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rarepairnation · 10 months ago

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im feeling FERAL tonight and i feel the need to elabourate. well denethor lives au navigating aragorn's return to minas tirith specifically regarding the. situationship. i wrote a post about this literally a month and a half ago and let it disappear into my drafts because i wasnt brave enough to post it for real but ive grown and changed. or something. maybe for the worse LOL anyway the thesis statement is truly. aragorn: well i don't think more gay sex can fix him now but i might as well give it ANOTHER good college try. denethor: well he IS still hot and i AM mad about it i GUESS we have to make out about it. well the real thesis statement is that well what happens when you see your ex-situationship after FORTY YEARS and A WAR have passed and he’s waltzing back into your life to claim the throne you denied him when you were thirty and he’s not even going to be good at the job. so you can have it, and the consequences too. condolences, congratulations. your majesty. i just they are so different and there is so much spite and resentment and political strife that separates them and there is no reason to make it any more complicated AND YET. they see each other and too much is still the same. and what if they both made the bad decision<333

more chatter under the cut bc u know i love to talk

- idk if i can put it in the au because i have a complex about it. like the au is my big serious project and if everyone isn't in character along the lines of my Main Interpretation of them ive fucked it up. but i also love myself. so in THIS particular timeline denethor rides either onto the pelennor to meet aragorn with the armies of the dead, or to the black gate with the army of gondor. or both if im really feeling spicy. i just the idea of the first time aragorn sees him in forty years being as The Steward Arrayed For War...........delicious.

- and that being immediately followed by aragorn walking into the throne room for the first time and seeing denethor out of All Of That for the second first time and realizing abruptly the toll that all these years have taken. the toll that they haven't, not really, taken on aragorn himself. i want it to trigger a guilt complex SO BAD. like. i had the choice to leave and he didn’t and i knew he wouldn’t have come if id asked (and he asked me to stay (he didn’t but he did) and i didn’t). i want him to pity him and denethor to know it and want to fucking kill him about it. you RAN and left me ALONE to fight this unwinnable fight and now you think you’re at a ground high enough to pity me from? just because you’re waltzing back in here with your legendary sword? go fuck yourself because im certainly not doing it (lying).

- and don’t even get me STARTED on the psychic aspect of it. denethor has always been powerful and known it and wielded it. but when aragorn touches his mind - by instinct, maybe, because that was what they always did, that was always their secret dimension of their relationship and he doesn’t even pause to think - oh, the shock and the horror. oh its so bad. for him. to expect a soft place to land (probably never that soft at all. but there was a certain level of familiarity) and encounter a blade…and for his first thought to be “what have you done to yourself”…..girl its crazy. and the natural response. “what was needed. unlike you.” prime time for a “you’ve aged, lord steward”/“you left, your majesty” moment if im being so honest. which is really just a disguise for “what happened to you”/“you happened, and you left, and i’ve beEN PICKING UP THE PIECES OF THE MESS YOU MAAADE”

- denethor knowing that he is much better suited for the lordship of gondor than aragorn is but! this is the will of the people in the wake of the war! and that is one thing he Will acquiesce to! he’s got the legal right to deny him but the consequences of that might be ruinous. so he looks at aragorn and goes, this is what you wanted the whole time wasn’t it? the throne. even forty years ago you had it in your mind while you played my loyal second for my father’s favour. then here. you can have it, and the consequences too. condolences, congratulations. your majesty. yeah i said this already but it was THEE image that captured my mind when you mentioned that lyric.

- an addendum to the previous point: the way that they argue has NOT changed even though they haven’t seen each other for forty years it is still as singleminded and vitriolic and homoerotic as it ever was and not a single other person in the room exists when they really get into it. denethor ONLY calls aragorn your majesty in an unapologetically spiteful and also horny way. he DOES think it’s hot and DOES hate himself a bit for thinking it.

- except he also thinks about their incredibly high-functioning military and political partnership and how no one else in all of gondor has ever been able to match that for him and thinks that perhaps…this steward-king relationship might not all be lost. perhaps, as he had thought all those years ago, aragorn could be a powerful weapon in his hand, if only he could put him there. (and maybe he looks at him and in a secret part of himself thinks, well, i missed you.)

anna you mentioned condolences congratulations the mountain goats the other day and i just want you to know it awakened the world's craziest idea inside of me and i MIGHT be stealing it (give or take 12 business months. well the novel. that the au is)

the way I Would Love To See This....... abby i am sending u my strongest energies

#anna…sorry about these thousand words. i just felt possessed and thought u my fellow fic talker would understand…#gondor's finest situationship #condolences congratulations

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enniewritesathing · 9 days ago

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commentary (or a/n) #i lost count

honestly should just call it A/n but I'm truly showing my age there, lol.

So, the big update is done. The Incident is clarified, expanded on, etc. Some shocking developments and a twist or two. Lots of things happened. I'll try and break it down part by part, see how that goes.

Parallel

First thing's first: yes, that motherfucker is a vampire but in a very loose sense. You may think "Ennie, the fuck you mean?" There are clues everywhere! Like look at him! The vibes were rancid this whole time! The most recent foreshadowing aside from his blood smelling different from everyone else's (described as rotten and old), is that Charles' voice had a second tone to it. Undetectable by human ears... except Vin's.

I say in the loose sense bc he microdosed this benefactor's blood. Just enough for him to stop being sick and have very little vampire side effects. The side effects were being sensitive to sun (but not burned), not requiring much sleep, don't have to eat... the real subtle shit. However, he never really had the urge for feeding on blood.

...BUT it totally puts this pic in a new light:

Do you think that if Bernard wasn't there... that he'd lick Vin's blood off that knife? Makes you think. (yes. absolutely. look how he's holding that knife. if you thought that part was 'was he--? yes. in a metaphorical sense.)

Anyway, I didn't get into what disease/malady he had but it drove him to become a vampire* to get rid of it. He did -- and went on to become a well-respected doctor that specialized in... uncommon/rare diseases and shit like that for humans and occults. Even dispelled myths. Sure, his methods were... unethical to say the least, but it got results.

Yeah.

He did discover that little John (who I think was 11 when Vin awakened) was a werewolf and lied to him about what that meant -- that he had to somehow get rid of Vin before it would be too late.

You may also remember that vampires have various degrees of the power of suggestion/manipulating by the tone in their voice, so it was very easy to keep it going for as long as it did. (This was for everyone involved, not just John.)

Keep that in mind.

Naturally, Charles did the whole 'we're not so different, you and I' thing' which Vin does call him out on.

... Charles was like 'no yeah, you're right but I was on a power trip and maybe I was a little horny about it'. Chat: he was a lot of honry about it.

“Call it torture if you like. I had to know what I was dealing with. Perhaps I became drunk with power when I was granted the responsibility, but fact of the matter is I was excited. Excited at what you were capable of… for what it’s worth, you never let me down.”

BRUH LMAO. I wrote this down and I stared at it with this amount of disgust. If you remember what part that pic came from, this is also the part where Bernard thinks to himself that Charles is a sick fuck and brother (neutral), he was right.

The audacity Charles has after Vin threatens to kill him there, to turn that shit on him and say "look what you did" and y'know. For a few moments, he got to Vin.

This is where he fucked up -- he made Vin cry, but not for the reason you think.

Vin (and John) is an angry cryer. He is so angry, the absolute balls for Charles to call him a monster? No, sir.

Vin points out that the bullet wound Charles got earlier is healed up. This is why Charles wasn't too upset -- he has a healing factor... that's just enough.

Just enough. Charles is shook (literally, I did gifs and I'm very proud) by what Vin says to him and tries to weasel out of it.

Vin also calls him out that he didn't kill them but Charles did on the account of his manipulation and his pride that he wouldn't accept failure to get rid/even kill Vin.

“No. You don’t deserve mercy. You don’t deserve to live. Go to Hell.” is a line I've had since the very beginning of the idea of this story. Maybe as far back as I did the Incident. Then Vin's final words to Charles is, "Fuck you."

I was gonna go a different way with it with Vin yelling it before he closes in on Charles, but I thought him saying it quietly/firmly made it more dramatic. Almost as if he was weary...

Vin could've just offed Charles but no, he actually listened and obviously... y'know. He know someone like that needed to die a slow, painful, torturous and horrible death. What he deserved.

Asunder

AND BOY HOWDY, MY FAVORITE PART TO MAKE! I did the goddamn most with his part and I'm a little sad that, despite the content, you can't help to admire the work I put into this. I don't think I know of anything on simblr that matches this vibe. I just don't. It's bloody, it's raw, it's the culmination of what Vin was put through by Charles. Roughly 14 years of pent up Wrath. He made good on his promise. (lowkey another favorite part).

A little behind the scenes. Because this was me basically doing a near 1:1 of the Incident but I have a bunch more CC and I can pull off the ideas, I had to do something about this part to really enhance this part. I had to get creative -- so I found some corpse/dead body CC made by natalie-auditore (which *mwah*) and a detached head bc why not... but there were no pile of guts that I could use.

Which I think someone would've made by now, no matter how niche. I got to thinking on how fucked up Charles' body was gonna be. I took to using Procreate to draw claw marks and bite marks (and looking for brushes to imitate it) but it didn't quite hit. It wasn't vicious enough.

So I drew in a BIG hole where his stomach/intestines/etc should have been. A big whole cavernous space where there's nothing in there. What about the guts? They're somewhere way outside of Charles' body. Then I thought, we're getting there and then I had the idea of his head just fucking missing. Vin tore it off and yeeted it somewhere.

There's blood everywhere and all over Vin. He is just a goddamn mess. It's even in his hair, chat.

Another thing I thought after making the decision to not have words, what could I do to show that there's nothing except Vin breathing?

I tested it with Photomosh Pro and gone through the effects and landed on one/tweaked it to make it look like he was. It was just gonna be just one pic, but I said, fuck it, every pic he's in, he's just breathing.

It's scary, it's bloody, it's raw. I know I said it earlier but I'm saying it again. This is Vin at his most feral, "monster."

Hey, remember when Vin told those two behind the window not to come in or else they're gonna die? One of them went in anyway and got domed in the forehead by Charles.

WELL GUESS WHO LISTENED?

THAT'S RIGHT, THE SMARTEST MFER IN THE WHOLE STORY, MARK

Mark is the only one to survive because he wasn't in the room. Luigi wins by doing nothing!

Though you can tell Vin wasn't gonna do shit even if the guards were there. He has his reasons.

I do like how he looks like a dog guarding whatever when Mark came bursting in.

I made the guards less goofy looking finding the CC outfits (had to lightly edit them)... in the Incident, they used some costumes from Get Famous... it was so unserious, lol.

Vin's tired, he's a hot mess. He even tells Mark that he has no intention to harm him, nor does he want to. He just wants to leave. And he does. His voice is very quiet the whole time.

Yall think that this lab was just sealed up because dealing with the sheer mess of it is just. Nah?

I never did say where this lab was in particular but it is very underground, which explains why it took Mark so long to get back to where he was. It's 20 minutes one way.

YES I DONT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT MANY RIGS AGAIN

also good riddance to Charles... holy shit, what a slimeball.

on the other hand... yeah, I had a time writing his whole deal on the fact that I've never done it before (or at least didn't go full tilt).

this was also a part that I held back on when I did the Incident despite my lack of CC. The whole thing really, but this especially. I was concerned about scaring the hoes (positive) back then. Not like it worked because I averaged a literal 5 notes across the whole thing.

this time im like 'it's time to get scorny.'

Cleanse

There wasn't gonna be dialogue in this either as... what would Vin even think about?

I made these into gifs but I had a time getting the steam for the vfx (they are the steam from woohooing in the sauna i believe, which is why those shots were tight).

I had another pose I was gonna use of him sitting at the bottom of the shower but there was no way I could get around not showing his business. So he's doing the ol angst shower.

That water is scalding, btw but obviously, Vin doesn't care.

That shower must've felt so good though.

Admonitory

I had to re-use the hospital lot I had for catharsis, but thankfully it has many rooms I can use/redecorate.

I had to figure out what Vin's clean look would be. I also wanted to have visual continuity with his hair being wet/damp and thankfully I had some that fits him. (that said i have no idea what his hair texture is lmao). It's honestly a good look.

Here's another part that is important overall -- Vin talking to Mark about what's next in general. How is this gonna be covered up and the like.

This is a callback (Call forward?) to Part 8 of the The Werewolf story (why did I name it that ugh). I can say though that what was given there were the only copies -- and how John and Brian found out what happened. (John specifically, and the catalyst of him finally accepting Vin.)

but back to the past; getting ahead of myself

this part was more or less straight forward in Mark explaining everyone elses' motivation

I can say -- MAN STUDENT LOANS IS A REAL KILLER HUH

Mark also admits to Vin that since that day Vin started to wake up, he just noped the fuck right out. That's why you didn't see him until the beginning of the Incident. At least someone had some self-preservation.

Earlier in the story, he lost to Jordan at rock paper scissors... but that night, he won so he didn't have to be in the lab. Whew.

that and Jordan telling him it's okay to be selfish every now and then... 🤔

Soul

alright, this is another dialouge-less part; just vibes, and honestly the one post I thought would at least get an RB or 2 but... I'll with-hold my general frustrations and save it for later.

it even has a SONG INSERT like come on... I put a lot of thought into it.

Anyway, there is an effect that I had in mind -- Vin didn't really know what Brian looked like which is why he looked like that (from his perspective.), but he sensed that he was gentle.

There's a lot to say (or maybe not). John's dead yet he thought of Brian at the very wnd. It can also be viewed as sort of the whole 'having a piece of a loved one's soul' for comfort. Brian's not exactly guarding John from Vin. It's more like 'ah, you're hear to get him; that's fine'.

...this had an Effect on Vin that I don't think he knew at the time.

Departure

The setting whiplash lol.

This part is important bc it contextualizes why Vin was absent for 2 years after the Incident -- to heal the damage from the trial. It was extensive but luckily the healing factor wasn't totally destroyed.

(this may explain why John gets chest/heart pains when it's time to turn, that it's residuals from that night. idk, I haven't decided why it happens but it could be one of those hidden physical changes as well. He just know that shit hurts and he has to lay down until the time comes. on top of that damn fever.)

Vin knew that he had a time limit in what he needed to get done. I made some subtle hints at this while he was wilding out that he was not 100%. He also knew that he had a time limit with talking to John before he left.

Despite everything what happened, Vin's not hostile to John, like at all. Maybe it's the situation itself that that's not called for. Earlier, he was (rightly) angry at him for being stubborn.

When Vin said that John's not going to remember what happened... just what does that mean? I feel its clear that Vin is the one to remember everything... and that he wouldn't lie either. He's not the sort to.

so what does this mean for John? Something to think about.

If an emotion is strong enough, it will affect the other. I sound like a broken record but, keep that in mind lol.

Pyhrric

he got everything done, but at what cost? Vin didn't get time to really let everything sink in.

There was another shot I wanted to use with him just passing out, but it came out a little too goofy.

Not much of what I can say here other than shoutouts to the wallpaper/floor CC I downloaded on a whim to make everything pitch black. makes it very easy for PS stuff too.

Brew

AND WE'RE BACK IN THE 'PRESENT'.

It's been so long that we've last seen John himself, lol. It's odd, really.

Speaking of, John's reaction to what had actually happened that night; he's gonna be processing that for a minute. Or the fact that Charles was revealed to be a vampire*, which makes some prior shit to him a lot of sense (but talked about later, I promise.)

That said, they are a thing in my setting but I haven't elaborated on them in general. I just know that Vin will clock one just by hearing their voice (they have a ~compelling~ tone that may mix into their words.) or otherwise his senses.

It makes total sense for Vin to let Mark live. How else was he gonna get out of the lab in the first place? lol

if you read The Werewolf story, that's how John and Brian got all that shit about Vin; Mark was the contact Brian talked to. He also told Mark if he or anyone else get near John/Vin again, he will kill them.

Brian's not joking, btw. Wouldn't take much for that little twerp.

The part of him needed to be a story, that makes sense, how some people use monsters as a cautionary tale/night time stories for kids/around the campfire?

Anyway, Vin accuses John of hiding behind his amnesia this whole ass time -- the main side effect from the experiments and whatnot that was done. But to what degree? And what if John remembers...?

love how Vin dodged the question prior to that but don't think John didn't catch that

in any case, the elephant that snuck into the room during all of this is going to be addressed. Vin confronting John, years in the making. The thing is that John knew it was gonna happen eventually. He's not beating the allegations here.

Maybe John is hiding something from Vin. Now's the time to address his own role in this as well bc Vin will want answers. I don't think he's that innocent. I would say up to a point but that's all I can give out.

There's gonna be words. Maybe some hands will be thrown. (but how much idk bc I gotta pose that shit out lol)

#my commentary #spoilers #(obviously)#i dont know what tag i used #ennie discusses a thing #lot of words but i had a lot of thoughts and such #could be more i can come up with #a text post #non sims #long post #i know no one's gonna read all of this but would be cool #i can only talk about this so much by myself #real 'congratulations or my condolences but i'm not reading all of that' energy

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