#Heroic Dark

[mugenfinder]

Heroic Dark

The main character is really anachronistic with everything going on.

[ozempicdoll]

[dogpawsswapgod]

something I've appreciated about The Dragon Prince is how it eschews a good/evil, hero/villain binary and instead insists that what matters are choices: the path one chooses to walk. are you fated to walk a dark path? or did you make a choice with every step?

characters say "i had no choice," a lot, but eventually face the truth (usually before a big moment of growth): there's always a choice, and you've always been making choices. this is something pretty much everyone is going thru throughout the series but no one more obviously than Viren (and now, Claudia 😭).

when Viren faces his younger self in the mirror in season 5 and young Viren rejects the idea that he is "fated" to walk a dark path, he places his hand on the glass, saying "i am free, and so are you!" this is one of the series' main theses--alongside whether history is "a narrative of strength or a narrative of love"--that "i have no choice," is never true. our choices are all we have, and they shape our reality by paving the path we take.

Viren has been a worthy and engaging "villain" throughout the series, totally hateable, a grade A baddie, but I'm grateful for how his arc ended in season 6. i admit i shed a tear for that old war criminal.

if history is to become a narrative of love then different choices must be made.

making space for anger and holding "villains" accountable for their harmful choices, but also allowing for those same villains to change (or cut out) their hearts and thereby change the path they have walked--even if it's only in the final few days of a lifetime of wickedness-- all play well alongside the setting of the story: a magical world on the precipice of revolutionary transformation ("a long slow spiral into chaos," as one Star Elf put it).

can't guess how this will play out with the big boss battle against Aaravos himself in the final season, but for now, I'm content w how the writers seem truly invested in exploring these big ideas and applying them to the characters' story arcs.

[noisykk]

Heroic Shang Tsung &Liu Kang

Shang adopted Liu Kang, but Shang doesn’t know why he became a dark Liu Kang^^

[muttsterion]

Happy 25yrs to Kenny's iconic face reveal and very first unmuffled line! A very special scene that still gets to me ngl. XD

[chipedteacupchat]

The mental gymnastics the writers must be doing to convince themselves that injuring yourself in war for your son is an act of cowardice is wild!

Like, they will do literally anything to try and convince the audience it was a bad decision, even going as far as to contradict themselves in season 5 and say Rumple did it because he was scared he was going to die, not because of his son. But, like, he's still in the right even if Meliah wasn't pregnant because we literally see no survivors at the end of the battle.

And at the end of the day, if he had died, Bae would probably have been abandoned by his mother anyway or killed by a snake bite and have no parent figure to love him.

(Oops, this kinda became a part 3 of the writers hating Rumple 😅)

[mfelewzi]

By facebook page Luthien Tinúviel.

And they all fled before his face, by @jennydolfen

“Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead.”

By The Quenta Silmarillion

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Dio - Rainbow in The Dark

[markesduss]

Okay. I haven't been here for a long time because of my studies. I've been accepted and have gone on a well-deserved rest from all of this. Also, I've been accepted to an art school, so I hope there will be more posts from now on. In the meantime, here's a "dark" image of White Hat that came to my mind after my visit to the dentist.

[sullenserenequeen]

[itsmarkjudgelove]

WEIRD OF THE WHITE WOLF

Artist Michael Whelan

[smokeys-house]

Lotta people complain about getting hit while healing in souls games or heal reading in elden ring but I gotta say in a real fight it'd be pretty easy to hit the guy who thought he could sneak in a lil sippy off his juicebox

[joytri]

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts.

Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[maegalkarven]

I just thought of the most hilarious next protagonist of Baldur's Gate saga.

(Note what most of the outcomes used as background info here come from the characters' "good" endings. Proceed with caution.)

A child of Durge and Gortash, killed inside their parent's womb when Durge denied Bhaal, resurrected alongside them by Jergal.

A child any of The Dead Three can lay a claim on because they are:

A child of previous chosen of Bane

A child of Bhaalspawn, a bhaalspawn themselves, albeit striped of that when Bhaal took his essence from Durge, killing them instantly.

DIED before even being born, so clearly Myrkul's subject.

Resurrected by Jergal, so there's ties to that as well.

Can be compelled to follow any of The Dead Three paths, or try to play them and set them against each other, or follow Jergal, or forge their own path.

Essentially a child with no fate.

Can look either as Durge (and be any race Durge presented as) or as Gortash.

The last possibility bringing unique encounters and dialogues and character never knowing they can use being Lord Gortash's child to their advantage or ppl they meet were their father's enemies and they need to dash.

Having ties to different fractions depending on who Durge romanced or if Durge not romanced anyone.

Being raised in Underdark if their parent ended up with Minthara.

Same with unascended Astarion, + lots of acquainted spawns in the Underdark.

Being raised in Hell if their parent went to Avernus with Karlach.

Being raised either in Waterdeep if Gale is their stepfather or with Duke freaking Ravengard as a step- grandfather.

Having ties with Selunites if Shadowheart is a woman they call mother.

Being raised in the nature and having Druids call them their own if Durge and Halsin were involved.

Being raised amongst githianki revolution if Lae'zel was their parent's choice of heart. Having their mother leading a rebellion against a god.

Having lots of unique content regarding that.

Possible companions include:

Arabella

Mol

Yenna

That girl who was kidnapped and eaten by auntie Ethel.

Mayrina's child.

A child of lady Janneth and Oscar.

One or several of Jaheira's grandchildren.

[tagarilaghost]

hey uhm @wowitsmetaylor you know about that one post you made and that one specific tag...?

Yeah well now he does have that :D

It truly sucks being an artist and having free will-

[val-of-the-north]

I have discovered what might just be the most unheard of character in the entire Dark Souls trilogy. I don't say this lightly lol.

Meet... Knight "Amerix" (騎士アメリクス), or rather Americus. And despite the name, she is a woman!

And this is not a name I pulled out of thin air, either. It was already mentioned on the Dark Souls wiki's trivia section for the Forest Hunter Knight... I checked and indeed, this name is actually used for Japanese wikis of Dark Souls, such as this one here [x]

Technically, there's two forest hunters who use this exact same base, but only one of them is named Americus, and it's the one that doesn't respawn... and she seems to specifically be the one that stands close to Pharis (who was confirmed to be the Forest Hunter by this same Japanese guide). And in fact, she also does not respawn after being defeated once!

Here's her without the helmet too, for good measure. She is cute.