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Please tell me you don't blame Elijah for Hayley's death because all too many already do.
I am like jeez he didn't have his memory in the first place to save his family or specifically Hope!!!
That man did everything he could for her and he loved her moreover he fell for her even without his memory, like what more do y'all want now from him???
PS: I also think he died at the end not just cause of Klaus's death but also cause his grief was too much for him to bear, why else would he leave his family, hope alone?
What you think?
I'll never blame Elijah for Hayley's death and will fight anyone who does. It typically comes from Klayley stans, so I made a tik tok to explain that logic: here.
My biggest gripe with it is the writers clearly did it to prop Klaus up as being the best man for everyone and adding onto Elijah's despair to kill him off. Klaus got to somehow play the victim in Hayley's death. The show made it more about him than even Hope or Hayley.
But yes, Elijah erased his memories to protect his family. People love to call him a hypocrite because he tried to have morals but would always cross them for family. Elijah erasing his memories was him trying to do the right thing because he realized this about himself. Talk about character development. He knew that, even if it would jeopardize some of his family, if Klaus needed him, he wouldn't be able to help himself. So he erased himself. He essentially killed himself. And the fandom somehow makes Klaus the victim in even that. If the show was going to do all that, might as well have just given all of the Hollow to Elijah and staked him (plug for my story, Last Sacrifice, on AO3 and WP).
So after Elijah essentially commits suicide for his family, he finally gets to live. But not really him. Some guy who doesn't know anything gets to live. How Marcel, Vincent, and Elijah thought that would be a good idea is beyond me. So he is released into the wild with no protection and Antoinette essentially takes advantage of it. I could never get into them as a ship after finding out she knew who he was the whole time. He is with her for seven years (his longest relationship) and even engaged to her. Enter Greta who convinces him that his family is in danger. Yes, Antoinette was his family so Greta and Roman were his family by extension. And we know how protective Elijah is about family.
And yes, he does know he's technically a Mikaelson and they are technically his family. But he also knows they are terrible people and has no emotions to go with that knowledge except the normal disgust one feels when looking at random mass murderers. They mean nothing to him. He walks into that house believing Klaus is there to kill his almost brother-in-law. He then sees "Andrea" and likely realizes it is Hayley. But again, no emotions are attached to the name Hayley. He may have been attracted and felt a connection to Andrea, but he is actively realizing their evening together was a lie. That she hid her identity from him and he isn't sure why, but knowing what he knows about the Mikaelsons, he doesn't trust it. Granted he is processing all of this in seconds. He looks around, sees Hayley and Greta in a fight, sees Roman and Hope unconscious on the floor, and see Klaus moving forward, unsure where he is headed. He doesn't help Greta, he doesn't involve himself in the Mikaelsons, he simply stops Klaus and moves to rescue Roman.
Yes, it sucks that seeing Hayley didn't just break the compulsion, but that's not how this world works. He didn't even know he wanted to fight the compulsion so he didn't. What he did fight was the compulsion to make him remember. As soon as the emotion started to come back and he realized Hayley was dead, he fought the compulsion to stop it for days. He'd rather never remember a moment of his life than live with the fact that Hayley was dead.
The argument really falls apart when, as you said, you point out the true Elijah. Anytime the writers wanted to cause issues for haylijah, they had to push Elijah into OOC. When she went behind the red door and he was the monster he was afraid to become and then when he literally erased who he was. Elijah with memories would have found Hayley even faster than Klaus cause he wouldn't have wasted any time. He would have gotten there before they even had time to bind her wolf side. Hell, he would have realized she was missing right away and found her before Greta kidnapped her. The only way they could have Elijah not save Hayley was to completely erase him.
I've talked about Elijah's decision to die by Klaus' side: here and here. To me, Elijah was always a bit suicidal so it didn't take much to push him there. Losing Hayley was the last straw because not only did he lose her, but he lost Hope. Klaus or Freya blamed him for Hayley's death and Hope hated him for it. Rebekah was ready to run off with Marcel, Kol with Davina, Freya and Keelin were moving on. Elijah was utterly alone. I think it had less to do with Klaus than to do with Elijah just having nothing to live for. I hate how people make even Elijah's death center around Klaus.
Klaus could have lived for Hope but chose not to. Elijah was going to die either way because he didn't want to live anymore. A lot of that was due to losing Hayley. Maybe if he had a better bond with Hope or anyone in his family had put effort into being there for him, it could have been different.
Thank you for the ask! I'm kind of sad that you would even think that of me! (Jk! I realized I've never spoken about it on here <3)
#her death was going to happen no matter what#because the writers wanted it#phoebe was even a regular in season 5#they wanted orphan hope#the writers just hate elijah and wanted to force blame on him#blaming anyone but Greta is pointless#and maybe roman#hope forgiving Roman will always anger me#elijah mikaelson#hayley marshall#haylijah#klaus mikaelson#klelijah#tvdu#elijah x hayley#the originals#the mikaelsons#anon ask#fandom asks#tvd ask#tvd anon ask#the vampire diaries#tvd#tvdu metas#metas#anonymous#andrea831 metas#andrea831 metas elijah#andrea831 metas hayley#andrea831 metas haylijah
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reblog and tag ur answer so I can see please :)
#hello first ever poll how did I do#I know this is kind of a wild spread I wanted to pick things that are maybe less accessible today/have more historic precedence I guess ??#I also only picked foods I was already familiar with / was able to find firsthand historical accounts of#cause I didn’t want to fuck anything up lol#for the record I’m between Roman and tang dynasty#anyways#mike makes polls#mike speaks#I also wanted them to be like a normal/ popular meal that would be eaten by most folk regularly#other than the Abraham Lincoln one lmao
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Goodnight everybody it's been an honor stabbing with you all
#and with that. goodbye. see you next year. (maybe)#ides of march#julius caesar#tumblr history#ancient rome#brutus#caesar#history#roman history#rome#tumblr holidays#tumblr humor
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I'll never not believe that Davos is the one who fell first and harder. that he wasn't the one getting his heart truly broken. the one fighting for Aaron's love and attention and aching when he is denied. the one longing for Aeron and having to reckon with the fact that he can never truly have him, there's too much keeping them apart.
sure, Aeron has his own feelings, his own longing, his dread.
but you can see it in their faces, it's Davos's heart that's a mess, his soul that is aching, while Aeron is more confused and unsure of his own feelings and where they lie in the mess that is feuds and war and blood and kin.
Davos is angry but full of bitter, rage filled acceptance. Aeron is scared, confused, and stuck between acceptance and denial. and it's breaking me.
#Davos was down bad and suffering because of it and ill never be ok about it#thats the face of a man whose come to terms with his feelings and is wallowing in them and doom that surrounds him#he's angry! with the world. with fate. with Aeron for once again choosing the other side. with himself for his feelings.#Aeron is scared of what he feels. scared of loving Davos. scared of him in general. scared of what lies ahead.#he's in the grey area between denial and acceptance#he can't accept his fate#maybe Davos sees that he's suffering his pain alone and ks angru about that too#my roman empire#aeron bracken x davos blackwood#aeron x davos#davos blackwood#davos blackwood x aeron braken#davos x aeron#aeron bracken#brackwood#davron#hotd#house bracken#house blackwood
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i’m connecting the dots
#succession#girl like gerri used to be the only person who didn't think roman was a joke.#AUUGHBJHSBGJHEWBFJHEWB#WAHHHHHHHHHHH#whatever. let me be delusional for a sec maybe one day she won't think he's a joke again if he gets his act together <3#jk we are so over
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they're eepy
#get you a nakama who will protect you during your mid-fight nap#one piece#romance dawn#wano#roronoa zoro#monkey d luffy#zolu#parallels#gif#luffy#if i was less lazy i'd maybe put japanese captions toooo? but like 1 im not confident#and 2 i think i'd have to do it frame by frame in post cause my gif program has limited [roman only] fonts#but for anyone interested [like me] in the exact wording:#romance dawn: 'ore wo neruzo' 'aa ato wa ore ga yaru!' wano: 'zoro... ippun tanomu' 'aa makasero'#eepy
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Trying not to think too hard about what is going through Edwin's head in ep 4 when Charles is crying and saying that he hates being dead, that he "puts on a smile" for the sake of everyone else - singling Edwin out specifically, saying "Are you gonna do that Edwin, huh?"
I really hope this moment is addressed next season because it's heartbreaking. Knowing what we know, Edwin is starting to figure out that he is in love with Charles at this point, but he's also starting to realize that Charles has buried so much pain in their 30 years together that Edwin wasn't fully aware of (and, in all fairness, this sentiment goes both ways). It was never for a lack of caring; Charles had been denying the pain himself; I think about him telling Crystal his dad wasn't the nicest guy, Edwin then parrotting this sentiment later to Crystal at the Devlin house: "He wasn't a... nice man." Edwin can only know what Charles has been willing to share, but still... knowing Edwin, he probably feels a lot of guilt (which Charles would be devastated to know he played a part in, btw, because I truly don't think he intended for his feelings to come out, nonetheless as "harshly" as they did).
I know Charles briefly touched base afterward and told Edwin he wouldn't want to be dead with anyone else, but I have a feeling that since we explored so much of Edwin's personal development in S1, that Charles' development (sexuality/feelings for Edwin AND facing the trauma he's been burying, among other things) will be at the center of S2...🤞
#saw we were trending and wanted to talk about this sad topic 😭 because it's my roman empire#maybe I'll write a fic exploring this. Charles Rowland I understand you#dead boy detectives#dbda#charles rowland#edwin payne#the dead boy detectives#the dead boy detective agency#charles x edwin#payneland
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succession should come back for a surprise christmas special
#i just want to see everyone in holiday sweaters hurling bitter and deranged emotions at each other#(and roman and gerri kiss under the mistletoe 😘)#dollsome's deep thoughts#(then maybe gerri slaps him and storms off smirking and roman gazes in awe after her like dwangela in casino night)
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I would imagine the twinyards rushing to text or call each other for happy birthday only because they made a game out of it, probably one of the sessions with Bee. Game rules are: first to wish "Birth" on the 4th of November wins, loser has to then say "Day", call Kevin and ask him something about history, or exy, or the history of exy. The twinyards turn 38 this year. To this day, Kevin still hasn't figured it out.
#katelyn: babe whos on the phone?#aaron puts kevin on speaker: and that is how essentially the roman empire-#katelyn: ah got day this year#aaron: hes been going on for an hour#aftg#all for the game#andrew minyard#aaron minyard#twinyards#happy birth#andrew probably tried to rig the game a few years back with scheduling emails to be sent out to aaron at exactly 00:00 on november 4#i would imagine it took aaron exactly one minute to figure it out so then they banned emails or texts so now they have to actually call#the year they turn 40 will maybe spicy up things#theyll decide whoever sends the message more creatively#maybe they train a bird or rent a billboard roadsign
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fucking tragic shiv could never be the ceo the closest she's ever going to get is being the wife of the ceo. in her own family's company
#the heart#succession#succession spoilers#things bad for everyone maybe least for roman. i don't know. pacing
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they are literally brothers that's his little brother man!!!!!! you don't get it!!!!!!
#long post#ok is this proof that connor likes kendall the most? no i guess#obviously this is being selective but i'm telling you watch all of those scenes and you will know what i mean#obviously he loves shiv and rome as well but the fact that kendall not only got the least votes but SO MUCH LESS than the other two#like no.. you guys don't get it he loves him :( that's his little bro!#also these are not all of them i could only fit 30 images. more in the reblog#obviously he loves shiv and rome but also shiv is like very very mean to him 99% of the time lmao. and roman's nicer than shiv#maybe but still not very nice. he still loves their ungrateful asses! but you can def see him being warmest towards kendall#in the way they just interact with each other idk. always hugging always patting him ... that's his little bro!#mostly i'm just mad over ppl so unanimously deciding it's not kendall . none of you get it >:(#connor roy#kendall roy#roy siblings
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yeah, um... hey, i was just thinking, do you... remember? when you asked me when my dad was gonna die? uh-huh. you really couldn’t push this a week, couldn’t you, you just couldn’t like--there was no part of you that could just be like, “hey let’s reschedule and move this cause, y’know, their dad just died and y’know.” i mean my sister’s kinda--she’s fucked up about it, and my brother’s a mess, and i’m fucking, i’m GONE i’m like i’m on the fucking--i’m dead, it’s over for me, it’s okay, it’s fine. but you just drag us out here, you inhuman fucking dogman, you... crazy. you- you fucking killed him, too. you’re the one who did it. you just--and, you did. you drained the life out of him. you dragged this thing out for six! fucking months and then you bring us out here now you couldn’t wait like, a few days, you actually couldn’t do that for us... no idea, huh? ...god! ...yeah, shut the fuck up, man, we’re not selling to you. okay? we’re not doing that. we are gonna grind you down, man, we are sand in the gears every email’s gonna take like six months, we’re all gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and in the end, you’re gonna get fucking bored and move on it’s not... happening! okay? yeah. yeah, i fucking hate you.
#and if you tell the board about any of this im just gonna say its a negotiating tactic but maybe its not so FUCK YOU#succession#roman roy#anna.txt
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time passed...
#ts4#the sims 4#ts4 gameplay#simblr#wood legacy#wood g1#c: isabella wood#she's so against having a child i need to change that trait of hers#otherwise no babies#maybe roman could talk her in who knows i wont' force my hand by simply cheating no no
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Okay, okay. But when you get right down go it, Edmund is just one person. He's not the whole of humanity (or Narnia-anity, as the case may be) - he's just one guy who committed a crime and whose life is therefore forfeit. Aslan takes his place in a direct, one-to-one swap: guilty for innocent. In the process he atones for all sin, but Edmund's the one whose life is being directly saved. The executioner lets him go.
Guys. Edmund is Barabbas.
#maybe this is a slightly out there take but go with me okay?#the Romans let Barabbas go and killed Jesus in his place#in spite of the fact that Pilate proclaimed Jesus's innocence outright#Barabbas was a zealot. he was interested in overthrowing the government#Edmund tried to overthrow his siblings and claim the Witch's promise of princedom#Barabbas was a murderer. Edmund was a would-be murderer albeit unwittingly#idk just something i thought about#i listened to a Tim Keller sermon about Barabbas today and here we are#the traitor who mended#narnia#pontifications and creations
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Smackdown 01/03/2024
#roman reigns#wwe#wweedit#smackdown#the bloodline#wwe smackdown#still dont care about this story but this bit ate#also maybe i missed giffing him ok leave me alone :(((#stuff i made
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a rough comic of some kind of scene inspired by this extremely interesting entry from socrates scholasticus
ngl I think after I'm done with the late roman republic, I might try to adapt the opening act of the valentinian dynasty (so basically the brother emperors and then theodosius) into a comic (at the very least, this is a scene I'll definitely be revisiting and taking all the way to the inking stage)
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app
#blah blah bigamy allegations whatever. to me valentinian is playing wingman for his wife. which then turns into a Situation#komiks tag#late roman empire tag#maybe in the future the state of the internet wont be in such dire straights and i can post the threesome/voyeurism illustration#that's supposed to go with this. ehghghghGHGHHHHHSUERHGH
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