#commander-tseng

[turkleader]

commander-tseng replied to your post:

Honestly when I first saw that scene in just a clip, it did seem like he could see them but was staying silent about them.

[ooc] Well, two Tsengs have thought the same thing, therefore it must be truth.

Truly though, it makes no sense for a man that’s cheated death that many times to be unable to see these beings. I think it’s a far more plausible argument that he’s simply gotten used to their presence after years of prolonged exposure to them.

[leorugiet]

commander-tseng replied to your post “me: i should branch out and follow other ff fandom rpers some bitch...”

That must be a rarity.. I see a bunch of 7 blogs interelacting with 15. Myself included I love me some 15

i suppose i was on my ff8 muse blog, so the people writing didn’t seem to feel any need to censor themselves in talking about how ‘superior’ the older games are. it’s always a competition with these people...

but they were also the people complaining about how dissidia nt was ugly looking and the old games looked better.

seemed like people blinded by nostalgia and a superiority complex.

[whetstonefires]

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one of my mutuals is liveblogging Before Crisis...

In RP’s when characters ask him why he’s still a Turk.. why dosen’t he retire.. his answer is always ‘the only way a Turk retires..is in a body bag’ He also has this strong sense of loyalty to those he cares for. Why when forced with the option to kill veld and save the rest of the Turks.. or they would all die right there. he already had a plan hatched to save all of them. As to why he stays? Loyalty to Rufus and also what better place to be to protect the former Turks

yes. but that is. that is sad.

like...when most of your former comrades jumped ship already, and you’re sticking around largely to protect them, and yet your explanation of why you haven’t left is ‘this gig is an until-death deal,‘ then you have either suffered a genuine break with reality, or...you have cast yourself as the person responsible for doing. all of the suffering. on a permanent basis.

why, tseng. why’s it gotta be you?

and like. rufus did come through for them eventually, but the only way you can really consider him to have thereby done better than breaking even on the ‘using them as disposable pawns’ first impression is if you honestly believe he has more inherent value than they do. that he has a natural right to exploit them. so that when he treats them like people at all, this is him actively granting a favor, magnanimity rather than common decency.

that’s the only way you can say tseng owes rufus anything. so loyalty to rufus is also sort of...symptomatic of the problem.

the only way i can make all of tseng’s choices and non-choices and emotional signalling make sense together is if his decisionmaking tree skews irrationally in favor of causing himself suffering. whether he’s trying to decide what would be right or what would be pragmatic, ‘protect tseng’ is the opposite of selected for.

dude has better self-sabotage game than vincent.

tseng is loyal to a system that has never done anything but hurt him, that doesn’t even exist anymore. and yet here he is. i mean, i am more or less with you on this, i think the main reasons he’s still a Turk by AC are:

1) conditions have improved

2) if he left he’d have to reinvent himself entirely, and that is a painful and terrifying thing to do at the best of times, and

3) the other three Turks and Rufus are the only people he has left and, like you say, being loyal to his people is the core of his non-Shinra-issue personality.

and that is really messed up, ok, that is a very quiet tragedy on main, i don’t care if you’re evil secret police man, can i give hug. is okay be person.

if Tseng wasn’t raised within Shinra like Cissnei, his family has to have been so abusive, idk how else you can wind up with such a warped sense of self-worth and mangled grasp of personal agency.

[saviorofeosshield]

MY MUSE SMELLS LIKE…

espresso and harvest.

“I smell like espresso? But, I don’t even drink the stuff.” Nyx is confused.

tagged by: @labyriinthus tagging: @commander-tseng (I know it’s out of left field coming from here...but, lol), @ringburdened, @morethanabarcode

[morethanabarcode-blog]

“What? Sorry, I’m having trouble focusing…”

@commander-tseng

Prompto frowned and nudged at the other gently. Clearly not amused that the Turk was clearly exhausted and now wasn’t paying attention.

“I said, that you look like shit. Did you even sleep last night?” He leaned forward to press his hand against Tsengs’ forehead, making sure he wasn’t sick. “No fever… I think it’s time for you to lay down though. Can’t have you running yourself ragged. You worry me sometimes…ya know? ‘Bout time I lecture you on taking care of yourself instead of you doing it.”

[exsiliumductoris]

commander-tseng replied to your post: “Alright everyone. Both departments need to get...

But it’s fun harassing SOLDIER… they get butt hurt to easily.

“If you’re going to behave like a rookie, I’ll treat you as one. Reduced pay for one month, and scene clean up duty for one month. Also apologize to Director Lazard. Now get out of my office.”

[ravy-nevermore-archive]

commander-tseng replied to your photo “In January 1997, Final Fantasy VII gave us an early-game villain who...”

of course this turned into a anti trump post.. it's tumblr.. this was a great post until they threw that into it.

Lol, it wasn’t something I threw in at the last minute. It wasn’t even a concept before it was an anti-Trump post.

Thanks for your support of my art.

[tribulatio-regis-blog]

"I think you are missing a critical article of clothing there." Reaching down he squeezed the barely hidden ass cheeks. "But that dose answer the question boxers or whitey tighty."

He gave a yelped and squirmed away from the offending hand before glancing at Tseng with apparent surprise.

“If you wanted to feel, you could’ve asked. And when was my underwear choice a question being asked?”