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Chapter Two: Snow Familiar

(TW: Topics of suicide, flower poisoning (buttercup flower poisoning symptoms), blood, vomiting and parental abuse)

Exiting the ruins, we were greeted by a white blinding light and snow covering the ground, the cold and the snowflakes falling even to my hair. I shook my hair to get the snow off, I loved this place a lot, one of my favorites places! When me and Azzy are allowed to go out we get to play and have snowball fights. It was even more fun to go into town, I was always shy around the monsters when they came over to greet me and Asriel because well… we’re the royal children of the king and queen, always excited to meet me as I was the first human they met. And it was honestly adorable in a way on how they reacted. I missed talking to them to be honest. I noticed the flower goat was looking at me weird and honestly we were just standing outside of the door and I felt annoyed. He always judges me no matter what it is and I’m gonna rip every fucking petal out.

Returned the confused look with a glare as an attempt to make him back off but it didn’t seem to deter him. Persistent fuck.

“What is it, Asriel?”. I asked. Awkward silence.

* “W-what happened back there… with mom… when she said to explain when you all reunited…”. He was silent for a moment. “How are you actually back?... dad killed yo-”

“He didn’t fucking kill me! I made that choice myself!”. I slightly yelled.

* “Chara! He poisoned you! I was there!”. He shouted back.

“He fucking didn’t! I made the plan to eat the buttercup flowers and you complied! I would die and you would absorb my soul!”. My eyes glaring at him, his flower-like face angry but a hint of confusion. I was confused, what are these claims of dad poisoning me. I know everyone thinks I suddenly “fell ill” but it was my choice.

* “What the hell are you talking about Chara!... you’ve been acting weird since the ruins! All cheeky and open! Not closed off… like before”. He spoke then had a look like he put two and two together.

* “You… aren’t Chara right?... you're not the one I know!”. He shouted. * “I didn’t want to say anything when I read your [STATS]. This world just started and you’re already [LV] what?! 99? 20? Who knows cause it’s just ???!”.

“It’s complicated…”. I replied then gave him silence. This place isn’t the same! Not even talking about mom’s clothes. Usually it’s purple and white, not black and white and she isn’t usually that tired, and Azzy isn’t always beaten up like this… looking like a nervous wreck.

“You aren’t the Asriel I know,”. I responded. “This all looks the same… but it feels different”.

* “Like you're out of place or… this isn’t your world”. He finished. Of course he’d have that thought, always finding that part of him weird as he’s shown signs of knowing [SAVE], [LOAD] and [RESET]. Kinda unpleasant…

* “You know what’s going on here. Dontcha?”. Then I’d hear that stupid laugh… not sure if it’d give me nightmares or just concern me if he’s mentally ok. This one though seems like insanity hasn’t taken over him and like the asylum ward isn’t missing a patient. It just seems like therapy got to him. Eyes left the flower clinging to my arm and to the snowy path with trees on both sides. Snowdin… would it feel the same as before?

A heavy sigh was released and started following the path and making my way, hearing the snow crunch beneath my feet following the path and feeling someone watching up behind the trees. Great… he’s here. Stepped over the stick on the ground and continued walking, putting my hands in my pockets spotting the oh so human gate when the crack sound was heard from behind us, turned around to keep some normality and of course nothing was there. If anyone can break character and get away with it, it’s him. The moment he senses something off, mostly my [LV] , he'll toss me around the whole forest and kill me, then throw salt to injury… I can’t [SAVE]. At all. Frisk’s data is mine now but… the ability to [SAVE] and [RESET] isn’t mine. Don’t even know where that little shit even is and I don’t want to know. Turned around to face the bridge and stopped at the edge the minute I heard the footsteps. Yep he was coming. Just stood there while Asriel begs me in whispers to leave, couldn’t. I walk away. He'd know something is up and would probably attack or use his “shortcuts” on me. Annoying.I hate him more than anything, his stupid little puns made me wanna strangle him if he didn’t make my soul blue and slam me into the cold ass ground. I hate him! The footsteps stopped, feeling that cold presence behind me and that stare, it just felt like an empty stare, peering into my soul.. If I had one.

* “Human... Don’t you know how to make a new friend?”. The familiar voice spoke. * “Turn around and shake my hand”. Asriel was shaking against my arm. Cry baby. I turned around slowly and shaking the hand felt boney and skeletal, and a fart noise emitted from the handshake. Fucking jokester huh, those empty sockets filled with one red pupil in the left socket with a scar or a crack, and he didn’t look like the Sans I recognize… his shit eating grin had shark teeth with a golden tooth, a coat that was black with a yellow-tan fur collar, red sweater underneath. Black shorts with 2 white stripes on both sides, red and white sneakers. The odder part is him wearing red gloves. Sans wore gloves? Since when?

* “Heh, the ol’ fart buzzer trick, it’s always funny” He looked at me, I could never tell when he’s analyzing, the other annoying part. * “Anyways , you’re a human right? Kinda funny. Ya see, I’m Sans. Sans The Skeleton”. I know you boney little fuck.

* “Ya see, I’m actually supposed to be on the watch for humans like you but I don’t give a fuck. He continued. * “Now The Chief… he loves to capture humans. Think that’s him over there. C’mon let's humor him, go through the gate mechanism, I know it isn’t one, Chief made the bars too wide, but c'mon”. I turned back around and walked across the wooden bridge past the wide wooden bars, as much as that loud skeleton tries he’s a fucking idiot sometimes, but he tries so I give him credit, his stare… felt uncomfortable… like he was just glaring at me planning to kill me.

* “Quick! Behind that shit lamp”. I walked over and hit behind, Asriel was just scared and kept his mouth with his leaves, of course. As I stood behind the lamp footsteps were heard crunching against the snow as they were approaching or stomping. Papyrus.

* “Sup Boss,”. Sans spoke.

* “Sans! Are you still lazing around?! There are puzzles to be recalibrated! You fucking lazybones!”. The voice that seemed to be Papyrus said and he cussed?... Papyrus cusses?... Since when?

* “C’mon Boss, ya gotta COOL down. Ya know”. I assumed he did usual shrug and then a drum sound was heard. That fucking skeleton.

* “SANS! THERE IS NO TIME FOR FUCKING PUNS. I HAVE TO FIND A HUMAN SO I CAN MAINTAIN MY POSITION AS UNDYNE’S SECOND-IN-COMMAND! IN THE ROYAL GUARD AND CLIMB THE RANKS YOU SHITHEAD”. He yelled. Jesus fucking christ.

* “Geez Chief, need to calm down and realize this human stuff is a SNOW problem,”. He joked again. Actually end me, I want to rip my ears out right now.

* “SANS OH MY FUCK. IT IS NOT THE TIME FOR PUNS GET YOUR LAZY ASS MOVING”. He yelled and then the sounds of boots stomping on the snow making a crunch sound retreated sounding like he was walking away. It was silent for a moment, I waited to hear his ‘heh’ as a funny gag but nothing, just 5 minute silence. Odd.

* “Alright human, you can come out now”. I stepped out and looked at him, standing there focused as always. Ugh. I started to walk away, didn’t want to talk to him and never understood why Frisk talked to Sans, even after he resetted and killed my mom. When the dust was clearly on his sweater and body. Ironic. As I started to leave the post.

* “Hey human, listen. Papyrus doesn’t want to hurt ya, but he will capture you”. He started. “I can’t save you but I’ll attempt to help ya”. Noted. I just responded with a nod and walked away. The cold is still greeting me, and I noticed that Asriel was still quiet. Probably still thinking about the conversation earlier, and don’t blame him. I’d be thinking about it constantly too. Just made my way, feeling the snow crunch against my feet, my hands buried into my pockets for an attempt of warmth and my eyes spotted the box and [SAVEPOINT] that stupid yellow star shining, like it was mocking me and the fact that I can’t [SAVE]. I flipped it off and continued on my way, dealing with monsters and [SPARING] them. See Frisk. I can play pacifist too. I’ll show you monsters aren’t toys to kill.

Eyes wandered more to see the fork in the road path, one leading to the lake. I assumed where the fishing rod was so I followed that one and my suspicions were right, grabbed it and threw it into the cold waters hoping to at least grab something. But no it was just a number, staring at it.

* “Gonna call it?”. Asriel asked. My eyes just stared, mind trying to memorize the numbers as like it's a first date and you just got the girl’s number. What do I even do? I know this is just not gonna work so what’s even the point?

[* PHONE NUMBER ADDED TO INVENTORY]

Walking back on the path that led towards the town, there was a sign and a chest next to it. I already know what it said so why read it out loud and I opened the chest to put the [FADED RIBBON] and the [DEAD FROGGIT DISH] away along with the [KNIFE]. I really didn’t need those and I am not gonna eat a corpse plus it smells like fucking shit. Closed it and went on my way, the trees filling the area, looked to the left and it was a cardboard box with a sign on it, spikes and other edgy shit to make a kid look “cool” but in reality it just looks funny or stupid. Looking at the sign it said.

[* THIS IS THE SENTRY STATION OF THE GREAT TERRIBLE PAPYRUS! HUMANS BEWARE I WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL FOR KING ASGORE.]

Ok this Papyrus has fucking issues. Clear issues. Is it on par with Flowey? Nah. Moving on and following the path and just trying to take in the scenery of the trees leading the way. And as expected Sans and Papyrus were talking ahead.

* “As, I was talking about Captain Undyne and my position,”. He spoke then slowly turned to look at me, he stared for a moment then looked at Sans who then looked at me, his expression looking nonchalant but was he worried? Will never know. It went back and forth until they started spinning like idiots. I looked at Asriel who felt awkward. Then both looked back at me

* “Sans! Is that… a human!?!?!??!?!”. I heard.

* “Ya know Boss, I think that’s a rock!”. Sans said like he was worried. Papyrus stared at his older brother as if he was having a stroke or like he was stupid and shoved him aside, walked towards me with a bone appearing in his hand and pointed it at me in a threatening manner.

* “HUMAN! By order of the crown you are under arrest and you will be taken to the king”. He spoke in a serious tone. * Please cooperate or I will be forced to kill you!”. I raised my eyebrow, my hands still in my pockets and gave him a slight smirk. I was trying to question his authority and hoped he’d at least have the brain cells to register that. Sans on the other hand ran in front of me, like he was protecting me. What?...

* “Chief wait!”. He yelled.

* “Sans! You idiot! What are you doing?!”. Asked

* “He’s just a kid Boss!”. Sans yelled and Papyrus yelled back and shoved his brother away, getting closer to me as Sans slid in front of me and they started arguing: the short skeleton telling the tall skeleton I was no harm and the tall skeleton telling the short one that I was a harmful human. Papyrus seemed to be panicking. Sans slowly stopped trying to defend me and more tried to calm his brother down by suggesting a puzzle. Papyrus turned to me like the gears in his head were turning and the lightbulb shines bright clearly showing an idea was formed.

* “Human! By Royal Guard rules we must test you in the form of puzzles! If you fail we will automatically take your soul! If you pass!... Well you’ll be the first”. He spoke and started to walk away. * “MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA”. That laughter faded away and it was just me and the bone head. It was awkward to be honest.

* “Well human, hope ya pass”. He said and started to walk after his brother. Me and Asriel looked at each other like what the fuck just happened but we brushed it off and continued into the forest. I remembered me and Asriel always sneaking out and playing tag or just exploring, eventually mom found out but she understood we couldn’t be cooped up so we asked to go see Snowdin Town or she’d take us. As I walked there was a sign, looking at it. It said.

[* BE QUIET THE, TO SNEAK USE [X].]

Head turned to look at the sentry stand. The dog. Great. I hated dealing with him. He’s blind so uses his nose or is based on movement, one of the two and doesn't care about which is which, just gotta get through it. Moved forward carefully trying my hardest to not make a single fucking sound, even glared at Asriel to make a noise, think he got the memo because he started shaking against my arm. Slow and steady, then those stupid dog’s peaked out from under the sentry stand. Fuck.

* “Who's there?”. He asked. * “Smells like a human”. The world turned black, the white box showed and I hate this! Asriel wasn’t part of the [FIGHT] so he wouldn’t get any [DAMAGE], but it really wasn’t much of one as he just sniffed around looking for me. So the black void and white box slowly faded revealing the area of snowdin. Just made my way carefully and gave Doggo pets here and there to at least distract him, but eventually he spared me.

* “I can’t stand that loud skeleton… always demanding and shit!”. He muttered.

My leg moved following the path and slowly came into view was the ice lake. Yipee. And Sans was standing at the edge of the path, I looked at him, my face having the: “What the shit” look.

* “Heya Human, for a head’s up. Boss has a special attack. So if you see a blue attack don’t move and no [DMG] will happen”. He explained. No fucking shi- * “So think of it like this, when you see a stop sign, you. Ya know stop and red so imagine a blue stop sign. Simple? When ya get into a fight just think of a blue stop sign. Again no fucking shit. That was sarcastic by the way. Walked around the edge of the ice lake, using the branches as help but it’s shit so I just had to attempt and eventually arrived at the path that was center left of the lake and I followed it to see a snowman. That same snowman.

* “I am a Snowman, I want to see the world but I am stuck here. Please take a piece of me with you?”. It sorta asked but I obliged and took a piece and it was added to my [INVENTORY]. Honestly I always wondered how the snow piece didn’t melt, I mean hot places like [HOTLAND] literally melt snow, its lava. Then walked back towards the path, staring at the Ice lake.

Took one step forward and then took another step, the balance was wobbly, Hated this part. As soon as movement was made I started slipping and mentally cussed at myself. Every Word in the dictionary was used, and the cold hard icey floor made contact with my body as I fell. Asriel just yelled in pain, I’m sure if Snowdin Forest was popular and monsters walking by they’d feel bad for me, get embarrassed for me or laugh at me.

Every attempt to get up was met with me slipping, my chin hitting the ground and my flower goat of a brother glaring at me. I glared back. The fuck does he think he is? He’s a wimp in a flower body. Fucking ow. At this point I’d just slide across the cold icy ground to the side of the frozen lake. God it’s so fucking cold and I hate this part. My face met the cold white powder snow, pulled my body towards it and got off the ground shaking leftover snow off my body. Asriel did the same but he was shivering. Then on my way following the path. And behold there was a square box on the snow, Sans and Papyrus were standing in front of it. FUCK! Forgot I’d be seeing those two every 2 seconds… END ME.

* “BEHOLD HUMAN! THE ELECTRIC MAZE!”. Papyrus shouted, why the fuck does he have to shout. WHY. FUCKING LOUD MOUTH. I sighed mentally. * “The maze offers a 15000 electric voltage”. EXCUSE ME WHAT?!. Is he trying to kill me?! I mean he is. But are you kidding me… I’d rather get stabbed than electrocuted! That’s the most shittest death ever, in all of history. Look I had on my face was: what the shit. The silence was thickening for a moment.

* “SANS! Give the human the blue orb!. He commanded and he did by… walking the path and making his way to me. The look on Papyrus’s face honestly matches mine, annoyed and shark. But I felt awkward, just feeling the power of his glare towards his brother even in the same area. Is this how Frisk felt while doing this? As Sans walked through the maze, ya know showing the path for me, making it easy. He’d always do this, he stood in front of me and put the blue orb on my hand and then walked back to Papyrus following the path he made. Thanks I guess?

* “SANS YOU FUCKING IDIOT! USE YOUR SKULL! YOU COULDN’T HAVE WALKED AROUND THE PUZZLE?!”. He shouted.

* “The thought didn’t BREEZE through my skull”. Sans jokes. Wasn’t sure whether to laugh or not so I kept a straight face.

* “SANS OH MY FUCK!”. He screamed. I took the first step and followed the path Sans made acting like I did the puzzle perfectly! I think Papyrus popped a blood vessel if he had any while yelling at Sans nonstop. Asriel was still the awkward flower that he still fucking is. Finished the puzzle and looked at the two skeletons.

“Hey! I finished the puzzle!”. I joked and handed the blue orb to the short skeleton, who then gave me a “heh”. Stupid laugh.

* “Hey, Chief looks like the Human solved it easy”. Sans joked more.

* “YOU IDIOT YOU SHOWED HIM- nevermind. HUMAN! The next puzzle will be the one created by my idiot brother! Sans!”. He spoke. * “MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAH AH! Hah…”. The tall skeleton laughed then muttered and stormed off. The sound of snow crunching as it made contact. Yea… he needs help. Didn’t bother to interact with Sans but I could tell he was staring at me, like he was suspicious, looking at him from the corner of my eyes… and empty sockets… ohh I’m fucked… I’m gonna enjoy Grillby's talk later. Continued walking through and crossed the small bridge, not gonna lie I always wondered what would happen if you fell off the bridge. Snowdin always seemed like a bottomless pit, with trees among trees and it seemed like they would catch my fall but it bothered me… it just made the rest of outside of Snowdin empty despite the puzzles, dogs, the monsters, Snowdin Town, and everything else… it was just empty.

Surprise! Lesser dog appeared, had to dodge his attacks but just gave him pets, not surprised his neck started growing… weirded out but I guess cute? Asriel gave me the Frisk face and I will punch a flower, I don’t care. Just continued to pet the dog and watch his head almost reaching the roof of the underground then come back down. Eventually I spared him and gave him one last pet before he left. The dog monsters were cute in some way but weird.

* “So how are ya liking this?”. Asriel jokes.

“Oh you know, just doing puzzles, dealing with 2 dogs, freezing my ass off but I’m just peachy”. I sarcastically said.

* “So much fun, isn’t it”. He kept the joke going.

“I can’t wait to use you for a puzzle and I hope when I rip those little golden petals out, that’s the fucking answer”. I say with a smile.

* “Ha ha,”. He tried to brush it off. Or attempt to. No use standing here and arguing with a literal weed. Walking some more, my hands were freezing no matter if I put them in my pockets, Took out my left hand to get a close cause, let's be honest I never looked at them clearly. It was scarred, 2 fingers… my ring and index finger trailing down to my palm and I assume all the way to my shoulder… what the fuck?... Took out my right hand and it was the same… When did this happen? Was it when I fought sans last time? Confusion racked me. I traced the scar on my left hand with my right, feeling scared for once. I wasn’t sure what to do with this. I stopped walking for a moment. Were my hands shaking…? Staring at my hands, slightly moving… trembling? Didn’t know what to do. How to react. The memories did floodback by from the last time I was in the underground, fighting Sans, killing him and my Asriel… meeting my Frisk and ripping his soul out… then more flooded. FUCK. Are some of these missing?! Was it because I ended up here?...

A vine wrapped around my left hand trying to comfort me. Asriel… he was always there huh, always being there for me. I looked at him. His bruised scared face gave me a small smile. Even if he isn’t the Asriel I know… he was there. The vine tightened on my hand just trying as my hands were slightly trembling, and another one wrapped around my arm like he was giving me a hug. I wanted to return the hug but couldn’t so I gently gave him a head pat, and tried to calm the nerves that were going crazy. Deep breath in… deep breath out. Hands slowly stopped shaking, everything felt out of place but maybe it’s best to brush it off which is what I attempted to do as I continued walking through Snowdin Forest. Just need to focus on the scenery and get my mind off it. Just do that. I remembered something though…

“I’ll race ya azzy!”. I yelled as I ran from him.

* “Charaaaaa! That’s not fair!”. He yelled and chased after me in the snowy area, our feets crunching against the snow as we ran. We ran until he tripped on the ice covered lake and he cried as usual. Just turned around and helped him up. Boy was he upset… I felt bad for wanting to run away. Leaving him there but he hugged me tight. Guess he was scared.

* “Chara, where are we?...”. He asked.

“Dunno,”. I responded.

* “Chara! We aren’t supposed to go out!”. He exclaimed.

“Alright alright worry goat,”. I sighed. “C'mon Azzy! It’s the first time we’ve ever been outside, let's enjoy it!”. His face was still worried, guess he was scared. As much as I wanted to go and explore the area… It's Asriel. He’d panic so hard he’d start crying. Mom scolds me for my ambitions often. I sighed and reluctantly nodded to return home. He looked at me for a second reading my face then grabbed my hand and instead of turning back he led us forward.

“Asriel! What are you doing!?”. I exclaimed.

* “I guess I can break the rules this one time for you! I kinda wanted to see what else lies here!”. He shouted and we both ran.

Didn’t help I saw ghosts of us running past looking happy… but. He was gone. Because of him.

“Chara! Wai-”. I threw the locket at him, it hit straight in the face.

“Wait for what?! Why the fuck did you do this?! They were happy. I WAS happy”. I yelled. Frisk didn’t have a response. I grabbed him by the collar, right then and there… I would’ve punched him. But I made a… mistake that I’ve yelled at myself over a hundred times over.

I sighed heavily and the walking resumed trying to brush it off, the trees and everything else slowly walking by, a hole in the ground like it was golf? I don’t know, so I rolled a small snowball and dropped it in the hole. There was no way to tell if there was a bottom as no sound was made. Just crouched putting my ear close to it just waiting for any sound or something, it was nothing though. I sighed and got up. Wish I could spend all day waiting for the sound that will never happen. Continued walking and in the distance was our favorite skeleton duo! Sans and Papyrus! Sarcastic by the way.

As I approached, looking at the area there was a piece of paper on the ground in front of the two. Papyrus immediately noticed me.

* “HUMAN! BEWARE THE PUZZLE BY MY BRO- Sans where the fuck is it?”. He asked.

* “Ya know chief, you seem PUZZLED”. He joked.

* “SANS IT IS NOT THE TIME FOR PUNS WHERE THE FUCK IS THE PUZZLE YOU LAZY SHIT BAG!?”. Papyrus yelled.

* “On the floor, Boss”. He answered nonchalantly. Papyrus just glared. “Don’t worry the Human can’t pass this”. The tall skeleton sighed heavily, I walked towards and picked up the paper, it was a crossword puzzle? And halfway done… What. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this. I just stared at it. I hate this skeleton. Continued walking, shivering a lot. Didn’t feel enthusiastic. Was I ever? Scratched the back of my head when two dogs ran up. Great. Married losers?... Were they married? I never cared and just narrated everything because watching over an idiot child who decided “Hey! Look! A hole! I wonder what would happen! Such fun. I know I shouldn’t be talking because I was the first but hey, I had a reason ya know. Continued on the [SAVEPOINT] was there next to the plate of spaghetti and an unplugged microwave. it was added to my [ITEMS] anyways. Yay. Continuing on until…

* “A smell, a strange smell!”. The one I assume Dogamy said.

* “It smells… like a human!”. Dogressa I fucking assume. The two ran around sniffing me. Personal space! After circling 2 times. They stopped.

* “It is a human!”. Dogamy said.

* “We must eliminate!”. Dogressa said then she swung her ax at me, after one dodge then Dogamy swung his at me. It was a swing and dodge, and Izz gained a cut on my arm and I fell into the round! Yay. My body is covered in dirt. I’m sure I smell like a dog. Is this how Frisk felt? Just pet the two and they were so shocked they ran off. What the fuck?... Just keep walking, it helps helps, just keep fucking moving. I’m almost out of this fucking forest! I’m almost out of here… just a little more and the circle puzzle. Fuck This. Shit. Mentally groaned, did it and hit the switch. This is why I sometimes hate Papyru and walk towards the next puzzle which is the same but slightly larger, spikes blocking the path and a sign. Surprised Papyrus isn’t standing by watching us do it and speaking of him, though I could somewhat see Papyrus’s faulty design. Did the same thing as the previous one and I clicked the switch hearing the loud click as the spikes sunk into the ground and on I went. I just… kept going… in this snowy forest. Remembering how much me and Asriel whined when we first walked through the forest, the cold was biting us and it was just a long path to Snowdin Town. The color puzzle standing in front me as it wasn’t much of a walk as it’s literally seconds away. Yea he isn’t the best when it comes to planning. Sans and Papyrus were standing there waiting for me and then…

* HUMAN! Behold! A puzzle made by Dr. Alphys! This will truly stop you and your Soul will be mine!”. He yelled then started going on about which color does what. I zoned out, his voice muffled as my eyes stared at the color mess on the floor. Of course she made this mess. Then my eyes immediately got hit as all the colors started flashing rapidly. Fuck! Rubbed my eyes in a response. It hurts! Stopped rubbing my eyes and squinted as the flashing colors and I saw the pink path with red on both sides. There was silence coming from the skeleton, but you could tell he was upset or pissed as a blurry image of him turned around and the sounds of a boot crunch against the snow receding. Rubbed my eye more and finally I could see better from the flashbang of the puzzle. Sans was standing there, slightly smiling, not that huge grin, just a slight one. The look on his face clearly showed he wanted Papyrus’s puzzles to finally work so he can be happy. The wind blew between us as… I kinda understand, I was sorta the same with Asriel. Stepped forward, one foot stepped onto the failed puzzle and moved forward. Past Sans. Didn’t want to talk to him. The small shed for a dog and the deer standing next to it and a dog with armor, I think Lesser Dog slightly hiding behind a snow sculpture it made. I’d do the same if Papyrus is around. Next to it was another… [SAVEPOINT]... great. Moving on to the ice puzzle mixed with the X&O puzzle, I slid across and struggled due to me falling off into the snow sculpture made by Papyrus and Sans but it was kinda… destroyed and slightly ruined. This is really… not my world.

I made tons of ice sculptures and snowmen with Asriel and we just added our silly kid designs. Wings, horns and even made them buff. Mostly on Azzy’s part. That was my world. Then I thought… about what Asriel said earlier about Dad killing me when we both left the Ruins and just stood there talking about it… He was just the sweetest guy ever… I could never imagine… my dad killing me, the hope for humans and monsters could get along in the future. Why would he…

“Ya know Asriel… Dad never killed me. I almost killed him”. I let out a small laugh, he looked up at me. “Me and you made pie for dad and used buttercups he… ate it and got sick…”. I stared at the ruined snow sculptures, then I thought again about Mine and Asriel’s again.

* “Chara…”. He said.

“And… I got the idea that, if I… died and you absorbed my soul we could go to the surface, get six souls and free the monsters”. I continued. “And I did that, laid in bed everyday constantly throwing up, pain filling my entire body and having blisters forming on my body and other stuff, I just remember being bedridden… not the other symptoms. While mom and dad everyday… checked up on me, left pie on the bed side table, you sitting at my bed never leaving my side, and dad saying “stay determined” hoping I’d get through”. The thick silence still remains.

* “...”. There was no response from the flower.

“As you can tell… I didn’t make it… souls fused. Crossed the barrier holding my corpse and the humans… thought you killed me. I wanted to show you what they were like… towards… me”. I stopped for a second then continued. “They were just heartless monsters! Never caring and they just struck you down… I failed to… protect you… my best friend… and brother…”. Tears started forming. A vine wrapped around me as a form of a hug and comforted me the best way he could. We both didn’t say anything and just stayed silent cause we weren’t sure on what else to add or say. Tears just streamed down my cheek as the emotions started boiling inside mixed with guilt and rubbed my eyes as an attempt to wipe the tears away. Asriel shook his head slightly and wiped them away for me.

“I know this isn’t my world… and will never be… but I always wondered… if you’d forgive me… back in… my world”. I spoke. He looked up.

* “I always missed you, and regretted messing up the plan… and wondered what it would be like if I did take the 6 souls”. He replied.

“Probably a war”. I joked to cheer up the already sad mood.

* “Haha… probably”. He chuckled. I sighed and grabbed some of the snow to try to fix the ruined snow sculpture, after a few minutes I was done and now this looks like an actual Papyrus and Sans sculpture. Wasn’t sure if I was ready to leave this place, it’s not really a bad place to stay here for a long time honestly. Flowey just gave me a reassuring smile, telling me to go on and well stay determined. So I just left the area and ice puzzle again, and after so many tries or 7 tries, slid over to the switch and stepped on it. Walked through the small path with long trees in walls with of course ice, slid on it with snow falling on my head.

* “Hey Chara! You got a little house on your head!”. Flowey spoke. I shook my head feeling the snow fall off both sides and small particles sticking in my hair. There was the main path then the side path to Gyftrot, that weird deer thing and Sans's weird ass teleporting that annoyed me. Though there’s the house in the distance, kinda nice to look at so why not go down there and look again. Following the path there was of course our favorite skeleton standing there, probably sleep standing or something. Ugh. But I needed to talk to him a little, tapped on his shoulder, opened his eyes and looked at me.

* “Heya Human, what’s up?”. I didn’t respond, and gave him an annoyed look. I walked to the other side, when I was about to reach the other side, in the middle Gyftrot attacked looking upset about the decorations tangled in their antler. As I slowly approached, attacks kept coming but that didn’t stop me from slowly approaching the monster dear and when I reached my hand out Gyftrot attacked stopped and looked away. Like it was afraid that I was gonna hurt it.

“Hey… I’m not gonna hurt ya”. I said acting like it was an injured cold puppy you found on the street scared and alone. Moved my hands to the decorations and slowly undid them one by one, their eyes staring at me, the face slowly lighting up. Happy that the antlers are finally free as each one got thrown onto the snowy ground slowly sinking in and as it’s way of saying thanks and it shocked me. Before when I helped monsters out their parents or friends drag them away cussing me out for the mistake of… something that wasn’t mine… seeing their disgusted faces with me and no how many times mom tried to help sooth the hate. I just looked down at the Gyftrot's happy face and it ran off, didn’t know how to feel about that. Walked to the other side and there Sans was standing there, here goes the stupid teleporting thing.

* “You must really hate me that much and I didn’t even do anything”. He shrugged. * “Saw watcha did with the Gyftrot, ya did good, Human”. I looked at him in some shock then let out a deep breath.

“Sans, was it? Uh, what is this place?”. I asked, trying to come off as confused like I didn’t understand the concept of The Underground. He gave me a look then shrugged.

* “Well Human, this is The Underground, the world of monsters trapped by your kind and forced to live our lives like this”. When he put it like that.. He was blaming me. Great… * “But, you aren’t like the others, you seem well different from them. Haven’t come down here for revenge or “curiosity”. Just been… sparing them”. That last line sounded full of disdain, like I’m not supposed to spare monsters at all. I’m NOT Frisk, I’m Chara.

“Well… what are you supposed to do… Just keep moving I guess”. I tried to laugh it off. He looked at me with empty eye sockets, feeling chills run up my skin. This reaction and this early?... He knows something is up.

* “Human, I don’t care about what you do but you must know… showing mercy is a sign of weakness and not the way here”. He spoke, * “I may be keeping an eye on ya, but I am regretting it with how weak you are. The others… had some level of strength. You are just using the cowards way out. We won’t be your friends”. Now that just felt awkward. REALLY awkward. Didn’t know what else to say so I turned around and walked away from him. Asriel who was silent the entire time just gave me a shrug. Back on the path were a dog house of some sort with a sign, snow poffs surrounding the area and a deer lady leaning on it looking bored as all hell. Just keep going and don’t look back or interact with them and when I was about to progress to Papyrus’s bridge puzzle our favorite Greater Dog, a small dog in huge armor which made him look like a giant towering over me started marching towards me looking scared but forced to fight as he thrusted the spear in his hands towards me and there was limited time to react as I leaned to the side feeling the tip of the blade graze my shoulder my hand holding the wound. Eyes glaring at the dog but couldn’t be mad at him cause he’s scared shitless. I attempted to reassure him and as a response he thrusted a spear using a blue attack at my body. Impaling me. But there was no effect as I didn’t move. My attempt to reassure him again he whined again, the spear shoved in my direction and I dodged, the attacks kept coming and coming. The tip of the blade stabbing my shoulder or grazing. I beckoned him to come, he stopped for a moment and slowly did, his attacks stopped for a moment, but resumed as I reached out to give him a pet. The blue spear attack happened again. Again I reassured it and it finally calmed down then I gave it a slight pet on the head. He seemed to be more calm, Greater Dog laid on my lap and I played with him. This seemed to cheer him up a lot. Just having some sort of fun. [SPARED]. Then finally the bridge, where Sans and Papyrus were standing there.

* “Human! Behold! The gauntlet of deadly terror!”. Papyrus shouted, the machines of the puzzle started being anchored down. A swinging mace, spear, the annoying dog tied up but he’s just enjoying his best life, flamethrower, spears and a cannonball?! Where the hell?... * “This puzzle will surely make up for- I mean! This will surely capture you then I’ll take your soul and then Undyne will finally get off my back!”. Sheesh that fish must really be an ass here. I waited and nothing had happened. He had a hesitant look on his face. His gloved hands clenched tightly, and I was confused as the weapons surrounding me started to be anchored up into the air wherever they were. Didn't Papyrus want to kill me, take my soul and run towards Undyne, Captain of the royal guard? Me and Flowey looked at each other then back at him.

* “Human! I have thinked this over and I believe that this is not a proper battlefield for us!”. He spoke. * “At the end of Snowdin that is where we will fight!”. Then the skeleton walked away entering the town leaving Sans there, I crossed the bridge and looked at the short skeleton whose sockets were empty, like he was staring me down as I entered the town seeing the banner “Welcome to Snowdin Town” at the entrance then the entire place. A shop, an Inn, Grillbys, and the famous Christmas tree. Dad made it for me actually as a way of trying to bring some of the human traditions to me and make The Underground feel at home. The monsters at the time loved it and I guess they still do. Grillbys was past the Christmas tree, so was the Librarby, Skelebros house and that stupid prison. Though behind the Librarby was Ice wolf throwing Ice and riverperson. I remembered when the town was finalized, me and Asriel ran through it or followed mom on her errands, I think it was during December around Christmas. We were doing some shopping to decorate New Home as it finally was done and we moved in.

* “Cmon Chara! We got stuff to buy! Candy Canes, ornaments, wreathes, oh! And christmas socks for that Santa guy to put more presents in”. He said as he started listing off the stuff needed and I just laughed in response as my arm was pulled by his furry hands. My free hand holding the bag full of the items adjusted the scarf around my neck, my hand then moved to the Christmas hat on my head.

“Az we got the time in the world!” I said, a smile on my face.

* “Chara I don’t care! I want to make this holiday perfect for you, it’s your human holiday”. He huffed.

“Asriel it’s just not just human, it's monster and human”. I smiled. He smiled back.

* “Then this holiday will be perfect for us!”. He shouted and dragged me. I laughed as we both ran to meet up with mom who was talking to another monster mom.

* “Mom! Mom! Look at what we got!”. He shouted and showed her the bags.

* “Oh my! You went all out for a human holiday”. She chuckled.

“Human and Monster! I want this to be a human and monster holiday”. I said. “I mean the whole point was to buy gifts and spend time with the people you love”. Mom smiled and ruffled my head, the monster mom on the other end just gave me a look, like she was disgusted or just uninterested. Her child came along just to see what the conversation was about and then looked at me. The kids never liked me at all. Copying their parents.

* “Is that the human mommy?”. The kid asked, a little disdain in their voice. I glared at him slightly.

* “Yes it is,”. She responded.

* “This is my brother Chara! He’s really cool!”. Asriel said.

* “He looks dumb,”. The kid said.

* “He’s not!”. Asriel retorted.

* “He is and you’re stupid for accepting him as your brother,”. The kid said then shoved him in front of mom and his mom, mom gasped and attempted to peacefully stop this before this escalated but… I made it worse as I swung at the kid causing him to tumble back. Everyone was shocked as I continued to almost pummel him.

“Don’t call my brother stupid! He’s the best one there is!” I shouted as my fist continued to meet his face and mom pulled me off him just in pure shock and the kid’s mom covered her face with her hands. Anger was just filling my emotions but when I saw his mom, I felt my heart drop… Guilt now filling the rest of my emotions. Mom apologized nonstop and used healing magic. Then dragged me home. My eyes looking down at the snowy ground not saying anything.

That memory. I remembered when we got home I just bawled in mom’s arms, feeling bad that I ruined everything for dad. His dreams for humans and monsters getting along just shattered because of what I did to the kid. I remembered mom’s hands rubbing my back trying to comfort me and Asriel holding my hand that was gripping the chair tightly. There was that hatred for humans that was just poured into beating that kid up. I hated him. But that was a long time ago. In the town of before. I’m in the town that is right now. Filled with monsters, not evacuated… like before because a human slaughtered them. Because of Frisk. I was getting tired though, just traveling exhausted me. Made my way to the inn where there was a bunny, the owner. Walking towards the desk, she looked at me.

* Howdy! Would you like a room for one? That’d be 80g”. I grabbed the small bag containing all the G I gained from the battles and [SPARE]ing. * “Ah ah ah, that will be no need. Put the gold away, the room on the left is yours for one night”. Did what she said and walked up the stairs and entered the room. It was small with one bed tucked away in the left corner, a book on the nightstand and the table on the right side with a lamp next to it. I took out the pit and set it on the nightstand, then unzipped my sweater and untangled Asriel from my sleeve and put him in the pot. Threw the sweater on the floor.

A vine from him turned off the lamp as I sat on the bed. He looked at me. I looked back. Silence settled in the room. What is there to say, I’m about to go to sleep. then…

* “You know chara. I thought about what you said… with Asgore, in this world he… never liked humans… never liked you no matter how much kindness you showed I was confused by it”. He started. I looked at him in confusion. “He’d yell at you, threaten to kill you or do worse. Probably execute you if Mom wasn’t there, she’d always defend you for our sake. There were many times he raised a hand and slapped you or even beat you, I hid behind the table in fear and then mom ran in and an argument started. I hugged you covering both your ears. Then one day… he did the unthinkable. I don’t know how but I know it was him. Everyone says you “fell ill” but he poisoned you. And when you died… all I could do… absorb your soul, carry your body across the barrier and…”.

“That's when the humans attacked, killing you…”. I looked down.

* “But I needed to avenge you, I had to show my dad that you… meant well!”. He said. “But that set him off on a war killing spree for… me”. I hugged his pot trying to show the same comfort he showed me, he raised his head in confusion then smiled a little. Like he needed this but we were so exhausted from everything… even the little talks as every emotion were poured into them. He started to close his eyes and I started to lay down in bed fully covering my body with the red bed sheets and dreamland consumed me.

#chara #chara dreemurr #undertale #undertale au #chara the human #chara undertale #undertale anomaly #anomaly au #underfell #sans #sans undertale #fell sans #papyrus #fell papyrus

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riotbrrrd · 17 days ago

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@ebouriffeurdetruites Dustborn is a narrative game slash rhythm game, whose setting is a uchronian USA where Kennedy didn't die and Marylin Monroe is immortal (?) and there was an Event happening in the year 2000, a nation-wide uncontrolled Broadcast of something (???) that caused some people to develop magic powers where they can use their voice to. do things. These "Anomals" (cringe, but you get used to it) are violently repressed both in the fascist substate of Pacifica (alternate seditious California) or in the authoritarian Republic of America. And you play 30 years post-Broadcast as Pax, a young woman leading a bunch of those people, who have stolen data from Pacifica's authorities and need to take it across the country to a resistance organisation in Nova Scotia. Which they do by posing as a punk band touring in a huge bus, and that's the rhythm game part. But it's mostly a walking simulator about breaking into houses, cutting conversations short, using the restroom, and having a complicated relationship with your family and your ex while hitting cops with a baseball bat.

It has a whole comic book aesthetic, there's even a little comic book in the box that serves as a prologue to the game, and I really really wish there was a side series going on that would explain stuff like what is going on with Marylin Monroe's 104th birthday, or why the Broadcast Echoes sound like someone having an argument (are they calling me a "fucking liar" or someone else??) or just. anything about the stuff the game doesn't explain, at the same time I love that it doesn't give you explanation about a lot of stuff because you're really playing a closed-off, angry woman who can't care for someone normally to save her life and it's great.

Also the gameplay is actually really fun, it's not revolutionary but I think it does a lot of interesting little things, and also I found the choice and team dynamic system to perfectly hit the spot regarding what I like in terms of choice dialogues and be able to sabotage your own relationships.

Anyway, apparently the game got violently review-bombed for being "woke" but even the woke people decided that it was cringe and bad because "your powers are about making your friends feel bad!" (yeah and it's awesome???) and "it's too on the nose/it's pandering" (it's leaning into a specific comic aesthetic and narrative habit that is not known for being subtle but go off I guess) and so apparently no one played it. But it's good. Don't listen to anyone else. It's good.

#I will say I have one complaint: the french translation is bad #some important words are translated weird which makes it hard to understand what's going on #and some sentences in the subtitles don't appear or appear in english. embarrassing.#also if I could have a normal conversation with a normal fan I do Have Thoughts about some of the actual lore and message #around Information and Disinformation and Connection Through Language and their use of the tower of Babel myth. but overall: good #dustborn

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potatoplace · 4 months ago

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........ 🤭

I have a laptop! YAY

Still in the update/setup process and omg I sweaaaar they added even more questions since I got my last one in like 2016. Like damn. Daaaaamn you guys. Really wanna try and get aaaall my data.

Anyways lol I'll probs post from my LAPTOP LATER AAAHHHH

I'm trying to decide how I should decorate it. Obvi these grody boring stickers telling me what's iiiin the laptop will go. But. Do I put stickers on the outside? Or the inside? Should I get like a clear case (do they make those??) and theeeen sticker it the fuck up? Cause I've got like. Hella blackpink stickers (thank you born pink album 🙏) and a lot of fruit ones and maybe some cat ones? Idk but I wanna make it more fun than just boring silver (no pink... a CRIME against ME specifically)

Also also ALSO MY LOVER CARDIGAN CAME IN TODAY AND IM WEARING IT NOOOOW ITS SO CUTE AND COZY I LOVE IIIIIIT

I am like solely rambling under here so feel free to ignore me in my hyperness lol

Alsoooo also also (I'm hyper) I've spent waaay too much money these past few days cause iiiii received a small inheritance from my grandparents passing (they are much happier now, they both had p severe health problems towards the end 😔) which just even me getting anything was a super big surprise cause I'm a grandkid buuuuut anyways I've been. Blooowing it. Well. I saved a lot of it for actual bills and stuff and I'm saving more as just savings. But. BUT. I got a bunch of Halsey's makeup which I've been looooving- I tried some out today and itssss I'm not great at it yet lol but I wore it out n felt pretty even if I didn't looove how it turned out, but it's my first time playing around with both liquid eyeshadows, bright colors, aaand glitter so I'm fine with it and I had a good time it was nice. I also bought some of my pretty Dior perfume that I mostly ran out of like six months ago and omg. I sprayed some on the cardigan to get the gross packaging smell off of it and I feel so giiirly it's so nice.

It's been nice to be able to buy stuff that I've wanted for a long time. And that's all thanks to my grandparents. (I am trying very hard not to feel super super guilty for spending any of it on non-essentials and just for having it so. Yeah. Trying to just be grateful instead.)

And I'm going to be able to get my car fixed up!! And my credit cards payed down!! And have money in my savings for the first time in five years!! I am so damn grateful for it. And it got me a LAPTOP which wouldn't have been even a possibility for the next year or two at the least.

I'm so excited I'm gonna play so much valorant and wow and maybe even slime rancher 2??? CAUSE THIS LAPTOP CAN RUN SLIME RANCHER 2???? I've had it on my wishlist since it was released for early access and my last laptop couldn't even FATHOM trying to run it, it could just barely run wow and valorant (the games I fucked up.... unrated but stillllll lol) but omg I could play it! More wiggly adorable slimes!!!

Okay imma shut up now and maybe my laptop will be done lol

#tato rambles #tato talks

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thegeminisage · 1 year ago

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ok, tng update time. i'm quite behind! monday we did "deja q," tuesday we did "a matter of perspective," and then wednesday was "yesterday's enterprise."

deja q: NOT as bad as i feared but still not great. turning q into a human was a fantastic idea because in general it helps facilitate empathy when you see a character suffer, which worked a little on me, and then also i greatly enjoyed seeing him suffer because he was so annoying before, lol. guinan and worf kicking him when he was down were the best <3

another smart choice was to have data be the only one who had any sympathy for him - precisely because data's "feelings" ""can't"" be hurt and he's less likely to hold grudges. also, because data is wonderful and it's easy to get behind his cause of reforming q into some kind of functional being

AND it was good that the first time q felt shame it was because data almost died for his ungrateful fucking ass...correct response

unfortunately i still have many problems. during that section right before data's sacrifice move, all of the goodwill q generated by being fun to laugh at kind of evaporated because he was being annoying

SECONDLY, i have realized the reason i dislike q is because his main two personality traits have aged horribly. firstly is the "randumb~ XD" humor (the mariachi band at the end of this ep, the random napoleon soldiers from the other ep, his various costumes...). i think the only person who could ever do that kind of humor well was robin williams and they didn't cast him as q and also he's dead now, so knock it off. his second personality trait is that he's smarter and more powerful than anybody else in the room which he (and the people writing him) seems to think is a license to be an asshole to them, as long as it is charming assholery. think t*ony st*rk, house, bbc sh*rlock. this of course is a deeply flawed premise to begin with, but he doesn't even do it WELL. nothing about his assholery is charming. specifically i am thinking of all the "worf is dumb because he's a big brutish klingon" jokes, which are for sure fantasy racism and border on ACTUAL racism, because they're derivative of horrible antiblack stereotypes. not that q is the only source of this kind of stuff aimed at worf, but it's really damning that it's ALWAYS the first thing out of his mouth and played for laughs and made his "but worf i'm a klingon at heart too!" bit extra unfunny

anyway, bringing in a SECOND q to praise him for his "selfless" act is eeehh considering one q is already one too many and the act wasn't even that selfless. it would've been better if he said the only reason he was doing it was for data, specifically, so he could stop feeling shame - that's more genuine than trying to get me to believe he'd give himself up for that ship of people even if really what he was mostly doing was committing suicide.

nonetheless i DID really enjoy getting to see data laugh at the end. GOOD for him <3 also lmao, the moon is falling, so true. JUST like majoras mask

a matter of perspective: the one thing i don't understand here is the bit where picard is a horrible painter and then data insults his art. like yes it was funny but i thought it would have something to do with the main plot. riker sees events this way and that lady sees them this way. not unlike in the art room where everyone interpreted the nude model in a different manner!

ALSO, WHY IS THERE A NUDE MODEL. does that woman not live and work on this starship. does she not have to command respect from her coworkers the rest of the time. they didn't even do this in the holodeck where that sort of thing would have made sense!! the one time you WANT the holodeck around...

anyway, i thought this episode veered dangerously close to dud territory. trial drama is fine, even though it begs the question of why no lie detector in tng. holodeck recreation also fine in this instance, as was the murder mystery

but why ON EARTH did they feel the need to show a fake version of riker attempting to rape this lady and then have deanna go well that's the way she remembers it because i sense no dishonesty from her :) this is just the true way each of you remembers it :)

LIKE THERE IS A CANYON OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIKER'S VERSION AND THAT LADY'S VERSION. it's not like they can both partially be true. in one instance she flung herself at him despite his clearly being uncomfortable and in the other he forced her despite her asking him to stop!!! like in this case what you do is believe the woman except because riker's our protagonist we know he didn't do it except they never CLARIFY that he didn't do it??? obviously i don't think for a minute that he did, but of all the fucking things to leave open...

anyway i hated it. i actually hated it more than catherine did which may be a first for tng

yesterday's enterprise: TASHA YAR?????????????????????????????

ok, the premise of this was kinda confusing at first, but i don't give a single fuck. TASHA YAR!!!!!!

i was so happy and confused to see her but the more scenes she had...man. like, ok, they did not HAVE to have her make out with this guy. even in death they will not stop doing this to her. but the whole thing where guinan was like your death was meaningless and empty in this timeline so she decides to go back and die in the past instead...GOOD for her

also, i'm a little confused on my canon - i think the battle that other enterprise went back to die in was the one that worf's parents were killed in? which is why he wasn't on the bridge because he fuckin DIED at age 6 or whatever? i guess they must have done enough good to save at least some people??

anyway, ABSOLUTELY adored this one. tasha yar redemption arc. that was the LAST thing i EVER expected to see on tng but here we are. they even made that other captain a woman although lmao in the end they refridged tasha nd this other captain. STILL. if shes gotta die let it be better than the death she got in canon. i'll miss you queen

my one gripe, aside from her boyfriend, is that she and data had a lil scene in the elevator and im mad we could not infer from it whether or not they had fucked in this timeline. rip :(

NEXT TIME: "the offspring" and "sins of the father," which is a normal title that does not at all match the title of a merlin episode i wrote a 130k coda about

#personal #star trek blogging #tng lb

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bahamutgames · 2 years ago

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AFTERTHOUGHTS - ROUNDUP ROUND 5

July 2023

Here we go again! I did NOT expect to play so much this month but I... yknow... kinda... got back into gaming in a special little way. I gave it up for a bit cause I was using a hand me down laptop that couldn't run games well, and I was having some phobias about data loss. Then I got a new laptop and while I did do a little bit, I mostly starting focusing on finally playing actual PC games and more indie games that were always out of my grasp as a dedicated console gamer.

Anyway I played a SHIT TON of games and hopefully I'll be able to play more and more. I have a gaming laptop, I have a big ass hard drive, and I have NO MONEY! SO LET'S PARTY!!!

Pikmin (October 26, 2001) - Gamecube

Ah, Pikmin. I've actually had a huge soft spot for this series for a long time. I always loved the world and characters. I remember writing an essay on Pikmin 2 in elementary school, and my mom convinced me to start journaling by telling me Olimar kept a journal lol. But you'll probably be shocked to learn that I NEVER beat this game! I've always been really bad at it and would get sad when my Pikmin died so I gave up on it. But with the power of save scumming, I was able to get the confidence needed to clear through it.

For positives this game is GORGEOUS. Even for gamecube trying to look hyper realistic (in the environments at least lol) I'm actually blown away by how good it looks! Playing on Dolphin may have helped but damn this game's graphics have ages AMAZINGLY. The whole game is also just so charming. Everyone's designs are really cute and delightful. From the Grubdogs to the SS Dolphin itself, their designs are lovely and everything is filled with such personality and charm. I love how goofy and squash-and-stretchy the Pikmin are. It's all so adorable even when facing themes on the cruelty of nature lol. Music is also FANTASTIC, gameplay is fun, I love the story and ending (the part with all the onions was SO cute.) I loved figuring out ways to get parts quicker and trickier, like one part is being guarded by 3 Burrowing Snagrets but you only need to kill the farthest to get it. So I had a bunch of Pikmin grab it and carry it out of the arena while I distracted the other two with a smaller army. It was very neat.

But I will say for all that praise this game is fucking ANNOYING! The Pikmin are so determined to die! I'll be doing everything in my power to keep them safe and they just gloriously run into any body of water or explosion they can. It's so frustrating and is a big reason I decided to emulate it despite owning the game physically. This could get especially frustrating when trying to precise things to get certain ship parts and having to deal with Pikmin stupidity combined with annoying hyper aggressive enemies. But despite that, every day since beating it all I can think is "damn I wish I was still playing Pikmin." So you can expect me to try Pikmin 2 very soon!

Sonic the Fighters (June 1996) - Gamecube

Sonic the Hedgehog? Check. Fighting Game? Double Check. Somehow I've gone my whole life and NEVER played this game!! I've had friends talk about how good it was for ages and it's literally two of my favorite things combined. So I'm very happy that I finally gave it a whirl. I played through Arcade on the easiest difficulty as Sonic!

And may I just say, I only played a little bit. So maybe I didn't get the full experience, but the gameplay in this SUCKS. In general I'm not a huge fan of 3D fighting games over 2D ones. But the enemies are so ruthlessly brutal for NO reason and it genuinely made some fights IMPOSSIBLE to get past. Particularly Tails and Metal Sonic. I am not proud of the swears I shouted at this game just trying my hardest to clear the Arcade mode. And it's endlessly frustrating to me that this game seems to get so much more love and be more popular than Sonic Battle which is LEAGUES better! WHY ARE SO MANY OF SONIC'S SMASH BROS. MOVES FROM THIS AND NOT BATTLE!?

But, I will say. I totally get why people like it. Pretty much everything outside of the combat totally fucking rules. The character models are cute, charming, and full of personality. The menus are nice, the music is GREAT. The plot is cute and works. The level backgrounds are AMAZING, seriously they look WONDERFUL! And I particularly really loved the final boss. Where the Death Egg is exploding and Eggman comes out with a self destruct timer, and then that timer turns into the match timer. SUPER cool touch. This game is really cool in spite of being kinda annoying to play.

Anyway, new Sonic 2D Fighter made by Arc System Works next please!!

Soul Calibur 2 (July 5th, 2002) - Gamecube

Oh boy, another 3D Fighting Game. Here we go. Soul Calibur is a series I've only played once before with SC6. And while the whole aesthetic and concept of this series absolutely RULES, it just doesn't really click with me. I love the weapons, Nightmare is SUCH a bad ass and so is the Soul Edge, I love the over the top narrator who says so much, the edgy fantasy aesthetic rules, and I love the weird guest characters. But it just never fully clicked sadly. BUT, I've heard LOTS of people say it's one of the best fighting games ever so I figured I'm overdue to check it out.

Just like SC6, this game looks great and has great character designs. I'm particularly a big sucker for these gorgeous Gamecube graphics. Lizardman was my main even though I played the arcade as Nightmare (since you can't do arcade as Lizardman which fucking blows.) But yeah I'm just not super into the gameplay. Neat game though. This and Tekken are both neat games I may sit down and try to play all of some day.

Super Monkey Ball (June 23, 2001) - Gamecube

You may be shocked to learn that I've barely touched this series in the past. I've played a Monkey Ball Arcade Machine at a Chuck E. Cheese once... I played the phone version one time... And that's about it! I know it's a really loved series but for whatever reason it just never came into my life before. But I've had a friend tell me I should play it for a while now so I decided, what the heck? Since I'm here I might as well give it a shot.

And yeah it's neat! I totally get why people like it! It's tricky, but honestly a ton of fun. Love the graphics and level aesthetics. Music is nice (I LOVED the final area's music with the rock soundtrack in that edgy colosseum). The characters are all super cute (my favorite Monkey Ball character is that one with pigtails and a raccoon tail but she wasn't in this one sadly.) I love the random Dole cross promotion stuff that was genuinely funny. And I like that you actually control the stage that was neat. My only major issues aside from it being, generally frustrating is that the camera can actually REALLY fuck you over, it tries to kinda hang towards your back. But this can really influence your delicate control over the stage. I had some levels where the camera swinging it around genuinely made it impossible to get over some hills.

Frustrating as it was, I actually remembered that my sister bought a Monkey Ball game on Switch recently, so I can absolutely see myself playing more of this series later.

Guilty Gear X (July 13, 2000) - Playstation 2

Ah, one of the last few Guilty Gear games I haven't played. I'm not sure why, but this one just never seems to get ported anywhere. If I had to guess it's cause it's very similar to XX, but it does have a very unique look to the menus, exclusive stages, and it's own story. So I really think they're overdue to put it on Steam. But oh well, that didn't stop me, I finally sat down and gave it a shot! I of course played through the Arcade as Sol and had a pretty good time with it!

It's GG so of course you already know the music and graphics are AMAZING, it feels great to play and is overall a fantastic package. I actually thought the menu aesthetics this time around were CRAZY good. Everything looks really cool and good and I know the character select is a bit notorious for being kinda difficult to see everything. And yeah that's true but I thought it looked awesome! Overall this game rules and I think it's worth checking out even with XX being a thing. It's interesting to see just how far the quality in sprites and backgrounds improved from Missing Link to X in not even that long of a time (though ML will still be one of my all time favs aha)

My only major complaint is that I thought the Arcade Mode was relentlessly brutal this time around. Once I reached the second half I was massively struggling to get through and I could not beat Dizzy to save my life, it was nuts. I never had this trouble with Missing Link or XX! Maybe it was just the version I was playing or my controller. But this game seriously whipped my ass. Oh well. Still cool.

User Unknwn (July 17, 2023) - PC

It's okay for me to write about games made by friends of mine right? That's cool? It's my tumblr I'll shout out whoever I want. A friend of mine recently released a visual novel and I think you should give it a read! User Unknwn is an interesting and in my opinion, unsettling little visual novel about a strange homebrew app for PSP that causes... Problems let's say.

It talks about dysphoria and struggling with presenting and how people treat you when you're trans. I think it's best you read it yourself to see how you interpret it, but I found it to be very relatable with how it handles these topics and also makes it very creepy and bizarre in a good way. It's got nice visuals, I liked the use of real world photos and scribbles, it's a nice combination. It's got an interesting story and it's actually got an original soundtrack! Which is very good but also cool that they made the effort to include that! Most small indie games will just forgo music altogether or use free music, I'll admit I'm guilty of most of my games being silent. But no, here you get a full soundtrack! Which is honestly awesome! My favorite might be, and I'm sorry I have to type this... "Music That Will Make You Cum Your Pants"

Seeing as how it's a visual novel there's really nothing to complain about. My only complaint is that I'm also an original trilogy Paper Mario guy and I would NOT act like gabe, I'm better than that.

Super Mario 64 Star Road (December 24, 2011) - N64 Mod

Hey! Would you believe that this is probably the first Mario Romhack I've ever beaten? I've played TONS of Mario Fangames in my time. But never any Rockhacks oddly enough. But I recently played Super Mario 64 CO-OP with some friends, and I LOVED IT. You can set it to not boot you out when getting a star, let Mario access moves added to later games, and improve his swimming which makes the game feel SO good and new. It also natively runs fullscreen and has modern controller controls, it feels SO good to play this way (and you can customize Mario's color scheme.) So I did a quick 30 star run in the base game, and wanted more. It came with Star Road so I decided to play through that, and here we are!

STAR ROAD RULES!! It's a brand new game with a fully original hub world, all new stages, 120 brand new stars. Nothing is copied from Mario 64 except for the characters and the base engine and what not, of course. It's literally a whole new experience, and I loved it! I loved the new worlds, my favorites were probably Bob-Omb Island and Fatal Flame Falls! There's tons of areas to see and I don't think I even found them all! The game also has original boss battles like a bunch of big piranha plants which was very cool to see! And I was blown away by just how big the game is. I rushed the to beat the first boss, and then was shocked to see a second hub world! Then the same thing happened and there's a third hub world! This game is crazy massive! It's also got some new enemies, some visuals and stuff from other Mario games, and it was super cute hearing different video game tracks put in the SM64 soundfont for the OST!

The game isn't perfect though. In my opinion it's too long. You need 80 stars to beat it which is already 10 more than the original. And I feel like there's less stars in each world than the original game so you REALLY have to 100% a lot of worlds in order to get everything you need. I 100% cleared almost every main level to get 80 stars which is just a bit too much. I also felt like there were too many instadeath locations. The big bully in the snow world, the piranha plant boss, ect ect. Gloomy Garden was especially guilty for having SO many places to fall off and feeling SO big while also being so empty. That was easily my least favorite stage. BUT aside from that, this was an amazing romhack! I may even come back and 100% it some day!

Pac-Man World 2 (February 24, 2002) - Gamecube

And last but not least, Pac-Man World 2! I played the first one last year I believe, so of course it's only natural we jump into the sequel this year! This one I basically knew nothing about, never watched any videos of it or nothing. I just remember seeing the cover a lot at my local video rental store... I'm not old shut up. (I miss you so much, Screenplay Video...) But I finally gave it a go and I'm glad I did! It's a neat little game!

The game looks very nice, controls nice, I thought the music was good. And I love the story honestly. Spooky is cool and the whole concept with collecting the gold fruit, while simple, is cute and works perfectly. The game also isn't too long, it's shorter than even the first one. Speaking of which, I was really shocked to see how similar it was to the first one. The Rev Roll is still there and it has a lot of the same mechanics with finding fruit and what not. Idk why I just wasn't expect it to be so similar to the first! I do think I might prefer this one though? And the final boss was cool and the first boss was FANTASTIC!!

Speaking of bosses though, this ties in perfectly with what WASN'T that good about it. Dude. The middle 3 bosses are the EXACT same bosses and this boss fight fucking SUCKS. IT'S AWFUL, so I have no idea why they recycled it 3 TIMES but the cool frog boss just got left in the dust. It's so stupid. In addition whole the game itself is short that's only the case cause there's so few levels. Which they had to do cause the levels are SO LONG!! They drag on FOREVER and especially some of the on rails ones can just go and go and go. It's not too hard so it's not that bad but it can noticeable when you're playing a single level for what feels like forever. I also felt like there were a lot of jumps that were just slightly too far to make, I kept ALWAYS grabbing the ledge and rarely landing on platforms, and if you do that on the tons of platforms that fall, it's an instadeath every time. And then the final level felt completely broken. I had no idea what was happening in that stage I would constantly make progress, and then my reward would be being sent back earlier into the level. Wormwood fucking rules though so that's okay.

Regardless! Now that that's over there's only one more game left! Pac-Man World 3! THAT'S the one I've been looking forward to! It's the only one I played as a kid, it's edgy, and Pacman PUNCHES PEOPLE! I can't wait to play it!

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I also played 2 other games, but really didn't have much of anything to say on them. WarioWare, Inc. Mega Party Game$! which was, neat but really boring without friends. Cutscenes were particularly goofy though. And Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 which was a very cool fighting game I've heard people rave about for ages! But I only briefly played it so I'd like to learn how to play it better and give it another go later, particularly after I play more KoF. But hey, look at my funny custom Morrigan color scheme:

#2023 #thoughts #roundup

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reakain · 4 months ago

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TRAINS!!!

So, I've noticed a trend during my PhD, where, when I start getting existential dread around my work, I go make pixel art. Which, like, is not the worst thing I could do! Sometimes I rework existing pixel art I've made (like my kitchen pixel art) and other times I make something new! Recently I've been focusing on Gameboy pixel art, because the severely limited size and color palette makes it a very engaging challenge, and this time... I made traaaaaaaaaains!!!!

Mostly cause I found I had an unfinished pixel art file in my folder, descriptively titled "train" which when I opened it had this as the only content:

So, I took that as a start and went kinda ham making pixel assets. The windows are sized so you could stick a character sprite face in em, peering into the outside.

Once the trains were made, I started trying to make train stations which immediately got me stuck trying to figure out how to make escalators escalate... And I did it!

The gif of them escalating is actually even cooler, because that is them escalating inside of an actual Gameboy game.

I make Gameboy games using GB Studio, which is a fantastic tool for making them, but obviously is gonna have some limitations. One of which is the fact that scene backgrounds are static, aka if you want to have something animating in a scene, you have to make an "actor" or "npc" in the world, which introduces a lot of extra data demands and you can only have so many actors with so many unique sprite tiles. All of this is jargon which summarizes to: you can't have your scene animate like this by default.

But! There are a couple different guides on how to program in the ability to animate your background by specifically swapping tiles in the background with tiles from another scene. I had previously made a plugin to help me do this to make an updating calendar in a lil Gameboy game I've been slowly working on, Something Sweet.

So I added that here, but the escalators have four frames of movement for nine distinct tiles. So I made a custom plugin to simplify the process for anyone wanting to use the escalator, and added the GB Studio project that I used to test this functionality as an example with all of the sprites!

Then I got to work building interior maps for the trains... And continued maybe going overboard. I made art for the interiors of both the bullet train, and commuter train. The bullet train is arguably simpler

It has the forward facing seats you would expect, and I did add a scene in the example game playing with animating the windows, so it looks like the train is actually moving. (It's just the window reflection scrolling, because I made all the parts to make a window of any length.)

Then I... went bananas and made a couple variant bits for the commuter train, though most of the parts are displayed in this scene.

You have some hand rails, the seats against the walls, windows, and, the most fun and painful part: ~banner ads~

Banner ads are pretty common along the top of trains, and can be static, or include animation. I actually looked up real subway train car ads to use as inspiration and guidance for designing the ads here, and I made color inverted versions of the ads, so, much like with the escalator, you can animate them!

With that I worked through a lot of my ability to fixate on something else, so I'm finally getting back to actual work, but I do wanna make a couple more odds and ends. Notably, I wanna add:

An open-air/above ground train platform

Animation of the train entering/leaving the station platform

Animation of the doors opening/closing (I have both open and closed doors sprites, but the animation setup will require some tweaking) DONE

A train line map for the station/train interiors so folk can check their stops/transfers!

Some animated scenes of trains driving through different locations, such as an open field, a city (using my city tileset), and maybe over a river or something (a good way to expand my outdoor tileset)

Some silly armored trains that a friend told me about

Maybe some more posters (coming up with them was actually one of the harder things in this set)

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hamtigers · 2 months ago

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Most of mine ARE the AUs

As in... Most of them are based on pre-existing OCs refitted to fit XIV

And even then, almost all my FFXIV chars have both an RP version and a WoL AU version

And on top of THAT some of them have further AUs

Oh and I have a general "everyone is here" AU I play with where they all are there as scions at once, so they're basically sharing the WoL spotlight but only one is allowed to actually be Azem there and I haven't decided who yet.

Tl;DR if you don't wanna click the read more:

Most of any of these exist primarily in my head tho.

Kalith has the most! Or at least the most based on her XIV-self. Cause that's my gurl and I love playing with her concept lots

She's originally a FFIV after years fanchar

I am contemplating an AU of that version of her where her father never fucked off

She has the XIV version built for RP

Her WoL AU

"everyone is here"

A WoL AU where Ysayle lives solely so that I can make a polycule at the expense of Estinien's sanity.

An AU where her mom gets hired by Godbert to work at the gold saucer so she becomes a chocobo jockey instead and also her parents get back together sooner bc Uldah is actually where her father fled to after being branded a heretic.

A secret extra AU for a tabletop campaign where I played with the idea where her parents were never separated to begin with(spoilers she's not an only child anymore) and also I made her full elezen bc I thought it'd be funny to have the original human, hyurezen, and elezen versions.

A uhhh modern mashup AU that blends the cast of IV and XIV together. Bc it's just fun lol.

To go down the rest of the List:

Izumi: one of the few that isn't based on another OC! Outside of "everyone is here" Izumi just has her RP version and her shared WoL AU with her husband (I don't have it in me to give her a solo AU)

Draelkiith:

Original OC version

He has a Steven universe version(loosely based on the original)

XIV RP version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

I know I made a tabletop version of him at one point but it's also based on the original, not XIV

Iekka:

Also a rare one not based on a previous OC! Her name comes from my personal avatar but isn't based on her, Izumi is the one physically based on the original Iekka bc of a silly chain of events. But Iekka fits the vibe of a Viera name better than Au Ra anyway so it all worked out.

(Basically, Iekka was originally physically what Izumi is, but I transferred her to a different server. When I replaced her bc I couldn't transfer her back in I renamed and fantasia'd an alt and I decided to make her lore-ready since I was starting to take an interest in RP so that's how Izumi was born. Then Viera came out and I decided to pop a fantasia on Iekka to differentiate the two and when the data center split happened I got to move her back to my main server for free)

She has her RP-ready version

Her WoL AU

"everyone is here"

And a WoL AU where Haurchefant lives so that she gets to have three whole boyfriends bc we love polyamory in this house

Samir:

Original OC Version

RP-ready version is almost done being reworked, I'm mostly waiting on the Arcadion arc to finish out so I can resolve the fact that there is no way he doesn't have !¡!¡!¡!¡!SPOILERS FOR ARCADION RAIDS psychonekrosis SPOILERS!¡!¡!¡!¡!

WoL Au(under heavy rework while I decide how far I want his WoL self to deviate from his new RP self)

"everyone is here"

And technically, we can count the scrapped RP and WoL versions from before I reworked him thanks to dawntrail if we want

Kohaku:

Originally made for a tabletop thing

Became a full-fledged OC

RP version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

Seral:

Is one of my oldest still active OCs, so he has a LOT of variants

He was originally a Sonic OC but in no particular order, from what I can REMEMBER, he has gotten:

A Human AU when I added him to the roster of "human OCs to slot into whatever setting I want"

A TWEWY AU

A Lunar Knights AU

I think I used him in a OHSHC RP on Gaia once

A Naruto AU

Two different OC-centric RP world vsrsions

XIV RP-ready version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

Legit I probably missed some. This man has been dragged through so many fandoms kicking and screaming. I mostly stopped bc I stopped getting so... Obsessive about every piece of media I consume. I'm sure if I rly wanted and dredged thru the depths of my old DA I'd find more variants. But I'm not doing that.

Ryota:

He is loosely based on an OC but does not actually share his name with said OC.

That OC has gotten a tabletop version

That OC has a Monster hunter AU!

He is used in XIV RP (Izumi's father)

And he does not have a WoL AU but is like, a supporting NPC in any AU Izumi is in!

My other alts I don't actively use and aren't rly fleshed out into fully fledged chars in XIV so I'm not gonna bother listing them.

4/15/15

do you have an AUs for your wol(oc)?

#ham rambles #man this one turned into a doozy #i blame kalith and seral

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nathank77 · 1 year ago

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4/29/24

9:07 p.m

So I ended up showering and buzzing my head. I'm still working on the laundry and I moved my car back to my house. My brakes sound like they are grinding mostly just my emergency brake.. I really can't afford another issue but I guess we will see if it persist....

I'm trying to work on my cloud saves and appearantly its a well known issue with the series x/s for 360 profiles. I've followed troubleshooting steps and I may have to fucking send in my Xbox. Now I got to call Xbox support when they are open if it doesn't work later. Come to think of it all my cloud saves that are an issue are fucking Xbox 360 games.....

And as I was troubleshooting this, I had to reset my console which made me lose my Silent hill 2, 10 star run save... and now I'm worse off than I was before. I was only missing Bully and Far Cry 2....

So yea that's awesome...... can't play if I can't download my saves unless I want to replay everything I already did on a 30 hour save file. And I'm never redoing the 10 star... also they'll reset my local data so I could lose anything I save locally...

My hallucination is driving me crazy today so that's great. And I'm just so fucking alone. I'm about give up on my fucking Xbox and wait until I can call them maybe tomorrow or Wednesday..

I may just watch American Dad all day. Just so I don't fucking hallucinate...

and my mother left a pumpkin on a wooden table for like 6 months and it got moldy and now everything that I accidentally put on that table gets contaminated... and as I'm doing my bed I put my stupid ashtray on my bed which touched my night stand which I accidentally put my red bull on the table and put it on my nightstand and I put that ashtray in the, "Contamination" spot and now I feel like I can't even lay on my bed until I cover the mattress which that's not happening for another like hour and 10 minutes...

I'm so fucking miserable with my life. Ocd is killing me, this hallucination is fucking killing me.

And idk why I'm still here. For what? Whats my purpose? To get 3 views on YouTube? To be absent from my siblings and father/step mom bc I can't manage my life cause I have 500 doctors appts a month and even before that psychosis and ocd run my life?

Why am I here? Why am I trying? Everything is so exhausting. I can't even smoke fucking weed. I can't do anything fun. Everything is miserable and I'm so fucking alone idk if anyone would notice if I fucking died.

To be alone forever? To never get married?, to never have children? What's the fucking point?

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melukonova · 1 year ago

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hey besti, drop some answers to mis preguntas tanks

1. you or cloud has a nightmare, how does one comfort?

2. what video games to you make iwa play? is he willing?

3. favorite date with iwa-chan so far?

4. has dango read to help you sleep before?

5. zack takes you to the beach, what’s the schedule?

6. favorite spot that iwa-chan has taken you?

7. neuvillette takes you to another nation! where and why?

8. this can uh be a free space too.. okok have fun

hi wifey<3 i see we copied my idea of sending questions!!! teasing, i love these and being asked them makes me feel sm better<333

1. kurasora (sky means sora in japanese, this ship name sounds better imo if anybody is stalking this post):

for cloud, i’m assuming either he’s still recovering from trauma or that sephiroth has invaded his brain. i feel like he just could use some warmth so i would definitely hold him and tell him that no matter what happened, it was never his fault and that it’s okay to still have nightmares. i’d probably soothe him by making him some tea mostly or even just running my hands in his chocobo-like hair. for myself, cloud would also do similar except he lets his actions do the talking instead of his words so he’s definitely hold me tight — rather rare since it’s harder for him to show affection since he doesn’t want to get too attached but he’ll do his best in order to comfort.

2. iwasky:

hajime is RELUCTANT but he tries to play final fantasy with me cause i told him i’m in the game (he regrets it because he knew i am not). he ends up liking aerith because he sees me somewhat and he gets annoyed since i said he’s basically cloud with the way he acts (his amazon cart has the cosplay already in it). another game is smash bros but he likes that more cause then he can get payback against me, his main is cloud (he also regrets this for like 0.2 seconds but he likes his playstyle) since i get distract and ultimately, he wins. i tried to get him into genshin, honkai star rail, and fate grand order but he said no cause he doesn’t want to go broke for pixels.

3. iwasky:

my favorite date is probably our first date since he was flustered and probably went for the most casual thing he could think of, an amusement park to which he won me a giant gible plushie and he was able to protect me from my fear of heights. he did NOT pick this idea, tooru did and he hatecrimed tooru because i looked miserable on every ride to which tooru texted back, “it’s okay, you’re protect her, iwa-chan! 😋🫶✨‼️” the arcade was fun as well as the food. bonus if it’s disneyland because star wars land is the BEST.

4. skyheng:

i mean honestly, yes. dan heng and i definitely enjoy just being next to each other so i believe quality time is a great one. he probably works on the data bank while i sleep since i sleep so much and he ends up reading it out loud to me to check for grammatical mistakes but also since i’m curious about his adventures since leaving the luofu. i’m sure it was relaxing for the most part to speak about his adventures and just makes me wish to travel more so maybe one day we could take our own little adventure outside of my dreams<3

5. skyzak:

i feel like this was inspired by a certain conversation… but anyway! love this one AHAHAHAHAH! anyway zack is the type to not have an iternary because he’s just bouncing off the walls which who blames him?? ITS BEACH TIME!! but i digress, a beach day is definitely a fun day! (provided that costa del sol isn’t also giving monsters a vacation as well, ahem anyway…) but definitely he’d grab me and throw me into the water as soon as we got to the beach, he’d make sure it’s safe but he’s also SUCH a tease. though, he’d realize we forgot sun screen so he waits about 20 minutes before throwing me in again. we also would have a picnic on the beach honestly, the resort provides the food though. he’s like 23 at this point so he’s a bit more mature but still has that childish glow. i’d try to teach him beach volleyball too, he’s so bad unless he’s serving overhand LOL. overall, a fun day without the monsters as we play in the water, perhaps building sandcastles and teaching each other small things about ourselves :)

6. iwasky:

iwaizumi hajime does not neglect great date SPOTS. he definitely does just silly little things like errands but sometimes he’ll trick me and just take me on a long drive!! my favorite time that he did this is when he took me up high on a mountain and overlooked the whole city as well as all of the lights below. he claims it’s because i needed to get out of bed more but i know he’s dying to take me. what’s even better is that along that, there’s an observatory at the top of the mountain and there’s a planetarium since he knows i like the stars but all he sees is his star while he smiles brightly at how happy i am, looking down below.

7. neuvisky:

neuvillette definitely seems like the type to be mr. worldwide SOLELY FOR THAT FACT that the water is delicious. i believe he would want the journey to be as short as possible though for work… unfortunately. he and i are both glad he could make the time though. we’d definitely go to the new area that released!! he probably likes it because there’s so much water there so it’s similar to what he’s used to and cause it’s closer than the rest. it was a small date for the two of us but it’s definitely nice to see how much neuvillette knows everything and explain the difference between waters<33

8. obesky / skylusiné:

q: your trope with them & why?

oberon and i would definitely fit enemies to lovers because he would hate my guts and be all tsundere but it’d be cute. or even sunshine x grumpy cause he is such a bum and claims he almost ruled the world if it weren’t for ritsuka and co. (he’s my perfect mothman)

melusiné & i would have the “i hate everybody but her” and the “who did this???” tropes because she loves with all of her heart and sacrifices for those she loves. i don’t believe i could like anybody else if she wasn’t there to fill me with the joy that she does every time i open fgo… i know miss dragon would lose herself if somebody were to hurt me though — she gets protective and possessive easily.

#lore (🪷)#kurasora(♡)#iwasky(♡)#neuvisky(♡)#obesky(♡)#skylusiné(♡)#skyzak(♡)#skyheng(♡)#ellie🫶

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firadessa · 10 months ago

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No cause your so right on how it's one of Disney's best franchises but it doesn't get the recognision it deserves and I'm still made about it

Here's some things I don't like on how Disney treated the series

1. Removal of classic Flash games in 2013 from the Disney website like Lightball challenge, Tink's Fairy Tag, and Dragonfly Race leaving them lost/nearly impossible to find, or in a seemingly broken and unplayble state. Additionally, printouts and other downloadables that could have stayed were often removed after website updates. I hate when normal features of a website get removed, and Disney Fairies had this the most as someone who spent a lot of their time on the disney website as a kid

2. Having the audacity to make an html5 game called Pixie Party Couture with pixie hollow assets, like a year after the game shut down. Like literally Tabby of the Never Council was in the dress up game

3. It's mostly mismanagement, but cancelling the original draft for Tinker Bell and not updating the marketing material, even when it had been pushed back by a year. Especially on the 2007 website for the first year it was out.

5. Not crediting people enough? like for the original TB draft and the books authors being "Disney Storybook Art Team" even in the book, leading people to dig to find who worked on their damn books

6. Failing to capture an audience for Pixie Hollow, yet Toontown which had been somewhat slow on content iirc yet Pixie Hollow still never had a problem with new and original concepts, as well as fun events. Again, mismanagment, but it sometimes makes me sad knowing Pixie Hollow, while it was popular, had a signifigantly smaller audience then the others. And honestly, I don't think it's the fault of Pixie Hollow, but poor marketing. Which puts the stress on the employees for working on an "unpopular" game, which clearly had people playing it and a good retention of players. It was cancelled like 5/6 years in, when it could have at least lasted another few years because it was 2013.

7. Keeping Pixie Hollow's "beta" on internationally, and showcasing that they could have still kept the smaller more relaxed experience of creating a fairy and creating a page for the character. But since they wanted to transition to mobile apps in the US, most people who grew up with the site did not know of the international versions. Which closed around 2016/2017. Meaning if you were a hardcore Pixie Hollow fan or lived outside of the US, you got 3 more years of PH- just a more toned down version

8. Pages were found on the Disney website that misleading people that the game was going to come back, but they were just leaks/archived pages from the original website. These pages were easy for others to find, one person even found a login page confirming Disney still had the account data for Pixie Hollow.

9. Removing the book characters from the franchise almost entirely except as side characters or very specific instances like in Pixie Hollow. Even if those characters could still be recognizable or interesting, they never started pushing them as actual characters within the movie's shared universe until like 2014. The characters had 3 years to exist and existed for longer than that because they waited for the release of Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg to even debut the franchise.

10. Shortening down a full length movie Race through the Seasons, into Pixie Hollow games leaving the director to scramble into making it a 30 minute TV special, when that wasn't the assignment.

11. People made more ideas for Disney Fairies projects. And they just sat there and waited until they wanted to shut the studio (Disneytoon) down, barely producing anything!

12. Prioritzing another franchise so much that when people ordered a Disney Fairies magazine they sent out the other one when they pulled it instead of cancelling the orders. When there was a Youtube channel, it got replaced and the videos were unlisted with uh *this more popular*! franchise 👸😮‍💨 Only lead to confusion in both cases I assure you

13. Playing hot and cold with us because people didn't know they didn't cancel the entire thing, or if it was offically completely done. Which is understandable because of the whole Youtube rebrand as Disney Princess, and also poor marketing and releasing in the US

14. The first book was the first to release internationally, yet a lot of international translation ceased completely around the mid 2010s

15. They made another Iridessa book. And they only released in Japan and Australia. Written by a prominent Black author. Extremely rare. Leading to someone in 2017 having to scan it for people to read it. Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine

16. Not including Joel Mcneely's songs on the inspired by Tinker Bell soundtracks. Which again, mislead people because they are not the actual soundtracks

17. This is more on the Pixie Hollow team, but the lack of support from the closure is not something I liked. Like I get it if they weren't properly able to add a proper farewell celebration like Club Penguin's in 2017, but naming the closing event Pixie Hollow Farewell wasn't a good move. Like did they forget that's a fictional place that many kids are attached to and a game? Wish it was the "Fly with You Forever" party or something more creative. The closing announcement felt very out of character and was assigned one of the NPCs, which I remember recieving mixed announcements. Leading them to make a new post that came across as more sympathetic, and add free membership for the remaining period. But there was a lack of attention when it came to the games closure, probably due to the fact it was rushed and 4 games were planned to close on one day. And we deserved a proper goodbye and tribute to the characters of Pixie Hollow like the council and others, making the ending more bittersweet instead of just bitter. Oh, but they'd actually have to code that in the fairy game so they didn't bother.

You know what maybe I’m just tired and feeling the existential dread of growing up, but actually my small, petty hill to die on is that I don’t think I will ever forgive Disney for abandoning the fairies franchise. I cannot even properly express what those movies were to me as a kid. They very well may have been my first hyperfixation. But come on beyond the sentimental value, those movies:

Encouraged kids to take an interest in nature and be nice to plants and animals.

Depicted a (mostly female) friend group that spent virtually every scene they had together onscreen building each other up and supporting each other.

Featured a female lead who is essentially a mechanical engineer, and is not treated as any less magical or important for it than her friends who can magically make flowers grow or bend light (except for the first movie wherein her feeling less magical and important is the central conflict).

Gave said female lead a “love interest,” I say in quotations because while they are definitely implied to have romantic feelings for each other, he is never called anything other than her best friend and the two of them ending up together is never treated as an urgent priority. Their friendship is incredibly important to both of them, but no one acts like it’s a problem that they’re just friends for now.

Redeemed the mean girl pretty damn successfully (in my opinion), Vidia never apologizes for most of her actions onscreen, but she does realize when she’s gone too far and makes an effort to fix her mistakes, and from that point on she is integrated into the friend group who, as I mentioned before, spend 90% of their screen time uplifting each other.

In The Lost Treasure, let Tink’s temper have consequences, a good lesson for kids in not taking their friends for granted and treating them kindly, but also teaching respect for boundaries and personal space through Terrence’s end.

In Secret of the Wings, demonstrated that sometimes rules are there for safety reasons, but you can try to think of a creative solution to do what you want while still keeping things safe for everyone.

In Legend of the Neverbeast (admittedly not the greatest movie in the series), depicted the fairies having to say goodbye to an animal companion permanently, something most kids will probably experience at some point.

Inspired a banger of an online game and several banger songs.

And what has Disney done with this franchise they spent 7 years on (longer if you count the books)?

Allowed a massive decline in quality on the last movie made (Legend of the Neverbeast) and then acted shocked when it didn’t do as well as the previous ones.

Cancelled all fairy projects after that.

Shut down the game in 2013.

Made a bunch of the songs from the soundtracks seemingly disappear off the face of the earth.

I know it doesn’t make the top 100 shitty things Disney has done, probably not even the top 1000, but I am still extremely salty about it, even though it’s been almost 10 years.

#disney fairies fandom #discussion: df franchise #prev tags- i will read this and add 17 more reasons why Disney failed this series #not gonna add it cause its too recent but the lack of promotion of the new books and lack of disney fairies labeling is something else

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