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[glaciescustodia]

Abyssal War Involvement. (Paimon HC)

Note: this is thread related and thereby Canon to this blog even if the thread is on the pause at the moment.

General gist.

Would 100% recommend reading over the thread i have on hold on with lady-haborym to get a grasp of how official her presence in the in-game War had been rather than staying on the wayside, helpless and simply leaving all the bulk to Lumine/Aether.

Well them and anyone else who gave their all.

Vouching.

Paimon may not have spoken herself to any of the Tribe Chiefs on mutual ground but her existence and overall presence as a independent individual has become that of acknowledgement. As it stands, Wayna was the first to vouch for her, leading the pixie in having a temporary seat at the war table.

If not for her fighting prowess at current, then for her loyalty to the Traveler (whichever twin).

She may not have outstanding deeds to speak of but it never deterred her from wanting to do all she can without any sort of recognition, atleast not on official capacity.

Validated proposal.

One of the biggest suggestion Paimon brought to the table, was maybe on the risky side but it came with an advantage. Much to the arguments over such a move to pull off; blowing off bridges that surrounded the Stadium was the proposal set down.

Risky as it was, removing blind spots and leaving ennemies (those with no aerial mobility), to congregrate in one spot, (the main road), potentially removed blindspots and ambushes, regardless of the opening portals, if to defend the Archon and those sheltered at the Arena after rescue operations.

However, since it was her idea to begin with, Paimon gladly helped in regard to the reconstruction of the bridges post the Abyssal War the people faced.

Involvement itself.

If to cover more ground, if to do more than simply watching like she has once before, there was no time to sit back and leave everything to Lumine (essentially the twin i default to).

Therefore, they split up during that time, if to increase chances in saving Natlanians, all those that were at reach, this include the general wildlife and the Saurians, & not to forget the Fatui under Capitano's command.

She may have been given a temporary spot at the Table but she, nonetheless, fully intended to be on the field of battle. After all, words that time and time again, came up, became ingrained in Paimon herself.

No one fights alone.

The Scions becoming targeted because of their courier role as seen in-game, became a breaking point, leaving Paimon to set sight of this Tribe's location, if to eradicate the swarm of monsters on their homeground and rescue anyone that barricaded themselves to safety up there.

Personal drive.

As per her Canon Divergence post, the muse sudden growth spurt and unlocking of all sort of hidden abilities, happened around the Inazuma AQs and it is where her personal drive to do something, anything at all, stems from.

Watching innocents go at each others throat, real lives that could no longer get back up again, on the beach battle with Sara's force, gave that drive to Paimon, the drive to protect and fight.

Having friends like Gorou and Kokomi, among other military-esque figures, certainly helped Paimon on an analytical front and to an extent, in the art of battle.

If she can save people this time, if she can protect anyone at all, then protect she will.

This said, she had also helped in the aftermath of what Fontaine had to suffer from, wheter in the Court or rescue efforts for those that had been misplaced during the flood.

[carolinanadeau]

"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

[ky-landfill]

If ya in the mood: can you do Kon, kid jon and kid Chris please or whenever you can?

Kent household unearthed camcorder footage

[charlienitram]

🎶 I JUST WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONY!!! 🎶

Look at them!!! Levy loving her big tough Prime! Megatronus is so happy to be with her!!

🎨: @snowiiarts

[manofbeskar]

i always think about how interesting it is for mihawk to keep saying he wants to live a peaceful life, but he has never once passed up an opportunity to run into danger. like his past of hunting marines, and then getting excited when he was getting hunted by marines again after marineford. he moved to a war-torn island inhabited by violent humandrills. he sought out shanks daily for at least a decade for duels. sure he has calming hobbies like gardening, but his actions show him as a man who lives for exciting places and people

i also think sometimes about the possibility that mihawk thought of (and still thinks) of shanks as the only real option for the pirate king. mihawk doesn't care to have the title himself despite being one of the leading pirates at the time (since the golden pirate age had barely started) and standing quite a good chance. compared to shanks, mihawk has more experience leading a grand line voyage. shanks then would have no experience leading a crew or successfully charting a voyage to the grand line himself. mihawk saw shanks's potential for greatness and believed in it, duelled him every day and watched his power grow stronger—to the point of shanks even developing a haki that directly opposes his own (and being the only known user of it so far, so there's a possibility he invented it from how much time he was spending with mihawk?) as roger's son, maybe mihawk expected that, while shanks wasn't ready at the time to find the one piece, that he will be in the future. he's helped shanks grow a reputation (since shanks got famous from how often he was fighting mihawk), grow in power (anti-observation haki and improved swordsmanship over the years). he's watched shanks's crew grow over the years (since there's a chance he might've known shanks before he even recruited his first crewmate)

the big betrayal comes when shanks gave up his arm because of his belief in luffy being able to be pirate king someday. because to mihawk, the title has always belonged to shanks. he's bet everything on him. he's the one who sought him out daily for a decade. he's the one who's helped him hone his skills. he's the one who believed in him when most of the world didn't even know who he was. and now shanks threw away all of that for a little boy? so mihawk stopped duelling him because there's no point if shanks isn't as invested in this as he is. but shanks still had hope mihawk would eventually return, possibly because he may not be aware of how much mihawk believed in his potential >> when mihawk came back with luffy's poster, shanks for some reason still thinks mihawk wants to fight him, even though mihawk just says he lost interest many years ago

mihawk also refuses to fight shanks on other people's orders. and even when he was fighting shanks regularly, despite their duels being so wracked with power that whitebeard said the grand line would shake, somehow shanks never leaves with so much as a scratch on his person. didn't whitebeard even say he thought his scars were given by mihawk? and yet as far as we know, mihawk and shanks have never had any real intention to hurt each other, and have never done so. mihawk left marineford after being ordered to attack shanks, and then questioned buggy for thinking he would attack shanks (and the other emperors) for him >> if even a little part of him still believes in shanks's potential to be pirate king, there's really no reason for him to hinder his progress. adding on that, as shanks doesn't seem to have any interest in competing for mihawk's title of greatest swordsman, mihawk also has no interest in competing for his as the pirate king. they've avoided each other's goals the whole time

mihawk also tells zoro "when a man like you throws away his pride, it is always for someone else" (when he begs mihawk to train him so he can protect luffy). maybe i'm reading too much into this one, but i always thought it was an interesting detail to throw in that mihawk apologises to shanks when he decides to attack luffy. he apologises even though shanks is not there yet, and specifically apologises because he is not going to hold back. it almost implies he has promised shanks to hold back on luffy and his crew—more likely that shanks might've requested this of mihawk when they celebrated his bounty than mihawk volunteering to do so lol. mihawk cares a lot about pride. when he first fights zoro, he humiliates him by not going all out and using kogatana. he apologises to mock zoro. he's cocky and prideful. mihawk doesn't apologise for doing anything because he feels he has nothing to be sorry for. he does whatever he wants, and everyone lets him because he's strong. yet his apology to shanks at marineford could imply he agreed to stand back. and his sincere apology to a man who isn't there, about being unable to continue holding back his power... idk to me that reads as something mihawk would consider shameful. mihawk enjoys being powerful and unstoppable, yet here he is apologising for that because of shanks —who again isn't even there to hear it!

this even ties into my "theory" (i say theory in quotation marks bc honestly it's more of a hope than something i seriously believe in) that mihawk may eventually leave the cross guild and join up with the red hair pirates—either because he's secretly been their swordsman the whole time, and why the RHP has never had a swordsman on the crew (in terms of rank like zoro, not just people who wield swords) or he feels this is his best option—to find the one piece. because if he stays with the cross guild, he'll have to find the OP for buggy who he thinks is a fucking idiot. if he has to find the OP no matter what, mihawk might prefer to spend his efforts on the same man he's believed in from the very start. also just think about how everything we know about mishanks's rivalry is all hearsay from other characters and behind-the-scenes stuff, and we haven't seen either of them go all out yet. just imagine when we finally get that, it's them teaming up. the world's most legendary rivalry teaming up to find the most coveted treasure. i think that'd scare everyone, pirate and marine alike (and not to throw in non-canon stuff here but i mean... mishanks vs the straw hats is already a battle that exists in one of the games 👀 )

and to tie it back to the first paragraph here. because mihawk can't run in the opposite direction of what excites him. and he has spent the past decade trying to find someone who excites him more than shanks. and he has very clearly failed. marineford ended with mihawk being excited to return to his past of when marines used to chase him, and maybe he could be excited too at the prospect of returning to the only man who ever made him feel alive

idk idk i have a lot of thoughts about them!!!! you can tell i'm very brainrotful about them!!!

[booxed]

rui has a heavily modded samsung s20 with 2 terabytes of storage and %300 battery

[foryoupeko]

Why is it that whenever ppl write Peko without Fuyuhiko it’s always Fuyuhiko being an apathetic asshole and Peko having an existential crisis for ten pages.

Fanon Peko: What do I do? The Young Master doesn’t need me, and I only know how to be a tool! If only a potential love interest could come and teach me how to be a stereotypical happy teenage girl!

Canon Peko: (Goes to parties, bakes with the girls, goes on walks on the beach, that bitch loves swimming) I hope the Young Master doesn’t stay in his room the whole day

Ppl don’t know how to write Peko without defining her by her trauma / doesn’t think Peko is worth writing unless it’s to fix her, and it really shows.

[comeforthepizza]

//Implied r-slur.

Hey, so I know the Tumblr Rock-afire fandom has kind of always embraced the Aaron Fechter hate, but can we please address the fact that he just did the closest thing to calling Dook an ableist slur on the Internet? And essentially called Duke Chauppetta the same thing because Dook's voice and personality are based heavily on himself?

As a ND person who relates heavily to Dook's struggles to keep up with conversations, to pick up on social cues, to being "slow to the take" when beneath it all I'm still a very smart, self-actualized person, I've said it a million times and I'll say it again: FUCK Aaron Fechter.

[mxchineherald]

[closed starter for @runes-menagerie.]

 It had already been a busy day. He’d recorded a lecture, pressed the tin plate to copy it for his archives, run several stacks of paper work from office to office, gotten stalled by at least three professors trying to cover for their students’ late assignments, and fetched the dean of the academy’s poro from its grooming appointment. All that on top of his usual classes.

 He was exhausted, but he had to keep working.

 Now he was assisting Professor Heimerdinger in welcoming the latest students to their freshly renovated west wing, which handled general scientific education. He stood more heavily against is cane, his leg giving him those numb shocks it liked to when it was running on fumes. Just a little longer, he told himself.

 Oh, but the professor was going on and on. He sounded like he could be talking for hours about the luxuries and advancements in education they had afforded to them, and how past generations of students had all come and shared the same experience. At least he didn’t have to do the talking. He had horrid stage fright. He let out a little sigh and looked sidelong, letting his eyes graze over the crowd of faces.

 “Alright, Viktor!” Heimerdinger said with a clap. “Hand out all these academy maps to our newest wave of geniuses!” Before he could say a word, a stack of thick, printed maps was shoved into his free arm. “I’m off to the Council for a meeting!” Heimerdinger said with a wave as he trotted off, his poro following close behind.

 He saw the crowd approaching him and froze up like a statue. This was dangerously close to public speaking. Just enough to set off his nerves. He didn’t have a free hand to pass the maps out, so he just stood there like a glorified shelf, watching each one of their faces as they came and took a slip off the stack. “E-ehh… Welcome,” he would say occasionally if they stared at him for long enough. It was all so agonizingly awkward.

 He hadn’t seen her yet – not past the crowds. She would have to come up to him for a map, to get his attention.

[arom-antix]

The brainrot has momentarily concluded

[jennystahl]

People trying to justify their dislike for Wyll (gross) seem to forget that he is a folk hero first and foremost. He's only a warlock BECAUSE he's a folk hero. He was so loyal to his family and city at such a young age that he was willing to sell his soul to a devil just to save them. It's not just an "evil" (debatable that warlocks are supposed to be evil) thing thrown in to give him an edge.

He (and his warlock class) isn't written as a "subversion" of the paladin trope. (Nor is he supposed to be like Alistair which is a stupid ass take.) Wyll is a knightly character with loyalty as his main trait who is also a fun guy. He isn't "goofy", he's charming; you know...like a knight. If you don't like him because you don't care for nice characters who want to do good, fine. That's a reasonable excuse. But it's unfair to try to twist it into him being a poorly written character because that just isn't true.

All of the main origin characters in BG3 are suffering under the thumb of someone who abuses and/or uses them. Wyll's is Mizora, a devil he turned to to save the people he loved. Not JUST because he wanted magic powers.

Also the justifications that say they don't care about him because he isn't tied to the main story—neither is Astarion 😐

[apollos-boyfriend]

i’ve seen way too many people angry/annoyed at ena5 for the handling of mizuki, largely with the sentiment that it “does nothing to make people stop calling mizuki a boy” and while i would’ve loved to have had mizuki outright say “i am transgender” the sad fact of the matter is that having her state that still wouldn’t have stopped people from calling her a man. the people who call mizuki a boy/crossdresser are not doing it because they genuinely believe that is mizuki’s arc. they are doing it to be transphobic, and would only double-down in an honestly much worse way. it’s what happened with bridget guiltygear. the only thing that could stop things is if mizuki was confirmed to be a cis woman, however, it’s very blatantly obvious that’s not the case. it’s sad and infuriating but the reality is these people are just doing it to be vile and no canon confirmation would change that because they are, at their core, transphobic assholes

[antaripirate]

another one from the drafts

[dalekinapaintedparadise]

Stumbled upon a Reddit thread (don't ask) where people still whine and bitch about having to pick the "Nah, fucked that up too," dialogue option at the Oil fields to have a good relationship with Johnny. Saying that it needs to get fixed, calling it 'antagonizing' him, further proving that they don't understand him or his friendship with V at all. Sorry, but what's still not clicking? Holding him accountable for what he did and being honest with him is the only way you can have a good relationship with him for a reason.

It's not scolding him, it's not being mean, it's just V telling him 'No, what you did hurt me and I can't trust you anymore.' And he needs that, he needs someone who won't let him get away with the shit he does, he needs someone who is honest with him and won't just agree with everything he says so that he can grow and change. He knows he royally messed up, but he needs to hear that from V too. How do you expect V to have a true friendship with him if they just let him walk all over them and act like he did nothing wrong and everything's fine?

And it makes sense that the devs chose this as the secret ending unlocker because you can't have them storm Arasaka Tower together in full synergy when some parts of them are still at odds with each other.

Listen, I love Johnny as much as we all do here, but he needs to be called out when he messes up, and that's that.

[charlienitram]

Levy: "Look Megatronus! I found something funny in Zeta Primes report!"

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YES!!! MORE LEVNUS ART!!! Look at these two reading reports to eachother!! I wonder what she found that was so funny? 🤔

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[pastaxandria]

The Red Thread: Chapter 161

The Library of Pastaxandria has recorded for its archives: Chapter 161 of The Red Thread.

Ship: Matt Murdock x F!Reader

Chapter Summary:

With it came a sound, one only you seemed to hear. It was a sound you’d never forgotten, one you’d had the misfortune of hearing just once during a terrifying, panicked drive down a rural highway in Texas: a steadily building roar, one you could feel resonating inside your chest; the crackling pop and snap of dry trees and buildings catching light beneath a sudden rising heat and floating embers; the wild gusting of twisting winds heavy with smoke and charred ash that fell like flakes of snow onto cracked streets. The cavalry was coming, and oh, was that cavalry furious. Or: in which 5 muggers have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Wordcount: 5.6k

Warnings for this chapter: blood, canon-typical violence, lil bit of implied gore, scary sexy grr grr feral devil

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