#Killer Instinct

[n64retro]

Amazing photograph shared by Iker Maidagan showing every game developed by Rare and released for Nintendo home consoles during the SNES, N64 and GC eras.

[sunsetovertheocean]

I feel like sibling and platonic relationships don’t get talked enough, especially in relation to romantic relationships in fandoms.

Like cool, I love these ship, but can we PLEASE discuss the fact that Dean is the only person who has never lied to Lia? How he is the only person she will listen to, because he’s the only person she trusts? How Dean was the one person who prevented her from feeling trapped all the time? How Dean was the only person Lia ever let know and get close to the real her? How they were the only constants (besides Judd love him too) in each other’s lives for years in their childhood? The way he knows her and she knows him? She knows how to comfort him and distract him and get him to feel things and tried to help him with his father by looking through his father's file, ignoring her own feelings about it because she just wanted to help him only to find out that she can’t help. (Just think for a moment how she must have felt when she realized that. Because this genuinely breaks my heart.) The fact that they are intensely protective of each other, the way they have conversations without talking just by looking at each other, the way Dean trusts her and Lia trusts him, how they are literally siblings.

And this is going into kind of headcanon-y territory, but I like to believe that Dean didn’t ask Lia any questions about her past and waited for her to tell him herself, and refrained from profiling her (too much at least), and truly didn’t/doesn’t know anything about her past that she didn’t/doesn’t tell him. And how Dean told him things about his past he hadn’t told anyone before, not just to get her to trust him, but also because he trusted her. Just think for a moment please, how Lia, a girl who has been lied to and hurt and threatened and abused by every single person in her life, would feel about meeting someone who didn’t do any of that. Who never even lied to her, not once. For every lie she told him, Dean only ever told her the truth. Dean didn’t blame her for anything, for any part of what she went through. How confused she must have been, finding out that not everyone was like that. How hurt she must have been when she realized that what happened in her past, her childhood, was so much worse than she thought. Because before she thought that everyone was like that and it was normal, but meeting Dean who was entirely fundamentally different in every single way, showed her that it wasn’t. Think about how Dean must have felt, meeting a girl so defensive and closed off. How meeting her awakened a side of him he didn’t think he had, the side that felt and loved and trusted and the side that felt the inexplicable need to protect that girl.

And the fact that to protect her, Dean turns the attention on himself and his past, which he hates, just so Lia doesn’t have to face questions about her own past. Lia would go through hell for him, and he would do the same for her.

Think about how before, all of Lia’s love had essentially been very idk submissive almost, like how she followed her mother and what her mother told her. I think she truly believed at some point that her mother was safe to trust. And then, well, we all know what happened and how her mother is actually evil and— Anyway, after her mother, the only person she trusted in her childhood before, completely shattered and destroyed all senses of trust in others, she lets herself trust and love this boy who trusts and loves her. And this love is fierce and protective, infinitely intense and powerful. The kind of love that can destroy worlds and build new ones, defying all logic and all boundaries. The opposite of what her love had been previously. And think about how much she had to have trusted him to let herself love like that.

Also think about how hurt Lia must have been when Dean shut her out. She trusted him with her whole being, she loved him and she saw them as a unit regardless of what happened and what other people entered and left their lives. They would always be with each other. Dean had never shut her out before, and Dean shut her out too. That hurts my soul way too much for it to be healthy. (I am choosing to believe that they had a conversation afterwards and then they both proceeded to cry and it never happened again yay happy ending tbh considering writing that bc I don't think I will survive if it doesn't end happily like that)

And Dean!! He’s lived his entire life terrified of feeling, terrified of becoming his father. He was living in a house alone with Judd and profiling killers which definitely perpetuated his fear, and then here came this girl whom he could protect. A girl he wouldn’t let himself hurt, a girl he could help for once and not mess it all up. And he didn’t mess it up. He saw how hurt she was, and how little she was willing to admit the truth to. And in that, he saw someone he could understand. He saw someone who he could profile for a good reason, but only profile enough to be able to get her to trust him and not enough to violate her privacy and that trust. He let himself get close to someone for the first time in his life. And for the first time in his life, he wasn’t a monster. Lia didn’t see him as a monster.

Because of their past and childhood, Dean didn’t trust himself and Lia only trusted herself and no one else. But meeting and loving each other? It taught Dean he can trust himself not to hurt someone. And it taught Lia that she can trust someone who won’t hurt her.

Maybe it’s because of the amatocentric world being way too focused on romantic relationships, but why aren’t we talking about this more??

[bekkomi]

Drawing a character from a random media I've seen/played a day! 🎨

Days 8-14! Out of order but yeah

[your-mommy-ems]

the naturals - jennifer lynn barnes

this took me wayyy too long and i kinda hate it but oh well enjoy <3 MY FAVE PART IS SLOANES CAUSE JUST ASJHDGSA

@nqds, @xo-zozo, @reminiscentreader, @lxvebelle

[jamcarven]

the moment michael townsend pulled out the jane austen in the first naturals book, i knew it was over for any other man to have ever existed.

[qugre]

Glacius from KI

[bbmbabyss]

i’ve got a lot of data to suggest i do or say the wrong thing at least eighty-six-point-five percent of the time♡

[tigerleopardlion]

Southern Lion | Thomas Evans

[tamara-kama]

I've added the Nintendo 64 era logos to the side panels of my KI cabinet's control panel! 💜😁🕹️👍🏻

Looked too blank and incomplete without them IMHO

The most challenging thing about applying these is deciding upon the alignment

But I tried to make sure they are more or less symmetrical

I included a pic of a vintage KI cabinet for reference

[nintendometro]

'Killer Instinct' was released on the Super Nintendo 29 years ago today in the US. Support us on Patreon

[killerinstinctgold]

Killer Instinct Gold N64 Ad featuring Black Orchid

[jkriordanverse]

I need a The Naturals x Hawthorne truth or dare crossover so bad lmao

[gameraboy2]

The Incredible Hulk (1977), "Killer Instinct"

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[jamcarven]

is it bad that I kinda want someone to get kidnapped or something in tgg to give jlb a reason to make a tig x the naturals crossover 😭

LIKE NOT AN ACTUALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION BUT MORE LIKE that psycho eve is up to something again

in my head I imagine it as some goofy book with practically no plot, and like I get the naturals is a very NOT goofy book. BUT I JUST WANT A LITTLE NOVELLA ABOUT THEM MEETING, IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY

also I know that there’s already a naturals novella where the characters are all 23. which I haven’t read yet because I am in denial that the series is over, so they’re a little bit older than most of tig characters, BUT THAT DOESNT MATTERRR