#tbh I don't want to think about if that one has a giant butterfly effect

[midnight--capricorn]

this planning (I guess it's planning?) title sounds like the end of a powerpoint about the economy

It's not there's a lot of valentia affected by alm dying at desaix's fortress that I think I need to figure out first because alm dying has massive implications valentia-wide and I need to sort through those before I tackle it that is a daunting task

[princessszoboszlai]

Raised by an arsenal supporting dad? When did you decide you wanted to support liverpool and what made you choose them?

Sorry if you've already mentioned this previously

I haven't, but I'll go in detail here!

In Nigeria, its really big to support Arsenal or United, and he chose Arsenal, probably because of the black/diverse talent the side had compared to others at the time. I would occasionally watch matches with him when Arsenal were in the Highbury with Wenger, Henry, Fabregas, Carzola and all of them. I just . . . wasn't interested in football for a lot of my early childhood, but I knew to get close to my dad, I'd need to. So I have a lot of random memories of waking up on Christmas and watching my dad play FIFA and sitting real quiet until my mom woke up to open presents lol I sometimes watch old Arsenal '00s matches for that needed nostalgia

What finally got me into football was the 2014 WC. I don't even know what it was, but my dad was so excited for Nigeria to do get past the group stages hopefully and I wanted to join in. When Nigeria dropped off, I just blindly decided to watch Brasil since they were the host county and I got tied up in all the story lines that were going on and that 7-1 loss?? I actually cried so hard at a restaurant because we went out when it was happening. Imagine a little 13 year old sobbing into some fondue (We were at the Melting Pot, i remember to this day), because Germany won the WC and absolutely decimated some of your new favorite players.

Now what brought me to Liverpool was (is? I still love em tbh) my giant love for the Beatles. I was obsessed and if I was going to follow a football club, I wanted it to be in the same city. I dunno why I went to that logic . . . but I was 13 and I saw my dad supporting Arsenal and I knew I couldn't do #WengerOut and all of a sudden celebrate 4th place every year. It seemed so messed up. So I was genuinely between Everton and Liverpool at one point. But, some faithful day I was on Youtube and saw YNWA mislabeled as a Beatles song. The Beatles fanatic I am, I got excited and was super confused as to why I've never heard it before. And I've been an LFC fan ever since then.

The 14/15 season was rough beyond belief. I don't know how I kept going considering how new I was and how it just . . . wasn't great. But I loved Firmino and Coutinho so I stuck through because I'd read up on Liverpool's history and I knew it had to come back. Honestly, I thank my younger self every day for that little butterfly effect of watching that video and listening to the song because its been an amazing 11 years now (I can't believe it! 10 seasons??). I feel like Liverpool has made me a better person and there's so much more to be excited for, even if they act like they don't know what their jobs are sometimes.

Plus my relationship with him began getting . . . strained at best around that time and its nonexistent now. I think I would have stopped watching football if I was an Arsenal fan just because I'd think about him lmao