#he's my woobie

[sometimesraven]

Doing character sheets for major characters of the Truth Saga, and here's Erik's character sheet at long last! Ft. censor bar bc I cannae be arsed to draw clothes for the sake of censorship anymore.

Erik always fights me when I try to draw him, but his face actually came out better than I've ever done it??? In this body reference image I drew his face well bc of course that's how he works.

ANYHOO. As always, this is all just for personal reference and headcanon and is subject to change and/or your personal headcanons YMMV etc etc. The only things that are canon are what's in the books and not all of this information will end up in books!

(and yes, Erik gets beat up A LOT in book 2 skjghsfkgjsh all those big torso scars are new)

TAGLIST AND NUDE VERSION UNDER THE CUT

@smallvillecrows

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[bladders-gate-three]

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So in act 3 of BG3 you get access to the Helldusk armor, right? Like you take the breastplate off of Raphael, and yoink the helmet and gloves from elsewhere in his house…

BUT WHERE ARE THE SHOES?!?

TURNS OUT THEY’RE IN THIS CHEST…. At the Foot of Enver Gortash’s stinky little bed!!!

This little shit spent all his time around Raphael, who clearly has control issues; the only thing he took with him were the shoes to a perfect set of armor.

Because armor with mismatched shoes looks dumb.

IMAGINE BEING RAPHAEL thinking: that little shit stole my amazing boots. And you think; he’s probably wearing them right now.

and then

AND THEN YOU SEE HIM WEARING THESE

THE AUDACITY.

Also his parents were cobblers and he now has the world’s ugliest shoes, but keeps some of the best greaves ever made in his toy chest. Double whammy.

[sin-simps]

-holds out my little guy to yall-

Hi gaymers

[gunstellations]

double trouble

[theosphobia]

rlly bad doodle based off dog bed caboose hc...

[tvckerwash]

thoughts on wash's fighting style and his position in pfl because I can (utc because it's really long lol):

wash is very unique among the freelancers for a variety of reasons, one is that he doesn't specialize in one specific area of anything, he's a jack of all trades who is able to fill in for other freelancers if necessary. for example in s9 when york was supposed to be unavailable for lock picking/infiltration duty, carolina immediately went to wash (and we are ignoring that york is not shown to be good at lock picking!) if she trusted wash to fill in for their specialist in one area, I feel it's not a stretch to imagine that he can do so in other areas as well.

need a snipper but north and wyoming aren't available? wash can cover. need someone to get into the enemies' computer systems in place of ct, south, or york? wash can cover. need someone for stealth or reconnaissance in place of florida? wash can cover. etc etc.

wash's combat style reflects that jack of all trades, master of none thing very well too, as the way that he fights is very grounded and pragmatic when compared to the rest of the freelancers. a lot of people like to portray wash as less skilled than the other freelancers, but in truth I believe that wash being able to keep up and compete with the other freelancers despite his lack of dramatic flare is a show of just how competent and skilled of a soldier he is. wash is so good at doing what he does that he doesn't need all that extra bullshit to get the job done. sure, he might not look as Cool and SexyTM as the others while doing it, but completing the mission and surviving to live another day takes precedence over all else.

another way of looking at it is that wash fights in the same way that the odst's do, that is to say that he fights like a human who cannot plow his way through the battlefield in the same way the spartans can. wash's style of fighting is one that employs careful planning and targeted hit and run tactics—this is most obvious in recovery one and s6 whenever he's fighting against the meta.

I also feel it's important to note that wash is not a cqc fighter, he can handle himself if he gets into a cqc situations but his primary weapon is the battle rifle—which is a mid/long range weapon. if I'm being honest wash's way of fighting makes waaaaaaaaay more sense if you look at him not as someone who is trained to primarily fight against other humans, but as someone who is trained to fight against 8ft 2 ton aliens with plasma weapons that can slice through the hulls of UNSC battle cruisers (ships designed to travel through space!!!) like a hot knife cuts through butter and have the technology to raze entire planets to the ground in a matter of minutes.

I also personally believe that wash has the most military experience out of all the freelancers right behind florida, wyoming, and maine (who I hc as a spartan iii). we know that wash did his basic training in the leonis minoris system (a canonical halo system) and that system had two of the three planets glassed by the covenant in 2537, and wash directly references these events in the washed hands interview in the fan guide and the way he says it implies that he likely completed his basic training that same year. now I have some grievances with the timeline given in the book when it comes to the events depicted in the freelancer saga because it's just kinda weird, but everything prior to that bit is actually fine (though I hate the way that they decide to number the timeline lmao).

now in halo canon the human/covenant war ended in 2552, and according to the timeline in the rvb fan guide that was 1 year after alpha was sent to blood gulch. project freelancer is first cleared for funding 7 years BBG (before blood gulch), and recruits the 50 freelancers 5 years BBG. doing some math we can determine that pfl was cleared for funding in the year 2544, and the freelancers are recruited for pfl in 2546. so assuming wash finished his basic training in 2537 that would mean that he was in the military for 9 years before he joined pfl, and while wash is addressed as a corporal (e-4) in the washed hands interview he was most likely demoted to that after he was court martialed, and he was possibly going to be dishonorably discharged from the military because of his disorderly conduct.

using the current standards used by the us marine corps when it comes to rank progression, wash was most likely a sergeant (e-5) who was very close to being promoted to a staff sergeant (e-6). wash as a sergeant would've essentially been the assistant manager/co-leader of the platoon he was in while his staff sergeant was the manager/leader, and that would explain why he was able to even get into an argument with his CO in the first place. I believe wash held a similar position in pfl, as it's kind of implied that he did some management stuff in pfl (talking with internals/upper brass, him feeling comfortable with openly questioning carolina about whether york should be allowed on the sarcophagus heist, and of course he shows the ability to direct and somewhat lead south in recovery one, and him leading church, caboose, and the reds in s6, and him taking charge of the meta in s8).

even if wash wasn't a sergeant as a corporal he would've been in a position to be the leader of a fire team, so basically wash isn't some rookie who had no clue wtf he was doing as many in the fandom like to characterize him; he is an experienced and battle hardened soldier by the time he joins pfl no matter how you look at it.

to put all of that into context, carolina is born 29 years BBG, which would be 2522. so during pfl she's in the 24-28 range and she wouldn't have joined the military until 2540. I actually personally head canon that wash is the same age as carolina, but that he illegally enlisted at 15 because of a crappy home life, but ignoring my head canon and assuming that he joined the military at 18 instead, he would've been born in 2519.

[cartoonsbyandie]

I couldn't choose so Take Both

This doesn't make any sense does it, alright fine explanation under the cut

I really like the concept of Khonshu being the son of Amon-Ra, who has no shame in manipulating/insulting/setting Khonshu on fire. So imagine how he was when Ra was at the height of his power and they ruled together, but Khonshu was stronger. And also Ra likes to eat other gods.

I like the idea of even a dickbag god like Khonshu having unprocessed trauma after thousands of years, absolutely showing shades of his father while being in aggressive denial about this and viewing himself as his father's direct opposite, his antagonist, everything that he isn't. Cares about protecting humanity, kind and compassionate compared to Ra! (Because he isn't actively eating/setting them on fire/acting like a tyrant. Usually.) That he's fought Ra personally and through avatars a hundred times over the ages, burned more times than he can count, it hurts, but he has to come out on top every time. No phoenix rose from these ashes.

[ambivartence]

cinnamoroll boys 💙

[thegreatyin]

"tragic guy that's simultaneously a bitchass punk who needs their shit rocked" is like. my entire motto

[c-h-e-r-r-i-e-s]

Another one thank you

[homuraakemis]

I feel so terribly sad for Jonas/Adam, because the extent of his depression really is on another level. And it's not just that he is suicidal and wants to die. It's that he is so depressed that he can't even conceive of the notion that other people might NOT want to die.

One could argue that Adam's goal to end both worlds is simply an attempt to kill himself, because he knows that time won't let him die otherwise, but I don't think that's the case. As I've argued before, Jonas/Adam is not a selfish person, he is selfless. He wouldn't try to kill everyone/erase everyone's existence just to end his own pain. And besides, by the end of the series, after he killed Martha, for all he knew he had no other older self, so if he tried to just kill himself it might actually work this time. But that's not what he is after: he doesn't just want to end HIS pain, he wants to end everybody's pain, because he is selfless.

But here's the thing: as I've said before, I don't agree with Adam at all. Between him and Eva, I think Eva is actually right: yes, the world is full of suffering, but life is not just suffering, life has good things as well and is still worth preserving. And that's why I feel so terribly sad for Adam: his depression is so severe, that he can't even imagine why anyone would want to continue living/existing. His suffering is so intense to him, he is so blinded by his pain, that he can't imagine that there are other people in the world who are NOT suffering like him, that there are people who like their lives. And he specifically can't understand Eva: for all he knew, she lost just as much as him (her lover and her entire family), so he really can't understand why she would go to such lengths to preserve such an existence. The idea of moving on from his losses, like Eva did, is completely alien to him.

It's also interesting to think that Adam considered himself to be completely free of emotion, since he tells Noah "only when we're free of all emotion are we truly free". And yet, he doesn't realize that the very thing that drives him to his goals is his extreme despair. He is definitely not free of emotion.

[mzyraj]

Wasn't planning on playing Baldur's Gate 3, but it's like I'm being deliberately lured with the sexy smarmy angsty vampire

[softgrungeprophet]

something something the frequency with which peter parker angrily wishes death upon people in his inner thoughts, a la "diebullseyediebullseyediebullseyediebullseye" (asm#596)

(he's pretending to be venom with a suit made of unstable molecules)

"Kill Johnny Storm! Dispose of the body!! Collect insurance!!!" (ff#17) etc...

this of course is only two (mostly) humorous examples but there are definitely more lmao

[simonsaysletsgo]

Thinking about how Bran tries to apologize to Leah because he knows she's hurt and he's been an asshole but she immediately distracts him with sex to avoid talking about her feelings :)

[cooltrainererika]

I’m obsessed with Godzilla -1.0 now.

As you can maybe tell by me reblogging posts about it throughout the week lol.

Like oh my god. That movie. That movie.

That climax was the first time my heart was legit beating out of my chest at a movie climax. Most likely because I cared about the characters so much.

Because the human drama. Man, it got me good. My words can’t do it justice, and others have done it way more justice. Go watch it. I beg you. GO WATCH IT.

I commissioned plushies of Shikishima and his found family from a Colombian because there was only merch of Godzilla it was so good and I like the human characters so much. It was so expensive but so worth it. 35000+ yen, guys. And counting!

Unfortunately (fortunately) I can’t write much fanfics about it because it’s a self-contained story, but I hope this fandom grows.

[ispyspookymansion]

i think my mutuals who are otherwise very similar and share/have shared interests would kill each other over succession opinions