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protag + neil + kat as a fun little gang was VERY enjoyable. for ME. kat asks for neil before the mission! they all clearly care for each other! i know they literally are never supposed to see each other again after the movie ends but i am MANIFESTING an inversion trip where they just get to hang out in a secure apartment for a couple of days, perhaps in service of a mission, and they get to relax and drink expensive wine and do whatever it is rich ppl do in their free time. i think that’d be cute

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two pretty best friends! it’s wlw mlm solidarity 

TENET 2020 | dir. Christopher Nolan

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I’ll see you at the beginning, friend . TENET (2020)

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#AU protagoneil

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i can't not think of the scene in tenet where neil says "hey u could've killed me n u didn't do it haha" while making coffee and the protag answers "maybe i got soft" (i mean i only saw the french version and this is the exact translation)

and neil answers

"oh, tu es loin d'être mou :)"

which literally means, AND I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH,

"oh ur far from soft :)"

what???? WHAT?????? and with THAT FACE???

the first time i saw this which was with my mom and my brother in a full movie theater i was like "oh my. god. i've seen fanfictions being more fucking subtle than that wtf are u doing"

and no i WON'T analyze the way the coffee maker opened in that scene bc fuck u let me keep my innocence

and i've seen it three times now (bc u know apart from the gay the movie is really super fucking complicated and i still don't understand it fully) and i'm super fucking sure i'm not the only frenchie who noticed it and also it just. wasn't made to be interprated in any other way bc in french we NEVER say this sentence unless we wanna flirt or talk dirty and french dub what r u doing with my soul

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What's the point of a Tenet sequel if it's not the protagonist going on to recruit Neil in the past + all their adventures together, shot like an action romance that ends when the protagonist inevitably dies to save Neil after tying up loose ends with his piece of the algorithm, and the final scene/shot is Neil dressing up to meet the protagonist's younger self in Mumbai.

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this is the most random headcanon i had in the middle of the day but i thought it was kind of cute (and dumb) so i wanted to share:

imagine the tenet agents have a small costume party on halloween (probably neil and ives’ idea because let’s be real, who else?) with all of the people that are able to go. the protag is reluctant at first, thinking he was just going to show up for a few minutes in his normal clothes, but neil wants them to go together, maybe even in a couples costume and of course, the protag can’t say no since he never says no to neil (he doesn’t want to deny neil anything in their limited time together).

somehow, they end up dressing like hedric because everyone always tell neil that he looks a lot like cedric diggory, leaving the protag to be harry potter. neil gets him those iconic glasses and cheap hogwarts robes for the both of them (for their respective houses obviously) and they get ready in the bathroom. the protag has to fix neil’s hufflepuff tie for him too, while neil just stands there watching him with the biggest grin on his face.

neil wants to draw the lightning bolt onto the protag’s face, so he does, but he messes up twice and the protag ends up doing it himself while laughing at neil’s inability to do something so simple. they’re both very happy and carefree in this moment, which tends to be rare for them since they’re usually on missions or the protag just seems so distant towards neil sometimes. it ends up becoming a good memory both of them look back to often. neil keeps stealing the protag’s fake glasses, and the protag can’t help thinking that neil looks absolutely adorable with them, but instead of saying anything, he just smiles in that stupid lovesick way of his.

everyone loves their costumes at the party, and the protag says he looks more like harry than neil does cedric just to tease him while ives agrees just to be annoying :)

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Tenet: wins best visual effects

meanwhile, the visuals in tenet:

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#same

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one of the things that really surprised me coming onto here and ao3 is that kat and the protagonist’s friendship is so underrated? i loved their dynamic so much and if only there were more au type of fics for this fandom i just know they’d be the best duo...they seem to understand each other without saying too much to each other and they definitely care a lot, we know the protagonist is generally willing to do whatever it takes to keep anyone safe from harm but i think kat being at the other end of this could definitely mean them becoming better friends! and of course there’s the wlw mlm solidarity because kat is definitely sapphic in some form....

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neil’s keychain actually being a coin from mumbai is so interesting in the way that it leads the way to so many headcanons...did the protagonist go back to mumbai after neil’s death, later giving it to neil? did neil somehow get it at some point, because mumbai was a special place for them? did the protagonist take neil to mumbai when he meets the younger version of neil because that’s where they first met? and WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF PROTAGONEIL?? 

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hi

hi anon <3

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You’re only halfway there. I’ll see you at the beginning.

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i want a tenet sequel but it can’t just be an action thriller of protagoneil going on their adventures in the future, it has to be a romantic drama full of sweet cute scenes and living in domestic married bliss but with an (unavoidably) sad but heartfelt ending. i’d like to see them just be so happy together and forgetting in that moment that there’s no way that they can have a good ending because right now is what matters.

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TENET (2020) dir. Christopher Nolan

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