#not fate related

I’ve only read chapter 1 so far, but…

(Spoilers below)

When Lance called for Gruscha I couldn’t picture it any other way than this. XD

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u9tIrwuRa9Y?&ab_channel=VIVACIOUSHONEY

drowninginprettypixels:

*bangs head on a wall* Why is MC always so against her bullies/attempted murders being punished? It’s such an annoying reccuring theme in the game. Push you into a river? Cool. Steals and breaks your things? Eh. Locks you in a room where under normal circumstances you wouldn’t have been capable of escaping from? Don’t be mad at them. Sets you up to be snatched by a human trafficking ring for being around their prince of choice? They didn’t mean it!

Like, Ms mamas! Where do you draw the line in the sand, successfully killing you? What do you lose from letting the princes take care of them? I don’t know if the writers do this to emphasize how kind and pure of heart she is but there are better ways to do this that doesn’t involve being a door mat. She always acts like the S ranks are going to execute them as their comeuppance.

At this point I roll my eyes at whatever completely unhinged thing the schoolyard bullies got cooking up. Why are they going to criminal felony worthy lengths to monopolize the nonexistent attention of their prince of choice in the first place? Teasing and shoving, fine. Seeing that whole routine every time got old but that makes sense. Throwing a whole glass vase directly at someone’s head is not. Why are these girls so rabid

OMG THIS! This annoys me so much!

They should have at least given her a reason to not go to the princes for help when their fanclubs acted up. Like, if she thought they were telling those girls to do that stuff as a way to force her to seek their help, then yeah, I wouldn’t have asked them for help either. If the writers then went the route of MC deciding, “I have to solve my own problems,” then they have to have her actually attempt to solve said problems and not just ignore them as the harassment escalates. Maybe beat up the biggest student in class that isn’t Rio (her friend) or Lance (the guy who never comes to class and therefore did nothing wrong)?

marlynnofmany:

cakeisnotpie:

toseehowthestoryends:

attackfish:

Every time I see that post about how Excalibur and Caliburn are different swords, and Excalibur is the sword given by the Lady in the Lake, and Caliburn is the sword in the stone, I just sit there shaking my head, because everyone on it is so earnest, and certain of their rightness, and frustrated with everybody else being Wrong about Arthurian myth, and they are all just as wrong as the people they are trying to correct.

Excalibur and Caliburn are two words for the same sword, both derived from the Welsh Caledfwlch. Caliburn (or Caliburnus) is the Latinization, and Excalibur is the Old French version. Sometimes this sword is the sword in the stone, and sometimes it’s given by the Lady in the Lake. Sometimes there is a sword in the stone, and sometimes there isn’t. Sometimes there is a Lady in the Lake and sometimes there isn’t. Arthurian myth, like all myths, doesn’t have a single definitive version. It’s a grab bag of many related stories told by many different people, that don’t fit together into any kind of cohesive whole, and that often contradict each other. Every one of us gets to pick the bits and pieces to stitch together into the version we like best.

So Excalibur and Caliburn can be two different swords, or one sword. There can be a sword in the stone, or a Lady in the Lake, or both. It’s up to you. And no one version is the right one, but also none of them are wrong.

This is the kind of excellent Arthurian discourse I came to tumblr for.

@oft-goes-awry​ is absolutely correct. 

#AND NEITHER ONE#is a sensible basis for a system of government!

Arthurian legend is a group fanfic, and the Monty Python version is as true as any other.

toasnearlynakedghost:

I feel like the CoD writers gave each of these characters a tragic backstory. Are there any characters in CoD who don’t have a tragic backstory?

The MC’s parents are dead. We learned this in the prologue.

I’m going to list off the characters and the tragic backstories so if you’re new to CoD/haven’t read a consort path yet and don’t want spoilers then stop here. If you’re new and love spoilers then click keep reading.

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So…um… My brain thought of way too much for a comment. >_>; I am a wordy pain in the butt. I tried to send this as a message, but didn’t see a way to do that. I hope it’s okay for me to reblog this.

Guy’s situation is likely worse that that. It’s implied in his route that his mother was murdered; Guy uses ancient magic to ask his stepmother if she killed her. Can you imagine what it would be like living from a young age thinking your current stepmother killed your mother? Also, in the Enchanted and Entwined story event, they made it seem like the royal family had a huge target on its back. Like, literally anybody would do anything to get themselves in power. I imagine it would be hard to trust most people if everyone and their brother kept trying to kill you. In that same story event, Roc tries to have MC murdered when he thinks Guy likes her. His reasoning is basically, “If you don’t like things or people, no one can hurt you.” He may have been still hurting from Min’s death and trying to prevent Guy from that fate by killing MC before things got serious. 

Lynt’s situation seems like it would be worse for Hanneh. He didn’t seem to care if he married her or not, but I’m sure she had an opinion. I don’t think she would’ve been crazy about the idea of marrying someone that was luke warm towards her. Lynt needs an heir, so they’d have to make at least one baby. It would really suck to have to have sex with someone that didn’t seem to care about her very much, and then give birth to a child that he might not care about either. The saddest thing that could’ve happened to Lynt was his grandfather dying. This might be an English only thing, but Lynt only ever talks about his grandfather in the past tense. To compare, he talks about his parents in the present tense, and they are both very much alive. In his route, he tells MC his grandfather was the relative he was closest to. He also carries around a children’s book his grandfather gave him. When he returns home, he seems sad when he realizes he left it behind at the academy. It’s hard to tell though if losing his grandfather hurt him like everything I said would imply because the game keeps going out of its way to remind us that Lynt never cared about anything before MC came along. (Lynt is my favorite, but this is something that drives me absolutely bonkers. The game paints him as an eccentric but also as someone who doesn’t have a single fuck to give. And I just…Hear me out…You can have weird thoughts or no thoughts, but you can’t simultaneously have both. It’s impossible to be like Ayame from Fruits Basket and Mytho from Princess Tutu at the same time.)

Fenn’s situation might also be worse if you overthink it the way I have and take Fenn at face value (even though he’s an unreliable narrator). When he and Eva met, he was young enough to need a babysitter and she was old enough to be the babysitter. He said he loved her but she didn’t reciprocate until after she married his father. The game doesn’t tell us how old he was when that happened, but his flashback text boxes in his Ch. 21 perspective say “young Fenn.” It sounds to me like he was conditioned when he was very young and then abused when he was an older child or young teen. His father doesn’t seem very fond of him, and Louis could easily execute one of his children and still have plenty to take over as king after he dies, especially if they’ve committed a heinous crime. Fenn is the only one of his siblings capable of the king’s craft, but in his route, Guy and Roy make it sound as though Kieran may be set to inherit the throne anyway. In the perspective, “young Fenn" asks his father why Eva alone will be punished, and I have to wonder if it was because “young Fenn” was too young to consent and therefore seen as a victim instead of a co-conspirator. Louis also blames Fenn in this moment saying it wouldn’t have happened if Fenn had kept a leash on his desires. (I volunteered for a few years with an organization that helped survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. I was a hotline operator, but before I was allowed near the phone, I was required to complete a 60 hour training. I never fielded a call where it happened, but I know that parents blaming children for their assault isn’t uncommon. I also know Fenn is supposed to be the avatar of lust, but people who are sexually assaulted or raped may act promiscuously as a way to feel like they’ve gotten power over their bodies back and control over their lives.)

I think Toa’s mom’s still alive. In Fenn’s path in the Would Be Weddings story event, Toa tells MC he’s going home for a ceremony for his parent’s wedding anniversary. Toa doesn’t seem to think it’s important, so I doubt they’d bother with it if his mother was dead. She did seem pretty absent as a parent though. In his path in the Kisses of Devilish Delight story event, he tells MC when his sisters ditched him in the garden and he finally found his way out, his mother commended him on suffering in silence. Um. No. Listen, it’s important for a future ruler to learn how to let stuff go, but it’s equally important for him to learn when to tell someone to fuck off. I get the feeling he flies off the handle at Guy so easily because he never learned how to pick his battles. His sisters also never learned what boundaries are or how to respect them.

Roy and Rio’s seem spot on. Although, I might add that Rio might be the only prince who has siblings back home that he misses.

I have seen some spoilers for Grayson’s book 2 that make me think his uncle’s still alive, but seeing him lose control to a magical object was probably also traumatizing.

So, normally I play a route through once with crowns before dropping gems on the premium paths. I made an exception with Tino, because I’ve liked his story events. Also, from what I’ve heard from people who’ve played the Japanese version, he’s an absolute cinnamon roll. The first one is 100% worth the gems.

Spoilers below for this, Guy’s route, and Grayson’s route.

Tino carries MC bridal style, makes her a hot chocolate, and is all around chivalrous. 10/10 gallant Tino is a good Tino. Plus MC’s moping at thinking he only paid any attention to her at the start because Lynt told him to is kept to a minimum toward the end.

Someone who’s played the normal path will have to tell me if this plays out differently, but I did find it a little weird that he dove in the lake to retrieve MC’s bracelet. It was valiant, and I’m all for that, but the girl that chucked the bracelet in the water said it could be retrieved with a little magic. Tino’s a thaumaturge; we’ve seen him use magic to protect Dia in the prince’s path, so I’m not super sure why he didn’t use it here.

It also makes the next scene where he takes her to the valet lounge a little weird. He didn’t dry her or himself off with magic the way Guy does in his route, so I guess they’re dripping muddy water all over the settee and carpet?

For as cute as this premium path is, I also can’t help feeling it’s a bit displaced. That girl chucked the bracelet in the water knowing MC wasn’t good enough with her magic to fish it out on her own; that seemed to be a huge reason why she did it in the first place. MC’s current skills probably put her closer to a mundane than a thaumaturge, and the tension between those two groups is a theme in Grayson’s route. This would’ve been a good way to illustrate to the player that magic users can be dicks to people who are bad at magic or can’t use it at all. It also makes more sense for Grayson to jump in after the bracelet. As a mundane, there’s zero chance he could get it back with magic.

I dunno. I still liked it a lot anyway. 

Mainly how abortions would be viewed in Saligia. 

I’m curious if anybody else has headcanons about this or, based on this, where they’d like to live. I’d go with Akedia. :)

Qelsum

Abortion techniques were developed in Qelsum and is viewed there as a part of health care. It is 100% legal with no restrictions because people see it as a medical procedure.

Ira

Ira has a total ban on abortion. In the words of George Carlin, “They want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.” They don’t even bother to sugar coat that. Miscarriages and stillbirths are investigated as crimes, and the women are seen as murderers until they are proven innocent. The population has been slowly decreasing in Ira because people don’t want to be prosecuted if something goes wrong with the pregnancy. Those able to travel tend to seek abortions in Luxure and Voleri. For those that can’t, deaths from botched abortions are common.

Avari

Abortions are legal on paper, but have so many restrictions they’re virtually unattainable. It’s a 100% a men vs women power play thing, and because the person in charge is male, guess which side is winning. The most common place women go for abortions is Voleri, but many also travel to Invidia. Like Ira, Avarian women also frequently die from botched abortions.

Invidia

In Invidia, abortions are legal, no questions asked, up toward the end of the second trimester (around week 24). After that, they are only available if the woman’s life is at risk. They say their restrictions are in place to protect the unborn baby. There has been a push to add more restrictions to be more in line with Avari. However, there is also growing unrest among women because they feel their bodily autonomy is being violated.

The Isle of Colde

At first, nobody was sure what to do about abortions on Colde. It is a politically neutral island, so it probably shouldn’t just adopt one country’s policies. At the same time, it was housing people from all of those countries at the Academy of Concordia (some involuntarily, like Sherry). They opted for a middle of the road approach, like Invidia, but included rape in addition to the health of the woman as a reason to grant an abortion after 24 weeks. However, people maintaining citizenship to a country with fewer restrictions can obtain help returning to their homeland for the procedure. It’s most dangerous to get an abortion on the Isle of Colde since that’s where Iritium is the most active. They target/attack places that offer abortions as it is against their religion. (They do the same in countries where the procedure is legal, usually targeting Qelsum, Luxure, and Akedia the most. Their efforts have not been met kindly by the monarchies effected. Guilty parties are sentenced to life in prison in Akedia and death in Qelsum and Luxure.)

Voleri

Voleri has rules similar to Invidia, but they’re thinking of making moves to be more like Akedia, Luxure, and Qelsum due to there being so many children in their orphanages and their failing foster care system. In the interest in increasing the quality of life of children, Voleri is considering allowing parents to decide what size family they can reasonably provide for.

Akedia

Akedia takes the stance that it is pro-life, but mean it in a very different context than it is used on Earth. They believe women will have unsafe abortions if they don’t have access to safe abortions. The life of the fetus is forfeit, but they can still save the woman. They choose to do so by making abortions legal with no restrictions. Instead, they ask Akedian citizens  seeking an abortion to fill out a questionnaire that asks after their reasoning. Answers to these questionaries are used to inform Akedia’s social programs. Over the years, they have improved their sex ed programs, increased access to birth control, universal health care, programs that help families afford food and housing, and improved access to childcare. Employers are also mandated to offer one year of paid parental leave to each parent. Due to their efforts, they have the lowest number of abortions in Saligia.

Luxure

Abortions are 100% legal in Luxure. They’re also not very common among Luxurian natives because birth control is everywhere. They hand that stuff out like candy at a parade! People there believe women should be completely in control of their reproductive choices.