#because he’s heartless

[notherpuppet]

Husk and Alastor have a battle of wits, drinking, and jazz. AKA how I think Husk found out about Al’s situation.

Music: JK Sax’s cover of Tones and I “Dance Monkey”

I’m not a talented enough musician so I couldn’t make the music that was in my head lol but dance monkey fits pretty well.

Alastor: Husker, is that all you got? Hahaha, take another shot!

Husk: You ain’t on a sadist’s leash, you can’t know-it-all. Can’t know what I been through, if you ain’t at a beck and call!

Alastor: Ha! I win this spat with ease, looks like you’ve hit the wall. Cuz Jokes on you, I know that too, I know it all!

Husk: You…what?

Al: Perhaps, I’ve had too much to drink this time. Do yourself a favor, banish this night from your mind.

Husk: U-understood.

Al: Hm, good.

#hazbin hotel #fanimatic #alastor #husk #hazbin hotel fanart #I looooooved drawing drunk alastor soooo much #idk if we’ll ever be able to see it in canon but I want it so bad #I just can’t imagine that he’d have a heart to heart with husk #because he’s heartless #the info must have come out of reckless one upmanship #that’s what I think #my doods #liked by creator

[pakchoys]

there's going to be a doctor who renaissance someday soon and when you finally give 12 a chance you will come crawling to my door and say i was right all along. that weird old man does fuck so hard after all

#if you stopped watching because 'he's mean' so were all the others !!!! #the doctor has a mean shell around them and you have to boil them and peel them like a hard boiled egg and inside they are soft and so #so full of love. 12's whole arc is him wondering if he's to cruel too heartless and by the end of it he's just so unashamedly kind #he's been peeled. my little hard-boiled egg. #doctor who

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should put more emphasis on how Akutagawa's love is killing him. Descriptions of his feelings for Atsushi should draw from death imagery more. Atsushi's smile is devastatingly beautiful to Akutagawa. His laughter is lethal. Atsushi's touch feels scorching hot. When he's near, the air around becomes unbreathable. He hugs Akutagawa, and Akutagawa feels like his bones are being crushed under those new and overwhelming feelings. Akutagawa drowning in Atsushi's eyes, sinking in his embrace. Akutagawa's love for Atsushi is piercing, painful, Akutagawa's heart is wounded and bleeding. Akutagawa is smitten. All contributing to represent how Akutagawa's love for Atsushi is going to be the end for him. And it was! And he is doomed by his very love, by his very ability of feeling human emotions. Akutagawa's love for Atsushi is going to be the reason he dies.

#I just feel like #It's not just about Akutagawa being the unlovable creature #It's also about Akutgawa being the rabid and heartless monster who can't /love/ #He can't love. He wasn't born to love as much as he wasn't born to be loved #And that's why when he starts to love someone- that's the moment he has to die. Because he's not supposed to love someone. #That's not how his story is supposed to go. That's not how the world is. So he /must go/ #And that's one of the other elements that contribute to the narrative of Akutagawa as the tragic character™ #Narrative that itself contributes in killing him!! #God I love him #ryūnosuke akutagawa #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #mine #q. #If you saw this being posted on error yesterday: no you didn't #But due to posting it on error I lost the original date... #Should be around #24/12/22 #I suppose...

[bonebabbles]

average day in the tiktok warriors fandom

he's. he's literally described on the page as enjoying the feeling of making cats viciously maul each other. He gets "validation" for his feelings constantly through Gray Wing and his other sycophants kissing his ass, and still maliciously and intentionally torments them. He beats women and children for telling him no

What they want is BREEZEPELT. This describes BREEZEPELT. BREEZE. PELT.

The cat who is ACTUALLY reprimanded by authority for being angry all the time?? The one whose dad screeches at him for having basic needs?? A character who is explicitly shown to be manipulated by an evil force because they're the only ones who validate his feelings??

THAT Breezepelt?? Ringing any BELLS?

Lemmie guess. Tiktok probably doesn't like Breezepelt much because if you acknowledge that he's a child abuse victim, you can't keep woobifying Crowfeather into a sad boy. Lol.

#INCREDIBLE briainrot on tiktok #Clear Sky literally has a scene in Book 2 where all his cats gather around and validate him #During that speech where he decides to steal more land by killing more natives #Frost is one of them and then he still shoves Thunder's face into his wound so he ''knows'' why Frost needs to die #Clear Sky is CONSTANTLY getting his toes sucked and having people tell him he's the bees knees #You see he was just slaughtering indigenous people and beating women and children because he's sad :( #How dare you call him a heartless monster he's just angry :((( #(Meanwhile Clear Sky is in the background slobbering over a young woman with traits that remind him of his kid) #Re: the simple truth that people are more interested in sorrowful abusers than messy victims #Because that's what Clear Sky and Crowfeather are. And they will DESPERATELY find ways to woobify them further #so that they can keep ignoring the children they abused.

[dc-newbie]

“Tim sitting back and watching the chaos while Bernard comes up with the wildest conspiracy theories” is a great troupe, but consider;

Bernard’s making up wild theories, 20% because he believes them and 362946% for fun, and Tim listens passively until he just so happens to drop in the most randomly wild pieces of information completely out of left field. Like, Bernard will mention that some people in Metropolis don’t even know about the secret parts of the military, when Tim will just say, “Yeah, I was offered a place in a highly specialised squad once. Nearly died. It was wild.”

And at first, Bernard thinks Tim’s just doing it to poke fun at him, but as time goes on, he starts to realise that it’s not sarcasm, which is even worse, because what the everloving fuck does Tim mean by “Secret Villain Internet that sucks you in and drives you insane”? And why does Tim know about it??

Tim casually hints at the existence of the Court of Owls by telling Bernard to not trust the owls in Gotham and Bernard. Does not sleep.

#tim drake #bernard dowd #timber #timbern #The Court of Owls #Court of Owls #Bernard’s theories slowly get more and more accurate as he silently includes the information he gets from Tim #and Tim is Scared™️ #because all he notices is his boyfriend slowly figuring out national secrets like they’re crackpot theories and all he can do it watch #and warn him of course because he’s not heartless #Bernard theorises about the existence of Lazarus Pits in front of Jason and Dick just looks at Tim like ‘He’s your problem now’ #This idea had such comedic potential

[unspokenstydia]

✰ ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, GOT THE WRONG INSIDES. ✰

THEO RAEKEN: THE KINTSUGI KID “Real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts.” 

#it’s theo’s false tears of deceit versus these moments of real emotion slipping through. the terror of letting himself feel. #the impossibility of it. and then it’s the dread doctors’ syringe and how carelessly and callously he would give life back and rip it away #doling out both resurrection and murder with this drilled-in emotional distance. perfecting every action to be so necessarily heartless #because bodies were test sites and weapons and /his/ body was an appendage in itself of someone else’s agenda— #versus his own flesh upon gabe’s in this one selfless moment. and how his touch is gentle and light and his hesitance underscores every beat #and how inundating the revelation is—that he’s capable of this. that it's all possible for him. #and how perilous it must be to look forward from that post-hell hinge point and know that the death of the myth he was promised is only the #beginning of his life. and all of this is difficult and painful in ways that are brand new but must (avowedly/somehow/please) #be worth that pain. #theo raeken #flashing gif #tw: blood #twedit #teenwolfedit #teen wolf #fyteenwolf #cody christian #tvedit #fall out boy #so much (for) stardust #there's something so staggering about the fact that theo (in cody's imagination) stays. #he's not much of a pack animal and scott's never going to forgive him and it doesn't matter who forgets because mason won't and #he'sbarelyevenhumanlikeacheapknockoffdotheylookredtoyouithinkyoupushedherandithinkyoulikedit and #he stays. #like. i don’t know how i’m expected to be okay about any of this! i’m undone!! it’s shattering and stunning #and so is the kintsugi kid in the context of like. my insides are copper and i’d kill to make them gold / do you ever get the feeling that #your insides and your outsides don’t really go together? / i wonder at the way that someone can write thousands and thousands of pages about #my insides / it’s about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin / on the bright side got the wrong insides !! #and [back to theo] this chorus as a callback to ‘when i’m just the ghost of nothing nothing’ in from now on we are enemies #anyway . will the real hard hard pills to swallow please stand up.

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

So idk if this is a super surface level take, but I think the most heartbreaking part about Paul's journey in part 2 is like. how he kind of knows even from the beginning what he'll have to do in the end. And even in those moments where he thinks he's maybe in the clear and forging his own path (the "taking off the ring" scene for example), I think he knows deep down that it won' t last. That the most he can do is delay the inevitable. But he'll still try to delay it as long as possible. He knows what going south will do to him. He knows what the water of life will do to him. He just doesn't know how bad it'll be. I think up until the last possible moment he still has some desperate hope that he won't give in fully, that he'll be able to have a win-win scenario and give everyone what they want while still remaining uncorrupted.

I've compared it to LOTR before but it really is Like That --- every good person who possesses the ring at some point thinks "maybe I'll be the one to resist it though. Maybe it'll be me who's able to remain pure of heart." I think Paul is the same way - he sees himself changing drastically, but still thinks maybe he can avoid that fate while still stepping as close to it as he feels he needs to. And those steps get closer and closer until he falls off the edge, as he was doomed to from the start.

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #now don't get me wrong i *also* have a different meta about how he like. isn't *as* heartless and Fucked Up as we think after taking the WO #(like. yes he is Fucked Up and Came Back Wrong but i don't think he's blinded by it entirely. he's not hyped about it. he knows he's Wrong #and does it anyway ) #but yeah there's this too #i think he still believes he won't become like his mother did. that he'll somehow be able to resist it. and that's ultimately why he agrees #because he has this desperate belief that he'll still be the same in spite of everything

[thiamblogger]

i'm rewatching 6x6 and i already knew that liam had decided to get theo out, but i never realised how quickly he decided that. it was like liam had been searching for a reason to get him out, everybody already knows that.

what i mean is that the scene where hayden and liam are in the hallway talking about liam's plan, the scene directly before mr. douglas mentions something about absorbing the lighting and liam instantly thinks of him.

when they're in the tunnels liam could've sent him back like hayden and mr. douglas suggested, but he hesitated, he always hesitated because he didn't really want to, which was why he never pulled the sword on him unless influenced and why he allowed theo to hold him against the walls in the tunnels.

#this honestly seems really far fetched #but like it's also believable somehow #everyone has a problem with theo within good reasons but not liam #liam states his problem with theo except it's never actually his #it's about how SCOTT was right and he was wrong or how SCOTT doesn't trust him #how HAYDEN and MR. DOUGLAS think he should be sent back #how he betrayed the PACK so now tgey don't trust him #everything liam has ever said or done to think that wasn’t him was him under the influence of the pack #since liam doesn't want to let people down and he knows he did by letting theo out he takes said anger (fear) out on theo #except theo knows this and even states so in 6x16 which liam only proves to be right in 6x17 #but since thel knows he doesn't take offence or at least he tries not to because he can see parts of himself in the beta #this definitely made me sad #also whoever named 6x7 heartless is heartless #thiam

[daylighteclipsed]

Posting my last tag rant because y’all had some great responses to it and I wanna continue this conversation.

Yes! I think it’s safe to say Vanitas has become his own person and has a heart of his own now, maybe. But that initial wanting to rejoin with Ventus is a good example of darkness wanting its light back — and I think this is something the novels touch on, the pain and confusion Vanitas feels when he’s first created/separated from Ventus.

It must be so… strange for the space you once made up in the universe to be filled by someone else. Vanitas can’t return to Ventus. Not only because Vanitas has become his own person but because Sora’s darkness became the new dark half to Ventus’ light half. Vanitas can’t return to his light. At least, not the way he used to. How… distressing. Painful. He has no choice but to develop his own light.

I think you can even compare this to Riku in KH1, his pain and distress at, in his eyes, being replaced by Sora’s new friends and lashing out at Sora when Riku really wants nothing more than to be with Sora again. Riku initially bases his identity heavily on his relationships to Sora and Kairi, and he has to readjust and redefine who he is as things (relationships, roles, people, desires) change.

Yeah, that reminds me of how all the humanoid bodies without hearts — the Nobodies — immediately sought a replacement after their heart was separated from their body. The body needs the heart. It’s incomplete without a heart. It’s the same as light and darkness.

You’re right, I don’t think they ever explain what happens to someone’s light when they become a heartless. I think light and darkness are like energy in that they can’t actually be created or destroyed. If I had to guess… maybe the light goes to the hearts of people the heartless is/was connected to.

Kind of like how when darkness overcomes the world’s light, the light persists in the hearts of children. And also like how Kairi’s heart of light camps out in Sora’s heart when it’s threatened by darkness. And also like how tracing the hearts of the guardians leads Sora to the pieces of Kairi’s heart of light. And also like how Riku’s light, represented by the Keyblade, goes to Sora when darkness is consuming Riku’s heart. Our light lives on in the people who love us.

Sora and Terra are the only examples of heartless getting their lights back, I think, and it seems to be because their lights are hanging out in the hearts of the people who love them. People who miss them as much as their light misses its darkness. So yeah, the light that a heartless once had retreats to the still complete hearts that heartless is connected to. If there are no connections, the light returns to the universe/enters the newest or nearest heart — which is maybe how you explain Ventus’ light connecting with Sora’s newborn heart? Final answer lol.

Sora’s heartless in Coded saying “Hearts to sate my hunger” literally haunts me wtf 😐 fucked up rage form Sora hungering for light, and thus hungering for hearts, because his own light is no longer enough. But the light from these other hearts is always fleeting. He can only hold onto the darkness in every heart he consumes. And losing the light just as soon as he starts to feel it, taste it, only carves a deeper, darker pit inside of him. Makes the hunger worse, the pain that much more unbearable. So he just keeps attacking and consuming, chasing this light he can’t have as his darkness grows stronger 😐

Anti/rage Sora consuming hearts like heartless do, like his own heartless tries to do in Coded, is such a cool concept. But it would wreck Sora. Even if the hearts he consumes are ultimately saved — which in a canon situation, they would absolutely have to be — the second he registers what he’s doing or has done… 😬. The image he has of himself would shatter. It would just go so against who he is expected to be and has tried to be and who he wanted to believe he was.

But it would be really, really cool.

#also sora’s a vampire in Halloween Town isn’t he 😐 #the monster most known for feeding on the lifeblood of others 😐 #kingdom hearts #i am in love w sora’s connection to heartless following his temporary death in kh1 #i love when death is not brushed away when it is used as an allegory for a traumatic experience #when the trauma leaves its mark when the character is not the same as they were before #and i love characters like sora who don’t accept it and as such don’t process it #don’t grieve for the way life used to be or for who they no longer are #they can’t grieve because they can’t accept the loss #and it slowly destroys them #until they start acting like what they hate start becoming like what or who hurt them #yeah #i had another train of thought here but i lost it #this isn’t it but like #if any of the foretellers saw sora consuming people’s hearts his ass would be on a hit list

[demigodishniss]

Saw an old post on reddit about the fourth Doctor and his companions, and someone under it said that Four didn't even care about them cause he was always dismissive and/or mean etc..... But they must not know him like I know him then cause w h a t. What do you mean he didn't care? Did we witness the same character??

#just because hes not affectionate in a conventional way doesnt mean hes heartless either #idk what my point is here #actually i do and its that he cares about his companions just as much as the other incarnations do #and that just because he doesnt always show it directly doesnt make it any less true #almost all versions of the doctor can be mean/dismissive sometimes but when it comes down to it they care and theyre kind #idk maybe i got him wrong and hes just cold and callous most of the time but I digress #i think he cares a lot about his friends and i will die on that hill #fourth doctor #classic who #doctor who

[just-some-random-girl]

"We need more complex and flawed main characters!"

You guys couldn't even handle Blitzø Buckzo.

#no joke #i hate the mischaracterization of blitzø in this fandom #he's literally traumatized and has been hurt by people just as much as he's hurt others #he's a mentally ill individual with daddy issues #Loona doesn't treat him well half the time despite how much he puts her on a pedestal #he's NOT an irredeemable sociopath who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself #he thinks he's undeserving of love despite craving it because all his past relationships failed #he cares about Moxxie even if he doesn't get along with him #but so many people in this fandom don't get that #to the point that some people actually say he's just as bad if not worse than Stella #and that just makes me so angry #btw Stolas is not blameless in the Stolitz dynamic either #the whole point of Stolitz is that both Stolas and Blitzø are guilty and wronged each other #please stop mischaracterizing Blitzø as a heartless monster with no redeeming qualities #helluva boss #fandom critique #mischaracterization

[waitineedaname]

something I find interesting about Scar is that he's not like. needlessly cruel. Sure, he's on this revenge quest and killing state alchemists, but he's very focused on that quest and doesn't go out of his way to kill unrelated people. He kills people who get directly in his way, but most civilians are left alone. I always think about him agreeing to spare Al when Ed begs him to, or how even when Winry is pointing a gun at him he says he understands her motivations and won't consider her an enemy until she shoots him. His complexity is what's so interesting to me, and this element of him executing violent revenge while also demonstrating these moments of compassion is so good

#fma #EVERY DAY I THINK ABOUT SCAR #punches the wall #idk if i got my point across properly in this post #i have so much trouble articulating my thoughts about scar bc there is just so much going on with him and i wanna dig my teeth into it #but yeah. i just like that he isn't violent for no reason #he kills state alchemists and people who directly get in the way of doing so #but he's not heartless #i also like when his moments of sparing someone are calculated #like not killing marcoh (even though marcoh BEGGED him to) because he knew marcoh was useful to him #im not sure why he didnt kill yoki. i guess he was useful somehow too? #and then the kindness towards mei makes me soooo crazy but that's another post

[randaccidents]

Questions for science purposes

When Heart wakes up, does he still will have Black limbs?

If yes, then how does he will react? :3

*evil laugh*

Yes, every physical change Heart has experienced is permanent. He is never getting his wings back, and his limbs are forever blackened and weak and cold to the touch. Even after he recovers.

About his reaction - he doesn't Notice at first. There is a very long period of relapses and bedrest and he notices his arms way before he notices his wings.

To be clear: Heart's condition is self-inflicted. Until Perseverance and Penitence convince Heart to re-embrace being the Emotional Side, waking him up does nothing except put Heart in pain (oh yeah. their only successful method of waking up Heart puts him in excruciating pain :3). Heart doesn't care about changes to his body because he won't be here in a few hours anyways.

But towards the recovery and future end of the AU, when the trio finally make genuine progress and Heart begins to believe again that he is needed, he does notice. It's pretty annoying and demotivating to realize that he has to live with the consequences of his decision, especially because that decision was made with the idea that he is never going to have to deal with anything ever again. Where does he even begin to relearn how to live? Where does he begin to learn to live his new normal?

At least he has Perseverance and Penitence at his side to help him adjust to weaker, colder limbs that arent as strong as before, and to remind him that he will always be needed and wanted despite this. (physical therapy DOES suck though)

(wait until he finally realizes his wings are fucking gone)

#reply #Heartless AU #Heartless story #I am Very Evil about what Heart experiences #because these are the consequences of his own decision! #he chose to do this #he just didnt know the consequences #and now he has to live with it #the struggle of learning to live again #and the fact that its come with DISABILITIES this time

[puzzledemigod]

So let me get this right

Edgeworth had a quarter of life crisis, went to Europe to find himself, realised Phoenix gave his life meaning, and came back ready to confess.

Meanwhile Phoenix, who used to openly admire, be worried about and even give excuses to Edgeworth even when he was kinda mean, was so personally offended by how much it hurt him to think he was dead that when he came back Phoenix completely shut down every good emotion he felt towards him and started acting like a petty teenager with a grudge.

And now Edgeworth is the one reaching out and questioning his morality and acting hurt when Phoenix is mean to him. Interesting.

#and by interesting i mean i am going insane #worthwright #narumitsu #i'm still testing out what names feel less weird to use btw miles is weird and wright too but idk if using a first and a surname is as well #also. i was so pleasantly surprised by how emotionally mature phoenix was in the first game #and in this one he just startes accusing edgeworth of being evil all the time like?? he was way less understanding before #theonly explanation is that he mourned edgeworth like a lot and to protect himself from feeling all that he pretended he didn't #care actually because edgeworth was all those things people said he was (heartless and forged evidence anddid anything to win a trial) even #if he has actually helped Phoenix to get to the truth a lot of times before despite going against his own professional interests #he's treating him as if he's manfred von karma and not the one who phoenix himself protected against the guy #a bit disappointing tbh so i have to read it like that and not that he actually forgot all that; he only started believing in those things #he told himself to hurt less and now he's too tangled up to listen to what edgeworth is saying and doing #besides that: i'm SO GLAD he got an actually guilty client at last!! that's part of being a defense lawyer and now he can feel #that conflict edgeworth feels everytime he has to balamce doing his job with getting to the truth. also i want to see an edgeworth W #my babygirl needs it #“ace attorney”

[inkperch]

Random Fontaine thought.

Every other Archon quest has held the Archon's to the extremes of their ideals, Venti could've saved Dvalin at any time, but refused to do so as he would need to take his freedom to do so, Zhongli betrayed his ideal in the only way one made of nothing else can, a contract to end all contracts, etc etc, but.

Fontaine's quest just kinda. Didn't. Like, sure theres justice happening, but Furina is mostly a passive observer for that, and an active opposition in Lyney's trail. Even Nahida's, also very focused on Things Happening To The Archon more than the Archon's ideals had major ties to the perversion and confusion of intelligence for Wisdom.

But Focalors, on the other hand. Folcolors saw two injustices, as she ascended to her heavenly throne. Focalors spent five hundred years working to fix both of them, and willingly gambled her entire nation on the Hydro Sovereigns mercy, entirely because taking his power was Injust.

#Also yeah can we talk about the fact Neuve canonically would've let Fontaine be nuked if she hadn't manipulated him into caring about humans #Like. Are we... meant to like the dragons...? Or just feel bad for them. #Because like. 2/3 sovereigns we met so far are/were heartless assholes #And the third (Dvalin) I'm pretty sure isn't actually a sovereign hes just a dragon #genshin impact #folcalors #furina

[rowan-guerrins]

people on tiktok well on all social media sites actually will loudly critique the fact some people (especially those who only watched the movies) “didn’t get the point of the hunger games” and then turn around and say gale is the worst person in the universe and treat him like he’s a monster, and that all these traits are innate characteristics completely isolated from the circumstances in which he lived and the people around him. like girlie i think maybe YOU didn’t get the point here either.

#obviously this isn’t to say you need to or were “supposed to” like gale #there are a lot of good reasons to criticize him. esp wrt his sense of entitlement to katniss. #but he’s not supposed to be a Villain™️ #like he’s a poor traumatized (brown coded) boy whose very valid anger was used to groom him into a perfect soldier. #kind of almost like it’s a critique on the militarization of young boys. esp those who are underprivileged. #which doesn’t excuse his actions & it doesn’t mean you have to like him #but it’s enraging when people act like he is a heartless monster who is unredeemable or whatever. like. oh that’s not…. #bonus points if they babygirlify cato and clove (and marvel and glimmer) and cry about how they’re just kids #+ “they were only the way they are bc of the capitol 🥺”. #like yes it’s a big point that they were kids groomed to be child soldiers because the capitol pressured and “rewarded” career districts #to churn out child soldiers and whatnot. but that. ok. #truly just how do you hold the belief that to an extent excuses them or at least makes them sympathetic— #—but then not extend that empathy to gale. side eye. #esp bc a lot of the stuff is taking potshots at gale to uplift peeta/everlark. #like. uh! okay! #obligatory disclaimer i don’t actually like gale. however i am at my limit on weird and bad and inconsistent takes on him. #yeah he sucks. almost like that’s because he was horrifically oppressed by the captiol + then was groomed to be the ideal soldier by coin. #crazy how that’s the point. #and AGAIN. doesn’t EXCUSE what he does. but it’s important to acknowledge bc it v much contextualizes who and what he is and does. #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #i don’t think i need to tag this in the anti tag but lmk