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[flowersforthemachines]

Burn is an essential part of Clair Obscur's gameplay.

It's the only status effect innately featured in all characters' skill sets - some party members are able to inflict it (Maelle, Lune, Monoco), and others have skills benefitting from it (Sciel's Searing Bond, and Gustave/Verso's From Fire). Through the use of pictos, burn can even provide additional healing, as well as bonus to damage and critical chance.

Maelle's skillset especially heavily leans into making use of fire - it's the burning enemies that allow her to switch to Virtuose Stance and get a hold of its insane 200% damage bonus. In the late game, the Burning Canvas becomes one of her strongest skills, with the possibility of achieving the highest damage multiplier among all her non-gradient abilities (info from here).

Now, do you remember that it was fire that started it all?

[wolfythewitch]

Have u considered giving the creature and victor similar factions since you know the whole theme of fatherhood

I kind of made him look like victor and Henry's lovechild LOL. Though basing it off Henry more. I think it's silly and gay but also if I go down the route of how when victor saw Clerval it brought with him memories of home and his family, and the fact that the creature destroys that one by one is very silly to me.

Sees Clerval: serene joy and calm and peace

Sees the creature: oh dear lord

[chalkrub]

strange fellas

[weevmo]

Kermit is only 8 apples tall!! Despite this - I think Wally would look up to him. :]

[pinkiepig]

The lad with the apples🍎🌈✨

[ohithankyou]

um have we ever talked about buck and tommy visiting hershey after buck’s parents invite them over for a weekend and tommy fucking buck in his childhood bedroom on their last night there. because we should.

[cyanwyrmy]

💌🪱

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Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

[za0mbie]

Julie n Debbie outfit swap!!☁🌸

Plus some other sketches weee 🎸

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Started with Knuckles and things snowballed from there. I’m normal about Knuckles, Tails, and Sonic’s hair actually

[brown-sensation]

🌟🐛

[notbecauseofvictories]

because I rent a car to get out to my office, sometimes I'm confronted with a radio that has wildly different preset stations than I would ever select. mostly this means I have to suffer through a lot of country, or christian talk radio, before I run out of patience and switch over to the stations I like; but other times, it's someone with a thick accent reading a very lengthy advertisement for the Chicago Public Library in an almost....computerized way? and then long carnatic music, with a celtic fiddle breakdown in the middle? with absolutely no explanation for why this is what it is.

.........only afterwards did I discover that it's the station for a nearby university. then it made sense.

[driftingballoons]

it’s tough when you run out of charge :(

But thank goodness for friends who’ve got your back!

[kykyartist]

A romantic walk in the snowy woods!

I like to imagine Frank doesn’t share much about his personal life or his interests. But whenever he’s around the mute mailman he’s very talkative and sweet! Of course Eddie is always willing to listen to Frank’s fascination with yarn.💕

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Ectoberhaunt Day 13

Isekai: Old Hero New World

[slavhew]

Assorted doodles across time