A self-proclaimed “greatest swordsman in the world” who’s legitimately unstoppable in a one-on-one duel, but messily goes to pieces in literally any other scenario because their training didn’t cover that. The party’s basic battle strategy consists of pointing them at the highest-threat target and going to extraordinary lengths to ensure nothing “distracts” them.
A wizard with a wildly eclectic yet strangely limited selection of spells who dismisses any shortcoming in their repertoire by claiming that it falls outside their specialty. If anyone tries to pin them down on what their specialty actually is, they remark that there’s no word for it in your barbarous tongue, then refuse to elaborate.
A cleric who’s embroiled in a constant ethical debate with their own god, voicing their arguments out loud and receiving replies which evidently only they can hear. The topics discussed range widely, though they always seem to segue to whatever the party is currently up to just in time for the cleric to prove a point by casting a situationally appropriate spell.
An extremely Lawful rogue who’s perfectly okay with cheating, stealing and murdering, but only under the terms of an elaborate code of conduct they’re able to cite chapter and verse at the slightest provocation. These are allegedly the bylaws of the prestigious thieves’ guild to which they belong, but no-one the party encounters has ever heard of it.
There are fights in FMA in both of the anime and the manga that are fluid, frantic, and dramatic as all hell.
And then there are the fights where Roy Mustang is pissed and he snaps fire on somebody for five minutes straight.
And I them both equally.
never really thought about it but fuck roy has a lot or restraint. like its lampshaded on the promise day when he goes out of his way to only give minor injuries to incapacitate but thinking about how he destroyed a near immortal homonculus… just fuck
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Homestuck 2. The message is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of phillosphy, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head.
There’s also Dirk’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE.
As a consequence people who dislike HS2 truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Dirk existencial catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons.
I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Andrew Hussie’s genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Homestuck tattoo.
And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the enby’s eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
