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deiaiko · 3 months

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#19.3 Unravel

It had been some time since Agni felt this nervous. Not even talking with Jinsung Ha recently had made him feel like this. He fiddled with the mask on his hand as he waited for Grace to come back. He had thought hard on how to deliver the news, but he knew that no matter how he phrased it, Grace would be upset. Velt nuzzled under his palm and Agni gave her a few pats, before deciding that she would be better inside her bowl in his lighthouse, just in case the shinsu acted up around Grace after he received the news.

Grace came back wearing the comfiest shirt and shorts Agni knew Grace liked to wear on lazy days. He joined him on the floor, and they ate dinner together. Agni always finished last, so while waiting for him to finish his meal, Grace told him about his day with Bam. Grace was intrigued by how much his way of thinking had changed, and how glad he was to be able to be by Bam's side when he was having a bad day. It reminded Agni of the hidden floor, when Grace faced his sworn enemy.

They left the used bowls on the coffee table and went to brush their teeth. Afterwards, they turned off the light and went upstairs to sit on their bed. Grace's curious gaze never left him, and Agni curled his feet nervously.

Grace was the one who broke the silence. "So…what is it?"

Agni's breath hitched. This was the part he dreaded most. "I talked with the crocodile earlier. Did you know that he could manipulate stone already?"

"Huh." Grace needed a few seconds to let the information sink in. "Didn't Rak learn it on the Hell train? How does he know it?"

"Turns out our crocodile also traveled back to the past like us. He found the young crocodile and taught him."

"What?!" Grace gasped, wide eyed. "That means our Rak is–!!"

"He's dead." Agni quickly snuffed out that hope. They had been in delusion for long enough; it was time that they faced the bitter truth. "He suffered a fatal injury from the explosion. He couldn't have lasted long without proper help." Agni omitted the actual cause for Rak's death, but still kept his words true. "I'm sorry."

"…Oh." Grace looked lost, just like Agni was. His lips parted a little, but they closed before any sound escaped.

Agni gently squeezed Grace's hand, encouraging and comforting as he let the silence stretch on, giving Grace some time to process the information.

"Agni…" Grace whispered, "do you think Hatz and Isu…?"

Agni bit his lip and avoided his gaze, as the nightmare of that day replayed in his mind. He witnessed Hatz get his arms ripped off when trying to protect him. He could still recall the clang of a sword hitting the floor, and Hatz's suppressed scream that gnawed deep at his guilt. He witnessed Isu get beheaded after being taken hostage, the memory of warm blood painting them both still vivid like it happened yesterday.

Agni refused to acknowledge their possible deaths, because it felt like a nightmare that one day he could hopefully wake up from. He avoided the topic when Grace brought it up, so he wouldn't have to say it aloud and make it real. He had been so hard on himself, because he couldn't get rid of the feeling that he had failed Grace and everyone else involved.

Agni knew this had to change if he wanted to live better, now that they had gotten a second chance. So he swallowed down the lump in his throat that had built up over the years and asked mostly to himself; "What are the odds of their survival?"

"There's always a chance–"

"Grace." Agni looked him straight in the eye. "They were already severely injured before the explosion hit."

Grace fell silent and went still.

Agni felt a pang of guilt upon witnessing Grace's reaction. "Sorry. I didn't mean to snap." Agni fiddled with his hands. He realized that he didn't know how much Grace knew of what happened. "My scar…do you know how I got it?"

"I…was told it was from the family heads' battle." Grace looked thoughtful. Agni knew he was trying to be careful with his words. "A stray attack?"

"It could have been worse." The memory of the scorching heat on his skin felt like it had only happened yesterday. He passed out right when he was about to heal Isu, and only found out later that he also lost sweetfish at that time. The days he spent recovering from the burn, to withstand the excruciating pain every second he was conscious, and finally coming to terms that it'd be a permanent scar, was one of the turning points that had changed him forever. Were Grace not there to care for him, he might have ended up destroying himself even more.

Agni hadn't realized he had his left hand clawing on his cheek until Grace pried his hand off and frowned, "You're doing it again."

"Maybe I should wear the mask…" Agni muttered to himself. After all, Grace gave it to him less so he could hide the scar but more to prevent him from unconsciously hurting himself. The only time he could safely take it off was when Grace was around.

Agni bit his lip nervously when Grace didn't reply. He no longer had the courage to look Grace in the eye that spoke so much concern, so he leaned close and rested his head on Grace's chest. "Rak, Isu, Hatz and Hwaryun were trying to get me out of that damned place. But we were caught while escaping, and…it was a bloodbath. I was…too occupied to react to the incoming heat. Rak shielded us from the explosion. And when I woke up…"

"They weren’t with you," Grace finished it for him after Agni trailed off a moment too long.

Agni nodded dazedly, "I've been telling myself that they're still alive, after a blow that could kill rankers. But…who am I kidding? I was lucky enough to survive with just this little–" Agni vaguely pointed to himself– "inconvenience."

Agni felt a hand gripping his arm, and he pulled away to see Grace looking at him with a pained expression. His eyes were glossy and his lips were pulled into a thin line. Trusting his instinct, Agni reached out to gently trace and cup Grace's cheek with his free hand.

"I'm sorry," Agni muttered. "I'm sorry, for not telling you sooner."

Agni silently witnessed tears that streamed down on his love's face. It was a bitter sight that Agni wished he'd never have to see again, that he had tried to avoid for so long by not telling him. He pulled Grace in and held him close to his chest, as if Agni was trying to gather his own crumbled heart back together.

Grace mumbled their late best friends' names as he held onto him tighter, shaking from each breath he took between sniffles.

Agni felt his own eyes sting with unshed tears. He remembered the years he spent climbing the tower together with his old team. Despite their banter being his source of headaches, Agni knew he too had come to acknowledge them as his cherished friends. Only when they were gone did Agni realize how much he'd miss having them around. Seeing the younger them didn't exactly close the gaping hole in his heart, but at least the emptiness was more filled.

Agni squeezed Grace tighter. "We have their younger selves with us now. We will protect them better this time."

Grace only nodded and sank further into his embrace. And Agni planted kisses on his hair, relishing the thought that after everything he had gone through, Grace was still a constant in his life. As long as he had him, everything would be okay.

When Grace started shaking again, Agni caressed his hair and hummed a comfort song they had known by heart. Still, it didn't make falling asleep any easier for Agni, especially not after admitting that his nightmare was very much real. However, as he had been through grief…this, too, would pass.

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#Whee we get to know some of their past. Specifically their turning point #I hope it flows nicely because i have rewritten this like 3 times now 😭😭😭 dialogues are just not my specialty #like how to make them reveal such information without making them come out of the blue #writing style aside. let's talk about why Agni behaves this way #I will save the details on the what and how for the prologue. but basically Agni had been through hell that he couldn't escape alone #Rak Hatz and Isu saved him (or attempted to). and Agni owed them for saving his life. thus the strong attachment that Khun doesn't have #also let me mention that Agni had trouble differentiating between hallucination and reality after the incident. So he was kind of in denial #maybe Agni had come to a conclusion that they might be dead months after that. but he was too afraid to admit it to Grace #because he thought it was partly his fault for being incompetent. and Grace would hate him for letting their friends die #not wanting to risk being left by Grace. he just put himself (and inevitably Grace too) in the illusion of truth #that there's still a chance their friends are still alive because they have no proof of their deaths #so when Agni was offered to go back to the past. he agreed to it. Already expecting that Rak Hatz Isu aren't the same ones that he looks fo #but it was as good as he could get to redeem himself. Plus they get to meet everyone else who they couldn't save #Anyway. I'm taking hiatus until April. In return I will answer if you have any questions whether it is written in the tags or sent via ask #see ya folks <3 we'll get more brothers and team bonding when I return #tower of god #tog #two sides of the same coin fic #my fic #my art #bam #25th bam #jue viole grace #khun #khun aguero agnis #khunbam #shibisu #ship leesoo #rak wraithraiser #hatz

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cloudsrust · 8 months

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Tfw you have to crawl out of artblock and fatigue because your new fave doesn't have enough content (I have to feed the fixation on my own.)

#the cloud can speak oh boi #good omens #doodle #so the good news is that I'm finally drawing again- the bad is that anxiety is still kicking my ass and posting is still horribly difficult #so I meme the pain away #also at this point I'm using him as my support demon #my favorite demon.. the sulfur <3 #<- me actually calling him Sulfur half the time and giving “Aziraphalala” vibes #No but why did I have to get attached to Furfur? I was doing so well with just caring about the main ones;; I was just swimming in content!#But nooo- lets get attached to the demon who has what? 30 mins of screen time in total? *Ugly sobbing*#I love his character so much though ougghh the costume design in GO is already something else but him? Idk I just want to frame him on wall

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wreckedhoney · 1 month

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Surprise! Another horror movie cliché has emerged, and there's a third accomplice involved in Whistling Night!! If this were the case,

Some thoughts on the whole idea under the cut, with some heavy spoilers for one of the endings as well \o/ Feel free to reply with other suggestions or why you chose one of the poll options

A few things can really tickle the possibility. I think the one most players/viewers hone in on are the explosives? Then again, they could learn to make one rather than have a supplier.

Though the bit near the end of the game where The Whistling Man locks Forrest from entering the basement on his way back to the DJ Booth - it can just be a video gamey thing that's choreographed a lil silly (and i'm all for simplicity as well), but it's fun to think that maybe…Forrest could've been in close proximity to TWO whistling men that night 👀

There's also the ending where Henry shows remorse, Forrest's dialogue implying he's under the impression Henry might not have actually killed anyone yet. I don't know how likely it is that Henry hasn't?? But if Henry can actually be steered into a reluctant accomplice narrative, then maybe someone more willing to do the slicing has been working with Marie all along!

Tbh it's all just fun conjecture, not really something I'd push as close canon, but it can be cool to think about nonetheless

#killer frequency #another option is “marie has a friend/lover who's totally down to help her murder bc it's cool” but canon-verse is that? a stretch? idk?#same for henry too idk!?#personally i'm attached to “mutual enemy” for writing reasons but i adore “we've met/mentioned them already” it's pretty fun.#WHY WASN'T GOOSE AT THE FRAT PARTY?? DID HE EVER TURN UP?? WHERE WAS HE ALL NIGHT?? GOOOOOSEEE?????#as well a secret option: an enemy of Forrest Nash who's also the reason he's blacklisted and knew he could die at gallows creek…mwahaha

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cluescorner · 2 years

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Diluc was probably so fucking protective over Kaeya when they were kids. Like, he’d always go first into any situation he saw as dangerous and if literally anything bad would happen to Kaeya he would feel like a horrible person. So he’s always standing up for Kaeya and protecting him from anything scary, like boars and slimes and bullies!!

And then meanwhile Kaeya, the child-savior of Khaenri’ah who probably used to see more fucked up shit in the span of 1 week than Diluc will see in his entire life and has probably killed someone before, has to just...play along. For this mission he needs to blend into the Ragnvindr family and endearing himself to the heir of the family is definitely part of that description. Like, ‘oh wow thank you for saving me from that boar. You are my hero and I definitely needed your help with that. I totally was not going to just kill the boar with the knives I definitely didn’t steal from the kitchen and sew into my clothes in case I came across that treasure hoarder camp that’s been bothering dad recently and found an opportunity to...solve the problem.’ Kaeya finds Diluc’s attempts to ‘protect’ him adorable, especially since Kaeya needs none of that protection and in fact has been doing his own part in protecting Diluc (namely ensuring that they never run into Abyss Mages while wandering in the wild).

#genshin impact #diluc #kaeya #the wine bros #idk I think I'm gonna call them that #alongside ragbros #because IDK I think it's funny that Diluc runs a winery and Kaeya is the one who drinks all of their wine #anyways #I think the idea of Diluc being protective over baby Kaeya when Kaeya was more capable as an 8 year old than most adults is funny #Kaeya is this hyper-competent child who has been tasked with saving a dead country and maybe lived in the abyss his whole life #plus he's probably already needed to do some fucked up shit in order to survive in such a harsh environment #and Diluc sees Kaeya and is like 'clearly he needs my protection'#and Kaeya is like 'ah yes this fits perfectly into the plan I am not getting attached definitley not'#and then BOOM Kaeya got attached to his big brother who offers to fight slimes for him when Kaeya has killed grown adults at this point #ragbros #ragnvindr brothers

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one-winged-dreams · 10 months

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I've been coming up with Lore™ for my Bloodlines insert and decided he needed a sire so this is he.

His name is Jean and he's just kinda here to vibe.

I decided to give HIM the maned wolf theme because he's long. Just... So long.

He turned gangrel!Adri in '94, so insert is relatively young but he's been around for a while.

He's Anarch in belief but he totally doesn't believe in labels, man.

Adding his info here for convenience's sake

He was embraced in Texas in the 1870's so he absolutely started out as a vampire cowboy. Like, he was a cowboy for a good while.

He's actually half Apache on his father's side.

At one point he had an existential crisis over the changing of time and was basically nobody until America's hippie years, which is the personality he's clung to up to current times (Bloodlines included)

He didn't pick up the aesthetic but he very much joined the punk movement of the 80s and didn't let that go either.

So he seems chill but is also full of deep seated rage at any given time.

Very anal about recycling

#i've known him for all of like 8 hours and i am so attached already #and i hope y'all will love him to because I'm probably not going to shut the fuck up about him #dream art #he gets a tag #a beast who's burdened by his bite

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hollowflight-propaganda · 15 days

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The Copperhead situation from that one MudWing short story in a nutshell

Copperhead: Guys? I need to tell you all something...

Egret: Well, go on and spit it out!

Possum: Yeah. Nothing you say could change our opinion about you.

Copperhead: Well... the truth is I like guys-

Egret: You were worried about us not liking you for being gay!? We'd never!!!

Copperhead: Wait-

Bayou: We support you! :)

Copperhead: But I didn't-

Sawgrass: Absolutely. There's nothing, and I mean nothing, that could possibly undo our unbreakable sibling bond.

Copperhead: I'M MOVING OUT TO LIVE WITH MY HOT RAINWING BOYFRIEND!!!

The Sibs: ...

The Sibs: You WHAT?!?!?!??!

#I wondered how sawgrass knew that copperhead liked a rainwing in the first place and then I imagined a coming out scene #an extremely unlikely to have happened coming out scene but I thought the idea was funny nonetheless #I'm now attached to dead characters who only appear in an eight page long short story #don't worry though. I'll be fine cause I'm already the hollowflight person. I'm used to it #anyway in my mind copperhead's boyfriend is named jaguar cause I thought that them both having animal names would be cute :)#wof #wings of fire #copperhead #sawgrass #egret #possum #bayou

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txrdish · 2 months

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the new trailer for new new who has so many parallels with the past series' to the point that with every second that passes, the excitement just slowly turns to so much dread and i can't even begin to think what's going to happen in the season with the blatant foreshadowing.

#don't get me wrong i'm still SO excited #but i already know i probably shouldn't get too attached #doctor who #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday #new new who

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kakusu-shipping · 2 months

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Muta Moodboard!!!! Kitty cat cat cat cat kitty cat <3

#Emile's Edits #Muta #Selfship moodboard #Proship Selfship #Proselfship #I said I'd do Gabocha tonight but then my friend Sol got back to me with the transparent Muta's I asked them to do #And I just HAD to make a selfship moodboard with them INSTANTLY #'Who's your weirdest F/O?' The fat cat from The cat Returns for sure #He is JUST a cat.#But I love him SO much kitty kitty ever <3 #He's soooooooo cute my kitty kitty <3 #My S/I for this one is a BL manga artist who works near the crossroads who starts eating lunch at the table Muta sleeps at #And shares his lunch with Muta because Fat Cat my beloved <3 #And Muta gets a little more attached then he thought he would #This is pre-movie btw I'm the one who gives him the name Muta #I IMAGINE he eventually ends up in the cat kingdom for some reason and Muta (who's full time because His Cat at that point living with him)#and the Baron have to come save him #and that's where the romantic part of the self ship comes from #Muta already loves my S/I at this point but to me Muta is just my kitty kitty until he's twice my size and speaking full sentences #and saving my life <3 #At the end though Muta does decide to convince me it was all a dream and we return to normal owner/cat dynamic #A little bitter sweet but at least we're still together and had one kiss <3

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idiosyncraticrednebula · 6 months

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I hate how now every time a discourse is being had about classic Disney movies, the godawful remakes (or retellings) have to be included in the conversation. It's no longer just the animated movie that is adressed. You can't discuss Aladdin without its 2019 remake, Sleeping Beauty without its 2014 remake, The Little Mermaid without its 2023 remake, Beauty and the Beast without its 2017 remake, The Lion King without its 2019 remake, Mulan without its 2020 remake, etc, etc, etc. I hate how they will be forever attached to these classic movies. It actually pisses me off to no avail.

#anti disney #disney remakes #txt #“akshually this version did a lot of things better such as emphasizing the agency of these heroines” bro that was already in the original #movie and there was more to them anydamnways #the only remakes that are truly worth it are the cinderella one and the jungle book one #the rest are hot garbage that missed the point of the story and added unnecessary changes to the animated classics because they thought they #needed to be “improved”. fuck you fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU #i'm so mad that i didn't even censor that damn word #live-action adaptations of animated works are destroying what made the original work so special #they rarely get it right #call me a pissbaby and that i'm too attached to nostalgia. idc #hollywood doesn't give a damn about the medium of animation to this day and it shows with how they treat animated works #they give these adaptations and remakes/retellings that miss the entire point of the original work and unfortunately some people do defend #these obviously attempts at getting money out of people's nostalgia #they accuse us of being too attached to the original work because of nostalgia but they were the ones who bought into because of that lmao #and they actually liked it. you weren't THAT big of a fan then ma'am

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not-another-doctor · 7 months

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Sometimes a family is just a Romantic gentleman, his takes-no-shit Edwardian adventurer girlfriend and their pet time pterosaur thing

#charley pollard #Doctor Who #8th doctor #Big Finish #I only just started the Big Finish Stories #I'm on my third one #So no I haven't heard Scherzo yet but I know something big happens #but god I'm already so attached to these DORKS #ramsey

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the-halfling-prince · 7 months

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Character info under the cut

This group of six recent high school graduates just wanted to go on a road trip before they all went their separate ways for college. Yeah that didn't work out very well.

1- Vanja Tsui. 18. She/Her. Third generation Chinese American. Planning on majoring in literature. Deaf (wears a cochlear implant). The coolest person you'll ever know.

2- Rebekah Rothschild. 18. She/Her. Jewish. Plays the violin. Probably knows math. Gay disaster.

3- Tristán Serrano. 18. He/Him. The one with a driver's license. Doesn't know how he ended up best friends with five weirdos. Still loves them all.

4- Aleksanteri Rinne. 17. He/Him. Transmasc. Classic loser boy. Soon to be art student. Childhood best friend with Tristán.

5- Eugénie Perreault. 17. She/Her. Has a band where she plays drums. Has ten pairs of tinted sunglasses. Is color blind.

6- Mick Santinera. 19. She/Her. Plays guitar and sings in Eugénie's band. The worst™. Short. No one knows what Mick is short for. Michelle? Mikayla? Whatever.

#my posts #my art #aberdeen's ocs #abe's wip: at the end of the road #cw blood #tw blood #This turned out better than I hoped #I was going for a sort of like oxenfree vibe for this drawing #My favorite details in this: Tristán and Aleksanteri's best friend necklaces #Aleksanteri's sword #The fact that I don't know how arm slings work #The fact that I don't know how to draw hearing aids and I said to myself 'oh I'll look up a reference when I line it's and forgot until I #was already adding finishing touches so hopefully it actually looks like a hearing aid and not idk random thing girl put in her ear Im sorr #I like my men like I like my women. Covered in blood #This book I'm writing went through three different plots in the planning stage before I landed on this one. This plot really is just the #vessel to showcase these characters #Actually Mick was added in the second to last plot idea because I needed a character in the group who I wasn't super attached to because sh #was gonna mysteriously disappear but then I got attached to her #But luckily in the end I found an even better plot

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