#*ARC; tbd

[hirak0s]

Hot Cocoa for your Thoughts? (cont'd from here) || @kuurosakiis || Ayame & Ichigo

"Ya looked chilly out here in the autumn air!" She blinked after watching his reaction, trying to make her intentions clear. That... usually worked with people who were recovering from an injury who just woke up.

"Hmm!?" She blinked at the mention of her brother. "Oh, yeh, he's my cap'n an' my brother. Twin, specifically, if ya'd believe it." It wasn't like she knew this man other than, well, he did save the Seireitei once or twice and then she heard of him from Shinji. So she knew of him, but not personally.

"Um, I'm Ayame Hirako…" She'd introduce herself before bowing gently.

[zazikels]

i will say is seeing people unironically go 'gale's arc is about how bad he is at communicating' is just the funniest fucking thing i have read in my entire life and i haven't laughed that much at something since the early access conspiracy theories

[askfallenroyalty]

i love how that happened partly because of that but also i feel the trick to a good darkner design (for a "humanoid" one at least) there's a visual motif of darker faces. could it be a coincidence? probably. most likely.

but the idea is that the eyes are obscured OR they have a shadow face.

ain't nobody got normal white scalea eyes here!!! (excluding the shadow faces.)

Ralsei seems more, idk, lightner like in his second form. i don't count him.

anotehr detail, and again it could be a coincidence, is they have black on their design. (or dark enough to substitute as black, as in Rouxls Kaard's case.)

see they... blend in a little bit. ._. not a lot. i think it's my reluctance to use straight black outlines that help them stand out too much. and Forget-me-not King is a bit too detailed.

but past that! they kinda fit, design wise at least

[obl1tus]

Features  soften  despite  herself,  the  cruel  grin  that  had  taken  over  her  features  melting  into  something  akin  to  sympathy.  Sometimes  she  forgets  Lance  is  new  to  this  world,  and  as  much  as  she  despises  the  demon  in  his  head,  she  can't  imagine  living  with  it.  Can't  imagine  anyone  being  privy  to  her  innermost  thoughts,  never  having  a  moment's  privacy.  Azure  hues  flicker  over  the  man's  features,  taking  a  sip  of  the  red  wine  she'd  ordered,  mulling  over  her  response.  "  Living  the  way  we  do  is  a  curse  as  much  as  a  blessing.  "  she  shrugs  honestly,  and  her  brows  furrow  as  she  tries  to  explain  it  to  Lance.  "  You  watch  things  change  around  you,  people  die,  people  grow  when  you're  stuck  at  the  same  age.  It's  lonely  sometimes.  "  she's  not  sure  why  she  tells  him  this,  perhaps  so  he  knows  it's  not  as  exciting  as  he  thinks.  "  and  boring.  "  she  grins  a  little.  "  I'm  convinced  Niklaus  goes  looking  for  drama  to  cure  his  own.  "  she's  teasing,  but  not  entirely  lying.  Niklaus  would  be  bored  without  some  enemy  to  fight,  some  mystery  to  solve.  Bored  and  left  alone  with  his  thoughts.  A  frankly  terrifying  combination.  She  pauses,  downing  the  glass  of  wine  and  gesturing  to  the  bartender  for  another  with  an  incline  of  her  head  "  What's  it  like?  "  she  asks  at  last,  curiosity  getting  the  best  of  her  and  her  eyes  meet  his  with  intensity.  "  Having  it.  .  .  him?  inside  your  head?  taking  over?  "  she's  unable  to  help  the  question,  wanting  to  know  everything  she  doesn't.

"Nah. Life's way too fun to just end" he replies with a little wave to let her know that death certainly isn't ever on the table for him. Though sure enough, this gets him wondering now. Not just him. It as well. Of course it does.

"Must be nice. Not having to give a shit about dying. Living the way you do. How does that work anyway, do you still call it living? Technically you already are dead, right?" he rambles a bit, but it truly only just now hits him. What she is. Who she is. What he's sitting next to.

He scoffs and looks away for a moment, lets the sight of all these other people around them sink in. Some of them most definitely too drunk to notice anything.

"Sorry. It's still...crazy to think about. That this is real. Up until just a few years ago people like you only existed in books and on VHS with the most random lore, depending on who held the pen for the story. A fucking story. Not....well this. You're not just a story and yeah, you definitely don't take orders from anyone. Good on you."

[recitedemise]

When people remain so hard on Gale for 'still talking' about Mystra, it's just.....ohhh boy. Of all the main cast, Gale's definitely one (alongside Wyll) whose relationship with their authority figure, abuser, manipulator, keeper, however you want to call them, is routinely discredited. Their abuses aren't digestible enough. Isn't 'sympathetic' enough. Shadowheart and Astarion have clear overbearing abusers with exceedingly evil personalities. It's apparently 'easier' for some people to show compassion to a victim's hurts if they've the physical scars to prove it, if their abuser fits every bill of a sadist without any effort to hide said sadism. But show Gale, a man who looks older than essentially the whole party, who was with Mystra who appears younger, speaks in a polite/levelled tone, who was 'simply upset' with Gale for 'disrespecting her boundaries', and Gale just becomes...the hung up ex who fumbled a baddie. Y'know, barring the fact that she knew of him and very likely kept eyes on him as a boy, had never actually told Gale the book he was looking for was Karsite in nature, left him to die alone, then came back and said, 'hey, I'll forgive you if you literally blow yourself up by SINKING A DAGGER STRAIGHT INTO YOUR CHEST when I have every ability to remove the orb myself.' Barring, too, that beyond his lover, she was his GODDESS, a goddess who controlled his fealty and commanded his utmost devotion, he being Gale Dekarios, a mortal, human man who was undoubtedly manipulated. Being with someone like that will destroy anyone's reality. He scrabbled for any sort of approval from a far more powerful figure. Many victims of abuse do.

But hey. And don't get me started on Wyll. Man literally made a pact to save others, sacrificed his freedom for the benefit of all, and ended up hard leashed by a literal devil. A devil! Goddddd. Also iffy that Wyll had no agency to make his decision with his pact in act 3 while barely having any lines to speak of, and how Gale is encouraged to apologize and make amends with Mystra for his character arc. Hmm.

[wulfhalls]

joan of arc but make it bad and half finished <3

[obl1tus]

Bryn  leans  against  the  doorway,  watching  the  other  with  a  raised  brow.  She  chuckles  at  the  coy  grin,  her  own  lips  stretching  into  an  amused  smile,  though  her  nose  wrinkles  and  she  looks  the  girl  up  and  down.  "  Oh,  I'm  certainly  not  complaining.  "  she  shrugs.  "  You  took  care  of  a  problem  for  me.  "  She  doesn't  like  getting  her  hands  dirty.  Gaze  turns  disapproving.  "  Perhaps  less  of  a  mess  next  time?  "  she  pushes  off  the  doorway  to  stalk  closer.  "  I  hope  you  know  you're  cleaning  this  up.  "  lips  twitch  upwards.  "  You  make  the  mess,  you  clean  it.  "  she  sing  songs.

leather gloves are peeled from her fingers, tossing the bloody garments to the side. she could have them cleaned later. until then, she pulls out spares to slip on from her bag. her comment earns a coy grin,❛❛- okay, fine. maybe i got a little carried away. perhaps my actions were not completely necessary, but well deserved. ❜❜ she could blame her werewolf temper or heightened emotions, but neither would completely be the truth.

the hybrid kisses her teeth, head lulling to the side to steal at glance at her. ❛❛but y'can't argue that it got the job done..what's a few dead vampires and witch matter in the grand scheme of things anyhow.❜❜

[wyndlerunner]

[Paraphrasing the question] Now that Kaladin is functionally a lighteyes and Moash is functioning fully as a villain, are we going to get another character who will be a dark eyed/low class character critiquing the political/social system?

Sanderson [paraphrasing]: I’ve been looking at whether Lift can justifiably fill that role as someone who considers herself an outsider even among the Radiants. But RAFO until after book 5

[becauseimrichandican]

I am just SO tired of all the hate and insane conspiracy theories against this movie. It’s just a fun little nod back to the classic Disney movies. You all just hate joy.

[midnight-in-town]

AnE ch142 be like:

me:

wdym they are okay with letting Shiemi, Shura, Lightning and co sacrifice themselves while they go on to survive and avenge them “later”????!!!

Mephy what have you done to them, plz explain

[realmythsmoved]

@musesreunite continued from here "But, I don't want you to get hurt." Rawya stared at the Doctor with a sad glance. She didn't realize it, but tears were filling her eyes. "If they know you're a Time Lord like me, they'll come after you. If anything happens to you, I'll never forgive myself. I already lost my mother. I can't lose you too."

The Doctor looks at Rawya with a concerned expression. She wants to comfort the younger Time Lady. Of course, she can't guarantee any outcome. But she does want to stop Rawya's tears. "Ya won't lose me. I'm good at surviving, me. Always have been." She puts her hands on Rawya's face, doing her best to wipe the tears away as she stares into the younger woman's eyes. "I don't want to see you get hurt either. Okay?"

She caresses Rawya's cheeks with her hands, hoping to provide some comfort. "I'll be right back, I will. And then we'll go somewhere nice. How about that?"

[enden-k]

oh i mean.....we can keep him a cat for a little bit longer 🤭

[deiscension]

Would you guys still like me if I ended up writing a whole meta on Brand New City's double meanings for SQX. Would you.

[tamedgod]

first half of haru's playlist: teamwork and the power of friendship will see us through latter half of haru's playlist: damn girl the power of friendship isn't working anymore i need to kill this mf

[the-lonelyshepherd]

i think i’ve grown from my travis hater arc… he’s acc a good character

[a-hell-of-a-time]

((Something I need in HB canon: Paimon finding out just where his grimoire (that is now his son's) has been going the past few months, and how Octavia is behind in her studies.

Also the whole divorce arc, and the assassination attempt.))