(NO!!!)
(Bonnie--!!)
(No, no, nonono, did they- did they really-)
(You saw them, you saw them get grabbed, and you couldn't do anything!!!)
(Change, YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOT!!!)
(Of course it was a trick, he would never actually change!!!)
(And you BELIEVED HIM!! YOU FELL FOR IT, AND THEY ALL GOT HURT AND IT'S YOUR CRABBING FAULT!!!)
(BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD ALL JUST BE FRIENDS! BECAUSE YOU HOPED THAT IT WOULD ALL BE OKAY IN THE END!!)
(AND NOW EVERYONE IS- NOW THEY'RE- THEY'RE ALL--)
(okay, okay, calm down, just calm down--)
(They're all fine. Bonnie is fine. You looped back, so they're fine, they're fine-)
(it's all fine.)
(You're back, everything is fine.)
(Everything is back as it should be, back to normal, you're back, they're all back, you're all safe, and-)
(The door creaks open.)
⭐: Mira? You awake?
(Oh, change. You... you stuck around too long again.)
(You shut your eyes tightly. You can't look at them, not when you let them die, not when you forced them to do all of that, to remember against their will-)
⭐: ...Mira?
(he pokes your arm gently.)
⭐: psst, hey, it's time to-
(You jolt up.)
⭐: Woah, sorry, sorry-
⭐: ...Are you... okay..?
(You stare at Siffrin.)
(The tears you expected never come.)
🎀: I... I'm...
(You just feel numb.)
(...)
(But... it doesn't matter how you're feeling! You need to make them all happy. You can't let them know something is wrong.)
(Can't let yourself be even more of a burden on them than you already are, haha!)
(So just... get yourself together, Mirabelle.)
(You smile, shakily.)
🎀: Yeah, I'm fine. Just... had a nightmare.
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Does the play in revival my dream is really racist/stereotypical ?
Yes, I don't think it was intentional at all in fact it's pretty clear the intention was to say "don't judge those who are different from you just because you don't understand them" but ultimately they failed at that.
The play presents it as a very "both sides" kind of issue in terms of the natives and colonisers not understanding each other. There's also this line:
Before this the town dwellers (colonisers) had been incredibly rude towards and fearful of the forest people (natives). The girl Emu is playing rescues a solider after her people attacked him, even though the soliders had literally just invaded their land "just to check" if the natives were gonna attack the town. "They're not all bad" to the officer who just led a march onto someone else's land just in case is not the right message here at all.
Also ultimately it's revealed that the conflict between the both sides was instigated by a third party. The worse coloniser who wants to exploit the natives for their natural resources. The townspeople are the good colonisers who should be forgiven for their actions because they were manipulated by the antagonist who is a bad coloniser is also not a good look. Like it really hammers in the "not all bad" message here by introducing the only character who you are meant to think of as bad. Not like the other townspeople were incredibly racist before they made amends with the natives. That can be forgiven because they don't really think like that they were just manipulated by the evil exploitative coloniser. Do you see how bad that message is.
(Also there's a line about how the townspeople might sell Emu to another country for interacting with them and maybe we're meant to view it as an exaggeration but either way. Why are we meant to be forgiving towards these people again?)
While the movie Emu and Nene's cards seem to take inspiration of is based on the Emishi people, it's more likely that the play is based on Ainu people, due to the more recent archetecture used in the sets, as well as the costumes for the officer and subordinate (refer to Tsukasa's rmd untrained). Emishi people are believed by historians to be ancestors (but ethnically distinct) to Ainu people. I strongly suggest looking into the history of Ainu people and the oppression they faced from the Japanese government and other countries (European ones surprise surprise), because the oppression dates back over a millenium and is far too much for me to reasonably cover in any detail. In brief, the government for centuries has regarded the Ainu people as a primitive and barbaric group (both terms are also used in the rmd play), and in recent centuries took their lands in northern Japan with the expectation that the Ainu would assimilate with the Yamato Japanese people. Post WW2 they were denied rights to their traditional practices and even their language due to governments pushing for monoculturalism.
That's not even going into the fact that the reason wxs is the only unit that has card sets based on other cultures (this and island panic) is because they're treated like costumes, which in itself is an incredibly dehumanising and racist way to think.
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Uh. You ever accidentally create a new form for the hedgehog trio. Okay well Shadow with a Black Arms form has been around in the fandom for like. Ever. but me n my partner accidentally created a new form for Sonic today when discussing the idea of Eggman activating his Chaos Form during the plot of Forces (our rewrite. we have so many thoughts). As for Silver's alternate form, I always liked the idea that he got the time travel powers from Mephiles when the timeline got rewritten, since Blaze absorbed Iblis, and Blaze n Silver could be read as parallels to Iblis n Mephiles. So uh, they all have weird forms now. Wanna say Sonic's Chaos form is achievable without the Emeralds since he absorbed some of Chaos' DNA, but he needs all 7 to achieve the Perfect form, where he is basically a hedgehog shaped Chaos.
(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)
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sakura and the weird breeding kink he has but he wants to be bred . you know
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What is Haunted's lore? She seems so interesting and i really wanted to know. Sorry if youve already explained it before!
This is… Not really spoilery but it is A Lot so I’m popping it under a read-more.
!Content warning for implied infanticide and ableism!
Haunted was raised in what I can only describe as a NightWing cult (not that normal NightWing groups aren’t already pretty cult-y, but this was like, full blown cult). They were empowered NightWings who upheld the typical ‘NightWing superiority’ belief and focused on honing their mental abilities in preparation for some vague Eschaton event they had predicted.
Haunted is unempowered and was raised to believe this was a rare ‘defect’, with the older dragons around her imparting sentiments like “you’re sooooo lucky we were kind enough to keep your egg even though you were born Wrong. most dragons would’ve gotten rid of you the moment they knew you were Different, but we kept you cuz we’re so fucking nice and you owe us now for being so so nice and we are totally not above getting rid of you later if you become more trouble than you’re worth” and Haunted was like “cool I’m a baby”
Cut to Haunted as a young adult in said cult - she’s mostly jaded about her upbringing, though there is an undercurrent of ‘oh God they’re going to Fucking Get Me’ that runs through her mind constantly. Despite this she has good friends and is. Surprisingly well-adjusted, all things considered??
(Also she was far from the only dragon who got Fucked Up by that environment (cause, yknow, cult!), many of her empowered peers have their own scars. Her suffering was unique but she was not unique in her suffering, yknow?)
Things really went south the night Stygian was kidnapped and someone tried to follow through on the silent ‘we saved you, we can just as easily get rid of you’ promise that had haunted her her whole life. Cue story!
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