“I have not said I love him, for I do not know what that means. I know he shows it to me, but love is a feeling as well as an act. I can return the actions, but I am perplexed by the feeling. But if it is my desire to protect him, to run to him when in doubt, to hold his hand, to keep him close, to let him leave once he realizes this is not a union he deserves, to protect from the shadows as he rules and marries and creates, then I do love him. I love him so much it hurts. It is so strong that it fights the Urge. He promised a target should my Urge arise again, but he does not know that he is already the Blade in my veins, warring against my Father. He made himself the target when he pressed his lips to mine. And I’ve warned him as such, even when my claws were at his throat. But he persists, and so do I. So that is love.
MacCready being one of the few companions to not lose affinity if you eat people makes sense when you remember the fungus in Little Lamp Light grew from decomposing bodies. Like the kids weren’t eating people directly but they were eating people adjacent things.
Not to mention how the Lone Wanderer can trick the kids at LLL into buying “strange meat” to eat which is just human so it’s more likely than not they have just straight up ate people so he’s either very desensitized, knows what food desperation can do to people or feels he really has not ground to stand on since he was in the same boat whether he wanted to be or not.
If Ashlyn Banner was a character in a typical magic manhwa she would be the cool mage that remained isolated in the tower for over a decade without any sort of human contact until they were forced to due to the MC’s stupidity or in her case, Aiden’s shenanigans.
She would subsequently be roped into the chaos against her will, all while trying to figure out how to properly interact with real people after all this time and trying to protect this rag-tag group of people with varying backgrounds from certain death.
Aiden would be the crown prince who hated his position and responsibilities after the war so much he decided to become an explorer. It was a risky business with so many unexplored magical lands so it was right up in his alley but his parents only agreed to let him go if he brought his cousin Ben with him as a companion. Ben would be the powerful knight who was heavily traumatized and rendered mute during the war, working on finding himself once more while he and Aiden explored the world together.
Tyler would be the promising young knight who's trying to gain some prestige in order to take care of his family. Taylor would run the repair shop their dad left them but struggled to find a lot of customers due to the stigma that a woman couldn't possibly be strong enough or smart enough to do good repairs. The repair shop was incidentally right across the flower shop Logan's parents ran while he studied something with math or science at a fancy school and occasionally came by to help.
And the Crane Cult are the Big Bad™ that are using a blood sacrifices to call on the power of a higher being or something like that. And they wear bird masks of course.
You know, I think I just had a realization about one of the reasons I prefer original Garmadon over resurrected Garmadon
So you know how there’s the trope of “one of the big bads is actually one of the main characters’ dad (or mom, but it’s usually dad, at least in my experience)”. And usually alongside it, the evil parent either doesn’t care about their kid and/or is willing to get rid of them for the sake of their evil plans, or they want their kid to be evil just like them and join the dark side
Garmadon however, in the first two seasons, differs from that. We’re shown that he loves his son dearly and doesn’t want harm to come to him, at least whenever possible, and he literally states that he never wanted Lloyd to be like him
He differs from that aspect of the trope, and honestly I don’t feel like I’ve seen other evil parents have that angle. Likely because in Garmadon’s specific scenario, evil was forced upon him and he literally can’t help it. But regardless, it’s unique to the trope and it makes him more interesting than just a generic menacing villain
But when he comes back, he has that aspect of his personality erased, and so now he’s just doing the trope straight
Yeah, in Season 8, he’s supposed to be brought back super evil, and it makes the fight in Episode 9 devastating for Lloyd, and we get glimpses that somewhere deep down, he does still care about Lloyd, even if he’s convinced he isn’t or shouldn’t, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is now just the evil dad
I feel like his and Lloyd’s interactions in Crystalized are exactly this trope, or at least that part of “embrace the evil side of your heritage”, in terms of the Oni stuff. And similarly, Lloyd doesn’t want to be anything like his evil dad
The nuance and angst and tragedy that I really liked is now gone, and replaced with something more generic
honestly the ending turned out to be exactly what we’ve anticipated it to be and everything that could have been said was already said so im not gonna comment on it further.
but one thing I’ll never forget is that after everything was done, gege had to use an entire chapter to deliver excuses for the way he wrote the fight against the main antagonist 💀
I use to not like shin getter dragon but recently it’s been growing on me more however if there’s one thing that still bothers me about it being used in SRW with arma it’s the fact that like- of all characters Ryoma shouldn’t be the one to have it.
I know WHY he does since where its originally from (Daikessen) where it was a unit of his so it’s not originally even related to arma getter dragon and it is cool to see arma Ryoma use dragon since the only time we see him in it outside of Michiru’s death is a audio drama-which most people wouldn’t know exists LOL-but like- it just makes way more sense to me if shin getter dragon either belonged to Go or Saotome given canon.
So I was reading articles about John Hurt (as I do when I procrastinate on life in general lol) and I saw a still shot of a movie I’ve never seen still shots of before; so I looked it up. It’s a play. I was worried I wouldn’t find it in full online; but I did, so here it is in all its glory:
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He’s just… ugh I want to gently hold his face in my hands he’s just so sad and lonely with his weepy voice and eye bags. I couldn’t process half of what he said but I think this is a warning about always speed-running through life to get to the next good thing. We should appreciate the moment; because in the end, we’ll have nothing at all but our memories. If we rush through life, we won’t have any memories to keep us warm at night when the chill of death creeps up on us in our old age.
Also, spool, spooooooooooollll…….
spoooooooooooooooooooooolllllll [cackles in mentally unstable]
new 2hnb guy!!! one of three main antagonists the 2hnb gang has to beat up before talking to Da Devil Himself.. more about him below
he hosts a gameshow!! its doing sort of badly tbh but he wants it to get popular SOOO badly
one of the devil’s three highly trusted/powerful demon/imp guys to torture people. aster himself isnt as dangerous/violent as the other two guys hes just kind of weird to be around + his gameshow kills people sometimes
seems very confident but in reality hes kind of a pathetic guy tbh. he loses his composure very easily if things don’t go his way (though he tries so so hard to keep himself acting Normal.. hes not very good at it though)
pretty much a Slightly Worse version of roy..
speaking of roy he really REALLY wants to get him + the rest of the main gang on his shitass gameshow (purely bc theyve been causing a lot of trouble in hell and he thinks getting some guys that are Sort Of Well Known in tha underworld could get more people watching his show)
you know that one tumblr sexyman from that webseries that rhymes with bazbin botel? yeah astor is sort of a parody of that guy (i dont like h*zb*n h*tel that much ok) (also i purposefully made him to be tumblr sexyman bait sorry)
i forgot to put this in his ref but hes a bard/symphonic weapon main!! the mic on his tail is just the microphone weapon from thorium (YES i know he isnt actually a thorium playthrough character i just wanna put other classes from different mods as lil subclasses in perraria lore)
craziest thing about mew telling himself he is completely over top is that his face is telling a different story, and it’s so obvious. it’s really all over his face, whenever he looks at top, whenever he lets his guard down around him like in the kitchen scene at the party, when there is no one else around that he has to pretend for—he looks at top like he created the fucking moon just for him. it’s insane, actually. top has that kicked-puppy-in-love look, but mew is just. if i loved you less, i could talk about it more. he doesn’t even have to say a damn thing because he looks at top, and it’s written all over his face that he’s fallen so irrevocably for him. he can’t even control it, it’s just there.
where do you think he pulled the 🔫 from?? thin air like a magician?? from an inside pocket in his blazer like a hypnosis mic??? from an ass pocket he knew could store it since he knows there’s no other junk back there anyway???? hmmmmm 🤔
My personal hot take for BG3 is that I see the appeal that Astarion has but personally he’s far too mean for me to get into him and the fan base surrounding him makes turns me off from him so much.