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baby's first heavymedic shipper (?)
#zhiart#tf2#fanart#comic#team fortress 2#tf2 heavy#tf2 medic#heavymedic#tf2 scout#tf2 pyro#tf2 engineer#texastoast#texas toast#i guess#tf2 texastoast#red oktoberfest#tried to make the spell fujoshi in his texan accent idk man#anyways im practising drawing them#love to do art study on them they should do that in actual art class#if there is not anywhere for example#AW HELL... engie voice#2k#?!!!?!!!?!!
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Spotlight: Jazz is peak Prowl being able to comfort Jazz even though Jazz doesn't want to open up about how he's feeling and Prowl completely respects that
i love their dynamic so much here and in "all hail megatron", it's such a shame that their connection ended up being completely forgotten in the rest of idw series... reading "optimus prime" and coming across that one frame, observing what we have had and lost because the authors couldn't keep in mind how and who they were writing... it actually hurts



you guys. you guys! why are you doing this to us. why is it so hard for you to keep track on your story!! why do we have to see their relationship... fall apart?? without a decent look at it?? somewhere out there, in the background?? we're just left with the fact that they are over or maybe never even were there in the first place
prowl and jazz had so much potential at some point of idw history. the way how well they worked together despite all the difficulties, how sincerely prowl supported jazz even though he remained very closed off and aloof the whole time, how he really tried to be a good loyal friend, respected jazz's personal boundaries, didn't push, didn't go too far with his concern, didn't except anything in return and was just there to help... a rare bright moment for this version of my poor boy :'D
there were so many opportunities to develop this further, to show how they could exist in the new cybertronian future for which they had gone through so much hardship, how could they fight all the problems that were coming down on them, together, exactly as it was on earth. but, alas, we have to accept that they were quickly brushed aside and forgotten. a little time passes and they become strangers. forever. their entire bond is just erased. because that's how idw works with their characters...


#sorry for the negativity still love this universe just some of the moments make me angry#to write something so interesting with the characters and instantly forget about it - yep gorgeous work#my main problem with idw is the way how horribly inconsistent everything was written sometimes. like. critically bad. there are exceptions#mtmte and lost light for example where thanks primus everything is more or less okay with the logic and plot#(that's why these two comics will always remain the best here. peak idw. but many other stories and characters? gosh it's so bad at times)#prowl in one issue: oh jazz you are clearly my friend i will always support you in any situation! you can always count on me bro!!#prowl in the next story when jazz is going through hell after killing a human: hope this sucker won't get in my way lmao what a crybaby#okay yeah enough with negative let's just be happy that we still have these wonderful moments even if they don't lead anywhere in the futur#i cherish every moment where idw prowl acts like a sweet and kind guy instead of a monster with some head problems#but well because prowl here was on a break jazz had to suffer for the sake of the plot#they both can't be at peace with their minds at once lmao#jazzprowl#prowljazz#tf jazz#tf prowl#prowl#jazz#maccadam#transformers#tf
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the 1996 doctor who movie contains a perfect textbook example of fridging, wherein an established longtime character is killed off unceremoniously, with very little agency or time spent on their own perspective when they’re literally being killed, usually as a means to provide shock value, raise the stakes, or make the main character feel bad for thirty seconds before moving on
what sets it apart from every other loving wife and children in every superhero backstory ever, though, is that the person they fridged was THEIR OWN MAIN CHARACTER
#you can’t get this shit anywhere else#i love it and i hate it#doctor who#seventh doctor#eighth doctor#doctor who 1996#fridging#time lords in refrigerators#yeah okay it definitely wasn’t as bad as some other examples#but if you’ve seen that poll i’m running you can tell how it uh. it sure was something.
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I’d love to know why Louis is ONCE AGAUN forced to stunt! WTF! Why?!!!
I understand your frustration but this is sadly the reality for a lot of closeted people in the industry. And if you look at what happens in the US and so many other countries at the moment, I think it's really clear why Louis and Harry decide to stay in the closet for now, and stunting to appear straight is part of that.
And as much as a lot of us hate it, it's a big part of the industry in general too. Not only for queer people, a lot of stars use this for several different reasons, mostly to promote a project of theirs, stay relevant and create stories that will keep their names in the press.
Apart from that I don't really see Louis or Harry being forced to do it anymore. If they are stunting now, it's definitely something they agreed on. And that doesn't mean that it's their fault, it means I think they have more ability to have a say in things since they started their solo careers.
If you want to read more about why so many stars including HL do stunts you can look through my hashtags PR STUNTS, LOUIS' CAREER and MUSIC INDUSTRY. And I also recommend reading these posts here and here.
@daisiesonafield-blog has a lot of information on her blog too, it's very organized if you go there on web.
#nonny maybe you can try and change your perspective on things. I personally don't expect anything from the boys because they simply don't#owe me anything.#And I trust that HL will make the right decisions for themselves and their relationship. We see so little of what goes on bts#it's impossible to know all the reasons why one of them decided to stunt again.#So I just try and go with the flow and enjoy the positive and fun things in here. For example with this stunt I focus on#what that could mean for lt3. If that's the reason that he's stunting now- how gay is it going to be? I can't wait to hear it#so when a stunt happens I'm not that bothered and just wait it out. It's not even that much of their time that goes into a stunt#And It's definitely not as much time of their lives as the media tries to make it look like#The only thing that makes me still a bit uncomfortable is them kissing stunts because I know that#it puts them in a very vulnerable position. But if I get overwhelmed I just take a break.#The fandom isn't going anywhere and it's still going to be here when I feel ready to come back#mcdomlinson stunt#pr stunts#music industry#louis’ career#nonny#answered
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static by flavor foley blowing the fuck up is ironic but also very much on point. people will absolutely flock to a recognizable name a classic melody and the familiar sound of another horror vocaloid song reminiscent of the classics. of the nostalgic aesthetics of analog media and the tv static for when the wires are fucked and you have to slap the thing in a specific way for it to work. of another media depicting and criticizing the parasocial relationships we develop with celebrities and idols in this age, represented and reflected through the characters and their stories that we make that we slap onto these singing digital avatars that we. also have parasocial relationships with. have you seen the fame of mesmerizer and the amounts of lost media from early 2000s edits it got? of how it was almost instinctual for us to add neru in it because ohhhh it’s teto and it’s miku and it’s almost like that one old popular song from 2008 !!! of how many flocked to fortnite because they added miku in it and got to play her alongside godzilla like it was prophesied multiple video games in the past?? and how some were willing to ignore a bit of mcatrocities because they took a bunch of classic and popular vocaloid songs and proceeded to slap burger and fries on it??? 3 minutes later. never growing older never growing colder always be together now and for forever now and for forevevrvevrvevebeheuteteytwyer-
#also i forgot to mention coarg anywhere but it’s literally one of the biggest examples of#nostalgia and recognizability boosting up a vocaloid song (not in a negative way tbc)#liek they got fucking omegaverse there they got multiple yaoi mangas they got fucking beethoven virus they got teenage religious trauma#and the fucking bible. the first sin of man was trusting his wife to consume the r-rated debunked-dog-science-based spn rpf yaoi. btw.#they even got the unhealthy parasocial relationships in there#also the irony of mcdonalds using goddamn popipo the song about drinking Healthy Vegetable Juice to promote themselves. lmfao.#vocaloid#vocalsynth art#flavor foley#static#flavor foley static#hatsune miku#fandom#art#music#fuck it we post#vocaloid analysis#vocalsynth meta
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Goomy i need u to know that ive been listening to ur kriselle playlist for the last few days and u have absolutely impeccable vocaloid taste
-a fellow vocaloid + deltarune fan
Thankyou… if by any chance you got jumpscared by Sugarcoat of Love by Utsu-p due to the sudden very loud noise of heavy metal i apologize. i only say this because it happened to me and its my own damn playlist
im not sure if you’ve been listening to the youtube or spotify one (because they’re slightly different) but i wasnt sure if either came off as disorganized or not… i usually listen to these playlists on shuffle anyway so theyre not in any particular order… if it seems like theres a lot of songs on there its because i can make any song about kriselle. but they’re all still kriselle songs i promise. even if some of them are more personal association than actual objective This Is Kriselle. all piano pieces on there are played by kris. if you care
id also apologize for the Vast amount of different genres/styles on that playlist but that’s kind of just vocaloid there’s nothing i can do about that. i was talking to nyx NyxTheShield once and he said something like, “its funny how snowgrave [as an idea] sounds so different to everyone [music association-wise]” and i was thinking in my head, Everything is Snowgrave actually, if you’re like me,
#mailbox#example: For by Sasuke Haraguchi#the vast majority of the song is instrumental and repetitive#one of the few lyrics repeated is ‘motto motto wasuretai no ni’#‘kurushimi no tameni no ni’#‘i want to forget more and more for the sake of the pain’ roughly#i cant find documented exact lyrics anywhere so thats all by ear sorrry#BUT ANYWAY ivr been associating that song with kriselle for over a year now#when my illness had just started to get really bad#its funny#anyway go listen to that one in particular
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i don't think the jokes about the "kids" being too old now are ever going to be funny to me. of course they're older? we're lucky they were ever age accurate to begin with, the way things usually go. but just looking at natalia, charlie, and joe -- they were literally in their 20s playing teens in s1. none of the people making these jokes ever mention that. if anything, to me, this just brings it even more full circle considering the "kids" this season are going to be closer to nancy, jonathan, and steve's age when the show first started. and the six of them are young 20s. as if teens in Most other shows aren't being played by people in their 20s and 30s. it's such a weird thing to fixate on
#looked up the yellowjackets cast for example and the Youngest of them is 24#most of them are late 20s into 30s#what are we doing#lex talks#like. stop thinking about them as kids#stop being stuck in s1#the show has Told you that they're growing up#let them grow up#and don't worry about how old the cast is when it very clearly isn't that much of an issue anywhere else lmao#s5#st5 spoilers#i guess for the bit about how old they're going to be this season idk#i'm just tired of seeing this everywhere
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Why Kristoph Gavin Is Like That: An Essay
Alright so common sentiments I've seen regarding Kristoph are "Why is he like that" and "I want to study him in a lab" and I am a psychology nerd, so I decided to analyze Kristoph. Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a psychologist. Wanting to analyze Kristoph's behavior may or may not have gotten me interested in criminal and forensic psychology but I am not a psychologist. I am simply a guy who likes to psychoanalyze fictional characters from the most clinical perspective I can get to without actually being a psychologist. So let's begin.
Part 1: Diagnosing Kristoph Gavin
The thing about Kristoph is I think to fundamentally understand him, you need to diagnose him. In fact, I haven't posted my analysis of Kristoph's black Psyche-Locks because of it. As I said, I'm not a psychologist, but I do enjoy looking through the DSM-5 every once in a while, so I'm going off of that.
When you first look at Kristoph's behavior, you would (understandably) say he's a narcissist. From a purely colloquial perspective, this is absolutely true. However, I also think he very likely has narcissistic personality disorder. To be completely clear, I don't think his behavior is inherently a result of this. I think his behavior is a result of realizing he has a problem (even if he doesn't realize it's narcissism, he does acknowledge that he's fucked up because the reason he gives for killing Zak is "I am an evil human being") and not bothering to get help for it. In fact I'd argue he embraces it. So let's go through the DSM-5's diagnostic criteria for NPD (I don't need to explain where most of these are applicable but I'm going to anyway).
Criterion 1: Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements) - While I don't personally think the examples provided by the DSM-5 are reflective of Kristoph's behavior (although I think an argument could be made about him exaggerating his achievements, depending on if you think he was forging evidence before the Gramarye trial, which I personally do but I'll get into that later) I absolutely think he has a grandiose sense of self-importance because he canonically has a god complex, which is implied to be why he became a defense attorney; by doing that, he made people depend on him and literally had people's lives in his hands.
Criterion 2: Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love - I don't really know exactly how applicable this is, and it might've been more applicable when he was younger. However, he was so determined to get a win over Klavier in Klavier's first trial to forge evidence over it, so there's something to be said about him having a preoccupation with success not unlike Manfred I think.
Criterion 3: Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions) - He literally says this himself. He literally says the jury is made up of "ignorant swine" and says they're soiling the courts, I don't know what else to say on this point
Criterion 4: Requires excessive admiration - I will once again point you to the implication that he became a defense attorney specifically to make people dependent on him. The judge calls him the best defense attorney in town so I think it's safe to assume he's never lost a trial (which I will bring up again later). The nanosecond it's implied Apollo is turning on him and losing admiration for him, Kristoph takes it as a fucking betrayal, specifically saying "Et tu, Justice? You would betray me, your teacher?" Reminder, this is because Apollo decided to listen to Phoenix's testimony.
Criterion 5: Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations) - Can I say his cell is evidence of this? No? Alright. He seems pretty fucking upset when he's reminded he's not the defense attorney in Phoenix's case. What does this imply? He acts like he's entitled to acting as the defense attorney during the case. This in comparison to the other defense attorneys who have acted as co-counsel at some point (Mia, Diego, Phoenix, Apollo, Kazuma, Athena) who let the acting defense attorney do their damn job. Like it might even be that no other lawyer acting as co-counsel has ever acted as entitled as Kristoph does that makes it feel like Kristoph comes off as entitled in the first place (in which case, I very much think Kristoph is meant to come off as entitled during Turnabout Trump).
Criterion 6: Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends) - I'm not explaining this. Phoenix's disbarment hinged on this, I refuse to explain this. I already made a post about it in regards to Apollo, I'm not explaining this here
Criterion 7: Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others - I think in order to be as horrible as he is, he would have to lack empathy. Idk. Like he obviously lacks empathy but I don't know how to explain it.
Criterion 8: Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her - Literally his motive for everything. He got Phoenix disbarred because he was upset over Zak firing him.
Criterion 9: Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes - I will once again direct you to him calling the jury "ignorant swine" in Turnabout Succession.
That is 8 out of 9 criteria he definitely meets and one that's debatable. You only need to meet five of the critera to be diagnosed. The only reason one is debatable is because we don't get into Kris's head. Conclusion: "Kristoph has NPD" isn't an unreasonable assumption. Kristoph having NPD is actually why I haven't posted the analysis on his Psyche-Locks; I didn't think I could explain Kristoph having NPD well in that post and having that explanation is crucial to understanding that analysis (which will be added to this one instead of it being its own post).
As I said at the start, I do not think Kristoph having NPD makes him a horrible person. I think he knows he has a problem, and instead of getting help for it, he embraces it. He chooses not to get help and that choice and him borderline embracing his narcissistic traits is what makes him a horrible person. This is yet another thing that makes Kristoph and Klavier so interesting; Klavier exhibited similar narcissistic tendencies at 17 (although not near as bad as Kristoph) but it feels like he recognized that he had a problem and got help for it. Narcissistic personality disorder can be caused by trauma, and it wouldn't surprise me if Kristoph and Klavier had very similar yet very different responses to whatever traumatic event they experienced. In Kris's case, this resulted in NPD that he didn't get help for and arguably embraces.
Part 2: Evidence Forgery & A Perfect Trial Record
The judge explicitly refers to Kristoph as "the best defense attorney in town" when he asks about Apollo's status as the acting attorney and Apollo refers to Kristoph as a "top-notch defense attorney" when he asks Phoenix why he wanted Apollo to be his attorney. In my opinion, both of these statements would imply that Kristoph has never lost a trial. Even Phoenix has lost trials, and he basically had Kristoph's reputation before being disbarred (which has some super interesting implications actually). This is where Klavier comes into play.
For Kristoph to forge evidence to guarantee a win, he's either not as good a defense attorney as his reputation would have people believe, or he was confident Klavier had a chance to win the trial. If we really think about it, I think the first option, that Kristoph just isn't as good a defense attorney as people think, is more likely, and this also leads into the evidence forgery discussion. He had no qualms about spending $100k on forged evidence. This implies one of two things; either he's forged evidence before or he's von Karma levels of rich. I think it's much more likely that Kristoph forges evidence to make up for the fact that he's not actually as good a defense attorney as people think he is.
He's a year younger than Phoenix, so if we assume he became a defense attorney at the same age as Phoenix (24), he'd already been a defense attorney for two years at that point. Going a bit further, if we assume he became a defense attorney at the same age as Apollo (22) instead, then he'd been an attorney for four years by the time Zak's trial was happening (and he had been an attorney long enough by Zak's trial to be well known, as Klavier says "Ah, figures my bro's more famous in this part of town" when the judge asks if Klavier and Kristoph are related). There's plenty of room for him to forge evidence there, as long as the decisive evidence doesn't require replication of something that would be unique, like handwriting. He could (probably) easily forge a murder weapon or a bloodstain. This would explain why he's so willing to pay $100k for a forgery too. If we keep with the assumption that he forged evidence his entire career but never had to do anything with something like handwriting, he'd probably pay an arm and a leg to get the evidence he needs.
Considering Kristoph is also willing to murder people over a seven year old case, I wouldn't be surprised if he defended people he knew were guilty. Depending on the case, he would probably have to forge evidence at some point.
Part 3: Black Psyche-Locks
Kristoph having black Psyche-Locks when he's asked about why he killed Zak is interesting. It makes a lot more sense if you keep in mind that he is a narcissist. To fully explore Kris's Psyche-Locks, we need to go back to something Spark Brushel mentions in Turnabout Succession's MASON system section.
Spark says that Kristoph started stalking everyone who could conceivably be involved in Zak's case out of paranoia. In Kristoph's brain, this was probably completely justified. His paranoia was specifically rooted in the belief that Zak would appear to someone involved in the case and expose Kristoph's forgery. Kristoph stalked Spark, he stalked Phoenix, he stalked the Mishams, I wouldn't be surprised if he (attempted to) stalk Klavier. If the fact that he forged the evidence that got Phoenix Wright disbarred ever got out, his reputation would be tarnished beyond repair, and to him, his reputation is the most important thing he has. He was so careful about how he handled the forged diary page that nobody suspected anything was even wrong with it except Klavier. All of this adds context to his Psyche-Locks being black instead of red.
I think it's incredibly likely that whether through paranoia-fueled delusion or just not being able to consciously acknowledge that he did kill Zak (which, if revealed and then investigated, could absolutely expose all of Kristoph's wrongdoings, something I think he would've realized), he genuinely didn't realize he killed Zak. I 100% think it's possible that Kristoph genuinely thought he'd killed some random guy on impulse. "But Jinx," I hear you saying, "why would he have gone after Zak if he didn't realize who he is?" As I said, I think it's possible that Kris thought he killed a random guy on impulse. He didn't plan to kill Zak. If he had, he would've been more prepared for it. I think some part of his brain recognized Zak which is what gave him the impulse in the first place, but he didn't become consciously aware of it until Turnabout Succession. Alternatively, he got so far in denial that he managed to delude himself into genuinely thinking he hadn't killed Zak, and he had just killed some rando named Shadi Smith. Phoenix didn't even recognize Zak when he introduced himself as Shadi. If Phoenix, who played poker with and defended Zak and has a picture of him in his office, didn't recognize Zak immediately, why would Kristoph?
It's also not impossible that there are multiple other murders Kristoph's committed that we don't know about. Hell, he tried to poison the Mishams after Zak's trial. At the very least I don't think that was his first time attempting murder. Kristoph's not an idiot, he's just careless (which doesn't surprise me, considering he is so convinced that if he ties his loose ends he won't get caught that he doesn't even tie his loose ends all the way, nor watch what he says in regards to murders he committed). That's not to say he's some kind of mastermind either, but he is intelligent. I don't think he could pull Simeon Saint levels of bullshit but he's very much capable of successfully and skillfully manipulating people. My point here being, if he has murdered other people before he murdered Zak and after he attempted to poison the Mishams, he probably wouldn't be surprised about having the impulse to kill some random guy, making him more inclined to believe he did just kill some guy.
I also think it's worth it to compare how Athena's Psyche-Locks broke in Dual Destinies to Kristoph's behavior. Athena was able to be eased into her Psyche-Locks breaking. She didn't have any reason not to trust the things Phoenix was saying. Kristoph is so paranoid that he doesn't trust anyone. He wouldn't have been able to have his Psyche-Locks broken because he would just deny everything that's being said until he can't deny it anymore and breaks down, something at least directly related to his paranoia, if not also his NPD. This is why I mentioned in this post that breaking Kristoph's Psyche-Locks would always be a bad idea. He'd never get to a point where he'd be able to mentally handle the truth. Kris's trust issues run so deep that he'd never trust anything anyone's saying until the damage is already done and the Psyche-Locks are broken. In Kristoph's case, there's no way to break those fuckers without causing the damage Pearl mentioned as something that'll happen if they're broken when they're not ready to be. I wouldn't be surprised if this is why Kristoph's breakdown in Turnabout Succession is so intense.
Part 4: Kristoph's Personal Relationships
For this section, I'm going to discuss each of Kristoph's relationships separately, then go into what his relationships say about him in general. So let's start.
Kristoph & Klavier
Kristoph and Klavier's dynamic is genuinely one of the most interesting in the Ace Attorney series to me.
Klavier doesn't really talk about Kristoph much, and the same sorta seems to apply to Kristoph. We don't learn anything about Klavier and Kristoph's dynamic until Turnabout Succession, and we know Kristoph didn't talk about Klavier because Apollo didn't even know Kristoph has a brother. When we do see what their dynamic was like in 2019, it's Klavier being used by Kristoph. Kristoph used Klavier to get Phoenix disbarred, and it weighed on Klavier's mind for seven years.
I also think it's worth noting the following exchange from Turnabout Succession:
Klavier: Let's clean out the family closet, eh, Kristoph? Kristoph: You're spinning out of control. Calm yourself before you say something you'll regret. Klavier: Spinning out of whose control? Mine? …Or yours?
Which implies that Kristoph exhibited some kind of controlling behavior towards Klavier. It doesn't surprise me because Kristoph's a control freak. I'd also be more surprised if Klavier wasn't afraid of Kristoph killing him at some point. Additionally, something I mentioned in my Klavier analysis is that in the 2019 section of Turnabout Succession, Klavier does have a good view of Kristoph and even seems to look up to him. He takes Kristoph at his word that Phoenix is going to present forged evidence despite (by 24 year old Klavier's account) finding it weird even then, and keeps him anonymous when he brings up the fact that Phoenix presented forged evidence. Another thing I mentioned in the aforementioned Klavier analysis is that based on Klavier's behavior, he didn't realize Kristoph was manipulating him until sometime after the 2019 section of Turnabout Succession. Something made Klavier realize he was being manipulated. Could be age or that Kristoph did something that made Klavier realize Kristoph was a piece of shit, but no matter what it was, something happened that made Klavier's view of Kristoph shift.
Kristoph & Phoenix
Kristoph and Phoenix are also really interesting to me because Kristoph's end of their friendship is fueled by paranoia, and Phoenix's side is fueled by a desire to keep Kristoph close and basically investigate him. It's toxic on both their ends, and that makes it really interesting. Their dynamic also has a really good example of "Kristoph will lash out if someone even minutely slights him" in both Phoenix's trial and Vera's.
During Phoenix's trial, Kristoph gets so upset over the trial even slightly alluding to the potential for him being present to kill Shadi that the judge has to remind him that Phoenix is his client. Phoenix is also so determined to get Kristoph caught that he forges evidence (technically twice) and revamps the entire justice system (and this was exclusively to get Kristoph caught). They're both incredibly petty with each other. I'm not really sure what to add here, they're just so toxic they should come with a radiation warning.
Kristoph & Apollo
Apollo looks up to Kristoph. Kristoph uses this to his advantage during Phoenix's trial, using the fact that Apollo is loyal to and looks up to both Kristoph and Phoenix to emotionally manipulate him. He then probably tries to use "You would betray me, your teacher?" to further manipulate him, but Apollo's desire to find the truth overrides his loyalty to Kristoph (something Apollo literally tells Kristoph).
Kristoph has one final instance of trying to emotionally manipulate Apollo; he gets Klavier to the point where he essentially shuts down then blames Klavier shutting down on Apollo. This doesn't work of course, and Apollo bulldozes on through anyway.
In general I think we can come to a pretty solid conclusion that Kristoph will either manipulate and gaslight people to get what he wants or stalks them out of an intense paranoia that's directly related to how he sees himself as a result of the NPD he didn't get treatment for. Instead of coping with things like a normal fucking person, he resorts to both physical and psychological violence and stalking.
Part 5: Conclusion
So here we are. Almost 3k words later. I do not want the takeaway from this to be "Kristoph's a manipulative, violent asshole because he's a narcissist" and if that's your takeaway you need to rethink literally everything I said here. The fact that Kristoph could be diagnosed with NPD has nothing to do with him choosing violence. NPD has nothing to do with him choosing to stalk everyone involved with Zak's trial instead of getting help for his paranoia. I want that to be perfectly clear. The thing with NPD is it can be hard for the person suffering from it to realize they have it and subsequently get help for it. Kristoph's problem isn't exactly that he has NPD. It's that he never got help for the thinking patterns the NPD caused. Had he gotten help I don't think he would've ended up stalking and murdering people. He'd still have NPD, but he wouldn't be near as fucked up.
It's why Klavier and Kristoph are so interesting as characters. Klavier has narcissistic traits but he evidently got help for them, as he's nowhere near as egotistical at 24 as he was when he was 17, although he does start exhibiting those traits again under high stress situations. He's still not completely okay mentally (otherwise he wouldn't regress like that), but he's also better than Kristoph at managing his symptoms when they do show up. Kristoph doesn't even try to get help for his symptoms, which leads to his downfall. Had he gotten help for his narcissism, he might've ended up a bit more like Klavier.
I hope Ace Attorney's prison system has a proper therapy program. I hope Kristoph's able to get help when and if he decides he wants it, because I am personally of the belief that everyone deserves help if they want it, and Kristoph's no different. I don't think he deserves to have Phoenix, Apollo, or Klavier back in his life, and I wouldn't blame any of them for never talking to him again, but that doesn't mean I don't think Kristoph deserves help. He would just have to realize he has a problem first, which I doubt happened soon after Apollo Justice and I'd frankly be surprised if it ever happens. But I hope the offer for help is there if he decides he wants it.
So why is Kristoph Like That? Untreated mental health issues that he's implied to realize is a problem.
*Again, please do not act like I'm saying Kristoph having NPD is an excuse for his actions. He chose not to get help. He chose to stalk people. He chose to kill people. Him having NPD isn't an excuse for that. My goal here was simply to answer "Why is Kristoph Gavin like that?" Do not misconstrue my intentions here or what I'm saying. Kristoph's NPD isn't what drove him to do what he did. Him choosing to embrace symptoms that hurt people did.
#ace attorney#kristoph gavin#ace attorney analysis#character analysis#apollo justice ace attorney#apollo justice spoilers#aa4#aa4 spoilers#tw stalking#tw manipulation#tw murder#tw abuse#is it obvious that i'm super nervous to post this because i said kristoph has npd#anyway be civil please#ALSO i very much think kristoph is a good example of what can happen when you dont get help for severe mental health issues#hell im experiencing it myself (although not anywhere close to the same degree as kristoph)#i have what im pretty sure is borderline personality disorder (ironically realized because of klavier)#but im not in a position where getting help is easy which is not making my life any easier#i didn't even realize it was a massive problem until i did research on what splitting looks like for a fanfiction. at which point i was lik#“huh. this sounds INCREDIBLY similar to experiences i've had. maybe i should get help for this”#take this as your cue to be like me and get help for your mental health conditions. you will (probably. hopefully) not regret it
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I’m legitimately gonna explode if I don’t find someone else who understand the background tragedy of the Gleeful Family in Gravity falls.
#Gravity falls#Gideon Gravity Falls#Gideon Gleeful#Bud Gleeful#I HC the mom’s name as Karen - a play on Caring - just with the Accent#Carin’ Gleeful……#ANYWAYS#Gideon is a child star at the age of 10 with a powerful corrupting force around his neck and a VERY weird coded behavior.#AND THE BEHAVIOR HAS TO BE LEARNED OR INFLUENCED. He’s TEN.#And he’s being weird from anywhere to kids a bit older to him to mentioning having a crush on an older woman (in a prison short)#Can we get this kid some COUNSELING#Also#It’s heavily suggested he was born with the white hair which might’ve made him just as outcast as many of the cast…..#I also have to shoutout Bud. Because while he’s permissive I don’t think he’s *bad*.#He’s in the weirdest possible situation as a parent because uhhhh! People forget that amulet does change the Power Dynamic#Like. The amulet makes Gideon a giant physical threat and people Forget That. The entire house is BUILT around that#Smaller Bud personal take -#I do heavily get the vibe he’s been not-so-well-off before (‘It’s all brand name foods-’) but Idk what to do with that#AND THE MOM. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU 😨#THE BOOK DIDNT EVEN NEED TO BE BURRIED THERE I’M SO UPSET OVER THE GLEEFULS I’M GONNA EXPLODE#I have a LOT of HCs about the Gleefuls I could just drop in the tags of this post tbh#Example;#Bud used to be a holy man IMO - Is this anything?
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The wassibi, threatening you with a very bad time.
Wassibi are mid-sized (11-16 lb) solitary mustelids. This species is native throughout the lands south of the Viper seaway, thriving as generalists in a great diversity of habitats (though rarely occur in very arid environments or at high elevations). They are omnivores, using their broad noses and strong claws to dig out earthworms, beetle larvae, roots and tubers, foraging along the ground for insects, scorpions, bird eggs, fallen fruit, and small lizards and snakes, and occasionally scavenging carcasses and trash. They are particularly noted for their ability to find honey- splitting open bees nests with their claws and leisurely consuming larvae and honeycomb, seemingly untroubled by bee stings.
Wassibi are known above all else for their devastatingly noxious defensive anal gland spray. When threatened, they hiss, arch their backs and tails, raise their fur, and point their anus menacingly in the direction of danger. Should posturing fail, they will unleash their spray at the threat's face. Their anal glands have powerful muscular control and the attack is devastatingly accurate at up to 10 ft. In addition to having an atrocious stench, the liquid is mildly irritating to the skin, painful and temporarily blinding to the eyes, and can induce intense nausea and vomiting. The smell is resistant to washing, and can take weeks to fade. Most predators who experience a hit will learn to recognize the wassibi's stark aposematic coloring and avoid anything resembling it.
In addition to this potent defensive weaponry, they have dense fur and thick, loose skin, which renders them difficult for most predators to effectively grasp or pierce without risk of being bitten themselves. As such, wassibi have few consistent natural predators and are given a wide birth by most other animals. Their tendency to walk boldly in the open and sometimes even scavenge at carcasses alongside much larger predators commonly lends them cultural reputations of fearlessness. Wassibi are known for attacking large venomous snakes that potentially threaten their young, which (along with their frequent consumption of scorpions and bees) leads to common misconceptions that they are entirely immune to venom. They have no such resistance, rather their thick fur and loose skin cause bites and stings to land less effectively- most stings fail to penetrate their fur altogether, and bites often deal glancing blows that inject little to no venom.
Their biggest predatory threats come from humans. Wassibi meat is fairly rich and not unappealing to most palates used to wild game, but they are rarely considered worth the effort and risk of killing for consumption alone. They are more commonly hunted for their pelts (worn commonly by Wogan and North Wardi herders in hopes of deterring attacks from predators), bones, claws, and fat (used in traditional medicine for their purported antivenom properties). This hunting is fairly limited in scope overall, and most Wassibi populations remain stable.
#creatures#Here's the badger I mentioned in prev post. Together they are the two skunk analogues of this region#(not sure if actual skunks are a thing anywhere in the setting or nah)#Stink badger but actually a mustelid#Though while looking into this I found out there IS actually a true mustelid with a defensive spray (striped polecat)#Kind of interesting that the examples of aposematic coloring in mammals are all variations on the stark black and white theme#I mean it makes sense because these are the most vivid contrasting colors mammalian fur can develop and most mammals#are covered in fur. But I suppose one Could in theory have aposematic coloring on a large area of bare skin that's like.#bright and colorful like a mandrill or smth#OH the streaked tenrec exists but that's the only exception I can think of
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// COMMISSIONS!
opening up general commissions so i thought i'd make a new post, most info is already in the slides but i require a document with information and references before we can get started, list below!
// WHAT YOU'LL PUT IN THE DOC.
which type of commission you want (head/bust/half body + lines/color)
short description / introduction of your oc
at least one visual reference but preferably more; face claim, art, picrew (if the maker allows it), NO a/i art!
additional visual references such as pose, clothing, tattoos, and color scheme; if you don't have any preferences, you can skip this!
additional details that i need to keep in mind (freckles, scars, stuff like that)
what kind of background you'd like (solid color, gradient, dual color)
// NOTES.
DM me before paying! i would like to see references first before receiving payment, so i'll know what i'll be working on!
if there's no open slots left, i can put you on the waiting list and i'll reach out to you as soon as i've worked through my queue :D i work in batches as to not overwork myself, so i cannot give you an indication on how long you'll be on the waiting list
i'll keep you updated throughout the entire process, please keep an eye on your tumblr dms when commissioning me for smooth communication! i'm willing to move to discord for communication too, but if i don't know you well please keep it professional
i might charge extra for complicated background pattern requests, complicated armor or complicated tattoos, but feel free to request anything because we can always discuss details about stuff!
the end result is a digital artwork of your oc, you will not receive any physical goods!
you’re allowed to post the art wherever and use it for icons and such, as long as you don’t take credits for the art yourself. you are not allowed to sell it or use it for n/f/t or a/i purposes
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/nuclearvessel
#commissions#rbs much appreciated!! <3#i'll have anywhere between 2-4 slots open at a time depending on complexity of the art!!#i'll try to reply to dms i get timely but please go easy on me if i take a while. my blog also runs on a queue so if you see me posting#that's probably my queue and it doesn't mean i'm actively online at the time!#anyway you can also check my art tag on my blog for more examples if you're interested in what i do :^)
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Veilguard vaguing:
It's not automatically a good thing, actually, that the game de-emphasizes or even outright removes racism against elves, and bigotry against other groups, from the story
#veilguard critical#completely declawing the sociopolitics of the story doesn't in any way make it a better story ugh#being of a certain race and even of a certain gender should mean something in the dragon age world and not all those things are good#and that's part of the challenge of the roleplay and part of the themes of the whole overarching story like#tevinter! is a location in this game!!#not to focus on just the elves but if we're not feeling the absolute depths and desperation of all the elves#not just the dailish#then there's no way to feel much complexity or conflict over - for example - what solas is trying to do and why he's so motivated#his character is boiled down to him being by himself and feeling conflicted over just his past actions#as if he didn't spend all of inquisition investigating yours and the companions' differing plights and worldviews#tbh though one of the biggest failings of inquisition is maybe possibly not highlighting the dailish and city elves enough#to help drive home this point - but veilguard is so clearly just kind of out here by itself with loredumping that goes completely#uninvestigated socially or politically that like... it doesn't matter much#like we just have to pretend that everyone is playing kumbaya now? with the elven god of rebellion real and running around?#that you can walk around anywhere in tevinter practically unbothered?#like bellara and davrin and every dailish elf in thedas aren't at all significantly moved by knowing their gods are just some guys?#i get more and more pissed at -good vibes- storytelling in all its mediums with every passing day#ISMtext
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Hi!! I love your characters,art, and your style ^3^ 💞 A little question– How do you make these rooms/houses on floorplanner? I'm a bit confused by it 😅
I can't express how much I like your art ❤️ continue the work! 🥹��
Thanks for the compliments <3
I've been enjoying floorplanner so much, so I hope you can get some fun out of it as well~ Haha, I'm not an expert or anything, I've just been slowly gathering knowledge and skill through trial and error (and believe me--there are a looot of quirks) 😅
I'd suggest checking out a tutorial if you're keen on playing around with it 👍
Other than that, I can give you a brief example of my current project:
This is in 2D mode where you do all of the architectural building and furniture selection.
All the stuff you need is on the sidebar here:
To really get in depth and being arranging all your features, you need to go to the 3D mode like so:
This is where you can fine-tune all your little bitty items, like this:
For example-- this is a book on a table; simple enough. But you can use all the arrow keys to move it around however you want (up+down is in the center, and the ones around correspond to each direction, etc) I've found that you can also alter the size of a lot of objects as well if you click on their settings...
I'm not sure what you're having trouble with, but again--I'd suggest looking into a video tutorial or something~
Hope this helps <3
#asks#it's similar to the sims but you can put stuff literally anywhere you want 🙏#I think they have basic layouts for you to start with as well--but I just drew a sketch and was able to superimpose my project on top ✨#also I'm a nutter freak and have gone waaaay overboard so don't use me as an example lol 😅
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i fucking hate this website
#like i love the community n the people here#just this big lightning-in-a-bottle clusterfuck of fandoms and unserious hijinks ive never seen anything close to anywhere else#and yet...#the ppl that run it get constantly more and more hostile#this ban wave as an example of hate so profound theyd risk taking down the site just to rid it of undesirables#part of me wants to hope for an alternative but since each one seems to eventually fail and never catch that spark again..#if they see us as pests let us be as cockroaches#let us never be crushed. let us never be forgotten#im stayin as long as yall are
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i just think. the 'uncaring sardonic' side most people portray fukase with *is* interesting specifically from a lens of clinical depression symptoms. like, i like how in talkloids, fukase is seen as 'annoying nonchalant friend' . following him having depression though i think he actually is just grateful for his friends still liking him despite how uncaring he is. he just doesnt express sincerity ever. cant. easiest way for him to stick around is keep pushing others' buttons in a sort of passive way
as an aside, i can see fukase and oliver getting along decently by proxy of how much they've both been through for how young they are
but yea idrk how to explain it just. i really like the idea of "it's not that fukase doesn't care about most things, even about life's worth, it's that he often can't. despite all this he Is still a Teen" which is also why spirit au is such a fun spin on him too- it's like this to much more intense levels. -🌛
hmm ISee... yeah tbh i don't think ive ever seen a fukase interpretation that was actually mentally well and genuine to himself, whether it's layers of blunt sarcasm or just hiding everything behind a goofy persona, a lot of headcanons seem to be him interacting with other characters through that kind of veil regardless of if theyre friends or not
i don't . have opinions on fukase interactions with oliver bc oliver won't exist in my AU but I suppose depending on the interpretation, that could be the case
#eddie speaks#i hope i understood...#my fukas dont ever really have friends so i dont have much to contribute HELP#um...I also didn't really think Spirit would be included anywhere near under this category though hhgjsdg#interesting#its always surprising learning how ppl interpret Spirit tbh#for example to me Spirit is a pretty energetic character but ive seen ppl describing it as a calmer interpretation of Fuka
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love when his eyes do the thing




#HIS LITTLE SHINY SUNGLASSES THINGIES R LIKE THIS PUPILS ITS SO COOL#why does he remind me of spy vs spy#SILLY GOOSE#there’s probs better examples but i can’t find anywhere to watch this show other than youtube#rps#rps nickelodeon#nick rps#rock paper scissors show#rock paper scissors
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