#robin i have faith 🙏🙏🙏

[fruitbythefoot7]

robin’s gonna clock mike’s gayass SO FAST

[jasonfkennedy]

getting fixated on the idea of ak! Jason admiring Slade in some sick way and subtly seeking and craving his approval hhhhhh

Whether Jason wants to admit it or not, he loved Bruce. He admired Bruce. Losing faith in him was probably the worst thing that could’ve happened to him. And let’s get this clear— Jason went AWOL and got kidnapped in the first place because he wanted to kill the Joker for his crimes, yes. He obviously disagreed with Bruce’s crime-fighting methods, yes. However, in the flashbacks to the Asylum, Jason obviously still thought that Bruce would save him. He was heartbroken when he found out he had been replaced. He still believed in Bruce. If he had already completely lost faith in Bruce as Robin, he wouldn’t have been so emotional in the boss fight with him at the Arkham Knight HQ.

Now onto my delusional headcanon 🙏

In the very back of his mind, he still wants what he had with Bruce all those years ago. They had their disagreements, sure, but the time he lived with Bruce was undeniably when he felt the safest, even loved. Slade saved him from the Asylum and helped him build the militia, giving him the resources to do so for the right price (according to AK Genesis, which isn’t really canon but I love it anyways so it’s canon to ME 🙄), somewhat akin to the way Bruce brought Jason into his home and trained him to be Robin. Obviously Jason’s “fixation” on Slade wouldn’t be healthy but that’s because he’s not a healthy person. He finds himself wanting guidance and direction from Slade. It feels good to receive his approval, and it hurts a little bit when he doesn’t. Of course, he doesn’t outwardly express those feelings. He probably isn’t cognitively aware of them, but they exist, and guided some of the crazier, more harmful decisions he made when laying out the plans for the siege. (I don’t think he would’ve been totally okay with potentially hurting THOUSANDS of innocents just to get Batman under normal circumstances btw. That just isn’t really his style.)

sorygyif this doesn’t make any sense I’m sleepy so I needed to get this out of my head 🙏 (ps just in case— none of this is shipping!!!!) This is also just my personal take on him . and it will probably change when I’m feeling a little less angsty fr

[atmilliways]

Wrong On The Money (53)

part 53 of 55 | 1929 words | Teen+

Blackmail fic on Ao3 | on tumblr

Summary:

Robin hadn’t planned on ambushing Eddie. She’d actually been trying not to think about him much, because the whole bullshit blackmail situation made her fly-off-the-handle mad and it was . . . complicated.

I sincerely hope this lives up to all the antici......pation. 🙏

53.

Robin lands on the edge of Eddie’s hospital bed while Steve is off signing his own discharge papers, jostling him enough that he chokes out a curse. “Sorry, but it’s time for your crash course in Steve-sitting.”

Eddie chokes on nothing, going a bright red that pulling his hair across his face does nothing to hide. (Not that it would fool her. She’d picked up on the way Eddie always looked at Steve even before he’d come out to her, it’s so obvious. Nothing’s going to happen her ass.) “In what?!”

She considers her own phrasing, and makes a face. “Don't make it weird, Munson, that’s my platonic soulmate you’re thinking about. If Steve's moving in with you, then you need to know how to take care of him. You know he gets migraines, right?”

The blank look he gives her says it all, but his mouth also asks, “What are migraines?”

Well. She knows Eddie isn’t dumb, but she can’t say he didn’t come by three attempts at senior year honestly. With a sigh, Robin tugs the radio from her belt and holds it up to her mouth, pressing the talk button. “This is Burt Ward to O-Bun-Wan Kenobi, come in O-Bun-Wan.”

“Stop calling me that,” Dustin replies after a short pause. “Over.”

“Sorry kiddo, you know it was Applejack’s turn to pick the call signs. I’m going to need you to keep Farrah Fawcett occupied for a little bit longer than expected, Van Fail-en needs a serious lesson in hair care management.”

There’s another pause, while Eddie twists his rings on his fingers and visibly mouths Van Fail-en and hair care?? to himself, then Dustin’s insistent, “You forgot to say over!”

Robin rolls her eyes. “Whatever, just give me five more minutes. Over and out.”

“Burt Ward?” Eddie asks, squinting at her as she returns the radio to its place on her hip. 

“He played Robin in the Batman movie.” She shrugs. “Erica let me pick mine. Now!” And she claps her hands together, all business. Time to school this nerd in basic dingus maintenance—because while she’s happy to do it, Eddie will be right there if Steve needs help. After what they've all been through together, Robin has faith that Eddie can do the job, even while still on bed rest. “We don’t have a lot of time, so let’s get started. A migraine is like a mega-headache. If Steve starts showing any of the following symptoms, you need to try to get him someone dark and quiet as soon as possible. . . .”

Robin hadn’t planned on ambushing Eddie. She’d actually been trying not to think about him much, because the whole bullshit blackmail situation made her fly-off-the-handle mad and it was . . . complicated.

So, yeah, trying not to think about it, because up until now she’d considered Eddie a friend and the reasons for that are all, technically, still here. Plus, she’s been busy with community college—a compromise between continuing her education as planned, that sliver of fear that things with the Upside Down might start up again, and a steadfast refusal to leave her best friend behind.

And Steve is. . . . Well, she hasn’t seen him so happy in a long time, and never quite like this. Every time he brings Eddie up in conversation (which, like, she can tell he’s kind of walking on eggshells about, but it still happens) he does this thing. This little glance her way after as if to check, and as long as she keeps her expression at neutral he brightens up hopefully by a factor of ten. (Except for when she’d biked up to Family Video this morning and he’d looked so much like shit that she’d tried to talk him into accepting a ride home from someone else. Unsuccessfully, of course, the stubborn dingus.)

In contrast, now, she’s never seen Eddie this subdued. At school he had been the guy who walked on cafeteria tables, stepping around lunches unless they’d belonged to known bullies. In the Upside Down he had climbed a rock before any of them had a chance to warn him about the hive mind vines, and hopscotched his way back down an like over-caffeinated mountain goat. Even still in shock over Chrissy Cunningham’s gruesome death, he’d twitched and flinched at every noise, alternating between gnawing on his lips and on his fingernails.

There’s no fight in him as he bypasses the break room table to slump onto the saggy couch, immediately sliding into the weird sinkhole in the middle that no one can ever get out of in one try. “Look,” he says heavily, staring down at his hands and not so much as fiddling with his rings, “I know you’re pissed at me—”

“You’re damn right I’m pissed,” Robin bursts out, stomping her foot as she thinks about it. “How could you, Eddie? How could you do that when you, of all people, know what it’s like in this town?” She crosses her arms tighter across her chest and glares. “The only reason I haven’t borrowed Steve’s car to run you over with is because you threatened to tell me and not his parents!”

Eddie’s head snaps up at that, and to his credit he looks anguished. “I would never do that.”

“You got close,” she spits. That’s the thing that Steve doesn’t understand; to him, it’s fine because Eddie’s threat hadn’t really been much of one, but Eddie hadn’t known that then. 

If Robin hadn’t been Robin, if it had been some other girl that Eddie mistook for Steve’s girlfriend, that girl could have told Steve's parents. She could have told everyone.

“I know.” Also to his credit, he manages to maintain eye contact, although it looks like it’s costing him a lot. He looks like he’s sinking into himself, hands drifting up to his hair and digging his fingers in as if trying to keep his head from imploding. Or maybe trying to pull it apart. “I know I did. I knew I was crossing a fucking line, alright? But I thought. . . . It’s not an excuse, but I thought it was just going to come out of his dad’s pocket and no one would care.”

That’s not good enough, she thinks, because it does sound like an excuse. But she’d expected him to fall back on saying that he’d thought Steve was still an asshole, like people couldn't change. That the Freak hadn’t given him the benefit of the doubt.

Because Robin hadn't, when she'd first started working with Steve back at Scoops Ahoy. Before she’d ended up tied back to back with the King of Hawkins High in a room with a drain in the floor and realized he was just some guy in a crazy situation, trying to do the right thing. The brave thing. Trying to Indiana Jones his way out of a goddamn mess, at a cost up to and almost including the loss of his own fingernails.

She was anticipating a sob story that Eddie had used to rationalize his actions in his own head, because Steve had told her how Eddie working a part time job and an illegal side job and still trying to stay awake in school had barely enough for two people’s food and rent on his own. And, okay, loathe as she is to admit it, she gets the Wayne part of it—the being so scared you might lose someone that you’re willing to fight God to keep that from happening. 

(“A code, a code, there was a code!”)

But Eddie’s not saying any of that. Maybe (probably) he had thought those things at the time, but he’s not defending himself at all now. Robin tries not to falter, because this was not okay, dammit, but it’s throwing her off. What else had she wanted to say?

Oh, right.

She jabs an accusatory finger in Eddie’s direction, trying to summon extra venom into her weakening glare. “You took advantage of his hero complex!”

He shrugs listlessly, hands still in his hair. “Before March, I had no idea he had one. Are you trying to convince me that Steve’s too good for me and I’m a piece of shit? Believe me, Buckley, I’m well aware.”

“. . . Oooookay,” Robin says slowly, still frowning but with a little less glare. She can’t help it, he’d thrown her off! “As long as we agree on that.”

They stare at each other for a long moment. Finally, Eddie drops his hand back to his lap and leans back, fixing his eyes on the ceiling. 

“I’m sorry I did it, alright? Every time I tell Steve that he says he’s not, because it means Wayne’s still around, and . . . I can’t argue with that part. But I’m still a piece of shit for how it happened, no matter how much he somehow thinks he’s the problem. Which I keep telling him he’s not, by the way, and I’m not going to stop. But. . . .” He pauses to scrub both hands over his face, dragging some of his hair in to cover it. “If you want me to make myself scarce when you’re around, say the word. I don’t have to go to the Party barbecues or whatever. But I’m not dropping Steve until he wants me to go, okay? I know how things went down with Nancy and I can’t do that to him after the shit I’ve already put him through.”

The words, Robin registers, are tense but firm. It sounds like a last stand speech straight out of a film—something where some cowboy knows he’s about to be gunned down but wants to say his piece first anyway. 

What’s jarring is realizing that she’s the firing squad. Eddie is asking her if she wants to kick him out of the entire group, when she’d really only thought as far as kicking his ass. 

His mention of Nancy is throwing her, too. Robin knows that Nancy had never really apologized for bullshit. Not the way Steve told her Eddie has, certainly not the way Eddie is doing now. . . . And Nancy is still a part of the group. 

“Jesus,” Robin mutters. She drops into one of the folding chairs and rubs at her temples. “Consider yourself on probation, alright? Just don’t pull anything like this ever again and we’ll be fine.”

Eddie blinks at her. “Is . . . is that it?”

“I’m still mad at you,” she says. “But . . . yeah. For now. But you’d better not hurt him, or do anything like this ever again, do you hear me Munson? Because I swear to god, I will finish what the bats started.”

“I won’t,” he says, as serious as she’s ever heard him. And they’d gone to war against Vecna together. 

“Alright, then get outta here,” Robin says. She hasn’t unclenched, but. . . . “Go take care of Steve.”

Because someone has to, and she’s stuck here finishing out his shift.

Eddie nods and scrambles up, all his manic energy suddenly back. He’s bouncing on the balls of his feet as she flips the sign and unlocks the door to let him out, and beelines straight for his van the second he gets the chance.

As she watches him tear out of the parking lot, she does feel better about the whole thing—not by a lot, but some. Blackmail or not, Steve seems so happy whenever he talks about Eddie. Robin has never gotten to witness Steve Harrington in full-on relationship mode, and she has a feeling it’s going to be heartwarming, ridiculous, and sappy to the point of being gross. 

She kind of can’t wait.

[flightofaqrow]

[meta] vol 7 and star-crossed soulmates

Alright, it's time to talk about qrow and Clover. I humbly request that you set down the shipping goggles and sit with me for a bit. 🙏

I waffled on this for longer than I thought, because I was trying to keep my own pair on in the sense of trying to come up with thoughts about only these two, but I don't think we can actually talk, narratively, about their dynamic without someone else: Robyn. She's a soulmate and foil in this, too.

I. Color Theory

First point is how RWBY uses complementary eye colors to imply connections between characters, whether that's romantic, foils, or simply something of an influence on each other, or all of the above.

It's been difficult to dig up straightforward tertiary charts. We're going for the red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet combo here, for Qrow, Clover, and Robyn, respectively.

[Interestingly enough, if we turn that into a quad, it creates a cross with complementary paired points of red/green and blue violet/yellow orange - otherwise known as Marigold. Giving us Good and Bad Fortune with Robin and Maid Marian or Briar. AND overall red/green, yellow/purple literary dynamic which is also seen heavily throughout the show. The tiniest tweak of rotation would also start leaning into a Schnee blue rather than violet... but these are different metas that I don't have fully formed yet.]

II. Symbolism

Anyway, back to the trio. A trio of soulmates in the sense that, if you want to believe in at least a portion of fate, met at the right time and right place to allow for some very important development with each other. Some lessons learned. Maybe to even turn to romance in places, were any of them so inclined.

Qrow is a big honking mesh of symbolism for: darkness, death, messenger of bad luck.

Robins are symbols of: dawn, rebirth, messenger of good luck.

Clovers are symbols of: faith, hope, love, and good luck.

Hmm. The foils look a little different in hindsight, huh? We can already see a tangible overlap of foiling and partnership, but also a disconnect. One pair of wow-that-fits, and a not-quite.

So, yes. They're soulmates. By design.

But they're star-crossed.

III. Foils

Qrow is not having gay panic upon meeting Clover. He's having a dawning realization that he is looking at a reverse-reflection of himself. Happy-go-lucky. Able to trust his surroundings. A leader with a place to be in his cohesive group. Looked up to, relied on.

All the things he always wanted, but could never be*.

And then he's pissed.

But he rolls with it. He starts to see it as an opportunity to be near someone who might have some immunity from his own semblance, just like Ironwood probably set this up to be (covering assets and liabilities, and all). But this is not the answer. It was never the answer. Qrow needs to learn not to blame his semblance or rely on external crutches to try and 'cure' it.

Clover learns nothing from this. He continues to be his usual self. That is a good person. He allows Qrow that opportunity to feel safe with him, encourages him to be better, explore this new sober-self. But Clover also looks at Qrow and sees everything he doesn't like about or wouldn't for himself. Cynical. Jaded. Separated from his companions. Moaning over his semblance. He offers his charisma and optimism in the hopes it might bleed over. That is also not the answer. Clover is trying to 'cure' Qrow.

This foil aspect which often sets up good conflict to turn into romantic or sexual tension that both characters benefit from is where the term "opposites attract" comes from, I think. But I also separate this into two different types of opposites: complementary and contradictory.

Complementary works. There is balance. There is a complementary strength in one character for a weakness in another. Extroverts and Introverts. Brawny and Brainy. Sun and Moon. Red and Green. "I don't like cooking and you don't like dishes, so you do one and I'll do the other and together we are happier and more easily whole."

There can still be conflict here. Stubborn and Patient. Hotheaded and Chill. Oblivious and Aware. But this is Robyn and Qrow. In both directions at different times, which is *chef kiss* even better. "I'm pulling my crossbow on Clover" and "Calm down, let's talk to Ironwood first" vs "I'm killing Ironwood" and "You don't really mean that."

Complementary is push/pull in a way that reinforces who the other character really is, and gives them the freedom to be that, even if the conflict is a tough love reminder sometimes.

A symbol for bad luck and a symbol for good luck which can come to an understanding over how their semblances can make it hard on other people, but don't define them as a person. Qrow accepting his role as a Harbinger of destruction when and where it's deserved, and Robyn accepting her role as a truth-bringer, light-shiner, even when it's hard, even when people don't like to hear it. In the theme of Vol 7, as Winter puts it, they can work on making these things their own.

Contradictory does not work. It can present with similar strengths and weaknesses, but there is mutual exclusivity woven in. There is intolerance. There is a needing of one person needing to change to validate the other's worldview. There is a mismatch of personal values and unwillingness to bend. Optimism and Pessimism (when one cannot accept and learn from the other to compromise). Lawful and Chaotic. Stoic and Communicative. Generative and Stagnant. "We should paint this wall Red." "I think we should paint it green." "We should go to the mountains." "I think we should go to the beach."

...

"We should try and save everybody." "We should give a few a better shot at actually being saved."

...

("If you were one of my men I would have you shot." "If I were one of your men I'd shoot myself.")

This is not (healthy) romantic tension, this is unresolvable conflict. This is Qrow vs Ironwood. This is, ultimately, Qrow and Robyn vs Clover. This is probably some other over-arching dynamics with others, too, but I'm trying to stay focused here.

*Qrow is 100% actually looked up to and relied on, he just doesn't realize it. And when Clover gives him credit, he has his second panic of oh, i guess you're right, sometimes i can reach my own goals, but no one's ever been nice enough to say so (or i wasn't ready to hear it).

IV. The Narrative

WE WANTED IT TO BE DIFFERENT. We were rooting for Qrow and Clover!!! We wanted it to be complementary so bad!!!! We wanted them to learn. That's why 7.12 hurt so very, very much.

Qrow and Robyn, death and rebirth, were side by side, right there, begging Clover to change; to come into his role of faith, hope, love, and good luck for his team, for his home, to make them his own with his own decisions.

But no, he gave all of those things, all of himself, up to Ironwood's command. And it was the final confirmation of contradictory, and we realized it was always going to be, and had been the whole way. He was always going to choose Ironwood. And it re-writes every interaction. It feels less like he was befriending Qrow, and more like he was trying to change him. It feels less like he was Qrow's partner, and more like Ironwood sent him to keep Qrow under control.

Clover and Qrow are not sharing secret glances with each other after Ironwood gives orders, Clover is checking to make sure Qrow's reactions suggest he's going to fall in line with them.

We wanted more of this:

But the intro handed us the real outcome on a platter:

V. Conclusion

The Fall of Atlas is a Shakespearian Tragedy, in which, by definition: a noble has a tragic flaw or commits a grave error (hamartia) which leads to their reversal of fortune.

The highlighted theme of the volume is Trust Love.

We wanted James Ironwood to change, too. He had the potential and opportunity, too. But his character was doomed by the tragic flaws of a Hero/Martyr complex (literally his theme song) and a Sunken Cost Fallacy (literally his semblance), and Salem changing her plans to send Tyrian and Watts to Atlas before Vacuo to ensure these things would get the better of him - that he would chose fear over love.

Clover is the subplot fallout of this. In which he makes the (literally) grave error of choosing loyalty over love (literally, a piece of himself).

Ergo... red/green/purple character trio star-crossed by a narrative reversal of fates, because Clover didn't learn the lesson of choosing himself and his soulmates' love.

Small wonder Qrow and Robyn then cross paths with Winter and Marrow, who have made that transformation, instead.

[blackyote]

#THIS SCEEEEENNNNEEE 😭😭😭😭😭 #the way that luffy couldnt win until usopp was there....until the whole crew was there #the way that luffy couldnt keep his mind fully on the fight cos he was still hurting over his fight with usopp #the self doubt he had cos if one of his crew had abandoned him then was he really a good captain?? was he really strong enough??? #and the way that this self doubt carried into the fight #the way that luffy didnt have his whole fighting spirit cos he didnt have his whole crew by his side #and as soon as usopp shows up (or u know. at least when luffy thinks he first shows up) is when luffy rlly starts to win #cos even if they had their big fight and supposedly werent friends anymore and even though usopps a so called coward (hes so not) #usopp still showed up to fight for his crew to fight for his friends #and thats what gives luffy the motivation the strength the courage to give his all to the fight #to know exactly who hes fighting for not just for robin but for ALL his friends #cos if usopp can do it against all odds so can luffy #im sorry i know none of this rlly makes sense im just rambling cos i love these two and this scene so much #i just cannot put into words quite what this scene means so i rattle on like this instead #anyways. ill shut up now just. usopp and luffy friendship supremacy 🙏🙏🙏 (via @strawhat-simp)

Stealing your tags cuz you're 100% correct. I also love how on the train, Usopp tells Robin to have faith in Luffy. Even if they had a falling out, it doesn't affect how he sees Luffy as a captain to his crew. His loyalty in that regard is unwavering.

I crode

[corrodedcoughin]

Hi! It’s me the steddie kid and Corroded Coffin anon! I love argyle as their manager! I also think that one day Erica becomes their lawyer cause I just know she’d kill in entertainment law. As she grows up and matures she gets better at holding her tongue and reigning it in, but can still be all business with the band and shut off friend mode. Max takes a job because she has no idea what she wants to do and always says “this is just temporary as soon as I get a better offer I’m leaving” but she starts training under their tour manager and takes over when he retires. She still tells Eddie that “the finishing touches are almost done on my two weeks” but then she launches into their next tour schedule. Robin is featured on some songs because she can play like the most obscure instruments and Eddie loves incorporating them in his songs. Dustin, mike, and Lucas all help with AV equipment while in college for experience.

Steve, however, has never “officially” worked with the band. He and Eddie discussed it early on and Steve really wanted Eddie to have something for himself, and he knew he wanted to do something with kids. He becomes a guidance counselor and loves getting to help more kids discover who they are and get them out of the existential crisis he faced when he graduated. Corroded Coffin mainly tours in summer whenever possible so Steve can travel around, not because he doesn’t trust Eddie to be faithful but because they’re so codependent and his family is all there so that’s the only place he’d want to be. When they have a baby he brings them too when they’re little before they start having more summer activities. Steve plays the piano around the house all the time when he’s bored and Eddie will hear a melody he comes up with and they write something together so in a way Steve is involved with the band. Also Eddie absolutely dedicates the songs they write together to his baby and love of his life. He also throws in covers of the cheesiest love songs for Steve.

Anon you are back!!! THANK YOU for gracing me with your thoughts 🙏🙏🙏

LOVE the Erika thing because she is an absolute powerhouse and takes no shit. Corroded coffin are out here getting all their riders, rights to all their own songs, copyright claims from others thrown out of court before they even start, and she LOVES it and the whole band and team love her. They know it’s going to be a fun time if Erika shows up to any meetings with execs. Side note but if you’ve ever seen school of rock Erika would be the evolution of summer. There would be no holding her back and eventually people would be trying to poach her from the band and the exact same for Max!

Max actually has a big part to play in making sure none of the band get too wasted or high. She keeps an eye on all of them and knows when enough is enough. She’s firm and they respect her. She’s saved certain band members from going down a slippery slope countless times. They adore her and would be lost without her.

STEVE AND THE BABY WEARING THOSE EAR PROTECTOR HEADPHONES. STEVE GRABBING THE BABYS ARM AND WAVING IT AT EDDIE. Eddie fumbling the next note because he’s too busy smiling :(((( counsellor Steve always wears corroded coffin merch on Fridays as his ‘dress down Friday’ look. The first time students see it they are utterly shocked, Steve explains that he’s just a really big fan. When he appears in a music video for the band made of tour diary footage every single one of his pupils are clamouring to call him out. Steve??? And the guy from the metal band with a bunch of piercings, spikes, crop tops and tattoos??? He tells them they live together but otherwise keeps his cards close to his chest. It’s in these small actions that he can keep Eddie to himself when he has to share him in so many ways. He loves what Eddie does, loves seeing him and his friends, THEIR friends in their element. But sometimes it’s nice to keep some things just for him and Eddie

[faerune]

👪🏆🙏 for diana & ❌🔮⚰️ for grace!

— DIANA What is your muse’s relationship with their parents like? Was it always this way? Answered here!

Is your muse multitalented? What are their hobbies, and why did they pick up these hobbies? If they don’t have hobbies, why don’t they? I'd say she's multitalented! She's one of those people who learns super fast (usually) and catches onto things pretty easy. She learned piano as a child and even though she stopped taking lessons she can make her way through some music/read music at the very least. She also has a few more....ahem skills that served her in highschool. She's super sneaky and prior to managing to copy her dad's skeleton maintenance key she was (and still is) quite a adept lockpick. Diana also knows how to forge things excellently - she debated going into the fake id business for a semester but decided it was too much of a legal risk. And of course science is her absolutely favorite subject. Diana loves astronomy so, so much on top of her obsession with deep astrophysics and stuff. She can find and name all the constellations in the sky, has a telescope that was a gift for her 16th birthday from her parents where she often watches like major events like planets being visible and stuff, and loves reading about the stars and the universe too! Diana also loves reading, comic books, and music!

What does your muse need? This can be something material or something abstract. To get the fuck out of Hawkins and start her life!!! She needs Steve to be done saving up money so the two of them can start their lives in Boston and buy their first place together. She needs alternate dimension baddies to stop being dickheads. She needs to find out more about the Upside Down much to Robin, Nancy, and Steve's exasperation.

— GRACE Is there something your muse struggles with that they might never overcome? What is it? Why do they have so much trouble with it? Oh god, her intense need for approval and people to like her. She hates the idea of someone thinking badly of her especially people she had been raised to hold in high regard (her parents, influential members of Hawkins, people in the church etc). That is just the iceberg of her religious trauma but I think even though it will always be a part of her she'll be able to not let it rule her so much as she becomes a more well-adjusted adult.

What is your muse’s relationship with religion and spirituality? Were they raised in a certain religion? Have they stuck with the same set of spiritual beliefs all their life, or have they changed over time? Are they settled in their spirituality now? This is a constant struggle and conflict for Grace. She was raised in Christianity (I can't decide which denomination yet) and of course her family was a huge part of the church given that her father is the local pastor. It shaped everything in her life from her family to her hobbies to her future goals. It also was the root of a lot of her insecurities. Her mother is a super overtly critical woman and uses a lot of scripture to make sure her children are perfect and godly. But on the other hand, she also found a lot of comfort in it and joy. Especially from her twin Joey. Joey was such a kind, nonjudgemental person and really showed Grace that they didn't have to subscribe to this judgy, evil, racist, homophobic, misogynistic side of Christianity and that those people aren't actually doing any good. There's no hate like Christian love! Joey wasn't the kind to shove his religion down your throat but was welcoming to anyone, anyone who wanted to come to church. Grace has a lot of fond memories of her twin and her at church gatherings, having fun and doing charity. Joey liked to sing in choir and play music.

There's a part of her that will always associate parts of religion with Joey and some parts with her parents and the awful people in Hawkins.

After Joey passes and she reconnects with Eddie, she's doubting her faith around that same time. Terrified of these awful nightmares and confused and grieving. She tries to seek out that comfort she had gotten from her faith before and just can't...find that anymore.

What are your muse’s greatest regrets? What would flash before their eyes when they’re on their deathbed? Oh jeez. Her and Joey had a fight the night he went missing and that will haunt her forever. Joey was more relaxed about their parents' rules, more rebellious. Meanwhile, Grace had been a bit more militant and strict about faith and their parents and rules. She later learns that Joey had more of a life outside of her that she didn't realize and Grace thinks a lot about how he felt he couldn't trust her enough to share that with her.

She also really regrets letting her mother talk her out of being friends with Eddie when they were kids. Grace feels incredible guilt about it now that she struggles to express because there's so much bad blood between them now. Like she didn't go to his mom's funeral when she passed and that was kind of the beginning of their falling out.

[mbaofowensboro]

I am blessed beyond measure 🙏 I never thought I could be married this year will be 20 years. God does for me what I could not do for myself that Christmas season I took a second job he placed me in at K-mart and met one of the most God fearing women I have ever known my mother in law Helen Sue Duncan and she asked me to give her daughter directions I know this girl had a beautiful voice but the next day she came into K-mart and she introduced me to that same beautiful daughter Robin Duncan Britton it was love at first sight! I married her less than 30 days later and the rest is history. I have an amazing wife I put her through some struggles in our life together but because of her and her faith in Jesus Christ our family is blessed 🙌 by God and I am sure in my worst days she prayed alot for me because I didn't want to be a better man.but God wanted me to be and with prayer and fighting back in rebellion some time in jail to think about my actions yet I am still not perfect but I have been growing and breaking the and reshaping the new me in Christ ect.( the old me is almost dead and the new me in Christ is starting to raise up) All because of a praying wife that saw more in me than I did I could never thank her enough for what she has helped our family do with by faith can move mountains. Galatians 2:20 ( I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.") I say this not in my name but in The Christ ( Jesus Christ Of Nazareth) Amen