#oh hello father

[eternallovers65]

Someone said the reason percy was looking up and down when talking to poseidon was so he could mesmerize his father's face and i-

#STFU IM CRYING LIKE WHY WOULD SAY THAT #omg i need more scenes #you know hoe poseidon appears out nowhere when its percy birthday let him do that a lot more!!! #percy is at the bathroom and oh hello father #pleaseeee pleaseeee #the director said take 5 but walker and toby heard change lives and that's they did #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson #poseidon #walker scobell #toby stephens

[muffinlance]

prompt: Ozai has Azula watch Zuko (his progress or rather lack thereof) from way earlier on, possibly even before Aang gets away from the iceberg in the first place

There it is, written at the bottom of his banishment notice, wobbling in and out of his vision and he’s not sure if it's his eyes—

(Father wouldn’t have meant to blind him. Being blind won't help him catch the Avatar, so he’ll just not go blind.)

It’s either his eyes, or. Or the rage. It has to be the rage.

So Zuko reads the line again, and lets the fire brim up and overflow, until sparks chase the shout from his lips.

“Banishment to be overseen by Crown Princess Azula?”

- - -

“Prince Zuko,” Azula says, standing as tall as an eleven year old can. She’s using his title, so that he’ll use hers. And if he doesn’t then he’s ill-mannered and not fit for his own. 

“Crown Princess Azula,” Zuko grits out.

“I’ll just be inspecting your ship, then. Father’s orders.”

Two men are in shackles by the time she’s done. 

“—Fostering mutiny against your prince,” she is yelling, and somehow her voice is just as high-pitched as his without sounding childish at all. “When our father hears about this—”

- - -

“So you had them executed,” Fire Lord Ozai inquires. Lightly. And from behind his flames.

“Of course, father,” says the kneeling child. “It was an attack on our family.”

Her father doesn’t say anything.

Azula is eleven. Eleven, she had presumed, was old enough to count. 

One, two, three. Four, with Uncle. The royal family.

Her father is silent still.

One. Two.

“Forgive my impertinence, Fire Lord,” she says. “I will bring them to you for judgment next time.”

“Do so,” Fire Lord Ozai says. He does not contest the ‘next time.’

- - -

“Crown Princess Azula,” Zuko says.

“Your bandage is off, brother,” Azula says. “Are you blind?”

“No.”

(The blur of her red robes, the eye-searing glint of sunlight off her headpiece—he’s not blind in that eye. He’s just… still recovering.)

“Lovely,” she says. “Then what’s your excuse for the condition of this ship?”

…He has an increased budget for repairs, by the time she’s done. 

- - -

“Brother,” Azula says, “traditionally knives are to be delivered to the back.”

“I… what?” her brother says, still holding out the inexplicable thing. “No, I bought it at port. For you. See, it matches the one Uncle got me.”

“How original,” she says.

Her brother turns a shade of red that puts his bending to shame. Not that it’s a particularly high bar. “Fine, I’ll just—throw it out.”

“Oh, don’t be so dramatic. At the least, Mai will want it.”

- - -

“Nice knife,” says Mai, looking at the hilt peeking out of Azula’s boot.

“Be silent,” Azula says, thus ending that conversation.

- - -

“Did great-grandfather… did we…” starts her brother, fresh from scurrying about the Eastern Air Temple like some particularly dim-witted pheasant-monkey, the dust not even brushed from his clothes even though he knew her ship was waiting down here. “Azula, there were children—”

“Be silent,” she says.

- - -

“You’re leaving frequently,” comments father, as his knife cuts through the pheasant-monkey, clicking against the plate below. The persimmon-cherry sauce is thick and red and smearing.  

“I find it advantageous to cultivate a working knowledge of our nation’s tactics,” Azula answers. She does not push around her meat like a child, but she does eat only lightly; the dish is more sour than she remembers.

“And your brother?”

“Oh, him,” she says, to which her father smiles.

- - -

“...What?” Zuko asks, blinking down at the scrolls. 

“It’s your birthday,” Azula says. “Apparently, I should have gotten you a calendar.”

“Thank you?”

She sighs.

- - -

“Do we… tell him we can hear him?” asks the assistant cook, as the prince continues monologuing. Dramatically, and loudly. Through the pipe connecting the drain of the kitchen sink to the ones in the shower. 

“Ssh, I think this is one of his new plays.”

- - -

She gets him a calendar for his next birthday. It’s not funny.

- - -

He gets her a doll, for hers. The look on Uncle’s face as she torches it in front of them both is hilarious.

- - -

“Brother,” she says, looking up at the damage to his ship. “This is not the way to requisition additional repair funds.”

“Captain Zhao,” her uncle says in the background, with heights of pleasant antagonism she can only aspire to. As if a general could mistake Zhao’s new insignia. Particularly with all the polishing he does. 

“It’s commander now.”

“How did you manage this?” she asks.

“Uh,” Zuko says. “Can we… speak alone?”

She eyes her brother’s shifting stance. Eyes, too, the way Zhao’s men are already moving to intercept and interrogate his crew. One of the new commander’s more noxious habits is stalking her brother’s every move. 

Well. She’d been meaning to deal with that, anyway.

Azula snaps her fingers at the commander’s guards.

“Detain him,” she says. And for a moment, just a moment, her dear uncle freezes, as if she were talking about someone he actually cared for.

The guards don’t. She’s trained them better than that.

“Princess,” Commander Zhao says, his snarl well hidden behind a smile. “What is the meaning of this?”

“Crown Princess Azula,” she corrects. “Now hush; the adults are talking.”

- - -

They have an Avatar to catch, apparently. Her brother is coming home.

#her brother is coming home #it may be time for some other changes as well #how does the pheasant-monkey taste father? #oh of course I haven’t had any #you know I haven’t liked that since I was a little girl #are you feeling well father? #why don’t you have a little lie down father #oh is your crown uncomfortable? #let me just remove that for you #hush now #sleep #goodnight father #say hello to grandfather for me #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko #Azula #ficlets #yep that prompt hit the spot thanks Anon <3

[cheeseproducts]

visiting the in-laws

#evangelion #rebuild of evangelion #kaworu nagisa #gendo ikari #yui ikari #kawoshin #genyui too i guess...sigh #kaworu being all. oh hello father :) [trying to kill him with his mind] #meanwhile he and yui bond over their mutual love of their cringefail husbands and philosophy #my art

[harboretum]

Good morning 🍊

#the concern #oc art #artists on tumblr #happy new year all 🎉 here's to a good 2024 #also hello new people from the selkie comic 👋 this is ajaya and she's one of the half-sisters of the human (amir) from that comic #amir has a number of half-siblings unknown to him because his father is a 250-year old wizard seeking permanent immortality #and has fathered a ton of children in the meantime to further his ends #anyway in my motw campaign ajaya causes problems on purpose but also has extremely useful gossip so my players let her stay #in that whenever I want to give my players an emergency plot hook she shows up with a mimosa like OH BTW HAVE YOU HEARD-- #but she also did very much make a ghost battery go dangerously haywire and also steal the iron from an already iron deficient vampire

[hauntingblue]

Ivankov blackmailing crocodile... is this when the crocodile mama thing spun out

#but isnt it worrying that he wants to go against whitebeard when he is on ace's side #crocodile got his outfit on already damn #jewels already #the mid episode thingies make me miss the crew.... i miss you franky.... i miss you robin.... i miss you nami.... #ace is looking so beautiful strapped in that chair..... #so urethral #looking at the clouded sun... #luffy looks so much like a boy now #idk what they did to him but considering the situation it just makes it worse...... my liddol boy suffering..... #the prison guards are being subjected to such horrors... and i know theyre not paid well #oh mr 1...... of course......... crocodile dont you fucking dare fuck this up #WHY are people commenting that they think crocodile was a woman before and thats his secret. i though you guys were joking #like hello crocomom is plausible???? what the fuck #like me thinking luffys mom must be beautiful bc he doesnt look like his father AT ALL. but he doesnt look like his other father either lmao #well we havent seen him before so idk but..... #that is such a wild plot to keep luffys mother a secret lmao #anyways if ace knew the alliances luffy is making to get him out. like if he knew anything at this point.... like look how much he loves you #i am making myself suffer atp. ill stop lmao #talking tag #watching one piece #episide 443 #fuck chapter 22 out of 35 (i think) i cant do this

[atopvisenyashill]

what do u think of ned and sansa’s relationship?

sorry this took so long, i wasn't sure how to lay it out because i didn't just want to word vomit all over lol.

i think it's a great depiction of grief and trauma "dripping through" so to speak (to steal a succession line) from a parent to their child. ned and sansa are similar in many ways (in fact, I'd argue that Sansa is the most like Ned) and you can see clearly that Sansa gets her outlook on life and society more so from her father than her mother. While Cat is much less trusting, much more forceful, and incredibly emotional, Ned has a much more romanticized idea of the world. He makes many of the same mistakes that Sansa does, as a matter of fact -

they both trust Littlefinger despite the warning signs because they both feel they have no other option and no allies to rely on, so this shady guy obsessed with Cat is the least noxious option (in their eyes)

they both have this idealistic image of a Baratheon that is tied more to reputations and romanticism than in that particular man's personality - Ned should realize that he can't rely on Robert literally the moment Robert refuses to step in to protect Lady but keeps deluding himself because Robert the Hero, Robert the King, Robert the Foster Brother, is this larger than life image he has in his mind. Meanwhile, Joffrey is...Joffrey and Sansa overlooks and romanticizes this because The Chivalrous Prince is this idea that is all powerful in her head.

they both think around a subject rather than face it head on. I detailed an example of this here but there's literally dozens of examples in both of their narratives. it's this commonality that I find particularly interesting; it's not just that they're very indirect people but that when faced with trauma, both of them double down on avoiding their trauma to cope with it.

in particular, they both do this wrt a younger sister which is even more fascinating in my opinion - so easy to have Ned think more often around Brandon but instead it's Lyanna he Does Not Obsess Over, and it's Lyanna he compares Sansa to (even though they likely look nothing alike). Later, it would be easy to have Sansa think more about her brothers but again, it's Arya she Does Not Obsess Over, and we know Arya likely resembles Lyanna to a point. Just something really fascinating there, that the relationship they are most troubled by is one with a little sister.

and in that vein, both of them will romanticize their own trauma to cope with it. we see this obviously with sansa and the Unkiss but I think it's present in his thoughts of the Tower of Joy as well. his fever dream in eddard x is steeped in fantasy imagery, with his companions as faceless wraiths, a "storm of rose petals" streaking across the red sky. he does this with rhaegar as well in my opinion - when he does think of rhaegar the man (and not just of his children) he has this image of Rhaegar as a chivalrous sort of man who no one can really measure up to and yet he never explicitly thinks anything positive about Rhaegar. once again, sort of romanticizing his idea of someone, like Sansa does with Sandor.

both of them are incredibly self conscious about how they're perceived - Ned thinks about his father and brother as being "born" to rule, is very aware that people see him as kind of an idiot, and Sansa is equally worried that people will see her as "silly" or simple. It seems very tied to their roles as the "girlson" - Sansa as the eldest daughter who must make an illustrious match and live up to that expectation of her and Ned as the second son stepping in to fill a role he feels unprepared to take.

despite some paternalism about the poor (Ned sitting a man with him every night while also kind of purposefully distancing himself to be The Benevolent Father of Winterfell and Sansa's out of pocket but realistic comments about Jeyne and Mya's marriage prospects), they clearly care about the common or low born people they live with - I think Sansa's grief (and purposeful Thinking Around) over Jeyne Poole going missing and her insistence that Jeyne's father is safe speaks to her affection for the Pooles just as Ned's fixation on Jory Cassel being murdered by Jaime also speaks to his affection for the Cassels. And just from an audience PoV, I think it really underlines Ned and Sansa's horror over the situation that Ned is traumatized by Jory's death at the hands of the Lannisters, and Sansa thinks over a year later about "poor Jeyne Poole" and her disappearance (due to the Lannisters, though she's ultimately sold by LF)

And then there's the emotional distance between them, that I think is really compounded by his trauma over Lyanna and Sansa's age -

Ned ultimately learns the wrong lesson from Lyanna's death. He doesn't learn "women shouldn't be given so few options and should be allowed control over their lives" he learns "if i protect the women i love from the evils of this world and give them freedom when they're young, they'll be happier" and that's just. Oh Ned.

But that "lesson" is really obvious in how he treats Sansa - he keeps her in the dark while putting her in a dangerous situation, because he doesn't want her to be involved in the same politics that killed Lyanna even as he's actively involving her in those politics. His first thoughts about Sansa in the book are that she's too young to be engaged to Joffrey! He does not want to let her go out into the big bad world and he thinks simply keeping the bad stuff from her mind is how he'll save her.

The Lady situation I think is what really damages their relationship; he links Sansa and Lyanna in his mind so closely during this scene that I think it stops him from being able to emotionally connect with her anymore. It's so tragic - to see Lyanna's sorrow reflected in Sansa, to feel that loss so deeply that it stops him from being able to comfort Sansa the way he comforted Lyanna as she died.

all of this really bites him in the ass because Sansa looks at his silence and sees treachery while Ned looks at her silence and sees obedience. And the moment when both of them are finally ready to act and not just dream is when their stories clash horrifically.

Narratively, I think they're set up to have some parallels - Ned as the second son (and what is a second son than a girlson, really) who was never supposed to inherit who does after a violent tragedy, and Sansa as the second born who was also never supposed to inherit who will after a violent tragedy.

And Ned's story is book ended by Ned choosing his love of a young female relative over his honor - he actually compares Sansa to Lyanna first in his narrative:

He could still hear Sansa pleading, as Lyanna had pleaded once.

and it's Sansa who he once again chooses over his word, over his honor. when he looks at Sansa (and Arya) all he sees is his grief. It leads all three of them to their doom, but Ned's death is something he would choose over and over because in the end, with all his faults, Ned did learn one good lesson from Lyanna and it's that a living, breathing woman will always be more important than some words spoken before a king. what is honor compared to the feel of your daughter in your arms, the memory of your sister's smile?

#ned stark #sansa stark #fathers and daughters #valyrianscrolls #asks #getting on my soap box #oh my god this is so long. i think i did just word vomit actually i'm sorry #Septa Mordane gets piss ass drunk and falls asleep and a heavily dissociating JOFFREY is the one to step up and get Sansa home #where she's promptly left alone with a man twice her age who trauma dumps and then threatens to kill her. LIKE? HELLO?? #i got two more asks in my inbox no i did not miss them i promise. just busy and tired

[risarchives]

imperium!david brainrot

#redacted david #redacted asmr #redacted audio #i don't know if i worded this right but #yeah. haunting **is** hereditary #i hope it doesn't end the same in the canonverse though #poor angel should that ever happen #BUT YEAH BACK TO THE MAIN POINT #imagine imp*asher talking about david the same way david talked about his dad #especially the “i wish you could've met him” line he spoke to angel #im gonna cry #then imp*ash describing imp*david’s laughter to imp*baabe #then “i just wanted my friend (originally ‘dad') back” #oh god #the angst hello the heartache #being alpha was the final step to becoming **just like** his father #death though was the final step to **becoming** gabe shaw #i cant even. why did i write this #a little apprehensive for echotober / tried to cope / came up with this / failed to cope. bon appetit #edit: OH MY GOD after knowing they're mates this hurts so much more #“i just wanted my mate back.” #what do i even. *throws phone across the room*

[morporkian-cryptid]

I'm drawing kid Lupin and suddenly The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives comes on. Good job, shuffle algorithm. Good job.

#i will never be able to hear this song without thinking of lupin and his father #every time i hear the first note i get a pang of pain in my chest #and it still works with zero #OH HEY THE DIVING BELL HELLO THERE DEPRESSING JIGLUP SONG #(that's what i get for listening to my crane wives playlist lol)

[drawnecromancy]

Sometimes a silly bird disguised as a human sits on a dragon's hoard of gold and tries to seduce him.

Community label for it being vaguely suggestive I guess.

Art taglist : @jezifster @isabellebissonrouthier (feel free to ask to be added to the list!)

#art #my art #sketches #the fall of neseah #mecarevainen #look. he has a dragon boyfriend. he will sit seductively on said dragon boyfriend's hoard #i think it is very funny that this guy is just collecting loved ones. he has a wife. a dragon boyfriend/mate. a fae boyfriend. #he's highly unusual for his species not because he has a bunch of partners but because none of them are phoenixes #like they're not supposed to be able to shapeshift he's just a very good mage and kind of insane #(runs in the family. look at Maran.) #which means that he gets to do that #and literally every other phoenix ever is like 'yeah this is Mecarevainen he's fucking weird but he's pretty cool we like him' #'did you hear he turned himself into a human man last week ?' #'oh yeah he got human married to a human lady. wild' #his exes either find it very funny or very annoying #his kids (HE HAS PHOENIX CHILDREN. THIS IS A FATHER OF MANY KIDS and not a deadbeat the birds r just all adults) #probably are aware of his shenanigans #and once he has kids with Ulevan (the human queen) they probably visit like hello siblings! !!! #making neseah an interesting place for a while. there's just a fuckton of birds that speak directly in your brain #because their half siblings just happen to be the princes and princesses of the country #and nowadays most of this is considered legends that probably hold a part of reality (the very skilled mages n the queen having an affinity #-for the birds) but no one actually thinks Ulevan had children with a legit fucking phoenix and her kids were half birds. #Mecarevainen is the funniest motherfucker I've written lately

[chocolatewoosh]

My dad said outright he's not interested in seeing Spiderman Across the Spider-Verse and then in the same sentence asked me if I wanted to go see Elemental in theatres 

#Kailey Does A Talk #Another post taken straight from Twitter #HONESTLY THOUGH I WAS FLABBERGASTED. HIS EXCUSE? #''There were too many spidermen in the first movie......'' #Sir I have News no WONDER he wasn't interested in this one. but oh my GOD?????????????? HELLO??????????? #I can't believe I have to dodge spoilers like the fucking plague because mine father cannot handle one too many Spiders Mens #(not legitimately upset I am simply Distraught)

[veromdraws]

"let's... not talk about it..."

#HI HELLO LONG TIME NO ART ANYWAAAAAYS #god we lost the andrias dad potential i have this overgrown salamander they could have had the BEST parental relationship #shout out to matt for writing such GOOD abuse storylines #god the fact he didnt wanted to kill her and how she reminded him of leif and THE LITTLE ROBOT #AND GOD MARCY REALLY LOVED HIM HUH . FATHER AND DAUGHTER WAS SOOO CLOSE #the way he wanted to save her even after all this SICK #also really like how while explicitly indicating that yes andrias loved marcy yes she didnt wanted to hurt her #he still manipulated and hurted her both physically and emotionally #also andrias is just like passed out in the castle right. he will definitely see and maybe talk with marcy ... right #oh boy this will be a disaster i hope we gain a last interaction from them where marcy is HURT AND PISSED #my art #amphibia #marcy wu #amphibia marcy #marcy amphibia #andrias leviathan #king andrias #all in #OK ENOUGH MENTAL ILLNESS!! #THEY MAKE ME SICK

[gravehags]

#let me preface this by saying i am not a leonard cohen girlie #but oh my god this song #hello?? father paul?? #music #Spotify

[block-swing-perry]

they got spy doing what with scouts mom on film (just watched meet the spy)

#HELLO???? #oh yeah idk how anyone is denying spy is scouts father #tf2

[warcraftish]

On a scale of 1-10, how much would it hurt Wranduin shippers if Anduin turned up to the Dragon Isles and immediately started putting the moves on Sabellian?

#honestly the real 'anduin x old man' pairing is anduin x khadgar #specifically because khadgar is like the only older alliance male who ISN'T a weird father figure for andikins #except i ship khadgar x lothar all day every day and like #that's just way too sad #like oh yes #hello young man named after my old lover and his best friend #child whose entire existence is basically a memorial to how fucked up things got in my absense #how futile most of the sacrifices of my friends were #and a bunch of other really sad stuff #character babble #anduin wrynn #khadgar #sabellian

[hauntingblue]

I have connected two dots... yamato kaido and momo (and kinda shirahoshi with her top) have clouds above their shoulders... and luffy in gear fourth has them also.... I can see the signs

#momo must be so emotionally confused omg poor child. this guy says he is my father and treats me like his son and also this samurai who has #been acting like my father just died. and now i turned 28 and a dragon and i need to save this island or my shougnate will die. jesus #FUCKING ROB RUCCI!!! I SURE HOPE NOT ONE STRAY ATTACK REACHES THE ROOM FULL OF CP0 AGENTS!!! #now the government is going to invade wano AND TAKE ROBIN!!!!! ROB LUCCI DIEEEE!!!!! AND YOU WILL FAIL AGAIN!!! #now how tf did the heart pirates get there... who can fly on there or did they just tag along on momos tail #the dinosaur head snake???? hello?? qjdhakshsk and it worked.... sanji... 'thats what a brachiosaurus is!' well i do not think so.... #wtf sanji.... so much of that wiggly dance he does with the heart eyes has brought him here... #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1053 #poor killer man.... why doesnt he cut off the arm kid doesnt have... that should do it right??? #jesus.... goodbye kid and law.... hawkins just hitting his head to a wall.... CUT OFF HIS ARM!!! oh no..... another self sacrificing mate.. #YEAAHHH THE ARM!!!!! is he gonna take it and give it to kid akdjsksj OH HE TOOK THE STRAW DOLL!!! killer your brain is so huge.. #the death card looking JUST like killer.... that was such a slay... they had this one thought out for a while..... #THE MUSIC!!! GOODBYE HAWKINS!!! KILLER OUTSERVED!!!! whats with the cutting of arms this arc.... kid now its your turn to slay (big mom) #episode 1054 #sanji having an existential crisis and queen just: WELCOME TO THIS MOMSTER WORLD #having issues with his body transforming doesnt help with the transfem allegations #APOO IS STILL ALIVE???? CUT OFF HIS HEAD!!!! #i was gonna say KINEMON!!! BUT I KNOW ITS THAT FUCKING KANJURO!!!!!! nami drawing the moon on his asscheek akdjsksj #KIKU AND KINEMON ARE ALIVE??? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS THIS IS A TRAP!!! DON'T GIVE ME HOPE!!! #NOOOOOO THE CP0 IS IN ACTION TOO NOOOOOOOOO #they are breathing.... omg.... kiku..... ORICHI DIEEEE!!!!! i knew this couldn't end like this for her... i have been completely bamboozled #kinemon appearing like the first time... just legs.... amazing #how does big mom ikoku inside the castle are we insane... yamato can you like bite off kanjuros head off or smth... finish him off PLEASE #why do they have steel beams in kaido's castle. everything else is wood and stone. who designed this. #bepo being in law's mid episode animation akdjaksns.... thats really his beffo (bff) bepo #big mom being crushed by some beams doesn't sound right... kid should turn into magneto and start bloodbending... or repel her into the sea #episode 1055 #episode 1056

[david-talks-sw]

Bit of a random post, but…

The name Ben came up with as a child is "Kylo". If I had to guess, his train of thought was:

Skywalker + Solo = Kylo

I genuinely love that The Rise of Kylo Ren hints that it's not some eldritch moniker but just a "cool name" that a kid came up with. Like, this is probably how JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan came up with the name, and years later: boom, it becomes lore that's tailored to the character's personality. Pretty neat.

#Charles Soule is my favorite writer for the new Canon so far #ALSO while we're on the subject of how names are invented #if we ever get a Deadpool-esque character in Star Wars who comedically breaks the fourth wall... #... they NEED to make fun of the Sith titles! #Like in the middle of a battle Vader arrives to back up the stormtroopers and the character points and goes: #“OH NO! It's Darth Vader the invader! Run before they bring out Darth Maul to maul us to death!” #*Vader lands in a puddle* “aHA! Darth Vader landed in dark waters!” #“hopefully Darth Vader is nobody's dark father!” #He gets captured and brought before the Emperor: #“Oh hello Darth Sidious how... Insidious you seem!” #He learns that the Emperor's master is Plagueis: #“Right! Because he worked with science and micro-organisms and plagues and stuff! I get it!” #Then learns Plagueis' master was Darth Tenebrous and falls silent: #“Okay so THAT guy wasn't even TRYING to hide it huh?” #star wars #Ben Solo #Kylo Ren #Snoke