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summercreolefanfictioner · 3 years ago

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random facts about Maya Sakamaki

And yes I am writing this because I missed writing DL content plus I miss my best vampire girl

She's actually skilled in self-defense and archery. Like she was taught to kill both humans and vampires to protect Gilbert Feinze and the Sakamaki brothers. In fact, all her shoes have hidden knives (kinda similar to Shinobu's from Demon Slayer)

The boys think she can't fight, so they always belittle her and call her "the human maid that Karlheinz has sent". It wasn't until Maya made a full spin kick in front of Reiji and threatened to cut off his head with the knife in her shoe that they took her seriously.

That was how they realized she was not sent to the manor just to be their "maid." Heck they even thought she was a vampire hunter and tried to kill her if it weren't for Karlheinz's strict order not to or else they will face his wrath (North Pole is waving)

I have never elaborated on this but there was a time that Ayato was badly wounded and a vampire hunter was almost gonna kill him if it weren't for Maya shooting the damn human with her arrow.

If you add up her monthly salary from Karlheinz plus her allowance and all the riches she inherited from Gilbert Feinze, you can say she's richer than the Sakamaki brothers. Yes they're friggin' rich but if you subtract their royal inheritances from their personal money, Maya would def be richer

Besides our vampire doll knows how to handle finances very well. It came to a point where Reiji noticed they had more savings than expenses in a month thanks to her calculations

She also ends up getting dozens of vouchers when she's out grocery shopping for the boys. This even shocked Subaru, who mostly accompanies her during this time.

She also gets another stash of money when she plays arcade games. Like there was a point she got almost banned from an arcade center for taking loads of tickets and money from them and thought our girl is cheating

This actually proves another skill of Maya, which is learning how to play a game once she knows the rules on playing them. But no, she ain't skilled with chess 'cause Kanato is a sore loser and he made sure she would never learn how to play it.

She also has good grades, and even got exempted in exams (see this fic for more details)

Her signature scent is Killian's Love Don't Be Shy because this one smells like marshmallows (fun fact: I also wear this scent, and I heard this was Rihanna's alleged signature scent??).

Maya doesn't actually wear perfumes that much but the other Sakamaki bros have a hard time looking for her in the manor so they ordered Kanato to make her wear one

Maya doesn't like the smell and taste of alcohol and other liquor because it reminds her of the brothel. And yes, the vampire juice is not an exception to this abomination. But she still uses alcohol whenever she's making food that requires them

For some reason, Maya attracts the attention of animals, especially when she and Kanato choose to walk home instead of riding in the limo. Like there's this one time she petted a cat and the next thing she became their goddess.

This annoyed Kanato cause they walked back to the manor with a trail of cats behind them.

Maya actually doesn't have a staple fashion sense except for her Victorian maid uniform. The reason is that her attire would always depend on her master.

With Gilbert Feinze, most of her clothes are kimonos, basically traditional Japanese attire. She gets to wear dresses when she accompanies him in the demon world.

When she became the Sakamaki vampire doll, her fashion was a mix of Kanato's and Subaru's so it's like pastel meets goth and soft grunge. Most of her clothes are provided by Kanato and based on how he styles her, she maintains a bit of edge even while wearing a cute outfit. Think Harajuku style meets pastel and princess core.

Aside from cherries, Maya loves marshmallows. She even made cherry marshmallows with a chocolate center just to satisfy her cravings.

Unlike Kanato, she can handle spicy foods really well. Sometimes, she would eat spicy ramen or kimchi fried rice when she's alone.

She doesn't know how to walk in heels. Because she was a vampire doll, Gilbert Feinze made sure to maintain her small stature. Kanato had to force her to practice walking in them when they were in the fake human AU (see this fic for more details)

There was a time she ruined her bangs because she cut too much of them, ending up with her crying and not leaving the bathroom until all the boys and Yui have gone to school. Kanato had to kick the door open to see what the fuss was all about

"Are you an idiot to cut your bangs without looking at them properly?" he asked, staring at her through the mirror while holding pieces of her chopped hair.

In the end, he gave her a set of cherry hairclips that she could wear to hide her hideous micro-chopped bangs

Maya doesn't often show a hint of emotions on her face. Her voice even lacks some sort of feeling in it, hence why she doesn't like partaking in school plays. The only time she shows emotions is when she's around Kanato or when she's plotting something that involves Kanato (e.g. she gave Kino a pure smile in this fic to make Kanato jealous w/c I forgot to explain in detail)

She has met the Mukami brothers and Kou even attempted to adopt her just for a week. Up to this day, Kou never learns and still tries to win her over

Maya doesn't talk that much with the Tsukinami bros. They don't even bother to communicate with her so it's a tie

Her small height (145 cm) is because of partly genetics and upbringing. Since she grew up being starved and abused in the brothel, her growth was kind of "halted." Think Levi Ackerman from AOT.

Maya is not a chichinashi. And yes, Ayato loathes the fact that his younger brother bagged a wife with "assets" (at least we know where Maya's height went)

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chride · 4 years ago

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You know it’s a good day when you get to introduce a job-seeker to our lord and saviour Canva...

Not to sound like someone who’s been yanked into hiring on main but seriously, the difference it makes to read a structured resume that highlights your experience? It’s amazing. It makes you shine. It makes you look so professional, and skilled, and organized.

So Chride’s resume tips based on talking to someone today

As a caveat: Resume length and format is highly dependent on culture. There’s no one way it should look. So first, find out what’s the norm where you are. But a good guideline is 1-2 pages long.

Assume the person reading your resume really needs to pee. They don’t want to read, and least of all something super long. They want to know within two minutes if you’re the person they should interview or not. Preferably, sooner. They really need to go.

So the person will only read the second page if they really liked the first page.

If you have only one page, you’re not going to be able to fit in more than 5-6 jobs / projects.

Therefore, highlight the experience that best fits the job description of the job you’re applying to. Maybe call this section “RELEVANT EXPERIENCE”. Anything that doesn’t fit / doesn’t seem too relevant but proves you’re a good worker under capitalism that can sort of hold a job, put it on page 2 under “OTHER EXPERIENCE”.

Experience that is in your highlighted section is stuff that you get to expand on! Present it with: Your Title Project, at/for Company Name Time you worked there in “Month Year to Month Year” format About two sentences worth of what you did, what your responsibilities were and what you worked on. Finally, something about the impact or credibility of your work such as Big Fancy Award.

Reverse chronological order makes it easier to evaluate you as a candidate. Your current position first, that summer job in high school last.

It’s kind of common to have some kind of professional summary. This is a bit of a mini cover letter. Honestly, I never quite understood this part but people tend to write it in a way where they’ll describe themselves (”I am good at making tea. I am skilled at drinking tea.”) and then remove the “I am”-s of each sentence (Good at making tea. Skilled at drinking tea.).

On page 1, you also want to say what things you’re good at. These are your skills.

When you list skills, list skills that are relevant to the job you’re applying to. Or fun (if you have some special skill that might make you memorable). Language proficiencies are often seen as relevant regardless of position. (In this regard, it would seem MS Excel is a language).

Great, they like you! Make sure you had your name, and contact info visible on the resume, so that the hiring manager was able to get in touch with you...

On page 2, you can add in that other experience, or relevant projects, or publications, or whichever thing you want this person to know.

And then some more points:

No, you don’t have to list all jobs you’ve ever had. That you can put on your CV.

Yes, you can (and probably should) have multiple resumes, and send different ones to different prospective employers. Don’t lie however.

This is a design & game industry specific thing, but. Don’t give yourself skill points (C# 1/5) / skill bars / pie chart skill visualisation graphics, those are meaningless at best and look unprofessional at worst

Proofread.

Make it a friggin’ PDF. Why? Because sending anything else basically sucks. You can’t know what software the person who receives it has, or what fonts they have.

And that leads us to, you know what free online tool makes really simple and clean resume PDF’s with all the fonts embedded? Well if it isn’t our lord and saviour Can-

#resume tips

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ghastspidergwen · 4 years ago

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I love @doctorsiren's dadskall au, and I thought I'd write a little fic about it. basically, the dadskall au is where xisuma and ex (alex)'s dad is doomguy, but some sort of accident/crazy magic/whatever made him and iskall share a body, go check out doctor siren for the whole story, she has great art, too!

disclaimers (you can completely ignore this section if you want): I have played about 15 minutes total of all the Doom games, read none of the books, seen none of the movies, but the ost is great, so this will probably be ooc for doomguy. xisuma and alex are more based on the featherweight au versions, not the real hermitcraft versions. this story is not part of the dadskall au nor any of dr siren's other aus, it's just a break for me to write some fluff. it takes place ~3-4 years after where fw currently is (s7 election era) but is not set in the fw au world. link to the post part of this is based on. ...and I think that's everything, onto the fic!

Xisuma took a deep breath, “I think dad’s alive.”

“You said you saw him die,” Alex, previously known as Evil Xisuma, said, turning to his brother, “They told me he died”

“He wasn’t exactly dead, it’s hard to explain. It’s more like...the horcruxes in Harry Potter. When dad died, I think there was some magic at play that made it so his ‘soul’ transferred into the nearest healthy, person. And I think I found them.”

“Uh-huh, and who might that be?”

“HALLO!” Iskall burst in, “What did you need me for?”

“Iskall? Seriously?”

“He was there that night and I have no reason to believe-”

“You really think Iskall-”

“It’s my best guess, everyone else was injured, and the magic had to choose the nearest healthy person, so it must be Iskall.”

“What must be Iskall?”

“Are you sure we’re talking about the same Iskall?”

“No, Iskall86,” Xisuma said, sarcastically, “Of course this Iskall, how many Iskalls do we know?”

“I still have no idea what we’re talking about, can -”

“No!” The void brothers turned to him and responded in sync. Xisuma pulled his brother into a side room, “Stay right there, thanks Iskall.”

“What?”

Xisuma exhaled and closed the door behind them, “Phew, OK, I have reason to believe that 13 years ago, Iskall was present the night that dad-y’know-and since everyone else there was either corrupted or injured, as the only uninjured person, dad’s spirit ended up inhabiting his body, but’s been so weak that it was only using Iskall as a means of staying alive, not influencing him or trying to take control of his body at all. Do you get me?”

“A little.”

“And I think I know the spell that will separate them, and give dad his old body back,” They went back into the main room with Iskall, “Should I do it now?”

“Blast ‘im,” Alex backed out of the room, putting a protective wall between him and the magic.

“WHAT?!”

A glowing green ball of energy swirled between Xisuma’s hands, and Iskall backed into the wall, “H-hey Xisuma, what are you doing?”

“This...shouldn’t hurt.”

Iskall held up a hand in a stop gesture, “SHOULDN’T?!”

Xisuma blasted him with the magic. Iskall glowed green, floated into the sir, then split into two people who fell down.

“I...think it...worked,” Xisuma muttered, collapsing to the floor.

Doomguy looked up, and noticed someone lying, unmoving, on the floor. His saving-people instincts kicked in, and he pulled himself over to the person. “C'mon, don’t be dead, don’t be dead,” he said, shaking them.

Someone was shaking Iskall. He sat up and opened his eyes, “Holy heck, it’s Doomguy!”

“You’re alive!” Doomguy said relieved, and pulled Iskall into a hug.

Absolutely starstruck, Iskall sat there, frozen. It’s Doomguy, I love Doom, Doomguy is right here, and he’s hugging me, it’s Doomguy! Iskall’s mind looped.

Pulling out of the hug, Iskall spotted Xisuma crumpled on the floor, “W-wait, I got-gotta check on my friend.”

Doomguy turned around, and spotted his son on the floor.

“Xisuma!” He stood up and stumbled toward him.

“Wait, you know Xisuma?”

“He’s my son. Well, your son, too. Our son.”

“Wha-”

“Short answer, I am you. You are me. We’re the same person.”

Looking at his hands, one thought crossed Iskall’s mind, I’m Doomguy. It was closely followed by “I HAVE A SON?”

“Two sons.”

“TWO SONS? And one of them is dying!” Iskall sprinted across the room and cradled Xisuma’s head, “I don’t know what to do!”

“Health potion?” Doomguy suggested.

“Oh, yeah,” Pulling a potion of healing out of his inventory, Iskall splashed it onto Xisuma. He held his breath and waited to see if it would work.

Xisuma opened his eyes. He sat up.

“Dad!” He jumped up, and buried his face in his dad’s chest plate, giving him a hug the same way he did when he was younger.

“I’m your dad, too,” Iskall said.

“You know?” Xisuma asked, breaking off the hug.

“Yeah, Doomguy told me. So give your poppa a hug,” Iskall uncrossed his arms and gave a very confused Xisuma a hug.

“Oh, OK,” Xisuma awkwardly pat Iskall’s back until he stepped away.

“Is Alex here?” Doomguy asked.

“He should be right outside, he didn’t want to be in the same room as an untested spell.”

“Wait, you didn’t test it? Then why did you cast it on me?” Iskall asked, panicked.

“How many people do we know that have another person living inside them?”

“Wels/Hels, I’m pretty sure Ren did for a while, a pregnant lady,” Iskall ticked off on his fingers.

“Different circumstances. Wels and Hels are one person, like two sides of a coin, Ren-I don’t know what happened with Grimdog or The Red King or whatever, but I definitely don’t want to mess with those, and did you just compare yourself to a pregnant woman?”

“Uhhh...nevermind.”

“You said Alex was just outside?”

“Yeah,” Xisuma pulled the door open, to reveal Alex sitting on a bench outside, drumming his fingers against the seat

“Did it work?”

“Yeah.” Stepping out of the doorway, Xisuma revealed their dad standing behind him.

“Hi, Alex.”

“Dad?”

“It’s me,” Doomguy sat next to his other son.

“Dad!” Alex hugged him, and they pulled Xisuma into the hug after a second. They sat there before the hug was interrupted by another pair of arms joining in.

“Family, together again,” Iskall sighed.

“What’s up with him?” Alex asked, glancing at Iskall.

“I’m part of the family, call me Dadskall.”

“OK...Dadskall, can we have awhile alone with our dad?”

“Oh, yeah. Sure. See you later.” Iskall trudged out of the room.

“I haven’t seen you guys in forever! How long was I…”

“15 years.”

“So that would put you guys in your mid-30s, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Has anything big happened in the last 15 years?”

Alex pulled off his helmet, “Nothing too bad. I was imprisoned for a bit of it,” he glared at his brother.

Xisuma also removed his helmet, “I said I was sorry, how many times do you want me to apologize?”

“I wasn’t saying it’s your fault, I was just making the point that-”

“I get it! I was an idiot and I didn’t listen to you when you were clearly right.”

“Just like old times,” Doomguy chuckled, he examined his son’s faces, “You look so much older, like real adults. I’m so sorry I missed out on the last 15 years, I would’ve loved to see you grow up.”

“It’s not like you could do anything about it.”

“I know you would have been here if you could.”

“Also how did you guys get those scars?”

“Someone needed to keep slaying the demons after you left,” Alex shrugged.

“I angered some Watchers years ago.”

“You angered some Watchers?” Doomguy asked, standing up.

“I just realized someone was right, but it was too late to save them.”

“Darn right, I was.” Alex and Xisuma also stood up.

“I...forgot how tall you were,” Doomguy said looking, at up at Alex, who was only a few inches taller.

“Oh, yeah. Xisuma was jealous he never got this tall.”

“No, I’m not!”

“Sure,” Alex smirked.

“So, anything else new?” Their dad intervened.

“Daisy’s still alive.”

“Should’ve guessed,” he chuckled.

“Oh! You’re a grandpa!”

“What?!”

“Yeah! I adopted a guy named xB. I’ll call him over, so you can meet!”

<Xisuma> hey xb, can you come on down to my base, I’ve got something to show you

<xBcrafted> ?

<xBcrafted> yeah, be there shortly

“How did you meet this xB?”

“I was doing some exploring between seasons, looking for a good seed, when I found a small single player world. xB was alone in there. Poor kid was only 13, didn’t know where his parents were, said he had been handling himself for the last 2 or 3 years, so I took him back to Hermitcraft with me. He’s a great kid, you’ll love him.”

“Xisuma has practically adopted the entire server.”

“Server? You’re an admin?”

“We both are. I’m main admin of Hermitcraft, Alex is the backup admin.”

“I’m so sorry I missed out on all of this stuff. I really wish I could have been there for you two.”

Something thumped into the outside of the building they were in, and the door opened, “Freakin’ rockets, stupid friggin’ elytra,” xB mumbled. “Oh, hey Uncle Alex, hey, dad.”

Doomguy gasped, “I love him already!”

“Wha-”

“xB, this is our dad, Doomguy.”

“Wait, I thought he was dead.”

“Wonky magic stuff.”

“OK then. I’m xBcrafted,” xB said, offering his hand for a handshake.

Doomguy scooped him up in a hug, “Hello, xB, you can call me Grandpa Flynn, or just Grandpa, or just Flynn, I don’t care. I have a grandson!”

“Nice-to-meet-you,” xB gasped.

“Dad, I don’t think he can breath.”

“Oh, right,” Flynn released his grandson, “sorry, got a little overexcited.”

“Nah, it’s fine. I’m glad you’re back.”

“Glad to be back.”

“Do you want to go meet the rest of the server? There’s just under 30 of us, total.”

“Oh, you’ll love all of them. There’s me, of course, but Hypno and Jevin and Wels and False are all set up near me, Stress and Gem are also pretty close, and Doc and Ren are just past them, and…” xB rambled as the other three grabbed their helmets.

“You ready?” Alex asked, pushing open the door.

“Let’s go, I want to meet the rest of your family.”

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanfic #doctorsiren #dadskall au #gsg writes

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slade-neko · 4 years ago

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When it comes to Smash Bros, or fighting games, or just video games in general, how do you go about picking your character?

Just something I think about at times. I know a lot of pro players are very by the book and pick characters based on competitive reasons like stat values, movesets, top tier, etc.

For me personally, it all comes down to affinity. It's a requirement that I have high affinity with a character in order for me to seriously play them especially in a game like Smash Bros. Why on Earth would I ever play a character I had no idea who they are or just outright do not care about only for a dumb reason of "Oh, they're high tier and have a good moveset. I better play them." No, absolutely not.

There's this quote I remember that always comes to my mind by Ash Paulsen (former member of GameXplain, currently Good Vibes Gaming.)

If you told me I could go into a Smash tournament, play Wario and without a doubt I'd win, I'd tell you no way. I do NOT care about Wario and I would not do it. I have absolutely ZERO affinity for that character and even if I was somehow really good as them, I have no interest in ever playing them and just wouldn't do it. (not word for word, but approximate quote.)

Similarly he mentioned how he LOVES Mega Man and back when Smash 4 was coming out, he said regardless if he's good or bad with him, he would play Mega Man and learn how to get good as him because that's his favorite video game series and dream Smash character.

That statement really resonated with me because that's exactly how I feel too. I pick characters that have meaning to me, regardless of how they play or if I suck as them. I will learn the character and make myself good with them. I do NOT care about tiers or any dumb competitive reasoning. I will always pick characters I like and for no other reason. For example I love Fire Emblem, so I will play Fire Emblem characters. I love Final Fantasy, so I'm going to wreck as Cloud and Sephiroth. You catch my drift. It's affinity or nothing for me. Heck I even play mii Nia, because I friggin' LOVE Nia.

#Super Smash Bros Ultimate #SSBU #personal #I rep that mii Nia #I don't care if she looks like a little cartoon imp

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twilightofthe · 4 years ago

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so what animes have you seen already?

Oh boy! Not many tbh, I only really started watching it last winter when my roommate asked if I wanted to give it a try! I haven’t watched anything from any studio that did Visions (yet), but I wanna soon!

Animes I HAVE seen, in order:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood — Aight so when roomie suggested we watch an anime, a friend who had seen a lot of them recommended this one to watch first as it was a good “starter anime”, and y’all idk if it’s just because it’s the first one I watched but I’ve still gotta call it my favorite one because y’all it’s SO FUCKING GOOD. Like that’s understatement of the century but I don’t have time to write an essay on why it’s so good lol just trust me it’s GOOD. 11/10s on EVERYTHING about it. Plot, characters, setting, everything. My one sadness is that I would not be good at writing fic for it lol.

Demon Slayer — YouTube AMVs and seeing it pop up on Netflix had us start this one next and y’all it’s probably the prettiest anime I’ve seen like ever, like the art style is chef’s kiss. Amazing story and AWESOME characters too, very good, 10/10 would recommend. I think I could write a decent fic for it if a plot ever came to me.

The Great Pretender — The only non-action/fight anime on the list, roomie and I tried it out because we figured we should see something different? It was on Netflix so we looked. It was good, clever writing, good characters got a little bit weird in the second season, particularly at the end, but overall it’s a decent watch. I could write fic for the shipping aspect but again, no plot ideas because the plot is fuckin weird.

Akame Ga Kill — Roommate had seen this before, recommended it to me. The characters were decent, setting was interesting! Pretty art style too, but I was like, verrrrry critical of the plot throughout the entire singular season lol, so take that as you will. Actually no yeah plot was kinda wack. My fave character deserved better tho.

Castlevania — Okay okay I know I know not an anime, but it’s a similar artstyle. (Also I think the game it’s based off of is a Japanese game?) Actually watched the first two seasons a while ago, but then watched the third and fourth with roommate. Y’all it’s REALLY good, literally everyone in the damn show is fucking hot and I’m jealous, I ship the throuple HARD hard. I think I could maybe write a decent fic for it if, again, I had any plot motivation lol

Trese — Again, cheating because not anime, but this one is still non-Western (Filipino) media and it’s glorious. I’ve never seen an episode of Supernatural but I feel that this show is like, what Supernatural wishes it could be. Another gorgeous artstyle and I’m so gay for the MC and the first season left me with so many questions so I really hope it gets another one! I gotta get around to reading the webcomic

D.Gray-Man — Okay this one is entirely the fault of @jasontoddiefor who got back into it and promptly dragged everyone he knew down with him, and I am so very glad he did because this is a fantastic— and I’d argue relatively underrated —series. Artstyle is gorgeous (certain characters be very hot), the character arcs are brilliant, I love all the characters, and the worldbuilding is so friggin creative, like I’d put it up there as another one of my faves. I actually did write a fic for this, but publishing a fic in an unfamiliar fandom is terrifying and bad for my anxiety and it’s gonna take me like five more years to work up the courage to do it again lol.

Sword Art Online — Currently watching right now with roommate. I heard some not very good things about it, but my roommate wanted to give it a try so I sat down and watched with them. Sure enough it’s been a case of half the time I’m flailing over the nice animation and how creative the worldbuilding is and the charm and potential all the characters have……………….. and then the other half of the time I’m banging my head against the wall repeatedly because it pulled some seriously stinky bullshit lol. So yeah watch it’s promising but also Suffer in not the good way.

Fire Force — Also currently watching! On my own this time, roommate already watched and recommended. This one is VERY good, like I am super into the plot and the setting and everything to do with the universe. Still getting into the characters and it’s taking a bit more time? So the watch is going slower than usual, but that’s alright! The entire premise makes up for it.

So that’s all the anime I’ve seen! I’ve also seen 2.5 Studio Ghibli movies and they are all JUST as good as people say they are (Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, and bits and pieces of Princess Mononoke) 1000/10 recommend.

You didn’t ask about the manga I’ve read but I’ll list them anyway! For the record I’m not a huge manga reader because my eyes find it hard to see the illustrations when everything is in different shades of black and white, it makes action scenes in particular really difficult to read, which is a problem when you usually like action plots

Demon Slayer — The anime isn’t complete yet and after the movie I wanted to know MORE so I hunted down the manga and binged it all. Y’ALL GOTTA READ IT IT’S STILL SO FUCKIN GOOD AND I’D DIE FOR SO MANY CHARACTERS I’M IN LOVE WITH SO MANY

D.Gray-Man — Same thing as Demon Slayer, the anime isn’t complete yet and neither is the manga BUT so I read the rest of what’s been written. Hoo hoo HOO I hope they animate more of it because the plots coming up are brilliant and I want it

My Hero Academia — Look, EVERYONE is yelling about this one and it trends like once a week and like five irl friends love it so I figured there was too much anime out but I had to know so I’d just skim the manga just to figure out what the fuck the hype was. It’s good, lol, I totally get the hype now, the strength is in the worldbuilding and a whole handful of extremely interesting yet surprisingly simple character types that work to drive the plot forward. There is so much potential here and I could definitely write fic for this but I am not touching that fandom with a ten foot pole and that’s coming from a Star Wars fan 😂

Yona of the Dawn — Currently reading this!!!! Ok so there’s a season of an anime out for this, I walked in to see my other roommate watching what was probably one of the horniest scenes in it. I was immediately like “👀👀👀👀 shit fuck that’s hot do these heteros have rights????” I was about to plop my ass down and start watching but roommate was like “oh there’s only one season and it’s unfinished and I know you don’t like unfinished stuff” so I promptly got my ass up and googled the manga so I could see more. Y’all it is GOOD, if you love the dramatic romances from Star Wars this is RIGHT up your alley and dare I say better, the plot is lovely, the characters are great, and I am SO MAD there’s only one anime season. I’d absolutely write fic for this if I was more confident, I have so many polyship ideas!!!!!!

#SORRY FOR RAMBLING Y’ALL #next anime i wanna watch is jujutsu kaisen i’ve heard so many good things about it!!!!!!#or maybe promare cuz i wanna support the visions studios!#so yeah i’m an anime newb y’all can judge me on my tastes if you agree or not or give recs!#morai musings #not star wars #long post

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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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Of Moons, Millionares and Mothers (DT17 Season 2 Retrospective): The Most Dangerous Game Night! (Paid for by WeirdKev27)

Welcome all you happy people! As some of you will recall I do a lot of duck based retrospectives on this blog: Ride of the Three Cablleros! which took a look at all the Cabs major American adventures, Shadow Into Light, my Weblena colored look at Lena Sabrewing’s journey from abused teenager to magical protector, and the Della arc which I dind’t give a cool name but covered since Shadow Into Light read right into it’s final chapter and ended up perfectly synching up with the final month of the series. And of course i’m still working my way through the life and times of Scrooge McDuck with a plan to finish the main story in September barring any delays, sickness that sorta thing.

So it shouldn’t be at all a shock that having covered all of season 3 when it came out and covered the two season 1 arcs i’d be taking a look at Season 2′s three story arcs. So I probably would’ve covered them anyway.. but Kev, one of my patreons and the guy who commissioned Shadow Into Light AND Ride of the Three Cablleros, had expressed interest in doing the Glomgold arc from season 2 as it centers around his favorite character, Zan Owlson. He also wanted to do Della’s arc in time for mothers day, and was all too happy to combine both, and politely agreed to my request to do the Louie arc as well. To help soften the blow, I also suggested since he’s a patreon of mine on patreon.com/popculturebuffet he use his second review (You get one guaranteed review a month with 5 and he’s a 10 dollar backer so he gets two, and he’s earmarked marked one for House of Mouse through the end of the year) to help soften the blow a bit, which means some weeks i’ll be doubling up on this one. He agreed and it’s thanks to him that all of this happened so thanks bud. It’s also thanks to him I have money in the first place and I wouldn’t be here without him.

As for why I insisted on the Louie arc it wasn’t out of greed but out of pragmatism. I covered the Della arc purely on my own time, and gladly did so. But back then I also kept making the mistake of shoving retrospectives back again and again and again and that’s why there’s a rather nasty gap in my New X-Men retrospective I think severely harmed it , and a similar one for life and times which wounded it. I don’t mind taking smaller gaps of say a month when needed, but I learned from the experience I can’t just delay things constantly out of convince and expect it to work.

Not only that but the Lena and Della arcs only interact in the very last part. With these arc? While they don’t really touch at first and run parallel much like season 1′s arcs did, they start intersecting heavily as soon as Della gets back. Raiders of the Doomsday Vault! touches on both Della’s recent return and Glomgold’s bet with Scrooge, Happy Birthday Doofus Drake! has the A-Plot centered around Louie’s plot and the B-Plot centered around Della bonding with Huey as part of hers. And the final four is one one long, sustained arc, finishing up all three in the process. So yeah it was a package deal and as such this will be my third largest retrospective at 17 parts including the prologue. (As i’ll also be covering Della’s four issues in the IDW Comic released back in season 1). For the record my largest will be my Tom Lucitor Retrospective as 24 (in part due to doing the eclipsa arc for the same reasons as Dellas), and ride of the three cablleros at 20 is in a close second. This is going to be a long ride that will take most of summer, so buckle up, get your Louie Inc signs, Glomgold’ posters to jump through and black licorice gum ready and join me won’t you under the cut as we start this fantastic adventure together.

We open season 2 with all but one of our heroes proudly posing as they enter a temple. Scrooge even has his treasure of the lost lamp outfit on. Louie.. just looks tired and bored. One of the things I love about these reviews is that I haven’t watched most of the episodes since they first aired. Sure i’ve revisited some of my favorites like Dangerous Chemistry and the 87 Cent Solution, but I haven’t really DONE a full died in wool episode by episode rewatch of the series. I’ve got SO MUCH I haven’t watched, haven’t rewatched and haven’t even started, that I really DON’T have the time for it outside of my job. So it is VERY nice to get a chance to do so once in a while with it.

As such knowing Louie’s real motive this episode it makes this scene hit diffrently. On first airing Ducktales was back after a short hiatus, our heroes are operating at full speed and daringly charting through a temple: Dewey and Webby have become tighter than ever and easily stop a pit trap and Scrooge and Huey easily solve an arrow puzzle. But while at first glance Louie is just fed up because as he puts it later “I’m just loveably lazy”, knowing he’s really just burnt out, scared he’s going to die or worse like he likely thinks his Mom did because he’s not good enough.. it’s really tearjerking. Here’s an 11 year old who at his core feels he doesn’t belong in his family and just wants a friggin break from the dangerous shit they do. It hits even harder as a fan of the venture bros but i’ll save that for later. Point is he’s telling Scrooge he’s burnt out.

So then this happens...

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It really is almost the exact same joke, but diffrent enough since for one, Family Guy’s is driven by the refrenece (And god how I miss how their refrence humor used to have an actual purpose), where as here it’s to set up something else and hints for later: Louie having parsed how most adventures to at this point. While Scrooge is right in pointing out how every adventure is unique.. Louie’s not wrong that there is a small pattern to it: The Whoah! , The “Wait, What?” and the Aggggh!. Scrooge scoffs.. but Louie is proven correct as Dewey Whoas, a mechanisim trggers (Wait what?”) And everyone screams as they run from a giant wheel.

Back at home though it’s even more apparent poor Louie is miserable while his family is just jazzed. I can’t BLAME THEM, but I can’t blame him either for being, tired, worn out and just wanting ONE minute where they aren’t adventuering. There are some nice touches though as Scrooge runs off and finds a map in the idol: We see Duckworth removing the Scrooge as a Prospector painting based on Carl Bark’s painting of him from the foyer and instead replacing it with the painting of Scrooge, Donald and Della. It’s a nice little acknowledgment of how things have changed.. from Scrooge being alone and running from a painful past to having accepted it and gone back to being a family man. We also get Beakley just casually picking up Louie to vacum.

In the Triplet’s room.. which by the way why do they all share one room? In universe I mean, I mean is it saving on the power bill or does scrooge have the other rooms filled. Only four bedrooms are occupied: the boys, webby’s , Beakly’s (Which we never see but implicitly exists), and Scrooge’s himself. While the mansion isn’t LIMITLESS, it has to have more rooms than that. Is the rest just storage?

Out of universe though I do get why and i’ts why I let this concept of sharing a room when you have enough for everyone in the first place slide: it allows the boys to interact more easily outside of adventures by having all three in the same location. This episode is a good example of that as it kicks off Louie’s plan admirably: Louie is burnt out while Huey is excited.. and in another hint of Louie’s true gift he casually notices part of Dewey’s woodchuck uniform he was looking after is undone, simply making a quip about a sewing patch. He gets the idea for a scheme from there: to finally get his break by convincing Huey he’s slipping and exploiting his brother’s tendency for manic episodes.. which as someone with those I highly don’t approve and is far and away one of the more questionable things Louie’s done. And this is in an arc that includes him nearly wiping out all of existence.

Still it gets Huey on board but Scrooge and the wonder twins are a harder sell. Dewey and Webby are so jazzed on frinedship their even speaking in unions “This Needs to stop!” “I’ve tried but they really do enjoy harmonizing”

Louie insists the adventuring is driving them apart and making them less close.. and while Scrooge insits it brings them closer together he ends up proving his point when Louie fakes not knowing which triplet is which.. and Scrooge GENUINELY struggles with which one’s Huey and Which ones Dewey. Dewey’s face is at the top of the page.. and utterly and completely priceless.

And while I thought it was the same impressive face from night on Kilmotor hill turns out, nerp their uniquely hilaroius

Same mood though. But I do love this callback: almost a YEAR later, and Scrooge STILL is like...

But while movie night and make your own pizza night, which i’m pleased as punch to find isn’t just something my family does, don’t do anything one thing does... GAME NIGHT. Cue a glorious minute of David Tennant goofily shouting Game Night to everyone in the mansion. Seriously getting him was one of the series masterstrokes. The man has only done a few roles in voicework but damn is he a natural. Not eveyrone can adapt to it this fast. While I love Walton Goggins, it clearly took him a few episodes of invincible to get really comfortable with it. It’s why I have such respect for Voice Actors in general: I’ts not an easy job, it takes a lot of skill, and it can be often thankless. It’s also why i’ve made a concentrated effort ot more know of them by voice simply because they’ve earned that much.

Anyways Beakly pops Louie’s bubble that htis is not going to be relaxing for a very obvious reason: Scrooge is relentless against his enmies and game night makes YOU the enemy. He quickly has them pair off into teams, taking Donald right off the bat.

We also get one of the best jokes in the entire series “If you loose your out of the will” “(Genuinely suprised) I was in the will?”

It’s almost entriely in Tony’s delivery there. The surprise is just perfectly delivered. It’s also oddly touching as despite a decade’s estrangement and Donald understandably thinking he wasn’t in it in anymore, Scrooge NEVER removed Donald from it . Sure he’s thretaning it over game night but he clearly takes this ungodly seriously. Duckworth leaves to go do ghost stuff.. which is code for make up a flimsy excuse to run the fuck away. To make matters worse she’s stuck with Launchpad as a partner. Louie is left with Huey and immieditly regrets sending his brother into a panicy spiral as he’s already set up a creepy scheduling board.

So i’m going to go ahead and cover the Webby and Dewey Plot, and the acompanying Donald and Scrooge antics now to save us some time. I’ll come back to it at the climax of Louie’s plot obviously and to the episodes credit the pacing is exceptional, weaving in and out of both plots , Louie struggling to keep the whole shrinking plot a secret and the rest of the families game night, excelently, it’s just with my brain i’ts harder to do that in a recap so...

Game Night: Crush Your Enmies and See Them Driven Before You Scrooge goes to the Conan of Sumeria/Melissa School of Game Nighting. Or in short...

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Why HASN’T there been a Conan musical? So he and Donald dominate the first round, Charades, with Scrooge easily guessing almost EVERYHTING Donald mimes. As Webby puts it “When you’ve been around donald for 30 years you get good at non-verbal commuincation”. Granted they have a commuincation breakdown that results in this magic.

So Webby understandably assumes that given their best friends and Scrooge and Donald, while reconciled, hate each other, that they have an advantage. She is wrong. Not the first time: she also assumed she and Lena were just friends. It happens. you get a few wrong everyone does. Instead we get a great bit of Dewey utterly failing to guess it’s Scrooge despite Webby being obvious because Dewey’s brain is a riddle for the ages.

Jenga dosen’t really go great for either so they go solo for SCROOGEPOLY. Because of COURSE Scrooge created monopoly in this version. I simletaniously love and hate how eveyr piece is a top hat. I love it because it’s a hilarously quick gag.. but also hate it because one of Monopoly’s biggest draws is having so many diffrent peices. I mean some like the sports car make sense but then you have a dog for some reason and an ironing board. I mean I love that dog, he’s a good boy but I don’t understand why he’s in this. If anyone knows the weird old timey reasoning for either of these let me know in the replies or my asks.

This isn’t bad stuff mind, it’s just not really deep in stuff for me to make fun of. Apart from Donald ending up in jail... again. At least it’s not as bad as say goblin jail or that time he had to carve pinocchio’s nose into a shiv to surivive whale jail.

Louie: “How Long Before That’s Not Enough?”

Okay I kid, the subplot is good.. but that’s th epotatoes.. this is the potatoes iwth cheese.. look I love meat but potatoes don’t get enough love. They just don’t and you can do all kinds of delicious things to them. It’s why a good third of side dishes at most restaurants are potato based.

But yeah rolling it back a bit Louie is confident that even with the this will be mildly relaxing.. then Gyro bursts in thorugh the double doors proudly announcing his invention and pries himself in, ignoring Louie’s desperate attempts to shut him out.

Gyro is.. different in this episode. He’s peppy and while he’s mildly condescnding to the Gyropludians, more no that in a second, he’s far more enthuastic and freindly to everyone else and less of the awkward ballbag he’d been last season and would be again this season.

This feels like an ATTEMPTED course correct. See a lot of people, if understandably didn’t like how Gyro was in season 1. Fan of the original him from the comics and show iddn’t like the nice, friendly weirdo suddenly being a sour, condesencindg weirdo. Me I was FINE with the change from unintentional mad scientist to intentional one... I just feel they overdid it on the asshole as season 1 went on. In The Great Dime Chase he’s fine, he’s egosticial, angry and kind of a pill.. but he also clearly cares for his creations, rightfully hates the board for constantly doubting him, and is frustrated his creations keep going rouge. It was a nice balance.

The balance got thrown off entirely however once Fenton entered the scene. The crew just leaned WAY to hard into hwo much of a shitweasel he was to fenton: giving him an office in the bathroom with a cool quip, trying to beat him up (even if his rage over Fenton’s dumbassery was warranted that was not), and finally trying to take the gizmoduck armor back not out of any real concerns but because he’s worried he’ll loose his job... his job iwth the man who freely tolerates his creations going insane and really dosen’t care about his own colateral let alone Gyro’s. It came off as disngenous and that he simply didn’t trust FENTON with it and wanted and excuse to take the armor Fenton had clearly earned. He also pit manny and bulb against each other for a job which just felt out of character even for him to possibly fire one of his children which felt horribly out of character. Toniing this down was a good thing.. I just feel they overcorrected. They tried making him the 80′s version with a slight ego here, and when that didn’t work they just downplayed him for the rest of the season. He’s still around, in fact we’ll be seeing him again soon enough, and he still gets some great jokes... he’s just not really focused on at all. But they managed to fix their fix in season 3: they did have Gyro be a dick to Fenton again but gave proper context, had him apologize and framed it less as a funny joke and more as him being abusive because he was abused himself and breaking the cycle. He also kept the supporting role but kept the shadiness in it, with the earpiece bit from “Louie’s Eleven” being a highlight.

Gyro has a new device that can pick up tiny sounds and has found a tiny civilization in the ducks house, dubbing them Gyropudlians because he apparnetly likes Gullivers Travels. I do not really know what that’s about, nor have I seen any of the movies. Not even the jack black one made on a dare to see if they could actually sell a movie on the concept “This old story but as a jack black comedy”. And it went horribly wrong because they actually did get it greenlit and someone out there actually watched it. Not me... and I watched the Wrong MIssy entirely of my own volition. I’m not immune from making eye staining mistakes. This just wasn’t one of them.

Gyro ends up getting shrunk down because he naturally attached a shrink ray to it because...

So Louie shrugs it off correctly figuring out the arc of that sort of story: Gyro becomes a god, he learns a life lesson that sort of thing. Also I do applaud them for making the lost tribe not horribly racist.. that is a hard line to walk. They just make them generic instead which.. still better than racist. “Not Racist” isn’t a very high bar to clear but given this version went out of it’s way to be inclusive while the original show.. what’s a good metaphor for this.. hrmmm... these rakes are all the racism in the original show i’ve encoungered so far and probably will in the future, and i’m sideshow bob.

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Eventually though the Gyropudlians decide to decalre war on the giants because unknowingly the Ducks have been destroying their civilizations time and time again.. mostly louie but donald clearly peed a civiliztion to death..and i’m not grasping at straws there he left the bathroom and the other two possiblities for the floating city are too horrible to comprehend. Or it was just the sink and i’m a bastard... i’m probably a bastard.

So they blast the shrink ray around the kitchen and get Launchpad, so now he’s a part of this cliche. Beakly finds them.. is highly supscious, and Huey’s lie is.. not convincing... but this gets her out of game night with her overcompeitive boss so she takes the out and gets the fuck out and is not seen for the rest of the episode.. probably for several days. Look she does a lot around the house no one’s going to question if she comes back after a mysteirous absence with someone elses blood on her apron and several thousnd ddollars in brazilian cocaine. The sweetest cocaine of all. Scrooge is just used to it by now.

Anyways things continue to escalate as The Gyropuldians, Launchpad and Gyro launch an assault on the tower of infinity, aka the jenga tower and knock it over. The Good news is launchpad surivives and we get a great bit of the brothers hugging then awkarly and half assedly explaning it to cover. the bad news is the Gyropudlians considered it an act of war and have trained some flies to man the microphone shrink ray dealie.

It’s here we get the best scene of the episode: Huey is naturally worried.. even more so after he sees Louie’s response to the unfolding chaos: Curling up in a fetal position and rocking back in forth muttering to himself this was supposed to be a fun night in. Huey finally has had enough of this and wants to knwo wha tthe hell this is all about, shooting down Louie attempting to deflect it with his usual lazy schtick. Even at his laziest he’d pride self preservation over doing nothing. This is something worse. And while Huey is furious his rage is coming out of concern. While Huey prides himself on his brain... he has the biggest heart of the three. He’s the most empathetic and the one most willing to reach out to the others when they need him. Not that hte others lack it, Dewey was the one to welcome Webby into the group the most after all, it’s just Huey displays it the most. So his anger comes off entirely as genuine worry at Louie acting out of character and trying to avoid doing what eveyrone else does. And his response.. is heartbreaking...

“BECAUSE I’MMom was great at adventuring, and she still got hurt. I'm only good at talking my way out of it. How long before that's not enough? NOT GOOD AT IT OKAY?!”

Bobby Monihan.. really dosen’t get enough credit for this show. When he gets to really do something big with Louie he goes for it and he uttelry dominates the scnee here. Danny Pudi is no slouch mind.. but Monihan REALLy gets to show what he can do. His reasoning for his worries is also just as well delivered and heartbreaking.

“Mom was great at adventuring, and she still got hurt. I'm only good at talking my way out of it. How long before that's not enough?“

It just.. stings a lot. To find that Louie’s exaustion wasn’t out of self intrest.. but just out of fear. That he won’t be good enough at best and that he’ll end up like his mom: lost or dead never to be seen again as far as he figures. As a third of this arc will bear out, tha’ts not even remotely true, but out of the three Louie is the most pragmatic so while he says hurt.. he thinks she’s dead. And if she, someone as capable as scrooge or as close as someone whose not him can be, could end up dead... he’s living on borrowed time.

This is where the Venture bros comparison really comes out to me... because they had a similar if more spread out storyline in season 5, with bookish brother Dean, Huey if he lacked autisim but gained 80 dozen more issues, found out he and his brother Hank, aka Dewey in his teens, were clones because his dad is really bad at keeping his sons alive because he’s also bad at everything else including science, parenting, being emotinally open, making a cocktail that isn’t a crime against nature, sex, and not treating hank like garbage, which should fall under shitty parenting but I love my empty headed boy.

So why bring this up? Well besides self indulgance because I love both shows iwth a signifgant portion of my heart and frank flat out admitted to being a venture bros fan, and having Beakly take some cues from Brock, I love the accidental parallels here: both are arcs about a boy adventuer coming to grips with their mortality. Both withdraw, both are heavily depressed and both feel there’s no real light at the end of the tunnel for htem anymore.

And both.. are drawn out of it the same way.. by a concerned brother pulling them out of their misery and self doubt:

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It’s the same here... Huey helps Louie through it, understanding how he feels.. and like Hank did for Dean, proving to Louie he’s not alone. He points out that yes Della did get hurt.. but it’s because she went in alone. He’s got his family.. they won’t let him get lost or die.. because their not alone. The reason they can do all this stuff is because their together. Their all amazing alone.. but together their unstoppable. And i’ts fine Louie’s afraid.. but he can’t let that fear kill everyone he cares about.

So our boys run upstairs, but are a second too late as the gyro pudlians shrink the other four down, and the duo’s attempt to grow them just makes one of the gyropudlians giant instead. With things at their grimmist.. Louie finds his TRUE talent, looks at the situation. and takes charge. In the span of two minutes he completely turns the tide: he has launchpad crash his way out, which he does by pure accident because of course he does he’s nature’s perfect Himbo. He next has Donald and scrooge take on some guards to give Dewey and Webby some room and has Huey take out the giant with his sewing. His final part is to have Dewey and Webby work their way up to the ray gun.. which is a probelma s both have lost all confidence due to realizing they have nothing in common and can’t fathom how their friends. Scrooge’s reply? Of course their not.. THEIR FAMILY. It was then that a thousand debbigail shippers cried out and were silenced... I know I was one of them. I couldn’t speak for about a minute. It was awful.

And yeah.. I had been shipping Dewey and Webby up to this point, but it was becoming increasingly obvious they were being treated like brother and sister and then this happened. And in hindsight i’m glad I jumepd the hell off as they turne dout ot be blood related so I dodged a bullet there an found better ships for both. So no harm no F.O.W.L. clone accidental incest.

Realizing this the two find their second wind and save the day. OUr heroes are restored and things are good.

The next day, Louie faces the music with Scrooge and is terrified, not helped by Scrooge being dead serious... but his worries are for naught. Scrooge instead only has one thing to say

“You saw all the angles”

Something the crew conciously did was have each of the kids mimic one of Scrooge’s tennants, something that was heavily implied before but made fully explicit here: Dewey is toughter than the toughies, Huey is Smarter than the smarties... and Louie is the oft forgotten Sharper than the sharpies. Scrooge even lampshades how that part of his motto is often left out. And of course as frank made clear post series, Webby made her way into the family Square.

But back to the sharpie thing, I like this because it defines what that truly means, as it often comes off as similar to the smartie bit hence i’ts exclusion: It’s the ablitliyt to think quickly, strategize, a strategic, critical mind that can come up with a gambit in an instant and use everyone to the best of their abillity. It’s why for an example, Scott Summers is one of my faviorite x-men. Because while his eye laser things are impressive it’s this kind of cleverness and tactical insight, seeing all the pieces on the board and easily manuvering them, friend and foe, that makes him so awesome. And as scrooge muses it could make Louie even richer than he is. And in a truly touching gesture, Scrooge gives Louie the idol, confident in his Nephew’s potetial. His mother reached hers... he only needs time. So with that Louie’s arc truly begins and he hangs a shingle on the triplets door. Louie inc is born.

Final Thoughts: This episode caught me by suprise: I remember it being decent.. but damn if it wasn’t amazing on the rewatch, with the knowledge of Louie’s weakness helping but really it’s just a funny, tightly paced half hour of television. It has great jokes, a great emtoinal arc and in general is jsut well.. great. I didn’t see this poteitial the first time because I was more hung up on fethry finally appearing, the cabs finally appearing.. all the things in the distance after this ep. But this ep is just damn good and I wish i’d put it on my best of list. Top shelf stuff.

Next time on Of Moons, Millionares and Mothers: The second arc starts up as FLINTHEART GLOMGOLD returns as an amensiac south african fisherman and it’s up to Webby and Louie to unravel his past to figure out why he’s acting like this and if this is another one of his insane schemes. We also meet Zan Owlson buisnesswoman of the year and person about to go through some undeserved shit at the hands of a stupid man. Later Today: We return to Amity Park for more Danny Phantom and meet his second most intresting enemy as an innocent fuckup turns a spoiled brat into one of most dangerous enemies. Also PUPPIES and Tucker being the worst.

Wednsday: We grab onto some more ducktales as Donald returns to Ducktales 87. And judging by the content warning so does racisim.

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littlegalerion · 3 years ago

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Late night thoughts as I'm just feeling mixed emotions, frustration from a whole week lost to record or stream, and other things.

Warning, b*tching ahead.

I get more and more bummed playing ESO. I mean when I go and play my favorite chapters again I of course feel all warm and fuzzy, but just something feels off nowadays.

I don't like that sky shards are marked on the map. That takes away the fun and satisfaction of randomly finding them or actively hunting for them.

This is going to probs piss some of y'all off, but I don't like the advertising? Does that make sense? It feels like more attention is placed on selling the game instead of making the game. It's all flash and press, when what they are selling...isn't what is advertised. The cinematics look great but...when you think about it, Elsweyr was the only one that got a real complete good cinematic telling. The others were kinda choppy, and lacked the same impact.

That being said, screw it, I feel nothing for the generic heroes in the cinematics. I especially hate the altmer, because she isn't an altmer. She's generic fantasy elf #5. Elder Scrolls has cool elves, and I hate the cinematics have always belittled their designs. The dunmer got the best treatment, all the others were done dirty. Even our bosmer girl could have looked better.

It really bothers me ESO's tumblr page went dead silent, when back in the day they reblogged fan art and fan screenshots constantly, and it made so many small artists' day. Yet they are still active on Twitter...one of the worst possible social media platforms? Instagram I'm thankful for, although that's more for them to just make announcements.

Companions should NOT have been a f*cking addition only available via Chapter. Now special companions to each Chapter, that's a no brainer. It makes perfect sense and is a good way to hype players up for a new Chapter. But companions should be added to the base game. Why? Because ESO specializes in that you do not need other players to get through all main quests. It encourages a single player playthrough, despite it being an MMO. Now that I've played other MMOs, the fact ESO took so long to introduce companions and hides access to them via DLC is downright greedy. Special super companions hidden behind DLC? Sure. But give us base game companions! Like, make them friggin' rewards for actually completing the alliance questlines, the absolute longest questline chains that deserve high quality rewards! Or for 100% all alliance zones???? I don't want to hear "We can't go back to the base game and add in new characters, it's too much work". They do it all the time with event areas and nobody acted like it was a stroke of pure magic to go to the base game and completely replace Verandis' voice actor just to make him sound sexier so his face could sell the Markarth DLC. Yeah I said it!!!!

I really miss old, innocent Verandis.... I'm not referring to the story they gave him, I really liked his new lore. I just hate how sexualized he and Fennorian were. In the base game, Verandis was always so uncomfortable about romantic relationships, but in Greymoor and Markarth he was rewritten to have a "wild side". Because content, right? Totally not selling hot vampire fangs to compensate what a disappointment Greymoor was. And I love how the obvious plot hole that we have all pointed out about him returning has never been addressed in game. Even Verandis didn't seem alarmed, even though his return could seriously have f*cked up Rivenspire. Molag Bal is the kind of dude to get pissed very easily. What's to stop him from just tossing the Blood Fiend Easy Bake Oven 2000 back into Tamriel just out of spite?

I wanted Verandis back but not like this.

And yeah, I hate how Fennorian was sexualized a lot. Because he's the soft UwU vampire boy. From the very start, his Meet the Character piece and all, they wouldn't shut up about the fact "oh wow he's so handsome, what a heart throb~". Listen I get it, I'm old now. Fenn is obviously meant for the older teen/very young adult demigraphic. But man, the poor guy hardly got to breathe for five seconds before thirsty fans were eating him alive.

The only thing keeping ESO alive right now is not good story telling, it's purely character driven now. We still get a handful of charming characters and they are what keep us wanting to come back. But there was a time when ESO had both good story telling and character charm, but that was sacrificed with Greymoor.

Just feels like the devs are too scared to take risks anymore. We got to see Summerset! We got to see Elsweyr! We got to see the motherf*cking Clockwork City in its prime! Those were bold moves to make, in a game some TES fans refuse to believe is canon. But now?

Skyrim. Cyrodiil. High Rock.

Was once cool but we've been there, done that.

Boring.

Safe.

#late night rambles #frustration in a nutshell #its nights like these I really wish a vanus plush was real #or a laloriaran one #not an abnur one #if there was an abnur one I obviously would have to build a shrine

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harukakitous · 4 years ago

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To say that I’m excited would be an understatement...not only do we get our main actor for Zenkaiger, we got the voice actors as well! If you’re a fan of Toku and anime, get your seatbelts and strap in, because your minds will be blown.

(what a cutie am i right?)

Kiita Kogamine (so no, not the actor who played Kusaka in Kiramager) will be playing Kaito Goshikida/ZenKaiser. He’s 20 years old and has watched all of the series from Gaoranger to Magiranger (overachiever lol). A cute dude and a friggin’ MODEL (seriously he is so pretty in editorials). Quite the popular dude from the get-go compared to the Kiramager guys, so it’ll be interesting to see where his popularity leads from here. As for Kaito, I really like the energy he gives him so far. It’s not much, but it’s definitely a positive - not overbearing - go-getter energy.

Now that we got our human lead out of the way, let’s get to the voice actors…

(dandy~)

Shintaro Asanuma will be voicing Juran (or Zyuran)/ZenkaiZyuran (or Juran), the red Kikanoid based on Zyuranger’s Daizyujin. A renaissance man in the flesh, being a popular seiyuu, scriptwriter, director, actor, copywriter, and designer. While well-known for franchises such as A3! And Hypnosis Mic, he’s also known for his roles in Ace of Diamond and Beelzebub. While he’s had roles in Ultraman and Sentai before as a villain, this will be his first time taking on one of the heroes in Toku. Fun fact, he’s the oldest of the voice cast at 45 (being born in ‘76), which is rather fitting seeing that he voices the oldest ranger. (Yeah, he doesn’t look like it I know.) I was honestly very surprised when I heard him as Juran, he sounds completely different from his usual roles! Asanuma has such an insane range, it honestly blows my mind every time I hear it.

(seriously, what a cutie)

Yuki Kaji will be voicing Gaon/ZenkaiGaon, the yellow Kikanoid based on Gaoranger’s GaoKing. If you’ve been in the anime fandom for a bit, you most definitely know his name. A HUGE, and I mean HUGE name in the anime industry, he’s also a narrator, fashion designer, and most recently Youtuber. Known for his roles in Attack on Titan, The Seven Deadly Sins, High School DxD, and a bunch more, he’s kind of a really big deal. Excluding a dub role in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, this will be his first Toku role. He’s also married to Ayana Takatatsu, the voice actress for Goche Ru Medou in LuPat. On a very dawww moment, he stated on his Twitter that he’s been a long time fan of the franchise and it was his dream to become a Sentai hero. (He also likes reds lol) Gaon honestly reminds me of Melodias, just a bit lower-pitched and obviously unpervy. Kaji is always amazing so I expected nothing less.

(so pretty!)

Yume Miyamoto takes on Magine/ZenkaiMagine, the pink Kikanoid based on Magiranger’s MagiKing. A rising star in the anime industry, she’s been in the entertainment industry for 20 years, being a child actress back in the day. She’s primarily known for her roles in SSSS.Gridman, GJ Club, Akashic Records, etc. but she’s starting to rise through the ranks at such a young age (being a mere 3 years older than our lead). Despite her long career, she had never made any appearances in any of the Toku franchises until Zenkaiger. Magine is so cute! Her voice is surprisingly deeper than I thought, but it’s honestly still very very cute lol

(onore you handsome man!)

Takuya Sato voices Vroon/ZenkaiVroon, the blue Kikanoid who’s based on Boukenger’s DaiBouken. A short, but muscular glasses wearer who’s primarily a voice actor with quite the suave voice. Known for his roles in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Cardfight Vanguard, and Moriarty the Patriot, you can also find in the wildly popular franchise Idolish7 (which I’m a casual fan of). You may also know him rather infamously as Yuri Ayato, one of the main dudes of Yarichin B Club (who is shamelessly proud of this role). Like Miyamoto, this will be Sato’s first time on a Toku series. A Tokusatsu fan as well, he said on a recent blog post that he’s elated to be part of such an iconic franchise and hopes to do his best as a voice actor as his height prevented him from being a full-time actor. (He’s 166 cm, so around 5’5”) Vroon is basically more akin to his nerdy roles, glasses and all. His voice just fits so well lol

Now onto the supporting characters!

(minna no idol. i’m not kidding)

Ikue Sakakibara will be playing Kaito’s grandmother Yatsude Goshikida. A relatively big star back in the day, she was a former idol that switched over to hosting and acting on TV after she got married and had children.

(she looks like that friendly grandma down the street lol)

Lenna Hardt will be voicing the Geartiinger. Narrator for Momoiro Clover, Japanese mixed-martial arts, and voice actor in various games and anime. If you’re wondering, she’s fully bilingual in English and Japanese.

As far as we know, that’s basically all for now. No cast reveals for the villains or other supporting characters so far, which is interesting considering Toei loves to reveal practically everyone during the press conference. We’ll more than likely be getting news for that in the near-future once it gets closer to the air date. Hopefully this ends up pretty good! I was really surprised at this cast lineup, but damn can’t say that I’m disappointed. To a new Sentai!

#kikai sentai zenkaiger #zenkaiger #super sentai #tokusatsu #so like....KAJI IN SENTAI #this all feels like a bigass fever dream #still feels like it at some points #anyways i'm excited!#ultraman dyna's dong the op which is fun #then we got a 95 year old veteran doing the ost which is even more insane #dang it's going to go full out

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themoomoorn · 4 years ago

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Random Thot #46,853

I had a health exam for my upcoming new job and put my two weeks in for my current one, so I’m rewarding my neurodivergent ass-brain with this. Sit tight and enjoy.

46,853: I’m half-convinced that Edelgard is like the Soul Series’ Alexandra sisters and daughter when it comes to her combat ability - or rather, lack thereof. Unlike Claude, Dimitri, and Byleth, who all explicitly received combat training as children, Edelgard likely did not. The tools given to her are what likely allow for her to fight at all - heck, they may even do a bit of the fighting for her. How else can a noodle-armed womanlet like her wear all that armor and heft that axe?

(Also, how the eff does this dress make clanking armor sounds when she walks in the game despite this dress having like no armor whatsoever)

To begin with, we have in-game factoids of her stat caps being the second highest in the game (390 when combined, with Cyril only beating her by 5 points due to his Aptitude skill), and she even has a magic cap that’s not only on-par with other magically-inclined units (72), but it’s actually better than some of them (Dorothea and Linhardt, who are both dedicated mage types, have caps of 61 and 66, respectively, while Manuela, who tends to get placed in Faith Magic-aligned classes despite being a hybrid unit, has a piddling cap 48). She even has a quirky but feasible spell list for both magic types (Fire/Bolganone/Luna Lambda/Hades Omega for Reason, and Heal/Nosferatu/Recover/Seraphim for Faith, which is one of her banes, mind you). I imagine this is the work of the experiments that gave her her version of the Crest of Flames - after all, the 2020 DREAM interview noted that the Hresvelg children were given a more “refined” version of the experiments the Ordelias had. The refinement isn’t just reflected in-game with caps and magic too; Edelgard is also more robust in terms of health, whereas Lysithea is prone to bouts of weakness and illness. In-game, she has poor Luck and Strength, and the single lowest HP cap of all the playable units at 48. And while this one is admittedly conjecture, Edelgard doesn’t hint that her lifespan was drastically cut, as she gets to live a long life in all of her endings. Even in her Crest-heavy ending with Hanneman or her healthcare-related ending with Manuela don’t mention that she had one or both of her Crests taken out. Lysithea, on the other hand, is extensively motivated by the fact that she doesn’t have many years left, and it’s only in two endings (Lorenz, Balthus) where she’s able to live fairly long without removing her Crests; The rest either have her dying young or being able to live long only after her Crests are taken out.

Now what of her combat abilities? Let’s turn to the source of where this silly thot came from.

For the uninitiated, Sophitia Alexandra, a fighter who’s been in the Soul Franchise since its very first game, did not grow up as a dedicated combatant like the other fighters - she was an ordinary baker living in Athens during the late 16th Century when Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire. When she was bathing in a lake one day, she received a message from Hephaestus himself in that she has a divine destiny to destroy the cursed blade Soul Edge, and he gifts her with a divinely crafted short sword and shield in order to fulfill her mission. While she does gain training in Athenian combat styles, a lot of her power and capabilities are tied to her weapon set, which are named the Omega Sword and Elk Shield. Her younger sister Cassandra would follow suit in SoulCalibur II, actually going out of her way to steal the same holy armaments Sophitia used in Soul Edge and SoulCalibur I before getting her own specially empowered set.

(Sophitia Alexandra)

And Pyrrha, Sophitia’s daughter in SoulCalibur V, takes it to new heights. Per a data book, the timid, mistreated Pyrrha has absolutely no combat experience, not even in self-defense. While Sophitia and Cassandra were able to train themselves into formidable soldiers outside of their divine weapons’ influences, this is not true for Pyrrha. If it were not for the sword and shield Pyrrha wielded (which is the same exact set Sophitia wielded before her passing), her clumsy attacks and timid guard stances would amount to ineffectual, useless flailing.

(Info about Pyrrha’s fighting style from the SCV data book)

Back to the Egg. Now it’s made abundantly clear that while Dimitri’s Jean Valjean-levels of raw strength heavily stem from his Crest, he’s also from the land where, in lieu of milk and honey, there’s extreme sports jock training in heavy armor in the dead of night with boulders for weights and weapon mastery. Dimitri loves to train, and it’s a big aspect of his character. The tritagonist of his route is also one of his combat trainers, and he’s done that job for three generations’ worth of Faerghus royalty, with his ending hinting that he keeps doing it for one more. I imagine that even without the Crest of Blaiddyd, Dimitri would still be extremely strong and formidable, he’d just have to actually exert himself a little when saving some poor soul from a runaway cart.

(Just in case the savior imagery wasn’t clear enough with Dimitri, he even did lift a cart the way eventual saint Jean Valjean did in the book/musical)

Claude is far more in favor of covert combat, and his own Crest is more defensive than offensive, but he’s no slouch either, having had a renowned war general serve as his combat instructor since childhood. He’s from a kingdom that, much like Faerghus, values the way of the warrior and prides itself on the strength of its people. His hidden talent, tying to wyvern mastery, is in friggin axes, and he’s also shown to be adept enough with a sword at various points. Plus there’s the fact that he was abused and mistreated by his Almyran family, complete with his father plopping him on a horse and making the horse ride off with him backwards with no safety net as a form of punishment - Claude tells Hilda that there was a “trick” in how he survived that. As any horse jockey can attest to, you need raw muscle in every part of your body in order to really ride one, and I imagine that’s doubly true for your local albino wyvern that’s decked out in Ottoman visual puns. Plus learning how to be crafty and protecting oneself more covertly undoubtedly contributed to his combat abilities too.

(I mean you’d have to be shredded if you can pull off the Parthian shot on a fucking flying dragon. 61 Strength cap my ass.)

Byleth, as we know, grew up as a mercenary to the point of detriment. There’s no need to go into extensive detail as to how Jeralt sacrificed almost everything else in exchange for contributing to Byleth’s combat abilities without being abusive and cruel, but even if you took away Byleth’s self-insert aspects, they’d likely bear a passing resemblance to Rei Ayanami in terms of behavior and attitude - An intended vessel/Avatar for a divine being from one end; Conditioned for little more than combat from another end. Kind of a gloomy picture before she starts to express herself better and actually bond with other people meaningfully.

(At least she’s cute as a button. Kinda like Rei.)

But where does that leave Edelgard? It’s a big question mark. There’s no mention of her growing up with any kind of combat training, unlike the other three. Heck, if tea time, Crimson Flower, and Heroes quotes are anything to go by, Edelgard grew up living a carefree lifestyle prior to the Insurrection. She got to stuff her face with sweets and play with teddy bears and both dote and be doted on by her siblings. Being child number 9 in her current generation, combat training and political studies likely weren’t major priorities for her, and since it’s speculated that Ionius favored her mother, she was likely lavished and spoiled by him. After all, he expresses grief for her specifically when she inherits the throne from him, not the rest of her siblings.

(Even the official merchandise notes how childish Edelgard is)

(This is all after she literally kickstarts her war, by the way).

While there’s varying degrees of elaborate flair that the Lords all wield their weapons with, Edelgard’s regular strikes with an axe feel far less rigid and more informal, and she’ll spin around her axe like it’s some kind of prop. Her default battle stance isn’t even remotely protective and quite impractical; Dimitri’s stance with a lance is both of these things, while Claude’s arrow-twirling is a real-life exercise that’s done to keep the wrist flexible. While she does refine her axe skills come Part II, she’ll still do things like throw her massive shield ten feet in the air for a critical hit.

(Seriously what even is this why is your hand out like that)

There’s even some proof of this: In her study request for axes and heavy armor, Edelgard will even acknowledge that the only reason she can likely keep up and wear heavy armor at all is because of her Crests. And unlike Dimitri and Claude, who can get lesson plans for their respective Hidden Talents once they’re mastered (Horse riding for Dimitri, axes for Claude), Edelgard doesn’t get a lesson plan for Reason Magic, which is her Hidden Talent, so she likely didn’t get any kind of formal education surrounding magic either.

(She has a similar quote in Heroes that’s even more explicit about this.)

The closest hint we get in Edelgard maybe having a hint of training as a child is in her Supports with Ferdinand, and even then, there’s no clear cut hint noting that his failures in beating her were combat-based. She’s able to one-hit KO him in their B Support, but it’s locked to Part II and at this point she’s been both riding on the power highs of her Crests along with actually taking combat seriously. She even says that their difference in skill level isn’t that great.

(Should’ve used Swift Strikes, Ferdie)

What’s more, in addition to all of those enhancements, she not only spends a lot of Part I in a custom set of armor that only archaic technology from the Agarthans can make, but they also made her a custom Relic that’s tailor-made to her specifications. The other Relics as well as the Sacred Weapons, being over a thousand years old, still require their wielders to train in order to wield them properly, and in the case of the Relics, their potential cannot be fully tapped into unless the wielder’s Crest matches the Relic they’re wielding. There’s also that particular safety issue, per what happens with Sylvain’s brother Miklan. But this is not the case with Aymr, which is brand new, has a mismatched Crest that doesn’t negatively affect Edelgard, and requires the Agarthan tech-compatible Agarthium to fix, not the Umbral Steel that’s used to fix both the Heroes’ Relics and other Crest Stone weapons like the Vajra-Mushti. The Aymr’s specific Combat Art even emulates the oft-broken Galeforce skill from Awakening and Fates. It feels like that Aymr in particular is the Edelgard what Hephaestus’ swords and shields are to the Alexandra family.

Now I don’t really think that an Edelgard who’d be stripped of her Crest of Flames, the Amyr, or her special Flame Emperor armor, would be as hapless as Pyrrha would be without her mother’s sword and shield. I imagine she likely started to do some kind of formal combat training once the experiments were done with, not just to kickstart her dreams of imperial conquest, but also to protect herself anyway after everything that happened; She’s also the only Hresvelg heiress of her generation left. There’s also her natural Minor Crest of Seiros to consider. But if you stripped all that away from her, then her ability to fight probably would come off as useless flailing to the other three more experienced combatants.

All those cakes and that lack of muscle would at least catch up to her, anyway.

#fe3h #fe3h meta #fire emblem three houses #edelgard von hresvelg #edelgard critical #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #claude von riegan #byleth eisner #headcanons #ramblings #soulcalibur #this literally popped into my head one day #seriously #edelgard isnt buff you cant change my mind

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theredleopardposts · 4 years ago

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Servitors Chapter Two

Chapter Two: Lay of the land

By HMK07

Beatrice Montes sniffed the afternoon air as her leathery wings glided her pitch black white veined demon form through the air at speeds comparable to a jet. "Ah Freedom, how ive missed it! I could eat all up." Beatrice mused as she twisted her body in the air ripping through the Detroit Michigan skyline. She then spied a dark haired, brown coated figure with blue transparent wings ahead of her about half a mile, The Unifying King. Both the murderer of her father warlock Michio Montes and her liberator The Unifying King alias Ardor Joncour sparked a mixture of emotions within Beatrice but for now she had no choice but to trust him. The Unifying King slowed his pace "You needn't worry Beatrice Montes, my home isn't much further".

Beatrice frowned trying to sound polite as possible "Just great your majesty. Im sure grateful for your offer as are my friends". Beatrice turned her head back and noticed her companian's the fire and ice demons, Paul and Frank flitting through the air. The two demons had served her and her father Michio Montes before her they were the closest thing she had to family allowing her to boss them around even though they were both older and stronger than her. Paul sped up towards Beatrice flanking her right side as Frank flanked her left as they followed the Unifying Kings pace. Paul smirked at Beatrice "Just look at him, youd think he was born into royalty or something! So B are we gonna get the drop on him and take his home from him? I mean killing the king would earn us alot of cred and allow us to establish ourselves in this new era".

Beatrice had considered the option of betraying the Unifying King but if half the stories she, Paul and Frank had heard from other paranormals about his majesty had been true then backstabbing him was not an option. Beatrice shook her blonde head of messy hair "No, boys we will wait until the time is right after weve regained our strength. Understood?" Paul nodded in agreement "Gotcha B". Frank nodded his agreement as well "Yes Beatrice". "Ahem, were here" the Unifying King spoke interrupting the trio's plotting as a massive three story mansion began to come into view. "What the hell, he actually owns a friggin castle?" Beatrice marveled at the size of the building, it was made up of three stories of greying dusty bricks with a red brick roof, dirt stained windows, a tower on both side of structure. Beatrice also noticed healthy green vines stretched across its outer walls giving the mansion an eerie feel to it. The Unifying King then lowered himself from the air to the ground landing no softer than a feather degenerating his light construct wings and motioned for Beatrice, Paul and Frank to join him.

Beatrice then tentatively landed her demonic form from the air clawed feet first with her companian's following suit onto the mansions grounds shifting back into human form. Beatrice stretched her inhuman senses towered the mansions structure and heard no other heart beats save two coming from inside the two towers of the mansions and though she couldn't tell there origin she knew they weren't human. Beatrice grimaced "He lives here all by himself? How can he stand it?" she then walked up towards the massive wood front doors of the mansion her sense of touch let her know that something was moving underneath her feet below grass itself. Beatrice hastened her pace followed by Paul and Frank respectively practically racing towards the massive doors. The Unifying King had a look of amusement on his handsome face at his three guest bowing his head as he opened the massive doors with as shove of his hands.

"Welcome to my home, or should I say our home as long as you'll have it" The Unifying King stated as his voice echoed along the mansions first floor which was had several tables made from fine wood, statues carved from marble, paintings by various artist and fancy furniture along with a hundred doors and a stair case that led up to the subsequent floors. The massive scope of mansion seemed to engulf the four occupants. The Unifying King began the tour "I built this place for...myself quite some time ago". The Unifying King paused as if remembering something "There are a hundred rooms on each floor, below us is the basement, and garage". The Unifying King looked at Beatrice Paul and Frank to make sure he hadn't lost their attention "The towers on the mansions sides house two dragons, one per tower". Beatrice was flabbergasted "You own dragons? Seriously?" she asked half shocked. It was true that every sense paranormals came out that dragons were revealed aswell but for someone to own one was almost unheard of, just what had she gotten herself and the boys into?

The Unifying King began heading towards the stair case "The first floor contains the kitchen, living room, library, game room and throne room among others." The Unifying Kings foot steps appeared to become more weary as the group made it up the stairs as if something weighed on him. "A throne room, really"? Beatrice mused inwardly "just who the hell does this guy think he is....oh wait" She continued walking. Upon reaching the second floor the Unifying King motioned his right hand towards the various rooms "Here on the second and third floor are the bedrooms and observatory! After ive given you the tour you can choose whichever room you'd like to stay in, they all come with baths and clean clothes within the closets. "My own bathroom, thank god for that" Beatrice mused. At the facility she couldn't get a decent bath due to the showers being coed. Having all those eyes on her naked body was not a good feeling and all the more awkward was having Paul and Frank starring at her and eachother. The Unifying King headed back down stairs leading the small group with him guiding himself down the silver stair case back to the first floor and quickly led them behind the back of the stair case. Once at the back of the stair case the Unifying King pressed his hand against its base causing a door to open revealing stone steps leading down a shadowed hall way. "Down here is the basement and garage" The Unifying King led the way down as Beatrice, Paul and Frank followed. "Down here is were I keep my armory of weapons and my vehicles" The Unifying sated as the group reached the base of the stairs through suffocating stone stair case. The basement was just massive as the floor above with various medieval weapons adorning its walls swords, axes, bows. Just about every weapon linked to knighthood was on display like a museum.

The floor of the basement was a different kind of museum, cars galore decorated the stone floor from Detroit muscle cars to european sports cars as well. Paul was impressed "Hmph, his majesty apparently has taste" Paul grinned as he drank in the sight of all classic, new cars and the weapons. The moment of awe was interrupted as the sound of rolling thunder was heard through the basement. The Unifying King smirked "Ah its time to feed the dragons, follow me" he urged the three. Beatrice instantly steeled herself even with Paul and Frank by her this was still a frightening moment this was the first time shed seen a real dragon up close. The Unifying King spoke as if reading Beatrice's thought's "There's no need to be afraid you three, my dragons are tamed, I assure you" he stated as he led the three up the winding towers stairs to the towers metal chamber door. "That's what Im afraid of" Beatrice thought herself silently reeling herself for whatever terror laid behind the towers thin metal chamber door. The Unifying King dug through his pocket looking for something and produced a gold key pressing it into the doors lock. The opened door revealed something only spoke of in legends, before her eyes was a massive long tailed brown scaled reptilian creature with green slit eyes. The creature spread massive leathery wings similar to her own when she'd shifted into her demon form. "Effing huge" Beatrice whispered as the creature took notice of her and released a low growl towards her and the two demons with her. Beatrice was instantly on her guard with Paul and Frank in front of her with a blink. "ENOUGH HANK" the Unifying King roared to the dragon causing it to seat itself on its hind claws and pure out a mixture of a chuckle and growl. The Unifying King then walked over to the left side of the dragons chamber and produced a massive slab of raw meat too large of one man to carry from a large freezer.

The Unifying King laid the slab of meet down with ease of a bag of rice "Here you go boy. Eat up!" The dragon sniffed the meat growling a low grown through its fangs and bellowed forth a large a blast of flames onto the meat charring it and proceeded to eat it up breaking whatever bones it contained down its throat. The Unifying King then looked distantly distracted for a moment "There's no need to check up on Drew, my other dragon he's asleep best too let him stay that way". The Unifying King then led the trio out of the Dragon's chamber and back down the stairs into the basement. "So what do guys think of the place so far?" The Unifying King asked quizzically of trio. Beatrice speaking for three cleared her throat "Its a lovely home, but we don't have any way of paying you for letting us stay here" she shrugged. The Unifying King narrowed his eyes as if considering something "Why don't you three work for me for now on? Ill allow you to live here and Ill even pay you!" The Unifying King offered. "Why would you do that? After everything you've done to us and vice versa" Frank questioned the arrangement. The Unifying King smiled "Because Frank its a new world and I could've killed you three on the way here, particularly when you were plotting to kill me" The Unifying Kings gaze penetrated the three of them.

Paul shifted on the balls of his feet uncomfortably somewhat regretting what he proposed to Beatrice on the way to the mansion. "Anyway, Ive business to attend to Ill leave you three to decide the duties you'll take on, feel free to explore the rest of the house, Ill expect as answer by morning" The Unifying King then disappeared back up the basement stairs with a blur of motion no human could've have tracked with there eyes. Beatrice, Paul and Frank stood in the vast basement mulling over the choice before them and the dragon chambers between them. Frank spoke up first "Ok Beatrice what's the play?" The Ice demon looked down onto the young half breed woman before him. "What ever choice you make ill stand beside you as I always have." Paul nodded in silent agreement with Frank. Beatrice looked between the two demons, they'd been with her through the death of her father, the owning of her club, imprisonment and now this. "Ok boys lets go to the game room" Beatrice commanded as she led them up the stairs like a general with her troops. Beatrice at a normal pace despite her inhuman stamina she was exhausted mentally at least and she just needed a moment after all she just went participated in prison break and had been offered a home and job by a the half angel warlock that killed her father. Beatrice, Paul and Frank had made their way up the stone stairs and closed the basement entrance behind them making their way towards the game room opening the wooden door that guarded it. The game was big enough to host a party in a bejeweled chandelier eliminated the room, its selves packed with board games and video game consuls alike. In the corner a television caked with dust the smell ruffled their sensitive noses.

"For someone with the title "King" he really doesn't take care of this place does he?" Beatrice questioned aloud. "Yeah" Paul and Frank agreed breathlessly. On a table the laid a deck of cards "Ok boys how about a game of old maid, who ever wins get to pick our jobs! Sound fair?" Beatrice asked with a sly grin. "Well I guess but I have to warn you Im not gonna go easy on you little lady" Paul said a devilish grin on his face. Frank chuckled as he pooled up a chair "I think you two better get used to working under me for now on." Beatrice rolled her eyes pulling up a chair sitting in it and began cutting the cards using her paranormal speed to blur the motion of her hands and the cards. Her father Michio Montes had taught her how to cut cards when he raised her and she'd often when against Paul and Frank while imprisoned so this was merely a formality if anything their jobs had already been decided. After cutting the cards Beatrice dealed the cards to the other two players with a stone walled look on her face. The object was simple each player had to pick a card out of the other persons hand eliminating their cards careful not to pick the joker. Whoever was left with joker card lost the round. "Ok boys Ill start" Beatrice said with a sing-sing voice. Beatrice quickly reached over to Paul's hand picked out a card "Ace of spades, how about that?" Paul eyes betrayed a sense of worry "Oh bullshit on this, I quit...fold whatever just pick the jobs already." Paul had played enough card games with Beatrice to know what she was up too. Beatrice looked over at Frank who still held his cards fast "Then that means you get to be the...Butler Paul" Beatrice ordered her friend. "Oh goodie, boss" said Paul with and obvious air annoyance. Beatrice looked over at Frank like a shark trolling for prawn "OK Frankie boy its just you and me". Frank reached over towards Beatrice's deck with a air of caution and pulled a card Frank looked it over revealing it to be the Joker card and frowned. "Well I guess that you the chef Frank and me...the caretaker" Beatrice said with a smirk liking the title. Paul frowned "Well funny how that works out for you B" Paul said tensing a bit and getting up and making his way to his second floor room. "Im gonna get myself familiarized with the kitchen I guess" Frank grumbled feeling awkward about his new position.

"Don't worry Frank you'll do fine, Ill see you in the morning for breakfast" Beatrice teased as she ushered Frank out of the game room and back onto the first floor of mansion. "Ill see you two in the morning" Beatrice called to both Paul and Frank as she sprinted up stairs to the third floor at a normal human pace. Beatrice wondered the vast third floor and flitted from room to room noticing they all bore same design: A king sized bed against the wall, with the a window on the side and wardrobe with at the foot of the bed along with a bathroom in the corner. All the rooms were the same except for one, The Unifying Kings room. For starters it had twin wooden doors that seemed to peer at a person. Beatrice hesitated. "After all this was his room" Beatrice thought "Oh what the hell, why not? After all come the morning He'll be our employer anyway" Beatrice mused to herself as she pushed the double doors wide open to reveal a messy king sized bed with a telescope and window at its foot looking out onto the night sky. A wardrobe to side housed the Unifying Kings clothes and belongings and a bathroom at at the corner. Beatrice noticed the head of the bed had a sword rack on it presumably for the rapier sword he kept around. Beatrice Quickly held out her had sending a pulse of magic energy through the room only for it to slam right back into her sending her to the floor with slap to the chest. "No wonder he wasn't worried about us trying to kill him, he's enchanted his house. Just how powerful is this guy?" Beatrice thought as she picked herself up off the rugged floor of the Unifying Kings room and headed towards the one she picked out for herself.

When Beatrice reached her room she looked at the marsh mellow sheets on her new bed admiring them. No longer would she have to sleep on musty mattress of the facility she was in hearing the boys snore up close. She smiled and fell over onto the bed letting her mind drift onto sleep, before blacking out however she could have sworn a blue transparent winged figure had put covers over her resting body.

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retphienix · 4 years ago

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I'm actually surprised I beat another dungeon in one go when the last dungeon felt so much longer! :)

And man I feel like I haven't done the game justice at all in pointing out how diverse and fun these dungeons have been.

While the innate "These are dungeon mechanics necessary to progress the game" stuff usually isn't all the in-depth, it is usually well planned out.

Like this dungeon using enemies that create barriers of lava above them which block platforming and require you to figure out how to get to the enemy itself to defeat it and move on- that's smart design and it's fun to tackle!

Most of what I want to admire and show appreciation for is what surrounds the dungeon experiences instead- all the diversions, mini-games, and the fucking fantastic encounters.

Seriously, fighting stuff in this game still hasn't lost its edge- it's so FUN to learn the enemy movesets and how to best avoid/parry or just confront them head-on.

I mean heck this segment has enemies with rage mechanics (WHO HIT LIKE A TRUCK), enemies that are immune to damage until they change forms and both forms have different attacks to avoid, enemies that are incredibly tanky but if you slingshot their weakpoint they reveal a MEGA weakpoint which I can one shot with the hammer, and just- god the encounters.

BUT HEY BEYOND ENCOUNTERS! This dungeon had a salsa making mini-game! The boss was a mini-game! A metroid base escape sequence! A water maze for loot! A FRIGGIN' SNOWBOARDING MINI-GAME TO CLOSE THINGS OUT!

The game has strong as hell fundamentals on making an rpg dungeon fun to explore, and on top of that "Just incase" you were to get bored of the fundamentals, they have a plethora of diversions and twists to keep the entire game feeling fresh which ISN'T EVEN NECESSARY! IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT MAKES THE GAME FEEL UNIQUE AND FUN!

SICK!

But now we're finished with that dungeon and this play session :) While our sword claims tomorrow is the big day where we tackle Stitches, that remains to be seen.

Since a day seems to pass every dungeon, that means we're coming up on "One Day Left" til the invasion, and I really feel like our big fight will happen DURING the invasion?

But again, we'll see next time I play :)

Fun dang game.

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inikavulpixelreviews · 5 years ago

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Let’s Talk About Pokemon - Galarian Farfetch’d and Sirfetch’d

Galarian Farfetch'd:

Bahahaha, just saying, it was hilarious learning of Sirfetch'd pre-release only for the game to release and have it turn it evolves from an edgy version of Farfetch'd.

As super simple a transformation as it is, it's absolutely funny with how effective it is. All that's really done is it looks a little meaner, which more exaggerated eyebrows and darker feather colors. But after all, you gotta be tough to carry around a huge leek like that. It's just hilarious to see it carry its Japanese origins with it in that it looks about no different from your typical edgy anime dude that carries a sword that's bigger than he is.

But why is its leek so big? Well, evidently, leeks grow to be HUGE in Great Britain. That is one thing I love about this generation as a whole is that it REALLY sticks to the theme of the region no matter what. In other games you'll occasionally wind up a Pokemon that feels really weird and out of place for the theme of their region (Daruma dolls for Poke-USA, Lucha wrestlers for Poke-France, Koalas for Poke-Hawaii, etc). But nah, pretty much every new Pokemon this time around ties into the UK theme of the region in one way or another.

There isn't a ton to talk about for this one given they didn't change much though. It really is just an extra-mean version of Farfetch'd for your extra-mean Farfetch'd needs.

It does adopt a mono-Fighting type! So that's fun. Logically, a sword-fighting Farfetch'd wielding a huge weapon like that isn't gonna be able to do much flying, right?

Personal Score: 8/10

865: Sirfetch'd

And at last, after all these years of begging and unfortunately learning a Farfetch'd evolution was actually planned as far back as Gen 2 all along, we finally have gotten the fabled Farfetch'd evolution. With the unexpected knight theme to go with it, somehow. Loads of interpretations for a Farfetch'd evo have been notably samurai-based, so I do at least appreciate going with something more unique in that respect. The one downside to all this is that it's only Galarian Farfetch'd that can evolve of course. But who's to say they can't bring it back around to give Kantonian Farfetch'd its own evolution at some point? Sky's the limit as far as the Pokemon themselves go, it seems.

AND YEAH, it still doesn't change much. Take away the leek and it's just a white Farfetch'd. But again, I kinda prefer that compared to all the fan interpretations of Farfetch'd evos that give it more swan-like proportions. It's just Farfetch'd; it's a delicious duck that beats you up with the veggie that goes well with it taken to its most possible extreme and I can't help but love it.

It's clever to have translated the leek itself it's both a sword/lance, AND a shield. Keen-eyed art dorks have pointed out that Sirfetch'd sword and shield are from the same plant, the shield is just the top of the leek cut off and flayed out to look more shield-like. Along with layers of the leek peeled back to form the “hilt” and “handguard”.

I do also think its stoutness only emphasizes the amusement that is its design. Yeah it's unpressively not that tall, but that only gives emphasis to the sheer size of its leek. That thing's twice as tall as Sirfetch'd itself! It's just funny to have a dopey little farm duck try to pose as a gallant knight, charging forward on foot with its stumpy little duck legs.

And we can't go over Sirfetch'd without talking about that face. The face of a big ol' disgustingly smug asshole. It's the type of attitude of a snobby knight-type character that I don't think has really been portrayed in a Pokemon design before. It only makes it funnier that it's just a white Farfetch'd overcompensating with giant gear. Whenever I look at this thing I can't help but crack a dumb smile or hear Prince Peasley's theme in the back of my head.

Those goddamn bishounen eyes are just the cherry on top of everything else. It could've taken itself with deadpan seriousness like is unevolved self does but no. Of COURSE it has a stupid, dumb face. It can take itself seriously all it wants, we KNOW this thing looks ridiculous.

I am sorry if you didn't get what you wanted out of a Farfetch'd evo, or if you were invested in the cool samurai motifs of the ditched Beta Gold evo or the numerous fakemon, but I'm all the happier it wound up like this of all things. I do agree that they could've done a little more to change it up, but it's friggin Farfetch'd. An absurd character idea should get an equally absurd design like this and I would easily say a jokey-hokey design like Sirfetch'd is a better fit for the line than anything with a cool badass personality but is unironic about it. If we do eventually get a new split-evo in the future that gives the fans of Madame what they want, I'll be happy for you. I'm just more likely than not just going to prefer Sirfetch'd anyways.

I just can't get over that face. It's dumb anime bs but it's MY kinda dumb anime bs. It’s stupid. It looks so damn stupid. You’re stupid, Sirfetch’d.

Personal Score: 10/10

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masterweaverx · 5 years ago

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Ah, Velvet Scarlatina. Truly a wonderful example of just how a fan favorite can become a Very Important Character in a series. But enough reminiscing, let’s see if we can get her Dungeoning with Dragons!

Velvet needs to be able to fight with anything--swords, spears, shields, swords that are spears and guns, swords on wires, guns on scythes, her own dang fists and feet, she can fight like anyone. And with Anesidora, she can create anything she needs to fight like anyone, at any time, so we should get her something on those lines. And of course, there’s Velvet’s ability to read the room--not exactly something she whips out every day, but it’s interesting how her minor comments on how strange some people are acting can affect the story.

Point array stats make things easy to track, and serve as a decent guide if you want to make a scary smart bunny lady of your own for the game. Velvet’s kind of a genius--she made her own superweapon, people!--so putting the 15 in Intelligence makes sense. 14 in Dexterity is also kind of obvious, she’s pretty flexible in combat, and 13 in Charisma because, come on, would you say no to Velvet? (Seriously she is the epitome of ADORIFYING, I’m pretty sure if she didn’t have morals she would have conquered Remnant in volume 2.) 12 points for Wisdom because she’s definitely able to pick up on small but important details, 10 points in Constitution--not because she’s fragile, we just need other stats up--and that leaves 8 points in Strength. Don’t worry, that’s not going to be a problem.

Velvet’s a Faunus, but there are no Faunus in the official D&D list, so let’s go with the closest thing--a Shifter. Specifically a Swifthide Shifter--yes, yes, same as Blake, but one has the traits of one of the most frightening little monsters on the planet and the other has cute kitty ears. Swiftstride Shifters get +2 to their Dexterity and +1 to their Charisma, have a base speed of 35, 60 feet of Darkvision, proficiency in Acrobatics and Perception, aaaaaand the Shifter feature. As a bonus action, they can get a one-minute boost to their speed, bumping them up to 40 feet, and move up to 10 feet as a reaction without provoking opportunity attacks whenever an enemy ends their turn next to them. Also there’s some free temp HP, level plus con mod, that’s a bit useful, but they can only use the Shifter feature once per rest.

The Sage background is basically the best background you can give a nerd intellectual, since it comes complete with proficiency in Arcana and History as well as two bonus languages. Not that Remnant has many languages, but there are a lot of dead cultures laying around, so maybe Velvet studied ancient runes for a semester and that’s why she was in the same history class as the main crew? Even if she didn’t, the Researcher feature allows her to figure out where to go to find out what she doesn’t know already. Beware the book bunny, because she can bash and batter the bulkiest of brutes basically whenever she bothers to blink.

Now an intellectual mind needs an intellectual class, so obviously Velvet is going to start her Dungeoning career by grabbing three levels in Fighter. Fighters get proficiency in all weapons and armors, Strength and Constitution saving throws, and of course two skills--Athletics and Insight round out Velvet’s physical and mental acumen pretty well. First level Fighters get Second Wind, letting them heal 1d10 plus their Fighter level as a bonus action once per rest--which isn’t too useful, since we’re only getting three levels, but it’s okay, they also get to pick a Fighting Style. We’ll be going with Tunnel Fighter, which actually has nothing to do with horrifying subterranean lagomorphs... I think. It just means that Velvet can use a bonus action to enter a defensive stance until the start of her next turn that lets her make attacks of opportunity without using a reaction. When Coco tells her to hold the line, she holds the friggin’ line. And at second level she gets an Action Surge, letting her take an extra action for one turn every rest.

It’s the third level of Fighter where things get interesting, because it’s where we select a martial archetype. And we’re going with Eldritch Knight, which gives Velvet the ability to cast a few spells. A few. Two cantrips and three first level spells, and two of the first level spells have to be either Evocation or Abjuration. Booming Blade and Lightning Lure let her control where a single target is going to be, for when you really need that Beowolf in the right place, and for the first level spells I figured Absorb Elements, Color Spray, and Witch Bolt could give her the ability to rush into the fray, do some area-of-effect crippling, and then hammer hard on a creature. Eldritch Knights also get the ability to make a Weapon Bond, which lets them summon one particular weapon at any time so long as they’re on the same plane. I’m fairly certain that Remnant doesn’t do interplanar travel... unless you count the Vaults? Something’s up with them. But other then that, Velvet can’t be disarmed, which makes sense.

Eldritch knights are intelligence-based half-casters. You know what other class is an intelligence-based half-caster? Artificers! That’s right, Velvet’s going to spend her other seventeen levels on the techiest class, specifically being an Artillerist Artificer. Multiclassing into Artificer gives proficiency in Thieves’ Tools and Tinkers’ Tools, for all those fiddly bits in Anesidora that need maintenance. And at third level, Artificers can use those tinker’s tools to make any set of tools, and at sixth level, Artificers get expertise on any tools they’re proficient in, which is amazing. They also get Flash of Genius at seventh level, letting them add their intelligence modifier to an ability check or saving throw anybody in thirty feet of them makes as a reaction; they can do this a number of times equal to their intelligence modifier per long rest.

One small problem with splitting levels 17/3 is that we only get four ability skill improvements. And I’d like to burn one to pick up the Observant feat--giving Velvet +1 to her Intelligence to bump it up to 16, the ability to read lips at a distance, and a +5 bonus to passive Wisdom and Intelligence scores (perception and investigation, apparently). That only leaves us six points total to spend; putting four in Intelligence to cap it at 20 and the last two in Dexterity to make it 18 is a pretty good compromise.

Of course the real draw of the Artificer is, well, the Artifices they make. At first level, they can’t really do much--just Magical Tinkering, which basically lets Velvet turn Tiny objects into a handheld screen. So she always has a scroll! That has no apps and isn’t attached to any network. But second level Artificers get the ability to learn Infusions they can apply to items, and one of the Infusions they can learn is Replicate Magic Item; while they can only do this with one kind of magic item, they can take the learn the Infusion multiple times to make multiple kinds of Infusions. At level seventeen, Velvet can know ten infusions, but only have five active at any time--but that’s okay, since she can also have five items attuned to her. Here’s what I picked, and what I think she’d have active the most often.

Enhanced Arcane Focus (Attunement)

Mind Sharpener

Repeating Shot (Attunement)

Spell-Refueling Ring (Attunement)

Replicate Magical Item: Belt of Hill Giant Strength (Attunement) [On]

Replicate Magical Item: Boots of Striding and Springing (Attunement) [On]

Replicate Magical Item: Bracers of Defense (Attunement) [On]

Replicate Magical Item: Goggles of Night [On]

Replicate Magical Item: Quiver of Ehlonna [On]

Replicate Magical Item: Sending Stones

Why does Velvet have all this? Well, the Belt of Hill Giant Strength gives Velvet a base Strength of 21, period. That’s +5 to any strength check, including unarmed strikes. The Boots of Striding and Springing mean she can jump three times as far as normal, the Bracers of Defense give her +2 to her AC, the Goggles of Night lets her make Bunnyvision for a certain dense team leader, and the Quiver of Ehlonna is basically a hammerspace bag for holding whatever. Easy enough to reflavor into a camera that makes hardlight weapons at a whim.

Artillerist Artificers get proficiency with Woodcarver’s Tools (Anesidora has one fine-looking shell) and with that they can make Eldritch Cannons and Arcane Firearms. Eldritch Cannons are... basically guns. They’re small or tiny, and Velvet can make one as a bonus action before commanding it to shoot as a bonus action. Granted, because she has seventeen levels as artificer, she can also command them to walk somewhere, explode, or provide magical half-cover for a few people. So maybe they’re more like those walking mines from the Amity Arena game? Velvet does have connections.... Also the Arcane Firearm lets her add 1d8 to any damage roll she makes when she casts a spell.

And speaking of Spellcasting, this is going to get complicated. As an Artificer Velvet knows four cantrips and can prepare a number of spells per day equal to her Intelligence Modifier plus half her Artificer level (5+8=13) but also knows bonus spells given to her by her specialization without needing to prepare them and can ‘save’ a first or second level artificer spell in an item for multiple future castings without needing to prepare it and always has the spells given to her by Eldritch Knight. Since she’s a hybrid of two half-casters, Velvet has the same number of slots as she would have had if she’d gone pure artificer. As to her spell list, here’s what I wound up with:

Cantrips:

Booming Blade (Eldritch Knight)

Firebolt (Artificer)

Lightning Lure (Eldritch Knight)

Message (Artificer)

Mending (Artificer)

Spare the Dying (Artificer)

L1 (four slots)

Absorb Elements (Eldritch Knight)

Alarm (Artificer)

Color Spray (Eldritch Knight)

Detect Magic (Artificer) (Concentration)

Identify (Artificer)

Jump (Artificer)

Longstrider (Artificer)

Shield (Artillerist)

Thunderwave (Artillerist)

Witch Bolt (Eldritch Knight)

L2 (three slots)

Arcane Lock (Artificer)

Blur (Artificer) (Concentration)

Enhance Ability (Artificer)

Scorching Ray (Artillerist)

Shatter (Artillerist)

L3 (three slots)

Dispel Magic (Artificer)

Elemental Weapon (Artificer) (Concentration)

Fireball (Artillerist)

Haste (Artificer) (Concentration)

Wind Wall (Artillerist) (Concentration)

L4 (three slots)

Fabricate (Artificer)

Ice Storm (Artillerist)

Wall of Fire (Artillerist) (Concentration)

L5 (two slots)

Cone of Cold (Artillerist)

Creation (Artificer)

Wall of Force (Artillerist) (Concentration)

Some of these are utility spells that let Velvet figure things out and make things on the fly, but a lot of them are big battlefield spells. She’s a one-woman army, able to make and wield any weapon, manipulate the battlefield, and hold a point on her own--and she’s got enough of an advantage on her social skills that she can seem like just some friendly person off the street.

Look: Velvet is adorable, and she is terrifying. And the only reason more people don’t realize she’s terrifying is because she’s adorable. Do not mess with the bunny, people. She can wreck your shiz.

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