#the dialogue is stand-in

[makiruz]

I recently realized I never got around to write the climatic confrontation in the what-if-Ozpin-and-Hazel-were-brothers-AU. (First part here)

Okay, here’s the ground work: Ozpin and Hazel are brothers (half because they don’t look alike), Ozpin was born Greetje Rainart (pronounced “grayt-ja”) and the brothers were very close because they were orphans. Greetje trusted Hazel implicitly and told literally everything about everything, and Hazel loved his brother above all else; and their lives were sent into a tailspin when Greetje became the next reincarnation of Oz. When Greetje became the headmaster of Beacon, the King’s inner circle had him change his name because he’s distantly related to a War Criminal from the Great War and they didn’t want their prodigy to be associated with that person so he became “Greetje Ozpin”, the Merge finalized around the same time; now, Hazel didn’t like what the Merge was doing to his brother, didn’t like what he was changing into and when the Merge finished with his new name and all Hazel came to the conclusion that the Merge had killed his brother and he was pretending to care about Hazel to manipulate him.

All good? Okay, now the climax: It starts when a girl dies, a Beacon student killed during a training mission (yes, Gretchen); to Hazel this is the last straw, Ozpin uses people for his own goals, he manipulates them into servitude for a fruitless cause (remember Hazel knows Salem can’t be killed) and now he’s gotten a child killed, this will not stand he is gonna confront him now. Meanwhile, Ozpin is having a shit day because a student is dead; things went wrong quickly and he’s reviewing all available information to see if there’s something that could’ve happen to change the outcome, something he could’ve done to save this girl’s life and founds nothing, it’s extremely frustrating; but then Hazel walks into his office and Ozpin immediately relaxes, a terrible thing has happened but everything’s better now because Hazel is here.

Hazel is fucking fuming, but Ozpin doesn’t notice because he’s so goddamned relieved there’s someone here to talk; Glynda is great and all, but she hasn’t held him as he was lying sick, kept warm and hungry in the cold night, or protected him from bullies as he was defenseless, simply put she is not Hazel; she doesn’t know him like Hazel does, and he cannot trust her like he does Hazel, he can only be himself around Hazel; this is very important.

Anyway enough padding, Ozpin receives Hazel like “oh thank god you’re here, everything’s going wrong and I can’t fix it” but Hazel cuts him off like “a girl is dead”

“oh good, you already know. This is tragic, I know she made her choice but I wish I could’ve done something”

“you should’ve; this is your fault, she’s dead because of your crusade, and what for? We both know Salem can’t be defeated”

That was harsher than Ozpin expected

“But she can be delayed, kept at bay, give people the chance to live their lives”

“Shut up! This is what you always do, you lie to people, you make them thing they’re worth anything, but they don’t, they’re just pawns in your schemes”

Ozpin is taken aback, he has no idea where this is coming from, he did not see this coming; he absolutely should’ve, this has been building up for years, but he didn’t because he was blinded by love (recurring themes guys). He reaches out to Hazel, like

“Haze, listen....”

Ozpin looks so sad and hurt, like he never does around anybody else and it just makes him angrier. How dare he? How dare he use Hazel’s love for his brother like this? To look at him with Greetje’s eyes as if they weren’t stolen? To act as if he actually cared about Hazel? To call him that?

Hazel pushes Ozpin away.

“Do not. That’s what my brother called me”

Ozpin feels something inside him break, he looks at Hazel and speaks softly:

“Haze, Hazel; I... I’m still me, I know I’ve... changed, but I’m still me, I’m still your brother”

Hazel throws Ozpin against a wall

“YOU’RE NOT MY BROTHER, YOU’RE THE MONSTER WHO KILLED HIM! YOU ONLY WEAR HIS SKIN!”

Hazel is holding Ozpin against a wall by the neck, chocking him. Ozpin is like “Haze, please, don’t” you know struggling, but it only makes Hazel angrier and chokes him harder; until Ozpin, on instinct, pushes him away with magic.

Ozpin hasn’t even recovered his breath as he runs to Hazel’s side, apologizing, like “oh god, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you, are you okay? I’m sorry” but Hazel only hits him again and this is how the fight starts. Well, I call it a fight, but really it’s Hazel attacking Ozpin wildly and Ozpin defending himself, so naturally Hazel wins. Later he’ll say that he didn’t finish Ozpin off right there and then because he knew killing him would be pointless and he’d only be dooming someone else to Greetje’s fate, but the truth is that, when the dust settled and Ozpin was lying there, cowering and hurt, looking just like Greetje had had so many times when they were children, he just couldn’t; no matter how much he hated Ozpin for killing his brother, he couldn’t kill Greetje.

After Hazel leaves, Greetje Ozpin just lies in the floor of his now destroyed office, and wonders “how did this happen?” How did they come to this? How could Hazel do this? How did he not see it coming? How? Why? Why? Why? Greetje is hurt, Hazel was the person he loved the most in the world, he trusted him, more than he had anyone else in centuries, he told him the truth about Salem and Ozma because he couldn’t stand keeping secrets from him; and he turned on him, he turned on him! He was the person he trusted the most and he turned on him! Greetje is no stranger to betrayal, he’s experienced it a lot throughtout his many lives but this is different, Hazel was his brother, his only family, the only one he truly trust, and he turned on him; with heavy heart Greetje realizes he hasn’t felt this betrayed since Salem, and he cries. Oh god he cries. And wonders, he wonders, not for the first time, who is he? What has he become? Is he still Greetje? Is Hazel right? Is he just Ozma wearing another man’s face? But if he is, why does it hurt like this? 

This is the last time the brothers ever saw each other. The next time Greetje will see his brother is through the eyes of a child who did not deserve this anymore than he did

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[beif0ngs]

everyone on tumblr @Buggy the 🤡 right now 

[catboybiologist]

my brother in christ, i pray you wake up from the shackles of this deadly delusion that you are currently entrenched in.

the voices of all your male ancestors are calling out to you. listen closely, and you'll hear them.

they are screaming. utterly disappointed at what you are doing to yourself, how you are chemically castrating yourself and slowly but surely fading away into nothingness. your great-grandfather and his father before him and all his forefathers are deeply saddened by the way you are mutilating your divinely-crafted male body.

you always have to remember your truth. you were born a man. you have strayed from the path of sacred masculinity and forsaken your god-given male nature. but it is still a part of you, no matter how much you deny or attempt to erase it.

your fate has in it embedded a masculine greatness, just like every single male born on this good earth, it is written in the stars for all of us.

you cannot change fate, no matter how hard you try.

it is never too late to embrace your essence and who you truly are, underneath all the masks, disguises, drugs, pharmaceuticals and covers.

a holy bearer of the sacred essence of life: SEMEN.

i pray for you, my fallen brother.

Nah 👍

[blackjackkent]

I've lived in this cess-pit longer than you've been alive. We can compare stinks, if you would like?

[sugarcarnation]

little chuuya is absolutely devastating and i can’t help but make it worse by noticing that throughout this entire exchange he remains faceless. he has no real identity of his own he’s being defined by the people around him

and this is paralleled in the scene where he talks to dazai directly after the flashback. we still never see his face

until he sees dazais face. and stands up

and we see his face

absolutely bonkers of them

[willowwormwood]

[squarecloud73]

*I worship you Tumblr please don’t remove it

Laios helping Chilchuck with his tallman-sized burger

[commsroom]

Okay! Obviously, I love Wolf 359. The available scripts for Wolf 359 are recording scripts, meaning they're inaccurate in a ton of places when it comes to finalized or improvised dialogue, and don't function well as transcripts (especially since the scripts for the live show and some of the mini episodes were never made available.) That said, I think everyone should read the scripts; the sheer amount of physical description that you can feel in the show, even if you can't see it... I guarantee it will enhance your listening experience. Most visual show to ever be an audio drama. So, in pursuit of both of these goals at once, I went over every word in the scripts, and wrote up new scripts for the unavailable ones. Some of the sound effects described - especially in early episodes - might not line up exactly, because I didn't want to mess with the non-dialogue portion of the show, but I hope this strikes a good balance and can be a useful resource.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 2 month anniversary of this blog! Here's all the main MTXT couples to celebrate.

[thedragonagelesbian]

say more oh please please PLEASE say more davrin what does sacredness mean to you, what does it mean for you to understand your obligations as a grey warden through the prism of dalish faith, do you pray to andruil to guide your blade as you hunt these monsters down, to elgar'nan to scorch the blight from this world and to mythal to protect its victims, talk to me about the holiness of duty and sacrifice and and and and-----

[chipchopclipclop]

my romantic experience in this game so far has basically just been watching gale suffer from the curse of being monogamous

[nights-at-crystarium]

I'll drip feed you wolemet art and thoughts just like I did with wolgraha, until you look forward to watching it unfold in the comic :3c Emet steps on the largest rake in his life, Vivi, well, too, though his rake doesn't kill him at least....

[chaoseclips]

Nameless Hero

( yeah I’m completely normal after listening to all the unused dialogue :D )

[shrugsinchinese]

Comic panel redraw because this Hob makes me laugh every time

[kommunistkaitou]

I dreamed that brian was trans (& had come out as a kid) and ngl i do think this idea has a lot of potential for making him worse in basically every way