hey look its my only inheritance from my late aunt
by which i mean no she didn't leave me anything BUT she did leave behind a store credit on a merchandise card that was enough to pay for a refurbished sewing machine so that's ALMOST like an inheritance right
anyway i have a question
how would you buy this much fabric. i have a selection of places that sell clearance fabric and its all 'by the yard' but how does that figure into enough fabric to make a simple skirt?
ETA: HOLY SHIT WHERE DID I GET 950CM? LIKE FR WHERE. 380cm. not..... what i wrote. what.
like, a basic circle skirt is two pieces of long fabric that's taken in at the top. (this and pockets are the only things I've ever sewn)
would you buy 10 yards of fabric or would you buy 5 yards bc you don't need a lot of height (length? i guess? from waist to hem) and you'll be able to get two long sections out of 5 yards
Fabric width is also a concern - normally bolts of fabric are around 56" width, so if the bias (the diagonal) is 50" (with extra for sewing allowance and hems) you should be able to get your pieces in fine, but check the bolt of fabric. 190 cm is over two yards across, which is a lot for a skirt that's basically knee length, which may do interesting things to the drape - but 4.5 yards of fabric total, not 10.
I have so many questions about Cait Sith in Rebirth.
How long has he been at the Gold Saucer? Did he show up for work two days before the party, or has he been working there for a while? He's relatively high up in command at the Gold Saucer - how did Dio (aligned with Shinra, willing to fight the Turks to let the party escape) react to having a robot cat forced upon him as an employee? Does Cait Sith handle their account books in addition to MC-ing?
Is there merchandise for Cait Sith? Are they selling Cait Sith plushies to the general public? Do visitors to Reeve's office think he's a fan of the mascot at the Gold Saucer?
Do people who know of the Gold Saucer think it's weird the Saucer's mascot is running around with a group of terrorists?
Who in Shinra knows about Cait Sith specifically? The Turks know from Crisis Core, Rufus probably knows the specifics - but Scarlet? Heidegger? Is the rest of the Board aware there is some sort of spying unit in Avalanche? Do they know it's Reeve's work?
I cannot wait for Revelations, in which none of these questions will be answered except maybe the Board one.
You know what I want to see in fic/art/etc? Avalanche's thoughts regarding Cait Sith's existence post-Meteor.
He claims to be a robotic mascot being controlled from an office. The rest of the cast seem to both accept and not accept that as an explanation. And they're more or less okay with whatever he is. But after Meteorfall, it raises two serious questions:
If Cait Sith is a robot, is he being powered by mako? In a world where mako can't be used even to save human lives?
If Cait Sith isn't being powered by mako... what the hell is Cait Sith?
Outside the game, we the players know it's magic. BUT THE CHARACTERS DO NOT KNOW THAT.
I love how this implies they haven't met Reeve and didn't figure out who is behind Cait Sith even after stopping Sephiroth. Or is it that they don't want to ask Cait Sith or Reeve about it?
Remake actually adding scenes from Reeve's perspective bit by bit across the game makes him so much more endearing as a character since it adds the layers around his desire to take down Shinra but also why he's scared of fully betraying them instantly.
Playing through FVII Remake Chapter 8 and - what? Cait Sith's Theme? Cait Sith isn't in Remake besides a few seconds in a cutscene with no dialogue. We haven't even met Reeve yet.
Knowing the original FFVII is truly essential to understanding FFVII Remake.
"So which one fuckin' is it??"
"All of the above, Mr Highwind :3c"
My Cait & Reeve relationship hot take is: no matter your personal headcanon, you should be making it weirder and more complicated. No one should understand it in full, not even them. An eternal game of "yes, and". Put more situation in the situationship, if you will.
"So which one fuckin' is it??"
"All of the above, Mr Highwind :3c"
My Cait & Reeve relationship hot take is: no matter your personal headcanon, you should be making it weirder and more complicated. No one should understand it in full, not even them. An eternal game of "yes, and". Put more situation in the situationship, if you will.
I'm here with fresh headcanons to make this question worse.
The short version is: younger than he thinks.
In the novels, Gil says he's twenty-two. I don't think he can be. I think he's wrong about this. And I think it's (unsurprisingly) Klaus' fault.
So Klaus returns from Skifander after the defeat of the Other and the disappearance of the Heterodyne Boys. He must. Because they were his best friends, and they were very loud and all over the place during the war, and if Klaus could have gone to their aid, he would have. But he didn't. So by the time he returns, they're gone. We are now about nineteen years before our story begins.
When he returns, he has a sword and a swaddled six-month-old (?) and orders from the spookiest angels in the world to go forth and found an empire. We are still nineteen years before our story begins.
Klaus goes home, and home isn't there anymore. He has a big coat and a baby carrier. He has nowhere to go but an empire that doesn't exist yet, but he cannot found an empire with a baby this small constantly in his arms.
So as he starts gathering all his mad geniuses and strange scholars and duckiest quacks, who will research and flourish under the Empire's control, maybe he also picks up something that'll let him...cheat a bit.
He needs to not have a baby, because babies are so, so fragile - but he could possibly hide a child. Better yet, he could make that child stronger.
................................
Who was looking after Gil? Why doesn't Gil remember? Where can we find the extra years between the baby laughing at the Dreen in the hands of a man who'd burn the world down to protect him - and the lonely stray child on Castle Wulfenbach, who remembered no other caretakers except Von Pinn and no other friends before Tarvek?
How do we fit Gil believing he's twenty-two into the less than nineteen years between the defeat of the Other and the beginning of our story, when we've seen the infant in Klaus' hands?
What if those years aren't there? Not all of them. Because mad biology is as common in Europa as eggs, and if Klaus was building an empire with one hand while hanging onto his baby son with the other...what if he could also make that baby grow up faster?
Just for a little while. Just for long enough. If he could put a ten-month-old in some strange device (bring it with him, why not?) and spend a year building an Empire, and a year later have a child so much older than he should be. (And stronger than he should be, too, because Klaus had picked up the Jägers, and he'd been learning their secrets before he was shipped off to what was meant to be an exile and turned out to be his home. And if Klaus was force-growing an infant into childhood to protect him, he might as well make some modifications along the way...)
A child that looks and functions like a five-year-old, with no memory of caretakers or the extra years in between - because they don't exist.
And in that year, Klaus had been to Mechanicsburg looking for his friends and found them gone. (Not necessarily conquered Mechanicsburg. That would come later.) But he'd come away with a nurse - a protector - for his child, five years old before his time. (Raise a Child Alive lives in my head rent-free forever.) He'd started collecting children for a school that will serve as camouflage for his son - but also as socialization, because this child that looks like a five-year-old isn't. Is learning - oh, is he ever learning, and oh, will he need people around him to learn from, because this boy who looks like a five-year-old is missing his entire childhood.
And he doesn't know. He doesn't remember Klaus, because he didn't have those years to form those memories. Gil has no memories of caretakers before he was handed to Von Pinn, the Muse Otilia, to protect. Could that be because there were none?
She tells him his name is Gil Holzfaller, and he believes her. She tells him he's five years old.
His name is Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, and he doesn't know. Klaus knows he's two years old, because he counted every minute his son was still breathing, even if mad science was dragging him through those breaths in triple time.
Nineteen years have passed, and we are at the beginning of our story. Agatha is eighteen years old.
Gil is...younger than he thinks he is.
But he doesn't know that, and he has neither any way to check on this, or any reason to question it.
#Gil broke through YOUNG-- astonishingly young#was this a side-effect of whatever method sped him past Fragile Infant and Helpless Toddler phases?#did Klaus think it was?#Were there tight-lipped & observant Minions aboard Castle Wulfenbach#who saw a small child come out of a device in the Baron's labs#and placed in the care of a terrifying Nanny from Castle Heterodyne#quietly shuffled in among the crew's children and the newly-hostage schoolchildren of the elite...#until he breaks through as a Spark before he turns 10#The Baron's pet project#many knew that he had a twisted fascination with studying the Spark#who has it & who doesn't & why#how many parts of the brain must you destroy to remove it#...how do you grant it to a maleable young test-subject?#knowledgeable minions might look at Gil and see an Experimental Subject#or a Construct#when the Baron announces Gil to be his son#Gilgamesh Wulfenbach#he also starts testing him publically#and it's agreed that if he fails#Gil will be broken down for parts#and the Baron will try again#Build a Better Heir#somebody has to take over the Empire when he's gone after all#might as well build someone for the role - fantastic tags from @elf-kid2 who sees the vision, get in the post
Can we talk about Reeve? He's so funny. He hates his job, he hates his coworkers, he hates his boss. This ragtag group comes along and he's like "friends!" and tries to sacrifice the Turks because he's afraid of losing them. He needs a vacation
the drama continues! our hero faces down a hopeless onslaught of foes! and some random weirdos defeat them handily, somehow for some reason
with fiery excess at that!
Very appropriate time to be terrified!! (at minimum the Dreen are not very death-ray safety conscious! Remember that things exist behind and beyond your target!)
and Suddenly I'm wondering if any tourism changes happened because Agatha punched a very definite hole in one of the peaks surrounding Mechanicsburg. If there was any merch featuring the skyline, it just got way more recognizable. (or it would, except I don't think Van had time to do anything like that before the bubble. post canon, perhaps)
Help me, Girl Genius fandom, you're my only hope. My search-fu is failing me.
I'm looking for a GG ficlet, either on Tumblr or AO3, set in modern times. Klaus is something like the Prime Minister of Romania, Skifander is functionally Wakanda. Gil likes watching the Romanian version of C-SPAN so he can know what his father did before it hits Twitter. One day, he's watching when Zanta shows up and starts yelling at Klaus (probably in Skiff), which is how Gil finds out who his mother is.
What I'm reading from these pages is how absolutely impromptu this whole escape was.
Klaus is running for their lives with the total supplies of one (1) sword and one (1) baby.
If we're feeling generous, they also have one (1) baby blanket. But only one. (Skifander may be warm, but caves - sorry, Jules Verne - are not.) He doesn't have anything to carry baby Gil in (or put baby Gil on) if he needs two hands for something. If he wants to take that torch with him, he's going to have to put the sword away. He doesn't have so much as a water bottle, much less a baby bottle. No supplies, no backup, no plan, no nothing. This man looks like he's lucky he's got shoes on.
That doesn't sound like the Klaus we know now.
And that tells me that whatever happened in Skifander, there was no warning. None. Zero. Not even a rumor. Klaus didn't have time to think about this. He didn't see it coming. He didn't have time to plan for it. He didn't have time to consider other options. He didn't even have ten seconds to throw baby stuff into a bag.
He just grabbed baby Gil - maybe the only baby in reach - and he ran.
I'm convinced he didn't mean to leave Skifander. I'm coming around to the idea that he might not have left baby Zeetha behind on purpose - he just didn't have a baby sling to hand.
No wonder this man is such an absolute control maniac. Emperor of Europa in all but name, and all because back in Skifander, he got blindsided by something he wasn't prepared for.
I imagine that this is the thing driving Klaus. This fear. This moment he had nothing, and he was the only thing keeping his son alive.
I think Klaus has never left this moment. I think he exists here.
I've seen a few people say that in Digimon Adventure 02, Ken being infected with the Dark Spore and that mostly being responsible for turning him into the Digimon Emperor cheapens his character arc.
The thing is... I actually think that him being infected and corrupted the way he was makes sense with his character arc and how he's presented to us. Like, he was clearly written with him being corrupted in mind. If you just didn't have that reveal, then things just don't line up as well.
Like, we know that part of the reason that Ken was so brutal to digimon as the Digimon Emperor was because he thought they were just NPCs, not actually living creatures. But that wouldn't explain how cruel he could be even in the Real World, with kicking that puppy. And it wouldn't explain why he didn't give a second thought to seeing the digimon in the Real World at the soccer game... until he was defeated, the grip of the Dark Spore loosened, and he was able to make connections that he simply wasn't permitted to before. The fact that digimon were in the Real World should not have been a detail he could have overlooked.
And the way he leaped from "I must become the perfect genius son my parents want in order to replace my dead brother" to "so I must vent all my stress out by becoming an evil dictator in a computer game" to, most confoundingly, "my game opponents have discovered my identity in real life, therefore I need to go and play my video game full time, which I only started doing in order to not break under the pressures of being the perfect genius my parents need"... it just doesn't work as well if Ken's supposed to be acting according to his own motivations and beliefs. Yes, sometimes villains can have motive creep, but to the extent that the thing they valued most of all is put on the backburner like this? I don't feel like that would be communicated as well.
And then there's the fact that Ken acts basically like an entirely different person once he's defeated, and never seems to have any urge to hurt anyone for his own pleasure. And how he realizes a bunch of things as soon as he's defeated that should have been obvious to a supposed genius, such as the "digimon in the Real World" stuff. People don't generally change on a dime like Ken did, especially since the thing that got him to actually stop being the Emperor was NOT Wormmon's death - that happened afterwards - but being defeated and having the Other Digidestined tell him that he couldn't reset the Digital World. He just... believed them this time, when there's no indication that he would have if they'd said that before. The way his thought processes change here doesn't line up, unless, well... the way his thought processes worked ACTUALLY changed, because something wasn't warping them anymore.
I also just think that Ken's a very unusual, but interesting version of the "Character is corrupted by More than Mind Control" trope. Usually, the heroes figure out that the person's not themselves before freeing them, or immediately afterwards. But with Ken, it takes around 20 episodes after he's freed for ANY of them - Ken included - to actually find out what happened to him. Arukenimon tells him that she was manipulating him, but not any details on how. Also, "manipulation" is a very different thing from "brainwashing", which is what happened to Ken. And by the time he and the other digidestined found out what had happened to him, they were already close friends. So finding out that Ken wasn't really responsible for most of his previous actions was the cherry on top that made everything they knew about Ken click into place, but hadn't actually changed Ken's process for trying for redemption or slowly being integrated and accepted into the group.
If you want a character in digimon who did horrible things, regretted it deeply, and went to great lengths for redemption, in a compelling way that makes sense, even if you don't agree with what they did... well, Impmon is right there. I'll take Ken for what he is, though. A brainwashed, manipulated kid who broke free, thinking that every horrible thing he did was all him, that all of his opponents thought that everything he did was all him, and still ending up redeeming himself and earning a happy ending, even against those odds.
I've seen people with this opinion and it always confuses me because I never understand what their talking about. Ken was made to be a character that was controlled and you have to reveal that to make his arch make sense. Would Ken's character have been fine if they didn't do the Dark Seed thing, yeah, but I much prefer the mind controlled story we got and it is so much more interesting and nice take on the mind control trope.
Also, like you said, by the time the other's find out Ken was being mind controlled, they were already friends. They were all convinced that Ken did what he did because he wanted to, not because he was being controlled to do so. It doesn't change anything once it's revealed because Ken had already become their friend and they had already forgiven him.
I also doesn't make sense for Ken to have been that evil when bared the Crest of Kindness. The crests are the strongest and most powerful trait in the Chosen Children, and to make Ken that evil he had to be mind controlled since his crest was kindness. Ken would have never been that evil on his own, he needed to be manipulated and controlled to do the things he did to Digimon and the Digital World. Ken's drastic change is proof he is kind and his kindness is the strongest thing about him, it was just hidden in the darkness not only because of his brothers death and his guilt but the Dark Seed as well.
Ken is a great character and one of the best characters in Digimon in my opinion. This whole idea that him being mind controlled because of the Dark Seed and that somehow disvaluing his arch is bullshit
Yeah, and like... I don't think Ken could have been as campily evil and cruel as he was, and then for him to turn around and be this totally different kind of person, and have that make sense without an element of mind control. We've actually seen Digimon attempt a similar story to Ken's later on, with Yuu in Xros Wars. Some modifications had to be made for that to make sense, like most of the digimon around him telling him that it really was a game, and him not showing the level of cruelty that Ken did.
And yet it STILL didn't really make all that much sense, since he just ignored his sister desperately, blatantly telling him that this was real and being very worried and upset.
Granted, the part that most kneecapped that particular "villain arc and redemption" story was how rushed the redemption part was, Yuu didn't join up with the good guys until a few episodes before the end, and even when we got a sequel series, Yuu STILL dwelled on his time on the enemy side less than even Kouichi did. And everyone KNEW Kouichi was obviously mind-controlled as soon as they knew that Kouichi existed!
