#yappage

[timosalonen]

i accidentally wrote 1.5k of free use bez last night while i was procrastinating going to sleep WHOOPS anyway who wants to see

[ferretpajamapants]

oh yes.. >:)

Hatty headcanons!! :3

- I imagine him to be around his early 30s! I have a specific timeline regarding his age, but when I typically draw him — he's 31.

- French + Brit !! He grew up in France for the majority of his childhood, then came to the states. Which also leads to me thinking he speaks French and English :>

- Brothers with reginald >:))

- Bisexual 🗣

- After the theater, he gets heavily triggered by orange cats. he will freeze up and start to dissociate unless properly comforted/if the cats are removed

- I ACTUALLY FIRMLY BELIEVED HE HAD A HAT!! he had a hat from being captain :)) I draw it from time to time and give him his own special little symbol. I don't think he wore it often, but he had it!!

- Hes got fucked up teeth HAHAHA. I'm sure this is obvious with how I draw him, but he has snaggleteeth + a few missing ones. possibly stained teeth aswell from smoking :3

- CHUBBY!! I don't have much else to say on this part. fatty fattington propaganda oooo /j

- his captain's uniform is so fucking grimy, he may LOOK proper, but that blazer reeks of sea salt and sweat from all that blue collar work.

- He loves blueberry pie :3

- He's a solid 6 feet tall! He's one of the tallest in his family.

- He's got green eyes! I think this shifted after the hats possession, making them red.. but when he's in the castle crashers era, they're more brown/hazel from the red and green clashing together.

- Hatty has a huge soft spot for dogs. He knows an awful lot about them aswell!!

- This honestly goes for most of the shape-heads but..whatever *shrug* . Hatty’s general skin is ever-so-slightly fuzzy! It's pretty much just peach fuzz all over.

- Rough and dry hands from ship work.

- Worked as a butcher in his teens! He mainly worked with the fish — which now helps alot for when they catch fish and cook it :)

- Great cook! Terrible baker.

- Can fuck up the piano like no other aswell as the accordion.

- Always, Always warm. For a man who's constantly at the cold sea, he's like a damn radiator.

I HAVE MANY MORE, BUT ILL STOP IT HERE LOLOLOL. thank you for the opportunity of sharing some of my hcs about my beloved oug ❤️

[yoshit-he-dinosaur]

dogs shaking themselves off for no reason is just the canine version of tism shivers prove me wrong i dare you

[v2confitje]

not to um actually this post but i have a sneaking suspicion that english is usually the second language because the word "english" starts with a vowel! the optimal syllable cross-linguistically is CV (consonant-vowel)

this also connects to onset maximization: when segmenting a word into syllables people will favour a CV-CV structure over a CVC-V structure because it is easier to have consonants before vowels. (for example: da-da not dad-a)

since "english" starts with a vowel, adding the eng- prefix is less appealing (imagine "engnese" instead of "chinglish")

because of this you'll more often than not see the -glish suffix to describe varieties of english mixed with other languages, especially those with names that begin with consonants. this concept also exists for ship names with names like "alex", in which in most cases "alex" (a name that starts with a vowel) will be the second name.

fact: when pidgin dialects involve english, -glish becomes the suffix, eg: chinglish, konglish, hinglish fact: slash pair name order puts the top first and the bottom second, eg: deancas vs casdean conclusion: english is an uke language and that’s why we have an omegaverse, not an alphaverse

[vinyltile212]

hey gang anyone got statistics and historian or primary perspectives on the vietnam war i need quotes for history 🙏🙏

preferably with source (last name, no year is fine) but anything is fine gang i cant throw my best subject ong

cant be geeked out rn... overambitious who (assessment in 6 bloody weeks. early 👍)

[pawpyrus]

hihi yes im sure this is rather confusing and whatever..... but im back.. with a separate art account... yippee....

[ofcoreflames]

tag setup!

yappage: my posts / talking tag more tba

[supremegladiator]

also going back and doing mooshu as someone who speaks one of the languages from the cultures involved in that world, I find it really funny now that I know for a fact they were just making some shit up for names like tomugawa etc 😭 like it fits the phonetic alphabet and vowel shift rules but some names are just not names at all (like tomugawa specifically definitely isn’t a real Japanese name— probably an illusion to the Tokugawa shogunate, if anything…)

I know it’s a kids game and I shouldn’t think too hard but being a Knower of Language has burdened me with seeing inaccuracies and it annoys me too much sometimes LOLLL

[kghnarchive]

is it just me or do a lot of the non canon pjo ships make absolutely no sense? i’m all for rare pairs and stuff (and personally i couldn’t care less what ppl ship) but sometimes i come across certain things and just stare at my screen very confused😭

for me the only non canon ones that make sense r valgrace and ruegard BUT HEY who am i to judge .,,,.,…

[rainingomens]

oh yeah happy new year from me myself and i

[timosalonen]

VR46 Academy riders as my many autistic special interests, a hyperniche post:

Migno: Five Nights At Freddys

Pecco: Transformers (1984-87 series especially)

Bez: Ghost (the band)

Franky: Lord Of The Rings (and The Hobbit)

Cele: Dinosaurs (concept of)

Luca: Star Wars (original trilogy)

[omgitskaii]

15.18 au where dean uses the enochian banishing symbol and confesses to cas before zapping him out of the dungeon, and when dean truly dies cas is suddenly shocked with how cold he gets.

and it’s because deans prayers stopped.

[petrichorium]

I... would like to hear more of your thoughts about Luffy.... if you have any more to spare.....

lil prequel to this

The jungle is hotter than you anticipated.

It's only been an hour and already you're sweating through your linen shirt. It was foolish, really, to assume you'd be prepared, but before setting foot on the beach you might have said you'd last at least the first day before stripping most of your outerclothes.

Luffy, in contrast, seems perfectly unaffected. Of course it’s been nearly a decade since he’d first entered the Grand Line, an infinity of experience compared to you—in fact you might even say he looks more at home amongst the overgrowth and unseen beasts than he did in the bustling urbanism of your home island. He stands taller, you think; doesn’t bother hunching to your height, shoulders rolled back with eager confidence.

He'd picked up a walking stick somewhere along the way, and though he's offered more than once you've resolutely refused to climb onto that broad back if only because just the sight of it before you has your heart beating ever faster.

(And, admittedly, because more than once you've spotted some bug or another that has drawn you astray, and you'd be far too sheepish to ask him to stop and let you off if you saw one from his back.)

Now you lead the way, following the trail of distinctively eaten foliage that you'd first pointed out to a surprisingly keen pirate king who'd crouched to hover over your shoulder as you eagerly gestured to the characteristic patterns. He's carried on following you, an energetic pup at your heels with hands just a bit too willing to reach out and tug you away from the countless dips and valleys you seem determined to fall down.

Such as the one you stumble across now. The ground drops before you, so large that even your poor reflexes can stop you. Your heart drops even faster—once the trees have given way you realize the cliff you’ve run square into has revealed a perfect view of the ship you arrived on, and just how far into the horizon it’s gotten.

“Ahhhh,” Luffy says, a dismayed sort of noise. You flinch as a heavy forearm slams against your shoulder, the man forcing more of his weight than comfortable onto you as he leans forward. “So slow. The Sunny would have been gone by now.”

“What?”

“The Thousand Sunny! My ship!”

You wrinkle your nose. “I know what the Thousand Sunny is—“

“You do?” He’s giddy now, eager as he leans even closer into your personal space. “She’s the best ship ever, right? With the lion at the front, so cool, I'll take you to sit on it when—“

“I don’t know that much.” Your hand finds his face as you shove him away none too gently. He doesn’t budge. “Just the name, the figurehead… the flag.”

What any person in the world would know about the ship that carries the king of the pirates. You don’t bother clarifying such things anymore. Luffy doesn’t tend to listen.

“Shouldn’t you be more concerned by the fact that our ship has sailed off?”

He blinks. “That’s why you brought me along, though.”

The words turn your blood cold. You swallow thickly. “You knew? Did you… did Lyle tell you? Is that why you agreed so quickly?”

Luffy makes a face. When he speaks it’s sour in a distinctly juvenile way. “Don’t talk about him, I don’t like him. And I really don’t like when you talk about him.”

"He's my husband," is all you can think to say in response.

"He wants you dead."

Even more than before, you feel as if you've been doused in freezing water, as if the air has been knocked from your lungs. You knew—of course you knew, obviously you knew, but hearing it aloud is an entirely different territory. Your knees buckle; Luffy’s hands find your waist before you can drop, lifting you with ease to deposit you almost tenderly onto the large outcropping of rock you’d been bracing yourself against.

They rest on either side of your thighs. You try not to think too hard about how warm they feel against you.

Your new perch is high enough that you’re level with him now. It’s a more comfortable feeling, no longer craning your neck to look him in the eye. Except he has other intentions; ones that have your face growing hot as he sighs and lowers his head to rest his cheek against the soft give of your thigh.

He’s always been touchy, moreso than appropriate, but it’s never been anything this bold. When he glances up at you through lidded eyes your breath hitches, a thrill going through you.

“We’ll just wait for my crew, yeah? If I don’t show up in a couple days they’ll follow my vivre card to find us. But you knew all that, didn’t you?”

You squirm a little. Luffy's arm tightens around your legs.

"Stop that. Just lemme—"

He shoves his face into your stomach. You yelp, hand flying to grip his hair none too gently—but that only drags a groan from him as he presses further and inhales deeply. Your abdomen tenses involuntarily.

(Lyle had never touched you so intimately, and certainly never so desperately. It had all been courteous and tasteful during the course of your arranged engagement, and then he'd gone cold after the wedding. Some rebellious part of you wishes he could see you and the king of the pirates now...)

He pulls back only when you finally sink into it. Stomach still fluttering, you push it aside and lean back on your forearm, that hand in his hair relaxing to stroke through the strands absent-mindedly. He eases up, lifting his head to watch you.

“Why?” You say finally. “Why are you so calm? I tricked you into coming here, I lied to you, I manipulated you, and you just went along with it? Now you’re stranded on this island with me for who knows how long until your people finally show up and you’re just okay with that? Why?”

Luffy blinks at you, dark eyes wide as his head tilts and his mouth pulls into a pout that has your heart skipping a beat.

“Well… you’re gonna join my crew, aren’t you?”

[toysrguts]

its 2:20 in the morning i had a vision

[vinyltile212]

bruhh ive fr been sick this whole ass year with Mystory Respiratory Illness. rawdoggin it fr. i could grind a stick into sawdust on my dry ass philtrum

still not stopping my academic winstreak tho (this better stay in that upwards trajectory i fein for academic validation)

[sir-kettle-of-countertop]

Did anyone want some absolutely fucking unhinged Adler yappage? Yes? No? Doesn’t matter I’m blasting y’all with it now.

Disclaimer: this is just my interpretation of the game, I’m not claiming anything as textual canon, just wanted to share some of my thoughts and provide some rationale for them. Because while I’ve already seen some people share similar readings, they’ve not been as… thorough, I guess, and countered by some arguments that I think could be quite easily argued back against.

There is. So much tragedy and depth to his character even when you don’t stop to think about how and why exactly he is connected to Ariane, but when you do, some fascinating dimensions open up. What relation does he have to her? Well, he himself couldn’t have possible met her… however his Gestalt have. I believe that we DO have his Gestalt directly established to us, but more ambiguously than Elster’s. Who that may be? Well, let’s start firstly with:

Adler’s Gestalt is “Sun”

The spy?! How? As could be seen with his diary entries mentioning:

`I had a dream tonight. Another memory of my Gestalt life I believe - I was wearing my uniform. There was a young woman, her hair white as snow, and I was conducting some sort of test. I had a deck of cards with astronomical symbols on them, and asked her to guess the planet on the card I was holding.`

Gestadler undoubtedly knew Ariane. This note also relates to the astrolabe box puzzle, with what very much looks like those cards visibly scattered around it:

Y’kno what these cards look very similar to? Zener cards, which were used to conduct tests for measuring extrasensory ability by having people guess the symbols on shuffled cards.

So, potentially some psychic test with Ariane? What does it sound similar to?

Come Sun’s note:

`I have been found out. I'm sure the white haired girl working at the photo store in Sektor C is bioresonant - be careful. They don't pay me enough to take any more risks - I am on the next ship to Kitezh tomorrow. Meet me at the docks in Sektor N if you want to bail, too. -Sun `

HMM. How could’ve Sun known that Ariane is bioresonant if she was not discovered even by the Nation? Smelled it on her? Or could they have conducted some sort of psychic test with her, one very similar to an old real life extrasensory ability experiment that comes from roughly the same time period (mid 20th century) as what the game’s setting takes great inspiration from.

Along with the great emphasis on a spy discovered during the Rotfront section, in the block that Ariane lived in, leaves me fully convinced that Sun got caught and forcibly made into a neural pattern for Adler units. Because how otherwise would Adler even have memories of Ariane, and why would an imperial spy that first discovered that she’s special be featured so prominently?

AND. Y’kno what could be a particularly cruel, befitting a totalitarian dystopia, and ironic punishment for somebody working against the regime be?

Not be dignified with death, oh no. Way worse than that. Your brain preserved and copied to be put into mass-produced biorobots, made into a figure of administrative authority and control, that yet doesn’t have any sort of autonomy of his own, another tool of oppression, second in command to and fully dependent on the crown symbol and literally the face of the regime you despise – Falke. Adlers being specifically noted to be “fairly easy to control” with the help of bioresonant suggestion, rather them being described as inherently loyal, also gets a HMMMM from me. Also I think it ain’t just a coincidence that the thing that likely foiled Sun’s escape plan – bioresonant individuals – is the same thing that’s underlined in the known issues note JUST SAYIN’.

I SWEAR I’M SO FUCKING NORMAL ABOUT HIM

SIKE NO I’M NOT, AND I’M NOT DONE YET.

Adler’s Gestalt is “Sun” is Nikolai Nguyen

I’m not gonna go in depth with observations that other people have already made very often – them being... the only two men with a face in the whole game, and both having the same facial features down to jawline, eyeshape, noseshape and hair length – even HAIRCUT, Nikolai’s hair just looks like if Adler’s hair was messed up.

Overlap these two and the image just becomes Adler but beaten up and about to cry.

Visual similarity is there, but it’s not the only connective tissue there is.

In Nikolai’s medical document there are three notable details:

1) “Claims to be unable to take part in communal morning exercises.” Which is INSTANTLY suspicious. It is very convenient to have the whole block be away to participate in communal exercise while you’re left alone, isn’t it? Makes it easy to snoop around.

2) “Occupation: Writer”. Being a writer aligns very well with both what Adler is talented at – paperwork, management, bureaucracy – and even some of his interests, with him writing in his diaries more than damn anyone and spending all his saved money on a fountain pen. Besides that, it’s such an interesting profession to have, because it is quite literally the ONLY one that is listed out of every other Gestalts’ to be creative. The Nation does not welcome creativity, with the only other creative person – Ariane – being punished for it. Considering just how miserable Nikolai here looks... perhaps it could be assumed that he knows it well himself.

3) His very name. Nikolai (Kolya ;-;) is a distinctly Russian name, in noticeable difference to other Gestalts. It’s not the only use of Russian in the game though, the other are… Kitezh and Buyan, the Empire-controlled planets. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT-

Considering everything together? Yeah. I personally am convinced that the through-line is there, although I’ve also seen some refutations, which I wanna try to address.

Arguments against the connection I've seen

1) The most convincing one: why wouldn’t AEON erase Kolya’s medical database entry? Yeah, it’s just tough to refute it definitively. Could be just something that was missed, like with Gelster’s photo. Or maybe it was actually erased but it’s “there” because Ariane remembers him, esp with how surreal Rotfront section already is.

2) One that confused me, because it was on the wiki of all places (THAT CITES A FUCKING REDDIT COMMENT OF ALL THINGS, BE FR RIGHT NOW): “Nikolai looks kinda snivelly while Adler stays calm and collected, and his occupation is a writer [...] which on both parts… just doesn’t make any sense to me? Elster is stoic and confident too, yet her Gestalt’s photo looks more vulnerable and unsure. Like. Why wouldn’t Gestadler be emotive? And writer as an occupation as I said above sounds quite literally tailor fit for Adler. Gelster’s occupation was also not 1 to 1 with her Replika’s too – she was a soldier, not a cosmonaut/engineer.

3) Now the second part of that citation is more convincing: “I think Nikolai’s hair was also changed by the devs to discourage the assumption that Nikolai is Adler’s Gestalt donor. ” although I tried searching for data for his old portrait – update posts, leaked sprites, old youtube playthroughs – Kolya looks the same everywhere. Admittedly I couldn’t have scoured through every single youtube playthrough – I don’t have time rn, so if anyone can definitively confirm the sprite change it would be appreciated.

I’d say though that even IF that was a change that happened, I still dare say that this is a valid reading of who Adler is/was, especially because it serves to deepen his character. This all together paints such a FASCINATINGLY tragic figure. I kinda just want it to be true ya kno

Anyway I fucking love the silly eagle man and I think he is underappreciated by the fandom