#would it make any sense for the champions to exist here? no. but also. i love them :)

[plutonicbees]

cassie lang appreciation for no other reason than that she deserves it

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[old-lorarri]

꒰꒰ ‧₊˚𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐓 ─ 𝐂𝐋𝟏𝟔 ˚₊· ꒱꒱

─ summary . . . ❨ people hate that their fav indie guy is dating a certain ferrari driver but hating on him will not be tolerated by said singer ❩  ─ pairing . . . ❨ charles leclerc x male! indie! singer! reader ❩ ─ genre . . . ❨ social media file ❩  ─ author note . . . ❨ another x male fic sorry I can’t help it 😭also sorry but I couldn’t help but use conan as the fc I love him so so much and also this was written before the tragic events of brazil so this kinda heals me in a way anyway enjoy! ❩

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charles_leclerc I won. Maybe next time pierregasly 😘 vistajet thomasflohrvista

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pierregasly Its to keep your mood up bro 🤣 revenge next time, coming for you king

user Did he really fly private ? Or is this staged

user not only is he an f1 driver but he’s now a chess champion

user charles I dressed up as ur worst nightmare for halloween😭😭👻👻

user The two besties are back!! 😂😂

user Y/N deserves better

user shit driver and an even shitter bf

user 🤮🤮🤮

user love how he posts everyone but his bf

user day 239 of waiting for Y/N to break up with you

user the fact that charles doesn't understand Y/N what so ever...no fucking clue how he bagged it

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anon ─ so i'm sorry in advance if this would be too long but here we go i guess: driver (any driver is ok to be honest, older ones too) x indie singer reader with a music style like hozier, mitski etc. i have a feeling indie or alt people would shit talking about the driver because they're an unlikely pair and it doesnt make sense, he wouldn't understand her etc because indie people are always perceived as deep people so there would be a lot chaos i think... kind of opposites attract?? in a way i think?? also i dont know if i sent you this request a few days ago because this idea was in my mind for a long time so theres a chance that i've already sent you but anyways! have a nice day!

anon ─ hi when you have time can I req either Lance or Charles angst smau with male!reader who is a singer

anon ─ hi! would you like to write something about charles teaching reader how to drive?

anon ─ how about teaching this sexy biatch Charles how to use sunscreen bc apparently he doesn't know it exists and his face is way too pretty to get damaged like that (this is for requests btw)

[catofoldstones]

The Ashford Theory and my patience running thin

Welcome, welcome my guys, gals and non-binary pals, to another scream into the void that the Ashford theory is, in fact, very jonsa

On to the arguments!

1. The suitor has to have the correct last name, not family, look at Joffrey Baratheon, you stupid jonsa

Hypothesis - the suitor has to have the corresponding name, not family, and because Jon is a Snow he’s out of the running. The other prong is fAegon who is actually a Blackfyre and not Targeryen, who can also be the suitor.

Thesis - Joffrey is the only other suitor to have a different name. Joffrey and Jon have also been set up as foils from the start of AGOT. Joffrey is a bastard masquerading as the rightful king and Jon is the rightful king (thrice crowned) masquerading as a bastard. It makes sense that they are the only two suitors to have the wrong name as this establishes them as inverses in another way. The last suitor being the foil of the horrible first suitor thereby showing character growth, and plot progression and resolution? Count me in.

As for Young Griff being a Blackfyre, here’s a meta or two, maybe even an argument, for him being the real Aegon VI Targaryen but take my personal fav evidences of Tyrion figuring out that Young Griff is Aegon VI Targaryen and then, Varys literally telling a dying Kevan Lannister about the true Targaryen prince and why would you lie to a dying man? How does that serve your purpose?

This is literally grrm telling us who Young Griff actually is, though this does not count him I out of the contenders, it reduces the weight of him being the fifth suitor, due to story arcs and well, his doomed fate.

Conclusion - While Aegon VI is a strong contender, there is much, much more literary weight and nuance with Jon being the Targaryen suitor.

2. Lady Ashford was not crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty by any champion!!! Take that jonsas

Hypothesis - tQoLaB is a title analogous to a betrothal/love interest

Thesis - there have been no allusions to the title of tQoLaB while trying to foreshadow a relationship, except for a really, really bad one (r + l) that plunged the whole realm into a civil war and we should not take that as a good sign

Conclusion - we’re grasping at straws here besties

3. Dunk disrupted the Ashford Tourney, therefore Sxndxr will disrupt Sansa’s prospects and other things

Hypothesis - Dunk & Sxndxr are are analogous and since there was no conclusion to the Tourney we can safely assume that it’s sxnsxn foreshadowing

Thesis - Brienne is the Dunk asoiaf corollary, not Sxndxr. Brienne is theorized to be Dunk’s descendant. She even has her shield painted like Dunk’s, apart from their striking character parallels and being a true foil to all the other knights in the story. Mr. Gravedigger is just tall :/

“Your door reminded me of an old shield I once saw in my father’s armory.”

Brienne II, AFFC

Brienne has Dunk’s shield in her family home possibly because she’s a descendant of Dunk but then goes ahead and gets her shield painted exactly like this one

“[The painted shield] was more a picture than a proper coat of arms, and the sight of it took her back through the long years, to the cool dark of her father’s armory. She remembered how she’d run her fingertips across the cracked and fading paint, over the green leaves of the tree, and along the path of the falling star.”

Brienne II, AFFC

Secondly, just because the tourney did not have a (satisfactory) conclusion does not mean that the tourney did not exist to serve a purpose. I doubt grrm would likely give out his whole story as early as 1998.

Conclusion - BRIENSA 4eva!!!!!

4. Valarr Targaryen died of a sickness and Aegon VI is doomed to die and is connected to a sickness, are you looking at the nerves popping out of my thick, brainy skull

Thesis - the fifth suitor is 100% Aegon and there’s no one else

Hypothesis - there is a Targaryen.. currently dead.. in the books… (thnk u @istumpysk for ur galaxy brain). The plague in the story serves to connects Aegon more to Dany than to a northern girl he doesn’t know about and might not like since she’s a Stark and his mother is Elia Martell.

Conclusion - jonsa

5. This is all a coincidence & u jonsas are reaching as always

Hypothesis - though george is known to tie every deep end, every crack theory, even farfetched ones that the readers have not caught, this one thing completely skipped his notice because exceptions are always there

Thesis - yes, because this is acotar & not asoiaf and he’s not grrm, i am

Conclusion - JONSAAAAAAAAAAAA

[hubristicassholefight]

Swordswoman Showdown Round 3

Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower (Bloodborne) vs Alanna of Trebond (The Lioness Quartet)

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Propaganda below cut

Lady Maria

She has a double-bladed sword called Rakuyo that can split in two to be dual-wielded; She's haunting the narrative and the whole game foreshadows her existence

She wields the rakuyo, twin-bladed trick weapon that can transform into a matching katana and dagger, making it a versatile weapon; She one of the highest-ranked Hunters in the game, and fights like an experienced PVP opponent. During the boss fight against her, she stabs herself twice, first to bloody her blades and increase the range of her attacks, and the second time to cause her blades to emit flame when she strikes. Finally, she starts off the boss fight with this quote: "A corpse, should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well how the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you from your wild curiosity."

She fights with a sick twin bladed sword which can split into two smaller swords, She was too hard and I couldn't beat her :'(

Duel wielding sword and dagger that combine as a twin blade; Best boss in the game. Also taller than your character by a full head. Her outfit is fashion as fuck as well.

Alanna of Trebond

Literal lady knight, has never lost a duel as King's Champion

Disguised herself as a boy to train as a knight and learn the sword. Practices with a giant sword to increase inductance. Finds (is found by?) a special magic sword. One of the best swords people in her country.

She was the first lady knight in Tortall in centuries and paved the way for other lady knights like Kel. She's also a shortstack hero who regularly kicks butt. Won several sword fighting tournaments against her male peers while disguised as a man.

Can't stand the idea of getting sent to a convent, so she switches places with her twin brother and disguises her gender to go off and become Tortall's first lady knight. Engages in much sword-wielding badassery, not just through inherent talent but through working twice as hard as the boys who skate by on their size and comparitive strength. In later Tamora Pierce books she shows up again as a mother, but even having kids doesn't stop her from going off and doing more heroic sword-swinging. H*ck yeah.

She’s her realm’s first Lady Knight in centuries and a genuine hero. She disguised herself as a man to earn her shield. She was the King’s Champion for decades; One of the first major women heros in YA fantasy, from the 1980! According to the author, if Alanna had the words for it, she would be gender fluid

disguised herself as a boy entirely to learn swords and become a knight, becomes the first lady knight in her country in centuries; Alanna is so iconic that decades of queer fans have seen themselves in her and any author signing is accompanied by a mob of sobbing millennials over how much finally meeting and thanking the author for writing Alanna meant to them

[protectorsoftheearth]

I think the thing that I wish the most was spoken about with Orym, and that everyone having discourse about the gods of Exandria needs to remember, is that questioning the gods and their place in this world does not make you Ludinis Daleth.

If you don't live in a world where you can question what functions the gods are serving, why they're here, then that's a problem.

I also think that a lot of what is missed, and a lot of what I am particularly curious about is how the people of Exandria are taught about the gods.

It seems from a viewers point of view that they function much like a Greek pantheon, in that they are all a little more human than any god from a monotheistic religion. The Wild mother is kind and caring and gentle, the raven queen is aloof and shoulders grief like she carries the world with a heavy sense of responsibility and that creates distance but not uncaringness, the Dawnfather is kind of a dick in his rigidity and his forcefulness and righteousness. They all feel a little human in this way and more godly in how big all those emotions feel, how instrinsic they are. Not once have I seen these gods and though they are ominscient and omnipresent and omnibenevolent. They have complexity to them but are beholden to who they are a little by their domains, their personalities are the force of their domains. They put themselves behind a wall and can only give assistance to those few who have chosen to give back to them as the divine gate not only restrains them but the powers they have in the world. They must have a way to channel their powers, through something.

However, if you are on Exandria, if you are an average citizen, are you taught that the gods are all powerful? That they control your world? Are you taught that the prime deities are Omnibenevolent, and therefore no bad should occur? Are you fully taught that in order for them to have power in this world we must give it to them? Or are you taught perhaps, that the gods exist as an extent form of life, that they choose their champions by just granting them powers?

From what they are taught how easy is it for them to believe that they have been abandoned? That the gods have the power to help them and refuse? That whatever the champions do is with the gods endorsement? If the gods can exercise their power on this world through their champions then surely everything done under their name is emblematic of the gods themselves?

Because then you can start to accept how many people distrust and dislike the gods if they are not taught about them in a way that makes sense in the world.

Then we as the viewers also have to give the same grace we would give to an NPC when they question the gods and their place in the world because they also don't have the same information and perspective we do. The players might and the way they think about the gods is for them to know but they are actors. So they will play the knowledge of the characters, and the characters self admittedly know shit about the gods and their place and what they do and have learnt bits and pieces about the calamity and the divine gate but on a fundamental functional level, the level at which they are questioning the gods place and the way they work, is an answer they do not have. It's why it keeps being brought up.

[terrence-silver]

Do you have any insights into Valek that you'd like to share? We know so little about his character in that movie.

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Well, I think, as a human, he lived a sheltered life to the point that in a way, there's not much to know, if that makes sense. By that I mean that it wasn't an existence fraught with controversies.

He was a medieval Bohemian. Undoubtedly dedicated his life to the cloth very early on (might've come from a numerous family too, with many siblings and relatives to the point having one son dedicate himself to the cloth exclusively was a sacrifice (and privilege) this household could very well make or maybe even had to, for reasons of practicality and to have one less mouth to feed; something that was also a thing people commonly practiced back then and part of me wouldn't be surprised if Jan himself volunteered for the duty to alleviate the burden from his parents because he just has this odd streak of nobility to him) --- doing so as young as an adolescent or even as a child, perhaps, going from the apprenticeship of being an Altar boy to Priesthood with nothing in between because this was always the way it was always intended to be for him and it was a quiet way to be alive. One of prayer. Servitude. Piety. Temperance. Honor. Certainty. Life back then moved slower. Was infinitely simpler. Years and years could pass without change. Without ups and downs. I think Jan Valek took great joy in being a priest, or at least, to phrase myself better, he took profound solace in the duty. I think he took profound solace in the duty of helping his flock. Helping his congregation. Those in need. People in general.

I think he genuinely took the tenants of Catholicism to heart in very legitimate sense.

How do I know this?

Well, we're told that somehow, this man ended up being the leader of a Bohemian peasant's uprising at one point in time, which can only lead me to believe that he not only took the tenants of Catholicism and the whole 'help and love thyne neighbor' fully to heart, but that his continued dedication to said creed possibly amassed a following so large that he either ended up being placed at the head of this revolution or simply poised himself as a leader personally. Which means, somewhere along the way, his helpful and perhaps kind, justice loving nature in the face of inequality, poverty, abuses and aiding the 'downtrodden who would inherit heaven' has been inspirational enough to a large quantity of people that they all looked for Father Valek for guidance in their cause --- as such, I imagine that as a priest, in his human life, it is reasonable to assume he was very charitable. Something of a local patriot and the champion of the unchampioned. Feeding the poor. Helping those without help. Giving voice to the voiceless. Doing so continually and purely because he felt that's what Christianity is all about. Being kind enough to the point where it might've started becoming a thorn in the eye of the higher ups in the very church he was serving. Thing is, Father Valek was here emboldening the serfs to stand up to their god ordained lords and masters --- an idea that was, when push came to shove, extremely modern and extremely threatening considering the time period. I think this idea set the Bohemian countryside ablaze, literally and figuratively and that Jan Valek, becoming somewhat legendary among the small folk of the land, had to be pegged down a notch to avoid massive civil unrest.

Which is how this story ends.

With his execution.

Tried and burned for heresy (under what I consider are extremely trumped up, fraudulent charges and more a political tactical move to quickly and very messily silence opposition and kill the morale of the uprising than anything heretical or truly transgressive) Jan Valek found himself betrayed by the very church he sought to serve with the very tenants he was idealistically and full heartedly upholding --- namely, helping those in need. Which is exactly what led to his downfall. Ironically, if Jan was a worse man, he might've had a long and prosperous human life. And to add insult to injury he wasn't just betrayed in any ordinary fashion. He was undoubtedly imprisoned, paraded, made an example of, humiliated, abused for months, deemed to be possessed by evil spirits and demons to appeal to the superstitious mentality of the era, stripped of all his honors, subjugated to an exorcism (which is really just elaborate torture) and only then, finally, executed in an extremely and unbelievably painful way in the town of Berziers where his trial was observed, so everyone who previously followed him would see that this is what happens when you neglect your god-ordained lot in life and play revolution.

The echo of this message whimpered across Europe.

In the aftermath of his horrible treatment, his body remained destroyed, charred, mutilated, broken and massacred --- possibly even displayed somewhere publically, to drill the point home. Both fortunately and unfortunately, though, the incident led to the opposite effect the church intended and all they achieved was making Jan Valek into both a literal and metaphorical martyr who died for a cause, which only made his teachings stronger and more alluring until they grew into something of a sect. A cult germinating larger and larger around the scope of sadism Father Valek suffered and continued suffering, even as his posthumous remains were mishandled.

Jan went from a once-upon-a-time Bohemian priest of unusual kindness, a helper of the disenfranchised, someone teaching and encouraging the said disenfranchised to stand up to their oppressors because that's exactly what Christ himself taught too, to the enemy of the established order, to someone accused and trial as a criminal to a near saintly figure in the local folklores of the neighboring peoples. The Catholic church made Jan Valek into a priest and a man of the cloth. Then they've made and assigned him a traitor when he led a people's rebellion against the Holy Seat's and the local aristocracy's interests. They've made him into a criminal. A martyr when they've condemned, botched his exorcism and executed him. And then ironically, a saint when they canonized the very man they've had killed (possibly to cover up, for the lack of a better word, the scale of their cruel screw up). They've also made him a Vampire with a failed exorcism. Everything he is because the church itself has made him so. Perhaps, the first thing Jan Valek had agency in making himself was when he became the Father of all Vampires, taking on everyone who was ever like him a creating a great many all on his own, forming a new community as a reflection of his old congregations. No wonder he is so protective of his brood and children. They're the extension of a divinely given free will that persists even into his unlife.

The severity of the betrayal the church, though, and by extension, a God he felt abandoned him all those centuries ago in his hour of dire need when all he did was serve his community the way God himself ordained it was grand enough to not grant him peace, ensuring he rises from the brutal condition of his death and wonder the land like a blight for six centuries, feeding and making himself strong, draining others and infecting a great many, creating his own new community, following --- coven, if you will --- becoming what he is now. A Vampire. Accursed. Forsaken. Soulless. When that was the very opposite of everything Jan Valek initially was. He was simply a kind man who had good principles. Who got embroidered in a cause greater than himself because he wanted to help people --- truly and genuinely --- paying the ultimate price for it and ending up unjustly and unfairly punished for it forevermore.

[misscammiedawn]

thoughts on umineko 👀?

CW: this post is written with no aim to hide spoilers. It doesn't reveal any twists but speaks candidly about characters and events all the way until the end of the game.

Ah, I am delighted to be asked. It's been just over a week since we finished episode 8 and it's been rattling about as a slow digest.

The short version is that I loved it. It is the most I have felt moved by a piece of comprehensive genre fiction (I shall avoid the term "deconstruction", I feel that is only an aspect of what's at play here) outside of Twin Peaks, which remains the all-time champion in my world.

We're going to be writing a far more comprehensive post about it in the coming weeks, so consider this a preview before I give my thoughts.

The issue with commenting on Umineko is that you have to approach it a number of things.

It is a story of generational trauma and the relationship between a trauma survivor and the memories of an estranged family, which is something I resonated with deeply.

It is a genre piece that communicates with the mystery/detective novel genre in a manner that simultaneously interrogates its conceits via multiple famous author rule-sets, criticizes its conventions via parodies (most famously Erika, the sociopath detective who literally debates a 9 year old on how sleight of hand magic tricks are performed) and attempts to be itself one by the constant refrain of "keep thinking" and the beautiful innovation of red truth.

It is also an excessively Anime piece of media that has all the hallmarks of the genre that truly make me unable to actually recommend it to people who aren't familiar with and comfortable with the little things that anime fans have just had to adapt to in order to enjoy anime.

Oh and it's a meme fountain. I legitimately believe that 150 hours of reading was worth it in the end so that I could watch and enjoy this video, which is objectively the most high effort shitpost on the internet:

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I enjoyed a mystery novel that actively engaged in communication with the audience, asking them to play along. I deeply admired the fact that Wilard Wright answered to the core mysteries of the saga with the same grace that Penn and Teller would tell a magician on Fool Me how their trick worked without those who do not know being spoiled.

In fact that is the best way to engage with the mystery in the book from my experience. It's simply a matter of how one engages with stage magic and as someone who is quite obsessed with stage magic it was wonderful to see the entire mystery novel genre treated like a magic trick that one could either admire the craft of, engage with as a piece of intricate skill or try to tear apart heartlessly.

Ryukishi is very much a magician putting on a heartfelt show and magic represents love, trust and an agreement between the author and the audience. He will create a story for you to engage with but you must engage with the story. To try and peel apart the mystery without engaging with the heart is tantamount to being a drunken heckler at a stage show who removes the cloth from a table to reveal the beautiful assistant hiding beneath. Congratulations, you have proven magic doesn't exist. But everyone in the audience knew that going in. We were here for a show and whether you turn your brain off and watch and believe in magic for a little while or are fascinated by the craft and inspired to join in the magic yourself, if you engage with the heart of it then you are respecting the passion being put on stage or on paper.

Basically do not be Furudo Erika and ruin a 9 year-old's sense of wonder.

In that regard, this book truly felt like it was something I was always destined to get to.

The core theme "Without love it cannot be seen" is a beautiful one and something that will cause me to reevaluate how I regard my emotional attachments to my memory.

I'll get into it in more detail with the long post later, but there's a level of nuance of the sentiment that isn't fully embraced by the story as Ange's quest ends with a binary choice and that meant the two sides of the argument were displayed in extremes, something which Ange is fully aware of, but it gives a lot to talk and type about that isn't spelled out in the text.

Suffice to say, I am firm in my belief that trusting other people, thinking well of them and accepting their reality into your own is a good thing.

Maybe don't go as far as Battler does and erase all the uncomfortable truths of a person just because your personal relationship with them is positive. But then again I think the Fight Man approaches his recollection of events with the lens of "I just spent 6 years not talking to my parents and I wish I could get that time back" having him decide that if he had ignored Rudolf's flaws then he could have had more time with him.

It's a complicated narrative and I'm no way near done dissecting it yet.

Regardless. That will all wait until the large post.

It's a fantastic game with wonderful themes and speaks directly to me in many languages that I already speak fluently.

When I do my Media, Myself and I analysis of it I'll likely do full game spoiler deep dive.

For now, I loved it. It's a remarkable tale. I think I'm a bit too old for the type of anime nonsense it stylizes itself as but the prose is pure. I wish Ryukishi had an editor, though.

I am deeply sad I did not get to it sooner. When it was first introduced to me in the early 2010s the international release was not yet out. I couldn't find a way to engage with it and I had forgotten about it largely by the time I had access. A shame as Ange is the exact type of character we would have projected onto back in our pre-transition days.

I would have loved to have told the person who got me interested in it how much I adored it.

Oh and for the record, I am an original sprites purist.

[amporella]

do you have any fun Style Parenting headcanons?? idk that’s pretty much the only flavor of Style I haven’t seen you cover much of yet 😭

STYLE AS PARENTS... you're right that I haven't talked about them as much as I should!!!! But I really do love them!!! Here are some of my thoughts, though (warning) they are very cliche:

STAN IS A PROTECTIVE FATHER. I mean, this is essentially canon (thank you Follow That Egg) but I really especially mean it when it comes to style and kids. And I really REALLY REALLY especially mean it when it comes to Post-Covid Stan and Kyle's kids. I really do think that Stan holds his family SO dearly (losing it as a child was essentially what caused his life to fall apart in the bad ending), and it is my firm belief that Kyle and parenting those kids are one of the reasons he's so fulfilled in the good ending. His kids are his life and he treats them as such!!!!

STAN IS BANDIT FROM BLUEY. HEAR ME OUT. Bandit is SO stancore it's ridiculous. He is SUCH a good sport and always so enthused and the whole time he's busting out the moves on Chilli despite constantly entertaining his two kids? EXTREMELY STAN. In one episode he's doing workouts with Bluey and Bingo clinging to his legs and it just checks out as so Stan. CHILLI CAN ALSO BE KYLE... she's so comforting and quippy IT'S JUST VERY HIM!!

Stan is also a Girldad. I KNOW KYLE'S SON EXISTS AND I LOVE HIM DEARLY but Stan being a girldad just hits different.

Kyle is an EXTREMELY active parent in that he will go to every single game AND every single PTA meeting. He is a terror to the poor school board because he shows up EVERY TIME and is very very difficult to push around, especially when it comes to his kids.

In that sense Kyle can go a little too far sometimes and end up becoming overbearing like his mom, which is why it's so good that he has Stan to balance him out!! Kyle's always switching between spoiling his kids (HE JUST LOVES THEM SO MUCH) and trying to be a rule-abiding parent, while Stan's a lot more laid back. If Kyle put away the snacks the kids wanted at the grocery store, Stan would get them and secretly buy them. So the kids really end up spoiled regardless of who's doing it.

Stan is SO playful and he throws those kids around in the most loving way. Play wrestling champion.

Kyle naturally frets about that all the time

OVERALL THEY JUST LOVE THEIR KIDS SO MUCH... HOW MANY MORE TIMES CAN I SAY IT!! They're also one of those couples where having kids makes their relationship stronger rather than the other way around. The style family is WHOLLY domestic and good for them.

[tenshiharmonia]

The Fourth Piece

"Courage that is untempered by kindness risks eating itself forever. Wisdom that is untempered by kindness is no wisdom at all."

I recently played Tunic, and the above quote reminded me of something I wanted to write about for quite some time now, in regards to The Legend of Zelda. You see, I'm a big enjoyer of the "Tetraforce" theory. I guess the name is pretty self-explanatory, but for those who don't know, it's the belief that the Triforce as it is is incomplete, and that there is a fourth, missing piece, taking the shape of an inverted triangle meant to fill the hole in the middle of the sacred relic*.

Now, I'm fully aware that it will likely never be a thing in canon (I even heard that the theory has officially been addressed and refuted, but I never really checked the veracity of that statement, so make of it what you will), but hey, as far as my headcanons are concerned, it's quite a fun and interesting idea to toy with. :3 Of course, if you're a fan of the Zelda franchise, you probably know that a core aspect of its mythology is that each of the existing pieces of the Triforce corresponds to a certain quality. We have Power, Wisdom, and Courage, so the question is : what ideal would this hypothetical fourth fragment stand for ?

I think you see where this is going, but personally, my favourite take on the matter is that the lost piece would represent Kindness. This is definitely not an original idea, of course. As you may know, it initially comes from Majora's Mask, where four of the great fairies who inhabit the world are referred to as the Great Fairies of Power, Wisdom, Courage and - you guessed it - Kindness. So it already has some basis in the series' lore (even if the great fairies have technically nothing to do with the Triforce XD ), but most of all, I really like how well it complements the other three pieces. Kindness fosters harmony. It helps bring balance. For Courage and Wisdom don’t amount to anything without Kindness, as explained by the line I quoted earlier from Tunic. And Power will just set the world on fire without it. They need Kindness to temper them, but Kindness also needs them to help guide its efforts. Really, I love the dynamic it creates, if that makes any sense.

Alas, Kindness and its champion are missing from the world. But what would happen if they were to awaken ? Who knows, they might hold the key to putting an end to Demise’s curse, the curse that was born from wrath and hatred… On the other hand, the events and context that led the fourth fragment to be "missing" in the first place also make for an interesting topic. First of all, the existence of a fourth Triforce piece naturally implies the existence of a fourth deity, a deity who would be on a par with the Golden Goddesses and who would have also partaken in the creation of the world. But once again, what could have led to their contribution being erased from the legend ? I mean, considering the level of almightiness we are dealing with, it can reasonably be assumed that it could only have been the doing of the other three creators - or at least one of them -, but even then, it doesn’t tell us much. XD

Really, there are so many directions this story could take. I’m almost afraid of picking one ! So here is a bunch of mostly inconsequential details I was musing about instead. :p

First thing first, I should probably mention that I like to imagine this fourth deity as a god rather than a goddess. Don’t take it as a statement of any kind, I just like the immediate contrast it creates. XD (Also, I love the idea of Kindness being represented by a buff and burly - yet gentle and caring - man. :p )

I was also toying with the idea that he could be related somehow to the "Fierce Deity" whose power imbues the eponymous mask. Maybe it could be an incarnation of the rage he felt after getting erased from the world’s history. I don’t know, but it could be interesting…

Since Din, Nayru and Farore are respectively associated with Fire, Water and Wind, it’d be fitting for their "brother" to have an elemental attribute as well. And it just so happens that we are missing one of the four classical elements to have the complete set : Earth.

Which, based on the iconography of Minish Cap and the Four Swords games, means that his dedicated colour would likely be purple. (I was going to say yellow**, to match the aforementioned Great Fairy of Kindness (and because I kind of feel like it complements the other three better), but the colour is already associated with the Triforce as a whole, so it’d probably be redundant…)

As for his name, I’d like to base myself on Twilight Princess. Since three of the game’s four provinces are named after the golden goddesses, it’d make sence for the last one (which is apparently not considered a part of Hyrule) to reference the fourth deity, one of the few hints of his existence left in the world. That’s where it becomes a bit difficult, considering how vastly different the English name (Ordona) is from all the other versions (that are mostly variations of the Japanese name, Latoan). Naturally, the version I’m personally used to is the French one, Latouane, so you can guess which one I’d base myself on. :p (I was thinking, maybe something along the lines of "Latoun", but there is obviously nothing definitive about it.)

Another thing to consider is what his contribution to the world’s creation could have been. We know that Din modelled the earth and everything material, Nayru defined the laws of nature, and Farore was the one who created life, so what does that leave us with ? My first idea was that it was him who gave living beings a heart (metaphorically speaking, of course), bestowing them with free will and a sense of self, as well as the power to defy destiny. Which, naturally, could have contributed to his ultimate erasure. But once again, I’m just brainstorming out loud…

By the way, is it just me, or does it start to sound like I’m basically recreating the Diamonds from Steven Universe ? I mean, four impossibly powerful beings, each tied to a particular colour and elements, with the fourth one being strongly associated with Earth and freedom and having disappeared under mysterious circumstances ? I swear it wasn’t intentional, but the similarities are definitely here. XD (Even the Diamonds’ sigil seems to hark back to the Triforce in a way, especially the triangular version used after the shattering…)

Anyway, this is pretty much everything I had to say on the matter. As you can see, it’s quite a mess of ideas. I would have said it’s a work in progress, but let’s be honest, it barely counts as a work to begin with. XD Still, I needed to get it all out of my system. Of course, if you have anything to say about the content of this post, I’ll be more than happy to hear you. As I said earlier, there are so many directions you can take with this concept. But then again, it’s also what makes it so fascinating in the first place. ^_^ (Also, go play Tunic if you haven't already ; this game is an absolute gem. :p )

* Note that while "Tetraforce" is an useful term, the object itself would probably still be called "Triforce", as the fact it was already named as such when there were only two pieces seems to indicate that it likely got its name from its shape, and not from the number of components… ** Which is actually purple’s complementary colour, funnily enough.

[useless-catalanfacts]

What do you think about the idea that Valencian is a separate language from Catalan? I'm pretty sure you don't agree with it but do you think it's harmful? What do you think are the motivations behind it?

Yes, it's harmful because it was created to be harmful.

A while ago I answered a similar ask about the main talking points of blaverism. That post is more "academic", in a way, as in you'll find citations and a serious breakdown of the arguments. You can find the post here:

But to focus on your question, you guessed right, I don't believe they're different languages. It's obvious to anyone who speaks the language that Catalan and Valencian are the same language. It's like saying that British English and American English are different languages. Actually, it's even less different than dialects/accents from different parts of inside England itself.

Many languages have historically had more than one name, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the same. For example, nobody claims that "castellano" and "español" are different languages just because two words exist for it. Throughout history and places, Catalan has had many names: Limousin, Catalan, Valencian, Mallorcan, Tortosan, etc. But that doesn't stop it for being the same language.

And the variant of Catalan spoken in the Valencian Country is more similar to the variant of Catalan spoken in Western Catalonia, than Western Catalonia is to Eastern Catalonia.

Even if you don't speak the language, just looking at history it's obvious that they're the same language.

(the label "Castilian" means "Spanish")

Nobody doubts that the language from Andalucía is a variant of Spanish (even though Andalusian dialect is far more different from Northern Spanish than any sub-dialect of Valencian is to its most farther away sub-dialect of any other variant of Catalan). In Seville they speak Spanish for the same historical reason that in València they speak Catalan, as a result of the Medieval expansion of the Christian kingdoms after the Islamic conquest.

The idea that Valencian is a separate language was spread by Spanish supremacist right-wing in the 1970s, in the political context of the Transition (end of Franco's dictatorship, begging of the democracy). At the moment, the Valencian Country was the place with a stronger pro-independence movement in all Spain. This movement was in favour of the independence of the Catalan Countries (the Valencian Country, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands). Spreading "blaverism" (the ideology that Valencians have nothing to do with Catalans, that the language is different, that the history is completely separate) was a political strategy defended mostly by the right-wing (the political parties that has championed this idea the most are UCD and PP). The objective was to divide Catalans, turn us against each other, make us waste time arguing about pointless things instead of organizing, and to have an official set of excuses to use to separate us and implement anti-Catalan (=anti-Valencian) legislation.

It was mostly spread by UCD when they lost the 1977 regional elections in Valencia. They had an idea that is recurrent in Spanish politics which is "hey, let's use hatred towards Catalans to win votes!" and so they based their political strategy on that. (Same as Lerrouxism had done before, C's would do later, and Vox also first gained significance only with this).

It doesn't make any sense for anyone who speaks the language, it's so unbelievable that they're different languages and it would require a huuuuuge ignorance of any history whatsoever to deny the existence of the Crown of Aragon and the Catalan population of the Kingdom of Valencia. But they don't care, because it's not about culture or language or history: it's about ideology, (internalized) Catalanophobia and Spanish supremacy.

Blaverists don't (in 95% of cases) defend Valencia as its own culture or identity. It wouldn't be such a problem if they did. No, instead what they do is defend that Valencian culture doesn't exist per se, it's only a regional variant of being Spanish, ~but completely different from those Catalan rats because we don't want to be like them they're bad Spaniards pls Madrid senpai notice us we're good spanish patriots!~. That last sentence was me patronizing what they say, but it's not exaggerated at all. They even deny that the Valencian Country can be called "Valencian Country" (a historical name that Valencian people elected as their own in a referendum, but Spain last minute decided not to listen to) because they don't consider it a country but a Spanish region, and made up a conspiracy theory with no historical nor linguistic basis saying that Valencian is a different language and was already spoken before Jaume I's conquest... 🤦 (before the conquest, people spoke Arabic, and centuries before there had also been Mozarabic but it had gone extinct by the 12th century).

The worst thing is that blaverists have been violent too. As I said before, it's a movement whose most active members are far right-wing groups, often openly neo-nazi. The conflict reached its peak in the 1970s and 1980s during what was called "the battle of València", but continued to the 1990s, and has been responsible for attacking Valencian intellectuals, scholars, activists and bookshops. Think just as an example how many times Joan Fuster's home was attacked with bombs!

That is a summed up explanation of the motivations of blaverism, but there would be so much to be said about it. During the years that the conservative party PP was in the Valencian government, they applied many policies in this direction. For example, did you know that in Spain each "comunidad autónoma" (administrative region) has its own TV and radio channels and we all can see all of them, except Valencians and Catalans? I live in Catalonia, I can watch the channel from Andalusia, Madrid, Galicia, whatever I want... Except for the Valencian one. And in València, they can watch again every channel they could want... Except the ones from Catalonia. Because the PP government made it literally illegal. Things like this are done to stop us from hearing the other, to make it easier that when a young Valencian person is told "Catalan is something else entirely", they will never have heard a person from Catalonia speak their same language and they'll be more likely to believe it.

So I'm sure there's someone who actually believes it, but tbh most people who claim to believe in the conspiracy theory that they're different languages and that Valencian comes from something older (I've even seen some claim that it comes from Ancient Iberian and not from Latin 🤯) ... I doubt they can actually believe it? It's so stupid and requires ignoring so much evidence for something that has zero evidence, I'm sure many of the leaders who say it (I'm thinking for example Jiménez Losantos, who yes is a fascist, but he has an education) are more focused on spreading that idea to further their ideological agenda of dividing the Catalan Countries to make us weaker, and not because they actually believe it. But, sadly, some people are fervent defenders of it, whether or not they actually believe it.

Needless to say, everyone is welcome to add to this post, especially Valencians.

[1tsjusty0u]

OK SO. poking around the property of hate comic yes yes. BUT BOTW OCS??????

>:D !!!! AND HAHA… MAYHAPS..,,,,,,,

i dont have a lot (yet) but i do have some! and some are more for funsies than others

first ones!!!!! the court poet and kass’s mother! i have an unfinished sketch of these two. the poet probably went a lot with zelda for shekiah tech escapades, so he probably knew purah robbie and link by proxy. i think hes heard of impa but hasnt really Met met her.

kass says that the poet knew a bit about ancient civilizations, though i dont know if he was actually interested in them? im taking this as he studied rigorously on them for a bit until being a poet/creating art became more of his priority. also because im not having link and zelda be interested in each other romantically thatll beg the question if the poet is still classist, which is a very funny thing to say out of context! for me i think he still is, its just more of an internal thing. (though i dont know how that will work with his upbringing? also i dont know how thatd work in general- in botw there wasnt really an upper class ? maybe the soldiers or knights were but the rich arent really depicted in that game (which makes sense considering the calamity), but i dont know how id translate into pre-cal. are class structures Exclusive to castle town and the closer you are to the castle the more likely nobility will exist. does the same apply for other races like the zora or gerudo..) i think he was raised in castle town but wanted to learn more about his heritage as a sheikah

kass’s mother is Just Some Guy. shes skilled in the sword, cannot play the accordion to save her life, and i like to think she was a mail person. she would probably do things reserved for warrior rito without permission and simply outrun consequences if there were any (likely social consequences, but otherwise i dont know how theyd stop her). she and the poet are friends (no i dont know how they met yet, and no i do not know how itd work with classism. the poet thinks kass’s mother is the Odd One Out and the rest are filthy low-life peasants or something and she sucker punches him. however they would still be friends despite the classism . being friends with the poet but shes shaking her head constantly to show she doesnt condone being nobility)

next is sheik! they r here more for fun than anything else. i think they were a shekiah assassin/warrior who just really liked sheik from the legends so they strived to be just like them. basically a teen finding out about naruto and consistently cosplaying as kakashi for the rest of school (/positive). they have a Mysterious and Cool persona, like the know more than they do, however that is a complete lie and if anyone spent more than a second of time with them Theyd Know. so to avoid that sheik basically just dodges social interaction the best they can. i dont think most people know they exist as theyd probably be a knight guard and guard in inconvenient places. i also like to think that theyd guard/spy on link specifically, but that depends on how important you think the royal family would view the hero/master sword as, and how paranoid youd think theyd be. otherwise every time theres no guards except link dont worry its simply shiek theyre just out of view of the camera hiding behind a rock or something similar

i also have links mom and aryll, though i dont have too much to say on them. they have roots in lurien/faron (and that may? be apparent once i design them including link) but i hc that they live in hateno and link visits yearly. aryll is younger and keeps asking for impractical souvenirs. stuff from savage lynel gear thats too heavy for her to carry or a brick from the castle. she’d think mipha is the coolest person on the planet, and would want to learn spears because of it. she’d also want to meet the champions and keep asking link to bring them over (he does not </3). but otherwise shes doing her own thing. she probably knows sword stunts/tricks due to link but isn’t knowledgeable in fighting itself. if someone Were to fight her she’d simply bite them <3. losho harbor is probably a notable spot for Family bonding (boat rides or sand structure making) however yeah not too much to say! good mom and good sister

the rest is misc ocs i know Exist but have done 0 (zero) things for . this includes making characters for. basically knights, maids, townsfolk, and people who have relationships with the champions (like mentors or friends). yeag 👍

[mllx-anazra]

Lay All Your Love on Me (Eddie Munson x fem!reader smut) part 2

Summary: Eddie thought that sticking to the radio while you two go at it would prevent any ABBA-related shenanigans. He was seriously underestimating your power of persuasion, and his lack of luck.

Read part 1 here. Cross-posted on Ao3.

Warnings: Smut, so minors DNI, porn with plot if you squint, p in v, protected sex (duh), oral (m! receiving and implied f!), Eddie is still a music snob but you're more stubborn, my terrible sense of humour, more horniness related to ABBA, Eddie has a metronome dick I refused to be convinced otherwise

Notes: I have too much fun writing this. Also, looks like I can only write song-related fics. Oh, well, at least this one is incredibly horny. As always, comments/reblogs and likes are appreciated <3 I am but a writer in need of validation bc this is still fairly new to me [REPOSTED, BC THERE WAS A PB WITH THE INITIAL POST RIP]

July 1984

            “Fuuuuuck, what are you doing to me, sunshine,” Eddie moaned, as you steadily bobbed your mouth up and down his rock-hard cock, hands pumping what you could not fit yet. The sight was enough to make him combust here and there, your lips prettily wrapped around his shaft, lashes fluttering almost coquettishly as spit collected at his base and you spread it with your manicured hand, red polish matching your cherry shaped earrings swaying rhythmically with your movements. He let his head fall back on the picnic blanket you had spread by the shore of Lovers’ Lake, fisting the scratchy material as the sinful sounds of your mouth on him broke the peacefulness of nature and your battery-powered radio in the background. 

            Since what he had dubbed the ‘playlist incident’, Eddie insisted on favoring the radio over the mixtapes you had concocted, until the one he was working on was done. A channel dedicated to hard rock music had been your compromise because you had refused metal on principle, wounding him a little initially. “You make your pace match the fucking songs we listen to while we go to town, there’s no way in hell I’m letting you pistoning me in rhythm with Metallica, I want to be able to walk the next day, thank you very much. You use your dick like a metronome, I swear to God” you had supplied after he had begged you for the umpteenth time the week prior to let him play his music. Although he tried (and failed) to play it cool, your words had inflated his ego and Eddie’s fervor for you had only increased exponentially, curious to see which song would make your body sing for him the most. To both of your surprises, Heart’s Barracuda was the unmatched champion so far.  

            Dio was still playing in the background, the metalhead too far gone in the feeling of your warm mouth around him, as you suckled his tip going up making him hiss in ecstasy, your left hand still working him like magic as your right arm pinned his hips to the ground to prevent him from buckling too much. 

            “Are you close, pretty boy?” you had the audacity to ask innocently after releasing him with the lewdest pop he had ever heard. 

He struggled to not go cross-eyed at the sheer pleasure you were building in his core. 

            “Yes, fuck yes I am, but don’t wanna cum yet, just, just…”

            “You don’t want my mouth anymore?” you asked, all pouty as your hand kept wanking him without faltering. 

            “No, no, no, no, fuck, angel I love it I love your mouth I just, I just, unnng…” his sentence broke in a pitiful moan as you began pressing wet kisses along his hard length. Your hand moved south to fondle his sack, making him curse loudly. When your tongue replaced your nimble fingers, Eddie swore he was ascending to a greater plane of existence as an entire body spasm rocked through him. His left leg sprang like coiled wire in the constraints of his half-downed pants and underwear, and his foot kicked the radio unexpectedly, sending it tumbling further down the blanket. The contraption was not the sturdiest, and the shock of the kick switched the channel, replacing the electrifying beat of ACDC with what Eddie dreaded the most: ABBA’s pop-y keys and vocals. 

            It was like shooting a sitting duck, a little small talk, a smile, and baby I was stuck, the speaker blared, stilling your movements as laughter bubbled in your throat, a full cackle erupting at the look of sheer dismay and doom on the metalhead’s reddening face. 

            “It’s a fucking curse, are you shitting me? I’m getting ABBA’ed TWICE??”

Tears were springing out of your eyes, and you wheezed at Eddie’s indignance, his still throbbing cock neglected. 

            “You, you did it on purpose!! Entrancing me with your wicked mouth so this goddamn fuckery of a song could play! This is torture, this is a hate crime!”

            “I’m flattered by the power you think I can wield, baby, but I don’t control airwaves or radio channels programming”, you teased, straightening out on the blanket, and wiping the water out of your face. “Besides, I don’t think ABBA playing while we’re having sex qualifies as a hate crime.”

            “Well, it’s a musical crime and I hate it!” his dramatic antics will never cease to amuse you.

You smirked devilishly, and crawled up his seated position, legs caging his hips as the skirt of your dress rode up with the movement. Eddie’s glare was slightly subdued at your proximity, but you could tell he was still greatly aggravated by the song playing in the background.  

            “I wonder what could right this wrong, you poor, poor, metal baby” you cooed mockingly, nails grazing at the base of his scalp down to his neck. 

            “Just turn it off” he murmured, his palms cupping your ass and massaging over the thin fabric, trying to bring you closer so he could kiss your swollen and spit-shiny lips. 

            “Mmmh,” you pretended to ponder, left hand flying out of his hair back to where he needed you the most. “But then I’ll have to move, and I’m so, so cozy here.”

He hissed and swore stars were clouding his vision as you deliciously squeezed his length, and his tip came in contact with the burning wetness of your folds. 

            “You… you… Where are your panties?” Eddie managed to inquire, wracking his sex-hazed brains to remember if he had taken them off you at some point during your time by the lake. 

            “Seems I forgot them at home, silly me.” Your innocent tone could not hide your shit-eating grin as Eddie cursed loudly, from both your confession and lowering hips on his. 

            “Shit angel, you’ve been… Fuck, you’ve been going commando this entire time? With this short ass dress? Are you trying to kill me here?”

            “No-oh Eddie dear, what use are you to me if you’re dead, mmh?”

Any quip he might have tried to bite out died on his tongue as you fully sheathed yourself on him, velvety soft, dripping wet, encasing him in your heat in the most heavenly manner. 

You savored how full he made you feel, basking in his fucked-out state, all flushing pink and eyes closed, and grinded back up. 

The drag of your walls felt better than ever, and Eddie’s bliss came crashing down when he figured why. 

            “Shit fuck stop, stop babe the condom, we forgot the condom sh…” his panicked rant is stopped with your index on his lips, wicked grin still firmly placed as you cleared out: 

            “I am incredibly forgetful today, am I not; I’ve been taking birth control in the past two weeks baby.”

The implication of your words fried the remaining functioning braincells of the long-haired freak in front of your, head swarming with curses and images of your lovely cunt dripping with his white cum. 

The awed look in these big brown eyes you’ve grown so fond of made you beam, and you whispered in the stunned metalhead’s ear: 

            “Happy birthday, Eddie”

Before he got a chance to reply, you slammed your hips down and start thrusting deep and long, in synch with the song still playing on the radio. 

            You are heaven and hell incarnate, he thought, gazing up at your glowing grin, hair flying out of your updo and shining like a halo in the sun, hips gyrating in the most sinful of acts as your walls clamp him in a new proximity, coaxing moan after moan of his begging lips. 

He buried his head in the slope of your shoulder, curses and praises like prayers in the softness of your skin, as you amped up the rhythm of your movements, gripping his shoulders for balance as his warm hands helped you up and down, up and down, the bared length of him. 

            It’s a weird realization that struck him, as his pleasure mounted and mounted, that he will never love someone as much as he does love you now on this blanket right this instant and has loved you in the past months. The monumental realization of Eddie’s feelings for you did not last long, a blessing and a curse, as he realized that you were not just humming your pleasure but along the song that has quickly become the bane of his existence. 

            “I feel a kind of fear, when I don’t have you near”, breathy and teasing, Eddie felt no ounce of annoyance as you kept bouncing brutally and clenched around him so, so well. Especially as his orgasm was on the verge of overtaking him. 

            “Baby… Angel… I’m not gonna last long I… fuck… Feels too good.”

Rendering the great Eddie Munson speechless even though you’re mouthing the lyrics of ABBA while you’re taking him raw for the first time was a feat you planned on bragging about for years to come. 

            “M’close too, darling” the tips of his ears pink at the use of this pet name. “You can let go. Lay, all your love in me.”

The mischievous double entendre you meant more as a joke than anything exceeded your expectation. It’s absurd, how much Eddie reacted to it. Really, really absurd, for a metalhead to come harder than he ever did in his entire lifetime, while fucking ABBA still played in the background and you made a terrible pun with the cheesy lyrics. 

You would have teased him endlessly, but thankfully, your climax was too close for you to antagonize the wrecked long-haired man in front of you, especially as he pressed lazy and trained circles to your sensitive bundle of nerves. Foregoing the song’s beat, you grinded intensely on Eddie’s fingers and squeezed along his oversensitive shaft, chasing the waves of your high. It came crashing down, washing your body from head to toe as your arched under the Indiana sun, a godly sighting if the metalhead ever saw one. 

            The radio had the audacity to die down as you both collapsed back on the ground, still joint most intimately as Eddie let you crush him with your weight, the feel of you, all of you, both toe-curling-new and heart-skip-comfortable. He peppered kisses and loving murmurs along your damped hairline, running (groping really) along your frame. A snort of laughter was not the response he anticipated after his quite honest “fucking rocked my world sweetheart”. 

            “I can’t believe I made you cum this hard while ABBA played,” you teased, both lazed out by your afterglow and smug like the cat who got the cream. 

            “I can’t believe you sweet pussy was out there for me to take this entire time. Raw,” he groaned, draping an arm across his face in shame. 

            “I wanted to make it special!” you cooed, moving his limb out of the way so you could gaze at his handsome face, entangling your fingers together and pressing light kisses that had his insides fluttering with swarms of lovesick butterflies. “Besides, the effect is not immediate; could have still knocked me up if we did not wait a little. And as much as I like you Munson”, your confession turning the flips in his stomach into Olympic worthy dives, “I don’t fancy raising your devil spawn fresh out of high school just yet.”

            “Just yet, uh?” his wiggling eyebrow and shit-eating grin making you groan in turn. 

            “Umph. Buy me a pretty rock and drop to your knees nicely for me, and we’ll see what we can do.” You quipped, hoping to sass him enough to silence him. 

You clearly underestimated the speed of which his brain was catching up on his blissed-out state, as a mischievous gleam adorned his brown doe eyes. 

            “Well, you’ll have to give me some time for the stone sweetheart but as for the other part…” he flipped you back down on the picnic blanket, dress riding higher and displaying your puffed out sex in all its glory, “I think I can manage the kneeling part right now.”

If you thought Eddie’s oral obsession was bad before, turned out licking off your mixed fluids of your pussy took the cake. 

[science-lings]

Magic in BOTW: A Study of Elemental Weapons

Breath of the Wild is kind of vague when it comes to magic compared to other Zelda games. There’s no magic bar or characters that are mentioned to specialize in it, (aside from the dragons and maybe the champions). In fact, the magic that tends to be used the most seems to be from the Yiga. Sure, great fairy's and forest spirits like the koroks and blupees kind of have their own thing but I’m focusing on Hyrulians today. 

Rods:

Though mostly used by Wizzrobes, according to their descriptions, the monsters did not create them. Fire/ Meteor Rods are described as being ‘crafted by an ancient magician’, Ice/ Blizzard Rods are ‘crafted from refined ice found at the summit of Hebra Peak’, and Lightning/ Thunderstorm Rods have a ‘gem [that] contains electricity from the Hyrule Hills’. 

Hebra Peak is made up of special unclimbable ice that can also be found in the cavern that entombs the hebra great skeleton, this could be the refined ice that the ice rods are powered by. While ‘Hyrule Hills’ aren’t a specific place in the game, maybe that’s what Farosh Hills were called, as they’re also the hills that surround Lake Hylia which has several other similar names. (Lake Hylia, Hylia Island, Bridge of Hylia, Hylia River) Perhaps before Farosh showed up, the eastern hills had a similar name, But Hylia Hills sounded like a dirty joke so it was changed to Hyrule Hills. 

Now, what about an ancient magician? One that’s only associated with fire magic... My immediate thoughts would be Twinrova or a magically inclined Goron (which is more likely but we’ll get to that a little later), in any case, their name has been long forgotten but who’s to say we haven’t met them before? 

Also there’s definitely an aspect with using elemental powered gemstones for both the rods and the weapons. Each of their designs feature it at the end of their hilts and it just makes sense for the gemstones to either assist in the generation of elemental magic or the regulation thereof. 

Flame Weapons: 

Descriptions of the flame weapons describe that they were made in the fires/ lava/ magma of death mountain. This makes sense, this is not a new concept, I mean its the whole plot to the lord of the rings. but what really is interesting is when we get to the description of the great flameblade. 

‘by Goron smiths in an ancient age’. Now that’s Lore! So there’s magic gorons. I’m thinking this is in the ten thousand years before botw/ golden age of Hyrule unless we can attribute this to existing characters. Maybe Darunia was really into making fire weapons or something. He was the Sage of Fire, that had to count for something. 

Ice Weapons: 

Like the Ice Rods, they were made with the ancient ice from the hebra mountains, though in the great flameblade version it ‘was forged by smelting ore found in the Hebra Mountains’ permafrost’ so that’s a thing. Hebra is mostly inhabited by Rito, who aren’t known to be very magically inclined, but there are also some Hylians. The area is generally pretty desolite with not a lot of evidence of civilization so it’s hard to tell who could’ve been behind the magic in that area. There’s the Zonai labyrinth and the entrance to the ice cavern looked vaguely Zonai or ancient Hylian in origin (like the ruins around the springs and the forgotten temple and Lanayru Promenade, like sksw era ruins)

Anyway the Ice is magic, but only the Hebra ice, not like the ice around the goddess spring or the ice around the actual ice dragon, no that ice isn’t magic. The random ass ice in hebra is the special magic ice. No, I don’t get it either. 

Lightning Weapons:

Now here’s where it gets interesting. You’d expect that the magic from the electric weapons would come from the Faron region. WRONG. But that doesn’t matter. We’ll get to that.

The Hyrulean Royal family is who is behind the thunder weapons. Which is odd, the royal family isn’t generally associated with weapons or lightning. or are they? One character comes to mind when I think of both Hylian royal family and lightning (and also making weapons), and that is Skyward Sword Link. So maybe the royal family could be linked to that but it still seems weird that they are the origin of them. Perhaps they had help from the sheikah, they had to do a whole lot of stuff with electricity just for Vah Naboris. Those metal orbs do remind me of the lightning enchanted metal... 

This ball. the color is the same (but less bright) but still. Same vibes. 

Lets get back to the Hyrule Hills thing. The thunderspear description clears this one up a little. 

The lighting comes from Thundra Plateau, aka the place with the glowing balls and the eternal storm that I guess was going on for like ten thousand years, waiting for the shrine to be solved by the hero. This place is also heavily associated with the Zonai, as the ruins are the same as the ones around the spring of courage and in the dark shroud of Thyphlo.  

Arrows:

The elemental arrowheads look different than the normal elemental metals. The only context that we get for them is that they are ‘imbued with the power of [insert element here]’ and while it would make sense that the arrowheads are just the same magical metals but cut up to be smaller but I would argue against it. There is probably a finite amount of elemental arrows and weapons that can have their metal harvested to make these arrows. Most vendors of these arrows claim to ‘find’ them rather than make them, and they also only tend to sell certain types rather than the entire roster. The arrow lady in Kakariko only sells fire arrows on top of their normal basic arrows, Rito Village and Hateno sell bomb arrows, etc. Only Tarrey Town and Gerudo Town sell packs of every type of arrows. 

Anyway I’m absolutely convinced that the arrow lady in Gerudo Town is the creator of the elemental arrows. Gerudo Town is not new to enchantments, especially ones featuring gemstones, they’re also more associated with sorcery than the Rito kid who is the vendor in Tarrey Town. 

I could talk more about magic in botw (the champions powers, the magic found in nature with gemstones and plants and animals, the sheikah and yiga abilities, magic in clothing, and also minor deities featured in botw, I will talk about these things if there is any demand or if I feel the inspiration to.) So this could be a series. So please tell me if you’d be interested in that because I would love to make more random in-depth analysis’. 

[kob131]

The Grand List To Prove Jaune Arc is a Self Insert!

AKA 'Watch me humiliate myself.'

1 - Jaune is the first male character of the same age group than our protagonist introduced in the show, giving him instantly a special status. He does so by helping directly said main protagonist, instantly strike a friendship over their social awkwardness and his goofiness.

Notice something...off about this point? How it's centered around when Jaune was introduced to the group, not his first appearence?

Well, that's probably because Jaune's first appearence was as the butt of a joke. The punchline. The place in a joke that usually shows absolute disrespect.

Our self insert, ladies and gentlemen!

2 - The second time he talk, it's literally to create another friendship, this time with the champion archetype of the show. At this point, he cemented is awkward goof personality that would usually go to protagonist type characters in shonen (exemple : Naruto, Natsu)

Yeah, see. The second time he talked was foreshadowing and didn't actually make friends with Pyrrha. He also lacks any kind of serious moments here (unlike Naruto) and isn't an already experienced and competent fighter (Unlike Natsu).

And speaking of Fairy Tail, we actually have an example of a character supposedly getting preferential treatment in the form of Erza, who despite not even being the female protagonist (Lucy) is constantly depicted as the biggest badass of the team who is constantly held up highly and respected, accomplishing seemingly impossible feats through sheer coolness.

AKA Everything someone like Jaune ISN'T.

3 - He is saved by his friendship striked literally minutes before then show a complete lack of basic knowledge of the lore. He become the de-facto ignorant character the basic lore is explained to (and to the public watching the show), a role usually done by Isekai/harem/SI/power fantasy main protagonist. It's even more flagrant because the existence of this role make NO SENSE in RWBY as the lore needed to be explained is way too basic to justify anyone not knowing about it and the show happen in a school setting, literally a setting you can dump your basic lore by making it a class.

Yes, a school setting. A SPECIALIST school setting. Meaning that explaining things like Aura to the class as a whole is pointless and a waste of time. Especially since major fights happen BEFORE the school is in session in the story, meaning you can't use the school setting to explain what is about to happen. Hence the existence of Jaune. This also completely ignores Pyrrha's character, someone who WOULD help out a person in need even after just knowing them.

Now, since you mentioned Isekai protagonists, I guess you should go on about how Jaune instantly becomes an overpowered badass who wins the hearts of everyone around him, right? You know, a stable in Isekai power fantasy so old that the modern predecessor of Isekai, Sword Art Online, had this in spades? So when's that about Jaune?

...Or is it that Jaune is often disrespected and looked down upon by others, including his own friends, something that NEVER happens in these stories?

In fact, let's go back to SAO since THAT'S what everyone thinks of when they think of a self insert/power fantasy/Mary Sue. Kirito is supposedly ostrachized from his fellow players but this is never shown. He is never truly challenged in a fight unless the opponent is cheating. He is regularly regarded with awe and inspiration by those around him. He is almost never vulnerable or weak-

You starting to see a problem here? How Jaune isn't fitting a goddamn thing that comes with what a person actually THINKS OF when they consider a self insert? How the stuff this person is listing is just what happens to ANY character in a story?

It doesn't get better.

5 - His next apparence at all is the beginning of an arc that is entirely centered on him, his role and leadership. And it's a festival between being the one bullied instead of Ruby which make a way better target, being comforted by said main protagonist, revealing he cheated to enter Beacon (an information that never result in anything outside of this arc), having the champion willing to train him and developing a 'special' power temporarily when he decide to stand up to his bully for the sake of his team.

Of course, this completely ignores all the times that the bully Cardin humiliates Jaune, how Jaune is insulted by his teammates, how Jaune's actions directly cause the conflict of the arc and isolate him from Pyrrha, how he is portrayed as in the wrong due to the more innocent Pyrrha freezing him out and how he is only in the right after standing up for Pyrrha and apologizing to her, showing that he was wrong.

All things that NEVER happen with those said Isekai protags. Or at least with the ones that do are regarded as NOT being self inserts.

6 - He is the one in season 2 to stand up for Weiss when Neptune ghost her, a role that would make way more sense to either Yang or Ruby herself. I'll add that being dense as a brick trying to romance the diva/princess archetype while being unaware of another character love for them is 100% certified SI protagonist energy

Why does it make more sense for Ruby to do this, who has nothing to do with this and has her own objectives during this arc? Let alone Yang, who is doing her own thing? And not Jaune, who has shown romantic interest in Weiss?

Also notice how Jaune being the butt of jokes isn't brought up again? Even though this arc has two potshots at him? COntext, what dat?

7 - He is constantly shown to have improved over all the other characters in battle

Another sneaky little trick- they don't bring up HOW Jaune compares to his peers at this point. Because the point here is that these characters get focused on and upstage their peers. While Jaune only ever shows improvement via doing the basics needed.

8 - He is the only one to actually have a romance in the first overreaching arc with, once more, the champion archetype. And end up being the only one to have an emotional reaction to her death and actively grieving for her. Following that, he is the only one to react to Cinder, Pyrrha murderer, emotionally. Not his team, not the one that see her murder, him alone.

...

OH GEE. THE CHARACTER WHO WAS CLOSEST TO PYRRHA REACTS TO HER MURDERER, WHEN PYRRHA PREVENTED HIM FROM HELPING HER FIGHT HIM? WHO WOULD HAVE FUCKING THOUGHT?!

It's not like Ruby talked about Pyrrha beforehand with, oh maybe, a farm boy. Or that we had a moment of the whole team mourning Pyrrha in the finale of the last Volume.

No, Jaune's a self insert because he's mourning the character he was closest with. Even though he does fuck all otherwise, the fact he gets ANYTHING. MUST. Be a sign he's a self insert.

Why not just call it 'manpain' and kill your credibility.

9 - Despite his grief, he is the one to give Ruby the emotional comfort in V4 when the situation turn bad. A scene that could easily be interpreted as the beginning of another romance story, this time the main one.

You mean the same scene where Jaune's entire mourning for Pyrrha basically turns into him talking about how great Ruby is. Something that, if there was a narrative about Ruby being a self insert, would have gotten jumped on? Oh how FUCKING wonderful. Not like these two are close friends whose connection will be completely forgotten in a Volume or anything, right?

10 - He develop a new superpower when one of the main team character get (grievously) hurt, a power that have nothing to do with V1 reflecting damage he was doing there and that is as special as it is non-sensical and mary suesque. It isn't just a heal power, which being unique in the group, once more boost his role of Deuteragonist. No, it's does that by boosting the magic system and superpower of his allies, which result in seemingly heal grievous damage on a character that doesn't have access to the magic power to have been able to get hurt in the first place. Complete full Power fantasy BS.

You know, which is why there are all those Isekais about how the super powerful protagonist can only support his allies. Oh wait, even the ones that claim that (like Shield Hero) ditch that shit and Jaune can ONLY ever help others win, never winning himself.

Mary Sue everyone!

11 - Since he is the only one to care that Pyrrha die, he is the only one to meet seemingly her family.

Translation: "Jaune had focus, that makes him a SELF INSERT! Because the show only exists when Jaune's on screen!"

12 - Despite his role as the goof of the group, he is the one MILF are interested in when he join Atlas huntsmen. Not the other Ace Ops, him, the 18 years old goofball.

None of whom were on scene, where Jaune just helped their kids and they offered food like MOST mothers would!

Written by Eddy Rivas by the way. Weird, could have sworn that wasn't how you spelled 'Miles Luna'.

Put simply, by V7, he is the only protagonist to actively have an heroic role in his actions. He doesn't hunt but protect children instead, he doesn't fight but help civilian and his the face of the evacuation. Being the hero of the show, making his story the power fantasy of Miles

He's also regularly treated as a joke for most the show's running time, most of your examples came during the time Miles was at his LEAST active in the show as he was making Red Vs Blue, was treated as pathetic, had his role and relationships diminished as Miles became more involved, didn't even get an opinion on how Ruby (his supposed counterpart) lied unlike LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE-

And oh yeah, is the ONLY RWBY character to be insulted by his voice actor! Yeah, Miles is the ONLY member of the CRWBY to mock Jaune, even saying that voicing him is drawing on his stupid, awkward teenage years. Real great Self Insert there!

Just like Felix! Remember Felix, the character made when Miles had COMPLETE creative control over Red vs. Blue? Don't he and Jaune act just so fucking much alike?

... Oh yeah, Felix acts NOTHING like Jaune. Felix is a selfish, amoral and smug shit of a villain. Which coinsides with Miles saying he likes acting VILLAINS more than heroes.

Face facts- Jaune isn't a self insert. he never was. That was an excuse you used because Miles was the easy target of the CRWBY. Because trying that shit on Kerry or Eddy resulted in them smacking you around. You're just coping at this point.

[thewertsearch]

My best guess is that Sburb uses ‘class’ the same way most RPGs do. It refers to your particular specialization in the game’s system, and your role in the party. 

Do you fight? Do you heal? Are you a mobility or support caster? It’s all in the Class, and we’re going to look at the four belonging to our Players.

Heir, noun.  A person who inherits the estate of another; a person who succeeds to a hereditary rank, title, or office; one who receives or is expected to receive a heritage, as of ideas, from a predecessor.

Heir is a weird name for class, because it doesn't symbolize much on its own. The cultural roles of the knight, seer and witch are well-defined, but when you’re an heir, your purpose is entirely dictated by what you’re an heir of. 

John’s Class is definitely the hardest to decipher, and we haven’t seen him consciously use any Aspect magic, so there’s not a lot to go on. I do have a theory, but it’s more based on vibes than any actual evidence. 

My theory is that the Heir doesn’t have a specialization. I think that as the ‘heir’ of the Breath Aspect, John will have a decent command of every Breath ability - because when you’re an Heir, your only role is to inherit, to receive the power that is your birthright. What you do with it is up to you. 

This would make John a generalist, and he’ll support the team by wielding Breath in a versatile manner to give help where it’s needed. He’ll never be as good at reconnaissance as a Seer of Breath, but he can do a little. He won’t be able to fight as hard as the combat classes, but he’ll be no slouch. You get the picture. 

In other words, the Heir would be the party member that has levels in every subclass, but none of them are maxed out. 

I don’t think John directly inherits from anyone. In the same way that many RPG priests are just generic ‘clerics’ who don’t seem to serve any god, I think the term is just convenient shorthand for what his class is supposed to do. Hopefully we’ll see what that is before long. 

Seer, noun.  One that sees; a clairvoyant; a prophet.

This one is the easiest. The Seer is almost certainly a knowledge-based class centered around observation. Rose’s ability to perceive Sburb’s systems is a cut above the rest - something she demonstrated when she was able to directly perceive the commands of her Exile. 

My guess is that the Seer is optimized for intel-gathering, and that their party role is to gather and consolidate information. The Seer would be the party member with the detect or analyze ability - the one that tells you what status conditions the boss is weak to.

Knight, noun.  A mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder; a medieval gentleman-soldier, a defender, champion, or zealous upholder of a cause or principle.

I’m less sure about this one, but I think that the Knight is a ‘protector’ class. Dave’s first act as a time traveler was to save John and Jade’s lives, and Davesprite intends to continue doing so, promising to bail the party out if things go south again. 

The Knight’s role seems to be to keep the team alive, and protect them from danger. The Knight would be the party member with the ‘target me instead’ ability that redirects damage away from their allies. 

Like the Heir, I think the term ‘Knight’ was just chosen here because it encapsulates a concept, and it’s a shorter, neater word than Paladin, which is what I think this class actually is. 

Witch, noun A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.

This one’s hard. Everything in Sburb is magical, in a sense, so it can’t just be the ‘magic’ class - especially since the Mage also exists. So what does a Witch do?

Jade has manifested her Classpect power in one ambiguous way - it seems to help her use technology. How this conceptually relates to a Witch I couldn’t say. 

Maybe the Witch is in some way akin to an artificer, and their role is to work on large-scale, big-picture projects for the party? But again - that doesn’t really make sense for a class called Witch. 

Dunno about this one. We’ll just have to wait for Jade to do more. 

[silverskye13]

I adore all your hels stuff! What other ideas do you have about some of the other helsmits, maybe the ones mentioned in your interview? Like, Hels!Stress was pretty interesting. Plus Joe and alive Cleo.

I'm mostly all vague ideas except for the stuff that finally gets written down and tossed here, but I can give you a list of my many vagueries if you want! Various helsmets and world-building under the cut. It's a very long post.

Some baseline world-building I've got figured out:

First thing's first: we're all going to have to cope with the fact that in my head, hels looks a lot like Bloodborne. I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm like this either. Now that that's out of the way--

Hels are a phenomena not exclusive to Hermitcraft. Any SMP could have a hels, or an evil double or mirror image or whatever-you-wanna-call-it split from them and spontaneously spawn one day in hels. Hels is a world with no overworld, it's all nether all the time, and a pretty miserable place to be. It's not impossible to live there, but given just about everyone is made up of the worse/discarded traits of someone better, people tend to be harsh and mean first and make friends later. The Deep Dark exists in hels (because I think it's fun) but its up by the bedrock ceiling. This makes sense because hels is a mirror of the real world, and also the Deep Dark would probably exist as far away from the light lava provides as possible, I figure? So it's by the bedrock ceiling.

All hels denizens are destined to two paths in life. Either you become one with your other half someday, or you set yourself so far apart from your other half you become your own person. I figure because of this, hels has a lot of religious undertones? They're a race of people grappling with the idea that any day, one of them could just stop existing. That's something you've got to cope with actively if you're going to cope with it at all. There are a lot of churches in hels [loosely churches. if it's vaguely philosophical and you can put it in a building, it's called a church. some are actually religious, some are just a little spiritual, some are thinly veiled fronts for criminal activity...]

Some noodling I've done with helsmets:

Evil Xisuma: Xisuma's helsmet, but they've been independent of each other so long there's no way they'd ever become one person again. Evil X has limited access to creative mode and uses it solely for selfish gain. Being the only person with god powers gets boring though, and he's long exhausted his tantrums of raining TNT on various parts of town just to see what'll happen. Now he spends most of his time sulking in his tower, being melodramatic and vaguely evil, and occasionally making formal speeches.

Helsknight: A very active member of the community and a big fan of vigilante justice. He is either the most popular or least popular helsmet, depends on what side of his law you fall on. He is very dedicated to the church that hosts his knightly tenets. When he isn't threatening everyone who looks at him funny and moonlighting in the shadow of his church, he hones his swordcraft in a coliseum, which is my justification for the rap lines "Everyone lives in fiery cells" and "I'm their greatest champion so ring your warning bells" in Diabolical. He's a champion, he fought his way through the coliseum. Any knight worth their metal started in the cells there and worked their way up.

JoeKills: He doesn't live in hels, he was forcibly exiled for disturbing the peace shortly after he first spawned. It's one of the handful of times Evil X has ever had to ban someone from hels. He spends most of his time leaping from world to world, enacting mild-to-extreme terrorism and vigilante justice on anything that doesn't match his world view - mostly to the tune of tearing apart large corporations brick by burning brick. He hates JoeHills with a fiery passion, and heaven help the both of them if they ever meet in person. I'm on the fence if I think they could ever be one person again. They're both so unhinged, their coming together would probably kick off the apocalypse.

Alive!Cleo: She's a mob boss who uses a church as a front. It's a very thin front and most everyone knows what's up, but she's scary so no one does anything about it either. She runs a decent chunk of the east side of the Main Hels City I Haven't Named Yet And Probably Won't. Her and Hels come to blows often. She, like Evil X, has defined herself from Cleo enough they could probably never be the same person. It was mostly unintentional. She needed something to do, she figured out she loves her work, she's building an empire. HumanCleo is the big picture planning to ZombieCleo's impulsiveness. Where Z!Cleo rushed The Red King at Dogwarts and died, H!Cleo would've found a way to join Dogwarts to tear it down from the inside. H!Cleo is also terrified of dying. Doesn't matter that respawn is a thing you can do in hels. As far as she's concerned, this is a hardcore world and she's winning.

Hels!Stress: She says "lovely" instead of "gorgeous". She wears all black instead of pink. She thinks her hermit is adorable but in that patronizing way a villain thinks the hero is adorable when they first meet. That's not to say Hels!Stress is evil. She's just very aware of how competent she is. She gets things done and she does them easily, unflappably. She has a larger-than-life reputation. Did you hear she once wrangled a ghast and used it to break through the bedrock to the ceiling above? Did you hear she growled at the Warden and it ran away? She fought ten warriors in the coliseum with one arm tied behind her back and won. Most of them are probably lies, but people have witnessed enough of them in person to wonder how many are truths - and she definitely starts some of the rumors herself just to see how far they balloon out of proportion. I kinda wanna call her FinesseMonster.

Docm77: His hels doesn't exist. Undecided on if he existed once and doesn't anymore, or if he's just never existed. If he did exist though, I think he would be a Doc who actually follows through. Listen, Doc does a lot of grand standing. He's scary until you dare him to flinch, and then 9 times out of 10, he flinches. If Doc had a hels, he would be quiet, and whenever he spoke, he would always follow through.

Grian: Pesky bird! I kicked around the idea that Grian's hels would be a Watcher, just because I never do Watcher takes seriously. I think it works with Grian as a player, since he's very active and engaged with the world he's in [hermitcraft]. So a helsmet who watches and manipulates would actually be very good for him. Bonus points for the fact that Grian is a bit manipulative himself. He's known for pushing buttons. A hels who observes and only ever quietly points out when you're giving in to your faults would be insidious in how close it is to your personal thoughts, especially when they grow so close to you, their voice is identical to your own. How much of this is intrusive thought and how much of this is just voice? How long has it been since you were able to tell?

FalseSymmetry: [I've read before that her hels would be TrueSymmetry and I think thats amazing, lets keep that]. Anyway, I think her hels would be scary, or would be based on the idea that people think False is scary. False is a lot like Etho in that her reputation precedes her, but compared to her inner voice - her videos - she's actually very nervous and a bit bumbling. It's just that she's quiet in a somewhat stoic way when it comes to competition, that gives her the reputation. So I think TrueSymmetry and FalseSymmetry are a lot alike. Visually they're very similar. Their voices are almost identical. But while False is quiet because she's nervous, True is quiet because she really is stoic and intimidating. I think she takes a lot of pleasure in pointing out to False when people are scared of her. I imagine when Tango released the withers in the nether, and he laughed nervously and said, "Well hey we only need you, right False? You can take on three withers all on your own." True was a little voice in the back of her head saying, "See? He's scared of what you're capable of. You're going to hurt them all someday... or let them down..." False insisted they wait until Grian could come and help as well.

Iskall85: Iskall and his helsmet are also a lot alike, but where Iskall broke away from his "official hitman status" and started pursuing other things like building and redstone, his helsmet never left the life. There's is a mirror that reflects two choices in life, a splitting point where Iskall's life could've gone much differently. They don't dislike each other, but they do regard each other with a lot of sideways glances. Someday they will be so different they'll be unrecognizable. This is the best chance for both of them to survive the fact that they are hels and hermit. It takes a lot of restraint to end a friendship with your reflection. Years of progress will be undone if one of them breaks and looks back too long.

The Red King we've mostly heard of! And what little I have left on him I'm keeping to myself for if I write him more.

Tanguish is also pretty thoroughly revealed.

VintageBeef is a blood god as a hels. Because I love that for him. Very eldritch entity, The Slaughter from TMA. He has a public face he barely holds together. He likes to emulate his hermit in order to scare people.

Noodling I've done with hels denizens that aren't hermits:

Vaugely I think Dream and DreamXD are probably hels doubles. No idea which is which. I don't follow DSMP enough.

Pixlriffs: The King of Pixandria has a hels! He thrives in a place with such an affinity for spirituality and death. I fell like while Pixandria Pix had a healthy respect for death and honored it, shepherdly almost, hels!Pix views death as a cruel inevitability.

The Mad King of Mazelea: He has a hels as well. I haven't gotten much farther than a vague Red King-ish figure but with more wildly swinging moods.

LDShadowlady: You cannot tell me in every incarnation of Lizzie in her many SMPs that she's not her hels' best friend. That seems like her kind of chaos she's be very on-brand for. They drive each other deeper and deeper into shenanigans, constantly egging each other on. It's like playing chicken but instead of driving two cars towards each other you're both driving for a cliff and you're both definitely not stopping until you've driven off it.