#nuke bad vibes

[thegoodmorningman]

have a good morning today.

[vervepain]

Supercorp head canon: regarding the schooling of children. And the paradox of being Lena Luthor.

You would think Lena would be the business/paperwork/doctor visits mom…because vibes? But no. Kara frankly has a better aptitude for not threatening to nuke someone’s garage because they wouldn’t let her kid skip a grade (Lena would point out it was one time, and in her defense Lori ended up skipping two grades.)

No, Lena Luthor, as far as other parents at National City Co-Op and Preparatory Community School for Exceptional Young Minds is concerned, Lena is the…fun mom. Not that most of them even realize that woman who runs the monthly playground clean up is Lena Luthor. Because yes her name is Lena. But she’s always wearing an oversized NCU crew neck and faded jeans. And then does yard work, like shoveling manure yard work for three hours on a Saturday.

They gossip sure. They know Lena Luthor apparently has a kid these days but it’s super hush hush. And like? Lena…isn’t her last name Danvers? Lori’s paperwork says Danvers. Someone actually bribed the school secretary to check.

(Side note: AU, imagine this is a future fic from around season three. So Kara is a little less high profile, and Lena remains boss bitch ceo of LCorp.)

You can’t convince anyone that’s Lori’s mom Lena is Lena Luthor. Lori’s mom chaperoned the field trip to the basketball stadium last month, and everyone knows Lena Luthor owns the Lakehawks, but Lena the mom knew nothing about basketball. Which was embarrassing for her in a way, since her daughter must be a super fan; she was decked out in head to toe custom Lakehawks gear. But again it all said “Danvers.”

At one point Lori sprinted out onto the court to play. Everyone actually expected security to do something, but the gaurds were very chill. Just, like, waved to Lori and her mom. Which is lucky. They could have kicked the whole class out.

The main reason everyone knows Lena is not Lena Luthor? The time a supervillain threatened the school during pick up—Lena was there ushering Lori into a Range Rover—whatever Lori’s mom does, it does pay well—when Supergirl appeared. An explosion occurred, and what did Supergirl do? For some reason? She shielded Lena. There were other people around, though it did kind of seem like they had been aiming for the Range Rover…weirdly. And Supergirl was right there, protecting Lena Danvers: average citizen. Not special. With that red cape, and a fury in her eyes no one had seen since, like, that Alien invasion last spring.

Supergirl then carries the Range Rover away. Weird enough. But immediately she flew back and carried Lena! Like bridal, but her hands…were kind of weirdly…on Lori’s mom’s ass?

EVERYONE KNOWS SUPERS HATE LUTHORS AND VICE VERSA.

But there was Supergirl, holding Lori’s awkward, good-at-gardening mom flying her to safety like it was the most important moment of her life.

And after, when everyone asked Lena for details. Like…does she actually feel like steel? Or is her hair soft or like metal spaghetti? Lori’s mom was all silent and blushing. Does she think she could actually bag Supergirl? Is she thinking of cheating? People have seen Lori’s other mom, she’s not bad looking. Tall, blonde, very fit. Kind of if the concepts of truth, justice, and like the america way were an aesthetic? Oh and always has such a cute ponytail.

But I mean, she isn’t Supergirl.

Recently at girls night someone did bring up one hilarious complication to this conclusion: has anyone ever seen Lori’s mom Lena and Lena Luthor in the same room? Everyone laughed. No. But why would Lena Luthor ever hang around people like them?

[anarchotahdigism]

funny to see the yt queer girlies talkin bout how staff nuked a yt trans woman's blog from orbit but they stay absolutely dead silent on how many of us queer BIPOC have gotten nuked for talkin about Palestine and indigenous liberation they're even more silent when it comes to the pandemic killing us too but then they were the loudest about the "need" for returning to in person, unmasked life "for mental health" reasons and how it's bad and wrong to require masks and center the most vulnerable cause then the vibes are whack and that's the biggest sin for the yts yt queers are yt first and last and they'll care about other issues so long as it doesn't get in the way of being yt I see y'all's racist, eugenicist, fascist asses. your ableism and fairweather "allyship" always shows y'all's true colors. y'all truly only care about yourselves. ytness and yt communities are death cults.

[magiturge]

how do you think nashatra would feel towards seneca/seneca would feel towards nash if they ever met?

also, would richardson ever bring up seneca in conversations??? I imagine especially in props 4 sale or something if richardson saw something seneca would like, he'd bring it up... I think that'd be cute

i believe.. nashatra would feel a level of fear towards seneca, but not in the sense of "he's a threat, and he's going to kill me / he's after me" but in the way of, seeing yourself in someone who is long gone.

with how vehement seneca is in never looking back to the past and the person he was, i think that mantra that nashatra has about not looking back because the life she lived is behind her now as she has to embrace her duty as a sleepwalker would be scary. she gets homesick, she misses what she had before but seeing seneca and getting the vibe of somebody who is trying to fully commit to that belief is scary. it's like seeing one of many ways she could end.

i don't think she would fear him hurting her, but would likely not enjoy talking to him. he has an insistence about him that is a psychological nuke. that being near him for a prolonged amount of time would be bad.

seneca to nashatra, it's like.. an odd thing. like he wants to parrot his beliefs to her and is attracted in the sense of her psy capability. it's like an invisible pull to linger around even if he has run out of things to spread, just to linger, just to watch, like being around her will save him.

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i feel that richardson has to bring up seneca, that's a new sight to talk about, a new "critter" if you will. a guest that fearfully asserted himself. he'd definitely bring up seneca in props 4 sale dialogue, especially the josafarian cross, and other things. for example, the way that richardson is like "i saw on the web / net..", he would do that but like "i heard from this guy.." in vague reference to the odd things seneca says.

[angelsdean]

Both Heaven and Hell use human souls as currency and power. Heaven traps human souls in little personal dream-prisons so they remain content and complacent (like Michael did to Dean in his mind) so Heaven can then harness their soul power to "keep the lights on" in Heaven's offices and for angels to derive their power from.

Angel grace production is dependent on an angel's connection to the Heavenly Host. When they are cut off their grace becomes less potent and reproduction diminishes. When they are within the fold of Heaven, they are at full power. Hence why Cas's powers continue to diminish over time, even after his grace is "restored."

Later seasons muddles this lore when Naomi suggests that the diminished number of angels is the reason Heaven is barely keeping the lights on. A possible theory to bridge the gap between these varying lores, is that angels are a necessary conduit to "process" the raw soul energy into energy that can be used for maintaining Heaven. So, the more angels there are in Heaven, the more soul-energy that can be processed and converted into "grace" and other Heaven-supporting power. Now that there are few angels left, they can't keep up with the energy demands of Heaven. They have all those souls in cages, ready for processing, but not enough angels to do the processing.

Hell, on the other hand, uses human souls to create workers to continue to fuel Hell and propagate Hell's missions on Earth. Souls go to Hell to be tortured and transformed into demons. Hell doesn't have to worry about diminishing numbers because they can always make more demons. Making more demons is easy! It's a renewable resource. Unlike angels, which seems to be largely finite. (More angels could be theoretically created, as we see Jack attempt to do under Duma's guidance, but its methods are dubious and results unstable).

But Hell? Hell uses demons to make more demons. Both through the torture of souls and through the use of deals. Deals are how they draw in new meat. It's kind of MLM vibes. Demon mentors other demons. Those demons go out and make "sales" and draw in new souls to become demons. There are quotas. Analytics. Reports and performance reviews.

And Hell originated with Lucifer -- angel. Humans (souls) have always been a commodity to angels. The whole reason for the apocalypse WAS to cause death and destruction. The so-called "paradise" would be for the angels. Think of all the souls they could reap in the fallout of Lucifer and Michael's battle? All that power ripe for the taking?

It's also why Cas goes for the Purgatory souls when he needs power to defeat Raphael (many monsters were once human, so their souls function similarly). And it's why a soul-bomb could potentially kill a cosmic being like Amara (concentrated energy like that would be nuke-levels). It's why both Heaven and Hell hate hunters like the Winchesters for meddling and messing with their plans and not following so-called "fate", for choosing free will, thwarting apocalypses, saving those human souls from deaths where they could have become commodities for Heaven and Hell.

Heaven and Hell, while seemingly opposites, work in-tandem to keep humans on Earth subjugated. Heaven just has better "PR" as they say. But angels are not "the Good Guys" to Hell's "Bad Guys." And they both function similarly when it comes to their use of human souls.

[lych33dragoncookie]

oh yeah btw, shadownilla is infinitely more interesting as a one-sided thing. shadow milk utterly obsessed with a man he loves to torment and tear apart emotionally, who will NEVER reciprocate and who in fact kind of hates him a little and who will most likely strike his sorry ass down either directly or indirectly without a tinge of remorse because frankly there is NOTHING to feel bad for, that gay little clown is way too far gone and way too into the whole being the worst person on the planet thing with way too little burden on his mind from anything ever to deserve any kind of mercy

i think he should lay on some gay little bed kicking his feet in the air thinking about how he's gonna do horrible things to that cute little twink; and then get nuked off the face of the planet because he deserves it. that's the vibe

[matt0044]

I feel like RWBY's "anti-hype" is slowly working in it's favor.

Friend of mine was hashing it out over this and we were about how it was sort of the opposite of Hype Backlash where an art piece is so hyped up that when a newbie checks it out, they’re keen to ask: “That’s it?!”

Sometimes it’s immense as it’s not just one newbie lost but many who band together in solidarity over their general vibe of, “We don’t get it.” Like Critical tags are full of this, many of them being of those who did have love for the thing but let it fizzle out.

With RWBY, it feels like there are newbies that have engaged with the text without any irony. Or They have seen all of the, “It’s bad, man, like the biggest piece of crap known to man,” hate like it’s The Room. However, that sets them up for either a bad movie night or something actually bad that they're morbidly curious for.

Either way, they will be the heretics that dare go against popular opinion and earnestly ask, “What the hell are you guys talking about, I'm having a good time here?” Because, big surprise, opinions can and will vary.

So watch that show or movie that'd been crapped on. Watch that episode everyone tells you to skip. Watch the finale that nuked Twitter to hell and back (even after Musk).

This doesn't just apply to RWBY. Take a risk and dare to be disappointed or surprised. There are soooooo many titles I could list that I loved even after hearing bad things about.

Don't follow the herd. Be yourself. Make yourself. Make your thoughts for yourself.

[characterlimit]

I wish I could find the humour in Tumblr nuking what little good faith it has left with its userbase in order to jangle some Threads-level features like plastic baby keys in front of this indeterminate “new audience” but like. When the creators leave because they can’t get their own followers’ eyes on their work; when those audiences follow suit after the decision is made to make Tumblr more appealing to influencers and brands and the like by making follower counts public or some shit; when those fickle new platform-hopping folk inevitably get bored and move on to another shiny new product (that lets you, idk, report accounts for “bad vibes”?); when Automattic finally, finally decides to pull the plug, after all that stupid back and forth, after all of it, the first people that’ll lose their jobs will be the ones who genuinely cared about preserving the soul of this place but got shouted down at every turn. Just a miserable state of affairs all the way down

[rei-ismyname]

Is Magneto mistaken or am I taking this too literally?

Ambassador Magneto has a lot to say in House of X, especially to humans on the subject of violence.

All his dreams are coming true and he's not shy about expressing his feelings on the matter. At the Jerusalem habitat the other ambassadors (who are all intelligence plants) claim to be wary of military advantage Krakoa and the gates provide.

Let's fact check Magneto there. 'There has never been a mutant war.'

What's this then? It doesn't sound very good at first glance but can it be considered a mutant war? It's basically Magneto himself unleashing an EMP and making demands of the UN. A mutant sanctuary - one they gave him too - Genosha. Terrorist act? Yeah defs. War? I'd say no.

What else? Oh yeah, that time Magneto conquered Santo Marco, a fictional South American country. Spoilers for a comic from 1963.

Okay so shelling is bad, definitely a warlike action, though it's later said there were no casualties at all, mainly thanks to Mastermind's illusions. Still, really bad optics there dude. The fake soldiers are straight up goose-stepping. This is drawn by Jack Kirby too, who definitely had strong feelings about that kind of thing - not something he'd portray unintentionally.

You'll note Mags having pseudo telepathy at this point, mainly bc Stan Lee had no idea how magnetism works.

Let's be honest, there's a big Nazi vibe to this occupation. This is in X-Men #4 in 1963, over a decade before Mags was retconned into a Jewish holocaust survivor. I'm honestly not a big fan of the original X-Men run and I can see why it got cancelled. Magneto was their greatest foe, but he was a pretty one dimension Doctor DOOM expy with none of the pathos, willpower or consistent ideology Claremont would reinvigorate him with. Anyway, sensing defeat, Magneto arms a nuke to blow the whole country up. Yikes.

It's actually Quicksilver who solves that problem, deciding he's not okay with nuking a few million people. It's the start of his face turn proper, with only Wanda's 'debt' to Mags keeping her there, and therefore Quicksilver as well.

See? Not cool, Mags. Not cool. When it's all said and done though, his occupation of Santo Marco is very brief and news doesn't get out. I assume Chuck had something to do with that. Though the country refuses to accept Krakoa for 'ideological reasons' nearly 60 years later, so maybe not. I'm going to say it definitely counts as 'conquering their land and making slaves of their people ' though.

Honestly, Magneto has died a lot since then, had amnesia and barely aged in 70 years so maybe he doesn't remember. One could argue that the spirit of what he's saying is correct - Magneto the individual did a lot of supervillain shit but there hasn't been a unification of mutants who then warred upon humans. Indeed, the opposite is true. Most mutant conflicts that could be called a war were defensive after these events.

None of the 'ambassadors' took issue with past events or his record, instead focusing on future hypotheticals. Someone should tell them that if mutants united in world conquest they'd likely be very successful and humans wouldn't know until it was too late. Technically Magneto has been tried for his acts before an international court, and acquitted because he'd been turned into a baby and was considered a different person. Yes, really.

The conversation pivots to the emissaries being there in bad faith, with slick concealing a gun. (Not that it would be very useful.)

Magneto demonstrates why that's the case and doesn't budge on his position. I guess we could say Magneto was (technically) right, in this specific circumstance. A show of force is certainly needed to make them take Krakoa seriously. It's only fitting then that Mags acts as the stick to make the carrot more palatable. I've still got room for one more pic so here's the X-Men enjoying post-training birthday cake, cut by Cyclops and his POWER BEAM. The X-Men's first birthday as a group.

Note the contrast in vibes around the Brotherhood of EEEVIL Mutants' dinner table, with petty bickering, Mastermind being a creep (the X-Men have that too tho NGL,) and a very impressive tower of mashed potato. Good to know Toad has poor table manners and that Pietro is willing to punch on over it. Not to be mean, but Wanda's headgear looks super silly. Oh well, it was the sixties!

[gingerylangylang1979]

Ooof

I haven’t watched season three yet and am now in no hurry to. I caved and read spoilers and wow what a shit show, literally.

But it made me wonder, if they really, truly never wanted SydCarmy then maybe all of what we were seeing was Ayomy mega chemistry that hit the screen. It’s possible they never wanted them to be romantic, or they did but retconned everything, including Claire and Carmy, to backtrack. We will never know for sure. But if they never wanted it then what Ayo and Jeremy was saying in that interview about passion, etc. was totally about them, not the characters. Because what passion was shown this season? What vibrant collaboration? I don’t have faith in SydCarmy now and that’s ok. It doesn’t erase the Ayomy connection and how that sparked shipping.

But what really has me thinking is what if part of the reason Jeremy seemed kind of down at the premier wasn’t just because the boyfriend was there? What if he knew the season was crap. But even bigger what if he was also sad because he barely got to work with Ayo and was stuck playing an irredeemable character stuck trying to give substance to a romance storyline he knows is bullshit? What if he was feeling the vibes he had when he knew Shameless went downhill and his character wasn’t growing?

I’m shocked the show got this bad so quickly. Even without romantic SydCarmy they kind of nuked their platonic relationship, too. Which ok fine but they didn't even have the big fight we have been yearning for?

What a loss. Maybe Jeremy felt like it was a funeral for the show he once loved and feels he will never work with Ayo in the same way again given the complete reversal of everything that was built the prior two seasons.

[emblemxeno]

Possibly the funniest thing I've dealt with in regards to my analyses of FE Fates and how in-depth I am thinking the story is amazing and way better than people give it credit for, is how much places like Reddit Fire Emblem and Serenes Forest will dismiss any evidence on the contrary as "just cheap setting filler" because they've attached their identity so much to being right that instead of acknowledging why me or most people who play FE Fates love the story without having to do mealy-mouth apologetics for it, they get extremely defensive about it even when I prove their sentiments wrong. And despite being all about claiming to be "objective" about their analyses, they don't adjust their beliefs to new evidence, and in fact dig deep into their feelings rather than accept their feelings are just subjective. They, in the same breath they claim elitism doesn't exist and people are complaining about nothing, call me the 'real elitist' solely for dismissing commonly false assumptions about Fates's story or because I actually bother to argue about my arguments.

The hypocrisy is infuriating, given all I want is to talk about a franchise I love without feeling excluded for it because my provable sentiments is such a nuke to their social order and what they see as the truth that they dismiss me as sucking the fun out of the discussion they willfully dismiss and dogpile on others whenever I get the upper hand.

I've had my share of thoughts on elitism, too. I don't think elitism as has been described in the past really exists as a significant stance anymore, but the vibes are certainly still there.

Like, I don't think anyone is gonna go full hipster mode and say "i liked FE before it was anime trash and anyone who plays on casual mode needs to get good", but instead it's just coalesced into a understate attitude of 'objectivity' that is still pretty exclusionary.

Instead of "anime trash shit" regarding new titles, you're instead gonna see "FE needed a return to form". The sentiment is familiar, but wrapped in more delicate language to appear not as judgmental. And it's often a stance that, I feel, is a bit hypocritical or self-fulfilling. Like, yeah, you're gonna think characters in new games are one note when you do fuck all to learn more about them, including advocation for pressing the skip button during the story and not bothering with supports. Part of the reason why characters in older games felt better written to fans who played them first is because those fans put in work to absorb the writing in the first place. You're not gonna find something to like or appreciate about Noah from FE6, for example, if you don't get his supports detailing what life is like in Illia and for its mercenaries.

And that's still the case for modern game characters! You're not gonna appreciate Oboro if you don't take the time to dive deep into her supports, like with Beruka, Takumi, Corrin or Jakob, for example. The actual problem in Fates' case isn't the foundational quality of its writing, it would be "there are too many pairing options to properly divvy out quality mini-stories for each of them", which is a problem shared with Awakening, and that 3H and Engage manage to avoid. And even then, the latter two games still have some very "nothing" supports, like Hilda and Annette fucking napping together, like what. I know it only goes to B rank for that reason, but at that point, that's two ranks too many for a support that doesn't offer anything new besides more yuri potential.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Fire Emblem good, even when some fans think bad.

[omgshiftercat]

BG3 Blogging: Could this guy be a vampire? Nah, he's just a cat.

Now that I'm playing as Karlach rather than Astarion, WOW that vampire cannot help dropping hints by the dozen about what he is. The rest of the group must be thinking, "If this guy weren't walking around in direct sunlight, I'd swear he's a vampire."

The vibe:

During my Origin Astarion run, back at the crashed nautiloid I was like, "Ooh, I have a bite attack? CHOMP!" and that triggered the reveal dialogue with Shadowheart. No waiting around.

🐇: Part of the Vampiric Drama Compulsion includes dropping hints that you are a vampire.

Though there's also this: Astarion: Have you ever heard of a vampire lord named Cazador? Wyll: Not ringing any bells. Gale: Head of the Szarr family. Nasty piece of work, if the histories are to be believed. Astarion: (quietly) They likely are.

(Note: some dialogue might not be word-perfect, since I'm often going from memory.)

Now musing on how much of that "drop broad hints that you are a bloodsucker" thing is Vampire Drama Instinct and how much might have developed as a covert attempt to alert someone, anyone, about what he is without going against the Purple Man levels of control that a master vampire has over their spawn. "No, master, I have no idea how the monster hunters figured out that I'm a spawn and therefore there must be a vampire lord in the city somewhere!"

This explains why the boar carcass is still in the middle of the road: he only has 8 strength.

My friend 🦀 explained he'd been playing a wizard Tav with the attitude of, "I've had a very bad month. Everyone gets ONE chance. Threaten me at your peril," which meant that a few key NPCs got immediately nuked by fire spells... including Astarion. (Lae'zel lived, partly due to what was almost certainly the Dream Guardian's direct interference.)

Me: Just think of him as a cat who somehow acquired elven form and passed the Baldur's Gate bar exam. 🦀: 😆👍!

...I mean. It's not just that he's so frequently drawn as a cat. Or that he approves of showing proper deference to His Majesty, and disapproves of telling Tara not to eat pigeons. As a cat owner, I can confirm that "tries very hard to seem cool and dignified, but in fact has zero chill and is prone to comical overreaction" is a frequent feline trait.

(Also, if you pass your Perception check, you don't even have to do the thing where you calm the hissy cat by not pulling away when he sticks his claws into you.)

And yeah... people (including me) go on about this, but it's worth it to treat Astarion like a half-feral cat in need of proper socialization (and the occasional spritz with a holy water bottle) because the acting and dialogue for his story is So. Damn. Amazing.

A friend who hadn't yet seen Avatar: the Last Airbender got tired of hearing all the fan-babble about Zuko.

I think a lot of us feel kind of starved for redemption stories that are actually well-written? Like, so often we get heel-face turns that just feel very sudden and unearned (looking at you, Kylo Ren). And, well, I have a lot of bad feelings about the way "forgiveness" is so often presented as 1. compulsory and 2. more important than, if not an outright replacement for, accountability.

For a long time, it looked like they were going to do one of those sudden HFTs with Catra in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and I was actually glad that they kept her a baddie for so long! When they finally had her change sides, she'd had to hit rock bottom, and I got the impression that her progress wasn't completely finished at the end of the series.

So much media doesn't want to address stuff like, "extended trauma may turn someone into more of a prickly asshole than a smol bean", "someone on the path to rehabilitation may sometimes backslide", and "sometimes the best you'll get from a character is 'morally grey'."

[rom-e-o]

Okay, since it was brought up again, my morbid curiosity is getting to me. Tell me more of what you see in an RE Scroogeverse. 🤣

(CACKLES) YEEEES.

Many Resident Evil games/installments (with exceptions, like 4 and 8) take place mostly in the U.S., so I mostly think of our ladies coping.

Geographically, Bess would by fleeing the T-virus. (Tyrant Virus). It's the zombie-cannibal one. The virus the series is known for, haha. I'm sorry Bess. She's be escaping her city, because the solution to the virus is just nuking everything. Which is why she get's paired up with people like Jill and Carlos in the Raccoon City area, which is mid-America. (There are lots of theories on where it is, but generally Ohio-Indiana-Illinois-Missouri is the vibe.) T-virus zombies are cannibalistic and scary in hoards. Plus, the virus is fatal, and spreads WAAAY faster than A-Virus.

Connie would be fleeing the A-virus (Animality Virus). It started in Manhattan and as spread through drinking water, with a whole lot of backstory, haha. Basically, it was a cult bioterrorist attack. The city is infected but cured (in RE: Vendetta). With her money, she's probably flown out of the city, so she'd likely be coping with the crazed cult people spreading viruses more so than the zombies. We all know Orin was probably dumb enough to invest in industries that would put targets on their head. A-Virus zombies are T-virus zombies, but ... slightly smarter? They can talk and taunt before they eat you, lmao. It doesn't spread as bad as T-Virus, but the zombies are cognizant and more human. It can be cured too.

There's also the Mold, but that's Eastern European-originating (sorry Magda) that makes it to Louisiana. The Las Plagas in Spain, Uroboros in Kijuju, West Africa, etc. Fun all over the globe, just with different variants.

[vintake-ss]

𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐗 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍

// basically the valorant agents as genshin characters... these are mainly based off vibes

I've had this in my head all day and it's been consuming me.

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Okay, so Jett's obviously an anemo sword user, duh(but they're dual daggers). She's the standard 5* that was meta early game but then fell off years later

Sage is litterly a geomancer. But she's that character whose design doesn't fit their element. Standard 5*, catalyst.

The ripple effects when you shoot at Astra's wall and just the overall visual of her kit screams hydro. Catalyst, 5* that's an S tier support

The 4* vibes radiating from Yoru are flabbergasting despite his ego. Cryo dps that requires the blood sacrifice of your entire lineage to be decent. Sword user

Dendro bow Skye cause it just feels right. 4* dps that's better than some 5*s

Using her dendro vision, Viper releases poisonous fumes using plants. Polearm. Is supposed to be a 5* bc of her status and lore but alas. Ningguang treatment fr

Unfortunately, Reyna is that 5* with a kit so bad they're basically a premium 3*. Electro polearm.

Gekko is the SS+ tier 4* support that has like a 91.6% spiral abyss usage. "𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘬𝘬𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘵𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨??" Dendro claymore

SS tier pyro catalyst 5* dps since release. You can pry the meta out of Raze's cold dead hands. Popular enough that even people who know nothing about the game recognize her.

Deadlock is the most forgotten character, but she's still a decent 4* for beginners. Cryo claymore.

Omen would be a 5* anemo catalyst with the sickest animations not him dying instead of his friends

Sword user cypher who had to be sent to the ER for singlehandedly carrying the geo meta. 5*

Fade would probably have the creepiest idle voice lines. 4* cryo catalyst.

Dearest father brimstone. Everyone looses their 50/50 to him at least once. Standard 5* geo claymore.

Our Pyro king Phoenix who happens to be the worst Pyro character. But at least he's got great humor and a loveable personality! Also pretty popular. Standard 5*, sword user

Breach is that character that will get you kicked from someone's world if you dare try to bring him into a domain. 4* Pyro claymore

4* Iso who should've been a 5* with how strong his shield is. Slap some def% and he's tanking 5 ruin guards and 3 abyss mages at the same time. Electro bow

Neon is definitely one of those niche characters. Not versatile in most team comps but will do big dmg if you get her the specific setup. 5* Electro catalyst

Clove was called trash even before they were released. Turned out to be the best 5* sub-dps. Will nuke your enemies if teamed up with astra. Hydro bow

Killjoy doesn't wield her claymore herself, she has tech to that for her. Electro 4*

Sova has a pretty easy kit to understand, he's also pretty easy to build. The kind of character you wouldn't mind loosing your 50/50 to. Standard 5*, cryo bow

You'd need a PhD from an ivy League university to understand chamber's kit though, so most people just end up skipping his banner. 5* hydro catalyst with the lowest player ownership lmao

4* that's being held captive in the basement, harbour gets to be on a banner once a year if lucky. Hydro claymore genshin could never.

KAY/O is that one character that, by all means, refuses to crit. Idk why. Anemo claymore.

[benrobertson2004]

Just finished the interlude for pact arc seven and need to get my thoughts in order

It was really good man

Demons if I’m reading this correctly are like antimatter or entropy more than anything they remove something and we fill in what’s not there as what they are

There more concepts with minds than anything else

Also we went full Lovecraft with it the Big Bang and everything after was the end result of the first choirs feast what that’s insane

This chapter made me like isdora and made her actions make Sense which is good because she just kinda annoyed me before this

The eye is scary man it’s monologue on human nature as it comes to violence while wrong for this narrative Blake could have done the magic equivalent of set of a nuke and deliberately chose not to and trusted others at least to an extent when he was angry and uncomfortable around them but it does remind me of a quote “I know not what weapons we shall use in world war 3 but world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones”

In contrast the sisters still just confuse me there a sorority/mlm/cult built around the idea that a fire bolt dnd cantrip makes it safe for woman to walk at night? But they also run a business or the lead one dose or there a lobbyist at least any way they want to get Fells niece who is like 10 to join up and that feels like cult indoctrination also mass layoffs for wizard politics so screw her

The astrologer seems really nice and she gave Blake her mentor’s mug and that’s a big deal is there a fanfic that expands on that I hope there is

I’m conflicted on Rose but I’m going to wait and see now that she has agency feel kinda bad for her and she’s not terrible but I just get bad vibes like when someone has done nothing wrong but you know you would hate to work with them

The shepherd is interesting dose he see himself as a protector of children did he used to he did he leave Evan because he doesn’t like claiming there souls or is it the other way and sees it as mercy

The war Blake stopped is back on good luck stopping that given the only one who knows is a Sphinx who sleeps for 16 hours a day and teaches for most of the rest

Toronto hell pit cannon how deep dose it go I really don’t want to know

The shadow demon gave birth to triplets great

It’s the inevitable nature of decay that makes ur interesting it will one day get out just like the area is under served outside of the magical element a street left to rot after being abandoned

Rot in society is something that comes up a lot Blake being homeless and his antagonists being middle class families and institutions Maggie being singled out and exploited by laird one of those institutions after her life was uprooted by what was essentially a magical natural disaster the effects of the tournament arc on the city as Conquest just didn’t care about the people the arguments for there own sake with the Thorburn family destroying any connection and trust the monotony of Fells life of indentured servitude breaking him down to little under the persona he made to cope the idea from the Rose senior and Amion interlude with the clockwork soldier marching on the same path unhappy the arrangement of marriage for the Duchamp girls and how it’s a power grab with no other reason than power itself made into a tradition that seems to help little

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