#not the character the actual feeling

[cinamun]

Is it really the dick? It feels like Mercy is punishing herself for something; she sabotages progress at every opportunity. It's true that Bishop ain't worth shit, and is an intimidating, manipulative fucker, but I'm getting the feeling that their relationship is a mutually beneficial one, and good sex is just a byproduct. He's made a hobby out of being creepy and controlling and she's made a hobby out of feeling like shit, at a fucking loss, and like she's on the verge of losing everything.

I agree with what a number of other people have said about a person's physical and mental ability to extricate themselves from an abusive situation not being as simple as just getting up and being gone. And I do believe Mercy is suffering from that affliction, but my thoughts are tethered to when you said that this is what Mercy believes she deserves.

Why? Why does she believe that she deserves this?

Because the why would explain why she was ripe for the picking from the easy target tree that Bishop was scoping. I mean, she was LOVED. How do you go from being so loved to feeling like the diametric opposite state of being is what you're worthy of? What does she believe she did to deserve Bishop? And not just Bishop, but what he represents? Because I have a feeling that he is simply a delivery system for the struggle and turmoil; and it only helps that he looks the way he does.

Bishop truly has nothing to offer her except for a perpetually fucked up sense of self and the dick, I guess, but let's not even compare it to her short-lived fuck off Bishop era and what could have come from that taking hold. Let's talk about what happens after she loses everything.

Will Bishop still even be interested? He may love the pussy, but I'm pretty sure he loves the control more. And what appeal will Mercy have for him when she has nothing competing for her attention? How will he satisfy his desire to conquer once he wins? They don't have a relationship of substance, so it's not like she'll be able to console herself with him if she gets disowned.

Mercy has got problems and this is not a bootstrap situation; someone needs to save her so she can then start saving herself (fake it til you make it). But none of that will matter if they don't get to the bottom of how she got there in the first place. Indya can take her to the club, make way for alternative dick, and help Mercy remind herself of what safe, sane, and consensual interactions are like, but those are only replacements, things to occupy the time she would otherwise be surrendering to Bishop (and her--assumed--guilt). It's time for some therapy, and not the good doctor; no offense to him, of course, but she needs to schedule some time with a Professional Black Woman™ that also happens to be a psychiatrist. I really want that for her.

I know here be drama, so the road is long, made longer by detours and double-backs (and arched backs), but good grief, I know I will weep if when Mercy reaches that day.

WE ARE BACK IN SESSION!!!!

Okay first paragraph:

You are ABSOLUTELY correct. When Mercy was first introduced, and as we learned more about this mysterious mother of the man Hope would marry, we learned that she feels an extraordinary amount of guilt for the passing of her husband. She has internalized that guilt, she cut off her friends, she thought if she had maybe taken him to different specialists, fought harder on his behalf, that Jackson Carruthers, Jazz Pianist would still be alive. Part of her feels deserving of the punishment and I agree that sex is the byproduct. Keeping in mind that Bishop is a narcissist, a literal walking diagnosis, sex is not only a byproduct, but a tool.

The parts after the first paragraph:

The podcast was a very key moment in Mercy's part of this saga. Yes, he is attractive and dominant, older and wiser. Its the fact that all she's really known is a strict upbringing, her late husband and the jazz scene. She is absolutely naieve and was most certainly ripe. Maybe she thinks that Bishop is the way men are. Maybe her father was a control freak narcissist POS. I can't call it.

As far as when its over, its over when Bishop says its over. And if he decides that its over, maybe this is the part where she unzips her skinsuit and dances around evilene's headquarters, you feel me?

*IF* she were to lose everything, she might snap and that's what the folks mean when they say they can't wait for pixie haircut Mercy to arrive.

I, too, want healthy arched backs for Mercy and a good dose of that healthy healing that can only come from The Professional Black Woman™. As you know, we'll stay tuned to see if she gets that. In the meantime, we have Indya who is at least one example of what a real loving relationship can be.

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[lazylittledragon]

the only thing scarier than vampire lords/mind flayers/death cults is meeting the in-laws

[haliaiii]

Juno’s champion

[skellagirl]

help help help I can't stop drawing gay lawyers

Trucy should be brown and I'll die on that hill

The fact that Klavier is 5'11" and Apollo is 5'5" 🥹 I love a height difference

I am convinced they drew Valant's hair Like That (tm) in-game because otherwise we would have all fallen madly in love with him

Wesley is my favorite witness in Apollo Justice, I'm so sorry for my shit taste 😔

I've drawn Godot without a mask before but I wanted to do it Again because I am still enamored with the idea of him having white eyelashes

Aromantic Miles means so much to me

I get that it's probably just the way they drew his jacket but why is Miles's little court sprite so caked though 😭

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

[frogfacey]

swinging a bat at a hornets nest and all that but I can't believe some ppl will see a character who, when you look them for more than two seconds, was in the text assigned male at birth and because of this spends the entire narrative being miserable as a man and feels failed by and is accused of failing at the expectations of masculinity and is trapped in a set of unspoken societal rules that he feels he has no hope of escaping and their first thought is "I think he's transmasc!"

[clouvu]

Cooking up an older Clervie outfit design so I don't have to keep drawing her looking like her child self but Long

[toorumlk]

mudblood and blood-traitor, the one couple who made it

[vulpixelates]

i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

[rubyfunkey]

ponders them...

[shepscapades]

Thanks to artfight, I’ve finally finished a detailed, official dbhc cub reference! :D

(I’ve put his Artifight description below the cut, which has a more detailed explanation of his timeline, lore, and aesthetics! >:3)

-ˋˏ ༻ ❁  OVERVIEW ❁ ༺ ˎˊ-

Name: C.B.F.N.4000 (Cub) Pronouns: He/Him Species: Android Height: 5’9’’ Associated Visual Themes: vex, ghosts, explosions, mischief, scientist aesthetic, potions, potionmaking, sleepy/tired aesthetic, conspiracies

-ˋˏ ༻ ❁  ABOUT ❁ ༺ ˎˊ-

CBFN4000 is an au version of MCYT Hermitcraft’s Cubfan, set in my DBHC (or Detroit Become Hermitcraft) AU! This au is inspired by the 2018 game Detroit Become Human, but not because it really has anything to do with DBH—I simply yoinked the android mechanics and incorporated them into the world of Hermitcraft. It began as a S8 au, and has roughly followed the hermitcraft timeline up to the present! 

Cub was the last android made during Season 8. While many of the hermit androids were made at the beginning of season 8 and a few were made for season 9, Cub was finished and activated mid-late Season 8, around the time when Hermits started noticing the Big Moon. Cub’s model ended up being a sloppy experiment in deviation, as Doc suggested they try to transfer deviancy to an android upon activation to try and avoid traumatic situations that might cause an android to deviate violently or upsettingly, such as Etho’s, Tango’s, or Mumbo’s experiences. While this went relatively well initially, it clearly wasn’t very thoroughly thought out, as Xisuma (who is normally so adamant and detail-oriented when it comes to assuring the androids’ safety with experiments like this) wasn’t truly himself due to external manipulation and mostly left a relatively young-deviant Doc to carry out the project himself. 

Cub, though adjusting to sentience rather well at first, very quickly became wrapped up in the Big Moon happenings on the server, new personality and inexperience to emotions like fear and ignorance completely overwhelming his young system. He became obsessive over the implications and consequences of the Season 8 Moon Apocalypse, joining the Mooners and spreading his conspiracy theories religiously throughout the server as he descended into madness. The insanity was like a virus to his programming, pervasive and all-engulfing, and Cub’s final attempt to free himself from the Moon’s impact with the Earth—to launch himself on a llama into space via potion-powered TNT(insane btw)— left his hands and feet singed and cracked to ruin.

The experiment, considered a horrific failure by a deeply shameful—and more awake—S9 Xisuma, left Doc and Xisuma with the decision to reset him for the new season, and they ended up pairing him with a hermit like they had done with the other androids until they had found deviancy enough to pursue their own projects. So, at the start of season 9 and fresh after a reset, Cub was paired with Scar. Naturally, because Scar is… Scar, Cub deviated almost instantly after being given to him, and very quickly adopted the iconic lazy, stoic, amused attributes normally associated with Cubfan. Scar’s tendency towards mischief and general shenanigans grew instantly on Cub, and the two were an immediate inseparable pair. So much so that when Scar began rambling one day about his Season 5 Hermitcraft Shenanigans (where deals with the Vex may or may not have been involved), Cub immediately stated he was interested in being in on it. Whatever “it” means. It’s unclear if Cub also made a deal with the vex or became connected to them in some other way, but… well, he got Doc’s help to trick out his eyes, hair, and back to best fit the part. Scar is very jealous that he can't magically make himself have the same features to match.

Cub is closest with Scar, but he gets along just as well with any of the other hermits! He’s close with Jevin and many of the other redstoners like Etho and Doc, who are the other two androids I’ve put on artfight!

-ˋˏ ༻ ❁  EXTRAS ❁ ༺ ˎˊ-

Cub's eyes can light up in the dark, and he’s the only android who has edited his programming so that the default state of his LED is white, not blue. It still will go yellow and red if his processors are working particularly hard, but he’s replaced the blue setting on his LED with white to better match the Vex vibe. Cub has all of the vibes of a fae. If that’s anything <3

[puppyeared]

the fact that they made the gameplay mechanics actually lean more on solving puzzles and strategy because her element is wisdom