#if you need sacrifice
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litchi-jelly · 6 months ago
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just finished episode ignis and i am feeling not so good
#listen i'm a sucker for a doomed hero#but the execution in main ffxv plot feels so cheap#the moments that tug at your heartstrings so deeply#like picking out the photo noct takes with him or prompto helping iggy up when he stumbles once he's blinded#they ring so true and hurt so much because they're continuances of what makes the first half of the plot so damn good#community#teamwork#not going it alone#Gladio's dialogue when their fighting the archaean and he's like listen noct my job is to think clearly for you when you can't#the entire teamwork skill tree#you spend so much time with this core group of four people who are holding each other together as things go to shit around them#and the crux of the plot is that the whims of the gods mean noctis has to go die alone??#it doesn't make sense thematically#if you need sacrifice#have the four sacrifice their lives together#or acknowledge that the sacrifices made thru the rest of the plot mostly happen to characters we haven't spent 99% of our in-game time with#and make the climax of the story our main four splitting the lucii ring's power amongst them to save noct and end the scourge#if the theme is sharing burdens don't drop that in the second act#i know my opinions are definitely colored by the fact that#i spent 70+ hours in-game and completed 80+ side quests and hit level 55 BEFORE i brought the boys to altissia#but for fucks sake. we get more character development after the time skip for fucking TALCOTT than our main four.#it feels so impersonal and such a far cry from the first half of the game#anyway#I'm going to go write more fic now#ffxv#ffxv ignis
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captainjonnitkessler · 1 year ago
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You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".
Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.
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noknowshame · 11 months ago
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always a fun time when real life people are doomed by their own narratives. like guys you know it doesn’t have to be like this right? this isn’t a stageplay the foreshadowing isn’t real until you make it real
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greykolla-art · 1 year ago
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Every day I wake up and think:
“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”
“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”
And every day I cry like a baby.
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voltaical-art · 26 days ago
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whatever it takes
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itsmeimcathy · 27 days ago
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faust (1858) by charles gounod | le fantôme de l'opèra (1910) by gaston leroux | wuthering heights (1939) by william wyler | la belle et la bête (1947) by jean cocteau | labyrinth (1986) by jim henson | van helsing (2004) by stephen sommers | the phantom of the opera (2004) by joel schumacher | crimson peak (2014) by guillermo del toro | consumed (2014) by david cronenberg | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers
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jynjackets · 21 days ago
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I’m glad you came.
happy birthday @sydneyadmu 💫
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hoofpeet · 10 months ago
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Thinking about Lamb being repeatedly forced to bow over the force of the game despite this sort of. charging behavior being a show of aggression in sheep/goats --> Being forcefully dragged into a life of violence
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 months ago
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When in doubt, Soup it out.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
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benevolenterrancy · 5 months ago
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May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home
#svsss#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#bingqiu#sqq#lbh#scum villain#heard the song Take This Body Home by Rose Betts and it nearly took me out at the knees#it really really suits sqq's self-detonation in hua yue city right? i'm not the only one feeling this?#considered adding some literal shards for them to be stepping on - since sqq's sword explodes - but i couldn't quite make it work#anyway this has been playing like a music video in my head for the past couple days highly recommend listening to the song#if you haven't heard it before#can't get over the absolute dissonance between how sqq views this scene and how everyone else must feel about it#like to him he's just completing his plan - hopefully keeping lbh from destroying a city with energy imbalance and escaping The Plot#nbd! he and sqh have planned it all out it's FINE :) off he goes!#meanwhile everyone who loves him - including lbh who worked years to get back to him and is trying to work through a lot of grief#and resentment and doubt and longing and... - watches him DIE in FRONT OF THEM#just collapse while coughing up blood sword disintegrating energy completely consumed#like holy hell sqq could you traumatize the people around you any more???#no wonder lbh went a little bit crazy after that like my man was already not in a great place but what the fuck#lbh watches his shizun presumably sacrifice himself for him ONCE AGAIN like after he's finally Gotten Strong his shizun is STILL#coming to harm in an effort to make up for his shortcomings#my art#most of the time out here drawing what amounts to muppets and then sometimes i get the urge for this and just need to cover everyone in blo
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hehearse · 5 months ago
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an illistration for this fic about an exciting new roleplaying scenario with a reverse time flow and a murder mystery :)
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linkykirby · 1 month ago
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I’m literally BEGGINGGGG for someone to write cho hyun ju x bratty!reader where she fucks the attitude out of them….like yeah we know she’s soft and gentle and patient and we love her for it but I lowkey need her to slap the shit out of me like she did to that shaman lady
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waspgrave · 3 months ago
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Why didn’t elgar’nan, god of vengeance, not kidnap the inquisitor to get back at Solas? Can u imagine? And before anyone goes ‘well My inquisitor hated solas so why would he care’, I think elgar’nan reacting to solas being idgaf you can keep them :/ would be very funny
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rawrsatthetree · 10 months ago
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I’ve seen people compare Julian Devorak to Astarion, and honestly I think you’re all embarrassing wrong.
Gale Dekarios is Julian Devorak.
Astarion is Count Lucio
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whump-in-the-closet · 1 month ago
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hey you. yes you the starry-eyed character. the narrative gave you a chance. One shot at the thing you want most in the world, beyond everything else, bright and glittering and always out of reach. There’s only one catch, but it’s hardwired into you. If you were a creature, you’d be a deer with branching antlers and soft steps. And you’re on the highway in the brutal dead of night. Oh right, the catch. You’re not selfish. You’ll give everything up, all of it, for someone else if they asked. You’d fuck yourself over without a second thought. You never win, do you? When the car hits, they check on the passengers while you lie split open on the asphalt. Listen, you either lose your kindness or it dies with you. But what are you without it?
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aprito · 3 months ago
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sos month 2024 day 2: once upon a time
two people who are sick of their current circumstances and crave the other's world but it's kind of hard when you need that other to make it happen!!
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one can only hope they figure it out
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