#I am both and neither of these characters

[lazysoulwriter]

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requested! thank you. ♡ content: actress!wife!reader, behind the scenes, bloopers, fluff, playful banter, romantic comedy filming

The movie was already being called a cultural reset by the time the bloopers hit the internet.

A romantic comedy — you and Pedro, married and cast as lovers for the first time on-screen. The internet didn’t survive. Memes. Fan edits. Headlines like “Pedro Pascal and wife bring rom-com back from the dead.” People watched it again and again just to feel something.

And then the studio released the behind-the-scenes footage.

And that’s when the world truly lost it.

The first clip in the blooper reel? You and Pedro in the middle of a heated kitchen argument scene. You’re supposed to storm off dramatically. Instead, Pedro says his line too seriously, stumbles on a word, and you try to hold it in — but he sees it.

“You laughed first,” he says, breaking character with a smirk.

“No, you did. You always break. I am a professional.” You jab your finger into his chest.

“Lies,” he mutters, already laughing again.

In another clip, you’re leaning in for the big kiss — the one in the rain, all slow and dramatic — and you both miscalculate and slam noses. Loudly.

You both groan and burst out laughing, clutching your faces.

“You were too eager!” “You tilted the wrong way!” “No, baby, your nose came in like a heat-seeking missile—”

Cut to: the two of you making a big show of how much you hate having to kiss each other. Pedro sighs dramatically before a take. “Ugh, not this again.”

You fake gag. “Do we have to? I can’t stand his face.”

Crew members are dying off-camera — especially because when the scene starts rolling again, you kiss like two people who forgot there were cameras. Like you really like each other. You linger too long. His hand slides up your back. The director yells cut, and neither of you moves.

“Cut!”

Still kissing.

“Cut! Hello? You two can stop now!”

You pull away giggling, lipstick smudged, and Pedro just grins like a man who’s exactly where he wants to be.

Then there’s the steamy scene.

You’re half-dressed, bodies pressed close, breath hitching on every word. It’s intense. Almost too real. Sexual tension so thick it hums on camera.

And then Pedro leans in, eyes low and dark, and blows a raspberry on your nose.

You shriek. The crew screams laughing. Pedro rolls off the bed cackling.

“You’re the worst!” you gasp between laughs.

“Had to break the tension,” he grins, popping back up and fixing your robe.

And the final clip?

You and Pedro, fully dressed in cozy robes, laying side by side on the fake set bed, scripts in hand. The lights are low, your legs are tangled, and you’re both whispering your lines with little kisses in between.

“Line twelve,” you murmur, flipping the page.

“I’d rather say ‘I love you’ again,” he says, kissing your shoulder.

“Wrong script, mister.”

He laughs into your neck, pulling you closer. “Never wrong with you.”

And the video cuts there — right before you say, “We’re definitely trending again, aren’t we?”

The internet agreed. The bloopers were better than most movies. And the love between you two?

Unscripted.

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[justfangirlstuffs]

Discussion on chapter 4 events

I am so tired of all these posts villainizing the SOUL (player) as this entity that robs Kris of their agency and Kris hates our guts. And while both of those may be true how come I see so little discussion about the parts in chapter 4 where Kris relies on us (the SOUL) to find Susie in the dark when they get separated? Or when we (the SOUL) stands with Kris, Susie, and Ralsei against the storm as we fight our way forwards? Or how we help Kris and Susie banish the Titan?? Or heck!! How we help Susie with the Gerson fight, you really think Kris would just LET us do that if they didn't trust us to help Susie. Their new BEST FRIEND?

Why does it feel like so few people are talking about how Kris seems to be in the beginnings of developing a symbiotic relationship with the SOUL rather than a parasitic one? Neither of them asked for this relationship but they're trying to make the best of it and it feels like Kris might be starting to come around.

You really think Toby, who is well aware of how much his fans adore his games and his characters, that he will give us an ending that basically says: yep you're the bad guy lolol now get out of my world (game)?

Obviously everyone's entitled to their take / interpretation of the game and I am NOT saying they are wrong for having those opinions, but this is a take I simply do not agree with and have strong feelings about.

I dunno... It just feels like people are focusing more on the negative moments/interpretations than the positive ones.

Thanks for coming to my low key rant. Have this little creature I found in the dumpster he has a GREAT DEAL for you!

[atomicrebelfire]

lol, both Tommy and Buck are emotionally evasive. The bashing of Buck is fucking wild. Neihter are flawless woobies and neither are villains.

Sorry it took me few days to reply. I’ve been avoiding my inbox and wasn’t very active here past week.

I mean… yeah. Emotional avoidance is literally their love language 😭 But this was never about making Buck the villain. I think we’ve just gotten so used to offering him empathy on instinct that others hurt sometimes gets overlooked. So if it seems like I’ve been “dragging Buck” lately (honestly...which i am not) , it’s only because I believe he could’ve done better. And I want him to. That’s love, your honor.

Bad jokes aside — saying Buck was wrong isn’t bashing. Being critical isn’t hateful. It’s not about blame, it’s about understanding character choices. And holding a main character to scrutiny isn’t an attack. it’s called analysis.

I’ve never woobified Tommy or buck. I just refused to let both of them off the hook. that's the whole point.

Yes, both were at fault — relationships involve two people. And as a fandom, we’ve extensively unpacked where Tommy went wrong: his emotional evasiveness, impulsiveness, poor timing, and communication issues. That critique exists, and it’s been fair and warranted.

But the second the lens turns toward Buck? Suddenly it’s “bias,” “bashing,” or “trying to make Tommy the victim.” No. What we’re doing is holding both characters to the same standard and if anything, Buck should be examined more closely. We’ve known him since Season 1, Episode 1. His patterns are established. That means he gets more depth but also more accountability.

Buck shut down. He didn’t communicate. He pulled away at a crucial moment. He left someone hanging after pulling them in. That’s not slander. That’s canon.

Loving a character doesn’t mean shielding them from critique. It means being willing to see the mess, the flaws, the consequences and still care enough to look closer. That’s not bias. That’s balance.

Because “both were at fault” can’t be where the conversation ends. It’s where it starts. If we say both were responsible, we actually have to talk about both. else it's a cop out.

And if that makes anyone uncomfortable… maybe it’s not because the analysis is unfair. Maybe it’s because they’re just not used to Buck being on the other side of it. 🤷‍♀️

And if you want to talk about it? I’m open to that, as long as we’re all being honest about what actually happened onscreen.

xoxo

PS. i think i'm incapable of quick takes or short replies. thats how i speak too!!!! 🤭🤣

[reverse-moon]

I really have fucking issues with PjSK shippers, and I'm not exempt from this as well because I do the same sometimes.

But like. People call AnHane, MinoHaru, KanaMafu, AkiToya, RuiKasa and like one other canon all because of how they act with each other. When literally, they miss some major points with the plots of the characters.

Haruka is Minori's Kamioshi. Whom she has had on a pedestal since the first time she saw Haruka on tv. Following that, she gets the chance to FUCKING INSPIRE her Kamioshi personally. I'd like to help clarify — MINORI LOVED IDOL HARUKA. AND IS LEARNING TO NOT PLACE THE IDOL HARUKA AS THE REAL HARUKA BECAUSE THEY AREN'T THE SAME ENTIRELY. And people who say she doesn't have any real reaction to men, you base that off of how Minori interacts with Akito and Tsukasa. BOTH OF WHOM she really isn't close to like the girls in her unit and school. Haruka too, MMJ hardly has in game male interactions, y'all can drop that as a reason for gay Minori canon. Please. If later theres an event with all guys and her, and it canonically takes her having to spend like every day of a month with them and she STILL doesn't seem close to the bois™, sure. Then you can use this as your evidence, but for now it's circumstantial at best and plain untrue at worst.

"An said she had a date with Kohane and that she loved her." Have you never said you had a date with a platonic friend before? Have you never told your friends you love them? Now, granted, the friend date thing is a little older, some of you youngins (joking) may not know that was a thing still back in the early 2000's. But like? If you haven't told your friends you love them, that's a lil sad (in my personal opinion, don't go getting yourself in trouble). I'd also like to mention, since then, any "i love you"’s in game have been altered to not say that because people took it the wrong way, so we missed out on a NeneEmu "I love you" like in EN bc of this.

"But KanaMafu is canon bc they live together and Kanade brings Mafuyu warmth and–” KANADE IS ALSO DEALING WITH THE IDEA THAT SHE IS THE ONLY THING MAFUYU TRUSTS TO KEEP HER ALIVE?! Which isn't wrong, to a degree, but like. Currently, neither of them are mentally ready for a romantic relationship. Mafuyu ESPECIALLY because of how being near her mother is a trigger and Kanade with her survivors guilt and saviour complex. It's not unhealthy, but they definitely are on the edge of it and that kinda goes for ALL ships with these two. INCLUDING MY FAVE MAFUEMU AND KANAEMU, but that's another story.

AkiToya is in the same fucking boat as AnHane, just because they're close as hell does not mean the word "partner" is a double meaning word for lover AND music partner. Just because they throw that word around a lot doesn't make it romantic. Y'all would be throwing a FIT if Akito was doing that with Kohane or An saying this, why does Toya instantly change that?

RuiKasa isn't canon, and despite what people say there is literally not even evidence to support this. KanaMafu, AnHane, MinoHaru... At least the direct evidence is actual in game things. Your proof is... Card art that is half out of context. "EMU5 RUI" THAT WAS LITERALLY NOT NEWS, WE ALL KNEW HE DID THAT THEY JUST CONFIRMED IT. "His hand was on Rui's arm tho—" YEAH, TO FUCKING STOP HIM FROM SHOVING VEGGIES ONTO HIS OWN PLATE?! Tsukasa and Rui shippers also tend to be EXTREMELY protective of their ship. I've seen them bully artists into leaving PjSK fan art behind, all because someone drew NeneKasa or happened to draw platonic Kasa and Emu. PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS. "Rui trusts Tsukasa so much and doesn't want to lose him, and Tsukasa is the same!" Seriously. Seriously. I am begging here for you to also remember that basically all of WonderShow dread the day they will disband so they can all pursue their personal dreams because they all collectively love each other and trust each other that much. We literally had an Emu event where they all admitted this. Please.🙏

I'm not saying you can't ship, cause it's ingrained in fandom. I'm not saying it's wrong to like the aforementioned ships, because it's not. I'm saying acting like people are misunderstanding a character because they don't see Minori as straight lesbian or Akito as straight gay (both of which, by the way, may not be illegal but they do make your life a little harder in Japan) is harmful and can literally push people away from wanting to ship or be in a fandom. And when a cast is this big, I get it, it's easier to avoid the ships you dislike. But I shouldn't have to feel like I'm STOMACHING SHIPS when I'm looking through a solo character tag either.

Do you know how often I keep trying to remind people (MYSELF INCLUDED) that the game won't put in ships unless it was with NPC's? Again, shipping is ingrained in fandom, it's just par for the course, but claiming to know canon that is AT BEST heavy accidental undertones is just annoying to see every other post about one character. And a pot of times, it overtakes an event (LOOKING AT YOU EMU5 RUIKASA FANS). And intense shoving that AxB is canon can actually make people hate characters for no reason. Same with making memes out of crackships (LOOKING AT YOU, AKIMAFU FANS).

Don't try to preach your ship as gospel unless it's actually explicitly canon. And even then, maybe take with a grain of salt.

[poliwhirl-sys]

(multiple authors)

💧OMG SO i literally just made a post about this!!! i would point at characters like ENA and Razzle&Dazzle (pictures under cut) and go aw they are literally me! but im like the sad side. i dont know who i thought the "other side" was.

also all our internal monologues (dialogues?) when moving the body places had "we". so if i was thinking about MY opinions and preferences, it would be "i think this and that", but if the body was moving, it was "we need to go to the store/class/etc"

♥️ I think one of the main signs that somebody could have noticed would have been the dramatic shifts in personality. Every day we would have some new "identity" or "aesthetic". We couldn't buy clothes frequently enough to fit our tastes. We also had a ridiculous number of hobbies and interests (way too many for a normal person to manage) that we really couldn't invest enough time in.

Plus the gender-fluidity. It wasn't a sort of peaceful "sometimes I am a guy/girl/neither/both". It was like every time we experienced a "new" gender, everything we had believed before was wrong and no longer applied to us. Then the gender would change again. This was probably each of us headmates fronting and feeling dysphoria with whatever the last fronter had done to our body.

🏠 The constant dissociation might have been a clue. I feel like it was ridiculously obvious in hindsight. How did nobody ever notice us spacing out?

question 138: do you think, looking back, there ever "signs" of your plurality, or of specific system members? did you notice them at the time, or can you only tell now, with hindsight?

[tammyhybrid21]

I’m going to put these on their own post just so I can get my thoughts in order first. Starting of course with the Siblings and their Slugcats... if the heights are inconsistent, please I’m aware... One of the curses I think... Anyway so what can I say-- A lot actually, but I don’t want to say everything.

So I’ll just kind of, list it as I take it.

I am a firm believer in short Pebbles, short all of the iterators actually. Which speaking of, they are child sized. Going by that one theory that Slugcats are around 3’-ish. Which I do adore, I love it so much because I-- I like characters who’re small and thus have to deal with the issues that comes from been smol, as well the blessings of that shorter height. I mean seriously, look back at my roleplaying days-- my Main Muse was a 3’1/95cm tall child who got into EVERYTHING, but that’s not the point of this.

This was initially a picture I was drawing just as a reference, but I think I’m just going to use whatever height charts I make for those in the end... so instead this is more like a sheet of Misc headcanons/thoughts.

Straight up at the front, listing off heights. Artificer shares the same thing that sends me about NSH with LTTM’s height difference, 1cm turns into a whole inch of difference. And then Ruffles/Rivulet is smaller and faster. Pebbles meanwhile just smol-- ALSO THE MARKINGS. I have come to a conclusion and Pebbles and Moon’s markings and how they go together and that conclusion is phases of the Moon. I also love the idea that they match clothing wise... and the deeper issues with Pebbles basically only been given hand me downs.

Hand me down citizens, hand me down clothes... Vague ideas he’s built to the west of Moon, so also literally in her shadow when the sun rises...

BUT also on that, I suppose lets go to those little picture snippets huh. So first off, I love the idea of iterators giving out marks/gifts to Slugcats they claim. Artificer is Pebbles’ citizen as much as he’s her “angry pink baby”. With one extra headcanon--

When I first fell into drawing Rain World fanart I also done up this quick sheet. Nothing here is really relevant because it was mostly me just getting some thoughts in order. BUT-- I have a half joking headcanon that Pebbles is colourblind thanks to a mod with unfixed dialogue. Which you can see in my timeline/headcanon scribbles as well. SPECIFICALLY. I play around as if Pebbles has protanopia.

Which ye, he has even more strive for independence from Moon as result. ALSO, As a funny thing, this will be used as an excuse for a fic at some point for him to send Artificer off to NSH and go “You’ll know her when you see her, she’s you coloured!”-- she is empathetically not. Same as her Scarf is not the same colour as Pebbles like he thinks it is in that first picture.

I have... a lot to say regarding that one spoiler picture with Ruffles and campaign specific event. But the issue with that is it would take a lot of words and some explanations that even likely go cross-fandom. I just have one thing I will say right here.

People need to learn how to hear/see unspoken apologies. Apologies through actions and not words... But I’ll save that for when I actually get my thoughts together for all the fandoms it’s relevant to. So maybe... hopefully one day I’ll get to that.

Kind of wish I had more to say about the Slugcats here, but uhhh-- don't really have much, at least not this second. Not beyond the obvious... Although I do have a WIP time-travel fic with Riv and Moon that goes with another half-joke headcanon... will I explain that, no, because that's currently one paragraph of a story that I don't even know will be written more or not.

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

My most controversial ships apparently

They aren't controversial in a sense of being nasty or fucking illegal but because people tend to overreact to them or demonize the relationship for no reason shipping these is like killing 100 grandmas.

[remastered-feedback]

Historically, both 1900s and 1930s were both pre-IIRIRA and thus I really don't see how 1900s or 1930s vs 2020s would make a difference.

That's why I pointed out things like the Johnson-Reed act and the Emergency Quota act that substantially changed the American immigrant experience between those time periods; an immigration system with hard caps on both the number of immigrants allowed per country, and a hard cap on the number of overall immigrants, is inarguably a sea change from one that didn't, and that's just two of the many laws that implemented substantial changes in that roughly 40 year window.

When I explained the historical context that I felt informed the character's backstory and why that led me to the conclusions it did, you responded by saying that my beliefs about the history were wrong and that I should "look into that further rather than going from vibes," and followed it up with an example from 1938. The reason I have been bringing up the history since then is because

A. I wasn't speaking based on vibes, I was speaking based on my understanding of the history, so I found the notion that I drew that conclusion without actually researching the basis for my belief and effectively just formed it based on a hunch to be dismissive and insulting.

B. I wanted to provide an explanation for that historical understanding, because while I am open to being wrong (it has happened many times and it will happen many more over my lifetime), I want to know how and why I'm wrong so I can properly course-correct. If the other person is assuming that I am going on nothing but a gut feeling, I want to provide the evidence and reasoning for why I believe what I do, because if someone doesn't know why someone believes something, how can a response that properly educates away misconceptions be formed?

C. As I feel I've laid out decently, I believe that the tragedy of the St. Louis is from a very different era as far as American immigration law is concerned, and because of that, like I said, I felt like we were talking about completely different historical eras when you brought it up as an example of why my beliefs were incorrect. If I had been ambiguous about the time period I was referring to I could understand, but I fairly clearly said in my initial response that I was referring to "the immigration laws that existed in the US at the time Siegel and Schuster's parents came to the US" and those were vastly different than what existed in 1938.

Especially considering the similar atmosphere around immigration in society at the time the comics were written and today. History didn't stop when Schuster's parents didn't come to the US and Schuster was obviously aware of various sentiments in society when he was writing Superman.

I never said that history stopped, or that either creator wasn't aware what was happening. What I said was that I believe the authors drew on their own experiences and family histories to inform those of the character they were writing. Neither one of their families fled European persecution in the 1930s, both families fled Europe in the 1890s/1900s. I am not discounting the events of the 1930s as unimportant or as something lost on the Siegel or Shuster, I am saying that if their family histories informed that writing, then the atmosphere and events of the 1890s/1900s are more central to understanding the character.

Also, again, why are you assuming it would be different now? Given that Refugee children and unaccompanied children and foreign adopted children still are phenomenon that exist.

Because there are different laws on the books now. Requirements on income, employment, and employable skills are much higher than they were 120 years ago, the process to become an American citizen now is radically different. Like I said before, without doing a deep dive into the immigration filings and economic standings of both families when they were in Europe, it is impossible to have a 100% certain answer on whether both families would've experienced more or less hardship in the process as it exists today. (And if such a deep dive does exist and I just can't find it, let me know and I will read away so I can be properly informed) But based on the overall historical trend over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, I believe it would be a far more difficult experience.

I haven't seen the new movie yet, but the whole "Woke Superman" thing is so weird to me because like...Superman has been an investigative reporter at a large legacy newspaper since the mid 1930s. Lex Luthor has been an evil real estate mogul bribing corrupt politicians since the late 70s/early 80s. "Superman works for a major newspaper and fights an evil rich dude" has been the gist of the story longer than most people who worked on the new movie have been alive.

Even if we gloss over people somehow not clocking that Superman has literally always been an undocumented alien from another planet, this isn't some left-field new direction for the character dynamic between Lex and Superman, this is the status quo between them for roughly the last 50 years.

[briar--rising]

It is so funny to me when people try to argue about who's 'worse', Lestat or Armand. First of all, worse by what metric? By the way they treat humans? The way they treat Claudia? Or (as it seems most people are focused on) only the way they treat Louis? And if it's by the way they treat Louis, are you judging based on what you would find worse in a partner, or by what Louis does (bc I would argue he pretty clearly has an opinion on that based on the end of season 2).

And most importantly of all, who cares??? They are both TERRIBLE. Everyone in this show is terrible! You can like morally reprehensible characters. Armand is my personal blorbo, and what he does is horrific. I can feel bad for him, and enjoy watching him, and think that his actions are heinous, and reblog art and read fanfiction of him, and analyze him without excusing him, all at the same time! And so can you with whoever you like!

Pitting these characters against one another is absurd. "Which one is less abusive" is a question I guess you can ask, but it's not a very interesting one. Much more interesting is "Why are they abusive in these specific ways? What about their trauma and personality informs their actions? Why does Louis react the way he does to each of them? What does that say about Louis? What does this show say about domestic violence in general? Are the rules different for vampires? Or is abuse abuse? Do the victims determine who should get forgiveness? Or are certain actions inherently unforgivable? Can you forgive someone when their victim hasn't? Is any of this different in fiction rather than reality? etc etc etc." There are so many interesting questions posed by the juxtaposition between Lestat and Armand and the way they treat Louis, and none of them are "but which one is worse so I can forever villify that one and hold up the other one as the paragon of what's good and right and perfect for Louis"

[the-mysterious-stranger]

I don’t want to argue about this but how can you be an apologist for shen jiu while hating severus snape, SJ was literally worse 💀 pushing aside the fact that shen jiu arguably just has a more nasty personality from the beginning, not only did he actively sabotage his student’s learning to the best of his ability but he tried to KILL his student multiple times before finally “succeeding” (pushing LBH into the abyss), amongst a lot of other things. I’m not saying that snape is any sort of wonderful nice person either, he’s just… not nearly as severe as SJ so how are people okay with shen jiu but not him? make it make sense

[bellascarousel]

I don't know if anyone in either of my current writing projects have any disabilities. I do have a character from a future romance series who will have (undiagnosed, at least in the beginning) ADHD and dyscalculia.

Which are actually the disabilities that I have. The dyscalculia doesn't really affect my writing too much. But the ADHD certainly does. Focus is... not my strong suit. Neither is just getting started. I am the queen of spending way too much time playing games I don't even like that much on my phone rather than doing anything I'm actually supposed to be doing.

I also have both arthritis and carpal tunnel. Which pretty much translates into a mild to moderate chronic pain disorder. It rarely gets so bad that I can't type, but trying to handwrite can be an adventure, sometimes.

Writeblr Live -- July Q2

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What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.

Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.

You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.

We’re here to help rebuild interaction in the community, so get in there and have fun with it!

[kexytimes]

to the one person who asked for a Diomedes as a suitor fic

I have not forgotten, here is a crumb to feed you until I finish cooking <3

"What do you care stranger? You are not his father." One of the suitors laughed, and the others quickly joined in. Telemachus just focused on the ground, unwilling to even look at them. His head shot up at once when the man spoke though.  "And if I am?" The man questioned, his head turning to look towards the suitors, causing them to quiet so quickly, you would think that they had been slapped. And with good reason. The man's shoulders did not move in the slightest to accommodate the sharp rotation of his head, even though this level of strain would be painful for most people to endure. The stranger continued to watch the three men with an unchanged expression, before starting to close the distance between himself and the suitors. Telemachus watched on in awe as he moved across the tiled floor of the courtyard, as silent as a lion through tall grass. "If I told you, that you could run down to the docks, and be greeted with the sight of twelve ships, along with more weeping wives than you have ever seen. What would you do then?" Silence followed the man's reveal, as Telemachus and the three men all stood there frozen, just staring at the tall frame of the man. Too stunned to think of any words to speak. Out of all the ways that Telemachus had pictured his father's return over the years, this had never popped into his head. Him just appearing as if out of thin air, and waltzing in as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Like he had never left at all. Eventually, one of the suitors finds his voice, awkwardly clearing his throat before speaking. "Our deepest apologies..." The man in between the other two, who had appeared so sure of himself just moments ago, mumbled quietly, his eyes now firmly planted onto the floor. He then started to lower himself into a bow, and the other two beside him scrambled to follow suit.  All Telemachus could do was watch as the scene in front of him played out, yet his mind was almost dizzy with questions. This didn't make any sense. How had they not seen the ships from days away? Why had no one told him and his mother-  The unabashed chuckles of the man broke through Telemachus's spiraling thoughts, making him look to the man claiming to be his father, who was clearly holding back laughter at the sight in front of him. The three men's heads all shot up as well, before beginning to look between each other once more, the confusion, even the slight look of fear, clear behind their eyes. At the sight of that, the man straight up laughed, then turned away from the three and towards the inside of the palace.  "You better count your blessings that I am not Odysseus, he would have taken your heads off on the spot, if he had caught you treating his son like that." The stranger informed them in a dark, serious tone as he continued walking towards the entrance inside, leaving them behind to lick their wounded pride. Telemachus instead sat off after the man, he needed to know who he was, what he was doing here, why he had come to his aid? The stranger had turned down a hallway when Telemachus finally caught up with him. The man did not appear surprised to see that he had been followed. He sent Telemachus a polite smile, then waited for him to speak.

[tah1u11ah]

i need everyone to know ive been in the lman summer discord a total of like. Two/three and a half days. And i made a minecraft server and already have two duos with members + found family happening??? And we're speedrunning lore somehow but its all janky?????

[hexados-on-a-string]

me: teehee yay gus is in mechtanium surge with spectra yippee

my brain, being nice to me for once: hey isnt it cool how gus has been by spectra's side this whole time? through the entirety of new vestroia, and in those 2 years since, he's never left his side. despite how much has changed, they haven't left each other's side, isnt that nice?

me:

[queeraak]

this really was our the hundred line: last defense academy (actual thoughts in tags with implied but minimal spoilers)

[rxttenfish]

Thanks for opening my eyes to Miravi as a ship, it’s one I never would’ve even thought of but once I started thinking about it… yeah. Yeah!!!! It makes so much sense! Two tropey girls, a tragic princess and her conflicted knight in shining armour! I can’t help it, I’m a sucker for that…. (this might be why I always play as Vicky in MP…. because when I romance Miri my queen…. the polaroid is them as a knight and a princess….)

I love how you characterise them a bunch. I love that they can be two dorks together. Two nerds who love talking to and listening to each other. Two people who can heal together. Happy times for the both of them <33

thanks!! i still recall that this ship came mostly by accident to me, and honestly it was a damn fortunate accident at that because they work AMAZINGLY together. i really do like picking ships by virtue of personality and how well those personalities would mesh together, and don't like ships where that isn't directly considered, which, to be fair, i did at first think the two would probably dislike or hate each other! but i ended up thinking about it more and how the two might actually interact, and, honestly? the way they come off to me has always been that, if they can just get over that initial hump, they're WONDERFUL for each other.

i just like the way they parallel each other. both clinging to what they were told they are for their entire lives, something given to them by family and whom they had little choice in, but which they threw themselves into with a passion simply because they had nothing else they thought they could be. both with nasty, tangled histories, upholding systems which exist to eat the world and themselves simply serving as the last victims of it, neither able to fully question their role in it due to how much has been invested, how much would be lost if they had to put it aside. both with ringing alarm bells of psychological distress of all of this, that they cannot hear because they were never taught they were alarm bells, seeking out something that's close enough to what they were told they're supposed to be but without the teeth, without the fear, without the alarm bells. both rejected by their own systems by virtue of some flaw that isn't really a flaw, a fault that has marked them as unable to live up to their own myths. both only really able to come to any terms about all of this when they have other people, people who aren't a part of that system, people who they can depend on and trust, to start pointing it out and offering alternatives.

it's good! i like when two characters' journeys are really one journey, one path together, when they're in the same boat and just haven't realized it yet. i like it when they realize it, when they can finally start talking about it, finding solidarity in, yeah, actually, this IS bullshit, and why would someone do that to them. i like it when they're a conversation with each other, a mirror through which the other can be dismantled and picked apart and seen for what it is, when both act to lay the other out plain, when only the both of them can see the other for who they truly are.

and i like when it gives characters that are all high octane and presence and tension, just some downtime together. i like it when they can finally take off all that they drape themselves in, and just sit there together, vulnerable and exposed. i like how much they talk and have to say to each other, but i like how much they don't talk to each other as well, how much they can just exist in the silence together because the words aren't necessary. i like it when two characters being vulnerable with each other first feels like strangulation, and then, release.