#i assume by 'my style' you mean like the way I draw humanoid versions of cookies lol

[seafoam-taide]

gasp!! have you ever drawn energy drink cookie (from cookie wars, rip)?? i LOVE them, and i think they'd look really good in your art style <3

I have never drawn energy drink cookie, no! I've seen them around a few times but otherwise I have no idea what their deal is whatsoever. That said,

??? here is an attempt ???

I think their design is pretty cool but I have no idea if this is a good interpretation of them or not haha

[the-crustacean-sensation]

what are the little lines that appear on some of the characters eyes sometimes? is this just crustacean anatomy i don't know about or is it a style choice

[time for a long post in which I may have actually misunderstood the question but I had fun answering it anyway lmao] Good question!! I will readily admit that I used to have a better answer for this but since I made these characters in 2018 and it's the end of 2021, I actually forgot what my younger self was going for when making these design choices. Corsicana's eye lines are more straightforward though, I drew a little color headshot of them next to a real mantis shrimp so you can see what I was going for:

At least I'm assuming you mean the little black lines in Corsicana's eyes and Maggy has the white version that goes all the way across hers? Because any other lines would be eye bags (visible in the pic up there), eyelid shines that I mostly forget to draw in the first place, fur/scale/exoskeleton markings OR possibly the single eyebrow I give characters when they have to make an expression that requires a brow when I usually don't add them for some reason!!

So with the real mantis shrimp, you can see those little bands in the middle and for my interpretation I just went with two since I use Big Chunky Lines and can't fit the original amount in there? I decided not to go with the two black dots as the pupils for an anthro shrimp because with compound eyes, the little "pupils" will move around as the eyestalks rotate or the angle of light changes. They're called pseudopupils and I opted to leave them off my shrimp OCs because it'd make them less humanoid to have freaky fake pupils that change position in the light? I thiiiink the bands are what allows the mantis shrimp to see polarized light so as far as I know, they're the only animal with these funky eye lines.

UM. AND THEN FOR EVERYBODY ELSE I ACTUALLY HAVE NO IDEA, if I were to try my hand at the concept of an anthro crustacean for the first time today (instead of back in 2018), the triad would look a LOT different. I was focusing more on stylization and function instead of accuracy but yeah there's things I wish I changed, I think bad reference photos is what caused the eye-bands for other characters. The tint of crustacean eyes in some photos causes a little stripe to appear occasionally and I think that's what I was noticing? It's actually the #1 thing I forget to add when drawing comics of the cast, the eye-stripes are missing in some panels and I had to fix that before printing issue 1. I guess in retrospect it wouldn't have hurt to tweak the character designs but I'm too attached to the cast at this point to make any changes, even if some parts no longer make sense. MAN I'VE BEEN RAMBLING FOREVER BUT I HOPE THIS HELPS AND I ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE REFERRING TO, I love getting questions like this because it can usually be answered by either useless arthropod fun facts live in my brain rent-free or it's a """creative liberty""" which can be fun to talk about as well. Thank you!!

[sentofighta]

Magitek Arm (Prosthetic Parts) Headcanon

Series: F.inal F.antasy Type 0

Finally, time to write this. This is based on the game and the manga spin-off, F.inal F.antasy Gaiden, The Ice Reaper. As well as my own interpretation of Milites technology.

Index:

Byakko Crystal

Milites Technology

Morse’s arm

Einar’s arm

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Byakko Crystal

First, the Crystals in the game represent the elemental crystals that are known in the franchise. They give power and magic to the people around them. In Type 0, they brand certain loyal people to them and give them a Focus--their mission.

For Byakko--Milites, the Crystal power revolves around Mechanical Technology, armors, weapons, etc. Unlike other Crystals, Byakko’s Crystal is confined and being experimented on it instead of being in a Peristylium. Not only that, Milites people do not worship or revere the Crystal as any other nation does. The Crystal simply a source of energy to them.

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Milites Technology

Magitek (魔導, Madō, lit. Magic), or magical technology [1] is the Technology that Byakko uses thanks to the power of the Crystal. Unlike the other nations, they have strong firearms ranging from their infantry’ weapons to their proud Mageitek Armors that can be piloted to raise havoc with. All that thanks to the C-Engine that they developed to harness the Crystal’s power.

In the spin-off manga, we know that Crystal Jammers were not a thing in Kurasame’s time and they were developed after the whole incident with the Four Champions of rubrum as a way to defend against strong cadets. Crystal Jammers are simply the power harness from the White Crystal with certain calibration it will interfere with the Red Crystal, therefore nullifying its effects on the Rubrans. However, this does not work on Class Zero because they do not draw their energy from the Crystal directly like the other cadets.

Milites uses also Magitek Armors which are the gundam of type 0. They are piloted by a person, has a lot of ammo and firearm to take down an army. They are strong by as any machinery, their weakness will always be Lightning magic attacks, thus why they want to improve their production by sending prototypes at the cadets to learn their fighting pattern and devise suitable countermeasures.

Magitek Prosthetic Parts were not introduced in the game but in the spin-off manga, the ice reaper where we see a character called Morse who got his arm cut by Kurasame, returns with a mechanical arm.

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Morse’s arm

In the manga, Morse is the first character that is shown to use a magitek arm--mechanical arm. His arm enabled him to shatter Kurasame’s blade with punching it (one puuuunch~), it has a machine gun built into it,

as well the ability to harness a magic barrier from it because it uses the crystal’s power, or so I assume going by his movements in that the scene where kurasame uses magic on him.

Even though it enabled morse such strength and more weapon, it was not sturdy to withstand a direct slash to it.

That is why, after nine years of developing, Einar’s arm was produced to be a better and efficient version of what Morse had.

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Einar’s arm

Unlike Morses’ arm, it is more humanoid looking so it can pass by like any human arm if it was covered. Einar’s arm is the strength built type, not the varsity type which means he has no built-in weapons but a hidden knife that comes out below his wrist when he needs it. His arm is meant to be his trump card in case he was in a dire situation. Being in Byakko, the coldest country, the arm is created to prevent any bite frost or any issues that come along with having a prosthetic limb in cold or hot weather. However, daily maintenance is advised for any agent or soldier who has a magitek arm and if they can’t do it themselves, they are strongly advised to check in with the lab for instructions. Weather like Concordia does not affect the arm but it will certainly be an obstacle in case it was covered with cloth since the cloth will be damp because of the constant rain in some parts. Otherwise, the arm is good to function in any weather. It took them 9 years to develop better versions of the magitek parts for soldiers to use, each depends on the soldier's capabilities and need.

A rough sketch of how einar’s arm looks like

Again, it is meant to look humanoid as possible (but hey i suck at drawing give me a break it should look cool mechanical arm but jazz hands this is the best i could do. And oh yeah einar has a tat of byakko.)

Einar will not reveal this arm unless it is a must like losing all his weapons, sword and twin gun and is forced into hand to hand combat.

His arm will withstand sword slashes, gunfire, magic to some extent and force impact (like in eight’s case--his style of fighting is a martial art) Though, his weakness is thunder magic but he will be very careful about revealing that part as well.

This arm enables Einar to use his right arm like a normal right arm, using his sword, gun, punching, holding etc. Though, because it is prosthetic, he can’t feel anything like touching someone or being touched. It is only meant for fighting which is why he relies on his left arm for any normal activity.

If you have any inquiries or suggestions, please do send them my way!

[thebluesideofthemoon]

The Wall #49: SHEEP AND WOLVES

Welcome everybody to another entry of The Wall. On this week... your mom! Heh. Oh, I wish- I'm sure she's a wonderful lady. I said I was going to review Batman v. Superman but... eh, I then kind of lost interest and heat after a while- besides, the movie still sucks balls, so it's not like anything's changed. No, this week's review takes us on another stop of our international animated tour- Russia! The big mother of all cold herself, Mother Russia blessed us with this animated outing that was so good that it didn't get imported to the States. "Why might that be?" you're probably asking yourself, well I'll answer that right now: ... I HAVE NO IDEA! Maybe it was some sort of communication error (which wouldn't make sense as this movie has a fully dubbed English version, so... I 'unno), maybe they changed their minds at the last minute, or maybe because it's so mind-meltingly awful that they pulled the plug on its release before the studio would embarrass itself. Considering my last review it may be easy to assume that anything I would review afterwards would automatically be less positive. That may be true, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't have good things to say about it- hell, last week I saw one of my favorite movies this year (which I'll review later), and I've been itching to gush about it here. But no, I'm going to talk about Sheep and Wolves instead because, what better way to transition into my Worst Movies of 2016 by going from one of the best animated movies of the year to one of the absolute worst? Let's dive in, why don't we~?

(Music: Undertale- CORE)

I don't mean to be disrespectful, I like to think I'm a nice person and I will give anyone a chance, unless you’re Zack Snyder, or David S. Goyer, or Warner Bros., in which case you can piss off any day now. So when I write the things I’m going to write, I don’t mean this as just me trying to be mean, but as a way to try and help a small studio like the one that made this movie understand why your product doesn’t work, so I will try to be as cold and clinical as I can to explain just what is wrong with this movie. But first the plot, and you might want to sit down for this one.

In this movie we have a wolf named Grey (voiced by Tom Felton. Yes, THAT Tom Felton) who is a goofy but kind wolf who wants to live life as a carefree spirit, that is until he crosses the path of a big bad wolf named Ragear (voiced by Rich Orlow, whom I’ve never heard of) who is adamant to become the new leader of their wolf pack since their current leader Magra (voiced by Jim Cummings. Yes, THAT one, too.). However, Ragear gets shut down by Magra by telling him that he will not be ascended to be leader of the pack unless he faces off in a duel with another wolf, who just so happens to be Grey. Grey steps up to the challenge and they’re due to fight in three days to see who is more fit to run the wolf pack. Meanwhile, Grey faces a bit of problem when a surprise he had planned turns out to dash the dreams of his girlfriend, Bianca (voiced by Ruby Rose. Yes, THAT- I’m not going to keep this gag going or we’ll be here all day), who thought Grey was going to ask for her hand (paw?) in marriage. She accuses him of being very immature and in desperate need of change. Trying to find a way to change, Grey stumbles into this caravan full of gypsies and he talks to their leader(?) named Mami (I don’t know who she’s voiced by) who gives Grey this potion to help him change, but things go south when Grey gets turned into a sheep and is not only unwelcome, but hunted down by the wolves due to sheep being their prey. So he runs away and ends up getting knocked out, only to wake up in the sheep village. He’s being taken care of by an ewe named Lyra (China Anne McClain), while being suspected of by this skeptic sheep named Zico (Ross Maraquand) who questions his whereabouts and goes on to find clues about this new mysterious sheep that just showed up in their home. Grey believes that he’s in a bad dream but then decides to blend in once he starts meeting the sheep folk. Meanwhile, Ragear becomes impatient by Magra and his ban to keep them from hunting prey like wolves (which for this universe doesn’t really make much sense), so instead of waiting for his duel like Magra ordered, he just kills Magra and ends up taking the position as the wolves’ leader and wants to lead the wolves to hunt for the sheep so they can eat… well, like wolves. Grey discovers this and now wants to protect the sheep from this possible massacre, while it becomes hard for him to keep his true identity intact with his new kin. How will all of this be resolved?

I don’t take this long trying to give a simple plot synopsis, but I wanted to break down this entire setup to give you a hint as to what’s wrong with this movie. If you want me to sum this movie up really quickly it’s just yet another “fish out of water” story, and with a twist that isn’t even that unique to this kind of movie. The movie is a bizarre combination of both Shrek 2 and Brother Bear in terms of plot, but it’s nowhere near as funny as the former, nor (while flawed) as engaging as the latter, and while I have serious problems with Brother Bear I can tell you it pulled this story off a LOT better than Sheep and Wolves.

Since I’m going to dip into my issues with this movie (which is a LOT of them) I may as well get my positives with the movie out of the way, because they’re very minimal- it’s actually just one: the movie is really pretty. While it’s pretty obvious that this is a low-budget movie thanks to the very small amount of environments featured in the movie, not to mention that just like Sing it shamelessly copy-and-pastes characters and shots everywhere, the scenery of the movie actually manages to be pretty stunning. I like how the environments look, they’re vividly-detailed, very colorful, and the lighting also manages to look really good, especially when they stand out against things like grass or the fur on the wolves. The animation itself is also not bad. It’s far more lively than something like, say, Ratchet and Clank, and it has an art style that suits the animation better than a movie like The Wild Life. Even though I have HUGE issues with the character design, they managed to make a really appealing-looking movie and I do think that’s something that deserves some serious credit. It’s obvious to me that the people working on this movie have some good talent in their hands, and I’m saying this because I stop being nice right here. Because the problems with this movie are far too many for me to recommend this as something anyone reading this should watch.

Let’s start with the character designs. While the general look of the movie is really appealing and colorful, the actual designs of the characters leave a lot to be desired. There’s no real better way for me to say this, but the characters all look like how a middle-school furry artist would draw his furry wolf OCs (original characters, for those of you that don’t know) when first starting on DeviantART. They’re far more humanoid than anthropomorphic, which really stands out with characters that have more stylized and cartoony designs. It’s almost as if the characters were all designed by completely different artists, however this is an approach that worked in its favor in a movie like Secret Life of Pets, but here they stick out like a sore thumb. All the wolves are top-heavy and just look ridiculous when they run on all fours. I also had this same problem with Alpha and Omega six years ago (funny how they’re both movies about wolves), but the hair is really off-putting. Most of the wolves have pretty much anime hairstyles which just look distracting and out of place. This is really noticeable on a character like Bianca who basically looks like a human chick that just so happens to be cosplaying as a wolf. With the sheep this gets even more bizarre, as there are sheep who clearly look like anthropomorphized sheep, standing right next to sheep that have more human-like features that are kind of distracting, NEXT to other sheep who just look like they’re a human and sheep that probably fused together like in The Fly. Again, it’s highly distracting because they’re not anthropomorphic like the characters from Sing or Zootopia, and yet they’re also not animal enough to be like the animals from The Secret Life of Pets or even The Wild Life. It’s like they’re stuck in this strange uncanny valley of anthropomorphism and it’s kind of off-putting to watch. Mami is the only one who manages to make this work, though it probably helps that she’s hardly in the movie. Grey looks alright by all standards, except for his dumb Emo Peter Parker haircut.

From what I’m sure you can gather I’ve said about the story, it’s pretty much also copied and pasted from… anywhere else. It combines traits of Shrek 2, Brother Bear, The Lion King, too many romantic comedies to count, Kung Fu Panda 3, Shark Tale (another disaster full of clichés and off-putting character design)- it borrows so liberally from other movies that it even borrows their flaws as well. Shark Tale needs no explanation, it has the dopey character who is in love but cannot spit it out because God help him “he’s just awkward” (oh please), it also borrows a problem unique to a movie I reviewed not too long ago, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie, in which it is full of really annoying cartoony sound effects that get really, really fast. By the way, I said this movie ripped off The Lion King (why on Earth do we have TWO animated movies that came out in 2016 that thought this was a good idea?) and it does so in the Magra’s death scene. Ragear shoves him off the cliff in a way that’s not too dissimilar to Scar throwing Mufasa into the wildebeests. It doesn’t help that both just so happen to have a character voiced by Jim Cummings, which makes the resemblance even more obvious.

Though speaking of terrible sounds, the voice acting isn’t that great. I mean sure, you have people like Jim Cummings who would sound awesome if they even just read the phonebook, but much like Morgan Freeman in Ben-Hur, he’s not doing anything new. Tom Felton… I have NO idea what the hell he’s doing, it’s like he’s trying to sound American and fail horribly at it, but he’s at least trying. Ruby Rose just straight up did not care about this movie at all, she could not sound any more disinterested if she tried, which isn’t only a serious problem because it just sounds bad it also makes her character come across as really uncaring and self-centered, which becomes a MAJOR problem thanks to one particular scene from the movie that I’ll get to. Believe me, I will. Still, this is pretty bad- it’s almost as if the voice actors weren’t allowed to be given a second take or something like that.

But what’s even worse than the voice acting is the score. I’ve complimented good scores before and lambasted bad ones like Accidental Love, for example. It had a score that was highly annoying, bouncy, and would never shut up. It was trying to be a “whacky, silly” score that instead of trying to get you to laugh it only made you cringe. So yes, an overly-goofy score is one issue but thanks to this movie the opposite is also true. This movie has a score that is far more surprisingly dramatic and intense than you would think which gives me the impression that this movie is really trying to get me to take it seriously… and this is the same movie that has a Rocky-style montage of a character trying to give themselves a concussion. AND FAILING AT IT. Sure, that’s meant to be the joke, but this is much less justifiable in countless scenes of something dramatic happening only for it to get cut-off by some awkwardly-inserted comic relief. Oh God, it’s like Epic all over again.

The absolute worst part about this movie is the characters. I’m not going to spend much time on them because I could write an entire essay on just what’s wrong with this cast, and this review is getting really long as it is. So I’ll say this, they vary from being really stupid, to being really annoying, to all-around unpleasant. Grey is kind of a goofball, but other than that he’s just your generic main character and he’s one of the better characters. His best friend sheep who is lovestruck cannot say a word to her about his feelings to save his life, which is not just an awful cliché in and of itself, but his voice is really annoying and her never shuts up. The big bad Ragear is clumsy and gets beaten up a lot, so it’s pretty much impossible to take him seriously as a credible threat and the only time he succeeds at anything it’s simply because the plot just felt like it needed to keep going. Lyra is your generic “nice girl” type who pretty much has no personality aside from, well, being nice, except for one particular scene where she chews out Grey for giving her little brother, Shia, the influence to have him run off from the sheep village to fight off wolves himself, and this happened AFTER Grey saves his life as well as a scene in the movie where she scolds her little brother for being an irresponsible little shit who doesn’t listen to anybody. And Shia, oh I despise him. Not only does he have a really annoying voice and attitude, he’s one of those characters that should have died far sooner than he does (which is never- spoiler alert) because he does anything BUT listen to someone who’s trying to do nothing but HELP HIM. He’s by far one of the most irritating characters I’ve seen in any movie this year- he’s up there with Steel from Max Steel, The Enchantress from Suicide Squad, the Colleens from Yoga Hosers, and pretty much EVERYONE in Collateral Beauty- and it doesn’t help that he gives a really awful message at the end of the movie which pretty much amounts to him saying that you shouldn’t kill someone because it will make you just as bad as they are, which is normally a message that has a lot of weight to it, but when the person who is trying to kill you is DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO TRY AND EAT YOU, and you fight back in self-defense!

I also mentioned Bianca, and out of all of the bad animated movies with forced-in love interests she’s by far the worst. Now, she’s at least thankfully not forced into a relationship with Grey (they already have one at the start of the movie) and the way his little problem is resolved isn’t by true love (but it’s not less dumb). The reason why I hate Bianca the most is because of one particular scene where she pretty much ACCUSES GREY OF CAUSING RAGEAR FROM KILLING MAGRA AND MAKING HIM THE NEW LEADER, and all because he was trying to change himself to prove to her that he’s not an immature clown. It’s somehow all HIS fault, and at no point does she ever get called out on being a colossal bitch. Though Grey DOES call out the sheep for being whiny, pathetic, and annoying, it doesn’t really leave a very satisfying impact when it’s ruined by the scenes that precede and follow it. I HATE EVERYONE IN THIS MOVIE. This movie was just like Collateral Beauty all over again- I really thought I was going to be in for something bland, but not THIS annoying and unpleasant. I really hate this movie, thanks to its combination of terrible tonal shifts, bland story, irredeemable cast of characters, and ho-hum voice acting. It’s easy to see why this movie never made it to the States. (2,541 words. Can't believe this one took me almost a week to write, but I needed to get my thoughts collected so I could express just what the hell was wrong with this movie.)

This is a really foul movie. I don't really get this kind of enjoyment out of something that fills me with dread and hatred- I would much rather be talking about things I really love, like Zootopia, but this is the kind of movie that is not only so bad that it's wasted your time, but it'll ruin your day!

Yes, I give this movie a 2. And how appropriate because now I can make more room for my best big project. That's right guys, The Wall #50 is going to be... THE TOP 10 WORST MOVIES OF 2016 I'll see you all there.

[elenahowl]

I love these things! Can you do 5-50?

5: are you self-conscious of your smile? Sometimes I feel like I smile too much, and I often giggle at inappropriate moments, but my smile itself is fine.    

6: do you keep plants? No.  I wish I did.  

7: do you name your plants? No.  

8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings?Loads of writing, and lately also a lot of printmaking and typography. 

9: do you like singing/humming to yourself? Yes, but only when I’m alone.  

10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach? Kind of awkwardly sprawled on my side and stomach. 

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?@mrs-depp  @highwaytovengeance @avenged-seven-times @valovalmieni Chicken nuggets!  

12: what’s your favorite planet? Eris. 

13: what’s something that made you smile today?I never have to deal with my abusive ex-friend again.    

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like?Very bohemian.  We’d have a ton of art supplies, random scraps of newspapers and drawings on the walls, and lots and lots of books.  Books are mandatory.

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! Mark Twain was born on the year when the Halley comet passed, and died on the year when it went by again. Both times he had missed it.

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish? The shrimp linguini my mom makes very rarely.  

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair? I don’t want to dye my hair.  I just wish my hair naturally grew out of my head in the weird blonde-to-red ombre I have right now, leftover tint from when I dyed my hair back in July.  

18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. @voxiferous​ and I were having a sleepover and it was late at night and trying to figure out writing logistics.  This included elvish anatomy and biology and thus the “smaller livers” joke was born.  There’s no good way to explain how this conversation started, continued, or ended, but basically we googled and discovered that a smaller liver does not help anything in a humanoid body.  And that’s why I’m not a science major.  

19: do you keep a journal? What do you write/draw/ in it? Everything.  I have so many journals for different things.  Sketchbook, notebook, diary, more sketchbooks, bullet journal… 

20: what’s your favorite eye color?Soft brown.  

21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. It’s a tie between my Kånken backpack and my Doc Martens purse.  Little Black Kånken and I went all over Helsinki together.  Originally I was just going to take my Jansport galaxy backpack to my classes while I was studying abroad, but I quickly realized it was too big to fit under most of the seats at the University of Helsinki, and it marked me clearly as a foreigner since Jansport isn’t really popular over there.  When I carried my Kånken, people took one look at me, assumed I was Finnish, and I blended in perfectly.  And when they tried to speak Finnish to me, saw my blank look, and realized I wasn’t Finnish, they’d occasionally try to speak Swedish to me.  I got my Doc bag in Paris.  Pickpockets are a real thing, and I didn’t want to wear my backpack while I was in Paris, so on a whim I bought a tank of a bag that carried my sketchbook and pens during my stay.  It was new and not broken in at all, so it was basically bulletproof and nobody could have pickpocketed that if they tried.  Also could be used as a weapon.  

22: are you a morning person? I’d like to be, but I’m not.  

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?Reading and watching youtube videos.    

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets?@voxiferous​  

25: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into?I jumped the fence at the historic girl’s school ruins near where I live.    

26: what are the shoes you’ve had for forever and wear with every single outfit?My favorite pair of black Docs finally got too worn out to wear last month.  They lasted for eight years, but were no match for the Tuska festival mosh pit, where they lost their watertightness.  

27: what’s your favorite bubblegum flavor? Classic regular bubblegum.  

28: sunrise or sunset? Sunset.  

29: what’s something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? @lustarcana​ HHHHHNNNNGHHHHHHHHHH!!!Also @weareinvictus‘s liberal use of the word “pure” to describe everything good.  

30: think of it: have you ever been truly scared? Yes.  

31: what is your opinion of socks? Do you like wearing weird socks? Do you sleep with socks? Do you confine yourself to white sock hell? Really, just talk about socks. I like socks.  I tend to wear plain, dark socks.  I do not sleep with socks.  I hate white socks.  For some reason my socks get holes in them faster than average. 

32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3am when you were with friends. My best 3AM story isn’t really with friends, more casual acquaintance turned enemy, but it’s good.  I’ll post it later because it’s REALLY long.  

Edit: It’s here.  

33: what’s your fave pastry?Korvapuusti.    

34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. What is it called? What does it look like? Do you still keep it? My classic Winnie the Pooh bear (old style teddy, not disney version) still has his place of honor in my bedroom.  I never really slept with stuffed animals, preferring dolls, but he was always there to chase away bad dreams.   

35: do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? Do you use them often?Stickers and pretty pens are the best.  Also stickie notes.    

36: which band’s sound would fit your mood right now?Folie à Deux-era Fall Out Boy.    

37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean?Tidy chaos.  Everything has a place, but it looks messy to the untrained eye.  

38: tell us about your pet peeves! People who ask dumb questions.  People who sit/stand way too close.  People who are super obsessed with famous people to the point of having no identity outside of fandom (see response to 32).  People who stalk celebrities.  

39: what color do you wear the most? Black.  

40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what’s it’s story? Does it have any meaning to you? The heartagram necklace I have I got at a HIM concert in 2014.  I took it with me on study abroad.  K noticed me wearing it and said he ought to sell something like it in his shop.  I wore it once upon a time because I’m a fan of HIM, but now I wear it because I’m a fan of K.  I think of it as the Valo family crest.  

41: what’s the last book you remember really, really loving?I reread Tithe by Holly Black a week ago.  I still love it.    

42: do you have a favorite coffee shop? Describe it! Ipi Kulmakuppila in Kallio.  Just up the street from K’s shop, very hipster-y place, but the people are nice, the space is very open, and I went there a lot while in Helsinki.  

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with?Pretty sure it was on New Year’s Eve when I was standing on the porch with Butterfly.  It was freezing and neither of us had a coat, but in the middle of our conversation I looked up at the stars and he looked up with me and that was that.    

44: when was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything?About a week ago when I thought I was completely done with the issues of my toxic ex-friend, before this fresh wave of chaos from him began.    

45: do you trust your instincts a lot? Not nearly as much as I should.  

46: tell us the worst pun you can think of. Anything about Finnishing something for my study abroad paperwork.  

47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe?Any icing with way too much food dye.    

48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? Is it the same today? Dying in a fire.  Yes.  

49: do you like buying cds and records? What was the last one you bought?I don’t.  The last one I bought was a sampler CD that came with a Kerrang magazine in a thrift store in Helsinki.  It’s not good.  

50: what’s an odd thing you collect? 4-leaf clovers.  

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Magitek Arm (Prosthetic Parts) Headcanon

Series: F.inal F.antasy Type 0

Finally, time to write this. This is based on the game and the manga spin-off, F.inal F.antasy Gaiden, The Ice Reaper. As well as my own interpretation of Milites technology.

Index:

Byakko Crystal

Milites Technology

Morse’s arm

Einar’s arm

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Byakko Crystal

First, the Crystals in the game represents the elemental crystals that are known in the franchise. They give power and magic to the people around them. In Type 0, they brand certain loyal people to them and give them a Focus--their mission.

For Byakko--Milites, the Crystal power revolves around Mechanical Technology, armors, weapons, etc. Unlike other Crystals, Byakko’s Crystal is confined and being experimented on it instead of being in a Peristylium. Not only that, Milites people do not worship or revere the Crystal as any other nation does. The Crystal simply a source of energy to them.

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Milites Technology

Magitek (魔導, Madō, lit. Magic), or magical technology [1] is the Technology that Byakko uses thanks to the power of the Crystal. Unlike the other nations, they have strong firearms ranging from their footsoldiers’ weapons to their proud Mageitek Armors that can be piloted to raze havoc with. All that thanks to the C-Engine that they developed to harness the Crystal’s power.

In the spin-off manga, we know that Crystal Jammers were not a thing in Kurasame’s time and they were developed after the whole incident with the Four Champions of rubrum as a way to defend against strong cadets. Crystal Jammers are simply the power harness from the White Crystal with certain calibration it will interfere with the Red Crystal, therefore nullifying its effects on the Rubrans. However, this does not work on Class Zero because they do not draw their energy from the Crystal directly like the other cadets.

Milites uses also Magitek Armors which are the gundam of type 0. They are piloted by a person, has a lot of ammo and firearm to take down an army. They are strong by as any machinery, their weakness will always be Lightning magic attacks, thus why they want to improve their production by sending prototypes at the cadets to learn their fighting pattern and devise suitable countermeasures.

Magitek Prosthetic Parts were not introduced in the game but in the spin-off manga, the ice reaper where we see a character called Morse who got his arm cut by Kurasame, returns with a mechanical arm.

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Morse’s arm

In the manga, Morse is the first character that is shown to use a magitek arm--mechanical arm. His arm enabled him to shatter Kurasame’s blad with punching it (one puuuunch~), it has a machine gun built into it,

as well the ability to harness a magic barrier from it because it uses the crystal’s power, or so I assume going by his movements in that the scene where kurasame uses magic on him.

Even though it enabled morse such strength and more weapon, it was not sturdy to withstand a direct slash to it.

That is why, after nine years of developing, Einar’s arm was produced to be a better and efficient version of what Morse had.

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Einar’s arm

Unlike Morses’ arm, it is more humanoid looking so it can pass by like any human arm if it was covered. Einar’s arm is the strength built type, not the varsity type which means he has no built-in weapons but a hidden knife that comes out below his wrist when he needs it. His arm is meant to be his trump card in case he was in a dire situation. Being in Byakko, the coldest country, the arm is produced to prevent any bite frost or any issues that come along with having a prosthetic limb in a cold or hot weather. However, daily maintenance is advised for any agent or soldier who has a magitek arm and if they can’t do it themselves, they are strongly advised to check in with the lab for instructions. Weather like Concordia does not affect the arm but it will certainly be an obstacle in case it was covered with cloth since the cloth will be damp because of the constant rain in some parts. Otherwise, the arm is good to function in any weather. It took them 9 years to develop better versions of the magitek parts for soldiers to use, each depends on the soldier capabilities and need.

A rough sketch of how einar’s arm looks like

Again, it is meant to look humanoid as possible (but hey i suck at drawing give me a break it should look cool mechanical arm but jazz hands this is the best i could do. And oh yeah einar has a tat of byakko.)

Einar will not reveal this arm unless it is a must like losing all his weapons, sword and twin gun and is forced into hand to hand combat.

His arm will withstand sword slashes, gunfire, magic to some extent and force impact (like in eight’s case--his style of fighting is a martial art) Though, his weakness is thunder magic but he will be very careful about revealing that part as well.

This arm enables Einar to use his right arm as a normal right arm, using his sword, gun, punching, holding etc. Though, because it is prosthetic, he can’t feel anything like touching someone or being touched. It is only meant for fighting which is why he relies on his left arm for any normal activity.

If you have any inquiry or suggestion, please do send them my way!