#tag: lying figures

[hinamie]

i'm exactly as normal about him as I thought I'd be

[xxplastic-cubexx]

yeah the skins neat i guess idk

[starry-bi-sky]

The face of a boy with your best interests at heart :]

(He pushed the Joker down the stairs)

[buwheal]

Hello, Spamton!

How's life? Also, do you have any opinions on the Addisons? (Pink, blue, orange, and yellow)

If so, what do you think of them?

[rainbowpufflez]

Team RR but it’s their mugs 🤯

[gracefireheart]

Time for yet another Sea Grunkles adventure, 'cause this one I've had in mind for a lil' while. It's a long though, so I'll put it under the keep reading line.

It revolves around the whole "I'm still on your mind" poem, to which- a few months into Stan and Ford's sea venture- Bill finally finds out how to get back into Stan's mind again from the Theraprism.

The only problem? Well... Bill's essentially powerless there too. Can't really make Stan's dreams chaotic and distressing like he wants to (besides just being there himself, which seems to at least annoy Stan a lil' bit), can't really make a deal with Stan even if he wanted to, can't even float around this damn Mindscape! It was frustrating to be there, especially with Stan laughing at Bill's uselessness. However, it did make him feel immense joy to know that Stan haven't slept well because of him- coupled with the fact that Stan doesn't want to tell Ford about this- so he continued visiting as often as he could.

Of course, Ford eventually notices that something's wrong with Stan. Despite getting more sleep than Ford (old habits die hard and all), Stan still looked more and more tired the more days pass. He wanted Stan to tell him what was going on without any prompting from himself, but after about a week had passed with nothing from his younger twin, Ford tries to confront him himself. Of course, Stan brushed him off.

Being two stubborn old men, they do end up arguing out on the deck of the ship. A lot of "I just want to make sure you're okay!" and "I don't need someone to take care of me, I'm completely fine!" and so on, until Stan spots something out the corner of his eye. Looking over- and upwards, upwards, upwards- Stan looked up to see a massive pink axolotl, staring down at them with a smile.

"Ah, there you are." Echoed through the air, yet the axolotl didn't move it's lips as it spoke. And of course, Stan screamed at it as he had no clue what it actually is nor why it's here.

Ford, however, looks at Stan in confusion- wondering why his brother was suddenly screaming out of nowhere. They very quickly find out that Ford can't see this giant axolotl- which was very unfair, in Ford's opinion- because, apparently, it had come here to kinda see Stanley, not Ford. Something about how Bill is breaking some rules by half leaving the Theraprism- several times- without an authorized figure with them or even knowing about it, and this axolotl's here to try and fix that. Also, Bill wasn't allowed to visit the Pines Family (or any of the Gravity Falls residents) at all to not make them relive old trauma- or give them any new trauma.

As this big axolotl spoke, Ford wanted to hear from Stan what it was saying, but of course, Stan doesn't want to say shit considering the subject matter. The Axolotl, having paused it's speech for a moment, looks sadly at the two twins- telling Stan how despite how happy this boat adventure seemed to make them, they still want to do everything in their power to "be better" for their twin. Whether by not being an inconvenience, or trying to pay back for past mistakes.

No matter, this wasn't why the Axolotl was here- the twins would have to figure that part out themselves once the Axolotl was done here. They shake their head before informing Stan that they need to be in his Mindscape for a bit to figure out how to get Bill out of there. Stan had no clue what to say to that, but even before he could try to say anything, the Axolotl surges forward and goes into his head- making Stan fall into Ford's arms, his eyes glowing bubblegum pink as he went unconscious.

This was pretty alarming for Ford to see- yelling out a distressed "STANLEY!" as he held his younger twin- but he quickly realized what was happening by the glowing eyes and remembered one of his own journal entries that could help in this situation. Carrying Stan's body to their shared bedroom, Ford places his twin's unconscious body onto the lower bed before he sets everything up with the lit candles. As Ford held his hand to Stan's forehead, it took a couple of tries to recite the exact latin words he needed to say. The moment he got it right, Ford was transported into Stan's mindscape- ready to face whatever was going on with this Axolotl he had heard high praises about in his travels through dimens--

"Hey Fordsy." "Hey. ... YOU--"

[aradia-queen-of-the-sheep]

Saw a poll a while back about which homestuck kid is most likely to be cancelled and it got me thinking. Obviously if we're going for cancelable characters almost every single one of the trolls is easily cancelable. So.

Nepeta and Kanaya are excluded for being unproblematic, murders nonwithstanding. Feferi and Aradia are included for being the dictator in training and the grim reaper, respectively. Tavros included for being cringe. I think the rest speak for themselves.

[beneath-the-null-moon]

Corrections and additions for Commentary 3

Things I either left out or got desperately incorrect for Commentary 3:

00:00 We're gonna take a field trip!

01:53 Eddie, visible breath, and "coldness"

08:00 Apartment 213 ("208") as a crime scene

23:00 Strange Photos credit to DaleRobinson on Reddit

24:30 The Blue Velvet homage in Apartment 201

26:00 I said something incredibly weird and here’s what I was actually thinking 

34:30 A wild lying figure appears: "Now how do you feel about that after the discussion we just had?"

36:35 Pole dancing?

[bpd-roland]

BY THE WAY this is possibly the FUNNIEST fact about roland i have discovered in my time playing the game. he CAN'T LIE FOR SHIT

LIKE. OKAY. OBVIOUSLY he can dance circles around the bush like nobody's goddamn business. he is extremely good at manipulating the way he testifies, in order to imply or remove connections between events and concepts. his favorite way of lying is by shrimply not mentioning something when it would completely change the entire context of what he's saying. However. the thing he absolutely sucks at is making shit the fuck up

citation number one: SMALL STORIES 1. EVERYONE WATCH SMALL STORIES 1 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. mandatory viewing for anyone on my blog. yeah fuck you i'm embedding it. watch it now.

guy with cookie crumbs on his face and shirt getting asked if he ate the last cookie and he extremely conspicuously goes "huh? no, no, of course not, what cookie? haha"

citation number two to show this isnt like a one time silly joke about him being a lying liar or whatever: OLIVIER POST-RECEPTION. which i will not make anyone watch because it makes me so sad. so it will just be a screenshot

yknow what i will put a spoilers cut here bc this is like major endgame stuff

this can Technically technically technically hypothetically technically be interpreted two different ways, considering he is supposedly The black silence during the game and then the artbook is like NO LOL IT'S ANGELICA. like there is actually one true answer as to how this should be interpreted (because he does not believe himself to be The black silence. because that was his wife.) but the thing is it works BOTH WAYS:

he is the black silence, and he's lying about whether there was any moment whatsoever in which he could say such a thing about himself (which would obviously be false, if he were the black silence he had multiple opportunities in which he was outright pressed on his origins and could have said so, including that time he confessed to previously being a "kickass grade 1 fixer")

he is not the black silence, and he's trying his hardest to roll with her assuming he is because he REALLY doesnt want to admit literally anything whatsoever about his wife (he even calls HER a grade 1, previously! again with technically true but omitting crucial context information!) which results in him lying his ass off with "y... Yuppp i'm... totalllyyyy the black silence (trying not to throw up)"

anyways that's my really funny roland fact. have a nice day

[pixele-layton]

You know seeing somebody liked your post is nice. But seeing somebody comment “THE FUCK YOU MEAN MILK?!?!?!” is way more satisfying 

[thewitchofcedarandbone]

Bed bound today due to mystery chronic illness so it seems like no First Day of Summer/Summer Solstice celebration for me🥲

[zaniontheshit]

https://www.tumblr.com/zaniontheshit/772680986819493888/httpswwwtumblrcomzaniontheshit77267145644641?source=share Darick's viewers don't usually come up anymore even if he is playing with Sylvee, most likely the trip to Peru will be Darick's last viewer upload and then his interaction will be less frequent until they forget SyDa for another new ship (the same happened with his previous ships Mary and Mictia). He is just a psychopath (said by his own friend emet) looking for his own benefit, at least in that he resembles Sylvee.

that is quite a wild statement anon

[firstinspires]

[a-concert-just-for-me]

my sister was not impressed with my observation

[fullscoreshenanigans]

BIRTHDAY BOY........

Birthday boy with cake or present, such choices,,,

Another one of those situations where if the younger Grace Field kids present the crown to him he's on board with little to no fuss, especially if they frame it as a celebration of the day they started their path to freedom, or note it's the day where they first noticed where the way he carried himself was lighter and happier than how he was back at the house (but especially after Norman was shipped, although that's a sad time they all try to forget). And how can he say no to that when it shows how much they care.

(Norman being the one to originally find it while discreetly guiding Emma's attention toward it so she can throw 110% of her energy and enthusiasm behind him wearing it because "it matches your eyes when the sun hits them" and "they're happy every year they have a chance to celebrate it with him" optional.)

Pepe made the cake, but kept it a secret to pull a bit of a mini-prank on everyone.

He knew Ray would appreciate it after their many conversations in the quiet of the kitchen where it was just the two of them enjoying each other's company and getting lost in the soothing rhythm of cooking and baking.

[claire-starsword]

Authentic Story of the Shining Force - Saint Fencer Max - Chapter 5

Translation notes:

All enemies so far were recognizable from the game, but here they seem to be original.

This might be Boken?? The only character in the game with a big backpack and hair. And he does show up in Dragonia in-game.

About the Ancient names. Mega Max is clearly alliterative in both languages. Giga Cain is almost that. K sounds in japanese become g sounds once you add a dakuten (ﾞ), so they're associated. And in english it kinda works out accidentally, because a G is basically a C with extras too. Vega Darksol though? No link. The pattern is lost. I'm kinda mad about it.

From an author's comment: "These two also appear in Tanuma-sensei's Shining Force (lol). Are they official members?" Yuichiro Tanuma is the artist for another Shining Force manga, Descent of Great Intention, whose scans I only found today (warning for a lot of ecchi/nudity/nsfw, i'm still going through but what i've seen is pretty horny already). And yes, these background characters also appear there. This manga was published before that one, though, so this is their first appearance.

"But Claire you're dodging the main topic, Cain just did exposition of the whole lore" yes yes, the similarities between it and the GBA version are what made me interested in this manga to begin with, but I've decided there's so much to compare between all versions of Max and Cain I'll make a whole huge ass post about it instead. Look forward to that.

I will mention however that Cain's bodysuit here reminds me a bit of the manual picture with Max being brought into Guardiana for the first time.

I did say we had to talk about Prompt (and then promptly forgot it in the first draft of these notes). Like Waral, Prompt is not seen anywhere in the beta map. And here, it is depicted as only ruins instead of the country it is in the final game. That in itself wouldn't mean much, however, Chapter 7, where Prompt is, has a lot more weirdness in it. It has peculiar unused content implying a whole deleted cutscene with Cain, Adam, Chaos and Darksol in Metapha, and it freezes the Debug Mode's Battle Test any time you Egress (also, Chapter Selection won't even load it from a save file of another chapter, which doesn't happen for any other chapter). Of course, I don't know the actual code of the game, but this gives me the impression that this Chapter 7 had some other Egress point that got removed later. Basically, if there's one part of the game you can expect to have changed late in development, it's Prompt and Metapha, so it could have been only ruins as the manga depicts here, and as I mentioned in the last chapter, some place or machine called Tenochtitlan could have existed.

Oh boy I keep forgetting notes this time! The goddamn chapter title. Both times the Chaos Breaker is mentioned here, it is written with the usual katakana, but also the kanji 対暗黒魔法剣 (Anti-Darkness Magic Sword) as furigana. I felt it was too clunky to mention both sword names in the dialogue, especially when Cain was already pushing the limits of a lot of speech bubbles this chapter. But anyway, yeah, it's supposed to be a bit of a title drop there.

I. forgot. yet. another. note. When Otrant recognizes the robot using an explosion spell, the manga actually says 核爆烈, a mix of 核 (nuclear) and 爆烈 (explosion). However, I couldn't find this exact wording in dictionaries, only fictional works, so it might just dramatic flavor, since nuclear explosions Don't Work Like That. I kept it ambiguous in the translation to not raise questions in the middle of the action, but it's worth noting since both the aforementioned Descent of Great Intention manga and the UK Sonic the Comic version of Shining Force bring up nuclear themes at some point.