#*whispers* for the narratives

[sage-nebula]

I've seen some people surprised that Kit feels murderous toward Tails in the newest issue, but honestly? I really think this tracks. Setting aside his original programming to kill Tails, let's look at their relationship in chronological order, shall we?

As we know, they met in Eggperial City, where Kit tried to do his job and kill Tails. Tails quickly set to work on talking Kit down, which he did mostly successfully (mostly, because it all went to pot the instant Tails suggested they find Sonic). The thing is, if he has taken the time to look back on it (and I'm sure he has for reasons I'll get to), I don't think Kit sees Tails as really being kind in retrospect. I think he sees Tails as having manipulated him.

And the thing is: he's right.

Look at Tails's smirk after Kit shows surprise that Tails likes his gear. That's a got him smirk if I've ever seen one. Tails has clued into a vulnerability of Kit's that he can use to his advantage.

He further tries to draw similarities between them ("I'm different too and people didn't like that either") and asks leading questions ("you don't get support huh?") to get the result he wants. We have further confirmation that this is deliberate manipulation on Tails's part by his internal monologue about Kit's emotional instability.

Now, none of this is to say Tails is a bad person. Kit was genuinely trying to murder him and Tails was trying to de-escalate the situation to save his own life, without physically harming Kit if possible. As funny as memes about Tails murdering the Kukku Army are, generally he tries to avoid hurting others if he can. He's a nice boy.

But what happened after this?

Well, more specifically: Tails mentioned wanting to find Sonic for help, Kit attacked again, Tails knocked Kit out, and then after Kit comes to and they all leave the city . . .

. . . he's told that Surge died.

Surge was his one reason for living thanks to Starline's programming, and she died while Kit was unconscious because Kit fell for Tails's manipulation and then was overpowered. We don't get a look inside his head during the time when he believes Surge has died, but there is a strong possibility that he blamed himself, because if he had drowned Tails right away like he was supposed to, he could have gone to help Surge. But he didn't, so he couldn't, so she's dead. That's mostly on him, but he could easily resent Tails for it, too.

And speaking of resentment:

Kit finds out Surge is alive, and of course his first instinct is to think Sonic lied so that he could kill Surge off for good. So he goes to get revenge, only to be blocked by Tails. And that's when we get that gem of a line: "Why would you bother with me? You already have him."

Remember that, when he thought Surge was dead, he figured he could be used by Sonic instead:

But while he of course doesn't want to serve Sonic now, he has also realized that if Surge HAD actually died, Sonic would still have no use for him, because Sonic already has Tails. Tails, who can break his water tails easily. Tails, who easily manipulated him in Eggperial City. Tails, who disabled his water pack and knocked him out.

So far, Tails has bested Kit at every turn, leaving Kit to feel inferior and worthless by comparison.

The next time they meet, it is a trap where Kit is again supposed to kill Tails. And once more Tails is able to manipulate Kit into temporarily backing down:

Tails thinks Kit has gone back to being, if not friendly, then reasonable. But he hasn't. Kit stops specifically when Tails says Surge is hurting herself, because he doesn't want Surge to be hurt. And I think Tails knows that, and that's why he said it. But Kit also knows that he is being manipulated here, and his silence is him watching for his opportunity. Such as here:

Peep Kit in the second panel. He watches as Tails dives after Sonic. Had Tails hit the water, he would have been fried right along Sonic. But did Kit care? No. He watched. Surge could have easily killed Tails just as she (temporarily) killed Sonic, and Kit would not have cared at all, because at this point he does not see Tails as a friend: he sees him as a manipulative enemy.

This is further cemented by what he says and does at the end of the issue.

He uses his water tails to grab Tails and move him out of the way in the very same way that he does to Sonic. And he says, "I'll bury you all here." All, including Tails. While the focus is put on Sonic's anger because he is the main character, that doesn't change the fact that he is including Tails when he says that he will bury them all. He sees Tails as no different from Sonic, Starline, or Eggman. Tails manipulated and used him, just as the rest did. He just pretended to be nice while he did it.

So when he finally comes back in this most recent issue, it comes as no surprise to me that this is his attitude:

His history with Tails is extremely personal, and not in a good way. It can be easy to miss because most of the focus on Kit has been on his codependent relationship with Surge, and he hasn't openly voiced how he feels about Tails until this particular issue. But when you piece together every step of their relationship (Tails manipulating him, Tails overpowering him, Kit saying Sonic has no use for him because he has Tails), it paints a very clear picture that Kit feels every bit as suffering in Tails's shadow as Surge does in Sonic's. The only reasons why Kit isn't more proactive about it is because of his programming as a support figure. Supporting Surge comes before all else, so if Surge is hurting herself it's best to hang back. And if Surge doesn't want to go after the Restoration because it's a losing battle with just the two of them, then he needs to follow her lead.

But those feelings of resentment are still boiling under his surface. And now that he has the opportunity to unleash them, he won't miss the chance to strike.

#sth #idw sonic #idw sonic spoilers #kit the fennec #kitsunami the fennec #miles tails prower #meta #again Tails wasn't being evil or anything like that #he was literally just trying to not be murdered while also not hurting Kit any more than he absolutely had to #but Kit has every reason (narratively) to not see it that way #unfortunately bc Kit has been programmed to believe his own feelings and thoughts don't matter we don't get a lot of it either #but i think it's there if you read between the lines #Tails honey you've got a big storm comin #but so does everyone else in the Restoration bc Whisper is the only one with a healthy sense of mistrust lol

[theangrycomet]

I wish SEGA wasn't a coward and would let IDW use Infinite in their stories because I KNOW these two would have so much beef and could have such interesting interactions, being two sides of the same coin.

#masked mercenaries who's squad got killed because of some stupid old man who worked for Robotnik at some point- that's the coin #Infinite the Jackal #Whisper the Wolf #there's also the fun of Infinite having to deal with TWO virtually nonverbal wolves with wispon's fucking up his plans #Sonic #Sonic Forces #StH #Sonic IDW #AngryComet Rambles #especially with Whisper narratively basically filling in where the avatar/Gadget would be in the story #get these canines therapy 2024

[plounce]

tbh i dont need every important detail about a character to mentioned in the main story. im okay with certain details being "optional"/"missable" side content. does it break the flow of the story? does it fit in with the themes? is the creator willing to devote as big a pathway as certain stuff would need in a main narrative to be explored as seen fit? or - does the relatively greater obscurity of the character detail within the story allow the "missable" nature of the trait to connect the reality with the fiction? in a game, would you have to put a lot of work in to find out this trait because the character would never say it outright? is the character relatively minor? or - is this a great reward for people who seek out more things to learn about the story/characters/world? are you rewarding interested readers for caring and for reading? not everything has to be immediately accessible in the main text. some things are fun as optional content, and being so allows that and the main story to breathe easier.

#chirps #<- guy who enjoys learning about secrets and potential non-linear experiences of the narrative #like it's good to reward people when they read/explore more. and hearing whispers of those rewards compels other people to read/explore mor

[samglyph]

I was having such a fun time with Under the Whispering Door like haha idk why anybody said this was intense or super sad I’m having a great time.

Well.

#what a rug pull though really well executed. I fully forgot what it says on the back of the book #like I was fully warned I just was pulled into the narrative #so far that I was as shocked as the characters #this is good by the way I like this #books #sam reads #under the whispering door

[anotherferalrat]

Just finished s2 of Link Click gamers...

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#link click #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #qiao ling #my sweet lil baby gays #how do i always find the doomed by the narrative gays #PLS CAN THEY BE HAPPY FOR ONCE #PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS #im sobbing #what does this mean #i kid you not i stumbled around in a haze whispering to myself #lu guang what did you do #for like 20 minutes straight #im 50 shades of fucked up #im coping with the chibi shorts rn #pray for me #link click s2 #link click spoilers #donghua recs

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

belos is falling apart. he spent his entire too-long life trying to rid the world of what he thinks is evil. he trapped himself in the world of the witches for this. he killed his brother for this, then brought him back and killed him over, and over, and over again. he spent 400 years working towards the day of unity, using the very magic he despised to turn himself into a monster he would have killed as a young man.

but then the day of unity doesn’t work. he gets back to the human realm, but everything is so bright and loud and the new people worship heathen gods. they tell stories of his time, but they do so mockingly, as if phillip and his people were some sort of backwards brutes. for everything phillip did in his youth to protect future generations from corruption, the future generations talk about his legacy as if it’s a joke.

but belos can barely do anything about it. he exists as a shapeless shadow, spending months just to build up his strength to possess his last grimwalker. this world is already corrupted the way he feared in the past. and maybe he won’t live to see it be fixed, but he still needs to return to the demon realm, so that at least that evil world (and how could it not be, having taken his brother from him?) could still be destroyed.

as he makes his way to his lab, he is losing parts of himself. the goo he used to only feign a lack of control in to scare hunter, now drips from him with every step. all the other grimwalkers he’s prepared have now died. and there isn’t any time or resources left for him to make another one. and when he possesses the animals, or hunter, or the dead grimwalkers, he corrodes away at them to give himself another boost of life but none of it is enough. even when he possesses raine’s puppet, who, due to the collector’s magic, should be sturdier than a corpse, he is still falling apart, bits of him falling from the puppet.

in the final confrontation, the collector may not even need to do anything to him. it would be redundant for them to explode him like in the season 2 finale, anyway. i don’t think anyone needs to land the final blow on belos to kill him. he has been slowly losing himself the whole series. he gave up his morals, his physical body, his identity, and finally, he lost any reason he had to get any of those back.

i wouldn’t be surprised if, after they get him to stop possessing raine, belos just gives up and melts into a slurry and never rises back up again. and instead of the angry, fearful fighting luz does in her other confrontations with belos in the season 1 and 2 finales, in the season 3 finale, she just watches belos’s 400 year long temper tantrum end with disgust and pity.

#toh #the owl house #emperor belos #phillip wittebane #luz noceda #hunter toh #hunter noceda #raine whispers #shut up pandora #i love belos so much man hes such a fascinating character his storyline just goes so hard #the thing is everyone saying character X should kill belos bc that fulfills their narrative arc #and the thing is that makes sense for so many characters #and when every character has a good narrative justification to kill belos that makes me think no character will be able to kill belos #in a way you can say both the boiling isles and the modern human world killed belos

[sylvies-kablooie]

"do you have any good memories?"

"just one, really."

i think about this scene so frequently. that the dialogue is between sylvie and renslayer, who had been chasing sylvie like a dog since she was a little girl, and finally has her cornered. that sylvie was alive for thousands of years and her only good memory- the time she passed with loki on lamentis- happened like a few days ago when she says this line. how that must have felt to have something soft to look back upon after centuries of pain. and for that softness to come DESPITE it occurring at another of her endless apocalypses. there was hope in that moment. the way loki looked at her and said she was amazing and meant it, so earnestly, the god of mischief telling the truth, how that must have felt to know she took up space in someone's heart. and then for that confession of having that one good memory to be followed with sylvie pruning herself to reach loki, on the off chance he might have been there waiting for her on the opposite end of oblivion. renslayer thinking she finally had tracked down this variant who had caused her so much trouble, only for her to escape once again by making a calculated sacrifice of herself. renslayer tried for an unimaginable length of time to prune sylvie, but the only one who could ultimately do that in the end was sylvie herself... yeah.

#the visual narrative as well. sylvie crouched in the corner. the way the timestick lands straight on her chest like a shot to kill. #the way she almost whispers the line like it's a confession because how long has hope been a thing that has had to be hidden! #stopping myself now because if i don't i will Not Shut Up #loki series #sylvie laufeydottir #sylvie #juni analysis #renslayer

[wordsinhaled]

i apparently have precisely the right portfolio of Adolescent Queer Experiences that DBDA is fucking me up

#so do we all. clearly. but like. help??? #bro i grew up on pride & prejudice adaptations and raised by rampant narcissists & homophobes i can handle some tragic levels of repression #but like *whispers* what the fuck #doctor who episode doomsday you're always gonna be haunting the narrative too like. what in the fresh hell (literal) #(in case u haven't realized i just finished ep 6 and i am eviscerated) #dbda

[i-love-harryosborn-dotcom]

Wolfsborn AU?? Wolfsborn AU.

Becoming a wolf man is complicated, being in love with a guy who flakes out on you a lot (and is secretly a wolf man) is complicated. But i like to think they make it work really well

And i like to think that whenever Harry finds out- it’s whimsical n fun n romantic n cute

#Wolfsborn AU #< this is a cute AU dammit #we r not doomed by the narrative here 💅 #we are happy and queer and autistic in this wolfsborn household #they r in love- you dont even know how passively in love they are yet #they will be happy. eventually i mean- not like- right out the gate ya know? #also #im trying to get back into the groove of drawing dont come at me for mistakes here #harry osborn #peter parker #parksborn #why r u reading my tags anyway? this is being whispered #this is like… super secret spy shit here snookums #anyway im scared to write for them cause their fan base is intimidating and im not exactly a writer #im just a furry artist w/ a fixation ur honor 🫡 #edit: ‘their fanbase’ is the parksborn fanbase. wolfsborn does not have a fanbase

[forgivenpunishment]

// for my birthday, my friend Caine ( @nihilisticgenesis ) made art of 7 ;A; he captured 7 perfectly and made an awesome coat for him too~

i'm gonna go cry about this now

#[doomed by the narrative; world 7] #[whispers from the grave; ooc] #[check my rates next time; character info]

[pasdetrois]

Such stories seem to suit this infernal island, a half-formed place of fire and water; I could imagine Melville and Hawthorne meeting here. Even the cliffs on which we stand are undermined by hidden caves. Due south from here lies Antarctica. And somewhere down in the fathomless, gathering darkness, sperm whales swim, eternally aware, their lives one waking dream, moving through valleys that run thirty thousand miles along the ocean floor, through lakes that lie stilly in the abyss, separated by temperature like pools of mercury, past jellyfish pulsating as ghostly Victorian brides in ectoplasmic crinolines.

Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare

#finally finished this (via audio) after many walks #it was an interesting sort of meandering narrative. half about his connection to/the history of whales half about moby dick #neat fact about him: apparently he instigated that moby dick big read audiobook project (on soundcloud) #philip hoare #quotes #at one stride comes the dark; with far heard whisper o'er the sea

[mean-vampyre]

I dreamt that there was a jarchie kiss in a secret special episode i found in a pirate site. In the prime timeline archie and jughead reunite years later and when jughead jokes about becoming archie's wife, archie realizes that it has always been jughead the one he wanted and jughead convinces archie to go back to riverdale with him and they kiss (but it was so bad it almost looked like they shot it separately in front of a green screen and then someone had to vfx them together), and this is where it gets meta because I dreamt I was actually drafting my post "yoo guys the jarchie is real??" and adding my silly little tags comments about everything that happens. Anyway, they go back to archie's house in riverdale to live together and betty and veronica show up to welcome archie back but jughead goes crazy because he realizes he will never have what archie had with his ex-gfs during high school. So he pulls a gun and archie thinks he will shoot them and is trying to talk him down but then realizes he is just trying to shoot himself (real dramatic moment), and fights the gun off his hand and unloads the bullets but then realizes that the shells are empty and he is like "jug there is no gunpowder in this" and uncrazy jughead is like "of course there is no gunpowder arch, we only need the bullets to create a situation not to kill anybody" because they are trapped in the narrative as long as there is a narrative. And riverdale characters start pouring into the room setting up for the next scene, and I was there too helping set up for the slumber party in which betty will discover that riverdale's dentist is killing people and posting the crimes to tiktok and we need to stop him before everyone in town becomes a toothless corpse. I'm not crazy btw

#riverdale #I wish you guys had seen it because it was a full episode and now I need to see the gifs and posts about that #I left out the part of the dialogue in which jughead jokes about becoming archie's wife which i believe was whispered by ras himself to me #because it sounded so on brand #here is the crazy part i'm not a native english speaker #but the dream was in english #lol i am trapped in the jarchie longcon narrative #you did it roberto you crazy son of bitch you trapped me in riverdale too #my boy archie is trapped in that town as long as there is narrative to go one and well their contract with the cw might be up #but riverdale goes on in my mind

[transholmes]

@ everyone losing their shit about Jaskier being in Blood Origin because they can't see how that can happen without time travel (which they don't like). May I introduce you all to the concept of a framing narrative?

It's a (side) story used to portray the main story, such as us - the audience - "listening" to a storyteller telling us the story. One famous example is The Princess Bride where the framing story is a granddad (Peter Falk) telling the story The Princess Bride as a bedtime story to his grandson. The main story is several times interrupted by the framing narrative to interject commentary and aid the pacing.

The Witcher books use framing stories in several places too such as in Lady of the Lake.

Now time and world travel is also part of the Wiycher universe so it isn't impossible, but I'd say that it is much more likely that Jaskier's involvement is being part of a framing narrative for the main story and that it's that "frame" that's been expanded upon.

#jaskier #the witcher #blood origin #man tumblr's anti intellectualism and aversion to common analysis have done so much harm to people's ability to just think #or recognize a not uncommon narrative grip when it pretty much slaps us in the face #willow whisper

[1dont-really-know]

I got lazy at the end lmao

Here's the individual drawings under the cut

I'm very proud of how her expressions turned out

#twst oc #maleanor draconia #twst #malva draconia #whisper's doodles #animatic in this case #Draconia sisters my beloved #oh how doomed by the narrative you are

[welcometogrouchland]

idk how I developed the hc that Raine and Darius were briefly foster siblings in their last year of highschool. But I did. And now I think about it 24/7

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #darius deamonne #raine whispers #raine was the one being fostered btw #I've already hinter a few times that due to convoluted narrative parallel reasons #i hc raine as coming from a Not Great home situation #just like. parents with wayyy too high expectations for them and way to controlling (kinda paralleling the later parts of their arc- #-where control is a Big Theme. i know it might make the whole 'IFWOT-moving schools' incident seem ooc- #-but you can easily interpret that line as being like. raines parents only indulge them when it also suits them (gets then out of the cold)) #and plenty of rich and talented kids still go to hexside so i imagine it's still decently respectable #anyway yeah one day raine was like. oh i can't take this anymore actually #and through a series of events i haven't bothered to conceptualise gets put in foster care and taken in by the deammones #they mostly foster in the hopes of being a forever home for kids (darius has a lot of siblings both bio and adopted) #but raines gonna age out of the system in a couple months anyway so might as well stay somewhere vaguely familiar #(raine and darius but heads all the time at hexside tho so like. first few weeks are rough) #but this is my incredibly long-winded and unrealistic take on why their dynamic in s2 reminds me so much of sibling/familal bickering #(TO ME BTW. THAT'S JUST MY OWN INTERPRETATION FEEL FREE TO LET THEM FUCK NASTY OR JUST BE PALS)

[markiafc]

你的骨肉我还给你！

#新神榜: 哪吒重生 #鹤唳华亭 #莲花楼 #哪吒 #me is mark #the last one doesn't quiteee fit #but hear me out #torrential weather + being at the mercy of your narrative other half #= metaphorical or literal death is imminent #a looming institutional entity is whispering into your antagonistic counterpart's ear #telling them it is their right to drive you to the brink #and then telling you it is your right to jump off #/beaming my feelings into @rin's brain