#OTP: With everything that I am

[nexttrickanvils]

“Come on now, I think you’re being too harsh. He/she’s just a kid. Remember all of the stupid things we used to do when we were their age?”

With Claude and Byleth?

Well Claude knew that this day would come… he had just hoped that maybe it could’ve waited until his daughter was a little older.

Sahar sat on her bed, her arms crossed on top of her knees with a pout on her face.

Nader and another guard had caught her trying to sneak out of the palace to attend a festival in the city. Not only that but she was also responsible for letting out a couple of wyverns as a distraction.

It took eight years but now Claude realizes why his mother “wished him all the strength in the world” when Byleth told everyone about her pregnancy.

Speaking of Byleth, Claude glanced over at her and could immediately recognize the look on her face.

It was the same look she’d give whenever Hilda tried to come up with some excuse for not going on that month’s mission. Or when Raphael and Caspar broke something trying a new technique. Or when Felix was being uncooperative (which was a lot.)

Yup, it was the return of the Teach Glare and with the Teach Glare…

“Do you realize how worried we all were when we couldn’t find you!? We thought we were under attack!”

…Came the lecture.

“You can’t just run off somewhere without us knowing! Did you tell anyone? Nader? Your grandparents? Your brothers?"

“...No.”

“So how did you expect us to react when we learned that you were gone!? How were you planning to come home in the first place!?”

Claude couldn’t help but wince, sure the Teach Stare and Lecture was pretty effective on dumb teenagers and young adults but maybe it was a little too much for an eight-year-old. 

He placed his hand on Byleth’s shoulder. Claude nodded over to the door and without saying another word, Byleth stepped out.

Claude looked over to their daughter and kneeled down in front of her.

“Your mama and I are going to have a talk about what to do next. Just stay here, okay?”

“...Okay, baba.”

Claude smiled, stood up, and placed a gentle kiss on his daughter’s head.

He then made his way out to the hallway where Byleth was leaning against the wall, pinching her nose.

"By…"

"Not now, Claude…"

“Come on now, I think you’re being too harsh. She’s just a kid. Remember all of the stupid things we used to do when we were her age?”

Byleth turned her glare to Claude.

"The "stupid things" I did at her age tend to pale in comparison to what Sahar just did."

Claude looked over his wife and could tell there was something more to her worry. He tried to think what it could be until he remembered a certain letter that was found.

“You were scared because of that letter weren’t you?”

With the way Byleth froze, Claude could tell he got it in one.

A few days ago, reports of strange activity in a thought to be abandoned building came in. Nader and the guards investigated and all they found was a messy scrawled note.

The Coward King and his family shall die at The Festival of the Moon

“...We told Sahar and the boys… I thought she would have listened…”

“So when we couldn’t find her…”

Byleth nodded.

“I know it’s foolish… we’re war veterans and this wouldn’t even be the first assassin attempt we stopped against our family… but for a moment… I was back at Garreg Mach… holding my father’s body…”

Claude pulled Byleth into an embrace and feeling her shudder, calmingly combed his fingers through her hair.

“It’s not foolish. Even after all these years, I know all it takes is one mistake.”

The two stood like this for some time before Byleth finally took a deep breath and stepped back.

“But you’re right, I was a little too harsh. I should go back in and apologize to Sahar.”

“Yeah… the Teach Glare might’ve been a bit too much.”

“I was not using “The Teach Glare.””

“I’ve been on the receiving end of it enough times to recognize it, my dear.”

That at least seemed to bring a smile to Byleth’s face as Claude chuckled.

The two stepped back into their daughter’s room, Sahar still in the same position she was when they stepped out.

Byleth walked to the bed and took a seat in front of the girl.

“Sahar, I’m sorry I got so angry. I was just so scared but… that’s no excuse.”

Sahar lifted her head up and Byleth and Claude could see that she had been crying.

“I’m sorry for letting the wyverns out and trying to run away. I wanted to go to the festival so much even with bad people after us.”

Byleth smiled and pulled Sahar into a hug.

“You’re a brave one, our little dawn and we love you so much.”

After watching all this, Claude decided to join in on the hug.

He knew that he and Byleth would have to investigate the would-be assassins but right now, Sahar needed them more.

[whollyjoly]

look i can explain-

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 74. jim halpert and pam beesley - the office

[lover-of-mine]

[britcision]

Hey by the way if anyone tries to deny Kabru is a judgy bitch I’ll send you the panels of him calling everyone worthless

Respect his duality he’s a good boy who genuinely wants the best for everyone but also thinks he has to do everything himself despite being the Least Qualified Ever because no one else lives up to his standards

He doesn’t even want to look at monsters but oh well every single other person is a piece of shit let’s go get my friends killed over and over again

He’s interesting BECAUSE he’s not one dimensional Good Pure Boy all the time, he’s a judgy manipulative little shit who will eat monsters if it gets him towards his goals, which are “nobody should be killed by monsters actually” and “i want to know what the fuck is going on”

He coulda had ONE honest conversation with Laios and known literally everything about him, Laios has never met a filter

But Kabru was raised for a good chunk of his life (6-18) by Milsiril, and for all he believes elves can never understand short lived people… he picked up the whole “I must be secretive and always conceal my own motivations”

He only breaks under literally the most intense high pressure situation he’s likely to see in his life, which along with being the potential goddamn apocalypse is also a rehashing of All Of His Personal Trauma oh and also Every Suspicion He Ever Had About This One Guy

He’s not more honest because he’s an honest person, he’s more honest because he forgot how sentences work when he finally caught Laios and doesn’t have the bandwidth to play the constant 4D chess in his head that underpins his EVERY INTERACTION WITH EVERYONE EVER until Marcille takes the lion

Kabru’s a pretty good person, with extremely good motivations and goals.

He’s a manipulative son of a bitch who will do anything, anywhere, anytime, to meet those goals, and spends a solid chunk of his time and energy on reading people so he can be someone they like… regardless of his own feelings.

He’s the living The Good Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few, and solidly puts himself in with “the few” by doing shit he hates because he thinks it’ll help.

Isn’t that more interesting than “oh he would never manipulate anyone, he’s so nice and good all the time”?

[lilacerull0]

that kindled her, she lighted up

Lila's love for learning and Lila's love for people in her life are identical and come from the same place. This is rather unusual and she is consistently transformed into something either less or more than human for it. She is made out to be less than human when her love for people more closely resembles love one might have for an idea or a book or a city. She is made out to be more than human when her love for learning more closely resembles love for a person in its intensity, dedication and passion. Both of these things inspire a fascination that turns sour in others who in return want to make this part of Lila dissappear. It's only with Enzo that she gets to be this way, not only without having it be a bad thing, but also having it be something that she can share and enjoy in the presence of the other.

[wistfulwatcher]

#nat smiling affectionately at misty #nat smiling because misty is so excited to try something new #nat smiling but only when misty looks away #misty getting a pure moment of affection from nat #and missing it completely

[valerieofavonlea]

There is no doubt that Bones kind of fumbled actually getting Booth and Brennan together, but y'know, six seasons and over 100 episodes of them being together and in love, buying a house, having a baby, getting married, having another baby, and being all cute and domestic goes a long way in making up for it

[clownakai]

The thing that stands out the most to me about Stage of Betrayal is the fact that Rei proves himself completely incapable of envisioning a world in which Hiro would ever willingly leave him behind. Hiro killed himself because Rye made him, because Rye gave him his own gun and forced him to shoot.

To me, the kicker isn't that Rei is actually wrong about this (even strategically speaking, killing himself and destroying all connections to his loved ones was objectively a good move on Hiro's part, and not at all unreasonable nor unheard of considering his job and circumstances), but how he's so deep in denial that he just can't see what happened through any other lenses.

He ignores any and all inconsistencies within his deduction because to acknowledge them would mean he'd have to take into consideration the idea that Hiro immediately chose to kill himself as option number one instead of trying to survive until they could at least attempt an extraction, which feels an awful lot like abandonment. It feels like Hiro put the mission and secrecy above everything else, even Rei (which we know isn't true. Hiro killed himself because he loved the people close to him more than anything and he wanted to keep them safe— which, if you spend more than ten seconds thinking about the scenario, becomes immediately obvious as the motivation behind his suicide).

Hiro killed himself because he was terrified he'd be forced to drag Rei into the line of fire. He did that out of love, without thinking, while Rei can't even consider that as an option because they have fundamentally different ways of thinking and to him it would mean that Hiro didn't care enough to stay alive.

And Rei, being an extremely emotional person, wouldn't handle that well at all— which only leaves him the option of denial (be it subconscious or not).

[ejunkiet]

[nexttrickanvils]

As an archer, timing is important to Claude... too bad his heart picked a bad time to realize how beautiful Teach's eyes are.

I took part in the @claudelethgifts Exchange and wrote up a pre-timeskip piece about Claude realizing he's in love at a really bad time.

[whirlybirbs]

my toxic trait is thinking i, the best girl, could make sukuna be kind and gentle for ten minutes a day. but that’s it. once we hit minute eleven he’s back to killing, as is his right.

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

actually kills me every time i start losing my mind over a ship only to find out they have no fans and i can’t binge read incredible fan fictions or metas on them for days on end.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

oh no i finished disco elysium for the first time and now i have ANOTHER new OTP ship help

🙃

I've already bookmarked like 10 fics 🙃

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

goofy ass trainer couple red and jaide would like to battle‼️

[toooftenobsessed]

Nobody even mentioned it so I almost totally missed out on how Saavik and the son she had with Spock are (live action) in the Unification short; and how one of the stated inspirations is Vulcan's Heart, in which Spock and Saavik get married (Picard attending) while working together toward the Vulcan reunification with Romulus.