#<- not hinting at anything. totally

[princekirijo]

Here's a random question that popped into my head: How does Riku regard Minato/Minako? Since Mitsuru and Yukari probably have photos of them in photo albums, Riku probably saw them, got curious and asked about them. How much would Mitsuru and Yukari tell him about them and how would Riku react?

Well thank you I love random questions :3

OK so two things.

1. Everything I say is subject to change here. I actually feel like this should be in my blog bio LMAO I am forever changing bits and pieces of Captain's lore and story. I have accepted that this is just part of the creative process and I want to put time into this silly AU so uh yeah. Take everything I say with a pinch of salt.

2. The actual answer:

Well... They're actually both alive for this AU 😸 In Captain Minato and Kotone (my preferred names for them) are twins (surname Arisato) and as I said they are both alive and well :] I still haven't really thought of an explanation as to WHY its just the twins surviving the Great Seal is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine in Persona fics so i decided to include it here :]

Persona Protagonists are interesting for me because each of them have their own established personality but I do think there's a bit of room to throw in your own interpretation too! Particularly because of having the multiple dialogue options. At least that's how I personally do things. Because of this, I do find it difficult to nail down exactly how I would incorporate them both into the AU, and subsequently their relationship with Riku (I'll admit this is actually true for a lot of SEES hence why I barely mention it).

However I think I can at least say this - Riku definitely looks up to both of them as really cool figures in his life, he admires their natural leadership skills for one. The three of them have something in common - each of them are really good at masking how they're actually feeling - Minato has his "I don't care attitude", Kotone has this cheerful polite persona (which is also very much a mask) and Riku has his whole bravado look at me thing going on. And the former two are very very good at seeing past the latter's BS LOL.

As for how much Riku actually knows, he does know a fair bit of what happened during the events of P3. Just not the whole death living inside Kotone/Minato + them somewhat dying to seal away Nyx thing. Yeah that's a story he isn't gonna understand for a WHILE (unless you wanna count CATT AU)

[thebramblewood]

Helena and Caleb have been busy burying the hatchet and starring in their new hit sitcom. Currently accepting theme song submissions!

Clue card designed by @surely-sims! I thought it would be a cute detail to add. 🥰

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Caleb: Miss Scarlett with the dagger in the lounge.

Helena: Are you sure you’re not just describing your sister on a bad day?

Caleb: Oh, you mean every day?

Helena: Speak of the devil and she shall appear.

[canned audience laughter]

Helena: Regrettably, Miss Scarlett is out of contention. My turn!

-

Helena: Caleb, look! Poor little thing. Where did you come from?

Caleb: More importantly, how is it still alive? Animals don’t have a tendency to thrive around here, wild or domesticated.

Helena: She’s a girl! We should keep her!

Caleb: Lilith would hate it. She might even…

Helena: Lilith will not touch a hair on her body! [in baby voice] I’m going to name you Drusilla.

Caleb: Hold on. Is that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference?

Helena: Oh, well, I went down this research rabbit hole after… you know. It may have included a Simflix binge. Is it forbidden media now?

Caleb: Of course not! [sheepish but excited] I actually have the full series box set upstairs. Should we…

Helena: HELL YEAH, WE SHOULD!

Helena: Drusilla, come back! Don’t you want to meet your namesake?

Lilith: Disgusting little goblin. What particularly loathsome circle of hell did you claw your way out of?

[canned audience laughter]

[sleepinglionhearts]

@vinosscum introduced me to the first Mistborn book,

[gemjewlerybox]

one of my biggest fav/inspo writers, when using/giving interests "names" its usually like based off of what the story/insert is. Mama for a single mother au and her recent is Raspberry Girl (I need to go back and reread all of her work god I took like a long break from that fandom but I so loved her work)

And thats what I want to do for my two readers, for like to know whose who. And I don't want to use their magical girl names (Pearl and Crystal) because I want to separate the two beings. So you may see me change and play around with names in the blog, but I will tots color code the names so yall know whose who. (I also need to change my theme since crystal is now blue)

Anyways after that announcement more tidbits!

What Sweetheart thinks of Darling: She's really nice! She talks to me about shows and stuff- well it's more of me talking. I tend to talk alot- but she listens! Like actually listens! She asks me questions and put in her own opinions! Though sometimes mean ones ahaha...it's nice...really. I don't really mind if she's doing it for the money, it's just nice to talk to others.

What Darling thinks of Sweetheart: Oh, the kid I tutor? I mean, she's fine. A chatterbox really....I don't really mind though. I like the noise, something to pay attention to rather than my own thoughts. I'm surprised a kid like that can survive in this shit of a city.

What Sweetheart thinks of Crystal: That- That was another magical girl?? I did NOT know, I mean duh there's probably thousands put there. But this is the first time I've ever seen one. Did you see her too?? How she moved, how she took down that robber and Robin when those two started bickering?? Effortless, it was beautiful, I want to be like her. Can I be like her...I can right?? I mean were both magical girls...but I don't know how to do all those tricks and magic?? was it??...I haven't been able to preform magic like that...

What Darling thinks of Pearl: Why am the goddamn app chime me here if there's already a magical girl here?? What am I doing here?? What you except me to train her??I barley know how to tutor kids HOW?? am I supposed to train- no, see? Look at her go, she had the situation perfectly handled between that wannabe supervillain and little child in a cape, there was no reason for me to intervene. I don't understand...why did you bring me back when you have someone new and want to do this.....

What Darling and Sweetheart thought when they found out the truth:

Both tied down in chairs in the manor's dining room, where their secret identify was let out.

Sweetheart: ........

Darling: ....I'm trying so hard not to call you out of your name

Sweetheart: HUH???

Darling: I should have just never used a phone again, I should have just became a hermit, I should have just IGNORED that goddamn chime.

Sweetheart: BUT but we would have never known eachother and became sisters!

Darling: Stop using my words against me.

Sweetheart: You think I wanted this too?? I was literally trying to leave to a far FAR college- oooooh I think that the nail in the coffin was for gestures around this.

[venear-tmblr]

nephrus hair time :D

also side note; Nephrus’s hairstyles vary, but usually he’ll wear it as neat as possible when in public/under his disguise. he’s a creature of habit afterall, and likes tucking his favourite hairpiece into the side of his braid. When he’s not wearing the hairpiece or its early enough in the morning, his hair will be more loose. just some food for thought ;)

[puhpandas]

just watched all the way through john fuhnaffs recent theory and like godd he really is cooking he truly is onto something but like. the idea that Cassies dad did all of thos important stuff and is connected to the mimic and built mxes and did all this shit is like. what do Gregory and vanessa even have to do with anything anymore at this point

[leonardcohenofficial]

carter IMMEDIATELY clocking something between mark and susan when they’re riding the train on mark's line i'm obsessed with him and also i love being right about network television

[clowndensation]

okay finally listened to the new podcast ep and. um. davrin 🥴🥴🥴

[bannedaid]

🩹💎🎲

FOR SOBB!

🩹 - Someone who was a source of trauma

wowee! looks around. well it's been a while since i've yapped/thought about sobb(sorry)... but i'll try to be accurate with what i can remember. i can always just rewrite... who cares... ermmm well, he doesn't really remember this, but his biological parents and their krewe were definitely a major source of trauma and distress within his life. again, he can't(or chooses not to) remember this, but there's definitely hints of his past somewhere int hat tiny brain of his. just. asura in general, probably, college, etc., their way of life was probably traumatizing for a while before he up and left to become a frycook! yay!

💎 - Chosen family (including warband)

his chosen family :D M4-B-T and P4-B-T (ma-bot and pa-bot, whom he simply just calls mom and pa) are his parents! they are, as their names suggest, golems, that were made by his biological parents to take on the duties of caretaking! because they had more important matters to attend to. yadda, yadda, these bots showed sobb more affection and care than his biological parents (or anyone, for that matter) did, and eventually, they became who he considered his actual parents. this solidified especially after his bioligical parents and their krewe.... erm... mysteriously dissapeared!

🎲 - Biological parents

assholes. not much to say other than that! obsessed with their research and with themselves, not even sure why they decided to have sobb. they love eachother in a weird "i will beat this guy because he's just as smart as me" way. like. toxic yaoi i guess. go you. maybe they thought having a child would help their relationship or something i don't know. they're on and off a lot, lots of arguments over research and blah blah blah and "go take care of the baby" "make that thing stop fucking sobbing" wah wah wah! anyways!! they dieddissapeared in sobb's preteen years. probably(definitely) by their own creation/research.... ahem... but that's already a lot of secrets spilled so enough for now i suppose

[stepcousinclawspeaks]

yo @mommyclan people

[pandorias-box]

Oh, you don't even need to ask him.

Just read this!

https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Ren_Amamiya

Phantom Thieves? Stealing hearts?

I was aware of the concept of Personas considering several people within the Faller Gliscor server are indeed wielders of such abilities. I suppose his motives were indeed just, but his methods made him appear to be a criminal when it was in fact the opposite.

Ngh…I should not be involved in his personal affairs but, this is most intriguing.

[pinkeoni]

And now, for no reason in particular, in no way related to anything on my blog at all, here is a long ramble about sexuality in Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: 4

So in Fallout: New Vegas there is the option to control your characters sexuality, something that was fairly revolutionary at the time the game came out in 2011. The perks Black Widow and Lady Killer allow +10% damage along with unique dialogue options for the opposite sex, and Cherchez la Femme and Confirmed Bachelor offer the same bonus but for the same sex. The player has to option to chose one or both of these perks, and they both become available fairly early in gameplay. I usually pick both perks for the added damage bonus, although since Fallout is for an intents and purposes a roleplaying game, I like to imagine that my player character is a lesbian and is only flirting with men in order to get ahead.

Along with the fact that you can make your character gay, bisexual, or what have you, there are also a few gay characters within the game. The companions Arcade Ganon and Veronica are a gay man and lesbian respectively. There are a few other NPCs that have dialogue acknowledging their queerness.

The one thing that I wish that NV did have was the ability to romance companions. Imagine me, with my ancient HP laptop burning my lap, exhausting every one of Veronica's dialogue options trying to see if I can date her but to no avail. You can actually flirt with Ganon if you are a male character with the Confirmed Bachelor perk, although the interaction does not go farther than that. You can have sex with same sex prostitutes, but there's no cutscene. If I pay 300 caps for some hanky panky, then I wanna see it!

So when I found out that you could romance companions in Fallout: 4, I was beyond excited.

In F:4 you can romance most companions regardless of gender, effectively making any of the romancable companion bisexual by default. You can also romance any number of companions at the same time, meaning you could have one big bisexual polyamorous relationship if you wanted to (the companions cannot date each other and are all connected to you, but the choice to have multiple partners is still there.

Bisexual polyamory sounds very progressive, and I don't think that that shouldn't be acknowledged, but even without the romance options, NV feels like the gayer game.

The thing about the romance options in 4 is that it doesn't seem to address identity. All of these characters are bisexual by default, but (as far I have seen from reviews and from my own experience playing) the characters don't ever acknowledge queerness as an identity. If I'm a female player character romancing a female companion, there isn't any dialogue acknowledging the fact that we are both women (in fact from what I've read, the dialogue is the same regardless if you are a man or woman, with only the pronouns being changed). Furthermore, the perks that you can choose that controls the characters sexuality are not there. Black Widow and Lady Killer are still there, although their same-sex counterpart perks are not available.

What I like about the perks in NV is the fact that player identity is not only something that has to be imagined behind the screen, but it becomes a facet within the game that influences the game and is acknowledged. Not only with sexuality, but gender is a factor in the role play as well. There are a few characters who acknowledge through dialogue that my character is a woman.

In 4 you are given a backstory as a spouse in an opposite-sex marriage with a new baby, superimposed into a heterosexual relationship right off the bat. This is opposed to NV where you play as a glorified mail carrier with amnesia that you can project a backstory onto. In 4 the game starts off with your spouse essentially being literally "fridged" (no literally, they die inside of a cryochamber) and your baby is kidnapped which triggers the main plot of the game. I guess this could be subversive if the player character is a woman, but that's only the player chooses to be a woman. Context clues points to the game assuming that the player is a man, what with the male player character voicing the opening narration of the game, along with being the defaulted gender option in the character creation screen. I think that choosing to play as a woman creates a much more compelling narrative, although the game never acknowledges this so it's mostly up to the player to infer this narrative themselves. (Again, gender is only brought up through pronouns) I would say that maybe the game is trying to offer commentary on the nuclear family household, although the problem doesn't rely on the family itself but the war and outsiders are the ones who destroyed it while the family itself was perfectly healthy.

You would think that being a newly widowed spouse would have some impact on the romance aspect of the game, especially if you are engaging with a same sex partner after previously being with a partner of the opposite-sex. Which isn’t to say that people in heterosexual relationships can’t also be interested in the same-sex or that people in marriages can’t be engaged in a healthy open relationship, and I do like that the game includes this option at all, although (and again, this is to my knowledge) this doesn't seem to get a mention when dealing with the romance. The dead spouse only really makes an impact on the main storyline of the game, and similarly, the romance aspect doesn't seem to effect this aspect at all.

F:4 tries to have an established backstory while also trying to give the player the same freedom of role play that its had in previous games, but these two player identities just end up running parallel to each other rather than working together. You can make choices in the game that seems to contradict your backstory without it ever being addressed. This could maybe make for an interesting story, but (and once again, as much as I have played and seen) there doesn't seem to be any internal conflict between the player character's past and what they decide to do for the run of the game.

While all of the romancable companions are effectively bisexual by the nature of the gameplay, bisexuality or queerness in any capacity isn't recognized as an identity and operates more on just a cosmetic level. Not that a character would have to explicitly state that their label in order for it to be valid, but it doesn't add anything to their character in the same way that it does for Ganon and Veronica from NV. These two never say "I am a gay man" or "I am a lesbian" in that exact way but their identities have an impact on their character and how they interact with the player. Veronica in particular had a girlfriend in her past that wasn't approved of by the strictly conservative Brotherhood of Steel that she belongs to.

"So you want homophobia in your video games? This is a post-apocalyptic society, who cares about who dates who!" and to be fair sexuality in Fallout society does seem to be far more lenient in both NV and 4, which makes sense considering the context. There aren't any marriage laws, and there's even a line suggesting that the male soldiers from the fascist Caesar regime are regularly mounting each other.

But still, Veronica experiencing that bit of homophobia from her past helps queer identity feel more realized rather than just an empty gesture from game devs for a few political correctness points, and can even be found as relatable to some of it's queer players. Veronica's story is about her desperately trying to save her conservative community, but comes to realize that the only way for her to live is to leave them behind. She's heartbroken to leave her family, but recognizes that she has to prioritize herself even if they aren't going to. The Brotherhood of Steel isn't a real organization, but that's definitely a real experience. If the Fallout games aim to offer commentary on real-world politics (which it definitely aims to do) then it isn't going to succeed if it's characters don't reflect real-world experiences.

Sorry if this comes off as me railing on F:4, I actually greatly enjoy the game and have probably sunk more hours into it than NV (which is partially due to my PS4 actually being functional and the laptop I have that plays NV has been on its last legs for years now) and I do greatly enjoy the characterization of the companions, even if I wish that their queer identities made more of an impact. NV, on the other hand, is one of my favorite games of all time.

So that's my whole spiel. Doesn't have anything at all to do with anything else on my blog whatsoever. Completely unrelated.

[wormdevourer]

guys do you ever just hate a ship so much but it also happens to be the most loved in the fandom?? you look at these two random characters that would never ever be compatible in a million years and the moment you look them up it’s like the entire fandom is praying for them to get together…

[anotheruntitledsong]

i did like the hidden palace but (SPOILER if anyone hasn't read it?) i'm genuinely so annoyed at how Arbeely is handled like... I wish i could be sad but i'm just fucking irritated. I was overly invested in him and that's def why but i just feel like they did him dirty

[yamikawaii]

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MINE AND ONLY MINE

Sincerely, 🤍🤍 Yoomtah 🤍🤍

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[daisyachain]

oh and also the Tsukasa/Amane costume dichotomy rrrrrocks. I don’t necessarily want to see it explored in detail as I’m not sure I trust this kind of story to handle that subtext well. Even so it sure is Something to have Tsukasa represent the pre-war and even pre-Perry style while Amane has the a style that is still classic iconography, but that just seems more modern/assimilated compared to Tsukasa’s…traditionalism?

Does it represent Tsukasa being stuck in the past while Amane has moved forward? Or Tsukasa never having grown up past their shared childhood? Is Amane’s uniform meant to come off as slick? It’s introduced as a starkly old-fashioned choice right up until Tsukasa’s hakama shove us another 50 years back in costuming time. Or, is it simply a matter of the supernatural being ancient? Yako wears traditional getup as part of her shrine guardian thing, but no, Tsuchigomori and the Clock Keepers have costumes from different eras again.

The twins were born and died in a period of fast techno/cultural transition that capped off a (longer-term) period of fast techno/cultural transition. One is the face of ye olde, one is…not the face of the new, not the face of the modern, but a recognizable face. Amane is retro rather than renfaire. But then, they both share the same hat.