#Angel cotc

[one-silly-cart00nist]

someone should write a fic of Angel and the Secret Keeper bonding over gossip

[taylorbear-png]

I've rlly been getting into Craig of the Creek lately, and these fanarts make me rlly happy,, <3

 All of my Prompt art for Creek Week 🌈🌳💕✨

[raccoon-of-the-creek]

prid emonth….

[cotchottakes]

Craigson is cool but I like Jason/Angel more ngl

I wonder why they never followed up on the whole implied Angel liking Jason thing. Guess we'll wait and see, tbh I never really liked it but oh well.

[tmasc-confessions]

whenever i get sad about there hardly being any trans men in animation i say "well i mean the trans community in general is extremely underrepresented" and then i remember lest (arcane) and gwen stacy (spiderverse) and brooklyn (moon girl) and kai (win or lose) and phoenix (mh) and sallie may (helluva boss), or frankie (mh) and raine (toh) and masha (also toh) and angel (cotc) and a shit ton of gems (su) and tai (moon girl)…

and then i wanna cry because the only trans guy in any show even as remotely popular as any of those is barney from de:pp and that show only got ten fucking episodes.

they hate us they really do.

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[bonefall]

oo snowkit becomes snowcarve?

He does!

In StarClan, you can use the names and appearance that you could have had, if you died young. It's very rare that you get permakits or permapprentices. I lifted from the COTC story about Smallstar and his siblings.

(Though, in BB those kits actually survive and it's MAPLESHADE’S kits who lead to the law on protecting children, Darkstar's Commandment, the Queen’s Rights. Smallstar is the leader of WindClan and xey're super chill. Xey own a lovely shawl.)

So Snowkit chooses to appear as Snowcarve, an Honor Title he would have earned for the creation of a full written Clan cat language, expanded from the simple glyphs. I'm not sure if he's a popular patron, but I do know that Bramble and Tawny invoke him sometimes.

Unfortunately though he's more invoked for general guidance by the two of them, not for possibilities like I think he'd like. He watches over them though, like a guardian angel. A lot of cats secretly have those.

I'm not sure who he follows around more often though. I think he LIKES following Tawny more because she's a better listener to his omens. But he feels like Bramble NEEDS him more, y'know?

Also notably, Snowcarve was technically their uncle, but the relationship is best described as "1st cousin." Rabnir in Clanmew, a familial role about somewhat distant but parallel growth, seen also with Brightpaw and Swiftpaw.

[sanriopupwife]

man I might be a different genre of person than the other people on Pinterest but if we could pick our voice it wouldn't be cookie run it'd be like

Angel from Craig of the Creek

fucking love that character. first enby rep we got, kinda looks like us, reminds us of ourselves..and they were around our age when they appeared on the show

I love that character. I should rewatch COTC

[greaterbalrogcat]

UNIT REVIEW: CATMAN

(catman, like most dark heroes, has similar stats across forms with different targets and is usable in all forms, so all forms are displayed)

catman. he who xskull unironically believed to be above vigler saki and klay. bahamut but with a trait target. guy hits hard what can i say

first two forms will be lumped together given that they have the same stats except for where they differentiate in trait targeting

catman, in all forms, has 440 range, 12 speed, roughly 2.5 minute cooldown, 5520 cost, five knockbacks, 2.3 seconds of foreswing, 9.3 seconds between attacks, and massive damage vs alien. where his forms differentiate is in their second target, and while first and second form share health and damage stat, third form can use stat talents to increase both (third form is also immune to curse and gains several abilities through talents such as dodge, freeze immune, and warp immune).

at level 30, catman and dark catman have 4569.89 generalist dps and 42500 generalist dph (damage per hit). their dps and dph are quadrupled to 18279.56 and 170000 (respectively) when against their target traits with all cotc fruit treasures. at 440 range, you can see why this is a pretty solid uber. when fully boosted to level 60, these numbers increase to 8602.15 (34408.6 vs targets) dps and 80000 (320000 vs targets) dph. while his foreswing is slightly long, at 2.33 seconds, it's not that much of a problem and he will still usually hit his intended target.

catman's nuking capabilities can be compared to those of bahamut cat. they have similar generalist dps at the same level (catman has a couple hundred more); however, bahamut attacks slower and does more damage, as opposed to catman's faster but weaker attack cycle (comparatively. they're both nukers at the end of the day). this can help get peons and weaker enemies off of him, but can help reposition high knockback threats more than bahamut, and if both can only get one attack off, catman will do much less damage. catman's trait targeting settles this argument, however, giving him roughly twice as much damage vs his target traits per hit as bahamut. first/second form (same unit with different appearance) bahamut is famously replaceable by better generalists after early game, however, and this should be taken with a grain of salt.

catman's survivability is also great, with five knockbacks and a very solid 67150 health at level 30 (126400 at level 60). this gives him a chunky 13k (25k at 60) endurance while still allowing for him to reposition four times before finally going down. this is pretty good for a nuker.

compatibility with his target traits is pretty solid. effectively all alien frontliners will get crushed by that 170k damage per hit and his high range can prevent backliners from hitting him. floating is a trait that's particularly susceptible to being nuked, with floating enemies typically having high knockback count with low range (bun bun and his variants, brollow, pigeon, gobble, some face variants, a couple cyclones, corrupted valkyrie, raging bahamut) or low knockback count with low range (other face variants, owlbrow, mooth and its variants, most cyclones), all of which can be easily nuked and destroyed by catman's first form. while dark catman is less compatible with angel than catman is with floating, he still works well against quite a few major threats (angelic gory, slepinir, winged pigge if you meatshield enough, boraphim, rajakong, st dober) and can carry your way through many angel stages.

catman's only real flaws are few and far between, but the obvious ones are getting potentially outclassed as a generalist and specialist and lack of immunities. the 4.5k dps gets cleared by units like awakened ururun. aliens can be dealt with uberless due to units like catellite, seafarer, psychocat, and chill cat, and there are better uber rare options such as aphrodite, saki, most pixies, klay, shingen, and quite a few generalists that happen to target alien or do well without targeting it, such as amaterasu, rekon, sirius, and most fest exclusives. floatings are VERY powercrept. units like fishman, sanzo, octo, camera, and necro negate the need for a costly uber to destroy floating, especially if you're only really bringing catman for one or two enemies. you have ramen for angels. if that's not enough, you have sanzo, juliet, talented fiend, talented duelist, miasma, and time traveler. while none of these negate catman's usefulness vs said traits, it does lessen a perceived need for him. catman also lacks any immunities before true form, making him weak to CC such as mr mole, henry, croakley, winged pigge, any relic, several warp enemies, any wave/surge enemy, and anything else with CC that's very detrimental to catman. while, again, this isn't as bad as it may seem, it does make him useful in less situations than he would be with just one or two immunities.

ultimate catman, the true form, is an anti-alien and anti-relic nuker. before talents, it's the same as previous forms but with relic target as opposed to floating or angel, but it has curse immune, which is standard for an anti-relic specialist.

before talents, at level 30, it has 13709.67 dps (25806.45 at 60) and 127500 dph (240000 at 60) vs relics. with talents, it has 16451.61 dps (30967.74 at 60)/153000 dph (288000 at 60) vs relics, and 21935.48 dps (41290.32 at 60)/204000 dph (384000 at 60) vs alien.

health talents give it 80580 (151680 at 60) health, giving it more survivability which is rather unnecessary, freeze and warp immune are decent CC immunities that help it in henry stages and vs warp enemies such as star peng, wanwan, and mesocosmocyclone but neither is that important, and dodge is largely irrelevant due to low chance and low dodge time.

relic nuking is a very solid niche. relic powercreep is much lower than the likes of alien, floating, and angel, and despite units such as future and slapsticks working well and UL legend true forms being arguably better than catman's true form, catman will serve you well through pretty much all of UL, murdering threats such as m ost, oldhorn, relic bun-bun, othom, and puffington (440 range means it's outranged by lowkey sadly). very powerful true form, although it does kinda fall off as soon as you get luza.

tl;dr: catman is a strong nuker that will last through SoL and can be true formed to work in UL, although it will fall off somewhat in late/endgame. very good unit.

[n7punk]

2023 Writing Wrapped!

I think I forgot to do this last year but I was a little burnt out at the time. I had so much fun writing this year I wanted to do a little retrospective/celebration for it (which I encourage everyone to do! Even if you wrote just one fic, take a second to congratulation yourself for accomplishing it).

I wrote 34 fics and updated 118 times this year. Almost half of those were for the Children of the Crystal series (16 fics) but that series was so fun and clocks in at 121k so I'm totally okay with that. If anything, that's a bit of equalizing, because I know my fics are a lot longer on average than most people's since I write a lot of longer AUs (quick math off the top of my head is about half my fics are longer AUs) so now my words-per-fic average is probably a bit closer to usual lol. Actually that got me curious and my average is 20,176 which is honestly lower than I was expecting but still almost certainly higher than average since I've seen a lot of profiles without a single fic that long. Okay I'm a nerd and I did the math and it was only 21,041 before this year which is way more surprising since I really would have thought it was more.

Anyway, I posted 610k words this year between all my fics (though I wrote more in WIPs and upcoming projects). I had so much fun with a lot of the fics I did this year. Children of the Crystal is still a stand out for me, but I'm SO proud of 'the long way down' and I spent the first half of the year pretty feral for each idea as I tore through Hurricane Adora, As Many Lives As It Takes (To Be With You), Superzero, City of Angels, Trade Today For Tomorrow, and CotC of course. February through August I averaged 12 updates a month which is. insane. I updated daily for 12 days in a row in July/August for CotC, and I spent most of that fic series updating every other day.

A lot of that creative energy came from the health stuff that has been bogging me down for a few years (and especially last year) improving, and though I'm still dealing with that, I'm doing a lot better and it has really felt like rediscovering my creative passion. I had a span from like March-ish trhough August I called my "unhinged era" between how feral I was for my ideas, how much I was updating, and just how wild some of those ideas were lol. My slow down at the end of the year came from starting a new job that was very demanding and especially exhausting with my health issues, plus health issues for the rest of my family, but I've still been averaging updating once or twice a week since, so I'm happy with that given everything that has been going on.

Now let's get to the two big ones.

Writing streaks: Definitely not for everyone, but for me they're really motivating and 100% the reason I was able to keep up momentum these last three months with work. I wrote every single day this year. I still can't believe that. Sure, some days it was literally 50 words at the end of the day when I was exhausted, but I also had my highest single-word count day since I started recording them this year at 12,738 on July 18th when I was writing CotC. My previous record was 94 days in a row. 364 is a huge leap. I don't know where I'm going to go with my streak from here. On one hand, it was hugely motivating. On the other, you always want to be careful to prevent burnout. For now, allowing myself to count days where I barely do anything as long as I engage with my WIP seems like a good middle ground since it keeps me motivated and connected to what I'm writing while letting me mostly take time off. I'm exploring more creative hobbies like painting in my free time, though, and as long as I've created that day I don't necessarily feel the need to write, so we'll see if I reconsider my writing streak as a "creating" streak in the future, but for now I'm just going to see how long I can go.

And the final one... my stupid goal.

I can't remember if it was at the end of last year or the start of this one when an anon pointed out how much I had written and I realized I was something like .99% of all Catradora fics on AO3, but my ridiculous goal for this year was to get my fics to 1% of the entire Catradora tag. This goal... I half reached. It takes a bit of explaining.

First, when I first set that goal, I think needed to write twenty-something more fics to reach it. Obviously, I well exceeded that goal at 34 fics, but as I was writing, so was everyone else, so the number of fics I needed to write to reach 1% increased. In the sense of my original benchmark, I definitely passed my goal.

Second, as I write this, AO3 shows there are 11,632 Catradora fics. You can consider 1% of this to be either 116 or 117 depending on rounding. I have 117 She-ra fics, but one of those is a Glimbow fic with no mention of Catradora, so that takes me to 116. However, one of those 116 is tagged as Adora & Catra because it's the CotC fic from when they're small children and meeting for the first time. I consider it a Catradora fic, but it's not actually in the tag and thus doesn't contribute to it. As such, I've fallen short at 115/117, but I really do consider this goal complete for this year given that I passed the initial milestone, the rounding makes the final number debatably 116, and I do actually have 116 "Catradora-centric" fics. That said, I'm very aware those are technicalities and I have a special celebration planned for when I actually, officially become 1% of the tag, so look out for that :) It'll be a great way to celebrate the new year. I'm hoping/planning to do it in the next week or two.

The future: I'm ending this year and starting the next trying to clean up a bunch of WIPs since my fic folder is getting a little ridiculous with the (mostly Outside of the War) one-shots I've written one scene or just a description for, which feels like a really fitting way to end off the year, accomplishing my goals and making everything neat and tidy. I have like 7~ to work though, though my actual goal is maybe 4-5 since I don't want to "force" myself to work on an idea if I'm not feeling it at the second, but I also have a longer AU calling my name, and I don't want to ignore an idea interesting me either... so we'll see, but I'm excited for everything I'm working on right now, and that feels really good. I finished last year in kind of a rough place writing/creativity wise, and I'm finishing this year really excited for everything I did and everything upcoming, so that feels pretty great :)

Thank you to everyone who read and commented this year! I know I ran out of energy to keep up with comments a lot, but they really made me smile so much and I appreciate them so much. Some days they were the difference between the motivation to write 1000 words versus 50. Thanks for another great year!

[larnax]

doing a boss redesign to give them a dohter motif and good fucking god i forgot how BORING dohter's avatar's design is in cotc

GOD OF MEDICINE and "angel" is the best you could fucking come up with? this is PATHETIC. where is the water and ice? where are the growing plants? where are the tools of medicine? why the fuck is the god of MEDICINE this ethereal spiritual angel when the entire point of having a god of medicine and a god of cleric-healing SHOULD be that the medicine is the one that understands that a human is a creature that is made of meat. EMBARASSING!!!!

[yuga2000]

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• Age Regressor! Yuga Aoyama • Little Me • Age Regressor! Webber (DST) • Age Regressor! Katsuki Bakugou w/ Black and Orange • Age Regressor! Kirishima • Age Regressor! Mirko w/ Bunnies

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• CG! Angel (COTC) • CG! Best Jeanist • CG! Roderich Edelstein • CG! Tokoymi Fumikage • CG! Taishiro Toyomitsu • Angel Caregiver

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• Twilight Sparkle • Fluttershy + Nature • Rarity • Rainbow Dash • Pinkie Pie • Applejack + Western • Roderich Edelstein • Roderich Edelstein II • Best Jeanist + Sewing • Tokoyami Fumikage • Craig Williams (COTC) • Ochaco Uraraka • Sparkle Cadet (COTC) • Cupid (Fairly Odd Parents) • Bratz Kidz: Sleep-Over Adventure • Scary Godmother • Miruko w/ Purple • Mirko

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• Hot pink • Baby Blue • Baby Blue II • Red Glitter • Purple • Pastel Pink + Hearts

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• Favorite Animal • Favorite Stuffie • Favorite Kids Book • A Perfect Agere Day • Favorite Show to Watch • Character You Headcanon as a Regressor  • Your Favorite Color • Your Ideal Playroom 

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• Lovecore • Shark Toys • 1931 Dracula (Bela Lugosi) • Vampire • Water Toys • Purple Witch • Angelcore • Leftover Stims • Ambiamory • Purple Stimboard II

[one-silly-cart00nist]

Creek Week Day 4: Favourite Friendship

Listen I KNOW they haven't had a meaningful interaction in canon but they're the official gossip girls of the creek. Angel probably knows many secrets about the creek kids from their younger siblings!

[obscurlett]

omg thanks for sharing all these!! what a treat hope you don't mind me replying to each one, apologies it's also kinda long:

diegetic silent protag: oh yes.. i imagine oersted is not as expressive as strei. nor is he as competitive. (maybe this aspect is upsetting for strei? makes him question if oersted takes him seriously?) fun to explore and expand on. to me, one's kinda like one is an unstoppable force and the other an immovable object, except one of them will push each other to change at some point. heck yeah making the music speak on his behalf was ingenious. ^_T oughh

IQ 2: RIGHT THIS WAS A THING. DFGKJDH… physically strong but is pushover on the inside kinda person.

sense of self: definitely--regarding other people's opinions preceding his own, and him letting others decide what he should do. it's kinda the opposite of other chapters, where they are finding their own paths and ideas, i feel.

strei as opposite: they are and yet.. still kinda similar because they seek external validation for what they do. strei feels like he has high expectations for himself and everyone and gets frustrated when they aren't met. meanwhile oersted doesn't think about people as deeply as the other does, as long as they like him, that sort of thing. <- people-pleaser spotted

needs to be around other people: right? he thinks he needs to be accepted and liked. that dimension is like self-inflicted alienation and punishment.

taking strei's words to heart: you're both so right. besides the brion, the ultimate weapons are also just out there, not destroyed or anything, yeah… ^_TT deep down he knows

hair care routine: he would do that LOL. in general, strei seems to have more care for his appearance, doesn't he? (my unserious headcanon for oersted is that he would be more concerned about the quality of his swords than his looks.)

odio's wings: the image of a fallen angel... it's so cool. it was a while ago but i remember other people's posts about how grapes are associated with royalty and vanity. definitely interesting if the designers had this in mind. also the holy dungeon art was the first to add strei's cape on him, if i'm not wrong. makes you wonder, why did he pick it up? why is he holding onto the cape (for years, i'd assume)? the sentimental value?

YES. i love the idea of him seeking out other Haters across time and space to prove that he is right. he can't be wrong, after all. surely he is not alone!

shakes your hand as a fellow enjoyer of "odio = oersted"!! i also believe that some supernatural influence was on the guys, but their feelings remained their own; the power got hold what was already there and put it in an exponential function. something like that

on broken wings is. beautiful. so i like to compare with the DQ3 overworld theme if you've ever heard it. it's got the similar premise of traveling to the villain's lair. very triumphant. in contrast, on broken wings is solemn... the part near the end sounds kinda hopeful, then it loops back to sad. it sets the tone for the chapter so well... i could probably write paragraphs about the ost akjdgafh

cotc: (it's been a while but i remember liking part 1, yeah not a big fan of part 2 LOL) absolutely would read your take on this story omg.. if anything, i'm glad this collab gave us more character interactions and backstory.

but yeah i'm mostly reiterating what you wrote. really enjoyed reading and writing back. thanks again!

happy bday! (in reply to your post) if you'd like to share some of your favorite LAL headcanons or other stuff, i would love to hear 🙂‍↕️ hope you enjoy your day!!

aaaaaa you don’t know how happy seeing this made me….i accidentally wrote kind of a Lot?? mostly about The Guy cause it’s MY birthday and I get to choose the favorite character.

-I absolutely believe that oersted being a silent protagonist is diegetic, and he really just Does Not Talk. I also usually see him as being generally pretty inexpressive, if only because of how many of his pre-odio sprites are just like :|. Strei’s known him since they were kids (that’s actually confirmed by the cotc crossover! the one part of that story I will accept as canon) so I think he’s probably pretty good at reading him, but most people think he’s a bit strange. He’s good enough at Sword that people are willing to put up with the quirks of his personality, but it maybe ends up contributing to how quickly the townspeople turn on him :( and maybe part of what lead to his becoming odio was anger at never really fitting in or belonging in human society.

(Side note but I really love how much of the middle ages chapter is dedicated to showing oersted’s emotions even without him speaking…stuff like flashbacks and even in some cases the background music are used to show that he IS deeply effected by the events of the chapter, even if it isn’t explicitly stated. It’s really subtle and clever storytelling I absolutely adore it)

-I’ve seen oersted’s starting IQ stat of 2 and think it’s fairly accurate. I don’t think he’s Stupid exactly but i think he’s just. Really comfortable letting other people make decisions for him and not thinking for himself. This obviously does not end well for him!!

-I think his sense of self is mostly derived from what other people want from him. When people say he’s a hero, he acts exactly like a hero should, even when the rest of the party is hinting that it might not be the best course of action. When people say he’s a monster, it immediately breaks him to the point that he turns himself in to be executed, before proceeding to become exactly what they believe him to be. He never puts up any resistance when people decide who and what he is - until the sin of odio fight where remembering his own inherent identity is literally what lets him break free. I love themes and I love narratives

-I also see strei as the opposite, someone who knows exactly who he is and has a very high opinion of himself. When he’s overlooked, instead of accepting people’s assessment of him like oersted would he strongly believes that he deserves Better. The way he goes about this is Not Good but it’s still a really good foil to oersted’s whole deal

-I think oersted is someone who, despite being pretty awful in social situations, still really, REALLY needs to be around other people. This is partly because of the “needs other people to tell him who to be, doesn’t have any inherent sense of self-worth” thing, but also I got the impression that he and strei usually worked as a team and that as a result he’s kind of used to relying on someone or just having them around. So basically the dominion of hate is Torture for him specifically. I think a lot about the sundown ending where he talks about how even though a lot of the people he used to know hated or betrayed him he Still misses them and wants them back like. Man.

-this is kind of taken from an old post from @nihiltism but I think a lot of why odio is the way he is is because he took a lot of what Streibough said when they fought to heart. A lot of his monologuing about “heroes” being self-centered and uncaring is almost directly taken from what strei said about him…and it just, doesn’t really apply to most of the protagonists. I think there’s a Ton of projection happening and odio almost treats the protagonists as a stand-in for his own former self, the one person he can never actually punish or prove wrong because that’s Him. And there’s also the fact that he brought the heroes to his domain and left brion in an easily accessible place so that they could potentially defeat and kill him…which may have been what he wanted, deep down…augh

-I think probably strei spends like upward of an hour on his Ye Old Skin and Hair Care Routine while oersted just rolls out of bed and puts on his armor. this isn’t a deep character analysis I just think it’s something that probably happened

-it’s probably obvious but I’m a HUGE fan of odio with wings…it hits this nice balance of “cool looking design” and “legitimately compelling visual metaphor” for me. The wings have connotations of freedom (flight) and divinity (angels.) he’s grown beyond his limits as a human, but it hasn’t made him any happier and he’s in many ways still bound by the same things as before, hence his leitmotif being named “on broken wings.” It’s also a way of making him obviously and physically no longer human which is!! ouch!!!

I also like the grapes from the holy dungeon art I’m just. not very good at drawing grapes. they also raise questions like “can he photosynthesize” and “could spritzing him with water and putting him on a sunny windowsill fix him” that I don’t think I’m prepared to answer.

-I generally picture the whole odio incarnation situation as like. odio has the power to project himself across time and space but he doesn’t really get to bring his Body with him. so he needs to find an equally hateful guy to kinda/sorta possess in order to actually influence anything. and I kinda picture it like, he Can take full control of them, like in the odio route boss rush, but it’s typically more just like. guy in your head telling you to become Worse and More Evil. Might be the quasi-godlike manifestation of hate, who knows. it’s not a huge deal cause all the manifestations share a common goal of Killing and Wanton Violence, so they’re pretty willing to play along. I actually have a half-baked fic idea that’s like. Odio tried to make unryu, the bird guy from the near future chapter, one of his incarnations but he wasn’t quite hateful or driven enough. but this led unryu to 1) start a bird-centric (cause odio is already kind of bird-coded and he just sorta took that and ran with it) religion around “odeo,” and 2) make the whole “perfect vessel for a hate god consisting of thousands of murdered souls” thing. And I like the idea of the liquified souls like, recognizing odio as something like them, something that lost its body and personhood, and almost like. inviting him to join them? and he obviously Can’t, he still has to carry out his righteous revenge against the human race, but at the same time he really, desperately wants to, since he’s been around for so long at this point and just really wants to Rest and not be Alone any more…I don’t know if I’d ever have the time to actually write this but like. I like the concept lol

-oh and I think it probably goes without saying but I think odio is Literally just oersted. like I think there’s some power inherent in the title of demon king that he was able to claim, but it like. doesn’t have a mind of its own, that’s just oersted. this fits with the detail that the sin of odio boss will Never take a turn after oersted breaks free from it—he’s literally its entire will. I also think that like, while there’s maybe SOME truth to the demon king’s power influencing streibough into betraying oersted, it’s probably minimal. In general, I think the story’s more interesting when the characters have as much agency over their decisions as possible, without outside supernatural influence.

-on broken wings/wings that don’t reach is my favorite song on the soundtrack and by a Lot…something about how it uses slightly dissonant chords and how it doubles as both an overworld theme and character leitmotif (and a credits song for the bad ending…songs to Die to) hits different for me.

-finally um. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the cotc crossover? It’s Not Great lol but I’m a bit obsessed with it just cause I thought it was doing something really interesting before the second half dropped and it Didn’t Do That. It’s kind of an alternate universe situation where oersted, streibough, and alethea get quickly isekai’d before strei and oersted can finish their duel at the beginning of the middle ages chapter. And they just kinda hang out and actually Talk to each other, except also streibough accidentally made a deal with odio that leads to him being possessed. and my immediate thought was “oh, this odio is Our odio from the original game, doing some interdimensional time travel shit (something he is pretty much already established to be capable of) to fuck with not only streibough but his own past self.” and I thought it was super compelling!! like, you get a scenario where oersted and alethea get to actually Talk to each other and build a legitimately supportive relationship in a setting where they’re not being forced into a romance that neither of them is really prepared for or wants! you get streibough getting confronted with how bitter and hateful his relationship with oersted has become, but at a point where he hasn’t actually decided to Act on that bitterness and has even started to mend that relationship through communication…and then he would have plenty time in Possession Hell to confront that and grow as a person…. and then you have odio literally trying to kill his own alternate universe self in an act of interdimensional self harm which just. feels like the type of shit he’d do? but also in a really twisted way reuniting with the middle ages cast, who he hates but also misses terribly….its all really convoluted but also scratches the part of my brain that’s addicted to “weird multiverse time travel shit” and “exploring characterization by pitting them against alternate versions of themselves” and idk. I do kind of want to write something for it someday.

Anyway uh. I hope even a Bit of that is comprehensible haha. regardless it was definitely like, psychologically healing to get some of my thoughts out so thank you I owe you my life <3

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