ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS • [ 1/? ]

LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII — 1/?

every year, my devil may cry brainrot re-emerges. here’s some stuff i drew back in like 2022

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

02.23.2025 | Shadowheart

Shadowheart Alternate Hair - Updated for Launch by vyrelis. Camera by Frans Bouma. Captured using ReShade.

Neve's romance

Neve is (by some margin) my favorite Veilguard romance, and I'm just mulling over what exactly makes her romance so good for me. 

First, you see a very different side of her. I love romances with reserved characters who only fully open up in the context of a romance. Outside of the romance Neve is very careful and put-together, even with friends, but the romance shows you so much vulnerability (wonderfully conveyed in the voice acting) and it's very appealing. It makes her more nuanced, and it makes the romance feel much more intimate. Although Neve's romance doesn't actually have more content than the others, to me it felt like it did, because I really had this sense of getting something very different and new on the romance path. 

It also has some fantastic lines. 'Kiss me so I know it's real.' 'I knew you were trouble.' 'Aren't we a pair.' Not only is she gorgeous, she has such a way with words!

In addition, it has a well-defined arc. The central issue threading through the relationship is Neve's anxiety around allowing herself to develop these feelings. This note is present the whole time, and it's intertwined well with all her loyalty missions, because every time you come through for her you're giving her reasons to let her walls down. And it reaches a natural culmination before Tearstone island, where she's still hesitant to say she loves you, followed by a lovely resolution when she realises she almost missed the chance to say it forever, and so finally she does. So there's a clear emotional trajectory which runs through the whole romance and fits well with the structure of the game. 

Relatedly, it doesn't feel easy. The whole time she's letting you in and then pulling away, even after the romance lock-in. It feels like you had to work slowly and persistently at getting her to trust you, so it feels very satisfying when she finally does. It's not transactional, you don't just press the flirt button a few times and get 'romance' as an output, it really feels natural and organic.

Finally, romancing her as a woman felt like a very believable sapphic dynamic to me. There's an equality of initiative from both sides, and a specific kind of heartfeltness. There are some cases where I've romanced bisexual women in games and had the feeling that the romance was written under the assumption that you're playing a man and so the dynamic is sort of implicitly gendered, but with Neve it felt very natural and right to romance her as a woman.

Anyway: I love her. Beautifully done. Definitely a highlight of the game for me.

SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER | scenery 3/?

love pickles. a little pickle never killed nobody. Unless you’re in one. Then shit ain’t funny.

You’re not going to let that go, are you?

i think she’s neat as hell. yeah

I... I'm sorry. I don't know what's come over me.

this might be one of the worst things anyones ever said to me

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