#cool lady with sword

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

vaggie, miss "im not used to fighting with long hair" who's out of practice actually battling someone or really stabbing ppl...

...still had the arm and hand strength, the REFLEXES, to do a bare handed blade catch on a SWORD, who's user had been doing an aerial dive with it aimed at vaggie's FACE

then sling around and THROW her opponent with it

i know she wants a peaceful-ish life with charlie, but i really wouldn't mind seeing her getting into just a FEW more fights >:D

also also side note: carmilla was able to eff her up earlier so easily bc vaggie fought like an exorcist, no thought to getting hurt or personal defense, the headspace of 'i can't get killed! wheee! DIE DIE DIE' that got that other exorcist killed

and the main advice vaggie got from carmilla was take advantage of that sure, but first and more importantly, defend yourself better

which kinda plays into the whole "be out for love thing" too

aka the fight isn't important, it's what you're fighting to still have Afterwards that matters- the people you love, having a life with them

(the hotel, the hazbins, charlie)

carmilla doesn't send vaggie off with a 'you're ready to go kill angels'. she's only satisfied and ends their little lesson / sparring match when she can say "you might just survive this"

feels like she wasn't teaching vaggie to take out angels. she was reminding her and showing her how NOT to get KILLED

so it's just so nice seeing vaggie blocking, dodging, and grappling lute later. how good she is at focusing on avoiding or neutralizing those attacks aimed at her. how Seriously she takes them

binding lute's both lute's arms and wedging them into her own body so lute's sword CAN'T be angled towards her

the way this shot emphasis's the THREAT of the sword hanging over vaggie

and how her flash-fast recovery and block shows she's READY for it

dodging, not attacking

she's not in this for blood or vengeance, this lady is trying to stay the fuck alive. she's got things and people to live for

things like the idea of mercy. that thing both her and charlie show their enemies, people who came down to hell for murder and spent this fight trying to kill them and got damn close to doing it.

and sure there's a pretty big tone difference between charlie's "Whoa whoa dad. He's had enough" and vaggie's "No, live. Live knowing that you only do because I let you" but both end at the same place, with someone who hates them still getting a second chance

(UNLESS ITS NIFFTY WITH THE ANGELIC BLAAADE)

and vaggie wants that second chance too. she wants a life with charlie, and fights hard so she can stick around for it

epic fail, lute... have you considered getting a hobby...?

[spectre-draws]

[blessyouhawkeye]

absolutely obsessed with the posters for this korean staging of macbeth

[alkiores]

Lady of the Lake for the set of postcards based on the Arthurian legends.

[dr3adlady]

GRRM: I don't really get why women are crazy about Sandor Clegane *evil laugh* *wink wink*

Also GRRM:

[sporadicinked]

[vertigoartgore]

2022's Captain Britain/Betsy Braddock commission by Ivan Reis.

[romancemedia]

Anime Couples 3

[buttercup-art]

hey

[musicfromtheceiling]

Did you know? I'm doing Artfight this year and i'm ready to scuffle ⚔️

Here is Erell for captainM Come and attack me! https://artfight.net/~leavt

[queer-ragnelle]

Linet of Lyonesse / Sword of the Valiant (1984)

[dynamitekansai]

utami0914: 私の愛したSTARDOM 私の全てでしたQueen's Quset 愛してます ありがとうございました

[mast3r-rainb0w]

[C] 'MY' Style: Executioner Neo (Biobond AU) [OC] by Mast3r-Rainb0w

A commission I made via DeviantArt, featuring a cool original character/OC in dragon-themed armor, and with red pair of energy wings, balancing scales, and an energy sword!

[pocketgalaxies]

the whooping and hollering i was doing yesterday when i started to understand the mechanics of transistor

[sporadicinked]

[pb-dot]

So I've been testing out that there Metaphor Refantazio a bit. The gameplay is fun, the devs clearly liked taking the parts they liked out of the Persona games and go for polish rather than having a million demons because every single one of them is somebody's favorite (Ok, maybe not Slime or Preta but they kinda have to be there.)

Storywise? Well, it's JRPG fantasy, so everything is pretty transparently about racism, and while I am not crazy about that, at least there's no slavery going on (yet.) The game does have this thing where the main character reads a "fantasy novel" about the real world, a world without the local variant of racism, so it sounds much better, but I guess (desperately pray on bloodied knees, really) that they'll end up nuancing that a bit eventually.

It's also kind of wild that the Magically Gifted Yet Strangely Ineffectual King that gets murdered at the start of the game kind of comes back to life as some instrument of fate, and instead of absolutely grinding the man who killed him into paste goes "let's do some DEMOCRACY y'all (about who will be autocrat from now on)," but I guess that's one way to get a plot started.