good episode

My brother is just getting started on gw2, so i made him a dumb little video to help him get familiar with the npc party members. it’s obviously not a comprehensive guide, but I had fun making it.

I’m actually going to hell

Missing Memories  from Guild Wars 2 ~ Things that could have been, things that haven’t been seen.

Day 1. Mother and Son She loved him, but she wasn’t who he needed. 

Hello there guys, I’m finally posting my entries for the inktober2018! I’m following my own prompt “”””list”””” (where list means I wrote down a bunch of random ideas…. feel free to suggest me other missing moments we have not seen or that could have been in GW2!)

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Some guild wars drawings! :D

This started out as a shitpost and quickly evolved into a Logan Thackeray callout post

I love HoT maps

I also don’t like how Eir died but honestly, what a power move.

Modern AU Eir would have one of those satisfying craft video youtube channels where she films herself carving stuff to upbeat music, and Garm would be watching in the background like Haku and Nagi from Jun’s Kitchen.

this is just a bunch of GW2 based concept arts of an abadoned project. Sometimes you’re fighting with your emotional condition and can’t force yourself to complete something. Sometimes it’s the best just to leave it a rest and move on. It wasn’t for naught, I learned stuff and managed to create a number of good art, wich I also can use for my portfolio. For weeks I wasn’t doing anything, cuz I couldn’t start a new project without finishing this one, but I had no motivation to finish it at all, so I did nothing. Cleaning them up and puting them on a blog, is a way finish it. Now I can move on.

Zarya’s Eir Stegalkin cosplay is coming along great

Didn’t forgive you in time. Now you’re gone.

And I’m the one who’s sorry. [Follow and love @inmyhaart ]

So, I was told to write my own post.

I feel like there’s an important distinction to be made between not liking a character and not liking the way that a character is written (either in general, or after a certain point). Both are valid, but one is a much more shallow thought. 

To continue on Braham, up through living story 2, I was fairly ambivalent toward him as a character, leaning toward liking him on the whole. However, in Heart of Thorns, it became clear that he was no longer a character, but a plot device, driving the plot forward with his insistent search for Eir. Which was fine. Sometimes, you need to use characters as tools to drive your story forward. However, Eir was then fridged for Braham’s “Character Development”. And by character development, I mean dudebro manpain.  Here’s a good resource on fridged female characters for male character feelings and why it needs to stop.  Here’s what I mean by Dudebro Manpain. In Season 3, A Crack in the Ice, we see Braham again for the first time after HoT. He gets offended at the commanders offer for help, gets offended at the commanders request for a guild, gets offended at Rox’s concern for his safety, and tells her to only talk to him “after they’ve taken YOUR mother.” As though nobody else had lost anyone in the events of Maguuma. This is especially potent to a Sylvari commander.  Even after defeating Mordremoth and avenging his mother, Braham will not stop until all of the dragons are defeated. The commander warns him that a direct assault on Jormag might not be the best idea (especially with only one magical bow as a weapon), citing the pact crash and subsequent loss of life. Braham immediately turns it back around on the commander, blaming them for the pact’s crash and then saying that Jormag is his problem to deal with with or without help. When the commander implores him to think about the loss of life that might happen– again– Braham follows it up with a direct self-pitying reference stating that waiting is killing other peoples mothers and that he won’t wait even a few days, or “a few minutes” for the sake of logic. He then says that Eir wouldn’t have wanted the commander in Destiny’s Edge.

This isn’t actual character development. Actual character development would involve this character being challenged and learning for their actions and mistakes.  What we see in Season 3 is a bunch of bullshit blame-pinning, responsibility dodging from Braham, and a commander and Rox who sit back and take it because they don’t want to challenge the grieving baby.  Sorry, this has gone beyond the point of grieving and being comforted. We saw grief and comfort in Heart of Thorns. We saw Braham take care of Eir’s body, shave his head, be fragile, harbor vengeance for Eir toward Mordremoth, avenge Eir. We saw something that felt genuine. A full year later, after avenging Eir, we see a Braham who has regressed into a whining child who throws a temper tantrum when being confronted with the possibility that he’s making an irrational decision, and he throws it all back to losing a mother that he frankly, barely knew. 

This all comes down to the writing. This all comes down to the authors at Anet wanting to pull focus onto a male character’s vengeance arc even after it’s finished. It’s the authors preparing to turn Braham into a misunderstood dark knight instead of showing any sort of vulnerability. 

And that’s why I don’t like Braham’s characterization. It’s no longer even characterization.  It’s a massive masculinity wank.

Thought I’d post the final images from this video:

it’s okay braham

you just need to eir your grievances