#jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

season of the drifter spoilers yeah i know that shit is over just. dont @ me -- lets get more specific and say thorn/last word spoilers below because. it is late and i pick the worst times to Pop Off lmao 

i honestly dont understand when people say the shin malphur/dredgen vale reveal is character assassination for several reasons:

1. shin malphur had no character until the drifters gambit/letters from a renegade lore books and you cant base an entire character around that. that shit is surface level at best, words addressed to certain people talking about certain things and have the books of sorrow and calus in general not taught you that people lie??? especially to ‘the’ guardian. 

2. on that note i just think its absurd to assume its character assassination based off of the d1 lore because thats literally a small fucking part of shins overall life/story. like yeah its shin talking about palamon/jaren/yor but think about the context, think about our viewpoint as a character, think about the ‘legendary hunter shin malphur’ and question the fact that you have seemingly accepted that who he is is defined in that singular moment when he killed yor. that thats all he ever was. no, bitch, he kept fucking living after that, for centuries perhaps. 

3. MOST IMPORTANTLY we dont fucking know what happened in between yors death and shin creating the shadows except for how fucking torn up shin was that yor didnt even raise the fuckin gun at him. everyone is so caught up in this reveal that theyre not pushing past it and seeing the potential reasons why, theyre not thinking about the aftermath, theyre just seeing ‘legendary hunter shin malphur’ vs the words of a broken, older man crushed under the weight of his own legend and screaming WAIT THIS ISNT RIGHT

4. BITCH YOURE RIGHT IT ISNT!!!!! BUT THATS NOT BAD STORYTELLING, THATS A CHARACTER WHO IS TRAPPED IN HIS OWN SHITTY BELIEF SYSTEM THAT WE HAVENT BEEN PRIVY TO THE MAKING/INFLUENCING OF. THATS A CHARACTER SO BELIEVING THAT HIS OWN DECISIONS ARE THE RIGHT ONES EVEN WHEN THEY’RE DISHONOURABLE. 

5. there are more reasons ill probably come back to but its 4am and im tired 

#this whole post is a goddamn mess #honestly following destiny twitters was a mistake lol #i joke i dont mind it #but i get a way when it comes to this topic in particular #as you can tell lmao #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

so i really really really want to examine the invitations of the nine every week in correspondence with the tarot card that they’re named for 

for several reasons: 1, im a goddamn nerd who 2, loves tarot cards and 3, i fucking looked up the high priestess card before we did the invitation today and i guessed it was going to be about mara and spoiler alert IT WAS IT WAAAAS

so i’m gonna try and get caught up before next friday and post my thoughts each week because each one has been scarily accurate to whatever has been going on in the invitation and im so here for it 

anyway, its not gonna be done for a few days so i wanted to share my thoughts from the first invitation, ive also tried to explain a bit about each card for those not versed in tarot but ive only been using the cards for a year so a lot of my info comes from biddytarot which is a resource i use a lot i’d recommend it

and i’ll be honest a lot of the explanations are going to be the whole ‘can i copy your homework’ ‘yeah but make it look a little bit different’ bc im worried about getting that part wrong aha 

anyway, enjoy some ramblings under the cut!

Week 1: The World // W E A S K T O S E E Y O U

The World is the last card in the Major Arcana, numbered 21. The card depicts a naked woman, covered by a cloth, looking behind her to the past while her body moves to the future. The wreath around her depicts a cycle ending and beginning almost immediately. There are other motifs on the card that call to other cards (The Magician and the Wheel of Fortune) and represent harmony and balance.

Upright, The World represents completion and accomplishment, encouraging you to appreciate your successes and bask in the joy of them. This card asks you to celebrate before jumping into the next thing, to look back and reflect on all that you have done to get to this final point.

Furthermore, reflection is a key point to this card. If you haven't reached that peak yet, this card invites you to reflect on past experiences and lessons you have learned along the way in order to aid you. This reflection can be helpful in bringing the cycle to its end so that you can start anew.

It also in a more literal sense can relate to world travel, especially on a large scale, and gaining an appreciation for people and cultures around the world.

Reversed, The World represents seeking personal closure, and/or coming across delays in something. This card encourages you to embrace something you probably already know; it’s time to move on. To stop looking into the past and take that step into the future. But, it’s not going to be that easy, and you need to find closure in order to take that step.

The World reversed also tells you that you’re trying really hard to finish a project or make it to the next goal, but you’re not taking the necessary steps to get there. In particular, you’re trying to use short cuts and it’s not working out.

There’s also a warning here, one that asks you if you’re slacking off towards the end of a goal or a project, or even alerts you that that’s what is happening.

Finally, The World reversed can also represent a delay in a project, urging you to find a different way to get to the finish line.

The cutscene we see in this invitation is Drifter being visited by someone who represents a part of his past: a Shadow of Yor. Then immediately afterwards he is gifted the Haul by the Nine, starting a brand new cycle for him to introduce it to the Guardians along with Prime.

“Gambit is a chance at salvation,” he says to the Shadow; a chance at a new cycle, perhaps? Further connotations of leaving the past and embracing the future. If we’re looking at the reverse meanings, even finding closure in such a meeting?

In particular, the word reflection really stands out to me with this card, as the Nine ask us to experience a vision, to reflect on something from the past. The Emissary also talks of two other people who, in the past, have shown themselves to be worthy to the Nine.

Also, The Emissary refers to Drifter as ‘Dredgen’ - ignoring his correction that ‘it’s Drifter, now’. You could argue she’s looking to the past, whilst having to move forward with what the Nine want.

Drifter is also well traveled, we can guess as much given who he is and also the advice he gives us in the allegiance quest; “Trade your jumpship for a long-range hauler and see the universe while you can.”

“I want the best for you, kid. And you won’t find it in this system.” Again, leaving one cycle for something new - encouraging us not to end up like the reversed version of this card; looking for short cuts in our endeavors, or becoming stagnant. He’s encouraging us to seek a different way to fight the Darkness, as the reverse version does.

#jadeisadork.txt #wip #i guess #oh MAN #these invitations have me on tenderhooks christ #also pls be gentle with me if u know more about tarot than i do #i am a small creacher #i really dont want to get that side of this wrong aha

[scarletrebel]

a list of things i wanna ramble about in no particular order:

why season of the drifter is good (and why the reason people with popular twitter accounts hate it is because it benefits casual players over them but why that isnt a bad thing come on guys) 

w h y drifter is an important character in the game right now/his potential for the future/if he actually has our best interests in mind as ‘the guardian’

how bungie could potentially turn aunor into a fully fledged npc/why we should see her in game and what it would add to the world 

potential future allegiance quests (id honestly really like to design some because this is a thing i want to do for fun apparently) 

the shin malphur reveal and why i seem to be in a minority of people who like it (talking about him being crushed under his own legend, why he’s a sad character and why the reveal and his thoughts going into it make some kind of sense if we’re thinking about him as a character regardless of it being ‘a good idea’) 

orin and drifter. just. i just want to talk about them. i want to talk about them a lot, for a long time. 

why the lore books introduced in season of the drifter ARE THE BEST ONES WE’VE EVER GOTTEN (man with no name, ecdysis, the warlock aunor, stolen intelligence, for every rose a thorn, dust) and not just because they give us more information but what makes them good in terms of narrative, expanding on the world as we know and challenging out beliefs of it 

how terrified i am that people screaming ‘sEAsOn Of thE drIftEr Is AwfUl bEcAUsE thErE Is NOthIng fOr mE, mr strEAms A lOt mc strEAmEr crUcIblE chAmpIOn, tO dO’ is going to make bungie pull back on how cohesive the narrative and the story in this season has been in favour of dumping hollow weapons, activities, and whatever else into future seasons and expansions to satisfy what appears to be the masses. the truth of it is they’re just louder than those who want similar content to season of the drifter going forward 

what i’d like to see bungie do with destiny as a whole going forward, whether d3 is a good idea, how destiny could be rebranded and what they should learn from d1, taken king, forsaken, and these seasons as a whole 

#alllll seaons of the drifter related #bc fuck you streamer mc streams a lot this season WAS SO GOOD #AND I WANNA RAMBLE ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF BUT I HAVE NO TIME #AND A LOT OF OPINIONS #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

‘The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that yes, Bungie put these whispers in to various places in the game as a nod to the whispers in the lore, and how our Guardian is somewhat straying from the path of the light with its recent acquisition of the Whisper or the Worm, or the deals made with the Drifter. So the whispers that that Hive and Dredgens of Yor have heard, we’re hearing too.’ - (Spooky Whispers Are Freaking Out ‘Destiny 2’ Players, Here’s How To Hear Them) 

bungie 

i 

will 

die 

if this is what you’re going for at any capacity as far as the narrative of the guardian being in the ‘grey area’ goes 

#PLEASE.... #IT'D BE SO GOOD #GIMME MORE OUT OF PLACE WHISPERS PLS #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

i also dont........ know why im kinda shocked that guardians are canonically dying in gambit?? 

also that (and im HEAVILY guessing here that the two people in the convo aunor sent to us are shaxx and ikora) shaxx seems so okay with that and the drifter and something about things working as they should be with him

like i know we had the narrative preview where a whole team died in prime but even normal gambit?? and it not being widely known?? 

theres a lot more to the vanguard thats going on and i......... i have NO idea whats gonna happen with the allegiance quests 

#season of the drifter spoilers #messages from aunor #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

“Your friends are dying on the Drifters watch. How long before it’s you?” 

theres......... theres SOMETHING about aunor calling avia out specifically for ‘letting’ grier get attatched to the drifter and how she is going to watch that boy slip through her fingers if she isnt careful 

(avia bristles at the notion that shes his keeper, that hes been through his own slice of hell and back and still no one respects him enough to trust him)

theres something else about aunor staring avia down and telling her that given grier, oryx, toland, mara, rook, dredgen yor, the drifter, riven, that she owes the vanguard everything, and avia spitting deifance in her face because the last time she was told she owed someone everything, she died when trying to run away from them 

something more about aunor finding information about avias past and driving that above point home, avia screaming and raging at the gall of this praxic warlock to throw so much in her face and expect her to make ‘the right decision’ 

aunor realising avias in contact with shin and making sideways comments abut how the shadows are invading the city and the man with the golden gun is nowhere to be found. if only someone could reach out. 

i just. avias always had a lot of respect for warlocks but this one is really testing her lately 

#season of the drifter spoilers #messages from aunor #my ocs: avia #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

uh oh time to make a pinterest board for the borderlands oc i havent touched in 3 YEARS 

#I CANT BELIEVE THIS DUMB FRANCHISE IS FINALLY BACK #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

something like a month later im still incensed at someone on twitter who made a dumb tier list of destiny dlcs/expansions and put season of the drifter not only at the bottom but in the ‘shit tier’ when I HAVE LOVED SEASON OF THE DRIFTER SO MUCH and i can feel a full on post about how good this season has been and why its story and lore content and the game loop between reckoning and prime is good and why people only hate it because it benefits casual players more that crucible types and streamers 

shrug who knows if i’ll get around to it i just want my rage(tm) documenting 

#jadeisadork.txt #shrugs #not personal just musings im not sure everyone will care for aha

[scarletrebel]

⭐star⭐ waffle at me about your favourite lines youve written

ohhh friend you have opened a pandoras box and i hope you are ready also thank you aha

so i started…….. picking some lines and made the Executive Decision to just do one fic because i was planning on doing a couple from a handful of fics but turns out im far too prone to waffling about this kind of stuff because i love picking things apart and figuring out why they work because i love fuckign words and the things they evoke and stuff so yeah this is just some fave lines from most recent fic, requital. 

this was part of a ‘directors cut’ writer thing and if anyone has any more prompts, feel more than free to send them my way! 

Requital, Chp. 1: 

His honesty, wrapped tightly underneath a chivalrous act; a throwaway comment to soften the exposure of such a question, draws her closer.

She kisses him, and hopes that even though the motion is countless in the amount of times they’ve come together, that the answer is plain enough. A claim, she hears her own words in her head, tasting the tobacco of his morning cigarette on her tongue, the warmth of the pull at his hands on her hips.

so whilst i cant say this section was directly inspired by the ecdysis book, what i can say is that there is definitely some influence going on here, in particular these two lines from the page ‘synesthesia’:

“Wu Ming is a bonfire in the darkness, and she crawls toward his warmth.”

“Wu Ming leaves his questions by the wayside as he is drawn inexorably into the gravity well of her desperate honesty.” 

and thats not something i realised until i was writing the final draft, and im pretty pleased with myself considering not only is requital going to examine some of the similarities between avia and drifter, but also the fact that ecdysis is probably my favourite book. i mean…… ‘drawn inexorably into the gravity well of her desperate honesty’ what the FUCK KIND OF LINE its gorgeous i cant deal with it or this book or this page or how desperately gorgeous the tragedy of drifter and orins relationship is 

also…… look. im a hopeless romantic. always have been, probs always will be, so when i say avia and rook are soulmates i mean it in the cheesiest way possible. right before this is rook feeling a bit self-conscious about the whole awoken engaging thing, and theres no way avia can actually put into words how irrevocably in love she is with rook. so she kisses him, and hopes beyond hope that she can put those feelings into motions if not words. i also enjoy the small bit of possessiveness that came out of her too, because the whole ‘claim’ thing with the awoken was there since the first draft but this section came in the final edit, she thinks of it so casually but when she goes on to say that she’d actually duel anyone who came between them i…….. would not put it past her to be 100% down to do that. 

rook isnt a bonfire in the darkness, he’s an anchor in the deep, a solid tether when the sea becomes a storm. 

(ayyy where the FUCK WAS THAT WHEN I WAS WRITING THIS) 

Requital Chp. 2:

Here’s the thing, if you’ve gone through the trouble of decrypting this (a fortified certain-eyes-only encryption that took me a couple of hundred years to perfect, thank you very much), it at least means you’re interested, so hear me out.

i like this line a lot, for a few reasons. drifter knows avia well enough at this point to be well acquainted with her temper and lack of time for dealing with his nonsense. it’s the first flick of the coin between the two of them, drifter laying the proverbial gauntlet down and at the end of the day, its up to her whether or not she picks it up. 

and she does, avia asks levi to decrypt it, and the first thing she sees is drifter acknowledging that shes done so and asking her to at least hear him out. he’s kind of caught her out, and she can respect that even if thats not at the forefront of her mind. avia also has her own brand of curiosity when it comes to people like the drifter, so this is kind of the first inkling of that. and it also (i hope) makes you wonder if drifter is aware of that curiosity that she has, if he sent the message decrypted on purpose to get her interested. 

She smiles at the note, throws her legs over the bed and stretches around a yawn. Five minutes later, Levi puts her in her armour.

“Are you sure you don’t want to stick around?” The Ghost asks. “We don’t have anything urgent to do. There’s breakfast here.”

Avia hums, considering. She moves into the kitchen, glances over the fridge, the cupboards. She looks then onto the sofa, the sprawled pillows, untidy blankets. Suddenly the armour on her body feels heavy, out of place, like the metal has no right being somewhere like this.

“No. I’m not hungry, let’s go.”

“Okay,” Levi says in that tone of voice that lets her know they aren’t buying it. “Should we walk, or transmat?”

Avia notices the balcony door is still open. She walks over and closes it, the streets barely alive as one or two civilians walk to and fro, glancing idly at each other as they pass. “Transmat.”

avia immediately makes an comment about being all domestic with rook in chapter 1. its just not something that suits her in her own mind, and that line (even though i havent waffled about it bc dear god theres too much here already) was something i immediately knew i wanted if i was going to write a day of domestic bliss with her and her fiance, because i knew it’d be a hard thing for her to just get on with like a normal person aha. 

so, we get this part in chapter 2. the domestic bliss is over, and what avia knows best, what shes always known best, is a set of armour and getting back to work. however this part of herself contradicts that which she’s experienced for the past day, and especially the line ‘Suddenly the armour on her body feels heavy, out of place, like the metal has no right being somewhere like this.’ i put in to really reinforce that idea. its not the metal that feels out of place in this scene, its the person in the metal. and her eagerness to transmat straight to the tower rather than walk through the peaceful city streets shows her tendency to run from such thoughts.

this part came really naturally, actually. its a small snapshot into a bigger struggle avia has with herself (especially given the dreaming city, the reef, petra and now potentially going back to the worst part of the shore with drifter) of where she belongs, and more importantly, if she deserves to belong. which is why levi talks to her in that tone because they know what shes doing, theyve seen it so many times before – avia in a scenario that resembles something normal and running from it with no one around to stop her, because in her subconscious she doesnt believe she deserves it. 

“Ada-1, I believe, has fully settled into the Tower. She becomes more and more tolerable of the Guardians by the day. And with the discovery of Niobe labs, her mood has been favourable.”

i had no idea how fun scarlet was to write until i got to this part. she almost has her own language, really. writing ‘im really proud of ada because i spent all morning with her and she was only snippy with like two guardians and shes been really uplifted and im really happy for her since they found niobe labs’ in scarlets own ‘okay but heres the relevant information’ way of explaining things is a challenge but FUN. like, really fun?? 

because scarlet wouldnt be mentioning adas mood if she didnt care, ya know? and its not that she cant say that longer thing about being proud and stuff, its just that she doesnt see the sense in it and its not important information. like, if avia and eden were to spend a dedicated amount of time whittling her down she would absolutely say ‘i am so proud of ada and also i wanna smooch her face how do i do that as an exo’ but its just not a thing for her. but part of the reason why ada and scarlet being together was an idea that i had was because i imagine that line of thinking probably suits ada. 

“It was at Ada’s request. I had more knowledge of the area in its current state, and felt more comfortable talking to Ikora and her Hidden agents than Ada did…”

supportive exo girlfriends. that is all. man ive gotta write more about these two

“Hmm,” Ada wears a concerned stare masked behind a formal rigidity that Avia knows her Warlock teammate best for.

if im being honest, i just really enjoy this line. i imagine its hard for exos to show concern, esp a character like ada and my girl scarlet, so avia has spent a lot of time dissecting certain facial cues and yeah im proud of how this description came out aha

…as if she hadn’t spent the past few months clipping sidelong comments and threatening him when his Gambit veered out of the realm of her control.

avia is a control freak. plain and simple, and i wanted to make that as obvious as possible considering this sentence is only a few away from avia choosing to go and talk to drifter. 

there’s a certain amount of ‘i need to understand this thing that i have limited knowledge on so i can predict/control/plan for it in the future’ in how avia views drifter in general, its a kind-of warlock way of thinking about things but the big difference is avias need for control in these situations is a) selfish and b) only applies to things that she knows she has a good chance of understanding/taming. shes not going around learning about the hive because she has a good understanding that thats a cosmic threat that can only be defended against until it comes. drifter on the other hand is on her doorstep.

i also really loved the contradiction in putting ‘gambit’ and ‘control’ next to each other in a sentence, i kinda hoped it showed how conflicted avia is about going and talking to drifter, and maybe even how naive it is of her to think that it could turn out okay. 

She was incensed, maybe, at the way he spoke to Ada, needed to go and stomp the idea out of his head but he got her talking, like he does

i like this line bc its avia acknowledging that she knows how shes viewed. she knows everyone sees her as a hot-head, she knows her anger veers away from her sometimes and whilst she’s gotten better at getting a handle on it, it’s still an aspect of her that people who dont know her well enough find it hard to get past. 

i also enjoy how new people to this fic/avia in general might not know that this is a big part of her? so she’s trying to use it as an excuse, ‘well no one can blame me if i say i got really mad because thats what i do’ and it (hopefully) tells new people about that aspect of her character without having to show the worst part of it, the convo with ada being an introduction to it i guess – especially since the past few scenes have seen her a lot softer than im used to writing aha. 

“Dammit,” she mutters under her breath. And walks towards the Drifter before she can make a better decision

fun fact – this line was originally ‘and walks down the corridor before she can make a better decision.’ 

i changed it because i wanted to make it more obvious that avia is making a conscious decision to choose drifter, that she’s walking towards a path that she knows is not a good idea. it provides foreshadowing for the allegiance quest and referring to him as ‘The Drifter’ cements it as an idea that she’s walking towards and not necessarily a person. 

#ask thing #thanks buddy!!! #this was really fun #im such a fucking nerd someone put me in the bin honestly ahahaha #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

TWAB just confirmed tomorrows invitation of the nine is called ‘the tower’ 

if i watch drifter and orin fight with my two eyes im gonna cry ya’ll i cant i CANT

#IF IM BEING HONEST I REALLY CAN AND IM EXCITED #BUT ALSO A F R A I D #I SAID TO PIN LIKE 4 WEEKS AGO #IF WE SEE THE TOWER ITS BAD #jadeisadork.txt #season of the drifter spoilers

[scarletrebel]

i think avia is....... very conflicted over aunors messages, and with the allegiance quest coming up ive got her and her guilt on my brain 

the latest message would have twisted that knife of guilt just a bit more. ‘i hope i can trust you’ -- that kind of sentence is either a last hope or a thinly veiled threat, and avia knows it as the latter more so. 

‘the drifters playing you,’ yeah no shit avia would think. but to read that once upon a time the praxic order believed he was attempting to build his own throne world would make her laugh. she can sense a back peddle, even reading it. aunor and the order have no idea what that thing on the derelict is, now that the nine are involved. which means that one of avias own theories on the drifter could be true, and believe you me she’s hanging onto it: he’s in over his head. there’s a good chance it could come crashing down on him sooner or later, a group of dredgens around him or not. 

but. 

if avia is being honest with herself? she...... she likes drifter. she’s wary of him, wary of his effect on grier, rook, everyone around her it seems. (but doesnt that remind her of everyone else, of scarlet and eden and even grier, when she met them for the first time and held them at arms length?) but she likes his game, likes how he does what he wants in the face of people who want him dead, likes his attitude (dont even look at her. she knows.) agrees with opinions on light and dark being a symmetry, she’s just never been loud about them. and she doesnt think that drifter is doing any of this as a ‘for a better cause’ oh, no. its just that she’s always, since holding thorn in her hand, believed that the more the guardians knew about infamous legends like yor the less likely they’d be to repeat the same path of destruction. 

and now? now she’s hearing about shadows coming back to the city. about guardians taking drifters dredgen title too seriously, about the man with the golden gun having his second thoughts on how to wield the light for what you believe, not for what someone else believes. zavala and ikora know the vanguard are weak, they’re even admitting so. 

so. her alliegance? well. she doesnt have allegiances to anyone but her clan, her family, and that isnt an option. 

she’ll tell herself it’s to keep an eye on him, and she’ll tell everyone else that too. scarlet and eden will understand, their eyes cast down slightly. she’ll joke to grier, urge rook to trust her. tell carver to watch her back. she’ll tell herself that the vanguard, ikora and zavala, they cant blame her or take it personally. she supposes they saw it coming, and she’s not surprised. 

i just. someones got to sit this girl down and really really make her own these decisions she’s making. tell her she isn’t all good or bad, and it’s okay to be in the middle. 

#my ocs: avia #jadeisadork.txt #OHHHHHHHH SHE'S SO CONFLICTED #avia is just 'who am i' ever since shin gave her his gun #my poor girl

[scarletrebel]

avia telling drifter to lie to her -- tell me orin wasnt your friend, tell me you and i are not similar, tell me you didnt clutch her as tightly to yourself as you could and still she was lead somewhere you couldnt follow, tell me she didnt chase the nines secrets and pay the price for it

(ecdysis spoilers below) 

and what kills me is....... if, and this is a massive if i know but, if drifter knew that orin was sent to find the nine by mara -- under a debt, a boon the queen was owed by her, and avia knows all about oaths and breaking them -- in order to find out who killed sjur, and became obsessed after the fact, he could pin it on mara and give avia some small relief 

even if he misses out the part where it was him who pushed her away, that he tore a schism between them so deep that the nine were the only ones who could catch her when she ran from him 

#im gonna watch that cutscene tomorrow and CRY #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

me: ahh being focused on destiny stuff lately has been great aha love that trash man drifter--

jacksepticeye:

me:

jacksepticeye: 

me: oh god no

jacksepticeye: [lassos my leg with a rope made out of chase brody pain]

me: pleASE NOT LIKE THIS--

#this is DUMB BUT ITS TRUE #destiny mutuals Blease forgive me #i have beeen starving for ego content #starving i say #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

Alright, so, Avia is going back to the home turf, getting all tangled up in Reef politics. How do ypu figure her general attitude is going to belike during Forsaken? Toward Uldren, Petra, the Fallen enemies/allies? Possibly Mara if she decides to join this shitshow of emotions?

‘if she decides to join this shitshow of emotions’ layla honest to god you have SUCH a way with words ahahaha

okay fantastic question SO

avia hates any sort of politics. ironic i know cause she’s pledged to new monarchy, however thats mostly due to how passionate she is about having a home and making sure the people of the city have what took her so long to find. the other edge to that sword however is how vehemently unwilling to get involved/do any research she is. i like to think shes getting better at checking herself, but as for how she was at the reef before she became a guardian?

she literally did anything the queen told her to do, and thought herself involved in the politics of the reef because of that loyalty. it took the death of petras sister for her to realise that actually she had no say, and everything she did for the queen never changed that. 

from my perceptions of forsaken at the moment, the tangled shore doesnt really have any politics, so if anything avia is kind of in her element. theres a fic idea im going over in my head, some kind of flashback of her having to assassinate someone or take them to the tangled shore in order to kill them quietly. the queen told her to do it there specifically because of how lawless the tangled shore is.

so i imagine she prefers being on the tangled shore as a guardian way more than being at the reef as a guardian, ya know? plus if uldren has pushed out the fallen and she can run around fucking up his day no matter what she does? solid fucking bonus. 

as for prince edgelord, she fucking hates him. 

with every ounce of her being she hates that man. he was always leering at her, backhanded compliments, and she kind of wanted to impress him to make the queen happy but also just wanted him to leave her alone. he kept offering training, subvert missions, fighting her corner when it suited him. it took her a long time to wise up to it, and he was the one who accused her of treason when she started to question everything the reef was doing. 

(hence why she’s reluctant to question anything now, unless it’s blatantly wrong/puts someone she cares about in danger)

think…. think grier and tolands relationship, but without any hero worship. they’re kind of bound together as mentor-trainee but avia didnt want any part of it and if you insinuated that uldren taught her anything, she’d throw you into a taken portal herself. 

(she’s purposefully un-learnt a lot of what he taught her anyway, thanks to her clan, so it doesnt apply)

the only reason she doesnt want to be the one to put a bullet in between his eyes is because she wants rook to do it. for his mentor, for cayde.

her relationship with petra is still…… tense, before forsaken. they’ve patched things up, they know that they were both being used (that might change once we hear petras dialogue in forsaken though, depends) so they just kind of get on with it without acting like friends. i imagine that’ll stay the same in forsaken, things might get tense again if petra suggests anything other than killing uldren. i think maybe petra might try to reach out to avia, i know what hes like, i know what he put you through and avia will have none of it at first. who knows, a bridge could be rebuilt. (that’d be some sweet fucking development for my girl actually!!) 

as for the skorn, thats totally gonna depend on what they’re like in the game, potentially just nothing more than steps in between her and uldren. the fallen, however, especially this new captain? 

i cant wait to see what hes like in game.

i think avia could get along with him, in a tense ‘youre a crazy territorial bastard and im hellbent on revenge so we’ve got to get along’ kind of way. they probably just amuse each other, tbh, both hating uldren, both going about it in different ways.

and, mara. well. 

thats going to be really, really fucking complicated for avia. theres still a part of her, a pull, something inside of her that feels that loyalty. it was practically ingrained in her from birth. she’s being running away and denying it ever since her ghost revived her. nevertheless, she’s a guardian. this is her life now. she has a family, a home, a worthy cause to fight for. everything she didnt even realise she wanted when she was part of the royal guard. she was chosen by mara, yes, but now shes chosen by something else. something that believed there was a second chance worthy of taking. mara, uldren, the awoken, they never even gave her that second chance. 

so, avia owes mara nothing. not even her bitterness. 

oops i made myself sad

#under a read more cause obv i went off the deep end aha #thank you so much buddy!!!!!!! #you helped me flesh out a lot of how shes feeling in forsaken #planted some seeds for the dlc #so thanks!! #also i MADE MYSELF SAD WITH THAT LAST PARAGRAPH #I LOVE AVIA SO MUCH MY GIRL #asks #my ocs: avia #jadeisadork.txt #laylaisthename

[scarletrebel]

catch me writing toland as a disgusting manipulative dickhead when in canon he’s gonna end up just being a fuckin lonely hive-nerd dude bro or some shit 

#BUNGIE YOU COWARDS MAKE HIM /AWFUL/ #MY ANGSTY ASS NEEDS IT #side note: im very tired and yet hyperactive can you tell??? #jadeisadork.txt

[scarletrebel]

ya’ll i am reading game informers newest article about the eight fallen barons in forsaken and SCREAMING

im mostly just pointing out things that i find really interesting, but here’s the link if you wanna read!

fair warning though, it includes some spoilers! 

as for what i found interesting, non spoilery stuff up here, spoilers below the cut! 

‘Hunting down the Barons comprises a large part of your journey in the initial campaign, and each has their own story, traits, and boss encounter, making them some of Destiny 2’s most interesting foes yet.’

some of the in game info on the barons comes from cayde himself.

‘The Barons were once a hodgepodge of lowly Dregs, cast out from the upstart House of Exile. Forsaken and scorned by their own Eliksni comrades, and with no one to depend on but each other, they didn’t just survive… they thrived through ingenuity, ruthlessness, and teamwork. They raided their Fallen brethren’s encampments, stealing ether and growing ever stronger; they pillaged and terrorized Awoken outposts throughout the post- Taken War Reef. Like the “Cowboys” of Tombstone, they became the scourge of the Reef, overpowering other gangs of Fallen pirates and scavengers, and rendering the once flourishing homeland of the Awoken into a lawless frontier.’

‘At a stand-off as legendary as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Scorned Barons were defeated. Most were killed; but 7 of the original 8 were captured and tossed into the deepest and darkest cells of the Prison of Elders.’

one of the barons is responsible for ‘fueling tensions’ between earth and the reef. 

the article details each barons name, history, and status, giving us some insight into how they operate. 

they’re all really unique and almost feel like a dnd party, one is even described as the scorns ‘bard’ aka their sweet talker who uses subterfuge and doesn't really fight. 

one is responsible for killing the last of the house of wolves. 

the reason we get info on the barons from cayde is because its ‘learned from when he had to put the barons in their place the first time around.’

cayde and petra teamed up to take on the Barons:

‘Following the Red War, the notorious Cayde-6 and a small, elite posse of his most trusted Guardians assisted Regent-Commander Petra Venj in cleaning up the Reef from the pirating of the Scorned Barons.’ 

which is why the barons are helping uldren!! 

theory time: uldren probably promised the barons he’d kill cayde so that they’d help him with whatever goal he has during the DLC

the leader of the barons themselves is called ‘the fanatic’

‘he views his Scorn as an evolution of the fallen and the final manifestation of what they were always meant to be – eternal.’

‘Once a prominent Archon Priest of a long-lost House, the Fanatic preached heresy to the machine-worshiping Eliksni and paid a heavy price – docking, banishment, and starved from the Fallen’s lifegiving Ether. After falling in with the Barons to become their warrior-priest, he continued his anti-Great Machine evangelization and instilled in his brothers and sisters a belief that the old Eliksni must finally die, as the Whirlwind should have allowed, in order for them to rise better and stronger – and eternal.’

all of the scorn seem to hate the fallen, some going so far as to change how they look because of it. 

one of the barons fell into the hellmouth on the moon and he became obsessed with researching the hive. 

said research allowed him to control the hive and gave him the name ‘the mindbender’ 

most interestingly, he: ‘found a way to carve a throne-world of his own from the ascendant realm. ‘

he’s also seemingly responsible for the fact that we haven’t heard from the reef in d2: ‘Trapped and "brainwashed" Prince Uldren's Crows, using them to feed misinformation and fuel tensions between Earth and the Reef.’

‘the hangman’ - who looks fucking awesome and terrifying -- is responsible for killing the last of the house of wolves, which makes me hope that we hear a bit more about them in the DLC

‘the mad bomber’ is straight up junkrat and i love it

‘A bombastic thrill-seeker for whom self-preservation is an afterthought, the lunatic known as the Mad Bomber is willing to blow an entire location to smithereens just to kill his target.’

also, this tidbit in his section is interesting: ‘Destroyer of the Origin Libraries: Targeted the last three known vestiges of the Reef Awoken in an effort to assassinate any remaining royalty.’

theory: was there more royalty on the reef that wasnt just mara and uldren??

#destiny #destiny the game #destiny 2 #d2 #forsaken #destiny: forsaken #jadeisadork.txt #aaaaaAAHHHHH!!!! #im so excited for this guys