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oldschoolfrp · 18 days

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Erystelle of Dorneryll, famed elfin champion and magic-user, in the Misty Hills (Jeremy/Jes Goodwin, D&D module O2: Blade of Vengeance by Jim Bambra, TSR UK, 1984)

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Jes Goodwin #Jeremy Goodwin #elf #Blade of Vengeance #dnd #BECMI #Expert D&D #Erystelle #mist #1980s #TSR #TSR UK #Dungeons and Dragons

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berryblooo · 10 months

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We’re about to get the 1.2 update and finally learn some more about the tumultuous past between Dan Heng, Blade, Jing Yuan, and Jingliu but god if I’m not more than a little happy for the first three that they’ve found a new community and family after their previous one was lost.

Dan Heng has the Express crew.

My hope for him in the story is that he has a moment where he realizes how much they’ve come to mean to him. He’s been so focused on running from his past that maybe he forgets to cherish the present.

Jing Yuan is the general for the Luofu. The whole ship looks to him for leadership.

He’s no longer that little boy looking to his master for guidance. He has Yanqing, Fu Xuan, Yukong, Tingyun—the whole Luofu.

Blade has the Stellaron Hunters.

It can be seen as purely transactional. Blade is a useful weapon and they’ll give him what he desires: death. But the little details the story sprinkles in—Kafka calling him Bladie, him accompanying Silver Wolf to arcades—shows that there’s fondness too.

I highlighted these three specifically because I don’t know if or think that Jingliu has found something else since the quintet.

Her appearance in Yanqing’s quest leads me to believe otherwise. She and Blade are very similar—struck with Mara and having certain ways to control it, yet all the more disconnected from reality and dangerous for it.

But the crucial difference is Blade has people he can rely on. It’s clear the Stellaron Hunters take care of each other in their own unorthodox way, even if it’s just following Elio’s script.

Jingliu doesn’t.

TL;DR found family matters. Those four were once family and their most important connections, then it fell apart.

Three of them have managed to find other people in their grief and it makes all the difference.

#honkai star rail #hsr #blade honkai #dan heng #jing yuan #jingliu #bloo writes musings #this silly little chibi art got to me #i really want blade to find peace #i hope he's finding some semblance of his past humanity through this connection with the stellaron hunters #elio promised him death but i hope when the time comes blade realizes he doesn't want or need it anymore #right now vengeance is the reason he's given himself for his forced immortality #i'd like to think he can find new meaning and reason beyond the past

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baeshijima · 10 months

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blade + that one parks and rec meme to bring him home ;w;

#good luck to all us blade wanters !! may we get 7 of him in one 10 pull 😌#my lil red flag vengeance tragedy pookie pls come home im a dan heng + IL + jing yuan + jingliu main just for u :)#honkai star rail #hsr #blade #hsr blade #kafka #hsr kafka #silver wolf #hsr silver wolf #jing yuan #hsr jing yuan #jingliu #hsr jingliu #hsr dan heng #dan heng

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distraughtlesbian · 28 days

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sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room

like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!

during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her

like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

#maeve speaks #playchoices #choices #pixelberry #blades of light and shadow #bolas #choices bolas #choices valax #bolas valax #blades valax #valax #princess valax #valax x mc #JENNY HOLZER VOICE INCORRECT MERCIFUL IMPULSES POSTPONE THE CLEANSING THAT PRECEDES REFORM.#YOU TASTE BLOOD AND KNOW THAT LIFE IS LOVELY FRAGILE AND YOU REMEMBER THAT THE OPPRESSED ERUPT AND MURDER.#the conflict between the shadow and light realms and the nature of the ash empire’s war is interesting.#valax using the mc’s pain as a means towards the ultimate end of a better life for her people is interesting.#but you can’t focus a whole story on revenge—you can’t give your big bad a partly-justified revenge quest—and then just not talk about #forgiveness and vengeance on an interpersonal level. nia forgives aerin no problem. mc forgives valax no problem.#can we get fucking real? and also a grip? and also a clue? do you think i come on this stupid fucking app to swallow rage the way i do irl.#aerin at least acknowledges the myriad ways that he wronged nia and nia gets to be impacted by his actions even a full year later #but EYE am barred from any meaningful discussion with valax abt her misdeeds bc she’s sad and hot?#who let the blades 2 writing team cook 🗣🗣💯💯#bro out of recipes again 🔥🔥‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣#bro turned the stove off he aint cookin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣‼️‼️#etc etc. just so many great plot points and characters and FUMBLED execution every time.

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artheresy · 5 months

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Okay listen, I got sick while at work so I’m in a bit of a delirium idk the word for it whatever, this is what I get for thinking about Blade. The brainworms impacted by immune system /j

Anyways, I’m wondering again about the extent of his immortality and healing. So we get in his hairpin relic lore that his body is perpetually healing wounds that are far too gone to actually be healed, like his hands. We get this line “sharp and distinct with phantom pain” and then this entire paragraph describing it “Like the incessantly flowing stream of a mountain spring, his long black hair never ceased growing. His flesh twitched and throbbed beneath his skin, like river carps flipping and swarming... Fascinating powers ceaselessly reconstructed his body, bringing an everlasting pain of bones and tendons rupturing and healing. As countless phantom agonies and torments tore through his body, his shattered past was also beginning to come together...”

And yet we still see him like die from injuries so clearly, it’s working very very slowly in his body to repair him. Perhaps when he actually fully dies, that power within his body redirects the focus it uses to just generally keep him alive and heal parts of himself that cannot be fully healed to bring him back to life. Hence why he wakes up so far even if there is a pause, a moment of actual rest and peace before he is alive once more.

Now, again we’ve only seen him die via stab wounds and I have that whole other post wondering the extent to which one of Ren’s body parts would theoretically be cut off and how exactly his body would heal that, whether it heals before the limb is entirely cut off so its at least somewhat connected thus making the entire healing process occur properly even with difficulty or if it would literally grow him a whole new arm like a restoration/regeneration type of situation, or if (this wasn’t in the post but) if the injury is treated so he doesn’t die from blood loss which would be the fatality more som would he just like… be without an arm forever? Until he dies next and his body fixes that? I mean I think in terms of non fatal wounds he seems to have a slower healing like I said and then when he’s actually dead, the body focuses on healing the exact area in which he was fatally wounded. And yeah yeah we won’t get this explored much because Hyv is gonna keep things PG-13 and won’t show us any blood anyways

My actual wondering is, I wonder how poisons specifically affect Blade especially just given how different poisons can act. If it’s a slow acting poison, can his body just filter it out with its already slow healing rate? Would he still die if he was slowly poisoned and only then will his body be cleansed of it? Surely he would actually die from something super fast acting right? I mean we already established that Ren’s body slowly heals him and only speeds up when he’s dead. If he has a poison that acts instantaneously, surely he would die and then come back from it after his body has cleansed it from his system with its whole abundance thing.

Or theoretically, does that Abundance power already cancel out poisons working at all and it has to be an intensely violent way that he dies? Perhaps even in his special case, he’d be an exception where it would affect him and then he’d be healed since we know he’s not like on 100% the same level as the marastruck soldiers we fight due to whatever else is causing his immortality (probably the dragon heart or whatever it is) canceling it out so that they both work in tandem with each other. But anyways yeah like, I need to know so badly the different ways Blade’s power (and in general the power of the Abundance) works when faced with all kinds of different methods of killing him.

Also, I wonder how his body is with substances that aren’t lethal in smaller doses but then can be fatal in bigger amounts, things that when they get to that level are considered poisoning like Alcohol and alcohol poisoning and stuff. Could Ren hypothetically get drunk if he drinks a lot? Would his body just clean it out of him overtime naturally getting him sober, presumably at a faster route than normal people? Would he even be able to get drunk? What I said about his body getting him sober faster, would that even happen if its a non-fatal amount of alcohol or would his tolerance to alcohol be solely based on his build?

I dunno there are stupid questions that will literally never ever ever come up in terms of HSR’s story, we won’t see any of this stuff at least answered on screen but doubtfully at all. I’m just so interested in the way Blade’s healing works and I hope I get some kind of idea in order to explore it at some point.

#he is so full of potential analyzing #from his personality to his past to his physiology #i love him #brainworms about him got me sick tho so /j #is this bc I joked with Pink about bullying him?#is he getting back at me with a vengeance?#...until your sin is cleanse my vengeance shall pursue you...#Am I on the end of that rn?#Hsr #Honkai star rail #Hsr blade

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glutenfreehimbo · 9 months

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I made a realization about Blade Runner.

So we know that the movie is based on the novel “do androids dream of electric sheep”. But the titular sheep is no where to be found in the movie. Except. Someone’s name literal means “ewe” (a lamb for those who don’t know) and guess who that is???

Rachael is the electric sheep. In the book the sheep was sort of the protags object of desire. Wanting to care for the sheep and what not. Much in the way that Deckard wants to help Rachael.

#blade runner #now i have an au idea #where Rachael didnt run away and was with Tyrell when he died #maybe she has something inside her that could stop Pris and Roy from aging #and then she becomes the sacrificial lamb so to speak #a deal with the devil so to speak #they got what they wanted but now Deckard is fucking Pissed and pulls all the stops to get his vengeance #imagine deckard just going on a fuckinh rampage

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comicwaren · 1 month

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This week on Marvel Comics (20th March 2023):

Black Panther Vol. 9 #010 (Finale)

Blade Vol. 5 #009

Captain Marvel Vol. 11 #006

Fantastic Four Vol. 7 #018

Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 #016

Night Thrasher Vol. 2 #002

Resurrection of Magneto #003

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #002

Spider-Boy Vol. 2 #005

Spider-Woman Vol. 8 #005

Star Wars: Jango Fett #001 (NEW!)

Star Wars: The High Republic Vol. 3 #005

Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances #003

Star Wars: Visions - Takashi Okazaki #001 (One-shot)

Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol. 2 #003

Web of Spider-Man Vol. 3 #001 (One-shot)

X-Men: Forever #001 (NEW!)

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comfortfoodcontent · 3 months

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1993 Marvel Midnight Sons Sub Imprint - The Siege of Darkness Pull Out Comic Ad

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holy-shit-comics · 1 month

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#midnight sons #midnight sons unlimited #ghost rider #blade the vampire hunter #blade #doctor strange #dr strange #morbius #vengeance #marvel #marvel comics #comic books #comics

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extraordinary-heroes · 11 months

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Spirits of Vengeance Vol 1 #4 (Cover art by Dan Mora)

#spirits of vengeance #dan mora #ghost rider #blade #satana hellstrom #hellstorm #marvel #comics #textless cover art #superheroes

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justavulcan · 6 months

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Backgrounds with Class: Azorius Functionary

I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer. So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with. Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.

Azorius Functionary

The Azorius Functionary Artificer believes wordsmithing and armorsmithing are both arguments. One is simpler than the other, and he wanted to protect people anyway- paper is too frail to keep lawbreakers away, and anyway he has pretty serious social anxiety. He was a soft lad from a young age, but the inside of the armor is inscribed with the proofs of his determination- dense legalese referring to the crime of assault and the many degrees, qualifications and punishments therefore.

The Azorius Functionary Barbarian is walking proof not everybody can stay aloof from the laws and their consequences. Still, the law is a labyrinth, and a labyrinth is always pleasing to the mind of a minotaur. Legal assistant and debater extraordinaire, her wild temper (which she comes by naturally; her parents both have severe anger management issues) is still bordering on uncontrollable, with occasionally regrettable drawbacks to her career- and the rare boon, as that kind of steep and genuine passion sometimes can stir the hearts of even Azorius legislators.

The Azorius Functionary Bard finds that the Senate is as much a forum for performance as any concert hall, even if it’s less musical. The eloquent may always find a home there, even if their love is less of the law they defend and more the intricacies of the debate- for those who would put their word to the trial like this, there’s no greater thrill. This kind of thrill-seeking has always been part of this bard’s makeup- talking himself into and out of trouble has been his modus operandi since he grew up on Tin Street, looking for kicks that didn’t cost him a zib.

The Azorius Functionary Cleric is actually wildly unsuited for the adventuring life- at least at first. To this vedalken legal assistant, every part of putting the law into practice the hard way is miserable except the rush of adrenaline. However, given the opportunity to take the law from paper to practice, to legal theory to reality, they jumped at the chance- and their confidence is growing by leaps and bounds. As no gods lay power before Ravnican clerics, their ability to enforce the law by thought and spell grows only with their conviction, feeding their addiction to testing the law’s power on the street.

The Azorius Functionary Druid tends to the owls and horses the Azorius senate leans on for their messenger and enforcement capabilities. Drawn to the freedom of the owls and their calling to fly far with the Senate’s decisions clutched in their talons, this centaur found her way to tending stable and owlery alike. Like the horses they resemble, she prefers to know where her next meal is coming from, and the stability the Azorius offer goes a long way toward meeting that goal; besides, she has a natural gift with the animals that the human tenders can’t match.

The Azorius Functionary Fighter was once a riot squad trainee, favoring a staff and shield for their crowd-handling capacity. After requesting a transfer out of the more authoritarian and frankly oppressive new prison, he was glad to hit the streets again, only called out for the most extreme of circumstances. He’s good at keeping his head, and a lifetime of navigating the frankly byzantine halls of Azorius beaurocracy has lent him more subtlety than the average head-cracker.

The Azorius Functionary Monk is a practitioner of the Azorius arts of ectomancy- unknown to many, the Azorius are as skilled as the Orzhov at binding spirits to service, particularly the posthumous wojek as protectors of the Living Guildpact’s uneasy peace. While many favor necromancy for this undertaking, this ectomancer handles this magic in a more personal manner, binding spirit to flesh and serving proudly as avatar of the spirit he binds. While he still studies the discipline of mind and body necessary to bind an astral self, however, he serves meanwhile as a personal assistant and sometime bodyguard to a public prosecutor.

The Azorius Functionary Paladin is walking proof that it’s not uncommon for the most ardent of the Azorius’s lawkeepers to be motivated by personal history as much as duty. She has sworn before all the courts and Isperia herself that her vengeance will follow the law- a stricture she dares not bend, lest it cost her the means by which she pursues her revenge. Whether this is against the Rakdos or Gruul for the cost of their reckless savagery and destruction or the Golgari or Dimir for their scheming, she faces these foes in the fields they’re least equipped to meet her- Rakdos and Gruul in the court, Golgari and Dimir on the battlefield.

The Azorius Functionary Ranger is an oddity. It is a rare thing that one with the blessing of Trostani herself leave the Selesnya conclave, but when she did so, the ripples fouled her relationship with the Conclave forever. Still, she’s one of the Azorius’s preferred ‘inter-guild liasons’ to handle guilds more concerned with the growth of living things than the tomes of the law. A certain civic-mindedness is at the heart of her motivations, one that was drawn to the order of the Azorius over the more naturalistic structure of the Selesnya.

The Azorius Functionary Rogue is a creature of the library and courtroom, not the street. She’s well-versed to take the measure of others, provide research and assistance for legal precedent and even take the case herself. She’s a natural socialite with a guilty pleasure for roaming far from the areas meant to actually contain the party, getting a taste for other people’s homes and personalities from what she can glean looking into their possessions. After all, a home is like a mind, and both lay out their secrets if you know how to look.

The Azorius Functionary Sorcerer is walking proof that if the law is a process, it would follow that sometimes that process has byproducts. Sometimes those byproducts are unintended legal interactions needing to be tied up, and sometimes the heiromancy that the entire guild leans on to enforce their will is concentrated into people by happenstance. Son of a long legacy of lawyers, public defenders, senators, and research assistants and sought after by precognitives and lawmages alike, he has a lot to live up to if he’s to fit his talents into the ticking mechanism of the city.

The Azorius Functionary Warlock is motivated by an uncommon passion for her work. Goblins are usually a chaotic element in Ravnica’s extensive cityscape, but this would-be arrestor has nothing but law on the mind. Having made a deal with a being of pure celestial law and keen on the Azorius’s new surveillance-heavy attitude towards law enforcement, this warlock is nevertheless more the threat with blade and spell than administration and legislature. Her intimidating bearing and uncompromising mindset promise to make her a legend among Ravnica’s law enforcement, and she takes to the title of lawmage with enthusiasm. (this particular warlock was a creation of a friend of mine; their initial thoughts and character art can be found here).

The Azorius Functionary Wizard was a member of the Sova column. The motivation for their transfer was as emotional as logical, and consequently an uncharacteristic move. Skilled as vedalken sometimes are in the delicate arts of calligraphy and magic both, the wizard recently put in for a transfer of department to the Lyev column to serve as a lawmage. Their motive was less than logical, though- to keep an eye out for a recent friend, a warrior from the Gruul Clans who showed them uncertainty that anarchy was the right path for her.

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oldschoolfrp · 19 days

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Turpin the centaur blocks the road and challenges Erystelle to single combat; he will join the quest as an ally if Erystelle wins a fair fight (Jeremy/Jes Goodwin, D&D module O2: Blade of Vengeance, TSR UK, 1984)

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Jes Goodwin #Jeremy Goodwin #centaur #Blade of Vengeance #BECMI #fantasy forest #wilderness encounter #wilderness adventure #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons #TSR #1980s #Expert D&D #TSR UK

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nightbringer24 · 10 months

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I am a landless man... I come out of the sunset and into the sunrise I go, wherever the Lord doth guide my feet. I seek - my soul's salvation, mayhap. I came, following the trail of vengeance. Now I must leave you. The dawn is not far away and I would not have it find me idle. It may be I shall see you no more. My work here is done; the long red trail is ended. The man of blood is dead. But there be other men of blood, and other trails of revenge and retribution. I work the will of God. While evil flourishes and wrongs grow rank, while men are persecuted and women wronged, while weak things, human or animal, are maltreated, there is no rest for me beneath the skies, nor peace at any board or bed.

Solomon Kane - Blades of the Brotherhood/The Blue Flame of Vengeance, by Robert E. Howard.

#solomon kane #blades of the brothrhood #the blue flame of vengeance #robert e howard #pulp fantasy #sword and sorcery

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baeshijima · 10 months

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there is smth about god!reader and fallen/banished god!blade that just scratches the right spot of my brain.

like, the concept of him committing a sin or doing something that led to him becoming outcasted from godhood and meeting you again centuries later, his once white hair now a deep navy and pristined skin littered in scars almost cause you to mistake him for another, if not for the way he looks at you being the same as the last you saw him before he was banished from the heavens.

idk a ton of pining and longing and sacrifice would be in this and i am so ready to make this a 20k slowburn oneshot ;w;

#sophie talks : concepts <3 #GOD BLADE WHOSE WHITE HAIR AND GENTLE(R) DEMEANOUR DID A 180 THE MOMENT HE WAS BANISHED TO LIKE THE UNDERWORLD #OR THE EQUIVALENT TO IT #except the only thing that stayed the same was his love and devotion for u 😭#oh and yyj/imbibitor lunae being the one he swore vengeance on as well as the one who drove him out of the heavenly realm #RAAWRR THE LORE

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everydaym0nstrosity · 1 year

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Various Asian VHS Box Art (mainly Japanese) for some of my favorite Cult films from the 70s and 80s. Genres range from Horror, Mystery Thriller, Action, Crime, Grindhouse/Exploitation, etc.

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spiderwarden · 4 months

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" and you. You'll just keep going won't you? Watching her stars. Warming your hands on the campfire. Dancing, eating, making fucking love all night. All of it. ALL OF IT." - Karlach

Romanced Minthara, here, going 'wanna bet?'

#[ 🕷️ ] —— musings #[ minth here in tears as she shifts her fingers through the ashes of what's left of her Tiefling ]#[ minth here taking those ashes and has a sword or two made from them ]#[ minth sitting away from the fire in the cold by herself ]#[ minth here sitting in the cold - dragging her fingers along the blades made of Kar/lach's ashes ]#[ the steel that is always warm to the touch - the burst into flames when there is danger near her ]#[ Karl/ach who is still protecting her even in death ]#[ minth who avoids her favorite foods - who no longer pursues meaningful sex ]#[ minth here avoiding all things that make life enjoyable because the woman she loves was robbed of it ]#[ Karl/ach like; you'll just keep on living won't you? minth/ara; no. never again. ]#[ minth going to hell to avenge her - but not understanding the emptiness of empty vengeance until she kills Zariel ]#[ and Kar/lach is still dead ]#[ and all she has is herself- her pain - and nothing - and so all she does is scream at the sky ]#infernaliscor

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