#i rant about stuff

[passanima]

pls pls pls read angel densetsu you won't regret it promise

we got the silly shit, the cool girls, the fights, the power of friendship, AND the gays. full ass meal over there! what are you waiting for?!

last slide is BLOATED and yet i barely put anything in there. their shit is soulmate level it's ridiculous. kitano wished for takehisa on a star, they have matching scars, kitano's always worried about takehisa and runs to him... boys!!

[passanima]

i do tier lists when bored but make lil scenarios instead of just ranking them by taste to keep it fun so who is put first or last doesn't necessarily means love or hate it's more subtle

except for xavier. i hate xavier and would fight him to the death if given the chance

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[passanima]

i can see a future where ryoko gives kuroda a chance

when they're adults and kuroda will have matured a bit. his personality doesn't have to change, he'll stay loud and stubborn but living in society (outside of school environment) will eventually open his eyes on how he has been treating people

i'm thinking an office job for him where he'll be wholly out of his element and will have to accept and adapt to having a superior and following orders so that things gets done. also he'll stay friends with jirou and gorou but the two of them having a more successful life will piss him off at first and eventually humble him (just a little)

his dating life wouldn't be doing so good either has every lady he goes on a date with would tell him straight what he's doing wrong (he's attracted to strong women after all) which will lead him to reconsider things

so when they meet again, kuroda apologize to ryoko about the way he treated her in high school. seeing that he's serious ryoko would listen and (tentatively) agree to be friends again

i could see kuroda coming to the dojo as a way to both bond with her but also work on his body and temper (to learn self control) leading her to opening up to him and giving him advice

from that point on these two dating wouldn't seem off to me

[passanima]

LOVE tajima as a character, but particularly when paired with mihashi. on their own they're already electric characters… but together their light is so intense you have to look away. or like. when you eat very cold ice cream and get a brain freeze. it's great! but you take damage. and you're not mad about it

they have this kind of friendship where you get distracted by each other and forget what's going on around you. where you get so hyped just seeing them. where the other can make you laugh without even doing anything. all fizzy drink

[passanima]

i know mihashi is a bird. he's always represented as one. a chick specially. small, fragile. but to me he's a frog. one you don't want to touch. one that makes weird noises. the type most people don't find cute. he's only fragile in the sense that if you pull him out of his water he'll die, and he attracts kid bullies who wants to do just that

[passanima]

main thing i wish to see updated (but highly doubt it'll ever be) in roots of pacha

is character design + portraits

some characters look... really bad. specially the black ones, specially their hair. pacha's portrait artist really suck at that. at best it's just passable and at worst super hard to look at

i like krak as a character but can't even look at him, it's sad. i get the genetics being weird (having a trait from each parents instead of a natural mix of both) is to make the player's kid not stand out, cause they can't code natural genes for that, but. i would prefer the kid standing out, to a bunch of people in the world looking weird

krak should not have been blond, and shouldn't have gotten a vaguely curly hair type. because of the split genes design, no mixed kids actually look mixed and it's really sad to see. other such charas include: illoe, mana and nokk

(i know mixed kids in real life can also not look mixed at all and be very white passing but it's 1/ not the most common way genetic works and 2/ this is a game, each character gets designed, meaning each trait is a choice... and it disappointing the see the most common choice made by the artist be this one)(not to put it all on the artist, i assume the whole dev team weight on this, which doesn't make it better)

recently found some old pre-release pics of the game and learned that a lot of non-white pachan used to be white, and just got a recolor (opposed to redesign) and it makes so much sense as to why so many of them look... off

also, give older characters better/more wrinkles. nann has none even tho she's old enough for her naturally red hair to become all white. and her eyebrows obviously shouldn't be black. none of those choices make any sense

less important design choices i'd like fixed: for ibon to no longer have pigtails cause it looks too childish for an adult and love interest, voda to get darker hair cause her current shade of brown looks really bad with her skin, and for zeda's hair to match what they were going for in her icon (mohawk) instead of the ponytail. also i don't get why her hair is white despite being young. it could just be a unrealistic shade like garrek's green hair, but i don't like it as much. black hair would suit her better + make her look more like her siblings. also give more ladies short hair! we have plenty of guys with long hair, so why are you so shy about girlies with short hair? illoe and anda are literally the only ones we got, it's super sad. i don't get why all old ladies in this game have long hair either. i know so few old ladies with long hair in real life, most have super short hair. oh, and skin tones between portraits and icons/sprites usually don't match, it's jarring

[passanima]

super disappointed by the two new love interests in roots of pacha. i just don't vibe with them

having sayra as the "used to be married but their partner died" gimmick one hurts when solo is that too, and is way more interesting (to me) + she's visibly older and the fandom asked for that

following this, it's a wasted opportunity to have azkel as the older bachelor. when. nann is right here and so cute. i get she can't be married cause she's a trader character and it'll be weird buying furniture from your wife but idk that role could be switched with azkel or whoever

worst for me is the game giving us koli but we can't date her... when we don't have a single love interest with red hair so she would have been a lovely addition!

basically the new bachelors and what could have been instead is rude to lesbians everywhere