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pinkfey · 2 days ago

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maybe this is nitpicky but did the blight just stop being infectious

#like u would think since the blight/darkspawn ‘evolved’ bc of ghilanain she’d increase the risk of corruption #but like. no one becomes blighted.#not even npcs iirc??#there’s that one quest abt the doctor’s wife in the hossberg wetlands but that’s more due to the blight itself not fighting darkspawn #like what happened to the crazy awful high risk of death for just being near darkspawn let alone fighting them #the wardens needed to blight themselves for a reason like….. not everyone can fight them 24/7 #what makes the wardens special isn’t just their special senses and sacrifices it’s that they literally are the Only Ones who can fight the #darkspawn long term. the dwarves are better at fighting them but they still die from exposure. idk. idk !!#*better at fighting them than most #also. the ending thing with the companion does NOT count. i’m talking true disease. true corruption.#dare i say.. true Taint #anyways.txt #jasmine plays datv #da4 spoilers

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waspgrave · 2 months ago

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Love how anytime you ask someone who is nostalgic about dao’s ‘dark fantasy’ just what made it gritty/dark for them and why they like it so much, and their answer is always like, ‘men suffer battles while women get assaulted by darkspawn and made into broodmothers’. Like they can’t actually name anything beyond that and parts of the Blight. But they never delve too far into what made the Blight horrible beyond….you guessed it…broodmother lore. Odd

#it’s almost as if they have one interest when it comes to it and it’s always ‘man fight! women suffer!’#that’s what they seem to think happens to ALL women during the Blight too.#I love dark fantasy btw like it’s one of my fav genres to write and read/watch #but it’s so cringe seeing their arguments boil down to That and only that #origins Was darker but not that much lol #they act as if it was Berserk levels sometimes like go replay it and become disappointed lmao #not the body horror or autonomy or psychological impact of a moving pestilence that can ravage the land for a century nooo…broodmothers #dragon age #prawn posts

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herearedragons · 7 months ago

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tag the oc that's most likely to get stuck in a time loop and what kind of time loop it would be

#I feel like Kyana has time loop potential but idk what the exact loop would be #maybe the loop is the entirety of DAO and she keeps getting companions killed/locked into their Bad Endings #and the loop only stops when she manages to get them all to survive the Blight #something something she needs to learn to be a good leader and care about others #unsuccessful loops reset via the archdemon killing her (even if the dark ritual was performed)#Selene gets the classic 'your love interest keeps dying and you try to stop it' time loop #to escape the loop she must Let It Happen (and then it turns out it's fine and everyone survives)#Secret gives me the vibe of someone who knows they're in a time loop but has given up on trying to solve it #she's just going through it. trying everything. keeping herself entertained. trying to stay sane #sometimes she clues Varric in on the looping. sometimes she doesn't #actually maybe her time loop rule is that someone else has to save her from it. nothing she does by herself will work #idk what the exact reset point would be #I'm thinking the Arishok fight maybe. or Meredith #I don't think it would go as far as the Fade #also. after writing Homecoming I did have the thought of a time loop story #with Dorian as the one being trapped and trying to prevent Neil from dying/becoming possessed #maybe in his case he's not really trapped. he can stop anytime he wants but he keeps choosing to go back #the reset point is something Solas-related maybe #herearedragons meta #oc: kyana amell #oc: watcher selene #oc: secret hawke #oc: neilar lavellan #oh. actually. Aqun would be pretty fun to put in a time loop #that runs over some part of DAI and/or Trespasser #Adina is his time loop buddy (the person he usually tells about the loop because she immediately believes him)#idk what his reset/escape condition would be though #maybe in his case it's something purely mechanical #like there's no lesson to be learned it's just a magical anomaly he's trapped on #and on a meta level the 'lesson' is accepting that not everything has a Purpose or a Reason

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whump-n-comfort · 3 months ago

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i've noticed a common generic idea beneath my fave stories

#self esteem issues #fiction tropes #siblings #~my stuff~#the best part is all the ways you can spice this up #is it said in a self-deprecating/depressed way? is it said with resentment and snark?#is it said one way to cover up the fact they mean it the other way?#younger sibling thinking theyll never match up to perfect older sibling? older sibling thinking younger sibling is a 'do-over baby'?#twins where its believed one is 'more behaved' than the other?#maybe theres even more than two siblings that are all angry and resentful toward each other #do the siblings come together to reconcile and realize these expectations are bullshit and/or their parent(s) is a dick?#or is it tragic and they go to their graves forever thinking they were a blight upon their family name?#AND THEN THE PARENT OR PARENTS #are they alive & encouraging this? do they not realize they are putting these expectations on their kids and try to fix it when they learn?#or are they dead and their kids are simply ~thinking~ this is what their parents thought?#if the parent(s) try to fix it do the siblings work with them to become a family again? or is that trust forever broken?#i am NOT tagging the mainline fandoms for this post if it breaches containment it will do so NATURALLY like GOD INTENDED #i will tag my ocs tho #ellen #merek

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psychomegify · 7 days ago

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I'm curious; to those who have completed veilguard and weren't happy with the direction, what would you wanted the story to have been instead?

What would you keep? What would you throw out?

#dragon age #dragon age: the veilguard #datv #dragon age veilguard #veilguard #I'm debating whether or not I would want the veil to come down at the start of the game or not #on the one hand i want to see the world that results #on the other solas would become irredeemable #i also really like the idea of a double blight #i feel like if they veil did come down at the beginning and the evenuris did escape there would be no saving thedas #would be asteroid nuking dinosaurs level of hard reset #really want to write a fix it fic despite the fact i'm a terrible writer #i'm just not satisfied

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moghedien · 4 months ago

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It does genuinely shock me how few people in the DA fandom are willing to acknowledge that the Grey Wardens are kinda extremely horrific and fucked up

#like they’re more egalitarian that any political system in Thedas sure #but idk maybe giving an uncentralized military power the ability to conscript anyone they want #lie to recruits about what this entails both whether they were forced in or joined willingly #and then kill them if they hesitate and maybe kill them anyway in the process of recruiting just by failing to drink poison #and then shorten their lifespan and force them into a fate of slowly becoming tainted if they manage to survive long enough #maybe that’s bad actually #maybe you should tell people what this entails at least #‘oh but then no one would join’ i promise you people still would stfu #maybe I’m just at the end of the day a city elf filled with rage at being forced into a military #because I fought back against rapists and protected my family #like legit tho getting fucking conscripted on top of all the shit that happens in the city elf origin #if fucking terrible and my warden is always going to be angry at Duncan over it #maybe I’m just eternally bitter at that but you will never find me respecting or wanting ti be a warden again #my HoF disappearing after Awakening and trying to cure the blight to fuck off from them is the most in character thing for her tbh #but yeah this is also part of why I never make Bethany a warden in DA2 #she seems genuinely happier if she joins the circle for one thing #but also she at least gets to escape that in the end

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angeltannis · 7 months ago

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me seeing Forspoken in the store before I bought it: the lady on the front looks so cool. I bet she’s one of those stoic badass characters who’s really graceful and dedicated to saving the world.

me after playing Forspoken: so this is my daughter Frey whomst I fished out of a New York dumpster. She’s covered in cat hair at all times and has massive depression. Her favorite pastimes include teaching children to swear and arguing with a bracelet. She dreams of living in a cramped apartment and having 1 friend.

#the only good isekai tbh #no more ‘average guy becomes fantasy hero’ we need more ‘miserable motherfucker dragged kicking & screaming to glory’#when I first started playing I drafted an art idea that had Auden like ‘I believe she’s the chosen one what can save our blighted land 😌🙏’#then the next pic was Frey looking like the soggiest wet cat you’ve ever seen #I never finished it tho I got intimidated by drawing Auden and her strong facial features

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pandoratheprocrasticreator · 2 years ago

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au where the day of unity isn't until decades later and luz never comes to the boiling isles. willow somehow still gets transferred to the plant track and gets really good at her craft. amity never learns that bullying is bad, actually and they never reconciled in school.

and years later, blight industries is the most affluent company on the isles. odalia continues to be allergic to letting amity, who is her only child at this point to not run away from home the moment they turned 18 and cut all contact, associate with witches of "lower social standing."

so eventually when odalia tells amity that she's going to find her a nice respectable spouse amity just rolls her eyes and goes with it. maybe its some other heir to a big company. maybe it's a captain from the emperor's coven. maybe it's even the golden guard, if hunter managed to survive that long.

and then eventually she finds out that her mother has been trying to get her a date with PLANT COVEN HEAD WILLOW PARK

you've seen the countless amity x hunter miserable arranged marriage aus get ready for the amillow friends to enemies to arranged marriage to friends again to lovers 50k slowburn

#toh #the owl house #shut up pandora #amity blight #willow park #odalia blight #amillow #the hunter and amity arranged marriages were interesting unfortunately what the fandom didnt know then #was that there was no way belos would ever let a clone of his brother marry a witch bc belos thinks they all have cooties #i discussed this with my friends mandareeboo and yardsards and if they want to add anything they should feel free to #anyway im thinking odalia uses her connections to get audiences with the emperor #and every day shes like oh emperor you know my daughter is very beautiful and talented and of marriageable age #wont you introduce her to a respectable member of your coven #and belos gets so annoyed that in the end he forces willow to marry amity to get odalia to stop bothering him #and here willow would be kind of fucked up too #you dont become a coven head without doing religious trauma on the members of your coven #id like to think if no one was able to help her become confident like luz did when she discovered her plant powers #she would have overcompensated by becoming a horrible person as well #she would have tried to emulate boscha and amity bc to her thats what strength is #idk how gus fits in maybe hes also a coven head maybe he acts as willows guilty conscience maybe hes chilling

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phoenixcatch7 · 1 year ago

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Love how every zelda has a special interest and that special interest saves the world.

#Like whether it's piracy or history of light magic or ninjas or technology or art zelda ALWAYS gets super interested in the one thing #That'll save her and the kingdom down the line. Like oot zelda 100% idolised impa and demanded to be taught shiekah techniques #And disguise only for those skills to become vital during the 7 years link was gone.#Tp zelda had the most knowledge of light magic it's history and applications and spirits by FAR and all of those enabled her to save midna #And summon light arrows #If ww zelda was sitting pretty on an island instead of roaming the seas with a loyal crew and several cannons link would have been screwed.#If botw zelda had been allowed to pursue her fascination with shiekah tech or even science as a whole who knows what they might have manage #Ganon might not have been able to take them over at all. She might have learned to channel her power through artifacts or learned to mimic #The energy flow of the shiekah magic which is directly derived from hylia/the tf of wisdom! She wouldn't have been stranded at the mountain #When ganon attacked if she hadn't been forced up there on her birthday. She could have outfitted the champions with better weapons that #Would have been more effective against the blights. She might have unlocked the slate or the shrines. She would have been more confident #And thus less abrasive with link. They would have been able to bond sooner and faster. Link would have been more relaxed and ready.#The shiekah might have been able to rework teleportation instead of 106 years late.#I am salty about rhoam banning her. It never would have worked out well.#Never keep a zelda from her special interest okay!!!!#Like as soon as she and link got to do whatever they wanted the problem got solved within a few months.#Never tell a link to behave or a zelda she can't research #loz #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #Totk #loz totk #loz tears of the kingdom #Botw #loz botw #breath of the wild #Zelda #princess zelda #loz zelda #loz link

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unreadpoppy · 2 months ago

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I think the biggest reason I struggled to connect with the Inquisitor as a character is because of the 'chosen one' trope

#and also bc the inquisitor imo becomes too important too quickly #i like stories where you have to drag through mud for people to respect you #like even in DA2 it's only in the third act where you get some cred to your name #in DAO you're busting your ass saving people and there's still some who'll criticize you #and i didn't feel that with the inquisitor?#like very quickly lots of people are asking help from the inquisition and you're put in this place of savior #and it's weird bc at the same time i'm being told this #by the NPCs and the narrative #i don't *feel* that?#like i know that the inquisitor is important and all but i don't get that feeling #idk how to explain #like its feels like i'm being told how important the inquisition has been for keeping the peace #and how we're helping so many people #but i don't feel that #which is strange right bc i felt that in dao #i got the dwarves elves and mages on my side and like whenever i was done with the main quests and order was restored to that place #and an NPC would be like thank you we'll help you fight the archdemon #i felt like i was doing something important #when the other characters from DA2 and DAI talk about how important the warden was for them it makes sense to me #i think the main thing is that the warden and hawke made me feel things but the inquisitor didn't #i'm playing as Adaar now and it's been more fun than with lavellan #but that feeling of i know the inquisitor is important but it doesn't feel that way is still there #and also i just really don't like chosen one narratives #bc like...ok let's look at the warden #yes the GW are the only ones who can end the blight but the warden is not the only warden there #there's still alistair or loghain #and also you have to really work your ass to get shit done in DAO with limited resources and a bounty on your head #and people will even say that the wardens aren't that necessary #and then you have hawke #who was literally a nobody

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thewardenisonthecase · 22 days ago

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There's so many things in DAO and DA2 that are so horrific to see as a woman and it's so unintentional

#like the added horrors of the broomothers #and the guy who killed leandra #i think those two were like so much more gut punching to me bc both me and the warden/hawke were women #like listening hespith saying how broomothers come to be #and seeing them #and just knowing: this could happen to you #like ok of couse i expect monsters such as the darkspawn to just straight up kill me #but you don't expect them to take these women hostages #and torture and violate them until they are twisted into something horrific #that only serves to birth more darkspawn #and the idea that were you not a warden #who can sense them #who is trained to fight and survive them #that your chances of becoming this would be even more dire #and being a warden is not even a guarantee this won't happen #bc you already have the blight so it's one less step of them turning you #and then we have the quentin #and like sure he was only targetting older women #but the idea that like...there's serial killers out there killing these women #and they have just done this to my mother #who can tell there aren't more who could do this to me #being a woman on itself can be very...horryfing #and then being reminded of that #and not even be able of like expressing that #it's just a

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shadowtraveled · 5 months ago

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is eiza a character from something? all that came up on google was an actress and i dont think shes who youre tagging lol

oh... eiza is. my dnd character. that i'm terminally obsessed with

#ask #anon #they're a half-drow warlock/wizard (hexblade and evocation respectively but the evocation is dunamancy-flavored as a treat) who is currentl #in recovery for all the blights i gave them and also for the effects of their previous (great old one) pact which went exceptionally badly #their hexblade is a dagger that eats the emotional output of its wielder and victims. they have a cat familiar named fwl.#that isn't her real name. she doesn't have to listen to them because the spell wording specifies that a familiar obeys your commands and th #first command they gave her was to take anything they ask for as a request instead. they're extremely reliant on unseen servant.#they're hunting down ancient artifacts tied to an unnamed god.#they're even bi #anyway they ended up inheriting too many of my blights and becoming too similar to me so now i'm like ahh. my relatable idiot baby.#i'd do anything for them #eiza

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hiddenbeks · 5 months ago

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anyway i guess i should finally finish dai. lmao

#i dont even have an inquisitor rn. celyn had that role for some time but i decided she's better off staying with the wardens #(for those who dont know. she's a dao companion oc who joins andrale after broken circle #and after the blight she decides to become a warden for real #and later joins the mage rebellion and goes to the conclave etc etc becomes the inky #but as i said. she stays with the wardens actually. she's also a blood mage and continues avernus' research after he passes away)#oc: celyn #anyway...... im thinking qunari mage...... or i could try to bring back my very first inky.... i think her name was athara or athera #or maybe human mage. one of the more basic choices sure whatever but #the thing abt dai is that it forces u into a box where its just so frustrating to play as anything other than andrastian human #especially if u play an elf <3 rly hate that dai's writing shits on elves at every opportunity #i hope datv does some damage control on that at least #so anywayyyy idk what if i made a human mage who totally idolizes frida and wants to be a beacon of change like her #and then actually gets the opportunity to do just that as the inquisitor.. hm......#hmm ok according to the wiki trevelyans are 'noted for their piety and connections within the chantry and the templar order'#'younger members of the family are often expected to follow a career in service of the chantry'#HMMM also 'the trevelyans might also maintain a relationship with the montilyet family of antiva'#alright so conflict between family duties and personal views + josephine childhood friends to lovers romance upon my new inky 🫵

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msommers · 10 months ago

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the thing is that i let myself fully sit in the weight of riya's emotions during the "i'm going to make you proud" moment with her mom and that's what killed me

#killed me (see: made me cry a bit)#sometimes you get too deep and it's like oh yeah. that's years of feeling like you've disappointed your mother w your life choices/love lif #+ the knowledge that you're responsible for decades of her hard work in business coming undone #+ the shame of your family having to move you thru the gd shadows to keep your visit a secret #+ the crushing weight of knowing she may never see her (or her other family) again after leaving #like she's smiling as she says that but it's w a trail of tears down her cheek #& 20+ years worth of mom having high expectations‚ and hoping she's finally met at least one of them in the last months #& just maybe she'll get to become better and better in priscilla's eyes w time if the blight doesn't take her first #campaign: the vigilant #ch: valeriya de clairmont

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antihibikase-archive · 2 years ago

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Do not be fooled by his black attire, he’s actually a healer of the kingdom. That, and his perpetual scowl make it almost impossible for anyone to just approach him.. unless they’re little kids, who just so happen to like him.

Anyway, here’s “The Heart”, aka probably Cheren Slater in a past life!

Despite not necessarily being the best healer ever, his role in the story of the twins is a massive one, yet, some versions of the story omit his existence entirely due to unsavory factors associated with his death.

Initially a scholar like one of his childhood friends, who would go on to become “The Scholar” in the Hero of Truth’s story, he suddenly stopped his studies and was requested to become a healer for the palace, mainly to keep the twin princes in check.

Speaking of twin princes, he is one of the few people who is in good relations with both of them and their accompanying parties. Perhaps this is why becomes a treasure to them both, even if its clear he somewhat favors the older prince more.

His apparent lack of aptitude for “magic” (aka he had a weak aura) made it impossible for him to bond with certain Pokemon that scholars were recommended to use, so.. he became the world’s most unapproachable healer!

He has his own personal issues because he believes he’s unable to bond with Pokemon. He gets along well with the older prince’s Volcarona and the Tirtouga he takes care of.

The staff he carries around doesn’t automatically heal people through magic, as those from the future may think. They’re stuffed with herbs and berries. Somehow, hitting people with it works half the time.

Might as well be the royal advisor, with how often he gives out advice to both the princes, especially the older twin.

His family did not come from Unova initially, so he’s sensitive to the colder climate. He’s also more drawn to the sea.

At some point during his journey, a red string around his finger was spotted. That same red string remains on his person even after his death, as the Hero of Truth insisted. That red string was rumored to be a gift from the Hero of Truth, when they were traveling together.

The events surrounding his death are vague, but its implied he was killed during a battle between the two princes at the end of their journey, in which they wanted to prove which one was worthy of obtaining the power of the legendary dragon.

In truth, this story is false; while it is true that the princes started to argue over the throne, the dragon, and over truths and ideals, The Heart was killed in the process of the dragon splitting into two, taking his life in exchange for giving birth to Reshiram and Zekrom.

Due to his fondness for the sea, and his beloved Tirtouga passing away in his arms out of heartbreak for his own death, he was buried in a temple in the sea, and his death caused the twins and their respective dragons to refuse the throne.

Since the dragons were considered divine, his death and existence are sometimes omitted in some versions of the story in an attempt to make the heroes look faultless.

On a winter night with a full moon, it is said that the spirit of The Heart can be seen walking on the shores of Undella Bay, looking for his beloved Tirtouga and calling out for his prince.

#Pokemon #Pokemon Black and White #Pokemon Black and White 2 #Rival Cheren #Gym Leader Cheren #My Art #((He has elements of.. both designs so))#((OH and his ahoge and backhair are outwards compared to Slater's usual inwards ones))#((The Heart and The Hero of Truth suffer from the 'and they were best friends' phenomenon in the story))#((Aka they were probably gay and history tried to remove the implications))#((Like come on. The red string was on his ring finger.))#((The Hero of Truth was BEYOND devastated when he passed))#((And there are rumors about ghosts in both the Relic Castle and Abyssal Ruins??))#((They are GAY and looking for each other))#((Anyway The Heart is like Slater except with much less emotional baggage considering-))#((-he sadly passed away before he realized his life was going to become a sacrifice for the dragons.))#((A fact that would have broken him anyway since he was taken out of the path he wanted to serve the princes.))#((Which he grew to love anyway since he was close friends with both but. You Know))#((The lack of agency))#BW/BW2 Rewrite - Blur / Blight

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talentforlying · 10 months ago

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tommy: john? constantine: mm? tommy: he had your laugh.

the way this almost made me cry just now, like!! the family man looking like john's father (who john resembles) and reminding john of himself, the demon constantine being his own double, the tulpa of the happiest possible version of himself who still turned out to be a raging monster — his scariest enemies keep ending up being versions of him.

his greatest fear is becoming a monster and he keeps coming up against that fear again and again and again. no wonder he avoids his own eyes when he looks in the mirror.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#there's that one new 52 comic where he met an alternate version of himself who was practically the golden boy w/o the og connotations #a version of himself who lived his life beautifully. whose mother lived. whose father was kind. who was still with kit ryan.#and he killed that version of himself in order to return to his own universe #and i can't help but wonder if he would have killed his alternate self anyway. even if it Wasn't necessary to his survival #because as spurrier's run has shown: even the happiest version of himself is a bastard beyond redemption #and that is all john will ever see in himself. someone who blights existence by his very breath #he'll never fully recognize that it is the mistakes he's made in this life that have shaped him into the best possible version of him #warts and all. failures and all. rage and grief and loss and unhealthy coping mechanisms and all.#he'll never understand that his most feared enemies look like him bc they TERRIFY him. not because they're INEVITABLE #he would do ANYTHING to avoid becoming like the family man. like the tulpa. Any. Fucking. Thing.#splits me down the fucking middle knowing he can't see that in himself #anyway it's FINE i'm FINE #( character study. ) A WALKING PLAGUE OF A MAN.#( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.

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