scythe post reminded me of my god au. Techno as a blood god, but blood as a symbol of life. The blood that runs through all living things. Blood and wine and harvest. The blood of the farmers spilt on their fields, only serving to grow the crops further. The blood of the common people painting his sacred lands red during war. He is called a war god for tearing army's asunder, but what god stands by as his chosen are slaughtered? As his holy priests who tend to the crops and the animals and the sick and the children, have their guts spilled? He is nothing but a man of the people, and he will revoke his blessing on the battlefield. Those who spill the blood of others are undeserving of blood themselves, after all.
I greatly enjoy that concernedape did not address in the 1.6 update grandpa’s shitty bed in the intro. They said let that old man ROT!! I did that on purpose!!!
I think the turning point in his head was when Matt said, hey TPK - new beginnings.
But that wasn't the clever part. He is SO GOOD at taking the tools given to him for the intended purpose of kneecapping people's hearts.
His core?? We introduced that before the fucking Red Moon beam. That was WAY back before they even met Plane Rider Rin (I believe??) One of the engineers was like oh you got this dangerous thing inside you.
And the clever move was ***EVERYONE FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT IT*** including Matt. That's how you hit people where it hurts. Always have something in the tank to blindside people with. And he held this behind his teeth with every smile. He fucking knew about this last hail mary bomb trapped in his chest. And he never said a fucking word to remind everyone - to let anyone brace themselves for this decision
And when he saw half the party go down - Orym, Ashton, with only Imogen, Fearne, Laudna, and Chet on their last legs... He knew it was time. It was time. And he blindsided everyone beautifully including the DM
Because he was a little Killer Robot. That bomb didn't kill his intended target a millenia or so ago. And instead, it becomes the prayer through which he saves his family.
“It's clear that Milo and Alexis have formed a tight bond. When I congratulated him on his steamy season-ender kiss, he smiled bashfully and said: "Tell Alexis. It was all her. I was nervous. We're in this huge beautiful mansion out in the country, and everybody stopped what they were doing and walked over to watch the scene. And I was like, 'Okay, this is pressure.' We did it over and over, and people were still there. We did each angle a million times. It was a full makeout session the whole day."
-Milo Ventimiglia, before media training got its claws into him