Ralph's incompetence when he pretends to be someone he's not, and has a self-centered purpose.
VS Ralph's prowess once he accepts himself, embraces his strengths, and fights for the people he cares about.
I LOVE ON-SCREEN CHARACTER GROWTH!!!! GRAAAGHHHHHHHHH
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thinking about the trans apollo justice tag on a03
theres really not enough going enough on it. most of it is just porn. which is cool and all, but I'm tired of sorting through the tags down to what I want to read and getting about 20 results; and almost all of them being oneshots or being almost completely irrelevant to the fact apollo is trans in the story.
I get it that sometimes transness doesnt have to be the main point of a story. but like... it affects so many facets of your life at the time and I wanna see that explored in my favorite media.
so I'm thinking im gonna just do it myself, like a story that's relatively canon compliant, following the events of aa4 and maybe aa5/6. I dont know about those though since I havent played aa5/6 yet and I'm currently stuck on turnabout corner in aa4. either way I'm thinking I'm gonna write a sfw trans apollo justice fic. autism blast go go go!!!
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Is this what Happiness is?
- hey so I haven't seen an interpretation of the bar scenes in Half that I fully agree with, so I wanted to throw my own two cents out there into the void and pray that it makes sense !!!
so, in the bar scenes in Half we see what I interpret as a hangout with old friends (or, hangout with old friend + his wife.) These scenes used to be the biggest piece of evidence for the cheater theory, but now that that's been debunked by the man himself, I have a new way of looking at them
~ before I go any further, I just wanted to say that I'll be calling the brown-haired woman whiskey for simplicity's sake
In this scene, Kazui turns to look at Whiskey, saying the lyrics:
"laughing together, side by side, this distance in our relationship is misleading me, is this what happiness is?"
With my guess (cuz that's really what it is there's no evidence for it) that Whiskey is the Bartender's wife i think this scene is Kazui being conflicted with what he's been told is true, that marrying Hinako is "true love", versus what he feels is true, that marrying Hinako has brought distance into their relationship.
He looks at Whiskey, a woman happily married, and wonders why his relationship with Hinako isn't like that.
~ shout out to @prisoner-000 for the following screenshot
in this post he points out that Hinako and Kazui's rings are silver in Cat, not gold like they were in Half, yet Bartender's ring colour stays the same.
For the sake of this writing I'm going to go with the first meaning they put out, that Bartender's ring is gold because his marriage is genuine.
But wait!! I hear you ask. This is Half and Kazui's ring is still gold in Half!! EXACTLY MY FRIEND!!
Kazui's ring IS still gold in Half because at the time of these scenes he's still fooling himself that this relationship is good, that he will eventually garner real romantic feelings for Hianko.
"laughing together, side by side, this distance in our relationship is misleading me, is this what happiness is?"
Remember this lyric that plays during the Whiskey -> Hinako scene. You know what other scene in Half this lyric reminds me of?
laughing together, side by side,
this distance in our relationship is misleading me,
is this what happiness is?
He's beginning to doubt if what he believes is true, he's beginning to believe the feelings telling him something's wrong (and remember, the scene right after this one is when he confesses (?) his secret to Hinako) ARE infact true, and that maybe the logic he's been following for so long has a couple holes in it.
I think these scenes are meant to show Kazui gradually realising that his relationship with Hinako will not work out. It just won't, no matter how hard he tries.
He's able to laugh together and talk with Whiskey because she's his friend, yet he can't do the same with his own wife? Even though, according to his gold ring, their relationship is supposed to be real and true and genuine?
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So I posted that bingcheng fic right? And it's getting quite a bit of attention, which I love and appreciate, and is also dragging me deeper into the brainrot. So in honor of getting dragged in, I thought of two potential stories I probably won't write (at least until my normal life is not entering the pre-con-crunch season)
LBH Shixiong and JC Shidi
Lotus Pier
Binghe and his mother are servants of YMJ. JC is very friendly with them- and when WWX arrives, LBH comforts JC about his dog, (and the first time his mother slaps him because crying so loud wasn't going to change anything.) LBH starts training after his mother's death. He starts at a low level and late, progresses quickly, but hides it. He likes JC training him and its better to be underestimated. LBH isn't selected to join in Cloud Recesses. He's told to run during the Wen invasion by JC, but instead he hides, ambushes, and disguises himself as a Wen and steals JC away when they catch him...
Qing Jing Peak
As a show of goodwill, some of the Immortal Peaks are supposed to take disciples from mortal sects. SQQ ends up drawn to and choosing JC. The decision is an "honor" but JC thinks it might also just be because JFM had given up on him. SQQ tells him to keep his distance from the second youngest disciple- a little beast. (But JC has always like animals, anyway.) NYY ends up getting JC's help after some particularly bad bullying, and eventually JC learns LBH sleeps in the woodshed and invites him to his own room and bed. He used to share with WWX, and WWX would crawl into JC's bed after bad nightmares, so it was the same as that, right? LBH is fascinated by this little heir/shidi, and JC causes much less trouble for him than NYY. (He causes more trouble in puberty, but that isn't JC's fault.) When the Immortal Alliance Conference happens, JC takes a blow for LBH that gives him Without a Cure. Thankfully there are those flowers, but when the flowers don't cure it, LBH thinks dual cultivation might. (He might have other reasons, too) JC appears to be recovering, but he should help some of the other disciples- it's too bad his demon blood awakens...
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Paloma, the Goddess of Tranquil and Grain: once a beloved figure, to being the one slain so quickly for refusing to give into War and Violence.
She stood by her people for 1,200 years, reassuring them not to give into the war, to not give into anarchy, and the messy crumbling society of The Old Faith.
Shamura was the one who had slain her. Their siblings could care less about one God who refused to let her people be guided to danger, but this deeply angered them. To prove yourself worthy to your people, you had to fight, to earn their respect.
Alas, Paloma believed the opposite… which was how all this led to her murder.
It wasn't an easy way out, either. Shamura made sure she understood, just as much as her people would entrust them. Bloodshed—a God going against her own word, to keep The Lamb's safe in her land—another obstacle out the way to prove The Prophecy wrong.
She of Tranquil: a Goddess that managed to split her own crown apart by not using its power correctly. To tolerate this set of foolish behavior, to corrupt your own crown rather for it to corrupt you, despicable.
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