#ok relationship dynamics

[catsharky]

Yeah I was right and there was no way I was getting the rest of this done without making you all wait another month or two, so I just went to the next good break point. We're officially past the halfway point with Astarion though, so not too much longer before you actually get to see Rolan again!

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#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 comic #I just really love Ember and Astarion's dynamic as well ok #He's who she canonly ends up with but the Rolan timeline is if Astarion had decided he wasn't ready for a physical relationship after all #in which case his relationship with Ember doesn't really change they just end up platonic life partners instead of romantic ones #that duo who everyone assumes are a couple because they might as well be but nah #hopefully gonna get to show off how Ember and Rolan work together once I get back to him cause I love their chemistry just as much #rolan x tav #tav x rolan #rolan x ember #bg3 astarion #astarion #my tav #sharky's tav #tav: ember #oc: ember #sharky art

[honey-doc]

Why I appreciate Kabru and Mithrun's relationship in the story (with pictures!)

I just want to express how much I loved reading through the chapter with the 6 days they spent together and how I think their relationship developed in a pretty sweet way.

I feel like a lot of people reduce their dynamic to "nurse and patient" and that makes me sad because I personally got a lot more from it than that.

I do wanna start off by saying I'm here appreciating their dynamic as it is in the text.

Read more (spoilers ofc):

The beginnings

When they first met, there was an air of intimidation surrounding Mithrun as the captain of the ominous Canaries. He demonstrates his proficiency as a fighter and leader which worried Kabru because he knew it would lead to the dungeon falling into elven hands once again. But this threatening aura begins to dim in Kabru's mind as they get to know each other.

Even before they fell down the hole, the both of them ended up relying on each other's abilities a number of times (when the underground governor turned out to be corrupted Mithrun defeated him and Mithrun needed Kabru's deduction skills during the battle on the first floor) which is already the beginning of a great dynamic

(Kabwu is scared but Mithrun just asks for his help)

After Cithis tasked him with "taking care of Mithrun's needs" for the time being, Kabru treated Mithrun with proper respect and doesn't take advantage of his disability, even using his title “Captain” when he knew Mithrun wouldn’t have cared either way after learning about how he lost his desires. This is in contrast to Cithis who immediately took advantage of her position to mess around with Mithrun when she was taking care of him.

(When Cithis was put in charge of taking care of Mithrun)

The whole time Kabru is with Mithrun, he treats him like a person and more than just someone to be taken care of, as also he relies on Mithrun's fighting skills, knowledge of the dungeon, and teleportation magic.

When you reduce their dynamic to just "caretaker and patient", you're ignoring Mithrun's own capabilities and making him seem totally helpless. It actually feels rather ableist. They have a more balanced relationship with what Mithrun brings to the table than you may think. Mithrun couldn't have survived down there on his own, but it's the same for Kabru (who famously dies every time he fights)!

Kabru doesn’t show signs of trying to manipulate Mithrun either, and he's no longer intimidated by him in the slightest once he learns he’s not a threat or after his life. Though he does instinctively revert to his "sparkly" persona to get Mithrun to eat the disgusting mushroom, it doesn’t work so Kabru just has him eat it normally and never tries it again. This is the beginning of Mithrun unintentionally encouraging Kabru to be more honest with others.

(Kabru realizing he can chill out)

(Kabru being unreserved and Mithrun being silly)

bonus funny moment:

Bonding

Throughout the journey they talked to each other, shared things with each other, and ate with each other. And Kabru expresses genuine concern about whether Mithrun is comfortable (which is something he could live without and wasn't something the Canaries told him to do).

(Kabru showing he wants to make him comfortable by making food for him which is a very important part of the narrative)

(Kabru sharing intimate memories with Mithrun)

(Kabru initiating conversation without hesitation or worry. This part also is referencing how Mithrun shared very important details of his life with Kabru. Kabru also ends up trusting Mithrun with information about Laios despite knowing he could possibly tell the other Canaries about him and impede his plans..which he does lol they do end up knowing about Laios before meeting him.)

For a bonus Lycion implies Kabru was taking better care of Mithrun than they had been which is interesting to me.

Mithrun also shows that he has come to trust Kabru's decisions over the Canaries' when he says he wants to stay in the dungeon after fulfilling the caretaker requirement. They did talk to each other a lot, during that time. I wonder what Mithrun's Shapeshifter double of Kabru would look like now?

Here, Kabru goes out of his way to make sure Mithrun doesn’t overexert himself by knocking him out after the demon leaves with Marcille (again, when his time taking care of him is already over), and I think that demonstrates an extra level of concern he holds for Mithrun.

(Kabru holding back a hellbent Mithrun)

(KNOCKOUT!)

He even managed to make Mithrun mad. It's probably because he "let the demon get away" but I think it's cute and funny because would he huff like that at anyone else? Lol

When the demon breaks through the surface

Kabru begins panicking after Laios turns into the giant monster because he's wondering if he made the right decisions etc. If Mithrun didn’t care about Kabru at least a little bit, he would’ve just left him alone when he started losing it (right after Marcille did the same thing and she is technically more to blame for empowering the demon than Kabru was for not allowing Mithrun to go after it), but he went out of his way to snap him out of it.

It also means a lot to me that Mithrun even says Kabru's name, because in Japanese you can go your entire life without referring to someone by name and it wouldn't sound wrong (just rude) and it's the first time Mithrun says Kabru's name on screen (I checked).

Though it was with a slap, I think it says a lot, because if Mithrun didn’t care at all he wouldn’t have done anything and left him alone. It's not like Kabru could've done anything to stop the demon. He didn't even to tell him to do anything even though Kabru looked ready for an order.

(To be honest I don't know exactly why Mithrun starts beating him up here but you can say it's another rare demonstration of emotion Kabru was able to evoke in him lol. Maybe it's payment for Kabru stopping him the first time. That can be interpreted as paying it back and/or paying it forward I think.)

The last few chapters

And in the end when Kabru’s motivating Mithrun to continue living his life, he speaks to him like they’re friends/have no rank between them despite using the Captain title for him the whole time. Even Lycion initially gets upset that he’s acting “too familiar” with Mithrun.

It feels like Mithrun changed so much in the short time he spent together with Kabru and before the final battle, and it’s thanks to Kabru that Mithrun finally starts to be able to move past his lingering obsession with the demon and begin to really heal.

This is despite the fact that he spent so much time with Milsril and the other elves who never managed to break through to him like that.

(Before Kabru) (After Kabru)

And even after his role as Mithrun's caretaker was loong complete, he still shows concern for Mithrun and tells him to take a break when he's using up all his magic to slice the Falin meat (lmao).

He didn't need to do that! But it shows how he at least slightly considers Mithrun some kind of friend.

It all culminates with Kabru helping Mithrun regain his wil to live and Mithrun confiding in Kabru. Their relationship is important. Kabru continuing to do things for Mithrun to me is more of a sign that he just plain cares about him. Isn't it normal when a friend needs medication for you to remind them to take it? I think it's like that.

Kabru is there with Mithrun when he comes out about his feelings of uselessness AND when Senshi helps him put a spin on the 'vegetable scraps' metaphor and he find meaning in his life again. He's the first one to see him cry :')

Along with the fact that it feels like Mithrun is the first person we see Kabru doesn't feel the need to change his personality with or put on airs for since Mithrun doesn't need buttering up and he won't get offended if someone were to say something socially awkward, I think they made a pretty good team!

BUT ALSO the REAL reason I became endeared to them is cute shit like this:

GOD I love them!!!!! There are so many funny sides to Mithrun Kabru was able to bring out, and really show his charm as a character. The true depths of their dynamic also grew on me over time :)

TLDR

All in all it’s so nice seeing how even though Mithrun is a really deadpan person, and Kabru is a really secretive and withheld person, they clearly seem to have developed some kind of bond with while they traveled together and even changed each other to an extent.

Doesn't Kabru feel more honest near the end? Maybe it's because of how much he talked to and shared with Mithrun during those 6 days so candidly...because they taaaalked a looooot like wow.

They mean so goddamn much to me. I don’t need them to be in a romantic relationship but I do want them to be together forever :'))) or like at least hang out when they have off time since they're still in the same country lol. Praying for Kui to make another side comic of them some time (crying).

Thanks for reading if you made it this far, I mostly arranged this because it makes me sad to see people reduce their dynamic to only one singular aspect.

Anyways ya...love 'em (heart hands)

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #mithrun #kabru #kabumisu #MITHRUN DESERVES MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS TOO DAMMIT!!!!! #dunmeshi spoilers #i wasn't gonna ship tag it buuut w/e #omg i just came up w something #you can reduce their dynamic...but all you'd end up with...is a nice sauce #for like..steak..get it? reduction..cooking..no ok #also for an extra i think it's highly unlikely kabru met mithrun as a kid because he showed NO signs of recognizing him when they met #like KABRU of all people would remember lol

[songs-from-the-basement]

the absolute power that comes from combining Taigen's "we may be enemies but I'll suffer to protect you" with Mizu's "we may be enemies but I'll abandon my mission to save you"

#hrhvdbdbjejr #look we all know if it wasn't for Character Development and Proper Arc Moments Mizu could've kicked Fowler's ass in the tower #she's pulled through and kept fighting for less #i also appreciate her resolve to teach Ringo 🥺 #bUT!! #this is about the ship dynamic ok #blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai spoilers #bes mizu #mizu x taigen #anyways i obsess over these two particular scenes/the narrative between these two in episodes 4 and 6 #100 more relationships that start this way please

[antichrists-plus1]

Watching the dynamic between bonny and read vs stede and ed in s2 ep4 was such a rollercoaster cause it went from me thinking "oh no they're just like stede and ed but if they actually ran off to China together and had a loving happy relationship" to me getting further into the ep and thinking "oh no they're just like stede and ed but if they ran off to China together and their relationship turned fucked up and toxic cause that's what happens when two traumatized pirates run of to live in isolation with eachother on a whim".

#I love the dynamic between those four it was so awkward and fucked up #They are literally parralells of eachother its driving me insane #It's also kinda nice in a way cause it offers a sense of closer knowing that them running off would've been a bad idea #And now that they've seen that first hand they're trying to work on their relationship slowly #I have so many feelings and thoughts that my brain has yet to process #And probably won't until maybe my 4th rewatch #Also bonny and read were so hannigram but that's another conversation #Ok rant over onto the fandom tags #ofmd 2 #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #ofmd spoilers #blackstede #anne bonny #mary read #antichrists thoughts

[muchmossymess]

Why is everyone here so obsessed with sex and romance why can't you appreciate the comedic genius of "rivals who fight about parenting to rile the other up to begrudging coparents who bicker like a divorced couple to actually maybe tolerating the other and the insults are now less spiteful and biting to hells first qpr (queerplatonic rivalry) to hells first qpr (queerplatonic relationship)"

#like. gah. there is so so so many interesting ways to take this dynamic and you chose kiss and fuck #i can excuse the aphobia but i draw the line at ooc dynamics (ITS A JOKE A REFERENCE A JOKE I DONT EXCUSE APHOBIA) #sigh #i can excuse all the smut to a point but like. you took the (ONLY) canonically sex repulsed character and made him fuck the dilf #and you didnt even make it an exploration of sexuality with the realisation sex isnt necessary for a relationship #or that its ok to actually hate sex #(when it involves yourself. so long as its safe sane and consensual its not really your business) #ughbkembaalgk ive lost my train of thought i think its late but yeah im just a lil pissy about the casual aphobia #dont even get me started on the blatant stuff ffs #radiostar #radioapple #appleradio #alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #moss' madness

[ghostqiu]

my fave autistic x adhd duo (although i also think kaveh got autism bc…..well im projecting.)

#kavetham #genshin impact #genshin #元神 #art #gi #kaveh #alhaitham #haikaveh #OK BUT CAN WE TALK ABT HOW CUTE THEIR EMOJI COMBO IS #🌱🏛️ #🏛️🌱 #silly plant man x building #the ideal relationship dynamic tbh

[eskildit]

my current headcanon is that from ianthes pov corona has just been baiting judith all these years. like 'pretend to like the weird kid' style. because ianthe clearly had no clue corona had any real affection for judith in ntn even though shes been invited to every birthday party for years. but ianthe used her party invites for psychological warfare, why wouldnt corona?

#ianthes thinking like oh we're bullying the fleet admirals daughter? nice i can get on board #oh youre sending judith flowers for her promotion? nice youre playing the long game #who knows maybe it actually did start that way and then the dynamic changed #i just think its so interesting how baffled ianthe was in ntn #because coronas attention to judith didnt start while they were in captivity even if it changed the relationship #something about corona that ianthe didnt see coming! fascinating! #also would totally write a fic where ianthes assumption is actually correct and corona WAS being a bully and just later changed her mind #the locked tomb #eskildit posts tlt #judith deuteros #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #ok to rb

[sleepyminty]

No wonder Marshall Lee and Fionna is so close like family, had Marceline and Fionna met they would definitely sister

#adventure time #adventure time:fionna and cake #fionna and cake #ep 8 had me weak #simon tell his love story to comfort fionna remind me when i was little where dad told me his corny love stories to me so it resonates me #this is such a father-daughter dynamic between simon and fionna #since technically he is #simon petrikov #fionna campbell #marceline #marceline the vampire queen #betty you lucky dog #marshall lee and fionna relationship is the closest thing to simon daughter interaction #adventure time spoilers #ice king #simon petrikov the single mom #episode 8: jerry #also it maybe corny love stories but i have shit taste in love stories when i was little ok #or maybe fionna and marshal lee bond over their terrible mother just a thought #pls let them meet

[softdom-energy2]

I thought they looked pretty last night 🖤

#the lighting in my room felt good last night #so I took advantage of it #new hand pics were a long time due #hand pics #me #mine #my hands #soft dom energy #personal #ok to reblog #bd/sm dynamic #bd/sm blog #bd/sm lifestyle #bd/sm community #bd/sm dom #bd/sm relationship #bd/sm kink

[gobstoppr]

hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.

guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there

#text #it was kinda charming at first but it feels like everytime i try to look at the mk tag its always the same shit . guys. guys. #we can do so much more w/ their dynamics than just dad and son ugh its so . ughhh. #every since i realized i was like . really really aroace. ive started to grow a bit of a distaste for shipping culture #this is relavant i swear. iwanna talk about metadede #like ok in fandoms right. theres often #the enforcement of specific roles onto characters for a simplified understanding of them for memes and drawing ideas #we want gay rep but we dont quite have it canonically so we make our queer headcanons seem more legit #by giving a char a same sex partner. ok easy we did it. gay people are real now #and we get awesome art and its wonderful bc people are wonderful #but its like . the relationships themselves feel flat a lot of the times. #metadede never seems to be about dedede. its about mk having a boyfriend. bc we need him to date someone. #and im not like . mad at anyone about this. i participated in it back in the day. but like. #ok so. gay hcs are the most popular in most fandom things bc its easy; hot; and sweet #but things like aro or ace hcs? its just. they. how can you depict that in a single framed drawing of a char?so theres none at all. #its not even that i actively hc chars aroace its jsut this is my world view; how i default to reading chars #maybe this rant in the tags is unrelated after all. #but idk. ive got lots of thoughts about things. #anyways as ceo of meta knigth im right about everything #i can talk more about metadad stuff specifically if people want

[findafight]

Venom/spiderman steddie but like. Steve has the codependent relationship with the symbiote (Robin) and Eddie is Spiderman who sells his own selfies because that's easy money. He sees Steve walking down the street talking to himself and buying forty pounds of chocolate and was like oh~? He's... deranged? Sounds like my kind of man!

Meanwhile Robin is like "Steve can we PLEASE eat that homophobes head. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE" And Steve, outloud says "ABSOLUTELY NO EATING PEOPLES HEADS ROBIN"

This does not deter Eddie who think having a no eating heads policy is a good thing.

#steddie #platonic stobin #stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #listen i get that both eddie munson and eddie brock are wet cats of men but the human/symbiote dynamic is stobin ok #either that or eddie is the synboote and its the fucked up codependent monsterfucker relationship of the comics god bless #steve is just the kind of guy aliens see and are like ohhhh im gonna latch onto his brain and not let go hehehe #finda's rambles #venom steve au

[zhongrin]

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[cablehaver]

“i dont ship them but i believe they were intertwined by fate” “i dont ship them but i know they had something crazy going on” or “they were a secret third thing” THAT IS SHIPPING do you people hear yourselves. that is shipping. that is all it is. interest in a relationship with no clear label platonic/romantic/complicated/other everything and nothing is the best kind of shipping the world has to offer. powerful undefined relationship. that is ship.. at its purest..

#its literally always pissed me off when people act like its purely a fully romance thing and not obsession with dynamic #and that is okay… its because of the war against cringe… it isnt your fault… #doesnt mean u want them to be together as partners like it can ALSO mean that to some people but thats not what that means. to me at least #philosophies: if you often find yourself contemplating a relationship you ship it. this is okay. and also if you have at least one gay ship #you may also possibly be a fujo. this is also ok. live your truth.

[tyriongirl]

It's such an insult that Daena Targaryen is so often only remembered as this rebellious woman, and there's a whole aspect of her life that gets forgotten.

Yes, she's "Daena the Defiant", but she's also Daena, a teenager trapped in the confines of religion, first in marriage to her brother-husband and then to an actual prison, by decree of the king, said brother-husband. She only got her nickname during her imprisonment. She's also eldest sister to Rhaena and Elaena. Not only is she stuck in an impossible situation herself, she also has to take emotional care of two younger sisters. We know their physical needs were met, but that doesn't change the fact they were jailed.

Imagine being Daena. You are sixteen years old. You have been publicly humiliated by your brother who's also your husband, who refuses act on your marriage. You are suddenly alone and cut off from the world by your fanatic brother, lest you tempt him. Now have to comfort your younger sisters, one of whom is 11 years old who are imprisoned with you. You have to be the mature and stable one and the support system for their sake. Of course she lashed out! Of course she rebelled! Of course she kept trying to break the strict boundaries she was confined in, whether the physical boundaries of the maidenvault or the metaphorical boundaries of the patriarchy fueled by religion.

#daena targaryen #septa rhaena #elaena targaryen #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #meta #this might be incoherent but i can't seem to focus my thoughts and i don't care to edit this any longer #i'm always thinking about these three btw. #i wish we got to hear more about the relationships between them. the dynamics must be fascinating #this turned out longer than i thought #i just love them so much ok!!!!!!!!! #lets kill their brother #mine #fire and blood

[serenescribe]

I’m curious - how do you see the dynamic between Malleus and Lilia? Like, how do you think they feel about each other?

hello anon!! i'm actually very excited to answer this question, so thank you for sending it in!

i know many people interpret diasomnia as a family. i do too! but i don't ascribe to the notion that lilia is the dad, and the other three are his sons. i like complicated relationship dynamics, and while i understand the appeal of having lilia as the father taking care of his three varying children, i just don't gel with it too much ;; the only true familial relationship in diasomnia, to me, is lilia and silver; lilia's relationships with the others are different.

(getting a little long so i'll put the rest under the cut)

regarding malleus and lilia's dynamic, i view them more like a guardian (lilia) and his ward (malleus), as opposed to father and son. the relationship between them seems less familial and affectionate than it is with silver and lilia — and going into chapter 7 spoilers here, we can see in silver's flashbacks just how loving lilia is of silver. they are, undoubtedly, father and son.

but with malleus, there always seems to be a distance between him and lilia. malleus has always been above lilia in status, even before he hatched. and that makes for quite the interesting dynamic, wherein lilia raised malleus even before he hatched, with chapter 7 implying that it took lilia's love over a few centuries to finally hatch malleus. but that very hierarchy of class, with malleus as prince and lilia beneath him, means that while lilia may have taken care of malleus all his life, he could never stand on the same level as him as an equal. and that, in my head, translates to the relationship of a guardian and ward: lilia has taken the responsibility of raising malleus and caring for him, but there is little room for the open affection and familiarity that flooded lilia's own upbringing of silver.

that being said, i learnt a while back of a possible interpretation wherein malleus feels a one-sided father-son bond with lilia. and i really adore that! because for malleus, the difference in their status may not be as evident to him; he may only ever have known lilia as the one who took care of him, who was there for him since he first came into the world. it also means he would feel quite envious of the free and easy father-son bond lilia and silver have, since it's something he never got to experience for himself. but i doubt that they'll ever be able to reconcile this, given that lilia feels a very different way than malleus does. it's not that lilia doesn't care for malleus, but i just don't think it reaches that same level of familial affection that he has for silver.

again, thanks for letting me ramble about my thoughts! :D

#ask box #anonymous #twst #twst spoilers #twisted wonderland spoilers #twst ch7 #<- just in case yknow? #malleus draconia #lilia vanrouge #fuck it i'm feeling BOLD #i wanna mention that if you enjoy them as more of a family unit that's ok! #this is just my thoughts and feelings about it but don't let it stop you from enjoying otherwise #i just like complex messy relationship dynamics ahfndhfgd

[ferretwhomst]

alright guys. poll time

just wanted to ask because from what i can tell the gf fandom doesn't really seem to have a general fandom-wide consensus on this ship. rbs would be appreciated!!! also feel free to elaborate in the tags which option you chose and why! i'd love to hear people's reasoning :-)

#personally i have super mixed feelings on billford #people sometimes boil down their relationship to “haha they fight like a divorced couple” and yeah it's an easy generalization but #i really hate when people skip over the aspects of their dynamic which are Fucked Up #like... bill was abusive and manipulative to ford from the start. and ford was fucking OBSESSED with him #and his time with bill left a lasting mark on him for years and years #that's not even including how bill fucking tortured ford during weirdmageddon #my point is they aren't HEALTHY. they never were #and i think the only way to do their relationship justice is to keep the unhealthy dynamic #while also acknowledging how fucked up it is #there isn't a single world where ford is normal about bill and vice versa #i don't necessarily mean that romantically tho because i don't really ship billford myself #i'm just observing from the sidelines as i take a bite out of my platonic stan twins and fiddauthor fanworks yk #ok this got long. #what i'm trying to say is their dynamic was fucked up as hell and it would stay like that even if they were gay 4 each other #anyways #ferret rambles #gravity falls #bill cipher #gf bill cipher #stanford pines #ford pines #grunkle ford #gf ford #billford #poll