#vengeful father

[zestygoobieisreal]

Okay but whoever draws these silly fellas (not simon tho)

MY LIFE IS YOURS ‼🗣🗣

Im on my knees someone please draw one of em any of em

I legit want more fanart of them

PLEASE ‼🗣

[fujii-draws]

Grovyle, Celebi, and Dusknoir creating the most intricate plan regarding the most appropriate time to meet Hero and Partner again in the present while they’re next to the Passage of Time. How they’ll explore the present first as a trio for a couple more weeks/months, have Grovyle and Celebi reunite with the two whilst also giving a Big Heads Up regarding Dusknoir; where they’d then go on to see whether or not they truly want him there, and take the necessary action based on their decision. (Whether it’s a unanimous ‘fuck no we don’t want him back’, 50/50, or completely okay with starting over.) Nodding in agreement towards the plan and stepping into the portal together.

They then proceed to immediately get spotted by Hero and Partner just relaxing on the beach.

[galamerapple]

victor: sydney is my responsibly🙄nothing more🙄🙄

also victor:

[disturbed-fan]

One of the reasons why Eli desperately seems himself as good is because to admit he too has a devil inside him (just like he believes EOs have) would mean he deserved what his father put him through

[minzart]

I know Narinder is suposed to be THE BOSS

But it was still funny killing Aym and Baal so easy and being BOMBARDED by his bullet hell

It's almost like he didn't liked seeing his diciples being killed in less than 1 minute WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED

[meredith511]

It's nothing new that some of the shows(especially of period dramas) became all about representation, and HotD is the worst kind of all, so I'm not surprised how far they have gone. But it's crazy that anyone would allow that, ignoring the context of the story and charaterizations.

Do you want me to believe that any sensible person would have ~moments~ with her husband's ex-mistress who you just met, a stranger, in the middle of the war for your throne and survival? your own children's survival? when your unborn daughter and teenage son were murdered ONLY WEEKS AGO??? when your another teenage son is trying so fucking hard to win the war?

What's more insulting is that Book!Rhaenyra was in deep grief at that time after losing two children in a week.

I get it. You like representation. I get it. But you are writers and actors. Understanding your character and story should always come first, don't you think?

[discountsoysauce]

Yall might have to bare with me on this one I'm not great at articulating my thoughts and although I'm neurodivergent I really don't have the proper terms to explain myself here

But like

Okay so it's very obvious that Eli is not neurotypical. I don't want to really get into specific diagnoses because I very much do not want to fall into the serial killer = mental disorder trope. It's a shitty trope and very harmful when handled poorly, especially with Cluster B personalities. Under no circumstances am I saying that Eli's mental condition is the cause of him being a serial killer. I am in fact trying to say the opposite.

TW for discussion of abuse and ableism

Basically, the crux of my argument lies with Eli's flashbacks in Vengeful, specifically when it comes to his father.

Eli mentions that the abuse started when he was around 9 years old because his father saw "the devil" in his eyes.

Eli's age at the time is very important. 9 years old. A literal child. Eli has done nothing wrong at this point aside from exist, and yet his father sees something wrong with him. It's possible that it was intended for Eli to have truly had some "evil" inside of him from the beginning, but it is far far more likely that Eli's father saw some kind of behavior out of the norm (we see that Eli was not a very expressive child. He had to learn all of those behaviors later on) and concluded that it hinted at some "hidden evil". We see those ideas reflected in our own society all the time, with apathy or lack of expression in face or vocal tone can be misconstrued or depicted as evil or heartless.

Eli was never evil or a bad kid. He was 9 years old. There was no devil in his eyes, he simply expressed himself in a way that was considered abnormal.

There's more I could say on this but I've run out of brain power. If anyone has any insight or ways they relate to Eli that they're comfortable talking about or even criticisms, I'm very open to discussion.

[atropinenightshade]

Random Rafal Thought

You know something off about "Pure Good rafal?"

I think it's because Rafal has a nature of justice over mercy and one of the whole rules of Good is that they forgive.

Granted, even the best humans fall into revenge and so forth, but Rafal was supposedly "pure Good."

But how long would this last if it was this scenario:

Let's just say Rafal had a kid or something, like a happy little daughter. If someone killed her, and killed her brutally, like burned her to death, do people seriously think Rafal would just let it go?

I think he would spend his whole life trying to find out who did it and once he does, he would make that person suffer for what they did. And if Rafal had to kill someone in order to somehow bring her back, I think he wouldn't hesitate. He would never be the type to grieve and move on, and allow law enforcement to deal with the murderer. Maybe the only thing he would stop at is killing the little child of the murderer or blaming them.

I was also thinking of writing a story where a child of the main series characters was connected to the murder of Rafal's daughter but they weren't the killer. Someone in the story had the ability to bring her back to life and so Rafal wanted to kill them (and the murderer.)

Actually, it was a plot for The City of the Swans, and since I just published one chapter, I could still scrap it and use this as a plot point instead.

[candyredmusings]

Forgive me Father, I did something illegal

... Didn't feel like a sin

[fvretts]

just recently watched tbosas movie and i wonder if highbottom had showed empathy towards snow, would it have changed the overall outcome of the series?

[no-light-left-on]

hi I am still not normal about how we never get much of an epilogue for Emily and Corvo in the second game we are told how the rule turned out and that Emily is the beloved empress now but nothing beyond that and I get that the entire game is very much built on that I get that the first game we have close relationship with Emily and become fond of the staff that work with the Loyalists so we feel alone because we do not quite see eye to eye with our allies and all we have left is this little innocent child that sees Corvo as someone who can do no wrong in this world which is strongly contrasted with the second game where Emily (or Corvo) has few trusted allies that they can actually rely on and it feels like a group of almost-friends working to dismantle the conspiracy but at the very end of it all Emily is all alone, even her return to the Tower is so much more grim, her taking down Delilah, the entirety of Dunwall- it all feels so incredibly and thoroughly isolating, she is all Alone now, and maybe that's why it bothers me so much to see the story end so abrupty.

it would've been so, so poetic if both the first and the second game ended with Corvo and Emily embracing

[hells-beloved-queen]

{ So uh What if I told you That my Lilith is actually lowkey evil? /runs-

[rou-luxe]

wip wednesday friday (week 2)

wow I can't believe it's been a week already

after my outburst, I did not continue the harrison fic so I can't show that again

idk I'll give an update on drlh scene 1

basic explanation: emilia (homunculus kid) is trying to convince ray (cannibal who has given up on life) to get out of the basement. there's a lot more to it but yk

(also... ray mentions some suggestive content and emilia is too young to understand what he said 😭😭 meant to be a little hint for the reader)

(and yes... I changed Emilia's color to yellow because I realized Sanemi would be better with blue)

[dasloddl]

found this uquiz : Which two Greek gods are your parents?

I got Poseidon & Eris

[kassical]

After playing Nehrim and now re-playing Enderal through again, I’m having Thoughts about the effect the whole Creator cult in Ostian would have on the Prophet. I’ve been reading through the proclamations and the few bits of literature in-game that give us a more of a picture about the landscape of the theocracy in the southrealm, and there’s some crossover in the way the Creator there humiliated the worshippers, and how the High Ones in Enderal consider the Prophet and their entourage pathetic creatures for trying to fight against inevitability. Is the way the High Ones act after the initiation quest, and again during the infiltration of the Nehremese camp potentially linked to how the Prophets own experience with beliefs? We can choose whether the Prophet believed in the Lightborn ofc, but the cult is a different matter with how we can infer it was possibly the cult’s forces that killed the Prophet’s family. With the Creator cult proclamations talking about shame and humiliation and guilt, and the High Ones treating the Prophet (and humanity, sorta) like a petulant child who can’t leave well enough alone (and now I’m also thinking back to the dreams where daddy makes you feel helpless and also keeps shaming you), it all keeps whirling in my head that they feel related somehow, at least in themes.

(side note: now the prophet having the chance to be kind towards ryneus instead of telling him he’s just some dumb kid makes my heart ache more bc in a way the prophet is breaking the cycle of shame and guilt and fuck this game it has replaced my entire brain)

[yuanwang]

i'm back home and have thoughts about joh.n wick things, but more specifically akira

because akira was not subtle in her disapproval of sheltering john but it's the respect & overall trust for her father ( and with it the traditional principles that he holds that overwhelm that of the high tables ) that ultimately has her give in--if you can even call it that. she was shoved into battle with her only option being that of fighting by her fathers orders or dying against them, which if she somehow ended up surviving would be dead to him. arguably worse. i just think it was a very unique way to demonstrate the generational gap of priorities that is talked about between that of elders and the younger generation that are of asian descent, but obviously more specifically japanese, that exists outside the realm of john wick and fictional media. without getting into everything the gist we see with akira and koji were were their concerns over saving their own skin or aiding john with the clear foresight of the consequences were they to do so. from the older generation its quick to label the youth spineless and selfish, and from the younger generation those that are older are carrying a holier-than-thou attitude and an almost insincere amount of altruism that hypocrises their self-proclaimed family-orientedness. these are all very loose, exaggerated terms and both akira and koji’s beliefs are justified through many lenses, with the way the world they exist in is built i believe they are closer than most father-daughter relationships and recognize what fuels their respective actions, but i also think they both realize koji’s word is final so many things are left unsaid that can potentially turn into resentment. were they ever to make it that far..

i also think it’s important to note ( bc if you’ve talked to me at any length i wont shut up about restrictions in culture roles ) that akira is a daughter, and while that’s obvious i feel the need to reiterate that she’s a japanese daughter, in an arguably(?) male-oriented field of work. she is having her strings pulled by men in her life, majority being koji obviously, and while they share a father-daughter dynamic that is closer than most i dont think it’s entirely absent of these gender and hierarchical roles. whether she submits to koji’s wishes due to being her father or male superior is irrelevant. john ultimately pulls the strings that have her help him escape the continental, and caine is stringing her along through a path of revenge. it doesn’t matter whether these were intentional or not, the whole purpose is that all three of them just happen to be men interacting with her in some way, and yet through all the thousands of people involved in this line of work these three individuals that end up completely ruining her were men whose priorities overshadowed that of her own life. and she wasn’t even involved to begin with. it’s the words she snaps back at koji, the glares she throws at john, and the ambiguous end credit scene with caine, that drive the fact she is, was, ultimately in a role that could not do much. i wish i had the brain capacity to say what i legitimately adore about akira’s narrative but i am still jet-lagged so we move on to caine..

every piece of her anger is being directed towards caine, i think that goes without saying, and just because she does not strike at john in the train its clear she hates him equally as so, perhaps even more if she takes in his domino effect of coming to koji for help, and maybe even after hearing both john and caine are let go due to the duel..BUT ANYWAY i really adore caine in the fact he recognizes the pain and vengeance that comes from spilled family blood. and he recognizes akira’s intentions instantly, tells her he’ll be seeing her soon and AUUGHGAJGHDS i just. love it. i love it and it hurts me but i love it. there is a unique pain of doing what you have to, what you're personally against, and still going through w/ it. especially w/ caine, koji, and johns strong brotherhood..it just.HURTS WOW. and akira is fucking thrown into the shit storm of it all..