#Ludinus

[widogast-ta]

The Bright Queen is such an interesting contrast to Ludinus, because by his worldview, she should be on his side. 

She was also alive during the Calamity. She also lived with the immediate post-war devastation of the fighting (we don’t know where Ludinus lived for sure, but she’s arguably even more familiar with it. It’s called the Wastes of Xhorhas for a reason). She doesn’t worship any of the gods; indeed, Lolth personally hates her! She has plenty of reasons to hate the gods, or at least not care if they die.

But critically, she knows that Ludinus is a huge dickhead, and knows he is her enemy.

[annemarieyeretzian]

orym (of course) not wanting to go. orym (of course) not wanting to follow ludinus. orym not faulting any of his friends for going, not faulting any of his friends for following. he’s not angry. he’s tired. he’s not going. he’s not following. fearne looking not at ludinus or to the others but to orym. fearne simply asking “orym?” fearne asking orym. fearne asking orym what he wants. what will he do? what will she do? orym telling fearne go ahead. you can go. it’s ok. I understand. you can go. go ahead. fearne not pushing, not pressuring. fearne not moving. fearne affirming she won’t go without him. fearne affirming she won’t go if orym won’t go. fearne telling orym I go where you go and fearne showing orym I don’t go where you don’t go. orym giving in because she’s his best friend. he goes where she goes. he follows her. she’s asking. she’s giving him a choice. she’s giving him his choice. she’s giving him her choice. she’ll stay if he stays. he’ll go where she goes. orym tells fearne “you’ll have to hold me up.” and they both know what that means. fearne picks orym up. orym lets fearne pick him up. fearne carries orym. they’re only following each other.

[glossolali]

essek and ludinus..... in the same room once again.......

I can't wait till they bitch each other out aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[fear-ne]

delilah’s consciousness reaching out to ludinus

[shellem15]

“Clone ludinus should end up parenting baby lawbearer” blah blah blah. Casting aside the fact that this man should not be allowed within a mile of any child ever (outside meteor swarm range), you know who’d be so much better for him to get stuck with? Chuck baby torog at him and run.

You think you get peace, BlTCH? Nah. You have to deal with the horrible torture worm now, have fun~~~

Honestly, I don’t think it’d be too bad for him. Ludinus would get to yap all he wants and baby torog would be the only person in the world who’d actually sit and listen, because ludinus’ monologues count as a form of torture under the Geneva convention and torog is into that.

[bread-wizards]

If the Hells really want to stop Ludinus, they should just try unionising the workers against him

[hungryriverbeast]

i need to know so much more about Ludinus now. All we know is he said he was a child when Aeor fell; was he on it as it hurtled through the sky? Did he see the streets he grew up on crumble under him as everyone around him was rent asunder? Was he teleported away by a parent in the first moments? Or did he see it fall from the ground, watching any hopes and dreams of walking that great city fall with it? Did he once have faith in the gods? Or did he always harbor his animosity? Did he grieve, and does he still? How does he still have such conviction after all this time, what drives him?

I see a lot of folks saying downfall changes nothing, and Ludinus's arguments are pointless. But I think one of the most compelling things we could see next, as the Bell Hells come out of their vision, is Ludinus weeping quietly before them.

[she-aint-no-slow-regard]

My goals are worth destroying a city and killing a bunch of innocent people

You can't understand how I think because you are inexperienced children

I'm simply different from everyone else

Ludinus is not beating the you are like exactly like the gods allegations isn't he

[flowersosa]

Imogen is so soft yet cruel with her words to Ludinus, almost like how Laudna spoke with Ashton after he tried to take both shards in and nearly killed himself.

That parental authority looking down at a child who is in the middle of throwing a tantrum, and cutting them words that linger.

[helimir]

Whatever happened to the threat of broadcasting the Downfall tapes? That knowledge that was supposed to turn the whole world against the gods? Was that ever an important part of Ludinus’s plan, or did he decide that it wasn’t as important as sucking up Lilliana’s powers once he realized he couldn’t trust her?

[widogast-ta]

It was so funny to see Ludinus visibly frustrated and having a bad day this episode. Almost every other time we’ve seen him he’s been so smug and in control, so hearing him complain about dealing with the fey, and his allies is JUICY. His “Are you kidding me?” at the animating statue was so satisfying

[annemarieyeretzian]

ludinus’ sob story isn’t even a sob story. gods I hate him. he had one (1) bad day and made it everyone else’s problem for an entire millennia. this man really said “I lost my mother and father to a war larger than any of us so now I will ensure everyone loses their mother and father and son and daughter and sister and brother to a war larger than any of us.” why won’t men ever fucking Go To Therapy

[glossolali]

okay listen i was talking to @quinn-of-aebradore and @wanderingbasilisk about my netherdeep blorbo and long story short (insert spoilers here) and we got to talking about FF7 AND THEn I came to the conclusion that Matt is such a a FF7 nerd that that LOOK:

METEOR vs RUIDUS....

is RUIDUS GONNA CRASH INTO EXANDRIA IN C3???

are ruidus born like jenova remnants?????

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

IS LUDINUS SEPHIROTH????

is IMOGEN GONNA PULL AN AERITH????

😂😂😱😱😱🥺

[sparring-spirals]

ngl, some part of me has been like. okay? with the idea of the bell's hells failing and ludinus succeeding and dealing with the aftermath. like ideally, in a way with everyone alive and intact, but. it would have been interesting!(?) But now that beau and caleb are involved, some other part of me is like. :((( well. :(( what if this reflects poorly on their work :(((( i dont want to disturb their careers and domestic lives :(((((( which. i don't think is the biggest concern with an unlocked god eater but also. they've been trying SO hard to fuck over ludinus.

[dol--blathanna]

I'm a few episodes behind CR right now, so maybe this theory has already been confirmed or debunked (no spoilers please!), but after the conversation in ep89 I was wondering:

Could it be possible that 'The Crush' on Ruidus roughly 300 years ago could have been caused by, or at least was related to, Ludinus fucking around and trying to commune with Predathos in Molaesmyr which then caused the city's destruction - which also happened roughly 300 years ago??

[bread-wizards]

It's okay for the gods to kill people but when I, Ludinus Da'leth-