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If ur wondering why there are barely any ragna x rachel shippers now. It’s because they went extinct. Like dinosaurs. And I was the asteroid.

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[Image description: a digital drawing of Carmine from Under Night In-Birth. The drawing is a close-up of his face wearing a smug smile.]

Unib 2! I can't wait :D My boy barely showed up in the trailer

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first time joining blazblue 1 hour draw

actually this takes 2 :/

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can’t get meee! 😈 cAnnot get’uh MEEE~! 😝 ,,this thing is EENdestructible dude ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, AAAARGH *inhale* DE WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!??!??

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Ragna the bloodedge manboobs.. ragna the boobedge

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lukas seems like the kind of guy who is constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown and i love him for it

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(Fashionably) late for Patchouli day

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I think you're missing a pretty BIG one that BBCP had also dropped the ball on and thats Nu's redemption arc. I know she got redeemed after CF in that godforsaken mobile game,but imagine a world where Nu is revived by the villains and despite having all these parameters probably set up by the villians,there's that spark of good in her to protect Ragna after she essentially saved his life in the last game in BBCS. She could've slowly broke out the programming bit by bit throughout the story and essentially rebel against the villains and it essentially breaks apart when she's sees Ragna trying to save. It could've even set something up nicely in BBCF when Ragna loses his memories,he has someone right there to help get back up to speed and understand himself again in Nu. Hell,Ragna for the first time in sad life,he would actually have someone actually reasonable accompany him on his journey and it would've opened more room for him to bond with someone that may have once tried to kill him but is now trying her best to make things right for someone she cares deeply about. But what do I know? I'm just a guy way too deep into this damn mess...

I've been thinking about Nu more as of recent, actually. I agree that I feel they missed being able to do something with her after CS showed that she does genuinely care for Ragna, but Azure influence made her batshit crazy. Personally I would have preferred for her to stay dead and just be a legacy character ala Justice and Kliff, but I know that's not how things worked out. Unfortunately, I think when Mori brought her back for CP, by that point the light novel and the anime had made it so that Lambda and Nu were more separate characters so they could keep yandere Nu around.

I'm sad about it too, because I really do want to like Nu more but she just feels too stagnant in the games. The Dark War stuff just made me neutral towards her.

I doubt Ragna gets joy from having to destroy/beat up someone that biologically looks like his sister and sounds like her. I think it would be interesting if Nu had to fight with her own programming to keep herself from killing Ragna. Maybe she can't stop herself from attacking him sometimes, but still warns him when she's about to attack, to show him that she really does care for him. It's something fun to what-if about for sure.

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Forever thinking about how tragic Tsubaki’s upbringing is and how it influenced her actions as an adult I’m not okay,,,

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"Good Guy!!"

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You're assuming I have a problem with Ragna developing as a character when that isn't the case. I agree that Ragna needed to grow to not be hotheaded and assholeish.

My issue is that the natural character progression that was set up for him is handled poorly in CP by giving him new flaws that weren't there before and giving him development in the worst way possible.

Another post highlights this better but Ragna was the last person who needed to learn to not use the Azure Grimoire willy-nilly. He had an actual, battle-related flaw that was right there: not giving it his all in fights until his back is to the wall.

As a character, I think you're also undermining the part that Ragna was not just an edgy guy. He's like a bull- if you fuck with him and provoke him, then the horns come out. He doesn't pick fights for the sake of it, he only does it if you give him reason to. Litchi has the option to just stop and talk to him in her CT story mode, and instead of trying to start a fight with her, he's on guard but humors her. He also becomes less on guard when he realizes that she really does just want to talk. He can have a natural one-on-one talk with someone if you aren't being a dick. Everything with Ragna in the Kaka village in CS speaks for itself as well.

People who make him to be some badass fighting god are stupid; he's a human who has been dealt the worst hand imaginable in life and he has his guard up all the time because of it.

For CP, I have a hard time believing that Ragna needed to be told by Celica to "protect her" to give him development, when at the end of the last game, he gave up his fucking arm to save Noel. If Ragna was really someone who didn't understand the idea of protecting people to some degree, he wouldn't have tried to save Noel even after being told it was practically impossible to reverse the Mu stuff. And even fucking Alter Memory outright has him say "I'm going to protect Noel", so the anime they were working on at the same time as CP even got that. Maybe it needs some refining, but the idea that Ragna has to be TOLD to develop by someone who only JUST came into his life is the worst possible way they could handle it.

Early on in CP itself he ran into Tsubaki before phenomena intervention shit happened. He could have easily just taken her down or just ignored her, but he knew that Tsubaki was special to Noel and was even willing to try and break Izayoi's grip on her. It didn't work out that way and basically got retconned by the universe, but I have a hard time believing that he needed Celica with him to grow. Noel and Tao, two characters that he has an established connection to that he is on positive terms with, are right fucking there. It doesn't need to be some deep essay with Tao either; she wants to help her village because she loves her village and the people in it, getting extra om-noms to feed everyone is all the reason she needs. Ragna sees that she cares about the village and wants to protect them: Gets inspired to use his powers not for destruction, but for protecting what he has. Doesn't need to be literally spoonfed development.

Hate is a strong word considering I like everything else about Phase Shift aside from Bloodedge being Ragna and Celica (And I don't hate her, I have a lot of issues with her), but I'll bite. My biggest issue with Celica (In CP because that's what this is all about) is how bland and uninteresting she is compared to everyone else. Being "super nice" is not interesting considering that almost everyone in the cast is nice to some degree, but that's not all that's pushing them. Noel is nice. Tsubaki is nice. Makoto is nice. Litchi is nice. Rachel, in her own way of showing it, is nice. Tager is nice. Bang is nice. The list goes on. The cast isn't devoid of people able to show some compassion. Ragna has people in his corner already: Tao and Noel are both good people that he has been able to hang around without feeling like he'll be attacked by them. Tao isn't gonna be doing anything in the main story so if Noel having her Kusanagi and Tsubaki stuff is not able to bleed into Ragna's development, Tao is still available.

Sorry for the long response, and there's still a lot more I want to say, but Ragna is my favorite character ever and implying that I only like him for being a badass or conquering hero when it was specifically those softer moments that endeared him to me so hard along with personal stuff, I'm not taking it sitting down. I'm not trying to personally attack you either. CP has a lot of writing problems, but it was specifically the way Ragna is handled that got to me the most. Again, I have more stuff I could say, but this is where I'll leave it for now.

No you don't understand

There is so much that CP fucking dropped the ball on and I can never possibly fucking begin to explain it unless I sit down. Tao and Noel could have easily filled in Celica's role of helping Ragna develop. Ragna didn't need to be SPOONFED a motive or development from Celica, a literal who he has barely known and was forced to be around because the plot demanded it. Tao could have even showed a certain level on "intelligence" by helping Ragna find another reason to fight, cause she wants to help her village above all else!! Even if she can be very childish, she has a good heart at the end of the day and lets most things not bother her!

And I've been thinking about it more, and I'm mad Platinum and Bang being travel buddies didn't stay longer, because CS had Bang just ignore/roll with whatever Luna said. They did more than just make pedo jokes with Bang, and it worked because Bang didn't let those comments aggravate him. I've seen an idea thrown around here that Platinum could have resented Ragna for causing Akitsu-Kou's weather system to malfunction, and that could have given her a more valid reason for hating him. Could you imagine if Bang helped Platinum to not let vengeance consume her the same way he doesn't let his hatred for Jin control his every move? There could have been a nice relationship there!

I fucking hate Chronophantasma so much :^))))))

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Random observations of the trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee, because I thought they were interesting - Part 2

And we're back. You can find the other part on my page where I go over a few things I had in mind when writing this, so let's just jump right in. I think this one may as well be common knowledge by now, but in case you haven't heard, Ganondorf's Classic trophy has an easter egg where if you change the lighting/background to the darkest one, his eyes glow red.

I know people always bring that up for his standard trophy, but I don't think anyone ever brings up this is also true for his Red and Blue Smash trophies.

Since we're talking about Ganondorf, let's talk about the one he copies; the man, the legend, the pilot himself, Captain Falcon. His Classic trophy seems to be some sort of modified version of his Melee model. Biggest differences I could spot are the colors, the missing logo on his back, and I think it has a lower polygon count, though it is very hard to tell.

And here are his F-Zero racers making what I believe is their first debut into 3D outside of their vehicles.

Despite most other series getting such a fancy GameCube treatment, the Star Fox crew does not. Instead, their models are based on their blocky renders from Star Fox 64.

But oddly enough, Andross avoids that. He's so special, he even gets TWO trophies! One based on his 64 incarnation and other being his SNES counterpart.

Though I suppose one could make an argument that Fox might also be an exception as well, if you want to count his Red/Blue Smash trophies as they are technically an interpretation of his design in proper 3D.

The Metroid characters are probably one of more interesting cases, as they never had an appearance on the 64, so their designs come from Super Metroid, a SNES game.

This somewhat applies to the Samus Unmasked trophy, though her hair seems shorter than in Super Metroid and is held in a small ponytail that you can't really see, because I forgot to take a screenshot of it. I might eventually go back and take a picture of it when I get the chance.

This one is more on the shorter side, as next up was some Kirby stuff that had one too many pictures, but oh well. I'll just make a Part 3 and continue from there soon. Maybe find a better way to include my images instead of having them eat up so much space. As per usual, to those that have gotten this far, thank you for giving this post the time out of your day/night to read more of my inane ramblings.

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The boyfriend makes posts about Smash trophies and I find it interesting and I love it when he talks :)

Random observations of the trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee, because I thought they were interesting - Part 1

I have decided to contribute to this site by dragging over some random junk I've written before. I guess this is also my excuse to try and contribute to the site? Well, """contribute""" in more quotation marks than I let on. Anyway, I'm just gonna more or less repost something I made before, but now I don't have a godforsaken text limited forced upon me AND I can edit spelling errors, woo. This is also probably going to look like a mess, because I have never used Tumblr in my entire life, so uh... woops.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also to get something out of the way, I'm not covering every trophy from every series. I love this games' trophies, but I don't love 'em THAT much. I'm just going to talk about the ones that piqued my curiosity. To begin, let's start with Mario stuff, since that's the big name.

One thing I really like about these trophies is that the main player trophies you get from Classic Mode are based on their standard designs in their home series. For example, the Mario cast are based on their N64 appearances, such as Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, or Mario Party.

The "Red Smash" and "Blue Smash" trophies are gained through clearing Adventure Mode and All Star, respectively. Red Smash trophies uses the characters' design in game while the Blue Smash trophies always uses an alt color. Both describe the character on how they play. Interestingly, while Brawl does not do this, Smash 4 does. Depending on the version of the game, the character will use a different alt color as seen here.

Going back to the Mario cast, I think it's really cool seeing how characters that would later have their designs tweaked later on in the GameCube's life be modeled with their original designs. Daisy, of course, is the most noteworthy one of these four.

A few personal favorites of mine for the Mario trophies is that this is the only game where they show off the power ups with Mario while later games would just show the item that gives you the power up.

Might be commonly known by this point, but here's a fun little fact; Metal Mario's reflection is the Yoshi's Island stage.

I'm also a fan of the trophies that are very odd "deep cuts" to the series, such as the Bucket and Plum.

Now for the Donkey Kong series. While Donkey Kong, Dixie Kong, and King K. Rool all get their own trophies, Diddy is strangely absent despite being mentioned. I'm not sure why that is.

Another thing I really like about these trophies is that there's some fun interpretation of these characters in 3D, such as DK Jr. and even Stanley of all characters.

Another fantastic example of the developers interpenetrating characters that were never in 3D by this point would be Marin of the Zelda series.

Something to note is that she is depicted as a blonde instead of a red head like her appearance in Hyrule Warriors.

I can only assume this may be based more on her sprite than her artwork? Her artwork seems to lean on her being a red head.

But then the remake goes with the blonde hair, so... Marin, you confuse me, you cute lil' lady you.

Welp, it appears I can't add more images to this, as much as I'd like to make this one cohesive post. So I'll probably make a Part 2 whenever I get the chance. To those that have gotten this far, thank you for giving this post the time out of your day/night to read my inane ramblings.

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@AngeliveD [ぶるPUYO]

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Platinum being a bitchy child is fine (for me, but I know others don't like it), but not every player is willing to put up with them calling everyone pedophiles just because they need attention. The pedophile joke is also redundant as fuck and gets turned into the only thing they can use. CS at least gave them different insults to throw out like a child squeaking over xbox live. And Bang was notably not the kind to throw insults back right away and instead just go "You crack me up, little buddy :)" Again, could have at least led into a better dynamic than whatever the fuck Platinum got in CP onwards.

Does the Bell shit even matter if it's not brought up in the games? I can't remember Bell being relevant at all.

I'm sorry but whatever CP did right, it has 10 more wrongs that follow it. I like Noel's character growth but everything regarding Ragna just feels like they made up flaws for him to work on instead of the actual flaws he had, like holding back in his fights.

No you don't understand

There is so much that CP fucking dropped the ball on and I can never possibly fucking begin to explain it unless I sit down. Tao and Noel could have easily filled in Celica's role of helping Ragna develop. Ragna didn't need to be SPOONFED a motive or development from Celica, a literal who he has barely known and was forced to be around because the plot demanded it. Tao could have even showed a certain level on "intelligence" by helping Ragna find another reason to fight, cause she wants to help her village above all else!! Even if she can be very childish, she has a good heart at the end of the day and lets most things not bother her!

And I've been thinking about it more, and I'm mad Platinum and Bang being travel buddies didn't stay longer, because CS had Bang just ignore/roll with whatever Luna said. They did more than just make pedo jokes with Bang, and it worked because Bang didn't let those comments aggravate him. I've seen an idea thrown around here that Platinum could have resented Ragna for causing Akitsu-Kou's weather system to malfunction, and that could have given her a more valid reason for hating him. Could you imagine if Bang helped Platinum to not let vengeance consume her the same way he doesn't let his hatred for Jin control his every move? There could have been a nice relationship there!

I fucking hate Chronophantasma so much :^))))))

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Scorching Take

Block me if you want to but I like Minerva far more than Celica because Minerva doesn't piss me off. She's also a very cute robot girl who can beat my ass and doesn't go "FIGHTING BAD >:((((" like Celica does.