#Death of a mercenary

[pinkyjulien]

Death of a mercenary ━ author unknown

Quick enough - not I Nor bold enough nor agile Tangled up in wires Like a nest of vipers vile

Was it I who fell? Or was it done to me? Dissolving, disappearing, with you I wished to be

Now tethered, clamoring, the restless swarm Beating in my ears a pale rage - No!

Into the earth I seep, my life the sweet Thorn sticks in my throat

A chill burns brighter - On To the end? What a thought A huddled husk I tumble for the dawn

The old certainty of youth is felled And from its gnarled trunk Memories fall forth

Hours of ours sharp and pressing race Embittered in a powerlocked embrace

With you I wished to be and so I go! Down a road without end through woods half-dreamt

And the chill-bleached delirium of desire Flies into trepid trembling sand

Through the fog of your shadow sharpening The storm tangles in me once again

To sway with you like sweet grasses dry

Still the glassy dust will naught but rise

#Cyberpunk 2077 #Mitch Anderson #Aldecaldos #Screenshot #Virtual Photography #Death of a mercenary #Ouuuggghhh.... guess who replayed I'll Fly away today #this poem can be found on a shard one the table next to Mitch on the bridge #it fucks me up so bad everytime y'all have No Idea #I stare at Mitch and his expressions for a longass time everytime hgfhgf #So much goes on his mind in that moment #memories of the past- memories of Driss 😩 #(the shard/poem can be found in multiple area of the game #tho the fact that the devs put it here during this quest next to mitch #is once again on purpose and reflective of Mitch's mind/thoughts/ of their relationship #and potentially also hinted that he could've been the one writting it in that quest in that instance #not in the general sense as in he didn't obviously write that poem when it comes to the other area that same shard is #I hope what I say makes sense hgfh I love detail like this) #(also lots of love subtext in there) (I decided to see it as romantic because I love hurting myself) #did I cry- Yes #long post #fav #ALSO- AH GHFH It's actually a remake of an old version I did #so if you remember that old one 👉👈 kiss kiss

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

#Fear and Hunger #D'arce Cataliss #Cahara #Ragnvaldr #Enki Ankarian #Unlike Dungeon Meshi - I cannot in good faith recommend this game to a broad audience. #My background with F&H goes as follows: I am hanging out with a friend. He says “hey try this game I've been playing.” I say “Okay!” #I have never heard of this game. I pick the mercenary. I go through 5 min of character history and background. I am mauled to death by dogs #It took me 4 resets to even get in the dungeon. But I finally get there. I am caught by a guard. He cuts off all but one of my limbs #I am forced to crawl around in a blood and corpse pit until the game tells me 'give up idiot'. #I reset. I am mauled by dogs again. I realize this is not for me but I am intrigued enough to go home and watch some playthroughs #And WOW what an interesting game it is! I really do appreciate games that blend their design philosophy with the theme it wants to set #This is a game about fear and hunger. And persevering. And penis (my god is there a lot of penis) #I recommend this to people who like extremely challenging games and can handle the many *content warnings* within this series #If the idea of Bloodborne/eldenring and undertale having a little RPG maker baby sounds appealing to you - give it a shot #It's made by ONE GUY and it's a great horror game. I am just really bad at it. #My friends just enjoy putting me in situations where I scream and yell. We don't talk about the corn mazes. Or the other horror game nights #Apparently I'm funny when I'm Scared! #As people who follow me on twitter might know; I am deep in the pits of this series right now. I will be back with more art.

[mr-president]

The god of fear and hunger acknowledges your suffering.

Cahara has formed a panophobia. A fear of everything.

#fear and hunger #cahara #cahara the mercenary #fear and hunger girl #i kinda hate this piece but worm girl’s vid and that one ao3 fic made me draw n post this #anyway twink death. #me when i watch the birth of a new god and destroy myself in an effort to survive (it is pointless and i will never see me wife and child)

[doinkmaster5000]

colourless gang hanging out :)

#animator vs animation #alan becker #ava victim #ava paleo #ava hazard #ava ballista #ava mercenaries #ava roleswap au #art tag #i felt bad for torturing swap!victim so muchso here he is with friends!! #tw animal death #< jic

[nikolai-alexi]

Jules Paymer wrote a song about how Angelina Jolie allegedly tried to hire a hitman for herself and their song for some reason inspired me and now I really want to write a fic where mercenary James gets hired by the broken black heir to take him out and he accepts the job but ends up not being able to follow through with it, kidnaps regulus, helps him find out what life is suppose to be like and in return regains some of his humanity back again

#regulus black #james potter #marauders era #jegulus #the marauders #the marauders era #jules paymer sweet angelina #mercenary au #ik james is usually always the sunshine character but I really like the idea of exploring a darker side to him #like I’m not sure why or how he’d become a mercenary but in a way it feels like it fits #regulus would know that he couldn’t use traditional methods of sewerslide bc of his family #but the black family certainly has more than a few enemies with the means to hire someone to dispose of the black heir #so he tries to stage his own death and hires the one mercenary who messes up his whole plan #idk it just seems like an interesting idea

[quickhacked]

Of course Aubrey had heard of the Council before. I mean– who hadn’t? They didn’t necessarily rule the streets, or Night City’s underworld for that matter, but they sure as hell loved to rub their asses all over it at any given opportunity and never in his years of being a fixer himself had he felt the need to associate himself with any of them. He understood why it was necessary, sure– the agreements they made and the city-wide gang activity they monitored and reported to one another were a vital part of ensuring business stability as well as their own survival– but he knew the biz well enough to not trust the feigned kindness and so-called sense of community they supposedly aimed for. Everyone always had their own agenda. None of it was simply out of the kindness of their hearts, to ensure the safety of the innocent citizens of Night City– it would be naive of him to think so and by then he knew better than to let wishful thinking cloud his judgment.

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#cp2077 #edit:aubrey #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #SEB AND LEON BELONG TO RED REAPERKILLER BY THE WAY IF YOU EVEN CARE #the writing is from a work in progress fic in which aubrey meets vitali!! it happens all the way in 2083 LMAO #aubrey as a fixer is so interesting to think about because he's essentially as good of an employer as vitali is #but his methods are SO different. he's a lot less serious and it's all about a good atmosphere for him #whereas vitali is a lot more professional and likes a more serious approach so he's able to keep his mercs fully safe and secure #aubrey also values their safety but he accepts death as part of the job description a lot better than vitali does usually #mercenaries know the risks and aubrey can do his best to give them the means to protect themselves properly #but if they die they die y'know. not much else to do about that. it can keep him up at night but he wouldn't spiral like vitali would #also the affiliations slide was like trench warfare to me but i won are you proud of me. it looks so FUN

[ladyhatter614]

#manhwa #trash manhwa dad #trash manhwa moms #trash manhwa dads #manga #fictional characters #eleceed #mercenary enrollment #webtoon #orv #omniscent reader's viewpoint #s classes that i raised #sss class revival hunter #the remarried empress #the beginning of the end #death is the only ending for the villainess #i'll be the matriarch in this life #the way to protect the female lead's older brother #under the oak tree #the twin siblings' new life #a stepmother's marchen #the villainess is a marionette #the symbiotic relationship between a rabbit and a black panther #trash of the count's family #untouchable lady #the monster duchess and contract princess #i became the villain's mother #the lady and the beast #i want to be you just for a day #kill the villainess

[avelera]

IMO most of the Dream/Hob story is told from Dream's POV so it can be easy to miss that Hob is actually the cool one in the relationship

#dreamling #hob gadling #he was a MERCENARY and a BANDIT #he had FRIENDS who LIKED HIM at the table #he went from NOTHING to wealth and a KNIGHTHOOD #he was DROWNED as a WITCH and BOUNCED BACK from losing EVERYTHING #he fought off TWO THUGS before they could lay a FINGER on Dream #he did it without BREAKING a SWEAT #he confronted an ENDLESS about being LONELY and didn't even FLINCH from Dream's wrath #he showed up in the 1980s LOOKING like THAT he had a MOBILE PHONE in the 80S #he becomes the COOLEST history teacher ANYONE has EVER met #And then there's Dream being skrunkly and depressed and pissy about everything #Death set up Dream with a cool boyfriend #and Dream has the AUDACITY to think HE'S the cool one in the relationship

[herearedragons]

So I’ve been looking through the Valo-Kas war table missions and… boy, the Valo-Kas lose a lot of people.

I assume that many of them didn’t survive the explosion at the Conclave. There are missions available to Inquisitor Adaar to rescue some survivors, and at least in one of them, the advisor you choose also determines which people come back. So Adaar loses people before the game even begins, and then loses more as Inquisitor - and, no matter which options you choose in the war table missions, at least three Valo-Kas will wind up dead because of Adaar, because some fanatics who believe that the Inquisitor is an agent of the Qun decide to capture and torture the first qunari they saw.

That’s. Uh. That’s messed up.

#herearedragons meta #dragon age #inquisitor adaar #tw: death #tw: loss #the potential loss of clan lavellan is messed up #but somehow I only now realized that there is literally no way to save *all* of the valo-kas #you’re just picking up the pieces the entire time #and the entries are very funny and Shokrakar talks about the losses with the callousness of a seasoned mercenary #it’s part of the job and all. things happen #but to an inquisitor who was close with even some of the valo-kas who didn’t make it it’s probably devastating #like. Lavellan is tragic but Adaar has loss baked into their narrative and you can’t avoid it #and yes technically the same is true for Trevelyan among the mages and templars respectively #but it’s the war table missions that really hammer it home for me #you try to find them. you try to save them. you read the names of those who didn’t make it and of those you saved #anyway can you tell I’ve been thinking about Aqun and Adina

[froggos-are-superior]

Webtoon screenshots out of context: part 4

#webtoon #webtoons #out of context shit #out of context #mage and demon queen #im the grim reaper #return of the mad demon #return of the blossoming blade #wished you were dead #weak hero #jungle juice #death rescheduled #teenage mercenary #dr frost

[soren-apologist]

i know it was the mid 2000s but i wish that the tellius duology took more advantage of the t rating for dialogue

what i mean is in his recruitment dialogue marcia calls makalov a eunuch and i wish we got more moments like that

#ike says ‘damn’ exactly one (1) time in fe9 and it’s in his final battle death quote #they’re commoner country mercenaries they’re probably gonna be a little vulgar #and since there are scenes where shinon is legit drunk it’s not like they acted like the greil mercs were 100% squeaky clean #idk i just think they could’ve made dialogue a little more colorful #tellius

[trialbystory]

Friends & Family Discount?

RubyxCube: Hey, Snowflake? SchneetDreams: Nothing good happens when you're using that nickname. RubyxCube: SchneeTech does cyberware, right? SchneetDreams: What did you do? RubyxCube: What exactly do you have to offer in the way of arms? SchneetDreams: WHAT DID YOU DO? RubyxCube: Well I went with Maria on a job, and one thing led to another... SchneetDreams: adslfkjslakdalkfddkdja MarinoWool: She's fine. We were just meeting with an informant. RubyxCube: Spoilsport MarinoWool: The guy had some augments and Ruby got talking with him about it and now... RubyxCube: I want a sweet robot arm! MarinoWool: She's been like this all afternoon. SchneetDreams: Ruby you can't just go chopping your arm off for no reason! Your body could reject the tech, or your neural implants could fail, and then you'd just be stuck with one arm forever. MarinoWool: Sorry, but I'm with Princess. I like you with all your limbs intact, Petal. RubyxCube: What if I get one with vibration? SchneetDreams: No! MarinoWool: Maybe we should hear her out? SchneetDreams: As CEO of the company, I know for a fact that that functionality is just a gimmick. It's not worth maiming our girlfriend! MarinoWool: Well then perhaps, as CEO of the company, you'd care to back up that statement with actual figures? In person? SchneetDreams: Fine. I'll finish up here and meet you both in an hour at the usual cafe for dinner. RubyxCube: But what about my cool arm? MarinoWool: Who cares about that? I just scored us an impromptu date night. RubyxCube: ...Fair enough. Let's go!

#rwby #whiterose #death's whiterose #cyberpunk-light mercenary au #I went for the low-hanging fruit #But also kind of subverted it?

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#the punisher #frank castle #mercenary #vigilante #thunderbolts #marvel comics #marvel #punishment #death #the reaper

[skelelephant]

john lynch in armour save me…

john lynch in armour…

save me john lynch in armour…

#I’ve been thinking about wolfstan all goddamn day #in between being absolutely fucking miserable #i think he was in love with griff #they were in the army together. they fought side by side. they deserted together #they became MERCENARIES together #and [SPOILERS FOR THE BLACK DEATH 2010] #GRIFF SAID HE WAS GLAD IT WAS WOLFSTAN WHO KILLED HIM #LISTEN. LISTEN TO ME #GRIFF WAS GOING TO EMBRACE HIM WHEN WOLFSTAN STABBED HIM #GRIFF WRAPPED HIS ARMS AROUND WOLFSTAN AND THEY FELL TOGETHER AS GRIFF DIED #I’m sorry I’m having a moment #I’ve been drawing him all night #sun in an empty room

[hamartia-grander]

I wanna make a poll asking who people think the most tragic resident evil character is (cause I've seen many takes) but I just know that no matter how tragic of a female character I add, the male characters will get all of the votes and I don't feel like giving this fandom's misogyny yet another outlet. So I'll just tell you straight up, resident evil has TONS of tragic characters and there's genuinely no correct way of identifying who is the most tragic character, outside of subjective opinion; and what you personally find to be the most tragic could seem the opposite to someone else.

#Personally I find Ada Wong to be the most tragic character just because she's the only character that other characters never truly see #Her entire narrative existence was at first only to serve Leon's character and now that she has significant & great writing and development #She's still discarded by many characters but esp Leon as a heartless mercenary. And the only character who ever understood her (Luis) died #Not to mention the toxic abusive hold wesker has over her and the many hardships she's faced in her work and in saving Leon #But like there are tons of tragic characters and our perceptions WILL be swayed by character favouritism #Characters don't have to die to be tragic. In resident evil. death is often the easy way out #resident evil #resident evil analysis #Ada Wong #Luis Serra #leon kennedy #Ethan Winters #Jill Valentine #Mia Winters #Resident evil 4 #Resident evil village #Resident evil 2

[ardentpoop]

anyway s2 will always have a place in my heart

#spn #unironically they were the blueprint #irreparable damage to my psyche #husband and wife who grew up under the thumb of a mercenary with nobody but each other for comfort and are committed to a life of murder #on the run from the law together with identities they wear and shed on a whim twisted up by grief over their upbringing #trailing blood everywhere they go deeply unpalatable to most people they stick around long enough to get to know #at the heart of a brewing war that threatens to rip them away from each other but the concept is unfathomable so everything else can burn #both of them fighting the seductive pull of the dark bc letting it consume them would be easier than living thru this shit #also ash and jo are there sometimes :3 #but i got so tired at the end of AHBL 2 when theyre having that convo abt dean's deal LMAO #like can both of u die together and leave the world alone already (my brain flitted thru 8 consecutive seasons of melodrama and the #100+ deaths therein) #tag vomit