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orteil42

i do like being a solo game dev because the only person who can tell me no is myself. i get to make unreasonable things

kaasiand

eyeballsoup7310

I give my Miis only the best video entertainment

evilmara

*sweating profusely*

kinuko

poppin-pom

A what…

maxrantzrawr

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

importantcatpics

cynicjovial

Hey sooo. if you have a baby on Tomodachi life they will have a custom food item in the whole montage of them growing up. so you should prepare yourself to have one of your designs in all the baby moments and be ok with it

dadjoke-ness

Not just food. They can use multiple custom designs.

My lesbian neopets raised their daughter on The Book of Yuri.

#so you're mentally prepared for your next mii child running around with cigarettes or a switch game #depending on where your art is taking you

seriousjones

a centaur, but the human part is replaced with the front half of lightning mcqueen

lesre

Another Protector of the Small post as I reread but I want to call out one thing in particular (and overanalyze something else).

One of the few times, and the first time, that we see Wyldon being gentle with any of the children is Kel's first panic attack about heights on the castle wall. He helps Kel even as some of the boys are making fun of her.

Later, after she's passed the end of year exams and they're on their camping trip, he starts having her work through her fear of heights, a theme that helps her so that she can rescue the other boys in year two, and that helps her rescue Lalasa at the end of Page.

But anyway, there's a theme in First Test where Wyldon is working through his own pain, pushing himself. He doesn't ask anything of the students he himself wouldn't do - he advises Kel on running daily, and we find out later he himself runs two laps around the castle walls every morning.

This has me thinking, in all the ways Wyldon and Kel are similar, all the ways she mirrors him as a person....do you suppose Wyldon was also afraid of heights as a youth? It would explain why he runs ON the walls rather than any of the practice courts (or the inner pathways). He, like Kel, is the type to keep challenging his own fear regularly.

(Though, also shoutout to him in Page, where Wyldon lies to the king for Jump and Kel by going "he's totally not Kel's dog, he's the class dog, don't ask questions Jon" - Wyldon loves dogs and is willing to bend the rules on pets and pretend he doesn't see it. He's still working through his misogyny in Page, but he loves dogs and Jump did wonders for Wyldon's redemption arc.)

#protector of the small #wyldon of cavall #kelandry of mindelan

I know we'll never get it for very good reasons, but I think the funniest set of circumstances to follow up the Protector of the Small series would be if Owen had a daughter who wanted to be a knight.

Grandpa Wyldon at that point has decades of growth as a person, and he's probably so tired.

And if his granddaughter takes after her dad, Owen?

Mithros have mercy on Grandpa Wyldon.

He'd make sure she goes to Corus with one of HIS horses. He'd probably make whatever training master (if the rules at that point hadn't already been changed by Diane) let his granddaughter have a dog, trained to bite any man who threatens his granddaughter.

While Owen would have told his daughter about Kel with Owen's usual hero worship of his older (adoptive) sister, Wyldon is the grandpa who tells his granddaughter of Kel's flaws, and humanizes her.

"I know you're afraid of X, but did you know, Lady Kelandry was afraid of heights! She worked hard and exceeded all my expectations and conquered her fear."

Anyway this is all to say I think it's great how much he grew and changed as a person over the books and I think a good final nail in the coffin of his misogyny would be having his own granddaughter going to become a page, because Owen certainly wouldn't say no, and the kind of girl to marry Owen? Marry into the Jesslaw clan of crazies? She wouldn't say no to her daughter either, no matter how her own parents feel.

#protector of the small #wyldon of cavall #owen of jesslaw #kelandry

copperhawks

Someone left some tags on a post I made, saying that "Kel has always been the Protector of the Small." What they meant was that Kel has, since her early childhood, been someone who cared about and would help those who couldn't defend themselves.

But it got me thinking about if you took that statement more LITERALLY, since Kel has some literal prophecy bullshit happening regarding that particular title.

She HAS always been the Protector of the Small, because that's how prophecies often work. She was born the Protector of the Small, destined to follow in Alanna's footsteps and train to be a Knight and go to Haven and defeat Blayce. This was always going to happen because it's always been who she is, from the moment she came into existence, maybe even before.

Which brings up plenty of questions about how much of a choice she really has in all of it. How much of a choice did anyone AROUND her have, if Kel needs to exist and exist in a particular way? Does that prophecy impact Alanna's own fate, or Jon's, in order to allow Kel to be the person who follows in Alanna's footsteps and become the second female knight in several centuries? How connected is Alanna and Jon's intertwined destiny to Kel's own predetermined fate? And how involved is Wyldon in Kel's fate, his bigotry and stubbornness necessary to push Kel in certain directions? And if Wyldon's included, then so is Ozorne since Wyldon only ends up as the training master due to an injury he got during the Immortals War. And since Tortall needs to WIN the Immortals war in order for Kel to take the path she takes, Daine and Numair's own lives might be caught up in her fate, too.

How many choices does Kel herself truly make on her own? How many of them were predetermined for her? And how does it work when her prophecy is something seemingly created by whatever entity powers the Chamber of the Ordeal instead of one of the regular pantheon of gods? The gods' prophecies don't even always seem to come true, or at least not always exactly the way they thought it would happen, as proved by what happens in the Copper Isles with Sarai and Dove and Kyprioth's reaction to it. And the gods don't even get total control over the prophecy's outcome, they depend upon humans to make the prophecies come true, again as seen by Kyprioth's nervousness and reliance on people like Aly and his anger when things seemingly go awry. They can even fuck each other's prophecies over, since the Graveyard Hag helps Sarai run off by distracting Aly.

But if Kel is ALWAYS "the Protector of the Small," and her prophecy isn't truly controlled or determined by one of the gods, she may not have that kind of flexibility. So how much of who she is and what she does is a reflection of her own agency and how much of it is just the choices she was always GOING to make because she has to become the right person at the right time in the right place? How does that impact everyone around her, those who came before her and whose actions determine the things that will create the Protector of the Small?

dadjoke-ness

I think, from the age of Inari (I'm in a reread but still on first test so i may have her name wrong), Kel was already the protector of the small when Inari was born and it's her passing the first test that sets the dominoes in motion.

The magic of Tortall, while having pieces of fate and prophecy, does seem like a very "whoever fits the mold" the best - if Kel wasn't the protector of the small, for example, I feel the Chamber would have selected either Neal or Owen for the task next. Neal could easily fit the role, and he's a healer, he's just as likely to bite at bigots, and he also passes tiny "tests" as they come across his doorstep (ex. healing Tobe and then putting a curse on the innkeeper that he learned FROM the chamber). Owen is also very much a protector of the small, the moment he realizes he can punch bullies back, he's right there with Kel, he loves animals just as much as she does, he's just messier because the chamber would have to wait an extra year for Owen to be a knight (to talk to Owen).

Also, we don't know exactly when the Chamber started sending Inari prophecies. The Protector prophecy is a relatively young prophecy told by a child, and in the years before Inari appeared in the Scanran village, Kel had been protecting others for years. And most key, had been annoying the Chamber for years.

I want to say the true decision point that made her the choice was saving Lalasa. Because shortly after that is when Kel started to bother the Chamber, and the Chamber probably decided "you know what, this kid who keeps annoying me? I like her, she's hired, she can solve that problem for me in a few years, what chivalry and grace."

wolfertinger666

gulp

thinking about cowboys but BLACK ones who were formally enslaved men who became ranchers and how it's a part of black history despite white America trying to erase such a concept. some ended up revolting against their slavers. plus black cowboys often faced erasure and discrimination despite picking up the job.

wolfertinger666