#I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game

[captain-jale]

I've been reading I Became The Tyrant Of A Defense Game lately and....

This is something Cale would do.

[sometimesthatsbetter]

Every thing i read in Febubary

I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game

The MC of this novel is so fucking silly cause who tf names their kid Ash 'Born hater' Everblack? Like i'm being for real right now, his mom literally called him her 'little hater'. Love that

So, a Korean gamer who was streaming about this old strategy game on hardmode where if you fail once the game resets. The guy got isekaied the moment he finished the game on stream and right in the middle of the battle field too, tough luck hater.

Before we go more in depth about this story I would recommend that you read the novel version, the manhwa seems a little tacky and i've seen alot of readers complain that the manhwa makes everything look cheaper.

So, one of reasons why it made on to my reading list is because it was recommended by my guy friends who has great taste for this kinda genre. It drew him in because it used actual strategies that he would also use in his game instead of throwing around random lingo in hopes to cater to gamers. Like every battle was truly suspenseful and the author isn't afraid to show that every victory requires a sacrifice. Also I've seen people praise the character development of this novel, everyone starts out a little stereotypical and annoying but they get their own story arcs to shine.

Another thing i like is that this story is about the fight against the end of the world. Like i know alot of stories with that kind of premise but rarely do i ever feel the urgencey as strongly as i do with this story. The last stand against a sea of monsters waiting to consume the world and the young prince who's tasked with the question of remaining human or turning into a monster to save his world. I love me some classical fantasy

Anyways, it has 500+ translated chapters and it's all free. Go read it now.

The problematic prince

If i'm being honest here i can think of at least 10 more manhwa crown princes who are even more problematic than the ML, especially that guy from the abandoned empress, yeah fuck you blueberry head.

So the story premise is the typical bad boy x good girl story trope. Our prince Bjorn keeps getting pestered by his ex wife whom he doesn't want contact with and our FL is being sold off to the highest bidder in society, shinnaigans happen and so the are married. That's the very shorten version of the plot

First thing that i noticed, the vibes. It gave off so much Edwardian, turn of the century energy that i adore. From the costuming to the city streets and the interactions between common people. Love it.

The author seems to have been blessed with amazing writing skills because oh my god did the writing style made me swoon. Erna, our FL, can be classified as one of those soft girl heroines but i feel like she's more than that. She knew what she had to do to keep her loved ones safe and always strived for better, she's not a cunning villainess nor a simpering coward. Erna never settled and kept enduring and trying new ways to connect with others around her even when she's being labelled as a home wrecker.

Also the nobilities and medias reaction to their marriage was incredibly realistic, i see alot of manhwas with rags to riches stories or men marrying women with horrendus reputations but never mention how powerful the influence of the peoples opinions. Here you can see that Bjorn and Erna's relationship, while rocky still holds strong, it seemed like they are truly in love and happy with their choices. Yet media still condemns her as a witch, a slut and a disgrace towards the royal family. It even lead to a attempt on Ernas life. Which shows you how easily the public can be whipped into a frenzy just because of a narritive that she is other woman.

The spirit queen

If i even find the author of this manhwa i would like to make out with them and have their babies, cause this kind of genious deserves to be preserved.

Do you want a story with proper drama? Do you want something that actually keeps it's momentum and doesn't half ass shit half way through? Do you want themes about power and how it turns people into the worse version of themselves? Well look no further. The spirit queen has your back

Another thing that i loved about this story was it's sympathy towards the working class. The servants in this aren't the stereotypical happy go lucky loyal maids that you see in manhwas, they also aren't evil back stabbing people either. They know that their lives are worthless when it comes to the upper classes so they do all that they can to survive and to protect their loved ones. And i respect that as hell, even if it made them do less than savory things.

Also i recently learned that the author, Tutu-nim, wrote and drew this manhwa on their own. A true girlboss

Run away with me, girl

Remember all those times you said that you can be a better husband for the FL? Well this is a lesbian romance based on that premise.

It's a bittersweet romance story about two girls who were high school friends meeting each other after 10 years. Maki, who is till doing her graduate courses while living with her mom and lamenting her loneliness, while Midori is engaged and pregnant and living that perfect, normal life she wanted. Of course everything is not as it seems, and that's what the author wanted to explore in the coming chapters of the story

It's a short read, about 16? 17? chapters. But the author manages to do so much in that short amount of time. Every character felt so real and complicated. At first when you see Midori and the way that she treated Maki after their reunion, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that Midori is just playing around with Makis feelings. Especially with the way that she flirts and then reminds Maki of her engagement to her boyfriend.

This manga has the most realistic, hut wrenching potrayals of abuse, love and hate i've seen in a while. And if i'm being honest there is a high chance i would do the same if i was stuck in their situation.

[itsanneeey]

Lily = Human Flamethrower lol

[bloustorm]

I love when main characters are like this

[laughingherring]

I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game - Chapter 210 Wham! The next moment, sparks flew off the shield that Evangeline had wrapped around me.| Wielding her shield, she deflected the magical bullets, then clenched her magical lance forward. "Good heavens, he's completely lost it, hasn't he? I can't believe Damien would fire at you, senior?" Tell me about it. We might have to rethink the rankings of who's most likely to lose their minds in our party.

My goodness, they have a ranking for that!? I wonder how far up the list Ash is, he's usually pretty chill but he does have a reckless and unhinged side to him....

[derekscorner]

[kyuumon]

Matching icons for you and your pal

[sleepdeprivedartboi]

One of the greatest Manhwa panels I've seen.

Yes your eyes don't deceive you. He's using a crippled mage as a flamethrower. Peak shit. Lloyd from greate estate developer would be proud.

[soraybi]

THEM

[topragim]

şu çocuğun aşkından ölebilirmişim gibi geliyor*tabii ki abartı tozu içerir. bu kadar kısa sürede nasıl bu kadar etkilendim bilmiyorum ama cidden onu arıyorum, gözüm sürekli yeni bölüm var mı da. muazzam bir insan

[lancelought]

Angraxaethe Sevsarstra, also known by her nickname Angy, is a Nova-turned-Protege I play in a game of Masks:A New Generation, a ttrpg about teenage superheroes.

Angy is a dragon from Avalon, a dimension of myth and legend and the source of many arthurian knights and wizards that became superheroes in the setting. Dragons are not well loved, and Angy herself was the only remaining egg from the hoard of the ancient avalonian Queen of Dragons, a terrifying beast the size of a mountain range that famously took hundreds of knights to defeat decades ago. In the aftermath of this campaign, all of her eggs were destroyed - except one, which was saved through the interference of one Archwizard Misaurystes of Anfwynn Tor, the headmaster of Avalon's best-known magic academy. She was allowed to keep the egg to raise herself under one condition:

Once hatched, the dragon would be shackled, in magical manacles, bound in humanoid form until such a time the magic deemed her no longer a danger to the people of Camelot.

So Angy grew up, with her adoptive mother and sister (Morgan le Fay), knowing she wads a dragon but not what she really looked like, not what that meant, nothing except that dragons were dangerous and so was she. The only stories she knew of dragons were from books on their terrors and their defeat - all except for a scant few stories of good dragons, the white ones and the sky blue, who appeared on scant few occasions to help the kingdom.

She knew she was not one of those, so she decided to be the other kind, and overcompensate.

Angy is kind of a bitch. She doesn't know how not to be, because it's what she thinks she is supposed to be. She is mean and vindictive and openly desires to be a tyrant. Of course, she never directly hurts anyone, tends to think of excuses to go out of her way to help or defend people, and when given a pocket dimension full of humans with no choice but to follow her spends most of her time making sure they are fed and happy... but that's not important, she's totally evil.

Without the use of her draconic form, Angraxaethe spent her childhood learning to channel her innate dragon magic into wizardry, and she is an accomplished wizard with specializations in defensive magic and dimensional magic, and a natural talent for burning things.

With the help of her girlfriend Mistilteinn (Misty), a personification of the mistletoe from norse myth (superhero settings are WILD), she eventually managed to break free from her shackles, and she is now capable of becoming her dragon self. Still, she spends most of her time walking around the city in humanoid form.

It's just more convenient, and has nothing to do with the fact that she can hold her girlfriend's hand, and look people in the eye.

[captain-jale]

Ash Everblack has a strong Lloyd Frontera vibe , and I love that for him

[celebiii]

L, Q, A, and Z for the alphabet game >:3c

>:3

I’ll talk about one for each just because I’m unhinged and have a fair amount for all except Q and Z who only have one JFKSKFK

Now L my first choice is always Lane but I talk about her 1949394949929 times any chance I get so THIS time L is going to be Lucin

^^^This is she. You’ve drawn her before but I changed her design a bit recently

Anyway Lucin is a Necromite with psychic magic so immense that it causes direct damage to her health, this is because she was born mutated, and what that is in Necromite standards is essentially a defect in genetics but it’s like more complicated.

Necromite mutations are varied and generally manifest in the form of extra or lack of limbs or damaging magic types to the person that don’t match up to the parents they come from. In Lucin’s case, she was born with an insulator which is the large eye directly on her forehead, generally a Necromite picks an item as an insulator at a young age that they store their magic and souls in but Lucin’s just all attached itself to this eye and so she is considered very vulnerable and fragile in the species standards because she cannot regenerate properly like most others can.

This also means she is prone to nasty effects of her magic, since it’s all stored in her head essentially she can be afflicted with varying things that range from migraines to full-blown seizures if she overextends herself and expends too much energy. She’s got it pretty tough, and there is a lot of pain involved in her condition.

However all of the eyes on her body can store and release this excess energy she has, and she uses them to regulate herself and function properly. That being said, she is not a fighter and uses her magic to look into the future and help make decisions for the village, nobody matches her ability to accurately predict what will happen and she is always asked before doing much of anything. She is generally grumpy and quiet because she doesn’t feel good a lot of the time, but she’s a really great and smart person who has saved multiple people’s asses in really bad situations I will be real JFKDKDK She is a very valuable member of the village elders who she considers to be her family and she is just chilling most of the time. She’s also a lesbian and has a very lovely gf

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Now Q I only have one character and it’s Queen

Anyone who knows me knows Queen is the love of my life like JFKSKDK

She’s the monarch of the Necromite species, and she is very very fucked up. Originally a little gardener girl born into nobility, she took interest in fighting because there were tournaments held by the original king Andronicus, and she wanted to participate but knew she wasn’t cut out for it. However, he took notice of her and took her under his wing, training her up and teaching her how to improve her fighting and her magic. She became very bonded to him, but sadly she was manipulated and the true intentions of him doing this were to get her to take his place on the throne, and he had to die for that to happen.

It’s much more complicated than this plot-wise but basically he lashed out at her one day and forced her to kill him in self-defense. She was injured badly both mentally and physically in the process, and afterwards she was pumped full of his magic as it left his body and latched onto her instead. She was driven mad by all of these things, and when she woke up she was never the same. Nowadays she is a strict tyrant who only seeks power and does not care who has to die for that to happen. She’s dangerous as hell and my most favorite villain I have ever made <3 There’s a lot more to her but she has years of development and I will spare everyone reading my rambling JFKDKFKD

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Now A is Andronicus ! I did just talk about him up there so why not delve a bit more into him.

Now this man is still being developed but he is a fun weird little dude. He was the first Necromite ever made (in terms of the story, not the first one I ever made JFKSKDK), and therefore he is the most powerful one by far, not a single other Necromite would be able to take him down in any regard, and that is scary!

He has many attributes that are considered mutations in more current day Necromites, but these do not negatively impact him; in fact he can freely shift his body to do things others never would be able to with no ill side effects. Necromites have changed biologically since his time due to evolution and the older the Necromite is the more similar to him they are, but many speculate that mutations in modern Necromites stem from Andronicus’ biological makeup because he was the root of all Necromites essentially! This is why mutated Necromites have such insanely strong magic, but sadly they cannot control it like he can so it causes more bad than good.

But anyway Andronicus was very much loved by all of his people. He was a gentle ruler and just a kind person, he made sure everything also flowed smoothly and that all Necromites always had a safe place to be. He was more powerful than anyone but he used this power for solely good, and he constantly interacted with his subjects and participated in fun activities with them. He seemed to genuinely care about everyone, and when he died everything fell apart VERY quickly. Some of the older Necromites still alive remember Andronicus quite well, and there isn’t anybody that doesn’t miss him. Queen’s still agonized about the fact he betrayed her because she considered him a close friend to her, she never wanted to kill him but he quite literally forced her to or else she herself would die.

There are strange things about him though…. I can in fact tell you he was not in physical control when he attacked Queen. Someone else was pulling the strings on that one for sure, and alsooooo he may not be as dead as everyone thinks he is. But that’s all I can say for now :) (at least in this tumblr post JFKDKDK)

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Andddd finally Z is for Zekial

Zekial is a species known as NULL, who are born from the souls of those who were deleted from this plane of existence. Usually when somebody is deleted, it is because they’re considered a hinderance upon the world and generally broke certain universal rules, it’s a fate much worse than death. Usually what happens is that the soul is sent to the Void and fades away, consumed by a very destructive magic that will ensure they never come back, but this is not always the case. If someone has enough fight in them, they will not disappear and they will morph into this monstrous species that only seeks to destroy. Usually those that survive and become NULL do not retain sentience and become more akin to feral animals who do not remember their past lives, but Zekial here is a very rare instance of retaining both human levels of sentience and even potentially some of his memories…. but if he does he certainly plays dumb about it. There’s more to him than meets the eye, I don’t even think that’s his real name rather than an alias but …. 🤫

He is a pretty boisterous and obnoxious person despite the situation he’s in, his personality can be pretty disarming if it weren’t for his terrifying appearance. He is still incredibly dangerous though, he is immune to most damage because of the state of his body, and while he is still trapped within the Void along with others of his kind, he has been planning to escape for quite a long time and get revenge for being tossed away….he just needs one more person smart and strong enough to help him…. so he waits patiently. (And this does happen in one of the arcs, the Void’s gates are opened up and a massive attack on every universe breaks out basically but I won’t go into that here)

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AND THAT’S ALL THANKS FOR COMING TO MY OC TED TALK

[theosva]

Manhwa appreciation 5: I became the tyrant of a defense game

[bloustorm]

Fucking walls indeed

[yumeko2sevilla]

Airin Tojinomi_ unreliable messenger

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ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴀɴᴄᴇ

"Ahahaha. Now, do you really think I was that innocent?"

_The Unreliable Messenger

Full Name: Airin Tojinomi

⤿Airin (愛凜): A name of Japanese origin. "愛" meaning love, affection and '凜' meaning cold.

⤿Tojinomi (十時のみ): A name of Japanese origin. "十" meaning ten, "時" meaning time, hours, moments. "のみ" meaning delightful, beautiful, plesant.

Japanese: 十時のみ愛凜

Other Names:

╰┈➤Airin-san_ Tojinomi-san

╰┈➤Tojinomi (Yukiharu Shirokami)

╰┈➤Mademoiselle Trickster (Rook Hunt)

╰┈➤Bitch (Minako Sakamaki)

╰┈➤Unreliable Lady (Pierre @/anxious-twisted-vampire, Mia @/writingheiress)

╰┈➤Lady Airin (Maids of the Tojinomi Clan)

╰┈➤Little Actress (Tsukuyomi)

Title(s):

╰┈➤The 10th Lady of the Tojinomi Clan

╰┈➤Messenger of the Tojinomi Clan (Formerly)

Twisted From: Kyubey_ PMMM + Shikyou the Amanojaku- Masa Works Design

Voice Actor:

╰┈➤Japanese_ Nakashima Yuki_ Hinomori Shiho -Project Sekai

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Age: 17 (Appearance Wise)

Gender: Transfem Non-Binary (They/She/It)

Status: Alive_ Immortal

Species:__

Height: 188 cm

Birthday: February 29 (Pisces)

Dominant Hand: Right

Hair Color: Snow_Slivery White

Eye Color: Gray-ish Red

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Homeland: Japan

『Family:

╰┈➤Ritsuka Tojinomi ("Mother"; Unknown)

╰┈➤Unname Father (Human?)

╰┈➤Mirai Onizaburo (Ancestor)』

Dormitory: Ramshackle

Occupation(s):

╰┈➤Student

╰┈➤ Head of the Tojinomi Clan

Grade: Freshman

Class: 1-A_ No. 7

Best Subject(s): History of Magic, Defense Arts

Club: Board Game Club

Favorite Food: Brioche

Least Favorite Food: Spagetti

Talent(s): Understanding Humans

"The Head of the Tojinomi Clan. A manipulative and cunning young lady, who hides their true selves by a mask of selflessness. But as time flow, the mask cracks more and more."

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ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ

"All you can really do is, stay."

╰┈➤Distinguish Two-Facer: Airin is -by others- an enigma, a seemingly sweet yet abnormal enigma. Kind? May not be the word. Manipulative? Now that sounds more like them, consider how they pulled the strings using their connections. Airin is terrifyingly good at keeping up the selfless mask she wore for a long time. After all, it's not her fault that it was called 'The Actress', no?

╰┈➤Love and Hatred: Airin,, quite has a view of 'love' and 'hatred'. As much as an emotional manipulator like them, love and hatred, for them- are the same thing, whilist love was born from hatred, the same opposite to hatred! Why should the world differ them so much? While you can mix them for tragedy, instead?

╰┈➤Tyrant of Tragedies: Dear Sevens, this young lady is going to be a tyrant. Among her traits, tyrancy and cruel are pretty much her definitions. The Tojinomi Clan became more grievious, and sadist due to her and her 'mother', Ritsuka. To say this young girl is the copy of Ritsuka, is not a compliment.

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✬Unique Magic: Blessings of The Fox's Wedding (狐の嫁入りの祝福)

"Oh Mrs. Fox, don't take the umbrella. Quickly, knit my feelings together.. Blessing of The Fox's Wedding."

╰┈➤The user is capable of granting others' wishes through phenomenons. When using this, the people will have other certain abilities that's related to their wish, which boost their macial powers up. However, as exchange.. Half of their soul will be a part of the user's feast.

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╰┈➤Backstory: •°•[Won't you smiling at me?]•°•

⤿Main Theme: The Fox's Wedding_ Shikyou the Amanojaku- Masa Works Design

✦Rumors going around, saying that Airin- while looks and act like human- has the ability to clone themself which make them immortal! It has never confirm this, however.

✦Somehow, Airin always appears where Yukiharu is. There is a theory that it was related to Yukiharu's curse.

✦Knows things that it shouldn't know, but doesn't care much.

✦Can anyone explain the tension between Airin and the Shirokami Clan Representive? Each time they communicate, they look like they want to kill eachother!

✦..It seems that she's involve in the Second Cold War. But neither Airin or Yukiharu accepted to say this.

@anxious-twisted-vampire @writing-heiress @achy-boo @yukii0nna