Had an idea for a Poe drawing, since he’s canonically a military grade sniper I wondered when he would’ve entered the military.
Its implied his Guild arc is mostly spent writing his book, and his early twenties were spent with detective work as seen in the flashback to the detective competition.
Thus, he was in the army presumably in his teen years, 15 and up.
And ofc my doodle of it as a little Polaroid with a Kate Bush reference. He couldn’t have his eyes covered and therefore had shorter bangs
Also, bsd takes place 2013 esk and Poe is 28, he would’ve been 15 in the year 2000 and born 1985.
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So, considering tomorrow is a holiday for America, (one I don't really celebrate much outside of food and movies) I'm not sure how much writing I'll get done, considering I've written almost nothing today since I had to leave the house for an appointment earlier and I'm exhausted.
So, that being said, depending on how much free time I have tomorrow to write and how much I can get done, I may have to push the next chapter post date to Sunday again.
This isn't a for sure thing yet, but I just wanted to let y'all know since I'll be taking my break tomorrow (as usual), and I'll update everyone once Friday comes and I have a better idea of where I am with the chapter. I'll tell y'all regardless if I have to push it to Sunday or if I can get it done in time to post Saturday.
So yeah, I hope all my fellow Americans have a wonderful 4th of July and make sure to be safe. Don't light yourself or your neighborhood on fire. Everyone else have a good normal Thursday/Friday 😂
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i think this is the most genuine emotion we've seen from nikolai ever. and the fact he seems unsure about how he's feeling, how it's seemingly contradicting, imo works really well with his character
he's all about saying things that contradict each other and imo, there is always some truth to both sides of what he says
so. here. i think some part of him was happy to be free of his only bond... but then it got overtaken with the part of him that realizes this bond wasn't. like. as constricting as he first thought
it seems that at the end of it all he somehow even WANTED to get that bond running deeper. imo, it was to feed both sides of him - the side that wants to be free can't actually prove his free will if they weren't that close in the first place, they barely interacted before, it's almost like killing any other person. on the other hand, he also genuinely likes fyodor and wants to be closer bc well. he is "perfectly sane". he is, underneath it all, still a person deep down, as much as he might hate that.
when fyodor threatens to take him out in the future he doesn't seem scared, but he also doesn't seem particularly excited i think? (or maybe that's just how he expresses his genuine, non-performative excitement, who knows.) at the same time, he also doesn't seem to want to kill him now, to follow him, like he's keeping it for that new game he was just promised
but then fyodor dies. and he won't get a chance to play it. and in a way, that takes from his freedom too, isn't it? his freedom to choose how his bond with fyodor will be. in a way, fyodor dying took away from his free will.
i truly believe nikolai is. maybe not selfish but certainly self-centered or self-serving enough to be sad over, and forgive me for this analogy, his toy getting broken. I'm certain he's also genuinely sad about his only friend dying, and so gruesomely too, but i wouldn't be surprised if at his core this is what makes him this sad. and i think that also leads to his conflicting emotions about fyodor's death
i also think that thing dazai pointed out about fyodor's lack of trust plays a part in nikolai's grief here. to him, fyodor is the only one who understood him, the only one who made him feel seen, and as far as we know the only person who was important to him. but he probably knew the feeling wasn't mutual. still, this was the nail in the coffin, confirming fyodor never saw him as a friend as well, not even as an ally.
i don't have an actual conclusion here, just speculation on nikolai's internal turmoil and how he might feel now. i really hope (and expect) we will see him again, and i wonder if this event will change anything about him.
i speculated in the past that his eye cover is a symbol of his bond with fyodor. and today, he took it off after fyodor died. i wonder, if the next time we see nikolai, he will still wear it or not (or possibly wear a new one). i guess we'll see!
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I really wish this country would ban the sale of all fireworks to private citizens already. You celebrating one of the worst empires to ever exist on this planet built by genocide and slavery (already disgusting behavior honestly) does not entitle you to traumatize both wild and domestic animals, veterans, people with mental health issues, and small children and start wildfires across the country just for the fuck of it.
I wish every single asshole who sets off mortar fireworks as a private citizen a very unhappy ER visit from those fireworks going off in their faces before they can run away to safety.
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