#did I make this more heartbreaking???

[the-weirdos-mind]

The Call of the Heart

To go with @writing-heiress Fairytale/Disney AU. I decided to go with the Idia X Estella: Atlantis AU for this.

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The girls knew they didn’t have a choice in this matter. If they hadn’t come with Silas then he will kill their father. The only parental they have left in their lives after their mother died all those years ago when their home sank thousands of miles down into the sea. Estella, Oriane, Silas, Epel and Idia all stood in a room that was hidden in the throne room. Silas walked to the edge of a small yet deep pond and looked above him. In the center, high up in the air, were floating stones with carvings of the princesses ancestors. Kings and queens who once ruled the land. They were protecting a large cyan energy sphere.

They would weep if they saw how their kingdom has fallen. The lead mercenary kicked a small rock into the crystal clear water. The cyan turned to crimson as it sensed a disturbance. He looked up and many crimson beams start circling around the room. “Come on, let’s get this over with.” Epel said. “I don’t like this place.” He had warning bells going off in his head and a pit was growing bigger in his stomach by the second.

“Alright, Shroud.” Silas said. “What’s next?”

Idia nervously held the Shepherd’s Journal and started reading out loud. “O-Okay. There’s a g-giant crystal hovering a h-hundred fifty f-feet above the o-our heads over a b-bottom less p-pit of w-water…”

What he didn’t realize is that when he was speaking, the lights turned to their original color when a beam landed on Estella’s crystal necklace. Oriane noticed and grabbed her sister’s hand. She was getting a bad feeling about this. It was all too familiar to her. The crystal started floating above her neck… as if guiding her. “Interesting.” She mumbled in her native tongue. Her eyes started glowing that same cyan as the light over took the pupils and irises. Oriane held her hand tightly.

“No.” Oriane muttered. “Estella no.”

“Then move it.” Silas ordered.

“I don’t even know how to move it.” Idia said, losing his stutter the more angry he got. “I don’t even know what’s holding it up there!”

“ESTELLA!!” Oriane shouted once her younger sister started walking towards the crystal. She held onto her hand for as long as she could until Epel grabbed her hand and pried it off. “SISTER NO!” The other men stopped when they heard the older princess yell. Silas held his hand out and stopped Idia when he went to run after her. That cry that Oriane released… it was one Idia knew. All too well. They all watched as Estella walked the the edge of the pond.

“Talk to me Shroud and Princess.” Silas said. “What’s happening?”

Oriane just stood there in silence. ‘Not again.’ She thought. ‘Please no.’

“Look,” Idia said pointing to the page in the book. “All it says here i-is that crystal is a-alive, somehow. I don’t k-know how to explain it, it’s their deity, it’s their power source.”

“Speak English professor.”

“It’s a p-part of them, they’re a part of it. I’m doing the best I can here!”

“Well do better.” The mercenary pulled his gun out.

“Well, why don’t you translate and I’LL WAVE THE GUN AROUND!”

The argument stopped when they heard Estella speak. Her voice sounded disoriented as she spoke and she even turned to the group. “All will be well Idia Shroud and older sister. Be not afraid.” She said.

“Let my sister go!” Oriane yelled. She ran forward to grab her sister but Silas grabbed her arms and held them tightly to her side. Idia gave a shy smile though he felt dread rise in his stomach. Oriane’s voice held the tone of a heartbroken sibling.

“What did they say?” He asked as he held the struggling princess.

“I-I didn’t catch it.” Idia mumbled.

Oriane stopped in her tracks. Her blood turned cold as her little sister started walking on the water. “NO! ESTELLA NO!” She screamed. They all watched as the younger princess was walking towards the crystal. They cyan beam is still on her, she’s what it wanted.

Estella walked until she was directly under the crystal. The stone heads started moved away from the crystal. They all stared in shock and amazement. Oriane’s eyes started watering and a tear fell from her eye. The multiple cyan beams combined into one the moment it sensed that the crystal was near. A bright flash of cyan light filled the area as Estella closed her eyes. A larger beam came from the crystal and shined down on the girl.

“My daughter.” She heard a voice say. “It’s time to join us.”

She started floating up towards the crystal. Her hair lifted above her head and rippled in the air. Her necklace was the guiding force to the massive sphere.

“SISTER!” Oriane screamed.

Estella floated into the sphere until her body couldn’t be seen anymore. The stones started spinning around the sphere as its power was being transported into the girl. The faster they went, the stronger the wind they made. It wasn’t long before a cyan silhouette was in the center where the crystal once was. It was as if Estella’s body had turned into her people’s power source. A ripple of cyan light flashed through the area— the transformation was complete.

Everyone else stood in shock at what they had just witnessed. Estella started floating to the ground, slowly like a leaf. She landed on the water’s surface, with a circle of cyan light around her. “Estella.” Idia whispered. He started to take a step out towards her but Silas grabbed his shoulder.

“Easy there, Lover Boy.” He taunted.

“Estella.” Idia said, a bit louder.

“Little sister.” Oriane said.

They’re only response from her came in the form of her opening her eyes. The light had overtaken them completely. “No.” Oriane mumbled as she let out a wail. ‘Not again.’

Estella started walking back towards the group. The stone heads started falling from the ceiling and splashed when they collided with the water. The splashes were slipping away from her as if she was in a protective sphere from the water. When she got to the group, Silas held out a hand to touch her but was stopped.

“DON’T!” Oriane yelled.

“Don’t touch her.” Idia said. He knows by the look of Oriane’s face that he’s faced something familiar; an older sibling losing the younger one.

Tags: @adrianasunderworld @mangacupcake @writing-heiress @marrondrawsalot

[javierduffy]

different.

[amaranthdahlia]

i leave him to you. | i got it ... my hero.

[purplecatghostposts]

*Holds up Félix and Chloé* It’s not obvious because it’s all WIPs and very little has been posted but I care them so much. I love putting them in a room together and locking the door to see what happens. They’re two somewhat territorial cats who are fighting one minute, then totally chill the next. They’re judging each other. They like to hang out and judge other people. They’re mocking each other one minute and then planning each other’s parents’ (Andre and Audrey’s/Colt’s) murders. Amélie invites Chloé over and treats her like a daughter. Chloé is breaking down crying in Amélie’s arms because she feels loved one moment, then smirking at Félix because she’s stealing his mom five minutes later. Sabrina knows Félix by his full government name due to Chloé’s ranting but has never formally met him. They both love Adrien so much but they’re not the greatest at remembering to tell him. They both have so many issues. They complain about each other. They have blackmail material for days. They would kill for one another if it came down to it. Do you feel me. Do you get me. Did any of that make sense. I know I’m taking a five second interaction and allusions to what their relationship was before and blowing it up out of proportion but they interest me so MUCH and I WILL make headcanons about it.

[starheirxero]

No but actually if I can stand on my little soap box here for a moment. This post is genuinely deeply what happened to Lunar and I have feelings about that.

Except, I have both actual blorboing thoughts and also meta thoughts about how that mindset may have influenced the choice of Lunar's sendoff and how it explains why people were so proud of Lunar for running themselves through the machine that gave them panic attacks over and over.

Lunar was basically conditioned to feel like they're basically less than dirt, to feel like they're inherently unlovable to the core because they hurt Earth. They were put in the mind grinder and then Moon would randomly guilt trip them here and there. They got used to hating themselves because they became a "bad person" who doesn't deserve good things–a fucked up mentality is something Pollux has pointed out!! She's mentioned twice that she feels like Lunar hasn't actually "healed", they just ran themselves deeper into self hatred.

Because that's the thing!! Lunar never got better!! Lunar made some big strides, yes, but they ultimately ended up throwing it all away because they're serving an astral court that will kill them if they ever backslide like that again. They do not have the room to heal and they never will again! So, what's Lunar's old reliable method? You guessed it!!! Masking and repressing it all!!!!!!

So they're out there hiding their feelings again and they're being told it's the basically the Morally Good Thing to do after they hurt Earth. This was an idea pushed both by the family (I still have a burning rage over everything old Moon told them) AND BY THE FANDOM.

Comments encouraged Lunar to go in the mind grinder and were even proud they were "taking initiative." Posts were made about how entirely irreedeemable Lunar is now and how they don't deserve to be with the family anymore.

People encouraged Lunar to punish themselves for their mistakes–to the Correct and Good thing afterwards–rather than give them kindness and patience and proper healing.

Head in hands. Not like they would have found a good support system outside of maybe Sun but. Ugh. That's another post. It just fucks me up man... No one told them that they aren't inherently bad or unlovable because they made a horrible mistake. No one told them they still deserve basic kindness and consideration. No one told them they're still a person at the end of the day.

[calmlb]

Odasaku’s orphans & the meanings of their names

aka let’s suffer together 💔

kousuke: to help bring happiness (9 years old)

katsumi: to overcome oneself (8 years old)

yuu: outstanding kindness (7 years old)

shinji: genuine leader (5 years old)

sakura: blossoming happiness (4 years old)

disclaimer: i don’t speak japanese so there may be some mistakes— feel free to correct me! this is just what i found from my research & if you look at how harukawa depicts the kids in her art, i think it’s probably roughly accurate :’)

[good-beanswrites]

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

[woolly-aph1d]

Just finished 2nd vol of 2ha and i want to officially bet that the the mystery man who wiped Mo Ran's memory is either Shi Mei or Shizun.

[misfitlele]

Last season of heartbreak high has officially ended their production, im gonna cry, i didn't expect this to end so fast

[quatarisprite]

Hey nonexistent uglies by Scott Westerfeld fandom what’s up

[eyra]

a little while ago, a two headed calf was born and I instantly thought of beneath a big blue sky Wolfstar and how excited Sirius would be because “Remus!!! A two headed calf?!?!?” And Remus is just so heartbroken because he knows how the situation will play out and he doesn’t want to tell Sirius

no stop that immediately because this can happen with lambs too and I had the same thought when I saw that story and it devastated me then and it devastates me to this day. I can’t even think about any of that without getting choked up like I may sob I may fully break down because what if a two-headed lamb was born in that damn barn.

you know sirius would be staying there all night long with that lamb even when remus tells him it probably won’t live to see the morning. and remus would stay too and watch sirius care for it and wonder how it’s even possible that he falls more in love with him every single day.

anyway I’m going to go drink myself into oblivion now so I don’t have to think about this. x

[sciderman]

You said that if you dated Peter or Wade it would make you miserable. Which– Okay fair, Wade does have a history of purposely hurting the people he loves.

But what about Peter? Why do you think dating him would make you miserable?

because I’ll always know I had the option to climb a 6’8 cyborg and I passed that up for a sweaty little twunk that I perpetually have to remind to bathe (sorry peter)

[mysticfemme]

it's been a year and recently I keep having really vivid dreams about my ex and the stupid part of my brain wants to unblock them and see them again but I know it's because I miss who they were and not the person they became

[dyingnerdyprude]

finally watched spy another day and it feels like the tin can bros ripped my heart out of my chest, put it in a blender, made a smoothie out of it, and poured it back into the gaping hole where my heart was.

i am forever changed by this

@curtmega

[noisybubblegumstarfish]

"Because you're my number one... Twice"

[supercalime]

i personally cannot wait for s8 to start with an episode that focuses on the new normal under gerrard and on the eddie drama potentially. just for a small (or big?!?) bucktommy hint to be dropped in the middle or end to say that we are SO back!! 😍

Gosh, i am truly excited for whatever they do with the plot and arcs for the characters. It’s 911 so we know what we are in for. I worry about bucktommy for many reasons. I mean, we still have zero confirmation about Lou being back, and I don’t want to get my hopes up by going “when x happens” like certain unhinged fans of a certain fanon ship that shall not be named act. I want it so bad to see buck and tommy navigate through their relationship this season (I’d love to see them on a call together or maybe tommy gets hurt and we see the effect it has on buck), I really do, but unfortunately I will hold on expectations until there’s a undeniable confirmation from the 911 gods.

But we can manifest, besties. I’d love a big or small hint throughout the episode too!