#anyway she kind of yaps

[mindsafe]

zeke will emerge as the holy ambassador of marley. his languor will introduce him as the monkey to which ymir had inquired previously. she had asked politely, stripped of four limbs & passing time as a product of hard exchanges. bertolt had exchanged glances with reiner who ( in turn ) pledged uncertainty. so . . . they claimed that zeke was a stranger.

but zeke will emerge as the holy ambassador of marley. he will summon the warship & then pack away jaws ( ymir ) into confinement so that her stolen power might be controlled again.

bertolt feels no allegiance to her. he feels allegiance to marcel ( dead now ) but his allegiances feel arbitrary. they’re based on strength.

bertolt is not strongest. he is the most devastating.

zeke has not emerged yet. but he comes soon. in the mean time, they dangle their feet off the side of the wall. bertolt pretends that losing ymir doesn’t mean losing an asset, losing more than asset.

into the air between them bertolt confesses ‘ i don’t know how you decided to surrender like this - ‘

@pontevoix || ANSWERED

disproportionately small limbs attached to a broad torso. coarse, matted hair covering everything but the face && chest.

A BEAST.

when ymir asked the boys about the ❛ monkey ❜ on their asses, they feigned ignorance: bertolt doesn't know how to tell a lie that hadn't been rehearsed in a bathroom mirror; && reiner is a tapestry coming apart at the seams. sheesh, she's as good as dead already; there's no point in keeping secrets now, is there?

they wait at the edge of the world, for a ferryman in a warship who would take her soul across the sea. the ‘ hostage ’ warms the living walls with her body ( forever a martyr ). stone sings to her. ymir offers open palms to an inviting sky. the stars are beautiful tonight; flowers of white, yellow && blue, blooming in a garden of darkness. she has made peace with her fate. there are worse things than dying. .

bertolt doesn't understand why she stays. ymir can't blame him; if their roles were reversed, chances are she wouldn't understand either. hell, if she truly practiced what she preached, she definitely wouldn't understand.

❝ --that's easy; this isn't surrender. like you said, if i wanted to run, now would be the time to do it. i could save my skin, && throw you to the wolves. maybe you even deserve it. but i doubt the survey corps would take me back now. ❞ she laughs. it's easier that way.

❝ not many people are given the privilege of a second chance. you gave me the opportunity to live a life i could be proud of; but it was borrowed time ― i'm just paying back an expensive debt. . . for what it's worth, i'm sorry about your friend. ❞

[forbiddentaako]

more monochrome practice I suppose

[kikieseverywhere]

I got a bunnydoll (bunnydolj) bracelet

Now I realize that the "B" is backwards help

(story in tags so YAP WARNING)

[blood-choke]

Oh my God wait I have more to say on that. If you need the full scene I'm quoting: https://youtu.be/63708PykTcg?si=Bws3wyRs_TkyxPaH prepare for a lot of yapping

Hear me out. It's the "I don't like to share." Val has made it v clear she doesn't like the thought of sharing mc with Hana and clear bc of her own fears and anxiety surrounding her relationship with mc who remembers nothing about their life together.

and the "what about antionette?" "It's different I don't have feelings for her." Hana feels like the antionette to val bc, and these are just my thoughts from reading, we can see that val does care for Hana to some degree but never to the degree that she does with mc. Or maybe she does and just hides it to keep from getting attached like she was with mc and keeping Hana safe from being another one of the councils victims 🤔

And lastly the "that's bc you TOOK my life" is really getting my brain going. Especially since we see mc begin to question whether or not she wanted this life. Like, the potential behind it is putting me through the wall rn

Anyways you don't have to respond to any of this I just wanted to yap and share these thoughts bc BOY does blood choke get me thinking

hehehe yes i do think Valentina can be quite similar to Lestat in some aspects, particularly with her relationship with mc.

and you're right, she does care about Hana... in her own fucked up way. she keeps her more at a distance than she ever did mc because of that loss, which she is still mourning (even now with the mc back. she's not the mc she remembers) and she just was never able to open herself up completely to Hana. Valentina has treated both Hana and the mc terribly in the past (and the mc, at least, treated her just as bad, too, while Hana more or less just took it silently). she does care about Hana, but with the mc-shaped hole in her chest, she isn't sure how to express it, and now that the mc is back, she feels conflicted about her feelings & wants to show her devotion solely to the mc. and obviously she will get jealous of Hana (or Clear) because unless the mc brings it up, she won't share. exactly because of her anxieties (the loss of memories and how that may lead to mc choosing someone else completely) and she's actually fearful that the mc may judge her or be angry herself about Valentina's relationship with Hana (the mc was a jealous person in her past life). obviously their relationship was never Perfect, but Valentina is definitely being crueler to Hana than she ever has been before, almost like she's "showing off" for the mc, and even trying to drive Hana away. (you can potentially call her out on this in the next chapter)

and because of this Hana is realizing that even though she took the abuse and was always there for Valentina, it doesn't matter; mc is back and that's all Valentina cares about. (even if it's not necessarily 100% true-- to Hana, all she feels is that she's being discarded). that's what prompts her confrontation/conversation with the mc in ch3.

going forward there's a chance for this to change, depending on how the mc approaches the two. even if you're not romancing Hana in the poly there are still opportunities to include her (or exclude her, if you want. you can explore that route, too) and with the mc back, Valentina can potentially open herself up more to Hana than she was able to before, platonically or romantically, with mc's urging.

honestly i feel that Hana was more directly inspired by aspects of Claudia's character than Valentina with Lestat (they just happen to be similarly obsessed with mc/Louis respectively). and while i don't necessarily like to say one choice is "bad" i will say being cruel to Hana does have consequences. but i'm still writing it because i want that to be an option to explore specifically with Hana's character, and i don't necessarily want it to feel like a punishment to the player, but this game isn't exactly a feel-good game, and i do plan to make it hurt. lol

and as for your last point... yes it IS interesting. we'll probably never know if the mc was really consenting at that time (can any human really consent when eternal life is beyond their scope of understanding?) and it just adds another fuzzy layer to the messy onion that is her relationship with Valentina.

[monochromeia]

REALLY wanna work on a fan continuity where the decepticons are in the right

[sunsetzer]

The Elliott% speedrun has ended on Winter 3 of year 1 at 27:49 real time. My spite is not satisfied, I think I can do it even faster. I'm pretty sure what killed it was that instead of squids, I bought a cheap lobster from the traveling merchant and raised them in my fish pond. I picked the beach farm, managed to get my fish pond in the second week of spring, leveled up fishing and picked the trapper achievement that makes crab pots cheaper for more access to lobsters, but the Lobster Route really didn't pan out due to bad RNG and the fish pond taking way too long to level up to a point where I could fish them out, but if I'd reset the morning of the traveling merchant until she had a squid I could have probably sped it up.

If I wanted to, because I'm doing it on Switch and it hasn't gotten a patch yet, I could just gift him a bunch of random items and rack up the relationship points rapidly, but exploiting a bug to do it feels a little disingenuous (it might be funny though).

This meme basically sums up why I'm doing this speedrun btw

[koterkot]

i'm probably a system but i have a job so idrc about that rn

[lesbiansanemi]

I love working on the little Kanae and Kyojuro break up fic from the roleswap au cuz Kanae is genuinely very sad and confused over the whole situation even if she has finally been able to admit she was mostly just with Kyojuro because he was there and made sense but she’s worried so much about like. making him really upset and hurting him by telling him that and ending it and Shinobu is like “dw trust me he’ll be fine” and Kanae is crying like 😭😭 you don’t know that and shinobu is just sitting there like 😐 unsure if she should point out that Kyojuro is very obviously gay and she clocked him forever ago because most likely that will just make Kanae feel more conflicted and also she’s not entirely sure Kyojuro has figured it out himself yet (he hasn’t) so shinobu is nice enough not to say anything but she’s still just left sitting there staring at Kanae like you really don’t need to be sad over breaking up with a gay man trust me he’ll be fine

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

Not bad for a dead girl.

[scionshtola]

it’s always funny to me how often i see people say their wols were intimidated by shtola for a long time (understandable) bc cori met shtola and was immediately like i want her to teach me everything she knows and be her friend forever

[male-duckk]

thinking abt joe/carlos

[brainrot-stitch]

Oh btw. Here's the silly billy

:3

size comparison under the cut

!!!

I'm like 5'6 I think and the guy in the size comparison is me so someone taller would be a bit taller than that I think

[awarena-san]

"if you're gonna cosplay religion do it right" GIRL YOURE MUSLIM WHY YOU COMMENTING ON AN APONIA COSPLAY POST.

[newsies-united]

yes but what if i watch brooklyn nine nine again

[wonderidolhaze]

🌻🍪🌻

^ 2 beautiful sunflowers sharing a cookie on a date

you can make an ouroboros spit itself out by putting hand sanitizer on it and ummmm also 01 in my ocgram has a dead brother who she hallucinates often about and almost died over.

on a more positive note did you know male penguins give female penguins the smoothest pebble they can find when they want to propose

[mothbaaalls]

oh my god does anybody remember those candy cigarettes ... my grandma used to buy them for me from the tobacco shop all the time