#children of destiny

[inesqueen]

‘’Will he bite me, Lord Robb?’’

Lord Robb, he tasted the words. Why does the way she said it sound as an insult and an invitation at the same time? ‘’Greywind don’t hurt people who don’t deserve to be hurt’’, he answered, trying to sound unaffected by her. 

‘’That’s alright then. Come here, Greywind’’, she said and snapped her fingers. Suspiciously, the direwolf approached and put its face on the palm of her hand. ‘’See, your dog likes me. He just wanted me to be his friend’’, she affirmed while stroking its head. 

‘’Greywind is not a dog. He is a direwolf’’

‘’A big dog, if you prefer’’. 

They stared at each other's eyes for a considerable amount of time. Long enough to make a maiden blush and a septa fear for his young lady’s honor.  Robb never thought he would find kindness and playfulness in a Targaryen. 

Rhaenys Targaryen and Robb Stark in Children of Destiny - chapter 06

[aweekoftodays]

What's that you got on your shoulder?

[braininatankwithalaptop]

God, I just, the princesses plan makes me repeatedly think of a tactic for the pcs to convince them it's foolish. It's just two different versions of the same scene.

Mother Goose goes to the princesses and asks to help them figure out how "terrestrial ink" works before they start working with the reality altering kind. And then as Mother Goose is basically running them through a writing workshop (with probably many jokes from the comedy writers in LA from NYC), he makes the point about how the "arthurs" won't be stopped by destroying everything, they can just make it again. There are so many different points Mother Goose can make about the nature of storytelling and what is needed to know and what is needed to be done to be satisfied.

But after seeing the preview of the next episode, I highly doubt it'll happen.

One can dream though . . . or write fanfiction

[the-gom-jabbar]

Dune but if Paul and Feyd actually act their age:

[stormingfrost]

Kinda obsessed with the historical context of Rise of the Guardians. Pitch wanting the Dark Ages to come back, which historically was the decline of culture and records. The Guardians rose at the same time as the Renaissance with the rise of culture, knowledge, and science. (Tooth in particular mentions that she hasn’t been out in the field for 440 years, give or take, which would put that smack dab in the middle of the Renaissance) 

The way Pitch doesn’t want the world to change, the way the Guardians change in tune with the world. The way Jack, who lived in has a human in the 17th or 18th century, who lived in the time after the Renaissance and lived witnessing the world all the way to the modern era, is there to show the Guardians how much they missed and how they can further change and improve for the more modern world. These characters are immortal beings who have so much power over the world, it makes so much sense that when they fall and rise in power it impacts the world that they want to influence, for better or for worse. 

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

@flowers-of-io told me that Oryx called the Traveler a huckster one time and I immediately ran to (poorly) make this

[box-dwelling]

Honestly i love that destinys children genrally is pretty low chasima but try to make up for it by having a high charisma face, the only issue being that said face is played by Lou Wilson a man cursed with a never ending dedication to the bit that means he ends up saying stuff so wild that a high charisma character could never roll high enough to not let his antics cause complete chaos

[speakofcompersion]

Minho's never-ending love for children 😖💕

[karekuat]

But can your kid do THIS-

[starrduzt]

the heart hotel siblings, my sweet sweet children

close ups!!

TW FLASHING GIF

[crispy0nion]

May I interest you in some assorted Young Wolf textposts?

First picture: Guardian by @glitch-andromeda

Second picture: Pyre-19 by @microraptorreactor

Third picture: Nelan by @brittleskyblue

Fourth picture: Aeris by @ahamkara-apologist

Fifth picture: Lilith-1 by @roxygobyebye

Sixth picture: Quinni by @xavathun

Seventh picture: Ash by me :)

Eight picture: Tahuir by @aikastarr

Ninth picture: Neya by @lightbearers-journal

Tenth picture: Ash by me (again)

(i love all of them they are so beautiful. i love humanity's innate want to create and tell stories. weeps)

[inesqueen]

''But don't let my sadness interrupt your duty. What Robert sent you for?''

Robert cowardly sent his pawn to threaten me so he won’t need to look inside the eyes of the cruelest sin he committed using the name of love, so he won't need to look inside the eyes of the man he killed on a bank of the Trident. But Eddard Stark is no king and he is no butcher.

''You, Rhaenys. Robert sent me across the Seven Kingdoms because he wants you. And I am the only man he trust blindly for the task''

Rhaenys Targaryen and Ned Stark in Children of Destiny - chapter 01

[ahamkara-apologist]

okay disclaimer: ik that categorizing female characters as the 'mom friend/figure' is a legit disease in fandom caused by general misogynistic views of female characters, and it's something that personally greatly irritates me bc its not only awful to do, it also tends to ruin the characters its put upon. ESPECIALLY in D2, which is outstanding in its cast of strong female characters

however. in the case of Eramis, I do believe that the fact that she was a mother and is a genuinely caring, nurturing person at heart is something that is a deeply important core part of her character, as well as thematically important to the future of the Eliskni moving forward. It's important because in her case, I believe that her motherly inclinations are why, pre-Witness-whispering-through-the-Darkness, Eramis was such a successful kell- because unlike some other kells who sought a future for the Eliksni via domination, her main focus for them was to create a haven for her people that could be defended from Lightbearers. Riis-Reborn wasn't something to sniff at- it was the closest thing to an actual Eliksni city in a very long while. What got her was her trauma of the Whirlwind and her desire to destroy the Traveler to level the playing field for everyone involved- trauma that the Witness preyed upon in order to get to us. Like a parasite, seeking its secondary host. Eramis certainly is not the only Eliksni who lost her family during the Whirlwind, but I think that her specific brand of anger is closest to that of a mother lion whose cubs are in danger, and is lashing out in a furious fight-or-flight reflex at anything that she perceives as a threat. It's just that in this case, her 'cubs' were the Eliksni as a whole, and the threat she perceived before the Witness started torturing her was the Traveler.

I also think that her relationship with parenthood also makes for a very interesting character contrast to Misraaks (aka the other successful kell viewed as a source of hope for the Eliksni), and helps to set them up as antiparallels to each other. Eramis was a gentle, nurturing mother with a reverence for the Traveler who turned into the bitter, cunning warrior we see now when she lost access to her wife and children; Misraaks was a fearsome, ruthless pirate before he became a father, which gentled him and turned him towards being more pious. Eramis represents the old ways, and offers hope to the Eliksni who cannot bear to cohabitate with humanity; Misraaks represents a change in the tide, and kells the open-minded Eliksni who are willing to lay down their arms to live among the humans of Sol. Misraaks is of Light (change, forgiveness, moving forward), while Eramis is of Darkness (memory, control, looking back). They're opposites in every way except for the fact that both of them were/are amazing parents, and I'd argue that their ability to nurture and overlook others is what led to their success as kells.

Most importantly, however, is their relationship to Eido, who represents the future of the Eliksni. Misraaks was her father, and he did his best to raise her to be kind and openminded, but he also shielded her from the horrors of the past a little too well. She's outgrown that, and now that she's strong enough to handle said horrors, Eramis has been acting as a mentor to fully introduce her to the tragedy of what she lost and why elder Eliksni are so angry about it- and I don't think that she would have been receptive to Eido attempting to talk to her if it weren't for the fact that under all of her prickly armour, she's still that nurturing person at heart. It's her desire to care for others and to see a better future for her people that has kept her going despite her having no hope for herself, and it's that loving heart that has saved herself and her people from utter destruction at both our hands and Fikrul's- because if she didn't look at eido and go 'oh this child is the future of our people and i must protect her with my life', then both her and the rest of House Salvation would have been marked for death. And now here she is, continuing to care for Eido even as her father declines by telling her stories about Riis and helping her track down an apothecary to try to cure him, despite her not believing in his ways. I don't think it's entirely because she used to be a mother, but...I do think that it's playing a huge role in it.

(I also think it's personally fascinating to see how someone who used to be known for being a doting, sweet mom to her hatchlings and a caring mate to her wife can turn into someone who's a terrifying warrior on the battlefield and a cunning, politically saavy ruler, but even then, that doesn't surprise me all that much- if you've got a dearth of experience wrangling hatchlings, then being kell of a house is basically just wrangling a bunch of grown-up hatchlings. Same principles, just upped a level or two in complexity.)

[nofacednerd]

Finished watching all the time quangle episodes and I love how at the end of the first one, Brennan accidentally makes it canon that the doors close permanently after the characters go through them, trapping them into that dimension forever. Which means that canonically, Arthur Aguefort forgot about this and accidentally trapped several of his own students, some 30 year old mall goth, and pinnochio in Anarch Era Forever because he wanted to go wild at a wedding reception party with them

[saingirl101]

Lou has become the Nat 20 King for NeverAfter

Like seriously the amount of narrative nat 20s he's had is Ally in Unsleeping City level importance.

First he has the Nat 20 to sever his strings from the stepmother.

He rolled that absolutely critical nat 20 to gain insight into how to defeat the Terrible Dogfish.

Then he rolls the nat 20 to save alphonse reuiniting Tim and PIB with their friends and loved ones. Something that i think helps make the situation with the Gander and Baba Yaga tempered a bit as they had some sweetness to the bitter.

Then finally on what is the most critical roll in regards to actually getting what they need from the Baba Yaga, He rolls that Nat 20 to get the 30+ persuasion they need to at least have the Baba Yaga meeting go well.

Lou truly is some channeling some King Shit with The Boy of Destiny.

[islandoforder]

five players utterly unable to talk to other characters and one cat who could get away with all of their bullshit but is always off on a lil wander so he can’t and won’t help them