>"Nicely done," Gideon laid a massive hand on Nissa's thin shoulder. She twitched and inhaled sharply. The tree-beast swung toward him and shook itself, leaves rattling a feline hiss.
>Liliana smiled and followed. Behind her, Gideon's voice echoed from the courtyard bricks. "Nissa, before you go. That thing I do, where I clap people on the shoulder? Does that make you uncomfortable?"
>Liliana paused at the door, listening. If the elf responded, her words weren't audible.
>"I'm sorry. I hadn't realized. I won't do it again." Liliana couldn't imagine his expression, but his tone dripped such brown-eyed-shaggy-dog sincerity her lips twitched with irritation.
>"Thank you." Barely more than a whisper of wind on leaves.
>"If anything makes you uncomfortable, let me know, all right? Especially if it's me."
>Wizards attempt at conditioning their male demographic to resepct women and their personal space
Glad this made it into the story line.
Isaiah Morales
And Chandra still explore her bisexuality this time with Liliana.
Wyatt Morris
When did Nissa become a mute emo? Why does Chandra sound like a 13-year old girl?
Matthew Edwards
>Gix will never return and become to new Father of Machines >Gix will never pimp slap the shit out of Elesh Norn >Gix will never conquer Kaladesh with his superior Artificer skills
Evan Price
When they falled in love with each other.
Michael Brooks
So Kaladesh is going to be Nissa & Chandra lovefest while Gideon investigate and Jace and Lili keep tsundering to each other ...
Jaxon Rogers
lesbian threesome when
Lincoln Myers
Its ok, they openly pushed Liliana and Chandra - speaking openly with a shirt falling off and no pants on, tying her bodice drawstring for her and playing with each other's hair.
They meant it to seem "sisterly" but it sure as hell didn't read that way.
Julian Long
To be fair Liliana does make everything sexy.
Luis Moore
>Gix returns >First thing he does is build a shit ton of Dragon Engines >mfw
Caleb Jenkins
This wasn't a great article. The writer does a good job of portraying some of the more fantastical elements, such as how Nissa deals with being a nature mage on a world with almost no real nature.
But the have a problem with character voice. Not only do a number of the characters speak and think in ways that seem out of character, these are largely the same OOC mannerisms across the bunch. In their attempt to make casual dialog between members of the Gatewatch, everyone is casual in the same manner/language, instead of reflecting their incredibly different cultures and viewpoints. Everyone is just a bit too flippant and modern-casual for my tastes.
Lilliana, for example, hardly strikes me as the sort of person to say 'Hell no'.
Brody Garcia
Yeah Fuck this shit, I thought there was a thing between Chandra and Gideon because of the old stories. Also didn't Nissa used to be a bad ass elf nazi, now they are all tumblr the gathering. Fuck this, mtg is all I had left free from the shit. You want to make new characters gay, I don't care. But to take the old characters and just change who they are for the tumblr pennies is insulting yo the older fan base.
Cameron Lopez
>mfw WotC Poos in the lol your plainwaifu homework and now she's a lesbian with a free elf.
At least Anafenza is dead so they can't tumblr here up. I am hoping at least Thalia will stay straight.
Landon Powell
>Also didn't Nissa used to be a bad ass elf nazi That wasn't really a retcon, they had a story two years ago where she realized her "fuck you elves are better" attitude is what caused her to be dumb enough to release the eldrazi in the first place, so she's tried to be more "accepting" of people.
And Chandra's red, the color most likely to do who and whatever the fuck it wants. Always has been.
Caleb Price
>Chandra canonically has freckles I'll take it. Thanks for spitting in the face of all official character art, Chris L'Etoile. That was worth your disjointed characterizations.
Nolan Morris
Can you put on a trip so I'm not fooled by imitation Gixposters? I want the genuine article.
David Harris
what?
Lucas Wright
Gideon thundered down the stairs, taking them two at a time as he yanked a shirt down over his various bulges, ripples, and throbbing bits >"throbbing bits"
Isaac Cox
Is that supposed to be Lili's narration or is it 3rd person.
Chandra has had freckles for a long time, but yea the characterizations in this were the weirdest thing.
I'm surprised they went straight "sitcom house" with the jacetice league.
Lincoln Cox
>they had a story two years ago where she realized her "fuck you elves are better" attitude is what caused her to be dumb enough to release the eldrazi in the first place, so she's tried to be more "accepting" of people. Yea except that canonically happened long after she had left Zendikar (and you know, after she actually came back and did the smashy smashy).
In the origins retcon she's always been a precious dindu.
Ryder Russell
I'm not, sitcom house was a good idea, just the writing was bad.
Charles Lopez
So why is Chandra a timid nervous lesbian now.
I mean she used to be sort-of implied to be a lesbian but I had assumed that went away with the origins retcon.
William Sullivan
So why are they going to Kaladesh? What kind of backlash happened with sealing Email? Is Nahiri dead? Is it worth going back and catching up?
Brandon Adams
Chandra's homesick and the inventor fare is goingon
Very little, actually. The first time in a while where they did something sort of surprising.
No, she's fine. She just fucked off.
Yea I think all of Shadows/EDM stories are ok to great.
Daniel Murphy
Alright thanks
Dominic Sanchez
Gideon's huge, man
He probably throbs all the time
Parker Harris
Yeah and that's fine but she's just a total pussy now, really did some Eldrazi mindrape her into trauma or something?
Jose Cox
So is Sorin effectively dead now?
Leo Powell
I'm more than a little confused about Nissa's new trauma too.
I'm assuming Nissa's been off of Zendikar for an amount of time in her life (she's also apparently at least 40, the old hag) but she's treating Ashaya's loss as some earth-shattering development for her.
She also apparently frequently disassociates and just becomes a fucking plant somewhere on the planet and then forgets basic vocabulary.
No he's just hanging out in markov manor.
Wyatt Hall
Fuck you for reminding me asshole
John Ross
You mean you don't want Jund?
Also, the Purifying Fire is officially retconned. Gideon in this story confirms he knows nothing of Chandra's past with her parents and whatnot. In that book, she spilled her sob-story into his lap. So, yeah, no longer canon.
I blame Sarkhan for resetting the timestream.
Xavier Walker
No he's just stuck in a wall.
If the wotc account is to believed, Hanweir is still alive and kicking and comes by to say hi to him every so often.
Gavin Clark
>I blame Sarkhan for resetting the timestream. Literally only affected Tarkir (somehow).
Logan Cook
Wotc confirmed they don't give a single shit about the story or its characters and will change them at the drop of a hat if they think it'll "better suit their needs".
I'm still salty over that 'vorthos' panel.
Jaxon Morris
>So why is Chandra a timid nervous lesbian now. It's how this writer wanted to portray her, I guess. With any luck, she'll be back to
>You killed the Eldrazi...because you could >>Damn right we could
soon enough. This is just how this writer decided to interpret her. Which is to say, so ADD she's practically brain-damaged.
Juan Mitchell
I don't see why they ping pong with their characters.
Just fucking introduce new ones with that character.
Or actually get writers who understand the slightest thing about any of their personalities (though that in itself is a bit muddy since origins).
Daniel Myers
Good fucking riddance, that man was a plague.
William Wilson
>If the wotc account is to believed, Hanweir is still alive and kicking and comes by to say hi to him every so often.
Brandon Wright
It's because they keep changing writers. It's the same plague that comics have. Except comics have had 80 years to get SLIGHTLY better at keeping consistency. This is new for WotC. Give it time. It'll level out when they get a regular handful of writers going steady. I just hope we don't get Literally-retarded Chandra and get the Chandra we've been getting fairly consistently for the past half-year.
Ian Russell
>making characters gay meme
You do realise Nissa's sexuality has never been confirmed before, right?
Elijah Garcia
Well if we get literal retard chandra at least we get lili doing shit with her and nissa's elf autism doing stuff with her
Liam White
Why would anyone want a retarded old canon character over the nifty White phyrexian villain?
Ayden Davis
Jund lesbians leaves Jace and Gideon open for Jace/Ral and Gideon/Ajani
Brayden Cruz
Emrakul spawn decay and die in her absence you idiot
Chase White
Yeah, Lili was pretty good all around this week. I was fine with her and Chandra's interactions in the first third of the story. But then, when the author tried and failed to write Chandra's pov parts, she fell flat to me.
At least she followed through and actually built that fucking sandcastle.
Tyler Reed
Yea, eventually.
Vestige of Emrakul was still on Zendikar and she'd been gone for what, months?
Nathaniel Brooks
This story was way too fucking domestic for my tastes, am I reading fantasy literature of fanfiction? Also way to not give any closure on Innistrad, good to know the fate of its inhabitants mean jackshit, nice gatewatch you got there WOTC.
>Gideon reduced to beefcake joke characterization, shown as mentally incapable of sympathizing with Nissa despite being aware enough that his shoulder clasps bothered her, is he dense or not make up your minds >Chandra suddenly losing any sense of cool confidence, reduced to the mental capacity of a 13 year old, even begins speaking like one when she speaks with Nissa, because that's what anxiety is, SHOUTING MENTALLY and speaking with limited english apparently
Nissa's awkward state at least makes sense, being crammed in a giant sprawling metropolis is probably suffocating, that coming right after Emmy's little gangrape with her and Tamiyo and she can't be in a good state.
Jace was alright, I like how Lavina bullies him.
Lili is lili, nothing out of the ordinary.
Is it just me or are all the gatewatch women turning bisexual?
William Flores
I think the only (relevant) characters that have ever actually done sexual things are Jace and Lili.
Elspeth's not relevant
Adam Sanders
I want Elspeth back dammit. White/Black maybe since she's just a spirit now?
Hudson Barnes
So is Chandra goku now? Solid and super confident in a fight but mentally retarded outside of one?
>Non-canon >He doesn't believe in the power of denim walk
Liam Perry
>Implying that I have pants on while posting.
Why do you thunk that is user?
Jace Watson
but they still fucked right?
Robert Gonzalez
Pretty much.
Jacob Perez
Pretty much that but if Goku also was fucking Vegeta on the side.
Adam Peterson
Hopefully, her being this retarded was just the incompetence of this week's writer. Hopefully she's better next time.
Aaron Carter
Did they said that literally?
I mean, it's already evident given the way they write, but I want to know if they've accepted that's the new plan.
Logan Baker
This tumblr pandering is going to ruin everything I enjoy about the game, awesome No one is safe not even Ghost Waifu's
Alexander Wilson
WOW, that's fucking retarded, they aren't even trying to hide it, why the fuck would I even want to be invested in the story if I can predict the ending. >Come to a plain bad stuff is happening >Gatewatch Shows up >Problem solved >Also did you see the hundreds of fags, trans, blacks, spics, muslims, and other mentally ill shit we jammed in our story.
