#stan the guard

[rendellstreet]

Brief character blurbs from the TBEA / TTS Seasons 1 + 2 pitch bible

[tenshichan1013]

tangled the series series bible 2 of 8

[rhmis-user-2020]

[nerdasaurus1200]

At long last it’s finally here!!

@th3p0rtalmaker @frozenwolftemplar @majorabbey @twotangledsisters hope y’all enjoy!

[tangledbea]

Favorite Stan and Pete scene?

Hmmm, good question! Possibly them arguing in "In Like Flynn." X3

[rusty-clock]

Help me I have three different drabble series I could choose from but I can't decide:

1. S1 Varian leaves Corona after blizzard to find a way to free Quirin, ends up in different town and has a successful career as an alchemist. Raps passes through the town in her quest and befriends him again.

2. Hugo as a terrible progidy kid.

3. Varian's time in S2, where guards try to redeem him

[blabberoo]

ok another doodle of whatever this au is because i am normal about it..

[breannastewart]

just some vets and their rookie, feat. jewell + nneka + nika 🥹

[blorbologist]

FIRST THING Erathis asks, "My child, is she cross with me?"

not 'hey how's the plan going,' 'i'm glad you guys got in okay', but 'IS MY GIRLFRIEND ANGRY :C'

and the answer. "you made. her. sad."

The immediate justification she launches into is very interesting, and as our first introduction to Erathis herself - our first meeting with her - I think it's very fitting and very open to nuance. Justice is not necessarily good, befitting a lawful neutral god.

And yet...

"I... would do anything for her. that which is within my power to do, I will."

[holly-short-is-a-elf]

the way i would give anything to hear about stan's past, but it wouldnt make sense for him to write a journal, or make a vlog the way ford, dipper, or mabel would. i feel like the only organic way to experience the stanley pine loreTM would be just exist around him long enough that you accumulate a picture of his life story over time. and whenever he says something particularly crazy, or unbelievable, he would just want to shrug it off or make a joke about it, so you would have to stay really lowkey so that he provides more details.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Team Green calling Rhaenyra every misogynistic slur under the sun for the crime of having sex just for Alicent to be having sex with Criston while Blood and Cheese happened is pure comedy

[rendellstreet]

Don’t know if I mentioned this before but, Stan the Guard is low-key a character foil to the Captain of the Guard, or at least, some kind of mirror opposite going on.

For example, Stan is well aware of Cassandra’s ambitions to be a royal guard in season one and as far as “Great Expotations” shows, he’s actively helping her. In contrast, Captain is well aware but is actively dissuading her, with the whole “I don’t think you’re ready to be a guard” + Cass being like “my dad’s standards and expectations for me are higher than for anyone else”

Another example is that while still being a royal guard, Stan will kind of... look the other way when the main cast break rules and protocol, even if it effects him negatively. He’s flexible. Meanwhile Captain is rigid. Everything has to have a procedure and whatnot. Stan is sociable and is likable to the main cast vs Captain being standoffish and well, not unlikeable to the main cast but he comes up as a wall in their plot path several times.

[tenshichan1013]

tangled the series series bible 5 of 8

[rhmis-user-2020]

Pete and Stan

[nerdasaurus1200]

Problem? No, I don’t have a Lorcana fancard problem….😂

[harley-rose25]

In which I give the longest explanation of my opinions on Eremika and why I don't like it.

If you see my other AoT post, I likely give the impression of being a hardcore eremika anti; and while I'm not clearly not a fan of the ship I also don't believe that it just came out of nowhere, or was completely unexpected; like some eremika antis seem to think. Seasons 1-3 I honestly expected an eremika ending. Season 3 I had some thoughts that maybe we were getting a erehisu instead, but ultimately I assumed either an eremika or a no-pairing ending even by the end of season 3.

This is not because I thought the ship was built up well or had really good moments pointing towards a mutual romance/love. There are some moments where Eren shows some level of care or affection towards Mikasa; but, to me, it doesn't come off like he's in love with her. It can be interpreted that way, but I felt it was more like showing general platonic care and that those more romantic feeling could be built up or in some cases like his feelings were moving in that direction. The reason I assumed it was the most likely end game ship if there was to be a ship is because of other cannon ships where one character is in love, often obsessively so with the other and the other is either oblivious, doesn't really care, or actively seems to dislike them until the end of the series when suddenly they're also in love. ie; Sakura and Sasuke, Hinata and Naruto, Aang and Katara. Eren and Mikasa dynamic reminded me of these, especially Sakura and Sasuke.

My main issues with the eremika ship are: 1. how it compares to erehisu; Eren and Mikasa do have deep emotional moment together but Eren and Historia have deep emotional moment because of each other. That is, Eren's emotional moment with Mikasa would be just as emotional even if she wasn't there, where as Historia is integral to the moments she has with Eren. In season 4 the erehisu ship is really build up by how desperate Eren is to protect Historia, how he angrily jumps to her defense, how he's shown visiting her at the farm, how he smiles at her and no one else. Even other characters notice this; in season 3 Jean tells Eren he should stop holding hands with Historia all the time (I'm aware that the hand holding was because they were trying to get more memories/activate the founding titan, but it means that Eren and Historia had a lot of confirmed off screen time together), and in season 4 Hange looks at Eren smiling at Historia and then later tells Eren that She thought He would never sacrifice Historia; strongly indicating an assumption of a deeper level of care. All in all I think erehisu had better scenes to building a relationship of mutual care and understanding and also better scenes showing that Eren cares about Historia in a way that isn't shown with anyone else (save maybe Armin) This means that when we end up with eremika now it feels a little cheap or just off. If we got more moments showing a deeper level of care and understand between Eren and Mikasa or if The moments between Eren and Historia, and Erens reactions to Historia didn't have so much weight then an eremika ending would make more sense.

reason number 2: What it does to Mikasas character; Mikasa's love for Eren seems born out of an obsession that comes from losing her parent in a violent murder/kidnapping and then being saved by him. This is then compounded when Eren's mom dies since she was like an adoptive mother to Mikasa. She's a traumatized young girl who never actually deals with her trauma and instead hyperfixates on Eren. Mikasa entire character arc is her chasing after Eren like a neglected dog until that one scene where for like 5 minutes she finally starts to see Eren for the violent psychopath he actually is and questions what she had seen in him; but never mind that because she's back to being so obsessively in love with him that even after he dies she spends that rest of her life visiting his grave with her (probably husband and kids) and also never takes off that scarf.

reason number 3: Mikasa doesn't understand Eren. People argue that Mikasa understood Eren in a different ways, that she understood certain parts of him, but that's literally just admitting that there's clearly parts of Eren she doesn't understand. Actually, I'd argue that as its depicted Mikasa doesn't seem to understand Eren on a fundamental level. Examples: When he failed at the initial ODM gear test she told him to give up being a soldier and then went on to say that he needn't drop out alone, that she would be following him; when he passed the ODM gear test she says that he's relieved that he wont be separated from her. She assumes that the reason he'd be upset about failing to make it as a soldier is related specifically to her and not wanting to be apart from her; When Connie is angry about Eren laughing after Sasha's death he asks Mikasa why he would do that and she can't answer; despite the fact that she's witnessed him laughing in an emotional and traumatic situation before and should have been able to understand that he does it as a coping mechanism. She'd also completely blind to his obvious anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy), though to be fair so is everyone else including most Eren stans. (like, I love Eren, I stan Eren but he is like text book certifiably ASPD psychopathic)