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So @pokemon-ash-aus is a (loveable) rat bastard and drew Meau as a mewtwo! Which was super cool, interesting, and really neat until we realized they would be 13feet tall and I’ve been having nightmares for 12 hours whilst craving the sweet release of death
As usual, Indigo belongs to @pokemon-ash-aus whilst also sharing my utter god damn t e r r or.
#I cannot express how terrifying meautwo is#I physically fear it#the drawing#of my goofy cat#as a two#strikes raw terror in my veins#gdi justice#indigo#meau#mewtwo
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a conversation on the coast (original fanfic + inspiration)
#disco elysium#de fanart#fanart#de#cunoesse#de cunoesse#kim kitsuragi#disco elysium fanart#pt 1 of 2#this fic has been living rent-free in my head since i first read it. trying my best to do this scene justice but its been hard!#feeling my limitations rn grrrrrrr.#my art#FUCK i drew her in the wrong fucking outfit gdi#AUUUGH so many MISTAKES….. BUT NONETHELESS I PERSIST. IN THE NAME OF FIC APPRECIATION.#anyway im gonna try to stop obsessing over this now. mr/ms/mx enstar if u see this im so normal abt yr fic. ❤️
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P5 au P5 au!!! /chants
I had to look up references for literally all of these kids' outfits orz
And a healthy dose of Snufkin and Apollo for me specifically hahaha
#Welcome to Momo draws#Mymble's daughter#Too ticky#Apollo Justice#Snufkin#Luke Triton#Ema Skye#Flora Reinhold#Clive Dove#Spoilers#Joker is still Joker btw#gdi Clive you walking spoiler#RGB p5 au
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I think I have talked about this before but I still desperately want a platonic stobin centric The Spy Who Dumped Me au
It's just so them.
#gdi i dont want to have to write it myself i will not do it justice my writing does not have the right vibes#ghost.txt#platonic stobin#the spy who dumped me#the spy who dumped me au#gif#steve harrington#robin buckley#fire cw
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Well the fake-your-death thing at the end of house was better than the fake-your-death thing at the end of white collar because at least house let his best friend know he was still alive. Remember when Neil faked his death and instead of clueing in his best friend that he was still alive he fucked off to Paris? Do you lay awake at night thinking of how long mozzie must have grieved bc Neil was the one person he really loved and trusted? Do you? I do.
#justice for mozzie!#gdi I’m seething about it again#haven’t watched that show in over a year but it eats at me#white collar#house md
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Guess who started playing Dual Destinies again after like a 2.5 year break and is BACK ON THEIR CLAYPOLLO BRAINROT
#can't afford any new games rn so i charged up my old 3DS for this#i was like halfway through cosmic turnabout too#JUSTICE FOR CLAY GDI#star train chat#ace attorney#anyways i am very happy that more people are playing aa4 nowadays bc apollo is my faaaaaaaave :DDDD
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Why does all the women's deodorant smell like baby powder and potpourri
In fact, it's 2023, why are we even gendering the smells of deodorant in the first place ffs
#i want to smell like fresh mountain rain gdi! not like i rolled through a field of flowers and sat in granny's potpourri#on another note it's really fuckin stupid how brands like nivea are just neutral but then they have a 'mens' line like.. huh?!#it's almost like they're implying skincare is a women's only thing so the men need their own 'but THIS is for MEN!' mini line#deodorant#gendering#gender stereotypes#social justice#personal care
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will north and lucas north. i don't care if bbc did this on accident .. they were related, its my canon now. john killed will's brother.
#it wont really come up except with em's zoe as a passing thing but#gdi this is too much.#these pics dont even do it justice.#if you compare the two actors it is insane
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"Yeah, it's an internet thing, it's a term to describe that insufferable babytalk you do."
#whispers from beyond (dash comm)#cracker barrel street justice (crack tag)#i'm sorry she's so mean gdi
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Urge to rp rising
#Mustresisturgetoroleplayhazbinhotelmustresisturgetorphazbinhotelmustresisturge--#In case you couldn't tell I lowkey wanna rp now that I'm dopamined up again#gdi#I always fear doing the character justice#But by GOD do the tags make me want to#hrgugugrrgrg#hazbin hotel
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Okay... we KNOW that Justice League Dark is actually Competent at their Jobs.
Can banish most Spooks back home with out pausing to look up from their sandwich.
But you know what they HAVEN'T done? Dealt with the fuckin American Government. And all the complexe back-stabbery and "not my depart"ing that entails. The covering of asses and silencing of whistle blowers. Smearing of character. Just... the general BULLSHIT, legal and political, necessary to get those Ecto Acts consigned to the Depths of Hell where they belong.
Amity? Is fine.
Big ol Lair. Nothing nefarious getting in, few people ever bothering to go out. But like... they'd kind like THE OPTION, you know? Kids going to elite colleges. Jobs in other cities. That sorta thing! Maybe even new blood!
Stagnation feels too... Zone.
But they can't exactly FORCE the guys to focus on this one thing. And? They don't exactly... trust? Them? It's not personal. They're just not ghosts. Well, one is. But you can't ask ONE hero to handle all of that by himself! That's just unreasonable! Mr. Brand, while dashing and accomplished, has only so many hours in the day!
But what do DO???
...........well.......... Youngblood has an idea?
What if we annoyed them?
(How bout now? How bout now? How bout now? How bout now? How bout no-?)
Ooooooh~? Says the collectively gathered Ghost Regulars of Amity. Yes, that INCLUDES DANNY. They are INTRIGUED! Ghosts DO enjoy a good haunting. A light bit of Mischief, now and then. Some troublemaking! If you will~
I mean... Muses the resident Stick in the Mud, Phantom. As long as we all agree to some Ground Rules first...
Just until the finally Do Their JOBS, of course.....
The giggling is both bone chilling and filled with plotting. And so! The campaign of ghostly Minor To Moderate Inconveniences, begins! THINK FAST! *appears before Constantine, drops a LITERAL kid in his lap (as in a baby goat), in a "careful, I'm anxious!" Vest, then disappears.* The goat? Starts trying to eat his shirt. And is non magical.
It's the fifth random but slightly difficult to get rid off object or animal, dumped on him in the last two weeks. All juuuuust barely past that threshold where they're precious enough, he wouldn't feel comfortable handing um to some rando and walking away. GDI.
@the-witchhunter @hypewinter @hdgnj @spidori @babbling-babull @lolottes @mutable-manifestation @nerdpoe
#dpxdc#dp x dc#dc x dp#dc x dp prompt#pay attention or else campaign au#the campaign of many tiny annoyances au#minji's writing
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Rereading Truth and Justice (2021) #16-18 in August. Happy birthday for the murder baby!
Fave panels below:
How to blow candles, True-Bloodson style XD
Jason, the undead, being the life of the party would always be funny for me.
Oooohh a piece of crumbs of BruTalia (Ra's called Bruce former son-in-law..! guys!)...I need to sniff it like a creepy leprechaun hoarding gold.
Added this panel, coz the lack of Talia is a crime for this fun arc 🥺🥺🥺 (but yea, still like this comic, heheh)
They are so extra and dramatic, gdi. I love them 😭 (Teen Titans 2016)
Ooooohh, they called Damian 'Son of Anatolia', it is so nice! And Dami is also called "Alexander" by Talia, so its a great petname.
Batman and Robin (2011)
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Iconic Homerotice Betrayals: Round 3
Poll Directory
Context:
Akechi/Joker
Summarized by Anonymous Contributor
Ok so Akira(you the player) are the leader of a group of thieves (who are doing good for society) but there are more sinister things happening that also get attributed to your group.
Enter Akechi the famous charismatic detective who’s declared that he will catch you(you can probably already guess where this is going) When you first meet him it is already clear that something is very wrong under that obviously fake smile. Under your civilian identity you befriend him and slowly(or rather fast) he opens up to you showing more of his true self and what pains his heart. Even disclosing sensitive information that could bring him down. Of course this is all just lies he made up to get close to you right? Nope.
You see the betrayal coming from miles ahead. Not only does he betray you, he’s been the real culprit all along.
Despite knowing this loooong ahead you still take him on little gay dates to the aquarium, public bathhouse, pretending to shoot eachother, a café or try to impress him with your amazing darts skills. You may even willingly make wrong choices just for his approval (I did gdi Akechi I trusted you.) And when you come home he's already waiting for you.
After you survive him gleefully shooting you through the head(it makes sense in context) you meet again he admits that he wishes you’d have met earlier, confirming that your bond was genuine, that you could’ve been friends/partners(? It’s complicated) and he really meant it when he said you’re the only one he feels at ease with. But not without having a truly unhinged meltdown about it first, vehemently rejecting your offer to still be friends and turn over a new leaf. (so after he's attempted to kill you at least 2 times and is gearing up for making it 3)
Akechi betraying you is as much a betrayal of himself as it is one of you.
Bonus points:
other characters comment on you being the only one close to him
during one rank he confesses to you…. His hate?
as previously mentioned, your relationship ranks up after he shoots you in the head(you survive, it make sense in context)
he himself compares his betrayal of you to romance(yes after shooting you through the head). On live tv. In the same moment he reminds himself how he’s felt unwanted his entire life, like a reminder he killed the only person who ever made him wanted.
At the end you have the choice to stay in a perfect world where he is alive and never underwent any of the pain in his life turning him into a wholly different person, or let him die(again) as his true self. If you pick the former you can return the betrayal.
*vague description it’s complicated.
Read other summary here.
Homura/Madoka
Summary by Anonymous Contributor
This is the story of 3 betrayals :
1. Madoka and Homura meet and become best friends. Madoka believes in love and justice and helping people as a magical girl. But she gets killed. So Homura, loving her and believing in her cause, becomes a magical girl in order to time travel and save Madoka. Eventually, however, they find out they were being tricked all along, and none of what they thought they were fighting for is real. And this is BETRAYAL NUMBER 1: They've agreed to give up and just die/become monsters Together, when suddenly Madoka sacrifices herself to save Homura. As she is dying in Homura's arms she tells her she has a selfish goal: "you can travel in time, right ? Go back in time and warn me, stop me from getting tricked and becoming a magical girl."
2. So Homura goes back in time and tries to warn Madoka and their friends, but no one believes her. She can't save Madoka from her fate. So she time travels, again and again and again, trying desperately to save Madoka and failing every time, and becoming more and more estranged from her with every timeline. By the time we get to the timeline we know, she's done it so many times that she's become a stranger to Madoka, but Homura has become cold and hardened. It doesn't matter if Madoka doesn't love her anymore, all that matters is saving her. In the end, Homura's time travel has tied the strings of fate around Madoka so much, that Madoka bcomes the most powerful magical girl of all time and is able to essentially become a god, and rewrite the rules of the universe. She's created a better world, but at the cost of erasing her own human existence. Now no one will remember her except for Homura. As they are hugging naked in the cosmos, saying goodbye as the universe rewrites itself, Homura expresses how devastated she is by this turn of events. Madoka has saved her from the time loop she was in, but has sacrificed herself, and thereby Homura has failed to keep her promise of saving her. This is BETRAYAL NUMBER 2: Homura now has to live without Madoka, and all hope of keeping her promise to save her is lost.
3. And so we arrive at BETRAYAL NUMBER 3, the one they're most famous for : Homura tricks Madoka, and steals her godhood. Homura becomes the devil and undoes everything Madoka has fought for just to save Madoka and let her have a human existence, because she loves her that much. It's the ultimate betrayal because she destroys everything Madoka sacrificed herself for, she refuses to let her make the world better because selfishly, she loves Madoka so much she wants her to be able to exist.
#akeshu#homumado#homura akemi#madoka kaname#akechi goro#akira kurusu#p5#pmmm rebellion#pmmm#p5r#polls
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Truth be told, Vivian thinks Hayate would have a much better eye when it came to picking out clothes, but still, she couldn't help suggesting it anyways; after all, it's not everyday she got to see Alex so nicely dolled up. Why, considering she had always found her girlfriend cute, one could say she was more enthusiastic about what she would look like than the way she might appear, reflected from the mirror of the female changing room... similarly to how 2D character enthusiasts would love seeing their waifus or husbandos getting new skins from their respective gacha game. To that end, she'll eagerly nod, indicating she was on board with the idea of going to a con and cosplaying together.
"Ooh, I'd love that! I only ever went to a con with Hayupin, though, so this would be my first time going to one accompanied by someone else," she admits before subsequently resting her chin over Alex's head. "Let's see... I think the last time I went, I had cosplayed Quan'xi from Chainsaw Man and Tanya from Granblue Fantasy; only, I'm pretty sure I ended up just taking pictures of Hayupin and everyone else we met," Vivian proceeds to laugh. ...Then again, it was very typical of her to be way more interested in other people than herself, to the point where it never quite occurred to her she should preserve the memories where she had cosplayed white haired characters.
"But I do still have the cosplays back at home! However, lately... I've been wanting to dress as Anastasia Lynzel from Even if Tempest, the game I currently have a lot of brainrot for. I mean, she's simply the coolest!" she stresses. Not long afterwards, though, Vivian would then furrow her brows upon realizing the manly, badass characters she could cosplay didn't necessarily have to all be be women. "Granted, I guess I could always go for a male character... yet at the same time, I doubt I'd manage to crossdress particularly well; in fact, I could probably pass as a young-ish looking boy or a soft butch lesbian at best, especially when I look back on days where I had super short hair."
『🔧』 And, there we go, another character for her to quickly look up - she swears, she could probably just make a habit out of this alone, just for the sake of understanding her and her tastes a little better. All she gets in terms of a reaction is a brief widening of her eyes, at first, pursing her lips as though in deep thought before, just under her breath, she might be able to hear the word 'smash' pass her lips.
In any case, her description of Hayate, despite his grumpy disposition, is giving her more and more reason by the second to seek him out and ask - and if she truly is picking up so much of her girlfriend's charisma, then maybe it'd be easier than her ever-racing mind is making it out to be.
For now, she was just happy with indulging in Vivian's warmth - merely shrugging at her question. "I guess it's not so much a cosplay as, just, the collection of the clothes I need for it. And, uhm- and the cat ears, too, of- of course!" As long as she could wear it without it being clocked as a cosplay, it seemed, that was just what made her most comfortable - but she couldn't deny the lure of dressing up properly with Vivian.
"That sounds great!" Were she not so relaxed, she'd pump her fists in the air in celebration - but instead, she just scoots an inch closer to Vivian as she holds her. "I mean... you don't have to be a fashionista, either. Honestly, even though I'm so far into my transition, I kinda feel as though I'm only just finding the style that suits me. But, like... I just wanna do something nice for you with that, y'know? Heck, if- if you're down, we could cosplay together sometime, and- and go to a con, or something! I'd love to hear what kind of character you'd wanna dress up as! Probably some kind of manly, badass hero or something, right?"
#dis parity#║▌ ⧼ ⸢ ʚɞ ⸣︳m̲o̲d̲e̲r̲n̲. ⧽ ― ENTER THE MANLY HEROINE OF JUSTICE.#⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( SOCIALIZING / o2: vivian and alex ) ⤹ •• 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕤.#⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( QUEUED ) ⤹ •• 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪.#[ yeah i feel like their banter together would be so entertaining lmfao ]#[ especially because it would be a case of 'gdi why are you so hot but your personality sucks ass?? THIS IS WHY I PREFER 2D MEN' ]#[ on vivian's end. like on one hand he would physically be her type but on the other hand he would always just manage to push her buttons ]#[ so a ship between them would be interesting to think about ]#[ AND HONESTLY in the event it happens i'm sure vivian would be very guilty/conflicted about it adskjahdjkas ]
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This was supposed to be some form of Therdeo Dane Lapileon Defense Thesis but my brain cannot pull off all the necessary research to do it justice.
So I guess let’s just brain dump all my thoughts and feelings?? About this manhwa?? (Spoilers for the story up to episode 63 on Webtoons and 66 on Naver Webtoons)
...this also gets FAR too long so cut is here for sanity’s sake. Tl;dr Theo Lapileon is a wounded puppy and I want him to be happy gdi
I need to preface the Theo content by saying that I adore Pereshati. I think she’s one of the more realistic heroines that I’ve read, in the sense that she’s plucky and determined but she damn well knows how the game is played. Every move she makes is plagued with doubt and uncertainty coz she’s only a minor noble, and one with an unbelievable story at that. (Resurrecting after being fed poisonous blood and getting thrown back in time is a stretch for anyone). But whenever she does decide to do something, she handles herself with the kind of poise you’d expect from a grown woman who knows how polite society works. It’s the kind of elegance and maturity that the novel’s Perry doesn’t have.
I wonder very much how seungu would have thrown Perry into Theo’s way if they had had full control of the adaptation because the first... 10? episodes or so reads very much like a typical isekai manhwa: she’s murdered, she awakes, and then immediately besieges Theo with a proposal, simply because he needs to marry someone to get the emperor/princess off his back. The Perry we see currently in the latest chapters would likely have done something smarter/more socially acceptable/conventional simply because imperial pressure or no, why the fuck would the grand duke entertain a minor noble they’ve never met before?
Granted, this is quite in line with Theo’s character in the first few episodes as well (which is lampshaded in a later chapter AND I LOVED IT) whose excuse for entertaining her absurd request/proposal is just “I got curious about the woman who kept bombarding us with messages”. The Theo we see later, who just burns letters from the Fourth Princess Dodolea without even thinking about it, would have hardly buckled under that kind of insistence.
This is all pure speculation of course because the artist, seungu, has no social media I could trace. The original novel’s writer, Han Yoonseol, has Twitter and various socmed that show an active writing career and interest in the MILAOWM webtoon. But the artist? Nothing, apart from their work. They’ve completed a previous series (Google translated to “New Year’s Taste”) but that also seems like an adaptation. I have no access to their thought process, rationale or any inkling of why certain decisions were made.
Whatever the case though, those decisions so far have me hooked. They’re making changes that reflect something more... realistic, with higher stakes and actual consequences for the actions of the characters. E.g. you can’t humiliate, much less threaten, members of the nobility at a public function in front of a crowd without some sort of retaliation. Theo in the novel actually threatens to kill a nobleman in cold blood in front of a gathered audience whereas Theo in the manhwa does this in private.
Well, I say threaten. In the manhwa, he has just a fraction of the dialogue Novel!Theo says. Just one or two lines before he snaps and is about to decapitate a mofo before being restrained by his guards. The bullying incident that precipitates this is also dealt with realistic actions and importantly, contains a reflection on Perry’s part about the power and privilege the Lapileons have in this universe. I don’t know if this foreshadows anything but my mind has gone as far as the dissolution of the empire/defection to an enemy kingdom (and the loss of their noble titles) by the end of the whole manhwa. Far-fetched? Maybe, but I have so much faith in seungu by now and so little idea of what they’re planning that I won’t be surprised.
Manhwa!Therdeo Lapileon is also extremely taciturn and poker-faced, to all the natural disadvantages this sort of personality entails. Everything we know about him is told in silent images, or expressions we explicitly don’t see. This is a man who believes in actions over words, who has no idea that open communication is a Thing and that doing stuff behind a person’s back without telling them can backfire at times (”I’m gonna have someone follow my wife’s ex-fiance around without telling her, and that got her kidnapped. SHIT.”) And all the backstory that’s been hinted at so far gives us very sad explanations how he turned out this way.
One could very justifiably argue that actually, the entire Lapileon family is a collection of sad iron woobies. Saoirse lost her husband and only son because of her own blood, Phineas is doing his level best to save his family but keeps seeing them die despite his medical expertise, Gloria probably had a HELL of a marriage to survive this long, and the poor children have had their own bouts of suffering and daddy issues. And of course there’s also Pereshati who’s been murdered about 3-4 times at this point, and lost a most beloved father to a stepmother she loved to the moon and back.
BUT. Theo.
If the housekeeper’s flashback in Episode 47 is anything to go by, and if I’m guessing right, Theo and Saoirse’s father (maybe grandfather? Unclear at this point but let’s go with father for now) was a nightmare of a man. Slaughtering servants for infractions was probably a regular threat in the Lapileon home, and judging from that flashback during the episodes when they first find Islette, so was torturing and testing his younger son’s limits. His survival in the family was due to his “usefulness”.
One can suspect that of the three siblings, Theo was the one with the softest heart. We have no idea what his older brother (Celphi’s dad) was like yet and Saoirse is a Lapileon to the core: toughened enough to do what is needed, hardened even further by tragedy. She’s also a mom, which is why harming Islette earned Gen a rightful and vicious stiletto-heels-to-the-face-ass kicking. It also gets Theo a reprimand: get his shit together or step down from the headship of the family.
(And I’m just. Saoirse, honey, I love and respect you immensely and to be stepped on by your footwear of choice would be my honour. But that’s your younger brother we’re talking about. And he’s been emotionally sucker punched in just about every aspect. He’s trying, okay?)
I’m just saying that when you’re a child, and abused to that degree, sympathy from the devil is still sympathy. Of course it echoes to the present day even as a full-grown, supposedly rational adult. Of course it’s going to fuck you up.
You were also probably raised to put family above all (witness Theo not trusting Perry with the full truth of Celphi’s condition until circumstances force his hand, Saoirse only fully warming up to her once it’s clear she loves Celphi without any ulterior motive, Gloria immediately expecting her to be wrong about the family blood being sold, only to be confounded by the awful truth that this stranger to the family was right). You’ve been operating on the full expectation that any Lapileon would follow that creed. How could they not? Their curse is too great a responsibility.
Then you’re forced to confront the devil who once gave you rare comfort as a child, and that devil bears your family name and blood. Not only does he spout the most heinous things you’ve never imagined, he also manages to hit you where it hurts: you have used your blood. You have used it for your own benefit. Are you truly no better than he is? Who are you to judge him?
(Never mind that the devil is a liar and is trying to save his own ass which is why Saoirse, who has a better understanding of her own identity and self-worth, doesn’t give him enough time to say anything - she just kicks the shit out of him)
Is it any wonder Theo hesitates to do anything harsher?
Everything he does implies a reluctance to inflict lethal force if it can be helped. Perry remarks on it when he first removes Schiff without killing him the day they got married. He doesn’t even draw his sword on the assassin at the parade, merely KICKING HIM INTO ORBIT subduing him long enough to be taken in by the guards. The only times he has killed someone in the story is Perry’s ex-fiance who had kidnapped and blackmailed her, and... well, Perry herself.
(Which again goes back to that weird early episode installment - how do you reconcile him feeding her his blood in such a cavalier manner with the gravity of his responsibility as head of the family to ensure their blood isn’t used exactly like that?
You give him a HUGEASS dose of remorse and guilt later on when Gen accuses him of also using the blood to his own advantage, and then have him offer a sincere apology to the woman he experimented on.)
He also very nearly murdered the father of the child who bullied his ward. But even that was prevented by Raymon, the guard. This is more speculation on my part but his personal guards - who are all loyal to him beyond a doubt - may have been instructed (by him?) to restrain Theo, maybe to make sure he doesn’t repeat the sins of his father who just murdered people as and when it suited him. I don’t know if seungu would even bring this up at some point but I’ll be thrilled if that is the case.
This abusive childhood is compounded by the trauma of war. Theo specifically is credited with just swooping in out of the blue and ending the conflict between the Castor Empire and the kingdom of Schwartz. His reaction to being hailed a hero is to show up covered in blood to report to the emperor, and then disappear back to the country without attending any ceremonies. It earns him the notorious reputation of being “the bloodthirsty war fiend”.
Judging from Episode 13, what he really earned was a lifelong diagnosis of PTSD and various other neuroses. “Fuck this noise, I’m going home” was a reasonable reaction from a man who has no care or time for polite society. I'd go a bit further to suggest he also didn’t want to hear his actions being lauded as heroic when all he experienced was violence and death (re: that line about him being glad his statue was destroyed, that it’d been a stain on his honour). Whatever he did was to satisfy the emperor who has some form of hold over him, and absolutely no respect for the Lapileons (every single reaction from any imperial family member, even creepy Dodolea, has been sneering condescension or reluctant compliments). So from that perspective, why the hell would he have stayed to schmooze at the castle?
There are no therapists in Castor clearly coz Theo does what most soft-hearted introverts do and represses the shit out of his trauma. Just... stuff it WAY down into the depths of his subconscious and never address it because what the fuck else would you expect him to do? Talk about his ~*~feelings~*~ in the Lapileon house where weakness is a death sentence? No, he bundles it all behind his iron mask and resigns himself to literal nightmares for the rest of his existence.
The timeline has yet to be properly established, but I'm guessing that he comes back from war only to find that his brother has died and sister-in-law has just upped and left. Which means baby Celphi is left in his care. I’m not sure why Saoirse wasn’t the one to adopt him, but I’m guessing since he’s the next in line to the grand dukedom, it ‘makes sense’ that Grand Duke Therdeo has to be in charge of him. (Saoirse not being able to become head of the family just because she’s a woman is another sticking point that I suspect will be key to resolving this entire mess) (how/when exactly he becomes Theo’s ward is subject to many theories since the timeline of the story hasn’t been actually clearly explained; a guess that a friend and I have settled on is perhaps at the time, securing Celphi’s place as a ‘spare heir’ after Saoirse, Saoirse’s son and Theo in the line of succession would have been a practical decision. Either that or, more plausibly, Theo saw Celphi in himself and just decided to adopt the boy. Which makes this next part even more tragic)
The image of Theo in a soldier’s uniform looking helplessly into the cradle, with baby Celphi reaching up to him, broke me when I first saw it. It explains every mistake Theo made in trying to raise him.
He was a soldier. What the hell would he know about raising children (even if the theory that he chose to adopt this boy is correct)? He loves this tiny child with every breath, and he’d do anything for Celphi - but most of what he knows is how to fight and die. How the fuck does that help?? Not only that, his only experience of fatherhood is the shadow of a man who abused him so severely. What is that supposed to teach a man about parenting?
Clearly not much, considering his very shocked reaction when Celphi ends up demanding what he was supposed to think when his guardian/uncle kept ignoring him all the time while he was growing up.
And the boy is correct. Theo has no answer. He fucked up (again), and he didn’t know he was fucking up so hard.
But my god, he keeps trying to make up for it. It’s awkward and uncomfortable, but Theo shows up every day to pick him up from school with Perry; he’s even glad Celphi yells at him about killing Perry because that means he’s not turning out to be Therdeo 2.0. Celphi is expressing feelings and opinions and even if they turn the boy against him, so be it - at least it’s coming out. It may be too late for Theo to learn how to express emotions but at least his ward won’t make the same mistakes.
Which is why IT HURTS SO MUCH IN EPISODE 63 TO SEE HIM SO CRESTFALLEN. After suggesting to Perry she stay away from the Lapileon house for a while, she says she will and the dialogue translates to:
“Thank you for your kind consideration.”
THERE ARE THREE - T H R E E - PANELS where his face/expression isn’t shown at all but you can ABSOLUTELY TELL HE’S 360 DEGREES OF ANGUISHED.
This woman - this beacon of hope that he’s come to have feelings for (all the subtle blushing and unseen pining looks have been sprinkled very well throughout the chapters so far) - has just had to go through the ordeal of a trial (along with months of preparation before that) where she had to send her stepmother to 35 years of hard labour, among other things, for the murder of her father. She's just had to reconcile the mother she knew with the killer sitting in the dock, and the cries of a stepsister she once loved. And all this with the knowledge that it's the Lapileons’ blood that ultimately killed her father. There’s a stray thought that poisonous blood or no, her stepmother would have found some way to kill her dad.
But it doesn’t change how it was their blood - his blood - that killed Count Zahardt. It is Lapileon blood that has tortured Perry, the woman responsible for bringing out the best in his adopted son, discovering little Islette and bringing warmth back to this frozen wasteland of a household (to paraphrase Daniel Molton who is a treat of a character, I love him so much).
Yes, he's essentially thrown his immense resources into legal recourse, released her from their obligatory contract, and offered her help in being independent and free from them. He's done many, many things to try and make her current situation comfortable.
Yet the fact remains that she basically rescued so many parts of his life, and he inadvertently destroyed hers. Nothing he does will bring her father back.
Yet she won’t curse him or his family, won’t demand any form of recompense, won’t even give him the cold shoulder, despite everything in her that says she should. Her line “leave me be so I can resent you” is so good and so sad and my HEART disintegrated.
The most ironic thing is that Theo would’ve probably understood that reaction better. The justified reaction would have been to storm and rage at him. He knows what to do with anger.
Instead, she said thank you for your kind consideration.
And he can’t say anything to that as she walks away.
HIS LIFE HAS BEEN AND IS FUCKING SAD. AND IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE.
Episode 64 is already up on Naver and Dodolea is about to do a NUMBER on his ALREADY VERY FRAGILE PSYCHE. What she calls love - and what some of us may have suspected as straightforward obsession for his attentions - is seeming more and more like a love of torturing him, and watching him squirm.
He has to sit for a portrait in the palace (emperor’s orders probably because he just wants to jerk Theo’s chain around), and cannot escape when she comes into the room to sit and watch. There’s no good reason for him to leave, so he just has to grit his teeth and bear it.
And she laughs at his discomfort. She laughs and calls it “cute”.
The rage and fear in his face when she does so is alarming from someone whose poker face is usually immaculate. It sucks so much strength/spirit from him that it alarms Daniel who greets him at the house. I have a feeling that he’s about to just shatter into pieces since Episode 66′s thumbnail has him turned away, lying on a pillow. And then I will shatter, coz this dude CANNOT catch a break.
At some point, I came to the conclusion that Theo was soft-hearted and I cannot tell you when exactly that was. It's testament to how seungu weaves in his quiet charm throughout the chapters so we can see why Perry might possibly fall for him apart from his handsome face (even if at this point, that is the FURTHEST thing from her mind). There are huge things of course like rescuing her from her kidnapping and financing her legal battles.
But the little warm things speak volumes: learning how to dance so he could accompany her to a ball, saying yes immediately when she suggests maybe he could just reply to people, telling the servants to make her special tea when he found out she also had trouble sleeping, bringing a hot water pack(?) to ease her cramps, rushing back for her auction, squeezing her hand as he helps her into the carriage because that’s all he can do after the trial. (seungu did you also watch Pride and Prejudice (2005)? Did you see the hand flex scene and immediately decide to use this? Inquiring minds must know. Also inquiring minds screamed when they first saw that scene becausE HAND TOUCHES ARE GOLD BULLION IN SLOW BURNS) And just his face (?? back of his head?? seungu never gives us any idea what he looks like when he’s in ‘oops fell in love AGAIN’ mode)
BUT SOMEHOW YOU CAN JUST TELL:
They all tell the story of a broken man who has made so many mistakes, but he can be kind and attentive, and tries hard to do what’s right (even if it takes him awhile to figure out what’s right, coz again: he’s Fucked Up). He’s also a socially awkward dork who ignores people at parties coz he doesn't know how to behave as expected. And resembles a really sad puppy when he disappoints Perry.
I could speculate a lot more on what/who the fuck Dodolea actually is and how she’s related to the Lapileon’s curse, but I also know this manhwa has steered some distance away from the webnovel. So I cannot really tell if the plot lines will be similar.
I’ll probably be back after the plot progresses further so I can scream some more. I’ve been shrieking on Twitter but that site is subject to a hungry ghost’s whims and I can’t hide spoilers/rambling behind cuts there. So here it will have to be.
Hang in there, your grace.
#theo lapileon#pereshati jahardt#is this character analysis? plot analysis? the ramblings of a diseased mind??#ALL THREE?#episode 63 sent me into the stratosphere#which is why you get this disorganised tangled mess of word vomit#my in laws are obsessed with me#my in-laws are obsessed with me#MILAOWM#apparently it should have been Theodore Lapileon and Princess Dahlia??#that makes way more sense#OH WELL dodolea is funnier anyway LMAO
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"Beta Riddle originally was going to break all the rules" GOD DAMN IT WE WERE ROBBED OF AN EVEN SEXIER VARIATION! I demand justice! I want Told bad boy Riddle and punk jade gdi
JUST IMAGINE BETA RIDDLE BABY-TRAPPING YOU....... rules will not hold him back, his mommy issues will not hold him back, rational thinking will not hold him back... it's dangerous. ;;;;; he's such a brat, too, so he would be so annoying and mean even after you tell him you're pregnant!! The type to continue acting like his haughty, flirty, playboy self while you're struggling to figure out what to do, how to prepare for nine months and what comes after that, how to deal with Riddle... >_< he doesn't really think about it often until he starts to see the signs and one day he sees your baby bump and the pregnancy kink hits him head-on and now he wants to act like a doting (albeit very possessive) father. T_T all of a sudden he's so invested in you, far more present than he was before, so very fascinated with every little change and development.
In other words, he quickly becomes obsessed all over again.
#twisted chit chat#beta riddle appreciation#tw: baby trapping#tw: pregnancy#yandere twst#i need punk jade so carnally orz#omg beta riddle and punk jade in the same band......#omg so many thoughts
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