Well today I’m supposed to finally hear if I get the apartment or not. Fingers crossed!
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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)
As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)
He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.
(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)
It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.
(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)
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there's just something so. about Magnus' and Arthur's relationship. their friendship was formed from this mutual ideal of peace, but their goal is seeped in as much blood and violence as the society they’re apart of, and their relationship is built on mutually assured destruction. every interaction ends with a reassurance that they’ll be the one to kill the other, should the need arise - should Magnus turn, or should “the beast” inside Arthur take control
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Watching Day 7 from soulfire pov (Tubbo, Niki, then Tina's)
- "I'm on national TV!!" But not gonna be there for the actual event
- getting an army of 7 little observer guys and naming 4 of them (Rupert, Bertie, Scoob and Caramel)
- completing a scavenger hunt and then running around trying to find another zombie villager
- switch to Niki constantly dying and then for some reason spawning in global and dying to shit tonnes of mobs but being helped by Luffy back to base
- game crashing and not seeing the cinematic then being thrown into the event with an underequipped Pierre and done Bad
- Pierre logging off and constantly dying to Etoiles and Roier until their egg is half dead
- Tina logging on, being told "it's not worth it", their egg just being removed from the game and being switched to red team
- Cellbit still trying to get to the egg and instead killing Bad before understanding
- switch to Tina POV of just taking the event as a fun time running out red's base and getting to talk to more friends again
- sneaking up on Etoiles just to say 'ca va?' And joke pvp fight during inventory shuffle then get killed
- get the final hit on Etoiles to be the one to kill him and then while having a nice chat with Bagi get attacked by Etoiles as "revenge" and Bagi try to defend her
- having another chat with Bagi and Cellbit run up say "sorry" and throw a bomb blowing up his sister to then be chased by Tina
- Foolish try to attack Bagi and Tina defend her and hit Foolish
- "my dead wife!!" - calm down they haven't been on their date yet
- then the museum, Jaiden and Tina meant to be escorting Bagi home but Jaiden has to leave so Bagi takes Tina home the long way to spend more time together while being third wheeled by Luffy (but they gave teaduo the pretty boat and they're just a baby so it's fine)
I hope that red see that Bad is a valuable ally because he put his anger against them (both teams have every right yo be angry at each other) aside for the most part to actually be helpful - he's just a competitive guard dog. With Tina running Soulfire's PR department and crowdfundraising for Bad's therapy hopefully everything will be okay, at least when they get back home and there won't be too much long lasting contempt for him/Blue team.
Edit: I forgot to add the most hilarious moment - Tina sat in the middle of a group of people but zoomed in on the 4halo convo and reading Bad's bubbles where he's basically calling Tina useless and here just sat there like "wtf??" While laughing at how he just kept going on
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Indian nabobs are white people - colonizers. Ciel is insulting white people when he says he says they're a waste of space. Can you pinpoint another case where Ciel behaves in a racist way? Where is the supposed slur he calls Lau? Are we reading this character the same way? To me Ciel has actually always been really accepting of other people's differences (see his conversation with Snake on the Campania) so I'm kind of surprised at this evaluation tbh
I didn’t say he called Lau a slur. @hateweasel did.
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