That Malleus Anon again, apparently also TWST EN on twt has now come to the consensus that Malleus hates Silver because he did what he did in Chapter 7, Part 2 and I'm... I'm honestly Pepe crying right now.
PLEASE SAY UR JOKING
IM BEGGING????
Like, Malleus doesn't hate Silver at all, he practically helped raise him [and Sebek] with Lilia. It's more of the fact that Mallleus never got to experience what it was like to have a father.
His parents are long dead and his Grandma, for all intents and purposes, is stuck in Briar Valley tiding the people over so as to not put unnecessary pressure on one the last Draconia's.
Lilia had to pick up the slack of raising Malleus into a King who would usher in a new era for Briar Valley.
In some ways Malleus feels robbed that he can never have someone to call 'old man' or 'father'..
It's more akin to slight jealousy if we wanna be honest, but even then Malleus still cares enough ab Silver to hear him pour his heart out. He heard the pleas of Silver not being strong enough to keep Lilia and took matters into his own hands.
You can say he looked indifferent while Silver was tearing himself up ab not being able to repay Lilia a debt that never needed to be collected, but you cannot deny that there's a sense of love in putting the entirety of NRC [and possibly the island] under a 'blessing'.
Malleus wanted to quell the hurt he and Silver shared in not being able to do anything in the face of death. He picked up where Silver left off when he cried out that he wasn't strong enough, because Malleus is strong enough.
He did as a king would, he heard his people's struggle and did something about it.
And I would argue that he and Kalim share parallels because of that, because they want to wrap everyone in a 'blessing'.
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Do you think Yoda saw all of his past students in Luke?
He saw that rage and unquenchable desire for a system corrupted to be changed, just like Dooku? He saw that peace and patience and desire to learn that Qui-Gon had? The same sass and empathy that Obi-Wan held? The same desire to live up to the people who came before him, just like Ahsoka?
And, of course, he saw Anakin there. In blue eyes and lopsided grin. In the affectionate touch to a droid. In the raw power, the untapped potential that could sway to the light or the dark so easily.
Do you think he saw the best and worst of them all? Do you think he looked at Luke and remembered training Dooku? Do you think he saw Luke heading in the direction of a maverick and missed Qui-Gon? Do you think he watched Luke grow and learn and all he could think about was that pure, uncorrupted kid from Tatooine? The kid who wanted to free slaves, the kid who fell in love hard and fast, the kid whose trust was hardwon, the kid who grew up into the antithesis of everything he once was?
Do you ever wonder what was going through Yoda’s mind on long nights? When Luke would get impatient and storm off, only to return a few moments later, calm and ready to try again. Do you think he held onto that fear, the fear that stuck with him for so long, that yet another member of his lineage would die before their time or turn to the Dark Side or just leave entirely?
Do you ever think of Yoda trying to hide things from Luke, only to get tired of it? He told Luke about his sister. The one secret that would have died with him. Artoo can’t tell anybody. Everyone else who knows - Padme, Bail, Obi-Wan - is dead. They could have just left him in the dark. They could have taken that secret and not let it potentially sway Luke’s emotions one way or the other.
That was the plan, wasn’t it? Obi-Wan is surprised when he finds out that Yoda told Luke. The plan had to have been to not tell him, to never tell him, to never risk Luke forming an unhealthy attachment to his sister that would lead him down the path of the Dark Side. That would never start Leia on the path of becoming a Jedi, meaning she would never even be at risk.
But, Yoda was dying. He was dying and he had so long to think of all the things he should have done differently. He was dying and he looked up at Luke, who they were putting the weight of the world on. They were telling Luke that the future of the galaxy was entirely on his shoulders. The sale of absolutely everyone was on him and him alone. They told him he was the last Jedi.
So Yoda must have looked up and seen that pressure. That loneliness. The Jedi of old had large communities. They lived and breathed and grew with each other. They never felt alone, because they always had someone to turn to, someone to talk to, someone they trusted to keep their head above water.
And here they were, leaving Luke alone. Telling him to rebuild the Jedi Order. Telling him to kill his own father. Telling him to kill the Emperor, but not out of anger or hatred or guilt.
Yoda figured out that this would just make it all happen again. Dooku turned because he didn’t trust the Jedi Order and he felt alone. Anakin turned because he didn’t trust the Jedi Order and he felt alone. If Luke was sent to face off against two of the most powerful Force-users, both of whom are Sith, then he would only lose faith in Yoda and Obi-Wan, and he would feel all alone, and he would turn to the Dark Side.
I think Yoda told Luke about Leia out of a desire to give Luke that support system. The Jedi all had bonds with each other, with their teachers and students, but even without bonds, they were still functionally telepaths. They were empaths. They needed a strong support system to be there when the weight got too much to bear. When the darkness of the galaxy weighed on them, when the failures of the past haunted them, when they felt so lost and confused and empty, they had each other. And that’s what Yoda was giving Luke.
He was trying to say, “Even without your father, you won’t be alone. Even without me or Obi-Wan, you won’t be alone. You’ll always have another person, a person who can and has built you up and kept your head above water. A person who you’ve done the same for. You support each other, you’ve supported each other for years now, and you will always continue to support each other.”
Luke and Leia aren’t “attached” to each other. They’re each others’ safety net. They need each other, but not out of attachment. They need each other as everyone needs someone or something to remind them of all the good things in the world when things get rough. They remind each other that they need to fight, to live on. They remind each other that the galaxy is good at its core, filled with good people who just need some help.
They remind each other that they aren’t alone. They trust each other. They don’t need the power of the Dark Side.
And that’s why it’s so important to remember that Yoda told Luke there was another Skywalker. Yoda, who has been against attachment since the beginning, is the one who risks Luke getting attached. It’s important because this is a major character moment for Yoda!
He sees them. All of them. Dooku felt alone and left them behind to try and feel power to feel safe. Qui-Gon died alone, with only Obi-Wan there to help him, far away from the Jedi. Obi-Wan died alone. Anakin felt alone and abandoned and wanted power to feel safe. Ahsoka felt alone and abandoned and left the Order, because she no longer trusted them. They all lost it, that safety net, those people who were always around them to keep them above water, that support system that reminded them that they weren’t alone and they would never be abandoned and —
Don’t you think Yoda blames himself?
His own Padawan felt like he had no choice but to leave. Obi-Wan feared attachment out of fear of being cast aside, of being abandoned. Anakin fought that desire for attachment, that desire for someone to be there when he fell, and he when he finally got even a hint of it, he hid it out of fear of it being taken away and him being abandoned for having needed it in the first place.
Of course Yoda blames himself. He outlived all of them. He’s far older than them. And his own fear of his loss overpowering him, the fear that watching everyone he loves die over and over again beause of how much longer he’ll live than any of them, is what kept his Lineage from having those safety nets in place. Those support beams.
He looks at Luke and he sees that rage that Dooku had, that eagerness to learn that Qui-Gon had, that empathy that Obi-Wan had, that innocent desire to help that Ahsoka had—
And he sees that little boy from Tatooine. The one who grew up into a monster. The one who grew distorted and disfigured and who hated them all and tore them all down. That possibility lives within Luke to. The overwhelming weight of responsibility put on one person’s shoulders, the same weight that Palpatine used to manipulate Anakin into believing that none of the Jedi could ever help or understand him.
Yoda tells Luke about Leia. He isn’t specific, he doesn’t name a name, but he knows he doesn’t have to. He doesn’t want Luke to feel lost and abandoned and alone. He wants Luke to feel strong. He gives Luke that support beam. That attachment that could so quickly overwhelm him or become unhealthy. He gives Luke this because Luke trusts him, and he doesn’t want Luke to feel like he can’t trust him.
He doesn’t want any Jedi to feel alone. He doesn’t want to see them fall to the same things the Jedi in the past did.
But most importantly, Yoda cared for the Jedi. All of them, and especially his own students. He feels their loss, even lightyears away. He wouldn’t have felt the loss of life if he didn’t care for them, not from such a far distance. And he wouldn’t have been as affected by it if he didn’t care about them. He cared about the Jedi, about his students and his Lineage and even about the little runt that Qui-Gon brought back from Tatooine.
He cares about Luke. He has so much faith in Luke. He doesn’t want Luke to die like the others. He doesn’t want Luke to die alone and feeling abandoned.
Yoda gave Luke that attachment. Because he didn’t want Luke to drown under the weight of everything they were expecting of him.
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(This is a really weird drabble that is not connected with anything else I've written, but is more about body horror and losses unmourned vibes and...yeah I don't know. Tis the bleak midwinter have some ghosts)
Dream of the Endless doesnt sleep. Doesn't dream. He is all dreams, all fantasies, all nightmares.
And though he does not sleep, does not dream, is Lord Shaper and King of all Nightmares and none ...there is a nightmare haunting him.
He can just feel it, at the edges of his consciousness, can almost see it, sometimes, when his focus wanders, when he lets his mind drift from the flow of the collective subconscious.
There is something, always there, always behind him. Just out of sight, waiting to be recalled, waiting to be seen.
He is not the only one who senses it he thinks.
Sometimes, he sees Matthew shudder, sometimes he feels the Corinthian's gaze flick away, catches Lucienne biting at her lip, as though to lock words behind it she would speak but does not dare.
Sometimes he senses Death flinch.
There is a trigger that seems to drawthe presence, for illiciting these responses, for pulling the thing that haunts him closer into his view.
It's when he introduces himself. Not as Dream, but by his newest epitaph, as Lord Daniel.
That is when the presence seems closest, clearest. That is when he can sense most clearly the empty shape, a gaping hole in existence the size of what was once a child. Can feel the phantom fingers of one who is no more, clutching at the hem of his snow white, bone white, shroud white robe. Can hear the baby soft whisper, crawling up to him, sadly, lonely, lost:
"No, that's my name"
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Something I had been really looking forward too from (back when) the full release was coming out, was all of the new reactivity to your Tav. LIKE my main (for EA) Tav was a mean drow lady named, Telanziiri- and just her and EA Wyll being at the Goblin Camp was something I thought about a lot.
Like the goblins having duel reactions for Wyll and her like- "Hey Look a drow- oh fuck the Blade is with her!"
but all of his act 1 content, that didn't have to do with Karlach, is gone. Along with the things I was really looking forward too.
Don't me wrong there is a lot of problematic writing in terms of just completely disregarding the lives of the goblins, and more. But that is a wider problem with D&D in general and is not going to be address beyond this point (on this post).
I really wish I could go back to EA and just experience all of Wyll's content for act 1 again. I miss it. The way his character was back then was so much fun. The way he played off Telanziiri was great.
The Blade of Frontiers (EA) befriending an evil drow lady who plans on soaking the surface world in the blood of those who worship to the absolute to honor Lolth (all because drow had joined the cult of the absolute). Very much her doing the right things for the wrong reasons and Wyll just having to deal with her was so fun for me.
I miss the friendship that will never come back, because Wyll is not the same character any more.
Larian really does need to focus on getting him on par with all of the content the other companions have. I really want there to be more things with full release Wyll's character.
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An angel's room
Aka : "Is it customary to have your hereditary enemy's very specific eye color as tapestry and bedsheets ?"
Illustration context and close up :
After reading a good hundred fics about Aziraphale lending his bed to Crowley, I decided to draw Zira's room and a scene suddenly came to me : Aziraphale during whatever century shopping for fabric to renovate his bedroom, being handed color samples and finding one that's exactly the same shade as his demon's snaky eyes, proceeding to order curtains and sheets made from it. That's it that's the whole point of the illustration.
It's an heavenly cloud under the bed, the bed in itself is solely here to make the room more "human-like". I imagined that even though he doesn't sleep much the human way, he could have a little something to lie on and rest the "angelic way".
I added books and tartan everywhere for good measure, there's also two mini Crowleys hidden in here but I had to resize the whole thing before posting and it made it so blurry (my fault entirely for not checking the size requirements before working on a huge canva) that if you tried to zoom in it would be impossible to find anything, so I'm adding a few close up views right there :
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