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tofixtheshadows · 6 months

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So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

#Mithrun #Milsiril #Kabru #btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry #so keep that in mind #like it just seemed WEIRD to me #that gloomy introverted Milsiril #who left the life of a Canary behind #decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy #maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk!#but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice #it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril #I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have #struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective #but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party!#crazy stuff there #everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character

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dark-longings · 5 months

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Mer, Chelsea Wolfe. Zev Deans.

#dark aesthetic #dark art #dark #darkness #goth #dark desires #goth aesthetic #gloomy #occult #dark music #goth queen #chelsea wolfe #goth girl #goth music #ritual #magick #witchcraft #witch

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 7 months

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Vincent Price in a dress - performing for the troops circa 1943.

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tending-the-hearth · 6 months

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thinking about how canonically the pevensie siblings are 13, 12, 10, and 8 in "the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe"

thinking about how lucy needed a stool to be able to get up onto her throne, how peter's sword is a little too large for him, how susan's bow is a little too difficult for her to pull back, how edmund's shield nearly covers his entire body.

thinking about the pevensie siblings and their first few months in narnia, getting to know their new people, and half the narnians sitting there horrified because WHAT have these literal babies been through to give them such traumatized, old eyes, and the other half of the narnians are preparing to adopt them, no it doesn't matter that they're the rules, they're children who are being put in charge of too many things, and if peter looks at the old man council long enough he's going to cry, so someone needs to give him paternal support while aslan is off doing Lion Jesus Stuff™️ and whoops oreius is being nice and encouraging and now he's adopted his kings and queens they're his kids now he doesn't make the rules.

just the narnians and the pevensies being thrown into it together, and just as the pevensies will do anything to protect their new kingdom, the narnians will do anything to protect their rules, because let's be honest, these children have no sense of self-preservation, and are far too overprotective of each other and their people to take into account their own safety, so a lot of battles it's just one of the pevensie siblings running headfirst into danger with oreius running after them because his kids are feral and don't know proper royalty manners and won't threatening old kings from different countries because they're being assholes and the last time one of them tried undermining the queens susan called him a self-righteous asshole and lucy tried to stab him SOMEONE help him corral his children please

#this started off angsty but now i'm giggling #oreius didn't want to adopt the rulers they kind of just... attached to him #and who is he to oppose his kings and queens when lucy gives him her puppy eyes and edmund looks so sad #and peter just needs fatherly advice and susan looks like she could use a good dad hug #he's their adoptive father they make the rules #oreius is trying his best but his four kids are going through puberty and have bonded with every narnian #and it's not like he's opposing lucy's desire to stab rulers who act like they're better than them #but he can't legally encourage regicide #oreius and tumnus trying to corral the pevensies #meanwhile peter's challenging every ruler who tries to make comments about his sisters to a fistfight #edmund's conning the rulers who peter isn't fighting into handing over their kingdom's #susan's verbally destroying half their enemies #and lucy's running around making pacts with nature spirits to haunt the other half of their enemies #i love that canonically lucy is the most feral of the pevensie kids #chronicles of narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #peter pevensie #lucy pevensie #susan pevensie #edmund pevensie #oreius

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atelier-melvalda · 5 months

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The flower girl & the fighter ❤️

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pdouwes · 7 months

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I'm never going back, the past is in the past.

#i have neither money nor time to go back to hamburg but the desire to do so is stronger than ever #queen why do you have to go so hard with this song every time?#sometimes it's okay to do less #willemijn verkaik #frozen #frozen the musical #frozenedit #disneyedit #musicaltheatreedit #musicalgifs #frozen hamburg #elsa #mine #*g #(c) skjonnet

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puluhuzi · 1 year

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by far the scariest part of the candy queen is the magically induced comphet she's going through

#fionna and cake #adventure time #candy queen #real talk I do think the reason she was obsessed with winter king was because she knew #somewhere inside #that he was responsible for everything #she just couldn't remember why she needed to get to him #like how simon's desire for betty to take him back over time slid into just kidnapping princesses

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greenqueenhightower · 2 months

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Rhaenyra clocking Alicent when she talked about her "lover" like that, and her comment "the incorruptible Queen, sullies herself with a lover" are chef's kiss moments in this episode. Rhaenyra is jealous of Alicent but she's also talking about herself because she has done the same with Mysaria. More proof that alicole and rhaesaria are paving the way to rhaenicent for me.

#because they have both fulfilled their desires outside the auspices of their relationship #it's time they do so with each other #and there is so much yearning and pining oh god #“come with me” I'M TOTALLY FINE #rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd season 2 #hotd s2 #house of the dragon #hotd #house of the dragon season 2 #hotd s2 e8 #hotd s2 ep8 #greenqueenhightower #the queen who ever was #alicent x rhaenyra #rhaenyra x alicent

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knightofleo · 24 days

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#oop queen etc.#caroline polachek #hideo kojima #metal gear solid #desire i want to turn into you

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desire-mona · 1 month

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im not sure how many of u were in the queen fandom (and im sure it makes total sense to many of u that i was) but this was genuinely THE funniest in joke

#desire mona #media #ohhhh i miss my queen phase #hello queen fandom if u see this im not suggesting ur no longer around im just not in it anymore #i miss you tho #queen #john deacon

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neversetyoufree · 8 months

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It's been said before, but I do really love how VnC seems to have taken it upon itself to spend time on every one of the classic themes associated with vampire literature.

Vampirism as a disease? Vampirism as seduction and/or sexual assault? Vampirism as an excuse for othering and xenophobia? Fear of the corruption of natural death? It's all there. VnC vampires aren't traditional vampires in any part of their actual lore, but god, Mochijun knows what she's doing on a thematic level.

#the corruption of death thing hasn't been as big a theme quite yet. but it's lurking around the edges #particularly with Misha's desire to resurrect luna and the way that concept is portrayed #and I suspect that idea is going to connect back to teacher's own fixation on luna and/or whatever's going on with the queen as well #and there's the fact that vani's going to die at the end. and that that's preferable to whatever the Mark will turn him into #god I love this series #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #english major hours

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justaz · 8 months

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arthur repealing the ban on magic and sitting merlin and morgana down to figure out who is going to be court sorcerer and ready to mediate a debate but before morgana can even open her mouth, merlin passes to position onto her. arthur and morgana just stare, morgana makes feeble attempts to spark an argument, to instigate merlin to at least fight for it. even arthur is like “…you don’t even want, like, a room or something for your magic work?? none of the perks?? a different position in the court?????” and merlin’s just like “nope! i’m good!” and morgana and arthur exchange a look before arthur asks why. merlin’s answer is that his position, where he belongs, is at arthur’s side. besides. morgana deserves it. she was snubbed from becoming queen so it was only fair.