#and honestly he’s just more of a hero

[turtleblogatlast]

I still think about how Leo’s ideal day out for the fam’s venture into the Hidden City was basically just an effort to get some rest and relaxation because boy does he never get that ever.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #Leo is that one kid who’s like yeah dude I’m chill I’m laidback #and on the inside he’s just in a constant fetal position rocking back and forth #at least the others got a good amount of time spent in Tahiti but Leo’s out here like please god just one spa day 🙏🙏🙏 #no but tbh? it’s genuinely a great look at Leo’s character that he wants to go to a spa to basically just sleep in the sun #it’s not bombastic or flashy or anything he legit just wants a good place to get proper rest and care #that hair spa can catch these hands LET MY BOY HAVE HIS SPA DAY 🔪 #HONESTLY EACH PERSON’S CHOICE OF WHERE THEY WENT FOR THEIR DAY OUT SAYS A LOT #like raph wants to emulate who he perceives as those in justice in a desire to become more like the hero he so desperately wants to be #leo goes off on his own in order to let his guard down and actually rest for more than a lackadaisical facade #donnie goes with april not only to salvage his pride and condemn magic but also to hold onto his self worth and genuinely help out #and mikey thrives in family and specifically the harmony within family and how that is portrayed through the act of simply being together #in this essay I will-

[muninnhuginn]

Thinking about "your weakness is how you always want to be the hero" and how the series returns to this at the end

Li Lianhua hated how he acted as Li Xiangyi and spent years trying to distance himself from it, but ultimately he still fell back into the similar patterns, for all his added experience

His main priority was always to "do the right thing" regardless of how that would impact on those around him. And it *did* impact those around him. From Qiao Wanmian and Shan Gudao as Li Xiangyi to Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng as Li Lianhua

Giving the Styx flower to the emperor so he could use it as leverage to guarantee Fang Duobing and his family's safety. Using the last of his power to save Yun Biqiu. Constantly putting others above himself whilst actively refusing to recognise that his self-sacrificial nature would hurt those he cared about most

And sure, he thinks he's going to die anyway. They're going to be hurt regardless and he can't do anything about that. His odds are low of the Styx flower even working. But ultimately, he refuses to even consider trying. Li Xiangyi has been dead a long time and Li Lianhua is just there to tide things over. What value is the life of a ghost

To the end, he lives and dies a hero. To the end, he refuses to live for himself.

#sth about how he almost managed to live for himself but his past and need to do right doomed him. #those missing years before canon starts were probably the closest he got but even then the knowledge he couldn't use martial arts #must have killed him (no pun intended). because he'd put so much stock in his identity as sigu sect leader + hero + prodigy #so to have such a massive part of his identity stripped from him... honestly it doesn't seem that he ever fully comes to terms with it #but he makes progress and he tries to do better. + that leads to him becoming a different type of 'hero' than the symbol he was originally #deep down he wants to help people with all he has but his capacity isn't infinite + at some point can only be taken from himself #mysterious lotus casebook #mlc spoilers #also to be clear I mention shan gudao not to say lxy should have realised earlier bc for a lot of the time he was too young to notice #and later on sgd did better at hiding his intentions. but more for how lxy tunnel visioned towards his idea of righteousness #and steamrolled over everyone else. both sgd and qwm were placed far below the importance of the sigu sect #and lxy's arrogance made it such that sigu became reliant on him alone as he shut others out (hence domino fall once he went). #idk if he could ever have 'fixed' what was btwn him and sgd bc it was so deep rooted but I do think that his actions #helped convince sgd that sgd was entirely in the right to choose his path #mlc #edit: just went and checked the exact wording of the TL and it's actually 'you like being a hero' rather than 'you want to be the hero' #which is different but still close enough in implications for my point to stand (I think)

[space-ace13]

Si Eun was always one bad comment away from stabbing someone and I haven't seen anybody talking about it

#im honestly surprised that he only stabbed 2 people #the way he was always pulling pens out of his pocket #i really expected it to happen more often #i dont know why people kept messing with them #if i saw a kid stab anpther student in the hand with a pen #and then completely destroy anoyher students face with a book #i would go out of my way to avoid bothering that kid in any way #but thats just me personally #weak hero class 1 #si eun

[buttercupshands]

Chapter 419 Analysis or "How to completely break Tenko Shimura" a manipulative guide from All For One (part 1)

This is mainly a character analysis of Shigaraki Tomura or Shimura Tenko, any other character present is there to help.

Chapter 419 was hard to comprehend even with just summaries right on April 4th. Some things need at least fan translation to fully make sense. Or just hurt more in that matter.

Warning of spoilers to the whole manga to the point of chapter 419! All of the warnings from the respective Tomura chapters are applicable.

So like... mentions of death, killing other people, manipulation, emotional abuse and many more!

This is Part 1 - See Part 2 for something less depressing

This is going to be long! So let's start, shall we?

First of all we'll need to take into understanding ALL the chapters that we'll need to remember/reread just make this chapter worse (skip if already familiar with them):

Chapter 222 - Tomura Shigaraki: Distortion

Chapter 234 - Destruction Sense

Chapter 235 - Tenko Shimura: Origins

Chapter 236 - Tenko Shimura Origins, Part 2

Chapter 237 - Tomura Shigaraki: Origins

This is your "Tenko and Tomura understanding" starter pack, basically. Without them it's harder to even start unpacking what just happened with Tomura's perspective in mind

Well then.

The chapter starts and we are immediately greeted by AFO semi-agreeing without wanting to, that Tomura was strong enough before Izuku started trying "saving" him in his own way and even succeeded making Tenko's will all the more fragile than it was when he returned using his hate to his advantage.

Even after Izuku holding Tenko's hands for the whole chapter he was still stubborn enough to continue even without that hate in his heart

And the thing that initial summaries missed was the fact that Tomura actually reacted to AFO reapperance.

Still not understanding why AFO was even saying that.

Tenko was literally taught by AFO to follow "what he wants" in ch 237 with Tenko making his first decision to kill someone himself. And never actually hiding that Tomura just needed to never forget that hatred and those bad emotions that Tomura never really understood. And it took Izuku seconds to decipher them.

With AFO reassuring Tomura that he has no need in following morals of society and just should follow whatever he wants - his want to destroy everything that hurts him. And only AFO would accept and help him. He was constantly reminded of that.

Even if Tenko was feeling sick from killing at first, even if hands that he wore were still making him sick 15 years later without him understanding anything. Decisions made while person is emotional are usually the ones that the person might regret the most and Tomura lived with those unstable emotions for years. Knowing that they hurt him and make him feel sick.

But Sensei said that it's okay to follow those emotions. That's it's actually great that he does it.

Everything was for his sake, everything was for Tomura Shigaraki and Tomura Shigaraki only. He was his Sensei's successor and no one should argue with it. He's the only one to be next ruler of the underground and the next king. And Tomura gladly accepted that as truth.

Since it was easier than facing his guilt.

Because AFO just needed Tomura to have enough willpower to get OFA when the plan is ready. To make Gigantomachia to follow him while Garaki was watching knowing full well how the plan is going. Both knowing full well that Tomura is still holding himself back.

In this chapter however we finally see how all of the things AFO told and taught Tenko were just to make him so sure that HE was in control and allowed to do whatever he wants to completely break his worldview in the end "after he gets OFA" which is an unreachable goal now since OFA is gone for good.

By just saying that Tenko never had any choice to begin with.

Tomura already knew that AFO manipulated him and he was just a pawn, needed only to get OFA and piss off All-Might he accepted and embraced it as something unimportant. It was his choice and he was free to do it and not feel bad about it. Since he's born to destroy.

Until suddenly it wasn't just his life after Decay that was manipulated.

But his whole life from birth. Just because AFO didn't get his hands on Hana sooner and she was happy while AFO needed someone hurt and broken. And Shimura's household wasn't as bad as he needed it to be at first with Kotaro loving his children, wife, in-laws and even his mother.

And AFO destroyed it by creating so much conflict and even going out of his way to make sure Tenko's father knew that he was playing heroes with some kids. And even saved them by putting his own quirkless life in danger.

In some sense narrator-Tomura's words at the end of ch 236 still might hold true. AFO didn't just create his hate out of nowhere, to make it feel like even if Tenko remembers everything it's still he's doing not a villain appearing, not just some accident that it actually was.

Although AFO doesn't say anything about people who didn't help Tenko even though he he knew that it happened so he most probably was watching it happen until Tenko lost all hope entirely to finaly make him dependent on his help.

And he succeeded for the most part.

Tomura was making an assumption after he remembered everything that he "must've been yearning for that" and from that point onwards explains everything that happened as "I wanted it - I did it" and was clinging to it like a lifeline to explain everything.

He accepted that if Re-Destro is talking about his Decay quirk affecting him he exists only to destroy.

And now it seems he found a false motivation for himself that AFO created by cruely manipulating everything from his quirk to his family. Making him believe he had a hand in it. Breaking one of "safe" truths that Tomura never doubted. They only made his decisions feel right.

Which makes that a hopeless loop of broken memories being staged just to let Tenko become Tomura who hates and destroys everything believing that it's his choice. Only choice at that.

And if destroying is him only choice because of his quirk... then what can a quirkless person do while having so many people dead from his own hands? Hands that were literally cursed to have destruction quirk in them not because he was born to do it. But because his own Sensei wanted that.

And he's "unwavering heart" is now nothing but an illusion that was destroyed by both Izuku and AFO together.

There's no "Can I be a Hero?", because can he even be a Villain if most of the choices that were from Decay and the hatred in his heart weren't actually his own?

#bnha #shigaraki tomura #tenko shimura #all for one #bnha analysis #character analysis #character study #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #my hero academia #phew that's a lot of normal tags! #honestly I think it's a mess of a post (the first draft) #and this part 1 is depressing as hell #that's what you get when LoV is not here #thankfully part 2 exists #bnha 419 #rewrote most of the thing and it got even more depressing oh no #part 2 is still existing #somewhere #also I didn't add that but AFO is never talking about the people that didn't help Tenko again #like... they just rejected him and it's still true #he's still living with a 'did they reject me because I killed my family?' #the more I rewrite this the more depressing it becomes #I really like Tenko's arc so this chapter broke me for couple of days at least #and the more I was writing this more horrified I became with what exactly it all meant #we either need a whol OFA team again or at least Izuku returning into that hell that is AFOmura's mind #but once again I plan on a part 2 since even if Tomura's life is depressing LoV existed and some of them even are still alive #god this post is a nightmare of this blog

[cringefailnatsuo]

Nah man because what the hell was this?

First of all, I love how these panels establish a clear difference between Hawks looking at Dabi and Hawks looking at Dabi. In the scene from 240, Hawks is looking at Dabi as he's thinking about completing his mission and contacting Endeavor for backup. Like dude? You're literally staring into Dabi's eyes and thinking about Endeavor and it never crossed your mind that they have the same eyes? Chapter 267 drives this point even further by putting a close-up of Dabi's eye after he reveals his identity to Hawks. You can clearly see Hawks having an "oh shit" moment after the reveal as he truly looks at Dabi and realizes that this one piece of crucial information has been right in his face the whole time.

And second of all, this just highlights how Dabi truly is Hawks' downfall during the raid.

The whole point of Hawks' mission was to gain intel on the League so that the heroes don't make any hasty decisions and have the upper hand in apprehending the villains for good. The fact that the HPSC president specifically told Hawks "we severely underestimated the enemy" and yet he did the same exact thing is, quite frankly, hilarious.

And in retrospect, given the knowledge that we have on Dabi's past from chapter 350, Hawks could have figured out who was behind the nomu, where they were kept, and so many other things about AFO's plan for a successor if he had paid more attention to Dabi.

#bnha #dabi #hawks #dabihawks #canon dabihawks is riddled with irony and that's why it's so great #ok but also i want to know why the hell hawks looked into dabi's background and stopped looking into it when he hit a dead end #like that's so suspicious and he didn't bother digging further? #no 2 pro hero backing down from a challenge?? #i wonder how long it took for hawks to give up searching on info about dabi #honestly i'm surprised hawks underestimated him so much considering that fire is his one (1) weakness #and dabi is one of the more mysterious members of the lov since there's no info about him in the hpsc database or whatever #anyway the 'you should have been keeping both eyes on me' line hits different when you realize that dabi was keeping his eyes on hawks 24/7 #seriously the dude went through the trouble of locating takami tomie just to hear this dude's tragic backstory #and dabi copied hawks' move that one time in like 351(?) and someone called him fast or whatever #god i fucking hate narrative foils #ugh these tags are getting LONG but who even reads the tags anymore? #hello i make one original post per month and have now met my quota

[flysafepapi]

ngl, I loved the new season two trailer, and I'm excited to watch what's coming, but I'm kinda disappointed that it seems to be focused more on Rhaenyra's side and everything, not because I favor one side over the other, but because I (apparently mistakenly) thought that season two was going to be focused in the other direction, because the whole point (again, to me) isn't that one side is wrong and one side is right, it's that both of them are equally as bad as eachother in different ways, and literally none of them are supposed to be the hero in this story

#idk maybe there's just something im not understanding #but yeah thats how i thought it was going to go #because yeah aemond started it we know this so hes not innocent #but honestly very very few of them are #there is no happy ending to this story there are no heroes so why is it gearing to make one side more sympathetic than the other #i do not understand #house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen

[victimized-martyr]

As awful as Cartman is, his true desires are simple. He just wants attention and praise— and it’s not only important to Cartman that he gets that praise, but also by whom it’s being said. (there’s a reason Jimbo is one of the people to say good job)

#south park #he could have gotten this praise honestly too. he’s always so close yet so far #trey rly said ‘he doesn’t wanna rule the world or crush his enemies he just wants praise’ and i’m listening trey i hear you!! #i’m taking notes!! #moments like this is why i’m so adamant that he’s an ennea 3 and not an 8 like most ppl assume #8s as well as any ennea appreciate praise but it’s not a priority #usually it’s the success of the business and seeing it grow that would empower an 8 #but for 3s seei bc how their success is turning the public’s eyes towards them and praising them for their efforts— #for THAT specifically for Cartman’s voice to wobble and say it’s a dream come true— i’m furiously pointing at the screen like leo dicaprio #that’s a signature 3 wish #eric cartman #cartman #I think his more specific wish of being a hero (that’s been brought up more than once) is also worth looking into #he doesn’t wanna be seen as the bad guy even though he’s objectively the worst person in SP #one person was missing in that gaggle of ppl giving praise but tbh if he showed up cartman would literally die on the spot

[wolfsbanesparks]

Howdy, I'm freezing over here in Texas rn 🥶 Anyways, I've been thinking about Pretty Little Thing. Sunny has disappeared, as far as we, the readers know. This may mean the kidnapper/killer(s?) are able to overcome Sunny's odd ability to charm people. That, along with the fact that you've said in the past that the killer collected body parts for trophies (something like that, I think), makes me really afraid of whoever this person could be. Mentally strong enough to overcome the Sunny charm and wicked enough to hack kids apart. Oh dear... it makes me wonder if this person has meta abilities or magical powers that have been helping them or someone who's been aiding them.

Also, is it just kids? We've seen that many kids have gone missing, but I raise a question, has any adults? (Besides Captain Marvel, obvi). Billy’s been going down a rabbit hole, originally thinking just Scott was missing, but then finding out even more kids and friends of his are missing. If he investigates further, I'm afraid he'll find something even worse.

Bonus: I've been brainrotting in this little freeze, so I started thinking thoughts. What if the super sons caught wind of the missing Captain Marvel, and set out to Fawcett to help their fathers and prove themselves, only to end up missing like Billy :0

oh geez, ignore this if you want, but your fic is just so lovely ❤️

Oh poor Sunny!

His powers definitely make him a unique victim in this line up, though for the purposes of this story he is one of the street kids (albeit one that has a much easier time making money/getting basic necessities than most)

I love your theories for the killer(s)! There's lots of possibilities for how these kids were taken, all of them with lots of interesting possibilities! You bring up a really great point that there could easily be adult victims as well that no one has noticed, not even Billy who has been focusing on looking for missing kids.

Would you be mad if I said that Sunny's abilities is what got him taken? That it got him noticed and made him a target?

it would be so interesting to see the Super sons in this type of situation because they are smart and powerful with a lot of resources that Billy doesn't have, so it would be interesting to see how they would go about it (especially as outsiders to Fawcett City).

I will say though that the two of them would most likely never actually be targeted. They have large families that care about them (Wayne's are famous billionaires) so their disappearances would be noticed and investigated immediately which would be a major risk. And if they were somehow taken as Robin and Superboy, that would bring in people like Batman and Superman which would be an even greater risk. The only way the Super Sons would be attacked would be if they managed to get too close to the truth and needed to be taken out.

They target the most vulnerable people (namely the homeless) for reasons that will become clearer once Billy is abducted, but part of the reason is that people won't notice a missing street kid (particularly one that had technically been missing for some time). It's low risk and allows them to keep killing for as long as they want. It's one of the reasons Billy is in danger--he's fundamentally more vulnerable than other kids his age, more vulnerable than other heroes. He is in a very unique position to not only figure out what's going on, but also be part of the targeted population himself.

Lots to consider! I love thinking about these different aspects of the story with you!

#ask me whatever you want y'all #shazam #billy batson #dc captain marvel #fanfic asks #pretty little thing #sunny sparkle #I feel so bad for all these kids i'm killing in this story #but the angst is too good #honestly a huge part of why this story is so interesting to me is the fact that Billy is in more danger because of being a street kid #than he ever was because he was a hero #it's the fact that if he had been just billy and not also Cap he would likely have already been dead #it's such an interesting perspective

[villainsidestep]

cyrus becker hates fate bc it is real and in this essay I will-

#gideon shut the hell up challenge #sorry for randomly getting struck w becker sibling thoughts but #think abt it. pre-hb fawn and river’s fate motives would’ve been more positive ?? #they’re heroes !!! they escaped the farm !!! they managed to all stay together !!! #fate is on their side here !!! they get knocked down but they always get back up again !!! #and maybe he sees it as childish (they Are his ‘younger’ siblings after all - he’s allowed to tease them for it) but he just acknowledges #the work they’ve put in on their own and lets them have it. and it’s fine. But Then Heartbreak Happens #and if fate is real - if fate Ever had a hand in it at all - then that means that the story was always going to end this way #that no matter how much he fought for and clung to them he was always going to fail his siblings #and isn’t he still going down that path? isn’t he failing them further with every murdered civilian? with every injured ranger? #smth smth cyrus telling himself that everything he’s doing is his own choice bc the alternative is that if one of his siblings had survived #instead of him. they would in fact end up walking the same path (bc they were always together !!!) and the idea of that is Haunting #honestly this idea is unfinished I’m just Thinking Abt It #keeping up with the beckers

[wierdfanficwriter]

Fairies. Magical creatures usually seen as a symbol of hope and happiness. Villain hated it.

Fairies we’re expected to be kind. And any fairy that doesn’t fit the mold is thrown to the curve their wings clipped in half to stop them from flying; not even completely clipped off as to be a permanent reminder that they we’re broken.

Villain hated it so much, they hated seeing fairies. Especially when they summon their own clipped wings when tired out of instinct.

They hated it when their wings start to bleed magic when their out leaving a trail of black sparkles that look like ashes.

Hero loved fairies. They loved what they symbolize. They we’re a self proclaimed expert on fairies. They always wondered how any creature could be so great but it only added on to their love for the creatures.

Hero was ecstatic when they we’re given the mission of solving the insane amount of fairy magic all around the city.

What they hadn’t expected was to find out how shitty fairies actually are.

When the trail led him to the villain’s lair and then finding hundreds of cut fairy wings without a single sight of the other halves they we’re devastated.

When they we’re caught by the Villain they we’re in pure rage and had beat them to near death before leaving them there to die.

The Hero felt guilty about the blood on their hands but they could care less.

That was until he’d found fairies cornering one of their kind in an alley way and cutting their wings in half.

They we’re frozen. And in that split second? They noticed them. It was all a blur to the Hero after, rather that be because of what had happened or the hero’s own mind refusing to remember.

They’d woken up on what seemed like a medical quarters but they we’re sure it wasn’t the agencies’s.

Hero looked around spotting Villain sitting on an armchair in the room’s corner wings cut in half sticking out.

“Oh, your awake” Villain said looking at you with a tired expression, his wings retreating back to his skin hiding itself.

#writing prompt #hero and villain #hero x villain #imma end it right there #was there supposed to be an undertone of none-con? maybe #who knows honestly #might continue the prompt more #fairies #villain is a fairy #hero’s kinda shocked #he feels so guilty #lmao #but also he’d do it again #for now #Villain is trying to find a way to re attach fairy wings #even tho his is heavily guarded #using he/him pronouns as if they we’re gender neutral #Villain can fucking heal shit which is just so ironic

[fujii-draws]

:( The comic about Ribbons having a nightmare makes the one where she accuses Dusknoir of trying to come back into their lives scot-free hurt even more, ouch

Understand me

#YEAH. HER FEELINGS TOWARDS DUSKNOIR ARE… COMPLICATED #MORESO THAN AIMILIOS’S. #She’s so terrified of him. and seeing everyone else forgive and move on hurts her even more. #it hurts. it hurts so much. she doesn’t even want to restart with Dusknoir out of the fear of him hurting her again #Dusknoir would try so many times to talk and finally apologize to her. but Ribbons would just run away every single time #and honestly? he doesn’t even blame her. she has every right to not feel safe around him #eventually Dusknoir would prove himself to Ribbons that he’s genuinely trying. and isn’t going to hurt her. not this time. #(going into hc territory for a sec)>>> #after the run-in with the Pangaro with both of them returning to Sharpedo bluff injured; they’d finally talk. #anyways sorry for being autistic in the tags. her dynamic with Dusknoir post game is something I love to think about #like??? between hero and partner Dusknoir manipulated hero SO much more #Aimilios might’ve been devastated by his betrayal but Ribbons was destroyed by it

[fourswords]

zelda and shadow in the fsa manga drive me ridiculously insane actually. the panel where shadow is kneeling on the floor and zelda is standing there looking down at him and they're SEEING each other is enough to give me fucking RABIES. LOOK AT THIS

#IT'S ABOUT HOW THEY GO FROM ANTAGONIZING EACH OTHER AT THE BEGINNING TO ACTUALLY TRULY GENUINELY SEEING EACH OTHER AT THE END!!!! #HOW ZELDA GOES FROM 'You're no shadow! More like a faint and twisted echo! Even at his WORST Link would never be as crude and rude as you!' #TO 'Do you really think the light will hurt you? Don't you see? You are a Link‚ too. Deep inside‚ you're really a hero.' #AND HOW SHADOW GOES FROM 'Curse you... ...Princess Zelda!' #and. all the other things #TO BRAVING THE WORLD OF LIGHT AGAIN EVEN THOUGH HE'S WEAKENED AND PAINED AND TERRIFIED OF THE LIGHT #BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON WHO EVER SPOKE A KIND WORD TO HIM AND MEANT IT. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. NO REWARD. JUST KIND. #EVEN WHEN SHE HAD ALL THE REASON NOT TO BE. #SO HE TAKES VIO'S FORM AND TELLS THE OTHER LINKS WHAT'S GOING ON (AND EXPERIENCES REAL CONCERN AND WORRY FROM THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER #WHICH IS A WHOLE OTHER FUCKING POST) AND SHATTERS THE FUCKING MIRROR. SHATTERS HIS WHOLE LIFE. #BECAUSE SHE BELIEVED IN HIS ABILITY TO BE A HERO. BECAUSE SHE WAS KIND TO HIM. BECAUSE SHE SAW HIM. BECAUSE SHE *REALLY* SAW HIM. #BECAUSE HE WANTED TO SAVE HER. TO LIVE UP TO THAT KINDNESS. TO BE THE HERO SHE SAW IN HIM. LIKE!!!!!!!!! #i will lose my mind over it. i will genuinely lose my mind. #she looked at him as pathetic and weak and broken as he was and saw her friend in him. and she was kind. and so he sacrificed himself. #because someone was kind to him and meant it. head in my FUCKING hands. #sorry it's going insane about the four swords adventures manga again hours. but when is it not honestly #fsa #txt

[doctorweebmd]

unfortunately bungo stray dogs is the epitome of a show/story that would be so good if it was good

#it honestly drives me insane #the bones are THERE #the characters are THERE #the metaphors are THERE #you could have built a city but instead you built a playground!!!!! #i fear I must be insane and fix the things that are missing at once #don’t get me wrong I love bsd a lot. and I think asagiri is brilliant. #and he’s becoming a stronger writer the longer he’s writing #but have you considered that BEAST makes much more thematic character storyline motivation etc etc sense than the original? #part of what makes BEAST so good is the direct juxtaposition between that universe and the main one #if only if it was as well written and thematically consistent as my hero aca <- gets shot #but again. I love love love love bsd. I’ve been thinking about it 24/7 recently. #but compared to other highly rated anime’s I’ve watched recently #including mob and Dr stone and demon slayer and jjk #it has one of the weaker plot consistencies and cohesive storylines #…. so of course it’s the one I got ridiculously obsessed with #but ok hear me out I’m just gonna shit on some peoples faves real quick #it’s so much more INTERESTING than at least demon slayer and jjk to me #the characters and their relationships are much more enticing and memorable #but the storyline itself and giving the chance for the characters to shine is not the best

[teeth-draws]

Couldn’t sleep so sketched formal/ball!trouble from @shepherds-of-haven || view full size bc I don’t care to check ratios before I upload aaaa

#shepherds of haven #trouble alder #cog games #clochus is the demon I hate most of all because due to my stats I have to miss the ball and go with chase to avoid using a WOP #i would much rather be dancing n looking fine n you know maybe knocking over expensive things on purpose…! #this picture exists in a fantasy timeline where mc is not passed tf out and they find trouble somewhere after the party #he’s processing what just happened but also trying to figure out if his distaste for the grandeur of the party is something he can get over #we see how much party food we can ‘confiscate’ and have it distributed to the masses #thanks prihine!!! #so generous! #i know I don’t have any consistent art style right now like this was just a sudden sleep deprived need #and the hair…? teeth vs trouble’s hair vol. 39 #this party is the catalyst to shaving it into a mullet #torn between wanting to look hot and resenting conforming to the beauty standards of nobility #can you imagine him saving a bunch of nobles from a rabid demon and they look up towards their newfound hero and he’s sporting a mullet #look in his eyes like ‘I just saved your life I dare you to say something lol’ #love u trouble ur a g #+ honestly thinking about how he’s not just dense and gos with the most romance flags in the game #his low self-worth actually saves him from a lot of heartbreak considering more often than not mc DOESNT like him back in ‘that way’ #in favour of (often) his 2 best friends #BABES DW YOU HAVE FANS I PROMISE YOU #also do you think trouble weaponises puppy dog eyes or is he unaware of his most powerful weapon…

[twin-chains]

Timeline things

I figured out how to fit the BS games into the timeline!

In order to incorporate all the heroes for this AU, the TC timeline will be split up so that “every time someone time travels and makes significant changes in that time, a new timeline split is created” (so going back in time to complete the Temple of Time in Twilight Princess wouldn’t cause a new timeline for instance). Basically this rule means that a timeline is created where the person DID travel through time and a timeline where the person LEFT and life continues on without that person, as if they just vanished into thin air. It is much more confusing than Nintendo's timeline but bare with me

This creates 4 main timeline splits

when Impa travels back and forth to aid Zelda in Skyward Sword

when Zelda sends Link back to his childhood in Ocarina of Time (we already know this one)

when Veran possesses Nayru to travel between the ages in Oracle of Ages

when Zelda travels back in time in the memories in Tears of the Kingdom

(technically Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition doesn't combine or split the timelines but rather makes the timelines super unstable since Cia brought people to her time rather than traveled herself, more on that later)

Skyward Sword

When Impa travels back and forth in time to help guide Zelda (Destiny) as Hylia's reincarnation, she inadvertently brings Ghirahim with her and starts the events of Skyward Sword as we know it. This is known as the Master Sword timeline because Link (Chosen) ends up upgrading the white goddess sword into the master sword.

However, this means Impa leaves a timeline where she didn't time travel in the first place known as the Goddess Sword timeline. In that timeline, Destiny is not kidnapped by Ghirahim but does end up being drawn to the power of the triforce on the surface. Chosen and Groose try to help her but Chosen doesn't find the goddess sword and Groose (the first ancestor of the Gerudo) ends up sacrificing himself to help defend them. Destiny somehow ends up barely sealing Demise but without Impa's guidance, she accidentally fuses the pieces of the triforce into one singular artifact known as the light force. The hylians of Skyloft still descend to found the settlement of Hyrule but some creatures (who later become the Minish) stay in the sky and discover the untouched goddess sword.

Demise's monster army is still scouring the surface as Hyrule is being founded. So in the Age of the Minish that follows, the small race descend from the sky and bring the light force and the goddess sword (referred to as the Picori Blade) to the hylians to help defeat the monsters. The light force only responds to the new princess (Power) due to her goddess bloodline. The hero of men (Mighty) wields the Picori blade and seals the monsters of Demise into the Bound Chest, thus creating the legends in the intro sequence of the Minish Cap. The Picori Blade goes on to become the Four Sword in the events of Minish Cap. Based on this, the Goddess Sword timeline contains the Four Swords trilogy (Minish Cap, Four Swords, FSA) while the rest of the games exist in the Master Sword timeline.

Ocarina of Time

We already know how the adult timeline and child timeline split. The downfall timeline is also basically the same in concept. When Young Link tries to wield the Master Sword, there's a timeline where he doesn't travel forward in time or get aged up into Adult Link. Thus, Young Link is not strong enough to defeat Ganondorf and dies during their fight.

The Adult timeline contains The Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and Hyrule Warriors.

The Child timeline contains Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, Link's Crossbow Training, the Age of the Sheikah (first Calamity), and Breath of the Wild.

The Downfall timeline contains ALTTP, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, and Link's Awakening.

Oracle of Ages

In OOA, the Twinrova send Veran to possess Nayru and use her time powers to go back in time to light the flame of sorrow while Legend uses the Harp of Ages to collect the Essences to stop them. But by doing so, there is a timeline that Veran-Nayru leaves and Legend is able to defeat the Twinrova prematurely, without the flame of sorrow lit to resurrect Ganon. In that battle, as a last ditch effort, the Twinrova curse Legend with horrible sorrow before they are defeated. This causes him to carry this innate sorrow in his heart that is subtle at first and slowly grows over time but Legend is none-the-wiser and sails home.

When Legend is sailing home, he goes on the adventure in Link's Awakening. But because of his growing sorrow, he can't bear the thought of saying goodbye to Koholint or waking the Wind Fish, so he chooses to stay there and live in that dream world forever. This is known as the Dream timeline.

In the Dream timeline, it's unknown if Legend is alive or if he died at sea or is in a weird state of Schrödinger’s limbo. In Legend's absence, the monsters of his time return six years later and two young children Star and Sun are forced to take up the mantle. They do not have the hero's spirit (Legend holds it) but are endowed with the light of the goddess, going on to become the heroes of light in BS Ancient Stone Tablets. These two heroes also go on a very fast-paced adventure many years later in BS The Legend of Zelda.

The other timeline where Legend successfully completes OOA and Link's Awakening in canon is called the Reality Timeline. In the Reality timeline, Legend returns home successfully and can defeat the monsters that return with ease. Many years later, Legend's successor Clover does ALBW and then travels to Hytopia to become one of the Triforce Heroes with two other Links nicknamed Ember and Aqua. In the Reality timeline, Hyrule enters an era of peace for many years until the Era of Decline, when Fay becomes the hero of TLOZ and the Adventures of Link.

Tears of the Kingdom

When Zelda goes back in time in the beginning of TOTK, she creates a timeline where she becomes the light dragon and lives for over 10,000 years (which is the canon of BOTW and TOTK) known as the Light Dragon timeline. The young pre-Calamity Zelda would notice the dragon during her childhood and feel strangely drawn to the creature, she ends up pulling herself away from her Sheikah research sometimes to spend time trying to catch a glimpse or study ancient legends about dragons and Zonai. The events of BOTW and TOTK occur normally in this LD timeline.

In the timeline where she doesn't become the LD, Zelda solely focuses on Sheikah research and experiments with ancient relics, even re-activating a strange mini-Guardian she names Terrako. This is known as the Terrako timeline because when the Calamity hits, Terrako goes back in time to prevent the death of the Champions in HW: Age of Calamity (technically creating 3 timelines because Terrako time travels too but we're going to pretend it works out for now until another game comes out)

Hyrule Warriors

Normally, Hyrule Warriors is the game that connects all the OOT timelines because of Cia opening up the time-space portals between the eras, allowing for Breath of the Wild to come after. However in this timeline, BOTW occurs in the child timeline with Twilight Princess, which is why the past heroes mentioned in the Subdued Ceremony memory are “skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight”

Meanwhile, I put HW after Spirit Tracks when New Hyrule is founded and a new royal army is formed. Purely based on vibes in all honestly.

Instead of 'merging the timelines,' HW creates cracks and instability between the timelines, accounting for weird inconsistencies between eras like Majora's mask in Link's house in ALBW or a small subsect of the Zora evolving into Rito without the flood in the Child Timeline. Maybe that’s also how the TC heroes manage to meet up across time hehe

Although, there’s a particularly strong connection between the downfall timeline and the goddess sword timeline. Namely, the palace of the four sword can be found in ALTTP while Ganon and the dark world find themselves in FSA (since with Groose’s death, the Gerudo, and Ganon by extension, cease to exist). I like to think their worlds are unstable already due to their status as ‘failed’ timelines in a sense and messing with the hero’s spirit (fracturing it into 4 with FS and the weird limbo Legend gets into in the BS games). So to compensate for their unstable states, they start to bond together and share pieces from their world like electrons to form some semblance of stability and strength.

This was just supposed to be about accounting for the BS games but all this timeline talk kinda got away from me and became an essay, it’s fun to think about though!

#I like the idea that the heroes have to find the portals in each realm rather than portals just showing up whenever #make them work for it #maybe they have to identify the points of instability in every Hyrule #to find the monsters and move on to the next world #giving them a bit more agency in when they leave and giving them time to recover from battle #we shall see #honestly I always thought the four swords trilogy didn’t make sense in the main timeline #mostly cause it was made by different people but whatever #so I fixed it in my own way #by making the timeline worse mwahaha #twin chains #tc au #loz #timeline theory #loz timeline #I like to think in one timeline link gets to be with marin #but the world goes to shit without him #but he’s none the wiser #i made a timeline image but can't figure out how to upload it #if anyone wants to see lmk

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Begging for ppl to understand sonamy isn't canon

#ramblings #it's one sided!! it's always been one sided!! #the only place you could say it's canon is in boom but that's not the main continuity #i honestly don't care if you ship it but don't unironically say it's canon when it isn't #but it's never been anything but a one sided crush amy has on sonic in the main canon #like seriously she was never meant to be his love interest she was meant to be an admirer #sonic has never been interested in her romantic advances (or like. romance in general) #and that's ok! it honestly makes their dynamic more interesting imo #sonic who just wants to be friends and amy who now fully respects that but still has her unrequited crush and loves him more than anything #it's interesting! cool hero types usually get the girl by the end of their stories but sonic isn't about that #he's completely uninterested in that and it's actually kinda refreshing when media is still so heteronormative #once again we're talking abt game canon here not any other canon #but anyways sonic and amy aren't and probably won't ever be a thing. in fact sonic probably wouldn't get with anyone actually #there's no canon romance which is a good thing please keep it that way