You think Basim ever got an identity crisis when he saw Eivor before he figured out she was Odin?
Like, here's the adopted sibling of the ruler of a tribe (who he is also convinced is Odin), who is accepted as one of them until she steps out of line (killing Dag), at which point they all turn on her. She constantly does the mucky jobs whilst her brother gets the credit, and when she tries to point out her own accomplishments she's shot down and ridiculed by her brother's other confidant, who's a great fighter but near incapable of coming up with any other strategy than 'hit the thing really hard' and dumb as a tree to boot.
Like, at some point Basim has to have gone '...am I certain I'm the Sage of Loki? Like, I'm not just the Sage of... Narfi or something like that?' And when he finally does figure out what's going on, he's like 'Okay, good, identity crisis over, let's not think about Havi being in the same position as I was, we are repressing the hell out of that.'
Thinking about new students coming to the school and being filled in that yes, magneto breaks in some evenings and spends the night with the professor and sometimes a whole weekend. We pretend we don’t notice
And then some kids staying through the summer, with nowhere else to go. Erik also staying a large portion of the time and the students get use to it and slowly get to know him outside of Magneto. They never mention it to the students who don’t spend the summer
she just.. slowly turns to cosmo, sipping water
pause the sipping
"congrats, cosmo,"
her voice has cleared up a lot more, aaaand continuing to sip water while staring at a wall and most likely hallucinating
-@thatonepoppyangstguy
[ 🍰 ] ~ Cosmo flinches, almost immediately sitting up but since he's basically being held down by Sprout, he's just.. laying there slightly shaking. Embarrassed, he was!
" Wh-- POPPY-- "
" Oh, um.. did you see and hear all of that?.. "
[ 🍰 ] ~ He can't really.. Get up, so Cosmo's just holding the blanket with one hand and another wrapped around Sprout.
What gets me about GW defenders saying that "Claude siding with Edelgard shows how far he's willing to go to get what he wants, he'll use anyone to further his goals" is that, even if that were accurate to his character... that's not what he does in GW. At all.
Which one of Claude's goals are ever progressed once he sides with Edelgard? And how does siding with Edelgard, specifically, accomplish said goal?
Maybe... killing Rhea? But all of the reasons he says he wants her gone in this game are either completely unproven or blatantly incorrect - there's no proof of the Church forcing arranged marriages, Crests do not force obligations onto those that have them (which Claude himself literally proves), and the Church is helping Dimitri restore Duscur - a foreign nation - meaning they are actively willing to help fulfill Claude's main goal that he came to the officer's academy to achieve.
And... that's it! That is the only possible thing that even POTENTIALLY helps Claude's dreams, and taking a five-second look at it shows that it actually does nothing at all to help anything. But in the meantime? Claude weakens Faerghus through agitating Sreng and invading it himself, forcing Dimitri to fight a three front war; he actively helps Edelgard get herself out of a messy situation, even though not helping her and letting her die would have actually helped him and would have actually been him using her like people keep saying he's trying to do; he and Holst even admit that by the end of the war Edelgard is going to make a vassal state of Leicester after taking the lion's share of Faerghus' territory for themselves, which Leicester can't do anything about because of Adrestia's far stronger military. He is the one saying that! He is the one pointing out that that is going to happen! And yet he just keeps going anyway!
He is the one getting used. Very blatantly, and very extensively. Claude walked himself into a trap and lied to himself into thinking he's the one with the upper hand, which somehow managed to convince a large portion of the fanbase too. There's no gray morality here, there's no cunning being showcased, Claude is just an evil stupid tool
wip wednesday to celebrate me writing thru my pain haze:
“I wanted to tell you what a good job you did out there today.”
“Yeah?” Duke raises an eyebrow at him. “Don’t strain yourself, old man.”
Bruce snort-laughs, a very undignified and Bruce-like gesture. Something “Brucie” and, heaven forbid, Batman, would never do in a million years.
“There is no pride muscle, at least not in my studies.”
Well… If Bruce was going to leave himself wide open like that, of course Duke was going to poke.
“Of course not,” Duke teasingly rolls his eyes. “Did they even have gay people in the stone age?”
“I suppose they did,” Bruce says, matching Duke’s tone. “If I was there.”
DEAR FRIENDS. My apologies for another enormous silence. After the Delphinus delphis colour anomalies poster I’ve been wanting to make something similar for, well... everything else. It’s a lot of fun going through all sorts of species!! However it’s also a lot lol. Maybe “draw everything first, then figure out how you want to organise this” isn’t the greatest strategy, but here we are. Hence the lack of uploading (though part of that is also just me being busy and scramble brained).
Anyway, consider this a preview for all the ODD BOIS which are - slowly but surely - coming your way. I think they’re super fascinating and I hope you’ll find them too!!