#don't mind me i'm just losing it

[edgegodess]

[cometblaster2070]

i love me some ranni and miquella parallels because I adore how both of these idiots are like the mommy/daddy issues prodigies who looked at how badly their parents fucked up and went "yeah no I can do better."

but i also love that for how similar they are their paths and motivations diverge in such interesting ways.

like ranni's motivation is at its heart a selfish one; she does everything in an attempt to be freed from the fate thrust onto her (which is VALID girlie go off). she orchestrated godwyn's death and the night of black knives and she does all this simply so that the two fingers won't control her; her motivations didn't really revolve around righting wrongs and fixing things she just wanted to get rid of the fucking creepy ass fingers.

and then we have miquella who arguably has the noblest intentions out of all of the demigods at first glance. he's a person who embraces all those who are outcasts and makes a safe haven for them, he abandons golden order fundamentalism because it can't help his sister and he creates unalloyed gold just to help malenia and he's someone who sees everything wrong with his mother's order and he decides that it has to be him who has to bear the guilt who has to bear the blame of the sins committed by his mother and how it is up to him and him alone to fix things and so he has to become a god so that he can make the world a kinder and better place for everyone.

but we see how well that goes and it's demonstrated most evidently in ranni and miquella's followers.

ranni's followers consist of blaidd, iji, selvius, and the tarnished (if we choose to help her ig) and consistently throughout her questline she makes it clear how dangerous it is to help her and constantly warns us about the danger of following this path with her; she reiterates how she doesn't want anyone to be forced into doing something they don't want to do and it's shown through blaidd and iji's actions that they continue following her at great personal risk to themselves simply because of their devotion to her and not really anything else, despite knowing that this is detrimental to their wellbeing.

ranni's followers consist of people who follow her of their own free will and because they wholeheartedly believe in her and what she's doing. ranni specifically stresses how she is not compelling anyone to do anything and that every action we undertake should be our own.

and we have kindly miquella. kindly miquella who has learned how to compel affection, who has learned how to make everyone love him and who has learned how to bewitch people to make them do what he wants; and we see this most evidently in shadow of the erdtree, as demonstrated by miquella's party. and we also see how when his charm over them is broken how quickly everything goes to complete and utter shit upon realizing that the only reason that any of them even got along was because miquella had bewitched them.

but miquella sees this as something necessary, maybe even something good. it is something good because this is how he can ensure peace this is how he can ensure his age of compassion this is how he can ensure an age where everyone loves one another and there is no such thing as hate. but all of this, of course, comes at the cost of a person's free will. something miquella sees as justified if it helps him achieve his goal.

there is just something about ranni, ranni who is described as cold and who is cunning and clever and the mastermind behind the night of the black knives; who gives off the vibe of being someone we should be wary of and who is very dangerous and untrustworthy, and as we get to know her we realize that even though she's shady as shit ranni cares greatly for those she loves. and she's also surprisingly honest with us (this girl casually admits to committing murder and then later on spills her entire backstory in doll form like) and she believes in a world where people are free to do whatever they want to without the meddling of gods.

and there's miquella who is described as kind and warm and loving and he's someone who only wants to help, only wants to make things better, only wants to create a better world for everyone; as we see through his haligtree and his efforts to help his sister. and we see miquella as someone who is good someone whose side we should be on and etc etc. but then we actually get to know him and we realize that for all his noble intentions and lofty ideals miquella is still very very immature and he's completely transformed into something that's almost monstrous; he is someone who is terrifying in how unassuming he is, he hold such immense power that he can bewitch and enchant even demigods effortlessly and miquella is someone who believes that a world where people are robbed of their free will is justified if it is a world of kindness and love; his world of kindness and love.

they're both means justify the ends kind of people but throughout her story ranni never loses herself; she sticks to her fuckass plan, she sticks to her ideals and she stubbornly lets them carry her through. miquella sheds and abandons so much of himself in an effort to become a god that by the end he's unrecognizable to the point that st. trina begs us to kill him as an act of mercy.

i just have thoughts about miquella and ranni if you can tell. just yk lunar princess ranni and her age of stars vs. kindly miquella and his age of compassion.

[itsjaywalkers]

what a month huh captain it's only may 8th

[asasdemorcego]

me lately once again

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

[nysscientia]

okay but Wyll is like. a prodigy, actually. and I want to talk about that more

like he is a folk hero for a reason. it's not just because he's so nice to people. he is also an incredible adventurer.

when you meet him in the Grove, he is on a level with you—but dialogue makes it clear that's because the tadpole fucked with his capabilities. if you have him around and hear his little interparty exchanges and reactive lines, he talks about things he's done as the Blade of Frontiers, and they include wrestling a giant one-on-one, and fighting a dragon. by himself.

he fought a dragon by himself!!

like (spoilers for end of game), even when you fight a dragon in the finale, you're not doing it ALONE. you have 3 other party members and as many allies as you care to summon. WYLL WAS ALONE IN THE WOODS WITH WHATEVER SUPPLIES HE COULD SCRAPE TOGETHER AS A SOLO ADVENTURER. AND HE FOUGHT A DRAGON.

by all accounts, I think it's reasonable to guess that before the tadpole, he was more powerful than the level 12 cap that's built into the game. and sure, he's a warlock drawing power from a bond, but most D&D lore I've encountered build in the idea that warlocks need a certain amount of skill and prowess to handle the power offered to them by their patron—there's a reason warlocks and clerics still level up, rather than just shooting to the top of the ladder. PLUS, he had to know how to use that power effectively.

and then!! (spoilers for epilogue) if he does the Avernus version of his ending, he's become a ranger within the 6 months since you've last seen him. and not like, he took a level or two in ranger and he's working his way up to it. he tells you about devils he's killed that are on par with the dangers y'all faced in your adventures—and he's doing this either with only Karlach for company, or possibly even by himself (??? I've only ever had him go with Karlach, I can't stand it). so. he is ALSO now one of the most powerful RANGERS in the realms. IN 6 MONTHS.

which makes sense! he wouldn't lose all his adventuring knowledge and skills just because the pact is ended! but to master an entirely new discipline, magic and all, in such a short time??

WYLL RAVENGARD HERO OF THE REALMS. WYLL RAVENGARD GENIUS OF ADVENTURE. WYLL RAVENGARD CAN DO ANYTHING HE SETS HIS MIND TO

[emloafs]

we may watch the same show but i watch it gayer

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[tackykachowch]

This is what they should've added to Jinx's design in season 2. Btw

UPD: I also want to add this screenshot of my tags on my first ever post about Jinx because I still agree with what I said

[stevefightmerogerss]

he remembered coney island

he remembered coney island

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

"Well, we were kissing, it was secret..."

[edgegodess]

[rynli]

me: I should write the one-shot that lives in my head about Harry applying for a job

brain: you will write a whole casefic about Harry realizing being a cop already killed him once, acab applies even to Kim, and he needs to quit if he wants to get better

[amanitacurses]

[partrin]

"and i miss you on a train"

i would bet $100 that haru was kinda internally shooketh seeing rin in the reflection sitting behind him because rin isn't far away in australia without him! he is there! with rin! and he misses him, even when they're seated right next to each other.

but i digress.

okay, so..

"about you" by the 1975 is a rinharu song. and it's great because the lyrics work both ways—you could apply the lyrics to rin's perspective towards their.. friendship, or to haru's (but i like thinking about it from haru's perspective). and my argument is it applies to every. single. moment. when they were apart and thought of each other. when rin first leaves for australia and admitted he sometimes sits on the beach and thinks of how the ocean is the one connection he has to the people he's left behind at home. when young haru finally reads the letter sousuke had passed onto him, written by rin before looking up at the sky and whispering to himself that he wants to swim like rin does (or basically the entirety of all the free! starting days and timeless medley movies where haru mopes about rin leaving). when s1 rin lies in bed and mutters, angrily, to himself: "i'll show you a sight you've never seen before." when s3 rin and haru swim in separate pools on either sides of the globe and picture the other swimming in the lane next to them. when they fight in the final stroke and briefly separate.

do i.. do i need to go on?

"it's somewhere i go when i need to remember your face."

where would that be if not under a cherry blossom tree?

[egophiliac]

HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE UPCOMING NEWSS 👹👹👹

man, it's a good thing they stopped doing the episode 7 SSRs, because I'm really low on keys and gems right now and --

OH NO