#who hes forced to embrace

[caelumsstar]

Severus after he loses Lily (the first time, in school) is terribly dear to me.

[cconfusedkat]

Smth rlly stupid nd silly at the same time for the sake of self indulgency ,, just bc im always drawing Allure getting the short end of the stick i figured Hey Maybe I Can Show Their Piece-of-Shittery With Funny Ant Doctor

Sozo is literally just eating honey off a stick like a crazy man (lovingly) and he also happens to be germaphobic so you have absolutely zero idea on how repulsed he is when someone shares food with him SJDKDFJDK

(Allures hair & mini bell are like that just cuz no one was gonna see them for another fourteen days so it wasnt such a big deal they had to keep tying up their hair-)

And bonus images just cuz its my excuse to show my new sozo color palette faster than naught

Naughty lambs get LAMB AIR JAIL 🗣🗣🗣

[cori-randomstuff]

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about the cursed mummy working at a rodeo and the connection to lassos and wrangling bulls and foreshadowing. Something something about buck wearing a moustache when he dresses up as billy boils which connects things to Eddie.

How rodeos are connected to Texas in the general psyche. The idea that Eddie needs to go and wrangle with his bull in the next episode - Helena.

That she has been constantly trying to Buck him off but he needs to hold on in order to break the curse she has been on his life - the play on Buck being a massive support to Eddie - that gives him the strength to stay on and win the fight and pen the bull.

That he needs to break free of that curse in order to transform into his true self and how the werewolf is a representation of that happening and also a foreshadowing for the shaving off of the stache

[missmagooglie]

Concept: A canon rewrite where Eddie Diaz figures out he's gay before he moves to LA and spends the entire series from "Stuck" onward as an out gay character.... and somehow it STILL takes Buck until season 7 to figure out he's bisexual, and well into season 8 or 9 for Buddie to actually get together.

Buddie endgame, but it is the slowest and most frustrating slowburn ever to grace television.

Buck keeps aaaaaaalmost figuring it out, and then swerving into some heteronormative nonsensense the last moment.

Eddie still has the most complicated relationship with his sexuality imaginable - to the point where he STILL gets back together with Shannon in S2 despite knowing he's gay (but she was his first love and she's the mother of his child and being out is scary even when you have supportive new coworkers and anyway don't they owe it to Christopher to try to make it work etc etc).

The only changes to canon relationships are that Ana and Marisol are swapped out for guys, but their relationships have all the same problems. Eddie is still walking the same tightrope of expectations around masculinity where he feels obligated to meet certain requirements of "manhood" while also trying to protect Christopher from feeling those same expectations. He has the same issues in relationships where he rushes in too quickly then regrets it and doesn't know how to back out gracefully.

Buck and Eddie still have their infuriating pattern of being single at the same time and then decided to date as soon as the other person starts a new relationship. Neither of them consciously realize they are in love with each other. Tommy still starts off pursuing Eddie, only to be decisively friendzoned which is fine because Eddie's a good guy to have as a friend, then ends up kissing Buck into a bisexual awakening. Buck is still just as awkward about coming out to Eddie - but only to Eddie, for everyone else it is almost aggressively not a big deal.

So Buck dates Tommy, and Eddie's too busy trying to shove himself back into the closet for a doppelganger of his dead wife to have any feelings about Buck dating a man who isn't him.

In summary: Eddie being introduced as a gay character *should* have made Buddie simpler in theory, but it plays out as an even bigger mess than in canon.

[moreaugriffins]

Something something- Even though Ryan seems comfortable in himself (and likely his sexuality) he still sticks to the status quo in the first movie, saying things aren't right when others start to express their various interests, even though in the second movie he's shown to be interested in yoga and baseball (which a theatre kid 'shouldnt' like), meaning he to some extent was repressing himself, and over HSM2 he's learning to be more openly himself around others- something something

[snekdood]

when ppl are like "do u know ppl of x minority that ur still in contact with" as a gotcha ig to say ur not actually as open and progressive as you say you are but bud... i dont talk to anyone from my past, lmao, I dont think thats a fair metric to go by quite frankly

[bhaalsdeepbat]

"This is a gift you know - I won't forget it."

The gift of knowing he IS temporarily free of Cazador's control and rules, the gift of knowing he can make his own choices, even if that's a terrifying prospect.

"This is a gift you, know. Thank you. I won't forget it."

The gift of supporting him through a hard choice, of seeing him for who he truly is, and helping him keep hold of that version of himself when he felt bloodlust and fear threatening to consume him entirely.

The gift of true freedom, no longer bound to Cazador, of being able to confront the horrors of his past so he can move forward with a future entirely of his own making. A future where he makes his own choices, for better or for worse.

[thedragonsfate]

ok but helioc followers being doomed inherently if they have any tragic or untimely death because they're taught that "Helio wouldn't let that happen" and similar principles

Being taught to live for the afterlife but also to expect worldly challenges like murder/tragedy/etc are something you are like. Immune to somehow? In living?

You are devoted to Helio and in so you will have a peaceful death, one that is fair and just and I'm befitting circumstances. Or at least that if you are subject to a tragic death, Helio will be there to hold you with open arms and some kind of REASON. Something to bring a wholeness to the upset of not getting what you've been taught to expect.

This idea that you are helioc and so your death is Helioc. Helio must have a plan for you, and your death will not be untimely, and if it seems so it serves a greater purpose that is theologically rewarding. Because of course it does.

You are helioc and so you don't just die for no reason. Death is a moment of respite and a crossing into everlasting life and it will ALWAYS be for a greater reason if not simply your salvation.

Helioc followers (and followers of sol) learning that sense of disdain for their non or "wrongly" faithful peers due to that sense of superiority. That sense of superiority extending past your feelings about others and into your expectations for how you will pass into the afterlife.

That superiority creating a fellowship that EXPECTS Helio to save them in the living world - because you've been good, it's not your time yet, Helio wouldn't let that happen to you, his faithful servant. You are faithful and he would not punish you with a an unjustified death.

You are ENTITLED to a befitting death into afterlife because you are Good where the world is Bad and you do everything you can to remind those who do not follow your god, to relentlessly try to convert them, to fall into the trap you fell in so long ago shaped by fear, by a victim complex, by isolation from other groups that makes you hostile toward them, even if behind a smile.

A world that is Fundamentally and Observably polytheistic, where the Helioc unfortunate enough to befall a tragic, untimely, or unexplainable death are -doomed- to the faith upon meeting their Deity. Because unlike those of the faith who have passed peacefully or for their own martyrdom or whatever else, you show up to the corny gates and something is Wrong. Your god comes to you with love but he did not protect you in the way you're certain he was supposed to. In the way you were taught you DESERVED.

This is not a reward for your devotion and it cannot be justified. Your god is a Fratboy of Corn who is unable to answer your questions because to answer your questions truthfully would be to unravel the principles fundamental to your religion. To acknowledge that "bad things happen [to good people] because Things Happen" is to admit that being Helioc does not Save You from the wrath of the cosmos. That being Helioc does not make you uniquely and automatically good, and therefore safe from the happenstance of the world. That the good people you watched suffer did not Earn it in some way, they were just dealt that hand. The hard times befallen upon your worldly siblings is not something that happens because they weren't "devout enough."

to admit Helio is not inherently more holy than any other deity, is the kind of truth that can destroy this type of faith, and Helio needs to stay alive. Gods are not of the material, but they're dependent on their followers to survive. To bend to what their followers preach and create as their religion in this SPECIFIC way means that you can no longer be truthful about these matters when (if) they ask. In the right hands it could destroy him. He needs the unwavering faith the church has built to stay as strong as he has been, because that it how he's maintained the power he's had until now. He no longer knows another way. And that's excluding whatever influence Sol/the church of Sol has on him and his domain.

Helio not only cannot answer truthfully, but is DESTINED to get himself out of dodge quick upon being asked. Because as above so below, and the church is not known for its ability or willingness to take responsibility.

And if youre disillusioned enough, or angry enough, or sharp enough to put that together from an interaction in any way similar to Kristen's in freshman year, then the betrayal of your own God is GOING to take over.

Maybe you're like Kristen and you start asking questions, maybe you're like Buddy and take the rageful hand that offers to ressurect you the way your own God "should have".

But to die in the way they died automatically puts them in a position that if they are to get to heaven and ask questions, or have conflicting feelings strong enough to get you thinking, then they're DOOMED either to be disappointed with Helio or to dig deeper into deluding themselves. This of course will not always trigger a loss of faith, ans plenty of people leave the church in living for a myriad of reasons - we saw this with the summer of endless night. But there's something so interesting in the way the nature of your death could be further reinforcement of your ideals or completely shatter them in one fell swoop, even upon reaching the place of blessed afterlife.

because the Church of Helio seems different from the other religions we've seen in game in that over time the modern faith has been been BUILT on expectation and a sense of deserving more than others. And to die in a manner directly opposed to your own sense of entitlement is all that the latent anger may need to break that follower-deity relationship

Of course Kristen met Helio and was immediately unsure about her direction in life. On the other side of that coin, of course Buddy let his faith go to come back to life to serve a corrupt god of rage. They're children killed young and devout, who's deaths are orchestrated by powers out of their hands, and not in line with the ideals taught by your god.

The difference being how entrenched you are when that happens, and who's there to pull you out.

[the-best-bagel]

Ooku is so close to having something cool to say about gender but the second i think they might do it they curve me and have the unwell crossdressing lady's happy ending be becoming traditionally feminine and submissive to her husband who became assertive and traditionally masculine.

[mishkakagehishka]

Well i was rooting for tom jones until he went and slept with another woman

[beeapocalypse]

really cannot wait for playable tanaka for all of his party talk dialogue potential. his stuff in the mold apartments rher dimension where he resolves to kick per'keles ass himself after being shown the power of camaraderie by olivia + marcoh already rules

[softichill]

Helen Distortion is so incredibly transgender

[235uranium]

fords hands really are a great metaphor for queerness. wild it was entirely on accident

[powderkegging]

givens this crowder that. what about the gutterson family.

[aph-estonia]

every time i think about being near other people i actually do throw up in my mouth a lil. many such cases! very sad to see...