#BUT before the end battle still

[gloryseized]

(also) for link, thoughts on rauru, sonia, and mineru!

Thoughts On... -- @flockrest

Tapping his chest, he taps his hand to his temple before sweeping away. He then carefully fingerspells Sonia's name. << I don't know Sonia. >> he admits. Although he has seen glimpses of her through the geoglyphs. Palms up, hands shake back and forth next to his sides before he taps his chest again. Pointer and middle fingers split into a 'V' sweeping from top-down off the to the side. Palms down, his hands roll around each other. << From what I've seen, she is very kind. >> But then a small smile blooms on his lips. Tapping his chest, his palms then face his chest, circling around each other. After fingerspelling Zelda's name, he points off in the distance. << I am happy she was there for Zelda. >> he adds as his expression saddens. Hand curling into a fist, he circles his hand in front of his chest. Both hands, palms up, wiggle by his sides, before both pointer fingers stick out as he flips his hands over. << I am sorry what happened to her. >>

Shifting slightly, glancing down at his right in arm particular, a crease forms between his brows as he considers the ancient Zonai king. His experience with Rauru is much more substantial than his time with Sonia, but still in some ways it seems inadequate. Tapping his chest with a hand, both hands tap at his chin, pulsing a couple times before swinging forward. He then points at his given arm before fingerspelling Rauru's name. <<I am grateful that he granted me his arm. >> Link cannot deny the sacrifice that would be and was, even if Rauru was only a spirit at the time. But the picture that emerged of the king from the geoglyphs is a complicated one and Link's not sure he's one to judge. Link never wanted the rule of kingship before, and after seeing the geoglyphs, he desires it even less. Tapping his chest, his pointer finger taps his temple before swinging down to meet his other hand in front of him. Both hands reach forward before tugging backwards. Hands join together in front of him, first right hand on top and then flipping to join with left hand on top. Then his hands part to smooth away to the sides. << I believe he wanted to find peace. >> Although Link isn't sure he went about it the best way--not that Link has any better suggestions.

But his expression softens at the mention of Mineru. She's another who joined on his quest, and even beyond that, selflessly remaining since ancient times so she might be there to help him. Her perseverance reminds him of a particular someone and his throat twists at the thought. Tapping his chest, both hands reach up to touch his chin, touching that spot twice before swinging down. Then left fisted hand rests on the palm of his right hand, thumb sticking out of his left hand. Both hands lift slightly in to the air before he fingerspells her name. << I am very grateful for her help. >> he says, signs definite, eyes overbright. Fingers start splayed apart before he moves his hand across his chest, bringing his fingers closer together. Left hand taps his chin, before sliding down and underneath his right flat palm. Both thumbs pin together, pushing forward slightly. << And humbled by her perseverance. >> Link pauses, considering for a moment. Tapping his chest, he reaches forward and pulls back slightly. Pointer fingers and thumbs of both hands form small rings, meeting together in front of his belly and then circling up to the front of his chest. Both hands flip palms down next to his sides before flipping up palms up next to his shoulders. << I want to be worthy of her sacrifice. >>

[millidew]

i think he deserves the therapy dinosaur

ft. lyra’s own ominous ass chikorita

[night-orchids]

where is my cutscene of eating fish dinner with miss neve gallus bioware

[gingermintpepper]

One of my biggest pet peeves is the assumption that something has to be sad for it to be tragic.

I've always been a big believer of the 'Apollo has an awful love life'/'Apollo is plain unlucky with love' line of thinking but it does bother me that the general reasoning for that statement is given to the concept of 'Apollo is somehow undesireable and thus rejected' (Cassandra/Daphne/Marpessa) or 'his lovers die young and thus their love is unfulfilled' (Cyparissus/Hyacinthus/Coronis). I personally think that's a very unfortunate way of looking at things - not only because it neglects the many perfectly cordial entanglements and affairs Apollo has had, both mortal and divine - but because it presents a very shallow interpretation of the concepts of love and loss and how loss affects people.

Apollo can still grieve lovers that have a long, healthy life. The inherent tragedy of an immortal who knows his lovers and children will die and cannot stop it does not stop being tragic simply because those lovers and children live long, fulfilled lives. The inherent tragedy of loss does not stop being tragic simply because someone knows better than to mourn something that was always going to end.

What is tragic is not that Apollo loves and loses but that loss itself follows him. Apollo does not love with the distance of an immortal, he does not have affairs and then leaves never to listen to their prayers again. He does not have offspring and then abandon them to their trials only to appear when it is time to lead them to their destinies. He raises his young, he protects the mothers of his children, he blesses the households that have his favour and multiplies their flocks that they may never go hungry. He educates his sons, he adorns his daughters and even in wrath he is quick to come to his senses and regret the punishments he doles out.

Apollo loves. And like mortals, there will always be some part of him that wishes to protect the objects of his affections. Apollo, however, is also an emissary of Fate. He knows that the fate of all mortal things is death. He knows that to love a mortal is to accept that eventually he will have to bury them. There is no illusion of forever, there is no fantasy where he fights against the nature of living things and shields his beloveds from death. Apollo loves and because of that love, he also accepts.

And that, while beautiful, is also tragic.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Still very wild to me when people try to gotcha Jason with the whole "if you can kill other people for being evil why can't they kill you" when jason is like. One of the most passively suicidal characters I've ever seen. What if man

[msue0027]

i watched dp&w only last week, and yet my main ship for the last... 3 months? has been cherik

[wildflowercryptid]

i like to think that the other bb students' perception of florian goes from thinking he's this cool mysterious & melancholic pretty boy trainer from paldea that blazed through the bb elite 4 and nearly beat kieran to wondering how the hell someone who seems to know shit about dick when it comes to battling ended up as an exchange student at a battling-focused school.

[incomplete-ruler]

So I don't know if anyone else has noticed/pointed this out, but in the part where it says something like 'betrayal of adults', the word 'betrayal' is reversed which is...interesting (not the entire word but the kanji/hiragana are flipped).

I'll put a highlighted screenshot so you guys can see:

[jinxofthedesert]

I am legit on my knees praying for the finale of Bad Batch to be an hour long.

[kelpiemomma]

One person liked the au comment so here it is:

Concept: people from the rift aren't uncommon. Jubilife and the clans frequently find them and bring them in. In fact, they even fall with all their memories in tact. They know who they are, how they came to be where they went, and where they came from. They know what they were dropped in Hisui to do. The problem is that after some time, some sooner and some later, their memories begin to fade. They remember who they are but they start to think they've always lived in Hisui. They came across with the rest of the jubilife residents, or they were accepted into the clan when they were young and grew up with them. All their memories of where they came warp to suit were they are now. Ingo is one of very few that still knows he is not where he needs to be due to Emmet- he knows there is someone that looks like him that is supposed to be with him, but he is not here. He keeps a hold of his coat and hat because they help remind him to remember something.

Rolling around in my head that, for some reason, Akari is the last to fall. They get a few people a month - one time twenty different people fell at the same time, as if Almighty Sinnoh was desperate that maybe many people would succeed where one couldn't - but their memories were the fastest to flee. They managed to get a lot done, but within the month they could barely recall where they came from.

Akari falls from the rift and after she does the color changes. She's there for a month- memories in tact, no new fallers. Two months- memories in tact, no new fallers. Everyone takes a breath, thinks maybe this is it. Maybe she's The One.

And the memory loss isn't something most people in jubilife bring up. It's depressing, because these people had homes and families and now they are lost in time and memory. Rei fumbles a couple times, mentions "before, when (name) was still helping" or "before (name) forgot." and Akari asks them about the things Rei mentioned but they don't remember. And that's weird but she doesn't think anything of it at first.

Except then things start getting fuzzy. It's after she takes care of Electrode, after she's met and befriended Ingo, after everyone thought she was in the clear. She starts forgetting things. Where she was going. Who she was supposed to meet. More than once Volo has found her and returned her to a campsite, because despite him wanting desperately to meet and defeat Arceus, to be noticed by the god, there is something uncanny and uncomfortable and frightening about people he knew and genuinely cared for forgetting themselves.

Akari struggles to hold on to her memory, lasting longer than the others, but it does fade. It falls to pieces. She stops leaving the village, helping care for the pokemon in the pastures. She doesn't understand why Rei and Laventon, who have always welcomed her so warmly and been so friendly since she first arrived and apprenticed with Marie, are suddenly so sad to see her. Why they don't discuss their research with her like they used to.

And Ingo arrives one day and Akari thinks he looks like a nice person, she may have to go and chat with him. Sure the frown is a little severe but something tells her he'd be comforting...

Except then he walks over to her, greets her, and asks why she hasn't been by for so long. And she's confused, because sure she has her Typhlosion (that she can't remember training) and a lot of the pokemon in the pasture are very affectionate towards her, but she's never been out of Jubilife village. It's scary out there! Wild pokemon are dangerous! (Even though her partner could easily one-shot many of them...)

And it's Ingo who realizes something is incredibly wrong. Because he remembers Akari, how excited she was to learn more about pokemon, how she loved getting rides from Sneasler and Wyrdeer over the highlands, how she delighted in making Melli feel bad for bullying her.

And Ingo realizes she's not the first to stop showing up in the highlands, he just wasn't as attached to anyone else. There are faces he recognizes in the village, faces of people who - at one point - were filling the Pokedex, were exploring the territory, were helping the nobles. Akari was not the first, he just wasn't close enough to any of the others to take notice that their disappearance from the Highlands wasn't retirement or injury, it was something worse.

And he excuses himself, heads back home, and stares at himself in the mirror, because something is off. Something has always been off but now he knows. now there is proof. And he tries to think about who he might be, why he knows something he is pretty certain he shouldn't. And decides the best vourse of action, to figure out what's going on, is to stop sitting around as a warden. He's going to calm the last noble. He's going to figure this out so whatever has happened will stop and people can go back home.

[solar-eclipsed]

I was so fucking right about how Sanji should represent peace by the way I know Oda made him the third powerhouse or whatever but IDGAF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sanji’s feelings about starvation and despising exploitation are way more indicative of a character who wants to bring about balance and recovery and aid and shit. And of course he can still be aggressive and brash about it.

[fluffypotatey]

Pre divorce shadowpeach didn't seem to be the type to fight a lot. In fact the shadowpeach divorce probably blew up that big due to all the unsaid frustrations they never let out.

So I'm just imagining shadowpeach never fighting in an obvious way (closest to fighting would be backhanded comments or barbed words) but that just makes things more unsettling

oh yeah 100% it didn’t help that swk was always leaving FFM out of his need to get stronger and be the best and be respected. not to mention they probably never saw their times together as the right moment to voice their concerns out loud because this was their time to wind down and they just had to wait it out, wait until everything was perfect enough to have those talks

[nukacourier]

After meeting each other again I imagine Arcade saw the ring on James' finger and assumed he was married

Probably worried about it for a few days before finally asking about it and James had to awkwardly explain that no, he's not in a relationship, he was just hanging on to it because he was planning on proposing to Arcade with it and couldn't bring himself to throw it away after getting his heart completely shattered when he was pushed away

Arcade probably felt bad and tried to explain himself/apologize but James just takes it off and hands it to him and tells him that it should've been his in the first place. Basically as a way of saying "I'm willing to rekindle this relationship if you think you're up to it". Also sort of because he wasn't gonna chase after Arcade this time and that it's now Arcade's own decision if they wanna be serious

[nostalgia-tblr]

loki/william rufus fic, where bill explains that as the second son he has inherited england while big brother bob only got the duchy of normandy, ha ha ha.

[verbumproxen]

the last two people I had a hyperfixation on won the highest awards of their field SO IN CONCLUSION: WE WILL GET YOU THAT WDC CHARLES

[nyan-bynary]

I'll be completely honest the gojo letters irked me just a lil bit