I WANT SOMEONE TO TAKE THIS SOUL. I CAN'T BEAR TO KEEP IT. I'D GIVE IT JUST TO GIVE. AND ALL I WILL TAKE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES. WILL SOMEBODY TAKE THIS SOUL? then, of course, nothing replied, nothing speaks to you in the night. and i walked my way home, there was no one in sight. save a bird, watching me. so i stopped and let it watch until i found it had said, now i'm taken, the night has me. you won't hear me singing. you're a cage without me. your pain is eased but you'll never be free, for now i'm taken, the night has me.
to me odysseus not recognizing ithaca is genuinely heartbreaking. the phaeacians must have broken their promise, because it can't be ithaca, because he doesn't recognize it. in his truest soul he believes that if he came home, he would know. but he can't be allowed to know it, because you can never go home. even when you are home.
ok ok. but the way kratos cries when he sees the mural depicting him as a god that’s worshipped and loved because all his life fate has bound him to being a god-killing monster. for the entirety of these two games kratos has tried to make himself a better person and repent for all he did. even as ragnarok started he was furious he had to be tied up in yet another war,,, only to finally learn that it was all worth it - that he’s something more than the ghost of sparta and that he’s destined for something greater. that hit hard man im fucked up
Alternate version of Dazai asking for dating advice from Fyodor
Dazai: Say there's this person I like but he keeps rejecting my advances, what do I do?
Fyodor: Have you tried getting yourself purposely captured, chained to a wall and flirting with them whilst they try to figure out your plans?
Dazai: ... Weirdly enough, yes.
Fyodor: Oh? How did it go?
Dazai: He tried to kill me.
Fyodor: Ah, it went about the same for me too.
Dazai: Then why did you suggest it?
Fyodor: You seem into that kind of thing.
Dazai: You know me so well!
The younger newsies who all look up to and follow Specs like he's their big brother and copy most of the things he does.
Specs who stomps his feet and flaps his hands when he's excited and the little kids who start picking this up and copying this.
The headline goes up in the morning, and a bunch of these kids are unknowingly stimming in excitement because there's "Finally a story that isn't the trolley strike!"
Nobody really sees Specs stimming as strange that much anymore because so many of them have started to pick it up and do it too.