#Well you get 'Coward'.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The most dangerous duel of all.

[humbuns]

late night visits

[yikesy]

I'm aware of how random this sounds

But because rrverse Apollo and rrverse Hermes have a tense and distant relationship, I was thinking about how differently they interact with their kids, and my thoughts spiralled until I thought of Luke.

I feel like an Apollo and Luke interaction would be so interesting. Luke probably wouldn't like him due how May got all messed up from trying to be his Oracle, but I feel like Apollo would be a kind uncle BECAUSE he knows what Luke's fate is (and probably disapproves about how Hermes treated the whole thing).

Like remember when Apollo once said that he would of adopted Frank if he could? I would like to think he would of wanted to adopt Luke too.

Your thoughts?

oh luke DOES NOT have a good impression of apollo. apart from the may thing let's not forget the event that kinda radicalized him was HALCYON GREEN. it's very interesting actually because he sees hermes as uncaring and neglectful but he sees apollo as actively malicious

so he thinks hermes is The Worst bc of his inaction but then comes apollo who he perceives as too involved, in the bad way (he's not, luke who by pure coincidence witnessed two apollo related atrocities before sixteen is an outlier and shouldn't be counted) Lots of wires crossed

but sadly I think bc of that his reaction to apollo would be very,, measured?? like, he thinks he's evil!! apollo would come down to see what's the deal with this kid everyone's making such a fuss about and luke would be very polite and amiable and and apollo would get hermes vibes™™ that he's just acting like that to hide he's scared and uncomfortable and then apollo would leave bc he doesn't want to keep subjecting him to that by forcing his presence. but he wouldn't know just How Much he was lying then and the depth of his Issues

but if they somehow got into a situation where luke gives up any attempt at preservation and GOES OFF at apollo (which he would) apollo would, well he would respond very calmly and pointedly take responsibility for everything which would confuse THE FUCK out of luke

and then he would go directly to hermes and tell him he needs to get down here now this shit is serious and hermes would be like "you know I can't why are you making it more painful than it already is" and apollo would be like "you're being an extremist and oddly stubborn about this" and they would go at it for a looong time.

apollo's opinion on luke's fate is that hermes may not be able to control or change it but what hermes can control is his own relationship with luke and the way he's hurting him right now, that if tragedy is going to happen anyway and you love the one it's heading to, then it's your duty to balance the scales and steal moments from between the lines of prophecy, so that happiness WAS there, even if it didn't change anything. that hermes is not only withdrawing his love but causing more misery to an already doomed person... he cannot stand for it

in the end apollo would end up routinely dragging hermes to see luke bc hermes does want to but he won't admit anything to apollo and he'd be sooo awkward and pathetic with luke and luke would stare at him with disdain and judgement. in the end apollo ends up acting like a kind of particularly forceful family therapist

so lmao from luke's perspective it would be like "this guy I don't like and I don't understand, for an unfathomable reason, took my dad being absent as a personal offense and now keeps dragging him here like some kind of cat who keeps bringing dead mouse and keeps dropping by to give me weekly updates and lessons on godly psychology and politics"

[fumifooms]

Chilchuck analysis speedrun: As a hardworking half-foot who grew up poor and discriminated against and had his gullibility taken advantage of multiple times in his early adventuring days, Chilchuck thinks optimism is a dangerous flaw. He’s stressed and strict all the time because his job is noticing details like traps that could get everyone killed before anyone knows it, he takes the lives of everyone to be on his shoulders, and with the way he speaks about it that probably partly reflects how he felt about taking it upon himself to provide for his family too. His life’s always been pretty centered around work and has become even moreso now that his wife left and everyone is independent, and due to past events he’s very iffy with bonding with coworkers. He thinks feelings and job are a disaster mix. Like with his wife or with parties hiring him as sacrifice, being open or having good faith is vulnerability which can get you hurt, so he processes and shows all his stress as anger instead of worry. Doing strict dieting probably isn’t helping the irritability what with hunger, and on top of being a hunger suppressant alcohol might be the main stress reliever he has.

His grey hairs are so earned

[crystallinekitties]

I figured out how to mod last weekend and I want to apologize to Elliott for being experimented on, but you make a great G'raha sir (with a couple dialogue changes)

[write-like-wright]

ooooh..... hypocrisy......

[ahollowgrave]

-- mistletoe. pt iv. (feat. the darling Rika of @darcar!)

You've unlocked a second, secret version:

[shorthaltsjester]

@percahliaweek -- Day 7: Yours / Later

The Legend of Vox Machina, Seasons 1&2&3* // The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

[essektheylyss]

I do think some of the handwringing I've seen about "hate" is funny because from what I can tell, even on twitter people are being surprisingly civil. The cast hasn't even had to make a big announcement clarifying a situation because everyone misinterpreted something and worked themselves into a furor. It took less than 12 hours after the c2 finale before Matt and Liam were like, "Uh, what do you mean, we literally said on stream Caleb and Essek get together." But there's also been a significant shift online since then to the point where anything short of "the precious baby blorbos were treated so niceys :3" is considered vicious hate, for some reason*, so I can't say I'm really surprised.

[rovermcfly]

this is what it sounds like to me when people criticise the count/haydée romance. "it's so problematic" girl he kills people. focus.

[gazpacho-deluxe]

anyway damien leone just posted some bullshit beefing with his cast for standing up for basic human rights and said he wants terrifier to be ‘an apolitical space’ and then indirectly criticized said cast for ‘weaponizing’ the platform an ‘apolitical’ film gave them and i just have to ask if this guy has ever actually critically consumed horror

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you? You are still a brat. What do you know? You're only three years older. Like you are any better than me. You're 21, and still a virgin. What are you proud of? I think you can't do it.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 06

[nenoname]

it is funny to me that a mission statement of s2 was "make pacifica less of an one-dimensional walking trope" but that just resulted in making her parents into one-dimensional walking tropes lol

[hrokkall]

ULTRATOBER DAY 28 /// MYSTERIOUS DRUID KNIGHT (& owl)

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[vaguely-concerned]

one thing I have to keep reremembering every time I'm playing a soulslike/similar kind of difficult game -- and that I wish I could internalize elsewhere in my life as well -- is that you always, always have to suffer through the long dark of an inexplicable failcringe era before you can emerge into a fresh new dawn of competence. faceplanting into humiliating failure in ways you hadn't even conceived of before on a loop can sometimes be the herald of great and wondrous things to come soon. don't be so quick to abandon yourself in the early murk of daybreak because you think you just suck!!!

[dendrofiles]

how niko is with the LIs !!

time to do this finally because i need to yap about niko

alex: first, let me say how much i adore alex. i need to get this out of the way because if i don't get my love for him out now, it will impede my ability to write about him later. anyways. niko and alex are a very cute couple!! alex was very endeared to niko when he first started working at the farm because niko was too stubborn to ask alex to do anything for him, so he was always doing the hard shit by himself despite being awful at it. slowly, though, he got better, and they fell in love, and niko's skills made the farm actually defensible from remy's attacks (he's also occasionally disappearing to play naked blackjack with a different farmhand to protect the farm, but hey alex doesn't need to know that). alex is detached from the town, so he's a little clueless to all the shit niko's had to deal with, and niko's fine with that. he likes that alex isn't aware of his past reputation. of course this illusion kinda shatters with the remy-goon-murder incident, and that kinda fundamentally changes their relationship, but alex kinda just takes this as an excuse to love niko even harder. also alex is the britishest person alive and niko thinks that's. incredibly funny

sydney: god it's SO hard to write for the main three without talking about The Polycule AU but i will do my damnedest. unlike alex, sydney does know everything about niko. if there was an exam on nikolaj kaminski, syd would be the only person in the world to get 100%. he and niko tell each other everything. it's not like sydney has any reservations around niko- he's the one who showed him a whole new side of the world!! their souls are completely bare before each other!! of course there's still some discomfort there because syd has changed a lot for niko, he is definitely happier now but still. it's hard to reconcile the fact that everything he thought he knew has been thrown into limbo. it's also hard to scrap the traditional ideals of love the temple gave him. niko is a thief, a murderer, and a former prostitute- not exactly the spouse the temple had in mind for syd. but niko's such a good boyfriend, and syd wants him forever, plus sirris likes him, sooooo... fuck what the temple wants lmao

whitney: niko was NOT someone that whitney wanted to fall in love with. he was always kind of an outsider- this freaky little basket case of an orphan, roaming around town, always covered in scratches in bruises, always cursing in polish under his breath. unfortunately, though, niko is beautiful, and the strange mixture of utter submissiveness and utter delinquency is way too compelling for whitney. when they start dating, niko decides he can fix him!! which is ridiculous because he can't even fix himself but go off king. once they figure each other out their dynamic is pretty cute. niko meets whitney where he's at and this is how he gets into thievery, which whitney thinks is adorable. whitney realizes the upper limit on his insults for niko because otherwise niko will break down cry

robin: of course, niko and robin were childhood best friends. they had little crushes on each other growing up and it was cutesy!!! they started dating when they were old enough to but mostly only because it was expected of them. it felt like the easy, natural thing to do. and of course niko started paying robin’s rent! but that put a lot of extra strain on him that he didn’t need. i think niko and robin both kind of understand that their relationship is pretty much just a really good friendship with a bit of sex added on, and they’re fine with that. it’s relaxed!! in the polycule au robin is totally different though heehee i have thoughts on that

kylar: niko and kylar's relationship is... strange. kinda the classic non-lover kylar x pc relationship. niko thought he was sweet at first! he didn’t bully kylar or anything and kylar of course mistook this for affection. niko was totally fucking oblivious to kylar’s feelings for him until kylar kidnapped him. and niko was terrified but people-pleased his way out of it. they had a lot of sex, absolutely none of it consensual. niko’s just very thankful he didn’t get pregnant from that whole endeavor. now kylar thinks they’re soulmates and niko is mostly just terrified for his life. another reason why he rarely leaves the farm!! he also feels obligated to keep kylar from hurting himself. yay for one-sided toxic obsessive love

avery: this relationship is. a ticking time bomb. that's the best way to describe it. niko sucked up to avery a lot in the beginning because he needed the money. he was kind of a perfect sugar baby, just doing absolutely everything avery said. avery loved him for it. niko put up with everything. but then quinn won game night, and niko was so fucked up from the experience that he started avoiding avery altogether. he had enough money by that point. so now, niko’s rarely every in town and does not need avery and avery is fuckin ANGRY about it. i haven’t decided how he’s gonna take revenge yet but you bet your ass he’s gonna do it