#d2

[the-light-finds-its-way]

Y'ALL FUCKIN GET IT!!!! /GEN

I feel like Empress Caiatl doesn't get NEARLY the amount of love she deserves. She's my big sister. She's my homegirl. She's the best friend type who found us as Guardians and MADE HERSELF OUR FRIEND BY FORCE and by the Traveler she needs friends. And to hell if I won't be there as one for her.

[alfheimr]

you feel real to me.

[tarakanpaintedpurple]

The Witness is reeeeally lucky there was no wind inside the Traveller

[circesoracle]

Destiny 2 is a silly little looter shooter but also its a story about love and it did matter and continues to matter at every turn. Destiny 2 is the opposite of that post about the love being there but not changing anything. the love is there and it changes everything. we succeed because Elsie tells her sister that she's there and she loves her and she trusts her and she won't leave again. we get Mara back because Shuro Chi loved her. we defeat Savathun because she cares, because she feels betrayed, because she feels her sisters were betrayed with her and that care and love blinds her. we live because Mara learns to open herself up to love and refuses to walk away from her brother again and turns back for him this time. we win because Eramis loves her people too much to fully buy into the Witness and we win because Eido believes there's good in everyone and refuses to live in a world where people can't change. we win because Taranis loved Riven and their children and defied his own nature and starved himself to give them that love. we win because Rasputin loves humanity so much even though he was never meant to because Ana loved him so much she taught him every beautiful thing she knew. we win because despite their differences Ikora loves Zavala and Zavala loves Ikora and they couldn't live without each other. we win because Eris loved her fireteam too much to let phantoms of them ruin that love and she lived because Brya loved her enough to give her one last chance. we win because our ghost loves us. just because he loves us so much. and because we love him. and because Cayde loves Sundance and wants to spend eternity with her. we win because at every turn the characters choose to love and trust and forgive.

[vanade]

one of these onslaught bounties is not like the others...

[electric-blue24]

I’ve always wanted to do a saint 14 cosplay but futuristic just isn’t my style, then I saw @monstyra ‘s knight saint au and now I have some ideas for next pax >:)

[squibposting]

Destiny is becoming realer by the second

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Bettie Page

[salted-fox-musings]

Slams back another mug of coffee. Ghosts that constantly check on their newly risen partners constantly because:

1: Holy shit they actually found their guardian and they cannot contain themselves. 2: Holy shit there is a lot more that goes into keeping one of these fuckers alive than you'd think.

[mintleflower]

I think it's fitting to post this with the release of Echoes ???

[tivs-stuff]

Destiny 2 | What is a Guardian? "Are we gods? We are connected to the weft and weave of the universe. No one knows how long we live. We stand alongside those without our gifts. We know intimatley their lifespans, their mortality, despite their resilience. Mortals live more intensley than any Guardian I've known, love harder perhaps. They know tomorrow is never guaranteed, that everything they could become dies with them. So, are we protectors? Our gifts were meant to defend against impossible threats. Those who need us have never needed us more, but we could do nothing and they would still die. What is a Guardian in that moment? Now across Last City territory, the forces of The Witness surge. Our borders are under siege. Does that make us soldiers? Pushing back buys us only time, but the alternative is unthinkable. We built a city none of us dared to dream of, with allies from unlikeley places. We have never had more to lose. I turn the question to you on the eve of our darkest hour. What is a Guardian? Define us in this moment for all time." - Ikora Rey

[alfheimr]

i tore open time for you.

[tarakanpaintedpurple]

Ok so a bit of a backstory

Two people in my clan found out how to push Crota off the balcony, so that you won’t have to do the damage phase, and started to offer their “pushing services” to my other clanmates. They did it for a day or two, and today one of them sent the first screenshot to general, quoting “he won’t come down”

I came through with this

[adventuresofchip]

I tore open time for you.

[vanade]

sound idea tbh

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

I love it when Destiny takes time to show the smaller moments of the universe.

Eido nerding out over preserving culture, people celebrating the Festival of the Lost, baking cookies when the temperature drops, Zavala knitting, Osiris and Saint being tender, random guardians and their friends that we might never get another lore entry on, guardians who we get a handful of lore entries for their shenanigans, conversations about beliefs between characters we know and love, and so, so much more.

In the face of tremendous loss and pain, there are always moments of unconquerable joy and love, even if they are brief. Love can be found in every tale, every crevice, and every event in Destiny despite despairing circumstances and it wins. Maybe not immediately, maybe long after the lovers have perished to their situations, but it always triumphs. It’s seeds always burst through an inhospitable soil to grow into the shade others will lay under, resting their heads upon a person they would propagate a whole forest for.

It is the small moments like finding unlikely companions, enjoying a deeply brewed tea, or collecting candy on holidays that keeps people fighting for the ability to experience such delights.

Destiny is about a universe of people who will choose to survive and endure no matter the cost. It is the assuring sight of different species of children playing in the streets of the Last City that people will suffer time and time again to protect. It is the thought that there will always be a precious experience in life awaiting in the future that makes people want to even keep the very POSSIBILITY of suffering.

Eris has saved the universe to bring justice to her fireteam, protect humanity, and save the ones she loves like Ikora, Mara, and Drifter. That is enough.

Misraaks has helped us in our endeavors to protect Sol for his people and Eido, to see them prosper and grow. That is enough.

Some guardians may fight just to bring in enough glimmer to enjoy a drink at a tavern. That is enough.

Some people right after the Collapse may have continued on because they didn’t know what else to do, they didn’t know why they had it in their spirit to continue on upon a charred Earth. That is enough.

These are all enough to warrant the continuation of a universe that allows for these possibilities. These are enough and more to fight for with bleeding callouses and busted knuckles.

It is moments so fleeting and small that leave such an impression on us that we will fight against odds so enduring and large. We fight for justice, for hope, for good food, for the smell of blossoms in Spring.

We will do it over and over again for it is our right to determine our fates, no matter the indifference we receive from the universe itself and no matter the wants of those who equate the small to be inconsequential.