#and you dont have to take dmg for it

[foxstens]

grubsong is one of the best soul-gathering charms tbh

[4giorno]

oh yeah i managed to beat all worlds in the simulated universe on difficulty 2 😚

[dwter]

you treat dream like hes a toddler, shit on his friends for not worshipping the ground he walks on, act like you know exactly what dream is thinking and feeling at all times, and then the second people call you on it you back down like you did nothing wrong and they're the scary mean ones. you have the spine of a weasel.

LMFAO? me pointing out that sometimes his friends treat him objectively (and also parasocially obviously) like shit sometimes is not "treating him like a toddler" its called being able to form my own fucking opinions on shit instead of playing kumbaya bc its easier. "not worshiping the ground he walks on" Oh you meam criticizing when his best friend hangs out with a person who has publicly shat on dream, showed and discussed his doxx on stream and has let his audience berate dream and his fans in the most vile way possible? <- ignoring the fact that most of that crit was centered around mizkif just being a shit person overall. or do u mean complaining that dream, who has spoken about both the physical and mental declines hes has faced due to the agreement hed stay faceless till george, has to continue to remain in this stagnation while watching his friends live it up bc that objectively is a terrible thing to imagine a person going through. all of this also ignores the fact that despite the underlying emotions of what i post being real, its played up for fun. like be fucking serious.

[thatdeadaquarius]

Okay so-- i was reading some sagau posts and came across this one where the reader was an army vet and my brain just Did Its Thing--

So now I'm here to inflict this on to you--

Would guns be considered as catalysts. And would they only do Phys Damage.

Me reading this ask:

😶 😐 🤨 🧐 🧐 😰 🥲 😭😭😭 💀

STOP YOU'VE INFLICTED ME WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL DMG FROM THIS ASK 😭

(Also srry took so long to respond, when i didnt realize how short this was/was just sitting over here 😓)

^ For the sake of gun imagery being a lot/maybe staff might hate me for it,

we'll put this gay shit instead (i almost mispelled to "gay shot" lmao)

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Sun: Army Veteran Reader, Gender neutral Reader (you/they/them)

Orbit: SHORT Headcanons

Stars: everybody bc i think itd be funny

Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: gun stuff, mild violence, mild cursing & Trigger Warnings: Gun fun everywhere

THIS ASK HAS ME GIGGLING TO MYSELF LIKE A MANIAC

You're out here having a whole gun they let you take for off-base

And u ofc have a license so u can conceal carry

(idk how non-american gun laws work, but tbh ours are so fucked idk how they work here either, just that an army guy i knew once could have his gun when he got back home)

And ofc ur just paranoid enough (more like it just makes u feel safe)

That when u get yoinked into a portal to a silly little brightly colored gacha game fantasy world, the gun comes with 💀

Id like to add in my silly little "ur in a video game, so video game rules" AU version of genshin so:

The only other gun (ish) wielder (Mika) has unlimited bolts

Sooo I'd think your gun would be the same jfc lol

NO BC YOUD SCARE THE ACTUAL SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE IN UR VICINITY IN A BATTLE

BC GUNSHOTS ARE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF LOUD

When u first stumble into abyss monsters/hostile creatures of the realm, u nearly scare off a Lawlachurl bc every shot's like thunder to these bitches😭

So not only the monsters but the vision holders think u fucking summoned lightning

OMG THE BULLETS ARE SO FAST THEYD PROBABLY NOT SEE IT

ESP BC DISTRACTED BY GUNSHOT LOUDNESS

SO U AIM THIS LITTLE BLACK CROSSBOW (???) AND THINGS JUST DIE (OR GET RIDDLED WITH HOLES) WITH NO CLEAR ARROW STICKING OUT

STOPP- you're becoming a witchy god or smth to all of Teyvat bc it just looks like hella high level magic atp to them LMAOOO

Rumors of you get out of hand and say u just point or snap ur fingers and things get wounded/just die on the spot 💀

Oh another difference between Teyvatians seeing ur gun vs. crossbow (what they know)

Is that guns are wayyyy more destructive

Like an arrow would get shot but it'd bounce off of things like rock or wood or metal, maybe dent a little depending on how close

But a bullet goes thru that shit so easy, and leaves a whole little explosion behind, once again depending on range

(I once saw a Mythbusters episode? of them proving bullets would definitely go thru car doors, like movies lied to u, this is why drive-bys acc work like for gangs)

Lmao, the image of you in like full armor with a Teyvat made automatic gun after showing it to blacksmiths

Makes u just more convincing as a god, esp bc military training

(Ppl like Gorou and Kokomi begging for military tactics/training ur world has done)

...

....Ok.

I'll address it.

But only so u dont think im stupid later.

Yes, the Fatui have guns.

No, this not the same as having a glock LMAO

End of story.

(Also, urs runs on bullets, whereas the Fatui rely on magic/delusions to power theirs, plus they dont seem as fast or destructive as urs, more "explosions aimed at you" than real bullets)

Which,,, u leave the managing of ppl copying ur gun to ppl like the Qixing or smth, but make sure to give them advice on good gun laws if teyvat accidentally revolutionizes bc of ur advanced gun that anybody can wield (non-vision users)

Thats the best ive got abt that

Oh, also enjoy being praised as a War god now.

:)

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... dammit i had smth i was gonna tell u guys-

Uh what tf was it, it was important

OH

Next post is the Eldritch God Oneshot! Look out for it :) !!

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Safe Travels Kid,

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[raaindropps]

Now a very biased marketing of Aventurine ... (2/2) because I just gotta , sorry

AVENTURINE

pros : As a shielder , he can block incoming damage and help the team survive by not losing any HP in the first place. Preservation characters are so few imo because of how inherently OP their sustain mechanic is. Similarly to Fu Xuan, Aventurine doesn't need to use skill that much either, only when his shields' turn are almost up or when an ally has lost their shield. Because his shield Can Stack, it means that u can essentially keep gaining an even bigger shield everytime you skill or Aventurine does a follow up attack. He also provides effect res up to 50% for ALL ALLIES which decreases the chances of getting crowd controlled or debuffed with DoTs (which from my experience are super annoying, especially wind shear). Like I mentioned before Aventurine does a follow up attack every time his stacks reach 7 , which he can gain stacks from allies FuA and from all allies getting hit by the enemy (allies getting hit grants 1 stack while he himself getting hiy gets 2 stacks) (This follow up can also stack his shield up after unlocking a trace)

In addition to effect res, he also has in built CC protection like Fu Xuan does (except it only applies to him) and this isnt a Chance to resist like Luocha but a 100% will not get crowd controlled every two turns as long as he has his shield up.

Lastly, his ulti can debuff the enemy with 15% crit dmg received which buffs the team because now the enemy takes more crit damage damage ^u^

cons : no cleanse like Luocha, so if u do get debuffed u just gotta wait it out. Again though 50% effect res although won't prevent debuffs completely, it does reduce the chance to get debuffed so u don't need any cleanse in the first place. His other con is that he doesnt heal / restore lost HP like Fu xuan does but considering how his shields can stack and basically have infinite uptime its pretty dang okay and hes definitely worth it as a sustain. wait this js supposed to be cons. um.

his other con is that although he gets free crit rate u dont actually do high damage on him unless u build him to do high damage but like hes mostly a sustain so just build as much def% as possible so his shields r Beefy. Idk if its a Con Con per say but his technique to get the highest out of it is quite a gamble and his ult is only single target instead of Luochas aoe attack ult BUT it will usually do higher damage than Luochas while also debuffing the enemy and can reduce more tougness than luocha (90 instead of 60)

OVERALL : great solo sustain option, In my opinion more valuable than Luocha but then again the next limited 5* sustain tht comes out could definitely overtake him. In terms of Utility (aka buffs provided for allies to increase their damage output) as well as Great Sustainability id say hes on par with Fu Xuan, then Huohuo is slightly less powerful but still Very Great because energy regen and atk% is crazy and her cleanse is also OP, then lastly Luocha. Also I think his animations are fun and his sound effects especially his finger snaps sound so crisp and satisfying. I recommend going for Aventurine if you use follow up attackers like Clara, Jing Yuan, Topaz, Ratio, Yanqing and also characters who could be very squishy like Arlan who does better damage at Low HP. Aventurine can also work for damage over time teams if you use the light cone that lets him apply burn on enemies aka the Trend of Universal Market cone with Topaz and his face on it. Also if you're going for Acheron, Aventurine is probably her best sustain option atm because of how he can contribute her Ult stacks with his Ult debuff and help her damage output too although its already crazy asf.

YEAH thts it mwah mwah sorry for this long ass ask but i am going to be this guys marketer for a while i think

OHHHHH U MAY HAVE CONVINCED ME ... the lack of cleanse might b annoying but I rlly enjoy shield characters.... The lack of healing may be okay if I use his shields well and that fact that they dont gotta be replaced every turn is helpful.

Do u know if his shields go to the entire team or just one selected character? I gotta assume its the whole team but sometimes hyv suprises u

Luochas AOE seems rlly helpful but the question is if Aventurine's shields outweigh his lack of aoe.. Not to mention u said the ult usually does more damage than Luocha's which does help. It would rlly depend on who im facing, but I feel like even in boss fights a weaker aoe outranks a stronger singke target. Much to think about....

[magicalgirlagency]

So we have ideas and concepts about putting traditional Maho Shoujo characters (the magical girls, mascots and goddess, etc.) Into grimdark setting to help the grimdark MGs. How about the opposite, putting about 4-5 Grimdark MGs (im going to call them DMGs for short) into a light and hopeful setting?

Im imagining a scenario where five DMGs - our main characters- from a grimdark dimension, who were victims of a cruel magical system controlled by some sadistic gods that feast on the sufferings of humans - but tricked the DMGs into their twisted situation by pretending that They have some righteous and for-the-greater-good reasons for what Theyre doing. The DMGs arent part of a team, maybe the Gods encourage fighting among the grimdark MGs for Their own amusment and to prevent them from uniting to defeat the evil Gods as well. Maybe the main DMGs got into some magical portal mishap while being stuck in the same place, and got suck into a portal while threatening each other (but not actually fighting, just throwing threats around out of fear and stress) which take them to the more hopeful dimension. Btw, the portal immediately close after they got suck in, and leave no trace of its existence, so the evil gods dont know about the DMGs escaping their controll, nor about the existence of a portal or another dimension, nor are they able to chase after them - if they even care enough to notice the DMGs disappearing tbh, they might not even know they were gone until the Good Goddess come to personally kick the evil Gods down to Hell. Basically, the DMGs upon coming to the light dimension is now completely safe from the danger of the evil Gods.

After the DMGs escape their grimdark home, they got directly into the Sanctuary of the hopeful MGs (a place where the light dimension MGs come to relax and essentially their secret community, its where MGs teams along with their mascots meet and enjoy their time with other team or the Good Goddess) They actually werent awake when the main light MGs trio (our second set of main characters) found them and brought them to the Medic for emergency check up. Their mascot reports the odd situation of a group of MGs randomly appearing in an unconscious state to the Good Goddess, and She come with the mascot to see the DMGs.

When the DMGs woke up, their reactions, from the youngest to the oldest respectively, was: terrified, shocked, confused, "WTF is happening", immediately try to threaten the Goddess (whom was in their medic room at the time). The mascot tries to comfort the DMGs, seeing as theyre in distress, and ended up nearly losing his head to the oldest DMG had the Goddess not stop her attack in time. The mascot then waited for the Goddess to calm the 5 DMGs down, but wander to the youngest DMG to help her get less scared by himself (despite being rather shaken after what just happened, but it did work and he wasnt attacked this time). Im not sure how exactly this would happen, but the Good Goddess eventually calm the DMGs down, assure them that theyre safe here, talk to them for a bit and promise to visit them again the next day after theyve rested. She and the mascot then left the DMGs room, leaving them alone with each other.

Cue some angst, "I dont trust you but I dont have a choice here", some scared interactions and staying up all night out of caution and fear. The two younger DMGs did ended up becoming (sort of) friends though, relating to each other due to their closer age and being equally terrified of the older DMGs. The pair sit and whisper to each other throughout the night, with some of the older DMGs occasionally asking and talking to them.

Come daytime and the Goddess did come back to visit them (bringing some small gifts like clothes and snacks). The DMGs actually werent expecting Her to keep her promise, nor for her to bring them gifts. She said something along the line of "Im a Goddess, ofc Im keeping my promise! Why would I not keep my promise?" Some of the older DMGs was cautious and ask Her if Shes here to make them join in some twisted "game" ( the evil Gods made them played these "games" where theyre forced to fight other grimdark magical girls). The Goddess comforts and reassure them that theyre safe here and that She'd never hurt them, or let any harm come to them (Shes somewhat confused about why they ask such questions, but choose to not pry too much seeing as theyre uncomfortable). Things continue with Her visiting and giving them small gifts for a while, and the DMGs slowly learning more about this new world through Her, and also went out to explore on their own sometime - some of them went very far while other stick close to the Medic place. Also, they discovered that the Light dimension Earth is now in a state of World peace and is essentially a Solarpunk world.

After fully recovering from the damage of unstable dimensional travelling, the Goddess give them a place to stay in the light dimension Earth - under the care of the light MGs Trio (theyre adults btw) who found them in the first place. This part of the story is full of SOLs about the 5 DMGs recovery from their traumas.

The other part of the story is a plot about finding a way to reach the DMGs original dimension - theyre scared but the Good Goddess assure them that theyll be okay, after all Shes going to absolutely murder the evil Gods and rewrite the magical system there herself. They did succeeded and the evil Gods have no idea that they wont be seeing the light of day anymore.

Anyway, its Happy Ending for everyone but the Bad Guys basically.

TL,DR: 5 grimdark magical girls escape into a hopeful magical world where they heal from their traumas with help from a Goddess, a trio of adult MGs who adopted them and a mascot whos trying his best to help them. After finding a way back the grimdark dimension, the Goddess destroy the evil Gods and rewrite the cruel magic system. Cue Happy Ending after a while of recovery and rebuilding.

What do you think about this concept?

Plenty of Magical Girls could totally benefit from joining an union, really. We shouldn't be pitting bad bitches against eachother, they should be combining their strength. One of the genre's characteristics is friendship, after all.

[snowfoxsakura]

Genshin-sona/self instert thingy wooooo

(I inserted the plushie i have irl too bc why not)

her name is still Sakura despite beng from sumeru but i'll explain that in a sec))

long and kinda sad/trauma filled/edgy backstory bc im incapable of making happy backstories for my self inserts))

She is the child of 2 adventurers from sumeru. as a toddler she always joined her parents' adventures. one day as they were going to inazuma through a ship they came across a big storm. that storm wrecked the ship and seperated her from her parents. no matter how much she tried to go near her parents and save them she couldnt do anything as a little girl. as what remained of the wrecked ship was sinking she hit her head, seeing a light blue light before falling unconscious.

she was later found by a wlw youkai couple on an inazuman shore unconscious, holding her plushie and a cryo vision, protected by a cryo shield. a shield that broke only when she woke up. Due to the head injuries and the trauma she suffered, she had forgotten alot of stuff including her own name and the faces of her parents. the 2 youkai decided to adopt her as they have always wanted a child and gave her the name sakura because of her pink eyes and flower shaped pupils. the 3 later moved to sumeru in order to be safe from the vision hunt decree.

Growing up she was surprisingly energetic and happy. she had a big imagination that made playing house with other kids so much fun and she gained a reputation for coming up with the wildest scenarios and stories.

She was never interested in being an academia researcher. her interest was more in visual arts and crafts. drawing, painting, crocheting etc. but her biggest passion was sharing her stories so she started practicing acting, later getting in zubeyr theater. quickly befriending alot of people there including Nilou.

due to her childlike nature people are very 50/50 about her. some find it cute, some dislike it. but her childish nature and big imagination caused her to be the only grown up who can dream and see the aranara in sumeru ((yeah even the akasha couldn't completely make her unable to dream, it limited her creativity alot tho))

in her dreams she would play with the aranara and lesser lord kusanali, who she knew as nahida and thought she is just a regular kid until the samsara incident.

outside of theater work she likes to take walks around the forest and draw anything she thinks is pretty. she always carries her pencils, brushes and paints in the bag she made herself.

in the archon quest she helped the traveler figure out they are in a repeating dream with nahida, who she found out is lesser lord kusanali way before the traveler.

if she was in the game she would probably appear in the nahida archon quest and any quest relating the aranara

for her world quest,i think it would be about her finding out about her birth parents and real name through the irminsul and her dreams with nahidas help. that would make for some emotional cutscenes xp

Playstyle: she is a cryo catalyst support and shielder. her skill makes a shield and creates energy particles when enemy hits the shield. her burst freezes enemies without needing hydro kinda like Zhongli's burst, also applies cryo to enemies and buffs elemental reaction dmg

i feel like she'd be a 5 star but idk y'all can decide

and before you ask,

Yes our oc's can be friends :3 and you can draw them together

(only as friends tho, or maybe mentor/ student too, idk just dont make it romantic, she already has a bf lolol

i might post him soon too)

[rui-drawsbox]

What's up it's Nazunon again (hope you're feeling good and are healthy and stress free <3)

Bc of the stuff you said in the last post abt having magic being very OP I had a thought about how to make it less OP.

Imagine it only working in dire circumstances (like Yosano's from BSD) so it isn't always an option, or causing severe physical harm to the person performing the magic.

And yes! Nihility/Harmony Nazuna ftw he is the Tingyun/Bennet of Magical Girl Arashi.

Anyway hope you're having an amazing day!

-Nazunon

i officially declare the nazuna nito struggle in this au

first of all. Hi!! Hello Nazunon and Anon!!! and a big hi to @neptunite-stars too cuz we're gonna be discussing their ideas too! im making this a list or im gonna go crazy crazyiwascrazyonc-

Powers! (not weapons, we'll get there later)

First (1) option! Healer! Nazunon says to tone down his healing powers while anon says to keep him op to show the great loss he was in Valkyrie. Gotta agree with Nazunon in this one, even if Nito is only in the final battle, a healer with no restrictions is wayy too op and would make the audience feel like there's no reason to feel worried for the main team, because even if they get hurt they can just heal and go back to work :/

A way to prevent this (using Nazunon's example!) is putting conditions! A few ideas are that he can heal only a certain percent (some bruises will keep hurting and cuts may not fully close) due the stressing situation they are, or he can transfer the bruises to his own body, as a way to represent his caring personality yet tendency to take too much. Orrr following Yosano's(BSD) powers as example, he can heal others while hurting them, directly contradicting his personality and making him reluctant to use his powers unless is strictly necessary (kind of -1HP but +5HP per hit lol)

2nd option! Support! Can buff his ally or debuff the enemy, or mabye both, idk. A buff idea is reinforce the clothes/armor of his allies (+DEF/VEL) or weapons (+ATK/VEL), and for the debuff ma~ybe inflict little but progressive dmg, maybe where whenever his attacks hit will make the enemy feel numb which can make them unknowingly ignore the cuts and bruises others make them.

3rd option! straight up a Tank. Also starting with the Weapons and Neptune's ideas. What's the weapon that would make the little guy a walking menace, you ask? A big pair of scissors is answer! like, almost as tall as him. It *has* to be that big to be used as a shield, and when it's closed it will make the shape of a sword!

Very delicatte looking, but strong metal! It has to be able to cut heads after all hahaha!/hj

Now going back to supports/healers, i've got the classic options, staffs and books.

Needle staff and antique books (yes they're from genshin but i didn't really wanted to design the covers, but you get the idea).

The staff has a little floating threads mess in the center from where i think infinite threads should come out, but for specific purposes, like heal or reinforce allies for his healer/buff thing, or he can stab the needle in the ground to make the threads go for the enemies foot, forming sewing patterns on the ground, keeping them trapped in the place.

And the books can have like a bunch of magic/alien fashion history that Nito has to study in depth to properly cast whatever he needs. Need to heal someone's deep cut? gotta know how to do a medical stitch in detail. Wanna tie up someone? study how to properly make the knots or take the risk of them escaping.

Anyways! Those are my takes for Nazuna's weapon/rol, hope y'all enjoyed it. I dont plan making any of them 'canon' unless i make a poll about it or see a bunch people directly saying they preffer a specific one (probably).

Rui-out★

[nazorneku]

Good to see that you manned up for the meme! Onmyoji and HI3 for the fandom meme~

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HI3

The first character I first fell in love with: I will not point a finger at someone who got me to play this game, simply 'cause I wanted to know all the missing lore, 'cause my brain had so many questions and I hate when I dont know everything and there're gaps. BUT... As I joked to Vyn 'bout picking up the cube (cause we pick up characters simply to annoy each other's muses), I did not know that I was walking stray to not just a rabbit hole, but a black hole. NEVER JOKE BOUT PICKING UP A CHARACTERS 'CAUSE YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME YOU WILL BE TRAUMATIZED 333 TIMES OVER YOUR LIFE CHOICES AND THERE'S NO COMING BACK. As a synthetic life forms apologist, for many years I was looking for a robot, for an AI, for someone to try and write them, but none amidst my giant collection of synthetics ever gripped my braincells, my throat and my spine as Void Archives did. It srsly was like with SSB - didnt think too srs in the beginning and then shit went downhill p fast and p bad. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Cube, Welt and Bronya. The holy trinity. I have an army of Bronyas in my dorm, im v normal (i also added Selee for one, with whom she communicates ahem). The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Elysia LMAO the pink horror herself, when she first time opened her mouth, i started to dislike her x9999 even more. PLS dont make me write why I dislike her, and I srsly dont get WHY and HOW ppl like her, she is so... uncomfortable and just yikes. The character I love that everyone else hates: It's either VA or Otto. They srsly take turns in fandom. One ppl hate on VA, but defend Otto's actions with saliva dropping from their mouths, others hate on Otto and defend VA's actions... Dudes, pls chill, they both are fucking horrible. Truce and tie, ok. The character I used to love but don’t any longer: Hmmm Hmmmmmm Hmmmmmmmmm idk, i dont think there's one The character I would totally smooch: VA, obv, Bronya, Welt, Mei, Gray Serpent (everyone in orderly line ok), FU HUA 🧎 Su, Tesla and Einstein, also HoV dont look at me. And I want to give the biggest hug to Sirin, SE manga fucked me up so bad, I took 9999999 dmg and never recovered. The character I’d want to be like: Cube or Welt, simply due to their abilities. The character I’d slap: Vil-V and Dr. MEI for fucking up my glorious cube and putting the blame on them instead of own incompetent self :| Otto for abusing my cube :| A pairing that I love: With cube? None. VoidWelt has a potential, BUT I want to develop VA's evolution, growing attachment and realization by self. I will not do that automatically, I want to plot and talk it out, I will not disrespect or disregard the potential evolution of a synthetic. A pairing that I despise: VoidWelt will be here too due to some ppl oversexualization and for an ace like me, it's repulsive af. Never found anyone shipping VA and Otto and hope I never will, it's just as fucking bad as Otto and Welt. PLS dont do that.

[narwhalandchill]

(4.6 beta changes) (again) (guys this is so long im just. many thoughts and me thinking out loud abt arle and my pulling plans. & other nonsense etc. my bad)

ooookay so yeah def glad i didnt jump the gun and attempt some sorta "is this a buff or not" feelscrafting nonsense on arles adjustments jkwjkwdjkwdjkwdkjjk and waited for TC (mostly zajef lmao) analysis and opinion on the real changes that ended up happening

anyway so like. it appears to be an universal buff for her p much? but how big of a buff it ends up being depends on some mechanics we still dont have a definite answer as to how they function (mostly how her BoL stacking from E works during the ECAQECA reset thing, if it enables 140% total stacking = massive dmg buff overall)

firstly my fears of her becoming too ult dependent for overworld appear to be? not as bad as i thought? so thats nice at least very pog like if she can do her thing decently enough just for fun running around thats very good

secondly. the ER situation is literally on a 50-50 😭 because its all about whether she has particle ICD on her E. if she doesnt, thats actually like. 0 ER needed or at the very least incredibly little of it. if there is particle ICD. well. thats going to be another story

the way her rotations have changed now seem to gear her towards overload teams with chevy? since they have very long rotations and characters like fischl and yae can have full uptime over those whereas vape teams lose hydro application from yelan or XQ and buff uptime from characters like bennett over time when a rotation stretches past 24s

like from what ive been reading it seems to be a pretty common sentiment that these buffs will make the biggest impact in chevy overload teams specifically (even tho shes obvi buffed just in general in all teams) for that reason and that chevy teams Especially w her at c6 with arle should be the best bennettless teams ultimately. which is definitely an interesting turn ?

(and this isnt all of the changes btw im just talking abt the ones that matter most for my considerations rn)

anyway. my thoughts then.

so im obviously glad the changes turned out to be buffs so far. but. theres still stuff im a bit. ehhhhhhhh on

firstly the survivability situation (which in turn leads back to the teambuilding issues). bc her self heal did get nerfed. so arles no longer going to be able to risk taking very high dmg during a rotation and dragging herself back to full once the next one starts. which to me feels like an emphasis on dmg mitigation for her and shielding.

(not to even get started on the. spam NAs to reduce her now 30s E cooldown so its up in time for the next rotation meaning you Do Not want to be staggered and tossed out of her attack string. and gee would you look at that! neuvillette level interruption res on c1 now! great!!)

(like again. to be clear. its hard to say exactly how much interruptions to her NA spam will end up fucking her over. i could just be overtly wary about how bad it might feel. but at its worst. with enemies that run away from u or go invincible. or stunlock you. the fact that it will at least heavily risk arles ability to reduce her E cooldown the amount she needs for fluid rotations. could definitely end up feeling like shit to play in practice without that interruption resistance. be it from c1 or a shied)

but then if we go back to her synergies and look at. those more interesting (imo) chevy teams that should perform well even without bennett. like arle/chevy/fischl/yae. whos keeping ur arle from dying there 😭 its giving lyney spreadsheet impact vs actual reality trying to play him without a shield 😭😭 guess we know who he got it from...

and yea could replace yae for beidou for damage reduction but her dmg will TANK in single target. as a whole. defensive options list in pyro/electro units only just isnt that good. beidous the one who tanks team dps the least as long as ur in AoE, but outside of that its just. thoma and dehya. and they will 100% tank the team dps

whereas defensive options like zhongli to me feel like they will just end up w her teams just wanting to lean towards that. traditional vape and mono pyro angle. bennett and kazuha and yelan/XQ. the usual stuff. and shes not getting benny and kazuha from childe so we have an issue 💀💀

unironically i will prolly be looking for some double geo zhongli/chiori/yelan vape team calcs for arlecchino (hope someone makes them. all double geo team calcs ive seen so far assume bennett 😭) just out of curiosity in terms of. how much worse it is than her best teams. bc if i can just slap her in that setup its a big bonus to how flexibly i could use her but eh. prolly will end up weaker than any chiorinavia nation core i could play so who knows

but. all this yapping and im only now getting to the point JSWJKDWJKWDJK so. heres the BIG problem

i dont have a single fucking chevrolet 💀 but i do have like 38 pity on a guarantee.

and like people are suggesting that maybe chevy will be on arles banner and fair, especially with these new beta changes incentivizing arle chevy teams way more than before, it would definitely make sense for hoyo to put chevy with her. and i definitely am overall a fan of this possible chevy overload team direction for arle (anything thats not bennett for father. ANYTHING) so id love for that to be the case

but. thats not guaranteed at all. and the same sentiment i had over arlecchinos hypothetical best support in the form of the pyro archon (or honestly. with the lack of electro shielders for chevy teams even clorinde could end up being that missing piece) where id almost rather wait to guarantee that synergistic unit before getting arle herself on a rerun. actually applies to chevy here too. even just a c0 one

and like. yes. if i spend that guarantee now on c2 chiori. and it turns out chevy is indeed featured with arlecchino. i will Not be able to guarantee her anymore - ill get one 50-50 and all the chances for a few solid chevy copies on the way but thats it.

however. the other scenario here is that arle does NOT get chevy. she gets fucking. kaveh noelle mika. and then chevy is going to rerun with like. idk. random banner. clorinde who may or may not have synergy with arle

...and im not really sure if id even want to pick arle up on that guarantee from that sort of banner SJKDKJADJKDJK but ok id skip her. buuut im still sitting on a guarantee i might not want to use on a character i feel just eh abt. but who might be with chevy (and like. i do pull for 4* when im on a 50-50 and low pity, idm the early. so as long as thats the case i can see myself tossing a few pulls at Any chevy banner in the future).

... which brings us back to. okay yeah saving the guarantee for clorinde IF chevy isnt with arle and IF shes an electro shielder sub dps support for those arle chevy teams. and getting arle on rerun as ive considered. doesnt sound that bad. but clorinde might also Not be that. uncertainty uncertainty.

like im fairly sure clorinde Will be an unit i wont mind pulling at 17 pity xianyun style on a 50-50 no matter what. but if shes not that mythical arle BiS support she prolly wont be worth that guarantee is my whole complex here lmao

whereas. c2 chiori. isnt an uncertain factor here. like im investing in her im getting her c6 eventually, c2 is like almost 25% personal dps increase (also my husk pieces LOVE rolling ER so itd actually be useful) it feels like the "safe" option in a sense ya know???

like. yes id leave arlecchino up to a coin toss . (Jail for jen!! fake lesbian!!!) but id also be left with the option of skipping her banner (if no chevy rateup to be clear) in favor of seeing whether she gains any synergistic units in the future and seeing how the various aspects of her kit that i do somewhat worry about end up panning out ?? and i think. id be fine with that ? Over the alternative

ultimately tho. im super happy arle got overall buffed and that at least some of my fears abt her kit changes were indeed unfounded, but some concerns still remain. its kinda wild and still sad to me that she went from an absolute 100% must pull character just bc its Her to like. curse of pyro on fielder idk if i Need this right now 😔😔 but i Will be getting her eventually!! no matter what

anyway have a sticker if u stuck around for all of my bullshit. this is literally just arle buff thoughts into gacha pulls stream of consciousness rambling 😭😭😭

[turbulentscrawl]

heya :P no clue if you take just silly chat asks ( if you dont do feel free to delete this ^^;: ) , but i decided to drop by and send somethin since my team got matched with you earlier today . hi im the luca that yelled at you in postmatch ehehe ( also i apologize in advance for the ranty-ness of this ask im horrid at both idv and at controlling myself . )

i wonder how often you get recognized tho lol , is it a lot ? i was so shell shocked when i registered your user in postmatch …….

anyways … for funsies , heres a list of nicknames me and my friends have given idv characters !! if you feel inclined , guess who ! ( i say as if some of these arent INCREDIBLY obvious hah )

vacuum cleaner , soup man , steve from minecraft , watering can , luka luka night fever ( wow what a difficult one ) , MAGICAL GIRL [INSERT NAME] ( cant give it away yk ) , orphan , math , joseph ( this is not the most obvious answer ) , pyrite ( nobody would suspect this one trust /j ) , pasta/coffee/chocolate , “the one with the stupid name ??” —me , WIZARD , and last but not least , Chair Destroyer 3000 .

it was fun gaming with you , thanks for being silly with us !! appreciate ya 👉😎👉 ( mothy and carlos emoting at the rocket chairs at the end made me laugh really hard )

sincerely yours , the absolute worst luca main in existence ever ⭐️

so fun fact for everyone, I was playing Antonio in hunter yesterday and got rizzed HARD in pre match. I'm weak for flirting and silliness so not only did I go friendly immediately, I married the Gravekeeper in the Red Church. Psychologist officiated. We honeymooned in the basement and lived happily ever after <3

you're actually only the second person to recognize me! The other person was @ dentiststoothfairy in duos, but the roles were switched and they tried to kill me 😂

Soup man MUST be Joseph bc he's got that...weird emote.

I HOPE magical girl is martha/coord because with the gun that's just too funny.

Math...is Alva? Gotta keep track of all the DMG fractions and such.

Vacuum cleaner might be Naib because he's a bottomless food pit.

Pasta/Coffee/Chocolate might be Andrew, but specifically with his Cheese skin

Steve from Minecraft I think is either lucky guy, Andrew, or Burke

Chair Destroyer Emma

orphan could be so many of them but I'll say Orpheus

I really wanna know how Luca got that super long "nickname" fjdhshs

Hope to see you guys around again! Im usually down to play if you see me online~

[4giorno]

i knowww that zhongli is kind of flopping nowadays, but i still need to bring him to the abyss every time because hes the love of my life 😔

[bitwynn]

Living in the spaces between the lines.

A short "Behold!" AU world study. Inspired by these fics:

Poetry older than words

The Ballad of a Black Hole

Read them, theyre good. And yes, i literally reread both series in the span of like... i dont even know and got the writing bug lol

Hyde/Paimon/Phantom!Reader is left and italic, Jekyll/Diluc is right and bold. Both is bolded italic.

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You were a human. You are a human. You will always be a human. And yet.

And yet, here you are, ripped from the shell of flesh and bone that is your body and binded to strings and lines of ones and zeroes and code. Lines of text and equations that when combined will reveal a constant predictable outcome.

If apple is equal to 300 hp and consumed by [character], then [character] has 300 more hp.

If [character]'s shield has 1500 hp and receives 2000 dmg, then shield breaks and [character] receives 500 dmg.

If [character] hits [enemy] weak point, then [character] will deal Critical Hit.

True. Constant. Predictable.

What happens then when something that doesn't abide by these constant, steadfast lines is introduced?

You are a glitch in the matrix. A virus in the code of the machine. And yet, viruses and glitches must also abide by the numbers and text that dictate their existence. Of which you have none.

How many lines and strings of code does it take to create a human? What sequence of numbers, and letters, and symbols equate to a soul? How then, does a soul be bound by the very principles that dictate something without a soul? Something not designed for the containment of souls?

Your existence is a paradox. An anomaly. An impossibility. And yet, here you are. A ghost, puppetered by strings made of ones and zeroes, and lines made of numbers and text.

You interact with the fabricated world around you as if it were real, polygons and boundaries and 3d modeling imitating reality. But now that you are here, who's to say this isn't real? This table, made by lines upon lines of code that dictate that it is a table, is real in some manner of existence.

This fruit, this bird, this table, this world. It's all real and yet, all a lie.

You learn to hide your thoughts from him, the story of an ant and knowledge and a circuit board thrumming through what would constitute your mind in this fabricated reality. But you feel his touch inside your head, like a cat purring up your leg.

The ant only goes mad when that understanding, the eyes that give it knowledge, is ripped away.

You chuckle and lay a ghostly hand on his black fur coat, lines and strings of code telling you how warm and soft it is.

And I certainly can't take away a blind man's vision. Especially when I'm the one that gave it to them. And especially when i dont know how to dont know if I want to dont know if I have to take it away.

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TAGLIST:

@chromatic-fate

[suckmybussy]

Binding of isaac character overviev Part 1: Isaac

unlock: none

Isaac, as a default character, is likely the least comlicated one, while allowing for insanely strong items.

Isaacs main playstyle is that of CHOICE, this aspect is present in both versions, and is core to best use of these characters.

Isaac starts with average stats, 1 bomb and 3 hearts, But has active item D6, which by default makes him one of strongest characters. His playstyle revolves around rerolling undesired items with D6, and searching for oppurnities for more item drops that he can roll.

Strong items:

-Birth right : all items swap between 2 items, the additional item is drawn from current room item pool

-Sharp Plug, 9 Volt, AAA battery trinket, The battery, Charge baby, Jumper cables: Allow isaac to use D6 more often

Strategy: Isaac wants to spawn as much additional items as he can for reroling like

-killing angel in angel room, to reroll key piece into angel room item -using judgement/the lovers?/mystery gift or other item spawning ways in secret room, to get powerfull items like Death certificate, glitched crown or rock bottom

Weaknesses: Isaac is one of characters that have no major weaknesses

Tainted Isaac:

Tainted Isaac keeps the premise of choosing best items, and instead of D6, he has innate ability, that makes all items cycle between 2 items instead, which allows every item to be basically rerolled once, with ability to pick whichever he wants, allowing him to choose stronger item between 2. To Balance this, he has only 8 inventory slots and 1 for active item, severly decreasing his max potential, and making 120 tears 1000 dmg runs much harder to achieve

Strong items: -Birth right: increases inventory size to 12, and doesnt take up inventory slot -Rock bottom: T Isaac is the strongest Rock bottom user in the entire game, allowing him to get highest stats Moving box: allows keeping strong, stat altering for later if he finds rock bottom, or to keep them for further rerolling throught other means like perthro -Active items contributing to transformation: Items like guppys head or Mega mushroom allow to keep progress towards transformation even when discarded

-Items that give permanent boosts: Health up, binge eater food, or dads lost coin dropping lucky coin are ways to get pernament stat ups from items we can drop later with no downsides

Bad Items: -Weak items that are mainly used to get transformation: brother bobby, sister maggie might be usefull early game, but keeping them forever just to get conjoined stransformation will just slow you down around 3rd/4th floor, when you get over 8 items, so are only advised when you can get 3 of them on single floor, or you are using strong items that contribute to transformation like Incubus and twisted pair

-Items requiring lots of focus on them, while giving little in return: Keepers sack is insanely good item, but requires isaac to really commit to buying in shop even weak items, and on even medium runs will be dropped later, loosing all stats we had to grind for

-Minor items: All items like sacks, on hit items like fanny pack etc, are usually just wasting slot, and are only advised when you dont have strong items, but find for example rune bag

Strategy: T Isaac as normal Isaac likes to spawn items in strong item pools like secret room or angel room to get the strongest items so his strategy is not much different except for 1 very powerfull strategy

The Rock bottom strategy:

As T Isaac has only 8 item slots, picking 9th item causes one of his item to be dropped, and with ctrl key isaac can choose which, allowing him to get highest stats thanks to rock bottom (rock bottom causes stats to never drop below highest reached value!), allowing isaac to pick up camo undies, kidney stone and soy milk to reach hard cap of 120 tears, then swap these three (or at least soy milk to get dmg multiplier back to default), and get strong items that decrease tears like, Eve's mascara, Ipecac, Haemolacria, Polyphemus, to get highest damage, and still keep 120 tears as long as we have rock bottom, and then change these dmg items to tear efefcts like mutant spider + brimstone + moms knife + C section etc, which resoults in insane amounts of attacks that can one shot by itself

Weaknesses: Having only 8 passive items and 1 active is extreamly limiting, and requires player to carefully choose items, and insane amount of items are completelly not worth it

Isaac in his design Perfectly encapsulates by favourite thing in lot of roguelikes - changing odds to our favour, and his choice centric design makes me think of choose your own adventure games like RPG's, which is fitting since his starting item is 6 sided dice. T Isaac perfectly executes default designt of tainted character, making characters strong point even stronger by interesting gimmick, while severly crippling him in other regards, and his gameplay is extreamly fun, allowing for couple of ways to get insane stats, and having highest highs that remaining characters

[tunabesimpin]

I would like to ask how to be a klee main pls

So you want to be a Klee main...!!!

LMAOOO OK JOKES ASIDE THO! I love playing as Klee and am super excited when someone else likes her too! Pls take everything i say w a grain or bag of salt as i know very little of what im doing besides from guides help XD

So short version: Klee is a great DPS, but she doesn't have very good synergy in reaction teams due to her pyro overpowering other elements in battle. She also struggles being very toss-able and squishy health. Not to mention her attack set is a bit slow and many suggest using cancellation techniques which can get very tricky to preform efficiently. Farming crimson witch domain may crush your spirits too, but I think her fun playstyle and kit is worth the efforts! You can burn the grass in your friends world for pranks! throw large enemies around and leave little room for them to attack! Blow up rocks and boulders! Explore the world more by fitting into small areas that may not supposed to be reached yet! Avoid attacks cause she's too short to get hit sometimes! LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS AND EFFECTS! I love it! There's a lot of fun little things that i find makes playing as klee very fun! I find she does best against multiple enemies rather than bosses. Not to say you cant use her for them, but it may not be ideal as a different group!

I suggest going to this Klee guide for an indepth breakdown of her pros, cons, artifacts, teams, etc! KeqingMains site has a bunch of great guides for many characters and is updated frequently!

LONG VERSION:

So Klee is a great and fun character. You can burn grass and set fire to your friends world!!! She can find stuff unique to mondstats area, and overall her kit is just super fun and can have a lot of explosions depending on your team!

Here is my build on her currently:

Weapon wise I use Skyward Atlas since ive gotten it twice by chance LOL, but widsith is ranked best 4* for her and Kagura’s Verity is best 5* BUT APPARENTLY!!! Kagura is most good just because it has bugs that make it better on klee, it might change if it gets patched out T^T so i wouldnt pull for it specifically, but if you have it already might be good to use! ^v^ Now, despite having her since release my artifacts are still VERY iffy, but thats cause crimson witch domain hates me! LMAO I use Gladiators Finale and crimson witch, and then my goblet is my off piece since i want pyro DMG ! My main advice here is for substats aim for Crit rate, crit dmg, atk % and atk. For the main stats Goblet; Pyro DMG, Sands; ATK%, and Circlet; Crit Rate (Crit DMG if you already have at least 50% crit rate without this piece) As for those cancellation techniques they can be daunting and tricky, but dash cancel and jump cancel arent too bad! BUT!!! Dash canceling is the easiest in my opinion. You attack twice, dash and then attack again. With how much i run around on the field this one is quick to get used to doing!

NOW TEAMS! ^V^ While I find I can use klee in most areas (besides pyro enemies TvT) A good team really makes Klees dmg increase a lot! My main go to is!!! Klee, Xiangling, Bennet, and Venti!

I use Bennys ULT then Xianglings followed by Ventis and then go crazy with Klee! ^V^ If your supports are built well, after defeating a group of enemies you usaullyt get your ults back immediately. So you can just keep cycle the big attacks! Venti can be opted out for sucrose or kazuha as well! (I think Kazuha is supposed to be best anemo here, but i dont have kazuha LOL)

My other go to team with klee is!!! Klee, Fischl, Beidou and any support that fits your needs.

This is a great overload team and makes for very fun combat against bosses that can be knocked over. Enemies have little room for attack and theres explosions everywhere which is super fun!!! My beidou isn't built yet, but this team still works great whether your artifacts are top tier or not. As for supports I reccommend a Healer or shield support. Klee sets the ground on fire alot and will take a lot of dmg there ;;; if you have Zhongli his shield is AMAZING!!! If you want to focus on dmg bonuses just stick with bennet and his ult! Diona or Qiqi are good healers that let Klee stay battling while protecting her!

AND LASTLY!!! Multiplayer and world exploration! If your gonna be a klee main u gotta be a lil silly!!! >V< You can mess with your idle friends and burn the grass they stand on >:3 or blow up an enemy over a cliff! Klees explosions can be used on rock piles or geo cliffs that need to be broken! No need to bring out a claymore ^v^ Again very good against multiple enemies at a time since she often knocks them off their feet and sends them backwards! Her small height also can help with avoiding attacks that go over her head LOL

Overall Klee is very fun to play and I greatly encourage you to play her kit! especially if you like explosions and being a lil rascal :3

AGAIN! CHECK OUT KEQINGMAINS FOR GREAT GUIDES! Legit it goes over the attack animation cancellation techniques, artifacts and stats, weapons, teams, EVERYTHING in great depth!!! You can also find resources for most characters if not all of them!

I rambled here alot but thank you for asking!!! <3 idk how helpful this was but hopefully you can have fun!

[yume-fanfare]

venti!! i like him a lot as well he is very gender… i have a venti but i dont use him much how do you utilize his playstyle and build him properly

ooooo!!! here is a quick how-to-venti guide!

his play style is p simple, just use his ult and it will generate this vortex that vacuums (small-ish) enemies on the field and deals anemo dmg. if the vortex comes into contact with another element, it'll swirl it and become infused in said element (it'll deal anemo damage And damage of that other element). a cool thing to know about it is that it "snapshots": if you use it while bennett's atk buff is up it will deal buffed damage even if the buff runs out before the vortex vanishes :)

HOWEVER an important important thing to know is that his ult is a bit elevated from the ground and not all characters can reach it, so here's a spreadsheet that compiles who can and who can't :D

the elemental skill deals aoe anemo damage and launches the enemies into the sky a bit (it stuns them and will, for example, stop abyss mages from putting up their shield again). if you hold the skill it will have a bigger aoe And create a wind current to let you fly up :) it's very useful in exploration to help you reach higher places too!

you don't really have to use his normal attacks so don't worry about that 👍

and as for build, venti uses 4pc viridiscent veneerer and the first thing to know is that you'll need around 160-170 of energy recharge. you can have some more if you want to but this is like the most important requirement because you'll use his ult the most.

and now i often joke that all of us venti mains are insane and crit build him and the function in game that lets you see what artifacts do most people use has happened to prove me right aldjskdjsk but the crit build vs elemental mastery build is a bit of an ongoing thing so i can try to summarize points to take into account:

the basics are: a em build will give you a more support-oriented venti, while a crit build will have him deal more personal damage

so, crit builds Can reach a higher damage ceiling

however you will need a lot of good crit rolls to reach a decent ratio between crit dmg and crit ratio (because venti has an energy recharge ascension)

meanwhile em builds can reach a very good damage ceiling even if your substats aren't that good: the em you get from main stats should be enough more or less

still, the viridiscent veneerer domain rng kinda sucks so em pieces might still be hard to find

(fun fact: if you need an offset em artifact, the husk of opulent dreams domain is your best bet, because the rng there makes it harder to get def pieces but easier to find em ones. similarly, some of your best crit pieces may come from the maiden beloved set)

another thing to take into account is the team: if he's in a team without many reactions a crit build is a better investment

so, for a crit build you'd use ATK/Anemo DMG/CRIT for main stats and for an elemental mastery build you'll need EM/EM/EM if possible. you can also perfectly use an energy recharge sands to meet er requirements

as for weapons, his best f2p one is the stringless, and it's very very good for both crit and em builds, it may even beat the 5*s in some aspects. and if we're talking about 5* bows, elegy for the end is perfect for a support venti while the skyward harp is better for crit venti. other good 4* options are the sacrificial bow and the favonius bow, to help meet er requirements

and that's all i think? i also greatly recommend checking out the very cool venti guide at keqingmains.com as it has much more info about other stuff like talents, constellations and cool team compositions :)