Today's Girl Genius:
... I'm not sure I've ever been so happy to see
OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN!
Gentleman adventurer
in my life.
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

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Today's Girl Genius:
... I'm not sure I've ever been so happy to see
OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN!
Gentleman adventurer
in my life.
bunnymoon looks like teen isa its over
xx. judgement
breaking news: teenage boys bamboozled by local public works project
Do you ever wake up to nefarious scheming?
Descending to engage with the peasants
Me: I have a normal amount of knowledge about KH.
Also me: based on the alternative cutscene if you completed Deep Jungle before Wonderland where Snow White instead of Alice was just been captured by Riku/Maleficent, we may have a timeline of when Lauriam turned into a heartless. Given that he still doesn't remember how to use a keyblade inside the org, he was less likely to have travelled to another world before it sank into the RoD.
missing you
marluxia makes me insaaaaane bc in his original game he is like . lowkey he is boring. he has a crazy cool aesthetic that hard carries him but kind of a nothingburger of a personality or motives and he barely even gets screentime. he doesn’t have any sort of personal antagonistic relationship with sora he’s kind of just a placeholder final boss because the true conflict is about naminé. as proof of this i submit the fact that sora doesn’t even have anything to say about him after defeating him it’s just like yeah good riddance ok anyway
But . like. khux RETROACTIVELY makes him one of the best antagonists. he gets a clear (negative) character arc that very few other characters in the series as a whole have gotten. because now there’s lauriam. a fine polite young man who loves his sister and his friends and then is put through the dread and agony of a worst fear which is ultimately confirmed. and like. he legit just gets screwed over constantly. he tries so hard to have agency in the story but all his moves are in vain. a narrative ragdoll but not for lack of trying. argh.
contrast is a cheap and easy narrative tool to make both characters shine way brighter instantly. finally give marluxia his somebody and make that somebody a fantastic character with such unique depth and humanity to him and now suddenly you look at marluxia and your heart just aches no matter what he does or doesn’t do. that dullness, emptiness, and seemingly senseless cruelty is no longer boring but now agonizing. because lauriam used to be, in my humble opinion, one of the most emotionally expressive characters in the entire franchise. we see his joy, his anxiety, his wrath, his sorrow… and then marluxia is just hollow.
imo better than any other somebody-nobody pair we’ve seen so far, lauriam-marluxia is the best textbook example of just how tragic losing your heart really is. because he’s the most clearly different. (other than ienzo-zexion but it’s different for him bc it happened when he was just so young). but also it’s kinda proof how you can’t really blame everything on nobodyfication- the events that happened in your human life are gonna play into it too. bc he suffered worse before being a nobody than most ppl he ended up worse as one. it’s more like he had the greatest potential to become a wretch and a villain and that potential ended up being realized. based on the kinda thing larxene said in her character file it’s probably kind of liberating to let go of the pain of feeling guilt and remorse and just let yourself slip into being unashamedly evil
argh. you know how it is. com is a great story in its own right but it has been recontextualized several times with each new game after it and it just keeps aging like fine wine. pink man good 👍
This was meant to be finished before Christmas, so it's very late, but I had a medical emergency so.....
A sequel to the 2023 version, with the same outfits, because I like them.
I finished it a few days after surgery- that is, the colour and shading, so it's not my best, but I wanted to upload and share it before new years'
so i guess Axel’s weapons are actually supposed to be wind-and-fire wheels then?
Those aren’t chakrams. Do you know what a chakram looks like. They also aren’t wind and fire wheels but those are Way Closer. They’re roughly the right size, for starters. If his Japanese title is the Wind-and-Fire Dancer that’s just… probably what they /are?/
the size isn’t. Actually the main thing. The main thing is that chakrams are sort of just circles. Sharpened metal rings, no handles, only the rings. Wind-and-fire wheels are… larger, spiked rings with handles? The arrangement of the handles in Axel’s weapons is very different, but the basic concept is much closer.
i assume they went ‘fuck nobody’s gonna know what a wind and fire wheel is’ and I guess i can’t blame them tbh
so i guess Axel’s weapons are actually supposed to be wind-and-fire wheels then?
Those aren’t chakrams. Do you know what a chakram looks like. They also aren’t wind and fire wheels but those are Way Closer. They’re roughly the right size, for starters. If his Japanese title is the Wind-and-Fire Dancer that’s just… probably what they /are?/
the size isn’t. Actually the main thing. The main thing is that chakrams are sort of just circles. Sharpened metal rings, no handles, only the rings. Wind-and-fire wheels are… larger, spiked rings with handles? The arrangement of the handles in Axel’s weapons is very different, but the basic concept is much closer.
so i guess Axel’s weapons are actually supposed to be wind-and-fire wheels then?
Those aren’t chakrams. Do you know what a chakram looks like. They also aren’t wind and fire wheels but those are Way Closer. They’re roughly the right size, for starters. If his Japanese title is the Wind-and-Fire Dancer that’s just… probably what they /are?/
so i guess Axel’s weapons are actually supposed to be wind-and-fire wheels then?
The beauty of Axel's original character arc
"I thought a lot about that. Should I leave him as he was or should I bring him back again? However, when I considered the people that Lea wants to bring back, his existence plays a big role. I think Lea has successively become a key character." (Tetsuya Nomura)
Nomura said that he debated whether to bring Axel back to life, or to leave him as he was. The fact that he wasn't sure meant that his KH2 character arc must have felt complete somehow. So, I'd like to take a look back at Axel's original storyline in KH2 and why I liked it so much. I thought his death worked very well as a beautiful and satisfying (albeit more bittersweet) ending to his story. In many ways, I found it to be much more poignant than his storyline in KH3.
My March Caprice 2024 piece!
Sign ups happened around the same time as I beat BBS, so making this felt right. It helps that I really like a lot of the characters from this entry.
Close ups under the cut!
Idea for Lea’s outfit in KH 3🌟
IT’S AXEL MONTH