#TO HIS ARMY OF COURSE)))

[destinysbounty]

As any self-respecting Zane stan, of course I've seen Decoded. And of course I loved the sweet but subtle character moment of him being bashful and awkward when Jay brought up the statue.

For the longest time, I've always interpreted this moment as Zane being his typical humble, bashful self. And while I'm sure that's true to an extent, recent events from Dragons Rising have led me to consider an alternative interpretation.

If I may bring your attention to this quote from DRpt2:

"Zane had impressive shoes to fill. No one could live up to him, maybe not even Zane himself."

I dunno. There's just something about the fact that Zane's own legacy has outgrown him, that he's overshadowed by the memory of his past self, that rather than a testament to the love his friends and community have for him he instead sees the statue as an insurmountable burden he can never hope to live up to...

Which brings me to yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from the Shadow of Ronin video game (I know it's canon-ness is debatable, but hear me out for a sec)

While everyone is gathered around Nya and speaking to Borg via hologram, Zane is...gone. He's off in the distance, standing at the base of his statue, just...staring at it.

God, and when you add this all up to Zane's Ice Emperor baggage...yeah.

#it does of course lead me to wonder about the scene in s4 #where everyone is trying to rally community support for the war effort #and zane gives his lil speech at the base of his own statue #id like to think zane had simply chosen to speak at the park only to discover 'oh hey weird theres a statue of me' #bc its not like anyone wouldve had the time or consideration to tell him about it considering everything else going on #that moment when youre trying to rally civilians to help you fight an army of snake warriors and you accidentally run into your own memoria #'well one of is is going to have to change :/' #ninjago #destiny post

[ghostingcrows]

I used to talk about this a lot but 

IDW Prowl is probably one of the most complex characters in the comics and I absolutely hate it when hes reduced down to “the asshole character”

Cause like

Yeah sure hes got a bit of a stick up his ass

But I feel like people just end there analysis of him there

Has he committed a lot of war crimes and done unethical stuff

Yes

But so has literally EVERYONE else in this universe

Starscream is literally the pinnacle of war crimes

The comics make a point calling out even Optimus for his questionable actions and orders during the war with the Dinobots saying he makes them do the dirty work for him

Megatron literally commits genocide and yet his story ends with an alternate version of him going free and exploring the universe with the LL

The literal war lord was treated better and is looked upon more positively than Prowl and I think it just came down to how fucked Prowl got by the writers

Because while Megatrons redemption was all in your face and you got a shit ton of flashbacks that try to justify the eventual atrocities he would commit you don’t get that with Prowl

Even when Prowl is absolutely in the right you constantly have it disregarded by characters making jokes about him overreacting (being mad OP is sending the space tyrant away with free reign of his own ship isn’t overreacting btw-) and as such you start to think of him as a genuinely irrational character when hes not

Prowl is bad at keeping the relationships he forms yes 

But he is not always at fault for that

While his relationship with CD ended poorly Chromedome is also shown to be kinda of a dick sometimes and commits his fair share of fucked up things such as when he literally ATTACKS PROWL AND FORCES HIS WAY INTO HIS MIND TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS ACTIONS WHEN PROWL THREATENS TO TELL REWIND ABOUT THE SHITTY STUFF HE DID IN HIS PAST

This leads to Prowls inevitable snowball out of control when this attack leads to an opening for Bombshell (I think its been a while since I read the comics) to use his tech to mind control him forcing him into combining with the contructicons

Something we learn is an immensely intimate thing with their minds being kinda melded 

This was something Prowl did not want 

And when all was said and done and he was calmed down he still had to live with that gesalt he was forced into with them following him around like fanboys

Nobody ever even really stopped to check in on him 

And as such he understandable went a little bit insane

He had just faced an immensely traumatic invasion of his body and mind and on top of stress form feeling like everything was out of his control and like he couldn’t stop the bad things from happening alongside bitter emotions being brought back up with a return visit to Earth and reunion with spike AND the fact that he feels like Optimus doesn’t trust him and like hes just letting Starscream do whatever he want (something that understandably freaks him out seeing as how he spent 4 million years fighting Starscream) he just kinda snaps

He trys to destroy the space bridge so that no one else can leave or get through and so he can regain some semblance of control

Is it wrong

Yes

But he was not in a good state of mind and no one was helping him at all 

And immediately following his arrest afterward Prowl is confronted by OP who is supposed to be his friend and when Prowl doesn’t say the right things to him to placate him Optimus’ response is to punch him out a window and beat the shit out of him

And not being given any room to breath this is immediately follow up my him getting kidnapped by Tarantulas who is very obviously an impactful and negative part of his past

Prowl just has bad event, one after the other, happen to him over and over again and not only does no one check up on him afterwards to see if hes okay but everyone actively makes fun of him for being understandable unstable

Prowl is a fucking tragedy and not many people seem to be able to see beyond what characters in the comics think of him

#IDW #Prowl #IDW prowl #Asher writing entire essays about the complex nature of a character most people hate- #I will defend IDW Prowl to my death #and I know a lot of people like to point fingers at him for war crimes and questionable actions #but like again almost everyone in IDW has commited a few war crimes #and he was literally the second in command of the entire army #of course he would have had to take on the brunt of the shitty questionable orders #I also think its weird that so many characters point out hes always the one ordering the shitty stuff but never wants to get his hands dirty #but then OP does the same thing and literally ONLY the dinobots point it out #optimus prime #megatron #lost light #taurantulas #starscream

[bloobluebloo]

There is a thread on Twitter going around in which it states that Ganondorf's motive is clearer in the Japanese version of the game. Of course we are all aware now that Ganondorf lamented that in the past people had more of a fighting spirit. However these are the lines that they are talking about:

The conclusion was drawn that Ganondorf had hatred for Hyrule because of the god-like power in its hands, that with such power Hyrule held a monopoly through which her allies did not have to entertain having a fighting spirit, that they could live as peace-loving cowards. .....which is a very round about way of saying that Ganondorf's hatred was due to Hyrule's imperialism! Ganondorf wasn't very pleased with the idea that Rauru had Hyrule's version of nukes that basically put all firing power in his hands! Glad we're coming around now 👏

#I mean we have been here screaming for months #that its kind of fucked up that Rauru has these secret stones in his possession that can #annihilate an entire molduga army #of course he felt pressured to act #anyways #ganonthots

[post-it-notes7]

A secret bonus to this previous post

#post's doodle bin #mir falspar #dark meta knight #kirby right back at ya #galaxy soldier army #secretly promised myself I'd sketch up the context for why Mir Falspar had blood smudges on his glove if anyone happened to notice it #congrats! you were sucessful and I'm cackling #and of course #tw blood #tw injury #I try not to be super gratuitous with blood but still make it clear that yeah. that was not a fun time for dmk #excessive bleeding is a little odd for reflection standards as well #shatterings are most often bloodless and injuries that are deep enough to bleed heavily are usually enough to induce shattering anyway

[taylortruther]

thinking about how taylor said "who would you be sad with?" sounds like love to her

#the lavender haze / clm / renegade / ylm of it all #like of course she felt she owed it to joe to fight in his army for so long - she felt her sadness would be forever and he stuck by her #hoax #lpss #renegade

[woahjo]

i think all the time about the line "in what year did fire lord sozin defeat the air nation army" and then aang responding "is this a trick question? the air nomads didn't have a formal army" and the implications of the history that the fire nation had been rewriting for a century. the implication that the air nomads (a peaceful nation) weren't brutally ambushed, but rather that they were ready to fight and may have even been eager to do so. absolving the fire nation of some of the guilt in a total genocide and painting the narrative that the air nomads were ready to defend themselves and/or that the attack on the air nomads was anything but a one sided ambush. i think about it a lot.

#this scene in particular actually devastates me in a visceral way #because it is ONLY aang alive now to remember first hand that the air nomads didn't have a formal army #that it was part of their principles and their cultural identity to NOT have one #that the air nomads largely preached pacifism #and he's the only one alive able to refute the history that the fire nation rewrote based on his own first hand testimonies. #almost everyone else who could do that is dead #and of course.. other nations know it was a brutal attack.. but there's something so deeply sinister #about the implication that aang is from the colonies followed by that scene #because it means that this is a conscious effort to indoctrinate not just fire nation citizens... but the PLANET #and aang is literally the only person who can refute it. #MAN. #i love atla

[semisomnosres]

Dad-cat)

Another artist mentioned that if Chase takes him to his (harem) army of cats, then the First one will be a leopard, well, I'm in)

#semisomnosres #rc9gn #randy cunnigham #rc9gn fanart #rc9gn first ninja #first ninja #randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #I just created another reason why Chase wants him. #TO HIS ARMY OF COURSE))) #now I'm drawing a pretty difficult artwork for me #and these sketches allow me to relax

[lunar-wandering]

laying in bed thinking about how Wukong is a people pleaser and this part of him gets frequently overlooked due to the focus on his hot-headedness/impulsivity

#Monkie Kid #lego monkie kid #tagging LMK cause i do think it uses this part of him #to add in events while still having him remain in Character #like of course Azure and the others convinced him to not be afraid and take on heaven #before heaven's army could arrive on his doorstep and force him to fight like in the books #like. he got kicked out of school because the other students encouraged him to show off #this is one hundred percent in character for him #if he got a single compliment he'd go along with whatever that person said when he was young #which is also part of how the Gold Star of Venus convinced him to get a job in Heaven #which Wukong was originally uninterested in #the fight against heaven + the mountain jaded him which made him more easily angered #(yknow. like a reasonable response to trauma) #but EVEN STILL during the Journey HE'S STILL A PEOPLE PLEASER #and then by the time of LMK he's mellowed out more which MAKES SENSE. #i could do a whole entire more formally written analysis about this but this is what i've got #brain cannot brain any more than this #anyways obligatory my opinions are my own and i respect anyone who disagrees with me tag #anyone who has another opinion is wonderful and valid but these are my thoughts

[aroaceleovaldez]

i always see so much of Nico ships where either Nico is the one pining or the focus is almost completely on Nico pining and i feel like we’re missing a lot of opportunity here. Where’s the inverse? Where’s the POVs from [other character(s) of ship] of them falling hard for Nico and just absolutely losing their mind pining over him because he’s so impossible to read that they can’t tell at all if he likes them back or not. Them doing some complicated social dance cause they cannot for the LIFE of them figure out Nico but they’re trying so hard until they finally just tell him outright and find out Nico has liked them back this entire time and they lose their mind just a little bit more. WHERE IS IT.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #shipping #examples: one of my favorite headcanons is that Will got a crush on Nico the first time he saw him during the Titan War #when he brought reinforcements n stuff. cause yknow. the dude showed up in thematic armor with three gods and parted an army #and then ensues like a whole year of poor Will helplessly pining over him but a.) Nico is never around and b.) Nico is barely aware of him #ergo why Will is acting Like That in BoO cause he's BEEN TRYING SO HARD TO GET NICO TO NOTICE HIM #on-and-off for a WHOLE YEAR #and he is DETERMINED to at least be Nico's friend by the end of the summer #just so that he can stop losing his mind over it #secondary example: i write a lot of pre-HoO Jason stuff and i really love the potential dynamics between him and Nico then #with Nico being this rogue who randomly shows up #and Jason keeps getting flustered by this guy who doesn't seem to care who he is at all. which is part of the reason for getting flustered #cause Nico keeps treating him as an equal! which is kind of a big deal for Jason #and at the same time they're doing this diplomatic dance and the two of them are just being SO overly formal #because they're both like that. so it just sounds like theyre flirting like Victorians #and poor Jason is so distressed post-HoO when he realizes he'd forgotten all of that. and now he has to START OVER #and Nico is NICO so of course it's impossible for Jason to gauge exactly where they stand #etc etc those are my two most detailed examples

[cowboyshit]

chugs made me cry today 🥹💗

#a few people were sharing how important the chugs army has been #so I shared a couple hard things I’ve gone through this year to highlight that having his community has helped so much #despite my constant questioning as to whether or not people actually like me and I actually belong #everyone there continues to be so kind that I keep interacting and making friends despite those constant thoughts #and of course our dear chuggernaut 💗💗💗💗 #will forever love this dude #save forever #the chugs

[drunkeddiediaz]

The way Buck would not be able to handle an old friend of Eddie being around. We saw how he was with Tommy but that is someone new. This friend would come in knowing Eddie and what Eddie was like growing up. They would have all these stories. There would be so many inside jokes. Buck would be seething.

Despite the Buck of it all (yes he would be SO WEIRD about it) I just think it would be so delicious to bring back an old childhood friend of Eddie. If he had a *thing* for him back then👀👀👀

I don’t want much I just want to know more about his life prior to Shannon 😭

#he was in the army of course he sucked dicks #but to bring in his first male crush👀I know the show won’t give it to me #but just imagine… #eddie diaz #asks

[idk-bruh-20]

"I spent most of my life trying to do the right thing and live up to expectations, but it turned out I was being used to cause harm. I just don't want to be used anymore."

Tony 🤝 Steve

^how CA:CW could have ended if they'd had even one (1) empathetic conversation

#steve joined the army and ran missions to try to help the world & fit his country's expectations #turns out his govt was run by the same people he thought he was fighting against #tony built weapons to try to protect people & fit what was expected by his dad's legacy #turns out the guy running his dad's company was selling those weapons to terrorists #of COURSE steve wouldn't want to let another murky agency decide where he should go and what he should do #how many of his missions were at hydra's bidding? how many times did they use his strength for their agenda? #of COURSE tony would want the avengers to be accountable to the people of the world #he thought he'd learned from his mistakes when he stopped making SI weapons and started making them for the avengers #but how many times have the avengers used his weapons to cause reckless and unforgiveable harm? #how many people have died because he blindly trusted someone close to him with weapons and never followed up? #thoughts #tony stark #steve rogers #the true villain of ca:cw emerges #to the tune of agatha all along: It's Been Toxic Masculinity And Trust Issues All Along #this is no queue i am sneaking online at ass o'clock in the morning because these thoughts would not let me rest #needed to inflict them on others #peace ✌️

[obiroguewan]

Dragon Age Origins - out of context 😏✨

You didn't like this Wilhelm, I take it.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #gamingnetwork #videogameedit #gamediting #vgedit #dailygaming #dagif #gamingedit #* #shale #i just finished reading dragon age the stolen throne and I know who is wilhelm #wilhelm was the only mage who had a golem on his side #he was part of maric's rebellion army #the golem was shale!! of course shale was bigger than what HoF saw #but he shrunk it down because wilhelm wanted shale to fit into the house #apparently his wife was not happy #so wilhelm survived the ferelden and orlais war but got killed by his golem #also because wilhem did some experiments which caused shale to become violent #so that's the lore

[saikitsu]

i was reading up on ars goetia for solomon reasons, and i noticed something that piqued my interest. most if not all his pact demons are said to command legions of demons themselves (notably eligos with 60 legions, belial with 80 legions, and paimon with 200 legions). a lot of them even have a whole host of abilities comparable to barbatos’ time-related powers (in fact many are listed to be able to speak past and future, or to manipulate it, much like barbatos).

all this to say i think it would be neat if in canon part of the reason solomon is considered so powerful is not only because he has powerful magic in his own right, but also because he commands an army of 72 demons, most of which have entire armies of their own and special abilities to boot.

#legions by definition are said to be 3000-6000 men #this is of course in reference to roman armies but i mean it’s applicable #which would mean by controlling 72 demons solomon actually has power over thousands if not hundreds of thousands of demons #maybe they are ‘lesser demons’ as referred to in the game but i mean most of his pactmates are referred to as lords dukes kings and princes #in ars goetia #and ​i don’t think he’d go around making pacts with any weak demons #imagine being diavolo and some dude shows up the devildom and is like hiii :3 i control half your nobility and their personal armies btw #and ur butler too #and he’s not even evil abt it he’s just like sooo can i see the royal library now :> #this is actually so funny to think about #the only thing keeping lucifer from smiting him into oblivion for his wizard shenanigans is the fact that #400000 demons would descend upon him at once like come outside lucifer we just want to talk #solomon obey me #obey me solomon #obey me #txt

[archduke-enver-gortash]

having completely normal thoughts (gortash wotr au)

#yeah. it’s bad. not thinking about inserting zeke but GORTASH #he’d start out as aeon for sure #his opinions on companions are so fucking awful #not nearly as awful as the kingmaker au ofc. he’d call reg a sick dog that needs to be put down because his incompetent owner failed him #anyways. this is a deranged wotr post. #of course there’s no one among the companions fit to be his/equal status #but i’d say he’d have the most positive opinions of regill and greybor. as positive as a guy thinking of them as his tools can get. #towards greybor it’s like. ok you don’t see yourself as more than a weapon and neither do i. you do your job as long you get paid i can wor #with that. #meanwhile regill he’d love to have as a knight devoted to him instead of him being a hell knight #this of course never fucking works gortash’s weird manipulation would not pull through with regill in this matter #no romance of course. except for manipulative sex with wenduag probably. #he really wants that mongrel army! will pop a fantasy viagra if wenduag needs to be ‘roughly subdued to calm down.’ #he’d be a little more into it than usual because he doesn’t need to hold back with her but it’s still not a true subjugation in the end. #until later he’s like ok. i lied i don’t like sex get on the vivisection table #(aro + fucked version of grayace gortash truther if you didn’t know) #tries to refine her and the poison #he’d be awful to her in general. sees a weapon to be refined. she recognizes him as master now but her loyalty is fickle. #he’d earn all the respect flags #but still would punish her greatly for the first sign of betrayal in the abyss #oh and before this gets too long: one more for cam obviously. #sadly i don’t see a world in which he doesn’t immediately see through the mireya story and kill her in act 3 #but if he didn’t. it’d be so juicy. him in act 5 learning the full story. how her father talks about her. #just stands there frozen for 10 seconds with a thousand yard stare #<- to then go no i don’t think you should kill him you should [REDACTED GRUESOME TORTURE METHOD THAT KEEPS ONE ALIVE & AWAKETHE ENTIRE TIME #in the end he’d execute her anyways but. hm. he’d get triggered for sure #i have more thoughts but i’m gonna shut up now lmao

[llondonfog]

foams at the mouth from the thought of briar valley soldier!silver

#NO LIKE #the CONCEPT #general vanrouge raising up this seemingly abandoned human child that he found in one of the kingdoms they've bested #they have a much more reserved relationship; silver privately calls him father but publicly always refers to him as general vanrouge #lilia isn't as carefree and lighthearted OBVIOUSLY which shows in silver's upbringing to literally be a soldier from day one #the sheer betrayal of the other kingdoms they fight against when they realize that one of their own kin has sided with the fae #and is besting their armies #please him being called the general's shadow or something #and of course this needs to culminate in him getting captured and lilia having to confront his feelings of attachment #and buried love for the boy who was only ever meant to be a tool #AHHHHHHHHH #ok ok bedtime<3