Warrior Nun (any characters) and "Stop. You're going to hurt yourself."
"Camila, stop." Beatrice grabs her by the arm, twists it behind her back. "Stop. You're going to hurt yourself."
"Let go," Camila yells, furious. She bucks and struggles, kicking and biting, and Beatrice barely manages to restrain her.
"No," Beatrice says, firm.
"Bea, let go! Let me go!"
Grim, Beatrice keeps her grip.
"Get off me!" Camila hisses, guttural, her throat tearing. "I need to get it out! Why don't you fucking understand that?"
"I do," Beatrice murmurs.
"No!" Camila bucks again, the back of her head smacking Beatrice in the jaw. Beatrice bites iron, sees yellow-black spots.
Still, she holds.
"Get it out," Camila demands, raw. "Get it out," and now the phrase burns with sobs, "get it out, get it out."
"We will," Beatrice swears. "Camila, we will."
"Now!" She lunges her weight forward, to where the knife had clattered to the floor. Her body is sweaty against Beatrice's, her curls mussed. Snot and saliva make a mess of her face as Beatrice rolls her into her chest. She beats a fist against Beatrice's shoulder. "Let me go."
"Listen to me," Beatrice says, tightening her arms around Camila's torso. "If you cut open your neck, you will die." With a bluntness terrible to her own ears, she repeats, "You will die."
"I want him out," Camila gasps.
"I want him dead," says Beatrice.
The vicious honesty slackens Camila, for a moment.
"I want him dead, Camila." She braces her sagging weight. "Not you."
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ARI PLEASE CAN I JUST SAY THIS AND DIE PEACEFULLY??
imagine being classmates with satoru and not seeing him after graduating, causing the unspoken romantic feelings to be left like that, only to accidentally meet him after 10 years and have him say this, instead of greetings:
“married?”
you shake your head, “no.”
“boyfriend? girlfriend?”
“neither.”
“great. i’m glad.”
and i just KNOW he’d say it with a satisfied smirk on his face, just leaving after that. and you’re like, still standing there confused, not knowing what the hell is going on.
this is it i’m going crazy help i miss my man
GEM,………. the way i can literally hear his VOICE 😭😭😭 u get him so well he WOULD do this. little weirdo!!! “i’m glad.” and the SMIRK…… i can see this soooo clearly w blindfolded gojo LMAO he just has the Smirk. he’s so smug about it and you’re just like. Um. good to see you too?? (he goes home to giggle + kick his feet + write in his journal w a glitter pen bc he never got over you <333)
ohhhhh but gem… i’m so so weak for the unspoken feelings / reunion trope…. if u have any more thoughts plspls let me know 👀👀
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"Empty Page" by The Crane Wives is a tHAW!Q-coded song
i have always said that many of the crane wives' songs have vivid thaw!quackity energy.
but this one song of theirs has such strong thaw!q energy in particular that it would feel out place to me if it went on my thaw!quackity playlist. so i thought i'd share my ideas about it here, since it's not going to be on the big playlist analysis ^_^
(click under the cut to see a lyrical breakdown explaining how it applies to early thaw!q)
"I'm just a ten-cent copy/ Of people far more advanced than me/ Every thought that I've ever had/ Could be ripped from a magazine"
in my mind, this song is q comparing himself to quackity. after all, they are the same person, even if they were pretty different from each other in the beginning. but as q started to share the same worldviews as quackity, he started seeing himself less as his own person and more as just a weaker version of quackity.
i mean, he said it himself in chapter 35, "His ‘character’, that he couldn’t really see as much of a character anymore, in fact he saw him as his own person, so different from himself that he couldn’t even fathom how the other thought they were the same person. If anything at times Q felt less like he was his own person than the opposite, maybe because he had had to be ‘Quackity’s past-self’, maybe because of what had almost happened , maybe because Q himself did not know who exactly he was anymore."
q has lost his own sense of identity in this world, instead beginning take on that of quackity's.
and the fact that he's having basically the exact same pivotal moments (even if in slightly different ways), as well as making the same mistakes, as quackity. that does not help that notion of him no longer feeling like he has his own identity.
"Cut me a path, and I will follow it"
this could probably also be seen as him with quackity, but i can't help but see it as him with the sky gods. even if he doesn't mean to, q is following the path that the sky gods have planned for him very well.
"Draw me a line, and I'll avoid it/ I'm nothing if not obedient/ You have my word/ You have my word"
near the beginning of their relationship, this was definitely how q was around quackity. how he tried to avoid doing anything to bring his other-self's ire back upon him. and quackity even made some remarks about how obedient q was to him too, interpretting it as a thing q learned from manberg.
on the topic, that 'i'm nothing if not obedient' line has a double meaning, with how much the ram drilled that idea into quackity's head during manberg
"I am an empty page/ A muddled shade of paint/ I am a light that's burning out/ I am a light that's burning out"
q used to be so bright and idealistic and happy, but as the world continues to beat him down more, he becomes less so. the person that he was slowly fading like the dying light of a candle, as he loses that brightness and hope that used to be so prominent within him.
as for the first two lines, i've already touched on that theme quite a bit. especially during the beginning of the story, q's identity is torn up between who he used to be and who he is becoming. he is no longer himself, but he is not on quackity's level yet either; he's somewhere in between, a muddled color between these two versions of himself.
"I have hands that shake/ When there are cuts to make/ You’ll do it better, show me how/ You'll do it better, show me how"
q wasn't always inclined to violence. he hesitated to kill when faced with the burgundy cosmos ram, even with the bad feeling he immediately gave him, something that quackity would never have done after learning to trust his gut instinct. and q knows this too. that quackity wouldn't have made his same mistakes.
q really does seem to believe that quackity is better, stronger, than him. even in recent chapters that thought has still been present for q, albeit different Kinds of strength than it was before.
ever since the burgundy cosmos, q has no longer been afraid of quackity, instead he begins to strive to be like him.
"Tie me up by my callow belief/ Someday I'll make something out of me"
"Years of imitating mastery/ Only made me a better thief"
q was definitely more callow, more inexperienced when he first ended up in this different world. back when he never saw himself as ever being a murderer nor a cannibal, and back when he was willing to go vegetarian to uphold his moral values. but the sky gods had other plans for him, and his idealistic morals ended up either backfiring and hurting him more or else being impossible to uphold.
ok so it hasn't been Years. but. the point still stands. q started out just faking it until he makes it, and having unrelated behaviors be misinterpreted as something else, but now he's at the point where that identity is more real for him than his previous one is.
vv here's the song btw vv
as always, you can read thaw here, do it./th(/SILLY)
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