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magnoliamyrrh · 10 months

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and thus, my endless fascination with conspiracy theories and the truth among the lies //again dont read if u have anxiety abt these sort of things

bc i have a legitemately psychotic father whose fallen down the rabbit hole hard, who thinks chemtrails are a thing and the new world baby eating satanic kabal is on the rise (and frankly most likely blames their demons for what he did to me), and who thinks having identification cards is the devils work bc if u flip them idk what way they say 666. hes been on national tv saying this shit 🤦‍♀️ and i have met many actual full fledged conspiracy theorists, mostly the alien sort, and spend time with them, so i know what theyre like

the issue w conspiracy theorists isnt that theyre 2000% pulling shit out of their ass. because theyre not... the issue is that they are rightfully skeptical of the government and world, they read things which are crazy but true, but then they... arent rightfully skeptical abt the shit they read on weird websites or facebook, and just become indoctrinated into something else

so, lets see here, the truth in the lies

government officials are sex trafficking children - 100% true, actually yes many of them are and its an issue, this is no conspiracy theory we literally have proof of this lmao. this happened in rømania, in europe, in plenty of other places, epsteins black book is a thing. do i even think some of them are into legitemately insane torture and sacrifice too? yes, i do, because that exists even outside of rich ppl... do i think some of them are actual self proclaimed satanists - oh im sure theres some, theres plenty of crazy shit out there.... is it the 12 bloodlines and (insert anti-semetic world conspiracy)? no, its not. is there a global satanic conspiracy? i really doubt it, i think most of these fucks arent either into the occult or theology enough for that. is it the hillary clinton pizzagate in a pizzaria that doesnt even have a basement? nope, nope - and the conspiracies draw away from the actual issue of child sex trafficking

one/new world order/shadow governments - is it true that the rich and powerful of most governments have more in common with each other than common people? yes, absolutely. is it true they all for the most part want docile populations? yea. do they make shady af deals with each other? yuppp. are there people controlling things behind the scenes who are very powerful and we dont know of? yes, absolutely. is the idea of a new world order letting corporations rule everything that ridiculous considering... corporations do rule more and more...? hmm. is it however (insert anti-semetic conspiracy theory here) no. is it reptilians, no. is it aliens, uh i mean, 1% chance im not betting on it. is there a master plan we should focus on to combat this supoosed 12 bloodlines takeover?...... we should probably focus on more practical things

*sidenote to this, i actually find it interesting that conspiracy theorists are afraid the higher classes "kabal" is selectively raising and breeding perfect children while thinking the rest of the population shouldn't have children because were overpopulated...... it is literally happening rn as we speak that some rich ppl are selectively having fetuses and genetically engeneering for "higher IQ" "higher pay bracket" "no depression no health issues no imperfection".... this is real.. and these same rich ppl are part of weird groups which hold only they should have children and raise them in weird special ways (look into elon musks natalist ideas :) )... again...is it 12 satanist bloodlines... uhhhhhno. but yea, it is some sort of issue

chem trails - this one is fun bc yes the chem trail stuff gets taken out of hand. theyre trying to make us all stupid with them or gay or etc etc etc. But the Fun Thing is!!! there Are actually companies which are using chemtrails (releasing chemicals from airplanes) to try to combat climate change witnout telling anyone or civilian approval..... and in at least in one case an american company did this in a northern euro country without approval and definetely not population approval.... fun, right? so, as far as we know to a degree chemtrails are real, just very likely not the way people think

the water turning the frogs gay - this is hysterically enough based on something true. a farmland fertilizer company was having runoffs into a river, where the frogs started displaying high rates of intersex conditions and homosexual behavior, causing the population to decline. when scientists rung the alarm, the company used its money to shut them all down. watch a video on the youtubers Okis Stories on this, its a brilliant documentary he made.... is the government putting stuff in the water to use a "gay bomb" and make ppl gay? lol no. but was there a case of fertilizer chemicals being used turning frogs gay? yes, kinda

mind control, sound wave mind control, and implants for mind control - yuppp. these are real too. obviously MKULTRA as well as several other programs were real (and as far as im concerned are still happening). there is indeed real scientific proof that frequencies, sound waves, brain implants, etc can control very complex mammals such as apes to a terrifying degree (force an ape mother to ignore her crying baby, spark agression, force a bull to stop charging)..... and yes, the human brain itself has its own series of frequencies and energies which can be manipulated. sorry to say, the idea of government mind control and being afraid of frequencies is actually not complete bogus......... idk how much walking around with tinfoil on your heads is gonna do much, and blaming every little thing on this is uhh... paranoia. but i truly do understand why ppl who look into this a long time fall into paranoia, bc it makes me paranoid too. because there is indeed truth to it, and we have no way of knowing how good government tech is

the gov is involced w the occult - not 100% of the time but the CIA's and Soviet governments extensive research into astral projection, telepathy, etc, and the CIA literally writing about meeting higher interdimensional beings should uhhh. make it clear at one point they were and likely still are..... again tho... are they all satanist baby eaters... doubt it

alien abductions - just gave my thoughts on this

project blue beam - the idea as a whole is absolutely hysterical but hologram technology has indeed become insane, look it up. but nah that aint happening. also, yes, the government is likely using the ufo stuff as a distraction and way to increse military spending and to take eyes off of military tech.... staged ufo invasion and rupture tho? doubt it

cryptids are genetially engenered abominations/the gov is doing genetic engeenering/we should be scared of it - you know, i did biotechnology for four years and promised to never touch it again. if i had the money i would bet thousands of dollars that there are both government and private companies doing Insanely unethical and fucked up shit...... we have made goats which produce silk out of their uteruses..... there is donkey dna in your strawberries..... human ears are grown on lab rats...... i have no idea what theyre doing. and i can't say if theyve made human-animal hybrids.... but i will place all my money on very messed up shit happening 100%

modern food and water is bad for you/ chemical fertilizers are bad/ gmos might also be bad - this aint even a fucking conspiracy. they just are. rates of cancer are through the roof. the shit were using today is insane. and on gmos.... idk what to say abt them being dangerous, even after years of biotech, i rly dont. but they taste like shit and i dont... morally like the idea of fish dna in my fruits. call me old fashioned or puritanical, i know theres good sides to it. we learned plenty in biotech of the bad sides tho

the government will use any excuse (covid, crime rates, whatever) to increse its surveillance and control on the population - this one is also true and we saw it all over the world (china, per example). yes covid was absolutely real and dangerous..... yes the government used it to gain more control... both of these things are true

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bixxelated · 1 year

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It's gotta be for all these acts of violence, and I would love to see 4, 5, 7, and 9!

aaaa thank you! <3

(ask meme for my fics)

(all these acts of violence | stranger things fanfic)

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

this one:

Implying that Will has other reasons to forgive him? Like what? Mike doesn't think he's done anything particularly special for Will since their argument… “Okay… okay. Good. And...” he takes a deep breath, “and about the other thing I said, at the garage. Y-you know I’m sorry about that too, right?” Will’s eyes soften. “I know.” “I didn’t—I don’t want to pressure you into saying anything. You don’t owe me, or anyone else, any sort of explanation, whatever you are okay? Especially if you’re not comfortable with it. But I hope you know I’ll always have your back, no matter what.” Will reaches for his hand, and squeezes. “I know, Mike.” “Okay,” Mike says, willing his racing heart to calm back down even as he squeezes back. “Good. So long as you know… good.”

love me some soft supportive almost-coming-out scenes. i always thought it was interesting that mike's outburst ("its not my fault you dont like girls!") while horrible and with some pretty awful timing... seemed to imply that... what? he noticed will has no interest in girls? he realized that it wasn't just that will was a late bloomer but something more? theres a lot of subtext there i really wanted to dig my claws into

will's always been the target of homophobic bullying as seen in previous seasons, and altho we never see the kids comment on queerness one way or another, so it seems like there HAD to have been some serious math going on mike's bratty little noggin about will's sexuality at one point? but despite growing up in a family that most likely would have frowned on those inclinations, to say the least, mike kept his questions to himself and kept being will's friend, whereas someone else might freak out, or be more confrontational or simply slowly stop being around a suspected gay person without an explanation. so playing on the dialogue after ("look, im not trying to be a bad guy" or something along those lines) i sort of wanted to expand on that headcanon a lil and kinda lean on mike wheeler's "screw the rules, i can have more than one best friend/ i like you so i will now die for you" personality

5: What part was hardest to write?

the last chapter right now I'd say part 1 of the epilogue (aka chapter 13)! mostly because it explores an aftermath that we didn't see in canon, with a bunch of ideas i had that were pretty vague and hard to make cohesive, and season 4 hadn't been mentioned much at that point so i had no idea what to expect and was kinda stressing out about deviating too much from canon. but i really had a lot of fun with putting all the scenes together and im really proud of it now

7: Where did the title come from?

from a song called revolution by misterwives! particularly the lyrics, "all these acts of violence, ripping this world to shreds/while I'm trying to sleep, oh how could I sleep?"

i thought that particular verse was pretty fitting to the whole theme of the fic (esp the whole ripping the world to shreds bit as a metaphor for the gates opening hehe) and so thats why i made it the title!

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

kjhgjb uh not really? from the start acts of violence was always meant to be a fic that was going to run parallel to canon bc i do not have the energy to go fully canon divergence with this particular idea and wanted to work on some other projects like wavelength besides. akdfjdsdkgjsd it was always meant to be a sort of practice fic, almost!

but i will say that for chapter 13 there was a moment where i wanted to make mike's awakening with nancy and karen (and sam owens) to be in a military base away from hawkins, on the basis of his leg being infected with extradimensional alien bacteria that a normal hospital would have no idea how to treat and the government would want to keep a close eye on. that however felt like one plotline too many to introduce and resolve when the fic's so close to ending so i cut it out and only left some of those bits in (ie: karen's confrontation with sam, mike developing an infection, etc)

thank you for the ask!

#blogger writes fic #tp #all these acts of violence #marypsue

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caelumsnuff · 1 year

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You know I try not to get too 'ugh' about race allegories. Mostly because it's so commonplace when (white tbh) creators make works of fantasy & science fiction that want to discuss prejudice and discrimination, but don't want to get into the weeds of how to handle that topic while still including their fellow human beings of differing complexions/cultures (or don't know how which I'm a littleee more sympathetic towards? Don't know if I should be though) so they go for robots being forced to the back of the bus (like Detroit: Become Human) or superpowered beings being feared (like X-Men) or demons dealing with discrimination in school like with that recent Gavin & Damien audio.

And it's like you've mentioned before these allegories don't work, but it's so, so, so common in fantasy/sci-fi that I'm used to it now, but one thing that makes it super annoying to at least tolerate is when audience members say silly things like how they hate the 'RACISM' (yes, they put it in all caps lol) that Gavin deals with and that demons should have rights. And I know they mean like 'demon' as a race, but like seeing that word used for this lol...it made my eye twitch lmao.

Its wild to me that he chose d(a)emons as an oppressed class….. the amount of times i have to force myself to not pull out my own hair when i hear about those d(a)emons deserving rights and the racism being uncalled for like…. come the fuck on. Do you know how often an oppressed group irl gets called demons???? 😭😭 It's so badly thought through…..

honestly, i try not to get all up in arms about oppression allegories, especially racial oppression, because they can admittedly be hard to write. It's hard to slide in an effective allegory into a fictional world (especially a fantasy/sci-fi one) without stepping on a landmine some place or another. We always carry over bias from real life and that is going to reflect in the things we write whether we like it or not, we are people with previous experiences.

But the thing that gets me so hard is that like.... there are literally other better allegories sitting in the redactedverse that Erik could have gone with. One that keeps coming to mind time and time again is the daemons vs the demons. They are all of the same fundamental biology, but some are viewed as weaker/more peaceful than others. It's just.... the d(a)emons have a magical government (the chorus), they have laws and rules and shitput into place, like he could have gone with this and it would have been so much better. Theres also the empowered classes, literally humanborns vs magic borns (or whatever they're called) are sitting right there!!!!!!!!!! The differences between these two groups is highlighted, but its not like a systemic oppression thing, its a lack of resources for helping humanborns. He could have taken it further than that, yanno? I would go further into detail, but i wont.

Thank you for the ask, i feel you

#anon #ask #Its so... like i got so fed up i had to write an essay about it #If i wasn't in deep before i wrote that i would say that post is what stuck me here #But this fandom pissed me off so much a few months before that that i wrote my first fic asdfasdf

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akistans · 2 years

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★☆𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐇𝐘𝐏𝐄𝐍.

Hyung line x reader

Warnings: Yandere themes, Sadism, suggestive content, a f*cked up government, probably some tyranny here and there(what am i saying theres gonna be a load of tyranny)

Disclaimer: The following work is purely fictional and does not represent Enha’s hyung line in any way or shape. I also do not support or condone abusive relationships, please seek help if you or a loved one’s are in this situation.

The kingdom of the North was ruled by a very giving king and his son, the people and the country flourished. Such a great kingdom to be in, in such a great time. There was nothing corrupt, no slums, all peace and harmony ran through it’s land, thanks to its royalty of course!

You worked as a maid within the estate, and Prince Heeseung was a gentle soul. He was so caring and appreciative, he would even help you with the chores. Out of all the other maids, it was as almost if he wanted to spend time with you only.

He was more of a good friend than an employer at this point. Almost too good of a friend…you started to catch feelings for him. But you couldn’t show that, it was forbidden for commoners to be with royalty. So you crushed silently, that is until one day, You and Heeseung wanted to practice dancing for an upcoming ball, you agreed to help, only for him to grab you close and press his lips against yours.

In pure shock, you reflexively pushed him away.

“C’mon Y/n, we both know you feel the same way.” He tried to wrap his arm around your waist again just for you to stumble back. You bowed good night to him, pacing back to your chambers and going to sleep and praying he doesn’t tell anyone, but them again, he was the one that kissed you.

The next day, you are waken up by the royal guards. Kicking and screaming, they dragged you down to the cells below the estate where you are met with a familiar face, Prince Heeseung. Who seemed very jovial at the fact you were crying for him to let you go.

“All you had to do was just let it happen y’know? Now since I’m such a kind ruler, then i’ll give you a choice, rot down here, or…be mine?”

And so began your secret relationship with the oh so kind prince Heeseung.

☆ Jay.

Calling the kingdom of the west a capitalist’s wet dream is putting it mildly, it’s more like a twisted hierarchy complex ruled by a monarchy who not one person has barely seen the family in years. you worked alongside your family as middle class bakers in the centre. Just right below the high class utopia, which was right below the royal palace. Could be worse tho, you could’ve been born in the kingdom of East.

All in all, you lived a pretty simple life, your parents encouraged you to take on the bakery ever since you turned 18, and have been doing a good job since then. There’s been this certain man who has been coming in for the past few weeks, always ordering the same thing. He dresses really nice, not like anyone from where you are from, so he must be from the utopia.

Well, aside from that at least he pays good.

The next few weeks we’re kinda of odd, your parents were acting strange lately, and that man you would see stopped coming. The next morning you turn the corner only to see a sold sign, you raced up to the entrance to see your parents and an all too familiar face.

Your parents looked like they just struck it rich, not giving a care in the world what their child in front of themselves worried face displayed. Without even giving you a side glance, they walked away and into a fancy carriage that escorted them away. “There’s nothing you can do about them, money and greed clouds the mind of those pigs…” the rather sharp tongued boy said next to you.

You drop down on your knees, ready to let your tears pool at any minute. “But…but why…?”

“Oh yeah, i’m really bad at hello’s, so I’ll just tell you my name. I’m Park, Jongseong, and i’m your husband.” And just like that, greed took your life away.

★ Jake

(Surprise-surprise! He’ll be getting a fic of his own! Look out for it!)

☆ Sunghoon

Allow me to semi-quote from mean girls when i say this, “and evil takes its true from in the kingdom of the East.” This kingdom of the East was by no means a place for common folk to live, the poor stayed the poor and the rich stayed the rich. Famine would strike every so often, illness was rampant, and mistreatment of the people became a norm among the royal police.

And why has no one ever thought to stand against this? Because of the Park family that’s why. Hundreds of years of an unbroken rule of the callous family, who have shown no love to their people, anyone dear try to revolt would be sent to an early, excruciating death. You hated this. You hated even indirectly having a part in this, Your family has been in charge of all things military and police, a noble family in charge of enforcing the Park family’s rule, no matter what.

You promised, that once your old man finally croaks—and you assume leadership of the family— you would change the ways of this harsh government, maybe—just maybe loosen the Park’s grip. Well…thats easier said than done, especially when you’d need to convince the next heir, Park Sunghoon. You’ve only met him a couple of times, quiet, direct, same as most of his family. Though you heard that he currently advises some industries, most notably the agriculture department, which planned the famine currently raging the the commons. Thats just one from the list of things you heard about him.

Although you weren’t the head of your family yet, that didn’t stop you from helping behind the scenes. Currently you were on your way to a local shelter to bring them goods, as you would do every so often. Upon arriving, you felt uneasy, the atmosphere was unusually off putting. But nevertheless you continued to enter the area only to be met with over a dozen of people on their knees, as the royal guards surrounded them.

“Wha—unhand them right now men!” You tried to exert your power but was all futile when you heard the cold voice of the heir walk right behind you. “And why should they? After all, what you are doing right now is illegal Y/n, heh—such a shame that the L/n family is now at risk, all because of one person.” You could feel his smirk on your shoulder as he gripped your head to look at the sobs of the people.

But how? How could he have known?

“Sir, what would you like us to do with the people?” The head guard spoke up. “Dispose of them of course—oh! And don’t mention the nobles involvement in this, i’ll handle that personally.” The guards exited along with the people, leaving you and Sunghoon to yourselves, tears filled your eyes, awaiting whatever punishment you were getting. Sunghoon placed a tight grip on your waist and used his thumb under your chin to guide your vision towards him.

“I’m not going to report this Y/n, death would be an easy way out wouldn’t it? Heh-I’ve never played with a noble before, i wonder how long it’ll take to see you break.” And just like that, you were at the mercy of Park Sunghoon.

A/n: AGHHHHH Y DID THIS TAKE ME SO LONG (enjoy btw)

#kpop #enhypen #enhypen scenarios #yandere enhypen #enhypen jake #yandere kpop #enhypen drabbles #jake sim #park jeongseong #sunghoon park

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mde1011 · 3 years

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when i got into the dsmp i started a note and wrote down any quotes or moments i thought were funny, and im bored at 3 am so enjoy some of them

how is being arrested real? just walk away!!!”

⁃ “once an american always an american. go...go protests masks...or something”

⁃ “...yEAH BUT DID YOU HAVE WAP” “what’s...whats wap?” “...WORSHIP AND PRAYER”

⁃ “HOW DO YOU LIKE POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER”

⁃ “i’m naked” “...no you’re not” “i can be...”

⁃ “uhhhh i’m in a high stress situation....i deal with these poorly”

⁃ “i should go first i’m naked”

⁃ “yEAHHHH WE KILLED AN OLD MAN WITH HEART PROBLEMS”

⁃ “what are you going to do?” “i...have no idea i think i’m gonna start out by punching a tree”

⁃ “tOmmy...did i just hear you say shit ass looking mofo?”

⁃ “i aM gOinG to gEt nAkeD to iNtiMidAtE HiM”

- “...i want freedom !” “you want BALLS.”

⁃ “...down the line. yeah that’s where we discover the art of cannibalism” “oh it’s an art?” “it’s an art”

⁃ “oh there’s some logs here. wonder what they’re saying to me. uh huh. uh huh. oh yeah that’s very racist” “tommy you gotta burn those logs.” “burn ‘em before they spread their racism to other logs”

⁃ “are you pooing?” “*whisper* i’m charging up-““ “he’s ejaculating on the tent.” “he’s WHAT?”

⁃ “he’s sPEEDING. LOOK HOW FAST HES GOING” “i’ve taken so many drugs. someone tell badboyhalo”

⁃ “we should make a pact. and that pact is, uh, we make a book...and in that book...we declare that saying ‘muffin’ is a, is a slur”

⁃ “i was thinking what if one day your bladder just,,,,stopped working.....AGGGFFFFF i was tHINKING ABOUT THAT THE OTHER DAY IVE GOT TO PREPARE IVE GOT YO PREPARE thisiswhydiapersaintthatbad”

⁃ <sapnap> i think i was ordered to um

<tommyinnit> boobed

<sapnap> kill you

<tommyinnit> boobs

<sapnap> if this happens

<tommyinnit> think about boobs man

<sapnap> tsk tsk tommy

<tommyinnit> iM DISGRUNTLED

⁃ “why is this deadman so good at making drugs”

⁃ “i just learnt that a girl hero is called a heroine and it freaked me out”

⁃ “memento memento me-“ “that’s actually the worst word i know so you can’t keep saying that” “oh, really.....? have you ever heard the term ‘racist’?”

⁃ “the person who invented the phrase ‘be yourself’ hadn’t met you!”

⁃ “you seem like the type of guy whose dad would throw him overboard as a joke but he would just drown”

⁃ “shout out to dream for twerking!”

⁃ “let’s talk......let’s talk about sex” “wonderful. what do you think about sex, lazarbeam?” “i ain’t saying SHIT in front of a sixteen year old”

⁃ “what the- i think i’m seeing things” “....tommy i told you not to drink the sea water” “well i DID drink the sea water because it TOLD ME TO”

⁃ “it’s like the movie when that guy gets stranded on an island and has sex with a coconut” “whAT?? dream- dream, you vastly misinterpreted this” “it one hundred percent does”

⁃ “oh mastICATE.....isn’t that when a fish turns inside out?”

⁃ “what are some bad words YOU know, clay?” “i don’t-“ “what about ‘terrorist’?”

⁃ “my mind has to be on the same frequency as jesus when he walked on water”

⁃ “you wanna know why i was late?” “no i really do-“ “i was having a MASSIVE poo. really just a HUGE poo”

⁃ “jUST CUZ YOU TALK ABOUT POO ONCE AND THEN YOU SEE A BIG GREEN BASTARD AMD YOUR LIFE IS FLASHING BEFORE YOUR EYES AND THEN YOU CANT REMEMBER- YOU CANT REMEMBER IF IT WAS YESTERDAY OR TOMORROW YOU HURT THAT WOMAN”

⁃ “i love america. mmmmm patriotism

⁃ “LIFE IS NOT A HAPPY SONG KERMIT THE FROG”

⁃ “please stop taking the cock”

⁃ “two four six eight who do we appreciate? not the government let’s gooooooo”

⁃ “oooo look at the dogs😍” “wHAAAAAT. WHAT. THERES ACTUALLY LIKE. A MILLION DOGS HERE. WHAT THE HELL.”

⁃ “yeahhhhh bitch i stab- i don’t stab women-“ “woooooooah tommy you stab women?” “heyyyy sapnap”

⁃ “do you know what happens whne you reach the top of the ladder? there’s only one place to go.” “.....side to side😨” “down.” “...i really thought you were gonna say side to side🥺”

⁃ “one last time.” “just like in hamilton😓”

⁃ “you don’t know how many times i’ve mistaken trees for hot women”

⁃ “ i don’t feel better i just destroyed penis”

⁃ “i’ve never seen a snail with bad morals”

⁃ “awwwwwwww😢 i’m doin’ drugs🤧 just like the good ol’ days😓” “.....define the ‘good old days’” “back when i did drugs”

⁃ “have you ever fought a baby? i have and it was trivially easy to defeat, phil.”

⁃ “the only other i egg i know about was the one i learnt about in school....not allowed to say which one....”

⁃ “did you know one of my new years resolutions is to be more like 2010 justin bieber?”

⁃ “apparently cats don’t lay eggs”

⁃ “thinking about trees- if i saw a tree with a beard mmmmmm...holy shit id hit it”

⁃ “we’re in hell dude. science doesn’t matter here”

⁃ “i cant die i cant die i’m GOD”

⁃ “hey pig your letter is the same as pussy, hmm?”

⁃ “are we cool are we COOL guys? CRYSTAL COOL like CRYSTAL METH”

⁃ “he- he’s crying because - because i killed his mother isn’t that right? mother dearest mother deadest mother gonest”

⁃ “bro ive been drinking since i was six and let me tell you...it’s not good to be drinking that young. led to some poor life decisions when i was 8” “what did you do” “i cant say” “...who did you hurt” “....only myself”

⁃ “je suis” “ay i know what that mean you prick” “what does it mean” “it means you’re racist dickhead”

⁃ “i’d never poo in the presence of a women- which is why i’m scared to get a girlfriend i think i’d just explode”

⁃ “biff tannen is one of my idols”

⁃ “black widow died and i thought ‘wow it should’ve been the man’ because he’s a man”

⁃ “there’s a character called captain america and i think he’s stupid”

⁃ “i’m a GOOD LAD i’ve got GOOD MORALS and if i’ve DONE SOMETHING WRONG it WASNT MY FAULT I JUST GOT A LITTLE EXCITED”

⁃ “sam....what’s the longest you’ve ever wiped your arse? for me it’s 48 minutes”

⁃ “why are you standing in the shitter?” “....that’s a SINK” “uhhh welllll” “hAVE YOU SHAT IN THE SINK?????”

⁃ “you’re like a living ghost” “...i think that’s called a human, tubbo”

⁃ “maybe i accidentally kill ranboo and we just never see him again *laughs* ay? and then i go ‘april foooools!!!’ and then i kill their child. i kill him”

⁃ “you built a penis” “it’s a PENIS OF SAFETY”

⁃ “i saw the penis of safety and i pressed mouse button four my friend”

⁃ “the penis on the other side of the river is larger” “ive heard that before....”

⁃ “you’ve turned the penis into a wall” “a wall of safety is better than a penis of safety” “i think the penis was better”

⁃ “if you wanna make a penis i know where we can make a penis and i know how big we can make it”

⁃ “i don’t conceptualize death but i think i just saw it!”

⁃ “yeah i- yeah i know i’m- my first impression on eret was making him read a shrek fan fiction so- i’m not one for first impressions”

⁃ “i-i’m scared for him- i’m scared OF him. yknow the first thing he did when he saw me was imMEDIATELY strip down then jump off then immediately die?”

⁃ “where are you?” “getting stabbed, one second”

⁃ “you’ve seen the joker?” “yea-“ “i resonate a lot with that man” “...oH. oh. that’s- that’s not-“

⁃ “he bURNT DOWN MY HOUSE” “out of LOVE”

⁃ “ohhhh my god stop making me play with the neighbor kid” “o-okay if you don’t go play with him i’m kicking you out of the house-“ “wHAT THE FUCK???”

⁃ “there’s a STRIP CLUB” “oh yeah for wood!” “are you into strippers?” “i mean all it does is make the wood look different so....yeah it doesn’t really do much”

⁃ “no no we have categories, we have the poo-saster- you might have to take a shower after-“ “no, no i’m gonna stop you right there”

⁃ “as i was saying you can have a 1-to-3 wiper, that’s an A-tier poo, my friend”

⁃ “i want you to eat your sock”

⁃ “you know i’m a child- i’m a minor” “sO AM I DICKHEAD”

⁃ “everyone is calling you dresus” “yeah i am”

⁃ “ayyyy ayyyy los DROGAS LOS DROGAS” “no no big q- she’s thirteen- how does this happen with every 13 year old girl you meet?”

⁃ “my poo has muscles like i do”

⁃ “i cant hear the words among us without crying they’ll say there are aliens among us and in the back youll just hear me *choking noises*”

⁃ “tubbo...tubbo is like...tubbo is like mary” “.....did you just call me the Virgin Mary?”

⁃ “i’m just saying, have you ever seen me and jesus in the same room?”

⁃ “do you smoke sam” “all the time”

⁃ “i thought you were talking about the- the speeeeed drug”

⁃ “have you ever sold drugs to kids sam?” “......no”

⁃ “we can’t let the girlboss rule because she will gatekeepe my feelings” “that would not be good”

⁃ “THEY DIDNT INVITE ME TO KILL ME???? NOW I HAVE FOMO”

⁃ “you have obviously taken part in scientology-“ “i have not-“ “you’ve donated to tom cruises cult shit”

⁃ “....am i worse than david dobrik?” “are- are we worse than david dobrik?” “oh- oh god”

⁃ “he has broke one of the rules of the hit best seller ‘the bible’- this kind of looks like a cock”

⁃ “well i’ve moved now, KING”

⁃ “what is an angsty teen and am i one? because when i USED to hang out with my friends they use the word angst a lot”

⁃ “yeah yeah yeah i bench”

⁃ “sam i think i’m angsty i think i’m an angsty tik tok teen looking for a community to help me out”

⁃ “i don’t think you’ve followed the train of logic all the way-“ “there’s a TRAIN INVOLVED????????”

⁃ “i’m like the orange fucker from that animated rom com”

⁃ “i’m under the influence of big cock”

⁃ “it’s meeee big cock man”

⁃ “i cant look away” “sam please use your twitter alt for this” “he’s horny on maaaainnnnn” “and what’s wrong with that?” “.......”

⁃ “you’re a FUCKING IDIOT” “IM NOT A FUCKING IDIOT, BIG COCK”

⁃ “i’m gonna call you ‘cockity’ big cock” “sHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP-“

⁃ “STOP LOOKING AT IT” “ITS SO VIBRANT”

⁃ “at least this guy doesn’t have a cock-“ “itS NOT A COCK” “horny on main jesus-“

⁃ “is that a cock” “SHUT THE FUCK UP”

⁃ “.....i wanna see the inside of it again do a split”

⁃ “okay sam-“ “tommy that guy wants your cock-“ “no- no he doesn’t sam”

⁃ “sam, sam and i need you to hear this....dont. act. up.” “i don’t act up-“ “you were acting up-“ “i-“ “you were caught in 8k.” “but- but we both agree it’s not a tie-“

⁃ “please don’t tell me to kill cockity i am overwhelmed”

⁃ “why is there an anus in my tie?”

⁃ “what are the legal implications of this?” “...i mean besides hell you’re good”

⁃ “whatre the legal implications?” “i mean usually that’s a no-no but today, today it’s fine” “yeahhh lets go murder his family”

⁃ “i’d be an antivax landlord”

⁃ “jesus never does drugs” “well- well you turned water into wine king and wine is alcohol”

⁃ “can you put on pants i can’t- i cant stop looking at it- sorry tommy i know you said-“ “yeah sam i know you tried-“

⁃ “you know i fuck with satan”

⁃ “i’m sorry jesus lucifer is just such a good man-“ “oh you- hold me BACK FROM THIS FUCKER HOLD ME BACK ILL SEND HIM TO HELL YOU LIKE HELL-“

⁃ “are you jesus or just a man who grew a beard and put on a suit?”

⁃ “even the guy with his cock out is telling you to stop-“ “oh jesus, and i mean jesus-“ “shUT THE FUCK UP MAN”

⁃ “the best best way to slander him is to stop his offspring; we need to kick him the balls.....no? not a good....? alright us four each take a ball-“

⁃ “......why did jesus give him four scrotums man🙁🙁”

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FFXV AU: Controlled Chaos

Regis Lucis Caelum was able to change the legacy of his rule by winning a War with Niflheim and the Astrals. However he still has a country to rebuild and a government to rein in. Also, let it be known he is only human and is not immune to being petty either.

Cor is struggling NOT to string people up, Nyx is suffering, Noctis has the urge to throw hands and Clarus just wants to go home. Ardyn? He’s just tickled by all the chaos that aren’t even his own doing. And it seems that regardless of which timelines, everyone seems hellbent on doing one (1) damn wedding at least regardless whose it is.

A short for The Lion, the Coeurl and the Cub AU. This one takes place during To Heal The Sun while Prompto is away from Insomnia, recovering.

——

Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII huffs and tosses another folder aside, wondering why is it that a battle of life and death has wiped out essentially everything but folders and paperwork? The King knows he is procrastinating and it shows. But hey, who is going to call him out for it? There is nobody else here aside from a Guard and Glaive on duty, a young cadet, the ever familiar Libertus and the ancient royal ancestor also in his room for whatever reason.

The Shield, Marshal and Captain are all tending to the reshuffling of the military, now that the War has ended and magic is lost. His retainers and Glaive have all left him to his own devices without supervision so, too bad.

Its quiet.

The afternoon sun brings a lull with the humid Lucian air. Apart from the occasional chewing of apples from his couch, the new Grand Duke of Lucis comfortably lounging like an abhorred palace cat who found his place to terrorise for now while reading an old book of the Lucian Court records. Ardyn Lucis Caelum doesn’t have anything to do really, just do what he wants and stay out of trouble, Regis is absolutely fine with that. All in all, a dull boring day with a mountain of problems higher than the Rock of Ravatogh.

The lost of daemons and the disappearance of the Crystal, Astrals and magic have also garnered some concern from the masses. Princess Lunafreya have effectively quelled those before the Battle when they sent out a call for aid. Yet it didn’t stop some who were simply too zealous in their worship of the Six.

Then there is the issue with Niflheim. Insomnia wanted peace and instead they found themselves saddled with a broken country on top of rebuilding their own. Crown citizens displaced from the Fall are also slowly being allowed back into the city along with immigrants and those seeking asylum, though they are prioritising essential workers first. Many Lucians have also voiced their concern for the royal family, namely, Noctis’ ‘prospects’ and the future of the Lucis Caelums after the near collapse of the monarchy.

On the other hand, was also a smaller problem of complaints from disgruntled nobles regarding his Marshal and Captain having a ‘conflict of interest’…

The King then idly ponders over the issue of territories, until he decided that he needed a break from all this with a low sigh. He rubs the furrows between his eyes until suddenly, he remembered.

“Ostium.”

“Yes, your Majesty?” Libertus steps forward.

“Oh, be at ease, I just want to chat for awhile.” Silence. That peaked the curiosity of the ancient relative in the room. If one thing remains a constant, is that gossip does not divide between generations.

“Galahd has always thrived in natural resources, textile, fishery and have been generally self-sufficient enough. Would your people be keen if theres an increase in say, tourism to aid in your region’s economy?”

“Anything that helps would be welcome, my King. I used to run bar with Nyx once we turned of age while running a resistance. But shortly, Galahd fell and we came to Insomnia. More business is always a boon, as long as we preserve the nature. Nature is of utmost importance to us. I’m not very sure about anything else I’m afraid. You may need to ask Nyx, I mean, the Captain, he knows these things.”

“Oh, would he now?”

“Um, like I said, Nyx is, was? Part of Old Blood, Old Ruling Clans. Like long, lines of leading hunters of the community. He knows better about looking after the Tribe and economy kinda things. He may not be active since Galahd is mainly a matrilineal and matrilocal society and he is last of his clan while there are other clans looking after Galahd. Nyx still learned that sorta stuff anyway.”

“So. Like. Similar to Lucis’ nobility?”

“Um, probably yeah? But Ulrics are far older than most clans, from days before our ancestors have settled in Galahd’s Isles. So they will always be an important figure among Galahdians regardless.”Libertus continues without a thought.

“I can attest to that fact. I have long heard of the Ulrics in my days, old nomads once upon a time. Now that I think about it, it makes sense that they were probably the ones that preserved Etro’s name.” Ardyn thumbs a page idly.

Silence.

“Ardyn.”

“Yes?”

“…From one King to another, how much problems will I cause if I were to make unannounced policies?” Regis asks Ardyn wryly.

“Oh plenty I dare say.” Ardyn looks up from the Court Records.”But may I take this time to remind you, oh dear nephew of mine, of the old solheim saying.’Its the farmer who herds the Anaks, not the Anaks who herd the farmer ’. You are the monarchy. Not your council. Do act like it.”

“Ah, wise words indeed.” Regis muses, who would have thought his old worry of how his legacy would be remembered in future be null and void with the War won, and the age old burden and curse on his family broken.

“Besides, can’t be worse than all of your ancestors and look! They still turned out pleasantly dandy if I were to say so myself.” Ardyn tuts delopringly.

Regis barks a laugh.

Dull days like these once was once a luxury, one that he now intends to indulge himself in fully.

——

Everyone from the guards to the workers have been busy restoring the Crown City. Either with the repairs and supplying basic needs, or even helping displaced Lucians get settled somewhere. However, entry into the kingdom is still limited with tight restrictions, mostly for those who are directly helping with the rebuild.

Noctis has been in a mood since Lunafreya had left Insomnia with Ravus. After absconding with his best friend that is. But other priorities require his attentions now. Prompto is strong and he’ll be alright. Deep down he knows his friend needs the time and space away to get better. For now, they will focus on getting their home and city back together again before he returns. Prompto made his sacrifices, this is what he needs to do, at the very least for his precious friend and his people that are still waiting to return home.

The entire operation seems fine, slow but steady.Till Ignis’ uncle, Senior Advisor Augustus Scientia, hurries into the King’s study, his face grim. Regis puts down his trade documents to the side.

“Your Majesty, I’m afraid something is wrong.” Augustus starts after a bow.

“Well everything seems wrong these days, Augustus.” Regis huffs, gesturing to the array of paper scattered around him.”Alright, tell me.”

“The council, they are here and, pardon me, ‘demanding’ an audience when you have the time to spare.” This got the prince’s attention from his short King’s Knight break.

“Aren’t they told to go back and stay put in Lestallum to look after the citizens awaiting re-retry? What about our guards at the border? Why did they let them through?” Noctis asks, his eyebrow furrowed in annoyance.

“Your Highness, they were being a nuisance-”

“Aren’t they always?”

“Noctis.”

“-Yes well. They were putting out so much demands and creating unnecessary obstructions to our men it left us no choice but to at least lead them into the Citadel. Ignis is attending to them at the moment. ”Augustus explains, before taking a glance to assess his King. Regis is silent, as he leans back into his creaky armchair, thinking for a long while that even Noctis is starting to fidget uneasily.

“Humph. Well then. Let them wait.” Regis finally replies.” These reports are not going to sign themselves.” And back to trade negotiations he goes.

Augustus bows and was about to excuse himself when. Regis stops him again.

“Actually, Augustus, do get Ignis to focus on the refurbishing of the north wing, I want to sleep in proper quarters sometime this season. I also would like to believe our Grand Duke will be more than pleased to tend to our honoured Lords and Ladies in your nephew’s place.”

With that order, the Senior Advisor smiles pleasantly, bows and takes his leave.

Noctis turns to his father in horror,” Dad. Do you actually WANT a national incident? After we somehow bullshit our way to show that Ardyn Izunia, Niflheim Chancellor and Ardyn Lucis Caelum, the Founder King’s brother , are two different people by some divine whatnot?”

“Don’t be rude, Noctis. Your many times royal great grand uncle is as harmless as a Tonberry could be.”

“…” Noctis flops back down the couch, mentally calculating the casualties and how many people they need to fill the empty seats of the Lucian Government, which they had just found replacements for after the Fall.

——

The council did not return until the Crown City is restored and ready to welcome the people back once more.

——

When the Lucian Council officially gathered in the newly rebuilt Citadel at long last, its been nearly a year since Prompto had left for Tenebrae. Prompto often sending pictures of the Tenebraen countryside, the gardens and little things he sees in Luna’s kingdom. That includes the wefies of them both, snapshots of afternoon tea with Iris and Talcott, and strangely enough, a Niflheimian little girl. Who has taken to following Prompto around while staying in Tenebrae as negotiations were underway in Fenestala Manor between the two regions.

Noctis, unfortunately, is less lucky.

The tired Crown Prince pointedly ignores The Look from Ignis and tries to focus on the boring formalities and greetings of the pompous, arrogant, upper class nobility going around that is their Lucian Court. It’s not even 5 minutes and he wishes for something to happen.Anything. At least, to excuse himself out of this.

With the Shields beside their charges, Ignis takes his place on the other side of Noctis as usual, since he is part of the Prince’s inner court. Cor and Nyx further down beside Clarus, as heads of their respective divisions. Which was unusual in itself as they are usually standing by the King’s side as honoured guards for short briefings or simply not present at all for the long ones. Whereas Augustus Scientia sits further below with the rest of the council, suffering. Ardyn is unsurprisingly, absent.

They cover everything, from taxes and economy to the most boring laws and agreements as well as the issue of Niflheim now that Lucis is in control of Gralea until treaty terms are re-negotiated. When one tried to even suggest a marriage with the young princess of Niflheim, it was shut down as soon as it started by Regis and multiple others. One marriage went to hell with the Astrals, and now you want him to marry a kid? Is he a damn joke to his own people? Noctis shuddered. The girl is 8 or 9 for crying out loud.

Which also led to discussions of Lucis’ territories. Where Regis finally decreed that Galahd is declared an autonomous state of Lucis, all hell finally broke lose.

“Of course, they will still be Lucians and this won’t be an immediate, but a gradual process. I have spoken and agreed with the clan heads during my time in Galahd before the Battle. Lucis will allow the Galahd Isles to acquire the status of autonomy once trade terms and agreements are set and connectivity with the Isles are restored and further negotiated. ”

There are gasps from some of the glaives in the room. Noctis glances over at the Captain of the Kingsglaive, the joy evident and clear on his face as he looks towards Cor, unbelieving.

“This is unheard of your Majesty! Galahd has always been Lucian territory why the sudden decree of autonomy?”

“A heavy carriage, no matter how useful, means nothing if it breaks.If the load is shared while achieving a common goal of peace and stability, would it not benefit Lucians all the more?” Regis answers calmly. “ Besides, Galahd has aided us greatly, especially during our call to arms for the Battle against the Gods. They were promised nothing and even when we had failed them, they came, along with the rest of Lucis, to our aid. I remember very clearly that Accordo works under a similar system during the rule of the Imperials, and they thrived nonetheless. I see your objections unjustified Councilman Vox.”

“That may be but, but who represents them and under what council? There is no system in place-“

“Ah but thats what meetings are for! A sharing of ideas and cooperation of efforts. I already have one in mind and he is also considered a noble amongst his own and is already familiar with our council. Come, Representative Ulric, say hello!”

Time stops.

Nyx chokes on air, slowly turning towards the King looking as if the man is Bahamut himself. Cor stares at Regis like he is nothing but a daemon while Clarus still remains unmoving. The rest of the Prince’s retinue still reeling in from the shock.

Silence.

“He’s a Kingsglaive!”

“Ah but cultural context states that he and his clan has the authority to stand for his people and the Galahd Community! He is also familiar with the system of a proper working society for his homeland. Just ask the galahdian glaives around this room, Councilman! In any case this is a promising start, isn’t it? Communication is very important, I must stress-“

“Wait. Who told you all this?” Nyx finally gathers his wits together and asks incredulously. Etiquette be damned.

“Why! Glaive Ostium of course!” Somewhere from the far corners of the council room was a cough and Nyx immediately turns to glare at the traitor he knows is stationed in this very room.

“Is my dad for real?” Noctis whispers. “Shh!” Ignis shoots him a look before going back to the discussion before them.

“This is absurd, we have not done things like this before-“

“We all need to try new things in life Councilman, no use for limiting beliefs!”

“We are certain Ardyn can’t do glamours anymore right? That’s-that’s not him as my dad trolling us right?”

“I assure you dear Nephew, I’m right here.”Ardyn quips from behind the alcove munching on a blueberry tart. The Prince and his retinue turns away from the old king quietly.

“We can always secure the deal with an arranged marriage! I mean that seems to be all everyone can come up with these days. And would you look at that! My Marshal is already married to Ulric! We just need to make it official and on proper Lucian documents in front of family and friends in broad daylight. Simple! Perfect.”

“I think my dad woke up and chose bloody violence today.” Noctis mutters as he watches the disaster unfold. Gladio finally lost it and snickers under his breath. Ignis is too intrigued to even stop the wayward prince and shield.

Clarus simply looks up at the restored ceiling, as if he is half expecting Griever to crash into the room and end all of them there and then. It would be certainly be a lot easier.

“Your Majesty! There’s no relevance in any of this!” Cor at last can no longer rein himself in any longer and hisses at Regis.The King smiles innocently like the benevolent monarch he is but the display does not fool Cor in the slightest.

“Oh, just renew your vows my dear brother! What harm would there be?”

“What the fuck is happening?” Nyx looks around in a daze, the poor soldier in him not equipped to deal with this. The Marshal looks as if he will cut someone fairly soon.

“Speaking of the Lord Marshal,” a councilwoman begins.”His adopted son is said to be a Farseer of this ancient ‘Goddess’. If I may be bold, I am sure some of us are wondering if its a simply a matter of offence to the Astrals hence their abandonment of humanity?”

“Are YOU serious-“Noctis feels his temper rising as he attempts to stand, before Ignis shoots him a sharp look, cutting his tirade off before someone else beaten him to it-

“Did you all honestly not see damn Ifrit burning the whole of Eos or Bahamut tearing the mountains down like fucking paper? Or were you too blind in the darkness to see the destruction they wrought on the people?!” Nyx finally snaps, not standing for the ridiculousness of this and shoots back at the offending councilwoman.”Prompto did not have to deal with any of this bullshit for you ungrateful bunch to turn around and question what Etro had him do to save all of our asses!”

“Ulric is right, Princess Lunafreya herself has made the situation clear repeatedly and unless several hundreds of men were fighting a different Battle, you tell me what was all that then? We all heard the accursed Draconian loud and clear, he wanted all of Eos erased for his own wishes. Oh wait. I remember now. You little coward, were too busy hiding in your room in Lestallum!”

“Take back your accusations Councilman Reed!”

“Surely you lot who remained in the safety of civilisation saw the light of the Gods depart from Eos like the rest of us that day? Yet this world remains with or without any divinity so why is this a concern at this point?”

“Are-are we forgetting that it was Lord Leonis who took out the Emperor for us during Operation Niflheim?Or not?”

“The Gods have come and gone! Young Lord Leonis has done us a service in bringing Etro to aid us in thwarting wayward astrals plotting our demise. I was there with the King during Operation Niflheim when the Goddess had appeared before us with the truth of the prophecy bestowed upon us. Also for goodness sake, use his title of Lord as is the respected address you uncivilised knaves.” Clarus pinches the bridge of his nose tiredly.

“He’s a commoner!”

SLAMS.

The table falls silent as Cor stands up and looks down at the council who have fallen silent.

“He’s. MY. Son. Councilman Varis.” Cor growls. “And I, myself, was a commoner first before I had entered the service of the late King Mors and his Majesty’s. You will do well to remember THIS.”

“Lord Leonis is part of his Royal Highness’ inner court. That entitles him to the title of Lord automatically by tradition until he is prematurely unable to serve any longer as his highness’ direct retainer before the end of his service.” Augustus interrupts warily.

“Unbelievable-“

“Who cares if the glaives and crownsguard are having relations. I still think we should focus on Niflheim, surely-“

“Are you daft! The Niflheim princess is a child, you beast!”

“Why not Princess Lunafreya? Surely a joyous marriage isn’t too bad to celebrate peace-”

“Tenebrae has already stated that they will not entertain any proposals and will focus on their own nation for an unprecedented period of time.”

“Why do you people keep trying to marry me off?! Does this kingdom hate me?” Noctis finally looses whatever rein he has on his temper while his advisor is still trying to process the chaos.”The Rogue Queen had no consorts and even beheaded her betrothed at the altar yet she did just bloody fine!”

“We must preserve the purity and sanctity of the royal family-“

“Why don’t we ever talk about how much inbreeding this country has seen?” Gladio mutters dryly.

”Certainly not as if we need a protect the ‘purity’ of the bloodline with the Wall and Crystal gone either.” Ignis adds dryly with a thought.

“With all due respect Lord Marshal, I still can’t believe you, as some one of pure Lucian standing and as member of his majesty’s inner court be fooling around with a Galahdian Glaive, this is simply not done-”

“Hah! As If that matters when you went behind your husband’s back with that housekeeper from Duscae! The entire court saw you leaving with him during the Fall!”

“At least Captain Ulric is more loyal to the Crown than you lot combined!”

“Wait, if Captain Ulric resigns and becomes Representative, who will be taking over his post?”

“By Titian’s ass, I don’t even know why I’m here.”Nyx mutters into his palm in frustration.

“What happened to fraternisation laws?!”

“WE HAVE NONE! If you imbeciles actually know better about our military’s code then I want to see you try me. And you fools will also leave my family out of your. Filthy. Fucking. Mouths.” Cor leans forward slowly and growled at the council, glaring across the table.

The Marshal’s katanas are gleaming by his side, and looking very much like a lion who has their bleeding prey on sight. ”A dozen able bodied men and women seated at this table! Yet none who called themselves a patriot amongst the army who had marched into the darkness. Here they are now thinking they are holier than thou. Pathetic.”

The words echo in the hollow council room effortlessly and for a minute nobody breathes.

“I think, I finally get why we never see Cor actually sitting in one of these council meetings.” Gladio mumbles softly, unable to mask his glee. “Don’t suppose we can convince them to continue letting him in more of these sessions?”

It was not long before another councilman started throwing shade at another, leading to another round of verbal conflict about a whole other subject. Which led to another before it became a stand off between disgruntled nobles.

The kingsglaives and crownsguard for once are baffled, looking at one another for support. Do they stop the raging council from tearing each other apart or do they just try to attempt at stopping them and simply let them at it? Without any orders, they are looking extremely lost amongst the chaos.

“Etro have mercy on us all.” Clarus tiredly gazes up at their new ceiling again and mumbles loud enough for Noctis and his retinue to hear.

Regis meanwhile, picks up the offered blueberry tart from Ardyn and resumes waiting and spectating.

Nyx just looks like he wants to stab everyone then himself with his kukris and die by the Goddess’ door. Cor is no doubt, plotting regicide, after he is done with gutting half of the council that is.

In the end, it took 3 days, dozen of guards, destroyed property, plenty of tears, threats, screaming, until everyone was too tired to protest anything did King Regis finally lay down the new policies and laws he wanted. Not without reminding them that this entire council, if proven to be as lacking as this session has proven, is replaceable and that the King’s word is still final. He will not jeopardise this rebuilding nation for the whims of men who think they are above the people of Lucis. Thus, regaining some semblance of control of his court and closing the session before taking his leave, excusing himself from the room full of exhausted nobles, looking like he had won the world.

The Grand Duke cackles in mirth, throughly and completely entertained.

——

“So let me get this straight. That entire stunt you pulled was so you can get your policies through with minimal resistance, find out who is displeased with whom amongst the court, resolve our issues and establish a system with Galahd and indirectly show our territories we care, get his Highness out of any arranged marriage plans, weed out those idiots possibly plotting against Prompto and-“ Clarus takes a deep breath and steadies himself,” get our youngest a damn wedding?!”

“Genius, if I were to say so myself! With Prompto’s status as the last Farseer of Etro and his good foreign relations, especially with our refugees, his safety is paramount. Ulric will also have the chance to prove himself worthy as a suitable partner for our Marshal. Oh! We can have the ceremony in both Lucian and Galahdian for symbolism and goodwill too.” Regis sips his tea and looks absolutely proud of himself.

“The brat eloped but nonetheless he still married! WITH witnesses! You know Cor values his privacy above all else!”

“Its just Glaive Altius, Glaive Khara and Major Elshett.” Regis casually shrugs.” Honestly, simply reciting Galahdian vows of commitment in a middle of all places, a skirmish?! Really, Clar? Really? The little brother we had raised certainly deserves better than that.”

Clarus pauses in his pacing across his private living quarters to roll his eyes. The old shield then digs out his phone from under his heavy council robes.

“Whatever are you doing, Clarus?”

“Calling Cid for backup.” Clarus growls, waiting for the line to connect,”I refuse to be alone fending off an irate brat from the meddlesome man-child I have sworn to protect! Though I certainly will only do the bare minimal to protect your stupid ass when Cor finally gets up here.”

“You will not!” Regis gasps dramatically,”And you know Sophiar will do nothing but sit and laugh at my suffering.”

“Thats all on you, old friend. You have no one to blame but your own stupidity.” Clarus winces as the line finally connects and he hears Cid’s rough greeting, just as the sound of an enraged lion approaching like a storm echoes in from beyond the thick layered double doors.

The old Shield is not sober enough to deal with this. He lost a whole damn arm in the Fall, he certainly doesn’t need to add ‘death by protecting a foolish charge’ to his column in the History of Lucis.

——

“Hey guys, I’m not sure if its just me, I think its me but, why is like everyone in the Citadel calling me ‘Lord’…?” The fact finally sinks in a few days after Prompto’s return to Insomnia. Where they are holed up in the Prince’s private quarters for a sleepover, putting on shitty films after calling in pizzas and piling up snacks. Just like the back in high school. Apart from the extra bottle of Duscaen whiskey they had nicked from Clarus’ office gifted to him by some council member. ”I am kinda, sorta, creeped out?”

“Has the Marshal or Captain mentioned anything to you of late? Did no one even bother to explain to you upon signing into the service of the Prince’s Retinue as direct retainer? Or even when you were younger, have lessons on Lucian nobility and its delicate customs?” Ignis starts carefully, eying the blond laying on his lap.

“Um no? 100% pure pleb here!”Prompto chirps, a relief considering how troubled and melancholic he was after the Battle.”Why? Is there something I should know?” Ever the practical realist, the young advisor however for once, prays to Etro for her strength to preserve him.

“Sorry to break it to you sunshine, definitely not ‘pleb’,” Gladio laughs, poking Prompto’s cartoon chocobo covered butt with his toe, eager to see how Ignis tries to lay it out for their clueless gunslinger as he steals Prompto’s last pizza (“HEY!”).

“I still have war flashbacks of that council meeting.” Noctis mutters into his soda.

Prompto just looks even more confused as he nibbles on a cheese stick while watching Ignis pull out his tablet and begin educating him the ways of Lucian Court once and for all.

——

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Regis: So, does that mean I would require to give Galahd a dowry on behalf of my brother? Or is it the other way around? I am not sure.

Noctis:…

Nyx: *incoherent dying Bismarck noises*

Cor: I think his royal highness is more than capable of taking over the throne now. *withdraws his swords*

Clarus: *tired sighs*

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b00ket · 3 years

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Hi World building time ❤️

Theres no fucking way after 20 years of lackluster rule and poor handling of a deadly disease would there NOT be a revolution. I’ll assess each section of Vesuvia individually to say how each handled Lucio’s rule and some better explanations to each. Along with some head canons. (Ngl some head canons deserve their own post to get people’s opinion ill make those later)

Heart District:

So this district holds the wealthy influencial people. Not much to say on protests or intentional corruption— in fact this place was most likely the source of corruption. Nobles are just as influential in shifting Lucio’s interests in Vesuvia as his consul.

Any funds or upkeep dedicated to places like the Flooded District were instead funneled into the Heart District. This place is leech for funding.

Heart District is the least diverse out of all parts of the city, with the usual monolith of the rich it is no doubt the rich intentionally widened the gap between other parts of the city and them, using Gold Grave to intentionally separate the poorer South End.

Visually a magical place. Very clean and red has since been a color of bad luck since the plague as discovery of what gave the red dye its vibrancy.

Education and Literacy are in the highest percentage here. (90% literacy) private teachers are a standard here. Along with plenty of public libraries.

The leech problem of the canals may be a myth if you live here. The eels show more of a threat (don’t worry they’ve hired people to handle those)

Center City:

The middle class and poor are in a mix here. The middle class being closer to the Heart District.

Lucio’s spies he most likely employed to learn about thoughts of descent and punish accordingly no doubt taught the people living there to stay quiet. Protests and gripes of the Count were shifted from verbal to books, art, music, and slang to refer to certain things. (Ex. The Parrot -> Count, Hounds -> Spies)

However the thoughts of unhappiness have only grown and become more concentrated as funds were even being shifted from them to the Heart District.

Education and Literacy are in a lower percentage here but still rather high. (40% literacy) The occasional private teacher was nothing unusual in the richer families, but most knowledge of reading and writing is now based from person to person.

Goldgrave:

Don’t have many thoughts on this one.

The creativity of this section of the city made spies ineffective.

Any pulled funding only made their creative ways to lampoon the Count stronger. Most books and music expressing anti government sentiment most likely came from here and spread. Literacy is higher here as well. (50% literacy) but these people are usually older and don’t have the patience to teach young thespians how to read a script

A sizable portion actually enjoys the lack luster rule (these are typically people who were deeply entrenched in the underground Red Market)

These people actually enjoyed the public executions. They were dramatic! And who doesn’t love drama.

South End

As shown in the game, sneaky and heavily dislike the government.

Similiar to Goldgrave, spies didn’t work.

Lack of funding only strengthened the illegal trade of goods that brought their own funding to this part of the city. (One reason they didn’t reach the same fate as the Flooded District)

The sense of loyalty and interconnectedness is strong here. Everyone knows the other.

Symbols are everywhere on the walls. While these could be mistaken for the graffiti of the Flooded District, these mean something to those involved in the Red Market. Signs for shop owners who are involved, places to leave deliveries etc. litter the walls.

Canals are often covered in boards for walking but guards remove these (just to fuck with people or to maintain law? Who knows)

Most new immigrants find a place here before moving to other parts of the city, though some do stay.

Temple District

The giving of money offerings and reliance on the rich religious Heart District citizens have left this part of the city well off despite being surrounded by the Flooded District and ash beach.

Religious leaders were Vesuvian red, showing the gods are on their side for them to avoid death. Many hold a negative opinion of Lucio, his disrespect of the dead being the core reason (he let Valdemar go ham with corpses and fed them to the plague beetles)

The poor are ignored. Though certain buildings host food banks and homes for the poor, they are growing more rare as Heart District regulars are pressuring for the removal of the homeless from the streets.

Flooded District

These people are bitter. They used to be the Shopping District, funding flowed through freely and they were well taken care of. The people here have a concentrated hatred for the Count.

Portions of the District are flooded, builders deciding to go up to avoid the sea floor. The constant erosion from waves threatens the stability of many of these buildings.

Makeshift bridges line the streets and some have been made to walk across buildings whose floor is below sea level. The water is teeming with leeches and eels (a blood drained rotting corpse or two is not uncommon.) and is generally dirty.

Funding is non existent here. And with the new areas of natural economy and trading being shifted away from them, its starting to resemble Ash Beach more by the day as more people abandon it. (To move to places of the city with more opportunity)

The plague wiping out large portions of the population. Increased moisture from flooded waters made the infection worse. Rodents and roaches quickly becoming a common sight. Parts of the district are said to be haunted, people with too much time on their hands go to investigate.

Graffiti is everywhere here. Abandoned houses lined with the vandalism of young people. Symbols are here as well, mostly obsolete as they were to mark off which places had infected/dead people (head-canon: not everyone wanted to be shipped to death island). Newer ones mark which buildings are too unstable to build or take refuge in.

Ash Beach

The smallest of all sections. Only a little larger than the lazaret.

The wiki does a great job of describing this place actually.

Also covered in graffiti with a distinctly younger style. There’s no meaning to them so they are more wild and colorful. Some magic circles have been made in the walls and floor. Most of them used to exude heat to keep warm.

Gangs made of children are common here. Has a Peter Pan vibe.

Less friendly gangs of sailors and washed up people also are here.

A bit more a communal energy to how people live.

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ectonurites · 3 years

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I know Jason "came back to life" in the eyes of the public etc but like legit interested in your opinion on this because I'm just confused and interested in how he went about that, y'know? Like wouldn't it take him years? And who does he get to confirm its him and not some rando? IIRC Bruce didn't know he did that until the iceberg lounge thing which is weird if his son came back to life you would think he would testify or something sooner? I just don't know how it would work lol 😳🤔

SO you sent me down a reading rabbit hole.

The thing about Jason’s situation compared to most situations irl is the fact that since he genuinely did die, there was a body and everything. That definitely makes it tricky. However, even though in our minds he was dead a super long time since he was killed in the 80s, he was only really gone for what’s probably 5 or so years by the time in RHATO he’s trying to ‘come back’. It being not even a decade is in his favor (I haven’t found a ruling for New Jersey specifically yet but in Ohio for instance a death ruling can’t be overturned if it’s been more than 3 years, so less time dead is better. But Ohio’s the only state i’ve seen the 3 year thing for so working with 5 should be okay here)

Most cases about people needing to re-declare themselves alive that have happened irl I’ve found are either missing persons who were presumed dead after many years being away (the base line is 7, some states have it as less though), OR the more common situation of literally just clerical error on this thing called the ‘Death Master File’ (apparently like, nearly 40 people get declared dead by accident every day in the US! which is WHACK!)

The grounds Jason would likely try to use is that it was a mistaken body (so somebody else) and he had actually just been missing all this time, which would kinda be a mix between a ‘fraudulent death’ claim and then the missing person type thing. Fraudulent death seems to be one of the harder ones to prove (because most of the time this category is more for people who purposely faked their deaths). In general, the fact that this happened with him as a child rather than as an adult, means there’s less cases I’ve been able to find that are even remotely similar but it also might help him out since there’s less precedent and also it’s more clear it probably wasn’t a like ‘get insurance money/run away from money owed’ scam.

However, identity theft with dead people is like, a pretty common thing, so yeah proving oneself alive is not the easiest process in the world.

But most of the like, ‘things that make being declared legally dead even if you aren’t a really really bad and a lengthy process to fix’ are like, money related (social security, life insurance, bank accounts, property stuff, etc) and for someone like Jason who was 15 at time of death (so not married or owning property) and money apparently does not seem to be a problem for due to his various criminal activities, these wouldn’t be anywhere near as big of a deal. Like, sure a little inconvenient perhaps but definitely not entirely devastating like it can be for the real normal people that this kind of thing happens to. Also, when he bought the Iceberg Lounge, he bought it out from under the fuckin’ Penguin, so like, there’s already some shady shit going on there, so even if he was still in the process of ‘coming back to life’ he’d probably have been able to get that all started.

Also the ‘confirming it’s him’ thing as far as I’ve gathered from what I’ve read doesn’t... anywhere say it actually requires he bring someone from his life (Bruce) to verify it’s him? It’s way more about the combination of your presence & the documentation. So as long as he has photo ID and like as many of his official documents as possible (which. sneaking into the manor to steal his real passport from childhood and other documents like that i think is absolutely something he could/would do especially since like, earlier in RHATO 2016 it’s shown Bizarro’s door thing can literally get into the Batcave. I think it’s not unlikely to assume at some point he thought it could all come in handy and swiped ‘em) he could get the process going. This might differ since he was a minor at time of death but again every real case I’ve found so far was dealing with adults so I’m not sure.

Getting the US government to declare you alive though, like, from what I read can honestly be done as quickly as within a few weeks OR it can take years (but usually the ‘years’ there is more figuring out all that money and insurance related stuff, which again, not as big a deal for Jason specifically)

Another consideration I’d like to bring up is the fact that being presumed/found dead and later turning back up definitely happens a lot more in the DC universe than real life. Like, there’s supervillain attacks and world disasters and shit all the time. I think that realistically in the DCU there is probably a better system set up than IRL for handling cases like this, which would work in his favor.

I also think that due to the fact he was a relatively known person in Gotham, and we know Gotham’s systems are NOT the most uhhhh ‘by the books’ especially if theres public pressure and money being thrown at them, I pretty firmly believe he could have gotten it settled relatively quickly.

In real life it would be a lot harder due to the factor of the body, since he’d have to try to prove that wasn’t him even though it literally was, but liiiike unless Bruce had cashed in big on life insurance and didn’t have the means to pay it back (which this happened years before he lost the fortune LMAO) he should probably be fine, this is a comics world where most problems can be solved if you throw money at them (real life’s kinda like that too of course but comics take it to an EXTREME).

I do agree that Bruce would probably need to have been at least a little aware this was all happening, but for dramatic effect since this is in fact a comic book I understand why they had it be a surprise to him. A panel of Bruce getting a phone call from his lawyer wouldn’t have been nearly as effective as Jason just suddenly being on TV. Also like, I don’t think it’s impossible to rule out Bruce could have known he was in the process of legally coming back to life but not have known he was doing so in Gotham, because Jason being back in in the city was Bruce’s actual problem there.

Also funnily enough one of the cases of a person I found who was declared dead but is still alive was someone with the last name ‘Todd’, weird coincidence world.

Some further reading about real cases of people coming back / things I might have referenced but wasn’t sure exactly where to link along the way: (one) (two) (three) (four)

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eroticcannibal · 2 years

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Hey would you mind sharing some of your home ed resources/groups? My dad needs some help. (We're in the US not the UK but I figure there has to be at least a little crossover?)

Admittedly most the groups im in is UK centric both in advice and services however! Otherwise I can still help!

Now in terms of resources I know a few good ones. Some of these are intended for the UK and follow the national curriculum, but im sure it can still work with a but of jiggling. I've used a few US things.

Twinkl - follows the UK NC, free resources plus subscription services, reasonably priced. Subscriptions are based off time rather the amount that you use so, pro tip, download everything you could possibly want and then cancel the subscription. Provides worksheets, activities, presentations, lesson plans and classroom resources and is used in many schools in the UK. For early years to 18. Also includes tools to make your own resources, I have never used that though. Also the now have a remote learning section? I have no idea whats going on in that bit but its there.

IXL - Follows the UK NC. Paid, not too bad a price. Price is by per child and service. My favourite maths and English resource because it tracks shit for you! And identifies what skills need more work! But the child doesn't like it so I suffer. From reception to year 13.

Rose maths - free resources and subscriptions. I've only used it when the child wanted maths tests but I've heard other people love it. I dont know much about this one but the maths tests were perfectly good.

Oak national academy - free online resource set up by the government i believe during covid, follows UK NC. The child didn't vibe with it so I don't know much about it but everyone else fucking loves it.

Khan academy - its free, its got all kinds of stuff relating to maths, science, computing, language skills, a few other things. It is a US resource and has some resources aimed at specific grades. Also currently advertising daily schedules for students aged 2-18 and other remote learning resources

Brilliant - STEM courses with interactive learning, some free stuff, if you want to subscribe go watch some nerdy YouTube content until you find a current discount code, there's always one somewhere.

YouTube - seriously you could probably just use YouTube! There's a video for everything! There are so fucking many educational channels like. Theres something for everyone.

Life of Fred - a very American book series, but my absolute favourite books ever. Teaches maths, all kinds of levels. Its all a story and its really engaging and surprisingly funny. Much easier to buy cheaply in the US. They do seem to be exclusively sold by Christian book shops running websites that look like they haven't changed since the early 90s. Its an experience.

Local groups - seriously the best way to get help is from people who know whats near to you and have experience. There are so many different learning styles to try, and I do think getting bogged down in online and book resources isn't the best way to go. You want yo get outdoors, see people, chat about things, go to the library, watch a movie. Learning is everywhere. And locals will know what real life experiences are available.

LIBRARIES. LIBRARIES ARE A BLESSING.

This is not exhaustive but its a start. But honestly, the resources is like, 10% of it. If everyone is having fun, the learning will follow. Also I find its easier to find better resources once you've got a good idea of how everyone involved learns best and what they want to learn.

Also! I hear some states have some Rules, which is all the more reason to get in touch with local groups. I do not know if these resources or my advice about get out and have fun will be what is needed to meet the criteria where you are.

I think reading up about different education approaches is also useful. Doesnt have to be following workbooks. The child is quite partial to unschooling, I prefer semi structured but alas this is their education not mine. Some kids thrive with the structure of a school like environment. Seen a lot of people into that montessori stuff but I got no idea what that is

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chat-noir-always-here · 3 years

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Marinette and Anxiety

First, lets count all the things Marinette has that Adrien doesn’t have:

She has a healthy and positive home environment

Both of her parents are living, active presences in her life

Tom and Sabine love Marinette unconditionally

On top of having loving parents she has extended relatives who care deeply for her

she is allowed to go out and have friends over

going to public school is treated as a necessity rather than a privilege

she has, to some degree, or at least more so than Adrien, knowledge of socializing and is able to perceive signals better

she is on good terms and has a history with almost all of her classmates

she is allowed to explore her hobbies

she is allowed to choose her own occupation

she has the freedom to do whatever she wants with her schedule outside of school and curfew

I could go on but I trust my point is clear? Marinette is blessed with many of the things Adrien has been denied. Worse, everything listed above falls under the category of “normal” “common decency” or “necessity.”

Long post is long and I don’t like cuts because I’ve lost a few posts in the past using them. Please filter the tag “long post” i use it for walls of texts like this one.

But Mari’s life, despite being vastly different and more fulfilling than Adrien’s, isn’t perfect.

In order to understand Mari’s struggles we need to take a look at her history.

We see in Origins that Marinette has been the target of Chloe’s bullying for a long time—three years or perhaps even longer. As is the case with many victims of bullying she lacked the courage and confidence to stand up for himself and more or less suffered in silence until Alya encouraged her to fight back.

Something to understand about bullying: it drastically warps someone’s perspective. Not only in how they view themselves but the people and environment around them. The end result? Some form of isolation and possibly PTSD. Bullying victims tend to be either physically/mentally withdrawn, or both.

Not a lot is known about Mari’s life before the Origins episode, but given that none of her classmates stood up to Chloe except Alya, we can infer that they have grown accustomed to Chloe’s treatment of Mari and are likely not especially close with her at this point in time.

In her “In defense of Chat Noir” video, Toon Ruins states that Adrien isn’t especially close with his classmates yet either, saying he is “that friend that your mutual friends invite along and is just kinda there.” Its not unreasonable to presume that Mari was in that spot before she became Ladybug, befriended Alya, and developed enough confidence to stand up for herself as well as others.

It would also help explain why her friends were so quick to doubt her when Lila accused her in the Ladybug episode. Despite everything she’s done for them between Origins and Ladybug, they simply haven’t been close for very long and as Alya pointed out the evidence “was stacked against her.” Of course Alya and Adrien believed her because they are closer with Mari than practically any of her other classmates.

Adrien glaring at Lila when Marinette calls out to him for help. I cannot~~~~

Of course there was another, more obvious reason they doubted her: her feelings for Adrien and how intense she is when acting on them, which as Alya puts it served as her supposed “motive” for “hurting Lila.”

Marinette has often been seen crossing lines that are better off left uncrossed when it comes to Adrien. Her friends, especially the girls, are even somewhat aware of how intense these feelings are. (i.e. Alex’s comment during Gigantitan “Marinette knows a lot about Adrien it’s kinda creepy”).

More often than not, Mari wants to go somewhere mainly for the sake of seeing Adrien. Examples of this are when she’s supposed to wait for Nadja to come pick up her cake and during Simon Says when she is grounded for valid reasons . Often times there is some obligation involved—her promise to show up at Alix and Kim’s challenge and her promise with Nino in Simon Says—but chances are if Adrien weren’t there she wouldn’t want to go so bad (until an akuma showed up that is).

Something to understand about this: Mari has little to no opportunity to see Adrien. Worse, her history of being bullied and her previous status as an “acquaintance” rather than a “close friend” gives her at least some modicum of understanding about his situation. She empathizes with Adrien and cares for him, and is aware of his loneliness. During her life before Ladybug she likely longed for someone who would comfort and console her, and yeah probably found some relief with her mom given how Sabine seems aware of Chloe’s treatment of her daughter.

But Adrien has no one, and knowing that makes Mari all the more anxious when he doesn’t show up for their social gatherings as well as driving her desire to be the source of love and comfort he so desperately needs.

I won’t deny Mari literally breaking the law for Adrien isn’t okay. Sneaking into his home, stealing his phone, and kissing his statue (its a statue in an important museum. Chances are you’re not supposed to touch those, let alone kiss them) are simply NOT OKAY things to do. A lot of this behavior earns her some hate from the fandom and some well-deserved scolding from Tikki. But rather than making me hate her, or call her a stalker, I’m mostly concerned that she doesn’t understand how bad that is.

But Chat Blanc was a game changer. Adrien would NEVER have seen Ladybug in his room if she hadn’t taken her sweet time inspecting his belongings, smelling his pillow, etc. Meaning Adrien could have had her present and not known about Ladybug (he may have been curious as to how Mari’s gift got past security though).

However since Marinette WAS seen by Adrien, he was able to learn her secret identity which led to this:

This is a scenario she never expected. And as she learns this was caused by her own poor judgement, she wastes no time in saving Chat Noir, erasing her name from her gift and allowing Adrien to believe it’s a gift from his Brazilian fan club instead of from her, Marinette.

Chat Blanc was one of the last episodes of s3. Safe to say she probably won’t be breaking into anything anytime soon (theres some debate over the chronological order of the episodes, but if I recall this one takes place either in the last four or five episodes on most lists). She nearly lost her kitty for good after all--that’s not a price she’s ever been willing to pay.

This likely wouldn’t have happened at all except Mari’s life as ladybug has caused her to become accustomed to certain behavior in order to keep her secret. Yeah Mari stole Adrien’s phone right out of his locker—and no that wasn’t okay. But remember when she stole her textbook back from Alya? Taking it right out of her bag when Alya wasn’t looking? Just so you know, in the French version, Mari tells Tikki she wrote her name in that textbook. So her secret identity was in grave danger and she had to act quickly.

You’re damn lucky Alya didn’t crack that book open the minute she got it, Mari.

Anyhoo the point is this: Mari is applying what she has come to know as “acceptable behavior i do to protect my secret identity” to her situation with Adrien and misinterpreting it as “acceptable behavior I do to keep Adrien from possibly rejecting me and crushing my soul.” And in her head, they’re similar even though the consequences of either secret coming out are vastly different.

Really think about the context of that voicemail she sent Adrien—if she had accidentally butt dialed Adrien while taking to Tikki about her life as Ladybug and then had to go steal his phone to keep him from learning the truth the fandom wouldn’t have had nearly as much beef with her over that as she wasn’t the one who created the “secret identities rule.”

The reason the two secrets are equally crucial in keeping, in Mari’s mind, is likely due to her overwhelming anxiety. Which even before she became the Guardian of Paris and then the Guardian of Miraculous she was still an anxious person.

She didn’t have much confidence or even a large support network. But in the span of one day she was entrusted with the safety and well being of every single person in Paris.

She didn’t believe she was cut out for being Ladybug but was denied the option of refusing the position and told to just do her best.

She knew going out she would likely screw up the job and given her task failure wasn’t really an option.

Then her worst fears were realized when she failed to capture her first akuma and many citizens were turned into stone statues. The only way to turn them back was to allow Ivan to be akumatized so she could defeat him and take his akuma. The very knowledge of which crippled her and caused her to give up the ladybug earrings.

She tried to go back to her normal life but couldn’t. Ivan was akumatized, Alya’s life was in danger and Chat Noir was struggling to the point he got captured and needed her help. So she took up being Ladybug again in order to help them.

What was she supposed to do? Watch?

From the very beginning she had no say in the matter. Her life as Marinette wasn’t and isnt easy—she has plenty of her own problems but she was given a Miraculous and basically condemned to being at war with Hawk Moth indefinitely.

Ever give a thought as to why the French government allow these two vigilante teenagers to handle the situation? Because ordinary people can’t. In other words if Mari thought only of herself she would give up the fight and ignore all the ensuing damage. But she can’t. And she won’t. She has a job to do. She could give up her miraculous but that would mean taking the pressure off her shoulders and dumping it all onto someone else just as it was dumped onto her. She cant bring herself to do that and even if she could—who would she possibly give it to?

Just imagining that kind of pressure makes me want hurl from nerves. And as of the S3 finale its gotten worse as she has lost Fu, the person who could give out Miraculouses to other people in case she never comes back one day.

Hawk Moth would win. Game over. That’s what it would mean.

Ladybug and Chat Noir know what Hawk Moth winning would mean better than anyone else does. Of course they won’t walk away from this fight. But that means they have to juggle their double lives until its over, and apparently have to do it again with a second hawk moth later on in the future.

And again, even before all of this Mari had a lot she suffered from. Chloe bullying her, feeling lonely, being clumsy. Clumsiness is mortifying--it truly means suffering. Being the class clutz is like being the class laughingstock. Mari seems to handle it fairly well.

Until she’s around Adrien. I mean look at her!

Poor girl can’t stand looking so uncool in front of her crush. Even though he seems to find her clumsiness endearing.

Going off what was said in my “Debunking: Adrien is perfect” post, Marinette is hyper-sensitive to Adrien’s situation despite not really knowing the full extent of his suffering.

Marinette doesn’t know Gabriel is Hawk Moth either, but she does understand Adrien is lonely, isolated and in need of a source of love and comfort. She also understands to some degree that his heart is delicate, so she constantly handles him with kid gloves and looks on him with a perfection filter. We see how Mari reacts to upsetting Adrien in Malediktator when she softly whispers an apology after Adrien expresses his sorrow over everyone celebrating Chloe’s departure. She seems pained and distraught over causing him to be upset. Thus the reason Marinette calls Adrien perfect isn’t that she never sees any of his flaws--she just cannot acknowledge or process them under these conditions. She’s too busy trying not to hurt him.

Marinette can comprehend Adrien’s situation, couples that with her own past experiences of bullying/ loneliness/ being a clumsy laughingstock. That combined with her love for him and her anxiety-warped common sense, led to the behavior which has earned her some disapproval from the fandom at large.

But really? Marinette’s not a terrible person. Anymore than Adrien is.

Adrien’s sometimes-obnoxious-flirting is brought on by his desire to “not look lame” in front of Ladybug. Ergo, his own insecurities are amplified around her because he too lacks confidence.

Likewise Marinette’s stammering and clumsiness are amplified around Adrien, as is her anxiety and her desire to be cool in front of him.

They both feel they have to prove themselves to the other in some regard. And they both have past and present experiences that have left them hurting and/or warped their judgement in some ways.

This doesn’t make Mari’s irrational behavior any more acceptable than Adrien’s troubles make his leading Kagami on and lying to Ladybug acceptable. It’s not acceptable. But Mari is no more deserving of hate than Adrien is.

They’re just a couple of stressed out kids, folks

#long post #marinette dupain cheng #Marinette #adrien agreste #adrien #miraculous ladybug

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crowsent · 4 years

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a fuckton of things i want in da4

a few words censored bc tumblr will swallow this in the void if i dont. long ass fuck list ahead

a romanceable dwarf

more romanceable elves/qunari

more elf/qunari/dwarf companions

consistent writing for once

more nb representation

good hair. please just give me good hair options. give me long hair. give me luxurious flowing locks. give me braids. give me good fucking hair options

let me shittalk the chantry

dalish elf npcs that impact the plot in unique ways

dalish elf companions that are proud of being dalish

if it is set in tevinter maybe uh. maybe address the issue of systemic oppression (and slavery) of elves???????

a return of the friendship/rivalry system in da2 but improved. maybe instead of a friendship rivalry sliding scale its friendship/rivalry/animosity sliding scale. bc rivalry is more like. two people pushing each other to be better than they were before. friendly competition. hes an idiot but hes my idiot kind of deal. animosity would be just regular disapproval. i liked the crisis cutscenes in dai so high animosity would be the same as low approval and might make the companion leave still, but theres more variety with high approval. high approval “friendship” would be the “were best friends and we share many opinions and agree on almost everything” while high approval “rivalry” being “we disagree on almost everything but goddamn it youre my friend and ill follow you into the fade if i have to” so you can have a high approval with someone instead of being a kissass

actions and choices having consequences again

multiple endings again (epilogue slideshows dont count)

dialogue wheels with descriptions that match what you actually say

characters from rivain, antiva, anderfels, etc

gifts. bring back the gifts. i want to give my companions gifts

maybe. maybe a focus of non-andrastian religion for once?

let me shittalk the chantry

i know its a stretch, but maybe. diverse skin colours. please?

nd characters that are written respectfully and treated w dignity

please bring back the talent wheel from dao and da2

more bi romance options

more wlw romance options

more mlm romance options

ace romance options

nb romance options

background romances

let me shittalk the chantry

far fetched but maybe a polycule?

i lowkey LOVED the fast-paced feel of da2s combat so maybe bring that back in some form? maybe improved to mesh with the tactics of dai to give players absolute freedom of playstyle whether they want to be like me and rush into every encounter or play more strategically

companions with unique companion abilities

would be nice to explore cities

would be nice if the open world were a little smaller so it doesnt feel empty all the gd time

more mage spells. mages felt like just another class of fighter to me in dai. they dont really have any awe-inducing wow factor like in dao or even da2. if the narrative wants me to believe that mages are powerful and dangerous and that it takes multiple templars to hunt down an apostate, maybe show that? give me strong mages

remove the jump ability. its pointless

a narrative that addresses the oppression that the chantry and templars perpetuated please

bring back the attributes

make the choices in dai matter. mages governing themselves? i wanna see that

let me shittalk the chantry

please bring back the healing magic for fucks sakes

multi-class system between rogues and warriors?

multiple specialisations that feel like specialisations and not just skill tree+

player-only skill trees

hardening

companion quests that affect their abilities and further dialogue

actual morally grey choices instead of this stupid mage freedom vs templar oppression narrative that is in no way morally grey but is presented as such and thus leaves the conflicts and narratives set up by dao and da2 to be fucking meaningless

bring back the tactics

would be nice to have an origins-esque prologue again. maybe one that would determine future events in game just to give your character better narrative cohesion with the plot

an approval/disapproval system but for companions with other companions. bringing certain companions together may bring them closer or make them pissed off with each other which affects banter maybe quests maybe combat

give me a fucking mabari bioware. give me back my fucking mabari

day/night cycle

a nightmare mode where you have to finish the main quest on a time limit. it is absurd that dai expects me to believe that i have all this time to do wartable missions that can take literal real life DAYS to finish and still thwart corypheus’ plans in time. bullshit

that said. no more wartable missions. waiting for a countdown to finish isnt very fun

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kal-sharok. ive been hearing about it since dao let me fucking see kal-sharok

dwarven politics

politics in general. my fav dao quest was the succession crisis plotline in orzammar/the landsmeet and wewh in dai

npcs i can talk to. even with generic dialogue like in dao. makes the world more alive

using the environment to your advantage. far fetched but i would love to be able to pull down boulders if were in the mountains or freeze water to get to places as a mage

home base customisation but the customisation choices you make actually. mean something. and do something. or at the very least give more companion dialogue/banter/approval change

laconic and ergonomic codexes. like. sorted by what kind of codex it is, etc etc but then you just get a brief summary of the codex and the option to read more about it so i dont spend eternity scrolling through cards looking for a specific codex entry. cool aesthetic dont get me wrong but real irritating to deal with. also. maybe. the pc making comments about the codex if you do read more about it? like a dalish elf saying “they got it all wrong” when reading a codex about dalish elves written by a human??? that would a) give character to the pc b) incentivise people to actually read the codex to see what was so wrong about it c) summarise the codex for people who want to learn the lore but dont want to spent the entire game reading text

maybe have the merchants in your home base close to crafting stations so you dont have to take a fucking hike if you miscounted the amount of elfroot you need?

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avvar companion maybe??? interesting lore right there

bring back stat requirements for weapons and remove the class restriction for most shit. obviously a dagger would be better for a rogue than a longsword and a mage would do better with a staff than a sword and shield but its not about efficiency. its about the roleplay. its about the options. give me the option to make a mage with wildly inappropriate stat distribution

bring back sustained mode abilities

traps. bring back traps. bring back the option to stealth into an area, trap the fuck out of it, and go from there

have the three available classes in kind of a rock paper scissors scenario. warriors do real well against rogues who do real well against mages who do real well against warriors. so you can plan your party depending on who/what youll face AND how much their approval will change during the quest you take them on

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actually resolve the plot points introduced in dai

a more threatening villain. the inquisitor thwarted every attempt made by corypheus in dai. he was not threatening at all

queer characters. background, companions, etc. queer characters

mounts were meh in dai. maybe. make them faster? or less cumbersome? or have your companions on mounts too so theres still banter?

i liked the armour tinting. let me have armour tinting from the beginning

i would really like mages to move and attack at the same time bc lowkey standing in one spot is uhhhhhhh kinda boring

let me check companions friendship/rivalry levels

would be nice if the narrative acknowledged that elves suffered greatly at the hands of the chantry and stopped victim-blaming them

more taverns. specifically like tapsters in dao where theres a dwarf just reciting something in a language i cant understand and if you look its a ballad/poet about dwarven culture and that was a real nice touch let me have that

dalish elf clan. dalish elf clan that does not get murdered please and thank you

meaningful quests. more cinematic dialogue

make found gear / quest reward gear more valuable than crafted gear

game modifiers like in dai were real nice. i want more

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quests that can be resolved in multiple ways. like connors fate in dao. and for those ways to impact further quests

companions with varying moral alignments

companions that are mutually exclusive (like alistair and loghain) but are both good companions so itd really make you think

a pc that IS NOT a “chosen one” vanilla da2 is my fav dragon age game for one reason and one reason only and that is because hawke is just some random refugee who escaped lothering. no chosen one magic at all. just an ordinary person who is a real good fighter. and that appealed to me more than this “you are the only one who can do it” narrative

let me meet more elvhen gods

if the setting is in tevinter, GIVE ME FUCKING ARCHITECTURE. give me the high spires, the archways, the buttresses, give me statues lining city gates and magic infused into the buildings. tevinter is a land ruled by MAGES give me magical architecture. give me floating buildings. give me fire floating as orbs above the streets like lamps. GIVE ME ARCHITECTURE

SHALE

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PIERCINGS GIVE ME FUCKING PIERCINGS BIOWARE

more main quests, longer main quests

if it is set in tevinter maybe. maybe address the fact that tevinter has been at war with the qunari for a while? on and off war is still war. and maybe give us the option to influence the outcome of that war?

more voice options. instead of just american voice or british voice, do the thing in dao again where there are multiple voices of different tones to further cement the pcs personality

more armour designs

biased but uh. can. can taliesen jaffe va a character?

i already said qunari companions but specifically saarebas companions

blood magic

FINISHING MOVE ANIMATIONS

please do not let it be as long as inquisition. inquisition was a SLOG in later playthroughs

body sliders. what if i want a tall but lanky qunari? what if i want a buff as shit elf? body sliders

more eye options

let me call out companions

btw bioware. if you really wanted cullen to be a good guy. maybe handle his fucking redemption arc a little better instead of retconning all the terrible and creepy shit hes done in the past k thx

can female walk/run animations not have. so much swaying hips? no one moves like that

personality dialogue that affects future dialogue like in da2 but meshed with the wider range of emotions introduced by dai

keep the race/s*x lock on romance candidates like in dai. keep the fact that some characters can only be romanced by certain races or s*xes

nb and genderqueer options for the pc

cutscenes of companions interacting

ngl i lowkey liked the random encounters of dao so maybe bring that back

my fav quest in dao is the landsmeet / orzammar succession crisis questline but you know whats my second favourite? the rescue mission if the warden gets captured and you have to play as your party members. give me that again

more creepy/dark shit. dai was too lighthearted for me esp after da2 and dao

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broodmothers. in hd.

red lyrium broodmothers. in hd

companions with different backgrounds. different faiths. different statuses. different families. etc

maybe make the pcs appearance make an impact on the story? like how bull says he likes redheads, but even if you are a redhead, he says nothing about it????? maybe keep track of which slider the player picks so that can affect the story?

i love my inquisitors but maybe. dont. bring the inquisitor in as anything more than an advisor/npc in this game? let me fall in love with a new pc???

if theres gonna be a homebase like skyhold where youre not in armor. maybe give us better clothing?

a kind of gear skin mechanic similar to ac:odyssey where you can change how the gear looks but keep the stats. so you can equip that higher level armour and keep the look and aesthetic of your old armour and you unlock the skins/looks of the armours you discover/make so you can be both powerful AND aesthetic

i enjoyed the nobility/underworld/arcane/etc knowledge in dai unlocking more dialogue options so maybe keep/expand on that but make it more accessible by side missions or companions or something that isnt the abysmal perk system in dai

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customisable walking animations. does the pc walk straightbacked? slouched? with a swagger? please

since there will undoubtedly be an obligatory fade sequence, maybe have an option for nightmare demons that ARENT spiders. thank you

slap on subtitles and conlang some languages. i want to hear elvish. i want to hear tevene. give me the languages

more dragons. esp if they look vastly different

more bard songs

i am completely biased here, but i would like to hear laura bailey as a va for a character. preferably a voice option for the pc

hey maybe have the true ending actually included in the base game and not in a dlc (tresppasser cough cough)

better val royeaux

please remove the had to do it to em idle animation tis distracting

on that note, more idle animations. maybe some unique to companions?

very trivial but. unique stair climbing/descending animation

bring back talking to companions on the road. maybe with some dialogue that can only be said on the road???

if banter is interrupted, make like rdr2 and pick up where the banter left off

more vallaslin designs please?

if theres another formal scene like dai maybe. give us. decent clothing. or better yet, decen clothing OPTIONS. i wanna decide how i look in a ball full of haughty orlesians

mage vs templar conflict resolved and addressed please. it is NOT resolved in dai. what we got was sequel bait and a slideshow. resolve it please

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a pro-mage anti-circle circle mage companion like anders

religious person who doesnt victim-blame elves in the codex or in game or anywhere please

characters more like leliana who question the chantry and acknowledge its corruption and greed

unapologetically sapphic companion

idc if its tevinter i dont want to fucking see queer people being disrespected

a true tal-vashoth companion, one who escaped from the qun

have quest decisions affect whether or not a companion will turn hostile to you or not

if IF solas will be redeemed, please do the redemption arc right

more horn options for qunari

an apostate mage who doesnt use me for their personal agenda whilst hiding something from me (morrigan, anders, solas) thanks

i really dig the whole “leader of an army” thing dai was trying to go for. but you didnt actually. lead. anything. would be nice to have that option. command soldiers. send them places that affect further quests. would even use the wartable for its intended purpose. planning wars. battles. like. you get sent word that there are bandits harassing villagers. you can set up an ambush with your soldiers or confront them headon, and theres a new mini-location on the map like the manor you meet vivienne in where you can go deal with the bandits and depending on your choices, there are actually soldiers with you in a field, or traps in a narrow pass, or even in a city. id rather the wartable shit dont return but if they have to, at least this way youre not just waiting real life time for a bunch of text to appear

i am real fucking excited for the possibility that da4 companions can just fucking die on you. good shit. give me that angst

missions that certain companions would refuse to go with you to. you know. so you actually have to use other members of your party instead of the same 3 (three) people all the goddamn time

disabled characters (i want a character who suffers from the same chronic bad leg disease as i do is that too much to ask)

kinda touched on by the da2 combat point but let me do close combat damage with the staff

no multiplayer. and if there is a multiplayer, dont tie it with achievements

let me fucking explore weisshaupt

(i dont think solas will be the endgame villain of da and i dont think da4 will be the last da game but still) again. for emphasis. resolve the plot points dai brought up

full-body scars and tattoo options

companions and npcs changing their opinions about things over time. eg: a pro-circle mage wanting instead for circles to be abolished after a specific side mission or a main quest decision etc

keep the multiple companion quests. and maybe change what kinds of companion quests are available further down depending on choices made in previous companion quests

please for fucks sake give us more characters of colour

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