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thatoneluckybee · 3 days

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Okay, so lemme ramble about the Wild Hunt for a sec, given the new episode, because I am certain there is/will be symbolism at play

Essentially, the Wild Hunt is this germanic (though there's many similar ones around the world) myth. It's this horde of spirits/ghosts that travels through the night on an eternal hunt. Crossing their path is generally seen as a big no-no and a good way to become part of the horde of hallowed dead stuck in the eternal hunt. The same goes for copying their sounds of howling wind (and sometimes barking dogs). However, either of these can be rewarded (usually with something that seems worthless and usually turns out to be gold)

Now, for that sweet symbolism. First of all, the Wild Hunt usually consisted of the hallowed dead. They didn't get to pass onto the afterlife, instead bring swept up by the hunt. In the story this more than likely is replaced by those floating eyeball thingies - the souls of those who got stuck in this world before the afterlife

What I'm more curious/concerned about though is who leads it. It's most certainly someone's Phantom, given the little card with abilities. But who could it be? Let's use some clues from both the episode and the myth

First, the episode. There's 3 main things to consider here. 1) this phantom was outside the gate (and thus also unlikely to be a dean or student). 2) your phantom has to do with how you die (this also ties in with the myths). 3) looking at it's abilities, it has something called 'overclock', and while this could be some sort of rage mode, I think it'd make more sense if it means that this Phantom form can stay up either for a long-ass time, or straight up indefinitely

Now, for the myths. The figure who leads the Hunt actually changes a lot depending on the specific telling, and it's been both men and woman. A largely common factor though is that they get stuck in the Hunt after exclaiming their love for hunting, and something along the lines of wishing they could do it forever (potentially specifically instead of an actual afterlife). Given the thing I said before, I think it's a fairly safe bet the person who's Phantom it is died hunting, or at the very least pursuing something

The person who leads the hunt also seems to be searching for Lenore specifically, which is interesting to me. The Wild Hunt generally hunts animals, not people. So I propose 2 possibilities:

1, mythological: The Wild Hunt, like I said, should generally not be interacted with according to most myths. A possibility is that Lenore or on of her predecessors did do that in some way, shape, or form. Maybe in the real world, but Phantoms can't really be there I think? Maybe someone else like her brother or parent were also in this between dimension and messed with it, though I don't believe that's how it generally works. But maybe that thing at the start of the story, where they got noticed by those monsters, was actually them getting noticed by the Hunt, which is why it's now after her (and likely Annabel too in that case)

2, relationship driven: Essentially, my other idea is that the Phantom that is the Hunt is going after Lenore specifically because of who she is. Maybe her father died or something? But in that case I think her brother is way more likely. Think about it, Theo was first looking for (pursuing?) Lenore. The tree got knocked down by lightning (one of the Phantom's abilities). And he was riding his horse when he was killed. Just saying, it could be possible

Also, interestingly enough, both Lenore and Annabel have a certain degree of connection to the Night Hunt? Lenore has already denounced the 'natural' way passing onto the afterlife is supposed to go in favour of having herself and all her friends coming back to life, somewhat reminiscend of the leaders of the hunt commonly rejecting the afterlife in favour of their hunt. And the woman that led the Hunt in some stories likely all stem from the same figure, the supposed Old Mother Frost (and what, if I may ask you, is Annabel's ability?)

No matter who it is though, I'm hoping they touch on that idea of someone who crosses the Wild Hunt (and shows cleverness/boldness) sometimes gets rewarded. And while is generally looks useless at first, it often turns out to be valuable. Who knows, this endeavor just might be the key to escaping...

...well, that or I'm looking way too deep into it and the writer just chose the Wild Hunt because it looks/sounds cool and vaguely fitting of spirits of the night coming to get you. I mean, most thing I just said are honestly closest to incoherent rambling with vague connections, but who knows...

This is nevermore, you’re NEVER looking too deep into it

IM MAIN TAGGING THIS THIS IS AMAZING

I think it could be Theo? We know SOMETHING happened to him as he was at the top of his class. Was he reincarnated? I doubt it. Theo is also connected with deer and hunting. Would also explain why the Wild Hunt (which Lenore thinks is her curse) seems to be targeting her and her family.

#nevermore webtoon #asks #the wild hunt #lenore nevermore #lenore vandernacht #theo nevermore #theo vandernacht #nevermore webcomic #random-gamer1942

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i-mode · 1 month

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when i.v drops i will make a vellory google doc and ill have my own pepe silvia moment. Everyone will see the truth eventually

#they actually start making me sick the moment i think abt them too long okay #and the thing is theres not even that many interactions to pick out from. considering the game only focuses on what alex tells you #and im sure as hell this guy would Not gaf about those two honest to god #but out of their interactions that are shown/implied ... ouh [ falls to the floor ]#like they seem to be on Good terms w each other in general #but ill never shut up abt the fact its implied vella stayed back in wind town to check up on rory after the sewer dungeon #or the cutscene at mark's house where the only piece of dialogue rory has during it is bringing up vella #and how vella comforts rory when confronted w his soul survivor and how rory comforts vella when (i.v specific thing)#(<- was in one of the twitter preview images thoug You can find them on ackk's twt trust)#basically #someone please shoot me in the head i Cant do this anymore #text tag

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bylertruther-moved · 2 years

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i’m rewatching the cali gang scenes from season four and something that sticks out to me is how everyone is so out of sync with each other. allow me to explain what i mean:

mike and eleven

we can tell that they’ve both been lying to each other for an entire year through their letters. eleven lies about being happy in lenora and mike lies by omission with his “from mike”s.

in his fight with eleven, mike is initially being open and honest. he’s trying to connect with her over being bullied and prods her to open up, but chokes when she finally does. mike thinks that he understands her, but he doesn’t and eleven—having already realized this—has already moved on. we see that the reason she’s been lying to him this entire time has been because she doesn’t feel like he loves her the way that she loves him. she has a book of letters from him, all of them responding to her with “from mike”. we see that he hasn’t said it with his words, ever.

in turn, this makes eleven feel like she isn’t enough for him and that she has to create this fantasy version of herself in order for him to potentially love her. he asks her to meet him where he is and so she does, only for him to retreat. she tells him what’s going on, she reveals everything, exactly as he asked, and he immediately exits the conversation: “you can’t actually believe that”, “who said that i didn’t?”, "you're being ridiculous", "what is this?", "you can't let these mouth breathers ruin you. ruin us.", "they're nobodies". none of his responses address her concerns. none of them assume responsibility; they’re all deflecting. none of them are responding to the fact that his inaction has led her to feel like things have changed between them.

they’re out of sync. mike doesn’t understand eleven: not how she feels, not what she’s going through, and not what she wants from him. this could be his obliviousness, his desire to turn back the clock, or both. eleven is out of sync with him, because she’s grown in their time apart and she wants their relationship to grow with it. she needs him to see, love, and understand who she really is; to see her as more than a girl with superpowers.

mike and will

immediately, we see that they’re not on the same page from their very first interaction: will was going for a hug and mike was going for who-knows-what. he asks about the painting, perhaps in effort to save face or salvage something between them, but it’s too late: will has already sensed that things are not how he’d hoped they’d be, and so he retreats. they conclude that interaction in the most painfully awkward way possible, with mike seemingly ignoring him and will feeling dejected. it’s only afterward that we learn the reasons behind their actions here.

despite his hurt, we see that will still cares about mike. we can tell that he’s clearly very bothered by eleven lying to him, seeing as he confronts her about it once mike gets up, telling her: “i don't think mike's gonna like that you're lying to him and he doesn't deserve that. when he finds out, he's gonna be mad.” later on, when those lies blow up in her face, will tells mike what’s really going on... who, in turn, gets angry with him.

thus far, the audience is mostly experiencing this day through will’s perspective. we assume that mike doesn’t care about will, that they’re clearly not friends anymore, and that all of his attention is focused solely on eleven. only... this isn’t the case.

mike is upset that will never told him the truth, that he was apparently being "a douche all day". we hear him say that will was rolling his eyes, moping, barely talking, and that it's sabotaged the whole day. that means that he has been paying attention; that he has been tuned in to will’s emotions, enough that it’s managed to ruin his day, despite him appearing happy with eleven. a disconnect: will didn’t notice that mike still cares and mike feels like he’s the only one that still does.

this is supported by their fight, as will thinks that mike didn’t reach out enough and mike tells will that he could’ve reached out, too. this is a fact that stumps will into silence and so they move on. it’s only later that we’re told two things: calls in hawkins are being monitored and so they wouldn’t have been able to call to speak to eleven, and mike did try calling multiple times, but the line was always busy because of joyce’s telemarketing job. this explains mike’s behavior early on, because he feels (and later admits) that it’s as though he lost will. will assumed that the lack of calls meant that mike didn’t want to talk to him anymore, and mike assumed that will’s lack of trying was indicative of him not wanting to talk anymore, too.

they’re out of sync, and yet somehow... exactly on the same page? they both feel as though they’ve been left behind and are both acting directly from those feelings. the issue is that they haven’t been open with each other and thus are entirely in the dark about how the other feels, not realizing that they’re mirror images of one another.

as the season progresses, we see how will and mike eventually (mostly) resolve their issues through direct, open, and honest communication. mike understands will without will having to ever say anything. in some ways, these two scenarios are equal opposites.

mike prods el, then retreats. will prods mike, then retreats.

“you never say it.” - “i say it.” vs “i didn’t say it.” - “you didn’t have to.”

eleven expresses how she feels and mike refuses to address his part in that. will expresses how he feels and mike does address it directly, unprompted.

that mutual understanding is what allows mike and will to open up to each other without flinching, even after all this time.

mike immediately apologizes to eleven, but he doesn’t understand what he’s done wrong or why she feels the way that she does, and so it feels empty. he can’t be sorry if he doesn’t know why he’s sorry and eleven knows this.

later on, mike doesn’t apologize to will directly, but he does provide an explanation for his actions and expresses that he wants to be closer, by suggesting that they work together as a team and as best friends. he doesn’t say the words “i’m sorry”, but his actions suggest that he is. he wants to do better by him and understands that he must.

it’s important to note as well that mike gives only one of them what they want.

el wants him to say i love you and he doesn’t.

will says that they used to be best friends and later he calls will his best friend again without ever being asked to.

will doesn’t need to beg mike for something for him to know what he needs or what he feels. eleven begs him with tears in her eyes to please tell her that he really does love her... and he doesn’t. he can’t. he doesn’t even understand why she asks that of him and how he could make her feel that way.

the point that this season really drives home is that mike only truly knows one of them. he may love them both, but he doesn’t know the person that eleven is now. he doesn’t understand her. he doesn’t see her as anything other than the young girl that depended on him for survival, the girl who saved the world time and time again, a fantastical being plucked straight from one of their campaigns. he cares about her most definitely, and yes, he does love her, but not in the same way that she loves him—and that’s the glaring issue.

to me, that’s evident even before the entire fiasco with his monologue to her.

mike is selfish with eleven. he doesn’t tell her that he loves her, because he’s afraid that’ll make the day that she realizes she no longer needs him hurt more for him. he doesn’t care (or realize, if you’d like to put it kindly) that withholding that from her hurts her and makes her insecure. he does this to keep her around, but it only ever pushes her away.

he’s insecure about the fact that he may need her more than she needs him. he’s insecure about the fact that she could grow up and want other things. his feelings, his fears, his reasoning—they’re all about him. he doesn’t ever take her into account. in season three, he gets on will’s case and tells him that he’s stuck in the past, that they’ve all grown up except for him, but this isn’t true. mike is the one living in the past. eleven is the one begging him to join her in the present and he won’t.

he’s terrified that one day el may see him as he really is—a scary thought that alludes to him feeling empowered in this relationship only when she’s dependent on him, indicating that he still sees her as that feral girl she was when they first met and how he refuses to see who she is now.

unfortunately for him, that’s precisely what eleven has realized by the end of this season: that she doesn’t need mike. she is her own person; not brenner’s, not hopper’s, and not mike’s. she is more than her past, and she needs to let it go in order to receive what will be. max is the one person that saw eleven for who she was and encouraged her to find herself and her own happiness. eleven feels that now more than ever.

as a result, it’s max’s love that gives eleven the strength to fight. not mike’s. the vines tighten around eleven during his monologue, because it isn’t what she needs and it isn’t what she wants. she knows that he’s not talking about her. she knows that, we know that, but once again mike does not. instead, mike believes they’re on the same page, but eleven knows that they aren’t. they’re just as out of sync as they were when they started this season, if not more so, dangerously so.

the same is not true for will and mike, though they’re out of sync, too.

we see mike opening up to will, confiding in him, and seeking his advice at multiple points. he believes that they’ve started again on this journey to being as close as they were, only... we know that will is hiding something: he’s in love with mike, but he’s too afraid to say it and loves both him and eleven too much to hurt either of them. thus, it’s now his turn to lie as he fears mike may not stick around if he knows the real him.

at mike’s lowest point, will spills his heart out in an effort to help him, but he does so by proclaiming that these feelings are actually eleven’s. he’s lying by omission, unable to wholly meet mike where he is. meanwhile, mike feels closest to will then: not only has will just helped him to finally understand eleven (or so he thinks), but he’s also revealed and gifted him the painting he previously asked about. mike loves it, is moved by it, and feels will’s love, even if he doesn’t entirely understand what just happened.

he’s vulnerable and open with will in a way that he isn’t with eleven and in a way that will cannot be with him. they’ve both poured their hearts out, but they’re not on the same page. the fact that will has disguised his feelings as el’s means that the mutual understanding and empowerment that mike feels is wrongly attributed to being between him and eleven. thus, they’re out of sync. the romantic love that he’s feeling isn’t hers, it’s will’s and it comes at the end of his very first lie—the thing that mike hates most, coming from the person he’d least expect it from. it’s a double whammy.

will leaves that conversation feeling hopeless and rejected, while mike is blissfully unaware that it could have ever even been an option. will has consequently sabotaged not only his chances at romance, but mike’s, too.

these stories all intersect at mike’s monologue. eleven has just gone through an experience that has changed her entire perspective, both on this world and her place in it. mike feels as though he finally has his best friend back and he knows how to mend his relationship with eleven, but neither are entirely true. will may think that he’s out of the woods, having finally confessed, ripped the band-aid off, and regained his best friend, but his lies will come back to bite him once they’re revealed. no one is safe.

eleven has learned that she does not need mike and that he does not love her how she needs to be loved. she isn’t a monster and she isn’t a superhero. she’s a girl that is tired of being told what she is and what she isn’t. she’s a girl that loves her friends and will always fight for them and what’s right, because that’s who she is.

mike is under the impression that will’s love for him is coming from eleven, despite her accounts in their last conversation directly contradicting that entire confession, which shows his fundamental misunderstanding of her person and that the person he needs isn’t the person that he thinks he needs. additionally, this realization is sure to come on the heels of the fact that while he has been making attempts to regain closeness with will, will has been keeping things to himself and unintentionally misguiding him even if his intentions were pure.

will is in a precarious position. he has always been honest with mike, always. we know how strongly he feels about this, and yet he tells his first lie this season: his veiled confession. of course, he does this to help lift mike’s spirits, to show him that he’s so much more than what he thinks he is, but his confession is in part what causes mike’s monologue for el to fall flat, because it doesn’t address how eleven feels at all, it addresses how will feels**. additionally, there is the issue that he’s expressed that he wants to be close to mike again and when mike finally agrees, it turns out that he has one foot in and one foot out. he loves mike and he wants to be honest with him, but he doesn’t know how to do that safely in a way that mike would understand. he starts the season scolding eleven for lying to be liked and ends the season doing just that.

** this is further supported by the way that these two monologues (music included) are direct responses to each other when you overlay them. mike and will feel similarly, they always do, but they’re out of sync. they become so whenever they start keeping things from each other, whereas the opposite is true for mike and eleven: they’re only ever “on the same page” when they’re lying to each other, but even then that depends on them never actually seeing each other for who they are and thus it’s only an illusion. with will, it’s real and innate. with eleven, it’s forced out of desperation and conformity.

they all make progress in season four and everyone is trying their best, but it falls in line with the season’s parting message: it’s not enough. yet. these complex individual stories are clearly not even close to being over and the way they’re all at odds puts them all in a very unique position heading in to season five.

#byler #byler analysis #long post #i feel like i wouldn't have been so upset had they released the entire season at once lol because looking back... yeaaaaaaah it doesn't look #good for milkvan and specifically mike.#this feels more like an analysis for them but i feel it's so important to dissect that because it so ... obviously draws attention to byler?#because there are FUNDAMENTAL difference between how he interacts with both of them. at every turn he is unable to do what eleven needs.#the same is not true for byler. he doesn't need any help to fix what he has with will. will understands mike. mike understands will.#they don't need words. immediately mike knows in his heart what it is that he needs to do and he does it. he connects with will.#he LISTENS to will. he RESPONDS to will. he is made BRAVE by will. he feels safe enough to open up with WILL.#season four SHOWS us these things clear as day.#eleven was made brave by MAX. she fights for MAX. he performs a miracle for MAX. not mike.#*she performs etc #miwileven analysis #my thoughts #my posts

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imflyingfish · 2 months

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#i have no idea how to respond to the whole qsmp situation right now #i mean. i dont watch it or interact with qsmp ITSELF #only the fans around it #I have made fanart for it but not really because i have any particular attachment to specific characters but just because #its a very good springboard for character design and inspiration #Im very involved with the fanbase though as the QSMPnews discord is one of my main discords #and I mainly use the fandom space as a way of practicing/getting into foreign languages #although i dont watch qsmp it still has impacted my life massively in the last year #this clusterfuck of project management is difficult to unravel and know what to do with #and its difficult to know exactly where to turn your attention #or who to blame #since theres so many levels of miscommunication that hasnt been helped by the sharing of it online #i think. even if QSMP doesn't survive #it would be ludicrous to state it as an inherently harmful server #since there has been an evident change in the minecraft gaming space because of it in multiculturalism.#heck IM direct proof of that as someone who does not reguarly engage with the server itself via streams #the fact that as a result of a 21 year old kid deciding to start a sever I can end up with a group of spanish speakers trying to explain #various concepts to me in my language while i respond in theirs is. insane #so do i think that the qsmp will survive?#um. look i dont see how it can.#I've never thought that it could #but i dont think that im going to demonise fans or avoid content relating to it #considering how integral the fanspaces around it are to me and my personal quest for language proficiency #however I will attempt to keep qsmp posts on my french/spanish blogs #well that was. long-winded #idk this is a very self-centred look into the qsmp and this whole situation #obviously I hope that the staff get paid but. I really have no idea where Quackity Studios might get that money from or how the #server should either end or continue

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the-kipsabian · 2 months

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might fuck around and start another long multiparter fic

oh boy

#yeah definitely starting another long project tonights brain worms were too huge #some good old slow burn enemies to tag partners to lovers orangekip lmao #i dont know when or for how long or if it will ever actually be finished or even come out #but i have plans #i just dont enjoy specifically posting long fics cause my motivation dies at some point always at the lack of interaction #even more so with this ship but. im trying #this is for me and like one other person if nothing else #just. a heads up. idk. felt like posting #going to bed and then probably returning to my surprisingly comforting obscurity bye #night is an absolute mess on main

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madame-fear · 8 months

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Is it me or there is very little interaction on the HotD fandom currently? i kind of feel like it’s empty around here :")

It makes it kind of hard to be inspired to write something, really, lmao. I want to open requests for a bit but i really don’t feel like it at the same time

#idk there are certain days and specific hours where if you post something you will get good interaction but not always #the other day i posted another chapter of a fic and it just has... 31 likes compared to how much interaction other chapters had #same happened with a long ass imagine i wrote once :(#hotd #hotd fandom #house of the dragon #house of the dragon fandom

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lurking-latinist · 1 year

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#you know I really have no idea how I come off on here #like I assume I don't come off as a terrible person because nice people continue to interact with me #but like do I have a persona?#are there things that are typically lurking-latinist?#I think I'm pretty authentic on here #(only a certain fraction of my interests are represented on here - the ones that (a) are easy to blog about and #(b) I am interested in potentially discussing with strangers)#(but they are a pretty representative cross-section)#but like I presumably have a style? a specific sense of humor? verbal patterns people associate with me?#recognizable things I tend to be drawn to?#but I don't know what they are. I just say stuff #I just come on here and say stuff I like #which is probably a good way to use a blog but like.#it always weirds me out when I think about it too long that there are hundreds of little partial models of me as a person inside other #people's minds. as in their mental concept of who I am #(to be clear this isn't something I think is bad or am stressing about. just... being a human being is weird #and the internet is an especially disconcerting place to do it #)#also did they make the max tag length shorter or something?

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forevercloudnine · 2 years

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“Whatever he is now, we all know he was a criminal. And he knows Batman.”

Batman (2016) #52

#bruce wayne #mr. freeze #victor fries #love any comic that goes into how batman's villains 'know' him in a way no one else does #since they're familiar with him through years of interactions #but the side of him they interact with isn't the same one he shows to friends and family #not that he ISN'T capable of being cruel to friends and family #but y'know. he didn't dedicate his entire life to taking out his trauma on them #'cold days' is one of my all time favorite batman stories because it really gets into the consequences of bruce's anger #it's a very common thing in batman comics to demonstrate bruce's emotional state by how brutal he is #like his torturing of scarecrow in heart of hush #or his torturing of victor specifically in batman eternal #or his torture of the entire maximum security wing in arkham in mythology #it's interesting to think about how that would affect his villains in the long term #like yes on a logical level they know that batman is a 'good person' who would never kill them #and has repeatedly demonstrated that he does care about them to some extent #but if you've been framed for something and you hear that batman is furious and coming to get you #are you really going to expect him to be reasonable and help you?#or are you going to remember the dozens of times he's tortured you as punishment #this plus the cyclical nature of how often they purposefully provoke him to get his attention #tends to make the batman&villain relationship feel like a mutually toxic abusive relationship (to me anyway)#anyway this story always makes me think of victor telling bruce 'all i've ever really wanted is to be your friend' in urban legends #when he's drugged and describing how he & batman & nora could work great together #and year of the villain when nora hears that victor is helping batman #and she calls him a 'hopeless romantic always trying to find new ways to be loved'#anyway i've put enough tags in now right no one's reading down this far #so #freezebat

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universestreasures · 3 months

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Extension / Spinoff Of This Thread With @shacchou

🎶"Looking up at the sky with you, two bright shining stars call to us. Here we are, standing strong. Shining with our Buddy Lights..."🎶

The gentle and soothing singing voice of his friend was pleasant on the young boy's ears. Never in a million years did he think Tasuku had such a hidden talent, and yet here he is listening to him sing a song from the heart just to try and help him feel better. Then again, the Buddy Police Boy Wonder was good at a lot of things: Buddyfighting, school, investigating; just to name a few. So, him being good at yet another thing shouldn't be too surprising by this point to Mokuba.

He really was just like...Seto, wasn't he?

Drawing those comparisons between Tasuku and his brother was what the young boy had begun to do unconsciously since their initial meeting, but such things slowly became more and more common as he spent more time here. In fact, even now as he sits there listening to the other sing his tune, he can't help but visualize a younger Seto there soothing him instead, despite the fact Mokuba's never heard his brother ever sing before in his life.

Yes, the pre-teen seemed to embody the positive qualities that Mokuba associated with his elder brother from the past: warmth, gentleness, selflessness, compassion, happiness, protectiveness, honesty; all of those things he saw in Tasuku. Perhaps it was those qualities in him that had drawn the younger boy to seek out his help specifically during this time. After all, this entire situation came about because of his own feelings regarding the past, a past he can't seem to stop trying to chase despite promises of a prosperous future.

Such feelings did not change ever since being here. In truth, being around the blue-haired boy just made them stronger, the younger Kaiba feeling a semblance of what was lost the day he and his older brother were adopted. That just spoke though to a simple fact, a fact the boy knew deep down but did not want to admit to himself: that Mokuba had not yet fully accepted in his heart who his brother was today, in spite of their improved relations after Duelist Kingdom.

Mokuba wasn't so naive as to think that neither him or Seto wouldn't change over time. That would be nonsensical, especially considering the circumstances of their lives since becoming Kaiba's. No, what Mokuba couldn't seem to comprehend, and felt frustration and sadness towards, was why his brother was still...well...a stick in the mud, to put it nicely, long after their stepfather was gone.

From his viewpoint, that man was the sole reason for Seto's major shift in demeanor. So why did he have to keep acting so cold and grumpy now? Like he wasn't looking forward to the future he had been preparing for them all this time? The question went unanswered in his mind, no matter how much he tried to come up with an answer.

It had taken Mokuba some time to regain his own true smile after everything that's happened, no part in short thanks to Yugi's crew and his own he managed to make. He wants the same for his brother, to heal past the pain of Gozaboru's tryannny and be able to be as happy as he was prior to it. That selfless desire that seemed so far out of reach was a key part of why he was so hurt. He felt like his brother was just keeping himself miserable needlessly, overworking himself to death and isolating himself from and rejecting anyone who dare try to add some happiness into his life.

He just wanted his brother to be happy again like he was before, to play with games again truly for the fun of it and not in pursuit of revenge or victory. Was that so wrong to wish? To wish his brother could try to start to heal after the suffering they both went through, like Mokuba had?

Clearly, that sentiment was wrong. Otherwise, the elder Kaiba wouldn't have rejected his feelings that night so fiercely. In spite of his good intentions, Mokuba's feelings were burdening his brother, trying to drag him to a place he didn't want to go near for reasons not understood. It's something he's felt since a young age and seen time and time again to the point where he questions whether his inclusion in Seto's life was ever a good thing.

If Mokuba wasn't around, then his brother no doubt would have been adopted quickly and potentially not by a monster like Gozaboru.

If Mokuba wasn't around, his brother wouldn't have had to fight so hard to protect and care for him all the time, to secure a future for them both when securing one for a genius like him alone would have been easier.

If Mokuba wasn't around...perhaps he never would have lost his smile to begin with.

The very thought causes tears to come from his purple eyes, syncing up with the end of Tasuku's sweet song. His breaths came out shaky, unable to stop the floodgates from flowing. Without needing to think, his hands move to clasp the pair of lockets around his neck, as if he would die without doing so.

"Why...? Why?! Why am I such a burden?! Such a bad brother?!"

His voice echoed throughout the small apartment room, his voice portraying the inner pain he felt akin to being kicked in the gutts. Why did he have to follow Gao's advice? Why did he have to speak his mind and say such hurtful things? Why didn't he just let things be as they are despite wanting so much more, like he's done before? Why did he do something that would risk his staying in his brother's life?!

Perhaps taking that risk was why Seto had yet to contact him since he left. Because maybe he felt the same thing Mokuba was starting to think: that he didn't want him to come back. That way, his brother wouldn't have to entertain the younger boy's 'nonsense' anymore, and he could live his life without being reminded of the past he clearly was repulsed by.

Maybe...things were better off this way, after all...

"Mokie Mokuba."

The all-too-familiar voice reaches his ears, and an all-too-familiar touch can be felt on his shoulders. Mokuba opened his teary eyes slowly in response. In front of him, with his vision blurred by the water, he...saw him. He saw his brother, but not the one of the past, but of the present.

Did he come here to see him? Did he come here to take him home? Did he come here because...he still loved him?

"S...eto...?"

"You're not..."

"A burden or a bad brother." The illusion Mokuba's mind had created shattered with Tasuku's next words, as gentle as they were. The young Kaiba was now thrust again into reality, purple hues glancing up at his friend who had been the one speaking the whole time. Seems like his mind and heart were continuing to play tricks on him.

How cruel.

"Listen to me. You've done nothing wrong. It's your brother who has. Don't blame yourself for his mistakes." Mokuba is then pulled into the other's arms, him being comforted by Tasuku's warmth. "Never think you can't express how you're feeling or that it's wrong to feel how you do, no matter who tells you."

The embrace lasted as long as he needed to calm himself. After having cried himself to death, the older kid lets go, gently standing up from his position of sitting next to the boy in order to gently try and guide Mokuba to lie down once again. Once he is set, he watches Tasuku grab the blankets, scattered at the bottom of the bed, and attempts to tuck him back in, not realizing his method of tucking was not to Mokuba's preference (it was too tight). Still, the young Kaiba didn't voice anything to the contrary, for he had lost his voice from all that crying.

"Now, try to get some rest, okay? Gao is coming over tomorrow. He said he wants to have a game of Capsule Monsters with you. I'm sure you two will have a blast." Tasuku then moves to the door's exit, Mokuba glancing over at the soft smile he can see through the light coming from the rest of the apartment. "Sleep well, Mokuba. And if you need anything, don't hesitate to call me or Jack. We're here for you."

The door then closes, leaving Mokuba alone in the room whose only light source was a nightlight Tasuku had gotten for him. He reaches for his Blue-Eyes plush, hugging it tightly for support. It's then he reaches with one of his arms to open his own locket, staring at the picture of Seto inside intensely until he passes out from emotional and physical exhaustion.

#💎 Crystalized Hidden Gems (Drabble)#💎 Vice Treasure (Mokuba Kaiba)#💎 Wonder Treasure (Tasuku Ryuenji)#💎 President With A Blue-Eyed Lighting (Shacchou)#💎 Vice's Monochromic Alternate Path (Mokuba Manga Verse)#💎 Wonder's Game Of Life (Tasuku Yu-Gi-Oh! DM Verse)#tw long post #tw ptsd #(I told Ani a spin off drabble of Mokuba's POV during this angst fest was coming and here it is. ;;;;;#(mokuba's pain just hurts me so much like bby no you're not a burden and your brother loves you ;;;;;#(this takes place the night before gao's visit where he pitches that idea to tasuku further showing why tasuku was not about it #( i also wanted to have a specific thing for Tasuku to reference for the eventual interaction with Seto #(the song tasuku is singing here is actually the ED his va does sing in the show and is a song other chrs have sung IN universe too #(plus Soma Saitou has such a beautiful voice like omg ;;;#(I thought it was fitting and sweet to include it. tasuku doesnt like share his singing talent with others that much unless they are close #(more so because he figured he'd start getting people to want to turn him into an idol if it went public #(its something he learnt how to do from his mother much like seto with his piano playing from what Ani has told me which #(another thing these two have in common icb this LOL #(the song is linked on all the lyrics in the reply if anyone wants to listen to it! soma saitou tasukus va has such a wonderful voice ;;;#(but yeah i hope ani and anyone else who reads this enjoys it despite the angst! it's good to have mokubas headspace written out prior to #(his inveitable talk with seto #(providing context as to where he's at and such #(also getting to dive into mokubas sub concious projecting of seto onto tasuku that just really shows how he needs #(his brother rn despite tasukus best efforts to try and be that sort of figure for him rn

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crossbackpoke-check · 1 year

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I have to ask about good dog bad dream <3

🥰🥰 oh i was HOPING for this one. ok so y’all may actually know a little bit already because it exists in the tags as tyler borzoituzzi but! good dog bad dream is the working document title/notes compilation for a fic that started with the premise of “well you see that’s actually not a dog that’s my blorbo from my hrpf shifter wolf au—”

and, because i have never formally addressed it or put it anywhere other than the tags, three important details about this fic:

this IS a semi-au fic about the detroit red wings, set vaguely in the 2018-19 season, because the wings sucked that year (but not as bad as 2019-20)

this is ALSO a fic that is mainly about tyler bertuzzi and dylan larkin, with some other wings thrown in because i've never met an ensemble i couldn't shove into a love story

this 100% exists because of mickey redmond calling tyler a junkyard dog every chance he gets and me every time going "okay but what if literally though" -> 🐺

#me 🤝 the detroit red wings hippo campus hive mind #liv in the replies #the way that this fic exists fully formed in my brain & i just need it!!! to come out as a narrative!!!#where is the brainworm to print fic button. where is it #also the way in which i’m just like ‘yeah the fic is tyler borzoituzzi’ ok but can we have a title please. like a real one.#because somehow out of 20 pages of bertuzzi-thesis-dog-related quotes i have not found a title. ???? help. i also have a whole titles note #for just collecting phrases to use as titles (sometimes with specific ideas sometimes just vibes sometimes like oh i like that phrase)#not to mention the fact that my quote doc for the bertuzzi thesis has a more embarrassing title but like it’s fine!!#UPDATE THE DOC HAS ACTUAL WRITING IN IT 🚨🚨 I REPEAT WE HAVE REAL NARRATIVE NOT TAG NOT!FIC #WE ARE AT A SOLID ALMOST 1K!!! THIS IS THANKS TO Y’ALL!!! don’t ask how long the document with notes is tho. also how many scenes are done 🙃#anyway i have had this reply written for like two days but keep not posting it because i wanted to be able to have something written to give #but also there’s another ask about good dog bad dream so this one will be info (boring) (sorry) and i will post a snippet in the next ask <3 #me vs not wanting to spoil things vs literally the entire plot of this already written out in the tags: fight #tyler borzoituzzi #WAIT MY TAGS DIDN’T SAVE 😭😭😭#you’re missing the one of me going ‘🥺🥰☺️😭💕‼️🥹 thank you for the ask’#lmaooo tumblr out here like ‘bro you can’t do that every time someone sends an ask’ ok well watch me. what if i DO cherish every interaction #wip ask game

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moinsbienquekaworu · 1 year

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Also I'm really into Venom now. Good night!

#if i manage to sleep instead of reading venom fanfic for three hours lile it did two days ago #i have WORK tomorrow (afternoon and it's easy)#god i've been accumulating fandoms haven't i #.... i need to add bond q eddie and venom to the little room in my head where all the blorbos live #it's a long story but y'know the bedtime daydream to fall asleep to?#sometimes mine include this really specific scenario #where i provide a big room and lots of food #and put all my little guys (gender neutral) in there like it's a party #and i materialise everything they need (like ingredients to make potions or sparring mats)#it's fun because it's crack and low stakes and also i put my two main ocs in there #i should probably also add vtm meredith she would love to talk to canon herself #anyway yeah the room is CROWDED but it's fine i can make it bigger if i want <3 #they all have a room to sleepover after the little party btw. if you even care.#my favourite interaction is imagining all these fucked up people most of them good at fighting showing each other how they fight #like. tell me hornet would not fuck shit up with ahsoka's lightsabers. the different rules based on the different universes #and the normal ones watching from the sidelines worried about their safety #god i fucking love that daydream #it's an upgrade from when i was a kid and i imagined all the characters i liked sleeping in hammocks in my room #and one of the warrior cats cats would come in and plop down next to their buddies #and we would all go to sleep and all would be well #also i like putting meredith (& to a certain extent cécilia) in that room as a sort of social lubricant #like meredith is very social and by god she will make this weirdass party a good one. yes even for the guy brooding in the corner #meredith making some people realise that being aspec is a thing. meredith comparing potions with severus.#meredith pairing people up like 'oh yeah he's also a world class hacker. yeah the guy with literal red hair'#'oh there are other chosen ones in the corner. the two blondes yeah'#also. even more self indulgent than the rest but. bbc sherlock tries to deduce something and then some magical impossible bullshit #he could not have known about magic. his deduction sucked. he would be sooo mad #who would it be funnier for to piss him off about it?#ANYWAY. off to go daydream about it now. bye bye good night #wow i have a ramble tag now

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orcelito · 2 years

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magic prince au is smth ive alluded to a few times. it’s an akeshu fic i was planning for like a Month before randomly getting the urge to write a soulmate fic & starting discacc instead. & ultimately it was a good thing i did, bc magic prince au is a bit too ambitious for what my writing level was like at the start of discacc, but i still do wanna write it at some point

general concept being kinda like a combination dragon age magic setup / perception formed to fit a persona series elements style. oh also some fire emblem influence lol. just mash it all together

mages naturally born, very powerful & very feared, forced to work for the government or else hunted down. late bloomer akira finds himself thrust into a world of politics he barely understands & sent to learn about his magic at this government sanctioned academy. and oh lookie there, it’s the crown prince, who is Also a magic user (for reasons) and is Public Servant Number One because of it & his specific type of magic (spoiler, he has more than one type of magic, but only one is public).

they meet, bullshit ensues

honestly the concept is just rly interesting to me. just the excuse for me to play around with magic and some Real fucked up themes (like some points of discacc but All The Time). it would be Lots of fun

#speculation nation #magic prince au #also some inspiration from my uh. dragon age rp thing i had back in like 2016 #in terms of the specific flavor of how magic works #ive thought a LOT about the interaction of bless vs curse and What those magics even are #and they both fuck goro up in very different ways. and i want SO badly to write this au #but it's the kind of thing that i would want to be my main focus. and i cannot switch focuses like that until i finish discacc #so it remains in the nebulous state of 'someday i will write this' after i finish discacc #the good news is my writing gets better and better with every chapter i post. so like. when i DO write it #im hoping it'll be fucking Amazing #if u have read this far pls tell me what u think. if u message me i might just give u more details #i have like basically the entire plot thought out lmao. it's kinda ambitious but not as long as discacc will be.#a more succinct story. is the goal.#pls ask me questions about it actually ive been silent about it for too long. it's my BABY i want to talk about it. ps #pls *

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tea-tavern · 2 years

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just finished watching My Neighbor Totoro

#it was really good! very picturesque #it was such a peaceful time #i think something interesting about watching this film compared to my experience watching other films is that in this film #nothing really happened per se? like there were plot points but not really a plot if that makes sense #what i should say is that there wasnt a single plot that followed a typical narrative patterns.#there wasnt one big conflict that the story focused on #rather #it was mostly just a family living their life in a rural japanese countryside #specifically the story focuses on two young children and their interactions with one another and their community #which happens to include a forest spirit named totoro #the story was. nice. it felt very in touch with the way children interact with each other especially at the end #when said children are struggling to process how they feel with their mom staying at the hospital for so long #i like my neighbor totoro for my own reasons as well- i think it shows the kind of world i would have wished i could have had as a kid #ems anecdotes

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bravewolfvesperia · 1 month

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/ Since I mention in my pinned post that this blog has some changes from canon, I'm going to make a rundown post that I'll be linking in my muse info on my blog. My timeline post covers some of this too and has other things canon to my muse that aren't here because they're timeline based and not direct changes based. I'll update this as needed.

Repede had another owner before Yuri got him in the game. I'm combining this with FS. Thus, Repede would have been basically an infant when he and Lambert ended up with the knights. From there he took to Yuri as he did in the FS drama CD so Yuri was primarily in charge of Repede during his stay with the knights, but he and Flynn raised Repede together as is in line with the game. This means they continued raising him together even after Yuri left.

In the JP version of the game, Yuri says he was with the knights for a short time but doesn't specify how long that time was, so I'm completely yeeting the "three months" dub aspect from this blog. I can't reasonably assume he signed up, took the exams, went into training, went from errand boy to battle status, then went on normal missions and left in the span of three months. So as usual, we're following the JP timeline. Generally anything the dub makes up or actively changes from the original context/tone gets yeeted here.

In the FS drama CD, Flynn is extremely repetitive about Yuri quitting the knights and with his nagging. At least with @mistralxsoul and anyone else who prefers it the following way in threads with my muse, we're toning it down because it just feels absolutely batshit to us how bad it is in the drama CD (it's worse than even the movie itself).

Since the timeline for Yuri and Flynn's knighthood conflicts super horrendously between the novel, FS/FS drama CD and the game, I'm mixing all of it together (primarily because I consider the novel more canon than the FS drama CD). Basically (for my muse), they signed their names and didn't take the exams immediately, but when they eventually did it was at least a couple years later, due to Yuri still having his teen appearance when he signed his name to join in the novel. This is because otherwise, if I average my muse's teen age out to be fifteen/sixteen and his age to be about eighteen/nineteen in the knights, it would mean he'd been with the knights (including training, etc) anywhere from 2-4 years if his sign up was immediately after the novel's events. If they were to sign up and join immediately after the novel timeline, it also makes even less sense because Flynn's attitude in FS and his relationship with Yuri (and remember, the FS drama CD comes before the movie's timeline and Flynn was even worse about Yuri's attitude in the CD) would seem like it literally 180'd overnight.

So basically, to avoid all this insanity, a short summarized timeline for my muse would be: they signed up but didn't join right away, Flynn moved away and was gone for a couple years or so after the events of the novel, both of them changed in personality/behavior drastically in that time, they met up at the exams, they went into training, they got sent to Niren's squad, they were more errand boys than actual knights when they were still super fresh newbies and Yuri was extremely annoyed with that, they were actual knights for a while (I'm going to say Yuri was a knight for at least six months or more, especially if I consider the trajectory of Flynn's behavior toward him in the drama CD through the end of FS), the events of FS were not one straight timeline and things happened between the days etc etc, then Yuri left.

Following the game's drama CDs, Yuri hesitated a lot more when Flynn was injured at Zaude. If not for Flynn nudging him to go after Alexei even while wounded, Yuri wouldn't have left him there.

Following the same drama CDs, it's Raven and Repede who find and look after Yuri when he wakes up after Zaude. That is to say, Repede was already with Raven and lunged when he sniffed out Yuri in his room (super doggo powers). Raven followed Repede in a panic, who ran to Yuri's room upon realizing Yuri was there, and Raven finds Yuri awake but right in the middle of passing back out (the sound is basically Raven's voice being distant with some ringing, so it's from Yuri's point of view that Raven is trying to get him to steady himself but he passes back out). Raven takes care of him from there until he's recovered properly enough to go back. In this time, Rita did investigating and eventually, with the others minus Raven, went to Zopheir after deciding they couldn't dawdle and just wait in their grief. While they're there, Yuri and Raven have headed out after them and show up together and reunite with the rest of the group. Raven has already been updated on what Yuri knows from Duke at this point (Duke saved him as usual, but the drama CD changes come in after that), so the two of them update everyone else.

In the game, there's a skit with Yuri, Flynn and Karol where Yuri mentions "playing in a river", but in the novel, they were actually getting water at the river and the other kids were playing in the river when they got attacked by a monster, fell into the river (Yuri also mentions (I thiiiink in another unrelated skit) that just falling into "a river" was enough to panic him), and Flynn grabbed onto a merman. For my muse, I'm just going with Yuri simplifying the situation to Karol while keeping the novel's event as my muse's canon.

#{ muse info + headcanons }#/ a lot of the timeline post itself is also for me and not y'all LOL but like. if you need to know #differences in interaction with me this stuff is good to know at least bc I don't strictly follow the game canon #I follow a mix of official content and obviously some of it overlaps and retcons other things #as for the dub if you've been here long enough y'all know I hold a huge ass grudge against #how much it changes Yuri's behavior/personality and his attitude toward Flynn #but the three months thing just does not feel reasonable to me on top of the dub just making it up #and it helps SO much to have that free time period for writing #even if we assume he wasn't counting the training to officially join the knights in the dub #three months is... way too short imo and then if I combine the FS drama CD with that #it makes even less sense bc the girls tried to get Yuri to stay when he did actually almost quit #on top of the whole not rly doing knightly things for a while at first #and yeahhhh it's just a fucking MESS to try to cram everything with all this content into three months #also like since I LOOOOVE the teen arc of the novel and that's My Fucking Baby Boy #I don't want to actually change anything from it so I'm just mixing everything together to keep it all #it's like... I love all the official Yuri content and so I want to keep as much of it together as possible #but since it's not always the same people working on the content or bc there's such a time gap between content #things aren't always consistent and when it comes to writing a muse I just. NEED timeline consistency #even if I have to make it myself LMAO. I try to keep as much of the game stuff together as possible #since I know most ppl interacting with me only know the game and possibly the movie #and not all the drama CDs and all the various JP exclusive content #but it's hard to keep it together perfectly when there's so much other content I'm using that has formed my muse #like... my muse exists the way he is bc of all this content you know? and only using the game #would change him a fucking lot in hindsight with the way he thinks and reacts and such #like... there's no fucking way he's not traumatized after the events of the novel in the teen arc there's NO fucking way #it was bad enough that it nearly pushed him to murder when he was a teenager #and he might have actually done it if his foster mother didn't stop him (and end up doing it herself)#so yeah I mean... I do my best to keep him within game context with most people I interact with #but the more you interact with this boy the deeper you're gonna get into muse specific lore lol

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