#noctisimperialistic

[critical-hazbin]

Helluva boss and Hazbin Hotel, to me, is all pretty visuals and songs, not that much interesting characters/story. Like Promare, but more cartoony.

Which unfortunately leads to the fanbase making up large parts of the personality, which... Egh, might lead to some unwanted places.

Alastor is supposed to be Aro/ace, guys— and as Aro myself, the idea that he wants to fuck Charlie, or Vaggie or Angel or whoever feels EXTREMELY erasing—

The visuals and songs are a big draw for audiences, but Vivzie did say in a stream that the show was supposed to be about the characters' relationships with each other. However, I don't think the show is going to be very character-focused, going off of what we've seen so far.

This is an area where we might have to agree to disagree. As an asexual who isn't aromantic, I don't have a problem seeing Alastor shipped with various characters. It doesn't bother me at all. There are aroace people in the fandom who ship him in all sorts of different pairings. It's not erasure to me because aro/ace is a spectrum. There are aroace people who get married and have children, who are demi, who don't feel romantic attraction but still want a relationship. I could actually see Alastor getting into a QPR, if the creator chose to go that route.

Everyone's experience is different, of course, and if you don't want to see Alastor in a relationship of any kind that's perfectly valid. But a million pieces of fanart are never going to erase a canon identity. And it definitely doesn't make our representation in Alastor any less real.

As for your second part, I'm not sure what's hard to believe about Hell being a hellhole. The anarchy and territorial warfare we see in Hell is the natural result of having too many people fighting over limited resources. There are likely few opportunities for advancement in careers (as is typical in caste systems), so sinners resort to fighting over land to make a name for themselves.

Hell doesn't seem to be in a state of complete anarchy, or else it would be a headache for Lucifer. There are probably some rules and consequences. But Lucifer clearly doesn't care about his subjects killing each other with angel weapons in endless territorial warfare as they fight for overlord positions or just more status. Maybe he even finds the fights entertaining. Hell doesn't seem to have been designed to maximize punishment. Instead, it's a place where terrible people are all dumped together and their punishment is having to deal with each other and be subject to their judgement.

Counterpoint: Maybe Lucifer established the idea of becoming an overlord through gaining territory so that the sinners would fight among themselves for land instead of fighting him.

[chaifootsteps]

The dragons are the only salvageable part of How to Train Your Dragon.

Attempt to change my mind.

I can’t. It’s a completely valid point of view and The Hidden World took even that away from us.

[cosmalumi]

....Dearest Mod. Art thou implying that the one to return shall be Daybreaker and not Celestia?

I dunno what you’re talking about, but you aren’t going to be seeing Daybreaker... not at first anyway And it’s definitely not because one pony with magical always moving hair is already a pain in the ass to do.

[silyabeeodess]

I know this may sound a little bit pessimistic. But I think the moon base was overrun completely at the start of the war... And nobody got out. The entire moon must be a infected zone at this point.

I think so too.  I was never able to find the npc who said this again, but there was a point I was running around on some of the earlier missions and caught a character saying that “they’d completely lost contact with the moonbase,” supporting this.  If you look at the early promotional comic, “World’s Collide,” there’s also a part at the beginning where it also shows Numbuh Two trying to contact the Pluto, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter bases only to fail to signal anyone. (Granted, we don’t know how canon the promo comic is to the game and we don’t really see these mentioned in Codename: KND, the show, but I also think this is good support for this fact.)  

On a positive note, I doubt the moon base’s been completely devastated yet: More-so just heavily contaminated and running out of time if they can’t get any help.  After all, Numbuh 362 is a pretty resilient leader, and many of the other operatives fighting at her side would also be pretty tough.  The KND operatives on Earth probably miss her command, especially during the initial battles, but I bet she’s doing everything she can to keep the people trapped on the moon base alive and in order, hoping to reestablish contact as soon as possible.  

[dbhbrothersau]

Er. Connor. Doesn't it... hurt you whenever you get yourself impaled with a knife? Ooor are androids still not to the point in which feeling pain is a thing.

Connor: Well all my brother’s and I have gotten new updates that make us more “human” in a sense. So yes we can all “feel” pain like a human would.Connor: To answer your question, yes. Yes, it hurts a lot. Though I have done it so much now that I’ve become numb to it-is that bad? Yes.Connor: Does everyone wonder about my safety. Double yes.

[chaifootsteps]

May I come here to state Astrid has ALWAYS rubbed the weird bone with me when it comes to personality and the way she's animated?

Like don't get me wrong but when I was younger I thought the shadows around her mouth looked like a 5 o' clock beard shadow—

Oh man, don’t remind me how much I miss 5 o’clock shadow, gap toothed Astrid, before they gave her a Barbie doll face and made her boobs bigger because Pierre-Olivier Vincent is a massive creep.

(I never liked how she was always hitting Hiccup.)

[silyabeeodess]

I got another question; did you ever make a headcanon post for Megas's last stand? Like, are the resistance fighters actually working on a way to free him? Are there any procedures in place for a potential full corruption of Megas? Etc.

Not yet, since there’s a ton of characters I haven’t covered in posts thus far besides some general info on the villains and occasionally when I tie a few people to other things, but I have a few thoughts:

First is that the Megas gang probably all fought like crazy when Fuse first invaded, but were caught off-guard and fairly isolated from other Fusion Fighters at the time, as Earth’s forces hadn’t completely assembled and Fuse was smart enough to target Megas straight from the beginning.  Being originally made from Glorft technology–a species he’d already lost to–he wasn’t going to take any chances.  He probably had smaller monsters of pure fusion matter slip into Megas’ systems and began infecting it from the inside, not only attacking and damaging its systems, but also forcing Coop and the others to abandon Megas in order to save themselves from the rapidly spreading infection.  Now, it’s heavily guarded by fusion monsters and the terrafusers attached to its form only continue to maintain and grow the infection.  

Megas being a machine, it’s probably harder/impossible for Fuse to make a Fusion of it like he can with organic beings.  (There’s Fusion Computress, but since she’s paired with Fusion Dexter, it could be argued that he constructed her similarly to how the real Dex constructed the real Computress.)  However, he plans on turning Megas into the next best thing, a colossal fusion monster reset to its original purpose to wipeout mankind, only this time under his command.  The Gloft tech seems to be combating this infection a little through some auxiliary system, but Megas is still barely hanging on and thus remains inactive/unmovable–all the power it has left devoted to keeping off the pressing infection. 

Kiva is probably out leading some battlefront, but Coop’s been entrusted with restoring Megas.  It’s why he stays at the junkyard.  He continues to remain outwardly chill and lazy–much to a lot of other Fusion Fighters’ chagrin–but a big part of it is because, without Megas, he feels he can’t do anything to help Earth.  He’s always been a lazy, video game loving foodie, then he suddenly had an important role as a protector of Earth which, although he didn’t always take it seriously, did matter to him.  Now, with that swiftly yanked away from him and leaving him back where he was, he kinda just… feels useless, even if he doesn’t want to confront it.  All he can do is fight to keep his usual, laid-back attitude, blow off his concerns, and work to get Megas back. He might not go in to the infected zone much himself, but he does lead strategies for Fusion Fighters that do.    

[noctisimperialistic]

RIP