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2k16 goals

write and draw more trash

do justice to a couple of characters that are butchered by their respective fandoms through rping

play and beat as many games as I can

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me: *intends on recruiting Abel who's on the enemy team*

me: *puts Marth within his reach so Abel moves away from his spot and gets closer and I can have Marth talk to him*

marth: *counter-attacks and kills Abel*

me: *resets and tries again, this time equipping marth with a bamboo sword so he can't kill Abel in one shot*

marth: *critical hit*

me: ʘ‿ʘ

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ok here it is

literally no good reason I won this match

also a pretty good sample of how terrifying ameliiorate’s lucina is

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Okay so, I think it’s time for me to start fresh. I revamped this blog a couple of months ago because I was starting to feel like it didn’t live up to my capacities, but it was also supposed to be a way to restore my interest since school had taken a toll on me and I had trouble finding motivation to write. Unfortunately, most of my threads were also getting old, and although I tried to power through a bunch of them a while ago, my muse died down about as quickly as it had rushed back for a moment. Truth is, I’m now buried in old threads I don’t particularly care about anymore, and if I want this blog to be as fun as it’s supposed to be, I’m afraid I need to start fresh and drop most of these threads. So, I will be dropping every threads except for:

Battle wounds with ameliiorate;

Customer service with auspicious-magician;

Roxanne’s birthday with kid-tactician; 

Movie night with isofgregor.

If I owed you a reply to a thread that you really want me to keep, don’t be shy and let me know - knowing that a thread is important to you is good enough for me to try to pick it up.

If you owed me a reply, however, that’s a whole other story - any thread I was waiting a response for I want to keep. I don’t remember them all, but I do have a few in mind that I’d definitely like to continue - that is, if you weren’t intending on dropping them in the first place. If so, please let me know as well.

If you are involved in one of the threads listed above and you’d like to drop them, please tell me as soon as possible so I don’t spend too much time on them for nothing.

Considering Christmas is coming up and I just started working on a new blog, it might take a little more time for me to get back on track, but it won’t be much longer. Thank you all for understanding.

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I just finished Shadow Dragon and I need to ramble a little.

First of all, I’m not disappointed with the game. Admittedly, seeing everyone label it as the most boring/uninteresting Fire Emblem game made me lower my expectations a bunch, and I honestly think the game is fine - at least for a remake of a NES game; it felt a lot more complete than I had expected.

I agree that there isn’t a lot of humor, and the atmosphere does get a little heavy as the story goes on, but I honestly don’t think it makes the game bad in any way. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore how Awakening can switch between lighthearted moments and serious business, but I think ultimately Shadow Dragon depicts a much more realistic portrait of what war is supposed to be. I will admit, on the other hand, that camaraderie isn’t always very present, what with the lack of support conversations or even just slightly boosted stats when two units fight side by side.

Which brings me to the next point; characterization isn’t a big thing in this game - which again, can’t blame them - it is a very old game -, but that’s a double-edged knife, in my opinion. Personally, I almost always used the same units and while moving everyone along could get tedious at times, it turned out to be a perfect set-up to take the time to make up headcanons and whatnot concerning the units I was using. I’ll agree that’s more of a roleplayer thing than a gamer thing, but it allowed me to imagine entire character traits and relationships for each of them, which was terribly fun and is something I hope to find some way to expand eventually.

Oh and before I get to my final point I need to say; perma-death is a terrible, terrible thing, but makes everything so much more satisfying. So does the lack of easy training - you get to cherish every little level up. 

Lastly I wanna talk about Marth, just because. For starters I have to say that I knew next to nothing about him and pretty much any fandom opinion I had been exposed to was that a) he’s girly (Smash) or b) he’s bland (Fire Emblem). I really wanted to ignore both statements but I was admittedly anticipating the second one a lot because from what I understood even the narration (because no cutscenes) liked to cut corners with the story and there is no support conversations and very little possible interaction on the battlefield, and again, I can’t tell if it’s specifically because I lowered my expectations or not, but I was not disappointed. Marth is great. 

Yes maybe he tips a little on the cliché side of the hero who’s been thrown in a cruel world when he was too young but still somehow thrives through the trials and challenges and puts the people’s need before his and etc. etc., but I refuse to call him bland, there is a little bit of sass/humor about him that will surface in the most unexpected moments and he is not nearly as stoic as many interpret him to be.

But mostly, he is so. heartbreakingly. lonely. Everything about him screams isolation. And I’m not just talking about that painful moment when he returns to Altea and finds out some of his family has been killed after holding on to the hope that they were still alive for +three years and then having to freaking brush it off and smile because everyone is celebrating and ‘I am a prince before I am a son or a brother’, jfc.

I’m talking about how there’s no one up there with him. Malledus tags along but he’s mostly just there to pass on information so Marth figures out where to go or what to do next, Nyna makes an effort but doesn’t quite get through to him and even then, she’s not there on the battlefield, she’s just keeping track of things from a distance. Caeda would be perfect for this role, which would make the whole confession at the end make so much more sense, because honestly ?? I don’t want to get too much into that but that made about as much sense as Chrom proposing to Olivia right after meeting her. And don’t get me started on how Marth wasn’t even gonna bring it up if Nyna didn’t push him to. But yeah, in the end, not once did they actually talk to each other in game, and we can’t even justify it with lack of supports and whatnot because they both state that they haven’t talked since leaving Talys. Overall, the only person that sort of came close to being a decent companion for Marth is Minerva, who also has some angst of her own over the war, but she sticks to her own personal issues and even then, she has the whole Whitewings squad surrounding and supporting her.

And this might be stupid but from the way I see it, it entirely justifies the fact that Marth isn’t someone as open as other Fire Emblem lords. I mean, I only did a quick research but it’s pretty clear that Eliwood, Lyn and Hector all have each other’s back, Ephraim and Eirika can totally rely on each other, Ike has Soren, and lmao don’t get me started on Chrom. Marth is alone, he’s been alone for years, what some call lack of characterization is really just how he manages to cope with the solitude, in my opinion.

I don’t want to spoil more than I already have but that’s why I’m so glad a certain someone turns out to, in fact, not be dead at the end. I mean I know he’s supposed to have Caeda at the end of the game and all, but I’m tempted to ignore that for the time being because I’m still a bit cringed out by how forced it felt. I’ll try to keep an open mind though because fe12 is next.

soooooo tl;dr Shadow Dragon is a good game if you keep in mind that ofc it’s not gonna have super well-developped game mechanics like Awakening (or even earlier installments if you’re into those) and Marth is freakin great and you can probably expect me to put up a blog for him sometime soon (and/or some sort of ask blog for the whole League because I really want to get all those headcanons out somehow haha).

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idk I just like Marth a lot for some reason

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RULES: Repost this and tag 10 people you want to know better.

Tagged by: littlebirdtactician

Favourite Anime: I really haven’t watched that much anime tbh... It’d probably have to be either Pokémon or Attack on Titans.

Favourite Manga: I have never read any manga other than a few Zelda ones haha... so yeah... Ocarina of Time would have to be my favorite.

Video games: Awakening and Xenoblade Chronicles and Twilight Princess and Majora’s Mask. Although Kid Icarus Uprising, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Mario Sunshine and Pokémon Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are all very high up there as well, along with Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker and a Link between Worlds and Skyward Sword and

Sports: Horseback riding in a heartbeat - I could also watch it for hours. I also really really like playing basketball and I need a certain amount of jogging time every week


Last song I listened to: I’ve been listening to Battle Scars by Paraside Fears like crazy for the past couple of days, I don’t know why but I love it so much...

First language: French, darn it. Not even the fancy France french, the gross Québec french

Tagging: silverhairedstrategist, maskedwyvernrider, stumblingsumia, ameliiorate, mafiidus, lichtmagix, isofgregor, oliviapinkdancer, valmesetactician, not-actually-marth

[oflionessheart]

okay but can we please take a moment to appreciate chrom

like I could write an entire essay about this but let me direct your attention at the end of paralogue 16 when he asks nah if she can get back home on her own and she says she doesn’t have a home and he just casually goes ‘oh i’ll arrange one for u in ylisse then’

like he is the freakin ruler of the halidom and leader of the fiercest militia of the realm and this is just some random stranger (they don’t know she’s nowi’s daughter at that point) who he owes absolutely nothing to, quite the opposite even since they just rescued her, and he is not expected nor required to care about her in that moment and she just has to tell him she has nowhere to go and he doesn’t hesitate for even a second to take her under his wing and personally make sure she’ll be okay

god i love this stupid prince