#Grappling Points
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
🌠 Ready to take on Rayvis after rescuing Zee? Head to the Shattered Moon and conquer its challenges with our detailed guide! From navigating lasers to engaging in epic battles, we’ve got you covered! Check it out and unleash your inner Jedi! ⚔️🌌
#Jedi Survivor#Star Wars Gaming#Shattered Moon#Rayvis Guide#Gaming Walkthrough#Boss Battle Guide#Meditation Points#Force Abilities#Laser Puzzle#Combat Strategy#Grappling Points#Orb Puzzle#Advanced Ascension Cable#Online Gaming#Gaming Tips#Jedi Gameplay#Star Wars Fans#Video Game Guide#Action Adventure#Console Gaming#PC Gaming#Game Strategy#Gamer Community#Multiplayer Tips#Game Upgrades#Level Up#Gaming Challenge#Jedi Mastery#Game Mechanics#Star Wars Universe
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Currently imagining Arthur + Gwen + the knights asking someone (maybe druids?) who this famous "Emrys" is and they proceed to do a version of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" while Arthur, Gwen and the knights grow increasingly more distressed with each line and Merlin hyperventilates in the background
#bruno is VERY merlin-coded fight me on this#these lyrics were MADE for him#he walks in with a mischievous grin: THUNDER#grew to live in fear of him stuttering and stumbling#i can always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling#it's a heavy lift with a gift so humbling#grappling with prophecies we couldn't understand#someone says the SEVEN-FOOT FRAME line and by this point gwaine looks paler than a paper sheet and elyan wants to cover his ears#cue to them all heading back home later agreeing that they never should have brought up emrys#merlin passed out for a second but they were all too scared to notice#lancelot however had the time of his life#he's considering writing a full musical#merlin is considering turning him into livestock but that's going to have to wait until he can breathe properly so maybe 2-3 business days#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#guinevere pendragon#gwen#the knights of the round table#knights of the round table#bbc merlin#we don't talk about bruno#encanto
869 notes
·
View notes
Text
If the writers wanted CaitVi to be their canon OTP so damn bad, they had two ways of going about it:
THE GOOD ENDING:
Caitlyn doesn’t turn to fascism in her grief and rage. Ambessa still takes advantage of the council bombing to goad Piltover’s elite toward supporting martial law, likely installing Salo as her puppet as she originally planned to, but Caitlyn is one of the few who protest and refuse to be swept up in the authoritarian fervor Ambessa stokes. Because:
1) there’s no way she wouldn’t notice how fishy the attack on the memorial was. This is the same person who pieced together the conspiracy surrounding Silco and his criminal empire without ever stepping foot in Zaun. She’s a great detective who has been shown to see through the surface level cover-up. Not to mention the list of potential suspects with both motive and means is very small. Add on Mel’s insight, who she would interact with as one of the other Piltover characters who resists Ambessa’s scheming, and they would definitely pin Ambessa as their prime suspect. The problem is that they have no proof. All of the attackers are dead. Ambessa covered her tracks well, a nod to Noxian subterfuge in the wider lore.
And most of all, and most horrifyingly, Piltover doesn’t care. They’re angry. They’re outraged. Their bigotry is being preyed on by Ambessa, but they hardly need a push to go from the indifferent oppression of Zaun to active, overwhelming oppression. They already saw Zaunites as a monolith: criminals, street scum, dirty people who need to stay out of Piltover’s golden streets.
That Jinx is the lone guilty party is irrelevant. Her attack threatens their status quo. It has disrupted the utopia of Piltover living in its ivory towers without a care in the world, and they will bring back that false sense of security by crushing any possibility of Zaun fighting back ever again.
and 2) even with the grief of losing her mother fresh on her mind, this is still Caitlyn Kirammen we’re talking about. The woman who gives up her rifle - not just a prized possession, but her means of self-defense and safety when she’s deep in the worst parts of Zaun - without a second thought to save Vi’s life. The woman who hugs Huck, a homeless drug addict with a cancerous-like growth on half his forehead, of her own volition.
Because she cares.
As we are reminded time and time again in season 1, while Caitlyn is an incredibly naive, privileged, idealistic woman with an exceptional ability to put her foot in her mouth and say the most tone deaf things, she has a good heart, and more importantly, is willing to learn. It isn’t easy at the start, but when confronted with the irrefutable proof of how awful Piltover’s treatment of Zaun is, she listens. She feels sympathy for Zaunites, even if they are drug addicts (Huck), convicts (Vi), or gang leaders (Ekko).
That same Caitlyn, the one we see a small glimpse of in episode 1 when she protests that innocents will be caught in the crossfire, would not stand for Piltover’s martial law and mass imprisonment of Zaunites. She would try to fight it alongside Mel, using her position and influence in the enforcers as Mel uses hers as a politician.
(While she still develops an obsession over Jinx and getting justice for her mother’s death, she doesn’t see collective punishment and chemical weapons as acceptable costs of achieving said justice.)
And if the writing stayed true to the themes of class conflict in season 1, then she would quickly be forced to confront the horrible realization that there is no fixing this. The faults are systematic, not individualistic.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Marcus or Salo or Ambessa or whoever. The enforcers and Piltover will always be corrupt institutions stepping on the necks of Zaun. Piltover’s society is rotten from the inside out. And if she isn’t going to stand by and let it happen (because she refuses to compromise her morals and enforce martial law, because she cares - not just about Vi, but about Ekko and the Firelights, Huck, all the innocent people who will be swept up in Piltover’s thirst for blood), then the only way forward is to fight against Piltover.
So she becomes a class traitor. She fights alongside Vi and Ekko in repelling enforcers and Noxian soldiers from Zaun, protects the innocent.
Her relationship with Vi develops healthily compared to the canon season 2 - or as best it can in the midst of fighting a war and given their personal issues (Caitlyn’s grief and rage; Vi's self-loathing and guilt) - and they are good for each other.
It becomes a loving, supportive relationship and a wonderful piece of queer representation.
It would be beautiful. Not just the love and trust they have in each other, but that such love can flourish even in dark times. That people are capable of being defined not by their class and the systems they are born into, but by their actions and morals.
(Would such writing be too radical for the higher-ups at Netflix, Riot, and Fortiche (i.e. writing a class traitor and class war)? Most likely, but that discussion is for another time.)
Part 2: The Bad, Tragic Ending
Will post and link part 3 (the disjumbled tonal mess of an ending we got) once written.
#arcane#arcane s2#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers#arcane critical#arcane criticism#caitlyn kiramman#caitvi critical#look the dictator arc wasn't a bad writing decision in a vacuum#in fact Caitlyn being “crowned” might be my favorite scene of season 2#gives me this wonderful horrible sick feeling of dread in my stomach#but her arc to get to that point was rushed okay?#and then acts 2 and 3 don't follow through on the fallout#so then why the fuck do you make that writing choice?#you can't evoke Macbeth in Caitlyn's intro on the title card and not have her grapple with the weight of her crimes#but the writers did just that#haha...
128 notes
·
View notes
Text
i’m like 70% joking 30% real when i say this that like. do you think when viktor first woke up after being revived and fused with the hexcore that he was so quick to up and leave jayce bc of like. the insane sensory overload of being newly conscious in the material world simultaneously with this cosmically psychically infinite arcane plane. like you know when you take an edible. and you’re peaking. and you didn’t expect to be interacting with another human being for several hours but. you get like a phone call or your roommate comes home early or something. maybe viktor was feelin that. like let him get outta there let him hear colors in peace!!!
#🗣me#arcane#viktor arcane#viktor#but also real shit like. we see viktor’s psychic readings via touch w warwick and singed… do we think when jayce hugged him in the lab#he got visions like that then too?#i could see the explanation of he wasn’t so strongly attuned with the arcane at that point to hone that ability yet#but also like. what did he SEE#and how has he been GRAPPLING WITH IT#also fine. i’ll tag#jayvik
86 notes
·
View notes
Text
what if I told you that sauron doing such-and-such horrible thing is never gonna matter when it comes to whether or not galadriel continues feeling drawn, romantically, cosmically whatever towards him *gasp*
#haladriel#'she would never love the guy who did THIS to her friend'#ooh honey that's the whole point the tragedy of it all because no matter what he does... what she feels is never gonna go away#and she's gonna grapple with what that says about her the rest of her life#this is the woman who cried and fretted about not being able to resist him with the full knowledge he'd killed her beloved brother#come on now#anyway she's in love with sauron halbrand is sauron sauron is halbrand etc etc bye
65 notes
·
View notes
Text
[Click for better quality]
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER DRAW THEM DIGITAL AND IM SO HAPPY WITH THE RESULT YALL
Still got some stuff to work out with uh... drawing- BUT I'M GETTING BETTER AND IT BRINGS ME JOY
There's also this version, but I like the one above better!
#gravity falls#dipper pines#mabel pines#bill cipher#my art#gravity falls fanart#they should look behind them#is mabels grappling hook pointed at dippers face? yes yes it is
62 notes
·
View notes
Text
I hate the stretch lines in the front of Curly's uniform because that means the devs rushed to make a model in like a month or so and thought "They gotta at least know he has huge knockers, gotta know he's got back pain." Cause like what is the thematic importance of his tits having overhang?
What responsibility is that representing? Breast reduction? It shows an inherent greed in his character due to the excess and heshouldletmeholdone and that he clearly is blinded cause if he tries to look down his damn ladder all he's seeing is his own cleavage.
#this is my curly slander post ig#disclaimer i need you to understand i see all fictional men i like as like butches Curly is no exception#but like they didnt need to add that many polygons to his chest like its unnessary and honestly a little mean he already has so many things#to handle and you expect him to hold those boys up like that just aint right this is like something so stupid but i know you can tell im#having strong feelings about it cause like what was the point why did they survive the fucking crash it has to be a injoke at this point#with the devs it shouldnt make me this mad im turning into a misandrist but only towards large chested men#mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#shitpost#suggestive#ig because this is just about his chest but like also they made him objectively pretty for no reason like yeah like ideal man and work ig#but they went over the extra mile like i have a right to be mad they did that much for a model we see canonically for like two seconds its#crazy actually how little we see of curly pre crash because we also lose his physical movements to help characterize him the way we see#body language with the other characters and how it gives way to their struggles and personalities and sentiments in certain moments#like all he does and how he emotes is stifled by the fact we always play as him until the last moments where he takes over to try and save#the ship and crew and even right before that the scene is so wrought with tension we cant tell what that look he gave Jimmy meant due to#the limitations of the models and how stiff Curly is like was it fear acceptance denial we dont know enought about how he acts himself#to tell and then everything else is charaterized by what Jimmy had done to where we dont really just get to see Curly as himself like Anya#and Swansea and Daisuke we have no idea how theyd act in a regular moment outside of a few glimpses and even then it is them doing#their jobs like grrrr we hate an unreliable narrator but also its the fact jimmy clearly does not interact with them or try to outside of#his position as copilot and then captain harkening back to the entire capitlist view of utility and how he views all of them as useless eve#Curly which fandom tangent the fandom also tends to do to Curly as they base every trait on what they think he failed to do as Captain#between Jimmy and Anya when the QnAs kinda make him out to be a rather open and willing person but still someone who isnt like a push over#just thinking of QnA three where it mentions hes very open to trying new things and you need to be an open minded person to open urself up#to failure like that and ig this is just the weird view that Curly needs to learn that or that theres redemption he needs personality wise#verses healing and learning from trauma like idk its the idea that people assume he did abosultely nothing when the games points out direct#and throught parallels he was taking actions its just wasnt enough and an over focus on absolute inaction vs ineffective methods used to#tackle the issues and themes the game grapples with plus wanting someone to take the blame and have to make it up to Anya even tho#i think it would mean nothing from Curly because she saw his efforts and would be disappointed it wasnt enough but the idea she would#disregard the attempts or not acknoweldge Jimmy as the epicenter compared ot Curly is weird and too focused on someone
47 notes
·
View notes
Text
#me when I feel bad about not getting round to everything in my inbox quickly#(at this point in my life executive function issues might legit be my arch enemy. I'm grappling with the bastard most days)#reaction image#reaction meme#daily reaction images#image mood: ;_;
61 notes
·
View notes
Text
"I hope you told your brother how much you loved him, because you're probably never gonna see him again."
"..."
"Was that too dark?"
"YES!"
"Sorry."
#mario movie#mario move spoilers#super mario bros movie#super mario bros#mario and luigi#super mario bros movie spoilers#cherrysip edits#i was gonna make a different gifset today but then i found that new trailer and WELL HERE WE ARE lol#TOAD SERIOUSLY CAN YOU READ THE ROOM HERE???????????#first time in the town was kinda funny second time was genuinely a bit upsetting to the point that i gasped when i heard the dialogue#mario would prefer you Do Not Say Things Like That!!!!!!!#he is no way shape or form emotionally prepared to grapple with the idea of his brother being dead or never being able to find him#that would end him. that would destroy him. he would truly not know how to go on. so that is just firmly Not a Possibility in his brain#(and now i made myself REALLY sad thinking about mario remembering this conversation a little later and wondering#when WAS the last time he told luigi he loved him????? he can't remember. he loves his brother more than anything and anyone#but he hasn't said it outloud in so long and the realization of that is extremely painful. there's some more angst for you!!!)#anyway this is just a compilation of all the significant scenes where mario and luigi are actually together we've seen so far and I CRY#also the brand-new one of them running through town!!! omg it's perfect#with mario doing unnecessary parkour and luigi just diligently jogging along on the outside and avoiding the mess#the characterization even in the tiniest moments like this is truly CHEF'S KISS#will be working on more gifsets because my brain just needs to stare at all this until the movie comes out lololol
1K notes
·
View notes
Photo
another day, another j7 scene that makes me feel insane
#insane + turned on at the same time. it's a terrible predicament#olivia watches voyager#j7#seven of nine#kathryn janeway#star trek voyager#i think janeway Did need to hear this im ngl.....#like the fact that she clearly takes it on board + it affects how she proceeds with the doctor confirms that imo#and seven was making good points!#i'm glad she advocated for the doctor#bc it did feel like the whole crew was regressing a bit in their treatment of him recently idk#voyager's continually grappling with this tension between 'giving' someone their freedom/encouraging them to explore it#and then abruptly retracting that freedom when it's convenient#e.g. obvs the doctor with the memory wiping + the fairly regular 'i'm gonna deactivate ur programme' threats#seven with the 'ur an individual but there's also ever-shifting parameters to ur individuality' etc#also 'ur an individual but we will harvest u for nanoprobes on demand + ur objection will be noted but ignored' lol#but also tom in a recent ep of s5 - janeway bringing up how she freed him from the penal colony#+ also b'elanna in s5 - janeway barely giving her 2 seconds to recover#before ordering her to 'move on' from her anger re: that holo cardassian operating on her#it's like. yes all starfleet ships have their hierarchy + individual freedom exists in tension with that#but bc there's such an amalgamation of characters on voyager#from backgrounds that aren't starfleet/aren't strictly starfleet#and that - by their presence on the ship - have been 'indebted' in some way from the beginning#it all feels even more complicated#anyway why have i just written all these tags lol <3
518 notes
·
View notes
Text
but no really the narrative is about to snap like an overstretched rubber band
it’s not just that everything ruby has bottled up erupted at a really bad time it’s that she lashed out as viciously as she could at everybody—it’s that she said those things to hurt them, to claw at them the way they’ve been unknowingly inconsiderately picking at her wounds, and all of it landed. it’s that she spent this entire journey locked up inside her head, but once the pressure finally forced her out she knew exactly what to say to stab them where it would hurt the most. and it shocked all of them because they’re all so, so comfortable with thinking of ruby rose as this perfect ideal. the leader. the one who always knows what to do.
she didn’t just fall off her pedestal, she ripped the pedestal out from under herself and smashed it up and hurled the pieces at the ones who put her there, and then she left.
and these kids were taught to think in black and white, hero and monster, good and evil. the ever after defies simple binaries like that and their discomfort with that shines through in their reliance on the book to guide them and uneasiness with the increasingly obvious fact of the book’a fictionality; they’re not really emotionally equipped to handle a story where alyx is a person, neither a set of moral lessons nor a monster.
ruby rose was the hero.
then she experienced trauma flashbacks and froze during a fight, and she became a selfish girl who doesn’t care about saving the village and won’t even bother defending her friends.
and then every hurt feeling she’s been smothering for years boiled over and she said all the meanest things she could think of because she’s in SO MUCH pain that the only thing she can do is reflect it back into the world, and when blake tried to console her she said shut up. don’t do that. and ran away.
as far as any of them can see this happened literally out of fucking nowhere, completely unprovoked—sure jaune snapped at her first, but ruby exploded at everybody—at the cruelest possible time.
how do they make sense of this? how do they resolve the chasm that just ripped itself open between the idea of ruby rose and the reality of ruby rose? jaune already planted the seed of vilification—do they cultivate that, grasping for an explanation and finding maybe that’s who she really has been all along, or do they uproot it, setting aside their own hurt feelings to say no, that’s not who she is, something is wrong and she needs our support right now?
#rwby v9 spoilers#these are rhetorical questions#bc of course the fairytale stops here.#but!#with how all of this played out#i think there will probably be#an episode focused on wby+j#grappling with this before getting to ‘ruby is a person’#and then. AND THEN.#points at salem. HER NEXT
436 notes
·
View notes
Text
so often i see people try to downplay violet and minervas relationship like it wasnt Real enough or was some Inferior Romance that her relationship with clementine could Never compare to, and i find it so annoying and boring
she LOVED minerva!! and its okay that she did!! she was her first love!! childhood best friends turned girlfriends!! seeing her being so heartbroken and miserable about what happened to minnie, how deeply and desperately she missed her, hugging that bed frame so pathetically. but clementine makes her CARE again. makes her LOVE again. slowly violet becomes comfortable with the idea of opening her heart up to people again, after trying so hard not to because the pain of losing people she cared about was too much to bear (especially when she blamed herself for them being gone)
then she learns minnie didnt die. shes falling in love with clem while grappling with the fact that minnie might still be out there??
then she meets minnie in the woods. but minnie has changed just like she has. theyre both different people now. and slowly violet is forced to come to terms with the fact that the person she loved so deeply isnt that person anymore??
violet at the beginning mourning minerva and blaming herself, to shooting her to save clems life. she LOVED minerva once, but she doesnt like the person she is now. and shes not gonna let her hurt anyone else she cares about. shes done mourning her by the time they get to the bridge, only crying out for tenn
like idk i just find their relationship evolution to be so interesting and sad as shit. the fact that they once loved each other so much and it has now come to this?? but violet makes her choice and she Chooses clementine, because she admires and loves clementine, probably similar to the way she used to admire and love minerva if the way she talked about her is any indication
i just think "i never thought i would ever feel this way again" is way more interesting than "wow minnie Never made me feel like This"
#violet makes minnie a stronger character literally Just by being there#the way vi and minnie and clem all bounce off each other is so fucking good#CLEM SLEEPING IN MINNIES BED IS NOT AN ACCIDENT#clem has essentially replaced her. and minnie is seething about it. because she wanted them all to follow her to the delta#but instead theyre following clementine. who she sees as a threat to their lives. when in reality the real threat is her and the delta#now its minnie who is sad and lost and doesnt know how to grapple with it#instead doing what she can to save herself. even if it means hurting the people she cares about#and violet HATES THAT!! and shes willing to fight to save the people she loves#even if it means hurting someone she used to care about more than anything#she places that shot so perfectly. she doesnt WANT to hurt minnie. but she wasnt gonna let her hurt clementine either#she may have loved minnie once. partially blames herself for what happened to her. but theyre both different now. and she loves clementine#LIKE IDK that evolution is just so good and makes the clemvi romance even more strong??? violet knows Exactly what and who she wants#so by downplaying the vinerva romance it inherently makes her choice to choose clem weaker??#the more she loved minnie the harder that choice was. and she chose clementine#anyway this is why the clem vi minnie boat fight makes me bark like a wild beast#either i see people try to downplay her love for minerva OR they overhype it and act like she never got over her#when her getting over minnie is the whole point!! taken vi trusted her bc she LIED to her about sophie!! and clem broke her trust#god shes so heartbroken and confused in that cell get her out of there!!!!! vi i'll save you every time!!!!!!#thinking about clemviminnie instead of working what else is new#twdg#violentine#vinerva
58 notes
·
View notes
Text
I was thinking about why Carry On works for me when typically I like minimal exposition! I like being dropped into a story and figuring it out as we go along. Some of my favorite books are like that. And a lot of Carry On is spent on the past, musing over memory & history. I think it works for me because it feels very grounded in the Simon’s personality and emotional experience. He truly doesn’t believe he has a future… so of course he treads over the past.
That’s part of why it works for me: it feels emotionally honest.
In the story, this backwards focus serves several purposes: it orients us at the end of the heroes journey (think of your life flashing before your eyes before you die) and it builds up the color and weight of Watford & by extension the world of magic. It suspends us in Watford’s history & Simon’s longing. Which I think creates a nice tension w the end, we’ve spent the book thinking about Simon’s story and what it means for him that he has lived this life and how it seems totally at odds with a future. And we know that he loves magic, we feel it viscerally in his descriptions. And then he loses a heroic end AND a life with magic. He gains a future but it’s not any kind of future he might have imagined. This then carries us into the next books where things are so radically different, which for all their sadness feel more hopeful than Carry On lol
*(and the rest of the series but i have a whole other list of things I love for those)
#when I say the other books feel more hopeful… it’s not that you don’t feel the grief in them but a lot of carry on is adrenaline… at a point#you’re running on fumes#Simon Snow#Carry On#& beyond the persistent “back in x year “back when I fought y or Baz did z etc etc#literally it starts when ghosts are coming back!!! Simon & Baz both grapple with their origins w what they were built to be and how that#happened#etc etc#anyway I’m just observing here but it works so well for me!!#i love that Wayward Son was totally new ground even as they fell into old patterns of behavior. like totally removed from their history…
23 notes
·
View notes
Text
people who are hyper critical of aang are super fucking weird and we should say so.
#aang#pro aang#avatar#atla#atla aang#avatar the last airbender#it’s just like when he acts like the 12 year old he is people who hate him are like wow he’s really acting like that#like bitch what???#he’s fucking 12 lmfao#of course he’s immature#but aang grows so damn much over the series and they just turn a blind eye to it#he’s trying to be a child while also grappling with his duties as avatar and his teachings as an air nomad#being told constantly that he has to kill someone despite that going against his teachings#anyway aang is great and yeah there were times he was annoying like any 12 year old can be#but he also matures a lot which is super sad cause of the weight placed upon his shoulders#anyway the people i see who criticize him to the point where it’s just like just say you don’t like him and go are zutara shippers of course#some zutara fans are so fucking demented i swear#and mostly all of them are annoying#even when i watched avatar as a pre teen i didn’t ship zutara
168 notes
·
View notes
Text
one thing though that i thought was very interesting in tsc was how jeremy and kevin swapped some key personality traits the fanon associated with them. kevin being a grounded, stable pilar vs jeremy being (though well-intentioned & kindly) pushy and falling into codependency with jean like many of us assumed would be the inevitable outcome of kevin and jean reconciling. quite surprising!
#ill be honest with you babygirls im still grappling with jeremy in my mind#hes not much of anything to me#jean sucked all the personality out of him and thats not even a sex joke#i think jeremys highest points are when he is away from jean#and there are not nearly enough of those despite him being the other main character#but when he was with jean so much of it was him worrying about and cleaning up after jean#theres truly so little about him as a person#which i was a little disappointed by because tfc is remarkably good at characterization even of side characters#i know jean is a big personality and anyone put up against him will feel like stale bread but kevin and renee and neil held their own#just fine#i know his story is far simpler than jean’s will ever be but there are ways to go about it#unfortunately for me jeremy felt like neurotypical gansey#and that’s a dreary description#i was rooting for himmmmmmm i was rooting for him!#txt#jeremy#kevin#tsc
40 notes
·
View notes
Text
Skully's Punishment Part 2
Part 1 here
As always I got the idea from @sonicasura
Also spoilers for episode 10-11.
Hoshina crooned at the Yoju, stopwatch in hand, "Good~ good, keep breathing just like that."
Skully's breathing was measured and deliberate, but their small form would occasionally shudder with a suppressed sob.
"Keep those arms out, knees bent. Tuck that tail more, no cheating! Almost there... Five. Four. Three..."
Hoshina almost couldn't hear himself over Skully's sudden outburst - they roared and screamed, mouth wide open and fists tightening. But they held their position, even with their limbs shaking. Very good. When he reached zero with an "all done!" Skully finally collapsed, sprawling onto their belly.
Then Skully took a deep breath, chest expanding, and began to weep, whimpering softly like a deflating balloon.
Hoshina swept them off the floor, holding Skully up by their underarms and grinning. "Ya done good, Rookie! I'm proud of you! Think you'll listen to me next time~?"
Skully was almost limp in his hands. But then they began to wiggle, straightening and grabbing Hoshina's arms for support, whimpering with each effort. They looked him in the eyes with tears streaming down their face and nose. Hoshina was kinda hoping they'd reply with a defeated 'yeah' or an 'uh huh' at least, but instead the Yoju babbled at him for a good ten seconds or so. Their words slurred together and they stopped and started several times, interrupted by sobs. Their kaiju vocal cords weren't doing them any favors, either. There were only a few words Hoshina could make out: Papa... gigantic scary... hurt... something...
He got the gist of it anyhow.
"Well, aren't you a sweetie!" he said, bringing Skully closer and wrapping his arms around them. "Just like your mumma."
Hoshina rubbed the spines on Skully's back. Skully settled in immediately, rumbling and chirping.
"But I'm not just your Papa; I'm also your Vice-Captain. I have a duty to my soldiers, ya know." That didn't fully sound right. "I have a duty to my children, especially." That sounded weird still. But it was probably the best description. "So. You hafta listen to me double-time~" Hoshina nuzzled Skully's neck, provoking happy chirps.
Hoshina sighed. "Justtt like your mama..."
Of course Kafka's kid would be just like him. Incredibly loyal. Admirable, but he sets a bad example. That's what I get for bringing on a rookie just 'cuz I liked him, huh? "Don't get too attached to your comrades," I told him. "Anything can happen."
Kafka! You had better come back. You owe me that much!
Hoshina was glad he had sent Okonogi away and was alone with the Yoju. So no one else could see his face.
-
"Hibino Kafka." Captain Ashiro said, idly thumbing the barrel of her gun. The smaller one, that is - not the cannon, thank god.
Kafka had stopped stressing a few moments ago, no longer sensing his whelp's cries and figuring that, with how they tapered off, it was fine. But now he was on edge again. Did she notice him sigh? "Y-yes, Captain?"
"The little one..." Mina shifted her weight, seeming uncertain. Kafka couldn't place why. "It's yours, isn't it?"
Well, there was no sense in lying.
"Yeah."
"Are you...?" Mina asked, "Do you...? Did-?" Then some color came into her cheeks and she turned away. "Sorry. Inappropriate questions."
Kafka took a moment to understand...
"Ehhh?! You got me all wrong! There's no way I'd be fooling around with- eee! sorry sorry..." He shrank back down into his seat at the sight of all the guns trained on him.
After some moments had passed, and the gunmen slowly relaxed, Mina made an odd sound, and looked like she was about to throw up. Her whole body was tense.
She did it again, grabbing at her neck and making little "ahem"s. She had to close her eyes or else they'd bulge out of her skull.
"Mi-!"
"Captain are you alright?!" Kafka had been interrupted by one of the soldiers.
Mina's forehead creased and she covered her mouth, but she couldn't stop the giggle from finally escaping. She managed to quiet down quickly, but even still, her shoulders shook. Finally, she took a breath and then did it again, tears springing to her eyes.
On the third breath she had it handled, getting a proper hold of her gun. She slowly exhaled, sobering up, almost to the point of a slight frown. Blinking away the tears, unsmiling, she said, "yes."
#kaiju no. 8#Soshiro Hoshina#Hoshina Soshiro#Mina Ashiro#Ashiro Mina#Kafka Hibino#Hibino Kafka#Not trying to ship it at all but I kinda do. Which pair? Yes. AnyWAY#Hoshina grapples with a couple things#Kafka can sort of unclench#Mina corpses#Skully Hoshina#Skully#Skully Kaiju 8-alpha#btw if you don't know#i designate skully as 8-alpha because I used to read the SCP wiki#and remembered that SCPs that reproduce are often labeled with just the number while their offspring have -A or -B or sometimes -1 appended#so kafka is just number 8 still and his Eightling is 8-alpha.#Getting some strong deja vu from kafka's dialogue so either I've got it on point or I'm ripping someone off. Let me know which.#I definitely think I'm repeating some things from the anime with Hoshina's thought paragraph cuz I member...zzzz#but oh well not sure how to express differently anyway. Bed time!
41 notes
·
View notes