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[j2x3e]

Reinhard and Felt Role Swap for @deafknell's fanweek: Day 2

[blobbei-art]

More Rainworld oc stuff from these fellas.

Theresia's puppet before putting herself into a lizard. She was a little difficult to work with and was to be reprogrammed after she killed one of her creators.

Kasifer didn't want to loose her and tried to help her avoid this. He manipulated the rain to reach their cities since he could bypass certain taboos through loopholes. He immediately regrets this.

[suffarustuffaru]

so i was inspired by @zeivira

[oldmanontumbler]

God, Lobcorp Tumblr must go CRAZY...

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WHY AM I ON A BOAT

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What do you think happens if you drink a bottle of enkephalin and then a can of wellcheers and then forbidden tree sap and then get stroked by porccubus 🤔😏🤯

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bad news guys they transfered me to Safety for this post 😔🤕😵‍💫

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What happens if you make a playlist of fragment of the universe, silent orchestra, theresia, and singing machine? 🥵😈😳

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I don't need sleep I need answers

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PSA

If you see something that looks like THIS

Do NOT go near it!!!

That is NOT a flower that can KILL you!!!

REBLOG TO SPREAD THE WORD

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Nah that's just a flower 🥰

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You can't be this wilfully ignorant when peoples LIVES are at stake that is Meat Lanterns BREACHING FORM!!!!

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[sufferu]

Did you read that WHDAAA spin-off fic by Vyazov23 called Watching Arc 4 in The Theater of Despair ? Any things you liked and have problems with?

I did! I appreciated that the guy managed to actually FINISH a react fic lol: I’m realizing more and more that these things are a pain and a half to actually write. SERIOUS props to the one who actually managed to pull it off, I’m not even being sarcastic.

Though, to be entirely honest…I disagreed with the entire main premise regarding how the characters would react, lol. I actually don’t want to shit on a singular work, though — especially not one that had so much effort put into it, like goddamn the guy actually FINISHED that one — so I’m gonna go ahead and use this as a segway to talk about the most common usages of this trope that I disagree with in this fandom.

The idea that anyone would learn about Return By Death and go “Okay! This is a good thing, and Subaru is a hero!” — I feel like it goes against the themes of Re:Zero, as well as a lot of established characterization. (And also the harem subplot that often seems to go alongside that idea, lol.) And I feel like a react fic that goes over the experiences of Return By Death, furthermore, should be centered around the characters coming to terms with (or grappling with, anyway) the fact that they FUCKING KILLED HIM. Like, SOO many times. Rem and Ram, in particular, should be characterized as absolutely, irreconcilably devastated by what they did in Arc 2. In fact I actually have a lot of criticisms about how these fics tend to characterize a lot of these characters in general, especially Julius, Ferris, Wilhelm, and Rem. Rem is simple — I don’t agree with the idea that she is actually a good influence (or that the other characters would see her as such, more on that in a sec) — but for the other three…I think a lot of these fics tend to twist themselves in knots trying to make them approve of Subaru’s self-destructive behavior, despite all three of them having canon moments contradicting it.

Julius’ first appearance was him desperately trying to save Subaru from getting slaughtered and most of the subsequent scenes with him have included something about him either trying to be a good role model (that will help Subaru Not Die Horribly) or taking some step to actively keep him safe (whether that be going out of his way to teach him a hands-on lesson about self-awareness the moment they meet up again post-Whale or quietly sticking Ia on him without letting him know). Hell, it’s heavily implied that he associated Subaru with his beloved, sickly, baby brother pre-Gluttony. The knowledge that Subaru has apparently been not just getting regularly put in mortal danger, but not even getting out of it ALIVE in a lot of cases — I think he’d have a way worse reaction to that than is normally shown.

Wilhelm, too — not enough focus is given to the fact that Subaru’s situation is basically just a worse version of the one that Theresia was forced into by being the Sword Saint. Wilhelm went and dueled his wife specifically to free her from the shackles of being forced to wield a sword when all she really wanted to do was care for flowers. Hell, in canon he already has a scene where he refuses to keep training Subaru because he realizes that Subaru has no actual interest in the sword and does not want to facilitate that kind of self-destruction. Wilhelm would have a fucking seizure if he learned that his beloved not-grandson was being forced to die repeatedly in order to keep his loved ones safe. And he’d probably have a really horrible reaction to the idea that some of those loved ones were straight up RESPONSIBLE for some of those deaths. This is the man who spent 14 years hunting the White Whale, he’s second only to Otto when it comes to revenge schemes (and even then it’s debatable who comes out on top over there).

Ferris, though, gets it hands-DOWN the worst. First reason is that the fact that he would almost certainly have the absolute worst reaction to the PREMISE of Return By Death out of the entire cast (due to his strong value of life and pride as a healer) is — often completely glossed over. This is the same guy who grieved suicidal Witch Cultists, was referenced as one of the two bleeding hearts of the Witch Cult elimination squad (the other being Subaru), who (in the LN) had what sure looks like a breakdown at the idea that Subaru wanted to die during that one Arc 3 loop where he went into shock, to the point where Crusch had to step in and speak (even joke) on his behalf as he basically sat in the corner with his head in his hands, cursing Subaru for not valuing his own life. If Ferris ever finds out about RBD he’s gonna fucking kill himself. But then, on top of that, he so often gets reduced to this — purely antagonistic force that just hates Subaru for no reason, who needs to learn to respect Subaru as a hero for his sacrifices, in a way that just — not only is kinda mean spirited, but completely glosses over some of the most fascinating parts of his character.

Also — I feel like a lot of these fics have the characters reacting like Subaru is an anime character to them rather than their friend, if that makes sense. Like, some of the reactions we see end up being like…the typical fan reaction to scenes? Instead of how someone would react if that were a Real Person up there doing that shit. Rem, in particular, is cut WAAAAY too much slack in most react fics, with everyone pretty much losing their anger towards her after hearing her tragic backstory and then glossing over everything she does in Memory Snow and Arc 3 with “Hah, that’s cute.” Like — I’m sorry, I think there should be a bit of a reaction to the revelation that the person who tortured Subaru for HOURS on end spent the next month sneaking into his room to watch him while he slept, following him around constantly, and enabling all of his bad behavior (which is now very obviously just a collection of trauma responses) like the world’s most dedicated Yes man (with the singular exception being the “From Zero” speech). Also, so much of what she does to him pre-Gluttony is just — horrible? And would be seen as such by the other characters, who do not have the same sense of naïveté/love of waifus/lack of self-preservation instincts that Subaru does to prevent him from seeing Rem for the danger that she is.

And well — I don’t think there’s enough consideration given to the fact that, most of the time, these characters already know how things are going to end, since they have their own memories to use for reference. Most of the time, they already KNOW whether Subaru is gonna survive or not, and that should impact how they respond to what they see next.

[13eyond13]

Really appreciating in Berserk how The Count's chapters in the Black Swordsman arc can be used as a parallel for what's going on emotionally with Griffith, especially leading up to and during the Eclipse.

For me it starts with Theresia explaining to Puck the dark transformation that took place in her father whenever he first used the Behelit. She explains it like so: "Father was a great ruler. He may have been harsh, but that was so he could defend his kingdom against neighboring enemies. He was trusted and loved by all, even as a father."

"But father changed. Like a man possessed, he started hunting down heretics. Now it doesn't even make a difference anymore whether they're heretics or not! It's almost as if he enjoys hurting people! I'm scared. Sometimes i feel as if he's not human anymore."

Puck reflects on this afterwards by thinking:

"For revenge on the heretics who robbed him of the woman he loved? Is that why he acquired demonic powers? He summoned the Godhand and he himself became a demon?"

It is also revealed soon after this by the Godhand that The Count's wife was not in fact killed by heretics, like Theresia had been told. The Count had discovered that his wife was being unfaithful to him, which initially drove him to suicidal thoughts (kind of like a certain somebody else we know during an extremely dark period in his life):

"Seeing the triumphant, knowing smile of your betrayer drove you to the depths of despair. You decided to end your own life to escape that despair. However, your despair itself was part of the wheel of fate."

Until, instead of ending his own life, The Count decided to use her for his first sacrifice instead:

"Yes indeed, you said it! 'I offer this woman for sacrifice.' The life you couldn't take by your own hand, the life of the person you loved and hated the most! You gave it to us! So that you could bury your fragile human heart."

The Count is also acting sneeringly arrogant towards Guts during their battle, belittling him by saying things to him like:

"No matter how much you've tried to hone your skills, you've come to the limit of your pathetic human form. How fragile you humans."

Puck is NOT having any of this from The Count, and he counters that remark with: "...You yourself used to be one of those fragile humans!"

"You acquired those powers so you could get revenge on the heretics, didn't you?! But that wasn't the only reason. If it was only about revenge, all you had to do was exercise your authority."

"The truth is, you became this thing to run away from the pain inside your own heart! To run away from yourself! You threw away your humanity! If anyone's a fragile human, it's you!"

Cue Griffith as Femto showing up for the very first time, and then almost immediately also attempting to belittle Guts, saying:

"Still squirming around in your pitiful existence, I see..."

"Black Swordsman, you say? His petty existence is beneath our notice."

Guts ALSO isn't having any of that, and replies: "My petty existence? Don't make me laugh! You're where you are now thanks to this petty existence. Thanks to me, who's fighting an army of the dead because of you! Thanks to me who's writhing around in my own blood!"

"You stand there putting on airs like you're some kind of godly being! Griffith!" To which Griffith coolly replies: "Yes... You're nothing but a squirming, sacrificial offering."

HOWEVER. What is then explained directly after that to everybody by The Godhand?

That an acceptable sacrifice for the Invocation of Doom can only be somebody that you genuinely care about.

Guts cannot be used for The Count's second sacrifice, not only because Griffith had already marked him as a sacrifice, but because according to the Godhand:

"The boy is merely your enemy... It must be someone important to you, part of your soul. Someone so close to you that it's almost like giving up a part of you... By making such a sacrifice to demonkind, you'll be able to sever any remnants of your own humanity. A fissure in your heart will open up into which evil will surge."

So for The Count, the only proper candidate left is his daughter Theresia. And Griffith urges him to make this final choice by saying:

"Cut your love asunder, Count!"

So taking ALL of this into account, is Griffith calling Guts "nothing but a squirming sacrificial offering" actually really that sick of a burn? Hmmm.... idk, but it really makes u think.....

[nesiacha]

Relations between Babeuf and Robespierre

Babeuf had a rather complex opinion of Robespierre (worship then hate then worship). In fact, this dates back well before the French Revolution. Through Dubois, Babeuf praises Robespierre. After all, Babeuf already had strong views about the Revolution. Here’s what he says about Robespierre: “He knows, as we do, that most of the time, bastards are the children of poor girls and ‘young men,’ sons of families whose parents would disinherit them if they had the misfortune of marrying beneath them, to avoid committing an outrage, to avoid sullying themselves with a crime. He knows, as we do, that the great factory of bastards is in the convents, and that among both sexes, the vow of celibacy is not a vow of chastity... I sense that he is a man of exact integrity and rare selflessness.”

When Robespierre delivered his famous speech in response to Louise de Kéralio’s remarks, saying: "It must be admitted: the admission of a woman into a literary society was regarded until now as a kind of phenomenon. France and all of Europe offered very few examples of it. The power of habit and perhaps the strength of prejudice seemed to oppose these two obstacles to the wishes of those who might aspire to take their place among you. Two charming and learned women deigned to address you this year, and you did not hesitate for a moment to grant their request. Their sex did not cause them to lose any of the rights their merit gave them. What do I say? Their sex probably seemed to you an additional merit. (…) Would I have to fight those who, wishing to condemn all women to ignorance and frivolity, would regard as scandalous anything that would suggest in them a particular taste for useful knowledge? I will certainly avoid reopening this great question, which would itself be the scandal of an enlightened century."

Babeuf, in turn, would take up the pen (he was more committed to women's rights than Robespierre, but less so than Charles Gilbert-Romme and Condorcet, although Babeuf used sexist terms against Theresia Tallien) to go further than Robespierre: "The woman would not have taken refuge in these sad imitations if her genius had not been killed; there would then have been a literature of women, a poetry of women, music, painting, sculpture by women; alongside and equal to the genius of men, the genius of women would have risen with its own character, and the two sexes would have admired and charmed each other mutually. How much happiness and joy we would have gained from this!"

"True civilization halts and majestically sets a level, there lies the end of all misery, all groaning, all sobbing, all gnashing of teeth. Only there, when everyone is reassured about their fate, is the goal of society realized, for unless it is a league hostile to the principles of justice, it must be instituted solely for the purpose that the weak is no more unfortunate than the strong, the woman no more unfortunate than the husband, the mother than the father, the children than the father and mother, the sisters than the brothers, the younger than the older; the happiness of individuals, families, peoples, and sexes can only be a result of equalization: equalization perfects and destroys nothing but that which destroys. Sooner or later, it will destroy the servitude of women; it will proclaim their emancipation. What would be the consequences of this emancipation, what new laws would be indispensable for it to have only salutary effects? These are questions I am not in a position to answer, but one day we must consider them."

In 1791, Babeuf held admiration for Robespierre, Pétion, Abbé Grégoire, Buzot, and people like Chapelier, Malouet. He said to Robespierre, "Analyze Robespierre, you will find him also agrarian in the final result, and these illustrious figures are obliged to maneuver because they feel that the time has not yet come," Babeuf would assert to Abbé Coupé in a letter on September 10, 1791.

Even though Babeuf’s social ideas went much further than Robespierre’s, he still held great admiration for him. Here’s what he wrote to his wife in May 1793: "I have here as friends the most distinguished people in Paris: Chaumette, procurer of the Commune, Pache, mayor, Garin, municipal officer and general administrator of supplies, Robespierre, Sylvain Maréchal, editor of Les Révolutions de Paris, and many others. All these people give me the warmest welcome despite my shabby attire."

We know that during this period, Babeuf would say of Robespierre: "But you, Robespierre, who have precisely defined property, who have outlined the boundaries within which this right must be confined to prevent it from being harmful to the great majority of society... Come, you are our legislator. And you, Jacobins! [...] come stand beside our Lycurgus..."

However, his opinion changes as we see in Thermidor. Is it because Robespierre never followed deeper social policies, like the fact that he wasn’t in favor of the maximum but had to accept it under pressure from the Hébertists (where the Enragés, the Hébertists, and part of the Babouvists supported this maximum)? Regarding the sharing of property rights, which he refused (like the vast majority of revolutionaries, including the Enragés or the Exagérés, with the exception of people like Momoro, etc.)? It is true that Robespierre was conservative in some aspects (particularly on women’s rights, on taxes, whereas Babeuf went further)? Or is it the fall and execution of certain people that Babeuf esteemed, such as Chaumette (where Babeuf, despite his modest needs, would do what he could to support the widow Chaumette, considered the widow of a traitor to the country)? Babeuf had criticized, even before Robespierre’s fall, the question of religious reason. On the other hand, Victor Daline states that there is no evidence that he was close to the cult of reason with the Hébertists (even though he shared some of their ideals) because in Histoire nouvelle de la vie de Jésus-Christ, he told Hébert: “Jean-Jacques, Père Duchesne, citizen Gillet, I do not fear giving you a formal denial. Jesus was neither more than a man, nor sans-culotte, nor a true Jacobin.” Even though he said of Robespierre, “Robespierre provoked an invitation for silence to all French people on matters of religion. This measure seemed necessary, and I do not intend to contradict it; its purpose was to suppress a vast fire of fanaticism, some sparks of which had already lit up and threatened to ignite the entire Republic.” He adds, “Certainly, the goal may be achieved by this measure, for it is impossible for something that is not discussed to cause fermentation. But one must rely on the possibility of general deference to the recommended silence. And would this goal be enough for us? Should we be content with precautions to prevent the monster of fanaticism from doing us harm? A kind of transaction with it, a clause allowing it to retain a semblance of existence within us, would it not warn us that we still recognize its power? We have done too much, it seems to me, against superstition to remain halfway; there is force in retreating or advancing.”

Here is what he says about Robespierre after Thermidor. Babeuf called Robespierre the “most cruel enemy of liberty” and said, “There were two people, that is, Robespierre, sincerely a patriot and a friend of principles until the beginning of 1793, and Robespierre, ambitious, a tyrant, and the deepest villain since that time; this Robespierre, I say, when he was a citizen, is perhaps the best source from which to seek the great truths and strong proofs of the rights of the press. It is with the weapons he left that I will begin the battle of sophisms against the reasoners of the day.” (Babeuf, Journal de la liberté de la presse, N°1, p. 3 and 4, September 1794).

In fact, it seems that Babeuf was one of the first to use the word "terrorist" for the revolutionary excesses: "Patriot terrorists (the French love variety, this expression will soon come into fashion).” But Babeuf, at the same time, attacked other members of the Committee of Public Safety, like Barère, saying that Robespierre was not the only one. “Today, patriots who dare preach the rights of man are not off the hook so easily. First, they are chased from the Jacobins, then imprisoned, and then assassinated. But let us not say to Barère, Billaud, Bourdon, Collot, Carrier, Louchet, that chasing, imprisoning, and assassinating is not the answer. No matter how much you imprison, assassinate patriots, you will not kill the truth: it will come to light through the grates of your new bastilles…” (Babeuf, Journal de la liberté... op. cit., N°12, De la fête de l'Opinion, fourth sans-culotte, Year 2). So he does not fall into the ease of blaming just one man. Furthermore, he calls Collot d’Herbois, for what he did in Lyon, “a scourge of mankind, a monster of evil like Carrier, like Lebon.” It should be noted that at that time, Babeuf was unknowingly surrounded by people trying to blame Robespierre to cover up their own crimes, starting with Fouché, who exploited Babeuf’s humanist values, as I discussed here about the Fouché-Babeuf relationship and their ruptures here. And how strangely Turreau (one of the authors of atrocities in Vendée) adopted the son of Gracchus Babeuf, Camille Babeuf, after his father’s execution (the only good deed I found from him), while Gracchus Babeuf was fighting against the atrocities in Vendée with sincerity. However, he was definitely not a friend of the Muscadins or the jeunesse dorée, nor was he an anti-Jacobin; he always maintained his socially committed ideals, contrary to what some sources claim.

Yet, he would later reconnect with Robespierre posthumously and had close ties with the Duplay family. Babeuf even thought that Hébertism was a minority in the revolution. Here’s what he wrote to his Babouvist colleague, who was also an Hébertist and anti-Robespierre, Joseph Bodson, in February 1796: “I confess today, honestly, that I regret having once seen in black both the revolutionary government and Robespierre, Saint-Just, etc. I believe that these men were better than all the revolutionaries combined, and that their dictatorial government was devilishly well-imagined... I do not agree at all with you that they committed great crimes and caused the death of many republicans. Not so much, I believe. It was the Thermidorian reaction that caused many to perish. I do not enter into whether Hébert and Chaumette were innocent. If they were, I still justify Robespierre... Draftsmen, half-hearted men, hungry for glory and full of presumption, such as Chaumette, may have been seen by our Robespierre as wanting to challenge his leadership. So the one who had the initiative... must have seen that all these ridiculous rivals, even with good intentions, would hinder and ruin everything. I suppose he would have said: Let’s extinguish these annoying imps and their good intentions. My opinion is that he did well. The salvation of 25 million people must not be balanced against the deference to some ambiguous individuals... Rogues, fools, or presumptuous and ambitious for glory, it doesn’t matter, tough luck for them. Why are they in this? Robespierre knew all this, and that’s partly why I admire him. That’s what makes me see in him the genius where true regenerative ideas resided.” He says that a revolutionary cannot remain an Hébertist. He resumed his admiration for Robespierre. Nevertheless, one could argue that it is a pity he approved of the execution of Chaumette and even Hébert, stemming from a parody of justice (even more so Chaumette, who, despite his flaws, was a complex character and an effective prosecutor of the Commune as you can see here https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/753092098599829504/pierre-gaspard-chaumette?source=share , but on the other hand, Babeuf, while adoring Marat, as you can see here, did not hesitate to make harsh criticisms of him; for Babeuf, friendship did not exclude severity, so it is also possible he did the same with Chaumette and the hebertists ). He went from one extreme, criticizing the entire Committee of Public Safety, to another, saying they made few mistakes overall, whereas the truth lies somewhere in between, even regarding Robespierre.

An interesting fact among the Hébertist anti-Robespierre Babouvists, there was not only Joseph Bodson (who resented Robespierre for what he did to the Hébertists, if I understand correctly), close to Babeuf, and they held each other in high esteem, with Bodson being one of Babeuf’s "lieutenants," but also Clémence and Marchand, former members of the Paris Commune, whom the Committees of Public Safety and General Security had sent on mission to the departments of Oise and Seine-et-Oise in Year II, who were imprisoned before the 9th of Thermidor, along with General Fyon and Clerex. They played an important role in Babouvism.

I’m not sure about including Rossignol (Momoro’s friend and considered close to Ronsin and Vincent) because for a time, Robespierre defended him, but later abandoned him due to doubts about his connections with Ronsin and Vincent.

Buonarroti further developed Babeuf's thinking, who had now reconnected with Robespierre's ideas concerning the Hébertists.

“Hébert and Danton gave their names to two factions which, although both were enemies of the revolutionary government they had helped establish, differed fundamentally in their objectives and the character of the individuals they consisted of. Generally, the Hébertists were made up of hardworking, honest, straightforward, courageous men, who were not very studious, unfamiliar with political theories, who loved liberty for its own sake, enthusiastic about equality and impatient to enjoy it. They were good citizens in a settled popular republic but poor leaders in the storms preceding its establishment. It was not difficult to stir them against the prolongation of the revolutionary institution, by portraying it as a wrongful attack on the sovereignty of the people. It was also not hard to persuade them that in order to forever extinguish the source of superstitions and the power of the priests, all religious ideas should be banned. However, such men, more inclined to resolve difficulties through quick action than to carefully weigh the utility and consequences of a political crisis, had the same goal as the wise friends of equality, but they did not form a clear idea, like them, of the institutions through which it could be achieved, nor of the path to get there. Therefore, the blame for the disastrous division and misfortunes caused by the faction to which they belonged should not rest with them. A grave responsibility lies entirely with the influential men who, in the name of the public good, inspired unjust suspicions in them, and whose criminal blindness we regret not being able to excuse.”

Thus, Buonarroti, in some ways, aligns with Babeuf's thinking and, at other times, contradicts it. In reality, the Hébertists were more competent and more important to the revolution than popular culture often acknowledges (although they also had their share of faults and responsibilities). Moreover, Babeuf, in a piece addressed to Bodson, even though he speaks harshly of Chaumette, a man whose widow he supported, acknowledges Chaumette's good intentions.

What can we conclude? Surely, at times, Babeuf viewed things too black and white, given the horrible trials he had endured, and his enthusiasm sometimes led him to be careless. Had he lived longer, I believe he might have placed Chaumette on a pedestal alongside Robespierre, but that is just my opinion. Just as he initially placed Robespierre on a pedestal, then accused him of tyranny before rehabilitating him. However, Babeuf had brilliant ideas, economic plans at times, and was no fool. He was a humanist who managed to establish many important contacts across different political factions, such as Albertine Marat, who gave him a letter to publish against Fréron and subscribed to Le Tribun du peuple (she admired Danton and disliked Robespierre), Lindet (who, however, was not part of the conspiracy), as well as both Robespierre's supporters and the Hébertists. This is a significant quality.

I also think he was capable of forgiveness and understanding, provided that the person who committed the reprehensible acts did so with the intention of saving the revolution or France, and not out of a desire for corruption (even if it is only a theory). Example? During his last trial, Carnot was the one who harshly led the repression of the Babouvist movement, while Barras was more passive. Yet, during his trial, Babeuf only expressed a few criticisms of Carnot, even though he knew Carnot's role in leading him to his death, as you can see here. The theory, therefore, should be approached with caution: despite knowing what Carnot had done against him, Babeuf often criticized people like Fréron, Tallien, Fouché, and Barras. However, he recognized that, for all his flaws, Carnot was more sincere than they were in safeguarding the Republic. Or perhaps he simply never forgave Barras for feasting on corruption while Babeuf’s daughter slowly died from malnutrition.

But regardless of the revolutionary factions, our opinions on them—these were not monsters (I exclude the turncoats like Fréron, Barras, Tallien, Fouché, Turreau, and people like Carrier)—but rather complex men caught in a complicated period, as I have already said.

Even though I am quite (even very) critical of Robespierre, I leave this quote from Babeuf to conclude this article: "Maximilien Robespierre... this man whom the centuries will appreciate, and whose judgment it is for my free voice to anticipate."

P.S. If you're interested, here is Babeuf’s opinion on Abbé Grégoire: "Regarding what he calls vandalism," he says, “How old is he? Give him a decent pension and let him be quiet.” This is off-topic, but it might interest you.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41921463?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41925466

[zeivira]

In “No Rest For The Wicked” — how would Reinhard and Wilhelm respond to Subaru’s “condition”?? I can’t stop thinking about them —

Short reply: Badly lol.

Long reply: Reinhard tells Felt in one of the SS that he considers Subaru one of his dearest friends (Term is vague enough it can be considered “best friend”) this is after they met only twice— during arc 1 and arc 3. Those meetings remain canon on 'No Rest For the Wicked'. 

Now, the way I see it, Rein doesn’t only consider Subaru his close friend just because of his personality but because Subaru gave him another chance to save the Royal Family (by helping him meet Felt). 

So, we have a Reinhard who thinks Subaru (a kind, friendly person that doesn’t care he is a monster AND helped him fulfil his dreams of serving the Lugunican Royal Family again!!!) dying of the same ailment that took the Lugunican Royal Family from him originally!!! This is devastating news from him. He was very close to them, especially Fourier (though less than Ferris ofc.)

Reinhard was one of the people in charge of trying outside help to save the royal Family, and in addition to that: his mom has Sleeping Beauty Syndrome!! So he knows a lot more than the average person about the ailment that Subaru supposedly has. That’s why I imagine Emilia would go after Arc 3’s Royal Meeting to the Astrea manor and try to enlist his help to save Subaru. Felt would be there too, but he would of course, accept her request (Felt wouldn't be against it, ofc)

It would be Reinhard’s second chance to save someone from that disease. 

This was all actually explained in a scene from the fic that I cut because it felt too…. different compared to the rest of the fic. It’s pretty serious for a crack fic (Random fact: whenever I write a fic, I usually draft many scenes and then cut down the ones that in my opinion don’t fit the general mood/style.)

About Wilhelm:

He knows that: Heinkel is using him as a rat lab to save Louanna. Subaru helped Reinhard meet Felt. And now Subaru is helping him kill the whale. In Wilhelm’s eyes, Subaru is putting the Astrea Family together again, despite being close to death himself!!! 

As Subaru is going to the Whale hunt with Heinkel, I imagine the Wilhelm & Subaru interactions would get reduced on this verse. Those two still don't get along, after all. And Subaru needs him to keep Ferris away.

Somehow, I feel that No Rest!Wilhelm would see more Louanna than Theresia in Subaru. A very tragic figure he admires a lot.

And well, as we know, meanwhile Heinkel is:

Thank you for the question OP! i had lots of fun replying to this!!! Feel free to ask more whenever you want!!

[beevean]

Honestly I feel that if someone were to face Guts about all the shit he's done as the Black Swordsman he'd probably just...grimly accept it and move on

He wouldn't be consumed by guilt and begging for forgiveness, he'd just accept that he did what he did while also insisting that he has no intention of just getting stuck in his past actions or, I dunno, do jail time.

That's not necessarily because Guts feels no guilt about his past transgressions (his whole "weaklings who can't defend themselves" mentality was just a rationalization to protect his conscience from guilt, he felt awful about the priest and his daughter and about Vargas, not to mention the kids of Misty Valley), it's just that, as he tells Casca during his breakdown, he has killed so many people due to his life style that it's easy for him to just stop thinking about it after a while. Even back in Golden Age: he's traumatized after accidentally killing Adonis, a few days later however he's already gotten over it

It's both a result of Guts being accustomed to killing people since he was a child and also due to Guts' philosophy about always moving forward and living life how you want to no matter what, whose only obstacle is Griffith.

Remember: the deciding factor for him to abandon his path of revenge was just Casca being in danger, not him realizing he was ruining people's lives and needed to stop. In the end the Beast of Darkness can be viewed as a form of retribution: it was born due to the Eclipse but it only got as strong as it is due to Guts living such a hate filled bloody life as the Black Swordsman, and if he thinks he can just walk away from that with no repercussions then the Beast is there to remind him of what he used to be. It threatening to kill his new friends is Guts having to come to terms with the monster he had allowed himself to become, except now the target is not just apostles with a bunch of nameless civilians in the way that he can cause the deaths of while having a detatched attitude about it,the target is now his family, every time he dons the Armor Guts gets to experience what it feels like to have the Black Swordsman come in and kill your loved ones while in a blind rage

Now if CASCA were to confront him about what he's done during those years...I feel that would be a much different story...

I can't add much.

At the end of the day, Guts is a child soldier. He was trained to kill, and to kill for trifling reasons like money. While he has a soft spot for children, which is why the entire ordeal with Rosine was so harrowing for him (and while he stopped torturing himself over Adonis quickly, killing him still left an impact on him, not helped by hearing Griffith accidentally dismissing Guts as a friend), death as a whole has no meaning on him. He's used to being hated, which is probably why he has already forgotten about the trauma he left on Theresia.

It's interesting to think Guts and Griffith share a similar "no point in looking back, the only way is forward" mentality, but for different reasons: Griffith has tunnel vision, and he's projected towards the future (he's a pretty skilled manipulator and plotter for a reason), while Guts lives in the present, day by day.

I think his way of thinking can be seen when Farnese pledges her alliance to him, and he says "eh, I killed some of your men, we're even, do what you want", matter-of-factly... while inside he's much more tortured inside over what he has just done to Casca, which is the real reason he's even entertaining changing his lifestyle and travelling with the people he has both hurt and helped.

[archduchessofnowhere]

What the tea on Maria Carolina? You said in one of your posts: “Maria Carolina truthers know she's the most interesting daughter and the one there should be hundreds of books and movies about, but the general audiences haven't seen the light yet.” I’m intrigued

Hi! Sorry it took me so long; I was reading a book about the Bourbons in Naples and I wanted to finish it to be able to give a more complete answer… but it ended up taking me MONTHS to be done with it.

This answer was a bit difficult to put together because Maria Carolina’s life was very eventful, so I’ll just mention some facts about her life, focusing more on the Napoleonic era and Napoleon specifically because I think you’ll be more interested in that. Also please feel free to correct me If I got something wrong, since this is a time period I’ve only started to learn about recently. So what was the tea?

Born in 1752 Maria Carolina was the thirteenth child of Empress Maria Theresia and Franz I, Holy Roman Emperor. As part of her mother’s policies of rapprochement to the Bourbons, she and her siblings were engaged to different members of the houses of Spain, France, Parma and Naples. Maria Carolina was promised to the Dauphin of France, but when her elder sister, promised to the King of Naples, died of smallpox, she took her place.

Ferdinando of Naples had been a child king, and he remained so for the rest of his life. His only diversions were hunting and pulling pranks on his courtiers, and he had a terrible reputation across the courts of Europe as an uneducated, bad mannered, spoiled man, kept in ignorance by his Ministers so they could control him. Everyone pitied the young Archduchess’ fate, her mother Maria Theresia wrote around the time of Maria Carolina’s wedding that she “trembled in fear for her”. But duty came first, and so she went to Naples, aged only sixteen.

Maria Carolina did not had it easy at first. She was terribly homesick and found herself in a court that could not have been more different to the one she grew up in. When her sister Maria Antonia married the Dauphin of France, she wrote to her former aya:

When I imagine that her fate will perhaps be the same as mine, I want to write volumes to her on the subject, and I very much hope that she has someone like me [to advise her] at the beginning. If not, to be frank, she may succumb to despair. One suffers real martyrdom, which is all the greater because one must pretend outwardly to be happy. I know what it is like, and I pity those who have yet to face it… I would rather die than endure again what I went through at the beginning. Now all is well, which is why I can say—and this is no exaggeration—that if my faith had not told me, ‘Set your mind on God,’ I would have killed myself.

Unsurprisingly Maria Carolina didn’t fall head over heels for her husband, but she did convince him that she had, and eventually won his affection. After she bore a son in 1775 she earned a seat in the State Council (as her marriage contract established), and from that point onward she became an active player in Neapolitan politics. One of her firsts moves was to remove the Secretary of State, Marchese Tanucci, who had been Regent during her husband’s minority and still held a huge influence over him.

After Tanucci’s dismissal she became the person with the most influence over Ferdinando, and she pretty much had him wrapped around her finger for most of their marriage, acting as the de facto ruler of Naples. Every decision the king took was only after consulting his wife, and she often had the final say. However, this didn’t meant Maria Carolina held absolute power: Ferdinando was still a very unpredictable person, and as soon as his wife was out of his favor he stopped listening to her.

Maria Carolina was enthusiastic about the ideas of the Enlightenment, as many other royals were at first, and even protected and encouraged the Masons in Naples during her early years as queen. But she was still the consort of an absolute monarch that believed they were chosen by God to rule, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she was horrified by the French Revolution and fervently opposed it. If it were for her, she would've declared war on France immediately, but this was not possible. On the execution of her brother-in-law Louis XVI she wrote:

Knowing your upright mind, I can imagine your emotion on hearing of the appalling crime perpetrated against the unfortunate King of France in all solemnity, tranquillity and illegality (…) He was the head of our family, our kinsman, cousin and brother-in-law. What an atrocious example! What an execrable nation! I know nothing about the other wretched victims in the Temple. If sorrow does not kill them, other horrors may be expected from this horde of assassins. I hope that the ashes of this good Prince, of this too good Prince who has suffered shame and infamy for four years culminating in execution, will implore a striking and visible vengeance from divine Justice, and that on this account the Powers of Europe will have no more than a single united will, since it is a matter in which they are all involved.

She was growing increasingly anxious about her sister, Queen Marie Antoinette, and her hatred for France became an obsession:

I hear horrible details from that infernal Paris. At every moment, at every noise and cry, every time they enter her room, my unfortunate sister kneels, prays and prepares for death. The inhuman brutes that surround her amuse themselves in this manner: day and night they bellow on purpose to terrorize her and make her fear death a thousand times. Death is what one may wish for the poor soul, and it is what I pray God to send her that she may cease to suffer. . . . I should like this infamous nation to be cut to pieces, annihilated, dishonoured, reduced to nothing for at least fifty years. I hope that divine chastisement will fall visibly on France, destroyed by the glorious arms of Austria.

At this point she had lost all hopes of her being rescued, and wished her “a natural death as the best thing that could happen to her”. But even though she had been waiting for it, the news of Marie Antoinette’s execution still shocked her. She wept and prayed with her children for “her wretched sister”.

Naples fell into a social crisis during these years, paranoia, fear and suspicion of the revolution in every corner. There was an active persecution of everyone thought to be a “jacobin”, arrests, trials and executions. But the country couldn’t wage war against France, and eventually they had to sign a peace treaty, which the Queen disapproved: “I am not and never shall be on good terms with the French… I shall always regard them as the murderers of my sister and the royal family”.

It was also during this time that the star of a certain Bonaparte started to rise, and Maria Carolina followed his career with interest and admiration. Before the treaty of Campo Fornio in October 17, 1797, she wrote about Napoleon:

I admire him, and my sole regret is that he serves so detestable cause. I should like the fall of the Republic, but the preservation of Bonaparte. For he is really a great man; and when one can only see ministries and sovereigns with petty and narrow views, one is all the more pleased and astonished to watch such a man rise and increase in power, while deploring that his grandeur is attached to so infernal a cause. This may seem strange to you. But while I loathe his operations, I admire the man. I hope that his plans will miscarry and his enterprises fail; at the same time I wish for his personal happiness and glory so long as it is not at our expense… If he dies they should reduce him to powder and give a dose of it to each ruling sovereign, and two to each of their ministers, then things would go better.

Soon she would have less nicer things to say about Naps, but she never lost that original admiration and astonishment.

In 1798 Ferdinando, encouraged by his wife and the British, led a expedition in December to try to expel the French from Rome. Not only the Neapolitan troops weren’t prepared to defeat the French Army, they were also technically still at peace with France, so this wasn’t a good move at all, and only two days after entering Rome Ferdinando had to retreat. Expectedly, Napoleon’s reaction to such a break of peace was marching over Naples. The royal family had to flee to Sicily, a tragic journey in which Maria Carolina’s six-years-old son Alberto died after a series of convulsions.

This ask is already too long to unpack all the political mess around the short-lived Parthenopean Republic, so to summ it up: it didn’t work out, and by 1799 the Bourbons were back in power. They were unforgiving of the republicans: during the following months there were thousands of arrest and hundreds of executions and deportations. Maria Carolina felt no mercy for them: “Death for the ringleaders, deportation for the rest... Our country must be purged of this infection”.

The Queen returned to Naples in August 1802, after more than three years of absence. She had never been a liked queen, but her unpopularity reached a new low since she was blamed for all the misfortunes of the last years. Having lost the influence she had on her husband, who held her responsible for the Rome expedition fiasco, she meddled a little less in politics now, dedicating mainly to her children and grandchildren, particularly to her unmarried daughters.

Speaking of her children, she had seventeen (!!!) but she would outlive fourteen of them. Part of her masterplan for them was to marry them all to her Habsburg nephews and nieces, and in many cases she succeeded. Just to name one exemple her eldest daughter Maria Theresa married Emperor Franz II/I of Austria. Maria Carolina’s relationship with this son-in-law ended up being a bit tense, since Franz found her mostly meddlesome and never aligned with her plans. On top of that, she was quite hurt when Franz remarried only months after her daughter’s death; after he announced his engagement she stopped adressing him as her son and resorted only to “Your Majesty” instead.

In 1804 Napoleon became Emperor, and we have a letter she wrote to Minister Gallo on this. Buckle up because whatever you imagine her reaction was, you aren’t ready for it:

It was not worth the trouble to condemn and slaughter the best of kings [Louis XVI], dishonour and revile a woman, a daughter of Maria Theresa, a holy princess [Marie Antoinette], to wallow in massacres, shootings, drownings, and kill six hundred prelates in a church, perpetrating horrors of the most barbarous ages at home and abroad, writing whole libraries on liberty, happiness, etc., and at the end of fourteen years become the abject slaves of a little Corsican whom an incredible fortune enabled to exploit all means to succeed, marrying without honour or decency the cast-off strumpet of whom the murderer Barras was surfeited, Turkish or Mohammedan in Egypt, atheist at the start, dragging the Pope after him and letting him die in prison, a devout Catholic after that, practising every deceit, shortening the lives and normal careers of sovereigns who might assert themselves, only allowing the dummies to vegetate, then atrociously, without a shadow of justice, assassinating the Duc d'Enghien, plotting himself (and he did not blush to admit it, so blinded is he by passion) a conspiracy to victimize the rulers he still feared, and on top of all these abominations he is acclaimed as Emperor: he and his race of Corsican bastards are to dominate almost half Europe, yet every thinking person is not revolted. Far from it, their egoism and weakness are such that they study how low they can prostrate themselves before the new idol… Send me word of the august Emperor’s intentions regarding Italy: whether he will deign to accept us as his slaves or will leave us in our obscurity… Tell me what the other Powers are saying. I imagine a Gloria in Excelsis Demonio will be the general refrain…

She took it pretty well right?

The future of the Bourbons of Naples once again seemed bleak, and this time Maria Carolina resorted to directly appealing to Napoleon. This was the beginning of a very passive-agressive epistolary relationship, both of them trying to be civil but still borderline insulting each other. I honestly find this funny, because you have Maria Carolina swearing to Napoleon that she had nothing against him or France and then she would write this to one of her ministers: “You will never imagine the rage and despair which the extremely insolent screed of the scoundrelly but too lucky Corsican has caused me.”

Despite the passive-agressiveness, when Napoleon was looking for a princess bride for his stepson Eugène he actually considered one of Maria Carolina’s daughters, Maria Amelia, as a possible candidate. But when the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gallo told Maria Carolina of Napoleon’s inquiries about her daughter she was so utterly horrified at the idea of marrying into the Corsican’s family that the project was immediately dropped (eventually Maria Amelia would go on to marry the Duke of Orléans, later King Louis Philippe I, and became the last queen of the French).

After Austerlitz Napoleon pretty much had all of Europe eating from his hand, and the Neapolitan sovereigns felt abandoned by every other power. Maria Carolina tried one last futil attempt to plead to Napoleon, but he had already decided to take Naples. The King was the first to Sicily flee this time, the Queen stayed behind and tried to organize a resistance, but eventually she realized there was nothing they could and also fled with her daughters. Before sailing she wrote to her daughter Empress Maria Theresa of Austria: “I fear we shall never see Naples again”. She was right.

The royal couple spent their second exile the same way they spent their first: Ferdinando living his best life enjoying the freedom he had in Sicily and Maria Carolina being utterly miserable. Her health worsened and she often was in pain, but recovering Naples from the Bonapartes became her obsession. She was the leading force behind every attempt to get the kingdom back, but soon she started to crash with their only allies left, the British. They wanted to keep the Bourbons in Sicily, getting back Naples was not a priority for them.

So remember Maria Carolina’s her reaction when Napoleon suggested to marry her daughter to Eugène? Well she didn’t took her granddaughter’s marriage to Napoleon himself any better: “Only this calamity was held in reserve. To become the Devil’s grandmother”.

But at the end, the final boss in Maria Carolina’s life wasn’t Napoleon, but the British. The Queen was too meddlesome and hindered their plans, and made a personal enemy of the British representative Lord Bentinck. Maria Carolina was accused of conspiring and being a threat to Sicily, and eventually the King was forced by the British to send her away. Exiled in exile, having nowhere else to go, she returned to Vienna in an eight-months-journey. While her son-in-law had no desire to receive her, he couldn’t turned her away either. She got in a better mood once she was once back at her childhood home, spending time with her Austrian grandchildren. It was there that she heard of the French defeats and Napoleon’s abdication.

Even though Maria Carolina made her hatred of Napoleon her personality for fifteen years she felt sympathetic towards him after he was defeated, reproached Marie Louise for not going to Elba with her husband, and told her that if she wasn’t allowed to reunite with him she should tie her bed-sheets to her window and escape, because marriage was for life. She also showed a lot of interest in her great-grandson, little Napoleon II, whom she called “mon petit monsieur”; in a letter to Marie Louise she described him as “very charming, quiet and well behaved” and told her that “may God give you in him every consolation a mother can receive.”

Maria Carolina was not to see the Bourbons restored in Naples. She died of a stroke in September 8, 1814, aged sixty-two-years old. At the time of her death Murat was still King of Naples, and the allies were happy to leave Ferdinando in Sicily. She was buried in the Capuchin Crypt, her death being only a small incident in the Congress of Vienna’s dance.

Overall, I personally find Maria Carolina the most fascinating because of everything she represented: she was a healthy daughter of the ancien régime that saw how the world as she knew it crumbled down and changed forever, to the point that by the time of her death she, the last surviving child of Maria Theresia, was a living relique (and she wasn’t even that old - a testament of how fast everything had changed). And she didn't got there sitting by idly: she fought against this new world every step of the way, made it out alive, but lost the battle still. And I don't know about you, but to me this is just a more interesting story to tell than Unoriginal Marie Antoinette Adaptation Number 7383.

Sources:

Acton, Harold (1998). The Bourbons of Naples (1734-1825)

Castelot, André (1974). King of Rome; a biography of Napoleon's tragic son

Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara (2020). Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in her Time

[mishy-mashy]

That opinion that every happy ending involves getting married and having kids and it's happily ever after? This does NOT apply to the Astrea family AT ALL.

Case Study #1: Wilhelm and Theresia

They marry and have a kid, go through that typical line of a happy end... but in reality, Wilhelm loves his wife too much, and it's a problem

(especially after said wife dies and he blames everyone else in his family and Oh, Look! Family Drama!™)

Happily ever after? He's estranged himself from the Astreas now, blames his own grandson, and goes on a long journey of revenge. His son's become an alcoholic, his daughter-in-law is dead to the world, and he just left the Astrea family to be handled by the mess that is Heinkel

Wilhelm was so obsessed with his wife, thought his kid might've been a genius (he was not), and when his wife was gone, he was pretty quick to turn around and leave

And where was he before Theresia even died? Where was Theresia, too? When Heinkel couldn't get a job, when Louanna became a Sleeping Beauty, or when people broke into the Astrea manor?

Reinhard was five when Theresia died. These events all happened before that, and they're... enjoying retirement, I guess?

Case #2: Louanna and Heinkel

First off, they married young. Well, to us, it's young, but remember, the age they can start getting married is 15. They're in something like a medieval period. Being around 18 or 19 is totally plausible to get married for them. As we've seen with Priscilla, age gaps aren't a problem either

Heinkel has a beautiful wife and has a kid, and all is well for exactly two years. Then his wife is Gluttony-ed, and everything goes downhill from then on

Heinkel...

... has little talent for the sword, yet is stuck between two generations of Sword Saints (his mother and his son)

... doesn't qualify for the "van" in his name

... can't even get a proper job on his own

... almost loses Reinhard when he's FOUR

... is searching for a cure for his wife that involves killing the dragon that protects their kingdom

... has not kept his wife's state under wraps so nearly everyone knows and can gossip

... verbally abuses even those who try to help him and then regrets it when it's too late

... lost to his own 5-year old kid in a sword duel despite training his whole life himself

... is aware that national laws have been made to restrict his son

... has a job for the sake of appearances with no actual responsibility

... 's job is being done for him by someone about half his age and is otherwise just a knight (Julius)

Heinkel grew up with two heroes for parents, realized he could never match up to even the family general standard, but he does get a beautiful wife and son... and then his wife disappears in what might've the peak of his marriage, and his son has all the talent in the world—something Heinkel might've dreamed of having

Case 3: Reinhard.

Reinhard is obviously expected to marry and have a child to continue the Divine Protection, but that too is just another responsibility he's burdened with.

He's someone with so many Divine Protections that he can see the reality of what each is like. What if he doesn't want his kid to go through having the one that brings so much family expectation (Sword Master)?

Does Reinhard even lose that blessing if it's passed on? Does he just keep his copy and the next one has it too?

Would Reinhard actually feel relieved because his own child now shoulders the responsibilities he had to deal with over the Divine Protection?

Does Reinhard even have a proper understanding of how to express love, or what parental love looks like, if the two cases above are his main examples?

It's been stated that Reinhard would marry whoever the world chose. He isn't going to choose, and especially not for love. Reinhard's just an existence trying to please everyone and live up to their expectations because there's too much at stake that it's impossible to do otherwise

Example: what if he doesn't do right and everyone is dissapointed or leaves?

What even happened during the shady relationship Reinhard and Heinkel apparently had when Reinhard was younger?

In fact, the Astrea family problems started AFTER they got married. Except Reinhard, but that's because he already has to deal with the problems from the marriages of those before him, and they still haven't been solved or even ignored

[felipe-v-fanblog]

Hi my friend 👋, Who is your favorite Habsburg King? One for Austria and One for Spain?

Who is your least Favorite king of all time? I wish you the best.

HIIII !! how good is to receive an ask just the moment i was thinking about going to random dms to infodump people about random hyperfixations . specially from you my friend im wishing you the best too .

I really like habsburg story as it is full of girlbosses and malewifes ( a really cool dynasty ) . IIIII i really like the austrian ones , spaniards are always a mystery to me . I lived there for four years and I still dont catch their accent . My favourite habsburg monarch is emperor Franz II im not normal about him . there is an strong need to scream everytime i think about him . People probably must known him more for the napoleonic wars but I think he is very interesting by his own right . But tbh I really like all habsburgs from Austria they are very babygirls . Maximilian I , Charles V , Ferdinand I , Rudolf II , Leopold I , Charles VI , Marie Theresia , Joseph II and Ferdinand I of Austria ( not to confuse him with Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire ) are my favourites but I really like all of them except for Leopold II and Francis I ( i have a love-hate relationship with him bc he is funny but I hate that he wasnt faithful to Marie Theresia bc !! SHE WAS LITERALLY A 10 ?! ) . From Spain I truly only like Felipe I and Carlos II . The other ones are very boring to me but I get that Felipe II was interesting . I am not mentioning Charles I because I already mentioned him as emperor . Well . He should be here because he is a spanish one yeah . so yeah he is also here i really like him i find him too funny and he was very babygirl . I mostly like infantes of Spain like the Cardinal-Infante Fernando de Austria , Don Juan José de Austria , Carlos de Austria ( son of Felipe II - prince of Asturias before Felipe III ) and Carlos de Austria ( brother of Felipe IV , I really like him !! I find him autistic and awkard asf and I really like that in people . Like Franz II ) . Those are my tastes in Habsburgs sadly I will try not to talk about the women too as to not make this too big but I also love their queens . Felipe IV is an enigma to me I find him incomprehensible . Truly a mystery like Spain itself . I liked that moment when Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans went to hug him and cry when they met to give Louis XIV his wife that was hilarious .

2.IIII I would say Henry VIII cus he is easy to hate but I do also hate Henry VII because he is the one who made my homecountry a mess ( Wales - if you ever see me talking weird english , is because its not my native language ! I speak welsh hehe ) . I really really hate Charles X of France because he ruined my favourite queer mentally ill dynasty ( bourbons ) and destroyed everything Louis XVIII worked for ( he is my !! favourite historical figure ever ) . I dont really hate many monarchs bc even if they are bad they are amusing to know about . The real hate I have to a historical figure is to Saint-Just but i completely agree with his ideas but he was a real asshole and i dont know how robespierre was friend of that guy . he was literally an edgy teen trying to be a politic is everything i hate about politics but worse because i agree with everything he said . except killing louis xvi that was a mistake . they should have put louis xvi in a box and send it to austria if they didnt wanted him there

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Realistically do you think Guts would have been abusive towards Isidro? I know Guts has the rpg group around to make him chill out when he gets too aggressive but I still think the trauma from his own upbringing would worm it's way into his relationship with Isidro much more than what's depicted. I know it sounds awful but I would have liked to see a scene where Guts slaps the shit of him and everyone is like 'WTF THAT'S A KID' and Guts is just like 'You think he has it tough compared to me?"

Honestly no, but I'm not really in the business of discussing fiction realistically, because I don't really think there's much point to talking about characters as if they're real people. Realistically someone like Guts could be abusive, or he might not be. Who knows? Too many factors go into people's behaviour irl for me to assume anything about a real person.

And as for Guts as he's presented in the manga, enh I think the story rushed his character development a bit, but no I don't think it feels wrong that he isn't abusive to Isidro, especially not in the way you describe where he like, hurts Isidro and defensively doubles down. I do think that you could make a case either way in terms of what would fit his character and the themes of the story though.

Like on the one hand his callous behaviour towards Theresia and the way he projected his own self-loathing on her certainly suggests that he could be abusive to kids potentially. I don't think he has enough of a relationship with Theresia to really call his behaviour abusive rather than dickish lol, but he was certainly a dick to her. His advice to Jill to stick with her abusive family wasn't great either.

I can imagine him projecting onto a kid he has a relationship with, like Isidro, and treating him poorly without thinking because of that. Viewing his own child self as weak and trying to stamp it out in the kids he's in charge of, eg. Hurting Isidro would also be thematically relevant, because one of Guts' personal moral boundaries is hurting kids, it's one of the things that makes him hate himself most. His self loathing when he killed Adonis, his hesitation when fighting Rosine, the self-loathing the ghosts express to him after killing a bunch of Rosine's monster children, etc.

In this context I could see Guts pushing Isidro too far during training the way Gambino used to with him, maybe, then realizing what he's doing when Isidro gets hurt and falling into a fit of self-loathing. I think that could've been a very emotionally and thematically relevant scene.

Buuut I also think it makes sense that Guts has grown past that behaviour, and honestly I definitely don't think it would be in character for Guts to hit him out of like, irritation or something like that. As much as Guts lashes out physically as part of how he deals with feelings, he focuses that on enemies, people he has an excuse to fight. Like eg he hurt Casca because he specifically wanted her out of his way and a big part of him wanted to kill her and go fight Griffith instead, not because he needed a punching bag for his emotions. That's what apostles are for.

If Guts was going to be abusive to Isidro I think it would be in a subtler, more emotionally abusive way, eg pushing him too hard, maybe calling him weak, berating him for a mistake during a fight, etc. (I mean technically you can argue he is abusive in canon just by letting this kid risk his life fighting trolls and whatever lmao, but allowances have to be made for genre conventions.) But yeah I think it also does make sense that he doesn't act like that, because he is self-aware that it is bad behaviour and he is consciously trying to be better during the Millenium Falcon arc.

He has hurt kids that way before, again Theresia as an example, but he felt bad about it. And Guts doesn't often lash out at friends and allies when he's in a healthier place emotionally. He does a lot during the Black Swordsman arc, or when he's bitter and resentful with Casca in the Golden Age, but with most of the Hawks, or with the RPG group, he tends to think before he speaks imo.

So basically tl;dr I could imagine another version of the story where Guts was more emotionally abusive to Isidro and I think that could work, but I don't think he necessarily ought to be based on his characterization, and I don't think it would manifest in random physical lashing out.

Thanks for the ask, this is something I've never really thought about before and it's interesting to consider.

[suffarustuffaru]

terrible ideas for rezero matching icons (arc 8 and ex spoilers)

spica going :D while julius and otto plot to kill her. this can even work extremely well without spica. here is some concept art. im gonna make this one real bc me and a pal wanna do it

^^ add in rem and subaru matching icons if you want (they’re screaming in horror)

felix / fourier / crusch but fourier is Deceased and felix and crusch are bawling

felix and julius………………………….. from That Scene in pride if

rowan, cecilus, and the heavenly sword.

cat garfiel and cat heinkel from garfiel’s theatre dream

rabbit. and subaru.

normal julius icon paired with a gluttonyed joshua.

pandora. and theresia. and a white bird

a set of astrea icons but louanna is eepy and theresia is just a jar of ash

greed if ottosuba icons but it’s a transparent otto going “gay gay homosexual gay” and subaru going “FUUUCK I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE”. add in a matching echidna icon too

greed if subaru / a half-dead echidna. if you know you know

gluttonybaru / random ass book of the dead. like the matching icon to subaru is just a whole ass book

todd and subaru but like this:

^^ alternatively the same as the above but with louis and subaru

main route otto / a literal wall / greed if subaru

cute 🫶 matching icons but one is subaru and the other is satella’s shadow hands

emisuba icons but its them dead and holding hands from arc 1

anastasia, ram, subaru, and patrasche………………. from the miasma tunnel scene

meili / pushing amnesiabaru down those stairs

subaru…………………. and an unwashed cup

cute icon of emilia kissing subaru / subaru being FUCKJNG DEAD

arc 3 julisuba duel

julius / reid beating his ass

normal natsuki family icons!!!! with naoko, kenichi, an empty frame ("Subaru, where are you?"), and a jar of mayo.

subaru + getting stabbed/jumped by rachins, camberley, and gaston (the three guys from arc 1) + a hot woman watching them bc camberley has the dp of bedroom wiles—

cecilus / halibel / subaru (wrath if edition)

subaru, rem, their children, and appa man raising an eyebrow and asking him whether he is fine (sloth if subaru returning back to the arc 3 save point after dying of old age)

rem and “who?”

the barbie and ken meme with otto and subaru bc theyre definitely the kind of people to get arrested together. they literally have in a lost in memories if route

pridebaru doing half a hand heart / reinhard too busy crying to do the other half / emilia killing pride

little kid otto, otto’s cat crush, and the cat’s crush

joshua. and an apple. if you know you know

louis / rem strangling subaru LMFAOO

subaru flinging paperwork off frame / otto drowning in paperwork

the three idiots crossdressing! :) this is the most normal idea on this list.

EDIT BC I FORGOT TO ADD THIS ONE: regulus and reinhard in arc 5 being launched to the moon :)

some of these are ideas from my pals (you know who you are). also if you have more awful ideas or wanna see some of these become real feel free to say so 🙏🙏🙏

[frogs-in3-hills]

so having finished the first big berserk volume (covering the black swordsman + a bit of the golden age)… i guess i was expecting to be bored by the edgycoolguy of it all, and maybe it’s just because i’ve seen the anime and have the context to understand what kind of place guts is in, but it’s genuinely really good! there’s a lot here that balances out the edgelord stuff—obviously puck is basically carrying this arc on his back, but one of the things that really struck me was guts himself. him crying after theresia swears revenge on him + all the other horrifying bullshit that happened (griffith!!! holy shit! truly putting into perspective how worthless guts feels) was good ofc, but what really stood out to me about guts’ early characterization is his fear. because look. our edgy cool guy tearing up isn’t THAT archetype defying… plenty of murderboys can also be sadboys and it’s fine, even Cool, if they shed some manly tears. more ingrained is that murderboys don’t get to be afraid. it’s lame. but we see guts scared a lot, and it shows openly on his face (notably puck also makes a point of “you’re afraid aren’t you” in his guts thesis). this arc drives home again and again that even if guts is a master swordsman, he’s so unfathomably insignificant, these demons are so, so much stronger than he is. he is trying to kill a hurricane here. and how could he possibly accept that! it’s a big part of why he behaves the way he does!

anyways i just thought that’s a really good place for miura to take him, because honestly “oh but he’s saaaaad”….. wouldn’t have actually worked for me in making guts more sympathetic. we’ve all seen the sad sad edgelord. an edgelord who screams in visceral terror as he fights demons is a little less precedented.

[panthera-tigris-venenata]

What is your nickname?

What is your favorite book?

What is something you're insecure about?

What do you consider your biggest accomplishment?

What is a fact about you that nobody would believe?

Describe yourself in one sentence.

What's a totally random and useless fact that you know?

Who knows you the best?

What is your longest friendship?

What kind of first impression do you think you make on people?

I'm gonna go with Tiger for the nickname. There's some forms of my actual name that could be considered a nickname and that I'm not disclosing on my Tumblr.

I really like the Locked Tomb books, just, you don't know what's gonna be on the next page. And the Thousand Floor series cos I've reread it several times and there's a lot of relationships drama (as in "help I accidentally killed one of my best friends in drug-induced mania, am now blackmailing three people and one of them is kinda hot, what do I do??" relationships drama) and scandals. ...I could talk about my favourite books WAY more though.

...honey I have anxiety, I'm insecure about everything.

I don't know. There were some academic competitions that were fun to do, athletic as well. I'm always very happy when the kids at sports club or at camp like me or when people like what I wrote.

Hmm. A fact nobody would believe. People tend to be surprised when I tell them my nails are natural and that I can't stand short nails.

Not doing that, thank you.

I know lots of useless facts! That the egg of ostrich is about as big as twenty four chicken eggs. I can put together fates of most of Maria Theresia's children. I know entirely too much about Ferdinand Kindermann, a local techer & church official from eighteenth century. Probably way too much funky details about famous authors our highschool teacher shared. Definitely WAY too much about poisons and alimentary ilnesses. (Btw, Mad Hatter is mad cos he has mercury poisoning.)

My college friends and my roommate, probably.

I frankly don't know what my longest friendship is.

I think, that I dress loud and don't speak much, lol.