#so he's kinda protective over her & he'd die for her. But she won't allow that so they compromise by having him deal with her troubles

[deiiamorte]

Can't stop thinking about Rookanis + Bellara's friendship, like, Bellara found a ride or die little brother in Mirghilanan; an assassin who will happily stab people for free for her.

However by doing this, she unwittingly also got a second scary brother-in-law in the shape of the First Talon Lucanis.

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Watching a series about how cult leaders are made and again I'm in awe of how Tomura had everything laid down for him to become one.

He kinda was during the Paranormal Liberation Front bit, but he really didn't care about them 😭

It's impressive how many times he chose to be honest with the members of the League. He was not trying to manipulate them, he was not trying to mastermind anything ill intended with them??? He never tried to use AFO's name to give himself more importance, which is wild. You're the heir of the king of the underworld, but you use it as an excuse for others to bow down to him. Sure, you call yourself the king, but that's because you will do it by "your own merits"???

There's even a moment in MVA when Compress is soooooo worried over Tomura's wellbeing that he uses Tomura's identities as leverage to force Doc Garaki to help them!!! Crazy crazy, Mr. Compress goes "HE CAN'T DIE HE'S AFO'S SPECIAL BOY RIGHT? YOU MUST HELP HIM". It's so clear that Mr. Compress didn't care about the AFO bit, but he knew Garaki cared and Compress would do anything to keep Tomura protected.

I'm just saying!!

He could have taken advantage of them, but the most Tomura did was break them free and told them to cause havoc. He never encouraged them to not be friends, to distrust each other or to only pay attention to him. He never encouraged them to compete to be closer to him. There weren't any ranks beside him as the boss and even then he'd go beside them to war, he'd fight next to them, he would listen to their complaints and change what he could to accommodate their demands.

Right from the start, Tomura never saw them as his slaves (like AFO) or soldiers (like Redestro). He did call them pawns in a game once at the start. The difference with Overhaul is that Tomura saw himself also as a pawn and he saw the League as important characters. That's his team. He won't plan for them to die or sacrifice themselves. He plans for them to succeed! He plans on making their dreams come true, not just his. He won't put his own goals over theirs, he won't destroy what they like, he won't cut down their freedom.

Tomura explicitly opposed the cult-like systems of bnha. He called Redestro a coward for letting his people fight for him while he watched from afar. Tomura challenged Overhaul over the importance of their "subordinates", making clear that he didn't consider the League of Villains disposable or even replaceable. While AFO took over his body he would only talk about himself over and over, but whenever Tomura broke through and as soon as he was back in control, he talked about his friends and the League. Even through the possession and the fighting and the pain, they were in his mind.

He was thinking of them.

Tomura was a brat. He would throw tantrums and call himself the king and give orders and arrange plans without them. The difference is that Tomura never tried to step over the League of Villains. He didn't care if Spinner had a weak quirk, he was a valuable member as the rest. He didn't punish Twice for bringing Overhaul to them, instead gave him a chance to make it up because he knew that Twice was feeling bad about it. Tomura allowed Dabi to come and go as he pleased, trusting him even if Dabi never had a good recruited lol. He'd call Toga a brat, but he'd defend her too and he'd answer to her whenever she questioned him. He spared an entire cult system for Compress and his sushi. He terrorized Overhaul to avenge Magne.

Tomura never snapped at any of them beyond their introductions. Even when they'd sometimes threaten him physically. Even then.

He had everything to be a crazy cult leader who promised the ending of times, a free world and whatever. He talked a lot of bullshit, said a lot of true things, but he was human about it, sincere.

He never lied to the heroes either, did he? Never said something he didn't believe in. Never hide his hatred or resentment. Tomura never pretended to be someone he was not, unlike AFO.

I think about all of this when people ask if Tomura can be saved. I think about how his circumstances were the worst imaginable, about the weight of the grooming, abuse and the brainwashing he had to survive. I think of 21 consecutive years of hell on Earth, but somehow he isn't as cruel as others. He can be, he showed us as much. He has done terrible things just because he wanted, not 'cause he was told to or manipulated into doing it. If he wanted, he could be as cruel as AFO.

And yet.

And yet.

[so-long-soldier28]

I won't try to annoy you anymore (no promises lmao) but thoughts on a royalty au where Kai is a king?

I TOTALLY MADE NOTES ON THIS AND FORGOT TO ANSWER I'M SO SORRY GJFSNFKSL Okay, but I promise, you don't annoy me AT ALL, I'm just slow! Especially on workdays; I get nothing done on those days. But yes, Kai is a king, I have some notes.

ookay, kai as a king would be a cocky lil bastard.

his ego would be way up, and he probably wouldn't be the fairest.

for a long time, he was the prince, and waited (rather impatiently) for his dad to die so he could take over.

parents were really serious about how their kingdom was ruled & they wanted to keep things that way. both were cold & emotionally distant, and his father was even more so after his mother's demise.

when kai becomes king, he doesn't change much at first, but makes a few changes just to piss the man off. over time though, especially after his dad's death, he changes things more to fit his liking.

kai would definitely have a servant, & would probably be pretty cruel to them at first, but with time, learns to enjoy their help & company.

maybe it's a mutual thing, where the servant kinda hates him, too.

but with so much time spent alone with him, he starts to see a more human side (kai starts to reveal a more human side) and they become frenemies / friends (like a merthur [merlin bbc] situation kinda, but with more hate at first).

since kai's childhood was filled with so much coldness and not much warmth, he doesn't really understand how to treat people well. on top of that, monarchies and leaderships, historically, prove that people with too much power tend to abuse that power.

it takes him a long time to learn to treat his servant as a person, not as a thing or a tool. however, when they do finally get on good terms, and even become friends, he allows the servant to better him in many ways, like in his treatment of others.

around the castle, he'd be a huge flirt.

he was a huge flirt as the prince, but it only worsens when he becomes king. the same girls he'd tease as prince, he'd tease as king, but now with even more of an attitude.

he also flirts with new girls around the castle.

others (elders, dad's servants / friends, etc.) & elder women / women he's not flirting with constantly tell him to grow up, but he has plenty of back talk prepared for every person who tells him such.

girls, however, are one big subject his servant makes a point to address. where the elders fail, he thrives, being the only person kai actually listens to. over time, he comes to objectify them less and put more focus into acquainting himself with them.

partly to find a wife, as he's supposed to do.

definitely has a temper

tends to start wars over menial things, but will hesitate going to battle over something big.

priorities aren't exactly in place.

things that are important to him aren't always the greater battle, and he has a hard time realizing what battles are expected of him to fight.

doesn't like to be told what to do. doesn't like advice, and especially doesn't like guidance from people that remind him of his father / worked alongside his father.

will more likely take the opinion of his Favorite Girl into consideration faster than he will of any of the men.

ends up marrying said Favorite Girl in a couple years & she falls pregnant rather quickly.

uncertain about children, but knows he needs an heir and his wife is really excited, so he starts to feed off that.

when the baby is born, he's suddenly, extremely protective of it.

it's a boy, like he's supposed to produce as his first heir.

elders then tell him he doesn't need any more kids because he produced an heir. (they're worried about his initial disdain for kids, plus they preferred his father's leadership much more over kai's, and don't believe the kingdom / castle needs any more mini-kais).

but he and his wife go on to have four more, all girls. neither planned for a big family, but he can't stay off her 🫣 and she loves having kids.

these are all my notes on this for now! at first i wasn't sure i'd have a lot, but the more i wrote, the more i came to love the idea. definitely need to add king AUs to my prompts list!

also, i switched back and forth between past and present tense while making my notes. (i have no idea why, or how.) but i hope i caught them all, if not, i'm sorry!

[blair-the-juggalho]

What it would be like doing chores with TWDG Ericsson kids

The characters in this are Violet, Mitch, Louis, Marlon, Tenn, Willy, Assim, Omar, Ruby, and Brody <3

Super sorry that theses are short im still breaking into this writing thing <3

Violet

she's honestly so chill like she'll probably just be silently chilling or make sarcastic comments every once in a while

as long as your compiten and can actually do your job she won't be bitchy with you

she's a good person to work with especially if you bump into Walker because shes one of if not the best fighters in Ericsson

Mitch

again rather chill however if your still new he'd keep a close eye on you and might say some mean shit if you fuck up even just a bit

if he's gotten use to you, the two of you just kinda chill and talk rubbish

like bragging about how amazing you both are at killing walkers n that

he'd also go out of his way to protect and look after you when you two get super close

I also feel like if you were close with Willy too he'd be with you guys 100% of the time

Louis

he slacks off like all the time and tries to get you to do the same

Walker piñata time duh!

defo the most easy going here

if you chose to not slack off and you want to do your job you'd have to convince him to work

if you somehow managed to do that he'd still sulk and whine about it lmao

Marlon

since he's the leader he doesn't really have to work that hard but I'm pretty sure he still does just to keep the group going

definitely bossy and a major control freak

he might go easy on you though especially if your new

he'll probably take this time to get to know you a bit better

Tenn

(Cant find any good gifs for the little dude 😪)

if your new he'd still be a bit shy

he just enjoys to quietly get in with his job so he can get back to drawing or playing with his figures

if you started the conversation though he'd totally talk with you !

he might get a bit sad and thinking about his sisters and that so if you chose to stop the work to comfort him he'd be very grateful!

Willy

(Same with this dude 😵)

since he's so hyper, he's climbing trees and asking really weird questions like all the time

you'd probably have to ask him to calm down a bit just so you can finish your job

if you somehow manage to match this kids energy it's gonna be pure chaos though he'd probably think your awesome for it

mitch would probably walk in on you's to tell you to hurry the fuck up and your both just aggressively chanting to a caterpillar or some shit

Aasim

We've seen this man in game ok? We'll all know he just wants to do his job and do it well so everyone doesn't die of starvation or some shit

my guy constantly lectures you if your messing around and always bums you out with things like "if we don't do this we'll all starve."

that's literally all bro like he just wants to make sure everyone is going to fed

I mean maybe after you get all the food you could find and you've done all the hunting and stuff that's when he lightens up a bit and when I say lighten up I mean you can actually have a conversation with this man

Omar

(No gifs for my man omar 🤧)

I mean I'm pretty sure this mans entire job is literally cook all day so I'm guess you'll just be helping him out

or at least you'll try to help him out and he'll be like

"No,no,no! Your doing it wrong. Ah- here just let me to it, you go sit over there."

it's a bit stressful especially if you're good at cooking but you get use to it

once you've earned his trust and he allows you to help him (which shocks everyone in Ericsson) he eventually allows you to do more and more and he may even listen to your ideas and try them out

Ruby

Real easygoing!

as long as your not a total asshole she's very chill about chores

she'd constantly try to lighten the mood with jokes and such

she's just a really fun person to do chores with as long as nothing stressful is happening and she's not in a bad mood

then I recom keeping out of her way

Brody

(No gifs for my girl either 😪)

chill unless she's nervous or stressed obvi

she's constantly making small talk and yibbering on about random shite

when she is stressed your gonna have to try to stop her from having a panic attack which is so hard (I get the pain girl </3)

[iaintyourbro]

The Unknown Journey Continues

Part 1

I know it's been a while... but I've been going down a rabbit hole with @starlight-samurai regarding time loops, Jenova, Minerva, and more fun. So I figured I'd try to put it into one post to get the insanity out of my head. Everything in here is based on things we've found by either going through more obscure Ultimanias, learning more about Dirge of Cerberus and trying to decipher what the hell Jenova is by putting together various sources - including other Square Enix games - and how they handled freakishly similar scenarios.

Did you know there is a companion mobile game for it that was out on the good old flip phones? Did you know there was an online mode in Dirge of Cerberus only available in Japan, but had story elements that were not in the main game?

The sad part is, there's still so much to go through...

(I've also had various discussions with @ourfinalheaven, Manu, who doesn't have Tumblr, so here is her Twitter. and Somebody's Nightmare (here is her Twitter). So I wanted to tag them here, as it's much more fun to discuss these ideas as a group, since it'll only help you build on and strengthen your own ideas.)

Please be aware, there will be Spoilers for FFVII - Almost all Compilation titles, Xenogears, and NieR Automata throughout this.

So let's go on a journey where we explore what actually already exists in the compilation - including the idea of the whispers and timeloops - how Minerva may play into everything, and what exactly Jenova is capable of doing.

I asked Sesi if he'd ever played any of the NieR games, because he'd said something that made me wonder if they were going to take a similar approach. As a very, very quick high level summary: NieR Automata deals with a time loop type of idea. The androids will be rebooted and repeat the same things over and over again. This is broken when 2B is killed by A2 because she becomes infected with a virus. That being said, you have the option after Ending E to either erase all of your data and end the cycle OR you can try again. The Pods have a discussion, and one asks, "But won't they just do the same thing again?" and the other replies with "Maybe. But it could also be different this time."

Here's Sesi's message back to me when I asked him about this (cleaned up a bit since we were having a casual conversation over Discord):

Maybe I could just guess based comparatively on the Dirge storyline, because that was sort of SE's first flirtation with “robots and androids” since they’re all programmed and locked behind like task managers and shit that can shut them down. The story of the online mode for DoC that came out in Japan, we never got to see it, you’re basically an Android OC and you have to get to “the end of the level” and then essentially die, and a new one takes its place. This keeps happening until Weiss is essentially freed from being able to be task managed by the guys who are suppose to be able to control them and I know from tons of years with Square games that they’re verrrrry bad at differentiating their narratives they tend to just keep “ripping themselves off” so is it anything close to that?

Cuz if so I think I kinda know what you’re saying and yeah, I agree, I think with CC bringing in its poetic symbolism and LOVELESS, and DoC bringing back the cyclic nature of the lore, whispers, premonitions and future visions, proto-Materia and the perversion of this next cycle since the planet can no longer cleanse and protect itself and its will is weakening lesser and lesser to the point where it’s fate is “in a true sense of jeopardy This time essentially it’s all tied in together and sort of played as though it's a fated track; a cycle of events and something has hitched it, thus the whispers manifesting and Sephiroth's higher implied control over his destiny. Of course, even all that is just their new red herring game, but it’s definitely a part of the lore they want to play with, in order to go back and reMAKE the OG with the comp inserted from inception. Also gut punch a lot.

Time Loops

I was somewhat surprised to find out that this concept is NOT new to FFVII's universe. It's discussed in Dirge of Cerberus... probably one of the least played and least understood of the compilation. (Trying to sell a third person shooter with terrible controls to a market of mostly people used to turn-based combat wasn't going to go well.)

On top of it, we didn't even get all of it, since online mode was never released outside of Japan, and the Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode was on Amp'd Mobile and Verizon flip phones back in 2006. Were you around for the cell phones in 2006? I had the ones on the list, and how somebody could play a game on those blows my mind.

Square has a tendency to reuse themes from their other titles. Probably one of the most blatant is the similarities between Xenogears and Final Fantasy VII. They were both being developed at the same time and a lot of ideas that didn't make it into FFVII ended up in Xenogears.

NieR

So how does this work? In NieR (both Replicant and Automata), you play the same path multiple times. Each time, it's slightly different depending on what side quests you did your first and second playthrough, but there's also other subtle differences throughout the story. In Automata, you get to play as 2B your first playthrough and 9S for your second. They follow the same path, but you get it from his perspective the second time and it reveals a bit more of what is going on. However, even with some slight differences, the main plot points stay the same and the ending result it also the same.

Then on your third playthrough, you wake up in the Bunker, and you're getting ready to go on a new mission. This time, though, 2B is killed and shit hits the fan. Things get crazy, you play as a new character: A2. In the end, pretty much everyone "dies", but you can choose to "reboot" and try again. You also can say you are done and let them all rest and delete your save data (the game gives you the option for both Automata and Replicant, and with Replicant, it actually leads to a new ending).

The striking thing for me is... There are certain events that will always happen, no matter what.

Fixed Points in Time

It's been years since I've watched Doctor Who, but there was something that stuck with me, and that was the fixed points in time. You can read about all of them here, but here's the basics:

Now, of course Doctor Who goes into this with much more detail and it's a recurring theme. However, as you read through that page, you'll probably find many aspects that have been used in various JRPGs that you've played. And Doctor Who most likely pulled some of the idea from classic Science Fiction novels. Each story puts its own spin on it.

How does this relate to FFVII Remake? Well, when they say that the major plot points will stay the same, it reminds me of this. No matter what, Cloud must fall into the Sector 5 Church, the Sector 7 Plate must be dropped, Aerith and Zack both must die, and Meteor has to be summoned, to name a few. So, with a time loop, those things would still have to take place in order to prevent a complete collapse of reality (at least in how Doctor Who uses it).

Therefore, the Whispers are ensuring that the Will of the Planet is followed.

One of the major themes in FFVII is that of loss. People die and they do not come back. Yes, other FF games do allow this to happen (FFX, FFXIII, FFXV), but VII is not those games. It was written with that idea in mind, that once a person dies, they, just like in real life, are dead and cannot be brought back.

I've previously written that I think they'll make us believe we are able to change fate, but we will eventually be slammed with the reality that we can't. That is because the planet has determined that certain events are fixed points.

Xenogears

Xenogears takes a bit of a different approach to the loop idea. Instead of repeating the same time period over and over, it has the characters reincarnated, and the same outcome happens each time: Elly dies. However, each time it's different. After all, they're in various time periods, in some cases thousands of years apart.

In all of the lives of Fei (who will have a different name in each time period) and Elly (who is always Elly/Elhaym), Elly will end up dying trying to protect Fei and the others. In one life, she is a religious figure at a totally not Catholic church, in another she's the wife of a scientist who was working to create children from nanomachines due to mass infertility issues. But she is ALWAYS with Fei, even if his name changes.

In her Mother Elhaym time, this is when Lacan (Fei) finally snaps. Though he's not fully aware of his past lives, he becomes aware, the anger consumes him, and he becomes Grahf. Fei is then reborn into the time period you play the game in.

There's a lot to unpack with this, so I won't go into it. Grahf wants to destroy God (Deus) because he thinks if he does, then it'll stop the suffering (his suffering).

If you do want to read more about Grahf, you can do so here, but it probably won't make much sense unless you've played Xenogears up to that point... Since it's much later in the game that this is all explained.

Lacan's desire was to stop the cycle of Elly always sacrificing herself for his sake. Though Grahf is not a perfect existence - he's not fully "The Contact", he sacrifices himself in order to let Fei move forward, and hopefully stop the cycle, by destroying the Deus system. (Elly also tries to sacrifice herself here, but Fei goes after her and stops her.)

Now, some people may think I'm saying that Cloud or somebody is going to do this in order to save Aerith or Zack (or his village or mom), but in FFVII if they do the loop method, I don't think Cloud, Tifa, Barret, and the others are aware of it. Most likely, it's only 'Sephiroth' and Aerith who are aware of it.

How this Could Be used for Final Fantasy VII

I'm stressing could because there's so many different possibilities on how they use this (if they are using this), so please, don't take this as fact. This is based on speculation based on what we know.

A time loop is a great way to explain away the differences in the story that we've seen: Biggs being alive, Wedge living for longer than he should have, etc. Since these are not major plot changes, they can simply say that this time it'll be slightly different... but your fixed points (major plot points) will remain the same.

It's a way to pull in some of the more obscure themes from Dirge of Cerberus and also play with the LOVELESS lore.

It could all simply be a big red herring and it's really just a remake of OG, but with the compilation tied together nicely... since it works much better when it's combined and not in 50 different games, books, movies, etc.

I don't think it's a "sequel" per say, not in the way I generally perceive a sequel. It's more of a loop of the same thing. The question is, when is the loop started and what will cause it to end? When will the planet (if it even is the planet) determine that it's good enough to begin moving forward?

JENOVA, Sephiroth, Genesis, and Minerva - Oh My!

Let's be real... Genesis isn't exactly the most popular character in the FFVII Compilation... but what if they make him one of the most important to the story? //Ducks as various fruits and vegetable are thrown in my direction//

I think what Genesis is probably most known for is his love of LOVELESS. He has the entire thing memorized and randomly says lines from it throughout Crisis Core. LOVELESS lore is still something I'm trying to grasp, so I am not going to comment much on it. Once I understand it more, I'll update this.

...And then this happens. The secret ending for Dirge of Cerberus, where Genesis picks up Weiss. Weiss, who has now been introduced along with Nero in FFVII INTERmission and is an optional ridiculously hard boss in the Shinra battle simulator in chapter 17 of the main story. There is some lore associated with the battle sim - so if you don't plan on beating it or you just can't, you can look up the pre-battle and post-battle cut scenes on YouTube. They're very short, but interesting. (I beat this asshole last night - it's a hell of a fight.)

....To Be Continued because apparently Tumblr won't allow more than 10 images per post now.... Next will be more on JENOVA and Sephiroth along with Minerva.

[ma-gic-gay]

Several hours, tears, and hugs later, the assassin leaves the Metro Court for his apartment.

Planning on staying in and unpacking more of his stuff, he walks over to his car before hearing gunshots behind him. Fumbling around him for his gun, he realizes that he doesn't have it on him. Dammit. Where the hell is it? Guns, don't leave the house without them if you're a paid assassin. Then again, he probably forgot it in his haste to go today when he'd been warned that Carly was probably gonna start a fight. At the time, it seemed like the best thing to do. Probably was, considering that by the time he showed up, there was a good chance it was going in that direction of a fist fight. Or at least a few (probably deserved, though he'd never say it) good slaps.

So he's without a gun while there's someone shooting like wild. Probably intended for him by either one of Sonny or Cyrus's guys, he doesn't know which. Sonny definitely wants him dead, but he's not stupid enough to do it here and definitely not now. Cyrus on the other hand made a threat to his life just a few weeks ago, so it's not entirely unrealistic that he'd try it now.

This is pretty much his nightmare, except his family isn't in harm's way. At least there's that. Though, if he dies, there's no one to protect them. Not even his boss with the way his life's currently going.

Trying his best not to get shot, as one does on a random Thursday, he gets in the car quickly, hoping he can manage to not get shot or worse, die. He's got no time to be kept cooped up in a hospital. Or die. Dying takes too much time and effort; he can't expend any energy on it. Currently, all his energy is going towards not getting killed. So death would be counterintuitive.

Why didn't he install bulletproof glass? Dammit, that could save his ass right now. He'd thought it would look slightly suspicious if he went to a garage looking for bulletproof glass, considering everyone's perception of him that was only like 30% true.

Well, he's hoping that today won't be the day he dies.

Sighing and trying to shake these thoughts out of his head, he drives, doing his best to stay very far away from the gunshots. After all, a stray gunshot and he's, well, dead.

Why isn't there a gun in this car? Probably the kids, doesn't want them to accidentally fire it at each other or something else he can only imagine kids do. After all, he can't remember any part of his childhood.

God, he's unprepared to be caught in a situation like this. He's got to fix that and get more prepared.

Distracted, he accidentally takes a wrong turn in the parking garage towards the bullets. Fuck! He can't get shot, we've established this. Hurriedly, he attempts to make a u-turn but doesn't succeed because of a sudden bullet... Somewhere, he's in too much pain to fully figure it out.

Fuck. He's been shot. As he slowly loses consciousness, he calls 911. "911, what is your emergency?"

"I've been shot. I'm in the Metro Court parking garage, near exit G," he says, hoping the operator heard him.

"Alright. Hang on sir, we have an ambulance on the way. It should arrive in a minute. Can you tell me your name, someone we should call?"

"Jason Morgan."

"Mr. Morgan, would you like me to call Ms. McCall for you?" The operator asks, trying to keep him conscious.

"No, that wouldn't do any good for either of us," he tells her, hearing sirens in the distance faintly. "I think the shooter is probably still after me but I didn't get a good look at him."

"You just worry about staying awake, alright?"

"You ever been shot? It kinda hurts," he complains uncharacteristically. The only person who he can think of who wouldn't be surprised by that is Carly and that's because she'd be too busy yelling at him.

"My apologies sir," the operator starts as he groans in pain.

"Just call me Jason, everyone does. Sir is too formal, makes me feel like for some reason I'm a geography teacher," he says, attempting to distract himself from the pain by simply focusing on the sirens which are almost to his location.

"My apologies, Jason. The ambulance is there and should be loading you into it momentarily. Please do your best to remain conscious," she advises, hanging up the line.

When did 911 operators get to start hanging up on people? That's just weird, he thinks, focusing on everything but the pain of, you know, getting shot and the strong urge to close his eyes, even if it's just for a moment. God knows what'll happen then and he honestly isn't ready for any of that seriousness. He's barely ready to get in an ambulance, forget about dying.

Probably speaks to some form of deeper commitment issues, he thinks, trying to psychology himself. He's that desperate for something to think of. Should probably get a hobby, maybe painting. Nah, he doesn't have the patience for that. Fishing, no.

Getting a hobby is hard this far in life, okay?

Lucky for him, the paramedics locate him and get him out of the car and onto a stretcher. The world's blurring around him slightly but he refuses to close his eyes until he's told, "You can close your eyes now, you'll be okay," by a paramedic. He doesn't recognize that one, must be a new hire. Then again, it's been a while since he's been in the back of an ambulance.

And by a while, he means August. A helmet was thrown at him when Carly had visited him, in true her fashion. Sam and him were also finally allowed to be a public couple that day, only 5 months ago.

Shit hit the fan pretty damn quick after that day. Wiley got kidnapped, Dustin and Dev died, Lulu was stuck in a coma, and now... Today.

Finally closing his eyes, he can hear the heels of someone on the pavement. "Who the hell is on that stretcher?" The voice asks and he notices it's Olivia. Better than Carly but only by maybe two tenths of a percentage.

"Ma'am, I can't tell you that," the paramedic informs her.

"I own this establishment, if someone got shot I have a right to- Oh my god. Please tell me that's not Jason Morgan," Olivia says, putting her hands over her mouth.

"Regretfully, I cannot tell you that," the paramedic says, finishing loading him up and closing the door behind him. "We're going to GH, so if you're close to him, feel free to come on your own."

That's all he hears before the world goes black and he's pretty sure he passes out.

its fIne-