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[lookingforhappy]

Yeah I agree on the five & Viktor main characters thing bc they’re the plot drivers and the series basically revolves around their abilities but also because they represent the heart of the shows conflict through their relationship. Two estranged siblings who used to know each other well and were close once but struggle deeply to trust and/or reconnect due to traumas, but still they try anyway.

Or something

Honestly if they stopped making the show revolve around apocalypses (the thing five is trying to stop and the thing Viktor can’t help but cause) then we wouldn’t have this problem (I’m glaring at the creators if u couldn’t tell lmao)

But in all honesty s1 may feel like the characters aren’t on track but the beauty of it is that the second you try to pull one of the characters out of their designated place in the plot the whole thing rearranges itself.

For example, If five never comes back then Viktor has no reason to go looking for him at the academy which means he doesn’t bump into Allison phoning Patrick which means they don’t argue and Viktor doesn’t call pogo to check on Allison so Allison doesn’t realise her cruelty and try and make things up to Viktor meaning she doesn’t meet or research Leonard so doesn't go to find Viktor and so doesn't get her throat slit.

i know there are technically no individual "main" characters of tua bc it's an ensemble show but five and viktor always Feel very Main Character to me bc they're the only ones actively participating in the overarching plot and everyone else is lost in the weeds doing whatever the fuck

like take season 1. five shows up and is like Okay! i will now figure out how to prevent the apocalypse from happening. kill temps commission goons. find the owner of the glass eye. make a deal with the handler to get insider commission info and save the fam. turn back time. etc etc etc. and viktor is like yes, i will stop taking my evil power suppression pills and date the guy five has been looking for all season and also explode the goddamn moon.

whereas luther & allison are like omg what if we were two estranged adults thrown back into close quarters and we were both siblings lol 😳 😳 and diego is going on a revenge quest for his fridged cop gf and klaus is on a sidequest to the goddamn vietnam war and also having a brotherly bonding moment with his beloved dead brother ben 😭

[myrkulitescourge]

the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me

just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.

like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.

in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.

how am i supposed to act normal about this.

[cheruib]

visited this very beautiful castle today<3 🪷

[sisaloofafump]

Little bat devils chomping on batarangs

(Click for all the juicy details)

[teartra]

Just a Normal Weekend on The Noceda’s Driveway

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Cannot get over Caitlyn in the preview of Act 3 being “so Viktor’s the cause of all of this” (paraphrased) and Jayce nodding along to it when like. Buddy boy, my darling idiot artificer, that is not the truth. I think in a “someone is killed and everything falls apart because they’re dead” scenario, the blame falls prettyyyyy squarely on the killer’s shoulders, not. You know. The murder victim. Just saying.

[stone-stars]

a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…

you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.

and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.

it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--

the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.) for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.

melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack. for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.

the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands. for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.

the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.

anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.

[maureen-corpse]

I have not been crawling through Nosferatu tags constantly because I have other things to do (like look at my queue full of dogs) but when I have ventured in there I have rather gotten the sense that there are camps of people with differing opinions who have possibly even all blocked each other and I do think that’s funny

[spooksicl-e]

he stabs it.

[a-n-i-m-a-t-i-o-n]

Silver: Jimbo! Aw, now, don’t be too put off by this hunk of hardware. [Chuckles] [Humming] Woah! [Chuckles]

Dialogue repeats with each scene

Clip is from the Treasure Planet 2003 DVD Overview

[kacievvbbbb]

I see your What if Shanks dies first and raise you Mihawk dies first but not at the hands of Zoro but like foul play from the sword gorsei or something with Imu.

And Shanks carries around yoru (meaning he’d also probably have to wear Mihawk’s jacket as well) as his figurative and very literal cross to bare. Because he does not take it well

[candycryptids]

-Duty Failed-

[thechaoticfanartist]

They're sparring and Grim is getting a little cocky (she loses immediately after this)

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[danvssomethingorother]

I think it’s kinda hilarious that even though Zuko is not allowed in his own country, he still gets to be the crown Prince.

That is a bold move of Ozai, that is like putting an “assassinate me and put the child I kicked out on the throne as a figure head” sign on his back.

Genius strategist this guy, wonder why he didn’t win the war.

[senatortedcruz]

Never feel like more of a Republican complaining about the wokes than when I read about elementary schools canceling Halloween for the sake of diversity and inclusion

[morgana-pendragon]

i hate when something is well written but has a stupid fucking plot like ughhhhghghgghhhh