#AND she ended up getting his sword!
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Tokoyami and dark shadow are great with kids, especially little Eri! Eri was introduced to tokoyami specifically because they were worried his beak would startle her, but after playing some games together she adores them! Dark Shadow is VERY overprotective of her (and kids in general, they are a total momma hen) and loves to do dress up and play pretend with her. They showed her my little pony and stay up with her if she has nightmares. Tokoyami takes a bit more work because his wordy-speaking is hard for kids to understand but eri loves when he reads her stories or teaches her new things. Tokoyami also has good advice on how to control her quirk, he sees himself in her a little bit I think. I don’t know if it’s possible to give spoilers for my own hcs but I definitely think tokoyami killed someone when he was younger, he might be the only one eri can really relate to when it comes to having a dangerous quirk.
#ugh there is so much I want to say#in the light novels tokoyami interacts with a little girl named yuka too#and during Christmas he was the only one besides the shie hassaikai raid group to walk up to her#AND she ended up getting his sword!#and don’t get me started on the apples#bnha#boku no hero academia#tokoyami fumikage#dark shadow#eri bnha#mha#my hero academia#bnha fanart#bnha eri
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cursed kids v2 ⚠️👹
i've been a jjk first years stan since day one and have been wanting to redraw the first art i did featuring the three of them
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#itadori yuuji#fushiguro megumi#kugisaki nobara#yuuji#megumi#nobara#fanart#jjk fanart#im so tired help but theyre DONE im sososoosos pleased with them#even yuuji who dug his heels in to th very end :'>>>#wow 2020 rly was 4 years ago huh#to my credit i still think the designs i came up with in th og r honestly really good???#obv i didn't do a fullbody redraw (n thank god fr that) so i couldn't include All my details and there were some things that i edited#but overall they r solid !!!! i rly regret tht i couldn't include nobara's fishnets dgfhs#gave her her bat instead . equivalent exchange :)#she has one in the original but i specifically remember being bummed that the pose didnt let me show the nails that were in it#so took Full advantage of the new pose here !! she has killed before and will kill again#other changes....yuuji's omamori earring n sword details r New! as is the decision to include his canon scars :> fits the vibe#megumi changed the least?? changed the tassels n colour of his shoulder kanji to match yuuji and gave him a cigarette to fill empty space#other than that i think th majority of his changes r just me getting better at drawing megu#god the edited poses make these designs sing im so happy i did this#these r my kids !!!!! they have grown with me!!!!!#i am very proud and also sleep deprived and i need to not look at these anymore
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"I depend on you..." "Do I or do you?"
My take on the "I depend on you" art trend from Twitter✨ Every now and then I want to draw something with bright colors... and blood
#wren draws stuff#artist on tumblr#art#my art#fanart#illustration#saint seiya#saint seiya fanart#knights of the zodiac#kotz#los caballeros del zodiaco#cdz#les chevaliers du zodiaque#i cavalieri dello zodiaco#saori kido#athena saori#pegasus seiya#i depend on you#art trend#tw: blood#tw: bright colors#This was really fun! I tend to draw with very warm or desaturated colors and soft shades. Changing once in a while is refreshing ✨💪💛💙#The blood wasn't meant to be but the original image has a red fill between the characters so... ain't going to lose an occasion like this 😤#I also thought to draw Athena with her Cloth but the illustration would have become too busy considering Seiya God Cloth is already there#So uhm. She's wearing a basic dress with her signature accessories 😅 poetic license of sort if you will#Not a lot to say here tho. Still thinking abt the ending of the Hades Arc and all the events of Next Dimension... 😔😭#Loved Saori being so selfish to go back in time to destroy a sword to save this one dude while changing the whole time-space continuum#and almost dooming the prev gen of Saints 💖 like girl woah you are a menace <- (affectionate)#on a side note. Imagine becoming a Saint to find your sister and you end up with a fucking sword in your 💖 ain't that crazy#Might add later the “adult content” option for violence because of poor Seiya getting a sword in his chest 😬
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refused to let myself rest until i finished making this
#loz#legend of zelda#twilight princess#midna#ocarina of time#ganondorf#phantom hourglass#linebeck#skyward sword#ghirahim#minish cap#vaati#i thought about adding totk rauru? but hes just polite hes not quite a man whos a fancy lady#this is my opinion but tbh yeah. idc that twili midna looks like that we all saw her in imp form shes 100% a girl whos a gross dude#linebeck and ghirahim were going to be in this from the start but i really had to think abt who else to add#i like how its like. 3 major villains and then the companions with the best arcs#ganondorf ended up being so close to linebeck bc i ran out of room and also bc im gay about them#also i used linebeck's model instead of that one bit of official art bc in the art his coat is incorrect (missing bottom stripe) so. model.#also you get his gay little pose with the model so win#listen vaati is the one im the least sure about here but its fine#anyways. loz polycule from hell#my post#dying over how fucking similar ghirahim and oot ganondorf's poses are tho#TBH MIDNA AND LINEBECK ARE SIMILAR TOO#vaati is left out damn
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Fuck whatever DC is doing with the al Ghul's characterizations and story lines, I've decided that from now on the al Ghul's are gonna be DC's version of the Addams Family instead.
Now I don't mean just give the various al Ghul's the exact personalities of the various Addams and call it a day. That's boring, that erases all the interesting parts of the al Ghuls, that's just using "find & replace" and not actually adding anything. I mean give them the vibes of the Addams Family.
Keep the al Ghul's as the al Ghul's with all their scheming and machinations and world domination attempts but give them all the unhinged energy, the casually insane view of the world, the deranged levels of love and devotion for family. Make them that group where objectively they are batshit insane but also you cannot argue with the fact that they are indisputably the most stable and functional family in the entire universe.
They're creepy, they're kooky, they're mysterious and spooky. Ra's many opulent homes and impenetrable fortresses are a museum and the al Ghul's really are a screa-um whenever people come to see-um (or when they lay waste upon their enemies in a surprise attack that has been planned for months and is just the first domino in a series that will ultimately lead to achieving a far greater goal).
They all love each other and want each other to be happy, they express this primarily with stabbing and murder attempts (its fine, death is a thing that happens to other people).
And forget the League of Assassins being a cult. Just make the whole vast globe spanning organization a collection of cousins/aunts/uncles/dear old friends ect. No one (not even the al Ghuls, if they cared to keep track of such things) is sure who is actually related to them and who just got absorbed into the ever expanding family tree based on their vibes being right.
(Is Sensei Ra's father you ask? Well he's certainly someone's father - probably.
Anyway have you heard about Cousin Cheshire? Despicable poisoner of a young woman, capable of the most horrific things imaginable - yes she is the sweetest dear. Like I was saying though, she just had a baby!
Everyone in the family is just so excited to throw a baby shower to celebrate! Ubu has really gone all out with the spike traps, he does so love getting to welcome a new addition to the family.
Talia of course has cultivated a brand new strain of the most toxic plants imaginable to make a brand new kind of necrotizing poison. You know, as a nice little romantic gift for Cousin Cheshire and that young man of hers. It really is so important to make sure you take time for you and your partner to go on dates and have a few pitched battles to the death on dark rooftops in the pounding rain when you have children.
Now there is some to-do about it all of course, you know how family get together can be. Everyone is arguing over who should get to give little Lian her first weapon and what it should be. Nyssa is pushing for grenades but Ra's is insisting on a sword - he's traditional like that you know - but Dusan has the vote so far on throwing knives. You know the kind that have the little divots along the edges of the blades them to make it easier to get the poison you dip them in to stick.)
I'm just saying that the al Ghuls should be a delightful cross between the Bond Villains they were originally conceived as and the lovingly unhinged Addams Family. It just feels correct in my heart.
(Again keep the interesting aspects of the characters and the nuances of who each of them are like their drive to save the world through destroying humanity and their strong environmentalist leanings and their constantly playing 5D chess and everything, but like, take away the racism and the cartoonishly evil for no reason bullshit and give them some fun feral energy to go along with it).
#batman#ra's al ghul#al ghul family#talia al ghul#nyssa raatko#cheshire dc#sensei dc#no more racism and fucked up dark family dynamics#the al ghuls aggressively adore each other#violence and schemes is their love language#in the full au version of all of this i'd like to imagine how canon plot points change with the al ghuls having these vibes#Just imagine Damian still trying to kill Tim when he first ends up in Bruce's care#but instead of it being a ploy to get rid of a threat its because he's just so excited to meet one of his big brothers#and attempted murder is just how you tell someone in your family that you love them#Tim just SO CONFUSED because Damian is talking so animatedly about how happy he is to get to have some brotherly bonding with Tim#while ACTIVELY trying to run him through with a sword#idk how things change with Cass exactly but i feel like they would in this#like either David Cain isn't an absolute monster or the al ghuls catch wind of what he's doing & are like#This is NOT how al ghuls treat family! what is this shameful behavior! She can't even insult you while you fight!#fighting and violence is a perfectly healthy way to express your love but only if there's actually LOVE involved!#The Heretic & other Damian clones still get made but only because Talia just misses her son so much that she makes more of him#Nyssa has just been bopping around the world for a few centuries & pops up every now and then to have a death match with her baby sister#i just have a lot of strong feelings about the al ghuls deserving better and combined that with the vibes of my favorite unhinged family#Dick still hates Talia but Talia takes all his insults as her darling step son telling her how much he loves her#which only drives Dick even crazier#Tim rocks up to the League of Assassins during his whole trying to prove Bruce is alive thing already seen as an al ghul#Oh yeah that's Cousin Timothy he's one of Talia's kids - never met a truer al ghul in your life#You see how he blew up all those bases? Ra's cried he was so proud#Ra's spoils his grandkids absolutely rotten which is giving Bruce SO MANY gray hairs
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back on my avatar zuko bullshit again.
thinking about sokka and katara tracing zuko's steps. they're both trying to figure out exactly what his plan is, because for all the world it looks like he's just traveling with out any purpose in mind. but that can't be it right? he's the avatar. he must have some idea of what he's doing.
(he in fact, does not)
then one day he just vanishes of the radar. they don't know the spirits told him to go crawl in some random hole and find a secret society of air nomads hidden from the rest of the world. they don't know he picked up both an airbending kid and a sky bison while in said hole. which means he's no longer traveling on foot. which makes him a lot harder track.
they finally get their breakthrough when they hear someone say the avatar is hiding towards the north pole. they get in touch with their dad, and he sends one of his ships to escort them there. and sure enough, when they get there, the avatar is, in fact, there. he looks at them like he wants to bolt at the sight of them, but apparently he can't do that this time. hah. now you're going to sit down and listen to us.
(he does not do that)
#avatar zuko au#they do end up talking at the north pole.#sokka finally gets the chance to ask his burning question: if you're the avatar why do you carry swords?#and katara just tries to help him because it's obvious he's struggling with the ice aspect of waterbending#she thinks they're bonding!#and then zuko just LEAVES THEM THERE
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why must everything that the text clearly states atp be misconstrued like i really dont get it he has plenty of flaws in that relationship but we, and cersei, know that he was ready to kill robert for just the disrespect of the cheating if cersei said the word. he doesnt concern himself with the personal consequences, he is reckless, detached from a lot of things, and can close his eyes at the future if he doesn’t want to acknowledge it. also the concern over the “shame” and ned type judgement feels so overestimated to me atp. he never regrets aerys, he is mad at how he is perceived (but again, notably doesnt try to rectify it by telling the truth for a lot of complex reasons), but he would never take it back. if he believes its the right thing to do, and is not overdosing on copium trying to juggle vows he cares about, he will do it, reputation be damned. though he has selfish concerns regarding being viewed as good, the internal matters so much more than the external: see weirwood dream: who actually shows up? what makes the fire go out? “it was not him. it was never him”, see the trebuchet fiasco, see the choice in adwd. why shouldnt we take cersei at face value when she implies that if jaime knew about the physical abuse he would have killed him? he loves and cares about cersei to an insane degree, even if he can be selfish toxic and unhealthy too. not to mention he would be glad to kill robert anyway lol. i really find it very very difficult to imagine that he wouldnt have killed him based on almost every single part of his characterization.
#ik its better to reply than to do this but i dont use my twitter for fandom and i keep seeing this general sentiment over and over again#like it makes him so inconsistent and nonsensical#i don’t understand this whole jaime was never there for cersei prehandloss he was at her disposal for almost everything he would have maime#a child just bc she asked like what???#u think that wouldnt have shamed him??#he gave up almost everything for her at 15#and im gonna be real if u r frustrated by jaime burning the letter being framed as this grand triumphant redemptive choice#by people#which i get i dont think its framed like that either#its just as unfair to treat it as the opposite#it is the end of a certain delusion#which is why the joanna dream is the focal point#and#he can divorce himself he has no obligation to die to try save her atp#and remain her sword#i dont see him as the literal devil for that sorry#i feel like some of u feel the need to misconstrue his character to make some of these choices out to be as bad as possible
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ok confession these games scare me bc tagging people still intimidates me but i'm being brave today here's some lines i wrote a while back from the dragons of kiltide. just fabin having a little teenage angst. also this is 9 (11 but shh the context!!) paragraphs bc i still don't know how to shut the fuck up. thank you @space-writes for the tag <3
the raedoran cycle
[Fabin] tilts his head, pressing his forehead to the window frame. “What are dreams like?” he asks quietly.
Emilia sits across from him, watching how his eyes stare through the window but see nothing. She thought he'd left that behind in the weeks and months after their parents were killed, thought the long silences were finally over. She tucks her arms against her sides. “They're...like memories. Only more vivid.”
His fingers close around the hilt of his sword. “What do you dream about?”
She rolls her shoulders. “Places I've never been. Things I've never seen.”
One of his hands presses against the glass. “Do you ever dream of...of humans?”
She studies him with a worried frown. “Is there something you want to talk about?”
He recoils, his expression twisting with anger before it closes off. “No. I'm fine. I don't have dreams.” He turns away from her. “Never mind.”
Emilia sighs. “I talked Muiris down. He doesn't want to kill you anymore.”
“Good for him.”
“You should apologize for breaking his foot.”
Fabin turns to face her again, his eyes wide. “I actually broke it?”
tagging @oh-no-another-idea @zmwrites @akindofmagictoo @writinglyra @k--havok @lyssa-ink @aether-wasteland-s @ink-flavored @avrablake to share 9 (or more or less or however many you feel like!) lines of writing <3
#oh fabin......who are you dreaming about??#could it be.......a pair of grey-eyed sisters..........and a man in a purple cloak...............and a cottage at the edge of the forest???#no obviously it's none of these things. he doesn't have dreams dragons don't have dreams!!#emilia does but that's because she's /weird/ and has that whole red moon thing going for her. fabin is a NORMAL dragon#who has NORMAL feeling about humans. obviously#writeblr#writeblr community#tag game#original fiction#fantasy novel#the raedoran cycle#dragons#fabin#emilia#muiris#(pronounced like “more-eece”)#rb original#fabin dropped a cart of wheat on muiris's foot. muriris is his mentor the local miller and is a grumpy asshole himself#he's the one who gives fabin his sword and teaches him how to use it. this scene takes place about three years after that#anyway one of the reasons i've been struggling with dragons is because the plot is not super action heavy--it's rlly more an emotional dram#it's about two siblings grappling with the aftermath of an ethnic cleansing/massacre that they survived#but not before witnessing their parents' murder#and it hits close to home in a lot of ways that (esp recently) make it very hard to write#but slowly i am getting my head and heart around the plot#(sort of) unrelated but i remember coming up with keelan's general backstory in mid 2023 and then at the end of the year being completely#unable to work on the first chapter of lacuna at all because i would break down crying anytime i tried to put the massacre to words#realizing that's why dragons has been so hard for me is. difficult. because the story feels even more important now. but g-d at what cost
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making a collection
making another collection with a threatening aura
#davy back fightbpart 3 letsgo#HOW do the three big guns get wasted on the eating contest... horrible plan.... luffy is fine bc well... but not sanji and zoro like damn.#luffy DOESNT WANNA EAT??? CALL THE NAVY!!!!#what was i saying.... bad idea putting the three beasts there#FRANKY FRANKY FRANKY!!!! they captured the two princesses :(#one sided beef squashed between luffy and foxy. friendship ended with random ex marine guy. now luffy is my best friend#usopp and franky bonding time hell yeah. throw usopp by the head once more pelase#nami with zoros swords just like holding them looks so cool like she should get a few swords too... nami three sword style oda drawing pls#i think this man underestimates nami and luffys power together he doesnt know about shiki#luffy saying he knows its a trap and sorry for being late.... lets go on an adventure all nine of us.... usopp yes anding his lie..... omg#cant believe nami isnt there yet. she could take this guy. oh there she is!!!!! she does look cool with the swords and jumping to get luffy#zoro screaming in agony from luffy getting shot omg THIS FUCKING GUY OF COURSE!!! this looks like its so over#zoro and sanji must feel so useless rn. they didnt even get the chance to fight like damn#komei-kakka??? more like come caca. boom#luffy face down dead on the floor akdjkaa chopper have you tried looking at the wound to see if it harmed him idk#it hit the face akdjskn usopp that was coom also#was robin flirting with the other guy and zoro caught her and she told hum to shut up???#'your friends got the best of me but you are still in my arms an-' 'HEAT EGG!! ALSO YOU'RE ON FIRE!'#flare maneauver that was so slay also luffy and nami in the same frame so twins of them. my children. birthed them one right after the othe#zoro and sanji fighting back to back. back to back to back to you i dont wanna fall right back to us maybe you should run right back to her#that is such a bop song. also post wano zosan. and post wci. see the recurrent theme#fighting in water.... being on top of the sword that was a slay... red hawk ace i will never forget you it seems#foxy liking his jolly roger omg nami fooled him ahdhsjs i think they should have pirate game event every year they yearn for contests#now since this experience foxy should make monthly multitudinary pirate games olympics hoping the strawhats join them a la gatsby#the faces at the mushroom akdhaksjs#talking tag#watching one piece#watching one piece movies#kinda loved how robin betted on franky against usopp.... i will take the crumbs
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opening the group chat for the first time today and there's like 200 new messages because everyone's Going Through It today it seems but one of my friends dropped 'I'm separating from [terrible boyfriend she's been living with for like eight years] for real this time, I just moved a bunch of stuff to my parents' and I'm losing my mind because y'all the subject changed almost immediately HEY HI EVERYBODY ELSE SHUT THE FUCK UP I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THAT???
#'I moved my stuff and my dog' can't leave the pup behind! 'I had to last winter and it was a big reason I wound up going back' HELLO--#was he holding your fucking dog over your head. I will kill the man?????#I DIDN'T KNOW SHE'S TRIED TO LEAVE HIM BEFORE??#I'm-- so-- okay listen. admittedly I am of course simply nosy. of course I am.#but also I have never liked david Ever. justin and I were LITERALLY talking DAYS ago about Worrying About Her being stuck with him#because she moved TO CALIFORNIA with him and he was being a piece of shit then and she had NOBODY out there#and now they're in denver and like. it's his house it's his money etc etc it's a really... logistically difficult situation#but at least she's made some friends in denver and convinced her parents to move out there so she's not COMPLETELY unsupported#like she was in CA#my point is: I'm nosey but I'm also INVESTED. I fucking hate this guy darling I've wanted you to leave him this entire goddamn time#she's talked *a little* about problems with him before but also we've been around him before and he's just generally awful#and it's. like. I'm so so so fucking glad you're moving in with your parents but also. genuinely are you OKAY--#MAN AND ALSO. EVEN IF IT WASN'T 'I HATE THIS GUY AND I'M WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE BREAKING POINT WAS--'#THIS IS A SERIOUS LONGTERM RELATIONSHIP? IT ENDING IS A BIG DEAL REGARDLESS?? WHY DID WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT SO FAST HELLO#.... actually I've identified the source of my Wanting More Details#which is: hey babe are you in a phase of this where hearing about how much he fucking sucks shit would be upsetting or affirming.#because I wanna tell you how fucking happy I am that you're leaving him. because he's a piece of shit and you deserve better than that.#ARE YOU IN AN EMOTIONAL SPACE TO HEAR ABOUT HOW I AM SCOOPING YOU INTO MY ARMS LIKE THE CAT SAMURAI MEME.#AND THREATENING THIS MAN WITH A SWORD. BECAUSE HE'S TERRIBLE. CAN I GET A VIBE CHECK THERE. SHOULD I WAIT--
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I find it incredibly hilarious that Eight not only was forcibly retired from being Outlander because he got too murder-y with it, but was relegated to trying out assistant work for Theron because everyone deemed him to have at least a moral backbone with which to allow Eight to get a second opinion off of (and hopefully grow his own). Which results in situations like either Theron getting in trouble and his ever-capable assistant whom was assumed to be a pencil pusher suddenly being revealed to be the former Outlander who disappeared from the role, or Eight himself being targeted as a liability to Theron and then said attackers finding out, unfortunately, that Theron's assistant is a much better fighter than him and why does the Alliance have someone like this doing secretary work.
Zakuul learns to be wary of anyone they assume to only be administrative personnel, lest they be secret assassins and former Ciphers, of all people.
#swtor#ooc#eight is the battle maid of secretary work#idk why im sharing this but it does make me snicker.#but yeah the alliance decides that Eight has done enough damage as outlander and lana entrusts theron with directing him#since she fails at doing so with bloodier consequences due to their bad combination of pragmatism and means to an end justification#eight himself gets to rest and do menial intelligence work which is largely just helping without being in the field as much#and his mental health does improve because they take him aside and go hey. you don't need our acceptance. but if you'd like to start over#and be someone else that isn't our weapon we'd like to try again. because the alliance is more than this and we were wrong#and i think lana trusts theron of all people to oversee it this time *bc* of what happened in rishi#that where her pragmatism fails and costs her friends dearly he can take up the helm#but more than that it's also eight's choice to put down the sword. to clean off the blood. to try again. this time next to people
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It might be the weirdo in me but imagine an anamatic to the song shiny from moana with an evil/antagonist revali as the crab and link trying to recover the master sword as maui and zelda as moana
#im watching moana but the revali brainrot is real and im sorry#okay but zelda helping link along to recover his memories and champion stuff or w/e and link remembering where his sword#ended up and saying “zelda dont come its dangerous” and shes all “link dont be sexist” and they end up in revalis lair#zelda distracts him by bigging him up and getting him to sing about himself (revali in a disney movie could never avoid this fate)#and hes all “haha im so great hylians are stupid you are a fool for wandering into my village-”#bam link shows up and now revali is very focussed on being himself and putting link down (to which zelda learns about links failures#and actually sympathises with him rather than thinking hes some stoic hero whos to good for her)#and she uses her brains to realise how to fool revali (copy of the sheikah slate? keys to vah medoh??)#and just guys please hear me out okay#im just obsessed with the idea of revali flitting around using his gale to keep zelda and link out of their elements#and then dunking on link and being all “finally get to fight you and this is all you have hero?” (bc he is a bitch (and i lvoe him))#guys if i had any ability to animate i would show you what i meant maybe ill start an (incredibly) rough draft idkkkkk#revali#botw#revalink#bc its me its always revalink#moss' madness
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Every time I go to hyrule castle I remember that video about the royal guard weapons and how they were shiekah tech created to mimic the master sword (and failed - they're powerful but brittle and no more effective against the calamity than anything else). And I just remember the little detail of the wings on the hilt. On the master sword, they face up when the blade points down. On the royal guard weapons, they face up when the blade points up.
And to me, that little detail is very indicative of what they thought about the hero and the cycle.
The wings face up when fi is at rest. Waiting. Sealing. Not lifted.
For them, their swords face up when they brandish them, when they raise them against their enemies, when they wave them around and cheer.
That's what they think the hero does. That's what they think they can replicate and take for themselves.
That's not what a hero does at all.
Sure, he spends a lot of time doing that, but it's a fraction of the whole. The hero does not do it for glory or pay or fame. He is kind. He helps everyone who asks. He gets things for little kids and listens to their stories and helps people find their pets and goes out of his way to leave the stranger a little happier them when they met. He spends hours crawling through mazes and enemies to find something he can use later.
He does not raise his sword in anger. The job is not done once the villain of the day is skewered on his sword. It needs to be sealed, the darkness pushed back until the next generations can take up the call. It's passing on the torch to yourself. The master sword must seal evil during those intervening centuries.
The heroes soul is one, by breath of the wild, long forged in faith and love and determination and the flames of war and loss. The curse of demise makes it so that only one strong enough to stand against it can push it back. The heroes soul is one that is pure. It's a long reset game, and everyone knows the way it plays out.
And under rhoam, hyrule believes it knows all there is to know about the hero and the cycle. It thinks that it can shove the pieces where it wants them, that with the aid of the ancient technology it can force the warnings of history to bend to it's desire. It thinks enough violence will solve the problem entirely. It makes the master sword mimics with the blades facing up.
And it gets it wrong.
The hero reduced to a silent weapon, a shadow of the royal family, the princess helpless and unable to act, unable to access her own power.
It tries to force the issue with manpower and restrictions and piling societal pressure on the children, and hyrule falls.
Immediately, zelda is able to unlock and channel the full extent of her power, she can make a plan and not have it dismissed, she sends link to safety and travels hyrule setting the parts of a constantly moving puzzle into place, she meets ancient spirits and talks with the master sword and seals ganon on her own for the century it takes for link to return.
When he does, rhoam does not order link to save the princess. He does not pile titles and restrictions and pressures on him. He asks him to save his daughter. The hero finally gets to act at his own pace, and he chooses kindness. He chooses to go out of his way to talk to people outside his station, to listen to kids stories and leave strangers a little happier than when they met. He gathers allies loyal out of trust and not forced respect for things he hasn't done yet.
By choosing kindness and not violence (though there is an incredible amount of both), link becomes able to defeat the calamity and save zelda and the kingdom. Zelda is able to guide him and trust him to come. By working together as respected equals, they save the world.
And afterwards, the master sword is returned to her pedestal, triumphant, blade down and wings raised high.
#long post#Loz meta#meta#fandom meta#Huge themes in botw of trust and choosing your own path. To me.#Idk the wing directions on the royal guard gear have always been so invocative since I noticed#The master sword was not crafted with the celebration of triumph in mind. She was made for the long hard slog.#And pretty much the second rhoam loosened his tight reins on his daughter and her knight they ran off got covered in mud and saved the worl#And yeah I get that he was stressed and working on an unknown deadline but he was too narrow minded. Decided he knew what was best.#Ties into my hc of each zelda having the one special interest that ends up saving her.#If she'd been allowed to research shiekah tech who knows. Aoc only served to reinforce it with the shield gadget subplot.#When I'm salty I like to phrase it as the mortals getting too arrogant with the years of peace and lost history and dreams of superweapons#Thinking they know the secrets of the universe when they haven't even scratched the surface. They didn't listen to the children.#long tags#loz#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#breath of the wild#loz breath of the wild#loz tears of the kingdom#botw#totk#botw totk#link#tloz#tloz tears of the kingdom#tloz totk#Thinking the swords natural place is up. Please.#'If I don't take up the sword I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword I can't embrace you.'
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i know cortana must have been given to zachary carstairs or his children in order to have been passed on to emma, but i think it would've been fucking hilarious for will to have turned down the sword so it would stay in the carstairs family, only for cordelia to pass it down to his grandchild
#tsc#tid#tda#tlh#OH what if emma ended up giving cortana to mina??#bc 1. personal hc i cant see emma and julian having kids after essentially raising his siblings? and 2. maybe she wouldnt pass it down to#her kids for the same reason cordelia didnt#?#although maybe that was more about cordelia's lilith trauma than the line...#but that would be so cool because jem was supposed to get the sword but instead it was passed through elias's line#so emma giving it to jem's daughter would be like such a full circle moment#(oh god... i kind of doubt tessa & jem will die bc of mina but also i could see it#and if kit & blackthorns ended up raising mina this would be even MORE plausible)#i fear for#twp#(sorry for the final tag its for all my tags rambling)
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Today was the day Kirito freed everyone from SAO :') in a year this will be the day it happened in the actual story.
#sword art online#kirito#kazuto kirigaya#today was the day rinko lost kayaba too#me and my bestie are emotional on discord ;-;#they could've had it all#i know i shouldn't feel sorry for them#because they aren't really “major” characters and they both did something wrong but i still feel for rinko#she did it out of love while kayaba out of ambition for his dream...#which i suppose is some kind of twisted love isn't it?#i just hope rinko ends up happy at the end even if her part in the story is so small#she deserves happiness#although tbh i see her losing everyone close to her by the end of the story#because you see i believe all the shigemura boys will be dead#higa sugou kayaba shigemura too#all of them#only rinko will be the only one alive#poetic it would be if you asked me#because she's the least crazy of the bunch#i see her living peacefully with her *theoretical spoilers here they may or may not become true depending on the course of the story* son#if they become true then yes they would be spoilers but as of now these are all theories from my friend and our friend group#heck it am gonna tag as that just in case#sao spoilers#anyways lol either that or she will end up dying...which i hope not#at any case i just want her to be happy whatever happens#if kirito asuna shinon etc get to be happy why not minor characters as well :')
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due to my VERY NORMAL curiosity towards the black tulip i decided to check the actual story behind it (i am going to watch it someday) and it turns out nonnon has a small scratch on his left cheek to reflect the actual story its based from and i think that's so cool.... though its sad that this minor detail is actually overlooked even in official artwork iwiwiwi
#apparently in the actual story - guillaume is like this masked vigilante hero and his cheek gets sliced by the antagonist and he swears--#- to look for guillaume but unmasked and kill him - and it would be easy to find him because he has the scar on his cheek#but guillaume actually has a twin brother named julien who makes him wear his outfit instead and takes over his role as the vigilante#something something goes wrong with this attempt and julien ends up caught by the antagonist and guillaume has to retrieve him back#anyways. i wanna watch it soon ekekekeeehhe#~ rambling#also julien has a love interest there (STARES) EEEEEEEEE KICKS MY FFEET#SHE TAIGHT JULIEN HOW TO USE A SWORD AND SHES A PEASANT OHHH HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED FOR CONSTABELL#OH BY THE WAY THE TWINS ARE RICH HARHAHRAHR OOOUU#SORYR WHY DID I GET SO KILIG AT THE END WWIWIWIWIJEIWEHHEHEJHEJHJFHJESFE#BY THE WAY CAN WE APPRECIATE HOW POGI HE IS IN THE FIRST PIC AAAYAYAYYA HIS CHINHIS CHEEKS HIS NOSE LALLALALALA
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