#Did they regret leaving You?

[brblovin]

In every visit to the Inverted Theater,—that transcends time and space—is it always You who holds the spear and hands it to Keema?

[meagancandraw]

You ever think about how neither of them got to say goodbye?

[beanghostprincess]

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

[ultipoter]

I rescued some Extremely Funny pokemon bootlegs from a market stall, that Riolu is Something

[mistyscenter]

I love that this fandom doesn't understand Baxter's character, I adore how they patronize him,a whole ass adult, for facing the consequences of his actions.

I love how people make him feel like a sad little baby when he leaves mc as if that's not something he made extremely clear. I love how people treat this 19 year old as if he's not old enough to understand the consequences of his actions. I love how Baxter is aware of his flaw's but feels like he can't break them because people only see him as a tool and this fandom reinforces that.

I love how people will get mad at Nico for doing the cardinal crime of being 6 years old but will baby a 24 year old Baxter. I love how people make him this charismatic rich guy when it's shown that he's a hot mess that doesn't know what he wants. I love that Baxter's whole character arc is about his self sabotaging tendencies and how everyone ignores that. I love that people fell in love with the mask he had for most of the dlc.

I love that this fandom lacks reading comprehension skills and understanding of nuance characters, great job everyone for not understanding how writing works :)

[c-kiddo]

just saw someone misread kamen and fionas relationship so bad someone hold me back

[t-u-i-t-c]

"But I don't think I made the wrong call, back then."

[uuuhshiny]

Vladimir Verevochkin in And the balloon will return

In delirium, he sees his long-departed wife

[ataraxianne]

I need a scene in Apology Tour where Verosika and Stolas are talking about Blitzø and she's like "Oh so you two broke up- I guess he was the one who left. He always did that, every time I tried to have a serious conversation or I was threatening to dump him he would simply leave the room like... you know, you'd wish he'd react?? Say something?? I always tried to make him start a fight, shout, maybe hit something so at least I would've known he cared??? Wanted to save the relationship??? But noooooo he would just leave undisturbed. Guess he dumped you in silence too, huh?" and Stolas there like

[buttercup-barf]

Ah, yes. The Pimple. My favourite character of Pretzel Thomas.

This is mostly just me trying to get used to drawing in my skekchbook, as La Tableta is still inaccessible to me.

You know that one part in Unexpectancy 3, that goes "bu-pu-pu-pu pu-pu-pu PU-BU" where it, like, sinks down a bit? That. I need to learn how to convey that kind of rage. And I will not rest until I do.

This is me kinda-sorta trying to imitate A Certain Incredibly Skilled Artist's depictions of Peppino, where he looks more... Rectangular? Y'know?? Also I like his smile, even when he's homicidal. 😊

[elizzacassan]

I am not looking forward to DA fandom treating Rook like some incompetent goofball who fucks everything up because they're the fandom's version of humorous Hawke 2.0! 🤪 As if them trying to stop the ritual while working with limited information was just Rook being a dumbass and not someone believing they're moments away from Thedas-wide disaster.

[hauntingblue]

Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...

[ratatatastic]

a man forced to suffer the skittle shenanigans of this team

[electoons]

fuck it. ulothir moodboard

[deadpoetmagda]

Haifa always felt like sickness to me, ever since I can remember it was always the hospital in Haifa and the dirty windows and my sister laying on the bed with the sounds of the machines all around us.

Haifa always felt like sickness to me, but on the way back home from the hospital when I saw my sister for the last time, barely awake on the bed as my brother and mother were crying over her and whispering in her ears, while she struggled to open her eyes and tell me she loves me and to simply live, after I choked on my own words kissing her all over telling her how I'll come to see her again, after leaving it all behind not being able to turn my head around to look at the hospital that I spent many of my days and nights in, the place that my sister herself spent half her life in, it felt like nothing, Haifa didn't feel like sickness anymore, Haifa was suddenly empty.

Maybe she's not dead just yet, it's fine, sometimes she takes longer treatments in the hospital, this time it might be an especially long one, she's not in a grave six feet under the ground, no, it's just simply another day without her while she's still breathing in her hospital room, probably talking to mom or eating some cake that my brother brought her, and I'm simply waiting for her to come back cause this time for some reason I'm not allowed to stay with her and sleep on the hospital chair by her side or even visit her, but I'll keep waiting, cause she will come back eventually, she always does, she always comes back from the hospital to our home, to me waiting for her standing at the front door.

Something is telling me this time around I'll be stuck here waiting for her for far longer than ever before, but I'm waiting nonetheless, she'll come back, coughing still, but she will come back to me as she always did and say "hey my love".

"يا حبي خليك"

[relicsongmel]

Was doing some thinking today and realized that one of the reasons I'm really drawn to Kieran is because he's a rare example of a character that's shy (and usually good-hearted) but still has some rougher edges to him.

I feel like all too often shy characters are shoved into being portrayed as either "smol bean who would never hurt anyone and just wants friends uwu" or "brooding loner who snaps at people to cover up the fact they don't actually know how to socialize" with not a lot of wiggle room in between. While I can and do enjoy characters that (arguably) fall into those respective categories, they're a bit reductive in the sense that things are very rarely that black and white in reality. Even the kindest people have a limit to what they can tolerate. They have bad days or respond poorly to events around them that cause them stress. And the same can be said in reverse as well—point being, people are multifaceted and don't always behave as predictably as we'd like to think.

And I think Kieran reflects that dichotomy perfectly. When we first meet him, he's meek, timid, and relies heavily on his more brash and forceful older sister to help him navigate social situations where he would otherwise lose out on something valuable because he's too afraid to come forward and ask for what he wants (like how she has to ask the player to battle him on his behalf). He's often quick to cower whenever she starts to get heated, but he's also not afraid to point out when he thinks she's wrong and sometimes even gets sassy with her himself. He's undeniably sweet and gentle and shows eagerness to make friends with the player, but he becomes much more curt when he notices we're lying to him about Ogerpon. The rest of the Teal Mask storyline shows him fluctuating even further—yelling at Carmine and the player for keeping secrets from him, punching things in fits of anger...then backpedaling and apologizing for the trouble he caused a few scenes later. Spreading the truth about Ogerpon to everyone in the village to help make her happy...then selfishly demanding a battle to see who's worthy of being her Trainer when she has already clearly chosen the player.

After being lied to and suffering repeated losses at our hands (including the Pokemon he's idolized all his life choosing us over him), he leans even more heavily into his bitter side during the Indigo Disk—being cold and ruthless to pretty much everyone around him, but at the end of the day it's primarily overcompensation for what he perceives as his own personal weakness (because he's still just a kid trying to be taken seriously). He's shown to drop the act on multiple occasions—most notably when he's caught off guard by our appearance at Blueberry Academy and at a few points during the Area Zero expedition. He antagonizes the player up until the moment of his defeat and tries to catch and use Terapagos in a last-ditch moment of desperation that ends up going horribly wrong, but after everything resolves he's quick to admit his mistakes and asks the player for forgiveness and if they can still be friends. After the epilogue he's mostly back to his old self, but still seems to get worked up when provoked (e.g. when he yells at Drayton for refusing to stop calling him "ex-Champ" in one of their League Club Room interactions).

And I think this varied and sometimes contradictory behavior is precisely why Kieran is such a cohesive and believable character—because it shows how even kind, well-meaning people may have a hidden darker side that can show itself under the right circumstances. How they might let their insecurities get the better of them. How a shy, timid kid might not have the experience to know how to deal with sudden feelings of frustration and/or jealousy that are far too strong to keep to himself, so he lashes out as a result. How despite all this he remains kind, sensitive and loving at his core and shows willingness to learn from his mistakes. And that is what makes him so compelling to me.