That's Adorable

That's adorable 🥰🥺

my kitty cat was wandering around going ‘mrrph?” so i was like “in here!” he goes “mrrph!” shoves open my bedroom door with his big round head and FLOPS on me. as in hard enough that he made a little “oof” noise when he did it. followed by a category five purring event. there’s good in this world mr frodo etc

Gotta love how Monster Hunter Stories 2 spent an entire game telling us about how important a connection to nature is, how monsters have thoughts and feelings of their own, how they just do what they have to do to survive. It goes on about how they're not inherently evil, and how bonds can transcend a monster's nature.

And then it turns around and tells us to kill a literal baby, and has the audacity to end Oltura's story with its death. No closure, no introspection on its nature. Nope, Oltura was evil and had to go. Ratha gets multiple murder attempts and is still a good bean, but the cycle ends with Oltura. Okay.

Anyway, I'm going to take a hammer and fix the canon. What if we find a special egg at the alter in the post game, and this time we get the chance to raise Oltura right? I like that more, personally. Anyway, screw it. Monstie baby Oltura doodle

😭 it's so sweet omg!!! I'm gonna cry!! 🥺

Beginnings

Soulmate AU where you see visions of the life you might live with your soulmate when they first touch you.

Phantom didn’t see the danger.

Captivated by the newborn human baby he had been handed, he played with the tiny hand wrapped tightly around his index finger. The mother explained the story of her son’s birth as Phantom smiled down at him. Last week, Phantom had caught the wall that would have landed on her and her unborn child mere hours before she went into labor. Phantom had saved her and given the baby human he held in his arms a chance to breathe for the first time, and she wanted him to know. She had called him down from the skies to tell him. She called him a hero, and for once, as he held that small life she trusted him—a ghost—to hold, he actually felt like one.

The other humans sitting outside the coffee shop’s veranda listened as well. Some hid their smiles behind their cups, but Phantom didn’t need to see their expressions to know how they felt. An atmosphere of gratitude, fondness, happiness surrounded him, emanating from the humans as if they were welcoming him to stay. He tried to fight them back, but tears gathered in his eyes. The mother, the woman he had saved purely out of instinct, touched his arm.

It was that feeling of safety and acceptance that lulled him into dropping his guard. He never would have done such a thing in the Ghost Zone.

He had just handed the baby back to the mother when he heard the shouting, the cries of alarm, the blaring horns, and the screech of tires.

A voice shouted, “Get down!”

Phantom spun to see what was happening. It only took a glance to recognize Danny Fenton, the youngest child of the local ghost hunters, the one who had opened the portal to the Ghost Zone. It took longer to understand what the bright green flash behind Fenton meant.

Danger. An attack.

Phantom widened his eyes. Caught his breath.

And then Danny’s body collided into his. Arms looped around his neck and heat slid into his core. Danny’s momentum pitched Phantom backward. They fell together as the humans around them screamed. The sound became muffled and then silent. Phantom’s vision dimmed as if he was passing out, falling unconscious.

–

“Do you see Jupiter?” Danny’s voice asked, excitement lifting it higher. “The clouds? The shadows?”

Phantom managed only a weak sound in confirmation. His left eye was closed, but his right eye saw into deep space and witnessed the fifth planet, the one humans had nicknamed The Red Giant through Danny’s telescope. There were layers of clouds swirling slowly around Jupiter’s atmosphere, greater than any ectoplasmic cloud. He had never seen anything like it. The Ghost Zone had many wonders, but nothing like this.

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This is such a good point I never realized, but for my first time playing I was dumb cuz I knew nothing but now I know a lot since I've played for a while now, this is such a great idea 😍

Unpopular Opinion: Ratha shouldn’t have gained the ability to fly

Hear me out:

Story-wise, Ratha is YOUR Monstie, your baby, the little ceature that you’d risk your life for. But Gameplay-wise? He doesn’t exactly bring much to the table, and aside from fancy wings and a slight variation in his kinship-animation, there’s nothing he can do that a normal Rathalos can’t do as well.

I don’t know about you, but for a Monstie that I was stuck with for 90% of the game, I cared surprisingly little for Ratha. The only battle that I was stubborn enough to ONLY use him was the final Oltura-battle, and even then I didn’t care all that much for the final cutscene.

Tbh, as soon as I finished the main campaign and could swap Ratha out of my team, I replaced him with an Azure Rathalos that I named Dash, and this absolute King stayed on my team until I reset the file.

Ratha just… doesn’t feel important, especially after the final battle where you can find Rathalos-eggs everywhere.

Personally, I feel like Ratha should have been the ONLY normal Rathalos obtainable in the game. And in addition to that, I think that he shouldn’t have learned to fly.

Why?

Story-wise, Oltura is the Monster with the Wings of Ruin. And Ratha’s Razewings? Well. Why exactly his wings are crippled when he hatches from the egg isn’t really explained. Personally, I would have LOVED for Ratha to keep his spooky Razewings and just be a ground-based Rathalos.

And in the cutscene where he gains his wings… what if his flight to save the MC would have looked like his chase after the Rage-Rayed Legiana, where he got all grey and his wings glowed in this creepy, purple light?

Just… imagine. MC gets thrown overboard, Ratha’s powers awaken for a short moment and his wing-membranes open just like in the Legiana-Cutscene and he flies after the MC, all while looking like he came straight out of Satan’s basement.

And instead of him, MC, Ena and Navirous flying off into sunset on Ratha’s newly awakened wings, he plunges down onto the ground after having caught the MC, his wing-membranes close up and he keeps his crippled wings. Because… he doesn’t have the Wings of Ruin.

It would have played nicely into this “Ratha’s power can be used for good”-talk: Ratha uses his ‘dangerous’ powers to save his Rider, without changing his appearance to look like a normal, “good” Rathalos.

(idk how the cutscene would have played out then, with Ratha not being able to escape the Hunters by flight, but idk… maybe his kinship-attack would have gotten stronger and he just shoots the ship out of the air with a big-ass fireball-)

Just…. I think that Razewing Ratha has TONS of wasted potential. I don’t think anyone plays the endgame with him on their team, just because he doesn’t bring anything unique to the table that no other Rathalos can also do.

On my first playthrough, I honestly hoped that Ratha would stay flightless, just because it would fit the whole “Wings of Ruin”-Narrative and throw in some confusion. Like-

“One beat of his wings could bring ruin to the world.”

“Okay, but… how can Ratha beat his wings if he can’t fly.”

“….well-”

And the Oltura rolls up with its six wings and the MC and Ratha just stare at everyone that gave them shit and are like “AH YES, RATHA HAS THE WINGS OF RUIN, NOT THIS MOTH-LOOKING-MOTHERFUCKER!”

(how the Riding-ability to fly would have been unlocked if Ratha couldn’t fly,,,, uuhhhhhh…. idk. Cheval, Avinia and Alwin all have Monsties that can fly, maybe there could have been a scene where Monsties and Riders get seperated and are forced to work together with the other person’s Monstie, so that MC then can fly around on Rathi, Shulk or Frostfang to search for their partners from above. Idk, just give me Razewing-Ratha back, his wings were cool)

I just wanted to write something about Danny and Airis so here

Airis watch him fight the robbers from the roof top. She made she to stay just out of range of his ghost sense. Airis narrowed her eyes as she watched Batman approach him, not liking what his body language was telling her.

Tilting her head she watched as Batman put a hand on his shoulder and tell him he did a good job. Airis smiled as she watched Danny light up like a star, however, a frown made its way onto her face as she remembered why she was here watching over Danny.

Airis slowly opened her eyes and looked around confused. Where was she? The last thing she remembered was.....her dad shoving her into all the chemicals he experimented with + some ectoplasm. Slow realization came to her as she looked around at the ghost zone she knew she was in.

She crumpled to the ground when a pang went through her chest, no, her core, yeah that's what they were called. It felt like something was tugging at her core, Airis tried to ignore it only for a pang of fear to zip through her, that got her attention.

Shooting off of the floating island chunk she was on she flew through the ghost zone at top speed following the tug. Activating her invisibility she shot through a portal that opened in front of her. Coming out on the other side she saw a silver and green van chasing a younge ghost boy.

Airis growled as something in her core snapped and yelled to protect, protect, protect. The ghost boy stopped as he was cornered by the van before two people in, jumpsuits? Jumped out and pointed guns at him. Dropping her invisibility she landed right in front of the ghost boy.

She watched in amusement as the two people with guns looked around confused when she landed stirring up a dust cloud. Airis spread her wings and roared, dispursing the dust cloud in an instant. Airis huffed out a breath when she was done and crouched so that most of her was protecting the ghost boy.

Airis watched with satisfaction as all the people grew expressions of fear and shock. Glancing at the boy she saw that he had a similar expression but he also had relief in his eyes. Quickly Airis grabbed the ghost boy by his scruff in her mouth and took off in a direction her core tugged her in.

She smiled at the memory of how she met Danny, shortly after that she brought him here and they talked, but Airis told him she had to go and explore the world since she was only a new ghost. Danny had understood and told her to come back when she was done.

Now that she was done, it had been only a year and she could she that Danny was doing great. Her happy thoughts were quickly interrupted when she saw someone with a knife in their hand sneaking up on Danny and Batman, looking at Danny.

She growled and sent a blue ectoblast from her mouth at him, hitting him right in the crest, sending him back into a wall. Both Danny and Batman snapped their heads in her direction. Airis only grinned at Danny and spread her wings, reared her head back and roared.

Danny cheered in excitement when she roared and sent out a small ghostly wail in response to her roar. They both shot into the air and circled each other, as they stopped and hovered in front of the moon Airis pulled Danny to her chest and nuzzled his hair.

No one would ever hurt someone in her hoared. Not on her watch.

Pfft- 🤣

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