#game of thrones 8x2

[randomnameless]

Land 1 done!

Without crossing the bridge to get rekt'd by the final boss and trigger a bad ending, of course :p

I know the game puts more emphasis on gameplay than on characters, unlike, say, FE 8x2, but damn if every little situation you recruit random characters makes me think of past FE events in different titles and it just... fits? Somehow?

Like, evil empire has trouble conquering a party of Cornia, but behold! A mysterious plague pops up, that is totally not tied to the shady as fuck necromancer who works with the evil empire and says it'd be annoying if people find a cure.

So we have some guy and his army of cleric wearing plague doctor masks trying to find a cure by, uh, experimenting/working on people who already caught the plague, even accepting to work with the evil empire because curing the plague is more important, right?

Ends justify means yadda yadda... save for the part I earlier mentionned, that it is heavily implied the evil empire is the one who created that plague to begin with!

Now, imagine in a FE game if, in the background, we had to rescue people or hear about people being afflicted by a strange and unknown disease... and if that disease was engineered by people for a further motive...

8x2? Nah.

We also have quests where people are fighting for the evil empire who is occupying their land because they believe as long as they obey their people won't be put to the sword...

(I watched my bro play the final chapter, we know how it ends lol)

Not!Cyril fighting against bandits, finding and helping a witch fend off people who are trying to "catch her" - we even get a flimsy excuse for a bikini attire in the process and an answer to the "why do i use spells to rejuvenate myself in a sexy body? It's because I won't be able to move as fast as I can now if I was a crone" other flimsy excuse, etc etc.

Now it's time to enter the land of fucked up siblings relationship (sure Virginia is Alain's cousin - who looks like his mom - and can end up with him, but this is not the kind of Jugdralian stuff I had in mind) and let me tell you, all those plot bunnies I had in Jugdral about Lester believing he was going to become Lord of Jungby all of his life, only to have his role/throne snatched before his eyes by a bum who's apparently his cousin and can use the legendary shiny bow of legend is... basically Drakengard (Drakenhold in english?), but up to eleven.

Ah, and it wouldn't be a post from me if I don't find a way to rant about the localisation lol

Josef, upon meeting Virginia, basically goes in the audio "it's been a long time since I last saw you". In the english version?

Like what are you implying Josef, she wasn't a princess when you saw her last time or didn't have the "standing" fit for a princess?

Besides, I hope the release of the october book won't blow a hole in the Josef's "you were a teenager when we last met" by releasing character ages, but that's not really that important.

This however

Alain greets his long lost cousin, nothing wrong here right?

Well, in the JP audio, he calls her with the "hime" suffix, showing as much deference as Josef, who is a retainer of the royal family. Virginia doesn't use any suffix because that's her, but in Alain's various support convos, we learn that he had to learn and to behave like a proper noble after escaping from his castle 7 years ago, and all this noble/formal stuff is something he doesn't use with his commoner friends.

Ergo, this minor thing here is important, especially in the Drakengard themes : siblings/relatives used to be close, but reuniting after a long period of time or several life changing events, they are changed and even if they want and try to, cannot be as close as they once were.

[ao3feed-briennejaime]

Not just being nice

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by ChocoNut

“I left him with a blow to his jaw,” Jaime informs, unable to watch the distress she wants to conceal. “I might have broken a tooth or two.”

“You—” She knits her brows, surprised. At the same time, she’s fighting to push back a smile and succeeds. “That was nice of you,” she tells him with a straight face.

“Nice?” She still can’t see what this is? “When have you ever caught me trying to be nice?”

Words: 1115, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth

Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, show canon, Season 8, Missing Scene, 8x2, or can be taken as book canon, Jaime meets Red Ronnet in Riverrun, And tells Brienne about it

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[bornonthesavage]

Guys, I have not been able to stop thinking about these two. It’s been several days, and I have got nothing productive done because I think about this 24/7. They have been through so much, and they finally found their way back to each other. Arya has tried for years to turn off her emotions, and I think this was her giving up on that, even if she didn’t realize it at the time. He is the catalyst that will bring her back from her life of anger and revenge. I felt that message was so well done this episode. Because she initially goes to the Hound, the one who taught her to be harder and tougher and close off her emotions. But then she changes her mind. She doesn’t want to be that.So she leaves him and goes somewhere she knows Gendry will find her. And she chooses to love in her last moments, not hate. This is MASSIVE character development. 

[anticanonhearts]

gendrya

me: it makes sense how things ended, I mean, circumstances weren’t at their best, Arya had things to do, she couldn’t be unfair to Gendry, she wouldn’t expect him to just wait for her, things are finally looking up for Gendry too, this is okay, in the end they’re okay and that’s okay,

also me: but they’re so in l o v e

[maybeicanbesaved]

“Men do stupid things for women. They’re easily manipulated.”

Sansa Stark

[robingiebes]

Ser Jorah suggested that Dany talk to Sansa and find common ground. 

Ser Jorah = Smartest man in the Seven Kingdoms

[hachidaimehokageharuno]

I think everyone knows that Dany/Sansa ‘girl chat’ scene wasn’t of pure intentions- Dany wants Sansa on her side and Sansa wants to assure her peoples hard won freedom.

That doesn’t mean we can’t look at it as what could have been.

[aibfangirl]

Favourite scene 😍😍😍

💯fangirl

[roosterbox]

While watchin’ that one GoT scene on YouTube. You know which one.

(spoilers, obvs.)

Sansa: You vouch for [Jaime]?

Brienne: I do.

Jaime: 😍❤️❤️❤️

Me:

Sansa: You would fight alongside him?

Brienne: ... I would.

Jaime: 😭😍❤️❤️❤️

Me:

[khaleesiofalicante]

Brienne: *breathes*

Jaime:

[moresassythanclassy]

Has anyone made a gif paralleling Arya pushing Gendry down in s2 and now in s8? I need it, someone, pleeeaaase?!

[ao3feed-briennejaime]

You are my knight

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by ChocoNut

Hyle Hunt returns to Brienne’s life. Jaime obviously doesn't take it well.

Words: 2442, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, Hyle Hunt

Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, somewhere around 8x2 through 8x4, Fluff, Some angst, Pining, Jealous Jaime Lannister, Love Confessions

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[matelate]

nobody:

tormund:

[bornonthesavage]

So I know we have only been able to think about and talk about Arya and Gendry’s interaction, because duh, but I thought of something else with her that is very interesting. Before she goes to Gendry, she goes to the Hound. And while there, she asks him what he’s doing there. She asks why, after everything, he is fighting for others now. And tells her that he fought for her. And I think that really hits her hard. Because this whole time she has been trying to put on a hard exterior like the Hound. And she believed that he didn’t care about anyone but himself. And when he said that, she realized that she too could care about someone else. I think she went to him to reaffirm her belief that she had to be hard, and it had the opposite effect. She went to love instead of hate.

[anticanonhearts]

“and behold, a white horse”

beautiful Arya choosing life in the face of the apocalypse

[maybeicanbesaved]

“In the name of the warrior,

I charge you to be brave.

In the name of the father,

I charge you to be just.

In the name of the mother,

I charge you to defend the innocent.

Arise, Brienne of Tarth,

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”