#long ramble

We all know about the curse that Agahnim put on the knights to make them hate Legend in ALttP, right?

I love seeing all the different fics that touch on that. The ones where Legend has ptsd or anxiety when interacting with the knights of the Chain at first, or the ones where he has to explain why he avoids Castletown in his Hyrule are always such good reads!

But my favorite way that the knights' curse is put into use is when the knights of the Chain get affected by it when entering Legend's Hyrule! I was thinking about this today, and I had a few thoughts on it.

Okay, so- most "Chain gets affected by Agahnim's curse" fics have the unaffected Links figure out how to undo the curse, or they're one-shots for Whumptober or something, and don't have a proper conclusion to what happens. That's all well and dandy, but what if they can't figure out how to undo the curse the first time around? What if Legend had to avoid getting arrested or murdered by his mind controlled brothers until the next portal comes for them? What if the curse can't follow them through the portal?

What if the Chain as a while actively dreads going to Legend's Hyrule because half of them lose control of their thoughts and/or their actions upon exiting the portal, and the other half has to keep Legend safe, without losing track of where the knights are so they won't be separated by the next portal?

Wars would never get to have a real conversation with Ravio, because Legend wouldn't lead amind controlled knight to his place of residence, OR want to risk his roommate's safety. Wars would only get to learn about Ravio being the same one he knew from the war from stories that Wind tells after they leave the era.

Wars' traitor trauma gets a new flavor, and now he dreams of becoming the traitor to his brothers at the drop of a hat, just because an evil wizard from half a decade ago said some magic words.

Sky is usually written as one of the main people Legend can go to with his fears. He is a safe person. He is his ancestor, for Hylia's sake! But, not about this. Now, when Legend had nightmares about knights, it includes Sky's face among the glares and Fi among the blades wielded against him. And Sky gates the fact that all the power and anger that he works so hard to control, to use only to protect his loved ones, is used to hurt them.

Wild, Four, and Time are iffy. I don't know if Four and Time were ever knighted in canon. I suppose it depends on Four's age, and who's working the story. But Wild was a knight. And even if he doesn't remember a lot of it, the magic doesn't discriminate. He may have been knighted to protect the royal family, but Agahnim's curse makes him attack a prince for also being the hero.

The Chain have to take measures when going through portals when Legend's Time has even a slight chance of being on the other side. It's a careful balance. Everyone must be armed to be ready for a potential fight on the other side, but no one wants Legend to come through a portal and be met with Wild's unlimited bombs.

The obvious answer is to edit the buddy system. Legend never goes through a portal with a knight, and his duo go through the portal first, hide out of sight if possible, and if the next pair (only one knight buddied with a non-knight) comes through and the knight acts normal, Legend comes out, and they continue like normal. But if the second pair comes through, and the knight is cursed, Legend and his buddy have a head start to get running.

*Sorry for the long ramble*

Because I imagine Eight was minding their business and all of a sudden, Pearl would slam the paper down and said “You’re adopted now”

Basically OTH at the start of their world tour haha, I love that they took Eight with them.

I have more detailed thoughts under the cut for those interested in my ramblings, analysis and interpretations of the characters.

He is nonchalant or rather seems to not care or get why turning people is bad. He is manipulative, and doesn't shy away from lying in the slightest.

He mentioned that after a thousand yars everything kinda blends together, in a time sense context. What if it's not only in the feeling of time?What if it's morally too?

He seems to still care, as cc!Scott does, giving the vampires diamonds for weapons and such. But what if after v!scott, being taught things like these are normal for so long, truly believes it?

He believes he has the right to turn every human, he has the right to use his own fledgelings as he needs. That is what I headcanon he had been taught to think.

They talk about the sire thing in ep 4 (I think, may get the ep wrong) and they mention that the hierarchy system is gone now, and Scott nods as if he knows it had been removed.

This is my angst hungry brain thinking, but, what if he had lived in the time before? What if his sire bad been worse than him? He said that the man who turned him is probably long gone now, saying it has been a very long time. It seems detached, but we can also never truly trust what he tells anyone, as mentioned, he is an unreliable narrator that doesn't avoid lying, does so whenever convenient. But it almost seems avoidant when he says if like that.

In addition, from his pov his jabs at pyro seem teasing and even the confrontation in the crypt in ep5 seems to only be meant as a reprimand, a show that he doesn't like being lied at. I had not watched pyro's ep 4 and 5 before finishing Scott's pov up to ep5 and from Scott's it seems like a bickering but rather okay-ish relationship, the fear you get in pyro's pov is not there, noticeable. I rewashed some clips, and to me his fearful voice comes over as a bit eager and nervous from Scott's pov, just as Scott's sassy voice comes cover as really deadpan and annoyed to pyro's.

So what if, Scott truly thinks he is like a strict but also lenient sire to his first fledgelings in 600 years?

He justifies turning pyro with that he had been very hungry, which, doesn't apologize it all, don't get me wrong. But it seems like a genuine reason from someone i hc to think it was not wrong. Not understand how it could be traumatic, as he likely doesn't remember his turning, even if it was consensual, maybe even especially because of that.

Sorry for the long ramble, just needed to get it out.

To be honest, the secret is to restrict yourself as much as you can :") it's horrible but it works. To never pull the character card you don't really want and don't use gems without some urgent need. Since I live in Europe, I can't donate to the game and buy gems, so I save up on my own.

The main rule: to buy extra keys in shop when they are available (Gem Shop and Standard Shop, Exam Token section). It would only cost around 300 gems a month and some exam tokens, but you will have x1 Tenfold key set and 6 regular keys, which makes it 16 pulls a month.

Next: have a plan. The schedules of events from official TWST EN Twitter are really helpful, because you can be ready for a card you wanted, and if this month there are no showcases of interest for you, you simply don't pull at all, it's obvious. Don't miss out on joint exams, combat drills, etc!! They take time, but provide gems.

My main targets are always Ruggie, Leona, Jamil and Kalim – I will always pull for their cards (or find a way to buy them in shop for event currency if they are SR rank or lower), so I always save up for them and they are my top priority. I don't pull for any other characters, except Riddle and sometimes tweels. Everyone else isn't interesting to me, because I am genuinely very unlucky in gacha😭

I still mourn rapunzel Riddle because I wanted him so so much but I couldn't afford to spend more than 20 pulls on him 💔 it always feels like a wasted opportunity, but since I have priorities, I stick to them.

Also! Always check Event Twistunes. Rewards for them aren't received until the event is over, so it's better to check for your gems and thaumarks in there once in a while.

I don't do lessons compulsively, so I only visit twst once a day and to be honest, to have a weekly schedule plays a good role in saving gems as well: weekly missions allow to save up plenty if you just go to the game once a day and finish one or two missions, 7 days are enough. Also don't miss daily logins, sometimes you can save up to 50 gems per week just for logging in.

btw the only character who never disappoints me Is Jamil, because I literally got his overblot within 30 pulls unlike birthday Ruggie who took me a solid 100.

I MEAN LOOK AT HIMMMMM AGHH I AM HAPPY ASL

i really do. it's a great game that does the asymmetrical genre justice, with fun and challenging kits and dynamics, high replayability, great visuals and maps and models, and well-written characters with interesting stories. i've spent almost three weeks on the game now, and i've spent countless more days and nights creating and consuming fan content. hell, i've been addicted to it for six months - that's a pretty good portion of my life.

but i am so, so tired of it.

forsaken is, as a youtuber once described, a "potentialgame".

to start off lighter, there're the bullshit balancing aspects; of course, i have no hatred for the programmers and developers who remain innocent and unaffiliated with the drama. sure, maybe they don't know how gameplay in a public lobby actually works, but they're trying. a lot of these are high schoolers or college students. they really don't deserve the hate they're getting. and, at the same time, i can't help but feel that some of the current un-playability of the game comes from its original horrible management.

there's so much drama and controversy and toxicity and hatred at the core of everything. apart from the creator being a terrible person who should be behind bars, there's a glaring lack of transparency and competency from the current owners; there's also the fact that some devs are still communicating with soul, and that he still gets money from the game.

this has, 1) intrinsically connected the game to soul; a lot of issues with its development are linked to the work he did on it, and 2) forced not only numerous devs to leave, making the team smaller, but also caused a portion of the playerbase to quit. many of my friends have stopped playing forsaken due to the controversies; i myself have considered it too. and, to be quite frank?

that's sad. that's really sad.

forsaken is a good game. yes, two time's hitbox is still broken. yes, g666 can still catch up no matter what. yes, veeronica can still fly. yes, some loops are still too big to counter in under 3 minutes. yes, 1x can still summon 7 minions in one lms. yes, it could use work - it's not perfect; it's nowhere close. but it has an excellent start, and bugs and imbalances aren't permanent.

i wish we could stop being fucking awful to one another. i wish the players weren't so toxic. i wish the devs could lock the fuck in. i wish we didn't get hatred on twitter and all the other places for simply engaging in the hobby we've put tons of time into. i wish i could just log onto roblox mindlessly and play the game i like, for god's sake, without feeling unbearable guilt for indirectly supporting a liar, a cheat, and a nasty groomer.

i don't want the game to die. i truly don't. i care about it so, so much - but at this point, that might be the direction it's going.

btw spoilers for vol 4 svsss extras //

and you know how like lqg got aphrodiasic poisoned so he was like sort of out of it. and sqq's second best idea besides "i'll leave him alone so he can j- wait i dont think he knows how to do that" was to kick him into the rose filled water.

my brain created such an interesting idea:

so lqg was infected with that horny poision so i think he probably started hallucinating things. this includes his mind warping the reality he was seeing, for example, like imagine he was still sort of in the poisoned state when he and sqq were in the water.

walk with me.

mind you i am not in the csm fandom but ive seen this image circling around (including seeing bingqiu versions of this).

but imagine poisoned aa lqg head out from the water, hallucinating sqq like reze in the pool scene.

like imagine our dripping wet sqq just like this, WITH CLOTHES OF COURSE. like "let this one teach shidi everything he needs to know"

and then it cuts to like actual sqq asking if he's still feeling a little weird.

Quick Cal Weathers ramble before I banish myself from tumblr for the night 𝜗𝜚 ࣪˖ ִ𐙚