#// OKAY OKAY HEAR ME OUT

[gremnda]

Siblings siblimg sib

[phantomdecibel]

apparently there’s gonna be an aurora borealis tonight! so naturally I keep thing about crayfish

[selfnss]

// @giftandguile asked ; ❝ no need for sorrow, they are all dead anyway. don’t waste your words in vain. save your breath. ❞

it takes less than a second for the tension in the room to thicken. it takes less than a second for passive expression to shift to one of barely contained rage. instinct kicks in, hand lifting to rest against the grip of the dogs sabre as auburn gaze focuses on the detective.

"what did you say?"

it's barely a growl, rasped on his exhale as metal strains beneath the hound's white-knuckled grip. he'd draw his blade, extend it and take the brat's head off in a heartbeat but tetcho needs him. he needs the information he has - needs that insight that will help them in the long run. that, and he's following orders. orders that he has no say in. orders that he doesn't want to have a say in. tetcho's existence is one with one sole purpose - to cut down what he's pointed at. yet... who can this detective be talking about? jono and the others are following their own trails. tetcho has pinned this one down in a dead-end alley; anyone else would be pleading for their life at this point.

so why isn't this one?

teeth grit, the hound's grip on his composure starting to slip as his mind races. he's just trying to make tetcho doubt himself, surely? that's what jono would tell him. that's what-- the drip, drip of blood in his peripheral - gurgles around blood, inches away from the shell of his ear-- no. no - shut up. lip curls upward in a snarl, predatory in nature as the hound forces himself to concentrate on the threat in front of him. there's no way he could know. how could he know? all traces of what happened back then have been erased - they told him that they'd be erased. then why...

grip tightens on his sabre, tetcho takes a single step forward - narrowing the distance between them. "what. did. you. say?"

[bacchuschucklefuck]

typical tavern scene

[azurdlywisterious]

Curse you random cover of bad romance from punk goes pop volume six…

[radioroxx]

this is kerdly 2 me. btw

[datcravat]

It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!

[last-pages]

theyre all teenagers of the late 2000s though because think. percy listened to green day. thalia was punk. piper probably layered long tank tops. nico played roleplay card games. they WERE 2000S KIDS AND TEENS

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[abesetacringe]

absolutely normal about the new lore drop

[hemlockgraves]

Do I dare write a short one shot fic of my fav ship being old and soft together-

[vaguely-concerned]

the more I play the more I think lucanis basically knows it's illario who betrayed him right from the beginning (he's had a year in the ossuary to think. not that many people knew where he was going. when you ask him 'did Illario know you'd be on that ship' his only answer is the hardest flattest 'yes' you ever heard). so it's not so much about figuring out who the traitor is (because that's ludicrous. we all know. immediately. they didn't really bother to hide it lmao) as about methodically closing off every single avenue of denial lucanis has clung to that whole time with as much or little gentleness as you might prefer until he has no choice but to admit it. because the moment he has to admit it, he'll have to do something -- feel something -- about it. and that's such a catastrophic event in lucanis' inner landscape (he has had TWO people in this whole entire world up until now and will do anything to hold on to them with a heartbreaking child-like desperation, even at and especially through the detriment of his own self) that he'd rather just. not. what if we quite simply. didn't. what if we just stayed here in the emptiness where we can both pretend you didn't hurt me in a way I should never forgive. I have so much practice in that with caterina already it's always worked out great for everyone so far. (press x to fucking doubt but that's trauma logic for you lol)

after everything illario did, so much of the storm of lucanis' emotions around it is 'what the FUCK did you get yourself tangled up in this time and how do I get you out of this mess safely'. what's worse: the fact that your brother murdered you, or that he put himself in horrible danger doing so and thus exposed you to the risk of losing him forever. lucanis' heart certainly has an opinion here and it's fucking unhinged (affectionate)

the themes of dissociation in lucanis' character in general makes me feel nuts. allllll these contradictory messy things he needs to cut off from each other because they can't coexist or be easily reconciled inside him. but all remain stubbornly true separately anyway and will have their due one day. love and resentment. tenderness and fear and rage. terror and longing. love and freedom don't coexist. the burned out golden child anthem is playing in the background. he was always caterina's favourite and he has to keep striving to deserve that dubious honour with every breath he takes and then, presumably, mercifully, some day he will die and be excused and can rest. and until now he's suppressed all the -- natural, healthy, protective! -- negative feelings that threaten the few attachment relationships he actually has, at the cost of ever actually having his needs for connection and safety met and leaving his core self imprisoned and compromised. and spite goes 'what. no. that's dumb fuck that' (*spite voice* I do not understand that and even if I did I would not respect it) and does not allow him to fall back into that, which I think is what saves his life, ultimately. it took being possessed by a demon for lucanis to even contemplate telling anyone he loves 'no' in any way, but hey. whatever gets you there right lol

lucanis is dealing with the freeze response allll the way down baby. and he was even before the ossuary, that just turbo powered it and brought it to a breaking point way before it could happen naturally. but something was going to break eventually no matter what, and I'm just glad that in the end, through the power of friendship and also pure spite, it doesn't have to be him

[egophiliac]

The cut they did with the latest chapter...Malleus was straight up a HORROR VILLAIN IN THE BEST AND MOST TERRIFYING WAY EVER.

"You're 'awake', aren't you, Shroud?" CHILLS LITERAL CHILLS

now, let's be fair to Malleus, he started out very politely! a dainty little knock on Idia's door. graciously allow a couple of minutes to give him a chance to realize that his rebellion is futile and all shall succumb in the end. then, when that doesn't work, a firmer but still unquestionably mannerly knock. then just straight-up haunting his shit

honestly, there was a surprising amount of Twst trying out just a little bit of horror movie in this one! like. you're having a nice cup of tea one minute and then it turns into Alice in Wonderland Does The Cube. everything's red for some reason. your friend's mom is actually a mass of giant shrieking arms rising from the depths to drown you in an ocean of chamomile. this is all a precursor to being hunted as the most dangerous game throughout a labyrinth by dopplegangers of your best friends. what's going on, Twst. are you okay.

[suntails]

new plushie just dropped

[guy-named-xtatic]

not familiar

please tell me im onto something

[sonchop]

okay, just hear me out!!

since cheng xiaoshi's mother is also a time traveler and wants to save her husband by changing the past, WHAT IF her actions GREATLY influenced the development of events? i mean, of course they did, but what if cheng xiaoshi WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE in THE VERY FIRST timeline?

what if it was his mother's attempts to prevent her husband's death that led to this series of events??? to xiaoshi's death??????

JUST IMAGINE. it's the first time she's changed the past, SO liu xiao & co start looking for her AND cheng xiaoshi's father (because SHE is looking for him)

is that why they find cheng xiaoshi and everything leads to vein killing him?????? AND THEN lu guang jumps in time, trying to stop it.

WHAT IF he doesn't succeed precisely because cheng xiaoshi's mother dives in a few years before him and changes events there, condemning him to failure in advance???

WHAT IF THE ONLY WAY to save cheng xiaoshi is to give up saving his father??

imagine a conversation between lu guang and cheng xiaoshi's mother. she proves that if her son and lu guang don't interfere, she will save her husband and everyone will live happily, and lu guang tells her about cheng xiaoshi's death. aaaaand they both understand HOW to prevent it. a choice between a husband and a child. and it seems to me that she would have chosen a husband (seriously, it feels like both parents consider their goal and each other more important than their son..)

NOW IMAGINE she apologizes to lu guang and promises to save cheng xiaoshi as soon as she saves her husband and then disappears, and Lu Guang now has a certain enemy. not the whole flow of time, but the mother of the one he is trying to save. aand now he knows who needs to be stopped in order to achieve his goal.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS?