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[dutyforged]

Hey fandom. This is a teenager.

I'm not ok with the wibbly wobbly timey wimey logic. Link is physically and mentally 17 years old, so please don't sexualize my muse. Any and all shipping with my Link will remain age appropriate unless something is plotted after TOLK when he's 21+

[obscuredilfoff]

this is the most heartbreaking submission ive ever had to reject

[wintersovereign]

Replies & Activity

Roleplay is a cherished hobby for me, and I want to keep it lighthearted and fun. I manage this blog with smaller threads and a lot of memes -- memes are the best way to interact with me and get things started -- and I aim to reply about once a week via a queue. I don’t expect everyone to match my pace; a bit of consistency helps keep our stories flowing more easily for me as someone with ADD-PI, but life gets busy, and we all have different paces, so please don't stress about replies to our interactions taking longer. Having some semi consistent ooc communication is extremely helpful for me as well, if you're comfortable with that. I enjoy chatting ooc about our muses and hearing that you’re enjoying the interactions as much as I am. We don’t need to become best friends or share personal details; I happen to thrive when there is a good ooc connection between us, and it helps form a strong bond between our characters, which is also important to me.

[obscuremilfoff]

i rise from the ashes!

THAT'S RIGHT BABY!!! IT'S SEASON TWO!!!

dunk YOUR favorite obscure milf into THIS FORM and she shall (most likely) compete!

the form shall close on february 23rd, and barring any circumstances, polls will begin on february 26th. below the cut, i will answer some questions that i anticipate to be frequently asked! (and tag a blog or two)

What counts as "obscure?"

i have a pretty simple system for this. i rate it by "do i think the average tumblr user has heard of it," and "do i think the average mom has heard of it" (mom stands for middle-aged offline m-person. i tried.) if the answer to both is no, she gets in! if the answer to both is yes, she doesn't!

if the answer to the tumblr question is yes, she will most likely be disqualified. however, if the answer to the mom question is yes, i'll still consider her.

Is there a limit on contestants?

nope!

What's your policy on contestants from last season?

if they lost in round 1, they're automatically re-entered. if they lost in round 2, they need a submission to be entered again. however, if they reached round 3 (linked for your convenience) they are disqualified.

Who the hell is that in your icon?

the mother of ants from cultist simulator, aka the character that inspired me to make this blog. i will probably change it in the coming days.

@who-do-i-know-this-man (do you still do promos. sorry if not. its been a while.)

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Danganronpa V3 Commentary Addendum: Kaito punching Shuichi

At some point since posting the commentary for the part in chapter 1 where Kaito punches Shuichi (man, that was so long ago now), I have had some More Thoughts about that moment that I’ve been sitting on for ages with the intent of talking about and elaborating on at some point. So this is me finally getting around to doing so!

The first and more minor new thing I have to note is that Kaito only punches Shuichi after Monokuma has left, and that’s the only time it ever would have happened. Until then, he’s quite happy to direct his fury entirely at Monokuma, who’s the most obvious and deserving target for it. Once Monokuma’s gone, though, Kaito doesn’t have him to lash out at any more – but he still can’t just calm down (and face the pain he’s hiding from) and needs to keep having some kind of outlet for his desperate unhealthy anger. So he ends up turning on the person it makes the next-most sense for him to be angry at, who is, unfortunately, Shuichi.

Why Shuichi? Here’s the main reason for this post, the big thing I hadn’t properly picked up on when I originally wrote that part of the commentary but am really sure about now: this is another moment that’s about Kaito’s hero issues!

Despite his difficulties to begin with, Shuichi was absolutely the hero of the trial just now, figuring out Kaede’s crime when nobody else had a clue and finding the courage to reveal it in order to keep everyone safe. Kaede herself – who’d pretty much been the group’s biggest hero until the murder – saw that strength in Shuichi, passing the baton onto him and trusting him to continue to lead everyone to victory in her stead.

So, if Shuichi’s meant to be the biggest hero in the room now, why isn’t he acting like one? Why is he being weak!? Heroes aren’t supposed to do that! A hero like him should be larger than life, standing up to Monokuma, fiercely declaring their intent to never give in to him, not shutting down and not even saying a single damn word to that asshole! What kinda pathetic excuse for a hero even is this!?

(Kaito says “you call yourself a man!?” to Shuichi here, but perhaps what he really means with the word “man” in this instance is actually something a lot closer to his definition of “hero”.)

This is the one time in the story that Kaito’s harshness towards someone he sees as a failing hero gets directed not at himself, or at Ryoma, but at Shuichi.

This only happens here because it’s in the heat of the moment. Overcome with his own unbearable pain (and likely also his own vague sense of failure and inadequacy as a hero himself), Kaito isn’t thinking clearly enough to remember all of Shuichi’s previous indications of weakness and appreciate that he’s not quite yet the hero he has the potential to be, that of course he’d be struggling with this right now. After a night to calm down and think it over more clearly, Kaito acknowledges that weakness Shuichi still has and starts thinking of him as a potential sidekick, as he should.

Yet it still frustrates Kaito, in a way that’s subconscious enough that he can’t even properly articulate it to himself but that subtly comes out in the conversation when he starts training Shuichi. Shuichi’s weak and needs support from him like any sidekick does, and yet he’s somehow also an amazing hero whom Kaede entrusted her wish to and who’s strong enough to solve the cases and save everyone despite the pain it should bring. How can he be both at once? That’s not how any of this works!

But if Shuichi is Kaito’s sidekick now, then it’s fine. He’s allowed to be weak, that just makes sense for a sidekick (right?), and so Kaito is there to support him through it like he always does, not lash out and punch him in the face for it like the worst kind of hero.

(Remember how Kaito seemed almost hesitant at Shuichi so readily accepting his apology for the punch the next morning? That’s probably because, having had that night to flip things around in his head and come to see Shuichi as the potential sidekick here, Kaito realised that he’d been a really shitty hero to do what he did to someone who clearly just needed some support. And so, shouldn’t Shuichi be more mad at him than this for failing such a simple hero’s responsibility as that?)

Then, of course, trial 2 happens, including that delightful moment of Kaito seeing Shuichi as a hero entirely without his support. That’s when Kaito’s subconscious stops being confusedly torn on this subject and concludes that, nope, those indications of weakness he thought he could sometimes see obviously don’t count somehow, and Shuichi really is just a perfectly strong invincible hero who doesn’t need him after all.

Not that Kaito was ever going to be harsh on Shuichi for failing that heroism again after that point. Not when Shuichi doesn’t even show any more significant weakness for Kaito to see at all. And even if he had, since chapter 3 onwards is around when Kaito begins to direct his failed-hero harshness at himself, he’d probably no longer have felt like he had the right to hypothetically attack Shuichi for failing – not when Kaito himself has been failing so much worse.

Plus, given the way Kaito continued to desperately act on the surface like Shuichi totally was still his sidekick and still needed him despite how he felt beneath it, that sidekick framing would almost certainly have prevented him from being hard on Shuichi again regardless. We can see this as well in trial 4 - while Kaito lashing out at Shuichi there is a totally different thing that has nothing to do with Shuichi failing as a hero and everything to do with Kaito failing as one, he only even allows himself to really purposefully attack Shuichi (by which I mean his Argument Armament) once he’s consciously concluded that Shuichi was never really his sidekick at all.

[obscuredilfoff]

THE BRACKET!!!

with a total of 192 contestants, here it is! a text list of all contestants can be found here, though not in the order theyll be pitted against. (matchups were randomly generated, save for dilves from the same source and a handful i thought were funny) round 1 began july 27th! if you have any extra propaganda youd like to submit, please do so via asks, mentionss, or a CLEARLY INDICATED reblog. if you do not specify you want it used as propaganda i will not reblog it.

[obscuredilfoff]

i arise from my slumber!

tldr: between Unforseeable Bullshit and Plain Ol SAD, the end of 2023 was not kind to me. i have decided that ALL QUARTERFINALISTS are now ALL WINNERS, and will be commencing season 2 of @obscuremilfoff shortly. i do apologize for the inconvenience!

[obscuredilfoff]

do you guys want to see my moms submissions to this tournament (made via facebook messenger after a verbal discussion)