#v; what's in a soulmate?

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

‘Butter’ Jacket Shoot Sketch Day Three - RM, j-hope, Jimin, and V

[halfdent]

how people thought Harv would react to learning Bruce was Batman: YOU BETRAYED ME WHAT THE FUCK ? all these years how could you ? you ruined my life ! how Harv actually reacted : *shaking sobbing crying* I know you're Batman please lock me away or do something before Two Face finds out . I need you , I don't want him to hurt you . how people thought Twos would react to finding out Bruce was Batman : YOU BETRAYED ME WHAT THE FUCK ? all these years how could you ? you ruined my life ! Now perish . Two Face: Hot . alright lets go save his ass ...

[beatriceportinari]

Different anon, but now I gotta know what your Ideal Izuna fic would be haha

Hiiiiiii great question.... the hard part abt izuna is that he isn't really a character and when he is he is better dead. so if you want him making sense in your story he's either kind of a different person (wass route) or a ghost (spider lily route). otherwise he si just hanging out in the background awkwardly bc he shouldn't be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now as someone acutely aware of this and also not a writer (your humble servant) it is hard for me to say what he /should/ be doing in fics. A ghost would be nice (hi ed). Canon route where his story is told by someone else (preferrable in a way he would hate <3) is good too. Posession is nice as well! I read one where he was posessing sasuke that i was ultimately not too convinced by but the premise is good. Perhaps he could posess a sword like that shisui fic I mentionned... wouldn't that be nice a prized Konoha heirloom that's actually Izuna. Stuck there.

[sushisocks]

Hey there! I believe you said in another post that the final confrontation would be unlikely to happen if lenny and sean were alive, so i'd like to ask if you could expand on that pls(if u havent already and i just didnt see it lol)

Btw on a side note im actually super invested in your sean content😭😭the fandom seems to only talk ab him to label as an idiot, so as a fellow sean lover the way you characterize him has me so in love❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oh Anon you are SO LOVELY!!! Thank you not only in giving me the opportunity to rant more about Sean and Lenny (which I am always so willing to do), but also for your super kind words!! Sean is very dear to me, and I'm glad my reading into him as much as I do strikes a chord with other people ;;u;;

The way the general fandom often characterizes him isn't very surprising to me, given his personality & the surface level impressions he gives, but maybe for now I'll save THAT rant for another time, else we stay here forever lmaoo

So, to start answering your question, I believe you're talking about my post from a few months ago, where I talk about how I believe Sean & Lenny would've sided with Arthur & John if they'd lived to see the final confrontation. In it I mention how I find that final confrontation a lot more unlikely were Lenny & Sean to survive that far and stick around for the entire thing.

Now, WHY do I believe this? I touch on it briefly in that original post, but let's really get into it here!!

Okay to start off, there's a LOT of ways I see things going, in regards to Sean and Lenny, were they both to survive, because it adds SO MANY variables, but let's start at the very top.

At a meta level, it is important to recognize that RDR2 is a prequel to RDR1. This meant from the get that RDR2, as it is canonically, was bound to a certain outcome, to set up for RDR1. This ALSO means, that every step from the start of RDR2 was very much there not only to lay the groundwork for the end of RDR2 but also add another emotional layer to RDR1. This is all certainly things we are aware of already, but I think it's important to have that context in mind while we talk about alternative outcomes.

Because, see, Sean and Lenny HAD to die for the outcome in RDR2 to be the one it is. Not only them, but Hosea, Kieran, Molly, and Susan's deaths are ALL integral and important to the story, they ALL make a difference and contribute in pushing the story a certain way, and in reinforcing the steadily increasing hopelessness which infest the gang from Sean's death and out.

So if we're like "what if none of them died?" there are suddenly a LOT of new variables for every mission and every scenario we know from the game, which need to be considered. This is true EVEN if the change in survival count is only reduced to Lenny & Sean.

How different do you not think Shady Belle would have felt, initially, without Sean's death hanging over it? What about the bank job -- would Lenny & Sean end up on the boat to Guarma? What would've happened to them there, then? Would either of them be caught by the Pinkertons instead, with John or in his stead maybe? What other options would there have been, where would they end up at the end of that?

And already here we have to consider how those experiences might've impacted them psychologically, because of who they are.

In the post I mentioned earlier, I talk about how Lenny is new to the gang and probably isn't as stuck in it mentally as Arthur and John, nor do Sean and Lenny have the same emotional attachment/baggage in regards to Dutch. They're loyal of course, because they feel a sense of obligation to the gang, because it provides them with safety, friends, and allies, in an otherwise unkind world.

But what then happens when that changes?

How do you expect Sean and Lenny to respond when the gang starts turning on itself? When Dutch visibly starts losing it? When people start snapping at each other and threatening one another in the middle of camp?

(I have a half-formed thought here about how people would ABSOLUTELY be snapping and talking down to Sean in a way more cruel way towards the end of the game, for trying to keep things light and easy, yknow, fulfilling his role in the gang. I can only imagine what that'd end up doing to him, tbh.)

And, I'll be repeating myself from other posts here, but how do you think Lenny, a young black man painfully aware of the social structure as it exists in America at that point in time, would react to realizing what Dutch's plan with the Wapiti is? Same goes for Sean, who has SEVERAL instances through the game showing him just as politically aware as Lenny - certainly moreso than Arthur.

Would the outcome for the Wapiti tribe be the same, do you think, if Charles had more people than a very sick and tired Arthur to lean on, willing to help? Would Lenny in particular want to stick around to see Dutch attempt to drive the tribe into the ground for his own gain?

Also, I'm sorry but like, Lenny has a camp interaction with Dutch where he disagrees with him (about Miller, Dutch's favorite author) and explains why in a very well-articulated manner. In one instance, Dutch gets straight up offended by it, bcz Lenny can argue very well (and is RIGHT mind you lol).

I do absolutely believe that Lenny would not just sit around quietly in Beaver Hollow. I'd expect him to be among the most vocal in their discontent with the situation, and probably the best at arguing against Dutch.

That is, up until a certain point. Lenny is a young black boy, and Dutch is a white authority figure. Watch Dutch snap and yell at him, like he does John in Ch6 for example, and see how much longer Lenny sticks around fr. The trade is loyalty for safety and the same in kind. Why do you think members start leaving when things start looking their worst? And don't you think Lenny would be among the first to see the writing on the wall?

Though that is hinging on that very specific vibe in Beaver Hollow, where they're all scattered and losing their ties to one another. Add then in Sean, who is VITAL as social glue, and for making conversations easier. If he, and Lenny, and Mary-Beth, Tilly, Arthur, Charles, etc etc, insert your favorites here, managed to retain some of that community feeling, despite it all, then I absolutely see Lenny sticking around for them.

Same goes for Sean, tbh. I can see him leaving earlier, bcz the trade stops being equal and bcz he's not being taken seriously, and I can see him staying, for his friends.

There IS also a version of things where things are similar and I do see Sean siding with Dutch; but that is a very sad and lonely Sean, who is VERY different from where he's at in Clemens Point, and I think that's an unfair perspective to take for him in general.

Okay so, now we're back to that final confrontation, after I said I found it unlikely, why is that? Because, with every question I've posed thus far, about what Lenny & Sean's reactions might've been to canon events after their deaths, I have essentially presented a variable that comes with their survival to those points. Them being there for it, HAS to mean a change, has to mean something different happens, because their deaths are direct contributors to the path we already know the story takes WITHOUT their presences.

Now, what are those differences and changes? I honestly can't answer; something being different earlier or later can butterfly-effect into something completely new or remarkably similar to what we already know. I could sit here all day and wax poetic about all the different options and possibilities for where things could go, were ANY character to survive past their death point, BUT thankfully, that is what fanfiction is for, lol.

I hope this satisfied some of your curiosity, dear anon!! It was a lot of fun for me to write and think about, so thank you very much for asking!!!

[v-thinks-on]

[timaeusterrored]

Posted that rly sweet thing of Kerry and Mama Welles meeting then promptly had thoughts of Kerry dying first and taking Vax’s heart with him.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

Best kind of historical speculation is looking at a historical figures who were a couple whose relationship was tragically cut short by one or both of their deaths and asking "If both of you had lived a full life, would you two still be on speaking terms by the end of your lives?"

[padfootastic]

just closed out a live write in the j/s discord server where i wrote almost 4k in like. a day!!!!! it felt so unreal and im just. in awe. bc it was so easy??? validation and appreciation rly are underrated drugs huh

[do-rey-me]

finally watched the new pjo ep and yeah yeah its great for a lot of reasons but i am. genuinely kinda upset about the fates thing

[zoennes]

ɢᴇʟᴜᴋᴋɪɢᴇ ᴠᴇʀᴊᴀᴀʀᴅᴀɢ, Sᴇɴɴᴇ Dᴇ Sᴍᴇᴛ 𒀭 16 ᴊᴀɴᴜᴀʀɪ, 2001

[quietwingsinthesky]

Thinking about Sam & Dean canon soulmates. Thinking about Sam & Lucifer MFEO.

Thinking about Lucifer deciding that if Sam is his other half, and Dean is Sam’s matching pair, that makes Dean as much his as Dean is Sam’s.

[arch-lightbaund]

@roguesenses said:

izuku be like is he gonna say kacchan is the love child of satan next

“ I've connected the dots! ”

[reztruck]

the only time it would be funny if lalo and nacho had a kid is one baby traps the other. i think they would be horrible fathers.

[petpsycho]

[text]: A homeless man just offered me vodka. The power it took to deny it deserves an award.

-From Carlos

[txt: Media Naranja] Darling

[txt: Media Naranja] My dearest

[txt: Media Naranja] Sweetheart

[txt: Media Naranja] You shouldn't take alcohol from strangers ever. It could've been poisoned or laced or something

[txt: Media Naranja] If you want vodka we can get some

[foxsoulcourt]

The End Is Up To Us (32769 words) by mostly_maudlin Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Matt Boyd/Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Jeremy Knox/Jean Moreau Characters: Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten, Matt Boyd, Allison Reynolds (All For The Game), Kevin Day, Renee Walker (All For The Game), Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Jeremy Knox, Jean Moreau, Nicky Hemmick, Aaron Minyard Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, some jerejean on the side, maybe... some other things, the trio of besties you didn't know you wanted, its about, Friendship, Trust, Healing, Found Family, Exy (All For The Game), theres some but this is most certainly not All for the game, they do a lot of Activities, like there r... pumpkins. and waterfalls. and. FALLING IN LOVE :), Non-Sexual Intimacy, and eventually mayb some kissing, NOW FOR THE WARNINGS:, Past Abuse, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, mention of drake - Freeform, its all brief backstory stuff!!, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, ok cool done all that !, POV Andrew Minyard Summary:

Andrew Minyard has never cared much for destiny.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Do you like your soulmate aus where free choice is valued + honoured?

Where platonic relationships have just enough value as the romantic ones? 💜 

This author, @mostlymaudlin has got you covered!

Want to see what happens when Andrew, Allison + Matt are bestie-roomies? Looking for a story to fall into where the various group dynamics buoy you all the way through? Where Jeremy's ebullience gets channeled into a structure which helps people stay connected? Where Kevin Day is aDoReD?! Where Kevin + Neil's relationship is top tier fun capitalising on their mutual competitive nature? Where Andrew + Neil have independently charted ways to live rich full lives and THEN meet later in life?

M'friend, you are in for a treat !

ENJOY!

[fuzzyunicorn]

:)