#maybe she sacrifices herself?

[jojojooo33]

fma 2003 AU where Lust makes it to at least the end of the main series.

[lorebird]

Sacrifices and parallels

[thirteendaysintaunton]

i genuinely think that she ra and the princesses of power 2018 could have had a very compelling prequel series following mara and rebel squadron grayskull and how they fought for a sliver of a chance to send adora that message in season 3/4

[loveaetingkids]

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[all-pacas]

thinking suddenly of how chase was forced to be a caregiver and parent and take care of his mother and sister and resented them for it, hated them for it, how 20 years later he clearly is not over it at all, how he tries to deal with his problems alone, shutting people out (cursed. the mistake. the tyrant. chase.) because he doesn't believe people will want to help him, or at least that care and love are finite resources, that he will run out and be left alone.

(thinking also about how cameron views care as something of a necessary burden, how her husband's death made her miserable, how the death of her patient in one day one room left her miserable, how her lung cancer patient in acceptance left her miserable. how she frames it as important, necessary, that people should not die forgotten or alone, but she never takes any pride or joy in this: for all that she might be glad her husband didn't die alone, the grief warped and affected her for years; she never walks away unaffected or proud of her work but miserable, burnt out, terrified. how the only real difference between chase's burnout and cameron's is that she keeps choosing it, as some kind of penance or atonement or something: cameron is a martyr but never a happy one, and yet she, i think, wouldn't understand chase's misery over the same thing. it was always her choice. it was always important.)

and thinking also of thirteen and chase talking in s6. about how when thirteen's mother was dying, her father had an affair. chase commiserates: how heartless of him. thirteen counters: she's glad he wasn't alone. she knows she is dying, too. she knows someone will someday be helping her at that moment, how she hopes whoever is burdened with her care isn't alone. has someone else. isn't in a position like chase had to be. how she doesn't romanticize it, but how when it was her brother, she was alone, she tried to deal with it alone, how it almost broke her and then… she told chase. how it wasn't just about i did a murder, me too, but about that burden. that pain. how even if it was out of love, even if it was something she decided (like cameron decided), it tore thirteen apart. no one should be alone for that, she tells chase, and then a year later is alone for that.

i don't have any real conclusions here but - something about how much chase and thirteen's friendship means to me, i guess. how their lives are on such parallel tracks, how they do things and hate themselves for it and take on familial trauma and hate themselves for it and how they mask with drinking and partying and casual sex (and hate themselves for it). no one should deal with that alone, she says, and eventually they aren't, because they can offer it to one another.

[wildivyartisan]

did anyone else notice in arcane s2 finale that Vi was planning to die with Vander? Jinx knew and sacrificed herself because ALL she ever wanted was to help her sister. Jinx could have left, but she didn't. She chose Vi. She put her sister's life above hers. What happened to Vander was jinx's mistake? Jinx knew she was the only one to put him down. She knew vi burdened herself about everything that happened. In the end, jinx took the weight off of her sister's shoulders. The ending wasn't the happiest, but jinx knew exactly what she was doing. I think she knew the outcome.

Jinx told her not to worry about her and that she would end the cycle. To me, this was such a big leap for jinx.

And yes, of course Vi still cared about her sister. Vi has always cared. It makes me so mad hearing that Vi didn't. Like come on.

I absolutely love that powder sacrificed herself for her sister. I don't think anyone realizes the depths of powder's actions. If it helps to pretend that she never really died, then that's great, but for me, that final act was wonderful storytelling. They are not broken. In the end, they are still sisters who just wanted the best for each other.

If you're feeling blue over jinx/powder, go rewatch this ep : ) 💙 💚

I LOVE that vi's eyes are powder blue 💙 she is living for herself and powder ;u;

I want the best for her c,: she deserves it ❤️

[notthemonthbutmarch]

Small Natlan theory for your consideration

So Mavuika definitely looks like Himeko, but is also based on the Māori fire deity Mahuika. Mahuika is the little sister of a goddess named Hine-nui-te-pō, who’s the goddess of the night and receives spirits when they die.

In Natlan, there’s a place called the Night Kingdom and currently the Abyss is invading— which will negatively affect Natlan proper as well. The competition also has a thing called the Pilgrimage where contests seemingly go to the Night Kingdom and race to the exit, and if they fail to make it out in time they kinda just stay there?

Death also isn’t final in Natlan, instead they go into the Scared Flame, so it seems like for Natlan there’s something else that contributes to death. Something like a goddess… mayhaps?

What I’m saying is if Mavuika is based on Mahuika and Genshin and has all these extra elements to death, then that means a Hine-nui-te-pō is possibly also canon.

And if Mavuika looks like Himeko, then is it possible that Hine-nui-te-pō could look like Kiana Kaslana?

[musashi]

wender do you have a ponysona

Yes! Her name is Blazing Heart and she's a pegasus who was raised by a flock of phoenixes after she fell out of Cloudsdale as a baby and into their nest. I am on mobile so I can't show pics right now but there's a lot of art of her a few pages back in my #gifts tag!

I really want to redesign her to look a little bit more like me now, she's just a self insert cause I am not creative enough for OCs. But I think about her so much, I think I want to tweak her backstory a little and make her some sort of villain or something adjacent.

[novelconcepts]

God, there’s something about the framing of Shauna beating up on Lottie. To have Lottie place her hands deliberately behind her back. To have her expressly ask the only boys to leave the room—to have her ask Travis to take Javi out of the room, as this kind of scene would normally request a young woman to be removed before the violence can start. To have no slapping, no hair-pulling, but the sheer escalation of grief into brutality. To pull no punches. And to cut in all these slow motion scenes of the women they become—traumatized, grief-stricken, lonely, guilty, dying—dancing, laughing, letting the snow wash away the blood and the pain for a little while. Letting the friendship montage together with the violence. It’s poetic, and it’s awful, and it’s perfectly done in the most haunting sense.

[turnleft]

do you ever think about how in journey’s end donna thought she had nothing else to live for, but in the star beast she had something (someone) to die for

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I miss S.hepard. The third game always makes my heart hurt lmao

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel for the unhinged character bingo!

yessss YEEEESSSSSSSSS

[seinfeldyke]

im sorry but like the way lottie is not a natural leader shes a servant. like she serves the natural forces she deems to be good, she serves a greater purpose that she believes she has she serves the people she loves by offering them hope and purpose. shes not a leader shes not there to lead!!! even in her commune its her serving people her helping her creating a safe space. bro thats not a villain thats my babygirl! she bout to serve the antler queen so good next season!!!

[see-arcane]

Mina's incredible (and underrated) detective prowess would be very useful I bet. Put her on the helm Integra, Van Helsing praised her brains as being above everyone's including himself for a reason.

I honestly can't guess what the chemistry between Integra and Mina would be. Integra doesn't really click with me as a classically heroic character, for all that she does focus on saving humanity from the undead via Alucard and her forces, being the Boss Lady etc etc. She's miles away from being as insidious as an Amanda Waller, but...

The hotel. The fucking hotel will never leave me.

Yes, the order went directly against 'soldiers of the enemy,' but those soldiers had been lied to about who and what they were charging into. Which was obvious even without being a fly on the wall to know their higher-ups had fed them some BS to march them into death and win their own power grab from Millennium. She didn't tell Alucard to 'make it quick' or even just to 'neutralize.' She told him to search and destroy. Folding to Alucard's egging and negging to seem like a Worthy War Commander in the grand scheme~ of the plot

She's not heartless, exactly, but she is arctic and surprisingly quick to breeze past the loss of lives that aren't under her direct care/command. While she might respect Mina's abilities and investigative skills--I wouldn't be surprised if Mina could intuit Millennium's endgame well before the climax could happen--Integra inherited none of her ancestor's warm regard, supposing Abraham van Hel(l)sing had any of the original's tenderness in him (50/50 considering this takes place in aggro horror territory). We can't even say if this universe's Mina played any big role in cornering Dracula; she might just have been a targeted damsel.

All that said, I think Integra would see Mina as another time-displaced bleeding heart with a few useful skills, same as Jonathan. Someone to be an ally at best, a liability at worst. So I don't see her handing over any reins or offering to be co-girlbosses any time soon :c

[blujayonthewing]

I'm really glad elyss came several years before melliwyk, because mel's alignment shift from chaotic neutral to chaotic good sometimes feels a little embarrassing in an 'I can't keep my own feelings to myself for the sake of committing to the bit' sort of way, but the counterpoint to that is that elyss, steadfastly true neutral, just simply Does Not Care about anyone other than her own loved ones or anything outside her own immediate interest no matter how much I sometimes wish she would

[gwensy]

& like everyone in e65 is an unreliable narrator gwen stacy especially. u cannot take the things she sees and says at face value when she's already somebody who's deeply self loathing, passively suicidal, morally grey & an objectively bad, unsocialized person. she didn't use her powers for the greater good she used them from day 1 to uphold her own personal biases and make a name for herself. she has never been altruistic. her talk with uncle ben literally consisted of "you need to kill this guy, nobody else will and if you don't everyone around you will continue to suffer." . great power comes with great responsibility, and to her that responsibility is revenge against people she personally sees as deserving of it