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[ℬ @atomiclands]

@HYPEX i wish they had noir styles

[pitoreixco @pitoreixco]

there could be 100 airbenders in the world and 99 are gone but all it takes is one to defeat the fire lord and save the world

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In God of War (2018), you spend the entire game mourning a woman who never says a word. She's just a body you carry up a mountain. The next game makes her the hero. And in the old stories, she once fought Thor to a standstill.

Her name is Faye. She dies in the opening, and everything after is Kratos, the bald, furious warrior you play as, and his young son Atreus carrying her ashes to the highest peak in the world. You never hear her speak. You only ever see her wrapped in cloth, then burning on a funeral fire.

What the games slowly reveal is who she was. To the giants she was Laufey the Just, a warrior who led uprisings against Odin and his gods and shielded the weak from them, even breaking their prisoners loose. She fought Thor once and neither of them won. He was drunk at the time, fine, but Thor is the hardest hitter the gods have, so holding him off at all says plenty.

That famous axe Kratos throws and magically calls back to his hand was hers first. The dwarf blacksmiths Brok and Sindri forged it for her, built to match Thor's hammer, and she handed it down to Kratos before she died.

She also quietly set the whole story in motion. She could see the future, so she marked the trees around their home, arranged her own funeral, and aimed Kratos and Atreus straight at the journey that eventually topples Odin. The person steering all of it spent the entire time as a corpse.

Sony revealed God of War: Laufey at their June State of Play, with twenty minutes of gameplay. Everyone figured a prequel, since she's dead. Nope. Creative director Cory Barlog says it's "a continuation of the timeline," starting the moment after that funeral. Instead of resting in peace, Faye wakes up somewhere called the Everywhen, the afterlife of the gods. Dead gods from all kinds of myths claw over the last scraps of power there, and the plans she made to protect her family are already coming apart.

The fighting is built around her, not her husband. Kratos is slow and heavy and hits like a truck. Faye is quick and airborne, leaping and juggling enemies in the air with a magic sword. She can hit an enemy hard enough to knock its soul clean out of its body, then start wailing on the soul itself. Deborah Ann Woll, Karen from Daredevil, plays her again, and the character is modeled on her face. Her first sidekick is a talking jelly cube named Phranque, voiced by Jack Quaid from The Boys.

There's no release date yet, and it's PS5 only. The woman whose death powered two of the best action games ever made finally gets to fight her own war.

[manic nixon dream girl @kennixonette]

gary apongebob is so adorable ... little snale

[ℬ @atomiclands]

@queenharley77 @avocadobratz444 @sweettners girl did you watch the show at all

[𔘓 @girldiari]

how i feel snatching mvp from my dps/tank last minute when i'm on support

[hanad @hanad2chalant]

every new clip of her is just someone playing in her face

[swinky @swinkying]

when u realize oomf lowkey a mean and bad person

[ℬ @atomiclands]

@KATSEYEBASE i love them but ever since someone made a tweet saying sophie's is always just shouting i can't ever unhear it

[cameron @cambeserious]

i genuinely can’t stop.

[ꕤ @cringhoul]

analyzing every second of “hate that i made you love me” by ariana grande.

0:00 - silence implying that the song has not started yet.

[gilmore d’ ꕤ @lovessswt]

me rn #hatethatimadeyouloveme

[ade @franmanifesto]

Ariana on her 56th track telling her fans to shut the fuck up omg

[ℬ @atomiclands]

@lorenzodbf @PopCrave you bots just be saying shit

[Harmony @HarmonyOW2]

When life gets tough so you have to pull this combo out