#THEY ARE BOTH OBSESSED WITH REVENGE

[aparticularbandit]

meta i want to write but probably won't:

chloe is very clearly meant to be the dark parallel to kirika (most evident when we see kirika in true noir mode), but altena is meant to be the dark parallel to mireille.

(and altena's relationship with chloe is meant as a warped sort of parallel to mireille's relationship with kirika. altena pretends to love chloe, but if her hate can save quote is correct, she never truly loved her and only used her as a means to an end. mireille, from the beginning, intentionally said she was using kirika as a means to an end and pretended to hate her, but ended up truly loving her.)

...i could be so much more specific in meta but idk if i actually want to. write that essay.

#musings #noir 2001 #noir anime #noir #noir anime 2001 #mireille bouquet #kirika yuumura #yuumura kirika #LOOK I HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS ACTUALLY #LIKE I WAS SEEING IT AGAIN WITH MY DAD #because he hadn't seen it and it's my actual favorite anime and we were looking for something new to see don't judge me #AND WAS LIKE AH #I SEE #ALTENA IS A PARALLEL TO MIREILLE #THEY ARE BOTH OBSESSED WITH REVENGE #AFTER THEIR VERY TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD #AND WILL DO A LOT OF THINGS TO GET IT #so like #it's only now that i'm like 'oh wait actually the altena-chloe relationship is just a parallel to the mireille-kirika relationship' #like i have a lot of thoughts now i'm sorry

[me-and-my-hyperfixations]

I appreciate how many people are already assuming Taigen is going find a way to follow Mizu to London.

Because yeah, he is that obsessive and unhinged about Mizu.

He was probably on that ship in the last scene of season 1, just waiting there in the hull.

Or angrily hanging onto the stern, only slightly out of Mizu's peripheral vision.

#enemies to lovers but make them both revenge obsessed freaks #mizu x taigen #blue eye samurai #mizu #taigen #taizu

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Do you see my point

#theyre both so insane #their obsession w/ Tsurumi/Mikey has the same vibe #tokyo revengers #sanzu haruchiyo #golden kamuy #usami tokishige

[batcavescolony]

S5 E12 (911 first watch through)

I can't get the idea of a Ghost Whisper/911 crossover where Melinda Gordon is in Boston (idk, finding antiques) at the same time Maddie is there for therapy. A young ghost follows Melinda but isn't doing anything but watching over her. She asks him if he needs help, and he's even more confused because his sister has never seen him before! Eventually he gets that she's not his sister, and as nice as it sounds, Daniel doesn't want to crossover yet. He's got a job to do (looking after his siblings) but he does need some help finding Maddie. Maddie and Melinda ignore the fact that they look exactly alike but talk about their paramedic and firefighter boyfriends. Daniel doesn't want Maddie to worry more, so Melinda doesn't tell her he's there, but she does give Maddie her card in case she's in Grandview or needs some antiques.

#maddie buckley #daniel buckley #911 #911 fox #911 abc #fanfic ideas #ghost whisperer #melinda gordon #batcavescolony watches #batcavescolony watches 911 #batcavescolony was also obsessed with ghost whisper as a teen and is sad that apparently theirs not much fandom #ghost daniel watching over his siblings. screaming at his parents mistreatment of them. Daniel beats the shit out of Doug when he dies. #no peace even in death for for Doug its Daniels time to get his revenge for his big sister #jim and chimney meet up too completely unrelated to the girls. they just both jumped in during an emergency. #they talk about their beautiful gfs Jim gets to see jeeyuns baby pics. they also exchange numbers if either are in their respective states #it then kicks off a great relationship of Buck Maddie and Melinda meddling into things they really shouldn't but they're going to anyway

[jieanette]

I found this and I noticed something...

Is that... Hector's name???? Is Isaac wearing shoes with Hector's name in it????

#castlevania #castlevania curse of darkness #prelude to revenge #issac #either isaac wore it out of spite or is obsessed with him #could be both tbh #i mean it could also be japanese letters but i kinda doubt it? #someone who knows japanese pls confirm

[lisbonsteresa]

[through gritted teeth] i am so normal about this

#no no no it's just like.... #the difference between just these two instances from s1 to s3 is FASCINATING to me #he's not asking in the first he's just stating a fact and he's having his belief confirmed #(by a man who's now almost definitely going to be in jail for the rest of his life - #the less extreme of the worst case options jane's had in his head but still nothing to scoff at) he's told with passion and conviction that #the revenge was worth the cost; that he doesn't regret it in the slightest; that it was 'redemptive') #and that's exactly what jane thinks that's what he's built his life around for the past - at least 5? - years #but he IS asking in the second; it's years after the first and he's not the same man he was then #he does still believe in vengeful justice i think but it's not just him that he has in mind now #there's other people to consider - people that found their way into his head and his heart (despite any of his efforts to the contrary) #and he's asking this question to a man who's just been cleared of all charges (were they murder charges? idk i need to watch that ep again) #it's not just him he's thinking of now and it's not just the most concrete costs either #it's....idk it's a shift from the objective costs to the emotional costs; it's the shift from being told to asking i'm just obsessed #(also interesting that these are both men when the only time i can think of off the top of my head where he has this kind of interaction #with a woman is the s1 country club episode? the one with liz forbes? where she breaks down and says it doesn't change a thing #that's a completely new tilt to it too that's something to consider all of this actually has no point but where else am i gonna say it) #tm

[ofyorkshire]

...oh my stars

i don't know if it was intentional, but repetitively referring to bj as "ziggy stardust" in the red riding novels completely foreshadowed bj's death.

#something something the parallels between bj and ziggy both being referenced as imperfect messiahs #and wanting to bring hope to a hellish world (bj consistently sticking his neck out to help uncover yorkshire's corruption) #but ultimately being dragged into the same hate he wanted to stop and destroying himself / being destroyed by the very people who sent him #ie - bj being threatened to send a message by the police and eventually being killed by the police (albeit *sort of* on his own terms) #also maybe something to be said about bowie retiring ziggy partially bc he got too wrapped up in the persona and questioning his sanity #sort of paralleling bj losing his mind (ironically) in the psych ward and heading off to get his revenge on laws (and ultimately jobson). #but that's probably looking way too deep into it. #this meta has almost 0 meaning in the film universe (which is closer to my canon anyway) but. ow. i have emotions. #talking about rr makes me sound insane i'm aware skdflskf but i swear it makes sense. #if there was a fandom for this series i would be popping off. #(again not encouragement to read the novels. watch the films sure. don't read he novels.) #(not unless you're just that obsessed with understanding what the heck was going on in the films like me. they're deeply disturbing.) #(but i did read them bc i DID want to know and now you guys have to live with my crazy ramblings about bj.) #(which may or may not be accurate bc peace leans *a lot* on experiences in '70s-'80s yorkshire which he was alive for. i obv was not lmao) #out of fairy tales [ooc];

[maulfucker]

wait. forgort I was planning on writing but feel indecisive

#hm i should make an original post tag #no skip option. pick one or die curious about who's winning #calling it triangulation of desire in honor of this one destiel mutual's post that lives rent free in my head #well it's two different posts. about fic ideas of theirs. the wording got mixed up in my mind but the point is basically #guy jealous of seeing other guy with a woman (that he thinks he desires). and slowly realizing it's not the woman he wants #(well the destiel mutual's is more like. guy joining in thinking he wants the woman but only paying attention to the other guy.) #but anyway. you get it. weird not-throuple where the guys are obsessed with each other and act on that through the woman #who may or may not also have a weird relationship towards both #.... ok now i need to add some propaganda for the others #old men qpr is. thee first one i started. and probably the one with the potential for being longest. and most lighthearted. #just two old enemies making peace and living together and hiding from the government (inquisitors) #and maybe bickering about training the chosen one #space smut is. well. what else can i say. #what if the jedi found out about sidious's identity and plan before rots even started #by the power of the one guy who knows all that has a giant obsession with obi-wan and reasons to want sidious dead #is it out of character for him to give up power for the sake of revenge? who knows. i think not. #<- guy who loves giving this guy complex feelings about seeking/having power #anyways. hewwp. pick for me

[bloomingforerza]

i have meguru bachira and manjiro sano brain rot

#bachira meguru #sano manjiro #tokyo revengers #blue lock #im obsessed with both right now #im updating my characters i write for page soon #navi is also updated

[intobarbarians]

i like slow burn in m/f romances because the lead up is about the only time the female character will be allowed to think of something that is not the male character

#you may think this is absolutely not what slow burn is about #but i’m thinking about scully/mulder where scully was both deeply invested in mulder AND in her own fucking life #and it’s because chris carter said it’s not a romance and got bullied into it because the chemistry was off the charts #if a woman is designed to be the love interest she gets flattened into just being obsessed with the guy #BUT if it’s slow burn she needs other shit to think about. ambitions revenge struggles hobbies

[mayoiayasep]

i see your eichi fixation and its very funny to me as someone who is definitely developing an ibara one

(narrative foils and all)

the instant i admitted i was an edenP i ended up also being won over by ibanyan tbh

i find that so funny bc both ibara and eichi were character that took. convincing for me to like actually like them

#the fact that im obsessing over the alkaloid mv and eichi at the same time is hilarious bc i keep remembering eichi labeling them as- #'underachievers' and i want to fight him (eichi) #ibara was just. i was a trickstarP when i watched the anime. revenge live was not fun for me #anw i love them both now and i got wayy off topic!! sorry!! #anon asks #inbox mail

[voidedjuice]

ALSO

whats with cecilys biggg scar?

The short explanation is that she got nearly cleaved in half once as a human! Then shortly after that she stopped being human

I'll put the long explanation under the cut:

I feel like this is a bit difficult to explain because there's like, so much background lore behind the reasons for why everything went down the way it did, but I'll like, try to explain it specifically regarding the stuff that mattered with regards to Cecily personally (it'll still be pretty long though ehehe)

Basically during her human life, Cecily's family was living in a conflict-ridden area, where the regular people were regularly killed and robbed by groups led by the area's rulers (in basically like, medieval-ish post-post apocalyptic circumstances). She lived in hiding with her family, somehow managing to survive until she was in her early 30's.

One day while foraging for some extra food, a family member of hers found the mummified remains of a person. What was strange about the remains was their weird, twisted appearance and the fact that everybody around them seemed to get stronger, with the drawback of requiring more food and having their senses become less reliable. The remains were stored in their basement (specifically like, one of those underground detached basements), intended to be used to help them in a time of distress by making them stronger and more capable of fighting off attackers.

Unfortunately, eventually attackers came, potentially even attracted by rumors of the remains' effects. Cecily's family couldn't fight them off and were killed, with Cecily managing to hide in the basement all alone. Intent on not letting the attackers have the remains, she decided to dispose of them the only way she had access to, by eating them (a decision possibly brought on by her state of constant starvation, which was worsened by being so close to the remains).

By the time she was done, the attackers had broken down the basement door. Deciding to at least try to fight them, she lunged at them and was cut down. After this she entered a state of false death, having no pulse and being unable to move but still somewhat aware of her surroundings.

The attackers threw the people they'd killed in a mass grave, possibly either out of some consideration for their victims or out of superstition. Cecily laid there for some time (developing her hatred of coldness and severe, lifelong claustrophobia), until reviving as a vampire and going after the people who had killed everybody she'd loved for the sake of (extremely bloody) vengeance.

The scar from the attack that originally killed her still remains on her body millennia later, regardless of form and regardless of how many times she heals off damage in the same area, and she still rarely gets a full day of peaceful sleep. The event that ended her human life might remain with her for eternity.

Also there's some additional, smaller defensive wounds on her arms that I haven't drawn a reference for yet (something I should get to already)

#oc lore #what the remains were is another 5k words essay on like specific void metaphysics #(my favorite thing to spend every second of every day thinking about) #aka my specific overcomplicated personal vampire (etc.) lore #i will talk about it some other time though :) i am merciful #anyways most of her powers and her focus on combat developed during the time she spent hypermurdering everybody who mightve #contributed to what happened to her in any way (and then later anybody similar to them for like a thousand years at least) #yeahg anyways there it is. hope its an understandable read. sorry it got so long #oc #oh also the parallel between her and ilta of them both being revenge-obsessed and angry is extremely intentional #person who has spent most of her very long life committing various acts of revenge now has someone after her for the same reason #that she cant shrug off or deter no matter what

[orcelito]

a murderous bastard is something that can just be so personal

you goroboys understand

#speculation nation #thought triggered by kurapika but there's a very clear reason why both goro and kurapika are my favs #revenge-obsessed red-eyed twinks. sasuke's included in this too. the trio of perfect character design.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I already knew about Lady Maria and Friede before I played the games. Though Maria was from a no commentary playthrough so I was introduced to her fight as if I were playing the game. And I was immediately obsessed because, me.

But might as well get to know the latest Fromsoft lady that's making gamers everywhere miserable.

#currently obsessed with Mistral from revengeance so you know. This is a thing I do #I don't think Maria made people as miserable as Ludwig did #hunter battles are rough but they're a different kind of rough #and if you're good at parrying it's apparently easy-ish #looking at blind playthroughs absolutely Ludwig curbstomped people more than Maria #not that she isn't hard lol #but she's much easier to read compared to snarling horse boy #they did a really good job of making the orphan of Kos fight like both a hunter and a beast #which was almost certainly intentional #he's 'small' and attacks with a weapon and can be parried but he has the frenzied wild element of a beast l #the constant screaming and the emotion. Sounding so pathetic when you stagger him #sorry. got lost in how good Bloodborne is

[gorkaya-trava]

my tumblr dash thinks I'm returning to mcr fandom. oh boy we're really in it now I guess.......

#gonna listen to three cheers for sweet revenge on my way to college. for the first time in a year I guess #no actually #mcr were one of my biggest (if not biggest at all) obsessions when I was a teen #and I still love them dearly #I think it will be good to return #*looks at his list of current favorite music genres* but where are we now #I'm that kind of a guy who listens to both xasthur and mcr. and wears a hello kitty t-shirt while doing so

[nunyabznsbabes]

Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes fine that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #everlark #tbosas meta #the hunger games #thg #snowbaird