#luscinia

[herpsandbirds]

Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica), male, family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes, Netherland

This bird was formerly considered part of the Thrush family, Turdidae, but is now part of the Old World Flycatcher family.

photograph by Dick van Duijn

[vrmarie]

When a sexy red-haired woman took the throne instead of a stupid kid with mood swings...

[wenqxiao]

>> girls night sketch

[temporal-paternal-unit]

thought since he both formed duviri and duviri molded him that id try to alter his diviris courtiers to have aspects of my drifter bleed into them and also some symbolic void angel aspects on them.

void angel parts on them and what they mean to the courtiers specifically just so i can keep track:

bombastine/envy/lonlieness: hole in chest (feels a longing that will never be fufilled)

lodun/ anger/defensive rage: bladed arms (makes himself sharp but cannot get close to others without causing harm)

Mathila/joy/denial: wings/back (corruption where she cannot see so she can ignore it as if everything is fine)

Luscinia/sorrow/suicidal depression: her face is gone under the mask, (the only one that doesnt have wills facial features under the mask only because her sense of self was taken from her)

Sythel/fear/anxiety: bladed legs (shakey and hard to balence on but running is her only option, the only thing she knows)

[legatus8749]

Murderous Comedy X Inky Tragedy

[dasakura]

Don't kiss snakes, girls. Sometimes their bites are fatal.

[birdblues]

Bluethroat

[artbyblastweave]

Duviri's writing is interesting in that the courtiers, in a sense, feel like an act of capitulation to the storytelling and characterization limitations of games-as-a-service- the instrumental and perfunctory role that mission givers and bosses tend to have to hold in games like this, if only for reasons of development time and resource allocation. Five endearingly-colorful weirdos who're fun to have as the voice in your ear for a few minutes at a time on repetitive missions.... who are textually only semi-real people, metastasized imaginary friends who exist only to play out the just-so stories for which they were created again, and again, and again, all just sapient enough to express some level of resentment at the fact that they're incapable of character development, existing only to be the mission control and final boss whenever you feel like going on a roguelike jaunt.

I can mow Grineer and Corpus down like wheat without a ton of dissonance- the realities of live-service games aside, if you take the premise at face value those missions are presented as actually being in service of something. But the metatextual stage-play premise of Duviri kind of invites me to feel like my character is, within the narrative, being extraneously awful to someone by choosing to continue to engage at all with the play-acting. It's all very interesting.