#that would be absolutely killer

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im bothering you this sts, if your characters had a game night, what would they play? does anyone cheat? does anyone have a favorite game?

happy sts! i have some time before my train so enjoy these Rambles that are, technically, an answer to this question

for someone with so many Board Game friends, i do not actually. play a lot of board games. HOWEVER.

Zeth'rinn is mediocre at sava unless he cheats, and he's annoyingly good at cheating, which makes his dad equal parts proud and annoyed (the pride is when Zeth uses this skill to fleece or bamboozle someone else, the annoyance is when he uses it to fleece or bamboozle him.) the only person he can't scam is Valas. (not for lack of trying).

Vizaeth is a) bad at having fun and b) the sorest possible loser unless it's to Pharaun. If there's a drow equivalent of monopoly, i imagine his siblings using it to thoroughly torment him as a child. He will flip the board if he loses.

this is vibes alone, but I think Ashenivir would like Munchkin. It's got enough strategy to be satisfying, and also is silly enough to to enjoy. He'd never cheat at a board game - Keszriin would, and has, and Dresvan and Pella do as well but they mostly try and con each other instead of whoever they're playing against. I also think he'd enjoy making Rizeth play it, and watching him trying to take this silly game seriously.

also there's huge potential for bratty maneouvers in screwing people over in that game :p

Rizeth on his own I think does enjoy sava, if he's got a good opponent. He can't be doing with those overly complicated kickstarter games with four million cardsets. A simple game with the complexity in your strategy, that's him. He'd also never cheat - though if Shen plays sava with him, I do think Shen would try and 'cheat' in as subtly obvious was as possible because. well. you know what's going to happen then

and as a bonus bc I was working on his fics today - Rune is surprisingly good at poker (i know, not a board game, i'm. interpreting.) mostly because he's so fucking stoic no-one can tell if he's scowling because his hand is bad or if he really wants to stab them. even with tadpoles he consistently kicks everyone's ass at both that and Three Dragon Ante, much to everyone's disbelief. why is this feral bhaalspawn halfelf so good at cards. why does he have all our money.

(if i was shitposting, i'd say his secret is Scleritas Fel in the bushes with a set of binoculars. which. that's very funny, that's half canon.)

[somegrumpynerd]

It's interesting to think about how, to me at least, Dust and Killer are like mirror versions of each other.

One who joins a villain enthusiastically, jumps at the chance to leave his past behind and have a purpose again, and the other who has to be dragged in, would rather rot in the consequences of his own actions.

One who needs orders, needs the distraction and the action and the thrill, can't sit alone with his thoughts for too long lest he hear them clearly, and the other who can't bring himself to ignore the ghost over his shoulder, would rather sit in place and listen to his own self loathing parroted back at him than stand up and find a way to drown it out.

One who doesn't associate with his past anymore, that wasn't me and I wasn't him, and cannot stand the thought of going back from where he came, and the other who wants nothing more than to be his old self again but feels so strongly that he doesn't deserve to return to the life he tore down himself.

They both wear their new names like dog collars, but one is a gift given by someone else because he's theirs, he has somewhere he belongs that he's expected to return to, and the other is a choker tying him to a post, warning others of his danger while never allowing him to get out of arm's reach of his past.

And getting them both back-to-back while trying to understand mortals was probably enough to give Nightmare whiplash

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

fuck it. Take This And Run

[zu-is-here]

It was a pleasant surprise to see him in the Killer tournament, never late to appreciate the ro-boi ♡

[5/10] Happy belated birthday! ★

Killer by rahafwabas / rahaf-wabas / rahofy-sketch

[zombie-hickey]

He'd take one look at me and wouldn't be able to kill me. I'm just too fuckable and adorable. One look at me and he'd be in love. He'd love me. You just don't get it. I'm the exception to his wraith. You don't understand. I'm definitely his type.

[overly-hubristic-mad-scientist]

I desperately need to know the circumstances that lead to that weird period in like 70s-80s where they just made a horror movie about any and everything

[scintillyyy]

honestly there's a lot of sophie's choice questions within the batfam for tim that are super interesting to me because. while tim would hate himself for having to make a sophie's choice and have to sacrifice someone, he has a very clear cut priority order imo that's like dick -> bruce -> steph -> helena -> babs -> damian...so on and so forth that wouldn't make the decision as difficult as it could be.

however. to me tim's most *interesting* sophie's choice scenerios would come from the idea of a batfam vs his dad. what if something happened while his dad were still alive and he had to choice between saving dick or jack. or bruce and jack. what if. what if.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

What animal do you think users are one for all?

I don’t wanna limit myself to just one per… take these with the disclaimer that it’s just one iteration of an answer! This is purely based on vibes instead of anything symbolic.

Yoichi: Weasel

Kudou: Red fox 

Bruce: Badger

Shinomori: Elk

Banjo: Wolverine

En: Fruit bat

Nana: Leopard

Toshinori: Lion

Izuku: Black-footed cat

[khaopybara]

There are many layers to this.

The official subtitles say "I've heard that P'Khaotung and P'First are close", when Fourth says P'Book. Of course, First and Khaotung are close. Have you seen them?

Khaotung is a shopaholic apparently, but we already knew that. First always says that Khaotung takes him out to shop whenever they are abroad.

Even when First isn't there, he is there somehow.

[doobea]

@popponn and i were talking abt prodigy gingers and them losing their bangs is a crucial part of becoming tragic villains

[willowser]

okay but. vigilante!bakugou. with a full mask to cover his face, the only "super" one in a quirkless world. literally every dc trope ever, but i don't care because with him, it's so afhakfha.

you work together in some office job and he's always coming in late with his trousers loose and his shirt untucked. never really speaks to you, except for when there's a group task that needs to get done and your team reserves the conference room to figure out how you'll divide the work and he ends up sitting beside you somehow. borrows a pen, because he forgot one.

other than that, you just know of him, bakugou katsuki. quiet. always frowning. looks like he'd bite your head off for looking at him sideways. doesn't really catch your eye — though you agree with your coworker that he's kinda handsome when he's not scowling — and you don't think he's the kinda guy that's gonna go out for drinks after work with you and the team. and you're right, because he can't.

truth be told, you're not really interested anyway — because you're kinda-sorta, really-super into this guy dynamight, who stops by your apartment every night.

it's thanks to him that you didn't get mugged and left for dead in some alleyway a few months back, and though you think that makes him rather trustworthy, you know your friends would have a cow about the fact that you've never heard his voice or seen his face. that you're always sitting on the rooftop of your complex, waiting, until he's so close that you can feel the echo of his explosions in your chest. reverberating beneath your bones, just like your heartbeat.

you don't know why he bothers, but you also don't really care. he listens to the needless recount of your day, even huffs out a laugh at times. the most you've ever seen of him is the lower half of his face, the cut of his jaw when he took a drink from the chilled water bottle you had waiting. maybe a flash of his hair, but it'd been dark and you can't for the life of you remember if it was blonde or maybe light brown ?

the city is dying to know who he is because, despite being so explosive, he's pretty good at going quiet when he needs to; always manages to get away from the swarm of red and blue that chases him down the highway. and yeah, maybe taking justice into his own hands is a teeny bit irresponsible, okay, but you can't help but to feel a little safer, walking home under his echoing boom as he shoots across the sky.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

The idea of people having so many theories about it amuses me to no end. Over the years the speculation could probably get really intense too- maybe people even write speculative fiction about it.

As for the mystery finally being solved like. One that’s hilarious. Two- would it be a whole event? Not just the fact there’s finally a building there and the whole process of it- but maybe Wanmin has the craziest opening ever with how much is going on in there Akskdkkfkf.

(And I love the idea of childe going from terrifying god warrior who beat down celestia to. Local mischievous cryptid. It reminds me of the bake danuki in Inazuma. He’s just a little guy your honor. Just a little fox.

foreigners: yeah they say liyue has this like- ultra-powerful god of destruction that put celestia in its place like thousands of years ago. how scary. i've heard that he also has an intelligence network of spies across the entirety of teyvat. i know it sounds so fake and tinfoil-hat conspiracty but i've heard it everywhere! and he's just there chilling? how do they not have a heart attack everytime he does anything...

liyue natives: yeah this is master childe. yeah he's a bit stupid. yeah he could kill us all if he wanted. yeah we love him. what do you mean he could cause armaggeddon? god forbid gingers do anything. how old is master childe-? too old for you AND he's married. stay away from our god, foreigners.

[andreal831]

TVDU and Morality

I've recently said, a few times, that the morality debates in the TVDU fandom are boring, and some people have gotten offended so I thought I would explain.

First, this idea of hypocrisy in the fandom is laughable. The amount of times I've been called a hypocrite because I've called out problematic behavior, while also liking a problematic character. The gut reaction for so many in this fandom when their favorite character is being criticized is to shift the conversation onto a completely different character and even to the commenter themselves. This is boring and even downright offensive at times. Every single character has been a hypocrite at times. It doesn't inherently mean someone is bad. It means they are "human" and life can make hypocrites of all of us at times. Also, just to clarify, I am not a hypocrite for merely liking a problematic character. I promise I have never nor will I ever commit the acts that I criticize these characters for, which would be the definition of hypocrisy. I have also never told anyone they can't like certain characters.

We have these complicated characters and none of them are "good" people because, guess what, people aren't just one or the other. Everyone has the capability to be "bad" or "good." Trying to put a character firmly on one side is a generalization and ignores so much nuance. Some of their actions may be completely bad or completely good, but typically even that is an oversimplification. Are there characters that seem to do more bad things or more good things, definitely. Are their some characters that cross certain, unnecessary lines, absolutely. Are we allowed to criticize and question every character, please do! That's literally what media literacy is about.

Every single one of these characters has had completely selfish moments (except maybe Bonnie) and every single one of them has had moments of selflessness. These acts don't inherently demonize a character or automatically redeem one. This is what it means to have interesting, complex debates about characters. Looking at the characters as a whole and having open discussions of what it means. We can still love the character and acknowledge the good and the bad of the character.

Another annoying point that is always brought up is, "they weren't born evil, they were made that way." Yes, we get it. No one is born evil. Whether it is mental illness or life events that shape a person, they still have to take responsibility for their own actions. Obviously certain mental illnesses didn't have treatments for a very long time, but that doesn't just allow people to be serial killers.

Every single character has dealt with trauma, and how you react says a lot about a person's character. Separating out characters to say well "x" didn't deserve it but when they became "x" they did. No one deserves good or bad things. I know I say it all the time, they deserved better, but when I do, I'm being facetious. I'm saying I wanted better for that character, better writing, better storylines, a better ending, etc. That phrasing implies that some people deserve better lives than others and I just morally don't agree. No one deserves trauma or abuse. That logic only furthers the cycle of abuse. Now, that being said, people are responsible for their own actions. Spend centuries creating enemies, and guess what, a lot of bad things are going to happen to you.

But the real debates I enjoy having, and have been fortunate to find so many people to engage in these debates, is the morality of the decisions in context of the characters. I like to apply similar logic from the Trolley Problem. If you don't know what that is, enjoy this tik tok I made of Cami teaching the Mikaelsons.

Essentially, many of the characters weight their options, like Jeremy killing Kol and thousands of vampires with it in order to find the cure. Kol is a thousand year old serial killer and is attempting to kill Jeremy, but again Kol is attempting to stop Silas from rising. Neither side is inherently right or wrong. There is a debate to be had.

In the majority of situations in the show there is a debate to be had. The only exceptions being any SA. I will never debate the morality of these actions. Even for immoral characters, there is a line to be drawn.

These debates get even more complex in TO because we move into a world where nearly every character has done absolutely horrendous things. It's okay to sit down and say, "This thing that x did was awful, but I can see their reasoning." It is not justifying their actions, but allowing the characters to be the complex morally corrupt characters that they all are.

[its-been-rose]

I think one of the reasons KF is so delightfully devastating is that Henry is literally sidelined in the narrative and in his own life. It’s genius. He is pushed aside to let his mom talk and explain herself and develop her character, but he stays silent, just like how he was taught to push himself aside and devote himself entirely to his mother’s goal.

It makes me think- what would Henry have been like if he wasn’t twisted and corrupted and coerced from youth? Maybe he was a fantastic artist and drew the most beautiful portraits or painted the most vivid landscapes. I can definitely see him drawing his mom a lot. Painting pictures of her like a pure prodigy. Or maybe he was an absolute mathematical genius. Maybe he would’ve went on to make groundbreaking discoveries in aerospace science or chemistry or physics. But his poor little wasted life will be spent in prison.

[somegrumpynerd]

@pigeonstab ASDHHDHKTFJU HE WOULD

Killer: whats up big D

Dust: never capitalise my name again

Killer: you want me to call you small d?

Dust: never speak to me or about me again

Nightmare, internally confused: you are both the same height???

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Just finished Secrets In The Dark, and while it strengthened my RiddleBat ship, it really ramped up RiddleCroc.

Before, I just had this 'Waylon definitely looks after Eddie in Arkham.' thing bouncing around in my head. I mean, a genius hyperactive redhead with an addictive personality? Waylon would definitely see that and go 'Someone's gotta take care of this feral twink.'

So now I've got the idea bouncing around my head of Waylon and Bruce sharing Eddie.