#for BOTH their sakes

[clotpolesonly]

The Raven King ch 3 // Call Down The Hawk ch 12

[zer0point5ive]

me trying to go back in time to stop amanda from killing adam

[random-kido]

a few weeks before he bailed

Aka the moment star realized he wouldn't be keeping his word

[deathfavor]

@kyukicho​​​​ said:  ╳ bajitora

send  ╳ for my muse to take a bullet/blade for yours

  Kazutora knows something is wrong before he can pinpoint what exactly it is that is. Everything should be fine, because it’s Baji and Kazutora standing victorious as usual in the center of a bunch of defeated punks who thought just because of their numbers they could beat the two. It should be fine. His instincts tell him something else. There’s the same ominous feeling that he remembers from when he would creep down the hallway towards the kitchen when he was hungry for a snack and his father would appear. It was the same feeling from juvie when you knew you should turn your head the other way and see nothing if you knew what was good for you and to avoid being caught in the crossfire. This isn’t his anxiety, it’s something more animalistic, a survival instinct deep in his chest that has his gaze turning away from Baji and the sun for a moment.

   There.

  A flash of silver and a clenched fist. That’s all the tiger needs to identify the threat before it can strike.

  He doesn’t even say Baji’s name. It won’t do any good when Baji is grinning and bragging on winning the little challenge and Kazutora almost wants to laugh if it wasn’t so sad. That bright, smug smile of Baji’s that he loves won’t last longer than a few more seconds because the odds aren’t in his favor. The tiger is fast; but he’s unarmed and throwing himself as a shield to protect Baji from a hidden strike. He couldn’t let anything happen to Baji. Not with jail time and not from some hidden blades. He won’t let anything happen to him.  

  The blade sinks into his abdomen and Kazutora stumbles backwards, right into Baji. Only, this time Baji’s strength has unintended consequences. Because the other teen doesn’t even seem to move from the impact of Kazutora’s weight or that of the ambusher. He’s like a steel wall. Dependable and unyielding. But in this case, it provides a surface to halt Kazutora’s fall and allow the blade to sink in deeper and draw out a pained whimper that neither adrenaline nor tunnel vision can prevent from escaping as his head falls against Baji. He needs to protect Baji. The tiger hasn’t fallen without his own catch though; the attacker’s arm caught in his claws and refusing to let go.

  Kazutora responds by slamming his head against the bastard’s face and hearing the sickeningly satisfying crunch of shattering bones. Once, twice. The fucker goes down llike dead weight and Kazutora bites the inside of his cheek to stop a scream when the knife twists on the way down. He stares as the knife clatters against the street, silver blade soaked in red. It’s…it’s probably not that bad.  One of those looks worse than it is situations.

  “  Hey, Baji.  “  Kazutora can only watch as his vision starts to swim and his hand clutches pointlessly at his side.  “ That makes it so I’ve beat one more than you. Won that challenge. “  Kazutora offers a grin as he tries to stand up and take his weight off of Baji.

  He doesn’t even manage to stand on his own feet without Baji, he just crumbles into the asphalt like a felled beast.

  It hurts. It hurts so much. Kazutora swallows the words like shards of twisted, sharp metal the scrape his throat. It’s okay because Baji is okay.  “  Must’ve slipped.  “ Words that are whispered from trembling lips. He’s lying and they both know it. He hadn't even stood up and there was nothing to slip on anyways. I’m scared Baji. Wide eyes stare up at him fearfully despite all the brave talk and spark that he shows. Am I going to die here? He doesn’t know, he doesn’t know how bad it is or isn’t.

  Maybe he deserves it though if he does.

  "  Hey. I want that leopard shirt you said was ugly. 'Kay? My prize for winning. You should get a matching one.  “  He grins, hiding his eyes when he squeezes them shut. Fuck, it really hurts.  

[benevolenterrancy]

poor Liu Qingge is really going through it in the succubus extra, he just had to go and get a crush on the most oblivious man alive

"Younger than me... we had a rocky start... completely devoted.... often together.... saved each other..... peerless beauty..... outstanding talent.... noble blood.... totally in love with me...... Wow what a weird love fortune! Definitely doesn't match anyone in my life!" says Shen Qingqiu while actively sitting next to one of the two men it perfectly describes

[humming-fly]

The 2D vs 3D contrast of the sonic and shadow generation hubworlds cracks me up the more I think about it

Bonus:

[somewhereincairparavel]

To the people saying "Jason wouldn't have jumped into tartarus for Piper, like Percy did for Annabeth" as a way to demean him. Jason, plunged into the sky from the grand canyon to catch Piper in the first few pages of the lost hero without even knowing who she was, and without the knowledge that he could fly. so he basically jumped to his death attempting to catch her. In the first few pages of his journey, he didn't mind dying to save Piper, and ironically, that's also what he did in the last few pages of his journey. Y'all just be making the most out of pocket claims abt jason fr

[thereisabearonmyceiling]

doodles for when it's raining and you're gaming

aka impressionsTM from my first time playing rain world

[mouseshift]

[rqg179]

the way brennan lee mulligan plays single mothers needs to be studied because i have been thinking about the delivery of "maybe we could bump up the priority on de-cursing the old ... my only daughter in the world" for 4 days now

[essayofthoughts]

Genuinely, I think one of the most fun and crunchy things about any character is

How far they will go for things they want

What they will do to get things they want

Things they won't do, no matter how much they want what they'd get in exchange

Because these things tell you some very important things about the character, namely their limits, their price, and their absolute No's. (And it lets you create some really REALLY crunchy conflict)

[qcomicsy]

Dick "I was a terrible older brother and I need to make up for it" Grayson and Jason "for the love of god leave me the fuck alone" Todd.

[gen-toon]

[pirateshelly]

As much as nearly every character she meets tends to act like there's something uniquely broken and wrong with Claudia, at no point does it truly seem to me like there actually really is? I mean, obviously she is extremely fucked up, she straight up went through a serial killer collecting trophies phase, but there's a level of fucked up that's sort of the baseline for every character in the show, and obviously being turned into a vampire as a child puts her at a unique disadvantage. But for all that everyone around her spends their time bemoaning how dreadful and doomed her life is, even Louis who genuinely loves her but also builds so much of his identity around feeling responsible for her Terrible Fate™, I really don't think she's like, fundamentally damaged any more than any of the other vampires are.

But Lestat is so unwilling to be wrong that every time her life hits an inevitable road bump instead of helping her through it he points and says "look! see! she IS a monster, I was right Louis, making her was a mistake!" (and I think he sees his own monstrousness in her but fails to also see her humanity)

And then Armand meets her and sees only someone who will inevitably lose her mind, so of course speeding up the "inevitable" and siding with the coven to plan her death is just a mercy, absolving himself of any blame. (and he projects his own frailty and desire for death onto her, failing to see her strength and her desire for life)

Which makes it so cathartic when she meets Madeleine, admits to her how broken she feels sometimes, and Madeleine's response is just. Well that's normal. Who isn't a little broken these days. Let yourself feel it, move on, let yourself feel it again if you need to. After spending her life having others act as if her emotions are something uniquely dark and worrying, Madeleine's incredibly blase attitude must have been such an incredible breath of fresh air for Claudia!

To spend her whole life being made to feel like something is Wrong™ with her, and then meet someone who's just like, "yeah, and?? Who isn't? Join the club I guess"

Which makes her death so incredibly tragic and frustrating because like. She was fine! She was making a life for herself! She wasn't doomed by her nature, she wasn't "doomed by the narrative" (whatever the fuck that even means), she was doomed for no reason other than that everyone around her (except for Madeleine) preemptively DECIDED she was doomed and never gave her a chance to prove them wrong.

[tidetower]

The Prince of the Hightower and the Heir to High Tide

Artist: erchitos

[mobius-m-mobius]

falling in love with a god is not a death sentence. the story is only a tragedy if the god loves you back. - nathaniel orion g. k.