Proship dni for my comfort thanks.
I feel like everyone portrays F/Os as these romantic, perfect all around lovers, and while that's all well and good! I prefer F/Os who are flawed, who don't always say the right things. Who can sometimes be petty or selfish. F/Os who have a habit of seeing conflict as a contest on who can talk the loudest, instead of a conversation. F/Os who run out of patience sometimes and have to go cool off mid-conversation, even if they're right. F/Os who struggle to communicate their emotions.
I find comfort in the idea of a relationship where mistakes like that are allowed and given room to breathe. A relationship where, no matter what the conflict is, the walls eventually come down. Maybe it takes hours, maybe days until you're both calm enough to work it out. Maybe it takes several conversations to solve it, but each end in Hey. I love you. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
You're not perfect, and neither is your F/O. That's okay. That can be beautiful, too. There's not a hug that's more comforting than the firm, tearful one after reaching mutual understanding. Knowing that you didn't mess it up too much, you didn't break things permanently. You couldn't if you tried. They missed you... and you've got some serious affection to catch up on.
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i really like to think of v1 as always being the biggest threat in any room it enters but being small in comparison to what's unfolding in the world - it is an antagonist in many ways, but it's an antagonist that is a part of a mob, just one of thousands or even millions of machines that have been slowly hollowing out hell like colony of ants. it would of course be disingenuous to claim v1 isn't unique in some aspects - it is a supreme machine with one-of-a-kind plating that is capable of neutralizing even prime souls, but v1 is still simply doing what all the machines do. it is following programming, seeking out what it needs and utilizing all it has to that end and no matter its power, it is only one. it could not consume hell on its own, could not kill each and every husk to leave hell blighted - it may have a higher death count than others, it may take out bigger "marks" than others, but it's still only a part of the massive damage being done, that began before it and would continue after it. and i think it speaks a lot to the existentialism in this game, that the player character is nothing cosmically special or chosen, that v1 is part of a mindless consuming conglomerate. it is a singularly destructive machine, but still just one in a countless sea of hell's invasive species. and i think it says something too about how gabriel came to lose his faith through it and what it meant to be defeated by something he never should have even been able to see as an individual. it becomes incredibly fascinating to be such a threat on an immediate scale, to see how everything in the room targets you for good reason and can make you think for a second that you did this, that v1 is draining hell single-handedly...yet it is instead a faceless part of a devouring legion.
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I FORGOT TO POST THEM, FUUUCK!!!!
I forgor to sign the V1 drawing but I do not give a shit that thang was DIFFICULT ! ! !
These were first attempts at drawing them, mainly for practice. I got carried away with coloring Gabriel, so I felt I should probably do the same with V1
I put a shit ton of filters on them because my phone camera does NOT catch the colors of the gel pens correctly and as a consequence the colors are still a little off so rip to that, but other than that and a few other issues, I think they turned out fine, especially for a first real attempt.
My decision to use gel pens has damned me, and my hands have never known peace.
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One thing I think about a lot is how every nice thing Roman does is tossed back in his face. Try as he might to believe that people are good, and that his decency will be met with any kindness, he gets beaten to a pulp like clockwork.
But somehow, he survives it.
And the one good thing he does that actually benefits him? The one deed that is met with the same genuine kindness, that turns into the only love he's ever gotten to experience?
He dies for it.
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Not a question, but i wanted to say that i love the poetry of Gabriel now having to help the newly angelic V1 to get used to its new form, just like V1 helped fallen Gabriel all those years ago.
(Also love the how they basically inverted roles, Gabriel became demonic, and V1 angelic)
it's one of my favorite parts of the au too ;o; i just really love the idea of both of them getting the chance to be cared for in a way they very rarely ever had been, if at all - gabriel shouldered so many burdens all on his own, his "sin" had to be hidden and if he made mistakes, he paid for them without receiving an ounce of sympathy from those surrounding him. in his fall, v1 saw his disgrace, saw how he had been condemned and damned through perceived treachery, it saw all the ugliness made manifest that heaven hated in him...and it cared for him then. it grew in understanding of gentleness, it learned how to be caring just for his sake because it saw suffering, suffering he believed in so many ways he brought on himself, but it chose to still treat him with kindness so antithetical to its nature. gabriel couldn't comprehend that, believed so thoroughly he didn't deserve it, yet he could never change its mind. his light had been ripped from him, he has branded a traitor of god, but he was met with care.
in a similar way, v1 is a machine, a new prototype never before seen - it underwent so many modifications, it was constantly torn apart in body and mind without its consent, without its understanding of what they were changing about it. it would simply wake up with parts added, parts taken, code rearranged and mind altered so many times that it died over and over in the testing phases. but it had to take those changes, it had to adapt to them even if they could stripped from it in an instant and it had to start all over again learning its new body, new mind. so when it's resurrected, it's used to this in a way, it understands it must adjust because this is just what it is now. it is a tool at its core, and a tool must be made most efficient. and it's happy to be most efficient. but then gabriel comes to it, he apologizes for so altering it even if that very altering saved its life. he helps it adjust to the changes, he uses his knowledge because he can understand what he did and what's happening to v1 unlike experimenting engineers in its past. he lets it take its time, he doesn't criticize it or express disappointment as it struggles with some of its new power. he's just as gentle, just as kind as v1 once was in his fall, and for the first time...it can feel fully confident, fully safe in the changes that were made
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