#blades of light and shadow 2

[spacetravels]

HAPPY BLADES 2 DAY

[dist4nt-shores]

i offer: some blades memes in these exciting times

[crowlion]

Nia is so hot + my wife

[rusty-clockworks]

[chaoticdazefire-new]

Decided to make an edit of all the BOLAS party members

[kraken-o-doyle]

Honestly it would be a perfect occasion for MC to go dark.

1. Aerin left MC after literally laying in the hay before that he betrayed us when we listened and cared for him.

2. The whole plot of book 2, their memories and missing year would be a conduit for anger and hatred for the group for moving on without her. (that's not good)

3. Even if you pick romance choices for Valax or no, MC still opened their heart for another friend but was burned yet again.

Again, I would want to see MC just snapping and going apeshit on everyone not caring who's who. Perhaps after a major character death.... Not gonna name and put into the universe.

[petalouda85]

This is what an impulsive crafting decision looks like apparently.

I made a Tyril Starfury amigurumi. A bit of trail and error involved but happy with how he turned out.

Tag list: @megas-choices, @starlight-starfury, @liviusofpella, @dreamingbrbig

[liviusofpella]

i need the party to acknowledge mc's relationship with their li. what do you mean they're not holding hands while strolling the festival or when they're tired after trekking for days, and one literally drags the other by hand. you want to tell me they're not kissing every few minutes in front of their friends who tease the hell out of them for it? i don't buy it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[beaumontes]

AERIN IS A WHINER CONFIRMED

[spacetravels]

damn tho if we got a chance to stay the night with aerin mc could’ve woken up to the other side of the bed empty and cold save for a letter….. imagine with me. walk this road with me

[gretchen-nightbloom]

[storyofmychoices]

The Best Crew ⚔️ & the bestest of friends 💜

How precious are these chibi minis by the lovely @artoile ! I've been holding on to these precious gems for a while and thought today was a good time to share them! I can't resist smiling at them every time I see them! I hope they make you smile too!

Mal, Daenarya, Nia, Imtura, Tyril, and Maiele (@lilyoffandoms's OC)

[zoeywades-spouse]

I am not fine

[rusty-clockworks]

B1 Ch1: Save the Priestess from the owlbear

B2 Ch18: Kill god (again)

[normal-thoughts-official]

Okay. It's official. I fucking hate the way Choices is dealing with the "MC gets kidnapped" shit

They're focusing on the plot to the detriment of any emotional stakes, which is always a bad move but it's a particularly bad move when we barely understand what the threat is this time but have been missing these characters and wanting to see them again for three years. Every expression of feeling over MC's kidnapping feels rushed and squeezed in, like they're trying to get it out of the way so they can get back to the Valax shit. Imtura, Nia, and Mal made up in five seconds without us even understanding how exactly this awful fight went down to begin with. MC explains what happened while they were in captivity and they all just go to sleep. Not even a "holy shit MC, are you okay?" or "we will end her" or anything. We don't even get a general line of how they reacted like "they were horrified" "they were angry" "they were sad" "they didn't give a flying fuck" or something.

Even Imtura's grief, while definitely the best written one out of the four, felt like it was dealt with in seconds (I'm yet to play with my Imtura-romancing MC in my other acc so I'm not sure how it goes with her in the bathhouse but it shouldn't take romantic involvement for the grief to last). Even when Valax shows up a second time it doesn't feel like they're as terrified of the idea of losing MC again as they should be

There are some pretty good angsty lines and moments but they always pass so quickly it feels like they're brushing it all off. It almost feels like fanservice. "See, here, your LI kisses you as if pouring all the longing of a year into it. And then you go to sleep. Happy?" No, actually. For fuck's sake, you have to dig deeper than that

The only moment we had that wasn't plot related was bathhouse scene, which was cute, but felt entirely out of place. They just made up, they still don't even know what happened to MC, if MC's okay, they barely had the time to catch up and they're just carefreely dunking each other in the water? It could have been played like a cathartic "finally having fun after so long of suffering" sort of deal at least and then it would work, but it simply wasn't written that way and it just feels like their entire dynamic is botched and weird and we're supposed to forget that for the last year MC was gone and Imtura had a massive fallout with the rest of the group. They keep alternating between these super dramatic declarations and lines and acting as if nothing has happened, and it just doesn't work. Take the time to deal with the emotional consequences of the LITERAL INCITING INCIDENT OF THE STORY, then you can jump into battles against the big bad hot gorgeous goth woman. This just feels like they don't want to deal with it and are just throwing some lines here and there so we don't complain

Don't get me wrong, I'm generally enjoying the story and I'm happy to have the gang back, but PB's not doing their own plot justice, especially considering they've supposedly been writing this for three years. The emotional stakes are always what carries a story, even a fantasy/action one. We have to care about the characters, which we do because we have since book 1, but it doesn't seem like the story does and it gets more and more disappointing every week

[cassie-thorne]

I love him so much