#HE WANTS TO BE A SOLDIER IF HE SURVIVES!!!!! IF!!!! IF?!!!?????! IF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ominouspuff]

No Man Left Behind / Something Worth Dying For

REQUESTS / BLOG EVENT

Request from @razzbberry - Palette #1 - Alpha-17, Cody - Death of the Cynic in Me

Notes and close-ups beneath the cut!

Notes: I think Seventeen would, both subconsciously and consciously, keep his cynicism as long as possible. It’s how he thinks the world works, but it’s also a survival tool. It’d be a very, very slow death.

It’s put to the test with Cody — not because Cody is special among his fellow clones, but because he’s one of the first that bothers to fight Seventeen on his own terms. The argument is always the same. Cody wants to talk about what he hopes to be, someday, after he is a soldier. Seventeen thinks he’s stupid to think that’s possible, or that he’d be capable. Cody knows it, and he, might not be. Seventeen thinks it’s even more stupid, in that case; what a waste of energy.

It develops. When they’re older, and in the thick of war, one day Cody risks his life for the chance to save a brother that was going to die anyway. Seventeen yells at him for fifteen minutes once he’s conscious about luck and stupidity and the trouble it’s causing Seventeen and the false hope it’s engendering in others. Cody says he can disagree all he likes, but he doesn’t give a fig, respectfully. Seventeen thinks Cody can go try to get blown up again, if he thinks so.

There’s no point fighting for a better tomorrow; they’re bought and paid for to fight for something else, FOR someone else. Seventeen is prepared for being fodder, as a result. He’s prepared for unfairness and the bleak life that they’re living. Instead he watches as Cody defeats odds time and time again, somehow managing to balance being an exceptional military leader with a secondary war to live for something more, running himself ragged and — inexplicably — gaining ground. Each of those little victories are a little death for Seventeen’s cynicism; a chipping away. A little seed of Cody’s brand of hope takes root, awkward and begrudging, fond and tentative.

Then Order 66 happens. Cody’s efforts for a better life are in vain, and Cody himself-

Cody may never know that Seventeen was right abut just how helpless they were. Now he only knows that Seventeen is a traitor, apparently, because Seventeen — for once in his life — was the lucky one and his chip malfunctioned.

And Seventeen could say ‘I told you so’. He could rest, vindicated and resigned, in the fact that every dream Cody built up and everything he thought was worth dying for is pointless, now — as he always suspected it would be.

But it isn’t fair, even by Seventeen’s standards.

“What are you doing,” Rex will rasp, caught in a strange role reversal as Seventeen paints an armor set with Cody’s golden colors. “He’s not coming back, Seventeen. He can’t. It’s pointless to keep going after him, you need to stop.”

“No,” Seventeen will answer, unbothered, “I don’t think I will.”

“We can’t — we can’t keep hoping,” Rex says, because he means he will probably have a breakdown if he imagines there is even a pitiful possibility he could save his brothers and then have to turn away from that scrappy chance for the greater good and Rebellion, and all that. “We’ve got to move on.”

“Go on.” Seventeen will invite sincerely, one brow raised because he knows Rex better than that.

“Do you want him to shoot you?” Rex will finally yell, all knotted up at the thought of losing Seventeen too, even though it’s funny because Seventeen was never kind to Rex.

“He can try,” Seventeen will say, touching up the last of the paint. He will stand, wiping his fingers, and pick up his pack. “See you when we get back, then.”

Alt version:

#artists on tumblr #fan art #star wars fanart #star wars: the clone wars #commander cody #alpha 17 #Interactive Art Week March 2024 #Palette Challenge #Alpha-17: Life sucks and it always does you dirty #Alpha-17 @ Order-66: …Well that was just UNNECCESSARY #Kinda offended kinda inspired to pitch in and maybe die just like normal but this time with Personal Investment #Normal people: I came for you [relieving/sounds like a promise of loyalty and dedication] #Alpha-17: I came for you [Grim Reaper Vibes] #It’s just his attitude but he means it well

[scoonsalicious]

Unwanted: Chapter 30, Epilogue - Pt. 1

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Fem!Reader

Summary: When your FWB relationship with your best friend Bucky Barnes turns into something more, you couldn’t be happier. That is, however, until a new Avenger sets her sights on your super soldier and he inadvertently breaks your heart. You take on a mission you might not be prepared for to put some distance between the two of you and open yourself up to past traumas. Too bad the only one who can help you heal is the one person you can no longer trust.

Warnings: (For this part only; see Story Masterlist for general Warnings) Language,

Word Count: 634

Previously On...: You and Bucky are probably going to be okay.

A/N: IT'S OUT EARLY!

This is it! The last chapter! OMG!

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10 Months Later

“I refuse to accept this.”

“Well, unfortunately, Boss, it’s my decision to make, not yours,” you told Tony as you finished stacking up the last of your moving boxes. Sixteen years– almost half of your life, now condensed into neat stacks of cardboard, waiting to be loaded into the van that was waiting downstairs.

“What the hell am I supposed to do without you?” Tony asked, dramatically flinging himself on your now bare mattress. “How am I supposed to survive?”

You rolled your eyes at him. “It’s not like you won’t see me every fucking day, dude,” you admonished him. “I still work here, for fucks’ sake. Besides, you refused to let your realtor show me any place you couldn’t see from your terrace.”

“I thought it would be nice if we could wave to each other during breakfast,” he said, his face drawn into a pout now, “that’s all.”

You sat down next to him and put a gentle hand on his shoulder. “It’s time to cut the umbilical cord, Tony,” you said. 

“But you’re still such a kiddo, Kiddo,” he sighed.

“I meant your umbilical cord, Boss,” you laughed. “And who knows? Maybe I’ll try it for a year or two, figure out I absolutely hate it, and come crawling back, begging for my old room.”

“Don’t press your luck,” Tony said, sitting back up. “I’ll probably turn it into a sauna, or an indoor golf simulator as soon as you walk out that door.”

“Ah, there’s the Tony I know and tolerate,” you said with a smile.

“I’m just going to miss having you around,” he said, his voice now laced with sadness. “Sixteen years together– probably the longest stable relationship I’ve ever had. It’s not going to be the same around here without you.”

“I know,” you sighed. “I’m going to miss you, too. But you know I need this. After everything that happened last year with Carthage, and Barnes… me spiraling, losing a baby I didn’t even know about, getting shot, and the… complications; all that shit with Steve. I just think I need a fresh start, some place where I’m not reminded of her every time I walk around a corner. It’s the only way I’m going to truly heal.”

“I told you I’d move you to another floor. Hell, I’ll tear down the entire Tower and start from scratch. We can build a whole new compound Upstate or something. You’d never have to set foot in this hallway again,” he said. And you knew he was telling the truth– there was little Tony wouldn’t do to ensure you were comfortable in your old home, but you couldn’t rely on him forever.

“You’ve saved me so many times already, Boss,” you said, looking back at him fondly, “and you know I’m always going to be thankful for that. But it’s time I started working on saving myself.”

“Well, when you make it sound all empowering and shit,” he began, “I start to feel like a dick for protesting.”

You laughed as your phone beeped. Looking at the message, you told him: “Movers are on the way up. I guess this is really it.” You both stood and embraced, Tony leaning down to speak softly in your ear.

“You know you always have a home here, Kiddo,” he said. “Whenever you need it. Even if it’s just for a night, or if you decide you want to come back for good. Door’s always open.”

“And even if it’s not,” you said as the two of you broke away from one another, “I can always hack the system to break myself in.”

“I’ll have you arrested for trespassing.”

“You think Mr. Mitchell’s still practicing law?” you asked with a grin. “I can definitely afford to have him represent me, now.”

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#bucky barnes x reader #bucky barnes x you #bucky barnes x y/n #bucky x you #bucky x reader #bucky fanfic #bucky barnes #bucky barnes fanfic #bucky x female reader #bucky barnes fic #bucky barnes fanfiction #james bucky buchanan barnes #james buchanan barnes #mcu bucky barnes #james barnes

[apas-75]

So last night I finished reading Rise of the Red Blade for TotE Vibes Research purposes and the two Inquisitor characters in it really illustrate exactly why I think Barriss is going to survive and escape them.

Because the thing is that there are two kinds of Inquisitors! The ones who volunteered, and the ones who...didn’t. Iskat (RotRB’s focus character) perfectly exemplifies the first type: she had some traumatizing experiences at a young age, fell through a number of institutional cracks in the Order, had a really terrible master (meet me in the pit, Sember Vey), everyone was too busy to give her the follow-up they would under normal circumstances, Palpatine had an agent actively gathering information about her and pushing her to become Worse—she was a pre-selected candidate who was offered the choice to come quietly when Order 66 hit, and she took it. By that point all of her issues and doubts had been exacerbated to the point where it wasn’t hard for her to make herself hate the Jedi, and then she rationalized her way through any indication that her freedom was a lie and doubled her way down right into hell.

By contrast: Tualon, Iskat’s crechemate situationship guy. He had some issues but was not someone on Palpatine’s radar; Iskat left him to die in Order 66 and he survived getting shot by darksiding out about her betrayal. Because of that he was taken alive and they did some shit to him. When Iskat runs into him at the Inquisitor HQ after he’s freshly-inducted he can barely remember why he hates her, or anything else from before he was taken. He woke up in the room where you fight Trilla and they fully shattered him and glued a semblance of a person back together out of the wreckage, just COMPLETELY Winter Soldiered the guy, and the only way he had to cope with it is to lean into a weird codependent situationship with Iskat.

And that distinction’s always been there with the Inquisitors; you have the true believers who ended up hating the Jedi or wanted to go on a power trip (or had the kind of revenge plan only a 12 year old could come up with and then stick to for a decade, in one case) and didn’t need any additional coercion to volunteer, and you have the ones that they broke. In the former group you’ve got the Grand Inquisitor, Reva/Third, Lyn/Fourth*, Fifth, and Iskat/Thirteenth. For the most part they’re certified freaks, but they came by it naturally. (Reva’s a different flavor.) In the latter, you’ve got Trilla/Second, Seventh, Masana/Ninth, Tualon, and probably most of the others. They all got disassembled and reassembled without much care given to the process and are all Coping with it badly in different ways, whether by deciding it’s Empowering, Actually (Trilla & Seventh) or by becoming completely jaded about everything (Masana & Tualon).

(*We obviously don’t know a lot about Fourth yet, but the fact that she shows up to recruit Barriss while rocking yellow dark side eyes before ROTS is even over tells me she’s definitely a volunteer.)

All this is to say: The Grand Inquisitor is making a colossal mistake with Barriss from the drop, and it’s why I think she’s going to win their battle of wits and escape. Because he is treating her like she is an Iskat and she could not be any farther from it.

He sends Lyn to get her to come quietly! They actively withhold information from her about what happened to the Jedi and what her expected role in it is! That’s not how they recruit the ones they think will be a problem; if that were the case she would have been stunned out of hand and woken up on a rack.

Instead, he’s giving her special attention,, he’s training her—he doesn’t think they need to break her. She’s just got a few...pesky hang-ups from her time as a Jedi that need ironing out**. He’s projecting on her; he doesn’t just want an empty shell holding a lightsaber—he wants Barriss Offee, loyally kneeling at his side, fully believing in their mission. She’s his favorite.

(**That “mercy only breeds defeat” line isn’t just a generic darksidism; I’m pretty sure he’s directly critiquing how Barriss got caught because she showed mercy to Asajj Ventress.)

And surely that's something he can turn her into, right? Because she hates the Jedi, right? She attacked them, she outsmarted them, obviously she’d be down for wanting to wipe them out! He was there when she confessed and, like pretty much everyone else in the room save for Ahsoka, he didn’t hear a single word that she said—just what he wanted her to be saying. He’s got a deeply incorrect idea of her, and that idea is “she’s just like me for real.”

And he’s wrong, because the Inquisitorius is everything she feared the Jedi Order was becoming—literally, an army fighting for the dark side—and the Empire is everything she knew the Republic was becoming. She might be prone to despairing, it might in some hypothetical be possible to get her into the same resigned despair trap as Anakin, but she would never actually want to serve the Empire, and they don't think they'll have to try hard to convince her to.

She loves the Jedi, she loved being a Jedi, she wanted to save them. She wants to be one again more than anything even though right now she thinks she doesn’t deserve it, thinks that she’s already too broken to reclaim what she was. But I think being surrounded by actual fallen Jedi and being told over and over again that she’s like them is, in the end, going to be what reminds her that she never stopped being a Jedi in the first place.

And as long as she can make sure her captors don't realize that's true until it's too late, she'll be home free.

#barriss offee #grand inquisitor #inquisitorius #tales of the empire #tote #star wars #they're gonna make her use the dark side and they're gonna make her do some stuff it'll be hard for her to live with #and she might give up hope for a minute #but I believe in her #she's gonna make it #the only way out is through

[p4nishers]

starting a support group for everyone who felt personally victimized by tiny nobby nobbs in night watch

#HIS DAD USED TO BREAK HIS AMRS?? KEEL GAVE HIM A SPOON THIRTY YEARS AGO AND HE STILL TALKS ABOUT IT!! HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO WARN VIMES OF #HIS MURDER!! HIS DAD WAS ONCE SOBER FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS AND CARVED HIM A SOLDIER TOY!!! HE CRIED WHEN THE MAJOR CALLED HIM A TRAITOR TO ANKH #MORPORK BC HE IS A MORPORKIAN BOY GODDAMNIT!!! HE CARVED HIMSELF HIS OWN BADGE FROM SOAP!! HE!!!!!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!! #i need to be institutionalized #nobby nobbs #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #night watch #HE WANTS TO BE A SOLDIER IF HE SURVIVES!!!!! IF!!!! IF?!!!?????! IF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #HES LIKE FUCKING 8 YEARS OLD WHAT THE FUCK

[altocat]

Every time I see a Nibelheim argument that boils down to "Sephiroth did the thing because his ego/pride was shattered" I want to rip my hair out.

#ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #crisis core #sephcanons #sephiroth #nibelheim incident #Like okay that is a teeny tiny component but it was NOT the overriding factor #It's so much more than that #Sephiroth doesn't go insane because he thought he was better than everyone else and the truth called that into question #He goes insane because he correctly discerns that he was a lab-grown inhuman soldier being exploited by the company that raised him #AND it makes sense for him to go to Jenova--he feels he was wronged and the thing with the Cetra only adds to that. #Jenova is the only person that can understand him and the only thing he ever wanted #Plus you know he was extremely mentally unwell #so there's that too #Lost pride is only a fraction of Sephiroth's motivations #It's a matter of dehumanization and years of trauma finally taking their toll #He is delusional about his place in the world because it's all he has to cling to #the alternative is to die #Sephiroth has been taught survival all his life and THIS is how his mind rationalizes he will survive

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

more historical fiction needs to be set in ww1. bonus points if you fag it up

#every time i check historical fiction books its like the year: 1943 and like OK geez #either ww2 era or like the 60s or 20s or some shit #can i PLEASE get a story set in the goddamn trenches of verdun thats mean and nasty about killing characters #sorry theres no easy “bad side” in that war ?? make the bad side the governments cuz thats what it was #my god. can i read about our protag watching some guy die horrifically from a gas attack #and then fuck one of the other soldiers to find any form of intimacy+comfort #read one book set in ww1 but it focused mainly on the russian revolution. still a good one i love u martha hall kelly #but they made this one random dude enlist in the air force and i was SURE he was dead walking corpse u know #but he SURVIVED i was mad. kill this bitch #pilots at a certain point in the war i wanna say 15-16 had such short life expectancies KILL HIM !!!!! #anyway if u have recommendations of queer ass ww1 books i will take them please and thank u #dont even have to be queer just want some all quiet on the western front type shit

[miraluking-respectfully]

felix being referred to more or less exclusively as "your soldier" in-game speaks to how little the writers put into his character beyond his noggin full of sith secrets & his relationship with the consular; still, i do find it kind of sweet and funny, in a way. he's not a republic soldier, not even your personal bodyguard; he's your soldier. the consular is a small nation-state in and of herself

#accurate. #felix iresso #swtor #jedi consular #open tags for My Rant: #going back through rishi and doing the cute little holocron quest got me brooding - as i often do - on my best boy felix #that the writers could not think to give him anything in KOTXX that wasn't Torture Angst is deeply shitty but a little understandable. #all the other consular comps kind of have a way forward that isn't consular-related when the consular goes away #nadia has the jedi. zenith has balmorra. tharan has his old illustrious career. qyzen has little baby clan and also his religious directive #meanwhile felix isn't involved with your order or a supergenius or a politician or even someone with a lifelong goal #he was a guy doing his best at a dead-end job that turned into a far more enjoyable but still lowkey dead-end job #i would argue they could (should) have sent him to ossus but i can see them balking because Doc was already there #that's a little narratively redundant especially bc Doc has an extremely useful set of non-martial skills you would want to center #when telling a story about survival and persistence against the odds like with ossus #(also he was in the group of companions second-closest in proximity to the emperor in base game) #HOWEVER. #because i am immensely sexy and cool and have a huge brain i think i've cracked it #the way to give felix a compelling story post-consular is to put him the fuck in charge. #no longer your soldier or anyone's. his own. maybe even in charge of a large group of people in need of someone to follow #considering he used to be really good at that #a group like...idk...maybe the rest of the people incarcerated on his prison colony? #much to think about.

[gideonisms]

See I think if I'd been born a guy I wouldn't be this pathologically avoidant trying to plan my career because there are plenty of situations you can find as a cis man where you just Do Tasks in awkward silence and you can get to those as a woman but you have to go through the rings of hell socializing first and then besides, a lot of those jobs already have so many men that you stand out when the whole point was you Don't want to do that

#you gotta be god's strongest soldier to survive this shit and i am not! i am god's weakest most pathetic soldier! #i survived five years of customer service crying weekly and getting harassed and being a baby about it #when i got promoted no one would listen to me and it made me constantly anxious and then so tired it took me a year to be able to #think about having a job as something remotely positive and stop crying about it #idk how other women are doing this shit a guy treats me like his sexy servant and i feel BAD and upset for years #and think of what he said 7 years later and they only touched me on the shoulder and made comments other people go through worse! #but i am not strong or determined i just want to go through my life in peace and stop talking to people altogether #it wasn't just guys who treated me badly older women made fun of me and called me lazy and stupid #tutoring was fine but i felt like i was putting on that same performance and at that point it all felt so awful i just. didn't want to #i can see no way out of talking to people for the rest of my life and it gets me down sometimes #i know i get to come home but even then i will probably need people to live with #i basically only like my family and close friends talking to me sometimes even that is hard #sometimes it's way easier to type and feels less awful #i think i have to just keep on keeping on until i can finally get good enough to freelance edit and code that's the only thing i can think #of doing that doesn't make me cry #emails are fine they suck but i don't have to control my face and tone so.

[cloverkingsmith]

Nita steeled herself, knowing that she was the final line of defense between Damnatio and hope.

Protect the witches and Finral. Buy them enough time to get Asta through the door of fate. Act as their shield if the other Bulls failed. That was it.

Nita’s fungi soldiers chanted behind her, ready. Spores poured off of them, creating a thick cloud of poisonous, paralyzing, sleep-inducing danger. She prayed it would be enough to slow him down.

Then, there was an explosion.

#black clover #black clover oc #amanita indigon #DO YOU KNOW HOW EMOTIONAL THIS PIECE MAKES ME FEEL #ITS JUST HER. JUST HER AND HER SOLDIERS #she was going to be fighting outside with magna nacht luck and the rest of them #but her specialty is defense so she’s better placed as guardian for the witches and finral #knowing how quickly he took out her other teammates who were working TOGETHER #and yet she stands alone and stands firm #extra weight added to the situation knowing finral is behind her #I like to think she put up a good fight before eventually getting atmosphere slashed like the rest of them #anyways go listen to Survive from Epic the Musical if you want to know what inspired this piece

[skelecasper]

nah cos botw is such a fucking tragedy like imagine: you're the hero, and your best friend's the hero too, and you're only kids; you're 12 when you become a knight, and you're 13 when you get the master sword, and vow to become the princess's protector. you're 14 when she starts to hate you, and 15 when you realise you love each other in the way that only people who've been through immense trauma together love each other. you hate her too, and you haven't said a word since you were 13. you're 16 when ganon begins his attack, violently murdering everyone you love, destroying your home. you're 17 when the princess you swore to protect uses her magic to preserve your body in a coma while it heals, and you're 17 when she uses the last of her energy to trap ganon within the castle with her, forcing her to fight him for 100 years until you wake up. you're 12 when the prophecy takes your voice, and you're 18 when you have nobody left to hear you.

#like bro was a CHILD SOLDIER #and he lost!! he lost!! #BC THEY WERE KIDS #THEY DIDNT WANT THIS #and he lost but he still survived #can u imagine how fucked up that woulf make him 😭😭 #link ily to death bb u deserve the world #someone just fucj up ganon PLSS #botw link #botw #botw headcanons #ig? #princess zelda #zelda botw

[tigorrrr]

Ughh I so desperately need an AU where Anfisa and Nari are baaack 😩

#those two were Nejteri's canon children in every fandom. sure there were some exceptions. but still #Anfisa the sunshine and Nari the brooding cloud #i think Czundaii wants sisters doesn't he *looks at him with begging eyes* #my dude that would be the only AU where yo mama may survive your birth so WORK WITH ME MAN DAMNT #Shao would be literally wanting to tear his head off bc of those two rascals #and Reiko would be the one taking their now and then cuz he always somehow ends up walking up on them causing/in the middle of trouble #Czundaii would be involved in the soldier stuff tho

[mwolf0epsilon]

Rex is the only successful prototype that resulted from an ill-conceived cloning project. Quite literally born to be able to shapeshift into a creature that deserves respect and consideration due to its immense power as an apex predator.

The Empire would very much like to have that project revived and perfected. And they've got millions of expendable test subjects with no free will to pick from to turn into something more useful. Who cares if a few clones are lost in the process if it means potential results?

#star wars #the clone wars #cabur kad'edee au #shapeshifter rex #captain rex #so uh about the last two posts... I've been setting this up :) #Vader told Palpatine about a loyal clone soldier that could turn into an unstoppable beast #and Palps decided he wanted that for his army #goes off and studies sith alchemy and the creation of sithspawn and then combines it with the Shifter Initiative's research #how many survive the process is... Unknown... but Rex is gonna have to figure out how to deal with that now!

[thedeathdeelers]

the line “i don’t care if heaven won’t take me back; i’ll throw away my faith babe just to keep you safe” is giving me juke vibes on this juke jeudi

#also ‘i want to live not just survive’ #very luke < #THEY SAY BEFORE U START A WAAAAR U BETTER KNOW WHAT YOURE FIGHTING FOREERE #if love is what you need a soldier i will beeeee #tbt listening to the cab #this album was such a bop #a lot of the songs give juke/luke vibes #as well as just the lead singer and the way he worships his wife basically it’s quite adorable #jatp #juke

[silverislander]

it's times like these i wish i could actually draw well bc i have MULTIPLE characters who would fit the barbie mugshot meme so well... ivara and min, cal and idgie, alice and benji...

#ivara and min esp bc they are Literally criminals. they did murder and space treason and are in space prison for it currently #(so's cal but she never got caught for her shit lmfaooo) #atom river TECHNICALLY didnt do anything but they did summon a demon and cheat at the battle of the bands. hashtag problematic faves #levi.txt #for reference: ivara (killswitch) is trying to pretend shes still a Good Soldier and is terrified shes lost her sense of self #min on the other hand hides in the ship vents for fun and tries to convince other convicts they can hear god. also really likes fireworks #like. she REALLY likes fireworks. as in shes not allowed to Have fireworks anymore legally #idgie (dnd side character) is a goody two shoes who helps her uncle out running the local temple #cal is a con artist by trade whos been poor her entire life. has run from guards more times than she can count + has A Nemesis in the guar #benji (atom river) might be in a punk band but hes such a normal dude. hes just a regular man hes just a nice guy he doesnt want this #alice is the reason its a punk band in the first place. thinks hair dye and doing her own piercings counts as therapy. drummer #alice is the reason atom river summoned a fucking demon together and benji is the ONLY reason they survived it #i know nobody cares abt them but me <3 idc tho theyre my sillies

[opaleyedprince]

OH i named my gojos as well hehe

#opal.txt #oc lore tag #nagisa and her pride and joy hokuto #nagisa inherited both clan techniques of course but everyone thought her child had not - and she was perfectly fine with that #she didn't want a child for a soldier she wanted a piece of family to call her own #not that hokuto's dad ISN'T in the picture i just think he's not a huge part of it. around but nagisa is doing the raising #nagisa is like i turned out fine and she doesn't trust anyone or anything apart from herself and her child #the classic i do what i want attitude combined with surviving for years despite special grade status and a healthy dose of paranoia #she keeps hokuto's own inheritance of the techniques under close wraps for as long as she can so she can train them #make sure NOBODY will be able to touch a single hair on their head #which is how you end up wiiiiith hokuto! who cares about nothing and no one after their backstory hits #nothing matters! six eyes is for cheating at poker. why fight wars they don't care about when nothing can touch them ever? #deadbeat sorcerer. they graduated and went 'my job here is done' and left

[stillthesunkenstars]

I'm so freaking mad about beyond yet again like in S8 enemy lines it ended with brax saying 'irving braxiatel is dead, king live irving braxiatel' signaling a change of identity under the same name yall know where else he did that shit?? BS s11 deindum war you CANNOT tell me this is not in reference to 'one man is all it takes [...] to become a symbol' (since s6 he had been using his own name to make up a perfect image that others can depend on, 100% efficient and ruthless to execute his visions, exactly what his younger self had feared to become and it all came crashing down in s11)

And in soldier obscura we got a fuckton of comparisons of brax to the daleks:

from him showing admiration to how they had altered their body to win the war: 'this is fascinating' in contrast to ace's 'what the hell had they done to themselves??' (reference to 4.3 annihilation much?),

to 'perhaps the dalek isn't dead, perhaps it fired one, last shot' when it's HIM firing it at Danna,

to Ace saying 'you're worse than the daleks' after taking a glimpse in brax's mind..

... Tim foley is clearly going somewhere with the dalek comparisons and if you remember that the dalek backed fifth axis are the ones who caused the first timeline shift in BS and basically led brax down his spiral,,, and the hinting of the continued theme of becoming what one hated the most to win the war BUT THEN beyond came along and destroyed brax's arc. Think about it. We could've had and they became monester 2

#braxiatel #irving braxiatel #gallifrey audios #ivq listens to bf #I want a canon brax body modification arc!! #like he is sick in the head enough to do anything to himself to win and survive I think #like the only difference from and they became monsters 1 to the enemy lines - soldier obscura arc #is that apparently he wants to survive now #which is great I support it man 🙏 #language cw #girl give me brax f7d rinmufication or give me death