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[saintheartwing]

I saw your pfp in the comments of a random post and did a double-take. I read your Viewtiful Joe fic AGES ago.

Oh, cool! Thanks. :)

Hope you’re having a good week!

[saintheartwing]

MY special interest is cheese, so it’s fine by me. Worst thing I have to worry about is a bad case of diarrhea. Luckily that’s what my lactaid pills are for! XD

[saintheartwing]

Thanks for agreeing to my ideas!

Now...about the Consulars: How many members do they have and is it alright if I give some background Consulars names?

Okay, besides Darth and Feyr, I'm thinking there's not more than 1000, spread over the entire empire. After all, there's billions of Irkens. Not many have psychic powers.

[saintheartwing]

Hey, thanks again for letting me use your Irken OCs. I have a few ideas for the Consulars and I want to hear your thoughts on them.

In my Invaders of Irk series, there's this group of Irkens called the Irken Resistance against the Empire. They are led by the Sapphire Legion, Miyuki's ex-royal guard who were exiled after launching a rebellion against Spork and the Imperial High Council (Basically the Irkens' top military leaders and civilian ministers) who were turning Irk back into a warmongering empire after Spork is led to believe that the Vortians were responsible for Miyuki's death.

Since I have permission to use your OCs...is it alright if I include the Consulars among the ranks of the Irken rebels since...I figured that since they were psychic and with the Sapphire Legion in full revolt in my stories, they would know about what happened at Station 9 or at least figure it out much earlier than in canon and given Darth's attachment towards Miyuki...I figured that the High Council (who ordered a coverup of Miyuki's death) would order the Consulars to be executed to maintain the coverup with the surviving members fleeing to join the Irken Resistance.

What do you think?

Apologies for how long this is and I hope this makes sense.

That actually sounds intriguing. I like that idea! :)

[saintheartwing]

Hey, is it alright if I use Darth, the Consulars and your other Irken OCs for my stories?

As long as you give me credit for them, absolutely, you can use them.

[saintheartwing]

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[saintheartwing]

The Huntress, Nee-Buh-Loh, sister of the Huntsman, has a soft side like her brother, even though it doesn't appear as often. She's very kind when she wants to be, and is not above helping planets if she feels they're unfairly suffering. This wonderful commission from Blinkpen (whom you can find on Tumblr, they did this for me years ago and I've decided to upload it here) did a wonderful job showing her both voracious and tender personality. I especially like the earrings he gave to put on her horns.

Since today is 8/8 day, it's "Vore Day". I'm both into macro stuff AND vore stuff and I freely admit it. I prefer gentle, protective-style vore in general, and kinder, gentler giants, as you might have picked up on. Enjoy.

[saintheartwing]

Thanks but...I couldn't find Darth in the post you sent me to. Do you think you could tell me a little about him?

Sure!

I designed him to place emphasis on what Irken spirituality and religion would look like. He's kind of part of the "holy trinity" of my OCs who represent religion and spirituality and what they stand for. My character Staccato, Staccato Remiel, is an angel, an archangel who stands for upholding God's laws, a figure of justice and fairness. Darth is the Hierophant, a great holy man meant to interpret God's will in the best way for others, to do as much good as possible. And Page, experiment 620, is a choir boy, the common servant of God who's sweet, noble, gentle. A firm yet tender hand who best represents what a spiritual or godly person should be on Earth, constantly trying to do right by others.

Senior is the Irken people at its best, with their loyalty, their devotion to one another, their desire to do great things and their fighting skills being incredible. The only thing which held him back from being Tallest when Miyuki was gone was a few inches. Those 'few inches' in essence make him VASTLY different from many Irkens, because he's compassionate, kindhearted and altruistic. He's what a good communications officer should be, a shoulder to cry on, willing to listen, and dedicated. Darth (who's full name is Darithil but that's only a name his VERY CLOSEST friends and family call him) meanwhile is closer in "inches" as it were to what most Irkens are but more muted and restrained. He's got kind of a "paternalistic" sort of racism he's aware and tries hard to work on. He's tries very hard to not cruel or heartless...but he IS capable of being far more ruthless than Senior, and even Senior can be very ruthless. He's also more manipulative and darker in how he handles things. He's not above unpleasant pranks like pulling off people's pants with his psychic powers, or giving them unpleasant nightmares when they're asleep because they mocked him for being blind, or if he's feeling REALLY petty, making them do things in their pants when they really don't want to.

He's not a bad person. But he IS far more willing to do bad things. Despite this, he does sincerely believe in the idea of redemption and atoning. He wants the Irken race to be better. As a consular, a psychic interrogator, and the best they have, he's easily able to get inside people's heads. He can see into people's minds with ease though he can't see normally.

(This picture's from Zontar-Zon on Deviantart, just so you know)

THAT however isn't too much of an issue. As long as there's other people around him he can attune to, he can see around him through THEIR eyes, and he's been up and down the Massive so much that he basically can't get lost.

If Senior is representative of the value of Life, and the love of Life, Darth's biggest trait is Compassion. There's no need to torture others when you can easily talk them through gentle persuasion into giving up what you need, or to calmly peer into their heads. But compassion isn't inherently "soft", because sometimes the most compassionate route would be to put others out of their suffering. Darth's far more willing to do darker and more unpleasant things than Senior.

He's got white eyes and is blind not just because I believe it works well with what he wears and it allows for far more interesting writing, challenging me to think about "how would an Irken with a disability function in Irken society", but because it's also a reference to the verse in The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 15. "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." A blind leader leading blind people means both will fall into the ditch. You need to actually see in order to help lead a blind person to safety. But the irony is Darth DOES see. He can see their Soul. It's most of Irken society that can't. They're the true blind ones.

As head of the Consulars he's found like-minded people who work alongside him. Being exposed to so much of people's pain and suffering and enduring great pain and suffering of your own does one of two things, and sometimes both. It opens your heart, and makes you become compassionate, because you've suffered so much, SEEN so much suffering that your heart grows and you want to help others all the more. Or...it makes you VERY ANGRY. This is the duality of not only Darth but, I've found, of religious people in general. They are often both the sweetest and most giving people around...and yet also the most HORRIFYINGLY FURIOUS people, the folks I'd be the most scared of getting hold of weapons. Their anger is far stronger than any others, because it's an anger honed by a righteous desire. Which makes them far more dangerous.

Anyway, hope you liked the deep dive.

[saintheartwing]

The Irken OCs if that's alright.

Luckily, I made just such a post here. https://www.tumblr.com/saintheartwing/651993303604215808/ive-decided-to-put-this-up-for-reference-and-to?source=share Hopefully this helps?

[saintheartwing]

Sorry, I meant rundown. Not sure how runtime got in there.

Sure, any in particular you want to know about? :)

[saintheartwing]

Hey, could you give us a runtime on your IZ ocs? The ones you used for Invader Zim: The Series if you don't mind me asking.

What do you mean by "runtime"?

[saintheartwing]

There is no good reason in-story why the Joker isn't dead. And I don't mean "Why hasn't Batman killed him". Why has the GOTHAM JUSTICE SYSTEM not killed him? You can't keep arguing insanity because actually insane people are not intelligent enough to make elaborate plans to kill thousands if not millions of folks like Joker does. And on top of that, it's not like some states don't say it's okay to execute even mentally crazy people. If somebody is a legit hazard and threat to the country or their neighbors, a good legal case can be made that, insane or not, they're too dangerous to be spared and they should be killed for the sake of public safety.

They could label him a TERRORIST and black bag him. They could execute him in the electric chair. You can't argue there'd be no witnesses or evidence, by now it'd be obvious there's clear legal cases to be made he should fry. And if you wanna argue "well he'd escape from jail cuz SOMEHOW he's able to convince a large amount of morons to work for him", then have him be on the way to jail or in an interrogation room and-

BANG-BANG-BANG! "Oh it's just the DARDNEST thing, commissioner! The Joker reached for my gun and we had to plug him. Shoot. Darn. Gosh. Heck."

How difficult would that be? Just do it already, Gotham. In fact, you would think by now that after what must be DECADES of this crap, that most Gothamites would have gotten guns or formed militias and decided "You know what, we're handling this ourselves, we're just gonna fucking kill anybody who works for these criminals. if we see the Joker, we're sniping him." Heck, have the citizens of Gotham, its wealthiest, put out a CONTRACT on the Joker. You can't tell me there wouldn't be plenty of killers in the DC universe who wouldn't go "yeah, sure, I'll blow his brains out for that much money". Clearly he's a threat to your city and your well-being and more importantly, your money and your life. So scrape some millions together, hire Deathstroke and say "Joker's junk on my desk by noon, please"!

i am a full fucking supporter of the ‘batman should kill the joker’ agenda. i will say that with my full chest. i love the idea of that clown fucking dying. however i DO have to point out how insanely hysterical and unreasonable it is for people, including his kids, to get mad at him for refusing to kill that guy.

like think about that for a sec. he said no to murder and they’re mad at him for it. batman is quite literally just a guy. a volunteer. the emo version of the neighbourhood watch. he has no legal power, he’s just good enough at not getting arrested and is lucky enough to live in a city like gotham where everyone else is just as insane as he is and are fully willing to let him do his thing.

like, imagine if you decided to start volunteering at a soup kitchen, when a guy starts showing up and routinely fucking with everybody by throwing the soup around and burning other guests. and you keep kicking him out and calling the police on him because what the fuck man, you’re trying to serve people soup here! but he keeps getting away from the cops and coming back, and then one day one of the other volunteers comes up to you holding a gun and goes ‘take him out, bruce.’ and you’re like. what. no. what the fuck do you mean i’m just serving soup i cant kill a guy. and then everybody gets mad at you for not shooting him in the face.

like do you understand how insane that is. it’s so fucking funny. let bruce live.

[saintheartwing]

Everyone talking about how Lex Luthor as played by Nicholas Hoult is such a magnificent grade-A hater, as if they're just now realizing that he is, makes me realize just how underserved Lex has been in the movies so far. Before Gunn and Hoult, movie Lex has been portrayed as a snarky wannabe real estate tycoon and a spoiled, bitter, manic rich kid.

Like, this is the guy who kicked the already-dead Doomsday because he was so angry something other than himself had killed Superman. This is the guy who once heard of a prophecy stating that Superman would come to save the enslaved people of Apokolips and prevented that prophecy from happening just to deny Superman glory. This is the guy who fucking cured cancer just as part of a ploy to kill Superman.

This is the guy who once had the power to give every single being in the universe pure happiness, forever, with the only string attached being that he couldn't use that power to harm anyone…

…and he threw all of it away in a heartbeat because he couldn't stomach the idea of not being able to hurt Superman.

And movie audiences are just now getting a version of Lex that captures even a fraction of that sheer despicable petty loathing. I am torn between sadness that it took this fucking long to make it happen and joy that now more people understand what makes Lex such a wonderful villain.

[saintheartwing]

Is it wrong if I consider Noah Antwiler/The Spoony One to be the greatest Shakespearean tragedy of the modern era?

I used to LOVE Spoony. I consider what happened to him a real disappointment. You're not wrong there...

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And it's not EVEN just "Father I know there's good in you", this was also the same guy who was willing to try and talk down not just the Emperor himself, but JABBA THE HUTT, the scummy crime lord who has ONE of his best friends in a slutty outfit in chains and the other in carbonite, and even HIM, Luke's TRYING to do diplomacy at first and violence second. What he did was pure character assassination cuz he WANTED Luke to be in a certain place but that place doesn't make SENSE given Luke's character, so he had to BASTARDIZE Luke's character to get us there.

Star Wars really said "Anakin Skywalker had issues rooted in childhood trauma that was not his fault" but also "Anakin made his own choices as an adult for which he alone is responsible" but ALSO "In spite of the truly evil things he chose to do Anakin was still capable of being loved and redeemed" and I think that's important.

[saintheartwing]

Mostly everyone who’s seriously thought about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has talked about how the game is primarily focused on grief.

But what they haven’t done enough of is talk about the real problem that caused all of this.

Selfishness.

Now hear me out. The Dessendre family are skilled and magical painters. They can literally craft actual, filled with sentient life works on a canvas. It’s a miraculous ability. And the mother and the father wants their son to follow in their footsteps, and he doesn’t need to make a very wonderful canvas that’s clever and creative and pretty and beautiful and vibrant. Even within that painting, though, you see very clearly it’s not exactly what he wants to do. What he would really like to do is Music. That’s what he wants. He’s much better at playing the piano than he is at painting. The paintbrush people, the Gestrals he makes, have a theater. The Grandis don’t like to fight, they like to talk and their method of escape is using a bell, a musical instrument, to do so. When the Expedition sees the boy on his own, the spirit of the real Verso at the time he painted the canvas, he talks about piano and we SEE him playing piano. In fact we see him doing it more then once if I remember right. In fact there’s pianos all over the place! And how does Verso do his combat moves? The “Perfection” style he has is all about parrying in the right spots. Hitting…the right keys…at the right time.

He wants to be a musician and evidently there’s signs his sister did too, why else would Clea’s big representative monster be the Axom known as SIRENE, a siren-like monster who’s all about singing and dancing? But…he had to give it up to fulfill the expectations of his parents. He didn’t want to disappoint them.

Then he died, dying to save his little sister and she survived but is horribly mangled. She can’t really speak. One eye is gone. Her face is burned. And the family only has this painting left of him. But instead of moving on, his mother stayed inside the painting so as to have her son be recreated within it, using part of the soul he put into the canvas. Clea hates her little sister for putting her brother into that position and has gone off to kill the people who started the fire. His father, realizing that his wife hasn’t come out of the painting and is staying inside for what seems to be months, maybe even years, TRIES to get her to leave but she won’t. They fight inside the painting! They’re both trapped and now are monstrous.

And Alicia? Aka Maelle? She just wants her brother back. So she goes inside the painting too but she mostly loses her memory. But it’s probably no surprise that the man she gravitates too looks quite a bit LIKE a younger Verso who even has a very similar hairstyle.

None of them are actually doing right by each other. The parents are neglecting the children they actually have left, especially their youngest daughter who desperately needs it now more than ever. Clea is more interested in getting revenge for her brother than doing what he would have wanted, which is taking care of his little sister. And even his little sister is being selfish at the end, because she’s not considering the long-term consequences of what she wants, while ignoring the wishes of what her brother wanted. And frankly Verso is being selfish too. He just wants to die because he’s lived for so long and has suffered so much, aware that he’s but a hollow slim slice of someone else, a fragment of soul at best.

To be fair to Verso he has grown to love and care for the people in the painting who are clearly alive and self aware and he begs Maelle multiple times to just LEAVE the painting. Come back later! Then things will be fine. But Maelle insists her father will just destroy the canvas the moment she leaves. So she’d rather spend all her time inside this place where she can speak normally and doesn’t look burned.

But this is putting the whole world back at risk again. She’s not doing this for the sake of the world’s inhabitants, it’s because she doesn’t want to go back to the real world and face the grief that awaits her. If she cared about the inhabitants of the painting she would have kept her word to her dad, and gone back after a little while of saying goodbye. Then he’d see that she’s keeping her word and HAS changed and matured and he doesn’t need to destroy the canvas. Then the family can move on and MAYBE one day Maelle can pop back into the canvas and see their friends again. But choosing not to do that puts the whole world at risk.

All of this was motivated by selfishness. A family that can’t put aside their own desires in the name of doing what’s right. They were too blinded by what they wanted. Verso, or the painted version of him, is the only one who at least TRIES to take another option, after all he’s lived in that place for about a hundred years and despise all the suffering at his core was a man who hoped that a Painter could make it into a good and safe world where people could be happy. A feeling that he once had and was stomped out not once but twice by people he held the closest bonds to, first was his girlfriend Julie, and then his sister, Maelle.

Had the family just let Verso be Verso, and if they had just honored his wishes both times, letting him be a musician, and then moving on from his death, none of this would be happening. But their grief made them even more selfish.

And unfortunately Verso wasn’t immune to it. The death of Gustave was cuz Verso didn’t interfere in time. He could have saved him but was afraid Gustave wouldn’t have listened to him about the Paintress and the truth of the canvas, wouldn’t have done what he wanted… BUT Gustave was one of the few people that Maelle would have listened to. And because he was such a nice guy, he actually probably would’ve been more likely to listen to Verso than Lume or Sciel. So Verso made a terrible mistake. A shortsighted, selfish mistake. And doing this cost them a good third option that would’ve seen everybody be happy, at least to some degree. 

The big tragedy isn’t just that a single desth tore a family apart. It’s their self-centered refusal to look past the death and the grief it caused that really tore them apart. And it killed a world.

Just a thought.

[saintheartwing]

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