[fantasyinvader]

One of the things the creators said is that Mikazuki wasn’t a skilled pilot, and his performance was due to the boost his AVS gave him. From what I recall, they said at best he was as skilled as your average pilot. If you look at the design notes, you can see this in action with how the machine was customized after it was restored to it’s Calamity War form.

Mikazuki’s implants allow his mind to process data and react faster than a normal human being’s, with the machine’s computer putting battlefield data directly into his mind. Yet despite this and mostly going up against unaugmented humans, Mikazuki still ended up favoring heavy armor meant to tank blows rather than dodge them. In addition, the machine’s computer has a lot of data on how to properly use a sword by slipping it in openings in the armor. Mikazuki prefers to simply smash. The Lupus was an attempt to find a middle-ground where the data in the computer can be used to enhance Mikazuki’s fighting style, resulting in lighter armor designed to deflect blows and a mace shaped like a sword, but with the Lupus Rex it was rebuilt entirely around Mikazuki’s fighting style with the AVS optimized in that regard.

Think about how Barbatos was taken down. Mikazuki gets a warning that the danslief are coming from above, but doesn’t even attempt to dodge. In the Calamity War, Gundams dodging danslief was a sign of a high-skill level, yet Mikazuki had the machine optimized for his fighting style which includes tanking. The Barbatos didn’t tell Mikazuki to dodge because of what he and Tekkadan turned it into, so it took fatal hits.

[archer3-13]

ya know, having gone over some IBO stuff again, looking into background and all, I do think there is a funny re-contextualization to be drawn from mcgillis and gaelios final fight. common interpretation is that mcgillis remains the superior pilot but gaelio manages to just edge out a win against him thanks to the AV type E system and being in the heavier equipped machine.

but instead I propose that mcgillis sucked at piloting the bael so much, he got his ass handed to him by gaelio because of a fundamental skill issue.

supplementary material indicates that the baels legendary reputation was very heavily dependent on the skill of agnika as a pilot when combined with the AV system, who was able to bring out so much of it's potential that he's described as literally having "avoided every hit and landed every blow" against the mobile armours. its also noted that in terms of raw performance, the bael has the highest "strength" of all the gundams. this leads me to believe that well the bael has light armaments due to its reliance on pure skill, it also has a ridiculously high performance ceiling compared to other gundams especially when the AV system is utilized at its maximum body destroying potential.

so with all that in consideration, it presents the baels performance in mcgillises hands not as impressive, but a pale shadow of what the bael can actually do. and it contextualized mcgillises and gaelios fight not strictly as one where gaelio triumphs "through cheating" as it were, but one where mcgillis is fundamentally out skilled in a machine he's unable [or potentially unwilling] to maximize the performance of.

mcgillis rocked up to the final battle in a glass cannon build, and then was surprised when he failed by not using the machine properly.

[archer3-13]

victory gundam ep 1-6 impression

not suuuuure if i'll keep it up but given its my first time seriously sittin down with it, figured i'd keep a record of thoughts.

anyways, the reason victory gundam probably didn't make as much of a splash as other gundams is, I imagine, related to it's pretty lackluster first impression. the first episode jumps us forward in time so that we can get a gundam on screen as fast as possible [a common problem for gundam shows really] before awkwardly shuffling backwards for a few episodes to explain whats actually going on.

im not opposed to that kind of storytelling, but i dont feel victory gundam uses it as effectively as it could. if anything cutting the first episode, shuffling some things around, and you could still have the victory gundam appear first episode [just have maribet piloting it when she gets her injury].

but then, all of these first six episodes stinks to me of victory gundam inheriting the remnants of whatever full series script tomino originally had in mind for gundam f91 because theres a lot of overlap going on. the gundam having such a delayed entrance [barring the first episode] comes to mind, children getting drawn in to a localized resistance effort against an encroaching empire, the earth federation being completely useless, even katejina is just playing the role of cecily in these first episodes complete with rescuing a baby when its mother dies during the empires raid and later getting kidnapped by an amicable prince from the enemy empire.

victory gundam starts off with f91's reheated leftovers. and well i can recognize that cause i watched f91 i think even a casual watcher can kinda catch that the first 6 episodes feel unsure and noncommittal. everyone has their heads screwed on just a bit too correctly to match the infamous reputation victory has for insanity.

and then we get episode 6 where three zansicare pilots suffer mental breakdowns leading one to a nervous collapse in the middle of a fight and getting field executed, another threatening to rape a teenage girl and getting field executed, and the last to commit suicide after realizing that the pilot he was fighting was a kid.

and i guess that was the secret sauce victory gundam decided it needed to latch onto to forge a new distinct direction for itself?

[fantasyinvader]

I think the Barbatos might be the most depressing main Gundam if you think about it’s history and the implications of it’s upgrades.

The machine was built to save humanity from giant killing machines, but somewhere along the line it was abandoned in a cave. Per standard procedure, it’s cockpit was destroyed due to it not being able to be recovered. It’s found by a mercenary group, who then use it to power their base. It doesn’t see action until a new cockpit from a mobile armor is installed and it’s fighting it’s former organization while in disrepair.

The kids strap whatever they can salvage onto it, and it eventually gets brought back up to it’s old specs with it’s original sword recreated. The Barbatos is back, but then they keep tweeking it. Heavier armor because the pilot dodges as well as Gohan, heavier weapons because unlike the sleek sword he prefers to simply smash his way through the armor. During the first season, the upgrades fill it out, going from looking like “a kid wearing a helmet” to a fully armored samurai. But as the armor gets ripped off, the pilot is called a monster and doesn’t refute it.

Come the Lupus upgrade, gone is the signature sword for more smashy sticks including one that’s designed to look like a sword. Armor is redesigned to deflect blows due to the kid still not understanding dodging despite using AVS against people without it. Guns are attached, and claws are added while the nails are extended. The machine is looking more monstrous. He even wrecks the machine after it’s first launch, and the machine is trashed when it fights it’s age old enemy the mobile armor because the pilot fights without regard to his own safety.

So it gets rebuilt again into the Lupus Rex. Heavier armor still because Piccolo is a terrible teacher, insanely-sized mace, longer claws and nails, and a tail. In order to better suit it’s pilot’s style, it has become even more of a monster. It incorporates parts of the machines it was supposed to defeat as the kid and his friends try to take over the world. It becomes the last boss, the new beast of legend that needed to be defeated and in the end it is. It’s head is held up high to show the fight is over.

The Barbatos was once a heroic machine, trying to save the world in the hands of it’s original pilot. In Mikazuki’s hands, it got twisted into a more animalistic shape and inspired the guy who tried to take over everything in order to implement social Darwinism. It was a symbol of Tekkadan, who end up the villains in the history books.

In a way, despite being a machine Mikazuki and Tekkadan took away it’s humanity and that's sadder than any main Gundam being destroyed or handed off to a side character as it's pilot trades up to a better model.

[strange-aeons]

If I don't see any code geass cosplayers at the revolution themed dashcon I'm gonna be ... well, unsurprised. Because it's a largely forgotten show from 2006. But still slightly sad ... because the revolution themed dashcon is an excellent habitat for code geass cosplayers

[strange-aeons]

Besides being My Childhood Cringe and the reason i made my first tumblr account in 2011, code geass is still one of the craziest, most genre confused pieces of media i’ve ever seen.

It's about the horrors of colonialism and war and genocide. It's a high school drama. It's a sexy mecha show. there’s titties everywhere the 2006 fan service is absolutely tasteless and egregious. But don't get distracted, this is a show about rebels fighting to overthrow an evil genocidal empire except for when it's about the world’s largest pizza, yes, the world's largest pizza. Sponsored by Pizza Hut. This Show Is Sponsored By Pizza Hut. Major characters will die in devastating ways that you will remember forever. Buy Pizza Hut. The fandom is mostly yaoi of the two male leads but they’re not canonically queer. There are some canonically queer side characters! but watch out! you’ll wish there weren’t! It takes place in the futuristic year of 2017, which is actually in the 1960s if you convert the shows alternate universe calendar into our own.

If you were to ask me whether this show is good, bad, or so bad that it’s good, i would have to tell you honesty that it’s good. The pizza hut titties out horrors of colonialism show is good.

[magisterfactotum]

Controversial opinion: Code Geass holds up better than Death Note

[magisterfactotum]

[strange-aeons]

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Code Geass was fucking amazing and I will die on that hill. Code Geass is a magnificent trainwreck of a show that will grab you by the collar and suck you in and you will never escape. God I love Code Geass. I should watch it again. With Pizza Hut.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I always knew that SuzaLulu could save the world if they just fucked

[archer3-13]

I mean if ya want my hot take on the matter, suzalulu would not have fixed either of their problems and in fact what makes it interesting is how the two consistently make each other worse under pretty much any circumstance.

also, that lelouch is not an aspirational figure, but rather a colossal fuck up who uses violent populist fueled rhetoric to fuel his personal revenge quest against charles vi britannia but doesn't actually have the stomach to tolerate the violence he inflicts on other people, and pretty much slides into most of his successful decisions assbackwards because academic intelligence is not the same as wisdom or strategic sensibilities.

like it baffles me to this day that people are convinced zero requiem was the end game, and not lelouch's last ditch effort to dig the world out of the corner his and suzakus reckless actions had painted it into.

[alexanderwales]

Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

[archer3-13]

But then how will the world know of my immaculate and elaborate genius unless I confess when the unconventional detective has finally and perfectly pieced together my motivations and methods through legally dubious methodology?

[musimon1]

changing the oyw to a 'generation spanning conflict that our heroes will be the ones to finally solve' not only kinda, shoots the wwii allegory dead in the head but is also wonderfully boring

this typo

[archer3-13]

i mean ww2 did last for 6 years. and even then you could argue that since japan invaded manchuria in 1931, a more comprehensive timeline of ww2 would span over 14 years, which is over a decade and close to a literal generation spanning [since a generation is between 20 - 30 years] period.

im guessing that's not how he's using it, but it's not technically incompatible is all.

no i think the bigger issue, is just that the oyw being a one year war is fairly important to the themes of gundam 0079 because it highlights how brutally destructive the conflict has been for devastating the earth so thoroughly in less then a year. it's important shock value effectively to sell everything gundam has to say on its anti war perspective.

[kleinergeist]

You don't even need to study for the Rorschach test, btw, it's super easy. All they do is show you a bunch of stupid pictures of your dad getting eaten by a horse

[hermann-rorschach]

Do not share the answers with your classmates.

[kleinergeist]

Yes Dr Rorschach

Sorry Dr Rorschach

[ezralahm]

I love them, Your Honor

[archer3-13]

they're cool, but i can't not help but think of kaku whenever i see em too

just full on gaslighting himself into loving the animal he until then showed no indications of liking or even thinking about. its great.

[archer3-13]

ultimately i would say that the thing that interests me about rocks d. xebec, has less to do with what altruistic motives he possessed for his actions and more to do with how his methodology poisoned the legacy he left behind.

in his rush to attain the power and influence he felt he needed to confront imu, he gathered a massive crowd of unsavory and dangerous individuals and was willing to take whatever measures he felt were needed to stack the scales in his favour. and in the end, the legacy he left behind was helping to empower and unleash monsters like big mom and kaido on the world, with his very literal legacy in teach taking every wrong lesson he could from his father and gathering even more unsavory characters well being even more extreme in the actions he was willing to take.

and i think thats one of the more important thematic elements to one piece beyond the legacies we leave behind and the things we teach children.

and that is, as optimus prime put it to megatron:

[see also, king haralds quest for peace going so hard in the opposite direction that he becomes a doormat for the world government and gets possessed by imu]

[archer3-13]

the funniest thing to me about buggy and the cross guild, is that ultimately from mihawk and crocodiles perspective the entire endeavor is a cross of their own making. the universe playing one big joke on them, where because they've invested so much into buggy as the public face of the cross guild they have to keep him alive to keep their investment going strong.

but because buggy isn't just the "face" but the soul of the cross guild, they have to go along with it when buggy marshals his courage and pursues his ambition. cause the entire thing will collapse without buggy.

both crocodile and mihawk are getting dragged into the race for the one piece, whether they like it or not. and they have no one to blame but themselves.

[archer3-13]

given that they seem to be drawing insperation from each jobs current pvp set up, heres some quick guesses on how each ffxiv existing job is going to "evolve" in 8.0

as a note one of the big things we know is an internal division of the tanking jobs into ones designed as main tanks and ones designed as off tanks. the difference being that at high level content their more suited for those roles, and in general content mains raw tank the damage well off tanks debuff and reduce the damage from the enemy. a pure/barrier healing distinction for tanking basically. aside from the new job being a main tank with pal, every other current tank job is going to be an off tank.

warrior: storms eye is definitely on the table for being cut or consolidated at best, which is probably for the best. aside from that though, i think the warrior is gonna be focused even more on hp regen to offset hp costs for its stronger attacks. in pvp thats how the warrior generally works with ya wanting to keep up your hp nice and high so that your attacks have higher proportional damage. i think other then that, pretty good odds that things like fell cleaver and mythril spin are gonna become parts of special combo attacks that ya spend resource or as noted hp for.

dark knight: if pvp warrior wants to keep its hp high, then pvp dark knight wants to run its hp dangerously low. so i think something like living dead is gonna get a lot more emphasis in the kit now, and that dark knights gonna have more means to ignore damage so it can fight at low hp for longer periods without worrying that a stiff wind will blow it over. i could even see it being where living dead fully imitates its pvp limit break, knocking the dark knight to 1 hp but making them invincible for a lot longer and giving them insane hp regen off of attacks.

gunbreaker: aside from button consolidation i think it'll change the least. maybe some debuffs on enemies from certain attacks to keep with the theme, but its otherwise already in a fairly good spot.

scholar: as we saw with the white mage, the name of the game for healers in 8.0 is more combo potential to fill in time between healing. that means insta cast attacks but casting remaining on their healing, and sch following suit is unquestionable. button consolidation i think will be especially fruitful for scholar as it has a lot of buttons for things that either need to be done in sequence anyways or which do similar things already. in terms of pvp inspirations it could take, assuming it keeps its dot, then being able to apply that on groups of enemys with deployment tactics instead of extending galvanize to the group sounds like a fun possibility. deployable fairy turrets? idk.

astrologian: the ever present question for ast is what to do about tarot, cause it takes up a lot of space but is otherwise pretty core to asts identity. given bard, i think square will keep the full tarot hand but tie more effects and skills into each tarot pull. a party wide buff that combos into an attack or a party wide heal that combos into a mobility buff. cheese like that.

sage: another job in a good place, that will probably benefit from button consolidation but otherwise has a fairly unique flavour to it already. i could see them upping the aggression to keep it the most combat focused healing job but otherwise not much change.

monk: you can bet your ass that its fists getting put into a single button combo is gonna open up a ton of room for monk. well you could argue that its main current gimmick would require an unconsolidated combo, i would actually argue that its current set up could get away with reducing the monks combo down to 4 anyways and still have access to its special attacks. personally the vision i have in mind is having a selection of more specialized attacks that you can input in sequence to end with the super combo. looking to pvp though, i think whats more likely is an emphasis on using the riddles more often and those comboing into more things. flint as a dedicated range attack for monk to poke things with? one can dream.

ninja: the ninjutsu have always been fairly economical to begin with for the amount of stuff they can do in my opinion. ninjas issue is more so that it has such a sprawling nest of other things that dont interact with the ninjutsu in its kit. given how pvp ninja plays, i think the solution square might hit on is having ninjutsu be a state you can enter from the right button combos that alters the rest of your buttons. so you enter the buttons for raiton and your attacks become thunder themed for a few hits, things like that. the ninjutsu is what i expect them to keep around and focus on if nothing else.

samurai: i think it'll end up being kinda like what they showed off with dragoon, where it has a main combo and then resource spending moves that build up the old flower moon snowflake stuff and determines which iatsu you can use. aside from that though i think it's damage negation is gonna be emphasized into more of a counter kind of set up to fit with the samurai theme more.

reaper: given how often i've mispressed it with reaper, i kinda hope that things like guillotine get slotted under an existing button alteration instead of being their own buttons kinda deal. otherwise, absorbing your voidsent i think will be the fulcrum square will focus on for reaper.

viper: instead of having two one button combos, it'll be one one button combo. :> . joking aside, as one of the newer and more original jobs i think its difficult to predict where it might go. maybe it might get snakeskin from the pvp in the main kit but i doubt it, and other then that the future is highly open for where the job could go.

machinist: one of the more constantly shifting jobs, given comments square made though on bard i think machinist will likely remain the raw dps focused ranged job of the current three. other then that though its pvp set up is kinda ass outside of the sniper rifle, and that wouldn't make sense for pve content. maybe it might get more turret variations? i think drill and excavator will probably get bundled in a single combo, well shotgun gets bundled with some sort of aoe special combo from the bio gun and... maybe flamethrower? hell they could throw everyone off balance and go extra hard on machinist gadget references from the rest of the series. definitely one of the jobs to watch though.

dancer: even with consolidation you have enough buttons to play ddr/simon says with dancer so i dont see it changing much otherwise. its fancy lil blade dance from pvp maybe? another one that i dont thinks gonna change much.

black mage: good ol black mage and your incredibly overburdened shoulders. consolidations gonna play hell with black mages playstyle anyways, so i imagine we'll likely see the dreaded combo blm that insufferable people complain about happening happen. if we take some ques from pvp though that does open up some potential fun stuff for the blm though, like counter damage barriers based on astral or umbral, or something like freeze star to the flare star. point being that i imagine to compensate for the "reduced complexity" blm will inevitably be hit with, it'll get some more tools that are based on which alignment it's in.

summoner: once ya consolidate things, that leaves a lot of room left on summoner. my guess is that outside of a complete rework or new mechanics, my honest guess would be that the summons last longer but have longer cooldown periods between them. how or why im not exactly sure, but that is my gut feeling.

red mage: straddling the bare limit of "to many buttons", consolidation gets rid of some of those but it also doesn't leave to much room for trying anything too new with what already exists. i think red mage will either see a major mechanical change, or be one of the more unchanged jobs with no in between.

pictomancer: unlike viper, well pictos new it does have some series history behind it to pull on for new ideas. i think we might end up seeing more of a focus on the sketch mechanic going forward, but otherwise consolidation wont effect it too much so beyond a complete rework i don't think it'll change much either.

conclusion

the tanks are gonna be the most changed from all of this, well the insufferable blm complexity crowd is gonna be devastated by whatever the fuck happens with it. more news at 11.

[archer3-13]

i think when it comes to the angle they seem to be aiming for with 8.0's evolved mode job changes, i'll only really be able to form a solid opinion on them when actually trying them out in person.

theres some solid ideas there absolutely, consolidating actions into singular more powerful ones or single button combos both frees up space and lets certain actions feel more impactful. especially in regards to making certain actions multi functional depending on target or distance.

im also liking that they seem willing to try more experimental approaches in pve content in terms of how the jobs play, and i think its atleast somewhat encouraging that they seem to be taking inspiration to an extent from the pvp design of the jobs. dragoons new "poochy jump" literally uses the pvp icon for it afterall and seems very fun to experiment with in a solo context.

i think the thing im worried about would be how these evolved changes interact with legacy content and current player behaviors and expectations. the loss of total eclipse on paladin for instance is worrying in how it might make collecting enemy mobs more difficult especially at lower levels when paladin probably wont have access to the resource spending aoe options they did demonstrate.

now, hypothetically that's not strictly a bad thing one can argue. it adds a layer of complexity that forces the party to think more carefully and critically when collecting enemy mobs. the issue is that i don't think the average player is going to want to interact with that layer of complexity, and its very easy for a "horror story" of a run to develop when the tank loses control of the enemy aggro. something thats more likely to happen if the tank doesn't have a quick and easy aoe attack to snag multiple enemies with.

but then i might just be making a mountain out of a molehill. heck maybe shield bash is gonna have a bit of aoe splash to it like how its handled in pvp which would be hilarious. it just has me a bit cautious is all because well everything else about the evolved changes feels exciting, that potential blindspot has me worried that the changes might not have been considered with human error/player stupidity in mind despite the clear desire to increase accessibility.

aka, they might have made the changes under the expectation that no one would be stupid enough to eat rocks, unaware that their are plenty of people brash or thoughtless enough to eat rocks.

[aaawunder]

my thoughts on playable rhea is that if she was playable i’d want her to be playable in white clouds only

[lumeha]

they didn't give us an overpowered unit to support us in the beginning of the game. Which means that you are right, Rhea should 100% be a white clouds only unit, and some people would fall in the trap of using her too much before she is taken away from them, and that is

a peak fire emblem experience

even if usually the overpowered unit just either becomes too bad to use or can solo the game anyway (this would make sure she can't do that to be white clouds exclusive)

[randomnameless]

In before OP Rhea in White Clouds has the students and Billy mirror Cyril's thoughts here :

i just wanted playable rhea to see her unique attack animations like the seiros spin drive

[ezralahm]

Alternate take: Her stay at Enbarr's Day Spa where she is fed soup and given therapy (totally what happened, 1000% canon, so sayeth the internet) weakens her to the point of having trainee status. You can recruit her and use her, but it will take lots of investment and patience a la Nino, Amelia, Fiona, et al.

Mostly this is bc I really do think we'd have entirely different fandom conversations if Rhea was allowed to exist as anything other than a MacGuffin and had your standard support conversations with other individuals.

[archer3-13]

i feel like what would have been fun is to have totally separate character seiros playable during silver snow as it would make the final battle with the immaculate one more impactful.

[what-even-is-thiss]

So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“King Arthur couldn’t have fought the Roman Empire”

Try telling that to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“You can’t just add in new characters”

Try telling that to Chrétien de Troyes. Aka the guy who invented Lancelot.

“Arthurian canon isn’t French”

Clearly you don’t own an air fryer. Also clearly you haven’t read literally anything written after the Norman invasion.

“Arthur needs to be a knight in shining armor”

If he lived at all he lived almost a thousand years before widespread adaption of plate armor.

“He can’t be in plate armor because that’s anachronistic”

Try telling that to Thomas Mallory.

“The fairy stuff is leftover from Celtic myth/Celtic gods)

A lot of that stuff including the lady of the lake wasn’t added until the 12th century actually. Centuries after England was christianized. It was also mostly added by the French poets.

[what-even-is-thiss]

God, I sure hope so.

[ezralahm]

I don't have much of an opinion on the paralogue since it was so tiny - well, I take that back, my opinion boils down to "Damn but they did Claude dirty, huh?"

But after talking to some folks I think the sideways-weird thing is that Dimitri doesn't want Egey to know who he is, which is why he's so quick to cut off his friends before he's addressed with "Your Highness" and they intrude too much and likewise, he's trying not to expose Edgey as a princess herself.

Which then begs the question of... after 7 years of discourse, 'meta,' and general chicanery... the entire Dee and El thing might not have been "but you see, she was so traumatized" and instead just "But you see she was undercover and had no idea who her friend was outside of that he was a lil' blonde minor lord who was very shy and kind of weird"

Insert Stefan laughing at the Goddess here.

[ezralahm]

Like full on that'd be the most Faerghus thing ever -

Royalty in Adrestia hangs out in an elaborate palace, surrounded by harem wives and lots of siblings and opulence and all the lords are also in the area living in sin, going to the opera for "date nights" -

Faerghus kids are wild and woolly and playing around in mud; the king doesn't (normally) wear a lot of pageantry and wanders out among his people...

It's obviously still a backstory full of holes, confusion, and contrivances but.. har har

[archer3-13]

honestly im just impressed at this point how everything that has ever been added onto fodlans writing has just made the whole thing even stupider. were on what, 17 levels of soap opera dramatic conveniences at this point just so we can contort ourselves around being critical about edelgards backstory in anyway at this point?

[thestuffedalligator]

I drew this in a fugue state last night

[ayy-junipei]

I drew this in a manic state this night

[archer3-13]

ultimately thinking on it, i have no real interest in invincible or delving too deeply into it in either its animated or comic book form. i find its main character to be annoying at worst and uninteresting at best, its supporting cast being kinda pretentious overall, and its world and plotting being rather boring overall. and i will fully put up my hand to part of that being my general disinterest in western superhero comics to which ivincible very heavily refers to and plays off of on a meta level, but it is what it is and i can atleast recognize and appreciate its popularity as a work with actual integrity and intention in its writing and design.

but nolan grayson/omni-man really does deeply fascinate me, especially in relation to the stories central themes in regards to generational violence and overcoming and breaking those chains of generational trauma and ingrained patriarchal systems especially in relation to the relationships between fathers and sons.