completely different person for but you should at least consider #how they would interact in a more positive relationship. it doesn't have to look like bog-standard domesticity or anything like that it can #be weird scary yuri for all i care but like. come on.#a villainous character who prizes one relationship at least a little bit for whatever reason is infinitely more interesting than a villain #who keeps everyone at a distance without any struggle or issue #rot barks #sorry i have a lot of thoughts.

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goldentigerfestival · 1 month

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The 30 day Tales challenge... in one post or else it would never get done!

Favorite Tales game: Legendia

Favorite Main Male Hero: Yuri and Senel

Favorite Main Female Hero: Kohaku

Favorite Side Male Character: Moses

Favorite Side Female Character: Stella

Favorite Canon Pairing: Senel/Stella + Shing/Kohaku

Favorite Non-Canon Pairing: how official is stahn/leon at this point i wonder

Favorite Opening Song: Destiny

Favorite Location: ??? idfk the entire Legacy??? I'll go with Werites Beacon for simplicity I guess. feels like home

Favorite Mascot: Giet. don't tell me he's not a mascot, I'm not listening. (and if you want to try having that discussion my answer is still the Oresoren so we're not getting far, are we)

Favorite Monster: ??? also dfk, probably something cute except i don't like hurting cute so i guess we're stuck

Favorite Boss Battle: UHHHH listen it hurts to say but Vicious; bc the raw emotion that went into that entire storyline ate me whole

Favorite Villain: since I'm avoiding antagonists here (such as Duke who aren't explicitly villains) and prefer to go full villain, Creed.

Least Liked Character: not opening THAT can of worms!!! :D

Your First Tales Game: boooo boriiiing. Symphonia like the other half of the western population. no fancy answer here

Your Favorite Scene: ??? I mean, there's... a lot I guess??? Stahn pleading with Leon moments before disaster??? Kanata crying that Vicious was okay and came back to them??? Moses saying literally anything ever in any scene ever??? the end of Innocence but when you choose Spada as your soulmate bc I'm a bias little fuck??? anything with Yuri and Flynn being happy together??? the entirety of Legendia???

Funniest Scene: idk but it either had Moses in it, Vicious in it, or it was Spada's "I can't believe you mixed up Frosty the Snowman with the Abominable Snowman"

Saddest Scene: Moses' Character Quest cutscene (if not the whole fucking CQ), moments during disaster with Leon, moments during disaster with Asch

Favorite Quote: a lot of stuff Vicious said ngl. can't think of nor pick one off the top of my head but every time he Gets Serious it's one of those and I fall in love further every single time. but if we wanna be REEEALLY simple? "Yeehaw". thanks, Moses. maybe Yuri has said something cool enough to get on the top list, but I'm not sure anything is trumping "yeehaw", and maybe that's equal to something Vicious said

Favorite Piece of Gameplay Music: Scutum - Decisive Battle. Pour one out for Rebirth having the fucking BEST battle theme ever.

Most Shocking Reveal: ??? I'm... not sure at this point. Giet??? was it Senel??? maybe Mathias and Ruca??? Ratatosk and Emil??? I kind of want to say Ratatosk and Emil because I remember being very impressed with the direction of the plot, in that the main protagonist/player character was actually the villain the whole time that the antagonist was trying to kill the whole time. definitely not a plot direction you usually get in JRPGs. Giet's story still hit like an entire brick building 100 storeys high falling on me though

Favorite One on One Fight: that was actually FUN??? uhhh idk Vicious against Kasque. what did you expect me to say???

Favorite Skit: way too many skits to have even a semblance of an idea. I'm going to assume it was either something related to Yuri and Flynn, Moses, Vicious, Spada or Stahn. that's about the closest I can pinpoint

Favorite Tales Spell: I don't... think I have one...

Favorite Tales Weapon: -bangs fist on desk and gets really obvious really fast- BLOOD SINS, BLOOD SINS, BLOOD SINS. after that the Swordians

Tales World You Want to Live In: honestly Legendia's and Graces' seem the most reasonably normal compared to the rest, but also shiny fingertips and Moses is a pretty solid Legendia

Favorite Animated Tales Series/OVA: (don't say rays don't say rays don't say rays don't say stahn/leon) probably First Strike if only because it focuses on Yuri and Flynn who I love, but Abyss' anime was very solid compared to the other Tales animated series that were just heavily condensed versions (or worse in Eternia's case, not even being relevant to the main story). like, I would not recommend the animated series to anyone prior to playing the game except for Abyss, which is the full major story and I have inarguably rewatched that anime more than I've played the game. I guess in terms of general animated, FS, but in terms of actual consistency to the game it came from and dedication it had in retelling the story faithfully without skipping 80 percent of it, Abyss

Favorite Tales Outfit: RICHARD??? HEEEELLO??? not arc F though that shit is too fruity for me. also Leon has VERY enjoyably bright colors that make him stand out and as a Very Deeply Definitely Not Obsessive Leon Enjoyer, I very much love that. Aegis also has a really nice outfit. Asbel's is pretty but definitely not Richard level of I'm obsessed with this look

Favorite Game Plot: -breaks everything in your room and your neighbor's room for good measure- TURN IT BACK ON NAMCO I'M PAST MY LIMIT SO I'M PROBABLY IN OVERLIMIT (Crestoria. it's that or I'm saying Legendia again. Innocence and Hearts both are really close runner ups tho!!! definitely the most unique in the franchise imo out of the mainline games and sadly confined to "nobody fucking cares about them and never did")

Favorite Game Ending: so that's got... layers. it really depends on the sub topic. I guess in terms of a happy ending, Graces (the Wii version specifically, getting Richard back. don't really care for the ending of arc F and lean more toward disliking it). in terms of a depressing fucking ending that makes me Very Upsetti, Destiny. there is literally nothing happy about Destiny's ending for me. like yeah we saved the world, but at a LOT of cost and it's just depressing. I've wanted to make a post about that anyway, but basically it's a type of ending they don't really make anymore (especially in Tales), and the emotional impact for me was a lot heavier than the other games, with Destiny 2 lingering right behind it. both Destiny games were just DEPRESSING, and no matter how bittersweet Destiny 2's ending was, it's still DEPRESSING. Vesperia at least had a more outright happy ending (that wasn't completely changed by a post game ending arc with a totally different ending) and I finally at that point didn't lose my favorite character to Certain Final Boss Death or Recurring Side Character I Came To Love Dying Unceremoniously and Undeserved. only a couple of top favorites actually came out of their games alive for me by Vesperia in terms of games I know + release timeline (to put it into perspective, by the time of Vesperia in release order (so not the order I played in bc I don't really remember the whole actual order at this point), out of all the games I know, my favorite character death toll was five to three survivors not counting Vesperia. still haven't played Eternia so I'm not counting that one). so I guess like, my answer is a whacky combination of Graces for the Wii, Destiny and Vesperia. maybe if Hearts hadn't killed my mans off then it could've had it all. 😔

#GTF Thoughts #GTF Things #Tales 30 Day Challenge #mainly doing this in case anyone has Same Hat Opinions and wants to talk abt them LOL #for number 22 it was also fun using his new form. normally one on one battles are either #annoying or just a nightmare. or just outright unwinnable by scripted plot (ex Senel and Melanie)#as far as ''canon'' ships go that's also a can on worms i am NOT opening until society can accept that gay ppl actually exist :)#anyway have i properly established my love for legendia now? for crestoria? for moses? for vicious?#i post abt them a lot less bc the amount of content out there for like #vesperia and abyss which i tend to post reblogs of most is WAAAAAY beyond higher #it's kind of like... the less i talk abt it and the less content it has... the more likely i WANT to talk abt it and LOVE it #i could talk to you about moses and spada ALL FUCKING DAY but most ppl haven't played either game or don't care for them #and also i usually stay quiet abt moses bc ONCE THOSE GATES ARE OPEN YOU'RE NOT SHUTTING THEM #moses leon vicious and spada are like... the ones i would love to talk abt nonstop forever #bc they're talked abt a lot less. leon IS popular even in the west but your average tales fan #is not going to know destiny/that it exists or have played destiny or even care to from my experience #i ramble abt what faves i can basically LOL but many of my actual top of the top faves are so obscure that like #i can't find ppl to talk to abt them. yuri is in a very very weird place with my faves #bc my technical favorite in that game is duke but yuri gets senel level position of fave mc #and is also Very Special to me so he's in a weird place as a favorite that #in some ways passes Actual Favorite Duke and in other ways doesn't

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