#TEAM RECKONING

[iz1331]

Like step-father, like step-daughter 😭

Even down to the raised eyebrow 😆

[anthurak]

"Maybe we don't have the full picture."

You know as someone who has spent the last year talking about how Ruby and Yang (and by extension, WE the audience) don't actually know NEARLY enough about their family history as they/we have long assumed thanks to Tai and Qrow being SUPREMELY unreliable narrators...

Yeah, this ABSOLUTELY feels like foreshadowing.

[f4rlands]

how much are we betting he joins as soon as this round finishes

[starruberrii]

SOME ART FIGHT ATTACKS I MADE!!! STARTING WITH ICONS BEFORE I MOVE ONTO THE BIG GUNS

[imfmi6]

[aspens-dragons]

i feel like im probably going to get like 40 notifs abt this but thats ok

the concept of ace pokemon is legitimately stupid to me. like im being frfr abt this i think having one of your pokemon be ur 'ace' pokemon is highkey dumb. like shouldnt ur pride as a trainer be that all ur pokemon are good? are you really that good at battling if ur not working with ur ENTIRE team to take down an opponent? i get it if you have only like one pokemon that battles but if ur a competitive trainer with a fully trained competitive team why is your joy and pride as a trainer a SINGLE pokemon? you should have synergy with your ENTIRE team, you and ALL your pokemon should be pushing each other to improve. like. you have an entire team for a reason right? you caught all your pokemon for a reason right? you value your entire team equally right? they're all ur trusted partners whom you care for and hold a mutual respect with?

like if im being completely honest i think if you have a member of your team you consider your 'ace' you're tacky and cringe (in the bad way <3) and probably not as good of a trainer as you think you are

[alwayshinny]

Hinny ✨

AU, where Hinny grew up together so when the diary begins to write back to her, she confides in Harry, and they take down Tom together.

[shorthaltsjester]

sometimes people will say “going dark” and then what they’re actually talking about is just people no longer presenting a carefully constructed version of their emotions and experiences.

like. emotional turmoil is not the same as darkness. laudna in this Fictional Universe that has tangibly different stakes wrt to death and killing than our own, is at best like . morally neutral for what she just did like. man has been secretly trying to kill you, and then just tried to do so again, killing him back is a fair choice. and even if i was someone who is excited by delilah’s inability to escape from the narrative, this shit isn’t about delilah. laudna made a choice. if delilah is back or whatever it’s a choice that laudna made because something in that grants her more control than her existing conditions did. this isn’t some Delilah Takes Over, it’s Laudna Expressly Makes The Choice To Call Forth Something within Herself to remedy the lack of control that’s been thrust upon her. if y’all want to Continue to limit Laudna’s agency (as the cr fandom is so, so want to do when a female character makes a choice that isn’t Good according to some weird system of virtue ethics) go ahead.

likewise with orym. little guy is not “going dark” because he has finally made direct action about his emotional turmoil in dealing with a situation which has similarly left him without control and has also placed him in a position where his stalwart conviction towards protecting and honouring those he loves and has lost alike is constantly met with other people he cares for going well.. what if they had a point/we are killing other peoples loved ones/etc. which like . yeah that might be frustrating and in fact might lead him to go, actually, i can’t afford to try and maintain some abject morality where I carry a locket that will literally only provide guilt. orym is completely committed to his beliefs, the locket and what it represents has never been a limit to what he will do, only a reminder of the consequences of what he might cause in those actions. but they Are at war and orym has a billion things on his plate. he can put down the locket. especially when bor’dor is the explicit manifestation of that locket’s symbolism. the subtext rapidly became the text and orym doesn’t need a reminder. it’s there in the fact that team issylra is walking away with two friends, not three.

these are character who have at every turn denied their own emotions in various forms while still being acutely aware of what they deny, whether that awareness was/is fully realized or not. many of laudna’s early convos with ashton show us that there is some awareness to the lighthearted spooky goth girl and how that persona fades when she thinks too much about what has led her and maintained that reality. likewise the entirety of orym’s story thus far is defined by his grief in a very literal sense, it Has extended from that grief to also the commitment he had to the purpose of figuring out the assassination attempt on keyleth but as we have seen, that purpose has fallen apart. paired with the quasi-reopening of his grief that was getting to see will again only to have to turn away, i don’t think there’s a lack of awareness in orym of how much he hurts. but between his actions and 4SD, that hurt tends to get buried under guilt or Responsibility.

and now, finally, both of them have admitted to that Not in the safety of small introspection or one-on-one conversations but with actions that they cannot shy away from or deny. laudna killed bor’dor and orym encouraged her to. and it Is a complex situation but truly I don’t really think it’s a “going dark” one. because they’re not giving into some overhanging Darkness of Morality™, they’re admitting that they are hurt and have long been hurting.

or, y’know, tldr for those who continue to deny laudna and orym agency or fully villainise them for whatever weird reasons . you could listen to laudna and ashton’s conversation that pretty much lays it out explicitly. laudna claims she’s weak for having chosen to kill bor’dor. ashton denies that and affirms instead that, no, she’s hurt.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

If Kyoshi, Roku, Aang, and Korra teamed up, their team name would be called "Krak" and I think that's beautiful

[the-woman-upstairs]

Ethan constantly telling his team members to just “figure it out” when something goes wrong, but then is always shocked when they come up with an outlandish alternative plan he has to pull off. Like…my dude, my guy���

[cabinetsart]

AF ATTACKS SO FAR!!!

first 2 are for @year2000electronics

3rd is for @thewikiplayer

4th is for @soaptears

[akkivee]

remember how we were told from the very beginning that we were not supposed to take hitoya seriously at all lmao

[masters-and-magnets]

It's giving "I always drezz for the occasion" to me.

[age-of-moonknight]

House of M: Avengers (Vol. 1/2007), #1.

Writer: Christos N. Gage; Penciler and Inker: Mike Perkins; Colorist: Laura Martin; Letterer: Rus Wooton

[mightbesmall]

It’s a bit late compared to when I wanted to finish it, sorry, but here’s Riddle in Twst mlb au!

Now, I would follow my trend with Ace and Deuce and give Riddle a hero name in Japanese, but I headcanon him as a little British-French boy. His mum is British and his dad is French (Riddle can’t speak a lick of French other than au revoir, I’ve decided).

I think it’d be sweet if, even though he doesn’t know his dad all that well (allegedly, I don’t know a Mr Rosehearts), he wants to feel a connection, associating his father with freedom like how he associates being hidden beneath a mask as a hero as freedom.

I just think it’d be sweet guys.

I don’t know if you guys can tell, but I tried to make his little cowlick, ahoge things into little antennas while still keeping the shape of a heart. Pollen matches him.

Slowly but surely, the kwamis look less ugly the more I draw them.

[nonbinary-sticks-the-badger]

because charmy's so young its fairly easy to come up with similar headcanons for why and how he found vector but i wanna hear thoughts about espio