here im once again but this time really late jsdfjksdkjfsdjkf, thoughts on whats going on?
This answer is late too, ssoorrrryy
I have created the tag! Here’s the tag for all my reactions and analysis to this webtoon.
Official English translation (the free chapters anyway) here
It seems I have skipped a week so this would be for both Chapter 10 and 11.
Edward’s eyes glow blue this time around even though they glowed red/orange when he used Eagle Vision in a previous chapter. I’m gonna go on a limb and say ‘artistic freedom’ or something. I’m still going for the ‘Eagle Vision makes eyes glow gold’ because it’s me.
The infiltration mission was okay. The coin distraction though…
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Coin throws in AC has always been more on the side of “free money!” and used to get civilians to turn into human obstacles for guards.
Coin distraction is more of this dude’s thing:
And…
I don’t understand why they went for that route? Edward has sleeping darts. And, yeah, okay, maybe he doesn’t have it with him but that only makes me go “Why not?”. Edward had always struck me as the type to use whatever is at hand so deliberately leaving his darts and his rope dart? It feels like… it’s a character development that makes him feel dumber than he was before. Assassins used whatever tools are available in their arsenal so, not using or forgetting their tools? Looks bad on Edward’s part.
By the way, Black Flag had whistle so Edward could have whistled instead. Would it have gotten the other guards’ attention? Absolutely. But it would have been more in line with what we know of Edward’s skill sets.
(Does that mean Edward couldn’t have done the coin thing? No. He totally could. It’s just… a rock distraction would be better in my eyes because coin throwing distraction skill is such a known game mechanic of Hitman that it's pretty much a core of the games' identity by now. Maybe this was meant to be a reference to Hitman or something, but I kinda wonder if the authors forgot that coin throwing distraction is not an Assassin’s Creed thing?)
By the way, this isn’t surprising that it’s a full blast musket fire but the safer setup is to have two or three ‘groups’.
The idea is: one group fires then the other group fires while the first group fires. That way, there’s a shorter gap between firing. (This is officially called Volley Fire and it’s quite common)
Just to be clear that I’m not criticizing the authors’ decision to not use volley fire. AC games usually only have one line of musket fire too (ex: AC3) so that might have been a reference to that. Or this was created to show that the shinobis are a real danger that don’t even flinch in the line of fire.
… Or… Oda Nobunaga used volley fire so the Shimazu clan would have an idea that the moment the musket fires and they survive, they win.
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Okay, let’s talk about Edward using a katana.
Siiggghhh, I didn’t know I was going to talk about this but here we are.
The action is pretty good.
The choice to give Edward a katana makes me go “why???”
And then there’s Edward’s actual stance when using a katana.
He uses it quite well.
But he uses it like he knows how to use a katana in general which feels weird?
Could he have learned it when he was a pirate? Sure but we never got any indication of that.
Also, his use of the katana is too different from how he uses a single sword in Black Flag. His 'idle' stances themselves are not good for katanas and you would think that Edward would use the katana like his usual sword-stance for single sword but no. He uses it like he knows how to use a katana from the very beginning.
I just… I don’t understand why he has to have a katana for this chapter…
Dude, his usual sword is right there.
I'll believe it more if he had been trying to dual-wield his usual sword and the katana.
Although, I've seen some frames where the sword disappeared like these two...
But seriously, why make Edward use a katana when there's no prior knowledge that he knows how to use the katana?
Rule of cool?
Reeeaaalllyyy???
Putting that aside…
Shimazu Saito isn’t in the Shimazu Clan wiki so he’s most probably created specifically for this one. I do wonder what the kanjis of his name is because if his ‘Sai’ is 西, that could also be read as ‘Sei’ which might add some kind of connection to ‘Shimazu’ Sei.
Also…
This might be a POE, probably a Sword of Eden, unless that shonen-manga aura thing is some kind of artist interpretation to show how deadly he is. It looks like an odachi to me and my first idea might be the odachi that would later be known as Haja-no-Ontachi.
This would mean that the Shimazu Clan has a Sword of Eden and I feel like the Templars wouldn't use this willy-nilly so this makes me lean further to the whole 'these Shimazu enemies are rogue 'Templars' that have left the Order and the Shimazu clan for some reason'
Sidebar: I still think this could be a stealth promotion for AC Red but there's also the possibility that this was created to drum up some interest to play/replay Black Flag especially with the rumors of a Black Flag remake in the works and the rumors that they would be headed by Ubisoft Singapore that was developing Skull and Bones. If it did... this might end with Noa Kim being saved by the Assassins who tell him to relive Edward Kenway's older memories because there's 'something' hidden there and the remake will change the modern day setting to Noa Kim instead of Black Flag's Noob.
Which... I don't really support? Because (1) AC1 deserves a remake more (although I am worried that Ubisoft will fuck that up) as Black Flag still holds up well and is more accessible than AC1 and (2) Noob's modern day setting in Abstergo Entertainment was pretty fun imho and it would be funny if the remake's Abstergo Entertainment looks a lot like Ubisoft Quebec's offices.
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I'm curious if you're going to be running this again with a new set of pairings. This seems fun!
I was thinking on that! I'd want all the pairings to be ENTIRELY new, so no bringing back Sebaciel or Wincest or anything in Bracket 1 (as much as it pains me to not include SatouShio, I adore them so much, there's a reason they're my avatar). However, I'm also not sure of the demand of a bracket with ENTIRELY new pairings, so!
I'll give you a little poll to decide!
Hope you enjoy giving feedback! - Mod Satou
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Interações, looks e afins já foram liberados (desde às 20h), pessoal! Logo mais enviaremos os links do blog ooc e de starters. O de likes a gente faz amanhã, porque não queremos receber block no nosso blog reserva... seria o auge AHUDSUAHDS
Mas e aí, quem está animade para o MET GALA manda um EUUUU!!!
EUUUUU!!!!
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Saw this and thought that you had to be involved lol
Lmaoo nope I'm not, I don't have Discord (nor Twitter). And I agree about one fandom, because almost all X fans read TB and vice versa.
"Like X is open ending" - meme away the pain, that's what I do 25/8. Can you imagine how much Fuuma's arms hurt, he's been holding that sword for 2 decades now
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como cortar os posts pelo mobile.
oi, pessoal! há alguns dias, algumas pessoas falaram com a gente porque não estavam conseguindo cortar os posts pelo celular com essas mudanças malucas do tumblr. nós tentamos procurar alguns tutoriais e todos os que achamos estavam desatualizados, masssss uma player maravilhosa (obrigada de novo @myospace 💖) explicou pra gente um jeitinho que dá certo!!! vou colar as mensagens que ela nos mandou aqui embaixo do read more porque já está tudo bem explicadinho. esperamos que isso ajudem vocês nos seus joguinhos!
antes, um tutorialzinho que ela indicou para nós aqui. a seguir, o jeito que ela faz:
1. geralmente eu utilizo o kiwi browser, um navegador de celular que permite instalar extensões. eu instalo o xkit nele e consigo editar os reblogs pelo próprio navegador, e não no aplicativo do tumblr.
2. no app do tumblr mobile, eu clico em reblogar e faço a resposta do turno abaixo do turno do outro char, como normalmente é, faço minhas modificações, (diminuindo as letras, colocando itálico, essas coisas) depois salvo em rascunhos.
3. com o xkit instalado no tumblr do navegador e deixando ele no modo "para computador", eu abro meus rascunhos, clico em editar no post que quero e depois, lá em cima na url/link do post, eu tiro meu user e acrescento “?redirect_to=%2Fdashboard%3Frestore%3D1&avoid_redirect=1″ (sem as aspas)
4. após a numeração do post.o que normalmente seria assim: ( https://www.tumblr.com/edit/[meu urser]/[números aleatórios]/fica assim: https://www.tumblr.com/edit/[números aleatórios]/?redirect_to=%2Fdashboard%3Frestore%3D1&avoid_redirect=1 ) dou enter e saio dessa página, vai abrir uma outra aba de edição, daí nessa aba eu posso clicar no lápis de edição do xkit e cortar o post
apesar de ainda ser complicada, eu achei essa forma mais fácil kskks, tem como usar o próprio kiwi pra editar, mas é mais complexo ainda.
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mods, eu não sei se vcs viram mas a tag da call tá cheia de posts aleatórios de outras contas, não vai ficar complicado de achar as pessoas?
Ei, amoreco. Disponibilizamos também o Discord pros plotcalls, para que esse tipo de coisa não fique acontecendo. Também é melhor pois, diferente do Twitter que está constantemente bugando, lá sempre dá pra ver quem curtiu sua chamadinha. Também estaremos criando um grupo de likes na dm, assim vocês podem enviar os plotcalls já feitos por lá, para que não se percam.
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