#watching them is bittersweet

[endlessfuckup]

dan and phil could take another 5 years off and i think i would honestly still stick around for them to come back

i think i really just appreciate that they somehow made it through the past 14 years (almost 15 now wow) without hating the internet entirely

they could have fucked off from the internet years ago

they have plenty of money & valid reasons to do so

but they are still around & providing me sustenance and i really truly love them for that

[dirtytransmasc]

I think I need MelVik connecting when Viktor was on his sick bed. they had been amicable before, maybe a little more than that due to their connection through Jayce and her presence around Hextech and such. but they weren't entirely friends. not yet.

and she goes to see him. perhaps she feels a tinge of guilt at assuming the worst about Jayce, or her bleeding heart makes her feel responsible for keeping Jayce out of the lab when Viktor had needed him. maybe Jayce needs to step out for a moment, and she soothes his worry by promising to sit with Viktor. maybe she just wants to be closer to the man that's so painfully important to the one she loves, wants to befriend him, wants to know him, all before it's far too late.

maybe it's a little bit of each.

but she goes to see him. she sits in the chair that Jayce has nearly worn a hole through, and keeps a semi-awkward distance between them, not knowing what is too close and too far.

this man is dying. he is dying and he has accepted that. he looks like a corpse. cold emanates off of him. he is something she doesn't fully understand.

she doesn't know how to approach.

but she does.

she greets softly and speaks softly and hesitates to touch, but rests a hand over Viktor's and feels how cold he is, even as a sickly warmth brews in his bones, leeching the warmth from his skin and the energy from his body.

he seems surprised she's there. it feels out of place. like the song and dance of their dynamic has shifted, and now he needs to relearn the steps. and now this is a dance of two, not three.

she will tell Viktor, in enough detail to be understood and not enough to be awkward, where Jayce was. because it feels right to confess. it's not an apology, but the avoidance of keeping something like a secret from a dying man.

Viktor will probably just nod and say something self deprecating, because what else do you say when your body is already making a joke of itself? before assuring her that Jayce is not his keeper, that she is not to blame, but even that comes off as some twisted attempt at humor. sue him for being sardonic as he lay dying.

but unlike Jayce, who will cringe at the jokes, she will hide a smile behind her fingers, muffling a soft, if not saddened, chuckle in her palm.

Viktor's eyes will light up ever so slightly.

she'll feel awkward once more. should she have laughed? was this playing into a complex? was this right of her?

Viktor will smile weakly.

she'll feel a little less awkward.

she will realize Viktor needs someone to laugh with. that Jayce, bless his soul, cannot be that person for Viktor. his worry has brewed too long. it's too strong.

but maybe a fresh face like Mel's can be there to smile when Jayce cannot. will laugh when Jayce cannot. can make cheeky jokes and pokes and prods.

the three fit together like 3 pieces of 3 broken puzzles. they fit together, not perfectly, but they fit, and create a finished object, even if off kilter her and uneven there. but it's ok, they're making due.

[spkyart]

I am so normal about them

[fistfuloflightning]

and rain will make the flowers grow

[astralhope]

Episode 146 & Rank 55

[the-sunshine-dims]

do you think there's a certain bittersweet satisfaction for Icarixis to see Ajax and Ashril with wings? To know that, for the moment, theirs are gone, until the next quixis is called, and they get to return to their sky, but at least in another universe they still get to fly?

[zellaspinna]

*sighs lovingly* dovquez.

[pigeonstab]

I think Toriel would totally get one of those projectors that show the stars to Sans. Maybe it came up that he loves astronomy or maybe Frisk or Papyrus let her know in secret, heck! Maybe it's from all of them. I think he wouldn't really know how to take it. Like bro sees it and goes '*oh neat.' and actually he's fucking dying inside.

[ketc7]

brainworms in my head so have some quick morriana

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

In another universe Christine and Erik skipped town and they live happily together raising Gustave...

[thecosywinteremo]

*clears throat*

I watched 765874: Unification.

So.

THEY WEREN'T ALONE!! YOU SPEND LONGER WITHOUT YOUR SOULMATE THAN WITH THEM AND YOU'RE DYING ON A PLANET THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE YOURS AND THE YOUNGER VERSION OF THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE IS OFF SOMEWHERE STARTING A DANCE AROUND THE OTHER YOU AND YOU'RE DYING ALONE AND THEN THERE HE IS!! Your t'hy'la, come to get you. Your husband, your life partner, come to take your hand (to kiss you, firm and present and so, so comforting) and take you HOME. He's HERE! You're together!! After all hope was lost, again again the impossible to bring you together!!!

And you're dead! You've just seen your past, your present, Eden, loved ones, all of it guiding you to the great unknown. To the great KNOWN. To the greatest known, maybe the first person you'd think to want by your side, to HIM! Maybe you don't understand, maybe you know you're not staying here, but it doesn't matter. You KNOW him, inside out. He's here, so where else would you be. He holds you. You face it, like anything, like everything you've overcome and everything you should have, together. You've reached the end, TOGETHER. The way maybe part of you never thought you would. YOU SEE HIM AGAIN

[ptanalo]

happy pride!!!!

[rozugold]

Undertale 👍

[potatobugz]

i feel as if im going mad so im going to just put this out here. real quick. movieunleashers starters ramble.

i cant stop thinking about how mudkip broke down in that one scene in "Typomaniac," when Chespin called him mean. for a second he lets his mask slip a little bit and to me he just... acts his age. he starts crying and calls chespin mean back. maybe im just hyperfocusing on this one detail but mudkip is about 12 years old.

and that just makes me wonder what happened in this guys life that brought him to where he is now. and it makes it all the more tragic how his whole world revolves around chespin, but he is the one bringing him the most pain. and how young he was when he died.

there is a large theme of growing up in "Rare Candy." the characters ages are emphasized in that particular episode, and one of the main conflicts is fennekin wanting to evolve faster.

the thing about characters in these stories is that they're not allowed to just be kids, to have a childhood. so many bad things happen to them. like. mudkips whole, Everything. fennekin when she was famous in typomaniac, or dealing with her own insecurities/pressure from society about her relationship w chespin. and chespin always having to shoulder his friends problems & always somehow managing to stay positive despite everything.

why cant they just. play video games. eat ice cream or something. go to the movies

at the end of the day, i think both mudkip and fennekin are characters who grew up too fast. by distancing himself from them, chespin refused to follow in their footsteps and just wanted to stay a kid.

good for him.

[momentarysilence]

an elephant never forgets!

[spookyspacepixels]

oops media is taking me over again