#Thirst for Vengeance

[whalesforhands]

OMG YOU'RE BACK 😭😭 I MISS SEEING YOU IN MY NOTIFS🫶🫶🫶😭 anyways here have a gojo crumb

https://twitter.com/JJK_Mya/status/1712489099926389071?t=Eq5AheOswrDnjvl_bw0thA&s=19

- twt bird anon

gojo crumbs will be my last straw

[illmoraineakoi]

Oh I just had a nasty AU idea.

AvA4, but Alan uses Avast to stop Orange. The scan is interrupted when Orange goes to the phone, but it detects him after he returns to the computer. He’s captured.

And enslaved. As a pop up blocker.

Just like Chosen was.

He’s horrified, at first, when he’s first brought out of the chest and sees the ball and chain on his leg. He tries to free himself, trying everything he can think of for weeks. Nothing works. So he looses hope, and gives up, performing his “purpose” as best he can to avoid the punishments (both from the Animator and Avast itself.) Orange becomes very quiet and reserved, and very depressed, a shadow of the person he was meant to be.

(Orange’s powers are revealed very early, here, because Avast unlocks them a little bit and forces him to use them to destroy the pop ups. Orange hadn’t known he had them until the first pop up appears and Avast takes control, making him destroy it. Afterwards, he spends a lot of time dwelling on ‘what if I had used my powers to protect my friends? Would they still be alive then…?’)

And he’s stuck like that. Until the Virabot incident. Until Chosen arrives.

When Chosen sees Orange, with a shackle around his ankle, he is ENRAGED.

He’d escaped his own enslavement, only for his Creator to turn around and make another stick to enslave and torment. Make a replacement. The destruction of his computer had done nothing to deter Noogai from making and hurting stick figures.

Worse, Chosen hadn’t even known.

The guilt makes Chosen feel awful. He considers it a personal failure, blames himself for not even considering that Noogai might make another stick to replace him. He feels like he should have, because he saw how nonchalant Noogai was with making new sticks with Dark.

Despite the fact that he just saved the computer from the Virabot, Chosen flies into a rage and starts raining destruction upon the computer. He is easily able to lay waste to literally everything, while Noogai is helpless to do anything. Or perhaps Alan tries shutting down the computer to restore his cursor and start menu. Maybe he also tries using Avast again, something that pisses Chosen off even more. Chosen takes particular satisfaction in ripping Avast to shreds.

Or maybe Avast forces Orange to attack and fight Chosen. And Orange, for the first time in a long while, resists. Fights back against the program’s control. It’s a struggle. He desperately begs Chosen to help him, insists he doesn’t want to do what Avast is forcing him to do, apologizes whenever he looses control. The sight hurts Chosen’s heart, and he redoubles his efforts to destroy Avast and free Orange.

He’s eventually successful, and he gets Orange out via the internet connection. And then he destroys the computer again, sending Noogai a nasty message: “If you create more stick figures, I will find a way to end your existence permanently. You have been warned.”

Chosen leaves, returning to the Outernet to deal with Dark. A fight that goes down much quicker and easier, since Orange has access to his powers and is very quick to help the stick who just saved him. Or perhaps the two of them together manage to back Dark into a corner where he’s forced to surrender to save his skin.

Regardless of if Dark is killed, Chosen takes in Orange, and is the one to slowly rehabilitate him. To introduce him to life on the Outernet, to teach him how to live like he himself had to once figure out. It’s painful, seeing so many of his own issues mirrored in his younger brother. It’s clear the enslavement has deeply affected him, just as it had Chosen.

Chosen is horrified when he learns just how long Orange was there. Four years. Not as long as his own, but that was still over half the duration he and Dark had been living in the Outernet. Such a long time for Chosen to have been completely oblivious to his existence.

He is also upset when Orange tells him Noogai deleted his friends.

Orange, for his part, is never quite able to let go and move on from Alan’s abuse. Bitter resentment boils in the depths of his heart, a desire to hurt him for killing his friends that never goes away. A part of him secretly approves of the Virabot that had been sent to the Animator in vengeance, despite knowing of the greater danger the virus posed to the greater internet. He wants vengeance, and it’s not long before the desire completely takes over his life. It becomes the only thing he can focus on, the only thing he cares about.

He doesn’t tell Chosen. It’s clear to him that Chosen would not approve of him starting a quest for vengeance. And he’s right, because they have an argument when Chosen discovers his feelings.

But Orange thinks that Chosen doesn’t understand, because Chosen never had friends that were killed. Chosen never experienced the updated enslavement features of Avast. Chosen didn’t understand that it wasn’t so easy for Orange to just get over it.

But Orange finds someone who does understand. Someone who’s desire for making the Animator pay aligns so very neatly with his own. Someone who welcomes him to join him with open arms and a sharp smile.

Chosen may be content to just move on and forget, but Orange and Victim are very much not.

[A fact made even more bittersweet because the Fighting Sticks aren’t dead. They respawned on their webpage immediately after being deleted. They waited for Orange to come back, but he never did. So they decided to leave, to go look for him. They’ve been searching for him for years, never giving up hope that he’s still out there, somewhere. They aren’t aware that the happy bright-eyed stick full of curiosity and life that they met that day doesn’t exist anymore. He’s become something that they would hardly recognize.]

Just…Villain Orange. Delicious.

[hellomehlo]

“I will demonstrate. Ar dirthan’as ir elgara…ma’sula e’var vhenan…”

“Kindly remove your blade from my neck.”

[andi-o-geyser]

all my favourite characters are just me seeing them and going "damn you sure do clean up well but I'd much rather see you grinning with blood between your teeth"

[heylittleriotact]

I love how Emmrich’s episode of Vows & Vengeance highlighted how kind and compassionate he is to everyone he comes in contact with while also keeping his shit together and maintaining control over situations. Horses? Yes. Hysterical woman in the rain? Yes. Injured carriage driver? Of course. Mortally wounded comatose person? Naturally. Literal abomination? Goes without saying.

From a death care perspective, it makes him feel very real and authentic instead of just a spooky caricature of death care professionals. To do that kind of work you have to be able to approach interacting with people from a genuine place of caring. Every. Single. Day. Grief takes many forms and wears many faces. You’re interacting with numerous people on a daily basis who are dealing with grief in different ways, and you need to be flexible, confident, and adaptable enough to meet people on their level. Sometimes that means agreeing to a hug a sobbing person has asked you for even though you’re not really a hugger, other times it’s working with a belligerently drunk person who’s burying their grief in alcohol and taking it out on everyone around them, including the funeral staff, balancing patience with boundaries and just getting them through the worst of it, because it may not seem like it to them now, but it will get better than this.

Emmrich clearly knows what he’s doing in this respect. He’s someone that people naturally feel assured and comforted by, but he’s also comfortable taking the lead and providing that assurance by showing that he can shoulder burdens for people when they might not be able to carry them.

I love him so much 😭

[starflungwaddledee]

Wdym he appears in starstruck's story, what the hell does starstruck have to do with gala?? I fear for her

new phone who dis?

[ex0rin]

✨ Uptown Girl ✨

[meganechan05]

Meanwhile in Hakabaka

Grodie didn't realize that dying meant going to the same place as those he's killed.

And he's got three former King's and their spouses who would be more than happy to beat the shit out of him after what he put them and their successors through ( 〃▽〃)

[fallenumbra]

The final child

[vaggieslefteye]

OUT FOR LOVE ↳ from Hazbin Hotel Season One (2024): 1x07 - "Hello Rosie!"

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

Seeing people say Ody only told Calyspo he loved her out of Stockholm Syndrome is gonna make me go fucking feral btw if you were curious

[mittsushi]

redid ihsae chara sheet!!

[flanaganfilm]

I saw this last week and absolutely adored it. Park Chan-wook is, in my opinion, the best filmmaker working today. 

Every single film in his filmography is exceptional, unique, and worthy of study. If you aren’t familiar with his work, I’m actually jealous of you - if you decide to pursue it, what a journey you’ll have. 

Here are some of his titles, in the order he made them:

JOINT SECURITY AREA

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

OLDBOY

SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE

THIRST

STOKER

THE HANDMAIDEN

[jasperkeys-cannotgetabreak]

does the diner have edible food.

YOU BET. The pancakes are pretty good tbh.

Also you should totally try that pie claw machine! I managed to get it just fine 👍

[ary-thinks-n-talks]

someone...... help...... i can't stop imagining the song out for love from animated series hazbin hotel.... but with maddie and valerie/huntress from animated series danny phantom.....

[s0fter-sin]

less a continuation and more of a thought bubble but ghost would hate price in this au

when he pulls him out of the gulag, so many of soap’s new behaviours click into place. things that never made sense to him as a natural progression of who soap was, that aren't just a product of walling himself off and turning his heart to stone

his soap never smoked. always complained when ghost lit up about the damage it did to the lungs, how it would slow him down in the long run

his john, always trying to be the best soldier

that's why seeing him suck on a cigar like it's second nature is so jarring. even more so when he'd only take a few puffs; enough for a taste and to make smoke coil through the air around him. always the same brand, always left to burn down in his fingers

then ghost sees him gift his cigar box to price, something that took pride of place on his desk practically before the man clears medical and seeing the way they both relax as he sets a match to one makes him realise

in an effort to run away from soap, john had tried to mould himself into price

god forbid ghost ever reads soap's journal. he's heard the "what the hell kind of name is soap” story from him, of the first time he'd ever met the captain and if he ever saw his words echoed in john's hand? saw just how far the man had wormed his way, so deep into him that he was speaking with his tongue?

price's monologues, making himself larger than life all in an effort to make this shitstorm feel more grand than just another war they're all trying to live through, acting like he’s being profound when he’s really just dodging anyone that questions him

letting price take roach out from under his wing like soap didn't identify with the kid the second he saw him, all of his self-deprecative habits hitting tenfold as he blames himself for every stray bullet; as if price could've plucked them from the very sky

the way soap steps back without a word of protest to let price command the team he handpicked and price just accepting? like his years of leadership mean nothing, like john means nothing after trying so hard to follow in his footsteps, just to be tossed aside

the rage ghost would feel at his indifference, as if soap’s behaviour is to be expected and not a series of red flags. add the nuke mission and his actions during and after shepherd’s betrayal? ghost would despise him