#but idk about chosen

[tsudratscigam]

Do you think TCO killed stickpeople during his evil era?

[go-star-sailor]

transfem wirt truthers wya

[forecast0ctopus]

i knwo a lot of people like the aos cadet and dress uniforms but i do Not and am actively trying to think up alternatives…… with tos kirk though lmao sorry

[itslilacokay]

CHOSENWEEK DAY 4&5 : FESTIVAL + FLIGHT

i dunno, this was just a little what if hehe

oh im not done yet! have another combined day

CHOSENWEEK DAY 6&7 : COMFORT + FREEDOM (glitch/flashing warning)

this one ive thought of for a whiiile while! you see my vision right guys

okay see you all on finale day!

[hyakunana]

Encounter V — Reverse Boost

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[mascwoman]

new year, new me (going back to my birth name as an adult dyke)

[incisorconfiture]

laios and kabru being very explicit narrative and character foils of each other means you're primed to expect some extent of honesty and candor from laios at every turn throughout, even if it's to negative effect, while your impression of kabru means you expect his every action and word to bely ulterior motive or manipulation, even if it's out of good intentions. and how thoroughly this is subverted in the end, when kabru is forced by pressure and circumstance into painfully, awkwardly honest confession and conduct, forced to stand back and spectate instead of trying to pull strings and control. and laios rises up out of nowhere with an underhanded scheme so shocking and thorough it tricks everyone, and suspends them into inaction and speechless disbelief, clearing his path to the throne. i just think it's neat how they're foils and opposites until they embody each other's core traits at some of their most pivotal developmental moments

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]

saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[eggcats]

I've been listening to the Thunder Saga, and I wonder if Zeus is also asking a question with a right and wrong answer in Thunder Bringer like I think Poseidon did in Ruthlessness. (I have a post for that, but I think Odysseus wasn't supposed to apologize, but to instead acknowledge that he should have killed Polyphemus).

Poseidon had to teach him to be ruthless.

Zeus needs to teach him to stop being so prideful.

Like, yes - Eurylochus did stage the mutiny and killed the cow. But! That was because Odysseus decided not to tell any of his men that they would need to accept 6 deaths to get home and allow them to make the choice themselves - because Odysseus couldn't handle the idea that they might refuse going past Scylla and keep him from going home.

This is even present in the song Scylla. Eurylochus is moved to confess that it was him who opened the bag of winds, but Odysseus keeps his own secrets and guilt to himself. I think none of the men even knew they were going past Scylla at all until it happened, since all Eurylochus says is "something approaches," implying he doesn't know what that something even IS.

Scylla even compares Odysseus to themselves, with his full transformation from man to monster now completed.

You hide a reason for shame You know that we are the same Leaving them feeling betrayed Breaking the bonds that you've made There is no price we won't pay We both know what it takes to survive

But if you notice, once they kill the cow, they start following Odysseus again. Hell, Eurylochus calls him captain! They follow his orders to escape! This shows that their real desire wasn't to overthrow Odysseus, but rather their anger and betrayal at not even having the option to choose to fight over sacrifice.

And honestly, this happened because Odysseus has demonstrated time and again that he will not discuss anything with his men and instead makes decisions without their input (too much pride to ever consider anyone's opinion other than his own).

In Storm, he tries to force the fleets to keep going despite Eurylochus saying that continuing would sink them all. In the same song, Odysseus also decides to go to the wind god without any discussion beforehand, and completely ignores Eurylochus's advice in Luck Runs Out about the inherent danger of going to the gods for help. In this same song, Odysseus also completely ignores the deaths of his men by Polyphemus, and instead brags about none of them dying in the war. (Once again, the pride Zeus mentions, and that Eurylochus criticizes in both Luck Runs Out and Puppeteer).

This is why Eurylochus opens the bag of winds, because Odysseus has proven he can't be trusted to tell him anything that could be important or put their lives in danger. Despite Eurylochus being his second in command, he's never treated as such. Odysseus has never once discussed something with him, taken his concerns into account, made a decision with him together, or even taken his advice. (Even cutting him off as far back as Full Speed Ahead without even considering his opinion).

Odysseus continues to ignore what Eurylochus tries to talk to him about in Puppeteer, and instead unintentionally gets all his men trapped by Circe. He then goes against Eurylochus again in the same song to confront her despite neither of them knowing if she can be defeated. All of this comes to a head when Odysseus does the same thing again in Scylla, except his decision was to intentionally let their men die for his own desires - and Eurylochus had no idea until it had already happened.

And that's why Eurylochus mutinies. He does it because he cares about his men, seemingly more than Odysseus has demonstrated he ever has.

(I'm not saying that Eurylochus has been right this whole time, and honestly I doubt Eurylochus would say the same - but Odysseus won't even listen to what he has to say, is the problem. He has too much pride).

And then Zeus arrives and proves Eurylochus right.

Zeus gives Odysseus a choice - him or his men. Forcing him to come to terms with the very same decision he made during Scylla and expose him for only caring for himself and not the men under his command.

Zeus is criticizing Odysseus and claiming that he's too full of pride to sacrifice himself to save his men. His men of which he is their captain. Of which he is their king. Zeus points this out to him explicitly, leading me to believe that he wasn't supposed to choose himself here.

I think that by taking back command after they killed the cow, Odysseus had taken responsibility for his men's actions. Except, when confronted with those same actions, he refuses to. Much like how a boss gets in trouble when their subordinates do something wrong, a captain should do the same for his crew.

Except. Odysseus doesn't. He fails the test.

And now he must have his pride taken from him again and again until he learns the lesson Zeus was teaching him. Just like he did with learning ruthlessness from Poseidon.

I think the next saga will involve him being confronted with this decision he makes here, and how it was the wrong one, and then the saga after that (perhaps with the suitors? I'm unsure how many more are planned) is when Odysseus will reprise Thunder Bringer and finally be able to return home.

[transingthoseformers]

https://www.tumblr.com/transingthoseformers/770983670012166144/i-have-an-idea-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-x?source=share

There's a handful of fanfic with this basis already (my fav is one where the kiddos assume the bots are made by Hephaestus and they meet during the battle of Olympus ngl, fucks the bots up but the kids are like "idk why Heph made them Like That but like bud hurry up, crisis later zoom zoom now pls") but like, I think my favorite way to handle this that I also haven't seen ever would be in a reality where Unicron is earth. So the gods are fighting earth and then the bots roll up like "... Didn't Unicron have a female holoform?" "IDK but that's definitely Unicron or one of his kids my mech"

Also also, would this make OP be a demigod or a god? Would nectar and ambrosia work for ALL the bots, would it be considered really wimpy energon, or something else entirely unique to the earth gods? This is such a fascinating playground for the bots ESPECIALLY depending on which reality it's set in. Bayverse OP would HAAAAAATE that kids gotta fight but would also throw hands with them, G1 would feel Things about it but would help however he could, and I feel like Megs in some other realities would try and mentor these humans like "I will make sure you live to see the end to the best of my ability, Do Not Disappoint Me"

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS BEING A REALITY WHERE EARTH IS A DORMANT UNICRON YES YES

:3

Very funny that they assume the transformers were made by Hephaestus

In my mind, Optimus is at MOST a demigod, if not a situation a little closer to what was happening in the Egyptian pantheon books with the godlings (? Iicr what they were named??) where it was gods lightly possessing mortals. I personally see the Thirteen Primes as demigods, full stop, as more direct creations of Primus. (Though, I dabble in situations where they're completely mortal too)

In my mind, ambrosia is probably unique to the Earth gods, as Primus/Unicron and their stuff seems to have their own things going on (the various different types of energon) (I'm a little curious how dark energon might play with a human demigod or a monster differently than it would a mortal human or cybertronians)

But also, I've forgotten here, THE STUFF YOU'RE SUGGESTING WITH UNICRON'S HOLOFORM AND CHILDREN OF UNICRON, OO?👀👀👀????

Man, it's going to be such a realization for the human demigods we're following this time that, yes, not only are gods and monsters real and here on Earth, but alien are real too and they have their own alien gods. One of which just so happens to be the Earth's core :3

[teakoxd]

a small gift from me :3

I love drawing him both being cute and the most horrifying being in the Outernet lmao

But yeah, Merry Chrismas everybody!! >:DDD

[rosdevw2]

wanna see me rant about them?

I see them as brothers, although not a really healthy bros, mostly cause of the lack of communication (and not knowing what a healthy relationship looks like), also I have my other hc of hollowheads (and the cg) not really understanding how can you talk rather than fight, like you can fight with a stick if you like them and also if you hate them, their first instinct if they have a disagreement is to fight (Cho reaction to Dark's plan was lauching him out off a wall lol). So no peaceful way to talk for them, and is not like they don't like eachother is rather like they don't know how they are hurting the other one, Chosen is not the one to talk much, he keeps thing to himself, something bother him? never says what, no matter how hard Dark asked him why he snapped at him like that early that day, and Dark is so stubborn, you can never change his mind, Chosen tells him to just let his anger go and he won't listen, so why bother anymore? So they won't try and talk it out anymore, let the other one solve it out since he doesn't want your help. And since neither of them go and hang out with other sticks (cause they both wanted criminals), they only have each other, so when they have a nasty fight and stop talking to one another for days until one of them gives them smile (but never a full apology) at the other, they will forgive them even though they both think they weren't in the wrong cause in the end it's the only person they have, and the only one who can understand the whole Alan thing. So the whole final battle between them was just a normal fight for them, never really taking the other seriously, more like a "how dramatic is he, but he will come around, I just need to beat the shit out of him" while both of them also are like "I'm making a great point, I'm in the right here, why can't you see that?" and it makes me so GRRRRRRHHHREAAAAAAA

[ducksbeloved]

lol i wonder if lucy came up with the "high 5 heroes" party name

[i3utterflyeffect]

What if one day, Alan came home early, insisted that Chosen would stay to dinner, and they have big family dinner together? And everything so surreal for Chosen, so when they come back home, Dark can't stop asking Cho why they look so stunned.

god yeah-- i don't think he'd insist on chosen staying personally but there's no way SC doesn't beg them to stay--

[vaguely-concerned]

I feel that during the first coffee date walk through the market, rye has a fraction of a millisecond's kneejerk trauma freakout of '...wait. wait. am I really catching feelings for a rich boy again. with how that went down last time. am I truly that stupid' (once derogatorily referred to quite openly at a party as 'young master anaxas' pet mortalitasi' to which the young master anaxas only grinned and shrugged and STILL you don't break up with his smug controlling ass for good for six more months because you have a desperate bottomless yearning pit where your self respect should go, twice shy lol). and then he actually looks at lucanis standing next to him getting harding spearmint to help with bad dreams and generally being so quietly thoughtful and sweet through the prosaic yet necessary medium of grocery shopping it makes me feel a little unwell to truly contemplate. and rye is like '*the softest fondest eyes anyone has ever turned on anything* ...you know what. I suspect we don't have to worry about that repeating, I think we're probably safe. I am comfortable being this level of stupid. (slowly dawning marital intent even at this stage)'.

(part of the reason rye buys NONE of illario's bullshit at all right from the beginning is that he's basically vaccinated against this exact type of dude after that relationship lol. charming suave guy who in the beginning pays you a lot of lavish attention and takes pains to make you feel special every time you're in a room with him -- but shallowly and mostly, it slowly dawns on you, when there's something he wants from you (and he's often doing it at the expense of someone else, raising you up to put someone else down and you won't believe this... it can turn into a seesaw at a whim. yay). and beneath that there's just a seething pit of resentment and inferiority complexes and bitterness left to fester until he can make it everyone else's problem and that IS going to start to bubble up between the cracks with you too if you stick around for long enough. no thank you been there done that wasted my youth and potential on it and all I got was this lousy shiny set of new emotional intimacy issues haunting me for life! trust me illario I HAVE, as it were, chosen the wrong dellamorte before, which is exactly how I know I didn't this time. go get him lucanis I've got your coffee

hilarious mental image: rye and illario sitting quietly together while everyone else is busy milling about during a cursed dellamorte family dinner (the vibes are so bad. you know the vibes are bad. sitting as still as you can and hoping for calm skies is your best bet without lucanis or teia favourite child privileges to work with) and rye out of the blue gazing thoughtfully into nothing over the edge of his glass with half-lidded eyes to go 'you know. you remind me a lot of my ex. not in a good way' and illario with absolutely no shame and hilariously also something that's the closest he ever gets to real sympathy going 'yeah, I get that a lot'. best talk those two ever had, unironically. their bond leveled up to its final form that day. *soulsborne boss defeated text* MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING REACHED)

[d8tl55c]

do you think flying StickFigures still fear heights?

dim, usually, but there. the urge to pull against a safety harness and make sure it still holds. perfectly capable, and yet what if