#many questions and so little answers

[t4tdanvis]

HMMMMMMMM (<- thinking about an au really really hard)

[originalartblog]

Im sure you can still fit one more in there!!!

He believes in you↑

If this goes on for any longer I'm gonna have to open an actual daycare or something

(part 1) - (part 2)

@inkingkitsune, @ask-dazai-osamu-anything, @insanebsdfan

[pigeonneaux]

Did you know that. They. When th when when theym

[burningcheese-merchant]

As a uncultured goose, I must ask:

What deal did Fire Spirit Cooke and Pitaya Dragon Cookie make?

It's uncultured swine, thank you very much 😒 people not knowing traditional insults anymore smh

In all seriousness though, I don't blame you for not knowing this story if you don't play Ovenbreak. Kingdom doesn't really explain anything at all (tbh I think they were counting on people to already know? But most of the CRK fandom is Kingdom only, unfortunately. Only oldies like me know the ancient texts at this point)

Once upon a time (we do not know when, they never say. I personally assume ancient times), Fire Spirit was a regular mortal man. His original name, life, and how he came to be where he ended up are a mystery; all we know is that he somehow became trapped within an eternal flame, which instantly began eating away at him, burning him alive

Pitaya Dragon happened upon him by chance, and was intrigued and amused by Fire Spirit's persistance. For all intents and purposes, he should've already died - but he hasn't. He keeps stubbornly clinging to life, even beyond what should be possible for mortals. Very interesting.

Fire Spirit begs Pitaya for help, for mercy, for salvation, even offering to give them whatever they want in exchange. Pitaya is yet more intrigued by this; a mortal, making an offer to a dragon? When the opposite is what tends to be true?

Pitaya agrees. How can he not? This is too interesting an opportunity to pass up, no? But far be it from him to make it so easy. Fire Spirit can end his dance with death if he drinks from a goblet of Lava Juice - which is highly dangerous magic lava that normally kills people lol

Fire Spirit takes it well. Unusually so. Pitaya is even more impressed by him. Thus, Pitaya gladly gives him the Red Dragon's Bead, an item containing a portion of their power

Fire Spirit takes it. His wounds are instantly mended. He is freed from the confines of the eternal flame. Now HE is the eternal flame, body and soul burned to ashes and born anew. Once a mortal, now an Elemental

So yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it. Fire Spirit was about to die, Pitaya found him still fighting for his life, Fire Spirit begs him for help, Pitaya is impressed with his apparent fortitude and says he'll help if he does something for him in turn, Fire Spirit agrees, he's given the Red Dragon's Bead and is thus resurrected and made into a new man. With the bead, he is immortal, has immense power, and is essentially co-owner of the Dragon's Valley; however, the price seems to be that his strength and life force are permanently bound to Pitaya's, and he must do his part in upholding cosmic order by guarding the Flow of Life for all eternity. (And... Whatever it was that Pitaya eventually wished for. Whatever it was...)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 9: So that's where the turtle came from!

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[booksandberries]

i've been getting back into pokemon after like 15 years of not paying attention and i'd just like to say

everyone who says digimon is just a rip off of pokemon owes me $5. those pokemon are digivolving now

[venigni]

Before the DLC came out, I was convinced this is the last we would learn about P, Carlo, Geppetto, Gemini, Sophia, etc.

Then after I played it, I was convinced that the next game is going to still be all about these characters and just incorporate Dorothy, too.

Now I am circling back around and thinking that even though we have more questions than we have answers now, I almost think (worry?) that they did it on purpose to be ✨m y s t e r i o u s✨ and this really is the end of everyone's journey.

[souenkun]

Judging from these panels, would it mean that there's no other yorishima exorcist that's still alive (since natori said that the yorishima family "was once" a big name, past tense) in the canon timeline, and that the yorishima we know probably ended his family's exorcism business for good by retiring himself? If so, was the reason tied to the youkai living in his left arm, or is there another cause? And when exactly did he retire— was it before or during seiji and shuuichi's high school days, which was why his left arm appeared with the thick bandages when he gave them the loquats in the anime, but he still lived in the estate during that time, or was it after the two became legal adults, which lined up somewhat with him moving into his forest home, abandoning his family estate in favor of living in isolation?

And, speaking of retirement, I wonder if we'll ever know why midorikawa told us that the takis were "famous" (which presumedly meant they were strong enough to be well-known) as occult diviners, since tooru herself only ever mentioned what their previous family business entails, and never about their status in the exorcism community? We don't really need this extra bit if she wanted to further establish how tooru has an aptitude for spell-casting, either. Again, there's another "strong" family (whose members are still alive in canon) that went into retirement, but did the taki family lost their power because the ability to see (if they were needed for diviners) disappeared for at least the last three generations (if we assumed that tooru and isamu's parents couldn't see youkai too), or was it due to another reason? How close was shinichiro (tooru and isamu's grandpa) to the matobas that even the current clan head came to pay his respects during his sixth death anniversary; was his relationship with seiji's father strictly resolved around exorcism business, or was anything else involved? Does tooru herself doesn't fully understand the prowess her family once had, hence why seiji was the one who told takashi (and us readers) about it? What would this tiny bit of lore mean for tooru with it revealed this late into the manga, when tooru herself only talked sparsely about her ancestors in previous chapters?

[spineless-lobster]

The way thanatos watches the styx because he sees it as competition, especially because it brings zagreus back instead of him and the way patroclus sits by the lethe fighting the urge to drink his sorrows away and failing on occasion is something that can be soooooo personal

[dawnthefox24]

Me: *just babbling away about the lore of Overwatch and each character backstory and how there connected together while listening to the interactions and how each connect to their animations,novels and short stories*

Random person: So you play the game?

Me:

[aaronsbisexualsugden]

The fact that Aaron hasn’t really had much of a crisis of conscience about being with Robert’s brother is obviously ooc to say the least, but it could make sense if we believe he just wants to be with John because he reminds him of Robert, but what I don’t understand is Victoria. Surly she would care about how Robert would feel about it? Has she even told Robert about everything yet? Does he know Aaron and John are getting married soon? Has she told him about the Aidan situation? Does he even know about John at all? Because it definitely doesn’t make sense that Robert wouldn’t want to get to know a long lost secret bother, if only to protect vic, his nephew, and Aaron. It doesn’t make sense that Robert would be completely fine with Aaron being with his brother, let alone marrying him.

[just-a-carrot]

"Iggy... tell me of your Wonderland..."

♠️♥️ Happy Halloween, all! ♣️♦️

[vaguely-concerned]

I don't know what I love more, the fact that as rook you can make a statement in NO uncertain terms that you are NOT responsible one way or the other for the theological implications of the shit you're discovering in the 'regrets of the dread wolf' memories. not my jurisdiction. quite simply none of my business. not my chantry circus not my chantry monkeys. irrelevant to the matter at hand here we'll kill that god if we get to him he can get in line. or if the best thing about it is seeing the lone little 'lucanis approves' that pops up right after choosing it. corvid with a knife about to commit deicide keeping it real and sensibly, pragmatically, wilfully agnostic with me here in this magical lighthouse today

[stfrancisprayer]

DEXTER FLETCHER as🧍(front and back view), circa 2016

[aclockworkreader]

Hi! I rushed to reread the OG Hunger Games, and Sunrise on the reaping when I saw you posted your video. I cried with you, everything was too fresh 😭

I wanted to hear more of your thoughts on your comment that we never find out who Plutarch knows in 12 (I did not catch that detail). I feel like he's a interesting character to explore morality through. He's the grayest of the "good guys", without being an outright villain like Coin. But also, he lived a life of luxury, why did he decide to rebel? And he was quite dedicated to the cause it seems. Do you think Susanne would write another prequel about him? 👀

i am still so curious about who his friend in 12 might be. i was thinking tam amber, but that may be too on the nose.

i think if she were to write another book, it would be about plutarch, or he’d at least play a major role in the story. my theory is that it would somehow tie in tigris and how he knows her and her involvement in the rebellion (but maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part because i still have so many questions about her)

[uhhlifeig]

is shiggles a legit word

like is it a valid abbreviation of "shits and giggles" or is it just an obscure thing that five people use