#ugh their story killed me in the games and in the show it ripped my heart out and is watching me bleed
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No, ok its been almost 24 hrs since I watched episode 5 of The Last of Us and I really can't stop thinking about it. SPOILERS
Like can you imagine living in and growing up in a QZ that is notorious around the country for having some of the lowest of the low FEDRA soldiers, ones that are known to dish out harsh and cruel punishments, who rape and murder for little reason. Then you find a bit of hope in a man running a resistance, who's trying to make the QZ a better, safer place for the people, someone you find that you can look to, a good leader. But oh no, suddenly your younger brother, who already has a disability that limits him greatly in the world you live in, suddenly has leukemia and the only way you can get medicine that will help him is if you trade someone else's life for his own. Imagine having to grapple with that guilt, with having to make yourself decide between your only family left and a man you see as one of the few good ones left, and ultimately deciding to save your brother. And it works, your brother is safe, healed and no longer sick, but now you're hated by pretty much everybody. So when shit goes down and the resistance led by the man's sister takes over, you know you have to leave because once again, you're brother's life is in danger, so you do whatever you have too, including going into tunnels that are known to have infected and recruit a man you've never met but can tell is very dangerous just from what you've seen. And well things go well, you get through the tunnels without fighting any infected, you've heard your brother laugh and seen him have fun for the first time in who knows how long, things are looking up. But boom, everything goes to shit in a blink of an eye, a whole army shows up lead by the sister, you beg for her to let your brother go and she just sneers about kids dying everyday and that maybe he was meant to die. And welp, boom again, shit gets worse and he'll pretty much unleashes before your eyes and you watch as the infected start taking down everyone around you. But you do make it out, some how unscathed and you feel like the luckiest man on the planet, your brother is here, alive and happy, you get an offer to go to Wyoming with the man that you've teamed up with, everything feels like its gonna be okay for the first time since ever.....what you don't expect is the next morning to wake up to your brother trying to claw and bite at the girl you'd been traveling with, the girl he'd made friends with. You don't expect things to happen so fast and to act on instinct as you shoot your only family, your only reason to keep pushing for better. The kid you've raised and loved and cherished and fought to save time and time again in what felt like a constant uphill battle. You never expected this. You thought you were safe, that HE was safe. What was it all? Nothing? Every decision, every hard choice, every sacrifice for this to be the way he went.....
Idk, just as someone with 2 younger sisters that I played a big role in raising and trying to protect, I can relate to Henry....and I know that I too wouldn't be able to go on if that happened to me, especially if it was by my hand.....
#sorry for the long post#i just have alot of thoughts#like i cant imagine going through the apocalypse and dealing w/ a family member getting cancer#and doing something ik will eat at me for the rest of my days to heal them#but i do it and they do heal#but only for them to turn#only for everything to seem null and void#like the universe shrugged and said he wasnt meant to go on#he wasnt meant to survive#your decisions were for nothing#ugh their story killed me in the games and in the show it ripped my heart out and is watching me bleed#anyway ill stop now#tlou#the last of us#sam and henry#henry and sam#sam tlou#henry tlou#tlou spoilers
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Opinions on the Sols from Nine Sols immediately. Please. Your au is delish.
Keep in mind these are my very off-the-top-of-my-head, surface level impressions of them after having recently beaten the game on story mode once, while streaming. I wonāt be giving any deep analysis or anything lol so the tone will be pretty jokey and unserious.
MAJOR major Nine Sols spoilers under the cut. Please do not read if you havenāt finished the game.
Kuafu: second favorite character. I love him so much. Heās such a pal, everybody likes him. Hou Yi left him as the final sun standing after shooting down the other nine cuz heās just a stand up guy. The fact that heās the one who pled keep Abacus around and set his settings to High Sympathy and kept coming in to talk to him out of guilt over what happened to Yi kills me. Smart, silly, handsome, the last remaining Solarian in existence and he can never go home for the remainder of his life. Heās my ride or die bestie, heās one of my several husbands who babysit my little brother while I go off on a revenge murder spree and Iām kissing him on the mouth.
Goumang: I like her design and concepts and think sheās a fun character. She was the first boss I fought and i thought she was pretty fun, though I didnāt find the fight as memorable as others. I wish she had more presence throughout the game, I heard from a friend she had some more stuff that was cut apparently? Curious about her rivalry with Yi and relationship with Eigong. And since Yi technically never killled her Iāve considered including her in the Dont Worry About It AU.
Yanlao: Grampa!! I think he and Yiās back and forth throughout the warehouse area was pretty funny. I was so ready to kick his ass the entire time, especially after the segment where heās shooting at you as you navigate a maze. Loved his bossfight, first fight of the first three i started with where I really felt the parry/dodge/attack rhythm for the first time. Rip gramps.
Jiequan: BASTARD!! (Half-affectionate but only half) heās giving Fruity Disney Villain Who Flirts With You As He Stabs You In The Chest. He sucks <3 but heās such a FUN character, what a great antagonist. His fake out fight is so intense, the prison scene is so intense, his boss fight kicked my ass and his theme goes hard. Heās a war criminal, heās a freak, he looks like All Might MHA and he regularly irradiates himself as part of his body building routine. āHeroes are forged in agony!ā 10/10 Disney villain, very stylish. Defeating him was so satisfying especially after the Kanghui fight in the prison and learning what happened with THAT horror show.
Lady Ethereal: I LOVE HER!! SO MUCH!!! UGH!!! she makes me so sad! But everything about her is SO cool! Her fate! Her backstory!! Her design! Her boss fight! Her entire platforming area!!! Just!!! Aah! I wonāt say too much but itās just so good she had my favorite fight in the game, the dance for that one is so much fun. I was streaming the game on discord for my partner and another friend and when we first went into the cortex, she was like āoh you should keep going left and see whatās over there ;)ā and then I did and just!!! So cool that Red Candle started off making horror games, itās really great. Love it. Awesome character, awesome boss, awesome theme.
Fuxi and Nuwa: Rich asshole twins!! These two suck lol but I do think theyāre fun characters. The entire empyrean district is experiencing a resident evil style zombie infection and Nuwa is throwing a rager at the club for the rich cryosleepers only. Itās really eerie over there though, I love the vibe of the east side and the discovery of the mutants and destruction of the west half is spooky as hell. And then I got to the area where you get Fuxiās sol seal and didnāt even notice he was sitting there until my partner pointed him out. I thought he was furniture lol. Sheās really puppeting around her brotherās pustule-riddled zombie corpse Weekend at Bernieās style cuz sheās that much in denial. Also absolutely horrifying that the district supposedly once held 100,000 sleeping solarians that is whittled down to 300 after the mutated virus wreaks havoc through the area. Personally, Iām mixed on their bossfight, the first half with just Fuxi was fun once I got the rhythm but the 2nd half when Nuwa comes in with her attacks gets a bit too chaotic for me. Their boss theme, however, is probably my favorite in the game. I love the opera samples, itās so cool.
Ji: I think about them a lot. Like, wow what a guy. I think a lot about his immortality, and that if he had not left Penglai with the council he would have been stuck there, alone for eternity. I think about the fact that because they will never get Tianhuo, there would be no need for them to be in cryosleep, which probably means that in the 502 years that Yi was recovering, he was probably up and about the entire time, probably wandering around new Kunlun mostly alone. I wonder if they ever hung out with the dusk guardians, or if they just stayed in the grotto for the most part. Their boss fight felt the most like a dance to me, or like friends sparring. Do you think they thought of Lear as you attacked them with the moves he taught you in the spiritual realm? He makes me sad, but he is very stylish!
Eigong: FUCK HER! SHES SO COOL, BUT FUCK HER!!! EVIL GRANDMA! this games story is like peeling back an onion of horrors where each layer you peel back brings new, mortifying understanding of the situation at large until it ALL. COMES BACK. TO HER! AND HER FRUITLESS PURSUIT OF IMMORTALITY! Her boss fight KICKED MY ASS. I was streaming my first playthrough, so I was already prone to doing worse than I probably would without an audience (emphasis on probably) but in my first attempt I was fighting her for like 6 HOURS STRAIGHT. And for the true ending too, which meant three boss phases. I just could not get her pattern down and my hands were cramping but i really wanted to finish the game that weekend so I could finally talk about it so I ended up turning up the accessibility options to one punch man her. I did eventually go back and do her fight by myself with the story mode settings and MAN what a fun boss battle once you get the dance down (Iām still so bad at unbound counter), and it is SO satisfying to beat. Incredible character, we love fictional old women who commit atrocities in the name of science.
Yi: and finally we have the man, the myth, the legend. I could probably write a whole separate post about him and Heng and his relationships with the other characters but to keep it short- I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! BUT IM ALSO BITING HIM AND PUTTING HIM IN A BLENDER AND RUNNING HIM THROUGH THE DISHWASHER AND HANGING HIM UP TO DRY. Just UGH! Itās not common for the main character of a thing to be my favorite character but Yi is my favorite character. Itās the fact that he is his own character, and we, the player, must gradually find out things that HE already knows. And his budding and flowering relationships with the other characters, especially those who set up shop in the pavillion which leads into his character development is just AUGH. AND THE ENDINGS. YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT GHE ENDINGS. THEYRE GOOD BUT AUGH. I love him, Iām rotating him in my mind on a skewer, heās my little manlet, my poor little āIām not a good personā shadow the hedgehog energy meow meow cat boy. I love him so much, Iām so distraught over his terrible life choices. Incredible character.
Ok hope that was entertaining to read, bye.
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5 more weeks and I am starting to loose my mind a little bit haha. I am in my rewatch of episode 3 and I do have to say that I adore this episode. Once again there will be book spoilers and spoilers for the rest of season 1 as well as maybe some theorizing so be warned.
Iām excited! Letās go!
IWTV S1 E3: Is My Very Nature That of the Devil
This episode starts with Louis and Lestat sitting at their bench in the park. ā¤ļø
And it kind of acts as Louis trying to convince Lestat to only kill bad people. But in the book that is how Lestat actually kills so I wonder if this will come back when he finally tells his side of the story.
This episode definitely brings the comedy with Lestat quips and him just tackling that guy. š
Not the cat Louis!
Iāll tell you what Lestat can be such an asshole but just like the scene where he calls out the piano player at first heās sour then heās sweet. Yep Lestat is a sour patch kid.
I love how Daniel uses the recording from 1973 as thatās a callback to the first interview where Louis is just ragging on Lestat just like he did in the book.
The āOddity of recollectionā scene is great. Iām sure that is to come back in full force next season. Iām just excited thinking about what we are about to uncover.
When Louis realizes that Lestat didnāt kill Antoinette he looks so disappointed. Ugh I feel so bad for Louis here. š©
And Lestat uncontrollably laughing when itās the worst possible moment to do so is sooooooo Lestat itās killing meā¦
But I just EAT UP the instant regret in Lestatās eyes when Louis wants to fuck other people even he was the one who suggested it! He is just his own worst enemy all of the time.
When I first watch this episode I was so scared that Lestat was going to kill Jonah.
BUT WAS IT RAINING LOUIS!?
The look Louis gives Armand! āYour lingering Rashidā what sick game are they playing!!!!??? Iām going insane.
Lestat is doing the most this episode! But on second thought he always does the most lol.
ā I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!!!!!!ā Itās such an iconic scene!!!! āYou watched the whole thing like some CREEPER!ā The writing is everything
We have the iconic gif of Louis putting the āColored Only, No Whites Allowedā that gif has gotten more people to watch the show than any promo amc has done.
I LOVE the scene where Louis kills that racist ass Alderman! Jake the dog gets his guts ripped out!ā Some great quotes include. āWhyās your heart beating so fast?ā And ā You said Iām arrogant!? Maybe I am arrogant! Iām a vampireā so goood!
It hurts just so much more after reading The Vampire Lestat when Louis tells him āItās why youāre always gonna be alone.ā š Louis doesnāt know Lestatās past yet but damn!
And finally yay itās time for my girl Claudia!
I made it through another episode for my rewatch! If you are still reading this thank you for your support.
Iāll hopefully be back next week.
Until then 5 weeks! Itās going by fast!
#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#iwtv#iwtv spoilers#louis de pointe du lac#iwtv 2022#iwtv amc#lestat de lioncourt#sam reid#lestat#jacob anderson#season 1#amc interview with the vampire#just for fun#armand iwtv#its for my mental health#the anticipation is killing me#daniel molloy#iwtv daniel#iwtv armand#iwtv louis#interview with the vampire amc#interview with the vampire 2022#assad zaman#eric bogosian
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the list that makes me and @dentist-brainsurgeon mortal enemies from now on i guess
extremely lengthy explanations under the cut:
i actually think the S+A tier speak for themselves?
S tier: the goats. im aware its full of third versions but they just happen to be extremely good and added some insane shit to already solid base games (ok diamond and pearl werent solid but the foundation was there). replayability is insane for these.
A tier: the Oh Fuck Yeah games. not in any particular order actually. hgss is absolutely the best remake of all, only held back by the few inherent flaws of the Johto region and by not emulating Crystal enough. as much as i like bw, reverting back to only one region of pokemon never sat right by me, but it's been a while since ive played it, and nowadays i make much more of an effort to try out all new mons. so i could change my mind on this.
i liked usum more than sun/moon, if only for the post game. replayability isnt as high because of the cutscenes every 3 steps, and rotom dex is annoying as shit. aside from that, insanely solid story & postgame imo. red/blue and gold/silver are brimming with weird places in their regions and are chock full of in game lore and legends, which i really like. the ruins of alph & pokemon tower are some of the best locations theyve ever made imo
B tier is the "good but couldve been better" tier. lets go is insane for shiny hunting, but it stops at that imo. the new rival is garbo. sun and moon are good, but the postgame + alola in general is just lacking enough in these games that they dont reach A tier for me. loveeed the island challenges tho. alola itself has just such a good vibe. you really feel like its about community rather than competition. legends arceus couldve been insanely good, but i have never felt as ripped out of a pokemon game as i did when i walked through that cave in the coronet region and started seeing stray pixels around my character. which wasnt a one time thing btw this happens to anyones game & every time as far as ive seen. its gonna sound dramatic but this combined with other graphics glitches made it so clear i was playing a game that it just took me out of the adventure entirely. this is where the graphics glitches really started, and they havent stopped since.
C tier: yellow is just kinda there? i dont care for starter pikachu. i want to, but it gets killed when breathed at, so. idk. the gimmick doesnt work that well for me. sword and shield introduced some insane mons that i love and i want to call it solid real bad, but the story was hot garbage even for pokemon standards, and while the wild area was a great idea, the execution was lacking & because what i assume is a time crunch, the towns were boring as shit as well. diamond & pearl are mediocre to bad, with a great story and mediocre to bad execution, and i shouldve put oras in the :( tier, but the postgame is worth it.
actually im gonna rant about oras. i was so hyped for it but, just, ugh. if youre gonna turn a 2d vague not-specified-what-a-character-is-doing-or-feeling player character to 3d, at least do it correctly. 2d sprites where someone can fill in the blanks not seen on screen but hinted at in text (ie expressions, actions like handing someone something) work infinitely better than 3d sprites who show it badly. also still suffers from the desaturation curse that the 3ds games suffer from. postgame was dope, though. shame the mega latis are ugly as shit.
:( tier: garbage, im so sorry. SV's only redeeming factor is the area zero story. there is nothing else in the game that held my attention. fuck the star team, fuck the big pokemon quests, fuck the towns where you cant talk to anyone or find anything interesting or walk into a house and where every shop looks the game. fuck stores not even having an interior anymore. fuck this larger but emptier and stripped down world full of graphical glitches. fuck the weak ass gyms, fuck geeta, and fuck terrastalizing most of all. i will die for Koraidon & the professor fight fucking ruled but that's all the game had to it for me. do any of yall remember the gym leaders besides like, iono and the snowboard man? no you dont, stop lying to me. gen I put more life into lavender town by making a npc reference some ghost hand on your shoulder than SV does for any town, and they only had black and white 32mb cartridges or whatever to work with. for fucking shame gamefreak. give your devs some time to make a halfway functioning game.
firered and leafgreen do nothing new. i will not discuss the sevii islands. what the fuck even was that. boring. same with brilliant diamond and shining pearl. theyre lower than diamond and pearl because why the fuck did they not decide to remake platinum. what the hell was their damage. seriously platinum was RIGHT there. i caught a full odds shiny ghastly in that game and i still dont care about it.
X&Y suffers from. everything.
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Hey there! Sorry it's kind of late, but I just remembered I said I'd send you a follow up ask about your dislike for the monster mom from Undertale when you had more time. But if you still don't have the time or just aren't feeling up to it, absolutely no worries! Hope you have a nice Friday!
I FORGOT ABOUT THIS
But yeah I really don't like her at all and it's maybe bcs I'm projecting some baggage onto her or smthn, but basically I went into Undertale completely blind bcs my friend told me I should experience it as fresh as possible, the only hint I got was "try not to kill anyone", so from my perspective here's what the beginning of the game was like(also forgive me if anything is out of order plot wise, I've only played the game once and it was seven years ago):
- Okay, the main character I'm playing as has clearly fallen into some sort of fantasy world, alright, games probably gonna be about us finding our way home then, cool!
- Oh, there's a goat lady?? Who's....acting like she's my mom??? Weird, I don't know her at all, and I super don't trust her bcs in fantasy stories like this you gotta watch out for characters who seem super nice but secretly want to keep you trapped "for your own good". It's a classic trope, so I'm :/ about her.
- Oh god she's being so overbearing and way too nice ugh I already don't like pushy tutorial npcs and she's def giving me bad vibes now, she's probably going to try to trap me here. All of this nice stuff feels culty and dangerous and weird, and there's this creeping dread, eugh...
- I hate butterscotch. I told her I preferred cinnamon bcs I don't like butterscotch, but now I have to eat it anyway, so she's not listening to me. So she's acting like my mom while creating an environment where my desires and preferences are not prioritized. This sucks.
- There were other kids down here maybe? What happened to them? Hmmm I think I'm in Danger.
- Eh, her house is nice but it's so empty...I don't like it here. She's refusing to talk to me about where I am or tell me how to leave, and she's kinda like demanding I just give up and live here with her and absolutely acting like she's my mom now, so yeah def trying to trap me here, I guess I'm a kidnapping victim. We gotta figure out a way to get the fuck out of here this place is culty and weird and too happy and I hate it.
- And she's trying to stop us! I knew it.
- And now she's kinda guilt tripping me! Wow yeah we REALLY need to leave.
- Fight time, but I'm not supposed to kill so I guess we just push forward? Eugh she's trying to make me feel bad for her but I don't. I just want to leave!
- Oh okay the fight is over? And she's telling me...that I can never come back?? This lady full on kidnapped me and started acting like my mom and now she's ditching me?? Bcs SHE'S too sad?? Oh my god, that's so fucking mean! I'm not even allowed to call her? Not that I wanted to, but she's just full on cutting me off?? Listen you either want to be my mom or you don't, if you're gonna commit, then fucking commit! You don't get to just act like you love me and then rip it all away! Jesus, this sucks. Okay, well fuck you too lady, I'm leaving, see ya never I hope!
And then I got really emotionally invested in everyone else and especially Asgore bcs I love a tragic king who is trying to do what's right even if it involves horrible things and losing every thing and everyone he loves, but hey at least he's being up front about it! And not lying to me or anything! I appreciate the honesty.
But then she showed up at the end of the game and I was just like oh god she's back fucking yikes. And she's acting like she's better than Asgore?? And he's listening?? Damn also she's totally okay with murder since she just told him he could have taken one human soul and crossed the barrier, so she doesn't even have the moral high ground on that, so she's a coward and so fake wtf, oh god now she's acting like my mom again, fucking great. I'm running as soon as the credits roll.
So yeah....I was VERY surprised when I went online and saw how everyone loved her so much, cuz to me she's just a rude weird control freak lady who tried to trap me in purgatory alone with her forever and then acted like I was the bad guy for asking to leave before Completely Abandoning me. And maybe it's due to some trauma I've been through or smthn, I think it probably is tbh, but I just cannot bring myself to see her as anything but a weirdo who pretended to love me and then abandoned me the second I asserted a single boundary.
And that's why I don't like Toriel.
#tbh I have a LOT of baggage and trauma re: Parents so that colors my view of characters who are parents#but I just don't like her#undertale salt#uh#ask to tag#I guess??
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Tag Game Wednesday
Thanks, @energievie! āØ
Which character from any media would you like to have as a father? I love Whistler from Blade. He is tough but also caring and devoted.
If money, laws, time, and effort were no object, what animal would you want to have? A tiger. No question.
What is your Chinese takeout order? Cashew chicken.
What's your favourite emoji? š¤£
Would you rather have a library, greenhouse, or home theater in your house? Greenhouse. We have nowhere good to grow plants because we live on a shaded lot. I yearn for healthy plants.
What childhood TV show do you think of the most fondly? Star Blazers! I used to watch it on my local channel in southwest Virginia, and when I moved from there, no one in the outside world had ever heard of it.
What was your Tumblr like when you first joined? I first joined in order to make landing pages for clients, mostly to promote books. It was trying to be more of a traditional blogging platform back then, so each person's page looked like a unique website. I like it better now!
What clothing style do you love but don't feel compelled to replicate yourself? I love dresses worn daily. Like, dresses for casual scenarios. I feel silly when I wear a dress on a Tuesday.
If you were plopped into a fictional world, which one would you know the layout of the best? The police station in Brooklyn 99. Walking around that place would feel like coming home.
What is your favourite piece of art? "Isle of the Dead" by Arnold Bƶcklin
Do you have a water bottle? What does it look like? It's clear with an orange grip strip around the middle. Orange is everything to me.
What fanfic trope is a quiet fave? Friends to lovers. It's the least bombastic trope that I love.
Do you carry a daily bag? What does it look like? What's the weirdest thing in it? It's a black, cross-chest Baggallini purse. Weirdest thing in it is a pen that's also a laser pointer (a must-have with three cats).
If you had to ship Mickey with another Gallagher, who would it be? Ugh! No! Probably Debbie, as a lavender relationship. I always liked their dynamic.
What is a fanfic trope you didn't expect to like and then very much did? I didn't expect to like sports stories as much as I do.
Do you think s11 Mickey can still carry s11 Ian? Yes, because even though he claimed to not work out, he was still hella ripped.
Who got custody of the killing bat when they sold the house? Ian and Mickey. They're the new anchor couple moving forward, and their apartment becomes the hangout spot for all the Gallaghers.
I'll tag ... @creepkinginc @francesrose3 @silvanshadow @tsuga-of-mars @depressedstressedlemonzest @ian-galagher @mikhailoisbaby
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Episode 2
And weāre back! Rereading what I just typed out, I found this episode kind of frustrating. It's good, but all these plotlines could be So. Much. Better. if they just cared about making this a good show and gave it the time it needed to be one.
Ah, Halsey my beloathed. Since last we saw her apparently making her escape clean, sheā¦ apparently got captured by some mysterious person? Who? Why? What planet is she on? How was she captured? Did Keyes sell her out? Sheās certainly being well-treated. All last seasonās stuff didnāt teach her anything, as most of what we see is her manipulating a girl to try and get answers, causing her to promptly drop dead. Conclusion: Halsey may suck, but so do the people holding her.
Meanwhile, Riz is doing training stuff, and clearly suffering. Kai checks in with her, obviously concerned, and pushes her to work on healing. Riz blows her off. Kai, oddly to me, suggests Riz put the emotional-suppression pellet back in if she needs to deal with the pain. Riz flatly refuses: āYouāll have to put a bullet in me first.ā (Same, girl.) Thereās a lot going on hereāRizās feelings towards what was done to them, why she chose to remove the pellet and who she is now that it's gone, her near-death and the struggle to rebuild herselfā¦ the teamās relationships now that theyāre unprogrammed and developing personalitiesā¦
(Again, we are missing SO MUCH by rushing in this show. Fuck catering to all the old hands who bitch about every episode that isnāt 95% shoot-em-up fight scenes. Go replay the games on God mode or w/e if thatās all you care about. Whatās the point of making this show at all if not to tell the parts of the stories you canāt in the game medium?!)
Speaking of Kai, John tells her that Ackerson doesnāt trust him. He also drops hisā¦ vision? Memory? Of Makee on Sanctuary. Kai: āSheās dead. I shot her myself.ā Uhhhh, maybe donāt remind him of that? (I honestly thought they were going to open this season with John and Kai estranged over that, actually. My sweet baby Kai loves people, but she doesnāt yet have the ability to be wise or tactful for themā¦) Johnās obsessively checking up on Cobalt Team, and theyāre MIA (or something). I pity the poor sign kid just trying to update the board with no actual info. Bring it down, Chief.
Back on Rubble with Kwan, and things are tense. Some shifty guy goes after herāwhy? Because she's a known associate of Sorenās? Wait, why is she tagged?? Ripping it out looked painful. Daaaamn, apparently Soren found time to teach her some moves, sheās a badass now. I was afraid theyād go the Rose Tico route and just write her out since she was unpopular, but I guess they decided to level her up instead. Weāll see if that shuts the haters up. āRuby Ann bought Sorenās crew, heās not coming backāāah, so the tag was Sorenās way of protecting her? Aaaaand Kwan spaces a guy and kills the other by stabbing him with the tag. Iām still left with a lot of questionsāhow come Laera didnāt inherit/ take over the crew? Did she authorize the sale to Ruby Ann? Where are she and Kessler, and are they all right?
Riz is back to working out, pushing herself too hard. She has a spotter/ trainer whoās an absolute sweetie. Heās pushing her to think about her futureāwhat options do Spartans even have, if they donāt go rogue like Soren? And whatās the trainerās (Louis?) story?
Another scene with John going up against Ackerson, and seriously, the hell with that guy, ugh. He claims no one can back up Johnās story about Sanctuary (do these suits of armor seriously not have bodycams? After all the surveillance tech on their ships that we saw in season 1?) Ugh, I had worried about Perez not backing John up. Does she have a concussion/ brain injury? Or is she being leaned on?
Kwan and Kessler have a moment where Kwan smashes Kesslerās faith that his dad is coming back. Laera has a tense moment with the ranking remaining members of Sorenās crew. Theyāre stalling on the ship repairs for some reason. I think theyāll end up regretting that they underestimated Laera.
We go back to Riz, apparently doing some sort of terrain/ environment training? Yep, and Master Chief nails her. The team banters a bit. Kai is worried, but Master Chief sends Riz up again. Itās a very grim scene as Riz struggles and eventually goes down. Sheās not ok. John keeps pushing and pushing. He wants to go after Cobalt Team. Kai is getting more concerned about not just Riz, but Johnāyou can feel how out-of-true the team is right now. Riz taps out.
Another day with Halsey, another (clone?) girl (Julia?) serving her tea and dropping dead during questioning. I suppose if theyāre flash clones it would explain why Halseyās so willing to treat them like theyāre disposable to get the info she wantsāto her mind, thatās what flash clones are. Poor girls.
We get a rapid series of bits: Riz and Louis talking as they waitļæ½ļæ½at a doctorās? A church? Something Riz hopes will help her, somehow. Ackerson trying to manipulate Kai, whose loyalty to John keeps her from falling for it, but her naivetĆ© means she still says a few things I think heāll use. Damn. Donāt give him anything, Kai! John shows up at Perezās place and would have lost that bet if her Abuela hadnāt stepped in. Good life advice, John: no one crosses Abuela. Any abuela. Abuela always wins.
(Sidenote: I notice weāre getting a lot more glimpses of civilian life hereāLouis, Perezās familyā¦ I can only assume theyāre setting us up to ugly cry watching all these people die horribly.)
Back to Riz, whoās meeting with ??? What? A freakinā psychic? What is going on here? (I keep forgetting this mystical stuff is a part of this universeā¦)
Johnās dinner with Perezās family is just as awkward as youād expect. Abuela and MamĆ” are the MVPs for trying to keep the boys under wraps here. LOL forever at the gamer quizzing Master Chief John-117 with āCāmon, man, you donāt play Spartan Attack?ā Babe, he plays all of them. Iām dying, Perez is having a heart attack, whereās Kaiās charisma when you need it. Aaaand then they figure it out, gracias a Dios for MamĆ” keeping them from losing their minds. Perez eventually loses it and leaves, and John gets to question her at last: she didnāt tell Ackerson because of the trauma and uncertainty. Master Chiefās pep talk could use some work, even if somewhat accurate.
Back to Halsey and OMG, WTF the person holding her is ACKERSON??? (Donāt you people DARE try to rehabilitate Halsey with me by contrasting her with Ackerson. I promise, I can and will hate them both.) Where are they? Does anyone know heās holding her here? I assume sheās still on Reach, and never made it off-planet? How did he catch her? She tells Ackerson a story about a pomegranate tree that sheās never told anyone, saying he must have Cortana since he knows about it. So Cortana does have all Halseyās memories after all??? (Up to the point of the flash cloneās creation, anyway.) (Thereās a MILLION implications to unpack here.) (Also, on a personal level, the story about Halsey rebelling against the garden/ pomegranate tree made me unbearably smug. I just KNEW when I wrote that fic that Halsey hated working under other people.) Also, where IS Cortana? Ah, so it turns out Halseyās in some sort of holodeck prison thing. Hopefully that means all these Julias arenāt real and havenāt been dying after all.
Ah, hereās Cortana! Stuck in a Faraday cage. I donāt love her new look. Whatever project he had her working on, he was NOT pleased to hear the results: 97% chance of failure/ disaster/ etc. Cortana presses him on the truth that he wonāt be coming back to see her again, and he agrees. (Apparently heās not planning on bringing her along? IS this man a complete idiot?) As usual, the show gives us the bones (hereās where Cortana is) but no meat: how much does Cortana remember? Does she miss John (or anything else?) Does she know whatās going on now? Is she actively trying to escape? What does she want?
I assume the doom and gloom are about the famous Fall of Reach, which I have heard of, and I wonder how this plays with a completely unspoiled audience. How coherent is this without it? It seems to me that the show is relying on the audienceās foreknowledge both to make sense of some of this, and to do the work of building the appropriate level of dread for them.
Back in Spartan-land, John figures out that Cobalt Team never left Reach, and Silver Team goes after them. Kai presses him on the authorization and the nature of the mission. John lies about the first, but answers the second: āThe Covenantās on Reach.ā Itās a great WHAM LINE.
Finally, we see how right he is: Marines fighting monsters in the dark, the glowing blade weapons going on and off to great effect. At last, we see Makee! Our toxic girl is back! And I love her outfitāanyway, Makee is back and stealing the artifact, again. (Where was it being held that no one is noticing this? Clearly not on the main base anymore.) Sheās also bossing aliens around, which tells me she didnāt suffer too many consequences for deciding to flatten the whole plateau to save John at the end of last season. (This ties in to some thoughts I have about how everyone views those events, which Iāll save for next episode.)
Iāll end with this note: the alien Makee addresses pushes back slightly with the comment that āthere is no honor in this fightā against the marines. Itās the first Iāve seen any such sentiments from the Covenant. Why the concern now? Is it the stealth nature of the mission? The theft without an honest battle? I seriously doubt it has anything to do with unfair advantages or killing weaker combatants/ the innocent. I mean, these people destroy whole planets. Maybe theyāll take some time to start developing the Covenantās (various) cultures.
Or, you know, that would be a great thing to do in a show that had the time to be a fully fleshed-out storyā¦ instead of what it feels like this season: a new high-res montage of cut scenes and fight playthroughs. I guess they got tired of people watching the real thing on Youtube.
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I adore this because I love posts that go in depth on a thing that was clearly supposed to be taken as something to analyze. ofehieobfwivberp. Loveee itttt.
Now I ramble and go off topic a lot because that's just how my thoughts are-
Also I've only read the books.
Right, so, the way they pick the tributes is something that fascinates me. For most districts it's their day of reckoning, the most haunting day of their lives. For the Capitol, it's a day of great joy! Because now they finally have something to watch, people to get attached to, then cry over if they die. Because they see it as a movie. A thriller, a show with the most amazing acting! With drama, evil, alliances, backstabbing...
They watch in rapt attention, seeing the tributes being picked and then giving their first judgments on them.
"oooh he looks strong I'm sure he'll at least get in top 3."
"Ugh she looks like such a bitch. I hope someone kills her first."
They might change their judgment later on. With the interviews, and then in the game.
And that's how we see it too yknow? I mean for us it is fiction(or supposed to be) and we do the same thing, don't we? My first thought on Gale was "Meh. He's alright I guess." to "I HATE him." Also, Gale just confuses me as a character, not in a bad way, just confuses me, but that's for another day.
For Peeta it stayed the same "He's nice and cute and I like him." it only changed slightly to "Oh holy hell this guy is AWESOME."
Now I wonder if that's how the Capitol felt watching him. Peeta is a performer. I wonder how similar my thoughts to the people in the Capitol would be if we read their POV.
Humans are selfish. If you see something terrible happening on a screen you can't fully comprehend it. The brain puts it in the box of "real but not happening to you!" which is incredibly close to the "fiction!" box. When you see something horrible you are glad you didn't live it. You watch someone lose everything in a fire you're silently glad that didn't happen to you.
Winning is not really for the person who got the prize. It's so the watchers at home have a satisfying ending, even if it's not the one they wanted. They assume "well everything's gonna go right in their life now!" because humans also like happy endings.
The tributes never get happy endings. We saw it with Haymitch, Finnick, Katniss...that's what the second book is. They put the victors back in the arena.
They bring the old beloved characters back. Now you're on the edge of your seat, watching them being ripped off from what you think was their "happy ending" It's tragic. It's anger-inducing. But maybe you just accept that for some characters, it's the only way their story would've ended.
Anyways I need to watch the moviess!!!! Josh Hutcherson is waiting for meeeeee
The Manipulative Brilliance Of The Hunger Games
Hunger games is so good because itās about giving you the sense of empathy and pity, while showing a group of people (the Capitol) who feel nothing of the sort and that juxtaposition makes you want more.
Letās start all the way from the beginning.
Methods used by the Capitol to exert full control over all the districts:
The Method Of Reaping (selecting the tributes)
POINT 1: BUILDING BOUNDARIES WITHIN DISTRICTS-
If you havenāt watched hunger games, the method of selecting the tributes is left to chance. Why does this look familiar? Itās the method used by governments in the Vietnam War to draft soldiers. Using this same lottery system makes The Hunger Games feel more real, like this could really happen to you.
By The Capitolās design, when you get chosen, someone can volunteer in your place to be a tribute in The Hunger Games. This is rarely done because who would choose to enter a game where your death possibility is so high?
The air of silence when you are picked as a tribute sends a message āSomeone could save you right now. But they wonāt. They wonāt.ā
That friend that promised you they would be a friend forever, the sibling that was raised with you, your mother, your brother, your sister, your friend. None of them are going to save you.
And this affects the whole district, it reminds them that at the end of the day, no matter how much of a friend your companions assure you they are, when you are picked as a tribute to die, they WILL NOT SAVE YOU.
Thus, it puts up boundaries preventing a district from getting too emotionally close with each other. Because you could be so friendly to someone but at the end of the day, they wouldnāt help you.
Effectively preventing districts from banding together and launching a revolution against the Capitol.
The Method Of Solely Using Children
POINT 2: BUILDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DISTRICTS-
So the Capitol, using the method of point 1 has successfully prevented districts from banding together internally. Now, how do we stop districts from working externally with each other against the Capitol?
Hate.
Hate and Fear.
See hunger games isnāt just a game. Itās an entertainment experience hiding a public execution.
But itās not the Capitol executing these tribute, oh no! Itās using tributes from different districts to kill one another. Using this method, the Capitol effectively has their hands as clean as possible superficially, while simultaneously pitting districts against each other.
Mind you, all the tributes chosen are between 12 to 18 years old. CHILDREN. The Capitol is playing on two levels,
1. Making each district look even more savage. For when put into the hunger games, everyone loses their morals. Forcing the savagery out of mere children, it implies that if children are already this bloodthirsty, how crazy must their parents be? This benefits the upper class of Panem by reducing the lower districts to savage animals.
2. Making each district have a plausible reason for despising each other. Back to my point that all tributes are children. Parents must watch as their child is forced to abandon their morality or die. So the relatives of the fallen tribute associate their childās killer with the bad ones.
For example I am from district 10 and my child is killed by a tribute from district 5. Not only will I mourn the loss of my child but I will direct my hatred at district 5, not the Capitol.
The Method of Display
-Being Dolled up
When the tributes are shipped out to the capitol, they get dressed in finery, they get made up like one of the members of the Capitol. This in itself is vicious mockery. It sends the message āYou look like one of us, but you will be sent to your death and we will watch. You may look like one of us, but you will NEVER be one of usā What this achieves is setting the members of Capitol on the level of gods who only see humans as playthings to be dressed up and killed for entertainment.
-Being put on talkshows
Tributes then need to be on a parody of our real world talkshows, forced to laugh along with the hosts and endure the personal questions and inquires.
In conclusion, what does The Method Of Display achieve? It mocks all the districts, while simultaneously elevating The Capitol to gods.
The Method of Dehumanisation
Using all of these methods, the Capitol degrades the tributes to products to be sold. Think of those idol shows in real world where viewers vote on the ones they want to win. Tributes become personas to āStanā and support. By combining the mockery of dressing them up like they belong, to forcing them to act like they DO belong, it achieves the desired message to all the districts āNone of you are at our level.ā
The Method of False Winners
So youāve won the hunger games. But have you actually won? Your status as a killer on national television, your PTSD and trauma, your mental state says otherwise. No one wins the hunger games. They survive the hunger games and get forgotten by the time the next one comes around.
Five By Five Takes on YouTube makes an excellent point which I will now paraphrase:
When you win the hunger games, you not only become a weapon of the Capitol but a symbol of false hope for the districts. By having a victor, it echoes the idea that sure the hunger games are awfully deadly but there is a chance you could win. The victors of the hunger games get to live in finery, if youāre from the poorer districts, this gives you a hope for a better life. And humans, even in real life, run on hope.
The Capitol
At the start of the movies, the people of The Capitol look like MONSTERS. Why? They are so devoid of empathy, they watch people die with the energy youād use while watching a funny comedy.
When we watch movies, we try to put ourselves in the shoes of the characters. This is why self inserts are so popular in fandoms (im writing another short analysis of why some fandoms are so much more successful than others) Howeverā¦a majority of people wouldnāt want to insert themselves in such a dangerous situation like hunger games.
Personally, when I watched the Hunger Games movies, I went āThank god that isnāt me.ā But then my thoughts suddenly went to āI would sacrifice other people if I didnāt have to go.ā And what does that sound like ladies and gentlemen and other? You start realising that youāre thinking like a person from The Capitol. BOOM. From empathising with the tributes to suddenly realising youād do anything to not be a tribute, you start realising how human the āmonstersā of the Capitol are.
Conclusion of this point:
The Capitols are horrible people. But they are as human as the rest of us. Any one of us could be a member of the Capitol with enough influences and experience.
Overall Conclusion
The Hunger Games are so brilliant because they play with your emotions, opinions and morals, using them against you in the most twisted way possible. All while hiding it all under a guise of entertainment.
-The End-
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The Quarry Starters !
Taken fromĀ the 2022 Supermassive Games video game, The Quarry! Some of these have already been edited. You can change them however you see fit! There may be some light spoilers!
āWeāre justā¦ Weāre in geographic flux.ā
āGuess itās all part of the rustic summer camp experience.ā
āJust another guy who didnāt want to admit that he was lost.ā
āIs this guy, like, the all time scariest cop?ā
āYou really want to listen to the advice of some creep ass cop who told us in the middle of the creep ass woods to go to some creep ass motel?ā
āOh my god, if he called me āmaāamā one more time, I was about to shove that badge up his dickhole.ā
āYouāve seen Evil Dead, right?ā
āIāve waited for you. Iāve waited, yes. So I do hope our time together provesā¦ enlightening.ā
āThere are secrets out there, you know. Secrets and lies.ā
āUgh, horror. I hate horror.ā
āWell, I havenāt killed youā¦ yet. And youāre still pretty pathetic.ā
āOkay, okay. Letās all put our little dicks away and get this show on the road, huh?ā
āTime to let loose and vamoos this caboose.ā
āI meanā¦ in a way, āfakingā it is just being yourself, but louder.ā
āGotta understand the repercussions of your actions, buster.ā
āGood grief. Iām outgrowing my own cliches.ā
āWill humanity prevail? Or will we grow ravenous and resort to eating the flesh of the deceased like I saw in that one plane crash movie.ā
āWhat? You got a gun, why canāt I get firecrackers?ā
āBooty? Oh, uh, it means like treasureā¦ Or butts.ā
āI knew there was a secret sex dungeon around here somewhere!ā
āAlright, well, it looks like a pit of eternal darkness soā¦ā
āIt is pretty spooky down here and it smells pretty unnatural soā¦ Yeah. Okay. Iām coming back up.ā
āYouāre in danger. Hunted by a creature of indeterminate origin-ā
āWhereās the fun in hunting that which is already dead.ā
āBig jokes take big sacrifices.ā
āWell, I hate to break it to you, but he just had his tongue down my throat, and he definitely knew what to do with it.ā
āWhatās this? A female in need? Fear not, fragile thing ā For Hurricane (Name) is here!ā
āI-I-I donāt even know what it was. It was so fast, and it was- and there was a hunter.ā
āLooks like we have a choice on our hands. Do we snoop though someone elseās belongings, or do we open the spooky trapped door and die a horrible, painful death?!ā
āYou mean nine-one-one? Who says āninety one one?ā
āOkay, sure, but thatās because I really wanted a gun.ā
āOkay, so maybe I was a little nervous when I arrived in an uncomfortable social situation and I overcompensated a little bit by making a bunch of jokes.ā
āWell that bodes ill. Fucking hell.ā
āIām sick, (Name)ā¦ Why donāt you care about me?ā
āI meanā¦ dead people donāt usually jump out of windows and run into the forest.ā
āYou have no idea whatās going on here. Not a goddamn clue. You just stepped into Grade A, Double Prime, Go Ahead and Kill Yourself cosmic type shit. And your only option is to buckle the fuck up and do as I say. Do you understand?ā
āIām just trying to get us out of here, and I canāt get us out of here until I have some clue about why the fuck weāre in here.ā
āIt really did a number on you. Like, Iām surprised youāre not more messed up. Like I vividly remember the things teeth ripping into you.ā
āSo what? What do we do, really? We run off into the sunset, only to be stopped when I turn into a nasty ass monster and kill you. And eat you. And then I run off into the sunset alone with little bits of you stuck in my teeth.ā
āSo much for my depth perception.ā
āWeāre gonna fix you, (Name). Promise. I promise.ā
āāFucking around where they shouldnāt have.ā Thatās (Name)āa middle name. This is very bad.ā
āThis isnāt a ghost story. Itās a creature features. Itās really happening, and youāre all in it.ā
āYouāre doing all of this for a boy?ā
āJesus, Mary and Jazzhands.ā
āTrauma can bring people together.ā
āSomeoneās been eating there spinach.ā
āSo ā You want to go into the collapsing nightmare tunnel first, or shall I?ā
āI wish I could take it all back. I wish I could take it all back, but I canāt.ā
āHey, find me something sharp enough in the scrapyard andā¦ we can make that happen.ā
āFuck this night. Fuck it all the way until morning.ā
āYOU CANāT HIDE FROM ME IN MY OWN HOUSE, FUCKER!ā
āThis isnāt gonna be too pleasant for you. I promise you that!ā
āI aināt ever been stabbed before.ā
āI keep trying to fix itā¦ Whatever this isā¦ But people keep getting hurt.ā
āWe are being hunted by literal monsters and this is what bothers you?ā
āThanks. Forā¦ Uhā¦ Not killing me.ā
āThe nights not over yet. These fuckers know weāre here, and theyāre coming back first chance they get.ā
āI kind of want an oil painting of me now.ā
āShowtime, motherfuckers.ā
āI wish I could tell you Iām sorry. More than anything.ā
āFuck! I just wanted one more night together. Is that too much to ask? Shit. Stop crying you big baby.ā
āGod damn this place has some uncool vibes.ā
āOkay. I hope you got hat insurance, (Name) ā Because Iām about to blow your mind!ā
āYou always have to oversell something to sell it! Thatās capitalism, baby!ā
#rp meme#roleplay meme#sentence starters#sentence meme#starter sentences#ask meme#ask prompts#inbox memes#inbox prompts#video game sentence starters#the quarry spoilers#i wish that i could some better quotes . some more serious / spooky ones
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I know this happens to plenty of people. You work in fast food or retail and your just trying to make a living. Whether your saving to get out of a crappy household ASAP, no matter the job, paying for college, or any other reason and you WILL have shitty jerk customers (At my first job and first day, I was asked if I spoke English because I couldnāt understand him with the mask and thereās a glass in front of the food. Buddy, shush. Didnāt help that Iām sensitive, ended up crying the moment I got home. These jobs are ones where you learn to really respect these workers cause of the crap they go through when you have it as a job)
In this request, the boys visit MC in the human world when they have the chance. So, my request is how would the brothers and Diavolo (the limit was 8 right?) react to coming to the human world one night to visit MC and they see them just crying and just frustrated in general due to shitty asshole customers from work?
I feel it's necessary to let you know that I actually started working on this request while on my break at my retail job.
I'm sorry you had to deal with that, friend. Pour one out for the retail workers out here busting ass during a global pandemic.
Thanks for being patient with me, friend, I know I don't really have a consistent upload schedule.
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Lucifer: In hindsight. he could have planned this out better.
Perhaps his own pride was to blame. He had planned to surprise the human by showing up unannounced after their shift, but he had gotten so caught up in the thought of them jumping into his arms out of sheer joy that he never considered that it might not be a good time.
"Hush now, my dear," Lucifer sat down next to where they had slumped against the wall of their living room. The carpet was slightly stained and part of him wanted to recoil, but there were more important things to worry about. "Those wretches aren't worth your tears."
He brought his arm around their shoulders, tugging them against his side and letting his cloak drape over them like a blanket. They snuggled into him almost instinctively, and he couldn't help but preen a little bit.
"I know," they hiccupped, burying their face in the crook on his neck. "It's just...sometimes it's hard not to focus on it, y'know?"
Lucifer didn't, but that didn't mean he lacked sympathy. The demon placed two gloved fingers beneath their chin and tilted their head upwards.
"Then how about you focus on me instead?"
Mammon: Turns out every Realm had its Karens. Who knew?
When Mammon had first popped into the human's place and seen them face-down on the kitchen table sobbing, his initial reaction had been violence. He wanted to find whoever made his human cry and wring the reason why out of their throat. But, after the initial bloodlust subsided, he realized that he had something way more important to worry about.
He sat down on the chair next to them, taking one of their hands and gently running his thumb over the bumps of their knuckles as they choked out what had happened. Mammon had worked his fair share of part time jobs, he was no stranger to the specific torture that was retail. So hearing that his human had to go through that made his heart break a tiny bit.
Not that he would show it, of course.
"A'ight, human, the Great Mammon is here to help." he grinned, standing up. "I know just what you need."
He strode over to their kitchen like he lived there, flung open the fridge and pulled out a bottle of alcohol.
"Mammon," the human rubbed at the dried tear tracks on their cheeks. "Not that I don't appreciate it, but...how did you know where I keep my liquor?"
"Minor details, human!"
Leviathan: His first instinct was to panic.
The human was flopped face first onto their couch when Levi showed up, and his specialty had always been jumping to conclusions. He almost took himself out on their coffee table in his haste to make sure they were breathing.
And then the human almost took him out because the logical reaction to someone suddenly bursting into your home and getting right up in your face was to a) scream and b) punch.
After the comedy of errors skit was over, the two of them were sitting upright on the couch. The human looked exhausted, both emotionally and physically, as they filled him in on their day from Hell.
(Except not because their actual days in Hell were a lot better than working retail, but that was beside the point.)
"...so not only did I have to interact with people, which is already more than enough, I got screamed at because this old lady didn't like the price of something! Yes, Helen, I personally made the prices higher just to piss you off, you've figured out my master plan!"
"Ew, no, do not want." Levi winced in sympathy. "My personal remedy is playing beat-em-ups."
"Your solution to everything is video games, Levi."
"Shh, no thoughts, only Smash Brothers."
Satan: He had so many questions.
What happened? How long had the human been sitting there stewing in their own misery? Where was he going to hide the body?
Satan was a pro at suppressing rage. So even though he wanted to go rip out the vocal chords of every soccer mom with a let-me-speak-to-the-manager haircut within a five mile radius, he reigned it in enough to settle himself down on the couch next to the distraught human and rub soothing circles on their back while they tried to tell him what happened through their sobs.
"Next time, summon me and I'll kill them for you."
"I don't think corporate would appreciate me summoning a demon in the middle of a department store."
"I don't appreciate corporate telling you that you have to stand there and be verbally abused by a wrinkly old hag who couldn't figure out what the word 'expires' meant." he huffed. The human let themselves flop heavily against his side, and when he looked down at them he noticed that the corner of their mouth had twitched up in the barest hint of a smile.
"She was, like, thirty, Satan."
"She was a wrinkly old hag in spirit."
Asmodeus: "Oh, darling, what happened?"
Usually Asmo preferred to be on his knees for a different reason, but the human was refusing to look up, so kneeling in front of them was his only option to be able to see their face. He reached up to cup their cheeks, wiping away a few tears with his thumbs. "Shh, it's alright, I'm here, darling. Tell me what happened."
They sniffled, a few fresh tears spilling over when they blinked. "I-I'm sorry, Asmo, I - "
"No need to apologize, darling." he moved some of their hair behind their ear. "Just let it all out. Bottling up all of those negative emotions will make you break out."
After a few more minutes, they finally calmed down enough to recount the torture that had been their retail shift.
"Ugh, honestly," Asmo shook his head. "Hearing those kind of stories just makes you wonder. How do people get so entitled like that?"
He stood from his kneeling position, reaching down to hold their hands. "I refuse to let any of those awful people contaminate your beauty, darling. You," he let go of one of their hands to boop them affectionately on the nose. "Need a spa night."
"A spa night?"
"Mm-hm!" Asmo hummed, already on his way to the bathroom. "You let Nurse Asmo was all of those icky feelings away."
Beelzebub: They hadn't even made it fully into the living room.
When Beel stepped through the portal into the human's apartment and saw them curled into a ball near the doorway, he was immediately on high alert and checking for danger. Only after he realized that he didn't smell blood and had made sure to inspect all of the places for danger to hide did he lower his hackles.
The human was watching him through watery eyes, and Beel realized belatedly that he hadn't even greeted them. Well, bit too late for that. He crossed the living room in a few long strides and crouched down in front of them, lifting their hair out of the way to check for injuries.
Satisfied that there was no immediate danger, he scooped them up into his arms and deposited them on the couch. "Do you want to talk about it?"
They shrugged, wiping furiously at their eyes. "Just...people at work were being jerks, is all. I'm probably just being a big baby about it."
"No you aren't," Beel sat down next to them. "You're allowed to be upset if people are being hurtful."
That only brought on a fresh wave of tears, and Beel felt a little guilty. He pulled them closer until they were practically in his lap and tucked them underneath his chin like he could physically shield them from all of the awful things in the Three Realms.
"I'll make us some dinner. Everything's worse when you're hungry."
Bephegor: They started nap time without him.
Well, that's what it looked like when Belphie first popped through the portal. But, upon closer inspection, he noticed that the lump under the blankets that was the human was definitely not sleeping. Their breathing was quick and staccato, interrupted here and there by low, hiccupping whines.
They were crying.
Well that wouldn't do. Crying yourself to sleep just gave you a headache.
"Hey," he peeled back the protective layer of blanket to look at the human. Eyes red-rimmed and puffy, with a little wet spot on the pillow where their tears had landed. They sniffled, trying to shrink back into their blanket burrito, but Belphie held first. "Let me in."
He wiggled his way into the cocoon until they two of them were snuggled together, with their head against his collarbone. "Wanna tell me what happened?"
"Humans suck."
"Didn't we solve this issue already?" Belphie snickered when they pushed weakly against his chest. "Why in particular do humans suck?"
With a shuddering sigh, they recounted the events of the day. How they had been screamed at by customers, then scolded by their boss when said customers complained, then treated like actual garbage by their coworkers when the boss took their anger out on their employees.
"...Yeah, humans suck." Belphie tugged them in a little closer, burying his face in their hair. "But you've got your favorite demonic nap buddy here, so you don't have to worry about humans, okay?"
Diavolo: He felt powerless.
It was not a feeling Diavolo experienced often as the Crown Prince of the Devildom, and the few times he did experience it, he didn't like it.
If they had been in the Devildom, he would simply order whoever had made the human upset to be tortured for a decade or two - well, actually, he would have them brutally killed, revived, and then killed again, but the human was a merciful soul and likely wouldn't let him. But this was the Human Realm, where the only influence he had was the intimidation factor of his height and size. So all he could do was hold the human as they sobbed against his chest.
"This isn't fair to you," he mumbled into their hair as they sat on the couch. "You should be in the Devildom, treated like the noble you are. You shouldn't have to deal with these ingrates who think they're better because you're on the clock at that particular moment."
They whimpered softly as Diavolo murmured sweet things to them. Even if it was merely a fantasy, it was nice to think of a world where they wouldn't have to put up with all of the bullshit of retail.
Maybe one day they would take Diavolo up on his offer.
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haikyuu!! as genshin impact players
a/n: currently obsessed with genshin impact so i decided to merge it with my love for haikyuu!! this was honestly so much fun to write and i hope you guys like it !!
Hinata: heās the one who always asks for help in the group chat when fighting bosses as well as the dragonspine quests. super thankful when you help him but you just have to be patient with him jumping and accidentally pressingĀ āattackā when glidingā
Kageyama: honestly thought that collecting all the anemoculi was the first objective so he went out and found EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. loves to flex his stamina at hinata by jumping up cliffs
Tsukishima: RIP most of his characters are hydro users so he has to visit the oceanid twice every day all like 'hey, fucker. it's me again'. someone please give him fischl. hides the fact that he failed the gliding exams about twenty times
Yamaguchi: wanted xiao so bad he made 150 pcs. of almond tofu and a summoning circle in his room before wishing for him on top of wangshu inn. cried tears of joy when he got himĀ
Ennoshita: super intellectual player. takes the time to calculate the stats on weapons, artifacts, and talents before enhancing them. likes using archers to spam long-distance attacks
Tanaka: in it for the WAIFUS. wants mihoyo to add a trade character feature so that he could trade his male characters and have an army of waifus. currently saving up primogems for hu tao
Noya: BENNET MAIN !! ceo of bennett supremacy basically and loves watching hisĀ ābouken da bouken!ā idle animation. adamantly believes that he should be a five-star character
Daichi: wasnāt that invested in playing until he got albedo as his first five-star character because he loves the guy so much. loves bringing him when he does co-op and when the other player thanks him for theĀ āalbedovatorsāĀ
Sugawara: klee main because he loves how chaotic she is. like, heāll literally use her to kill fish in the springvale lake and timmieās birds. heāll use his elemental burst for destroying the training dummies for ellinās commission
Asahi: even though he has five-star characters, he still likes using the starter team because they feel like his family. explicitly uses amber and kaeya a lot just to prove the haters wrong
Oikawa: venti main because he relates to him on a spiritual level and actually cried during his story quest. also emotionally invested in the NPC quests and actually felt bad about not finding joelās dad
Iwaizumi: has the WORST luck when it comes to gacha rolls. always gets a five-star on like, roll 80 and when he does, he always gets the non-banner one first. doesnāt know the diff between crit rate and crit damage and is too afraid to ask at this point
Hanamaki: fucking kills timmie's birds for FUN. also does livestreams of him walking from mondstadt to liyue or farming as many pieces of meat he can in a day (the most was 1126). calls the primo geovishapĀ ārock daddyāĀ
Matsukawa: believes in traveler supremacy and invests in leveling them up, no matter what anyone says about them being a support.Ā āyāall are going to wish you leveled them up when traveler becomes the avatarā he says
Ushijima: very much an explorer kind of guy and takes the time to forage everything he sees. also cooks a lot and has 288 sweet madame even though he doesn't really need it
Tendou: actually enjoys being in dragonspine because he likes the thrill of freezing to death and the aesthetics. farms so much frozen meat because he can. lets ushijima co-op in his world to farm stuff
Semi: used up his fragile resin early in the game and now that he's at ar40 he has Regrets. yells a lot when he plays but thatās whenever he accidentally pressesĀ āclimbā instead of attack
Shirabu:Ā someone told him that sucrose shouldn't be used as a main and now he's doing that out of spite. actually likes his team comps to be full of supports for the #supportsupremacy
Goshiki: he has such a hard time with boss fights but he's too proud to ask for help. knowing that, his senpais just show up in his world and ask if they could farm there to help him out
Kuroo: collects husbandos and co-op's in other players' worlds while role-playing as that husbando. he's gotten very popular because of this and is known asĀ āthe legendary co-op playerāĀ
Kenma: an amazing player, as youād expect. he got to ar40 in probs two weeks and started livestreaming his plays. an absolute king at clearing abyss levels and showing off those satisfying elemental reactions
Yaku: WHAAAAAALE. you can tell by the fact that he always has the battle pass weapons and so many primogems. definitely a collector who tries to get all playable charactersĀ
Lev: very chaotic player and accidentally walked all the way to liyue at ar10 while running away and dodging monsters. SOMEHOW managed to defeat boss childe without revival materials and by spamming noelle
Bokuto: has the best luck in gacha rolls, opposite to iwaizumi. he showed akaashi a pic of his first 10-wish roll (feat. qiqi, mona, and fischl) and was allĀ āis this a good roll?āĀ
Akaashi: great at building characters so he shares his knowledge by making videos on optimal character builds and team comps. explains things super well and everyone loves watching his stuff
Atsumu: likes to turn up the volume on his headphones and making lisa climb a really high cliff if you know what i mean. also desperately tried to roll for ganyu and spent all his primogems but got diluc insteadĀ
Osamu: likes to spam genshin fan pages with dumb theories likeĀ ājoelās dad is the missing cryo yakshaā orĀ āmadame ping is going to be on the next character banner.ā has a soft spot for barbara though
Suna: heās often falling off cliffs trying to farm violetgrass but he does it out of love for qiqi. shows off himself using qiqi as main dps when someone says sheās just a support because he can
Kita: his signature literally saysĀ ācome to my world if you want to farmā. his map is full of landmarks for ascension materials and will even help you find them. in charge of bringing a healer when you guys fight bosses
Sakusa: loves doing photoshoots with his characters, especially capturing stills of their elemental bursts. his fave character is ningguang because of beautiful and photogenic she is (even has the yellow seelie to match her)
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abstraction got really hung up on "aurion good, devaedra bad, good vs evil" that theyve completely disregarded the overall complexities in gig's original story. i'll give them some credit with the worldbuilding involving the guar and the direction they took charnok's character (it feels very in character for him to want to start his own house), but the other decisions... my god. i'll put it under a read more
they tried to write conclusions for basically every character, with aisling finding her fathers killer and the war ending with devaedra being sealed in the rift (which is. weird since the rift isn't an alternate dimension + she already Lives there).
they killed off adonaius? adonaius was the current hierophant in the original lore, i have no idea why they'd do that. they replaced him with some girl named nara. after the war, anyone who was semi-good now serves under nara. tyto, voden, roland. cool. that's boring.
the guardians can be apparently killed really easily, which is. directly contradicted in vadasi's cards where it was established that only the kai knew how to kill them via severing their connection to the land (which is where their power is drawn from; this is likely what we're doing in the power races during rampages.)
anyone they didn't know what to do with got shafted. beckett, tripp, sven, these are just the ones i've seen so far. they're so wildly out of character and they just... fully disregard their Already Established Characters.
becketts obviously hits me the hardest since she's the character i literally named myself after. they ignored her having initially been in the same pirate crew as imani (and, overall, have misinterpreted their relationship), they ignored her joining aurion for monetary reasons and said that she joined for "the adventure of fighting a big snake." adventure, thats what they reduced her character down to. being very childish and nonstop adventure. ugh.
idk WHAT they're doing with roland and kajir. roland's lore kinda sounds like his alpha lore but then it takes a wild turn. he was a hunter, dad gets killed by margrave and xeno ig, he joins sky city police, is told not to pursue the margrave, does so anyways, gets people killed, margrave shows mercy (huh) and rips off his arm, then he finds nara and becomes her bodyguard.
its fully different (and worse, imo) from what motiga had planned for him. see, roland was originally a cop in sky city. he resigned after seeing the political corruption and became a bounty hunter to deal out his own type of justice, its why he only takes dead or alive bounties. his arm had been shot off by a sniper. to continue work he arranged something with tesserus, getting a new arm. a good friend of his was killed by kajir's crew. roland took on kajir's bounty, tracking him down to his hideaway. while the latter escaped, roland was able to destroy his treasure hoard. the two are now in a game of cat-and-mouse
i haven't looked at kajir's lore yet, from what i gathered i thiiink he's a mercenary/bounty hunter. in the motigan lore, he was a sky pirate. he stole an artifact from a moon temple and it allows him to turn invisible.
vadasi is suddenly fine with hk. this is a glaring error. she talks about how "tesserus has stolen their cores to imbue them with life. war machines, wearing the hearts of their saviors." saviors? i'm sorry, SAVIORS? 1.) iirc hk is the ONLY tesserus machination to USE kai tech and 2.) the kai's technology was the UNDOING of their civilization, they weren't saved by it they were DAMNED by it. vadasi HATES hk, she LITERALLY has a prox line for him where she says "i would have you destroyed." where do you get SAVIOR from that
this is funny but also. what is this exchange between voden and rutger:
uh, first and foremost, voden's old too? and... what does beauty have to do with this? why do either of them care about it? again, funny exchange but wildly ooc. also... rutger didn't come out of retirement because of devaedra taking control, it was tesserus desecrating the ghost reef. rutger doesn't care about house conflict, this is literally stated in one of his cards:
"Rutger, my dear friend. We need you now more than ever. I would not have come to you if the situation was not dire. The corruption is spreading - and what we all hold most dear is in grave peril." - Voden
"I hear the stones, and the mountains, and I hear you, young Voden. But you and I cannot do this aloneā¦ I am too old, and my body is beaten. You are too young, and your face is too hideous. What chance do we have?" - Rutger
"These things are true, old man. You are old and I am gorgeous, but the world's fate cannot rest on what we're not. We are Wardens - you command the very ground we step on. It is our charge to help, always." - Voden
The Old Guard I, Common: Which house was ruling didn't matter, as long as they respected and cared for the land.
i don't understand why abstraction felt it was necessary to tether the characters to aurion or devaedra, there was way more nuance than that. only a few characters had clear alignments, some steered either ways, others were fully unaligned.
i know most people don't care about the lore so i'm one of the few to Really Be Bothered by this but ugh. man. this was the one thing i was afraid of happening with the game coming back and it happened
im so happy to have gig back but man. the character assassination and the undermining of the og lore that abstraction added in is Really Bad
#cosmic chatter#gigantic#beckett hater hour#to sum up how i feel: i think most of what abstraction did with the lore just doesn't make Sense#they do have a few interesting bits here and there and like. sure i'll add those to my interpretation of the og canon#but why change the og story? it was great. their new story is just... worse in so many regards and is largely dissatisfying (and boring)
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I got this request story idea where quirkless deku doesn't want to be a hero anymore because of bullying that he got from bakugou and wrong saying that he got from all might. So deku decides is a backpacker, travelling around the world experiencing cultures, food, quirks!!! He has even a YouTube account where talk about his travels, meet new people and talk about their quirks.
Here you go @sweetizukufan its set in nz likeĀ you wanted :D
Ochako flopped onto her bed and groaned into a pillow. She didnāt have the right to complain, she knew that. She had been one of thousands of applicants to pass the entrance exam and for the past three years her classmates had been training just as hard as she had. And truthfully she didnāt want to complain. It was her final year at UA. It was only a matter of months until she was officially a hero her dream since a child and she was excited for it!
That didn't change the fact Aizawa had upped their training the last few months. The days got longer the work harder and quite frankly it left her with virtually zero free time. Whenever she tried voicing her thoughts sheād be met by her well meaning, but overly enthusiastic classmates encouraging her to keep her head up.Ā
She was! That didnāt mean she had to go through hellish training with a wide smile on her face.
āUgh,ā Ochako rolled over as it got hard to breath with the pillow smothering her. She really did need to get some sleep before waking up at five in the bloody morning tomorrow when she hit the gym. But honestly at this point if she didnāt do something to break up the monotony of training, eating and sleeping she was going to lose it.
She blindly grabbed for her phone. The school had funded getting her a newer model than her old flip phone since that had been a hindrance when she started internships. She was provided with the industry standard which her friends had tested by throwing it out a window, where it hit Bakugouās head, and was promptly exploded then stomped on. The thing came out of it without a scratch.
She brought up youtube, itās not like she had any games, let alone time to play them. It was probably a bad sign she had forgotten what channels she liked. With little other option she started scrolling trending with only a small amount of hesitance. She flicked past everything that was clearly clickbait, too childish or both.Ā
Something caught her eye and Ochako back-pedalled to take a look. It looked like some sort of vlogging channel āARRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND! Auckland sky tower!!!ā was written across the screen. Even with all the caps she didnāt really see how that could be clickbait. Maybe the guy was just excited, she would like to get a holiday like that after all. The image had him smiling at the camera sitting down and below him was nothing, nothing but a street far below. Ochako was embarrassed to say her first thought was that he had some sort of floating quirk before realising he was literally sitting on a window. In her defence she had a float quirk.
Partly embarrassed she clicked on the video why not live her traveling dreams vicariously through a stranger? She used to watch her fair share of travel videos, although those were mostly in tropical places so she could research where to take her parents.
The video started with a shot looking over the wing of a plane, a montage of it starting to land. Ochako was vaguely concerned when all she could see was water out the window but just before touch down the tarmac came into view so it wasn't a surprise crash landing. The camera cut off after a few more seconds panning across the airport as the plane pulled in. The music started to fade out as the shot cut to the same guy as before.
āHey guys Midoriya here again, just got off an eleven hour flight,ā He had no right to look so cheerful at that Ochako had never been on a plane but it didnāt look particularly fun, āAnd let me tell you I was not prepared for the ordeal that is security here,ā
Midoriyaās smile faltered a bit, looking sheepish. He was walking with the camera just outside the airport, people milling around in the background paying him no mind.
āI had no idea it would be that tough, I had an apple I got on the plane in my bag and I thought that would be alright, I got it on the plane after all!ā Midoriya didnāt look upset or angry butĀ he was blushing madly. Ochako cracked a smile at that now that she looked closer he was probably about her age, āBut no, I swear I thought they were going to arrest me! They started interrogating me, I had to stutter out that I got it on the plane, but that didnāt stop them they gave me a lecture about protecting the environment and declaring food, luckily I got off without a fine, I think itās because I looked terrified, because I was,ā
Midoriya chuckled rubbing his neck, there was a bang and he looked wideyed to the side the camera shook slightly then cut to another shot the setting slightly off from where it was showing a bit of greenery growing at the air port.
āSorry dropped my bag,ā Ochako giggled at that a bit, more that he had decided to keep that in the video than anything else, āSo I thought that was the end of it, but apparently not, they started asking questions about my shoes, āhave you visited any farms?ā āhave you worn them hiking at any point?ā stuff like that, so that was a bit of a problem because these are my only pair of shoes in this country and Iām pretty sure theyāre gonna incinerate that apple,ā
A little graphic of a cartoon apple on fire popped up along with a pair of shoes. A speech bubble followed saying āsave yourself!ā as the appleās little chibi face screwed up.
āI promised them that no, I havenāt by the way I wouldnāt lie about this stuff the environment here is super cool and unique I couldnāt live with myself if my dirty shoes killed a forest,ā The graphic was gone by now and Midoriya was walking through the airport, āBut I handed over all the snacks I had in my bag, even if they were ok to bring in the country I was too anxious to risk it, that seemed to appease the border security and I got away with my shoes in tact, my snacks sacrifice will not be in vain,ā
Ochako was tempted to laugh but if someone set fire to her snacks or sweets there would be hell to pay.
āAnyway now Iām hungry and have some time before my hotels check in,ā Midoriya beamed at the camera, āSo Iām gonna do something Iāve wanted to since planning this trip,ā
On that mysterious note the video cut to another montage as Midoriya got into a taxi. Ochako let herself enjoy the sights that rolled out the window. She wished she had a computer to watch this on instead of squinting for details on her phone's screen. The montage went onto show the outside of a store then going inside to pan over all the baked goods inside. It was a smorgasbord that stoked Ochakoās envy.
āHere we are,ā Midoriya sat at a table just outside the store a few bags laid out in front of him, āThese sorts of bakeries are everywhere in New Zealand, I didnāt look for anywhere specific just one walking distance to my hotel room, and here we are!ā
Midoriya took something from a bag showing it to the camera to make out the golden crust of a pie. Going torturously in detail as he ripped it open for the audience's benefit. Steam rose and mince flowed out, surprising Ochako as she thought it would be sweet. Breaking it open made a mess as Midoriya was forced to drop the piping hot pastry. The filling pooled across the bag it had come in making the whole thing look sloppy.
āI think my friend would kill me if she saw me do that, Gemma donāt watch this video,ā Midoriya warned to late, āSheās the one who told me I had to try a pie, I have a few flavours here but lets start with the basic one, mince!ā
Midoriya had some difficulty eating it now that it had fallen apart but managed and his eyes lit up.
āItās really good, the pastry is flaky and buttery it works really well with the savoury mince the two together make a really satisfying bite, but I guess it would be better if I didnāt destroy it first,ā Midoriya said sheepishly, āI wonāt do that for the rest of them, promise,ā
Midroiya took another bite from the pie before showing off the next one.
āThis is Gemmaās favourite Butter Chicken, and trust me it smells so good!ā Midoriya, the tease took a bite. Ochako had to wonder what she did to deserve this, āWow I like this one way better, not that the other one was bad!ā Midoriya hurriedly said.
He showed the inside to the camera, a rich looking butter chicken inside.
āItās really flavourful so you donāt need any sauce that and the texture of the chicken and curry are really complimented by the pie crust,ā Izuku took another bite as he talked, āI guess itās kinda like if Butter Chicken was wrapped up in Nan so there's no way it wouldnāt be good,ā
Midoriya talked more as he ate that pie and a steak and cheese one he had brought talking about both until Ochakoās mouth was salivating.
āThatās not nearly all the pie options, but Iāll be touring across New Zealand so this can be an ongoing adventure, now desert!ā Midoriya brought out a long bun full of cream, it had a dollop of jam on the top and so much icing sugar Ochako feared for his health. Midoriya however ignored those fears and took a bite anyway, āThe buns really soft and the area that the creamās touched it is just the best texture ever,ā
He smiled and there was cream and powder on his cheeks Ochako just knew was going to haunt her until he wiped it off.
āThis entire thing is just, āok how can we make this as soft as possible,ā Midoriya commented getting closer to the middle of the bun where the bit of jam was, āThe raspberry, I think? Jam is really good at breaking up the flavour half way through, now I can eat the rest of it,ā Midoriya grinned as he finished it off. He started walking around again waiting for his check in to arrive. That didn't seem to bother him as he pointed out things on the street as he walked.
As he did, Ochako saw someone blatantly jump over the street instead of waiting for the lights. There was another person in the background who casually strolled across the side of a building, feet sticking to it somehow. While people would use their quirks on the street all the time they were usually less obvious about it as police would sometimes call them out and it did depend quirk to quirk. Midoriya zoomed in on a few of these people before it focused on him smiling as he walked.
āNew Zealands got pretty cool laws around quirk usage,ā He explained, clearly having done his research, enthusiastically by the looks of it, āYou have to go through some basic training to prove you can control your quirk, at least so you wont hurt anyone after that you get a license and your free to use your quirk, like I island,ā That Ochako thought was cool part of her training had pointed out that some situations heroes were called in for weren't always villain attacks but some public quirk usage gone south, āItās pretty easy to get by the sounds of it but that does all depend on what your quirk may be,ā
The shot cut a bit, Ochako assumed he had rambled on about that for a bit and decided to cut that part.
āIn terms of heroes from what Iāve researched the police handle most of that, theyāre trained in their quirks kinda like hero schools back in Japan but starting at university not highschool,ā That made sense Ochako supposed, and theyād probably have more time to master their quirks too, āThereās a few heroes sure, theyāre like a branch of the police department and I think there's a departmental separation between rescue and combat heroes,ā
Was she privately pleased he had listed rescue heroes first? Yes, yes she was.
āBut honestly there arenāt many, they seem more like the people you call in for really big stuff going on, or international relations, it makes sense the population of New Zealand isnāt all that big,ā Midoriya rounded the corner someone made a peace sign at the camera before moving on, āAlmost half the population is here in Auckland and the whole country hasnāt reached the five million mark yet, thats crazy to me considering Japanās population is in the hundred million range and itās only slightly bigger than New Zealand,ā
That did seem insane to Ochako, not sure to be smug about that fact or not.
āSo that's probably why heroes are less of a thing here but that doesn't mean itās all not still really cool,ā Midoriya was beaming at the camera, his positivity and enthusiasm practically punching her through the screen, āIāve rambled enough, itās about check in time Iāll show you guys where Iāll be staying,ā
Midoriya gave a quick tour of his hotel room. It wasn't much, more of a backpackers than anything.
āItās not big I know but Iāll only be staying here for a few days to explore Auckland then Iām off traveling so a large place wasn't really a worry,ā Midoriya flopped down on the bed, bouncing slightly as he hit the mattress, āIām gonna take a nap because I am exhausted,ā His tone betrayed nothing, āBut stick around because Iāve got a surprise this afternoon- well I probably put it in the title anyway so itās not a surprise but itās still going to be cool, See ya,ā Midoriya saluted the camera and it faded to black for a few seconds.
When it came back to light it was an image looking up at a tall tower circling around it and entering the building next to it. There was a continuous shot that was sped up as he walked through the line entering an elevator which literally had a glass floor.
āWo-ā The camera was pointed down at Midoriya's shoes as he hesitated to stand on the glass patch. His foot made contact before he quickly stepped back, āNope, no, nope,ā
Ochako laughed and sank back into her bed. The elevators opened and there was a shot of large windows showing the expanse of the city. The footage sped up as Midoriya did a clean circle around the tower showing it was a loop to give a 360 degree view of Auckland. It was pretty with rolling hills and she could see forests at the edge of it. Honestly it was small compared to the cities she was used to but that made sense given what Midoriya had said earlier.
āLook at this,ā The footage went back to normal speed as Midoriya focused on a chart comparing the heights of different towers, āItās half as tall as the sky tree,ā
And that was given the giant antenna on the top.
āCome check this out itās pretty cool,ā Midoriya walked down the steps until he was right next to the window, a few steps more and he came to a patch in the floor that was just glass like the elevator. Midoriya noticeably stood back from it, āIt says here that the glass is just as thick and strong on the floor, so reasonably logically,ā Ochako snorted, āIt should be just the same as walking on the floorā¦ they say that butā¦ā
Midoriya switched the camera around to focus on him, looking a bit pale.
āThis might shock you but Iām not really a fan of heights,ā He shuddered and shook himself out, āAlright I can do this,ā
What followed was a frankly painful process that Ochako couldn't help but laugh at. Midoriya would approach the glass before backing off. He set the camera up on the railing so it looked down enough that she could see the glass and street below. Midoriya tried a bunch of stuff like walking up without looking down. That didn't work and he backed out several meters before he had even reached the glass thinking he was standing on it. He tried to sit down and scoot onto it but couldn't manage more than sitting far from the edge and putting his feet on it. Ochako started howling with laughter when a kid came by running up and jumping on the glass while Midoriya looked on with fear like they were mad.
Midoriya at least had a humor about it. 2D sketches drawn over the video to help exaggerate his struggle and the entire thing filmed rather comically.
Ochako was beginning to believe he had photoshopped the image earlier before he grabbed the camera taking a deep shuddering breath.
āI can do this, I promise I can do this,ā He sat down and shuffled back cringing all the way. Ochako found herself strangely proud as Midoriya actually made it onto the glass. He was white knuckled reaching up to hold the railing. He smiled shakily at the camera before turning into a more genuine look of triumph. That was until he quickly rolled off it jumping to his feet and scurrying away, āThere! Done! I did it!ā
He was smiling brightly now and Ochako couldn't deny she was proud of him. She had struggled herself with heights something she was forced to get over to use her quirk so she knew just how hard that can be.
āGosh I hope that's easier than what Iām about to do,ā Midoriya spun around to show a different window wires running outside and inside a countdown that was about to hit one. It did and there was a blur outside Ochako belatedly realised it was a person. Oh no.
āNow Iām not going to do that but I am going to do something pretty cool,ā Ochako blew a sigh of relief but also wanted to hit him for scaring her like that. Under no circumstances should he be jumping off buildings.
They lapsed into another montage Midoriya going back downstairs. This time he had the courage to put a foot on the window in the elevator. Downstairs he went into another area donning a coat and sort of jumpsuit before layering harnesses over the top. He went up an elevator with a few other people this time. They stepped out into another room Midoriya carefully keeping the window out of frame to keep the grand reveal. Their harnesses got latched on and secured to a railing. Once everything was safe the doors pushed open revealing Auckland city, this time not hidden behind glass.Ā
Midoriya skipped over the likely long process of gaining the courage to go outside cutting instead to him smiling with the city at his back and wind whipping through his hair.
āWelcome to the top!ā Midoriya yelled over the wind, the audio quality was bad but that was understandable. She felt worse for Midoriya who was smiling through the fear, āItās really cold and windy up here and Iām scared!ā
āJust go back down you idiot,ā Ochako huffed fondly as he kept shouting to be heard over the wind.
āIām kinda afraid of dropping my camera honestly,ā Midoriya laughed but she couldn't hear it, instead he pointed in to a few specific spots across the city, āSee those hills? Most of those are actually remnants of volcanoes, you see Aucklands kinda built on top of a giant pit of Magma,ā
Midoriya quickly grabbed back onto the railing, slowly shuffling along the sky walk, higher than he had been inside.
āLuckily the volcanoes in this area are dormant, cause if one in this area erupts there's a pretty good chance like 50 more are gonna follow,ā
Midoriya stayed up there for a little longer pointing out interesting things in the distance. Ochako could safely say she was glad when he cut back to the bottom of the sky tower. His hair was windswept and cheeks red from windchill. Ochako didn't even need to check the comments to know most of them were gushing about how cute he was.
āThat wasā¦ terrifying, but Iām glad I did it, who thinks I should try skydiving next?ā Midoriya grinned, before his face dropped and paled again, āGod please no that was a joke,ā
Ochako giggled relaxing back in bed again after the tension of the skywalk Midoriya had been leaking through the screen dissipated.
āAnywayĀ Iām just gonna go lie down for a while until some friends of mine get here, then weāve got one more surprise,ā Ochako hoped he hadnāt changed his mind and was going to jump off the building after all, she didnāt want to see him have a literal heart attack.
The video cut to Midoriya smiling at the camera again. He had a lot more color to him now and his hair was somewhat tamed. In his defence he had apparently got off and 11 hour flight then walked around 300 meters in the air it was allowed to be messy.
āSo the person meeting me is Gemma, I mentioned her earlier, and a few other friends but their camera shy so you probably wont see them,ā Midoriya was bouncing in place gaze constantly drifting away from the camera, āThis is our first time meeting in person so Iām kinda excited kinda dreading if this has all just been some elaborate joke and Iām about to get stood up or worse,ā
āWho hurt you and who do I need to kill?ā Uraraka whispered, fully prepared to throw down the gauntlet for a youtuber she had only just discovered.
Luckily for them Gemma and his other not seen friends were spared her wrath. The camera shot was from far away so she couldn't hear or see anything in detail but it clearly showed the two running up to hug each other Midoriya pulling back to excitedly chat. Gemma matched his enthusiasm, sparkles trailing her arms as she made wide sweeping gestures.
āHere everyone say hi to Gemma,ā The shot changed to frame the two of them, Gemma waving the motion sending more glittering sparkles falling from her hand and landing on Midoriyaās shoulder.
āOh no-ā Gemma stepped back to look at Midoriya the front of his shirt was covered in lingering sparkles along with his face and hair. Midoriya looked down at himself a little shocked as Gemma covered her face groaning into her hands, āIām so sorry, I swear they fade out,ā
She scrubbed her hands down her face, unaffected as her whole body shone lightly with subtle sparkles.
āI love it,ā Midoriya grinned, twirling a bit to show there was a band of sparkles across his back from where her arms must have come around him. He was quite a bit shorter than her so his face also looked like someone had blown glitter in it, it just made his smile all the more dazzling.
āSo you know where weāre going for dinner?ā Gemma was looking at the camera but clearly asking Izuku.
āUp the tower again!ā Midoriya beamed and really him plus sparkles was too unfair a combination.
This time in the elevator Gemma stood proudly on the window as Midoriya yelled at her.
āAre you crazy?!ā
āCrazy you say?ā At that Gemma jumped up and Midoriya let out an unholy screech as the elevator shuddered, she laughed but it was teasing not cruel. Ochako could make out the vague reflection of someone patting Midoriya on the shoulder and another person's arm came into frame to swat at Gemma.
When they reached the top Midoriya did not focus too much on the view, already having shown it. They stepped into a nicely decorated restaurant, but what was interesting was when Midoriya demonstrated that it was slowly spinning so the patrons could enjoy the view without leaving their table.
āDo you think they could speed it up?ā Gemma asked, she was sitting next to Midoriya, both had their backs to the window so Ochako had a clear shot of it.
āLike a dangerous merry go round?ā Midoriya questioned, the sparkles still clung to his cheeks and eyelashes.
āExactly!ā Gemma gave him finger guns, that matched her real guns. She may be sparkly but without the coat Ochako could now see she was ripped, āAlso the dangerous is redundant,ā
āWhat kind of merry go rounds-ā Midoriya cut himself off as a waiter walked by, ā... anyway I donāt think thats a good idea, given that the points to you know, eat,ā
āThats just what makes it more fun,ā Gemma waved off.
āUh-huh,ā Midoriya raised an eyebrow skeptically before turning to the camera, āHope you guys donāt mind but I wont be doing much food reviewing this dinner, Iāll show it off but-ā
āThis is a night for us to celebrate, later losers,ā Gemma saluted, Midoriya squeaked telling her off before cutting the video off. Ochako laughed glad for Midoriya that his nerves had been wrong.
As promised he showed a few shots of some fancy looking food. Ochako wondered how much she would have to save up for her and her parents to eat there, not as much as the flights of courseā¦ hopefully.Ā
The camera placed on the table showed the scenery slowly revolving outside, getting darker and lights turning on as the sun set. By the time they were getting up to leave it was fully dark outside and Midoriya spared a moment to linger on a shot of Auckland at night.
āIzuku donāt forget your bag,ā Gemma called as she shrugged on her jacket, also glittery.
āThank-ā The camera whirled around to where the bag should be. There was a slight ridge dividing the circle of the restaurant that spun and a ledges lining the outside where all the supporting beams were, āOh sh-ā
The camera started shaking as Midoriya ran through the restaurant. The shot switching to another camera that caught Midoriya as he ran the other way almost bowling over a waiter and profusely apologising. All the while you could hear Gemma and several others laughing off screen.
āOh? Look what we have here,ā Gemma moved the camera to focus on a spot as the restaurant turned around, a bag coming into view that Gemma scooped up. It was probably Midoriya's seeing as it had a couple of All Might pins and Ochako wasnāt sure how popular he was internationally.
Gemma set up the camera to focus on the opposite direction Midoriya ran. It caught the moment he came around the other side, still staring worriedly at the window. Gemma whistled sharply gaining a few glares but a relieved look from Midoriya as she held up his bag.
They left the restaurant with a few apologies at the other patrons for being loud. When the camera switched it was back on Midoriya but Ochako caught a glimpse of Gemma shimmering in the background waiting around.
āAlright that's all for today,ā Midoriya smiled, Ochako stomped down the slight disappointment resolving check out his other videos from his easiness and confidence on screen Midoriya must have been at this awhile, āIām going to be touring all over the country so stay tuned for the series, I haven't showed you nearly how beautiful New Zealand is, I hope I can make it down to the south island too cause they have some really pretty scenery, for now Iām going back to the hotel and crashing hard, see ya!ā
The video signed off to the end cards a recommended video and link to Gemmaās apparent channel that looked like some sort of fitness channel with how she was lifting weights in it. Ochako promised herself to check it out.
For now she subscribed to Midoriyaās channel checking the time to see if she could squeeze in another before going to bed. She was feeling like she could get away with it. The change in pace revitalising in a way. But really she attributed that to Midoriyaās natural cheer and charisma. Somewhere in there she had allowed herself to relax and get swept up in this dorky kids mundane adventure. It was exactly the kind of thing she wanted her parents to experience one day.Ā
This was exactly what she had become a hero for, and now graduation was within her grasp. She just had to push a little more and then she would be out in the world able to do some good for her family and everyone else.Ā
Ochako smiled at the screen, resolving to get some sleep and maybe she could squeeze in another video tomorrow morning. Before she turned off her phone Ochako glanced at the channel's name, snorting to herself. It was perfect.
Green Bean and Bags
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OG Hungers Game fan here!
First off, can I say that itās awesome to see some good meta on these books because they are slept on by people who think they are a Twilight copy. These books came out at the start of the Twilight movie phase and the first THG movie came out in the middle of that time too (100% know that this is where the team Peeta/team Gale BS came from)
Second, the movies were essentially made as if the Capitol made them. Letās cast 26 years olds as 16/17 year olds and make them white and make it all action while ripping out the real story and itās all fun and games and a love triangle š¤®š¤®š¤® These books were about war and oppression and trauma and forced heroism! Katniss just wanted to keep her sister alive! She wouldāve never gone into the games if it wasnāt for Prim!
Third, I will fight anyone, and I honestly mean ANYONE who says that Katniss shouldāve ended up with Gale! He is the reason Prim died, and he proved that he had no problem letting an innocent person be killed if it ended his own oppression. Heās like Dumbledore, heās fine with allowing someone to suffer if it means he gets to have the greater good, Coin is also like that.
Fourth, these books are not actually meant for children. I read them the first time when I was 13/14, then again at 19/20, and recently last year at 24/25, and a lot of the themes went over my head at 13/14. Like the media, I was too invested in the action and the love triangle to see the real meaning behind the stories. And this is why I think they were marketed to children, itās LITERALLY a story about children killing children and getting PTSD and then being forced to be retriggered. Finnick is a sex slave, Annie is mentally unstable from her games, Johanna gets tortured and so does Peeta. They all have disabilities that get magically āØ erased in the movies š¤®š¤®š¤® these books are not meant for children
Last, if they ever remake this series, it NEEDS to be a tv show. Itās how the books are written, itās Suzanne Collins background, it would be SO MUCH BETTER!! Ugh I love this series, itās so good, and Finnickās death makes me cry every time.
omg i realized i never posted this but this is just a FANTASTIC ask because it truly breaks down everything <3 that is immaculate about the hunger games and i am seriously trying to think of anything to add but this is just such an excellent breakdown of it that all i can say is like. YEAH
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15x19: Inherit the Earth
Weāre down to the end, and guys, Iām not ready. :(
Then:
THEYāRE IN LOVE
Now:
The world is empty.
Sam and Jack wander the empty streets. Dean pulls up in the Impala (still wearing his jacket with Casās bloody handprint. BRB CRYING.) Everyoneās gone. Dean tells the others that itās Chuck that did this. Jack asks the IMPORTANT question: āWhereās Cas?ā Dean looks down and hesitates, but eventually says, āHe saved me.ā He tells them the cliffās notes version of what happened while shoving down A MILLION feelings of regret and loss and I want to hug him. āCas is gone,ā he finishes, and hahahahahahahahah NOPE. Sam, in disbelief, calls his side-ship Jody. No answer.Ā
They head to an empty sports bar (AND WHAT I WOULD DO TO GO TO A BAR WITH FRIES AND TVs AND BEER RIGHT NOW). Jack stays outside and prays to Cas. He gets nothing and starts walking. All the flowers start to wilt as he passes them. WHAT IS HAPPENING?Ā
Sam blames himself and is done. They decide to meet with Chuck.
They tell him that theyāll play his little game. Theyāll kill each other. Dean demands that they put everything back to normal first, though. āThe people, the birds, Cas.ā All of it. (WEEPING.)
Dean, DEAN, Cas doesnāt want to be in a world where you donāt exist.Ā
Yeah, Chuck doesnāt care. Heās really into the brothers' suffering alone story. āThatās deep, thatās sophisticated, thatās a page turner.ā Oh, Chuck, you dumb bastard.Ā
Cut to the bunker where theyāre all suffering on their own. Jack wallows in his room. Sam wanders the halls, and Dean lays passed out on a bottle of liquor in the library. Sam finds Dean in the library, and Jack soon joins them to tell them that heās sensing another presence in the world.Ā
They head to a gas station. Dean heads for the bathroom, and hears a whimpering. ITāS A DOG. And Deanās so happy to have found him. He names the dog Miracle.Ā
Dean brings the dog out to show Sam. He tells him that Miracle is coming home with them. I AM DYING. Sam is shocked. Dean tells him not to worry because heāll only let him ride shotgun if Sam is cool with it. Lol.Ā
Of course, all good things must end. And Miracle dusts like everything else in existence. Dean looks around and sees Chuck giving him a smarmy salute. F U C KĀ O F F,Ā C H U C K. Dean doesnāt even like dogs, so there. (The patented Robert Singer ZOOM tells me that Dean does indeed care about dogs.)Ā
(Sidenote: The dog is Cas, right? Deanās beyond happy to see it. And is ready to let it sit shotgun, but only if Samās okay with it. And heās REALLY upset that they canāt āsave a dogā. Just thinking thoughts.)Ā
They head to a church.Ā
Once theyāre in the church of very dangerously burning candles, theyāre greeted by Michael.Ā
Michael tells them that heās been chilling here to avoid Chuckās notice. Adam is gone. (RIP Winchester brother that never got a chance.) Michael monologs a bit about humans and stuff. Dean recognizes a little soldier when he sees one. Michael wants to help though.Ā
Back at the bunker, Sam shows him Deathās book on God. Michael tries opening the book with no luck. (Sidenote: The DRAMA of the lights being lower is killing me.)Ā
*Dean is In Love Alert*
The brothers take a moment alone in the dark kitchen.Ā
Dean gets a call.Ā
Dean takes the call and because heās a precious bean that actually believes what heās hearing. Cas is at the bunker. Heās outside. Heās hurt.Ā
Dean takes off like a rocket AND IāM DYING. BBY BOY. NO.Ā
Itās not Cas. Itās Lucifer.Ā
UGH.Ā
(DOUBLE UGH.)
(INFINITY UGH.)
Yeah, Lucifer totally sees whatās between Dean and Cas and gains access to the bunker because of that. Coolcoolcoolcoolcool.Ā
He tells the brothers that the Empty kicked him out to finish Chuck. He brought a reaper to prove to the brothers that heās good people (NOT.)Ā
Betty is bound and gagged. (Because WHY NOT DO THAT TO A WOMAN, Buckleming.) Lucifer then kills her. (Because WHY NOT DO THAT TO A WOMAN, Buckleming.)Ā
Betty is the new Death!Ā
(Sorrynotsorry for the lack of pictures. I think we all know why.)Ā
She asks for the book. If they give it to her, she can read it.Ā
They set her up in the dungeon reading room, and she doesnāt need helpers.Ā
Meanwhile, Lucifer is playing cards and thereās ZERO interaction with Jack and him. AND I AM LIVING. Like, itās 100% clear that Jack isnāt his son and he does not see him as a father. Jackās father is dead. AND I AM LIVING. (But also sad because Cas is dead.)Ā
Lucifer does interact with Michael though. Michael does not trust his brother.
Betty pops up with the book and the end of God. Lucifer ashes her with a snap of his fingers.Ā
(HOW?!>!>?)
Wherps, he grabs the book from her and reveals his hand. Heās working with Chuck.Ā Ā Ā
Lucifer and MIchael battle it out. Jack watches. Lucifer tries to convince Jack to join the losing team.
Michael stabs Lucifer with an archangel blade. Mercifully, there are no haughty speeches or further peacocking between these two. Lucifer sparks out, gone at last. GOOD RIDDANCE.
Later, Dean has a heart to heart with Michael in the kitchen. Michaelās reeling that Chuck brought Lucifer back from the dead instead of seeking him out. But heās definitely NOT BITTER, NOPE.Ā
Dean reveals that Chuckās book is open and full of mysterious Enochian symbols. Samās going to translate those, and figure out how Chuck dies, so they can start knocking down some dominoes!
In the library later, Sam reveals that heās uncovered a spell to stop Chuck. (Jack was researching nephilim on the computer! Jack bby) When complete, the spell will unleash an āunstoppable forceā against Chuck. They head out to a special location, light the spell, and it sends three bright beams of power into the sky.
But the spell explodes. They look up to find Chuck standing there. Chuck...chucks the Winchesters and Jack away. He thanks Michael for tipping him off. āItās always been my destiny to serve you,ā Michael tells him. But thatās not enough for Chuck to forgive him for siding with the Winchesters even once. Chuck fractures Michael into light. The last archangel bites the dust.
He turns his attention to the Winchesters. Itās time to finish them. Heās canceling the show. At the last minute, he decides itāll be more fun to beat them to death instead of snapping them out of existence. Itāsā¦ā¦..YIKES PRETTY BRUTAL TO WATCH. āJust stay down,ā he counsels them - practically begs them. But they wonāt stop. Broken and bleeding, they hold each other up against him.
Sam laughs at Chuckās confusion. āYou lose,ā he tells him. Behind Chuck, the camera pans to Jack.Ā
Chuck tries to snap Jack dead but his snapper isnāt working.
Jack lays his hands on Chuck and golden power streams from Chuck into Jack. Jack snaps his fingers once, and the Winchesters are healed. As they say in the industry...suck it, Chuck.Ā
Sam drops Deathās book in front of Chuck, but the pages are blank. Only Death can even SEE anything in the book (making the whole ācanāt open book coversā thing into nothing but a drama llama move). The Winchesters came up with a plan B and spout this in a quick exposition dump.
Michael was jealous of Lucifer being āchosenā by Chuck
They made up the story of a spell, so Michael would tell Chuck
Jackās ābombā quest turned him into a power vacuum - thus the dying plants
When Michael and Lucifer fought in the bunker, the power exchange charged Jack back to full nephilim strength
Chuck killing Michael and beating on the Winchesters allowed Jack to absorb god-power
āThis is why youāre my favorites,ā Chuck gasps. He doesnāt know what happens next, but heās ready to die āat the hands of Sam Winchester. Of Dean Winchester, the ultimate killer.ā
And. Babies. Sweeties. I know that there are lots of people who have problems with this episode but THIS! THIS. This next line makes it all worth it. Because Dean tells him, āSee, thatās not who I am. Thatās not who we are.ā He took how Castiel sees him and he planted that damn seed in his own heart and watered it even in the depths of despair and now itās so mighty a force that he just walks away from their lifelong tormentor. GUYS. I LOVE IT. Iām so emotional right now.
Jack confirms that Chuck wonāt get his powers back. āItās not his power anymore.ā And AGAIN I am emotional thinking about fanfiction and fanart and giving this show to us when itās all done. Ahem. Anyway. Chuckās gonna grow old and die and be forgotten like every single human. (Ooookay that got a little dark, but Iāll allow it. This is a āto the painā speech, after all.)
Chuck begs for them not to leave him, reduced to sniveling panic in the Impalaās dust cloud.
The Winchesters head back to a small, empty town. Jack closes his eyes in the sunshine as āGet Togetherā by the Youngbloods croons across the scenes. People return to the world and itās gentle and beautiful - everyone returning to their day-to-day. āCome on people now, smile on your brother!ā the song implores.Ā
Love is but a song to sing Fear's the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Though the bird is on the wing And you may not know why
Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now
And look. I know this is just a song, and this is just a show. But this is my hope for this show and these characters - steeped in darkness for so long. And this is my hope for our actual real world too. Itās hard for me to separate the two so YES IāM CRYING AS I TYPE THIS. May this song lead us into the next episode and destroy me in a fountain of hopeful light.
Erm. anyway. Miracle the dog runs into the scene! It IS a damn miracle! Dean and Sam are so proud of Jack! Jack confirms that Amara is with him and theyāre in harmony. Iām so happy that Amara got a happy peaceful forever after with her nougat nephilim grand-nephew. Dean assumes that Jackās coming back to the bunker with them. Heās top dog, āhe can do whatever he wants now.ā (And readers, I like that Dean says whatever āhe wantsā and not whatever the Winchesters want. I think it shows personal growth!)
Jack declines. Heās already home - heās everywhere and everything. āIāll be in every drop of falling rain. In every speck of dust that the wind blows. And in the sand, the rocks, and the sea.ā Jack doesnāt want to lead people, or be prayed or sacrificed to. He wants to let them discover the truth in their own hearts, in their own time. āChuck put himself in the story. That was his mistake. But I learned from you and my mother and Castiel that when people have to be their best - they can be. And thatās what to believe in.ā I have to say, I was fervently against Jack-as-God until it happened. But just like everything to do with Jack, once it happens I just go...okay, cool. Iām on board!
In the bunker, Dean and Sam drink beer and comment on the quiet. āTo everyone that we lost along the way,ā Dean toasts. Sam realizes that they can write their own story now. āJust us,ā he says (and it sounds like a bleak echo in the empty bunker). Behind them, the table has SW, DW, MW, Jack, and Castiel engraved and...MY HEART.
The Winchesters leave to go find out what freedom feels like and we get a montage of past scenes from the show, and characters we loved or loved to hate. Jackson Browneās āRunning on Emptyā plays us off in sweet, mournful nostalgia.
The Winchesters drive into a sepia-tinged world. This episode is like my Thanksgiving plate mid-meal - all mashed together for faster plot consumption. But on a rewatch, thereās a lot to like too! Itās a goodbye to one story...
And we leave nostalgia behind. Itās time for them to figure out their own story and I AM SO EXCITED to see what happens next! (Lays some nougat candy bars on my altar for Andrew Dabb for one last vigil.)
WHEREāS THE QUOTES?
Whereās Cas?
Whoāve thought finding a dog would feel like a miracle? Cāmon, Miracle!
Whatās an ending?
Eternal suffering sounds good on paper, but as a viewing experience itās just kinda...meh
Want to read more? Check out our Recap Archive!Ā
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Episode 9...
Im not ready for this to be over š„²
AHHHHH
ASHLEY
Sobbingand screaming omfg
So I guess the theory of Ellie's immunity being bc her mom got bit while pregnant is canon now??
I've always liked that theory
Oh I figured we'd go back to Joel and ellie after the intro sequence guess not, glad we are getting more about her mom and Marlene
Oh Anna holding her knife to her throat :(
Oh I'm sobbing, Ashley you're too fucking good omg
Fuck you Marlene thats so fucking selfish she asked!!!
Good, sobbing again
Though the way Marlene killed Anna shows her character and how she can compartmentalize her own feelings and push them away
Oh joel
Theyre doing an amazing job at showing how the roles reversed with joel being the one to reach out to ellie while she's the closed off off after winter/david
Joel i love you joking about dynamite to get ellie engaged just a little
THE LADDERRRRRR
I didnt think they'd do it after all these episodes
Can finally cross it off my bingo card
AHHHH DHE RANNNN
Its the giraffes isn't itttttttttt
GIRAFFE (BINGO BITCHES)
This looks just like it did in game š„²š„²š„²
Oh my heart
Oh the rooftop scene
And they're all in the baseball feild
So is it everything you hoped for š„²š„²š„²
Oh Joel trying to protect ellie still, my heeaaarrrttttt
When we're done well go where ever you want
I'll follow you where ever you wanna go
Ugh I'm sobbing
Joel trying to connect by telling stories
Joel talking about Sarah
I was the guy that shot and missed
Omfg he did try to kill himself like I thought!!!! š„²š„²š„²š„²
Joel implying ellie healed his wounds š
Well im glad that didn't work out
Joel cryinggggggg
You know what I'm in the mood for? Shitty puns.
The no I just screamed when I saw the dude in the bg
Was that blood?!
Nm omfg
Fuck you marlene
You are the one person I never wanted to be in debt to.
What surgery š„²š„²š„²
Ope he understanndssssss
Yeah exactly YOU PROMISEDDDDDD
The fuck you are the only one that understands
Give him this. š„²š„²š„²
Come on joel, DO IT
Aw he grabs her knife
The shot of him shooting through the window šš
This part of the game always takes me forever to get through
I love the music over the muted audio is perfect
Joel use your flame thrower its quicker lmao
That was an ugly ass elephant lmao
SAVE HERRRRRR
Oh man no hesitation, love my husband
Rip bitch, you had it coming too bad you're gonna jump start s2 with abby
Now kill Marlene fuck that bitch
Oh ellie <3
Oh Joel you're lying ššš
Yeahhh by bitchhhhh
Fuck you marlene
Oh ellie š„²
Im sorry ššš
You'd just come after her. That's my boyyyyyy
Her smile when she says "yeah"
She woulda liked you. š„²š„²š„²
Back in Jackson :/
Oh shes gonna tell him about riley
You find something new to fight for š„²
Swear to me. :(
Okay.
Sobbbbiiiinnnng
Screa.mmminggggg
Its over and im not okay
And the music ššššš
And a finally update on my bingo card->
Ok ok ok The Last of Us episode 1 thoughts below!
ā¢ CLIMATE CHANGE?! (Love that honestly)
ā¢ Not me sobbing at the intro (I HOPED they'd do something like the games intro so this was a perfect surprise)
ā¢ Joels shirt is inside out š (ok noticed this before it was mentioned)
ā¢ Let the man have his coffee Sarah
ā¢ Gabriel as tommy?! Sounds almost identical omggg
ā¢ The neighbors š (oh I understand now.....)(I like how they changed the changing/infected neighbor scene)
ā¢ Desert Storm???? š
ā¢ Sarah fixing the watch instead of getting him a new one š„ŗ
ā¢ Sarah's backpack is so cute omg
ā¢ The dog š„²
ā¢ "Drugs. I sell hard-core drugs." Happy screams
ā¢ Joel and his shitty movies smh (hope this is ref later with ellie and joels movie nights)
ā¢ Dammit Tommy, jail, really??
ā¢ Yo wtf grandma. No joke the cordyceps out of her mouth?!?!?
ā¢ The truck scene was done so welllllllllll
ā¢ Jimmy's place!!!
ā¢ The planes (OMFG THE PLANE)
ā¢ Ooo the car crash separating them, I approve
ā¢ These bitches CREEPY (Love that they have no fine motor control)
ā¢ Joel begging š„²š„²š„²
ā¢ That is infact a small child (ššš)(š„²š„²š„²)
ā¢ DONT YOU TWENTY YEARS LATER ME YOU BITCHES (both 2014 Hannah and 2023 Hannah)
Sarah's death was sadder here and I stand by that
ā¢ The amount of time it takes to change depending on where your bit poster is ššš
ā¢ Joel doing actual work in the QZ is kinda really funny to me (sewer maintenance) (now this is more like it....wait drug dealing??)
ā¢ MUSICCCCCCCC
ā¢ HANGING?????? IN THE QZ??? BY FEDRA???
ā¢ Tess š„°š„°š„°
ā¢ Ooo truck battery and not guns (what about your guy?- He answers to me FUCK YEAH HE DOES....WAIT oh fuck explosion! Well fuck you anyway Robert)
ā¢Ā ELLIE!! (SHE HAS HER EYEBROW SCAR! And her sense if humor) (veronica?) (unchain my child please)
ā¢ Oooo message operator! (TOMMY!) (Slavers š¤)
ā¢ Joel planning a trip already is genius (wtf you doing drinking and doing pills?!)
ā¢ The watch š„²
ā¢ Those walls are THIN or that baby is LOUD
ā¢ Marleneeeeeee
ā¢ I love all the yellow wires, ik in the game it was an obvious way to show you where to go, but u like that its been added to the show
ā¢ Oh damn, rip unnamed firefly Marlene talked too, you're dying in the capital (kim) (ope her ear)
ā¢ Tell me to look for the light and ill break your jaw š„°š„°š„°
ā¢ Ellie getting water on her face lmao
ā¢ The knife š„ŗ
ā¢ Atleast the wrapped the handcuff so it wouldn't hurt her
ā¢ Don't talk about Riley bitch, I will fight you
ā¢ I like all the water dripping, good touch
ā¢ Joel talking construction š„°š„°š„°
ā¢ Ok but that wallpaper in the hallway with the dead Robert, I want
ā¢ Well ellie you tried, but Joel is better
ā¢ Ellie is in fact feral, love her
ā¢ Give ellie her knife dammit (yes ellie I agree that was an asshole move)
ā¢ Ope don't mention Tommy
ā¢ What are they capable of?- alot ellie, alot
ā¢ You all talk it out but please remember I am bleeding out ššš
ā¢ God I love my husband
ā¢ Ellies shoes squishing š¤¢
ā¢ Bill and Frank š„ŗ
ā¢ Your watch us broken š„²
ā¢ Ok but why is all the wallpaper cute in this episode?!
ā¢ Ellie figuring out the radio code shes so smart i love her
ā¢ That door (or whatever you wanna call it) was hidden perfectly omg
ā¢ Worst time to take a piss (hahahahaha honestly fuck that guy)
ā¢ Pedro's eyes š© (oh fuck wait hes fucking that guy upppp)
ā¢ PTSD!!!
ā¢ THE RADIOOOOOOOOO
ā¢ THE RADIO AS IT PANS OVER THE CITY AND WE HEAR INFECTED?!? so good
ā¢ The trailer!
ā¢ The city landscapes š©š©š©
ā¢ Frank!!!!
ā¢ There's no halfway with this, we finish what we started *indistinct screeching*
If you read all this PLEASE send me Joel thoughts, I wanna talk about my husband! Also if you want me to explain any of these ASK MEEEE!! Also, Also, I'll be doing this for every episode so if wanna be tagged in these just if be down šš
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