#truth in masquerade

[antuskydancer]

@biomechanicaltomato

[genshinmp3]

Comme il vous plaira from Pelagic Primaevality Dimeng Yuan, HOYO-MiX

[theragamuffininitiative]

😅

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Eddard IV

“I must play out this fool’s masquerade as if nothing is amiss. Remember why I came here, my love. If I find proof that the Lannisters murdered Jon Arryn…”

He felt Catelyn tremble in his arms. Her scarred hands clung to him. “If,” she said, “what then, my love?”

That was the most dangerous part, Ned knew.

“All justice flows from the king,” he told her. “When I know the truth, I must go to Robert.”

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

[florapot]

raven's interros made me weep sm im a little embarrassed

[stillblazingstars]

“He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”

~van helsing babble

[icubud]

[ask-neontiger]

You can only change so much you say? Is this not how you'd appear in the waking world then?

"Maybe I look similar to this in the waking world...maybe I'm vastly different." The Torracat said, "Does it really matter that much?"

(@modern-masquerade)

[Keala Event Ask 6/10]

[supermauswithagun]

Ha elég hosszan és ügyesen játszod a Vampire: the Masquerade-et, akkor előbb-utóbb Az ember tragédiája lesz belőle.

[howifeltabouthim]

And there is neither false nor true; But in a hideous masquerade All things dance on

Amy Levy, from “Magdalene”

[thepoisonroom]

when people decide you're upset with them and develop a whole conspiracy theory of your behavior and then try to get out in front of it by being like "hey i couldn't help but notice this tiny thing and ascertain that you hate me which is fine of course" like! no one likes that! take me at my word or perish!

[genshinmp3]

Prophetie of Predestination from Pelagic Primaevality Dimeng Yuan, HOYO-MiX

[southparkhollowoneskids]

South Park Video Games; exploratory notes

In 'The Stick of Truth', the Goths play Goth Raiders in the LARP campaign of the kids, with horned helmets on top of their normal outfits. This is only after you, as the player character, have joined them to earn their alliance. This requires wearing a full Goth outfit, getting coffee, cigarettes, and 'nonconforming' by playing a DDR mini-game. (Fun Bit, first time I played that, I had a brain-blast and expected the game to reward me for refusing to conform. I immediately lost the mini-game.) The Goth outfit has no useful in-game stats. This clearly indicates the Goths are playing a different game.

In 'The Fractured but Whole' DLC 'From Dusk 'til' Casa Bonita', Henrietta joins you to fight the Vamp Kids overtaking the (last on earth) Casa Bonita, after Mysterion asked you to help save his sister, Karen McCormick, from joining their Clan. THIS ONE. This one reveals SO MUCH useful shit.

First, Henrietta fights with fire magic and LITERAL SATAN, which means she is using an Avatar method of Magic.

Second, Mike isn't the prince of the South Park Toreadors! In a mark of eternal humiliation, it's his Dad, who has been using the Pop Culture Mask technique since 'The Lost Boys'. Clearly, he was embraced at some kind of fan event, and then immediately embraced his family. They probably moved to south park after a particularly revealing accident. Maybe Mike accidentally killed a classmate in their old town, or maybe his Dad drank someone to death.

Thirdly, the South Park Toreadors are powerful enough (if Mike's Dad is helping) to summon the ghost of Michael Jackson to their bidding, so there's a LOT of necromancy potential in South Park.

Lastly, the DLC ends with Karen being saved from the Vampire's influence, Joining the Goth Kids. While this has yet to be referenced again in any of the materials, to my knowledge, this does mean the South Park Goth Kids have a full 5 members, which probably expands their capacity for group ritual work now.

[senotsuri]

wow that alice design is so cool! I haven’t seen that much art of her like that, and looking more like masquerade makes sense (there the same person after all). It was a little late in the first season for a new look but the second could have done more

Personally I think the changes would've started to occur whenever Alice had her eye problems. By that, I mean the time she was seeing red and the gs of the various bakugan on field (memory says this was when Shun and Komba fought, as I remember an El Condor being seen, but don't quote me on that.)

Alice had a lot of fainting spells due to Masquerade using her as a host, and her health appeared to be worsening to Runo, so little wisps of blonde would likely be seen as indicators of her health (even though the truth is it's Masquerade.)

By the time Masquerade is revealed, about half of Alice's hair would be blonde.

As for the outfit change, it'd likely be after Masquerade reveals who he is, as a visual indicator that the reveal has impacted Alice badly. First step of grief is denial; deny you are Masquerade by looking more like him, so you don't look like what was under under his mask (which, since Alice's typical outfit at that time was her yellow dress, she would replace that part of her outfit. Notably she was not wearing that when Masquerade threw his mask off, even though that doesn't make the most amount of sense.. It's fine.)

In New Vestroia she uses Masquerade's teleportation (iirc) and invoked him to try and scare Shadow (worked a little bit). Adopting a lab coat that looks similar to his jacket would've been neat, I think. Alice's design in New Vestroia implies (to me) that she's more relaxed, without bakugan around to worry about, so she looks comfy, so the lab coat wouldn't be a permanent fixture.

(Very arguably the addition of purple to her colour palette in New Vestroia is a nod to Masquerade, who had more traditional darkus brawler colours than Alice did, but that's such an unlikely thing in comparison to Everyone But Julie Wears Their Attribute's Colour. Julie doesn't even wear orange.)

[noxtivagus]

NO THOUGHTS ONLY SHADOWBRINGERS HFALKDSJFASLKD

[baba-o-riledup]

okay rereading Traitor (Baru Cormorant, The) is physically painful. like the first read is so omg how is the war gonna end up but now every time they win im like FUCK THIS COULD HAVE BEEN IT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN REAL ITS NOT TOO LATE but i know what’s coming