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theres just something so real about the eldest brother x youngest brother ship that is so cute to me
FROM DIFFERENT FAMILIES !!!!!!!!
#baby boy of the family x asshole older brother#its a great dynamic honestly#finn x sean#finn mcnamara#sean diaz#lis2#life is strange 2#proud antishipper#not just towards proshippers i hate normal ships too#anti-every ship ever#shippers DNI !!!!!!!
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Anyone still calling late game Katsuki an abuser in 2024 is just not paying attention. Full stop.
#bkdk#bakudeku#every time I see an anti post they try to define bkdk shippers as just masking their hate of Izuku#or as inappropriately labeling them as childhood friends and that being the basis of the whole ship#or as of acting on the hand hold scene LIKE KATSUKI DID FOR ELEVEN PLUS YEARS IN CANON without realizing that it went sour that first time#or as abuse apologists#they like to whittle katsuki down to the black and white bully even now#in 2024#after everything he’s done#all the growing#they like to whittle Izuku down to a helpless child who can’t find it in himself to stand up for himself#even though canon Izuku not only tolerates Katsuki’s moods#he appreciates him and understands him#and finds joy in being around him#literally I get it if you see them as platonic only#that’s so super chill and an excellent dynamic#but people throwing hate at bkdk shippers only ever out themselves as not understanding or comprehending or even knowing the source material#at all#on the surface Katsuki yells at izuku for literally nothing and it definitely rubs you the wrong way if you are only paying surface level#attention#but after dvk pt 2 he literally only yells because it’s familiar#it’s easier to respond that way than to cope with the guilt that’s eating him alive whenever he sees how happy Izuku is just to be around h#he’s flustered#he’s got a crush#but doesn’t have the emotional intelligence to understand what it is or how to deal yet#Katsuki Bakugo is a flawed character who puts in the work to change and if you’re not acknowledging that you are not paying attention#anyway#lol the post a while ago that said ‘if you ship bkdk just admit you hate Izuku and move on’??????#lol I love him so much AND I ship bkdk because canon tells me that’s what he wants#at least I’m paying attention enough not to think he has to be babified
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THE LEAKS ARE SHIT AND THIS SHOW IS DISGUSTING [REDACTED] IS DEAD TO ME BUT AT LEAST HELAEM(ND WAS MERCILESSLY EXECUTED BY HELAENA FUCKING TARGARYEN.
#helaegons how does it feel to win even though we're dying in every other fucking way#helaegon#anti helaemond#hotd leaks#hotd spoilers#anti hotd#hotd critical#the truth is hotd will always suck but you know what? i'll take my crumb of victory at least one of the most annoying ships ever is dead#she was like yeah no more cryptic visions i know what you did you treasonous mf
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Was going to watch The Amp Theory’s reaction to the Are You Sure? trailer, and had to click away.
I’m not going to complain about whatever they said about not shipping, because I don’t know what they said and that is not a problem for me. Shipping is fun and doesn’t really mean much if you’re someone sane, but I don’t like their comment section being filled with people praising them for “shutting shippers down”.
It tells me they chose not to entertain the thought, and that’s fine too, but this fandom overall is full of hypocrites and liars. People who pretend to agree that all shipping is bad, yet will secretly ship their faves or believe every heterosexual dating rumor that pops up. That’s what I dislike.
I dislike reactors who cater to that crowd, because it’s disingenuous. Not saying the guys over at Amp Theory ship in secret or anything, as they have a ton of kpop content on their channel and likely have zero time to care. But, if their comment section is anything to go off of, their views likely align with the idea that Jimin and JK aren’t dating simply because. No real reason, because reactors who claim to be against shipping (in this fandom specifically) only do so for as far as heteronormativity exists.
Not enough people in this fandom are willing to use gender neutral pronouns when talking about the group’s gender neutral lyrics. Not enough people in this fandom use he/him pronouns when talking about lyrics written by the members themselves that insinuate they have been in relationships with men. Not enough people in this fandom are even willing to acknowledge things said in interviews that insinuate the members have already been through their coming out stages in their personal lives. So why is it that inner band shipping is so often made out to be a joke or something a reactor refuses to engage with, when they do it already? They already believe all seven members like women, so what’s stopping them from thinking they like men too?
Again, I don’t know what was said, and I’m not complaining about them choosing to make it known they won’t tolerate ship discussions. But I always think of it like this, if shipping is disgusting to you or something you will never talk about, what would you do if the members being shipped actually turn out to be queer? Or in a relationship with one another?
It is obviously a hypothetical, because we’ll likely never know if any of them are queer outside of our assumptions. Based on many things, yes, but still there is no confirmation technically… kind of.
Point is, no one has to react to ship content. No one has to talk about ships if they don’t want to, but imagine spending years curating a BTS centric channel, and not once thinking about who they might be outside of their public images.
Imagine claiming to be a fan who supports them no matter what, yet the second you react to a video where two members who are often the target of hateful rhetoric are hanging out and having fun, and the entire aspect of their dynamic is almost completely rooted in their bond being much more couple-like than any of their friends, yet you choose to say, “We won’t entertain ship talk, because it’s not real no matter what.” (Again, not what the guys of Amp Theory said, I’m referring to reactors as a whole, because they aren’t the only ones.)
Reactors want attention, it’s how they make their money, I get it, but the members are in fact real people. They will not always match up to our expectations of them. Meaning, maybe they aren’t queer and we’re all just misunderstanding things. I doubt that though, and it truly irks me to my core that people will entertain just about anything except queerness. They will react to damn near whatever video is available to them that allows them to milk BTS for views, and Army will eat that shit right on up, making these channels huge, but the second any of them ask about or choose to watch Jikook content specifically, they have to either disclaim not believing JM and JK could have feelings for each other, or they ignore it entirely.
Then if Jikook antis are loud enough, they apologize and react to every other pairing a million times and Jikook never again. Because Jikookers are often painted as the worst within the fandom, because this fandom has a hard-on for Tkk. Which I would argue is because they’re not as questionable in their actions, so the reactors themselves don’t end up feeling any type of way, and they get to benefit off of the views.
Anyway. I was hoping to see more reactions to the trailer and I wish I hadn’t read their comments first, but I did so it is what it is.
#jikook#this fandom is terrified of Jikook#every interaction makes people nervous#and that is honestly so fucking shitty#because JM and JK don’t ever get to just#exist as they are people HAVE to either#make it known they ship them or make it#known they aren’t a weirdo shipper and#essentially become damn near anti-dating#within friend groups to prove they are a#“Good fan” to the masses who lie about#not being shippers anyway
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and update to [this] post. please stop trying to moralize silly fictional ships and have some fun for a change.
#the antis in the anti wolfwren tag are so corny#ship Bo-Katan Kryze and Sabine Wren with whoever you want lmfao just don’t act self righteous + behave like you’re the most persecuted#people to ever exist. sabezra & dinbo are fine 95% of the time but damn a lot of you seem happy to cozy up with the most vile homophobes#then act like wolfwren / nitearmor / herasoka shippers are the scum of the earth.#the amount of WolfWren hate I’m seeing in Instagram posts & Ahsoka tags is fucking wild. Focus on stuff you like#and don’t act like a kicked dog that your ship is not the most popular or most beloved. Welcome to every single sapphic’s experience ever.#text
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me voting against reylo everytime a new poll comes across my dash:
if i had zero self-preservation instincts, i would be like—what if i made one of those "daily x" blogs and it's just a poll pitting something vs reylo every single day just to keep the comedy train going.
but i have at LEAST one self-preservation instinct. and i don't hate myself OR reylo enough to commit to a bit lasting longer than this bonus round. so i shan't. but i'm so glad you're having fun :)
#asks#anti-reylo#i don't hate reylo at all in fact i'm completely ambivalent </3#but no one will ever believe me again after the destruction i've wrought with the bonus round#i'm SIMPLY A PEOPLE PLEASER and people told me they would be PLEASED if i pit EVERY SINGLE M/F SHIP AGAINST REYLO#so here we are!!!!!!! head in my stupid hands. heart on my silly sleeve.
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I want the managers of Mattel and MGA doll drops and the descendants writers to lower my coffin into the ground so they can all let me down one more time
#i remembered descendants existed#so after i saw through the soul crushing depression of that being real#i remembered that Harry and Ben were written#and i was like yay#cuz theyve said the phrases#“and you my little ducking are ravishing”#and “idk lets get the anti love spell a little while to take effect” followed by the laughter of a man who's realized that every woman#he will ever love only cares about his status and not him and hes fucking loosing it#but he has to keep it together because hes about to be crowned king at the age of 16#respectively#and its not good writing but its funny#and they get like no screentime#very very crying about it#the women who abuse ben get to have screen time though#that made me very upset#but they do get a scene where ben is tied up on a pirate ship and harry makes fun of hi#and it is VERY homoerotic#they get like a combined 40 minutes of screentime most of which involves them being overshadowed#by the stereotypical girlboss woman#aka mal (fucking hate that bitch)#so fuck Disney#they crushed the very little joy i tried to find in their movies#the mattel and mga thing is self explanatory#ben florian#harry hook#god their names are so awful#and their outfits#resisting the urge to write a whole fixing the 2 of them thing
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unfortunately i'm like 160 episodes into tma and still don't get the obsession with martin. like i don't hate him but also- literally every other character and relationship is more interesting. also fanon version of him sucks lol. canon version of him is actually appealing to me in some ways, but considering fanon martin makes 90% of tma fic unreadable, i'm not too stoked about even having him tagged half the time.
#the magnus archives#tma#tma lb#jonathan sims#anti jmart#anti martin blackwood#i mean kinda?#it's just like ugh#he's the absolute worst fandom fave i don't carrree#and its even worse when somebody writing fanon martin thinks he's being good and 'healthy' for jon when he's acting like a right cnt#this is why characters and ships deemed 'pure' 'sweet' and 'wholesome' by fandom usually suck#because it's somehow the most oblivious showcasing of terrible relationship dynamics ever#anyways there are a select few jmart shippers that actually make the ship appealing - the ones that acknowledge how fucked the ship is lol#but sadly they are few and far between#unfortunately i still cannot bring myself to like elias either#so there's no safety there#honestly jon should just join a qpr poly relationship with every single character and be done with it#or even better#just a bunch of friendships#anyways if you can't tell im rooting through the friendship tags like a madman rn#platonic jondaisy save me fr#jongeorgie and jonmelanie friendship fics you are literally my only hope#polyarchives both platonic and romantic u are so so precious to me#also you should have seen me scouring the jon & avatars tags the other day lmfao#never thought id be so obsessed with jude perry but here we are#jude perry save me#she's such a freak lol
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Gonna do that shipping bingo game but for every ship that people ask me about I just show full support towards it and a thumbs up and thats it
#not actually gonna do this Im just. entertained by the amount of incredibly gruelling anti-shipping reasons that come out of these#to offset all that Im just gonna go “hell yeah thumbs up emoji” towards every ship ever#blabber
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"these chronically online gay people are taking over the fandom this is why i want to leave"
okay?? leave. you guys are the reason the bullying started in the fandom. this show was made for nerds let us have this. the mcs are literally dnd fans, will canonically cosplayed. those are the main characters. the show was never for you. you're allowed to enjoy it, but dont act as if we're the intruders. you came into our space, took over, and then started acting as if we showed up midway.
we're making the show unnecessarily gay? everything we're saying will never happen? this is clearly your first fandom because the thing about FANdom is that people can use these preexisting characters and have fun with them so they can create content outside of the show. so yes, we are going to be shipping characters that never showed any romantic interest to each other canonically. we will be shipping characters that never met. that is the POINT.
the theme of the show is accepting your differences and not trying to change parts of yourself for the sake of normalcy and general acceptance. we have fun with the out there fan theories, the impossible ships, the alternate universes. this always has been for fun. for some reason though, you have decided to have a stick up your ass at the idea that someone enjoying themself. have you never heard about curating your own online experience? the block button is free. use it.
stop acting as if you have some weird superiority above us. idgaf if you think it's cringy. it was never about you in the first place.
#i hate tiktok#i want to meet fellow tumblr folk irl so badly bc real people are not it#yes this is about every non-canon ship ever#before people come at me with the fact that im anti h*rringrove#supporting racists/abusers in any form isnt okay#there's a difference between hating on nerds when they're having fun and supporting canonical racists#no he did not redeem himself a character when he sacrificed himself can do a good thing and still not be a good person#he never showed any remorse for his racism and abuse of max so i will unapologetically hate him#virgil shut up challenge#stranger things#byler#ronance#elmax#elumax#steddie#stonathan#jargyle
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If I had a nickel for every time a non-canon het ship for Namor went mainstream in the Marvel Fandom and the fans became very annoying about it to the point it’s all anyone ever talks about when that character is brought up because both ships have reduced Namor to the Casanova for their female leads then I would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s annoying that it’s happened twice.
#anti namorsue#anti namorshuri#going into the tags everyday like:#when will people understand this is why I like this ship and we see the complexity of it and blah blah blah#ok but y'all are annoying#and tag it with every tag under the sun#and I can't even find general namor content without digging for it and blocking so many damn blogs#then you all act like no one has ever heard of enemies to lovers for people who dont wanna ship it#like please#i am THE fan who loves that stuff and for namor specifically!#I just hate it when they act like ever fan who hates it just doesnt understand it#no I get it but I also get annoyed when people keep shoving stuff I don't wanna see in my face even though I go out of my way to ensure#I don't interact with it#like pick one tag#please#just one#its been months#PICK A DAMN SHIP TAG
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Me after reading Thrillkiller and seeing another version of Dick Grayson die and Barbara and Bruce have a romantic relationship
#look#i don't care that they have a year age gap in the book#i can't ship it#i'd much rather see dickbabs than brubabs ever#dc hates dick grayson#why do they do him dirty every chance they get#i swear#batgirl and robin: thrillkiller#dc#dc comics#anti brubabs#i try not to complain but i think i deserve to every once in a while with a comic#the rest was okay#nothing too interesting#probably wouldn't revist it#spoilers for a comic that came out in 1997
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thinking about... diluc ships...
#“hey sun why don't you like this diluc ship”#“the majority of the shippers believe in its superiority over kluc and the very thought of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth now”#in an ideal world i would ship literally everybody with diluc#alas i cannot do that until ppl develop basic reading comprehension#and respect for the original chinese#until every anti apologises for thinking kluc are brothers i will not know peace#“why do you ship incest” if i shipped incest i would WANT them to be brothers did you think about that#in fact kluc incest shippers make it a POINT that they're brothers bc they're smart enough to KNOW they're not supposed to be brothers#which would be really obvious to anyone with 2 braincells to rub together#do you ever get really mad at the existence of stupid people#this is what it's like to like a ship that is the main punching bag for antis#honestly kluc isn't even my favourite diluc ship in a vacuum#it doesn't even make top 5#but it's like the ultimate genshin fan litmus test#i simply feel the need to defend it bc it does NOT deserve the hate it gets#and i feel like only kluc artists are truly safe#which backfires sometimes because whew the kluc fandom has had some DRAMA and i'd really like if we were less of an echo chamber actually#is this what sheith fans had to deal with i'm so sorry#anyway uh rant over#uh how do i tag this for ppl who don't want a wall of tags#tag rant#sorry for being a bit of a bitch here
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Too many KV shippers on my twitter tl rn
#can’t even retweets cute birthday art with both of them in it without checking the artist out first#dude this is what antis do???#just doing this for my mental health is making me feel like an insane person#imagine doing this for every fandom ever and not just a single ship#that’s crazy#color: blue 🎨
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DCxDP Prompt 10 :
Death Defying Ship. Danny and Dick are childhood friends where the Fenton's would often bring Danny and Jazz to the circus to hang out with their old friends the Graysons, where Danny and Dick are very close and do dumb kid stuff but jazz is there to watch them so they won't get into too much trouble when the parents aren't looking.
In there Danny learns from the Graysons some basic Gymnastics and Dances that require two people and all that brings them all closer.
Dick and Danny lost touch after the tragic incident with the Graysons, Many years later the story progresses as usual. Danny moves to Gotham to pursue his pursuit in getting a Professional Engineering Recommendation to W.E. with a Bonus Dani that appears every so Often and Dan a normal Mechanic that's acting as his older brother.
Sam Manson happens to be once again forced to attend a gala but this Wayne Gala was Unique because of it's setting as a Masquerade Ball. Sam is thrilled as she can add spice to her gothic aesthetic clothing with a more gothic mask, Danny is being dragged along as because of BFF code, (if I get to suffer, you suffer too.) thus Danny is also wearing an almost as gothic clothing that matches Sam.
Dick and Danny meet there but ofcourse they don't recognize each other, a specific song plays and Dick ever so playful tries to dance a specific routine that only He and Danny knows as they both made it as kids with the help of Jazz. Dick is surprised that Danny is keeping up, Danny is ecstatic and pacing faster as both are in full rhythm and sync in movements.
They don't even realize it but they've become the center of attention as they danced right in the middle of the ballroom. The song comes to a halt and Danny and Dick are breathing heavily, both smiling in excitement until Sam grabs Danny in a headlock and drags him away, scolding him for ditching her for another man.
Dick tries to stop them but was immediately blocked by many who wanted to converse or get his attention as he loses sight of Danny in the crowd of people.
Danny and Dick only ever meet in a gala but something keeps pulling them away from each other, both unable to get each other's names, Dick is totally mesmerized by Danny just as much as Danny is too. Sam finally tells him at some point that he's Dick Grayson. Danny's memories of their past flooding in but Danny didn't want to tell Dick about that because what if dick doesn't remember? What if he asked Dick and he didn't remember him? So Danny kept quiet until he can finally give Dick his name but that moment never came.
Danny is forced to go back to Amity because of the GIW and their Plan to once again destroy the Ghost Zone and Declare War, Danny is captured by the GIW and Sam in desperation with Tucker finally found a way to bypass the GIW firewalls and Break through to connect to the JL.
In the process of saving the captures ghosts with the help of the Justice League in infiltrating and dismantling the Anti Ecto Laws for going against the Meta Protection Rights. Dick doesn't recognize Danny as Phantom, they save him and all that process through Frostbite's help.
Jazz immediately recognizes Dick even as Nightwing and calls him 'Robin' and Dick immediately recognizes her because she is the big sister he always had and wished he kept. Jazz doesn't blow his Identity as expected but she does tell him about Danny as Phantom and Dick as A Wayne once again is processing all of those information in the Manor, Jazz had reassured them that Danny would visit at some point once he is fully healed and Dick waits everyday, waiting for Danny to call or text him that he'll visit.
Dick realizes he's fallen deep in love with Danny with his desperation and also everytime they've met and interacted with each other even for brief moments in the galas they've attended. Danny become the sole reason he'll force himself to attend a gala as he wanted to see the man, his best friend and his first love.
Danny eventually visits Dick and from then you can tell the story goes that way, it's sweet fluff with angst and Dick and Danny gets their happy ending.
#danny phantom#danny fenton#dc x dp#danny phantom fandom#dp x dc#dcu#dcxdp#dc x dp crossover#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#death defying#danny x dick#Danny x Richard#dcxdp prompt#dc x dp prompt#dpxdc prompts#dpxdc prompt#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc au#dp x dc prompt
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Humans are weird: They sing going to war
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While serving alongside the human forces during the Torus Campaign I learned much of their strange culture.
Their need to stack foods in elaborate combinations which they call a “Sandwich”, their constant need to play “The Game” without ever explaining what it is unless to tell you that you have lost it, and even their obsession with petting anything within arm’s reach with an almost religious like dedication; but the strangest custom I only witnessed during the final stages of the war.
We had just deployed over the world of Obidon III and were launching a joint ground assault with the human forces. Enemy resistance was expected to be heavy and many would not survive the drop, but command believed that if enough forces reached the surface of the planet they could establish a beachhead and allow the rest of the contingent to be brought in.
During the decent to the planet all I could do was keep my eyes closed and hope beyond hope that we would survive. I was so lost in this trance like state that my friend Septem had to physically smack me on the helmet to get my attention and tell me to turn my radio channel to frequency 13.
I was confused at first since that frequency was being used for our human allies but he insisted that I would not believe what they were doing. So I reset my radio in my helmet to frequency and what I heard was something I had never expected on a battlefield.
They were singing.
The frequency was chalk full of voices in such volume that I had to turn down the volume but it seemed like every single human that was part of the attach was joining in the song. My translator unit was trying to keep up but the sheer intensity of the humans singing was causing it to drop in and out, picking up every other word.
I wanted to listen closer to them but the enemy flak began pounding the outside of our dropship. Each detonation sent the ship rattling side to side violently. I had just retightened my straps when a shell burst just beneath us sending a shockwave through the ship so strong it sent several of my comrades flying from their seats into the opposite wall. They hit the wall hard and did not get back up when their bodies collapsed to the ground.
All I could think about was how this was the moment I was going to die. This was the moment my existence in this universe comes to its conclusion and I return to the dust and atoms of the cosmos. And as I tuned myself to this reality all I could hear were the humans still singing over the radio.
They must have been going through the same amount of enemy fire as he was and yet still they somehow were still able to sing as if nothing was wrong with the world. I got so focused on their singing that I forgot about my worries for such a time that I was startled when the dropship landed with a loud thud against the planet’s surface and the boarding ramp lowered.
The following battle was a grueling six hour run and gun with the enemy as we tried to carve out a safe LZ for reinforcements. I got separated from my unit on more than one occasion and wandered into the human designated areas in the confusion.
To my utter surprise the humans were still singing.
Clad in their blue and gold armor, they broadcasted their voices from their helmet speakers as they advanced street by bloody street. One of them took shelter with me for a time as we prepared to rush a fortified courtyard which housed heavy anti air emplacement. I nodded a greeting to the human who replied in kind, yet their voice never ceased in song. I saw them rush around the corner and take several heavy rounds to their chest, but the shells ricocheted off the armor leaving only scratches on the paint.
I watched in disbelief as this wild singing human leaped over the barricade and slapped a detonation charge on the anti-air weapon before leaping back as it exploded the weapon. They stood in the smoldering flames to take a moment to catch their breath when a sniper’s round from down the street struck them in the head and blew out a large portion of their cranium. It was the first time during the entire battle I had seen a human die but I did not have long to contemplate it as the rest of the humans charged past, still singing, in the direction of the snipers shot.
Another hour of combat and the landing site was finally secured and reinforcements were brought in to take our positions. What was left of the initial landing force were sent back to orbit and recover and regroup from their losses. Out of my people’s forces I was one of twenty soldiers to have survived. I imagined the humans had lost equally as many until the pilot remarked that additional shuttles had been dispatched to carry their force back up. It seemed that despite the intensity of the fighting only three of their warriors had fallen in battle; one of them including the warrior I had watched fall.
I was beyond myself.
These reckless warriors had somehow survived one of the most intense battles the campaign had seen and only lost three of their number.
Once back on the ship the first chance I could I sought them out for an explanation. They were quartered in the lower reaches of the ship, isolated from the other contingents onboard.
Outside their area were two guards still in full armor that initially would not let me through until one of them recognized me from the fighting in the city. I was then led inside and found many of the humans feasting and laughing. Two long rows of tables had been setup facing each other; between them were several fires each with a different animal being roasted over them. At the end of the rows stood three large pyres of wood which held three bodies atop each of them.
As I passed through the humans many ceased their laughter and looked at me, their clouded eyes with suspicion. We made it half way through the throngs when a giant of a human stepped forward and blocked our path. They demanded to know why I had been let it in; going even further to say they will throw me out personally if the answer was not good. The guard who had recognized me said I had witnessed the last moments of one of the fallen and would speak of their deeds. There was a long pause as the large human glared at me, his eyes as cold as the crescent moon of my homeworld.
The human finally relented and let out a loud boastful laugh, clapping me on my shoulders and welcoming me to the feast. Those gathered around cheered and similarly welcomed me now as the ceremony proceeded once more. I could barely say anything as I was seemingly pulled into the celebration. I drank, I ate, I laughed, I even boasted of my own achievements during the battle.
At the height of the feast I was called forward to speak of the final moments of the human soldier I watched die. I learned their name had been Moris Yu, and had served in the human contingent since the beginning of the campaign. I spoke of his final moments, of how he charged the enemy alone and had single handedly destroyed their war machine. I spoke of the snipers bullet laying him low to which all the gathered humans spoke as one “To Odin’s hall he flies.”
With that pyres were set on fire and the bodies slowly turned to ash. I imagine it had some significant ritualistic meaning in human culture but it was beyond me.
After the funeral I asked one of the soldiers the question I had come to them with.
“Why do you sing in battle?”
The human took a long huff from a wooden pipe and blew a cloud of smoke before answering.
“Long ago, my people were raiders and conquerors of the sea.” They began, “Our gods watched over us and should we prove worthy we would be sent to them to join them in their halls and fight alongside them for eternity.”
“There was one warband led by a giant of a man called Osmond Frig. He loved song just as much as he loved fighting, so he made his warriors sing during every fight as it made him happy.”
“They agreed to such silliness?” I asked, to which the human grinned.
“They did after he felled the first three men who laughed at him with a single blow from his axe.” They finished before continuing with their story.
“What was truly surprising was not the sight of these warriors singing, but rather the fact that they were rather good at it. It was said they could make the Valkyries themselves shed a single tear with their songs.”
“Eventually one of the gods, Bragi, noticed Osmond’s warband and took a liking to them. Much like the Valkyries he too was moved by their song and decided to reward them with his patronage. He used ancient magic and made it so as long as the warriors sung they would be impervious to harm of all kinds.”
“So the warband grew in fame and glory as they went conquest to conquest, emerging from battles against impossible odds with nay a scratch on them. First across the northern seas, then across the continent of Europe, and then soon the entire world knew of Osmond; which is when they finally drew the attention of the king of the gods, Odin.”
“Odin watched these powerful warriors and wanted them in his hall for the eternal battle, yet despite every challenge they faced they emerged victorious. No matter what enemy Odin placed in their path or scheme he unleashed on them they refused to fall. Odin knew of Bragi’s patronage and tortured the god to reveal his secret and after seven days and seven nights Bragi told Odin of the spell he had cast and how it could not be undone.”
“But that was all Odin needed to secure his warriors.” The human said with a devil’s grin.
“During the midst of the most recent battle Odin took the form of a mighty warrior and stalked the fields for his prey. He waited for each warrior to catch their breath and cease their song before striking and slaying them, one by one. By day’s end only Osmond remained to fight Odin and though he sang long into the night he too eventually gasped for air and was slain.”
“So that is why you sing?” I asked the human. ‘Because you believe your gods will protect you?”
The human chuckled and nodded to the three pyres. “Did you not say that Moris was only slain after he ceased singing?”
I wanted to counter him with some logic, some reason grounded in reality, but I could not. I left that human area with a profound new perspective of myself in the grand scheme of the universe.
The next time I was in a combat drop my comrades laughed when I began singing. I wasn’t sure if it was good or not, but I hoped that in some way the human god would at least find me amusing and let me live another day.
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