...You know, I had wondered before what the heck was Roc’s JP name (ルフ Rufu) supposed to be. Back when I first saw it, when I Googled ルフ all that showed up was this company named Ruff, so I was like “this doesn’t make sense” and I thought the translation just changed it into something that sounds less strange (the king of Voleri’s name was also changed from just “Dan” in JP to “Aidan” in Eng).

Well, uh, as it turns out ルフ is actually supposed to be Rukh, which is the same thing as Roc (mythological bird from 1001 Nights). Rukh is the Persian form of the name. WELLP. At least now I know what to call him properly ffff... I feel super dumb now, but I guess I just didn’t search carefully enough.

Gonna have to fix my tags now, I’m so frustrated.

#rukh monus #UGH #SO THAT'S HIS NAME #roc avari #makai ouji nightmare #court of darkness #cod

daeva-agas

This is from a specific doujin but TBH Nobu acts pretty much the same way across many fandoms so...

Toshiie: (just talking in general) Being stoic and silent is so yesterday and not cool. Pouring out your heart honestly is what makes a man these days.

Nobu: (overhears him, and decides to try it out)

Nobu: (becomes overly talkative like there’ssomanywordsyoucanbarelyseewhathe’ssayingbecausethewordsfillupthetextbubble)

Hide: WTF my lord Σ(° Δ ° ∥∥)

‘Cause, you know, Nobu is almost always kinda tsun and doesn’t talk much, and when he does it causes misunderstanding all the time because he’s so prickly about it

When he word vomits like this is just so OOC to watch it’s funny

#sengoku shitpost #I mean it's generic sengoku fandom #Ugh #also #cough cough #its #nobuxhide #but can apply to general if you ignore what he says

daeva-agas

織田信孝を再評価する。不運に翻弄された無念の武将。辞世の句にこめられた秀吉への怨念。 | 眠れなくなるほど面白い日本史

(織田信長像提供:写真AC) 誰もが認める戦国時代のカリスマ・織田信長。その信長には、なんと20人以上の子・・・

history-mania.info

“Though it’s typically believed that at the Kiyosu Conference Hashiba Hideyoshi championed Sanboushi, the toddler son of the late Nobutada, as clan leader, recent research disputed that story.”

And then the articles goes on to say that the current(?) assumption is that Hideyoshi had championed Nobunaga’s second son Nobukatsu instead.

... Considering Sanboushi ended up being clan leader instead, with Nobukatsu as guardian... what the hell happened here??? Is this part of the story wrong too? If that is wrong, that would.... change the entire dynamic of Komaki-Nagakute. Suppose the reason why Ieyasu went along with it is because Nobukatsu is asking for assistance as clan head of the Oda?

Or maybe being the weirdo that he is, after the conference he’s like “You know what, I don’t actually want to be clan leader”, and transfer the headship to his nephew. Seriously, Nobukatsu gave me the impression that he kinda doesn’t like being in power. I heard once that Hideyoshi was about to grant him some 250 thousand koku after victory at Odawara, and he adamantly refused because he would need to leave Owari and he didn’t want to. Like... what the hell, 250K koku would make him richer (and possibly more influential) than Ieyasu and Toshiie both.

Anyway. Why is the Sanboushi thing suddenly “disputed” now? The articles saying it’s “disputed” turned up last year. I wonder if the researchers finally found more info surrounding that mystery correspondence between Hideyoshi and Nobukatsu I saw like 1-2-ish years ago?

AUGH WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE LIKE THIS

WHO TAMPERED WITH THE RECORDS AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE? WAS IT TO MAKE HIDEYOSHI LOOK BAD, BY MAKING IT SEEM LIKE HE WANTED TO GAIN POWER BY MANIPULATING A BABY?

#personal research #my lord #my idiot lord #ugh #why are you like this

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SLBP things that are slowly becoming annoying :)

Let’s date the man called the LORD OF HELL and be surprised when he does evil things.
MC, a young woman from Sengoku Era Japan, apparently does not understand how things/life in Sengoku Era Japan works.
Problems can always be fixed with food. ALWAYS.
Being kidnapped more than Daphne from Scooby Doo.
IMPULSIVENESS THAT CONSTANTLY OVERLOOKED AS BRAVERY!? (As far as I remember, Saizo and i think Nobunaga are the few that really call her out on that)

daeva-agas

^this >:(

And you cannot excuse 2) with “MC is sheltered”. For example, re: arranged marriage. POOR PEOPLE DOESN’T MEAN THEY HAVE THE LUXURY OF MARRYING FOR LOVE ALL THE TIME, OY. Even hick village folks and townspeople knows what “arranged marriage for politics/profit” is. A poor merchant might marry off his daughter to a richer merchant for the money/benefits.

And 5) is YES. Being reckless =/= brave. Sometimes that’s kind of called “being dumb”.

If they really want a clueless MC that badly why don’t just have her timetravel from the future, goodness gracious.

#so annoying #ugh

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spyoflove

Anonymous asked:

I wonder why MC doesn't have eyes. ;-;

spyoflove answered:

Hi there! Well, I believe the reasoning behind it is to make it easier for us players to place ourselves in her position. Eyes are the windows to the soul to to speak, and to give her some would give her a personality of her own. Without an entire face, she effectively becomes a “blank slate” that we can project ourselves on. Eyeless MCs also happen in otoge games where the MC is male from what I understand probably for the same reason.

Also, from what I hear from my PBB artist girlies, the reason MC generally has reddish hair is because that hair color is more versatile in complementing the various hair colors of the different love interests in our games. For example, MCs reddish hair in BMP looks good against Will’s blond, Roberto’s brown, Ed’s white, and even Joshua’s purple hair.

I personally find it a little disconcerting sometimes, and wouldn’t feel any less part of the game if MC had eyes. In fact, I really liked it when she had eyes in Ivan’s video because you could see how much she loved him which was a nice touch. I mean, when you play as Chizuru in Hakuouki all her images have eyes and I didn’t feel like the game suffered any. But as long as the guys look good I’m happy. XD

hikarunohana

That’s really interesting and I agree with you, but I also noticed that there aren’t people shipping themselves with the male character in games like Hakuoki (at least I didn’t see them). It’s more like “I love YY” than “I ship me x YY”; it’s not like I what I do with Alan, you with Ishigami, Chia with Goto, Rose with Mirai, etc.

Or maybe it’s because the Mc in those games actually has a name? If that’s so, I would like to see the Mc with eyes (since my cousin was scared of my poster of Baba xD), because really, sometimes it’s creepy.

I also noticed that in Swd: the Niflheim, the MC not only she doesn’t have a face, but her body is completely black

And if their intention really is to let us feel like the MC, shouldn’t this be a better solution? I mean, not everyone looks like the mc in voltage games (for skin color, size, hair etc).

ok since what I wrote sounds confusing to me too, here’s what I wanted to say: I want the MC with eyes. There’s no reason to keep her eyeless Dx

littlehevn

Agree with both Amy and Daph-senpai. I agree with Amy-senpai’s points on why the MC doesn’t have any eyes, and I also agree with Daph-senpai that I’d much rather prefer MC to be less creepy and more… you know, human.

I also think that taking out the eyes is somewhat cultural. We’re all aware of censorship in Japan when it comes to nudity (hello, pixels!), but some might not know how they usually censor faces for anonymity. If in most countries the face is blurred or pixelated, in Japan, oftentimes only censor bars covering the eyes are used. Kinda like this:

So perhaps that kind of cultural phenomenon translated into the MC having no eyes - for her to remain anonymous.

Artistically, I get at how MC’s red hair could complement most other colors, and how, theoretically, it’ll give the MC a warmer and more colorful appearance. But if otoge companies were aiming at just the MC being anonymous or relatable, giving her a hair color that’s naturally the rarest sort of defeats the purpose. Why not give her black, as it’s the most common hair color? Too dark? Why not a shade of brown? I think more neutral shades like those would make her blend with the guys, even if they had green or orange hair, and if the artists wanted to add color and warmth, hey, she has an entire body to dress up; dress her in warm and vibrant colors. Just saying.

So in the end, I personally think of Voltage’s MCs as a lump of flesh with a wig. Like, my brain doesn’t register she’s there, or that she’s me. With her head away from me, she’s too different for me to make the connection, and with her looking at me, she’s too creepy-looking for me to acknowledge her to be an actual character. I’ve always felt like I’m left with a half-baked character. I’d rather much preferred it if they decided to completely blank her out (like in Daph’s example), or completely flesh her out (like in Hakuoki).

So there’s my two cents. :/

daeva-agas

^This

I personally don't find the lack of eyes creepy so much as it's annoying. It makes it look like an unfinished artwork because the bangs don't cover the place where the eyes ought to be, so I can't just pretend it's the bangs covering the eyes.

This is why I'm appreciating Solmare's new games because, hello, they listened to use whine AND THERE BE NO MORE FACELESS MC apart from the purposely-completely-black zombie princess from Niflheim. It's actually a nice touch, and her emoticon-faces are sooo cute.

#otome #faceless MC #ugh