#she really hates to see him like that

[noxianwilled]

Meta on Katarina telling Talon he is now what she used to be, and how she feels about his current mindset and how it compares to her own in the past.

send me a topic to write a meta about my muse on

— @visionoxus

her entire life, since a very young age, katarina was raised to be "the ultimate weapon". from childhood, she was taught the path of the blade and all it entails, but from birth she was raised above others by virtue of her blood. no one doubted she was going to succeed her father when the time came — not even katarina herself.

but, much more than a birthright, it was what she dedicated herself entirely to be. she knew what she was capable of. she grew desperate to prove herself (and though i don't think her bio is wrong to say she longed to do her part for noxus — she certainly did, she was always greatly devoted to her nation — part of it was to prove herself to her father). i don't think she was ever in a position to doubt she was his heir, but that doesn't mean marcus ever demonstrated that. and she wanted his recognition. she wanted him to be proud.

all things considered, i think it's just a very natural desire from someone who grew up in a household where, despite her dedication to being the perfect weapon she was being raised to be, it doesn't seem to me like it was ever acknowledged as more than her duty. she didn't have a childhood, i doubt she had good friends, and she didn't get much (if any) affection from her parents either. the childish yearning for affection grew to be a simple desire to be perceived. she wanted to be acknowledged. she wanted her father to be proud. i think, in part, she thought if she could just prove herself in the field, show the results she was capable to achieve, do something that'd leave him undoubtedly pleased, marcus would finally show he was proud. that if she could impress him she'd finally have his affection.

after her failure, her resentment and heartbreak are entirely directed at her father — she accepts the punishment for her failure because she recognized she failed. not him, but what she should really be fighting for, which was noxus. she failed because she wanted his recognition. but i think she's only capable of realizing that because she understands how much of her motivation was for her father, for the affection and pride she wanted to receive, when he sentences her to death for shaming their house (and she had the painful realization even if she had succeeded instead of failing because of her arrogance and eagerness to prove herself, things wouldn't have been as wonderful as she had hoped they'd be).

in the comic, when they fight and she slashes talon's face, he questions for how long she wanted to do that, and she replies he was a kid following orders, that she didn't want any of that (she really never blamed either him or cass for however badly things got between her and her parents; not even when talon was the one used to try to punish her for her failure — in many ways, it made her even more resentful towards marcus).

but to finally get to the point, when he asks what about now and she says he's who she used to be. personally, i have my issues with the comic and with how talon is portrayed, but looking at what is there.

she says "now, you're who i used to be. trying to make him the father we thought he was by being the child he said he wanted. but we were just a pair of blades in his collection." and i honestly think from her point of view it is what that looks like. talon wants to be his heir. he wants to prove himself by taking his place as heir (although, to me, it does seem like he gave up on fighting or trying to kill her and i think that'd demand more than to have his face cut but anyway! i'm not here to analyze talon aushuash). he's eager to prove himself, like she was. he wants to make marcus proud, like she wanted.

the way she sees it, talon is blinded by his loyalty to their father the same way she was. because, before her failure, serving noxus and serving marcus all blended as one thing to her. she trusted him more than anyone. she was more loyal to him than to anything else. and from her perspective, that's exactly where talon stands, as she says with the "you think you're being loyal to him and noxus, but that's because you trust him. and i'm done with that."

marcus was her greatest disappointment (when she failed her first mission as well as with the events of the comic, when he shows he didn't place noxus first after all). it was her first and most terrible heartbreak. and honestly i think her heart would ache to see talon as she was before, because she genuinely cares for her siblings, and she was definitely closer to tal. katarina loves her brother, and it pains her to see him like that, because from her perspective, she's seen the truth — marcus was never a good father, he'd never give them the recognition they desired, they were just tools to be used and disposed of as he saw fit, and maybe talon had it better than her being his favorite and all, but in the end marcus was not above using talon as a tool to punish her all those years ago.

to her, he didn't care for them as his children the way he should, and she's sad that talon still can't see it, that he's still trying to be what marcus wants him to be rather than finding his own path and following his own ideas. she doesn't resent him for it — she's been there, after all. she knows what it's like, and how blinding that can be. i think what she expresses by the end of the scene, when he asks what he deserves and she says "same as me, i hope, tal… to be more than he made us. i hope you realize that someday." encapsulates it really well. she wants him to outgrow that too. she hopes talon will leave that mindset behind, like she did. she learned to see her own worth, to make her own path, to follow her own rules, and she feels talon is just as capable to do it, he only needs to open his eyes to how things really are.

it's heartbreaking to see someone she loves in the same position she was in during what she sees as her worse, what led her to her greatest failure, what made her purpose most misguided. talon and katarina clashed (seriously, in combat that left permanent scars, in fights that were meant to end with one of them dead), but she loves him, she knows he's capable of more than that, and she sincerely hopes he'll see it like she eventually saw it (even if, after the events of the comic and knowing he went to soreana and cassiopeia in shurima, she doesn't feel very optimistic that he will).

[lotus-pear]

i love you royal trio (minus akechi)

[batcavescolony]

Ok let's go back to this line from Agatha All Along

"it's underwater! There's a boy. It's a prank. They tricked him. He's gonna drown. it's a bad place. And the people, the family, there's no one to love him! He's got no one!"

Guys we're getting some Tommy lore and it's heart breaking💔 (we knew it would be).

[noperopesaredope]

Me: Ooooo, I wonder what this "Mouthwashing" thing is that everyone's been obsessed with lately. I should check some of it out.

Me, 30 minutes later: I would kill myself for you, Anya.

[blackbatcass]

listen I know it’s kind of corny and inaccurate to act like every single person in the dc universe knows each other and is besties but it IS endlessly funny to me to follow the web of connections and see how many degrees removed from each other everyone is.

like look at the arrowfam okay. ollie and dinah are together, ollie is homoerotic best friends with hal, dinah is homoerotic best friends with babs. roy is dating dick, has a kid with jade, and is basically an adoptive father to both grant emerson and rose wilson. connor is dating kyle and is constantly followed around by eddie fyers. mia is friends with a lot of the second gen teen titans kids, had an on-again-off-again thing going on with steph for a while, and is currently dating sienna. emiko is besties with courtney and some of the other recent teen titans. sin has a small army of protective aunts from the birds of prey. the real question is how far does it go before ollie puts a cap on the number of people who are invited to family brunch on sundays

[raticalshoez]

i'm having hyperfixation drought so i did what i did best and created a crossover episode

[noxcheshire]

Might be blasphemy within the Danny Phantom fandom but I just cannot see Danny x Sam being an actual ship regardless of it being canon in the actual show and now book.

Even as a kid I thought it was weird and couldn’t figure out why that bothered me, and I think now it’s because I never saw any indication of Sam or Danny ever being actually romantically attracted with each other. To be fair I saw that show when I was little, and maybe I’ll see those romantic moments that the show was building to if I can find actual length videos of the episodes.

But at this moment, I can’t recall ever having seen it.

And it baffles me, because I kinda don’t feel like Sam really loved Danny, even as a friend. And I think that really showed in the episode with her wish that changed the structure of time and space so that Danny never died and she was never friends with Danny and Tucker.

If she loved Danny, regardless if it was as a potential lover or friend, she would never have allowed him to die. Not once, but twice.

The first, okay, it was an accident. Kids do dumb things all the time, the more potentially dangerous it is the better — but the second time? The second time was deliberate.

She put him into that suit, without explanation, and without assurance. Nothing but a change of his hero signature.

She didn’t hesitate to let him die again, instead of asking herself if she could stomach watching him go through that again.

What person who loved you could do that to you? Could stand to see you go through that pain?

I feel a good example of love as well, especially in the show, is Jazz. She loves Danny, as a sibling, as a friend, and with all that love she would choose to walk herself into that portal then to let Danny do it instead.

She shows that deep love for Danny to the audience by choosing to protect him from their parents so they would never know he is the ghost boy that they want to rip apart molecule by molecule because she doesn’t want to take the chance of loosing him twice.

Jazz wanted to do that.

So why couldn’t Sam?

[quietwingsinthesky]

i really do think the desire to paint ten as unambiguously The Worst™️ when it comes to his relationship with martha is out of this desire to uncomplicate their relationship. to decouple them as friends and people who profoundly impacted each other’s lives. it’s just an easier narrative to swallow: that ten was Awful to her and then martha kicked him to the curb when she realized she was too good for him. easier, maybe, then dealing with the troubles of unrequited affection don’t have to be anyone’s fault, or that ten shut martha out in a lot of ways but let her in in others that he wouldn’t let any other companion near, or that they were still friends, they still wanted to see each other and be around each other, even though it was messy and sometimes hurt. you know?

[possiblyawesometmblr]

there's one concept that i think about all the time that we briefly talked about but never did because it never made sense for fable to just up and say it: the concept that fable fucking hates ari.

and not because of who she is as a person or anything (but granted i think it's pretty clear he's not a fan of her in general) but rather that he hates what her existence means.

cause think about it. you're a major god who spent ages creating and building up mortals to be who they are now, and you want to keep them forever because you worked so hard on them, but you're not allowed. your brother takes them. and you're told that's just the way it is. tough shit.

but then. some minor god makes a baby? completely on accident??but oh, yeah, SHE gets to keep it forever. that's a given. your brother is totally cool with this.

let's be real: that'd probably make your blood boil a little bit

[dykedvonte]

I was rewatching mouthwashing, and I ended up thinking of the different reactions that Curly and Jimmy had in doing their tasks. How during the scene of Anya evaluating Jimmy and showing dread towards the idea of doing his evaluation, Curly was the one that offered to take it off her hands. He had no issue with adding more to his plate, because he knew - or well, thought, he knew that Jimmy wasn't going to "bullshit" with him since he's known him for a long time. When Anya hands Curly a note from Swansea, Curly goes to check out what the issue is and he takes care of it without a complaint, the only "complaint" he has is how this incident could have damaged the pods. Which is reasonable, those pods are their only way to be saved if anything tragic happens on the ship. However, in comparison to Jimmy being asked to do things, he's passive-aggressive about it. When Anya asks Jimmy if he could help her out with Curly's painkillers, he tells her that people should be worth their titles, specifically using her title as a nurse when she asked him for help and then when she says forget it, since he made her feel insecure, he still goes "Oh no, I'LL take care of it" as if he was doing a chore, a favor for her. Then, there's that part where he blows up at her for things that she didn't even ask him to do - more so the others asked him about it, like the code scanner, him deciding he needed to find the axe for the foam, and then, there's the medicine part (which when she does ask, and she reconsiders - going to do it herself, he takes that away from her). Jimmy complains about the tasks he has to do and he treats it like a big issue, a "woes me" that he has to do this and that - wanting the praise of the capital without actually doing any work. While Curly doesn't complain about it, in fact, he even mentions that he's aware of how well he is doing at his job as a Captain during that cockpit scene with him and Jimmy. If Jimmy only had to do a small amount of tasks to get irritated and annoyed at being captain, while Curly didn't which I feel like encapsulates their personalities. Curly understands what he's doing is a job, it's a responsibility, why would he complain at any point for doing what he's suppose too? Why would he be upset at people asking him to do tasks? While Jimmy on the other hand, isn't used to it at all and it's different to what he's had before and he's realizing that he doesn't actually like doing the work he has too. I just wanted to ramble about it even if it seemed kind of obvious xd

It’s obvious but it is a thing people miss or understate when trying to find parallels in Curly’s and Jimmy’s relationship/personalities.

Like the way people portray it as neither taking responsibility when it is almost split down the middle of Curly taking responsibilities and faults that shouldn’t be his and making himself unequipped to handle the ones that are while Jimmy refuses to handle the responsibilities he has because he wasn’t expecting the work that comes with them.

Not a lot to say but people forget that another thing the game comments on is prioritization of issues and responsibilities and how the guys fail at it in one way or another in the situation.

[drbtinglecannon]

The way I feel about Shuro's crush on Falin is probably the same way fujoshis feels when a girl gets in the way of their yaoi ship

Like hey excuse me sir Falin and Marcille are trying to be lesbians here can you fucking leave

[butwhatifidothis]

I guess the ultimate thing that kills CF for me - or at least nudges it away from me saying I definitively like it - is just how much Edelgard is clearly written with the player in mind before she's written with her character in mind.

Because on all of the other routes, there's a power to Edelgard's presence. Even on BE, there's a sense that for as lonely as Edelgard might be, she still ultimately will do whatever it takes for her to get what she wants. Be that be killing her citizens (or otherwise letting them be killed), endangering her friends, assisting in kidnapping people, allowing Byleth to support her only when they have the Sword of the Creator, covering for TWS - no bar is too low for her to limbo under if doing so means she's even a step closer to her goals.

She's manipulative! She's deceitful! She doesn't care for the lives of her people! Even her friends are forfeit if they try to stand in her way! And this happens no matter how close you, the player, get to her, in the case of BE - C+ ain't stoppin' Remire, and going to the coronation ain't stopping the Holy Tomb.

And in the war phase, she is dominating the field. She has the Kingdom completely on the ropes, down to a few houses standing against Imperial rule, and the Alliance is stuck in neutrality - she may not be able to do much to it, but neither can they do anything to her (to say nothing of the Alliance houses who stand with her). She's far from the underdog in this race, and she shows off how threatening she can be.

CF? Her route?

She scweams at scawy rats. She gets embawwassed when you find her dwawings. She's just so wonewy, and she's just so gwad that you chose her. She somehow fails to capture Rhea, or frame Dimitri for regicide, and so now has to deal with that on the Kingdom's side of the war. But that doesn't stop Elly Welly-kins fwom twying to find her pwecious teacher, because you're just so important to her. She cwies and hugs you when you meet her in the Goddess Tower!! Because she missed you so much!!

It's like... Dimitri and Claude certainly show different sides of themselves on their respective routes. It's the whole point! You grow closer to them and thus see how they treat those close to them, as opposed to being the Kinda Neat Teacher they see run along every now and then. But, like... Claude doesn't become a blushing maiden whenever Byleth speaks with him on VW. Dimitri doesn't scream at scary rats and get called cute for it on AM. They don't get Basic Bitch Gap Moe Traits slapped onto them that are only ever shown to the player and only on their routes. Unlike Edelgard.

Dimitri's endearing trait is that he's this big huge dude who can bench-press forests and arm-wrestle god who still wants to learn to sew and who teaches kids to protect themselves and who buys candies for his friends. Claude's endearing trait is that he's this mastermind planner who has contingency and lie and obfuscation as three separate legal government names who still wants everyone to be safe and happy and hold hands and be friends.

Edelgard is strong, confident, and willing to do some of the shittiest things known to man for her goals. Her endearing trait is that her screams are cute. She's shy about her drawings of the player character. She blushes over the player potentially joking about having sex with her per her JPN version of her C support; you know, the one about how Byleth walks in on Edelgard muttering in her sleep from a nightmare about her tortured family? Perfect time to joke about fucking her! Dimitri and Claude's endearments are, well, endearing; Edelgard's are all straight up embarrassing for her.

Hell, even the smaller stuff is affected! Claude's passion for poisons and mushrooms are things he has no qualms about having others know about, despite how weird they are. Dimitri laughing at shitty jokes brings him no personal discomfort or embarrassment, despite just how loudly he laughs at them. They have traits to them that can easily be uwu worthy, and they don't care! Of the lords, only Edelgard does! Because, it feels like, the only way for a strong, resolute female character to come off as approachable is if she's knocked down a few pegs for specifically and only you, the player.

And that sucks ass! I'm sorry, but when I'm playing Edelgard's route I don't want to deal with her hiding herself away in her room for a month IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FUCKING WAR because she's just so embawwassed! It is so fucking insensitive that Edelgard is literally the only lord of the three who can have her trauma openly belittled at any point in the story by Byleth, all to have some cheap cutesy uwu moment about her fear of rats (calling her screaming in fear cute and INSISTING that it's really cute which is just. Fucking ew man)! Why can we fucking mock Edelgard's manner of speech during the MASSACRE OF REMIRE?

This shit doesn't happen to Claude or Dimitri! And saying "oh just don't pick those options then" is bullshit because no equivalent options exist for the male lords! It's piss-boilingly annoying that the second you choose to see things from the strong confident villainous ambitious female lord's perspective you can reduce her down to this bumbling moeblob just for you (sometimes unavoidably!) like!! Dude!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[happyk44]

Jason who immediately loses respect for people who don't own up to their mistakes vs Annabeth who would rather die than admit she made a mistake

[coquelicoq]

little seiji must have thought shinobu hung the moon. based on the way he talks about her now, and the way he seems to have modeled kuromisa's appearance after her...like he needed to create an air of mystique that people would be drawn to and he immediately went well just dress up like nee-san. he worshipped her in that special younger sibling way. how did her resentment of him shape the person he's become? what did her leaving the clan do to him?

[mari-thesapphic-lady]

Humans — The one thing that most affects primordial entities.

(This is basically a dialogue that must have happened around Salem times, when Rio had met Agatha and started talking.)

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Infinity: He cannot go on like this, and you know it. Not even your sister causes as much chaos as that idiot son of yours!

Eternity: He knows what he did wrong, my sister.

Infinity: Oh really?! Just as he knew with the last time?!

Eternity: It was not that bad-

Infinity: Sister.

Death: Fine. I hate to disagree with you, brother, but, it was that bad.

Infinity: See my side once for all! Entropy needs to stop! Before long, that stupid will destroy everything he touches!

Death: I hate to say it, but, she is right. I adore that boy but-

Infinity: Ha! "Hate", "boy", "adore". See?! You developed these human emotions and and lost your sense!

Death: And here I was, defending her.

Eternity: Sister-

Infinity: He is too volatile! And that is your fault! You let him get attached to that woman, and with that, he developed this, this, human performance!

Eternity: That woman was his mother, and he is my son-

Infinity: She was not his mother, he does not have a mother! He was not carried in a womb nor grew up as a human!

Death: Sister, I think you are being too harsh-

Infinity: What? Is that witch making you soft too?

Death: Keep Agatha's name out of this.

Infinity: I truly do not understand what you two, in your right mind, saw in these mortals!

Death: Some things you have to see for yourself to understand, hermana.

Infinity: I refuse to lower myself like that, hermanita.

Death: Heh, maybe one day you understand.

Infinity: Ugh. Listen to me, brother. It is enough that you and our sister are stupidly affected by humans. We don't need one more. Stop treating your son like he is a, a human, a child, cause he is not. Stop making him weak.