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hey hi, no intentions to intrude but i saw you reblogged one of my posts tagging it as #oc isaac! I don't mean to be rude, but I'd like to hear about him, if you're willing to ramble (i like listening to people talk about their OCs). if not, then that's okay!
have a nice day ☆
Holy shit. This isn't intruding at all holy shit I love talking about my OCs. Especially Isaac he's literally my favorite OCs. I'm literally so happy right now like this is hard to express in words. I am typing at the speed of light. I love asks about my OCs please everyone send me asks about my OCs.
Anyways! Ahem! A little bit of infodump on my favorite bastard!
Oh yeah. CW for like. Serial murder. Cannibalism. Torture. Failed executions. Solitary confinement. Starvation. Excessive amounts of suffering. So, so much trauma. That kind of stuff! There's probably more that I might be forgetting.
Longggg infodump under the readmore btw. If anyone reads it all I adore you also.
Here's some art of him! My friend made this for me <2
So, Isaac! He's like one of my favorite types of fictional character: unhinged arrogant men who are incredibly broken. Isaac has like two main motivations: he wants power and control, and he doesn't want to be hurt. And these are also very influenced by incredibly excessive amounts of hubris and anger.
A little bit of backstory: Isaac is an immortal shapeshifter, and he was born in like 1600s France (or the fantasy equivalent depending on the universe I put him into).
He's transgender, which very much sucked for him in 1600s France, because 1. he was not allowed to live as his true gender and 2. people seen as women were not treated very nicely in 1600s France. Isaac was going to be married off to someone he didn't choose- so he ran away instead.
And almost immediately afterwards he got into a duel and almost died. A last-minute deal with a deity saved his life, because he received his immortality and shapeshifting powers. The cost was that everyone he knew forgot about him- so he just went to the woods and lived there for like 150 years. Eventually he returned to society tho.
However during that period of time in the woods, Isaac was completely isolated, and that warped his worldview very much. He thinks that he's above like all humans because of his powers. Combined with deep-seated resentment at humanity because of the restricted life he once led, Isaac decides to take it out on people by like. Murdering them. And then cannibalizing them afterwards. He looks down on people so much and he's desperate for a feeling of power and control, and murder and cannibalism gives him heaps of that.
And then after like 50 years of that he gets caught. And his captors attempt to execute him, but it doesn't work since he's immortal. And they try everything. Hanging, beheading, drowning, immolation, garroting, just about everything. Isaac was alive and conscious for every one of them. So yeah, trauma!
And eventually they decided to immure him (lock him in a cell, brick up the wall, and leave him to die), because he'd have to die eventually, right?
Well, he didn't, and he spent about 200 years in a cell. A dark cell in a basement, with nobody else inside. His first escape attempts were futile, and eventually he lost the strength to even try escaping. Isaac may be immortal, but he still needs food and water to function normally. So it was just torture for him. He suffered even more knowing that he was there because he was subdued.
Isaac knew that nobody would ever come to save him. He feels ashamed that he ever wanted someone to save him.
Eventually he escapes because the prison above gets demolished. It takes him a while, but after finding food and water and getting to rest, Isaac does fully recover physically. His powers ensure that he'll never even have a scar. He returns to killing people anyways, because Isaac will never learn.
Being left to rot in a basement cell changes him quite a bit, ofc! He's incredibly angry that he was bought so low, and he takes it out extra on people by committing more murder. And he's incredibly afraid of people and how they could hurt him now, although he'll never admit it.
Isaac tries to pretend nothing ever happened to him, but he still sleeps with the lights on, and he hides food in his clothing, he's always eating or drinking something, and he flinches when someone gets too close to him.
He's gone through so much shit, especially cuz of his own actions, but his pride prevents him from doing any self reflection, so he will keep digging his own grave further and further and further. Isaac does not have the ability to swallow his pride and reconsider what path he's taking, or seek help, and he doesn't try to be a better person cuz he doesn't think he needs to be.
And yeah! That's the Isaac infodump. It's just about every piece of information about regular Isaac. Should I reveal this in my writing instead of a tumblr ask? Probably. Will I post this anyways? Absolutely.
#oh I haven't talked about the um#torture AUs#quite a bit of the posts in the oc isaac tag are torture AU isaac#I'm very normal as you can see#anyways welcome to my whump blog#oh I should tag this with useful stuff#whump#oc isaac#technically I didn't mention some of the backstory events#midnight meal is a canon part of his backstory#yeah. I love putting this man through incredibly traumatic events#my ocs <2
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do you like totk or botw better?
In short: Yes, I like botw better.
Here are my reasons, though!
I know a lot of people view it as the better experience, which is completely subjective and valid if you do and like it better, but I just view botw as being better in almost every way.
I will give it to totk. The dungeons have a lot better atmosphere. The game has some extremely high highs with the build-up to the wind temple, the whole great sky island segment, and the final boss is a much better fight (though dark beast ganon has a better theme song imo).
Other than that, I prefer botw. Totk has a much grander story, but it's completely mishandled. You can argue that totk has a great story but has poor execution, and to me, execution plays a big role in what makes a story good. You can have good ideas bit it all falls apart if they aren't executed well which ends up making the story bad. It's not that totk has a good story with poor execution, it has good ideas but the bad execution leads to a poorly told story. (I hope that makes sense). Botw has less of a story and is more like a set of events. Botw has history and backstory that is told more organically. Link has amnesia so he slowly regains some of his memories of the past with some people trying to help fill him in. It feels more real...in a weird fantasy way. I guess totk is similar with how we see Zelda's memories, but not really? It's weird to explain. Everything 100 years ago is felt in present day botw while in totk most of those things don't really matter as it happened so long ago. Things only start to resurge because Zelda wanted to investigate under the castle. Totk also has twists like a story. Idk if this is making sense but that's how I feel on their stories. There was just not much botw could mess up on story wise as the way it was presented.
Gameplay wise I can not lie totk is technical marvel with the zonai tech. That's the most impressive thing about it. Tbh building contraptions isn't my thing though, it takes too long to make and experiment with a machine when I can just do whatever that machine was gonna do much faster. I see why people have a lot of fun with it though, it just isn't my thing. One thing I HATE in totk though is the amount of menuing I have to do. Elemental arrows had a serious downgrade. Yeah it's cool to fuse stuff to arrows, but not when I have to do it to ever single individual arrow and if I want to try something new I have to scroll past 50 other items in a single line. It's just tedious. If I want to use a good weapon I have to go to the menu, drop an item, and menu again to fuse it to a weapon that will still break. Item breaking is still an issue but it's more annoying and the weapons no longer look cool. Totk has some cool abilities, but idk I'd trade them all for remote bombs lmao. I hate going through caves, especially early game, and having to deal with the rock walls where they want me to fuse a rock to a stick 10 times to get through one cave. There's just a lot of little things gameplay wise that bug me. They doubled down on botws gameplay issues and added some more annoying ones. I don't even have to mention the sages abilities, that's a whole mess.
On the topic of gameplay, botw just has the better world. Idc, exploring that world for the first time is an unforgettable experience. Totks main world is too similar so the magic is gone. The sky and depths are also unimpressive and repetitive. Botw also has the benefit on how the word felt so lonely yet alive. Everything had a purpose or a story. The world has a history. And totk just doesn't have that. Outside of the upheaval, totk doesn't really build on botws world that much. I was hoping to see if they would've added new towns or see how they'd rebuild hyrule, but they really didn't do that. We only got lookout landing, which doesn't really count as a town, and a bunch of building stuff lying around which is cool I guess. Hateno has a school and Terry Town expanded a little, but with the estimate of about 5 years since botw it makes you wonder...what have these people been doing? We can theoretically build Terry Town in one day. There could be new towns.
Totk is a sequel that doesn't really acknowledge it's predecessor which is so odd. Botw stands on its own and is an overall more cohesive experience. Everything in the world feels purposefully crafted for that world while totk just slaps things on top of it with not much thought. Botw has some amazing world building while for totk it's either "the Zonai did it" or has some contradictory world building. For example, the old sages lifted up the sky islands so that Link would be protected from Ganondorf shenanigans, but then other sky islands suggest how they've been around long before Rauru since young Zonai used to train in them or something. There is also how Zelda says Link never leaves her side, but people she interacts with on an almost daily basis do not recognize him and how even treat as if he doesn't know some facts about her. So either she is overexaggerating by a lot and/or lying in her own diary or that people in hyrule have the collective memory of a rock. There's also Zelda supposedly never giving Link the champions leathers yet as a gift, but we see him wearing it in the beginning. Idk there's more contradictories, but I haven't experienced this for botw??? Totk is so disconnected and disjointed in comparison.
I'm trying to be vague but there's a lot to say, I'm sorry. I really was enjoying this game at the beginning but the more I played the more I noticed or saw things that bugged me and just kept adding up and up on each other. Botw was never like this for me. It's just more cohesive and I like that. There are so many other things I haven't brought up like the repetitive cutscenes, or missing characters/characters that SHOULD know Link but don't (namely Bolson and Hestu). But this post is long. I can't keep complaining about this game. Botw really is that one of a kind experience, and totk tries to replicate it but worse. Botw had a vine that totk lacks. You feel so alone, but you meet knew people and make friends. You build connections as you learn about the past and help those around you. There is no story, you're just a person going through the motions and exploring the vast world around you. Totk can't replace that for me. I'm the main character playing a side role in a disjointed world where not much makes sense. Everything is similar in all the wrong ways.
And most important of all, they took away Link's fun dialogue and personality now he really is bland asf and used to defend that he wasn't.
#asks#botw#totk#tatk salt#breath of the wild#tears of the kingdom#totk spoilers#tears of the kingdom spoilers#sorry anon this was asked a while ago but college and I was recharging my battery lol#uhhhh not going to proof read I'm sorry lol#I have so much to say but I fr cant keep ranting about this game#like I dont enjoy being negative but I have so many thoughts and feelings fjsnnfn#totk doesnt spoil botw for me it actually made appreciate what botw does well even more#ik people are getting tired of totk hate already but oh well#for awhile Ive been saying how Im so conflicted on this game but my final stance is I dont like it#coming out as a hater 🤩
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TGCF Heaven Official's Blessing - first reread - more things I'm noticing, and how the clues hidden in plain sight work (spoilers)
It's so much fun to discover all the easter eggs. Vols. 1 and 2 are chock full of things you can't possibly remember to connect to events that happen 4 or 5 vols. later.
For example, in vol. 2 (Seven Seas edition) at the end of the scene where Hua Cheng beats up Qi Rong in his cave, we learn that Qi Rong is Xie Lian's cousin. This is presented as a big reveal, and it leads us to rethink the whole scene, as we realize that Xie Lian knew all along that the perpetrator of the Gilded Banquet massacre was his own family member.
This kind of reveal does two things:
1) It gives us a blueprint for how MXTX is going to unpack her story, to alert us to expect important information to be withheld and then dropped for greatest effect.
2) It distracts us from noticing what *else* might be hidden in plain sight while we're busy unpacking the supposed big reveal. Because there's probably at least one other reveal in there. So, in the cave scene, after we learn about Qi Rong, we get some backstory about him - but it's full of omissions, which we don't realize. We are told that Qi Rong was a big headache for Xie Lian even back in Xianle days. Xie Lian had to fix his messes constantly.
For example:
"There was even an incident where Xie Lian saved a child, not even 10 years of age, from Qi Rong's clutches. The poor boy had been beaten to a bloody pulp, miserable to the bone." (p. 260)
It's only quite a lot later that we get a flashback where we see this event and learn that the child is Hua Cheng, but I did not remember that we are told about it this early. And here it's mentioned as if it's just one more small bit of bad behavior, with no consequences. In reality, it's a pivotal event in the formation of Hua Cheng.
Most of that we can put together during the first read. But it's only on this reread that I now see that Qi Rong's vicious attack on a defenseless child is the central crime of his character - the most terrible, indefensible thing, done on a whim. But wait, there's more! Because a bit earlier in the cave scene, when we first see Guzi and his father, here's how he's described:
"The one child in the group was probably not even ten years of age." (p. 218) In case we didn't get the parallel to HC, MXTX tells us as clearly as possible.
Except we miss it because we don't realize it's important. Guzi is the same age that Hua Cheng was when Xie Lian rescued him from Qi Rong. [Edit: technically, HC is a little older, around 10, but looks much younger because his growth was stunted by maltreatment. The parallel remains intact, though.]
So what's even more important is this: later, when Qi Rong adopts Guzi and very gradually becomes a real father to him, he is redeeming his original attack on the child Hua Cheng. And at the very end, If Qi Rong has a hope of regaining corporeal form, it's because he protected Guzi at his own expense, saving the child's life.
Or else, even better: when he selflessly protected Guzi, perhaps for the first time in all his centuries as a ghost he stopped being resentful. Perhaps he has dissipated, and is at peace.
#Xie Lian#Hua Cheng#heaven official's blessing#tgcf#MXTX meta#MXTX is a sadist#Laugh or cry#qi rong and guzi#Connecting the dots in TCGF
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Another funny thing about weird Decepticon stans trying to pretend that the Autobots were just as bad as them is that, in IDW1, the Autobots literally did not exist until Orion Pax stormed the Senate and delivered a speech claiming "Autobot" as a new label to mean "autonomous." Whereas all of the colonization during the Golden Age happened during Nova Prime's time a couple million years prior.
And during the war, the Decepticons were literally cyberforming planets they killed and had established something called the Interstellar Constellate at some point. And Megatron said in Chaos Theory that his plan for his Decepticon empire if/when he defeated the Autobots was to rebuild and cyberform planets to create a Decepticon empire where mechanical beings reign supreme.
Like, the BEST ARGUMENT you can make is that since Optimus is a Prime, he technically inherits the problematic nature of the Primacy's history of colonization, but I think that even that argument is pretty thin considering that Optimus was always pro-organic to the point of valuing their lives equally to Cybertronians, which is something that even a lot of Autobots fail to do. Compared to other members of his species, Optimus is literally a radical in terms of his stance that organic life = Cybertronian life, but go off I guess lmao.
You can even see that during the time of Sentinel's Senate, there was an engraving on the wall that said "freedom is the right of all civilized beings", showing that Optimus at some point took that phrase and changed it to underline the fact that freedom is a universal right for ALL beings.
Also, again for IDW1 specifically, a lot of anti-Optimus people clearly don't even know the timeline of events in that story. OP spent a good chunk of the story working against the Senate with things like
Storming the Senate on Megatron's behalf to deliver an angry speech against government corruption
Working with Senator Shockwave undercover to investigate Proteus being suspicious, uncovering a conspiracy to frame the Decepticons for a terrorist attack, and risking his team to prevent it
Going on the run and doing secret operations like saving hotspots from being attacked by Sentinel's forces
(For bonus points, he even saved Drift from dying either by drug overdose or being beaten to death by some thugs and called an emergency transport for him to Ratchet's clinic)
The regime change happens because Sentinel Prime is killed BY MEGATRON who at that point had already become a gladiator criminal underworld. By the time Orion is back in Iacon acting as Zeta's head of security/general/etc, Megatron is already well on the path of corruption and senseless violence doing things like arranging illegal weapon trafficking (shown in Optimus Prime) and forcing Rumble and Frenzy to get frame reformats to fit Megatron's tactical needs (Megatron Origin). Apparently Optimus doesn't deserve to have facts about his backstory and difficult contexts around his decisions be observed by this fandom though lmao.
If you take IDW1 out of context and go "OP worked for the regime!" then yeah of course it looks bad, and yes he did do that. But a lot of people also neglect to mention 1. the anti-government actions he DID take 2. the fact that by the time OP started fighting against Megatron, he had already become super evil and 3. because Megatron was super evil, Orion couldn't just desert Zeta's government and be like, "oh yeah I'll totally be able to talk Megatron out of doing terrorism and violence just on my own" especially since in this continuity they barely fuckin' knew each other before OP became a Prime. There's so much shit around OP being a cop and the ways he did or didn't succeed in trying to change the planet for the better, but none of that is addressed when people just go "oh he's a cop and the Autobots are colonizers" like ????? Stop it.
Stop taking this shit out of context and stop cherrypicking evidence to make one side look good and the other side look bad lmao.
#squiggposting#discourse#i regret to inform you all that i have been forced to witness this particular discourse again#like i'm sorry but in terms of idw1 specifically if you try to say that 'the autobots did colonialism too' you are straight up wrong#there is some weird shit in there though where autobot was coined by orion#but also for some reason sentinel's forces are called autobots???? it's really fuckin weird JRO why did you do that#but i ignore that part bc it makes no sense and it requires too much conjecture#i guess you could also try to claim that the regime used the autobot insignia therefore the autobots are the regime but like#i feel like that's basically the equivalent of the country's flag and a specific political party incorporating that flag into their own ban#the weird shit with the autobot name/insignia isn't the first contradictory or confusing lore JRO has written#so i feel at license to basically ignore that part#but anyways. the idw1 autobots didn't do colonialism and the decepticons did. sorry#that being said anyone who genuinely tries to pass moral judgment on decepticon stans just for liking decepticons#is an annoying ass anti and a bitch ass#i'm just begging ppl that just bc antis are annoying doesn't mean you should also be annoying#and you shouldn't devolve into cherrypicking canon or turning things black and white as well
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I saw you talk about the colonel and. Can I ask if you have thoughts on the ability users that fought against verlaine? I find them all so fascinating, despite the fact they really weren't around for long.
I think they're all so interesting!! Let me see how many of them I remember off the top of my head.
Obv we have the Colonel and his earth-moving ability, and we know he survived Stormbringer, but I just think he was a really interesting guy from what little we know about him. Its in the Dead Apple Prequel event from Bungo Mayoi so take it with a grain of salt, but Chuuya and Dazai both seemed a little personally upset that the Colonel was killed. Sure, we didn't see much of him, but I kind of think of him as a jolly great-uncle type of guy that would have had one of those really full-bodied laughs when telling old stories from the Great War to his colleagues in mafia-owned bars. Like, he was certainly a powerful ability user, its a shame we didn't see more of him.
I think the only other ability user from that battle that got a name was Karen, the one with the frost ability. If I'm remembering correctly, she was pretty out of it, and only really did anything when she was told? I'd love to know more about her and why she was that way, only acting when given orders. She has to have an interesting backstory somewhere, right? Right?? And the range of her ability was quite impressive, too. She has to have some kind of personality to her in off-times though, which means she can't wholly be a weapon to aim and not much else, but I understand why she's not an executive if she doesn't really think for herself despite her powerful ability. I think she survived as well? Or at least survived the Brutalization phase, lord knows what happened once Guivre was activated.
I can't mention Karen without mentioning the Time-Wielding ability user, since he died shoving her out of the way of an attack. If he was included in the wet cat poll going around I think he'd have a fighting chance, because god this guy was miserable. Technically we have the most backstory on him, just because he mentions right off the bat that his family was killed by time. Parents, I'm sure this was old age, possibly, but he also mentions the death of a sibling if I remember correctly. I can't help but wonder what that time-related death was. Something running out of time? A terminal disease? Can't be sure, but I feel like its different. I find this guy really interesting even though we only see him for a brief moment, because for one second he isn't so gloomy, and that's trying to save Karen. Despite how gloomy he is, clearly he hadn't given up on forming attachments yet (this is also why I think Karen is more than a blank slate, the time guy saw her as something worth saving!). That, and his ability itself is rather rare, as time-based abilities are incredibly powerful and the only other one we know of is H.G. Wells from 55 minutes, but hers operates completely differently. He had soooooooo much interesting potential and its a shame he died, even though it was protecting someone! What a way to go.
The only other one I remember off the top of my head that we saw any true personality of was the guy with the keyhole ability that died getting sucked through his little viewport. Gosh, his was fun. It also kind of reminded me of Nikolai's ability in passing? I don't know anything about this little keyhole guy off in the control room, but I would bet money that he and Albatross got along fucking great because they were both absolutely ridiculous. I'd like to see what that guy came up with on April Fools day, because he had the personality and ability to cause some real havoc.
That's the really cool thing about these characters. We only saw them for an instant, but in such a short time we saw enough of who they were to remember them and form some opinions. I'd love to someday see Ango-style files written on them as bonus content or something, just to see what's left to say. They all had such interesting abilities and so much potential. And again, in theory, at least Karen may have still been alive. I can't help but wonder if, if she made it, she also had to fight her ability during Dead Apple, and if she survived it (or held it off long enough for the others to defeat Shibusawa). I almost doubt her ability to simply because of her thing with following orders, but there's certainly a chance. If she is still alive, I hope she pops up again some day.
#this was soooo fun to think about thank you so much#asks? answered. hotel? trivago.#bsd stormbringer#bsd dead apple#port mafia ensemble#kind of#sol!
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As someone who loves both Grima and Anankos I don't think Grima took Anankos's backstory at all, Grima's view if anything was stolen from Mewtwo. Lab creation, used in some matter, screw humanity. I would not be shocked if that ended up being the inspiration for the backstory FEH made up (because yeah they made it up but it's a canon property so it's canon backstory now) Mewtwo is one of the most popular Pokemon of all time and you can't deny making a god vs making the world's most powerful Pokemon doesn't have some parallels. And even so while I could see them inspired by Anankos betrayal compared to him nothing about Grima is tragic, he's just bitter. He's fully aware and lucid of everything (despite lacking ancient memories) he's pissed and wants everyone to suffer and it's also fun for him. Nothing much more to him despite how much my fellow Grima fans would like to argue; lab created angry betrayed murder dragon is all there is canonically. But as Grima was once meant to be a Loptous expy before he became FE Mewtwo there is now a lot in Awakening that doesn't make sense due to these retcons.
Anankos though! Oh Anankos is hella tragic following the theme of Fates really. A really good guy. Cared about his people did everything for them, loved them stayed longer than he should have and fell to degeneration. Basically got so old he got dragon dementia nothing like who he used to be due to this disease and since his functions are now failing he's full of rage all the time memories are warped he loses sight of who is around him and more, this rage causes him to go berserk and he's unable to understand why those he loved turned on him then he kills his best friend he keeps spiraling, going mad following and giving into his delusions about being betrayed, I wouldn't be shocked if he made up events that didn't happen in his messed up state of mind. Unlike Grima he is not lucid, it's true he also has a hatred of humanity because he was betrayed and his goal, like Grima is complete world annihilation but his betrayal wasn't a true betrayal either, and technically he betrayed humanity first but unknowingly because he is no longer the same person he was. Anankos is so far gone he's insane. Grima is perfectly sane and still wants complete world annihilation, either because he's angry or because he's just that bored (one of his lines also mentions wanting to start a war because he's bored) because of his betrayal he sees everyone as beneath him mere playthings. Anankos can't see anything he's gone *gone* all that matters is fulfilling his goal.
Sorry for rambling I just really love both of them and feel like calling one a rip off of the other isn't fully correct. Anankos is a crazy deep character (non corrupt Anankos when FEH it'd be a great mythic) and that's why I love him and I love Grima because of how little there is and it's fun to give him more with the little we have, I uh don't like the girl version because she's lets make her sexy and sell to horny men don't we have enough of those!! but the boy version is nifty
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FEH's canonicity is always going to be questionned, like, I'm the loser who will claim to the world Rhea bakes cookies because her FEH alt bakes them when her Fodlan iteration doesn't bake sweets - but it's all about the thin line, imo, between what in a fanfiction would be called IIC and OC.
Grima claiming that humans only worship him to later turn against him is... backed up by nothing, let it be in FE13 or FE15. Hell, in FE13, his human followers are, uh, sort of brainwashed to come to the dragon's tarble, and end up as his own snacks (he consumes their lifeforce à la Medeus?) - they didn't even had the occasion/chance to ask him something and then backstab him, no, they ended up in his stomach.
(something Loptry doesn't do at all, so what was the point of having this mentionned? "Remember Medeus? Here is the copy of what he did to those 4 ladies!")
In FE15 we got his backstory - where I agree with your mewtwo parallel (even if the franchise had no qualms stomping the "strongest pokemon ever" nonsense which had them release two megas for him - and even then, M-Ray, U-Necrozma and the later legendaries wreck him in half!) which is why they could have used this as a backstory : Grima was rejected by his creator who sought to end him because he "couldn't control him", he was rejected by the dragons (and maybe FEH could canonise the fact that Duma's visit of Thabes happening when Grima was conceived was just not a coincidence!) so in a traditional mindset, if the world hates him, he'll hate the world but with a special hatred for humans (GG Forneus) who "condemned him to live a life of hatred and despair"...
That's where the bitterness angle would come, but where I call this backstory the Anankos expy, it's because Grima's trusted and fellow humans never... turned their blades at him? Unless we're only talking about his Creator Forneus?
FE13's worldbuilding is wonky, but I thought Plegia was a nation where people worshipped him (which led Chrom's dad to war against them!) - so unless Grima suggests the First Exalt (Chrom's descendant) was one of his BFF who turned against them when he tried to do Grima-things which are, in FE13's canon, destroy the world and kill everyone, I really wonder where this "betrayed by humans" angle comes.
As you pointed it out, Anankos's story is more "tragic" because the man had been benevolent, but refused to "move to the astral plane" so he was degenerating, and humans being their human selves turned against him.
And doubly agree, maybe FEH's writers slapped this story on Grima to have someone, who still has some agency and isn't fully consumed by madness (not Anankos then) explain this backstory... FEH most likely didn't came up with Ascended!Heroes already - aka Heroes who are in the best versions of themselves (Idunn becoming a chicken again!) so they couldn't come up with an Anankos who, after being defeated by Corn and somehow surviving, explains his past and stresses the importance of bonds.
Instead, they had to craft something about Grima's backstory because between FE13!Grima wanting to destroy the world and its people in angry red capslocks and FE15!Grima being an eldritch abomination that was rejected by his creator at birth there was a gap they needed to fill and Doylist wise, since Anankos couldn't be released (what would be his lines if he's his insane self? - 2018!FEH couldn't have came up with kid!Soren as a unit lol) it was "okay" to copy part of his background and give to Grima - even if it doesn't make sense at all given FE13 - to explain the behaviour he has in FE13, since the mainline games didn't bother.
But doing so, as you said, retcons FE13.
Rhea baking cookies doesn't retcon FE16 or Nopes because the games (more Nopes than FE16 but that's player pandering for you!) showed/depicted her as someone who cares about people/plays with children when she can, but Grima blaming humans for shunning him when the humans who worship him got what they desired? What is he even talking about? He is the one who devoured his followers in FE13, as they were mindlessly marching to their doom, what/who is the talking about? Forneus? But Forneus never asked him anything, but he tried to get rid of him while he was still in his test tube.
At this point, I realise FEH!Grima is basically, especially as he is retcon to his canon games, a FEH OC lol.
Don't apologise for rambling lol, I always ramble!
I get the appeal of coming up with backstories and writing about characters who have no background, I spent years connecting dots between multiverse about Saias lol and Willy's basically became my OC since canon!Willy is just a name and a statue lol
But yeah, it's a damn shame FEH pretended to care enough about Grima to give them a new background/reasons/plot, but now only sees them as occasions to sell horny alts (Halloween!M!Grima had the same T&A pose than his female counterpart!) even if F!Grima has it the worst (my fwend @crushednugget made a beautiful edit of Rearmed Grima but with Valdar instead!).
But we know what FEH prioritises : horny > plot and relevance, remember Karla and her 3 alts?
#anon#replies#FE heroes#I guess what annoyed me the most with FEH!Grima is how he retcons his FE13/15 versions#him basically being a FEH OC solves everything#Too bad Anankos never received the same love from FEH#can you imagine Anankos aka Fate's big bad was only released in 2022 ?#Like we had 2 years of Fatewakening heroes but no Anankos#and now he's released as his crazed self? like wtf#maybe i a was bit harsh on birb's post#but given what grima was in FE13 aka a loptyr throwback but more hammy as he wanted to destroy the world#and FE15 Grima being a homonculi who could have hated his artificial existence because everyone rejected him#see FMA2003's Wrath#the fact that they went with part of Anankos's bg 'i helped humans and then they betrayed me' really pissed me#and yep @ everything you said about anankos#is he really raving about a betrayal or what in his degenerating mind he perceived as betrayal?#we will never know#unless FEH decides that Anankos' ass shots are profitable and releases more units of him
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talking about kung fu panda 2 as promised :) specifically about the parallels between po and shen
the first movie already some some parallels between po and tai lung but the second movie honestly ups the hero-villain parallels by a thousand. shen being a foil to po and being so important to his backstory that he basically set it in motion is so cleverly thought out.
i want to mention their designs first off and how they correlate to their backstories. the choice to make a panda's foil be a peacock is phenomenal. their designs are basically bouba/kiki: where po is round, bouncy and soft, shen is thin, flowy and sharp. this is also emphasized by their fighting styles with po being so bouncy and shen using blades (when he's not using a cannon). but the best part is obviously their color schemes. aside from shen's red accents on his design, he is very monochromatic, aka black and white, and anyone who has seen the movie knows how this correlates to the prophecy of the "warrior of black and white".
even though shen assumes that the warrior in the prophecy is a panda, the movie lets you look more into how shen treats the prohecy and how it treats him. for all we know, it could refer to shen being an end of himself. in a way, he technically is, when his own cannon falls on him and kills him. in that scene, he doesn't even try to dodge the cannon, but more on that later. the movie wants you to choose if you think the prophecy refers to po or shen, but I would say it refers to both, since both had a hand in shen's demise.
on topic of the prophecy, how it came to be and how it affected both characters is also worth noting. when shen heard he would be defeated by a "warrior of black and white", he assumed that this warrior must be a panda, and set out to massacre a panda village. this is what set po's story in motion and give him his unhappy start. witnessing a genocide that seperated him from his mother, only briefly seeing a symbol of the man who murdered his mother and the rest of the village, and being abandoned for his own safety. the event that made po lose his home and family made shen more proud than ever to think he had finally evaded his fate, along with leaving him bitter due to being banished for it, which also made shen even more able to taunt po about the event.
neither po nor shen were in a good emotional state during their reunion. po had been having constant flashbacks of his mother's death and shen, while seemingly satisfied with taking over gongmen city, was deeply unhappy and still unsatisfied as he wanted all of china. po realizing that shen was there when he lost his family didn't make anything better. shen used the opportunity of an emotionally vulnerable po to taunt him and lie to him about how his parents never loved him in the first place and thus abandoned him. once you progress in the film, you do learn that this is just shen projecting on po; even though the soothsayer tells shen that his parents loved him so much that having to banish him killed them from heartbreak, he insists that they never really loved him and wanted him gone the entire time. he vents his own frustrations out on po, whose parents abandoned him for his own safety.
up until the soothsayer finds po and tends to his injuries, both shen and po are deeply disturbed. it takes po effort and strength to be able to face the truth of his past, as tragic as it is. it takes effort for him to find inner peace and heal, a kind of effort that shen doesn't make. when po tells shen to let go of the past, it doesn't feel like another one of those "hero convinces villain to just be nice" scenes. it's po convincing shen, who deeply traumatized him, that even the most scarred and damaged people can heal. and this "healing" in shen's mind is violence, given how earlier in the movie, he ends him lying to po with "let me heal you" before shooting him. this same healing is applied to shen quite literally, with his own cannon falling on him, but he doesn't dodge it or even flinch. he just closes his eyes and accepts his fate. he has healed.
#kfp#this isnt super long i just thought i still wouldn't want to leave the entire post as is and take up your dash too much
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old memories (backstory under the cut)
Did this some time last year. I wanted to experiment with making a comic with as little dialogue as possible. Never made it past the roughs but I like its simplicity.
But basically in Untamed: the president of the country has the ability to change history and influence public consciousness on things. She changed opinions on noble infighting so that nobility sees having other people fight your battles as weak & hiring private mercenaries + involving common people in noble fighting is both Illegal and Dishonourable.
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This is a part of Swannie's backstory that Is Technically canon but I don't see ever really coming up in campaign just because, holy shit I gave Swannie so much backstory and we already did basically 2 arcs for characters related to her so I didn't want to extend the campaign AGAIN for it but it has so much Implication in the lore and says a lot about the World and Morality of decisions made within it that have cost & benefits to them.
The young man in this comic is Swannie's older brother, Sterling. He was drafted into a noble lord's army, and so the scene here is her family seeing him off to his deployment.
Kind of slay honestly common people are no longer taken advantage of in that way, right..... But it did change people's memories and I thought it would be interesting to explore the idea of how it would change memories and perception of them.
This memory is very vague for her, both because she was young and because of the memory-tampering involved. After public opinion was shifted her parents' understanding of these events also shifted, so what they perceive as his decision to become a soldier was now something incredibly shameful. This contributed to her father's alcoholism after their hometown was destroyed, and ultimately to her decision of becoming a draker since she needed to make money where her father couldn't. And because of the kind of people her parents were they never spoke about Sterling again. I figure they would think it was better for Swannie to forget about him than to have bad memories of him.
There was a time when we went back to her hometown and I was going to have her, now with the knowledge of the president's brainwashing and past 2000 years of history in her head, go back home and have these memories come back to her to explore those themes mentioned earlier.
Why is this memory so bittersweet? Maybe one day she'll figure it out......
So yeah there you go. Deep Swannie Lore for all the Swannie Enjoyers out there :] love an old lady with just so much got dam history
#untamed#d&d#orc#swannie hoyster#i still really wish i could fit it in but it would just be way too much#so this is like a silent fact#whether she pieces it together after story events will remain to be seen#I can't remember the exact age now; I think I might've made him 16 and her 6 in this?#but yeah the themes the history..... juicy
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gore for tobias, crust for celeste, horrid for zera, chomp for lucas, gape for bailey
CW: mentioned mercy killings.
Tobias, Gore: what's the most violent thing they've done?
Hm.... I don't have any actual incidents planned out in his backstory at the moment, so there's nothing that stands out as particularly awful in his mind. He's taken on some jobs that got messy, especially the few times he's done vampire hunting jobs (either because there were no specialized vamp hunters in the area, or his job overlapped with vamp activity that wasn't known about beforehand).
Oooooh idea. He got mixed up in a job that overlapped with a vamp hunter team's job, and ended up in the middle of A Mess. He did some mercy killings for vampire victims that were too far gone to be saved, or were suspected to have been fed vamp blood and were either going to die horribly or become another vampire that would have to be dealt with. It might not technically be the most violent thing he's done, but it is the one that weighs on him the most.
(Because he was too darn stable. He needs some extra angst in this.)
Celeste, Crust: what are their defense mechanisms?
Because they've changed so much over the years, I'm going to split this into a few time frames:
While on the streets, her defense mechanism was politeness. Yes sir, no ma'am, please, and so on.
After Madame Lucienne took her in, this changed. She got snarky. As a human in training and a young vampire, she turned to insults as her defense.
Once she was trained to be a pet, the only defense mechanism she really had left was dissociation. Send her mind somewhere else, so it didn't experience the pain her body was enduring.
Zera, Horrid: what's the fastest way to hurt their feelings?
Insult their hair.
No, I'm kidding. The fastest way to hurt Zera's feelings would probably be if they were in civilian mode and someone got talking about how heroes don't really help at all. Zera wouldn't be able to really defend themself or their team, and they put a lot of pride and self-worth into their role as a hero.
Luke, Chomp: do they have nightmares? What about?
I thought I told you lot to stay out of my Plans folder! Yes, he has nightmares. He has nightmares about That Day, the day he tried to stop villains from stealing evidence and ended up beaten three-quarters of the way to death and benched for 6 months while he healed. Sometimes he hears people talking, but so far he's never seen his attacker's face.
Read Bailey's perspective on the event here
Bailey, Gape: sum up their morals by saying something they would do, and then something they wouldn't.
Would: steal. Specifically, they'd steal from big corporations run by billionaires that don't pay their employees nearly enough. Their ideal theft would be one where no one gets hurt, except some rich asshole's bottom line.
Wouldn't: kill. Not even when their evil supervillain mentor makes it sound like such a logical and reasonable thing to do.
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From this ask game
#ask game#asks answered#whump ask game#the heart and the hunger#tobias the bounty hunter#celeste the vampire#with bloody outstretched hands#bailey the villain#zera the hero#luke the teammate#bailey aka poppet#zera aka foxfire#luke aka icarus
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wait rose had an abusive ex-boyfriend? I didn't know about him honestly. Spare some more infos about his and rose relationship?
oh, yes; rose has had one (1) romantic entanglement in their whole life. it did not end well. long post under the cut; someone asks me about backstory and i just start typing and don’t stop.
cw: domestic violence, violence, misgendering, alcohol, uhh. bad. a bad time.
rose had a reasonably nice childhood; their family was comfortably lower-middle class, they were shy and nervous with a stutter (they went to speech therapy growing up; they always had it but the severity wobbled around. in the current timeline its in a pretty bad state). they have some issues about being the forgotten/least loved child because of their sister needing a lot of their parents attention. they were bullied pretty badly throughout high school; but they figured university was a fresh start and that things could and would get better for them. the best laid plans, though—
his name is/was thomas and he was a business student (fucking business students) at the same university rose attended. rose met him at a freshers event (do you guys call that first week of being a student 'freshers week' outside of the uk? do you call first years freshers? do you guys chant ’down it fresher’ in attempts to make people as drunk as possible?) - and he was very sweet to them; rose was an anxious mess trying to figure out if they'd made enough of an attempt to be able to go home and say they tried, and thomas . . . figured rose would be an easy mark. thomas grew up in a fairly affluent family (his father is a high-profile lawyer, his grandfather owns a successful textile business that thomas would have inherited, hence the business degree); his family wanted him to Settle Down With A Nice “Girl”, and thomas figured that rose would do.
they moved in together after their first year. by this point, everyone was pretty aware thomas was a player with a drinking problem; but he was also friendly and well-liked, and rose was awkward and quiet and shy. it got to a point where thomas would be mad about rose going to their classes; what did rose need a degree for, when they were going to stay home and cook dinner and do laundry and never mention the lipstick marks on thomas's collar? he'd get violent if rose did try and say something, if the house fell into what he considered disrepair, if rose wasn't in the mood--
("what's the point of having a live-in girlfriend if she isn't going to put out whenever i want? fucking look at me, rosie-posy. what's the matter with you?")
all of their friends as a couple were really thomas's friends, he would be very happy to remind them. obviously rose's gender identity was them making up for not being pretty or sexy as a girl. rose was lucky that anyone wanted them. rose should shut up and get on with things. rose missed so many classes their university "asked them to leave" (read: kicked them out). his violent tendences escalated.
eventually, he got into it at a bar with the wrong guy and went just a little too far. he didn't kill a man (technically. the man did die, a few months later - but somehow thomas's father-slash-lawyer managed to convince a court there was no proof that said death was because of the injuries thomas inflicted. who knew what underlying causes there might have been, what other medical issues, would they really condemn such a Bright Young Man and tar him as a murderer, and thomas’s prison sentence was for ‘grievous bodily harm’)-- but he did get taken into custody to await trial. anyway, when the news of him being taken in got to rose they realised that if they stayed with him any longer, he would absolutely eventually kill them. rose packed a bag and called their family in tears. (they did, eventually, give a written and recorded statement that thomas was prone to violence. it was hard for them, but they did it). after moving back home, rose's agoraphobia got much, much worse - partly because of fear of leaving the first truly safe place they'd been for well over a year, partly because they started seeing the ghosts.
their parents quietly disposed of letters in unfamiliar handwriting postmarked from a prison for several months - and with their parents dead, several years later, at a new address . . . rose hasn't received a letter for quite some time. co-incidentally, rose really doesn't mind any silly nicknames anyone chooses for them, but they can't bear being called rosie-posy :).
#constantly workshopping this name btw he used to be called reuben but i didnt like the double Rs fgbjnkgfnk#abuse cw#violence cw#misgendering cw#rose tag#things are pretty good for them right now!! they’re doing better!!!#[dangles them in front of bad people and pspspses]#current timeline rose is 27 so this all happened about six years ago. they’ve had a lot of therapy
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Um, hello. I'm a fan of Fighting With the Melody. And I have a question in mind. (idk if you're going to answer this in a later chapter but)
How did the main 4 meet? Who met who first with each member?
Ah hello! Sorry I didn't see this till rn!!!!!!! By main four do you mean Kyle/Stan/Karen?
They never met Cartman as kids bc I didn't want them to have a personal relationship of any kind, that would kind ruin his whole image thing + they would know where his base of operations is etc, it's just less messy if they never met except in a professional super heroing capacity!
All four of them (Kyle/Stan/Karen/Cartman) met Cartman during 'the Calamity'. I believe it's mentioned in some of the earlier chapters, it's just the name that I've given the events of the 3 episode special in szn 14 where the freedom pals fight Cthulhu lol. In this au, that's when the original Freedom Pals form their vigilante group (originals = ppl in the episodes & not the ppl added to TFBW). Cartman tricks and betrays the Freedom Pals, trapping them in R'lyeh, they team up with Professor Chaos, etc. Basically the same general concept as what happens in the show.
Kyle meets Stan first ofc, but she's 'closer' with Mysterion for a long time, especially during the time where Stan is dating Wendy. Stan saved her and Ike when their stolen ship crashes on Earth. She feels kinship with Mysterion bc he is similar to her in the way that he's not considered completely human the way everyone else is. Just like in the show his powers come from some kind of connection with Cthulhu so he has an otherness to his presence that is very unsettling to most people but not Kyle bc she's 'not a person'. They're both alien (her case literally, his case metaphorically).
Karen and Stan obviously meet as kids in South Park. They grew up together, their moms were friends so they became friends. Really simple backstory. Karen never tells Stan about her power bc she doesn't think he'll believe her (bc I mean, even in a world of super powers, who tf just comes back to life??? That's a bit of a stretch even for them) and then they both decide separately to start moonlighting as vigilantes and end up working together and forming the Freedom Pals during the Calamity. (The Calamity is kind of a major point of connection for most of the characters, it's the first time they all really ended up working together and it happens very soon after everyone separately decides to start fighting crime. For example Chaos is 17 when the Calamity happens so everyone is between 17-19 years old. FWTM takes places 6 years later.)
Karen and Kyle meet during the Calamity. Mysterion is really the type of bitch it be like: 'i work alone' in a very emo way. She would avoid working with other people as much as possible but it was basically impossible to avoid working with everyone during the Calamity so she ends up making friends with everyone and joining/forming the Freedom Pals with the others. It is important to note though that everyone else in the Freedom Pals knows each other's identities except for Mysterion (he knows their identities though).
As for the rest of them, technically the 'main four' would actually end up being Stan/Karen/Craig/Tweek!
They all grow up together in South Park! Stan and Craig are cousins and Tweek just joins up for funsies.
Thanks for the question!! Hope this answered it :D
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Ranking all the scream movies but it's probably highly controversial (expect my number one)
1. Scream (OG)
Nothing beats the OG and no Ghostface will ever come close to Stu/Billy. The combination of these two was literally it. A crazy guy + a dude that wants revenge and goes crazy in the process? Nothing beats them. They are the duo and they're combination that was not only the most iconic but they are also just so great killers. They planned it but their charisma added to the psychotic aura of it all. Not to mention the iconic characters that were in this movie and the relationship that were actually really explored in this.
2. Scream 3
People love to hate this movie but Roman was literally such a great Ghost face. That whole plan? This could easily be even higher but they kind of underdeveloped him a bit and he still is better than almost 90% of the others. I wish we had gotten a meeting or a backstory between him and Syd more and he deserves to be in another movie (besides Stu) because holy shit be was so interesting. Not to mention the solo ghost face? He is quiet literally technically the best ghost face but God was he also such an interesting character. Yeah maybe the movie set wasn't that great but it was so interesting to show how the public would actually realistically treat an event like this. Not to mention it truly also showed how everyone struggled and was not really fully coming to terms with it. This movie was a banger eventhough it had some of the most interesting side characters.
3. Scream 2
Honestly a great movie eventhough there were some cringe scenes. The motive of Miss Loomis? Genuinely solid and reasonable in a fucked up way. Mickey? Icon. Motive didn't really make sense but he popped off so hard.
Only thing that makes this movie bad really are some cringe scenes but then again they fit really well honestly when you consider this is Syd basically catching up on teenage nonsense. Oh and Randy should have survived but I am kind of still a bit weirded out by his character so I am not to saddened by it. Although I would love the plottwist of him being alive and being hidden somewhere to come back with Stu. (I am delulu.)
Would be higher because the story actually slaps but I love Roman way too much to put this higher.
4. Scream 6
I don't like this movie necessarily but there were some really cool sequences and actually interesting storylines plus they developed an actual plotline. Don't like the Ghostfaces in this (probably the least out of all the actual ones in the movies main story line) but actually interesting change up from the usual two ghost faces. Plus some of the shoots were so amazing and no one can deny that. The sequences they did with this really popped off. Are there many flaws? Undoubtedly (the plot armor for Chad is literally unreal and compares to no one in the franchise.) But sometimes I am blinded by the incredible chases they had for this so there's that.
5. Scream 4
Jill and Charlie's are just flat compared to other killers. Charlie sure is a brutal killer but his entire personality is bland to me. I feel like where as in the others at least had something going for them, he just made me feel literally nothing. He invoked no emotion in me and that is literally the worst thing he could do especially when we know how much he actually did as ghost face.
That love thing is also just such a boring excuse for a killer and Jill is just uninteresting to me personally. She was crazy but just in an unejoyable way that I couldn't bother to understand because her motive was bad/boring. Jealousy? Crayzness and fame? It just felt like people have shown different reasons for her but also want to claim she is as crazy as Stu but then she wouldn't need a motive yet people seem to justify her actions by something? It just seems like people like to praise her as the smartest when the reality is that was Roman. Yes she would have been far closer where the others not protected by plot armour but I just had no fun seeing her succeed as the killer where at least the others made me root for them sometimes in a "I want to see what it would be like if they won" kind of way.
I only rate it higher because the fifth movie was for me even more predictable than this one and frankly ass for me.
6. Scream 5
Amber and Richie are just so boring. Genuinely don't get the hype for them. Richie was just weird and had no charisma to him. Dude literally is just a walking red flag. Amber was just some wannabe Stu and people don't want to accept that. Dewey should have survived that movie. His death was literally so unsatisfying and you are telling me that the dude who survived everyone else was overpowered by some wannabe shits. You are giving him that plot armor to take it of not by someone who genuinely could overpower him like Roman, Nancy (a mother with rage has unbelievable strength) or Mickey but Amber or Richie? Please that is the most unrealistic thing.
And I hate the entire Billy's daughter plotline. Not to mention the fact that it is setting up to explore some dark side yet she keeps getting excused for her brutal kills? The way she slaughtered Richie is literally not normal. The OG 3 survivors killed to safe their lives but she is literally doing the same shit her father did. If she just slashed his throat sure but the way she attacked him multiple times? That's not a survivor that's a killer.
And Richie/Amber once again were obvious. Richie literally was weird from the beginning and no one would actually trust him.
There's also the fact that they basically just gave the plot armour to Chad and Sidney surviving this was almost as unrealistic as Scream 4.
This also started this weird family of victims/killer thing (technically it was 4 but this was the true start) something that was just such a bad storyline to me I could not enjoy.
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Happy STS!
Amazon or Netflix want to adapt Blood of Gods. Assuming you have complete creative control what would your requirements be in order to make it a product that is up to your ideal standards?
Ooh, what an interesting question! Here are 11 things that come to mind, in no particular order:
Really good costumes and sets, but especially costumes. They don't need to look exactly like how I describe them in the book, but they do need to be beautifully made to represent the different cultures, classes, and religions of the setting, as well as the general opulence that it should bring to the story. Since Blood of Gods is a very "grounded" fantasy, a good background in historical fashion would be good.
On that note: the creators should have a respectable knowledge of the history surrounding the real-life events that Blood of Gods takes inspiration from. (Namely, the Crusades and the treatment of Jews in medieval/renaissance Europe in general.) I wouldn't want the cultural inspirations to be wiped away.
Do not woobify Lucius! YES he has a tragic backstory YES he's canonically handsome YES he is capable of great unselfish love for someone and YES I know that I've probably set up the perfect environment for villain stans. That's fine, I just wouldn't want any adaptation to be colored by that. All of his many atrocities should be depicted as what they are. Ashala shouldn't be made to look unnecessarily petty for hating him.
I think Blood of Gods would work best as either a live-action movie or limited mini-series. It's a standalone book, so there's really only so much story there to be adapted unless the story was extended beyond its ending in the book, which I really wouldn't want.
Oh yeah, on that note: DON'T FUCKING WITH THE ENDING. If you even LOOK at the ending I'm going to stomp you to death with my hooves. This is probably the most important point on this list. Some of my first draft betas didn't like my ending. That's fine! It's not what I'd expect to be popular. But I'm very firm on the fact that the ending I have (in all its glorious uncertainty) is the ending that is right for the story, and I'm not changing it.
The showrunner/director would probably have to be a woman. Sorry! Obviously exceptions could be made based on the individual, but I'd just trust a woman to handle the heavily female main cast and the large sapphic element much better.
Speaking of: keep all the gay stuff in! And don't try to make it PG-13! Ashala FUCKS and that's that on that!
Generally actors should at least somewhat resemble their characters. You know the drill. They should not be casting some bombshell to play Ashala and they should not be casting a twig to play Vesta.
All the actors need to be good, but Vesta's actress needs SERIOUS range. Not only because Vesta is a very complex character who goes through probably the heaviest amount of character development over the course of the story, but because ideally she'd also play Amata in flashbacks. Amata is a very, very different character, and it would be easy for a lesser actress to ignore her depth.
Do NOT make Ashala any more physically "badass" than she is in the book. She is LAME! She's a LOSER! A younger modern AU Ashala definitely walked the mile in gym class, okay? Yes she's technically a knight but she didn't earn that position through meritocratic means. Plus, long-term lack of access to sufficient food has probably done some irreparable damage to her body. I know that it's hard for Hollywood to wrap its head around, but it is possible to have a powerful female character who isn't necessarily powerful physically.
I've seen a couple others mention chemistry tests for actors, and I'll second that for any Blood of Gods adaptation. As I've said in other posts, a major theme of the story is forbidden love. If the audience cannot believe that certain characters are in love, then a huge part of the story falls apart
Aaaand that's all I can think of off the top of my head. In all honesty, I'd never expect BOG to be adapted, even if I can get it published. Sapphic stuff just doesn't seem to draw a large crowd when it comes to Hollywood, and as I said before I doubt my ending is going to be overwhelmingly popular. I doubt it would be as expensive as some other fantasy adaptations (magic plays a very minimal on-page/screen role) but due to the exotic setting, it still would probably need a decent budget that I don't think Hollywood would ever throw at something like this.
Whatever. Enough moping. This was fun to think about.
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Your previous mentions of Nolan's Batman films reminded me of how me and a friend of mine kept going back to Batman Begins and how solid of a first Batman movie it was in just showing the development of Bruce into Batman and also into who he is as himself. Not to say that they're perfect but I do think that maybe part of the reason why Reeves took a detour with this first Batman movie from his origin story is because technically it's already been done before, and everyone "knows" who Batman is as potential audience members. But this goes back to what you mentioned about it feeling like merely a setup for another movie, which is sort of the problem with this as a first film. On its own, Batman Begins can stand easily as an origin story and as part of a trilogy, but The Batman, while having a solid detective plot, kind of feels hollow as an introduction to who Batman/Bruce is bc it expects everyone to just know who everyone else is in the story. So it feels more like a comic book arc adaptation like Hush rather than something akin to Batman Begins.
Bruce not really having a personality outside of Batman and not doing any charity was definitely intentional though. He's completely dedicated himself to Batman and enacting vengeance for his parents murder, to the point that he fully neglects his mental and physical health (he even winces at sunlight because he spends all his time in the cave) as well as all his social and economical responsibilities as Bruce Wayne (he didn't shut down the charity projects, that's not what Bella meant. He simply neglects them and doesn't open any new ones/ doesn't host charity events like his parents did) He just doesn't care, the only thing he cares about is being Batman, and the worst version of Batman he could be none the less.
Learning that that's something that has to change, that he has to be more than "vengeance" and that he has privilege/doesn't know how the poor people in Gotham live, as well as his lack of care for charity having extremely negative consequences (via the orphanage fund being up for grabs because he doesn't care enough to oversee it) is his entire character arc in the movie, and likely will result in a visible character and personality change in the sequel. It's basically like the scene you mentioned from Batman Begins, as well as the other Batman Begins scene where he wants to shoot his parents killer and learns vengeance isn't the right path - except this time instead of two 5 minute scenes that arc spans over an entire 3 hour movie.
And imo that whole "he dedicated himself fully to Batman and neglected everything else" is also why he is so awkward in his romantic scenes with catwoman - he barely had any human contact except for Alfred for who knows how many years, he doesn't know how to interact with people, much less someone as forward and emotionally open as Selina, so he's just standing there like "help :|" (2/2)
I think this is pretty much what I've already said about the movie, but again I think you're giving Matt Reeves way too much credit.
I know that what Matt Reeves did was intentional, but intent doesn't make it immune to criticism. Anytime a writer assumes that their audience is just going to *understand* what they're going for without conveying the reason you're going to run into trouble. Yes, everyone knows Batman's backstory. Everyone knows that he became Batman because of his parents' murder. What I don't get is why that made this particular Batman so detached, uncaring, and quite frankly selfish because we've never seen that from him before and Reeves didn't explain it to us. A Bruce Wayne that is so disconnected from everything around him that he doesn’t even care about the local orphans and isn’t involved in his parents’ charities, requires some kind of exposition. That's where he messed up, and he neglected opportunities to give us more insight.
Learning that that's something that has to change, that he has to be more than "vengeance" and that he has privilege/doesn't know how the poor people in Gotham live, as well as his lack of care for charity having extremely negative consequences (via the orphanage fund being up for grabs because he doesn't care enough to oversee it) is his entire character arc in the movie, and likely will result in a visible character and personality change in the sequel.
This is exactly the main point of my original review; this hasn't happened. It was implied that Batman was going to change. In the last five minutes of a three hour movie no less. If and how that change will occur has yet to be seen. There’s no such thing as implied character development; it either happened or it didn’t and it didn’t happen in this movie. You're giving Reeves preemptive points for something that might happen in a movie that doesn't yet exist. I'm just not going to give Reeves credit for character development that hasn't happened yet or development that might happen in the future.
There may very well be for a reason for why he chose to characterize Bruce and Batman the way he did here and it might make more sense in the context of a series versus a solo movie. I’m open to amending my opinion as my mind might change as the series develops and new information is presented. But right now this is the movie I’m talking about because this is the only movie that we’ve seen; and this is the characterization we were given; and this is how my opinion has been formed so it's fair game for criticism. Especially since it impacted other aspects of the film (i.e Batman and Catwoman’s relationship). For now he's just going to have to take the L.
Two or three years down the road we could end up with a Batman that's more well rounded, who has seen the wrong in how he operated before and changes to really help the people of Gotham. Or we could get a Batman that's just as thinly characterized as he was in this movie, who does the absolute bare minimum needed to be considered a hero because characterization is taking a backseat to story. I hope it's the former example. I think that's where this is going, but we won't know until we see the next film.
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Explaining My DR
⚠️ Before you read, please keep in mind my DR is based from a lot of mythology. Please do not feel offended (I mean you can feel offended but I mean please don't feel like I'm purposely trying to offend you) if your group is not mentioned (such as magic users) or if they are misinterpreted. It's a DR based from the past and from old mythology and lore. It isn't going to be the same as the present. We are also using old terms and meanings. It's also based from an anime too. ⚠️
⚠️I'll also be updating this from time to time if I find more information I want to place. So if you ever get bored, just head on back and see if anything is new! ⚠️
Click read more to see~
What is my reality based from?
Mine is heavily referenced from an anime called "The Ancient Magus Bride." The anime itself is beautiful, and based off of many legends and mythology and it somehow blends together beautifully.
My reality is going to be somewhere in the 1700's (but without slavery and a few wars) because I am sharing my DR with my online friends (and those I classify as my online "Family") and we decided we wanted to see how much history we could change.
So far, we have decided to save Marie Antoinette.
The reality itself has "fae" who don't like to be called "Fairies" and would rather be called "neighbors." They are friendly, in their own way, though some can be aggressive but we have decided that we are safe from those and won't fight them. But here's a catch - you can't see them unless you have "The Sight." Some people do have the sight such as mages (a rare form of magic user in our reality) or "Sleigh Beggy" otherwise known as "Slay Vega."
Slay Vega's have the ability to see and attract fae. As Wiki put it:
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Sleigh Beggies are a type of human who have a natural affinity towards the fae and other supernatural entities, drawing their kind towards them unintentionally. Because their bodies naturally absorb magic but they typically lack the means of controlling it, they die fairly young. This is why, despite the fact that there are more Sleigh Beggy than natural-born mages, their numbers are few and far between. Sleigh Beggy are highly prized by both other sorcerers and fae. The former because their organs naturally absorb magic and so they can be used as batteries for magic and the latter because they are naturally drawn to them as they view Sleigh Beggy as being closer to their kind. This often brings them misfortune as well, because the fae drawn to them will act against their wishes, more so for those who are not gifted with the Sight and cannot see the fae. The fae's goodwill does not always result in the happiness and, when left to their own interpretation, their love and loyalty manifests into both luck and ill fortune. Sleigh Beggy unconsciously absorb a lot of magical energy, but lack the means of expressing it unless they are trained in magic or other methods. As a Sleigh Beggy draws attention from Fae, they will have little difficulty becoming mages if they find a mentor to train them and be capable of powerful magic.
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I will be a Sleigh Vega/Beggy but I will also have immortality, so I won't be hurt by this magic absorption; because of this the fae will be attracted to me and I can help my s/o with his magic too.
Other than Sleigh Beggys, what are there?
Well there are many magic types. For my DR we have
Sleigh Beggy: The rarest of all the types, even to the point they are even unheard of. They have the abilities of both a mage and sorcerer. They passively absorb and exude magic energy. Almost unlimited. However, their bodies are still human and they will eventually have pain from the constant strain. Fae are attracted to this type but their friendship isn't always beneficial to Sleigh Beggies. A Sleigh Beggy without a mentor or teacher may feel cursed being around them as they can't understand the world around them or why the Fae behave as they do.
Mages: Are magic users who absorb magic and cast spells using it or they borrow magic from Fae. However, this is draining for the caster.
Sorcerers: They are different from other magic users. They turn their own energy into magic to perform sorcery. Unlike the Mages, they don't contort or use the Natural Laws by breaking them, instead they study these laws and manipulate said laws.
Witches: Are magical users similar to mages, but the difference is they dive into more forbidden arts and choose to gather in groups known as covens.
The History Of Magic:
In the new age of mankind, some humans could perform what we know as "miracles.' They could see beings known as fae. Or live fairly longer than others. As time went on, these people passed on techniques, knowledge, skills and shared with each other what is now known as "Magic." Those who could possess it were known as "Mages."
But as time went on, less and less humans were born with this ability and due to the "Great War" many magical users died. Ever since then, it was unusual, rare, and strange to find humans with this ability. Eventually, this was hidden from the world to ensure the safety of the magic users.
Overview Of Magic
Magic is a result of using the energy inside your body or using the energy of the world around you. This is a process that is referred to as "Magic" or a "Miracle." While magic users can use the worlds natural laws or the use of magical beings they can also use magic with chants or wands.
For some sorcerers, they have a magical core that can "act" as an internal organ which generates magical energy. It can pass on through generations genetically. Sometimes there are some born with non-magical parents.
Magic can be used in many ways. The results vary depending on the use such as shape, form, or requirements needed. It can be used for teleportation, purification, and giving life to inanimate objects. It can also be used for attacks like summoning spikes, thorns, using shadows or light, or breathing fire.
Magic can also be used by Artificers, like Angelica, who makes magic tools such as rings or wands.
What Are Fae?
Fae, or Neighbors, are a race of magical beings who can use, conjure, or absorb magic for themselves or other beings. They can be found everywhere around the world, but they are most commonly found in Tir Na nÓg which is ruled by Titiana and Oberon.
This silly couple:
There are many different types such as Ariels, Banshees, Church Grims, Brownies, Changelings, Elfs, Fire Sprites, Muryans, Selkies, and Vodyanoi!
Each fae is capable of something different and some are friendly, and some are aggressive. Similar to humans XD.
Random Things About My DR
➭ Even though it's set in the 1700s we have plumbing and pipes for baths, phones we can use to contact eachother and see media from Jean's reality (a very close friend of mine), and we plan to make some technology early. Because why not???
➭ We plan to mess up history a bit because we want to see how much we can change. And before you say "that's forcibly changing lives" technically no. It's not like the CR. Period. It's the 1700s where magic exists. We're not forcing a change in anyone's life. We're just going to mess with historical events that were bound to happen one way or another. #and they literally could've changed with or without us.
➭ There's a magic library where fae can exist alongside humans without any issue. No one can harm eachother within the library. It's also a rest good place to nap and it's really cozy.
➭ We live in a small cottage away from the village, it has a small pond and a garden. And just along the path in the back there's a forest. Keeping going down the path and you'll find a passage to Tir na nÓg.
➭ What's Tir na nÓg? It's an old legend of a place where you never age, that is, if you can get there. It's a place full of fae and where the king and queen of fae live. The plants never wither or die and it's always lively.
➭ My DR backstory is that I'm born as a king's daughter. I have a brother and a sister. That's all. Father and brother are Castelios which is a family that was given powers by the demons or fae from the Great War. They tend to scare everyone, due to their aura, except close family. Not even close friends are used to the aura. Though my sister and I didn't develop this, which is rare. I'll shift around the time I first meet my dad and brother after my mother left me and my sister with them. (No it won't be traumatizing, it's just my choice.) I'll grow up within the castle walls and learning magic from my brother and sword fighting from my sister. I'll eventually convince my dad to let me go outside the walls, to which he agrees, where I'll try to mess around with history a bit. On my 16th birthday I'll meet Elias Ainsworth in the greenhouse outside the walls when I snuck away at night. A huge chunk of years later I plan to already be a mage under his mentoring and be married by then, and the cottage is just our choice despite having an estate somewhere else. I only have until age 18 scripted so far but if you ask in like.... a week from now I might have something fjsbdjsnskssm
➭ There's a hunting event where any knight (male or female) can enter and so can royalty. A person from their familiy (or really anyone) can give them their handkerchief and whoever's handkerchief they had will recieve all that they hunted. It's a way to symbolize popularity, typically you'd want the biggest game or the most. For example if I have my s/o my handkerchief then whatever he hunted will go to me. Similarly if he gave me his then whatever I hunted will go to him. The more admired a person is, the more handkerchiefs a person has to give out and they have more game.
(If you're anti-hunting I am very sorry if this just offended you so please don't @me djeanjss please.)
➭ We have a room in the library that has many windows leading to different DRs. There's a wall full of keys that open the windows because the windows can't be broken or opened without a key, phew. When you look through each window it has a different scenery because each is a different DR. They are usually labeled and if you want to enter that reality you have to open the window and to right through. That's how Jean and I get to eachothers realities and also contact eachother. We decided to connect our DRs in a way.
My Desired Reality Members:
First, my DR husband!
Elias Ainsworth!
He is a mage who is both fae and human, though no one knows why he was this way and it was hinted that he was cursed. He also my mentor who will teach me magic.
Appearance
He's taller than most humans, reaching around 6'7". Because of the curse, he doesn't look human though will take a human form using magic. He likes to decorate his horns with gold string that holds a red cloth to cover his face.
A Mood board of him:
Personality
He's very kind and polite (to most) but he's... not antisocial but not social either. He has a hard time relating to people (big mood) but he's like that because he has no understanding of the emotions he feels nor does he remember anything of his life before. Because of this, he's extremely fascinated with emotions. He decided to adopt a "gentleman" mannerism to seem more friendly. He closely studies others but finds it a bit hard to follow their example. He doesn't tend to lie - but if he doesn't know you or knows you slightly then he leaves out any bit of information and tries to hide things. Once you get to know him, he's not so secretive and more child-like. But despite that, he's very willing to make up for, amend, and apologize for any childish behavior that was out of line.
Jeans comment on Elias: "Elias: nice, tall, protective and sweet from what I know, lowkey shy and is trying to understand humans and in the anime is learning emotions AND AJJSJDJSJD thats so SWEET, has lots of money-"
His Magic Abilities
He can manipulate the shadows and he leans toward destructive magic. He can hide in the shadows and create thorns. This gave him the name, given by the fae, "Child of Thorn" or simply "Thorn" as well as "Pilum Murialis." He can also shapeshift and remove memories.
Myself! Online, I go by a few names but in any DR it's Estelle.
Appearance
I'll have waist length black hair, styled in either a braid or simply let down. I have pale skin, blue eyes, and a small birthmark on my collarbones.
Mood board of myself:
Personality
I'll have the same as I do here but I felt really weird typing it out so I'm going to use how my friend described me!
Jeans opinion on Estelle: "Estelle - very soft and caring, maternal I’d say, great listener, really fun to talk to, shy and introverted but SJDJJDKFODOSOSOD when she comes out of her shell, has lots of nice memes, overall a good person to talk to about problems or just to have fun with and MEME, video game and reading nerd HAJDJDJSJKS, sympathetic and empathetic, smart, understanding"
Skills
Mental link: An ability shared with Ruth. We have a shared mind and memory.
Shapeshifting: I can shapeshift into a Pheonix which I'll mainly only use for fun.
Healing: I can heal, either by a chant or with the help of fae or tools
Light manipulation: I can manipulate light and use it against or for people
{Before I get onto the subject about my kids. Yes, I do know them in the CR. I have raised Adam and Asher despite us being close in age, I've always been the more "motherly" figure in my friends and relatives lives. (And I have recently became a mother figure for Nutmeg for about three years now.) I've organized the appointments, cook, cleaned, been there emotionally and so on. I am Asher and Adams aunt as well, so before you ask "Isn't that weird?" In my opinion, no. There are many people I've met who are the same and just straight up become the mother figure in someone's life. I am young, but I've been doing this job for years and a few comments aren't going to stop me from my job.}
Artificer: I have artificer abilities that I typically use to make a creature called a "Maker." They simply like making things. They're smart but really emotional and made from fabric similar to a doll. They like to swear masks and they basically look like a fabric version of a Korok.
Nutmeg
Nutmeg will be my daughter in the future. She is also a person from this reality who sees me as a mother figure and I see her as a daughter. So we agreed this is something we wanted to do. How it will work is she will try shift to the future of my DR after i've been married for a few years. (And before you say "That's not possible!" or "That won't work!" Let me make it clear I said "try." We are going to try this and we have a code to and we scripted that if this isn't possible, the other us wouldn't know the code.) Nutmeg is the youngest of all of my kids.
Appearance
Nutmeg has hazel eyes with a yellowish color and freckles scattered across her nose and cheeks. She likes styling her brown and reddish hair into pig tails and she's typically seen in yellow.
Mood board of her:
Personality
She is very kind and doting, especially towards her siblings. She's not big into typical school but wants to go to the magic college for magic users. She likes baking and flower picking! She's very sweet towards fae and tries her best 100% of the time. A hugger and also someone who would bONK you if you upset her brothers or really anyone she cared about.
Jean's comment on Nutmeg: "Nutmeg - I’ve not talked to her much BUT SHES THE CUTEST WITTLE ANGEL BEAN, she’s super nice, worries/panics a lot for people from what I know, extremely caring, big gay and we love it (i once said to Estelle nutmeg can be a cottagecore lesbian and I just JSKSKSJDJDJ), loving towards y’all and it just makes me JSKDKDKDMDMMFJF"
Her skills
She has more celestial and healing magic that she got from my side. She can manipulate light, heal others, and manipulate the stars or use them as guides.
"Hey sweetie can you please not move that..."
Asher, Adam, and Her who secretly plotted to move the stars to prank astrologists with Jean's kids:
Adam
Another person who's shifting with us. He's the oldest of the siblings and he's a person I've actually raised in the CR from an early age.
Mood board of him:
Appearance
He has red eyes, taking after Elias and black hair that takes after me. He's the tallest of all the kids and typically has the more "mature" fashion by wanting to wear suits or formal attire.
Personality
He's typically the type to be stern and distant but once you know him he's more open and kind. He doesn't like people who judge and he's usually the type to do stuff he most certainly shouldn't jump into it. Adam to Asher in our Discord server: "Hey so LETS INVENT BOMBS."
Jean's comment on Adam: "Adam - smart, literally what the fuck, he’s really nice and a big home dog,,, literally like a big brother like I feel like he’ll be there when you need him, SMART DID I MENTION SMART, has an exterior shell but thats why you have to take things with him at a pace, super fcking sweet like with his stupid ex but god dammit that was sweet"
Skills
He can destroy things like Elias, summon fire, and can summon thorns. He can teleport and he has his artificer abilities that were taught by Angelica and I.
Asher
Asher is the middle child and also someone I've raised. Asher and Adam are related to me and each other in the CR as well.
Appearance
Asher has white hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. He likes the color blue and green so he typically uses it in any piece of clothing he owns. He mentioned he will wear blue more often to compliment his eyes and make his darker horns more apparent.
Mood board of him:
Personality
He's really sweet, caring, and attentive. You tell him once you like one small thing and he will remember it for years. He's really hyper and full of energy unlike his other siblings who are much more calm than him.
Jean's comment on Asher: "Asher - chaos, chaos, chaos okay anyway tbh really funny, has funny ass memes and random ass thoughts that are funny, loves affection, caring as well since I see how you care for nutmeg especially, loving and sweet, smart and retains random info like JFJDKEKDKDK-, space boy and religion boy, meme, sarcastic, 10/10 humor, energetic and extremely fun, someone you’d want at a small party with friends to hype everything up, loves kids and animals"
Skills
Asher can manipulate fire and electricity. He has super speed and super hearing, along with enhanced strength.
Silver Lady!
Also known as Silky or Silver! She was a former Banshee before being transformed by Spriggan (Titiana's bodyguard sort of speak.) She's our housekeeper.
Appearance
Silver likes to wear a, pink, Victorian dress with a matching shawl and bonnet. Her hair is blonde and short and her eyes are a shiny pink.
Mood board of her:
Personality
She doesn't chat much and often has a stoic or deadpan facial expression. But despite that, once knowing her you learn and are exposed to her emotions. She tends to dote on guests that she likes but will simply ignore those she doesn't trust. If someone she doesn't like enters the house for business, she will hover over me or the other residents and simply ignore the guest. Silver also has a sense of humor and enjoys playing pranks every now and then. She likes sewing hearts into clothes where we won't notice. Silver tends to only stay within the house or near the house, due to her past home being ruined she fears that if she leaves she will be forgotten or left behind.
Her Skills:
Silky/Silver is able to do housekeeping magic. She can change details of the house, including wallpaper or the floorboards using a simple spell.
Ruth, A Church Grim
Ruth is my familiar who can shapeshift between being a Church Grim and Human.
Appearance
Ruth can shapeshift between his two forms. A Church Grim, which is a large black dog which reaches to my rib cage in height. In this form, he has red eyes. In a human form however, his eyes appear brown or somewhat red. With he has light brownish skin and black hair. He likes to sweat striped shirts :D
Mood board of Ruth:
Personality
Ruth is very doting and diligent. He uses our mental link which causes a shared memory, feeling, and lifespan, to tell others how I'm feeling if I can't put it into words. He's also protective and won't hesitate to b0nK someone across the head. He's more of a big brother to those he's close with.
Skills
Familiar skills: He shares a lifespan with me, can share dreams, and be summoned from long distances through a mind link.
Shadow: He can hide in my shadow if needed.
Angelica Barley
Angelica is a mage and artificer. She owns her own magic shop that is hidden behind her book shop.
Appearance
Angelica has sharp features, and typically braids her hair up to show them off. She's commonly seen wearing sleeves when working because of the crystals that were embedded in her arms from an accident.
Mood board of her:
Personality
She's kind but stern. Typically, to new mages she acts as a distant mentor. She takes pride in her work but she's also cautious due to her accident. She's possibly one of the only people that can tell Elias off, and she won't hesitate to do it.
Skills
Angelica has the sight similar to that the mages possess. Just like mages, she can borrow magic from fae and she's quite knowledgeable about it too. As an artificer, she embeds magic within tools or makes them with the purpose of magic. She had a Vodanoi named Hugo who is bound to her, he's a prankster but sweet nonetheless. Hugo and Angelica have longevity. This means that they both have increased life spans and she hasn't aged much at all.
Lindel
Lindel is a mage and the current care taker of the Dragons. He was both Elias and Adolf's first master.
Appearance
Lindel is a human and despite being a thousand years old, he looks to be in his 20s. He has pale skin and blonde hair that be ties or braids that frame his face and blue eyes. He typically wears a hood and robe with odd designs on the hood and back piece.
Mood board of Lindel
Personality
Before he became a Mage and Keeper Of Dragons, he hated fae. The fae caused him many problems which caused him to isolate himself. But now, he is calm and playful and he takes pride in his job as the dragon keeper. Despite his usual demeanor, when it comes to the dragons he isn't so kind to poachers.
There are many other people I'll be getting to later such as my dad, my brother, my sister, my friend and her kids and s/o, other important people, etc. But for now I'm tired ainjsndjwsn
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Thinking About Soriku
While it's no longer my OTP, SoRiku is and likely always will among my favorite KH ships. I admit that part of that is because I went in with a bias, due to a fan comic type thing that I read, prior to finishing the first KH game. After playing the games and seeing the community I shipped it more.
To be completely honest though, I didn't really see the ship outside of THE scenes in KH2 and through that symphony of sorcery scene in DDD. It was when I interacted with the community more that I realized how much there was to the ship. How they pointed out details like Riku technically sharing the paopu with Sora and that being the keychain on the combined keyblade dubbed "the gayblade" by the community. How jealous Riku acted in KH1 while suspiciously being more focused on one-upping sora than actually saving Kairi. How Riku did everything in his power to make sure Sora can come back safely in KH2 and 179 days, and of course the entirety of how their relationship is portrayed in DDD, with how Sora is disappointed with having to be separated from Riku and Riku always talking about Sora with almost nothing but positive things to say. All the other pieces of evidence that could point to hints of romantic attraction. From what I hear, people having a better understanding of the ship after interacting with the community is actually kinda common.
Soriku is one of those ships where the implications are subtle. If you're not looking for it, it's blink and you miss it, outside of a couple of stand-out scenes. If you ARE looking for it, it's extremely obvious to the point of almost coming off as intentional, especially post KH2 if you're looking at it from Riku's pov. I bet it's the work of the event planner:
Here's like, the thing with the community though. It's been at odds with a certain other group of shippers and they go at it A LOT, and it can make the community unbearable to be in sometimes. Not to mention how oversensitive some members of the community can be and how unwilling some of them are to live up to their past. The past of Sorikus being yaoi-obsessed fangirls who wrote and drew smut is real is very real and is a legacy that still lives on, even if it's not as bad as it used to be. There were consequently, children who saw that content. I understand Sorikus not wanting to acknowledge that past because
A. a lot of them consider it something that was a part of their cringy teen years and don't want to acknowledge it
and
B. Many Soriku shippers are genuinely queer and either aren't responsible for that content or fit into the prior category
And to be fair, a lot of the times when Kaisos bring this up, they do tend to have bad intentions and try to dismiss their own homophobic behavior, but at the same time if the yaoi side goes unacknowledged, especially when it comes to the older fan content, then it does seem like we aren't owning up to the fact that some of us are fetishy and it can leave and unwanted mark on the community. Also, yeah, going back to what I said earlier. Some of us are over-sensitive and do have a habit of calling people homophobic for saying that Kairi is Sora's most important person on their own platforms, and that's an issue too.
That being said, despite the community I still like the ship and it is still an S-tier pair for me, not GOD-TIER, but S-tier. When I actually remember how good their relationship is in the series, and good some of the fan content is, I can't bring myself to hate it.
Here's the other thing though. What if it actually happened? What if the series ended with Sora and Riku in an embrace saying that they'll always love and be there for each other, and then a strongly implied off-screen kiss? Regardless of how people feel about it, or what the intentions on Square and Disney's part, Sora and Riku ACTUALLY getting together would be a huge fucking deal. Not just for the KH community but for JRPGs and gaming in general. Hell, it'd be a huge mark in Disney history, as they would be among the few confirmed MAIN LGBTQ+ characters in a Disney property. Because of that people. will. riot. There will be many calling it the product of an agenda. There will be idiots saying that this ruined their childhood (which honestly if THAT's their argument, they didn't have a childhood worth ruining) and there will be people angry at Disney and ALL OF JAPAN for "forcing" children to see homosexual content. Probably giving prejudiced conservatives who like to be controversial, leeway to the yaoi argument as means of racism and homophobia. There's also the question of narrative meaning in Kingdom Hearts. First off there's the obvious, which is the writers will have to address Sora's relationship with Kairi else it feels disingenuous, and that can get messy rather quickly, especially because a lot of Kairi's relevancy is linked to her relationship with Sora. Pairing him with Riku can risk undermining his relationship with Kairi and if she doesn't do anything with Aqua and the other characters, can reduce her down to nothing but wasted potential, nostalgia, a cute design, and a cool backstory. As sad as it is, a big part of her appeal is her romantically coded relationship with Sora.
The series has always been about friendship first and foremost before everything else, even if it does value other types of relationships. Sora and Riku are considered by the creators, to be what the series is all about. What does it say about the power of friendship if the two leading characters were in love the entire time? This is less of a narrative issue with Kairi because she was never portrayed to be Sora's friend. She was always written to be a love interest to him in some way. Whereas with Riku, he was always written to either be Sora's rival, or embarrassingly close "friend", at least on a surface level. Sora and Riku getting together romantically could work to undermine the theme of friendship being the most powerful form of magic. Both Kaisos and Soriku's would probably just say "WELL IT CAN BE ABOUT BOTH", but part of what makes it so special in the eyes of many people is that it's NOT about both. That it consistently keeps its friendship theme and never safely comes out of it by making overly big moments with the love interest (except for Kairi single-handedly being the most important person to Sora. Why wouldn't it be Kairi AND Riku). So that initial message getting underplayed can risk taking the series down a peg for a lot of people.
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