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Pros and cons-
Next chapter of Owlboy sequel(ch6)
Pros-First update in literal years, a lot more fluff than the previous two chapters, nice little break before things pick back up w/Otus
Cons-It’s in the middle of a pre-existing series, EXTREMELY small fandom, catching up requires spoilers for the game if you’re interested, I’ll have to replay the game again and I can’t promise how fast that’ll be, multiple previous chapters have good chunks that are taken straight from the game
Next chapter in Spirit tracks sequel(ch 5)
Pros-Bigger fandom, another update that’s years in the making, heavy OC focus if you’re into that, series has more original content from me
Cons-Another pre-existing series, another project that requires spoilers, having a despite being from a big Nintendo franchise, spirit tracks isn’t the most popular Zelda game, it also won’t have help by linked universe since it’s purely spirit tracks, heavy OC focus if you aren’t into that
Twig coming out[title pending]
Pros-One shot, little spoilers, canonical qeer rep(Twig was confirmed nonbinary by Owlboy’s dev team during their anniversary live stream last November), prequel of sorts no prior knowledge needed, coming out fic(we love it), I’ve already posted a preview for this a while back, fluff
Cons-Again, it’s a tiny fandom and I’ll have to reply the game and I can’t promise how long that’ll take
Brassius Sic fic[title pending]
Pros-One shot, possible ship material if you squint slightly, big fandom, sick fick(we love that too), headcanon centric if you’re into that, little prior knowledge of game needed, major hurt/comfort if you’re into that
Cons-Headcanon centric if you’re not into that, major hurt/comfort if you’re not into that
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Owlboy map of vellie
The game will warn you and let you choose if you want to proceed or not. So even if you play blind, you should try to collect them all before the point of no return. None of the coins are missable so it's up to you, though collecting them all will net you an outfit that makes you practically invincible and will make the final boss much easier. Also note that there is 1 missable trophy (possibly 2) but there are in the very first area of the game so you won't have to replay much if you happen to miss it.įor your first playthrough, you can either choose to play blind and follow the story, or play with some videos to help collecting coins but the videos might contain spoilers. The trophies in the forum version of this guide will be placed in the order that you can obtain them while playing the game to make things easier. Step 1: Play the game while getting miscellaneous trophies until the point of no return + collect all coins (optional) This minigame will take many attempts before you complete it. The game is mostly easy but there is a minigame that you'll need to complete, and this will make the task of getting the platinum much harder due to its poor controls and camera angles. There is however 1 missable trophy (possibly 2), but it (they) can be earned at the very beginning of the game so you don't have to replay a long part if you happen to miss out. None of the coins are missable and you'll have access to every area even after completing the game. The majority of the trophies will be story related or related to collecting all of the 2800 coins. Otus will gain new allies that will accompany him during his journey, each having their own weapon with exclusive properties. You play as Otus, a owl who is capable of flying and carrying objects during flight that he can use to throw at enemies. Owlboy is a platform-adventure video game created by Norwegian independent developer D-Pad Studio. Do trophies stack?: NA and EU have different lists.Glitched trophies: 0 with patches ( unobtainable without patches).Number of missable trophies: 1 (possibly 2) : Good Boy and possibly Bad Boy.Approximate amount of time to platinum: 11-15 hours ( POLL).Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (personal) ( POLL).
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Owlboy map of vellie
OWLBOY MAP OF VELLIE TRIAL
I went up until I met the area of the minigame, then found a hole to reload the area on the bottom left side of the map. The same happened to me, I'll try to do the same :DĮdit : Everything went back to normal. So, as of now, the game works for me again, but I suppose this still needs to be addressed. At this point, the character was within bounds again. After a while I found out I could enter the stage again by going to the left, up a bit and then right. I was able to run within the walls and fly around the stage set pieces. Please advice.ĮDIT: I tried going up for some time and then I got to where the stage was. Welcome to Owlboy as Otus is propelled into an unlikely saviour situation when pirates start assaulting the settlements of the Land of the SkyWith Otus havi. After the attack on Advent, Geddy is found in the Vellie graveyard. After the battle, Vellie became a new home for many survivors. Otus does talk after activating the Anti-Hex, but he may have by that time. The Battle of Advent During the Battle of Advent, Vellie reinforced the Advent Guard in defense of the city. Also, the 30 coins I missed seemed to be unattainable before this point as they are received. I'm not really keen on restarting the game from the beginning, either. Vellie is home to The Professor, Asio, Otus, Geddy, Mandolyn, Toby and Bomboman. Aha, I figured it out for myself, so for anyone who wants to know, evidently the cave just reopens without notice once you can take all three gunners around Vellie, it's fairly late into the game, with as little spoilers as possible. I can't reload the save file, as I then start in this endless falling loop.
OWLBOY MAP OF VELLIE TRIAL
I didn't get back to the screen where the trial started.Īfter this, I was teleported to an empty screen (save for clouds), where Owlboy just keeps falling and falling and falling. This happened on the same screen where I crashed. I got the dialogue where the merchant's henchmen said they were giving me some cash. I crashed into the final gate, however, but the game treated it as if though I had cleared the stage. I finally got through the, in my opinion, annoying cannon trial, where you get fired out of a cannon and try to fly through rings without crashing into things.
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Why Otus Is Mute: A Speculation
As anyone who’s ever heard or played a classic adventure game, you know that the protagonist is almost always mute. Doesn’t matter if they’re girl, boy, or unspecified, there is a guarantee that you have played or heard of a mute protagonist.
Examples are Link from Legend of Zelda, farming sim player characters such as in Stardew Valley, or Otus from Owlboy, who this rant is specifically about. Major Owlboy spoilers below.
Muteness is caused by mental or physical factors, such as paralysis or damage to the vocal cords, autism, anxiety disorders, illness, traumatic brain injuries, and certain types of apraxia. Dysarthia is another, though it slows and/or slurs speech, while apraxia usually affects other motor abilities.
He cannot be missing the vocal cords altogether because the vocal cords are part of what links the windpipe and the lungs.
In Otus’ case, I’d say it’s either vocal cord damage or paralysis or he has verbal issues regarding autism. While nonverbal children can make noises when the need fancies them, those with damage or paralysis to the vocal cords have issues even making sound.
However, vocal cord damage and paralysis can also cause difficulty breathing and swallowing, because the vocal cords protect your airway from food, liquid and saliva. If Otus did have complete vocal cord paralysis, he would also have noisy breathing and frequent breathlessness during physical activity.
Though he is shown to get breathless early on in the game during the beginning cut scenes, he seems to grow out of it, like it simply went away. We can conclude that it was likely a lack of training prior to his apprenticeship that made Otus so breathless.
Paralysis of the vocal cords is still possible, due to it seeming that somehow Solus made it up to the Floating Tower without use of Kernelle’s rocket ship, despite it being high up in the sky above Mesos, seemingly indicating that Solus either made it up with help of the relics or something is wrong with Otus. He might just be extremely physically fit, but that’s a discussion for another time.
He might also have autism, a neurological and developmental disorder stereotyped by a lack of speech and extreme sensitivity to sound. Otus is shown to have been mute his entire life, and it’s indicated by the other children calling him ‘a mute’ that it’s a more common condition that it seems. He seems to have a sensitivity to sound when he cowers when Asio shouts at him and when seemingly loud noises happen in-game, such as when the temple guardians rise to attack him and when the creature in the Floating Continent’s lava section.
This is complete speculation and I am in no way an expert in the medical field, so please do not use my words out of hand.
#owlboy#I was researching and decided to talk about this.#I have to warn you my spelling is horrendous without autocorrect.
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so uh, i made a very self indulgent owlboy oc, mostly to see how far i can go with character design (+ quick sketch cloak design, since i LOVE space and was inspired by the spectre cloak) im way in over my head with owlboy and theories and shit so feel free to ignore the info
more info undercut (end-game spoilers)
so, i was thinking about how the Hex and Anti Hex must have magic involved, right? we even see Solus performing a ritual and chant for the Anti-Hex; and owl cloaks are said to be enchanted or made with magic, so there has to be someone know devotes their time to these kinds of things
so i came up with Astra
a witch who worked alongside the ancient owls in the creation of the Hexes, in charge of the magic side of it. once the first one failed and Noctae was killed, her and the rest became more frantic to get the second Hex completed, and as the others faded with old age Astra put her magic into making herself semi-immortal, and vowed not to die until the islands were back on earth
also yes, she is naked, witches believed bodies were just bodies. you can imagine a nude woman just walking around all these robe-clad owls
as time wore on she decided to take on cloak making as something to make income, as the old art of it seems to have faded throughout the years and “authentic” owl cloaks are few and far in between
shes a short-eared owl, but created a headdress to make herself look like a long-eared owl, possibly from a mid-century fashion craze
i also designed her cloak so that when the ends are held up to the head in flight they create the Wiccan symbol of the two crescent moons and the full moon
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some thoughts/observations/speculations about owlboy characters (spoilers)
otus
canonically mute, but i wanna say nonverbal specifically (he can still make noises he just can’t do words)
he’s mixed; some percentage owl, some percentage human (half and half?). the other owls we see all have feathers all over themselves, while otus doesn’t have feathers on a large portion of his face, and his nose is more like just a nose than a beak.
i saw a theory elsewhere talking about some unused sprite sets and their possible correlation with the broken holograms in the sanctuary, and how they might be or correspond with otus’ parents. they mentioned that one of them was an owl and another was a human and that put some doubt in the theory but hey, what if his dad WAS human ?
i’m taking this as far as to assume asio is mixed also; he’s got a normal nose, and is also lacking feathers on his face and his hands. in the ending sequence, the professor mentions how asio becoming otus’ mentor is going to be a “good fit,” and i think this could explain that a bit. asio might be so hard on otus cause he has his own inadequacy issues about not being “fully” owl and feels like he has to prove himself through otus that mixed owls are just as good as full-blooded owls
geddy
likes to be in control of situations when he can be, but tends to feel personal responsibility for situations outside his control.
felt like the destruction of advent was his fault, and his guilt led him to find someone else to blame, which ended up being twig. when otus and alphonse disagreed with him about whether to forgive twig, he couldn’t deal with being “wrong” (not being in control) and just left.
he took it upon himself to befriend and protect this disabled orphan smallboy from people who were making fun of him for his disability
might have some emotional maturity issues cause his Best Friend is literally 10 years younger than him ???
alphonse
if situations had been different and he and dirk were able to work things out they’d totally be in a relationship. source: i’m gay and so are they
in the segment where alphonse explains about how himself and the other robots were created by the owls, in the background of one of the pictures there’s a robot that looks a lot like him (no clothes tho lol) being led by an owl child. he’s probably some sort of domestic model, or one that was meant to be more social (he wanted to be a dramatic actor) and only ended up joining the pirates under threat of destruction.
twig
gullible, tends to not think all the way through possible consequences, a bit impatient, a lot of confidence in his own abilities
i love twig he’s cute but i keep getting kinda stuck on his awkward trans analogy... i’m not discounting “feeling uncomfortable as one thing and thinking that being another thing is cooler/better” as like an actual trans person’s reasoning but “trans-species” narratives tend to make me uncomfortable. like just... make him Actually Trans.......
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For the past five years I've been maintaining Defender's Quest, I've kept telling myself: there's got to be some magical untapped audience I've yet to reach. I've tried every possible trick to find them, and while many have helped, none have been a silver bullet.
Support Mac and Linux
5.2% and 1.8% of lifetime revenue, respectively
Participate in Humble bundles
(back when they were really good)
Sell direct, on GOG, Itch.io, etc
significant chunk, still dwarfed overall by Steam
Localize all the things
Professional: German, French, Spanish, Japanese
Volunteer: Russian, Korean, Italian, Czech
Probably worth it? But not crystal clear.
Well, I finally found these magical undiscovered players: they're in China.
In "Steam Discovery 2.0, Stegosaurus Tail 2.0", we noted the trend of Chinese players appearing on the global PC gaming radar.
For one, Valve mentioned the trend at Dev Days 2016:
and I had noticed it myself, both anecdotally:
as well as in our revenue reports:
At the time, China was still a very small slice of our overall revenue (as you can see in the graph's embedded pie chart -- it's the tiny turquoise slice at the very top). Still, it was enough evidence to start localizing Defender's Quest into Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Now, whether or not localization is worth it depends on how much text the game has. And Defender's Quest has a lot of text.
Category # words Cutscenes 22,196 Journal 24,943 Everything else 8,709 Total 55,848
The Cutscenes and Journal together comprise a small novel -- 47,139 words, about the same length as Slaughterhouse Five. We decided to translate only the "everything else" category: the game would be completely playable in Chinese, but the story content would remain in English. This way we could test the waters, and if initial results were good, we'd follow up with a complete translation.
Spoiler alert: results were good.
I have never had a localization pay for itself this quickly, not to mention this unambiguously. When you localize a game, you are betting that sales from the target region will increase more than they would have had you not done it. Usually, however, you're never quite sure how many regional sales you would have made anyways. For example, my first language is Norwegian, and most Norwegians my age speak fluent English and consume lots of English media. Chances are they'll buy a game whether it's localized into Norwegian or not. This effect is so bad that prominent Norwegian games like OwlBoy aren't even localized into the developer's native language. (Same goes for um... Defender's Quest. Tilgi meg, Bestemor!) But what about Germans? There's a lot more of them, and research says they have a stronger preference for native-language media than Norwegians. So we did a German localization (among others). And it was probably worth it, but the effect was somewhat obscured since Germany was already a strong selling region.
The Chinese stats tell a completely different story.
For context, when we updated the game with Traditional and Simplified Chinese translations, we ran a Steam weekly deal at 50% off and popped one of our visibility tokens (see this article).
Result: China was our #1 sales region, not only in terms of units sold, but also in terms of gross revenue.
Last week's sale figures:
As mentioned previously, the before/after results of localization were completely unambiguous.
Of all the revenue Defender's Quest has earned from China on Steam in its entire lifetime, 45% of it was earned last week. That's right, we basically doubled our lifetime sales from China almost immediately! Obviously there's some degree of "pent-up demand" in play here, but based on other developers' experience, I suspect we'll see improved sales from China in our long tail, as well.
Here's a per-country breakdown for our lifetime sales, excluding this past week (ie, the entire time before the Chinese localizations were availalbe):
Back then, China was #22.
"But, Lars!" you say, "Defender's Quest has been on sale for five long years! Maybe it's already soaked up most of its potential western buyers already?"
Judging from 2016's figures, apparently not:
The same 10 countries that dominated lifetime sales show up here, just with a few positions swapped. The biggest change is that Japan and Korea represent a larger overall share in 2016 vs. overall lifetime (We shipped Korean and Japanese localizations in 2014). And the Anglosphere + Europe still dominate.
Here's a side-by-side chart of last week vs. 2016 for easy comparison:
So China zooming to #1, even for just a week, is amazing. Germany has traditionally been our strongest non-English region to date and it's never pulled off a feat like that. But you'll also notice Korea and Japan had a higher market share in this last sale, and Taiwan showed up out of nowhere to beat Russia, Canada, and the UK!
How do we explain all this?
Concerning China, it's basically the perfect candidate for localization:
Large market (18% of world's population!)
Strong preference/need for their native language
Population spends money on games (middle class has exploded recently)
But there's another story here. During the sale, 50% of copies were sold in East Asia. The growth from Chinese speaking regions makes perfect sense, but I was surprised to see growth in Korea and Japan. We've had Korean and Japanese localizations available since 2014, after all. What's going on? I have five potential explanations:
First, it could just be statistical noise and I'm reading too much into things.
Second, it could be part of an ongoing regional rise in PC gaming in East Asia in general. Japanese publishers are releasing more games on Steam, whether it's Square-Enix's back catalogue of Final Fantasy games or From Software's latest Dark Souls title, and Japanese players are following them:
@larsiusprime Yes, Japan certainly grows faster than an average on Steam http://pic.twitter.com/FVx90voTJ3
— Steam Spy (@Steam_Spy) December 27, 2015
Meanwhile, Koreans have always been big fans of PC gaming, and Steam has lots of games they like, most notably DOTA 2. Also, Steam has made strides in supporting local Asian currencies, so this growth makes sense.
Third, it could be a result of Steam's discovery algorithm explicitly recommending games to players based on their native language. Just a few years ago, everyone in the world saw the exact same Steam home page, whereas now it serves up unique recommendations, and the user's language is a key variable:
Fourth, just as there are large numbers of Spanish speakers in the USA because of its proximity to Mexico and Central America, I bet there's a decent amount of Chinese speakers in Japan and Korea. So some of those extra sales from Japan and Korea might actually be from Chinese players.
Fifth, there might be a "cultural lift" phenomenon, where visibility in a major country (such as China) trickles down to nearby countries within its cultural sphere of influence. I'm not as sure about this last one as the observed lift in Korea and Japan happened a bit faster than this explanation might predict.
But if any of these effects are in play, I can still make a solid prediction: Asian countries will continue to dominate Defender's Quest's market share in 2017. Last year Asia was 11% of our revenue and 14% of our units sold. I expect that market share to at least double for 2017.
Traffic Analysis
So, we got a lot more sales from Asia, and especially China. But how are these Asian customers finding us? Here's a breakdown of our traffic report during the post-localization sale:
Category % Visits Home Page 37.36 Weeklong Deals 15.80 Specials 14.01 Discovery Queue 11.10 Tags 7.79 Search 4.61 Valve Website 2.46 External Website 1.46 Games < $10 0.97 Other 4.44
These are some really surprising results. If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll know that the Discovery Queue almost always dominates our traffic charts. Here's our traffic from our last promotional event, by comparison:
Category % Visits Discovery Queue 23.47 Tags 14.3 Specials 11.73 Home Page 10.62 Search Results 9.15 External Website 7.89 Weeklong Deals 6.98 Valve Website 5.29 Games < $5 3.05 Games < $10 1.64 Other 5.88
Here's a combined table for easy comparison:
Latest sale
Category % Visits Previous sale
Category % Visits Home Page 37.36 Discovery Queue 23.47 Weeklong Deals 15.80 Tags 14.30 Specials 14.01 Specials 11.73 Discovery Queue 11.10 Home Page 10.62 Tags 7.79 Search 9.15 Search 4.61 External Website 7.89 Valve Website 2.46 Weeklong Deals 6.98 External Website 1.46 Valve Website 5.29 Games < $10 0.97 Games < $5/$10 4.69 Other 4.44 Other 5.88
Expanding the "Home Page" category for the latest sale reveals that 30.40% of the traffic came from the Special Offers Grid, and 4.56% came from "Updated Games."
What's really interesting to see here is that despite the fact that this latest sale had a smaller discount (50% off vs. 67% off for the previous one), much more traffic came from the "in-your-face" promotional channels (Home Page, Weeklong Deals, Specials) rather than the softer-touch organic discovery channels (Discovery Queue, Tags, Search) we've almost exclusively relied upon until now.
Next, let's look at our visibility round results.
As mentioned in the previous article, post-Discovery update 2.0 visibility rounds are optimized for signal-boosting frequently updated games. They specifically target your existing audience as well as people who have wishlisted your game. On the face of it this seems pointless because it's not giving you any "new" visibility, but for games like ours, it seems to work -- probably because the "Recommended by Friends" module has the highest click-through rate of all the discovery channel on Steam's front page.
Here's where we're at so far:
Our click-through rate is lower, which makes sense as we ran the last round in December and have likely thinned out the pond a bit. However, we're still getting a good number of clicks. We've already beaten the previous view count in just one week -- it will be interesting to see if we're also able to surpass the total absolute number of clicks by the time the visibility round expires. I'm pretty sure these last for either 1 month or 1,000,000 views, whichever comes first, because my last round lasted for 1 month down to the minute, and my friend Ryan Clark recently ran a round that halted at around 1,000,002 views, a suspiciously round number to suddenly terminate on.
It's hard to tell how much the visibility round had to do with the Asian regions. Steam indicates 30.7% of our purchases in this period were fulfilled wishlists, but we don't get any kind of regional breakdown for that. The fact that we reached more eyeballs faster makes me think we've got wider Asian visibility than before, but I don't have solid proof.
So, should you localize your game into Chinese? Probably.
Some quick caveats. If your game isn't selling a whole lot already, I can't guarantee that localizing into Chinese is going to double your sales or anything, and the cost of a localization might even exceed what you could expect to earn from it. Furthermore, genre effects likely apply -- some games probably resonate with the Chinese audience more than others, and our story-heavy Tower-Defense RPG is apparently one of them.
Do your homework
If you've got a simple game, you can probably get away with simple bitmapped fonts, but if you absolutely need full true-type font support with arbitrary dynamic text (as we did), you'd better get your head totally wrapped around Unicode, text encodings, fonts, possibly even IMEs (Input Method Editors). In my case, the prior experience of eight previous localizations, including fellow "CJK" languages Japanese and Korean, was invaluable.
Localize your store page!
Nobody's going to bother buying your game if they can't even read the description, after all. If your game has minimal text, this might be all you have to do to reach the Chinese market.
Now, some things not to do.
Don't use Google Translate.
Just don't. You'll wind up with a garbage translation that's incoherent at best and insulting at worst. Players will definitely notice and kill your review score. A partial translation is better than a "complete" garbage one.
Don't mindlessly 'Orientalize' your game
Localization is much more than simple translation, and you'll come across plenty of guides that insist you pick up on the cultural context and make sure to make proper adjustments for those, too. And this is important! For instance, literally translating jokes and cultural references from English isn't going to work -- your translator will need to adapt, change, or even drop them entirely. However, if you do this wrong, you're in dangerous territory of going too far and confusing or even insulting your audience:
The bottom line is -- trust your translation/localization partner to suggest proper adjustments, but don't go off on your own as a clueless westerner trying to "Chinese-ify" things for the locals.
The rise of China, and Asia in general, has taken me somewhat by surprise. Conventional wisdom has always been that Japanese players only play console games, Koreans only play StarCraft and MOBAs, and Chinese players are only interested in mobile F2P games. Although I'm sure those larger trends are true, the sheer size and diversity of these regions shouldn't be ignored, opening a new niche for some indies. This is definitely a great opportunity for some of us, but this works both ways -- we should expect to see a rise in Chinese-developed games, both Indie and AAA.
We've already seen this famously with ICEY.
So I guess the question is -- how long until we see a Chinese-developed Indie game win awards for Game of the Year, Independent Games Festival, Game Developer's Choice, and sell over a million copies?
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It's a trick question :)
That's all already happened.
That game is FTL:
According to GiantBomb, Subset games is based in Shanghai*, and the two main developers were former employees of 2K China.
*Technically the founders of Subset moved to Shanghai from the USA, but since my own game Defender's Quest was made by an "American developer" -- ie Level Up Labs -- despite the fact that I am a Norwegian citizen who lives in the USA, I think it's fair to call Subset games a "Chinese developer" by the same standard.
I can recommend a great translator by the way, her name is Amy Ho. She does both Simplified and Traditional Chinese and comes with my personal stamp of approval.
Good luck out there!
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I’ve heard two different pronunciations of Aegolius and I go back and fourth in my head.
Google translate: ah-gel-ee-us
Youtuber: ae-gol-us
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Ok, when was Otus freaking BEAT cause I don’t remember Asio beating Otus. TVTropes, explain, because I will not tolerate my child being beat by Asio.
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My desire to write someone just go off on Asio is immeasurable. I also have this desire with Aegolius, but not as much since he comes up less in conversation/writing.
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News for you in case you don’t know: Molstrom’s a war criminal.
1) Pillaging. Yeah, pillaging is a war crime, and since he’s, ya know, a pirate; pillaging is a part of the job description.
2) Wanton destruction of a city. The destruction of Advent was deliberate and unnecessary. War crime.
3) Murder of civilians. The battle For Advent not only took the city off the map, but killed god knows how many civilians who got caught in the crossfire. You guessed it, war crime.
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On today’s episode of Is This Non-Human Character White: Molstrom from Owlboy
While not coded as far as I can see, I don’t see Molstrom as white. Sorry to all my fellow whites, but Molstrom is too much of a badass to be a white guy. And yes, this means another nonwhite villain, he has the personality of a white villain. Molstrom is arrogant, selfish, possibly a bit lazy as he doesn’t do work he finds beneath him, not stupid but has an ego so large he can easily be manipulated, and was thrown into a rage that made him so vengeful he’d kill the only person that can save the world from destruction.
And yes, he’s a war machine that craves power and destruction, and that ain’t a good rap on black people(let’s be clear he’s black if not anything) with Owlboy’s characterization, I think people could look past that.
I’m a white person and I have little authority on who’s white or not, this is just my personal opinion and my vibe checks on the characters.
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Writing chapter 4, and it seems like it’s a longer one. Be prepared for the entire Eternal Sanctuary and a little extra. Solid 2k words at least.
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Ok listen here: Dirk having a full on Villainous Breakdown. We kinda see it during the fight, but I want to see a fully realized one. If this wasn’t a E10+ game, maybe even some cursing.
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Holy shit, the second phase final boss music is the same for when the relics are stolen. How I know? The choir thing and I thought I recognized the soli (maybe it’s a soli, but it also might be a solo idk either way)string part. I looked it up and it’s the same song, with the mixed choir/string part taken out.
Also, the people thinking that Solus was a girl like I did was funny.
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Random Ancient Owl headcanons cause Why Not ™️
*Asio’s ancestor is Alba(the guy from the Dirk fic). I’m kinda bored of the obligatory owl oc named Bubo/Tyto so I’m calling him Alba from Tyto alba aka the Barn Owl.
*Noctae? Social anxiety 1000%. Borderline agoraphobia.
*Even though I’m not the biggest fan of Harry Potter, I imagine the houses working the same. At a certain age, you go to the magic object and you get put into a house based what the thing tells you. People in the House of Math and Philosophy are more critical and ask lots questions about deep shit for how young they are. Like asking where their parents are from and just taking it back and back until they can’t take it back anymore. They’re also naturally gifted at math, obviously. And people from the House of Engineering and Leadership by being natural leaders and while also being naturally gifted at math, they more focus on building things using the math they know while they’re younger then just plain math. The rest I think is kinda obvious.
*I get Ancient Geek/Roman Empire vibes mixed with the 70s for some reason 🤷♀️
*Noctae tried in his special little Noctae way to hint that he knew he was going to die to Aegolius, but we saw how that worked out. Spoiler alert: he didn’t recognize the hints. Fucking Bastard Man
*The ancient owl language is a mix of Mayan and Latin. How that would work, idk I’m not a linguist
*The Otus dying yet being able to see his hologram thing was the only thing to truly stump Noctae.
*Since Noctae saw the future with math, he saw the events of the game. But since he’s social anxiety 100, he told no one
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