#BUT ALSO BY HIS FUCKING BROTHER HE BETRAYED!!!

[ravisurendra]

"All of them?" Soren challenged, though the slant of his frown was more disillusioned than argumentative. He'd comforted himself with the thought that he wasn't alone in living under the castle but not partaking in it, wanting to believe the people below sympathized with his own thoughts about the slaves inside. The idea that even the non-undead were helping themselves was an incredibly depressing one, though part of him knew there was no chance it wasn't at least partially true. "I'm a lab technician, not a businessman. It cost my organization $700 to have you brought down today. Is it not going to turn heads if I'm dropping twice that just to..." Soren fumbled through words, the first one on his tongue crude and frustrated, shunted aside for something vaguely neutral, "Have you for my own enjoyment?" He couldn't believe he was even debating this. Even so, part of him argued, wouldn't it making less suspicious that he'd rent Taliesin to give him a break from the castle if he was also on paper renting other slaves?

As if even thinking of his brother's name had invoked him in the room, the word 'rescue' left Dmitri's lips and Soren knew he was well and truly fucked. He pursed his lips as the werewitch spoke, his face setting like a statue in an effort not to betray his apprehension. "I know how the castle is," He said gruffly, a poor retort. He expected punishment if he was discovered, yes, but Soren had a difficult time imagining himself in the dungeon below. Of all the compliments he'd be given, no one would ever call the human pretty. Taliesin was the peacocking one. With the kinds of creatures the masters of Krovs had access to, Soren couldn't make himself believe any of them would choose a man like himself for bed-warming. The thought was ridiculous.

Dmitri continued and Soren abruptly dropped that notion, eyes fixed raptly on the slave's face with a dawning comprehension. He'd seen whispers of that story, headlines absentmindedly scanned while his head was elsewhere. There was someone who had tried to kill one of the most powerful men on earth and walked away from it alive. He was sitting on Soren's table. Dmitri looked to him then, face unreadable, and Soren almost flinched. "He's not my boy," He insisted quietly, stilted, forcing the words past the knot in his throat, "He's -". No. No, that had to be saying too much. He desperately needed a cigarette. "I'm not a terrorist. I'm not here to blow up anybody and I can't help you try."

Dmitri tipped his head as he looked at Ravi, like a dog with a question it couldn't render into human language. The more Ravi spoke, the more interested Dmitri became to know exactly what his deal was. He was out of his depth, clearly, which didn't suggest that he was part of some wider organisation. At least not intentionally. Someone on a specific, personal mission then, and wholly unprepared for the reality of a sex castle. The gears turned.

"More suspicious if you don't at least pretend to be fucking someone. People that live in this village spend their money on that, even if they nice doctors like you. Everyone in this clinic goes to castle for fuck, or orders delivery. Except you. Interesting, Da?" Ravi had a kind, if nervous disposition, it seemed. He doubted he had the stomach for violence. Not an assassination then. Theft, perhaps. But the most valuable thing in Krovs were the slaves themselves. The gears clicked into place. "You here on a rescue? Is risky business. Castle won't like being stolen from. You'll end up inside it permanently if you fuck up."

He paused, watched his blood flow through the line in his arm. Soren was already, technically, stealing, if he wasn't truly studying the blood he'd collected, like a sommelier siphoning off a few bottles of fine wine for himself. "Is what happened to me. Meant to blow up Kremlin, kill the Russian councilman. Avenge father. Almost. Only took half his face off. Almost isn't good enough." He met Soren's gaze, a more contemplative expression swirling in his dark eyes. "Which one is he, then? Your boy?"

[welcometogrouchland]

Words cannot express how much I love the Gloucester brothers from King Lear

[stefisdoingthings]

ark aftermath

[teddybeartoji]

thank you everybody who crossed their fingers and toes bc aventurine AND acheron are now both safely at home:3333333333

[itwoodbeprefect]

stoic illiterate unwilling assassin deeply in love with unfailingly kind rich sad gay man almost stabs his crush's brother because the brother cares so much and so genuinely for the gay man that he searched assassin's room out of worry and found knives and a mysterious letter before being interrupted by the assassin who then does not want to show him the letter which seems incredibly suspicious, only for a later scene (after the gay man interrupts them and thus stops any escalation from happening) to quietly reveal that the very sus letter in possession of this illiterate assassin is not in fact a sign he's lying about being illiterate.... it's just two pages of him practicing the gay man's name over and over in neatly spaced lines...... a reveal which he was going to STAB a man over because he doesn't know that the gay man's brother knows the man is gay and loves him with his whole heart and would never ever do anything to hurt him........ i will never get over this, how could i ever get over this, everything else ever is going to be downhill from here

[borgialucrezia]

"There are moments where [Juan] manipulates other people in a similar the way they’ve been manipulating him. The scene between Jeremy and myself with the dagger is a last ditch frantic attempt at trying to win [Rodrigo] over." Do you think Juan was genuine in the knife scene? Do you think he would have killed himself? "Yeah I think so. He always does what is true inside him...It wasn’t simply about the eventual confrontation, but all about the richness of this twisted family make-up."

[abrahamvanhelsings]

"goodsir is neoliberalism bc he tried to kill those guys blah blah blah" they kidnapped him and then they made him cut up men to be consumed as an act of control and pure humiliation by threatening to kill probably the last man he still liked in that party, forcing him to be complicit in an act he is viciously against, and to be complicit in the survival of the very men who betrayed the whole expedition and who are using him like a tool. and then the guy he's trying to protect comes up to him to sob and monologue at him about cannibalism and religion and acts of survival and belief as some kind of justification for the fact that he's an absolute pussy ass bitch who'd rather lie down and take it than stand up in the face of acts and circumstances he finds abhorrent. and goodsir was supposed to not be a cunt abt that? lol

[sammygender]

finally on s13 and jack is the best character in the whole world i love him so much i’ll protect him with my life. in other news i want to kill dean winchester

[mikodrawnnarratives]

I havent yet reread the protologue to see if this would work but today I had an idea about Ace betraying Nova's family

What if he had done something to test David's loyalty after finding out about his betrayal, or smthn that would determine the events in the protologue. And since David failed that test, that is why the person he sent killed them

But Ace didn't know if David failed that test or not until he walked into the apartment. And that would be the explanation for why Ace walked into the apartment with the medicine for Evie. He didn't know if the family would still be alive.

Cuz what if when he first found out about David's agreement with the Renegades, there was reasonable doubt? What if this was a trick by someone else? What if there were rumors? He would need to make sure they were true or false to know who to go after.

Anyway, this hc makes more sense to me

[p2ii]

I feel like there's something to be said about the way fandom will treat characters who's trauma they can personally relate to Vs characters who they cant

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

"Can I call you 'Drias?"

"Only one person ever called me that"

"Oh! Gotcha! Too personal. Boundaries, Marcy!"

My babygirl blaming herself and her difficulty reading social cues when she didn't do anything 😭 how was she supposed to know it was "too personal"?? She automatically assumes she did something wrong she assumes she messed up my BABY

[akuma-tenshi]

i'm still baffled about sterling's trailer. was it impossible for them to be like. slightly more clear about his intentions?? about his story?? you guys released a video that makes it seem like this guy is so obsessed with his sister he pushed her down the stairs, don't be surprised when people think you're doing some fuckshit with him!!!!

[hauntingblue]

In the comics you find out a villain has gotten inside the government and wonder but how tf could that happen and in the penguin it just makes so much sense

[lazzarella]

Kinn really has so much love inside of him, huh? And the way he loves Porsche with everything, when he lets himself love him, it’s just like… All that love has been bursting to get out and now it finally has somewhere to go

[sunflower1908]

*-_Kung Fu Panda Villains_-*

Does anyone want to speak about the complexity of the kung fu villains? Also I need someone who I can speak about my unpopular opinion on how Oogway was an asshole to Tai Lung because of a fucking stomachache he had where he concluded that he would be evil despite not having any previous evidence to support that claim. Oogway is funny yes, but my god is he a goddamn asshole. Please if anyone is interested I think my chats are open, please I need someone who I can geek to about these beautiful and complex characters!!

[attractthecrows]

retconning stroud out of the deep roads so i can shove laure amell and the hawke siblings and varric and anders all into the same little camp. they would all have such a bad time