#is it a defence mechanism?

[badninken]

Chopper, a concerned professional trying to watch out for the safety of his patients:

Law, a dramatic edgelord:

Me 100 episodes ago:

[allthegothihopgirls]

i think sometimes 'jane austen girly' jason todd would try and screw with damian after getting particularly agitated by his never-ending formality, and just start matching it in every conversation.

he turns into a walking shakespeare play until damian himself gets annoyed at the way he's being spoken to and tones it down.

[python-nebula]

I will never not be devastated at the fact that Edwin, this (forever-)16-year-old who doesn't know how to fight like Charles, or use a weapon, or anything like that, can run so much faster than Charles, or anybody in the show for that matter. Because he's had to. He's had to for 70 years. And he's still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Crystal (in her 'past life') learnt to insult people because (it seems like) that was the only way people would listen to her (aka her parents).

Charles learnt to immediately go on the offensive (to protect others, not himself) because he can't let anyone else be hurt the way he was hurt by the person who was supposed to care for him.

Niko learnt to forgive people and take the kindest route because that was how her dad taught her to be, how he'd want her to be.

Jenny learnt to close herself off from people because she's been too open in the past, and she can't afford to be vulnerable again.

And Edwin learnt to run, because there was no point in fighting back, because the only way he wasn't going to have to watch his own corpse be horrifically murdered again and again was if he ran.

The final scene of the show is the first time he's stopped in one hundred and eight years.

[stolemyhheart]

8x06 time loop au where tommy keeps reliving the day of the break up — tries breaking up with buck, tries not breaking up with buck and delaying the inevitable for another day, tries never having the conversation in the first place, tries distracting buck with sex, tries fucking off from los angeles, tries ghosting buck, tries picking up a shift and dying in a helicopter crash for fun, tries anything and everything until eventually it turns out that the only way to get out of the time loop is to let buck see the real him and dig up every terrifying word of vulnerability hidden inside him 🫡🌚

[lunalivvy]

jordan playing it off bc they think marie only hooked up with them bc their minds got messed with so they’re acting indifferent towards the situation even tho they obviously like her and she likes them back but now she thinks they don’t like her like that because-

[deepcoraldragon]

Bitzel perfectly summing it up

Like seriously, if you still follow him after everything, what is it gonna take?

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

i know that a lot of people hc that venti is allergic to cats because the bard was and while that Would be very tragically in-line with his character i think that a funnier way that they could utilise this would be for them to give us a quest where we finally meet istaroth and time gets all weird bc we run into her while we're petting some cats or something and she sneezes. and that's how the traveler connects the dots

[draco-glacialis]

What if the reason Agatha’s magic siphons other peoples magic and life when they attack her is because as a child Evanora would use her magic to harm Agatha as a way of punishment? So now whenever someone else attacks Agatha/uses magic one Agatha hers automatically assumes they’re trying to kill Agatha and reacts in defence?

[puriteenism]

Jason Grace with his stiff posture and completely straight face

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Friends with Benefits Nikprice, but it was never clearly negotiated and they just kinda fell into it over the years. Nik is desperately, achingly in love and John being John is just as passionate and fiery in the sack as he is in the field, and their friendship often blurs the line all over the show.

It's Nik PoV, so we can't see John's fear around intimacy - genuine intimacy where he has to open his heart, not simply use his arse and mouth well - and how he thinks that letting Nik in will only end in disaster and loss. Everyone leaves John Price, after all. He's doomed by the narrative.

[i-ate-pog]

[smalltownrobin]

People who say Robin was "cool" in s3 and that they changed her character completely have no idea what they're talking about, okay, s3 Robin straight up ASKED to be included in Steve and Dustin's little spy game. If she really had a dgaf attitude, they'd have had to wear her down to help translate the code cos of her language skills. No, girlie walked in there with purpose, she had a whole list of qualifications ready, she wanted IN on that activity, as much as she acted like she was above it. Robin Buckley was just an expert at masking you have to believe me she was always neurodivergent coded.

[saym0-0]

persephone tim canon real

[girl-that-writes]

Everyone keeps telling you, "It's okay to reach out, it's okay to ask for help" which is a good thing, for sure it is. But it's also alright if you're scared that there's no one to take your hand at the moment. Sometimes, as a defence mechanism, our brain shuts everyone out. It's not your fault, love. It's really not. Don't guilt yourself over "burning bridges" because it was you doing the best you could with the little energy you had back then. And maybe now it's the fear of how they'll react that scares you.

But here's the thing. Love and care come to us in the most natural way possible. And most of us only swim against the current for the initial few moments. So the good news is, if the bridges were once real, they can be built again. The people who have genuinely cared about you once, can and will care about you again. They might be cross at being shut out for a little period of time, which is valid too, but they'll get over it for you. Because it's you.

[wades-prettiest-dress]

I cannot overstate how much I love grumpy Peter Parker. who constantly rolls his eyes and makes sarcastic comments, but who quietly loves that Wade sees through it every time. Who can't resist making quips in even the most grueling fights. Who even when he's realised he's head over heels for Deadpool, can't help scoffing and refusing to admit it with a blush on his face.

Peter is not the best at talking about how he feels, but Wade sees right through him and is more than happy to wait

[katyspersonal]

If you were curious, this song basically sums up everything of why I find Radagon sympathetic (timeline being sometime after the Twins were born)

(Attaching Youtube one with the lyrics just in case)

This is a beautiful song! And no, I agree with your vision that Radagon was not unfeeling nor "divorce selfie" meme when he left Rennala and his children! It is really funny to do all the divorce jokes and exaggerate how much of a bitch he can be for the comedic effect, I love this kind of cruel humour! xD

But in the end, Rennala did charm him enough to opt out for marriage and erasing his war crimes in Liurnia from the collective memory, instead of conquering the continent and erasing Carians instead, right? 🤔 He most likely can and did love her and his children, but he is bound with the problems of divinity as much as Marika if not more, right? Marika is just the latest carrier of Elden Ring, so, Greater Will's vision and Golden Order is just her iteration of it, when previously it were Ancient Dragons!

^^^ @izunias-meme-hole I am bringing your ask to answer here too because I went on this topic's territory here! :p

But Radagon didn't make the Golden Order "manifest" like this, he is Golden Order! His Japanese title is literally 黄金律, ラダゴン ((the) Golden Order, Radagon). His existence is a combination of the divinity and power Marika was given, where Two Fingers were guiding her and her own biases, principles and other things that give Golden Order its "current imperfection"! Let alone the fact that Marika is the dominant alter!

They were both dealing with "caged divinity"! But whereas Marika had the courage to kill herself (or get as close to it as possible, leaving it to Hewg and whoever he helps to maybe find the way to finish this), Radagon clearly liked living more :p And it is hard to blame him because whereas long long time ago Marika was just a traumatised Shaman woman that wished to make a better world where what happened to her village could not happen again, Radagon never existed as such! The divinity and this "better world" is all there was to him!

^^^ All three Mending Runes we get change the Golden Order, and it is no wonder that he is fighting us! At the first glance you'd think it makes no sense; why, if we just want to fix it? Something he himself wanted to do?

But like.. this is the point. :p He is like this because Golden Order is like this. It is not that he is protecting his power and the right to keep oppressing this or that kind of folks like any real world corrupt authority would! He goes beyond, a blend of a 'person' and of a 'concept', and is protecting his existence! Of course he doesn't want to be mended by someone except himself, because then it won't be HIM anymore! It is not that Those Who Live in Death should be condemned or anything- he probably doesn't even have an idea they exist since they appeared after Shattering! It is that Golden Order exists because Death was sealed, and he would get theseus-ship'd if that (or anything else) was changed! As if a law of nature was given the sentence and self-comprehension! I mean it: you won't wish on your worst enemy to be in Marika's OR in his situation!

Greater Will would be content with any Order, it simply created life but wants it to have a coherent form as opposed to primordial chaos!

And it seems like it abandoned everyone over Elden Ring being shattered! I pictured it as Marika shattering the "phone" between the world and itself, but it could've also been a gradual process! Like it seeing that no matter what the new Order doesn't rise from the ruins, nor the former one gets fixed. Maybe it just said "well THIS attempt at creating life with actual rules was a failure, I'll go try again, bye you weeaboo shits" fsdhfdsh The theory about us being an experiment, and a failed one at that that was abandoned by god/gods/aliens/whatever lingers somewhere amongst humanity, and here you can see it manifest.

Nonetheless 1) you'd expect the Two Fingers, its grandchild, to still remember its wishes and wish the same thing and 2) Greater Will possibly was still there long before the Shattering to do this:

I fucking love the "Sorry Rennala, I found someone better than you: myself" jokes and use them at any given chance fhhds But I am just saying, on the serious note, I do not actually think this IS what happened :p. If anything, Marika would be the one to want to hold the Golden Order as close to herself as possible, so it would be kept pure and in contact with the Greater Will like herself! I am considering the idea that she saw something similar to Goldmask's insight, except instead of drastically removing the 'person' from equation (at the time!) she wanted it to be "closer to the stars" for the lack of better term! Back then, maybe it looked like that way, it would never go corrupt, never fail her. After all, regrets and decision to destroy it only came after Godwyn was killed!

And in both cases, it was someone else who wanted Radagon to leave, and nothing really suggests that he was happy or indifferent doing so! He remade the sword Rennala gifted to him to symbolise the change, but nothing says which emotions were behind that process! It could've been any of them, and all interpretations are fair! He had duty to manifest the way things worked even more so than Marika, who at least GOT to live a normal human life long ago, but it doesn't mean he didn't care about how much pain he caused to Rennala in following that duty! On the other hand, bitter irony is that Radagon actually got to live a normal life - with Rennala and the kids! And just like Marika, he experienced leaving it behind to do "bigger" things. It is sad that the cruelty of caged divinity repeated even in her other self! 🤔

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I've side-tracked in validating a more sympathetic reading of him (I just have a dark, immature humour that sometimes poisons my perception of the character on the first glance XD)! There is sadness about him. His one REAL sin is lacking the same courage Marika had, to die so the new, better era begins, but even then this "choice" is made for him when Elden Beast takes his motionless body as its weapon! The territorial aggressions, as well as principles of the Golden Order, are "fault" of Marika's personality as a 'god no better than humans' (which is FAIR), Two Fingers that gave her ideas via broken telephone, and maybe Greater Will in some capacity! "The roots were rotten", so Radagon could also only be rotten!

+ I also think that Radagon came into existence because Marika got cursed during the War with the Giants ( x )! Think of one breaking in two as "defence mechanism", because losing the God itself could not be afforded, however cursing the Order of this God was "fair game"! Marika is a tool of Greater Will to make the order, any order, so the tool could not be ruined yet the tool's creation (the Order) could! So, what if now it is only 90% perfect? Remnants of it are Ulcerated Tree Spirits breathing fire, despite being just malformed Minor Erdtrees! I have a theory that the same happened with Trina, as Miquella came into contact with Frenzied Flame but losing an Empyrean could not be afforded! That comes from the fact this sleep power is conceptual opposite of FF, as well as Torrent having burnt marks, his summon ring already having its part 'drained', him fearing the Abyssal Woods and Miquella being shown to ride in him the Shadow Realm before! It is a long one but you can see where I am going with this!