#unamed child

[kharmii]

The CEO's (ReDestro) adopted son, a delinquent (with a thousand strong henchmen). I call him Geten sir.

Caption: Team VIOLET Child rearing policy.

Dabi: Listen you brat. Discriminate against people based on their individuality. Kill the trash. All humans are trash. They have no cause or aspirations.

To put it in a way for a child's understanding...about dreams and goals. If you try hard, you can change the world.

Kill them all. Kill the ice bastard too.

Geten: Listen carefully, kid. It's not what you look like. The value of life lies in your own strength, and that is directly connected to your heart.

(*Translation: Meta ability is #1 priority. Strengthen your meta ability)

You should wish strongly to protect someone. Kill anyone who gets in the way of the person you want to protect, and while you're there, kill Souen as well.

(Geten is remembering the incident where ReDestro was burned which caused his quirk awakening.)

Dabi pokes Geten hard in the middle of his forehead. (Maybe to loosen the tension there?)

Geten: Huh!? What do you have to say for yourself?

Endeavor: Water....is it a newbie?

(Baby hand) The kanji is weak, but look fire "climbs!". -I see.

Caption: The invisible darkness.

Endeavor: Like an arrow.

Light my way. Become a light.

(Were they read a fortune about baby Touya?)

Rei: Yeah, that's how I read it, but you're not the only one who shines.

Even if it's a faint fire that can't be seen in bright places. On a dark street at night, it's a warm and comforting relief. You don't have to be a hero. Any flame is fine.

Touya, you are the light. People like that person and me wandering in the dark. May it gently shine upon you.

Dabi: Show kindness to the world. Let it go, beacon of light.

(Enji wakes up and stares at the photo of his deceased son. Dabi may not have revealed himself yet, so it was a precognitive vision.)

Art credit: hrak (yaoi), Apocrypha, Dabi / ツイッターログ9【外荼】 - pixiv

[donsive]

The dupain cheng LORRREEEE!!!

(This is for my rewrite, read under for the loreee)

First the cheng lore.

Summary: 1 mom, 1 dad, 3 children, eldest is Wang(marinettes uncle who owns that restaurant) middle child is marinettes auntie(marinettes cousins come from her side and she's the one mentioned in that episode where she gave alya the ladybug miraculous for a week) and of course sabine who is the youngest.(marinettes mom)

They originate from Shanghai, China and moved to Paris when sabines father got a joh opportunity and wanted a new start. They moved in a rental apartment(which is where marinettes lives now) Wang becomes a chef and moves back to Shanghai, The middle child(dont know a name yet) becomes some Ceo or something and moves to London with her husband and Sabine marries Tom and Tom becomes a baker while sabine becomes a lawyer and part time florist at roses grandma's shop.

The dupain loree:

Gina Russo and Roland Dupain are the parents of Tom dupain. Gina was a aspiring racer which Roland wasn't exactly on with and Roland maked baked goods which he shared with his son and taught him how to bake. Midway through Tom's childhood Gina and Roland had a falling out and eventually divorced, for some reason announcing this on Tom's 18th birthday. When Tom announced he was going to marry sabine, Roland was furious(he's a bit old-school aka racist) and tried to stop it which caused their falling out. Roland eventually moves to a simple house somewhere in Paris and doesn't contact his son till his granddaughter visits him and being confused with advanced technology and old man stuff eventually does get akumatized but then is freed and eventually reunites with his family.

[bbaycon]

Just a tought, I’m not alright with him just going for the milk

Gotta click for quality cause i got the wrong caneva

SHE WAS SO PRETTY TEG JUD HBHJB

[allpiesforourown]

I love the idea of the Washer Woman being the sensible adult in Binghe's life in the Demon Prince Binghe Au. I can see Tianlang reading him romance novels as a kid while Su Xiyan chooses books on cultivation and how to crush ones enemies. Washer woman has lectured them both on child appropriate practices more than once, Tianglang more than Su Xiyan.

Imagine young Binghe getting cursed as a puppy one day and wandering off, tired, hungry, and injured only to be rescued Qing Jing Peak Disciple Shen Yuan who nurses him back to health . Washer woman ends up being the one to retrieve the prince since she's human and not considered to be a traitor like Su Xiyan.

Afterwards, Binghe can't stop gushing about his fateful meeting with the beautiful shimei he met (Shen Yuan was so pretty he thought he was girl).

Tianlang: That's my son, not even ten and he's already found his future wife! Not only that, but a cultivator to boot! But wait, the Cang Qiong Mountain Sect despise demons and would never permit one of their own to court a demon which their love would be forbidden! Ahh this just like the plot of Love Amongst Thorns where the heroine ends riding into battle on a dragon and then diving into a volcano to save her lover, the enemy general!

Xiyan: If she is a cultivator like you say, you'll have to become strong enough to defeat the peak lords Cang Qiong Mountain sect, for they will not let her go without a fight. Of course, it's a war they want, it's a war they'll get.

Unamed Washer Woman:....

Unamed Washer Woman: Or you can just thank her for taking care of your "dog" and get to know her as friends.

BONUS: I just picture Shen Yuan being the equivalent of a Disney Princess in this AU but being completely oblivious to it. Except instead of cute woodland creatures, various monsters and other creatures are drawn to him. He is also confused as to why so many people are surprised he's a guy

NDJDHB YEAH. she's the only sense of reason

Binghe: how do I tell someone I like him..

Tlj: beg him for money and become his sugar baby. That's how I got your mother

Su xiyan: show him your strength and he won't be able to resist you

Washerwoman: how about we try something like flowers first :)

Personally I was imagining shen yuan as some wandering cultivator. Binghe's hanging out in a forest when some demon planning to kidnap the prince shows up and is immediately beaten up by the handsome man who was passing through.

Binghe: PLEASE COME HOME AND MEET MY PARENTS

Shen yuan: aww if you insist..

Shen yuan is a bit nervous but overall glad the demon prince protagonist doesn't seem to hate him. Binghe is ecstatic the nice man agreed to have a meeting with his parents to discuss marriage ..

Shen yuan actually gets hired to be binghes tutor. Binghe needs to work on his human cultivation as well as his demonic cultivation, and while su xiyan would be happy to be her sons shizun, she's getting so damn annoyed with binghe bringing shen yuan up every two seconds

[odessa-2]

Hi! Do we know if the x5 children are boys/girls and in what timeline they were born (how old they are I mean)? Are there strong evidence for each child or pictures/videos aside from the one with a pregnant CB? Thank you if you are kindly answering have a lovely day

Hi Anon. Thanks for your question. I always find it perplexing when Anons or bloggers ask for evidence other than Caitriona's obviously swelling belly. As though witnessing a very apparent pregnant woman isn't enough. As though telling yourself or ourselves that observing a notably pregnant woman is a figment of our imagination and fobbing it off as body shaming or bloat. And that, my dear is happening because we have been gaslighted. And gaslighting is Manipulative ABUSE which I abhor and won't stand for. And she has looked pregnant multiple times over the past decade. Not just once.

Just to be clear dear Anon, I'm not at all having a go at you. The gaslighting I am referring to has been perpetrated by certain notable bloggers on both sides.

I made a post about it a while ago, a timeline of each of her five pregnancies as I saw them. I don't have the time to search for it, unfortunately, but if you do, then be my guest.

As for the biological sex of the children. I, along with a handful of other shippers in the 'know', know for certain that Caitriona has a daughter that was born in July 2016. Certain Information came to light. Legally. And that's all I'm saying regarding that. Believe what you will.

And of course we all know that Cait has at least one Son. Her little nameless blessing born to a mystery unamed Father 👨 🤪

[7squidgy7]

✧.*Art dump*.✧

These 2 as kids. Narinder was born with a 3rd eye marked as a potential vessal of death as soon as he was born. It was only after he died himself that the crown chose him and revived him.

For a while he just terrorised the villiage he lived next to stealing food and just being a menace. When shamura investigated it they found a feral and traumatised child with a crown and took him home. Where he was predominantly raised by Kallamar.

Lambert lived mostly in ignorance unaware of the culling of their people until it came to their villiage.

Shittens and more art below:

lambert made Narinder a buch of warm clothing when he first joined. he gets very grumpy in the cold and after a few attempts for him to stay outside without the accessories they made him he finally gives up and wears them.

if you saw my post a while ago about cotl fairytails the top right drawings sort of a follow up.

Plus me playing around with Narilambs second child as of now unamed. All i know is shes sleepy and has messy wool.

Plus other random assortment of art:

[transient-winds]

Wind Breaker Chapter 153: Heat

Spoilers ahead! Also um idk if this gonna be a long one, but this chapter do be wildin'

So, Takiishi's mindscape is...interesting to say the least.

It's completely trashed and kinda looks like a horder's house. Interesting to note is that there's dead trees here, perhaps it wasn't always that way beforehand but a wild fire broke out and made it a wasteland (literally).

The sudden combustion and scorched corpses is such a visual. What a horrifying(ly beautiful) scene honestly. Nii-sensei did such an amazing job, it looked like a horror manga!

Those people in Takiishi's mindscape, I'm assuming they previously fought him but were scorched by Takiishi's flames as he defeated them. None of them, standing even a chance to knock him down a peg.

Speaking of, I don't know if this has any correlation to Takiishi's mindscape but a lot of these visuals remind me of Avīci, aka the worst and most painful of the Eight Hot Narakas. In *Genshin's Buddhist text the Ōjōyōshū (往生要集, lit. The Essentials of Rebirth in the Pure Land), one of the regions he described within this level is the Region of the Bird. It said that within this region, a gigantic bird with a fire-breathing beak would swoop in and grab a sinner only to drop them onto the firey ground, shattering them. Remaining unamed, the descriptions of this bird shares similarities to the Karura (which I had mentioned on a previous post about Takiishi). So um take that info as you will.

*A Japanese Buddhist monk from the Heian period.

The way Takiishi looks at Umemiya is fascinating as well. Umemiya surrounded by flames, either his own or Takiishi's (I'm inclined to believe it's Takiishi's), and yet remain relatively unscathed despite looking charred. As if both of their flames are equally fighting for the chance to consume the other. It's like watching a trainreck in the making wherein you know the aftermath is gonna be brutal but you just can't look away from it.

Or perhaps it's like watching a forest fire. In nature, forest fires are destructive but they can also be a source of rebirth. When the dust is settled, sunlight can penetrate the soil that was once blocked by the leaves and the branches, the ashes from the forest remains becoming fertilizers to breathe life to a new forest and an entirely new ecosystem. A chance of renewal if you will, but will that the be the fate of Takiishi and Endo? We'll see.

I very much enjoy the fire symbolism Nii-sensei is using for both Takiishi and Umemiya because fire can be both destructive and constructive. History has taught us that civilization was built with the aid of fire and it was also used to destory it. So I'm enjoying double entendre of it all.

Honorable mentions:

Sakura "He feels so distant" Haruka. I just want to wrap my sweet child in a blanket, he's so worried guys 😭🤧. I need his face to be happy and smiling again pls.

Endo, a pot calling kettle black much?

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Thank you Nii-sensei for another great chapter and Jacqueline Fung as well for the official translation! Please go and support them via the official international release in Kodansha.

[inarmes]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟓𝟎𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐋.

the hunger games catching fire, suzanne collins // go get your father, cathy linh che // unknown image // from a letter to anne clarke, anne sexton // from a letter to pat parker, audre lorde // raised in the shadows, the taxpayers // in a spiral of the monologue of a damaged child who flirts with death, leena ishrot // unamed writing, @FAUNTTHEKiD on pinterest

[therobotmonster]

Most of us don't like to look down.

It's how we're kept under control. Most can't stand seeing chrome where there should be skin. The eternal near-hunger is worse in the first few weeks after the augmentation but one adapts to it quickly. There's a dozen little nudges like that that all work to push your desire toward a single overriding goal.

Reclaiming our humanity.

I want mine back, too, but my desires are still my own. In my mind I never had a body. I was a perspective with hands. My reflection never interested me. When I saw myself in my mind, I was just a abstract person-like shape, only as detailed as child's self-portrait.

Chrome, seen or unseen, doesn't bother me. Nor does my mission.

The choices in my design, however, those I resent.

The living armor would have bound to us whole. It would have functioned without making us a part of itself. The hunger and feelings of confinement could have been simply turned off with a flip of a switch.

They could have given us fingers.

The impulses that would have driven us mad in our palandanium prisons were shut off easily. I cannot feel boredom. The constant hissing of my respirator systems feels like breathing with my old lungs. My more primal passions were subdued. Why then did I still feel the need to pop joints I don't have? Why was my absent mouth always slightly dry?

The answer is obvious. They didn't want their knights to become lords. They made us to frighten demons and were shocked to find us frightening to themselves. So they made us addicted to our humanity and hold it hostage. To keep us from becoming kings they tried to make us into dogs starved for the hunt.

But in the un-boredom of deep space, I did not dream of the warm embrace of living flesh or the taste of wine in the summer as did so many of my comrades. I turned my mind inward to quiet, unseen ends.

I found my switches.

The elders engineered magnificently. Without their shackles I am the perfect machine or retribution they envisioned. The demons I once feared, on this world, now fear me.

Those cackling bloated abominations that gleefully call themselves Dire Wraiths pretended to be devils, but when unseen hands tear their witch-mother's acid barbed tongue from her mouth in front of their eyes, their truth was revealed. I saw sniveling, pathetic, fragile creatures who die in fear and confusion, no different than any other strain of talking meat.

They were not the demons I had been sent to banish. They were parasites supping at the power of greater beings, servile insects who mewled and worshiped greater evils like the vile, black star at the heart of their dark nebula. When they see power and cruelty, they worship.

I have both in excess. They see nothing else.

Yet unseen, I see their true nature and my own. I am not the king the elders feared they would create.

I am Unam.

I am the Unseen.

I was a Spaceknight of Galador.

To the Dire Wraiths on this world I am the God of Death.

What kind of god will I be when I return home?

That remains Unseen.

[bestsistertournament]

Propaganda Under Cut:

Lilo Pelekai (Younger Sister of Nani): Lilo loves her sister deeply and cares deeply if her sister is hurt. And does not want to lose his sister after losing so much already.

M'gann M'orzz (Younger Sister of M'ree and Older Sister of M'comm and Adoptive Older Sister of Garfield Logan and Sister to 10 Unamed Sisters and 16 Unamed Brothers): Growing up M'Gann would defend M'comm from the racial bullying they sustained at being white Martians who came to see her as his rock and despite his actions as an adult tried to reconnect and reconcile with her younger brother. After M'gann saved Garfield Logan's life with a blood transfusion they considered each other blood siblings. Despite her grief when Superboy was believed dead she still tried to reach and support her brother who was struggling with guilt and depression. Despite the lack of support her older sister M'ree gave her as a child she began to realise that M'ree had only been a child.

[barzfrommarz]

Gimme hcs for my son

Please

I beg

-meows like a cat as a stim, but not a calm meow. More like and angry hissing meow

-Every “year” in limbo he would wish for something on what he thought what his birthday. So he ended up having a small collection of things from mumza like cigarettes, candies (they didn’t taste like anything), a small video camera that he uses to film proof for others, his guitar and a small notebook and pen

-Plays more than just the guitar. The piano, violin and drums are his favorites

-He never fully goes into an animal form, but when he does he’s a fox and he likes messing with people (specifically c!quackity) cause no one knows it him

-In utah/unamed desert wherever you think he is, he had a garden where he grows fresh vegetables and pretty flowers and this hobby helped him get over his fear of bees (they stung him a lot as a child)

-Collects CDs, Vinyls, Cassette tapes etc. He prefers it to digital media

-Following my headcanon of technology being behind in the smp. Wilbur mainly uses a phone with a pull out keyboard but he does own an mp3 player. He does use a laptop but mostly likes to go to the library to use their pcs instead (he just likes the library)

-Has pica (an ed where a person craves/eats unusual or inedible things like dirt). He craves sand and rocks. To him the sand in las nevadas tastes the worst and any from a beach is the best for him and he isn’t as picky abt his rocks but he won’t get them from any cave

-Wilbur is a mix of welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Polish 🇵🇱, British 🇬🇧 and american 🇺🇸. Most people assume he’s british because of his accent but he just mimics others voices. His original accent sounds very polish.

-Would love to live in the south. He really likes the country and it’s very nostalgic for him. (also think southern gothic)

-His ptsd makes it hard for him to pop popcorn, be around balloons or use anything that shoots confetti

-He has trigger words from war. Think general army terms and if you say any around him he will instinctively be alert and ready

-Did ballet as a child, dropped it at 14 due to dysphoria. Sometimes he still likes to do little routines when no one is around

:))

[kharmii]

(Getting this one out of the way before we find out definitively whether or not Dabi is still alive. The last manga chapter #425 hinted about it, then went on hiatus)

(A long ago memory where young Touya Todoroki is eager to have his father Enji #2 Endeavor see what he can do)

Touya: No! Don't leave! I'm stuck to you!!

Enji: No way. I've got something to do...an association meeting.

Touya: I also thought of a strategy!!

Leave it to me to exterminate the villains.

Dad please watch!

Enji: Really.

Enji: Then while I'm gone you protect mother and Fuyumi.

*Walks away but says upon leaving* I left it to you.

Enji (to unknown person): Keep an eye on them.

(Person): Yes.

Touya: See you then! Well then!!!!

Touya: Who am I? Dad's hero!?!

Enji: ...... ......Ahh.

Touya: Yay!! Take care!

※Notice

From now on, this is a dream-like, fabricated, creative manga about Dabi's dreaming of interactions with his child while he lies on his death bed. A happy ending centered around the parent-child relationship between Touya and his parents.

What Dabi had done could no longer be reconciled, and he wondered if it would be possible to start over as a parent and child without being able to return to his original family, and what if Dabi were to be in the same position as his father... Also a wish....a dream.

Children also talk. The child in this story is a genetically engineered baby made from the Team Violet co-commander's hair (Dabi and Geten) that the doctor made for fun in a manga I drew earlier and adjusted the plot to look like Dabi would hate it (that's the setting/creation).

There is a conflict of interest with Geten. I feel like I have a lot of compassion for what he's been through. The second half is a conversation between Geten and the child, and the story changes from Geten to Dabi.

Dabi: ...Terrible, I don't feel it.

Geten: (Speaking to Dabi who is presumably burnt to ash...deceased or nearly so lying in a bed covered in a white sheet.)

What did you say? It's "cold".

Geten: That kid is excellent. Is it natural since both genetic contributors are first class?

Your concerns were unfounded.

In another ten years, it will be out of my control...

Geten: Come. Looks like he's going out. We'll meet again someday.

(He's talking about Dabi's fire going out, an analogy for his soul leaving his body).

Child: Can you see it?

(I can't see anymore)

Child: I can hear it?

(I can't hear it anymore)

Geten: -Because I'm the kind of guy who doesn't watch or listen.

No big deal.

Geten: (Bottom panels) The feeling of touching. A hand.

I can tell because it seems to be understood. -So as not to break.

(The child is touching Dabi's hand, and suddenly they are allowed to communicate).

(Same memory from earlier, except played out between Dabi and his child)

Touya: No! Don't leave! I'm stuck to you!!

Enji: No way.

Child: I also thought of a strategy!! Leave it to me to defeat the heroes.

Dad please watch!

Enji: Really.

(Dabi says something cryptic only the child can understand)

Geten: *laughs heartily*

Child: See you then! Well then! Flip side!?!?

Touya: Who am I? Dad's hero!?!

Dabi: I'm going to get sludge..... (the last thing he said was garbled)

Child: Ha~~~~~!?!? I don't know! I won't make your father's dreams come true!!!! -AND- Geten! Translate it!

Geten: Haha, that's probably correct.

Child: Take care!

That?

Touya: Mother! Will today be a hot day?

Rei Todoroki: Ah, it's summer.

Touya: Mom, is that the way you talk? Well, that's fine.

Rei Todoroki: What's wrong?

Touya: Hmm? If you stay in the sun all the time. It stings and I don't like it. Looks like it's okay today.

...There are suns like this too.

It's fluffy and tight... ...Somehow it's really...

(While the child reaches out to the sunlight, caption says "Nostalgic". Viewer realizes the scene with Touya speaking with his mother Rei was a dream Dabi was having as he was dying, as were all the other memories of his father and such.)

Geten: ...Finally. You idiot. It was great. Did you notice I can do it...See? Already. It's neither hot nor cold, right?

Dabi: ……Yeah.

(Reference to how Geten was able to provide comfort and make him comfortable as he was burning away.)

Warmth.

Geten: (Thinking) This is all I have left... (of Dabi's ashes)

Geten: (Out loud) I'm troubled. Apparently more than I expected. It seems like there was a feeling.

Geten: I miss your blue flames.

Child: Geten. Geten. What I've discovered....please watch.

*foom*

Child: Like ice, I could change the temperature of the flames. It would be cooler if you could take it out of your hands like father did. Geten?

(My guess is that the child's quirk resembles Geten's ability. He can't make fire/ice from his own body, but he can manipulate both elements and control their temperatures. Judging by Geten's questioning, if the child did have a fire quirk coming out his hands, he'd have to suppress it to avoid Dabi's fate, as he's a genetic chimera made up of a patchwork of both Dabi and Geten's clones).

Geten: White hair is increasing (like Touya's did when he got a little older). Isn't it hot?

Child: If it's really hot, it'll fly far away.

Geten: What about this? Is it hot?

Child: Not at all.

Geten: It's okay to be cold.

Geten: He and I too were moved by it. It was life.

Child: ...Geten.

Geten: You can call me 'Dad' too.

Child: You said you wouldn't allow anything other than Geten.

Captions: Rejoice Dabi. In the past. Ahead of us. Don't walk away.

Art credit: hrak (yaoi), Apocrypha, Dabi / Twitterログ12【外荼】 - pixiv

[strawberrybuni]

Hickey HC’s bc I love you.

Toji, Sukuna, Mahito, Shoko,

Miko. Tighnari, Cyno <- biter fucker, Kaveh, Lisa

Gojo, Geto, uname,

Venti, Xiao, Ayato,

Kento. He’s the only one who can get a perfect heart in jjk.

Diluc, Kaeya, jean, Zhongli, Childe, wanderer, Kazuha, potentially Ei and Miko

I love you too pookie 🫶🏻

Xiao giving me a heart shaped hickey would make me 👉🏻👈🏻 and ughHHhhh I want one from diluc so BAAAAD

you didn't include choso, but I like to think he's the last one cuz I want him to give me one :3

[delilahcalicocat]

Can I have 🎱 Damian Priest x Fem reader where she got out of bad marriage which leads to her and damian falling for each other with the prompts "You make me so happy" + "I think I'm in love with you and I'm terrified"?

A/N: Yes. I love this idea, I hope ya don't mind that I had the reader & unamed father. have a 3-year-old child :(

{Please Love..}

{Rating: Fluff.}

{Warnings: Kissing, Crying, Anxiety, Panic, Mentions of Abuse.}

{Pairing: Damian Priest x Fem!Reader.}

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It was a rough few weeks in your house, your husband had just broken up with you. Asked for a divorce. He wanted full custody of his and your child.

You didn't exactly agree to that, so it would be settled in a court of law. Who had full custody of the child.

You were the one who took care of Rose, you fed her everyday. Since she was a baby.

But your husband didn't care. He wanted your child. Despite you having her 4 years ago.

so you had to stay somewhere, so you were staying with Damian. Your colleague from Work. You were literally panicked the night you ran from home.

You turned up at his door at around 2:15am. A sobby mess, tears everywhere and your child in your hands. With marks and a bruise.

Damian was silent, but ushered you into the house. Settling you down from the shock of what happened.

Your child was upstairs, resting in a bed that Damian had in an extra room. He talked you down from the sobbing and panic and anxiety you had bottled up.

You were both cuddling at that point

"You make me so happy Y/N..." He said softly

"I think I'm in love with you and I'm terrified" you said

"Why love?" He asked

"I don't want anything to happen again, Rose is my life... I love her.." You confessed

"Please Love, I'd never do that... my love is sincere... I wouldn't ever hurt you.." He said

You hugged him tightly, sobbing your eyes out.. you both fell in love with each other..

He heard your stories of what happened and why you always cared so much for Rose..

He actually stood up for you in the court trial. And you and Rose stayed together. You had gotten full custody of your child.

And Damian was her new father...

You both sealed the deal of your relationship, with a kiss. Back home while your child watched cartoons on the television..

[yanderefairyangel]

Defending the decisions regarding 0 emblem.... using Romeo and Juliet

That moment when you have a realization about two of your brainrots

As we all know 0 Emblem is the biggest unresolved mystery in Fire Emblem Engage

We know little about it except for the fact it was one of the emblems in Sombron's world, before being exiled to Elyos, Sombron took it with him and despite traveling to another world, the Emblem was powerful enough to stay with Sombron until he was found by villagers. The Emblem disappeared causing Sombron intense despair and in rage he destroyed the village that welcomed him and swore to find 0 Emblem again

So many take issues with this backstory notably the fact that we know nothing about 0 Emblem outside of that which is what this post is gonna discuss today

And you might be wondering "but Fairy what is the link between this and Romeo and Juliet ??"

Well that's what we are gonna see

Defining character in absentia

Character in absentia is a term defined by Rang Lieu to describe a character with little screentime but massive importance on the story

We can see this term can apply to both Lumera and Sombron, both have few screentime but they matter a lot in how their presence or absence impacts others notably Alear, and this makes sense for parental figures such as them to be mostly characterized through how their influence manifest in their child

That being said, I argue it can extend to 0 Emblem whom despite having no screentime (arguably that last scene in Engage) also has a major influence on the story and to showcase that I am gonna have to rely on a character from Romeo and Juliet the play who fufills the same role as 0 Emblem : Rosaline

In the 3 previous versions of the tale of Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare, Romeo was in love with an unamed lady whom we knew next to naught but that she was rejecting him. In Da Porto's version, he goes to the party held by the Capulet in hope to catch a glimpse of her but in Bandello and later Brooke's version, he goes to parties in hope to forget about her and that's how he meets Juliet. Shakespeare expands on her character a bit by giving her a name, Rosaline, a personality (a cold fierce beauty who wishes to remain chaste) and a family (he made her cousin to the Capulet). Thus in the play, Romeo confesses to his cousin that she rejected him because she made vows of chastity leading Romeo to become all mopey and his cousin to want to console him, hence he told him to find another lady to love and forced him to go to the Capulet party.

Basically Rosaline plays the role of a catalyst for the plot of Romeo and Juliet as it's her rejection of Romeo that led him to meet with Juliet. This isn't exactly the same for 0 Emblem since the plot of Engage starts with Alear and not Sombron, the catalyst would have been Lumera however where Rosaline and 0 Emblem have similarities is in how they are relevant to their respective stories, that is to say, in how much they impacted characters.

Comparisons

Rosaline is, compared to 0 Emblem, much more relevant as she gets mentionned more. She is the subject of the end of scene 1 act 1, she is the main reason Romeo goes to this party, Mercutio makes recurrent jokes against Romeo('s virility) using his crush on her (and even she herself) as a punchline.

Meanwhile 0 Emblem is only mentionned in chapter 26 when Sombron reveals his motivations : he wants to conquer the different worlds so he might find the Emblem and return with it in his own world to enact revenge. This obviously comes from several factor such as Sombron not being the protagonist, being a character in absentia too and his motivation being a plot twist.

But despite that we can point to similarities in how their revelance isn't as characters but in their relationship and the effects it has

If we focus on the play for a bit, there was something that I always questionned and it was why was there so much focus on Juliet and her house. You see, despite the Capulet and Montagues being on equal footing, the play, much like the previous source of the story, focus on the Capulet, we know the name of both of Juliet's parents, we see a party being held there, the action mostly takes place there etc. Shakespeare goes even further by having the nurse muse about Juliet when she was younger. In contrast little is known about Romeo and the Montague, and even moreso in the play where Romeo's age is no longer mentionned (reduced to emphasis on his youth) and where his parent's relevance is so low that only Benvolio, his cousin, can be considered the most important Montague. Lord Montague has only 3 appeareances and Lady Montague has a total of 2 lines before dying off stage. Little is known about Romeo outside of lines implying that how he acts in the play is different from his usual demeanor : in act 1 scene 1 we are told he has been in his room, crying under sycomore trees, that is prone to melancholia, which worries his surroundings implying he normally doesn't do that. This is further supported by Mercutio's cues. When he and Romeo have a little game of wits, where instead of trying to evade like he does in act 1 scene 4, Romeo actually responds, he comments that he is being social again and thus that he is Romeo again, (this is mainly due to the fact that Juliet returning Romeo's feelings healed his broken heart) etc. The foggy past Romeo has that which is left unexplored in the play constrast compared to Juliet where are given a lot of elements about her including her birthdate.

To an extent, Romeo is partly a mystery despite being one of the character we follow

Comparing him to Sombron is a strange comparison for sure given how one is a protagonist and a complex layered character whereas the other is an antagonist not nearly as complexed, but there is a common point in both having rather undefined past and a change happening off screen : in Romeo's case, it's him going from a sociable young man to a more reserved melancholic one that which we see at the begining of the play before we see him revert to a more sociable persona. In Sombron's case, he went from a young weak scared child to becoming an absolute monster, an abuser, a destroyer, remorseless, cruel, an embodiement of hatred and ressentiment. This off screen evolution was what is essential for the story, it's the birth of the antagonist.

And these off screen evolutions were caused by these characters in absentia, Rosaline and 0 Emblem. That being said, 0 Emblem's impression on Sombron is obviously more important and drastic than Rosaline's on Romeo but both also have thematical relevance that justify their lack of presence and little focus given to them.

In Romeo's case, his relationship (or rather lack thereof) with Rosaline is studied as a contrasting point to his relationship with Juliet. One causes him to become completely different from how he usually is, going from social to recluse, melancholic and mopey. The other makes him break from this state and returns to his more usual behavior. But what scholars highlight is the feeble nature of Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline.

While previous versions tries to present his efforts to court the lady (notably Bandello talking about a courtship that lasted 2 years with no success), Shakespare highlights the idea of this infatuation being weaker; notably through characters commenting on how quickly Romeo ended up moving from this (and by characters i mean Friar Lawrence cause Benvolio and Mercutio have 0 idea Romeo fell in love with someone else) but what is the most important part in all of this is is the form used to describe her.

When Romeo is describing Rosaline he is using Petrachan sonnets. Thing is that scholars note that these sonnets were rather weak, it's described as amateurish, forced. In contrast, when he uses this form to woo Juliet his skills have improved. Some go as far as arguing that this change in Romeo's language is meant to reflect an evolution in Shakespeare's skill (Romeo talking about Rosaline = a younger Shakespeare describing Rosaline, and the more experienced describing Juliet.)

This place's Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline on a lack of experience and even the universe of childhood, something he must break from to grow, making his relationship with Juliet into what makes him grow. That being said, Rosaline's name, which has been decided by Shakespeare, is a name that is very current in Petrachan sonnets. Romeo's position has having a first love reflecting his inexperience causing him pain, the choice of the format, of the name and so on replicates a schema of poet with his muse making Romeo into a Petrachan poet and Rosaline into a Petrachan muse. Romeo's describing her as an embodiement of perfect beauty, unattanaible and unreachable, which makes her a perfect subject for this form. Moreover, Romeo describes her with few details : she is likened to Diane, mainly portrayed as being beautiful and that's it. He mainly talks about his feelings and not so much about her, this contrast a lot especially when Mercutio talks about her in a more cynical corporal way whereas Romeo is talking about her in a way where she is sublime, an object of worship but in doing so he presents Rosaline as an abstract concept rather than a human being. This contrast to how Juliet is presented later in the play, furthermore Romeo's imagery is very classic and unoriginal whereas with Juliet he puts more effort to be inventive. And finally, at the time Shakespeare writes, Petrachan sonnets and its imagery are considered to be dated so Romeo using these, especially to pours out his feelings make him sound kinda ridicule.

All that to say that Rosaline being portrayed as this Petrachan muse figure, in short a figure so sublimed that it's abstract, less of a real person and more of a concept. Romeo's portray of Rosaline tells enough about the nature of this love, he is more in love with the idea of her or the fact of being in love than Rosaline as a person. This is a contrast to his love for Juliet which is less abstract and more concrete. This can also be read as a jabb against Petrachan poetry for presenting a poet more in love with the pain of never being reciprocated than the actual women they talked about.

This makes the little focus on Rosaline and her lack of presence in the play at all despite being one of the most catalsyer makes sense, not knowing what Rosaline looks like or is like effectively helps reinforce the fogginess of pre-play Romeo and of Rosaline, making her fit with this idea of abstractness a lot more.

See it's a lot harder to make your audience associate a character to asbtraction and views them as such when they have a body and by that I mean when they appear on screen and talk, even a little. For Rosaline to never feel incarnated at any point, she needs to stay as foggy as possible, especially in contrast to Juliet who is a much more major character. So the main take away is that Rosaline is made a character in absentia because it helps the character comes off as abstract and unfamiliar to the audience

And you might think "well that's nice and all Fairy but what's the link between this and Engage " ?

Well, Emblem 0, much like Rosaline, matters less as a character and more what it brings to the plot but if Rosaline is charactezied by her abstractness to reflect Romeo's first ideas of love as an etheral concept and talking about it a lot for someone who doesn't really know what is, so is Emblem 0 characterized as being an abstract being more than a concrete one

We have to keep in mind that we know of 0 Emblem is limited to what Sombron's tell us and I wouldn't trust this guy on anything and so does Alear

When Sombron describes 0 Emblem as being unable to speak because he used the power of the fell dragon to summon it, this further the idea that nothing outside of Sombron and that it also comes from the fact Sombron didn't really knew a lot about 0 Emblem, it was just a presence reassuring to him because it reminded him of his home but Sombron's belief that Emblem 0 abandonned him because instead of seeking revenge he was connecting with new people doesn't feel right

By his own admission, Emblem 0 was under Fell dragon influence when he summoned him so it couldn't have leaved on its own, this give more weight to Alear speculating that Emblem 0 didnt wanted to abandon Sombron unlike what he believed

And thus in the same way that Romeo's description of Rosaline says more about him and his feelings for her than about she as a person, Sombron's way of viewing Emblem 0 speaks more about him than about the emblem

Sombron's belief that he was abandonned by the Emblem as punishement for connecting with the villagers seems more to be a manifestation of his guilt for trying to move on from the loss of his home

That Sombron's ultimate goal is to return there to enact revenge after all these years speaks volume : he is suffering from survivor guilt and unable to move on from having lost everything he had, and Emblem 0 was basically the only thing he retained from this lost world, thus Emblem 0 is more of a symbolic representation of Sombron's connection to his world

That's why I personally find the fact that Emblems cannot travel to others words because they have no physical form to be fascinating from a strictly thematical pov, you can make an argument it's because they represent ideals that are so closely linked to their world they cannot be separated from it

In this sense, Emblem 0 has to stay as abstract as possible to not interfere with Sombron's perception of it and helping to convey how it matters most as what it represents to Sombron (connection to his home) than as a character

Furthemore I'd like to argue... it's in the name

What's in a name

In Japanese, Emblem 0 is written 零番目の紋章. Sombron reads it "zerobanme no monshoshi" but the transcription reads "reibanme no monshoshi".

A more accurate translation would be "Emblem n 0" which could be implying an origin past the first Emblem which in our game is Marth (hajimari no Emblem/Emblem of beginings) hence why it's refered to as 礎の紋章/Emblem of foundations, but 0 also denotes an absence which is to be found within the kanji 零/rei for it can mean "nought" or refers to something being absent or missing. Thus it refers to the notion of nothingness, void. In many mythology, the foundation of the world was precisely at the heart of nothingness, for instance, the primary deity Khaos whose name in greek means "nought".

Furthermore, an emblem is originally supposed to be a symbol of something, but the definition notes its abstract nature

Thus it all points to the fact that Sombron is looking for something that is not only abstract but possibly not even longer for this world

It's lack of appearance or voice, much like for Rosaline, is more efficent at creating within us this notion of abstraction, Emblem 0 is something that much like Rosaline's character benefits from how little we know about it because it's meant to operate on this way and in turns it expands bits on Sombron's character

Notably the fact that Sombron projects on this emblem ideals of strengh, notably the ideal that strengh resided in power only and not in nurtring connection, in isolation etc. The fact that Sombron views the Emblem as nothing than the ideal it represents is ironically closer to what an Emblem is but also ties to how he views people throught what they can bring him, tool, unlike our casts or even us who don't view the Emblems solely throught what they represent but as characters but earily similar to how Rosaline is portrayed and in that sense, it makes more sense for both of them to be left in a certain fog of mystery in order to preserve this abstraction

To Sombron, Emblem 0 is mainly a representation of an ideal and thus a form of hope as he admits that it was the only thing in which he found consolation and it becomes his only motivation, before he even wanted to return to his world he had to reunite with it and even if he admits in chapter 24 that he knows this Emblem no longer exist

Sombron himself is aware of the vanity of his quest yet he still does it anyway because he can't bring himself to move on from his past since it's what he believes caused him to lost the last connection to his world in the first place, and I feel that's also why Sombron is mostly a character in absentia expressing little care in anything and feeling less interesting as a character and more as to what it represents : Sombron doesn't just let himself define by his past, he is incapable of letting anything else define him

Even if it doesn't make sense, even if he had severals times the opportunity to make new connections he just refused to because he refused to move on from his past and mature, because it brings the possible pain of losing another connection that's why Alear's arc with Lumera makes for a nice parallel as it shows Alear being able to move on from the loss of Lumera and later the Emblems, connecting with others and yet understand these do not remove the connections they made with Lumera and the Emblems

And thus, in the same way that Rosaline's abstraction highlighted Romeo's immaturity and the vain nature of his feelings for Rosaline, the abstract, non existent nature of 0 Emblem reinforces the utter vanity and futility of Sombron's quest for what 0 Emblem and thus of his philosophy of power above all and of hatred instead of moving on

It shows that Sombron is incapable to do anything else than just perpuate the cycle of abuse with putting his children, Lumera and many others through the same suffering he experienced, entrapped in his own despair

That being said, Sombron's desire to grow stronger does show that he believes that to reunite with his Emblem he has to be worthy of it which in a way parallelize with Alear and Veyle's struggles but instead of going about it in a healthier way, he shuts himself from others and only view them as mere pawns and in how they could benefit him nothing more, nothing else but he does live up to the ideal that Emblem 0 represented to him as a child, the hope he kept pursuing

And this idea of hope mainly comes from the fact that this Emblem's incantation spell is 焦がせ/kogase (burn) however the verb kogase is usually used to talk about a burning glow, 灯火/tomoshibi in japanese and not only is glow the translation of Alear's JP name but much earlier, before the final boss fight, Sombron calls Alear a weak glow

So Emblem 0 is like Rosaline supposed to express an ideal that is not materialized and thus that cannot be find within this world but if Rosaline is an idea of love and of the woman that is untrue, Emblem 0 is an ideal of Hope that is untrue as to Sombron, hope can be found within power for the sake of power

Sombron himself is meant to embody a concept of fear and despair because, in Alear's shoes, that is what it is, it's an inconcrete type of threat, an embodimenent of evil but Sombron is incarnated and this reading is mainly coming from one my friends who argued that the early perception of Lumera and Sombron was very similar to how children views their parents as invincible gods when they are little but as they grow they realize they were failable humans beings too

Given how we follow Alear's pov, this reading works like a glove but this also aligns with the fact that both Lumera and Sombron are character in absentia and that Alear's journey to grow up also involves discovering the truth about what happened to Elyos 1000 ago because everything is linked to Alear's condition as an abuse child, including Sombron's past as it is the reason Alear was born here and the reason why they had to even go through that, so it makes more sense to put these two character in a distant plane where one is seemingly the perfectly kind mother and the other the absolute incarnate of evil, this makes Sombron appears as what he is meant to be, an evil deity but also how it feels to someone who was one of his victim, as an absoluted undefyable god who could exerce absolute control over his progeny

Thus that we can only access to a more human side of Sombron as the end approaches and as Alear had to witness the darkness within Lumera makes more sense, now we are given a meaning as to why Sombron is the way it is, but I don't think (unlike many) that showing a more human him means he is being sympathized mainly because human doesnt equal to good, it merely shows that Sombron isn't naturally evil but that he choose to become this way and I would even argue it makes him also less sympathetic because his suffering makes him a direct foil to 3 characters who didn't let their pain get the better of them, Lumera, Alear and Veyle

But while this progression from an idealized in both positive and negative sense of Lumera and Sombron explained why they were mostly presented as characetr in absentia before we get a more in depth look at them to mimic the change in Alear's perception like a child who realizes their parents are absolute god of good (Lumera) or evil (Sombron), in the case of 0 Emblem such thing isn't because it is a concept and a concept is meant to feel abstract, which justify its link to the notion of nothingness through rei/0 and through the lacking informations about it

That's also why I think theorizing about their identity is a bit pointless because it's something that works a lot better in a narrative and thematical angle when you have no name, face, identity to put on it, much like Rosaline in the play

It helps reflects so many things about how Sombron feels about Emblem 0, the idealization of what it represents, what it symbolizes in the futility of looking for something that you lost, seeking revenge and power while sacrificing connection with anyone, the utter void of Sombron's quest, the abstract nature of what it represents as an emblem/symbol, something that can only work taking advantage of its invisibility, lack of corporability, character, name etc.

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Hozier Unreleased Songs Lyric Prompts

Devil -

❝ I’d walk on cloven hoof if you were the home I was walkin' to ❞

❝ I'd burn every soul I knew if I thought the fire was warmin' you ❞

❝ I'd be what men fear in the woods ❞

❝ I'd piss on heaven's gate if I could ❞

❝ I'm straight on the level ❞

❝ I'd be the devil as long as your lovin' was good ❞

Blood-

❝ Tryin' hard to recognise some pure motive inside of me ❞

❝ A creature that would horrify any child that I used to be ❞

❝ Oh, give no faith to show ❞

❝ Started to smile so I showed my teeth ❞

❝ No more than flesh and bone ❞

❝ Doin' so much just to watch someone bleed ❞

❝ Oh, I love the very blood of you ❞

❝ It keeps its heat in spite of you ❞

❝ Oh, the heart that beats ❞

❝ To keep you here with me always ❞

❝ Tryin' hard, I nearly find innocence in spite of me ❞

❝ A creature that would terrify any child left inside of me ❞

❝ Oh, that's a cold insight ❞

❝ Nothin' above us and nothin' below ❞

❝ Ahh, but you might be right ❞

❝ If there is no heaven and there is no soul ❞

❝ Always, always, always ❞

❝ Leaks and squeeks you black and blue ❞

But the Wages-

❝ You can find hope ascend to mark just how everything changes ❞

❝ Be it the temperature highs or the sea level rising ❞

❝ Sky-bound as a heavenly choir ❞

❝ The screams of the dying ❞

❝ It's all going up but the wages ❞

❝ And maybe it's time ❞

❝ Don't mention the rent or the money that's spent ❞

❝ Or the level of blame pointed to anything else ❞

❝ And preachy musicians ❞

❝ Or the pressure of blood ❞

❝ It's all going up with the bump in the heating bills ❞

❝ Even though the city's on fire ❞

❝ Higher and higher and higher ❞

The Love Of-

❝ If towers fall, if nothing stands ❞

❝ I’ll build again the world by my baby’s hands ❞

❝ At the end of all, there’s all they claim and then ❞

❝ I saw the news again ❞

❝ To hear that the world’s to end in flames ❞

❝ I’d not complain, I’ve seen the love of my baby ❞

❝ Be on the take, or talkin’ of slaughter over cake ❞

❝ Would kneel and break ❞

❝ Speak of the love of my baby ❞

❝ The angels can know their place ❞

❝ Let heaven hidе its face in sheer disgrace ❞

❝ Oh, look upon the lovе of my baby ❞

❝ Those who wield the chain are pushing the wheels of fear and shame ❞

❝ Forget their name ❞

❝ Hear of the love, the love, the love ❞

❝ The unamable, the unmade again ❞

❝ So hurry up and start ❞

❝ Can’t wait for the world to fall apart ❞

❝ ‘Cus here unmarked would still be the love ❞

Rob The Goddess-

❝ Made right by the hope that she affords me ❞

❝ As she’s lifting spring towards me ❞

❝ Like a baby in her hands ❞

❝ The thought arriving with her ❞

❝ No mere saint makes shit of winter ❞

❝ Here or any land ❞

❝ And of all times, I won’t lie ❞

❝ If she can pull it off just one more year ❞

❝ I swear, the old demotion be damned ❞

❝ I will not rob the goddess ❞

❝ I will not rob the goddess one more prayer ❞

I Could Be Yours-

❝ I could be soft and sweet ❞

❝ I could be hard and loud ❞

❝ I could be anything you'd ever need somehow ❞

❝ Why don't you hear me sing out from the lost and found ❞

❝ I could be yours ❞

❝ Why don't you try on me ❞

❝ Why don't you take me home ❞

❝ I'll match the color scheme of your bedroom walls ❞

❝ Oh, take a dose of me ❞

❝ It doesn't hurt at all ❞

❝ Oh God, I'd benefit from your sweet tenderness ❞

❝ Thank God, it could have been ❞

❝ 'cause nothing comes from it ❞

❝ That'd be a helpful thought if I could remember it ❞