#CS Sol

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I wanna get to their first comic appearance so badly orz

[drewsabsol]

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it's been a while since i've posted, sorry about that :,D i've kind of been in an art burn out lately. i wasn't actually planning on drawing this, but since i was working on a contestshipping edit and was just crying and whining to my friend about how much i loved them, they encouraged me to draw them for my own sanity. and i did. i'm glad they encouraged me, because, frankly, i wouldn't have opened up my ipad to draw if it wasn't for her. anyhow, this thing is kind of based on a song, everything by the black skirts. (listen to it, PLEASE!!) kind of. basically, around 2022 i got back into contestshipping. more crazy than ever. n i drew one of my characters in a sunset while listening to this song on repeat. n since i was drawing them i thought ''hey, why not make them in a sunset?'' as i was listening to the song again after a really long time. n i think it turned out very cute!!

.. man i love them so much nobody understands please someone talk about contestshipping with me PLEASE ⠀⠀　⠀ ⠀⠀　⠀rq⠀⠀╱⠀⠀… requests for any drawings / writing / editing are still open! you can simply request by private messaging me, giving an ask or simply just by commenting!! based on how i’m doing i could give it a try :3 (due to my increasing fatigue these will be delayed!) rb > like

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[reinafish]

Guys this AU I literally just created has already infested my brain. I must yap my extremely vague ideas of it.

It’s a horror AU so uh… warning for that kind of stuff? Also another warning for this being the goofiest AU ever (and its still a WIP so a bunch of things could change and I still actually do need to add more- so don’t take any of this as if it’s gonna stay in the AU forever)

Ok so when I normally think about this AU, I think of RPG/Visual Novel-styled games? Or like Undertale? Yk what I mean. I’m taking some inspo off of Mad Father, Mario The Music Box, etc too. So if you see me describing anything like it’s a video game (saying “you as [character]”, etc.) that’s why😭 this most likely won’t be made into an actual game sadly </3

I barely have a plot for it rn, I just know they get teleported to some other dimension thing? and there’s a mansion (obvi) they have to escape ?? But I do know what happens to some characters (Like Amy :D)! I’m thinking of maybe some unexpected ones could team up (because, if you didn’t know, I have a this weird obsession with rare character dynamics and relationships) like Tails and Blaze? Because you barely see them together.

I don’t know all the characters that are gonna be in the AU yet, but I’m thinking of Sonic (WHICH ISN’T DEAD OR EVIL FOR ONCE IN A HORROR AU! LET’S GOOOO!!! He suffers with his friends instead of making them suffer himself), Tails Doll, Amy, Knuckles, Blaze, Silver, Shadow, Rouge, maybe even Cream?

I only have some characters sort of planned, so I’ll be talking abt those.

Sonic:

Señor Trauma

He cries has a panic attack and a breakdown (all in separate moments) for the first time in a while lmao

Amy:

Here’s Amy!! We all know and prolly love her!<3 They all have different designs in this btw, so-

Anyways, I know at some point she’s left alone, possibly abandoned (that’s what she assumes anyway) in the garden after choices you make as another character(probably Sonic) (jk cs this isn’t a video game but i did explain this at the start), and since I hc her with AMAZING abandonment issues…❤️

Of course there’s monsters and entities in this, so one of them possibly takes control of Amy? Or tries to, until YOU, AS SILVER, GO TO THE GARDEN AND FIND HER!! There, you’re left with a choice (a bunch of stuff happen prior to this btw, this isn’t at the start of the story):

(Also yes that’s a timer, every second the more red and shaky the screen gets lol. Why?? BC ITS COOL AND STRESSFUL) AND YES. THIS MONSTER/ENTITY/THING IS FLOWER THEMED. AMY ROSE-

Ok uh, if Silver does save her (he has to fight obvi, it isnt that easy), he takes her and they escape to another part of the area? Map? Wtv I call it. And when they can finally take a little break for once, they talk (kind of- Amy’s been quiet (traumatized gal)):

So, uh, yeah. Heavy traumatized now so (also a lot more clingy). ANYWAYS, SILVER AND AMY ARE A DUO IN THIS NOW!!<3

I don’t have much else for her now, so let’s go to Silver ??

Silver:

My proudest drawing of this so far💖

I guess he got transported with the others to this dimension. Yeah- he hurts his foot somehow, not sure how yet. Definitely from an entity tho.

First thing he does it try to find if anyone else is here. So… he does just that. He enters the weird giant ahh mansion infront of him and calls out for anyone. He explores a ton, finding important objects, a weird doll that looks oddly familiar which he decides to just ignore and leave there, and also hurts his foot as yk- He does reunite with Blaze for a moment, though they’re immediately separated by obvi another monster.

He gets thrown back outside the mansion, into the garden. In that garden? Well yk what he finds😭

Blaze:

Fun fact: it was this doodle that started this whole thing !!

Also dont have much for Blaze, but she’s the first I doodled so I’ll be trying to make stuff up abt her in this (maybe on the spot even)

She’s confused why she can’t teleport back to Sol or anywhere else. Or why she can’t escape this mansion-place-thing. Actually they’re all confused abt that but wtv- Using her pyrokinesis, she can light torches and other things so she can see in darker areas. She can also just light her hand up too, but this takes energy from her ^_^

At some point, she reunites with Silver!! Then they’re separated by another monster. He was thrown into the garden, while she was thrown into a dark room.

In that room, she finds a doll. It looks a lot like Tails for some reason…?

She’s weirded out and judging it (I would too)

If she grabs it, she notices how real it feels? Like it actually feels like Tails… which is creepy. SUDDENLY IT TRIES ATTACKING HER (LOL?) BUT—

—before she has time to process anything, Tails pushes her out of the way (she notices his ear is missing) and points his arm cannon to…

….whatever that is.

Am I being cringy? Yes. Do i care? …honestly kinda, yeah- but I’m not gonna let myself do anything abt it

I don’t have much else with her. They fight it and become a silly duo and uhhh yeah-

Cream:

No art yet, but she’s definitely appearing now. Uhh I know she find the doll (btw I’m refusing to call it “Tails Doll” bc THEY’RE NOT THE SAME! I PROLLY SHOULDN’T HAVE CHOSEN TAILS THEN BUT IDC..) at some point and it tricks her into thinking it’s good. So like she drags it around while she explores, trying to find Amy or anyone.

Uh

This is a horror AU someone has to die right—

Idk if I’m killing her off or not but I might??

If she doesn’t die then atleast she’ll be dead inside /silly

Tails:

Also no art yet (other than the one with Blaze I already showed), but basically he was with Sonic when they entered. Bunch of stuff in between happen, they get stuck in a room, Sonic watches the monster-thing literally rip Tails’s ear off and make a fking doll out of it bc it was feeling a lil quirky (well they do get quirky at night /ref), Sonic then believes Tails is dead, meanwhile Tails literally tried escaping and ended up all the way on the other end of this giant goofy mansion—

Uh I don’t have anything else oop.

I HIT THE IMAGE LIMIT FUKKCCKCKKK uhhh there wasn’t much else to add tho sooo? Yeah?? Hope u like it bye. Reminder this is still a WIP and stuff will most likely change— ^_^ (I AM EXTREMELY EMBARASSED ABT THIS IF YOU COULDNT TELL.)

I’ll just add the rest of the images in an rb

[torchickentacos]

PLEASE elaborate on solidad thoughts :o

ABSOLUTELY! 1 AM rambling ahead, coherence may vary.

Solidad is ICONIC. She is the MOMENT. She is AMAZING. She was only in three episodes (save for silent cameos), and yet her impact on the (CS but also general) fandom far outweighs the brevity of her canon appearance. We saw Solidad less than we saw Angie, Lyra, Robert, Morrison, and I think Tyson's Meowth, yet I'm pretty confident in saying that she had a stronger fandom impact than all of them. (Brianna's in that club of 'impact outweighs her appearance', too- for a character of the day, Brianna really cemented herself as a staple CS fanfic problem-causer. She had twenty minutes, a goddamn problem, and a dream, and I support her tbh.)

But back to Sol, I really enjoy that she had such a wide impact with such a small appearance. Not only in the fandom as a recurring character in many people's creative projects, but in canon itself! WIthout her, Drew would have read as a different character in those final episodes. She provides a softer context to him that we rarely get to see.

She exists solely to further Drew's development as a character, but she does a good job of it. I have specific feelings about that, I wish she'd been given more time to be a character in her own right, but she's instrumental to the character arcs that we see in AG, even though she only pushed it forward at the end. I feel the same about Drew, though- he only exists around May. You cannot talk about Solidad without talking about Drew, and you cannot talk about Drew without talking about May. I wish we had more of those characters on their own, but anyways.

She's a view into Drew that we'd been severely lacking up to that point. She's insightful in her dialogue to May, but also in her discussions on screen with Drew. It's just nice seeing Drew interact with people who are not May, which he never does. We get to see more of his personality come out around Sol, parts we don't usually see because he's too busy tunnel-visioning. (Note to self, I need to clip every time Drew talks to May and every time he talks to someone else and compare the runtimes because I bet it's going to be, like, a twenty minute difference, but anyways).

Solidad comes across as a former mentor of sorts, and it's nice seeing Drew interact with someone with that sense of respect (which he usually lacks). I think for May, it's also really fun to see her talk to Solidad- because Solidad respects May. It's just a really fun dynamic that adds balance to May and Drew. Drew's shown as stronger than May up to this point, but Sol is much stronger than him and yet respects May, and it's just a fun way to sort of even the playing field, if that makes sense? Solidad bridges a gap there; her career respect of May paired with her career superiority over Drew just really hammers in how far May has come by the Kanto Grand Festival, if her main rival's stronger rival sees her in such a positive light. I hope that made at least 5% sense.

I think also, going into more shitposty territory, I love Solidad's personality. She comes across as this mature, well-spoken, composed, respectful older sister type, but you look closer and she's actually such a shit-stirrer 😭 She point-blank told May that Drew has, and I quote, "Feelings for you" (shoutout to my queue tag, feelings for queue), and she's friends with Harley so her ethical code must be at least flexible, and she is, IMO, the reason that The Absol Scene goes as poorly as it does (Drew obviously went to the woods to train and be alone for a reason, as he is Not Doing Well, so Solidad... checks notes, calls him out in front of his crush WHICH SOL KNOWS and also like 5 other people when he's already in a fragile state. great job girl💀). Like, under the cool and collected exterior she is SUCH a problem-causer. A tea-spiller. She'd submit coordinator blinds to deuxmoi, I know this in my heart. I think it's so fun though because from her canon actions, you can extrapolate that she's someone who does her own thing if she thinks it's right and without input or permission, regardless of if it's actually right or not, and that's kind of where my joke about her being Chaotic Lawful comes in. I think she does have a strong sense of right and wrong, but I think it's a very Solidad-specific sense and not one that is, you know, rooted in a binary that most people would understand or assume to be the case lol.

This is so unstructured, but she's just fun and I like rambling about her. I also like that she only has Kanto pokemon, I love her backstory with Drew, I like that she knows Brock and Harley, she's just really interesting for a three-eipsode character!

[compacflt]

Hello, me again back with another question about the US Navy that I can't find an answer to online so I'm turning to the only source I can think of that may help. And yet again I know you say your knowledge of the US military isn't as deep as it seems but it's better than mine considering I'm not from the US, I just wanted to know how officers get off aircraft carriers? It seems like a very basic question but I'm just wondering about if in Top Gun Maverick the carrier they were on was in port and they took it to wherever the Dagger mission takes place, or they got taken to the ship if it was already at sea? If so, how would they get there? If there was an emergency, say a family member was dying, they were in the middle of the ocean and got emergency leave approved, how would they get to land? Would the ship have to port at the nearest US Naval Base? Or would you have to land on the carrier somehow? This has been on my mind for a while so any help would be greatly appreciated, your blog really adds a realistic layer to Top Gun that is refreshing

navy logistics is some of the most interesting stuff in the world. especially World War II navy logistics (the infamous ice cream barge!!!). But even today how equipment & rations & personnel (and MAIL!!!) make it on/off boats is SO fascinating & takes ungodly amounts of coordination. take a look at this video posted by the uss gerald ford (CVN 78) a couple days ago.

those are sh-60s (Sea hawks—navy black hawk variant) dropping palletized goods from a cargo ship onto the flight deck of the carrier. Including sailors’ mail, overseas goods, food etc. just awesome stuff.

in terms of officers getting on/off ships, yeah you could do it a few ways. Number one would be when the boat makes a port call. Fun fact, It used to be a huge time-honored tradition for crews to make “cruise jackets” with the names of every place your ship/carrier had stopped. not too sure if it’s still done but it was a big thing after wwii. both mav and ice would probably have them.

port calls would be when crewmen and officers especially could leave the boat & party it up on dry land. so you get the stereotype of navy officers cheating on their wives with foreign women in “foreign ports of call.”

number two, if it’s a high ranking officer like the carrier strike/battle group commander (typically a RDML) who needs for some reason to leave the carrier at the center of the CS/BG formation & go to another ship, yeah you just send over a chopper like an SH-60 to go pick them up and ferry them to wherever they need to go. when I wrote ice (RADM) as deputy Cdr of third fleet (four carriers) that might be one way he’d get around the fleet. (But also not 100% sure he’d even be at sea. That was kind of just for plot/emotional reasons to separate him from mav.) but so like.. if the fleet commander/deputy cdr had a family emergency (say: found out that Carole is gonna die soon) and he got cleared to leave, he could hop on a helicopter in range (SH-60 has a range of about 400 mi for instance—the similar USCG HH-60 jayhawk, which was canonically what picked up mav & brought him back to base after he blew up the darkstar, has a range of 800 mi; if not in range he’d have to move his carrier closer [wouldn’t happen, he would be SOL]) which would take him to the nearest allied airfield with a plane to fly home. Which is what happened in my fic. lots of hurdles to clear. it’s very inconvenient & obviously not encouraged.

here is a relevant section from my wips.

for the mission in Top gun: maverick, obviously we don’t know for sure where the mission takes place, but it’s clearly somewhere in the northern INDOPAC region close to the ocean in specifically third fleet’s AOR (area of responsibility). (the list of reasons I chose southeast Russia to be the enemy location in my fic is soooo unbelievably long.) the navy would have a carrier strike group in the region for some time before. then it would make the most expeditious sense for the aircrews (mav, rooster et al) to be flown in from SoCal to somewhere closer, like a navy/air force base in Japan or South Korea, before they get transferred either by land (walk onto the carrier) or by air (chopper pick-up). given the time constraints of the mission I’m going with chopper. Carriers are fast… like really fast by boat standards… but not “travel across the Pacific Ocean in a day” fast. and not “waste time for a port call pick-up” fast.

also (random piece of nautical knowledge I know for some reason) there are some (possibly non-military) reasons why you’d do a personnel transfer by sea. take cruise ships for instance. When they pull into a port, there’s a whole guy whose job it is to take over for the captain to steer the boat into the port they presumably know very well. so this is actually how local cruise ship pilots get onto cruise ships. disney cruises included.

sketchy as fuck. I’m not sure if there’s a similar concept for aircraft carriers when they pull into unfamiliar ports… but I wouldn’t be surprised. however that’s for the captain of the boat. I would be shocked if high-ranking managerial officers ever needed to embark & disembark like this. but i just think it’s kind of funny.

[storiesaremylife]

Cartoon Ships Introductions 3

Moving on into the Cs

Meet the Cunninghams!

Show of Origin: Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja

Ship: Randy Cunningham and Theresa Fowler

Members: Randy Cunningham, Theresa Cunningham, Sarah Cunningham, Sadie Cunningham, Ben Cunningham, Jesse Cunningham

Randy, formerly the greatest ninja to ever live, now facing his greatest challenge yet: a teenage daughter. He works as a spy but always tries to make time for his kids.

Theresa, former band geek current aspiring musician while she juggles a career as a civic planner and four rambunctious kiddos.

Sarah, the responsible eldest daughter and girlfriend of Sol Butterfly-Diaz

Sadie, second daughter and dreamer

Ben, the third born and eldest son who's always quick with a laugh.

Jesse is the baby and much younger than his siblings, who are all about a year apart (they're about 12, 11, 10, and 3). He's very shy and rarely leaves his parents' sides.

Two of their names were specifically chosen (based on the VAs) while the other two were randomly generated by the Sims.

[rigbyscar]

So a lil while ago I made Sun, Moon and Eclipse into a CS. Their lil sister, was made by another, but I remade the design slightly to fit their theme :P

Eclipse raised his siblings, Lune and Sol being the middle children and Tia the baby. She's a lil princess and dearly loved by her big brothers :)

[everybody-loves-purdy]

Hot take but the new books are better. TPB was also great and TNP - PoT were decent-ish with some fun characters (thanks Hollyleaf, Crowfeather, Heathertail, and Squirrelflight), but OOTS is absolute trash. I actually like the Dark Forest trainees a lot (except Breezepelt) but when you consider it for more than a few minutes, the whole Dark Forest battle makes no sense! At all! I also dislike Brambleclaw, Leafpool, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather a lot. The whole Cinderheart plotline from PoT - OOTS was also not great, and came across as a huge insult to Cinderpelt’s character / story. Sol is also a boring character who could’ve been very interesting had he actually done anything of purpose.

And aside from Ivypool, we didn’t really get much character development for the Dark Forest trainees. Lionblaze and Jayfeather were just irritating to read about, and Dovewing… was fine. I liked her early characterization and all that, but damn it I hate Tigerheart. And Hollyleaf should’ve stayed gone, because bringing her back just to kill her anti-climatically a book later is…?

More characterization for Harespring(star), Applefur, Beetlewhisker, Antpelt, Hallowflight, Furzepelt, Larkwing, Ratscar, Minnowtail, Mousewhisker, Sunstrike, Redwillow, and Whiskernose regarding why they were there to begin with would’ve gone a long way. Also they had the perfect opportunity to make Hawkfrost interesting and give him a somewhat redemption, had he turned against Tigerclaw. But nope, let’s just leave him as a clone of his father but without any motivation… okay.

I have my issues with AVoS relating to the pacing and also Alderheart and Twigbranch for being boring (should’ve had Puddleshine, Sprkpelt, Violetshine, and Heathertail instead but whatever) but aside from that, DOTC and TBC - CS have all been good?? And I’m not a new fan either, I’ve been reading this series for 10+ years.

I also think that, bar the first arc, I find the new team arcs overall better. Ans I am in agreement with you that I liked TNP and Po3, but rereading oots for my ongoing reread really took the nostalgia goggles off and I saw that oots is extremely flawed and honestly I think I can say that oots is the only arc I overall dislike.

Don’t get me wrong there’s some cool stuff in there but while they managed to make the lack of planning for po3 work, I can feel it so badly in oots. I think probably the most egregious example is how Ivypool’s arc ultimately is pretty useless to the overall story despite the ongoing expectation it is the most important. She learns absolutely nothing of value during her spying. And I think the authors realised this because during the last hope they just have Dovewing listen into the dark forest and she finds out all the crucial information that Ivypool tried and failed to gather for half an arc. And it’s not like this is a plot point to increase the tension between the two sisters, it just happens and isn’t acknowledged that in one fell swoop everything Ivypool has done and sacrificed until this point has been completely undermined. I know she encouraged the trainees to fight for the clans but surely they could have reached that conclusion on their own?

And that’s not mentioning all about how the dark forest’s plan makes very little sense, the powers of the three ultimately not doing all that much compared to everything they were built up to be, especially Lionblaze’s, and how the forgotten warrior (to me) seems to be a hastily planned way to wrap up all the extra plot threads they’ve got going on, amongst other issues I have with the arc.

I think it can definitely be enjoyable, hell I enjoyed it for sure when I previously read the arc, but I’ve seen the cracks and I can’t unsee them now.

[whisperingmidnights]

37 & 38

37: What’s your oldest WIP?

That I'm working on? CS.

38: What’s your current WIP?

I'm working on HoV tonight. I'm also working a little on CS, SoE, NQB, and SoL here and there.

[your-absolute-destiny]

Out of character world building shenanigans:

I also am trying to flesh out Warrior Skitties. Do the clans get to keep their names, or should it be types (thunder=electric, river=water, shadow=dark, wind and sky are difficult though because theres only one flying type, maybe wind could be psychic because of their connection to star clan)? Similarly, are the clans broken up by type (with the exceptions of cross clan kits and loners and skittypets who join)? Are Eevee and its evolutions catmon in this scenario (Vaporeon being the only water type cat-like mon)? What is Midnight, a Linoone, an Obstagoon?

Asking opinions because I'm wanting to write a mystery dungeon X warrior skitties story. I have a plot but I'm struggling with details.

//ooc: i use the same clans as in canon, thunder river wind shadow sky star just cause. they arent stuff that dont exist in pokemon? so like its whatever + easier to remember. also what you said with wind and sky and if one was psychicclan that two cs next to eachother is just. weird to read and i wouldnt be able to have lucky read the books cause she absolutely was explaining the plot of warriors to her parents gidjdoejs.

//clans are not broken up by type. theyre primarily skitty and delcatty throughout the entire clans, with few cats being something else when i think its funny/when they were born outside the clans. firestar is a torracat because of the latter, while sol is a meowscarada because of both points. the when i think its funny point mostly works cause of how the erins named a lot of warriors in the first series based off their adult appearances forgetting theyd be given these names as children with the kit suffix and because of the erins not knowing how cat genetics works. tigerstar can be an incineroar because its really funny. his parents are both delcatty though. how does that work? idk i dont think the writers know either.

//eevees are weird because theybare not just based on cats and the only one thatd like solidly just a cat is espeon. leafeon is based a little on cats too but mostly fox. the rest are based primarily on rabbits, hares, dogs, foxes, and seals in vaporeons case. eevee isnt even based on any one animal its just a vague beast creature. i dont think any of the cats that have outsider roots give eevee or its evolutions energy anyways so like idk if theres any in the series really.

// i have midnight down as an obstagoon in my notes yeah

//this is just what i go by though do whatever you want forever i know other people have different ic lore they use for their pokemon warrior cats.

[doedipus]

With the changes in season 3 of strive, giovanna’s core gameplan was altered fairly significantly. Pretty much anyone who has played against her can see that she’s definitely stronger, but depending on who your sparring groups are, you might not have a very clear idea of what she can and can’t do this time around. 

The biggest knowledge gap I can see so far is around chave trovao, which is her new central oki tool. On block it gives gio high frame advantage and guard crush. This removes the ability to game strike/throw mixups by doing a delayed option, since unlike regular blocking, it doesn’t receive extra frames of throw protection after the animation ends. It also removes the option to yrc, and removes protection while buffering motion inputs. Due to the momentum it grants her, it will often eat fd and deflect shield too. On regular or counter hit, the move causes stagger, which gives her the option to pick up with a shorter combo or throw. In short it basically works the same way as garuda impact, except she can’t string consecutive Big Arrows together repeatedly. 

Because it’s that strong, most of her flowchart this patch focuses on getting to fire off a meaty chave trovao at every opportunity. There’s a lot of consistent setups for this, but if she can tell the opponent is playing passively, she will try to sneak them in constantly. And likewise, the baseline of season 3 gio counterplay is disrupting it as much as possible. 

I have some more detailed notes below the break, but the TL;DR is

if you block chave trovao when you have a reversal or after she ended a combo with sepultura, whatever happens next is your fault ☆

First, if you have a reversal on hand and she does the Big Arrow, use it. Gio’s safejump pressure still exists this patch, but the nerf to sepultura’s knockdown means that it’s less consistent and tends to leave her with much less useful spacing than before. And of course, unlike after chave trovao, you can fuzzy through most of her options here pretty cleanly. So make sure to represent your reversals when you’ve got them.

Next, you have to develop an intuition for whether Big Arrows are meaty or not. Because of its long wind-up time, chave trovao requires specific setups in order for it to come out in time to hit meaty. That said, the lab monsters have been going crazy with these, and there’s quite a few potential ways to route into it. 

Universally, combos that end in sepultura cannot set up Big Arrow. That means that her easy confirms off stray hits like dash 5k 6p 214k, hits she’s not prepared for in canned pressure strings, and fast punishes like 5k/2k 214k will not give her the frame advantage she needs to let one rip. If she tries it, you can 6p her or use whatever other tools you’d usually go with to dodge or counter regular trovaos in neutral. Note that trovao is throw immune while active, so you won’t be able to reversal grab her out of the fake ones.

Aside from that, throw and combos that end in 6H(3) will typically set up for an autotimed meaty Big Arrow. There’s also a slew of reset points she can use to set it up, and some are more consistent than others at varying levels of juggle decay. Off the top of my head, 6p, 5h, 2d can work like this.

The timing on a few of these is pretty tight, though, especially after throw. If you feel like gambling, you might be able to challenge her with 6p anyway. 

After throw, there’s a few other new options gio can gamble on besides going straight for Big Arrow. Empty chave throw or cs can vary timing against opponents who are waiting for trovao. The cs option here also recovers fast enough to be safe against wakeup gold burst. Chave sol poente is another noteworthy one- it’ll cross up and lead to a full combo if it hits, and the disjoint makes it a good option against various abare options. All of these are pretty niche though, since they lack the stability of guard crush.

The chave specials have some theoretical use in pressure, but for now it seems rather underdeveloped. Cs chave or cs 2h chave can be used as an rps point- chave dp will beat 3-frame buttons, and can be used to condition a path to chave trovao or sol poente. Chave dp can also be rced for a high/low the way regular dp can. That said, she can be grabbed out of chave with all of these, and fd makes the whole thing less consistent. 

Chave sepultura can also see some niche use; its added property is that it pushes gio really far backwards. The theoretical usage of this is to disengage from pressure safely against characters she has unusually bad rps against after regular sepultura, like bridget, whose 2s beats both backdash and 2k. 

[drewsabsol]

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yay i actually drew something more detailed for once! (haha, get it? drew? oh my god im so stupid) anyhow, my account got flagged by anti-spam control for no reason so I couldn't chat with anyone and my last post did not get ANYWHERE cuz of it. but it's fine it's fixed now :3

.. closeup of both may & drew under cut !

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[mattivray]

⠀ ⠀  ⋆ ⠀ ✶ ⠀ ⠀   𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏—  𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃   ╱   𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖆 𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖑.

        ( . . . )  é apenas  MATILDA ROSENTHAL, ela é filha de  APOLO  do chalé  7  e tem  VINTE E QUATRO anos.

                                                              𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍'   ,

   ❤️  BY NINE  ╱  HALF-BLOOD FILES  ╱  W/Cs  ╱  POVs

⋆ ⠀ ✶    B A S I C S .

full name. matilda ray rosenthal;

nickname(s). mattie (geral); tilda (avós); little ray (mãe, tias);

gender. mulher-cis;

pronouns. ela / dela;

age & d.o.b. vinte e quatro anos; nascida em treze de setembro;

zodiac. sol em virgem / lua em escorpião / ascendente em aquário;

romantic orientation. demirromântica;

sexual orientation. bissexual;

nationality. norte-americana;

ethnicity. branca;

⋆ ⠀ ✶    B A C K G R O U N D .

mother. barbara jacqueline rosenthal (29, ativista, falecida);

father. ray/apolo;

relates. semideuses de apolo (meio-irmãos/ãs); elsbeth start-rosenthal e archibald jensen “aj” rosenthal (avós materno);

pet(s). n/a;

languages spoken. inglês e francês (fluente); italiano, espanhol e português (básico);

education. teve ensino doméstico até os dez anos, quando passou a morar com os avós ingressou num colégio preparatório para garotas, mas não concluiu os estudos por precisar ir ao acampamento meio-sangue, onde seguiu com sua educação integralmente;

hometown. rhode island, new england;

current location. long island, new york;

⋆ ⠀ ✶    P H Y S I Q U E .

face claim. olivia rodrigo;

eye color. castanho-escuro;

hair color. castanho-escuro;

hair type/style. liso, com ondulação da metade para o fim dos fios; costuma ter um aspecto brilhoso e em cortes normalmente abaixo dos ombros;

height. 1.65cm;

dominant hand. ambidestra, mas a mão dominante é a direita;

tattoos. próximo às costelas do lado esquerdo tem tatuada às coordenadas do pensionato feminino onde foi criada, quando vivia com a mãe e as demais mulheres a quem considerava como tias;

piercings. alguns piercings nas orelhas; costumava usar um piercing no nariz, mas não o usa faz algum tempo;

marks / scars. possui uma marca de nascença do lado direito da nuca, no exato lugar onde a mãe possuía uma;

⋆ ⠀ ✶    P S Y C O L O G H Y .

mbti. istp, o virtuoso;

temperament & moral alignment. fleumático; chaotic good;

tropes. the outsider, the lucky one, beware the nice one, overachiever, the broken bird; the artisan;

fatal flaw. diante da perda da mãe, então a mudança para o convívio com os avós, logo em seguida a ida para o acampamento, se criou um desgosto em mattie à mudanças, ela não sabe reagir bem quando as coisas deixam de ser o que costumavam ser. ela passou a apreciar o que é seguro, o que é conhecido e tende a ser muito metódica sobre as coisas que faz, quase como se precisasse se agarrar ao passo a passo rotineiro de certas coisas para se sentir sóbria ou no controle;

greatest virtue. não há nada que matilda não fará para ajudar alguém que precisa de ajuda─ é comum para ela se colocar em segundo plano para priorizar alguém que precise.

análise psicológica. matilda é um jovem de vinte e quatro anos, filha de uma nepo-baby que se rebelou contra o controle dos pais e decidiu que queria lutar contra o sistema. ela nasceu sem o pai, sem nenhuma figura masculina como exemplo e é o exato tipo de cenário que lhe garantiu um grande apego a mãe e a potência feminina; em outras palavras, ele era sem dúvidas a garotinha da mamãe— pelo menos até ela perdê-la.

foi ensinada a ser generosa e naturalmente gentil quando devido. surgiu como um pontinho tenro apesar do lugar de onde nasceu e do núcleo cheio de lutas, militância, desafios e expectativas altas; esse lado mais doce ela deve ao temperamento da mãe, que tinha essa dualidade; podia ser uma baita ativista nas ruas, mas em casa era apenas uma mãe apaixonada.

quando mais nova estava longe de ser tão atenta ao mundo ao seu redor, o que costuma lhe fazer pecar em ter uma boa leitura social. ela era enganada com facilidade, caia em qualquer lábia inteligente demais e, de muito quebrar a cara com essa pouca malícia, aprendeu a ser observadora e a saber filtrar as coisas.

apesar de não se exibir sobre, é dotada de uma curiosidade e apreço ao conhecimento que a faz pesquisar, ler e se interessar por um pouco de tudo. embora possa demonstrar traços de insegurança e desconfiança, é mais comum que se sobressaia sua flexibilidade e o anseio de alcançar qualquer pequena parcela que seja de uma suficiência para si e para as pessoas que importam.

com a parte materna, ou seja, os avós ricos e completamente esnobes, ela aprendeu as ditas "boas maneiras", a polidez e o privilégio de ser bem educada. entretanto, toda essa pose (independente de ser ou não genuína) nem sempre convence e sempre que está em uma situação onde a prejulgam, onde tentam diminuí-la pelo histórico da falecida mãe ou quando atacam suas particularidades (condicionadas por ser meio-sangue), ela pode mostrar o quanto pode ser tão parecida com a ferocidade da mãe.

traços positivos : intelectualidade, generosidade, empatia, moralidade, lealdade e flexibilidade;

traços negativo : insegurança, pensar em demasiado, temperamental, inconstância, introspecção, criticismo, ansiedade.

MORE TO KNOW.

[reinafish]

AU yapping time finally UwU

So, Sonic is part of a prophecy. No wayy omg it’s not like I keep mentioning it ANYWAYS

The Gods(tm) contacted the Oracle of Delphius abt it and she (yes SHE) told Aleena. So uhm. Aleena’s son, Nikki, needs to be the vessel(??) of a star child thing(????? Idk what im doing BUT ITS FUN💖)

So uhm, they do that. Ofc Aleena and Berny don’t want to do it but like. They have to. </3 They take Nikki (he’s like 4) and do a ritual thing idk how it goes. SONIA (who was like 6-8) ACCIDENTALLY WITNESSED IT :( SHE LOVED HER BROTHER NOO uhh that messed her up fr. Luckily Berny noticed and hired Lady Windermere as her therapist (this sounds so funny BUT ITS TRUE THIS IS PART OF IT😭)

Manic was born like 2 yrs later and Sonia is rlly protective of him

Anyways back to the ritual- Uhh they did the thing and. it quite literally teleported Nikki somewhere else completely (Green Hills) cs he couldn’t stay w em for some reason :(

Nikki is outside of Christmas Island now ig and does the stuff in the first game like fight Eggman (btw when he went super for the first time, that’s what gave him star pupils and star ears)-

he then meets Amy in CD

They become friends !! Well, sorta- Nikki can’t remember anything prior to teleporting to Green Hills, not even his name… so it’s hard for Amy to understand him, but she names him Sonic ^_^

It’s not until he meets TAILS that he learns stuff again :D Tails teaches him how to talk and other things!!

Everything after that is pretty normal- He meets Knuckles and then there’s the murals which they feel look a lil familiar but wtv

Shadow bc he’s important.. I guess

He’s based off those murals, that’s it

I love Blaze so I rlly need to say this

She’s sorta based off black holes bc Sonic is a star. I’m gonna flesh out the Sol Dimension eventually trust bro

Unleashed my beloved

Chip knows, that’s all I’m saying❤️ also this is around the time Sonic gets those cyan markings lol

THERE’S GONNA BE MORE I JUST DONT KNOW IT YET💖💖💖

Anyways I rlly need to talk abt this now:

Nikki is not Sonic and Sonic is not Nikki

Nikki doesn’t exist anymore.

So when Sonia or Aleena and Berny accidentally call him that, it’s really… well, sad. Sonic doesn’t like it. That’s not who he is. He hasn’t been him for 13 years. Manic is the only one that hasn’t called him that.

:) yeah so im giving him more of an identity crisis lol..

Ok yeah thats it for this shitty au bye

[driaswrld]

i’m literally back from the dead bc of ur greatness dria 🥹🥹 i can’t wait for the fics i cant even choose which one to be the most excited for bc they’re all so good 🤭🤭 LOVEE UUU 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

HYAHYSBEYSG SOL STOP THIS 😵‍💫

i love you so bad omg IF I HAVE ONE FAN ITS YOU FR 😋 but omg how are you baby??? ik you've been working real hard cs you've been radio silent on dash (me too ngl)

I'LL MAKE SURE TO SERVE THE FICS FOR U MAAM 🤭🤭

[jostushekt]

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