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notha zine piece!! for the @as-the-world-caves-in-zine villains zine!
ive never done a full piece like this for something OC/non-fanart related, so this was special. glad i got the perfect chance!! :]
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This is my contribution to the @facesofevilzine! The topic was to draw tiny villains and to noones surprise I drew Minish Vaati and his Keese army. I've chosen BOTW Keese because they look the most vaati-esque think.
Read the full zine here
I am blown away by everyone elses submissions too and i loveeee that Minish Vaati is on the title page heheheh 💜 everyone did an amazing work and I am glad to have been a part of the project!
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okay so i saw that post that said "to be loved is to be changed, but in a horrific and unasked for transformation" and this is so snotacon both sides to me.
I mean, think about it. Otacon can't *kill* someone when Snake meets him, and that's true in two ways. Yeah, physically he's a spindly litte nerd who literally couldn't hurt someone if his life depended on it, but he couldn't do it mentally either. He designs weapons. That's a far cry from actually *using* them. He's a pencil pusher who wanted to build giant robots and was willing to believe that MG Rex wouldn't actually be used.
How long do you think *that* lasted, living, working with a mercenary? At what point do you think it sunk in that if he wanted to actually achieve anything with Philanthropy he was going to have to be okay with lethal force being involved?
Surely we don't think everything was non-lethal up to the tanker? I mean, he has to explain the tranqs work at the beginning of the mission, so it's probably new to him, right? So what were they doing before that? And they don't ask themselves if they should pull out when it becomes apparent that lethal force may be necessary, so clearly these won't be the start of Philanthropy's body count.
So when was the point that he resigned himself to the fact that he was going to have to be a lot closer to death and direct killing than he ever had been before? Did Snake insist on having final judgment off the bat? Did Otacon try to convince him that they needed to do it non-lethally, did they run a mission, maybe even a few come off clean, only for something to go terribly wrong? Did they get out by the skin of their teeth? Did Snake have to kill someone, and Otacon get upset by this first death? And did they have an argument where Snake points out that he is the one that has to pay the price for Otacon's personal mission against killing?
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But that's all so obvious. Killing is bad, etc.
What about Snake?
I think the idea of caring for anyone is scary to him. Especially the extent to which he cares about Otacon.
I mean, half of his utility is in the fact that he just doesn't give a shit about himself, and has nobody left that gives a shit about him. He doesn't have anything to hold him back from giving 110% to the mission. If he dies, he dies. What does he care? He's a washed up alcoholic with PTSD previously known only to shrimps.
And he clearly values his utility. Even in 4, it's how he refers to himself. "An old killer." What use is he if he's concerned about whether he'll make it home in one piece.
When do you think that sinks in to him? Do you think was the first time Otacon told him to drop the mission and get back safe when things took a turn? Do you think he'd ever been in a situation where someone cared more about his life than whatever they were sending him to do? Do you think Kaz even pretended to genuinely care about his safety in the field? Forget Campbell, that's right out, he couldn't even let Snake be as he's fucking dying. Do you think he tried to finish it out first, only for Otacon to beg and scream at him that he was serious?
Or do you think it was when he got hurt, badly hurt, and he sees Otacon sitting over him at night, making sure he's okay, changing his bandages, and out of the corner of his eye he sees a hand wipe away tears, or hears a quiet sniffle, because Otacon realized how close he was to losing Snake.
Or maybe comms get cut unexpectedly during a shootout, and he gets sidetracked, held up somewhere, makes it back to the rendezvous point just under the wire, and Otacon is bawling because he really thought he lost Snake for good this time.
Do you think Snake realizes that at first? Do you think he's too obtuse to realize the tears are over him? Are from fear for him?
At what point do you think he realizes that the numbness he's fostered, that's been intentionally fostered in him (remember, he's the "Cipher-backed son", he's been moved from foster family to foster family more times than he can count, made intentionally to feel disposable, for the sake of creating a perfect soldier) has been replaced with this new pain, this fear, not even for himself, but for Otacon, for the gaping hole he realizes he'll leave in Otacon's life if something's to happen?
At what point do you think Snake realized that he'd turned a regular civilian into a mercenary, in mind if not body?
At what point do you think Otacon realized he'd fundamentally taken a US military asset and broken it over his knee?
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[ID: A drawing of Guzma from pokemon sun and moon. In his right arm he's carrying a wimpod, and his left is in his hoodie pocket. He's set against a background of monochrome half tone. There's coloured text in the style of magazine cutouts patterned around the screen. Phrases such as "no future", "Eat the rich", "no future" and "no one's illegal" END ID]
I am SO normal about pokemon rn! Participating in yet another fanzine lol, this time dedicated to the series' villains. You'll be able to check it out @villainpop when it's finished! So many amazing artists on it.
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Zine Release
At long last, we're happy to share that the Northern Lights zine is here!
Please check out all of the wonderful art and tales from our contributors. We hope you enjoy all the different flavours of MoShang!
Zine Release: https://tinyurl.com/northernlightszine
A03 Northern Lights Collection
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