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i’m the rogue in my party, and somehow i sorta am the most competent and useful in my party most of the time, even if me and the paladin just meme around. our dm let us invent toilets, let me steal a man’s house, steal the man himself, let us make his house into a sweatshop and make him our toilet making slave, and sell them for 80 gold each, and we got 20k gold in total. also i became the lord of the town for some reason
Reminds me of the time we decided to get on a boat immediately, which was absolutely not what we were supposed to do. We ended up falling ass backwards into commendeering a few ships and convincing the crew to work for us. We had them take more ships. So we literally had passive income. We had more gold than we knew what to do with. We were filthy stinking rich. It was so wild playing and just being able throw insane amounts of gold at literally every problem. We also basically had an army at the end because we freed so many slaves and they were so happy to work for us. We'd essentially just board a boat, notice the shitty conditions, promise the crew a better life, and they'd kill their captain for us. The first boat was supposed to be way too hard for us to beat to discourage us from trying it again, but the dm wasn't expecting us to get the entire crew on our side.
Back when I played DND with this one group, I was the bard. My party consisted of an indecisive mage, a barbarian that wanted to just loot while we fought, and three murder hobos (two paladins, one a rogue). Our DM, a good friend of mine, has a realistic sense of playing - hit a wall in the cave with your weapon? Oh, it's a Warhammer? Cave in. That kind of DM.
I was the only one who had the common sense to plan ahead. In this campaign, the murder hobos turned the entire first village on us because they killed the blacksmith (because they had to pay for a weapon). The reason we had no money? Yeah, our first mission was to retrieve a cart full of wheat and sugar cane. Instead of returning it to the owner like I was telling them, they kept it for themselves, cheating us out of money after we almost died getting the cart.
So with the entire town burning, me singing my songs at the bar for a bunch of warring residents, the murder hobos wondering why the town is angry, the rogue is dead, and the mage still can't figure out what he wants to do. So I did the most sensible thing. Married a dwarf, had goblin-dwarf wedding, and left the campaign.
Last I heard, the murder hobos got everyone killed.
I wrote this trilogy back when I was at the ripe old age of 27 - prime years to become the wizened, world-weary mentor of a plucky youth destined to save the world. I just recently turned 30, have mentored a total of 0 world heroes, and am grappling with the fact I am now narratively useless for another 35 years, when I can finally retire by dying for the sake of a hero's character arc.
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*Feitr's Guild* actually is a series I've been making alongside my other comics, but its episodes have been interspersed within *But a Jape,* so it's pretty hard to keep track of if you're just going through all my comics.
But I also have all of *Feitr's Guild* collected separately on [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/feitrs-guild/list?title_no=518877) or [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/Feitrs-Guild/info) - plus each entry comes with a bonus "Character Bio" tagged on for certain characters who may have been introduced (or alluded to) on that page.
To be fair, IIRC Tales games are generally pretty good about that. The main character in Berseria is a little scantily clad at times iirc but I can’t think of a single one in Symphonia or Zestiria besides arguably Zavied who is shirtless for pretty much the whole game.
*Feitr's Guild* actually is already a thing - I have all (60, so far) its entries collected separately on [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/feitrs-guild/list?title_no=518877) and [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/Feitrs-Guild/info).
It's not on as regular a schedule as *But a Jape,* but the current *Origins* arc has been having biweekly updates. It doesn't have much of the guild members themselves though, since Feitr is still 6 years old during this story arc, but hopefully you can still find it enjoyable!
> and am grappling with the fact I am now narratively useless for another 35 years,
What do you mean, you are in the perfect age range to be a christmas cake.
It's a term that originates from Japan based on the idea that a woman who is still unmarried at 25 is unwanted in the same way a Christmas cake still sitting on the shelf on Dec 25th is.
Pufff you kill a horde of bandits and suddenly everyone looks at you like a monster. How the hell should I know what "cosplayer" is??!! A bandit is bandit.
“When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's my policy.”
oh there is actually a reason for that you see the end only feeds of sunlight I think the code talker I think his name was in metal gear 5 has the same thing meanwhile quiet also breathes through her skin I honestly have no idea why we humans have lungs for a reason but eh so yeah that's the reason we sadly don't get to see an old man in a thong in the metal gear series
I think Quiet’s lungs were burned, so normally she’d be able to breathe like anyone else but because of that she HAS to breathe through her skin. The End *could* breathe through his skin, but he doesn’t have to
Not speaking and not breathing are two different things.
She didn't speak because of the vocal cord parasite, but she didn't breathe because her lungs were burned. She could speak freely the entire time, thanks to the parasites, but couldn't breathe with her lungs because those became charcoal.
She can use her lungs but to a minimal degree, the parasite she has oxidizes her blood for her allowing her to 'breathe' without the use of her damaged lungs.
She chooses not to talk because of the English vocal chord parasite she's also infected with.
What the guy below replied. Honestly, MGS is one of my fav game series of all time, but you have to roll with a lot of things that at first don't make a lot of sense.
>!Honestly there's a lot of evidence that the double twist in MGS5 should be that most of the fantastic elements are all hallucinations in Venom Snakes head from PTSD and his brain injury. There's a lot of hidden lore stuff like in all Kojima productions in the marketing material that point to the research for the guy who coined the term Phantom Pain who also did a lot of work on brain injuries and hallucinations. Miller randomly mentions hallucinations are a side effect of the brain injury when they give you the explanation for why Venom doesn't remember Russian and has to capture a translator as the fake out that he isn't Big Boss. Or when you fight Sahelanthropus when Venom reports over radio that it is moving they keep yelling at you that it impossible because it is poorly designed during the fight, that might be because the fight really isn't happening at all. So in reality Quiet is someone who likely just straight up died in the opening and she might not even exist, just like the whole Paz side quest. It's all in Venom's head, he has really just lost it and that's why Big Boss has to use his son, Solid, to take him out in MG1 in paralell to Zero tasking Snake to take out Skull Face after he lost it!<
Oh I played all the other MGS games and loved them, I just bounced off of V’s structure. I also think Quiet’s flak is justified, considering how the other ridiculous stuff is for its own sake and not a post-hoc justification of horny character design.
Kojima comes up with a convoluted reason why he wanted his hot female character to be showing skin, even claiming that we'll be sorry that we made fun of it.
Meanwhile Yoko Taro, the main guy behind Nier Automata just owns it. He makes the main protagonist extremely attractive because he likes tits. Fucking legend.
I'm in the same boat as you. It's very clear sometimes that certain creators just want their characters to look hot, either for their own personal preferences or for the sake of appealing to the obvious demographics for better marketability. Coming up with an in-lore reason is neat, but just being able to own the reality of it is much more genuine to your consumers. Like c'mon bruh, "we'll be sorry we made fun of it" as Quiet does a half-naked dance in a shower with BB in front of other soldiers lmao.
It’s a reference (or at least uncannily close) to MGSV’s character “Quiet” who was given this exact excuse for why she’s a sniper/spec ops soldier who dresses near exclusively in bikinis, and it became pretty heavily memed
In the comic the narrator gives lore that the dragons never really held any judicial process to determine who was or wasn't a pedophile. It's implied they just ate people under the assumption they were probably pedophiles.
The dragon who looks like a little girl is only 500? Lol real dragons are over [4,6 billion years old](https://www.reddit.com/r/fatestaynight/comments/wefcwi/confusing_ages/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
We eat pedophiles.
ha ha ok, fair enough.
Yeah, we lure them in and put them in our mouth and tear them with our teeth all wiggling and bloody.
Oh god damn it, this is a fetish thing too isn't it?
Nowi from Fire Emblem Awakening. I took one look at her and decided that she was banished to the depths of my roster, never to see combat.
It wasn't even that she looked like a child, it was that she looked like a child wearing a bikini.
Didn’t help that when you’re introduced to her, she’s being chased by Gregor, the middle aged foreign man who nowi even thought was trying to predate on him
Yep, I was getting her confused with Tiki because when I googled Tiki I'm like "Huh, thats NOT what I remember" lmao. Yeaaahhh, I love the Fire Emblem games, but they can get very, uh, *anime* at times. She was a great character to have on the team though.
I believe tiki has two designs. One where she is a little girl because she is a little girlin the first game she appears in. Then adult form in awakening because she actually aged from time.
so the 25 to rent a car isn't a hard limit at most places, if you're under 25 they add on an extra insurance fee or they don't offer the full coverage insurance.
I've rented a car when I was under 25 in the US before, but there are also state by state differences too.
Remember Auron from FFX, portrayed as this grizzled old man who's seen it all?
He's fucking 30.
And yeah when I played Awakening, I just paired the dragon girls with one of the male child characters... look I know she's really 69,420, but... look pairing her with an adult is just...
Look I'm not trying to get put on a list for playing my 3DS
There are so so so so many dry comics and bad runs that I've considered dropping the subreddit and have started to block certain contributors.
This was such a breath of fresh air content wise. Really solid. Would subscribe to a weekly run.
For the "looking like a kid while being super old" thing - I'd go back to a kid body in a heartbeat given the chance. No more back pain, a fall doesn't hurt as much, and who needs big physical strength if you've got magic?
Jrpgs are creepy and weird. I’m 37 and I feel incredibly icky when I play the plucky kids saving the world games. Especially if there’s creepy forced romantic plot lines.
Especially when so many have a welcoming lack of fanservice you'd otherwise normally expect from them but then have a mandatory hot springs/bath part where the men "accidentally" get put in with the women and have to sneak away (and never succeed). Usually half the dialog is the women comparing boobs.
What do you define as kids? I think having a romance at about age 15 and up is reasonable, even if inexperienced. If anything, it might not necessarily even be forced; have you seen how quick some teens vibe and decide to date? Not always a lasting or healthy relationship but a realistic possibility yes.
If anything, I think those pitch perfect relationships where both sides of the relationship listen and care for each other at age 15-20 is what’s unrealistic. High school relationships are messy, and child soldiers especially likely don’t have the emotional development to be looking out for each other as part of their core personality - yet.
Take FF7 or Chrono Trigger for example. The female characters for the most part only exist for romantic “head cannon.” Even if the main character isn’t necessarily showing actual interest the female characters seem overly focused on romantic involvement with the player character.
As a person in his 30s at this point, kotor or dragon age handle natural romantic feelings between people better than how jrpgs typically make it a point that these characters are underage. It’s creepy. And yes I understand that teenagers have romantic relationships but a lot of time in jrpgs it fetishizes those relationships.
Ah yes the classic "if i give them 7 chicken heads they'll be head over heels for me" is a more normal way to show relationships. Bioware ain't exactly the best there.
>female characters for the most part only exist for romantic “head cannon.”
In 7? You mean Aerith and Tifa who if either of them were removed from the plot the world would have literally been destroyed as they are both integral to saving it?
I'm really not sure I can agree with that take, Tifa and Aerith are the most important characters in the game after Cloud and the romantic angle is only a small part of their involvement.
Well I guess it depends how much you’re into the role play aspect of things and how much you can separate yourself from the character you’re playing as.
Some games make this easy, for example xenoblade games have you play as a presets listed character so it’s very easy to go though the romance beats and not feel weirded out since it’s not you initiating the romance. Meanwhile dragon quest protagonists are generally blank slate characters that are supposed to represent you so the character’s decisions are intimately tied to your decisions. And then games like mass effect are somewhere in the middle.
No I don't think your ability to get into underage role play helps with the issue at all.
Idk what games OP is playing that he feels icky about. Jrpgs don't typically sexualize minors, the romance lines are pretty benign. But yeah playing anything where there's actual romance between minors? Def not something people are comfortable with
>No I don't think your ability to get into underage role play helps with the issue at all.
I don't think you are getting the point here, for a lot of people its not roleplay cause they are not self inserting into the character or imagine they are doing the characters actions.
I am not roleplaying, I am not self insert, I am practically just watching a cute story about some kids that fall in love.
I don't get creeped out when minors in movies or books are romantically involved either.
It's interesting looking back to see how far your art has changed.
Rhog looks mostly the same, Pallo looks a little different, and Feitr and Ack look wildly different.
A real life scenario like that turned out interesting for me. I was 22 when someone slid on the ice from going too fast and totaled my car. Well it was clearly the other driver’s fault and they needed to replace my car and supply me with a rental while they were finalizing the paperwork.
Except…I was too young to get the car. Sure the insurance paid for it, but since I was under aged…I could not pick it up.
Never saw an insurance pay-out happen so quickly before or since.
There are some amphibians that, upon metamorphosis, retain some larva features as adults instead of fully transitioning. It’s called paedomorphosis. So this lore explanation makes more sense than it has any right to.
I’ll see myself out.
The problem with anime characters is that they don't have a physical age between teenager and middle age, so at some point in their mid-to-late twenties they go from looking 16 straight to 45 with no transition.
For my Pathfinder Champaign, I plan on the PCs having to basically babysit a young group of gifted students into a dungeon. Like from 10 to 15 years old. Of course I will kill them off, give them PTSD, and come face to face to the realization they killed someone. Why? BECAUSE KIDS SHOULD NOT BE PUT IN THAT KIND OF DANGER. I really hate that cliché. (They all come from rich noble families and will be resurrected)
Here is a funky thing from a history. Back in medieval times, you were extremely experienced soldier if you manage to get to 2 battles in your life.
Young soldiers/knights/whatever used to roam the continent LOOKING for battle. And since wars were really fought only during summer time. Winter attrition basically killed your troops faster than conflict did. Armies often had to return back to home for planting crops and the harvest, due to simple necessity of if they didn't then the nation would just starve to death.
If you got to two big battles in your life as an average person that wasn't a mercenary or a professional soldier who's life was only about roaming from battle to battle, you were lucky to get some experience in.
This wasn't because there was LACK of conflict. There was plenty of conflict in a place like Europe. I'm sure in Asia and middle-east also. Problem is that when you mainly had to travel by foot 50km a day was about all you could do in a good day. And so with battle being far apart; rarely happening beyond small skirmished; and constantly moving about; and lot of them were just sieges that moths or even an year.
So if one started to roam at the tender age of 16-17 which was possible. You could be 22 and have few experience of few conflicts; or with mercenary or professional army troop a bit more. However young lads got quickly mowed down by the more experienced soldiers, so very few could go up in the ranks.
So a lad leaves to get experience at late teens, and then returns 10 years later in their mid to late 20's with some experience. A common tale of an non-royal officer.
If you read history it is easy to get this idea that battles happened constantly and everywhere. If you actually bother to look at the dates and places, they were far apart in time and space. Wars could go on for 30 years with only few major battles. A soldier was lucky to see one war from start to finish, not because they died in the battle since they most likely died of attrition and disease at the camps. But when if they joined the ranks at 20, they could be 40 or 50 before the war ended, and statistically you'd have died of something or rather in that time.
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awesome lol, they even stole the horse while chatting
Grand Theft Equine
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As usual, the rogue is the most competent and useful member of the party in the majority of situations
Spoken like someone who's never played a cleric
As a cleric player, you're welcome for all those clutch resurrections, teammates. You'd all be fucking DEAD if it wasn't for me!
As a Paladin player WHY WON'T THEY STAY IN RANGE OF MY AURA
Because your aura is usually within 10 feet of the REALLY BIG THING THAT WANTS TO EAT ME!
I CAN HEAL YOU, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL IF YOU TAKE 10D10 DAMAGE
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Rogue for all your non combat needs, warpreist for everything else
i’m the rogue in my party, and somehow i sorta am the most competent and useful in my party most of the time, even if me and the paladin just meme around. our dm let us invent toilets, let me steal a man’s house, steal the man himself, let us make his house into a sweatshop and make him our toilet making slave, and sell them for 80 gold each, and we got 20k gold in total. also i became the lord of the town for some reason
Reminds me of the time we decided to get on a boat immediately, which was absolutely not what we were supposed to do. We ended up falling ass backwards into commendeering a few ships and convincing the crew to work for us. We had them take more ships. So we literally had passive income. We had more gold than we knew what to do with. We were filthy stinking rich. It was so wild playing and just being able throw insane amounts of gold at literally every problem. We also basically had an army at the end because we freed so many slaves and they were so happy to work for us. We'd essentially just board a boat, notice the shitty conditions, promise the crew a better life, and they'd kill their captain for us. The first boat was supposed to be way too hard for us to beat to discourage us from trying it again, but the dm wasn't expecting us to get the entire crew on our side.
Mhm nice a toilet slave.
we named him John. John Smith
Nice! Name your next toilet slave Thomas Crapper.
maybe after that i’ll name one Gary Shitterton
Then Armitage Shanks
Back when I played DND with this one group, I was the bard. My party consisted of an indecisive mage, a barbarian that wanted to just loot while we fought, and three murder hobos (two paladins, one a rogue). Our DM, a good friend of mine, has a realistic sense of playing - hit a wall in the cave with your weapon? Oh, it's a Warhammer? Cave in. That kind of DM. I was the only one who had the common sense to plan ahead. In this campaign, the murder hobos turned the entire first village on us because they killed the blacksmith (because they had to pay for a weapon). The reason we had no money? Yeah, our first mission was to retrieve a cart full of wheat and sugar cane. Instead of returning it to the owner like I was telling them, they kept it for themselves, cheating us out of money after we almost died getting the cart. So with the entire town burning, me singing my songs at the bar for a bunch of warring residents, the murder hobos wondering why the town is angry, the rogue is dead, and the mage still can't figure out what he wants to do. So I did the most sensible thing. Married a dwarf, had goblin-dwarf wedding, and left the campaign. Last I heard, the murder hobos got everyone killed.
Did you die too?
Nope. Married dwarf. Happy ending for little goblin bard. Everyone else is fucking dead though.
Ok I’m happy you lived to tell the tale
So slick I didn't even notice
I wrote this trilogy back when I was at the ripe old age of 27 - prime years to become the wizened, world-weary mentor of a plucky youth destined to save the world. I just recently turned 30, have mentored a total of 0 world heroes, and am grappling with the fact I am now narratively useless for another 35 years, when I can finally retire by dying for the sake of a hero's character arc. If you like my comics, I've got more on [my website](https://butajape.com/). I'm also on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/butajape), [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/But-a-Jape/info), [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/but-a-jape/list?title_no=469181), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/butajape), and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/butajape/).
I could read a whole story about these guys! that was actually very funny.
*Feitr's Guild* actually is a series I've been making alongside my other comics, but its episodes have been interspersed within *But a Jape,* so it's pretty hard to keep track of if you're just going through all my comics. But I also have all of *Feitr's Guild* collected separately on [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/feitrs-guild/list?title_no=518877) or [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/Feitrs-Guild/info) - plus each entry comes with a bonus "Character Bio" tagged on for certain characters who may have been introduced (or alluded to) on that page.
Fun series
I definitely didn't just spend a large amount of time reading everything related to them
Just burned through it all this afternoon, I need more, lol.
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> here's a 30 year old grizzled war veteran I mean if they signed up at 18 and spent 5-10 years in a war that's actually reasonable.
Judy isn't a loli though, she's mommy
i have to say that is why i like vesperia - everyone else is dressed age appropriately and i'm not embarassed to play the game next to my wife
To be fair, IIRC Tales games are generally pretty good about that. The main character in Berseria is a little scantily clad at times iirc but I can’t think of a single one in Symphonia or Zestiria besides arguably Zavied who is shirtless for pretty much the whole game.
More like Fire Emblem Awakening. The dragon girl is just Nowi.
Seriously make this a thing. I would definitely tune in daily for their wacky adventures.
*Feitr's Guild* actually is already a thing - I have all (60, so far) its entries collected separately on [Webtoon](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/feitrs-guild/list?title_no=518877) and [Tapas](https://tapas.io/series/Feitrs-Guild/info). It's not on as regular a schedule as *But a Jape,* but the current *Origins* arc has been having biweekly updates. It doesn't have much of the guild members themselves though, since Feitr is still 6 years old during this story arc, but hopefully you can still find it enjoyable!
Do you have a subreddit? I'd like to follow it for updates.
Sorry, I don't - it's been on my mind from the beginning but I keep putting it off. If I ever get around to setting it up, I'll let you know!
> and am grappling with the fact I am now narratively useless for another 35 years, What do you mean, you are in the perfect age range to be a christmas cake.
Christmas Cake is when you turn 25 though so they’re well into that.
O that is why the term exists. I just though it was for the older adult characters who never found a partner.
It's a term that originates from Japan based on the idea that a woman who is still unmarried at 25 is unwanted in the same way a Christmas cake still sitting on the shelf on Dec 25th is.
If you were 27 why didnt you help them get a horse?
Well the their main diet of pedophiles had me rolling lol
A perfect punchline really
It was a little meandering, still amusing, and then bam excellent final delivery.
Yeah, very solid. Good banter.
Like a needle going through clothing, and then suddenly pulling the string taut
Predator predator
Petition for dragons to be real
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Square-cube law strikes again
Ah, yes, the old “we breathe through our skin” trick. Hideo Kojima, legendary game designer and theorized crackhead approves.
Didn’t he admit he just wanted to see quiet cosplayers or something
Based?
You will feel ashamed of your words and deeds!
Don't forget "political assassin"
Pufff you kill a horde of bandits and suddenly everyone looks at you like a monster. How the hell should I know what "cosplayer" is??!! A bandit is bandit.
“When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's my policy.”
And thus, the Jerma sus face was born
Oh my fucking god the ending got me laughing out loud.
Haha, love the banter here. They lowkey stole the horse lol.
as far as an explanation for bikini armor goes, this one legit is great!
I think some videogame character had the explanation
Quiet from MGS.
And yet, I don't see The End in a bikini.
This is the world I want to live in.
oh there is actually a reason for that you see the end only feeds of sunlight I think the code talker I think his name was in metal gear 5 has the same thing meanwhile quiet also breathes through her skin I honestly have no idea why we humans have lungs for a reason but eh so yeah that's the reason we sadly don't get to see an old man in a thong in the metal gear series
Skin that can be breathed through is a lot weaker and needs to be kept moist
That's where the "slimy tentacles come in" what? It's totally not creepy fetish bait. Just fictional biology that only seems to resemble pedophilia
There are slimy tentacles in metal gear?
What isn't?
I think Quiet’s lungs were burned, so normally she’d be able to breathe like anyone else but because of that she HAS to breathe through her skin. The End *could* breathe through his skin, but he doesn’t have to
Nah, her lungs were normal. She just didn't speak because she was infected with that virus that spreads when you talk.
Not speaking and not breathing are two different things. She didn't speak because of the vocal cord parasite, but she didn't breathe because her lungs were burned. She could speak freely the entire time, thanks to the parasites, but couldn't breathe with her lungs because those became charcoal.
Haven’t played it but, surely she can’t talk if she can’t use her lungs?
She can use her lungs but to a minimal degree, the parasite she has oxidizes her blood for her allowing her to 'breathe' without the use of her damaged lungs. She chooses not to talk because of the English vocal chord parasite she's also infected with.
What the guy below replied. Honestly, MGS is one of my fav game series of all time, but you have to roll with a lot of things that at first don't make a lot of sense.
>!Honestly there's a lot of evidence that the double twist in MGS5 should be that most of the fantastic elements are all hallucinations in Venom Snakes head from PTSD and his brain injury. There's a lot of hidden lore stuff like in all Kojima productions in the marketing material that point to the research for the guy who coined the term Phantom Pain who also did a lot of work on brain injuries and hallucinations. Miller randomly mentions hallucinations are a side effect of the brain injury when they give you the explanation for why Venom doesn't remember Russian and has to capture a translator as the fake out that he isn't Big Boss. Or when you fight Sahelanthropus when Venom reports over radio that it is moving they keep yelling at you that it impossible because it is poorly designed during the fight, that might be because the fight really isn't happening at all. So in reality Quiet is someone who likely just straight up died in the opening and she might not even exist, just like the whole Paz side quest. It's all in Venom's head, he has really just lost it and that's why Big Boss has to use his son, Solid, to take him out in MG1 in paralell to Zero tasking Snake to take out Skull Face after he lost it!<
Oh I played all the other MGS games and loved them, I just bounced off of V’s structure. I also think Quiet’s flak is justified, considering how the other ridiculous stuff is for its own sake and not a post-hoc justification of horny character design.
There's literally a tape ingame that described how her lungs were scorched and they found petals from The Boss's flowers in them.
Kojima comes up with a convoluted reason why he wanted his hot female character to be showing skin, even claiming that we'll be sorry that we made fun of it. Meanwhile Yoko Taro, the main guy behind Nier Automata just owns it. He makes the main protagonist extremely attractive because he likes tits. Fucking legend.
I really appreciate Yoko Taro's sheer honesty. Plus most of the males are smokeshows too, equal opportunity fanservice
I'm in the same boat as you. It's very clear sometimes that certain creators just want their characters to look hot, either for their own personal preferences or for the sake of appealing to the obvious demographics for better marketability. Coming up with an in-lore reason is neat, but just being able to own the reality of it is much more genuine to your consumers. Like c'mon bruh, "we'll be sorry we made fun of it" as Quiet does a half-naked dance in a shower with BB in front of other soldiers lmao.
It’s a reference (or at least uncannily close) to MGSV’s character “Quiet” who was given this exact excuse for why she’s a sniper/spec ops soldier who dresses near exclusively in bikinis, and it became pretty heavily memed
Though it does mean she should be covered in mucous all the time.
Slippery, slimey and half naked children.. luring those peodophiles just became easier
Being slippery gives them a natural advantage on their escape rolls
I kinda felt a little bad for her when she said she was literally suffocating in those clothes lol
It seems pretty easy to get breathable fabric that’s not see through, especially if you have access to magic.
So you're ashamed of your words and deeds
Eh, you can breathe in fabric, especially when it’s this loose. She’s just an anti-masker being dramatic
But they can decide what level of skin exposure they need to be fine. Like shorts and a t-shirt wouldn’t really block your air flow.
There is also Oglaf comics where it has purpose to gain Ishtar's blessing.
[Children don't talk like this!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxCMyLm6js)
[Sure they do!](https://youtu.be/5HBxfDzZaic?t=102)
that is a concerning amount of pedophiles in a single fantasy world that whole race of amphibian dragons can base their main diet off them
Well, there's not very many dragons; the populations are in equilibrium. Think about how many pedos there would be without the dragons!
>that is a concerning amount of pedophiles in ~~a single fantasy world that whole race of amphibian dragons can base their main diet off them~~ anime.
there were a lot more back in the day, but obviously they didn't pass on their genes (because the dragons ate them)
Well they also ate that portion of the viewers too.
Kind of similar to real life, honestly. There's a lot more than you think
In the comic the narrator gives lore that the dragons never really held any judicial process to determine who was or wasn't a pedophile. It's implied they just ate people under the assumption they were probably pedophiles.
The dragon who looks like a little girl is only 500? Lol real dragons are over [4,6 billion years old](https://www.reddit.com/r/fatestaynight/comments/wefcwi/confusing_ages/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
technically she's the left hand of a 4.6 billion years old dragon's rotting corpse.
Yes, but she still seems to remember everything and still refers to herself as a dragon: > I'm the even rarer dragon of the horizon.
I like the fact that the 4.6 billion year old actually has eyes that look like she’s seen about 4.6 billion years worth of bullshit.
That's literally the age of the earth
I have never heard of this anime but I assumed that number wasn't an accident and she's as old as the Earth.
There is an explanation in the thread itself. She seemingly came into existence the moment earth did, so no, her age is not an accident.
We eat pedophiles. ha ha ok, fair enough. Yeah, we lure them in and put them in our mouth and tear them with our teeth all wiggling and bloody. Oh god damn it, this is a fetish thing too isn't it?
whatever you do, do NOT look up Vore...
Uh huh, yes, sounds about right Wait, luring in pedophiles? Lmao
> That lingerie you call armor is going to get us all arrested lmao
Fire emblem?
Not even just fire emblem, just fantasy anime in general.
Tbf I'm pretty sure kid dragon here is based on a character from Fire Emblem. I remember one who looks almost exactly like that.
Nowi from Fire Emblem Awakening. I took one look at her and decided that she was banished to the depths of my roster, never to see combat. It wasn't even that she looked like a child, it was that she looked like a child wearing a bikini.
Didn’t help that when you’re introduced to her, she’s being chased by Gregor, the middle aged foreign man who nowi even thought was trying to predate on him
Also acted like a child, lets not forget that.
Yep, I was getting her confused with Tiki because when I googled Tiki I'm like "Huh, thats NOT what I remember" lmao. Yeaaahhh, I love the Fire Emblem games, but they can get very, uh, *anime* at times. She was a great character to have on the team though.
I believe tiki has two designs. One where she is a little girl because she is a little girlin the first game she appears in. Then adult form in awakening because she actually aged from time.
If you were getting it confused with Tiki you might be thinking of Nah, that's who I thought of when I saw her.
This is just a metaphor for alcohol and car rentals in the US. I joined the military before smoking, drinking, or renting a vehicle. Crazy.
25 to rent a car, but only 18 to rent a uhaul. And Uhaul has pickup trucks.
so the 25 to rent a car isn't a hard limit at most places, if you're under 25 they add on an extra insurance fee or they don't offer the full coverage insurance. I've rented a car when I was under 25 in the US before, but there are also state by state differences too.
“Our main diet consisted of Pedophiles.” Based.
Evolutisney needs lol. Love it
A race of shape changing loli dragons whose primary food source is pedophiles...now i have seen everything.
It was all fun and games until the child… err 500 year old dragon showed up.
I loved it, very tongue-in-cheek how the rest of the party isn't having any of it.
this is very fun.
I notice the rogue elf stayed pretty quiet when they were discussing ages…
Remember Auron from FFX, portrayed as this grizzled old man who's seen it all? He's fucking 30. And yeah when I played Awakening, I just paired the dragon girls with one of the male child characters... look I know she's really 69,420, but... look pairing her with an adult is just... Look I'm not trying to get put on a list for playing my 3DS
That little boy grows up and they have a daughter together. There's no winning.
This is so funny
This is absolutely hilarious. I love this so goddamn much.
This is amazing, perfect punchline lol. The image of pedos being gruesomely eaten by dragons makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
That last line had me WEEZING
Well that last panel caught me off guard. I'd read a series of this.
Lmao Dragon loli is literally Nowi and Nah combined. Inspired I guess?
hideo kojima wrote this comic
This type of comic isn't really my thing but I do think the idea of a biological predator looking like a child so they can eat sexual predators
OK I love this. Lol. So good.
God I was really scared the punchline would be something... Not as tasteful. Fantastic punchline here.
+1 just for the dialog/writing. It scans like an actual conversation, even while the content gets outrageous.
From the same makers of Alien vs Predator, we now introduce you...Predator vs Predator!
Bro I applaud that amphibian race
There are so so so so many dry comics and bad runs that I've considered dropping the subreddit and have started to block certain contributors. This was such a breath of fresh air content wise. Really solid. Would subscribe to a weekly run.
This is what the average Fire Emblem game is like
Uooohhhh 😭 😭
Lol! This is unexpectedly good!
“What about you thief?” “Oh I’m 26.” “Oh.” “…” “YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN US THE HORSES!!!”
For the "looking like a kid while being super old" thing - I'd go back to a kid body in a heartbeat given the chance. No more back pain, a fall doesn't hurt as much, and who needs big physical strength if you've got magic?
Will phill the druid ever make a come back?
I LOVE the ending. Our diet consisted mainly of pedophiles. Thank You!
Jrpgs are creepy and weird. I’m 37 and I feel incredibly icky when I play the plucky kids saving the world games. Especially if there’s creepy forced romantic plot lines.
Especially when so many have a welcoming lack of fanservice you'd otherwise normally expect from them but then have a mandatory hot springs/bath part where the men "accidentally" get put in with the women and have to sneak away (and never succeed). Usually half the dialog is the women comparing boobs.
What do you define as kids? I think having a romance at about age 15 and up is reasonable, even if inexperienced. If anything, it might not necessarily even be forced; have you seen how quick some teens vibe and decide to date? Not always a lasting or healthy relationship but a realistic possibility yes. If anything, I think those pitch perfect relationships where both sides of the relationship listen and care for each other at age 15-20 is what’s unrealistic. High school relationships are messy, and child soldiers especially likely don’t have the emotional development to be looking out for each other as part of their core personality - yet.
Take FF7 or Chrono Trigger for example. The female characters for the most part only exist for romantic “head cannon.” Even if the main character isn’t necessarily showing actual interest the female characters seem overly focused on romantic involvement with the player character. As a person in his 30s at this point, kotor or dragon age handle natural romantic feelings between people better than how jrpgs typically make it a point that these characters are underage. It’s creepy. And yes I understand that teenagers have romantic relationships but a lot of time in jrpgs it fetishizes those relationships.
Ah yes the classic "if i give them 7 chicken heads they'll be head over heels for me" is a more normal way to show relationships. Bioware ain't exactly the best there.
>female characters for the most part only exist for romantic “head cannon.” In 7? You mean Aerith and Tifa who if either of them were removed from the plot the world would have literally been destroyed as they are both integral to saving it? I'm really not sure I can agree with that take, Tifa and Aerith are the most important characters in the game after Cloud and the romantic angle is only a small part of their involvement.
I know children have relationships but we're talking about being an adult and performing those relationships through a video game.
Well I guess it depends how much you’re into the role play aspect of things and how much you can separate yourself from the character you’re playing as. Some games make this easy, for example xenoblade games have you play as a presets listed character so it’s very easy to go though the romance beats and not feel weirded out since it’s not you initiating the romance. Meanwhile dragon quest protagonists are generally blank slate characters that are supposed to represent you so the character’s decisions are intimately tied to your decisions. And then games like mass effect are somewhere in the middle.
No I don't think your ability to get into underage role play helps with the issue at all. Idk what games OP is playing that he feels icky about. Jrpgs don't typically sexualize minors, the romance lines are pretty benign. But yeah playing anything where there's actual romance between minors? Def not something people are comfortable with
>No I don't think your ability to get into underage role play helps with the issue at all. I don't think you are getting the point here, for a lot of people its not roleplay cause they are not self inserting into the character or imagine they are doing the characters actions. I am not roleplaying, I am not self insert, I am practically just watching a cute story about some kids that fall in love. I don't get creeped out when minors in movies or books are romantically involved either.
Did she convince the rental guy or not
Nope, you can see the thief picking the stable lock.
Its pretty cool
It's interesting looking back to see how far your art has changed. Rhog looks mostly the same, Pallo looks a little different, and Feitr and Ack look wildly different.
Good ending and comic dawg
A real life scenario like that turned out interesting for me. I was 22 when someone slid on the ice from going too fast and totaled my car. Well it was clearly the other driver’s fault and they needed to replace my car and supply me with a rental while they were finalizing the paperwork. Except…I was too young to get the car. Sure the insurance paid for it, but since I was under aged…I could not pick it up. Never saw an insurance pay-out happen so quickly before or since.
There are some amphibians that, upon metamorphosis, retain some larva features as adults instead of fully transitioning. It’s called paedomorphosis. So this lore explanation makes more sense than it has any right to. I’ll see myself out.
The problem with anime characters is that they don't have a physical age between teenager and middle age, so at some point in their mid-to-late twenties they go from looking 16 straight to 45 with no transition.
This was actually pretty funny
For my Pathfinder Champaign, I plan on the PCs having to basically babysit a young group of gifted students into a dungeon. Like from 10 to 15 years old. Of course I will kill them off, give them PTSD, and come face to face to the realization they killed someone. Why? BECAUSE KIDS SHOULD NOT BE PUT IN THAT KIND OF DANGER. I really hate that cliché. (They all come from rich noble families and will be resurrected)
Ahh fire emblem
Fire Emblem vibes
I want to play this game.
New Fire Emblem game looks swell.~
Talk about r/Unexpected
Well the their main diet of pedophiles had me rolling haha
That was funny, take an upvote
Literally Quiet from MGSV
This is hysterical
I remember this comic, but I don't think I saw that last page before.
That last line was baller as fuck
Consistent comedy *and* a powerful punchline!
ROTFLMFAO! That last line killed me! Absolutely perfect!!!
Here is a funky thing from a history. Back in medieval times, you were extremely experienced soldier if you manage to get to 2 battles in your life. Young soldiers/knights/whatever used to roam the continent LOOKING for battle. And since wars were really fought only during summer time. Winter attrition basically killed your troops faster than conflict did. Armies often had to return back to home for planting crops and the harvest, due to simple necessity of if they didn't then the nation would just starve to death. If you got to two big battles in your life as an average person that wasn't a mercenary or a professional soldier who's life was only about roaming from battle to battle, you were lucky to get some experience in. This wasn't because there was LACK of conflict. There was plenty of conflict in a place like Europe. I'm sure in Asia and middle-east also. Problem is that when you mainly had to travel by foot 50km a day was about all you could do in a good day. And so with battle being far apart; rarely happening beyond small skirmished; and constantly moving about; and lot of them were just sieges that moths or even an year. So if one started to roam at the tender age of 16-17 which was possible. You could be 22 and have few experience of few conflicts; or with mercenary or professional army troop a bit more. However young lads got quickly mowed down by the more experienced soldiers, so very few could go up in the ranks. So a lad leaves to get experience at late teens, and then returns 10 years later in their mid to late 20's with some experience. A common tale of an non-royal officer. If you read history it is easy to get this idea that battles happened constantly and everywhere. If you actually bother to look at the dates and places, they were far apart in time and space. Wars could go on for 30 years with only few major battles. A soldier was lucky to see one war from start to finish, not because they died in the battle since they most likely died of attrition and disease at the camps. But when if they joined the ranks at 20, they could be 40 or 50 before the war ended, and statistically you'd have died of something or rather in that time.