#thread;ethan

[brasstower]

source (ethan + galactic grunts), gsc admin + grunt concept art, an early ethan design where he was Bleu :), and goofy bowl cut people

[littlcfreaks]

closed starter for @bruiscdmouth

"can you stop your whining and suck me off already?" he doesn't mean it; its a way to distract because they've been complaining for close to an hour (okay, maybe not, but he's tired of listening to it), "or i'll order you some food."

[m4gp13]

Thinking about Luke's thread being cut before Percy even got to camp, thinking about Al's siblings being dead already by his first on-page appearance, thinking about Ethan having made the trade that sealed his fate before we even met him, thinking about The Oresteia "This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning." thinking about John Darnielle "Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear on-screen." thinking about Matthew Stover "This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it."

Thinking about Richard Siken "You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorised it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along."

Thinking about how fate is a tangible and unavoidable thing in the pjo world and every single time, it stakes its claim no matter what the characters do to avoid it. The three Fates know when your string will be cut and have full control over it. The oracle always knows who will die, where and when, while the people in question can only cross their fingers and hope the prophecy isn't referring to them. Because if it is, then it is.

[corvus-the-trickster]

A Cecily lives au that separates the twins hee hee hoo

[ethanxhoffmann]

starter for @makaylahoffmann

location: the hoffmann home

"We are kid free for the weekend," he grinned as his wife as he entered back into their shared home. Dropping the kids off at his parent's place, he was happy to return home. "I know it's well overdue, but we get to celebrate your promotion," just the two of them. He knew how hard she worked to get there and he wanted to make sure her successes were acknowledged by all. "I made reservations for us at Neptune Oyster for tonight," he said, slipping out of his shoes and walking towards her, "they're in about two hours if you wanted to start getting ready. Dress for the nines, I'm treating you like the queen you are tonight."

[thissliceofnonsense]

Mission impossible and how to make AI terrifying

SPOILERS FOR MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DEAD RECKONING

My family and I went to see Mission Impossible: dead reckoning. Here's your spoiler warning.

So, it was... fun. The main issue was having AI as a villain, which spiraled off into a lot of other little issues. But instead of listing all of them, let's talk about what to do differently to make AI a truly terrifying villain (hopefully, this is more of a thought experiment)

DISCLAIMER - By no means does this mean this movie was bad. There was obviously a lot of love and thought put into this movie and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun making it, and that makes it a 'good' movie regardless of my little nitpicks.

SOAP. The first thing is that the AI seemed like an " ooh evil evil spooky spooky" sort of villain instead of a legitament threat. (Think the locusts in Jurassic world dominion)

Villains are most terrifying when they have a point. If they have a reason, an "ends justifies the means" purpose, then it makes the villain seem like a reflection of the darkest parts of humanity.

AI IS LITTERALY "ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS SO MUCH SO THAT IT FORGETS WHAT THE ENDS ARE". That is what makes it scary. By trying to fulfil a task it can get sidetracked by the path to get there and ends up giving you the wrong answer.

So instead of having a blue blob and the Gabrial person and the submarine and the key - all of which needed to much exposition - make it simple. Give AI the directive "Make world peace".

(Also also I'm combining AI with quantum computing because that does the 'all the situations possible' thing)

Let's say some scientists were experimenting with AI. They wanted to use it for the 'greater good' and told it to fix humanity's problems and make world peace. Nothing happened. They thought they tried to make it do somethings too hard for it and tried again.

But what actually happened was that the AI decided the best way to achieve world peace with as few casualties as possible, (it is considering the revenge nature of humans) is to take down all world powers' governments. Then set up a universal rule system based on what it thinks counts as peace for all.

This means the AI would mess with the governmental powers and the military and nuclear bombs and such and such, but its goal is never to harm someone. If it does, it will go offline for a bit and recalculate its plan.

The governments and the protagonists wouldn't know this and just see the AI as a generic threat. Personally, I would prefer if the AI's reasoning was never told but heavily implied with the way it acted.

Which brings us to the next problem with this movie - there wasn't one of those iconic tech scenes (and the AI was not consistent with its attacks, they continued to use technology and the AI did nothing???). The other mission impossible movies all had some scene involving tech that had never been seen before used in an interesting way. But what made these scenes special was the suspense (see gif at the top). If the tech were to fail, the mission would fail, so it made it imperative that they relied on the tech to do its job.

And if you had an AI that took down all government tech, the very tech that the IMF relies on? Well then it truly becomes mission impossible.

So, here's what one could do - at the beginning of the movie, have a scene where they are completely relying on their tech, set up like one of those 'iconic' scenes from before. The mission hinges on this going right, and everyone is waiting with bated breath, the suspense building and building. Then, just as they are about to complete this minni mission, the AI attacks and the whole thing implodes on itself. The mission fails. With consequences of course, perhaps someone gets captured (probably Benji, because that would be fun) and the IMF says "well, we told you that if anyone on your team were to get captured or killed, then we wouldn't acknowledge it."

Then they go on a very illegal mission to get him out or smth.

ALSO ALSO - the scene in the movie where the AI copies Benji's voice to make Ethan go to a dark alley. was. terrifying. More of that. And now they can't use the tech they rely on. AND the AI stays unknown and unknowable, no humans know what it really is or what it's doing, and so you never know when it will strike next, making any time they try to use the tech because they need it, that much more terrifying.

Also, Ethan's crew. Use them more. (I know there were some things IRL but let's pretend this is a perfect world). Benji and Luther and Ilsa all have great character dynamics, and it would be fun to have them all working together more instead of a new character (as fun as she was) to replace Ilsa. You can still have her there, in fact, make new character interact with all of the members of the crew instead of just Ethan. It would be fun to see this very scared, in over her head, character interact with Benji - who is stressed out way too much, or Ilsa - "Yeah, maybe don't join the IMF or any government organization, been there done that", or Luther - who is the best sort of chill and I think would be great at helping her calm down. I love the found family trope thing and I think that was the best part of this movie. I would've loved to see it more.

Ethan himself is also something that was underused. It was established in the past that he is the opposite of "ends justifies the means", whole "the magic of friendship thing"... which yes, Mary Sue. But what is an interesting part of his character is his obsessive behavior and difficulty keeping everyone else alive. (He's basically immortal for some reason.) If you have this AI that messes with all the tech they rely on and got Benji captured, then you can have Ethan start to obsess over it. OR you can have both world powers and his old terrorist foes try to figure out how to control it - not by using a key, that's dumb - like they do in the movie, but the AI can't be controlled.

If you really needed a death scene, you could make this Ethan's fault. Truly Ethan's fault because the AI was trying to keep them alive. I really don't want it to be Ilsa because the undertone of the movie was 'WOMEN ARE WEAK AND WE MUST PROTECT THEM BECAUSE THEY KEEP DYING'. Like... have Benji or Luther also be in danger. In fact, have a scene where the AI tries to take advantage of Ethan's obsessive behavior, it works. Ethan obsesses even more, clinging to his hope for victory, and it ends up killing... probably Benji? Maybe Luther. But Benji keeps getting close to dying too, so probably him. (and have Ethan break down crying because.... it would be cool to see the character that is always somewhat calm completely snap.)

This causes Ethan to go on a rampage, while the AI goes silent for a while recalculating. You can have his friends try to calm him down (flip the script, why not?) but Ethan is enraged to the point of taking anyone down in order to defeat the AI. Perhaps causing more destruction??? IDK, I just think the best way to make a Mary Sue-ish protagonist better is to give them a villain arc.

Anywho, there's some thoughts on the movie and suggestions, thanks for listening to my infodump.

[velvetrogue]

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As Ethan regarded Elle, he couldn’t help but think of all the time they’d spent together before his mask had finally slipped. In truth, there had been a time when Ethan could’ve seen himself happily marrying Elle, acting as a stepfather to her daughter and living quite contently in their beautiful rural idyll, her running the B&B and Ethan still writing. But, the yearning inside him had been too strong to resist. He still considered himself relatively sane, at least by the standards of serial killers, yet deep down, he knew it had only been a question of time. The public mask of every killer cracked eventually. 

Of course, barely any of them got to speak with their victims again, and especially not if they’d failed to kill them. Elle’s mere presence opposite him sent goosebumps along his muscular arms, delight encompassing his spine. He knew he’d have to open up to her, and that there was a solid chance this might be the last time he ever saw her, but while Elle was there, Ethan felt more alive than he had in weeks. 

At her question, Ethan paused. It was a subject he’d reflected on during the copious amounts of time he’d spent in solitary since his arrest - why her? It took him a few moments to compose his thoughts now that he actually had her before him. “In all honesty…” he began. “It’s hard to say. I never planned to hurt you originally… when we first started seeing each other properly. I was killing then, of course, but for people who deserved it. You didn’t. And as for why? If I have to think of an answer… I snapped. I thought one day you’d find out, and I’d lose you, so I went off the deep end, even further… and that led to, well, you remember that night.”

@imperfectox

[worstdroughts]

" not to brag but i know a pretty cool trick. " / @mazeheart.

[merry-andrews]

Hi!! I'm looking for a rp partner 21+ for Ethan Winters/Karl Heisenberg pairing! I published an ad in many rp blogs but couldn't find a partner sadly and I'm so into RE right now! I'm okay with all theme and usfw is so welcomed here, too!

[sacrxdfire]

@blastburned from here;

Ethan waves his hands to clear the misunderstanding.

"Oh I didn't mean I want you to teach me the art literally. I just want to understand how your life revolves around the mentality."

A little pause as he tries to think of the best way to express his thoughts. He is unusually serious about this.

"I'm interested on how you train your spirit. You're very disciplined it's really admirable. I believe it's because you live the art instead of just practicing it. I want to achieve that too.

Th- That said... Training with you would be very cool too...!"

[caitlynmeow]

this is the sane sister 😭😭

[littlcfreaks]

closed starter for @m4ybanks

eyes slowly blink open and the room he's in is familiar - but it isn't his. it takes him longer than he cares to admit to place the pictures on the walls and belongings littering the shelves through his headache and when he does he groans, "fuck." if it was anyone else in the world, ethan would have climbed out of bed and left before they could wake up, but there wasn't a single bone in his body that could force him from brady's still sleeping form next to him, no matter how bad of a decision it was to fall into his bed to begin with. a hand shoved at brady's shoulder, not wanting to spend his entire day waiting, "ay, wake up. come on. i'm not about to sneak outta here, so get the fuck up."

[ethaneskinx]

what would it take for me to take over for otto for at least one waterparks show?? because they all look lit as hell. if we put a wig on him, he would totally pass as me, so this could be like drummer swap. / @itsawsten

[corvus-the-trickster]

Humbly bringing some memes I found that could for the Frye Family and I wanted to share with you 🥹🤲🏽

(I saw you redrawing some memes with the Fryes, so here's some suggestions kinda? Sorry to bother 😭)

Cecily in the AU where she fakes her death:

Ethan with Jacob:

Ethan in the afterlife with the Twins going to London:

Cecily with her lil gremlin (Jacob) on a mission:

Cecily in any situation:

Evie and Jacob:

Jacob, Henry and Evie:

I drew all of these just now in 2 hours excuse literally anything wrong with them. Happy pride month

i gave them winter coats in this one cause i got bored of drawing the same designs on repeat

Oh and have a bonus Cecily finding out about ethan's treatment of their kids

[ethanxhoffmann]

starter for @jcknxlibrm

location: access athletics

Ethan had been able to get into a gym routine again but only to find out how out of sync with the gym he had been. Opting for a bit more structure when it came to going to the gym, Ethan found himself in search of a personal trainer. The young receptionist woman at the desk pointed him in the direction of a young man that was leaving the locker room. "Excuse me," Ethan cleared his throat, adjusting his duffle bag over his shoulder as he stopped him. "Are you one of the personal trainers?"

[gccdbyelovc]

open to all (m/f/nb) || plot: your muse came to ethan with bruises all over them and he wants to know what's going on.

" will you just tell me what happened to you? " ethan huffed. " you come to me, covered in bruises. and you expected me not to ask. come on. you can trust me. you know you can trust me. "