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Two Peas in a Pod: part 7/?
I'm so sorry for the delay. I struggled...
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"Jazz?" Blaster calls just loud enough for his mer to hear him. Now that the initial meeting was over, he wanted to take advantage of the break.
While understanding that the human was calling him over, Jazz was a bit hesitant that moving might start up the whole confrontation again. He glanced over to the other orca still floating a little ways away, •၊||၊၊၊ had his eyes closed and it looked like he was focused on dealing with the repercussions of his actions. His expression was twisted lightly in a restrained grimace with his right arm holding his side.
Slowly Jazz pushed himself further away, before turning over and swimming to the pier.
"Are you okay?" Blaster asked as he knelt at the edge.
With an uneasy look, he shamefully admitted, "it could have gone better…"
The chief vet speaks up before Blaster can, but not to Jazz, but into the radio. "Has anyone seen signs of reopening or blood?"
The Vet Chief wanted to fully isolate them from you, to keep them in a transfer-crate, at least until the injuries had a low risk of reopening.
Blaster shoots them an offended side-eye, as Jazz is literally right here. However, he pushed it aside, half listening to the radio chatter – all good from the sounds of it – and turned to what was more important. "Did he hurt ya?"
They'll take him away.
"I'm fine," he whispered, looking down as he placed a hand on his chest. It still stung, as the first hit was made with intent – he had gotten mad when it happened, did it show on my face, did they see it – and the rest, warning shots. "Just a bruise… it was more dizzying trying to keep away from him than anything."
–if the team reports you showing signs of aggression, they'll… remove him.
He hums in thought, eyes drifting momentarily as •၊||၊၊၊ disappeared from the surface. Blaster was a little nervous about that as he looked back at Jazz. "Do you think that you'll be okay, the two of you, I mean. Do you need us to separate–"
They'll take him away.
"No." Jazz insisted quickly, fighting to keep his voice low – behave – and shaking his head. "We should be fine now."
Blaster knew there was more going on, seeing as Jazz was soft spoken and avoiding eye contact; an old habit of hiding himself when speaking to staff, but it would have to be a talk for later. When Jazz felt safe enough to open up. So instead, Blaster smiled and said, "Alright. But me and a few others will be keeping an eye on you both throughout the day. Just to make sure you're both comfortable as you can be. It might be a bit rocky for the first few days, but that's okay, we were expecting that."
Jazz didn't respond, his attention had been captured by the other mer at the bottom of the pool, beneath him. He had been somewhat keeping an eye on him with his sonar, watching •၊||၊၊၊ slowly explore the tank.
Though, Blaster was just barely able to spot the other orca from the surface, and honestly wouldn't have noticed if not for Jazz. Pressing the call button on his radio, Blaster looked to the staff, "we've passed the first hurdle, everyone. We'll move onto doing rotation monitoring. Fred and Josh, you'll remain for the first shift. Everyone else, business as usual till I get a schedule in order."
"I've adjusted the medications and sedatives." The chief vet told Blaster, though didn't even look at him, as they were currently preoccupied sending messages on their phone. Not even a second later, Blaster's own was going off in his pocket.
"I'll look over your recommendations after." He sneered at them, though the vet had already turned to leave.
Then while folks celebrated the success and steadily wondered off to their main duties, Blaster's second brought up the mers breakfast from the kitchen. They set Jazz's down next to him, but held on to the other while they eyed the water with extreme caution.
"Ah, ya, no." Blaster spoke up before they even began to wind up, holding his hands out for the food. "Give it here, we are not chucking anything at him."
They snapped to him with wide, frightened eyes. Like Blaster hadn't been here to see the speeds that the wild mer had gone after Jazz. "You cannot be serious– you're going to attempt to pole feed him? Now–here? When they have the space to jump!?"
"No." He said with rising irritation towards their attitude and their poor handling of the situation. "I'm going to treat him the same as Jazz."
His second now looked flabbergasted, glancing between Jazz, him, out over the pool, and then back at him. "But–!"
Blaster pointed at both Jazz and up at the pair watching on the viewing deck. He wasn't stupid, he wasn't being reckless, he had been taking everything into account. And honestly, if he wasn't so mad about how the wild mer had been treated – and was just about to be treated – during meals, he'd probably be shaking in anxiety right about now. With a heavy sigh, he then carefully pulled the bucket from their hands to set it with the other, "look… I'm not trying to force you to do something you don't feel comfortable with. You're welcome to leave, I'll handle the meals and hopefully by the week's end, everyone will be feeling comfortable when it's time for food."
They took one last nervous glance at Jazz, before whispering – pointless, he could hear it clearly – "I don't think you can – or should rely on him to protect you… especially with how–"
"You're right," Blaster said deliberately louder than a normal speaking volume, "I am responsible for my own choices and actions. Thank you, for your concern. We'll talk in more detail later."
Thankfully taking the hint, they left.
Then the area was silent for a moment, save for the sounds of dawn songbirds being overruled by the sound of the scavenging birds of the morning. Starting to beg or fight for bits of food across the aquarium yard.
"They're right, you know." Jazz said weakly, still not looking at Blaster.
There might be other staff up on the deck that oversaw his pool, but one of the perks to being outside was that voices didn't carry as far unless one was intentionally loud. So they might as well have been the only two here.
It was just enough for words to come tumbling out, like he could talk freely once more. "I messed up, it wasn't his fault, he wants to be peaceful – I'm pretty sure, and I just… I think I ended up challenging him?"
"Jazz, listen, they misunderstood." He leaned over and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm not expecting you to come to my rescue, or put yourself between me and him, or anything like that. I know very well that I may be putting myself in a potentially dangerous situation, and I'm ready to face whatever the outcome might be. But what I meant was, that with you here – just like this, with us together. You are showing him with your actions that you don’t see me as a threat. That by willing to be around me and allowing me to touch you, you’re showing trust. Jazz, buddy, you’re a far greater help than those goons posing up there." The last bit was meant to cause him to laugh, or at least smirk.
But when Jazz still seemed like he didn't believe him, Blaster made a small gesture for Jazz to look. In turning his head to see •၊||၊၊၊, the mer was at the far end with only his head above the water and had a serious gaze fixed on Jazz.
"It might not seem like it, even with what had just happened, but he's relying on you." He waved at the wild mer and smiled, before reaching for a bucket and held it up in offering. But •၊||၊၊၊ simply scowled further.
"I don't think Mr. prowl-around-you-like-you're-breakfast relies on anyone." Jazz grumbles in dismay.
Blaster chuckled and set the bucket back down, "well maybe Prowl, is waiting for you to invite him over for breakfast. He seems to hold some expectations of you."
"Ya, he sure– wait, Prowl?" Jazz whipped his head back towards Blaster, finally looking at him again.
"If it fits, it fits." He shrugged with an amused smile, "though, out of anyone here, it should be you that chooses a nickname for him for us to use. I don't want to keep addressing him namelessly or calling him 'the wild' one, and I don't want folks to think that us calling him 'buddy' is his name." Then he laughed as he glanced back out to the sour mer still watching them closely, "I mean, come on, does he look like a Buddy?"
Jazz tried to stifle his laughter, "n-no."
Good, good, Blaster was relieved to hear it. Jazz was starting to relax back into his usual self. Coming back up from the depths to the surface to breathe. "So, what will it be?"
Jazz's smile had slowly begun to return and so did his hopeful enthusiasm, "I think Prowl is good."
"I'll send out a notice to everyone." And be sure to tear down all those horrible sticky-note suggestions. "But I am going to still try and learn to say his name properly," Blaster then clapped the orca's shoulder before stretching, "so I hope you're ready to have the worst student ever."
"You're going to learn Mer," Jazz asked in surprise.
"Heh, I'm shit at learning languages, but I'd be happy if you want to share more of your world with me." He then brought them back to the next part of their day. "But first, breakfast. Want to ask Prowl to join us?"
"I'll try." He said, before turning around. Though gave a slight pause and adjusted his stance so his side was facing Prowl. When he saw a slight shift in his expression, one that eased some tension in his brow, Jazz gave himself a mental pat on the back. Already a marked improvement.
{You hungry, Prowler?} Jazz asked. It was sort of funny having a word he understood that could connect to the mer's name. He wasn't sure of the meaning of •၊||၊၊၊ yet, or if it had one. But prowling was something he did, so it still felt like Jazz had gained another tiny piece of who they were.
{Yes.} He answered, rising enough that his shoulders could be clearly seen, side facing Jazz for a beat, before he slowly began to swim over. Caution or taking it easy due to discomfort, his moments caused only the smallest and softest of ripples. Like a silent hunter.
Yet, it made Jazz’s smile shift a bit higher. Prowl is prowling.
But for Blaster, his instincts were starting to claw up his spine, alerting him of a predator. He was forcing himself to relax and keep up his friendly smile by the time Prowl came within five feet of the pier.
Prowl eyed him up and down as he came to a stop, then gently turned after a moment.
"Oh, right!" Jazz abruptly speaking up in slight alarm cause Blaster to flinch – which in turn caused a moment of internal panic, because sudden movements are always a bad idea – but Jazz quickly reached up over the pier and grabbed the human by the legs – which caused Prowl to flinch, and oh-boy, was Blaster having flashbacks of close calls – twisting him so he sat with his shoulder turned towards Prowl. "Pretty sure that facing toward him is like telling him you want to challenge them."
"R-really," Blaster asked, both trying to distract from his thundering heart and focus on the new information.
"I think so? He kept telling me to stop doing it, before I realized what he was talking about, so it has to be some sort of an aggressive sign." They both looked back to Prowl, who seemed a little tense, but otherwise calm. {You okay, Prowler?}
{Yes.} His voice firm and serious, but did not look at Jazz when he answered.
"… Guess we're ready." We’re good, but he must still be uncomfortable with what happened.
Blaster handed Jazz his bucket first, hoping it would make the next easier. But then Blaster paused, seeing a distant look in his mer's eyes. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Jazz fiddled with the bucket in his hands, but Blaster was still holding onto the handle. Not that taking it would be difficult, but it didn't feel like it was worth the effort.
"Jazz…" he pressed softly.
And Jazz retreated, "I… I don't feel hungry."
At least he was being honest about it.
Blaster had hoped that taking some time to talk would have helped to improve Jazz's current mental state. And it had a little. But his guilt over the misunderstanding with Prowl and the bad history with the chief vet were likely weighing too heavily on him. And as much as Blaster wanted to take the time and work through everything with Jazz, he couldn't right now, or rather Jazz would be unwilling.
Because Prowl was present. Even with a language barrier, Blaster didn't expect Jazz to feel comfortable having a personal conversation with him so close. But if Jazz didn't eat, then it was likely that Prowl wouldn't either. The trust was thin as it was, and hesitating too long – and not being able to explain why – would only make rebuilding trust harder. So, offering to use the holding pool and close the gate wasn't something they could do at the moment. And he hated it.
Blaster had to do something now to help restore Jazz's confidence and stop the spiralling of whatever thoughts were holding him back.
Good thing he was prepared for Jazz possibly becoming stressed.
"Hang on." Blaster said, his smile impish as he pulled the bucket back to set on the pier. Though, not wanting to risk Prowl backing off from him standing, he flopped back reaching for his bag strap, barely snagging it with the tips of his fingers. But he managed and pulled himself back up with it settling in his lap. "I've brought a little somethin."
Jazz didn't seem interested but waited none the less. Watching as Blaster pull out a huge plastic food-container – ... okay, he was slightly curious now and a little annoyed, because if he was going to tease him–
But then Blaster shook it with the biggest grin, and as the contents clunked around softly, Jazz's whole face lit up. Because what Blaster had just offered was the equivalent of a chocolate bar. There weren't many things that Blaster brought for him in a container, but there was only one that made that sound. "Moose jerky!?"
"Shh! Not so loud." He glanced up at the other staff, like he was doing something that would get him in trouble. But it wasn't a secret that Blaster made these treats for Jazz. And while it still pissed off the chief vet, there was nothing they could do about it.
It had caused a site wide outrage the first time he had done it. But orcas ate moose – the orca mers more so than the animals – even if it was mostly if there just happened to be one in front of them rather than an active hunting choice. But there was enough history, and with Blaster's dietary knowledge, he had won that battle.
He just chose to mix it up a little, rather than bring in raw meat. Not so different than some sun-dried fish really. And Blaster personally prepared it to make sure it was safe. Seasoning was just sea salt, simple, but tasty.
Jazz was now buzzing with eager energy. "Can I share with Prowl?"
"You’d better," Blaster laughed as he opened it and handed Jazz two strips that were almost the size of dinner plates. He could have tried to use it to mend the trust between him and the wild mer. But Blaster knew it would help Jazz foster his relationship with Prowl and that was far more important.
The whole time Prowl had been watching them and their exchange with intense focus, trying to figure out what was going on. So, when Jazz turned to him with a huge smile and held out what looked to be a piece of thin wood, he was wary.
{It's good!} Jazz wanted to say it was amazing, but unfortunately 'good', 'okay', 'safe' was all he currently had to work with.
After Prowl finally gave in and moved in close enough to take the offering, Jazz laid out on the surface. Careful not to get his food wet as he happily began to bite and tear small strips off. Taking delight in the satisfying sensation of the treat ripping and savouring the flavour as he chewed the tough meat.
Seeing how much Jazz was enjoying himself, Prowl took a tentative bite and immediately understood why. The look of surprise on his face had the other two laughing.
{Good, yes?}
{Yes.} Prowl then followed Jazz's lead and relaxed on the surface, enjoying the first piece of decent food since he arrived.
Blaster chuckled at the sight of the two of them and set aside the container to dig out his own personal stash to nibble on. "I've got more for you two sea otters, but only after you finish your breakfast."
Smoothing things over by sharing snacks always opened opportunities for bonding. Good ol' comfort food saving the day.
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Idk, this one felt very clunky to me, but I must move on -lays on the floor in defeat-
I'm now trying to put together a timeline of the all interactions that you share or like on your blog. Like a countdown clock to the flood/jailbreak, hitting all the angsty and fluffy notes, I want to make sure I can include everything. Q~Q
You and so many others have been showering me in praise and encouragement I want to live up to it. ♡(╥︣﹏᷅╥᷅)♡ I love you all, thank you so much!!
Going forward there is going to more Jazz and Prowl, without Blaster, I promise. Please forgive me and my long setups, my brain struggles with keeping things short, everything I write is a 200K+ slow burn. -cries-
-GLC
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OH HELL YEAH GIVE THOSE GUYS A MOOSE THEY DESERVE IT KDDKSHFV

Blaster over there is having battles on all fronts possible alsjfnfjnf
Also I'm happy they can have proper food at least sometimes~ Although I can't help but think that like. Jazz is happy because this poor moose is kind of a rare treat. Nice occasion gift you know. And then Prowl also loves the moose but in more "I was eating nothing but raw potatoes for a while and now there's a properly seasoned and cooked meal again" way. You know. Cause mers have all kinds of different foods in their cities and stuff~ While humans just go "here's your fish".
Anyway haha. The scene is so cute I love itt~

#he's pr. he's prowling#kamfnfkdmdhdkjdbdjdmdbdhd#the day is automatically better when there's two peas i#Jazz: I'm pretty sure I was displaying aggression#Jazz some time later after learning fish etiquette: *head in hands* N O#Funny thought. I just imagined Prowl thinking that Jazz is a bratty teenager but then at some point they have this conversation about#-numbers and stuff. And Prowl is basically goes WAIT. Not a teen NOT A FUCKING TEEN the guy is just being raised in awful environment???#that's not funky teenage growing that's a mer who doesn't get enough of anything in his life. not enough space to move so not enough movi-#-moving so not enough eating so not enough weight so NOT ENOUGH ANYTHING#Prowl is so busy worrying about that new strange place#he doesn't realize (yet) the actual way of it damaging Jazz#..........fuck imagine when he finds out that Jazz performs for humans#................that's gonna be a stong emotion.#GLC#apocalyptic ponyo#ponyo writing#ponyo jp writing#I love this chapter so much><#can't wait to see what it's gonna be like without all the humans around dkgkgnhrhd#JP are often meet and bond in very fucked up situations lol. But I'm sure the lack of humans might help~#glc I love you and your setups#the atmosphere is so there I can basically taste it
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I could wax poetic about why Viktor's League backstory is inherently more interesting and more thematically resonant than where they went with him in Arcane season 2, but the cold hard truth is
a man covered in grease and probably blood who builds his own body out of scraps with his own two hands, can in fact build any contraption out of dinted metal sheets and a few screws including a deathray, performs deeply inadvisable operations on desperate but consenting people with his own tools, generates a cult following against his wishes because of his ability to inadvisably help people but the power's all his now anyway so he may as well, wants to clean up and save the undercity but is (only sort of) misunderstood as a walking Geneva Convention violation a freak and a supervillain, torments his arch-nemesis on at least a weekly basis and probably homoerotically hunts him for sport, had his life's work misattributed to people in the ruling class and is angry and tragic about it forever, tries to rip out his own emotions and is unsuccessful but pretends like he was not, is actually oddly kind to children, and is at the end of the day still just some guy,
is just hotter okay
#arcane#viktor#viktor arcane#machine herald#arcane critical#viktor the machine herald#and yes it IS more interesting and more thematically resonant and doesn't unnecessarily launch the story's stakes into orbit#as usual i'm mashing his 2011 and 2016 lore together but that seems the natural course these days because there's good in both#the conversation around viktor's league changes is unfortunately mostly about appearances from what i can tell when really#the issue is themes and story and what is ACTUALLY cooler and more interesting as character writing#and not just -bigger stakes are automatically better- because they are really really not
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Do you think will see cal and merrin in live action, I hope so! 😍
I don't know! I do know lots of people want to see a live-action adaptation of the Mantis Crew, and I've even talked about making a Jedi fan film someday 👀
At the very least, Respawn (and Cam) are protective of Cal's journey and want to finish out their trilogy before potentially handing the character off to Lucasfilm. I also recognize games are a smaller niche which prevents the larger TV/film audience from meeting Cal and Merrin.
But (to plagiarize my own Twitter post) I'd argue we love Cal Kestis and the Jedi series BECAUSE of the medium, not in spite of it. Games/animation are powerful tools for storytelling and a perfect way to explore this side of Star Wars.
Respawn is creating some of my favorite work in the industry right now: it's full of love for this thing that is "Star Wars" and I'm not sure a show or movie could tell Cal's story any better - and the risk of watering him down to fit someone else's narrative feels disheartening. The cast of the Jedi games are AMAZING and do incredible work buutttttt these characters are created by the writers and artists first, and that's often who we lose when switching mediums.
But if Lucasfilm does greenlight a live-action project, I'll think of you :)
#cal kestis#jedi survivor#sorry if this comes across grumpy and a little biased; I have feelings about LA adaptations#especially when viewed as automatically better than animation#i love filmmaking; i love being on location and working with actors; the collaboration is SO rewarding and SO much work#i also don't envy trying to make anything Star Wars these days#okay get off the soapbox jen#asks#alt angle cutscene#star wars
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I think of clergy au Laurence sometimes
#partly because conclave(2024) changed lomeli's name into lawrence and my brain automatically connected these two together#i mean they are both british blondish men with soul crushing responsibilities that they hold on to their dear lives so#also dragons having a slightly better rep in this world's bible#anyways in my head Father Laurence serves faithfully both God and Country but always has this longing to that road not taken#which messes with his head a bit but he soldiers on until one day...#william laurence#temeraire
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Click for better quality cuz tumblr hates me
#ace attorney#the great ace attorney#ace attorney fanart#iris wilson#dai gyakuten saiban#tgaa#anyway im pretty proud of myself#might post that like video of me drawing cuz the app i use makes those automatically#so yeah i dunno#i think it came out alright#im still practicing light and colours#i hope ill get better in the future#:)✌️💪
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MY WHOLE CLASS IS TEN MINUTES LATE WTF DO I DO??? LIKE THE PROFESSOR IS HERE AND WE'VE JUST BEEN CHATTIN BUT AHHHH
#Like guys-#I KNOW its 7;20-9;10#BUT ITS THE FIRST DAY??#AND OTHER 50% IS ONLINE??#YOU ONLY SHOW UP HALF THE SEMESTER???#I am judging#and automatically better than everyone else#sunny rambles
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Every time I encounter a ship war with Sonic and Amy or Shadow, etc, I just smile to myself and believed that I'm the only smart shipper in the fandom because Sonic is bisexual and I'm the only person who knows that. 😎
#piko rambles#sonic the hedgehog#amy rose#shadow the hedgehog#sonamy#sonadow#On occasion I remember that Sonic has two hands and my day automatically gets better.#I just had a cringe flashback about witnessing ship wars from like YEARS ago and I'm so glad I'm not like those kids anymore lmao#I remember having a MASSIVE epiphany that Sonic is bi and I ate that headcanon up like ICE CREAM XD#I'm usually a HUGE sonadow fan but Frontiers made me love sonamy again. Not as much as I used to when I was younger but it's still cute#I enjoy both ships. Which is something the fandom is terrified of apparently lol
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I meme a lot about the latest banner and the various videos and lines it gave us but, if there is one thing it reignited about my general thoughts about Fodlan, it's frustration.
Or, why must we wait for Forging Bonds centered on dragons from other verses to have breadcrumbs about Nabateans and how they perceive their role and existence in Fodlan ?
Musings about the Seteth/Gotoh convo under the cut
Imagine if that character learnt Rhea, the seemingly random Archbishop, was actually the legendary Saint Seiros revered through Fodlan, who also lived more for more than 1 000 years?
It seems that there are some Shambhala loyalists in Nemesis's forces. As long as they're around, we can expect them to continue with their cruel experiments. Yes. We have to. It's the only way to ensure nobody else will go through what I went through. We must obliterate them in the next battle. It's the only recompense for Edelgard's death.
Nah, let's not think about it and pour a cup of earl grey tea instead !
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All jokes aside, this?
Is peak distortion/gap that exists between Fodlan characters in Fodlan, and Fodlan characters when they are logically explored outside of Fodlan, in FEH (or even for Billy, in FE17!).
Seteth, in Fodlan, can never talk or mention his feelings, thoughts or experiences as a Nabatean walking alongside humanity in Fodlan.
The closest thing we have is Rhea's parting words in Golden Trashfire, where she laments that without Nabateans to guide them, humans are bound to repeat their mistakes of the past.
We infer Seteth agrees with her, but we never hear his version of what he thinks is his role in Fodlan... bar this FEH exclusive conversation, with a fellow dragon, Y!Gotoh.
Much like his siblings (?), Seteth finds humans fascinating - but the adapting and evolving according the "times they live in"? That's a pure FEH thing.
It's Gotoh who has to point out - using "we" - how Seteth, and Rhea and Sothis, bestow their knowledge and guide humanity, passing on their teachings.
However, given how Gharnef isn't singing Jpop songs while wearing a sailor fuku of freedom, Gotoh's guidance and teachings are never thwarted in some "pointy ears control us", so this conversation, which is all about acceptance and what dragons can bring to humans, can be held.
It's only in FEH that Seteth can talk about what he feels, as a Nabatean, and how he also perceives himself as someone who can observe, but also guide humanity, passing on Sothis' teachings.
This part about knowledge is interesting too, because Nabateans are known to have banned/slowed down knowledge (the various bans) and while Sothis shared freely hers, it led to Titanuses, giant missiles and war.
Through his interrogation about Athos' motives to teach "so many" apprentices (afaik there's only Pent? Unless he's talking about Eliwood and co?), we can guess he's making a direct parallel with Sothis' teachings being shared through the CoS, but also, in a way, his own guidance shared through the Officer's Academy.
Knowledge blooms when it is shared and put to good use...
This is a bit bittersweet coming from Athos, whose friend Nergal lost himself in the pursuit of "knowledge" and even more bittersweet when we take into account this convo is about Gotoh!
Who is Gotoh's most famous student?
Who developped Imhullu and brought the continent to ruin not once, but twice?
Since this FB is all about hope Naga had about peaceful coexistence with humans, the devs didn't want to add Gharnef to the "student-teacher" reunion that is Gotoh's last conversation lol, but that's the caveat : dragons can share their knowledge and walk alongside humanity... when humanity is supposed to use that knowledge to prosper, bring warm food or "light the world".
If humans don't use that resource properly though?
The world ends up with Gharnef, the Agarthans, CF!Billy, Fraud, etc etc.
And yet, both Gotoh, Athos and Nabateans - at least for the ones that aren't wiggling weapons - still share their wisdom with people because they hope for a better future.
In Fodlan?
Seteth could never say this, after all, someone says dragon blood is the reason why the world is irrational and broken, or reveal his identity to anyone but the player's avatar because someone says Fodlan has to become a world for humanity, and how Seteth's race isn't needed in said world.
All of the knowledge and wisdom Seteth shares is distorted through the game, by playable and non playable characters, without letting him just once chime in and saying that was not he intended, or meant, or envisaged. Seteth's role as one who guides humanity is erased, to either make place for the player's avatar, or to push a world for humanity, or in general, erased because Fodlan needs to enter a new dawn.
Seteth can never say how he finds humans fascinating - it's only something we infer since he accepted to walk with humans unlike Macuil and join Rhea in her Monastery - hell, in a way, Seteth can never be a "nabatean" in Fodlan, because this verse tries its hardest to ignore its dragon people.
And while I liked this new twist of dragon people - aka not have them only muse and talk about their role as people who guide humans and share knowledge, but as people who have their own worries and everyday lives (Seteth worrying about Flayn or being involved in Manu shenanigans or being picked on by Rhea, Macuil and Indech, etc etc) - given their different roles in Fodlan, Nabateans were never given any voice about what they feel towards humans, or what they feel their role is in Fodlan.
Only Rhea is allowed to, when she's either PTSD'ing hard, or preparing to sacrifice herself when she believes the Goddess finally returned, or when she marches to her death in Trashfire.
But for Seteth, a Nabatean who has less attachment to Sothis/Billy than Rhea has? Is he also feeling like he should act as Sothis' proxy, or is he feeling like he too, as a Nabatean who walks alongside humans, wants to guide them and help them propser in non "kill every pointy ears to gain power" way?
Fodlan cannot develop Seteth under this angle (or develop Nabateans tbf) for tea time reasons, but also, because at its core, FE16 is a game where the player's self insert + their lord of choice has to unify* the continent under their "IdEaLs" -> you can't build parasocial relationships to the extent FE Fodlan intended if there's suddenly a fourth/fifth faction that is all about wisdom and passing knowledge to help people prosper, especially if this faction has to be shat on by every party whenever possible, as Nopes demonstrated, to sell pots of tea.
And so, Nabateans can only exist outside of Fodlan, not in the Supreme sense, but whenever writers can develop and write them, without worrying about having to bend backwards to pretend the continent's writing and conflict has any shades of grey.
It's frustrating because there would have been ways to insert them, or this writing aka Seteth musing about his role as one who guides humans, in Fodlan, alas, it would lampshade how empty the writing is for some other characters who are supposed to be likeable enough to sell alts or worse, it would have ran contrary to what Kusihakara tried** to cook in the FE games he directed, aka, taking responsability for your actions is dead and you should rather direct the blame to some other party (remember when Duma is somewho responsible for Berkut Berning his fiancée or for Desaix's coup ?).
*AM's unification, aka Fraud fucking away from Fodlan to let Dimitri as the sole ruler of Fodlan, is as forced as his myopia during Gronder, and another example of KT forcing a sphere in a square shaped hole to make their point stand.
**FE15 by virtue of being a remake still had to keep the "madness lurks in dragon and human hearts" complete with writing Grima as Forneus' pet project that ultimately blew in his face, and AM has shades of it, but then everything vanishes after the "parley".
#fe heroes#fodlan nonsense#the writing of this verse is naught but nonsense lol#Nabatean stuff#imagine if blonde!Seiros could meet Young!Medeus#tell him that she too chooses to trust humans even after all they did because she hopes for a better future unlike#what she already witnessed#nabateans cannot talk about their experiences in their home verse#both as dragons and Fodlan's take on Serenes' herons#Seteth cannot throw shade at Fraud's 'out with the old' mentality#nor talk to Billy about what he thinks is guiding the people#after all for all of the flak it receives the so called tenants of the Seiros religion are never flat out revealed#but they somehow BaD bcs Fraud complains about them and Seteth disagrees with some only for Billy to ultimately bring ReFoRmS#that we still don't know what they entail#but it's the player character doing it so it's automatically better than anything that existed before#Athos will also share his knowledge with Pent who was as far as he knew a random#Gotoh will open an academy to share knowledge with various people#the nabs share theirs through religion and Garreg Mach#it's so oddly similar but the treatment they receive in their base games is like day and night#will some people cry because Athos most likely banned or burnt Nergal's researches about life force? I don't think so#Will Gotoh be shat on because of the shape of his ears and how he presumably controls the continent? of course not#I loved that FB
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I LOVE your art first of all gahh!!
And i love the way you draw Charles like, did you just make this bald old man incredibly attractive????
thank you so much !! with that i always say I Draw What I See ... charles xavier already attractive nuff said tyvm i didnt do anythin extra.....
#snap chats#big bumper sticker that says I Love Bald Bitches. another equally large bumper sticker that says I Love Old Men#im so serious with charles tho like ..... there's been instances in the comics where he has hair and thats not .. thats not it#some people just look infinitely better bald and charles xavier is one of them#im gonna have to foam at the mouth if i think bout him in 97 again sorry i reminded myself of caps ive been lovingly given 😔#i do love my old men and With That the small differences between his older and younger self ..... girl i get it ... both of em..#cause like sometimes (read: most of the time) i only like an older ver of a chara but naw ..... LOWKEY .... nay... i must be silenced .....#@ all six of charles' exes I Get It ... yo if he gets one more. stop i just made myself laugh like a loser we're moving on from this joke#ANYWAY POINT IS any day where someone tells me they find the way i draw charles to be attractive is a day i win automatically#whatever else happens dont matter ....... my truth is being realized ...#ANYWAY THANK YOU AGAIN !!!!!! i do my best for the people 😌
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can we start considering online job application systems as class warfare or
#unimportant thoughts#not even joking unfortunately#they really do feel like a tool to oppress the working class#they dont work at all#and im starting to think the companies dont want them to#they built the tools like that on purpose so they can better hide all their unjust hiring practices and habits and decisions#had a old man friend comment to me the other day that it feels like the only way to get hired anymore is to know someone who can get you#an in.#because the job application systems suck so bad and no one ever hears anything back#almost as if….these systems were designed to keep the ‘riffraff’ out automatically….#so they can hire only the people they internally approve of (fellow class members)….while hiding the entire process behind software….#sorry im on my conspiracy mode bullshit#the job market is FUCKED right now and I do think that all hiring software needs to be investigated
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me after my mom called and said 'hey I found this old canon eos 400D with a bunch of lenses if you're interested'
#why yes. I am. a bunch of lenses you say?#an actual legitimate camera?#it's probably older than a solid chunk of my followers on here but like hi yes I am listening actually.#she says it had a battery issue and it was too complicated for her to figure out#but I would loooove to at least see it and troubleshoot.#I love my new camera but it's not a 'real' camera because that's just not an affordable thing for me.#it's a very fun digital/instant hybrid that's GREAT for little trips and printing 'polaroids' [instax film] with friends and stuff#but I've really been struggling with the automatic controls. it does not have good... dynamic range I think it's called?#its lighting autofocus is bad and it's going to be the death of me#but if I can get this old camera mom found working then I might be able to get some cool stuff done with it that this one can't do.#it's out of date and I'd need to buy a CF card/cf reader (usb probably and not just an sd adapter)#but all things considered that's probably less than $40 for a few hundred dollars worth of equipment counting the lenses.#and filters! it has a polarizing filter that I am very excited about. even my current one could use it.#it 'sees through' polarized/reflected light. it's how people take pictures through windows or water or minimizing leaf shine etc.#and like. 'real' camera equipment is like >1k these days for the camera alone. it's not an easy hobby to get into#so it's really a 'take what you can get' kind of thing for me.#if I can get this to work then I'll have a great vacation/road trip/hangout instant-printing camera AND an Actual Camera™#even if the actual camera is a legal adult.#it would still get me laughed off of the photography reddit lmao but I'm suuuuper excited to mess with it soon.#loving the instax mini evo but it is much better suited to 'easy' shots and not actual focus/lighting/etc.#great camera! I will still use it for years but I am learning what it's suited for and what it isn't.#and hopefully what it isn't suited for will be something this new (well. old) one *is*#no live view which is... pretty fucking annoying but I am still excited
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haven't posted much art recently, have some sona doodles
#ferret's art#me sona#keep worrying that my art is getting “worse” cus i'm not drawing all that often these days#but fuck that actually!#this is why i love using mspaint. automatically lowers my standards for how “good” the final output has to be#and i'm better off for it
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Is it me or Automatic is such a different album. Not even just...different for the Lumineers but also all the music has a very weird vibe?
#same old song slaps#the lumineers#i have tickets for them i just know that i will hear a lot of it lol#i hope they also sing where we are from brightside too#and the usual from cleopatra#back for automatic...mixed feelings on asshole#i like keys on the table but i feel like that might be an unpopular opinion??#i don't think i like better day much but will listen to it. opinion might change. i think it's the weird piano repetition on the chorus tb#automatic#i might go learn sunflowers on piano tho. i feel like i would enjoy it
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this is such an era to be alive i woke up feeling refreshed
#kendrick lamar#waking up to drake hate automatically makes my day better!!#i am drakes 2nd biggest hater first and foremost#the first is kendrick
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this has unearthed a childhood memory because I grew up right around the era when all pixar movies had a menu where you could select widescreen or full frame depending on the type of tv you had. we did not have a widescreen tv. it was a little boxy one. but my dad always insisted on selecting widescreen and it always annoyed me because it cut off like a third of the movie for no reason other than my dad thinking it looked more Cinematic™ on our small square screen.
#I did not argue with him about it because he was not a man who could be argued with and he would have seen it as disrespecting him#he was also an apple fanboy until the day he died and had like six amazon echoes in his house when we went to go through everything#so it may have just been a manifestation of his 'new shiny thing is automatically better' complex#if he'd lived to see the rise of AI he would have been insufferable
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