#and savathun is going

[taxus-fraud]

i love seeing those posts where people are talking excitedly about how their blorbos would hang out and joke around and have a fun relationship dynamic and every single one of their headcanons is almost entirely divorced from how the characters actually are. like, i’m glad you’re having fun with these guys, but i am also confident you are not consuming the same piece of media that i am.

[eiramew]

Dreaming in Hive

[steel-peach]

Eris vs Xivu

[hi-crawler]

"you see, it simply just isn't prepared for my game of five dimensional chess." -savathûn, probably

[thefirstknife]

The thing about the final lore tab is that, besides the fact that I'm devastated in ways I can't put into words, the way Saint was affected by this whole thing is unique.

This is obviously primarily Osiris' trauma that we can't really properly comprehend, but Osiris wasn't fully conscious for most of it. It fell to Saint to wait, and hope, that Osiris would be brought back and that he would wake up. There was no certainty for him there. And even before that, he watched "Osiris" being strange and distant and acting weird but obviously nobody could even begin to speculate that the person he interacted with wasn't Osiris at all, so the trauma went from there, from learning that he lost Sagira, then to the shock of Osiris being kidnapped and then the quest to bring him back and then him being brought back in a coma and then the 9 long months of waiting until he woke up.

The state of constant anxiety he experienced for almost 2 years total is nervewracking and gutwrenching. I don't think we can fully understand the impact of that on someone. And the best, or worst, thing is that Saint is infinitely patient. He is infinitely emotional and merciful and opts to be the better person and to wait and wait and wait. And hope that it can be fixed.

Except it can't. It can't be fixed. And not only can it not be fixed, but there will never be justice for it. It's impossible. There isn't a way to truly punish Savathun for what she's done. There is no relief or catharsis for Saint. While Osiris can mostly move on, Osiris did not really have to go through what Saint had to go through. Their traumas are different and Saint's is the type that no one can really understand and there is nothing he can do about it.

A younger Saint would've killed Immaru and then Savathun, 100%. But now he can't, because he isn't that person anymore. And yet, the grief and trauma remain and he has no outlet for them and nothing that can be done to enact any sort of justice. So he settles for pure rage, letting himself essentially vent that anger out, but still leave everyone alive. And there's really no true release here. He got a brief satisfaction of killing Savathun over and over, but at the end of the day, she will walk away and nothing will change and there will be no fix.

Which is why he comes back and just cries. As he said, this wasn't for Osiris, it was for him. It was his outlet for anger and nothing else. After that, there's nothing else left to do but cry. No one can really help him carry the burden of what he's gone through and besides: he's a Titan. He's the one carrying other people's burdens. Which just added to the trauma because for so long he's only cared for others, mostly for Osiris, and never really let himself fully grieve or talk about it. Saint never really processed the horrifying ordeal of constant concern for his loved one, then the realisation that his loved one isn't even with him, then the desperate search and then waiting for months and months for the hope that his loved one might wake up. Then Osiris is awake and we're forced to play allies with the person who traumatised both of them in an incomprehensibly terrifying way. Saint had no other way of attempting to make his peace with the situation.

Year of processing grief. I'm in shambles.

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

It used and discarded you like trash

But I picked you up like a treasure

[synnthamonsugar]

Fastest purchase of my life

[zahra-hydris]

I was tagged by the wonderful @galedekarios ty! 💜

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[warlordfelwinter]

i love that i have helmets set to off in non-combat zones and yet delphi had his helmet on during that vanguard meeting like yeah delphi probably does view meetings as a combat zone

[screaming-for-eternally]

Another Cayde AU I cooked in the Content Box with @luna-light-eclipse

Hive Zombie Cayde AU

Basically Cayde gets hit with a Hive curse that doesn’t seem to do anything. He goes on with his life, flash coward a couple years. Cayde is dead, they’re having the funeral.

And then he gets up. And people start freaking the fuck out for a bit. Cayde himself included.

Physically he looks like a damn mess. While he’s tried to get some repairs in, his face still looks all scuffed to hell, he still has the wound that killed him, his limbs keep falling off on occasions, especially when they’re in disrepair, and sometimes his eyes will go out. The only ‘upside’ is that he effcitevly can’t die, so he can be in pieces and still be put back together.

Mentally, he’s also a damn mess. Thanks to some slight brain damage and deterioration from being dead, he has trouble remembering things or getting his thoughts together-not as bad as what Banshee has to go through (though Cayde definitely appreciates the advice on how to deal with memory issues) it’s likely bad enough that he gets taken off strike duty, at least until he gets better. Not to mention Cayde’s usual self loathing is gonna be worse-feeling like a freak, feeling useless, thinking his friends think of him as an abomination that needs to be put out of its misery. All that fun stuff.

As for Eris. Well she ends up putting some spells on him in case Cayde suddenly goes evil or gets taken over by the Hive. Him and Eris actually get along somewhat better, owing to them both getting screwed by the Hive.

In combat, Cayde is just…absolutely feral. Grows claws and literally tears through enemies like tissue paper. Has chomped down on enough bad guys that he has bits of guts stuck in his mouth. He tends to black out for a lack of a better term, coming to having just wiped out a whole group of enemies. It’s not uncommon for Cayde to return from a mission covered in gore. Eventually the Vanguard bans him combat baring emergencies, since he keeps traumatizing the Guardians he’s sent along with

And finally there’s ‘Osiris’. Hoh boy. His memory tends to blank out more around him, and people keep saying he’s been talking to him when he doesn’t remember. Meanwhile, Savathun is taking great pleasure in extracting every iota of information she can from Cayde-who, by virtue of being Hunter Vanguard, knows a lot.

[nyphren]

i finished lightfall like two weeks ago and tbh i was expecting it to be waaaaay worse. bc its not bad.

like, speaking as a player who got into the game less than a month ago, who knows more or less what happened in d1 and in the vaulted content, it was... fine

know whats kinda bad?

shadowkeep.

shadowkeep is... rough. im dragging my brother through it rn and its a Time. the campaign quests are okay, i guess, but the whole ~forge an armor piece by piece~ is boring and the "do this bounty", "do events two dozen times", "kill things" between campaign missions are SO painful. especially because i have almost NO context re: who these nightmares are. i never met crota. i never met taniks. i only know who these people are bc i watched a 4 hour summary of destiny's story. none of this mattered or made much sense to me.

i love the atmosphere on the moon, tho. and eris is great.

but i distinctly remember finishing shadowkeep and going "thats it?" and "are all the campaigns going to be like this????" and feeling dread because ffxiv is my main game and i had a very different idea of what a campaign should be bc i had already bought beyond light. which im really glad i did bc i went on to play it out of spite and it was much better. witch queen was fantastic. and lightfall was good.

so for me, it's witch queen -> ligthfall -> beyond light -> shadowkeep.

lightfall does have "this couldve been an email" vibes and the final boss fight is a huge letdown if compared to witch queen's but i dont think the story/campaign is a bad as ppl make it out to be tbh

[3gremlins]

vaguely considering cosplay projects again (idk, i want to but parts of me are still a)burned out and b) have shame/fear from my start/stop cycle) and i've just been eyeing all monsters lol nothing easy or simple to just ease back in, no it's complex monsters all the way down lol

[thefirstknife]

I was going to ask how much of the Hive royal family/families we've killed, but it's probably a shorter list if I ask what named Hive royalty we haven't (yet) killed.

LMAO. Literally the only one we still have left is Xivu Arath.

Obviously, we killed Savathun but since she has the Light, she will return, so I don't know if that counts. Similarly, we killed Dul Incaru (Savathun's daughter) but since she's tied to the Dreaming City curse, she repeatedly comes back when the curse resets. Up to you if that counts.

For fun:

Oryx and his line: killed by Guardians - Oryx, his son Crota, his son Nokris (twice), his daughters Ir Anuk and Ir Halak, Crota's wife Omnigul, Crota's daughters Hashladun and Besurith killed by Osiris - Crota's daughters Voshyr and Kinox, including Voshyr's daughters Yishra and Ayriax and Kinox's son Ulg'Urin

Savathun and her line: Savathun (twice: first by Mara, second by Guardians but reborn in the Light so she can come back), daughter Dul Incaru (repeatedly), daughter Balwur and son Malok

Xivu Arath and her line: all of her known children: Xavan (daughter), Tir Balok (son), An Ragaar (son) and Scoroboth (son) (interestingly enough, the first three were all Taken)

Remaining: Xivu Arath. This actually puts her anger in perspective as we killed her entire family. Savathun, while still able to return, is now more or less aligned with us, in a way, through the Light.

[mantleoflight]

OKAY! FIC VERSE POLL!

A guardian has managed to secure an audience with Savathun to halt hostilities between Guardians and the Lucent Brood (pre-end of Witch Queen)

How will the guardian accomplish their goal?

[lepiidopterophobia]

PLEASE GO LOOK AT SAVATHUN'S SON RIGHT NOW!!

[synnthamonsugar]

Hello, Eris Morn Fan... I want to play a game.

The rules are simple: You have 6 hours to write a fanfic, draw fanart, construct a lore essay, meta post, or other piece of Eris-centric speculative or creative content. However, in the course of creating this ... you must exclude The Drifter from her narrative. Platonic or romantic. As a co-starring character, or referential callback.

Not even a "trust" will be permitted.

Should you fail, Seth Dickinson will write into the next Collector's Edition booklet a scene where Eris comes out as lesbian and/or some combination of aro/ace, instantly collapsing both the D2 team's and fandom's interest in her as a beloved piece of M/F ship-bait and romantic prize for the funnyguy of the moment, the only two things women in this fandom (like most fandoms) are allowed to be.

Work quickly... time is running out.