#they could have been a power couple

[nocasdatsgay]

That was so hot of Eris to take one look at Nesta while dancing with her, realize her potential, and instead of being afraid of her, he was like “I want some of that”

#they could have been a power couple #Neris #nesta archeron #eris vanserra #acosf #acosf spoilers #acotar

[wr1tten]

this  impromptu  vacation  had  been  a  rollercoaster.    from  the  racist  butler,    to  oliver  practically  leaving  her  to  the  wolves.    and  by  wolves,    she  meant  viktoria.    all  the  negatives  were  overshadowed  by  the  presence  of  walt.    he  made  her  feel  welcomed    [ . . . ]    safe  amidst  all  that  went  awry  at  night.    evie  didn’t  believe  in  ghosts,    but  this  building  was  clearly  haunted.    another  night  of  being  startled  awake,    @unfaes  coming  in  like  a  knight  in  shining  armor.    a  few  kisses  had  been  shared  throughout  the  evenings,    but  he  was  always  a  gentleman.    uncommon  with  men  from  this  decade.    her  arm  was  tucked  around  his  middle,    head  against  his  chest,      ❝ how  on  earth  do  you  manage  to  sleep  here?    it’s  so  creepy! ❞      her  nose  scrunched  up,    glancing  up  at  his  distant  stare.    oh,    what  she  would  give  to  figure  out  what  went  on  in  his  head,    ❝ beautiful...    but  creepy. ❞

#• | muses ━ evie jackson-alexander. #• | dynamics — walter deville ( feat. unfaes ). #THEY COULD HAVE BEEN A POWER COUPLE

[blancherries-art]

It feels good to be back.

(A more risque version under the cut)

#Percico #PJO #Percy Jackson #Nico Di Angelo #it wasn't meant to show so much navel but as I kept correcting their arms Percy's kept going down -they were too damn short- #i hate having to state this but just in case it's not obvious enough no minors are depicted here #Nico has been aged up -and I tried to give Percy like 23-ish but I think I failed at that- #Also about the concept? There is no concept #I wish i could give you a cool one but this time I just wanted them to ovreflow with intimidating power couple vibes tbh #give them the story you want #it could be a twisted merman AU or a canon divergence where Nico actively goes after Percy idk #“Black Water” maybe? #Nicercy #Pernico

[betterthanbatman1]

Umm I love them???

#SHE WAITED FOR HIM FOR 4 HOURS ON TOP OF THEIR MEET UP SPOT #THEIR MEET UP SPOT IS BIG BELLY BURGER AHHHH #I didn’t really ship jayrose too much before #but I’ve been scrolling down their hashtag and I love them so much #Die hard Rose fans will say they don’t belong together and Rose shouldn’t be reduced as a character for Jason’s benefit #Yeah I completely understand and mostly agree with you. #Mostly. So for now I’m just going to enjoy me some good soft Jayrose content :) #I absolutely think Rose should NOT be reduced as a character but I have to say they are v cute together #The “Promise?’’ “Promise.’’ made my heart flutter I don’t even know why 😭 #I’m a sucker for couples who care about each other like this #She could have just left it at ‘be careful’ #But no Jason had to promise her that he will come back to her #It’s just. So. Damn. Good #IM DYING OVER THEM FR #You know they’d die for each other and make jokes about death and daddy issues #And with their shared use of ✨violence✨ #And just generally become THE power couple #jason todd #red hood #batfamily #batfam #dc #dc comics #Ravager #Rose Wilson #Jayrose #Jason x Rose #holy queue batman #red rambles

[foolilazuli]

Season 2 mkulia is what all stars aleheather should have been

#the could have been villian power couple but writers made them stupid for mal #wasted opportunity #total drama #total drama 2023 #total drama all stars #mkulia #aleheather #td mk #td julia #td heather #td alejandro

[bidokja]

I was joking a while back that the actor they have playing KDJ for the orv movie was too handsome for him and a friend who's read orv was like "KDJ is actually secretly attractive!!" And I just felt my soul leave my body right then

SIGHS...

Okay. Buckle in. I'm gonna finally actually address and explain and theorize about this whole...thing.

I'm not gonna cite any exact chapters cause it's like 11:30 and I've got an 8 hour drive in the morning but I'll at least make an approximate reference to where certain things are mentioned. Also, this post is just my personal interpretation for a good bit of it, but it's an interpretation I feel very solid about, so do with that what you will. Moving on to the meat of things:

There is one (1) instance in the web novel that I know of which describes specific features of Kim Dokja (especially ones other people notice). This takes place when members of KimCom are trying to make Kim Dokja presentable to give his speech at the Industrial Complex (after it's been plopped down on Earth). This is when they start really paying attention and focusing on Kim Dokja's appearance since they're putting makeup on him; I still don't think they can interpret his whole face, but they can accurately pick out and retain more features than usual. If I remember correctly they reference him having long eyelashes, smooth skin, and soft hair. These features can be viewed as (stereotypically) attractive.

Certain parts of the fandom have taken this scene and run with it at a very surface level, without realizing (or without acknowledging at the very least) that this scene is not about how Kim Dokja looks. This is, in part, due to not realizing or acknowledging why Kim Dokja's face is "censored" in the first place, and what that censoring actually means. I think it's also possible that some people are assuming the censorship works like a physical phenomena rather than an altered perception.

I'll address that last point first. The censorship of Kim Dokja's features is not something as simple as a physical phenomena. It's not a bar or scribble or mosaic over his face. If that were true it'd be very obvious to anyone looking at him that his face is hidden. But his face is not hidden to people. They can look at him and see a face. If they concentrate on his eyes, they can see where he's looking. They know when he's frowning or grinning. They see a face loud and clear. But what face are they seeing? Because it's not really his, whatever they're seeing.

No one quite agrees on what he really looks like. And if they try and think about what he looks like, they can't recall. Or if they do, it's vague, or different each time. We notice these little details throughout the series. Basically, Kim Dokja's face is cognitively obscured. Something - likely the Fourth Wall, though I can't recall if this is ever stated outright - is interfering with everyone's ability to perceive him properly. This culminated in him feeling off to others; and since they don't even realize this is happening, they surmise that he is "ugly."

Moving on to the other point about what the censorship means: To be blunt, the censorship of his face is an allegory for his disconnect from the "story" (aka: real life, and the real people at his side). The lifting - however slight - of this censorship represents him becoming more and more a part of the "story" (aka: less disconnected from the life he is living and the people at his side). The censorship's existence and lifting can represent other things - like dissociation or depersonalization or, if you want to get really meta, the fact that he is all of our faces at once - but that's how I'd sum up the main premise of it. (The Fourth Wall is a larger part of the dissociation allegory, but that's for another post).

So you see, them noticing his individual features isn't about the features. It's not about the features! It doesn't matter at all which features got listed. Because they could describe any features whatsoever and it would not change the entire point of the scene. Because the point isn't what he looks like. The point is that they can truly and clearly see these features. For the first time. They are seeing parts of him for the first time. Re-read that sentence multiple times, literally and metaphorically. What does it mean to see someone as they are?

This is an extremely significant turning point dressed up as a dress-up scene.

---

P.S. / Additionally, I'm of the opinion that Kim Dokja is not handsome, and he is not ugly. He is not pretty, and he is not ghastly. Not attractive, nor unattractive. Kim Dokja isn't any of these things. More importantly, Kim Dokja can't be any of these things. The entire point of Kim Dokja is that you cannot pick him out of a crowd; he is the crowd. He's a reader. He's the reader. Why does he need to be handsome? Why must he be pretty? Why is him being attractive necessary or relevant? He doesn't, he doesn't, it's not. He is someone deeply deeply loved and irreplaceable to those around him, and someone who cannot even begin to recognize or accept that unless it's through a love letter masquerading as a story he can read. He is the crowd, a reader, the reader. He's you, he's me. He's every single one of us.

#orv #orv analysis #orv meta #orv spoilers #mine #ask #there's also the meta that he is described with these (stereotypically) pretty features as they are about to try and 'sell' him to a crowd #which feels to me like a very pointed way to convey how 'beauty' is commodified. how audiences like 'attractive' characters more #note: made some edits to add in a couple of sentences my brain forgot in the moment so make sure u reblogged those if u do #tag edits for further commentary that isnt strictly relevant to the point i was making: #do i think that this face censorship was executed as well as it could have been? nah. #not that it was like. done Badly. it's followed through to a certain point. its established enough for me to make this post at least. #but i do think it is the one thing in the web novel that SS didn't capitalize on. #like. they still stuck the landing but it was not as picture perfect of an execution as the rest of the metaphorical stuff in orv #also. this (not the face censorship specifically but the 'hes just some guy' point of it all) is one of the big reasons i think that- #-visual adaptions of orv can never quite work. they can do the best that they can with that medium but a lot of nuance is lost- #-simply by virtue of it being a visual medium #i personally think the only way a visual medium could work would be one where they commit to the power move of not showing kdj's face #(until a certain point (of view) that is) #his face is always facing away or out of frame or hidden by someone or something else in the way #commit to the fucking allegory or simply perish

[westidia]

The f*cking potential 😩

#could have been THE POWER COUPLE #literally and figuratively #klonnie #the originals #the vampire diaries #klaus mikaelson #bonnie bennett #joseph morgan #kat graham

[ivyithink]

behold the fools!

separately: some of the smartest (if not actually THE smartest) people in the room

together: share one rusty dusty braincell that they stubbornly refuse to actually use

#my art #my doodles #you’ve heard of a power couple #but may I offer you — a fail couple #their individual abilities to solve problems cancel each other out instead of doubling #their brains stop functioning properly while they are in the near vicinity of one another #also #I feel like uhtred’s intelligence gets overlooked sometimes #but he truly is incredibly smart #literally nothing will convince me otherwise #like YES he is stupid as hell but also absolutely brilliant #just like alfred actually #truly a match made in heaven #the last kingdom #tlk #tlk uhtred #tlk alfred #this art could have easily been posted on the 1st of june #it was already finished by then and it would have been … YOU KNOW … appropriate #but brain stupid sooooo yeah #and look at me #dealing with extreme stress and anxiety in a normal healthy way #by sharing memes

[bleaksqueak]

Woah dang, waking up to 99+ notifs on tumblr almost always means that an old Homestuck piece is going around again... imagine my delighted surprise to see it was all notifs about Soli! That was a great thing to wake up to. Felt an actual flutter in my chest. Thank you so much, everyone! And apologies for how Elias' hair keeps subtly changing. You always kind of figure out exactly how a character looks and how to draw them as you go along with sequential art. It, funny enough, largely comes from figuring out their acting (so lots and lots of different angles and features that need to shift/change slightly to carry the weight of looking like they should feel, for lack of a better way to describe it ) At any rate, glad to see people are excited for chapter 3! next update will be next week, and will be a two page spread.

#solivaga #yackin #it isn't the first time by a long shot that I've woken up to see my inbox full of soli notifs #but that usually only happens when I'm actively updating the comic or have posted a new big fancy illustration #that dies down considerably ofc when we're at a between chapter pause because old fandom work has the power to stay searchably relevant #and it's probably common for comic authors to worry that if they don't get back to updating ASAP they'll come back to no audience #so coming back with the main storyline of chapter 3 and a couple of preview snippets filling my notifs for this project that I love so much #definitely made me happy #there's just a joy in sharing something important to you and introducing characters and their stories to others #ofc I say all of this and have been going through my askbox like an absolute slug lol #if I could choose the world's most niche and specific superpower I would ask to split my creative attention when i'm really deep in it #but my brain demands to Live in the Scene when writing it or drawing very acting-heavy or important scenes #and I become Slug #Rat slug #new animal for the veil

[lilbagdermole]

Adult Taang in TLOK

Like come on, they were serving looks and justice. I can't believe the original creators of ATLA looked at them and didn't see the vision, the power couple they could have been... Like come on LOOK AT THEM!

As much as I hate what TLOK did to Aang and Toph's characters (Aang a neglectful father? Toph becoming a cop? Aang being a grouchy, serious man?) - they did kinda nail their adult designs. Like if I was Aang I wouldn't have gotten on my knees and begged for Toph's hand in marriage.

Also, in my delusional interpretation, Aang was reaching out for Toph in the last GIF. And the fact Yakone looked at Aang like that after he did what he did to Toph... Yakone knows! YAKONE KNOWS THEY'RE IN LOVE!

#taang #aang x toph #toph x aang #toph beifong #atla aang #the legend of korra #adult taang #toph is beautiful #look at her she is mother #and aang #he bulked up #god we were robbed #we could have had it aaaalllll #they would have been such a power couple

[morelikecommunitydick]

Lesbian jeffbritta save me. Save me lesbian jeffbritta

#you could never understand the wonders of my mind... #they could have been a butch4femme power couple #jeffbritta #redstreet #i know britta isnt butch but in my head she is OKAYY #if jeff were a woman hed be high femme too #100%

[shadeswift99]

Anybody else notice how the Entity is getting not only more complex with every update, but also more and more alive? To the extent that it can now get up and walk? To the extent of implied organs, implied magic? And meanwhile, coincidentally, Grian seems to be losing his sense for his own durability. Stood right there and took a hit from a trident thrown straight up, expecting to live, but didn’t. The surprise in his voice when Keralis was able to take him out in one punch. Having less health than he expected to have is becoming a trend...except for that time in front of the Rift.

“...I didn’t die?”

You know. The last near-death incident before the over-estimations started happening.

Debt is a powerful, powerful thing. Perhaps the Rift, and the Entity it spawned, know that. Perhaps that loan of life to Grian was the permission they needed to start taking back their due - slowly, of course, so that he never quite notices.

Slowly, of course, one sip of life at a time, so that the thing at the other end of the straw can feed in steady peace. Because debt and deals might rule the eldritch, but equivalent exchange rules nature, and the Entity is above all else both. Life cannot simply spring from nothing, not without cause, not without fuel. Grian is the reservoir of life that the Entity is pulling from. As it grows, he depletes.

Maybe the Rift is a conduit, the pipe for the transfer to take place - or maybe it’s the mastermind, or an impassive observer, or hey, maybe it’s just a coincidental tear like any other tear. Randomness is a law of nature too. But the idea that the Entity’s growth will be capped by how much life and power is left to be pulled from Grian is terrifying in MULTIPLE ways and I’ll be turning it over in my brain for the rest of the day at least

#Grian #the Entity #Hermitcraft #''So did Grian completely forget about the cliffhanger from two episodes ago or did he just troll us all by not giving any answers?' #< sentences thought before disaster #the disaster being This Idea #listen #am I stringing together several unconnected coincidences that were almost certainly not intentionally implying anything? yes #should you be even a little bit surprised by that if you have been following this blog for more than a couple months? No #Absolutely The Fuck Not dlfkjsdls #I don't care if it's anything close to what's happening really but it's PLAUSIBLE and that's TERRIFYING #terrifying in the best way #because just. imagine #I'm not usually a non-human Grian headcanoner but ik a lot of people think he's got some vast wells of unused power #and just. the /consequences/ of some parasitic otherworldly Entity choosing that person out of everyone to feed on #could it smell the life that saturated Grian? the power? or was it just coincidence? #/how much bigger will it grow with that as a source to feed on?/ #and in a non-magical Grian scenario it really only gets WORSE #because how long can one human being hold out as the sole source of nourishment for a Thing like that? #is it like a blood donation where the life it takes from Grian will regenerate slowly over time? #leaving him exhausted and weakened but too gradually to notice? just gradually enough to adapt to without thinking? #is that why the Entity is doing this slowly? as a strategy? #....will its patience for strategy run out as the end to its means draws near? #man. man. I love what Grian is doing this season #I've been too exhausted myself to have many writing ideas lately but this is giving me more than I've had in ages #oh ah. also #tw horror #tw parasite #ik there are some people squicked out by the Entity in general so let me know if I've missed any tags for that #but I personally am having the time of my life right now

[druidonity2]

2021 just some guys celebrating pride

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #baine bloodhoof #2021 pride fanart #I think baineduin is cute but with how Baine has been written the last few years I just can't see it working outside fanfic #I just. really wish they'd shown more strain in their relationship in BFA #And I wanted Baine to be more active in SLs #Have Baine confront Mawduin at some point #I drew that ill post it next #Anduin and Baine could've been a really interesting friendship in canon exploring what makes ally/horde relationships so hard to maintain #and yet these two of all of them would be able to power through their differences and fights and dissagreements #But I think its just too late to really properly capture that in canon which sucks #In my fanon of them they're never able to be a close couple more long distance but they hoard cute love letters from eachother #and when lucky they may meet in secret #but in the end no one ever knows that theyre more then friends #prehaps other then jaina #jaina knows everything i think #if your curious my main ship is wranduin but honestly i think anduin is just a little dork who crushes easily #I could see him with a few different people given the fanfic is written right #but also as an ace i do like the idea of Anduin as ace #honestly I just think of Anduin as a piece of playdoh i make him into whatever i want at the moment

[grandwretch]

everyday i think about about how k. a. applegate was like im going to write a child soldier who is completely brainwashed by his militaristic society and he believes in eugenics and is an asshole and im going to make you love him more than you have ever loved a fictional character because to you he is everything that he hates and then because love is not enough to deprogram what his society has done to him im going to kill him for it

#shut up az #animorphs #watching ax get more and more anti human and like. outwardly angry and violent as the series went on was. something. #i would have locked that alien in my basement and made him watch documentaries until he realised what was up but that's just me #rip to marco but im built different #alright but genuinely when i think about axmarco from this perspective it makes my tummy hurt #ax was never built for war but he loved it and believed in it like none of the animorphs ever did not even rachel really #meanwhile being cold and ruthless came so easily to marco but he was always the last person to join a fight and #always the first person to question what he was told #if they had been given enough time to truly like. work on each other. #they could have either been the universe's most terrifying power couple OR the kindest babiest most domestic celebrity couple you ever saw

[heloflor]

Random Mario headcanon: while Peach does have powerful magic, she actually doesn’t know how to use it, at least not by herself. Basically to use her magic she needs to trigger a “spark” of sorts, but has no idea how to do so and as a result can’t use it unless someone else triggers that spark for her.

Explaining how it works in the games’ canon and giving some more details on my Toadstool magic hcs (spoilers for pretty much all the RPGs + Showtime’s ending; 1k words below):

- In Paper Mario 64, Kammy calls Peach’s action “wishes from normal people”, meaning she’s not using any particular magic.

- In Thousand Years Door, she uses healing magic upon regaining some control from the Shadow Queen. Considering the Shadow Queen is using magic, possibly Peach’s magic, it means Peach could have been able to access it in the moment.

- In Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, the Cobalt Star could have been the one with the magic to imprison Elder Princess Shroob, or it triggered Peach’s magic. Though the fact Peach can summon stars at the end kinda shows she can use magic on her own.

- In Bowser’s Inside Story and Dream Team, Peach only uses magic when Starlow is using her own magic as well, meaning Starlow could be the one triggering hers.

- Ok I’ll be honest I can’t explain it for Super Mario RPG other than “she’s not actually using magic” or “Geno is a spirit of the stars so his presence would unlock her powers”, though in that second case it doesn’t even fully work since the whole point of the team looking for stars is that wishes can’t be granted anymore.

- In Showtime, Peach’s magic ribbon comes from Stella, same for the outfits. Her Radiant transformation also comes from the hopes and dreams of the Theets fused with Sparkles and Stella. I could also see Stella triggering Peach’s magic in the case of the ribbon + Radiant.

- In Super Princess Peach, you could imagine that the Vibe Scepter is basically letting out “particles” of emotions in the air, and when one touches someone, it affects them. For Peach, her magic would protect her by absorbing those particles, but it also causes her magic to accumulate them.

Because of that, whenever she feels a strong emotion, all those particles her magic gathered get released at once, thus giving her those powers. So the powers wouldn’t come from her using her magic willingly, instead her magic does its own thing and she has to realize it and work around it.

As a result, she can control when the powers get triggered by keeping calm as much as possible and thinking of happy/sad/angering things when needed (or other methods like pinching herself to cry or asking Perry to insult her to get angry, dumb funny things like that).

This could also explain why there’s a timer that then needs to be refilled when using emotions or even why emotional enemies don’t get powers like she does but instead just move faster or in a different pattern, as they would have less emotions in them since the first particle that touches them would influence them.

- In case it needs to be said, everyone in the sports games have special abilities so I don’t consider those to be her using magic.

So yeah, while there are obviously instances of her using healing magic that negates this idea, it still holds up to an extent. And it’s especially interesting to headcanon when you consider how many RPG villains know how to exploit her magic for themselves (Cackletta, Fawful, the Shadow Queen, Antasma tried before turning to Bowser, I like to think the Chaos Heart was born from an exchange of two widely different magics with the wedding being the ritual needed to create the heart specifically).

Going deeper into this idea, I hc that in the past all Toads had magic but the Royal Family eventually discouraged everyone from using it aside from them. History books would say it’s to protect the population, the truth is that the Monarchy wanted that power for themselves and/or were afraid of the people taking over the throne if they can be more powerful than them (especially since I hc that it’s common for rulers to marry citizens, as long as said citizen is able to handle the work that goes with becoming royalty; this is also why each kingdom still has a ruler the same species as them after centuries of those kingdoms existing).

There would still be some Toads who kept their magic (like the doctor from Bowser’s Inside Story) but they would be incredibly rare on top of trying to keep it a secret just in case them having it is forbidden as there would be no written law saying what is and isn’t allowed on that front.

As such, the knowledge of how to use these powers is told from parent to child, with sometimes another person being given the info in case the rulers die before their heir is of age to learn. In Peach’s case, her parents’ death was a complete surprise, meaning no-one had that knowledge.

So for the longest time, she didn’t even think she had magic. And when the RPGs happened, she would’ve tried to use it herself but can’t find the thing triggering its use, taking a while to come to terms with the fact that she could never use it by herself, but that doesn’t mean she can’t be a hero in a different way.

And for those asking why doesn’t she use a Koopa wand, this goes into this idea of the Chaos Heart being born from mixing Koopa and Toadstool magic. She’s afraid that trying to learn the Koopa ways of using magic might cause another catastrophe, which it probably would.

Last small thing, outside of angst the main reason for this headcanon is to justify both Peach never using magic outside of RPGs and the fact she goes from being able to yeet Bowser out the window in one game to being completely helpless against two paratroopas holding her in the very next game of the same series. Basically it’s to explain the inconsistencies with it.

It can also justify the Mushroom Kingdom not falling into the hands of Koopas, Goombas etc before Mario and Luigi were around despite Toads being unable to defend themselves in the present time (basically the Toadstool family was able to use their magic to boost the strength of their army, which Peach can’t do).

#Super Mario #Princess Peach #Flor talks #long post #this has been sitting in my folders for a while but I wanted to play Mario RPG first to have something to say about it #I also have a spm WIP with a long beginning all about how much the events of the RPGs are affecting Peach's mental state #and how her inability to use magic coupled with all those villains capturing her for it take a huge toll on her #(god I need to edit and post my Mario fics already some of those have been sitting in my folders for almost a year now) #yes I know technically Peach could ask one of the Toads who still have their magic to teach her #but I like the idea of her having this power that's unreachable outside of specific conditions

[menlove]

"let us help you" THROWING UP. any time anyone in star trek says any version of let me help just know I am going insane

#chakotay and janeway the power couple you could have been