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Adventure Forward ; Cogs of Time. ⚙️
A Shallare focused AU I made for fun!
Concepts down below, prepare to read a lot of things!
#adventure forward#adventure forward 2#adventure forward points of conflict#shallare#he has a lot of heavy inspo#I dont have any other plans for him
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Good reveal au, where after learning phantom's identity and realizing the atrocities that the GIW have committed (or alternatively, ethical science au, where they find out the GIW plagarized them), the fenton parents decided to create the 'ultimate ghost-ending weapon' and sell it to the agents.
They go absolutely overboard, describing to the agents in meticulous detail how it evaporates any ghost it hits near-instantly and describing it quite ruthlessly in the blueprints, and soon the GIW have raplaced all their main weapons with the new gun.
Except it doesn't actually kill ghosts. It's the Fenton Bazooka. You know, the one that creates a portable portal to suck the ghost back into the ghost zone? What they actually did was retool it slightly to make it look more grusome than it actually is. They even added a beacon in Phantom's Keep, which all Fenton Bazookas will target when they open a portal, so the ghosts are always delivered to the keep.
From there, Phantom stationed an emergency medical team at the keep to treat the many injured and ragged ghosts that the GIW 'destroyed,' and to explain what just happened.
What they didn't anticipate was that now that the GIW have a mass-produced weapon that they believed would effectively eradicate ghosts, they would go on the offensive. They have a number of cities they've been monitoring but didn't want to get involved in without better tools.
One of those cities is Gotham.
And the Bats are ectocontaminated enough to register as ghosts.
Batman witnessed several of his children get evaporated by green energy weapons within mere moments of each other. He's absolutely gutted. Devastated. They didn’t even stand a chance.
He'll get his revenge, and it's frighteningly easy to track the weapon to private subcontractors. The Doctors Fenton, in Illinois. Their research calls for the genocide of all ghost kind, and apparently, that war started by killing his own children.
His children will not die in vain.
He gets to Amity Park and finds the Engineer's Nightmare of a building that is Fentonworks, but that night, before he can hack through the security and break in, one of the windows opens.
It's one of his kids that he had watched evaporate before his very eyes. They give him a silent signal of one of their identifying security codes and gesture for him to come inside.
Is it a trap? A prank in poor taste? Utterly genuine?
He goes through the window.
All of his dead kids are there, wearing borrowed pajamas and only their dominoes to conceal their identities. Daniel Fenton (son of the Fentons, this is his bedroom, has voiced a few arguments against his parent's views, but still an unknown) is among the crowd of teens and young adults, twirling on an office chair and obnoxiously sipping a capri sun.
"First thing you need to know, Bats," Daniel says after finishing his drink, "is that my parents are absolutely NOT genocidal ectophobic scumbags, and that is the reason why your kids are still alive."
#the bats are not the first human liminals that the giw 'killed'#whenever humans land in the keep frostbite immediates calls phantom to take them back to earth#alternate scene at fentonworks:#bruce spies maddie on the phone and overhears her saying she'll 'inform batman when he arrives'#its frostbite/phantom on the phone telling her to keep an eye out for any bats because some of their team was 'killed'#and shortly after she spots batman spying on her and gestures for him to come in#and when theyre both in the lab the spectre speeder returns chock full of various bats and team phantom members#needless to say bruce is very relieved and incredibly confused#and his kids have a pretty wild story to tell#i deliberately left which kids vague#but i imagined jason and tim for sure and possibly two others#they hadnt left fentonworks yet as to not inform the giw that they survived and knowing that bruce would find them#it would also give away the fenton's trick and dont want to reveal that before the agency has been stopped#so they have to make a plan that doesnt reveal that theyre alive or expose the fentons deceit too quickly#the fentons may have to be temporarily arrested by the justice league while the investigation is ongoing#to hide the fact that they werent actually helping the giw#dpxdc#dp x dc
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I love the show The Librarians but I never can forgive the writers for making an entire episode about Ezekiel Jones going through trauma after trauma, learning so many things and growing so much as a person as he fights through a time loop looking for some way to save everyone, having him succeed in saving everyone but himself, and for his fellow Librarians who only know the last loop to bring him back BUT HE HAS NO MEMORIES FROM HIS TIME IN THE TIME LOOP!
Just a character reset and I was so pissed. They didn't even allude to him actually remembering but pretending not to!
#the librarians#the librarians show#Ezekiel was my favorite character and i loved the moments where they let him be genuine#my guy got an apple that turns you into the worst version of yourself and every other mc nearly destroyed the world when they had it#spent the whole episode saying dont let ezekiel touch it#he finally gets it and nothing happens#only person to willing give it up#and without any world domination plans#also saved a dying kid everyone wrote off#helped a girl who accidentally started a cult after being tricked into using an obsession potion#loves his mom and sisters despite them making fun of him for no longer stealing stuff#he saved Christmas with his mom after she almost ruined it and almost got them melted by santas brother#its been years since ive watched the show#but i still have thoughts if you coukdnt tell by the post and my tag rant lol#dont mind the rambles#Ezekiel Jones
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something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny
#library of ruina#yan library of ruina#getting comfortable doodling some objects and mannequin shapes for very obvious reasons. i read the keypage story and now it has a grip on#my brain. wanting to go ahead and plan it out and then draw the mangled memory and nightmare that replays behind the eyelids in the darknes#it was cool to see the reason confirmed from my speculation. twas indeed another reason of blocking out present pain with closing of eyes#considering they made angela have a plot important reason for doing so it would only make sense for another to have a reason for it as well#well. after having a prominent part inside the thumb/index story line. its just going to be yapping about yan now i think#let me add a spoiler tag i suppose? vauge but just incase i dont want to be an asshole. even if most already have played rhe game#library of ruina spoilers#lor spoilers#i really liked the typewritter effect over the voice after distortion. especially so when the effect finishes before the actual garbled voi#does. it makes it feel as if it were being read out after it being written down rather than of own words or volition. along with the text#upon the screen during the fight being just prescripts rather than anything relating to the man himself like the other instances with such#text had been. paired w the name of distorted yan being untranslated to keep the intent of the name being unreadable or not understandable#more into the idea of stripping away of the self or any sense of a self. not personal and not even him anymore. the following of a goal for#the goal for it is given and there isnt any hope of having the ability to not do such a thing. people yearn for a reason and something to d#and for it to be given to them to not hold responsibility nor have to do their own choices anymore. once a crushing weight weighs down#inside the face of an absolute cruelty that is perpetuated and that crushed the dreams or even desires having them be but nothing how can#one move on? it was really nice to see at the end of the fight. its easier to just say such things than to actually do them. even if the ac#ions dont even feel as if they are ones own or that there isnt any say in the matter having to endure all the pain for seemingly nothing it#still is pain. that feeling inside is still real. it still happened. regardless of the circumstances that brought them about#the thumb/index or just fingers seem to be an exaggerated to the extreme showcase of how the colletivist mindset in an unhealthy manner#could be exhibited. the thumb with its hierarchy and absoluteness and the demand for respect along with its strict layers of showing who is#below and who is above. the ability to have power over those underneath . the participation inside of it and the already brought up yearnin#to be apart of a group and to have a title and position inside of a group and of power and even a desire like from pete to join one iirc#the index being of the cruel perpetuating cycle of pain people inflict upon one another a behavior beaten and upkept by the systems as they#drift and desire to live. which causes them to partcipate in that cycle out of necessity. cruel acts upon another in order to live and seei#a need to go ahead and do such things for if they dont they die and another will just do the same to them. social sciences talk and rolands#talks abt how the city opperates reinforce that fact. the index and prescripts are really just a show inside that extreme manner and in a#more literal sense of that. it was really cool to read it..
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messy thing of my lioden king
#my art#lioden#umm idk what all im supposed to tag . its not often i post non wc art HAHAHAHA#illustration#lion#animal illustration#umm so technically he doesnt have a name . ive just been referring to him as my king . bc when i named him i thought i was just#picking out my username HAHAHAHA so. ermmm JANLJHDFBKGDJHFB#hes almost 8 years old and i dont really have any future king plans#i kept his first son and his first daughter and i kept the first two cubs i got from the giving tree#i do have other cubs/lions that hes sired and ive have lions from the explore tab#ill see how long i can keep getting cubs from him and then ill just pick the youngest male cub to take over when he retires#i do think i have a bit more time w him though#this was also super fun though. i still have photoshop and im having a blast with all of the brushes
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Compilation of random hakuoki stuff ive done over the last month because ive been replaying the games👍
idk if anyone sees my visions here idek if theres a fandom here ?? hey guys😌
#ik its literally just a bunch of hijikata and nonsensical memes but i swear im normal#btw hijikata is not my favourite character i just have alot of thoughts about him#giggling to myself while i paint the most stupid looking dogs holding each other. life is joyous#does anyone even understand the dog one. should i explain#okay ill share my wisdom in yamazakis route they are constantly described as like holding hands (or just being rlly close) and#the entire route all i can imagine is those silly little dogs holding each other#in general yamazaki and chizuru are so wholesome i think . they are easily my faves personally#alot of these are rlly low effort cuz ive been rlly busy with other things but i think theyre silly enough to share#im still trying to figure out how to draw chizuru cuz i have future art plans with her in mind#and also harada cuz i mean. cmon guys its harada#i should probably draw more characters in the future. idk yet#oughh anyways . time to retire for the evening#btw i dont know the tags so im sorry to any hakuoki fans who see this#hakuouki#hakuoki#otome game#otome fanart#hakuouki fanart#hakuoki fanart#sheetzking#unculturedswine69
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The tragedy of Kokichi to me is that he really Didn't have to do all that. There's endless discourse about ch4 and if what Kokichi did was justified. And a lot of people argue that Kokichi had to sacrifice Miu and Gonta, mainly for his life, and partly for his plan. But the reality is he didn't have to do that- but not in an immediate sense. His cold attitude and lack of belief in others pushed him into a corner where his long-game Plan to End The Killing Game was his best course of action. So in the end, no, he didn't need to do all that, but it's not as easy as stopping at ch4. The cause of his actions runs much deeper than the surface level motivations of that case.
#I dont know if this is coherent#But like. He didn't have to do all that. but for his plan to work he did#but he didnt have to do his plan in the first place-#I really really believe that kokichi's fatal flaw that led to his death was his complete lack of belief in the others#Its not like I have any suggestions for him on how to work with the others to end the killing game ghdsjkfsd#but I do think that throwing out cooperation from the jump isnt the right thing to do. & working together to beat the mastermind DOES WORK#as long as youre able to stay united against their motives and schemes#shut up me#kokichi ouma#Like. There are other ways he could have gone about protecting himself from Miu (considering he knew her intentions)#but that would almost always involved bringing in the support of other people who hed already burned bridges with#so he chose to do it this way. for the continued success of his plan
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where did this small victorian london orphan boy find wifi
#i threw the ‘ no irises ‘ stylization right iut the window really quickly oops#sorry he just looked way better with them here#ill have to update the other guys later#there are like 2 things i need to fix on this sprite but ill do that later#i think he came out rlly good#aquared homestuck au where the midnight crew are the kids and there are some other guys too i think#homestuck#homestuck fantroll#not tagging the felt because its just him#crowbar 07#i dont have any extra comments to make back here#is it obvious what i plan on doing with him though#oh ! also there are two extra versions of this with 2 different palettes ill add those in a reblog though
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my toxic trait is i get really annoyed when ppl make atsushi and akutagawa's relationship about dazai
#like damn let them be their own individuals#not to say we should deny dazai's influence on them especially on how akutagawa's resentment/dislike towards atsushi is stemmed from him#but like does every post about sskk have to be like “and then dazai-”#and i hate the trope that implies that dazai manipulated sskk to have romantic feelings for each other#in general i dont like how ppl sometimes make dazai all knowing other than viewing him and his plans with any nuance but ya know#i'll say “atsushi and akutagawa love each other becuz-” and someone will be like “and then dazai-” like no get him out of here#also im really into the idea of aku letting dazai go at least to some extent and i dont like when ppl like have him hold on to dazai#like they never let him move on from dazai???#like u could be like “aku stops worrying about dazai becuz he realizes he has value” and someone will be like “and thats when dazai finally#acknowledges him and the years of pent up frustration adn the abuse aku went through are finally justified <333"#to add: i dont care if you do like this becuz i dont engage with fanwork that has a differing opinion from me with malice becuz i am not a#child#im just commenting my own opinion about it becuz its something i dont like#like u know i can say i dont like kiwis but that doesnt mean u have to dislike kiwis and r a horrible person for liking them#its like a minor annoyance at best
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Rewatching UTRH is so fun bc this is the only red hood i want. He's cleaning up Gotham. He's killing anyone who gets in his way. He's taking huge cuts off the streets. He's offering protection and delivering.
#my dc posting#jason todd#red hood#crime lord jason todd#pimp jason todd#!!!#utrh#under the red hood#i dont want jason as a simple villain who just shoots whoever he gets annoyed with#i dont want jason abandoning his business n goals n morals just for the possibility of the batfamily's approval#i want him protecting the working girls and having some Guys working for him and shooting other gangs and and and#if you see me quoting utrh yes you do im not ashamed#hes controlling crime!! and he's doing murder n beheading n dealing drugs in the process!!!#LIKE. LIKE. UEGH.#nothing else can measure up to utrh they dont get ittt#this man is CALCULATED n hes got plans n plans n plans and he gets how ppl work#and hes also emotional and sometimes impulsive#my mans got multitudes!!!#stop making him just pow pow boom boom man. hes pow pow boom boom man (with a plan)#do any of you get me???#This November Life by forestgreen gets me.#if nobody got me i know This November Life by forestgreen got me
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sorry for not doing anything for valentine's day this year, but happy valentine's day! hope everyone had a good one!
#ash rambles 💚#it's just been a long day for me adhqjdhw i wish i could do more but I'm exhausted and tired and not the best I could be#wanted to send out some f/o letters but unfortunately i dont have it in me today 😔 I'm sorry#i only just got home#buuut#that means it's time to play y.akuza- because what else does ash do on valentine's day LMAAAOO#i havent put too much thought into what I'm doing with my f/os today and we don't have any big plans#but j.oongi and I both ended up buying each other the same bouquet of roses- which is just funny as hell ajdhqjdhs#methinks that ash and j.oongi went out for a bit but then went home and cuddled and talked. it's nothing special but they're so happy!#the weather is very gloomy today so it's nice to stay inside and cuddle and keep warm!#i think k.enzo and ash went out for a nice dinner too#but yeah i think all my ships just took it easy#I'm very exhausted from my life as of late and honestly i don't even care for valentine's day like that#so we're all just chilling#and making out but dw about that part#ok#back to y.akuza 7#I've got priorities#oh right I'll play the demo for the new game later today too! my ex texted and was like 'ASH YOU'VE GOTTA PLAY THE DEMO IT'S SO PEAK-'#and he's my friend and i trust his judgment#and also i wanna play dress up with m.ajima LMAO#maji love love love~!#not my favorite y.akuza character but i do very much like him! it's gonna be a while till i play the game though bcs I'm still on 7#okay back to y.akuza and cuddling some f/os ajdkahd been a little insecure about some of my ships as of late but rn I'm honestly too sleepy#to be sad about them#y.akuza will wake me up! I'm at that point where you give the money for the election in chapter 12#time to leave ijincho!!!!!#oh#right#like a flowing wind 🔳
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so like do i kms or what
#im having an evil nagito komaeda hand moment#im turning into the jonkler#i dont even know why i feel like this nothing HAPPENED#LITERALLY NOTHING#ok well maybe Something#i just feel super unwanted and left out bc i havent been able to hang out w any of my friends for like 2 months#and ive been asking and letting them know when im free and suggesting places we can go/things we can do#and theyre always like 'yeah' then reschedule or just say no#and i get they might have plans but i swear ive asked about 10 times#3 different friend groups#and nothing!!! no biters!!!#and i feel like one of my friends only hangs out w me when im the one paying like we'll go to a concert or movie#and he'll only go when IM the one paying for it otherwise he never suggests anything#like he went to a concert recently and didnt even mention it to me even tho whenever i go to a concert i offer him to come along#and it was for a band i liked and idk it just :( idk it bothered me that he didnt even ask#maybe im too nice but i ALWAYS ask if other people want to come w me to things and he never does and i think if i stopped we would never +#hang out
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cr3 is gonna end and the pc’s still feel like the same people to me :|
(crcritical content in the tags feel free to skip)
#cr spoilers#cr critical#the pacing of this campaign was shot to shit from the start and i really hope mercer learns from this and takes it into account for cr4#i actually think they need to do mini seasons like d20 does. not in the way that they’re all completely separate from one another but#the way the unsleeping city had multiple seasons or a crown of candy or fantasy high. connected arcs in a bigger story#it would give mercer more time to plan and pace things and would give both cast and crew more time to prepare things#bc this campaign was. frantic. just full speed ahead with no breathing room. it’s a marathon sprint#i still feel like the initial assault on the key was like. maybe a few months ago#IT WAS A YEAR!!!!#what do you MEAN this campaign took place over five months!!! these people don’t know each other!!!! I don’t know them!!!!!!#VM knew each other for YEARS TM9 traveled for a YEAR together#CR3 viewers have been talking about a time skip happening as though it’s a guarantee!!! TM9 didn’t end with a time skip and guess what!!#It was a good ending!!! Maybe a few loose threads but they were easily touched upon later with no issues#like idk ppl are allowed to like or even love cr3 i have no issue with that. i just think that from a storytelling perspective it’s just#so poorly paced and i think both fans and players deserve better than to be thrown into world ending stakes immediately#the initial assault on the malleus key felt like an endgame event and it was like fifty episodes in. Tm9 got to xhorhas around episode 50#characters deserve time to marinate. cr3 is a pressure cooker#don’t even get me started on braius’ inclusion. sam i’m sure your character is cool and complicated but he’s been here for like 20 eps#i dont know this man#also i feel like shorter seasons/separate arcs woven together would account more for people’s personal lives and any medical issues#like what happened with sam. ppl were hounding him asking for his return meanwhile he was being treated for CANCER like I can’t imagine#dealing with that kind of pressure. players deserve privacy however they can get it.#(also fgc’s death is to me the only narratively satisfying thing to happen in cr3 i’m not kidding#fucking perfect setup and execution. exquisitely done on mr riegel’s part#laudna has also had some great story beats along with imogen but i think matt fucked up making delilah come back i really do)#anyway all the love to the cr crew and cast if you see this ily and your stories i just think pacing needs to be taken into account#“they’re just friends sitting at a table playing dnd” i don’t think they are anymore actually#obviously they’re still friends playing dnd but like. cr3 feels so produced and i dont mean that in a good way :[ it feels so corporate#off topic i am SO FUCKING EXCITED for the switch to daggerheart! I think it’ll really breathe some new light and life into exandria!!!
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a friend who'd wait :)
#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops.#and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can!#and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol#finn's ocs#finn's art#i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me#and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun#i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here:#barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past#he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it#he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned#which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them#they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore#but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird#and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place#though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library#and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together#since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door#eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement#barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time.#barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate#but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd#he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself#but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done.#and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies.#and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them)#and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances''#from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov#sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3#but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh
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buck and eddie would be the most insane PTA moms ever, actually. because eddie loves his son and being a bitch and buck loves bossing people around with a clipboard and being involved.
#eddie would absolutely have beef with one of the moms over something stupid like the bake sale banner colors or something#and would convince buck to join the planning/organizing commitee and buck would be all okay!!!! yay that sounds so fun!! :)!!#and buck would end up taking it Very Seriously and whenever eddie tries to tell him ideas for the bake sale buck would get all ah ah ah#as a member of the committee i cannot consider new ideas without consulting the other committee member#eddie always complains that hes just brain storming and needs to bounce ideas off of buck and buck would just be all rules are rules eddie#so eddie has to present his ideas to the pta like all the other parents and buck doesnt ever appear to treat his ideas any differently so#eddie always catches his eye after hes done and winks at him and buck just glares back at him with red ears and ofc buck (usually) ends up#voting in favor of eddie and buck scolds him after meetings because “its inappropriate to flirt to try and get my favor eddie”#“i already have your favor buck. and when you have a clipboard its really hard not to flirt.”#also you know buck would be all over the micromanaging#like “hi jill you wrote down on the spreadsheet that you were going to make four dozen brownies#NOT four dozen chocolate chip cookies. now we have more chocolate chip cookies than we'll be able to sell and not enough brownies.“#and eddie would love getting involved like “yeah jill WAY too many cookies. now the sale is ruined and the kids will never get their trip.”#“eddie why dont you go set up your booth? you shouldve already done that by now...”#“right....”#like eddie would love arguing with the moms about like which activity is more suitable for earth day or whatever#they would literally love it so much#me thinks
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rewatching bbc merlin really has me like buzzing in my mind with so many thoughts. Like I'm kinda watching it backwards atm going from S5 to S4, I think I will jump around 3, 2, and 1 but just,,,, there is so much especially in S5 that makes me !!!!!!!
Honestly, I feel like this fandom has to give the writers more credit. Like they did a damn good job, and to me, it's such a good tragedy. Especially how S5 plays out, it takes everything and just tears you down, and down, and down. It's perfect, perfect with flaws! But still perfect
#bbc merlin#merlin#yeah idk on that note about the writers - this fandom is way too harsh#like i know we all have ideas on how it should have gone#but i think we lose how it's still a story that they planned from the start to end like that#they did their job they set up from the beginning and it is good as a tragedy imo as someone who has studied tragedies#hot take but the characterisations are consistent - i mean like as consistent as they get for a 5 series show#they did better than most and i dont feel like any characters get like their previous characterisation assassinated#that includes Arthur and Morgana btw they clearly have arcs that work well and where Arthur's is a slower progression - Morgana's is like a#lit match - slow at first but when it gets going it's going and then gone - it's wonderful#i mean look at s5 it literally starts by talking about Arthur's bane aka his fatal flaw aka his hamartia#which is himself and i dont think it's as much as the overdone hubris but rather Arthur's love and trust for others - but that like in many#tragedies can be debated#okay something else that can be debated is the peripeteia - i think a good example of it is the Disir episode because that's when Arthur's#fate becomes sealed anything after that point is fruitless because the Triple Goddess has decided he must die because of his rejection of#the Old Religion - it's a reversal of fortune in a sense that Mordred is alive to play his part in Arthur's death - as Merlin puts it. You#could see it more as Merlin's peripeteia rather than Arthur's but still#if we wanna debate it more Arthur's peripeteia would probablyyyy be when Mordred stabs him because that's when his death becomes imminent#it's a reversal of fortune because he's dying from that point forward rather than a strong king he is a man dying#the anagnorisis is another point to make. You could say for Arthur his anagnorisis is all of the finale - like this constant realisation of#Merlin and his magic and realising all that he missed all that he didnt see and now it's too late because he's dying#I'd say Merlin's anagnorisis comes with the whole Mordred and Kara ordeal and how he realises his mistake and how it's gonna cause the#downfall of not just himself but Arthur too#then catharsis - see i think it's the only part where the tragedy falters because do we get catharsis from Arthur's death and Merlin's#immortality - where he's still at the lake centuries later?#i think in some ways yes and in other ways no because I don't think BBC Merlin is following an Aristotle's tragedy#i think catharsis comes more from Morgana's half of the tragedy - seeing her die - and i think further catharsis comes from knowing it's no#over forever that there will be a second chance for redemption for both Merlin and Arthur#but it is a more difficult one for sure#anyway point is that S5 specifically has a tragedy storyline that is very well done and we should credit that more tbh
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