#fleeds

[benkaben]

Objectively speaking, half of these relationships are extremely toxic and my guy Daon should just pack and move away at this point honestly.

Personally speaking however, holy smokes, toxic polycule?? For me??

[art-o-bart-o]

Two. Now I know two Daisukes

[fujikosouvenir]

Wilderness vol.10 - Shingo Araki and Araki pro fan club journal - Cutie Honey and Princess Maria Fleed Special - 1985

[synchodai]

The Emperor neither good or bad, but a secret third thing

He's a game mechanic meant to facilitate roleplay. A sorta, kinda "self-identity" meter, if you will. I'm gonna use a TTRPG mechanic outside of D&D to explain the Emperor/Dream Guardian, which is WoD Vampire's Touchstone:

Touchstones are a vampire's connection to the mortal world, representing a mindset in which they value themselves. A Touchstone must be a single living human being. The touchstone might be a surviving partner or family member, related to someone who the vampire killed in their early unlife or even just something they run into regularly. Some Kindred, due to their disconnect from the mortal world may even pick a Touchstone who doesn't know they exist, instead choosing to stalk and watch over the human to retain their connections to humanity.

Because Vampire is ultimately a game about maintaining your character's humanity, there's mechanics like the Touchstone that you have to manage and interact with. BG3 and specifically the parts involving The Emperor and mindflayer powers are also about maintaining your character's humanity.

When the game asks you to create a "guardian," it's being deliberately ambiguous because it wants you, the PC, to interpret what a "guardian" means. For me, I made someone who looked like my PC's older sibling. Others just made hot OC without any backstory to tie the guardian to their Tav, and that's fine. The point is that just by creating the guardian, you have made them significant to your PC in one way or another.

Unlike Touchstones (which are named that way because they're supposed to keep you in "touch" with your humanity), "guardian" has different connotations. What are they safeguarding exactly? You, of course, but what specifically about you? Your appearance? Your mind? Your human(oid) body? Your soul? Or just your general continued existence? Which parts of "you" are you willing to cede until you no longer consider yourself "you?"

And as the game progresses, you discover and discard parts yourself through your own volition, either by making deals with hags and devils or using illithid powers (which is why the narrator says you've lost a part of yourself that you'll never get back over and over again) or one of the many origin ways to lose your memory/humanity/autonomy.

And that's why people have such ambivalent feelings about the Emperor. He claims to be protecting "you," but what it's up to you to draw the lines of what constitutes "you." He's pushy and manipulative if you draw a hard line that you are whoever you were at character creation. Your goal is to stay true to who you believe yourself to be despite external circumstances forcing you to compromise your body, your values, your personality, etc. Guardians are there to help preserve you and shield you from said external forces.

But if you accept that despite the brain worms, veiny eyes, and outright tentacles you're still you, he suddenly did exactly what he promised. You being malleable and willing to change yourself isn't weakness, after all. Some may call it submitting to authority or letting yourself be manipulated, but is it if you were sufficiently informed and always given a choice to do otherwise? Isn't this journey supposed to change you and make you more powerful? Guardians aren't meant to keep you in a box, so much as they are to facilitate your growth.

The quandry being tested here is: At what point do you decide when a guardian (parent, lover, master, etc.) has failed you? Neglected you? Used you? Abused you? How much of yourself do you trust them with before you say that they've taken too much?

[selketshaula]

Mazinger Z, Sayaka Yumi, Maria Grace Fleed, Hikaru Makiba and Grendizer U by K Katora

[cakeprincesses9176]

🦇SKINK🦇 HE/HIM on X: "ACCIDENTALLY POINTED AT A GUY https://t.co/7Qwvs2SxnV" / X

[super-vinzo]

Go Nagai’s robots.

Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, UFO Robot Grendizer.

[doitforthelentilsoup]

helmet kiss

[darkwizart]

BABY HORSE CASTS BLEP ATTACK

VERY EFFECTIVE REGULAR EARTH MAN NOW 20% MORE WET

winter doodle! make sadboi ufos have a good time for a change-quest continues.

[polariod240]

Ehy, so- I've kept these three screenshots in my personal digital archive for a decade by now. All I know is that they were part of a big private archive on Imgur several years ago and that they were scanned by a Toei's Grendizer anonymous crew member.

They seem to be lost media, so I'd like to share them as much as I can!

Koji/Daisuke real, I still can't believe it /j

[art-o-bart-o]

Grendizer U will come out tomorrow, here's me pretending this is his actual design...sym-bionic titan style was for fun lol (also Koji taught him those words smh /lh)

[bennett-ametyst]

I may have watched Grendizer U

[caffinateddragon-blog]

[selketshaula]

Dynamic Heroines by Satoshi Urushihara

[fujikosouvenir]

[super-vinzo]

I miei scarabocchi in fiera