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I DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE INTO SONIC AND NOW I AM ALSO POGGING SO HARD MY FACE HURTS

oh buddy my first true love in any medium was sonic adventure 2 battle so i’m pretty sure sega has me on the hook for a lifelong blood pact. immediately after i finished college i made an elaborate fancomic about shadow that i still quite like even though you can really tell i was not confident drawing mobians at allllll* so that’s what i have to offer you.

(*though recently i feel like it’s finally clicked. currently unclear what i’ll do with this power)

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Andromeda's garlean, or at least raised in garlean society, right? How'd she take the whole Varis/Anima thing in Endwalker? Or just the Garlemald section as a whole? If you've done all the EW role quests, how'd she feel about that last blasphemy?

unfortunately for her, she sure is! she was raised by her garlean mother and spent her entire childhood in the capital city so coming back to that under the circumstances that she did was, frankly, the worst experience of her life. just a profoundly miserable, harrowing time for her.

wrt to the anima stuff, i don’t actually know how strongly it hit her through the noise of every other horrific thing she was seeing, but i think the revelation that the people of her homeland had been devoured by their own nationalistic fervor nauseated her first and foremost because of how it almost felt like a foregone conclusion- a sort of “of course that would be what destroyed them” reaction that, in the face of how gruesomely it actually played out, makes her too unsettled to really feel any sort of vindication at the karmic comeuppance. mostly it just makes her sad. 

(the particular way she personally suffered at the hands of garlean fascism did little to harden her to the many, many cruelties of war she both witnessed and participated in in her capacity as the warrior of light- she has always done what she must without complaint, but she has never been able to turn off the way she instinctively sees humanity in those she cuts down for the sake of justice, knowing they’re probably a lot like the kind of people she was raised in tenuous community with. she just tries not to think about it too hard.)

of course, within the larger context of the arc, it’s ALSO pretty hard for her to view it as any sort of divine retribution when she knows not only what real, tangible person is responsible for unleashing this disaster on them, but that he all but says he did it to get under her skin, specifically. she might even feel culpable for the massive civilian casualties, if she let herself think about it for more than ten seconds. good thing there’s always something else for her to be doing!

anyways, more broadly, the garlemald arc was when her elaborate lies about being a normal eorzean girl completely and utterly collapsed under the strain of actually returning to where she came from. the psychological toll of keeping up the façade with the ilsabard contingient (though the scions, lucia, maxima, and some others have all kept her secret for a while now) And being treated by the garlean populace as a foreign invader (which strikes a nerve she was surprised to realize was still raw after all this time) And not knowing if her mother, who she had very recently accepted might’ve been a more complicated figure than she assumed, was even alive was, frankly, just way too much. the jig is extremely up. she’s taking out her anguish by cursing out some uncooperative military guy who probably reminds her of her step-father in her native language. she keeps asking everyone they meet if they know a woman named lucretia eir caecus. she’s finding any reason to avoid regio urbanissima because if she sees her old home she’s probably gonna have a panic attack. it went Extremely Bad.

the one and pretty much only spot of hope for her during all this is that it did help to get it through her thick skull that her friends like, really really love her. alphinaud and alisaie were basically glued to her side as much as they could be and each had their own approaches to trying to protect her from something that they pretty obviously couldnt. and, for what it’s worth, even as word began to spread through the ilsabard contingient that Hey I Think She’s From Here? i simply don’t think it destroyed their respect for her the way she had convinced herself it would. if anything i think a lot of them just felt bad for how much of a toll this was clearly taking onher.

…sadly i have not actually done all the edw role quests (i’m REALLY bad about doing role quests. i didn’t even do the shb ones until i made that video essay in june. and we all know i’m a huge shadowbringers guy) so i can’t comment on that but i’m sure it’s probably in line with all of this. yeah <3

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are you going to be playing sonic x shadow gens when it comes out👀

the one thing i have ever really truly wanted is for something, anything to take the character work of my most deeply cherished beautiful trainwreck, shadow the hedgehog (2005), completely seriously and today i spent like an hour pacing around my kitchen after pogging so hard at the sight of maria robotnik that my face hurt. so yeah i'm probably going to play it. looks good.

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shadowbringer the hedgehog

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key art for murder mystery visual novel MEMORALYSIS - demo out this month!!

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key art for murder mystery visual novel MEMORALYSIS - demo out this month!!

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Checking in just to say i love, love, LOVE your 'came back wrong' ascian!hyth comic, i remember going insane when i saw pomegranates in one of the last panels

(speaking as someone who loves greek mythology, i'm generally not a big fan of modern depictions of the hymn to demeter/persephone's abduction *but* i do wish ppl would play around more with persephone allusions in relations to hyth esp as a shade in emet's amaurot)

thank you!! i honestly feel exactly the same way haha, and i think that contributes to why i really only pull from the mythological hades when i'm specifically looking to portray ffxiv's hades at rock bottom- i think it makes for reaaallly fun framing for his relationship not with the real hythlodaeus, but the idea of him (manifesting in canon as the shade, or in my delusions as the ascian hyth) that haunts him while he devolves into a terrible person

at the risk of sounding insane i really love the idea that emet-selch just sort of involuntarily causes people close to him to slide into a persephone-esque role and it IS a curse, it is NOT sexy or fun, and he DOES hate it. unrelatedly i've always wanted to really dig into the beard wife empress galvus angle

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my best friend shadow!!!!1! ^_^

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the day you can meet them is finally drawing near..

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at last we meet

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no more once upon a time and so on and so forth

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IT'S FINALLY DONE WITH ONE DAY BEFORE DAWNTRAIL TO SPARE. one part thematic analysis, one part attempting to explain what the hell happened to me this past year, and one part the most vulnerable thing i have ever put on the internet. watch it if you have ever found my approach to this game interesting or don't know anything about ffxiv and just want to know what's wrong with me

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What would andromeda's tma patron entity be? What entity is she most likely to fall victim to?

real longtime mads fans will not be shocked to hear that i think she’d be very susceptible to the lonely, given her fraught relationship with connecting to others and the way all of her deepest fears can be traced back to an upbringing that was very… like that. that said i can see her patron being the slaughter; her attempts to escape those base childhood fears are what drove her to become god’s perfect killing machine, which by all accounts could have gone a lot worse for everyone involved than it did in ffxiv

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rage against the heavens

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there is still time

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save me, brave hero.

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oh, my daddy said shoot