#arrow 2x09

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

Barry when Oliver and Felicity

[winnie-the-monster]

[itachi86]

haha barry totes wants to date oliver

[goodwhump-temp]

Takashi Natsume Whump | Natsumes Book of Friends

1x01 Slammed against tree, trips, lonely childhood, pinned 1x02 Head grabbed x2, nightmare, passes out (18:30) 1x03 Lonely childhood, jumped, [flashback; heartbroken, crying] 1x04 Falls down the stairs 1x05 Restrained x2 1x06 Passes out, possessed, head thwacked, elbowed, nearly trampled, crying 1x08 Falls off cliff, trips 1x09 Trips, caught mid-air (kinda hot ngl), nightmare, restrained x2, choked, caught in spell 1x10 Pinned, possessed, carried, sneeze, nightmare, jumps off cliff, unconscious 1x12 Cursed, worsening pain, head thwacked, trips 1x13 Trips

2x01 Ball to the face, choked, nose thwacked, pinned, grabbed 2x02 Nightmare, choked, hands burned 2x03 Restrained, dragged, nightmare, subconsciously crying 2x04 Trips 2x05 Fever, passes out (10:10) 2x06 Nightmare, cursed, captured 2x07 Missing/captured, restrained by the neck x2, falls down cliff, rope burns, poisoned/youkai blindness, head thwacked, knocked down, passes out 2x08 Thrown out the window, choked, drowning 2x09 Uppercutted, freaked out x2, coughing, knocked unconscious, fever, passes out 2x10 Chewed, weak 2x11 Arm bit 2x12 Uppercutted, bullied, hand bleeding, bandaged, tackled 2x13 Depressed, restrained, knocked unconscious

3x01 Passes out (06:30), collapse/unconscious (09:35), shoulder painfully bit 3x02 Choked 3x03 Lonely/bullied childhood, nightmare, snatched 3x04 [Childhood; bullied, ambushed x10, crying] 3x05 Choked, freaked out x3, mini-smacked x18, SNATCHED, knocked unconscious 3x06 Choked, dropped from the sky, knocked down x3, pinned, dragged, knocked unconscious 3x07 Captured, restrained, large fall down cave, grazed by arrow, bleeding, knocked down, held 3x09 Falls down bridge, freaked out (09:00), pinned, crying (happy tears :)), fingers pricked x4, knocked unconscious, nurses bed 3x10 Mirror absorbs into eye, great eye pain x5, head grabbed 3x11 Mirror absorbs into eye, hit with hammer 3x12 Collapse, fever, nightmare/jolted awake, subconsciously crying [Flashback; knocked unconscious, flown off a cliff, hospitalized, crying] 3x13 Lonely childhood, falls into pit

4x01 Manhandled, choked, knocked down, captured, briefly unconscious, restrained, catslapped 4x02 Imprisoned, knocked down, falls down slope 4x03 Hands scratched up, poisoned, pain, choked, cheek grazed, restrained 4x04 Pinned, protected 4x05 [Flashbacks; lonely, neglected] 4x06 Trapped in a bottle 4x07 Trapped cont., scared, collapse, exhausted 4x09 Knocked off the balcony, knocked unconscious (log trap) 4x10 Panicked running/trips, passes out, sick from exhaustion 4x11 Passes out, nightmare, parent lore, denial, crying, emotional pain 4x12 Childhood bullies/trauma, manipulated, restrained, catslapped, possessed 4x13 Possessed cont., unconscious, [Childhood; emotional pain x3, scared, bullied, hit x20], choked, crying

5x01 Nightmare, jolted awake, passes out, scared, squeezed 5x03 Blackmailed 5x04 Choked x3, manhandled 5x05 Unconscious (20:20) 5x06 Pinned, voice taken, soft coughing x5 5x07 Passes out 5x09 Tired as fork 5x10 (Different POV of 3x16; Lonely, bandaged/after hospital) 5x11 Fever, collapse, hallucinating, very sick for multiple days, headache, nightmare, worsening sickness 5x12 Passes out, carried 5x13 Repetitive nightmare, tired

6x01 Transformed as child, amnesia, manipulated, terrified 6x03 Freaked out x3, pinned 6x04 Knocked off roof, pinned, SNATCHED 6x05 Head bonked, awakes/cared for 6x06 [Flashbacks; lonely, nightmare, found unconscious] 6x10 Squeezed

[emrys-merlin]

Could Merlin have walked away from his destiny at any time? Remember, though, what the Dragon said: Merlin cannot escape his destiny. Nobody can. And we see how true this is in 1x10, where Merlin considers staying in his childhood village with his best friend Will, except that Will conveniently dies taking an arrow for Arthur, shutting that door almost as quickly as it had opened. Then in 2x09, when Merlin plans to run away with Freya, she too conveniently dies in his arms before he can stray too far from Camelot. In fact, anyone who uses magic for good or accepts Merlin despite his magic dies (Balinor, Lancelot), or turns evil (Morgana). Merlin is kept isolated, anyone who could help him change the kingdom for the better removed from his orbit by force.

[the-feral-gremlin]

Gary Jackson, from Star Trek VI// ??// unknown uquiz// arrow 2x09// Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami// ?? // guilt by radical face // ?? // arrow 1x?// Crush by Richard Siken

[raayllum]

Anyway this isn't like an Official Literary Thing but I've talked with my old English profs about it / have been using it for fanon ATLA meta since like 2018 and thus thought it might be useful for others for meta / conceptualization purposes

Going to be using both ATLA and TDP as examples to help out, but let's dig into the concept of

primary, secondary, & tertiary foils

For example, the primary foils in both ATLA and TDP are Zuko-Aang and Viren-Callum, respectively. This is backed up by framing, plot arcs, what episodes and sometimes entire seasons are built around, etc. Zuko and Aang are both visually marked (scar, arrow) boys living in exile and unable to return home / to what they once knew, they are the main way the series explores concepts of destiny ("is it your own destiny or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you?" applies to Zuko as Aang's enemy and to Aang as a violent Avatar) and a plethora of other things, interacting in approximately 13/61 episodes in the series but having their bond/dynamic reinforced in many other episodes than that ("Bitter Work" and "The Storm" in particular).

Viren and Callum are very similar, being another antagonist-turned atonement arc and protagonist pair. S2 follows them operating in parallel (2x01 shutting a door in their face with magic/politics, engaging in dangerous behaviour in pursuit of magic but backing off in 2x04, reneging that choice and following through in 2x07, being faced with mirrors in 2x08, and getting magical upgrades in 2x09, even if Viren does so by embracing dark magic/Aaravos and being subsequently chained down, further while Callum has rejected it and unlocks the Sky arcanum, being subsequently freed). Season four and season five have merely cranked it up further by framing/paralleling S4 and S5 Callum further to Arc 1 Viren in framing, fears, and choices, as well as framing him in opposition to S4 and S5 Viren, allowing them to switch places, as Viren swears off all dark magic just as Callum opens that door back open within an episode of each other in S5.

However, these are hardly each other's only foil relationships, even if they are the most prevalent. This is where secondary and tertiary foils can come in handy.

For example, Soren has parallels to both Callum and Rayla. In arc 1, he and Rayla switch roles from a sworn protector turned killer turned back again, and a sworn killer sworn fervent protector, respectively. Soren and Callum are both greatly depleted in 2x07 thanks to following Viren's path (for Soren, it's escalating violence in a situation he can't win, and for Callum, it's dark magic) causing them to have big moments of reflection in 2x08. They are also both the older brothers who escape their fathers' mantles of dark mage and king, leaving those burdens uniquely on their younger siblings' shoulders of Claudia and Ezran. And Ezran is a parallel to Rayla of someone who is good hearted enough it gets them into trouble as well as their duties/devotion to world ("I have to go back home" + "I have to go after him" / "I feel like I'm letting everyone down" "I failed them, I let them all down" / "It's not fair you have to go through this alone" "I knew I had to be strong alone"). And of course, Callum and Rayla are big foils for each other as well, switching largely in the same manner that Viren and Callum do.

This is similar to how Aang also parallels Katara (cultural endurance, anger, and mercy) and Azula (elevated prodigy who creates resentment, freed and defeated by Katara from an icy confine) in ATLA, Toph parallels both Mai and Yue (who likewise parallel each other, all rich girls forced into a manner of repression due to their status and families, with various stages of breaking free & self sacrifice), and how Zuko parallels Katara (compassionate, sometimes hot headed, had to struggle more for their bending abilities) and Sokka (older brother to more 'talented' younger sister, missing mother and wanting to prove themselves to their fathers).

Typically when looking at plot and character arcs, primary foils are better indicators of how a character may swap with another or where they may end up, for ex: Azula and Katara are primary foils and this sets up both the Book 2 and Book 3 finales. In Book 2, Zuko chooses/helps Azula defeat Katara (and Aang), and Azula kills Aang; Katara, as her foil, is the one who saves him. Then, in Book 3, Zuko chooses/helps Katara defeat Azula, and then is also saved by her. Tertiary and secondary foils tend to be more complementary / help buff up theme for shorter episode arcs than series spanning stuff.

We see this again in S3 and S5 Callum and Viren, where S3 ends with Viren at his literal lowest and Callum at his literal highest, whereas in S5, they have the aforementioned dark magic trade off. You can also see this in smaller ways with characters like Rayla and Claudia (who I'd probably say are secondary for each other, but you really could make an argument for primary) switch in 4x09 and 5x09, with Claudia restoring Rayla's family to her whereas Rayla's defeat of Claudia is, in the mage's mind, why she ultimately loses her father / Claudia prioritizing her family over everything, whereas Rayla puts in the world first in S5.

Anyway it's fun and useful - who do you think certain characters primary, secondary, or tertiary foils are? Why would you categorize each one in each way, are there multiple of each? Etc, etc. It can also be very good for book planning with a large cast ;)

[this-is-moony-lovegood]

Make me write!

I have the day off and I need to work on my wips. Send me an ask with an emoji that represents one of my fics and I’ll answer with a few new lines!

Green Arrow AU - 🏹

After being marooned on the island of Lian Yu for seven years, Evan “Buck” Buckley, son of billionaire Phillip Buckley, returns to Starling City with the mission to right the wrongs of his father and the city’s rich elite. He starts his mission alone, taking up the mantle of the city’s masked vigilante, who kills his targets with a bow and arrow, earning him the moniker of “The Hood.” However, he quickly learns that doing this job on his own is nearly impossible, and leans on his new bodyguard, Eddie Diaz, and Buckley Consolidated’s IT hotshot, Hen Wilson, to help him save the city all while he tries to rekindle his relationship with his former girlfriend, Taylor Kelly. As the team works together, and Buck gets closer than ever with his bodyguard, he realizes that what he had with Taylor may not live up to the life he’s building with Eddie, and his six-year-old son, Christopher.

Bones AU - 💀

Based on 2x09, Aliens in a Spaceship AKA the first Grave Digger Episode. While working a case of the serial kidnapper, the Grave Digger, Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Evan “Buck” Buckley and Etymologist Dr. Howard ��Chimney” Han are kidnapped and buried alive until the $8 Million ransom can be paid. After receiving the call, Special Agent Eddie Diaz and the forensic science team at the Jeffersonian must race against the clock to find where the Grave Digger has buried their friends before they run out of oxygen.

Trapped!Eddie AU - ☎️

From Bobby's POV, Eddie gets trapped under a collapsed building on a call. When he radios in to tell the team he's alive, he asks for a minute alone with Buck. The problem is, their "private talk" is over an open radio channel.

Army!Eddie AU - 🇺🇸

When Army!Eddie is transferred from El Paso to Los Angeles, Buck joins the 118. A series of moments that Bobby sees of Buck from when he starts as a probie as he navigates life as a firefighter, a father, and a partner.

Trapped!Buddie AU - 🚒

Buck and Eddie are trapped together on a call and to Eddie’s dismay Buck feels the need to pick a fight with Eddie about him coming for him on the night he died. 

Celebrity!Buddie Fake Dating AU - 🩷

After being busted for participating in an underground fight club, actor Eddie Diaz needs some good publicity. His publicist, Cheryl, suggests to get the heat off him for the fighting, he should fake date a celebrity whose good publicity can rub off on him. After a list of suggestions, Eddie chooses fellow actor, Evan Buckley. Who knew that selecting his headshot would lead to one of the best choices he’s ever made?

Girl Dad!Buck AU - 👧🏼

10 ½ year old Hailey James walks into the 118 claiming Buck is her father, and well, Buck is going to need some help from his best friend, Eddie, learning how to navigate being a dad. Buckey-Diaz family shenanigans ensue, and the new sibling bond between Christopher and Hailey means they both have some ideas on how to make their dads realize how complete their little family could be if they just owned up to their very obvious feelings for one another.

Jealous!Buddie AU - 😡

6 times Buck and Eddie were jealous over the other’s friendship with Ravi + 1 time Ravi calls them out on it.

[jbuffyangel]

Hey no pressure or rush or anything but I was just wondering if you guys accidentally forgot to post arrow episode 2x07 recap of your podcast bc episodes 2x08 and 2x09 have been posted so I just wanted to clarify whether it was coming later or it was a mistake.

Hi Nonnie!! Thanks so much for letting me know. I mentioned it to Calli and Maddie. They are in charge. I am very much not in charge - we can all agree on that. So one of them will find the recording and post it or we’ll just record again. We never get tired of talking about arrow.

[chungledown-bimothy]

Oh yeah I meant as individual characters! There are going to be so many new characters you will meet next season which is when I feel like Legends truly found it's gold spot, but S2 has some great episodes.

I think my favorite bonkers LoT ep of S2 is 2x09.

Have fun with the show! Loving the thoughts you're posting, it's really fun to follow you and experience the show through another set of eyes

- your LoT Anon

my bad lol but yeah, i love them both.

i really loved the scene with amaya and mick at the end of ep 6 where she's like "i've got experience with animals" and she's gonna help him be domesticated like a guard dog, not a pet. i think that's gonna be a fun dynamic with them.

i truly believe that nate's self-esteem and identity issues would be solved, or at least greatly diminished, by a prostate orgasm.

looking forward to 2x9, once i get through the flash and arrow's invasion episodes so ep 7 of legends will make sense lol

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

THANK YOU, BARRY, FOR MAKING HIM THAT MASK! THE GREASEPAINT DROVE ME INSANE

[winnie-the-monster]

[itachi86]

goddamn slade just ripped a dude's heart out

[goodwhump-temp]

Naofumi Whump | The Rising of the Shield Hero

1x01 - Chewed, betrayed, villian origin story, trust issues 1x02 - Bit x3, bleeding 1x03 - Stabbed with porcupine needle, knocked down 1x04 - Sliced x2, shot with lightning, crying x2, emotional anguish, comforted 1x08 - Scared, guilt 1x10 - Trauma 1x11 - Pain/wrath shield 1x12 - Armor broken, betrayed 1x13 - Large fall, brief pain 1x16 - Shield cracked, whipped/knocked down 1x17 - Shot/knocked into wall, pecked (15:50) 1x18 - Knocked back, cut by wind, exhausted 1x20 - Great/wrath pain, trauma, shot w/ electric arrow x2, profusely bleeding, unconscious, weak 1x21 - Bandaged, nightmare, jolted awake 1x22 - Frustrated outburst 1x24 - Betrayed, remaining injuries from ep.20 1x25 - Knocked back

2x01 - Exhausted 2x06 - Pinned, head kicked x10, bleeding, crying 2x07 - Chewed, clawed x2, bleeding, bandaged, neck faux-sliced 2x09 - Pain (wrath shield) x2, tackled 2x12 - Wrath shield, great pain

3x02 - (Briefly) exhausted 3x04 - Angry 3x06 - Restrained with spiked chains 3x08 - Shield taken over 3x09 - Weakened by Wrath Shield, blocks powerful blast x2

that saxophone is bout to make me ACT UP

[aceofwhump]

ooo just saw your top 5 tropes and do you have any good trapped under rubble recs?

I SURE DO!!!!

Tv Episodes:

Stargate SG-1 2x05

Hawaii Five-0 4x19

Arrow 7x20

Torchwood 2x12

Teen Wolf 3x12

Krypton 2x09

Hudson and Rex 2x14

Stargate Atlantis 5x01

Lost 1x07

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Lost in Space 2x05

BBC Casualty 34x01

Transplant 1x01

Castle 6x11

Agents of Shield 5x22

see this whumptober set for several examples

Fanfics:

My OCs:

Lucifer - Before I Go by Kay_kat: Chloe finally knows— finally believes the one thing that he’s been telling her since the beginning. That he is the Devil. By some miracle they’d worked past it and picked up where they’d left off, solving crimes together and maintaining a loosely defined and somewhat confusing personal relationship. He’d told her a lot of things since she found out, only... there is still one thing that he hasn’t told her that weighs on him every time he sees her beautiful face. It threatens to slip from his lips every time she rolls her eyes at one of his puns. The feelings that had bloomed that night on the balcony. So, when he ends up trapped under a building, with Chloe by his side as he struggles to hold on, will the feelings he’s been keeping inside finally spill free? He’s not sure he can go without telling her.

Hawaii Five-0 - Baby, Stay With Me by Horndog333: Steve and Danny are trapped inside when an explosion destroys and levels a parking structure. Danny is seriously injured by the falling cement and debris. Seeing no way out, Steve confesses something that will change both of their lives forever.

Leverage - but don't you shake alone by tragicallynerdy: Trapped in a collapsed building, an injured Eliot and panicking Hardison do what they can to keep each other alive, safe, and whole.

911 - Thicker Than Blood by altschmerzes: Bobby and Buck are in a parking garage when part of the structure collapses, trapping them both inside. The collapse itself isn't too bad. The problem is that Bobby can't find Buck, and is too concussed to remember that Buck is no longer on the blood thinners that could make even a minor injury lethal. Bobby struggles to communicate to the incident commander outside, a stranger, as well as to Athena, exactly why it's so important that he remain inside the collapse. But Buck's never left him behind, even when ordered to. He's not about to betray that in return.

Murdoch Mysteries - S-O-S by Horatio13: He was pinned in a pretty tight pocket, but not tight enough that it was impossible to breathe. Uncomfortably difficult, yes, but definitely possible. His ears were ringing. Something sharp was stabbing in his thigh. He couldn’t feel his fingers on his right hand, but he couldn’t see enough of them to figure out what the problem was. He could feel something wet and sticky starting to pool underneath his legs and stomach. Well, thought George numbly. This is fun.

Loki - you must know you are beloved; by unintentionallyangsty: When Loki risks his own life to save Thor's, he ends up trapped aboard the Statesman in a room quickly draining of oxygen. Thor is, understandably, less than thrilled at this development.

911 - the urgency of now by wayfarer: Buck is pretty sure the universe is actively trying to murder him at this point. There’s just no other explanation. In the last two years he has been blown up and subsequently crushed by a fire truck, suffered from a pulmonary embolism, nearly drowned in a tsunami and now this. How many times can he almost die before it stops being an accident and starts being some kind of cosmic hit put out on his life? Or, a building collapses on Buck and Eddie. Confessions ensue.

Tony Stark - To Prove a Hero is Allowed to Have Some of His Own by Era_Penn: Or, five(ish) times Tony thought a teammate would leave him behind, and one time he knew they wouldn't. (Chapter 7)

The Man From Uncle - One Day in Morocco by el_spirito : A fulfillment of the following prompt: One where they're in a building that collapses for nefarious reasons and Napoleon is injured and Illya, it turns out, is severely claustrophobic, so Napoleon has to simultaneously try and keep the giant Russian calm and not die. Featuring trapped boys, determined Gaby, and Waverly being great.

[floripire]

a quick and dirty event guide featuring important episodes and plot points: season 2.

note: the events of the show happen as they do, albeit tweaked and a little darker and more mature; the salvatore boarding school looks like a regular boarding school but behind closed doors, vampires are feeding off other students despite technically not being allowed to do so; witches use their abilities outside of the classrooms and are practicing forbidden magic, etc.

in 2x01, there is an extended flashback moment detailing the relationship between jed and flori during and after the summer holidays. there are also flashback moments between loren and mia and flori.

in 2x02, emma assigns flori homework: she's to write down what she wants and then chase after it with all her might. the thing is, though, she wants this malivore business to be over and she wants her friends to be happy and she wants jed, except alyssa's been hanging off his arms. so to distract her from that, she throws herself into her research and comes up with a working theory: malivore is part of the dark dimension and it is so much bigger than people initially suspected. unfortunately, there is no way to test that theory so flori keeps it to herself.

in 2x03, flori is present for the annual football game against mystic falls high even though she doesn't really care about sports in general. she tapes it and watches out for humans doing the same, like they did last year.

in 2x04, flori joins raf and landon when they go to mystic falls high. raf and landon go for hope. flori goes for maya and ethan machado as she's still digging into the whole machado family. flori also tries to help out with the oni problem however she can.

in 2x05, flori attends the 80's themed decade dance.

in 2x06, flori's entire backstory is revealed due to the croatoan.

in 2x07, flori catches wind of josie’s risky plan to close the malivore portal and decides to help out, sharing all her research up until this point.

in 2x08, flori is absent but is mentioned by name.

in 2x09, alyssa drops a plate and slices herself. sebastian has to calm mg down and jed has to be the one to calm flori down elsewhere.

in 2x10, it's coven day. normally flori has nothing to do with this but for the sake of loren and wade, she's willing to sit in on it. afterwards, she has a conversation with wade and they dig into flori's family history, diving deep into the harman's.

they find out there is so much more to the world of the preternatural than they knew; there is so much that has been kept from them. flori confronts alaric about the night people and he reveals that he's been in the know for years, just like dorian and emma.

a qareen sows discord throughout the day, however, and flori is among those affected.

in 2x11, love is in the air and flori gets hit with an arrow too. she goes to confess to jed but when she finds him and ms tig, she runs. ms tig rejects jed and he chases after her. they have a conversation.

in 2x12, flori dives into the books, trying to find a way to get the saltzmans out of the prison world.

in 2x13, it becomes clear that nothing in the books will help, but that doesn't mean flori is gonna stop looking.

in 2x14, emma suggests group therapy in the form of the therapy box in order to deal with their recent trauma; noir flori is seen at the salvatore hotel, in charge of communications. she’s also seen at mg’s workplace, working up the nerve to go inside and ask if he or his colleagues can help her find her estranged family after he clears his case. before flori can enter the police station and set everything in motion, she gets killed by the murderer and gets ejected from the simulation.

in 2x15, flori is there when josie - who has now gone dark - siphons from mg. luckily, he gets saved by kaleb. alyssa is not so lucky and flori wonders if there is anything she and the others can do to stop josie. she believes it when she's told that lizzie has died as she is not yet filled in on the plan.

in 2x16, flori faints due to the fact that the room is awash in so much magic. when she wakes up again, mg fills her in. she promises rafael that she'll look into ways to wake hope and landon up again. meanwhile, flori attends lizzie's "funeral".