I am so in love with this volume because I am so in love with the way Blake Belladonna is finally allowing herself to love Yang, you feel me?
Blake has always had this love fer Yang, we all watched their slowburn unfold over several volumes, but she kept this love close to her heart and only let that affection slip through cracks of her walls and/or during dire life or death situations. The simple, domestic, everyday ways to express love? Holding hands just because and softer words spoken freely and casually? Blake couldn’t do it because she was still afraid.
Afraid to hurt Yang and scare her away with her affections, because she had hurt Yang so much already and couldn’t bear to risk burdening her even more. She had left, she had abandoned the one person who she trusted most, and she had to prove she was staying for good this time. They still had to repair their friendship first and foremost.
Afraid to be the one hurting for exposing herself, because love had burned her once so throughly before. She trusts Yang with her life, but that haunting nightmare that is Adam makes it hard fer her to trust the brightest thing in her life with her heart. Blake had to overcome the bullish knife hanging over her head before she could be in another relationship.
And then when these issues were slowly getting resolved, Blake still held back. Sure, there were more tender moments between them, but they were more brief and far between. Blake was still holding back because this slowburn slowdance was all she knew when it came to Yang. They had to focus on the threat of Salem, of Atlas falling, of all that. It was better to play it safe, now was still not the right time.
But then? But then Blake watched Yang die, and suddenly all those cautious moments of ‘playing it safe’ racked up to an indescribable amount of missed opportunities and regret. Suddenly waiting all this time for the ‘right’ time didnt matter at all anymore because Blake completely ran out of any time.
Blake isn’t going to hold back anymore, she’s finally comfortable enough to be who she always was deep down under those trauma walls, this openly affectionate silly goofy little book nerd who just wants to make her beloved smile, and she’s going to absolutely s h o w e r Yang with flirty tones and dumb jokes and longing touches and be such a dorky romantic because she doesn’t want to waste anymore time. As Weiss spoke fer all of us, it’s, “About time”. The ‘right’ time is right the fuck now screw that ‘not concerned with sands of time’ bullshit she wants to kiss this stupid pretty face and she WILL let Yang know. I think about Blake this volume and I’m just SO PROUD OF HER. Nothing like a little taste of death to push a slowburn along, huh? Seriously though, witnessing Blake’s arc come full circle to open up and be the person she once was before Adam crushed her into taking up as little space as possible, before she deemed herself as nothing but a coward and a fool, seeing her laugh and smile openly and shoot every damn shot she can- it’s so, so damn good.
Anyways, I am also in love with Yang Xiao Long having no idea how to handle Blake being incredibly openly in love with her. 10/10 watching experience, truly.
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Twins
Tablet is shot, so have an old headshot of the monkies.
Info below:
They are twin brothers in the Reverse Au. While they're technically the exact same age, Sun Wukong is considered the "older" one. In-universe it's because SWK was immediately sapient upon birth (call back to the whole intelligent part of the stone monkey thing), out-universe it's cause Macaque has that gremlin baby brother energy.
They both have their issues. SWK is possibly going through a 500+ year depression with Red Son being one of the only things keeping him going after the death of his friends and he would very much appreciate it if Macaque left him tf alone. Otherwise he's fiiinnee, psshhh.
Macaque spends his time trying to get his older brother's attention, usually by making him miserable anyway he can outside of directly putting his hands on Red Son (because that did not end well last time) and has nothing else going on in his life aside from training MK to eventually take part in his schemes and the occasional shadow play.
There's a lot more going on with them, but spoilers.
(They may be smiling, but they are both incredibly pissed in the pic)
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I'm so mad that nobody has made a tiefling shepard druid who looks like a sheep, with poofy white hair, ram horns and soft sheepy features. If i could i would and i'd name her Ewe.
High on the mountain, there's a lovely Shepard-
Yodalay Yodalay Hee-hoo.
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