#random echo thoughts

[echofoxart]

Honestly, I’m tempted to write a short Ragatha story (like really short) just about what happens when she reaches her limit and how much cruelty she can take. Gangle’s definitely had a really really hard time and so have all of them really but Ragatha just seems really fun to write in a short story. But I’ve already kinda got that covered in the main fanfic so it’d likely be a waste of time lol

On a very different note, have a Ragatha being her wonderful self (can you tell I seriously adore Ragatha?)

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“Oh, uh, that’s… nice.. Gangle are you alright?”

Ragatha pulled Gangle to her feet, checking her mask for cracks like a concerned mother hen. The ribbon player nodded, pulling away.

[echoofwinter]

“No one cares, you could just allow yourself a break”

“No”

“No?”

“No, I will not allow you to convince me to weaken myself enough for you to destroy me. I have taken breaks, but I have not stopped fighting you. I will Not let you win. I have too much to fight for.”

[sparklykat-hideoutenthusiast]

Delicious delusions 😋

[lyxchen]

Omg the way they added a little echo of Mr. Anderson's voice while Mr. Martin is shown speaking as him!!! That's such a good detail!!

[diam0w0nd]

It's so funny that instead of bringing in hardcore Jeverus shippers, my Jeverus fic seems to have attracted anti-Marauder enjoyers... I mean, go off queens (or kings), say what you have to say!

(I will never be a James Potter apologist, but the harshness of the comments lowkey have me feeling bad for him, especially since my attempt was to present nuance rather than bashing haha. Does nobody care about the angst 🥺 I mean, this is still a teenage boy who's traumatised by his failure to save someone, and losing all his friends at the same time. But it's okay do whatever you want!)

[redbean-nom]

wow that last bad batch episode was really just 30 minutes of echo and rampart bullying each other

[techechobase]

Random Bad Batch thought of the day: The Bad Batch in the 1999 classic adventure, The Mummy. Something about Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan with the Bad Batch just feels right and chaotic in the best way.

…And now I need some Mummy/Bad Batch fan art.

[kejule196]

So, from how I got it, Echoes of Wisdom is basically that Link disappears through a rift or sth. and Zelda goes adventuring to get him back.

Now, LU was technically very similar: Links disappear through some sort of portal. (Purple and black, anyone?)

NOW, what I thought:

WHAT IF THE ZELDAS TRY TO FIND THEIR LINKS AND GO ADVENTURING AS WELL?!

[phantom-of-the-501st]

I'm really hoping that we get future projects with Echo in because I'm not totally happy with this being the end of his story. Wrecker, Crosshair and Hunter living a relatively chill life to old age feels like enough of an ending, even if we don't see the true end point of their story.

But Echo going back to the Rebellion doesn't feel like a conclusion. He's done that multiple times since S2 so it doesn't feel like an end. And without a mention in the epilogue it feels like his story has just been left ongoing. I really hope they go back to him at some point

[noblelightfighter]

Random Cleaning Thoughts

so I have another job as a janitor at my church (it's huge) and we have several different vacuums that we use/have.

So this is The Bad Batch as Vacuums!

Up first is Wrecker as Big Gray

Next we have Echo as Quiet But Heavy

(honestly the Kivac behind this one could be Batcher)(that is a beast in it's own right)

Behind him is Omega as Bathroom Only

Next to Omega is Hunter as The Screeching Eel

And finally we have Tech as Luigi's Child (Luigi's mansion or Ghost Busters vac)

I didn't forget about Crosshair, he's just chilling at home as Sniper

(I've called this vacuum Sniper waaaaaay before I knew what TBB was, so this was fitting)

[echofoxart]

In my notes for my fanfic I’m writing heartwarming fluff with Caine making a genuine friend and then I go to start the next chapter’s notes and you know who the pov is? It’s Jax, and Jax is currently in decline and becoming increasingly more troublesome and about to cause massive damage

[echoofwinter]

My tomato plant has a bunch of tomatoes :D

[echo-of-the-eye]

It took me way too long to realize that the fuel packs in the stranger are not randomly placed but are actually the flamethrowers the owlks used to burn things. And that’s why you can find them in the temple, with the burned reels and the burned control panels!

[randomnameless]

Constance and House Nuvelle ramblings -

We know House Nuvelle started when Noa, after promising Seiros she won't pass her crest, went to a place near the Fangs of Fodlan, and apparently fucked sufficiently enough to create her own house.

(GG on that "do not pass on your crest" promise!)

Nuvelle people, according to Constance's Supreme support, don't marry in other houses to not bring their Noa crested blood to other families :

Saint Noa was apparently super duper good at "magic" and her descendants are also super duper good - let it be because of their crests or because they focus and research "magic" - happens what happens :

The Emperor appointed the leaders of House Nuvelle were "well versed" in magic, and muhritocracy happening, means they were appointed to important posts...

However, House Nuvelle cheered on Ionius after he terminated Hrym, and threw its lot with the Imperial household, effectively losing influence when Ionius was defanged :

JP version makes it more explicit that they were casted away from the "inner circle" of Imperial authority... but what is this inner circle? They weren't part of the great noble families, and given how Constance was set up to marry the crested heir of House Bartels (even if it would have implied Emile would leave House Bartels and his mama/sis to live with the Nuvelles, so what kind of benefit Baron Bartels would gain from this union?) but not, say, Ferdie or Linhardt, I wonder how close to the great noble families they were.

Or maybe we had some faction war going on, with House Vestra in the middle, like Ionius and his pals (the Nuvelles amongst others) vs the other noble families, and they were supposed to act as some sort of check and balances system to make sure the Emperor wouldn't be all powerful and ignore his nobles, but at the same time, the nobles wouldn't be able to run the country?

(But then Ionius did his thing, and everything fell apart)

Anyways, Nuvelle sided with Ionius, and lost the power struggle.

House Nuvelle was used as sacrificial pawn to stop Dagda'n'Brigid when they invaded the Empire - and in Nopes, we see the former Nuvelle territory was absorbed by Gerth.

However, what kind of bollocks decision was it to send scholars/mages to fend off against a joint army, when Leopold "my loincloth is a holy relic from Cichol himself" von Bergliez, famed and reknown general out there, leading the Imperial Army and Minister of War himself, was around?

Was it, like Constance suggests to Billy, a dick move made up to punish the Nuvelles from having joined Ionius, fueled by some resentment some Houses might have had - interestingly enough, in her Supreme support, Constance says it was something House Nuvelle brought upon itself by wanting to keep on preserving Noa's secret and ultimately not making any bonds or alliances with the other houses (which is, hilarious in hindsight, given how this support is supposed to be obtained in CF, aka, the route where you set to get rid of pointy ears for presumably lying about history - much like the Nuvelles did - and we're left to wonder that if Rhea opened up to more people, maybe, just like House Nuvelle, she would have had more allies to rely on in her direst time of need?).

Supreme Leader wonders if the Six great Houses, aka the ones who deposed Best Dad (tm) weren't the one to blame for House Nuvelle's destruction, given how she believes they were eager to see it fall !

But...

Gerth, a member of the Six Great Houses, feels like trash for what happened to Constance in their paralogue, and confesses he owes much to Constance and to her parents so much that he is willing to shit on his role as "Minister of Foreign Affair" and abandon a card he could use against the Church - aka hoarding Rhea's sibling's remains - to repay his debt to the Nuvelles.

Does he sound like someone who was eager to see House Nuvelle fall?

Still, the thing is House Nuvelle was supposed to defend Adrestia against the Dagda'n'Brigid invasion, they failed and their heads were killed, the House was disbanded and Constance ended up in Faerghus. So while we can wonder what the fuck Leopold "my major crest is a retcon" von Bergliez was doing with the Imperial Army while the Nuvelles died, well, they still died without any backup from the Imperial Army, aka, the largest army on the continent.

Should Constance have had some support or at least lines with Leopold in Nopes, or Caspar in both games? For sure, but hey, we can't have interesting things in those games, so enjoy your teatime I guess.

Of course, and this is a given whenever I write anything about Constance :

HC obsessed me read the "passed down something of great importance from our progenitor" as a ref to Sothis, the progenitor god - but thinking more rationally, the progenitor Constance is refering to isn't Sothis, but Noa, and the "something of great importance" is... her crest? No, that wouldn't end with her generation, dragon blood would pass on Constance's children and so on, so as long as her bloodline exists, the crest of Noa will.

But what if that "something of great importance" isn't just the crest, but Noa's talent, affinity and study of magic?

Lizard or not, Noa's magical prowesses were apparently sufficient enough to fool the Empire for generations - starting with the first (I'd say post Willy departure) but, like, those first guys most likely were taught magic by Macuil himself, so was Noa's magic as potent as his or something? Their crests - even if the devs would rather sell spoons and umbrellas than reveal what are the effects of crests in this verse in a watsonian sense - were confused!

So, Noa was a very powerful magician, and her descendants pursued the tradition of being scholars, Constance herself designs new spells!

However, too much honey for today means I'm pretty sure the devs meant "crest of Noa" as the "something of great importance" and not the love and tradition to research and develop magic, which would have been more interesting but w/c.

House Nuvelle is interestingly - for something hidden behind a paywall - the most developped House from Adrestia, and paints a pretty messy picture of what happens in the Empire, from its dawn (again, post Willy departure) to the events happening during the game.

[twinsunstars]

hear me out... little mermaid au with omega and the batch are the royal family she's grown so fascinated of and feels a connection with them, wants to meet them and live on land with them so she makes a deal and has four days to gain each of their trust and become a part of their family (or something my brain can't really think of a full good reason yet lol) and the batch grow to love her and take care of her like a sister, even though the secret is that she is related but was taken away from the family as an infant and was turned into a mermaid by dark magic, and the batch remember nothing because of the spell

[starrycometmoth]

To all of the aromantics (or anyone) out there who are in romantic relationships and aren't feeling the romantic attraction you thought you were feeling for your partner and are too scared to tell them...

Please tell them.

People will react differently, so don't take my word for this, but telling them may make both you AND them feel so much better.

I just told my girlfriend about how I thought my crush on her was different than the rest, how I thought it really was romantic love, but it turned out to be another case of having a deep platonic love for her instead, but she understood. She told me that the only thing that mattered was that my love for her was genuine and that she'd be there for me every step of the way. I couldn't be happier to have someone like her, and I hope that everyone in this situation is as understanding as she was

So just let it out, darling. Tell them that it's not what you thought it was. Tell them everything you're feeling about this romantic relationship and that it's not what you thought. Telling them, whether the result is good or bad, is better than faking it. Faking it hurts both parties in the end.