#Hope this was okay asdfghj

[popcultr]

CLOSED STARTER FOR @everseens

MUSE: rowan evans / 25 / tv & movie extra / heterosexual

based on THIS!

rowan was at a house party, she was on her way back to her friends from the makeshift bar, drink in hand. when she bumps into someone, "crap, i was in a rush, didn't see you there" she mumbles, "sorry", rowan looks up to see a face that she vaguely recognises, it couldn't be them, could it?

[dolentends]

and there's a glint in greens , twirling in an air of knowing , ❛ thought you weren't coming back ? ❜

[tvrningout]

on that note who would hold my hand as i cry if i decide to watch season 2 of j.jk bc i refuse to suffer alone a second time 🥲

[endternal]

CLOSED STARTER WHERE: matevos' veterinarian practice WHO: matevos hakobyan ( @b4rredteeth )

"Birdseed," said Karam, abruptly. He'd only just stepped into the building but the word had tumbled out of his mouth on its own. He knew this was a veterinary surgery and not a pet store, but his usual haunt was fresh out of what he needed and, at least today, patience was in small supply for Karam. He wasn't in the mood to go traipsing around town, aimlessly hunting for something this specific. Although Karam liked to wander, he did not like pointless scavenger hunts and he certainly did not like having to speak to stranger after stranger after stranger; it made sense to find someone more educated in the realm of animal care and see what he could get out of them. That was what had brought him to the surgery.

And why this practice? Why not the other clinic? Although Karam preferred to remain largely ignorant of town gossip, he was aware this man was the subject of certain rumours but, to Karam, that was somewhat reassuring. As someone who had been written off as a suspicious oddity himself, it felt as though he were standing on somewhat equal ground. The less chance of catching weird looks, the better.

"I need birdseed. Do you have any?" he added, "Or, do you know where I can find some?"

[dreampedia]

WHERE: ziv's penthouse WHO: stella matthews ( @cfstvlla )

Truth be told, Mio had stopped by to see Ziv but, as she looked through the open doorway of the penthouse, she quickly realised the actor was not home. She wasn't at all surprised to see Stella at the door, she had specifically expected for her to be here, but a one-on-one encounter wasn't something she'd seen coming. Not to worry, Mio was a people person through and through; it'd take a lot more than this to throw her energy! She'd been meaning to find a chance to talk to Stella more anyway. Ziv was very important to Mio and had been for years. Therefore, the things and people that mattered to them mattered to Mio too. "I brought gifts", she beamed, lifting up her arm so that Stella could see the plastic bag she'd been holding. The logo of Top Pot Doughnuts was printed clear across its surface. "I didn't know what flavours you liked so, instead of making a wild guess, I just got a variety box", said Mio, who had always figured snacks were the best offering, "Do you like doughnuts?"

[tvrningout-archived]

what do we think friends B)

i might add a lil dialogue to the last panel of kaiya smiling that i'll continue into the post's caption, but!!! i'm 99.9% done and have no idea what this is gonna be -- an unusual promo or a self-indulgent edit of my baby :' )

[stcrforged]

" and what on earth do you think you're doing young lady? " not much escaped witch of the north THESE days. wars had come and gone, love had burned brightly, death had taken dears friends and life had given new ones. old and wise was perhaps the two words that described her the best. and she knew every little nook and cranny of this place. it was also protected by ancient and POWERFUL spells. trying to steal anything from this place was least to say a bad idea.

" if you would be a dear and give it back to me, PLEASE. " the voice was soft and kind, but it was not a question nor a demand. a gentle instruction. the necklace in the stranger's hands was an ancient heirloom and she would rather not have it stolen. she was rather fond of it (and it contained a powerful and wicked soul from the viking age). " please have a set. " a pale hand gestured toward a pair of armchairs. " would you like some tea? coffee perhaps? or something else? " june might not be young but her movements were STILL graceful as she sat down, leg crossed. silver eyes observed the other, a smile appearing on red lips. " care to explain why you're trying to steal from an old woman? "

@ada1r liked THIS for a starter!

[good-beans]

Oops I spent all day vibing and didn't even notice -- I guess tomorrow will be for replying to messages and emails and actually doing my work...

[kylrim]

Hiii!!! Do you have any headcanon about the twins (and specially about Claus)? :o

Okay Okay- I took a whileee to think and this is what I came up with asdfghj Uhh I unfortunately think about Lucas more than Claus so I'm sorry if I don't have much for him like you asked 😭 Also there's gonna be a category for those who wanna hear my trans Lucas hc vision.... also I ended up thinking too far with other characters as well hope you don't mind asfdghj aa.. I can't be restrained for two seconds 😭😭

Claus liked vegetables more while Lucas prefers fruits

Claus liked going outside more than his twin, which made him tanner? methinks

Except when it's raining, Lucas love going outside more kjhgf he love froges

Claus told Lucas EVERYTHING, he trusted him very much, Lucas didn't know how to lie tho so once his parents got the cheatcode and knew Claus was hiding smth they would ask him, Claus never figured out how they caught him everytime, thinking his mom just knew everything, "mom just always knows.. damn.."

Hinawa taught Lucas piano, Claus never got interested in it, after his mom's death, Lucas had troubles playing again (this one's from my friend!)

Lucas always felt like his dad preferred Claus over him, but Flint's just extremely awkward and it was easier for him to bond with the other one than him.. Lucas and Claus just have so many different interests and ways to deal with things/think and Claus just ended up looking more like his father than his twin did, which made Lucas take more from his mom too.. "Do you think if I was as strong as Claus dad would like me more?" "You know it's not true, he loves you just as much"

They both were very envious of each others actually, what one didn't have, the other did, but not in a toxic way, it was rather inspiring, Claus admired Lucas' intelligence and patience and Lucas wanted Claus' strenght and courage

Claus was a snorer while Lucas drooled in his sleep, which annoyed the hell out of Lucas but he got used to it overtime, the snoring sound doesn't wake him up anymore kjhgfd

Claus was the one to name "Boney" that way bc it sounded "cool asf", he was a very edgy kid..

Lucas likes music very very much, probably bc of his mom

They're both farmhands, but isn't it canon? I think Lucas would enjoy it more than Claus tho

🏳️‍⚧️:

Lucas picked his name after his brother, not initially telling him he mixed the letters to make his, Claus kept asking "Okayy but why "Lucas" tho? why not something cooleeer like-" (never let Claus name anything)

Hinawa used to style Claus hair like Lucas' when they were younger and Lucas wanted it like his so she started to do it like that to him and eventually Claus got too lazy to take care of his hair so its been messier over time

Claus may have developed toxic masculinity bc of his dad? and that tainted over Lucas at some point which made him dysphoric (bc of eventual taunts, jokes etc) but after meeting Kumatora he was like "oh wait I dont have to be hyper masculine and cold/hot-headed to be a guy.. damn.. just like she's still a girl while being masculine.. cool!!" *thumbs up*

It might've been easier for Hinawa to be accepting towards Lucas because of Alec, her dad taught her to be accepting because he was friend with the magypsies and so much more used to this subject and cool with it

[axemetaphor]

Previous Spooky anon —

I just wanted to say u did never finish it ✌️😔 I was so sad bc it was genuinely such a good fic n storyline, and I was like ‘aw man I hope they’re okay’ when I saw that it’d not been updated in like 5 years lmaoooo

((Wanted to clarify that I recognized ur old art style from the cover art while looking thru the desolate shadourge tag on here btwww))

Also wanted to say ur art is still so gooooood n has such a distinct vibe

Ok sorry I’ll leave u alone now teehee

hope its cool to answer this public (if not lmk and ill switch it to a private post asdfghj) but yeah that sounds like me lmao sorry i didnt finish it !! if its worth anything im 90% certain i planned a happy fluffy ending for them.

also wow looking thru the tag for the first time since i was like 16/17 is a blast there are So Many people in there now. it used to be like maybe 4 people. look at this new stuff!! what!! that's so awesome

and thank youuuu i pride myself on Doin Stuff Weird in a very specific way ~

[riddle-me-ri]

A/N: Well, this is one way for me to come back...with some ANGST. So I'm sorry to respond to this anon request in such a weird format but…anon…you kinda sorta totally spoiled the hush movie/comic asdfghj. I know, I know it's, by all means, passed the spoiler phase but I am well aware a handful of my mutuals aren't even aware of this Riddler's existence let alone the Hush animated movie asfggj. So out of respect for them the full screengrab of the request is under the read more cut. Again sorry for the awkward layout but like…I don't want you guys to be spoiled…dumb I know but that's just me rip.

Trigger Warning: deep angst/no comfort and strong language

Word Count: 1.3 k

DCAU Hush Riddler x Reader - Somebody That I Used To Know

Request Prompt:

Everything…everything made sense now. 

Why he was so quiet and elusive from you all this time.

Why all those nights Edward didn’t sleep next to you…it wasn’t him…it was Clayface. He had someone masquerading as him to you, making you a fool…keeping you blind in the dark, none the wiser.

It doesn’t mean what Edward had done was right…no what he did was wrong so unequivocally wrong. 

He lied to you, betrayed you, manipulated you in the worst ways. Most would worry about their partner cheating..leaving them for someone else. You almost wished he had just done that…it would have been vastly easier to process.

You felt like you were choking on air…a frog in your throat bouncing to get out but you kept trying to swallow it back down. You couldn’t say the same for the boundless amount of tears that fell from your eyes. 

A tall, pale, red eyed man attempted to approach you, to try and comfort you. 

“No! No! Stay the hell away from me…” You cried as you backed away further from the door. 

“Please…I-I’m sorry…I was so sure this plan would work! I-I didn’t know it was going to end like this!” 

“Didn’t know..” you muttered pathetically. “Didn’t know?! Trying being me Edward! I didn’t know a goddamn thing!” 

Edward winced at the shrill in your voice. He’s heard you cry before, but he was always able to comfort you somehow. Made you smile or laugh. He still held to some thread of hope that maybe he still could. 

Although it was useless. 

“I just wanted to protect you! I didn’t want you to get hurt!” 

“From what, Edward? From what?! The truth?! That you were sick! That you were likely going to die! The man I love was knocking on death’s door and you thought I didn’t have a right to know about it? What if the Lazarus Pit didn’t work, Ed? Hm?! Thought of that!”

You were borderline hysterical at this point. For all his brilliant intellect…he sure was clueless on some of the more basic things. 

“I knew it would work…” Edward muttered. “I went to the doctors, they practically gave up on me. It was the last choice I had, I didn’t want to die!”

“And not once…did you think to tell me?” 

“Of course I did! I thought about it every waking moment! I wanted to tell you, but I-I didn’t want to scare you…I didn’t want you to..”

“To what, Edward? To what?!” 

“Be upset! To f-freak out! I was going to come up with a solution! But I didn’t want you to worry!” 

You let out a pathetic laugh at that. Upset? What the hell did he think you were now? 

“Sorry to burst you bubble, Eddie…but I’m a little more than just upset…I’m fucking furious…hurt…” You collpased on the wooden floor of your living room. Whatever strength you had left you were using to speak. “But…more than anything I’m disappointed…you-you didn’t trust me…”

“No-No, no that’s not it at all!” Ed tried to approach you again but you snapped your head up. 

“Don’t–” 

Edward held his hands up in surrender. “Okay…okay…look I-I messed up, big time! I-I know that! I-I’m sorry! I just…I wanted to protect you!”

“You wanted me to be ignorant…worried I would just get in the way…” 

“No-please! Just stop twisting my words!” 

“Just be honest!” You shrieked. “All those nights I wondered where you were…and then you finally showed up…or Clayface or whoever…they were. I could tell something was off, I kept shrugging it off…there was a reason the kisses weren’t the same…your warmth wasn’t there…and when they couldn’t even recall how we met…I knew-I knew then…

“You really think I’m that stupid, don’t you, Edward?” 

“No…I-I had no doubt you’d figure it out…that’s why I had Clayface leave that letter on the table.” 

“So why not just tell me? Protect me from what? The truth? The truth always comes out…it wouldn’t hurt nearly as much as it does now…if you would’ve told me…” You weeped. 

“Trust me…I-I know that now…I just…I was scared. I didn’t want you to be scared. When I came out of the Lazarus Pit…I-I admit I didn’t even recognize myself.” 

Yeah, tell me about it. You thought as you looked up at him now. This tall, broad-shouldered, pale man. Who claims to be Edward. He somewhat sounds like him despite the deepened voice. Some weird hollowed host of the man you loved. The shell of someone you used to know. 

Edward got down on his knees in front of you, but still enough to respect your space. 

“Please–I. I know I messed up. I shouldn’t have kept all this from you. It was the stupidest thing I have ever done…and–althought I don’t want to admit it…I have done a lot of stupid things…you of all people would know that.” 

Edward was mortified when you didn’t giggle softly. Usually whenever he exercised self-awareness it was to amuse you, because he could let his guard down around you and not worry about losing you.

Little did he know that he already had. 

“You don’t have to forgive me tonight or tomorrow…nor any time soon, but just…please…please don’t–don’t give up on me…on-on us.” 

Something clicked when he mentioned “us”, you two…

For the first time, since you and Edward reunited, after you were informed he was pronounced dead just the night before. 

Everything was clear, everything was out in the open like a map that was finally done processing all the new countries and oceans. 

Everything was clear. 

At first your mind was fuzzy and fogged by memories ones with your true Edward and ones with the false. Your emotions, your heart although it ached at your conclusion…it’s beat was normal and calm for once. 

You were calm and you were sure. 

“I’m afraid it’s too late for that Edward…” 

Edward’s eye widened, panicked. “No, no, no–please–please I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please! I’ll do anything!” 

Edward reached for you then. He grasped your shoulders and shook your shoulders. As if attempting to snap you out of your decision. 

You were motionless, speechless, exhausted. What good was it to fight for a relationship when one person couldn’t trust the other. You were more than certain you couldn’t trust Edward again, not after all this. Not all this Hush mess. 

“You should’ve just told me the truth, Edward…or Hush or whoever you are.” 

“Please! I’m Edward! I’m still your Eddie!”

You shook your head. The places were switched now, he was the one screaming and you were calmly responding. No more screams, no more tears, no more effort into something other than the inevitable. 

“No, no you’re not. Not…not anymore.” You got up and his hands slowly slipped off your shoulders like a blanket and you began walking away. He quickly got up to follow you. 

“I suggest you leave, before I call the police.”

Edward halted. “No–No, please! You don’t want to do that! Please! I’m sorry! I-I won’t lie to you, no more! I’ll tell you everything and anything!” 

You said nothing as you picked up the home phone from it’s reciever. 

“P-Please…” 

Your eyes stared up into his dark red eyes. 

Oh, how you missed his warm brown eyes. 

They were long gone now, along with the rest of the Edward you loved. 

You held the phone up to your ear, still staring down this man in your house. 

“You should leave-” 

“Please…”

“Begging will get you no where. Leave.” 

“B-But-”

“NOW!” You began slowly pressing the buttons, like a parent counting down to their child. 

Edward panicked once more. He didn’t want to give up but knew that he had no way of escaping the police. He looked over his shoulder before dashing out of your front door and into the dark streets of Gotham. 

You exhaled a breath you didn’t know you were holding. You put the phone back on it’s receiver. You were surprised that you found yourself not caring or worried about where Ed-Hush was going or if he’d be safe. 

He was no longer your concern, he was no longer Edward.

Now, all that was left was for you to continue to try and pick up the pieces of what remained of your heart.

[daydadahlias]

this might actually be the most stupid writing question you’ve ever gotten but how do i write a conversation? like where they’re just chatting and getting to know each other? like what the hell are they supposed to say 😭

there are no stupid writing questions!! and this is a good one! bc dialogue is really fucking hard!! it took me a really long time to get even remotely good at it and i still think i could improve.

anyway on w/ ur masterclass <3

I'll say that if you're worried about intentionality versus how fluid dialogue sounds, those are sort of two different things. like for the flow of a dialogue exchange, above all else, it's just important to remember these are two regular people and they're going to talk like regular people. they might trip up their words, they might pause or say "uhm", they might misspeak and have to rephrase or start over, they might make themselves laugh or make each other laugh, they might reveal a lot about themselves not just in What they say but How they say it or even what they don't.

I think the biggest masterclass in writing I could ever give you is that you should try to tell your story more through what you DONT say than what you actually do.

a reader should never be given All of the pieces to anything. otherwise, they wouldn't want to continue reading. every exchange should, in some way, be building up to Something. and it's unfortunately up to the author to choose what that something is.

But, with that in mind, think about what your Intention is with a scene... like,,, so you want two characters to get to know each other?? ok how do you do that without having them say "Who are you, where are your parents from, what do you do for a living" etc etc?

it's kind of like... what's a better, more interesting piece of dialogue for a reader that asks the question without really asking it: "do you wanna sleep with me?" or "how do you like your eggs cooked in the morning?" Whenever you write,,, you kind of have to dance around what you really want to say to keep a reader engaged and also the characters engaged with one another. Idk if any of what I'm saying makes sense asdfghj. 

But, like, if you’re asking me that means you like my dialogue so let’s break down an example of a scene, isolating just the dialogue. You’re asking how to write a “get to know you” scene so let’s snag one from Room Service. In the first scene where Michael and Luke really talk, Michael finds him sitting by the hotel pool and the scene goes like:

“Sorry. I didn’t think anyone would be out here. I’ll get going.”

“No, you can stay.”

“I can?”

“Yeah, sure. It doesn’t really matter. You’re just sitting here. Just try not to drown, okay? That’d be an issue. But no one’ll know if you just sit here for another hour. I won’t tell anyone.”

“Are you trying to flirt with me, Mr. Attendant? Hoping I take you back to my room after this?”

“No.”

“No?”

“No. I’m just telling you that it’s okay if you want to sit out here. I won’t tell anybody about it.”

“Okay. I believe you.”

“Are you… okay?”

“Y’know, man, I’ve been better.”

“Do you need anything? I could get you, uh, some tiny conditioners? Tiny shampoos? Tiny soaps? Anything tiny you want, I’m sure I could find it.”

“No, no, I won’t make you steal me any tiny soaps.”

“I could. No one would notice, swear it. I steal them all the time.”

“Oh! I’m talking to a fugitive!”

“Barely. They’re just some tiny soaps, no one ever notices if one or two are gone. You wanna talk about illegal? My friend at the front desk sells weed behind the dumpsters here and my other friend at the bar is a bookie.”

“So this hotel is really just a massive diverse crime ring, huh?”

“I guess so.”

When looking at this brief exchange of dialogue, you find out a lot of things about our characters. 1) michael steals tiny soaps. frequently 2) he has friends who also do nefarious things but tells people about it so he’s not so good with secrets but he is good with crime and 3) luke isn’t okay. This is all important because it means, for the rest of the scene, Michael is going to be trying to figure out why Luke isn’t okay and Luke is going to spend the rest of the scene deciding if he should tell Michael why. 

You’ll also notice that every line in this exchange is informed by the one before it. Luke says “I won’t make you steal me tiny soaps” so Michael argues “i could” and then we find out “I steal them all the time” which prompts Luke to say “im talking to a fugitive!” and michael explains why that isn’t the truth and so forth and so on. Whenever you’re writing, just keep everything moving forward in one stream of consciousness. 

When you talk to your friends and people you know, how do you talk to them? What do YOU guys talk about? Oftentimes, it’s about the situation/environment you’re currently in. In this case, Michael and Luke talk about the people they know at the hotel. So think about the setting your characters are in, that can also influence what they might want to talk about or why they're talking in the first place! And also, make sure your dialogue scenes are dynamic! Don't just have two characters sitting in a room together yapping at each other. Have them doing something, or be somewhere important. For this scene, they're at the hotel after hours which they're not allowed to be and that's what drives the scene. In my most recent fic Between The Sheets, most of their dialogue is based on the fact that they're in a record store. so, consider where they are and what conversations that kind of place would prompt!!

i hope this helps :)

[nuitthegoddess]

SO LIKE- The student exchange program yes?? I was Curios as to know what if RSA recieves Night Raven students and it's the Braincell Trio, Yuu, and my OC, Othello- What would the Dorm Leaders reactions be like at best? ALSO, Can I please have Rielle'a hand in marriage? /jk

OMGGG!!! YESSSSS!!!!

I feel like they would those (praying and hoping for that for RSA)!! PFPFPFPF

I feel like they would give a warm welcome to them to RSA.

Huizhong, Aurelian, Rielle, Miro and Gwdyion would be welcoming as they should they want the NRC students to feel comfortable despite being school rivals. (they wanna be friendly okay 😭)

Rielle probably would keep an eye out on Azul ASDFGHJ

[nyxqueenofshadows]

was busy and kinda forgot to make a post about it but i finished judgment last week!

had a slow start but by the halfway point i was fully invested and by the end i was like why is it over :((((( let me do it again :(((( great game, if you haven't played judgment, go do it

my notes, written in mostly chronological order. they're a bit of a mess but clearing them up would be a nightmare

most random thing to start off with but i really, really like the character intro cards and chapter title cards. sleek af, big fan

yagami combat’s fun. just like flipping over people’s heads and shit

kaito omg i see why everyone got so attached to him. also saori??? very pretty, she’s great, more of her please

i haven’t got used to the controls and combat yet :((( like i keep forgetting shortcuts are a thing and that i don’t have to hold the sprint button

okay i’m gonna admit it took me a while to get into it and occasionally it’ll still throw smth at me that i don’t enjoy at all but i’m here now! i’m having fun! i think it kind of has the kiwami problem where it has a bunch of stuff it has to establish so all the side content gets pushed later than some of the other games

the scene where sugiura steals yagami’s phone is so fucking funny to me he looks so offended asdfghj;kl

everyone’s kind of a dick? like the journalist is sleazy as all hell, then there’s hamura (hoo boy) and the detective guy don’t like him at all, bad vibes

yagami choke count +1

hamura oh my god i hope i get to punch this guy at some point like ‘here’s where you lose your eyes’ なーんてな that’s so fucked up

yagami choke count +3 jesus christ are the rgg team okay

higashi???? he’s the character i’m gonna get most attached to i can see it coming already. sugiura continues to be fun too, very funny to me that yagami’s reaction to bumping into him (the guy who stole his phone and was trying to throw him to the cops) is to offer him a job

it’s new playing an rgg protag who’s actually clever and quick. there’s akiyama, he’s kinda similar, but it’s kinda nice to have a character play the room in the same way yagami can, like when he gets kaito out of losing his finger. kiryu’s great don’t get me wrong but he tends to blunder his way through the plots of his games and he’s never a step ahead of anyone even when he’s acting as a guiding figure (a la 6). yagami’s refreshing

oh no one of the girls you can date is underage (or is she 18? she’s one year too young to drink) you’re kidding me yagami whyyyyy

chase sequence after the wig was hilarious 10/10 would do again << oh hey we did it again but this time with a young child, okay

sorry ayabe i think i misjudged you, keep doing what you’re doing

why is ryan fucking everywhere, i swear i’ve not had a street fight without him ever since finishing his friendship route. help it’s tanoshikatta de gozaru all the way down

intrigued by the crow and ‘jester’ plotline << why did this not get picked up again? did i miss smth?

VR minigame is okay, lots of flashy visual effects tho, it occasionally makes the game go all janky

kaito :(((( deciding not to fight red nose cos higashi was there and he didn’t want him to get hurt :(((

hamura during that flashback scene in the sewers....yikes. like that he essentially would’ve done the same thing twice (to the guy in the pink shirt before suigura comes to the rescue), he’s got an MO

also is the only requirement to be a yakuza protagonist to have a tragic af backstory and no parents, yagami’s is brutal! the most in the series, i’d argue (unless 7 is gonna hit me with the steel chair)

the side case with the cake and the ace attorney parody is cracking me up asdfghjkl i need to write that crossover or au or whatever i NEED

i love how surprised/offended yagami is when kaito not only throws him under the bus when shioya has them at gunpoint but then when kaito breaks free and shioya says to shoot him he’s just like eh? eh?????? asdfghjkl bro you’re about to get shot, get kicking

deus ex sugiura << he does this like 4 times, he’s the real mvp

ohhh skeletons in the closet. ha ha very funny guys (well, onto chapter 5)

nobody liked shintani at all did they, they’re saying mean shit about him even after he’s dead. guys it’s been a couple of hours at most! he even gets the sad/uplifting substory music during his scene asdfghjkl

sugiura really needled yagami about the okubo case, wonder why

the ghost/memory shintani when you arrive at ADDC was creepy, ngl. yagami are you okay

ohhh full flashback sequence, nice. slicked back hair yagami is really disconcerting at first (he goes from yagami to full on kimtak) but i’m used to him now i think

i forgot that emi’s last name was terasawa so when she turned up i was like oh is it? and then it was and now i’m sad. why, why did that happen i need to knowwwww

there’s a lot of names and different factions of people involved in this one, i think i might have to check the case file notes regularly on this one.

like, what does kuroiwa want, why is the director so adamant on the flow of information out of his company being under his control, how are the ministry of health connected to the kansai yakuza wanting to make inroads into kamurocho? what does it meannnnnn

keihin gang annoying. that’s it

the side/main story thing you do with kaito while waiting for sugiura to call and tell you what he knows about the addc, where kaito meets up with a guy he knew when he was younger, that was great. 10/10 character and relationship establishing content. do the fist bump guys

you briefly play as saori??????? okay! (positive) interesting to do what is essentially a very toned down version of the hostess minigame but from the other side. also the option to dress up saori in outfits that characters wore in kiwami 2 is really weird. OH and that saori can’t be pretty without a makeover, like no, she’s very pretty. glad there’s no penalty for keeping her natural hair cos i DID

all these K names are killing me, so there’s kejihara (run by the man himself) who have sway over the kyorei clan who are trying to get in with minister kazami. plus the ceo of the addc is called kido, and there’s kuroiwa in the mix too, never mind kaito (tho he’s special, he’s okay). i know in jp these are all written very differently but did rgg my guys did you have no other syllables to go for?? there’s a good few ‘ha-’ names too, hattori, hamura, hashiki...

i don’t think matsugane oyassan is earning any of dad of the year awards. he’s trying tho, i’ll give him that. genda tho, now there’s a man i can get behind

higashi really levelled up for his second boss fight god damn

someone explain to me how they did the hair for the tashiro-kun disguise, with all the gold and shit. like, that’s clearly not a wig, right? i know it’s just there for convenience and the laughs but come on! (also kimtaku basically has that haircut now so it was really jarring asdfghjkl)

every time i see hoshino with his enormous backpack i can’t help but think he’s a kid going to school for the first time, i think it’s the suit looking like a uniform (plus how he looks generally). same for the boy twin (yosuke? what was it again) cos he’s so short compared to yagami and most of the people around him. (saying this as someone who is basically yosuke’s height)

plot mandated poker nooooooo (oh you don’t have to win PHEW)

i neglected the side content and now i’m drowning in it oh no asdfghjkl i haven’t even touched the drone racing yet

that meeting with okubo is rough. (positive)

oh we’re really in it now folks, people are throwing around theories like it’s nothing! i sort of get how they arrive at the conclusion it was shono but it also kind of feels like they pulled it out of nowhere? the bit with kaito where he happens upon an answer mid-argument was fun but everything before that just felt kinda like vague spitballing.

wait who’s this dick with the sword cane??? hamura must be really upset if this is the guy he’s bringing out (also why is hoshino-kun there, genda’s office is on literally the other side of town)

we’re just waltzing in the front door of the addc??? okay! oh wait no that didn’t work did it asdfghjkl for someone who says it’s his hobby he sure keeps that special electric baton (kamiyama special?) on him during his work hours

shono interrogation was good, even if the mechanics of the chase sequence thingy before it weren’t so much (this is like that one bit from 0 all over again, but making even less sense)

alright chapter 10 let’s GO

chapters 10 and 11 go so hard AHHHHHH after him playfully ribbing you while you’re going around trying to attract attention, kaito getting shot physically hurt me and then yagami’s face when he has to leave him is even worse, then there’s the very very long boss fight sequence where you fight cane man (who is fruity af for no reason, good for him) a bunch and those are all fun fights except the one in the dark and then the hamura fight!!! the QTE for that fight is so cool, i’ve seen it a few times even before playing it and it never gets old and is a completely different feeling when it’s you at the controller.

pacing falters a bit when you get the long exposition bit of how hamura got involved in the mole shit but it was all interesting so i didn’t mind too much. plus seeing hamura in the flashback and how he interacts with people outside of the main cast was fun

ALSO yagami was totally ready to let shioya physically torture hamura for info (i assume, maybe he was bluffing) and my guy that’s a crime you can’t be doing this shit and then standing in court

and the mole’s kuroiwa!!! i kinda knew that going in but part of me was still convinced it was gonna be hattori the whole time. his entrance and fight scene is so cool tho, i can’t wait to fight him for real!

AND matsugane-san... the line about him failing as oyaji and then trying to make it right as oya was really good, and it being the catalyst for hamura to come clean even in the face of his own death (he’s not suriving this game, no way) was nice. who’s gonna tell kaito :(((

my one gripe is murase’s death scene it’s so out of nowhere that it kind of comes across as funny which is unfortunate asdfghjkl OH and why’s mafuyu there when kuroiwa shows up to take yagami in for questioning, did yagami call her or smth off-screen

also when you get back to kamurocho after all that and yagami’s like ‘i’m exhausted, i just wanna crash’ (fair, he’s had one hell of a rough night) guess who fucking texts me. KIM PLEASE FIX THE KEIHIN ON YOUR OWN MAN yagami’s solving government corruption i think he deserves a break from being harrassed inthe street constantly asdfghjkl

cane man has an identical twin??? why are there so many twins in this game, did you have so few character models at your disposal

idk if yagami telling all these people who the mole is is a great idea, like, even just the suggestion of who it might be got shintani killed in a heartbeat. does he really think mafuyu or ayabe are gonna be okay after this?

oh we’re playing as saori again, neat. tho there’s some uh questionable choices in this section... ig they’re going for a ‘this is what it’s like to be a woman seen as a sexual object all the time’ but by sexualising her during those sections it falls completely flat. ah well. not sure what i expected tbh. ganbatte hoshino-kun

ALSO during that bit saori is like ‘flirt for me i’ve never had experience seducing men’ (specifically men, in both the subtitles and original jp dialogue) and yagami AT NO POINT is like ‘neither have i’. bi and lesbian solidarity!

torture pt 2 asdfghjkl love that the actual no criminal background yagami is more morally grey than actual criminal kiryu (or, well, he acts on it more? idk they feel different about it)

sugiura being that pissed off at kido tho, what did he do to you man? spill your secrets

tailing mission for ishimatsu ughhhhh the only one i’ve had problems with, mostly cos we’re going in circles

experience inside of the love hotel: this place is super creepy, they did not need to make it this creepy- ooh vibrator weapon i��ll be taking that asdfghjkl

ohh that’s why sugiura was being so hard on yagami. all those comments about the death penalty and the anger towards kido make sense now. could’ve done with a bit more foreshadowing for him imho (it’s not like it comes out of nowhere but it needed a bit more for it to be impactful maybe? or maybe it needed a proper cutscene, not the in-engine ones). his little ‘chigau?’ to yagami after his rant about how the chief prosecutor covered up the murders for the sake of a maybe future right in front of him is sooo good, excellent bit of character performance.

wanna know where he pulled the name sugiura from tho ngl

higashi reaching for kaito after kuroiwa has just beat the shit out of them :(((

i’m in the finale??? oh shit. i’ve still not touched the drone minigame oops

the substory where the guy is gonna kill himself cos he thinks girlfriend is cheating on him is a kind of a mess in the way these substories always are in rgg games but the bit where he jumps off the roof and it says fall in love on the back of his jacket and yagami’s like :o really got me ngl reminded me of the old school revelations a bit

the guy from the opening came back! good for him (twice!)

i love this cast, i love how they bounce off each other, it feels like it’s hitting all the beats 6 missed in its banter and far far surpassing them.

i got the glitch where the heat action happens and the camera doesn’t do what it’s supposed to! asdfghjkl very funny seeing yagami slam a guy into the ground twice with a teleport in between

I FINISHED IT holy shit that last section is so fun to play through. all the boss fights (aka kuroiwa x3 asdfghjkl) are great, the QTEs are creative and just really fucking cool, and the pay off for the trial was absolutely worth it. and bits of it made me laugh! sugiura being like ‘bengoshi yoroshiku!’ right as he kicks a cop in the face is GOLD and there’s so many moments like that.

it’s occurred to me before but it really struck me in the finale just how many people supporting him yagami has and how he’s so comfortable relying on them, mainly compared to kiryu. like, 6 (which has a similar friend structure tho less based around it) never felt like a lonely game when i was playing it but compared to judgment? night and day. fuck, i wanna play it again just to hang out with the characters again and i’ve only just finished it

also random thing but the ending credits are really good? like the slice of life stuff of kaito and yagami trying to find the cat and it evading them a few times, like even with no dialogue they conveyed so much in that one bit. need more end credits like this

actually thinking about it yagami leaving shono to look after sugiura after he got shot was kind of fucked up? i know it was a ride or die kind of situation but bro! he killed sugiura’s sister! how do you think sugiura feels about this!

drone minigame was okay, feels like a mix of pocket circuit and the taxi minigame. did i do well? no. am i gonna invest many hours into this? also no, but i see how i could.

mad that i need to do both mahjong and poker to access bits of the side content so i’m just not gonna!

[hard-core-super-star]

so you write in a panic and under pressure most of the time? I get it right? I think knowing that you're trying not to let this happen too often is kind of a relief. good thing that you post at night then, that way you don't have time to think too much and delete it because you'll be sleeping, amen 🙏 but hey, what you consider a "flaw" in your writing? you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. give this anon a star too! (not me since I'm a literal star now, another star. okay, I think you understand.) I hope they keep coming back tbh. I'm literally behaving, look at me behaving, I couldn't behave more. you better start believing because behaving is now my hobby.

WHAT??? HDHWKAKDMSK It's not like I'm in the same situation, I'm definitely not, and if I was I wouldn't let you know. nuh-uh.

I love using this to show blink, it's so funny. I feel good doing good and showing you this was definitely doing good 🤏😎.... 🤏🕶️😉

okay, you're happy means I'm doing well and I'm behaving. trying talk back? who? because definitely not me, 100% sure, 200% actually. I would never do that. you're making dangerous accusations 🤨

– 🌟

yup, that's absolutely right. basically, whenever you see me post a fic and immediately disappear, it's because i finished it in like an hour and a half and then went to sleep so i wouldn't have to think about it anymore. it's a really bad habit of mine that i'm slowly trying to break. also, how much time do you have for me to answer that question? in all honesty, i do love writing and i'm usually pretty happy with what i do but certain fics are harder for me to accept as "good", y'know? i've sort of touched on this before but i always worry that i'm just info-dumping and not actually moving the story along in any significant way. i also write A LOT and sometimes i feel like it's boring so i try to add in details to make it more interesting so it's kind of a never-ending cycle. i also sometimes have a really hard time writing dialogue too and that's honestly why i didn't like the stark!reader fic. [there's probably more but this got long so yeah] all my anons deserve stars because they're amazing but especially you two. [although, i sort of like having you as my only star...we might have to revisit the greedy talk 😶] right...i guess i can believe you but something tells me this peace won't last long.

kgdjakdsghg STOP the all-caps got me worried until i remembered what it's a response to. i hope it didn't come off as desperate lmao, i just try to reply fast because of the timezone differences and stuff. [i'm also an overthinker so i rewrite and reread all my responses like ten times before i post them hence the large amount of screentime] also, what's with the attitude, i thought you said you were behaving? 🤨

you got more than a few smiles out of me so you definitely did good. STOP, i love that emoji sequence too asdfghj i'm stealing it so i can use it on you later.

i don't think there's ever been any doubt that talking to you makes me happy. i don't know, it seems to me like you're the one making accusations. actually, you're making promises we both know you're not going to keep and i'm having too much fun to not point that out.

[masquenoire]

*reads family photo headcanon post*

"If it makes you feel better, Darling. I stole all of mine from my parents when I came to America. They locked away in a safe and will never see the ligh of day. I do not want to think of those... bady days either."

@dimxndsareforever

“You know what it’s like, don’t you Marsha? Looking back on old memories...” Roman said softly, staring down at the photo in his hand. It was the last picture somebody had taken of his parents just a few days before they’d died, smiling together over some fancy meal at a glamorous restaurant downtown. Such an image would have looked perfectly normal, even lovely to those who didn’t know better that he hadn’t been present at the occasion, much less welcome for that matter what with having been cast out in disgrace after they’d found out about his forbidden relationship with Circe. He scowled upon remembering those days, fingers tightening around the glossy picture and causing it to crease ever so slightly. Even though it had been years since he’d defiled their image, he could still see far too much of himself reflected in their faces to the point even scribbling their eyes out couldn’t discourage the feeling. It would only be too easy to burn the photo too, to remove this visual proof of their existence and never have to look upon them again... but he could never bring himself to do it, not just yet. Not that doing so would actually change anything. Briefly he wondered about the photos Marsha had mentioned, how many she had and whether she kept them locked up tight so that nobody, not even herself, could look upon them until the day she changed her mind. Had she ever been tempted to open that safe up and take them out for a look? Did they hold any other kind of memories for her except pain and despair? Roman sighed, pocketing the photo for now. He too would have to find somewhere to lock it and others like it away just as Marsha had done with hers. ”Some things are better left in the past where they belong, amore mio. What’s important is the here and now, not back then though sometimes it pays not to forget what we were. Remember you were strong enough to overcome those days and take pride in the knowledge that where you currently stand is exactly where you belong.” That place being Gotham, standing high above it all with a peerless view of the great city sprawled out before them as though it were their own kingdom. His words were accentuated with a soft touch, the roughness of his ungloved palm caressing the warmth of her cheek as though reassuring her those old days were long gone. As for himself, he certainly didn’t feel any better - if he felt anything at all anymore, but the knowledge that somebody did understand what it was like did help even if just a little bit.