Every day I think about episode 160 and cry. Like. Like. Jesus christ! The. Everything. Like. Every so often I think of TheOestOfOCs’ tag on their Dracula fusion fic, “this is still a fix it fic compared to canon” AND IT IS??? Fucking. Apparently Elias kidnapping Jon and turning him into a vampire and generally being the most awful person ever is a FIX IT FIC compared to what we’ve got.
And I’m like, I’m not complaining, I signed up for this, but like yeah, signed up for this (emotional ruin), but that doesnt make me HAPPIER ABOUT IT?
Okay, so, it’s three years, about. Starts in 2015, 2016. Ends in 2018. Because. Goddamnit. And it’s just. He gets eaten by fucking worms. You know that line, “one hand on the gas release from the start”? That line lives in my head rent free, because it’s… Elias is holding the cards, he has Jon’s fate in the bloody PALM OF HIS HAND and just… yknow how. Like. Fucked up Jon is in MAG 40? How he keeps asking them to Please Not Talk About The Worms, I Know About The Worms, Stop, I Beg Of Thee. And Elias is there, Elias is talking, Elias is seeing all of this and he’s just like “jolly good, job well done, 11 more to go!”
And just… Sasha. Tim. Melanie, Martin. Basira and Daisy. Everyone who got caught in the crossfire. Sasha, who died, unintentionally on Elias’ part, for a mark that was redundant. Tim, who died saving a world Elias knew was never in danger from the Unknowing. Melanie, who had to gouge her bloody eyes out, because Elias decided she was useful to him.
Useful. Fucking bastard.
And then, and then, season 3, right! God, I’m just thinking about Jude Perry’s mark, because that’s a burn, he probably didn’t go to a hospital, since he was on the run for a murder, so considering Lightless Flame nonsense, that’s probably a severe burn that probably caused nerve damage, caused a difficulty moving that hand, presumably the right hand, because I don’t think they were doing a scouts handshake. And while I do try make all my blorbos left-handed, Jon’s most likely right-handed. And even if he’s not, he still probably can’t move his right-hand right because someone decided to end the world through him, like a fucking bastard! That’s what gets me, right. It’s that everything, everything Jon’s bloody been through for Elias’ plans is immortalized on his skin, with his scars. Psychological trauma just isn’t enough for him, there has to be a constant reminder every time Jon looks at himself.
And then! And then! Speaking of season 3, what the fuck was that second kidnapping? Like, first kidnapping was horrifying but it was “for the plan” and the third kidnapping was in America and somehow “not that bad,” yknow, compared to finding out you’re like, physically dependent on reading horror stories, and your fucking awful bastard of a boss decided to drop that bombshell on you while you were actively, yknow, GETTING SICK FROM IT! Oh Joy. But second kidnapping was a) redundant, he’d already gotten the Stranger mark. b) completely fixable.
Completely fucking fixable. Just. Tell them. Tell them where he is, or tell them that’s he’s been kidnapped, if Elias doesn’t know, I think he did, because I think he’s exactly the kind of bastard who would just let it happen despite knowing exactly how to stop it.
And you know why? Why I think? Because that’s easier, right. It’s harder to be self-destructive, it’s harder to throw yourself into Situations, it’s harder to be isolated when you have one extra month to reconnect with your colleagues.
A month. Maybe the month would have done nothing. Maybe the month would have helped Jon and Tim. Or Jon and Melanie. Or Jon and Basira. Jon and Martin were already fine, and Jon and Daisy at that point is… ah… Nope.
And you think a month is bad? 6 months. And I know, everyone was suffering — Martin especially— while Jon was gone, and I know that it’s other people’s trauma that he’s watching and actively perpetuating, but! That’s also traumatizing!! It’s traumatic to have to watch other people’s worst nightmares for six months straight with no end in sight. It’s traumatic to have to. Everything??? Fucking everything in MAG 120??? I can pull quotes but that’ll detract from the rambliness of this. I’ll do that sometime, I will.
And honestly, season 4 is just a fucking mess, it’s. It’s. I’m sad about it. I’m Very sad about it, and. God. Like. It’s just. Melanie hates him, and part of that is because Elias used him as a meat shield in MAG 101, not all, not most, but part. Jon’s a monster now, and he’s hurting people, and there’s got to be a little voice in his head telling him he’s just like Elias when Elias is the one who made him like this. And they’re tearing each other apart and Jon is diving into Situations and Elias is watching from prison all fucking smug and then MAG 158 happens, god. damn. MAG 158 happens.
“I called you.” Like a fucking dog. Like. Like. “Are you scared, Jon” “Yes” “Good”
I have the words for MAG 159. A bet. A fucking bet. A motherfucking bet. I do not think I need to detail how horrifying and dehumanizing and horrible that is???? I don’t think I need to do that.
A bet. A bet.
And it brings us back to MAG 160. Make him monologue every fucking time this happened, every fucking time Elias used him to end the world, marked him, can’t word. But. Horrifying. Jesus.
2, 3 years. “You are a living chronicle of terror” what kind of fear. Over two years, just. Two fucking years.
But it’s not two. Not three.
It’s his whole bloody life, his whole life, leading up to this. End the world. Spread it. This is it, his purpose, he’s spent so long hurting himself for a purpose.
And at the end, after everything he’s done, after everything that’s been done to him, by Jonah Magnus, by the Web or fears or-
He can’t break free. He follows his purpose. He dances the steps he was assigned.
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you mentioning the weird change to the shrine of ressurection made me realize that i dont think ive seen a single guardian in my playthrough so far. like not even broken down ones
yeah they're completely absent. not even purah or robbie have them at their labs for like research purposes or whatever (i'm pretty sure i haven't seen them there at least)
the guardians were both excavated by the sheikah research institution, and they emerged from the sheikah pillars surrounding hyrule castle. now, we can assume that after serving their purpose, the guardians returned to the pillars, which then descended back into the ground. maybe even with the help of the sheikah slate, not just by themselves
speaking of the sheikah slate... as creating a champion states, the sheikah slate may have been discovered in the shrine of resurrection. considering it had a pedestal just for the slate, that may have been its rightful location. so i assume that zelda, for whatever reason (despite this ancient sheikah technology being super advanced and therefore useful...) returned it there. which may have deactivated everything else (the towers, the shrines, the guardians)
all of the above being gone. sure. i can understand. even though i hate that it's all kind of swept under the rug (i've only played the game for 60 hours, maybe they'll be mentioned, maybe i've missed some dialogue, who knows). but the shrine of resurrection... it's actually a part of a 5th divine beast (if you can even call it that). it was not only a medical facility for the hero, but a training one for the champions. there was no way for it to disappear or be excavated (would've ruined that particular area of the great plateau completely). and why would it need to be gone? it was created for the hero to heal his wounds. THE hero, the one that's supposed to defeat the evil forces and end the war. what if link of today, or link of the far future, were to suffer such great injuries he would need to be healed by that exact facility? it makes NO sense for it to be gone. it had a purpose, one that would've lasted another 10 000 years
not to mention the divine beasts... they're large constructions. they didn't have a storage unit to return to like the guardians, they didn't emerge from the ground like the towers and the shrines. they were excavated from the ground. just like that. what the hell happened to them? where did they put them? was there some kind of ancient sheikah parking lot that they were moved to? what's even the point of getting rid of them? again, it's highly advanced and useful technology against any threat that's always lurking around the corner. WHY DISPOSE OF THEM?
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Literally so frustrated abt everything right now, the processes you have to go through in order to get the shit they demand from you for needed benefits is ridiculous
“Oh you’re broke as hell and need help? Give us these things. Oh you don’t have those or lost them? Sucks to be you! The ones that you can get copies of though? You have to pay for them. Oh you don’t have money to pay for them? Die, I guess!”
I hate this fucking Jagd shsndjdnsja sbdjdbdsJFND SJNGGGGHHHHHHGFGGRGRRRHHGG IM GONNA EXPLODE
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