#dl Epimetheus

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Epimetheus:

Due to a lack of powers, he had never really experienced love, especially from his brothers (his only family). The only person that gave him any semblance of love was his older brother Prometheus (who also needs a hug but that's a story of a different day). He figures out that the reason he has no powers (and the reason he's unloved) is because his brothers took his powers when he was young because he was "too powerful". He confronts Prometheus about it and it turns out Prometheus was involved as well and he gets mad so he goes to lash out, and Prometheus (accidentally) burns the left side of his body with his fire powers. And he gets even more upset but then Prometheus leaves and now he's truly alone and aaa he just needs hugs and to be loved

[rainbowdonkee]

We're just missing one more brother!! We have Prometheus, Epimetheus, and now Menoetius! We only need Atlas next!

[spectraeevee]

Dragon Emile ? Dragon Emile ?!

[crownedflora]

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄  !

List your fav characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people.

The actual contents are under read-more because of spoiler raisins and-and-and...!!! ...Wait, what was I saying? I legit spaced out and lost my- 

NO, WAIT, I ‘MEMBER NOW! Aside from the length of the post itself, the read-more is also dedicated to my absolutely mortifying behavior that’ll be involved in this post and regret including here later, probably. 

A Hat in Time - Badge Seller, C.A.W Agents, DJ Grooves, The Conductor, The Empress, The Snatcher, Walrus Captain, White Seal Crew 

Dota 2 - Aghanim, Auroth, Beatrix (GUN GRANDMA), Donté, Hoodwink, Mireska, Mortimer, Nerif, Raigor, Rubick, Valora, Zet Okay, me stop here for this one.

Dragalia Lost - Euden, Euden, Euden, Euden, Euden, and Euden. Oh, and did I mention Euden? yes henlo are there any Eudens out there that are interested in interacting with my botanical boy? Preferably ones that involve in-game events/character arcs and Dragalia Life comics (especially/specifically if the Euden finds my flower child cute) in their portrayals for serious, crack, fluff, angst, or anything in between (4th wall-breaking and meta/gameplay-based shenanigans and/or interactions may also likely apply). Monster lovers/[redacted] that happen to muse this (too) nice-and-friendly prince/king man, please DO apply. In spite of previous sentence, intimate platonic ship full of the aforementioned stuff is the main goal. ...For here at least. Anything beyond that is a HUMONGOUS bonus (how do I black out a portion of text on here like a spoiler mark/tag??? I feel so exposed even though I did this to myself. ohgoddon’tlookatme.  I SAID STOP IT!)!!! Anyway, time for the rest of the list: Akasha, Alberius, Albert, Aldred, Brunhilda (Pre-Euden mainly/only tbh. Shocking considering what’s been said, right?), Cat Sìth, Chelle, Chthonius, Ciella, Delphi, Epimetheus, Eugene, Grace, Ieyasu, Leif, Lowen, Mascula (I know I’m super late with this but my lack of access to [INSERT ACCOUNT/PLATFORM] on top of everything else means I can express it here now- YEEESSS!!! ADVENTURER MASCULA IS REAL!!!! EAT IT, NAYSAYERS! EAT. IT!!!! HedidcostmemoreofmystashthatstillneededtoberecoveredsinceIhadtosparkforhimtho. Cygames, PLEASE, HAVEMERCY!!!) , Meene, Melsa, Nedrick (yes henlo are ther), Nevin, Noelle, Notte, Odetta, Pele, Prometheus, Seimei, Silke, Siren, Tartarus (Bro, I finally get around to semi-consistently soloing you on Master difficulty and now I’m broke af from trying to MUB all the Light Agito weapons. I HAVE MORE POWER NOW BUT AT THE PRICE OF BEING POOR. HELP-) Yaten, Yoshitsune (GUN GRANDMA!), Zodiark- No, I’m sorry, even if it PAINS me to leave out plenty more names that are left to list here (-sniffle- I’m sorry my beloveds), I HAVE to stop there for DL.

Genshin Impact - Albedo, Aether/Traveler, Bennett, Chongyun, Dvalin, Klee, Madame Ping, Paimon, Qiqi, Rosaria, Scaramouche, Tartaglia, Venti, Zhongli

Hades - Asterius, Chaos, Charon, Demeter, Dusa, Eurydice, Hades, Hermes, Megaera, Nyx, Persephone, Skelly, Thanatos, Zagreus 

Overwatch (I forgot to buy all the now-cheaper old event skins I lacked before the Anni event ended nooooo-) - Ana (GUN GRAAANDMAAAAAA!!!!!), Bastion, Brigitte, Dae-hyun, Genji, Hammond, Hana, Jamison, Lena, Mako, Mei, Moira, Olivia, Orisa, Seung-hwa, Winston 

Shovel Knight - King Knight, (King Knight’s) Mom, Oolong, Plague Knight, Specter Knight, Treasure Knight

SINoALICE (so far) - Dullahan, Gretel, Pinnocchio, Sleeping Beauty

StarCraft (2) - Abathur, Alarak, Dehaka, Talandar, Tychus, Zagara, Zeratul

Team Fortress 2 (The current state of this and a majority of other Valve’s games/IPs saddens and infuriates me. Blizzard games/IPs, too. Ugh...) - Jeremy, Ludwig, Pauling, Pyro, Spy

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[murasaki-murasame]

Since I am extremely dumb and stupid [and don’t feel that strongly about Persona 5], I decided to chase after Kimono Luca even though he’s non-limited since I like him. So let’s see how that went.

TL;DR: badly :’)

Let’s just get into the pulls right away since I have a lot I want to say about Kimono Luca as a unit, lol.

The only new units I got were Forager Mitsuba and Kimono Elly [who I got twice :/], and let’s just say I had to spark for Kimono Luca.

In terms of adventurer dupes, I got Ilia [as literally my first single ticket. If it had have been Lapis or F-Joachim I might have just quit while I was ahead and stopped summoning], S-Maribelle, Yurius, and G-Mym. Which also made me remember that I have every non-limited wand unit in the game, plus Gala Cleo, so basically if I ever see a 5-star wand in a regular banner or a gala it’s guaranteed to be a dupe, so that sucks.

I don’t think I remember all the dragons I got, but from what I remember, I got Simurgh, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Garland, Cupid, Freyja, Kamuy, and Hastur. So nothing particularly interesting. I don’t remember how many of each of them I already had, but I do know that I already have two MUB copies of Freyja, and that this is now my second random copy of her I’ve gotten after that.

It probably wasn’t worth it, but at least I had the resources to spark Kimono Luca, lol.

Anyway, after the P5 collab got officially announced, it made me more tempted to save for Joker, but honestly at this point I don’t think I actually care about him or P5 in general enough to skip a unit I really like, even if Kimono Luca’s permanent. There’s always future dream summons to consider, but there’s still other characters on my list of dream summon targets, and with how slowly we get them in the first place that list is only going to expand as I skip future banners, and I think DL is going to start following GBF’s pattern of giving special dream summons for anniversary events that include limited units.

So in general I don’t really like the idea of skipping a character I really want just to put them on the dream summon target pile, so here we are, lol.

It also helps that Kimono Luca seems to be a really good unit in general. His kit is awkward against Ciella because of her frequent attacks that interrupt you, but it doesn’t make him completely useless or anything. It just means there’s more of a learning curve with figuring out the timing of when to use his skills. And funnily enough, because of how that whole aspect of the fight works, it sounds like Hunter Sarisse’s shared skill isn’t actually very efficient on him since he can’t maintain his force-strike very long without getting interrupted or using a skill, which is kinda nice for me since I don’t have her and it kinda bugs me how many characters with unique force strikes benefit so much from having her shared skill.

In general he feels like an alternative/upgrade to OG Ranzal, which also works out nicely for me. He doesn’t inflict poison, but that’s not really a huge deal, and even though he doesn’t have defense buffs, Ranzal’s one is really slow anyway, and his life shield is pretty weak. But K-Luca gets a health regen and a water damage reduction buff with more or less full uptime, so that’s cool.

And for some bizarre reason his first skill has one of the highest damage mods in the game, lol. I think at it’s full effect it’s like 4700% mods, which is kinda insane. It’s kinda balanced out by the fact that the animation lasts like 6-7 seconds and can easily be interrupted, but it’s still super high, and it also doesn’t take much time to charge at all. I think it takes about five hits of his force strike to charge, and his force strike lands once per second, so it basically charges up every five seconds. His force strike itself also does a fair bit of damage, but since it’s one hit per second it probably isn’t much higher than normal in the long run. But it feels really satisfying to do really big individual hits of damage.

It’s also kinda nice that he doesn’t benefit much from buff time or skill haste because of how fast his skills charge and how his buffs don’t stack, since it frees up wyrmprints lots to use on stuff like force strike damage. I think he might benefit a lot from using striking haste prints, though, at least for his shared skills, since he uses his force strike so often.

He can also now go on a team with Sylas, which is like half of the reason I summoned for him, lol. They also work nicely together, since they both have defensive co-abilities, Sylas inflicts poison, and they both do various types of enemy strength debuffs and team defensive buffs.

I also just really like his design, and how his unique force-strike and his skills look. There’s something really funny about them just reusing the mochi-pounding animation from the New Years events.

Anyway, even after fully sparking for him, I have like 50 summons left over, so by the time the P5 banner actually happens I’ll probably have around 100-150 summons saved up, so even though I wouldn’t be able to spark, I might still just throw my summons at Joker to see if I can still get him. But I don’t mind too much at this point if I don’t, and even if I spend all my resources there, I should still be able to spark at the end of March if that’s when we get Gala Notte.

Also, even though I got Kimono Elly, I dunno how much I’ll use her. I really like her design, but her kit just feels extremely underwhelming. It’s kinda funny to me that she and Kimono Luca feel so similar in how their kits work, and yet Kimono Luca works much better. He has his downsides, but they feel less harsh than how Kimono Elly’s strength buff is just flat out worse than something like Emma’s, how her S2 only has a 40% chance of even inflicting scorchrend and only 600%-ish damage mods, and how her co-ability may as well not exist. I think she might still have her niches, but she seems much less useful or noteworthy than Kimono Luca.

I guess I also got Forager Mitsuba as another new unit, but I also dunno if I’ll use her much. I already have Tobias and Victor, and lots of good wind units in general, so I won’t get much use out of her, but I do also like her design as well.

In the end, I suppose I now have to hope that I don’t mind missing out on Joker, since that’s probably what’s gonna happen, lol.

Honestly part of why I went all out with this was because I ended up more or less skipping the New Years banners since I got lucky with my pulls there, which made me feel kinda weird since I spent so much time saving for them, so it made me want to use up my stash.