#V1 is like a cockroach

[porcelainleviathan]

Machine wtf.

[HUNGRY]

Im begging no one to take this seriously i drew this while stoned.

[gosh-the-not-so-great]

I have a big, big, big long rant on why I LOATHE Ruin entirely with every fiber of my being.

He is incredibly well written and one of my favorite villains! But that does not spare him from my (hypothetical) 2015 Supreme crowbar.

Aside from killing Solar (because HONESTLY, that is the least of his crimes. Eclipse killed Lunar and I don't hate that one as much as I hate Ruin [it's because Eclipse is pathetic])

It's how he acts, how he talks, how he portrays himself. It's so aggravating (and consistent with his character! Like I said, he is my favorite villain).

He acts incredibly self-righteous about what he did, like it was an ultimate sacrifice that he committed for the better of the world. But it's NOT. He didn't do it to protect the remaining dimensions, he did it out of anger, out of revenge AND I HAVE EVIDENCE OF THAT! (I forgot who he was speaking to, eclipse probably, where he said "and now my people have revenge" or something like that, so it proves that MOST of his motivation was vengeance, and not some self-imposed righteous mission)

But he always goes on and on and on about it was his ONLY choice, and that he "tried what he could" to save Solar from his fate. BUT I HAVE EVIDENCE THAT HE DIDNT EVEN TRY HARD ENOUGH THERE EITHER. (Dark Sun. Dark Sun changed his dimensional code to be spared being erased. Ruin is a GENIUS, he could've done it! So why didn't he? I have no clue.)

And then the shit he said about Solar, it was a recent episode (for me, as I am behind, it's pre-moon breakdown, I think the episode where Molten kidnaps Ruin) where Ruin was like "I didn't torture him! He didn't feel pain! Why can't I have a painless death?" And Moon, rightfully, was like "well he was in pain!" And Ruin said "No, it was anxiety" FUCK YOU you don't get to dictate whether or not people feel pain when they die!!! And y doesn't fucking matter if it was painful or not, emotional pain counts!! The sheer terror of being erased from existence counts as a pain!! "It was just anxiety!" Naming my crowbar anxiety for when I smash that cockroach to bits.

Moving on- I hate how he's not dead yet, too. Again, Solar aside, he killed 5000+ dimensions worth of people! That is an inconceivable number of deaths! By his hand! AND HE WAS WATCHING FUCKING BLUE LOCK WHEN HE DID THAT!! People have died on that show for FAR LESS!! (Eclipse V1 and 2, Bloodmoon, KC, etc..) So why does RUIN get to live? Why????

He feels no remorse, no guilt, he would do that again if he had the chance. He's selfish, he acts like he's better than everyone, he's a condescending asshole who puts the intelligence of everyone else down too. He uses bigger words to sound smarter. He's a snobbish, self-righteous asshole.

And I HATE HIM.

I hate him because it's unfair that he's BASICALLY getting away with what he did.

And because he is an incredible villain, my sheer hatred of him is proof of how good his writing is.

I hate him, I love him. I want him dead. I have gone on SEVERAL long tangents about this over the phone

(sorry if this is all over the place, I wrote this between classes)

(last night when I got to the Molten episode as proof of my unbridled rage)

[mean-and-rwde]

Volume 9 thoughts

[Spoilers, possibly]

[Rambling ahead]

I don't want to throw out all hope that V9 won't be absolute ""filler"", but it clashes too hard with the high emotions of the V8 finale.

If V8 was trying to be V3 (it failed), then I guess one could say V9 is like V4.

Except V4, while personally being one of my lesser-favorite volumes, does a nice bridge between the absolute chaos of the V3 finale to the V5 chaos. It's slower, a lot more dialogue heavy, and yet manages to remain somewhat true to canon without breaking it too much.

V9, however, looks to be a V1 - V2 ish theme but definitely not nearly as light hearted. I mean, they look to be in fucking wonderland (I heard it's called the Ever After, which is not much better, in my opinion). We've got talking mice among possibly other wild scenarios.

Meanwhile in Remnant (? I don't think Ever After is part of Remnant, I don't know tho):

- Atlas has become Atlantis (to quote my brother, who I guess heard it from a review somewhere?)

- Everyone who didn't fall into The Void / died when Atlas fell is now in Vacuo, the last standing kingdom.

- Vacuo is already very much struggling with what the citizens have. Now what's left of an entire kingdom has been dumped in as well.

- Salem has 2 / 4 relics needed to end the world and is on her way to Vacuo, where the last relic is being held.

- Cinder is still here. Like a damn cockroach

Side rant: I'm sorry, I just don't care for her anymore. I miss V1 - V3 Cinder, who was a legitimate threat and actually scary. Now she's an villain who is funniest when she fails. When I see her now, the sense of dread is more like "ugh this bitch again" instead of before where I was like "oh shit she's back what is she gonna do now?".

Adding her backstory in V7 (or was it V8? I literally can't remember) did nothing for me. It was way too on the nose, there was nothing subtle about it. And the song playing was basically beating the audience over the head with what was happening. It's too late to give her backstory, now it's completely unnecessary. It means nothing. And she has resorted to relying on the maiden powers in fights, makimg her fights boring and monotonous.

Also in Remnant:

- A shit ton of people fell into the void

- Penny is dead. Again. But permanently.

Meanwhile:

Our mains are in some weird wonderland like world where I'm guessing Neo somehow already has what looks like some sort of gang (in the intro, she's seen drinking tea with a bunch of shadowy people behind her).

There's also the mystery girl, who may have something to do with Ruby.

The intro hints that Ruby has become far more depressed and not nearly as hopeful as she once was. In the beginning, we see her as she transitions between her outfits over the volumes, while her emblem slowly fades.

While her team is running through various scenes, Ruby is dragging her feet, noticeably falling behind everyone else.

I hope this actually goes somewhere and makes Ruby + WBY + Jaune realize that they (especially Ruby) haven't made the best decisions as of late.

I haven't seen Episode 1, but I've heard some bits and pieces of it and I'm generally not thrilled. I know it's only the first episode, but I'm really not down for this whole wonderland shenanigans thing when the real world of Remnant is in danger of literally ending.

I don't know, it really feels like how when the White Fang arc was abruptly cut short and dropped (rip most of Blake's character). Things have gotten too heavy and too much, so the writers cut to something else entirely.

In this case, something comedic (or at least trying to be)

A / N 1: Apparently there's a con-man raccoon called Jinxy who is very... Stereotyped and racist. I have not seen this character, but from what I've heard... I don't think I want to know.

[askkaimei]

Hi um this may sound dumb/annoying but from a Kaito lover to another I would like to know your stance about the color of Kaitos skin in fanart :-( I've recently become aware of the negative connotations of depicting asian people with yellow skin and since your are Asian... (Sorry if I'm wrong>.< Ignore this) Kaitos first boxart depicted him with yellow skin and I'm a voca fan since 08/09 so I've just been drawing him like that since forever but was I wrongdoing that when da Asian artist didit?

first of all, when u ask me, know very well that i can’t represent the opinion of the world,

it mostly filled with people who are too quick to jump on opinion & be angry about something

i think i’m kinda too much on the chill side for their taste

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i am not too smart to think of any counter argument

so i am hoping nobody would fight me, over this reply

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but here is my take,

i don’t exactly care about all that ‘negative connotations’ people are so busy pointing at each other about

to me, it’s not about whether it’s a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ doing

it’s simply about, does the color make the drawing looks ugly or not ?

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like, hold up, who said we don’t even color him yellow?

here are some kaitos i grouped as example, to show u we /do/ color him yellow

u see here,

we just don’t use bastard yellow is all x’D

we would rather tone the yellow down, to make it looks warmer and more humane

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from what i know, when we’re talking about the theory of creating a character

they said to make a character looks distinctive, eye-catching, memorable,

u gotta exaggerate things about it

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usually it goes to the shape, like super big hands, super long tube legs, unusual head shape, odd body, etc. 

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but who knows, it’s actually applicable to the color

(like, god i hate oggy & the cockroaches bcs their bastard colors stab my eyes)

maybe that’s why some human characters got to be colored soo yellow

more than people’s liking

that people took them as offensive things & everything became controversial

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anyway, i’ll give u example from my own side 

u don’t actually notice this before, huh?

that is exactly the point of yellow skin.

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are some asian actually yellow?

yes.

those people who said no are totally on denial.

(or they just never come to notice)

but unlike the ‘bastard yellow’ which is too obviously ‘yellow’

u can’t actually notice the yellow tint on asian fair skin when u just look at them the way u usually look at people

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only by putting arms side by side with my friends,

i got to actually see that their fair skin -- that usually don’t look yellow at all, actually has yellow tint.to it

i notice it easily especially because i am kind of on the reddish cream side of skin

i am not saying, keep on drawing kaito with his v1 yellow is wrong,

i mean, u can just slap the authentic boxart proof that he is like that from the start, haha

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but if u can’t stop sweating from thinking ‘oh no what if i offend people’, and want to scoot urself to the safer side,

you could try tone down his original yellow

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like how u see up there,

some still look yellow without actually being too yellow

even though u might only be able to notice they /are/ yellow, when they are being put side by side with other skin colors

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i hope somehow this helps.

[silveranjyil]

The Greatest Tragedy

Once my brain has alighted upon a subject, it often does not let it go until ever stone is unturned.  After writing about the impossible task the God of Light had placed upon Ozma, I went to bed, and immediately a new thought popped into my head.

Ozma will never die.

He can not ask or promise Salem to die with him, because she was not part of the conditions from the God of Light.  The conditions were to bring humanity together so that they could live in harmony with one another.

Ozpin/Ozma could *lie* to Salem, sending her to the Afterlife alone to wait for his return (if that is even possible).  But I think it is beyond that.  He told her everything in his first incarnation, so she KNOWS he can not die until harmony is united.

Oh...my...god...  everything makes sense.

She can never die as long as she never accepts death.  He can never die unless humanity is basically united in harmony.  She will NEVER accept death now.  She will keep the world divided and continue to be the antagonist to his efforts so that they can stay living in this world, even if it means they will forever be separated by war.

Jinn said in the Lost Fable that Salem became a being of infinite life with a desire for pure destruction, but was she really

Remember, Salem was able to live a quiet, normal life away from humanity.  She was able to love Ozma even in his new form.  She was motherly and doting upon her children.  All of this naturally.  Even now, she would send her servants away so as not to destroy them when in a fit of rage.

Ozma is her heart.  His very existence destroys her and yet keeps her from becoming truly Grimm.  She is a walking contradiction of the forces of destruction that house her and her own humanity.  A being with nothing but a desire for destruction can not, by its very nature, be motherly or loving.

However, this means she is constantly fighting herself.  She loses control a lot, she succumbs to the darkness within her a lot.  She killed her own children and Ozma in a fit of rage, for example.  She is obviously coming to wreak havoc upon the kingdom of Atlas as well.  She absolutely HATES Ozma/Ozpin to the core.

And loves him just as much.

That book Blake was reading way back in V1 wasn't about Ozma/Ozpin--it was about Salem.  Ozma never really tried to dominate his hosts, they kind of merged together over time, but Salem is the one fighting another soul within herself.

She knows that Ozma will never die unless humanity is living in harmony.  If she dies, she will be alone in the afterlife--forever, probably.  Jinn said a few times, Salem understood that the hearts of men were easily swayed.  And this was from the very beginning when the Gods were in charge.

Never has there been a love story so tragic as Ozma and Salem.  The gods royally screwed them both over, but I think Ozma got the worst of it.

The final battle won't be against Salem.  It will be against the gods.  And Salem wants them to come because it may well be the only way to break the curse upon both of them.  If the gods come and wipe out all of humanity because they continue to fight amongst themselves, Ozma will die.  He will have no way to reincarnate and will go to the afterlife.  Either Salem will also die among them, or she will be able to accept death and finally kill herself.

The only way for Salem and Ozma to finally be together is to destroy all of humanity.  Not just that, but the Gods have to be the ones to do it.  If she destroys humanity on her own, it would be useless.  Humans are like cockroaches and will return.  She does not have the power to destroy the whole world in one blow, making it impossible for any human to return.  But the Gods do.  The God of Light said it himself: the WORLD would be destroyed.  Not just humanity.  He would make sure they could never come back again.

Salem has been waiting all this time, trying to first figure out how to collect the maidens powers and manipulate events to her advantage so that she can gather the relics, get the gods to destroy the world, and finally be with Ozma in the afterlife.

That also explains why, when asked how he could destroy Salem, Jinn said he couldn't.  The conditions the gods set were ever against Ozma's ability to succeed.  As long as Ozma lives, Salem will never accept death.  It's twistedly beautiful.

While it seems like a hopeless situation, it isn't.  There are many ways around all of this.  If the only people in the world who can use magic team up together and defeat the Gods, their curses could well be lifted on both of them.  But that still means endangering all of the world to do it as well as convincing Salem to join with them.  Ozma can still lie to Salem and convince her to accept death (after the Grimm is cleansed) and send her to the afterlife.  There is no telling what a being with powers like hers can do from the afterlife and might lead to a whole new arc, but it is a possibility.

They could summon the gods and try to convince them to renegotiate the situation, but I really doubt that would work in any setting.  The gods are jerks, especially the God of Light.

A lot of people suggest sealing Salem away in one of the Vaults, or up in space.  They fail to understand that sealing any great evil away is merely putting a bandaid on the problem.  It guarantees the escape of said evil being, who will be hell-bent on revenge, and possibly more crazy than before since they lost all human contact.   Cinder is a walking example of people willing to break her out or seek her again.  Plus, while we know that the vaults can keep stuff out, we do not know how much they keep IN.  .

Sealing Salem away could work as a temporary fix, but only if it is possible to get humans to live together in harmony.  Since even the gods of Light and Dark could not accomplish this (see my previous post), the odds are looking like that is not an option.  But it would pan out the series well, using new generations in a new arc to try and get the countries to set aside their difference and such.  It would become more political and societal at that point, like Game of Thrones or something... which....well, that was not a good comparison.  Game of Thrones merely emphasizes how hopeless it is to get humans to live in harmony.

I think it would help to know what the cut-off level is for harmony and fighting amongst themselves.  If the God of Light was referring to a perfect, utopian world: Ozma is screwed.  If he meant the majority, with the minority being ignore, Ozma has a chance.

Of course, you could always kill off the majority of people, reduce them to manageable levels where there is a higher likelihood of harmony and call in the gods to take over at that point.  Ozma would never do that, not in a million years.  For him, it is an unnacceptable option, and I completely understand.  But I mention it as an option because it has been proven that large numbers of people tend to generate more conflict because of space, resources, and individuality.

He could go the State route and just military law everything into an Orwellian future with thought-police at every corner.  Yeah...that didn't turn out well for 1984, either (back of the book strongly indicates that in the future, that society no longer existed).

So...yeah... I am seriously pitying Salem and Ozma right now.  I'm going to go cry in a corner for them.

[nami-writes]

Memento Mori - Danganronpa V1 [WIP]

first of all, this is pretty much just dr from byakuya’s perspective except its not even fully dr bc its unfinished lmao. and second of all, yes the title is an unus annus reference

Byakuya Togami has never been what people called a “team player.”

In fact, such a mindset has been discouraged since the moment he was born.

Spending every waking moment of his adolescent life competing against his half-siblings, such a mindset had never even been an option. In his family, it was every man for himself; you were stupid to try a different strategy. They’d all had one goal—to become the sole heir of the Togami Corporation—and they‘d been willing to do anything to achieve that.

Anything.

That’s why, when Monokuma first explains the rules, he isn’t too worried. After all, he’s done this before. This killing game is strikingly similar to his father’s competition and he’s come out on top once, who was to say he couldn’t do it again? As a Togami, the sole successor at that, it’s unfathomable for him not to.

He can play this and win. He knows he can.

Initially, he considers being the first to kill. He‘s fully capable of doing so and getting away with it. Murder isn’t the ideal way for him to win, but if it‘s what he needs to do, he would do it. He’s done more shameful things for less. It would result in minimal casualties—although he couldn’t care less how many casualties there are if he wins—and it isn’t like anybody else matters anyway. Their collective worth is equivalent to the remains of a cockroach on the underside of his shoe, and they serve no purpose but to give him a higher position to acquire.

But maybe it would be more interesting to watch the game play out.

He could end it at any time he pleased, of course. It would be entertaining watching the other competitors break under minimal pressure. It would be an opportunity to observe them, allow himself more time to choose the easiest target and plan his escape. He doesn’t need any more time than he already has, but he knows people this low in the social hierarchy are weak anyway, he‘s at no danger.

So he waits, and it’s sooner than he expects before one of them is killed. Sayaka Maizono. Perhaps one of them wasn’t as weak as he thought.

But the sheer gravity of death doesn’t quite hit him until he watches Junko Enoshima die before his very eyes.

He’s been surrounded by death his entire life. Exile from his family was just as bad as it, if not worse, and the threat of exile had always been constantly held over his head. Watching his half-brothers and sisters spiral into despair even worse than his, sometimes to the point of suicide to avoid exile as he rose above them, it served as effective motivation. It had been easy to desensitize himself to it after enough exposure.

But he’s never seen it firsthand. Watched it happen.

Watched the life drain from their eyes, their skin pale by the second, the liveliness they once had die out.

He almost wants to mourn her death.

Almost.

Makoto Naegi does, the stupid boy, but Byakuya knows better. He knows there’s no time to mourn. He knows she got what was coming to her; she never should’ve disobeyed Monokuma if she wanted to survive, he’d seen a few of his half-siblings exiled for the same reason. He knows that mourning her death will only hinder his chance of survival—he can’t be weak now. After all, this is no different from his father’s competition. This is no different from exile.

At least, that’s what he tells himself, because he knows that if he starts feeling for the others too much, it’ll only lead to his own exile.

His death.

He can barely even look at her, much less touch her.

So he doesn’t. He brushes off Junko’s death as well as he can, repairs his stiff demeanor, paying no mind to how cold he might appear to his competitors. If he shows any weakness at all, his chances of being targeted spike, and it’s in his best interest to make it easy for himself should he choose to leave.

During the investigation, he works alone. He sees no reason to work with anyone else, considering the only one he can trust and rely on with full confidence is himself. Besides, it’s easier than he expects; years of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into being the top student in every school he’s been to, despite the common belief that he’s never worked a day in his life, and it comes in handy when he’s tasked with solving a murder.

It’s easier to inspect a dead body when he doesn’t have to watch it die.

The trial is fairly easy and it surprises him how slow and stupid the majority of his competitors are. Do none of them realize their lives are at stake, or are they just choosing to be idiots? He notes that Kyoko Kirigiri, Celeste, and—oddly enough—Makoto seem like the smarter ones, perhaps he can use one of them to his advantage. The others seem to lack an expected number of brain cells, save for Yasuhiro Hagakure, whose idiocy is on a separate astral plane light years far below them all, and especially below Byakuya. Unsurprisingly, the trial ends with his conclusion correct and Leon Kuwata declared guilty or, as Monokuma calls it, blackened.

Nothing could’ve prepared him for the punishment.

Although his father wasn’t exactly kind when it came to exile, he certainly didn’t take pleasure out of it.

At least, not as much as Monokuma does.

They’re forced to watch as the bear drags Leon out by his throat, kicking and screaming, desperate to live. Every baseball that pummels him brings a louder scream, a bloodier floor, and an almost overwhelmingly-larger challenge to get through this without showing any weakness or sign of defeat. If he does, there’s no doubt it will be taken advantage of.

But not even he can bring himself to say anything when it’s finally over.