"villain overly obsessed with hero" is fine and dandy in fiction, but we are desperately missing more of "villain comes to realize hero is more obsessed with them than they could even imagine to horrific levels"
voice director: robert pattinson as a guy to voice a strange old man disguising himself as a crane? uhh. unsure
robert pattinson, vibrating excitedly on five atomic levels: I MADE RECORDINGS OF MY SUPER AWESOME OLD MAN VOICE WANNA HEAR
voice director: oh. oh my god
someone: why do you like monsters so much
me internally: monsters are a fascinating mirror to ourselves, a physical incarnation of our deepest fears and anxieties, and yet they can also be more human than humans - really, what IS a man? what IS a monster?
me externally:
“go to hell” is basic. “i hope your favorite franchise dies and then returns only in the form of pachinko machines” is smart. it’s possible. it’s terrifying.
(me wiping away my tears with a handkerchief) i'm so sorry mister sampo honkai star rail. i'm so sorry people think you're a dumbass himbo and take your goofiness at face value. i see your performative clown manipulative bastard trickery and i appreciate it, king
seeing someone getting deep into a new fandom on twitter is a surreal experience because one day they're all like "hey, going to check out this new thing!" and the next day they've changed their icon and their username and have already written 200 fics about their favorite ship
one of the wildest things to read in sampo's story unlocks is that this man has canonically crossdressed as a woman on at least two separate occasions for a scam he pulled off and was so wildly successful at it that he was never caught
super cool death stranding 2 fact but kojima confirming the little fatih akin puppet guy is inspired by bunraku puppetry is SO neat and already something seen in the trailer with the "demon face" change that's characteristic of those kind of puppets
"it'll be so fun to interact with so many people who like the same thing i do!" please don't tell yourself this when you get into a fandom. the only way a large fandom is meant to be experienced is with five of your close friends in a bunker while armageddon is happening outside
was anyone going to tell me that garry from the rpgmaker horror game Ib is explicitly lgbt or did i just have to find that out myself while reminiscing about how much i love that game
some fans: if my fave ship isn't made canon i will RIOT AGAINST THE TV SHOW CREATORS AND MAKE SURE THEY NO LONGER HAVE JOBS FOR BAITING THEIR VIEWERS INTO THINKING THE SHIP WOULD BE CANON!!!!
me:
me: i don't really care about het relationships in stories
story: this character would do anything for his wife because he loves her with every fiber of his being
me:
canon: here are a group of villains
me: alright
canon: these villains.........like each other
me: ...oh no
canon: these villains CARE about each other
me: nO
canon: these villains SEE EACH OTHER AS FAMILY
me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that kind of realization where a villain is like. oh shit. wtf. my presence is actively turning the hero absolutely bonkers in my direction and i don't know how to actually handle this??? mwah. (kissing fingers like chef)
watching the ffxiv experience from afar is seeing someone being like "haha trying this game out, this is my dumb catboy Bongus Dongus" and then one week later they have a 100 tweet thread about the deep trauma Bongus Dongus has experienced and how he's grown as a person from it
sinoALICE, the gacha game written by yoko taro of NieR fame, is apparently going to have a whole ending cutscene for its finale that instantly boots you out of the game and prevents you from ever logging in again, and i've never heard of something more yoko taro in my life
yes sure the whole zenos fight with gaius and estinien was pretty cool but can we talk more about that one part where zenos yeets estinien like a paper airplane. what is this. i can't stop watching it
gacha game: here's a new gacha unit! sweet sexy summer swimsuit times 😋
gacha fans: woo! nice! yeah!
limbus company: here's a new unit that turns a loved character into a horrifying eldritch monstrosity with all the trauma that comes with it
limbus fans: KdvbcOFHWJi292hdNHfkfjwj
love that i can be like "sooooo there's this character whose bleeding heart is so immense that they care too deeply for others and their greatest dream is to make a world where children and suffering souls can live in peace" and then the character in question looks like This
to this day, ib is still one of the best horror games because it perfectly illustrates the concept of sheer terror that you get when walk into a room in an art museum and you're unsure if you just saw an art sculptures move out of the corner of your eye
one of the funniest things a story can do is if there's some grand group of heroes/villains/gods/what have you, it makes the one who could trump the rest in an all-out power fight just the most completely average-looking person in the world (bonus points if they wear a suit)
lobotomy corporation is one of the most realistic games you could play because you find out the most horrifying secrets about the company you work for that make you question your identity and very existence and then two seconds later its right back to the daily 8-5 work grind
the fact that zenos in his backstory is firmly established as a giant bookworm who loves battle epics is so funny because its like learning the lotr nerd in middle school became jacked and tried to end the world to reenact the battle of minas tirith
i truly and honestly believe that more stories should adopt project moon's IDGAF attitude about gender. there's a man called emma. there's a lady called ishmael. this character dressed in vivid pink wearing earrings is an old man. whatever. gender is whatever
if anyone tells you that sampo koski isn't a little shit of a man please helpfully remind them that in canon he sold someone a fake audio final installment of a popular book series where he not only recorded it all himself but also made every character die a horrible death
this has been said 173981273918231 times but every time i remember that the design of roland from library of ruina was inspired by james mcavoy i have to lay down for five hours with the Vapors. i mean. LOOK AT THIS. LOOK
people in fandom who devote so much energy to loving incredibly minor characters that most of the fans completely look over are so powerful.....they have every ounce of my respect
characters who have been through the worst situations imaginable and yet actively make a choice to be good and kind even when faced with cruelty and hardships are infinitely powerful and we deserve more of them
my friend: [gushes about someone from a canon i've never heard of, enthusiastically retweets fanart of them, and talks at length about how they're the best]
me:
“love bombing is a tactic in which someone “bombs” you with extreme displays of attention and affection with the intent to manipulate you.“ huh! interesting! anyways, here’s a totally random gif of sampo koski and his ultimate for no reason
fate/strange fake has one of the best story premises because, and im not joking about this, its about america looking at japan's grail wars and going "we want our own grail war but with blackjack! and hookers! las vegas, baby!" and then they completely fuck everything up
"i feel embarrassed about sharing how much i love a character on main". never be. i want it all. i want the keysmashes. the 2am rabid amount of tweets with the same exact picture of them. the sincerity of stuff like "i want to put them in the hadron collider". please. i love it
actually the more i think of fucked up sexy human skin anime girlhorse centaur i think every single gacha game out there should have one fucked up centaur in their cast. shoutout to you mister red hare fate/grand order
people: sampo koski? he's just a silly little guy <3 funny himbo <3 harmless dumb con-man <3
hoyoverse on the walkie talkie: hey. it's me. release the animated music video during our event where sampo goes absolutely murder clown apeshit on some fuckers
hythlodaeus on his first day at the bureau: i'm excited! i'm sure everyone has lovely ideas for concepts :)
hythlodaeus opening up the first concept request which reads:
artist asked to design a character for fate/go: i know my character won't be a big role or anything but i put my passion into it for the opportunity!
nasu: holy shit. holy SHIT. HOLY SHIT (WRITING FURIOUSLY AND OVERHAULING THE STORY) HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHITTTTTT
"twitter is going to change into being named X"
twitter user 1: do they know its ayin
twitter user 2: do they know its ayin
twitter user 7847483: do they know its ayin
love your ocs like hirohiko araki loves his character rohan kishibe, who has too many spin-offs to count and has a drawing by araki where he is being embraced by araki himself
'Who Said It: Classical Russian Literature, or Ensemble Stars?' Try your luck at differentiating the quotes of cute anime idol boys and thoughtful old Russian men!
vergilius is a good example of a supremely overpowered but interesting character because being one of the most dangerous people in the world of project moon's City means jack squat for the ability to prevent his own tragedies
i think more media should take a leaf from fate/go's book in that you have these two men looking like giant enormous dark souls monsters and yet despite their horrific power they're two of the most eloquent and surprisingly considerate characters in the entire game
typical mobage characters: hot lady. hot almost naked lady. hot guy. hot almost naked lady again
reverse 1999 characters: british people. clown. floating british apple. twins from the shining. satellite from 17776
(me trying to explain fate/go dantes to someone completely canonblind) so remember the chapter where edmond dantes turns into a powerful magical being who possesses people's shadows and fights people in their dreams
i think the funniest thing of the april fool's joke for limbus company is that it solidifies that vergilius IS the cute girl at the side of the mc trope. he's your mash kyrielight. he's an old grumpy man who can obliterate enemies and can turn you inside out. he's your amiya
bsd fan: omgggggg fyodor dostoevsky is SO HOT and SO SEXY
famous russian literary figure fyodor dostoevsky waking up in a cold sweat on a chilly moscow night in 1860: something is wrong
lobotomy corporation is a good game because it has wonderful lines like this that are emphasis of the beauty of life and the importance of moving forward despite tragedy and they also happen to be said by the equivalent of giant toasters with stick arms and legs
fate/go has an npc that is literally named after a lovecraft self-insert, and looks like him - he turns out to be some cosmic anti-force being who gets possessed by a bird demon and is implied he doesn't know what the fuck he actually is. once he stole a town's worth of cats
i hope the private quote retweets are enjoying these cool sampo facts. love a man who engages in a bit of gender every now and then and apparently is so extremely good at it that it helps his business at scamming the hell out of people
love going into mdzs canonblind because i thought wei wuxian was this charming rascal guy and then the first scene of the anime is legit just "he was a highly feared and terrifying necromancer who killed thousands of people actually"
the pipeline of this image from "haha funny meme" to "oh i guess the black-haired guy is ayin from the game lobotomy corporation i wonder if he deserves this reaction" to "i am playing/reading lobcorp right now" to "I AM MENTALLY DOING THIS VERY IMAGE TO AYIN LOBCORP AS WE SPEAK"
someone on a discord server im on found this out - apparently vergilius uses "ore" when pissed off/talking with people he does not like and then switches to "watashi" for the sinners/dante. except for. donqui. she gets "ore" even from the prologue. i'm c rying
limbus company's focus on a small, tightly-knit cast is SO good and unique for an overall gacha game. instead of being piled on with more characters and having past ones only for cameos, they really can explore every character in depth with no worry about leaving anyone behind 🥹
any other idol game: here's a new idol boy, he was always around he just never introduced himself
ensemble stars: here's a new idol boy, you never met him because he was living in the school walls
"chaotic bastard" is an exceptionally fun character type, but the next step up to "chaotic bastard who neverthless is completely on your side despite everything they are" is the best of all
reading kagurabachi is so funny because i remember how everyone was like SUPER EDGY EMOTIONLESS REVENGE MC and meanwhile its like
some person: (says something really wack)
chihiro: 😐
chihiro, mentally: this guy is really wack...
limbus company: this is a dark, mature game, with a whole giant trigger warning list and all - be careful before getting yourself into such a story with heavy topics
also limbus company:
belial granblue fantasy's character out of context is hilarious because it's just "horny fallen angel genuinely falls in love with an atheist clone of jesus, does everything in his power for hundreds of years to bring him back to life, and then gets isekai'd into a fighting game"
vaguest lobotomy corporation spoilers but this is one of the most relaxing and coolest little animations in project moon games. i could watch old man hokma do his twirling clock thing for hours
dante: <so why is limbus company even named that anyways>
faust: they want to know why it's called limbus company
vergilius, deadpan: it's because we are doing this on a bus. i will spell it out for you. b-u-s. bus.
dante:
vergilius: you imbecile. you fucking moron
summer events in gacha games having sudden horror twists is actually more common than you think, but project moon just being straight up like "let's visit the eldritch slime swamplands and meet our friends the horror crabs" is amazing
before anyone says anything i know that they're really not as bad as a lot of people in project moon world can be but i think we can all agree they all suck in their own way (saying this affectionately)
"limbus company is rated R but not for sex" explain the scene where vergilius sticks his hands directly into dante's head to fix them and they're covered in grease and oil when he's done then 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
araki: this man has a stand
araki: this teenager has a stand
reader: sure
araki: this baby has a stand
reader: ...okay?
araki: this dog has a stand. so does this bird
reader: araki please YOU CAN'T MAKE EVERYTHING HAVE STANDS
araki:
reader:
araki: this gucci handbag has a stand
wol: that's shinryu, right
zenos: the very one
wol: shinryu, the embodiment of hatred of the garlean empire
zenos: yep
wol: and you're the garlean crown prince
zenos: that's me
wol: and you just said you're going to kin this thing
zenos: i'm going to kin it so hard
@AezLikeEhz
i think we can achieve the peak conclusion of both parties realizing they're bonkers for each other since the villain can rise up to the hero's obsession for them. "you're the only one for me i don't care for these other villains/heroes" material. bonkers4bonkers
#FFXIV
#endwalkerspoilers
a friend of mine drew this who isn't on twitter who asked me to post this but if this wasn't the whole Vibe of hermes and emet-selch in elpis