#Silent Assassins

[rainingriversofyou]

Celaena x Ansel

The Assassins Blade

Artist: @gessueter

[acourtofquestions]

He always found excuses to touch her, always smiled at her, always looked at her as if she were the only person in the room.

Celaena sloshed the wine around in her glass. If she were being honest, sometimes she thought Sam looked at her that way. But then he'd go and say something absurd, or try to undermine her, and she'd chide herself for even thinking that about him.

[acourtofquestions]

Also has very Red Desert dance vibes from Celaena with Ansel and the Silent Assassins in The Assassin and the Desert from The Assassin’s Blade

[t1koy-roll]

AI could never recreate whatever the hell goes on in my head

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #73

Cass hadn’t had many allies while she was in the League. Not really. When you’re training as a child assassin you learn very quickly not to trust people. And she hadn’t. Not until she met Danny.

Danny who no one but she knew was there. Danny who had her back when it mattered. Danny who aided her without her asking. Danny, who helped her escape. Danny, who she hasn’t seen since she got out.

But he’s here again. He’s here and he’s hurt. And she will do whatever it takes to save him. Because she loves him.

[vigilskeep]

huge fan of lucanis’ “if i could... i want... forgive me. i’m not certain what i wish to say” line if you go see him after the almost kiss because it sounds SO stilted that he has one hundred percent been drafting this sentence in his mind for hours. and yet this is all he achieves. mind boggling

[ramblesbiab]

My biggest problem with Hitman content on YouTube is that everyone always skips over caring about the story, meaning I bought the game expecting to only care about the gameplay.

And then it hit me with a story about self-identity and purpose which resonated so much that I can't stop thinking about it. Everything about 47 and Diana's journey is a brilliant escalation, one about the realization that even though Diana is slowly bringing out 47's ability to feel again, she's still continuing the cycle of him being used and controlled. It hit me right in the chest when 47 is doing his second mission without Diana, and repeats her line "I'll leave you to prepare" to Olivia. To see a cold-blooded assassin miss his one friend in the world, to see how worried he becomes when she's present for his next mission.

And damn, the way scene where they dance together was perfect, because you can just tell that the betrayal is coming. It almost feels like a premature goodbye. Diana cares deeply for 47 after all this time, and that's why she knows she has to let him go. It's not truly a betrayal - it's mercy.

When he takes out The Constant and goes off his own, they leave things a bit vague, but I love it. It doesn't matter who Diana is now, because her and 47 aren't together anymore. He's on his own, and while he's continuing the path The Constant taunted him for being stuck in, it's different. He makes the choices now. He works for himself.

I teared up watching him smile while talking to Diana. Agent 47, the cold blooded killer, is finally allowed to feel, to grow as a person, because he's free. It's the best conclusion I could've asked for.

The gameplay is amazing, obviously, but I wish less people ignored the story behind it all. I haven't even touched on Providence or Lucas Grey, which are both excellent in their own rights.

Maybe I'll touch more on those another time. I'm tired lol

[thequietkid-moonie]

Trying to let their darling be happy with someone else

[ HEADCANONS ] [ Aventurine, Hanako, Nagisa, Ishida ]

[ Honkai Star Rail ] [ Toilet Bound Hanako-kun ] [ Assassination Classroom ] [ A silent voice ]

⚠️ Yandere, I don't support nor try to romanticize this toxic behaivor, is just for entretaiment

This is a bittersweer prompt, is like the yanderes trying to leave their darling free for their darling's sake, I thought it would be interesting to explore this posibility <3

Aaaalsoooo im writing for two yanderes I haven't wrote before! I wish you like them !!

Aventurine

Aventurine's love is an intense and burning feeling, it consumes him and make him desperate but at the same time give him a purpose and makes him keep going, he is well aware of his feelings and even knowing how unhealthy they can be but they consume him slowly so he can't really ignore them

As his feelings slowly grow there is nothing more Aventurine loves more than just watch you be yourself, interact with others and just have fun, he spend quite some time watching you from afar before deciding to get close to you, using his charm and flirtatious attitude to try to win your heart

He is not only aware of his feeling but also of yours, he wants so desperately for you to love him that he just can't not try to read you to see if he even has a chance, thats why if you seem interested in someone else he will notice, it will depend a little in how obvious you are but still he is smart enough to catch the hints. Even if he gets to know pretty quick he will be in denial for a while, he doesn't want to admit that you are in love with someone else but he can see you looking at that other person with love

Even if he just seems a little grumpy or try to avoid the topic with a smile in the inside he is a complete mess, going from desperately trying to deny that you like someone else to crying his heart out, repeating himself that of course you will love someone else since he doesn't deserve you, it will even reach the point where he just hates that person for stealing your attention from him

Insolated in the darkness of his room, Aventurine end up making a lot of plans and backup plans to take you away from that person and to win your affection, with his luck everything will go the way he wants it, he make up his mind, losing himself in the intensity of his feelings and the need of your love

Aventurine put in action his plan, trying to be more and more close to you, being extra friendly with you in hopes that you just forget about that worthless nobody and better look at him, while in the shadows he tries to put more and more obstacles in that person's way, trying really hard to set you two apart

But even after all his efforts Aventurine just freeze the moment he sees the two of you interacting, paying close attention of how you act, to those suble hints of your love, realicing how beautiful you truly are when you are in love but also about the fact that you haven't acted that way with him. After this Aventurine will probably watch you interact with that person for a while from the shadows, blessing himself with your beauty and precence but also torturing himself with the display of you affection towards someone else, slowly growing more and more envy and heart-broken

At the end, Aventurine decides that forcing you to stay with him when you love someone else would be unfair, he will keep trying to win your heart but will try really hard to set you free, even if he feels like his entire being is breaking and put him in an even worst state, if your feelings for that other person are corresponded then he will try really hard to let you be happy with that person

Hanako

It was really foolish of his part to fall in love with a human and Hanako knew it, but is not like he could stopped himself, ever since he have noticed you around the school you catched his attention, what lead him to slowly follow you and know more and more about you

For him it was just matter of time to become fascinated by you, he wanted to be close to you, to talk to you, he wanted to be selfish for once and be with you, to never leave your side, but no matter how much he wished for it he was still a supernatural, he had to ask for Yashiro's help to even be able to meet you in person, using the excuse of making your wish come true just to be able to have the excuse to glue himself to your side

Hanako has a stalker behaivor during school day, following you around all the time he can and just watching go with your day, sometimes even appearing just with the excuse to mess with you while in reality he is just following his burning desire to be as close as you as posible

It can be that Hanako just noticed that you have feelings for someone else when witnessing it by just following you around or that even the wish you went to ask for to him was related to that love, either way the realization makes him freeze in place and stare at you, for him is like the time has stoped just to dragg him to the cruel reality, a cruel reminder of his position, he is a supernatural, you two couldn't be together because he is already dead

Hanako tries to play off and put a teasing smile to cover up what he really feels, still when he finally finds out an excuse he quickly say it before leaving, and you wont be able to find him for days because he is just too heart broken to face you, he loves you, he want to be with you, he want you to love him too, but that is not going to happen, and he feels like an idiot for it

He spend quite some time reproaching himself for being so idiotic to fall in love, as intense of his feeling are for you is his now self hate for even falling in love. Hanako spend several days in his little cycle of despair, torturing himself with reproachings and constant reminders that this will never be, not when he is a not only a supernatural but also a murderer, why would you even love someone like him? it was just too idiotic of himself

Once he feels ready to face you again is when he finally have make up his mind that he just have to forget about what he fell for you because you deserve to have a great and long life, you doesn't have to lose your life like he did (let alone for his own selfishness), he have make it up in his mind that he will leave you alone to be happy with that other person, but the moment he sees you again, he sees you worried about his sudden disappearance and how you being worring for him for all this days that plan of leaving you be happy with someone else just broke under the weight of his feelings, he just loves you too much to lose you, he doesn't want to

Nagisa Shiota

Being in Class 3E makes every feel bad and unworthy, like idiots, and Nagisa isn't the exception, adding that failure feeling to his already bad self-esteem just make him feel even more unworthy of his darling, he is just a worthless no one while his darling is someone he look up to, someone more beautiful and valuable

Even if you were at class 3E Nagisa doesn't have the strength to talk to his darling, he just limits himself to watch you from afar, tortured by the inmense love that make him wish to just be able to at least talk to you, if only you look at him at least for a brief moment, but is also a constant remainder of how unworthy he is

Nagisa is incredibly smart and perceptive, for him is so easy to read thought his darling for how much attention he puts in you, he is able to be so close to you without being detected that he just memorized everything about you, so its not so dificult for him to notice that you have feelings for someone else but he feels like breaking down when he finds out, he knew he could never have a chance with you, he is nothing but the shadow of his mother anyways, and yet, deep down, he hoped that one day he could be able to have an oportunity, a really small ray of hope that kept him going, but now is gone

Even when Nagisa tell himself that he understand that you would love someone else that doesn't stop him from being in the edge and incredibly heartbroken, but also angry, he doesn't exactly know to who or what he is angry at but he is. Nagisa is clearly affected by this but wants nothing more than your happiness, so if your happiness is with someone else he will make sure that person is worthy of you, stalking the person you like to make sure they are good enough, the problem is that his anger just make him try really hard to find any reason of why that person is unworthy, anything can help (also, the more he trains in Class 3E the more confidence he gains, even if he still sees himself as unworthy he at least is better than that idiot)

At the end it would be incredibly dificult for someone to make him a good impression to let them be deserving of your affection, Nagisa doesn't even realice how possesive he can be and just cover up with the excuse of no one being worthy. However, this is a little tricky, because if he sees that this person makes you truly happy he will have a mental breakdown for the preasure of being stuck between wanting you to be happy and the others being unworthy, but in this way there are higher chances that he will accept his defeat (but will continue to stalk you two, waiting for that idiot's first mistake to take them away)

However, if the case is that you two are already friends then he will be less willing to let you go, it have took so much efforts to just even become your friend (and him to accept it since he stills feels quite unworthy) to just lose it for some idiot that wants to get in his way, since he slowly wins more confidence with the training and you have already accepted him in your life then he feels ready to fight for what he have with you now

Shoya Ishida

Despite the fact that Ishida is quite dependent of his darling he limits and hold back himself a lot, he feels unworthy and is so afraid that you would think as bad as he thinks of himself that he prefers to dont be close to you, but at the end, if you two end up being friends he will be watching over his every single move to make sure he doesn't make any mistake

For Ishida is incredibly dificult to really tell what his darling is feeling, he is constantly in the edge of his nervousness and anxiety and can easily misundestand things for the bad, you have to be clear with him, thats also why if you are interested in someone else it will take him a long time to understand it, as unworthy as he feels deep down he still wishes for you to see him in a good light, the thought of you loving someone else or even not giving him even the chance have cross his mind a few times but the moment he finally realice that you actually have feelings for someone else is going to break him completely

He is going to be a complete mess the moment he sees that you actually have feeling for someone else, after the initial shock Ishida will fall into a really bad depresive episode, his mind going around the idea that of course you will love someone else, why would you love an idiot like him? he haven't forgiven himself for what he have done to Shouko so of course he doesn't deserve to be happy with the person he loves, you'll probably think that he is a monster too when you find out what he have done

His mind goes back an forth between the self depracation and the constant reminder that he doesn't deserve you, you don't deserve to be stuck with someone like him after all. Its going to take a lot of efforts and even help from his friends to help him get out of this state, but even when he calms down the self-hate is back, and thanks to that he will not be able to even look at you because he wants you to be happy, wich he now believes isn't with him

But if you two are already friends the problem comes when you show that you were worried too, if you come to him asking if he is alright or just expressing relief or even happiness to finally see him again then his feelings will get over him again, this is what he truly wants, he wants your comfort and reasurance, and now that you are giving it to him Ishida can't just let you go like that, he doesn't want to lose this

If you show genuine and positive feelings for him, showing him that you truly care he will practically forget about the idea of leaving you go and go back to the feeling of wanting your forgiveness and aproval, but since there is someone who is treaten to take away, his precious ray of hope then he will try more and more to be of your liking, to make you look at him and love him instead of that other person

[shaycormacaroni]

I will never shut up about how the 18th century Assassins are shit and how they strive far away from what the Assassins are supposed to be.

Keep in mind that when I say 18th century Assassins I don't mean Connor, Aveline and Arno. They are the ONLY Assassins with some brains, but they still fell victim to their mentors idiocy.

I'm also gonna hold your hand while I say this but even Shay fucking Cormac in the robes of a Templar acts more like an Assassin than the Assassins itself. If Altair or Ezio must roll in their graves it is because the 18th century Assassins don't act like Assassins at all, NOT because Shay stabs a few """Assassin""" here and there so to avoid disasters like Lisbon and Haiti from happening ever again.

[cartoonishly]

Rip off your shirt and grab a train ticket...The new Carpathian Mountains SASO is here!

❄️🚂👨🏻‍🦲🏔️

[sc4llywag]

Drops this here

Hey👁️👅👁️(with gay intent)

Yeah the hood is probably wrong and its smushing against Malik's head so what

Fuck side views but I did decent here eat up foenems

[acourtofquestions]

Cicadas buzzed in the trees of the keep, and somewhere in the gardens, a nightingale sang her lament. Talk. Talk about what?

She didn't have anything to say, so they sat on the parapet in silence for a while until even the cicadas went to sleep, and the moon slipped away behind them, and the sky began to brighten. Talk. Talk about what had been haunting her these months. Haunting every thought, every dream, every breath. Talk.

"I'm scared to go home," she said at last, staring out at the dunes beyond the walls.

The predawn light was bright enough for her to see the Master's brows rise. Why?

"Because everything will be different. Everything is already different. I think everything changed when Arobynn punished me, but ... Some part of me still thinks that the world will go back to the way it was before that night. Before I went to Skull's Bay."

The Master's eyes shone like emeralds. Compassionate-sorrowful.

"I'm not sure I want it to go back to the way it was before," she admitted. "And I think … I think that's what scares me the most."

The Master smiled at her reassuringly, then rolled his neck and stretched his arms over his head before standing atop the merlon.

Celaena tensed, unsure if she should follow.

But the Master didn't look at her as he began a series of movements, graceful and winding, as elegant as a dance and deadly as the asp that lurked on the roof.

The asp.

Watching the Master, she could see each of the qualities she had copied for the past few weeks—-the contained power and swiftness, the cunning and the smooth restraint.

He went through the motions again, and it took only a glance in her direction to get her to her feet atop the parapet wall. Mindful of her balance, she slowly copied him, her muscles singing with the rightness of the movements. She grinned as night after night of careful observation and mimicry clicked into place.

Again and again, the sweep and curve of her arm, the twisting of her torso, even the rhythm of her breathing. Again and again, until she became the asp, until the sun broke over the horizon, bathing them in red light.

Again and again, until there was nothing left but the Master and her as they greeted the new day.

[paranoidgemsbok]

chocolate guy callout post

All the branding on his videos?  the location he makes all this in? ‘the pastry academy’ ?

he co-founded that place in 2019... (just about around the time all those viral chocolate guy vids started circulating...)  the ‘school’ is located in las vegas.  his name is the one all over it, though.  The academy offers 10-week courses and masterclasses.  the 10 week course requires a 10%, non refundable deposit 

as of right now, this is the deposit cost

which means the entire, ten week course (which must be entirely paid by 60 days prior to your start date) will cost you $20,000

well at least you’re being taught by the famous chocolate guy, right?!

 not according to the site and not according to student accounts.  according to this AMA as well as the squirrely language on the FAQ , he will teach about 3 weeks of the course.  

at least hes a good teacher when he IS there, right?  

according to that same AMA, who is clearly giving a positive tone, he is sarcastic, he curses frequently, and he tends to not explain what he’s doing, leaving students scrambling to keep up.  that redditor provides multiple pictures from her time during the course in her history, so i’m inclined to believe her.

Housing is not provided, so you’re gonna have to find somewhere to stay near vegas for Ten Human Weeks, on top of the 20k you’ve dropped for the course.  meals are not provided at any point, either.

 will all this at least get students a good job?

the school does NOT provide references or find employment/interships, even in las goddamn vegas, where there are a million restaurants around the place.  you CAN however, do an unpaid internship AT the academy <3  

here’s my favorite part.

this isn’t a real diploma.

if you pay them, you will get a certificate, regardless of your demonstrated learned skill.  this certificate is not accredited by anyone other than the pastry academy.  you’re paying for amaury guichons name on a piece of paper.  you’re paying for clout. 

this is also, seemingly, how they can do things like this:

you’ll need a tourist visa- not a work or education visa.  because it’s not a school, or college.  

@clockworkrobotic​ pointed this out while i want ranting and raving at them

you can get an entire, real education, for more than ten weeks, for that much money.  

oh, also, all those craaaazy, so viral so tiktokable sculptures?  don’t you wish you could learn to make those?

all of those are also available as standalone, three-day classes!  wow!

and they cost $2,500!  boy wouldn’t it be crazy if those 20 sculptures that he can film being made and earn video ad revenue off of, while ALSO advertising for his college, if they could also be sold at corporate events orrr in his pastry shops across vegas as advertising pieces.  yknow, stuff like that

they’re currently offering 6 10-week courses during 2023. the soonest three of them are booked up (20 students per class, 20k per student.)  means he’s making 2.4 million per year off of those students ALONE.  this does not include those three-day courses, his netflix deal (also great advertising for his school!), the normal products hes slapped his brand onto* ,  and selling sculptures to corporate events

*same material + volume for $23 less, though he buys them in bulk so its more like $25+ less.  this is just one example, i JUST found this iste of his as i was making this post.  i also saw just 50g of colored cocoa butter for the same price as 200g of the exact same product elsewhere.

in conclusion,

[travelers-of-the-multiverse]

@foolish-space-owl

It was a weird thing, the idea that Blitz would even want to go more steady with Stolas. How far he's come from the day where he solicited the prince for sex to get his grimoire. Now? He'd tear up anyone who would dare hurt him. Of course, this progression would involve more than just the two of them. Their daughters especially deserve a voice on how they feel about this.

So, that's why they're here now. He, his daughter Loona, Stolas, and his daughter Octavia. They were all here so they could talk about what they thought about his and Stols' relationship going forward.

Unfortunately, he wasn't sure how to start this up. "So...Umm, thank you, uhh, for both coming...here." He says, as they were talking in Stolas' home. Loona just rolled her eyes at that awkward introduction.

[fantasticalleigh]

meanwhile Drew is still getting yelled at by Nick in his office, glowing, not saying a word but still smiling.