Do you think Odette could work with someone like Varesa or Keqing? I know they didn't get stellar buff this time around, but I just keep wondering if there's a possibility it would be feasible. I love Varesa's gameplay, and i have c6 Keqing, but keeping them behind the bars of niche gameplay feels like a waste.
Does anyone know if Off Track is coming back any time soon? Or is it already back, and I just can't find new chapters anywhere? It feels like I've been waiting for ages. And does anyone know the artist's Instagram maybe?
I'm legitimately considering issuing a credit card with his face on it because it feels like such a waste to not do so. Being so pretty just has to be illegal somewhere in the world. Seo Taeoh, the man you are.
Manhwa: Scent and Sensibility
I love characters like him, who present as being terrifying but in reality are just softies. In a way, I also relate to that narrative. I've been told by others they're scared of me or think i'm mean and intimidating, probably because of my RBF. Although idk about anything else from a personal perspective, people say i give off a vibe of someone who just has an intense energy, but i always try to take on a role of a parent or elder sister to soften my image; my friends even titled me their babysitter whenever we game together. Regardless, compared to before, seeing him talk so much just warms my heart
Sometimes the idea of people having free will isn't exactly a flattering concept
Hello. I'm pulling for Bladie and his lc in the next update, but i'm not sure if i even have a team for him. I heard he'd be good with Aventurine SP, which i plan on pulling for with both eidolons and lc, but since it's still a long time before he's released, i was thinking about what team would be the best for Blade for now.
These are all my fully built and maxxed characters. Could i use Cipher with him too? Because I really love her and her gameplay, but i really do have no use for her outside of cw lol (i basically returned to hsr for her and pulled without thinking of any teams). But if i can't that's fine ig, the main focus is MBlade teammates. Anyways, i assume Archer would be good with him, but beyond that i'm not sure tbh, so i'd like an advice on teammbuilding
I've seen a lot of posts about the golden psycho trio (Ceasar, Zhenya and Ilay) and their childhoods that supposedly shaped their personalities. In most of them, Ilay's childhood, compared to the other two, or even just in general, was really good, and he chose to be the way we know him now, but i don't think that's entirely true.
I mean, his whole life he was basically surrounded by one of the most dangerous lines of business - weapons, which includes possibly nuclear weapons too, and also, heavy rivalry on the market, a lot of influential enemies from other countries, etc. In the beginning of the manhwa, he said that he was under surveillance all the time during his childhood, which makes me think that this surveillance might have been not only from his family but from family enemies as well. Since early childhood he's been exposed to the evils of the world, which most of us don't know or bother about. He learnt that violence is the only way to get what you want.
I didn't read the novel; maybe some details were omitted in the making of the manhwa, but I suspect there have been assassination attempts on him or his family, and not one or two. This is weapon business we're talking about; many people would wanna get rid of key figures of that field, possibly threatening their families as well, because family is viewed as an ultimate weakness of every one of us. The reason for his numerous kill count in "self-defence" might have started before as actual self-defence; the stronger he grew, "the less" he needed to defend himself because people were already afraid of him, but at the same time, he can't help, but have it as his only way of acting toward other people. It's like, when you live most of your life with depression, you cannot imagine yourself out of it anymore, having a happy, peaceful life and all. He also detached himself from outside influence by not allowing anyone to call him by his given name and calling him 'Rick' instead; that's his way of saying, "Don't mess with me, you don't even deserve to call me by my name if you're gonna be afraid of me and want me to die." This wall he put up eventually became his whole personality.
And at last, people do change, but the change is and has never been a fast process; that's why the main novel ended in such an unpleasant way regardless of how much change he has undergone after meeting Taeui; not that much time has passed anyway since then, so expecting him to not resort to his old way would be overestimating the pace of change in the person that's been exposed to different environment and feelings. That does not justify his actions of course, but the fact that his and Taeui relationship later becomes way better than now means that the change finally took effect. Also, i feel like Tae might think the same. Despite Ilay putting a wall of inhumanity around himself, Tae saw humanity hidden behind it, as if for him it was mildly transparent from the beginning and became more and more transparent with time.
I don't think my assessment of his character was groundbreaking or anything, but, the more i think about a character, the more i understand, and i feel the need to voice my opinion no matter if it's close to the truth or does it align with people's take on the same topic. I'd be glad to read your guys' opinions and some additions as well, if you have some. I've always been interested in morally twisted characters lol, and discussing them with other people never hurts.
Question for those, who read the novel. I'm just curious about something. How Ilayy and Tae's relationship gonna be like in the future? I mean, I'm kinda not flattered by the idea of Tae perpetually being scared of his partner while dating them. That doesn't sit right with me at all, makes me question why I even started reading. I'm not very keen on toxic love that ends with "happy endings", because for me, it's just a bad ending romanticised. I've been thinking about it for a while, and can't seem to get it out of my mind, so I'd appreciate if my curiosity can be fulfilled.