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mosylufanfic · 2 months ago

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Mosy, what are your thoughts on the Andor finale? 😬

The finale arc was . . . hmmm.

I loved episode 10. Loved it. One of my favorite hours of this entire show, seeing how Kleya and Luthen became who they were, the give-and-take of their fascinating relationship, how it had seeds all the way back to how they met and built to the choice Kleya made in the end because she had no other choice and Luthen would not only have realized that, he would have agreed.

11 and 12 blur together for me, and mostly felt like they were trying to move pieces into place to be ready for the start of Rogue One. So I'm going to talk about the season as a whole because now that we have a whole we can step back and look at it.

After letting it settle in for a few days (and, um, doing a lot of yelling on Discord), I have to say that I liked most of it. Really, truly, I did. I still think the first season, while not flawless (and other people have written lots about why) was some damn good TV, especially with how well Cassian's character changed throughout it, each segment flowing into the next, broadening his view of the galaxy and the futility of trying to ignore the Empire.

I think that the second season both continued some of the flaws of the first season and additionally was too crowded with stuff. It felt kinda like they wrote some big, interesting, impactful events first - Leida's wedding, the events on Ghorman in arcs 2 and 3, Mon's speech and escape from the Senate, all the events of episode 10 - and then put them in a line that had an endpoint of Rogue One.

I understand about getting cut down to one season from four. I feel like with that level of compression, the writers wanted to keep too many of their favorite things from the four season plan, so they smushed them together and then sat down to figure out where to put the connective tissue and how to run Cassian's storyline through it.

The connective tissue, however, wasn't connecting. We barely caught our breath between arcs before we jumped again. The characters and relationships that suffered the most for me were Bix and Cassian, and that's really sad, not just because I like both of them as characters, but because aside from a couple of sweet or funny moments, it failed to get me invested in the relationship between them that was posited as very, very important.

Now, before people tell me I'm just a silly shipper, I'll point out that in s1 they were slightly antagonistic exes, he left for something like seven episodes, and he rescued her at the end. That was where they were at. And suddenly they were married in season 2. We never saw that shift in what she thought of him, we never saw him decide to commit, we were just asked to believe that it had happened. And we were asked to believe that similar shifts (if not as monumental) happened between the other arcs. We got things like Cassian's overprotectiveness and Bix's trauma reaction(s) but they never seemed to go anywhere outside of the arc that they were in.

It's been covered extensively by others, but we always seemed to see Cassian's personal life at a crisis in each arc, without the necessary setup and follow-through that would have made the resolution of it land with the full weight.

Now I will say, anytime Cassian stepped out of his personal life and into tasks the Rebellion (mostly Luthen tbf) asked him to do, something clicked into place and I could believe that this was Captain Andor of Rebel Intelligence. Slick enough to pose as an Imperial pilot and steal a prototype, (okay, his escape was less slick but he got bad intel), savvy enough to manipulate the dipshit brigade while in chains, expert enough to assess a local rebellion, in line to be promoted, trusted enough to get called across the galaxy direct from a genocide to secure one of the Rebellion's most important assets. But what worked so well for me in s1 was that the personal was political, and he ultimately went all-in ("kill me or take me in") because of shifts going on in his interior self. In this season, his personal life was something he (literally) came home to after his work was done.

And I've yelled about how Bix's storyline, particularly in arc 3, didn't seem to follow logically from her character, either in season 1 or even in the previous arcs. I've read takes that Bix was focused on trying to create a home (making a home doesn't make her less of a mechanic or less of a rebel or less traumatized by Dedra), knew they weren't working out, etc, and I like those ideas, but that's not what I was seeing on the screen. And looking at the personal as political . . . In arcs 2 and 3, Bix had both all personal and no personal life. She didn't seem to be involved in the Rebellion except in a couple of missions that happened off-screen, and murdering Gorst in a segment that took about three minutes and went shockingly well with little to no prep. She served as Cassian's personal life, but her own seemed to morph between arcs into what was needed to create his story.

And . . . the ending. The two endings of that relationship.

When Bix left, she said, "Come find me after this is all over," implying that their great love story was just on hold while he did More Important Things. That said, Cassian did seem to have put the relationship behind him in the fourth arc. So it could be argued (if we'd been shown any kind of difference in the way they viewed their relationship with each other) that she believed he would find her, and he decided to let her go.

But even with that, the last shot with the baby strongly implied that if not for his sacrifice on Scarif, that great love story would have been picked up again. He would have been given a Hero's Welcome, his service to the Rebellion and the galaxy rewarded with a wife, a home, and a family - things he was trying hold onto throughout both seasons, in different iterations.

Since he didn't get that, they were his legacy . . . except Bix is not a legacy, she is a woman, with a life before him and a life after him. And his child is not a legacy, they are a human being who will grow up to live their own life and make their own choices.

His legacy in Rogue One was the galaxy and the Rebellion and the destruction of the Death Star.

(I really dislike child-as-symbol, by the way. I work with kids. Not a single one of them is Parent 2.0 or "a little piece of them" or their legacy. Not even one.)

There's a lot more I could say, but this is already a novel, and since I watched the show for Cassian's journey toward the man we got in Rogue One, that's what I focused on.

(Also? The Force Healer bit was weird. Just . . . weird.)

#andor spoilers #I guess?#anyway #andor #star wars

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mirror-imaged · 5 months ago

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okay i finished nirvana initiative + the extra route and i kind of have a lot to say. umm. lots and lots of spoiler discussion under the readmore! i'm also gonna do some zero escape spoiler talk as well in case that's something you want to avoid because i really think it helps me illustrate my feelings, but yeah. you have been warned!

so i liked it overall but i feel like i (like many other people i've seen online while searching for other people's opinions) am constantly kind of frustrated with it. i'm left with a focus on What Could Have Been over what actually happened in the story. i'm gonna just. make a list to get my main gripes off my mind before i get to the deeper stuff.

1) the timeline plot twist feels extremely pointless because the characters are not impacted by it at all, save ryuki (i'll come back to this later)

2) there are too many elements of the story that are either not explained well or are explained with in-game text in the appendix etc. (why did they wait until the epilogue to explain uru somezuki being another of so sejima's bastard children? why did they keep the prototype psync machine just there and untouched but modified in order to not require the removal of the left eye, like wouldn't they not want that thing lying around in the abandoned chemical plant? did they ever explain why gen was in tokiko's somnium besides a vague reference to him having been from horadori's lab? so on and so forth.)

3) the final act feels way too contrived and there are too many things that would have to conveniently line up in order for it to make any sense at all. (why does mizuki kuranushi conveniently dress the exact same as mizuki date will six years in the future? how does nobody in mizuki date's life at all ever mention that there's another girl who looks and sounds exactly like her that they know? how did renju and shoko conveniently never mention that mizuki is adopted to date, you know, one of their closest friends reportedly?)

4) continuing off of that, all of the returning characters that had serious character development in the first game feel extremely flanderized or like their development was ignored. (mizuki having THE MOST parent-related trauma and being formally adopted by date right before he just fucks off for six years and not having anything to say about that? date is extremely flat and barely a character in this game beyond being a pervert, and like, i don't want to say he's not a pervert. he's definitely a pervert. but he also really stuck out to me as a character with real emotional depth and a lot of intelligence where it counts and i don't like that they made him kinda nothing in this. etc.)

5) the way they handled ryuki in this was almost good but honestly, i think a reddit user i saw discussing this put it best when they said that 99% of ryuki's screentime is showing him at his lowest and the story doesn't really let him have a moment to get himself back together. the protagonist screentime split does not work at all and mizuki kuranushi and mizuki date might as well just be exchangeable, and that same user pointed out that it leaves mizuki date as an extremely underdeveloped character in this story.

okay, well, what else do i have to say? returning to the ryuki thing so i can discuss it in more detail, it feels like they really fumbled the unreliable narrator thing with him. he had so much potential to be explored in a deeper way with his constant self-sabotaging behaviors and showing that his mental illness was the whole reason the story is experienced out of order, and i love the idea of the story being out of order if it's executed well. but it wasn't! the fact that mizuki's perspective is also added in that way makes it so that it's really difficult to use ryuki's own status as an unreliable narrator to make that twist work, because, like... the mizukis are both reliable narrators. they're not lying to the audience. it's just that the audience doesn't see what happens leading up to things and your impression gives you an idea that isn't the truth.

overall, i feel really frustrated about the way the final act was handled. ryuki's entire half of the story was pretty good and i liked that, i like a lot of things about this story in THEORY. in fact, i do want to be positive about things i did like before i bring ZE into the equation, so i want to mention something i noted and appreciated: the disability representation!

i am a disabled person myself in multiple ways and - i want to stress i do not say this as any sort of personal attack on his character or as a #problematic kind of thing, it's just something i have noticed over time - i have consistently had an issue with kotaro uchikoshi's writing of disabled characters; not for the fact that i think they're written in malicious or particularly ableist ways, but moreso for the fact that their disabilities do not impact them at all until it's relevant to the plot. i've gotten about 11-12 hours into remember11 and their portrayal of DID is a mess. snake from 999 is not affected by his blindness and infact is portrayed as nearly superhuman until it's relevant to the plot (not that i wanted him to be written as incapable or anything, it's just that it doesn't feel like it has any particular impact on him until it comes to things like braille or his hearing). sigma from vlr doesn't notice he has prosthetic limbs until extremely late into the story, but i guess i can let that one slide because they're on the moon. saito sejima is.... ugh. the thing that sort of saves saito for me is that date is proof that he could have turned out 100% fine if it weren't for his father's neglect, but it's still a pretty thoughtless portrayal of a character with a brain disorder.

anyway! point is, usually it feels like the disabilities characters have in his writing are thought about as wrinkles to the mystery before being things that really truly impact the characters lives, and i didn't feel that issue here as much. kizuna is allowed to have complicated feelings about her own body and is supported by those she cares about, mizuki kuranushi is stopped multiple times when it's inconvenient for her because her chronic illness is flaring up, ryuki is shown to be a danger to himself and others due to his struggle to hold onto reality in a way i think is a lot more realistic for mental disorders than what happened with saito, etc. it's something i think i've witnessed over the years of his work become more thoughtful and it's also obvious based on the things mizuki date says at the end of the story + the things he says on twitter that uchikoshi himself does seem to genuinely care about being kind in those sorts of ways.

[EDIT 4/12/25 - i can also understand not being happy with the way some of the disabled characters were handled because outside of the actual disabilities themselves, there are still quite a few issues. i don't want to discredit that, i'm moreso speaking from the perspective of the characters being allowed to actually experience the impact of their disabilities.]

aside from that: back to nirvana initiative.

for previous context, let me bring up zero escape. i think it has a lot of parallels to the way aitsf+aini are written. 999 is a very (ultimately) small-scale and human story with an extremely compelling emotional center. vlr, naturally, must raise the stakes in some ways- so they bring in world-ending threats and elevate the drama. however, it also retcons some things about 999 that i think were kind of unnecessary, like hongou being a member of free the soul. but there are also things i like about vlr, which is that it can't be anything but a sequel to 999. it brings in characters from the previous game, it incorporates the established canon and world in a way that naturally builds on the twist of the first game, it cuts the bullshit and gets into exploring the implications of the morphogenetic field far earlier and incorporates new twists and storytelling into that such as phi experiencing the timelines at a different pace than you (which is a better version of aini's twist, imo.)

aitsf has that same hook as 999. it's ultimately a small-scale story about a few characters with well-written characterization and focus on their stories and emotions. aini, however, takes the lows of vlr and drops all of the highs. there are more moving pieces and none of them feel organized, the final twist doesn't really impact anything except for solving the murder to the player (it doesn't solve the murder to the characters, because they're experiencing something entirely different!) and it feels like it only exists to say there was a big Gotcha! moment at the end of the game. and, what i think is just absolutely a huge disappointment, they completely left aitsf in the dust and didn't allow aini to be a true sequel because they were too worried about spoilers or whatever. they wanted to have their cake and eat it too, i think.

it's a real shame. vlr is, for all its faults, a conversation with 999. aini doesn't even want to answer the phone.

#luca speakin #ai the somnium files #aitsf #ai nirvana initiative #aini #aini spoilers #some thoughts! yeah idk!#oh yeah and #zero escape spoilers

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tagsecretsanta · 2 years ago

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From @sofasurf

From @sofasurf to @janetm74

My prompts were:

1. Steam.

2. Stripes/striped.

3. ‘Did you have to?'

I think I've managed it!!

DINER

"Yellow car no hit backs!"

The sounds of a scuffle and indignant squawks. John's tone held a warning, "So help me Gordon, if you lay a hand on me!"

"Na ah! No hit backs allowed!"

"Oh I won't hit you."

There was silence in the car as the other four contemplated John's words.

"Man, you have zero chill," Gordon huffed turning to look out the window while Alan sniggered. In the front seat Virgil and Scott exchanged amused grins.

"Remind me again why this was a good idea?"

"Because, Johnno, we have a few days off for Christmas and Alan has never been on a proper road trip." Scott accelerated round a corner causing Virgil to grab at the handles.

"Car not One, Scott! Car not One!"

Scott ignored him catching Alan's eye in the mirror and winking. Of his brothers, Alan was the one who shared his appreciation for speed. The mountain side whipped past on either side of them. "The point of a road trip is to enjoy the scenery not travel back in time." Virgil complained while Scott pretended he hadn't heard him

It wasn't often they indulged in frivolous perks of wealth. When Scott had mentioned their road trip plans to a friend, who happened to also be the CEO of Ferrari, the offer to test drive the new SUV prototype had been more than the speed freak Scott could resist. It was big enough for all five of the brothers to travel in comfort, though Scott had yet to relinquish the front seat to test that theory.

"Right well, remind me again why I agreed to come!" John was prepared to be pedantic. Close proximity to Gordon occasionally had the effect.

"Ah, Johnny, Johnny," Gordon draped his arm over his brother's shoulder.

"Don't call me that, Fishface!"

"Jonathan, Jonathan," Gordon ignored the daggers shot his way, "It''s because you love us and because we promised we'd stop off at that new lab so you can talk all geeky about geeky stuff while the rest of us normal humans go Christmas shopping."

There were sounds of a scuffle from the backseat. It was all in jest however, everyone was in good form and beginning to unwind though, perhaps they were due a break from the confines of the car. Scott caught John's eye this time waggling his eyebrows.

"Now kids, don't make me stop this car."

He then performed another stunning manoeuvre that Virgil felt was more fitting for the air than the asphalt. However, his older brother was, it appeared, genuinely enjoying himself and Virgil would put up with breaking the land speed record for that reason alone.

"I'm hungry." Alan peered longingly into his long finished bag of Doritos.

"Eos recommended a dinner just through the next town. It's about 30 minutes from tonight's stop. She says their page is down, weird, but that she thinks it seems our kinda spot." John peered at his tablet.

"She was right about the motel last night so that works." Scott agreed and the state of the art central console pinged as John sent the location through. Scott glanced at the display, "Just an hour further on. Can you wait that long, Allie?" He caught his baby brother's eye again, meaning clear.

Alan put on his best whining voice, "I don't think I can Scotty. I'm starving. I feel faint."

"Did you have to? Brat!" Virgil chocked out as Scott pulled even more power from the engine. His whoop of delight brought a smile to the faces of the others in the car.

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A much shorter time than it should have been; the five brothers had selected a quiet corner booth of the small diner. It wasn't busy which suited them well. It had some twinkly lights, a small tree and upbeat Christmas tunes playing softly in the background.

John and Gordon made for the restrooms while Scott slipped into the corner and flopped opposite Virgil, all long relaxed limbs. He spread his arms along the back of the seat and let his head fall back against the surprisingly comfortable cushioning on the booth; just the right height for him.

Alan, as always drawn to Scott like a moth to flame slid into the space below his eldest brother's outstretched arm. He said something that made Scott laugh, and Virgil's heart warmed at both Alan's obvious delight in his hero's response and how chilled Scott appeared. Should nothing else happen on this trip, Virgil would consider it a hit for that reason alone.

"Right, I'm starving!" Scott reached for the menus left for them by the waitress. Virgil and Alan followed suit. Each took one and read in silence a moment.

"Um, guys?" Alan had turned to the middle page and was staring at the menu.

"Hmmm?" Virgil was still reading through the appetizers.

"Scott, look!" Alan dug his eldest brother in the ribs. Scott followed the teen's outstretched finger and his eyes widened and he immediately flicked his menu to the centre. Virgil did the same.

‘Thunderbird Specials’ the centre section of the menu had hand drawn pictures of the Thunderbirds One through Four and a slightly inaccurate representation of Five. Each had corresponding dishes.

In a rush? Thunderbird One steak burger with fries and our unique hot sauce.

More time to chew? Thunderbird two- tomahawk steak – great for sharing

Thunderbird Four our famous surf and turf. Fillet mignon and our locally sourced fresh organic prawns. All day breakfast with our mouthwatering Thunderbird Five pancake stack and creamy asteroid milkshake Thunderbird Three our unique coffee triple expresso. They don’t call it rocket fuel for nothing! “Eos set us up!” Alan exclaimed.

Scott and Virgil exchanged looks, “It would appear so!” Virgil said while Scott flipped further through the menu looking for an explanation.

John and Gordon returned at that moment- Gordon bouncing excitedly on his heels. “Guys, you are never gonna believe this.”

“Eos set us up,” Alan repeated lifting the menu to show them. Scott batted it down, checking over his shoulder. “Don't draw attention!” Virgil whispered as the teen giggled a little.

John rolled his eyes at them, “Yes. It would appear this is Eos’ idea of a little joke. I thought it was strange I couldn't see the online menu.” John slid into the booth beside Virgil while Gordon dropped on Alan's other side swiping the menu despite his protests.

“There's a picture of dad and some dude on the wall over there!” Gordon pointed the direction he and John had come.

John met Scott’s gaze and held it a moment, “It’s a picture of Dad and the owner’s son. He was in that refinery fire, remember right back near the start of IR?”

“The big one in Texas Dad fought with top brass about for weeks after?”

John nodded, “Seems Dad pulled the son out just in time with Thunderbird One. There is a little bit about it under the picture.” John’s face was hard to read, memories of Jeff were always bittersweet.

“Really?”

John smiled, “Yep. And it appears the owner hasn't forgotten. Proceeds from the Thunderbird menu,” he gestured the pages open in front of them, “Go to a charity that supports rebuilding in disaster areas.”

“That's pretty cool, right?” Gordon was grinning.

“Yea,” Virgil agreed.

“Way to go, Dad!” Alan said his tone impressed and Scott dropped his arm to pull the teen in for a quick side hug.

“Way to go Dad,” Gordon repeated back his own tone softer with a little something unreadable in it.

Scott simply nodded a soft smile on his lips. He seemed to lose himself in memories a moment and Virgil tapped his ankle gently with his foot under the table causing his older brother to meet his eye. He nodded in reassurance. All good.

They sat in silence for a moment, each lost in their own thoughts.

“It’s pretty cool, right?” Gordon broke the spell. “but if you want the absolute coolest, check this out!” and he produced a bundle of papers from behind his back. “Thunderbird colouring sheets!”

And just like that the spell was broken and chaos descended in the table.

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The food was exceptionally good. Obviously they had to sample all the Thunderbird menu and the argument over whose dish was the best looked set to continue until next Christmas. They had pulled the crackers orbited with their meal and squabbled good naturedly over the tacky prizes and each now sported a jaunty paper crown.

Gordon and Alan had listened engrossed as John and Virgil had regaled them with the tale of the Texas fire with Scott chipping in little details. Dad in action had truly been impressive and John, although he would deny it, was a gifted story teller when he chose to be.

Now a quiet contentment had descended in the group. Virgil sat back, stomach full and observed his brothers. He clutched his Thunderbird Three coffee and allowed the steam to curl up lazily in front of him. It had a pleasing kick though Three’s pilot was still complaining that three older brothers had stated “No” in unison when

he'd tried to order one for himself. He and Gordon, also banned from that much caffeine before being trapped in a car with the others, were appeased with hot chocolate. Apple pie and chocolate cake had also been consumed. Road trips were hungry work.

John was quietly messaging Eos who was delighted her subterfuge had worked while the three opposite him, yes the Commander of International Rescue included, were finishing off their colouring pages. Scott's tongue was poking out the side of his mouth in concentration, a small tuft of hair sticking up from where he’d run his hand through it, as he finished colouring Thunderbird Two blue. The argument had been brief and Virgil had

decided not to sink any further to his level. His own completed green version of One had a festive santa hat in lieu of her traditional nose cone. John meanwhile had been mildly offended by the inaccurate Thunderbird Five option and so was egging the others on in their colour wars.

“I mean we should be pleased they don't have an accurate image of our top secret satellite, Johnny!” “Don't call me that. And that's not the point, Scooter. Here, you haven't used this shade of blue yet.”

The battle between Alan and Gordon had almost come to blows when Alan had finished a red version of Four only to see the blue and yellow stripes the aquanaut had given Three.

John and Scott had added fuel to the fire by appearing to seriously consider the benefits of a respray for each accordingly and much brotherly silliness had ensued. Virgil did however make a note to keep a track of blue paint supplies as John was sneaky when he wanted to be and was watching Scott's drawing with barely concealed mirth.

There had been a hairy moment when the waitress had appeared to recognise them, or at least Scott. He had placed a finger to his lips and his teeth had practically sparkled as he smiled at her silently requesting she not give them away, sealing the deal with a little wink. She hadn’t divulged their identities, serving then with wide

eyes attentiveness; though a napkin with her number on it had been dropped on Scott’s knee as she refilled his coffee much to his surprise, Gordon and Alan's glee, and a murmur of, “unbelievable,” from Virgil.

Pucture complete, Scott looked up and met Virgil's eye. Virgil motioned to the other three and raised his eyebrows, Scott’s indulgent smile matched Virgil's own. Moments like this were all too rare. Scott sat back stretching his long arms along the back of the seat again, content like Virgil just to enjoy their company.

Virgil was called in to referee/ judge the which Thunderbird looked best in the new colour competition that still raged. When he looked back at Scott a few minutes later the eldest’s wasn't looking at them but at something behind Virgil's head, his expression a strange one Virgil couldn't quite read; thoughtful, wistful even? Virgil turned in his seat to see what had grabbed Scott's attention. He immediately recognised what Scott saw.

A woman who couldn't be much older than Scott himself was wrangling a small team of children into the booth by the door. Four boys aged roughly between twelve and four by Virgil's guess, she had another baby, a little girl who couldn't have been older than one in her arms. The baby had blonde hair and was waving a stuffed toy excitedly. He watched as the woman handed her to the oldest looking boy who immediately started to make faces and bounce her up and down, occupying her while the mother helped the other boys out of their coats.

Their excited chatter and the baby's infectious laughter drifted across the diner all clamouring for their mother’s attention as she attempted to answer several questions at once. It was chaos and to the two brothers watching, achingly familiar.

One of the younger boys needed the restroom and he and what looked to be his next older brother passed their booth, heads bent in discussion their conversation just audible, “I already explained, we can't ask for ice cream cos it makes mom worry.”

Virgil looked back at Scott who caught his eye and looked away. Seeming to shake himself a little as if to clear something from his head, Scott used his long reach across the back of the seat to tap Gordon on the shoulder, stealing his second last bite of cake as Gordon moved too slowly to stop him.

“Ugh! You are the worst, Scooter! Remind me again why I let you hang out with me?”

“Because you need his signature to access your trust fund,” John helpfully supplied spearing Gordon’s last piece.

He and Scott high fived while Scott slipped out of the booth to settle the bill.

“Actually ‘bout that...” Gordon turned puppy dog eyes towards his oldest brother.

“Told you, Squid, I am not signing off on you buying a Christmas tree farm in Vermont.” He ruffled the aquanaut’s hair as he passed.

“You have no vision, Scooter!”

Scott’s laugh floated back to them as he made his way to the counter.

The other four brothers watched enthralled as their waitress and another server both jockeyed to serve him.

Scott’s dimples were on full display as he leant in the counter bending his head towards the girls conversationally. Virgil could swear he could see their eyes changing shape to little hearts, “Does he even know he's doing it?” His tone was reverential.

“I really don't know. Sometimes?” John replied folding his arms as the waitress reached across to bat Scott's arm conspiratorially.

“His powers must only be used for good,” Gordon covered Alan's eyes, “You are too young to see this Allie.” Alan batted his hands away, ducking to continue watching the display at the counter.

Judging from the way the waitress was listening intently and kept glancing at the family in the booth Virgil was sure Scott's not inconsiderable powers were indeed being used for good. He didn't doubt for a second the family that reminded them so much of past times would find their bill paid with a healthy ice cream allowance added. People often thought that Virgil was the soft hearted Tracy brother; he just didn't have to hide it so carefully from corporate sharks.

Judging from the way the waitress’ eyes widened slightly as she retrieved the handset from his brother, there had been a healthy tip added to their own bill as well.

As they passed the family, now tucking into burgers and fries with gusto, the tiny girl tossed her toy into the ground. Scott bent to pick it up, smiling at the mother who smiled back in tired gratitude. He flung his arm around Virgil's shoulders as they walked towards the car.

A yellow Mustang pulled into the parking space in front of them and Gordon and Alan looked at each other, frozen like gunslingers at high noon.

“Yellow car no hit backs.”

John beat them to it, walking between the two giving them each a solid cuff to their heads. Their outraged cries floated on the crisp air drawing the attraction of the older two. It was the little things at Christmas really John thought. He hung back slightly watching as his four brothers crossed the parking lot, the sky was trying to snow, a few flurries escaping the black clouds.

“Thanks, Eos,” He whispered into his open Comm before hurrying to catch up with a shout of, ”Shotgun!” that sent the others scrambling to reach the car first.

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#thunderbirds are go #tag team secret santa #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction

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vro0m · 2 years ago

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vro0m's rewatch - 171/332

2016 Russian GP

Okay. Round 4. Let's see if Lewis can turn the tide. Aha and this time I have access to the pre quali build up as well. Ferrari is facing reliability issues. Seb will have a grid penalty for a gearbox change and now they're struggling with Raikkonen's car as well.

Another big story of the weekend is Daniel trying a halo type thing prototype on his car. It's a cockpit basically. It's not entirely covered, like you can get in the car from above like with the halo, but instead of the y-shape of the current halo, the half circle is covered in some kind of windshield. It seems dangerous to put any type of material on that that could shatter and cut the driver. Paul di Resta has some stupid opinion on it like most commentators do at this point, saying things like "most drivers think we should keep it open and be able to see the helmet, that identity" which is. Fucking ridiculous. Apparently though, RBR is pushing for it mostly because they think if they start developing it now it might give them a headstart as far as aero goes compared to Merc which is. On brand. Brundle is saying "shouldn't F1 be risky?" which is insane. He thinks we start with the halo and we end with "driverless cars" to take all the risk away. I'm banging my head on the walls from the stupidity, that's more than I can handle for real. Horner is defending the thing. He says from a purist POV he agrees, but the FIA is pursuing it and their concept is a more "elegant" solution than a "flip-flop style halo" that was tested earlier in the year. I have no idea what he's referring to there. He also says of course a purist wants to keep it open but there's been too many incidents over the years where something like this could have saved someone's life to ignore it.

Massa organised a race in tiny kart cars between Daniel and his own son around his terrace I believe? It's funny af.

Unfortunately, during quali, Lewis has the same engine failure that he got in China and can't take part in Q3, leaving him 10th on the grid. Of course, Nico is on pole.

Lewis is unsurprisingly unhappy about it. He's over being interviewed. In his usual attitude he's looking around, giving short answers, ready to go. He's gonna need a new PU and that means another penalty as well. The journalist says the season is really testing him in terms of making him work hard. "Definitely," he answers with a curt smile.

She asks how he copes with it because he seems to be taking it very well, very chill. (I completely disagree with that.) He takes off his glasses, lightly wipes his eye, makes a hand gesture as he's shifting weight on his feet, shakes his head and smirks. "There's nothing I can do," he says.

He's so frustrated. She says he's still in the fight for the championship and he's not gonna give up. "I never give up, so…" he says, defiantly. That's all.

I don't understand why but in the end he didn't get a penalty for the PU. He does start 10th. Johnny asks him how he feels going into this race starting from 10th after a couple frustrating races. "Pretty chill."

Johnny wheezes. "Is that it?" Lewis smiles, mischievous. "You must be pretty hungry for it though," Johnny goes on, "because you know, you know how important it's gonna be to get a good result, the car is very very good around this track, so you've got an opportunity, do you think, down turn 2?" Lewis says there's a lot of opportunities ahead, he's chill, what will be will be, he'll give it everything he's got. Johnny asks how is his motivation, as good as ever? "Absolutely. I've never ever in my whole life ever struggled with motivation, so that's never even in question."

Toto is interviewed and Crofty reports that many fans on twitter are spinning conspiracy theories about sabotage and Mercedes going against their own champion and shit like that. Is that how all the bs surrounding brocedes began? With stupid fan theories? Toto says he's not gonna answer to every lunatic that tweets and some of them are abusing the team. He denies all allegations and says they feel awful about him not being able to perform as well as he can.

Niki is also against the halo which is preposterous.

Anyway. It's time for the race. Here's how they line up then : Nico, Valtteri, Raikkonen, Massa, Ricciardo, Perez, Seb, Kvyat, Verstappen and Lewis.

Formation lap.

And they're racing!

Just as I was about to say it's a clean start, it's not. Reaaally not. And just as they come out of the first round of contact, a Ferrari spins. I'll wait until we know more to tell you precisely what it's about. But Seb has crashed for sure. VSC. Lewis is up 5 places though! Hulkenberg is also out. Safety car. Perez is limping to the pits on three tyres and apparently Ricciardo has pitted as well. And Kvyat. And Ericsson. Those are looong stops. Gutierrez is in as well. That's a lot of damaged cars! Seb is driving the moped back to the pits himself lol.

Okay so. Someone's RedBull hit Seb from the back. It's Kvyat lol. Maybe these two are still salty about China? It sends Ricciardo, who was wheel to wheel with Seb, wide. Meanwhile in the back, someone also collided with someone's back, who was sent spinning, collected the same person as he went AND another car that made contact with a final car by trying to avoid getting hit. Seb was still able to keep going at that point, but someone hit him again shortly after and that's why he crashed. He is PISSED. Who's the second one then? Safety car coming in. And we go again.

So it's now Nico, Raikkonen, Valtteri, Massa, Lewis, Verstappen, Alonso, Grosjean, Magnussen and Palmer. But Valtteri attacks! He's ahead, and right behind, right at the same time, Lewis overtakes Massa. Verstappen attacks Massa as well but he's not letting it happen twice. Now it's Alonso attacking Verstappen. But that's also not happening either. Kvyat and Ericsson are battling for P15 and Kvyat, who's definitely not my cup of tea, maintains his track position by going off track which is arguable. Especially after already taking out one driver. Lewis is closing on Raikkonen who's closing on Valtteri. Valtteri defends. It's Lewis' turn. He's ahead but well. Raikkonen had to avoid contact there. "Get in there Lewis, come on man!" Bono rejoices on radio. On a on-board replay we see it's Kvyat who ran into Seb BOTH TIMES. So maybe Seb was right about what he told him in China lol. Anyway Lewis is breathing down Valtteri's neck now. Kvyat pits. Ted thinks he's about to retire. Indeed the mechanics are not touching oh no. It was to serve a 10 seconds stop go penalty. He's out again. Gutierrez also gets a drive through penalty for the collision on lap 1.

And it's lap 10. Nico, Valtteri (+5.8), Lewis (+0.4), then Raikkonen, Massa, Verstappen, Alonso, Grosjean, Magnussen, Palmer. Oh and Rio Haryanto is also out of the race. No idea when it happened. Lewis is falling back a bit. Too much dirty air I think. It puts him way closer to Raikkonen now. Like DRS range close. One lap later Lewis is closing on Valtteri again. He sets his best lap of the race, chasing. And Valtteri pits. He's back out in P7. In a real BDE move, Seb went straight to RBR's pit wall to talk to Horner about Kvyat.

And Lewis pits. It's a longer stop than the Williams'. THEY ARE WHEEL TO WHEEL! LEWIS IN THE PIT EXIT AND VALTTERI DOWN THE STRAIGHT! Valtteri stays ahead! Good job, Williams ! But Lewis is still very very close, it's down to the pit stop, really. Come on, come on… Massa pits. Lewis gets on the inside and overtakes Valtteri! He's already on Alonso, who was close ahead. And he made it very easy. And Lewis sets another fastest lap.

That's lap 20. Nico, Raikkonen, Verstappen, Lewis, Valtteri overtakes Alonso ! Massa, Jenson, Perez, and I don't know who's P10 because Raikkonen pits so the graphics disappear. Lewis is clearly ahead, but Valtteri is behind Raikkonen! So that's Lewis back in P3. Nico pits. His stop is shorter. Of course he's still in the lead, 13 seconds ahead of Lewis, who will be P2 as soon as Max pits. And he does. All that's left to do for Lewis is chase Nico. Sainz gets a 10 second time penalty for forcing Palmer off track.

On lap 30 there's racing in the midfield. Lewis is still 12.2 second away from Nico and that gap is not closing much. Raikkonen is P3, Valtteri P4, Massa P5, Verstappen P6, Alonso P7 and then there's a 4 way fight for P8 between Magnussen, Grosjean, Ricciardo and Sainz. Nasr gets a 5 second time penalty for "not respecting race directors instructions regarding turn 2". But then Nico hits traffic and Lewis gains on him like crazy. On lap 34 the gap is down to 8.4. And Verstappen slows down, parks his car on the side. He reported issues on his way to the grid earlier on. "Something with the engine," he says. DRS is disabled, yellow flag. 7.5. "You there, Bono?" Lewis asks. "Affirm Lewis, we’ve got a bit on at the moment mate." And then we immediately hear another message although I doubt they happened simultaneously : "So Lewis it looks like we’ve got a water pressure issue, water pressure issue." That's yet another mechanical issue for Lewis then. He loses speed.

On lap 40, the gap is back up to 11.4. We're in for a boring ending I'm afraid. "Lewis the situation has stabilised," Bono says. So maybe not so boring? Can I hope? But the gap is still expanding, actually. We're almost done and it's 15 seconds. So yeah. Boring in the end.

And it's the end of the race.

So Nico, 25 seconds ahead of Lewis, Raikkonen.

While Nico finishes crowd surfing his team, Raikkonen is casually chatting with dictator Putin in the cool down room. It's insanely cringe each season. Lewis gets there and shakes his hand while still wearing his helmet. Btw Putin is surprisingly short now that I think about it. Nico takes ages before he salutes him as well. Never do you see such a silent cool down room. Everybody is visibly tense and uncomfortable. Lewis stays away, back to the small crowd in the room.

They nicely wait for all the officials to get away before they start with the champagne and Lewis immediately hands his bottle to the Merc representative rather than spray it himself and stand slightly to the side while he drowns Nico in it. He's smiling though, he's not doing it out of spite. When he gets the bottle back he pours some down on the man as well, then cheers with Nico and they both drink, synchronised.

Lewis says it wasn't the easiest first corner. He's happy for the team and he got the points so he's satisfied. He says it was quite easy to overtake Valtteri who didn't seem to be defending. He has no doubt he could have won but then he had a problem with the engine "again". He's calm, not cheerful but not annoyed.

In the end, Brundle asks Nico about the 42 points lead he has. Nico says it's only been 4 races, "Lewis is gonna come back of course you know, I mean he's on it and as motivated as ever so… Early days."

Horner says he could only apologise to Seb as it was Kvyat's fault, btw.

In the post race, Lewis seems satisfied. He thanks the guys who flew over the previous night to fix his car and his engineers who stayed up late. About the water pressure issue, he says he's just happy he was able to finish the race. He says it wasn't due to pushing too hard, it's just another failure. "We just need to do a better job," he says, given they have few engines to go around for the year. The journalist says they get a lot of tweets from his fans saying it seems like the team has decided it was Nico's turn to win the title and a lot of conspiracy theories. His face is uncharacteristically controlled, I can't tell what he's thinking about this, he's usually so easy to read… He says what he can say is his side of the garage, his mechanics, are definitely having a hard time. He hums. Pause.

He has complete confidence and faith in them. It's an unusual situation for them (the mechanics), the majority of them were on Nico's car the previous year, and Nico's current guys were with him since he's come to the team, he smiles. "And all of a sudden," he shrugs, "you know, we've swapped."

He shakes his head. "For no apparent reason, but… that is not the reason why we're having these issues they're somewhere else, I don't know where these little issues are coming from but for sure, the team, the guys in the background, they need to work hard to try and rectify these." He says in testing they did 800 km a day and the car was thought to be bulletproof. "And all of a sudden… Hah!", he chuckles shortly," We're having all these problems so… No I would say that… Don't jump the gun." He smiles, very very calmly, confidently. "I don't believe that that's happened, it's not happened in the last three years and I don't have any reason to believe that would happen now."

Huh. That's very very interesting. First of all I didn't know about the mechanics thing. So I went to read to see what that's about. Nico says it was because the two sides of the garage were at war and Toto decided to swap them to stop the feud. Something that was also stated by Mercedes. Lewis said later in the season he would tell his true feelings about it only 10 years later. Anyway it seems it will come up again during the year so we'll see. Lewis said it threw him off basically. Which is not surprising just generally speaking but also specifically when it comes to him. I mean we've talked at length about his trust issues lol. It must have shaken him.

Second of all, he's very very calm and confident about his answers. I feel no hint of the paranoia he sometimes shows when he gets under pressure at that point. I would have expected him to start ruminating already but it's not the case. Either he's learnt to lie better or he's sincerely not worried about it. I would go for the second option because I don't believe for one second he's capable of hiding how he feels to this day lol. It's good to see, because you can tell he's evolving. I'm doubting that it will last in the long run though.

Brundle says right after the interview he felt on the podium he was in the waiting room for the dentist and none of them seemed as happy as they should've been. He says Lewis has a thousand yard stare. He indeed seemed weirdly controlled. Johnny mentions that during the drivers parade he also was only able to get 3-word answers out of him and you wished he'd be slightly more outgoing. Then Brundle points out he was again sitting alone at the front. I feel like they're mixing things up. Lewis never likes to talk to them or anyone before the races, but that might also just be a matter of focus. It's very distracting having to do all of that right before you have to put such a performance in. Most other athletes don't have to do that. But yes, even through the thick composure you can tell Lewis is unhappy about the mechanics situation, and the engine failures of course. In his post race interview, the moment he talks about the swap is the only moment the composure slightly breaks. He's gracious towards the mechanics because he knows they don't wanna be working with him either, but he also says "we need to do a better job" and then "they need to work hard and rectify [the issues]" which tells me he thinks globally the team isn't doing its best at the moment.

Oh I paused to write all that and actually Johnny does say to Brundle he doesn't mind Lewis separating himself from the grid because that's him getting himself in his bubble and focusing on the job at hand.

Nico is happy but he also points out Lewis had issues. He's asked if he can take that confidence into a straight fight with Lewis, which they haven't had yet this year. He says that's what he's here for. That's the best racing "because he's the benchmark in the end," he smiles. He looks forward to it happening again. It's always gonna be a hard battle against him. He's still as motivated and quick as ever. She asks if he misses it, if he gets the same sense of achievement without it. He says he can't say he really missed it because it's awesome to win, he wants to win and it doesn't matter how. "But of course the ecstatic feeling isn't there, it's there when I win a battle against Lewis, you know? That's what really gets the ultimate thrill." Omg you guys are so gay.

#f1 #lewis hamilton #vro0m's race reviews #2016 #2016 russian gp

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terraxcloud · 2 years ago

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Life

I'm sorry if I haven't been around/available/"there". This is probably the best time to actually "stay", but...at least I'm still around after so long. Outside of life and its ills, I was wondering about drawing an extremely dumb overly exaggerated comic starring Sherlotta getting Isekai'ed to the Desert Southwest. I just wanted to do it to make fun of Forspoken for fun. Don't think much of it right now.

You already know what I'm going to say about the FF7 Rebirth theme (spoiler) song...it's about Terra Branford and nobody will believe that, blah, blah, blah.

"No Promises to Keep" is a reference to the FF6 Opera's:

"Must I forget you? Our solemn promise? Will autumn take the place of spring? What shall I do? I'm lost without you. Speak to me once more!"

Why is Aerith singing a song about "promises"? Well, if Tifa sung the song, it would make a lot of sense (Midgar Blues doesn't fit Tifa in the same way)! Since Aerith sings the song, people will just become confused like always, but they'll inevitably think about the "End of Disk 1" moment and if Aerith will be "saved" despite 2 and 2 not coming together (to be fair though, Aerith doesn't really have promises, but why mention their existence if that's the case?). The only real notable promise that implies lasting longer than a scene (I think) is the one Aerith gives to Zack in Crisis Core where she wants to "sell flowers under the sky" with him (it hasn't happened yet, but why make the entirety of FF7 Rebirth have a theme song about that one thing?)

People only have this idea that she is either "saved" or "not saved" and that's the only thing that can happen outside of...Tifa getting the latter instead. If Aerith survives then the story is clearly changed (which they promised not to do). If she is not saved then...what's the surprise they're cooking at the end? If Tifa dies then it's clearly surprising since her most important part comes later and now she's gone...but then again, they would need to change the story! If Zack appears in the OG timeline, well, that would be way too much of a change and I don't believe that has any purpose in happening (not that it can't, but it makes no sense right now).

Why is everyone so focused on Zack anyway? Is Square-Enix just going to change the entire story just to make Zack be in the game doing stuff? Everyone is latching onto Zack like he's the solution to everything, but it's clear that a lot of the background story of Remake is being ignored...and almost every other game in the FF7 compilation and the series.

It has to be a surprise that's bigger than Zack's appearance, and the only thing I can anticipate that can trump that which isn't just "100% not hinted" is Terra's appearance. We are already thinking about Aerith and Tifa dying, but that's the thing...we're thinking about it! We weren't thinking about Zack before he magically appeared for no apparent reason! It's likely they did this so that they can do it again. What in the world can happen in FF7's universe that would be as surprising as a character not from FF7 appearing in it? Someone dying? That's not surprising, that's expected.

I already see comments how the song reminds them of FF6 and "Eyes on Me", a song about Squall and Rinoa...who are designed after Cloud's FF6 prototype and Terra (and their Dissidia story hints at FF8 connections because the love story from FF6 is a real thing that keeps being reused in other games in small chunks). Y'know, protecting people, flowers, orphans, pets, someone leaving just to return, being brainwashed, shooting stars, guy who wants to be a hero, witches, childhood friend, some guy who thinks he's better than the main character, yep.

The original promise comes from FF6. My working theory is that Tifa and Aerith's Midgar stories were once for one character (Terra). The main character of FF6 (who was cut) promises he'll protect Terra AND he also ends up saving her (in contradiction to FF7's promising one character but obsessing about not being able to save the other).

A "saving" part still exists (with Locke I guess), but Terra's story lacks a lot that it would have had with the missing character (the same one who became the main character of FF7). Other characters in FF inherited parts of Terra's missing story elements (those characters have "Moogle Girl" bangs with Eiko [Terra's childhood] and Sherlotta [Terra's cat (Tifa's Traces of Two Pasts hints that)] being the biggest).

This is the very beginning of Terra's story in the original Dissidia. The kid is "Onion Knight" from FF3 (NES) who is secretly representing Cloud as a child. Cloud ends up appearing to "save" Terra soon after in the center of the planet (basically where Cloud tells Tifa that "he'll meet her there" in the OG ending). Onion Knight is represented by "Oates" from FF7 Remake. Terra is looking at the stars when her story starts, which is another hint by Cloud...

This star appears in the FF6 Opera and became a story element in Tifa's promise scene before it was removed in FF7 Remake (it appears in FF8 because it's origin is the FF6 Opera, not FF7). Cloud is talking about Firion's dream to fill the world with Wild Roses, but he's just mocking it since it sounds "childish". And yeah, Cloud would end up sharing that dream with Terra during her Dissidia story since "Filling the World with Flowers" is cut from FF6 and no other character in FF does such a thing to that degree...those random fields of flowers in FF8, FF15, etc. are a symbol of this cut "dream" from FF6. There's a reason why Terra's clothes are full of them, y'know. Aerith's concept art lacks flowers btw. The story element in Crisis Core where Zack and Aerith have a dream to fill Midgar with flowers is and always was connected to Cloud & Terra's Dissidia scene because these four characters are connected. Zack is designed after Cloud and Aerith is designed after Terra. These things aren't the way they are for no reason.

Zack <- Cloud -> Sephiroth Aerith <- Terra -> Jenova

Zack is Cloud's friend. Sephiroth is Cloud's antithesis by design. Aerith is Terra's friend. Jenova is Terra's antithesis by design.

I'm jumping pretty far by saying Aerith is Terra's friend (they're designed after each other), and I know that, but my entire profile involves lots of "jumping". Don't make me start talking about the Phoenix Tower in FF5 where enemies that look similar to Aerith, Terra, and Jenova appear (designed by Nomura none-the-less)...I dislike talking about that.

Well, enough of that. I don't want to bore you. Aerith hints at a "surprise" in Remake when Cloud decides to pick...grass...for the orphanage.

"I gotta hand it to you, I never would've thought of that. It'll definitely take them by surprise."

The orphanage most notably represents Terra because how many characters have orphans in their story as much as she has? The white flower means loyalty, which is represented by a moogle...and Terra's represented by them a lot. The yellow one implies that Cloud will meet this person "some time in the future". You can't ignore that. At the point where the main theme of FF7 Rebirth is sung, Cloud has met every notable character in FF7 except Zack. The FF6 Opera and Loveless are about "meeting someone again after leaving/being left by them" and the "Midgar Blues" is about "leaving someone".

Does it make sense that it's Aerith? Aerith IS with Zack in his timeline and Aerith already did low-key reunite with Cloud when he fell from "heaven". How about Tifa? Perhaps in the beginning, but that's long gone now in her own words when she was talking to Cloud in Aerith's flower garden.

The Reunion is about Terra waiting for Cloud back in FF6 limbo as the song sung by Celes states. "Reunion" was originally a bad-guy story element with Sephiroth and Jenova, but Cloud and Terra represent the good side of it. "Hollow" states that instead of waiting, Terra herself will come to FF7R. That is the expectation and Zack's story allows this to happen as anything can happen there without ruining the OG story.

If there was a big change in the OG storyline then Zack's timeline didn't serve much, if any purpose! Why would they have made it then!?!

Yet, everyone's expecting some change to the OG storyline, so it's not surprising that they'll make it seem like that'll be a thing before or when the "surprise" happens. Let me just use the Aerith quote again:

"I gotta hand it to you, I never would've thought of that. It'll definitely take them by surprise."

I still feel that FFXIII-2 is the original rough-draft of Zack's storyline...we'll wait and see. Serah is clearly made after Terra and Lightning is made after Cloud, but was Noel made after Zack? He does come in a meteor and starts doing timeline changing stuff like it's his sworn duty, oddly enough.

I haven't tagged any posts recently...guess this will do.

There's something missing...oh yah.

This is when Cloud goes to look for a person who'll show him "the reason why he fights". The "That's a promise" crumb trail goes like this in order:

Aerith & Zack promise to sell flowers under the sky together. Of course, Zack dies and gives his sword to Cloud, which is the main storyline of Cloud's in Dissidia. Zack gave Cloud his "honor" and "dreams" (filling Midgar with flowers) along with the sword, but in Dissidia, Cloud doesn't understand why he has it.

Cloud promising the other FF protags that he'll return with an answer as to the reason why he fights (which he talks about at the end of FF7 with his "A very personal memory that I have".) He tries to skip over Sephiroth and he gets his crystal "the white materia", but he just continues onward to find his answer.

Onion Knight telling Terra that he'll "always protect her". Cloud then meets Terra after OK disappears and they converse about the flower dream which is similar to Zack and Aerith's in Crisis core before that first "That's a promise".

Cloud's "Reason to Fight" is to protect a person, and this was originally for Terra as that was the original promise hinted by the FF6 Opera. This is his "very personal memory"...it's very personal because only he knows it. To see that it was hinted all the way back in OG FF7 is surprising, but it is what it is. Cloud knows something he's not supposed to.

Thank you for reading this perspective.

#FF7 Rebirth #FFVII Rebirth #FF7R #FFVIIR #Clerra #FF7 #FFVII #FFVI #FF6 #Final Fantasy #Reunion

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enby-dragoon · 3 months ago

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Rating the AGE Mobile Suits by how much I want to fuck them (and also their design in general)

So a while back in january I made a post rating the IBO gundams by how much I wanted to fuck them. I intended to do it more with other gundam timelines, but then real life got in the way, so here we are several months later where I have nothing else to do.

This time I'm gonna rate most of the mobile suits, since unlike IBO, AGE doesn't really have enough gundams for a proper list.

Spoilers for AGE.

1: AGE-1 Gundam.

This is the AGE-1 Gundam, the first main gundam in the show, piloted primarily by Flit Asuno. It has two variants in the anime, the Spallow (a high mobility variant) and the Titus (a close quarters brawler). It's also the main gundam for the UE arc, which is the best part.

Design wise it's fairly basic for a gundam, clearly meant to evoke memories of grandpa, but it's variants look a bit better without all the white. My personal favorite is probably the spallow, which changes the primary colour to blue and makes it look a bit sleeker.

Fucking wise... I dunno, I think he's a bit too basic. He's basically the mecha version of a cishet man.

2: RGE-B790 Genoace

The grunt suit for the protagonists during the UE arc. there's also a custom variant piloted by Wolf Enneacle which is mostly white with a different head.

I'd say this is a fairly good design for a grunt suit. It's not groundbreaking, and it's honestly fairly boring, but it doesn't need to be anything different. It does the job perfectly well.

I'd be interested in a quick fuck if any of them are women, but they don't really have a lot going on you know? I like my women a bit crazy.

3: WMS-GEX1 G-Exes

Wolf's main suit after his Genoace Custom.

It's colour scheme is horrendous. It needs something to spice it up that isn't white, grey or black. Any colour that isn't those three will work, please.

I can't fuck this thing, I feel like I'll be flashbanged.

4: ovv-f Gafran

The main enemy mobile suit for the Vagan during the UE arc. I love her, as you might have guessed if you looked at my blog. Gundam AGE is one of my favorite shows simply because it features her. (also no I don't know why she's badly been made transparent)

Design wise she's perfect in every way, she has beam rifles/sabers in her palms that are really cool, she has a diffuse beam cannon in the chest, and a tail cannon to top it all off. She can also transform into a dragon, in a very short and subtle transformation sequence that is just perfect.

I want to fuck her so bad, please. Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

5: ovv-a Baqto

Another UE mobile suit. It's not the Gafran so it's inherently lesser, but it's still pretty good.

It's a lot bulkier, made to withstand the greater power of the Gundam, whereas Gafran was built to fight ordinary mobile suits. The diffuse beam cannon in it's chest has been split into three, which can now output spikes for ramming maneuvers. Not sure why it needs that when it already has two beam emitters in it's palms, but whatever. Like the Gafran it can also transform into a dragon, which is pretty cool. I like the vents.

I would be down, but lets be honest, I would be thinking of Gafran the entire time, and that would be pretty rude, especially when Baqto does have qualites worth loving on it's own merit.

6: xvv-xc Zedas

A prototype X-Rounder mobile suit, piloted by Desil Galette, the worlds most evil ten year old.

It's got a sleek design, with a very prominent codpiece for some reason? Unlike the Gafran and Baqto it's tail has a sword that can be detached for use with it's hands. Unlike most Vagan suits, it's transformation mode isn't really a dragon, it's instead more of a dragon themed fighter jet, which I feel loses some of the uniqueness of Vagan.

Even ignoring the fact that it's only pilot was a ten year old, that ten year old was hilariously evil. No.

7: xvb-xd Farsia

A prototype X-Rounder mobile suit 'piloted' by Yurin L'Ciel, though actually controlled by Desil Galette through his X-Rounder ability. You know how I said Desil was the worlds most evil ten year old? Yeah this is the example. if you've watched the show you know what I mean.

Unlike every other Vagan mobile suit so far, the Farsia doesn't have a transformation mode, instead it uses it's pedestal for long ranged travel. It's also the first mobile suit to use bits, which are cool but also complicate battles a lot. It's pilot is a girl (the only girl pilot at that point in the show if I remember correctly) so of course it has to be pink. It looks good in that color at least.

It's piloted by a fifteen year old, but ignoring that I don't really have a problem with it. I'd be down for a fuck.

8: xvm-gz Defurse

A prototype ground mobile suit.

I can't take this thing seriously, it looks so fucking stupid. It's supposed to be a mobile artillery piece but the stupidly long legs and the mobile suit sticking out on top- I just can't take it seriously.

This would be a pity fuck.

9: CMS-574E Elmeda

An old style mobile suit used by Euba,

It's design is reminiscent of the gelgoog (or maybe the Geara Doga? Honestly not sure, I'm mostly going off the head design and those are pretty similar. It's also possible I'm forgetting some obvious mobile suit, never underestimate how poor my memory is), and it doesn't look half bad. It's meant as a commander unit to Xeno's which are basically the same but blue and no spikes.

The pilot is a nationalist. I hate nationalists.

10: CMS-223G Gala

An old style mobile suit used by Zalam.

It's obviously a Zaku, I don't think I had to say that, if you've seen any amount of gundam you know that. Brown is a bit of a boring colour but it's design is... fine. like the Elmeda this is a commander variant that leads Zila's into battle, which are a darker brown, have no spikes and no shoulder shield.

Again, a nationalist. He's also mafia.

11: CMS-328 Desperado

Technically this isn't even a mobile suit, it's just a construction worker.

It looks fine. OSHA compliant.

You ever been fucked by a construction worker? me neither, but I'm willing to learn what it's like. I'll do some manual labor.

12: CMS-B/67 Shaldoll

This is a Mobile Sport, a mobile suit used for racing. Which is apparently a thing in the Advanced Generation timeline. kinda wish they'd explore that a bit more.

You might notice it looks similiar to the G-Exes, and that's because it was developed from it. Unlike the G-Exes this one does not try to flashbang you. The green isn't quite my colour, but it's not bad.

I think it would be a bit like fucking an athlete. Don't know what that's like either, but I'm not as into it. Unless she's a trans woman, in which case my clothes are already off.

13: Age-1F Gundam Age-1 Flat

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An uppgraded version of the Age-1 gundam. This is the first from the Asemu chapter, which means I'm one fourth done... hoo boy.

It's... just the Age-1 again. It has an optional thruster backpack now, but it's still the Age-1. By getting rid of the AGE system in it's chest it looks even more like grandpa now.

Same reason as before.

14: Age-2 Gundam Age-2 Normal

The inheritor of the main gundam title, Age-1's metaphorical son. And piloted by Flit's actual son, Asemu.

It's design is... okay. It reminds me a bit of 00 Raiser with the wings. It transform into it's 'strider mode' which is pretty close to Wing Gundam's transformed state. It has a big beam gun, which is cool. It has a variant with more beam cannons instead of the wings that looks more stupid. Asemu's a neat character at least.

Look I'm not really into any of the gundams of AGE, maybe it's the whole dynasty thing they've got going on, I don't know.

15: RGE-B890 Genoace II

The Genoace's successor model.

I honestly think it looks a bit worse than the Genoace, if I'm being honest. Instead of the round head, it just kinda looks like the GM suits, which is pretty bad considering how the gundams also look like other suits. I think Vagan stole all the creativity of this show.

There is nothing going on inside that head, and I don't mean that in the endearing way. I'd rather not.

16: RGE-C350 Shaldoll Custom

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Weirdly it's a mass production custom model. I don't think that's how it works, but whatever.

It's just the Shaldoll with a new paint layout (not even different colours) and some thrusters on the shoulder.

Booooring.

17: RGE-G1100 Adele

A mass production mobile suit built out of the data from the Age-1

You remember how I said the Genoace was a bit too much like the GM's? (you should that was only a few sentences ago, even if I had to take a break in between these). Yeah, this is just the GM's again. There's even a cannon variant to imitate the Guncannon.

Get a new design if you want me to fuck you. (Alright that's a bit unfair, it is actually different. But you see what I mean right?)

18: WMS-GB5 G-Bouncer

Technically this is also a mass production mobile suit, but it lost to the Adele, and Wolf pilots the only example in the show.

I don't think Wolf knows what colors are? Is he colorblind maybe? Kinda rude for no one to tell him that he's actually really visible on the battlefield.

Again, flashbang. I shouldn't have to wear fucking sunglasses during sex.

19: ovm-e Dorado

A mass production mobile suit used as the main Vagan suit during the Asemu chapter.

It's essentially a Gafran that can't transform, so it's okay. It's a breath of fresh air compared to all the federation suits though. there's a commander variant that has a head shaped more like the Gafran and is thus objectively better.

Do you think he could introduce me to Gafran?

20: xvm-dgc Khronos

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A custom X-rounder mobile suit for long range bombardment, piloted by Desil Galette, who is no longer ten, but still evil.

Good colour scheme, but the two antenna's look weird, and the cannons look like an afterthought.

Desil. Nough said.

21: xvm-zgc Zeydra

A custom commander X-rounder Mobile Suit, used by Zehearth Galette, Desil's brother and the series Char clone. He's a pretty good character until the Kio chapter.

Without the cannons making it look so top heavy it's actually a pretty good design. the red works with it here.

If I can't forcefem Char, I'll do it to one of his clones.

22: xvv-xcr Zedas R

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An uppgraded version of the Zedas, piloted by Zeheart. A variant is used by Vagan's X-Rounder corps, The Magicians Eight.

It's just the Zedas again really. No difference except the colour. The Magicians variant is yellow instead of red.

No Desil this time, so I'm game.

23: xvm-mzc Zeydalus

A prototype commander use close quarters mobile suit.

This design is... weird. I like the tail and the claws, though for the life of me I can't figure out why they left the thumbs so short, it looks stunted.

I'll be honest, I have no idea if I like this or not.

24: BMS-003 Shaldoll Rouge

The main mobile suit of the Bisidian space pirates. You'd think space pirates are cool, but despite the fact that they're listed in the Asemu chapter, they show up most during Kio's, which is also the second worst chapter.

The design works pretty well. It doesn't really have much colour, but that fits a space pirate. The mouth grill was really needed for the Shaldoll, and the integrated cannon arm is neat, don't see that very often.

I mean real pirates weren't cool at all, but Bisidian are pretty close to the romanticized version soo...

25: BMS-004 G-Exes Jackedge

A variant of the G-Exes used by the Bisidian Space Pirates.

It's pretty good, really got that 'grizzled pirate' energy going on. Also has a bayonet, and I'm always a fan of that.

Don't think he's my type sadly.

26: AGE-3 Gundam Age-3 Normal

The main Gundam of the Kio chapter. Piloted by Asemu's son, Kio Asuno. Flit Asuno tricked Kio into learning to pilot it by making a game out of the simulator, which, what the fuck grandpa. It has a Fortress and Orbital variant.

Design wise it's much better than AGE-1 or AGE-2, mostly because it actually looks more unique. Or my memory's failing me again, either or really. Uniquely this gundam is actually the combined form of a core fighter and modular block, which is very neat. It's the most super robot of them all, with a dedicated transformation sequence.

Kio is waaaay too young. And while the age of the pilot doesn't correlate to the mech itself, that's still a bit weird to me.

27: RGE-B893CO Genoace O-Custom

A custom Genoace II piloted by Obright Lorain.

It's mostly a Genoace with some extra thrusters (which doesn't look half bad on it's own), but the head shape really sets it apart. It almost looks like mandibles and I like that.

Wish it'd be a bit more insecty, really lean into the mandibles. But I'll take what I can get.

28: RGE-G2100 Clanche

A mass production mobile suit developed with data from the AGE-2. Although the wiki doesn't list the Genoace as a contributor, it obviously had an impact on the final design.

The head going back to the glass covered one is an improvement in my opinion, and the rest of the design is not half bad. It feels very functional above all else, like they didn't really bother with decoration. Interestingly, the Clanche can transform into a high mobility flight mode, which I think makes it the only non-Vagan grunt suit that can transform. Don't quote me on that.

There's a little divot on the underside of the chest that I'd really like to stick my dick in.

29: RGE-G1500 Adele Mk-II

The Adele's successor.

Okay, when I said the Adele looked a bit too close to the GM's, I didn't mean they should just make the GM's.

I think they ran out of ideas with this one. Don't blame them really, but it's annoying for me right now.

30: ovv-af Danazine

A mass production Vagan model, built for the assault on Earth. Also past number 30. Yay. I really underestimated how many suits were in AGE. I'm even skipping a bunch that only show up in the mangas or databooks, anime only right here.

It's the most dragonlike of all the Vagan suits, and I do quite like it's design, except the crotch laser. I know it can't be in the head because that's where the pilot is, but couldn't they have picked anything else?. It's tail can spin around like a drill, and it's capable of transforming (well more like folding up) into a long distance flight mode. Also, that little green thing on the chin is a beam emitter, so it can 'breathe' beam shots.

I like dragons. Nothing else there really.

can't put more than 30 images in one post apparently (didn't even know tumblr had a limit on that), so I'll skip the images for the rest I guess?

Actually I just went back and removed some images that were less important, so I'll still have room for my favorites. Go look them up yourself if you're curious.

31: ovv-gaz Gurruzine

Technically this one doesn't actually show up in the anime, so I'm breaking my own rules, but I like this one so it gets to stay (and a picture).

It's a hovering dragon mech with a giant fucking cannon that can snipe targets from 8000 meters away, (which is pretty bonkers considering the ranges gundam normally works at).

do you think I can make that cannon fit? I'm gonna try.

32: ovw-cc Gomel

No picture, sadly, but it's a mole mobile suit. And I nearly called it a gundam, so I'm gonna go to sleep now and come back in the morning.

that's a very unique design. I don't think I said it, but I really appreciate Vagan's designs, I think they're the best in all of gundam actually.

The pilots call themselves the Phantom 3. I can't take them seriously.

33: ovw-dc Wrozzo

An amphibious mobile suit, instead of the Gomel's subterranean one. Zeheart has a red version. Also, it's morning and I'm back. I know from your perspective this has only been a few paragraphs, but remember that there's eight hours between these, go ahead and memorize that, I'll wait... You done? Good because that wasn't actually important.

The Wrozzo looks almost identical to the Gomel, but the Gomel is a good design so I don't mind it really.

It's a frog mech, that's pretty cool. Those claws look fun.

34: ovm-Ice Reganner

A mass production version of the Defurse. You know, I really fucked myself over with my format, now I can only insert these jokes in the fact line, but I'm not going back and changing things now of all times.

It's basically the same design as the Defurse, but with cannons on the shoulders like Khronos, and bulbous things I'm pretty sure are thrusters on the back.

It's a bit better than the Defurse, but come on. Despite what you might believe from this list, I do in fact have standards. They're just incredibly low.

35: xvm-zbc Xamdrag

A prototype heavy assault mobile suit piloted by Zanald Beihart, who's just kinda comically evil.

It looks a bit like someone switched the Defurse or Reganners legs with a normal mobile suits. It's so short it almost looks stunted.

No.

36: xvm-fzc Gundam Legilis

A Gundam developed by Vagan using data obtained from the captured AGE-3. It is piloted by Fezarl Ezelcant, and later Zeheart Galette pilots a red version, so technically this is the first Red Gundam, but Gquuuuuux did it better.

This is my favorite gundam design, just in general. It's a really well made blending of the traditional gundam with Vagan's design philosophy. It also has Beam Bits, which technically aren't introduced with this gundam, but for some reason the list I'm using puts the Ghirarga below it, so... Anyway, Beam Bits are beam particles controlled by an X-Rounder, and they go completely unexplained, Advanced Generation can just do that apparently. The bits can become a shield and then the Legilis just crashes into the enemy, which is fun.

Yeah I'd go for it. The colour scheme isn't my favorite, but the design is pretty good.

37: xvt-zgc Ghirarga

A custom mobile suit built for Zeheart Galette, made to take advantage of his powerful X-Rounder abilites.

It's pretty similiar to the Zeydra, but it has an alternate mode where green spikes are revealed, which it uses to generate beam bits. Somehow. Again, never explained.

That tail is very spiked, and that interests me.

38: AGE-2DH Gundam AGE-2 Dark Hound

A gundam piloted by the leader of the Bisidian space pirates, Captain Ash. I'll give you three guesses as to who he really is, the first two don't count.

It's a pirate remaster of the AGE-2, and It actually looks pretty good. It's got two hooks it uses to sling around it's enemies, and it's cannon has been replaced with a lance.

He's a bad father, abandoned his kid for a pretty long time, and he didn't even spend the time lezzing out. Unfuckable.

39: AGE-FX Gundam AGE-FX

The successor to the Gundam AGE-3, piloted by Kio, and built to take advantage of his X-Rounder abilites.

It's a neat enough design. All those green blades sticking out are called C-Funnels, and Kio can direct them pretty well. They can also fly around the gundam and become a shield, like Legilis's bits.

Kio is still a child, and considering this Gundam was built specifically for him, it becomes even weirder.

40: AGE-1G Gundam AGE-1 Glansa

I would have liked to include a picture for this one, but I'm saving it for the last one, so you'll have to go find it yourself. It's an uppgraded AGE-1 Flat used by Flit Asuno during the Three Generations Chapter, also Flit goes full genocide in this one.

It's a much bulkier AGE-1 Flat, which looks mostly okay. I do really like the Shield Rifles on it's arms, always been a big fan of shield weapons, don't know why.

Look Genocide is pretty firmly over my red line. I'd sooner destroy it than fuck it.

41: xvg-xxx Vagan Gear

The first real mobile suit built by Vagan, piloted by Ezelcant's clone. Can you tell I'm getting tired? You remember how I said remembering I'd slept in between some of these wasn't important? yeah, I lied, this literally took me 2 days to make. I'm not even done yet.

It looks a bit like a monkey. I don't know why I feel that way, but I think it does. It get's taken over by SID, and it's so very clearly designed for that it kind of takes away from the rest of it.

With SID maybe...

42: XMS-005 Thielava

A variant of the G-Bouncer developed by the federation. You might think this should be up there with the Federation suits, but it's pilot, Girard Spriggan actually defected to Vagan because she hates the Federation that much. You go girl. Also her grievances, which includes her partner effectively being murdered by the federation, never gets addressed. because this is Gundam AGE at it's worst.

It's mostly unchanged from the G-Bouncer, except it's got a different paint job and two bits on it's back. It's a better design than the G-Bouncer, mostly because it's not all white.

Now that I'm not being fucking flashbanged, sexy times can begin.

43: xvx-000 Gurdolin

A prototype space assault mobile suit, piloted by the last of the phantom three to get revenge for his brothers.

It's... It's a cone with arms. I- Does this even count as a mobile suit? Also, it's a space mobile suit that primarily has to fight in close range combat, which I don't think is a good design?

It looks like a buttplug, and I'm gonna use it as one.

44: SID

A Prototype Unmanned Mobile Suit created to defend the Forbidden Treasure of EXA-DB. No I don't know why this one is classified as a mobile suit rather than a mobile armor.

It's only outfitted with two weapon systems. Feather missiles, and six Beam Rifle/Sabers. The beam rifles are the MVP, as, using the same technology as the beam bits, SID can control their trajectory at will or turn them into giant whips. Also, it can turn invisible. EXA-DB is the source of Vagan's technology, and I like that it's reflected in how SID has the same systems, if much more advanced.

I'd fuck SID, it's probably my favorite design in all of gundam (sorry Gafran, your still sexier I swear). Although more accurately, SID would fuck me.

Well now that's done. If I'm doing another of these, I'm going to split it up into factions. I don't know why these are so exhausting to write, but they are.

Also, I am not doing the Universal Century, holy shit. Have you looked at that list, I'd be here for weeks. I'm a sadist, not a masochist.

#talky drone #Cyn rates Mecha #gundam age #Gundam AGE Spoilers #Gundam fucking #mecha fucking #robot fucker #No one sent me mecha to rate last time :(#Feel free to do it this time though

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samueldays · 1 year ago

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Screw tension, I do not want to have fine-grained player control over richly simulated systems! That is a terrible idea and a trap! A few special interest games can pull this off when that's their main focus, most games shouldn't even try. The moment you reward the player for micro-managing with fine-grained control, your program starts becoming a timesink and a grind instead of a game. The arthritis makes it even worse.

It's also a disgrace to the idea of "Grand Strategy", which used to have a meaning about large-scale long-term national interests, not managing individual steelmills. Average "RTS" game should be called "RTT", or even Real Time Small Squad Tactics for shit like StarCraft 2.

Stellar Monarch was an interesting attempt at being hands-off rulership game through advisors and subordinates that I'm gonna talk about a bit. "Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer" says the tagline.

There is an empire-wide priority system for the importance of guns or butter. (Food, electricity, mining, shipyards, services.) You can throw subsidies at a planet to make it build faster, but not decide what individual planets will build, the local governor does that based on your general priority and the planet type. Raising the tax rate to get more money for the central planner means less money in the budgets of the local governors building planetary infrastructure!

The military can be managed at the squad level, or given broad objectives at the fleet level. There's a hyperlane map for slowly moving squads between planets when micro-managing them from Terra with many clicks. Fleet admirals given autonomy to carry out their objectives move so much faster when not needing to wait for HQ feedback all the time, they ignore the hyperlanes and effectively teleport squads to where they need to be -- subject to some admiral opinion and NPC decisionmaking about priority of objectives.

The game isn't as good as some I've played, it's got an interesting idea and is a bit of a prototype after that, but I really like the benefit of autonomy/cost of micromanagement used here. Field operatives having to frequently call home for approval is 'realistically' slow, because the higher-ups are fewer people with less time and attention!

Stellar Monarch doesn't outright lie to the player, that's an intriguing idea Foss has there but easy to fuck up for reasons Foss has also covered (very hard to tell lie from bug). Stellar Monarch does show a lot of information that's more for explaining why events happen than for interacting with, and can be mostly ignored if you resign yourself to events happening.

There is a list of space admirals in the fleet, for instance. Once a year, you can call one of them in to a performance review and choose "fire this specific guy", which may reduce Loyalty of other admirals who don't like that. Sometimes you can hold a grand military reform and choose "fire every admiral with skill < 5", which you may or may not want depending on the Loyalty of incompetent officers. Promotions to replace them are by seniority from fleet, not by player choice. No fine-tuning!

There is also an Imperial Court.

Management of the court is limited not by player time but by the political capital you have, the "Political pts: 8" number, which refills over time, up to a low limit. Higher-ranking officials have more influence over their department. Each department gives specialist modifiers to kingdom function, except Protocol, which is a sinecure. :^D

The sinecure post is important to have, because sometimes you want to give a faction more influence at court, without letting them run anything important that might give stat penalties.

In this screenshot, I want to get rid of Iris Morris, the incompetent, disloyal, corrupt courtier at upper left who has started the game as head of the Defense Department.

But, actually banishing someone from court (you're fired, character leaves the game) costs 3 political points.

Whereas demoting or transferring someone (move one step down or sideways) only costs 1 political point, so I might demote Iris in favor of Leon, middle left, and the Defense Department will be better run.

i guess there's this tension in grand strategy between wanting to have fine-grained player control over richly simulated systems but not wanting to live in arthritis-inducing micromanagement hell esp when u start scaling up ur empire. and the ppl who make video games do try to alleviate this a little bit w small quality of life things like division templates and automatic construction and so on but. why not a full scripting language that hooks into all possible player actions. why can't i run an empire purely through cron jobs. cute little scripts to manage the inputs and outputs of a thousand steelmills spread across a hundred provinces. imagine being kaiser franz joseph waking up at 5am every morning bombarded with a million automated alerts about how the fragile duct-taped data pipeline responsible for the oversight of all austro-hungarian industry has once again torn itself to pieces doesnt that sound like a compelling videogaming experience

#all #vidya #mechanism design #sam reviews

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silvexus · 2 years ago

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Thinking about how fandom tends to forget that powerful characters can be... gentle, yes, but also they can be a little pathetic. Specifically, Alex Mercer from Prototype. Yeah, he’s absurdly strong physically, but emotionally he’s a mess. He has no sense of internal purpose other than Find Information and Do Whatever Someone (Usually a Woman; Usually Dana) Tells Him To Do. The only thing he really has his own initiative for is hunting down Karen Parker after her betrayal and taking the FIREBREAK nuke out over the Atlantic. There’s really a solid chance that the more people and information he collects, he’ll eventually end up like WOPR’s series of tic-tac-toe games and just become paralysed because every move he could potentially make could bring Blackwatch back down on him and his sister. He’s the most power individual on the planet except maybe PARIAH and that means nothing because power means nothing when you are physically outnumbered. Maybe he has nothing to fear personally, but everyone around him? Vulnerable. And no one is strong enough for that. Not even ZEUS. Really. What could be worse than that? What could be better?

#vex talks about things no one cares about #prototype (2009)#i'm ignoring prototype 2 because... because i can that's why #i just think a lot of people miss out on how tragically pathetic alex is #just like a wet cat that keeps biting everyone #he's awful but he's also kind of soggy #it's about having all the power in the world and still not being strong enough #smart enough #fast enough #i'm probably not very articulate right now but honestly who cares #i'm @ing every reviewer for prototype fanfics on FFN #i'm strongly suspecting some people played a very different game than i did

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redhairedwolfwitch · 3 years ago

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A String of Hearts (3) - Freeze - Mary Hamilton x Fem!Reader - Batwoman

Part 1 Part 2

Summary: a string of hearts, or ceropegia woodii, is a trailing plant characterised by its heart shaped leaves, but what happens when the string of hearts between you and Mary, grows poison ivy?

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You exchanged looks with Mary as she passed Alice the glass of water, being given it back with a done look as you rolled your eyes.

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Sophie nodded as you dodged her swing, pretending like she didn't see Mary watching you practice sparring with her.

A huff left Mary's mouth that had you glancing over, getting tapped by Sophie as she realised you'd lost focus and Mary had left to sort out Alice.

"Why do you want to learn this anyway?"

"Because I want to help." You explained as Sophie frowned.

"You already help with all the notes from Oracle- you have more than Oracle's notes, don't you?" Sophie realised, as you huffed.

"You're perceptive. But I was thinking more stealth stuff, I can be sneaky. Then I found her mask, and the notes I had I finally decoded and found the second batcave, and I found a prototype Batgirl suit. Not sure if it was Oracle's, since there was more than one Batgirl, y'know."

"Like there was more than one Robin..." Sophie replied as you nodded, grimacing since you knew the story of the second Robin.

"The suit was mainly just a protective, just in case... but I figured I should learn some sort of self-defense marital arts y'know." You explained, dodging Sophie's swing as the two of you continued to spar.

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"Ah, now you're in the middle. What is the dilemma? Do you tell fancy pants Batwoman that Luke's ignoring his PTSD symptoms or do you keep Luke's secret? Because you love him..." Alice smirked, making a heart sign out of her fingers as Mary grimaced into her tea.

"I do not love Luke, like that."

"No, you love Batgirl, like that, and she loves you. How the others don't spot the two of you oogling each other, I will never know... but a little piece of advice. I'd keep Luke's secret to yourself, telling Ryan will only fill you with resentment."

"How do you figure?" Mary rolled her eyes but still asked, as Alice pointed out the obvious.

"Because she'll ignore you. Mary, I'm sorry, do you not see your place on this team? I've been on it for less than a month and it's already glaringly obvious. They don't see you, unless they need you, just like daddy, and just like Kate. Batgirl is the only one who listens to you, but one day, she'll slip away too. So if you want to go on liking them, it's probably best you know your place." Alice explained as Mary huffed, drinking her tea.

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"Mary's handling Alice, and Nora Fries is there. Let's head downstairs and see what's going on with everything else." You explained as you glanced over your phone, grimacing at the idea of Alice and Mary alone.

"How long have you and Mary- oh god, look! Batcave to Batwoman, are you there? Batwoman, come in!" Sophie exclaimed as she spotted Ryan's body temperature decreasing on the screens of the Batcave.

"Ryan, if you sleep, you die."

"It's so hard to stay awake..." Ryan murmured as Sophie sighed.

"Then maybe this is a good time to tell you I'm mad at you." Sophie declared, confusing you and Ryan.

"Do you want me to leave, so you two can have a Wildmoore moment?" You enquired, gesturing to the lift that you could take if they wanted you to leave.

"Me? Wait, is Y/n there too?" Ryan murmured, the hypothermia setting in as you shrugged, wondering what the hell Sophie was going on about.

"Batwoman, don't fall asleep on me! Batwoman!"

"Wake up, Ryan!" You shouted as the alarms for severe hypothermia began to go off.

"Batwoman, are you good? Batwing? Someone talk to me! Check in!" Sophie exclaimed as the two of you heard thumping over the comms.

"Yeah! Yeah, she's okay! She's conscious, I got her." Luke confirmed over the comms, as you let out a breath of relief.

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"Are you flirting with Sophie right now?"

"What? I am not flirting with Sophie-"

"Do you guys want me to leave?" You teased, as Luke added he knew what flirting was.

"Guys! Comms on!" Sophie smirked, reminding each of you.

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"I told Ryan that Luke shouldn't be in the Batwing suit. She ignored me." Mary admitted as she found you sat in the clinic waiting for her.

"Then they're both putting Gotham at risk..." you trailed off, staring at the newspaper for a moment before clearing your head.

"Where are you going?"

"To drop these medications off to Nora Fries. Do you want to come with?" Mary asked, gesturing to the white paper bags she was holding.

"I'd love to." You smiled, walking over to hold Mary's hand as the two of you left.

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"I'll be over there, I'll grab us some doughnuts from that vegan place on the corner?" You suggested, kissing Mary's cheek as she nodded, pulling you back for a proper kiss before she walked over to Nora and Dee.

You were exiting the shop at the exact moment some leafy vines wrapped around Mary's ankles, tugging her into the undergrowth.

"Mare? Mare where are you?" You called out, carrying the doughnuts as you looked over for her, only spotting drag marks in the grass after asking Nora and Dee which way Mary went.

Mary was gone.

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#mary hamilton x reader #mary hamilton imagine #batwoman x reader #batwoman imagine #batwoman #cw batwoman #mary hamilton #ryan wilder #sophie moore #luke fox #poison mary #she's coming this time #alice

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cloudyevaa · 4 years ago

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Mk sorry for the slightly random opinion but I was thinking about Kokomi and I think that people are making her out to be worse than she actually is. She IS a healer, and she heals very well, and she's also very good at applying hydro with her e skill. I won't deny that her burst is a little strange, though, considering you have to be on the field for it to work, but all you need to do is give her a little attack and boom she's great.

Also she pretty. And I'm glad I could condense my million thrilling tales in a single r5 one. (For Barbara bc I completely gave her Barbaras built weapon)

no need to apologise for stating your opinion!! in fact i'd love to get more asks like this LMAO, i love dissecting things, esp related to genshin. here's my take on the situation:

tldr; kokomi could've been great if mihoyo spent more time thinking about her mechanics

while i do agree that the hate for kokomi is definitely blown out of proportion, i believe that the hatred does not stem from malice, but rather unanimous disappointment from the community. mihoyo has been getting bolder and bolder with their experimentations and kokomi is the first character who has -100% cr; when you change up the meta that everyone's known and gotten accustomed to for so long, of course people are expecting kokomi to be very good gameplay-wise.

while she was advertised as a healer, everything about her screams supposed damage dealer - the way her ascension stat is hydro dmg bonus, the way her constellations boost her damage output and attempt to solve her energy recharge issues, and the way her damage scales off her healing bonus and attack. she's a damage dealer than can heal, a healer who can deal damage, but in reality, she is neither.

kokomi's predicament is similar to qiqi's - their main problem is not that they are fundamentally wrong, but that they're too good at the one thing they can do best, which is healing. the reality is that outside of the current spiral abyss, said healing abilities are completely useless, which is why part of the community is so dissatisfied with kokomi's release. this will change in 2.2's update with mobs that completely ignore shields, but that's an annoying gimmick that doesn't solve the problem of full-on healers being useless in open-world aside from that particular inazuma region. and while kokomi is good at healing, there are certainly f2p options like barbara that allows for the same off-field healing and hydro application kokomi provides.

what I'm essentially saying is that mihoyo wanted to make a sub-dps healer but achieved none of those because they could not balance her healing and her damage, ESPECIALLY since she cannot crit. barbara and her are not so different, being both healers and hydro catalyst users, but barbara is still held in higher regard because she can crit those 🥴 big numbers 😩. and barbara is free - unlike kokomi who is gated by a limited five-star banner. the thing is, mihoyo could've avoided this by either 1. making it so kokomi can crit or 2. making her dmg scaling EXTREMELY high. but i feel that mihoyo was transfixed on selling ei rather than her more, knowing that whales and players who play purely for aesthetic WILL pull.

she is very pretty and i love her regardless of her shortcomings!! but because she is so niche and is currently the only character of her kind, she's not held in high regard nor is there a specific use for her that cannot be replaced by other characters. even her weapon, the everlasting moonglow, is absolutely useless on everyone else except barbara ( and to be honest, it would only be good on a full-on healing barbara too ), plus it has been proven to be a worse alternative for a f2p catalyst, the prototype amber, which can generate energy and heal much more than it can. the everlasting moonglow's passive also doesn't work with kokomi, the character it was DESIGNED to benefit - charged attacks do not regenerate energy for kokomi despite her charged attacks having the highest dmg multiplier. there's a video by sevyplays (?) explaining this further so if you want to get a guide on this, feel free to check it out :)

overall, the fault is in mihoyo for neglecting to listen to the player base's critiques that could've saved kokomi from being such a hated character, which is another shortcoming to add to the long list of the mihoyo branch responsible for genshin impact's issues.

I'm not trying to deter anyone from using or pulling for our dearest pink general, of course! it is just disappointing as a person who looked forward to this banner that kokomi is underwhelming and clearly not thought through by the devs.

#kokomi #— genshin anecdotes.

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shezowhero · 4 years ago

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(Baby hairs Sunny anon) sorry I didn't see your other ask talking about it so you can ignore it, and as for rainbow high's diversity I'm am quite annoyed by it; most dark skinned girls get eyes any color than brown, Krystal, who's the most the darkest skinned character in the whole series, isnt a part of the main line of characters even though her color is indigo which is literally a part of the rainbow, and I hate that only 2 out of 6 of the main line are brown skinned (it's even worse their together as a group with Amaya or Bella). I've also seen people say that Ruby most definitely shouldve been black because of her style plus in the prototype dolls the green doll was originally going to be dark skinned too. Its really annoying considering that MGA has been quite diverse with their other doll lines like LOL OMG and Bratz

The diversity in Rainbow High is really weird compare to MGA's other dolls lines which have more diversity especially Bratz which is one of their most popular dolls. I've seen there being a huge demand and push for diversity in dolls so it's even weird there's so little diversity in Rainbow High. It's like they're not paying attention to the doll community/doll collectors. The push and demand for diversity is why we doll lines like The Fresh Dolls and other diverse doll lines.

I hope we get more dark skin characters/dolls with eyes brown/dark eyes.

Yeah Krystal should've apart of the main group since she's indigo and indigo is a main color in the rainbow.

Ruby probably should've black since she takes from black culture. The show in general takes from black culture especially AAVE.

#rainbow high

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ladylynse · 5 years ago

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So, I've seen you reblogging some random My Hero Academia fanart lately, and I was wondering how much of it you know? Why? Because I'm curious if you have any idea about a possible crossover with Danny Phantom. (it's surprising how well DP can be crossover-ed with basically EVERYTHING and still make sense...)

I have seen the show. I...think?...I’m caught up on the show. I have not read a word of the manga.

For a crossover with DP, I like the idea of Danny falling into their world rather than the other way around; it’s just easier, even if you toss in a time travel/dimension kind of quirk thing gone wrong and rely on Clockwork to get them home again. Me, I’d do this one of two ways, depending on whether or not Danny ever has a chance of going home again. Or, perhaps more accurately, how slim that chance is, because he’d still have a chance.

Option 1: Danny’s stuck in their world. Forever. Or near enough. Because he was trapped in a thermos for years, longer than anyone would expect him to be alive, and his time doesn’t exist, it’s past, it’s gone, because it hasn’t just been a day, it hasn’t just been a month, not even a year, and every human he ever knew and loved is gone. He couldn’t even find his family if he tried. It’s been too long, the world’s changed, and there are these things called quirks now, and he just.... He holds onto the faint hope that Clockwork can get him back home, that Clockwork will agree to let him go back home, that this can just be a few extra days or weeks or whatever lived in his life but otherwise it’s fine and like he was never anywhere else, but the stable portals he knew are gone, he doesn’t know how to find and can’t create the natural ones, and ghosts like Wulf and Cujo wouldn’t even know he was back.

He can’t remember very well how he got into this mess. Maybe Vlad caught him and buried him on the other side of the world; maybe Vlad tossed him into the Ghost Zone, never really expecting Danny to get out. Everything is muddled, confused, coming back in pieces, and not like a moment frozen in time where he gets out and immediately remembers everything. It’s not like it normally is. But maybe it’s because he wasn’t released like he normally is, since he didn’t get out until the thermos degraded to the point that there was a hole he could slip through. Maybe it’s just because he was in there too long. He...he doesn’t know.

Option 2: AKA my old standby for DP crossovers to worlds that aren’t enough like his own, a door or portal in the Ghost Zone. Maybe Danny meant to go through, whether he was exploring or running from something with five sets of teeth that was faster than it had any right to be, or maybe it popped up in front of him and he was through before he could change course. He doesn’t have more hope of getting home in this scenario, exactly, but he’d be more hopeful, because this obviously isn’t the same world, it can’t be, so he can get back and get home and it’ll all be fine.

In both cases, you can ignore the language barrier--write it off as a ghostly ability Danny didn’t realize he had, though that logic fails a bit when Tucker understands Wulf the best, or maybe Danny hearing it for years while in the thermos and just sort of absorbing it--through osmosis, if you like. But if you acknowledge it. If you accept the fact that Danny suddenly finds himself in a world where he can’t speak the language, can’t read or understand or even be sure he recognizes the language--because what is that, Chinese, Japanese, Korean? He has no idea. It might not even be any of those if it’s been how many years since, what with evolution of language. He just knows he doesn’t know the alphabet at all--then you can easily force other characters to interact with him once he gets in trouble (as will happen; it’s Danny) and maybe bring in a convenient universal translator hero support prototype, initially designed to help heroes better communicate with victims who don’t speak the same tongue(s) with plans for further development outside of heroing if it’s successful. Such a device would also give Danny a convenient excuse for when he says something that receives blank stares, as he can pretend it glitched.

Now. Danny will be trying to get home. That might be his entire thing--that and potentially acceptance that he can’t go home, depending on how things pan out. If he came through a portal/doorway, then he might be keeping an ear to the ground to find out why if there’s some reason why he’s here, but if he was just stuck in a thermos, he’s going to assume he got out because of pure dumb luck/erosion and focus most of his energy on finding a way into the Ghost Zone, which may or may not come back to bite him later. Especially if he didn’t just get out by chance or is here for a reason and doesn’t know enough to understand what that reason is.

The obvious thing to consider is how quickly Danny realizes these guys only have one ‘quirk’, even if they can use it in multiple ways. If he gets any inkling at all from them that having more than one quirk is odd and potentially suspicious, you can bet he’d try to hide it. He’s used to that. He’s had to hide from so many people. He can hide from these people, too. Or at least try his best. Me and my penchant for misunderstandings would obviously choose to have him hide his multiple abilities and not just, y’know, tell or show them straight away.

I mean.

Say they saw Phantom before they ever saw Fenton. Flying. Phasing. Shooting ectoblasts. That’s not normal.

And if Danny saw something happen and jumped in to help without entirely understanding the situation? He might try to take down both heroes and bad guys because geez, those people almost got crushed when that building fell, and another bystander nearly got flambéed, and he knows he’s destructive when he’s trying to save people, but still. Giant Lady is a pretty good distraction if you need a distraction, and she could get away from the good guys fast enough, and that guy just walked through a brick wall, so there’s a good chance he’s overshadowed even if Danny’s too far away for his ghost sense to go off, and--

Point is, they (some) might mistakenly peg Phantom as a villain, at least until the next fight where they have time to talk. Danny, who very definitely Not Going Ghost until he figures out what the heck is going on, is found in the aftermath and assumed to be a victim--a tourist, probably, since they can’t understand him and he can’t understand them--and probably picks an ability to call a ‘quirk’ even if pretending to be quirkless would be smarter because he’s not convinced he might not do something almost on instinct, and then where would that get him?

Danny does not overhear the speculation that perhaps this Phantom is after him. He does not overhear the concern of the UA students who witnessed the fight. He does not know how many strings were pulled to get him released from the hospital--where he Very Obviously does Not want to be, but he can write off weird abnormalities as, say, part of his Ice Quirk powers; after all, sneaking away probably won’t do him any favours, even if he has to get out of there before they realize exactly how fast he’s healing--or how difficult it was to get him released into the protective custody of the good people at UA (or, more specifically, those who rallied for him to get the opportunity). Because he’s wary and spooked and confused but still ready to fight, and they can see that, and they want to help him. They’re not even sure how much training he’s had with his quirk, since even after extensive questioning and a subsequent exhaustive search, they can’t find any record of a hero named Frostbite.

They can’t even find a record of Daniel Fenton. Not someone with an Ice Quirk who matches his description, anyway.

Which makes some people wary, even when others are eagerly including him, because what if he’s a plant, a spy, otherwise not on their side even if he’s not working with any known villains, and--

Hogwash. Poppycock. Pick your old-fashioned word for it, but that’s pretty much how your thinking is going, someone else would say. Because the kid’s got a good heart, and anyone can see that. He wants to help people. He does, even when it hurts him. He’s got the heart of a hero.

With what they’ve seen of him, it’s enough to quiet the mutterings.

Until the day Danny forgets himself and displays another Quirk in a way that can’t be explained, especially in light of all the other incidents that were.

(related - Dani)

#danny phantom #bnha #my hero academia #danny fenton #ladylynse #musings #fic ideas #asks #azthedragon

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thechocoboos · 6 years ago

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last one I promise: ffxv but in space?... OK I'll admit I'm starting to run out of ideas. have a nice day and good luck with school!

holy fuck i went way more crazy with this than I planned. so have fun. Keep in mind, y’all, this is a space au–things are defo different than the actual plot. also: happy ending

FFXV IN SPACE HC

The Regalia is a small prototype ship made for small trips to and from space stations and moons

Noctis’ father is the leader of a massive space colony circling a dimming blue star

Their space colony is running out of resources and energy as a result of a longstanding war with The Empire, a corporation that grew too powerful back when space travel became big and now aims to take control of every colony, resource, and inhabitable planet in the galaxy

so Regis sends Noctis and Co out on an expedition to build alliances and find potential resources that the Empire had overlooked

Noctis is a drifter who doesn’t want to take over his dad’s colony

Gladio is a soldier, a bodyguard in training for the leaders of the space colony. His family has always worked closely with the colony’s founders, so he was raised to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and to protect Noct

Prompto is a lower level settler of their space colony

He ran into Noctis during their school days and latched himself to Noct like a leach (Noct never minded and even grew to like Prom)

Ignis is still an advisor, albeit a SPACE ADVISOR

He is well versed in most, if not all, of the known alien languages and settlements (he spent so much of his schooling learning languages that he dreams about learning them–granted they’ve become more of nightmares by this point)

He guides Noctis on their mission to find resources and build alliances, giving advice such as “Do not try to navigate that asteroid belt” and “stay far from the Black Hole of Ostenbar–many civilizations were lost there”

Granted that advice is always ignored, but hey, it’s the thought that counts!

One day on their expedition, he mentions rumors of a ship called The Oracle–a ship that opposes the Empire

Supposedly, it started out as a simple rescue ship that grew bigger and bigger and soon became a massive self sustaining ship that travels around the galaxy helping those in need

Noct and Co. realize that it may be their first step towards building alliances and aim to find The Oracle–it’s their first tangible mission

The Oracle, if you hadn’t already guessed, is run by Luna

She and her brother, Ravus, inherited it from their family

The Oracle had many run ins with the Empire as a result of its good deeds, and Ravus grew tired of the pain inflicted on both his people and his inheritance due to those assholes

He knew he could never deal with the Empire directly, especially while handling The Oracle, so he left the ship in the hands of Luna and ran off

He fell in with a group of good-natured space pirates and now raids the Empire’s smaller ships with his small, growing fleet and gives the resources he obtains from them to those who need it–kind of like a robinhood of sorts

(I’m expecting some SpacePirate!Ravus spin offs in the future–i’ll even take the transcript of pirates of the caribbean except with ravus and in space)

anyways

Ardyn is a strange deity who was once worshiped on a more primitive, jungle based planet

His planet is hot, humid, and full of bright, colorful creatures. Some of them are poisonous and deadly, and others are docile and harmless

His people made beautiful buildings of stone with carved designs and everything they made was otherworldly and beautiful, there wasn’t a single item of theirs that wasn’t art in one way or another

They made the most beautiful songs and their language was magnificent and elegant; it was as though their voices were woven from the stars

Keywords? Made. Was.

The Empire found him one day and found his immense power very beneficial

They captured him and his worshippers, turning the worshippers into slaves and science experiments while they used torture and abuse to control Ardyn before turning him into the High Commander or the Empire

They brainwashed him into thinking it was Regis’ colony that had done him wrong, and he has it out for Insomnia Space Colony ever since

It takes a metric fuckton of cycles for Noct and co to finally find The Oracle, who is very willing to join the Insomnia Space Colony cause (my god is that a mouthful or what)

Sidenote: Cor is pretty high up on commanders from Noct’s colony, so he was out conducting business with other settlers at the far end of the galaxy

After the destruction of Insomnia Space Colony, he managed to get hold of Noct on The Oracle and relay the news

It leaves Noctis and the others crushed

They end up lost for a little bit, uncertain what their goal should be from then on

One day, however, The Oracle receives an SOS call from that same dimming star that Noct’s colony had orbited

The Oracle takes them there, and they find many, many survivors

The Oracle takes those survivors on board without a single word, and as Noctis sees the remnants of his people’s suffering at the hands of The Empire, he swears to bring an end to those fuckers as long as he lives (cue his new reason for living)

ANyways

Noct and co.’s favorite pit stop is a small colony on an asteroid called Crash Comet

It’s run by Cid, an old alien friend of Regis’ and his granddaughter

It’s the nicest gas station, diner, and mechanic outside of their solar system

They visit it regularly, especially after Noct learns how to fly the Regalia (he can’t avoid those asteroid belts even when he tries)

Gladio once asked why Prompto was with them on their expedition bc he genuinely had no idea why the kid was there

Gladdy was there for protection, Ignis was their walking, talking adviceman, and Prom? He had no idea

Prom lowkey didn’t know either, but he just held up his old lil camera and said some BS about being their historian

In reality, Noct really just brought him bc he didn’t want to be stuck in a tiny spaceship with Ignis and Gladdy alone, besides, he knew that Prompto always wanted to see the galaxy outside of their colony

They have many run-ins with Ardyn and The Empire–it always ends in a massive chase scene through the stars, a disappearance in a hectic asteroid belt, and another trip to Crash Comet

Noct, Iggs, Gladdy, and Prom have a blast on their space adventures

At least, up until their colony is destroyed

Still, they meet aliens from all walks of life and eat strange alien food at strange alien gas stations on the edge of the galaxy and make friends everywhere

They make alliances as they go, building up their own army of settlers, colonists, space pirates, and aliens alike to rise up against the Empire, with The Oracle heading their fleet

Prompto takes so many pictures that he ends up with a massive database of things ranging from aliens, planets, stars, flora, fauna, selfies, weird poisonous glowing bacteria–you name it, he’s got it (after their adventures he actually finds scientists and alienologists asking him for his pictures for research and references; our boi makes bank on his pics!)

Ignis tries every single different cultured cuisine he can get his grubby lil gloved paws on and he will eat ALL OF IT. he has been poisoned by the clashing chemical makeup on more than one occasion (but he still won’t stop)

Noctis hates trying new culture foods, like he goes for some of it but if Ignis tries to feed him one more Glockinshnid’esiria throat casserole, he’s going to vomit

Gladio towers over a lot of alien species they meet, but he also looks like a penny next to some of them (he lowkey feels insecure about it)

Gladdy likes to trade work out regimens with some aliens

He once tried working out with the very gruff, muscled Kleeverprongs, a species known to eat the muscles of their dead to become stronger and who begin weightlifting at 3 months old (he threw his back out and couldn’t walk for a week)

Prompto tries to steal small alien pets but Ignis threatens to throw him out the back of their cruiser if he so much as looks at one more Puffelzingor.

He once hid a small mouse like rodent in his shirt for three weeks, but it escaped and ate through one of Ignis’ prized pots (it’s one of the more expensive ones that can handle stardust and the harshest of acids)

Ignis hasn’t forgiven him yet. And he probably never will.

Sometimes Noct and Co. cross paths with Ravus

Ravus usually screams about them being the ones who got his sister tied in even further with the bloody empire and being the biggest thorn in his ass

There was one time where Ravus was thought to be dead in the middle of space, and none other than Noct and Co. rescued him (he had lost an arm and been abandoned by accident. Space pirates aren’t very bright sometimes)

He was less aggressive towards them afterwards, especially because he was stuck with them for about 2 and a half cycles (roughly 3.67 months) because the nearest welcoming outpost was at least a good hundred stars away

ANyways plot stuff:

So, throughout their journeys and travels, Noct and Co. slowly learn about some of the Empires more hidden histories and ties with differing colonies

They learn more about Ardyn, how he was essentially a tool used by the empire

THey actually travel back to the planet that Ardyn had been worshiped on and end up learning even more

At first, they thought he had just been a leader of some strange planet, but when discovering he was essentially a god? Oh boi, they were faced with a big moral dilemma

Noctis still wants to bring down the Empire, but now, he also wants to help Ardyn and Ardyn’s people

Gladdy is against it, of course, saying that Ardyn had still done terrible things and was still a terrible person who should pay for his actions

Noct mostly disagrees. He thinks Ardyn needs to pay to a certain degree, but to him, it was more important that they at least try to free his people and attempt to get the truth out there

He argues that it really wasn’t all Ardyn’s fault, that he was nothing more than a pawn who had been manipulated and lied to for nothing but selfish reasons

He doesn’t want to help Ardyn, necessarily, but he does want to make things right

It was truly at this point that his friends began seeing the leader that Noct truly is

Noctis and Co. were never really able to convince Ardyn as much as they tried; he was past the point of simply believing things

Still, he made a deal. A snarky deal with a smirk and teasing tone to his voice, but the look in his eye had been enough to give them hope

He told them, that if they were able to find his people and set them free, he just might be willing to strike up some sort of deal that would work out for both of them

Cue montage

The space bros go through hell and back trying to find out what happened to most of the worshippers

They break through and destroy so many Empire outposts and institutes that they probably single handedly cripple part of the Empire

Even so, with how hard they work to find out where the worshippers were, they had to ask for help

They asked both Ravus and Luna for help, as well as some of the more trusted allies they had made through their journey

In the end, they find that most of the worshippers had been killed. They manage to rescue those who had survived, and bring them to Luna’s ship for safety

They’re beaten and bruised with fearful eyes and they spend most of their time praying–it’s all they can do at this point

It’s heartbreaking, and it truly reminds Noctis and his friends that they weren’t the only ones who had lost their home

Luna and Noct both promise the worshippers that they would be brought back home when it was finally safe, but no one knows when that will be

The next time Noctis crosses paths with Ardyn, there is no snark in Ardyn’s voice–only the serious tone of a man who had lost everything

He demands that Noct bring him to his people, his voice harsh and sharp as he snaps. His eyes are furious and his stance is dangerous but Noct remains calm and tall, his eyes cool as he talks Ardyn down

Ardyn agrees to go with Noctis alone, he agrees to relinquish his weapons and trickery–all he wants is to see that his people are safe

The others aren’t happy, the air is tense in their cruiser as they return to The Oracle. Gladio silently fumes and Ignis is ready to pounce any second.

But Ardyn makes no moves. He waits, his heart still, his eyes sharp–he could be walking into a trap, and he knows it, but he doesn’t care, not if his people are there

Luna is respectful when Ardyn boards her ship. She doesn’t show any ill will despite what he has done–she knows he had been tricked, and she knows that all that really matters to him are his people. She respects that.

She leads him to the worshippers, and the second his eyes fall on them, he smiles–truly smiles

He feels relief, hope–glee

They look just as stunned as he is, their eyes wide and sparkling as they drop to the floor and bow

He only tells them to stand, speaking in an old, dead language that even Ignis doesn’t know

He asks them questions, touches their cheeks, their shoulders, their hands… He’s so gentle and careful, no one else can believe it

As they finish answering, he thanks them with a warm, soft voice, promising he’ll get them home safe–that they will all go home safely and that he’ll join them, that they will rebuild their beautiful civilization once again and no one will ever hurt them again

He turns and looks at Noctis, his eyes full of cold murder as his fury burns. He asks when they’ll launch their full attack–because he wants in. He quietly vows that he will bring down the empire–every last ship, even if it kills him.

It only takes a few more cycles for everything to be ready.

There are at least a thousand ships that come forward to help fight. Their alliances hold true to their words and promises and join The Oracle, bringing their own smaller allied ships and friends with them

Ravus brings at least 200 ships full of space pirates with a new, shiny arm at his shoulder

Noctis contacts older allies that his dad had made, as well as the hundreds of new ones he’s made through his travels–and those allies bring their own, as well

Luna has age old promises that are being fulfilled, her oldest contacts coming forward from the deep recesses of space to help fight the Empire

Even Ardyn pulls some strings, pulling a few of the Empire’s allies over to their side–after all, many of them had been loyal to Ardyn alone, in the end

With the Empire spread over so much of space, it isn’t a clean, straightforward war (then again, most aren’t)

The war lasts 81.7 cycles–nearly ten years. Strategies are stretched, lives are lost, people were worn down, but Noctis never wavers

In the end, the Empire crumbles–losing far too many of its ships and colonies, especially as the civilizations it took over rebel and fight back.

Eventually, there is only the head colony left–and Noctis’ side easily corners it.

Noctis isn’t alone when he approached the leader of the Empire. Ardyn goes with him, his losses just as valid as Noctis’

The leader begs. He cries, yells in desperation, falls to his knees and simply weeps–asking for Noctis to have mercy.

Noctis is cold as he responds, simply staring down the old man. He’s gotten what he wants–the Empire’s downfall. Yes, the leader needs to pay for his crimes, but he doesn’t care much for the logistics of that–so deciding punishment falls to Ardyn.

The details don’t matter too much–the Empire fell, Noctis was able to rebuild his colony around a new star, The Oracle was free to help the civilizations that had been under the Empire’s control, Ravus and his space pirates became the police of sorts–protecting people from unsavory sorts in space, and Ardyn was able to return to his home with the remainder of his people

Space was free again, its planets and civilizations free to return to run their lives as they pleased

Edit: Things I forgot to mention™

Arenaea is space’s local lesbian space pirate whose fleet was actually hired by Ardyn somewhere down the line

She was actually notorious and was a big rival of Ravus (they crossed paths on more than one occasion)

She’s lost a couple digits and a foot, as well as an eye in her pursuits but replaced them all with cybernetic implants (her eye can actually see in infrared, very handy in space)

Her cyborg foot has a built in high heel

She’s one of the most dangerous enemies and one of the best allies to have

No one crosses her and lives to tell the tale (unless she wants them to)

Insanely good strategist and is one of the best allies Noct has in the war

You can hear her loudly walking down the metal bridges of ships when hunting down mercenaries and criminals, her cybernetic foot and high heels clanging loudly (she likes to scare them--she could move quietly with no effort at all)

Anyways so weapons right

LASERS LASERS LASERS LASERSSSS

Ignis’ weapons are duel blades ofc, however, they’re HEAT DUEL BLADESSSS

With a click of his thumbs he's got some lasers shooting down the edge of his daggers and ready to burn the guts of his enemies as he stabs them (it’s pretty good at cauterizing wounds so his slices and jabs are well placed for instant death)

Gladio??? Yes, he still uses those massive as two handed swords. No one can rip that away from him

However

They, too, have laser capabilities

He keeps two laser pistols on either side of his belt for when they’re fighting in smaller quarters

Y’all haven’t lived until you’ve gotten a mental image of sweaty gladio with burn wounds from laser rifles and holes in his tanktop shootin a couple of laser pistols with his beautiful manbun-ponytail thing and 10-year gap hair chillin out there, mouth turned down into a scowl as his sharp eyes aim

He also has a couple of electric cybernetic gloves that stun enemies with a single punch

Now. Noctis? Listen. He doesn’t use lasers--too much of a hassle

Our boi has a few cybernetic implants, kay?

Y’all ever played mass effect? His magic is basically like the biotics of mass effect

In other words, he still has magic, it’s just sci-fi magic!

His swords are made out of the sharpest metals one can find, and they glow because 1) I say so, and 2) they were forged from radioactive materials and stardust from the heat of a dying star because that’s how we do things in S P A C E

NOW PROMPTO

HOOO BOI MY LORD SO MANY LASERS

S O M A N Y L A S E R S

He’s got a laser rifle, he’s got a laser sniper, he’s got bullets that electrocute, bullets that explode, bullets that burn, grenades that stun, grenades that blow up, grenades that disintegrate only organic forms (helpful in space ships tbh)

He has a good trusty ole missile launcher type of weapon that launches concentrated laser ball missiles at shit

Also he’s far sighted.

Anyways; prom is always making modifications to his weapons (and gladio’s pistols) and is always the one to repair or alter the spacebro’s weaponry

He once smacked Noct for trying to fix a sword and somehow damaging its mechanics

Prom actually makes some serious cash fixing weapons at outposts and such, he also buys cheap weapons and bulks them up before selling them for like three times his buying price

He’s actually the most well-off out of them further down the line and he’s the one who brings in the credits throughout their journey because he’s the only one with some sort of income

Also i forgot to mention

Noct loses a leg in the war and gets a cheap prosthetic to tide him over until the end; then he gets a hella cool cyborg leg like Arenaea

Ignis does NOT go blind, however, he loses an eye in a fight with some space pirates who try to raid The Oracle and ends up with an eyepatch for a while

Later on, he gets his own cybernetic implant eye--it’s a lot like Arenaea’s actually

It glows red and the metal covers the area around his eye completely, reaching around towards the side of his head and disappearing beneath part of his hair

Ravus’ right hand pirate is an android

Gentiana is also an android

Cor punches Ardyn in the face the first time they meet during the war--yes, he does know that Ardyn is on their side, now

Cor was the one who found many of Ardyn’s worshippers and brought them to The Oracle

Also Cor is a cyborg

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mastrrt · 7 years ago

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The Tigress Dilemma *fanfiction*

Usually, fanfic writers (such as I) have a hard time depicting complex characters such as Tigress, ergo this lack of this understanding about our characters can lead us to defile their original personalities and characteristics. I'm pretty sure most, if not, all of us are victims to the Tigress Dilemma, and this problem can only be resolved once Dreamworks has finished Tigress's arc. The Tigress Dilemma is basically what I mentioned above. We misinterpret Tigress and that could lead us to writing imposters instead. Now I have seen many fanfics, and all of them vary in the extent of how terrible their Tigress imposter is. I would say that for my fanfics, my Tigress imposter is pretty far off from the original character, but I feel I am getting there... it's a very slow progress, but every increment of time is making me better as a writer. Anywho, I'll be addressing some Tigress Imposter stereotypes. These stereotypes are the ones we want to avoid as much as possible. And if we do so, we can get closer to the original Tigress. Now, disclaimer, I am not here to tarnish the pride of any of you fanfic writers. I'm just here to point out my opinions and hopefully my opinions can do more good than harm. Also, to bring this blog a more positive vibe, I will be writing some Tigress stereotypes that we should all follow. But that'll be on the next post. 1. The 'Punk Girl School Bully' Type of Tigress. (LoA Tigress) Sleeves are for wimps... fat muscles... I got huge front teeth... i'll put your head on the toilet... pig anatomy on the facial region... you punk!... ILLL BEAT YOUUU UP!... girl that looks like a man... Those lines are all inside the ambit of any typical Buff School Girl Bully. And yeah, these types of people aren't the most likeable. Mainly because of their terrible ego and pride, their unmanaged temper, their constant screaming, and the fact that they bully. And these types of characters usually act upon their anger, and these types of characters are usually defeated by their own caprices. Now a lot of times, people usually confuse 'Punk Girl School Bully' as Tigress's characteristics.

For example, a lot of fanfictions tend to write this: Tigress was clouded with anger. How dare this cocky prick make fun of her name like that? She charged at him, trying to land a double fist strike on her belly, but it has seemed that her muscles were so angry that she suddenly turned into an amateur fighter and totally missed the cocky mite's stomache. Now she was even angrier. She gave a frustrated yell and pounced at the prick, driving her feet into a powerful tornado kick, but the man has sidestepped and she was too angry to use that momentum to execute another kick upon landing. Oh she was so so SO angry that everything turned red. Even though the man was merely a stranger, his smart remarks was enough to somehow make Tigress want to tamper him, as if her anger was derived from personal matter. Oh yes, Tigress was so weak that her peace has succumbed so easily to something as superficial as an empty insult. It isn't like she's a warrior who learned integrity, who lived by virtues and proverbs, and learned to swallow her pride the hard way. Nope. She was just the average hot head. "You! You idiot!" She yelled, driving her fist into arbitrary turns and twist with the speed of a toddler's fist in a fit of frenzy. And yet, after delivering such 'efficient' attacks, the man had avoided her punches the Muhammad Ali way. What's next? The rope-a-dope? Is that how weak Tigress became because of her anger? Oh, and since she's sooo angry, she also became majorly stupid! Since she's losing, she might as well become more desperate to win and because of this, she kinda lost 9/10 of her damn brain. It isn't like she had experienced worst before. It isn't like she's been in a tower surrounded by hundreds of adversaries, outmatched, outgunned, out everything, and still managed to escape through a genius idea to catapult her and her Enterprise out the flaming tower THROUGH the toppling flaming tower.

Look, Tigress can be hot head, but she doesn't allow it to manifest in a way that hampers her during battle. She's a warrior who for sure learned patience. Yes, she might have let herself succumb to her anger during the first movie (by trying to fight Tai Lung despite her master's efforts to stop her) but do understand that it was because of that cursed snow leopard that her father was just outright terrible to her, and 20 years of desperation and overwhelming commitment to kung fu led her to think that defeating Tai Lung is the key to Shifu's heart. Watch the Second movie through and through, with the eyes of a scrutenizing critic. If she is angry, it is usually to appear intimidating or lethal. It's a great strategy, escpecially now that her opponents would surely hold back once they hear the low baritone of her growl. But never, never, never, never, I assure you, did she appear angry and let that rage make her a haphazard, stupid, mess.

Also, fanfic writers tend to also write this: Tigress crossed her arms and growled. Po was so annoying! He wouldn't stop babbling about his new dumpling recipe. If he says 'broccoli broth' one more time, she is sure her dormant side would burst. "SHUT UP PO! YOU ARE AN IDIOT! YOU ARE SO CHILDISH! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE THE DRAGON WARRIOR!" And then, Po cried and ran away from the kitchen. The rest of the five gave her a look that could compare to the menacing glare of a thousand men, and they all left her to find the weeping Po. She sneered, she didn't need them anyways. She didn't have a family. And they were no friends of hers.

Tigress is not like this! She values her friends, and she talks to them like friends. Do no potray her the LoA way, because she's not always grumpy... and she is, by chance, grumpy, it's mostly for a reason. When the other five are irritated or even disgusted of Po, you can see that only Tigress smiles. And when she is in an argument, she usually deliver herself in a calm and threatening. Yeah, calm and threatening can be together. Tigress works as a paradox. I think the problem here is that people mistake seriousness and grumpiness as neigh synonyms. DON'T mistake those two different words with the same definition. Tigress is serious, but rarely grumpy in the way LoA/ fancfictions potrays her (just compare KFP 2 Tigress to LoA Tigress (there's a big difference I tell you that (mostly because she doesn't haphazardly turn into a big bish (is this even grammatically correct?))))

2. The Morally Deficient Tigress. I hate you!... you've always been terrible to me Shifu. So I hate you too!... you guys are not my family!... i have no family!... brat times twenty... your spoon is stupid... everyone is stupid... I don't wanna do this anymore... i'll turn evil in six seconds if you don't assuage my ego... cold hearted... insults everywhere... long sullen silences followed by mean comments followed by even more long sullen silences... angst angst angst for no reason... teenage i-have-20-pounds-of-eyeliner-under-my-eyes prototype. this type of imposter Tigress is probably one of the worst forms of Tigress out there. You cannot just ignore that she has been raised by two kung fu masters, one has morals that are so polished and perfect, and the other one with flaws but regardless still wiser than most. She's also follows a regimented schedule of supreme discipline throughout the course of her twenty-eight years, so surely she has been taught hardwork, patience, determination and other virtues that any average olympian athletes would typically have. Despite being called cold-hearted, stoic, perhaps even mean, do remember that she is also a HERO. With a hero's heart and the strength of a hero's mind. You can not simply ignore that she's a good person who had saved, quite possibly, thousands of lives, expecting nothing in return except the heart of her father and a place to reside. Do not mistake badassery with idiocy. Do not make her morally deficient like she's a little child with the mindset of a brat on a bad day.

Here's some examples of this nightmare: "Why do you keep these stuff? You're so childish, you don't deserve to be the Dragon Warrior!" Tigress looked around his loft, threatened by the action figures and the posters of the masters that adorned it.

Po frowned, "But... but... items like these have very big value to me Tigress. Especially my action figures, I cherish them because it's a large fragment of my childhood memories!"

Tigress did not understand. Of course she did not, not only is she whimsy, grumpy, angry and stupid, she also lacks understanding and lessons that can usually be self-taught at the age of twenty. She acts like a little child and that's all her morality is limited to. "No! They're wooden things with no value whatsoever. Stop being a fanboy. Stop being yourself! I can't support you! You idiot."

And she left the room with grandeur ---Sharpei Style with the hint of swagger. Five days later... "It's all your fault why we're here Po! All your fault. It isn't like you made a wonderful plan and I kinda destroyed it after this cocky douche made me angry and I decided to fight him and ditch your plan. And since my dignity got the best of me, it isn't like I'm blaming you 100% on our unfortunate demise when I know 200% that i'm to blame." Po tried to speak, but Tigress continued, "Ya'll should have listened to me! Me me me me! Me me me me!" The end!

Okay okay, it's a little too exaggerated, but you get the point right? Tigress doesn't act like this. She is kind and nice, she's truly supportive even with her doubts, and she loves and values her friends, albeit these traits are not exposed because it's overshadowed by her stoic demeanor. Whatever... sometimes light filters through her facade and you can see her vulnerabilities.

3. The Profesional Becomes the Biggest Amateur. Gets defeated by a few alligators who could barely fight... can't get unstuck from a rope THAT ISNT EVEN KNOTTED NOR THICK ENOUGH TO CARRY TWO POUNDS... can't get out a sticky situation even though she has been through worse... pathetic tiger... no longer has super strength that she has been gifted with. Now I'm just a thread's breadth away before typing a full fledge rant. Yes! I get it. She has been defeated by people who Po can defeat. She has been defeated by Tai lung and Po was able to defeat Tai Lung. But that was because Po was in a special situation, and it was truly only Po who could defeat Tai Lung (I'll adress this in a new post.) Have ya'll ever of this rule, in both film making and book writing, that authors must refrain from degrading everyone's intelligence so that a single character can appear in the caliber of a genius? Basically, what I'm saying is that you cannot make the five (escape Tigress) leagues weaker than their original selves just for the sake of making Po or your main OCs appear stronger. One, that's a terrible illusion that even a blind man can see through. And two, that's just disrespectful for a The Five. Not only are the five overshadowed, but ya'll also heavily disregarded the fact that they are warriors that did a lot. You're forgetting that Tigress can do this

Do not forget that she is the person who can do so much more. If you want a story where Tigress becomes a damsel in distress, and Po is the one to save her, DO NOT get her kidnapped by five wolves. Or ten. Or even twenty. Because this tiger can handle of them easy. Make sure she is defeated by a whole fudging army, or a bunch of hooded warriors who are thousands of years old and are as good as Shifu in kung fu. Make sure her defeat is reasonable and respects what she can do. KNOW what she can do, so that you learn her limits. Give her a challenge, give her a run for her money. Don't make her pathetic just because you want someone else to seem not pathetic. Us fan fic writers say that Tigress is hardcore. Awesome. Badarse. So maybe we should write her that way. Some fan fics I read write that Tigress got defeated because she was hungry or tired and couldn't fight against a few adversaries. I roll me eyes. Bro! You cannot make hunger the reason why she's defeated😂 have you seen what she ate during the first KFP movie? Her meals consists of tea and a small, chewy block of tofu. Please. She had trained her body and mind to resist pain in a way that wouldn't affect her during battle. And don't go destroying her stamina either. If she can go the whole night just battling a bunch of wolves, without even so much as passing out then pulease, don't make tiredness as an excuse. But there are some exceptions though. Like maybe she got tired because she drained her chi. Then that's understandable. So much work.

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Just something I'm curious about - in your torture in fiction posts that deal with sci-fi settings, particularly Star Wars, you list a lot of the torture devices as unrealistic because they're high-tech compared to real life equipment. Is this because you're trying to really stress how how real life torture is carried out? I admittedly haven't studied the topic as in-depth as you, but a lot of the devices used in Star Wars torture scenes seem fancy and space-age to us but in-universe (1/2)

(2/2) things like the droid used to torture Leia in A New Hope are very common and viewed as everyday devices. I guess I’m also asking if a character’s perception of what a common/“low tech” device is would factor into how they select torture methods, or if you think the general technology level of the story doesn’t matter much?

I guess it’s primarily about trying to get people to understand whattorture is.

We are surrounded by stories that, one way or another, suggest torturecan be ‘ok’.

We’re also surrounded by stories that, knowingly or not, get their imageof torture from taking what torturers sayat face value.

And the idea of using high-tech devices, complicated devices, in tortureis doing just that. It is believing these ignorant, pathetic brutes when theysay that what they do is actually ‘scientific’, that it can be ‘improved’, thatthey personally are ‘really good at it’ and that they personally are the specialexception flying against every piece of scientific evidence we have.

The idea of torture being high-tech is heavily linked to the ideatorture can be ‘improved’. It’s a cop out that says ‘well this time didn’t workI guess we need to build a better droid’.

It’s also heavily linked tothe idea that ‘clean’ non-scarring tortures are somehow ‘safer’, that you cancause someone massive amounts of pain and trauma but it’s ok it won’t damagethem. Because it’s ‘scientific’.

Please understand that this anger is not directed at you. This is thememory of sifting through eloquent, newspaper published arguments ‘for’waterboarding and too many conversations where I am asked to ‘prove’ torturecould never work under increasingly ludicrously sci-fi circumstances.

It’s the way so many people seem to automatically turn a discussionabout stopping torture towards ‘wellperhaps if we just tortured people in the ‘right’ way-’

It isn’t about what sort oftechnology is common in the setting.

Almost everyone has a mobile phone where I live. I think it’s safe toassume that the prisons and police stations where a lot of torture takes place have mobile phones, televisions,computers, microwaves.

There has never been a singlereported incident I can find of them being used to torture.

It’s not just expense, it’s practicality. The more complicated and hightech something is the easier it is to break and the harder it is to use withouttraining.

From the torturer’s perspective torture is all about using the least amount of effort.

Anything that takes longer, anything that breaks in use, anything eventhe slightest bit more inconvenient will lose out compared to ‘why don’t wejust borrow the garden hose and hit them with it?’

The torture devices of the past were nothigh tech, even for the times they were created. (Take a look at a rack, thentake a look at the types of ships Europeans were using at the same time forlong distance navigation). Using the vast majority of them boils down toturning a screw.

There’s also the question of the effort,time and money¸ that goes into creating high tech devices.

How big would the group of people behind that one droid have to be? You’dneed designers, mechanics and a way totest it just to get a prototype. The first attempt would probably go wrong,because it’s a complicated, high tech piece of equipment. All of the peopleinvolved in it’s creation need to be paid, housed and have access to thecorrect materials for the decades it would take to get one working model. Thenyou’d need to source materials in bulk, you’d need to assemble them correctlyand you’d need to persuade people that this thing is better than just using a bucket of water. That’s worth the moneybeing asked for it.

The only high tech torturedevice that’s really taken off is the Taser. According to Rejali it took about8 attempts and a lot of time andmoney on someone’s part to get it off the ground. It was initially rejected bypolice departments as too difficult to use and too easy to break.

It’s not that police departments weren’tusing electrical torture, they just found that hand cranked magnetos, carbatteries and cow prods were a lot easier to use. Because they’re less complicated.

So no- I don’t think thatcharacter’s perception of what tech is ‘normal’ factors into what gets used intorture at all. Becausewhat we see in real life is that everyday technology doesn’t tend to get used in torture. It’s more effort for thetorturer, it’s more difficult to use, it’s more likely to break and in somecases probably more likely to get the torturer caught.

That last point may not be a factor in all stories but the rest of thosepoints definitely are.

There’s a difference between showing an evil organisation building abigger, ‘better’ bomb and showing them using high tech torture. In the formerthey’re investing in killing people more efficiently; they know they might notget the result they want first time but they also know it will eventually be ‘worth’the money. In the latter example they’re pouring money into a project that won’t‘work’ any better and (from their view more importantly) that their torturerswon’t want to use.

So yes it’s about realism but beyond that it’s what unrealistic tropesmean in these stories.

I run this blog because I want to change the narrative: because I wantto live in a world where pop culture doesn’tencourage or glorify torture.

And if you want to kill an idea you need to go for the joints.

Torture isn’t sophisticated.It isn’t complicated. And most importantly it not only fails, it cannot be improved. Brutality doesn’tbecome more acceptable just because it’s delivered via a shiny new package, itdoesn’t become less harmful just because the damage is hard to see.

I know some of the things I talk about probably seem odd or harmless toa lot of readers but this is about…tracking what those ideas prop up.

I hope that answers your question. :)

Edit: So there’s a counter argument in the comments which I’m going to respond to very briefly.

1) Torture ‘for’ information does not work.(See O’Mara and Rejali)

2) Scaring people you’re trying to interrogate has been shown to be a less effective strategy. (See E and L Alison)

3) Torturers are self selecting. (See Rejali)

4) Lie detectors do not work. (See O’Mara)

5) All the Star Wars movies I’ve reviewed so far have actually handled torture pretty well. The bad guys assume it ‘works’ sure, but the first three movies show torture failing consistently and they show it failing in realistic ways.

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