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wisebeth · 6 months

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why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

#all the gods and goddesses in the greek mythology are flawed in their own way #it doesn't make sense why the books were so unnecessarily biased towards certain gods?#it bothers me specifically that hera and athena are SO unnecessarily painted as villains #while posiedon is ‘cool’ dad ‘great’ lover ‘decent’ god ‘reasonable’ than other olympians #i get it he's the main character's father of a children's fantasy novel so rick painted him in a good light #but my man? then why are you painting other gods who are arguably just as bad as him as WORSE #shut up i feel strongly about it #i love the percy jackson series #but i hate how the gods are portrayed #is trials of apollo a good series? yes #does it make sense why he's shown as a human-like god with redemption arc #while hera is reduced to ‘evil stepmom’ and ‘bitch to annabeth’ even if apollo is JUST as bad as her?#no #and aphrodite is not some ‘silly fangirl’ whose personality revolves around shipping percabeth #she is powerful terrifying and cunning who can bestow some of worst revenge on those who offend her #demeter is not a silly crop goddess #her love for her daughter was so strong it almost ended the world and destroyed mankind #shes in charge of harvest and agriculture without her humanity will starve to death #shes just as powerful as the big-3 or at least she should be #posiedon is not this cool perfect rational god #medusa would disagree demeter would disagree pasiphae would disagree odysseus would disagree #apollo cursed women posiedon raped yet ares killed a rapist BUT nooo let's make ares the bad one #percy jackson #rr crit #greek mythology #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

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swordmaid · 4 months

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i am wide awake thinking about that post canon jb au again when I should be sleeping …!!! such is the nature of the jbrainrot…

#the whole setting is jb hanging out in the rock post war #and tyrion became lord of the westerlands / the rock is his but he’s off doing stuff in kingslanding and jaime is just filling in for him #atm . but after tyrion comes back his original plan WAS he’ll get married to brienne right away and they can move back to tarth or be #travelling hedge knights together or whatever brienne wants to do he’s down for it. but the important thing is that he wants to stay with #her .. so he’s using the time they have together currently to court her bc she deserves that at least !!#so jaime goes off trying to court and woo brienne but she just thinks they’re hanging out bc they got relatively close in the war #so jaime being touchy feely isn’t anything new. jaime making innuendos and being kinda flirty isn’t anything new either #but this time he means it LOL he’s like I want to kiss you SO badly and brienne will be like lol silly jaime (:#I was also thinking they’d help rebuild lannisport just bc it’s a time for healing now and it would be good for the people to get to know #jaime and the lannisters in general bc of how they would just used to sit high above the rock looking down on everyone #but now jaime is like. actively helping and being known and being with the people rather than just being that absent distant lord #also he’s thinking he might as well try and foster some relationship with the commoners to his house bc it’s for tyrion anyway #so he’s off doing that and brienne is tagging along bc she does not want to go home yet #she wants to stay with him and she’s helping out as an excuse to stay a little longer but she doesn’t exactly want to leave him #but how do you tell someone that and ignore the big glaring part that she’s actually in love with him and the fact that they both survived #the war is getting her hopeful???? u want her to admit that?? like a normal person??? no..!!#so she’s just staying and helping out bc a) it’s the sensible thing to do b) so she can bask on the sun that is Jaime Lannister #for like a few more days. weeks. maybe a month bc the weather is soooo bad in the stormlands rn 🙄😳#anyway jb hanging out! and everything is going well and good but jaime is now getting popular w the people and he’s also looking quite #rugged and handsome post war now that he’s thirty flirty and thriving and he also has a new scar across his lip that makes his #smirks even more ! rogueish … ! and he looks quite nice with the greying hair 👀 so now there’s gossips around him #not to mention he’s single too and I think if you were one of the heroes who helped win the war they’ll forget the kingslaying #man with no honor business so lo and behold brienne eavesdrops a group of ladies bc she’s a chismosa at heart and they’re talking about a #potential marriage for a lord lannister (!!!) and there’s going to be a big tourney held in Kingslanding for it (!!!)#and brienne remembers jaime mentioning the ought to go to Kingslanding in the next few weeks (!!!) and now she’s remembering jaime IS a #lord though not theee lord of the westerlands STILL a lord from one of the seven houses and he’s single and very eligible for marriage rn #and now she’s realising everything is returning back the way it was before the war where society rules matters and she has her own role as #now the evenstar bc rip selwyn and jaime has his own role too and the court is a whole different battlefield #one that she isn’t equipped in and even though she had found some new confidence in herself bc killing a bunch of ice invisible zombies #with your own magic sword will do that for you she doesn’t think (and she’s being objective not negative) she stands a chance in THAT

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wayward-wren · 4 months

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I'm hoping episode 3 let's Ruby see the dark side of the Doctor. I feel that adds a very important dynamic to a Doctor-companion relationship, when they see how dark he can be and still choose to travel with him early on.

Rose watching Nine drag Cassandra back to die. Eleven yelling at Amy "Nobody human has anything to say to me today!" Donna begging Ten to stop drowning the spider babies, and then again to go back and save someone in Pompeii.

Fifteen has been FUN and I know he can do emotional range, I've seen his fear and his tears already. But I want to see him dark, and I want to see Ruby respond to that. I think it would add a LOT of depth to their relationship and is something missing.

Plus showcasing the Doctor's flaws (selfishness) will make him a much more interesting character. I want to see some conflict between the Doctor and Ruby.

#wren rambles #doctor who #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday #something about not letting heroes have flaws #and thus being one dimentional and less interesting #its a flaw i saw them slipping into a bit with thirteen #where she was always the Moral Voice #i LIKE it when the Doctor is instinctually cruel and has to be talked out of it and actively choose to be kind #it makes the character SO much more interesting #and raises the emotional stakes so much #so far fifteen has been FUN #but he hasnt been a rounded character #and until we see his flaws hes never gonna be in the runnings for a favourite #i think the doctor is an inherantly selfish character #and he has to make an active effort to NOT be #“Im his carer” “yes she cares so I dont have to”#im worried a six month time jump removed the opportunity for this kinda thing though #i Need to be able to look at the doctor and know. this is the man who killed a planet #and i havent been seeing that in the character recently #still early days yet though!#the doctor shouldnt be the moral center of the show--his companion should be #i think thats why i love 12 so much tbh #because his whole THING is to choose to be kind #without hope without witness without reward #being “good” (and whatever that means is a discussion for another day) doesnt come easily to him #love isnt an emotion its a promise #i want to see fifteen STRUGGLING to choose to do good #and i want to see ruby witness that

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rachiebeee · 1 month

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trials of apollo but instead of leo getting revived its octavian. calypso not understanding who he is, what he's done, grieves leo's death but doesn't blame octavian.

and then they make it to camp half blood and apollo - his ancestor, the one who had supported him and let him see into the future. a future where the greeks destroyed new rome, one that he had been desperate to avoid. even at the cost of his morality and his sanity.

the same ancestor who had rescinded his support, and octavian had convinced himself it was because the damned greeks were trying to control his gods.

that ancestor was disappointed to see him alive, had been hoping that the other one had survived. and it wasn't just apollo. everyone at camp treated him with varying levels of disgust, every single one of them made it known to him in some shape or form that they hated that he was alive. that they would have preferred him dead.

anyway i haven't actually thought this through, but something about an 18yo who was driven to insanity not just by himself but because of gods who had manipulated and used him. that 18yo needed reviving to a world that hates him, a city that he had wanted to protect which now shuns him.

for funsies make leo's ghost unable to pass on and be tethered to his. or something. have the prophecy force octavian to go along with apollo, meg and calypso to the waystation. have him question everything he stood for, everything he believed in, everything he became. give him a second chance because he was 18 and a pawn of the gods like everyone else.

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ra-vio · 8 months

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It snowed today

also my blog turned 10 this month and i usually draw these two to celebrate

#loz #wind waker #legend of zelda #toon link #aryll #drew this faster than normal. by that i mean it didn’t take me 8 hours for once WHOO #I had to shovel snow earlier. it wasn’t bad. snow wasn’t frozen yet thank god #i shoveled on monday when it was ice and it fucking sucked #also the semester just started and I already can’t get my programs to run properly. not looking good. already stressed #they are the ice climbers colors because i think thats what tri force heroes was referencing with the snow coat #unless its anoukis but it would still be ice climbers because of the colors. its clearly ice climbers man

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im-not-buying-it-ether · 3 months

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Realizing the Ben 10 love might’ve been a prelude to my Billy Batson love

#they’re very different #but the things I love abt both kinda match #lil kid heroes #transformations with the fun variance in how much of a split there is between the other bodies #other worlds magical and alien #cryptic old man who is responsible for the power the kid has who is good but comes across as kinda jerky #the sort of twin thing Ben and Gwen had going on as cousins born the same time #family focus and fun dynamics #childhood whimsy adventures back to back with fighting Cuthulu as Darth Vader #some magic when they brought in Ben’s magic villains like Spellcaster #the vibe of ‘Yes I’ve saved the universe multiple times. yes I’m not even twelve yet. what of it?’#plus the fact that their mediums keep switching between recognizing how powerful they are and making them just one of a bunch #shazam #billy batson #ben tennyson #Ben 10

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moeblob · 11 months

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In case anyone who follows me forgot or did not know. Good lord I love Saizo and bless him for finally getting an alt and also bless him for being the only reasonable adult once again (in the paralogues). This man suffers so much from the people around him and the fact even his alt isn't a vacation but more stress is really funny to me (and bad for him, sorry buddy).

Saizo Dislikers please leave it at the door I don't wanna hear it. I've read enough rude tags on my art of him to last me a life time. o7

#fe heroes #fe fates #moe talks a lot #not art #i just had to say it because i really do love saizo and i really enjoy how much he just struggles with others being themselves #never forget how mad he got at azama for wanting to abandon mitama in their fates paralogue #never forget saizo had to force that man to go help his daughter #never forget that he did name his kid after him to keep the line going but didnt get mad when his kid was like mmm not now #never forget that some of the kids in the game call their dads Father and it sounds super formal yet his son calls him dad #HES A GOOD MAN JUST TRYING OKAY #also never forget he functionally works as a retainer with his ex #come on how do people still want to slander this man just existing in a world full of .... people......#also after rereading his supports with asugi yeah the dude jumped to conclusions AND APOLOGIZED after learning he was wrong #and yeah he said the different name asugi was much more different and asugi pointed out yet you still use it #so basically never forget that this man is trying his best to respect his sons wishes and knows to apologize when hes out of line #also never forget hes ticklish

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neuvostoliitto · 28 days

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im losing a lot of my beloved guys in darkest dungeon right now . i know you're not supposed to get attached to them but uhm

#yesterday lost my epic bounty hunter the day before my best healer and today #:(( my hellion and man at arms...#ive had them be a pair FOREVER #first the hellion survived like 7 attacks at death's door #she was a hero.. did so much damage to the swine god #i protected her with my man at arms :(#but she died #and then WILBUR killed him #.................#he almost got my graverobber too it was matter of 1 hp...#i was greeding at that point but i couldnt let their sacrifice be in vain #this all happened because my healers died #i got one back from the dead but she's not high level enough yet #this game is really good you should play it :D #darkest dungeon

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ccbatman · 3 months

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actually so evil how much of hal's internal world gets obliterated with the rewriting of his relationships with jessica and martin.

#hal jordan #empyrean posting #ok going in the tags because im not actually v confident in my understanding of his character. i read all of his 80s/90s stuff but forgot #90% of it but ANYWAY.#so much of him just does not make sense with how geoff johns characterises him and his relationships with his parents particularly the #parallax stuff simply because of how much his relationship with the guardians and their apathy/'betrayal' is influenced by hal's original #relationship with his dad. like at its heart it's pretty much the same dynamic in how hal blindly trusts and sort of idolises the guardians #despite their repeated infractions in hope of... something in return just as he had with his father and the abuse he suffered at martin's #hands. that's what makes his anger at the guardians make sense when it does show itself because the relationship parallel didn't stop there.#as with martin hal gets nothing for his devotion. he gets nothing for doing everything that's asked of him and more and it ends the same way #too: with a man in the sky burning like a newborn star. and you lose so much of that nuance and intrigue behind that if you just make #jessica the 'bad one' because!!! you cheapen it!!!!#the whole idea of hal is that he has his father's face but his mother's scars #(to me). in the sense that they both reacted to martin the same way with that cognisance of who he was as a man yet inability to pull away #because... love. both the love they had for him and the conviction that he did or could love them too. and jessica arguably did eventually #but also she didnt did she? because she held onto that notion of love till the very end. the few scraps she had she ballooned outwards until #they became the whole. but hal didnt have even that and he spent his whole life chasing it & running away from wanting it at the same time #like i think there's something so interesting to the fact that he had to be convinced that flying was what he wanted to do. how much of that #was touched by his father? the fear that he was already too much like him than he could bear to be? he already had his face now he had his #dreams and longing for the sky. how much more could he have before he began repeating the cycle?#and at the end he even had his father's death. burning in the clouds. like there's so much there and that's not even touching on how it #impacts his relationships with other heroes. not just in the sense of why did kyle clark and diana get to keep their close yet complex #relationships with their moms when hal had to lose his (although yeah why did they) but also just how he lets himself come across to them.#because it's on purpose right? that he lets them think his reflection of his father is born out of unadulterated love for a man worthy of it #? he has his father's job he wears his father's jacket he smiles his father's smile. what else are they supposed to think.#and isnt that interesting!!! that this man who is so committed to being good & just can lie so casually to people he thinks of as friends!!!#can you see how that might be his mother through and through!!! in how she might have glossed over the abuse to other people and herself!!!#can you see how in spite of it all he might want to be perceived as his father that paragon of masculinity and resent that he is not!!!#do you understand how everything he loves has been poisoned!!! im thinking of that scene where he tells bruce about watching martin die &#wouldnt it have been so much more interesting through this lens. how he is both revealing & obfuscating at once. i hate the change sm

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age-of-moonknight · 7 months

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“Tigra,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #2.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight vol. 2 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight 2024 #Moon Knight comics #Tigra #Greer Nelson #Moon Knight #Hunter’s Moon #Yehya Badr #Soldier #Reese #this so fascinating to me because ai’ve read the cliff notes of Tigra’s origin but not the comics themselves yet #so I’m very curious as to how much of a retextualization this is #and I just find it interesting how Mr. MacKay chose to go with the more complex route of not #yeah he was a good for nothing misogynist #but rather he was a flawed product of his environment and I had my own weaknesses at the time and there was still love to be had there #but thank goodness that I’m stronger now #and it also walks the fine line (but doesn’t quite cross over) «woman becomes a hero because something happened to the man in her life»#because it’s framed as something that was always within Greer’s potential and Bill just happened to be the catalyst #heck yeah

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invinciblerodent · 9 months

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brb, i have to go and. make strangled noises at nothing real quick; it just hit me over the head how Wyll's use of the metaphor of dancing as a stand-in for romance and intimacy really just. accompanies him all throughout his story, and how perfect it is

I guess I should have expected a character like him, that's both deeply poetic in his speech and courtly in his upbringing, would come to idealize a chivalric romance a bit, and translate his feelings on/of love to an element of courting that's as ritualistic and processional as ballroom dancing, but sometimes just realizing the obvious can really knock you off your feet for a second

like. just like how there is almost a blueprint to a perfect storybook romance in both stories and -consequently- in his head (I think romance might even be one of the literary genres with the highest number of unwritten rules that need to be fulfilled for a work to count as a romance), there is also a fairly strict method to a court dance. There is a series of well-known and practiced steps that was laid out in advance, and one is to perform them in succession, and in sync with one's partner. If one of the parties doesn't know or doesn't want to follow the rules/steps, it gets... tangled, messy, and you both stumble. The dance and the relationship both fall apart. The happy ending of a tale is not reached without all the steps in-between being followed, and he so dearly wants his fairytale ending, his happy, fulfilled love, I just---

it's such a perfect metaphor, and what makes it even more perfect is that Wyll is ostensibly aware of it, and he chose it, purposefully, and i don't want to watch the Act 3 commitment scene because I've not yet done it myself and don't want to spoil it, but I would be so surprised if he a.) made no mention of storybook romances, or b.) didn't just straight up propose y'know

i'm (metaphorically) crying, if it were possible to play this game on six different characters simultaneously without getting bored or confused I fucking would

#squirrel plays bg3 #yet another way my Trevelyan works very well in this situation for me #oc: raymond trevelyan #back in the day i made him... actually very similar to what Wyll is now #he was a young man of noble birth who grew up idealizing the storybook heroes of legends and romances #and while he wasn't really that stuck on the 'perfect romance' bits; being not interested in the ladies at all...#the Noble Hero On A White Steed image and the Charming Knight Saving the Realms images did appeal to him immensely #he was gregarious and brave and chivalrous and overall just... trying his absolute best to be good #he wanted to be the a gallant hero and to experience a sweeping passionate love- both wooing and being wooed #which he did get! and he did eventually find his happy ending!#only... the stories rarely mention that heroes don't often live this far past the end of their own tales #when the evil is slain and the damsel is saved; the story simply... ends #the characters; they live on frozen in the perfect moment of true love's first kiss #and nobody really talks about what happens after- not until you must experience it for yourself #so now he's... a burnt-out ex-knight #a has-been hero whose usefulness ceased and his happy ending was torn from him by pointless intrigue #and I just LOVE the thought of him finding a new happy ending; of starting over with someone who'll rekindle his passions #and dance the night away with him #YAY FOR TAG NOVELS

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i-used-to-wear-the-fedora · 9 months

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#i refuse to dignify Ant-Man 3 with an option #marvel #dc #movies #gotg3 #blue beetle #across the spiderverse #tmnt #the marvels #this was a good year for hero movies #save ant-man 3 #and maybe aquaman 2 but i haven't seen it yet so judgement is withheld

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britneyshakespeare · 1 month

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The gaslighting Duke of Vienna

#measure for measure #shakespeare #text post #yeah i just finished #i was familiar w the story long before i actually sat down and read it #it was a major part of a chapter of a literary studies textbook i edited the last two years for gig work #so i had like. known the entire plot and the issues and themes and entire passages #and yet still it was different from what i expected #it feels somewhat... incomplete? like in my head these characters were more finished #than what i actually got from them in the play. somehow #angelo for instance i assumed knew his hypocrisy from the beginning #but to my pleasant surprise. he was less calculated and more spinning out of control #fallible as anyone else he would condemn to die for the same sins.#i found that really interesting that he actually thought he had noble intent. he just couldnt live up to it himself #and that he would also wish to undo isabella like that. horrific just the same but almost more tragic?#i also assumed juliet would've had a bigger part #and duke vincentio. man i still don't really get him on a human level #not my favorite shakespearean mastermind at all #he seems incredibly selfish and hypocritical. not just bc he tries to marry isabella #but he seems... honestly more calculated than angelo #and he's the hero! supposedly!#im not saying that that's a flaw in the play. i find that really interesting #i suppose i just can't see him having any motivations but chaos and vainglory #and those motives just happen to be pointed in the direction of good for our heroine and her brother #but in any other play id see someone like vincentio as the villain. easily #duke vincentio is as conceited and conniving as richard iii

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bugpoasting · 4 months

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feels like such a slamdunk fic concept/prompt but. beatles-monkees 4 for 4 fucking at some random party in the 2 or so years when the monkees were relevant. there's soo much that can be done here

#lord forgive me but god psuedo/semi hero worship is always a fave trope of mine going back to da hrpf days #like not hero hero worship but guy who's a few years older than u and very successful and cool and you want to impress them type beat #and the beatles rly fill that niche when u consider their timeline aka rounding the bend of their meteroic and def becoming more jaded/#experimental. yaknow #and im so sure that they did all meet at one point in history i just cba to look it up rn #anywho. as an amateur monkeeologist my pov would be john-mike (shared Waddahell is wrong with this guy factor/general malaise/glittering #wit and intelligence and mean streak (affectionate)/kid(s) and wife they do Not fuck with/seeing the projection of the Self in others #that includes your best and worst aspects reflected back at u/glittering brightly sososo doomed just like you were. and are/and so forth)#peter-george because of that one pic of them. so fucking good man. and vibes i guess they were compatible in that way #paul-micky for that insane showman vibe i guess. i dont have the best handle on micky Yet but i would enjoy this. manic energy off the wall #plus sleazy charming paul who dgaf who you arebeyond getting his dick sucked to whom everyone is a groupie because hes #fucking paul mccartney. best paul #and ringo-davy i guess they're both short and i like it when tiny dudes get destroyed by massive cocks. sue me

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lunarrosette · 2 years

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So that new episode huh?

I support women’s wrongs

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #scary marlowe #artists on tumblr #art #scary my beloved #bro I’m so hyper for the probable redemption arc #like bitch these are my favorite tropes #the ‘fallen hero’ who has a very morally complex reason to fall and like man it sucks but you see why #but yet they still prove there was ‘good’ still in them and redemption !!!#i really don’t understand woolen shitting on scary I get if you don’t like the character but she’s not real?#like feels on characters are valid but comparing a fictional teenage girl to real atrocities ????#anyways that’s just my two cents #i support womens wrongs #lunarrosette’s shit #lunarrosette can draw

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 5 months

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it's paradoxical but i love in a video game where you do not feel the least bit good about what you're doing. i mean there are times where you're like "god these characters are so stupid please just give me the dialogue options to avoid this" and that's not fun, and i guess ymmv on what you consider falling into those categories, but i mean like. when you know the fate you're walking is inevitable you cannot put down the sword you have no choice but to continue walking even though you desperately want to stop. it's always a good narrative and imo games portray it better than any other

#the nemesis speaks #like rya's questline. or HYETTA'S fucking hell hyetta #''hand this sweet girl this diseased eyeball to eat. she's explicitly asking you. do it. now.''#like from the start it's clear that her quest isn't quite as it seems given. the eyes.#and yet you keep hunting them down and giving them to her. you keep walking the path #soulsbornes in general are so. SO good at this #but im also thinking about elidibus... bc i'm finishing pandaemonium rn and... waaaaugh #at least with hades you get the satisfaction of knowing this is a heroic confrontation good vs evil #where the victor will quite literally write the history and go down as the hero of their time #and you're both taking up blades with noble purpose etc. there's an honor in it. one you do not get fighting elidibus #like at first you think oh this is ascians doing ascian stuff. per usual. this is some new plot #but no this isn't a heroic battle this is a man completely spiraling and losing his mind and sense of self #in finishing hades you snapped the last thread keeping him tethered #the best you can do is put him down. it doesn't feel good! i fucking love it

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