[jeanbean16]

Riz's sleep schedule issues started when his mom went back to work after his dad died. He would force himself to stay awake even after Penny had sent him to bed because he wanted to be awake to see his mom when she came home from work because if his dad could die at work and never come home his mom could die at work and he couldn't fall asleep without knowing she was safe

[hikikomoricomplex]

There is a fairly significant bit of wordplay in Frieren that will escape the notice of most English-speaking viewers, but I quite like it so I’ll explain it here. The title of the series in Japanese is 葬送のフリーレン (Sousou no Furiiren). “Furiiren” is of course Frieren; “sousou” means “funeral rites” or “attending a funeral”, but can literally be translated as “sending to the grave”. Since the story opens with Frieren watching her old adventuring pals growing old and passing away, we’re naturally led to the simple interpretation of the title: she’s attending her friends’ funerals.

(The full official English title is Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, because literal translations rarely make catchy titles.)

Later, as Frieren is fighting Aura, Lügner explains that Frieren is the most prolific demon-killer in history. In the English translations I’ve seen, this earns her the nickname “Frieren the Slayer”. But in the original Japanese, this nickname is 葬送のフリーレン: “Sousou no Furiiren”, the title of the series.

In this context, this line (and the title, too) could be more literally interpreted as “Frieren, who sends you to your grave”. It also means the line is a little more impactful in Japanese — you’re supposed to point at the screen and yell “hey that’s the name of the show!!”

There’s really just no way to preserve wordplay like this through translation so I can’t fault the translators at all for not trying, but it’s a fun thing that’s worth pointing out nonetheless. I just love that this was clearly something the author was setting up from the very beginning.

[sayammm]

time for some saddies

[m-artsoul]

12/09/24

childhood friends au

NOTE: been thinking about this au for awhile now. i just think it would be cute. i'm a sucker for that trope

[haleyusesherwords]

[tadfools]

The duality of man

[skateboard-of-sickness]

Adaine Abernant is doomed by the narrative. All Oracles are Elves. They always die tragically, it’s said in freshman year. She isn’t going to live forever. She might outlive the bad kids, but she won't live forever. If they live their life expectancy it’ll probably go something like this.

It’ll be Gorgug first, at 75, they all go to the funeral and mourn their beloved friend. Then it’ll be Riz at 80, and Adaine and Fabian will be hit the hardest but everyone will be there, their detective is gone. Kristen will pass next around 80-90, the greatest cleric of her age. The funeral will be in her own church she was working at. Fig, Adaine, and Fabian are the last half that are left. Next will be Fig at around 100-150, the archdevil of rebellion being buried with the feather Ayda gave her at the start of their relationship. Ayda is there, whether in a new incarnation or not we don’t know, but she’s there. Adaine and Fabian are closer than ever, and spend their time together, since Minotaurs live 150 years as well, they likely attend Mazey’s funeral around the same time. Next is Fabian at 180. Aelwyn holds Adaine at the funeral, the bad kids are almost all gone, but at least she has Aelwyn. Then at some point years later, with Adaine, Aelwyn and Ayda all together, Adaine has an accident while doing an oracle-related quest. Aelwyn can’t do magic and eat ice cream with her sister forever. I hope she stays with Ayda. I hope they become a family for each other, since they’re the only two left. 

[badkidsofficial]

Update: Do you see her?

[sixthsensewulf]

I have mentioned this before talking about Junior Year was Gorgug's year... But in all honesty....

Gorgug is one of my favourite d20 PCs because of his growth.

He is intelligent. He is smart. He is confident. He is protective. He is strong. He is one of the voices of reason in the Bad Kids (the other one is Riz and occasionally Adaine) . He is the heart of the group. He is also the quieter one of the group.

It's not seeing yourself as smart that just makes me so happy that he has that development throughout Sophomore and Junior Year. It's that lack of confidence that turns into the first Barbarian and Artificer multiclass and it works. It's him going, I need to figure this out in order to help understand and solve this part. He put a satellite into space to contract Elmville to get help. He fixed the Hangman, he created that Solar Lasso. Before deciding to become an Artificer.

Literally Leviathan was mostly Gorgug asking questions which got the others thinking. He is sometimes the catalyst for them to slot the puzzle into place (if that makes sense)

His friendships with the Bad Kids are amazing. He cares about all of them so much. He knows he can put himself in front of the weaker players (Adaine and Kristen) knowing that they have his back. That his team, his friends are going to be there to pick him back up and keep going.

The whole "It's Gorgug, Keep Going". . Yes that is important to the character and his relationship with the rest of the Bad Kids. But if your Barbarian says "I'm here. I'm right here. You can keep going. I've got you. I'll see you on the other side", then you know everything is going to be okay. Gorgug will keep going. You can get back up and keep going.

It's Fabian going straight to hug Gorgug when they reunite during the forest. It's Kristen using her low dex to keep Gorgug alive on a moving airborne ship during Junior Year. But it's also "remember when we died? It might happen again" conversation. It's Fig being in Barbarian class and gifting Gorgug those drum sticks. That helps him work out there is math to being in a rage. It's Riz and Adaine taking on his stress by helping him do 4 years of class in one year, but also there to give Gorgug the support that he needs.

It's Gorgug tanking the blows from the bigger creatures in the Last Stand-ard, especially from the Purple Worm. Since he knows and is comfortable that the others have his back and also dealing with the smaller creatures.

It's Gorgug taking hit after hit from Porter, surviving because of his friends and his will to Keep Going. Him dropping out of rage to help the final moment. It's Gorgug keeping Porter occupied throughout that fight. Even in his teacher's grasp.

It's Gorgug, Keep Going.

Just keep going and everything will be okay. You can get knocked down but get back up and keep going. Keep pushing. Just keep going.

[lovemoroporo]

Another great year at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy!

[akrona]

This post by @recycledraccoon made me laugh real hard so i drew it

[starful-emporium]

Bucky Applebees, eventually, starts following Kristen's advice. He does the scary thing, he learns he doesn't have to be scared. Rinse and repeat. He leans into the unknown, the drop-off into deeper waters. His smites glow less golden and more silvery. He sends a quick prayer to Cassandra before trying something new.

He starts to spend time with his adventuring part, for real. They are loud and kind and willing to teach him what he wasn't allowed to learn. They have study sessions and slumber parties. They give each other makeovers with nail polish and hairbands and cheap makeup. (Bucky takes it off before going home.)

They call Bucky "Bee," short for both his first name and last. They don't say anything when he starts wearing the clothes Kristen left behind. It's mostly tie-dye and sweatshirts, anyway.

They let Bee find herself at her own pace. It's slow at first, breaking down the lifetime of fear, and then the dam bursts. She stops asking why and starts existing, lets some things be unknown.

She reads books about The Nightmare King, and the Church of Cassandra blog Kristen started. She sees herself in the story. An angry, terrifying being, isolated. Making a real connection and being given a name. Becoming calmer, fiercer, more herself.

The summer before sophomore year, she shows up at Mordred. She sees Kristen's room, Cassandra's chapel. She whispers a prayer and the altar flickers with starlight.

They sit on Kristen's bed and Bee talks quickly and quietly.

"I don't want to be there anymore. I can't be anything other than your sister."

And Kristen, the girl she looks up to more than any other, smiles.

"Hey girlie."

[who-is-there]

I just started watching Dimension 20’s Fantasy high, halfway through sophomore year, and I do want a fic where people realise just how used to being part of a group the bad kids are. For example-

-I fully believe every single one of them is used to Riz climbing them so he can see better. It’s usually Gorgug, but it’s happened to all of them at some point. They might hold out their arm for him to jump onto a counter, or so he can pin a clue to his board. Before they all sit at a table, at least one of them makes sure their 4’4 friend can jump onto the table.

-Every single one of them has also caught Adaine after she had a vision. Sometimes she can just shake them off, but the big ones make her falter in what she’s doing, which can be dangerous. It happened once in a fight, and now the people standing closest to her are always ready.

-Fabian doesn’t really recognise he has a blind spot with his eye injury, because the others immediately clocked it. But this also means they walk in between him and the road, in case some idiot mounts the curb. They keep an eye on anything to his right, shifting drinks and pushing chairs if they can tell his depth perception is a little off.

-Fig usually stands in the middle of the group to intimidate people into not messing with them, so it’s sort of become habit to just crowd around her. After the battle, if no one’s seriously hurt or anything, everyone just wanders over to Fig. At this point, Fig is always the first one to yell out after a fight, just so they can regroup.

-Gorgug is the go-to for lap-sits, leaning, anything to do with being physically supported by another persons body. His hoodie is soft, and his headphones are loud enough that you can kind of hear it if your leaning on him. His parents weren’t great with nonchalant physical contact, in case he was already upset, so he takes great joy in his friends not being scared to hug him for fun.

-Kristin has left her staff at every single house she could with the bad kids. She leaves her bag in classrooms, the library, the cafeteria. Whenever the group leave somewhere, they do a full scan, because Kristin has probably left something and they grab it for her. No one has any clue who her bag actually belongs to, because all of the bad kids have been seen carrying it around school several times.

The school at large know who the bad kids are, and the town recognise them, but they still don’t know why all of them double check a room before leaving, or collectively carry a small stool around with them. One student with a fantasy iron deficiency faints in class and Kristin catches her before she hits the ground. Once, Fig isn’t in school for a day and all the bad kids have this restless energy about them. It is not uncommon to see them on the field during lunch, curled up in a pile on Gorgug. One guy tries to surprise Fabian from the right and gets body checked by Adaine before it even registers.

It’s sort of uncomfortable for everyone to see any of them without the others, because it means a) the rest of them committed a crime, b) the rest of them are committing a crime, or c) the rest of them are about to run in and start planning to commit a crime. And no one wants to lose their plausible deniability here.

[who-is-there]

Reblogging an hour later, because I’m willing to bet that this includes the behaviour and inside jokes of the actual players. Half the school are convinced Fig is dating every member of the bad kids because she just keeps winking at them all the time. There have been arguments in the parking lot where the kids ask their vehicles for their opinions, and no one knows if the vehicles actually talk or not. A new orc-ish teacher starts their home room and the first thing the whole group do when they meet him is turn to Gorgug as one and ask if he’s Gorgug’s dad. 70% of their stories start with ‘so I was talking to God-‘ with a look to Kristin. There are jokes about Riz’s abysmal luck, and every vulture is bowed to because of ‘the vulture king.’ Why are there even so many vultures.

[cariocake]

rewatching dawn of justice and melting at how often the bad kids help each other . its everyone squaring up with kipperlilly when she comes for kristen, its them helping adaine get from 4 to an unnatural 20 with her hottie, its everyone showing up for riz' first game with the owlbears, its adaine shooting off chromatic orbs behind fig when she's rocking out, its them all lurking outside bobby dawn's office ready to POP off for kristen

[alfalfairy]

Just imagine Sklonda Gukgak going to Riz's first bloodrush game, understandably anxious because her son is by no means that athletic and probably the smallest one on the field (and she probably watched him get grabbed and crushed to death on a livestream less than a year ago).

And then she gets there and she sees his friends, that she worried were taking advantage of him, there to shower him with encouragement and cheer and inspiration. Like imagine her sitting with Kristen, who tells her of course we're all going to be here for his first game!

And thanks to them, he does it!

[willowcrowned]

I do think there is something particularly heartbreaking about Jawbone coming to Adaine only after she's managed to fix her problems herself. Like—Jawbone so clearly wants to be her father, and Adaine (out of love for him!) refuses to let him be one.

Children are meant to be burdens to their parents, and Jawbone knows that. But Adaine doesn't. So by trying to avoid being a burden, she's keeping him from being able to love her the way he so badly wants to.

[heisoark]

Mini thing i thought of