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[datcravat]

my piece for the @fragmentsoffatezine :)

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[kwillow]

I ask this as an Ambroys appreciator, but I genuinely need to know: Does our boy have any redeeming qualities?

...Yeah. Not really.

Ambroys is, for me, a fun exercise in making a character who is basically nothing but flaws. And they aren't even the "good" flaws.

He's not one of those "hates the world but fights to the death for his loved ones" types; he will throw his loved ones under bus to look good for strangers, who he also doesn't respect. He's not "an asshole but he owns it" because he will bend to other people's wills to try to appease them while continuing to be an asshole behind their backs. He's manipulative but not because he's a clever chess-master, he's just audacious and shameless enough to lie and guilt-trip people without remorse. He's too ignorant to be sophisticated but too educated to be naive. He can fight well enough, but he doesn't seek out worthy foes, only weaker enemies he can easily grind into the dirt for a cheap thrill. He's a coward. He's lazy. He doesn't "get" art. He has no convictions. He sucks!

But I think the fun with Ambroys is that he's such a worthless person, but he so, so desperately wants to be admired and praised and just liked. So he has to engage in this dance of maintaining a good public face over the void of his personality, where he tries to appeal to people while also being able to indulge his vices, because he doesn't believe anything he does or thinks is wrong... just unpopular. But being unpopular is worse than being wrong.

[chibishortdeath]

Ya know, Castlevania tackled the concept that life after defeating Dracula could be difficult for a Belmont with Richter feeling like he’d lost all purpose and reason to go on living if not for saving others and fighting against something—

But, do you think any of them before him felt that way too?

I mean it sounds kind of miserable, being raised your whole life to be solely relied on for one moment… and then what? How do you handle the sudden shift to ‘not being needed anymore’? Evidently, most of them didn’t have very much happen to them after the events of their games since we don’t get to know—

But, do you think any of them ever got better? Do you think anyone before Richter ever learned how to live for themselves? Did Richter?

Anyway it’s 8 PM and I’m sitting around wondering if any of the Belmonts were still happy after their happy endings (debatable if certain ones got happy endings tbh but anyway), Konami can u check on them, I’m worried—

[bishy437]

💚💜

[thelaurenshippen]

I know we love the “you only get two” triangles, but idk that I’ve seen one that is, like, the grand theory of fandom, like, you know—

you only get two. do you see my vision?

[fisheito]

They turned my boy into Gary...

tbh it was kind of liberating because if the devs themselves can fall to the ol' gary keytrap, then i, too, can sometimes let my mortal follicles flow downward, and allow myself to lettersmash about gary and/or kary in my accidental overenthusiasm

[irradiatedsnakes]

rolls around on the ground the writing in the roger dlc is so fucking good and i WANT to talk about it but i find "writing up tumblr posts" to be a much more difficult medium than "rambling on discord call with friends". alas

but man, gingi in the evil route in particular just GRISPS me. the roger dlc evil route is in so many ways the opposite fo ch3, like, it is Dialtown's Bad Ending in so many ways. one in particular that i'm sure we've all thought of plenty but that sticks with me is the gingi-crown stuff between ch3 and roger's evil route.

like in ch3 gingi can be said to represent everything that crown wanted for dialtown- it's a place where anyone can feel welcome, gingi's dedication to just helping the people around them. and in the roger evil route, gingi's both the worst of their own traits- the selfishness turned up to an 11, a complete disregard for anybody else- as well as the worst of callum: the need to claw his way to the top no matter what, the salesman tactics, the paternalistic "i know what's best for you (and everyone else)".

and at the end of it both of them end up at the same place in terms of people left for them (and that's not even to get on the crown-gingi stuff with the spaceship ending). the loneliness in the "dialtown bbq/coup" evil route ending really sticks with me. once you get the timeskip to the mingling, you don't even hear from roger. at all! in HIS dlc! he's just gone. no more funny cameos from our good pals karen randy or oliver (all of whom almost certainly end up dead in that ending), all you get is the mingling. even the narrator is entirely out of the picture- and following the prominent narrator-gingi milton-crown theme going on there, i don't think it's a stretch to assume what happened to them- at the end, all you're left with is yourself and fuckin' abel and billy, having destroyed any and all possible connection with anyone you couldve had a positive relationship with. it HAUNTS me

[theredtours]

Guys I may have found an apartment; please keep your fingers crossed for me!!

[thatfriendlyanon]

can i PLEASE stop crying over EVERYTHING

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Warlock: When I said I’m a morning person I meant I sit in my bed communing with fiends at 3am in the morning

[daftpatience]

figured out how to show off some of the cute pages in my journal yayayay

[ratcandy]

I!!!! AM ALLOWED!!!!!!! TO HAVE A TREAT!!!! i scream while sobbing and hitting a button that says Buy on it

[acosmicwayfarer]

A touch of 🌠 Sal Lore

The other day, I had a little thought about something Sal probably does during some idle downtime a.k.a while chilling or meditating, which is:

Faded floating. Little floats while in ghost mode.

Fading technically is accompanied by particle loss, which is to say an Ethereal can't be "faded out" for forever, they have a time limit before they start taking some serious damage, BUT... if they've accrued enough energy, I could see fading actually being therapeutic for an Ethereal like Sal who actually prefers to keep herself at "low battery" for a number of reasons. It's more of a relaxing way of releasing that energy than forcing it into a streetlamp or fireplace and watching the sparks fly or power surge for a moment! Unlike a standard spook, I imagine the "empty space" of an Ethereal would emanate a warmth instead of a cold in this respect as well; it's to say even for those who could not perceive Sal in a faded state visually, they may be able to feel that warmth, especially if she had been chillin' - er, warmin'? - there for a while.

So, think of this as a freaky alien ghost way of Sal recharging the introverted social battery; it's like a more in depth way of finding solitude. She quite enjoys solitude.

That said, I had an additional thought about how this is something she may have done even since she was very small and unable to fade - not even realizing she was an Ethereal yet!

It's not spoken of often, but Sal was born and raised coastal. She loves the skies and stars... and seas! She does actually enjoy water as well.~ So, even when she was but a wee Sal, I imagine she had instances in which she simply liked to float in the water the same way she likes to float in the air... and may very well still have nostalgic moments where she'll float in the water like she used to as a child, reflecting on thoughts of little baths, pools and thoughts of the sea. 🌊 🤍

[synthaphone]

Unfond of this new style of illustration for item artwork on Neopets- the Chokato Kiko Taffy clearly took a lot of time and effort to render, all for a result that looks vastly more uncanny than the Bubblegum Kiko Taffy + the rest of the item set it was based off of.

The final image is only 80x80px, there's no need to give it that type of rendering treatment! It only makes image less clear. In addition, making the pupils smaller, adding an outline to the iris and reducing the mouth to a pinprick combine to make the face look creepy and haunted doll-like instead of cute.

[matrose]

i have four other pages to this but they’re basically just lains jokes

look at more of her though:)