#its just. not good for cq at this point imo

[lepidopteragirl]

not to sound like a homophobic straight guy but begging on my hands and knees for ppl to let cq have meaningful platonic relationships that can mean just as much as his romantic relationships and acknowledge that cq's desperation for a romantic partner is. um. unhealthy. like i love to meme about cfiances wedding as much as the next guy but, like lets first address his need to jump into romantic relationships to an unhealthy degree with little to no support system outside of them!!! and that platonic relationships can be just as valuable and important as romantic ones. btw

[cquackity]

every time I think what we could have had with ctnt duo I just grit my teeth n have to walk for a bit. like it would have been a call back to c!quackity n c!tommy being the people who were able ti talk c!wilbur out of blowing up l’manberg (temporarily but whatever). instead we get c!ranboo in c!Quackity’s lore like ye cranboo is great but he basically has zero connection with cquackity.

my jaw is clenched so fucking hard over this lol. but yeah. i do think cq and cranboo had some interesting bits with the outpost disagreement, and in general its a dynamic i dont find to be total dogshit (and enjoy expanding on between latenightmining and casinoroyale, ferns an amazing roleplayer) but for canon it just doesnt make sense to me to have cranboo there for the finale. especially if ctubbo isnt there. especially if ctommy isnt there. hes just not important to las nevadas!

and imo thats by the ccs own writing choices, im genuinely surprised theyre letting him take part after the ho16 and prison stream multi cranboo timeline death fiascos. well and i'd love to know how did ranboo got time to do lore with quackity when wilbur was completely ignored lol. man how the hell did cranboo take priority. like you said, there are just far more important dynamics cquackity has. at this point my biggest nightmare is that the lore is going to turn into the cranboo show. a lot like the prison stream did. and never should have.

to clarify i don't hate ccranboo. at all. that'd be weirdchamp especially over minecraft roleplay if all things. but i do disagree with the direction his character has gone and how it's impacted the people he's been directly involved with. like wilbur. and i also have a lot of faith in ccquackity as a storyteller! im sure the stream will have a lot of good

honestly i've been really disappointed though with the direction the dsmp as a whole has gone as of late. i'm really not someone who's hard to please with the stories i enjoy. i'm really not someone who's often this critical of lore. but it's all felt so fucking rushed recently. i'm disappointed wilbur couldn't have waited a few days for quackity. i'm disappointed they're rushing themselves under this non-existent time constraint that nobody wants. i'm just disappointed. not everyone feels the same as me, but if i had to choose between waiting until the end of the year for cwilbur's conclusion and having it be NOT rushed and complete vs what we got. i would've happily waited.

[fayesdiary]

did Birthright's story have a particular strong suit to you, such as the pacing or character writing? i wasn't really able to enjoy it myself but i'm still curious about what others might like about it. aaand, any particular supports stand out to you?

Personally I didn’t find much noteworthy about Birthright. I mean it’s not bad nor I would call it bland like many other people do, but there is some credit to the fact that it’s kind of your average Fire Emblem experience, even if the Japanese aesthetic does give it a new coat of paint. And honestly, just this made me realize that we really need more varied aesthetics in FE than generic medieval fantasy, regardless of how well it’s executed.

I feel that Birthright has kind of a “Monster of the Week” aesthetic until the final chapters, where every chapter you go to new places and face different enemies, but the chapters don’t feel... connected? I don’t really know how to explain it, it’s just that I didn’t feel there was much tying them together. It wasn’t much of an issue to me since I tended to play one chapter a day, but I imagine it gets tiring fast if you play a bunch of them at once.

But it does have its strong moments, like in the final chapters, the characters that sure, you can call them simple but they are also really endearing (also, simple does not equal bad) and most of them have room for more exploration even if the game doesn’t provide it. Or maybe it does, but no way I’m gonna read all of the supports. There’s a buttload of them and I imagine they get redundant fast. The death scenes were hit or miss, but when they hit they hit hard. Flora’s death scene was a bit silly in execution but Felicia and Corrin’s reactions... fuck. They sold the scene on their own. Elise and Azura’s too are really heartfelt imo! (I wish I could say the same about Xander but I got sick of his shit waaaay before he died, his CQ and Rev versions will have to pull a lot of weight for me to end up liking him) Speaking of Elise, I was pleased that you actually get to spend a few chapters with her before she... you know. I really liked Corrin too, I didn’t expect them to be this witty and... kinda self-aware at times? Like telling Flora Garon would have just burned her village down anyway and other stuff I can’t remember sadly? To me they were a really good example of someone being trusting but not stupid and the mainstream FE fandom can eat my ass on that one, but it was also kinda funny and cathartic to see how sick they got of the villains’ shit in the final chapters. And after playing BR, I can’t understand the complaint that Corrin is bloodthirsty in this route, because they always try diplomacy first, save for the laughably evil trio of Garon, Hans and Iago. And to be honest, I’m glad that’s not the case. Overall Birthright was kinda average but still fun and enjoyable to play! I haven’t gotten many supports (something that happened to me also in Awakening and i feel I’m doing something wrong, I wish you could gain support points for units within 3 spaces like in Echoes), but some of my faves that I got were Ryoma/Scarlet (I later found out it was actually added in the Gay Fates hack I installed, shame it wasn’t canon because it’s one of my faves and the two work so well together, I even ended up marrying them, here’s the video if you want to give it a look) and Kaze/Hinoka! (This one is actually about Hinoka’s relationship with Sakura, but the fact that Hinoka gives her sister space while talking to her in a way that makes her comfortable and only forcibly talking to her in person if she feels she’s distressed is incredibly caring and sweet and gosh I love this family so much)