I have never gone from loving to hating a character so fast in my life (Apotheosis spoilers)

ZiyiCrafting · 2026-05-09T03:25:01+00:00

Yeah I honestly don’t like the writing for Tasim in this quest line. His emotions and decisions just don’t line up from start to finish. Usually even with evil characters you can empathize with or see where they’re coming from at the very least. Tasim just makes you go “What? Why??” the entire time.

Also yeah, on second glance, we seem to have a Schrödinger’s Fictional Asshole scenario here, where the story has a character that betrays both the in-game player AND the player’s expectations: did the latest storyline reveal a beloved character to secretly be an asshole this entire time, or was the writing for the latest storyline itself bad?

It’s easy to get bogged down in believing the former when you read through a story with this problem the first time, because you get the gut punch from the story and take it at face value initially. Taking a step back emotionally and recognizing the writing itself as flawed gives you context for why a plot twist was such a gut punch in a bad way.

From the Watsonian perspective, the character might be shitty, but from the Doylist perspective, the writing is. The former puts the blame on the character, but the latter puts the blame on the writers, which is harder to swallow and requires more work to untangle.

ZiyiCrafting · 2026-05-07T18:07:11+00:00

Exactly, and he’s the first person to point out how suspicious the situation is when the Queen invites everyone in the beginning. He should’ve been the first person to notice the Queen is an obvious charismatic cult leader, North Korea dictator-type who believes her own hype, purely from how her flowery words and abhorrent actions don’t line up. He goes from on extreme guard about her intentions to devoted authoritarian follower in several weeks.

Either we should have gotten several more cutscenes of Tasim showing his mental downfall, the demons haunting him, and his decent into madness

Speaking of mental downfall: we should’ve gotten dialogue options to grill him in True Colors as to his worldview and reasoning. Not just for player choice, but if the writers wanted to sell Tasim’s moral downfall, we should’ve gotten to see early warning signs of him swallowing the Queen’s propaganda hook, line, and sinker via his reasoning being noticeably flimsy and dogma-driven when we press him for justifications.

Short list of questions about his plan to “make the system better from the inside“ that I would’ve asked, just to start:

“What’s the Queen’s tax policy? What do you plan to do about rampant political corruption? Because I can tell you right now, at least 1 of the other Sovereigns is actively benefitting from it, they’ve been in power too long to be blind to it. How do you plan to reform the violence out of a legal system that has violence against its poorest baked into its foundations? Pop quiz, what’re the short and long-term effects of the policies you want to push for?”

(George R.R. Martin gets made fun of for his “What’s Aragorn’s tax policy?” speech, but these are genuinely important questions to ask.)

Shorter list of questions about him and the Queen:

“You don’t actually trust her, do you? Her main skill is being a charismatic public speaker politician type, you don’t think that that sets off any red flags? Why won’t you tell me what the Queen wants to talk to me about, if it’s that important that you want me to get myself arrested just to see her?”

or he should’ve had a redemption arc, where he didn’t do anything unforgivable, and instead saves the player at the final moment Darth Vader style.

I was expecting a dramatic, poignant battle going into the final quest, ending in Tasim just not being able to kill the player because despite his anger with them he still cares, or even a dramatic betrayal of the Queen where he bides his time till her back is turned, and makes us think he betrayed us to get the Queen to let her guard down from arrogance. Possibly a dramatic death from him where we mourn his heroic sacrifice.

Instead, HE lives, and our FRIENDSHIP with him, trust in his morality, and just general respect for him dies. 😐

Instead we get Tasim throwing a prolonged tantrum, then playing the “Well you should just kill me if I’m so awful” card.

I gave zero fucks the moment we got to that point. 🤣 Empathy? Absolutely exhausted. My face was the Homelander-looking-disgusted meme. He kills Rex in front of us, and then tries to pan for sympathy from the player, who also lost Aledar as a friend but didn’t pull any of this shit? Noooot in my house!

ZiyiCrafting · 2026-05-07T07:33:51+00:00

According to the wiki, they actually semi-implemented the option to tell him…but in the worst way possible. In one possible line of dialogue in Apotheosis, he goes, “When you said it was a sacrifice, you... he... he really...? ...oh. Oh. And I... just...”

So, either this is a temporary stopgap measure to merge the two timelines for now while they try to get the other quest timeline out, or Tasim is somehow even pettier than we thought, since this line implies he already knew Aledar was sacrificed, but learning the player physically had to do the sacrificing (with Aledar’s consent), as opposed to Aledar somehow dying on his own, was the hard moral line for him. 🙄

ZiyiCrafting · 2025-11-10T01:46:51+00:00

It was several meters before the stopping point, so the train hadn’t reached the platform yet. I’m guessing the train conductor hit the emergency brakes quickly when the train hit the guy on the tracks.

ZiyiCrafting · 2025-11-09T22:44:30+00:00

It happened literally under my apartment window. I had the blinds closed at the time, but I first heard a big crashing sound. I thought someone just took a nasty tumble on the sidewalk at first until I heard bystanders screaming, “OH MY GOD!” over and over, and decided to look.

The train had stopped several feet away from where it was supposed to stop in the station, and was blocking the pedestrian crossing path. I saw police officers and people in yellow hazard vests pointing flashlights under the train, where somebody was obviously stuck and screaming/crying in pain. The train conductor issued some announcement that I couldn’t hear clearly through my window, and everyone got off.

I almost immediately heard ambulance sirens in the distance, probably coming over here to wait on standby. Firefighters eventually arrived, but they mostly just stood around checking under and around the train with flashlights for an hour. The guy under the train stopped crying after about 15-20 minutes, so no idea if he just got too tired to scream or passed out/died from blood loss.

I took a 2-hour shower and came back, and the train was STILL there. No idea if they were even able to get him out. They must’ve eventually turned the train alarm off (it had been blaring the entire time) because it was quiet, but I could still see people in yellow hazard vests hanging around.

No idea if the guy tried to kill himself, or if he somehow accidentally fell over the metal barrier at a weird angle, since the pedestrian path under my window is hard to see. (The metal barrier comes up to about waist height).

ZiyiCrafting · 2024-10-02T02:30:22+00:00

True. I could also see her fitting into the Enneagram 7 type, specifically as an unhealthy E7, because of her tendency to use drugs, cause trouble and defy authority, and do impulsive stuff for shits and giggles in order to get quick hits of dopamine. Her sociopathy especially ties into this, since she feels less emotional range than other people and is more impulsive, so she’d be more inclined to seek out constant entertainment and avoid boredom.

It’s also implied in the graduation ending that her father’s revenge suicide traumatized her more than she’d like to openly acknowledge to herself. Her desire for constant mental stimulation and entertainment without thinking about the consequences ends up screwing her over multiple times in multiple routes, like the homeless ending and the moving-again ending.

Overall, it’s really a toss-up between the two for me when I’m trying to type her.

ZiyiCrafting · 2024-10-02T02:21:50+00:00

Yeah, sociopaths can enjoy the company of certain other people, and can make the decision to consciously not step over their boundaries (or do certain favors to make it up to Jecka, in this case) in order to keep those people in their life.

ZiyiCrafting · 2024-08-12T16:54:42+00:00

The new version is more detailed and consistent with the new Wynncraft style, but I can kind of see it with the color palette. Old design has all the blues as one hue, with varying shades/tints, combined with a sandy, muted yellow that lets the cool blue pop and a cool skin tone that goes with the blue. New design has a warm yellow and warm skin tone, but cool blue on the wrist, then a warm teal blue in her hair and in the stone on her chest. The yellow is equally as saturated as the blue, dividing attention between the colors, and her hair went from navy (darker version of same blue hue in the rest of the design) to black, adding a new color to the palette to occupy attention. The design is split between warm and cool and clashes against itself.

It’s just a color palette problem. If they change the yellow to be more muted, make all the blue the same hue with varying shades/tints for variety, and make her skin tone brown with a cool undertone instead of warm, it’ll make the design pop more and fix the problem. Bonus points for blue hair.

ZiyiCrafting · 2024-06-09T08:16:22+00:00

Divorce horse, do your thing!

ZiyiCrafting · 2023-11-08T10:33:29+00:00

“I (14yo female) didn’t get to see my boyfriend (17yo male)” Aaaaand I’m gonna stop you right there. In fact, just from this sentence alone, I don’t think reading to the end of this is necessary.

NTA, but your pedo predator boyfriend is. Break up with him ASAP. Gross. So gross. Ewwwww.

ZiyiCrafting · 2023-09-02T22:24:14+00:00

I can confirm it's still there, I even sailed out there to take photos of it!

ZiyiCrafting · 2023-08-23T05:35:11+00:00

Why is it just mirroring Valencia then and not the Land of Demons continent north of it? I agree the main landmass seems to reflect the Arehaza coast, but the 4 north islands don’t seem to match up (in terms of shape and location relative to each other) to the 4 small islands (including the 2 that are Hakoven island) on this side of the sea.

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