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starryjkoo · 6 months ago
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I've seen some people bringing up hickeygate for some reason so in the spirit of AYS?! release week, I’d like to talk about why I love hickeygate.
To begin with, I feel like a lot of people don’t understand that what makes hickeygate so funny isn’t even necessarily the hickey. Or rather, there’s too much focus on only the hickey when the whole thing is just hilarious and weird.
Like, apparently Jikook get drunk (alone) together and JK lifts Jimin bridal style, spins him around, and refuses to set him down even when Jimin gets super dizzy. And apparently Jimin’s drunken method of getting JK to set him down is to “bite” him on the neck in such a way that leaves a mark that looks exactly like a hickey. That’s weird! Every part of that is weird!
And what’s also kind of funny to me is that I think they told the story because imo in their eyes it really was all very innocent “see, we weren’t doing anything weird or wrong!” almost, defensive, if you will. Because technically, they weren’t doing anything inappropriate, they were just defending themselves/explaining the totally non-weird mark Jimin left on JKs neck. It wasn’t really a “hickey”, they have nothing to hide, they were just playing around, nothing untoward happened.
But I think it’s funny because imho it at the very least implies that Jikook have some weird-ass boundaries/behaviors, that they might be so deep into their strange dynamic, so used to and desensitized to it, that they don’t even recognize when they’re being weird af. Because, regardless, this situation is still ????
Most people don’t drunkenly spin their friends around bridal style and refuse to set them down and have hickeys bit (sucked??) onto their neck in response. I mean, maybe some do, but I definitely don’t think it’s the norm (and Jin’s & TH’s responses are hilarious). And certainly most people would realize that leaving what looks like a hickey on your friends neck is going to be perceived a certain way regardless of what story you tell or how it came about, and would maybe cover it up to save themselves the embarrassment if they were bothered by the implications. But clearly that’s not what happened. They were out and proud of that thing lol (well Jimin seemed a bit sheepish about what happened lol).
Anyways the whole thing is funny and very weird and says something about their dynamic and weird physical boundaries and what they might be like when they’re drunk and alone together (which seems like something they do/did a lot). We also now know they also have in depth discussions about singing to the point they get lost in their own little world even when they're with others which is cute too.
Anyways, I know I’m not crazy to point out that their dynamic is weird and their intimacy boundaries are weird and their dynamic can read a certain way because I’ll always point to one of my other very favorite Jikook moments — Rainy Day fight — particularly the way that the other members responded. Like, continuously cringing for no reason, shivering and yelling “ew”, calling it a drama, singing a kdrama song at them, smiling and laughing, which is all honestly hilarious, and unnecessary, and validating lol. Especially because it didn’t really deter Jikook, who were just telling that story as it was, with JK seemingly pretty serious and invested in making sure Jimin got the details right.
So yeah, that is just how they come off, even to their own group that already have loose boundaries - and I just love that about Jikook. Love their weird drunken shenanigans and their dramatic as hell couple like rain fights, and how soft and silly they are in general.
Also shout-out to the retelling of the Rainy Day story where they both separately took the blame because they're mature, considerate and sweet towards each other like that. Also the fact that it was something JK felt sorry for years down the line, even though clearly there were no hard feelings about it. I feel like they probably didn’t fight that often if a fight in which they immediately made up was on his mind like that lol. Also the fact that what upset JK so deeply was Jimin’s threat of not caring about him anymore.
Anyways, I hope we get to see some drunken shenanigans in AYS. They did cut out whatever tussle occurred on that mosquito net during ITS though, so idk what they’ll actually show in the end, but I’m here for it.
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ageless-aislynn · 11 months ago
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Aislynn's Jumble of Random Thinky Thoughts on Halo s2 ep4 "Reach"
SPOILERS, but of course
Cpt Admiral Keyes went out like a total badass. I really do hate to lose him but I'm glad he got a better send-off than he did in the game (Halo: Combat Evolved). Seeing him with a pipe was an awesome little callback to the game, IMO. (Though smoking is bad; don't smoke, kids! 👎😬😉)
The fact that The Powers That Be took Silver Team's Mjolnir with them as they ran like cowards evacuated but abandoned actual Silver Team is the most realistic bureaucratic part of the episode. 🙄
I suspected Louis wasn't going to survive but him losing Danilo and then choosing to make that stand immediately after was both heartbreaking but bittersweet: he couldn't live without his beloved and his sacrifice gave John and Riz a chance to escape but also ensured that he didn't have to live long without his beloved. 💔
My Halo vehicle fangirling was cranked up to 117% 😇 here, with me pausing the show to yell, "WRAITH, IT'S A WRAITH! I love hijacking those things!!!" and then "SCORPION! A SCORPION TANK! Aw, man, I do BUSINESS when I have a Scorpion!" *wistful, lovestruck sigh* 💖 Please imagine my dad's 🤔⁉️ face during all of that, lol! 😇
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John, my beloved, and Scorpion tank, my beloved... 😍🤷‍♀️😇😉
I was legit upset that Kai was gone the entire ep, not just 'cause I wanted to see her, of course, but because it seems an awful lot like she abandoned her team and that just doesn't seem like her at all. I know last ep she was very torn and upset about John and not really believing what he was saying, but also not wanting to narc him out, either. When she finds out what happened to Vannak, I think she'll blame herself for not being there and, honestly? I think she should. (Same as she should feel bad about not believing John, evidence to the contrary.) Not saying she could've prevented any of the bad stuff, of course, but she wasn't there when Silver Team desperately needed her and if they don't have her feel guilt over that, then that's really going to be OOC for her, IMO. 😔
And then of course, the "two" of the "one-two punch" from this ep... Vannak, nooooooooo! I was completely not expecting to lose him here but I really should have, considering we're straight up doing a version of Reach's game storyline and, as we all know, Noble Team didn't make it out of the game alive (other than Jun).
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And yet still... Vannak! Not when he's just learned to love animal documentaries and feeding the birds! The big guy had so much more living to do!!! 😭😭😭 I'm going to really miss him and I'm going to completely ignore his death in any fanfic I ever again write, I'm just saying. 🤷‍♀️😉
Are we feeling like Soren will be getting a place on Silver Team, at least temporarily?
Okay, so I was a little surprised but in a good way over how hard everything about Keyes hit Halsey. She was genuinely kinda tongue-tied at seeing him, then her absolutely screaming at his death and her sobbing... I wasn't expecting that sort of reaction. She really did love him and I wouldn't have thought that before this episode.
I feel vaguely like John's ex just kidnapped his current girlfriend, lol. Also, I keep staring at Makee, thinking, "Is her hair a different blonde? Is she dying her eyebrows or something?" more than anything else so I really need to get over that, lol! Annnnnd I could kinda ship her with her Arbiter but nobody should be surprised at that 'cause I can ship a character with a mop that has a wig and googly eyes on it if the chemistry feels right to me...
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I could also see not-Thel!Arbiter as being a suuuuper jealous boyfriend trying to prove he's better than Makee's ex... *shipper glasses, I has 'em at all times!* 😜😉
Since Makee didn't let her Arbiter (whose name is escaping me at the moment) go ahead and kill John, one wonders if it was because she does still have feelings for him or if she just needs him for some later nefarious purpose. And why does she need Cortana? I'm still wondering if we're going to get some sort of "evil" Cortana ala Halo 5 since her new look reminds me a lot more of her Halo 5 look.
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This is a still, not GIF, from Halo s2 Cortana's new look, so you don't wonder why it's not moving. 😉
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Halo 5 "evil" Cortana.
And you can see s1 Cortana in the GIF right above all of this.
Annnnd my favorite version of Cortana...
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Halo 4 Cortana, whom I imprinted on as my very first Cortana, so this is her definitive look to me, what can I say? 🤷‍♀️😉
And bringing things back to the episode once more, I also had a game fangirling moment when John yelled, "Frag out!" as he lobbed the grenade. My dad soon learned that the marines tend to yell that as they're lobbing frag grenades in the various games, too! 😎
Ooo, and almost forgot John's absolute panic eyes when Keyes called him forward during his inspirational speech, lol. Poor Chief, d'aww! But that was a really great moment to show people that Master Chief isn't a robot, he's a flesh and blood person, and I think that was used to great effect in this moment. 💖
In summary, this episode had me
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zalrb · 8 months ago
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People on twitter are criticizing Brad Pitt's portrayal of Louis in IWTV and saying the show's Louis is way better and Brad's performance was lifeless and basically he was a cardboard cut-out. I mean I hate Brad Pitt but I feel like people are being extremely obtuse. Like maybe I'm just biased because I definitely prefer the movie, but I think every actor embodied their character extremely well, especially since Louis is meant to come off as like Godric in true blood; just completely done with life. And people are saying Tom and Brad had no chemistry which is just ridiculous? I feel like since the homoerotic elements are done way more subtly in the movie (which is better IMO), people are confusing chemistry for dynamic, since the show is way more overt. Anyway sorry for the long rambling, I would really just love to know your thoughts on Louis's character in the movie vs the TV show. BTW I do think the show has great actors and Jacob Anderson is amazing, I just don't get why people always have to hate on the movie. :)
Yeah, I saw that too and last season I saw the whole "the movie isn't even that good anyway" discourse and it made me roll my eyes because I agree with you, people are being obtuse about this.. Brad Pitt's acting isn't good in the movie, like it isn't particularly nuanced, it's not like he elevates anything, and yet he does manage to capture Louis being conflicted, melancholic and maudlin
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but that's also because the movie doesn't rely on voiceover so I'm seeing Louis in the sewers
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I'm seeing him just done
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I'm getting the sense of what his relationship with Lestat is like with scenes of them just sitting at a dinner table and Lestat throwing grapes at him because Louis is such a downer and he's also just half a second away from just ending it all
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and it pairs well with Tom Cruise's Lestat who dances with corpses
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and has witticisms when killing people
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so we get things like this
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and it works. Brad's acting actually ends up lending itself to the campiness of the movie? The scene that twitter chose to rip him apart
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Lestat's amused response to "YOU CONDEMNED ME TO HELL" and Brad's "ARRRGGGH" adds a level of irony and fun because it makes it over the top in the way it should be.
The movie's Louis is anguished over his own existence and having the dark gift.
With AMC's IWTV, I know Jacob can act, when they give him the room to let loose, he does it and definitely gives insight into Louis' anguish
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but my issue has always been the in between moments, particularly in season 1 because of what the showrunners/creators said they wanted to deliver and what I thought we got
so while the show wanted to dig deeper and add layers and expand him in ways that the movie didn't, because I don't feel like the show really goes there constantly while the movie did and pulled no punches, when I think of IWTV outside of the books, my mind still goes straight to the movie and not to the show, my mind still goes to that Louis because it's not dialogue.
In terms of the different Loustats, yeah the movie is subtext
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and Brad and Tom had the chemistry for that, it's eroticism, it's simulating sex through how they feed etc.
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and I understand wanting something more direct and overt but so much of the directness in the show is through dialogue anyway, so many times I have yelled, I want to SEE this, so that when we get to season 2 and Louis is hallucinating Lestat and in such a state that he accidentally kills a human, I'm more invested in it because there were scenes of their relationship/seduction etc. that really makes it hit home.
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ballblender · 2 years ago
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Selfish - A KagaKuro Angst
Preface: hello hello i know i have not posted in a while, but I AM GONNA MAKE THIS A COMEBACK (maybe)
This can be interpreted as a ship post, or not, it doesn't really matter imo, kagakuro is cool tho.
cw: angst (obviously), kagami + kuroko are in their second year, selfish kuroko and kagami, both people are at fault, more story-central than relationship-central, kagami doesn't have a good relationship with the GOM.
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"Hey, where's Kuroko?"
It seemed at if saying that question was just part of what made you a member of the Seirin basketball team. Nobody could count the amount of times that the team would go out, whether it be to train, to play a match, or even the hot springs, and have Kuroko go missing as soon as they leave.
"Kagami, do you know where he went?" Koganei asks.
Kagami sighs and shrugs. Despite having a good relationship with Kuroko, he still views him as an enigma.
"Seriously, we can't go out without him sneaking off. It's getting ridiculous." Riko admits, tapping her shoe on the sidewalk in frustration.
Kagami grunts softly. He knows it's true, but he can't help himself defending Kuroko at every turn, even if he did used to get equally angry in situations like these, especially earlier in their first year.
Hyuuga sighs, "He's not picking up his cell either. Come on, let's all split up and look for him. Meet back here in 30 if you haven't found him." The team groans, but obeys, splitting up.
Kagami wanders down the street, scanning passersby for that unique shade of baby blue hair.
It doesn't take long for him to spot Kuroko, practicing his dribbling and shooting in a public court.
However, instead of meeting Kuroko with the usual smack over the head, followed by a collar-pull back to the metting spot, Kagami walks over, calmly but solemnly. Honestly, it's a bit scary.
"Hey, Kuroko."
Kuroko flinches, and turns around.
"Kagami..."
The two of them stand in silence, Kuroko's eyes fixated on Kagami's face, as Kagami's eyes fixate on the ground.
After a moment of silence, "...are we meeting up with the other-"
"Why are you so selfish?"
"E-eh?" Kuroko flinches, "W-what do you mean...?"
Kagami stares at him, his eyes filled with, a sort of anger, one that mixes with a subtle sadness too.
"You...y-you can't do this all the time."
"Do what...?"
Kagami scowls.
"Do...this. Sneaking off on us all the time, and having to have our seniors and classmates look for you. It's not fair on them."
Kuroko looks to the side, conflicted.
"I'm only trying to improve myself, for the team." He remarks, though softly.
"But don't you realise how selfish you can be?"
"Stop calling me that."
"But you know that it's true. You know it, even when we started out, you already told me how I'd be 'The Light to your Shadow', and overtake the Generation of Miracles. But you didn't actually care about me, knowing them now, I fucking hate those guys, don't want to be anything like them. You just promised me that so you could get your revenge on them for how they decided to play back in middle school, that's selfish."
"T-that's not true, I-"
Kagami starts to tear up, "And now that I've been thinking about it, basically everything I've done related to basketball in the last year was because of you. It's like I have no control over my own playstyle. Even though winning with the others feels great, it's like I can't play without them."
"...why is that a bad thing?"
"Think about it. Our strength as a team has already decreased ever since Kiyoshi left because of his knee. And what about our seniors? They gradute this year, and once they're gone, we're the ones who have to build the team back up again. I've trained so hard to get to where I am now...but you. You've essentially kept the exact same style as you have from middle school up until this point, and you don't think that's selfish?" Kagami practically yells.
Kuroko scowls, his voice starting to uncharacteristically increase in volume, "That isn't true. I've trained just as hard as you have."
Kagami wipes his furious tears. He knows Kuroko is right, he has trained a lot, and opened Kagami's eyes to a whole new perspective when playng basketball, but inside of him, there's still that urge within him to completely dominate the court through sheer force alone, like he did in America. So how is it fair that Kuroko can maintain his own playstyle, and not him?
"...find your own way home today, I'm leaving." Kagami mutters, leaving Kuroko alone on the court, his own tears starting to brim in his eyes.
"Did you find him?"
"...no, I didn't."
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a/n: I hope you enjoyed, I am a massive fan of the characterisation and motivations of the KNB cast, and wanted to show some of that here! <3 (hope i did them justice)
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waterlinkedgirl · 5 years ago
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That’s the ShiraYuki food right there--
The framing of this shot I s2g, what is this? a romantic movie?? Yukimura stealing a glance at Shiraishi, but quickly looking away.... Shiraishi noticing, Turning to Look
I’m--
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mllebabushkat · 2 years ago
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☀️ Warrior Nun S2E4 🌙
stressing!!!!!!!!!!!1111
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NO when I asked for more bea cam interaction it wasn’t like this TAT
oh ava dear 🥺
^recurring face cos my children are in danger
uhhhh taraskS 👀
angry woman yelling VINCENTTTTT counter: 2
spider bea 😂😂😂
DEUS EX MIGUEL
"i'm god's vengeance" FINE he might be growing on me
people who have offered vital "i can help you stop him" info to ava this season counter: 2
HOLY SHIT THQT FOG JUMPSCARE
also wait wait wait miguel THE OTHER SIDE??
ava: casual badass phasing
me: that's my girl <3
on today's episode of team super cam:
LeVANTAR
cam + spanish = heart eyes :D
car chase????? in MY warrior nun? more likely than you THINK
yasmine bbyyyyy ahahahaha she is adapting well bless her heart
“thank you god” BAM EROTIC PASTRIES VAN
quick detour-
raya's blood? WHO
lilith is such a bad liar imo surely she's hiding smth right,...
did i mention yasmine bby aww
MOTHER SUPERION NONCHALANTLY MUNCHING A DICK HAHAHAHAGAHAHGDHDJDALALDJF
she is the moment i love her so much
obligatory VINCENT EL BASTARDO
the whole time superion was taking him out back i was like pls pls pls kill him,, for shannon,, 😭 pls
kudos for the editing to make it seem like it was his last moments!
but,..,, I GUESS i understand it is not in her nature to do so :///
let it be known i'm not happy abt this decision he's just gonna come back to wreak more havoc
uh also "suzanne" omg???
(btw love the shot of the delicious red lighting from the van *kisses the crew*)
poor jilian her business bitchboy is a backstabbing bastard what a surprise
back to the main show :)
beatrice + spanish = heart eyes motherfucker
i love!!!!! the multilingual roots!! of this show! so much !!!
oh darling beatrice 🥺
hallucination!ava bellowing "i know what you are!" no 😭
her greatest fear being ava exposing her sexuality and hating/mocking her for it nooOOOO
also her fbc guard takedown?
that's gameplay straight out of a hitman level LMAO
OH NO DEMON BAPTISM
not to mention ava's finally met her match in punch-first-tell-my-friends-about-the-plan-later in miguel hahahah-
so uhhh he's already possessed by a blue demon? divinium demon? isn't that a tarask? confusion????
all i know is that was a full on angels vs demons lookin ass spectacle
TEAM FIGHT TEAM fIGHT TEAM FIGHT
YESSSSSSSSSASASSS THE HYPE
"you should look in the mirror mate" please he's so british 😂😂😂
hold on lemme pause right there-
CULT DRUMS (from the priest preaching scene) fade to end in time with the team ko body thud, beat of silence, HYPE SONG ([Shock Out] for reference) TO THE ONE AND ONLY BEA ENTERING
i'm such a slut for satisfying ost/sound design
ugh and 10/10 fight + camera choreo *even more kisses for the crew*
avatrice reunion!!!1 the way they lurched into that hug it looked like they were abt to kiss-
ahhhh their hands 😍 and bea's eye contact 😍
bea: "let go"
ava: "hang on"
(their synchronicity in battle, their willingness to embrace each other's values, all that mutual growth and understanding in so few words-)
hold on HOLD ON i need a moment please
anyway YES HALO POWERS GO GIRLIE
unfortunately necessary interlude:
what the hell is going on with lilith???
adriel gives a weakass "you’re my destiny" speech, fires off a cheapass parlour trick?
and that's enough??? to change her mind?????? tf-
ok back to our regularly scheduled avatrice
so now there's a tarask and it's fighting the demons? more confusion
AVA FLYING?????????
terrible news: ava paralysed without halo confirmed 😭😭😭
[Darkest Hour] ost slapsssssssssss
sandwiching the episode with this song? 2 steps forward 1 step back vibe loving it
ANYWAY
next ep let's gooooooo
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d035th15mak3m3l00kc00l · 3 years ago
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Hello!
It's me.
The unreliable, sporadic Tumblr user who comes to life once every five years when the next game in a series is released.
What triggered my awakening this time?
You know it has to be Horizon Forbidden West!
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Okay, as per usual I have Thoughts and I haven't even finished the game yet. Just finished Faro's Tomb, if I'm going to be precise. So here we go! *Obligatory spoiler warning.*
Varl got himself a girlfriend! YES! Sorry, I never shipped him and Aloy. So that knocks him out the running, ehehehehe. And can I say I LOVE their relationship now. He's like her right hand man, her deputy. Great dynamic, A+++.
Talanah got HERSELF a...um, not-boyfriend, but she's not emotionally available. Another contender knocked from the running! Ehehehehe. Poor Talanah though :(
Soooo there was definitely a point in the game where I was feeling pretty smug, because Erend doesn't have any competition. Can I point out too that (imo) he was the ONLY companion Aloy immediately looked so happy to see, like she saw him swinging his hammer and talking shit and she just looked so fond of him in that moment you know?! Before he yelled at her and was sad he wasn't good enough 🥺
Anyway, I was definitely smh because it seemed like he was goofed up a bit and it was like 'nice try guys! Can't turn me away that easy! That just puts him into himbo territory, suck it!' and having a sensible chuckle to myself. And then...
And then...
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Y'all know what I'm talking about right??
WHAT. THE. FUUUUUUUUCK.
How did they do this?!? I've never been so torn between such different characters before. I mean, look at him. Look at him! That gravelly voice and the dark eyes that just quietly consume Aloy whenever she's nearby and even his outfit with that cute lil crop top (ehehehehe). Oh. My. God.
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I honestly can't choose. It's like apples and oranges you know? So you know what I've decided?
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Here's some more gifs while I quietly lose my mind.
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*muffled screaming*
The end.
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kattestrophe · 3 years ago
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Pop Culture Kattes Part 2 - A Collection of filmed Kattes
What did the invention of Film lead to if not an abundance of new Kattes for me to rate. As usual, the rating system is made up and the points don't mean a thing.
PART I
Cserépy-Film Co. GmbH - Fridericus Rex. Teil 1: Sturm und Drang (1921)
The first of many Fridericus Rex movies! Sadly I can't get ahold of a copy of this movie (there appears to be one in the Archives françaises du film...) and the reviews focus mostly on Otto Gebühr as Fritz. However, we do have two images of Friedrich Wilhelm Kaiser as everyone's favourite traitor:
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Yes, okay, the honorable Lieutenant getting arrested at the ball, very nice. Ugly wig, but what else is new. Pretty standard Katte, as it seems. Now, what is the second pictu-
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... Sheesh, that's terrifying. VERY happy to die for a Prince that he loves, that one. Also where are they? Definitely not Küstrin, by the looks of it. And why does the priest on the left look like Ian McKellen's grandpa in a Princess Leia wig?? So many questions that will never be answered.
Overall rating: ???
Deka-Film GmbH - Der alte und der junge König (1935)
We're moving on to the Nazi-Propaganda-stage of the Fridericus movies. But we're not here for an in-depth analysis (which would be warranted...), we're here for Katte! Portrayed by Claus Clausen, who would move on to play Prince Henry in another Fridericus movie seven years later and definitely looks more like Henry than Katte imo. He's all angles and cheekbones and light eyebrows and is ten years too old for Katte (and way too tall for either of them). The acting is... intense. There's no better word for it, every move he makes is intense.
Character wise, uh... he's a tough one, but he softens over the course of the movie. In his first appearance he shows up out of the blue in a pose that screams "ready to fight", in his second scene he tells Fritz that he's ashamed of him. Actual dialogue: "Are you Katte or are you the King?" "I am Katte. 😡😡 Your friend. 😡😡" He's SUPER passionate about being a soldier ("You pull me into this, ME, the SOLDIER Katte!!" who almost didn't return from England just a year prior, but ANYWAY). We get a scene with Wilhelmine discussing the miniature portrait he refused to return; as per usual it is conveniently forgotten that Fritz was also in this miniature portrait in favour of some romantic subtext. Katte gets all shy around her, which is surprising because in his scenes before that all he did was yell. I'd probably find it somewhat endearing, if they weren't Katte and Wilhelmine. We later see him in jail, gazing fondly at the miniature of JUST Wilhelmine before telling Müller to hand it to Fritz together with his last letter.
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Indeed, Katte, indeed. Speaking of the portrait: We aren't told that he painted it himself. He just... has it. For reasons. We aren't told about his musical talents either; all we know about him is that he's a man of honour and a soldier in an unspecified regiment in Potsdam. He does have his moments, his dynamic with Fritz improves drastically after the first two scenes and he does seem like he cares, especially after witnessing one of FW's freakouts while hiding in the closet (lol). And he gets to comfort Fritz a little bit after that. After doing a complete 180° considering his views on desertion, he dies for a master he loves and would sacrifice 1000 lives for him. Could have used some more friendly scenes with Fritz or any scenes of what Katte did between agreeing to desert and dying, but the main character of this movie is FW, so we can't afford that. Despite some early difficulties I'd say he's a pretty solid Katte. I like a few scenes. Nothing special, but nothing egregiously bad either.
Overall rating: 5/10 intense stares, watchable mainly for comedic FW scenes
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) - Der Thronfolger (1980)
Finally, a Katte with proper eyebrows!! Other than that, his biggest contribution is to help hide the affairs of the straightest and horniest Crown Prince known to film from a far too chill FW. How does he do that? Who knows. Once again we are treated to very few scenes of him and Fritz spending time together and actually being friends. We get about one and a half. Blergh. Character wise, he's... eh. Doesn't do much. Smiles more than other Kattes. Says that he adores Fritz and reads Voltaire with him, so at least we get a hint at his intellectual pursuits; no other hints at what he does apart from his job as Some Guy Who Follows FW Around. Has the audacity to grab Mine's arm and pull her back into her seat. We do get an interrogation scene where he claims to have done his best to thwart Fritz's plans at all times (none of which was shown to us) and before the execution he talks about how he pretended to be an atheist for clout for a while (which was also not shown to us). Other than that, we barely get to know Katte despite him meeting Fritz almost two years too soon. And his last words to Fritz are "Nothing of forgiveness. My death is an act of divine justice" which... is better than "Long live the King", I guess...? Eeeeh, didn't like it...
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However: Aesthetically speaking, I'd say he's probably the best on this list. At 33 Jan Niklas is a little old (especially when he moves his face and looks 40 next to Fritz who is 20 and looks 12) and a wig that high with a forehead that high was... a choice (we're not quite entering Henry territory yet...), but look-wise he's pretty solid overall. I'll admit it, I'm just really happy about the eyebrows. Dark eyes, dark eyebrows, at least somewhat tan complexion - nice.
Overall rating: 3/10 splendid eyebrows, wouldn't recommend this movie overall, mainly because Fritz is kind of terrible imo
ARTE - Friedrich. Ein deutscher König (2011)
The One With The Women As Fritz and one Kai Michael Müller as Katte. He recently played a corpse in a Tatort that I saw, that was interesting. Anyway. The movie is a 90 minute documentary about Fritz's entire life, so he's only in it for a few minutes. Not much of a character to judge, but at least he's not in love with Wilhelmine in this one. He does get that scene where he buttons Fritz's uniform and comments on how good he looks in it... And the narration tells us about his musical interests, his military career, and how close he was to Fritz. So we've got the basics down.
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Aesthetically speaking, Kai Michael Müller is, once again, no Katte. Interestingly, instead of being too old like everyone else, he is actually too young - He's 30 now, and the movie is ten years old! Dang. Acting wise, it's... It's a documentary, I've seen worse. Some varying intonation would be nice though, maybe some emotion behind his lines... He talks like a soccer player in a post-game interview. I personally love how they do the keyhole-zoom-out thing over Fritz and Katte's faces and then cut to Dorgerloh saying "Well, we don't KNOW what they did and I don't want to speculate" - You may not, but Arte sure does.
Overall rating: 4/10 homoerotic things behind closed doors, watchable for a documentary
Spotlight Musicals - Friedrich. Mythos und Tragödie (2012)
Oh, FMuT, the things we could have had... I have feelings about this thing, considering I've spent hours of my life subbing it. This Katte is so straight, he's barely even friends with Fritz. Which is pretty much the worst you can do. I don't even expect people to make their relationship romantic, I'd just like them to portray a good friendship for once... Whenever they're on stage together during his lifetime, Katte is usually preoccupied with Wilhelmine and doesn't spare Fritz a second glance. Which is even weirder when you consider that the very same Fritz apparently felt so strongly about him that he hallucinated his ghost before he died (The whole thing reads as "Fritz is in love with him and Katte is too dumb and Wilhelmine-focused to notice, but also we didn't want to lose our conservative audience by making Fritz anything but straight, so we gave Countess Orzelska a sexy solo to cement his heterosexuality").
They don't even have a duet. Katte has major singing parts in his duet with Wilhelmine (which I skip every time) and a song with Mine and Fritz, is in the ensemble for maybe two more songs and gets two lines in the finale; LET HIM SING, GOD DAMNIT, HE'S ON STAGE 90% OF THE TIME! The very cool concept of Ghost Katte showing Fritz how much he's changed over the years was truly wasted on this show - as was Bienvenue in Sanssouci, because that song is a banger. But hey, at least they hug twice and we get that kiss we didn't get in Zeithain...? Even if it's played for a laugh...? Yay...? His personality is alright, I guess. He hides Fritz's flute, protects him from FW once and dreams of a more cultured future while still being very much a military man (in the infantry, for staging reasons...) and ghost-Katte is not afraid to tell Fritz that he thinks he sucks. We just don't really get why he even cares about Fritz in the first place or why Fritz cares about him. Oh, and he doesn't get ANY last words. What the fuck.
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As for his looks: Maximilian Mann doesn't necessarily look like Katte, but it's better than others and at least he was about the right age (24 in the 2012 run, 26/27 when it came to Fulda two years later). In this specific picture, he even has acceptable eyebrows and the gloomy look that Wilhelmine mentions! A wig could have been nice (apparently they used one for another actor...?), but considering the wig quality we see on other people on stage, maybe it's good they went with his natural hair. I feel like I'm being a little hard on this one, but I love musicals and thus I'm very mad about the wasted potential. Also the man can sing, I've seen him live, give him a solo.
Overall rating: 4/10 Nonexistant duets, fun if you skip the right songs
And that's all for today, folks! One kissing gif for the road:
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PART III
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elendil-sama · 4 years ago
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SPOILER ALERT FOR MHA CHAPTER 285 AND HEROES RISING MOVIE BELOW
I remember reading chapter 285 of MHA 'Katsuki Bakugo rising' and loving it because of obvious reasons. Although i couldnt help but feel like the main event (Katsuki sacrificing himself to save Deku and finally having his hero moment) was a bit...rushed. Sure we knew something like that was bound to happen at some point and sure their relationship had started to take another turn after the events of Kamino and the DekuVsKatsuki fight at UA.
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But it seemed to be a huge step from that to Katsuki actually jumping in front of a vilain to save Deku, and getting seriously injured in the process. Yeah i loved the scene and I got goosebumps when we got the 'My body moved on its own' because this was Katsuki officially becoming a hero IMO.
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So yeah I felt it was rushed because even though we had a flashback of him talking to All Might about his relationship wirh Deku, it was in that same chapter so we only learned about his new pov right before he saves Deku. I couldn't help but feel like something was missing, some kind of development needed to explain this huge change in Katsuki. And then yesterday I watched the Heroes Rising movie, and there it was, the missing piece!
It started with how Katsuki goes to check on Deku while he's training under the disguise of taunting him.
Then it's their first fight with Nine, where they fight TOGETHER for the first time, and boy was All Might right, that of they set their ill feelings aside they could make a great team. That fight was epic and the team work impeccable.
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Then we got Katsuki witnessing Deku's conversation with Matsuho and he heard how kind-hearted and hero-like he sounded. Katsuki has been under the impression that somehow Deku was a liar, that he was faking being so nice (why would you be nice to someone who bullied you?), but he saw that this kindness was genuine, cementing the fact that Deku was a true hero, even without his quirk, whereas people only saw Katsuki as a hero because he had an amazing quirk.
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And so this leads us to the final fight, again great teamwork and then, when the kids start yelling for them, they both understand, both go back to Kamino, when people were cheering at All Might and he said 'Next is your turn', it was Deku who was in All Might's place and Katsuki in Deku's.
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And when Katsuki told him this was the end of his dream, Deku didn't seem to care, and I'm sure Katsuki must have thought Deku would hate him for 'stealing' his quirk after having made him miserable for not having one. But again Deku showed his heroism and good heart. In his eyes, noone is more worthy of inheriting OFA than Katsuki, and this transfer is the ultimate proof of trust, of love.
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And I'm sure that Katsuki remembered that, or figured it out. I don't see why Deku would remember and not him. Maybe he said so in order to not confront this heavily emotional moment? Because this event is for me what made him do what he did in chapter 285, just like Deku sacrificed his dream and passed it on to him, he sacrificed his. And then Katsuki who was all about 'Winning' started 'Saving'. He's come all circle, because of Deku, for Deku.
I am beyond satisfied with this movie and how it ties to the rest of the manga. Those characters are so well written!
PS: can we talk about how super powerful Katsuki's quirk became after he got OFA??
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Seriously what is that, lava? I loved it!
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cherryblossomstars · 4 years ago
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paper crowns (t. oikawa)
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a/n: take a shot everytime i say the words “paper crowns” in this fic lmao. i hope you enjoy it! i’m really proud of this one
pairing: oikawa x reader
word count: 2,138
genre: childhood friends to lovers, very light angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, its like 85% fluff 15% angst and imo its not that angsty
summary: you were in love with the boy who wore paper crowns and kept galaxies in his pockets
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you were in love with a boy who wore paper crowns and kept galaxies in his pockets in case the both of you ever got bored of the same old scenery the miyagi prefecture had to offer. he’d take the stars and universes out of his pocket and paint your skies with nebulas and show you everything beautiful the world had to offer.
“i want to travel the world with you one day,” he’d shrugged one day out of nowhere- as if you weren’t both in fourth grade and had no real means of being able to make that dream come true.
“we will.” you’d promised, anyway.
the paper crowns were a craft you’d shown him how to make when you were both little. he’d become so enamored with it the both of you had gone to the store and spent your pocket money on buying blue card stock paper, just to have quality, blue paper crowns.
when iwaizumi had joined one day, the both of you had offered him a crown. he refused, saying knights were much cooler anyway. and so, the three of you spent the day learning how to make a paper sword for your dear friend instead.
you and oikawa preferred the crowns much more.
“see, i’m a king, and you’re my queen!” he’d exclaimed. you wondered if it was a silly proclamation or a promise for the future.
the paper crowns remained on your heads all throughout your childhood and middle school. by the time you got to highschool, you’d realized with tears in your eyes and a heavy heart that oikawa had traded in his paper crowns for a volleyball and a net.
the paper crown you’d both made and decorated with stickers and drawings remained on his dresser, but your friendship had long since withered away.
the garden that was your friendship needed the care of two people and oikawa, busy as he was, had left you to do all the work. eventually, what had become this one-sided friendship of yours had dried up.
he regrets many things, but he regrets that the most.
he pretends he doesn’t see the way you steal glances towards him and look like you’re about to cry.
he pretends it doesn’t hurt when you stop. he has to steel himself whenever you walk by him without so much as a glance.
you don’t make paper crowns anymore.
he’s not sure if he was better off with you hating him or you ignoring him.
oikawa tooru loves paper crowns, attention, and volleyball. he’d realized too late that he loves you, too.
in his second year, he’d ditched volleyball practice for the first and last time. he’d gone to the store, just like he did many years ago, and bought a pack of blue card stock.
two new, clean paper crowns. he’s gotten much better at them, he thought proudly. he grabbed some stickers from takeru (much to his nephew’s protest) with promises to buy him more later. he’d stuck the stickers on carefully, the perfectionist that he is. and afterwards, after deciding that the crown looked too plain, he’d drawn and cut out some designs on a different sheet of paper, meticulously glueing on every little drawing.
the first and last time he’d ever ditch volleyball practice, and it was to make you a paper crown for your birthday. he’d even made a matching one for himself.
“i’m such a simp...” he sighed to himself. the both of you hadn’t spoken in two years, and he was about to show up to your doorstep with an origami project and a sheepish smile.
he decided he needs more because you deserve better than a childish arts and crafts project with sentimental value and a shitty friend. another stop at the store, with the crowns in his hand.
the florists are all closed by this time of day, so instead he buys a few cheap, half off bouquets that the stores sell.
he hates them, if he was being honest. so he compromises, stealing certain flowers here and there from each bouquet he bought and made it into one, beautifully done (almost professional looking, if he could say so himself) bouquet— just for you. he’d put the leftover flowers into a vase and arrange them later to give to his mother.
by the time he’s finally finished preparing, it was on the cusp of twilight. his mother had flashed him a knowing smile on his way out of the door, the pieces all fitting together when she sees the familiar points of the crowns in his hand. she’d seen them often enough in his childhood to know that they were worth more to him than just simple toys.
while the night is winding down, you open your door to a pretty bouquet shoved into your face, tied with a pretty blue bow and held by a pretty boy, with a shy, apologetic smile on his face. the real kicker was the paper crown placed on his head.
you smile, glad to see the boy you once called your best friend again. you happily take the flowers, side stepping away from your front door to let the chocolate haired setter into your home.
your family greets him with a smile, they’d always loved oikawa. to them, he was the boy that would spout facts about space and conspiracy theories about the government and the aliens that they were hiding whenever he could. his faces flushes bright red when it’s brought up.
they, too, smile knowingly at the familiar blue set of crowns in his hand.
you put the beautifully arranged flowers into a vase and ask him to follow you. he does, of course. he’d follow you to the ends of the earth if you’d asked him to.
he won’t say that. not right now, at least. your relationship still needed mending. he still needed to learn how to manage his schedule. it’s the reason the both of you had distanced yourselves from each other in the first place.
volleyball first, he’d always think. he’d just assumed you’d always be able for him to come home to whenever he needed. you’d just felt used, instead.
he thinks he’s learned his lesson. enough, at least, for him to try being friends with you again. properly, this time. and then maybe, just maybe, he’ll be able to confess the feelings he’s been shoving away from his heart for years.
you both enter your room, placing the vase of flowers onto your nightstand. his heart stutters with hope when he sees a paper crown left on your nightstand, right next to the newly set vase of flowers. he ignores how his stomach plunged with guilt, as well, for neglecting your friendship for so long.
you both pretend you don’t see your family peaking through a crack in your door to see what was going on.
they pretend they didn’t see oikawa hold you in his arms and whisper apologies, asking for another chance. they slip away without a word.
oikawa’s head tucks into your shoulder, his paper crown falling to the ground when he does.
you wonder how he could be comfortable in this position, considering your height difference. he’s grown so much taller since you knew him.
when he steps back, he places the paper crown he’s been holding in his hand onto your head. you bend down to pick up his, and place it onto his head.
you realize quickly that oikawa is still the boy that keeps galaxies in his pocket and that he’d never traded in his paper crowns for volleyball. he brought them with him.
he’d make a great king, you think, when you watch him play a highschool game for the first time.
you’d been avoiding watching your high school’s volleyball games out of fear and, quite frankly, humiliation for the friendship that withered after not seeing sunlight for two years.
he’s still a setter, just like he was in middle school, and he’s still amazing. he conducts his team with ease and, despite always receiving the brunt of their jokes, it’s clear they respect and trust him just as much as he does them.
you smile and wave at the boy who once held a paper sword in his hand. iwaizumi sends you a confused glance, but waves back nonetheless. he turns to oikawa, his furrowed brows and look of confusion still evident on his face.
oikawa turns to his friend, who then points to you. when oikawa sees you at his game, he complains about you waving to iwaizumi before you greeted him, yelling his complains all the way from the gym floor.
you roll your eyes, “i have an inquiry box at home, if you want!” you yell right back.
he pouts, “well maybe i’ll submit an entry! about how mean you are to me! hmph!”
he turns away with a smile on his face. he can’t help it— you’re finally at a game.
he’ll never admit he always looks for you in the crowd when he plays the sport he loves so much. when you finally show up to one, he finally acknowledges the feeling of pride that swells in his chest.
he confesses to you at the end of your second year, when he thinks that you’re both back and settled into your friendship.
he knows that he really should have chosen a better place to confess to you, rather than the halls of aoba johsai during a lunch period. he loves attention, but for once he decides he hates the stares of the students around the both of you, the air hanging heavily as everyone waits to hear your answer. he knows better than anyone at this moment that this wasn’t the best spot he could have done this, but he couldn’t wait anymore.
“take your time,” you’d always tell him when you were younger. he was never one to listen to that advice.
then again, he was also never one to be the person confessing. it was always him getting the confessions. he feels his face burn with embarrassment and fear that you’ll reject him.
you accept his confession with stars in your eyes.
he paints your skies with the galaxies he keeps in his pockets. he lays in your arms with a dazed smile on his face, your hands carding through his hair.
“you’re ruining it.” he complains with a pout.
you hum, “i have an inquiry box, you know.”
“you don’t. i think you should get one, i have a lot of complaints to put in.”
“is that so? you can go ahead and fuck right off, then.” you try not to laugh when you roll him off of you.
he whines, “i was joking!” he crawls his way back into your arms and settles himself between your legs.
after a period of silence, he brings up your promise from long ago. “let’s travel the world together?” he mumbles, as if he was shy to ask.
oikawa tooru is shy, you think with amusement. you may as well enjoy it while you can.
“hm? where’s this coming from?”
he buries his head in your shoulder in an attempt to hide his embarrassment. you won’t mention how you can see the tips of his ears turning red.
“don’t ask questions you already know the answer to.” he pouts, “remember? you promised we would.”
“ah, that’s right. i did.”
“so, can we?”
“well, i promised, didn’t i? promises are made to be kept.” you say, as if you both aren’t broke highschool students worried about college applications.
“where would we go first?”
“hmm. i’ve always wanted to visit argentina since we watched that professional volleyball game when we were younger. you know, the one where you had that dude sign your—“
“stop! stop! and for your information, his name was jose blanco! and don’t bring that up, please, it’s embarrassing. you just love watching me suffer, don’t you?”
“not my fault you decided to—“
“so!” he interrupts again to save himself, “argentina? we can do argentina.” he smiles against the exposed skin of your shoulder, his hand playing with your fingers.
“and then after that, let’s visit france. and then i’d like to see the philippines, too. so many places to visit, too little time and money, jeez.” you continue to ramble, your hands reaching for your nightstand to grab and place the paper crown displayed on it onto your boyfriend’s head.
he listens to your rambling intently, fully ready to do everything he can to make both your dreams a reality.
oikawa thinks his heart might explode out of his chest at the thought that he was lucky enough to fall in love with the girl with paper crowns and stars in her eyes.
fin.
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tenshiscientia · 4 years ago
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This is part of a story that I'm writing, but it's going to be a long ass time before I can get the full thing posted on here, so I thought I'd put a tease of a fight scene out. (Due to this being a dream of one of the characters, certain people are TOTALLY NOT acting like they should be.) Also a number of trigger warnings. Character death, mention of torture, violence, slightly graphic violence (we're gonna call this R rated peeps)
Also imo I suck at fight scenes, but hey read at your own risk!
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Genesis opened his eyes to find himself in a large, well lit room. His azure eyes scanned around and noted Hojo standing in front of several people talking to them. 
'That's not right, Hojo's dead...' he thought to himself.
He then realized who he was talking to. It was his two best friends Angeal and Sephiroth, along with Zack. Although there were others Genesis didn't know, but they all had silver hair just like Sephiroth. Perhaps they were related to him in some way...
'No that's not possible, Sephiroth has no family relations. He's all alone.' Genesis told himself.
Hojo turned around and noticed Genesis.
"Well, well, Rhapsodos. It's so nice of you to join us. We all were waiting for you, weren't we, gentlemen?" Hojo sneered at him.
"Angeal, Sephiroth, Zack...why are you working with him?" Genesis asked, greatly confused.
Hojo laughed a high, annoying, nasally laugh.
"They've told me that they are tired of your constant complaining, and I told them that I could help stop that. By the way what do you think of my newest creations?" Hojo asked, waving his hand at the three silver haired boys.
Genesis looked over at them. The youngest looked at him and flicked some hair out from in front of his eyes.
"Names Kadaj." he said flatly, then looked away, obviously bored.
The second oldest turned around from playing with something and flicked shoulder-blade length silver hair over his black clad shoulder.
"Yazoo." he purred silkily.
The oldest and most burly looked up from sitting on the floor and chuckled deeply.
"Loz." was all he said.
Hojo cackled madly.
"Very good. You see Rhapsodos, to come up with these creations of mine, I had to do a lot of work. Genetically modifying cells to match and become compatible with a certain others. For you see, these creations are clones of Sephiroth!" he said triumphantly, madness glittering in his eyes.
A shocked look firmly settled itself into place on Genesis' face as he looked over at Sephiroth.
"Sephiroth, why did you let him do that to you? I know for a fact you would never willingly allow that to happen. Did he drug you to coerce you into allowing him to do it?" Genesis asked, appalled at what he had just heard.
"No drugs, Genesis..." Sephiroth replied, "...I've always wanted a sparring partner that could challenge me. And while you and Angeal do push me slightly, it's not enough. So Hojo told me that he could create a sparring partner that would keep me working if I helped him. And low and behold, he delivers three sparring partners that can keep me busy when we spar."
Hurt crossed Genesis' face as he heard those words.
"Poor Rhapsodos. No longer needed. But wait! She might need you..." Hojo cackled, gesturing over to where Yazoo was standing.
The young teen looked over his shoulder then stepped to the side, revealing someone chained up, hanging against the wall. Taking a better look at the person, he realized who it was.
"Ami!" he yelled, then rounded on back on Hojo, "Why do you have her chained up like that?"
Yazoo laughed and Genesis' attention was drawn back to him and Amaterasu. Taking better notice of Amaterasu's state, he realized her clothes were shredded and barely hanging on her body. She was also riddled with cuts and horrible bruises. They had obviously been torturing her. Her usual bright auburn hair was dark with the blood that saturated it.
Yazoo moved back over to Amaterasu and lifted her head so Genesis could see her face and he noted that not even that had been spared from the beatings. Then with sadistic pleasure on his face, Yazoo wrenched Amaterasu's head towards him and crashed his lips hard against hers in a brutal kiss. Amaterasu didn't fight against him, didn't move at all, as if she had given up on getting away. Yazoo pulled away from Amaterasu with satisfaction plastered on his face. Sephiroth looked up from his place a little ways away and smiled.
"Excellent Yazoo. She's not fighting back anymore. You've finally broken her spirit. Very impressive." he laughed.
Yazoo smiled and threw a "thank you" in his direction. Hot rage coursed through Genesis' veins and he called Rapier to his hand and flew forward at all of them. Suddenly, there was a loud crack, and Genesis stopped in his tracks, a bullet hole where his next footstep would have been. Genesis studied the bullet in the ground for a second then looked up to see where it had come from. He noticed the one named Yazoo with a gun in his hand.
Yazoo waved the gun back and forth in the air carelessly for a moment, teasing Genesis. Then he lowered the gun to the side of Amaterasu's head.
"Now if I were you, Rhapsodos, I wouldn't come any closer, or I'll blow her brains out all over the wall." he threatened.
Genesis held his ground and glared at Yazoo. Everyone else laughed at him. Zack then decided to come forward and fight him.
"If you can beat me, You will be one step closer to saving Amaterasu. Although it's not like you''re going to make it." he said, raising the training sword all SOLDIERs were given when they joined, in a threatening manner.
"I don't want to fight you, Zack. We don't need to fight." Genesis replied.
Zack laughed, "Oh yes we do!"
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He then charged at Genesis his sword held high, and brought it down in a overhead strike. Genesis brought up Rapier to block it, then kicked Zack in the stomach, sending him flying backwards. Genesis perused him, but Zack was back up onto his feet in seconds and met Genesis' strike and tried to sweep Genesis' feet out from under him by dropping to the ground and swiping his leg towards Genesis' feet. Genesis saw what he was doing and jumped over his leg and landed. Zack used the momentum to spin himself back up so he was standing again.
He brought his sword up in the air in a lower slash and Genesis leaned backwards to avoid it and charged a fireball in his hand. Releasing it, the fireball engulfed Zack's hand and he quickly dropped his sword with a loud cry. Genesis saw his opening and even though he didn't want to do it, he knew he had to. Genesis lunged forward and slashed his sword, and a large gash appeared in Zack's throat. Zack's eyes grew wide as the burn on his hand was forgotten and his hands rose to his throat.
He tried in vain to stem the bleeding, but it was no use and he quickly bled out, the life leaving his eyes as his body bonelessly hit the ground. Genesis slowly walked to him and kneeled down. He ran his hand over Zack's face, gently closing his wide open eyes before picking the boy up and walking him over to the wall far away from the others. Gently propping him up against the wall, Genesis ruffled his black spikes softly.
"Sorry, pup..." he whispered softly, "...I didn't want to do it, but you left me little choice, I have to save Amaterasu..."
Sea foam green swirls began to surround Zack's body.
"May the Goddess keep you safe pup..." Genesis whispered softly.
He watched Zack's body disappear and noticed a single tear run down the boys cheek just before he fully disappeared. The hand not holding Rapier clenched into a fist. That boy still had so much more to live for, so much more of a life to live. And he had been forced to cut it short. Genesis stood and turned back to the others.
Angeal stood and gave a large stretch, before reaching over beside him and picking up the large and heavy Buster sword. Propping it on his shoulder, he walked out in front of the others and raised his hand palm up then made a "come here" sign with two of his finger. That has always been the motion that he and Genesis had used to mark the start of their fights. However Genesis did not return the gesture and charge toward him. He simply shook his head and lowered Rapier, showing he wasn't going to fight him.
Angeal made a annoyed noise, then chuckled darkly, "Fine, if you won't come for me, then I'll come for you."
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He shot forward, surprisingly fast and agile for a man of his size and stature as well as the weapon he carried with him. Once Angeal reached Genesis, he brought the Buster sword up over his head, like it weighed no more than a feather, and brought it down hard. Not wanting to face the brute force and power behind that attack, Genesis dodged to the side, quickly dancing out of the way of the heavy blade.
"Angeal, stop this. I don't want to fight you. I need your help to get Ami out of here. Hojo has poisoned Sephiroth's mind. I know I killed the puppy, and I'm sorry about that. But he gave me no choice. Hojo must have poisoned his mind too..." Genesis dove onto the ground and rolled to the left then back up onto his feet.
"Zackery doesn't matter to me. If he was a true SOLDIER, he would have been able to hold his own against you. He was 1st class material, he just hadn't been promoted or gotten the Mako yet. He's better off dead." Angeal growled, making another slash at Genesis.
This one Genesis blocked. It was one thing to say that a SOLDIER was weak or inexperienced. But to say they were better off dead because of that inexperience was unacceptable. This was not his friend Angeal, and Genesis knew that now. He no longer had any qualms about fighting him.
Pulling Rapier back, he lashed it forward with as much power as he could. Angeal was not expecting the strength of the retaliation and was momentarily stunned. After stumbling back a couple of steps, he grinned and lept back into the battle. He swung the Buster sword at Genesis' stomach, and Genesis launched himself into the air, landed with his hand firmly on the Buster sword, then launched himself even higher. As he came down, Genesis swung Rapier in a two handed strike and Angeal's head was cut cleanly from his shoulders.
Genesis landed in a crouch on the ground and not a second later, Angeal's head landed behind him. Genesis turned and looked at the head.
"You always spoke of honor, dreams, and pride Angeal. It was Zack's dream to become a 1st like his mentor, like you. And you always spoke of him with such pride because he was your best student. But then you go and dishonor him by saying that he was so weak that he was better off dead. Where is your honor, Angeal?
I certainly don't see it. Zack was a hard working young man. Yes, he had a bad tendency to get in trouble and play some bad pranks. But when Ami entered into our lives, he took top her like an older brother would to a sister. She never would have been able to learn how to get around the halls of the ShinRa building without him. Don't you remember.
She's been working hard and he asked to help out and that's what she wanted help with. Zack was an honorable young man, and you threw that away along with his life." he hissed.
There was clapping from over where Amaterasu was chained and Genesis looked there. Sephiroth was clapping his gloved hands together with a mocking smile on his face.
"A beautiful speech Genesis. Too bad he couldn't hear it. You already killed him and he's halfway to the Life Stream now." he laughed, pointing at Angeal's body.
Genesis looked down at where Angeal's body was to see the last swirls of sea foam fading away.
"Shut it Sephiroth. You have no more honor than he did..." Genesis snapped, his gaze locking on him once more.
"Oh, ho, so now you're the one preaching about honor. Please, spare me. I don't need a lesson in honor from you." Sephiroth chuckled.
"Maybe you do, considering you're letting Hojo control you. All because of the promise for a better sparring partner. You know you could have asked me to try and push you harder. How do you know that I haven't holding back. That I don't have something that could have challenged you more?" Genesis spat back.
Sephiroth shook his head as he pushed off the wall and summoned Masumune to his hand.
"I know you Genesis. I know how you fight. You always go all out and you never hold back. That's why I know you haven't been holding back." Sephiroth practically grinned, "Now come and let me kill you so that I can start sparring with some actual adversaries."
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Sephiroth raised Masumune over his left shoulder and darted forward. Genesis barely blocked the thrust, then twirled to the side.
'Sephiroth is faster than he normally is. Did Hojo give him something to help him fight?' Genesis asked himself, blocking another stab from Masumune.
Dashing to the left, he tried to get behind Sephiroth to attack him, but at the last second, Sephiroth spun around and blocked the attack and launched one of his own. Genesis dodged to the side, but was unable to fully get away from the attack. He lifted his hand to his upper arm and checked it. The leather had been split open and a line of blood rested just under the cut leather.
"First blood Genesis, just like always." Sephiroth laughed.
Genesis just glared at him darkly.
"My coat, you ass!" Genesis hissed.
"Oh so what, your precious leather duster got a cut in it. Whatever shall we do?" Sephiroth taunted him, trying to get him to lose his cool.
A warrior who doesn't keep their cool while they fight will make mistakes, and mistakes can cost a warrior their life. Genesis realized what Sephiroth was trying to do and pushed the fact that that his duster got cut out of his mind. His first priority was to defeat and kill Sephiroth, as it seemed it was the only way to win. Then to get past Sephiroth's three clones. Then get past Hojo.
Then get Ami and himself out of here. Turning his thoughts back to Sephiroth, he twisted away just before Masumune would have sliced into his throat. Dropping down, Genesis kicked Sephiroth in the stomach, then rolled backwards as Masumune stabbed down where he had just been crouching. Stumbling a little from the momentum he created he created when he rolled backwards, Genesis made it back to his feet and slashed at Sephiroth. A chunk of silver hair fluttered to the ground between them as Genesis pulled Rapier back.
Sephiroth reached up and fingered the shortened the chunk of hair then glared at Genesis.
"Low blow, Genesis, low blow." he growled at him.
"Aw, the Great Silver Demon of Wutai lost a piece of his precious, pretty silver hair! Oh no, the world is going to end!" Genesis mocked him, trying to use the same tactic Sephiroth had used on him.
It seemed to work as Sephiroth let out a yell and charged him. Dodging nimbly out of the way, Genesis smiled at the job he had done. It was Sephiroth himself that always said to keep a level head in battle. However, when it came to Sephiroth's hair, everything went out the door. Sephiroth was not a vain man by any means, but his hair meant a lot to him.
It was his only way to rebel against the control that Hojo had over him. Genesis dodged another sloppy lunge from Sephiroth. This time, Genesis stuck his foot out and tripped Sephiroth as he went by. Sephiroth's foot caught Genesis' and he went down face first into the floor, his hair fanning out around him. Genesis knew better than to laugh at him.
Sephiroth was well enough pissed as it was, he didn't need to do anything more. He prepared himself for Sephiroth's next attack. Genesis knew when Sephiroth became angry he also fought irrationally. Sephiroth levered himself off the floor and turned to face Genesis.
"You're going to regret that!" he growled raising Masumune again and charging him once more.
Sephiroth must have been beyond furious to have left the openings that Genesis noticed. He charged a powerful fireball, considering Sephiroth had a high tolerance to magic and fired it at his right hip. Masumune dipped down to block it and diffuse it and then Rapier lashed out and the right shoulder guard to Sephiroth's coat was missing and he had a deep gash in that shoulder, rendering that arm useless. Sephiroth jumped back away from the battle hissing and holding his shoulder.
"Nice hit, Rhapsodos. It's been a while since anyone has been able to wound me. Maybe you are a bit more of a challenge than I thought you were." he laughed.
Genesis gave a hollow laugh.
"I told you that I've been holding back. I didn't want to truly hurt you or Angeal, so I've been stopping myself." he said.
Sephiroth released his shoulder.
"Well then, no more holding back. Doesn't matter that I've been injured. Come at me full force. Even if it kills me, Rhapsodos. I want to see what you're made of. What you can really do." Sephiroth laughed loudly.
Genesis hung his head and whispered something.
"What was that, Rhapsodos?" Sephiroth asked.
"I said, if I do that then I'll end up killing you. But it seems I have no choice. If I want to get Ami out of here, I have to get rid of all of you..." Genesis clarified, "...Then so be it. I'll kill all of you. Even if it means Ami might not be happy with me for it. At least she'll be out of here and away from Hojo's clutches once more. She'll be free once more, like she deserves to be."
Genesis brought Rapier up in front of him so that the blade was flat in front of his face, the blue piece of Materia even with his eyes.
"I'm sorry Sephiroth..." he whispered.
Lowering the blade, he charged forward. Sephiroth readied himself for the coming assault, but just as Genesis reached him and Sephiroth brought Masumune down on his head, Genesis disappeared, leaving only his leather duster behind. Sephiroth looked around in confusion, trying to figure out where Genesis had gone. Turning around, Sephiroth was about to call out a taunt when Genesis appeared in front of him. Genesis grabbed the hilt of Masumune and yanked it out of Sephiroth's hands.
This put him off balance, pitching him forward. Genesis dropped Masumune and slashed with Rapier. Blood sprayed on the ground in front of him from Sephiroth's throat. Genesis sent Rapier away and caught Sephiroth as he fell. He gently turned Sephiroth over on his back and laid him on the ground.
Genesis watched the light leave Sephiroth's eyes, then the sea foam green swirls encase his body till nothing was left.
"Sorry Seph. It had to be done. You're my best friend, but I will do anything I have to to keep Ami safe. And if my friends turn against me and force me to fight them. Then I will cut them down to get to her." he whispered softly.
Genesis heard a scoff from the corner of the room. Genesis stood up and spun around, his eyes zeroing in on where the scoff had come from. It had been Kadaj.
"You think this is funny, you brat? Funny that I've been forced to kill the only friends I've had all my life. Sure, I said I had to do it, but that doesn't mean that I liked it. Those three men are all I've had since I joined SOLDIER. More like my family than the actual family I had back where I come from." he yelled.
Kadaj stood and scoffed again.
"Like I care. I never had any family except for my two older brothers. And even then, we're not that close. Who cares that you had to kill those guys. The point is that you're still alive.
That is the only point of battle. It doesn't matter who your opponent is so long as you defeat and kill them. That is all that matters in battle. Who cares if they're your friends or family. They are your enemy and need to be destroyed." the young man proclaimed, walking forward.
Hot anger coursed through Genesis' veins, but he forced it down. He couldn't afford to make any mistakes.
"I'm fighting you now, right? Then get your ass out here and lets fight. I'm tired of you already, and I don't want to hear any more of your mouth." Genesis snapped.
Kadaj gave a sharp laugh then reached behind him.
"Fine but remember, you asked for it."
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Pulling out a double-bladed katana, he held it so the blade was facing backwards. Genesis studied how the boy held his weapon and figured out a plan to take him down. With how young he was, there was no way that he had properly mastered how to wield his blade in the way he was holding it. Kadaj shot forward and swung his katana swiftly. Genesis was not ready for the speed that the boy had.
Though he shouldn't have been surprised, seeing as how small the boy was. Genesis brought Rapier up to block the attack and was immediately assaulted with a second attack. Kadaj pushed away a little and kicked Genesis in the stomach, sending him flying back into the wall far across the other side of the room. Kadaj followed quickly with another strike and Genesis was barely able to bring Rapier up to block it. He then activated a piece of Materia and directed a gust of wind at Kadaj blowing him away from him and back across the room.
Kadaj landed on the ground a few meters away and cracked his head against it. It stunned him for the precious few seconds that Genesis needed to right himself and send a fireball in Kadaj' direction. As Genesis launched himself behind the fireball, the fireball was extinguished in front of him and Kadaj' katana was being slashed in front of his face.
Rapier came up and blocked the slash, but Genesis felt a small boot plant itself firmly in his sternum and kick upwards, knocking the air out of him. Genesis swung an arm down and wrapped it around the foot and twisted as he gasped for air. There was a sicking crack and Genesis let go of the boys foot. That was assuredly a broken ankle if not a leg. It was a step in the right direction to getting rid of the boy.
Genesis rolled to the side, trying to get air back into his lungs as he watched Kadaj clutch at his leg.
'It's a start.' Genesis thought to himself.
As Genesis was finally able to get air back into his lungs and stand up, Kadaj was able to stand up on his uninjured leg as well.
"That was a dirty trick, Rhapsodos." he hissed.
Genesis shrugged.
"Sephiroth always taught his SOLDIERs that nothing is a "dirty trick" when you are trying to survive. You best be ready for worse than that if you keep fighting me." Genesis sighed.
Kadaj growled loudly and threw his sword at Genesis. He easily dodged it and followed it as it lodged itself into the wall. Genesis stared at it for a moment then slowly looked back at Kadaj.
"Is this you surrendering to me or what?" he asked.
Kadaj just looked at the ground and closed his eyes, then looked back up at him with a glare that rivaled Sephiroth's.
"Never!" he yelled, launching himself forward on his one good leg.
Genesis swiftly moved out of the way. Kadaj' hands hit the wall to stop himself, then he pulled his katana out of the wall then turned to face Genesis.
"I never surrender!" he cried, launching himself forward again.
His blade clashed with Genesis' and even though Kadaj had a broken leg, there was still power behind his strike. Genesis shoved him back again and Kadaj stumbled back onto his broken leg. It collapsed under his weight, and Kadaj dropped his katana and held onto his knee. Seeing the only chance he knew he would get with this kid, he charged a powerful fireball and launched it at him. The flames engulfed him and Kadaj cried out.
Before Kadaj could do anything to defend himself, Genesis shot forward and lashed out with Rapier. Mint green eyes shot open wide as their owners head flew off its shoulders and landed on the ground. Kadaj' head rolled away as Genesis watched it. It was sad. Another young life lost before it was properly lived.
Didn't matter that the boy had been in Hojo's clutches. If he had been freed from Hojo, Kadaj probably could have learned so much, and may have had a different outlook on life. But now was not the time to be worried about that anymore. The silverette named Loz stood up in a rage, trying to stifle a couple of sobs as a few tears streaked down his face.
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"H-how dare you kill my b-brother. We m-may not have been very close, b-but he was still my brother, you big meanie!" he yelled, pulling out his weapon, which looked to be a fancy arm shield of some sort.
Genesis took a step back from this show of emotion. All of the others hadn't cared one shit about what happened to the one before them. Where was this show of anger and concern for his so called "brother" coming from. However, Genesis couldn't concentrate on that. He had to get to Amaterasu.
There was only this teen, the gunner named Yazoo, and Hojo in his way. He was so close!
"It seems strange that you would care about your so called "brother", but it doesn't matter to me. You are all in my way of getting to Ami, that includes you Hojo." Genesis yelled, pointing Rapier at Hojo threateningly, "And I will slay you all to get to her if I have to."
Loz' stance wavered a little then strengthened once more.
"You won't kill me Rhapsodos!" he yelled, all signs of the previous tears gone.
Loz shot forward, leaving traces of blue light in his wake. Before Genesis knew it, Loz was in front of him. He let lose with a sharp, swift punch to the ground. The ground underneath his fist cracked and broke, sending huge pieces of it flying up into the air, along with Genesis. This surprised him for a moment but he quickly righted himself and began to lightly jump from rock to rock to rock, flitting back and forth almost like he was a butterfly, his foot never touching the rock for more than a second until he reached the ground.
Genesis had to admit, that move was impressive. However, right after Genesis had landed, Loz was right on top of him with another devastating punch to the ground, once again sending chunks of the ground flying up into the air. This time as Genesis tried to make his way back to the ground, Loz met him in mid air and tried to land a hit. Thanks to quick reflexes on Genesis' part, he missed. Landing on the ground again, Genesis turned and charged a fireball and searched for Loz but he was no where to be found.
Suddenly a falling piece of the floor in front of him shattered and Loz came flying at him through the debris and cloud of dust that was left. Genesis did the first thing that his body thought of: launch the fireball. Loz lifted his arm and the contraption on it flared to life and electricity appeared around it. The fireball hit it and fought with the electricity for a second then the fireball was redirected and smashed into the wall across on the other side of the room. Shock was clearly written all over Genesis' face.
Loz grinned, "Do you like Duel Hound's power. Your magic is useless against me Rhapsodos."
Genesis looked down at his bangle. Almost all of the Materia in his bangle were magic Materia. He only had a few pieces that weren't. Genesis then looked down at Rapier. His sword mostly relied on magic to do its heaviest amount of damage.
Genesis, shrugged, he would be at a huge disadvantage this way, but if he couldn't win with magic, he would use brute force. Genesis sent Rapier away and slammed a fist into an open palm.
"Well..." Genesis grimaced, "...if I can't use my magic, then I guess it's hand to hand combat. I'm not very good at this and considering your size, I'll be at a disadvantage, but I used to hand to hand spar with both Sephiroth and Angeal. I don't think fighting with you will be too different from fighting Angeal, but I know you won't give me the chance to recover if you get a good hit in. Though you must realize, the same goes for you. I'm not going to hold back on your ass.
You will go down."
Loz laughed as he cracked his knuckles then pulled off Duel Hound.
"Well Rhapsodos, I didn't think you had the balls to throw away your precious magic. After all, you depend on it so much. Oh well, if you say you've done hand to hand before, this should be interesting. But realize this, by the end of this fight, you'll be in a ShinRa body bag, headed back to your hometown for your parents to cry over your dead body. Or perhaps Hojo will take your body and make it useful, stranger things have happened in that lab of his." Loz sneered.
Genesis just shook his head and fell into his favorite hand to hand fighting stance.
"Let's just get this over with." he hissed.
"My pleasure." replied Loz, launching himself forward.
Loz made the first offensive move to hit Genesis' shoulder and Genesis brought up his hand and simply guided it away lashing in with his other hand and striking Loz squarely in the chest. The air was forced out of Loz' lungs and he stumbled back. Genesis didn't give him a chance to recover and shot forward to hit Loz in the shoulder. There was a loud pop and Loz cried out. He jumped back and away from Genesis holding his shoulder and glaring at him.
Tenderly feeling his shoulder, Loz pulled on his lower arm sharply, and there was another loud pop.
"Damn, one hit and you dislocated my shoulder. And you said you weren't good at this. I call bull shit, Rhapsodos." Loz huffed, still holding his arm and gently massaging it.
"I never said how good I was. It's just my opinion that I'm not very good. Others have told me I'm good. Now can we continue?" Genesis shrugged.
Launching himself forward, Genesis swung a kick at Loz' chest, but Loz caught his foot. Loz was about to twist his foot to break Genesis' leg, when Genesis swung his other leg up and scored a kick across the side of Loz' head. Managing to land from the kick, Genesis crouched down and swung his leg out again connecting with Loz' knee. There was a loud crack, and Genesis knew that leg was now useless.
If he could do the same thing to the other leg, Loz wouldn't be able to fight anymore. Loz lurched up on his one good leg and swung a fist at Genesis' face and Genesis leaned back to avoid it then grabbed his forearm and yanked him forward. Dodging around him so that Loz was in front of him, Genesis wrapped one arm around Loz' throat and used his other hand to grip Loz' chin.
"Never had to use this move on someone, and I don't like it, not my style. But to get rid of you, I'll use it." Genesis growled in Loz' ear.
Genesis pulled with his hands and Loz' head snapped to the side severing his spinal cord. Genesis opened his arms and allowed Loz' body to fall away from his own.
"Sorry man..." Genesis whispered, another life cut short in his eyes.
Genesis then turned and looked at what seemed to be the only threat left. He didn't see Hojo as a threat.
"You're the last one left. I suggest you give up and spare yourself from being killed." Genesis hissed at Yazoo.
Yazoo took a step back and closer to Amaterasu. Genesis knew that movement. That was wariness and a desire to keep what doesn't belong to you. Yazoo looked over to Hojo and Hojo became irate.
"You lose that girl you rat, and I'll kill you, not him!" he screeched.
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Yazoo paled and looked back over at Amaterasu. Then confidence poured itself back into his body and he gave one last sneer at Amaterasu and lifted her face for one last kiss, before sauntering forward. Yazoo raised his gun and took aim at Genesis. He took three quick shots then flashed out of sight. There were three high pitched pings as the bullets were deflected off of Rapier, which had been re-summoned after the battle with Loz, and Genesis tracked Yazoo as he ran.
Yazoo was fast, however he was not as fast as Sephiroth so he was having an easy time tracking him. Yazoo fired off two more bullets before leaping in the air over Genesis and firing off four more. Genesis blocked all six and waited for Yazoo to land. Once he did, Genesis charged him and lashed out with Rapier. Yazoo ducked under Rapier, came up and kicked Genesis in the chest hard.
However just before the kick hit, Genesis threw up a shield which reduced some of the impact but he was still sent flying back. Flipping backwards, Genesis touching his hand to the ground to slow himself down, then regained his footing.
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Two bullets came flying Genesis' way and he ducked under them, not bothering to block them with Rapier. Raising Rapier to eye level, Genesis ran his hand down it, activating the runes on it.
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With the red runes glowing on it like molten fire, Genesis shot forward and before Yazoo could react, his gun was cut to pieces and rendered useless.
Yazoo leapt back, putting some distance between them.
"Damn it, Rhapsodos! You destroyed my Velvet Nightmare!" he yelled.
Genesis shrugged.
"So does that mean this fight is over? Probably not, but I can always hope." Genesis asked.
"Far from it!" Yazoo yelled, sinking into a fighting stance. '
Damn it, I don't have time for this. I have to get to Ami.' Genesis thought to himself.
He sighed then raised Rapier.
"Sorry 'bout this..." he whispered.
Disappearing seemingly into thin air, Genesis reappeared behind Yazoo with his sword to his throat, "...But you never should have touched Ami..." he hissed in Yazoo's ear dangerously, "...You never should have touched what is mine."
Pulling Rapier back sharply, the razor sharp edge of the sword slashed into Yazoo's throat and sliced it open. Blood sprayed out of the fatal wound as Yazoo fell to the ground, however Genesis felt no remorse for this kill. Yazoo had touched Amaterasu, and only he was allowed to do that. Genesis almost felt a sort of sick satisfaction as he watched the blood pour from Yazoo's throat.
'He deserved it...' he told himself.
Genesis then turned his attention to Hojo. As soon as Yazoo had been killed, Hojo had started to back away from Amaterasu, realizing there was no one to protect him from Genesis anymore. Dark hatred fueled Genesis on as he approached Hojo. He raised Rapier high above his head and an angry growl left his lips.
"This is for Ami, you bastard!" he hissed, before bringing Rapier down as hard as he could.
With the runes burning brightly on the blade, it cut through Hojo's body like a hot knife through butter. His body was split in half and blood sprayed all over, soaking Genesis' front and splattering all over his face. Though it should have disgusted him, Genesis made no move to wipe the blood away. Turning away from the fading body, Genesis walked to Amaterasu then sent Rapier away.
"Ami?" he asked softly, reaching out and gently touching an arm.
She made no reaction at his touch or voice. Genesis slowly and gently lifted her face so he could look at it, but as he did, sea foam green swirls began to surround her body. Realizing what was happening, tears began flowing down his face. He was too late...
"Goddess...please, please no...not this. Anything but this..." he begged, "Don't take her away...from me. Don't take away...what I love...so much. Please Goddess...please, don't take her. I beg of you...Don't take her from me..."
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But the Goddess was not listening to him as the sea foam green continued to swirl around Amaterasu's body.
"Goddess please...no..." Genesis begged again in a whisper, kissing Amaterasu's lips softly.
Then the last swirls of sea foam took over Amaterasu's body and a few seconds later she was gone. Genesis fell to his knees crying, then threw his head back and screamed a soul-wrenching cry to the heavens.
"Minerva, how could you do this to me? How could you take away my heart, my soul, my life? Goddess, how could you take away the one thing that helps me live in this forsaken life of mine?!" he yelled to the skies above.
Then the room around him began to grow darker and darker. Genesis looked around frantically, putting his hands to the sides of his head and squeezing his eyes shut.
"No please...no darkness...I hate the darkness...please no..." he yelled curling in on himself.
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pomegranates-and-blood · 4 years ago
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the new chapter of those who weave rips!! (although i don’t think it’s showing up in the tags jsyk) freydis shines so bright in this chapter and GOSH I love your freydis so, so much. she is so good!
the way she sized up the reader was excellent. i loved that even though ivar never really bothered to know her, freydis knows him very well, and it means something to her that the reader is someone who could love/be loved by ivar. that understanding between them brings such an interesting layer to them becoming sister-wives!
you prob have to be in a fairly sunken place to be befriending the other woman (dissolution of the marriage privately aside), but in the weirdest way, having someone who could understand her was just what she needed, and it hit me to see how much she perked up after they became friends🥺 I also adore how similar freydis is to ivar in her desire to have something to tie her in a tangible way to reader. ✨pretty interesting✨
you did such a great job of developing their relationship in this chapter though, 6k words well-spent imo! watching the reader coax freydis out of her shell was both delightful and satisfying. it was really impressive how strongly you were able to characterize them in just a few scenes, their dynamic is just stellar. I can really see how&why they would love each other and I love them as a result! it was a fantastic chapter that did an amazing job of establishing freydis&the reader, can’t wait for the next chapter to break my heart!!
Omg sweetheart, thank you so much! Idk what you mean about the tags, but I suppose it is just tumblr being tumblr lmao
I'm so glad to hear you like my rendition of Freydis! I tried keeping true to her character and inherent shadiness of her lmao, while kinda making her a bit more vulnerable after these years and all that has happened to her during them
Yeah, Freydis is of course very observant, and since the beginning she kinda figured Ivar out (to me she did from that first moment in canon, and it shows when she meets Ivar again in Kattegat, she says exactly what he wants to hear, and if I ignore Hirst just writing her as a plot device, I can pretend it is because she is smart enough to chameleon her way through life. Problem is, she has a man fall in love with something she kind of isn't, like the whole deal with Narses in Nostalgia. Under the cut I'll post a short thingy that I'm proud of when it comes to my take on Freydis, it's from Her Own, and it’s relevant to that idea of her being loved for something she isn’t), and she knows what it is like to love Ivar and to be loved by him, so she is, much like Aslaug in that little snippet of Hope I shared a while ago, testing the Reader, seeing if she bends or breaks.
It's very fun to write, because Freydis is in a strange limbo, and that only continues throughout the rest of this. She cares about the Reader, and she feels understood by her, she finds herself not so alone now that this woman (that by all accounts she should hate, and maybe in some level she does) came into their lives; but from Freydis' perspective, she is witnessing Ivar be towards the Reader as he was towards her, look at her like he once looked at Freydis, and Freydis doesn't have this lasting and selfless love for Ivar that may make her say 'okay, as long as he's happy'. Hell no, Freydis, to me, is selfish, and that is part of the reason I love her. She was married to a tyrant that burnt people alive, but she didn't bat an eye until he touched something/someone she cared about by taking Baldur from her.
I'm sorry for the rant (I deleted like the length of the previous paragraph's worth of useless Freydis talk my brain just continued to tell me to type out lol), thank you so so much for your kind words! I'm so happy to hear their relationships and their dynamics were well established in this, that is my main goal, since Sight is only the beginning!
You're too kind nonnie, thank you so so much for your support!! Love ya!
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“You expect nothing for yourself, but you’ve revealed everything to me.” I have revealed nothing, she wants to scream, you haven’t let me. He continues, “You are all goodness. All truth.”
What makes her heart feel like it is being squeezed tight in his fist is that he looks like he believes what he is saying. She isn’t all goodness and doesn’t want to be, she hasn’t ever told the whole truth.
She wants to yell and scream and demand that he look at her, that he look at her face and see more than the woman he is proud to have made his wife and see the wear all those years of suffering have left etched in the angles and creases; that he look at her body and see more than the vessel for his child and see the scars and the mark of hunger that after months of life as a queen she feels hasn’t left her body.
She wants to be seen, seen as more than fragments of glass put together however he sees fit, seen as more than whatever image of her he sees even when looking directly into her eyes.
But it is better to be wanted like this than to not be wanted at all, she knows that much. And so she smiles, and pretends the tears in her eyes are for him, and tells him what he wants to hear. It wears on her, to see love and feel like she’s seeing it thought the cracks in a wall even when it is looking directly into her eyes, to feel love and see it accepted and embraced as long as she can be what he wants her to.
(It's from Her Own, a one shot I made of an AU where she survives past 5x20 and escapes Kattegat)
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innocentbeing · 3 years ago
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just some babble on my thoughts on that scene with paula talking to edward abt lizzie. literally i just put words down as they came into my head IT LITERALLY MAKES NO SENSE UNDER HERE but its nice to put my feels down
also i kinda just went coocoo abt rciel/lizzie somehow (haha “somehow”) so like theres that LMAO
 hhhuhuuu ok first, we have “through the tears...” aka Lizzie’s hardships. first being the time lizzie lost rciel on the twins 10th birthday.. and the other being lizzie refusing to wear high heels to support ociel.
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i just. find it so interesting that lizzie giving up her high heels is put here to show lizzie’s pain. it’s a sacrifice that she made for ociel.. but i never thought of it as a good thing for her. honestly, i don’t think we’re meant to think of it as a good thing for her here, seeing as paula equates it with lizzie crying. it’s pain she goes through for ociel, which he doesn’t even notice. not that it’s his fault ofc, but still. something to take into consideration.  
and it’s so funny to me how we get lizzie crying over losing rciel... instead of like, her being sad over her strength. i’ve always said that lizzie’s issue over what rciel said to her was never about how strong she was. it didn’t cause her insecurity problems with herself. what it DID so was make her worry that he wouldn’t like her or want her as his wife. and like, given that there is literally nothing shown about her being sad over her strength i’d say i’m spot on. what lizzie wanted most was rciel and her greatest pain was losing him.
moviiing on to “the smiles” ... which are all moments with ociel. (bc ofc, its not like it would make any sense to put random scenes we never saw before) but the dresses yana chose are so interesting to me... the first one is the one lizzie wore in chapter 2, her first appearance... and possibly one of the worst scenes for lizzie/ociel yet LOL. but whatever, i honestly don’t think that’s really important. the point is lizzie did feel genuine happiness with ociel, i think. that’s kinda the whole point with these pictures— its why lizzie was so broken up in ch144. as if rciel could merely be switched with someone who simply looks like him and she’d go on loving that person all the same. her love wasnt as real as she believed it was. 
while she thought that, it uses ch2 dress once again to represent ociel/lizzie 
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i have to wonder, why THAT one of all choices? wouldn’t it be better to use the one she wore on the ship since they shared better moments together? isnt it more significant? even the one she wore when she went to watch him in weston would have been better imo shudji
i think theres a purpose for it. like, it’s meant to represent lizzie’s happiness with ociel i think. shes smiling, shes happy, all is well. but. let’s not forget what went down before they started dancing. i mean, you can still see the tears in her eyes for god’s sake
like, i think overall the real point is: yes, she was happy.. but.  ..that’s it right there LOL. there’s always a “but”. yes ociel [pretended to] forgave her and they danced and she was happy but he almost slapped her. but they were yelling at each other just like 10 seconds prior. 
yes lizzie tries hard to make him happy but all it mostly does is annoy him and make him angry. 
yes it was sweet that ociel took off his coat and put it over her shoulders but he literally forced her out of her clothes against her will. yes they both apologized for their faults but they couldnt get there until he got aggressive and lizzie broke down crying
yes lizzie wears high heels to support him but she would rather be cute, she’d rather wear high heels. (there was no “but” when it came to rciel. he said a strong wife would scare him and she went ‘ok, im done with my training. i never liked it much but i definitely dont want it if you dont want me. i will give it up.’)
what REALLY gets me is the next dress.. paula thinks of lizzie and the good times they went through together... and lizzie holds the easter chapter dress 
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so we have the dress from ch2 and the easter chapter dress. THE EASTER DRESS SDHSUIJ i love the easter chapter sm
like ok. there’s lizzie’s big ‘ol smile ‘cause she’s so happy BUT.. (BUT!!) WE ALL KNOW HOW THE EASTER CHAPTER WENT DOWN. WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT ENDED
JUST LOOK AT HER
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LOOK AT HER FACE. 
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like, of all the fking dresses for lizzie to hold up and represent her “happiness” ayhduija LIKE.. THATS SO DELIBERATE. ITS JUST MY POINT. like, yes she was happy and she believed she was happy but was she really all that happy? i think there was a lot of pain that lizzie put a happy mask over and covered up in front of ociel. 
look how SAD she is over “ciel” misremembering the times they spent together. times she SO OBVIOUSLY cherishes very dearly. the way she thinks of the moments where something was off about him and how it hurts her. iT mAKES HER sad. THAT SAYS SO MUCH........ LIKE DOESNT THAT SHOW SHE CLEARLY KINDA MISSED RCIEL?? DESPITE THINKING HES STILL FKING ALIVE..... 
LIKE HOW TF DO YOU HAVE HER THINK ABT THE THINGS THAT DISTINGUISHES OC FROM RC (coughing/not remembering the egg) AND GET SAD BY IT..... AND WONDER WTF HAPPENED TO HIM..... THEN TRY TO TELL ME HER ASS ISNT IN FUKING LOVE WITH HI— SGDHUIJSSFD /kms  
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like this is sooo a lizzie -> rciel moment.  like NO she didnt realize that he wasnt really ciel BUT she still yearned for the real ciel ANYWAY SHUDI. LIKE THAT ALONE... is like, for me, proof that her feelings arent just bc she was robotically conditioned to love him due to being his fiancée. like, if that was the case then she wouldnt feel sad here. she’d just happily accept any behavior from him because it’s not like it really matters how he acts as long as he’s “ciel”. 
like that what it LOOKS like she did on the surface but this clearly shows that she’s been feeling this way ever since he came back from that month. AND LIKE HULLO... THAT TRAUMATIC MONTH.. OFC HE’S NOT GONNA BE THE SAME AND OFC SHE’S GONNA DO HER BEST TO BE SUPPORTIVE AFTER WHAT HE’S BEEN THROUGH...  
LOOK HOW SHE CALLS HIS NAME IN HER THOUGHTS 😭😭
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god, its jsut so deep SDGUHIJo LIKE when I first read the easter chapter I was like, “what??? why is she sad just ‘cos he didnt immediately remember some design of an egg... why is the manga making it out like its so tragic... wth does it have to do with that month.” LIKE I JUST THOUGHT THE WHOLE THING WAS DUMB LMAOO. and i was so disappointed too ‘cos I got super excited when she took off those ears while everyone was leaving I was just like “FUCK YEAH SHOW US THE REAL LIZZIE.. I KNOW THIS GIRL IS NOT HAPPY AS SHE SEEMS!! IK SHE DONT FKING LOVE HIM” LOL
BUT NOW WITH 2CT ITS LIKE.. SO FUCKING SAD.. AND TRAGIC. AND DEEP. AND NOT DUMB AT ALL SDGYSUHIJ. honestly thats why i love this chapter sm. i went from excited to disappointed to MIND BLOWN AND CRYING SDGUHI 😭😭 
LIKE FUCK.. EVEN WHEN REPLACED BY OCIEL LIZZIE COULD NOT MOVE ON FROM RCIEL 😭😭 SHE WAS STILL FREAKING THINKING ABT HIM SDGYUHSI 😭
i mean like YEAH OBVIOUSLY since she thought oc was rc this whole time BUT THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT SDYUHIj like she still thinks of real ciel like the REAL real ciel.. not “ciel who’s actually ociel” .. THE UNDENIABLY REAL TRUE CIEL.. “we spent so many easters together” that was rciel. “its your favorite kind, with the strawberries on top!” that was rciel. “i’m the kind of scary girl ciel hates!” THAT WAS RCIEL SDUHIJS. that one ESP shows how she still hangs onto things that rciel said because they matter to her and still cares about what he thinks.
ANYWAY, I love how she says “hey, ciel...” and she talks to him in her thoughts, in her heart. like, like, its so sad ‘cos the one she is talking to is.. gone. he is gone and she doesnt know but she still thinks of him and speaks to him in her mind and its jUST FUCKJGN SHDGYUHSIHDUYG 
IT REMINDS ME OF NANA... AT THE END OF EACH EP HACHI GOES “Hey, Nana...” even though Nana has left and is no longer there. 😭😭 that fucking “you are not here any more, but I still think of you all the time.” I FUCKING LOVE THAT SHIT 😭😭
one of my fav lines (i have so many of them) was:  
“Hey Nana... Not a day goes by where I don't wish you were sitting across this table here with me. I call your name within my heart… over and over again”
LIKE HULLO... IS TIHS NOT LIZ? LOOL. like imagine when she thought ciel died that month and she was just MISERABLE the whole time and yearning for him in her heart.. BUT THEN HE COMES BACK AND SHES HAPPY ITS GREAT ITS A BLESSING.. even though hes not the same BUT THATS OK BECAUSE HES HERE AND ALIVE AND THATS WHAT REALLY MATTERS but like. god its just not the same and she still yearns for him in her heart ; - ;
its so romantic 💕
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shijiujun · 5 years ago
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some thoughts on modc 7-8:
wow all the angsty conversations happening in ep 7 it felt way longer than 20 min with all the sobbing and yelling - but tbh the conversations were very real and the dialogue imo was written quite well for the angsty parts
i’m glad FINALLY hao ting has broken up with si yu - and okay while he was not the softest about it he was firm and clear and not rude, which was nice
OKAY I AM SO CONFUSED THAT ZHI GANG DECIDED TO ACCEPT BO XIANG AND THAT HE LIKES BO XIANG?!!! IS IT JUST ME OR IT’S LIKE.. HOW ON EARTH DID IT HAPPEN?!! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SLOW BURN AND PINING THIS WAS LIKE SUDDENLY JUMPING OFF THE BUILDING
bo xiang + hao ting friendship is as always excellent - they’ve got each other’s backs and i swear that this made me a little sad because like…. can’t rmb the last time anyone would show me that much devotion lmao
loved that hao ting took a softer approach to xi gu, and the scene was SOFTTTTT although hao ting pls YOU ARE SO EXTRA HAHAHA he’s so extra idek whether i like it or i cringe
i’m still not really getting bo xiang and zhi gang in the sense - like they don’t feel like they’re totally on the same frequency right now? i mean all jokes aside, ZG makes a very good point on the age thing in terms of experience or just… idk, living in the world outside of school i suppose - hoping to see some plot development there
ZG seems really distracted even with BX gosh i’m so confused too
AND LMAO THE HIGHLIGHT OF BOTH EPS WAS THE THREE MUSKETEERS BORROWING BL MANGAS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD UNDERSTAND BO XIANG BETTER LIKE THAT
okay scratch that - the part where hao ting casually mentions that oh yeah my friends i like guys now woohoo who knew 
and finally, xi gu and hao ting’s relationship - i do believe that hao ting has xi gu’s best interests at heart in his own view, he’s trying really hard, and he’s succeeding, but also i suppose ZG has a point as he warns hao ting away from xi gu - he’s worried that HT would be a distraction for XG, and i do see where he’s coming from because HT IS NOT SUBTLE IN HIS COURTSHIP OF XG 
and i already foresee si yu stirring shit up, especially after hao ting told si yu’s girl friend that he likes xi gu like WTF HT CAN U PLEASE BE MORE LOW PROFILE
nothing wrong with shouting to the world that he likes XG of course in principle, but i can see how much trouble XG might be in with people bothering him, and stuff like that. and si yu probably might go report xi gu to the school for working in the night club in revenge
arghhh cliche plot and i wish some of it was written differently
and THE OTHER TWIN WHO LIKES XI GU - first mover advantage unfortunately as we’ve all learnt from multiple dramas, and altho it’s obvious the other twin is more considerate of XG, HT is in XG’s face
HT will learn to be better i suppose, but in the meantime, i dont think ZG is wrong and poor BX who’s caught in the middle and doesn’t really know what to do
and HT needs to start thinking from XG’s point of view and think about what’s best for XG, although i think he’s TRYING his very best at the moment
OH AND I LOVED THE HT AND his sister’s scene in the beginning of ep 7 - wow a sibling relationship i covet because oooh my sister and i are like this:
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rochibolettieri · 6 years ago
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Thoughts on 4x10 “The Deep hearts core”
Hello! Anyone still reads this? I’m so sorry, I barely had time to sit in front of my computer to write something and yesterday I had no electricity, internet or battery in my phone so...awful day 
Well, there’s something with this ep that can’t decipher even now, I mean, I like it but at the same time I didn’t and the writer’s decision to change parts of the book and put more drama than is necessary bothers me a lot. I hate to be negative but I just want to yell at them WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH MY FAVORITE SHOW??? There were so many beautiful moments that were missing and we won’t get the opportunity to watch them right now. But well, its already done so there’s no use in complaining, I just wish they listen to the critics and do something about it, maybe read the books for one.
Now, about the ep:
I loved the first parts, honestly live for the Fraser’s in the Ridge spending time together, Jamie/Bree bonding their relationship, this is the kind of content I want, from the little chats between them, to Claire/Bree folding clothes, the whole family eating together, tending to the animals etc etc etc. I LOVE IT and I wish there will be more.
Claire/Bree
How difficult it must be for Claire to advise her daughter in the matter of what would she do about the baby, if she wants to have an abortion or not, and more important if her daughter isn’t sure about the paternity of that child. And how difficult to offer herself of being the one who has to perform any decision Bree wants, being the abortion or the birth. For a mother who already had to say goodbye to her once, it must be terrifying to affront the possibility to let her go forever, I mean, what if something goes wrong? (It won’t, but let’s suppose) she would be blaming herself for not being able to care for her own daughter. But Claire let her make a choice, whether it would be going back to the future, or staying there and affront whatever happens.
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Now I want to talk about the decision of involving the abortion thing into the episode. I know this is a subject that tends to bring a lot of discussion and don’t want to offend any of you but I honestly think is a clever decision, and putting Cait, a person who fights for the rights of woman is interesting. It wasn’t a wow conversation but at least is how it’s supposed to be. And with this I mean mother and daughter really talking about that possibility, and not making her experience a pregnancy she doesn’t want just because someone else made that decision for her, being Claire or anyone else. I know not everyone thinks like me, but in the last year, with the abortion movement here in Argentina, I realized about a lot of things, but the most important is that there always were abortions and most of them under horrifying circumstances, most of the times the woman who aborts does it in secret, with the fear that if they tell someone, they can exclude them from society, as if it were something bad, a big sin. And that is why it is marginalized, and becomes a taboo. I think it's great to talk about it, make it visible, so applauses for that scene 👏🏻👏🏻
As I said before, the scene when they’re folding clothes was a beautiful moment between them, so intimate, sharing things they miss of the 20th century, eventually missing a part of them they had to leave behind, and things they have in common after all, a relief for having someone who really understands what the other is talking about. For Claire, I think she has Jamie and can talk to him about how things are in the future, but they’re things he hadn’t experienced, but Bree had, and understands for example how modern music sounded, or the pleasure to have a proper toilet. I hope for more of these scenes in the future, is always a pleasure to see them sharing a pleasant moment/chat/whatever.
Jamie/Bree:
I’m still sensitive with how in awe Jamie is over his daughter, he loves her so much and is eternally grateful for having her there. The first scene, when he shows Bree she couldn’t fight against Bonnet and comforts Bree afterwards, was imo really special, but difficult to watch. Jamie knows the feeling of being raped, used as some other wants and without even resisting, and to have his daughter experiencing the same thing as him breaks him into a million pieces. So provoking her and then making her fight, it must be a difficult moment for him, I mean, he doesn’t think like that, he doesn’t want her to remember the incident, but he has to, so he can make her understand that even if she fought, it was in vain and wouldn’t make any difference if she kills Bonnet. Another bonding moment that I will treasure, even if is a hard one.
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Another beautiful moment was the one when they look at Claire. Even if it hurts me when Bree refers to Frank as “my father” in front of Jamie (I won’t lie, I hate that. I know is his father for her and maybe isn’t on purpose but seeing Jamie’s face reacting to that breaks my heart into a million pieces), the change of his face when she says she went through the stones for him too is priceless. Again, he loves her so freaking much ♥️
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Although, Bree’s reaction about what Jamie did to Roger was a lot. And that’s when the mixed feelings comes to me. I know she has all the right to react as she pleases, after all she was the one raped, and what Jamie did wasn’t good either. I mean, yes Jamie, you are a furious dad searching for vengeance after realizing what happened with your daughter, but beating a man nearly to death? Mmm I don’t think so babe.
The thing is that everything was a huge chain of misunderstandings that ended with Roger being sold to the Mohawk. I repeat what I said last week, it’s a part of the books that I never liked, even though I’m still angry with Roger he didn’t deserve it.
But let's get back to the big fight. I understand both bells, Bree's and Jamie's. He reacted by pure impulse wanting to defend his daughter, and she reacts by getting angry obviously because he sent an innocent man almost to death. Although I still believe that Bree's reaction was exaggerated, disrespectful and very demanding. In other words, hitting everyone, yelling at them and giving them orders about what they have to do is a lot. I don’t know, I was taught to respect the elderly, and however angry I am, I don’t behave that way. And it broke my soul when (again) she mentioned Frank to make him look like the hero who always treated her well but to Jamie like a savage who doesn’t know how to control himself 😔
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Jamie telling Bree that she went to bed with someone for lust then faked the rape because she got pregnant was also overstepping, but once he finds out that the rape was real and with a different man, he gets really stunned, and really regrets having said what he said before. I won’t justify what he did, but the man fell into a misunderstanding, trap, however you want to call it, and once he learned the truth he can’t do more than ask his daughter for forgiveness and feel like shit.
We know that both have a strong character, they are stubborn and they want to be right, but so much drama makes me upset and the only thing I want is to skip that fight and go back to the first minutes of the chapter, adding that making Jamie the bad guy and having everyone against him breaks me (I think I already said it) and I only want to hug him and say everything will be okay 😭
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I also read a lot of criticism of Claire for not taking sides with anyone. Come on, her daughter is on one side and her husband on the other, and for that matter she loves both, so I understand that it may be difficult for her to side with either of them. Could she have said something? Yes, but she did not. I remember reading in the book that when the two Frasers fought in that way it was preferable to let them get all the fury and not interfere. If I remember correctly, it was what Ian told her in the first book the first time J/C went to Lallybroch and Jamie and Jenny started fighting.
Although, I can only think in my mom. Even if she loves my dad, she always (or almost always) gets on my side. I don’t assume that Claire does it but for that matter she knows the true story. Perhaps also empathized by everything her daughter went through, I don’t know, nobody will know what was going through Claire's head in that moment, and because of this I am annoyed with the writers, if things are not clear there is something that doesn’t work, it’s supposed that the viewer doesn’t have to assume a character thinks one thing or another 🤷🏻‍♀️ But well, I do think she knows Jamie is really sorry and won’t get mad with him for that, at the end of the day, none of them wants to see their daughter hurt.
Roger:
I've already said it many times, and I'm going to repeat it: I don’t like Show!Roger, and at the moment that won´t change. That doesn’t mean that I don’t feel bad seeing the man walking days and nights tied to a horse without the possibility of eating, having a drink or resting, and to that let’s add that he has been beaten. When I saw the ep for the first time, I couldn’t stop thinking about 3x03 when LJG took Jamie in the same way and I thought, maybe when Jamie deigns to talk to Roger and mend fences with him, and finds out what he suffered, he feels sorry for that man, maybe remember those moments, that weren’t nice for him either.
I also though, how in hell does he have so many energy to be running in the middle of the woods trying to escape? I can’t run like that even if someone pays me for it, haha. But seriously, that scene was dense, like a lot of screen time just between a man escaping and a bunch of natives following him, with what purpose? It could have been used to add something else.
And the scene with the stone, well I’m still confused. I really though there wasn’t any standing stone in the book but in a post of a few days ago, some people clarified that I was wrong (thank you tho!). The only way I found of why he is so hesitant to leave or not is because he is really tired, that he has no strength to continue at a time when (maybe) he doesn’t belong. Maybe it's the only way he finds so that he doesn’t get caught again. But…what about Brianna? Wasn’t it that he wanted to escape to get back to his wife? It is obvious that he won’t return to the future, but that cliffhanger disoriented me. Anyone who likes Roger and explains to me what his thoughts may be?
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OH, I ALMOST FORGOT! Murcasta omg. Have you seen that flirting? I’m already aboard of that ship and ready for that relationship to happen 🛳♥️ Sorry @boyneriver-fraser 🙏🏻
I know I'm complaining a lot about this chapter, but I really don’t know what to think. I always try to look around and understand why the characters do what they do, but idk, maybe it's a problem of the writers, of the editors that cut scenes that prevent the story from being fluid, maybe it’s just me. Anyway, let me know what you think and sorry for any grammatical mistakes, it’s 3:30 AM here and i’m sleepy 😴
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