#How does he do it?

[sa2mping]

fake ass executive, i saw you care for your workers 🙄

[on-a-lucky-tide]

So many characters to pick from for the ask game. Go on then, tell us about Ghost?

favorite thing about them

His sense of humour. It's dark and dry. Absolutely spot on. He's so understated and quiet, and I just love that about him.

Also, his loyalty to Price. That co-dependent loyal attack dog and handler shit does it for me. Makes the hottest, most desperate smut, and some of the hardest hitting relationship dynamics.

I think Ghost balances on the precipice of self implosion, all his wounds are still open, but they're hidden deep, the proverbial blood being soaked up by that bally. The only thing standing between Ghost and the abyss is a shitty Mohawk, a tacky baseball cap, and a boonie hat holding them all together.

least favorite thing about them

Not really least favourite, but most challenging to portray. Ghost doesn't trust anyone. Not even Johnny or Price. I think deep down he is waiting for them to turn on him too, because it would be life's final laugh at his expense. It would be the end of him, it would tear him to pieces, and once his mag was empty, he'd reload and put the final shot in his own head. Just how quickly he starts shooting Shadows when they betray him, no hesitation. Savage.

In my view, the problem with being brought up in an environment where the people you love (and are meant to love you) are constantly hurting you is that you think the two are linked. It's part and parcel for Price and Johnny to eventually betray him because that's what love is. He's just trying to savour it a little without letting his guard down. It's a constant war in his head between his trauma and his desperate desire to trust and heal.

favorite line

"Be careful who you trust, Sergeant. People you know can hurt you the most." (Even you...)

brOTP

Ghost doesn't have friends (unless you count Johnny, but Ghost will tell you he has a puppy if you point that out). But Ghost and Graves are hilarious.

OTP

Ghost/Therapy (ha, no, it's Ghost/Price)

nOTP

Ghost/Roba

random headcanon

He has Football Manager on his phone and he's obsessed with it. He's part of the sweepstakes on base and the rookies love his involvement because he's the most human when discussing players, team stats and compositions. He supports Man City. Once, a rookie was brave enough to call him a Stockport and was never heard from again.

unpopular opinion

His moral compass is fucked. Absolutely, well and truly. He uses Price's on loan. Ghost knows he is, and sees himself as, a bad guy, but that's only partially his fault (he could do the work to heal after all). He is hugely fucking traumatised, and the Ministry of Defence gave him a gun.

song i associate with them

I have loads, actually.

favorite picture of them

A classic.

[myheartismadeofstars]

I want Genesis to go mad scientist.

Genesis, who misses Angeal and Sephiroth so much that he's willing to "Play Hojo" to get them back.

First, he brings back Angeal. Angeal is deeply uncomfortable with it. He shouldn't be alive and he knows it. Maybe for fun, Angeal still remembers being dead.

Bringing Sephiroth back is harder. His mind was so fragile, and then so corrupted by JENOVA that they need to use his physical body to get rid of the...mess made of his soul.

In order to try and "fix" Sephiroth's mind he tries to rework his memories. According to Sephiroth's memories, he had been in a coma for like, eight years after an accident in Nibelheim (when Sephiroth learns Genesis was there, and there was a fire his immediate response is "What did you DO, Genesis?!"). He already knew his mother, Doctor Lucrezia Crescent, years before the incident, but no one knows what happened to her.

Angeal doesn't like lying to Sephiroth, but he admits that it's better than losing him to instability. (Sephiroth still gets flashes of things he doesn't remember. And probably eventually runs into Cloud while running errands or something)

[cads-the-cat]

The gay side of my brain just short circuited so I really don't know what to say

[wittyno]

I love Arthur so much. This is a dude. Constantly in situations(tm).

But you see how those situations have changed him. Arthur from episode 1 could have never sussed out that there was someone fucking with his mind in the way he does in episode 31. We know he can’t win, at least not long term, against the horrors(tm) but watching him get stronger and being able to root for him is such a lovely bit of storytelling. It connects to something very human in us.

[neonpaperlanterns]

I am utterly incoherent. I'm dying. I am reborn. What the fuck is this arc. There is no god only Usopp.

Praise Be

[itsbenedict]

From the beginning | Previously | Coin standings

Well, it's obvious what you should do now.

You proceed deeper into the ruins, past fluted columns and corroded copper machinery. The sense of stillness that pervades the place is giving you the willies, but you're sure if you just keep going, you'll eventually find your partner and daughter.

One thing you do find is the letter R, fallen from one of the carved signs reminding you of the name of the AORETH RUINS. You dutifully add it to your inventory. D, C, O, H, O, 7, X, O, A, R. What if these could be used somehow?

The place seems totally empty, but there's a few hallucinations you might be able to mine for ideas:

A pool of- it's gotta be hallucinatory water, you're already underwater- is playing A POOL'S PEACE LEITMOTIF, a nice little piano theme that makes you feel relaxed.

There's a small group of environmentalists who've pivoted into organized crime! Stealing from the birch to feed the pear! Should you OPPOSE LITTLE ECO-MAFIA?

There's a smaller palace inside this ruined palace that seems to be made entirely of plant matter, which seems like it'd pop into nothingness if you touched it. I POOF MISTLETOE PALACE?

This has to be something's fault- what can you blame? Your foot? Sure, you could blame your foot. Please? O PLEASE, IMPLICATE FOOT in whatever crime has been done to you?

Continued

[schezo-misadventures]

Ready to play Puyo!

And just to show how talented Shubbo is at balancing:

[beetlejuce]

Lore about me: I write songs, ever since I was a kid. Lately I’ve been struck with the biggest writer’s block and the past 5+ months have either been revisiting old shit I’ve written or doing nothing at all artistically.

I have written an entire song (lyrics and just getting to ideas of instrumentation) today though, so I think I’ve still got it, just gotta settle back into it… progress?

[howlingdemon13]

My brother is out living his best life, man. Dude met and hung out with an amazing violinist at a wedding and now he just got me a signed copy of one of my fave watercolor artists' book because my brother does physical therapy for him????? jeezus man

[dragonfire1000]

Nothing like relaxing on a hammock you made yourself, makes you wonder how he suspends his hammock cause there’s like, no ceiling or hooks to hold it.

Like I know he’s got strings suspended from the sky/ceiling of the antivoid but like how does he do it? is there some kind of kentucky fried chicken recipe to this madness we should know about?

[flob0t]

喂

sorry i don’t have a dictionary down here. do you happen to know english, czech, german, french, spanish, slovak, or russian? if not we may need to table this conversation until im free.

[an-amazing-ace]

Ah yes, my favorite trans lesbian icon, Will Wood. The cishet man.

guys...

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[carnylane]

coffee or tea? 🔪

“Mm depends. Both honestly, but I prefer coffee. When I have my weekly visit with Mr Bates we usually have tea. Coffee gives him the jitters.”