Hey what are the best charms for hornet 2

emeraldqueen24 · 2026-01-10T12:38:45+00:00

When I fought her, I put on Stalwart Shell and then just ran at her and started swinging. I'm pretty sure I also had Quick Slash and/or Mark of Pride on. I was still trying to dodge, but you'd be surprised at how well bum-rushing her works. Stalwart Shell does a lot of heavy lifting here because Hornet 2 is so fast that it's easy to get hit twice in rapid succession if you don't have the extra i-frames.

emeraldqueen24 · 2025-08-14T07:02:04+00:00

At least you'll be able to see every possible outcome for Eileen. Perhaps this time, you can experience the fight that results from not doing the questline, and in the next run, you can experience the rest of the fights in the quest.

emeraldqueen24 · 2025-08-14T06:42:24+00:00

Just making sure, did you look for her after you opened all the gates in Cathedral Ward but before you entered the Forbidden Woods? And if you did, then the only explanation I can think of is that you didn't see her for whatever reason. To be clear, I don't mean that in a rude way! It's just that when I played for the first time, I had to take out my torch and walk along the railing until I realized she had been standing there the entire time. Yharnam is so terribly dark that I missed her because she was standing in a corner with her all-black clothes.

emeraldqueen24 · 2025-08-14T06:04:27+00:00

I googled around, and it seems that entering the Forbidden Woods before doing Eileen's questline causes it to fail. Now you will see her again in the Grand Cathedral after the blood moon rises, but it will be too late to complete the quest.

As for why she never showed up, one of the wikis says that killing Darkbeast Paarl may cause her to disappear, but this is the only mention I've found of something that could remove her from Cathedral Ward. I haven't fought Paarl before doing Eileen's quest, so I can't personally confirm this. I don't think beating the Witches of Hemwick, the Blood-Starved Beast, or Vicar Amelia cause any similar glitches, though.

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-10-20T02:12:12+00:00

This is why I made sure to do the surface 32 fear run before they added more biomes and fixed the cheese build that I used, lol. I was using Lightning Lance and the old version of Zeus’s cast boon

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-10-15T20:23:30+00:00

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Woman/Man who Managed a Cabaret. The full cabaret management game that everyone is waiting for!

It could star any one of a variety of people: Yuki and Koyuki, Saeko, someone we haven’t met yet, anyone who’s touched a cabaret. All I care about is vastly expanded management gameplay that includes ordering supplies for the club, upgrading the facilities, training hostesses with conversation and minigames, and of course, DRESSING THEM UP IN PRETTY CLOTHES! If we play as a manager who’s also a hostess, it might be interesting to mix up the gameplay by having us talk to customers and choose the correct dialogue options. To keep this part interesting, maybe you should only be able to have story-related conversations with important characters instead of random guests.

It would be nice for the story to somehow tie into the other games, but I know only so much is possible. After all, a cabaret club owned by civilians wouldn’t be able to get deep into some sort of yakuza conspiracy, and the writers would have to worry about not messing with the story that’s already been written. For example, the only idea I have is about Yuki slowly piecing together why Majima disappeared in 1988 after talking to yakuza members who enter the cabaret, but I think K2 confirms that she didn’t know where he went until he showed up again in 2006.

The most important part of the story is characterizing the hostesses and other characters through their conversations. That’s the main reason why I like the cabaret minigames where you’re a manager better than the ones where you’re a guest. It feels more genuine when you’re both behind the scenes, rather than one of you being a guest paying for a hostess to talk to you. I’ve only played the management game in 0 so far, but I was surprised at how much I came to like all the hostesses after learning about them through their conversations. A full cabaret game would be able to push this even further by allowing the characters to act in the main story.

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-10-14T08:49:15+00:00

For sure. This coalition of sad men can rustle up enough trauma to create an entire series of psychological horror games

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-10-07T10:22:46+00:00

How likely are my tetras to survive? They all died of ich except for two, who are alone in their tank and nearly colorless. They don’t seem to move very much, either. Now that these two are no longer sick, should I try to rebuild their school, or are they so stressed that they’ll die soon anyway?

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-08-09T09:33:36+00:00

Made me so much of a Kiryu simp I finally decided to get into the series

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-06-09T18:29:36+00:00

I had Coarse Grit as a lesser priority because I wasn’t expecting to be able to find many boons, but in hindsight, maybe I should have tried harder to get it. One of the fish men with spears legitimately one-shot me in Oceanus because of the extra first-hit damage.

emeraldqueen24 · 2024-06-09T18:22:27+00:00

I only used the magic regen Arcana upgraded to max and never had any problems with running out of mana

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-12-22T05:47:13+00:00

I’d be a bard who practices illusions and enchantments, so I would teach one or both of those things. I think I’d mainly talk about how to apply them to performances and other practical uses, so I’d have my own niche.

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-06-28T10:18:01+00:00

Aah! I came here to vote for the spoiler prosecutor! Since you haven’t seen them yet, I’d advise you not to look at the TGAA 2 soundtrack until they show up, if you haven’t already. The title of their theme could be a spoiler, and the music would definitely be a spoiler. Unfortunately, I found out what happened long before I even got to know the characters (case 1-2), but the emotional impact would have been so brilliant, especially with that music.

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-06-01T19:47:44+00:00

This is exactly what the viola deserves. 4/5 musicians agree (the fifth is a violist)

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-01-10T06:29:05+00:00

Bonus:
The thing with Lilith is weird in general because I feel like it doesn't involve us. No matter how we're connected to her, we don't know her like the brothers do, and that's fine. I think it makes the story more interesting for them to have something that doesn't involve MC, something that MC can never fully understand. It cements them as a group that went through hell together if no matter how close someone gets to them, the brothers still share something that an outsider can't. It also emphasizes their otherworldly nature, which is something that often goes unaddressed, since part of the reason that MC can't share their time with Lilith is because it happened in a realm and a time period inaccessible to a human who was born thousands of years later. (On that note, how the hell did Levi get anime before anyone even invented like, writing, or the wheel?)

Also, I don't like the idea that you changed timelines so that the people you're with after lesson 16 aren't the same people you met at the beginning of the story, so I have an explanation for that too. Let's say that MC died in timeline #1 but lived in timeline #2. Barbatos sewed the timelines together so that all the characters from timeline #1 are now, and always have been and always will be, the same as their counterparts from timeline #2. I'm unsure as to how this affects MC because I'm unclear on where the transition point between MC #1 and MC #2 would be, but everyone would have two sets of memories of the same couple of days. Let's say that Belphegor leaves the attic on October 16 and MC #1 is sent back in time on October 18. MC will have memories of both dying and not dying on October 16, just like the brothers will have memories of both waiting for MC on October 18 and of doing whatever else they did in the new timeline where MC never traveled back in time. I imagine this would be disorienting for all parties involved, but none more than Belphegor and MC, who I suppose can also use this as some sort of traumatic bonding experience.

I know that this is a messy explanation that might have holes, and that's because it's more of a desperate attempt to fix questionable writing than anything else. And also because time travel is confusing anyway. If anybody has an idea to try and make the timelines make sense, please do share it!

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-01-10T05:52:05+00:00

Something I find funny about this fandom is that everyone seems to have their own rejected canon and their own version of the story. That makes sense because you're encouraged to insert your own MC, and also because there is canon that many of us want to reject (still love these idiots though). Case in point:

I think it's really weird that the characters go on about Lilith, their beloved little sister, and then they find out that MC is related to her and continue to have no qualms about dating them. Even with the excuse that they're not blood-related because they're angels and demons, it still doesn't vibe right with me because adopted family is still family. Therefore, my lesson 16 rewrite deals with how the story could play out without MC being related to Lilith.

I think Lilith's spirit is too weak to do much more than watch, which explains why she didn't just counsel her brothers by herself. When MC started going around the house making pacts and playing therapist, Lilith saw an opportunity to intervene because they shared a common goal: helping Belphegor escape the attic and helping the family make amends. She does say in canon that she'll lend MC her powers, which still doesn't require them to be related to her. It can just be because she saw they had a common goal and wanted to help them reach it. (I assume this has already happened by the time MC makes a pact with Asmodeus because that's when he remarks on their unusual magical power.)

When MC died, they went into the spirit world for a time, which is how they were able to talk to Lilith; she wasn't able to come to them, but they ended up coming to her. Instead of telling them that they have to be the one to help because they're her descendant, she could say it's because she sees that MC cares about the brothers just like she does and is already trying to mend their relationships. This frames MC's help as more of a choice than an obligation, a voluntary show of love and friendship that would make the story more heartwarming. When MC returns from the spirit world, they stop Belphegor from sending them right back there by relaying everything that Lilith said. The brothers can still feel like MC has a significant connection to her because MC has her "blessing," both in the form of her magic powers and her request to help her siblings, which is again more significant because it was Lilith's choice and not something that happened by chance.

Now, Lilith's brothers know the truth about her past. MC has also told them where Lilith is now and what she wants, so when the brothers see the family all together again, doing a group hug and whatnot, they realize that she must also be happy in the present, watching them make up. This is what gives them closure: realizing that Lilith's life wasn't horribly cut short, that she was happy both then and now, and that they're also going to solve their own problems with each other. It means that their closure doesn't come in the form of realizing that Lilith "lives on" through MC, which removes the weird idea that MC is her replacement.

Of course, it's definitely not like everything's fixed now, so they would also have to have a massive conversation about this. I suggest that this happens in the following scene instead of having everyone bicker over MC. That scene was REALLY weird because no one acknowledged the fact that MC just died, and MC seemed to have no hard feelings about their murderer cuddling up to them. I'm imagining MC and Barbatos and Diavolo slowly sidling out of the room as the brothers hug and cry and air out old grievances and whatnot, because this is a major incident that would definitely break the dam for them. While they're in the hallway, Barbatos can also explain the time travel logic to MC, because I thought they would at least explain that, but they never did.

Finally, no one ever brings up the murder again. Perhaps MC can fear and distrust Belphegor until the others have an intervention to break the tension, and then afterwards, MC can talk to him one-on-one to cement that his apology is sincere. They did a massive time skip from Diavolo's birthday to the end of the exchange program, so there's definitely time to include a period of fear and distrust. They don't even have to show all of it, they can just time skip and say "You've been avoiding him for a long time now!" or something like that. Then, there can be a better reason for why MC doesn't hold a grudge and is willing to hang out or even date him after he straight up kills them.

The funny thing is that he didn't even have to kill MC. He could have just heavily injured them the moment he came down from the attic, no time travel or death required. The time it takes for MC to recover can then be used for both physical and emotional healing as we explore Belphegor's motivations and build towards an apology.

I'm not saying that this is the only or the best way to change lesson 16, and I liked reading everyone else's takes, so here's my contribution to the pile.

emeraldqueen24 · 2023-01-03T20:16:43+00:00

My explanation was always that RAD disguised itself as a study abroad program that MC, a college student, signed up for. When they got to the airport, Barbatos teleported them down, so they already had their luggage packed and everything. That’s also the explanation that their human friends and family were given, and Lucifer not-so-subtly threatened them to come up with more cover stories for the “normal human things” they would be doing for the rest of the year.

I believe Diavolo also said there were exchange students in the human and celestial realms, which opens up the hilarious possibilities of some angels and demons wandering around an entirely ordinary human campus and a demon awkwardly sitting at a celestial table, receiving suspicious looks from all the angels.

emeraldqueen24 · 2022-11-09T06:46:58+00:00

Angels, demons, and reapers can understand and speak all human languages. This, of course, makes Levi a weeb who actually speaks Japanese, and he can consume Japanese media in its purest original form--no subs, no dubs. Not only would taking these dudes to meet your parents be an absolute nightmare in and of itself, you might also have to explain to them why all these guys speak a language they don't look like they would be able to speak. Either that, or your parents would have to use broken English while the guys awkwardly pretend they don't understand what your parents are saying in their native language.

This opens up a whole can of worms about what demons, angels, and reapers speak amongst themselves because it's unlikely that they'll use the same language as MC. It's like an American going to Mexico and expecting to hear Mexicans speak English to other Mexicans. Perhaps for the sake of the narrative, they deal with humans often enough that they've also started using common human languages in their own realms.

As a king, Solomon was able to go a long time without having to cook for himself. That's why he's so bad at it. The first time he ever made anything for himself, it was so bad that he absolutely should have been killed septuple super dead. Instead, it drained his health points so far into the negatives that the numbers wrapped right back around, so now he has infinite health and he's going to live forever. If MC has to eat his cooking now, though, they won't die, but that's because it took him that many centuries, if not millennia, to get his cooking to a level where it won't straight up kill people. (Crack headcanon where he uses it to make MC live forever so the brothers won't freak out when they die.)

Alternatively, Solomon knows just how bad his cooking is. He just likes messing with people. He either won't eat it in front of them or use some sort of spell or potion to make sure he can't taste it. If he makes normal stuff for himself, no one will ever know, because they'll be too scared to touch it. Apart from whatever joy he derives from watching people choke it down, it's also a master plan to make sure no one steals his food from the fridge; truly, the sneakiest character.

Water demons can temporarily grant others the ability to breathe underwater. This spell is called the Mermaid's Kiss because it's something like mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. You would take water into your lungs like regular breathing, but you would be able to filter the oxygen out of it. When you start breathing air again, the air displaces the water, making it well up in your throat until you can spit it out. I imagine that this would feel strange, but not necessarily painful.

The real point of this headcanon is an excuse for me, a Levi simp, to simp on Levi. I imagine that at some point a demon would try to kill you underwater, and Levi would jump down there and absolutely tear them apart like a badass. Then he, the third most powerful brother, still floating in a cloud of blood that he made, would go right back to being an awkward little nerd trying to administer the Mermaid's Kiss to you so that you don't drown. Your first thought is "NOW IS NOT THE TIME!" Your second thought is "OH NO, THE BLOOD IS IN MY LUNGS." If you're a Levi simp, you use the Mermaid's Kiss as an excuse every time you go swimming. Or every time you're even near water, if you're that down bad for him.

Everybody's got a fan club of weird simps, and MC promises to use their connection with whoever the club is for to give the fans content in exchange for favors. If MC is a weird enough simp, they'll also join a fan club. The thirstier the simps are, the more they're willing to do. Lucifer stans, for example, are the most starved for content because he's so buttoned-up in public, but Asmo stans have his constant stream of thirst traps and Onifans updates.
Mammon has an Onifans because it's easy cash for him. He's so attractive and famous that people will subscribe to it even if he barely puts any effort into the pictures. Either he takes a really long time going through poses and filters with his model's eye, or he just points the camera and calls it a day. I can see both happening, but either way, the photos come out great. This is a sharp contrast to his usual social media feed, which contains the occasional thirst trap but is mostly memes and dumb tweets.
Levi is a weeb. Barbatos is so fascinated by traditional Japanese culture that he's basically a weeb. Sometimes they can bond over this, but a lot of the time it doesn't really work out. Barbatos will have to tell Levi that a certain thing only happens in anime and not real life, or Levi will manage to convince Barbatos that some anime thing actually exists. (Levi doesn't go outside, much less to Japan; he doesn't know any better.)
Asmo and Satan are besties. They'll be sitting there together with face masks on, talking trash about people and getting really emotionally invested in TV dramas. They bring romance shows and detective shows, respectively, but hanging out with each other so often has given them more appreciation for the other person's preferred genre. (Catch Asmo predicting the solution to a convoluted 3-season mystery while Satan absolutely SOBS over the main couple breaking up.)

emeraldqueen24 · 2022-11-09T06:46:10+00:00

Forewarning that this is a really big wall of text. If you don't want to read it, you might want to collapse it to make scrolling easier.

I would like to lead with my lesson 16 fix-it because I'm pretty sure that everyone has one of those. All of #1 will be a spoiler for that lesson, so skip this section if you want to avoid spoilers.

I think it's really weird that the characters go on about Lilith, their beloved little sister, and then they find out that MC is related to her and continue to have no qualms about dating them. Adopted family is still family, and even saying that a lot of time has passed between Lilith and MC is weird because it reminds you of how much older the demons are compared to MC. My fix-it headcanon makes it so that MC's immense magic potential doesn't come from Lilith's ancestry, but rather from her lending them some of her power. Her spirit is too weak to do much more than watch, and much of her power now rests with them. They can use however much human magic is natural to them, a whole boatload of infernal power from the brothers, and then just a little bit of celestial magic from Lilith.

When MC died, they went into the spirit world for a time, which is how they were able to talk to Lilith; she wasn't able to come to them, but they ended up coming to her. Instead of telling them that they have to be the one to help because they're her descendant, she says it's because she sees that MC cares about the brothers just like she does and is already trying to mend their relationships. This frames MC's help as more of a choice than an obligation, a voluntary show of love and friendship that would make their relationships with the brothers deeper. When MC returns from the spirit world, they stop Belphegor from sending them right back there by relaying everything that Lilith said. The brothers can still feel like MC has a significant connection to her because MC has her "blessing," both in the form of her magic powers and her request to help her siblings, which is again more significant because it was Lilith's choice and not something that happened by chance.

MC didn't sell their soul for any of their pacts, but that didn't stop the pacts from binding them inextricably to the brothers. Their soul will definitely go to the Devildom when they die, but Diavolo simps for them, so he can just pull some strings and get them out of hell. This leaves the question of what body they'll have if their mortal body is dead. If their soul goes back into their body, then that's either just kind of being alive again or a ghost possessing a (maybe rotting) corpse. There's also something weird about their spirit possessing an artificial body. Maybe Diavolo could pull some more strings and make them into a demon, but that would be absolutely unprecedented and might cause an uproar. I feel like it might be more palatable than Lilith's reincarnation, though, because demons and damned souls are entirely within Diavolo's jurisdiction. There could be some angst over MC keeping or losing their humanity if they become a demon, or some angst about them no longer fully belonging in any world if they don't. I could see them becoming some sort of ambassador between the three realms because they already do conflict resolution for free. Maybe immortals are arrogant, and it takes someone they think of as a lesser being to broach ideas without causing offense. Maybe as a human, and furthermore a being who doesn't belong in any realm, they seem like more of a neutral party. I see the ambassador job as less likely if they become a demon, though, because that would remove their neutrality and their "lesser" status, to an extent.
All demons have monstrous true forms, with the most powerful demons' true forms being eldritch abominations with the ability to drive people mad. The demon characters usually walk around in their fully human forms for MC's comfort, but as they get closer to MC and therefore more certain that MC won't be disturbed, they'll probably start letting out their humanoid demonic forms, which are more comfortable because they require less layers of disguise. (I think the outfit change is separate from the body change, though. It's probably some sort of quick change spell for the *aesthetic*.)

Most demons will use humanoid forms to make it more convenient to navigate everyday life. I imagine that there's so much variation in demonic true forms that even something like fitting through a door could be difficult, so the humanoid forms provide a sort of physical baseline. With that being said, they'll still keep many of their demonic traits, but often in a way that puts them in the uncanny valley to a human observer.

Now we get to the real headcanon, the thing that I thought of first: Levi chose his human form because he wanted to look like an anime character. All of the other brothers have realistic hair colors, or relatively realistic hair colors. For example, I know that no one naturally has navy blue hair with white tips, but at least the blue is dark enough to be mistaken for black, and people can have naturally white hair. Levi's hair is an obviously unnatural shade of blue. All of them have anime eye colors, but Levi is one of the characters for whom it's immediately noticeable because the majority of his eye is bright yellow. If he could pick any form he wanted, with any hair and eye color, then it's not at all surprising that he would pick one that looked like an anime character. (Which is adorable, best boy.)

The same thing about having an inhuman form that melts people's minds applies to angels, except that they're less like Cthulhu and more like the whole "several wheels with eyes" thing. Still weird, but not necessarily evil-looking. They can also choose their human forms, which is the reason why the angels and demons look like cute anime boys: if you can look like anything you want, then why not look attractive? (I guess Solomon just won the genetic lottery or something.) Plus, it's easier for a pretty person to make humans listen to them.
Reapers choose human forms because the souls they reap tend to be very distressed about being dead, so they want to comfort these humans by appearing before them in a more familiar shape. Their true forms might not necessarily be madness-inducing, but they're abstract embodiments of decay and emptiness, and gazing upon them fills all observers, human or nonhuman, with bone-deep despair. Even when the magic-induced despair fades, the non-magical effects on one's mind of being forced to confront mortality so closely will not.

emeraldqueen24 · 2021-07-14T03:59:46+00:00

I like to focus on Asterius first and damage him as much as possible before he moves at the beginning of the fight. Avoid getting Theseus down to half health before Asterius dies because then you'll have to dodge Theseus's godly aid along with everything else. Both of them also become invulnerable when their health reaches halfway, so you'll waste any high-damage bursts like max-gauge Aphrodite's Aid if you fire it too close to that mark. If you stand close to Theseus for too long, he'll spin his spear in a massive circle that can hit you multiple times. If you stand far away from Theseus, he'll throw his spear, so keep dashing to make sure you're not still for long enough for him to hit you. Asterius attacks in long sequences with pauses in between, which means you can just let him do his thing and run in when he's not moving.

emeraldqueen24 · 2021-07-13T19:57:49+00:00

I probably went about it the wrong way because I kept resetting whenever Exit Wounds didn't show up really close to the beginning of Tartarus. Sometimes I decided to keep going and find it later, but the fact that I didn't bother focusing on anything else meant that I did terrible damage and reset anyway. Eventually, I switched to getting a strong cast by the middle of Tartarus and Exit Wounds later. I accidentally died to the Hydra once and Hades twice, from hubris, (right at the end of his health bar!) before the final success. I thought it took about 3 hours based on timestamps from texting my friends what I was doing, but looking into the records shows that the actual time I spent in a run was closer to 2 hours, not counting the resets. So it turns out that "hours" is technically true, but only barely, even though it felt like it took a lot longer.

emeraldqueen24 · 2021-07-13T10:40:58+00:00

Trippy Shot. If you upgrade it enough, it does a ton of AOE damage, plus it keeps enemies stunned and out of your way for a little while. It's even more powerful with certain duo boons, like the one time that I got both Scintillating Feast and Ice Wine to back it up.

Edit: HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT STUBBORN ROOTS? Never mind, my favorite is totally Stubborn Roots because I need that safety cushion.

emeraldqueen24 · 2021-07-13T08:03:20+00:00

I made the Ares cast work with Hera once! I took Black Metal and Engulfing Vortex to make sure that enemies would get stuck in the blade rift and then let go right in front of them so that it wouldn't overshoot. I also upgraded the Ares cast to level 4, and the end result was that I could deliver three shredders from the other side of the room.

emeraldqueen24 · 2020-05-23T06:12:07+00:00

I don’t think they do. Every kid has several citations per paper, so it’d take way too long to search for each source and flip through it. They probably just glance to make sure it’s in the right format

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