#Outlived her Brother

[spotlightstudios]

Redesigning B.G. loosely from this lq gif I made a few years back:

She's a lil disproportionate, but that's why I love her ♡ true to form Undertale-inspired, the design doesn't have to be comprehensive, they just gotta be interpreted in a cool way!

#light's spot #oc #my art #wip #sketch #B.G. Sans #B.G. #bg is one of my favorite old ocs #she's a war survivor #a Cool Aunt #a Magic/Mystic to contrast her Science/Logic brother #she's Blind and has Prophetic Visions #and while fleshing out her story I realized she's 100% Trans #so bonus backstory issues that fill out a ton of plot holes! #She's my faborite ♡ #favorite details: #Outlived her Brother #Shot Dead by a kid in a Cowboy Costume #Entered the Multiverse #has two children named after Music Clefs (Tenor and Treble) #who she forgets about a lot #but still loves

[zukkaoru]

sorry i'm thinking abt megumi's incessant desire to be the first to die vs. the narrative keeping him alive despite and how the most tragic ending for him is not actually dying, but being left behind. for megumi, the worst fate is living a long life

#megumi growing up assuming he will be the first to die out of those he loves #bc gojo is the Strongest and tsumiki is a non-sorcerer so they should both be Safe while megumi is just. megumi #vs megumi at 15 having lost tsumiki gojo nobara nanami etc etc and knowing it's only a matter of time before he loses yuuji too #megumi not knowing how to be the survivor because he never thought he'd live long enough to have to say goodbye #also sometimes i think abt that post that was like... remember in thg how katniss' motivation for Everything is saving prim? #and then prim still died at the end because the world they lived in could not allow someone so good to live? it could not allow #katniss the One thing she wanted most #yeah so like. everything megumi is doing and has done has been for tsumiki. it's all been for her #but the world they live in is cruel and tsumiki is too good of a person #and when has megumi ever been granted anything he's wanted? why should the world allow him his one biggest desire of tsumiki's safety? #and what is megumi supposed to do when he outlives the one person who has been by his side - the one person he wanted most to save #how is he supposed to live a long life when everyone he cares about is gone? how is he supposed to care about new people? #what's that one quote that's like. a son or a husband can be replaced but who can grow me a new brother #no one can replace tsumiki. megumi cannot find a new sister #yes losing gojo and yuuji would be devastating. but at the end of the day megumi has known yuuji for only a few months #and gojo was already a replacement for his father #tsumiki has been with him longest and she's always been megumi's main motivation #she's the reason he didn't go to the zenin clan. she's the reason he was trained by gojo. she's the reason they're all in the culling games #trying to fix it from the inside and running on a time limit #and what happens if he CAN'T save her. what happens if. like katniss and prim. despite EVERYTHING. tsumiki still has to die #THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF TSUMIKI #BECAUSE MEGUMI WANTS TO SAVE HER #DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRAGEDY IN BEING ALIVE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #sorry i'm not normal about fictional sibling dynamics. btw if you even care #hello grace here #jjk spoilers #update i just realized it's not even 7am. as you can tell i'm having a great time today

[bibxrbie]

Sometimes, I really want an animated show about the OT characters. Their adventures, serious and silly, as they become friends and family long before Luke and Leia discover that they're siblings. Stories about Leia struggling with going from princess to general. Luke struggling with being a Jedi and a commander. The Rogue Squadron and their adventures. Han and Chewie barely keeping up with the Space Twin shenanigans.

But, then I remember how each of these characters were treated in the Sequel Trilogy, and I realise that it doesn't matter. No amount of stories about them will change the fact that they all die alone away from each other, that they gave up their childhood, their homes, themselves to the safety of the galaxy and that none of it ever mattered. And I can't enjoy canon stories about them because it won't change their ending, and I can't forget that.

#sequel trilogy #this is not really anti sequel trilogy because i dont hate it but i really dislike how the OT characters were portrayed #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #chewbacca #lando calrissian #they ALL deseved better #i have to live in a worls where Luke abandoned his sister and i just refuse to believe he would do that #the fact that they made Leia wait for Luke has sooo angry because she deserved better than to be abandoned by her brother and best friend #and do NOT get me started on the divorce!!! #pro jedi #we deserved to see Luke thriving as a Jedi because you know he would #we deserved to see Leia kick the Senate into a good working New Republic #Han should've been a house-husband and i stick by that #Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy deserved to outlive him #also i know the comics exist but they're barely considered canon unless the writer for a new live action SW project #wants to steal the comic writer's stories without compensation

[umberspore]

god... thinking about cobb choosing to sacrifice himself to save hardwon.... did he wonder if he'd see marabelle again? did he regret not getting to say goodbye to jolene one last time?

thinking about jolene back at the crick, taking care of everyone. did she feel it when cobb died? her oldest friend? her brother? or did she find out when hardwon came back heartbroken and desperate?

#dont think about how of all the bahumia trios the crick trio is the only one to have a single survivor #im UNWELL #naddpod #jolene outliving her sister and brother and at least one of her children #looking down the barrel of 7000 years of life and all the people shell lose along the way....

[rainedroptalks]

My brothers been showing me Invincible for the past few days and I just finished s1 and words cannot even begin to describe how much rage I felt watching that episode

#ramblings #it was good! #I have never wanted to murder a man this much #like it’s insane how much I want that fucker dead #imagine talking about your wife (who you will outlive) AND SAYING THAT YOU SEE HER AS MORE OF A PET THAN A PERSON #I was yelling at the screen I was going through every stage of grief at once #gnawing at the bars of my cage I’m livid #also #my brother accidentally showed me atom eve’s prequel episode first so I incorrectly assumed she was gonna be the main character. I was wrong #in a better world she’s the main character #anyway the animation is super cool I like it #I just don’t care much for the romantic subplots #like. I don’t CARE if Mark and Amber are arguing again there’s MURDERS happening!!! #and I can feel a creeping dread that Mark and Eve are gonna get romantically involved and it sucks cuz I do not see it #girl why do you like this guy. I just wanna know

[thatscarletflycatcher]

If Percival and Nadine was to have a contemporary ya romance name (the typical of non-fantasy, non-myth retelling, non-spec novels, I mean), it would have to be something involving a metaphor of light.

That dark neo-noir radio drama starring David Morrissey (it IS really dark. The lengths I'll go to just hear the interpretative power of his voice. Anyways), called Don't Hold Back the Light keeps coming to mind again and again. The imagery of dawn and sunrise keeps coming to me, in part through the songs I feel fit the story in partial ways (Keane's Bend and Break, Rick Astley's Rise Up, James Blunt's Bonfire Heart, even the melody of Lionel Ritchie's Stuck on You), but also because it feels thematically pertinent.

Both find themselves in night, not only in the despair, and tiredness, and hurt and brokenness, but on the idea that they had their day in the Sun, as life is metaphorically a day, and that it is over, and yet they linger. BUT where they are at the beginning, the idea of a new day sounds scary. And exhausting. There's a sliver of hope deep, deep down, like a candle on a window in a faraway house in the middle of nowhere. But for the most part, they'd like to hold it back if they could. And yet that feels wrong to them.

#look I'm not saying the idea or the imagery aren't like... extremely common #but they feel fitting #have been thinking about this within the frame of It's a Beautiful Life #Nadine is a bit like Mary in the way that she had a dream and a goal and she was laser focused on achieving it #but in her case it all went wrong really fast so what now? #Unlike George Percival has no sense that he has done more damage than good #he was a good son! he made his parents happy! but they are dead #he was a good brother! but his sister is married well cared for and far away #as the heir of Avensley? well does that mean anything at this point? it was already a dying relic by the time his father inherited it #he thinks himself too broken in mind and body to be a good husband and father in the future #sure there's a death of his own professional dreams #but they aren't renunciations from his pov #the alternate good was such a clear direct personal duty that it isn't like there was an alternative for him #not to count the things prevented by things completely outside his control like war #he's passively suicidal because he thinks of himself as just having outlived his usefulness #so anyways it is all about new beginnings and therefore naturally about dawn and light #incidentally I have been obsessed ever since I watched The Lake House with the idea of Architecture being tied to light #and the concept of a LI that is an architect which is such an unexplored concept? #and I feel it is very interesting in terms of how precision and the mastery over force are crucial to i #but also the idea of the builder of home and shelter #unfortunately it has made me realize the unintended implication that James as an aviator destroys shelter #and Percival as an architect builds them #which cannot be helped at this point but is definitely not a sort of love triangle thing #James was essentially a good man in his time and place and not a bad husband for how long their marriage lasted

[heyclickadee]

I really hope Omega gets to meet Kix someday. I think it would do both of them some good to know that they’re not alone.

#omega bad batch #clone medic kix #she’d be older but she’d probably live long enough to meet him #because she’s only be in her late 50’s/early 60’s by that point #she’s going to outlive her brothers no matter what happens #and would even if they found a way to counteract the advanced aging #though I hope (and suspect) it’ll be after they all get to live long happy lives #and maybe she’ll even have a few smaller cousins running around who knows #but I still hope she gets to meet Kix #and that Kix gets to meet her

[herawell]

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#went down a rabbit hole researching Martin Luther king jr #and found out that a year after he was assassinated #his brother drowned in his backyard pool #and 6 years later #their mother was also assassinated #in her church by a black man #who despised them bc of their Christian faith #how the fuck have I NEVER known this #also what’s v interesting is his widow (coretta Scott king) #supported gay rights and abortion rights #meanwhile his niece (one of his brother’s daughters) #who later became a representative #disagreed with her aunt about those topics and is a trump supporter #plus 3 of mlk’s nieces/nephews (his brother’s kids) died of heart related conditions #including a 20yo niece who died of a heart attack while jogging #mlk sr outlived his wife and both his sons #and one of his granddaughters #mlk jr had four kids #and only one of them ever had kids #his only grandchild is about 14 rn #well actually 15 #mlk iii had her at age 51 #she was named after her aunt #mlk’s oldest child who had died the year before #the year previously Coretta had died #mother and daughter died only one year apart #and Coretta never got to meet her grandchild #Alia talks

[kingroan]

i don’t trust a single person who reacts negatively to max confessing she wished billy (her abuser) would die and hesitated to help save him because she wasn’t sure he (violent bully and racist) deserved to live 

#max mayfield #stranger things #stranger things spoilers #billy hargrove #as someone who was abused by their brother too as a kid um #y'all sure show your asses with characters like these and how you react to the abuse survivors #y'all are weird #even if y'all had valid reasons for seeing him in a positive light #being mad that the writers had her confess to something that is very common #and very real #for so many abuse victims #esp those who outlive their abusers #rly jus tproving y'all are not safe to be around

[nostalgia-tblr]

I realised that the 10k words that I currently have is likely a much smaller fraction of the hypothetical completed work than I thought it was going to be and I told myself I shouldn't take anything out because it all seems to be fitting together fairly neatly BUT I am def starting to have my doubts about the value of "the scene where the two male characters discuss whether the female character (who is not in this scene) should be breastfeeding the baby that she just had with one of those men (but she's been passing it off as the other one's)" because WTF that sounds AWFUL and I think I only put it in there because I was all YAY I'M JUST GONNA WRITE ABOUT MEDIEVAL QUEENS (KIND OF!!!) and there was that whole Thing in monarchies where you have to get a wetnurse in because breastfeeding reduces fertility and your shitty husband needs AT LEAST another couple of boys what with infant mortality being what it was in them days. And for some reason (probably sleep-deprivation TBQH) I at some point thought that it wouid be a good thing to put into an MCU fic???

#wip tag #now that i type this out it has become both worse AND funnier to me so who knows what i will decide to do with it in the end #i also remembered that this entire adventure into whatever the heck i am actually making now is because i realised that two famous queens #i forget which ones OBVIOUSLY #were famous for pulling off the same feat #which is 1) pop out at least one boy #2) outlive your shitty husband #and 3) your child-king son is now basically your talking puppet and you run a country now you go girl yas queen slay etc etc etc #i think one might have been catherine di medici? and... possibly margaret beaufort? (i know henry wasn't a kid at the time but yk) #POSSIBLY one was Empress Cixi? aka the one non-European more-or-less-queen that I know anything about #but anyway yes the trick here is to have a royal son and then refuse to ever die #elizabeth woodville has to be an Honourary Mention because she COULD have done it as well #had her brother-in-law not realised she was about to do that and kidnapped usurped and then probably-murdered the boy in question #Henry VIII's famous gang of queens all failed to meet at least one of the requirements :( #anyway hello some years ago i started reading books about famous dead queens and now what have i become??? #BTW monarchies are a terrible idea #just scrolled up to see wtf i am typing this stuff under oh yeah it's the post about the lactation debate scene oh noooo #gonna... gonna hit post now while i still can #the Sylki AU that got longer and wronger

[screechthemighty]

HEY I READ THE TESLA CHAPTER -

#I'm furious I'm livid I know she's not real but!!!!!!! #SHIT guys!!!! #NOT EVEN A YEAR...HER BROTHERS HAD ALREADY OUTLIVED HER BY THE TIME THEY FOUND HER...ARREGGFHHH #screech reads trimax

[lenjaminmacbuttons]

#this post brought to you by a) my brother's play a while ago where the eldest sibling was slowly dying of pneumonia and the littluns had to #work harder on the farm n stuff #and b) the discovery recently that my great-great-grandmother outlived ALL of her FIVE younger siblings #and im like. if i were in the position of either of these older siblings. i dunno #i dunno if id be able to handle either #talkyllama

[navree]

enough last century bc media focusing on antony and cleopatra's relationship, more about the entanglements between cleopatra, octavian, and herod as unlikely rulers at the cusp of monumental change

#personal #like cleopatra had older sisters as well as brothers so i don't imagine there was much thought #that she'd be queen let alone a ruler in her own right like after she had her siblings killed #herod i know had an older brother and judea was going through a lot of turmoil around that time #so whether he'd live at all let alone outlive his brother and rule was certainly up for debate #and octavian as we all know while not an unexpected heir due to him and caesar being quite close #inherited at a very young age and rose through the ranks surprisingly quickly to other romans #plus they all knew each other #judea and egypt were allies for a while (including during actium) #herod and octavian were friends #octavian and cleopatra absolutely met each other before caesar's death when she was in rome and more stuff needs to be done with that #like seriously more of this #less of antony spreading his stupidity to cleopatra like an std

[fangirlsurpreme]

Do you guys ever think,

when Percy dies, Grover will die at the same time. But unlike the others, they'll never be reunited in Elysium because Grover's a satyr who never get into Elysium, they turn into a tree.

And, if Annabeth is outlives Percy, she won't just grieve the love of her life but one of her best friends as well, one of the first people who believed in her, outside of luke and thalia.

One more thing, When Percy dies at least Annabeth will know she gets to see him again in Elysium but she'll also have to live with the knowledge that she'll never see Grover again even in death.

And if you don't want to think abt this, then:

Then don't think about her throwing away the collection of tin cans she and Percy probably kept for Grover.

Don't think about her using something from a tin can and thinking "I'll save this for Grover" and then realizing she'll never get to give it to him.

Don't think about her never being able to eat blue food or enchiladas again.

Don't think about her and Juniper holding each other and crying.

Don't think about Juniper momentarily hating Annabeth for getting to see her husband after she dies before forgetting all about her anger because they both lost their loves, damn it!

Don't think about Annabeth "Always Six Foot Ahead" Chase knowing death is approaching and making a list of what she wants to be burnt with so that she can give them to everyone who she has ever cared about. Adding "Tin Cans and Enchiladas" in the list before breaking down again.

Don't think abt Percy reaching Elysium, being greeted by all of his friends, looking around for grover before registering why he wasn't there.

Don't think about him mourning his best friend, his brother even when in Eternal Paradise.

Don't think about it.

#percy jackson #percabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #grover underwood #juniper #annabeth chase #annabeth pjo #percy jackson series #pjo #I got sad thinking about it now everyone has to suffer with me #I might right a fic with the same premise if I have time and motivation

[snarltoothed]

so. not to just blog about things instead of getting therapy… but i think i may have acquired a bit more trauma regarding exposure to serious illness and death at a young age than i typically tend to consciously acknowledge or consider.

#although… idk i mean i dont think there’s anything to fix that #to witness people waste away from disease is inherently traumatic #to lose a loved one is inherently traumatic. #and i mean it isn’t something that one has to deal with on a daily basis whatsoever #like yeah — i am terrified for when time comes for my mother. for my pets… #but those are normal fears to have regarding aging parents and pets. it is going to hurt when it happens and it is going to happen. #and thankfully my mother outlived her brother and more recently made it past the age her sister got cancer… #so i just count my blessings there that i haven’t had to worry beyond a hypothetical standpoint thus far #my cousins can’t say the same. #but yeah idk. maybe that’s a bit of why i’ve always been a bit of a serious person. i can get silly… but idk. #i have a lot of consideration for the gravity of things generally speaking…

[abysswatchers420]

its a fucked feeling to be here w dad while having his will in my purse, gotta find a notary

#its also fucked that if he dies before grandma then Her will states that me and my brother get everything 😬 #if grandma outlives her own son ill kms