#The Bonds We Choose

[kaleidodreams]

Double Bingo! Here's my fifth and final fill for both @rareshipsonbingo (Theme: Videos and recording) and 18OI Bingober (Theme: Perception vs. Reality). Technically, this Milabek fic is a side story for my Ace!Yuri/Otabek/Mila fic, "The Bonds We Choose", but it works well enough on its own, I think. Happy Halloween, and happy birthday, Otabek!

Summary: Though her pregnancy/retirement announcement on Instagram is filled with many comments about her “cute” baby bump, Mila can’t bring herself to feel the same about her new changing body until her boyfriend Otabek shows her how beautiful she really is in his eyes. (FF.net)

[sotiredmostnights]

i know everyone likes to put tharja in the "yandere goth girl" category but tbh i feel like pigeonholing her into one specific archetype does a huge disservice to her character. is she obsessed with curses and robin? yes. is she constantly shoved into a fanservice role by intsys? absolutely.

but i think a lot of people forget just how impactful a lot of her supports are...there's something about tharja that makes nearly everyone who interacts with her divulge their deepest secrets and points of anxiety with her. we see this with libra, who tells her of the abandonment he endured at the hands of his parents. we see it with nowi, whose cheerful demeanor slips off as she tells tharja of her missing parents. and although tharja is not the only one lon'qu confides in regarding ke'ri, their support is notably the only one in which lon'qu divulges that there was romantic involvement between he and his childhood friend.

and despite her antisocial exterior, she always listens mindfully and offers to help! she even goes out of her way to discreetly help the shepherds (getting virion to do odd jobs that benefit civilians, interrogating henry to make sure he bears no ill will towards ylisse, etc).

a big thing about tharja is that she IS kind. she IS considerate. she just also has a reputation to uphold as a dark mage and that (paired with her overall awkwardness ofc) makes her true nature hard to see at first glance

[turtleblogatlast]

Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.

For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.

And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.

I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.

[justfriendsbestthings]

Simon’s Month Day 25: Soulmates

@youngroyals-events

[jesterwhoreknee]

Not me wanting to do a Chalastor/Radiobelle roleplay but being scared to death of being attacked or mocked in the roleplay community for it 💀

Don't get me wrong I love Vaggie and Charlie together and loved Vaggie's angel look alongside the backstory and how they met, but Vivzie isn't good at writting women and they don't have chemistry at all. Meanwhile I have always had a soft spot for Charastor and the dynamic/potential they had since the pilot came out. I know it will never be canon and don't intend in wanting it to be because I respect the characters sexualities/official pairings. BUT LEMME ENJOY MY FANON SHIP IN PEACEEEEE 😤😤😤

[atopvisenyashill]

on reflection the fact that we didn’t see laena claim vhagar, and now didn’t see the moment addam got on seasmoke either? kinda annoying me

[resol-nare]

Also the fact that they said the Inquisitor is a PART of the story!!! Not just a cool cameo but an active PART OF THE STORY!!!

[oddly-casual]

This entire scene makes me hurt but I wanna talk about this part in particular because it drives me insane.

Like- Splinter knows they aren’t just running errands. He can see his sons sneaking out thinking their slick and he found all their human stuff bc he’s nosey and if his sons won’t talk to him he’ll just have to investigate himself right?

So Splinter knows his sons are hiding something from him because duh- and he knows they want to be apart of the human world but he’s scared they’ll get hurt so he tries to bring the human world to them.

And you can just see the cringe and discomfort in the boys eyes because their father keeps trying to make them stay but it’ll never be in the way they want it, but they clearly feel bad.

And the real kicker is when Splinter tries that thing he did in the beginning of the movie, where he presses his sons about the truth but he specifically looks at Leo, like the screen cuts to Leo and even Raph looks at Leo because Splinter knows his eldest son would never lie to him.

But then he does

Leo lies right to his fathers face no hesitation and Splinter gets that look that just screams ‘i lost them’ because even if his son’s disobey the rules and don’t talk to him anymore, Leo was like Splinter’s insider into what his kids are doing and how to keep them safe. Splinter lost their trust.

But now even Leo is shutting Splinter out, so Splinter has been completely walled off by his sons and to Splinter he has no idea why because he’s just doing this to protect his kids.

Looking at it from Leo’s perspective, he has a strong sense of Justice. In the beginning when their father grills them about where they’ve been, Leo caves immediately even though he knows it’ll make everyone mad at him.

He braces himself for it too. There’s no reward in telling the truth but Leo does it anyway.

But Leo is a teenager, and teenagers tend to act in their own self interest. So when Leo keeps snitching and it only leads to punishment on all sides

Isolation from his brothers, distance from his father, of course Leo is going to cut his losses and stick to the thing that brings him joy. Possible acceptance and April. It’s also the most we see him bond with his brothers since Leo isn’t trying to follow their fathers rules.

[andreal831]

Is it just me or was it super problematic when Klaus named Marcel.

He knew this boy for five seconds and then decides he has a right to name him. He learns that Marcel's mother is dead but asks no other questions about his family. Did he have aunts, uncles? Did he even want to be taken in by the Mikaelsons? Why couldn't he come up with his own name? He was old enough to make that decision. It would allow him some kind of control and ownership over himself after having none at all for his entire life. Even the fact that the writers didn't allow his mother to name him so that Klaus could do it, asserting some kind of ownership over Marcel. Klaus names him after a Roman god, completely erasing Marcel's culture/heritage.

[kemendin]

While I completely agree with not being able to romance Scourge until way later in the game - it only makes sense that way - I still think it’s a crime you can’t ATTEMPT to flirt with him just one (1) time during the class story. For instance, when he talks about still remembering sensations and emotions from before he was Wrath’d. Or perhaps when he talks about ‘properly’ training any potential children the player might have.

I just want to try and flirt and have Scourge immediately, unequivocally shut it down. I want to see that cool stare harden for an instant and hear the flattest, slap-in-the-face “Don’t.” And that’s it. There’s no other flirt option, it’s never brought up again, just one try and an instant rebuff.

[starsreminisce]

SJM made it abundantly clear in his bonus chapter that Elriel's end is unmistakable. I'm not sure how Azriel could win her back, nor do I think he even wants to at this point.

How can he bounce back from referring to what they were about to do as a mistake?

👏 when 👏 a 👏 male 👏 says 👏 it’s 👏 a 👏 mistake 👏

👏👏 believe 👏 him 👏👏

Even when he left, Azriel felt justified in his decision to do so. He had already been pursuing what he wanted with Elain, which was distance, and had deliberately been maintaining that distance. When he walked away, it wasn't in anger over Rhys telling him to stay away from her. Rather, he left with the belief that he had been vindicated in his choice to do so.

Are Elriels hoping for Elain to pursue a male who has labeled them a mistake, holding out hope that he'll change his mind?

Do they want her to beg and plead after she has returned the necklace to him?

Because Azriel won't. He felt justified in his choice to distance himself from her.

If Azriel goes against his own choice to maintain distance from her, it does imply that he's grappling with his instincts to be with her. This raises the question of whether he is now struggling against the very instincts they criticize Lucien for when he actively resists them.

This is canon:

Rhys vanished, and Azriel was left standing before Elain, who still awaited his kiss. His stomach twisted as he pulled his hand from her hair  and stepped back. Forced himself to say, "This was a mistake.”

This is canon:

Then he flew to the House of Wind, knowing that if he slept in the riverside manor, he'd do something he regretted. He'd been so vigilant about keeping away from Elain as much as possible, and had stayed up here to avoid her, and tonight...tonight had proved he 'd been right to do so.  

Considering this happened after Elain had returned the necklace, this is also canon:

Indeed, Azriel and Cassian had just leaned against the wall, arms crossed, and smiled at them the entire time. Gwyn threw Azriel a withering stare as she strode past him. “See you tomorrow, Shadowsinger,” she tossed over a shoulder. Az stared after her, brows high with amusement. When he turned back, Nesta grinned. “You have no idea what you just started,” she said. Az angled his head, hazel eyes narrowing as Gwyn reached the archway. “Remember how Gwyn was with the ribbon?” Nesta winked and clapped the shadowsinger on the shoulder. “You’re the new ribbon, Az.”

One thing is undeniably clear: Azriel makes it known where he stands in his relationship with Elain, and to him, it feels wrong.

He may have not cared but everything he had done after the fact doesn’t suggest that.

Another undeniable fact remains: despite her discomfort, her declarations that she doesn't want a mate, her demeanor towards Lucien, the deliberate distance Lucien chose to maintain between them, and the assurance that Rhys will protect her, Elain has not yet rejected their bond.

However, what remains unknown is how Elain truly feels about Lucien.

It's worth noting that in this series, characters have been wrong before in assuming how others felt, and this might be another case of such misinterpretation.

[merrysithmas]

so in the disneyverse grogu-din's bond is gonna be the one of the big Reasons luke goes full steam ahead on the "attachments are ok" front to his currently developing teaching method, right?

[sebbyisland]

if tumblr had polls in 2015 I know iwaoi would have never lost in round 3 of a ship poll. How easily we forget our roots

[micahdotgov]

i love seeing 00Q fics written after spectre came out that complain that the film completely changed Q's characterisation and ruined him because like. what characterisation? he cant have more than ten minutes of screen time in skyfall and all we see him do is bitch at bond, be bad at his job, bitch at bond and be bad at his job, and commit treason. and is that not all you need?

[deva-arts]

In which Nate hears of a small fragment of Vincent's past life and immediately regrets it.

He's wondering if Vince needs a doctor or a therapist, but it's most likely both.