#woogly asks

1: Why do you like/dislike this character?

he keeps things fresh, not just on a book-to-book basis for the reader, but also in his own story world. for example, he's a naturally curious man, and because he doesn't sleep, he has a lot more time than anyone else to experiment with magic. this means he's able to do things as an elemental mage that none of his other elemental peers have even considered, let alone tried, with relative ease.

he's not gatekeepy about it either, he tries to teach his friends how to do what he does but a lot of them are too busy to really put it to good practice, so it kinda ends up bring unique to him anyway.

2: Favorite canon thing about this character?

couldn't think of a singular favourite thing but something i really like is the big mystery of how he was able to come back to life after he was murdered, burned, and then had his bones thrown in a river. this perplexes him and his peers for hundreds of years, it's the one mystery he can't solve, and then when we finally get the answer of how it happened, not only is it surprisingly simple, but it also kinda implies that there should be a few more people out there like him, which i think is pretty funny.

3: Least favorite canon thing about this character?

uhh... the war crimes i guess? that seems to be the only clear answer but it does give us a reliable source of drama and also a pretty decent safety net when needed

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

i think he'd get along with Dr House really well, they'd make for a funny pairing

2: Favourite canon thing about this character?

much like with Skulduggery Pleasant, i don't think i have any singular favourite thing about Madeline, but i do admire her determination. she's a lot more strong-willed and persistent than i am, and i actually think i still have a lot to learn from her and her journey throughout the game.

6: What's something you have in common with this character?

a shared interest in archery! it's been a long time since i used a bow and arrow, but back in the day i was a really good shot! i hope i still am, i wanna do it again...

12: What's a headcanon you have for this character?

if she were able to play Celeste, she'd spend so much time playing it that she'd make the speedrun world record her new goal and actually get it.

23: Favourite picture of this character?

these!

she's so cute <3

27: What is a colour or colours that you think of when you think of this character, be it their canon colour(s) or not?

definitely blue because of her puffer jacket and also a huge portion of the game's colour scheme is blue, and pink because of her hair at the end of the game.

-your acquaintance who is currently trying to play the sequel

i LOVE the Blind Forest. i'll agree with others that the combat kinda sucks, but that honestly never really bothered me. also none of the other metroidvanias i've played have even come close to the satisfaction i feel traversing this game. jumping, climbing, dashing, launching myself off of incoming projectiles, it just feels amazing!

the art style is incredible and the music and sound design complement it perfectly. my only complaint visually is that some of the backgrounds have white areas in them, and Ori is also white, which means they're literally invisible to me when i stand in a few spaces.

also on my last play-through i challenged myself to beat the game without upgrading ANYTHING from my skill tree. this turned out to be really fun and i made it to the final area, but then i got distracted by another game or show or something so i never finished the challenge, but i'm definitely able to!

in case you don't remember, the question here is favourite game for the ps4, from an ask game i did like two years ago and didn't get around to answering half your submissions lol

the devil on my shoulder says Spyro Reignited Trilogy because i know you'd find that funny... and before the release of Spider-Man 2 i would maybe have honestly answered Spider-Man.

but to be honest it might be either The Last of Us or Crash 4: It's About Time. The Last of Us is one of my favourite games but Crash 4 came out at the right time in my life to be a really special memory for me.

1: what originally drew me to it

my godmother gave me a copy of the first book for my… i want to say 11th birthday because her son really liked it and thought i would too. i fell in love incredibly quickly and it’s still my favourite book series 12 years later

14: the character/story arc i find most compelling

asking me this when i know you haven’t read the books yet is so mean because i’d love to yap about Vaurien Scapegrace, the self-proclaimed “Killer Supreme” who “turns murder into art”, but hasn’t actually managed to kill anyone because he’s a huge loser failure, and his personal journey as his desperate struggle to survive forces him to question who he really is. i can’t say much more than that because you know how i am with spoilers but Scapegrace goes through more shit than most other characters in the series and it’s hilarious every time you think things can’t get any worse for him, and then they do. his sidekick Gerald (aka Thrasher) is also hilarious and equally pathetic, but his loyalty is so endearing fr fr

shoutout to Scapegrace and Thrasher, gotta be one of my favourite comic relief duos

22: favourite part of canon that everyone ignores

The fact that Skulduggery Pleasant is a skeleton is something I like to think about. The fanbase doesn't really ignore this, I think it's a good hook for unfamiliar readers, but I'm talking about the characters. Skulduggery is the only living skeleton there is, and every character just accepts it and moves on because while it's strange as hell, there are stranger things to hear about. He even ends up with the nickname The Skeleton Detective, which I think helps normalise it for a lot of characters.

The accepted answer to most characters is that when Nefarian Serpine killed Skulduggery, he was so angry about it that his soul simply refused to stay dead.

Hey, even Skulduggery himself doesn't understand why he came back, I think he says so in book 1 or 2. We do eventually get a canon answer though, and it's actually really satisfying to learn. I won't say what it is or when it's revealed but trust me, it's really solid. Definitely worth the reveal.

25: common fandom complaint you're sick of hearing

my last answer was Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, and turns out the question was actually "name a console and i'll tell you about a game on it that i like", so not necessarily favourite lol

doesn't matter though, i was already gonna say New Super Mario Bros. that game was unbelievably important to my childhood, i played it so many times that when i picked it up again in 2020 i still knew all the shortcuts and was able to beat the game in no time at all! i must have played it like 20 times during Covid, it was so much fun revisiting my favourite levels fr

my brother and i used to play the multiplayer game where you have to collect more stars than each other for hours on end, cycling through the five maps over and over and over again. we played the goofy minigames too, like the one where you draw trampolines to bounce Mario onto the ledges, or find a certain character hiding in a huge crowd of other characters.

we played that game to DEATH, and i would STILL happily play it again with anyone who asked.

my gut instinct when i first read this ask in November 2023 was Bugsnax, and i don't think that's changed. there's a difference between PS5 games and game i played on the PS5. otherwise The Last of Us Part II or Uncharted 4 probably would have won.

i gotta say though, if i had played all of Astro Bot by now that might have changed my answer. i really loved the bit of Astro Bot that i played so who knows, maybe that'll be my answer next time lol