On Stereotypes and Aventurine
Gotta get this out of the way before I start using my Aventurine more because it is an important part of how I will play his character.
Aventurine is rarely ever genuine. He plays to the role people expect him to be, or to the role that will get him the best cards in the deck. If people expect him to be a flirt, he will flirt. If people expect him to be frail and naive, he will be frail and naive. If people expect him to be intimidating and a threat, he will be a threat.
He is a social chameleon, and no, it is not because he is Sigonian, but because he grew up in an environment that forced him to be like this.
Stereotyping will always have a profound effect on a developing person, and when a child grows up hearing that they are scheming, untrustworthy, and manipulative without any other lens to say otherwise, it is highly likely that they will grow into said lens. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There must be a reason people look at them and assume so, after all. Their words must be true. Why would the majority say so otherwise?
So, just as a child who's been reminded constantly that they are bad, Aventurine became "bad".
It's tiring to a waste your breath and prove otherwise. Especially without a community left to uplift and support you. To remind you that you are more that what people assume you to be. A person. A person who's culture is fated to be written over by the winners of a war, and those who held grudges against them.
"Aventurine" plays up to stereotypes, because that is what got him to where he is now, and is what everyone told him he had to be. It keeps people at arm's length, keeping them far, far away from █████████.
█████████ can't be hurt anymore if he doesn't come up to the surface, after all.
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Under a readmore bc I don't wanna jinx it LOL
This is the first time I've bought myself an F/O cameo in... I think two years? Two years. Christ. I don't know how I feel about it. I should be excited but I'm kind of sad because it's been so long, and I still feel a little bit... detached from my own ships + myself as a whole. but that is just the trauma <3 and we are working on it <3 yippee <3
I have seen the twins from BrBa as my protectors, my knights, and Marco especially is so dear to me.
For the first time in a long time since I was abused, I have been able to view just a few dangerous villain F/Os as protectors instead of being afraid of them. I wish I could view all of them this way, but the fact that I have ANY F/Os at ALL that I'm unafraid of, villain or not, is such huge progress for me. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching BrBa and I have SEVEN F/Os from that series -- I have never feared ANY of them hurting me, not even once. Even the most dangerous, horrible, irredeemable villains. The twins are some of the most brutal, violent characters in the series, and all I can think about is that they'd never lay a hand on me. In fact, they'd cut off the hands of anybody else who attempts to. I feel so, so, so safe with them, so protected.
A year ago, I wouldn't have been able to feel this way at all, but I am healing slowly but surely over time and I'm starting to believe I am worthy of love and protection again. I haven't been afraid of the twins, not once, not ever, and that's HUGE for me!! That's BIG!!! I genuinely and wholeheartedly believe that I would be so loved and protected and SAFE with them!!!! With them, with Jesse, with anybody. In fact, the more dangerous they are, the softer I believe they would be just for me. That's how self shipping is SUPPOSED to be!!! This is how I'm SUPPOSED to feel!! I am so relieved beyond words that I am starting to heal. I really hope I can start to view all F/Os this way someday. In the meantime, this is a wonderful start.
So as a gift to myself, I saved up some money and found Luis available for shoutouts. I asked him to tell me (as Marco) that he loves me, that the twins will protect me, and he won't let anybody hurt me ever again 🥺🥺 I've heard he gives very good cameos so... here's to hoping my request is received and delivered smoothly.
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Also, the fact that Edelgard assumes every person fighting against her is one of the goddess' vanguard is fucking stupid. People are fighting for their lives because of a war SHE started and invasions SHE started. But if they defend themselves, if they don't want to be turned into New Adrestia What's Fodlan, they're just "the goddess' vanguard" now. Not, you know, people defending themselves/their home/their families. You're either on her side or a vanguard of the goddess. There's no for her or against her for her violent actions causing the deaths of your countrymen, friends and family as she tries to reform your entire land into New Adrestia.
She doesn't care about the people. She cares about wiping out the Nabateans and conquering Fodlan like every Adrestian emperor before her has tried to. She wants to wipe out the Nabateans and the other leaders because she doesn't want anyone else to exist who is powerful enough to stop/kill her in the future.
I want to say it's so gross that people actually defend this shit and say that she's a heroic figure who is "uwu progressive", but that's not really even a strong enough word anymore for what they do and the lengths they go to defend her. I bet if this happened to them in real life, what she does to other people, they would change their tune REAL quick.
Eh,
Given what is happening right now in a certain server, I don't even want to guess what some people who think this writing presents her as a "progressive" character are actually thinking.
Back to the game,
Her reasoning - explicited in Nopes - is clear, you are either with her, or against her. And if you are against her, it must be because you oppose her reforms/uwu ideals.
No one gives a fuck about the "blood pooling" at her feet, unless it's to express her sorrow at the sacrifices she had to make to reach her goals.
(that's what I ranted about in the Zahrofl post about Claude and consequences, who deals with consequences of people dying in a war ? Dimitri, who has to deal with Flèche's resentment. There's no Flèche on Supreme Leader's route, aka a NPC that gets a special event where they try to kill her to avenge someone she "had to" cut down in her path of conquest!).
And as Supreme Leader makes everyting about her war centered on "war against church'n'the goddess" PR, while leaving the "MAGA" motive only for the narrator or Hubert to give any exposition, the game cannot have anyone oppose her because, no, they don't want to be part of Adrestia - m-ass-terful writing strikes again, the only person who "complains" about her conquest receives the award winning "no u" explanation, and the game leaves this "issue" at that, no one gets to call her out on her war of conquest, and actually challenge her.
:/
I still find it fascinating how, in CF, Supreme Leader explicitely calls for Dimitri's head - when she can let Billy spare Claude - because she realises (something Nopes erased from her character because elsewise no "uwu what if golden route uwu") Dimitri, aka Faerghus, cannot exist if Adrestia has to be Great Again - Dimitri will always want to oppose her vision and Adrestia's expension in Faerghus (and people will rally behind him).
Opposing Nabateans though, while I think Rhea would be opposed to a continental MAGA war, if Adrestia never targetted Garreg Mach, I wonder if she would have lent the KoS to either the Alliance or the Kingdom - she might try to stop the war and asking for peace talks or what not, but intervening in a human, on-going conflict ? Remember, she only stepped in when Loog already defeated the Adrestian Emperor, aka when Adrestia "lost" to act the end of the War.
So, imo, taking Rhea out isn't due to her possibly opposing with her knights a conquest of Fodlan, but it's more due to the shape of her ears - FE16!Supreme Leader really really really doesn't like Nabateans, and the idea that they can exist and have any sort of influence on "Humanity" - Rhea has to go beause her ears are pointy.
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manhunter fucking DOWN BAD for Lois lane
it's a rontra.lesbian.com photoset we can expect nothing else to be fair.... if women arent acting like that i would forget what blog im onMFDBHJF
in my mind its like oh right now shes babbling bc she's stressed out of her gourd but this shit is coming for her like a falling brick Later . when she realizes that she IS IN FACT into this woman For Real. despite calling her a shark. or perhaps. dare i suggest. because of it. either way: cringe
manhunter did comment once that wonder woman makes her "a little ellen" which is such a 2004 way to phrase that. i really enjoyed it.
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# ( hyurick, but make it black knight verse....lmao i like pain 🥲 )
@ofgentleresolve ♚ from x.
what your muse’s name is in mine’s phone:
최현태 (Choi Hyun-Tae). He practically made up this name as to not blatantly put ‘The Black Knight’ in there because, well, that’d be too suspicious. It’s also funny that he was...sort of meticulous about which name to choose --- Choi was really a random last name he thought about in the spot, but ‘Hyun’ means ‘dark, mysterious’ whilst ‘Tae’ means ‘big, great’. Great mystery.
what your muse’s picture is in mine’s phone
None.
what your muse’s ringtone is in mine’s phone
Default ringtone. He doesn’t bother on putting personalized ringtones anymore; nor does he have any other ringtone (except for one) that could lead to know about his preferences.
my muse’s last text to your muse
[✉️ 10:30PM] : I have the file, let’s meet.
[✉️ 10:30PM] : Not in my office, though. There’s someone suspicious outside. I think they’re watching.
[✉️ 10:30PM] : I’ll send the address over.
♔ || BONUS - PATRICK’S OLD PHONE NUMBER
what your muse’s name is in mine’s phone:
대야 (Dae-yah).
what your muse’s picture is in mine’s phone
what your muse’s ringtone is in mine’s phone
SHINEE’s “Good Evening”. It’s the only personalized ringtone he hasn’t taken off. He knows it’s not going to ring, anyway 😭.
my muse’s last text to your muse
SENT FIVE YEARS AGO:
[✉️ 11:00PM] : Are you okay? Please call me when you can, Dae-yah.
[✉️ 12:23AM] : Please, at least let me know that you’re doing well. Anything will do.
[✉️ 1:30AM] : I just received news about you. They’re lying, right? They must be
ATTEMPT THREE YEARS AGO:
[✉️ UNSENT] : They weren’t lying. I wish they were.
ATTEMPT TWO MONTHS AGO:
[✉️ UNSENT] : I miss you.
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