#atwd au

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Merab/Irakli as members of the company of St Mary’s.

(this is an old three sentence AU ask - if anyone wants to send new ones please do, but be aware they may linger in my ask box for some time)

Thank you so much for this and all other ancient asks! For some unknown reason inspiration landed in my head last night...

Disclaimers: 1) as my usual beta I’m afraid you must suffer my abuses of punctuation this time, three sentences is never enough 2) my memories of DK are vague and I suspect Francis would not entirely turn a blind eye to this, but screw it, these two aren’t exactly Randy Bell, M/I deserve only happy AUs 3) this is, for now, the most niche thing I have ever written in that you’re probably the only other person familiar with both universes, but THANK YOU it’s honestly an AU I’d be tempted to dip into again...<3

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It was a long way to come to break the rules: who would have expected to see a Colchian and an Iberian sitting side by side as the warmest of friends - whether in the steamy baths of Persian Tbilisi, on the seafront in Ottoman Batumi, or in a Scottish hall under the command of that notorious leader of men, Francis Crawford of Lymond?

Many things were forbidden in the garrisons of St Mary's but these did not include: singing in one's native language, dancing one's traditional dances in the vast stone hall after a day of hard drills, singing with the only other man there who understood the words, dancing stories with him that were familiar but that became embellished with new material as they retold them together...holding his hand in the dance, sharing a laughing gaze as the mercenaries in the hall clapped to the beat, sitting close by him on the bench afterwards, elbows touching as they reached for their drinks, their knees leaning companionably together beneath the table...these things were not forbidden.

What was forbidden only happened in the freezing darkness of Scottish night, moments stolen in the sweet-smelling stable air, kisses muffling terms of affection spoken in a dialect that had once sounded strange but was now as familiar and lovely as the body pressed against his, as they each conducted an ungentle exploration of the day's bruises, as he told himself that the commander could never guess what they had come to mean to each other, and what he could not guess at he could not discover, and could not possibly put a stop to - the commander, fully aware of all that occurred in his garrison, chose to allow them their tenderness in a place where it was hard to come by.

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I'm digging through my drafts lately so now the time has come to speak about movies that are like milestones for me:

Collateral (2004) dir.Michael Mann

I watched it for the first time in June 2021 and it became my hyperfixation, something I've been obsessed so much that... well, I literally LIVED that movie for about 4 months and I consider it changed my life's goals' perception❤️‍🔥 I've been reading all possible reviews, comments, interpretative theories... I wanted to wrote my own review and interpretation of the film.

(Just for those freaking abt actors: ppl who hate movies with Tom Cruise in it - usually make exception for the Collateral - and if THAT'S not convincing to you I don't know what is!)

Who would have guessed that the story about heartless hitman interacting with that poor random taxi driver has a potential to change a live perspective of a 35 years old person? Vincent is so inhumane I'm not even sure he deserves to be called a "character" (not more than a killer-cyborg probably) and what he says to Max about his attitude toward the world and his life and his dreams is so provocative and cruel but... it's all so freaking true. You are over 30 already and the time to act and to change your life and to fulfill your dreams is NOW! Now or never!

"Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life."

Not to mention every next victim feels like another lesson in personal developement of Max (or any viewer sympathising with him), just like those lessons given to Scrooge by ghosts in A Christmas Carol. Yes, there are five of them instead of three but it's like the first case is: "wake up!" - the next: "this happens for Real!" - then "and there's nearly nothing you can do about it..." - and "...but you got to try anyway..." - followed by: "...because it's all about you right from the start!"

(One night you may need to turn your whole life upside down)

And I know some people see the last case as lame, cliche, unbelieveble, predictible or whatever - but jeez, ppl, that's how it works in a theater play! Of course it could have been predicted and so what?! It's the story about Max's character and in my opinion: that when he gets to know about his key role in all this - in a way similar to Bastian in The Neverending Story.

And I dare to say at this point it is not about any "love" or any such thing (here, take my AroAce filter): it's about a dream, that still is to be fulfilled, about a life, that could have been, about the right to be yourself and freedom to choose your way. About an urge to fight for something so important that you simply can't turn away from it anymore. About a need to defend something that feel so close and dear to you like it's your core, like it's yourself - like it was all about your life from the very beggining!

(And what if: maybe it all would never had happened if not for Max symbolic giving away his dream "island"?🤔)

I love how the provocative speech of Vincent to Max and all the uneasy questions he gives to him are meant to get him out of his comfort zone: your job is to take the client from point A to B, never before have you cared what they gonna do there, maybe all of them where going to kill or hurt somebody, so why did you not care about it ever before? Why would you care about it now? What the difference if the bad thing is happening close to you or far away from you? What's the difference if you do or do not know about it? And what actually changed in your case now - anything other than that now you know? In all this you are irrelevant, COLLATERAL, you are only a fucking meaningless, powerless cab driver! Look at you, you're not even the one to decide your own route! And if you decided to only always do your job without the second thought - then why don't you just do your fucking job right now?!

And then it's like: you can run from your problems and avoid hard decisions for just so long - there's literally no more place left to run and hide, and you got to face your greatest fear... To save a life.

Not your life though.

You'll be reminded it's NOT about you. That it's not your business. So you can simply step back and live. Just keep on being nobody, not having anything to say, not having any power over bad things happening around you. You'll be reminded that you're weak and you can keep the safe distance and remain comfortably numb just as you always used to be...

You could remain COLLATERAL

Only would you be able to live with knowing you haven't even tried?

As much as I hate guns IRL - I loved to learn about the "mozambique drill" (some fans probably breaking new record of rewatching "yo, hommies" scene over and over again) and reading other viewers' interpretations of what actually happen in the final shooting... and of why he could not or would not reload... (as a neurologist I'd vote it's bc of his brachial plexus) and finally thinking about the spontaneous act of previously non-spontanous character - winning over cold routine of the one always talking about "adapting to enviroment"... Like Max've won over him by actually learning his lessons!

This movie is filled with symbols and allegories. Starting with the silver gray Vincent: I like to compare him to a heartless cyborg T1000 from Terminator 2: The Judgement Day, or see him as an angel of death, or even - as mirror giving a dark reflection, like an evil alter-ego of the main character! (there's the allusion of policemen that a taxi driver might get rampage and kill ppl around the town - followed by Max's mother asking "Who?" like not noticing Vincent - to the point Max actually "acts" Vincent - all these priceless little hints that Vincent might not even exist in a first place...)

My own favorite interpretation is that Vincent is personification of a coyote - the spirit animal meant to teach you life lessons that are many times very uneasy but really rewarding

(And don't listen to director talking about Vincent, it seems to me that Michael Mann did not himself get any deeper meaning of this guy at all!😑 Like treating his past history seriously? Oh please, have mercy...🙄 Vincent's power derives from the fact he's so perfectly inhumane he barely touches the earth! Or at least he's the perfectly neutral transparent everyman... who's empty of emotions. And you can treat as a symbol of anything you want!😋)

The story takes place in the middle of the night - with the broad streets of the great town being almost empty - and it's such an unusual view it gives an almost dreamlike mood. Perfect time and place for a life-changing story about changing your life.

All in all this story is so brilliant someone definitely should have made a movie about it!

😆

PS. And I love the soundtrack.

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eepy mura

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i feel like everyone needs to know that Murasaki either wears outfits like these or his hakamashita/hakama. there’s no in between lol

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did some atwd Leo screenshot edits for fun lol

(wow click for better quality augh)

^ original screenshot

version without shadow and background only cause I’m proud of it

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… someone might need to monitor the twins… constantly

@tmntaucompetition

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a piratepaw approaches!

have you found yourself in a weird place with no costume to speak of? or do you just like novelty shirts? well at my worst leo is here to solve your woes with his travelling novelty shirt store! help yourself and don't worry about how shady he looks

sorry… Mizu’s got a little mouth problem… in that he can’t close it

@tmntaucompetition

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atwd leo (aka Mizuiro) outfit doodle on magma teehee

Main/Masterpost

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Atwd Venus!! she’s a blanding’s turtle, and the second youngest… weapon of choice is the tessen, with several spikes on the tips

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character sheets have begun!!

will come back and link the others as i finish them teehee

(y'all can ask questions of you'd like... some stuff might be spoilers tho so have fun with it i suppose lol)

Leo - Donnie - Raph - Mikey

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angst cause what else would i draw?

(version with blood under the cut- if you dont wanna see dont look.)

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hey. hey yall want this? mayhaps vote for me in the @tmntaucompetition makskksksksks

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human Mizuiro in some princely garbs hehe

vote tatwd maybe if ya wanna @tmntaucompetition

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aka’s just hungry, can’t blame her tbh

@pigeonsgrame2 @cruilty-ink @tmntaucompetition

sorry @v01ds-dragon-den she ate the jewelry… she’s eaten worse tbh

edit: apologies @addystuffs your ask got lost but it’s here now and it’s relevant, all is well