#bonus character

[cartoon-cat7241]

guys look who I drew!

reference!

[biomorphic-beast]

Where do you rank Dinobot? (Beast Wars)

🥵 S tier

🥰 A tier

😘 B tier

🙂 C tier

😐 D tier

🤨 E tier

🤮 F tier

🚫 GO TO JAIL 🚫

Voting ended onApr 25, 2024

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

Algol, taking a deep breath: "I'm going to kill the next person I fucking see, I swear to God!"

Kamikirimusi shows up: "Hewwo! Hi, I'm so happy to see you!"

Algol, relieved: "...Hey, oh my god! Oh my god, what's going on?"

Kamikirimusi: "Wow! I'm so happy to see you! Abababababa!"

[the13thelysium]

Ashlotte from Soul Calibur 4 remade in Soul Calibur 6!

Check out how to make her yourself here! LINK

[unknownunseenunheard]

Kidnapper: We have your son

Batman: I don't have a s-

Dick: *Spins into the room cackling like mad, summersaulting every which way*

Jason: *Reading poetry in the corner while simultaneously cleaning his guns*

Tim: *Hacking his way into LexCorp's server and the CIA database because he's bored*

Damian: *Bursts into the room riding Titus while leading what looks like half the Gotham Zoo*

Batman: ... My sons are all here

Kidnapper: ... Then who's the brat who won't stop making puppy dog eyes at us while insisting his name is 'Bat Son'

Batman: Oh my god, they have Billy

[the-blind-assassin-12]

No one asked but...

ROUND TWO: READING AND NOTE TAKING 

** This sprang from a conversation with @malionnes regarding Logan Delos’ reading and note taking habits. And now here we are.** 

Logan Delos

Logan likes an immersive read. Absolutely nothing that he does is topical; he likes to dive in completely or else he doesn’t bother. Things like fiction vs. nonfiction, genre, length, etc. don’t matter as much as the depth of the subject matter. If it's fiction, he needs challenging plots, interwoven timelines, complex characters and well crafted dialogue. As a child he had a world class imagination, most likely due to his mother reading classic fairy tales like Grimm’s and Hans Christian Andersen to him and Juliet, and that sticks with him as an adult and is probably to blame for some of his more...adventurous behaviors. When it comes to nonfiction, he wants the facts but he doesn’t want them to be dry. He wants lusciously written true stories like The Hot Zone or Isaac’s Storm. Logan is very good at multitasking, so if he’s reading for pleasure he might listen to an audio book while working out or driving, but he needs to physically read words when it’s for something important.

When it comes to recording his thoughts about what he’s read, he’ll dictate them to his phone or tablet as he’s reading, or else type them up once he’s done with the chapter or passage. If he’s reading something in preparation for a meeting or presentation, he’ll even note the page number and exact line so that he can confidently cite things to support his argument. 

Billy Russo: 

Billy likes to read things he can relate to. We know he doesn’t shy away from flawed characters in fiction, but he prefers nonfiction. The Things They Carried and Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills are two that he’s read more than once. He’s also into a good biography or autobiography- usually about war heroes but occasionally about successful businessmen and famous athletes. Billy is especially good at tuning out background noise in favor of focus, meaning that he can read on his cot in an active war zone, or sitting on a crowded bus or subway train in the city with full comprehension… which was decidedly not always the case. Billy wouldn’t even entertain the idea of reading until he was in seventh grade and the US Marine Corp visited his school for an assembly, and they made quite the impression on him. He met a few of the soldiers and got to ask them questions, and he learned that certain high ranking positions in the military required more than will power, brute force and toughness- they required thought and cunning and intelligence. So in one year he went from being at a 5th grade level to a 9th grade level by voraciously reading everything he could get his hands on. 

Pre- TBI Billy had a memory like a steel trap, so note taking wasn’t entirely necessary. Even if he didn’t have excellent recall, leaving his thoughts in the margins for someone else to read without working to come up with on their own isn’t his style. If a particular line strikes him he might underscore it with a single black line pressed into the page, but never with any context as to what made the line stand out. 

Ryan Brenner: 

Ryan doesn’t have the luxury of carrying a whole library with him, but there is one book he always carries: Webster’s Dictionary. Ryan only got through middle school before heading out on his own, meaning that his formal education was stunted. But one of the more influential people he’s met while traveling was a professor named Jack who taught College Composition at a small University outside of Philadelphia. Ryan met Jack when he was about 20 and the two men were working as ranch hands for a few weeks out in Wyoming. Jack taught one semester a year and spent the rest of his time traveling the country, taking up odd jobs and writing about his travels. He showed Ryan that just because you’re not in school doesn’t mean that you should stop learning and thinking about the things that you experience. He recommended a few books that he knew would challenge Ryan, and gave him a copy of the dictionary, encouraging him to look up any word he came across that he didn’t know. “No shame in admitting you don’t know something, Brenner, only in pretending that you do.”

Since that summer, Ryan made it a point to always have a book with him, whether it’s one he borrows from a friend, picks up from a discount book table or from a little free library. He doesn’t always like everything that he picks up, but sometimes he stumbles on a new topic that interests him and will try to read a few books in a row on the same topic. Most recently he’s been into books on the construction of America’s bridges and tunnels. If there is something that he wants to remember, like a quote or a fact, he’ll dog ear the page until he can write whatever it is down in his notebook. So getting a book back from Ryan means that there will be little triangular creases at the tops of some of the pages, and even though he’ll try to flatten them back out before returning it you can still see where his fingers folded the page and you’ll know that something on it made him stop and think. 

Nick Tortano: 

Gonna make this quick: Nick doesn’t read. He can, he just doesn’t unless he has to (i.e. owner’s manuals and assembly instructions). But when it comes to entertainment? He’d rather watch the movie. And by “watch the movie”, he’d rather… well… you know. ;) 

Benjamin Greene: 

Benjamin is a true bibliophile. His to be read pile is taller than Big Ben, and not for lack of trying to whittle it down. He is one of those academics that will read something- a book or article or research paper- and then he’ll go on to read everything on the bibliography and recommended further reading pages. His curiosity is insatiable, but so is his creative side, so he generally reads two books at a time; one for work and one for fun, and he typically carries both so that he can choose what to read based on his mood or stress level. He enjoys finding quiet moments in busy places like parks, city centers, train stations etc, and sometimes he even listens to music while he reads, always pairing it with what he’s reading. If it’s academic research though, he prefers to be in a library. The leather and wood and the smell of all those pages and the sound of them turning help him focus.  

Benjamin enjoys sharing books with people. He loves when he can make a recommendation that fits, and he loves hearing other people’s thoughts about his favorite books. As such, he makes notes all over the margins, with underlines and asterisks and arrows to things that he noticed or that he wants the next reader to notice. Sometimes he’ll even jot down a question as food for thought for whoever he’s loaning the book to. If it's something he really thinks you’ll like, he’ll include a short note, usually on a post-it or taped to the inside front cover, explaining why the work made him think of you.

BONUS UNDER THE CUT!!! 

King Caspian: 

Don’t ask me how I know this but... King Caspian writes all of his notes on separate pieces of paper and tucks them securely between the pages so as not to ruin the book itself by writing in the margins or folding pages. He knows that knowledge is power, and he treats that power with respect. 

[vampire-moon]

"Out of my sight you pathetic cur!" A bonus character from Soul Calibur 3, Aurelia was the evil queen of Dalkia, and a boss in the Chronicles of the Sword mode. She was something of a Black Widow (her weapon, the chain-sickle was given this name appropriately!) as she killed her husband, the king in order to further her standing. I always loved her evilness and wanted to pay tribute with a redesign! I kept the golden colour of her original outfit, but added purple and jewels (she is obscenely rich after all!) as well as her iconic crown! Will she return one day? Hopefully!

[ask-steampunk-america]

“Of course that thing exploded like everything else. Rest in pieces my dude... Rest in peace.”

// Dino-bot is in reference to an old drawing found in this post HERE. Also known as one of the biggest inventions Arnold has created.