#Self recognition through the other

[iulovemaze]

this is literally it. this is why harvey fell first and hard.

[paradisetemporarilymisplaced]

so I’m rereading the raven cycle

[lexluthorswigcap]

I looked at you and saw myself

[laikacore]

self recognition through the other

by laika wallace

[arealcrow]

i love listening to fob so much, if i ever feel bad about getting hung up on stuff, i just listen to pwentz writing songs about the same summer for 18 years

[tadsweep]

do you really despise me so much ?

i hate you more than anything.

[consistantly-changing]

[Image descriptions in order: a tag which says #self recognition through the other (derogatory)]

[Two poetry lines, which say: there is something wrong with you/there is something wrong with you that is also wrong with me]

whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)

[theoldkyokodied]

good evening bloodweave enjoyers

[valtsv]

i think my favourite version of doubling/mirroring is actually when one person is a possible future version of the other. and in turn that person is looking at them and seeing their past self. the beginning and the end points of the same road.

[kiashieart]

"It's okay. You can't always be the hero"

[lucabyte]

Almost, but not quite.

[vaguely-concerned]

okay. listen. a Concept. garashir roughhousing (gone (psycho)sexual) and at one point bashir wakes up from the high of finally getting to express all his repressed aggression in a safe space with someone who not only accepts that in him but can match him and is actively Into It, especially when he stops holding back some of his lil gmo twink strength, to be horrified like 'oh my GOD garak your nose is bleeding hang on I'll get a napkin or something I'm so sorry holy shit' and garak's lying there woozy with lust gazing up at him with wide betrayed eyes like 'no wait don't go you haven't even stabbed me yet :'('

(obviously this is mostly a shitpost, but I'm just saying I think they could provide a certain kind of space for each other that way. julian gets to have a place to live out all the rougher, less socially acceptable sides he usually has to downplay and push away to seem as non-threatening as (augmented) humanly possible with someone who loves him and who appreciates getting the entire spectrum of julian bashir, from the most obnoxiously annoying and needy to the unsettlingly coldly ruthless and back. and garak gets to have the shit beaten out of him in as medically safe and infinitely loving way as possible and/or finds he can still use his bloodied hands and take care of someone with them. this to me is the definition of what one might call a win/win situation. like don't get me wrong they would be having a lot of embarrassingly tender yearning gently-stroking-your-hair-and-holding-your-hand sex too. but. also this. which I think is also very tender, just in a different way. do you feel me.)

[hey-hey-j]

I feel like branch hates the fact he looks the most like JD because he worries he will be selfish like him to leave someone behind. Branch essentially sees JD as someone who didn’t care to think about him and he wishes he was more important to his brothers life for them to stay . HAHA i love brozone angst

NO BUT REALLY THAT'S THE THING, it drives me insane from a meta standpoint that Branch and JD are the most physically similar, especially since it's noted in the art book that JD was intentionally designed to be a more extreme version of Branch?? So in a way it's not that Branch takes after JD, JD TAKES AFTER BRANCH

but going back to the main point of the ask, the way I see it, Branch doesn't really realize how similar he is to JD because it's been so long since he last saw JD, so it doesn't really bother him (stubborn Mr. I-Am-Nothing-Like-You). But JD on the other hand, he sees how much like him Branch turned out and it's a punch straight to the throat. Not just the physical similarity, but the same anxiety? The same emotional repression?? The same ISOLATION?? Like, did I really screw up THAT badly that my baby brother turned out exactly like ME??

I am. So normal about these two can you tell. Can you tell :)

[chimerical-daydreams]

Love your It Never Happens au.

Question, in what order do they pick up the family members? Obviously Bonnie is first, and I'm guessing Siffrin is last? But what about the rest? Is it canon order(if there is one?) And how does king like they rest of the family?

Again, love the au. You don't have to answer this, but I would be honored if you did.

While I don't have anything concrete for now, I imagine the order would go something like:

Bonnie & Nille: live in the closest city to the coast where King washes up. King really leans on Nille for his problems, and would probably tell her anything. He helps offset Bonnie's constant enthusiasm, and acts as a grounding point for them.

Odile: Arrived by boat, so probably somewhere along the coast as well. King asks deeply respects her knowledge, and shares in her interest for Vaugarde's culture, but struggles getting past her emotional barrier.

Mirabelle: Dormont is pretty far inland, so it'll take a while for everyone to get there. King appreciates her more than he could express, so he settles for helping her out whenever possible.

Isabeau: Jouvente is the furthest town from the coat we know the location of. King gets a little flustered by his boisterousness, but form a kin of warrior's bond as the party tanks.

?. Siffrin: A wanderer. I actually imagine the group will have passed by them multiple times before he actually joins (because someone coughcoughLoopcoughcough keeps going away from him). King and Siffrin are very similar in many ways, but I feel like Siffrin would struggle with having someone who Sees Through Them, so he'd kind of avoid King a bit.

[remitro]

[comicaurora]

wonder why I love writing all my characters in a constant contest to see who can sacrifice themselves for their loved ones the hardest. anyway time for my biannual yugioh rewatch