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smile-files · 9 months ago
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mommy let you use her ipad, you were barely two
and it did all the things we designed it to do
now look at you, look at you!
(objectober 2024 day 10: internet)
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#dandy's doodles#inanimate insanity#ii#ii steve cobs#ii mephone#ii spoilers#ii 16 spoilers#objectober#objectober 2024#okay i'll be honest. the final drawing barely fits the prompt#however! it was inspired by it#'internet' immediately made me think of 'welcome to the internet' by bo burnham#and my mind instantly jumped to 'and it did all the things we designed it to do'#and y'know... steve cobs designed mephone to be able to create things#and so in a way mephone is fulfilling his purpose by creating the contestants#he's fulfilling his purpose by doing what his dad did#and then that made me think of the garden of eden story#where god creates both adam and the tree of knowledge#he tells adam not to eat its fruit and yet adam inevitably does; thus adam gains free will#and one has to wonder if that was god's intention all along - for humans to have free will#whereby adam - through the apparent defiance of god - is able to become exactly what he was created for#and y'know... mephone making his show as a rebellion against cobs...#only for that very show to be a creation borne of his intended purpose#so yeah. my mind jumped from bo burnham to the biblical creation of man#anyway!! very very happy with how this turned out#my favorite part is the charger snakes. i'm so glad i came up with that idea#also cobs' arm! that turned out really well! i referenced my own hand for his!!#in any event... it turns out i really really like biblical imagery and symbolism huh#also yes i did stay up all night like a maniac drawing this. the idea came to me and i just had to see it through :D i'm glad i did
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rawliverandgoronspice · 7 months ago
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The big problem with Rauru Tears of the Kingdom 2023's writing is that he acts as if he's owed everything and owns everyone --even when he cloaks it with the veneer of care, selflessness, or tragedy.
And if only this had been a conscious writing choice, explored and unearthed through the course of the game, he could have been the most interesting and layered Legend of Zelda character of all time. 😔
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yoinkschief · 9 months ago
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Every time I finally start feeling some sort of blissful about the Eddsworld fandom and how cool it is Hargreaves starts hating on the fandom again
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i-am-a-fan · 15 days ago
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You ever have two characters that are so similar and yet so dysfunctional? Like. Neither of them are willing to really open up but they’re fucking trying to pry the other one open like a rottweiler’s chew toy. So they keep dancing around the fucking subject trying to make themselves feel better by allowing one vulnerability to show, while the other attempts to choke their own vulnerabilities from spilling out. They’re split images and refuse to acknowledge how similar they are because once they do, they can no longer pretend that they’re the ‘better half’ of that split half.
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lerios · 4 days ago
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accidentally thought about narvin too much and cried so hard i had to take a nap about it
#literally fucking knocked myself unconscious with the narv#you know when you examine the blorbo from a slightly different angle and their Situations rend your soul? yeah it was that#he experiences so much and feels so much and all of it is Wrongbad and Not Allowed and Weird and even if he realises that he feels#and/or is ALLOWED to feel a certain way he doesn't have the words or experience (or safe opportunity?) to express it#all he knows is that he is straying further and further from what is Right™ and gaining nothing from it. if anything it *hurts*#his sins aren't fun‚ they're confusing at best and painful at worst. he is becoming something Else something Other and he's not enjoying it#he is getting worse. less certain less useful less efficient less comfortable LESS ALIVE EVEN. he lost a massive chunk ofhis life expectanc#he's not enjoying it but he doesn't know how to stop it or fix it and when he gets home his home doesn't look right anymore#he has fallen from god and to his new eyes god has mutated into something disgusting. and where can he go. what is true. what is he FOR now#aaaauuauaouuggh!!!! 。⁠:゚⁠(⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)゚⁠:⁠。#i mean admittedly i did also swerve into school flashbacks. which actually like. Very Fancy British School Of Being Emotionally Repressed#And Academically Perfect isn't that far off of the academy‚ so my experiences there might be relavant lol but i doubt it#narvin#gallifreyan civil religion#i guess#btw i am infinitely trapped in like. season 4-TW1. for context. i assume he gets better but i don't want him to
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catocappuccino · 2 years ago
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U zee being cool and allat... like she always is
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+ two random doodles
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mayasaura · 1 year ago
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For some reason, the dnd:hat movie has been living rent-free in my head for over a week. Xenk is just rattling around in there right now, having a long talk with Kira about morality, mortality, personal sacrifice, and being a child who saw the Beckoning Death unleashed on their home.
I feel like Xenk would have a lot to say that Kira needs to hear, and be a good listener for the things Kira needs to talk about that she can't tell her dad or Holga. He'd probably benefit from talking to her, too. Kira almost experienced the same tragedy he did when he was her age. It would be cathartic for him to help her through that, knowing he helped save her from ever experiencing what he went through
#edgin and holga want kira to be safe and happy#and I'm sure they'll talk with Kira about what she went through too#but there are a lot of questions Kira might have that they're not equipped to answer#especially about THEM and the tablet of reawakening#and edgin is struggling too much with his own questions about morality and personal preservation vs personal gain vs doing good#xenk is respectable and also patient and understanding and supportive enough to be the perfect confidante for a confused eleven year old#and he's lived the Bad Ending of the traumatic experience she skirted past#she also looks a bit like Ishara#the girl he saw lost in the fog before he ran#and I'm sure the filmmakers did that intentionally so Ishara would remind us of Kira and what was at stake#but it's very easy to turn that around and have Kira remind Xenk of Ishara#dungeons and dragons: honor among thieves#d&d:hat#dnd hat#dnd:hat#xenk yendar#kira darvis#I can't imagine this post will be interesting to more than like. three people#but it's interesting to me!!!#Kira saw one of her parents die in front of her!!#she's eleven years old!!#Xenk has already worked through a mountain of survivor's guilt incurred at a similar age#he's the ideal mentor for her!!#it's all about being the person you needed 😭😭😭#it's all about forgiving yourself for not stopping what happened to you by stopping it from happening to someone else#if you need me I'll be lying in a puddle thinking about grief and processing trauma
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survivalove · 7 months ago
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every criticism on meljay is like poor adam who got tricked by evil eve into eating that apple as if she forced that grown ass man to eat the damn apple?? and nothing for eve who actually got tricked by the serpent into thinking it was something good for her and her lover 😒
the man obsessed walk among us. in church and in cartoon fandoms
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sillyfudgemonkeys · 1 year ago
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Kyoshi: When I was in the Avatar state against Xu, they kept telling me not to kill him. But I went against their wishes and did it anyway. Aang: That's....actually similar to what happened to me against Ozai, except reverse. They kept telling me to kill him, but I went against their wishes and didn't. Tho I still defeated him. Kyoshi: Oh that wasn't "others" that was just me. I was very loud. Aang: I can believe it, but no no there was def more than one voice. Roku: That was probably me too. Aang: Really????? Roku: Listen Aang, when you have Kyoshi in your ear for 80+ years, coupled with the fact your actions led to that war, you kinda just agree with her after awhile. Aang: I swear it was more people Kyoshi/Roku: We can be very loud Aang.
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altarfates · 1 month ago
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So why DID he leave? :3
severe credit card debt :pensive:
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seventh-district · 5 days ago
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i still can't believe no one ever made a gifset of that s4ep12 TWD scene where Daryl casually mentions how his dad would set stuff up on top of the TV and use it as target practice and Beth is like "he shot things inside your house??" and Daryl just shrugs it off like "it was just a bunch of junk anyway.."
#like do i gotta learn how to make gifs and do this shit myself or what#the walking dead#twd#twd daryl#twd beth#Seven.txt#its been so long since i used this blog for anything other than ventposting ive forgotten my tagging system once again#anyways. i dont have any spare time to dump into continuing to teach myself how to make gifs but man. if i did...#maybe one day. but probably not tbh i have too many unfinished creative projects as it is. and i'm not in a Creating mindset these days#i Must Stay Focused on my current life goals and refuse to heed the call of apathy and giving up on gaining my independence#but anyway. its been a bad day so i deserve a little fandom blogging treat before i return to overhauling my bedroom#its been ages since i actually scoured the tags on here for gifs from that episode but from what i recall there were surprisingly few.#but the impact that the episode and that particular bit of dialogue had on Me personally is probably clouding my perspective.#it probably didnt stand out that much to the average person so it actually makes sense that thers no gifs of it. im just insane#but y'see thats why i actually Shouldnt learn to make gifs cause id spend countless hours gifing practically the entire episode#its my comfort episode whaddya want from me okay i cant help how much i related to everything they both said#i guess thats what makes it so compelling to me is that i can somehow relate to both Daryl and Beth in fairly equal measure???#which sounds impossible bc theyre so. Opposites. like im the 'two wolves inside me' meme but its just Daryl and Beth lmao#and im sure ive made a post similar to this before about wanting gifs of that scene but im shamelessly saying it again#bc its been A Day and im sitting here thinking abt the episode again#i've seen it so many times that atp i dont even need to physically rewatch it i can just play the episode in my mind#like that one person was able to do with the entire Shrek movie as a child. or whatever that post said#idk what the actual point of this post was bc i dont actually expect anyone to be making gifsets of an 11 y/o episode. im just yappin#now watch me go looking for them after i post this and find that No theres actually a bunch of gifs from that ep and now i look like a fool#mkay thats all i have to say on the topic. back to our irregularly scheduled ventposting
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ancha-aus · 8 months ago
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Gifted Drabble - NewAgeAu - Q&A
As I said! I totally wasn't scheming :3 @spotaus
But i had to wait until you uploaded your drabble about very sneaky Cross to make sure I got more references and a better idea about his character :D
So... here we are :3 Also yes the name of the drabble is a very bad joke but i thought of it and it was too funny.
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Cross just sits there... He is such an idiot!
Getting caught?! As quickly as he did? that must be a record on how incapable he was.
It wasn't as if Cross had an excuse. Dream and Blue warned him! Warned him that the Knights were very skilled and watchful. That he had to leave as soon as he got the information and plans. Do not linger!
That had been the mission!
Instead he was a coward and just. Took too long. He spend too much time trying to form a plan instead of just acting. And then He tried to solve mysteries himself instead of just grabbing and leaving as soon as he could!
But he just... Cross groans.
He hadn't found anything fitting the brief. He hadn't been able to find anything that spoke about hurting people or raising taxes to hurt the poor or anything!
In matter of fact.
All he found was plans to improve the infra structure. To tax the nobels more and lower the taxes on people who earned less. He found information on how the king had contact with farmers to work on more structures and installations to help farmers recover from the change in weather and to fully utilise the land without exhausting it.
Projects on testing mixed crop planting and stricts rotation schedules to make sure the soil itself wasn't exhausted from nutrients or risks infections or fungi growing which would hurt the soil and specific crops.
There was even this whole program about apprentices!! something about orphans and children and teens on the straights and a way to offer them schooling and housing and even training with the people helping them! That the crown would pay these people for helping those who don't have family to count on!
It is still in draft clearly as it had been covered with sidenotes in this very elegant and curve handwriting. notes about how to pay for it. where to start it. which people to ask for posibilities. but also notes about how to check the children. how to make sure the children and teens weren't use or abused or even worse!
And... well... not too shortly after that one of the Knights just... Sat in the chair and spoke casually... Scared the shit out of him at the time.
How was that dude so quiet?! or so strong for that matter?
How could his magic had backfired so badly?
Cross sighs as he turns to his side. He is an IDIOT. How could he have gotten so reckless?
Drema and Blue would have already been happy with him getting anything back from the king's plans... maybe he just couldnt see the danger in them clearly? Hell if he knows what the state in the country is. He knows nothing about this place.
Maybe the things he saw was a bad thing? Maybe there was some... weird way to make them look bad?
Like.
Maybe there was already little nature? Sure Cross saw a lot of it on his way here but hell if he knows? maybe there is little in the cities or soemthing?
Maybe the nobels are already being taxed a lot? maybe this will make the nobels all poor? and euh.... Cross isn't sure how taxing the poor less could be bad but maybe there is some way?
the farming thing... Well... Cross isn't sure... maybe the farmers don't want him to micro manage or soemthing? maybe the king is being too controlling about it? that works...
The children are obvious. those are vulnerable kids and teens! Who are being used and exploited!! Well... he would have to ignore all the sidenotes about the kids wellbeing... and the notes about banning child labor...
Cross groans. Why is it so hard to see the things he is doing as bad?! Dream told him that Nightmare is corrupted and the thing ruling now is evil and terrible and needs to be removed to save his twin!!
Then why are the plans good? Maybe he is faking it? But why? XGaster never bothered to fake anything... He was just rightfully the king and people should respect him.
Cross frowns as he turns on his side. Ignoring the guard standing well guard outside of his cell. He tugs on the magical blocker on his arm. Making him unable to use his magic to summon any weapon or try to take control over someone elses magic again.
Well... Not like he can try that with the guard guarding him again anyway. Seeing as it is Dust guarding him...
Cross tugs on it again and Dust speaks "Don't bother. Those things can't be removed by the wearer."
Cross freezes and looks over. He thought he had been sneaky enough. The one with the panther mask stares back.
Cross frowns as he turns back to the wall.
The Knight goes quiet again.
Cross tugs on the band one more time. Just to be spiteful. Before laying back and staring at the wall.
Fuck... He is going to die here? Isn't he?
Maybe they will just starve him...
Or maybe they will first torture him to figure out who he works for.
Cross is going to have to withstand it until he dies. He can't give up Dream and the fact he is planning a revolution.
He can't ruin another revolution that could save and help so many people.
He will have to be strong. Not give in. Not even an inch.
"I apologise I took so long Dust. Thank you for keeping watch."
Cross freezes at the new but familiar voice. Cross had heard the voice before. He had seen the owner walk around and had been getting information on him.
The king.
The fucking king.
Nightmare himself!
Why was the king here?!
Sure Cross had been spying and stealing information. But was that really such a big deal to get the king himself to interrogate him?!
Then again... Shed's tail had aparently been removed and used for cat toys...
He is so dead.
A click and the door to his cell slowly creaks open.
Cross's pulse is beating so fast.
Footsteps walking closer. before the door creaks closed. and is relocked.
He is so dead.
A few more steps and then silence for a moment as Cross tries to keep his panic at bay. He regrets staring at the wall.
"I know you are awake. Speaking will be a lot easier if we face each other."
Cross keeps laying there. What does he do?! He can't ignore him. Come on Cross. Be brave. You faced down scarier threats!
'But you had magic back then.' his mind whispers 'You had a way to defend yourself.'
Still. Cross sits up and turns around. Making sure he is glaring. He is not going to give in. "What is there to tell?" His voice holds the challange. He isn't afraid. He will not give in. He is not going to give this so-called king anything!
Nightmare tilts his skull slightly. intrigue clearly. Cross doesn't like the fact that he seems just so... unbothered by Cross. Cross is the enemy! He is sitting in the cell after Nightmare's forces found him snooping around, trying to steal information.
So why is this king staring at him with just intrigued! No rage? No disgust?!
Nightmare speaks again. Seemingly taking his time to think about his answers. trying to be actually truthful? or trying to think of an answer that Cross wants to hear? Wait... Is the king already in cross's head and mind? is Cross already being tricked?
Nightmare's voice breaks him out of his spiralled thinking "I think I disagree. there is a lot to talk about."
Cross tilts his skull upwards. stubborn energy in his soul "I won't tell you anything about who send me or why. No matter what!"
Nightmare looks slightly amused "I don't exactly care about who send you or why."
... what?
Nightmare continues, at his aparently obvious confusion, as he explains "I know there are people who wish to know what I am doing. I know people are scheming against me. It is nothing new. Even a spy as yourself is nothing new." he looks amused "The fact they even send you implies they know close to nothign about me, my land or my home. Or, that they don't care about you at all."
That.. that doesn't make any sense?!
Ngihtmare nods "I do apologise you swore your loyalty to those who know nothing of the target they send you to spy on. Otherwise they would have known that I am aware of what goes on in my castle and land." he smiles "they would have known that my Knights are everywhere and good at their jobs." he shoots Cross a look "They would know that i am aware of who is suposed to work where at which moment."
Cross feels his mind lock up as the information filters in... How... how hadn't Dream known this?
Ngihtmare waves a hand casually "You are a rather inexperienced spy. Not that it matters. As there is very little any type of skill could have done against me and those of mine. Either your employers know nothing of me which means they aren't much of a threat quite yet. Or they were willing to throw you away as some sort of test against me or you. Which just makes me unimpressed with them overall."
Cross just stares at the ground.
The Knight speaks softly "Way to ruin his worldview my king."
a moment of silence before "I apologise. I shouldn't have said those things. You did not deserve to hear those or have to worry about which case is true."
Cross snaps "Why am i not dead yet?!" He had heard about the terrible punishment this parasite of a king does. How he hurts people for jsut the hell of it... From Dream... form the guards working here... It makes no sense that Cross is still alive. Unless he wants to torture him of course...
A moment of silence.
Ngihtmare speaks a bit softer but still sure and confident "You meant no harm. You were here for a few days and no one was attacked. Neither myself, my knights, my servants or my people in the city. I do not see why i would punish you with death if you did not do a crime earning such a thing."
Cross glares up "And if i had hurt someone?" So he was just doing this own test?! this is just a test. That Cross can deal with. Cross can deal with someone trying to trick and test him!
The king chuckles and shakes his skull "It is very bold of you to assume you would have been able to hurt anyone. Just because we aren't obvious you were not walking around unnoticed or unwatched. If you had made a single move to hurt someone you would have been stopped and caught right away. I must admit however if you had tried that this conversation would be going very differently."
Cross frowns, wait... "If i moved to hurt someone? Anyone?"
Nightmare nods "Of course. The people who work for me are people who's safety i take very seriously. They are willing to work for me. in trade for their servitude i make sure they have what they need and want and more importantly. That they are safe to live their lifes." He sounds so certain and the answer is instantly.
He didn't even need to think about it.
Cross's mind is swimming as he tries to focus. This makes no sense... Why is he implying that he only punishes those who deserve it? That isn't waht others said. This... this is weird. This is the weirdest interrogation he has ever been part of. But he manages to find his voice again "What do you then even want to know?" It isn't like he knows anything.
Nightmare watches him "I am curious about the Lost Kingdom."
Cross flinches as he looks away. "It isn't called lost..." it isn't lost... it isn't! His... his brother- Nine is trying so hard to fix the mess Cross left behind. the mess Cross helped cause. It may be broken and a bit of a mess but it isn't lost. Lost implies there is nothing that can be saved from it.
A soft hum before he speaks again "I apologise. It is a name i took over from others." a moment of silence "I supose I am just curious what made the most loyal of knights of that land leave the country he was working on protecting."
Cross freezes. huh?
Nightmare waits for a moment but when Cross doens't answer he continues "It doesn't make sense to me. Your every move and motivation was from trying to protect the country you served. Yet here you are. Instead of there."
Cross looks to the side. He... he had tried to protect but he failed everyone. He always failed... He made the most terrible mistake of mistakes... How could he stay? they didn't want him to stay. He didn't deserve to stay after that.
Cross looks to the side and speaks "No one wanted the loyal dog of the tyrant to stay. so i left." there.
a moment of silence. "Seems a bit of a harsh name for someone who was loyal to the country."
Cross glares "I wasn't! I just did what the old tyrant wanted!" Like an idiot who can't think for himself. He just did whatever his father told him. Too blind and too stupid to see that XGaster was hurting others.
Nightmare continues to look at him "And you believed in him to make the right choices for the country. That is the job of a king. Make sure that what is done is done to improve the land. improve the country. improve life for the people. It is not your fault that XGaster didn't honour his rule. That he did not do what he was suposed to. What he was sworn into."
Cross can't hear this. Not form sometone who is suposed to be eveil but seems to know so much. Who seems to know what it means to be king yet who isn't suposed to care. Why is this thing who is possessing an innocent acting as it he cares? How would this thing know what makes a good king?!
Cross asks him as much. "Why do you care!?" it is more of a snap than a question.
Is it... Is it Nightmare? Influencing the thing brainwashing him and controlling him? Fighting back?
Dream would be happy to hear that.
Nightmare still thinks about the question. He looks ahead of himself with a tiny frown. Seemingly thinking.
Cross however can't help that notice how blue the cyan eye is. Clearly unnatural. Toxic even... Yet calm. There is no rage hidden that Dream warned him about. No edge of insanity or madness. Just calm and insightful thoughts. Control over his mind? but that makes no sense if he is brainwashed...
The body is not at all what Cross even expected to once see. Ngihtmare had this imposing presence. The fact his form was covered with a goop that had melted over one of his sockets didn't help. The way those tentacles on his back moved and idled. Seemingly without a single thought- wait... didn't octopusses have like... brains in each tentacle. Did that mean that Nightmare had five brains working and thinking for him?
Still... The corruption is so clearly... strange. Dream had told him that the powers given by the ritual was suposed to make a king and warrior of light. Of good. This form is proof that Nightmare wasn't suposed to gain this power. It is dark and moving and changing... But Cross can't help but think it doesn't look that bad, that the name corruption doesn't quite fit. It doesn't radiate any harm in anyway. Not like that time in the hall... Is... Nightmare able to control the presence it gives off? Why wouldn't he use it now? The slight magic he can still feel is potent and strong and unlike anything Cross ever felt before... But it isn't like other poisonous magics Cross had learned about. That he had trained to recognise. It is strange...
Cross decides to focus on the clothes he is wearing. It is clearly high quality stuff. not to forget the golden accents and actual bands around the tentacles. the clips with apple motifs. the detailing of branches like swirls in the same cyan colour as that eye, just less obvious because the fabric is slightly see through.
It makes for one intimidating image. One that the king carries with confidence and familiarity.
Nightmare speaks "I care because i wish to understand. We learn by understanding others. Even if i don't agree with someone doesn't mean i don't have to understand them. In matter of fact. the only way to truly disagree and be against something is to understand or at least know about the concept. When it is about why people do certain actions it is important to learn their motives and reasons. to understand why they did what they did before casting out judgement."
Cross can't deal with him... how is this suposed evil tyrant so understanding?
He is nothing like XGaster.
Nothing at all.
Cross can see that so clearly and so easily. This is someone who knows what he is talking about and who doesn't just say what you want to hear. Cross thought he knew what he was going into. He thought he would meet a man simular to XGaster.
Someone who manipulates. Someone who lies. Someone who turns every answer into a small insult. Someone who tells you how to think and why you are an idiot for not thinkinf like that from the start. Someone who believes himself to be perfect and not capable of fault.
Cross believed his father to be rightful in being this way and thinking that way for so long. It wasn't until after the revolution Cross finally noticed the cracks in the facade.
Cross thought... he figured he would be able to see through whatever mask Ngihtmare is wearing. Metaphorical of course. But he can't... he is failing. He can't figure this out.
Is... is cross being an idiot again? is Nightmare lying to him and is Cross still just unable to see it?
Or is there no mask to see through? no mask to spot the cracks in?
What does he do?
Nightmare waits and remains quiet until Cross actually focusses on him. When he does Nightmare speaks again "I wish to know what happened there. In your home."
His home...
"It isn't my home..." not anymore...
Nightmare nods and speaks again "Then what happened to the country that you used to serve and protect. What caused the downfall?"
Cross looks to the side "A revolution obviously..."
Ngihtmare nods and waits.
Cross glares "I was an idiot and could not pick a side. I couldn't fight my brother who lead the revolution but i could also not betray my lord. I ended up trying to help both yet messed everything up." he glares at the king "I made everything worse." all because he just couldn't pick.
Ngihtmare tilts his skull "Rather extreme. Thinking just one person can make or break a revolution."
Cross blinks.
Nightmare nods calmly "I am not saying that you couldn't have made it go better. That is always an option. However. A revolution... a rebellion. It is the same thing, and it is messy. it is dangerous. One person can not make things go perfect. that is impossible."
Dust coughs lightly into his hand. The king shoots him a look but nothing else happens.
The king turns back to him "You are not responsible for everything that happened. could you have helped? Yes. But... the choice that you made also enabled you to do the few things you could. the little bits you did to help your brother. If you had picked to defend the old tyrant. You would have had to hurt others."
Cross glares down "I know i should have helped."
Ngihtmare shakes his skull "That isn't what i am saying. the point i am trying to make is. You never know what you would have done in the other two situations. You could have joined your brother. but then you would have had to fight the very people you trained and fought beside before. The same people who know you through and through. who know how you fight and move." and he looks at him. "You helping them. either side of the conflict. would have meant you would have been at a different position at any given point. The things that happened wouldn't and couldn't have happened because your actions in this... neutral choice also had consequences and effect. It meant that XGaster stationed you as a guard. if you hadn't been available he would maybe have used two others to gain the same protection you gave him. You didn't stop the revolution when they got to you. instead there would have been two guards guarding the door." And nightmare give shim a moment to let that information sink in.
Cross stops... he... hadn't thought about... all he could think about is how he could have made things different. Thinking about how his skills could have helped specific moments... he hadn't considered that... him helping them from the start would have chanced everything...
and the moment where he could have helped... may never have even happened.
Cross shakes his skull "Things would have been better if i had picked a side."
The king considers it "Maybe it would have. Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe by not picking a side you were able to do enough damage control for both sides that enabled it to even be successful. Maybe not picking a side made it last longer. You can not know which choice would ahve been better as you never saw the options."
Cross isn't sure what is even going on anymore. He had believed... He had been sure that him not making a choice just made everythign worse. Everyone agreed. Everyone must have agreed or else they wouldn't have made sure to remind him about his mistake each moment they could...
right?
Nightmare nods before getting up. Cross only now notices that Nightmare had been using his own tentacles as a chair "But I think I have pushed you too far already with my questions. You need rest and time to process and calm down. Food will be brought to you later." he turns towards the cell door and exits.
The king nods to the guard and starts to walk away.
Wait...
Wait!
Cross jumps up and rushes to the bars "Wait!"
The king stops and turns back to him "yes?" and he waits.
Cross pants "You said... Way before... at the start... There had been others like me. other spies. Where are they now?" Dream said others had been send before right? Or maybe even other forces. That Nightmare killed them?
Nightmare tilts his skull "My knights or I myself spoke to them. Much like I am doing wiht you. Those who meant no harm and held no wish to hurt those here... They were offered a change of scenery. They mentioned they couldn't and didn't want to return a failure to their old leaders. There is always room and a need for people willing to work and help."
Cross frowns "And those who did wish to return home?"
Nightmare looks unbothered "After making sure they were no threat they were released at the border. With a warning to not return. Once is an happening after all, one people can learn from. However if it turns out they lied or wished to return to do harm after all they were punished for their crimes."
Cross looks down as his mind spins "Oh..."
Nightmare waits for a moment longer before nodding "Rest up. I will come back either tomorrow or the day after to continue our conversation." he turns and leaves.
Cross slowly lets go of the bars and goes back to the bed in the cell... He can't help but notice that it is actually rather comfortable here.
Sure there are bars and he is locked in and unable to use magic...
But there is fresh air. Some natural sunlight comes in through the barred windows. It isn't cold or wet. There are warm blankets and soft places to sit...
Even if it is a jailcell. It is comfortable at least.
Cross rolls back up on the bed and thinks.
His mind going over the past conversation and thinking about what he learned. For it having been suposed to be a way for the king to learn about Cross it was just Cross learning about Nightmare.
What had the king even wanted to learn? All Cross told him was how he thought about things and experienced it. Not even how the revolution happened or what events took place.
If Nightmare had wished to know those it would make sense. Then it would gain Nightmare insight to how the revolution managed to be successfull and what to defend against.
And yet...
and yet...
He didn't. All Nightmare wished to know was what Cross did.
It doesn't make sense.
None of it does.
It doesn't take long but eventually a maid comes along. a human and she bows in respect to the Knight before turning towards Cross with a smile "Hello there. I brought you some food. It are roasted potatoes and a salad." she puts it on the little opening to push it into his cell "Once you are done please place it back in this same area. Makes us able to clean it up which will leave your area a bit cleaner!" she smiles happily before nodding once she sees Cross paying her attention.
After that she turns away, bows to the Knight again,before leaving.
Cross makes his way to the food slowly but the Knight standing guard doesn't make a single move to take or mess with it.
Cross grabs his food and takes a seat on his bed again. He eats it slowly and feels his hand shake once he realises it is actually good.
It is taste and warm and filled with nutrients.
Why are they treating him so nicely?
Cross just... doesn't get it...
Maybe he can ask the next time Nightmare comes to him to talk?
Maybe he can get some answers after all...
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In case you guys don't get the title name. It is a joke. Because Cross is being interrogated but it is more a mutual Q&A...
I will leave now.
#utmv#NewAgeAU#nightmare sans#Cross sans#dust sans#Cross freaking out about the cell door being opened and him thinking he is about to die.#meanwhile nightmare thinking: oh. that is creaking loudly. we need to send someone down here to oil the doors.#Just. the differences in energy here people. So funny.#But yeah. Nightmare? Just wants to understand.#He learned that the best way to know what people think and do is just to... ask them and try to understand the why they did something.#by understanding he gains more insight in what people do and want and need and what they can do to gain these things.#It helps him to udnerstand the more normal people from his place as king.#Also he is just curious how someone as loyal as cross could end up so far away from the very people he swore to protect.#(doing a bit of research to see why loyal people would leave because of his knights.)#but all he learns is that... cross felt like he had failed in his job and so left on his own as a form os self punishment.#So now he is trying to understand why he would feel like this.#all so he knows waht to watch out for with his own knights and to know how to reassure them.#To make sure he knows how to let them know that he trusts them and mistakes are allowed.#Cross is just having many crisis because well...#he isn't used to someone this powerful just having an honest normal conversation with someone so low in comparisson#Which for nightmare is normal (he got rit of the old advisors for experts in certain fields who were originally much more normal civilians)#It is a whole culture shock that nightmare is causing because he works so very different from the people in power cross is used to.#but yeah.#the first conversation between nightmare and cross which eventually lead to a career switch for cross.#that is the one i wanted to play with and explore :3#I had to change it a bit after Spot uploaded their drabble but i am proud to say most of it still worked :D#Enjoy <3
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fangirl-erdariel · 4 months ago
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One thing that, while not surprising, is always kind of interesting to me, is looking at the difference between how the canon (book canon, to be clear; the movie canon is pretty different on that point) presents Denethor's character, and the fandom perception and attitude towards the character
Like, the general fandom perception (whether coloured by the movies and its presentation of the character, or simply by the way he interacts with more likeable canon characters + fandom's tendency to focus primary on the most obvious feature of a character, or whatever) is pretty simply negative "lol fuck that guy" kind of attitude, or even at its most nuanced, still mainly focusing on the harm he did to other characters, with little regret for the character's own fate
Vs the text of the books puts in a fair amount of effort to highlight the tragedy of Denethor's character and what he could have been. It certainly lets his faults show and doesn't try to excuse them, but it also gives credit where it's due for his strength, intelligence, perceptiveness, and his dedication to the good of Gondor, and it presents his fate as a tragedy as much as any strong and respectable character tricked by an enemy and driven into despair and madness would be. It mourns his death as much as any other needless death. And even in his death scene, the narrative allows him to still keep a remnant of his resolve and strength of will, you can still see what he might once have been and what he could have been, even though it has been twisted to such a horrifying and tragic end result by his despair and madness
Like, yeah, Denethor is not a very pleasant person, we know he treated Faramir poorly and clearly favored Boromir (I think it's interesting that it's noted that Denethor probably liked Boromir better because Boromir resembled him less than Faramir did), that he seems to mostly have valued other people based on how he thought they could be useful to him, all of that. It's not shocking as such that fandom regards him as an asshole, because, let's be real, he was one
But he also wanted the best for Gondor, and loved it and its people in his way, and acted for what he believed to be Gondor's good according to the beat of his ability. And he is compared to both Aragorn and Faramir, said to be very like them in many aspects. The compassion and even respect shown toward him in the text of the books is not unearned
And just, yeah, reading the books, I really do feel for the tragedy in his character and story, and I think it's interesting to look at him from that more compassionate perspective the books tend to take.
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yeonban · 4 hours ago
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It warms my heart to watch everyone Tobias comes into contact with immediately assume that he's a free man who does anything he wants whenever he wants it, considering his whole life has been people (his parents, Wammy's) trying to subjugate him into having no self-identity and being their obedient discardable pawn
#◜✧ . ❪ muse. tobias. ❫#Not even ONCE in 5 irl years has a muse ever questioned Tobias on this front. NO ONE thought nor asked if he's associated w sb/smth else#& I hate the fucker 🙄 (/affectionate) but I AM amazed he's managed this feat. Blud's whole life is being forced into being a puppet#First by his parents who wanted a guard dog; then by Wammy's who wanted a genius who'll live & die for their cause;#afterwards by the 'father' he had for a few months who wanted an obedient genius who'll boost his mafia's rep & $#Not ONCE has he been free in his first 16 years of life and yet he's the personification of freedom to more people than I can count 🥱#Real tho. His parents tried to subdue him. He killed them. Wammy's tried to subdue him. He squeezed them out of everything#they could offer him then left & managed to manipulate his circumstances into being a W for himself by being allowed to access#Wammy funds & contacts & fellow agents while only really picking up ~1-2 tasks for the orphanage whenever HE feels like it#& when his other 'father' (who Tobias manipulated into adopting him) acted exactly how Tobias thought he would; he killed HIM too#Bro IS emancipation & liberation. Despite always being in shackles no one's ever TRULY managed to shackle him to them 😭#& I lovelovelove how he's perceived as sb who does whatever he feels like. bc he DOES!! but he's never telling ppl jack shit about himself#so they'll never know he's had to fight against everyone & everything daily since he was born to be able to do w/e tf he wants#I also think that despite being a piece of shit; it's symbolic how Tobias has helped SEVERAL ppl (re)gain their autonomy?#He keeps coming across ppl who've been sl*ves or otherwise ppl who've never been allowed to choose for themselves in their life & he just?#keeps liberating them?? he isn't kind so that's typically Not what he goes in to do but he somehow keeps doing it???#Either he ends up liking a person in a situation like that & he figures yeah what the hell sure. I'll help.#Either his objective is to get rid of the leader/mafia/company/etc that's subjugating them for a diff reason#& their (re)gained autonomy is kinda collateral. but he DID save them anyway even if he didn't mean for That necessarily 😮‍💨#Still insane how Tobias escaped from his parents only to end up at an orphanage that strips you of your identity ADJASHDSGADASJDH#His life's just a humongous fuck you 🖕 to himself & so all of his actions are a huge fuck you 🖕 right back#Smth poetic abt the guy who's been oppressed since birth being viewed by the vast majority as the manifestation of liberty & free will 🚬
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wereh0gz · 1 month ago
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Apparently there's rumors going around that sonic prime is getting a season 4 bc of the imdb page listing it
And I fully believe that's fake since there hasn't been any other news abt it (not even leaks as far as I know) besides the imdb page episodes list but also like. Why would anybody do that. Why make that shit up
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aoisi · 2 months ago
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i'm thinking about her.
ran out of tags again omg but i was saying i love the idea of her looking less human and more like her natural self. greyed skin and long sharp fingernails, mouth of sharp teeth, wild-eyed and blood-soaked. i was also saying. before tumblr deleted them. that idk maybe in that time she's plaguing the town she has a mortal female lover she draws strength from. you know? yeah.
#i have so many rambling thoughts about her and most of them are with regards to her timeline ...#she's bce. the tuatha de dannan invaded ireland from the heavens in 1800s bce (before common era/before christ).#so she's olddd. she's descended from tuathe de dannan. but roisin is bce. she was there for cath maige tuired -#the two separate battles of the tuatha de dannan and when they took ireland from the fir bolg.#so she's just Old. and once they settled and spread into the otherworld beneath the land the leannan sidhe would have taken places amongst#mortal congregations within their desire to be loved and obsessed over. thus how she finds herself called to talented mortals.#thought a lot abt this and i think like remmick of sinners she cld def have a sense and sight for music/poetry/creativity of the era#and location and finds herself drawn towards it. the way remmick saw club juke had me in a chokehold. seeing through the walls. peak cinema#but yeah like. she is drawn to these areas she moves her castle there and she seeks them out. or awaits them to come to her.#people dont mistake her for a mortal like she's ethereally beautiful and being a being of wilful change -#i think this is less her changing to suit someone and moreso them seeing what they Want to see. her form changes little but you get me.#i hope you get me.#anyway for a time she would have been stuck/enslaved by a man who knew how to entrap her by hearing myth of her charm#and the intentions of these otherworldly beings. he's a wealthy poet trying to get in good with the king of the time.#uses her in less than savoury ways to gain this inspiration. gets in where he wants to be and then parades her.#well. people seeing her and hearing her speak - with the same cadence as his poetry#and the way she looks. they think she's a witch or demon and swear to have her killed. they burn her castle (wherein they were residing) an#destroy all the works she'd claimed over the years. the man in attempt to keep her takes a fatal blow meant for her and dies.#yipee! now she's free to wreak HAVOC. and that she does immediately after draining the nearest body to her#now. this is where it gets :( bcs. taking insp from that one amanda seyfried red riding hood movie.#she PLAGUES this town in the same fashion the wolf did. kills their fathers. kills their sons. kills anyone they dare to send#after her. lures them out with her own whining song <3#it becomes a little bit of a problem for the tuatha de dannan i imagine as she's becoming something of a vengeful spirit as#opposed to her natural being but. female rage amirite.#imagining the walls and the precautions and the hunts. mmm. mmm. she is eventually#Stopped. by something. by her own people. who knows. i have rambling thoughts i cannot always finish at the current time im having them i#just think she deserves to be a little vengeful for a period of time. deserves to slaughter.#imagining her being able to lure with a song of her own that excites those in need of the inspiration ... yauurrr.#most definitely her capture by that person is ad. and after catholicism is brought to ireland. bcs more lessons in#resisting temptation and not being ensnared by the devil. of which people would definitely see her as.
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