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[gunsatthaphan]

First 🤝🏻 Sand

[deathbirby]

I dunno how unpopular an opinion this is but I can't help but find it kind of weird how Jeralt keeps Byleth ignorant of everything in Fodlan considering his relationship with Sitri? Like their whole thing was him regaling her about tales of outside Garreg Mach and her falling for him for introducing her to stuff she never knew about... and then he turns around and keeps HER CHILD that she had with him and had DIED giving birth to ignorant on all the things she fell in love with knowing?? Because he didn't trust Rhea, as in Sitri's mother/mother figure and the woman Sitri trusted enough to keep her baby alive upon her death?? And he didn't trust Rhea because Byleth didn't have a heartbeat or much emotions... like their mother?? Like Sitri literally had those traits too???

SO much of Jeralt's handling of Byleth just spits on Sitri and their relationship. I can't help but think she'd be horrified to know that despite travelling across the continent all their life her baby was just as ignorant to and isolated from the world as she was specifically because the man she loved made sure their baby was raised that way. Or that the man who opened her heart to more emotions was the same man who SHUT their baby's heart!

I TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER THIS SORRY ANON.

It's kind of ironic. The things that made Sitri fall in love with Jeralt were exactly the things he kept away from their child. She wanted Byleth to live and gave her heart for them, and Jeralt still managed to rob them of a normal life by raising them the way he did.

Jeralt not trusting Rhea could be seen as being scared in the moment, but the man holds onto his distrust until his death. Which is WEIRD because he has lived for over 300 years! He would have seen Rhea switch identities at SOME POINT. WHAT scared him? The lack of a heartbeat? Like you said, Sitri didn't have one either. Did he think Rhea was being secretive and cagey? Rhea is ALWAYS secretive and cagey. And he would be used to that after knowing her for so long.

the man who opened her heart to more emotions was the same man who SHUT their baby's heart!

ohhhh my god.

[valfeathers]

One of the stories of L's backstory that I've created in the back of my mind that will keep me up at night is how L had (intially) GENUINELY thought that he'd be taken care of when Watari brought him to the Wammy's House only to be groomed unrelentlessly, bent in all shapes to find the perfect mould, stripped of his human rights and watch as other kids his age or younger went through the same cycle of abuse.

anon,, you GET IT. you understand it. how/when did you read my mind??

i cant help but truly feel for him sometimes. of course, he isn’t perfect but i truly 1000% believe he deserved normalcy & love instead of whatever half-assed guardianship he was given. a child is just that. a child.

child L wasn’t an investment or a new project or the next prodigy or justice incarnate, he was just a kid. i recently read L file no.15 and it just made me sad to watch the beginning of this kid’s life-altering ‘career’ when all he wanted was a challenging puzzle.

i read watari realising that L was intelligent beyond his years & thinking ‘i can do something with this’

quillish wammy wasn’t a father, he was an inventor. he invested in L, and that isn’t raising someone.

and ofc watching the same thing happen to other wammy children while watari & roger look for his replacement,, that screams ‘you’re expendable & replaceable’.

which i’m sure is a very interesting thing to internalise.

(ofc i interpret L’s whole induction into wammy’s & backstory as. well. tragic but that’s just my interpretation 😭 i just think about L too much for my own good)

i always include L among the Wammy Victims™️ for this reason, it’s just presented differently because he’s the blueprint for the others. but that still isn’t good. that’s still damaging.

and he didn’t deserve to go through that.

[kiqilinn]

hey remember chapter 101? the gay speech? yeah think about that for a second

[sleepypuffpastry]

ranboo hasn’t even as much as uttered dream’s name in literal months yet smilers are all up in their grill like get off ur phone and finish ur homework u losers

[enby-ralsei]

i am normal about mischaracterization i am normal about mischaracterization.

[therealsaintscully]

At least with Johnlock you get the actors saying they never played them "like that". What does Paul have to say in his defense?

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[fanaticalthings]

Bruce Wayne except he texts like an ominous boomer

wdym you can't tell if he's threatening them?

Based on this post by @mysterycitrus :)

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[rival-ado]

could have been worse

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[hinamie]

to moving forward

[blackbatest]

my most controversial batman opinion to date

[seizethegay420]

He lost focus and wanted a consensual workplace relationship

[sunlit-mess]

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