#the vengeance factor

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [the vengeance factor, s3ep9]

'A fine ship, Commander.' - sovereign marouk

[become-the-monster]

WILL RIKER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST RESPECTFUL SPACE SLUTS AROUND, SIRI SEND TWEET

[dark-elf-writes]

But also as someone who has read the Odyssey the end of the Vengeance Saga really sets up the endgame because like… yeah that’s a man unhinged enough to do what he does.

[sunny12th]

obsessed with the futility of vengeance in dany's story. your family is murdered, you're exiled, your home is taken in every sense of the word, and you have just hatched three dragons so you *should* be more than capable of enacting some righteous vengeance. except your family's killers are all dead before you can ever get near them and the last one left is a one-handed broken thing with graying hair and ptsd. what the fuck are you supposed to do with that? kill him? he'd probably thank you. dany's family is a haunting him more than her. what can she do but tell him to let them go, that rhaegar is gone, his children are gone, let them go. what can she do but let them go herself.

[comicwaren]

This week on Marvel Comics (11th December 2024):

Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 #063

Dazzler Vol. 3 #004 (Finale)

Incredible Hulk Vol. 4 #020

Infinity Watch #001 (NEW!)

Laura Kinney: Wolverine #001 (NEW!)

Petpool: Poolparty #001 (One-shot)

Phoenix #006

Scarlet Witch Vol. 4 #007

Spirits of Vengeance Vol. 2 #004

Star Wars: Battle of Jakku - Republic Under Siege #004 (Finale)

Storm Vol. 5 #003

Ultimate Universe: One Year In #001 (One-shot)

Ultimate X-Men Vol. 2 #010

Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6 #007

X-Factor Vol. 5 #005

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #001 (NEW!)

[danmeichael]

If SY were to interact with other MXTX characters how many and who do you think he'd be able to wifebeam

the only characters he absolutely would NOT be able to wifebeam are hua cheng, xie lian, and lan wangji. i believe without a doubt he would wifebeam wei wuxian though. he is so vulnerable to beautiful scholarly autistic men.

the majority of side characters are absolutely done for though. wen ning? gone. obliterated. pei ming? fucked. absolutely fucked. sy bottles bisexual awakenings and forcefeeds them to unsuspecting victims. jiang yanli is a married woman but i think she and jin zixuan could blow his back out together. aromantics are immune from the romantic implications of the wifebeam but will still be obsessed with him in some way. only lesbians are safe.

[pomburel]

- Don't you miss me?

- More than you know..

She had no idea how much he missed his wife.

[cartoonedin]

no hate to miles mendoza but the frequency with which he refers to sophia as his shining star makes me wonder if he came up with nicknames like that for the whole family or if his barely out the womb baby boy heard his dad call them down for dinner like “good evening my shining star the light of my life the miraculous incarnation of the centaurus constellation and also your brother who eats pancakes a lot marta made tacos”

[mariocki]

The Human Factor (1975)

"How does this put Mr. Kinsdale in difficulty?"

"He's found his killers. And he doesn't want them in jail. And neither the machine nor I know just how successful he's going to be."

[filmjunky-99]

r e m e m b e r i n g

Nancy Parsons

17 January 1942 - 5 January 2001

⚘️

[pic: parsons as sovereign marouk, the vengeance factor, tng]

[unproduciblesmackdown]

blade gunnblade !!!!!!!!

via eliza simpson:

There are no words for this true warrior. They kill me. MMM: went in for a post show hug. Me:"ow!" Asia: "oh sorry, that's my bullet necklace." 😳........ 😍

[deathlesssness]

Getting even, Getting even, Getting ready to fight. Gotten smug, gotten ugly, And lost all sense of pride. And I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting, Why I wanted to cry, And I'm still waiting on a day no hearts would die.

[rotarywires]

the flareup is back and i’m so fucking exhausted

[comicwaren]

This week on Marvel Comics (23rd October 2024):

Avengers Vol. 9 #019

Dazzler Vol. 3 #002

Incredible Hulk Vol. 4 #018

Iron Man Vol. 7 #001 (NEW!)

Scarlet Witch Vol. 4 #005

Spider-Boy Vol. 2 #012

Spider-Society #003

Spirits of Vengeance Vol. 2 #002

Venom War: Carnage #003 (Finale)

Venom War: Lethal Protectors #002

Werewolf by Night: Red Band #003

X-Factor Vol. 5 #003

X-Men Vol. 7 #006

[error84]

You should post more about steel vengeance if you want to

SEE it's never about the "want." because of course i want to . that's the love of my life literally light at the end of it all. i love that roller coaster more than words will ever rver ever be able to express (at least my own because im rlly bad atthst!!)

but the paranoia gets me. bad

[dazais-guardian-angel]

BSD is ultimately a hopeful story, about characters healing and finding their reason to live, and a place to belong. Outside of exceptions in the light novels, this applies almost every character in the main manga who isn't some sort of main antagonist (and even then there are exceptions, like Francis). Bram has lived a tired and lonely life for a very long time, ever since he lost his entire kingdom and his daughter somehow, and the story has set up the fact that he hasn't had any desire to live, any vested interest in the world all this time with the loss of said daughter — until he met Aya, who explicitly reminds him of her. He feels genuine care for her and worry for her, and he wants to be her knight, and sees her as his princess; she is his new reason to keep living. Before knowing her, he might have been fine with giving in to Fyodor taking over his body, but that certainly won't be the case anymore. If he's still in there, he's going to keep fighting, to get back to Aya, his new daughter, and I fully expect it to happen. It only makes sense that it will, with the series' track record, and the message it wants to send.

I have a strong suspicion that the flashback with Fyodor in Bram's castle isn't over yet, and that in the upcoming chapter(s) we're going to find out that Fyodor was somehow responsible for Bram losing everything he held dear. If that's the case, it would make perfect sense why he would jump at the chance to kill Fyodor at the request of the ADA, and maybe even was willing to join the DoA in the first place in hopes that he could one day get his revenge (so he obviously must not have known how Fyodor's ability works, but I think his "I see" in his last moments when he felt something was him putting 2 and 2 together, realizing how Fyodor seemingly came back to life back then even though he was supposedly killed). And it would give him even more of a reason to want to fight to get his body back: to return to Aya, and to get vengeance on the rat who destroyed his life and separated him from his daughter twice.

Also think it's very important to remember that Aya is named after an author, even though she does not have an ability, and that abilities usually form after some sort of trauma. Irl Aya's history is vaguely similar to BSD's Aya's: she lost her mother and sister at a young age, and a reoccurring theme in her works, many of which are memoirs, are her feelings of inferiority as she was growing up in comparing herself to them and her aunts, brought about by her demanding father. None of the names really jump out at me (not that the book names ever have much to do with the abilities/characters aside from a few lol), except for the title of one of her memoirs, called "Father's Death". If Aya was ever going to awaken an ability, I can't think of a more appropriate time for it to happen than now. And if it does, it's likely that said ability will play a major role in taking Fyodor down, and bringing Bram back to her — after all, Jouno originally entrusted Aya with being Fukuchi's undoing precisely because he knew he would underestimate someone as unassuming and "weak" as a random little girl (and look where that led him!); why wouldn't that happen again with Fyodor underestimating her? He took her new father — her real father — away from her: he has absolutely no idea what kind of enemy he just made. Aya doesn't go down without a fight, she never gives up, she is a threat, and Fyodor isn't going to see that threat coming, because he underestimates the power of bonds and the power of "ordinary" people, just like Dazai talks about in Meursault. He made an enemy out of her, and he made an even stronger existing enemy out of Bram, and they will fight their hardest to get back to each other. Bram's return will be all the more satisfying and emotional after all he has to overcome to achieve it, and how much he's changed thanks to Aya's presence in his life. :')

so i know like nothing about character analysis but i'm almost 100% sure that bram is alive BECAUSE

he just got his body back, and it would be strange to set that up for such a long time and then to only use it for bram to kill fyodor

asagiri is a coward when it comes to killing characters

he keeps having these flashbacks when he's with aya to someone we assume is his daughter, and it makes zero sense for the manga to set something up with that only to discard it

bram is immortal: if fyodor dies in this body then chances are he's getting it back, as his ability can apparently revive the dead by infecting them with it (see akutagawa) and he's kinda infected with his own ability