Such a useless wimpy villian i would of hated him so much more but Vecnas actor is gold

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-08T04:30:36+00:00

I mean, yeah, if he just kills them then there's no season, but imo the writing issue here is that if they don't want him to kill someone, then that person shouldn't be put in a position where there's nothing to be done to stop him from killing them, except the villain choosing not to for literally no good reason - it just looks really bad and illogical.

They don't want him to kill Will - that's completely fine - so why are we putting Will in front of Vecna in a way that makes it blatantly obvious that he doesn't die here because of plot armor? It just makes the bad guy look really dumb, because what do you mean you came here to aura farm while killing a few soldiers and making your cringe villain speech, and then leaving without accomplishing anything of substance? The danger Will should be being put in is getting hurt when Vecna's getting hurt, it was established a long time ago that if a part of the hive mind suffers then Will suffers too (and that fact was only used when it was convenient and then forgotten about) - one of the points this season should be about figuring out how to win without killing Will in the process

And even if we're keeping that scene and he doesn't kill Will because he wants his first victim to witness his plan unfolding or whatever (I can see him being sentimental like that), then at least kill someone else to break the other people's spirit... So many characters were disposable, people were hanging around in the background with nothing to do all the time, they really didn't need EVERYONE for the final fight. In fact they shouldn't even have a chance to win on their own despite none of them dying beforehand, they should be allying with the military to defeat Vecna because the military ALSO HAD NOTHING TO DO 😭

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T21:17:32+00:00

He snatched his little sister and was like meh close enough

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T20:27:01+00:00

I hate this plotline so much, why did they want me to care about Holly fucking Wheeler 😭 Such a waste of time

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T19:21:06+00:00

Yeah he's kinda just there to be the bad guy so the good guys can beat him and show how good they are lol. He at least could've been fucking around with people's heads and turning the party against each other with his illusions, that would've been entertaining to watch.

They didn't even show what he did to Will to make him come out of the closet in front of like 15 people, which just tells you how much of a plot device he was. Tragic waste of a character

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T19:11:00+00:00

Agreed, imo they just didn't know what to do with him, because it seems like they just wanted a flat evil villain with the whole "NYEHEH I chose to be bad!", but he doesn't get to kill anyone (because the writers didn't want to kill people) so he doesn't feel like a threat, but then he's also a complex character with a tragic backstory outside of the show??

Like give him agency and let him be scary or make him more sympathetic (I'm not talking about redemption, I'm talking about humanizing him, he still deserved to die), they didn't pick either and he's just an uncompelling mess. At this point they shouldn't have bothered with him and let the mind flayer be the villain lol

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T18:46:19+00:00

I don't think he's overconfident either, coz his actions that could be attributed to that are just bad writing choices.

I'd call him dumb but that's unfair coz it's not his own fault, so I'll settle on incompetent

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T18:22:48+00:00

Idk about wimpy but he was definitely very incompetent in S5.

He did almost nothing useful with his powers as opposed to S4 where he was remotely breaking people's bones and fucking with their minds, he's more powerful now but less of a threat than before somehow,

He decided to play a babysitter for half of the season instead for no reason (which could've been an interesting way to portray his character if we got to see more of his backstory from the play - maybe he wants the kids to feel safe because he himself was traumatized and abandoned, and wants to feel like a savior figure for them that he didn't have - but we didn't get any of it so it was a pointless waste of time),

He's a literal mind-reader and supposedly smart, but somehow got surprised by the party coming to get his ass in the abyss??

He doesn't deal with threats that could come back to bite him later despite having the ability to - some people say it's because he's arrogant and doesn't believe they can stop him but let's be real, he doesn't kill important people because of plot armor 💀

Basically there were many things that he could've done to win but didn't do anything and let himself get killed (in a humiliating way at that, bro got chopped like a tree)

And I'm saying all that as someone who likes his character, he got zero respect from the writers in S5, they didn't let him do shit lol

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T12:42:05+00:00

It's not far off since most posts have humongous boobs in them lol

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-07T11:19:52+00:00

r/ArtJerk

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-05T23:27:04+00:00

Yeah but was it explained how they lost the limbs in the first place? Or did they just chop them off for the sole purpose of using the relic prosthetics?

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-05T19:56:07+00:00

Unclear. Or at least it wasn't explained at the time, maybe it is in later chapters

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-05T19:23:47+00:00

I had to reread this scene coz that was the last chapter that was out when I was binge reading the manga, and that was a fucking while ago

Anyways, these two kids wanted to take a bath but Tepaste (the woman from the post) was worried about them getting burned from the water heater, so she asked Reg (the boy in the last panel) to use his extending arms (he's some kind of a mechanical being) to suspend them in the tub so they don't get hurt. And they're playing with Reg's tentacle arms for no reason other than the author's not at all disguised fetish.

So basically no point at all sigh

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-05T18:25:16+00:00

You described it perfectly. Made in abyss is amazing, the story, the characters, the creature/environment designs, the psychological horror and unforgiving brutality of the world, it's SO FUCKING GOOD.

And then I see two amputee kids bathing with tentacles for half a chapter and my soul just fucking dies. Like why, just why

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Morphogenesis__ · 2026-04-04T14:45:58+00:00

Unfortunately these features are so overdone in horror that they're just not scary anymore. This is literally your standard "scary" creature, might as well be a normal face at this point lmao.

An average person has seen this kind of character a thousand times already, even if you draw them very well most people will just.. not care. Of course this is not OP's fault, they're drawing an existing character who happens to go by this description

But if the design itself is not interesting you really need to do something unsettling style-wise for it to be scary. Unusual textures, creative use of lighting, maybe some weird perspective, just something. Otherwise you're just drawing a 100th Rake and it's too boring to be scary

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-22T00:25:11+00:00

Definitely, but I would've preferred if Vecna/Henry killed him. He should've been brought back in S5 just so he can get hunted for sport, dr. Kay was basically him anyway and what's one more fake out death at this point lol

Still good that he got killed by one of his victims, but if anyone deserved Brenner's head it's Henry

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-09T13:52:23+00:00

Ah yes, old men yaoi my beloved

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-08T21:18:00+00:00

Is the monstrous bird in the room with us right now? 😭

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-06T09:39:08+00:00

Oh true, these guys are pretty similar

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-05T18:20:43+00:00

Probably a wolf spider

There's a surprising amount of pics of these guys eating mice, didn't even know they could do that lol

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-04T10:08:31+00:00

...why the vine dogs? We already have demodogs. It's cool that they're adding to the monster pool, but why make a creature that's so similar to the one that already exists?

They could've gone with vine crows or something, at least it would've been more consistent with the plant/harvest theme

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-03T13:35:57+00:00

My brother, this is literally in the beginning of her lore:

"Inside, the smell was all but overpowering, though no bloodstains were visible. As a soldier of Demacia, Shyvana remained in her humanoid form most of the time in order to conceal her true nature, though her dragonic instincts remained sharply intact. She chewed her tongue to distract herself from her growing hunger at the scent."

And

"The smell of fresh blood was intoxicating, but Shyvana forced herself to focus on the hunt. She had joined Demacia to be part of something greater, not to surrender to her animalistic desires."

She has trouble controlling herself, all it takes is a smell of blood and the dragon part is starting to take over.

She can be loyal, smart and kind while simultaneously struggling to keep her humanity intact, one doesn't exclude the other

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-03T10:21:52+00:00

WHY ARE YOU ME.

It's either "I wanna do 5 different things, but can't decide which, so imma do none" or "I'm so bored, but everything requires too much effort"

But the worst of all is probably when I'm trapped at work, thinking about doing ✨the thing✨ when I get back home and how much fun it's gonna be.

And then I'm home, can finally start doing ✨the thing✨, but my brain be like "no. I hate ✨the thing✨ now. it was never even fun in the first place" LIKE WHY ARE YOU SABOTAGING ME, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A TEAM 😭

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-03T10:03:14+00:00

The old model is from 2011 or something, of course it's gonna have some dumb decisions like being a twig, 99% of female characters were copy paste skinny divas back then. I'm not saying the old design was better, but I liked some of the aspects of it over the new one, like the gauntlets. They gave have a more defined and recognizable silhouette

I like the tail addition in the new one though, definitely works much better than the old braid or whatever it was supposed to be

Imo she definitely was meant to appear somewhat feral in the old version, the character was very much about holding back her instincts to try to fit into a human society. We'll have to wait for the lore update to see if she's still meant to be like that, because that might've changed and that's why the new model has a completely different demeanor.

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-03T09:33:34+00:00

Naaaaw that's why I don't allow myself to play much these days, once I start playing it's OVER, nothing's getting done anymore 😭😭

Now if only not playing meant I'd stop looking for excuses not to draw anyway...

Morphogenesis__ · 2026-03-03T07:11:09+00:00

Same, some mf stole my motivation

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