#The brainrot is real

[ch0colate-cake]

LMFAO WHAT IS THIS

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[zeel-zzz]

happy valentines to all of us who are waiting for the other half of a ship belonging to our respective kins...

as a Barty kinnie, i will be drinking away my sorrows. do not follow my example.

[hywi2n]

mama im chasin' a GHOST

do i look like

him???????????????????

do i look like H!M????????? ://

[mh777p]

Valentine's is over, but I'm not🗣️🗣️🗣️

[blood-red-ocean]

Every time this gets a new like it's always at ungodly hours of the night when I should be asleep and if that ain't poetic I don't know what is

It is 1am, I am half asleep, here's some thoughts about Alcina that have me in a goddamn chokehold

- Alcina tensing up when her mortal touches her on the cheek for the first time and it's the first soft and gentle touch she's gotten for over a hundred years or maybe ever

- Alcina being confused at how someone so small and fragile could possibly feel safe around her considering she could break their arm with one hand

- Alcina getting restless when her mortal isn't around and then becoming agitated when she realises that for the first time she misses someone and how could she possibly miss a mortal when she's killed so many

- Alcina looking into a mirror and frowning at her reflection as she tries to see in herself what her mortal sees in her

- Alcina silently panicking because she can't figure out if that was her mortal on the balcony last time she mutated or if it was just her imagination

- Alcina panicking even more when she finds out it WAS her mortal and what was her mortal doing out in the cold like that anyway

- Alcina mentally preparing for her mortal to request to leave the Castle and trying to learn to be okay with that because why wouldn't her mortal want to leave after seeing her like that

- Alcina not moving for hours after her mortal climbs into her lap and falls asleep against her, the ultimate form of trust, after telling Alcina that she's beautiful in every form and context

- Alcina putting her hand V E R Y gently on her mortal's back as she sleeps and silently vowing to protect this one

- Alcina realising that she loves her mortal and throwing her desk across her room (again) in a rage because she can't possibly love someone, she's never loved someone in all her 100+ years

- Alcina spending weeks coming up with the best way to tell her mortal while also sending herself into an overthinking spiral because oh god what if someone else gets their hands on her mortal before she has a chance to tell them

- Alcina spending weeks coming up with the perfect way to tell her mortal and before she even gets a word out her mortal just kisses her and says 'I know. I'm in love with you, as well.'

- Alcina gets her happily ever after in the most unexpected way and her daughters have never seen her genuinely smile as much as they have after that moment

[emwallas176]

Just gonna put this here to showcase how badly the Smallville writers fumbled the bag with this one.

I aM tHe ViLlAiN oF tHiS sToRy.... yeah okay. You messed up a perfectly good character is what you did.

[skibidi-rizzler550]

Im a fan of pro skibidi nation im doing gyatt to stop the rizz cravings -Lana del brainrot

[bucky-bear1]

I should be doing something productive but I’m just gonna continue to waist away in bed as I consume a concerning amount of transformers content cause I have a hyper fixation issue

[daz-zey]

Valentine’s Day with Gi-hun

s1

He asked us the day before Valentine's Day because he was preoccupied of how to tell us. He was very nervous, always getting sweaty palms or cold feet. He didn't know what was the best way to ask us since it's been while with his ex-wife. He might've gotten some pointers from Ga-yeong and Jung-bae.

He managed (barely) to save money to buy us the usual things for Valentine's. Chocolate, flowers and plushies. He surprised us with a heartfelt letter. (It was all corny, dad jokes, told us how he appreciates our presence). He made homemade dinner instead of taking us out. He got help from his mom (she basically prepared most of it with his help but it was the thought that counts).

After dinner, we would cuddle on the couch to watch some cheesy rom-com movie that we like.

[monaetheworldsdestroyer]

someone slap me in the face i cannot afford to start 8th cherik fanfic wip i'm trying to finish at least one of them

[celerysdad]

@hearteye-emoji

[tsumichama]

Not to hijack your post, but an interesting illustration of how Hans is definitely not pulling rank on Henry, or at least not as much as he should be, given their positions, is how they bow to Von Bergow vs how Hans mock-bows to Henry.

With Von Bergow, you can see that they (Henry and Hans) aren't greeting him the same way. Hans, the noble, is just slightly bowing his head, while Henry is bowing more deeply.

This showcases the proper way a noble should act with another (higher?) noble vs how a peasant should act with a noble.

Then look at this smitten fool’s way of mock-bowing to Henry.

Whether he's glad to see him

Or when they're fighting

Look at how deep he's bowing. I don't think that someone who’s truly concerned with ascerting his status would ever act like that, even jokingly, because that would make him look inferior.

If anything, these bows show that Hans doesn't see their dynamic as this immutable divide. It's not that he ignores their Lord/Squire positions, he just doesn't let it govern their relationship. It's just a part of it, and he’s not interested in maintaining it at all times, and he’s actually heedless of it a lot of the time.

And he might not be aware of it, but he definitely plays with their positions to flirt. Not just by sometimes lording over Henry, but also by acting like Henry’s a Lord.

One of the huge, character-arc-central things that new KCD2 fans who don't play KCD1 may miss has to do with the way Hans & Henry's relationship has evolved over time. I worry that new players to the second game may mistake their relationship as one where Henry has been brought up to serve as Hans's squire from a young age, and they've been companions forever, but haven't quite managed to figure out how to overcome their class difference in order to truly connect as friends. That's not true--it's not at all the way things are between them--and it's VITAL that it isn't.

Three big reasons:

Playing KCD1 and understanding how Hans & Henry meet is critical to understanding how Hans has changed and is continuing to change because of his relationship with Henry. The Hans we meet at the start of KCD1 is a very different person from the Hans we meet at the start of KCD2 (and again very different from the Hans we leave at the end of it). Believe it or not, KCD2 Hans is "calm Hans." KCD1 introduces Hans as a much more aggressive, competitive, spazzy, violent and buckwild person. Frankly, a lonely person clawing for attention, usually negative. There's a reason for this: Han's elevated position means he has never had a real friend who speaks to him and views him as an equal. Then Henry is dropped into his lap under an incredibly unique set of circumstances, emotional and logistical, that enable this lowly blacksmith to briefly overcome feudal mentality and treat Hans like a person. This changes everything for Hans from this point onward, which is why he bonds so intensely and so swiftly to Henry, who is the sole reason Hans calms the fuck down into the person we meet at the start of KCD2. Henry is much, much more important to Hans than "my loyal bodyguard." He is his sole friend, and perhaps the only one he will ever be able to have. Hans and Henry both know this very well. If you miss KCD1, you may well miss this crucial context. (You'll also be partially left in the dark as to why Henry genuinely likes Hans back, who came into his life and provided disruption, anger, joy, and distraction from a time of otherwise personality-consuming, overwhelming grief.)

The "divorce" is really clearly not contextualized properly for new players who missed KCD1. Hans's little blow up at Henry is kind of painful to watch, but if you played KCD1, you'll know that it also shows a really beautiful step of character development for Hans and is a sign of a strengthening relationship... not an actual friend breakup, narrowly avoided. Hans spends most of KCD1 terrified to disagree with Henry. Any time Henry pushes him even a little, Hans will crumble, instantly, folding his personality and backing off in clear fear he's about to lose his One Friend. That KCD2 shows us a calmer Hans who IS NOT scared that fighting (nastily!) with Henry will destroy their friendship is huge. This, crucially, is why Hans and Henry both continue to look for each other and speak about their quest in "we" terms, even as Hans keeps dramatically yelling at Henry to stop following him. It's why Hans instantly jumps to his defense and can't hold back his cheers for him; it's why Henry immediately starts looking for him and worries deeply about the trouble he's getting into. What might seem like a series of inconsistencies or "hints" that they really might like each other is really beautifully consistent with everything we've seen. If you know this context, then you'll know as you watch it unfold that "The divorce" isn't and was never supposed to be understood as a real divorce. It's the progression of their relationship to a place where they can fight with each other when they're upset, openly and pettily, and both still remain certain that there is no future in which they don't continue to move through the world together. Even when they're both pissed off at each other. Warhorse tried to provide some catch-up context here, both with Henry's scolding of Hans ("I know we both know you don't mean that.") in the socks and with Hans's persistent references to "we' and "us" every time you run into him post-breakup. They also clearly tried to frame it as funnily as possible, right down to their bickering making crowds uncomfortable and inspiring the catchpole to "you're-better-off-without-him" comfort Henry. But I feel a lot of it is still lost if the player is not able to appreciate how being able to fight like this, as messy and petulant as they are, is not a threat of divorce they bounce back from. It's a sign of the strength of their friendship versus the way it was in KCD1. It wasn't a divorce. Hans was never, as he confirms at the poacher's camp and the wedding, going to leave Henry behind. It was exactly as it was framed: a lover's tiff. They were never going to really break up. While attentive players will probably pick up on this, it's a much richer and more enjoyable experience knowing the full background in KCD1.

Absolutely essential to understand that Hans is never really threatening to pull rank on Henry with his language of "peasant" and "blacksmith," even when they disagree about when Henry should and shouldn't interfere in noble business. What might appear to a new player to be genuine class tension between them and a muddled set of interpersonal boundaries is simply how they play and taunt and provoke each other, something firmly resolved and established in KCD1. There's still class tension, certainly, but it does not exist between them in quite this way, but as a divergence in worldviews and the frustration of the conflict their differences bring into the world. "Watch your tone, peasant" is, plainly put, a flirt. So is Hans's pseudo-contemptuous "blacksmith." So is "peasant" and "my lord" and "your lordship." In private, those distinctions have no real teeth behind them - it is just how they play.

Love KCD2? Want to love it even more? Play KCD1, jank and all. Be there for the start of the story. You will have an even better time in the sequel the next time you play.

[grevolt]

Night with me on discord

[buggybuggboo]

I love blocking people over a tiny disagreement, it’s fun

[kagehime19]

Brain rot: Would Hephaestus and Aphrodite have a happier marriage if he would craft sex toys?🤔