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he has a serious case of limp wrist

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hurt no comfort

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LOOK AT THEM!!!

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you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

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my beautiful princess with a disorder

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Thinking about how, whether he is conscious of it or not, Armand has already partially broken the cycle of abuse he was subjected to, simply by not turning Daniel when he was young.

The precise nature of Armand's very existence is a permanent reminder of what he was forced to live through, regardless of if he even has the ability to process the trauma in the first place. If he so much as catches his reflection out of the corner of his eye, he is reminded of the coveting and commodification of his youth and how the most innocent time of his life was weaponised against him. He is frozen there. His face looks so innocent because it creates a satisfying contrast with his actions narratively, but its also because he was. He was innocent. And that was stolen from him by selfish, greedy people who pretended their actions were out of love.

By letting Daniel go (assuming Devil's Minion era happened in the seventies), Armand protected him from this. Daniel experienced his entire youth and what it was like to age out of it without the fear of no longer having value like Armand did, and then came adulthood. He has lived to an age that Arun never could have dreamt of, that Amadeo was forced to realise, at one point, he would never experience, not in the human sense at least. He'll never have lines on his face like Daniel does. His worry lines and smile lines will never deepen. He won't develop crow's feet from squinting in the sun, which turned its back on him long ago anyway. His hair will never grey. Marius made certain of that.

But Daniel got to have all of that. His beloved got to live his life, fuck it up over and over and make a million mistakes. He had the freedom and the agency to do it. Armand will not see it, but he gave Daniel exactly what was taken from him so long ago. He is not just evil. He does not destroy everything. He gave Daniel the real gift, and now they get to move onto the next stage of Daniel's life together (after a couple seasons of slow burn I would imagine).

Just as he sees the tragedy of his past on his own face, he sees the potential he has to be different on Daniel's. He has immortalised true beauty in Daniel. The beauty of having lived a long life.

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THE UNTAMED episode 24

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Armand watching Daniel fuck around in the cellar he shut him in for a few days:

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guys trust me your ocs are 120% prettier when they're beaten and bruised and one step away from death's door as they're left alone in the rain

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Watching

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daily reminder that Daniel Molloy woke up weeping every day because he missed Armand so much

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fear and desire

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Imagine realizing 50 years of your life were pretty much dictated by 2 men you couldn't even remember. They're the reason you are alive, have a career, also the reason why you got divorced twice and always feel empty and unfulfilled. And when you think this is it and your life is over and you're gonna die alone in your apartment, they come crashing back into your life and give you immortality. Wouldn't that be crazy

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SCRUBS 1.01 • My First Day

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a runaway trolley is heading down a track, upon which wei wuxian is tied up and unable to move. jiang cheng is standing near a lever that can divert the trolley onto another track. However, on this alternate track, there are 100 people tied up. if jiang cheng pulls the lever, he kills 100 people and saves wei wuxian. if jiang cheng does nothing, then he kills no one, but he also allows wei wuxian to die through inaction.

caveats:

all choices that do not specifically involve pulling the lever (ie. trying to stop the train, trying to free any of the people from the tracks, throwing oneself in front of the train) count as "not pulling the lever" and will result in the death of wei wuxian.

neither jiang cheng nor wei wuxian know any of the 100 people tied on the other track. the 100 people are also all regular people, such that their deaths would not have any outstanding political consequences upon the world.

all of the people in the situation except for jiang cheng are unconscious. thus, they are unable to provide any input about the situation.

no one except for jiang cheng himself will know which decision he made. the death or deaths of the people in this situation will never be traced back to him.

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Mini comic inspired my this one by Monica's gang (A VERY COOL BRAZILIAN COMIC SERIES WITH LIKE +50 YEARS, PLS GO READ IT, IT WAS MY CHILDHOOD). The translation IS definitly not the same, I adapted it to fit our boyss !!