#predestiny

[catofoldstones]

[42flies]

EMPTY ALL YOUR POCKETS…

[xxdrwhovianxx]

I'd fight the Fates, but they Probably Planned that too

The Fates and I

Have never agreed

Their tapestries,

Lovely.

But in six hands

There's thirty fingers

To simply slip through.

Predestiny

Wasn't for me

No matter the fight

I was told

That it meant nothing that-

That I mustn't stray

From a path I did not choose

And like

Strong-willed children do

I kicked

And screeched

Until ears could bleed.

~G.Ab

[fatecanberewritten]

Predestined fates do not all follow a direct route.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (transl. C. Donougher)

[galentir]

Alternative universe where Luke and Reggie share the best werewolf vampire solidarity 🤝

[yeliuxi]

In hindsight, it was very funny I was so baffled and surprised at reviews of Qi Ye saying that this romance novel protagonist didn't really seem to have any romantic feelings for his partner. I never noticed anything. I just thought he was being more normal about it. Anyway Jing Beiyuan is aromantic because he's just like me fr

[pikkish]

Yeah we've already talked about how outright stupid the lore n writing for modern Doom is, but tbh I can understand why they had to do something with Doomguy, why they had to make him The Specialest Boy instead of Just Some Guy. Do I like how they did it? No, I would've taken it a different direction. Do I think that hugo could've done it well even if he took it in the direction I would've? No, I have minimal faith in his story writing. But realistically, how many times can a guy singlehandedly accomplish the impossible before you have to acknowledge he's very much not Just Some Guy who happened to be at the right place at the right time? I think that, with how every single other person on the Phobos UAC base were killed in Doom I, doomguy stopped being Just Some Guy the moment he decided to do anything other than just lie down and die.

[a-caterpillars-world]

i think im gonna lose it just a little bit

[fairieswithwings]

Fifth Harmony is my doomed by the narrative trope

[fastidious-and-a-mess]

i think a lot about iwatex lore and story stuff outside its context of Video Game

like, it’s coded into the Video Game that kom always dies and there’s nothing you can do to save him. but in-universe? i don’t think fate or predestiny is a big thing here, bc it’s a time loop and sol’s whole life is different every time, so i often think about an In Universe fluke timeline, where something different happens and kom survives. anemone gets to grow up with her older brother and she doesn’t become a soldier and sol gets to see what it looks like for her to have a happy life.

and then it never happens again. sol can’t figure out what let kombucha survive in that loop, and they can’t ever recreate it, and he never survives again. that was the only loop where anemone was actually genuinely happy, and the guilt of its eats at sol in semi lucid moments of loop-awareness.

[cyb3rtarot]

Pick a Pile: Facing “Failure”

Disclaimer: readings are not replacements for professional advice. You create your fate, not the reading. Take what confirms and not what confuses. In this reading, I’ll look at your current perception or relationship to perceived failure & things to keep in mind. It’s great if we can find beauty in the inevitability of lessons instead of fear!

Help a Palestinian family: 1 2 3 4 5

pile 1 ✃ pile 2 pile 3 ✃ pile 4

Pile 1

[Mannaz, King of Wands rx, 8 of wands rx, 2 of swords, Follow Your Own Good Advice rx, Changed in the Night]

Hello pile one! This pile struggles with understanding how fate & time interacts with effort. There’s a complicated relationship with destiny or divine timing. On one hand, when things don’t work, you may try to reflect and understand if that has a deeper meaning. You may wonder, for example, about whether failure & rejection is divine protection, if the timing wasn’t right—if it’s not meant for you. But then the energy switches to pointing the finger at yourself and wondering if what you haven’t accomplished is a personal failure. There’s flip-flopping between where to place the blame. Even if you’re not thinking of intentionally blaming anyone or anything, there may be self-blaming tendencies or a fixation on trying to find a reason for pain. You may comb through your actions looking for an answer and are sometimes only able to see everything that went wrong. This can begin even before the outcome is achieved; you may stagnate yourself through perfectionism or through not applying yourself because every approach seems not good enough. There’s a struggle in merging what you think you could improve with the knowledge that some things are out of your control.

Of course, we wish we could understand why exactly things went wrong because we’d feel better armed. But one of the things failure shows is no matter how much we arm ourselves, there can be a wrench in our plans. Instead we must move with self-trust even when we don't know what's going to happen. This is one of the struggles of being human! Even highly intuitive people are in constant reflection to understand what’s going on. Going around in a mental loop can function as self punishment sometimes, as if we’re forcing ourselves to sit in the corner and find an answer to things beyond our understanding. You should always reflect and strive for self improvement, but this best comes from self love rather than a fixation on failure or criticism. You already have this King of Wands energy which leads you to success despite stumbles. You don't need to perfectly understand everything or perform perfectly. 

Fate, success, failure, outcomes, these are complex webs. Trying to boil fate—and related concepts like divine timing, fated chance, predestiny, free will, etc—down to a few simple factors can lead to extremes or bias, where we convince ourselves we’re totally in control or on the opposite end we convince ourselves life is out of our hands. Neither side of this polarity acknowledges the power of free will. Fate is something formed by ALL people who have lived, are living, and will live, by forces unseen, but also our own hands. It’s complex because one single person is an infinite pool of complexity within themselves, much more so a whole world. Add time and it can be confusing to understand why xyz happened the way it did. Don’t go to extremes ignoring the concept of timing nor dooming yourself to feeling controlled. The human experience is somewhere in the middle. When things don’t work out, take an honest look at what you had control over and how you feel about the way you handled it. Not to judge or criticize, just make objective notes. If we focus on these parts of reality, we can detach from unhealthy mental traps about what could’ve been or might be. 

On some level, you already know this. From your oracle cards and this King of Wands (rx), I feel you’ve already done a lot of self reflection on things you want to improve or that haven’t gone the way you wanted, but there’s hesitancy to relax and move forward. It’s like you keep re-evaluating or planning because it can’t be as simple as trusting yourself—what if it goes wrong again? Yes, it’s true, things may go wrong. But what if everything went better than expected? This is the unknowable which will eat away at our mental health if we let it. But, even if we knew what would happen, it still could not replace our effort, confidence, self love & trust. We would still need those things to make the most of our future and enjoy it. Trust that you know yourself. You’re not who you once were, because those lessons you learned prepared future-you for new things. Be honest with yourself, not because I think you aren’t, but because when you can say with evidence you’re realistically evaluating the situation, you can navigate the unknown to the best of your ability. Your relationship with failure is also your relationship with fear of the unknown. But I see someone who should trust that their honest effort does mean something, is worth something, and then your energy and talents can come out more easily. Don’t be your own bully before anything had a chance to get off the ground!

Also, don’t be afraid to ask for help! Some of you isolate or were forced into being self-sufficient. Other people add more unknown factors, but sometimes that’s what helps the most! Working with others or asking for help is often where positive surprises comes in, safety nets that catch us when we’re low, and we also learn more about ourselves through others. If you can grow deeper bonds with your peers or community, these may be a positive influence.

Failure won’t always come with epiphanies to undo it, especially when we already tried our best. Sometimes we can only understand & manage limited things. We must balance and rest in this knowledge ♥️

Extra Details: more college students in this pile or preparing for college (I see a lot of academia and big university buildings), fear of embarrassment or shyness when presenting what you made, worrying about what you’ll make of yourself, past bullying, writing & traditional drawing, letters, journal keeping, thick frame glasses, kpop, being unsure when to reach out or withdraw, drawing on a tablet/with a stylus, studying arts or liberal arts, blueberries, lots of huge creative energy

Thank you for reading! 

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Pile 2

[Xebo, 7 of pentacles, the Magician, page of cups, Justice]

Your relationship to failure is linked to a fear of disappointment. This pile is grounded in the idea of give and take, putting effort into goals to receive a desired outcome, needing to do the work. And I feel when faced with failure this pile may have a relatively quicker process of getting back up, because you know that’s what it takes to move forward. There’s balanced, methodical, and steady energy, a work ethic or skill of endurance. 

However, the symbolism & faces of figures on these cards seem melancholic. I see physical effort to keep it all together, but you may feel hesitant to put hope or emotional attachment into anything. There’s a sense that you let yourself have wishes but only view them as wishes. Even as you work towards them, you may not let yourself get expectations up, because you know even with putting the work in something could go wrong. Or, you might see things you want as a “forbidden fruit,” imaginary, unrealistic, naïve, etc. There’s a deep-seated fear or thorn in your emotions when connecting to desire—because doing so sets up potential for disappointment which feels too crushing. You might feel it’s illogical to set yourself up in that way, yet at the same time, this restriction of yourself can become fear based and less logical. 

There’s a need to heal this because it’s casting a dampening energy over what you do. Confronting your relationship with failure is confronting avoidance of the pain of disappointment. Avoiding pain is normal but can restrict desire and ambition that wants to be expressed. Don’t deny desire, emotionally separate yourself from it, nor be too judgmental. The possibility of failure makes you detach from deep emotion and put your guard up. Maybe you feel a very measured approach will yield the best results, and often it can, but more so when coming from a place of healthy curiosity than suppression. This may stop a lot of you from pursuing connections with others. It’s great if you’re rational, grounded, decisive, but to your inner self this may come off as a strict-parent dynamic where you restrict wants through very decisive planning—rather than directly addressing them. And sometimes what you need is to be a friend to yourself, to indulge a bit, let yourself relax and see the fun in dreaming. You already understand putting work in, so using this realistic perspective, what would your life look like if you had some of the larger desires you feel are fantastical dreams? What would a merger between your current life and that desired life look like, or what would the transitional scenes look like getting there if you were reading a story? And, what are reasonable disappointments you may encounter on a journey there? The point of the last question is not to get caught up in disappointment, but rather that facing it as a possibility may make you feel more prepared. Disappointment is not more powerful than you when you accept it as part of life’s cycles. 

As I flip through the deck I see strings of cards indicating you already know this but maybe some of you are having trouble integrating intuition with conscious knowing. I feel if you haven’t already come to these conclusions you may be at the edge of an epiphany regarding emotions and desires. Maybe because there’s something new you’re interested in with the page of wands at the bottom of the deck? The work ethic and planning skills you have can carry you far, and through reflection on disappointment as a part of the human experience, remaining fears cannot keep you down. Best of luck in whatever you pursue!

Extra Details: meditation on emotions, desires, & fears could be helpful. Revisiting past disappointments to create new perspectives (there may still be pain or disappointment to process, don’t rush it!), scared/anxious, uncertainty about seeking connection, balancing long term material goals with relationships, connecting with your emotions & wants will bring clarity to your intuition, putting defenses down about feelings, letting go of old ideas, spending time with/ thinking of a grandmother, homemade coffee, new interests/ on a search for something new, measured responses to others, lack of excitement/ feeling rigid (or coming out of this), a need for more union or sync within oneself & dualistic concepts (body/mind, emotions/thoughts, desires/detachment), changing views on connection with others and within yourself, resigning yourself to unhappiness unnecessarily, unhappiness in the home or with traditional lifestyle, prominent Virgo placements in natal/SR chart or in profection yr, or receiving help from a Virgo (take as it already resonates), internalized beliefs from family about success or passions—a lot of you may replicate your family’s criticism in your thoughts towards yourself. Interests you’ve put off because it’s “not productive” like music, some of you may enjoy going out at night to places with live music or clubbing/lounges, The Moon in tarot/deep subconscious emotional pulls, something dripping or the word dripping may be significant?

Thank you for reading!

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Pile 3

[Perthro, Ace of cups, King of pentacles, the Hierophant, the Hanged Man rx]

Hello pile 3! Your message is about perspective. On one hand, I see you guys have a lot of hope deep down or a tendency to romanticize. When you see things aren’t working out, it may be hard to accept because you look at potential and what's working rather than what isn’t. Especially in relationships, there are a lot of people here who find it difficult to accept aspects like incompatibility. However, when you finally come to terms with what’s happening, I see a lot of you can turn around to the next thing very quickly. This pile is aware that “failure,” or endings, are just new beginnings. It’s very hard to totally dull your “sparkle,” because there’s always some renewed sense of optimism or ability to see potential. When you realize the stage has been set for something new, you get a lot of excitement. There’s an inner & outer sense of security that allows you to make peace with the fact that living means lessons, and as long as you take these lessons in stride, you can keep going and receive new things.

However, your other message is about that momentum. The Hierophant with the Hanged Man rx and your rune suggests that slowing down mentally and having a lot of reflective or learning/teaching time may be a benefit, especially because this pile’s message seems specific to right now. You may hear a lot about waiting and working on yourself, and you may feel like, “but I have worked on myself, what’s next??” Sometimes a period of stagnation after something doesn’t work just drags & drags and makes you keep seeing or feeling the things you’re trying to move on from. However, it's this exact period that's a benefit—those moments are beneficial for the new opportunities you seek. Your cards encourage you to analyze those things—particularly in the recent past—that didn’t work, and to do a lot of reflection on what you wish to carry into the future. You may wish to rush forward, but good things come to those who are patient (not necessarily to those who wait, but those who take a steady approach). There may be things from your past that you've quickly dropped from your mind and there’s more learning to be done. For example, there may be relationships or events you look over with rose-tinted glasses, and it’s important to analyze what actions & energies led to the endings you experienced, both what you did and didn't do, and what others did and didn’t do. You may also learn something from analyzing what didn’t work in the lives of those close to you. For example, you could look at similar things friends & family did that seemed to go wrong if you wish to try a different approach. Your ability to pick yourself up and keep going is admirable, but appreciation and taking advantage of still moments is also needed. There may be some kind of lesson wrapping up right now or that’s attempting to be conveyed to you, and there may be more things to learn yet from recent “failures” that you have not analyzed from all angles because you’re ready to go. Especially those things which are emotionally painful, make sure you’ve not only made peace with these but understand how approaches may need to be different going forward if you’re to have different outcomes. Life is unpredictable, and it’s for that reason that still moments are a blessing, because when things get moving we may no longer have the time, experience, and learning to tweak our approach mid-trajectory. Quieter times allow us to set our destination and plan our trip before hopping on the plane, metaphorically. Whether in material efforts or seeking new connections, and I see a lot of you may be bringing children into the world so that's especially important. Looking into the future is not bad at all, but make sure you’re connecting the past and present into your future vision and looking at things from all different sides. There’s no need to rush forward; life constantly moves us in that direction.

It seems there are developments & surprises upcoming for you. Think of the present as us donning our armor and weapon—self-exploration and growth. The more time we put into these, the less we'll be caught unawares. We’ll be prepared to make the most of things we actually do want when we get them, instead of repeating the past from a different standpoint. There’s a particular emphasis on gaining knowledge, whether of yourself or otherwise, while new phases are in the making. Each new moment is born out of this present one, so be mindful of the energies allowed forward. As we get in control of ourselves and our perspective, we less so need to “wait” for good things to come to us, and instead can take confident steps, as you’ll know what you want and what direction those things are in.

Extra Details: pregnancy (use protection if doing risky things) ((messages about proper planning & gaining knowledge are doubly emphasized for anyone giving birth soon or trying for children)), being mindful of energy allowed towards oneself (those with rose-tinted glasses may have had a tendency to allow disrespect in relationships), breaking cycles, others sharing your developments (example, if you break a toxic cycle or start something new you may notice loved ones doing the same), realistic hope, pushing the past out of your mind due to emotional wounds or resentment (healing/shadow work needed if so), “let go or be dragged,” current Saturn transit may be significant or Saturn significant in solar return/profection year, as well as Pluto leaving Capricorn, Wheel of Fortune, never-ending flow of time, heavy natal or solar return Libra placements, midnight, interim period before change, a need to study/learn pertaining to the things you want in your future, midnight gospel, meeting up with others in public spaces like cafes

Thank you for reading!

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Pile 4

[Laziness, Compromise, the Outsider, Iceolation, Sowilo]

Hi pile 4! Your message is about redefining what “failure” means to you. Your cards suggest you’ve gotten comfortable with some misery or discontent, possibly because you don’t feel a life that would make you happy is accessible. Maybe you feel you’re not a person who can achieve a different life, so you resigned yourself to how you currently feel. Or, some of you have built an “acceptable” life, and you’re not confronting discontent because you might have to tear this down—or you might “fail” trying to achieve change. 

Wanting to start over, being different from others, past difficulties, none of this makes you a failure or is anything to feel shame/embarrassment about. I won’t say not living your truth makes you a failure either; everyone struggles and searches for that throughout their lifetimes. It’s not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with how you do things or how you might do things differently without the pressure of expectations. But, you may be compromising on something that’s fundamental to your wellbeing, and this doesn't have to be the answer. Your relationship to failure is significant in whatever is making you feel like you have to accept misery or “less than." There’s a sense of alienation from others through your life and from your own happiness. Maybe you feel your wellbeing is too difficult? The significant thing is on the “outsider” card, a child looks longingly through a gate they think is locked, but actually the gate is open. This card is comparable to the 5 of pentacles in that help in unhappy times is often far closer than you think. But don’t water yourself down for others or their expectations, that’s like extinguishing your flame before it has a chance to do anything.

Now’s a time where you can approach different aspects of your life in ways you might’ve thought of before but couldn’t. Maybe there’s a desire you couldn’t obtain before and now there’s a more promising opportunity. Especially in regards to your material situation, such as jobs, life goals, physical things or finances. But not only; this is a time of general personal development and spiritual growth. Things in your life that you have kept in darkness, such as feelings of disconnection, misery, resentment—these have an opportunity to be purged. It’s a time where you’re encouraged to see how the effort you put in can pay off, like sowing seeds. Don’t be discouraged by the fact that you may have once tried and failed. Life has ebbs and flows, sometimes what was once out of reach comes into grasp at another time. 

Some of you are concerned with what your life will look like to others if you change. Particularly those who are living a socially acceptable life or have something that works practically, or people encourage you into (such as a traditional job), but want to explore something unconventional or harder. This is also a fear to address, keeping yourself caged through others’ ideas. Everyone has their own path to walk and you won’t necessarily find yours by looking at your life through another’s lens, or through the person you wish you were instead of who you actually are. You may have reached goals, but that doesn’t mean you have to stay where you are if you feel misaligned. The feeling's not there to throw you off but to tell you something. It’s your choice how to address it, but don’t repress it. Life can be more than staying afloat. Not even necessarily in a material way, but mentally and emotionally you can find things that give life more meaning. If you address the ways in which you minimize yourself, or kill your hopes before you’ve tried, then your relationship to failure may take a healthy turn and you can feel assured in making changes.

Extra Details: feeling like you’re regressing, spiritual growth or incoming period of inner development, the Hermit/turning inwards to find yourself, contemplating what you want or who you are, setting new goals/ working towards dreams— especially material ones, finding confidence, reflecting on haughtiness vs confidence. Contemplating the universe, feminine energy (reflecting on what this means to you spiritually), eat nutritious foods to combat deficiencies especially iron deficiency, caring for yourself according to your bodily/mental cycles

Channeled image, I see a bush or hedge being pruned. The message is you do this to yourself—how you minimize yourself. We all grow and have to tweak our expectations, selves, goals, etc. But if you try to take care of one plant in the way another needs, you may take away what makes it most beautiful or unique, it may come out looking off. Similarly, it’s true you may have had to adjust your life in unexpected ways, and this may happen again. But, if you do this based on anything except your true self, then the end result—your life, will be more likely to feel “not right.” When you make a mistake growing a plant or pruning, the plant can make a comeback if taken care of. But if you try to care for it as if it were a totally different thing, that’s what actually creates errors.

Thank you for reading!

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[yeliuxi]

I haven't screamed about Qi Ye yet on Tumblr today... but I did scream excessively in someone's DMs about Wuxi saying that, in his previous life, he must have always loved Jing Qi, even if he never said it to him, he must have been thinking it while watching his back. Okay Wuxi, tell me more about Bai Wuchang's forgotten or not-so-forgotten feelings for whoever this predestined one of his is....

[robotfuckerreal]

I need to talk about this so bad because I love starop so so badly. So viscerally. They follow so many tropes (good&evil, selfish&selfless, twink&hunk) but they are not ONLY opposites attract. They are so alike in so many ways as well. They have both been hurt by megatron, they were both born with predestinies (depending on the continuity), GGRRRRR I could ramble about them forever. I can make an entire list of how they as characters compare and contrast.

A lot of people that I find that don’t like starop as a ship only see it for what it is on the outside. I LOVE starop as a ship where Optimus prime doesnt try to forcefully convert Starscream and Starscream doesn’t reform to be an autobot just because it’s the ‘right’ thing to do or out of love for prime (because Starscream wouldn’t do that). Optimus prime ‘saves’ Starscream from his situation but can’t save him from who he is. Starscream is essentially taken out from an environment where he’s constantly being forced to fawn or nip at megatron so he’s not replaced and is instead given the opportunity to change and become something outside of what he was built to be.

Anyways sorry for the ramble I have robot autism

[according2thelore]

love the es/ls verse so freaking much. would love to know what happens if sam gets a vision while they’re there? ls sam freaking out b/c he still views them as ‘evil’…..

hi, anon!!

thank you so much!!

ooh this is a good question! considering that ES!Sam's visions mostly occur when people are dying or about to die, i think that the worst way this could manifest as is one of the LS!Brothers killing someone (as seen in "croatoan").

it would be fun if instead of murder, ES!Sam saw one of the LS!Brothers dying, and now he has a frantic other LS!Brother on his hands, as they know sam's visions are almost always true, and the other brother will stop at literally and absolutely nothing to prevent it from happening. something something fate, something something predestiny, etc.

but since you mentioned ES!Sam seeing the LS!Brothers as "evil"...ohohoho. it would have to be one of them killing an innocent person. maybe while they beg for their life, and with the coldest, most vacant look in the LS!Brother's eyes.

ES!Sam is asleep, and then he's standing in a warehouse, with someone tied to a chair. they're beaten, and bloody, and when the person looks up, sam realizes he's a man. about his age, as sam is now. young.

he has dirt smeared across his face, and his feet are caked in days-old mud. it looks like he was running for his life, and lost. there's noise, far away, and when ES!Sam turns to look, both LS!Brothers walk in. it's strange seeing himself in the third-person still, even in a dream, and especially because he's older. it still takes sam aback every time he sees LS!Sam reading a book or folding clothes or cleaning a gun.

the man starts whimpering immediately, and his hands clench. he struggles in his bindings, trying to turn away from the approaching figures. that's when sam realizes, as his clothing shifts, that his entire front is covered in blood. he's hurt. sam's stomach clenches, but he can't do or say anything, as the man begs,

"who are you? why are you doing this? i didn't do anything! don't do this. please don't. i won't...please!"

the LS!Brothers exchange a look, but their postures don't change.

"you chose this." LS!Dean says. "you don't know how, and honestly, i don't care. i've gotta do what i gotta do."

the man thrashes in his bindings, screaming at LS!Sam, who is standing off to the side, to help him. but he doesn't. he looks on impassively, and barely flinches when LS!Dean raises the gun and shoots him right in between the eyes.

ES!Sam shoots out of bed with the deafening BANG! of the gun, and he's reaching for ES!Dean in the next bed, who has gotten in the habit of letting his limp hand swing in the space between their beds since sam has started having his visions.

ES!Dean tries to calm him down, while ES!Sam is telling him No, Dean, They Killed Someone In Cold Blood. for ES!Sam, it kind of feels freeing. maybe this is actually proof that this isn't their future. the LS!Brothers are more predator than human when they're focused, and LS!Sam is more broken than ES!Sam can even think about for longer than a few minutes. this vision feels like an escape--it feels good--like none of his other visions have ever felt.

he and dean might be messed up, but they're not "kill a (visibly) human man covered in his own blood while he's tied up and begging for his life" messed up. if the LS!Brothers are lying, and they're not actually sam and dean for the future, then ES!Sam might actually have some control over his life.

they agree to keep it to themselves for now, with ES!Dean reasoning that it's not like they're going to sneak out and kill someone without the ES!Brothers hearing about it. they're strained and quiet around the LS!Brothers for the rest of the week, ES!Sam even flinching away from LS!Dean when he slams the lid of an antique chest closed while looking for a roll of lore parchment for LS!Sam.

the LS!Brothers notice. of course they do. LS!Dean tries to pull ES!Dean aside, but ES!Dean has one loyalty. so LS!Dean--pissed and already a little nauseous with jealousy--sics LS!Sam on him. LS!Sam approaches him nice and quiet and concerned, but is shocked when ES!Dean makes an excuse to leave and find ES!Sam instead. the LS!Brothers agree that the ES!Brothers are clearly hiding something, and agree to keep an eye on them.

a week later, LS!Sam approaches the ES!Brothers watching a rerun of NCIS in their room with a case. they cautiously approach the library, and when LS!Dean turns the computer around, ES!Sam freezes.

it's the guy. the guy that LS!Dean got between the eyes.

he's the brother of the first victim, and he has a happy arm thrown around the victim in the picture, caught mid-laugh.

ES!Sam doesn't want to take the case, and tugs on ES!Dean's sleeve with a frantic urgency that ES!Dean reluctantly heeds. the LS!Brothers look at each other askance, but eventually agree. the hunt is just a few hours away, and they could probably be done in a day, three at max.

and the ES!Brothers don't know it, but the LS!Brothers put tracking devices that 2005 wouldn't even recognize as tracking bugs in the seams of their jackets, and buried in the heel of every single pair of their shoes. so the LS!Brothers say they'll take care of it, and be back by thursday, at the latest. the ES!Brothers can't go anywhere they can't find them.

ES!Sam realizes his mistake, and dread makes his stomach churn. they'll kill him if he's not there to stop it. ES!Sam is probably this man's only hope of staying alive.

"i'll go," ES!Sam says quickly, and ES!Dean jumps in immediately too, giving ES!Sam a strange look. the LS!Brothers are uneasy, knowing that a plan is clearly taking place here.

but they have work to do, so the four of them pack up and head out.

the guy from sam's vision is a regular, human man, wracked with grief. he has no shifter glare, no reaction to holy water, no reaction to iron. ES!Sam exhales when the LS!Brother's attention turns towards the victim's coworker instead, bitter over getting passed up again for a promotion.

it's almost normal, and ES!Sam finds himself relaxing as he and ES!Dean get their own motel room next to the LS!Brothers, and they work together to solve a case. despite the years, they think almost identically, and ES!Sam and LS!Sam keep finishing each other's sentences. LS!Dean backs up ES!Dean about roughing up the coworker to get information, since "pussy-footing around him isn't giving us shit."

he and LS!Sam share a look at that, and it's almost like having a friend, for a second. before ES!Sam remembers the cold, deadly look in LS!Sam's eyes as he watched LS!Dean bury lead into that man's forehead.

ES!Sam is wrong. ES!Sam is so, so wrong.

it's a werewolf. it doesn't fit a werewolf MO, because the werewolf didn't rip the heart out of its victim. it didn't, because the victim was his brother.

the man that sam saw the LS!Brothers kill is the werewolf, and they find this out when the motel window explodes in a shower of glass, and ES!Dean, perpetually choosing the bed closest to the door, is descended upon. ES!Sam falls out of his bed and scrambles to his feet, reaching for the gun under his pillow. ES!Sam can smell the blood from here, hears ES!Dean crying out. ES!Sam tries to line up a shot, but dean is fighting back, and they're too tangled for it to be a clear shot. the LS!Brothers kick open the door, and LS!Dean manages to bury a silver dagger in the thing's shoulder.

it roars, and leaps back through the shattered window. ES!Sam collapses against ES!Dean's bed immediately, taking in the damage. LS!Sam shoves past LS!Dean to help, who is already taking off after the werewolf.

ES!Dean's shoulder is completely shredded, and dean grunts something about "ground beef, fuck" in a quiet, strangled voice. dean insists it got him with its claws, and dean kept his jaws away from biting him. he has gashes all over his stomach, his arms, his torso, and LS!Sam tears the bedsheet clean in half to bind his shoulder. ES!Sam watches him do it, hands pressing down hard on the heaviest blood flow, and ES!Sam doesn't think he's ever felt more seen or understood than the look LS!Sam gives him after he binds the arm, pulling it tight.

LS!Sam drives them to the hospital in the impala, jaw tight and face pale as he reminds ES!Sam that they can't both go in, as it would cause too many questions. he watches ES!Dean, pale face and fluttering eyelids, as ES!Sam hauls him from the car, calling for help.

ES!Sam looks back to the car as ES!Dean is loaded onto the stretcher, and ES!Sam knows suddenly that for the first time in his life, someone knows exactly how he feels, in every agonizing detail. LS!Sam's face is haunted. terrified. horror-filled. ES!Sam knows every iota of it.

later, while ES!Sam sits in the hospital, bedside, he realizes that the man wasn't covered in his own blood in his vision. he was covered in dean's.

his phone buzzes, and he pulls it out. it's from LS!Sam, just one word, that fills sam with relief, guilt, and a savage glee, all at once.

Done.

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thank you for this ask, anon!! mwah, mwah!

-lizzy

[bacchanal-if]

Hi! Sorry if this has been answered before, but do any of the ROs believe in soulmates or The One? I want to think that if circumstances had been changed the ROs would fall in love with the MC anyway, or even if they had met someone else in the exact same way they met MC then they still wouldn't fall for them as much as they would've with MC. ...Last point's kinda meta since all us players have different MCs but I'm an unapologetic romantic so 💀

Good question, and one that made me think a little bit! The MC can have such an array of personalities that you can play very different people and the ROs will still respond to them, which makes it a tad of a moot point if I'm making any sense?

As an unapologetic romantic myself, my suggestion would be to consider each MC you make the only one that could ever be for your chosen RO, since they consider the MC that way! but maybe not The Uninvited Guest if you don't want disappointment... unless you're into that in which case prepare for some juicy angst.

Fox:

They're a bit pessimistic for this line of thinking.

Rabbit:

They often dream of it.

Butterfly:

They don't think there is a soulmate for them.

The Uninvited Guest:

They do believe in soulmates. Perhaps not for themself, but for others. Maybe for themself? They have yet to find one if so.

Edith/Edward:

On some level, yes, they do believe because they have some wariness about the superstitious and things like predestiny.

Tamsin/Thomas:

I think you know the answer to this one, but Tamsin/Thomas considers the MC their soulmate no matter what, starting with the platonic case. If the MC decides to be with them then they believe they are romantic soulmates as well.