#i'm doing another playthrough...

[disco-cat]

Wait no you can't just say that and move on!

Anyways, I can't be the only one who had to take a minute to collect themself after reading that line right?

[mariyekos]

One of the things that makes me feel crazy on DMC5 replays is the way V phrases his request to Dante.

He doesn't say "we need your help to stop the demon." He says "A powerful demon is about to resurrect, and we need your help, Dante." The implication seems to be that V needs Dante's help to stop it...but if you've played it before, that's not what he's really asking. V needs Dante's help in order for the resurrection to take place. Because until Urizen is weakened V has no chance of rejoining him, so he needs Dante's help to weaken Urizen so he's primed for merging and bringing about Vergil's resurrection. The "we" V refers to could also absolutely be both V and Urizen in that case, instead of just some general "we" of humanity. So he's not really asking for help to stop the resurrection, but instead to bring it about, hiding the truth in plain sight and careful wording.

The DMC 5 localization can be wonky in some places, but in other places it just shines. "We need your help, Dante." Not to stop it. He never says that. It's to bring about the resurrection itself.

[satans-knitwear]

We finished dragon age inquisition last night. Sabine enjoyed the increase of dragons in that game.

[calm-shy-social]

[vaguely-concerned]

every so often, varric will write a black fox story. not anything fancy or for publication or anything, just for fun and because he knows hawke has a soft spot for them. ("an intrepid hero getting into and out of all kinds of trouble and the merry band of misfits following inseparably in his wake? can't imagine why".) some of them are experimental, some of them are straightforward retellings; they're generally pretty short and quick to do, so he allows himself to play around with form and genre and language more than he does in his professional work. stretching over the span of almost twenty years as they do, they contain some of his favourite pieces of his own writing, and some of the most '...was I huffing lyrium fumes or drunk or both for this one, hawke? what the actual hell is this' pieces. hawke keeps every single one of them. varric speculates that this is either because they're just that sentimental, or possibly that it's for future blackmailing purposes. he usually has one ready for their birthday. they have so much blackmail material on him anyway by this point, he figures, what's one more piece of ammunition going to do one way or the other.

varric finishes one of these black fox tales a couple of nights before he brings rook with him to minrathous — the last one. it's about the very last black fox story, the one where the black fox and his friends all disappear together into the depths of arlathan forest, where those in the know say you can find them to this very day, if you know where to look, or if you ever find yourself in trouble and in need of a helping hand. they'll turn up to aid a traveller in need, and disappear back between the shaded trees again once the day is saved, squabbling all the way, seeking treasures and unlikely quests yet unfound and unimagined.

they say on some days, you can hear them as laughter and friendly bickering on the wind from a couple of clearings over. it's not the end, it's just other adventures, some other place. that's the thing about stories. they're funny that way.

(once he wrote a book for his mother on her deathbed and read it to her through the comfortless and drawn-out hours of the troubled nights, and he burned the book the day she died and never spoke of it again.)

after he finishes the manuscript, he sits with it for a long time in the quiet and the candlelight before he wraps it up properly and sends it off back home to kirkwall. he attaches a note -- a story, to the best of all my stories, the one I'd tell forever if I could. take care of each other while I'm gone. first one to arrive saves seats at the bar, right? happy birthday, and send all my lack of love to the merchant's guild, as always. —Varric

he sends that to hawke. just in case. and then he gets up and he goes to find rook — it's time to get going.

[blue-shadows-in-the-night]

Courier 6 is the funniest Fallout protagonist because of their motivations.

Fallout 1's The Vault Dweller: I have to venture into the unknown wastelands in order to save my home and my people.

Fallout 2's The Chosen One: I have to venture into the unknown wastelands in order to save my home and my people.

Fallout 3's The Lone Wanderer: I have to venture into the unknown wastelands in order to find my missing family member.

Fallout 4's The Sole Survivor: I have to venture into the unknown wastelands in order to find my missing family member.

Fallout New Vegas's The Courier AKA Courier 6: Some fucker that talks funny shot me in the head and I have decided to make it everybody else's problem.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dalishious]

BTW as much as I'm invested in Lucanis with my guy Vio, I just did Bellara's personal quest and it REALLY touched me in a personal way. I am 100% going to romance her in my next run.

[raysfixations]

I got my Connor and Sixty plushes today 😊

At least I assume it's Sixty, since Connor's tongue is always out (licking things)

[jklpopcorn]

crying and sobbing i was supposed to draw doodles of my ocs but instead all there is is Siffrin

they're so shaped i have to draw them

also

100% :)

[starakex]

Happy birthday to Breath of the Wild, one of my top 3 Zelda games! W...What do you mean 8 years already? 😭

[sacredashes]

I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP

The General - Siegfried Sassoon | Dragon Age The Veilguard | Beware - Death Grips | The Headmaster Ritual - The Smiths | Nick Thornborrow narrative sketches

[bunabi]

I finished Eternal Strands 😖👍🏿 I ended up liking the story a lot and I'm really excited for whatever the Square Enix collab is gonna be

[black-and-yellow]

Friendship ended with Bradley. Now Louis is my best friend.

[gothgirlantlers]

I've been playing rogue trader for the first time doing an iconoclast run and every fucking time I see (heretical) next to a text option It calls to me like the green goblin mask

[atombonniebaby]

Just Nate, regretting his decision to bring Mac 'n' Cheesy upon the Prydwen 🤣