Esmecol

🇩🇴 Artist, 18, I'm into Pokemon, Sonic, Mystery Dungeon

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Some Aubrey stuff

Was thinking instead that ranks of magic mainly just changes how long it takes to make a spell; with preparation and enough time even a low rank Mage can use a powerful spell, however it'll take dozens or even hundreds of times more time than a high rank Mage

Aubrey is still the lowest rank despite her ability to grasp complex spells and prepare being on the level of more seasoned Mages because no matter what, she can't seem to do even basic spells in a timely manner

she eventually fights with a delay-stack style, using basic magic and even just avoiding it to charge up better spells to then stack them and unleash them onto an opponent, overwhelming them (the main drawback being that she has to avoid getting hurt a lot for some time in the process)

Rabbits are good evaders too so

Thinking that the main reason for her lack of speed with spells is from her general struggle to focus for a long period of time

She ended up resigning to being a Rank Dawn Mage (second lowest rank ahead of Rank Noon Mage) and trying to avoid magic as much as possible out of embarrassment (especially since her entire family're Mages as well besides her sister who's a Mage Historian)

I was floating the idea of Mages also having an assistant creature like a monster or ghost who incidentally created a bond with said Mage but idk if that's pushing it too much

Aubrey's would be a Frankensteined opossum, the bond being when she first found it dead on the side of the road and gave it a burial

50/50 chance that the Junior Mage you get is from a good or bad experience

Eventually for families of Mages, Junior Mages become unoriginal family members and are prepared to become a proper assistant for their Mage (with varying levels of success)

A really powerful one is one that can summon the power of a comet

For the highest ranked Mage, it would take maybe half a minute to cast

For the lowest ranked Mage, it could take up to a decade

Remember that for spells you have to be at least somewhat focused on it the entire time

Junior Mages are where the Mages and Guards come into conflict, because in many cases they're recruited from the ghosts directly from areas under Guard jurisdiction; it's especially a problem because Guard systems of leadership are much more secretive than Mage ones

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16) Princess to Queen Persistence for the goat @esmecol

I can't wait to get to Bringers of Light because a lot of crowns shift and one of my fav shifts is that King Valiance loses a succession trial to his daughter, Persistence. These just contain battling until fainting, succession to the death is only like one or two cases across the domains since every mon counts. But I love this specific succession so much because Valiance's ability is Roaring Flame. In a world where moves are costly and hard to use, Roaring Flame is the Fire type version of a set of abilities that allow that specific type of move to be used freely. Valiance is one of the few Fire types to be able to do that thanks to that ability. and YET he loses to Persistence who doesn't even have a fire boosting ability. She just hits extremely hard. The only aid she has is having Charcoal, known as Dragonscale Charcoal in this universe to make it sound cool and specifically separate from regular charcoal. It's also because it comes in a scale like shape and actually originates from the neighboring Draconic Kingdom.

season 3 Princess Luna is an inspo to her personality. she's generally a more isolative person but that's because she is somewhat intimidating. In the Pyra Kingdom your family is exactly who you are. Embers from the same flame. that applies to royalty. the Pyra Kingdom has the lowest challenges because being a part of the royal family gives more power than in any other domain. there are specifics to the crown or else it would be useless but generally one challenges out of wanting to replace their relative, not out of power. but this also makes the entire family intimidating than in most domains. they are essentially all seen as mini versions of the ruler so they're often treated as if they're the ruler. Persistence is no exception and it makes her and every royal isolated. as a result she's very socially awkward but also feels like she sometimes is walking in eggshells. also it's sometimes hard to confidently break from royalty behavior. she wants to get to know her subjects more but she unintentionally acts very cold and monotonous towards them. she also doesn't want to burden them and being as strong a she is she likes to give the guard breaks, unfortunately the way she says it feels like she's more annoyed when she just wants them to understand she means it so they won't ask many "are you sure?" questions they are mandatory to ask

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Monolith Soft getting a Switch 2 dev kit like Shadow taking off his inhibitor rings

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That TADC finale gotta go 130%, recreating the End of Evangelion poster seriously isn't something you shrug off

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Reading people's thoughts on the bedroom scene has made me reflect on it more and holy shit

I knew Nikki looked uncanny, it was Real Nikki trying to break free and get away but only managing to get to the corner *away from the door*, Wish Nikki and Bear's beckoning getting her back to bed

Finding out that they actually made a mask for the look, it was intentional

She's already horrified by what Bear has done

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Nvm I got it

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How do you spoiler posts 💔

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Saw Obsession so this is partly copy pasted from Discord and partly off the top of my head (by no means is this organized):

It's an amazing movie, holy shit, every aspect of it works together so well, it keeps you unnerved and uncomfortable the entire way, the cinematography, music, and Inde Navarrette as Nikki

It's fascinating to see how Bear continues to dig this hole that he created and it's so tragic for Nikki and Sarah and Ian

Spoilers past this part (mentions of dehumanization, suicide, misogyny, incest)

Could be me losing it but I noticed that the shine in Nikki's eyes when the camera faced her changed as the movie went on, when she came back to his house and only the sparkle of her eyes were clear and whenever he still loved how she "loved" him, her eyes were emphasized, as he wasn't seeing all of her or blatantly ignoring what was wrong instead to marvel at his desires

I realized that the real Nikki was still in there when they first kissed and she freaked out, in the future when I rewatch I'll be on the lookout more for when the real Nikki breaks through (you mainly just see in the first half of the movie, how she acts like her normal self whenever Bear isn't in her line of vision)

and all this because he said she had to love him more than anyone else in the world, he could've wished for reciprocation or even for her to like his presence but he HAD to overcompensate, as if nothing but devotion isn't enough; in that way he dehumanized her from the start

might be a stretch but I saw the corpse of Sandy seeming.. I don't know how to describe it, exaggerated reflected Bear's own emotions, in that he didn't particularly have much sympathy for other people; definitely grief but not sympathy

god, the ending when she regains control of herself and is horrified is going to haunt me, particularly Navarrette's emoting through her eyes

In general the movie's about the disastrous effects of the horrific lengths men like Bear will go to in order to combat loneliness, immediately ruining his friend's life before he sees her not as a person but a goal to eventually reach, an achievement; he doesn't wish for her to love him (which is already an evil, selfish wish), he wishes for her to love him more than anyone else in the world, even herself. Reflects how Bear doesn't love himself and that turns him into a selfish, malicious person; when the real Nikki breaks free momentarily and begs Bear to kill her, he says, "is it really that bad?" He knows this can't continue, that it never should've started and that it's going to end in tragedy but he becomes wrapped up in the fantasy. Even at the end, when he decides to kill himself to cancel his wish, after Sarah and Ian had already died, he's ready to die to end the cycle before trying to make himself puke and keep everything going (only stopped bc Wish Nikki used the One Wish Willow to wish that he loved her back, stopping himself and letting him overdose and die). By the end, the real Nikki is free.. with Bear dead in her arms, her covered in blood and injuries inflicted by Wish Nikki, a shrine between her and Bear on the other side of the room, her other friends dead in other parts of the house, and a loaded gun that she just manages to stop Wish Nikki from killing herself with. She screams and cries in pain. Everyone she knows is dead and even after this, her life may be ruined forever.

Nikki was going to move away and become a writer. She was writing a book depicting the story of Hansel and Gretel into a story about incestuous abuse, she is well aware of the gender constructs that Bear forces onto her in the movie; she even had said to Sarah, another person in their friend group who actually liked Bear, that she viewed Bear like a brother (this was another insistence of the real Nikki breaking through). She was well liked by her friends and a charitable person. But even when we see these parts of her, it's from Bear's perspective, which plays sappy love music over her giving money to a homeless person. He even cries knowing that she put in her two weeks at their workplace because her moving away is fast approaching and they may not keep in touch; his cat Sandy had just overdosed on his sleeping pills less than an hour ago.

The music too pairs with the film, mainly romantic themes that become twisted, corrupted by Bear

Also Sarah did nothing wrong and she got repaid by having her face bashed into a bloody pulp

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oh yeah also this

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read king mudfish by @esmecol im only at pt 1 and my brain is embedded in the fic the chemicals permanently changed

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AAAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S HER OMG

SHE LOOKS AMAZING, THANK YOU

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Some doodles of a semi-old OC

Marron, a raccoon and In-between Guard, she watches over the dead bound to a specified area, in this case an abandoned mall

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Scary Movie coming back is interesting but seeing the promotional material, we're never reaching the heights of 1 and 2 again, are we

Doing a 'did you assume my gender' joke in *2026*, what fucking decade is it

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thats the last song you'll ever sing

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TENCENT'S DOING A WARRIOR CATS SERIES???

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Happy Pride, this is a month to remember and celebrate people of all genders and sexualities of the past, present, and future

Remember, you're loved and there always will be someone who loves you for who you are

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Bro how did Alofoke get Proyecto Uno

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SURPRISE, GET PINGED AGAIN @premamelody

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MY SON !1111!11!1!!1 IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO SAY FOR TWO HOURS AND ALL I CAN FIGURE OUT IS THAT AND THANK YOU!!!

just you wait just u wait I have a bajillion things I gotta pay you back just you wait muhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

esme can I add ur art on his toyhoyse

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I'm glad you like it! And yeah, adding it to your toyhouse is up to you