Repost Merchant

"Ah man, the healing gimmick with Ulplan is pretty funny, it'd be pretty cool if you could do something similar with reflect damage, but Hoshi just doesn't have the Res to stand up to the boss' beam attack" Nah:

I'm thinking about Emiko Iwasaki's work on Guilty Gear Isuka because while I do love Daisuke's art don't get me wrong, there's just something about that rough, kind-of unpolished digital painterly-ness that I can't help but love.

pondering how priestess despite ostensibly being a character who a story has sort of positioned as a potentially maternal figure--doctor's past romantic partner ʸᵉˢ ⁱᵗ ʷᵃˢ ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜ ʷᵃᵗᶜʰ ᴬⁱᵐᵉʳ'ˢ ⁶ᵗʰ ᵃⁿⁿⁱ ˢᵒⁿᵍ, creating AMa-10, her interactions with hierda-- and yet in a game which excels at creating really complex mother figures she is afforded none of that. She is cast as invariably cold, rational to the point of uncaring, detached to a degree it's frightening when she does try to display some semblance of caring. "Long time no see" feels more like a threat than anything, and her callous disdain for Kal'tsit says all we need to know about any potentially motherly feelings she could possess. I think that's why the shot in the Critical Phase Transition trailer where she has a warm smile and an adoring pose feels so jarring. I mean true, that's priestess before she trapped herself in the Just Monika torment nexus for ten thousand years, but also she is just....not that at all. It's all an asset to her. Compare this to her opposition within the story. Theresa and Kal'tsit both are (as morally gray as they are) constantly represented as maternal figures. Theresa taking in Ascalon, Manfred, Amiya, her care for the children of Kazdel and Babel, it's like her most defining trait behind her idealism. Kal'tsit is less openly affectionate but Louisa, Elliot, Rosmontis, Amiya, she has a whole slew of children she cares about deeply too. "I believe the children are our future" is sort of a paramount Babel/Rhodes Island tenet. Theresa and Kal'tsit are not perfunctorily parental, it is intrinsic to their characters. They love in a way Priestess does not, cannot.

Here, take this with you......

Sol, Corrupted by the flames.