#CONVO: eric

[vorebefore]

eric rubbed his lips together as he leaned back in his seat . " and if it just leads to more angry people ? " he questioned as he looked back at solaris . he understood it , he did , but he always knew this was a delicate situation , at least , with other community members . " i know he could be a problem . " he wasn't going to argue that . " i'll handle it . "

" I know, " sol murmured, " but you did what was right for him, obviously, that's what you'll always do, an' I respect that. " he leaned back in his seat, brushing his fingers along his beard, " because anger leads to stupidity, not everybody can channel it into other things, kid. " he leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees and looking directly at eric, " he's going to push and cause a problem, you nip that in the bud right away. you know I don't always kill for fun, eric, I've had my fun. I took my pound of flesh an' then some, but that, that's a challenge. "

[wailingbones]

eric had checked in with some of the guys first when they got back especially the ones that had managed to round up the other group's weapons . he also tried to check in with boomi but that didn't seem to lead to anywhere substantial and eventually , eric decided to seek solaris out . out of the watchful eye of their group , eric decided to drop his guard a little . " you okay ? " he questioned as he looked the man over . @visceralprayers

[victimized-martyr]

Curly hair is very much in right now, regardless of hair color. I think Kyle should take off his ushanka at least once, there’s story potential there.

[eric-the-bmo]

Is there anything cooler than a character going feral and turning against their teammates, thus resulting in those teammates having to forcefully restrain (and possibly fight) their companion, who's still trying to attack them in a blind frenzy?

[wailingbones]

she heard stories , of course . eric talked about it sometimes . sol too but it wasn't anything she could really relate to . she barely remembered her life before solaris came into it and the rest was simply history . link stayed quiet as she listened to hawk . she wanted to say that she felt something here but the truth was , she didn't . not really . this wasn't their first rodeo . this wasn't her first rodeo and most people fell in line . " there doesn't have to be peace . " she knocked back the rest of her drink . " but i also don't think your leader is stupid . "

" I was just a kid but... my parents talked about it a lot, so did a lot of the older people when I came here, " she hummed. hawk laughed, taking a sip of her drink, " that's not what I mean. this place wasn't just some home you took over, it was a community that spanned twenty years. these people worked together and loved each other. they raised each others kids, they loved the land. now-- you have hostages and a bunch of people relying on the ones they traumatised to teach them how to take care of this place. " hawk shook her head, " it's a shitty world, and I'm more familiar with life outside of this place than I am in it, you gotta do what you gotta do, but there will never be peace here again. there will be never hope or gratitude or love. you'll have to kill us all. children included. "

[spyruce]

House MD airplane doodles (I’ve never drawn any of them before except Cameron I tried my best)

[greghatecrimes]

Okay. Buckle up babes, it's finally Foreteen time and I wrote an essay.

Foreman and Thirteen are so interesting to me in so many ways. You have Foreman, who thrives off of control, and Thirteen, who refuses to be controlled in almost every aspect of her life. In the sense of them as individual people, they both have a lot of their own issues going on. Hot messes, the two of them. But in the sense of them as a couple, I think Foreman specifically is the only one who has issues with the relationship. (Or rather, Thirteen's issues aren't being projected onto the relationship and causing difficulties at the end of s5/beginning of s6, while Foreman's are.)

Foreman's biggest thing, at least in the latter part of their relationship, is control in regards to emotions. After they found Kutner, he coped with everything by isolating himself. A huge part of me thinks that's because this terrible thing just happened, the floor just fell out from both of them in so many ways, and Foreman feels like he doesn't have a grip on anything anymore. The only thing he can control is himself, and how he reacts. So Thirteen? Even though she's his girlfriend and he's worked with her for two years, her emotions and reactions are fundamentally beyond the scope of his control; she's still a wild card. She's not safe. So instead of letting himself lean on Thirteen, letting them grieve together, letting them comfort each other, for his own stability, Foreman chooses to cope (and thus reject Thirteen when she reaches out for support) by retreating into an environment that he's intimately familiar with. He surrounds himself with only variables that he can confidently predict. It's his gut instinct. It's always worked before, so why wouldn't it work this time? Why would it have any reason to cause problems?

In season four and the first half of season five, Thirteen was very much the same way. When things became too overwhelming for her, she repeatedly dealt with them by running, by hiding; by trying to isolate herself from the people who care about her and want to help her. The same base principle drives them both at this point: "what's out of my control is dangerous in some way or another. The only one who's safe to be around is myself, because I am the only person that I can control." But by mid season five, Thirteen has come a long way from that. Slowly she's becoming much more of a "recovering control freak". She's starting to be okay with the fact that she's not always going to have the amount of control that she has right now. She knows that all of it is something she has to come to terms with, and slowly she's getting to a point where she's accepting her diagnosis and working on all the baggage that comes with it.

Thinking about that– the fact that, by mid season five, Thirteen is approaching a point in her life of letting go, of learning to 'go with the flow'; while Foreman is very much still on the side of "I thrive and keep myself safe by controlling every aspect of my life possible"– makes them fundamentally incompatible as a couple from the get-go, even with all of the chemistry they had. Because the moment they get together (the Christmas party in 5x10 "Joy to the World") is right after Thirteen's decided that she doesn't want to die; when she's just starting to process her diagnosis instead of running from it.

Do I think there was/is love there? Yes. They absolutely care about each other, both during and after the relationship.

Do I think they would have worked out long term? The simple answer is "no".

The more complicated answer is that if they had been able to avoid the fiasco of Foreman running the department and then firing Thirteen after House quit, I think they could have made it work. But it would have been rocky, and it would have been especially rough for Foreman. Extremely so if it were to reach a point where they've stayed together for years and years, and Foreman is with Thirteen when she really starts to decline with her Huntington's.

Foreman is Thirteen's friend; he's also seen people slowly wither away from degenerative disease (his mother, with Alzheimer's), and he's a neurologist (and so he knows exactly how she'll decline, down to every last detail). All of those things give him greater emotional stakes in her Huntington's diagnosis beyond what's typical. But specifically in the situation of them facing this as a couple, you have this level of involvement where Foreman– someone who needs a high amount of control to function on a fairly basic level– is in an incredibly intimate relationship with Thirteen, whose entire life is inevitably and actively slipping out of her control. And in that scenario... I think that when the decline does start happening, it would absolutely terrify Foreman. To be the one that's by her side as a partner– seeing all of it firsthand, the pain and grief and sickness? And as her significant other, being the one that would potentially become a medical proxy when she's too sick to advocate for herself, faced with the possibility of making life or death decisions (like whether or not to euthanize the woman he loves)? I think that would have the potential to utterly destroy him.

As a friend, though? ("Ex-partners who have gotten back to a shaky friendship after the breakup, and still care about each other deeply", but "friends" for short.) The entire situation completely changes. I firmly believe that post-canon, if Foreman knows House offered to kill Thirteen before he "died", he would offer to kill her in House's stead in a heartbeat (just like I think Chase does). THAT sort of involvement with Thirteen's decline and care is far less terrifying, because now this is not the decline of someone that he's based his entire future on. This is not someone he's given half of his heart to; this is not someone he's built an entire life with and entwined himself so thoroughly with.

With the way things work out in canon, they're still friends, and they still care about each other; but at the end of the day, they're two separate people with two separate lives, two separate futures. And so Foreman doesn't lose a single ounce of his control as Thirteen's is slowly taken from her, bit by bit. Witnessing that is still a pain that is unimaginable. But for him, it's survivable. And that's the key difference (and why I ship Foreteen during season five and season six, but not post canon).

[yoshidatommy]

Halloween outfit

[moreferarum]

eric watched elias when he moved from his seat , eyes lingering for a moment , probably longer than necessary before dropping his gaze only to look up when the beer slid to him . " yeah ? " eric asked with slight amusement , " why is that ? "

elias slipped out of his seat once again, grabbing them both a beer from the fridge and sliding it across the table to eric. he seemed to study the man for a moment, before chuckling to himself, " I think we'll be fast friends, you and I. "

[insanekyles]

[atopvisenyashill]

i like to believe that aegon iv and daeron actually look very alike but no one notices bc of the weight difference but daeron remembers when his dad’s face was skinnier & they were twinning and every time aegon is like “i bet your bitch mom was cheating on me” daeron is like “you’re not even angering anymore as a parent you’re just annoying to me now”

[winnie-the-monster]

“Eric, your father has a check up next week and I need you to take him.”

“Mom, I have to register for college remember. I’m not going to be here, I’m moving away.”

“So you’re still going?”

“Yes I’m still going. It’s college.”

“Fine.”

“Mom, I gotta get out of here.”

“Oh, Kitty let him go. Odds are he’s not gonna amount to anything, and I don’t want him blaming me.”

“See! That’s exactly the kind of thing I have to get away from.”

“Fine.”

“Great.”

“Great.”

“Fine.”

[wailingbones]

he didn't expect this to be easy . in fact , eric expected quite the opposite with what happened last night . tension would be running high , emotions too , and someone was bound to make a stupid decision or one of his guys would go too far in trying to prove they were some big man on campus . eric wasn't surprised to see a spat happening when he stepped outside of his home . " hey . " he moved forward , stepping off the porch to get between the two . " we're not doing this shit . "

[bosesmikas]

Forkhart - Snow On The Beach (Taylor Swift)

[justine-tcc]

I love how the tcc has built their own cinematic universe like wym Robert Hawkins would've been Dylan and Eric's dealer.

[wntrflln]

“ they’re not far off , “ link breathed out as she looked back to her father. “ they seemed to be moving past but … “ her voice trailed off as she looked back toward eric.

he sighed, running a hand down his face. “ they’re people, “ he spoke looking between sol and link. “ they move with the dead. keep your voice low enough, the walkers just think you’re another walker “ @saintivcry​