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queenluastealing a meme from necrophilia:
necrophilia:So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.(my answers might, uh, take a few days *stares at Friday deadline for a thing* but feel free to ask away in the meantime!)
Ask away. ♥
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Date: 2022-04-27 08:05 pm (UTC)his whole deal is, there’s three bird-people kingdoms (ravens, hawks, and herons), and they used to be all one big happy family, but due to various Issues TM in the past, they’ve split apart (even though various bonds of friendship run pretty deep between the groups).
the hawk-kingdom and heron-kingdom are both pretty proud and independent and standoffish, and in particular have hugely justified long-term beef against the various normie-human kingdoms, and act accordingly…
…whereas Naesala, as king, has had his country take the more supine approach, doing a whole lot of schmoozing-with-baddies and art-thieving and pirating and generally just making themselves a bunch of amoral black market kingpins, available to the highest bidder. which infuriates the shit out of the other two bird kingdoms, but also, hey, Naesala's people are doing pretty well, so,,,,
he’s exactly the right mix of “does awful things,” but also “unfortunately all of his choices are awful,” but also “maybe he could seem a little less satisfied about that state of affairs,” but also “deep down he does feel bad about it tho,” but also “maybe not badly enough,” but also “hey someone has to make the hard choices around here,” but also “jfc maybe don’t flagrantly fuck over your childhood bestie for marginal net gain”…
(i love awful people and messy situations can you tell)
i also love Simon Blackquill from the Ace Attorney games. he’s an edgelord. he’s extremely weird and awkward. he’s got that Stoicism In The Face Of Certain Death. he’s got a ridiculous sense of gallows humor. he’s got a cool bird. he’s sarcastic and fucks with people but would also make an excellent dinner party guest. what’s not to love
anyway! same question, right back atcha :P
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Date: 2022-04-27 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-27 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-27 09:14 pm (UTC)he’s exactly the right mix of “does awful things,” but also “unfortunately all of his choices are awful,” but also “maybe he could seem a little less satisfied about that state of affairs,” but also “deep down he does feel bad about it tho,” but also “maybe not badly enough,” but also “hey someone has to make the hard choices around here,” but also “jfc maybe don’t flagrantly fuck over your childhood bestie for marginal net gain”…
GOOD. He sounds magnificent.
I THINK YOU'LL BE SURPRISED TO FIND okay, no, my answer is not at all surprising; the videogame closest to my heart is Final Fantasy VIII and the character closest to my heart is Squall Leonhart. I played FFVIII when I was thirteen and painfully awkward and had no idea how to talk to people, and I went, 'Wait, Squall's exactly like me! I can understand what he's thinking! Maybe that means it's possible for me to understand other people if I try?' and that's the story of how a Final Fantasy game taught me empathy.
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Date: 2022-04-29 10:04 pm (UTC)d'awwww, that's so charming i'm charmed <3
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Date: 2022-04-28 02:18 pm (UTC)hmmmm ain't no cutting/spoilertagging on comments, huh? oh well; don't read this if you're imminently interested in tellius fire emblem now and also don't want spoilers-
anyway, iirc his plan was to rescue him right away? although clearly he didn't manage to put that into action fast enough that there wasn't time for Team Ike to clear like three maps in the interim, so he did endanger his childhood bestie very recklessly there. still, "so overconfident it's dumb sometimes" is a bit more like the character than "callous enough to bind his best friend to Oliver freaking Tanas ostensibly just for cash", even if he is very much callous-
(that, and also probably "couldn't just tell oliver to fuck off because blood pact", but boo contrived plot device-)
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Date: 2022-04-29 09:52 pm (UTC)and, yeah, i was giving the maximally-uncharitable interpretation for cheeky affect, though I did also write a fic with said maximally-uncharitable interpretation for This Is Slightly OOC But I Love Angst purposes, so, i have biases here lmao
(i, always wonder if the PoR writing team already had blood pacts in mind already when they wrote that game! i actually think maybe they didn't? Naesala comes off as tonally pretty different in 9 vs 10—in 9 he has a bit more of a "bastard for a sake of being a bastard" vibe, whereas in 10 he's obviously giving off some melancholy/guilt signs like woah, which can be explained by in-game circumstances, of course, but... could also just be a minor retcon, lol.)
((AND ACTUALLY, it occurs to me this is as good a place as any for the 2am shower thought I had yesterday. blood pacts are extremely stupid, we all agree, but, it's actually kind of close to being a metaphor for something actually potent and cool—specifically, that thing where one state will buddy up with some other state that's full of flagrant human rights abuses or w/e Because Of Oil, see Saudia Arabia etc... the problem is Blood Pacts are literally no upside (whereas oil is, y'know, combustible and such), so it feels stupid they even exist, and also the power dynamics end up being really different in a jarring way in the Blood PAct scenario, but... i wonder if this is what the devs had in mind, originally? and just totally bungled it in various script rewrites, actual implementation, etc???
anyway yeah there's your Tellius Thought Of The Day))