#AND WITH THUNDEROUS EMOTION

[peachpopfizz]

pov you are jorge rivera herrans 5 minutes after causing your fans severe psychological damage

[mischievous-thunder]

How their journey started:

How their relationship officially started:

[gabichanwrites]

I think that way too many people gloss over the reason why exactly those 6 men were such a big deal and a last straw for the crew and Eurylychous. Up to this point Odysseus made mistakes, yes, and people died because of them but never before has Odysseus made such a deliberate sacrifice.

Before this, he was still their Capitan - a bit arrogant, too prone to playing into Gods' Games and with a damnation right on his heels - but still on their side. Not to mention that this saga happens SO soon after Circe Saga, where he CAME BACK for them, put himself in grave danger and risked his return home to save THEM. Since the wind bag fuck up, this crew must have regained so much trust in him, Eurylychous must have felt so indebted and plagued by his own guilt because of his actions in Ocean Saga and Circe Saga. Because despite their doubts and question of How Much Longer Till His Luck Runs Out, their Capitan still came and saved them.

And then the Different Beast happens and it's ruthless and cruel but it's against their enemies, it feels like protection, no doubt. It's their Capitan making sure that they can make it home, that no other monster will follow them and make it impossible.

But then the Scylla happens and it never has been more clearer than there. Eurylychous would not be that furious if he didn't realize and he IS a second-in-command, he is not stupid. Six men who held the torches died and it was by Odysseus' order. This is no longer slaying every foe on the way home, this is Odysseus willing to sacrifice even them. Is it the same capitan who came back for them on Circe's island, is the same who always did everything he could to make sure they all made it back? How Are They Supposed To Trust Him Now?

This situation is so fucked and both sides have their point, I'm so sick of seeing posts putting the full blame on either side. They are all human and stressed and they don't know what to trust, what to do to come back home - and the worst part of it all, they probably never stood a chance.

After all, Zeus has already said they The Blood On Your Hands Is Something You Can't Lose, All You Can Choose Is Whose.

[chaoticpositvty]

Why is this literally them??

[mandimagic]

THUNDER SAGA

Well. I've been thunderstruck with all the emotional damage for tonight... XD

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Eurylochus calling Odysseus "Ody" has actually done something to my brain chemistry, like oh my god

[tervaneula]

Dad bod Leonardo gets his own post! I updated the prosthetic base and gave him a little bit more chub <3

[stickstone]

something about the fact that curlfeather died saving her daughter. she was so close to her goal, to getting the thing that she killed for, to the power she thought was worth raising her daughter as a pawn for

she was at the finish line. she could so easily have run up that tree herself. left frostpaw alone to face the dogs

but she didn’t. in her last moments she did not care about the power or her plans. she did not hesitate a second to help her daughter up that tree and accepted her fate, using her last words to warn her daughter of the monster she had unleashed and been consumed by

in the end she realized that frostpaw was more important than power. even if that realization came too late to save them

[cocoa-rococo]

"i'm TIRED, my friend!"

no joke? this line grabbed me by the throat more than any other in "mutiny". holy shit.

eurylochus sounds exhausted. he's been through literal hell and back after facing a war, a cyclops, a god, and a witch, and not a few hours before, JUST saw the captain of his ship, and one of his closest friends, let six of their friends die and did nothing.

after the mutiny, eurylochus speaks like he's dazed, and rightly so. it's that thousand-yard-stare, slow-walking, disassociated headspace that comes with seeing atrocities and not being able to do anything about them. it's that hypnotic influence stemming from seeing something so wonderful you almost can't fathom it, and it's within arm's reach, it's tangible.

all while odysseus is pleading with him not to make a bad decision (after so many of his own), begging him not to go for the feast that's right there, (the wind bag that's right there), even when he's so hungry, he can feel the hollow of his stomach and the stabbing of the emptiness.

but that line? that outburst?

that's real, aching exhaustion, raw and tearful and helpless, the kind you get when you're so fed up and upset at the world for being the way it is you don't want to do anything but collapse on a bed and sleep. you can almost see the way his face is pinched and he's this close to crying from hunger, betrayal, pain, from finally buckling under the weight of their actions.

he's seen so much, gone through so much, lost so much, and now he's being pled with to consider a being who would look at him like an ant for the sake of sparing a perfectly fine cow, and goddammit all, he is TIRED. he wants to eat something real. he wants to sleep. he wants to go home.

"i'm just a man" indeed. and who could blame him for craving something human.

[greenjellybeanfish]

[ "Take your time." ]

Fan art of "Like a Rolling Thunder Chasing the Wind" by @batmurdock (Spacebrock on Ao3 - chapter 4 specifically). This fic hurt.

[duchess-of-mandalore]

Don't mind me. I'm just making sure the Americans know who they're supporting because it wasn’t clear enough.

[skysiren41]

Everyone listening to The Thunder Saga in a nutshell

[mischievous-thunder]

Give your kidnapper a minute, Logan. He'll be 💯🔥💯🔥 again in a minute!

[bonefall]

Nightheart's POV has been super misused imo, he keeps ending up just being a duplicate perspective who doesn't actually add anything to the wider conflict.

You know what should have happened in the Wind Excerpt, actually? Lean into how he's unpredictable and makes snap choices. If RiverClan is going to be swallowing stupid pills anyway, get him into RiverClan somehow.

Frame it like he knows Frostpaw is extremely concerned about her family and what Splashtail is going to do, so he decides to be her spy WITHOUT TELLING HER. It just looks like a betrayal at first, but everyone sees through it, knowing Night's either doing something very dumb or very rash or both.

Splashtail accuses him of spying. ThunderClan, pissed at his constant absences, assures him that he's not spying for them. ShadowClan reminds everyone that he failed his tasks and so isn't there to spy for them either. Splashtail says he's spying for Frostpaw, only to get countered with "oh so now the child is a mastermind with a spy network? I thought she was manipulated by her mother. Which is it"

"WHY does he want to join RiverClan anyway?"

"I have nowhere to go and my journey taught me that fish is fishalicious"

It wouldn't fix the OTHER problems with the scene, but FUCK man, at least Nightheart's POV would have a really good purpose

[kindaorangey]

recently i've been thinking about rowan omondi in terms of the "supportive black best friend" trope. i've had this idea for a while that it would be interesting to see a story that deals specifically with the psychological effects of being the designated "support friend", especially in cases where that character addressing/expressing their own emotions and advocating for themself would be stigmatised because of their race... and obviously, rowan fits into this neatly, actively repressing and refusing to talk about his feelings because he isn't usually given this sort of support by his friends, it's usually him who's supporting them. and i guess on a metatextual level, once he begins to address his own emotional repression and step down from that support role, you could view it as him becoming cognisant of his own role as the "supportive black best friend".

[kandicon]

Okay I need to write something abt Ivy's brain overheating n starting to cook her head bc it overworks and there's no way there's enough space in her super computer brain for an efficient cooling system combined with Tim involuntarily salivating and feeling hungry when he smells burning flesh as a hold over from eating corpses during the Moon War. This is no longer a want it is a need.