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the-girl-who-didnt-smile · 2 months

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The Loa Civil War

The Loa Civil War is the funnest shit EVER to me!! It’s soooooooooo much fun to think about this!! I think about this all the time.

My goddamn deviantArt OCs are really just living in my brain rent-free and partying it up in there.

Anyways, let’s discuss the Loa Civil War.

The Loa Civil War is literally an impossible scenario because when Bondye was cooking them up, he built into them a condition that they like making jazz together too much to do battle with each other. This is why they are a jazz band. Bondye knew that if there was even the smallest chance that could pick a fight with each other, it is only a matter of time before SADISM INCARNATE and MISCHIEF INCARNATE start beefing over who gets the remote, and they blow up the entire fucking multiverse! I don’t know about you guys, but I think having to recreate the multiverse would be a real pain in the ass. Bondye does not want to go through that trouble, that’s why the gods are a jazz band.

The Loa Civil War is still endlessly fun to think about. It’s so good because I genuinely think there is a nonzero chance that any one of the Loa gets the W.

This is the Loa Civil War:

Big Papa claps his hands three times or winks once. Everything - and I mean everything - that was ever put into fiction is dead. There are only five boys left standing: Jazzman Santy Claus, Scary Skeleton Man, His Hot Ass Wife, Mother Mary, and a fucking snake. They’re just floating out in a huge void, and then start throwin hands.

The human forms they take are just magic avatars. Normally, they take zero damage if you target that, but I think it’s soooooooo much funnier if one god can hurt another god by targeting its avatar. You literally just see Santy Claus throwin hands with Mother Mary, and they’re blowing up the multiverse doing it.

So let’s get down their battle stats:

ATTACK: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < Big Papa < The Baron-Maman Dyad

SPEED: Erzulie Dantor < The Baron-Maman Dyad = Big Papa < Damballah

BATTLE IQ: Damballah < The Baron-Maman Dyad < Big Papa < Erzulie Dantor

DEFENSE: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < Big Papa < The Baron-Maman Dyad

RUTHLESSNESS: Damballah <<< Erzulie Dantor = Big Papa < The Baron-Maman Dyad

If you were curious, here’s the same with the Baron by himself:

ATTACK: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < Big Papa < The Baron

SPEED: Erzulie Dantor < The Baron = Big Papa < Damballah

BATTLE IQ: Damballah < The Baron < Big Papa < Erzulie Dantor

DEFENSE: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < The Baron < Big Papa

RUTHLESSNESS: Damballah <<< Erzulie Dantor = Big Papa < The Baron

And here is berserk mode Baron:

ATTACK: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < Big Papa <<< Berserk Mode Baron

SPEED: Erzulie Dantor < Big Papa < Damballah = Berserk Mode Baron

BATTLE IQ: Berserk Mode Baron <<< Damballah < Big Papa < Erzulie Dantor

DEFENSE: Damballah < Erzulie Dantor < Berserk Mode Baron < Big Papa

RUTHLESSNESS: Damballah <<< Erzulie Dantor = Big Papa <<< Berserk Mode Baron

This is so dumb that there’s only five stats. I didn’t include nearly enough stats.

My favorite thing of all is the scenario when Damballah takes the W. The weakest of the Loa is the only one left standing.

I really believe there is a nonzero probability that any one of these guys takes the W. So obviously, I think the Baron-Maman dyad takes the W most of the time, Big Papa is a close second, insanely enough Erzulie can actually win too (she maims Big Papa and the Baron at the start of the fight, those two literally take until the end of time until only one of them is left standing, whoever is left is weaker than they were before, she kills his ass with her daggers) (this is still very improbable, most of the time she gets clapped by whoever’s still alive)

But yeah, even Damballah can win! This is how he wins: He just slithers away super fast at the beginning of the fight and hides in some secluded part of the multiverse. The only one with high enough Battle IQ who would think to kill his ass is Erzulie. But she’s not going to waste her time, because she knows she low-diffs him, and she doesn’t have to worried about getting maimed. But those other two monsters - the most busted and second most busted thing ever - actually do have to worry about getting maimed. It is very probable that Big Papa or the Baron or both kill Erzulie during The Loa Civil War, at any point during the war and possibly very early in it too. But as I explained before, if Erzulie dies her daggers continue to move along a straight path in whatever direction she set them to before she died. Normally, postmortem daggers are easy for the two most busted things in all of existence to dodge, because they just move along straight paths. But those guys are throwin hands, they can't focus any of their magic on dodging the daggers. They are so neck-and-neck, they have to focus all their magic on just fighting each other. They duke it out literally until the end of time, and Erzulie has INSANE Battle IQ! She fired an unfathomable amount of these daggers before she died. Literally, n=INFINITY-1. Mr. Sadism and Mr. Mischief both get maimed as all fuck if the Loa Civil War breaks out. The Baron doesn’t have high enough Battle IQ to even think about Damballah. Big Papa has high enough Battle IQ to think about Damballah, but he can’t waste any of his magic pursuing that guy. Again, he is so neck-and-neck with the Baron-Maman Dyad that he has to focus all his magic on them, or he’s going to die. At the end of time, only Big Papa or the Baron-Maman Dyad is left standing. But whoever is left got maimed by Erzulie. They are weaker than they were at the start of the fight. In fact, they are weak enough for Damballah to slither out from where he was hiding and kill their ass with his absurd speed. They just too maimed and slow to hit him or escape him. Damballah takes the W.

The weakest of all the gods is the only one left standing.

This is just endlessly fun to think about.

I would watch multiple seasons of anime about the Loa Civil War.

#hazbin hotel ocs #the loa (hazbin hotel)#I am completely insane. I love my OCs so much brok #I really can't decide whether I want these guys to keep making CRAZY good jazz albums or if I want them to do battle and blow up the entire #multiverse #this is what happens when GODS do battle #if Big Papa dies he totally goes out with a smile #he's just the original progenitor of the D. clan

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braisedhoney · 2 years

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there is no lore to be found, only the meaning you assign it.

(aka no talk, he angy)

brushes:

jingsketch sketch render

#unus annus #unus annus fanart #mori/annus #annus #markiplier fanart #no but seriously this has no meaning i just wanted to draw something that looks slightly cool #it’s basically practice for lighting and more extreme expressions #maybe a dash of the chaos unus annus brought? i don’t really know what i was trying to do!#but it was oddly cathartic so i call it a win #draw some characters screaming it’s good for your soul #this is probably the most extreme emotion i'll ever try drawing annus with #i always meant to keep him and unus like… permanently impassive y’know #detached god vibes #but when the lighting calls to you ig shit happens #maybe this is what happens when they get angry enough lmao #insert battle music

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joyfuladorable · 2 years

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Dames Doodles - Arc 2 - Into Avelis

< Arc 1 | Arc 3 >

As the Guardians and the newly dubbed Maeri discover the world below is not as barren as once believed, they stumble through Avelis as the machinations of the Gods steer them towards terror and truth.

#dames and dragons #my art #WOOO what a doozy trying to doodle these on a regular basis lol #had like a week gap in there cuz TIRED #also some of these doodles brought to you during niece watching hours and talking to her about my PMD adventure when I was a teen #gonna try to focus on Important Project for a bit before starting Arc 3 #which as a reminder #I'll be posting the dood pages as I finish them on my twitter before posting all at once here #ALSO HEY #what do you think woulda happened if Laika HAD managed to touch Torva with the manacles?????#also spoilers: the FUCKING IMPLICATIONS with Tieflings being originally gifts to Torva #then the reveal that Laika (a TIEFLING) was Torva's Champion #that EXCHANGE between them during the battle is so much more intense knowing that my GODS #like would Torva have actually killed his Champion or was that all a ploy to draw out Farah???#also also #can you believe to know that Laika got tortured while she had braids wrapped around her horns #my crying about Laika hours continue lol

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hiddenbeks · 5 days

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more than a month after my previous kotor update i am happy to announce that i have finally met jolee and had him join me <3

#el plays kotor #yes im still on kashyyyk dont look at me #i was distracted by other games for a sec lmao but sth made me return to kotor yesterday #and now the party is complete!!!#and i have found 3 star maps and the plot is thickening!!!!#i keep wondering. if i hadn't been spoiled abt the pc's true identity would i have pieced it together by now #bc the foreshadowing isn't exactly subtle #or maybe it just feels unsubtle to me precisely because i know what is being foreshadowed....#but like. from the very beginning carth is like hmm its kinda sus that you happened to be on the endar spire #and then all those conversations with bastila that make u go hmmmm what's that supposed to mean #and then... when getting the star map on kashyyyk the hologram says sth abt you matching the required behavioral patterns or whatev #and that the last time it was used was five years ago And you can reply with 'hey revan was in these parts five years ago right'#like!!! yeah!!!! it was me!!!! i was the last user five years ago thats why i match the pattern i am revannnnnnnn #i have to know. did the first kotor players back in 2003 figure it out by this point hngngngnhng #or like any other players after 2003 who played and managed to avoid spoilers #anyway back to jolee. he is so cool but also so squishy on god #apparently some ppl give him a blaster to keep him out of melee but like you cant give a blaster to a jedi..... so uncivilized.......#i set him to use force powers until he runs out of force points #but the moment he runs out of force points and jumps into the fray he goes down. sigh #maybe im doing something wrong again. maybe i should let go of my jedi pride and just give him a blaster #i should also probably use all those energy shields and battle stimulants i have hoarded. i keep forgetting abt them lmao #also!!! @ the mutual who sent me that kotor related ask also more than a month ago i just wanted to let u kno. i have replied to it #i mean if u missed it or if u didnt get a notif or forgot or anything else that's cool !!#i just get all worried that ppl might think i havent answered and that im ignoring them if they dont indicate they've seen the reply gfhgfh #but that's a me issue. i just wanted to make sure u knew 🫶#anyway!! next stop manaan maybe #but first a detour to tatooine to deal with mission's useless deadbeat brother

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opens-up-4-nobody · 10 months

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You don't understand how unhinged I feel trying to construct an ending for Bleach that I personally would enjoy while knowing Bleach does not deserve my time and also not remembering enough to actually make anything coherent. And yet here I am.

#god. no one gives a fuck abt bleaching. i am screaming into the void. y cant i put this energy into being productive #i just want there to be themes and a satisfying ending. and ending that is sad and yet happy #i just think. for me. ichigo kurosaki died on the night rukia pierced him with her zanpakto. oh fuck i cant spell. fucking strap in #i kno he didnt technically die according to the rules of the universe but i think as soon as ichigos soul left his body. that body became #a corpse. so when he goes back into it its not suitible to live in anymore and he only starts to feel that with the fullbring arc #i think when rukia jumpstarted his powers she lit the fuse of a bomb and becoming a visor allowed him to chanel his resentment #bc he does resent. ichigo is an emotional person. he felt emense guilt when his mothet died bc he felt he couldnt protect her bc he was #being raised to protect. the boy has a complex and its kinda fuckrd up and its 1000% isshins fault. so when thr opportunity comes for #ichigo to sacrifice himself for his family he does and he literally and metaphorically dies. his life from that point on is overtaken by #death. so what do we do with ichigo after everything is said and done bc he cant go back to being human he cant be a living corpse. he has #to go to the soul society. bc i like to imagine everything hes done to his soul. his twisted cosmically weird special boy soul. hes like a #bomb. its unstable and they need to teach him to control it so he doesnt tear a hole in reality and let thr hollows pour in. so its safer #if that happens in thr soul society. and rukia lil miss ice princess can teach him to do that. i would also make it weird with god stuff but #i never read the blood war stuff so i dont kno enough abt the gods. also i would make rukia more at odds with everyone who was gonna let her #fucking die and who overlooked her bc she should b held with more reguard for her fighting. but misogyny 😒 so then what do we do with #ichigo in thr soul society? i cant stand the idea of him becoming part of the institution. i cant. i think he should be rogue. rebell. idk #train to be strong and battle agaisnt the 13 court guard squad who r clearly going to try to control him as he tries to control himself.#send my boy to therapy so he can control his reatsu? is the the word? idk. maybe he should go to that dead dog district and look for kids #with spiritual pressure. he needs to feel useful. maybe id just give him weird god powers. i am an ichigo special boy apologist #thats as far forward as i can think. ichigo has to b dead. has to learn to control his power before he can go fight. rukia can teach him #he rebells against the institution. encourages rukia to go apeshit bc fuck everyone. and then idk. he keeps trying to save ppl forever #or he dies and destroys the universe. a big ball of resentment and bad feels and secrets upon secrets upon secrets. god y am i thinking #abt this so much. ive got bullshit to deal with. anyway. idk i just like ichigo a lot and i think thr ending to bleach is th worst forever #bleach ramblings

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quietwingsinthesky · 10 months

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Benny: Thanks for not giving up on me, brother.

Dean: Don't give me a reason to.

(im going to throw up)

#DONT GIVE ME A REASON TO. DONT GIVE ME A REASON #'benny's the only one who has never let me down'#HE DOESN'T EVEN GET THE CHANCE TO HUH #BENNY IS DEAN'S MANIC PIXIE DREAM VAMPIRE WHO NEVER DISAGREES WITH HIM OR DOES THE WRONG THING #its sooo. its so pointed. its. this whole parallel sam to benny is so. im think i hauve covid #dean constantly hammering in to sam's head that He Failed. He Failed. He Let Him Down. He Failed. He Broke Everything Between Them.#and benny. benny. oh my god.#don't give me a reason to...#oh to live in the alternate reality where benny does fuck up and fucks up bad #what does dean do then. if his vampire friend was put up against the wall by hunger or a hunter #if he had to lash out. even if he didn't want to. is dean gonna stand by him then?#or does benny go join the long list of people who have let him down. and dean pulls a machete.#how quickly does that trust bleed out huh? how easily do you break a bond that hasn't been tested beyond battle and clandestine meetings #maybe it does happen and im just not remembering that it does. god i hope so. i need to see them get messed up.#dean/benny is so good and messy to me actually.#benny doesn't even know these expectations are being hoisted on him. he's never there when dean talks about how everyone else in his life #failed him. benny just thinks this is a normal (well. 'normal'. they were in purgatory. and probably had wild bloody sex in those woods)#but a normal friendship. and has no idea he's on any kind of pedestal. god. terrifying. imagine being pushed off a cliff you didn't know yo #were on the edge of. that's the situation benny is in rn #anyway! fun normal show for normal people!#benny lafitte #dean winchester #spn

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jotiko · 2 years

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imagine Steve going all Days of Future Past from the majority of the people he loves being dead to the past where almost all of them barely know each other

imagine him seeing the people he watched die alive again and him holding back tears and itching to hug them and not being able to

imagine him agonizing over what people he can save this time around, not just his friends, but like. can he save Barbs? or would it mess things up too much because Nancy might not be pulled into this at all? and thinking that maybe that would be good for her but can they afford this? Nancy is a very important member of the team

could he try to save Billy? he might hate the guy but Max was devastated by his death and she is one of "his" kids now and he hates to see her hurt. but he doesn't even know what when and how billy gets roped into this shit

imagine Steve looking at Robin and Eddie in school wanting to hangout with them instead of Tommy H and Carol but knowing they really dislike him. imagine him looking over his shoulder sometimes wanting to share a joke with Robin but she is not there. or him staring sometimes at Eddie wishing he could just tell him how he feels because what if Eddie dies again

and overall Steve knows what he is supposed to do but it's the most vague shit ever and he doesn't know how to get there and what if he somehow breakes something by meddling too much?

Steve selfishly wanting to end it all himself so others would just have a normal life, despite knowing full well it's not possible. and perhaps even more selfishly thinking he can't really live anymore without these people in his life

It would would be so full of angst and so much feels but in the end no one he cares about dies and so it's all been worth it

#since it's not as big time difference as in dofp steve doesn't return to the present #i think he will try to get to the gang first and help with El and everything as much as he can #while at school he tries to befriend Robin and god it should not be this hard they were friends once already!#but it takes time for Robin to stop being suspicious of him #oh and he drops Tommy and Carol real fast the first time they are shit talking someone #and he can't believe he stuck around for as long as he did #he doesn't even know how to approach Eddie and is stressing out so much because time is ticking #and it happens accidentally when Steve stumbles upon some guys about to bit Eddie up #and oh it's the fisrt school fight he's ever won (because years of battling fucking demons or whatever will do that to you)#stranger things #steve harrington #steddie #i bet steve also slipps up sometimes and says things he is not supposed to know yet or refers to events that haven't happend #and Dustin eventually forces him to confess what the fuck is that all about

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softersinned-arc · 1 year

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you ever think about a character who just got so spectacularly fucked over by canon that you really don't know where to even start with making it right so you kind of just have to hold them in your hands and say "i love you so much and someday i'll do right by you" because

#(thinking abt fiona dra.gon age today)#('fuck the chantry' ma'am i'd die for you)#(what i wouldn't have given for her to get to interact with hawke. or velanna.)#(or for her and alistair to have CONNECTED god i cry so hard whenever i reread the calling)#(do i need another character? no! will i write her anyway? probably!)#(god. god. god. thinking bout what would have happened if we could have gotten her instead of wynne)#(fiona carefully avoiding alistair for as long as she can because He Doesn't Know and seeing him with the amulet knowing it's hers)#(watching her son fall in love for the first time. knowing he's likely to die in the final battle.)#(or fiona in kirkwall??? or even. fuck. a real explanation for fiona to have allied with alexius)#(because she had to have a fucking reason)#(and it had to be good so like. was she being manipulated? we know blood mages can hold other people in a thrall)#(and given the threat from the chantry we know that there was real danger posed)#(but what would have prompted her to a.) invite in a foreign power while trying to stay safe in ferelden)#(and b.) invite in a foreign power that frequently engaged in the enslavement of elves)#(when she herself has such a painful history)#(and is now responsible for countless mages. including elves.)#(anyway. holds her in my hands. i love you. someday i'm gonna figure out how to do right by you.)#(also. nevarran fiona whose necromancy could make the mortalitasi blush. it's what i deserve.)#(thinkin bout cassandra too what if i just put everyone on the new multi and subject you all to watching me reblog about them constantly)#(cassandra has curly hair i want you all to know this she has thick curly hair and she cuts it v short so the curls are SO bouncy)#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

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dirt-str1der · 1 year

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Hehe

#Yakuza liveplay #kiryu literally always gets what he wants though like honestly he kicks up such a big fuss about battle #but whenever anything happens hes already rolling up his sleeves and salivating and wagging his tail like #'i really didnt want to do this...' like my god just say you want to wrestle you friends its not that weird #thats why he likes majima so much its because she attacks him regardless of what he says to her shes always giving him what he wants #whats with the 'not even you' does he have something against akiyama that makes him more precious than the rest of his pals #wait actually i take it back its not weird to want to homoerotically wrestle with your friends but what kiryu wants is a no holds barred #fight like honestly i think growing up he was constantly at nishikis throat if he wasnt going off doing his own thing #disappears halfway through the school day and comes back covered in scrapes and bruises and requests a battle from nishiki #and hes like wuh okay yeah sure then kiryu beats the fuck out of him and hes like okay lets go home #im making this sound so one sided its because back when kiryu was a girl nishiki would just let him hit him because hes a feminist #but it turns out his brother is not a girl so he was like yuss i get to defend myself now

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andromedasummer · 1 year

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my sister spent a lot of this summer insisting that the regs are tighter and the racing is closer and that red bull really did suffer the consequences of their cheating but this looks like another "regs decide the dominant era" rut f1 has wedged themselves into. this time featuring a bowl of angry uncooked oatmeal slop they dropped into the seat of the car 3rd time in a row

#f1 rly is just domination era after domination era with a season or two of maybe two teammates battling for a trophy #two teams if you're lucky #we just kinda put up with it because previously the people had a kinda charm or personality or hobbies or an existence outside of #.... whatever poor excuse of a ''racing'' series f1 is #they want the competition of homologated series where there arent really midfields and the winner truly can be switched up most every race #but they cant do that because non-homologation is what draws in the teams. so the only option is closing the budget gap #and thats not fucking working not to imply the fia is good at making decisions or rulings that work in the first place #just kinda sad innit. theyre fast cars. they just dont get the chance to race one another.#my sister is a HUGE fan of the oatmeal and she went to bed 20 laps in #that is saying something abt the series #hell i used to go to bed circa 2020 when it was clear lew was ahead cos god love him i wasnt interested #in staying up at 1-6am to watch not-racing happen #all this to say im so glad i branched out to other series and i encourage others to as well #this is the perfect time

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lion-sensei · 2 years

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oooorgh

#matthew you have got to stop ending episodes like this it's Fucking Mean #I am not filled with confidence when you do things like this #the last time you ended an episode like this LAUDNA DIED #and she's STILL DEAD #listen. I know it's ''probably fine.'' it's ''probably just the demiplane collapsing when they killed delilah'' or something #but it makes me nervous that they did not CONFIRM that they had achieved the actual mission that they were on #also laudna could have been there for that whole battle!!!#let your wife play dungeons and dragons!!!#I'm a conspiracy theorist at this point they're dragging it out purposely so that the res happens in silly halloween costumes #if we even GET THE RES NEXT EPISODE BECAUSE I KEEP SAYING THAT AND IT KEEPS NOT HAPPENING #guys. why are you doing this. you're all going to cry and ruin your stupid costume makeup #god. we're going to get marisha's costume for announcements and then she's going to leave : (#what if she just comes in normal clothes and is like ''what. I'm not playing today''#(and then hopefully comes back in a costume if they revive her)#again. if.#I'm inconsolable I just want her back I miss her so bad : (#how is everyone else doing #okay I'm done #Critical Role #CR spoilers

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hellguarded-moved · 2 years

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𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 [ … ] 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄,

bold what applies - italicise sometimes. repost, don’t reblog.

fights honourably / fights dirty

prefers close - quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle

rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging

fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade / prefers a gun / prefers hand to hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield / prefers a personalized weapon / prefers magic, alchemy or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential

exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill - set / learning their skill - set

fancy footwork / sloppy footwork

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has ptsd / avoids fighting

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

tagged by: @corrchoigilt

#notes. ( “CERBERUS” );#// thank for the tag skelly. ♥ i'll do talon for liri's tag gfjkjgfk #// once one of my clients if u wanna call it that had her dog nearly tackle her down and she went like 'god he's like a tank' and i'M LIKE #// YEAH IG #// anyway i love ig in battle and i wish he wasn't so Tired of it so i could indulge in it more #// he's gone through a lot of life phases during e.g. looking back at his youth he was far more feral and merciless #// nowadays he's just 'pls stop i could crush you and i don't want to'#// he takes forever to provoke to fight and he will do his damnest to make it not happen because he KNOWS #// he can be ur angle. or yuor devil.#// by which i mean he can be either the unstoppable force or the immovable object #// n i guess it depends what kinda defeat we talking here. if it's like a friendly duel he has enough dignity to just Take It b u t #// otherwise #// he'll fight for as long as he has to. for as long as he has a reason to or a cause. and he also won't back down if he's defending #// someone. bitch will literally rather die #// similiarly if it's a friendly bout he tends to act a bit more arrogant because he knows it's all in good fun #// also. claps. 'fears death' lmao that's a fun one.#// it's not even related to killing/fighting it's related to the fact that he once had an encounter with death who forced him #// to experience physical aging as a threat and hmmmm that rly got to him lmao #// it's kinda wild when ur immortal n then that happens. so ye #// also tries to not cause any collateral damage but sometimes that's unavoidable.#// idk!!!! i could talk about this for hours

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truethes · 2 years

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kinda curious to know the reason why we haven’t actually met inner greed yet.

#❛ ♡ › jupiter : 𝐨𝐨𝐜.#licht immediately points out what we think is inner greed is just lawless in disguise so technically idk where the actual demon was in that #moment tbh FYVGDFYUVGFVU #i was rereading someone's summary of 118 and they spoke about how like.#inner glut has this sort of like god / idol complex and refers to themselves as a 'king'#and tht nic and ild are just their pawns / playthings #and now all they wanna do is eat nics soul #its really interesting bc. from what we saw of inner greed and inner lust was just how intune they were to both lily and lawless #respectively ... they are also the ones who visited kuro last ( and lily was brought up by gear to mention that theyve become more aligned #with their humanity )#it makes me wonder if the order kuro saw them in ( aka ildio then lawless ) was a point to that #considering kuro who constantly fights with his demon. refuses to accept it as part of himself - to freya / ildio ( who live pretty decent #human lives. however have battles with their demons when their grief / anger / strong emotions come up )#to lily and lawless whos demons align with almost ' helping ' them out ( i use that vaguely bc idk what inner greeds doing rn maybe we're #going to meet them soon )#someone out there knows whats happening in it rn ....#( alexa play waving through the window FIVUYDFGVFU )#ive had a flare up this evening and i have only in the last hour been able to focus on things so please forgive me for my slowness i am not.#feeling 100%

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inbarfink · 1 year

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One common Undertale misconception that really frustrates me is when Sans is portrayed with a strong innate sense for RESETs and alternative timelines. Like, that he remembers the RESET timelines better than the other characters who only have occasional feelings of deja vu or even that he can sense when a timeline is RESET.

And that’s, like, almost the opposite of the actual text of the game. While pretty much every main character can have slightly-different dialogue in a Not-True-RESET, especially if the Player had previously befriended them, based on the idea that they have lingering memories/feelings from before the RESET -

Sans has no real dialogue changes based on this conceit. All of his changes are based around noticing Frisk has different reactions based on their memories of the precious timelines.

Other characters do also make observations like that about Frisk, like Mettaton and Toriel. But Sans is distinctive because this is the only way his comments change between RESETs and there are a lot of them from him.

Because that is what really frustrates me about this misconception. People mention it as one more thing that makes Sans cool - but the actual truth is far more badass. Sans is one of the people in the Underground who remembers RESETs the least. I think memory-resistance to RESETs is probably tied to Determination. Flowey, the second-most Determined person in the Underground after Frisk, can remember everything perfectly.

Everyone else has some vague feelings and deja vus. And Sans, he’s the least motivated person in the Underground - both in the sense he’s lazy and in the sense he’s fucking depressed.

That probably means he has very little Determination. Thus, he doesn’t remember anything that happens between RESETs.

And yet, he is still the character most aware of them. Because he has the technological know-how to read and analyze timelines.

And because he has the observation and analytical skill to notice a RESET from other people’s reactions and behavior. Whatever it’s Papyrus thinking he recognizes someone or Frisk’s behavior implying that they know something they shouldn’t have. Sans main RESET-related skill is just being able to identify these moments and come to the correct conclusion about them. And with that he manages to be the most aware character in the entire Underground.

Like, the one point where it might seem like Sans remembers something from a previous Timeline is the Fake Spare scene during his boss battle.

But it’s all pretend. Unlike the previous lines from other characters that I mentioned, this dialogue plays even if the Murder Route is the first time the player touched the game. Sans isn’t remembering anything in this scene. But he makes an educated guess that the Immoral Time God probably tried using their powers for good at first, so they were likely ‘friends’ in a previous timeline. And in most cases, his guess is right on the money - tricking many players into thinking this is another case of the game actually reacting to their past actions.

And as always, Sans can only tell if his lil’ trick worked or not based on the expression of the Player Character.

Arguably, Sans even uses his lack of Determination and cross-RESET memory to his advantage in his boss battle. After all, the whole point of this fight isn’t to kill the Player - Sans understands this is impossible. This is a war of attrition, trying to get the Player so frustrated and annoyed with the unfair fight that they just ragequit or RESET the Timeline. And this war of the Player’s patience versus Sans’ stamina and will is infinitely easier for him when he doesn’t actually perceive all the Player’s previous attempts against him.

Like, for the Player this might be the billion time they go up against him, they’re aware of some of his patterns and tricks now but they’re probably also frustrated and angry and exhausted. Meanwhile, from Sans’ POV, this is still the first time this is happening. He knows it’s not from the Player’s behavior and Frisk’s expression - but he doesn’t feel it like the Player does.

He doesn’t feel the frustration and repetition of the endless stalemate. So he’s always as fresh as a daisy no matter how rugged the Player is getting.

And that’s part of why Sans is so cool in the first place, like, in general. He’s technically the weakest person in the Underground, lacking in every standard evaluation of power in the setting - no ATK, no DEF, no HP, no DETERMINATION. But he’s darn clever enough to overcome these weaknesses and even use them in ways that make them into strengths, enough to be one of the most dangerous and most aware guys in this whole setting.

Sans can’t remember anything, and that makes him awesome.

#undertale #undertale meta #sans #sans undertale #undertale analysis #sans ut

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inhonoredglory · 10 months

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Aziraphale’s Choice, the Job Connection, and Michael Sheen’s Morality

Update: Michael Sheen liked this post on Twitter, so I'm fairly certain there is a lot of validity to it.

I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.

Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,

We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and “oh it’s nice.” And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose.

I was looking forward to BAMF!Aziraphale all season long, and I think that’s what we got in the end. Remember Neil said that the Job minisode was important for Aziraphale’s story. Remember how Aziraphale sat on that rock and reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, because he lied and thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier.

Aziraphale, a being of love with more goodness than all of Heaven combined, believed he needed to walk through the Gates of Hell because it was the Right Thing to do. (Like Job, he didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing.)

That’s why we saw Aziraphale as a soldier this season: the bookshop battle, the halo. But yes, the ending as well.

Because Aziraphale never wanted to go to Heaven, and he never wanted to go there without Crowley.

But it was Crowley who taught him that he could, even SHOULD, act when his moral heart told him something was wrong. While Crowley was willing to run away and let the world burn, it was Aziraphale (in that bandstand at the end of the world) who stood his ground and said No. We can make a difference. We can save everyone.

And Aziraphale knew he could not give up the ace up his sleeve (his position as an angel) to talk to God and make them see the truth in his heart.

I was messed up by Ineffable Bureaucracy (Boxfly) getting their happy ending when our Ineffable Husbands didn’t, but I see now that them running away served to prove something to Aziraphale. (And I am fully convinced that Gabriel and Beelzebub saw the example of the Ineffables at the Not-pocalypse and took inspiration from them for choosing to ditch their respective sides)

But my point is that Aziraphale saw them, and in some ways, they looked like him and Crowley. And he saw how Gabriel, the biggest bully in Heaven, was also like him in a way (a being capable of love) and also just a child when he wasn’t influenced by the poison of Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person. The Metatron also seemed to have grown more flexible with his morality (from Aziraphale's perspective). Like Earth, Heaven was shades of (light?) gray.

Aziraphale is too good an angel not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it).

Aziraphale has been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks he and Crowley helped create), Aziraphale is seeing something else. A chance to change them. They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, and because of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.

(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.)

At the cafe, the Metatron said something big was coming in the Great Plan. Aziraphale knows how trapped he had felt when he didn’t have God’s ear the first time something huge happened in the Big Plan. He can’t take a chance again to risk the world by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths (or the threat of death) so much more this season: Elspeth, Wee Morag, Job’s children, the 1940s magician. Aziraphale almost killed a child when he couldn’t get through to God, and he’s not going through that again.

“We could make a difference.” We could save everyone.

Remember what Michael Sheen said about courage and doing good––and having to “look the dark in the face to be truly good.” That’s what happened when Aziraphale was willing to go to Hell for his actions. That’s what happened when he decided he had to go to Heaven, where he had been abused and belittled and made to feel small. He decided to willingly go into the Lion’s Den, to face his abusers and his anxiety, to make them better so that they would not try to destroy the world again.

Him, just one angel. He needed Crowley to be there with him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions that Heaven needed to hear, to tell them God was wrong. Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage.

But then Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.

Aziraphale doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much they need him, or how much humanity needs him there, too. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?)

Terry Pratchett (in the Discworld book, Small Gods) is scathing of God, organized religion, and the corrupt people religion empowers, but he is sympathetic to the individual who has real, pure faith and a good heart. In fact, the everyman protagonist of Small Gods is a better person than the god he serves, and in the end, he ends up changing the church to be better, more open-minded, and more humanist than god could ever do alone.

Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, and Heaven is no exception. When Crowley says that Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he needs to go there. “You’re exactly is different from my exactly.”

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In the aftermath of Trump's election in the US, Brexit happened in 2018. Michael Sheen felt compelled to figure out what was going on in his country after this shock. But he was living in Los Angeles with Sarah Silverman at the time, and she also wanted to become more politically active in the US.

Sheen: “I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to Britain] – which was difficult for us, because we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do.” In the end, they split up and Michael moved back to the UK.

Sometimes doing the Right Thing means sacrificing your own happiness. Sometimes it means going to Hell. Sometimes it means going to Heaven. Sometimes it means losing a relationship.

And that’s why what happened in the end was so difficult for Aziraphale. Because he loves Crowley desperately. He wants to be together. He wanted that kiss for thousands of years. He knows that taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them. They could change the rules of the game.

And he’s still going to do that. But it hurts him that he has to do that alone.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #it's kinda like capt america: civil war #with Azi as Tony Stark: traumatized and trying to do the right thing #and Crowley being Steve Rogers: fuck the establishment let's go rogue #gos2spoilers #good omens meta #good omens 2 meta #go s2 #michael sheen #go s2 meta #go meta #*mine #*mymeta #ineffables husbands #ineffable soulmates #*mybest

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"So it's true! You and her- Guizhong were a thing. Then what the hell does that make me Morax?!" "Can you just drop it of? We're in a hurry." He was tired. And their friend was in danger. "No! Knowing you'll be out there to save your other lover, tell me the truth Morax! Is it true?!" It was the same topic of argument for some time now. He had been denying it over and over again, he just cannot seem to understand why you kept insisting even after hearing him say that was not the case. And he was getting tired of it.

Guizhong was just a friend and that very same friend is now in danger if they do not arrive at rhe right time and here he is getting hold up because of your questions. And knowing you would not let him go even if he were to deny it because that was the truth. Maybe he should give in for now to avoid further more questioning and leave as fast as he can so he could come back to you in now time, knowing that he could easily resolve the misunderstanding and his lies. "You know what. It's true. Now if you just get out of the way, I need to save her." "Wha-what? Wa-wait! Morax-!"

He did not mean to be harsh than he already is. He was just mad, mad because he saw no reason why you should get jealous of a friend, a common friend of yours. Mad because he was running late and a little more than to it could possibly result the death of a dear friend. At the same time, he was mad at himself for leaving that way. But he knew he could always explain when he came back into you. The two of you could always sort it out after the battle like you two always does.

So why? So why in the world- celestia were everything was on fire. And you were in the middle of it, leaning on your weapon for support, blood running down all the way from your temple into your chin. It was not just that. You are bleeding, bleeding all over. Why. Why why why why why? Just what the hell happened in here?

"Don't come." You utter, despite the fact that you could barely stand, you painfully look forward to your lover... heh, can he still be called a lover when he already admitted that he betrayed you? "Some..." you pant. "Some beings came into the city while you were away... hahh, I manage to defend the city until all the people manage to flee but- cough! Hahh, the god manage to escape."

"No. No no no no no." It was getting hard to breathe, nevertheless you should see Morax from afar, running towards you. "Bastard- I told you not to come he-!" You stagger forward, for a moment losing consciousness, still, you embrace yourself with the thought of you hitting the ground. But you never did.

"Let go." "It was a lie. There was no one else." "Morax- I said-" "I was in a hurry, I did not mean to say those words. Guizhong was only a friend. Believe me. God- Celestia. There is no one else. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Please don't leave me." He was hugging, cradling you in his arms. His tears rolling down his cheeks, into your own but you were feeling quite numb to notice that.

"It's..." You tried to hold up a hand but you could only feel the pain and the more it drains you. In the end you could only hold on into his arm. "It's okay... you don't have to lie to make me... feel better." You tried to smile to make him feel better, so why does it look like he was about to lose his whole world? "No. No please. It's nothing like that. I was a fool, I am a fool. Please believe me there is no one else but you. (First name). Please."

You knew he was talking, you can see him talking despite how things were slowly starting to go blurr, you can hear a few words but cannot seemed to focus on it when there is a high pitched ring that makes you unable to focus on what he was saying. Also, "It's cold." You mumble, fighting everything you can to stay conscious.

"Fuck!" Morax can feel your body slowly but surely cooling down. Suddenly his heart dropped as he panicked, he was getting anxious. He felt fear for the first time in his life. "Hold on, please hold on." He tried, he tried his best to fix you with his powers but it was no avail. You have so many wounds, you have already lost a lot of blood. You were dying all ago. "Fuck." He cursed once again. "Fuck, fuck! I told you to hold on (First name)!" He was getting mad again.

Morax felt like he was going mad, he felt like he was about to get crazy. Specially when he saw you starting to close your eyes. He felt a shiver down his spine. "Don't you dare close your eyes (First name)!" Not like this, not when you seemed to sure that he never loved- love you. "Fuck!" His amber iris were glowing with that presence of a dragon. "Don't you dare fell asleep (First name). I'm begging you please-?" He felt a light squeeze on his arm.

"Its.. okay." Taking your last breath, Morax felt the heavy weight of your now dead body in his arms. Your hand falling to your side as your head rest in his chest. At that very moment a rain drop fell from the sky, Morax arms were trembling yet still manage to pull you closer to him as if trying to find a little warmth. "Hah, hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHA."

That day, the dragon lost his mate. His one and only mate as his anguish cries were heard all throughout their land.

: bye, may klase pa ko ng alas quatro sa hapon.

: Also, why is it always zhongli who become the victim of my angst ideas. Tho I might make a same promt with ???

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