#something something i love characters that are doomed by the narrative something something

[eivorswolfkissed]

Assassin's Creed Mirage ↠ 1/∞

#assassin's creed #assassin's creed mirage #acedit #dailygaming #videogameedit #dailyvideogames #gamingedit #basim ibn ishaq #ac mirage #* #This has grown on me a lot. Some of the parkour is still frustrating #but I feel so zippy and agile compared to Eivor. #the fact that i could finish this game in less than 30 hours is a plus too #ps: younger basim can get it #something something i love characters that are doomed by the narrative something something

[vanhelsingapologist]

I tell you how you kill me in my dreams.

—

Dima was visited by the local vampire. She will bite him back, next time. Alt version under the cut.

#I love you Tatyana PCs I love you doomed PC narratives I love you dhampir PCs who can’t control themselves I love you death-seeking maidens #to be a dhampir in curse of strahd is to be both predator and prey. I love it. #idk if anyone elses campaigns use Dark Kiss rules from VRGtV but it’s a unique fear and I recommend it if you do Ireena/Taty PC #anyway enough of my yappin #curse of strahd #dungeons and dragons #dnd character #dnd #dnd fanart #dungeons and dragons art #cos: the sorority #CoS PC: Demetria #I don’t mind this being use in place of Ireena if you so wish. She is an Ireena pc after all. #curse of strahd pc #oh yeah. more yapping. strahd took my fucking sword from me again! #I am going to steal something out of his fucking house again! #song is Hanging by Marika Hackman

[ifyougoillfollow]

you know, we talk a lot about characters and/or relationships (of all kinds) being 'doomed by the narrative' around here, and how haunting and gut-wrenching that can be, especially when it so often takes the form of death and destruction and tragedy.

and we should keep doing that, obviously. death and destruction and tragedy kick total ass.

however. can we please spare a thought for the clowns trapped in that same (burning) room?

after all, what is a comic relief character if not doomed by the narrative to always act like a buffoon despite any and all circumstances, all for the sake of relieving narrative tension?

how must it feel, to have everyone around you dropping dead, losing limbs, losing loved ones, and otherwise being on the receiving end of unending torment - and all you can do is stand there and prattle off another zinger at your allotted time?

and what if you lose a loved one yourself, o jester mine? what if - hear me out - you lose multiple loved ones? what if it never ends? what will you do then?

well, if you're lucky, you'll get to mourn for all five of the seconds you're allowed to before the size thirty shoes go back on and the narrative moves on to other, more plot-central characters.

if you're not - well. it's a good thing clown makeup is waterproof, isn't it?

anyway, shout out to all my comedy kings out there doomed to play perpetual funnyman to their more plot-central counterparts despite being in undeniably comparable pain. you may be doomed by the narrative, but you are beloved by me <3

#fiction #writing #tropes #doomed by the narrative #yamada hizashi #present mic #yes this is about mic #as is everything tbfh #i've been wanting to make a similar doomed by the narrative post about nemuri for a while #but lbr in midnight's case it's less 'doomed by the narrative' than 'ignored by the narrative' #'forgotten by the narrative' #'fucked by the narrative' #it's not even 'sacrificed by/for the narrative' either because a sacrifice has to fucking mean something substantial #nem was killed more or less for shock value and to balance the scales after the villains lost twice #that's it #and before anyone comes after me - no i am not opposed to her death just because she's a female character and/or my fave #a look through this blog and my entire ao3 body of work will show that i am distressingly compelled by- #the tragedy of her death and what it means for her character and her loved ones #but hori has done exactly none of the work to pay off on that so i will not give him the credit for it #anyway. #don't mind me just ramblin' #meta

[kinghermitcrab]

many cesars

#no he's not my favorite character what are you talking abou #mandela survivors au #the mandela catalogue #hail true body au #its name was cesar torres #i dont have a name for the last one i'll think of something #(holds him in the palm of my hand) #this bitch is doomed by the narrative! #i love him a lot though #cesar torres #tmc cesar #mandela catalogue #morningstar au

[epicfirestormer]

I'm so incredibly Normal about these two games.

#look i know people have done those ''yttd is just danganronpa but better'' and they're right #but have people ever draw parallels between yttd and 999 #because i sure am. i sure have. #i just rewatched 999 and man. the story fucks me up each and everytime #the doomed siblings narrative. being apart of something that they don't understand. the main character having connections to the villain. #the narrative of wanting to save someone you love but unable to. because fate determines that they must die. #junpei and sara are so fucking similar and Not at the same time #akane and joe are weirdo friends who would get along great #i am trying so Desperately hard not to spoil anything. this is the closest i can get #if this post can get anyone to play 999 my mission is complete #if you like yttd you would like 999. they got so much Stuff going on it drives me crazy #your turn to die #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #yttd #999 #999 game #zero escape #the fire burns #the fire crackles with joy #low quality memes #low effort memes #memes #shitpost

[achingly-shy]

thinking about everyone hating on sabine for giving baylan the map and choosing ezra over the safety of the galaxy....like did we all just forget "EVERYTHING i did was for FAMILY for MANDALORE"

#like i absolutely love when people take something soooo important to a character and just ignore it #sabine cares about her family so much and ezra is family to her hera is family to her kanan was family to her zeb is family to her chopper #is family to her even jacen is now family to her #the ghost crew is her family!!!! especially since they wrote her bio family out of the narrative (still upset about that one though) #and obviously i emphasized 'mandalore' because it's emphasized in the quote obviously that doesn't have anything to do with ezra #but like if we're going to be hating on something from the ahsoka series #let's not hate on sabine's actions let's hate on arguably trash writing (in the majority of places) #but!!!! her giving baylan the map is not trash writing in my opinion because it makes sense!! it's what she would do!! it's what any of the #would do for each other in the end!! hell it's what i would do for any member of the ghost crew <3 #geo rambles #sabine wren #don't know what exactly prompted me to go on a full rant here but i was watching drew gooden's sw video and he had some takes so it #got me thinking about all this again #also sometimes characters have to make tragic choices that doom everyone else to save the people they love and i think that is fucking #poetic and cinema and chef's kiss and i eat it up every time

[yokoyas]

shipping akiangel is great it’s about two guys who go i hate your species and i do not want to be your partner and a few weeks later they’re discussing life philosophies over brunch and it’s about the juxtaposition of a guy who can’t touch people without shortening their lives and a guy with a short life expectancy it’s about coming to care deeply about someone you initially didn’t want anything to do with. and it’s great bc the narrative draws parallels between the human angel once loved and aki and it’s great bc aki puts himself in danger simply bc he doesn’t want to watch angel die. and it’s buck fucking wild bc they die together but they die in the most miserable fucking way and aki not only never avenges his family but he becomes the thing that killed them and isn’t even able to protect the people he was trying to save and if anything puts them in more danger and angel remembers his past because of aki and tries to save him only to once again have makima take away everything he holds dear and use his powers to hurt people. and also it's great bc it's about two guys who would be absolutely insufferable to be around for any amount of time.

#i love aki's arc. but not bc i liked what happened to him u know? #but bc it's so fucked up and like something something being doomed by the narrative #and your worst fears coming to pass not just despite your best efforts but because of them #like god all he wanted to do was protect his two little gremlin siblings and instead he gets turned into a gun and killed by his brother #beth watches csm #csm spoilers #and while i'm at it ranting abt csm the revelation that makima truly never cared about denji the boy and only wanted chainsaw man's heart #and the fact that denji who was just lamenting how he might have been able to save aki had he been smarter #was able to devise a plan to kill makima using a theory he came to on his own #and having faced the harsh truth that the first person he ever cared about on a human level didn't care about him #god. sorry i love these characters so bad

[avallachs]

ffxvi / ff16 spoilers under the cut (vague) & in tags (not at all vague)

all pre-existing gifset plans cancelled. i'm just going to start spamming the dash with joshua because he's my favourite doomed by the narrative babygirl and i have been crying on and off for the past two hours over him

#forgive me for forgetting the cut at first </3 #ffxvi spoilers #ff16 spoilers #ophelia.txt #it's been a long time since a game's ending left me feeling this empty #and longer still since i have wept because of one but here we are #i saw it coming from a mile off given that his whole deal after being brought back after the time skip #was something just to the left of came back wrong. he was doomed by the narrative from the moment he was first introduced #and then again from the moment he was re-introduced. (so was dion but this ain't about him) #i just... god i love joshua so much. i think he's very likely to dethrone avallac'h as my absolute favourite character from any media #i'm so sad. it was a fitting end to his arc as well as a predictable one. that's what i love about tragedy: you know what's going to happen #but god i wish he hadn't had to die. i wish that none of them had had to die. but he hit me the hardest i think #characters who resonated so hard and broke my heart so thoroughly that i have to believe they were made in a lab for me fr

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Jecra is overtaking every single thought in my brain which is so unfair because he doesn’t even have a canon name. I am in shambles

#I’m frothing at the mouth to talk about him #if anyone wants to just discuss him or some AUs or whatever hmu!! be it asks or DMs or discord! #knuckle joe’s father #Jecra #kirby #something about a kind character being doomed by the narrative #his kindness clearly had such an impact that people are willing to kill for him beyond the grave #I also really love the idea of him being surprisingly pessimistic to the point of it being morbidly concerning #how much hope does he really have? does his kindness matter? is the war hopeless? #of course it’s carefully hidden and thankfully his friends help balance it out #but it would be worse especially at the end

[eldragon-x]

Ford and Stan and Bill are all characters of all time to me in different ways

#stan starts out as a comedic character but from the start they set something up with him and he becomes one of the most important and #emotionally loaded characters in the show #bill is funny and morbid and usually morbidly entertaining but also he is so much more complex than many people acknowledge and I will brin #up that hes actually a tragic villain who makes me want to eat drywall all the time #ford. ford is ford. doomed by the narrative. gifted kid swag. loves his family deeply despite isolating himself and being ready to throw #his own life away in sacrifice. ex-besties with the worst fucking guy in the universe. SO much unresolved shit between him and his twin #brother. suffered more than jesus. theres so much

[burymeinblack2022]

Don't ask:

- a man, his salary

- A woman, her age

- And a tumblrina (gn) who they voted for in the nge/moomin poll....

#Releasing this from the drafts bc the poll ends at 9pm today #It's been real y'all we go down gracefully it's been an honor fighting with y'all in the Eva trenches 🫡🫡 #Also why are pitting 2 bad bitches against each other #Like do ppl realize when they say 'moomin is for queer people' the lead of Eva is also literally a depressed bi like! #He should be doing numbers here on the depressed gay site come on. Yeah it was doomed by the narrative #But what is Romance without tragedy. Like man. What a trope (only talking abt the story not the authors obv) #Imagine hearing 'maybe I was born to meet you' from a divine being who sees all your faults #And how much you hate yourself and loves you unconditionally and intensely from the moment he lays eyes on you... I'M GONNA BE UNWELL #Regardless. Times are tough but we stay silly :3 let me be silly for a moment with u it ain't serious #Wow anna said something #Anna's shitposts #Nge #Eva #I just think they're wildly different in how they approach themes and it's weird and complicated to even compare them #One is lighthearted and comforting the other feels like being crushed by a thousand elephants both are important #We got far we deserved better than to lose bc of a bit everyone was committed to but. It's respectable. It all returns to nothing or smth #Edit: the sidenote is to differentiate between the fact one is not known for being queer media but it does have that #Despite it being so small in the story (the show at least but it's significant) and the other #Is obv queer media bc of the author and it's not in the story as far as ik but it's an accepting/inclusive story #Why do u think it got so big and a character that appeared once became one of the biggest*. It obv meant smth to ppl #*to the point he appeared more in the rebuilds and is all over in merch. ANYWAY SORRY FOR RANTING IN THE TAGS I GOT PASSIONATE OK

[rhaenyradelights]

What is your take on why Rhaenyra pursues Daemon in 1x07? Is she being pragmatic and this is purely a political move on her part? Is she unknowingly continuing the cycle of abuse by going back to the man who has presumably been grooming her from a young age? Is she seeking out someone who has always understood her? Is she giving in to her desires by going after someone she wants? Is it all of the above?

What is your take, what do you think the narrative is trying to tell us and do those opinions diverge? Because in all honesty I don't know what my take away should be from their scenes. And more importantly I don't know if that was on purpose or bad directing.

personally i think it’s all of the above, it’s clearly meant to be read as simultaneously Romantic and Tragic…. rhaenyra is a deeply sad and lonely person, who has been told of her own exceptionalism her whole life, but then given no real outlet or authority through which she can Do Something with that. she’s clearly cherished by viserys but he’s not close with her… she and laenor share real affection but not their homes or their lives, she’s coddled and placated but not truly Seen by anyone, which means she’s essentially a dragon who’s been sleeping on her pile of gold for a decade and getting bitter and soft… daemon positioned himself as her closest confidant, the one person who would speak honestly to her and who saw her as she saw herself… not a woman or a princess but Of The Dragon…. that is absolutely grooming, his coveting of her is not something she can suddenly break the thrall of now that she’s an adult who’s been away from him. so her choosing him reads to me as romantic yes, HUGELY so, but not Good or Right or Healthy, which i think the show knows too. we also have to keep in mind daemon is the only one giving her true advice, and his advice is always going to push her towards the destructive part of her personality (“i will not be a tyrant” “you must be feared”) and at the time of her proposal, rhaenyra understands how close she is to drowning. there are countless better ways to solve her problems, but she chooses him, because she chooses herself, as she always has. she is deeply worshipful of him as the person who molded her into what she is and as the person she sees as being her True Self she cannot access, and she also knows that at this point he may be her best and truest ally - he is bound to her by blood, by obsession, by name, and now by ancient rites. she doesn’t want to be betrayed so she picks the person guaranteed to stay by her side (finally…. after a decade of abandonment… a forcible separation not only from him but from her own fire). everything they’re showing us leading up to the dance is calibrated to both humanize these people and show exactly how they are pushed to such extremes. so rhaenyra’s choice is a culmination of her childhood and her present circumstances/personality putting the chess pieces of team black into place. everything they both do in episode seven has a direct affect on their chances going forward.

for all that people are talking about “bad direction” i don’t think that’s the case at all. daemon returns to driftmark fully intending to run away again (he’s still Not Daemon, not returned to himself), and she is the one to go after him because she’s desperate, she’s had a decade to think about it, and her family is not secure. the grief and mourning, the tenderness and peace… those are all very intentional moves to show these two people right at the precipice… it’s the gentle calm before the storm, they have to start from a quieter place…. i think the violence and bloodshed and absolute irrational moves ahead wouldn’t land if we didn’t understand that there was never a path where these two didn’t end up bound together (by daemon’s grooming, by her own dragon blood, by the curse of their connection to valyria, whatever), and it’s a choice they make, both of them, based on love and strategy and fate and and and but always. always within the prison of their own fire, and always meant to burn them both.

#like i think it does a disservice to the interior life of all of these characters to pretend like it’s only ever One Thing or One Reason #why things happen #rhaenyra loves him deeply and he loves her but it’s not like that’s something that innocently and organically came about #to me the show is all about paths set before the story even started and d/r are such a huge case of that #when annihilation is in the future we have to see glimmers of hope before that are merely mirages #like it’s doomed but it’s still there #and we have to look at how they as a couple function within the narrative and not like #What If Rhaenyra Were Real And Making Tbese Choices #she isn’t! #meta #targ insanity

[fandom-space-princess]

weird to reflect on my own preferences in fanfiction (and fiction more broadly). I don't like soulmate au's, except when I do, in much the same way as I don't like stories about love triangles/people being bad at polyamory, except when I do, and in neither case is there a pattern to this which is predictable to me 🤷🙃

#i think it might be that what I enjoy is the subversion of social expectations and these tropes practically never give me that #I've experienced too much of them being played straight #similar to stories about queer characters undergoing The Horrors. of course I want to read those! but not when it's all I ever get #media often only tells stories of jealous love triangles and One True Romantic Soulmates #in the same way as it often only tells stories about doomed gays #give me healthy polyamory and characters who reject the narrative of fated romance! #because i think I've had so much of the other kind of stories that I'm at capacity for them #so to stand out/appeal to me they have to be something either truly unique or done by an author I already know and trust? #anyway #fsp speaks

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

I’m sure someone has talked about this before but one thing I absolutely love about tbosas is how Snow’s descent into villainy is never once presented as something that was inevitable

So many villain origin stories portray this idea of a person who tries incredibly hard to be a good person, who takes every opportunity to be kind and to better themselves, but are ultimately doomed to fail by the narrative. Their environment and their circumstances make it impossible for them to be a good person, and while this is effective from a storytelling point of view it’s not exactly accurate to real life

In real life there is always a point where a bad person makes the decision to do something bad, they make the decision to prioritise themselves, their own power, money or desires over someone else. That’s how real life dictators are made, they are presented with every opportunity to be good, and they purposefully choose to not take it

This makes Snow’s storyline so effective because he is given so many opportunities to do the right thing and yet, at every single turn, he chooses to serve himself instead, exactly like how real dictators are made

Snow, unlike most people we see in the capitol, is in a unique position where he could genuinely have the chance to understand and relate to the people from the districts. He, unlike his classmates, is poor and spends most nights going hungry, he witnessed firsthand the cruelty of the capitol when Clemensia was bitten by the snakes for nothing more than lying about doing her homework, when his sister was forced to sell herself on the streets in order to feed the both of them

Throughout his book, the three people he is closest to are Tigris (who dislikes the hunger games, is a rebel, and a victim of the capitol forced to turn to prostitution), Sejanus (who is originally from district 2, dislikes the capitol and knows he will never be accepted there, and also a rebel) and Lucy Gray (who is a victim of the hunger games, from district 12, and is also treated horribly by the capitol). These are all people who gave him an opportunity to realise the cruelty of the system he was in, a chance to directly confront his prejudices and see that people from the districts are just the same as him, and yet he still refuses to take the chance to change

He is given every opportunity, he’s sent away from the capitol to be a peacekeeper in the districts, he forms personal connections with people from the districts, he helps Sejanus perform funeral rites, and yet at every moral crossroads he comes to he makes the wrong decision. He didn’t have to become a villain, and yet he made the choice to do so anyway, despite every chance he was given

I think it’s a really effective portrayal of Snow as a character, and it’s a very effective villain origin story for the type of villain that Snow is. It never once excuses him from his actions because it highlights just how accountable he was for his actions

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #tigris snow #tbosas #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[atamascolily]

There is a tendency I see in PMMM analyses and discussions to treat the witches simply as monsters that can be overcome with sufficient force regardless of other circumstances--and thus Homura's failure to ever win against Walpurgisnacht on her own terms is something that could be easily fixed with more firepower and different tactics. And while there's nothing wrong with this interpretation, it's not one that particularly interests me, either.

What I like about PMMM and what makes it so engaging for me, is that it can be read on multiple levels--both as a literal journey and as a symbolic one. In-universe, witches are the shadow selves of magical girls; is it really so surprising that they also serve as narrative foils to those who face them, thus making victory or defeat as much of a character issue as a tactical one?

It is not a coincidence that Mami Tomoe, a girl who was forced to grow up too fast and who could have wished to save her dying parents but didn't, meets her end at the hand of a particularly childish and immature witch, a lumpen, misshapen doll that transforms into a clown--a girl who never grew up, who could have wished to save her dying parent but didn't. Mami, an experienced veteran who wiped the floor with the Rose Witch and her familiars earlier, is completely caught off-guard and is eaten alive by a witch who embodies all of the issues she herself struggles with and has yet to overcome within herself.

Yes, Mami was careless and overconfident, which led to her doom--but she had also fulfilled her role of introducing Madoka to the world of magical girls. On a narrative level, her death was necessary--not only to free Madoka from her impulsive promise to become a magical girl too early in the story, before she'd learned all the facts and could make a fully informed decision, but also to teach Madoka one final, horrific lesson about what life as a magical girl is really like.

This is not to say that AUs where Mami survives are wrong or missing the point--I've written them myself and I love them! (It helps that Mami's survival is usually the result of someone else's interference, not something she accomplishes on her own.) Nor do I mean to suggest that Mami's death is a moral failing on her part--merely that I think that Charlotte represents Mami's own particular brand of kryptonite at that particular point in her life, one she might have been able to survive if she had been able to move beyond the psychological issues hobbling her.

Meanwhile, Homura is able to easily defeat Charlotte, because metaphorically she's moved beyond the childish worldview that Mami is still stuck in. From that same symbolic perspective, it's this relative level of maturity, as much as her time stop and pipe bombs, that allows her to win.

Likewise, it is not an accident that the next witch Madoka encounters is one that specializes in extracting the memories of its victims, trapping Madoka in a spinning carousel as she is tormented by her own grief and guilty conscience over Mami's death. She is freed by Sayaka, who has moved beyond such angst by her decision to take on Mami's role as an idealized magical girl protector. Later on, Sayaka's descent into dualistic thinking is symbolized by her fight against a witch whose world is literally black and white--whom Sayaka defeats, but only at the cost of pushing herself dangerously to her limits.

As with Mami, Sayaka's death is directly tied to her own psychological issues--in this case, by her incredibly strict rules about how magical girls should behave and her refusal to cut herself any slack whatsoever. Her metaphorical self-denial results in literal self-denial, and her death as a magical girl and rebirth as a witch.

Then we come to Walpurgisnacht, a witch made of cogs and gears--the one witch Homura cannot beat, no matter what she does. Homura is stuck in her loops, unable to imagine a future beyond them, increasingly isolated from any meaningful connections or relationships--Walpurgisnacht may be the "fool that spins in a circle", but so is Homura. The inside mirrors the outside; when we watch Homura fight against Walpurgisnacht, we are also watching Homura's struggle with herself. Unlike Mami and Sayaka, Homura's magic allows her to fight this battle over and over again--again and again she is forced to retreat and start over, unsatisfied with the results and determined to do better next time. She doesn't die, but she doesn't win, either--instead, she's locked into perpetual stalemate with no end.

Madoka, however, is able to see beyond the vicious cycle represented by Walpurgisnacht and thus easily and repeatedly defeats an enemy that Homura cannot, regardless of her relative power levels in any given timeline. It's probably too simplistic to say that hope triumphs over despair--and yet, that's exactly what happens, every single time. Homura has numbed herself through repeated exposure to where she no longer feels hope or despair, thus existing in perpetual stasis with her purpose the only thing driving her. Paradoxically, the one thing she needs to do to win is the one thing she cannot do--and the thing that Madoka can do all too easily.

(This is not to say that Madoka doesn't have her own issues--she does!--just that her issues are different from Homura's, meaning she's not tripped up by this particular obstacle in the same way that Homura is. And it's not that Homura's struggles were pointless--they were what allowed Madoka to get to point where she had both the power and the knowledge that she could save everyone, including Homura.)

Homura's final battle with Walpurgisnacht shows Homura going to insane lengths, including a wall of C-4 explosives inside a refinery, a flaming oil tanker, and a submarine with Type 88 Surface-to-Ship missiles--none of which has any lasting effect on Walpurgisnacht whatsoever. That episode goes to great lengths to show that Homura's approach to fighting Walpurgisnacht fundamentally isn't working; I don't think adding more nukes would help.

The one time Homura gets the closest to her happy ending is the one timeline where she and Madoka fight and fall together--the one timeline where they are shown as equals, and the one where they debate becoming witches together and destroying the whole world before Madoka thinks better of it. This is also not a coincidence. If there is ever to be a truly happy end to this franchise--or an end at all--Homura and Madoka must be equal and willing partners, not one protecting/sacrificing themself for the other again and again. It is also likely that they will remake the universe in the process, through the combined power of their mutual wish.

[It also wouldn't surprise me if that line foreshadowed future plot elements--after all, Madoka technically became a witch in the final episode of the TV series (she got better, thanks to the nature of her wish), and so did Homura in Rebellion--but we shall see if the series ever follows up on this.]

This is why I'm so excited that Walpurgis no Kaiten seems to be laying the groundwork for Homura creating her own enemies and her greatest enemy being herself--once again, making the metaphorical literal. I'm excited about the prospect of Homura getting a do-over with Walpurgisnacht, which would represent a chance for her to confront her narrative foil one more time, and show us how her character has changed. Though it may play out on a larger stage, the real battle will be inside Homura's mind and heart--and, I would argue, always has been. The only way the outcome will change--the only way we can move beyond what's been and into something new--is if/when she changes.

I want to be clear that there's absolutely nothing wrong with the strictly literal interpretation of witches, and I think people should write what they want to write; if that's the story you want to tell, then go for it! For me, however, I find it far more compelling--not to mention richer and truer--if the actions and words on-screen correspond to the characters' emotional and psychological journeys, and there's no question that this preference how I interpret media in general, and PMMM in particular. And it's not that I think Homura couldn't defeat Walpurgisnacht in an AU scenario--merely that any story where she achieves this victory without changing in any way or addressing her own psychological issues in some fashion removes exactly the elements that drew me to this series in the first place.

#puella magi madoka magica #pmmm analysis

[luveline]

jade my heart I’m really feeling Peter parker tonight in this chilis. maybe just Pete listening to r go on about something she likes? Like a book or a tv show and he’s just listening but also so obsessed with her and thinks she’s adorable? I love u! 🫶🏻

ily ty for requesting <3 fem

“It’s a prequel, you know?” 

Peter feels fondness for you pretty much every second of the day, but the way you’re asking without looking at him, and the way you’re laying across his lap so unbothered, he finds himself grinning like a mad man. “I did not know that,” he says. 

You nod up and down with a severe sort of look about you, as though this is of the utmost importance. If Peter doesn’t get on the same page as you soon, he’s not gonna make it. “I can’t believe you’ve never seen the first trilogy. Like, I like you so much, but where the hell have you been?” 

“Where have I been?” he wonders. 

“Anyways, that’s not the point, sorry. They’re complicated movies. You’d like them, though. Next time I’ll bring my DVD’s and we can watch them, if you want to, you’ll really like them, or you’ll really like Natalie Portman, at least. She’s beautiful. And her character is so… complicated, I guess, she’s doomed from the beginning of the narrative and she’s the catalyst for so much but she’s also just… sorry, I’m being totally boring.” 

“Says who?” 

Doesn’t take much more than that to get you rolling again, you want to tell him that badly, “I don’t wanna spoil it anymore because I really think you’ll love them if you watch them, but you’re gonna need to watch the first trilogy to get the emotional impact, and you’ll love them, don’t worry.” 

“I’ll love them,” he agrees, attempting to lean down for a kiss. 

“Wait, is this a shut me up kiss?” you whisper. 

Peter shakes his head as he kisses you, serving for a wobbly but soft press of your lips to his. “Never. Tell me everything about it.” 

You talk until you’re hoarse, literally hoarse, and Peter has to make you a cup of water. His cheeks are hurting from smiling at you. You’ve never looked this cute, not once, not even when he took you to Coney Island and you screamed the house down on all the rides. 

“I think we better go and get those DVDs,” he says. 

“It’s dark out,” you say. 

“We’ll swing.” 

“Isn’t that against your code of ethics?” You sip your drink, pointing at him. “We’ll hear someone who needs help on the way and you’ll drop my extended editions to save them.” 

“I won’t drop anything,” he says. “Come on! Come on, if you’re this excited just talking about it I wanna see how pretty you are when we’re actually watching the movies.” 

You press your smile into a line. “You’re not just humouring me?” 

“I could listen to you talk for hours, baby, but you sound like you did the second time we got off of The Cyclone.” 

You do a spinning, meandering dance into his arms. “If you insist.” 

Your feigned reluctance is adorable. He grabs you in both hands for another misaligned kiss.

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