i have spilled so much ink about gawyn but really i only need 2 passages to explain why he is Like That
1. My blood shed before hers; my life given before hers...That was the oath he had taken when barely tall enough to peer into Elayne's cradle. ... Gareth Bryne had had to explain to him what it meant, but even then he had known he had to keep that oath if he failed at everything else in his life. (LOC prologue)
2. From Morgase, Queen of Andor, to her beloved son, Gawyn. May he be a living sword for his sister and Andor. (ACOS prologue)
like yeah, no wonder he does what he does in AMOL. people will be like "gawyn is so stupid for not thinking about the fact that his death would hurt egwene" as if he's being maliciously stupid and careless, when in fact, he has such little self-worth that he genuinely does not consider himself a valuable human being whose loss would impact anyone or anything. his life given before hers. a living sword. this has been his mindset since toddlerhood and nobody ever noticed it enough to try and counteract it. gawyn is exactly what rand would have been like at the last battle if he hadn't had a mental health intervention.
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Shin and Midori are almost the only characters in yttd that have a whole scene dedicated to them messing with someone’s PTSD
It’s a really good parallel and shows just how messed up Shin’s actions were and how he ended up acting more like Midori even after he stopped trying to. The only person that went as far as Shin did was an actual cultist serial killer and one of the people responsible for the death game happening in the first place
It also highlights their differences because of how and why they do what they do. Shin does it because he thinks he’s justified, and it’s also an impulsive decision made right after Kanna is killed. He’s not there to laugh at Sara when she finds the Joe AI, we don’t even know how he feels about the whole thing after the fact (I don’t think giving Sara amnesia was an intended consequence. I wonder how he reacted when he found out). But Midori makes a whole show out of messing with Keiji, and he had to have planned the whole thing in advance to make the Mr. Policeman doll. He also doesn’t hide behind revenge or a greater good, he just torments people for fun
It really shows how Shin is just that close to being on Hiyori’s level, but he’s not there yet, and the scales could be tipped to either side depending on what happens next
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OK, HI UNCLE NINA!! So, when I read rm4 oh so long ago and thought abt like Stan's grandpas coat jacket- whatever, yk what i'm talking about, I made a silly lil hc pertaining to the TFBW game. So like imagine all the lil kiddies are running around, having a blast or whatever the sp kids do when they play superheroes. And that day Toolshed brought his coat for one particular reason. Or two, actually.
"To make sure you stay warm while flying around, Kite! And- and look cool doing it."
IDK just a thought that he made a habit of giving Human Kite his jacket often, and Kite did usually make a fuss over it, but couldn't reject it.
Does Uncle Nina approve? :) <33
AAAAAA no absolutely!!!! my stamp of approval indefinitely :')
i actually think all of the stans have some form of large jacket to lend kyle, like for pep stan i think it's prolly his football letterman jacket ( i feel like theres a bunch of emo boy pins all over it and kyle just gets to wear marsh 04 on his back all the time which...cuuute ),
rm!stan is obviously abuelo walks leather jacket love that gay king,
and idk what it is for my actual tfbw stan but kind spicy if his grandfather was hailed as this big famous superhero and stan got his jacket but woopsie...he was actually a big villain! trauma alert! xx
but yes...okay. absolutely this.
( i just started talking abt stan sharing his jacket for five years soz there is some tfbw at the end i'm sorry i got distracted help smh )
rm!stan definitely put kyle in his jacket all the time, that anemic king. because he looked good in it but like mostly because he was in LUV.
( i feel like they swapped and stan wore kyles orange jacket a lot <3 and kyle actually felt comfortable in stans jacket bc it was breathable and he wasn't like...trying to hide himself in that big coat...im sad )
also like tbh one of the most painful parts of rm is that ravenstan and jerseykyle weren't even like pep!style where it was confusing like...they were mutually obsessed with eachother. i would even go as far to say rm!stan was like insane k-garten peppermint stan except he relentlessly played the long game w/ kyle until he...died. rip.
...if you want to get really sad during your nice cute hc, please know that kyle only has the jacket because he was wearing it on the night stan disappeared :( also when the news broke that he died and all the ambulances and police cars were out he was just in stans jacket, pushing past yellow tape, trying to get to that burned up house like, watching them put shelley in a body bag, asking about stan, SCREAMING w/ his knees in the snow, crying getting carted off :(
....truly awful. THEY WERE IN LOVE YOUR HONOR! I HATE MY LIFE!
i mentioned pep!stan up there for a minute and them being confusing and like...i'm gonna fight stan because he was soooo...like i swear anytime it was dipped under like 40 degrees, stan just took his hoodie off and gave it to kyle, like if he even sniffled or looked cold, it was like immediate. so pep!kyle just Lives in his jackets ( i don't even think wendy got to wear them because kyle always got them rip ) like his football jacket and all his big emo boy band hoodies...like MAN!
its just like an unspoken agreement...he just like loves kyle and doesn't want him to get sick, so he gives him his jacket :((( LIKE I THINK PEPSTAN HAS GOTTEN PNEUMONIA MULTIPLE TIMES and downplayed it so hard so kyle wouldn't worry, but like just got rained and snowed on and was freezing all the time so kyle would stay dry </////33 i'm crying your honor
oh also if anyone else gives pep!kyle their hoodie its literally onsight stan gets so SALTY ABOUT IT like whos that from is he ur boyfriend LIKE SHUT UUUUUUP SHUT UP i love u jealous stan...smh. just kiss.
okay i'm almost done but you mentioned tfbw and i don't know who saw all my insane tfbw au musings but i hced that weather alien kyle was given a hand-me-down cloak that was made of the atmosphere and is basically resistant to all weather.
BUT UH STAN DOESNT KNOW THAT!!!
so i bet you little pre-tool shed stan in his jacket just gives it to kite!kyle in human form as a little kid so they stay covered...which is just really special to them and funny as fuck because kite!kyle basically has protection against all weather but just out of the goodness of his heart, shed!stan not knowing ky has alien powers just bc he cares abt them...puts them in his jacket.
i do think kyle used their secret alien powers to keep stan safe a lot and he just thought he was lucky...crying help.
anyways...Tada!
-uncle nina, ceo of the stan jacket agenda
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