#forever alone in the dark

[mewkwota]

I Know What You Are... You Are Mega Man!

The differences between each Mega is something I love and appreciate, plus it's also fun to compare them side-by-side for it.

I think it's really amusing how they start with robots that slowly reach near-human traits, and then there's a straight-up human. Albeit, he is merged with a non-human being.

And then there's Volnutt. I know he could probably be narrowed down to an "artificial human", but I like the idea of tying him to his celestial origins as Trigger that are still half a mystery.

Such is my running-joke with him. He is just... Volnutt (currently).

[sadmates]

Single people use half of their bed for Remotes, phone, pillows and snacks.

[angrypeacepoetry]

๋࣭⭑I guess I will just fade into you ๋࣭⭑

[drwgs]

as of lately i feel so used and alone

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm still thinking about that scene in Victoriocity S3E7 where Fleet runs back towards the Beast so as to lure it into the path of the train...

Clara's exclamation of 'Teamwork, Fleet!' after Fleet says he's got a plan reflects her conviction that any plan that Fleet has will be a shared plan, something they do together.

This conviction is a kind of trust, and that trust is part of the reason Clara takes a moment to realise Fleet has headed back towards the Beast. She trusts that he's following behind her. She keeps talking to him, her words full of optimism.

When she realises Fleet isn't there, she immediately realises what that must mean he's done, and her voice sounds more small and scared than I think we've ever heard it before.

Fleet's attempt at self-sacrifice is a kind of betrayal of Clara's trust, but when he echoes her celebration of their teamwork in a more somber tone, I think it suggests that he understands the weight of that betrayal.

If Fleet's plan is that Clara won't realise he's gone until it's already too late, then he thinks "Teamwork, Clara" will be the last words he'll ever speak to her. In what he imagines will be their final conversation, Fleet affirms Clara's understanding of them as a team who work well together, even as he is making a choice that rejects the possibility of their teamwork in this scenario. It's a recognition of what their dynamic has meant. It's a goodbye and an apology, even if Clara doesn't understand it as such at first.

I don't think Fleet sounds scared as he initially faces down the train. When he shouts "Yeah, this way, you stupid machine! Come on then!", he sounds defiant and grimly determined.

In fact, I don't think he sounds afraid until Clara appears, until she might be at risk of being in the path of the Beast or the train as well. It's when he shouts "Clara, stay back for God's sake!" and "Please, get back!" that there's real fear and desperation in his voice. He can confront the idea of giving his own life, but not the idea that doing so might put Clara in danger.

Another thing about these lines is that the move from 'stay back' to 'get back' suggests that Clara didn't obey his first instruction but got closer to him (and therefore to the path of the Beast and the train) between those two lines.

Then Fleet gives what might be another attempt at his last words: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry."  A repeated apology before an attempted self-sacrifice is an implicit acknowledgement of how much losing him would hurt Clara. He regrets causing her pain.

Even so, he's accepted that he is about to die and that it'd be worth it to destroy the Beast. But Clara very much hasn't accepted either those things. She's still trying to yell over the noise of the train; she's pulling off her ring to throw at him.

I think it's a good illustration of how Clara's optimism is a kind of strength. She always believes that they can "make a new plan" and that it'll be one in which no one has to die. I think Archibald Fleet needs someone like that, someone who'll tell him to drop to the ground when his death advances from both sides, someone who - even in a dark tunnel with an murderous metal monster and a speeding train - won't stop shouting that there's hope.

[tongjaitongjai]

Mordred: My kink is when people actually care about me and my feelings

Merlin: too unrealistic, settle for bondage like the rest of us.

[skyward-floored]

I finally completed the Anju and Kafei quest 😭

[zeezeebum]

Summer comes, winter goes Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

This is poll is just part one, and is exclusively focusing on film adaptations (the one exception being the 60s Batman series, which has also been included because of the Batman 1966 film). A second part, featuring non-film adaptations, will be coming shortly. A combined poll with the favorite options from each may also be made some time in the future

*obviously with comics there's lots and lots of different runs that can have wildly different qualities and everything which kind of complicates things, but as the source material it does need to be included on the poll- you can just think of this option as indicating a general preference for the comics stories instead of being attached to a specific Batman run in the comics

There are some further notes in the tags of the original post

[freakinator]

Ash: "I need teammates so bad, bro, I'm so lonely."

Spoke (overlapping): "Look, man, we... under--"

Ash (overlapping): "I'm gonna let you..."

Ash: "I am so lonely."

Ash: "I am so lonely."

Spoke: "We understand that--"

Ash: "All I do is-- all-- every night I go to sleep and I talk to the voices in my head and the voices reply, 'hrnn I'm the garlic hamster'. I don't know what to do."

[abaddown]

[amatsuchan-eiliniel]

Quick vent in tags, you're not forced to read.

Minors beware, that's not really important but be careful with other's vents and your own mental health.

[weidli]

wait, don't give up on this yet

[moodymermaid44]

[dnangelic]

sometimes i think abt towa and argentine in the very last manga chapter n cry

[daybreakrising]

while vautrin has the braincell i am thinking about the fact it would take him so long to get used to having a physical body again - i mean, this man has been a floating soul for 400 years (possibly more - who knows how time passes in the primordial sea, after all)

it's already established in my brain that he physically couldn't move for a long time once he was spat out from the sea, simply bc he didn't know how to. his brain had to relearn motor functions like a baby, he had to adjust to having mass (floating souls = weightless), he had to get used to the senses of his body again

he was probably lurking in the dark shadows of the fortress for days, weeks, before he dragged himself to s.igewinne for help. and how terrifying would that be for someone who should by all rights be dead-