#he got quite lucky!

[silverselfshippingchaos]

my boyfriend always finds his way into the wildest shit, doesn't he?

[ahhrenata]

golden hour 🌅

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[sunny1927]

@hatred-n-hav0c I think those two would be good friends (at least in Ortensias eyes… well one eye since she’s blind in the other eye-)

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[flovoid]

EX YAKUZAS…

[pianokantzart]

Someone made an angsty theory on the super mario bros movie tv tropes. That instead or their dad tbinkie hes bringing luigi down,that perhaps in some way he coddles luigi?

I dunno... Mario's Dad doesn't strike me as a coddler. If he coddled Luigi he wouldn't have been so blasé about Uncle Tony pulling food out of his hands during dinner, and wouldn't have had such an overwhelmingly positive reaction to Luigi helping Mario fist fight a giant fire breathing turtle monster.

Now, there is a chance he's softer on Luigi compared to Mario, but Mario's clearly the one leading the charge in their shaky business endeavors.

[throwaway-yandere]

Maybe I'll change my tumblr aesthetic to ayato to appease him. Maybe he's mad that I was eager to replace him as a DPS when Wriothesley came out that's why I got C4 Qiqi. Maybe Dainsleif isn't my husband all along. Maybe Ayato really is my true lord. I'll be back. I'm going back to Inazuma. I'm going to go back to being a retainer. I shall appease my master.

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[senota-skulls]

And finally, my Lunar

Uh, SAMS..? Yesn’t

He’s just my silly guy, definitely inspired by SAMS Lunar but perhaps, a little removed from his character in the show

He’s a Performer and Dancer, with one of his main styles being Ballet

[lesbovalentine]

im enjoying metaphor refantazio so far i think my only complaints r that its so sad the 3d models r so bland when the games aes is so gorgeous and the world so fun.. and that i hope the characters become a little more three dimensional over time theyre all like intriguing but seem to only go fairly shallow… well actually i have a third which is that the ost is a lot more repetitive and uninspiring than id expected it feels a little bit like im back in fire emblem. its not a bad one it just. hasnt impressed me yet?

[anoddopal]

When she first joined up with The Bl.ackbeard Pirates, Bun-Bun Silva was a reclusive husk of a person. None of them initially had the opportunity to properly engage with her, nor did they even really see her— the exception of that rule being D.oc Q.

He began to relay little jokes, anecdotes, and conversations he had with Bun to the others, which were always met with a baffled: “What do you mean Bun talks?”

[stresskidz]

Gosh i really relate to him so much

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

Apollo yelling "I'm Apollo justice and I'm fine" is literally just him stimming ok? Ok.

[marbarmars]

I'll share a story my dad told me while we were in a restaurant the other day–I thought it was really funny.

We were talking about how good our fries were with salt, and it reminded him of the time he went to a local restaurant waiting for his date (this will not be my mom for obvious reasons here soon). She was an HOUR late and showed up very high. He said he was actually really worried about her cause she didn’t let him know about where she was at or anything. She said something about hanging out with her friends….the gist I got was that my dad was pissed, rightfully so.

So when she got her fries he eventually twisted the cap for the salt shaker open and poured it ALL OVER HER FRIES HAHAHA

His date was pissed but to be fair if you had a date and you showed up high AND VERY LATE?? Yeah girl you deserve your salty fries.

[fisheito]

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