Rimworld? You Mean Grindr?

Amiante || main @ asbestosgirlfriend || fantasy fangirl || currently playing: Fire Emblem 3 Houses

[blackpyrefly]

average guard in oblivion: hello citizen. stay safe in your travels. the daedra grow more plentiful by the hour

average guard in skyrim: i wish bandits would attack and start killing people so i can have someone to murder. what do you want

[anosci]

[littlebirdofprey]

incredibly good dialogue option, adopting this into my personal lexicon

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[stumupm]

[cornfield-cryptid]

[denerim-jeans]

[helpeverythingiscats]

[a-tiddy-ninja]

[isan0rt]

I was just reflecting on how the way Dedue acts about attempts to connect with him before the timeskip, when he's been completely isolated from his community for four entire years with no hope of reconnecting with them, is directly echoed in the way Dimitri behaves after the timeskip, when he's been completely isolated from his community for five years, to the degree you could legitimately take it as foreshadowing.

Dedue before the skip, convinced he will never reconnect with his culture again: You shouldn't talk to me, you'll only be punished for it.

Dimitri after the skip, convinced he will never reconnect with his proper role in his culture: Don't talk to me. It will only get you killed.

Dedue before the skip: -doesn't even respond half the time when spoken to, gives curt answers most of the time he does respond.-

Dimitri after the skip: -Doesn't even respond most of the time when spoken to, gives curt answers most of the time he does respond.-

Dedue before the skip: I'm just a tool, there's no point in wasting your effort treating me like a person.

Dimitri after the skip: I'm just a beast, there's no point in wasting your effort treating me like a person.

Dedue before the skip: -Shuts Ashe and Mercedes down hard when they try to connect with him on a personal level.-

Dimitri after the skip: -Shuts everyone down hard when they try to reach him on a personal level.-

Their circumstances flip so completely during the timeskip and so do their ways of interacting with other people. Dedue before the skip has been completely alone except for Dimitri and is standoffish and rejects attempts by anyone else to connect with him, while Dimitri is reconnecting with his friends and acts open and engaged and speaks frankly with them. Then, Dimitri is severed from his community and is completely alone for five years and becomes standoffish and rejects attempts to connect with him (except Dedue, with whom he audibly starts to cry while reconnecting with him at Myrrdin), while Dedue has been reunited with his community and returns more relaxed and open, willing to be open with people and speak frankly about his feelings with them.

I think there's also something interesting too visually in how Dedue and Dimitri obviously are wearing a uniform before the skip but the color palette is basically black, with Dedue only wearing one small indicator of who he is individually (his earring) - but then when he returns flanked by a squad of his countrymen, he's wearing silver armor and is blatantly wearing his culture's colors and motifs in your face. Dimitri, meanwhile, after the skip is still wearing black, and his armor has a Crest of Blaiddyd on it but it's completely hidden at the base of his neck...but when he opens back up and reconnects with his community and support, he changes to white armor as well, with the Crest of Blaiddyd fully in your face across his whole chest.

I guess my conclusion is Dimitri and Dedue are both not only in a yin and yang kind of interplay with each other, but that they both demonstrate the effects of isolation vs. integration with community, flipping who is isolated and who is in community during the skip and showing incredibly directly how much Azure Moon is about the importance of community and connection for support.

[dalishious]

...I have no excuse

[anderswasrightt]

[vampiricjester]

i hate trying to explain why i like skyrim characters to people who dont get it cause its like YEAH they look BAD. its a 15 year old game bro. they are all ugly base game. they all have the same 5 voice actors. they have 20 lines of dialogue each. but u gotta look past all of that. you gotta look at the vibes man. if theres one thing bethesda does right its the vibes. everything else is bad. but you gotta ignore that. you gotta stop letting your brain take the wheel and give your pussy a shot. she will lead you to the most depraved yearning youve ever experienced in your life.

[hambreuisland]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

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[unironicallytes]

I already reblogged and I'm doing it again but to draw attention to this part because my heart fucking hurts bro

[krispydonuts12]

I know this is a hot take but, Peryite is like, one of the best princes to speak to.

The others fighting for your soul in Skyrim? Nah, take the shield and scram. Oh you don't wanna even though you summoned him? Meh fair enough, he'll be there if you change your mind. Or find someone else. Whatever.

This man has a job. He loves his pet rats. It's said Kyne gives him the souls of Skeevers when they die.

Peryite is the embodiment of a "natural" or "necessary" evil. Much like sickness.

You can hate it. You can hate him. But he's there. It's there. Always will be. He has no want to take over. Despite being the ""believed weakest"" prince, he could probably wipe out tamriel the easiest.

But he doesn't want to. Because that's not what he is.

He is the natural order. As things will be, whether you want them to or not.

Anyway Peryite is my favorite daedric prince, and in this essay I w-

[biohorror-human]

ive become the friend that's too woke after saying it's weird that anomaly games are experiencing a cross-breeding with border control games without addressing the fascist politics being critiqued by the border control games so we end up with stuff like "animal hospital", a game where you work in a hospital, and have to take patients, but some of the patients that come in seeking aid are actually eldritch monsters, pretending to be patients so they can prey on the weak and vulnerable.

and isnt that just so fucking topical. "yeah there's an evil other that preys on the vulnerable. and they look and act exactly like everyone else until you inspect them closely on a camera and the true nature of the monster is revealed. and even though they attack people on the street all you have to do is refuse them service and they leave on their own" just let me call ICE on them at that point

[electrochemi]

you guys piss me off i hate you all

[kuuderecatgirl]

love that glados says "we've both said a lot of things you're going to regret" when chell is like, mute

[stonesense]

i’ve been noticing some less common andrastian swears and i think “andraste alive” and “andraste’s blood” are pretty good ones. i think those are more fun to say than maker’s breath

[stonesense]

lately i was considering how in a sole king alistair worldstate it’s kind of depressing that i couldn’t imagine how anora would get out of the whole scenario alive, because there’s no way she isn’t ever going to try and lead a rebellion, it’s just not plausible. she refuses to swear an oath to renounce her claim, she might as well say I’m Going To Rebel At Some Point right there in the landsmeet, it’s not subtle. and then i was like, well, there’s nothing to say she can’t successfully rebel. but that’s a whole other can of worms.

[stonesense]

the cons are that a) i only have the one sole king alistair worldstate and this would just be turning it into yet another anora worldstate and b) it would be a total headache to figure out opposing politics for them to fight about that then make sense with how i want to portray ferelden in the future and c) we’re running low on fereldan relevant nobles already and we’d have to cut them in half AGAIN for another damn civil war. but the pros are that king-in-exile alistair who finally got freed from that terrible job to go live his best life and hot rebel queen anora claiming her rights by the sword are like, peak final forms for these characters and i’m kind of obsessed with them.

[stonesense]

unhardened solo king alistair when anora is marching on denerim and eamon is like you have to go out there and convince the people to fight and die for your personal right to have the job you hate but also there’s a boat leaving for the free marches any minute