#will rambles

[dvdkisser]

Small trephacard headcanons (BASED ON THE SERIES, I MAY DO THE GAMES SEPARATELY)

Yap under cut

Trephacard headcanons

sypha pulls her hair into two tight braids because A, she pretends to be a man, B, it’s very frizzy and unruly, which makes her fire magic dangerous to use when it’s down. Additionally, I wanted to make her more tan, but as a ginger, I know she would just get more freckles despite being in the sun.

Trevor’s facial scarring is larger and more serious, being that he got mauled by a monster and it didn’t really make sense that he just had one little line down his eye that barely affected him + made him scruffier in general since I didn't really like the way that it the show he has minimal facial hair Also also I would have him genuinely ironically suffer the consequences of alcoholism lol.

alucard lost an eye while fighting his dad in the episode "Witchbottle", as I personally dislike how quickly dracula got the jump on him and imagine he'd put up more of a fight + the fight in "For Love" left him with other more permanent issues and disablements because I refuse to believe that for how violent he was he left unscathed , kinda blended his two looks together in a way because I enjoy some things from his og show look and some from nocturne

Small gripes and rewrite esque stuff 👇

Alucard having an eyepatch and Trevor not, in my imaginary world, also shows their class difference and highlights reasons for why they clash, and here’s why.

if I re-wrote the show I would focus more on them slowly bonding and make them both struggle to get over their conflicting lineages more, Since the Belmonts and Tepes have been locked in a deadly feud for literally a thousand years by now AND they immediately fought.

Alucard is still half human, but he was raised in such a vampire setting that their like. Species racism rubbed off on him to a degree, so he sees Belmont and sypha as more inferior even if he can’t explain why, and while he isn’t exactly rude he’s a bit prudish.. like you can tell he’s rich.

He Is influenced by the people and behavior around him which while not making him totally evil or cruel he is slightly more twisted in his ways due to how he was raised, Lisa was a kinda woman and good mother but one good adult does not outweigh EVERYONE ELSE around you so while in his heart of hearts he is a kind, noble soul he needs time and development to become that - kinda with the idea that Adrian, prince of vampires and Alucard, defender of humanity are separate people in a way.

Additionally, I lobe a alyudmil, so alucard would be having his own smaller "there are no innocents" moment type best in the background, and they would kill the evil twink (magnus)

Same with Belmont, just in general more opposed to be associating with alucard and definitely not the one who came up with the idea of giving him the Belmont hold, probably more prone to barbarian rages or sorts. He is probably also seeing alucard as something like an animal that’s slowly going rabid if that makes sense. Like “it’s talking normally now, but in a few weeks it will be an unstoppable killing machine”. His ancestors watched their closest friends slowly become vampires and begin killing, he believes alucard is already at that point being the direct descendant of what he sees as the bane of his very existence and the reason for more than half of his people being killed brutally.

I would make him more of just a racoon in the garage in general, very socially inept and unable to understand social norms thanks to his upbringing and its circumstances, which is why I enjoy that sypha and him end up so close since I feel like being around her and seeing her passion for speech and knowledge would rub off on him.

They would genuinely be close by the end of the series’ events, but it would take longer and be more subtle. They would have to have time to interact and warm up to each other and see moments of each others genuine selves which they both conceal to start to understand where they have both mis read each other before they can be such good allies. In the beginning, they wouldn’t be killing each other, and in combat, they wouldn’t let each other die, but it wouldn’t be with much enthusiasm.

In Belmonts mind alucard is a spoiled pompous brat which will kill him as he sleeps and in Alucards mind Belmont is a disgusting pig that simply can’t understand his species enough to know why Draculas death will be significant. I think that for me, I would give them a point of significant bonding or turning, maybe even the "For love" fight, since that holds promise for being a place where they all bond for the first time and work genuinely well together with a common unbiased enemy.

Pkay bye

[wyllwithay]

I love wyllstarion because wyll is like "i can fix him" and astarion's like "i can make him worse"

[willgrahams-dog]

"too sweet is so hannigram coded" wrong. listen to shrike right now

buckle up cause this is gonna be a long post!!

[image id: screenshotted text from reddit user @yupsquared. it reads:

I've seen a lot of pretty varied interpretations of Shrike, which always kinda surprised me as I thought it had a very direct reading. Might as well type out my interpretation now in the chance anyone sees this, or maybe I'll make it into a post.

I read Shrike as a song in which the singer describes how his attitude towards love has been corrupted by a scornful and captivating lover, and how in a sense he has been 'ruined', having no other recourse now for new love.

He illustrates this with the image of the shrike, a bird—typically symbols of carefree or joyous life, but in this case a bird that relies on a brutal counterpart, a thorn, to live. The shrike impales its prey on the thorn and then tears it apart. The shrike needs its thorn.

We see the singer in the beginning, as generally timid, perhaps naïve, but ultimately good:

I couldn't utter my love when it counted

and

And I'd no idea on what ground I was founded

and

Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted

He doesn't seem to have much ideological ground or experience. Carefree, like a songbird. Moving on, we are treated to imagery showing just how asymmetric the relationship is; the lover is much more powerful than the singer. He is "hung like the pelt of some prey [she] had won." By all accounts he is under her thumb, and he is altered by it:

I was housed by your warmth

Thus transformed

By you're grounded and giving

And darkening scorn

The fact that her "scorn", such a harsh word, is perceived as giving betrays how awful this relationship is. Happy, healthy relationships are not scornful, they are affirming. The singer doesn't care, something within him has changed, has darkened. He now flies to "the hedgerows where bodies are mounted"— the final form this relationship takes, a killing field, terrible and grotesque. Ultimately, he is reborn:

As the shrike to your sharp

And glorious thorn

—and in this final transformation, he sees the thorn, by all means a noxious thing, sharp, something to be avoided— as "glorious" even invigorating. He has become a shrike, reliant, within the context of the relationship maybe even addicted, to a toxic lover's cruelty and scornful love.

The fact that this is set to pretty, melodic, gentle folk-blues music makes it cut even deeper for me. The singer has internalized this to the point where it is reflected as harmony, instead of grotesquerie. We see it, but he is slavishly devoted to this thing whose warmth seems superficial and who wears him like a pelt. There is no going back, no return to carefree songbird days. The shrike needs to eat. The shrike needs its thorn.

To wrap, this captivation with dark lovers seems like a pretty consistent theme of Hozier's. As It Was has those lovely closing lines:

And the sights were as stark as my baby

And the cold was as sharp as my baby

And the nights were as dark as my baby

Half as beautiful too

Dark, cold, sharp, and beautiful. Not despite the darkness, the sharpness, but because of it. And if we look at NFWMB, the whole of it describes his lover as apocalypse, literally warming her fingers on the pyre of the word and giggling at the sound of the dead rising from Hell. He likes 'em bad.

**rattled this out on the train, so lil grammar edits. end id]

i'd offer my own interpretation of the lyrics, but yupsquared did a far better job than i could (here's a link to the reddit thread in case anyone wants to check it out!) so i'll just go off their analysis.

I couldn't utter my love when it counted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now

The words hung above But never would form Like a cry at the final Breath that is drawn Remember me, love When I'm reborn As the shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn

aside from the obvious shrike symbolism, to me, this is a contrast between mizumono and the wrath of the lamb. we know that will has difficulty accepting his feelings about killing- and by extension, about hannibal. he doesn't want to accept that he could love that part of himself, and in mizumono, we see him torn between hannibal and his life at the fbi. hannibal believes he's been betrayed by will and punishes him, destroying the possibility of a life with abigail. i think that if events had gone according to plan, will would have chosen hannibal ("i gave you a rare gift. but you didn't want it." "didn't i?"), but in hannibal's eyes will "couldn't utter [his] love when it counted" and suffered the consequences. a betrayal for a betrayal, a gutting for a gutting.

s3b has will go through a similar arc, choosing this time between hannibal and his life with molly. but he can make the choice this time, and he chooses hannibal ("this is all i ever wanted for you, will. for both of us." "it's beautiful"). even after everything they had gone through, everything hannibal had done, will chose hannibal, and his becoming is rebirth. he acknowledges their symbiotic relationship and accepts (to an extent; i agree with hugh that he's not fully there yet) that death can be beautiful. he becomes the shrike to hannibal's "sharp and glorious thorn."

And I'd no idea on what ground I was founded All of that goodness is goin' with you now Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted All of my goodness is goin' with you now

Dragging along Following your form Hung like the pelt Of some prey you had worn Remember me, love When I'm reborn As a shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn

when will and hannibal meet, and as their relationship progresses, will is unstable and unsure of himself but still has faith in his morals. his job helps him save lives, and if it plays into some darker urges he keeps buried, well, so be it. but hannibal's manipulation of will and the murder of garrett jacob hobbs brought those urges to the surface.

i think hannibal's manipulation of will was equal parts curiosity and personal longing. he wanted to see what will would do, but he also saw in will the potential to understand and be understood in return, something hannibal never considered as a possibility. he saw himself in will and that allowed him to see a future.

I fled to the city with so much discounted Ah, but I'm flying like a bird to you now Back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted Ah, but I'm flying like a bird to you now

this verse can have multiple interpretations. one, and perhaps the most obvious, is will looking for hannibal in s3a. the first two lines are from hannibal's perspective; he fled to the city (florence), with the promise of a life with will and abigail discounted, but found himself returning to will in the metaphorical sense. leaving him his broken heart. the second two lines are from will's perspective. he's sailing away from home but towards hannibal, towards the life of violence he could easily escape. will also returns to hannibal in the metaphorical sense with the firefly tableau. he has become the shrike, mounting his prey on hannibal's thorns.

this verse can also be taken within the context of s3b, with will returning yet again to hannibal and "the hedgerows where bodies are mounted." this time, however, all four lines are from will's perspective. his "city" is a normal life with molly, and what he discounted was not the possibility of a life with hannibal (as the latter did in mizumono) but rather the possibility that he could want such a life.

I was housed by your warmth Thus transformed By your grounded and giving And darkening scorn Remember me, love When I'm reborn As a shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn

this is the final scene in the wrath of the lamb, the last step in will's becoming. he was transformed by hannibal; his manipulation, his understanding, the idea that someone could accept even the darkest parts of him wholly and completely ("you're not alone, will. i'm standing right beside you"). his love.

[holeodemony]

Shedding actual tears the second pokemon legends ZA trailer just dropped and the music. Augh the mmusic. And. And. Just. Aaaaaaa. Pokemon XY has always been my favourite if the games and my favourite part of the entire anime and I am crying rn I'm so happy like smiling to the point my face hurts stimming isn't enough I need to fucking explode like. This. I am. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Anyways imma go listen to the pokemon XY soundtrack along with the intro songs for XY and XYZ seasons of the anime and continue shedding tears of joy I am so damn excited I can't word correctly okay bye

[landeskinnon]

went to a corey kent concert with @barkovsasha yesterday and she made cute avs friendship bracelets for me 😭🥰

not pictured: a rossco bracelet my wrist was too big for lol

[creature-of-delerium]

Okay guys so I realize I have strange speech patterns and now I'm thinking about them because I suddenly became aware.

Does anyone else use the reflexive form of an adjective (I think that's the right way to phrase that) instead of the direct form? Like instead of saying "I am slow" I would say "I am not fast" and very specifically I don't use contractions whenever I say those things.

Additionally instead of saying phrases like "I am excited" I simply say "excitement" or "I am excitement"

I feel like I can't be the only person who does these things. These things have also led some people to believe I'm autistic which is interesting because I've never been tested, but a good 6/10 of my friends are autistic.

[honktwice4help]

Side blogs are insane one of my favorite artist just followed me but it’s not ME

[diana-westmoon]

MIE I LITERALLY STARTED WATCHING TMA JUST TODAY!!!!!!

YIPPIE!!

WHICH EP ARE YOU ON? :0

[chaotic-ourple]

I can't actually hurl insults at my mother but at least i can dream (literally a bunch of my dreams have been fighting and screaming at my mom then running away is this a sign)

[bitchybylershipper]

I need to know if this is just me: are you guys ever doing something and then you become like hyperaware of how you're doing that thing and then you're like FUCK WHAT AM I DOING HOW AM I DOING IT like I for real forgot how to do subtraction yesterday and I forget how to walk almost once everyday and then earlier I forgot how to throw a football when I was playing catch with my cousin like what

[holeodemony]

Surprised and happy that I've been using the terminology correctly all along!

When someone calls a super round carolina wren a birb I'm like. My pal. My buddy. Do you see the rountundness of this friend? The absolute UNIT energy that tiny little guy gives off? My dearest companion. That is no humble birb. That exquisite specimen right there? That is a **borb**. A force of nature. Do you see any mercy in those eyes? Our little friend is full of spite and many, many seeds. Look at that sheer volume. The food capacity. How perfectly their little spherical form would be cupped in a hand. That, my friend, is a borb. A sphere of feathers and warmth and cheer. A reason to love life.

[dvdkisser]

Working on some oc stuff

Small yap

Nun attire redesign for the order of ortaxcium, a large-scale religious mafia in which all the gangsters are nuns eith massive steampubk machine guns because I'm INSANE and ifk how I thought of this but go off me

I always imagined when they were working and collecting debts as... inaccurate undeveloped mafias do.. they may wear white masks to hide their identities from normal people, as it's a closed practice of sorts in honoring lost gods in the form of loyalty and continously offering to them.

The boss of this order is the leader of the place their from's son, which complicates stopping the murders n such as she doesn't see much issue and he's honestly helping their economy in a way even if accidentally 😭

I went with their leader, Corvin (blonde dreads), in black mostly and his nuns in mostly white robes with black veils because I think it creates a nice contrast between him, which helps him stand out and look more authoritative over them if you put him In an image with a bunch of the nuns.

The woman pictured isn't anyone specifically I just needed to draw someone in the robes or else I'd feel weird 😭 OKAY BYE

[wyllwithay]

Lae'zel laying on Karlach like a lizard on a hot rock if you even care

[willgrahams-dog]

ohhh man i need him to call me a slur. who said that

[pixelprofligate]

"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4