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2am thinking about aglaya lilich who executed people without any pity had an insane amount of power but also always knew she's just a doomed marionette with no actual will
"The desire to put people out of their misery by restoring the broken logic of the world is what drives her to action."
"There is an eternally predetermined order by which everything goes as it should along a predetermined path."
This is from patho 2 which i didn't play but fr..
"So how do you build a perfect world if you're going to have less than perfect people living in it?
The Inquisition has no answer to that question. All I can do is protect the system, keep it from collapsing and burying millions of lives under its rubble."
"Betrayal is death. Next. Treason is betrayal. Betrayal is death. Left. Next. Death. Next. Death. Anybody not on any of these cases?There are no other crimes. There is no evil, no murder, cannibalism or violence. There's nothing worse than betraying someone who's trusted you. And everyone with a confession like that goes straight to the left. It's death. It's out of the question."
"Are you kidding me? I'm an automaton. This is an unsolvable city. I don't know how to do that. Listen. I don't have much time left. If I can't solve this city, I have, uh. ampoule. They sent me to do this on purpose. There's no winning this thing. "Resolve" means… well, bring the matter to an end. Inquisition. You know what I mean? It was - and now it isn't."
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"Aglaia is a God-fighter. Those whom she touches begin to rebel against the established order of things. At the same time, Aglaia is the voice of the law. She sees the universe as a machine. She asserts that the logic of the universe is above all, and to hell with polyhedrons. God-fighting for her is also the restoration of justice, the law of nature. Those she touches begin to realize that there are limits to what is possible and one must obey them."
#Aglaya youll always be famous for me. Idgaf#She's the only inquisitor in media i can tolerate. Well not even tolerate i genuinely love her#She's so lingua ignota coded. “I PREACH YOUR WORD IN EVERY ROOM!”#<- her w The Powers... So real#A bit of lauretta core in her tbh... But its too long to explain the nuances#Patho#i wont get into patho bc well it requires a lot of thinking. characters & the plot r too complicated#anyone who says they understand patho perfectly is probly lying#But characters there r amazing. I love how ipl wrote them & I dont completely understand half of them#Sorry I'll delete this later boo patho please go away#OK. She saw the big picture but was smart enough to realise her -real- place in it#Carlo SHOULD listen and learn atp
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asked my brain 'have you had enough of veilguard yet' and it answered with 'remember when you wanted a vivienne romance so bad you made it up'
#ellana and everything about her. i think she makes multiple questionable choices#but it leads her straight to viv so its all fine actually#i also think her writing and reasoning is super shoddy because i was 16 when i played dai. but now older and not wiser i think#i could make her work. especially as a woman who believes in the power of propaganda#and also because. i have seen so much s/olavell/an (I HAVE NO ISSUES W U GUYS) and thinking of my own lavellan siblings#so i will post crops of sketches. cant keep going like this....#no real mention of vivienne in the game ive GOT to (remembers suicide jokes r bad) blow up a chantry#vivienne de fer#ellana lavellan#my art#dai
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now this one was an absolute Blast to do!
outfit is once again from @chocolategothwolfhorse, whose ask is full of bangers
#took some.... whats it called... dreamcore? weirdcore?#well i took inspo from those i think#its a Vibe i enjoy a lot#ive very lightly dabbled in it before but with this one i kinda leaned into it#never underestimate the power of using Real Images#scribble garnish#welcome home#welcome home puppet show#welcome home fanart#julie joyful#HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I LOVE JULIE YET??? BC I DO#she's so pretty....#me? having a crush on a puppet? its more likely than you think#id never be able to handle her tho she's too Powerful#she'd say hi to me and i'd be blasted clean off the face of the earth#nothing left but a red smear with heart-shaped glitter stuck to it#actually no not glitter i have Personal Beef with glitter. lets make it confetti#or sprinkles... holy shit yeah sprinkles.... red smear w/ sprinkles#the fish-shaped ones you get with the funfetti blue icing#yknow when i was younger i made a cake and i individually placed each fish sprinkle - sprish - onto the icing#which i styled in the shape of ocean waves#very insane behavior of me! or just autistic...#i love looking back on my life and going 'hey wait. huh. hm. well.' and then i put another penny in the autism jar#yeehaw and may i say hawyee
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she just wanted him to say that it was fucked up for scabs to make her head into a giant dobermann to bite her arm!! shes got ptsd!! and instead she was met not only by him telling her to suck it up and ignore her bodys natural response, but him revealing he TOLD her about it. bc it would make her a better fighter
#its so fucked up it drives me insane#paranatural#listen. imma be real w yall right now. fransisco is a terrible person and telling scabs about whats essentially a trigger is downright evil#but i do find him to be a compelling character like. why are you like that. was that something you had to teach yourself? do you have ptsd?#i still want her to either 1.kick his ass w a spirit companion bc its a real partnership where theyre equals + thats stronger than he think#or 2. prove to be a true prodigy and capable of working w spirits outside her color. calming grudges. bringing out the most of the spirits#powers. etc etc. and stick it to him that way. i also want her to be able to tell if a spirit is playing her unlike her dad.#be everything he THINKS he is or WANTS to be
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worst tropes
men dating women in the same career/field as them an get silent/bitter because she's having a big moment/is more accomplished than him
men dating women in time-demanding careers and then are upset that their careers demand their time
men with podcasts
men dating independent/emotionally unavailable women and then are upset that they are independent/emotionally unavailable
men who can't drive
best tropes
friends to lovers
men who can drive
love on purpose, love that's intentional, love that's not rotten work because it's you
#mie.txt#been watching two shows back to back where the female lead is not only insufferable but so is her choice in men#as are all the other side characters' boyfriends#its crazy to see just how terrible a man's influence on writing women is#bc it's not even in women its in how they take back men that are the worst that are bad for them#and how hes always forgiven and grows but she doesnt#im not usually a movie watcher either but ive been using them to time my studying and GOD male directors are the worst too?#its so strange to think about because yeah men as a class are so intentionally sinister when theyre in power#but also so blissfully unaware when theyre subject to the influence of those in power that they end up (accidentally?) gaslighting everyone#else around them#idk idk idk idk idk#idk boys in real life can be and are so cute when theyre in love#theyre so so so cute#so why is that so hard to translate on screen#or like... why the unwillingness to do so????#anyway...... hiiiiii im finished w my semester does anyone wanna talk about levi and gojo 😁😁
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Anders kinnies on twitter in the year 2024 not understanding that while yes, Meredith had previously written to Val Royeaux to ask about invoking the Right of Annulment, the request was rejected.
In the throes of her paranoia being made worse with the addition of the red lyrium idol fashioned into a sword, she was getting desperate and looking to search the Gallows for blood mages as a reason to invoke the Right.
However, Meredith did not invoke the Right until after Anders blew up the Chantry.
During the argument with Orsino, it was clear that he was not going to allow Meredith to search the tower. And, much like the start of Act 3 in Hightown, he wanted to call upon Grand Cleric Elthina to settle their disagreement because he KNEW that Elthina was the only person who could control Meredith (and kept her on a proverbially short leash). To this, Meredith immediately raises her voice and says "You will NOT bring her Grace into this!" which CLEARLY implies she knows Elthina would put a stop to her actions then and there, which is the opposite of what Meredith wants to do.
So, with Anders' interjection in this scene and blowing the Chantry up:
Meredith (who was running Kirkwall as a Templar police state under martial law) had to respond to the crime in and of itself;
Elthina was dead, and therefore, the person who could have stopped her from invoking the Right of Annulment was no longer able to do so; and,
She was already at the peak of her paranoia, and this made her not seek justice on Anders himself (who had immunity from templar prosecution as a Grey Warden), but upon the innocent mages of the Circle.
So, she initiated the Right of Annulment as a response to the destruction and lives lost, and the Circle mages paid for Anders' actions (and depending on Hawke's choice, his own life could pay for it too).
It is not difficult to understand that Anders' actions - however morally justified he may have been - acted as the catalyst to the genocide of the Kirkwall Circle.
People will say "it would've happened anyway" but to be frank, if Anders did not blow up the Chantry and had Elthina been involved, she would've shut Meredith down again as someone who didn't want to get involved in taking sides but wanted to maintain the peace AND the desires of the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux. Alternatively, Hawke - Champion of Kirkwall - has enough influence at this point to influence Meredith and Orsino both as a popular (political) figure among Kirkwall's citizens and nobility. (it's why Meredith was reluctant to crown them Champion to begin with - it gave them power that she wanted for herself!).
I realize a lot of DA fans are not looking at these moments in-depth, but acting as if Anders is entirely justified in giving Meredith the fuel she needed to kill all the innocent mages is a bit ignorant and tbqh, misunderstanding this situation for what it is.
#OOC.#META.#[ in no way am I saying what Meredith did was right; it's not. it's abhorrent BUT ]#[ what HE DID gave her the reason in her mind to do what she's wanted to do for years! ]#[ but institutionally she was not allowed to which is why she sought a reason to justify it (blood mages) and went crazy trying ]#[ and Anders handed it to her on a silver platter ]#[ anyway the person on twitter muted me which i find hilarious but they had ANDERS APOLOGIST in their bio so I'm not surprised ]#[ also let's be real here: this is fiction and trying to make comparisons to real life is not only like appropriating the real struggles of#oppressed people but also... this world is fictional and the morality battle bioware tried to settle w the templars was not balanced ]#[ but this specific moment goes to show the power of the state/institution of the Chantry ]#[ and how easily it is to take advantage of power to rule over others ]#[ anyway not a tag essay in addition to a post essay but god people annoy me LOL ]#[ anders kinnie vs. meredith lore expert: who will win? ]
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I like how occasionally toshiros fast and loose w his morals its fun
#dungeon meshi spoilers#The way he casually tossed out what if i killed u to laios when he was mad#used the western elves as a bludgeon against marcille#real revealing on how he views power and the ppl who hold them like an unstoppable force of nature#and also a tool to keep people in line rather than having any inherent merit#and he knows how to twist a knife. Fascinating character#The way hes so passive and non confrontational but then theres moments that r like o u are from a family of assassins and spies#Maizuru did indeed raise u huh. Side note interesting that the two ppl maizurus shown to have raised#are both extraordinary fighters and quick on their feet in battle but are super maladjusted interpersonally and cant form bonds w others#Kinda a tragedy tbh that maizuru whos so good at training ninjas had children randomly sprung on her and was asked to raise them when#thats genuinely outside the scope of her job. Like she did NOT know what to do she was raised to be an assassin#They both turned out to be sharp instruments instead of ppl in many ways haha. Tho maizuru in many ways is also like that
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Danny phantom episode “Girls night out” deserves more hate. Like it’s the worst of season 3’s shift into more generic superhero cartoon plot lines imo, it’s gender politics are noxious. Something about the art is especially not working for me. ember and spectra should be trying to maul each other.
#danny phantom#also I’m sure u could make a jazz sam Maddie episode work with a real idea#and not just ‘they’re women and we’re making a Women episode’#but I Don’t currently so I’m just kinda ignoring its existence#I have way more ideas for either sam not being there (so just jazz+Maddie) or Maddie being replaced with Valerie (so sam jazz and Valerie)#also the whole ‘we hate men just because our boyfriends suck ass’ thing is SO lame as a motivation#like u can smell the stench of cisallo men w/ 0 self reflection writing this shit man it REEKS#canon Johnny and Kitty need to break up (and also stay away from high schools but that’s two other epidodes-)#also ember+skulker squicks me the hell out#it’s not canon but skulker reads as like in his 40s to me and embers like in her late late teens/early 20s#OH AND ANOTHER THING#spectra’s ‘’i make men stop existing by blowing a kiss at them’’ power has NO connection to her manipulation+energy sapping it’s so lame
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suitor armor posting once again ghouls bc their dialogue and tension is once again fizzling my neurons
#"You have gotten to know me rather well‚ haven't you?' / 'I am rather flattered. HE WANTS HER SOOOO BAD#he looks so deeply PLEASED that she sought him out‚ that she took a swing at him‚ that he gets to break down their similarities#“I think you might enjoy it.” HE'S FLIRTING W HER#and his brand of manipulation is sooo expressive w her#hand on his hip and everything#it's soooo delicious how he's the only person who DESIRES her anger and malice#and she keeps trying to bottle it up! it's going to make when she DOES blow at him supremely satisfying#anyways#lucon is so real and powerful#suitor armor
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was gonna wait until the big RotMMPR Movie post to show off designs from it
HOWEVER. i like these, so here's the team unmorphed :)
Distant Thunder takes place in the summer following Billy, Kimberly and Tommy's senior year, and Rocky, Aisha and Adam's sophmore year - so it's been about a year since the final battle with Zedd
#rotmmpr#power rangers#mmpr#my art#rotmmpr shippuden Real#i like the small updates + i think this tommy is the closest to how i imagine(d) her#also 😭😭 look at kim and tommy's height difference here..... fuckin immaculate#i think i mentioned before that distant thunder's focused mainly on the stone canyon trio#(partly bc of whatever the fuck is. happening with them in the comics right now / since their introduction)#so i'm excited to share what goes w them in the story#there is. a hint in here as well. its barely anything but its there#rotmmpr distant thunder
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Kingdom of Ash Chapter 20 …
oh my gods chapter 20…
I am dead inside.
And somehow dying more per chapter.
Ow. THE NIGHTMARE DREAM SEQUENCE
"Do you know the story of the queen who walked through worlds?"
Seated on the mossy carpet of an ancient glen, one hand toying with the small white flowers strewn across it, Aelin shook her head.
In the towering oaks that formed a lattice over the clearing, small stars blinked and shimmered, as if they'd been snared by the branches themselves. Beyond them, bathing the forest with light bright enough to see by, a full moon had risen. All around them, faint, lilting singing floated on the warm summer air.
"It is a sad story," her aunt said, one corner of her red-painted mouth curling upward as she leaned back on her seat carved into a granite boulder. Her usual place, while they had these lessons, these long, peaceful chats deep into the balmy summer nights. "And an old one."
Aelin lifted an eyebrow. "Aren't I a little old for faerie stories?" She'd indeed just celebrated her twentieth birthday three days ago, in another clearing not too far from here. Half of Doranelle had come, it had seemed, and yet her mate had found a way to sneak her from the revelry. All the way to a secluded pool in the forest's heart. Her face still warmed to think of that moonlit swim, what Rowan had made her feel, how he'd worshipped her in the sun-warmed water.
Mate. The word was still a surprise. As it had been to arrive here at spring's end and see him beside her aunt's throne and simply know. And in the months since, their courting ... Aelin indeed blushed at the thought of it. What they'd done in that forest pool had been the culmination of those months. And an unleashing. The mating marks on her neck— and on Rowan's-proved it. She would not be returning to Terrasen alone when autumn arrived.
"No one is too old for faerie stories," her aunt said, faint smile growing. "And as you are part faerie yourself, I would think you'd have some interest in them."
Aelin smiled back, bowing her head. "Fair enough, Aunt."
Aunt wasn't entirely accurate, not with generations and millennia separating them, but it was the only thing the queen had suggested Aelin call her.
Maeve settled further into her seat. "Long ago, when the world was new, when there were no human kingdoms, when no wars had marred the earth, a young queen was born."
Aelin folded her legs beneath her, angling her head.
"She did not know she was a queen. Amongst her people, power was not inherited, but simply born. And as she grew, her strength rose with her. She found the land she dwelled in to be too small for that power. Too dark and cold and grim. She had gifts similar to many wielded by her kind, but she had been given more, her power a sharper, more intricate weapon-enough that she was different. Her people saw that power and bowed to it, and she ruled them.
"Word spread of her gifts, and three kings came to seek her hand. To form an alliance between their throne and the one she had built for herself, small as it might have been. For a time, she thought it would be the newness, the challenge that she had always craved. The three kings were brothers, each mighty in his own right, their power vast and terrifying. She picked the eldest among them, not for any particular skill or grace, but for his countless libraries. What she might learn in his lands, what she might do with her power ... It was that knowledge she craved, not the king himself."
A strange story. Aelin's brows rose, but her aunt continued on.
"So they were wed, and she left her small territory to join him in his castle. For a time, she was contented, both by her husband and the knowledge his home offered her. He and his two brothers were conquerors, and spent much of their time away, leashing new lands to their shared throne. She did not mind, not when it gave her freedom to learn as she would. But her husband's libraries contained knowledge even he did not realize was held within. Lore and wisdom from worlds long since turned to dust. She learned that there were indeed other worlds. Not the dark, blasted realm in which they lived, but worlds beyond that, living atop one another and never realizing it. Worlds where the sun was not a watery trickle through the ash-clouds, but a golden stream of warmth. Worlds where green existed. She had never heard of such a color. Green. Nor had she heard of blue-not the shade of sky that was described. She could not so much as picture it."
Aelin frowned. "A pitiful existence."
Maeve nodded grimly. "It was. And the more she read about these other worlds, where long-dead wayfarers had once roamed, the more she wanted to see them. To know the kiss of the sun on her face. To hear the morning songs of sparrows, the crying of gulls over the sea. The sea that, too, was foreign to her. An endless sprawl of water, with its own moods and hidden depths. All they had in her lands were shallow, murky lakes and half-dried streams. So while her husband and his two brothers were off waging yet another war, she began to ponder how she might find a way into one of those worlds. How she might leave."
"Is such a thing even possible?" Something nagged at her, as if it might indeed be true, but perhaps that was one of her own mother's tales, or even Marion's, tugging on her memory.
Maeve nodded. "It was. Using the very language of existence itself, doors might be opened, however briefly, between worlds. It was forbidden, outlawed long before her husband and his brothers were born. Once the last of the ancient wayfarers had died out, the paths between realms were sealed, their methods of world-walking lost with them. Or so all had thought. But deep in her husband's private library, she found the old spells. She began with small experiments. First, she opened a door to the realm of resting, to find one of those wayfarers and ask her how it was properly done." A knowing smile. "The wayfarer refused to tell her. So the queen began to teach herself. Opening and closing doors long since forgotten or sealed. Peering deep into the workings of the cosmos. Her own world became a cage. She grew tired of her husband's warring, his casual cruelty. And when he went away to war once again, the queen gathered her closest handmaidens, opened a door to a new world, and left the one she'd been born into."
"She left?" Aelin blurted. "She she just left her own world? Permanently?"
"It had never been her world, not really. She had been born to rule others."
"Where did she go?"
That smile grew a bit. "To a fair, lovely world. Where there was no war, no darkness. Not like that in which she had been born. She was made a queen there, too. Was able to hide herself within a new body so that none could know what she was beneath, so that even her own husband would not recognize her."
"Did he ever find her again?"
"No, though he looked. Found out all she'd learned, and taught it to himself and his brothers. They tore apart world after world to find her. And when they arrived at the world where she had made her new home, they did not know her. Even as they went to war, she did not reveal herself. She won, and two of the kings, her husband included, were banished back to their own world. The third remained trapped, his power nearly broken. He crawled off into the depths of the earth, and the victorious queen spent her long, long existence preparing for his return, preparing her people for it. For the three kings had gone beyond her methods of world-walking. They had found a way to permanently open a gate between worlds, and had made three keys to do so. To wield those keys was to control all worlds, to have the power of eternity in the palm of your hand. She wished to find them, only so she might possess the strength to banish any enemies, banish her husband's youngest brother back to his realm. To protect her new, lovely world. It was all she ever wanted: to dwell in peace, without the shadow of her past hunting her."
From far away, that ghost of memory pushed. As if she'd forgotten to douse a flame left burning in her room. "And did the queen find the keys?"
Maeve's smile turned sad. "Do you think she did, Aelin?"
Aelin considered. So many of their chats, their lessons in this glen, held deeper puzzles, questions for her to work through, to help her when she one day took her throne, Rowan at her side.
As if she'd summoned him, the pine-and-snow scent of her mate filled the clearing. A rustle of wings, and there he was, perched in hawk form on one of the towering oaks. Her warrior-prince.
She smiled toward him, as she had for weeks now, when he'd come to escort her back to her rooms in the river palace. It was during those walks from forest to mist-shrouded city that she had come to know him, love him. More than she had ever loved anything.
Aelin again faced her aunt. "The queen was clever, and ambitious. I would think she could do anything, even find the keys."
"So you would believe. And yet they eluded her."
"Where did they go?"
Maeve's dark stare unwaveringly held hers.
"Where do you think they went?"
Aelin opened her mouth. "I think —
She blinked. Paused
Maeve's smile returned, soft and kind. As her aunt had been to her from the start. "Where do you think the keys are, Aelin?"
She opened her mouth once more. And again halted.
Like an invisible chain yanked her back. Silenced her.
Chain—a chain. She glanced down at her hands, her wrists. As if expecting them to be there.
She had never felt a shackle's bite in her life. And yet she stared at the empty place on her wrist where she could have sworn there was a scar. Only smooth, sun-kissed skin remained.
"If this world were at risk, if those three terrible kings threatened to destroy it, where would you go to find the keys?" Aelin looked up at her aunt.
Another world. There was another world Like a fragment of a dream, there was another world, and in it, she had a wrist with a scar on it. Had scars all over.
And her mate, perched overhead ... He had a tattoo down his face and neck and arm in that world. A sad story—his tattoo told a sad, awful story. About loss. Loss caused by a dark queen.
"Where are the keys hidden, Aelin?" That placid, loving smile remained on
Maeve's face. And yet ...
And yet.
"No," Aelin breathed
Something slithered in the depths of her aunt's stare. "No what?"
This wasn't her existence, her life. This place, these blissful months learning in Doranelle, finding her mate—Blood and sand and crashing waves.
"No."
Her voice was a thunderclap through the peaceful glen.
Aelin bared her teeth, fingers curling in the moss.
Maeve let out a soft laugh. Rowan flapped from the branches to land on the queen's upraised arm.
He didn't so much as fight it when she wrapped her thin white hands around his neck. And snapped it. Aelin screamed. Screamed, clutching at her chest, at the shredding mating bond—
She screamed again. Screamed at her ruined arm, the unscarred skin, screamed at the lingering echo of the severed mating bond.
"Do you know what pains me most, Aelin?" Maeve's words were soft as a lover's. "It's that you believe I'm the villain in this."
Whenever that had been. If it had even happened at all.
"I have no doubt that your mate or Elena or even Brannon himself filled your head with lies about what I'll do with the keys." Maeve ran a hand over the stone lip of the altar, right through her splattered blood and shards of bone. "I meant what I said. I like this world. I do not wish to destroy it. Only improve it. Imagine a realm where there is no hunger, no pain. Isn't that what you and your cohorts are fighting for? A better world?"
The words were a mockery. A mockery of what she'd promised so many. What she had promised Terrasen, and still owed it.
Aelin tried not to shift against the chains, against her broken arms, against the tight pressure pushing on her skin from the inside. A rising intensity along her bones, in her head. little more, every day.
Maeve heaved a small sigh. "I know what you think of me, Fire-Bringer. What you assume. But there are some truths that cannot be shared. Even for the keys." Yet the growing strain cracking within her, smothering the pain ... perhaps worse. Maeve cupped her cheek over the mask.
"The Queen Who Was Promised. I wish to save you from that sacrifice, offered up by a headstrong girl." A soft laugh. "I'd even let you have Rowan. The two of you here, together. While you and I work to save this world."
The words were lies. She knew it, though she couldn't quite remember where one truth ended and the lie began. If her mate had belonged to another before her. Been given away. Or had that been the nightmare?
Gods, the pressure in her body. Her blood.
You do not yield.
"You can feel it, even now," Maeve went on. "The urge of your body to say yes." Aelin opened her eyes, and confusion must have glittered there, because Maeve smiled. "Do you know what being encased in iron does to a magic-wielder? You wouldn't feel it immediately, but as time goes on ... your magic needs release, Aelin. That pressure is your magic screaming it wants you to come free of these chains and release the strain. Your very blood tells you to heed me."
Truth. Not the submission part, but the deepening pressure she knew would be worse than any pain from burnout. She'd felt it once, when plunging as far into her power as she'd ever gone.
That would be nothing compared to this.
"I am leaving for a few days," Maeve said.
Aelin stilled.
Maeve shook her head in a mockery of disappointment.
Fenrys sat by the wall, concern bright in his eyes as he blinked. Are you all right?
She blinked twice. No.
No, she was not anywhere near to all right.
Maeve had been waiting for this, waiting for this pressure to begin, worse than anything Cairn might do. And with the collar Maeve now went to personally retrieve … She couldn't let herself contemplate it. A more horrific form of slavery, one she might never escape, never be able to fight.
Not a breaking of the Fire-Bringer, but an erasure.
To take all she was, power and knowledge, and rip it from her. To have her trapped inside while she witnessed her own voice yield the location of the Wyrdkeys. Swear the blood oath to Maeve. Wholly submit to her.
Fenrys blinked four times. I am here, I am with you.
She answered in kind. I am here, I am with you.
Her magic surged, seeking a way out, filling the gaps between her breath and bones. She couldn't find room for it, couldn't do anything to soothe it.
You do not yield.
She focused on the words. On her mother's voice. Perhaps the magic would devour her from the inside before Maeve returned.
But she did not know how she'd endure it.
Endure another few days of this, let alone the next hour. To ease the strain, just a fraction ...
She shut down the thoughts that snaked into her mind. Her own or Maeve's, she didn't care.
Fenrys blinked again, the same message over and over. I am here, I am with you.
Aelin closed her eyes, praying for oblivion.
"Get up." A mockery of words she'd once heard.
#Chapter 20#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Aelin Ashryver Galathynius#Maeve#first read#no spoilers please#read along with me as we cry#Fenrys#Rowaelin#Rowan Whitethorn#more notes in the tags KoA spoilers in both tag and post purple for quotes pink for highlights on readings cause the dreamnightmare sequenc#more than Chaol more than Sam more than anything it was Rowan#The Queen who walked between worlds bad move to say the whole evil plan at once... what's the tale for? who? — it never works#The Queen Who Was Promised. I wish to save you from that sacrifice offered up by headstrong girl.#Not real. That had not been real. Rowan was alive he was alive real or not real#she had to try & use what she wants most peace & home & family &Ro the words she mocks the color science Terrasen Green and Kingdom’s of As#No shackle scars even with the wreckage. In this world this place she did not have scars either. — ROWAN SCARS GONE😭#Do you know what pains me most Aelin? Maeve's words were soft as a lover's. It's that you believe I'm the villain in this.#screamed at the lingering echo of the severed mating bond — if Maeve could make Rowan think Lyria was his mate… then just how bad is it#when she makes Aelin think he’s gone? it’s like Feyre in W&R… but worse… oh this is awful#A better world? The words were a mockery. A mockery of what she'd promised so many.#No. again. no. she said it for the first time… Maeve would rather fight a demon than an Aelin that’s how strong she is…& the power bubbling#Whenever that had been. If it had even happened at all. — making her think nothing had happened to the box#I'd even let you have Rowan. The two of you here together. While you and I work to save this world.#If her mate had belonged to another before her. Been given away. Or had that been the nightmare?#As if once she'd acknowledged it it wouldn't be ignored. Or contained.#Not a breaking of the Fire-Bringer but an erasure. To take all she was power and knowledge and rip it from her.#NEVER GO TO A SECONDARY LOCATION#DONT YOU DARE USE FENRYS AGAINST HER ROWAN HURRY IMMA LOSE IT AGHH WTF SKSKSJDOWAPKS
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WAIT WAIT WAIT So was Amaya once an actual person that Magnifico knew and loved but she died so he recreated her and made her into the marionette? Or was she never a person and he invented an entire new person so he wouldn’t be alone?
i think the second one!! like he just straight up created her from scratch
#No bitches? WRONG puppet wife#rewrite the stars au#I loooooove marionette Amaya so so much as a concept just bc#Like the concept of her teetering along the edge of being truly alive/sentient but also not clear how much of her is under mags influence#And how mag genuinely loves and adores her like he would if she were a real person#and yet he doesn’t truly make her a real person despite being shown as able to do so easily w Aster bc he wants to keep that bit of control#But it’s not in a possessive evil way but instead it’s in more of a desperate way of PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEA—#I looooove analyzing their dynamic it’s soooo yummy to dig into it it’s so so fun and interesting to think about#Evil power couple I love you never change guys <3
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Learned today everything I thought I was reading way too into the assassins guild is all literally real and fully canon and fully intentional and so much more fucked than I ever thought has me still reeling. Im still so insane over this.
#GOOD NIGHT OF KNIVES TRANSLATION SAVE ME.#txt#I literally can not emphasize what learning how Horrifically Sad and Lonely zato one is did to my understanding of the guild as a while#he feels abandoned and hurt by slayer leaving.#his need for power and need to control every aspect of millia and venoms lives is directly tied to that.#he hates millia not for getting him locked away. but for Abandoning him. he was Left.#he cant sleep despite sleeping pills and other shit without holding onto her.#eddie cant die without being in her arms.#oh my fucking god.#millia willingly accepting some of his abuse because at least during sex she can forget.#millia lashing out at zato in a moment of weakness asking if shes happy because shes Not#because happiness to her is freedom. and he knows he is the reason she doesnt have that.#him just Accepting her Dream is to never see his dream ever come to fruition.#also like#venoms jealousy of millias abuse makes complete sense w this.#and of course millia would laud it over him. hes an ass.#god I literally havent stopped thinking about this since I read the wip. I cant. its so.#I cant fucking believe Assassins Guild is a narrative about how cycles of abuse and violence are perpetrated.#and how freedom from the cycle of your father and his father before him is Happiness.#THATS REAL. THATS NOT MADE UP. ITS REAL. god. holy fuck.
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i think the only thing that would make the xarrastarion harper ending au work is acknowledging they’re not Good harpers. they’re actively bad harpers. like i don’t think they would Stop extorting people (explicitly against the harper code) and would not go all that far out of their way to help anyone without expecting compensation (again. against harper code) and are like, not really That concerned with the consequences of their actions usually. but Also they’re both personally invested in like, freedom and ending slavery and tyranny to some extent, and are definitely very good at the sort of manipulation that makes up most of harper work. and like the idea of them as absolutely piss poor harpers Morally but extremely effective when it comes to Getting Things Done is so so so silly. they’re like jaheira’s problem children. they’re wandering up and down the sword coast breaking most of the harper rules and flashing their little harper pins like get out of jail free cards but they’re also absolutely able to dismantle entire slaver operations in a day and a half. they’re just also claiming at least half of the loot for themselves instead of redistributing it
#i think jaheira would love it. honestly. she prefers awful half feral creatures to her own children so she would support their bullshit 100%#it’s just like. the harpers are more or less Good Aligned. and ur simply not gonna catch xarrastarion being Good#xar is solidly chaotic neutral and that’s the Best ur going to get from them. and astarion? god.#that guy may be able to pull off a neutral alignment. but he certainly isn’t going to be Good.#but even with that like. i think xar could be persuaded to Be A Harper by jaheira and i think astarion is whipped enough to go along with it#i think they’re kind of doing the same thing either way wrt to like#taking out the remaining banite enclaves on the coast and in mulmaster#IDK!#I STILL DONT KNOW IF ITS CANON but if it’s not they rly are just vibing for the next 50+ years#which is also sick. but i think having a job would be good for astarion LOL#it would make for a nice way to demonstrate like#the shift from xarrai (and u could argue astarion) working within oppressive systems to try to affect personal change#to working Outside these systems to dismantle them instead#since the harpers are like. their own group w/o hierarchy or organization and those things were once Very Important to both of these guys#they’re no longer bound to the system or by a sense of hierarchy or power they’re only bound by What They Want To Do#漫言#oc. xarrai#r. hold me like a knife#i found this post in my drafts and it’s still real as fuck honestly
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I recently watched those war arc episodes around 370s to 380s and I observed that most of the moves were only of space-time ninjutsu and flying raijin.
If Kishimoto ever used her potential to the fullest, she would've contributed much more in the war arc but... Sounded like nobody wanted her to do and just let people sh*t talk about her not doing much 😞
"If Kishimoto ever used her potential to the fullest, she would've contributed much more" WHAT I'M SAYING ABOUT EVERY WOMAN IN THIS SHOW!!!!! >:(
Tenten was done especially dirty (during the war arc, yeah but also through the whole series). She got her moment to shine with the Sage of Six Path Tools, but nothing further than that. She's criminally underutilized, which is saying something because that's true of every woman in the show. But it's especially bad with Tenten because so many of the moments she gets aren't even manga canon, they're scenes added in the anime.
Her power set is so cool and having her use any kind of space-time ninjutsu would be amazing, she's clearly got fuinjutsu and space-time ninjutsu capabilities so like... take it further?? There are so many cool space-time ninjutsu that seem within her capabilities and I think she definitely could have played a bigger role during the war if kishi hadn't forgotten about any character that wasn't a Hokage, an Uchiha, or Naruto.
#asks#tenten#I mean even more so than her powers I think the real tragedy is that she didn't even get to canonically mourn her teammate#that really pissed me off. god. she just like complained about being stuck w lee and gai one time and then moved on#do BETTER kishimoto. except he never will so it's up to me and the rest of the tenten fandom to do her right
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OKAY goodnight for real now :-)
#bike ride. take grandma home. some sort of image or paperthing#rlly want to draw kitty w [unnamed engiebee URCR rip. referred to henceforth as the cuckoo] w smth around mitskis me and my--#--husband. HAUNTING song#need to straighten out the magpie a bit more. guy pretty high up into the commercial sector of the URCR who gets a weird little clone of--#--him made whilehe is Still alive initially to act as an assistant b4 said clone freaks the fuck out and tries to kill him and gets sent--#--to a lovely little sheltered place w no contact and no import (i CANNOT make it a moon. it is all so obvious already LOL) . original--#--cuckoo goes ont he idea that the clone just came out Wrong when rlly being put thru such humiliation + dehumanization brought abt a--#--great rage. kittys later interaction w clone-cuckoo does NOT help things as she uses him as a complete punching bag- able to lash out at-#--him and bring him down 2 her level in place of the original cuckoo- and by the time the CS HAMARY went rogue things were real contentious#--on the main URCR planet as clone-cuckoo focused on raising dissent and gathering his Own power in order to get at original-cuckoo#kitty loses interest as clone-cuckoo starts focusing on her less in favor of the Great Affront of the URCR and what it has done to the--#--sanctity of humanity (clones) + its home (extreme environmental degradation necessitating colonization efforts a la the CS HAMARY)--#--and all that. not as much fun to fuck with a guy when he is fighting to transform into the complete Opposite of his current self half--#--out of sheer hatred for another guy who is him
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