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microwaving-tesilid-argente · 9 months ago

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throws the hestio/reed fic into the trash, yeah this fic is impossible if i want to keep them both in character orz. and it's literally impossible to keep the original Vibes that i wanted it to have.

the longer i thought about how these two might realistically behave, the more it was turning into a story with all the themes and emotional beats of a yandere story.

the horror of no longer recognising someone you had trusted more than life itself. the terror when you realise you can't predict how they'll act, because all the things they've done ever since they've unmasked was way outside what a normal human being would even think of. you don't even know if you'll be safe, even if this person has shown some signs of wanting you to be safe. the feeling of being gaslit because everything you believed to be commonsense has turned out to be false and now you don't know what to believe in. the information gap is so big that you know you could manipulated if he wanted it, and there's nothing you can do about it. the nausea when the person engages in atrocities and you feel like you have to pretend to be okay about it or they might off you. knowing for sure that you're powerless to resist in any way, so your best bet is to keep them happy.

like, this is horrifically fleshed out actually and i'm sure there's someone out there who would love to read a story like this, but it's not my vibe. if anyone wants to write this feel free to DM me i'll give you the plot i've written so far lol

wrings reed by the neck i just want to give you a little bit of happiness ! ! ! !! !! why are you making things so difficult

#mimin trying to write #s-class heroine spoilers #hestioreed #part of the problem is that reed and hestio exist on very different planes #ailette is able to feel sympathy for reed bc she knew him first as a reader #and knew from the start that he was a regressor who has been through the unthinkable #hestio is still in the 'oh my god tesilid came out a little wrong after greenwall' stage #youre a couple thousand years off my man #and he learns about reed firstly through umm. checks notes. reed killing ephael outside the door and then coming in to kill hestio too #and then his many atrocities #theyre unsalvageable i fear #i managed to give hestio a reason to still want to hear reed's answer even despite resenting him for killing his best friends #(understatement of the century)#but the real problem is that reed is unrecognisable #his entire moral code has taken a 180 #and the thousands of years (and new outlook on life) has changed his mannerisms #rip the vibes were a cool idea but they simply cannot hold water #there is no way hestio can stay in the same room with him and not feel a bone-deep feeling of wrongness and abject terror

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