#and he chose death

[niishi]

"garp let ace die" ace killed himself. nice that you let the entire point fly over your head though. people who blame everyone else for their problems truly want there to be a villian in aces story. ace was his own worst enemy. idk how you guys think "garp let ace die" when ace would've killed himself regardless of who stepped up for him. obviously. because his entire friends and family and even hundreds of people he'd never met stepped up for him and risked their lives for him and none of that mattered. how would garps influence have changed anything? if Luffys didn't? if white beards didn't? ace wanted to die. ace chose to die. ignoring that and blaming his death on everyone else is a disservice to the story oda is trying to tell you.

#its like everyone forgot garp and aces conversation #garp telling ace that the importance of his life is up to him and no one else #garp couldve never convinced ace that his life was worth living #ace needed to find that for himself #people always want someone to blame for their unhappiness #'i wasnt able to be happy because of YOU' #youre happiness is up to you and no one else #ace made his own choice #no one killed ace #no one is the reason ace is dead except for ace #ace had the freedom in that moment to choose to live or die #and he chose death #he made the choice no one else could make for him #he answered his question to garp on his own #if you guys cant see what aces entire story mean #and you just blame it on everyone else #then you're missing the entire point #stop playing the victim game and start empathizing #oda is telling a profound story #i guess not all of us are capable of understanding whats being said

[demigods-posts]

currently thinking about how percy attempted to end his life by suffocating himself underwater near the argo ii. but jason disrupted it and saved his life. then months later. jason was killed on a boat surrounded by water. and it just so happened to be on a quest that percy turned down.

#it's like the first percy chose himself #chose the future he wanted to live #and by not succumbing to the role of the pawn #it inadvertently led to jason's death #and i am almost certain this is what was running through percy's head when annabeth got that phone call #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo #heroes of olympus #hoo text post #hoo #percy jackson #jason grace #percy jackson angst #jason grace angst #percy and jason

[lizluzz]

Barely tasted of vanilla if that's any consolation

#our flag means death #ofmd #vanilla extract #my contribution to vanillagate #izzy is not there because he obviously refused to take any part in this ridiculous endeavor #sorry i had a boring hour to pass and this is what happened #it's up to you to decide who honestly chose vanilla extract for yummy cake and who was trolling #lizluz

[hajihiko]

look on the bright side!

#Chiaki nanami #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Peko pekoyama #Kuzupeko #A bonus panel that I thought ruined the flow would have been the rest of the cast minus Ryota #Bc yeah they also. Didnt get that. Except Gundham maybe he had his hammies with him! #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa #Blood CW #Death cw #DR3 #dr3 spoilers #Ok random commentary time: #Something something parallels... I forget. #Fuyuhiko 100% had a soft spot for chiaki and who wouldnt. #Also I dont think Chiaki would ever resent Hajime/izuru for not helping her like I think she Got It #But BOY .... I have such thoughts about that. Saving it for a dialogue tho #Also throwback to my Junko rewrite in which there was no hypnotism involved in Chiaki death simply everyone chose not to help. Thanks bye #An art

[nelkcats]

The Spiteful Ghost

Danny loved space, and loved exploring it almost as much as he loved the Realms (yes, apparently he had made a home there, and learned to love its quirkiness, who could knew right?). The problem was that over the years the halfa acquired another characteristic: He hated heroes.

It might seem ironic, considering his teenager years but he just couldn't stand the concept of heroism (he never chosed to be one), not after all he had been through. Not after losing his family and ending up with more than deep wounds, not after humanity called him a villain for protecting the ghosts, not after the world chosed to sacrifice him after all he did for them (Amity was his world, and the city handed him over on a silver platter to save itself, they forced him to take drastic measures, actions he should never have taken, but when you're alone it turns out that no one can stop you)

They say that rancor can change you, the halfa can confirm. The point is, Danny hated heroes (he hated what they had to go through, hated that adult heroes weren't there for him, hated what it took to be a hero, leaving everything for the world was absurd, why would you accept something like that?). When the ghosts told him about the DC dimension he didn't take it exactly well. Although at least those heroes had a base in space.

Clockwork forbade him to go for a few months (he understood his grudge, quite personal, but he didn't want it to destroy him, he didn't want him to destroy himself), but when he saw him lost and depressed he allowed it, probably because he knew it would cheer him up for a while. Maybe he saw some future where he reconciled with the "profession", or maybe he thought he needed it (the halfa wasn't evil, Clockwork knew he wouldn't hurt anyone).

So, Danny arrived in the hero dimension and set out to be the world's biggest nuisance: moved chairs, ate their snacks, disappeared their stuff. He wasn't doing anything exceptionally big until he overheard an argument between the Red Hood and Batman.

After that, Batman ran out of gadgets in no time and Red Hood found little desserts everywhere. By the time they called JLD, it was pretty obvious they had an invader (the invader strangely loved Young Justice, and anti-heroes, seemed to hate Batman thought).

John Constantine entered feeling that he was walking to his funeral, why the hell had the Ghost King installed himself in a hero base, if it was rumored that he hated them to death?

#dpxdc #ghost king danny #The GIW went too far #and killed everyone that Danny cared about #Amity blamed him for those deaths #They blamed the ghosts for everything #and soon after that the whole city called him a villain for protecting the ghosts instead of just collaborating with the GIW #But Danny couldn't do that #the ghosts comforted him #the ghosts gave him a home #they understood #dp x dc #dc x dp #He ended destroying the GIW and leaving Amity #After Amity betrayed him and almost got him double killed #he couldn't stand the concept of heroism after that #he began to hate everyone who called themselves a hero #everyone who abandoned family and chosed the world first #because deep inside him Danny felt that that was the wrong choice #but even if it was he didn't like killing or anything #so he did some pranks to the JL #He sabotaged their equipments and was a nuisance in general while helping teenage heroes who didn't know better #Danny hate heroes #danny is tired

[rileyclaw]

first friend, final protector.

#hey gang! chose violence last night and whipped this out in a day! #anyways! im afraid for flapjack in season 3! teehee !!! #tw: character death #toh #the owl house #cw: angst #like hEAVY <3 #comic #my art #fanart #belos #hunter toh #willow park #huntlow #the parallel of huntlow and caleb and the witch he fell for makes me HURT #once again! I made this in under 24 hours . its fun that way #flapjack toh #twitter HATES me for this yall i am still laughing hysterically at their gutted reactions #toh comic #toh season 3 #toh spoilers #tw death

[sherokutakari]

Okay but can we have Mary meet Ed

PLEASE can we have Mary meet Ed?

#Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #OFMD 2 #Our Flag Means Death 2 #SUPER EXTRA BIG BONUS POINTS IF IT'S RANDOM AND SANS-STEDE #idk why they meet butnthey end up talking about Life #Ed loves her bc she found the love of her life after her husband died #and when it turns out he faked his death she decided he was gonna die anyway and Ed LOVES THAT for her #Mary hates him at first bc big annoying pirate man and she has had eNOUGH of pirate nonsense #thankyouverymuch #but then ends up loving him bc he literally chose life and love and happiness over a past he no longer identifies with #and she starts to view him as a kindred spirit #THEN Stede can show up and it all starts to fall into place in the most hilarious way #initiate spiderman points all around #please you know it would be hilarious #BlackBonnet #GentleBeard #spoilers #only very vaguely by name

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Danny Phantom doesn’t want to be king.

And the Observants also don’t want him to be king.

Frankly, very VERY few people want him to be king, dead or alive.

But opening the sarcophagus, even if it’s closed NOW, disrupted some magic protections. Until those can be fixed, summoning spells need to be answered by SOMEONE. Not all of summons, just like—once a month or so. Because if they don’t let that power outlet happen, all of those summon magics build up and suddenly Pariah Dark reigns again. Answering the summon basically dispels the built up magic, like opening a dam.

Again, Danny doesn’t WANT to do this either, but everyone else involved is a bad choice. He won’t even be named prince, because THEN that implies he COULD be king. He needs a title, of some kind, a position in the court, no matter how tenuous, so he can do the thing. Something where no one in their right or even WRONG mind would think to try to kill him for the position or try to marry him or something equally annoying to deal with.

So.

He becomes the Ghost Court Jester.

He even gets a fancy little outfit upgrade when he’s summoned, all black and white bell hats and shoes, a stupid little ruffle collar and black parachute pants, even face paint with a tiny dot of glowing neon green at the tip of his nose. The works. Better yet, if he hasn’t been ‘unsummoned’, his human form is just the exact same costume with swapped colors. He can change into his normal outfits, but until that circle has been disrupted, the next summon, or the next full or new moon, he’s stuck into the outfit when he first transforms from either form.

The Phantom Jester, which is a title more intimidating than Danny appears to be if we are to be honest, cracks jokes and never, EVER takes the summons seriously.

“Listen, I just had to get my hours in and it’s the last day of the lunar month, you got lucky I came at all.”

“I got the position by virtue of not wanting to go to Time Jail for a crime I technically didn’t commit and technically probably won’t but, well, eyes are the beholder of the grudge or something else equally cryptic to make you mad.”

“Is this a slumber party? … do you have cake? Bummer. Well, enjoy the bleeding walls then.”

“Whether I help you or not is entirely dependent on how well of a run down you can give me on this book I have to read that I have not at all touched.”

“Explain the reason in three sentences or less. I suggest less. And if it’s stupid I’m hitting you—oh you think this circle can contain me? Haha. It won’t.”

“Is that chicken blood? Why?? What did the chickens do to you?”

There are props in his costume but he literally never knows what he’s gonna pull out of his sleeves. Danny can’t even do a balloon animal and knows exactly zero card tricks, which would be more of an issue if the cards weren’t the size of a dinner plate. He barely even juggles and he’s honestly probably just utilizing his rarely-used telekinetic powers, but he does give people flowers if they haven’t been a total jerk. And if those flowers are like, rare and have seeds for propagation, well… he literally wouldn’t know. No, really, he doesn’t. He gets summoned by at least two ecology departments and he has no idea why, I mean, if he had a nickel—

He also had pies and is NOT afraid to use them.

#danny phantom #danny phantom headcanon #I usually do crossover stuff these days #but I deliberately left it out so anyone could chose to do so or not #that said…. could you imagine #there’s so many fandoms where this would just be really fucking funny #rare spell ingredients? super serious situation? life and death in the BALANCE? #and here’s a sassy teenager who isn’t even getting paid for this #you summoned him and now he’s YOUR problem #fair warning he bites #someone calls him a mime and he almost decks them #Mimes and clowns are noble pursuits! #this is like. pun-ishment of some kind

[cloysterbell]

"I’ll tell you something, I wrote this particular scene at 2 o’clock in the morning in my kitchen and I wrote ‘age of the geek, brother’ and I started crying at my counter. It was one of those moments where I’m like, am I really writing this scene?" - John Rogers, The Long Goodbye Job DVD Commentary

#leverage #levcom #leverageedit #mine:photoset #alec hardison #eliot spencer #parker leverage #i'm still not over how nate was tasked with creating their fake death scene and he chose this

[reggiestein]

Thank GOD death note didnt come out in 2024 matsuda wouldve had tiktok and been annoying about it

#l lawliet #touta matsuda #lawtsuda #...sorry..... #death note #dn #matsuda would show L 'pick one kick one dessert edition' and hed get too into it and act like the other one would literally disappear if #he chose the other one. #L would have the phone in his thumb and finger like hm... cake or ice cream... ahhh... #and matsuda is standing off to the side like can i have my phone back please. #nothing gets done

[vaguely-concerned]

in addition to all the other reasons the soup scene is so funny, there’s also the element of like... pulling the reverse eucharist card on god in the game of catholic uno. make god eat YOUR body and blood for once, actually, see how he likes it. the heresy of it all

#harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #also hilariously jod may be the only person around that table who'd be able to catch that irony #since it doesn't seem like that's a part of christianity he chose to co-opt for his death empire #maybe I've been too hard on him think of all the jokes he can't share with anyone (I have not been too hard on him) #I'm an atheist from a lutheran country I straight up forget sometimes that communion is uh a thing people do??? outside of movies??? #like huh damn dude

[antianakin]

I'd love more exploration of Rex perhaps feeling like he got kind-of the short end of the stick in terms of Jedi. He LIKES Ahsoka, for sure, she's got a spirit he admires and she's tenacious and it's hard not to care for her. And Anakin is, well, powerful for sure and friendly enough, so for a while Rex thinks he came out pretty well with his Jedi.

But then he starts meeting other Jedi or working alongside other Jedi and he realizes how much more competent other Jedi often are, especially the more experienced ones. And while Anakin is friendly enough, he's seen a lot of the other clones have MUCH closer relationships to their Jedi and certainly none of THEM ask their captains or commanders to lie to superior officers about secret relationships or unsanctioned missions. He's a little surprised once when he notices pretty much every other Jedi remembers that the clones can't always keep up with the Jedi and will unhesitatingly adjust their battle strategy to accommodate it. He sees the way other young Padawans are being taught to do something similar, to really consider the lives of the clones when they're in battle as the higher priority rather than the success of the mission.

And Rex starts wondering what his life might be like if he had ended up with a different Jedi. He loves his men, he's proud of the work they do most of the time, and he doesn't DISLIKE the Jedi he ended up with, but sometimes he's kind-of jealous of some of his brothers and wishes he'd gotten their Jedi instead.

#star wars #captain rex #anti anakin #anti anakin skywalker #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #and then he meets kanan and ezra in rebels and realizes he finally got exactly what he always had secretly wished for #he's got a real jedi now #he's got one of the GOOD jedi now #as much as kanan doesn't really trust rex yet he still came back to save the clones from the empire #and that one moment tells rex more than anything else kanan says or does #anakin never would've done that #he never would've come back to save someone he didn't trust and didn't like #not without an ulterior motive anyway #anakin would've considered their deaths an unfortunate tragedy probably #but that it was more important to get his own people to safety #kanan chose to turn around and put his life on the line instead #and so teaches his padawan to do the same #because all life is precious. even if you don't understand it or don't like it. ESPECIALLY if you don't understand it or like it. #so rex chooses to follow kanan #because he didn't get to choose his jedi before this #he wouldn't have chosen anakin if he'd HAD a choice probably #but he gets to choose now #and he didn't WANT to be a soldier again #but kanan came in and inspired him and reminded him of that long ago wish he once had to follow a jedi he truly respected #and so he chooses kanan now the way he never chose anakin

[ruanbaijie]

rnz + fury THE SPIREALM 致命游戏 (2024) 1.70 adapted from the danmei novel Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 by Xi Zi Xu 西子绪 @asiandramanet apr creator bingo board ⎈ free choice

#userdramas #asiandramanet #cdramaedit #cdramasource #致命游戏 #死亡万花筒 #the spirealm #thespirealmedit #kodedit #kaleidoscope of death #danmeiedit #danmei #*gifs #xia zhiguang #userinahochi #userkimchi #tuserjade #seamayweed #userspicy #um so ya these scenes really live in my head rent free #the audible snap of his jaws together #the way he's SHAKING with fury #guang guang woke up and chose murder #on a side note i love it when i occasionally catch glimpses of his double eyelid tape hAHAHAHA

[smokestarrules]

‘Philip never could have changed and that’s why he’s tragic’ no!!!! Philip absolutely could have changed, that’s why he’s tragic! this man spent 400 years marinating in the culture and experience and people of the place that he was going to commit genocide in and he never once allowed himself to even consider the possibility that everything he was doing was wrong. he had all the time in the world and chose not to.

#yes he's perpetuating the way he was raised but he chose that!!! everything after Caleb's death was his own decision #to work his way up the ladder of power to revamp the entire magic system so that everyone is weakened and put into a box and to reshape the #entire society around an extremely puritan-looking way of things #he CHOSE that life. #he lived there for CENTURIES. he met thousands of witches and demons and considered every last one inherently irredeemable #philip could have changed. saying he couldn't is giving into the way he frames the world. he had a choice to do the things that he did #and he eventually paid for them. #anyway. sorry for the rant #everything's Fine #toh #the owl house #philip wittebane #emperor belos #smokey speaks

[amberizedcasey]

i think the funniest part of this whole thing between missa and forever is that they are both really sweet guys u know? yeah, they are gonna fight for phil love, but in the end when phil chose missa (or fit, i just know he won't chose forever if he plays the rich card), forever will make a scene and probably try unaliving himself and missa will be like "oh but like, the playdate between our sons will still happen right?" and forever will answer "yeah, of course! i'm just gonna drow myself real quick, bye"

#qsmp #forever #forever player #missasinfonia #philza #richarlyson the egg #chayanne #i do think that philza would chose forever if he has in Dad Mode #we saw how philza treated forever after tallulah death #but yeah #he won't win philza heart with his money

[evilkitten3]

one pet peeve of mine in founders-era fanfics is when madara's whole,,,, everything is solved by izuna just being there

like maybe this is just me, but i don't think izuna surviving or even coming around to the idea of a truce with the senju would've been enough to keep madara from the path he ended up on.

izuna wasn't the reason he left - he was definitely part of madara's issues, but he wasn't the why. even if izuna had stuck around, and even if that had been enough to keep the uchiha clan from losing their faith in madara, i think he would've still come to realize konoha wasn't what he'd hoped it would be.

best case scenario, i think izuna's survival might've caused madara to stick around a bit longer, but i don't think it would've lasted. honestly, even then, that might've just made the inevitable break-up between madara and hashirama even more agonizing (particularly for izuna)

it's a fun idea to play around with for sure, but frankly i don't think canon!madara could've ever been 'saved' from that path. certainly not if the hidden village system ended up getting set up in the same way.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #meta #uchiha madara #uchiha izuna #senju hashirama #from the moment madara was born into that world he was doomed to walk that path i think #most fics that have izuna live and madara still leave that i've seen keep izuna's death as the catalyst. but moved down a bit #which i understand #but imo it'd be more interesting to explore how izuna would feel about his brother's choice #bc as much as people like to view izuna as like a super big bro supporter. he really REALLY isn't #his loyalty is to the uchiha clan #we're explicitly shown that if forced to pick between the clan's interests and madara's dream izuna will pick the clan #both as a kid when he and tajima fought tobirama and butsuma #and as an adult when he used his last words (or the last words hashirama ever heard from him) to further that divide #the clan chose konoha over madara. and i think izuna - as against the idea as he was to begin with - would've also #not bc he doesn't love his brother. bc his loyalty is and always will be to the uchiha clan #hell madara was the same until he was physically forced to stop #first by hashirama trying to use his own life as a bid for peace between their families #and later by the uchiha clan's rejection of madara himself #madara is like. if the doomed hero trope was the antagonist #having said all of that zetsu was never going to let izuna live bc he needed madara to get the eternal mangekyou sharingan #and izuna was the only one of his siblings who lived long enough to see him get the regular sharingan. so it had to be him #but like i said even if that weren't the case it wouldn't have mattered #madara believed that the end - the world of dreams - would justify the means. if izuna hadn't given up his eyes freely... #well. it's not like people didn't end up thinking madara had taken them anyway #i don't think even naruto could've saved madara really #the only thing anyone could've saved him from was dying alone #which is what would've happened if everyone except him was in the infinite tsukuyomi when kaguya came back #and honestly even tho all three of his deaths had other people there (hashirama then obito then hashirama again)