BLOODY CROW VS ALBERICH
Who is winning the edgelord contest?
LMAO. I see you still haven't learned to stop pitting the kings against each other sjffhdsd Well, I actually think Alberich might win this one..? xD
Okay, so, Bloody Crow is, indeed, edgy: he is one of the guardians of the vampire queen using the sword that he powers up with the blood and that keeps draining from his life force, he is heavily implied to hunt the hunters themselves to get the blood dregs from them (hence the affiliation, and the heresy to what Hunters of Hunters should REALLY do; feed corpses to the birds). His look ALONE is pretty edgy; he has all the Cainhurst drip but chest piece is the cape inspired by crow feathers, and he is also one of like, three survivors of the castle ruined by religious fanatics, still latching onto what he knew despite not being able to return (Annalise tells us we are her only affiliate after we contract with her).
So like, yeah, why would Alberich win? Because of the term you used, lol! xD 'Edgelord' would imply like... humorously, comically, unnecessarily over-the-top with angst and blood and all against the society, and honestly, Crow is more serious (dare I say, tragic?) character than meets the eye! Besides, the 'edginess' of his weapons is reduced because it is just normal covenant weapon for them!
Alberich though? Like I mentioned, if you remove his hat in alteration of outfits, you can see similar process with Azur and Lusat, but with bloody glintstones instead of their comet ones. I don't even know whether he did that to himself, or he was likewise an exiled criminal; he uses cold sorceries as well, and Staff of the Sinner/Guilty/whatever? I feel as though nothing about his data suggesting any eyes injury or absence (unlike, say, with the sisters) implies that he inflicted the blindness on himself by never taking the bandage, because he JUST decided bloody sorcery was cooler, hahaha. Regardless of the interpretation, dude is edgy. Again, the blood glintstones are reviled as they're brought by stabbing (if not killing) other people! The dude also uses his own blood to create spiky bloody vines - sorry, but this is MORE edgy than simply coating the sword in the blood that is already IN the sheath; Crow doesn't even STAB himself, unlike Maria!
But more importantly? He is said to be asocial in general, keeping away from people. ...and he was driven mad by "jeering tongues", whereas dropping an item Taunter's Tongue that is golden in color, whereas Ensha is stated to have golden bones, whereas he doesn't speak, so I conclude Alberich cut out his tongue for talking shit about him! Like!! Okay, look, that is VERY edgy! Like, unnecessary over-the-top reaction, that I think Bloody Crow would not have had! In fact, I believe Crow might even enjoy it if people talk shit about him? And I feel like Crow has more merit to needing to keep away from the society with his story and goals, whereas Alberich is more on the "studying heretical magic that those plebs just won't "understand"" side!
^^^ that's Alberich with blood glintstones when he appears in the Roundtable Hold frrrrrr fhdhds xddd
...but also, Alberich is wearing blood glintstones on his clothes. It is like, showing off how many people he stabbed, since blood turns into them. Crow doesn't really show off his 'crimes' like that.
Honorable mentions: 1) Me and @val-of-the-north headcanon that Alberich enjoys consuming blood, like adding it in the tea or whatnot, and that is WITHOUT any vampiric implications, which is edgier 2) If theory about Gideon being his father holds up, that'd give Alberich HEAVY daddy issues, which would add to the angstiness. 3) I just... like, if I had to choose which one of these characters would give a villain speech full of oddly specific, even petty grudges, I'd totally pick Alberich! I feel like Crow would either not even honor his opponent with a word unless seriously pissed off (by refusing to die fast enough? xD), or he would be kind of on point.
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Argh. This ask had no business being THIS hard. These characters do not even have a darn dialogue, I have to walk in the dark and base my judgement on headcanons. ;-; Please never do it again.
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"I've grown these for you."
My first entry for the @rexobibingo - because what is a Gardener/Gardening about if not making leafy things grow out of love? (You can, of course, grow your leafy things out of spite too, I guess, that's always a very fair motivation if you ask me)
Keeping to good old habits from my previous bingo experience, please allow me to wholeheartedly and very passionately recommend @dharmaavocado's fic that has been on my mind throughout the whole time while I was working on this drawing We Who Love Our Hands in Dirt which was likely the first fic that has sold me on this ship, and Hanahaki as allergies will never stop being fascinating to me as a concept *w*
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Hey you, yes you. The person who needs to hear this
Your Fun Idea thing you're working on isn't bad, and you're not making anyone upset by not doing it "fast enough"
You just used up all your Seratonin making it and you haven't eaten/slept enough after. Go get some actual food, not snacks and remember that you're not getting paid for this so why are you stressing over deadlines that don't exist?
People who will like your thing will like it and people who don't wont and nobody who you actually want to care about will be a Jerk about it.
It's supposed to be Fun, so go have fun 🩷
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So during my 2137th playthrough I've been observing things through monocular and I realized text in some gravestones in Hemwick Charner Lane have actually meaning!
For first sight it looks like just random keysmash but what else looks like a keysmash? Polish language!
I couldn't decipher whole text unfortunately. Parts with dots means that I can't see exactly what's there but I guessed by context.
So:
??? SWOJEJ CHWAŁY - "of your glory" (genitive case) - swojej could mean my/your/his/her as well - it depends on context
...YWAJĄCEJ TU - it's half of the word, so maybe "[SPOCZ]YWAJĄCEJ" ("here lies")? It makes sense but the same word is below, lol
Ś.P. - R.I.P
[SPO]CZYWAJĄCEJ TU - "here lies" (gen. case)
[NAJ]ZACNIEJSZEJ ŻONY - "the most worthy/precious wife" (gen. case)
????? ŻYCIA - "of life" (gen. case)
??? 30 W??? - The only letter I can see here is "w", but I don't think it was supposed to be "30 years" or something (because in Polish it would be "30 LAT")
[ZM]ARŁEJ - "dead/deceased/late/passed away" (depends on context)
I don't think it has any lore meaning, because the same text is in most gravestones in Hemwick... But this is really interesting curio, considering Yharnam is in fact based on slavic cities (especially Prague).
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