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Okay but Will was so (fairly) angsty about how his blood killed Katherine, but she purified the sword!!! It was the Lady who killed Katherine because she wanted Visander to resurrect
#dark heir spoilers#dark heir#dark rise#cs pacat#Visander#my art#this raises so many questions for me#like#why was Visander returned and not the lady?#while we’ve seen the Light isn’t always the ‘good’ side#I think this is the first time we see the Lady as morally ambiguous#I had a lot of fun with the outfit in this#the book is set right after the regency era#dress silhouettes change drastically through the 1820s#so I did a more regency-y top with a fuller pleated skirt
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You ever have those moments where an idea just... won't leave your head?
#dcu#batman#bruce wayne#green arrow#oliver queen#fake tweets#things I was not able to adequately convey in the format:#obviously Bruce's reasoning is really a lot closer to Ollie's but Bruce has a secret identity to maintain and Ollie... well#I don't know if you can make it out but his twitter profile pic is him in the Green Arrow costume and that's not accidental#also I am pretty sure that Bruce does just have the first airing date of The Price is Right saved in a corner of his mind palace#just in case it's ever relevant to a case#and he's angry at Ollie because Ollie knows that and also knows Bruce can't admit it because it would raise too many questions#also I did consider an extra scene where they tag-team harass Lex#but it just didn't sound right to me#also I put a whole load of Green Arrow references in here#Q-Core N_Singh and H_Fyff are all from the Nu52 Green Arrow runs#albeit Naomi and Henry are at least in the good Nu52 runs#obviously this is post-Snowbirds Don't Fly/Hard Travelling Heroes in general so Oliver is trolling Hal and setting up needle exchanges#and even Hal explaining to Ollie what Twilight is is a reference to one of the most dated things about the Arrow pilot:#the extremely tacky Twilight joke#anyway hope you enjoyed!
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house having a reputation for being soooo unserious that all of his passes at wilson are brushed off when in reality he would let wilson fuck him in his fishbowl if wilson would let him
#house md#hilson#regretting not having a tally for all of the gay jokes house makes between him and wilson#there are so many it raises questions (the answer is gay sex. obviously)#“sex with you wouldn't fix me but it would make me better” “what if i like you terrible?” “what if i told you this is foreplay to me”#<- dialogue i want to see happen somewhere even if i must do it myself#also wtf tumblr automatically making arrows with < - i had to find this out on my own!!! great website
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how do you clone a fey? that's trick question; and fey love those!
@the-navistar-carol (<333) brought up a good point while I was talking about my changeling danny au with her -- Dani! How would she exist in this au? Danny's a changeling - a fae. How would Dani, a clone of him, be created? How do you make a fey? Not through any means that Vlad is doing; you can't make a fey through unnatural means, considering the Fair Folk are nature. And Vlad's not a fey himself -- he's a halfa, even if he could make a fey, it's not in his best interest too. He's a powerful ghost, but even the weakest fae can overpower the strongest ghost. He won't want a clone of Daniel to be more powerful than him.
(In a three tier hierarchy it goes Ancients -> Fae/Mythos -> Ghosts. They all live in the Infinite Realms, but on different Planes. The fae live above the Ghost Zone in the Fey Wild, while the Mythos live beside the Wilds or down in the ghost zone depending on where they are. Places like the Frozone, the Athens Acropolis, and other such large islands climb throughout all three Planes.)
(While Ghosts can travel into the Fey Wild, its generally advised against as the ectoplasm tends to manifest differently there due to close contact magic. It can make it rather disorientating for a ghost, and as human spirits, the Fae living there would jump them faster than they could blink. So unless you're willing to play mind games with 'steal thy name eat thy face' fae, most ghosts keep out of the way of the Wilds. Fey can travel down into the Ghost Zone, they just don't bother.)
That's of course, not taking into account if Vlad even knows Danny's a fae himself. Vlad doesn't ring me as someone who really cares much about ghost culture or the going ons of the GZ. He might be aware that fae exist, but the moment he realizes he can't use them for personal gain he just doesn't bother with them. The risk is greater than the reward, and he'd rather not get eaten. But lets assume he's aware by now that Danny is fey, and has to take that into account while cloning him.
So, how does Dani exist? Good question! Honestly; i'm not sure. She might not exist at all, or if she does, she's more halfa than fey. Vlad would need a lot of human dna and ectoplasm to balance out all that fae magic. He manages to steal DNA from Jack and Maddie to do it, and since Jack's fey ancestry is very dormant its much easier to use alongside Danny's DNA.
In turn, it results in a little girl whose more human-ghost hybrid than clone. With that little extra boost in fey magic making her not a fey, but still relatively powerful. Dani is less of a clone and more of a lab-grown little sister. It's a rather tedious, complex process that has Vlad tearing his hair out trying to figure out. But he does eventually figure it out.
#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc crossover#changeling danny au#danielle fenton#danny phantom#still no mention of DPXDC yet so i'm adding the DP tags if thats alright lmao#how do you clone a fey? trick question! you can't. you can only make something that's not-quite fey but has ties to them.#dani's fey ancestry is an ounce of water compared to the bucket of everything else. which is more than the drop in the pond compared to jac#but not quite as powerful as changeling daniel. whose more fey than human at this rate. which is very fun to think about in terms of#his rogues haha. imagine going into the human realm about to cause chaos only to come face to face with a baby fey. a changeling.#i'd simply pass away a second time. where is your parent. human raised or otherwise?? are they nearby??? shit i thought fey hated urban#cities. what are YOU doing here baby man. im going to get eaten holy fuck. that's so many teeth.#. oh. oh you think you're a ghost. hm. hmhm. i can work with that. lets just. make sure you keep thinking that okay :) great :))#like jumpscare dude. i just saw my afterlife flash before my eyes. hello unsupervised fey child. holy fuck are you teeny tiny.#vlad probably uses some of his own dna to get the halfa effect so really dani's more of a lab grown *half* sister. Danny's gonna end up#stealing her anyways in the end. his sister now :). non-human danny my beloved#catch me using fey and fae interchangeably. my bad#some food for thought sorry if its hard to understand.#steal thy name. eat thy face fey
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Wait, did no one else immediately assume Zane Day takes place on the anniversary of Zane's S3 sacrifice?
#ninjago#dragons rising#That. Makes more sense as to why people were so confused about it's existence‚ shdgjshdvs. It raises so many questions;#do the other Ninja have their own holidays? etc etc#to me‚ Zane Day is a holdover from the way people mourned/venerated him on the anniversary of his death#and then he. revived. So it sort of turned into a 'Time To Appreciate The Guy (because he still did do all that even if it didn't stick)'#Which means Nya would probably also have A Day for herself#and maybe Lloyd? The day of the Overlord's first defeat in s2??? the dawn of the ninja's era??#the only thing there is that. Uh. How would the ninja not have noticed that those holidays Were A Thing before the Merge..#To me they only really became an Actual Holiday/Festival thing in the ~5 years after the Merge‚ when the ninja were GONE#zane julien
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when does jason learn to drive?
cause according to a quick google search, you can't drive in new jersey until you're at least sixteen. and jason dies when he's fifteen.
he definitely didn't learn when he was comatose, and probably not with the league. did he have to teach himself? did bruce teach him before he died? did dick teach him to spite bruce? did he learn when he lived on the streets? does he somehow never learn and use it as an excuse to never drive any batkid around?
how many times did he crash before he finally figured it out? has officer grayson ever pulled him over for going 20 miles above the speed limit, asked for id, only for jason to just drive off? does he just drive like a maniac? do his siblings avoid driving with him at all costs to stay away? how many people has he tramuatized?
#this raises so many questions??!?!?!#where does tim learn to drive?#did alfred teach bruce? or did he go to a driver's ed classes?#does dick learn in the batmoblie?#where does cass learn??#i'll believe damian took a driver's ed class when he got old enough#and steph probably did too#but the others?!!?!?#jason todd#jason todd cannot drive#starting that tag now#bruce wayne#alfred pennyworth#dick grayson#tim drake#cassandra cain#damian wayne#steph brown#plus motorcycles usually need a whole nother liscense?!?!?#he's leagally dead i don't think he can get a license#the possibilities are endless#did talia teach him!?!?! another assassin?#or maybe gotham has a lower age limit?#was it a part of bruce's bat training?#did he teach a 14 y/o to drive a motorcycle?#if it does please let me know#batfam#batkids#red hood#dc
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Kingdom Hearts 2 - Twilight Town - Mansion Basement
#kingdom hearts 2#kh2#twilight town#scenery#my gif#when wandering around i felt these rooms looked so cool that i needed to make a set about them#interesting how this area even gets its own custom graphics for the command menu#the room in the second to last gif is my favorite it has such an interesting feel to it but it was difficult to capture that#those pods are so mysterious#the novel hints at who else might have used them and it does make me raise an eyebrow but we haven't gotten anything concrete to back it up#even the pod sora slept in has those weird robot arms at the top... what's that all about#i want to make a post about the rest of the mansion because i have sooo many questions and i'm curious what you guys think about it
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More silly MXTX polls to mull over for the week:
#poll#svsss#mdzs#tgcf#EDIT: JINGLES MISERABLY: I thought this was set for a week...not a day....Sigh......#Thought about doing this just for mdzs but there are too many characters for a proper poll and im not strong enough to do a tournement.#So now its just the main duos (+anyone else who manages to be a strong contender. Freedom of expression and all)#I think its fun to put characters in scenarios! I also think its more interesting to raise the stakes.#You may imagine any situation what gets all 6 into the same room for a Mario Partio Kartio event.#The question is who is the most cringe and fail. For the humour of the situation!#and yes - as always (unless it gets rancid again) I will have a comic for the results at the end of the week <3#This poll is a shout out to people like me who are bad at video games and suffer whenever mario kart comes out at parties.#I mean it with my whole ass that I should not be given a controller.#No I'm not trying to hide my abilities or be humble. Dont do it.#Yes I have played a *lot* of mario kart for the wii. No I'm not good.
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Perihelion is a beautiful name for a baby research transport
#I have so many questions about what the baby version of an AI is like#is it like an actual baby or is it just less sentient? does it have less processing power?#does it get raised already in the transport vessel or is it raised outside of that and put into the ship later on??#I read that one part of that one Martha wells interview last night idk if anyone can tell#I would be drawing rn but I get carsick when I’m not behind the wheel it’s just me n my thoughts#murderbot diaries
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Also minor and likely underinformed complaint but for all that I absolutely love the dynamic in "The Frogs and the Lobsters" I do think it completely erases and simplifies the politics of Brittany at that time and place
#i do think it's delightful that they put in a very clear narrative that the brutality of the aristocracy was bad actually#(and that did come from forester so good for him on that count)#as a side note i think that british navy napoleonic war fiction has a deeply fascinating relationship with the french revolution#but that's a dynamic to unpack in another post#HOWEVER. i think there was a reason that they landed in brittany and i think it did not entirely have to do with geographical proximity#once again i will say that i have very limited knowledge of the french revolution let alone of brittany#but many interesting questions and dynamics are raised there and i wish we could explore them#(someone stop me before i pull out the gramsci)#perce rambles#percy yells at cecil scott#tbf this is yet another unrealistic expectation for boat book and i need to stop doing this :/
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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 7: A. A. Dixon
"'Collins' Clear-Type Press, let me ask you a question.'"
This is a very long post.
This week's edition has, in my research, become quite the edition.
Sadly, this image is the best source for the cover wrapper illustration that I could find.
You are likely familiar with Arthur Augustus Dixon's illustrations for the 1905 Collins Pocket Edition of A Tale of Two Cities. Several of them are very common to find in Internet searches and articles about the book, if not other editions of the book itself.
But the question raised by my research for this week's edition is: Are you familiar with all of them?
Thing is, as the source above states (read the whole article if you have the time, it's very interesting!), Dixon created twelve illustrations for this novel.
And sure enough, this source from the Internet Archive and this source from @oldillustrations (hello!) both have eleven of the same illustrations - with the twelfth presumably being for the wrapper, as seen in this source (previously cited) from the Victorian Web.
Alright, so that's three separate sources, all with (effectively) the same set of elaborate illustrations from 1905. Neat!
...
...but if you start counting...
...you'll notice that this seems...
...like a lot more than twelve!
Basically, there are five illustrations by A. A. Dixon that are completely unaccounted for in any of the three sources previously cited.
For the purposes of this post, the cover wrapper is considered #0 and is not pictured in these banners.
In full-size set of illustrations in this post, this source from Google Books is the source of four of those mystery illustrations:
#3: "'He stared at her with a fearful look.'" #6: "'Drive him fast to his tomb.'" #7: "He said, 'Farewell!'" #12: "'She appeared with folded arms.'" #9 ("'Patriots and friends, we are ready!'") and #11 ("'You are consigned to La Force.'") are sourced from Google Books in the full-size versions in this post simply because the Internet Archive versions of those two illustrations had cropping issues.
To me, this is mystery enough on its own. Why would another version of the book suddenly have more than the originally-stated number of illustrations by this artist? Especially considering that the Google Books source does not have #13 ("''I know you, Evremonde!''") - why would it be missing one of the "main" set?
It gets even more interesting.
As you'll notice in the banner, we're still one off: Keen-eyed observers of the full-size set of illustrations might have already noticed that #14 ("'Carton and the spy returned.'") looks a bit different than the rest of them - a bit like what happened in the previous edition of this series!
That's because that Dixon illustration comes from this completely random source - a post from a blog called the Paperback Palette dating back to 2018 - that I happened across on Google Images of all places while sitting on an airplane trying to set up this post last week!
And to top it all off, that source is missing #6!
At this point, if your first instinct is, reasonably, that perhaps Dixon didn't actually illustrate these extra five and that it was someone imitating him for later editions, then know that that was my instinct too - until I (dare I say it again) checked those signatures!!!
(I edited the colors to prevent flashing.)
All five of those illustrations bear Dixon's signature, so it's safe to assume that they are A. A. Dixon originals - from 1905, even.
Interestingly, #s 1, 10, 13, 15, and 16 don't have signatures! Does this mean anything? Probably not - as an artist myself, I often forget to put my own signature - but still, I can't resist mentioning it!
So the most likely explanation here is simply that the publishing house originally commissioned A. A. Dixon for more than twelve illustrations and then held on to some of them, eventually choosing to publish them in other editions. Still, we can't say for sure.
And as to why some are missing from the more "complete" sets - human error, most likely!
If you scrub through the Google Books source, you'll notice that #s 11 and 12 actually repeat (one even changes color, which I have no explanation for) - it's most likely either that the book was accidentally printed with repeats of #s 11 and 12 where 13 and 14 were supposed to go or that the person scanning this edition made a similar error.
As an aside, it's so interesting that the illustrations are evenly spaced throughout the book - I had not noticed that until now!
And as for the Paperback Palette source, it's most likely that the blogger accidentally skipped over an image while combing through their edition or just glossed over it when posting the batch (I understand that from experience!) We can see this by adding up the letters in some of the illustrations' captions - doing so reveals that the letters are meant to go to P, the sixteenth letter of the alphabet.
Thus, one must be missing! Case closed!
Except... It's actually (going by both the chronology of the book and the order in which this set was found in Google Books) missing the wrong letter! Here, it seems that In the Google Books source, #7 in the full set is given the seventh letter in the alphabet, G - whereas in the Paperback Palette source, "#7" is labeled as the sixth, F:
This implies not only that #6 is absent from the Paperback Palette source but also that there is a missing mystery illustration located between this source's H and K - that is to say, before or after #9!
EXCEPT... For one, this isn't the only inconsistency I've noticed - there are several places where the letters seem shifted in a strange way. I've seen #2 listed as "C" and #9 listed both as "H" and "I2i" (???), just as two examples. (My theory is that the cover wrapper and the frontispiece may be at play here, but who knows?)
More importantly, though, it seems that, for some mysterious reason, all of the sources with relatively consistent use of these letters (i.e. all but the Victorian Web) - even the sources with only eleven interior illustrations - still give #15 in the full set the fifteenth letter, O. Which, of course, may make all of this pretty moot anyway.
Dare I say..."Oh."
Suffice it to say, just as much as major sources like the Internet Archive and Google Books are vital to this sort of research and preservation work, so are smaller websites and bloggers! After all, without the Victorian Web and the Paperback Palette, we as collective netizens likely wouldn't have ever known about the cover wrapper or illustration #14 (not to mention that the versions of the illustrations from the set posted by @oldillustrations have by far the best image quality and standardization that I've found! Please go check them out if you haven't yet!).
As for the reasons behind Collins' Clear-Type Press not publishing all of the illustrations from the beginning (if that's the explanation we're to go with here), I suppose the question I'd like to ask is:
why? why would you put us through this?
& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:
This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫
#A Tale of Two Cities#AToTC#dickens#charles dickens#bookblr#litblr#literature#classic literature#victorian literature#vintage illustration#illustration#illustrators#A. A. Dixon#1900s#UGH oh my GOD oh my GOD this one#like. hours. so many hours.#You Can See Why I'm Late With This One I Think#so yeah based on the pretty consistent thing with the letters I do believe there are very simply 16 interiors & a cover wrapper and no more#but Still like. why. whywhywhy couldn't they just be consistent#and again Why Why Why don't all of the versions just have all of the illustrations!! like hello! What Is Going On#maybe it Is significant that not all of them have Dixon's signature...but even then that raises so many questions#I'm also of course gonna keep my eye out for that cover wrapper because I want to see it in full and it does also confuse me#also check out number16 in a lot of those sources because there's a halo effect on Carton's head that isn't super visible in the one I used#anyway. 1) yes I accidentally said this was the 8th when it's the 7th 2) this month features a two-parter!#3) the results of the previous poll were a tie between Congratulatory and A Plea. the latter of which was my vote so nice work everyone#4) I'm either gonna skip the off-week's post this week and do it double for next time or just post it later in the week this week#so. until next time! & enjoy!
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mild spoilers for the latest episode but
we have so much potential for extended family shenanigans now. occam is d's almost-ex-husband and remold's beloved nephew??? how long were they married? were they all banished because of the divorce?? who is remold's grandchild, and is it somehow through slackjaw?
and that's not even touching on the millennia-long family rivalry, which makes the whole occam-d marriage even funnier. occam and slackjaw are somehow cousins, which means that technically slackjaw and marckus were step-cousins while occam and d were married???
i'll be honest, just thinking of the wedding cracks me up. remold presumably trying not to beat up his beloved nephew's new husband, while slackjaw and marckus were either horrified that they were now related and/or actively trying to murder each other via words and drinking during all of this.
#hunter the parenting#in hindsight no surprise d went for occam btwn the magic and irish martial arts lol#also like. is occam half belgian or is remold his uncle by marriage#is slackjaw's mum irish bc how on earth did she end up having him. does slackjaw also know irish???#tbh it's hilarious either way bc i can see the resemblance (vaguely) btwn remold and occam#but there is *nothing* for occam or remold w slackjaw which just raises so many questions for me lol
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I am once again being haunted by "a paradox" holy fuck Olivia what the fuck is going on here what did you get yourself involved with and what did you do after it speak to me Olivia I can't keep living like this
#rat rambles#oni posting#the second half fills you with the horrors so you forget that the log opened up with that b111-1 bomb#for the record a paradox is one of my favorite lore logs of all of them because its the log that made me go Oh Shit and go reread all the#olivia logs I initially only skimmed through and begun the olivia brain takeover#the second part rewired my brain irreversably like its so fucked I love it#in particular one thing that makes me so fucking glad that the old olivia jackie logs were scrapped is that originally jackie was the one#who printing pod ified olivia to save her from the end of the world or smth#but the change to make it self inflicted? fucking amazing ten million times better and more interesting#especially because it implies she did it on purpose!#which opens up so many doors and I fucking Love it#because the teleportation technology was what she knew of as a method of doing this but either A shed have to have kept using teleporters#anyways and either just count on her not dying or counting On her dying#or shed have to know the link between it and the neural vaculators#which is very possible considering Stuff™ but does raise the question of how she used it#now the boring answer is that her brain map was already taken from the neural vaculator tests but god. that answer is boring.#the most interesting possibility to me personally is that she could have well. tinkered a bit with existing technology.#unlikely? maybe. fun to explore for my purposes? yep.#also I need the peace of knowing that jackie never got the satisfaction of knowing what happened with olivia's dissapearance#or if she did only after the fact#I need this to have been completely out of jackie's viewpoint at the top and I need it to fuck with her and shatter her worldview#I need to see the desperation and paranoia of a woman who is realizing that she has lost control over her technology#I need to see her try to cling onto her past ambitions and sense of control while falling apart at the seams#and I need olivia to have never thought jackie would give a shit until all else but her is dead and gone#do you see my vision do you see it do you see how much more fun it is if it was extremely deliberate instead of only lightly so
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For the ask game: Pathologic of course!! Here are the prompts: Worst Character Death (if any), This made me so happy you have no idea Moment, Saddest Moment, and Favorite Location :):)
Graciaaaas I should’ve specified the questions when I sent you mine :”)
Worst character death: Vera Verba. Her quest was too messy and fascinating to end interrupted. She could’ve easily become a recurring character. Lika got a follow-up with Artemy on day 9 if he lives, and it would’ve meant everything to me if Daniil got one with Vera in which he finds out she’s doing well & she gets to somehow return the favor and :o) but No. The Bachelor’s Route is all about doom & despair
This made me so happy you have no idea moment: Sat on this question for a few minutes; I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced unironic joy during Pathologic. Probably during my first month when everything seemed wonderful & hysterical. Seeing the opening animation of the Termites was a high point. After that, I’d only feel such bliss when I’d cross paths with Teensy (especially if she’d do her little clapping animation AHHH). I wish I was kidding, but I can only remember excitement or amusement at most, not really, “I’m so glad.”
Oh!
The first time Mark Immortell left the theater as far as I’ve seen, when I found him in Maria’s room, and she talks to him instead of the player character. Generally, every allusion the characters make to relationships I’m already invested in. “Aha! I knew you cared about each other!”
Saddest moment: When I spoke to one of those angry-looking girl NPCs I was so used to laughing at, but Artemy asks her, “Have you been crying?” so she breaks down about how her family might have eaten infected meat meaning she can’t go home in case they caught the plague. I wanted to cry. (Then there was meeting the Powers That Be for the first time, which left me upset for an entire day despite the fact that I got the happiest ending.)
Favorite location: I wish I had a word to sum up Capella’s wing in the Lump. I also love Clara’s bedroom in the Saburov mansion for what it represents. Ultimately, I can’t describe to you the wonder and inexplicable nostalgia I felt when I entered the town from the Steppe for the first time and the architecture’s aesthetic seemed to escape words yet feel so familiar, like out of a storybook both timeless and specific to an era.
#Pathologic#grazie for asking rose!!#edit: what makes me really queasy to my stomach about vera’s quest is that it raises many questions about her life with var but doesn’t give#her a chance to explore what her life could be like outside it. what hope there is for her. but then again idk how much happier the#alternative would be. it’s so clear she’s hypersexual as a trauma response for what var did to her & the disorder went unchecked#i’m ill. god.
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Guilt
Sometimes, Peter feels guilty.
He knows he shouldn't, because the skipped lab days with Tony and missed dinners with May, and all the little lies and excuses he's told them to ease their worries, are really for the greater good - a fact he has been told time and time again by his superiors. But no matter how much he tells himself this, he can't stop feeling guilty about all of it.
As he bids May a hasty goodbye, throwing his backpack over his shoulder, that same guilt threatens to crush him once again. He almost wants to stay, to have dinner with his aunt like he had promised he would. But he can't.
He hopes he doesn't have a mission tomorrow night, so he can make it up to her.
He steps into the alley outside his apartment, where two men are waiting for him. They hand him a folder, he skims over the information, and he hands it back. They leave without another word.
He quickly climbs onto the roof and changes into the clothes he brought with him. The mask - the final piece of his uniform - slides over his mouth, and he finds the familiarity comforting. Unlike his Spider-Man mask, which always seems so suffocating, it covers just enough of his face to keep him anonymous. He prefers this mask, and wishes he could use it instead. But he can't, because it isn't Spider-Man's.
The mission is quick, far quicker than most. The file had included the likely locations of the target, and Peter finds the man right away. The target is in an unprotected building. All it takes is one shot from Peter's gun, and the man is dead. No one sees him leave the rooftop he took the shot from, and he makes it home without incident.
He changes back into his civilian clothing, tucking his uniform and weapons back into his bag, and goes into the apartment. May is waiting for him, and he rattles off some story of what he had done, the lies falling easily from his tongue. He tells her nothing of his mission.
He does have dinner with her that night, even though it's late. He has dinner with her the next night, too. He still doesn't feel like it quite makes up for his repeated absences, especially with how strained May's smile always looks.
He tries not to feel guilty about all of the lies and excuses he tells her. It's for the greater good, after all. Everyone he kills in Hydra's name deserves it, and their absence from this world makes the lives of everyone else better. But he knows May won't see it that way; not many people do.
Maybe someday, he can tell her the truth. But for now, he lies.
And despite knowing that what he's doing is what's best for her and everyone he cares about, he feels guilty about it all.
#marvel#hydra peter parker#peter parker#may parker#hydra peter is an obsession#i love aus where he actually believes that hydra is right and killing for them is okay#he doesnt really know any better#idk how peter ended up with may while still being in hydra#or even why hydra is letting him stay with may#i have. a lot of hydra peter aus#most of them are pretty well thought out#this one is not#i just had a desire to write a prompt#i don't think this qualifies as a prompt anymore#but oh well#anyway i always die inside a little when hydra peter just#doesnt really want to kill#like this boi has been trained to kill#by a bunch of insane killers#hes not gonna question that because he was raised with hydra's beliefs#he is going to kill people and be fine with it#and no hate to the fics where he doesnt want to kill and stuff#because i do love those and read them a lot#this is just my personal hc for this au and id like to see it more#hydra peter has so much potential and so many possibilities#id love to see someone differ from the norm with this au more often#idk maybe its just me but i love assassins and morally gray characters#so even when peter sees just how wrong hydra was#hes still not some goody two shoes hero#he isnt afraid to seriously maim and/or kill people
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i continue to find ii3 baffling. why did they make it (this isn't to hate on the season, i'm genuinely curious)
#melonposting#this isn't meant to be ii neg by the way. i'm just confused about AE's writing choices#i don't remember if they ever said explicitly? at the very least i haven't heard an official answer#i don't think it was initially for any plot reason. my theory is that it's for the same reason bfb and tpot split#the episodes were taking really long to make and they wanted to go back to regular lighthearted uploads. which is understandable#so while ii2 was cooking they could still post new ii episodes with reasonable frequency#but that also raises so many questions#the biggest: why the hell is mephone here#seriously i know people like mephone but i'm sure having a different host wouldn't turn literally everyone off#and mephone hosting this show causes so many strange easily avoidable problems#like the screwy timeline. mephone ditches his show for what he experiences to be years and yet ii2 is continuing like normal#only a day has passed for them. why? maybe they'll try to explain it#in any event if ii3 had a different host this wouldn't even be an issue#but then they made ii3 really plot heavy for mephone which then ended up screwing itself over#the season justified itself as being mephone trying to escape from his problems#and he goes through character development to address all of his baggage and how much of a jerk he can be#that suddenly makes what seems to have been meant to be a lighthearted offshoot season into an imperative piece of his character (bizarre)#which would inevitably make his return to ii2 really weird cuz that would mean he had his redemption arc basically off-screen#but then they didn't even do that????? in the new episode mephone is still his old bastard self. nothing like late ii3 mephone#which means that they're effectively retconning ii3's plot out of existence. as it is ii 15 barely acknowledged anything specific from ii3#but this in particular is especially absurd. ii2 can continue like normal only because they're acting like ii3 never happened#which is just insane to me. why even give mephone character development in ii3 to begin with???????#why does ii3 even exist????????????????????? his character development is literally the in-universe justification for the season#i'm so confused#i'm just glad ii2 can proceed like normal :thumbsup: but these are seriously some puzzling writing decisions
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