#r: bells hells

[pocketgalaxies]

marisha as beau going those guys are fucking chumps. a grab bag. they're gonna die. marisha as keyleth going it'd be hugely hypocritical of me to underestimate an adventuring party like that! i trust them! marisha as laudna going hello nice to meet you delilah briarwood lives in my titties

[quirinah]

she dun on my geon till i meshi

[ludinus-is-a-bitch]

follow this up with "people wear rings when they're wed."

LAURA BAILEY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING (to us) BABEY?!

"launda is beautifully scary."

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

[lynxalon]

i've seen a fair bit of... pessimism about dorym lately, esp with the ep107, for example wondering if dorian's opposing views on the gods making orym fall out of love, and i have to say. i very highly doubt it, ur fr talking about the man who has held on to will for so long, holding onto will's family and affectionately calling this *his* family too because that didn't stop when will died. i dont think falling out of love is an option or even a thought to orym.

that said, we know that orym has contingencies for if anyone in bells hells crosses the line into being a version of themselves they would despise, for anyone who jeopardizes their mission. his mission. i think, for the first time since knowing dorian, orym finally has a contingency for him. the longer dorian is back, the more orym sees how scarred he is by what's happened (understandable so) and knows that dorian is with bells hells all the way. but if he isn't...

[softgaycontent]

Sketchbook excerpts!

[distant--shadow]

“It’s freezin’!”

Imogen finds her toes inadvertently curling as if they could retract into themselves like a snail in its shell.

“It is! But you do get used to it!” The Lady turns to her and that grin is back on her face that often shares its graces - though now perhaps too comfortable - occupying more space of the decorous recline of skin onto sharp cheekbone, freshwater pearl white teeth exposed like skirts ridden too high to expose alabaster leg in manic casual-ty, and those skirts are still held in the grip of her laced palm, not fruitless but maybe turning, over-ripened sweet musky and mushy, their tails laying on the surface of the lake in a bride’s trail behind her.

Imogen had turned her trousers at the cuff, the brush of their cotton at her knees feeling like burlap in comparison to what she imagines of the silks and laces now gaining weight in water behind the Lady.

The pebbles under her feet are slightly slimy from the cling of emerald algae (or at least some sorta plant life) - she hopes she does not slip over them, the thought of being submerged even on this fair day being a thought too undesirable, undesirable like her linens in comparison to the Lady’s silks

-impractical as they may be-

The skin on the inside of her knees says otherwise.

She had ‘gotten used to it.’ She had only known it.

[tatersdoesstuff]

If you love someone, let them go

[shorthaltsjester]

sometimes people will say “going dark” and then what they’re actually talking about is just people no longer presenting a carefully constructed version of their emotions and experiences.

like. emotional turmoil is not the same as darkness. laudna in this Fictional Universe that has tangibly different stakes wrt to death and killing than our own, is at best like . morally neutral for what she just did like. man has been secretly trying to kill you, and then just tried to do so again, killing him back is a fair choice. and even if i was someone who is excited by delilah’s inability to escape from the narrative, this shit isn’t about delilah. laudna made a choice. if delilah is back or whatever it’s a choice that laudna made because something in that grants her more control than her existing conditions did. this isn’t some Delilah Takes Over, it’s Laudna Expressly Makes The Choice To Call Forth Something within Herself to remedy the lack of control that’s been thrust upon her. if y’all want to Continue to limit Laudna’s agency (as the cr fandom is so, so want to do when a female character makes a choice that isn’t Good according to some weird system of virtue ethics) go ahead.

likewise with orym. little guy is not “going dark” because he has finally made direct action about his emotional turmoil in dealing with a situation which has similarly left him without control and has also placed him in a position where his stalwart conviction towards protecting and honouring those he loves and has lost alike is constantly met with other people he cares for going well.. what if they had a point/we are killing other peoples loved ones/etc. which like . yeah that might be frustrating and in fact might lead him to go, actually, i can’t afford to try and maintain some abject morality where I carry a locket that will literally only provide guilt. orym is completely committed to his beliefs, the locket and what it represents has never been a limit to what he will do, only a reminder of the consequences of what he might cause in those actions. but they Are at war and orym has a billion things on his plate. he can put down the locket. especially when bor’dor is the explicit manifestation of that locket’s symbolism. the subtext rapidly became the text and orym doesn’t need a reminder. it’s there in the fact that team issylra is walking away with two friends, not three.

these are character who have at every turn denied their own emotions in various forms while still being acutely aware of what they deny, whether that awareness was/is fully realized or not. many of laudna’s early convos with ashton show us that there is some awareness to the lighthearted spooky goth girl and how that persona fades when she thinks too much about what has led her and maintained that reality. likewise the entirety of orym’s story thus far is defined by his grief in a very literal sense, it Has extended from that grief to also the commitment he had to the purpose of figuring out the assassination attempt on keyleth but as we have seen, that purpose has fallen apart. paired with the quasi-reopening of his grief that was getting to see will again only to have to turn away, i don’t think there’s a lack of awareness in orym of how much he hurts. but between his actions and 4SD, that hurt tends to get buried under guilt or Responsibility.

and now, finally, both of them have admitted to that Not in the safety of small introspection or one-on-one conversations but with actions that they cannot shy away from or deny. laudna killed bor’dor and orym encouraged her to. and it Is a complex situation but truly I don’t really think it’s a “going dark” one. because they’re not giving into some overhanging Darkness of Morality™, they’re admitting that they are hurt and have long been hurting.

or, y’know, tldr for those who continue to deny laudna and orym agency or fully villainise them for whatever weird reasons . you could listen to laudna and ashton’s conversation that pretty much lays it out explicitly. laudna claims she’s weak for having chosen to kill bor’dor. ashton denies that and affirms instead that, no, she’s hurt.

[crispysnake]

me when im percy and my family keeps getting brutally murdered in front of me

[dark-elf-writes]

I absolute blame @musicfeedsmysoul12 for making me think about Hells Belles crossovers (and the urge to rewatch hells belles for the third? time this year) but now I can’t stop thinking how well it would work with a PJO crossover.

Like demigods aren’t a rare sight in hell to begin with as they have the best therapists in house and even though most do them get Elysium there’s still A Lot to process as both canon fodder and neglected children of gods, (Hazel in particular is a semi-permanent resident of the Hellp desk because she and Sharkie are childhood friends and everyone refuses to let her go back to Asphodel, and Nico even though he is technically alive but gets a pass as a child of Hades also spends a lot of time around there.) but suddenly a lot more start showing up. Like a lot more. All around the same time. And they’re all so battered and bruised it carries over to the afterlife at least for a time. Whispers of the start of a war catches everyone’s ears. Whispers that become screams and the hellp desk is ready to take that war to Hades and the Universe itself because these are children fighting on the front lines. And just when things start to calm down whispers of another war (and the mess with the Doors of Death that leads to a lot of souls Greek and otherwise making a break for it) start and it all starts over again.

Just the hellp desk trying their best to help the Demigods lost in the wars and some that are still living and keep showing up to say hi to piss of their dad/uncle.

[pocketgalaxies]

fjord being like "jester please don't introduce yourself as a pirate, this woman is a princess and a professor" while laudna is going "fearne did you just add a princess to your–since when are you a princess????"

[hexxxcapades]

my fav girls ✨️✨️

[deramin2]

We went from track suit Chetney to leather daddy Chetney

[undead-knick-knack]

Me and Jesus smoking a blunt while discussing this

[pushingdaisies1]

★: 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧

- { art credits to @pixelllls!! } -

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𝘖𝘳𝘺𝘮 (𝘖𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪)— ✦ coming soon!

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[tatersdoesstuff]

Loveletters Week Day 1: Protect

they have each others backs :]