#counterweight spoilers

[ahcoffeebeans]

15 Days of FatT: Coworkers

Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.

[scarletstatic]

15 Days of FatT Day 15- Clocks/Time is Long

I have two jobs, Ibex. I have to make things better for people, and I have to make sure that people aren’t dead—I am Gur Sevraq, and I have stolen the future. Walk the prophet’s path with me, or suffer God’s attention.

The still images are under the read more in case the gif compression doesn't treat the gif nicely!

Happy 15 Days of FatT!!

[fourteenfishteen]

ok but actually there's like this fun chilling emptiness at the core of arbitrage right. like. td,a wants to bring more people into its free market platform capitalism system, in order to expand its reach, in order to being more people in, etc.

Even rigour like, ostensibly has a goal, which is like, deliver shareholder value. We see it sells riggers to outside buyers in VfW,o:TLTtBD.

What's arbitrage's plan when it's got the whole galaxy using its platform? There isn't one, right! (It's fitting right, it's very Amazon/Google of them, of course we don't pay dividends, we reinvest in growth)

But like yknow, it's this fun middleground where the transformation Arbitrage wants to enact isn't really its endgoal that it's supposedly ideologically committed to, nor is it just the terrible means to achieving some other endgoal. it's just kinda happening

[clemkesh]

Happy Secret Samol, everyone!! (Especially @flaviantemple, who this secsam gift is for!)

I wrote an Aria Joie song (that she def did not release) where she tries to process her grief about Cass. Lyrics under the cut.

I didn’t know when I said “not me” What I was saying was “anyone else” Fuck you for having the courage to be The thing I couldn’t be myself

You stared down the devil and you didn’t blink You selfish selfless asshole, what did you think? I’m blinking now -might be the tears I think I’ll still be blinking in ten thousand years

I didn’t know when we clashed our blades It was for the very last time I hear your footsteps following me Every bell a funeral chime

You stared down the devil and you didn’t blink You selfish selfless asshole, what did you think? I’m blinking now -might be the tears I think I’ll still be blinking in ten thousand years

I can’t even stand in the sun And there’s this damn ringing in my ears I know it’ll toll until kingdom come They’ll know your name in ten thousand years

You stared down the devil and you didn’t blink You selfish selfless asshole, what did you think? I’m blinking now -might be the tears I think I’ll still be blinking in- Fame is fleeting, I got mine But you didn’t get anywhere near enough time

[peacereturnedtothevalley]

I am not legally bound to this but I keep feeling a need to find a common theme w all the fatt PCs per player so here is my not-peer reviewed analysis (obviously not completely universal due to the sheer number of characters):

dre characters - unnassuming but surprising when they follow their convictions to shocking or violent ends. may or may not sleep/eat/die

ali characters - blorbos and icons. Romance is important in shaping the characters 

janine characters - macabre, fully in her aesthetic wheelhouse or explorations outside of that comfort zone

sylvi characters - little guy and or really cool and or have family issues

art characters - stoic, explorations of religious worship, or a guy completely out of his depths may or may not alter life as we know it (i dont know enough about duvall)

keith characters - fun and funny and not taken seriously. unsurprisingly follow their convictions but to unexpectedly sad ends

jack characters - wide variety, multiplicity, convincing in-character role play, one brit allowed

Not planning on elaborating on all of these but for Jack wrt multiplicity (some c/w + marielda characters spoilers below 😱):

hitchcocks is twins

audy is audy and also two divines

fourteen fifteen has multiple bodies and got 4 of them on screen, each with distinct personality shifts even if the core is still themself

this doesnt count but the inherent nature of faction game

accounting for solos we have

lem (lem)

clem (clem)

kalar <3

pickman <3

so overall a lot a variety anyway

ALso elaborating on Sylvi characters (little guy really cool family issues):

Aubrey: little guy

Ephrim: really cool, family issues (lonely boy where do I belong where is home)

Echo: little guy really cool family issues

Millie - really cool, family issues (does being a clone count)

Virtue - really cool

Hazard - little guy

Cori - little guy family issues

[humanmorph]

KEITH: Um. I think at this point it’s gotten around that…Orth just doesn’t sleep. AUSTIN: Yeah. KEITH: Right? And so—I think that…in—I think that the combination of like seeing a really haggard sort of almost like…like servant to his morals, like “can’t stop ‘cause he feels like he has to” [...]

COUNTER/Weight 42: A Splintered Branch, A Ringing Bell Pt. 2

yeah man that sounds like a terrible way to be. maybe even for the rest of your life or something

[thominyourside]

damn, AuDy’s racist in this one

[dancy-nrew]

The maps of the divine cycle so far…

[transfemmbeatrice]

an unnecessarily precise breakdown of major character deaths in Friends at the Table! I would love to hear if I missed any or if people have different opinions about edge cases.

list and explanation below (spoilers, of course, for all seasons):

Ali

Hella died twice--once in Autumn when she came back after making a deal with Tristero, and once in Spring when Samot delayed her death with local reconfiguration and eventually she moved into a pala-din body. Castille started dead, a ghost in a robot body from the jump.

Art

Cass and Sovereign Immunity both died at the end of their respective seasons.

Dre

Oh, Dre. Well. First, Kobus died in the Counterweight finale, which I am counting because they did not have a PC besides them. Then Valence, the first mid-season permadeath that didn't happen in a cutscene, and finally, Chine. Throndir died and came back a vampire; Figure started out undead.

Jack

I'm counting Clem as a permadeath because as far as Jack knew she DID die and regardless it DID end her life as a player character. Fourteen Fifteen gets two; one permadeath for the ending of Twilight Mirage, and one temporary death to cover the many times they perished throughout the season. I don't think they should all count separately because they all happened with the knowledge that they would be temporary, which the others did not. Of course, you could make the argument that Fourteen started off dead...

Janine

Janine has been with the show the least amount of time so she's had fewer opportunities and I'm worried this means she's due.

Keith

Branched Man..... never forget......... I chose not to include the other Makos because they weren't really player characters?

Sylvi

Here to give Dre a run for their money, we've got Jillian Red's death at the end of Counterweight (included for the same reasons as Kobus, above). Ephrim died and came back via Samothes II. Virtue of course started off with the You're Dead playbook, and Hazard is sort of debatable but I've decided that even in Sangfielle, not having a head makes you at least mostly undead.

[branched-man]

just started the chime prequel ep and somehow i never considered the mako to grand fashion pipeline... mako really did run so grand could also run

[swallowtailed]

the tragedy of orth godlove has probably been the most compelling part of counterweight for me so far. that line jace says to orth—"addax told you to make him call you captain"? devastating, especially after the swing from sokrates overthrowing ibex to orth going and asking ibex for help anyway. great drama love to see it

[dontmesswithnoheroin]

I finally got the romanced spawn!Astarion epilogue and my first epilogue in the game I'm ,,,,,,,,,,

I need to lie down

[scarletstatic]

15 Days of FatT Day 2- Blades/Sword

Yes I DID look at a gif of the threaded cane animation for way too long as reference for this, I'd love to try to animate this moment some day cause that animation looks so cool!

[fourteenfishteen]

divines' minds and personalities are stored as .dat files because. i would like to .date them

[team-moonlark]

You also read the Magisterium series growing up lol?

Yes, haha! I think i was 15-16ish when i read the first one, and that was either shortly after it was published or right before the 2nd one was published... can't remember exactly when i read the first one, but i remember waiting for each book after the first to come out, so somewhere in between the first two?

But anyway it was a good series! I loved the concept and the main trio (call, aaron, tamara my beloveds <3) Also I'm still obsessed with the school itself? The aesthetic of it was incredible and i loved all of the scenes there. Although i will never forgive cassandra clare and holly black for killing aaron, in what, the 2nd? Or 3rd book? That caused me emotional damage that I'm still recovering from lol

(Yes yes i know they eventually get him back but still. PAIN.)

[eclecticopposition]

ohhhh okok wait more. idk what you ship but. chime polycule? orth/ibex? clem (witch in glass)&gur sevraq as platonic haunted besties?

LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOO (FRIENDS AT THE TABLE SPOILERS INCOMING)

chime polycule! we appreciate the hard work people do even if we aren't all that invested in the romance aspect of it. give us a heist fic with these four and we will be sold forever

WE FUCKING LOVE ORTH

and GOD is this ship SUCH A FUCKING THING. we fucking lose it for the dance scene. we hope they hooked up or something. finale orth is maybe our favourite thing and ibex recognizing him as an equal is so so so so so good

poor fucking gur sevrak. these two guys. god. what a pair. sometimes you are trying so hard to be the bigger person but you're a ghost who can only change the world by doing one thing, and the girl you are trying to influence and be a religious mentor to is both someone you are worsties with and someone you have genuine moments of weird connection with and who is DEFINITELY dragging you down to her level. priest can't help but engage in violence for this one thing. and Clem is Clem! She Is! She Just Is!