#wizzy rambles

[wizardgame100]

Even if you do select an answer PLEASE feel free to put in tags / replies how you go about your process of making a Wizzy I am DYING to know <33

[melveres]

do your thing, wizard

[bluerasbunny]

father when will you feed me

father i am so hungry for real food

you get back in the cellar son

[lanabenikosdoormat]

ok fuck it. i am going to post w101 art again

[asmolbirb]

Love getting on w101 and immediately seeing someone getting ruthlessly cyberbullied in the Commons

[whiskyarts]

Yes I have a life size cutout of Eugene Fitzherbert, yes I have a Wizard101 bumper sticker

People gotta know what I'm about!!!

[incorrect-para-quotes]

I don't know what to tag when I make quotes using just side OCs from my Wizard101 and Pirate101 canon, like family members. Hell I don't know what to tag it sometimes when I'm using just Allison and Talon.

Context and character history under the cut

My Wizzy and Pitty OCs started with just Wizzy originally. Lindsey Dreamstalker as my Young Wizard was my main character. Then I made Allison, Liam, and Talon as her friends from Earth as backstory characters.

(Well technically Talon made himself but that's another story).

Then they became more relevant side characters and I made an AU where they found some of her magic stuff or something and ended up washed up on a shore in the Spiral and becoming pirates in a quest to find their way home. This was what I dubbed my Pirate Friends AU and it didn't follow anything about Pirate101 at the time as at that point every attempt I made to get into Pirate101 had failed. In this AU his made Liam the captain due to his already established skills putting him as the best choice for the role. I made his dad, Logan, a boat enthusiast to help with that, which eventually just became canon.

Then I finally successfully got into Pirate101. And the Pirate Friends AU sorta morphed into a proper Pirate101 AU. Which eventually just became canon.

Liam became the Young Pirate from Pirate101, with a few tweaks to his story. Like his parents being alive on Earth and raising him there because at this point Liam had existed for years at that point and I wasn't about to basically uproot his entire life story I had for him up to that point.

Talon became Liam's first mate. Allison was also with them as part of the pirate crew.

So I always tag Lindsey as solely Wizard101 and Liam as solely Pirate101 unless they have a quote with someone from the other side.

It gets more complicated when you bring all the other OCs into this tho.

Allison and Talon I think I usually tag as either Pitty or both depending on how I feel when tagging them at any particular point. Because they originally started as Wizzy OCs but I guess they fall more under Pitty at this point? But not tagging Wizzy feels like denying their connection to Lindsey because they aren't the main character of Pitty like Liam is.

Then it gets even more muddled when you bring their families or, worse, unrelated Earth side OCs like Taylor Bristol.

Liam's parents, Logan and Claudia Everhart, are the only ones I wouldn't really have as much struggle tagging as purely Pitty as the parents or the Young Pirate whose existence are now very strongly tied to the Pitty side of things.

But Talon's parents? Allison's parents and siblings? Hell even Lindsey's parents, brother, and sister-in-law are harder.

Lindsey's Earth family really have nothing to do with the world or story of Wizzy. But they are the Young Wizard's parents.

And Allison and Talon's families? They have nothing to do with either Pitty or Wizzy.

All 4 of their families have been very tied together both in and out of the story. They all practically raised all 4 of them together so it doesn't feel right just going with the blood relations.

It's probably best to tag all the Earth OCs as both because there's not really a clear cut line between them like there are for the Spiral characters and OCs.

But it still kinda feels wrong and annoying doing it that way but there's not really a better way.

[necrospellbinder]

I didn’t get my latest Dyvim fanart done in time of my birthday but that’s alright, maybe by the end of this month it’ll be finished.

[cringywhitedragon]

A few assorted trance album covers that give off the Aero feel (I don’t claim ownership, all rights belong to their respective owners)

[spiralwanderer]

Kind of dipping my toes back in the fandom 👁 are there any active w101 blogs to follow?

Pls give a like or rb! Or just say hi below

[blad3-me-up-paige]

i love leaving and returning leaving and returning leaving and returning leaving and returning-

[wizardgame100]

Hey Wizesties, I'm curious about something. In the tags could you describe each School in one word? Or at least the first word that pops into your head if you don't think you've got a great answer

[griffinsmith]

Hi gang I have nothing exciting to post today but I was looking at a redraw wip and I think it will hopefully come along nicely.. i know it’s not anywhere near finished and is messy but already jackall looks better me thinks

[bluerasbunny]

i am full of resin ducks father

son im going to ban you from my inbox

[pqrachel]

SSBM Rank

OMG!, I just realized that the 2023 SSBM Rank have been releasing all week and I haven't been keeping up until now.

But there's still 2 days and 20 players left to rank, so I wanted to have some fun and make my own predictions for who's going where in the top 20.

My list is here, and the long-winded rambling will be below the cut...

Cody Schwab

Zain ---

Jmook

Plup

aMSa

Mang0 - That's my GOAT!!

moky

HBox

KoDoRiN

Aklo ---

lloD

Zuppy

S2J

Polish

woo Magi

Salt

Joshy

Wizzrobe

Trif

Morsecode762 (idk man I guess 20th)

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Not Getting Ranked: Big Leff, 2saint, Pipsqueak

I do agree that Cody and Zain were clearly top 2, and I think they will honor the show-match thing and let Cody have his #1 over Zain. Even without it, I think Cody would have won since he has more supermajor wins, and even though he has one less major win, Cody has a bunch of non-major wins as well, and personally I think that should count for something when it's so close between the two.

Jmook is the only other person to get a super major win, so I think he's easily a good pick for #3.

But after that it got a bit harder to choose. I found a list of the 124 eligible players and of the ones not listed in 21-100 that I felt had a shot for top 20. Leffen, 2saint, and Pipsqueak seemed like the 3 that wouldn't make eligibility requirements due to low attendance.

From there I looked mainly at tourney placings with a large bias towards supermajors. (Using liquipedia's list of Genesis 9, Battle of BC 5, GOML 2023, & The Big House 11 as what defines a supermajor.)

I used head-to-head data only when two people were really close in my opinion. (Because otherwise it's like a whole thing with 20 players so that's 190 head-to-heads to research and consider. And it just gets super complicated, so no thanks.) I did use any personally noteworthy head-to-heads, anything I could remember of the top of my head just from watching being a long-time, that sort of thing.

I also had a little bit of bias towards people who attended more, not just like personal bias because I've seen them more but I actually put them higher since I think going to more tourneys should matter for rankings, but what do I know.

I also used the summer rankings and how well the players did in the last half of the year to adjust from there to kind of adjust my biases a bit close to what the SSBM rank people would probably do.

Overall I think my top 10 and 11-20 split is pretty solid, I would be genuinely surprised if that wasn't where the line got drawn. At least assuming I got the 20 ranked players correct and no one with low attendance like Wizzy or Trif made it into top 10 somehow.

15-17 are super close imo, same with my 9-10.

And obviously I have my personal favorites: Mang0, moky, Magi, Salt, & Joshman from the top 20. (and Leffen too but I don't think he'll be ranked.)

moky might end up beating Mang0 like he did in the summer rankings, but my personal bias and the fact that Mang0 hasn't lost a set to moky made me put Mang0 in 6th over moky.

But yeah I definitely wasted a whole night in front of a spreadsheet, having too much fun doing autistic sports-fan things. Melee's so sick dude!

[fereldanwench]

1 and 4 for the couple questions! Really curious about these! 👀

If they have been asked, choose any other questions you might like.♥️♥️

Oooh, I love these ones! 💙 You've unlocked The Rambling, haha. It's gonna be a long one:

1. What do they think of each other’s family? And how does the family feel?

Goro doesn't really have to worry too much about assimilating into a new family because most of Valerie's biological family is either dead or estranged by the time they meet. 😅 She's an only child, her father died in 2058, and her mother died in 2063. Valerie does have some aunts, uncles, and cousins on her mother's side, but they live on the east coast of NUSA, and she hasn't seen them since she was about 11.

The only two blood relatives she has in Night City are her uncle, Ed, who is her father's oldest brother, and his adult daughter, who I'm still working on and doesn't have an official name yet. 😅 Ed is kind of a piece of shit--He runs with the 6th Street, but he's basically a low-level goon who deals drugs to kids. The last time he saw Valerie was around 2075 when he got wind that she was doing very well for herself and tried to get money from her.

I have been thinking about a way for Valerie and Goro to meet him for some reason during the in-game timeline, but I don't have anything solid at the moment. Goro and Ed would not get along at all, but Valerie isn't fond of him either, so no love lost there. (Nameless cousin is still a total mystery to me--Currently leaning towards a journalist, but I have no idea.)

And of course there's Mama Welles. Valerie's relationship with Mama Welles was always just a little tense--Valerie was just not used to having a mother figure that involved in her life and personal business, and even though Mama Welles always meant well, it could be a little smothering to Valerie. But they do stay in touch even after Jackie dies, and Valerie does bring Goro over for at least one good homecooked meal when they're in Night City.

Mama Welles is a little wary of Goro's allegiances at first, but Goro puts on the gentlemanly charm and wins her over pretty quickly. She sees he cares very deeply for Valerie, and she's glad her pseudo-surrogate daughter has someone in her life that makes her happy.

As for Valerie with Goro's family... I'm holding off on anything solid about Goro's family until Phantom Liberty. If CDPR gives us nothing here, I'll headcanon Goro a whole ass family tree, but I'll give Sir Weber a little more time to share his official backstory before I make up my own. 😅

However! @lizzy--wizzy gave me an absolutely adorable idea about Valerie meeting Goro's father for the first time, and I would love to make something like this a part of their canon: Basically, Goro comes back to Japan after several years living in NUSA with this gorgeous, tall, bright blue-haired woman at his side, and his father looks up at her and then at Goro and is like "You just disappeared to another country for 10 years and then you come back home married to a supermodel???? Explain."

4. How do they compare to each other’s exes? Are they the same “type” or an upgrade/something different?

Man, I'm overflowing with thoughts on this one--I don't even know where to start, haha.

I guess I'll start with their romantic/sexual pasts for some context:

Valerie slept around a lot in her early-to-mid 20s, and she was not particularly discerning about who she shared a bed with during that time. It was very much a maladaptive coping mechanism from dealing with feeling abandoned and isolated after losing her parents, losing her job, losing her status, losing her (admittedly shitty and fair-weather) friends as a result of losing her status--Basically after losing any sense of direction in her life. She was very lonely but also didn't want to really let anyone in emotionally. The majority were just one-night stands with anyone she thought was hot and into her.

She didn't even really consider pursuing a long-term relationship until she was in her late 20s/early 30s, but by then she was also working for Arasaka which demanded a lot of her time. Most of those relationships were with other corpos who understood the grind and tended to all be emotionally unavailable one way or another, and they usually only lasted a few months, tops. Valerie did often gravitate towards people who could be a little prickly on the outside--She loves the little victory of getting a smile out of a sarcastic grump.

Then when Valerie decided to go sober, dating became even harder since going out for drinks or doing ~*luxury drugs*~ were such a huge part of the corporate dating scene. She was almost completely celibate for about two years.

Valerie and Viktor did briefly have a thing after she was fired from Arasaka, but between his own intimacy issues and her kind of using him for a sense of comfort after her life got thrown upside down again, that one also didn't last more than a few months.

As for Goro: much like with his family, I'm holding off a little long until I commit to anything concrete for Goro's romantic past, but I've indulged here a little more:

I absolutely love the idea of Goro being a wild playboy during his youth, so I think he probably had his fair share of indiscriminate flings as well until he found that 'Saka discipline. I could see him also having, like, one fairly serious relationship when he was young but starting to settle down a bit, but it fell through for whatever reason: Goro had to commit fully to Arasaka, that partner got married off to someone else, etc. Pick your tragedy.

I don't think he was ever married, though, and I think once he became Saburo's bodyguard, Goro didn't even entertain the idea of having a long-term romantic relationship. I think it would have been highly discouraged if not outright banned.

I do think he would occasionally enjoy the company of others, though, with the explicit understanding that it couldn't be more than sex (maybe dinner if he really liked them). Probably with other high-level Arasaka employees who were in a similar position but still craved physical companionship from time to time. I think he'd be drawn to people who were at least like him on the outside--Reserved with refined taste and a clear understanding of their purpose in the organization--But deep down he craves connection with someone more spirited who could challenge him.

So, to finally answer the actual question, lmao: How do they compare to each other's exes?

In both cases they're mostly something different, but that's also mostly because they never really let themselves have relationships with someone who they could deeply connect with. They are each other's type--They just tried to deny it to themselves for most of their lives.

(Goro is more oblivious and then surprised by his attraction to Valerie than vice versa, though. 😅 Valerie is like "Of course I fall in love with the most unattainable man in the world while I'm actually dying. This is exactly why I don't want to have any feelings." And Goro is more like "It is not love. I just trust her with my entire life, and often my stomach feels weird when she smiles at me, but it is just something I ate in this shithole of a city. Probably.")

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