#idv ranting

[rabbitfics]

Official Alva Thirst Post

[t0bey]

Tobey what did you think of Mike Morton and Nagito Komaeda having the same voice ?

cursing identity v to hell for never visibly crediting their Eng vas so Mike is in a perpetual schroedinger’s komaeda voice until they actually confirm he’s either voiced by Bryce papenbrook or some dude that unfortunately sounds really similar to him

[rooatgumpoint]

HUNTER RANT 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

I didn’t realize just how toxic survivors were until today when I finally gave in and bought night watch and they’re taunting me at gate every. Single. Round. Like okay why don’t I just kms then

[cinnanamii]

I do nothing but cry playing this shit ass game I need an apology with tears

[smolstarthief]

Persona 5 Royal Crossover events stop calling Sumire, "Kasumi" challenge (Impossible). 😮‍💨😭

[diegusting]

Inktober: day 1 - Backpack (it’s going to be Josetober you already know)

Official image just in case-

[imperfectrotting]

Even though i love reading fanfiction about Norton, especially Norton x readers, i just genuinely cannot imagine him ever loving someone else. He gets mischaracterized so often, as well.

Norton was forced to be a miner ever since his father died of black lung. "If a father is a miner, so shall the son." By that he means that miners barely scrap by. The money they earn is just barely enough to live off from. Norton's father couldn't afford anything for Norton. No fancy clothes, not even for him to go to school.

And once he died, the debt that he carried, transfered onto Norton, so now Norton was stuck being a miner, forced to slave away years of his live to come across a sliver of gold.

Norton was raised to be a good boy, taking care of the elderly, being a very hard, efficient and diligent worker. Even his previous employers were sad to let him go, because he was such a hard worker. Being the first one to enter the mines and the last one to come out. But as the years went on, he grew more desperate to be freed from his poverty, for his fate to be changed somehow. So he took more risk.

He visited all the locations that were given to him on the map by Benny, except for the Golden Cave. Norton was on the brink of insanity and decided to risk it all, bringing all his co-workers to the cave, and bringing dynamite, being fully aware of how dangerous it was to use. But nonetheless, not caring for anyone except for himself anymore, he decided to blow it all up.

His dramatic shift in attitude, especially after the incident, he's being described by (most likely) his coworkers said his personality became even more extreme, with at times very gloomy and depressed.

It is interesting that before the incident, he got described as someone hard to deal with, with his emotions being as changeable as the weather. It's most likely his coworkers that bullied him that described him that way, because they were intimidated by his sheer determination to break free from poverty. Because in both of the videos we got about Norton's backstory, especially the live action one, he didn't get portrayed as someone hard to deal with at all, and his emotions being so unstable.

I think it all changed when Norton found out about Benny wanting to return as a miner one day, when he got better, wanting to go mining with Norton. I think that made Norton snap, take all the risk and chances at the Golden Cave, because he wanted to change his own fate so badly.

With the meteorite magnet he got from the accident, he became a geological surveyor to make a better living and to get away from the mines.

I can't imagine for him to have love left for someone else in his heart. Now when he's in the manor, having been hired to assassinate either Melly or Alice, and working together with Orpheous (as seen having drugged Alice unconscious) for a lot of money.

I wish i knew when Ashes of memory part 3 came out because i genuinely cannot wait. Norton's been my favorite character since i started playing the game in 2020. Seeing him get so much love when his backstory dropped, together with him being the only one to receive his own live action film, like hello!? I love him so much, and he interests me so damn much. I want to keep finding out more things about him.

[bitemebabyanddrinkallmyblood]

Wip wip wip

[shitty-silly-idea-archive]

This might just be me and I might be completely over exaggerating this, but I have the feeling that people who play the newer characters (specifically composer and knight for this one) don't really know how to use them or how to play the game.

I'm really not trying to gatekeep. Play whichever characters you want, I don't care, it's good to have new players! But plleeeaasseee don't play them just bc they look nice and if you do that then please read their skill description so you know how to use them.

I've already had multiple experiences where the composer in the team just didn't do anything or got eliminated first. Okay, for the second thing I don't think it's the players fault, but the first just seems like the player either doesn't know how to use him, which, the skill descriptions are there literally for that reason, to know how to use the character.

I know this happens with other characters too and not just composer and knight, but these two have been the most prominent ones for me and it kinda sucks.

Again, not attacking anyone, I know new players aren't going to be perfect at the game, I'm not that good myself, just wanted to let this out:)

[autisticazi]

Born to be as problematic as KAngel, Meowbahh, CaptainHowdie, Mellygutz, and Emilydyrez.. Forced to like validation and praise

[nightwonder7]

I've got some Fool's Gold content I want to get out before the new hunter arrives, lest they might grow stale. So for the next few weeks, that's probably what I'll be working on the most.

[akuma-tenshi]

so this is a big, long rant about sexism in the idv community bc it's been on my mind lately and i need to put it out there. this is what i've observed after almost four years in the fandom and been stewing on for a long-ass time. if you don't feel like reading an essay on how annoyed some random enby on the internet is, then don't click the read more and just keep scrolling. don't interact with this post if all you're gonna do is get mad; i'm not here to piss anyone off, just make observations. and if this isn't your experience, good for you and please direct me to whatever circles you run in because i need to be there.

so, i've noticed that the idv fandom is extremely shit when it comes to how they treat female characters, and nobody really.. talks about it?? the only person i've ever seen actually discuss it used it as a way to drum up sympathy for ada. which, if you know me, you know really fucking pisses me off. because there are SO MANY OTHER EXAMPLES of sexism in this community, but no, clearly because we have sympathy for a male victim of abuse we're being sexist towards his abuser.

the thing is. there is so much to point to when you talk about how the fandom is sexist. it's very common to see female characters boiled down to just a couple traits. mary?? hot mommy step on me. michiko?? soft and gentle and demure (don't think i won't notice the weird shit about how that's a very common stereotype of asian women btw i see it). demi?? hot and drinks a lot. emma and lily are "uwu mentally ill babies". annie is soft. emily is either an irredeemable monster or a bitch, depending on who you're talking to. patricia is scary and mean. sangria's a girlboss, grace is soft and gentle, martha is spunky. and if you ask anyone their thoughts / ideas on these characters beyond those short descriptors you get nothing. i'm starting to fucking hate the word "girlboss" because it's all anyone says in response to like half these characters.

male characters are given alllllll the nuance in the world you can't talk to an aesop fan without them going into their endless headcanons / theories on why he's the way he is or how he's not actually that bad of a person or how cute he is or whatever. look at norton, or eli, or orpheus, or luca, or edgar, or joseph, or ithaqua, or any characters in that vein, and look at how the fandom treats them. look at the endless fanfictions and character studies and ships and x readers and headcanons. and then look at what female characters get. nowhere near that much.

i feel like margaretha and emily are the ones who suffer the most from this male-centric view by the fandom. they're characters who are inherently intricate, whose actions can't be explained away as entirely good or entirely bad. but that doesn't stop people from actively trying. they're going to act like margaretha wasn't being horrifically mistreated by her husband and just decided to burn down the circus for funsies or whatever. they're going to act like emily isn't trying so fucking hard to help emma and repent for what she's done. neither of them are meant to be read as black-and-white, but people will try because if they have to use more than two braincells on a female character they're going to implode.

meanwhile you get paragraph after paragraph about the intricacies of the argument between luca and alva. you get so many people analysing the relationship between norton and orpheus and how they're both kinda dicks but also both kinda have points. you get endless people defending joseph's actions bc his brother's dead and he's terrified of growing old / forgetting the people he loved / dying. you get so many fucking stories about how y'know, edgar's not that bad actually.

AND I'M NOT AGAINST ANALYSING THESE CHARACTERS!!! idv, especially in recent years, has been doing some great things with character writing. like, fuck 'em, they've got their issues, but they're still really good with some stuff and deserve credit. but don't act like it's not obvious how so many people have overlooked women (and poc, don't think i've noticed people ignoring the intricacies behind william and ganji as characters as well in favour of "himbo" and "bastard who cares", but i'm white so that's not exactly my place to talk) in favour of their favourite skinny whiteboy of the week.

they're that way with older-looking characters, too. if an idv guy has facial hair, you bet your ass he's also getting boiled down to his base traits. jose's an alcoholic, kevin is self-sacrificing and likes women, kurt is a little guy, kreacher is Awful, charles basically doesn't fucking exist anymore. but again not the focus of the talk atm.

it's just. so upsetting. esp. since most of my favourite idv characters are women but everyone i talk to about them is like "oh yeah demi's hot" or "aww annie's such a nervous little baby" or "god patricia's such a cool girlboss". and even when the shit they say is positive in a vacuum it still makes me so upset bc THAT'S NOT ALL THEY ARE!! demi is kind and loving and hardworking in the face of a world that only ever hurt her. annie's life has been an endless stream of pain and heartbreak and the only thing she really wants is freedom. patricia is literally cursed and is trying to find her place in the world.

also. i fucking hate ada but she falls victim to this too. as much as i despise the "you dislike her just bc you're sexist" thing and as horribly uncomfortable as she makes me, don't act like you haven't seen how her entire character is boiled down to how much she "loves" this man. don't act like you haven't seen how her entire character, all of her promise and potential, is forgotten in favour of that fucking trainwreck of a relationship. i bet half the fandom can't tell me anything about her other than her relationship with emil. emil suffers from this too, with his backstory and personality and life of abuse becoming an afterthought, but again, not what we're focusing on.

this is not an isolated thing or confined solely to the idv fandom. this happens in fandoms everywhere. but because idv is so close to my heart i feel like i really need to talk about it. there's so little content of female characters when there's fucking daily content of male ones. and don't get me wrong, i do like male characters. norton is literally one of my favourite fictional characters and i love talking about / analysing him. but i can guarantee a lot of people wouldn't be so interested in him if he was a woman.

sorry, just needed to get that off my chest. mandatory "this doesn't apply to everyone in the fandom" and "if this doesn't apply to you then i'm not fucking talking about you". we were so against the ashley wood collaboration bc of how much he sexualised michiko (and women in general) but like. do y'all really care that much?? bc i really don't think you do.

[battampria]

I'm a creep I'm a bimbo or whatever radio head said

OH YEAH??? WELL... IM A CIPHER DECODED, IM A MAXIMUM PULSE.. or whatever netease said

[monkey-king123]

I feel like we should normalize the fact that ships don't HAVE to make sense. Like, no, this ship doesn't have religious undertones. No, it's dynamic is not something shakespear would shed a tear at. And no, it does not have need to have some big deep meaning and cannonical reason behind it. Its a ship made SPECIFICALLY for me to slap on my fantasies or for me to enjoy for MY pleasure. Sorry if it "doesn't make sense to you," Its not supposed to! Its PURELY headcannons and fiction and I don't care! People are so admant on ships needing to have some philosophical meaning behind it when I think we should accept that some ships are specifically for the pleasure of its enjoyers and the person who made it and hating on it is kinda stupid because the entire POINT of arguing about a perfectly legal fictional pairing is stupid. You might not see the appeal. I do. And we should both accept that.

[rooatgumpoint]

He looks like how I feel after having awful matches in qm over and over again

[bitemebabyanddrinkallmyblood]

on the topic of Norton w/ curly hair...

uhm its not v good because its my first digital artbut yeah here ya go!! :p I FORGOT TO MY MY NAME/USER ON IT ILL WORK ON THAT