#nor with killer

[stellocchia]

Thinking about Nightmare bringing Horror and Dust on board to tie Killer down with more responsibilities after he tried to run away with Color (because clearly that's what Color is offering him too, right? More responsibilities and a reason to get attached. There is definitely nothing more, not as far as Nightmare is concerned).

And the first few end up dead. Killer is curious and bored and they're merely new toys he can use to feel something different, probably to avoid thinking that he was almost there, he almost made it out.

But, eventually, even destroying them grows boring. So what is there left to do but to try and, you know, talk with the new hires? That at least might lead to some interesting outcome.

And it does. Eventually, they bond. Killer had already started learning how to establish healthy bonds thanks to Color and Horror and Dust are literally going off of a need for survival. It's a shaky thing at first, but eventually they become... friends. Maybe family. Maybe something different, there is definitely some dependence in there all around.

Nightmare thinks he's won. He did it. He replaced Color with two puppets that are easier to control, Dust because of his shaky mental health and Horror because of the harsh conditions he grew up in.

And then Color comes around and Nightmare finds out that they can just, like, all leave him in bulk. They haven't yet, but they could. He knows Killer has been eyeing that exit the whole time, and now he's just gripping his emotional crutches tightly while doing it.

So, anyway, Cross is sitting in an empty AU all alone and Nightmare swears that this time it will work-

[baby-xemnas]

tbh its great that bepo is a bear because we can get PDA like this

and noone bats an eye

this could never happen with a pair of human characters. let alone pair of male human characters.

[edwinisms]

it’s actually so wild to me that this fairly quirky YA type show gave both of its main characters deaths that can, in one way or another, solidly be considered hate crimes. they were both flat out murdered as a result of being A) gay and effeminate or B) brown (south asian, specifically) and you could argue whether or not those kids thought of it that way in the moment or whatever but the bottom line is that they would not have been in the situations that killed them if they weren’t of their respective minorities. like legitimately that is a ballsy choice for this kind of netflix show, let alone for the two Main Characters, and i respect it big time

[zerooriginalityitsalljustcrabs]

joke so funny i had to post it twice

[triglycercule]

sleep deprived dust can't recognize what's dream and what's real when he goes in and out of consciousness so i think dust is allowed to be incredibly reckless when he's awake but thinks he's in a dream. he will kill whoever passes by him (or attempt to. for him it's an instict to shoot bones anyways.) he will drink 4 bottles of alcohol just because he thinks its just a lucid dream. have incredibly loud conversations with phantom paps because he's asleep so nobody will hear him talk. or just have loud ass breakdowns because again he thinks he's asleep!!! nobody's gonna know what he gets up to in his dreams. and until someone (probably phantom paps) tells him that he's not asleep and this is reality he won't realize until he's done something really reckless

horror is seconds away from exploding dust's skull open with his magic while dust is trying to strangle him and FINALLY phantom paps tells him he's awake and dust snaps out of it. killer is walking around the house with bones sticking out of him like pins on a sewing pattern (casually too. another day in the life for him) and he just asks dust what that was about. dust just gets off of horror and shrugs his shoulders with an idk. and then walks away. this is the 6th time its happened this month

[painfullyprickedandticked]

i dont think striker and alastor are characters who are "precious senpais who did nothing wrong" i just don't think they're as reprehensible as valentino or stella. their actions aren't excusable, no, but they aren't near that level of abhorrent.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

motorcycle sketch featuring cross!! >:)

[ioannemos]

BEHOLD

a BABBY

bonus:

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[jasontoddenthusiastt]

“Jason should get over being upset about his death” - he has, he wasn’t angry at Bruce or the world because they failed him and he ended up dying, which he made clear plain as day and that’s about the most reasonable a person who went through what he went through could be

anyway I don’t think these people realize how gory being bludgeoned to near death is, and maybe it's because of the limitations of the medium that scene was presented in

[mxtxfanatic]

Interesting commentary about how most people will identify with victims/victimhood while feeling discomfort when others identify with perpetrators, especially given the fact we live in societies (at least the one I’m in and the one that book was written in) that habitually materially revile victims on every level while championing and supporting perpetrators of certain violence.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

if any of you have ever been curious about mpreg killer, for whatever god forsaken reasons (/lh), you’ll find it here. Be warned for talks about violent and suicidal urges and thoughts, dissociation, post partum depression, and child abandonment. Basically, killer is on his dead beat dad arc (he is severely mentally ill and believes this is the best outcome for the child, and the only outcome where it survives.)

[shallowseeker]

This is the funniest thing you've ever said @ananke-xiii:

[Maybe] John wasn't a Led Zeppelin fan, he knew a few of their songs just fine and used his knowledge to court Mary (good move, king) and then went home, listened to all of their songs, learnt all their lyrics and shaped his personality so that she would like him. Here, I've said it.

And actually, that's pretty damn cute. Mary was so impressed with his passing knowledge that he rushed home to study his crush's interests so the date would go even better next time.

That's so John-coded (overpreparation).

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But also. I love how this theme reminds me of some of the stuff I write about Harper Sayles and the ghost of "imaginary lovers that never let me down."

Perhaps even John couldn't live up to the idea of John, like Vance could never be the Vance of Harper's expectations (which is, incidentally, why Harper kills him, forever crystallizing him in a Purgatorial "black-and-white," where he could never disappoint her).

This is also tangential to Cas and The Empty: "Come on, Castiel. Wouldn't you rather be a fond memory than a festering disappointment?" In the world of SPN, to live, to be REAL, is to be a disappointment. (Also see: All of Mary's arc.)

[punk-rockrz]

DEAREST JEFFERY!

[atlasisntdead]

Can people stop asking dumb questions like "Which one of these women is the best romantic fit for Joe Goldberg?" none of them. Literally that's the whole point no one is a "fit" for Joe except for jail. How do some people miss the point so badly. I don't understand.

[ionamalachite]

everything is improved while listening to the killers

[vinomino]

yeah I just got cucked

if my next fic gets cucked as well I’m gonna stop writing