#so horrible

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Runaan's Last Secret

*smokes bubble pipe* I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here today. It is simple, mes amis. We've waited six years to find out what really happened inside King Harrow's chamber the night the assassins attacked. And with the release of S7, all these long years later, I finally have the last pieces of information I need to find the full truth.

We all thought there was a murder to solve in the king's chamber. But I'm here to tell you now, that is not the case.

Let us begin at the beginning and assemble our evidence:

The night Harrow died, Runaan tried to convince Rayla to give up the egg, tried to scare her off from returning it.

He couldn't sway her from her journey of redemption, though. They came to blows.

But he chose his mission over killing her. He wasn't even out of breath when they stopped fighting - if he'd truly wanted her dead, she'd be dead.

He left her behind and led four assassins up the front steps of the tower. There, he executed a frontal assault on the king's chamber, when they're built and trained for stealth.

The fight dragged on loudly. It drew extra soldiers from around the entire castle, who left their posts unguarded. But it had a purpose.

Delaying his own victory would cost lives on both sides, but clearing a path for Rayla to escape with two soft human princes in tow would ensure her survival. Runaan had already committed himself to this course when he refused to force her to complete the mission. He couldn't back out now.

Alright, that's the catch-up. For years, we had no idea what actually happened inside Harrow's chamber. But in S7, we finally got a peek. And I'm afraid it's told me everything I need to know. *more bubble pipe noises*

Let's consider these newer clues from S7:

When Runaan finally breached Harrow's door, two other assassins rushed in with him: Andromeda and Skor. Only Callisto, it seems, had fallen alongside Ram out in the hall.

Runaan drew his bow and killed Harrow - or so his binding ribbon believed -

- but the next we see -only moments later as the reinforcements have not yet arrived from below - only one assassin staggered out of that chamber and onto the balcony.

The other four members of the squad died in this battle, and their bodies were recovered by Viren, along with their weapons.

Which means, no one else survived that room. Only Runaan.

The assassins weren't attacked by human troops, either. Runaan had time to stagger out to the balcony at his hobbled pace. No guards caught up to him until he'd already shot the shadowhawk arrow.

When he burst into Harrow's chamber, this is what he was wearing.

When he left it, this was all he had.

Moonshadow assassins are some of the deadliest fighters in all of greater Xadia. No one survives them. No one.

No one... except Runaan of the Silvergrove.

Remember when I said we were not here to solve a murder in the king's chamber? That is because we are here to solve several murders in the king's chamber.

He turned on them.

Runaan turned on what remained of his own squad - Skor and Andromeda. He killed them. For Rayla.

They wanted Rayla dead. In the show, they believed she should die alongside them. In the novelization Book One: Moon, they specifically wanted Runaan to kill her for failing to do her duty. Either way, if any one of Runaan's squad survived and returned to the Silvergrove to report what Runaan had done - and had not done - when his mission went pear-shaped, he would've had to kill Rayla then and there. Right in front of Ethari.

And that, mes amis, he could not abide. He could not bear to be the monster he feared he had always been, right where his husband could see him.

And so, his only remaining option was for his surviving assassins to perish in battle, with their own honor intact and his in tatters. But they went down hard.

They broke Runaan's horn. They stripped off his tunic. They nearly cut his throat. They messed up his hair. Oui, the most unforgivable.

They wanted to live. Runaan did not allow them to.

He trained them all. He loved them.

And he killed them, to save Rayla's life.

For love of Rayla, his precious daughter, Runaan of the Silvergrove killed his own assassins.

It is no wonder he could not look Keeper Lyrennus in the eye when the man asked Runaan about his son.

He's drowning in guilt. He knows what he did. Even though Ram died from another's strike, Runaan knows he would have killed him himself if he'd had to.

This image of Runaan's fear at the sight of the red spirit Lyrennus cast, it lands differently now, no?

He hasn't told them. Perhaps he never will. But he has committed this sin nonetheless, and he must carry it with him for the rest of his life.

Runaan's last and darkest secret. No wonder he accepted Callum the moment he turned against Ezran and fought his own soldiers for Rayla's sake. He knows exactly what that feels like.

[wouteke]

JOSHY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[braveasnouns]

becky...

so true!!

[ds9personallogs]

happy tends bar day! i rewatched and got so sick from crying that i almost threw up. can’t wait until next year!

[carnage-cathedral]

jesus fucking christ how could I ever expect anyone to love me

[gorillaxyz]

RAMS MY HEAD INTO A WALL AND GETS BLOOD EVERYWHERE

[untilyouremember]

Spell of Desire

Available digitally (included in Viz subscription)

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18+ for mature content

[cowardlycowboys]

big scratch right down my sternum that I don't know where it came from

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

For a long time, I was frustrated with Ghostbur’s Limbo—not specifically that he was trapped there, but the fact that his Limbo was Wilbur’s Limbo. It confused me, because everyone should have their very own Limbo, personalized to torture them best. It annoyed me that cc!Wilbur apparently hadn’t thought of that, and just put Ghostbur in c!Wilbur’s Limbo without a second thought.

But now I get it. That’s it—that’s the point. Ghostbur spent his whole life trying to distance himself from Wilbur, to go by a different name, to be someone else, to be his own person, his own being. He tried so hard to not be Wilbur; he didn’t want to be someone who did such awful things. He didn’t want to be a dragon.

So actually, his Limbo makes a lot of sense. For Ghostbur’s entire life, everyone struggled to view him as a person separate from Wilbur, and in most cases they failed to do, calling Ghostbur by another name and treating him as if he was the man who blew up L’manburg.

And so, even in death, Ghostbur is shown no mercy. He’s still called by a name that is not his own. Everywhere he looks, he is surrounded by the man he doesn’t want to be. He’s in Wilbur’s hell.

That’s Ghostbur’s Limbo. The very fact that he doesn’t get a space separate from Wilbur is torture enough.

[wolfstrong]

When Buffy’s dead beat dad couldn’t take her to the ice skating show for her birthday so she tried to Lowkey hint to Giles that she wanted him to take her instead :,)

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[aparticularbandit]

Hi, hello, I had a lot of panic earlier and then my anxiety button got tripped bad enough for my OCD to step in and now not only are my compulsions 100x worse but also my depression kicked in.

So I would say, all things considered, I'm not doing great at the moment.

[hallowvamp]

"How can you like these very toxic and horrible characters that have done despicable and unforgivable things?" oh it's quite simple actually, this is fiction and I think with my dick.

[archi-pelago]

maybe never forgive. but things are different now. so we'll use maybe.

[mychemicalbrromance]

Guys ive been reading peak

[astronomodome]

HELLO?????