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I started writing yet another tag essay in the notes of a different post where OP posited that the reason established relationships that are rock solid or functional are hard to write and find in fiction because there's missing tension due to the lack of will they won't they, and how one way to solve this in a story is to make the characters insane about each other. (The post is here.)
And don't get me wrong! I like when characters are a little or a lot unhinged about each other! and I also like relationships that self destruct, tragedies that end badly, and all that jazz I enjoy these things a lot! They're good things!
But I'm thinking about relationship tension again and how like, okay yes sometimes we want our characters confess they're in love with each other and get together and sail off into a soft epilogue, etc. This too is love!
But I think fundamentally to deny the fact that two (or more) people can love each other deeply, be totally committed to each other, and yet still have difficulties and life problems to tackle together is an underexplored facet of romance. The mundane of this is where the real romance lies on our day to day as people, and I find this so...rarely? tackled in fiction?
Maybe this is because I'm ace, but I feel that there's a distinct? vibe to these sorts of mature and enduring romances where like, the love is there, the commitment is there, but we still have moments we need to work for it because that's life and we work for it because we find each other worth it.
What is more romantic than compromise with someone you care for deeply? What is more romantic than tackling problems together and trying to come to an agreement and sometimes not being able to but still having done your best and accepted the outcome anyway?
What is a long lasting relationship that isn't about give and take and growing together or coming apart? Aren't those stories interesting? How could any long lasting relationship where people are deeply in love with each other be boring when like, to BE in a relationship with someone for ten, twenty, thirty, sixty years and come out the other side of that saying 'you're the one, you're still the one, you've always been the one' is one of the most wild and rare type of relationships to have?
What sort of sacrifice and compromise and work it takes to build that sort of relationship, isn't that interesting? To persist despite moments of doubt and periods of despair and all the work it takes in mundanity? all the trials a relationship like that has to survive and has survived, isn't that still tension? isn't that still interesting?
Maybe it's just me that I find this more interesting than "will they? won't they?" Either they will or they won't but when I'm reading a romance they mostly will! But do they have what it takes to stay there? And if they do isn't that one of the most interesting things in the world to look at?
Isn't that also love?
#writing#idk I just think maybe we should have more of these types of stories#I find mundanity interesting#maybe it's just because my parents met each other at 18 and 19 respectively#and have since moved across the world#had three children#multiple medical scares#and made so many sacrifices and their life stories are SO interesting#and yet they've come out the other side each day still being like#'you're the one and you've always been'#that makes me feel like these sorts of love stories are perhaps one of the wildest types of romances that we could ever have#and I'd love to see it more in fiction
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heyyy ii fandom . how we doin ...
#i have. this proposition#grins#ik this is out of the blue but liiike my illness. sorry#if i had a nickel for every sky crossover ive ever madw id have three nickels.#which isnt alot but its weird that its happened three times#anyway#<3 off to eat drywall#sky cotl#sky children of the light#skycotl#sky:cotl#sky: children of the light#sky: cotl#sky#inanimate insanity#ii#ii paintbrush#ii lightbulb#ii test tube#ii fan#gangs all here!#ii spoilers
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I saw a video today that said, “It’s very uncomfortable as an adult when your friend starts to date somebody who sucks, and you’re all looking at each other going ‘Guys, if this is the person who makes them happy…I think collectively as a unit we can agree that we would rather see them sad. So what's the plan?’”
And immediately went: modern Steddie AU were Steve dates his high school friend Tommy and everyone is tearing their hair out over how awful he’s being treated.
Ft. the Party, led by Dustin, hounding Eddie “I could get a man in a SECOND, I just CHOOSE not to date” Munson for help
However:
Eddie is mostly thinking the entire thing is a joke (King Steve and Tommy Hagan? Gay? Together?? Nice try Henderson.) until he runs into Robin. She laments that yeah, they’re bi, but more importantly, Tommy is fucking awful and Steve refuses to see it.
2. Eddie, maybe, kind of, still has a crush on Steve ("Stop laughing Gareth, everyone has--had! Had a crush on him!") and the guy was never THAT bad in high school---but Tommy Hagan definitely was and a little revenge would be fun.
and finally;
3. Instead of going with the kids' well intentioned but very misguided “Let’s get Eddie to Steal Steve” plan, Eddie meets up with the Robin/Nancy/Jonathan/Argyle/Chrissy dream team to figure out how to prove to Steve that Tommy is horrible.
Bonus: Robin and Nancy come up with a full proof multi step plan that involves Eddie pissing off Tommy in ways that look completely innocent. The hope is that Steve will see how controlling and unreasonable Tommy is, and break it off.
This hurts no one and just highlights to Steve Tommy's behavior.
Of course, Eddie goes off the rails immediately upon meeting Steve.
Instead of following The Plan, he, with the kids permission and help, gets Tommy to get blow up about THEM.
This is far more successful.
Bonus x2: A large amount of shenanigan's with the kids vs Tommy are involved. As is a scene were Steve breaks down and admits he knows Tommy is terrible, but Tommy puts up with him and Steve "knows how he is."
Eddie goes home, prints out a picture of Tommy and throws cheap ren fair daggers at it for at least three solid hours while he tries to think up ways to prove to Steve Harrington that his parents are wrong, hes very lovable actually.
In fact Eddie would very much like a shot at trying it out, thanks!
(It is also, inevitably, successful.)
#steddie#modern meet cute#SOMEONE TAKE IT FROM ME I CANT HAVE ANOTHER WIP#also I personally am very picky about fake dating tropes or “stealing” tropes#cause you cant steal a person#but also#the trope is naturally exploitative and thats hard to do right#not to say I havent seen people do it WELL cause I have#just that its a hard one for me personally#anyway#Eddie munson#steve harrington#tommy hagan#stranger things#Eddie is a gremlin whose been on all of two dates and had three hookups but hes never telling the children that#angsty#so desperate for love Ill take any scraps I can get Steve Harrington#is a personal favorite of mine#and not in that whiny way#I mean in a realistic way#homeboy out here knowing that half of what he says is stupid but he believes it anyway and has a lot of issues from his parents#so you have to DRAG this shit out of him#or if youre Robin you dont HAVE too but Steves excellent at dodging#excuse making#and generally making everyone think hes making sane decisions#he is not#eddie clocks this instantly lol
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Gryffindor Common Room - Nov. 25 - word count: 794 - @wolfstarmicrofic (TW: Allusions to Walburga's A+ Parenting, SH kinda? oh and Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms)
The Gryffindor common room was almost empty.
Sirius Black sat on the edge of the armchair closest to the hearth, wand spinning nervously in his fingers.
Two weeks. It had been two weeks since that night, and every moment since had felt like dragging his feet through mud. He had apologized to James, to Peter, even to McGonagall.
They’d all forgiven him- eventually, in James’s case, but none of it mattered because Remus hadn’t.
Remus, who still wouldn’t meet his eyes in class, who barely spoke to him except when absolutely necessary.
Sirius didn’t blame him.
And for why he was sitting in the common room? He was planning to apologize again- and maybe, just maybe, Remus would hate him a little bit less.
But now, all his carefully constructed words felt hollow, like a dead tree stump. He didn’t know if he could fix this.
He wasn’t sure he even deserved to.
The sound of footsteps on the boys’ staircase pulled him from his thoughts. He looked up sharply, his heart leaping to his throat as Remus appeared, rubbing a hand through his messy hair.
The werewolf froze when he saw him. His once-warm amber eyes were sharp now, wary. “What are you doing here?”
Sirius shot to his feet, gripping his wand tightly as a reassurance that this was real. “Remus, I- I was waiting for you. I need to talk to you.”
The other boy’s expression tightened. “You’ve already said enough, don’t you think?”
The words cut deep, but he couldn’t back out now. “I have to make this right.”
“Make it right?” Remus laughed bitterly, shaking his head. “You can’t just- wave your wand and undo what you did.”
“I know. I know I messed up. I know I betrayed you.”
“You don’t know,” the taller boy snapped. He took a step closer. “You don’t know what it feels like to have your worst fear used against you. To know someone you trusted- someone you loved- put you in that position.”
Sirius flinched. Every word was like a punch to the gut. “I know I don’t deserve your forgiveness,” he said, his voice barely above a whisper. “But please, just let me-”
“Let you what?” Remus’s voice rose. “Say you’re sorry again? Beg me to act like nothing happened? It doesn’t work like that!”
The dog animagus’s throat tightened. He couldn’t find the words he’d practiced. Everything in him screamed that words weren’t enough anyway.
Nothing would ever be enough.
“Then do something about it,” Sirius said abruptly, his voice shaky. He took a step forward and held out his wand to his ex-lover. “Here.”
Remus blinked. “What?”
The wand was shoved into his hands. “Take it. Just take it.”
“What are-”
The noiret dropped to his knees before he could think about it. He hit the stone floor hard, but he didn’t care. The sting felt right.
“Do it.”
“Do what?” Remus asked, his voice sharp with confusion.
“Curse me. Hurt me. I don’t care. I deserve it.”
The room was silent except for the crackle of the fire and Sirius’s ragged breathing. The dirty blonde stared at him, his expression frozen somewhere between shock and horror. “What are you talking about?”
“I betrayed you. I hurt you, so you can hurt me back. This is what I deserve.” the older boy’s voice broke on the last word. His mother’s voice echoed in his mind, cold and cruel.
Repent. Learn.
Take the punishment you deserve.
It’s what you do for the people you’re a burden to.
“Sirius...”
“You’ll feel better,” he insisted, his voice rising in desperation. “You’ll see.” He bowed his head, his shoulders trembling.
Nothing happened.
There was no spell, no harsh words, no punishment. Sirius looked up, confused, only to find Remus standing frozen, the wand hanging limply in his hand.
“Why did you give me this?”
“Because you should use it,” the gray-eyed boy said. “I know you want to. You have my permission, okay?”
The werewolf’s brow furrowed, and he shook his head. “Sirius, I don’t want to hurt you.”
“But you should. It’ll help.”
“No, it won't.” Remus sounded very sure of himself- so sure, in fact, that Sirius looked up out of shock.
He watched, shocked, as his ex-boyfriend knelt down in front of him, setting the wand aside. “You’re not your mother, Sirius,” he said quietly. “And I’m sorry for saying you were.”
The dam broke. Sirius’s chest heaved as tears spilled down his face. “I’m sorry,” he choked out. “I don’t know how to fix this.”
Remus reached out hesitantly, his hands settling on the shorter boy’s shoulders. “We’ll figure it out- but not like this. Never like this.”
The dog animagus sniffled. “I’m so sorry.”
“And so am I.”
(heavily inspired by "but i want it, it's a crime" by fertilizingdaffodils on ao3! check it out, i love that fic sm)
pt. 1, pt. 2
@estellethewriter
#and they all lived happily ever after and they had three children and no one dies bc peter wasnt made secret keeper. the end!!#also. fuck u walburga!!#emi writes sometimes#marauders#sirius black#wolfstar#moony#sirius loves remus#sirius black x remus lupin#remus x sirius#remus lupin x sirius black#remus lupin#remus loves sirius#remus john lupin#remus and sirius#atyd remus#padfoot#sirius orion black#the marauders#wolfstar microfic#wolfstar fic#wolfstar angst#wolfstar fanart#dead gay wizards from the 70s#marauders fandom#marauders era#maraudersera#moony x padfoot#angst#hurt/comfort
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Oh to be able to make the complex lore comic that lives in my head about the concept of fairies, anti-fairies, and pixies once being a civilization of one single species of fae that splintered both metaphorically and literally due to internal conflict
#Basic concept: one fae has their good and bad sides split into the fairy and anti fairy#While what remains (ie their more 'grey' traits) are left behind as a third being that's more of a Husk than anything#Pixies are kind of like the Kingdom Hearts nobodies in my head#None of them are directly associated or bonded to any single fairy the way anti-fairies are#They're just sort of a mixed bag of leftovers#Different from Nobodies in that aspect#The conflict that caused the initial split was the decision to stop doing harm to the humans through the planting of changelings#Which eventually evolved into a debate over how they treated humans in general#All desires to help and care for the human race was separated into fairies#While all desires to do harm was divided into antifairies#And then the left over unrelated stuff (like not caring about the humans either way and only being self interested instead) became the pixie#Unfortunately for everyone involved the split caused a severe decrease in magical abilities for all sides#Since it was really just one magic that was split into thirds#Having children was also banned at this point because there was no way of knowing if the children would be of one side#Or if they would be the original unsplit species#And there was concern this would cause conflict#I also like to think the heads of each faction erased the populations memories of their origins eventually#If only to make it easier to dehumanize the other factions and elevate themselves by erasing any associations with them#There are still some fae who exist who either were part of the split but escaped before they had their memories wiped#Or were never affected by the split and therefore still exist as the original form of fae#With all three 'types' of magic under their control#ANYWAY#fop a new wish#Fop#fopanw#fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents a new wish#A new wish
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the fucking henren fight was so good i don't believe anyone who says it was forced tbh, like respect but that shit went hard for me, i love when couples rehash things and bring up old wounds and fight about shit they think they've put to rest. like karen is 100% valid for feeling like hen is constantly missing the big moments because of her job, even if it's something she made peace with a while ago, even though she knows that being a firefighter is important to hen, that it's something she's passionate about and that she wouldn't want her wife any other way, but sometimes, especially now that they have mara, it just gets to her. like okay fine, you missed christmas that one time, and then new years but that's okay, and alright valentine's day is one of the craziest times of the year but also so is thanksgiving and there's only so much karen can say "okay, i understand, it's your job" to before that same old, ugly feeling rises up again.
#im having thoughts on hen and chimney's decision about “fairness” without considering their spouses or their children#like i fully believe the correct decision would have been to give it to chimney so he can go with them#(1) its jee's first trick or treat and (2) that would have meant karen had someone to go with so she wasn't in charge of three kids#henren#crimson + clover
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Don't get too attached
#Brakul did a lot of the parenting for Erubi (the first of the Janeys-Brakul-Hibrides throuple bastard children) in infancy especially due#to Hibrides going through absolutely horrific post-partum depression (and not wanting to be a parent to begin with. Like she#had accepted it as an inevitability and a duty but when it actually happened it was just like Oh God. I am in hell)#Brakul is the only one of the three that actually Wants to be a parent and the fact that he can't behave as such in order to avoid#suspicion that he's the father is kind of a living nightmare for him a little.#Not like he isn't involved in his ''''nieces''' lives given he lives in the same household but he has to keep a bit of distance.#Janeys and especially Hibrides are pretty unsympathetic about this. For Hibrides it's like she has had to go through so much shit#to maintain this situation she never asked to be a part of and when he has to go through a fraction of that he breaks the fuck down.#He only wants the benefits of the whole situation and isn't willing to deal with the consequences.#This is also one of the very few things she's sympathetic with Janeys about like she respects that he's at least willing to play#his part and be miserable without bitching to her about it. Like she fucking hates him but respects the commitment to the bit.#Janeys is more just like 'Just go make more kids if you want your own so damn bad. Get a wife or something. That's what I#had to do and look at me I'm doing great I'm so normal'#The two kids aren't present on the pilgrimage (back home under the care of a hired tutor) but the Janeys-Brakul-Hibrides#Feeling Triangle are in a fucking tailspin over her being pregnant again like goddddd not this shit again#brakul red dog
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FINISHED!!! god i love lister he is actually the character ever
#the jim and bexley frame made me a little crazy#HE OBLY HAD HIS CHILDREN FOR THREE DAYS#THREE#they make me so emotional#red dwarf#red dwarf fanart#dave lister
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Stuff I've made on my phone, I guess? Of varying levels of "quality"
#rain world#animation#art#Context: image one is oc named Apryll that I love. She's 6-7 years old now lol#Next four pics are random stuff for my buddies on disc#Technically the monk one is for a discord bot that a different buddy is building because music bots SUCK#And the long one is that one time someone decided to stream something SPICY in GENERAL VC#The three emoji is my bae phiiinnn#You do not have permission to use them#Looks at the people that use my art as emojis (/pos I think it's really funny)#The hunter one is my ongoing Every Region Mod playthrough where for a time I had a reaper lizard that I would just throw at enemies#(come with me + lizard eggs mods) and delete all foes. It was fantastic.#But I have since replaced the very valuable and helpful lizard with two useless children that I love very much#Also apparently this isn't common knowledge but you can increase global rep with lizards and just. Be pals with all of em#By default.#Doing that with scavs and lizards eliminates half the threats in the game basically permanently#And the last image was the culmination of several dozen hours in Fear Nightfall + that arachnophobia mod-- it was surprisingly fun.#Very grindy#Not... scary. At all. Lmao#Anyways maybe I'll post some animations or something later#Probably not#I keep trying to finish them before posting any wips aka I never post
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my art tablet felt bad to use the past few weeks and I couldn't figure out whether the calibration was off, the brush settings needed constant adjusting, or if my eyes were getting worse.
It was the driver. I had to uninstall and redownload a new driver
This is the best example I have of the difference the update made.
#this sounds dramatic but drawing on the tablet felt SO BAD BEFORE#All of my sketches were looking flat. the line weight wasn't matching on the screen how I wanted it to look in my head#I was panicking because I thought my hand-eye coordination had atrophied or something#sketches#herbgerbart#my art#not fandom#unless you're in the ancient greek fandom in which case RISE#I was reading a lot about the children of king priam#dawg had three kids (two believable) who were oracles and still let the tragedies happen. incredible
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Okay but consider by the time the odysseus is baby girling himself during suffering, it's been very well established that he is the distraction/talk their way out of trouble friend. So eurylochus who has probably been putting up with this nonsense since they were children was going no no this is 100% normal just ignore it. While the crew (who was just random subjects yes?) Was going what the fuck what the fuck
#eurylochus#Odysseus#Epic the musical#Like odysseus eurylochus and polties all would have had a very set very well established dynamic#And yes polties is dead which irrevocably changed them and is really the base for their shattered friendship#Which is a whole other eassy post I will write one day#But it has always been odysseus up front being the distraction while eurylochus carried out the plan#Polties probably ran support but I haven't thought it all the way out yet so idk#And eurylochus would be very very familiar with odysseus's tactics#Like mans has probably been watching odysseus baby girl himself as a distraction probably since they were children#Probably since Athena showed up since I imagine that she would have set up various tests throughout his training#And the other gods were probably like 👀 new favorite plaything???#Headcanon that these three started encounter monsters or things that shouldn't be that hard to kill but are pretty immediately after#Athena started odysseus's mentorship#So is it his favorite thing in the world to watch his captain giggling and kicking his feet at monster Penelope? Absolutely not#But it is sadly part of his everyday life? Yes#The crew however who are made up of a bunch of random subjects who now knows way too much about their king#Would actually like to be eaten verse seeing odysseus flirt with a monster they trying to kill#Suffering#Sirens#jorge rivera herrans
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when elrond dragged maglor to imlandis (because he fucking did), he shoved (gently) his father into a bathtub full of clean and warm water and dunked a shit ton of well-smelling soap for the bubbles
#because lwts be honest i do doubt they had bathtubs with bubbles in the first age#or in the war time#and after that maglor was busy being a lonely wanderer lamenting about well everything#(he was being a sad wet cat for a good age or two)#and wellagoor saw the improvement of the bathroom stuff and wow#he absolutely liked the bubbles#and made a bubble things on his head#but that was not his first time in the bathroom when he was enjoying it thoughtfully#for the first time he just did a quick dunk in-out and thats it#after like#years#or just a month or two#or three#the very much little elronds children#got their granpa to play with them#and pretty much dunked him#maglor laughed#they reminded him of ambarussa#he then cried in his chambers#maglor#elrond#silmarillion#tolkien#and lotr i think#lotr
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kakashi and his three children
#three pathetic children#naruto#naruto uzumaki#sasuke uchiha#sakura haruno#kakashi hatake#my art#fanart#i drew all these without reference so naruto fandom please forgive me if i made an error#oaky in retrospective i think its very unliekly sakura had gloves because of like the finger things they are doing.#but it felt right to give her soem#Team 7
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"Manufactured Children"
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It's Round 3 of the @kirbyoctournament! Noir's in a three-way match against @ivynajspyder's Techie and @kirbart90's Astro!
You can vote for your favorite of the three HERE! (Noir Sweep! >w< )
#kirby oc tournament#Noir Fontaine#Noir's Field Trip#Techie#hnm technical support#Kirby OC: Astro#I had to draw a little something when I realized they all three were all 'bespoke' children in some way#Also! Fun with deeply sarcastic corporate slogans!!#(HWC: 'more efficient' not 'better')#(NME: 'just the bad ones though')#(LD: '...the rest can freeze')#Astro's super duper cute and Techie is absolute love!! So I'll be happy however this turns out tbh!
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The idea that children are inherently duplicitous, manipulative liars is genuinely doing harm to children and further obfuscates when genuine harm/abuse is occurring because, "what can the adults do, children are demons!"
The idea that children have divine knowledge that transcends adults' own knowledge and they use that knowledge for personal gain is, simply-put, abuse apologism. You are aiding and abetting abusive behaviour from adults, parents/guardians, medical professionals, whomever it might be.
#youth liberation#abuse#abuse tw#abuse apologia#sorry if i talked about this before - if i had then i simply forgor#again i just fucking despise how people talk about children *and* childhood abuse#like how was i manipulating people who were like 30+ at... ages three to thirteen#like it's infantilizing the adults in somebody's life while simultaneously blaming abuse survivors because they did something to deserve it#post that's kind of piggybacking off the last one but also just...#...man i hate in-depth and nuanced topics when many people have them
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anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT
#thoughts#twilight princess#tp#tp ganondorf#ganondorf#sorry I am quite frustrated by the Discourse#there is a middle ground between evil bad evil bad and uwu baby!!!!!!! and it's the most interesting reading!!!! aaaaaa#even him not mentioning the gerudos being immediately taken as him not caring about them is veeeery frustrating to me#like#imo the three arguable arguments about what happened to the gerudos are#1) they left hyrule because fuck that shit (real and valid) and he would have felt betrayed#2) they collaborated with hyrule to subdue him (??? that seems weird to me but sure why not) and he would have felt BETRAYED#3) they were genocided because they stood by him#and of course we could assume he doesn't care (even if he drapes his execution sword in gerudo patternings which)#(not gonna lie is probably artists not really paying attention to motives but it's still interesting and noticeable)#but wouldn't that be like. deeply traumatic either way.#would you talk about your people to the enemies you hate. would you remind them of what they took from you#in ww they are children and he is old and had time to reflect#in tp he suffered nonstop and then rejected all connection and all community and is feverishly obsessed by what almost was#and they are not children there is no generational thing happening they are all royalties (and link!!! hi link!!) the beef is genuine#and EVEN IF he doesn't care that would at least be a massive wound to his ego#he had an ego collapse followed by a massive ego surge that's literally his canon character arc#so of course he would be weird about the gerudos!! how could he not be weird about the gerudos!!#again we are always assuming lack of interiority by default for ganondorf and that annoys meeeeeee#especially when there could be unbelievably interesting and tragic interpretations from what we get
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