#Gladiatorial Combat

[elecktrum]

Chapters: 31/? Fandom: Final Space (Cartoon), Final Space Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Avocato/Gary Goodspeed, Avocato & Gary Goodspeed, John Goodspeed/Sheryl Goodspeed Characters: Gary Goodspeed, Avocato (Final Space), Sheryl Goodspeed, John Goodspeed, Lord Commander (Final Space), Tribore Menendez, Derek, Dr. Bluestein, General Viro, General Cataloupe, Melanie Dewinter, KVN (Final Space), Kevin Van Newton, Nikos, High Helper Hula, HUE (Final Space) Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends, KVN sucks, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Slow Romance, Slow Dancing, Slow To Update, Canon-Typical Violence, Alien Cultural Differences, Family Feuds, garycato - Freeform, No beta we die like redshirts, Idiots in Love, Cartoon Physics Summary:

Avocato and Gary Goodspeed were not in love. In fact, they had never met each other. But when a rumor that they were secretly courting spread through the sector and their two warring families ceased all combat at once, they felt obligated to fall in love fast.

[mantisfriendd]

i have dinner at the waffle House so I can watch gladiatorial combat like the emperors did

[syppys-den]

looks like some twisted Gladiator match, I like it ^^

sum other concepts for charley/the butcher gang boss fight

[blood-orange-juice]

You know what's the best thing about Childe doing Zhongli's spear kick in the 4.2 cutscene?

It implies they got their reconciliation fight. Childe never fought the guy in Liyue arc so it obviously happened later. He wouldn't have seen that move otherwise.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

super indulgent genshin oc concept bc i've been thinking too much about capitano and ororon's dynamic in the story lore ramblings and ideas under the cut for anyone interested hahah;;, beware - long-ass post

(obviously spoilers ahead for the natlan AQ)

haven't picked out a name yet but we could probably scara him and call him 'vessel' or smth anyway, i was thinking too much abt how, in a way, ororon's situation sorta- idk if 'mirrors' is the word, but it has some similarities to what was ultimately going on w capitano? the difference was of course that while ororon failed to be a vessel to send lingering souls into the night kingdom, capitano didn't fail. quite famoulsy. so while that's super interesting and all, i couldn't help but think how they could've pushed that idea further? like you have to make this connection yourself. not even ororon, who spends a good chunk of the AQ thinking about what happened back then, made any remark about how similar it was to what ended up happening to capitano (that i recall?). did we ever find out if the ritual they tried w ororon had ever been performed before? i don't remember. it might've been, but it could've also been a hypothetical of sorts that they figured they could just try. anyway, regardless, i started thinking about if they HAD done it before, how interesting it would've been to actually get an account of what went down. as in- in further detail. bc then we could've possibly had a stronger/more evident connection between capitano's ordeal and ororon, and it would've been more clear what ororon sort of- dodged. if that makes any sense. like we know thanks to capitano but still, it's not the exact same scenario. so you can probably see where this is going lmao

this guy (we'll go with 'the vessel') is the result of my brainworms thinking about how it could've worked if we had one of the previous 'sacrifices' of the ritual (or maybe even the only other one) appear in the story. maybe he could've been from around the time citlali was still young (like before she realized she wasn't aging), so before she was renowned and in a position where she would've been able to easily stop the ritual. i think it would be really interesting if she could've like- still protested? y'know? but since she didn't have a high position she felt like it would've been pointless. this would make it all the more compelling the fact that she still didn't outright protest against ororon's ritual, and would've given more weight to her complicated guilt/relief over the whole ordeal. so all the way back then (like 200ish years?) they found a fella with an incomplete soul, trained him to prepare him since the situation wasn't nearly as dire n so there was time (and would make more sense if it was also the first time they were doing this), and then successfully performed the ritual. or at least as successfully as they thought, bc i think it would be all the more appaling if like- ororon's was always meant to be a capitano pre-ronova situation. he would've carried these souls w him and he would've been laid to rest but HE wouldn't have really rested, if that makes sense? not just killing him. maybe that's what it was and i just can't remember. anyway. if it was something like that, then the vessel would've been essentially put to sleep somewhere in a secret cave or whatever, acting as a sort of waiting room for the souls in him to stay w him and not roam the land until they could get into the night kingdom. but since the situation w the night kingdom was worse than anyone had expected, the souls sort of never moved on, and stayed w the vessel, dormant in that cave.

like that, ororon's ritual has failed and we have a more interesting situation going on – citlali's conflict is even more complex, the MotNW are more morally gray, ororon's 'failure' is more weighty given the vessel's ritual did seemingly help out a ton, and capitano has a more interesting parallel w the whole situation. in this scenario of course the natlan AQ has much better pacing etc. it would be more harrowing if we're allowed to stew w the souls disturbed from the night kingdom and sort of haunting the land like they were when we were helping them w citlali n xilonen, i feel like that happened too fast. if the souls were disturbed in that way, then so too would the vessel's rest be disturbed, and i think it would be hilarious if at some point in that little section we get the MotNW in a panic like 'HE IS GONE. HE IS OUT OF THE CAVE' and the traveler is like who???? it would be so funny. so the vessel essentially wakes up, accidentally escapes from his cave, n then starts wandering natlan in a daze bc he's like 200yrs in the future, he's confused, and he has a bunch of souls backseating his existence van hoenheim style. the gang could then meet him n we could have ororon have his little crisis over it n the vessel himself also have conflicting feelings over it etc capitano probably figured out/found out ororon's whole situation w the failed ritual, so when the vessel wakes up, capitano could probably show up and start sort of being oddly inclined to have chats w him. by that point in the story we wouldn't know capitano is in p much his exact same shoes, so this would be a weird sort of 'wtf is he planning' moment. the vesssel wouldn't be able to quite join in on capitano's plan, but since he was trained specifically for this whole ordeal, we could have him and capitano sort of compare notes n theorize how they could both just Fucking Rest. i think the ronova thing would play out the same (wouldn't want to take that away from capitano since that was his wholeass reason for being there), but they would've sort of off-camera (we get shown this afterwards) figured out that if capitano's plan works, then the vessel could sort of use him as a conduit to guide the souls through him and into the night kingdom. sort of like a passage that only he can access. so capitano goes and sits down, and then the vessel sort of sits down by his feet and joins him. then capitnao isn't alone and since i'm nothing if not a simp the first thing i thought when i saw him sitting there was those really heartwrenching fanarts people make of xiao kneeling by the rex lapis statue and resting his head on a thigh/knee, and i can't get the image out of my head, so. vessel -> xiao, capitano -> rex lapis statue, you get it i don't need to explain this any more LMAO i didn't even think of it as ship material (though you bet the fandom would make it so if this was canon. not that i'd protest), but more as a. sort of like- a sudden bastion of understanding and companionship at the end of the road. like yes both of them were alone but also not alone but also really really lonely for a good chunk of their long lives and even though it has now come to the end they both wanted they also managed to find a companion/comrade/someone who Gets It, even if it was just for a little while there at the end.

so yeah

[vigilskeep]

while i am a bhelen supporter by nature i do vastly prefer to do harrowmont’s quests first because i can’t miss a proving

[tauforged]

really excited for the kullervo update

[carnage-cathedral]

happy to now be mutuals with people who don't treat this site like a fucking highschool cafeteria

[sforzesco]

It's a little terrifying that you seem to have willed Gladiator II's Geta and Caracalla into existence

wheezing I wish I had this kind of power so that I could will a Ridley Scott Caligula movie into existence

[mimicry-works]

I wonder how the Agori and Glatorian have taken to the Matoran introducing them to extreme sports that don't involve beating the crap out of eachother. (But are no less dengerous)

[deadmegumi]

Truly humbling experience to wake up this morning and go damn I really got nothing better to do than argue about supernatural. damn.

[hero-dualies-pog]

hmsonas are funny as hell . there are 3 critters in my head and they’re all horrible

[ask-the-praetors]

Praetors, is it moral to take a life that could be Compleated, even if that persons is a threat to Phyrexia?

Also Mommy Sheoldred, are you sadistic?

You misunderstand the nature of compleation. Whether the subject's original "life" is maintained is not relevant, excepting cases in which its personality, life experiences, and aetheric qualities--that is to say, its spark--are strongly desired traits in its compleation. Admittedly, the retention of these aspects is the optimal outcome with nearly all compleations, but a risk of fatality is unavoidable. All Phyrexian surgeons are capable of at least base necromancy, and even empty bodies can be effectively repurposed into servitor shells or disassembled for material. My own newts are fed by many of these. -J

"Sadistic?" Hmm. A funny word. Call it whatever you want. Let's just say I like to have my fun~ -S

[quetzalpapalotl]

All I'm saying is that if IDW2 Orion had been more like the IDW1 adrenaline junkie, he would have been like "wow that was sick" when Megatron made them jump from the moon elevator. And then they wouldn't have broken up and MAYBE Orion could have convinced Megatron thay expansionism is like, bad and they stopped for a reason and nothing bad would have happened.

[mudkept]

indefinite moratorium on asking me about my day in my discord dms. except for the beloveds.

[hillerska-official]

One thing about me is that i will not hesitate to correct somebody about gladiators. You could not fucking afford for gladiatorial combat to be regularly 'to the death' and while I'm here everyone was horny on main for gladiators in rome.