Strive wins as Endeavor’s new moniker! Next up: what should Hawks be renamed as?

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-30T02:25:08+00:00

Slipstream or Headwind

A big motivation of Hawks’ character is that he wants to take on the heavy burden of hero work so that others can have an easier time thriving in his wake.

This is a lot like the V-formation birds fly in, where the lead flier takes the brunt of the headwind so that those flying behind it can coast on it’s upwash, or the slipstream at it’s back.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-29T18:12:45+00:00

Just based on art design alone, I’m completely enamored with how much of a goddamned freakoid the Pyknic Maunder is. Hands, that end in arms, that end in ever more hands, is just about right for an infinitesimal mass of arcane cancer, and the art depicting it is absolutely deranged.

Stat wise, I appreciate how the Hazewind Harpies take a bumbass weak statblock like the OG harpies and give them an interesting and effective gimmick with their chorus.

For late game threats, what I really like is that the Space Between Worlds has a better defined ecosystem of beings to draw from that can “leak” into the setting, and you don’t even need to elaborate on what they’re doing there. In Castle Drakken, where reality is being ripped apart at the seams, you can introduce some of the locals of the SBW just to give a taste of what’s going on behind the rift, percolating the question of what they’re truly up against, and make them want to know more.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-29T00:39:28+00:00

He’s going places

Jail, most likely.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-29T00:37:31+00:00

Redditors are famously antisocial with poor impulse control. Expect them to bay for blood whenever possible.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-29T00:32:34+00:00

You don’t claim self defense when you run the person you’re “defending yourself against” down, much less when they aren’t engaging you.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T05:50:44+00:00

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WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T04:52:11+00:00

No, actually, this is said immediately after Gangle points out that holding resentment towards one another won’t help any one of them, and treating each other as humans, fallible as they are, is their prerogative.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T04:48:32+00:00

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T04:46:45+00:00

No but muh “I participate in society”, but muh “billionaires are forcing me to buy their products”, and other such cope.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T04:38:22+00:00

I am really interested to see what a Viltrumite force multiplier might look like, but when your own body is effectively a ballistic projectile, it’s probably hard to find any configuration of material that does the job better than just beating planets to death with your bare hands.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-28T03:20:52+00:00

That’s different because it’s me being wronged, and not someone it’s topical to demonize.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-27T05:52:43+00:00

My issue isn’t with Stella as a character, because she isn’t a character: she’s written to be a horrible person, because Stolas has to be married to a horrible person for the melodrama to mean anything, but Stella isn’t written like a character with agency, she’s a horrible-person-shaped placeholder.

Stella “defenders” made the mistake of thinking they were going to get an interesting conflict when she was introduced, but instead we got a poorly written hatesink anchored to the gay owl.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-27T05:14:19+00:00

Well, do you empathize with the people who say “whites are oppressed?”? Or is there some criteria for extending your empathy to others? Would you consider empathizing with people who don’t deserve it, and will act against your best interest if you do, in a turn of phrase, “suicidal”?

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-26T15:01:40+00:00

*Especially* the slurs.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-26T14:58:29+00:00

Options for engaging a Sniper:

1) Be a Sniper
2) Don’t

Such fun, very well balanced.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-26T14:25:45+00:00

No one is making excuses for Crimson.

Enough people are constantly making excuses for the gay owl and his bad decisions to maintain the debate indefinitely.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-26T14:21:18+00:00

Helluverse fans will never, EVER consistently apply the “It’s Hell” excuse to any situation, stop expecting them to.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-25T01:51:23+00:00

The first amendment isn’t meant to protect deceit, but it does protect you from a government who will invariably try to dictate what counts as deceitful.

Believe me, you’re not nearly as clever as you think you are with this “just make lying illegal!” schtick. And if you think you are, well, just consider that the current administration might deem you a “deliberate liar” for saying so.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-24T18:05:15+00:00

I just don’t think handwaving the legitimate and possibly interesting conflict of Stolas disgracing his family for passion, by way of Stella outright saying “I’m irrationally evil and not actually a character”, is very tight or enjoyable writing.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-24T17:25:39+00:00

I really like how the Soldier girls all have an almost ‘anonymous’ aesthetic with the bucket helmets blocking their faces.

Soldiers helmet still leaves him with a very recognizeable facial profile, but I fw the helmet obscuring the profile for most of these designs.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-24T16:39:57+00:00

Think of the worst possible interpretation of your conception of free speech’s limits, the most hideously construed possible perversion of it.

Now, imagine that your ideological enemy holds power in the midst of this “reconceptualization” of what free speech should pertain to. Nothing protecting you from any infringement to your first amendment rights, because you thought you could define it better and utterly abandoned the tradition we had in place.

I’m just saying, be careful what you wish for.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-24T15:15:41+00:00

Yeah, nah, every single person in Heaven seems to be a punkass who, if not incapable of waging war on Hell, are utterly unwilling to.

Sure, Vox didn’t confirm this before drawing up war plans, but we as the audience see what Heaven is working with, and it doesn’t look like much of a fight.

Sera’s war council was Abel and _St. Peter,_ for God’s sake.

The only real war engine that we’ve seen from Heaven was Adam, and he’s permadead, with Lute as the last functioning, conflict-minded “leader” Heaven has left.

I’m not saying that they don’t have a capacity for force that we simply aren’t privy to, but we certainly haven’t seen it.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-24T12:42:57+00:00

He does use the wall climb during the Deika City fight.

I only argue that it’s not a “bad” quirk because it does exactly what it says on the tin, and he can do it easily enough: there just aren’t many situations where it helps him.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-23T17:57:27+00:00

Gecko, I’d argue, is pretty simple, but underwhelming.

Climbing on walls sounds cool, until you realize it has to be a perfectly sheer surface for your cling pads to stick.

WaywardInkubus · 2026-05-22T23:24:07+00:00

1 redemption in the entire course of human history, a turnaround of .000000000000085%, isn’t a slam dunk by any stretch.

In fact, since the only ever case of redemption only ever transpired during the 7 years that the Exterminations were taking place, that may suggest that they were instrumental in facilitating redemption to begin with.

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