#knightofacherus

[yuli-the-bi]

I've noticed you've been drawing Genshin Impact. Have you tapped into Honkai Impact at all? If so.... have you considered Herrscher!Qrow? :3

I haven't, but I'll definitely check it out eventually!! And I just looked up Herrscher and these designs are so good 😳 I'll keep these in mind for sure...

[yakittydraws]

I really do enjoy your artwork, I've recently gotten back into Bleach and I propose the following: a Visored Kaien Shiba. :3

Thank you so much!!! And welcome back to BLEACH hell, heh! And oh man y e s I love Visored Kaien au ideas, I'll have to doodle that up sometime! >:3c

[sixeyesgojo]

The whole god-complex accusation pisses me off because it completely ignores the context of the situation. When Gojo made that statement, he was CLEARLY in an altered state of mind. He just came back from the dead, more or less, likely had to reconstruct part of his brain cause Toji stabbed him in the face, and tapped into depths of power he likely never thought possible. And all of this happened when he was about 15 or so at MOST. So, yeah, the kid was allowed to go a little loopy in that context.

If he had a god complex, he would probably say something arrogant upon Toji's death like 'I will not be denied' or 'I am the strongest' or whatever. Instead, he quietly asks for last words and fulfills that request when the time comes.

Gojo is arrogant, yeah, but god complex? Nope. The timeskip in that arc shows him lamenting just how little power he actually has. (I'm strong but its not enough. I can only save those who are willing to be saved')

Hi! Thanks for sending this because I wholeheartedly agree!

Manga spoilers below the cut.

Yeah, same. I hate it with a passion. I can accept if people say "he's close to a God complex". I'll definitely agree when people say "Gojo is the closest thing to a God in their verse", because it's true but it's the God complex thing that throws me off entirely because, as you said, it's out of context. They're basing it on that ONE panel where he says he's the Honored One. Three panels if you count him saying he's the strongest and how he'd win against Sukuna.

He was a teenager at that point & teenage minds are still pretty feeble, especially if you consider his circumstances. And then being stabbed in the forehead?

Consider this as well: Toji was at least 25 or something, at that point. The man has been married. In order to marry without parental consent, you have to be 20. Then add like 5 years, because of Megumi, on top of those 20 years of life. So it's safe to say he's someone with a more developed, adult, mind, unlike teenage Gojo, and he really said "Is this man high?" to Gojo... who he has fought before, so he does know a little bit about the personality of his opponent.

Toji stabbed Gojo in the forehead and very clearly penetrated it, so it's safe to assume that the man put immense force into that stab. Imagine taking a hit with that force if Toji had only used his palm or something. Gojo must have had at least a concussion. But considering it was a penetrating stab that broke through his cranium and probably dura mater as well, so part of his brain was definitely injured (key word: penetrating head injury). Just looked it up and found the case of Phineas Gage who survived having a tamping iron driven through his skull, yet "came back as another person" aka change in personality.

So yes, Gojo definitely was delirious and not in the right state of mind.

I'm gonna go a little bit extreme here, to contrast your softer version of what he would have said in that case, but if he had a God complex, he would have stomped on Toji's dead body and asked something like "You dare to challenge me?".

Gojo deals with too much he cannot handle at once in that fight and it shows afterwards when he carries Riko's corpse and asks Geto (and I'd like to believe he does it in a pretty calm and maybe even lower voice than usual), "Do you want to kill them all? Right now, I probably won't even feel anything." In that moment he realizes that, despite being deemed the strongest, he's so powerless that he - no, the strongest duo (two people) - can't even protect one individual's life. Protecting the world? That would take more, hence why he focuses on training afterwards, to rightfully become the strongest.

Arrogant, conceited, anything; that's what describes Gojo well, in my opinion. A God would be able to change the world with a snap of his fingers but Gojo is only human. As I said, the closest thing to a God in that verse.

Where are the "God complex"-ionists when talking about Sukuna? Geto? But Geto is a post for another day. Why do they only discuss Gojo?

I could probably write a longer reply but I think this will do for now. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[dgcatanisiri]

Hey friend, I was going through some of your Mass Effect stuff on a binge and I have one question regarding the whole meld with Liara thing?

Meta reasons aside. In universe: why can't Shepard categorically REJECT the whole notion of melding with Liara for the simple reason of being an active Special Forces Operative?

Meaning Shepard likely has knowledge and intel on classified Alliance Operations that would be marked as 'Need to know', and by going through with the meld - it risks compromising those operations? I know we're supposed to trust Liara at her word because she's 'best girl' or whatever the hell that is (Ashley is best girl imo, but that's neither here nor there) but such a MASSIVE security breach like that seems like something Shepard wouldn't willingly allow to happen.

Especially if Liara turned out to be less than "benevolent". Imagine if she were untoward and working for Saren and Benezia. She could leech need-to-know information from Shepard's mind as well as tip Saren+Benezia to Shepard's plans, allowing them to counter him at every turn. Imagine if Liara leaked intel on every classified operation Shepard was involved in, some of which would ruffle feathers of other races, and end with those operations being compromised. And imagine if the Alliance traced the leak back to him - which could result in his total court martial and imprisonment at best, firing squad at worst?

That's his entire life destroyed and the Alliance forever discredited and likely on a lotta people's shit lists.

Or am I thinking about this too much?

Honestly, this is an entirely valid point. At times, I've brought up that Liara... REALLY should be looked at in ME1 with at least a little more suspicion. Her mother is an asari Matriarch, working alongside Saren after his attempt to destroy Eden Prime. Just basic security calls for being skeptical that Liara is on the level, there's every reason to AT LEAST raise the question that she's a spy for Benezia, and yet the game kinda dismisses the very concept (granted, if ME1 were produced for the first time today, after years of BioWare leaning on the idea in Dragon Age of companion betrayal, I feel like there WOULD be more acknowledgement that yeah, the player could easily be betrayed by someone who's a companion, but when ME1 was first released, the companion plot armor makes us think a character is on the up and up).

But you're right, Shepard, being an Alliance special forces officer, someone who is, prior to the beacon, an N7 ranked first officer of the most advanced vessel of the Alliance navy... Yeah, they've surely got a classification level that means that they should be more protective of the things in their head, that they have the kind of security clearances that often reach a level of being too high to be casually expressing them to even the official Alliance crew among them, let alone the non-Alliance crew Shepard brings in.

And I'm sure there are people who proceed to argue that "oh, well, the meld can single in on things, it's not going to be that she forces herself into everything in Shepard's mind"... Okay, thing the first is that there's no way that Shepard's mind is SO ordered that the only thing that they'd put forth for Liara to experience in the meld is the vision. It's just not the way the human mind is built and operates.

But, more importantly... It doesn't matter that she doesn't or wouldn't. It matters that Shepard is giving her the opportunity to do so. It matters that this is a security risk that should be acknowledged. Like, Ashley brings up the fact that Shepard has brought on non-humans to the state-of-the-art, the-design-is-still-deeply-classified Normandy, but won't address her CO getting their brain scrambled and letting a non-Alliance civilian who is related to one of their enemies have access to their brain and all its classified information? (And I refuse to accept this as just "well, it's not required to pick up Liara before Virmire, she could be dead!" because the game is clearly flowing with Liara picked up sooner, and, either way, this is a conversation that Ashley or Kaidan, the Alliance officers, should acknowledge.)

[vld-prompts]

The team get together for another game of Monsters and Mana, the class Shiro chooses shocks the rest of the team (Kuron inclusion if desired).

[creepyscritches]

Imagine Sparda giving his baby Vergil and Dante their own Geryon ponies to raise as a birthday present. "Now boys, these are difficult horses to raise. So you must exercise extreme caution." Eva has very mixed feelings about letting her two troublemaker boys have access to horses that can control time, /ESPECIALLY/ after she caught Dante and Vergil mock jousting each other in the manor's hallway.

you and i are on the same wavelength dude

[headspacedad]

(If you're a fan of the Dragon Prince) Shiro would be a Startouch Elf, change my mind. :)

sorry for taking so long to reply.  I don’t actually watch TDP and so my knowledge of it is limited to what I glean off what comes through my dash.  Startouch elf does sound like a Shiro thing just from the name alone which really conjures up some beautiful mental imagery in my head (sparkly skin isn’t it?)

I also remember @breezycheezyart did this really adorable shallura post about Shiro as one of the elves that have wings (and they even included his twin brother as an engineer which just - fed my soul so well, especially the way they portrayed him).  I’ll find and reblog it to share again.  But basically I am just very pro ‘anything that gives Shiro the sky’ (and super pro-givethemanwings!).  So I am loving Shiro, sparkles, wings, pointy ears, all of it!

[hennatheantenna-archives]

Is Punk Nero still a quarter demon?

Yes he is. I have started to give sparda trio split pupils to show their demon heritage even though they dont have any in canon but you know, thats the aesthetic i love.