#vis: reflections

[oxenfreeao3]

I think Vi is way too smart to not know she's intelligent but is also so self-deprecating that she believes that she's stupid.

[mouse-drawings]

Bugtober day 12 - Doppelganger

Something about dying and coming back wrong. Something about reflection. Something about true selves. Something about mimics. Something. Something...

[vi-visected]

The Demon’s Head had no need for such trivial things as vanity. His clothes were fine because they lent well to the weather and his own movement. His hair was shorn only by his own hand and kept to uphold sacred traditions. He wore no makeup, had no need for it. Thus, Damian grew up in a palace utterly devoid of mirrors.

The only time he ever saw his reflection was grossly distorted in the shimmering surface of the Lazarus Pit.

“This is your room,” Father had said to him, and while he was unused to the four poster canopy bed and the closet of pressed clothes, he would make do. He would not fail Father simply because he was unused to a situation. A good son would adapt. So adapt Damian would.

When he first saw the creature out of the corner of his eye, his instinct was to draw his sword and assume his standard fighting position. The creature copied him as if exactly in sync with him, even drew the same sword in the same way. Damian halted, waiting for an advance.

It did not come.

He waited for some moments, and then inched forward. The creature inched forward at an exact even pace, matching every one of his moves down to the minute twitch. This, Damian realized, must be a reflective surface. But something about the image in the surface seemed… odd. Damian lowered his sword and crept closer, quietly relieved when the creature did the same.

His reflection, this mirrored image of himself, it wasn’t… correct. All his life his mother had told him that he looked exactly like his Father, but his Father did not look like this. The creature in the reflection had slitted pupils, deep glowing green eyes, and markings all over its face. It had fangs, long and pointed, and sharp ears that stuck out from the sides of its head. It was… grotesque. Awful. Damian had the distinct urge to smash the mirror to pieces, all at once convinced that this had been the reason for both the lack of mirrors at Grandfather’s palace as well as why they had sent him away. It was to hide his shame, this abomination that he was.

But Damian couldn’t bring himself to do it. Couldn’t destroy something valuable in Father’s home on the very first night he’d been invited to stay. Regardless of what Father had said, nothing in this room belonged to Damian. It could not be tampered with. But the reflection… it could not remain where someone else might see his shame.

In a fit of inspiration, Damian grabbed a fresh linen out of the bottom of the wardrobe and hastily draped it over the grotesque image. It covered the mirror well, exposing no part of it, and he nodded contently at his work.

There, now no one had to know. He simply needed to… avoid all other mirrors in the Manor. That shouldn’t be too difficult.

Adapt, Damian reminded himself. He would adapt.

[dualityofagemini]

A vi and a jinx ? A lil text post thing I thought would be fun

[yannisdesk]

Shaking my head every time Vi has a scene in Part 1 of Arcane S2 so that everyone knows I don't approve of her becoming a cop.

[marejadilla]

Ian Cumberland, “Panopticon VI”, 2021, Oil on canvas. B. 1983, Banbridge, Co. Down, Ireland.

[sowearecleariamhere]

Thinking about how at the end of Arcane... (SPOILERS!!! also if you haven't watched Arcane yet what are you doing)

Jinx reacts to Silco aiming a gun at Vi by wildly shooting around and ending up fatally wounding Silco while Vi barely escapes a bullet, how Jinx's gut reflex was to protect her sister even after everything that happened and after all the times she questioned Vi's loyalty, how Vi coming to harm was something she would not, or maybe rather could not stand by and watch happening - just like she could not do so when she was just Powder - even if her father figure who was actively trying to estrange the two sisters was the one intending to do this harm, how Jinx is devastated at not only the loss but the fact that once again, she messed up, she jinxed it, and then him affirming his loyalty and acceptance of her eventhough she just shot him, this all happening in a space Jinx set up designed specifically to finally confont Vi and probe at her, wanting Vi to choose her, "...then you can have Powder back", Vi being unable to do so and in Jinx's eyes Caitlyn being chosen over her and being abandoned again. The one person who she was desperate to be chosen and loved by fails to do so and the only other person that has shown her (partial, by accepting her current self but not her past self) accepance she just killed to save the one who couldn't.

Thinking about how all of this mirrors the end of act 1, when she by mistake killed someone close to her, she was desperate for Vi's acceptance but not gettting it, only for Silco to give it to her. Only now no one is swooping in, she is alone.

Thinking about how once again this is a night that will change her forever.

[sensitiveseal]

hiii ur stim boards are very ,epic!! can I request a Kefka Palazzo themed one pllllzzz?

kefka palazzo stimboard for u!! i’m glad u like my boards i hope u like this one too!!!

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[fideidefenswhore]

'Thus he ended his speech, and he doesn't say That he had wronged or spoken ill of the king, But he prayed that God long keep the king In life, in happiness, [in honour], and in contentment. And when, to the people in attendance, he said, With a steadfast countenance, "Pray for me," With a firm heart he presented his head To the sharp blade that carried it off in one blow. [And not fearing the great cruelty Of the sharp blade [...] Each one seeing that people bore great grief from it] The [three] who had to die afterwards Said nothing, as if they intentionally Had entrusted Rochford Alone to speak for their conscience [...] [The Queen] was still so curious [...] Therefore, they tell her that her brother had shown The greatest strength of any man ever seen [...] The story of the death of Anne Boleyn : a poem by Lancelot de Carle, JoAnn DellaNeva (Translator, Editor, Writer of added commentary)

"'I will,' he said in a good lawyerly fashion, 'not in this point arouse any suspicion which might prejudice the king's issue.' Unwilling to drop his line of questioning, Hales next claimed that George had spread malicious reports which called into question the paternity of Anne's child, Elizabeth. George did not dignify this with an answer. He knew his own sister." Hunting the Falcon, John Guy & Julia Fox

"But George refused to answer the question with the required yes or no, not wishing, he said, “to engender or create suspicion in a matter likely to prejudice the issue the King might have from another marriage.” Nor would he respond to any suggestion that he had spread a rumour that Elizabeth was not Henry’s. The idea that he believed Elizabeth was not the king’s child and that he had repeated such an untruth was, to George, so contemptible that he would not even dignify it with a reply." The Infamous Lady Rochford, Julia Fox

"George Boleyn's real 'crime' was to be Anne Boleyn's brother and Princess Elizabeth's uncle. He was intelligent and spirited enough to mount a powerful defence of his sister. He was powerful enough to provide the focus for Boleyn followers and, especially, those who would assert Elizabeth's rights as heir to the crown." Anne Boleyn, Josephine Wilkinson

[sauronpilled]

mirror symbolism but it's celebrimbor and annatar.

[qwertycake]

so i was screwing around on google earth and found myself in antarctica, looking around the small patches of land that had images available. saw these big red coats. and thought to myself. huh. those look a lot like the rescue corps suits. big bulky red things yknow?? so behold: cold climate pom.

[musingmycelium]

seeing several of these posts about the dav companion rooms and it has me 🥴🧐 since won't these be in the lighthouse? in the fade? meaning these rooms are reflections of the companions in a way few of them are able to actively manipulate. delicious.

[captainseamech]

//I never really noticed until now that High Tide just... subtly leans in when Heatwave showed up above that (comically BIG FOR A BOT) whale like ‘ay you good?’

[pulchrasilva]

Nobody fucking talk to me i just finished rewatching arcane and it was DEVASTATING I need to KILL

[moonsromance]

vi in a wig?? immaculate... like sometimes he might put on some silky tresses.... flip it and hit u in the face w. it.....

[allisonperryart]

Just a fun, graphic skyline with a big ol' juicy lens flare - inspired by a photo from @/apocalynds on IG/Twitter (a lovely artist herself - please drop her a follow)! Thanks for looking and stay tuned for the process video next week!!