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[IDs by @bread--quest and @alexseanchai: 1 - A comic featuring Spider-Noir and Spider-Punk from the Spiderverse movies. Both of them are in their usual outfits.
In the first panel, the two stand in front of a burning trash can. Spider-Punk says "Thanks for watching out, mate."
In then cuts to a close-up on Spider-Noir, who tips his hat and responds "Hey, no problem; I stand with the negro community".
It then cuts to a close-up of Spider-Punk, looking shocked, with zig-zag lines radiating out from around his head and unreadable text snippets behind him. He says "âŠthe fuck did you just say".
2 - Tumblr tags: #noir is using the typical lingo of his world while to him hobie is very out and loud #but that's how hobie is so he doesn't question it #until Hobies like uhhh we tend to use black or POC community now #huh. ok that's interesting. speaking of why do ppl still call the community punks? #wait which community #y'know the *noir vaguely gestures to Hobies rapid flashing between colors before pulling out a rainbow pin* the community #âŠ.noir what does punk mean in the 1930s #bit of a rude way to refer to homosexuals and transvestites #*hobie googles smth on his watch and realization very quickly turns to horrified hilarity* #oh fuck you though this entire time people've been casually calling me spider fa- #*noir also picking up context clues* wait ARE YOU NOT? had just thought the alternate Spider-Man's were all just very accepting!
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Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933
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Runaan's Last Secret
*smokes bubble pipe* I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here today. It is simple, mes amis. We've waited six years to find out what really happened inside King Harrow's chamber the night the assassins attacked. And with the release of S7, all these long years later, I finally have the last pieces of information I need to find the full truth.
We all thought there was a murder to solve in the king's chamber. But I'm here to tell you now, that is not the case.
Let us begin at the beginning and assemble our evidence:
The night Harrow died, Runaan tried to convince Rayla to give up the egg, tried to scare her off from returning it.
He couldn't sway her from her journey of redemption, though. They came to blows.
But he chose his mission over killing her. He wasn't even out of breath when they stopped fighting - if he'd truly wanted her dead, she'd be dead.
He left her behind and led four assassins up the front steps of the tower. There, he executed a frontal assault on the king's chamber, when they're built and trained for stealth.
The fight dragged on loudly. It drew extra soldiers from around the entire castle, who left their posts unguarded. But it had a purpose.
Delaying his own victory would cost lives on both sides, but clearing a path for Rayla to escape with two soft human princes in tow would ensure her survival. Runaan had already committed himself to this course when he refused to force her to complete the mission. He couldn't back out now.
Alright, that's the catch-up. For years, we had no idea what actually happened inside Harrow's chamber. But in S7, we finally got a peek. And I'm afraid it's told me everything I need to know. *more bubble pipe noises*
Let's consider these newer clues from S7:
When Runaan finally breached Harrow's door, two other assassins rushed in with him: Andromeda and Skor. Only Callisto, it seems, had fallen alongside Ram out in the hall.
Runaan drew his bow and killed Harrow - or so his binding ribbon believed -
- but the next we see -only moments later as the reinforcements have not yet arrived from below - only one assassin staggered out of that chamber and onto the balcony.
The other four members of the squad died in this battle, and their bodies were recovered by Viren, along with their weapons.
Which means, no one else survived that room. Only Runaan.
The assassins weren't attacked by human troops, either. Runaan had time to stagger out to the balcony at his hobbled pace. No guards caught up to him until he'd already shot the shadowhawk arrow.
When he burst into Harrow's chamber, this is what he was wearing.
When he left it, this was all he had.
Moonshadow assassins are some of the deadliest fighters in all of greater Xadia. No one survives them. No one.
No one... except Runaan of the Silvergrove.
Remember when I said we were not here to solve a murder in the king's chamber? That is because we are here to solve several murders in the king's chamber.
He turned on them.
Runaan turned on what remained of his own squad - Skor and Andromeda. He killed them. For Rayla.
They wanted Rayla dead. In the show, they believed she should die alongside them. In the novelization Book One: Moon, they specifically wanted Runaan to kill her for failing to do her duty. Either way, if any one of Runaan's squad survived and returned to the Silvergrove to report what Runaan had done - and had not done - when his mission went pear-shaped, he would've had to kill Rayla then and there. Right in front of Ethari.
And that, mes amis, he could not abide. He could not bear to be the monster he feared he had always been, right where his husband could see him.
And so, his only remaining option was for his surviving assassins to perish in battle, with their own honor intact and his in tatters. But they went down hard.
They broke Runaan's horn. They stripped off his tunic. They nearly cut his throat. They messed up his hair. Oui, the most unforgivable.
They wanted to live. Runaan did not allow them to.
He trained them all. He loved them.
And he killed them, to save Rayla's life.
For love of Rayla, his precious daughter, Runaan of the Silvergrove killed his own assassins.
It is no wonder he could not look Keeper Lyrennus in the eye when the man asked Runaan about his son.
He's drowning in guilt. He knows what he did. Even though Ram died from another's strike, Runaan knows he would have killed him himself if he'd had to.
This image of Runaan's fear at the sight of the red spirit Lyrennus cast, it lands differently now, no?
He hasn't told them. Perhaps he never will. But he has committed this sin nonetheless, and he must carry it with him for the rest of his life.
Runaan's last and darkest secret. No wonder he accepted Callum the moment he turned against Ezran and fought his own soldiers for Rayla's sake. He knows exactly what that feels like.
#tdp spoilers#tdp theory#runaan#this is what happens when i watch two poirot movies in the same week#i belgian detective my way through my blorbo's deepest and darkest sins like a hot knife through butter#why did i never see this possibility before?? it was right there#wails in detective lamenting a missed clue#it's so simple#so elegant#so horrible#runaan you've done absolutely atrocious crimes and i love you#i'm genuinely ill over this i have felt queasy for an hour now#no wonder poirot retired as often as he could from cases. zamn#may god and ethari forgive me
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through and through. S.R fanfiction. CHAPTER ONE.
â fanfic masterlist à§à
content warning: angst, lowkey mean Spencer, female reader, no use of y/n.
You knew that no matter how much Hotch begged for your help on a case, coming back was a mistake.
You figured it out when youâve just walked into the BAU and Spencerâs eyes met yours, a flick of disappointment and hurt was pretty evident in the brunetteâs eyes and honestly, you wanted to quit that mission right there, you wanted to leave and tell Hotch that you wouldnât be able to do it â but that wouldâve made you even more of a coward than you already are.
You didnât need any introductions to team, they already knew who you were, the point was.. why were you here? Thatâs what Spencer asked himself. Were you here to work on a case, would you be gone after? Were you here to you with his heart just to leave to another state entirely? Again?
Whatever it was, he didnât want to know, in fact, he didnât want anything to do with you from the moment you walked in that room, he even gave up on his usual cup of coffee because you two were not about to have this conversation, you were not just going to come back here after all those months with no contact and then act like nothing happened, that was not happening because it did, something did happen and he suddenly feels like a fool for leaving all those voicemails when you came to the BAU with just a phone call from Hotch.
Turns out you didnât change your number like he thought.
Itâs clear why Hotch wanted you back on the team, youâve always been a great addition to it and, with a harder case in hands, he shouldâve expected it. He just didnât think that you returning back would affect him so much, he canât think, he canât do his own job as profiler correctly because all he can think about is you â and maybe that is exactly why you two shouldâve never gotten with each other, youâd end up hurting yourself or the team. Foolish as it seems, he still hoped it was different.
And now, as you investigate the house of another missing girl, heâs trying hard to avoid you, but you donât make it easier for him.
You approach him slowly at first, pretending to look for clues, that is until, you actually talk to him. âSpencer, I ââ you try to speak, instead of running away this time, he interrupts you.
âYou found a new lead?â He asks, you shake your head.
âNo I just wanted to..â
âThen we donât need to talk at all.â He tries not to come off as rude, but he does.
You should stay quiet and accept it that he doesnât want to talk now and wonât want to talk soon but that voice in your head⊠âSpencer, Iâm trying to explain, I want to apologise to you.â
You couldâve sworn he saw red from the harshness he closed the girlâs drawer. âI donât want any apologies from you, this is not the time nor the place for you to start amends with people you lost â a little girl is missing and we need to focus on that.â He scrolls through the bottom drawers now. âAnd donât talk to me about what you wish you had done because itâs not what you did.â
To an extent, his words are fair, but the fairness of them still doesnât help to ease the pain you felt when he spoke like that to you, because itâs not the Spencer you know. Itâs the Spencer youâve seen talking to an unsub â because thatâs what you feel like, heâs talking and treating you like youâre some kind of perp and.. thatâs not the Spencer you know, it will always be the Spencer you love but not the one you know.
And it hurts to see that he doesnât even want to look and you when you leave the girlâs house and meet back with team.
Sure, you have a new lead now but.. youâre forced to deal with a broken heart.
You wonder if this is what he felt when you left.
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Tell Me
Idol: Hirai Momo (Twice)
Momo has conflicting feelings that she doesn't quite understand. So someone has to knock some sense into her.
Word count: 3.2k
Warning: mean Momo, reader gets sick, Jihyo and Jeongyeon are angry
âbuy me a coffeeâ
Things within the group have been a little more comforting as of late. Even with your late addition to the team, you all seemed to gradually get along with all of the girls, especially with having to deal with constant comebacks and late night practices.
Except for one person.
"Unnie, do you want to come with Mina and I?" You ask with a little bit of a hopeful look in your eyes, but the older woman didn't even bother looking your way as she shook her head, eyes trained on the device in her hands. "I'm busy, have fun though." She answered curtly and your shoulders deflated a little before you nodded in defeat, exiting the room to meet with the other Japanese woman.
Once she heard the door close, Momo finally lifted her gaze and let out a sigh, glancing at the door you just exited from. A frown crept up her lips and she had to roll her eyes before grabbing her bag and then waiting a few more minutes just so she was sure you still wouldn't be around.
Once she hears the sound of the front door closing, Momo takes that as a sign and finally moves from her spot, shoving her phone inside her pocket as she navigates herself through the kitchen.
"So, you're busy with⊠what, exactly?"
The short haired woman jumps in surprise, squeaking before she whirls around to look at the source of the voice that had nearly given her a heart attack before shouting. "Yah! Don't do that!" She protests while Jihyo gives her an odd look.
"You're ignoring Y/n." The leader doesn't beat around the bush when she speaks and Momo has a bit of a hard time collecting herself from the sudden accusation that wasn't entirely false.
In all honesty she doesn't have a clue on how to get out of this, and unfortunately for her Jihyo already senses it before she can even manage a sound.
"I thought we talked about this before, Momo?" Said member only sighs while leaning against the kitchen counter. "I know! But every time I see her I just⊠I don't know! I feel so unsettled whenever she's around and I can't help but distance myself from her." She explains, exasperation laced in her tone as she ran her fingers through her hair. "And I know that she hasn't done anything but I just can't help but remember how much we went through to get here."
"And Y/n has gone through the same. The only difference is that she was alone while we had each other." Jihyo reminds her for the umpteenth time that Momo doesn't even remember how many times she's heard that from the leader or even any of the other members. They were right no matter how she looked at it.
She could never change how things went. She could never truly blame you for being assigned here either. It wasn't your fault.
You didn't ask to be here.
Momo could always remember the hesitation you had displayed when you were first presented to the group. There was shame in your features that none of the girls could blame you for and she's honestly guilty for being so hostile since the beginning.
You weren't a bad person.
In essence, you were one of the nicer people that she's met in this industry and she would consider themselves lucky to have such nice and caring members.
That was why the guilt never went away because she wasn't nice.
Not to you at least.
"I know." Is all she can say and Jihyo doesn't quite understand what she's thinking because her expression right now is unreadable. "Sorry but I⊠think I need some air."
Jihyo doesn't even stop her when she exits the dorm nor does she question where she's headed. At times like these, Momo only had only one other place to head to.
"Momo unnie isn't back yet?" Tzuyu's question earns a few of the members to look over and Nayeon just shakes her head. "She's probably with Heechul oppa again."
It wasn't an abnormal occurrence, the majority of the group, if not all, knew that your senior had a crush on the dancer. But only a few of them knew that it had already exceeded that level of admiration between them. It just wasn't their secret to tell.
"They've been going out a lot." Sana comments while she fiddles with her phone. "Do you think they're actually dating now?" She can't help but ask and Chaeyoung raises a brow. "Aren't we prohibited from being in a relationship?" The younger girl can't help but question, sharing your own thoughts because you knew that there was a dating ban when it came to artists.
Jeongyeon snorts while leaning her chin against her arms. "We don't always follow the rules, plus it won't be long before that ban is lifted. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already going out together." Somehow the comment makes you uneasy.
Maybe it's the thought of your member getting into possible trouble with the higher ups. But given how your members aren't too bothered, you try to shrug the feeling off before focusing on the game that was currently on your phone with Dahyun beside you.
You don't even remember how long you've been in the living room. You only know that you refused to leave until Momo had returned home. Even when your roommates were telling you to head to bed, you just made some excuse about being comfortable where you are and wanting to finish the game.
You didn't even know when you fell asleep on the couch.
Nayeon had only sighed and shook her head at you before she grabbed a blanket and draped it over your body, patting your head as she headed for her own room.
Jihyo had noticed you when she went to grab some water, but she had stopped at some point, hiding in the corner when she noticed that Momo had finally arrived and was crouched over your sleeping figure.
Blinking in surprise, the leader quietly watched as the Japanese woman examined your face, her brows pinching together in concern when she saw the way you were sleeping before she muttered something under her breath.
Carefully adjusting your position, she made sure you were comfortable and tucked you in, too tired to carry you to your room before she quietly exited the vicinity so as to avoid being caught.
After that night, Jihyo pays a lot more attention to how Momo acts when she thinks no one else is looking.
Momo cares about your opinion more than she'd care to admit. She always has to look in your direction when she's doing something and it's only when you smile or nod does she feel like she can breathe again.
It makes absolutely no sense if you ask her.
But when you're getting compliments from everyone else, she can't help the frown that settles on her face or the way her chest constricts as though there are a pile of bricks laying there.
So she distances herself so she doesn't have to feel that and it only earns itself a frown from you because you think that the rift between the two of you is nowhere near narrowing. She's still so far away from you and it both confuses and frustrates your leader because she sees that Momo is going one way then another.
She can see the effect it has on you and while she does scold the dancer from time to time, she can't help but bite her tongue when she sees that you've opted to be the one to adjust instead.
Your leader was merely a spectator to the odd relationship you and Momo had, dancing around each other but never meeting due to fear and rejection, while the other with uncertainty. It was a difficult relationship to appreciate, and at some point, one of your roommates soon noticed this push and pull as well when she caught Momo peeking inside your room one day when you had fallen ill and failed to participate in one of the events you had scheduled.
"What's⊠going on?" Jeongyeon muttered curiously the next day, passing by the dancer who had subtly checked the door of your room when the short haired woman left.
"What do you mean?" The culprit was quick to reply, doing her best to seem casual while Jihyo, once again, watched from the side. "You do know that you can just come in to check on her, right?" It was becoming ridiculous at this point, really. Despite being one of the older members of the group, Jihyo was very close to scolding the dancer for the way she had noticed her acting.
Momo, on the other hand, just looked like a deer in headlights as she blinked owlishly. She isn't sure what to say. âI just wanted to be sure if she's still sick. I don't want to get sick too." That was definitely what she wanted to say.
Jeongyeonâs face scrunched up in displeasure while Jihyo scowled.
âLook, I get that you're not her biggest fan, but don't treat her like she's not a person. If you don't wanna get sick, then don't come near her.â The short haired woman scolded and Momo had to cross her arms, defensive as she retorted. "I was just saying! I didn't mean anything by it.â She tells them and Jihyo just sighs while shaking her head. "Momo, enough. Just go somewhere else."
The comment earns a scoff from the dancer, but the thing that irritates her is how she's being told to stay away from you.
"What? You're kicking me out?â She snapped angrily but Jihyo only shook her head. âI don't care where you go right now as long as it's not anywhere near Y/n."
"This isn't healthy, Momo. I hope you realize that.â Jeongyeon spits out before she turns and enters your room, shutting the door behind her and refusing to give the Japanese woman a chance to respond.
She's had enough and you needed her more at the moment rather than Momo needed to be taught a lesson. Plus Jihyo was there and judging by the look on her face, Jeongyeon could tell that the leader would be more than accepting of the role of scolding their friend.
âYou guys need to stop arguing like this." All of a sudden a new voice cut through, beating the leader off before she could utter a single sound. âWe're all adults here but you're acting like children." A frown is present on Nayeon's face as she looks at the two. âWe're supposed to be the unnies here. But you guys are creating a bad vibe that no one can enjoy.â She sighed out and Momo scoffed. âI'm not doing anything.â
âOh, cut it with that bullshit. We know that you don't like Y/n but at least be civil!â Nayeon scolded, taking the reign this time whilst Jihyo listened. âHow can we be a group when you're acting like one person should be left out? How are you setting an example?â She went off as Momo looked away with a huff though the twinge in her chest tells that Nayeon had hit her mark. âY/n isnât some outsider, Momo. Sheâs here to stay so get that through your head.â
Thereâs a pregnant pause as the three of them stood in the middle of the room, Momoâs thoughts going a mile a minute as she kept stealing glances at the closed door that separated you and them.
âWhy do you hate her so much?â
All eyes are on Jihyo as she stares at the dancer, a tired expression on her face. âI mean, I get that you werenât happy about her joining outside of Sixteen, but you know just as much as I do that she had to deal with things differently from us.â Momo struggles to come up with an answer.
It was true that she had been upset by the decision. She worked hard and suffered through a reality show, fighting to be where she was now. But couldnât the same be said for you?
Jihyo was right, you were alone throughout your training process while they had each other. They depended on each other during the survival show but who did you lean on when things were getting too much?
âI donât hate her.â Is all she ends up saying. And judging by the look on her face, it looked like that was the only answer she was willing to give.
..
The practice room was always a paradox for the Japanese woman.
She could always relax and let the music take her away from all the mess that went on with her life, but the same room always reminded her of all the suffering sheâs been through just to attain her dream of being an idol.
The never ending practices, the starvation, the crying - it all seemed to happen a lot in this room.
Even when she found solace in it, it still held the storms that she had gone through and the ones she was currently going through.
âOh-â
The sound made her pause and Momo quickly spun around to see you standing meekly by the door, a timid look on your face as you looked anywhere but her. âI⊠didnât think anyone was here already.â You say awkwardly, hand still on the knob.
âIâll just-â
As you moved to exit the room, Momo wasnât sure what tugged at her chest, but she was stepping forward without realizing. âItâs okay. You can stay.â
That made you blink and your eyes snap to her face to see if she was kidding. But this was Momo. She didnât joke, not with you at least. So when you see that she actually means for you to stay, you slowly step away from the door and head over to one of your usual spots in the room.
All the while, Momoâs eyes follow your every move, contemplating on what she could possibly say.
Even when sheâs been an utter bitch towards you, Momo realized that you neve retaliated or treated her with any ill will. It was always the other members that did that for you without you knowing and she knows that she deserves it for how she treats you.
Youâve only been understanding of her situation, greeting her with a smile even when she shrugs you off, offering her things you know she likes, but she would always turn you down just because it was you.
God, she felt horrible.
Why did you have to be so nice to her?
âY/n.â
The call of your name had you looking up during your stretch and you fidget a little when Momo waves you over.
Were you asleep right now?
Momo was calling for you?
That didnât seem right.
Nevertheless, you stood and approached the older woman and she internally sighs when she sees the shy look across your face. You were cute, she had to admit.
The thought made her pause.
No, no, no. That was not what she needed right now.
But as you stood awkwardly in front of her, the older woman could see the way your eyes looked up at her, kind and shy, she had to bite her tongue before exhaling loudly and then awkwardly putting a hand on your shoulder.
She frowns when you flinch a little at the contact, but the look you give her is reassuring that it leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.
âDonât look at me like that.â
You were honestly surprised by the softness in her tone, lacking its usual edge whenever she was talking to you, but the look in her eyes manages to make your breath hitch.Â
â... I wanted to apologize.â
You keep quiet as she tries to find the right words to say. âI havenât been fair to you, but I just wanted to let you know that I donât⊠I donât hate you.â She mumbles softly, her hand moving from your shoulder, down to your forearm, until sheâs eventually taking your hand in her own, albeit hesitantly, almost as though she were afraid you would pull away.
âI know that I have a lot to make up for, but I hope you know that Iâm really sorry.â She sucks in a deep breath. âI was confused and frustrated, and Jihyo was right, I shouldnât have been taking it all out on you because you didnât ask for any of this. I was just a bit bitter.â
You raise a brow, the corners of your mouth twitching a little. âA bit?â You canât help the teasing lilt in your tone and Momo huffs. âShut up, Iâm trying to apologize.â And you do so with a smile on your face this time, and Momo canât help but find that she likes your smile better.
âYou somehow make my skin crawl and I get this weird feeling whenever I see you. But at the same time, I donât like it when youâre upset or sick.â She remembers Jeongyeon getting mad at her again and she knows she has to apologize to her, too. âI hate not being able to talk to you because thereâs so much going on with me that I canât sort out.â
Your eyes widen a little and you know thereâs heat crawling up your cheeks at that point because⊠god, this sounded like some sort of confession in some way. But you keep your mouth shut because you barely knew Momo enough to assume whether you were right or not.
Especially not when she acted like she didnât like you.
âUnnie.â You began quietly and sheâs squeezing your hand like a lifeline. âIs there⊠a chance that you were⊠jealous of the others being able to talk to me when you couldnât?â You bite your lip when her brows furrow, but she nods either way. âAnd when Sana unnie or Nayeon unnie are hogging me to themselves?â She huffs at that and rolls her eyes. âItâs annoying, really.â You snort a little in amusement before you finally try one last thing.
âCan I hug you?â
Momoâs brain seemed to short circuit at your request, but when she doesnât say anything, youâre afraid you may have overstepped.
Just as you were about to pull away from her, she tightens her hold on your hand before tugging you closer, making you tumble into her arms before sheâs holding your head close to her chest.
Her warmth wraps around you like a blanket and you could hear the way her heart pounded against her chest even when her fingers ran through your hair.
âIf this is how hugging you feels like⊠you can hug me as much as you want.â
Honestly, that and the way her heart sped up a little more only made the stupid grin on your face widen.
She wasnât too sure what she was feeling right now. But maybe after a bit more of time, she could finally come to terms with herself and tell you how she really felt.
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Grim 5
Summary: The little gray kitten that woke you up, and that you accidentally kicked on instinct, was at risk of having his spine be stomped on by a large crowd of startled students that have no clue what's going on. You being yourself, you went to grab him.
(I have been teasing about kitten grim haven't I? Well, may as well use it. Treat this as more of a plugin, or an add-on something to plugged into the various AUs I have going on, in the same way I treat the yandere things. So you can have kitten grim in the house pet au, or the janitor au, or eldritch au. Any of them, really.)
That's when you spotted the source of all this chaos. A scraggly, matted furred, mess of a kitten, clumsily weaving through the legs of the college students stumbling over one another.
The same kitten that woke you up from the coffin and fled after you accidentally kicked it.
"Wait a minute, hey!" You dove between the winding bodies, shoving yourself past them as you crouched low to the floor. "Out of my way!"
Honestly, it probably would've been less trouble for you to just ignore him. Let him escape or get captured by another student, but this creature was so small that someone would probably break one of his bones before any of that could happen.
"What is that thing?!" The tone of disgust only had you pushing through faster. Swinging limbs hit your own, and no matter how strong you may be, you just know that you're going to be full of tender spots in the morning.
You didn't even have time to marvel at the displays of magic. It didn't really matter, not in this moment. You didn't even care when you saw wisps of blue fire leak out the sides of the kitten's mouth. You just scooped him up and wrap him tightly in your robes to keep his claws from digging into your skin.
Thank goodness.
"Hey, hey, I got you," you curled over him as the chaos continued, the cat yowling and struggling to get out of the cocoon you have him in. A gale of wind hit you on the side of your ribs, knocking away your ability to breathe. You luckily had one hand on the floor so you didn't roll, but you skidded nonetheless. Your palm burned against the cold floor.
When your body finally remembered how to take in air again, the cacophony of yelling students have calmed down, making it all the more louder to your ears as you coughed. The cat in your arms stopped struggling, and after wiping your watering eyes, you spotted him staring at you with eyes almost two blue to be real. Wide, young eyes in a very small face, practically buried in your robes. The fire of his ears flickered, almost threatening to go out as his entire body went stiff with what you think is fear.
Understandable, poor thing.
"Sorry about that," you sighed out, voice a strained hush. Oh, you're definitely going to feel that later. Felt like there's a bubble stuck in your lungs. "You doing okay, little fella?"
The weird fire kitten continued shivering, eyes wavering as they flicked from your face, to the crowd, then back to you. "Mm." A noise and a nod, but that was all you needed.
"Okay, that's good."
Two sets of footsteps came up and stopped right to the side of you. You looked up to the owners, one a short student with apple red hair, and a taller one with light gray hair and an interesting long lock of it cradling his face.
The red one spoke first. "Hey, are you doing alright? You took a direct hit to the torso, so it's best for you to go to the infirmary."
You were already planning on seeing a doctor as soon you get home, thank you very much.
"And I fully agree with you on that, Riddle. No matter how tough one may be, a hit like that is bound to leave some damage behind. Best not to ignore it. But first, there is the matter of your⊠rather reckless familiar."
You risked another deep breath. "Ah, he's not my--"
"As head of the dorm of Heartslabyul, I have an obligation to punish all those that break the rules. Due punishment can come after you have see to it that you don't have anything broken. You can leave your familiar with us. Now, then⊠Off With Your Head!"
#twst#twisted wonderland#twst-drabbles#twst-drabbles exclusive#drabble#ramshackle#grim#janitor au#reader insert#kitten grim#unindexed
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Aot Characters - Having a crush
What I think the Aot Characters would be like when they have a crush bc why not!
cw: GN reader, slight Eremika (Mikasa), Eren and Connie being a chaotic duo (Armin), Bad self-thoughts (Levi), no y/n
wc: 2.2k
Characters: Eren Yeager, Mikasa Ackerman, Armin Arlert, Jean Kirstein, Connie Springer, Levi Ackerman, Hange Zoe
Eren Yeager - Oblivious, but jealous
Despite what I have seen for him, I do not think he would be that aware of his feelings.
He would be almost entirely oblivious, but he would get upset if he sees you hang out with someone else. If he had the opportunity to, he would watch you as you train. If he ever saw you get injured he would be very worried.
butâŠ. he just can't see that he has a crush on you. He just thinks he feels that way because he admires you and wants to be your friend.
It would be like that the entire three years at the training camp, but the second he finds out hes a titan, he becomes so nervous about what you think about him, that the old Levi squad tells him to just tell you about his crush on you. And he would just be there like, "Huh? I don't have a crush on {name}! They are just really cool, and now they probably won't hang out with me now. They'll probably go hang out with Jean or something." He would say while mumbling
The old Levi squad would just share knowing looks with each other as they knew he had a crush on you but was just too oblivious to notice
Mikasa Ackerman - Quiet yet caring
Mikasa, as we see with Eren, is not the most vocal when talking about her feelings. She is very quiet, but she knows that she has a crush on you.
I feel like she is not one to start crushing someone based off of looks, but more of their personality. She would probably notice you during training when you either helped a friend, or got excited after doing a maneuver right. She would start off just calmly taking note of the event, but she would start to notice that she would look for you more and more. After maybe two days, she realized that she had a crush on you. What will she do now?
Speak to you about it? Confess? No.
She would make sure that you are safe. That is all she can do. She would probably be very confused because she thought she liked Eren, but now she is feeling the same way about you.
While she is figuring all of these feelings out, and kicking absolute ass, she would do everything she could do to protect you.
She would even find herself looking out for you more than she did Eren. That would be when she decided to chose which one of you to have a crush on. It would probably be after the 57th expedition, and she would realize that she cared about Eren in only a sisterly way. She likes you, and she just hopes you like her back
Armin Arlert - Nervous
Armin is definitely the type to get extremely nervous and flustered. However, I feel like he would be one of the ones to ask you out the earliest. Let me explain.
Armin would be in the 104th Cadet Corp. and all would be normal. Except on one of the first hand-to-hand combat practices he gets paired with you. He already hates the exercise, but he doesn't really know you, not to mention the fact that he really likes how you look. Not in a creepy way! Just in an 'I want to get to know more' way.
During the hand to hand combat practice you would notice after he tried to throw a couple punches, that he had no clue what he was doing. So you being you, you decided to be nice and walk him through the basics. How to throw a solid punch, how to dodge, and before you both noticed, training was over.
You then suggested eating dinner together, and while trying to go to bed that night, he realized that he really liked you. The realization alone is enough to make his face and even his ears feel hot.
After that, he couldn't hide a small blush on his face every time he talked to you, but you never pointed it out, and it made him really happy. The two of you would train together and sometimes talk to each other at lunch, and it went like that for months.
Until one day, Connie noticed and then told Eren that he suspected Armin liked you, which just led to chaos. That night in the boys' dorm the two confronted the poor boy about how much time he has been spending around you and how his cheeks are always pink when he even sees you. This, of course, flusters Armin to the point he isn't even able to form a coherent thought.
After a lot of them talking, totally not just Connie and Eren practically harassing Armin, they threaten convince him to ask you out. Which he does a week before your graduation.
(I love Armin. I think he is just a well-written character tbh :)
Jean Kirstein - Amires + Slightly Jealous
As we see in the show, he practically just admires from afar, and get jealous. Here is how I think it would go with you two.
On one of the first days of training, Jean starts to crush on Mikasa. The week after, Jean notices you. He would imediatally notice how you looked like you were made to wear a uniform because of how well you look in it. He almost immediately starts to crush on you, and the good thing for him, you aren't obsessed with Eren!
After like a month or two, he would have given up on Mikasa, and started to solely focus on you. He would start to get jealous anytime you would even look at a guy, and he would even catch himself getting jealous of girls. He would always try to brush it off, telling himself that people don't tend to like jealous guys. He can't help it though, he just wants to be the only one to make, and see, you be happy. Call it jealous or crazy, but he just couldn't help it.
I also feel like he would try to ask you out manyyyy times, but he would always chicken out after he sees you looking at him. This would happen a minimum of ten times before he was finally able to ask you out.
Connie Springer - Loud + Aware
I feel like Connie would be one of those guys who starts of just admiring you, whether that be for your kindness or skills, and then it would just develop into a crush. I feel like he would be very aware about it too.
After realizing that he got a crush on you, he would start trying to hang out with you more, whether that be in training or break time, he would always seek you out.
He would definitely be the type of guy to flirt and make jokes just to see you laugh. He would do anything just to know that you were laughing at his jokes.
I also feel like he is one of the few to actually end up asking you out.
It would be after the Battle of Trost, and your group was separated from the rest, all of you without gas. All of you would be just trying your best to fend off what Titans you could with what gas you all could spare, but you all had given up hope on making it out. Until, you see two people heading your way. It was Connie and Sasha.
Connie had been the one to notice your group from headquarters and dragged Sasha along to quickly supply you all with gas. He immediately would start working on your gas tanks with a small frown on his face. You asked "Are you okay?" and he would look up to meet your gaze and then all of a sudden bring you into a strong hug, and ask you, "Look, I know this isn't the best time, but after this would you please consider letting me be your boyfriend? After what I've seen today, I just couldn't live with myself if I never told you." You, obviously, say yes and give him a hug.
After that day he would be somehow even more happy. He had you after all.
Levi Ackerman - Tries to get rid of it
Levi, my gosh, this poor guy. With him growing up in the underground and being really detached from his emotions, he would try his hardest to get rid of any romantic feelings he ever has.
You would have joined the scouts years before him and were really good at teamwork. It wouldn't really matter if you are energetic or quiet, but Levi would notice how well you worked with others after just a couple of months of being in the Scouts.
He would start to feel weird, and he thought it was originally jealousy, but after seeing you get injured he felt a pang of sadness in his heart, and he realized that he had a crush on you.
He hated it. By that time, he had it in his mind that everyone he has ever loved, died because he cared for them. With that mindset, he quickly tried to pinpoint every unappealing feature that you had, but when that didn't work. He set out to make sure that you hated him. Why? He didn't really know, but he could deal with being hated. He couldn't however, deal with losing another person that he cared for. Especially because he had never really lost anyone he had romantic feelings for, and he didn't want to find out.
With that being said, as soon as he got a position with more authority than yours, he set out to make sure that you hated all that he made you do. He would assign you to cleaning chores every time he could. He would assign you more training and workouts than he would with others. Any opportunity he had, he would make sure to assign you something.
He was determined to make you hate him because if you hated him, then maybe it would be easier to try to stop liking you.
Hange Zoe - Excited + Talkative
Hange, our icon, is definitely aware. You would be a transfer, from either the Garrison or the MPs, and joined the Scouts out of curiosity of the Titans.
After the transfer, you would be asking the other, more experienced, members about all they knew about Titans. Soon the word got to Hange that there was someone interested in Titans and they just had to see for themselves.
Hange would scout you out and ask if you are the one curious about the Titans, "Hey! Are you {name}? The one interested in Titans?" After giving your response Hange would grab your wrist and drag you over to whatever their current workstation is, and lord help you if they currently have any titans.
They would ask what you were curious about and with your response, they start going on a tangent about whatever they can think of that would interest you. What would surprise them though, as well as start their crush on you, was that you continually asked them questions about their research. Which they happily told you about.
They talked and talked and you would ask questions until you both realized that it had gotten dark out. "Oh sorry about that, I tend to ramble a lot," Hange would try to apologize but would get cut off by your own response. "Don't! I'm the one that kept asking questions, plus I loved hearing you talk about it. How about you find me tomorrow, and we continue our conversation."
With a look of admiration on their face, Hange would nod their head and wave you off so you could go to bed. They then made a habit of coming to grab you whenever they could. The look on their face when they came to talk to you about a new discovery and you were just as excited as them was priceless.
After maybe a week after your first meeting, Hange realized that they liked you, and they would be somehow even more giddy around you and make sure that your questions were answered.
Their crush on you was very obvious to the other Scouts, and to you as well, but neither of you ended up asking. The funny thing is, both of you just came to a silent agreement that you both liked each other and started dating without ever asking the other.
You both would only realize after a couple years, and Hange would randomly blurt out on one of your late-night discussions, "Wait, I never asked you out!"
After a couple moments of silence, both of you erupted in laughter. Hange would then dramatically grab your hand and ask "Would you please go out with me, my love?"
Of course, you would say yes, and the two of you would laugh for the next couple of hours because you were just so in tune with each other that you forgot to make it official, even after multiple years.
You were just made for each other.
I hope you enjoy this! This is actually my first time writing like this so I hope it is good! Also let me know if you think any of the characters came off as ooc!
#aot#snk#aot x reader#aot x you#snk x reader#snk x you#eren yeager#eren jeager#eren jeager x reader#eren yeager x reader#mikasa ackerman#mikasa ackerman x reader#armin arlert#armin arlet x reader#fluff#jean kirstein#jean kirsten x reader#connie springer#connie springer x reader#levi ackerman#levi ackerman x reader#hange zoë#hange zoe x reader#aot characters#having a crush
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I was thinking about what you said, "less transactional relationships with companions, the companions feeling like friends with each other and not just you."
And I don't think I had really noticed that in DAI until DAV came out. The companions chilling in their section of Skyhold felt normal because, well, game limitations meant that companions had always hung out in their section of camp or the Normandy etc. But I loved coming back to the Lighthouse and seeing who was chatting! (Harding and Lucanis sharing dreams was one of my favorite conversations to eavesdrop on.)
And I don't really get the complaints about how the devs had to pick from static companions to chat with or them moving around in the Lighthouse and chatting with each other. I don't feel we were "cheated out" of having conversations with them, they still had chat quest markers in the Lighthouse. And instead of just standing around in their rooms we got to go to places they found important! I got to go on walks in Arlathan with Davrin! Nev invited me to eat fried fish, which didn't work out I got to help her find clues!! I wasn't looking at the same wall behind the companions every conversation!!!
I think it really makes the veilguard feel more alive to see that theyâre doing stuff and hanging out with each other when weâre not there.
Like theyâll go to Emmrich to speak with a corpse, they donât need to go through us first. Emmrich and Harding will go camping (yes the logistics of that donât entirely make sense but the thought is there) without us. Davrin and Lucanis hang out together.
And while SOME of these interactions involve rook stumbling upon their conversations, they also all have conversations with rook and spend time with rook. I donât get the idea some people have that theyâre all friends and rook is separate. Theyâre all friends, including rook.
And yeah the conversations we have with them might be limited to more cutscene ones, but I donât feel like we were prevented from talking with them. We just had actual conversations instead of going up to them, asking them ten deeply personal questions about their deepest traumas without any lead up, and then immediately leaving like we did in inquisition.
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Do you have a favorite Sonic character?
why of course i do...đŒ
various actually, i could write essays on almost every character in the franchise. on the surface level, id probably say sonic(real obscure choice i know), silver, blaze, or tangle. though on a deeper level, i do want to talk about a boy who had a big year last year...
shadow!!! in particular, his debut portrayal in sonic adventure 2. ive liked some of his other interpretations since then (my goat 06 shadow), but none really presented as much depth as this one here.
i love how mysterious he is, especially in the hero story. hes barely even present in the hero story, only really appearing at the very beginning and at the very end, but his presence is felt incredibly strongly throughout. he outplays sonic one (1) time, and sonic never forgets that shit.
so, being that you barely get anything out of him in the hero story, you seek answers in the dark story. except, it doesn't tell you much more about him (at least not explicitly), because he doesn't tell you much more about him.
hes such an interesting character to watch move because you almost never know exactly what hes thinking, how hes feeling, what he is going to do next. he hides all of his doubts, fears, insecurities and other emotions under this edgy vaguely mysterious type facade. he acts as though team dark is a strictly business relationship, a means to an end, like they dont matter to him personally - yet he saves rouge on prison island. he acts as though he's dead set on one mission, and like he knows what hes doing - yet he has no clue who he is, where he comes from, or why he was made, only vague memories of what he was meant to do (which he later realizes were implants). this is all a big way of getting at one little idea: hes just a little poor helpless meow meow.
OKAY sorry. but understanding his character here is pivotal to understanding why most of his later outings fall flat: he becomes a parody of himself. his surface traits in sa2 are turned into his entire character. however, what made him so interesting in the first place is that there were traits under the surface. nowadays? not so much.
anywayyy lol that was just one of my unorganized essays on shadow the hedgehog. hes probably my favorite, to answer your question definitively, though i love all my babies. later!
#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#sth#sth fandom#sonic fandom#shadow the hedgehog#sonic adventure 2#sonic movie 3#asks#sonic channel#unhinged ramblings#character analysis
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âWhat- what did I do?!â, he had been way too confused by her reaction. How she suddenly switched to looking like he had betrayed and sold out her entire bloodline just because he had stopped her from scaling down a rocky cliff.
Maybe they could have gone about it in another way. Maybe he could have used his own powers to get them both down there more safely. Warping could have worked⊠but with how she marched off, Somnus felt very little inclination to offer this now.
She was more sensitive than anyone else and yet she seemingly liked to dish it out. Great. If he really had to suffer this kind of marriage, he would throw himself down these cliffs on their wedding night.
âFine. Go off then.â
Making a throw-away gesture after her, Somnus glared at her back for a moment. She had almost tricked him into thinking maybe she wasnât purely insufferable. Almost.
Just like he almost considered running after her.
Almost.
To say the next morning was an easy awakening would be an outright lie. Somnus had barely closed an eye during the night. There were too many things riding his mind and nothing was right anymore. Between anger and ire, he also felt upset and betrayed. And guilt. For how she had looked at him the last time⊠and for how he had not made sure she made it safely back to her villa.
And yet his worries seemed to be unfounded. At least the farmlandâs Princess showed up at the mandatory morning-courtesies.
The Queens and Kings had to have more conversations on the current delicate situation. And before Somnus could escape to any training grounds, his motherâs hand and a sharp look directed him back towards the halls bordering the gardens where the Princess was currently present with her younger brother.
The blond boy looked up to his sister with utter adoration, laughing with her and seemingly begging her to show her some tricks. Somnus had no clue what kind of tricks and seeing a sibling-pair clinging so much to each other, considering how his own brother seemingly was determined to drag him to an early grave, Somnus just sighed and leaned against the next best column.
Of course he was noticed there â and as soon as bright green eyes met his own, Somnus forced a sarcastic smile and an even more sarcastic bow.
That answer drew a confused frown from her. "What? Why not?" Aerith challenged, not at all understanding what her attire had to do with it. She wore such dresses when she climbed the walls and the towers of her mother's castle after all.
Just because she was cooped up it didn't mean she couldn't be adventurous in her own ways. One of her favourite places to be was up high on the roof of the solar â what had been her birth father's private study, and one of the highest points of their castle. The view was breath taking. This was a gorgeous view too, but it paled in comparison to the farmlands in full spring bloom.
"I'm not going to fall to my death! I'm not a Princess who needs to be coddled." she argued back, removing her hand from his arm. Somnus had played a trick on her, leading her out here by her nose, not intending to actually show her the coastal baths.
Her jaw tensed a little and she had to swallow down a forming lump in her throat. Somehow he managed to find what would sting raw. Freedoms snatched away â gods! She hated it here!
"You didn't have to be a jerk." Aerith picked up her skirts in bundles, turning away from Somnus and the scenic cliffs to make a purposeful march back to the villa. She wasn't sniffing for any other reason than... pollen. Definitely nothing else.
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bunzai
#aaaauuuughh how how does drawing like this work#i had no clue what i was doing the entire time#people who blend are gods and i bow to yall cause i was suffering#he's just a little guy (traumatized)#bunzai#dazai#dazai osamu#dazai osamu fanart#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd fanart#bungou stray dogs fanart#my art#my doodle#artists on tumblr#bunny
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so here's my honest thoughts on dragon age: the veilguard, after ~40 hours of playing. i finished the main quest after having finished all companion quests and major faction quests. just to clear up what content i saw, i played as an elven transmasc rook who is a member of the lords of fortune. he romanced lucanis (although after finishing the game i'm now leaning towards taash). i don't know what's happening in playthroughs that have a different race, gender identity, romance or faction going on.
full spoilers ahead, i mean it. don't read further if you want to avoid them. i don't want complaining about it in my asks.
oh and also, if you're worried because of a few negative reviews online i can comfort you by saying don't give a fuck about a certain big name youtuber who is very much tied to bethesda franchises giving this a negative review. i'll explain why.
i'm starting off with the things i liked
the game looks really pretty. i was worried it wouldn't feel like thedas anymore (with them trying to "focus on northern thedas only" i thought they'd make a clear cut in environmental design. they do and they don't. it's complicated. i'll elaborate on it when talking about the negative stuff). anyway it does. minrathous feels like kirkwall. treviso enchanted me like the winter palace did. the hossberg wetlands reminded me of the hinterlands and a couple other inquisition maps. arlathan looked like... arlathan. the crossroads were different, but familiar. overall i like the way it looks and feels. it's thedas, with a twist. it's a good one, and gives everything a solid but unique feel.
combat is top tier. if you're a hardcore dragon age player you WILL miss the tactical aspect of it for a bit, but i promise you, once you're used to the way the combat works, you will be lapping that shit up. and once you get to ability combos you'll mourn the control you used to have over your companions in battle a bit less
the MAIN quest and its story. i expected worse, way worse. and for a while the game even had me tricked (harr harr you'll get it in a second) it is Really That Much Worse. but holy shit was it good. i walked away satisfied ngl.
your choices have SOLID weight. there's consequences, good AND bad. i got minrathous blighted, ruled over by venatori, and the leader of the shadow dragons ultimately died because of my decisions. i made those at the beginning and throughout the game. he died at the end. DAVRIN died because i didn't expect what i was saying to have that much weight. i thought i was in the clear. he had hero status. well turns out, your choices can still get your companions killed even if you do everything right. i fucking love him. he shouldn't have made that sacrifice just because i told him to do everything it takes once.
the inquisitor, morrigan and dorian being there, surprisingly. there's also negatives to this though, see below.
speaking of companions dying and the inquisitor playing a bigger role: the final quest feels like me2's suicide mission. i was blown away by it and the fact that i got to see the results of all my efforts playing out in front of me.
bioware are NOT trying to redeem solas. they love him as a character yes, but i wasn't forced to see any good in him. he betrays you. he fucked my rook over twice. he fucked him over right back, for good this time (the veil wasn't torn down, i anchored it by binding him to it, he's doomed to uphold it). but solas really lives up to his name as the trickster elven god. rip to all the people who grew really attached to him over the years.
varric died. if you like him that's probably as hard reading it as it was watching it. varric died and the game lies about it until the very end. when the realisation hits, it hurts. but in the very best way.
the amount of care they put into gender expression and trans identities this time around. (i'll add onto this with negative points as well too).
rook feels very much ingrained in the world of thedas. he doesn't ask questions that expose the player to lore through dialogue as if he's stepped foot into thedas for the first time. those conversations feel very solid and good. i hope other faction players got as much joy out of this as i did.
and the things i didn't like and boy there's a lot unfortunately
the music. let's just get that out of the way holy shit. it doesn't feel like it belongs in this universe. it gets so incredibly sci-fi-y at times you'd think it's taken straight from mass effect andromeda. there's not a single song unique to veilguard that i really enjoyed. it broke my immersion, real bad. hearing a busker play the tavern songs from inquisition on a lute right after i killed some venatori with wobbly bass songs playing in the background is just odd. weird tonal shift. don't like it. it's made for people who like flashy light-weight cinema.
tevinter nights is required reading. the podcasts are required listening exercises. the game is so fast paced, especially at the start, that there's no time to introduce you to characters and how much weight their names carry in-game. i would not have known who half these people are if i hadn't skimmed over tevinter nights. i'd care even less about them than i already did. there is no time to get properly attached to them. people will act as if you're talking to a legend personified and you'll be thinking man goddamn which chapter of tevinter night were they in again and what did they do???
there's a weird mismatch with the animations. you'll have beautifully fluid ones, like emmrich casting spells. and then you'll have rook's face animating in the most unnatural manner that's sorta reminiscent of mass effect andromeda's "my face is tired" addison, when their emotions SHOULD be landing with the player rn instead.
i'm not vibing with the art style. sometimes it works. most of the time it doesn't. at points i felt like i was watching tangled.
that also brings me to some of the dialogue. same issue. i am watching frozen. i am watching tangled. someone on the writer's team really likes the adorkable trope. bellara is its victim.
for all the talk about identity, bioware sure doesn't like theirs. the grey warden armor got a redesign again and it just makes them look like a generic army. i hate it lol
in general, i don't like the armor design. the wardrobe/appearances system is fine, but it's just not helping if all the armors are just... kinda bland or downight bad looking? and don't get me started on the lords of fortune armor. that is orientalism personified.
the world states should have been carried over, full stop. i know they said they didn't because they want to separate what happens in the north from what happens in the south, which... i could have lived with that. but the inquisitor sends you letters that keep you up to date on... the south of thedas. you learn that there's a blight again, that people are standing strong but it's difficult, denerim's fallen, the rulers are taking care of it, orlais is fighting and they're successful for a while, etc etc. what's good bioware. i thought we don't care about the south this time around. why are you feeding me so much boring generic information. if you're not gonna show any of it and just write letters, then carrying the world state over should not have been an issue. i have a game dev background. those few lines of code would not have broken your budget or pushed your engine's limits. fuck right off.
this gripe of mine carries over to all the cameos. as a lord of fortune you have to deal with isabela a lot. it's fun. i missed her. you get to go drinking with her and taash and bellara! also my hawke romanced her. she's not mentioned once. they had the opportunity to put a sentence or two about her in there with not a lot of effort, trust me.
when varric dies, all she has is a single line about it. for gold, for fortune, for varric. she only says it if you interact with her on your way to the final push. that's not mandatory.
morrigan is there. kieran isn't. the old god soul that mythal and then solas absorbed? who cares at this point, the gods are dead now and solas is locked away for eternity. i suppose? why is morrigan there. she feels unneeded. i wish they'd just left her down south, at least that way i wouldn't have had to witness her god awful redesign.
dorian at least feels as if he belongs in this story. the shadow dragons are a crucial part to protecting minrathous. he's also weirdly underutilised. isabela and morrigan had more lines than him in my playthrough.
on the topic of romance: bro that was underwhelming. no, genuinely. you know when romance picked up a bit? after the point of no return. i heard maybe two lines of companion banter about it before that. maybe i missed something which i honestly doubt, but romance did not play much of a role in lucanis's storyline. i saved his grandmother as he wished me to (and if you read tevinter nights you know she was rather abusive and their relationship not the healthiest) and told him to focus on his family. a reunified family my rook wasn't even introduced to as a partner at the end of all that.
really, do not buy this game if you're only in it for the romances. others might be better, lucanis's basically gave me nothing. except for an outing (the second coffee date i had with him, it was getting repetitive) all of it played out once i committed to the final quest. the sex scene was a fade to black. annoyingly right after davrin died. if you're looking for well paced and good spice, pick up something else. the sweet talk and the final goodbye were nice though.
for all the good the ever-presence of gender identity does, it is brought up in such a disruptive manner too. it doesn't even play out naturally if you CHOOSE the lines that are meant to be said. hearing the words trans and non-binary in this setting doesn't feel right, and i'm saying this as a trans guy. i think it could have been handled more gracefully. the amount of times my rook went "i'm a MAN" as if he's about to start drumming on his chest and roaring any second now got super nerve-grating. "i'm so glad you're into me... the me who is trans. remember?" just. tell me one trans person who'd talk like that to a person they've grown close with and are trying to romance. this game doesn't handle sexuality well, so all this hey my body might not look like the way you're expecting it to look talk amounts to nothing anyway. i feel about this the way i feel about krem: this is partial exposition to trans experiences... packaged up for cis consumption. the ONLY exception to that is interacting with taash. holy shit was all of that heartwarming and bro did it feel good and natural to talk to them about theirs and rook's gender.
rivain and nevarra are new locations added by veilguard. they're also incredibly underwhelming, small and constricted maps. rivain is a coastline with a few ruins. the hall of valor is a partial ruin nestled into a cave on a beach, with a fighting pit. isabela is there in her skimpy outfit commentating your pit fights. that's it. i'm sorry if you were looking for a bustling pirate cove or whatever. you're not gonna get it. the nevarran crypts btw are a long ass dungeon crawl. that's it.
speaking of maps. i thought people were being dramatic when they said you're gonna be fighting the same enemies on them again and again. i thought they were figure of speeching it. they're not. you WILL fight the same amount of enemies. in the same spot. every time you reload the map. best to stay on a map and clear out the enemies and do as much questing on that map as you can before leaving, because you WILL have to do it all over again once you return.
the three choices i made for my inquisitor didn't matter lol she didn't have to face solas and therefore couldn't stop him at any cost as she had sworn (maybe because my rook tricked solas into binding himself to the veil, there was also an option to fight him. would she have stepped in? who knows). blackwall wasn't mentioned. and either her using a small amount of her forces in the final fight was the reason the civilians of minrathous fared so well..... or it just didn't matter. ultimately i think she had very little impact on anything
#datv#datv spoilers#dragon age: the veilguard#oh wow i hit a limit typing this#anyway to tie this up a bit: the good and bad to the environmental design being that well-known architecture like minrathous and dwarven#ruins look fire and remind me a lot of the previous games#but newly added locations are very... generic... very bland#i was very excited for rivain. i thought we'd get to see ships. not a bunch of ruins and a fighting pit and that's it#and why did i say to ignore a certain guy's review? bro because he was complaining about taash being ace and that taking up their screentim#and them being too up in your face about their identity. he did all this while she/her'ing them constantly#but my man they're trans. nb. not ace.#y'all need to be careful about bad reviews. they're coming from people who are upset about gender identity being handled as a topic in this#game. meanwhile they have no clue what they're even talking about. i don't think matty knows the difference between ace and trans#and neither do the hundreds of people who are one star rating this game currently#i liked this game. it's not top tier. it's not something i'll sink hours and hours and hours of my life into#it has tonal issues and it's moving away from what made dragon age stand out for me#but i do think that it's a genuinely fun play and people who are very invested in dragon age will squeeze joy out of it wherever they can#i had a hard time warming up to the new characters (taash and lucanis being the exception because they have an older bioware air about them#but solas's and varric's story (and don't get me wrong that's what veilguard is about) is GOOD. that is how bioware used to be.#and i wish they'd given us that energy all over the game. that direness. that grit. serious and mature writing.#that consistency is lacking#and whether you're gonna enjoy this game or not is entirely dependant on what you came here for and how well the game delivers on it#i think their weakest points are ironically the thing they advertised the most: the new companions and their writing#you won't find nuanced and good enemies here (i already reblogged something about this. you can go scroll around a bit and catch up on that#really the only thing that had me super invested and emotional was the main quest.#so make of that what you will. ultimately i was more frustrated with the game than i got enjoyment out of it. i was close to just put it#aside for now... until i went to minrathous to end ghila'nain's and elgar'nan's ritual. that all blew me away. still on a high off of it.#anyway yeah that review got cut short by the character limit maybe i'll add more to it tomorrow but rn... i am heading to bed#thanks for coming to my ted talk. also i'm sorry. zevran REALLY isn't in this.#dragon age
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âWho could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. The One who is in the shadows.â
for @valvertweek :]
#my art#Les Mis#Les MisĂ©rables#Jean Valjean#Javert#valvert#valvert week#entre chien et loup#love that the entire time leading up this I had absolutely no fuckin clue as to what to do and then I finally finished the brick#and this line came up and fucking punched me in the mouth; so have This.#ghost/living dynamics my fucking adored <3#canât believe Victor Hugo gave .me. parts after Javert died lines w/ the possibility of his ghost being beside Valjean#(consciences are ghosts of everything in your life as it is)#rea rambles in the tags#reaâs trash
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(guy whos easy to please) i have forgiven cygames for everything
#stardust speaking !#THE STAGE PLAY WAS SO COOL AAAUUUUGGHHHHHH I LOOOVVEEE EVERY YRS STAGE PLAY ITS MY FAV PART OF THE EVENT....#release a dvd w them cygames cmon........with eng subs so i can show them to everyone easily....#i cant sit and realtimetranslate and then go 'idk what theyre saying in this part but context clue is-'#incredible that gbfs anni characters keeps outdoing each other. like fenie is the best one & shes the newest#no i dont accept criticism. im dying on the fenie no1 hill#um spoilers<333 for stage play<333#'this time ill do it for melin' SECOND TIME I STARTED CRYING IN THAT SEGMENT.#fenie makes me cry sm.............ill fly to the future....all alone for all those centuries....maaNNNN#anyway the reason im forgiving them is cuz ive spent tve entire time 'man i wish djgr had official cosplays too' and 'man itd be so cool if#captain showed up' <-last section is main story crew#I GAAAASPEEEEEEEEDDDDD CONTENT FOR MEEEE#the crowd laughing when rackam tried to drag io away & she brushed him off JSBAKKSS MEEEEEE#nothing like being solo'd by a lil basic dude in a blue hoodie#if they had done blue captain i wouldve forgiven them for every main story crime theyre gonna commit in the future#zodiac anni jumpscared me cuz i didnt expevt tjat until all of tjem r out but 12 is a nicer number for estalucia anni....(delusional#well as much of a jumpscare it can be when joy was on the fes art#ive forgotten all the gameplay updates. head full of stage play. all is well.#ill be mad about about no msq next week#TRAILER DURING ANNI STREAM FOR SURE (COPIUM)#dudeim so excited for playable yatima WTFFFFFFFFFFFF SHES SO GOOD...i hope they touch on the yatima & lyria stuff#I LOVE YATIMAââââââ#ok i must go outside
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i wanted so bad to be a liker of dmc2 but this game i just canât đđđ i have to be a hater iâm sorry
#i rage quit đ#itâs 12am iâm not grinding our trying to do it until later#itâs mission 16 out of 18 and this is the first bit of trouble iâve had#this game is so thoroughly unenjoyable though. it actually makes me want to rip my fucking eyes out with some of the camera angles#and the story. what the fuck is going on. i have no clue whatâs been going on and iâve paid full attention the entire time#zad plays#zad plays dmc#dmc2#devil may cry#devil may cry 2#zad plays dmc2#zad talks
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if i had a nickel for every time a company cancelled their top rated lesbian cartoon and the animators had exactly one season to wrap up what was clearly meant to be a five season storyline, I'd have two nickels...
#yeah the awe is fading and now I'm going through the same feelings I had with toh when that show wrapped up#like. omg they did their best and blew it out of the park. but omg the pacing#jinx adopts a kid and becomes the face of the revolution despite not giving a fuck about the war#Vi has an entire montage going through her korra underground fighting career before getting bored of that#Caitlyn's dictator storyline is resolved in the next episode when she has 2nd thoughts#Mel is kidnapped and spends most of her screentime in a pit before figuring out she's magic#Ekko and Jayce are yeeted from the plot due to time travel shenanigans#Ekko has exactly one episode and it is the best episode. but omg he needed more screentime#Jayce has an entire montage stuck in the bad ending timeline before coming the conclusion 'i gotta go back and murder someone'#Singe does absolutely nothing and I have no clue what he intended to do with Vander. also I think he has a dead daughter#And Viktor had his jesus moment before doing the gayest shit I've ever seen and he is slaying#(although I'm pretty sure he's the last minute standin for the real villain of the show they didn't have time to introduce or develop#so Viktor is doing some complicated shit and not taking the breakup with Jayce well
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yakuza 0 majima they could never make me hate you
#HE WAS JUST A LITTLE GUY BACK THEN. HE WAS JUST A DEPRESSED DESPERATE LITTLE GUY#WHO CAME FRESH OUT OF HELL AND WAS FRANKLY STILL KINDA LIVING IN IT#BUT ALSO STILL DIDN'T QUITE KNOW JUST WHAT OTHER HORRORS THE YAKUZA LIFE HELD IN STORE FOR HIM#he tells himself that he's willing to do his first hit out of some blind and desperate devotion to his kyoudai who he âfailedâ#and while i think the sprinklings of majima being Goofy and Stupid while initially trying to perform the hit on makoto are comedy Gold#it also shows how his ass really had No clue what he was doing#bro goes into the place yelling like a fucking idiot and falls asleep right in the target's territory. literally dumbest ass mistakes#and spends the last third of the chapter completely confused and out of the loop and stuck with his Actual target not knowing what to do#and while it's funny as hell it just goes to show how inexperienced he really was.and throughout the game you see how soft he still rlly wa#which just hurts more when you consider how he was so easily manipulated by shimano the entire time. Augh#oh y0 majima you didn't deserve any of that my guy you should've been at the fucking CLUB. Not as the manager though#deadass in the end cutscenes when they paralleled the cutscenes of kiryu and majima on the verge of killing someone for the first time#i really thought they'd do a thing where while kiryu was stopped at the last second by nishiki majima would actually go through it#but the fact that he Also didn't go through with it. while it was shocking and cool as hell at first now it just makes me Sad#he still has those soft bits in him. but after what happened and now that he's shimano's right hand man#he has to wrap them up and keep them somewhere far away. he can't be soft he's a full-fledged yakuza#who performs hits and does dirty work and above all else is loyal to the family and gives his life to his boss#and above even that he's shimano's weapon. he's shimano's Dog. sigh
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