#he doesn’t know why he bites!!!!!

[grenadine-blood]

thinking about who fitz would’ve been if he was never sent to buckkeep as a child.

would he have been a mild boy in a quiet home in the mountain kingdom? would he have married a kind mountain girl and led a simple life, had the home and hearth he so desperately seeks? would fitz have even sought that if it had not been denied to him at every chance?

he is a person fleshed out by repression and reaction; everything that he is is shoved deep down inside and everything he strives for is directly in response to the things he’s never had or never allowed himself to have. what if there was a fitz who was allowed To Be?? would he even be recognizable?

sickening…………….

[silverhalla]

Back at it again with another theory: What if Lucanis’ betrayal wasn’t a betrayal at all?

(obviously, spoilers below the cut)

During The Wigmaker Job, we have some dialogue between Illario and Lucanis about their position within both the Crows and the Dellamorte family. Illario wants Caterina to step down so he can take the coveted First Talon spot. Lucanis reassures him that his time is coming, to which Illario makes a snide comment about whether his cousin would ever go against their grandmother’s wishes. When they continue the conversation after the job, Illario states that Lucanis is the potential heir, that he’s her favorite, and that he’s unlikely to say no to her. Lucanis doesn’t argue, only insists that he doesn’t want to be First Talon, and that he hopes she’ll see reason before that. It’s mentioned again in Eight Little Talons - Caterina favors Lucanis. It’s well-known enough among the Crows that Viago and Teia discuss it in front of her (not on purpose, but she doesn’t deny it). He’s her prodigy through and through.

In the opening scene for the Lucanis quest in Veilguard, Caterina is poised, as you’d expect of the First Talon. She’s certain that the body they buried wasn’t her grandson, that it had been altered with blood magic. She doesn’t pose it as a theory, though: she poses it as a fact. It could, of course, merely be her confidence, but there’s another very unusual aspect to the scene – everyone else discusses how Lucanis was clearly betrayed, that someone must have sold him out in order for the Venatori to capture him. Caterina is the only one in that room who never speaks on it. She doesn’t ask for justice, doesn’t mention vengeance, never acknowledges that her grandson was sold out by someone he trusted – perhaps because he wasn’t. 

What if, when Caterina comes to him with a plan, with an impossible request, he’s still her favorite prodigal grandchild, and he still does whatever she asks? She’s had him tortured before as a child, has tortured and starved and beaten him herself before, because it makes him stronger and more resistant to it in the future. He says in The Wigmaker Job that he used to hate her for it, but now he understands. He justifies it. All Crows justify it, because they have to - if they don’t, then the cruelty wasn’t for survival’s sake, and their suffering meant nothing. Perhaps he doesn’t even question it. When Caterina tells him that she has a job for him, he takes it. 

What if the contract has a caveat? Sure, Calivan must die by his hand by the end of it, a little treat for a job well done, but what if his primary mission is reconnaissance, is discovery? The Venatori are using blood magic to torture and corrupt prisoners. It would behoove the Crows to find out what it entails and how to resist it, before it’s turned back on them. It would have to be someone so deeply, unabashedly loyal to her that when she asked them to infiltrate a Venatori prison, expecting torture at best, their own death at worst, they’d take the job anyway, no questions asked - someone Caterina can trust, certainly, but also someone who has never once said no to her.

And Lucanis has always been a loyal grandson. 

[fluffypotatey]

I wonder if there’s a part of Eurylochus that resents Polites

[skinreflectsthesun]

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[bbutterflies]

thinking about adrien tonight… becoming mean out of self defense… being mean because you don’t know how else to stand up for yourself… being mean because it works… being mean because that’s how you were raised… being mean and hating it every time but you can’t quite figure out how to stop…

[jrwiyuri]

Guys I’m emotionally devastated by suckening ep 4 is anyone out here? Can anybody hear me?

[swordmaid]

for me… FOR ME..!!! and for shri’iia specifically the lock in for astarion’s romance is his graveyard scene in act 3.

i think it is too quick for shri’iia to be moving on to another relationship considering her previous one was with her mistress who essentially groomed and isolated her for like … more than hundred years. learning to chase her own desires and not moulding herself to what anyone wants her to be is something so new to her…!!! and something that she’s still learning how to be comfortable with….

and what I like abt romancing astarion with her is that I usually go for the dialogue path in his act 2 confession scene where you can ask him:

- what do YOU want to do?

and he goes like honestly idk what we’re doing but /this/ is nice. it just feels like two people exploring the option to love for the first time and taking things in their own pace rather than jumping straight into the relationship. they’re going at a snails pace… they don’t know what they’re doing but they like this feeling and the vibe and they want to more of it but they’re not ready to commit to anything yet and it’s fine for them …!! and they’re only committing by the end in the graveyard scene where significant time has passed and they’ve learnt a little more about themselves and they’re both more confident about their own desires and also how they want to be loved.

like it is so fitting I think… and sweet… not to mention astarion being a high elf & a vampire and shri’iia being a drow, they have all the time of the world for themselves so I def think they would want to take their time. except if shri’iia turns into a mindflayer or drider by the end then that plan is out the window lol

[creative-robot]

It’s so easy to forget that The Social Experiments was, above all else, chats experiment, was Showfall experimenting with the audience, that Hetch ran this whole thing and Ranboo was the lone Hero put through the horrors and Hetch’s main goal wasn’t even fully focused on him, it was how the audience would react and what the audience would decide. That was the real test. And man, did we pass with flying colors

[zibah-ho]

yeah I’m sorry I know I’m not so much about comics at the minute but I just saw the most flop take re jayson and d!ck I’m about read every issue they badly referenced in that shitty post so I can insert panels when I call them an idiot

[lyricalchrysanthemum]

Gamers I gotta make Kawamoto family Plum Conversation art if I don’t I think I’ll explode

[reikunrei]

can’t stop imagining scott holding his hand out to a disheveled henry and saying “let’s take ibuprofen together :)”

[dvilborn]

thinking about how charlie DOES know that alastors a bad person, and is aware he’s using the hotel. it also just happens she thinks it’ll be fine and they can fix him.

[higgs-da-rat]

Yknow when an edgy brooding kid has a step father he hates for no reason. I’m the step father

[awek-s]

having bunny rabbits is like if the devil lived in your house and also he’s split into two creatures and they’re both half a foot tall

[peapod20001]

Making this in an effort to make me less insane but anyways don’t you think it’s funny that I have characters I’ve drawn without clothes more times than with clothes

[fissions-chips]

Jon and Butler love the way dogs do but in like. Slightly different ways.