Rufus and Ravus outfit swap.
Hello dormant/ lurking IZ followers I seem to have forgotten to post these when I should have. But here are some outfit designs I shifted to adhere to the au I created a while back.
Chapters: 24/39
Fandom: Final Fantasy XV
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia, Cor Leonis/Ignis Scientia, Clarus Amicitia/Regis Lucis Caelum, Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia
Characters: Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Cor Leonis, Prompto Argentum, Ignis Scientia’s Uncle, Loqi Tummelt
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, fantasy in a modern setting, No Royal Family, Mafia AU, Slow Burn, Will They Won’t They Throughout, Major Worldbuilding on top of Canon, Dragoons as a Race, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Smoking, Veterans, Bravely Default References, Not for Prompto Stans, Summer Jobs, Developing Ignis’s Family, Flower Language, hanakotoba, nickname overuse, Dragoons are a weird blend of British and Spanish colonization culture fight me, Beatdown, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, not the main characters, Mildly Dubious Consent, That’s instantly cleared up, Past Ravus/Ignis, Unresolved Tension (Promptis), 17 is the age of majority, ravus is aro luna is ace
Series: Part 1 of Made To Serve (Juice Bar AU)
Summary:
Gladio’s thirsty.
Ignis’s got the juice.
So why is the city’s most powerful family, the gods’ destiny, Cor Leonis, and annoying little brothers doing everything they can to keep these two totally compatible strangers from getting their acts together?
And while they’re both incredibly strange, maybe this isn’t their first meeting.
This is a collaborative fic we’ve been writing for about two years (and counting).
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Late with this posting, I’m sorry, but I assume nobodies reading it linked from my blog anyway XD
During the pandemic, since I couldn’t get my brother to watch any King Arthur movies, we spent time watching a handful of Robin Hood movies we had and some others rented (before pandemic killed our last rental store for good) and I never had as bad of time as watching the recent Lionsgate movie. It made me appreciate the Prince of Thieves even more and that one’s not even mentioned here XD but I agree with the assessment that Men In Tights is one of the best ones to come out since Disney’s and love or hate Disney, or hate Disney’s Dark Age, I don’t and this is one of their more clever written movies. This video gives me so many feels and explains my contention with modern Robin Hood and other demythication and deconstruction of legends.
Chapters: 23/39
Fandom: Final Fantasy XV
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia, Cor Leonis/Ignis Scientia, Clarus Amicitia/Regis Lucis Caelum, Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia
Characters: Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Cor Leonis, Prompto Argentum, Ignis Scientia’s Uncle, Loqi Tummelt
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, fantasy in a modern setting, No Royal Family, Mafia AU, Slow Burn, Will They Won’t They Throughout, Major Worldbuilding on top of Canon, Dragoons as a Race, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Smoking, Veterans, Bravely Default References, Not for Prompto Stans, Summer Jobs, Developing Ignis’s Family, Flower Language, hanakotoba, nickname overuse, Dragoons are a weird blend of British and Spanish colonization culture fight me, Beatdown, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, not the main characters, Mildly Dubious Consent, That’s instantly cleared up, Past Ravus/Ignis, Unresolved Tension (Promptis), 17 is the age of majority, ravus is aro luna is ace
Series: Part 1 of Made To Serve (Juice Bar AU)
Summary:
Gladio’s thirsty.
Ignis’s got the juice.
So why is the city’s most powerful family, the gods’ destiny, Cor Leonis, and annoying little brothers doing everything they can to keep these two totally compatible strangers from getting their acts together?
And while they’re both incredibly strange, maybe this isn’t their first meeting.
This is a collaborative fic we’ve been writing for about two years (and counting).
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Still chugging along on this fic, though belatedly.
Expect the appearance of someone unexpected this chapter!
So as I lay in bed this afternoon trying to fall asleep from getting up early, my conscious drifted in and out of what am I gonna do with my abandoned King Arthur story. How am I gonna tie disparate, but parallel stories together in a neat bow of plot and cause and effect that isn’t repeat the same sequence of events? How can I do more than just do the same warfare and political intrigue story most demythologizing adaptations do? Not that I plan to cut this out, just I want the high fantasy adventure too.
So I run the numbers on the Malegeant episode, Castle Corbenic, Gareth vs. the Red Knight, Lancelot capturing Joyous Guard, King Arthur gets kidnapped by Hellawe’s more like Hell’s No XP, Morgan Le Fay in general and my brain goes back to, shit there’s a lotta kidnappings and getting captured in this damn narrative XD. It’s a lot of your Princess/Queen/King/Knight/Grail/etc. is in the other castle. This is daunting and could be repetitive.
All I know is I think I gotta use or lose my King Claudas arc, but still go back to the drawing board, shrugs.
Anonymous asked:
have you ever talked about the tallest being ooc in florpus before? i’m super curious about your opinion and whether you have any past threads on the matter
reds-right-antenna answered:
I don’t think I have, but I have talked about Red and Purple’s individual characterization! (Here’s something on Red, and something on Purple)
Patchworkpoltergeist also said some really good points about this subject!
The Tallest in the Florpus are incredibly ooc for multiple reasons, but I think the biggest most glaring issue is that both of the Tallest are one-note and indistinguishable from each other. Their actual characters are a lot more complex than that.
It annoys me, as someone who genuinely likes and is interested in the Tallest, that the two of them in the Florpus are essentially just the same character and their only traits are being stupid and lazy. Had the Tallest been in character, their roles in the Florpus would’ve had more depth-
Red is responsible. He works well under pressure and when things get serious, he is up to the task and tries to fix the problem (The entirety of Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars is a good example of this.) Had Red been in character, he would’ve actually attempted to escape the Florpus.
Red is also not as willing to resort to violence as Purple is, at least not in a killing sense. He smacks people, yet when it comes to Zim being a genuine danger he tends to try to avoid punishing Zim or saying ‘no’ to him in general. He would be upset that Zim came back after years of absence, but he’d also cover it up and instill false hope in Zim that he’ll show up. I don’t think he would’ve been the one to shoot Earth, I think it would have been Purple.
Purple is lazy and likes to avoid things, that much is true, but he should have been genuinely panicked at the Florpus. He panics under pressure and definitely would not enjoy being thrown into a dimensional hole. He’s not stupid, but lazy and ditzy. He’s the one who remembers the official terms of the machinery, operations, and other aspects of their job. He’s the one who is good with numbers (Hobo13 has him gambling)
Neither of them is terrible at their job. They understand the fundamentals and actually go about their world domination plans with strategic intent. The main cause of their issues has always been Zim because Zim is their divine punishment.
The Florpus, however, is entirely their fault. Because for some reason, they both decided to not care about their jobs or their lives. There’s no reason for them to be acting so stupid and apathetic, the movie just felt like turning them into nothing. They aren’t even their own characters anymore, they aren’t Tallest Red and Tallest Purple…They’re just the Tallest, and really shitty Tallests at that.
Anonymous asked:
p-plz,,,,i wanna hear u go off on flanderized tallest and zim in the reboot era because your takes and insights are so good..!!! 💕😳😩 and im craving the tea
patchworkpoltergeist answered:
Okay, so full disclosure I still am way behind on a lot of the comics and I read them all like, once, to start with, so for all I know there’s an issue somewhere that contradicts me. I’m mostly concerned with Florpus here.
(Also it’s the short version because my old laptop will start screaming at me if I go screencap hunting and there’s a whole other post about Purple Being Good At Tallesting Actually that I’m saving for later.)
Okay, so. For the most part, the comics and Florpus act as if The Tallest laze around the Massive, pick on smallers, and do literally nothing else, ever.
“But Patch, the Tallest ARE lazy tho!”
Well, yeah, they are. But not to this extent. That’s what flanderization is, it takes one canonical trait and makes it their only trait. It behaves as if they are absolutely incapable of doing anything else but uhhhh…
They’re not.
In Battle of the Planets, are they laughing at Zim’s dumb bullshit? Yes. Are they also overseeing the first planetary sweep in the Invasion in the middle of a celebration/strategy session with hoards of their fellow Irkens? Also yes. They’re involved, they’re engaged, they both actively maintain the image of the Empire. Red replaces Skoodge with a more appropriate poster boy, and Purple demonstrates in front of everyone what happens when you question a Tallest in public by throwing them out the airlock.
And the majority of their appearances are this: overlooking battle tech in Megadoomer, pummeling Invaders for Probing Day (which is implied to be an inherent part of the thing), running a manual diagnostic on The Massive when it’s power core is taken over, all of The Great Assigning and the multiple times they’re seen talking to Zim are all examples of them doing their jobs. And there’s also little to no evidence of them casually disregarding other Invaders the way they disregard Zim, who’s out on a fake mission in the first place and keeping Zim pacified is a separate duty in itself.
When we saw the Tallest lazing around it was often while they were doing something else OR while nothing was apparently going on–there’s plenty of dead air on a long voyage, and the armada is supposed to sweep in after an Invader’s taken the planet, much of it’s a waiting game. Waiting to arrive or waiting for the place to get taken. I really need to emphasize again that in most scenes in the show where the Tallest are being lazy, nothing else is happening, or else it’s something they don’t need to actually engage in. They don’t have anything else to do. They’re bored.
But when stuff is happening they do pay attention. They’re involved. They CARE. Maybe Purple didn’t run a manual diagnostic all by himself, but he was actively aware of what was going on even if he couldn’t do much about it.
These aren’t the same dudes who just casually stroll into a Florpus hole just cuz.
I could understand even an excuse reason not to turn the ship: it’s too big to turn, or Red’s dedicated to the flight path and is stubborn about it, or turning will spill their sodas, or they don’t believe the Florpus is a big deal for the Super Massive because the Super Massive can handle anything. I could buy arrogance or overconfidence or even inconvenience (because they’re not the ones flying the ship, after all) but we get… nothing. They don’t wanna turn… apparently just cuz. The only reason given is idk, the Tallest just suck I guess???
Also, where’d this “blow up everything” mindset come from? Not that they didn’t already love blowing stuff up, but ITF implies that it’s all they do now. No mention of invading planets, nothing about takeovers, they seem to just float through space with an armada and blow things up.
I swear the reboot era either totally forgot Operation Impending Doom 2 existed or it finished off-screen and just decided to not tell anybody. If OID2 WAS over or was canceled or put on hold or abandoned, I could accept this a lot easier. If OID2 is inactive, then there’s no reason for the Tallest to be engaged since there’s nothing else to do. but it’s never even acknowledged. By anybody. At all. Is it still going on but not exciting anymore so it doesn’t get as much fanfare or attention? Larb gets a ceremony for his accomplishments but the way it’s talked about, I have no idea if he invaded anything or just happened to knock over a taco stand. What is the Empire even doing? I have no idea.
And on top of all of that, Red and Purple are interchangeable personalities with virtually no difference between them. I complain a lot about fanon doing a lot of that too but if you came in with Florpus and not familiar with the rest of Invader Zim, I honestly can’t blame anyone for writing them that way because that’s what the movie gives you.
And like, I get it, the movie’s short on time and budget so there’s less time for them but a 22 minute episode has a shorter run time and we still got two separate Tallest who were two separate people who cared when their ship flew into the sun.
I get the feeling it’s because ETF and a good chunk of the comics lean more on comedy and less on plot, but also because on a whole it leans away from the Invader part of Invader Zim. Much of the focus leans more on Dib and earth shenanigans or unrelated space shenanigans, so there’s just no place for the rest of the Irkens anymore.
(Zim’s flanderization is just a whole other rodeo and comic-exclusive, and something I didn’t realize until it was pointed out, but once it was brought up I realized it was why it’s hard for me to engage with the comics. Zim feels dumber, sillier, and with the competent capabilities we KNOW he has are ignored or disregarded. Again, the Invader is missing from Zim.)
i am such a big fan of the alliterative morte arthure author looking at the common cyclic french tradition and going ‘well..no’
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