#anywayyyyy this is probably terrible lol

[rey-jake-therapist]

headcanon: when galadriel talked about celeborn to theo back in season 1 she was actually trying to compartmentalize her worries/grief about halbrand

His name was the first one she screamed after she woke up and she even repeated after it

In my head she was holding on her husband's memory because she had already dealt with the grief of losting him so it was safe to evoke him whereas she needed to stay sane and calm about halbrand

tl;dr when galadriel remembered celeborn in season 1 she was trying to keep her feelings for halbrand in the back seat in fear that they would overwhelm her because she had a mission to accomplish so even in the only time he was mentioned it wasn't about him at all That's how important he is for her lol

she is so over him that can be detached from their shared past

I mean Theo asked her who else she lost in the war so I think her bringing up Celeborn at last made very much sense. The writers probably realized that the Tolkien audience would wonder about him, they HAD to say something about him ! 😂 the moment was also well chosen : everyone who looked at the previous episode with their eyes and not with their butt had seen that the moment that Galadriel and Halbrand shared on that log was deeply romantic, and could have even led to a kiss if they hadn't been interrupted (a classical romantic trope.... S1 Haladriel has all of them 😌).

Mentioning her husband and making the point across that Galadriel considered him "lost" (dead) was necessary at this point, for Galadriel to not look like a cheater. Not that it worked, if we refer to the number of people still clutching their pearls over a law they invented, where Elves love only once in their life and can never, ever catch feelings for anyone else than their spouse, even when said spouse is dead...

The way Galadriel talked about Celeborn always seemed off to me. I know it's assumed that they lived for hundred of years together before he disappeared, because of the books, but the show doesn't follow the book!lore. If they lived together for so long, why would she bring up the day they met ? Why not saying something about where they lived, about their life together, about how united they were ? Why is it the only time she talked about him ? Why doesn't she seem to miss him at all ?

Seriously, the way she talked about him it sounded like they had met and gotten married, then a few weeks later Celeborn left for war and never came back. I know his "fans" firmly believe that he'll make a heroic return in season 3 and that Galadriel will jump in his arms crying of happiness, and that we'll suddenly all stop shipping Haladriel* bc we'll be overwhelmed by their precious love but.... If it's really the showrunners' intention, they have a very strange way of showing it 🤣

Anywayyyyy I know it wasn't the subject of your ask, sorry..... This episode was very much Galadriel keeping everything inside. She really believed that Halbrand died, she also realized she had brought all these soldiers to their death, and she was completely heartbroken over it. But having to take care of a teenager who had presumably lost everything as well, she just held it all back. She had to. I think mentioning the memory of a past where she was happy, and where things just happened as they were meant to (being spotted dancing by a handsome and nice he-Elf, falling in love, getting married with him, etc.), gave her some sense of peace she terribly needed in that moment.

[antepenultimatefantasy]

FFX Playthrough Part 14

Smoochin’ in Lakes and Beatin’ up Ghosts

-So somehow Auron has cleared our names? Are we still fugitives? We just double murdered a maester and escaped from dumb execution prison maze underwater funtime theme park

-Anyway, Tidus and Yuna have A Serious Conversation™ waist deep in a pond

-Joking aside, this is a very sweet and terribly sad scene that shows how Tidus’s status is an outsider makes him uniquely qualified to cheer her up in this situation and help her imagine a world different from the one they reside in, where she doesn’t have to die for a country with a truly corrupted belief system

-Imagining this other world, though, is what ultimately makes Yuna decide to continue on her pilgrimage

-She is still fundamentally a selfless person and thinks that she can give others this fantastic world if she dies 

-Her kissing Tidus does show that she is allowing herself at least one “selfish” thing at what she thinks is the end of her life

-She still wants to fully experience love, not just for her country, but for him

-But duty takes precedent over individual love so she must continue

-This is so heavy:

-In the end, though, this is where we see that her resolve was never based in Yevon. She’s carrying on without it, possibly stronger and more driven than before

-Anywayyyyy

-The Calm Lands are legit nice

-Lol Auron’s like “Summoner’s lose focus here” and Yuna’s like “time to lie in the grass!”

-I realize now that he probably means that many have a change of heart and realize they don’t have the will to carry out their sacrifice

-Ope, some rando named Father Zuke says that Mika has blamed Kinoc’s death on the team

-So we’re definitely fugitives

-Father Zuke? More like Daddy Zuke

-Also, we’re way too late in the game for new NPCs! 

-Wakka and Lulu used to be guardians for Daddy Zuke but it didn’t go so well 

-We find that Belgemine is just a ghost living in a spooky house all by herself picking fights with passing summoners

-That’s the kind of energy I aspire to

-Also? There’s like a monster arena with a live Blue Eyes White Dragon just like wriggling half in the mountain? 

-It looks literally like no other fiend in the whole game?

-Who is she?

-So the Guado summon like a golem thing to stop us

-Fight your own battles, you cowards! 

-Love those shoulder pads though. Very 80s. 

-The introduction to the Chamber of the Stolen Fayth is very ominous, with Lulu’s first summoner having died there

-Makes it all seem much more real and dangerous than just getting knocked to 0 HP

-(Which I am verrrrry used to in this run…)

-Lulu’s (now zombie) summoner is dressed so similarly to Belgemine

-What’s up with these dead ladies and their cinnamon bun head pieces??

-Is that why Dona opted for fishnets and stilettos?

-Yojimbo is the second most stylish aeon after Shiva

-I love how this dude decided he and his dog would become divine spirits together

-And how he makes summoners haggle for his services

-He’s living that freelance life! Taking on odd jobs, hanging out with his dog, dealing with clients that haggle too much

-That’s probably how Lulu’s first summoner died

-“Oh I was going to pay you in exposure! When everyone sees you help beat Sin they’ll want your services!”

-Anyway, I’m naming him Himbo

-When we were partying, he studied the blade