#//Whether to encourage or provoke into a fight; he doesn't care

[dutybcrne]

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[o5-the-daughter]

[Media: a live video feed.]

The feed flickers on to show Eight seated behind his desk, with a window showing a small section of Site-01's garden serving as a backdrop; the light coming from right behind him gives the impression of a halo surrounding his head, undeniably an intentional effect.

Eight himself is leaning back a bit in his chair, his hands folded infront of him on the desk the recording device has been placed on. He is dressed in a striking, emerald green suit, a color much darker and richer than the sage he usually wears, with his hair having been braided back in a beautiful half-up-half-down style. He wears much the same regality and pride Iva had a week prior, with every last bit of power he holds put on display for the watcher to see.

He pauses as the activity of the feed is announced and shifts slightly before beginning to speak; it quickly becomes clear that he isn't primarily addressing the anons, if he is intending to speak to them at all.

"Some of you know me, some don't, most of you likely don't care, which is an understandable opinion to have", he begins. His voice is surprisingly even, considering the events of the past few days, with his usually harsh accent having softened a little.

"I am the eighth Overseer of the current O5 Council, commonly known as Dogwood or Green these days, the one namely in charge of our Task Forces. And I will be pretty dead in less than twenty-four hours."

Another pause, a brief shift in his overall calm demeanor. Even Eight himself seems a little uneasy with saying these words out loud.

"I have been with the Foundation since I was a teenager in the 1910s, for over a century, a time during which I, mostly unknowingly, was part of a group of trainees nicknamed as O5-10's nine prodigies. With the exception of myself and O5-9, all of them are dead now", he explains, his voice dropping back into its previous calm, almost warm tone.

"All of their deaths were deliberate. All of their deaths were planned."

His glance briefly moves away from the camera, somewhere off-screen, though he doesn't comment on this when his attention returns.

"I don't know much about the others. I wish I did."

Something changes in his tone now. He sounds.. expectant.

"What I do know, however, is that they were sacrificed, one after the other, to slowly create a god out of O5-10 - and now, soon, I will follow them, more blood shed on his command."

He glances away once more; the tension that had previously, almost unnoticeably, slipped into his expression disappears, replaced by a vague, but satisfied smile.

"I have accepted this fate, and I have accepted that I will go to hell for everything I have done in my life", he goes on. He seems strangely at ease now. "That doesn't mean I can't do something good with the little bit of life I have left, however, which is why I have decided to address you, the employees of this organization, today."

Somewhere in the background, quick, heavy steps become audible. They seem to approach Eight's office, even if he can't hear them for obvious reasons. Still, as if he knows, he leans back in his seat.

"Due to some happenings in a neighboring reality of ours, some members of our Council have decided to, aggressively, increase our surveillance of some of our allied Groups of Interest - this is yet to be properly implemented, as they are waiting for me to die first, which has given me the chance to send a message to said GoI to warn them ahead of time."

The steps are almost at his office now. He looks away from the camera, above it, likely towards the door. He is expecting whatever is about to happen.

"That won't stop them from trying to send my agents there anyway, of course, though - and that's why I'm speaking to you directly - I want to encourage you to decide for yourself whether this is a battle you wish to fight for the Foundation. Provoking passive Groups of Interest will result in needless violence, violence that they will now be able to prepare ahead of time; and it will be you who will face the consequences. Not anyone up here, who won't care for the blood on their hands."

The door is pushed open now, with such force that it slams against the wall behind it. Eight's vague smile turns into a grin at the sight of whoever has entered and is storming towards him now.

With a brief look back at the camera, he says,

"Keep this in mind. It's all I ask for my legacy to be",

then familiar, giant hands grab his collar and roughly pull him up from his seat, while another person pushes the recording device - a laptop, apparently - close. The last thing heard is an ugly noise of flesh getting thrown against a hard surface, and a harsh curse in Russian.

[CONNECTION INTERRUPTED. END OF FEED.]

[deceptivemorals]

           his gaze became concerned when his words had a rather negative reaction to katherine, the glass in her hand breaking under the pressure of her fingers. at once a slight smell of blood hung in the air. he had not wanted to provoke that reaction but perhaps it's good that she unloads those sorrows and frustrations.

          he lets her speak, he gave her all the time she needed to put her thoughts into words. to let it all out. perhaps it helped her to feel better.

          then, after she finished, he gently tugged out the handkerchief in his chest pocket before he handed it to her.

          "i don’t think i’m chasing a shadow, and i don’t think you’re deeply evil." he truly didn't think that she was evil. did he disapprove of some of her deeds and actions? indeed. but she was far from being considered irrevocably tainted and vicious. he wouldn't even call her malicious.

          seen in a neutral way, she mostly just defended herself. she had no fun in plucking the wings of a butterfly or indulging in other cruelties. that was a difference to someone who had really bad features.

          "you're not evil, katerina, and you're far from being a devil. life hasn't treated you fair. you did not deserve any of your hardships."

          he stopped, shame and guilt washing through his veins. he did blame himself at least partly for the course her life had taken.

          "i apologize, i truly deeply apologize for my and my family's part in this and i hope i am one day forgiven for my failure."

          despite everything, despite the connection between them, he was aware of his guilt. he didn’t want it to end like this. if he had recognized the signs, if she had trusted and had confided in him, then perhaps things would have been different. she should not have been so traumatized, she should not have felt guilty.

          "it’s not your fault you’re the long-awaited doppelgänger, it wasn’t fair to you." elijah is aware that she has had other hardships before even knowing that she's the doppelgänger but being one of the rarest supernatural beings in the world certainly played a huge part.

          "it’s not your fault and it has nothing to do with you; it’s just misfortune."

          "just like many people in this world have the misfortune to be born in a poor country and must fight daily for their survival. just as many people are already born with incurable and painful diseases. just as some people are condemned and persecuted because of their ancestry or appearance. none of them deserve it. these unbearable fates were not shared with them because they are evil. they were just not as lucky as the others."

          he doesn't know if that comforts her – he almost fears that it does not and he couldn't blame her. his words don't seem to be very encouraging. he also refrains from approaching her because he is unsure if that is something she currently wants. after all, he is aware of how she views weakness.

          "but you do not deserve this fate. it’s unfair that life has given you these bad cards, but that doesn’t mean there is darkness in you."

          "you deserve beautiful and good things, katerina. you deserve to be loved and you have an incredible amount of love to give. more than i, for example, deserve to get from you."

          unlike katherine, elijah is actually a monster. or rather he can be one, partly (and sometimes often) for reasons that are far from being so understandable. and unlike katherine, he sometimes relishes in the most abhorrent things. at least she's true to herself whether he tends to be ... hypocritical.

          "there is good in you. there always was good in you. it is obvious to the people who care to see it. the people who don’t realize that, even though they know you better, just don’t want to see it. you should not suffer from the ignorance of these people, they do not deserve that you feel bad because they chose blindness over the truth. and sometimes, these people have way worse things hidden inside them than they'd want to admit."

          his gaze rested on her, a slight but careful smile appearing on his lips although he still did not dare to approach her.

          "i can tell you absolutely sincerely that you are doing me good. if you were really as bad as you claim to be, then you wouldn’t be able to achieve this. you mean a lot to me and i love you, katerina. even if you should not believe my previous statements, be sure that this is the truth. i love you and i rarely feel this for a person, which proves that you are good and have good in you. i couldn’t love anyone who’s absolutely bad. and love is also, in a way, being drawn to a special light. you radiate that, katerina."

          "you deserve good because you have good in you. this is to be preserved and i promise you that i will do my best to achieve this."

❛ there’s still good in you  ❜

You fucking asked for this so here you go you actual villain.

Still good in you.

What does that mean really? To her? To anyone?

If there were still good in her you would think someone like Caroline or Stefan would see it in her. Would try to nurture it and encourage it to grow. Instead, no matter what she does, she is always the evil vampire breathing down their necks. Why? For mistakes that she made a long time ago?

Stefan can come back from decimating entire towns and bathing in the blood, and he's still a hero.

Damon can actively fuck everyone over and they still save him, they still love him.

Elena gets more people killed than she saves and she's still their perfect angel.

Caroline can see good in Klaus, but not her.

No matter what she does she is always the cast off villain.

It hurts. Genuinely it hurts for her to try and be the only one who seems unforgivable when comparatively she's done far less than those who routinely get passes.

Jaw clenches as she squeezes her glass, the subtle sounds of cracks spiderwebbing along the delicate material pull her from her train of thought.

"You are the only one who seems to think that." She states, voice low with clear traces of resentment and anger.

A bitterness that's been brewing since she can remember. Since she was thrown out of the only home she'd ever known for being a disappointment.

"Maybe you're chasing a shadow. Someone who doesn't exist anymore. Fuck, maybe I never had any good in me. Maybe I was born evil, and that's why I've been punished nonstop just for breathing." At the last two words she stood up and threw the glass with all her strength into the wall. Tears sliding down her cheeks. Angry. Hurt.

What has being good ever been to her besides a weakness? It's why she killed off Katerina to become Katherine. Katherine wasn't even sure how she felt hearing that he felt that way. Was he calling her weak? Or was he telling her she's worthy of redemption? And if he believes that of his brother did that say much that he believes that of her?

The vampire lifted her hand to watch the cuts heal almost instantly and she squeezed her eyes shut. Trying to stop all the pain and turn it into anger, into rage, the familiar safe feeling. Anything but vulnerable.

"Maybe I don't want to be good Elijah." She stated, swallowing hard.

"Maybe I want to be evil, because..." She paused, looking up and away, fighting more tears. "Because then at least if I was who they say I am, because at least if I actually am the Devil..... then it doesn't hurt as much to be treated that way regardless."

She tried, but the hurt outweighs the anger and she can't fight the tears.

"At least if I'm evil then there is a reason all these terrible things keep happening to me...... at least then im not some big cosmic joke.... at least then I deserve it..... because if I'm not evil.... then why am I being punished like I am?"

[anxiouslyextroverted]

Hi sorry i thought I replied to this. (also I wanna make it clear that I'm not trying to argue, i just want a peaceful discussion. so sorry if I come off as a dick ^^) also im sorry for how long my reply is.

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C!tommy was rebellious and caused problems for c!Dream and the server and he did consistently make fun of c!Dream, and had put signs around insulting c!dream. He did encourage people to pick on c!dream. He did provoke c!dream a couple of times as c!dream provoked him too.

Yes thats true. But In the first disc fight, c!Dream threatens to burn the discs because of what c!Sapnap says rather than what c!Tommy says (And not to mention csap dragged ctommy into this which ctommy tells cdream and csapnap confirms it) and I understand that c!Dream and c!sapnap are close so that makes sense that he isn't mad at c!Sapnap despite c!Sap being the one to call c!Dream a tyrant and insult him. Its still unfair that c!Dream threatened to burn the discs despite this being c!Sapnap provoking him. - Potentially he wanted to burn them because he believed it would stop the conflict, but he did know that the discs belonged to specifically c!Tommy and arguably was targeting him.

Then the next thing later on... c!Dream had been going against a fair trade they had- if you remember, it was the 'netherite chestplate in exchange for discs' After the two tried to scam each other, they both eventually gave each other what the other wanted. c!Dream and c!Tommy fairly traded and yet, c!dream continued to try to get the discs back. c!tommy points out that 'they've finished their war'' and that he doesn't get why c!Dream is still after his discs. He logs onto the server any time c!tommy has those discs out, and he even watches the juke box in de walls to make sure that c!Tommy couldn't be at peace and play the discs. So I'm sure you can see why c!Tommy would see c!Dream as controlling and a cruel at this point on. (Combined with the fact that c!dream did burn his house and then fix it a couple times and did steal from him too.)

And it shouldn't be c!tommys fault, that c!dream was supposedly paranoid here and still believed they were at war. c!tommy clarifies to him a couple times that they weren't fighting. c!Dream still persists anyway. (maybe cuz ctommy seemed cocky at this point, and teased cdream a little but I'd say its still unfair.)

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Anyway moving on, I'd say yeah you're right it would make sense that c!Dream would be more mad that c!Tommy and him used to be friends. But, its not c!Tommy that first tainted this friendship. If you look at Pogtopia era, c!Dream goes on c!Crimeboys side and he gives c!tommy gear and even gives him a note about how he didn't want to be a tyrant and that he will help c!tommy from the shadows... he goes onto help c!tommy in the pet war too, c!tommy believes they are becoming friends and he appreciates c!Dreams help only for c!dream to say 'the only reason I'm on your side is because I like destruction, I like destroying things." c!tommy says in reply "so you're not just on my side for being my friend...." "Not really I just like chaos honestly" "oh.." Then, a few streams later, c!Dream betrays c!Tommy tho claiming to be not on anyones side, c!Tommy doesn't understand this, and c!dream goes onto say later to everyone on pogtopia that he has something that is more powerful than friendship. Now in fairness, c!wilbur did have an idea of using c!Dream as a scapegoat, but c!tommy didn't. CDream in this instance pushed c!tommy away (whether he believed c!tommy was genuine or not- yk maybe c!tommy really saw him as a weapon idk) He still impacts c!Tommys perspective of him in a strongly negative way.

(Despite the fact he wanted to be morally grey) c!Dream sets himself up here as an element of chaos and as a 'villain' by claiming that he only cares about destruction and that he got something more powerful than friendship. Later on, helps c!Wilbur destroy L'manberg and joins in with the destruction in front of everyone which again strengthens that whole 'tyrant' idea regardless of whether c!Dream was in the right or not, regardless of his intentions. C!Tommy would see him as a traitor, a person that obsessed over his discs, a destructive person and as the one who drove c!Wilbur further to destroy his home. He has a reason to hate c!Dream at this point, lots of reasons even though c!dream did explain to him why he was against lmanberg and nations, even though c!dream did give him lots of powerful gear. It doesn't matter.

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As for, everyone else. Yes, c!tommy and c!wilbur were mainly the ones convincing the server to be against c!dream for a while,, c!tommy started to just followed along c!wilburs footsteps, whilst looking at what c!dream did to him and perceiving it as him targeting c!tommy solely. After the betrayal and death of c!Wilbur, c!Tommy starts to be against c!Dream further, but as did others. In the cdtqk stream, it was c!dream who made c!sap, c!george, c!karl and c!quackity dislike him because c!Dream wanted c!george dethroned for not staying neutral whilst also not being okay with mexican l'manberg and showing hostility towards his friends. (Though I can see how it was a little bit of his friends fault as well, as they never did hear his perspective.)

Though, combined with everything else, a lot of people at that point would've seen c!Dream as a tyrant without c!Tommys influence.

Why is everyone missing the point of the finale??

"It sucks! It sends a terrible message!! It was so sad and dumb! There was no point to any of it!"

NO POINT?!?!

The point was that despite everything, despite c!Tommy having every right to continue hating and perpetuating the cycle because of all the hardships and trauma he went through.

He didn't.

Because it was his CHOICE to finally see c!Dream for what he was: a human being just like him. And to have compassion and empathy for who c!Dream used to be and what he had been turned unto.

It wasn't an obligation or something that NEEDED to happen. But it was something he chose to do despite all logic saying that he shouldn't.

It's not saying that it should be the norm in all cases where someone is harmed in some way. But it is showing who c!Tommy really is and the real compassion he truly has, despite the narrative of his continuous stuggle with choosing selfishness vs selflessness.

But c!Tommy saw, truly saw him for the first time and told him it wasn't too late to change. And c!Dream believed it for maybe even a moment, maybe it wasn't too late for him to change.

c!Tommy believing for just those last moments that c!Dream had the capacity to change. And that it still wasn't too late for him despite the horrors he'd committed himself to doing. When even c!Dream always knew what he himself was doing was awful, but he felt so cornered and alone as the story went on that he couldn’t see any other path to take. c!Dream had given up on being anything other than the monster everyone said he was.

But the saddest part about it was that it was too late. Because the nuke had already been launched.

It's sad, because the story was always going to be a tragedy. And that's the point:

It was a tragedy.

All of it. Even c!Dream.

[clementine-kesh]

#Tom is such an infuriating mix of trying to get B'Elanna to act more Klingon while also making fun of her being Klingon while also saying he #loves her being Klingon all while B'Elanna is deeply insecure about her Klingon heritage and has told him that multiple times #and THEN he is also annoyed when she is annoyed and attributes all her anger to her being Klingon #Harry: B'Elanna's always been sensitive about being part Klingon - you know that #Tom (Wearing a 'You Don't Scare Me - My Wife's Klingon!' shirt) Yeah but- #Tom will literally provoke B'elanna into an argument then go WHOA epic Klingon Moment! Calm down!' #Tom wants B'Elanna to embrace her heritage and act more Klingon so that his perception of her as someone who he doesn't need to care about #emotionally is validated. If B'Elanna were a fully human* woman he wouldn't be able to label every emotion he #doesn't want to engage with as a 'Typical Klingon Overreaction' so her being perceived as Klingon and having that part of her being #perceived NEGATIVELY actually benefits him. That's the vibe I get. It's why even when he says things that might be sweet or encouraging #about getting more in touch with her Klingon side - it just feels insidious. The narrative becomes 'B'Elanna is always upset with Tom and #they are always fighting - because she's Klingon' rather than 'why is this couple always fighting? Why is B'Elanna always upset with Tom?' #*And if Star Trek didn't have so much bioessentialism which allows everyone on Voyager to attribute #B'Elanna's upset to her Klingon nature ALWAYS despite her being half Human and not identifying strongly with being Klingon #< Probably also because if they acknowledged her Human side they'd have to acknowledge that that human side isn't White and their blatant #'Klingon' in place of 'Latina' (in this instance) stereotypes would become clear to more viewers #It's also wild that it's never questioned that like even if B'Elanna WERE fully Klingon - why would Tom have to be less #attentive to her than he would a human woman? Klingons (broadly) seem to value very passionate love. It feels very much like Tom is just #picking and choosing aspects of what he perceives Klingons to be that he can graft onto B'Elanna to make her the ideal partner for him #and that if she doesn't adhere to this perception of her he becomes annoyed or confused. #it really never feels like he LIKES / HER./ #Whether B'Elanna is fully Klingon half Klingon or fully Human - shouldn't you actually get to know her personally? And care about her? #and like who she IS?? As an individual PERSON???

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tom paris i am going to skin you alive for the way you treat b’elanna. this poor woman is begging him to see her as more than just a stereotypical klingon and here he is treating her like one anyways! even after she tells him to his face that she’s worried it’s going to drive him away just like it drove her father away! he still refuses to truly understand and respect her insecurities around her heritage! just keeps making jokes about how tough and scary she is! no wonder his line in lineage about not leaving her rings false when this is how he treats her