#either they have to kill her or they save her life

[barrenclan]

Pretty much since the beginning I had this question of "how the hell are any of the cats going to survive Defiance?!" at the back of my head and I'm so excited to see how this part of the story will play out! So in the meantime, here are some of my predictions for who will live or die: -The kits- should be safe (Egretkit is the safest though). -Pinepaw- assuming the finale will be from his POV, he will either survive or die last before the epilogues. I feel like any non-Pinepaw POV chapter may be his last (not the very next one though, he still has some unfinished business). -Cootstorm- SHE DEAD. Either because of her pride and refusing to run for her life, or saving someone and redeeming herself slightly (leaning towards the former). -Mallowstar- probably will die early (but not first) protecting his family from Deepdark himself. -Blacknose- survives and keeps forgetting Mallowstar (or other dead cat) is dead :( -Cormorantpaw- probably will survive and take care of the kits (or die sacrificing himself, but I feel like that would be a bit too predictable). -Slugpelt- will likely die, but not before killing Rainhaze (let my girl have ONE W!!!) or Ranger/Hacksaw. -Rainhaze- I think we all collectively agreed he's not making it to the end of the story alive (gets killed by either Slugpelt or Pinepaw with assistance OR dies by accident). -Beeface or Plumstripe- oh the tragedy of losing your sister before you can make amends for the petty drama you had... -Daffodilpaw- she survives. She has to, right? -The elders- they will likely die but not before dropping the last piece of lore (or doing some absolutely insane shit like killing Spike). -Deepdark- if the story has a bittersweet ending he has to die, or give in to his prey instincts and run away (which I don't really see happening, there is nothing from a normal deer left in him). -Egrettail and Redpelt- I'm leaning towards "survives" but I really don't know...

GET YER FINAL VOTES IN, FOLKS! WHO'S GONNA KICK IT?

#ask #anon #theory

[crystal-cliffs]

Okay so I slept on it and uhm

I still don’t know what to say about this animated short. Crucabena, the clash, Scaramouche in his oversized jacket

But I think I’ll do the things that definitely stuck out to me and probably seeing things that aren’t there.

1. Crucabena and the Lumidouce Bells

So, when Arlecchino confronts Crucabena she’s in front of two dead or dying Lumidouce bells. She says she should’ve pruned the flower long ago instead of waiting for it to already show signs of decay before finally pruning it. When your prune your flowers you’re trying to control their size and shape, optimize its blooms, and to get rid of any diseased, dead, or dying parts that can’t be saved. However, her plant is already beyond saving since whatever she should’ve pruned to keep the flower alive has already taken over the rest of the flower. So of course these flowers probably represent Arlecchino. How Crucabena should’ve reigned in her child long before she finally rebelled. The choice of flower though is fun, we’ve been told time and time again that this flower is supposed to represent parting and the wish for reunion. This could represent their inevitable parting, but I’m more partial to the idea that the two blooms represent Peruere and Clervie. I mean two Lumidoce bells both dying, flowers that represent parting and the wish for reunion. The 4.6 preview page with her on it, the 4.6 trailer saying Father is looking for someone. Yeah…

2. The implication of ‘Father’ as a title.

So… using a title that contradicts someone who has caused pain your life because you don’t want to be associated with them ever again and you strive to be better than they ever were. Yeah…

Being serious though, other than the fact that she might not want to be associated with someone like Crucabena, the title Father we already know comes with very different implications, and now that we know Crucabena was called Mother I think I can safely come to the conclusion that the term Father also represents an entirely different role, not just the same role under a different name. After all, in the very end Arlecchino uses the terms ‘strict’ and ‘unfeeling’. Which whilst we know Crucabena was brutal, in the beginning she’s reading them a story book and is overall showing happiness, contentment, and then ‘concern’ over where Peruere was. Her role whilst being someone we should stomp into the dirt was filled with emotion, but that emotion and care is fake. It was only used as a weapon against her, and a weapon against her family. So now, as Father she is hiding whatever she feels probably because she thinks showing how much she cares would only hurt the orphans under her care, especially since if this is the case her feelings and her actions would directly contradict each other and would only confuse the children.

You care about them but you make them do all these horrible things? It’s probably the same dilemma Peruere went through, you care and yet here I am experiencing pain that you caused. On this note, something a little smaller…

3. Peruere becoming Arlecchino.

This will be shorter as there’s not much to say, but she was arrested clearly when they found out she killed Crucabena, a harbinger. However then the Tsaritsa pardons her crimes and takes her into the Fatui. Now, this is important to me because I think we can conclude that Peruere didn’t want to become a harbinger, that wasn’t her goal, she didn’t want to become the exact same person Crucabena was and now here she is getting bestowed her title and I can only assume her name too. Just as Pierro says “This title and its legacy of bloodshed are now yours to bear, my poor, mad, cursed Knave.” The only thing I can say is this was certainly the beginning of the end for our poor Knave.

I have more but I lost most of it

Either way I hope Freminet calls Arlecchino out on how she’s starting to behave like Crucabena in a few ways. Let my man scream, he deserves it bro.

#Arlecchino #Arlecchino Genshin impact #genshin impact #˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊crystal talks

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What if that night in Godric's hollow Lily chose to let Voldemort kill Harry and stepped aside when Voldemort asked her to?

Self-preservation kicked in! No one knows how they will react facing death. She should not be blamed for protecting herself.

Would she be honest and tell people what really happened or make up some believable story? What would happen to her after that night? Does she leave England? How would the Order/Sirius/Dumbledore react to the events? Would Severus go after Lily and tell her he is her hero? Would this be a better AU for Lily and the wizard world?

Woof.

Well.

It's not good.

Would She Be Honest and Tell People What Happened?

We don't really know much about Lily's character is the thing. I make a lot of things up for my own benefit, but that's my taking and running with the very little we see in canon.

We really don't know how she'd react.

The way I characterize her? Feeling guilty over her husband's death (who died for her and Harry) and the fact that she survived her son (who she perhaps could have protected) she'll confess to what happened. She wants people to blame and hate her so she can punish herself for this.

And judge and punish her they do as this is something the Order and the greater public just can't understand. I'm sure rumors of how and why Lily was spared also fly and soon Lily goes from the truth of simply stepping aside (and being spared because of Snape) to having slept with Voldemort to save her life to being his spy the entire time.

What Would Happen to Her After that Night?

The gossip against her is massive and I imagine the Order never quite trusts her again. They may not kick her out, though I'm sure some (certainly Sirius who is mad with grief over James's death) vote for it. Lily may leave of her own free will out of guilt and so as not to give the Order a black eye.

The Prophet may or may not run smear campaigns against her both to distract from the realities of the Ministry not managing anything against You-Know-Who and because this is such a shocking awful story.

Lily becomes persona non grata but is presumably left alone by the Death Eaters as Voldemort chose to spare her life and the order has been passed down through the ranks (and as Voldemort is alive he keeps Bella and the Lestranges and Barty in check in a way he didn't at this point in canon).

Lily lives a miserable life in which her husband and son are both dead, she's of no help to the cause, and she's trying to get on with it.

How Would the Order/Sirius/Dumbledore React?

See above but I imagine ostracization.

Sirius would never forgive Lily for James having died and Lily just selfishly allowing Harry to be killed. I imagine he'd blame her in his mind and believe that she had betrayed James personally by doing this. Not to mention what kind of a person/Gryffindor steps aside to let her baby be murdered?

The Order at large would likely have mixed opinions but the Weasleys for example would vocally condemn Lily and despise her for this.

Dumbledore would, I imagine, think much lesser of Lily and start saying things he says about Merope about how Lily just didn't love her son enough/wasn't a very strong woman. He wouldn't condemn her quite as much as Sirius or Molly but there'd be an undertone of "this happened because you are weak".

Would Severus Go After Lily and Tell Her He's Her Hero?

Severus is home free, you bet your ass he does.

Lily's probably out of the Order, James Potter his greatest enemy is dead, Sirius is out of the picture because of James's death, even the hellspawn Harry Potter is dead and out of the way.

They can now go back to exactly what they were and the Dark Lord did hold to his promise after all (and oh dear god Severus betrayed him behind his back, hope he doesn't find out about this).

I imagine Severus would try to reconnect and either:

lie about being a Death Eater entirely (probably won't work)

say he's realized the error of his ways, admit to giving the information to Dumbledore to save Lily's life, but he can't leave the Death Eaters because of the mark/he'll certainly be killed

Probably he goes with option 2 as he can't exactly pretend he never held his views or wasn't a Death Eater at all and he firmly believes that he took this huge risk, saved her life, and he's completely redeemed now.

Would This Be a Better AU for the Wizarding World and Lily?

Well.

Lily's son and husband died horribly, she's haunted by survivor's guilt forever, all her friends hate her and she's completely isolated, Snape is back on her doorstep believing she should be grateful to him for his actions and he deserves instant forgiveness, and the Dark Lord is still alive and well, has the future minister's son in his pocket, has infiltrated the government completely, and can take over any time he pleases with one out of two prophecy children dead (and Neville... probably doesn't last long after this).

So.

No.

It's better for 0 people.

It's actually much worse for everyone except Tom.

Tom is enjoying not being a wraith in Quirrel's head, thank you very much.

#harry potter #harry potter meta #harry potter headcanon #lily evans #severus snape #anti severus snape #sirius black #anti sirius black #albus dumbledore #anti albus dumbledore #the order of the phoenix #anti the order of the phoenix #meta #headcanon #opinion

[magadauthan]

Ep 17: Rem Saverem

Day 17 of @trigun98watchparty : Vash and Knives get their origin story.

The viewer has learned over the last sixteen episodes that Vash is not an ordinary human being, or a human being at all. He's prone to weeping at moments of crisis with the name "Rem" on his lips. Now we get some answers.

Rem isn't particularly well characterized in the anime, for obvious reasons; she hadn't been fully written yet. Apparently she was inspired by Ellen Ripley, which is pretty badass.

There's a lot to unpack in this ep and it's not particularly silly, except for Knives' very relatable "I am so done with my mother and brother's shit" face. So, musings.

--The theme of going to the mats to save a child runs through all of Trigun and TriMax. Both Rem and WW will selflessly put themselves in harm's way to protect the young and innocent. Their methods are different.

...their outcomes are the same.

--Rem sees the two Independents as babies in need of care instead of aberrant monsters. To her, they are angels from God, and imo at least part of that is because she likely envisioned building a home and maybe having children with her (lover? husband?) Alex in their new world before he died. Vash and Knives are gifts to her to fill that void of emptiness.

--Brought this up last post, but it's worth remembering that for all their hyperintelligence and accelerated growth, Vash and Knives don't have the human experience of a toddler in their terrible twos/threes. Kids take things as black or white. They do not do nuance; they don't have any length of experience. Everything that's happening right now is the first and only time it's ever happened. How can you consider situations or instances relative to one another, if you have no experience? Or if your experience comes from what you saw on the computer?

--Knives is very aware of his own intelligence and his non-human superiority, but his emotional quotient is zero, and even as he gains experience, he sees no reason to bother with it. Either all humans are good, or all humans are bad. They take and don't give. Even if they do give, they don't fit with the paradigm and are disregarded. He's a child, with no nuance at all.

--Rem's philosophy is that no one has the intrinsic right to deprive another being of its life. The fallacy Knives can't resolve is that everyone has to eat (except him, in Tristamp... hmmm.) He's not wrong; the spider has to eat something. But I think there's a distinction between killing something because you feel like it or think they deserve it, and killing something because you're hungry.

--Back to the black and white - Knives can't resolve that either, because it's nuance, and when it comes to people... he's perfectly fine with messing with the crew's heads to show Vash and Rem that they're wrong. Steve is a dick and an abuser and possibly a rapist (it's unclear whether he actually did rape Mary or whether Knives made her think that he did) but does he deserve to die for it?

--When it comes down to it... I don't think anyone has a black and white answer. That's as far as I'm going with that.

--Vash clearly struggles with this same question but falls on the side of not killing anyone, no matter how threatened he or his loved ones are. Does he have the right to kill anyone? Probably not. Is he justified if there's no other way out? Guess we'll find out.

On a personal note... I appreciate Rem a lot more now than I did 20 years ago, before kids. It ain't easy. She had two of them at once and she did her damn best. Give the woman her mom jeans and a lifetime of appreciation for getting in there and putting her money where her mouth was. That corn ain't gonna shuck itself.

#trigun #trigun 98 #trigun 98 watch party #Day 17 #rem saverem #vash the stampede #millions knives

[mango0o0o0os]

Legend had another dream about her again. This one had seemed so real, he even felt the warm grittiness of the sand digging into his face after washing up on the sand. He couldn’t stop thinking about her soft, warm smile and her sun-kissed face. It hurt him every time he saw Time’s wife, Malon, he was certain that his Marin must have been related to her somehow. He missed her more and more every day and couldn’t shake the thought that maybe he didn’t have to wake the Windfish. He could’ve stayed on Koholint for the rest of his life. He could’ve been a part of that cycle forever. He wouldn’t have to worry about saving Hyrule or have to go on any more adventures ever again. He could have stayed with her in that fantasy land, he could have maybe even raised a family with her. But now, he would never see her again. It was his fault she was gone and there wasn’t anything he could do about it.

It wasn’t like he wouldn’t ever find love again. He had, he loved his stupid boyfriend. There was a time when he thought he would lose Ravio, too. Legend didn’t think he could live with the fact that he was the reason he would lose his two lovers forever. Miraculously, Ravio (with help from Hilda) was able to restore the magic connecting the two worlds. The goofy merchant visited him often now, sometimes even when Legend didn’t want him to. He still couldn’t shake the feeling that he almost lost Ravio, just like he did with Marin.

It’s not fair for him to want Marin back, he often thought, now that he had Ravio. What would he do if he could get her back? He loved Marin, but he also loves Ravio. It wouldn’t be good for either of them if he tried to keep them both close. Legend knew he needed to move on from this girl. There was no way to see her again, and she didn’t actually exist anyway. It killed him to think that, but he knew it was true. He hated himself for living in the dream, and he hated the Windfish for pulling him in and showing him this girl that he would never see again. Legend couldn’t look out at the ocean without thinking of her and he cried every time he saw a seagull. Her face often made an appearance in his dreams, and she would always reassure him that it was okay, it was not his fault, but the guilt still stabbed him every day.

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Another thing for school. I don't really edit these, I just throw words on a paper. Maybe I'll write something more formal later and actually edit it 🙃

#linked universe #lu legend #linked universe legend

[softquietsteadylove]

Hey i know you already make a Thenamesh hunger games au and i just can't keep my mind of it specially now, Can we ask for a part 2 of it maybe when they already in the battle field.

Ikaris was not invincible. None of them were. Thena said so herself.

Gil stared him down, his chest heaving from running through this bizarre fabrication of a tropical jungle. He needed fresh water - any water - and fast. And now he was facing down by far the deadliest tribute in here.

Well, maybe the second deadliest.

"Oi," Ikaris tipped his chin at him, "tadpole."

Gil almost rolled his eyes before he remembered his order to never take his eyes off the enemy. He gulped. Ikaris was not invincible. Ikaris had a terrible temper.

"You volunteered, right?--for your nerd brother," Ikaris grinned at him, completely menacing. He certainly had the handsomeness and charm of a Capitol trained career tribute. "Y'know my bitch companion volunteered for her brother, too. She's the reason I'm in here."

Ikaris had a terrible temper. He was easily baited. Gil gulped, "I-I thought you careers all wanted the chance to fight in the Games."

"Yeah but not 'cause blondie got me stuck here."

Thena was right, Ikaris would kill anyone, and she was top of his list.

Gil kept his weight on his feet light. He wasn't as agile as Thena, but he knew he was definitely stronger than Ikaris. Ikaris had showy muscles for a specific strength, but Gil was certain he could out strong-arm him. It was the murdering that Ikaris would have the upper hand in.

"I've seen 'er talk to you," Ikaris continued. "You know where she is?"

Gil's blood chilled. That was why Ikaris hadn't launched a spear right through his heart on sight. He was hunting for Thena - his biggest competition - first. "No."

"What'd she promise you?" Gil didn't like the smirk on his face. "A li'l, uh, fun, eh?"

Gil's stomach twisted.

"You help me find her," Ikaris fixed his cold blue eyes on him, "I'll let you make good on that promise."

"I know she'd launch herself out of the arena before she would let you touch her."

Ikaris had a terrible temper, and the effect was obvious and immediate. He snarled, baring his teeth.

Taunt him, tease him, anything necessary, Gil heard in Thena's voice. He glared at him more, "that what pisses you off the most? That Thena doesn't care for your Golden Boy act? That she's the only girl in the world who doesn't want a damn thing to do with you?!"

"Shut your filthy mouth, you loach!"

Gil gripped Ikaris' arms as he charged in at him. Thena was right about his technique being simple and sloppy, too. He used brute strength, but he didn't have skill like she had. Gil had sparred with her a few times during assessments; Ikaris was nothing in comparison. Heavier, but nothing.

In retrospect, it was probably Thena doing him a favor and letting him show off his strength, even then. She had a weird way of looking out for him, and he only hoped he would get to pay it back somehow.

Gil twisted Ikaris' arm around, wrenching his wrist the wrong way and stealing his spear for himself. This would help him fish if there was any water to be found at all in this hell.

"Coward!" Ikaris roared at him as he scrambled to pursue him, injured or not.

Gil kept running. He didn't want to kill anyone in here. Not even Ikaris.

"Get back here!"

Gil squeezed his eyes shut. Ikaris was faster than he was. He sprinted harder, but he had been running this whole time. He didn't have the stamina of someone who had trained for this their whole life.

"Open your eyes!"

Gil skidded to a stop, slipping slightly on the jungle floor. He twisted to look behind him, vines and leaves in his way. He saw a flash of gold, and Ikaris a few paces behind him. Then Ikaris had a knife in his shoulder. Two--three knives driven into Ikaris' already injured side threw him to the ground.

"Move!" Thena turned, screaming at him over the drum of blood in his ears. She reached out, gripping the shoulder of his sparkly uniform suit and dragging him with her. "Come on!"

Gil let her basically drag him with her. He looked at her hand. She had her knives, a blade of any kind being her signature weapon of choice.

"Gil!" she barked at him, pulling him behind a tree and shaking him. "Look at me!"

He blinked, trying to make sense of what he was seeing. He had been fighting Ikaris. But now he was looking at Thena, with her blonde hair in a tight braid, her pretty green eyes, her pale skin. He was in the jungle, with Thena.

"Gilgamesh," she shook him again. This was why Kingo told him that Thena had so much skill; she didn't have the personality for tribute gifts. She was beautiful, though. "Gilgamesh, look at me and listen."

"I am listening."

"Where are you?"

"The Capitol," he repeated dumbly, just staring at her. But the edges of his vision were coming back, slowly. "The Games--the dome."

"Where is your home?"

"District 4." Home, in his little shack he shared with Phastos, Dad buried on the island and barely scraping by, just the two of them.

"Who are you here for?"

"My brother." Phastos wasn't a Fighter. He was a Thinker--he was gentle hearted, and kind, and he wouldn't have survived in here. Phastos had someone who loved him. Phastos had found love, somehow, in a world like this--a love that was already hard enough. "I'm here for my brother."

"Good." She nodded sharply, slapping him on the arm. She had a sparkly jumpsuit on too, but hers looked better than the rest, Gil thought. She gripped the two - mismatched - knives in her hands. "Let's go."

"Thena," he blinked.

"Here." She said it softer, pulling out a tiny canister from the side pocket on her leg. "It's not much, but there was some rain dripping off the tip of the cornucopia."

Gil gulped down what little water it was. She was right it wasn't much, but by all the districts it was more than he'd had, and he needed it.

"We have to keep moving."

Gil swiped at his chin and licked his lips, eager for every little drop. He looked at Thena's back as she started walking ahead of him, head twitching every which way to keep a lookout for them. "Please tell me you had some of that too."

Thena didn't even look over her shoulder at him. "Have you found any food?"

That was a no. Gil huffed, gripping the spear he had gotten from Ikaris. "I was looking for water. Even if there are weeds at the bottom, I can make us something edible."

That did get her attention. She nodded, saving her words and moving along.

"You're here for Druig," Gil said, and finally got to see some sort of human reaction from her. "That's what you keep telling yourself, right?"

Thena pushed some foliage out of their way, seeming to head in a very determined direction. "Might help keep you sane."

Gil understood that well. He cleared his throat, making sure not to trip on any roots or get caught on any vines. "Phastos...he's really nice. He's funny, too. He's not that strong a swimmer, but he, uh, he like--he invents stuff? Like h-he made a contraption that helps us get the nets in faster. Like an engine that makes the arm on the boat into a fishing rod reel."

Thena paused, holding a leaf up for him to follow. She was smiling. "He sounds like a good kid, Gil."

He smiled at her too, holding up the leaf for himself. She was shorter now that he was closer to her. "What's your brother like?"

Thena waited, really seeming like she was debating answering him at all. But she sliced through a vine in front of them and sighed. "Druig is four years younger than me. He shouldn't have been in the draw to begin with, he was just born early."

He was born early, and already as young as he could be to be in the draw--no wonder she had volunteered for him without hesitation.

"We have no one else," she said more quietly, looking around again. "I made Ajak promise me that if I died, that she would make sure he was taken care of."

"I'm sure he will be," Gil said quickly. They were pretty hollow words. But he meant them all the same. She looked at him just the way he would expect, too. But he smiled, "if he's as smart as you say he is, right?"

That seemed to surprise her. She smiled again, that pretty one that made her a crowd favourite. She smiled with her teeth; he thought it was cute. "Smarter."

#Thenamesh Hunger Games AU #girrrrrrl I have so much #this is very on trend #Ikaris sets out to find Thena first #because either he kills her first #or he kills her last in a much harder fight #there is no middle option he knows this #Gil runs right into him like FUCK #uhh.....youre ugly #Thena hears about it though and tells him he did well #it definitely saved his life to get Ikaris riled up like that #they get to the water and Gil is like I'll make us something to eat #Thena entrusts first watch to him #he's astounded she trusts him #but they both came here for their brothers #he doesn't nod off at all just keeps watch as Thena rests #Flickerman shows a montage of Gil gazing at her lovingly and says ooh perhaps some romance on the battlefield? #Gil doesn't know of course but Kingo snickers because aw the boy would be so shy and embarrassed #getting shipped with his crush on national television #welcome to the child murder channel

[designernishiki]

as much as a i understand and respect ace kiryu truthers, i really feel like kiryu is the type to really take the idea to heart that sex is something vulnerable and meaningful and thus reserved for someone completely trusted and special to him– someone who feels right. after years and years he’s still never legitimately voluntarily slept with someone, always tries to turn women away or is at least apathetic when they try to get physical with him, never feels that deep and specific bond with a woman– nothing compared to some of his bonds with other men throughout his life. and maybe, hopefully, one day it’ll hit him that there’s a pretty big, glaring reason why no women have ever felt “right” to him.

#I’ve become a pretty devout gay kiryu trigger at this point #it just. makes the most narrative sense / is the most narratively interesting / explains So Much #kiryu #yakuza #kazuma kiryu #honest to god though it’s. the most realistic way of explaining why he jumps to the assumption that he must date or kiss a woman or whatever #as soon as possible with little to no room to actually fall for one #with yumi he’s literally in the classic comp het situation of ‘well someone told me I’m in love with her so I guess I’m in love with her’ #no deeper thought no proof of falling for her etc #sayama’s more convincing and they start out actually building a dynamic that could end up being romantic maybe- but then they fucking jump #the gun and have kiryu randomly kiss her like something he saw in a movie instead of. you know. talking about things first. or anything. #partly because they’re in a life or death situation and are essentially pushed together via traumabonding #and that’s Extreme when it comes to the end of kiwami 2. honestly that makeout scene was just. really weird and uncomfortable. for multiple #reasons. I mean for one he says something like ‘I’m sure she (haruka)’ll understand’ in between the making out in reference to him not #even trying to get further from the bomb or anything #and just lowkey choosing to kill himself (disturbingly similarly to nishiki mind you) like uh kiryu did you forget that haruka. literally #lost her mother in an extremely similar situation. in front of her. and nearly lost you at the same time. kiryu’s personality is Not one to #just shrug off something like that- either he was purposefully choosing to kill himself because he felt like a failure and that haruka would #genuinely be better off without him Or the writing there was INSANELY out of character as to make him seem more focused on the supposed #Romeo and Juliet tragic romance situation than saving his daughter the grief of losing EVERYONE CLOSE TO HER and reliving the worst night of #her fucking Life #god if anything the ending of yk2 just screams ‘this relationship would not work out under normal circumstances and both of them are just #clinging onto whatever’s closest out of desperation and need for any kind of emotional catharsis available’ #if you can compare a pairing to romeo and juliet . it’s probably not #a pairing that’s meant to be #sorry im going off on a huge tangent about how weird the ending of yk2 was to me uhhh anyway I could write a video essay on why kiryu being #gay is the most realistic and interesting interpretation of him possible . send tweet

[devilbrakers]

OC DUALITY

was tagged by @morvaris​ to take this uquiz for my ocs >:) thank you nico this was super fun!!

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you and the hat man

oh boy you're fighting demons aren't you? it's like you're in a constant staring competition with something that's always in the peripheral. what the fuck. (at least, that's how people who don't know you would react). at this point you've probably gotten pretty familiar with the hat man. he's a reliable kind of guy. keeps to himself, sure, but you can trust him to be there. maybe a haunting isn't too bad if it's never left your side. you can only imagine what it will be like when he's not there any more.

god-hungry scientist and their abominable child

you stitched something together inside of yourself and gave it life with light from the sky and now it won't die and you can't kill it because part of you loves it and you're not quite right in the head or the person you used to be but at the end of the day it's simply a beast of sadness. you crave the mercy you didn't get from your creators and so i'm telling you please forgive yourself. please hold the monster by the hand.

moon curse of the werewolf

you have found yourself hungered or sickened or ambitious to the point of emotional carnage. you are fine, until you're not, and then you could rip someone in your way apart with your bared teeth by complete accident, and later claw at yourself in fits of pain trying to apologize. do you look at the moon that blessed you in her name, at her marred beauty and baneful eyes, and wish she could just crush that loving-hateful heart of yours before it crushes itself? every bite you take out of flesh is a response to the threads of silver bullets in you that haven't healed. the duality is that the human inside is howling too, gnashing, and without the wolf pelt, everyone can ignore it and turn away. at some point, you got tired of the moon being your only witness. now the wolf is there to make sure others know that you are hurt, and deserving of humanity, of attention to wounds. because that wolf loves you; all of you; and knows when you are hurt better than yourself.

#feel free to ignore this if you want !! idk how many people have already been tagged fjsdkl #anyway. going to be annoying abt this in the tags now <3 #the main thing that gets me abt gray's is the 'maybe a haunting isn't too bad if it's never left your side' #like????? ik the hat man thing is probs supposed to be funny and it kinda is but it fits them so well #almost everyone close to them has died or left them atp but maybe it isn't so bad. just to have one constant #dmitri :| yeah. yeah #everything he felt he had to become to save his sister who was dead the whole time anyway but ended up being a better survival tactic anyway #so he just stuck with it until he died but then he comes back as a demon and now he has to live with what he did forever #i don't think he really could ever forgive himself. mainly for failing nina but it's started to eat him alive less and less over the years #mainly bc he does everything he can not to think about it too much but he also doesn't really want to totally get rid of that part of #himself. the part that was capable of torturing and killing all those people bc it really was powered by love and desperation to some extent #and that proves that maybe he has some shred of humanity left even if she's been gone for decades now #not that he does shit like that anymore. but he's capable and willing to for those he loves even if they'd probably hate him for it #and miko's :( #yeah #lashing out at people when it gets to be too much which is often given the life that she lives and then beating herself up for it nonstop #but it's also a way to protect herself and even tho she died young it got her pretty far #and it helped her protect other people (mainly gray and blake) when it came down to it because she couldn't stand seeing them hurt either #idk if i articulated myself v well but yeah jfdsklfdjs my dmc gang are all my blorbos #my ocs #tag #gray #dmitri #miko

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

will wasn't crying for himself in ko no mono, he was crying for hannibal.

#raj shitposting #they both brush past it but there is an instance in the conversation where will asks hannibal why he killed her... #and hannibal answers as if he was avoiding talking about mischa. which implies that he thought will was talking about her in the first plac #now here's the thing.. this is what makes will emotional not the child he is about to have. it's almost as if he doesn't care. #when he says he'd be a good father it's almost implied that he wouldn't be. and that is true. because he's a good killer. #good killers are bad fathers because they kill their child's childhood. their innoncence. their childishness. #they are clean and merciless with it. they don't take long. and they don't leave a trace. a good killer would never let the child even know #same way gjh did. abigail never realised that he took it all away until will killed him. she only lived with a growing sense of fear inside #hannibal wasn't a good father either he might have not birthed her but he did raise mischa. and he couldn't protect her. he was a child too #this thing is repeated over and over. will wasn't a good father to abigail because he couldn't protect her. at least not for long. #he wasn't a good father to walter either. he couldn't protect his own child for god's sake! will's decidedly a terrible father. #and it's all because of something so primal and deep seated within him that it comes out to play whenever he's trying to be better. #will said he felt as if he was abigail's father because he killed her father. not because he genuinely felt that belongingness. #hannibal's never wanted him to have anything that's not him in his life because he knows he'll never belong to anyone else. #hannibal severes his connections with other people not because he wants to hurt will but because he wants to save him for himself. #he's the same sort of father gjh was. the exact same variety of possessiveness that he strives to hide in the veil of a well wisher. #and will cried for him because he understood that hannibal wanted to be a good father far more desperately than himself because of mischa. #but he was a good killer. that was his nature and he couldn't escape it. #will's eyes basically said oh you poor man. you should've never hoped. you're not what you want to be. you're so much better. #he killed abigail because he's just a killer. that's what he does. he repents it but he does it out of his desperation for will's love. #right... now mizumono hurts even more than it's supposed to. #hannigram #hannibal #abigail hobbs

[minarcana]

#ok guess what fuckers youre going to be on another tag ramble adventure with me #ive been afflicted with the same images in my brain tumbling around and the only way to free my brain is to write them out #and anyways i have been contemplating wol au uri for a bit due to various reasons (he came up and then i got this image and couldnt be free #shb with uri as the wol is. after killing vauthry. he is SO fucked up that raha STILL wont just let him die #he was supposed to have raha send him to the rift with the light and let him die there but now that he cant stop him rahas taking it himsel #and theres the whole. 'no we really cannot have the wol die.' thing. #that makes it infinitely worse to uri. him just yelling through blood to let him die! let him have his turn! he WANTS to die! #the idea of bring told that the wol CANT die makes it so much more unfair to him #'you wouldnt know what to do if i died? i didnt know what to do for years after louisoux died! i still dont know what to do without moenbry #da! papalymo can sacrifice himself and everyone adapts! shtola has thrown herself to the lifestream twice! minfilia died! i had to stay sil #ent and let ryne choose her own path if she died or not! i cant tell people that i would be lost yet everyone gets to tell ME that? #do you think i am better than them do you think them worth less why do they have the right to die and i do not!' #he is SO SO SO much worse as a wol and it falls out in one outburst after hes quizzed as to why he thought he could sacrifice himself #but he also realizes that its really fucked up to say that aloud so yknow. yknow what. yknow. #hell bottle up all his feelings and then one day hell either die or start crying and it looks like he aint allowed to die! #he still takes the aid from ardbert at amaurot with the statement that #'if i dont try and save who i might then ill never be able to face moenbryda' #anyways cannot stop thinking about me giving uri the echo like 'this will be funny!' and hes just 'my life has become infinitely worse' #HEAD IN MY HANDS

[givehimthemedicine]

wait so like. how did El being tied up by vines stop her from yeeting Vecna / saving Max that whole time? she still has telekinesis. she uses it hands free lots of times

#el using her telekinesis to untie herself instead of to save max feels like that vid of the guy who dropped his phone in the #gorilla or whatever enclosure at the zoo and is using a stick to try to get it out but he drops the stick in there too #so he risks his life to hop in there real quick and grabs the stick when he could have just got the phone #seriously she could have killed him at any time during either of his monologues couldnt she #they both act like theyre in an honorable duel lmao girl just kill him while he's talking #is that against the geneva convention or something #analysis junk drawer #mine

[fuckrealityfictionisbetter]

I wish I was a tv executive so I could make a British Criminal minds - mainly just so I could make a televised fan fic without people being mad it’s just a televised fan fic

#criminal minds #for starters reid would keep all his background but he actually has a drug problem for more then 5 eps and we see him struggling at crime #scenes that involve drugs #move up the dating his therapist but make it so people in his life are actually concerned that he’s dating his therapist when they find out! #either make it the same but he tries to help her or make is so she never dumped her Fiancé and he kidnaps abs kills her for the affair #move prison to like s7 and have it planned by scratch but when cat finds out she orchestrates it so that some of the womens prison has #to be moved to a unused wing of the mens and makes a riot so that her and spencer meet up and she gets actual preggas #I do want him to date a women who also has a kid from a serial killer yes I want that to be Ainsley from prodigal son but I’ll his that rip #off #next to Morgan my love #have him show more emotions in child related cases #he’s a player who falls in love with a women even though he’s not ready for commitment and when he finally gets his shit together it’s too #late/the job/timing just made them incompatible for rn #thinking a Buck 911 growth kinda thing though I know dereks nothing like buck1.0 #keep a similar SL to the one with that little girl but make her not so… defo gonna grow up to be an unsub u know #he feels he needs to protect the kid maybe they went through something like he did but he knows to save them he needs to let them go to a #good home because he’s on the road so much but he still visits and the kid wants to be an FBI agent because of him #Emily is a Lesbian so help me god #she adopts a little girl with her wife!!!! #she is happy and doesn’t have relationship drama just oops so I have to fake my own death now drama #more practicality added to that SL as well no grenades in cars #and more visits from the other agents she knows from previous jobs #I think hotch having more too do with his own divorce would be good #like it kinda seemed like it had nothing to do with him and it was just a work problem but like idk I’d probabs change that #I like everyone else’s story’s basically just a little change her and there #I wouldn’t wanna make it just a character drama these SL’s are already in the show or would replace others #like the ooo reid had a ✨vision✨ SL will go #oh wait I want reid to be a women #2 Reid’s!!! #or if double lesbian related pregnancy is viable by this poin 1 reid!

[ocdhuacheng]

the justice devil running around....... and that horseman (presumably famine) girl........ chainsaw man TWO electric boogaloo........ yoshida fucking off to wherever it is he goes........... questions. questions

#are they connected...... what does it mean what does it all mean. #also the girl that yuko picked up looked kinda different from the horse girl but she looked just similar enough that it confused me #because she doesnt have the earrings any more her hair is a different color and her freckles are different #like horse girl just had a few moles the other girl had freckles all across her face #i dont think theyre the same person like everyone else thinks but if so why would fujimoto make them look so similar #just to fuck with us? #.txt #csm #csm spoilers #like i dont think horse girl is justice either i mean the eyes weve only ever seen on horsemen and the little sister thing #also yuko said she wanted to eat asa....... regular devil thing that shes just not used to or hunger as payment? #i wanna know who the justice devil iiiiiiiiiisssss #and i wanna know where yoshida is.. where is that boy where were his wearabouts on the night yuko was killed. alibi pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeee #especially bc octupuses can mimic other animals #hes the most likely to be the impostor idk agony waiting another week after that nonsense #impostor might also be horse girl...... maybe.. #as payment for something? tho she said shed save yukos life for yoru/asa so idk if that makes sense. tho we dont know enough about her motiv #*motives yet so its not impossible #also idk how impersonating csm would be related to a famine devil #maybe about csm's eating things power or whatevre but i feel like that might be a reach #yoshida tho. feels like he (or whoever) is gonna frame denji for a lot of bad shit #and if everyone starts hating/fearing chainsaw man its not like denjis gonna wanna tell everyone its him anymore #though maybe thats obvious and is actually a red herring #and what about the not-horseman girl. i mean i dont think shes involved but do u think shell become a larger character bc they showed her sl #*sleeping with the other main characters (aka asa and denji) #unless yall are right and she really is the horse girl then ill end up looking like a clown #but she looks just different enough that it makes me think she isnt

[hahanoiwont]

Black is so interesting to me. He's in so many ways Red's opposite which makes sense, but the one thing that manages to unify them is *guilt*. Specifically guilt about actions that have harmed Frisk. And while Red tried to deny it where Black almost immediately let it consume him they both ultimately let that guilt drive them to the same conclusion- to follow them.

Also!!!!! Also the fact out of all of them Black is the most Frisk's *parent* (and the fact Red and Fell both have arguments for second place but that's another discussion) just makes me feel things. That's his baby!!!! That's his baby and they keep ending up horrifically out of reach oh my god. Honestly if Toriel ever gets over how they met the two of them would probably be really good at sympathizing with eachothers plights.

Anyway I want to lock Black and Red in a room and not let them out until one of them stops moving just to see who wins

oh absolutely, I think you're seeing something vital to each of them here. They both blame themselves, but Red decided he needed to seek retribution by torturing himself, and Black decided he needed to devote his life to making up for what he did in any way possible. And, interestingly, Black killed Frisk where Red refused to...but yet he's still the one who Frisk trusts not to betray them. And Red's still the one who can make some part of them feel like it's safe to relax.

Black and Toriel would make great friends tbh--Black has Issues with parenthood and the concept of being a parent, having killed his own parent to save his and Slim's lives; but I think that Toriel would be able to recognize him as a young, unsupported father to a traumatized kid who had to make terrifying sacrifices to keep them safe. And since so much of her relationship with Frisk is characterized by providing them the support they need to be functional but not understanding how to make them feel safe, Black's obvious familiarity with their trauma and the automatic adjustments he makes for their sake make him seem like an ideal parent. I think they'd also have a lot to bond over wrt each of them being afraid of losing a child, and having grieved over lost children. Toriel would be very happy for Black that he got his back.

Also unfortunately Red survives the battle royale because he's not about to let Black kill him. that's for frisk to do, obviously.

#whither then fic #i actually have no idea who wins there #a rando with black's skillset? yea red dies he's a little irresponsible with his life #but since black is black red gets indignant #if red doesn't get to kill himself then this asshole can't either #also re: black and toriel #just did set this up a little bit in his convo with her about the swapfells #where he framed it up as two terrified parents chasing after their endangered child #thus putting them in toriel's position at the end of the pacifist run #and since she did hurl fireballs at asgore...she kinda understands not stopping to think of good manners #before barging in to save the baby #she respects black and slim for taking action where she took so long to

[truethes]

one of my all time favourite things about licht has to be the fact that literally everyone who meets him immediately shrugs him off as some unusual guy who is stuck and only cares about his own disconnected reality, only to have to face the music (no pun intended) that he’s actually the complete opposite. 

#❛ ♡ › jupiter : 𝐨𝐨𝐜. #large image / #even the day lawless meets licht. he's being used by iris ( lawless previous eve ) #by either as the manga puts it: going out to dinner w/ her for an important meeting of some sort #or as the anime would have it. the mask to hide the fact shes going out with her actual boyfriend that night #but like. everyone in this damn manga rlly looks at licht and (rightfully) questions what the heck he means by what he says #ONLY to discover that he cares so much more than people think #even though they spent a year fighting. its obvious licht has always been aware that lawless was hurting over smth. #the fact that he didnt ever push for further explanations. probably didnt ask him for anything ( because angels don't accept demon charity #ever. ) #still protected mahiru despite the fact that he already advised he didnt want to be involved with tht business #almost got killed by lawless for telling what he knew to be the truth to help him come to terms with thing ( by not pushing such emotions #but rather becoming the helping hand to pull him out of it ) #to going to help misono who he didnt rlly know in the movie .... #to helping all the subclasses in c3 arc and finding some kinda friendship in the mother #to helping niccolo and risking his own life to save the mafia probs when those first gunshots rung out #( only stopping bc guil demanded he get down ) #to now literally bleeding out on the floor and only caring to convince lawless that hes ok and he needs to calm down ... that he expected #this so its okay #despite the way hed have people see it #licht RARELY puts himself first when it comes to emotions or like negative feelings. he doesnt bring his own up ever and it devastates me bc #so many people would /use/ that terribly if he isnt careful and i just. want him happy. #i want him ok physically as well but also. licht gives a lot to everyone else buddy you deserve the biggest hug in the galaxy :') #keep on listening to claire de lune and honestly it makes me feel just as much for him as it does for kaede

[dravidious]

You're emealing

Pic of me finding this lovely ask in my inbox:

Also I was playing path of champions and got to a point where it wants me to beat a 3-star adventure with one champion from each region, and I didn't have a shadow isles champion but I had 20/30 shards needed to unlock a champion called Gwen who has a really cool mechanic called hallowed so I decided that if I didn't get a shadow isles champion I'd spend my wild shards on Gwen but then I got Thresh who's a shadow isles champion so I didn't need to buy Gwen and I was like "oh well I'll get Gwen eventually" but Thresh honestly kinda sucks because he's really mean flavor-wise and his deck is really slow so instead of playing him I worked my way up to the 3-star adventure with a shurima champion called Nasus (also not the shurima champion I wanted but he's at least good) and beat it and I got 20 random shards AND THEY WERE GWEN SHARDS :D! And now I'm playing Gwen and she's so cool and hallowed is so cool and everything is perfect!

#asks #ironically gwen and thresh have similar gimmicks #they both love killing off their own units #but Hallowed is a keyword that means “after this unit dies for the rest of the game when you attack your leftmost attacker gets +1/+0” #meanwhile thresh just has a bunch of sac fodder and cards that need sacrifice #thresh can't finish a game to save his life which is a flavor-win because he tortures people for eternity but it's also super boring #meanwhile gwen is progressively stacking up hallowed deaths to attack with more and more power #i love hallowed because if my units die then i get buffs and if my units survive then i have units so either i win or i win #and i also get to actually push for lethal instead of agonizingly grinding out the game #like yeah thresh wins EVENTUALLY but god it's so slow #meanwhile gwen just chops the enemy in half with her gargantuan sewing scissors #AND ALSO SHE'S FUCKING NICE AND NOT A TORTURER #the hallowed units are a bunch of ghost musicians that are hosting a party and they're all nice and good and fighting the Black Mist #and when they die they just hallow and are like “haha let the show go on!” as they help you kill your enemies from beyond the grave #and they're just like “ah the guest of honor has arrived” and gwen is like “oh wow i've never been the guest of honor!” and it's so sweet! #meanwhile thresh's units are like “oh god i hope thresh doesn't find me” and thresh is like “muwahaha i'm gonna torture you” #overall gwen is a massive improvement in every way #now if only i had any idea what the heck the Black Mist is