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beevean · 5 months

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The only change NFCV made to canon that I like, dare I say even more than canon, is Hector killing his own parents rather than the fire apparently being caused by demons. It doesn't go anywhere in N!Hector's case (at the end of S3 he looks angrily into the fireplace, but sadly he doesn't set Carmilla and Lenore on fire, what a missed opportunity of poetic cinema), but this change would work splendidly in Hector's case.

Imagine. Baby Hector is tormented by demons day and night, who keep whispering in his ear that he doesn't deserve this treatment, and he should just kill everyone, because they should suffer the same pain they put him through, it's only fair. Hector is scared that one day he'll do something "bad", but he can't talk about anyone about these voices, everyone hates him enough and they think he's a weirdo when he stares into nothing, assaulted by vision and voices.

Then, one day, he returns home from his games with the animals… only to see that his mother killed his black kitten. His best friend in the world. "It's cursed, it brings us bad luck, as if you weren't enough." Father, of course, couldn't care less about anything: he never even noticed that his son went around with a cat in his arms, but even if it's dead, so what? It's only an animal. Nothing important, the kid should grow up already.

And Hector snaps. He agrees with the demons, for once. They do deserve to die for hating him so much. So he sets the house on fire, and enjoys his parents' screams, who don't sound too different from the demons screeching in his ear.

But then he returns to his senses, and he's horrified at what he has done, and he has no choice but to flee. He doesn't know where to go, so once again, he listens to the demons guiding him to Dracula's place. After all, he can't blame them for doing something horrible, can he? He was the one who killed his parents and enjoyed it. He really is a horrible creature. At least they care about him.

And there everyone, the demons, Dracula, Isaac, all tell him that he did the right thing, that it's alright to kill those who hurt you, and thanks to that action he saved himself and he found his true home.

And this is how Hector got desensitized to killing… but only those he believes deserve death 🙂 like the mob who executed Lisa, or Isaac when he orchestrated Rosaly's death. But not mankind as a whole.

#castlevania #akumajou dracula #curse of darkness manga #hector castlevania #who would have thought #re-reading the manga in japanese is giving me even more thoughts #as if i weren't obsessed enough #ah the missed opportunities #they were all right there #i want hector to be more of an anti-villain and do more questionable actions #no need to baby him. no this child deserves to set his abusers on fire <3 all of them <3

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aroaceleovaldez · 2 months

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yknow actually we don't utilize the whole "gods may appear differently to different people" worldbuilding thing enough for jokes. Like, with love gods like Aphrodite and Cupid (and presumably also Aphroditus, the Erotes, and etc) it's kind of inherent, but also like.

literally in TKC we have a whole interaction of Sadie going "Wow Anubis was so hot..." cause she saw him as some hot goth teen and Carter being confused as hell because he saw Anubis with a jackal head. In the same conversation.

Where's more scenes and jokes like that. There's a lot of opportunity here.

#pjo #tkc #the kane chronicles #riordanverse #personally i think there's a lot of opportunity for characters to out-loud refer to love gods as the person theyre appearing as to them #only to realize ''Oh. That's Not [x]. That's A God. Whoops. I Have Just Unknowingly Admitted To Thinking [x] Is Really Hot.''#though it is hilarious that there is canonical interaction of Carter briefly wondering if his sister is a furry #you could totally also play this for angst though too #like Nico seeing Cupid as Percy during the Cupid Scene #or [insert character here] thinks they see [lost/missing loved one] only for them to realize ah no that's just a god. return to heartbroken

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troiings · 1 month

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Myanna Buring as Kim in 97 Minutes (2023)

#myanna buring #jfc the color in this film is all over the place #it just............ wasn't very good #97 minutes #arwen makes gifs #blood #flashing gif #flashing lights #flashing #trying to pick scenes for this like 'ah yes shall we have flashing lights or shaky cam today?'#for color you may choose horrible jaundice yellow or red red and more red #i think myanna just didn't sleep at all during the making of this film #and that's called method acting #sorry now i'm just taking the piss in the tags but anyway #this movie is 93 minutes long which feels like a missed opportunity given the title #i like how myanna's character got on a plane with some lady who we never saw again and got off it with a child

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a-dauntless-daffodil · 1 year

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no but like here's the thing draculaura came out to lagoona, lagoona gushed about star-crossed lovers between a with and a monster, lagoona and draculaura did this while having a specific spot they always hide

draculaura id'd with lagoona's story and was told she would find a light on your horoscare while lagoona was going to find her true love via music (draculaura wrote a song for her friends prior)

DRACGOONA AND CLANKIE REAL

ur under selling it, mon fiend

these two ghouls are CLOSE ok

i remember watching Over Bro-Tective and being like, well first of all

wow

(finger boo-oop for the win!!!!)

it's a gag bc they can't risk waking the baby leviathan so they can't actually clap or high five but why did this have to be so cute

that's not the thing though this is The Thing

clawdeen and clawd are having sibling trouble, which is awkward for the creepoever party

(also love frankie's trans pride boxer shorts shoutout for style)

so drac suggest "partner hide and shriek" and gets insta dibbed by lagoona, which makes her giggle

and drac lays down the rule NO UNDERWATER LAIRS they're too wet lagoona no soggy vampires pls

so APPARENTLY lagoona and drac team up enough for there to be this running gag of lagoona getting them to hide in the pipes. And for drac to be like Not This Time Okay We're Not Hiding In The Pipes This Time Lagoona I'm Begging You Listen Water Is Wet And Wet Is Ugh

this happens so often the other teens are sure, absolutely certain, that Lagoona WOULD get Drac to hide in the pipes anyway. Again.

(bc apparently drac can't say no to that razor sharp smile i guess)

"Let's check the pipes! I'm sure Lagoona convinced Drac to hide in the U-bend, for the hundredth time."

-my man Duce, laying shade on these idiots.

and that's exactly where they find them

(THEY LOOK LIKE THEIR IN THE MIDDLE OF A WASH CYCLE SKSKSKSK)

stuffed in the pipes, drac in a snorkling mask, splatting onto the floor and repeating, tiredly, NEVER AGAIN

(Next Time There Will Be NO PIPES LAGOONA) (suuure)

i was so happy and giggly to see that. so happy the show didn't forget what these two WENT THROUGH together, in Witch Hitch

they didn't forget drac has a running losing streak when it comes to resisting lagoona's smile and lagoona's enthusiasm and lagoona wanting to do things together with her

you know what let's revisit that too!

Witch Hitch

draculaura tells lagoona she's a witch right after lagoona admits she's being blackmailed by toralai, and WHILE the blackmailing was still going on

draculaura looked at this face-

and told her, hey so, toralai's not lying. im a witch.

lagoona didn't even ask her about it

drac said "i know exactly how you feel", lagoona just Looks At Her Like That and drac decided, yep, i actually feel ready to tell my dangerous secret right here right now to this person specifically

she trusted lagoona not to use this against her, despite the blackmail

or maybe she felt it was worth the risk??? getting to open up and connect with someone in a similar situation is worth the danger of it blowing up in her face?

and it WAS worth the risk, bc lagoona was 100% excited about drac's magic, totally delighted, called it incredible, asked if she could watch more

(love how ppl are worried about witch stuff until they learn that DRACULAURA'S the one doing it)

(feels real to me. if you know and trust a person, and then it turns out they're doing this thing, a thing you've got no personal experience with and only know you're supposed to hate bc someone told you so, makes sense you'd have more faith in the person you know and give them a free pas at it)

lagoona's SO into it she even asks to see more magic

which we know. we know drac is staved for getting to show her witch side. it's part of her she that makes her feel happy and good and like herself, not being able to open with it is, isolation

isolation for a vampire that gets her vamp energy via positive attention from others. ouch

so here's lagoona, lagoona who is being blackmailed to work against her, lagoona who is all bouncy and twirlly about drac's magic, lagoona with her own secret side she's not ready to share yet

and drac let's lagoona WATCH HER make the single-use, anti-secret-telling potion that she plans to use on toralai

toralai, the one who is still blackmailing lagoona

lagoona, who's secret (that the fiercest monster in school still cuddles with her childhood fish squishy) while very personal and potentially embarrassing, is NOT actually might-get-expelled-or-banished levels of dangerous if it gets revealed

unlike drac's

(first time watching this i got nervous for a moment bc in several other shows i've seen, a set up like this would mean lagoona gets pressured into revealing the potion to toralai too and blah blah blah, angst betrayal misunderstanding eventual forgives etc. Buuuut in monster high....)

the risks involved are different, but Draculaura knows what having the secret FEELS like

the secret's not the important part for her and lagoona, losing control over WHEN it gets told is the painful scary part!

So when lagoona panics thinking the potion won't be able to protect draculaura, when she tries stopping toralai, when toralai gets pissed and is about to make good on the blackmail against lagoona-

drac uses the one safe use of the potion, to protect lagoon's secret instead

not hers

she chooses to be outed to the whole school so lagoona won't be

LAGOONA LEGIT TELLS HER AFTERWARDS

"Oh thank you, thank you! You're like a princess that saved the damsel in distress!"

and when toralai tells the school and runs to drac/frankie/clawdeen's dorm to proove all the witchery,

(side note i love that when using the potion twice comes up dracs like No I'm Not Willing To Risk Permanently Hurting Someone Just To Keep My Secret Safe- this is why everyone trusts her to be a witch ok, they know she WOULD NEVER use it that way)

when drac is panicking, bracing herself for impact- LAGOONA BREAKS HER OWN RECORD SWIMING THROUGH THE PIPES TO GET THEIR FIRST AND HIDE ALL THE MAGIC STUFF

my heart! i can't take it!!!

she puts it all in her own room, in the tank, in plain view of anyone who might be passing by and stick their head in like drac did earlier and get the wrong idea about who's doing magic

but she can't stand by and let the witch secret get pulled out and proved true like this. she knows what the secret feels like too!

these two take such risks to protect each other's chance to choose im crying ok

Draculaura: "Lagoona- I, am eternally grateful!"

Frankie: "Eternally? And you're immortal! Oh zap, that's a looot of grateful."

Lagoona: "I'm the one who's grateful! Thanks for keeping my secret safe."

IM CRYING, OKAY!?!??

like to hell with shipping! You don't come out of sharing something like this without a forging a bond that's special and deep and just for the two of you!

the writers didn't pass over that. they didn't forget it

i could kiss them for it

(remember when lagoona made a script based on her own lonely childhood then threw it out and replaced it with one where she gets friends but is worried about chomping them and drac vibed so hard with her character she begged to play lead role)

(drac the vampire who went vegan and doesn't bite or drink blood even though she COULD and still has the instinct to as seen in Creature Clash hey hey the parallels are getting to me)

(let lagoona have her freshwater boyfriend and daydream about being rescued by princesses her hair is the dang PAN PRIDE FLAG)

in conclusion

if lagoona wants to partner up for hide and shriek again and hide in the horrible wet water pipes again, we know drac's gonna end up going along with it.

AGAIN

for the hundredth-and-whatever time

romantically or not, i think she kinda loves lagoona a lot. same as how lagoona loves her

and u know what? same

#monster high gen 3 #lagoona blue #draculaura #would their ship name be “dragoona” ???#ah no it's “dracgoona” apparently #missed pun opportunity there what with lagoona being bloodthirsty and dragoons being a fighting force but can't have everything i suppose #i ship them in every possible way platonic romantic who the heck knows whatever i don't care they're sweet #let them raise a baby leviathan together or something #a vampire squid baby #did you see lagoona giving it a fish for a pacifier XD XD

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fuyuesu · 6 days

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im so so invested in the potential relationship between esu and mr nice you have NO idea . the concept of a relationship between a boy who watched his former super idol dad die in front of him, and a former popular idol taking on the role of his producer, which is something he likens to parenting..... happyele you have the most amazing setup for a familial dynamic here you cannot POSSIBLY fumble this

#melty rambles #enstarsposting #enstars #ensemble stars #esu sagiri #nice arneb thunder #sanda yoshihide #genuinely i will be sooo infuriated if they miss out on this golden opportunity #like !! it ahs the range !!! it could be messy and sad And heartwarming !!!! it would be so interesting !!!!!

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theirloveisgross · 10 months

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a series of events:

so i see this photo.

and i say this.

and then I see this.

...

#It's a little bit funny a lot #The laurels almost in full display I probably tagged all of those Harry posts with 👹 LAURELS 👹#And then he-#Like Gaby said 'Helen where's the laurel polo. it's time'#Hakshajshs #I was even gonna say 'ah it would have been the perfect time to wear fred perry louis c'mon missed opportunity'#Well- joke was clearly on me 😃

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drbatsponge · 3 months

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25 years of Cassandra Cain and all I got is this lousy McFarlane figure.

#OK the figure actually looks pretty cool #I'm just mad there's no omnibus 😭#DC skipping out on AAPI month during Cassandra's anniversary is a huge missed opportunity #ah well #cassandra cain #batgirl #dc comics #mcfarlane toys

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sebnameyourcar · 1 year

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sebastian is such a funny person to listen to being interviewed because the interviewer will ask a question and will get a pretty general answer and absolutely no more (don’t get me wrong - eloquent and very interesting but pretty generic). but the second the interviewer asks a very specific question he’s off talking for 3 or 4 minutes uninterrupted

#‘what’s next?’ ah well i will have to be open to any opportunities i will miss the adrenaline but this has been a question i had to ask #‘what was it like racing michael schumacher between 2010 and 2012’ WELL I THINK THAT MAYBE MY WORSHIP OF HIM WAS CHANGED BY KNOWING HIM AS-#he’s so funny i love him #sebastian vettel #seb #seb week

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bayofwolves · 5 days

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crazy how we know next to nothing about conor's brothers or his family in general... for the most normal family of the bunch they sure don't do much

#literally the only one of them who ever says a word is conor's mum #and hilariously she's unnamed #when i think of wallace and garrin nothing comes to mind bc the authors just did not bother to develop them at all #i for sure will in the path of the heroes au tho #it's such a shame conor's family are nonexistant as characters bc they had all that drama surrounding them with the iron boar #and then the HUGE opportunity after arc 2 being missed #what with conor going home and being Different with lasting trauma from being infected and everything that went on before #and his family simply not being able to understand #fantastic opportunity for some Substance but missed entirely #ah well #at least i can write #text #spirit animals #spirit animals books #spirit animals series #conor

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brothersonahotelbed · 3 months

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i feel like i'd be so good at acting. were it not for the shit memory

#i feel like i have all the right attributes for it....#missed opportunity. i should've been in plays and productions in highschool instead of being massively depressed and suicidal. ah well #loquitur

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leohtttbriar · 9 months

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at some point during kira's pregnancy, jadzia walks around the station handing out copies of judith jarvis thomson's philosophical defense of abortion as well as a famous treatise from her planet supporting hundreds of years of legal precedents on the rights of trills and symbionts to their own bodies, no matter the potential dire circumstances. she does this not to encourage kira to terminate the pregnancy or to keep the pregnancy, but just to make it Crytal Clear to everyone who exactly is in charge. (it's kira)

she radicalizes a few ferengi on accident and she's pretty smug about it for a few months.

#ds9 #star trek #oh what they ALSO missed an opportunity for jadzia and kira to relate to one another bc they're both carrying sort of separate organisms--#--around in their bodies which literally need their bodies to live? ah well #jadzia dax #kira nerys

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handfulofmuses · 2 days

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Seeing jungle cubs on the dash makes me want to either play cub Bagheera or Louie again …

#ooc #this show was genuinely my childhood #never missed an opportunity to watch it #but ah man only Baloo and Bagheera remain friends like that’s so sad #bc that implies they all had a falling out at some point #if there is one reboot I would love to see its jungle cubs tbh #but this time they should add Tabaqui

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piningprecussionist · 3 months

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Hands you some worms

Do you need some little buddies to keep you company?? Well worms are for you!!