#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

[loveaetingkids]

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[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

[pinkplatiploo]

Uggg something something what if Nya still had a weird connection/urge to remerge with the ocean especially during times of high stress or anger ect.

Then what if Sensei G is still around and they talk about having to fight urges to keep their humanity. And to not hurt the people closest to them again.

[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?

[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

[monitorkernelaccess]

I think it probably is more likely that Falin chimera was purposely trying to disarm Laios by crying for help, rather than that part actually being genuine. Cause it happens at a moment when she’s temporarily disarmed from being electrocuted and then she does make a smug face afterwards. But I’m sentimental and I Want To Believe

Uhh it could also maybe be both? Like both an intentional tactic (from the dragon side?) and also a sign that at least some part of Falin is in there and wants to be saved

The way they animate it, her eyes go from dragon-like slitted pupils to normal round pupils as she says it. And then a tear falls from one eye, while the other eye stays completely dry

Looking at all that again with a bit more context and possibly a clearer mind, that looks like it’s all to make the ruse look more realistic. If it were more of an outburst as I originally believed (or was trying to convince myself), then the pupils wouldn’t have changed probably? It seems like an intentional move

In addition to the pupil change, the single tear seems forced as well. Like she could only muster up one fake tear while the other eye remained completely dry.

On the other hand…it’s kinda hard to force tears at all, especially so quickly. And if we imagine for the moment that the tear was genuine, could the fact that it only fell from one eye mean that only half of her was crying? Like maybe the dragon is really mostly in control, but it let Falin out as an emotional manipulation tactic. Meaning that the cry was both genuine and just a combat strategy/self-defense measure.

And I’m still not sure what to make of the fact that she pushes Laios out of the way before crushing Kabru. Like was it just an accident then? Or is it more just a side effect of Laios being essentially the main character and no one in the main party gets killed in that scene? Or…could it still be that maybe, deep down, Falin doesn’t want to hurt her brother?

[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

[ethereance]

мαуfℓу

In which futures are discussed.

***

Dating Allura had felt like a far off dream, a fantasy Lance could never live out. And he had made his bittersweet peace with that, silently pining from afar. It amazes him that this is his life now, slipping into her room upon invitation to steal kisses that taste like ecstasy, sweet from the joy of life. It’s young, this relationship, though the feelings are far from so. Lance knows love, knew it the day he retired his pickup lines, eyes for only one, but this. This is mutual. And something in him warms something fierce at the depth of Allura’s affection, never needing to be spelled out when she looks at him like this, an unabashed fondness that’s a spell itself, one that renders him speechless, awed by her closeness. She leans in, cosied up next to him, comfortable, at ease in the moment, and Lance can’t help but marvel at how far they’ve come.

It’s as if it’s another life, the one he had yet to know her, before she tumbled into his arms. The universe was small, then, Earth its centre, aliens a conspiracy. Lance had hoped there could be life out there.

He never expected to find love.

In the wake of devastation, of a war eons old, he hopes they can find a future in this. A peace in this romance, where weapons are lowered and tomorrow is certain. It’s everything they fought for.

A future.

It feels forever away.

Lance can’t wait to experience it all with Allura. The highs, the lows, the inbetweens, the everything elses. Wherever it may lead, whatever planet Allura hopes to relocate the Alteans to when they make amends, if they chose Earth, if they don’t, it’ll be worth the journey if he gets to share it with her.

He can’t imagine a future she’s not in. Meeting Allura shaped his life. He doesn’t know who he’d be without her in it, can’t remember what it’s like not to be in love with her.

Lance likes who she has inspired him to become, who she continues to do to so by just being her. Allura.

He wants to continue growing with her, find their forever in the bliss of love.

But Lance’s forever will be shorter. He knows that. She knows that. They went into this relationship knowing this, that they won’t be able to last, that his future is shortsighted, a fraction of her’s. That he’ll be old and grey whilst she will barely have aged a day, still just as beautiful as the when he first met her. That she’ll outlive him by nine hundred years if his lifespan is generous.

Before all this, he hadn’t thought much about his mortality. But being caught up in a war, meeting such long lived species, it changes things. And so he wonders. Wonders about his time in relation to Allura’s, far off as that future is.

It scares Lance to think of a day she’ll wake up and he won’t be there beside her. Scares him to know that he’ll have to leave her behind when she has so much of her life left to live. He made a promise to follow her through this life.

Death will break it.

She’s lost enough.

He feels selfish to take so little of her life, to become cherished enough to be held dear, yet be unable to stay. She deserves more.

“You honestly only live for a hundred deca-phoebs?” Allura had once asked him, years before, back when the castleship still housed them all.

“If it’s a good life.” Lance shrugged, nonchalant. “More or less.”

“That’s hardly any time at all,” Allura expressed, giving Lance a strange look like she half expected him to keel over at any moment. He was right in assuming deca-phoebs are years, right? “How could you possibly hope to get anything done?”

“Hey now, don’t go underestimating the human race. We may have short lives in comparison you guys, but a good life is a good life. We make the memories count.”

Lance hopes the memories will be enough. That the joy will outweigh the grief.

He’ll do anything to make her the happiest woman alive.

“You’ve been quiet,” says Allura, bringing Lance back to the present. Back in her living quarters, back on the ATLAS. The castleship is long gone. “That’s not like you.”

“What can I say? You know how to render a guy speechless.”

“Lance,” she presses, though there is amusement there, a swell of the fondness in its gooey centre. “If you have any burdens you bear, let me make them lighter. You’ve been doing the same for me.”

“I’m just… thinking.”

“Oh?” She hums. “What about?”

“You know. Stuff, mainly.” After a tentative moment he tacks on, “Also the future. When we defeat Honerva.”

“I see,” she says, and there’s a tension back in her shoulders, the way she stiffens at the name. Lance instantly regrets bringing her up.

“We’ll be able to do it, Allura,” he assures, no doubt in his mind. He gives her a slight nudge. “We have you on our side. The most courageous, mystic mumbo jumbo princess I know.”

She manages half a smile despite herself. “You know many princesses like that?”

“I only need to know one,” he says, then more earnestly, “We can do this.”

“I hope so.”

“I know we can.” Lance shifts, moving to press his forehead to hers. He has faith in her abilities, faith in her mind, and faith in the strength of their team. She won’t be doing this alone. Lance pulls back, smiling, soft. “And then we’ll be able to help your people.”

Allura meets his smile with her own, a firefly glow, one that could light up even the darkest of nights. “It sounds like a truly wonderful future.” She pauses, her brows furrowing. “What’s troubling you?”

Lance swallows, ducking his head. He wonders what gave him away. “… It’s kind of dumb? Well, not really dumb ‘cause it’s about you, and you’re anything but, and I really shouldn’t be thinking about this, not when there’s other things to worry about, and who’s to say what our future holds but I…” Should stop talking. He’s running his mouth on a 10k sprint, and yet. “I really… want us to… last.”

“Lance?”

“I love you, Allura,” he says, and it’s a truth as easy as breathing. Love fills his lungs, and he could whisper those words forever, and never mean them any less. She deserves to be loved and cherished, and hear it because she is. She is. “And I know you wouldn’t have agreed to dating me if you didn’t want to, but I just… I’m just some boy from Cuba. Wanting a long term relationship with you made me realise I won’t be able to give you that. Because I… I won’t…”

He feels a hand cup his face, holding him firm in a grip stronger than most. Two defiant eyes stare him down.

“Listen here, you are not ‘just’ anyone,” Allura says, leaving no room to argue. “No matter how short, or long your life is, I want to spend mine with you. Because you are you. I do not wish to live with any more regrets. Now that we have this, I couldn’t bear losing it.” The hand slips from his face. “Stay, as long as you can. Please.”

Lance’s eyes burn. He doesn’t know how she manages it, to make him fall for her over and over. It’s a cycle he never wants to break.

He knows he’ll surely love her until his last breath.

“As you wish, princess,” he says, because who is he to deny her that?

(And maybe, just maybe, love will be enough.)

[lingeringscars]

i just think there is something about how nat could never forgive herself for javi sacrificing himself for her. she was worse than all of them because she let this kid, her somewhat boyfriend's brother, her own family, her friend, die in her place. it was supposed to be her, she heard the cries from javi and watched him die nonetheless.

but now she didn't watch. she didn't watch at all when it came to lisa. she stole the fish. she intervened with her family. she died in her place. nat healed a part of her when sacrificing herself for lisa. it wasn't right. it wasn't her time. she didn't want to go, but she got to finally pay forward javi's sacrifice in a way that she's never been able to do and always been punishing herself for. she got to heal her inner child by saving lisa. ( the irony is that it may not have happened had she not gone to try and save lisa to begin with. not tipped her off to something happening. these are the consequences of the girls actions. they wanted a hunt through the woods, they got one. they went after shauna and called off services, nat pays the price. misty tries to solve the problem the way she has been but she's not a perfect serial killer and she missed. they covered up the wrong guy at the end of last season. they killed the wrong person at the end of this one. ).

travis didn't break the pact, but neither did she. she did better. (btw travis was on the plane <3)