#yknow. assuming she has a boss fight or a theme at all ^_^

[pinkseas]

also hoyo while you're at it please give columbina's phase 1 boss fight theme the same vibes as tee-hee time on the omori soundtrack 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[shiros]

lmao did you hear apparently shiro not dying is the reason why the keith vs lotor rivalry was cut and sendak clone plot was given to shiro and allura now ends up with lance instead of keith. i know the writing has always been bad but i cant believe its now THIS bad

Anon…anon…please tell me you’re lying. Please tell me you’re lying and that that stupid prolonged clone arc with an ass backwards message to the theme of voltron and an insult to its audience wasn’t the piece of shit that took away my keitorllura and Keith vs Lotor and a REAL Shiro vs. Sendak.(yknow not having Keith’s maincharacter senses tingle and steal Shiro’s kill) 

I can sleep better at night knowing that the writers were just incompetent and didn’t somehow realize what type of perfect-timing-golden-chance-just-go-for-it- pussy set up they were making. But I can’t fall asleep, because it all fucking makes sense now. All of it. They don’t even have to kill Shiro for this. Or if they wanted to, kill him off then bring the fucker back because with Allura’s dues ex machina we know he could do that at anytime if she wanted to. Sendak was the one launched into space way before Shiro ever was; we were supposed to be expecting his return in season 3, meeting Lotor in 4, build up in 5, then the whole showdown begins in season 6. Then Haggar would be dealt with in 8 after the paladins return in 7 because she’d be the only one left with any type of narrative stakes and plot relevance attacking Earth. It’s the perfect set up for Haggar to be the final boss like most of us were expecting after Zarkon died. It couldn’t have been Sendak because he’s had beef with Shiro since season one so he would have to be regulated to be killed by him during their fight. For any normie watching this show, I wouldn’t blame them for forgetting who the fuck Sendak was especially if they started watching when season 1 was on netflix, waited liked the rest of us for the remainder of the seasons, and went “Who’s that guy?” when he finally popped up.

Allura’s magic, I’d assume, would be a plot point that could have been built up during the time when the paladins were dicking around with Kuron with the propaganda, which could have been squished in as they were doing important things rather than having whole episodes dedicated to shit that didn’t matter. Alien planets are still under Galran control, possibly being drained of their planets resources like the Balmera, but oh sorry you’ll just have to wait until we do circus show tricks to really drive the message home that we’re here to fight for you! We have no real sense of urgency if its not up our ass and down our throat! :)

There’s just so much we could have gotten. So much. Keith’s sense of belonging on the team could have been challenged with the Lotor’s half galra team, a perfect call back to how Allura treated him after she found out about his galra heritage, Lance, Pidge, and Hunk not getting the short end of the stick when it comes to character development, seeing Shiro talk more about Adam with flashbacks so he’s not a literal who when we see him on screen. And most importantly, making it seem like the team actually gives a shit about each other outside of Shiro and Keith (slightly Hunk and Lance/Keith.) Season 7 gave us an inch, but I’m talking about the whole ruler. I never got the sense that the team gave a shit about what happens to one another outside of “If we lose a paladin this will set us back,” or just generally being concerned over another human life like a normal person. 

I don’t think I wanna watch season 8. I don’t need closure, I know what’s going to happen anyway and I’m not going to like it. I’m just done. 

[sireneia-a]

♡ ooc | mild fe15/fe2 spoilers ??? also kinda fe1/3/11/12 but yknow

under the cut is the reason why i write tatiana as a dumaist ! since i had the chance to describe it anyhow yesterday.

though i mention that echoes “removed” tatiana from the duma faith, i will admit that this is not true-- tatiana’s religious affiliation was never explicitly mentioned in gaiden, but most players had naturally assumed she would be a dumaist, and when any of us were told she was a milaist in fe15, we were surprised.

if i ever slipped up on name spellings, it’s cause i was writing the jp names sdjfhkdsdh but “teeta” is tatiana

i still disagree with echoes' choice to make tatiana a milaist as opposed to a dumaist. i think it's bad rep because by removing her from the faith, that leaves only hark as an example of a "good" dumaist, which makes the mila vs duma conflict extremely black and white. it presents dumaism as inherently bad, which is poor considering we need every example to prove otherwise when the final boss is duma and mila is nowhere to be seen. 

both alm and celica are milaists ( tho alm drops his faith later on in fe2 and the manga, but he seems to keep it in fe15 ) and berkut, one of the new characters, seems to be made to hate the duma faithful. rudolf's already wary of them. rinea is ambivalent it almost seems. jedah is presented as wholly bad. 

dumaism really doesn't get any good signs here save for hark, and the discussion between hark and celica should have expanded more, but it didn't. it was a terrible missed opportunity since we have the epitome of the mila faith and the duma faith next to one another and i'm still saddened by that. 

regardless, dumaism is all about power being a blessing under the condition that one protects another. both the religions ( and all of valentia, so much so that it even carries into their magic ) believe that you must sacrifice something in exchange for that good thing: dumaism must be kind with their strength, milaism must be appreciative for their plenty. 

valentia falls to ruin because they forget that message ( a strong theme in gaiden: forgetting anything leading to ruin, hence why valm happens in the first place in fe13 ) but the problem is that we see too much sympathizers with milaism and not enough with dumaism. even celica is a victim to the mila vice a little by assuming mila will just fix everything. 

dumaism's power is not inherently bad, it's just that as people, we're trained to believe power is bad due to fiction which... misconstrues its principles. they learn to be independent pillars for others to rely on, almost like a big brother figure for their comrades. i'm certain that's what duma was aiming for.

tatiana most certainly embodies the principle of being a dumaist. she admires strength and her lover, zeke, embodies that along with his good nature. she makes a note that he wouldn't harm anyone, and this carries through to something she doesn't know: how he protected nyna. zeke is what a dumaist should be without even being a follower of the faith himself! 

tatiana may be kidnapped, but her reasoning in echoes shows that she went out in search for him. she has the agency of a dumaist, something not taught with milaism, and she is not against zeke fighting; not in the slightest! 

in their supports, she compliments his skill and merely wishes to be by his side. she is not afraid of the battlefield and she's not reluctant to be there. it is zeke who tells her she shouldn't push herself to be there, but she denies his thought implying it to be false. she has her own strength, and she also clearly wishes to protect people. her being a cleric ( saint technically ) shows the "protect" part of the duma faith: she is using her strength to assist others. it's not as traditional as zeke's way, but it is her own way and it's just as valid. she also has the whole "protect" part in her first meeting with zeke where she rushes him to medical aid and then cares for him, offering to be his crutch. milaists are on the receiving end, dumaists would see it in their nature to just do those things.

tatiana being from rigel most likely had a big influence on her being a dumaist besides that though, i admit. according to her backstory in echoes, she was brought into safety by priestesses and saints. considering dumaism is the biggest religion in rigel, it'd make very little sense to assume that the people who cared for her were milaists ( i'm ignoring the fact that mila statues are there-- they're more for a game mechanic than an actual worldbuilding reason i feel ). family has a big part in helping influence one's religious affiliation, and tatiana saw the church as her kind of family after being orphaned. it makes sense she'd adopt the faith especially after these good people would teach her it. she respects them.

i play tatiana as a dumaist because it makes sense and i want to help avoid encouraging the idea that just because a character good does not mean they are a milaist.