#and she’s pregnant and miserable

[zebrafiz]

actually had quite a lot of fun playing the sims today… a very rare occurrence

[serpentface]

Don't get too attached

[imnotyetfound]

My take on Five/Lila - and why they were endgame

I’ve seen so many people say that Five and Lila didn’t make any sense, and I just disagree. I've tried to really motivate why, and also why I see them as endgame. Feel free to agree or disagree.

First of all, Five and Lila share a common background of being raised plus trained as survivors and weapons. Five was molded by his time in the apocalypse, the Commission and his ruthless upbringing within the Hargreeves family, while Lila was similarly trained and manipulated by the Handler. Both of them were forced into brutal, high-stakes environments from a young age, developing a sense of independence, ruthlessness, and survival instincts that the rest of the family can’t fully relate to. We see this especially in Five and Lila’s difficulties in showing emotional vulnerability and trusting others. This shared experience means they both understand the cost of their traumatic upbringings and can relate to each other’s emotional scars in ways others just won’t be able to. So already by this, they’re somewhat bonded from the start.

In other similarities both Five and Lila possess extraordinary intelligence and tactical thinking. They challenge each other in a way no one else does. This has been an ongoing thing between them, bouncing off each other and sometimes teaming up. It’s also what drew them to work on another mission together in S4, there has always been some kind of pull/push there. Personality-wise both Five and Lila have a dark sense of humor and a cynical outlook on the world. But despite the cynicism, they still manage to eventually relax and find humor in each other’s company. The lighter moments we’ve seen between them at times have been an interesting contrast to their otherwise serious and violent lifestyles. 

I do believe their shared backgrounds and personalities created a bond that was then further strengthened during the years they spent lost in the subway together. Isolated from the rest of the world, they literally only had each other for company. The intimacy and trust that grew between them was inevitable. When you have no one else to rely on, you’re going to develop a relationship stronger than under normal circumstances. So over those years, they must have grown close in ways that no one else could fully understand. Even though we didn't get to see every detail of how it unfolded (because the season was way too short), it’s not difficult to imagine.

I’d also say they naturally grew a bond stronger than with any other character at that time, except for the one between mother and child which is why Lila’s need to be with her children would always make her go home if given the chance. Five knew this and it’s the reason he kept the solution from her for months. 

Now, to my thoughts about their actions in regards to Diego as this is often brought up. The argument that Lila cheated on her husband with Five is understandable from a moral perspective, if we see it as just that without any context. But when you consider the circumstances it is way more nuanced. You have to look at not only the environment they found themselves in, but also the emotional and psychological journey they went through together. Their relationship was ultimately forged over a shared background and then several years of isolation. Then you add to the fact that Diego seems to have treated Lila like crap in the years leading up to the isolation, she said it herself he was always moping around and complaining while she sacrificed her life to stay at home and take care of the kids. She even told him she needed a break to reassess their relationship. I do believe her and Five had somewhat already begun an emotional affair before the isolation, the way they were sneaking off together and clearly wanted to keep their thing separate from Diego and the others. Yet they still didn’t get physical until they settled down, believing they weren’t gonna find a way back.

Also, it’s important to here consider the strength of the bond, as I mentioned earlier, that Five and Lila must have developed over those years. They knew each other better than anyone else by the end. Spending every day together in a survival situation with nothing else around would likely create an unparalleled level of intimacy and emotional closeness. This bond would probably transcend Lila’s previous relationship with Diego, and maybe even Five’s bond with his siblings. It’s been years since he returned to them and they had all grown in separate directions. Lila and Five however had recently experienced something life-changing together, and it is unfair to dismiss the strength of their connection as something unethical or out of character when their reality had shifted so drastically from when the show started.

Another important point here is how the relationship with Lila allowed Five to finally be "human" and emotionally open in a way he hadn’t allowed himself to be before. Five was obviously emotionally detached as a result of both his past trauma and the burden of being a hyper-intelligent man in the body of a boy. With Lila, he had the chance to just feel love and trust without worrying about anything else. So I do think this outweighs his “betrayal” against his brother as people claim.

Now on to how and why Five and Lila were endgame. I’m convinced that Lila did love Five despite her choice to leave their isolation. To me this was cemented as she didn’t deny her feelings when Diego asked her straight out. If she wanted to make Diego feel better she could have easily denied her feelings for Five to reassure him. Yet even when asked twice she couldn’t do it. There was also Lila’s look of relief when Five returned to them at the end. It was Five who Lila allowed to comfort her after she said goodbye to her family, trusting him in her most vulnerable moment instead of blipping back to Diego and the others. These events showed the deep trust and emotional intimacy that still existed between them after returning to “the real world”. Despite her saying it was over. I also want to add here that Lila took Five’s hand as they were dying, the look between them was for me at least silently saying they loved each other. 

So all in all I do believe that the connection and love between Five and Lila was authentic. It also made sense. They’re able to understand each other’s emotional complexities, including their darker tendencies, without needing to change who they are. Still their time together seemed to actually have softened them both when they finally had the chance to settle down, almost as if they were healing from past trauma together. This would forge a relationship that no one else could replicate without going through the same experience. Making Five and Lila a reasonable endgame, which they also were in my eyes considering they died holding hands.

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Summary:  Five and Lila's shared background of trauma, matched intelligence, and similar personalities means they make sense. They shared a bond that was only further strengthened during their years of isolation. For 7 years they only had each other to rely on. This inevitably created an intimacy and relationship that couldn’t be compared to what they had had with anyone else. Outweighing what they did to Diego when you consider all context. Lila and Five ended up being human and vulnerable with each other on a level they hadn’t been with anyone else. Ultimately Lila’s refusal to deny her feelings for Five, her relief when he returned, him comforting her as she sent her family away and then finally them dying hand-in-hand, showed that they were endgame.

[boringwomanwithabook]

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[gn-bee]

I'm literally fine, people are so dramatic, but I really wish people hadn't told me that I wasn't gonna be able to sit up or move my arms after this surgery, because when I woke up with zero pain and could, in fact, move, I got overly ambitious, and now I'm actually hurting bc I pulled my stitches and now my doctor is . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ disappointed in me . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

But I can draw, thank god, because I was gonna be really sad if I couldn't for four weeks

Anyway, back to the regularly scheduled program:

Ume is the Grouchiest Woman in the World when she's pregnant. She's just tired of being nauseous all the time. (If Hotaru doesn't have a goofy looking smile when he's real happy then idk what I'm living for)

She's just as happy and excited as him, and won't rain on his parade even though she doesn't feel all that great.

I didn't even want to color all this, it just ended up happening

[arkhammaid]

Imagining milf max at the prize winning gala, visibly pregnant, serving astronomical levels of cunt in a black velvet dress and red bottoms or something .

Charles and Lando literally tripping over themselves to help her or be near her on stage while she just slays away and thrives in her own world, one hand in the bump the other holding her wdc trophy, the epitome of getting anything and everything she wants in life. Zak Brown and McLarens thunder being stolen by her just standing there

FIA still not dropping her community service tho lol

beautiful picture right here. max about to be athlete of the year again because she got her fourth title WHILE being pregnant like hello, someone try to fucking redo that.

and as for the fia... they try to enforce the community service only for max to hit them with 'on my mandatory maternity leave rn, sorry folks'

[baylardian-1]

Kinda an unprompted Threshold AU idea I'd had a while ago surrounding Protectors and Kathryn feeling her lil baby kick for the first time. :)

I'd imagined she'd be stirring in bed contemplating whatever future awaits her return to the Delta Quadrant as Fleet Commander when she'd feel a flutter for the first time. And then proceeds to stay up reading and sporadically feeling the sensation. And Philippa would notice the light on outside of her room and goes to investigate.

[areyougoingtoheaven]

someone on twitter keeps posting pics of her with her bf and talking about how great their relationship is and its making me want to k*** m***** like whyyyy

[knight-engale]

So I went to an amusement park today right. It was a whole disaster but that's a different story. Anyway I get home and I'm (trying to) talk to my mother about my day and she says

"You're a lot braver than I was at your age, I never would've done that" (as in gone out all day 30+ miles away from home)

And I'm sitting there thinking about how when she was my age she'd been married for two years and had a baby (me)

Idk there's not really a point to this story I'm just...thinking a lot I guess. How much different my life is from hers at the same age

[monotone-artist]

the void the void the void

[id: several somewhat blurry photos of a black dog with a purple collar. in the photos in order she is: around the corner on a staircase landing, only her back half visible; a black blob barely visible in the dim lighting, going down the stairs; standing while I'm petting her; sitting and looking at the camera; she's barely in the next photo, only the back of her head, neck, and shoulders are visible; and lastly, standing while I pet her, craning her head to look above the camera's view toward me. end id]

[cacw]

thinking about no one comforting leafpool while she was pregnant. thinking about years later when she's older lying next to nightcloud who covers her belly with gentle licks murmuring quiet comforting words of praise as anyone would do for an expectant queen

[lesbiankoby]

[remembers my gojos mom oc] really gotta get a handle on her cursed technique… i associate her with ringu lol. in my head. something like that. i think her technique is impractical for battle but she uses it to maintain an information network that keeps her on the good side of tokyos curse user population

[cauldronofmorning]

It’s not an excuse but with everything else in that scene with Kiera, I really think the subtext is that Shiv has suffered this herself and is reacting to it in the worst way. she even gets the screwed by her father relate and the kiss from him right after. The assumption isn’t out of nowhere.

[senju]

my coworker was telling us that she went to the casino with her husband and she got way too drunk and told him that she hates him and wishes she wasn't stuck with him like that's just a normal casual thing to say out loud. girl leave him he's a dick

[teal-gerard]

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[pastelchad]

Ok yeah Capcom gave a hint that he would have been happier as a cop with the release of that Cop Leon costume in the re4 remake bc they got rid of the dark undereye circles but I call BS. Look at him.

He’s just as dead inside in this timeline. This is the face of a man who sold his soul for a police pension and a loveless marriage with a former mean girl turned nurse.

I know it’s common for RE fans to lament the fact that Leon never got to live his dream of being a cop but I feel like he was going to have a severely rude awakening resulting in the loss of his innocence either way. His chief of police was a serial rapist and murderer who liked to taxidermy his victims’ bodies. In an AU where umbrella never existed and there’s no zombies he most likely would have been harassed/threatened off the force bc he tried to expose Irons.