#and as a combat duo

[ryllen]

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[fatedroses]

Two former military elites taking merc jobs perform absolutely hellish battle tactics together.

[whereispearlescentmoon]

back in secret life w Gem on the murder camel (this directly combats the double life ask)

The Double Life Ask in question here

Pearl is back with Gem and the murder camel! She’s yearning for simpler times.

More thoughts under the read more:

Fun fact, in this exact moment, this conversation happens:

Pearl: Oh I love this so much, you are wonderful. Oh wait I need to bring the dogs!

Gem: I can’t believe you still want to be friends with me after all this.

Pearl: You know what, I can’t believe that either. But I guess here we are *laughs*.

Gem: Fair enough

Pearl: You just seem so fun to be friends with on a red life.

In case people forgot, before this Gem had taken both Pearl’s green and yellow life, which is what she’s referring to (and why I maintain that Life Series c!Gem is a hypocrite and she knows it). Pearl was only red because Gem had killed her, which is why Gem was shocked. Maybe some part of Gem wanted Pearl to kill her in Wild Life so badly because she knows they aren’t even. She knows she wronged Pearl, at least when she took her yellow life. She could have stopped and failed her task, she could have shouted at Pearl to put her shield up (which the task didn’t say she couldn’t do). But she didn’t, she kept hitting a confused and fleeing Pearl until she died. She wouldn’t have forgiven Pearl if she did the same thing. Its confusing. Pearl didn’t even kill her on her red life, just got a couple hits in, sat her dogs down even, and Gem doesn’t forgive her. It’s easier to get Pearl to kill her to get even than to have to deal with the fact that Pearl really hasn’t done anything to her, and that anything she did do, Gem did to her first and worse. It’s easier to be angry and betrayed than a hypocrite.

(This ask does in fact meet my criteria for breaking the location queue which is that something has to be either a meme that won’t be funny in a week or so funny it made me laugh out loud for real, and specifically the asking for it to combat the double life ask was hilarious to me)

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[ikuzeminna]

What's up with the wolves?

This post made me want to talk about Duo and how he was initially conceived as Gundam Wing's protagonist, but instead of derailing OP’s post with my ramblings, I thought it better to make them a separate post.

We all know this shot of Duo in the first opening, and like many others I, too, have wondered why on Earth the American street urchin character would be sporting heraldic wolves on his jacket as though he’s European nobility.

They never show up in the series proper, just the opening. And there is absolutely nothing about Duo that could remotely relate him to nobility. He's pretty much the furthest thing from it.

...unless we count Deathscythe H's design, which does sport a strong romantic death theme. But that's about as European as Duo gets.

So what if this is the creators being cheeky and including it as a nod to his initial protagonist status before it was given to Heero? Because if Duo was the protagonist, that would mean he would have been Relena's foil, who is of royal blood. And then we would have had the same juxtaposition as this:

Oh, look, another orphan wearing fancy clothing.

But back to Duo. The precise term for what Duo has emblazoned on his jacket is a wolf rampant. Well, two actually. Would that make them combatant..?

When they're mirrored like that, you expect them to hold a shield. Like these two unicorns here:

Do you recognize it? It's Romefeller's crest. Romefeller has two white unicorns rampant on a red background while the guy who fights them gets two golden wolves rampant on a black background.

Wait a minute. White, red, gold, black?

Really?

Someone must have had a field trip with the designs.

Back to the wolves. According to Wikiwand, wolves in heraldry "typically symbolised the rewards of perseverance in long sieges or hard industry." A long siege is definitely what the colonists were going through. Doubly so regarding Duo's crappy childhood.

So is Duo really connected to wolves?

Well, here's a fun fact.

The wolf (French: loup) is often used for canting (meaning heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name in a visual pun or rebus) by families whose names feature some variant of the word 'lou/wolf'. Examples include Videlou, de Lou, Lupus, Wolferston, Wolseley, Lovett, Lowe, Lovell, Lupton or Wolfe.

Lowe. As in, Odin Lowe. This dude:

Heero got cheated out of fancy wolf crests.

And here you have it. Before Heero stole Deathscythe's parts for Wing, Duo had gotten Heero's wolf crest. Then again, they would have been wasted on Heero's green tank top anyway, so good for Duo.

[brainrotcharacters]

caught myself in 4k giving heart eyes to the screen (rewatching Wade and Logan duke it out in the Void)

[egypquotes]

Sekhmet: I know this isn’t going to end well and I don’t care. So don’t you try and stop me, Sobek!

Sobek: I wasn’t stopping you. I was asking if you had a spare camera so I can record this.

[sapphiretanto]

Much to their siblings’ and friends’ confusion/annoyance, Karai and Leo will drop random info about Japanese history at extremely random times, for no reason. Fight me.

(Don’t you dare tag this as a ship)

[fatedroses]

Local Garlean Adventurer gets the first head kisses he's had within the last decade, is content.

...Even if he has to fold himself in half for them.

[avis2]

Madness Combat doodle

I drew this little Madness Combat doodle in between art!

[carsaadi]

funny duo

THING THAT CAN LAND AND THING THAT CAN WATER

[nozomijoestar]

Me & who

[bcdwclves]

alright, i think i’m done lmfao.

just didn’t do the photo ops bc god, i can’t be bothered.

[eyepatchdate]

gotham knights is 10000% the game of the year for me ngl. 

[holydivers]

kinda want to play a blood mage and romance emmrich just for the sake of maximizing being weird and off-putting

[monster-squid-ink]

BAHAHA YEEEAAAH

This was quite literally what my brother and I were like when I got Downpour

Downpour Jolly-coop is fun,