#it’s destiny to him and him only

[chettyspagetti]

He wants them to be soulmates so much

[shitpostingkats]

Man I've been playing through dual destinies and the visceral Apollo and Athena contrasts are making me go insane.

Your name is Apollo Justice. You are a lawyer. You're a pawn. You're a weapon. Your mentor is a jackass and your rival only sees you as a ghost of his brother. You're pushed around town to run chores you aren't being rewarded for. You are volunteered to deliver revenge on behalf of your jackass mentor, who refuses to tell you anything because it might spoil his game. When you falter, everyone tells you to learn to stand up on your own. Your mother finally learns of your existence, but she isn't ready, so everyone agrees not to tell you. After all, it's her feelings that are at stake. Apollo? It's never about Apollo.

Your name is Athena Cykes. You are a lawyer. You got here all by yourself, clawed your way to it all on your own. Your mentor set aside space in his life to take you under his wing, to offer advice and security. He takes over when you falter, and walks you through everything he's doing, so you can one day stand without assistance. You keep working, so so hard, because everyone in the courtroom is a familiar face. Your childhood friend. Your mentor. Your coworker who is slowly losing it, and you're not sure why, but you're pretty sure it's your fault. The man who gave up everything for you. Athena? Everything is about Athena.

Neither of you is okay.

[autumn-may]

lets skate together!

[corviiids]

what if mlp au light doesn't get his cutie mark until after he's killed pony L and then his cutie mark becomes L's symbol to symbolise what L's defeat means to his fate and identity and everyone's like wow pony light your fate is to become the second L and succeed L to continue his legacy :) and pony light (pony) is like yes >:) (evil pony expression) (on his pony face) (because it's a my little pony au)

[kaiserouo]

hehe handsome guy

[cleanrotfangs]

The Crow, Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant

[braindos]

Blackquill

[destinysbounty]

As any self-respecting Zane stan, of course I've seen Decoded. And of course I loved the sweet but subtle character moment of him being bashful and awkward when Jay brought up the statue.

For the longest time, I've always interpreted this moment as Zane being his typical humble, bashful self. And while I'm sure that's true to an extent, recent events from Dragons Rising have led me to consider an alternative interpretation.

If I may bring your attention to this quote from DRpt2:

"Zane had impressive shoes to fill. No one could live up to him, maybe not even Zane himself."

I dunno. There's just something about the fact that Zane's own legacy has outgrown him, that he's overshadowed by the memory of his past self, that rather than a testament to the love his friends and community have for him he instead sees the statue as an insurmountable burden he can never hope to live up to...

Which brings me to yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from the Shadow of Ronin video game (I know it's canon-ness is debatable, but hear me out for a sec)

While everyone is gathered around Nya and speaking to Borg via hologram, Zane is...gone. He's off in the distance, standing at the base of his statue, just...staring at it.

God, and when you add this all up to Zane's Ice Emperor baggage...yeah.

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Tbh I'm convinced Simon was fucking with Apollo when he sicced Taka on Apollo for using his perception ability. He knows subtle superhuman abilities like that exist, because he knows Athena's hearing is so sensitive she can hear emotions in people's hearts. I genuinely don't think he thought Apollo was cheating or anything, I think he just wanted to sic Taka on someone lol

[boueibu-and-budgies]

First fanart for Kingdom Hearts (*^▽^*) I've been into this for well over a year and finally I have something to post :D I wanted to see a roleswap of KH1 where the roles change like Sora -> Riku -> Kairi -> Sora, so I decided to draw that cool scene from the KH1/2 opening

[meimeikyu]

uhm ah uh mm silly lil blackquill doodle bcs ive spent half this damn trial staring at him aimlessly

[spoonietimelordy]

The show should really address at some point how Jaskier is the only one who choose to be with Geralt, everyone else has been linked to him through destiny but not Jaskier and how this can be both terrifying for Geralt because Jaskier can leave anytime he wishes to, but also how reconforting it can be, because he is choosing to stay.

[tainebot01]

Considering that they both attended Themis Legal Academy around the same time, there is a greater than zero chance this happened at some point.

[Image ID: A digital redraw of the ‘Father in emergency room with son due to arrow injury’ meme, with Sebastian Debeste and Hugh O’ Connor from Ace Attorney. Both of them are sitting in an emergency waiting room. Sebastian has an arrow in his upper right torso, and Hugh is holding a Kyūdō archery bag. Sebastian has his arms crossed with his baton resting in his right hand, while Hugh is nervously gripping his archery bag with his left hand. Sebastian has a relatively calm or slightly amused facial expression despite the situation, while Hugh looks rightly concerned. End Description]

[kaiserouo]

warlock daycare (i.e., ignore the baby and do research)

[randomwriteronline]

Still thinking abt @crystaltoa 's narrative and destiny in bionicle essay and at some point it struck me that oh shit is this why Lesovikk never achieves anything?

Because his destiny was to die, basically, he's technically been retired from the narrative before even entering it. He should by all accounts be the equivalent of a name in the flavor text of a Skyrim history book, just there to give additional context to the culture or language or history of the Matoran Universe. He could leave! He could sit back and watch it all unfold from the safety of his "narratively dead" status. But he doesn't know that, and so he wallows in grief and misery for 90 thousand years as he runs in circles desperately trying to insert himself back into a story that just doesn't respond to his presence. He can't save his team because Destiny says so, he can't return to his Matoran because he technically shouldn't exist anymore, he can't kill Karzhani because he's an actual character with a role to play and he can't just be decommissioned by flavor text.

Even in The Powers That Be, where the influence of the narrative is waning and retired characters are being brought back into the story through the Red Star, his only victory is undone (Idris and Sarda notably do not appear even in mentions in the serial despite them having formed/regained a bond with him previously, implying they have since returned to the Mahri/Voya communities while Lesovikk hasn't for whatever reason) and he remains unable to pursue his goals, at best becoming Velika's scapegoat.

He's like a vengeful yet ineffectual ghost stuck in a house that has moved on without him, repeating old motions in the hopes that he will somehow solve his unfinished business soon.

The Myths and Legacy version's conclusion for him (while I still don't enjoy it personally) does fit this reading. He shows up so suddenly on the Red Star but is it strange? Does it even matter? That's where he should have been to begin with, of course the story would twist and bend itself to accomodate that. While Velika is horrendously cruel about it, revealing Lesovikk's purpose in the narrative exorcises that guilt he's been dragging around for nearly a thousand centuries and gives him solace: he fully detaches himself from Kopaka and Pohatu to join the living dead he has so much more in common with, and finally he realizes that little plot point that he'd been stuck on for so long and is finally at peace. By tearing himself to shreds and blowing up a spaceship but at peace nonetheless.

[brodorokihousuke]

I really have to wonder... how did Apollo react to Trucy being held for ransom at the end of Dual Destinies?

I don't think he ever mentions it, and he isn't around when Aura initially informs Phoenix of the fact, meaning he might've not even known that she was one of those held in the space center. However, the news could've mentioned it, or Aura could have told him directly... and it's personally more interesting if he knew, haha. So.

Considering how he acted following Trucy's little fake kidnapping in Turnabout Corner, he had to have been freaking the hell out- though this may have just fed into his at-the-time cold demeanor. The next time we really see him is during his testimony, too, so he could've just channeled all of that into anger at Athena- she's the reason all of this was happening anyways, right..?

Afterwards, though, along with the Phantom, he really only had Aura to blame. And while, yes, it did all technically get the case to go to trial- which was good in the long run-, he feels awful that he worked with someone who then turned around and directly threatened someone he very deeply cared about (Trucy). Just another thing to make him feel alienated from the WAA in general...