Katrani Merack
katrani.bsky.social
Katrani Merack
@katrani.bsky.social
Making odd connections across media for *grumble* years

Tend to drift to different stuff. Millennial, neurodivergent, queer as heck
She/they
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Fuller intro: https://bsky.app/profile/katrani.bsky.social/post/3kks26f3v472b
Megalobox tattoo!!!!

Chief-specific hummingbird cause the hummingbird as devotion motif works so well and Chief especially burrowed into my brain.

Quote is from one of the episode titles. "Though you feel powerless, still God offers their image as a stepping stone."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
THE ORIGINAL BETRAYAL OF MY AGE
Like. I know there were Circumstances but. My dude!!!!!!! Get your shit together!!!!!!!! I wouldn't be so upset if you weren't cooler than our actual protagonist!!
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Gotta go with Terrangima. Beautifully expressive, epic story, pretty smooth combat, gorgeous music, interesting level gimmicks... but v unclear interacting progression systems, bad difficulty spikes, and a ROUGH endgame cause Quintet ran out of time
September 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My other go-tos were mentioned so I'm gonna say Hornet counts!

During Silksong she's finding blueprints and remnants of devices and makes new stuff out of them or does her own craft restocking when she rests
September 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Digging past the obvious answers, Shade running the Ghost Ship in Trials of Mana was a highlight for me, even if it's ridiculously difficult
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
FF9's Blank

We get like *nothing* about his backstory so like... is my dude a Frankenstein, a zombie, just a dude whose had tons of injuries? Some other nonsense????? More Blank content is the main reason I'm hoping that rumored remake is legit
September 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Tales of Phantasia's Chester was one of the first long-haired guys I encountered, and with the blue and the swept back look I was always very taken with his whole vibe
September 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Gotta give it to Kafei! Getting all the timing right for his quest is *hard* but it does lead to one of the shining points in the game, just that moment of "everything's fucked but we're here together" really hit.
Also man just how much do you know of Clock Town's underbelly...
August 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This was hard and I hope my research didn't fail me!

Bomberman 3 gives the villains mechs, which I don't think have returned? Gamepuku made things interesting cause he'd release water streams that would move your bombs around the map
(Or you. Or you with a bomb meaning you were basically dead)
August 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Hard to pick cause everything GBC/SNES/PS1 or older is just in this mental morass of "it exists!" for me, so I might be overlooking something but

Gotta give it to Quintet and the start of their iconic "trilogy" with Soul Blazer
August 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
As soon as you previewed this question, I did circle through the BoF casts, but my actual answer absolutely has to be the Secret of Mana Spiky Tiger. Weird attacks, tricky strategy if it's one of your first action RPGs, and a jump in enemy stats. Luv him even if I needed to wait months to beat him
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Story of Seasons dogs! Specifically the Back to Nature one, training for the dog race is sweet, but generally I just love the good round boi.
August 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Idk about FAVORITE but considering they're the first to come to mind....

BoF 2 Spar! Already androgynous, translation used "him" but idk what the original pronouns are, uses a whip so got that Kurama vibes, and can become either a cool mushroom lady or a rad dragon plant??? Fuck yeah fuck yeah
August 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Missed getting a photo of one set??? Pushed myself for a solo set and otherwise was just kinda following my friends since they actually have goals lol
March 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Somehow got two other ones????
March 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
FIRST ARCADE FULL COMBO LET'S GOOOOOO

(First picture included cause boyfriend does not care for this song but he saw audhd go brrrrr at "missed 1" and let me grind it out once a set to get it)
March 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I was SO close to a full combo on Struggle but I put my weight on the middle of my foot instead of the toes during a jump trio and spiralled from there

I forget why I took pics of the other two oops
January 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Someday I will be able to make it to ddr consistently enough to be comfortable in double-digit difficulties
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
These are gonna be the good radishes, they are *so* vivid
September 20, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Playing low cause I had a cold the other week AND it's been forever so my stamina is low but eeeyyyy

(Played 3 sets total, two of which went to extra song, but most of it was what is usually 5s for warm ups, 7 is my baseline, so few scores that made me feel accomplished)
September 18, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Did 3 sets, first was a *terrible* warm-up and second was messing around with nonsense

Like how this played out though. All in the 7-9 range cause I'm still bby at this
June 1, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Penguicon day 2. Boyfriend says "you look like the American character in an anime who is a bully", not sure if I should be annoyed by that
April 27, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Penguicon! Not sure how this'll go cause it's a gift trip for boyfriend so idk the vibes but I'm ready to have fun
April 26, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Fiance got me flowers. Got m three sets of flowers and rearranged them together even. good birthday treat
March 20, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Hey nintendo I appreciate the care amd shipping was free on my end anyways so i don't care that much but. I don't think this needed this box????
February 8, 2024 at 10:26 PM