Personally, I’m not a romancer in the game, so it wouldn’t affect me, but I see so many people ship flambae and Robert it’s crazy, and idk I feel like the devs should take up the opportunity, unless it’s stated somewhere in the cannon that Robert is strictly straight or smth
I make a lot of faceless art as well, although I can draw faces. I had an interesting reaction once saying it was lazy and that it seems like a dumb standard so… 🥲
But anyway, the reason this is a standard in my world is because at the Great Revelation, which was an event where the two gods, the God of the Death Quarter, and the Goddess of Eternity (aka the two afterlives), went up to watch over the afterlives, leaving Kalcune. They created new vessels to hold the elemental powers (aka the new 10 gods).
When they went up to the afterlives to watch over them, their faces were wiped from everyone’s memory, even the gods they created. Every painting too, their faces were wiped. Now when anyone paints any god (even the ones who live among them, who they know the faces of) they paint them faceless.
You may be wondering why I’m so quick to want to move out. I’m gonna be 18 very, soon, and I really, really just can’t live with my little brother anymore. I absolutely adore my parents and they’re truly great, but my brother is awful. (My parents are quite overbearing in my humble opinion, but they definitely aren’t the reason I’m trying to leave.)
Just as some context, my little brother has been awful to me since he was very young. I know this just sounds like regular sibling stuff, and it used to be, but now he’s almost 15 and still absolutely awful.
He’s autistic (like, very high functioning, you wouldn’t even know he is level of autism) , and my parents were completely unprepared to have an autistic kid. They to this day baby him unlike anything I’ve ever SEEN. If I did half the things he did I’d be grounded forever.
Some examples of things he’s done.
2 years ago, we were playing video games. I kept beating him over and over (because he sucked at it. I wasn’t even that good and I thought he was letting me win or smth.) well, he wasn’t and went upstairs mad despite me apologizing.
He came back down with a knife and attacked me with it. He tore my arm UP. Mind you he was ALMOST 13. An almost teenager should jnow better. My parents said he’d be grounded for a month but within a week he got his VR back, and the grounding spiralled from there until he just had it all back.
Well, recently (like 2 weeks ago) something had really set him off. It was so dumb too bro. Apparently he and my dad had been fishing and for some reason he thought he was being filmed or something? Idk. He was so weird the entire next day.
We went to my sisters house to meet my newborn nephew (who is PRECIOUS) btw, and we had to cut it short because my brother got upset. Once we were in the car he started SCREAMING at my mom, and eventually was like
“I’m gonna go ahead and show you the attention and give you the honest opinions your dad obviously never gave you-“
Mind you that grandpa died late last year so it’s still a bit fresh, especially for my mom
It pissed me off so bad, I pointed back there and was just like “don’t talk about papa that way.”
He GRABS my arm and screamed “EFF YOU.” Like so loud. I get my arm free and then he starts kicking me and my mom from the backseat. My mom pulls over quickly and starts yelling for him to stop.
Finally he calms down and then sits back down. We get in the road again and he starts talking about how he’s gonna really hurt my dad (I’m not even gonna repeat what he said, but we think he’s gotten into some REALLY dark porn or videos or something.)
And then he kept talking about how he was gonna kill my mom and me. Like exactly how, when, ect.
Then my mom gets the bright idea to go “\\\[name\\\], I’m not scared of you.”
He reaches up and GRABS me so hard it left a huge bruise on my shoulder, and he also basically skinned my thumb and hand scratching at me.
Anyway, me and my mom were ofc both terrified on the freeway becuase once my brother is in a spiral like that, he really will do some crazy shit. We get home and my dad talks to him after my mom explains everything, and guess what, to this day he still hasn’t been punished because my parents “can’t think” of anything bad enough. Like please bro. Send him to military school or SOMETHING. I can think of many good ideas. And by “good,” I mean better than taking his screens for a month, which they didn’t even do that.
Well, we go to the bowling alley last week and he loses to all of us. In the next game he threw a FIT after both my parents got a spare and he didn’t even hit a pin he turns around and shouts “FUCK.” My dad was going to pay me to not hit any either, but my little brother had an outburst and changed his score to a very high one.
My parents were obviously mad, and my mom talked to him, but still let him play the arcade, which my dad told me to let him win at all the stuff as well. And in the car he kept looking at me all angry like dude.
Anyway, he’s just not mentally well. And I suffer from it.
I’ve been saving forever and have almost 10k in savings from my fast food job over the last year. I want to buy a van, take out the back two rows of seats, and make it into a little home back there. Most of that would be DIY. The most expensive thing other than buying the van itself would be gas. All renovations would be done by me or my mechanic uncle.
Any advice on how to get going with that, how to deal with brother, and how to talk with my parents about possibly moving out? They’re very protective so it’s gonna be a struggle to convince them.
In mine, I’d have to say that brothers in arms have special dances around bonfires they do with eachother. It’s just a fun tradition.
You may be wondering why I’m so quick to want to move out. I’m gonna be 18 very, soon, and I really, really just can’t live with my little brother anymore. I absolutely adore my parents and they’re truly great, but my brother is awful. (My parents are quite overbearing in my humble opinion, but they definitely aren’t the reason I’m trying to leave.)
Just as some context, my little brother has been awful to me since he was very young. I know this just sounds like regular sibling stuff, and it used to be, but now he’s almost 15 and still absolutely awful.
He’s autistic (like, very high functioning, you wouldn’t even know he is level of autism) , and my parents were completely unprepared to have an autistic kid. They to this day baby him unlike anything I’ve ever SEEN. If I did half the things he did I’d be grounded forever.
Some examples of things he’s done.
2 years ago, we were playing video games. I kept beating him over and over (because he sucked at it. I wasn’t even that good and I thought he was letting me win or smth.) well, he wasn’t and went upstairs mad despite me apologizing.
He came back down with a knife and attacked me with it. He tore my arm UP. Mind you he was ALMOST 13. An almost teenager should jnow better. My parents said he’d be grounded for a month but within a week he got his VR back, and the grounding spiralled from there until he just had it all back.
Well, recently (like 2 weeks ago) something had really set him off. It was so dumb too bro. Apparently he and my dad had been fishing and for some reason he thought he was being filmed or something? Idk. He was so weird the entire next day.
We went to my sisters house to meet my newborn nephew (who is PRECIOUS) btw, and we had to cut it short because my brother got upset. Once we were in the car he started SCREAMING at my mom, and eventually was like
“I’m gonna go ahead and show you the attention and give you the honest opinions your dad obviously never gave you-“
Mind you that grandpa died late last year so it’s still a bit fresh, especially for my mom
It pissed me off so bad, I pointed back there and was just like “don’t talk about papa that way.”
He GRABS my arm and screamed “EFF YOU.” Like so loud. I get my arm free and then he starts kicking me and my mom from the backseat. My mom pulls over quickly and starts yelling for him to stop.
Finally he calms down and then sits back down. We get in the road again and he starts talking about how he’s gonna really hurt my dad (I’m not even gonna repeat what he said, but we think he’s gotten into some REALLY dark porn or videos or something.)
And then he kept talking about how he was gonna kill my mom and me. Like exactly how, when, ect.
Then my mom gets the bright idea to go “[name], I’m not scared of you.”
He reaches up and GRABS me so hard it left a huge bruise on my shoulder, and he also basically skinned my thumb and hand scratching at me.
Anyway, me and my mom were ofc both terrified on the freeway becuase once my brother is in a spiral like that, he really will do some crazy shit. We get home and my dad talks to him after my mom explains everything, and guess what, to this day he still hasn’t been punished because my parents “can’t think” of anything bad enough. Like please bro. Send him to military school or SOMETHING. I can think of many good ideas. And by “good,” I mean better than taking his screens for a month, which they didn’t even do that.
Well, we go to the bowling alley last week and he loses to all of us. In the next game he threw a FIT after both my parents got a spare and he didn’t even hit a pin he turns around and shouts “FUCK.” My dad was going to pay me to not hit any either, but my little brother had an outburst and changed his score to a very high one.
My parents were obviously mad, and my mom talked to him, but still let him play the arcade, which my dad told me to let him win at all the stuff as well. And in the car he kept looking at me all angry like dude.
Anyway, he’s just not mentally well. And I suffer from it.
I’ve been saving forever and have almost 10k in savings from my fast food job over the last year. I want to buy a van, take out the back two rows of seats, and make it into a little home back there. Most of that would be DIY. The most expensive thing other than buying the van itself would be gas. All renovations would be done by me or my mechanic uncle.
Any advice on how to get going with that?
I kind of don’t know what to think about this to be honest. So I’m very close to turning 18, and I’ll be honest, I haven’t had many friends in my life, let along hung out with a group of them. Well, today I worked with my 18 year old manager (who everyone loves btw, great manager and great guy), and my 18 year old co worker. Both invited me to go swimming with them and a large group of friends for a night swim. I of course wanted to go, and so I asked my mom. She said to ask my dad, who said no because
He didn’t know anyone (which… fair I suppose, but I know most of the people who would have been going, and I do trust them enough to hang around. But I also feel like parents needing to personally know the people you hang out with is something that happens when you’re a bit younger.)
It was too late for him, which… okay. He stays up watching YouTube till 3 am every night anyway so I’m not sure why, but I get it. I don’t wanna leave the house late either. (He would have to becuase I was a laaaaazy 15 year old and didn’t get my permit, and so now I’m working towards my license. )
And I understand both those reasons, don’t get me wrong. Although when I told them, both offered to meet my dad if that was the issue (which was very sweet of them). My dad did meet both guys and actually liked them.
But anyway, in the car he was saying how if I wanted to hang out with them and that group, he was nervous about it. I get it. He’s my dad. But the reasons he gave felt kinda overbearing, especially in comparison to other friends of mine. He said he wanted to be the one who got me there and got me home, he wanted to be in the area the entire time I was there (like within 5 minutes away.), he wanted a text message ever hour, and of course gave me the talks I already know by heart, like not taking drinks from anyone, pills from anyone, etc.
I love that my dad cares, don’t get me wrong. I know I’m still young, and I know im his daughter and he’s gonna worry about me… but still. This is my first chance in years to actually make friends or hang out with people my age. I’m homeschooled so basically my only social interactions my entire high school life has been church when they make me go on Sunday and then work.
I would just me really crushed if my parents said I couldn’t go, especially cuz their the ones who are always telling me to make friends. And I really do like these people. And they aren’t as irresponsible as my parents probably think.