I'm thinking about Sunday again and how we're shown that Robin is his weak spot over and over and really he probably wouldn't have slipped up if not for the people trying to exploit her death.
In 2.0 we see them hanging out together and the like but we don't see them interact much, Robin very obviously cares for Sunday but Sunday maintains a quiet atmosphere and professional facade and as such one could wonder how much he actually cares about her as his sister.
But then at the end of the quest we see the cracks start to show a bit. Sparkle pretends to be Robin and Sunday becomes enraged. Until then he's pretty subdued in his behavior in the aftermath, but the mockery of his sister's death is too great a slight and when Sparkle offers to pretend to be Robin so nobody gets suspicious, Sunday tells her to stuff it and go away which she does. It's a really telling scene that when Robin is involved his careful mask cracks down the middle and he begins to not think clearly or strategically because later in 2.1 it's noted he went back to accept the offer.
Aventurine notes that Robin's death is an entry point for the IPC to exploit but not for the overall Family, just for Sunday. Sunday is reeling to find control with the other heads pressuring him and the IPC closing in like a pack of hungry vultures. Sunday was always alone except for Robin and they're both pretty aware of the corruption as Sunday is desperately trying to root out the traitor while Robin left and is helping him research Death. Aventurine knows this and he knows Sunday is off balance and prone to overlooking things in his rage and grief that's potent in everything he does after 2.0's quest. Sunday went to Ratio for informatiom because he understands Aventurine's a threat needing to be taken seriously and he needs to handle him quickly and efficiently and that makes him sloppy enough to get duped by the Jade cornerstone.
When Welt and Acheron investigate his office they find all the letters and lists and investigations into the problem but they also find a beloved lightcone of a young Sunday watching his sister preform on a toy stage. Robin is noted as finding this preformance her favorite and most cherished one. Is Sunday clapping to applaud her or is he keeping time for her? Sunday keeps things running himself so she can free to persue her dreams. He does care about Robin, they really only have each other.
Finally... Gallagher. You really see the persona Sunday puts on finally shatter all at once. This is the man who murdered his sister and who's caused him so much trouble and stress. Nobody's around to fool, nobody's around to witness, and you finally see all his pent up rage and grief spill out. That's his mistake, he's so distracted letting out his bottled up feelings Gallagher's able to get him before he can even react.
Small side analysis, Robin's name and signature song come from the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. She's an American Poet who mostly wrote works of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. We haven't see much of Robin but she seems to match Romantacism, a literary movement that focused on emotion and individualism with no regard for logic. Sunday seems to match Transcendentalism, a literary movement that focused on the relationship between humanity, the divine, and nature with little regard for science. The three aspects of Transcendentalism also match Xipe's motif of threes, like their three heads.
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Hrnrnrn little drawing of @inazumaneko 's sun from their fic don't spare your gaze!
I'm not caught up on the fic but I love it a lot
Close up under cut yay
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So I was pinballing between working on this and working on the ORV fic for AGES (i.e., got distracted writing one and went to write the other one) and I finally fucking finished it at 1am last night. I don't think a single one of you are here for Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but I've had a personal relationship with the franchise for a long time and it's special to me in a weird, roundabout way. This is also spite fic.
80,000 words of traumatized gay baby bootcamp, free love in military barracks, and the springtime of a young woman's youth dropping...later today? Time to finally close the 20+ scientific articles on schizophrenia.
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sometimes people shit on bylers for using the "imagine if one of them was a girl" argument, but its not even a joke. if mike were a girl, his friendships with lucas and dustin would still look like friendships. if will were a girl, no one would question that he's in love with mike but still best friends with the others (the same way that its obvious none of the guys are in love with max like lucas is).
byler has an inherently romantic dynamic that we dont see with the other pairs in the show, other than the explicitly romantic ones (lumax. jancy. rickie), and its so bizarre that people are so adamant that theyre just Two Guys Being Dudes, because we SEE that dynamic elsewhere, and its NOT with byler.
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me: surely there is no character more wildly misinterpreted by fanon than jaskier
me: anyway time to finally watch omfd
popular blorbo izzy hands: hello
me: i’ve heard about you. i’m sure you have many redeeming characteristics and aren’t just straight up terrible. there’s surely no way you’ve been woobified to within an inch of your life
popular blorbo izzy hands: yeah about that
me: oh no
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i wish jaime’s arc was never this heavily associated with the word redemption bc every single discussion about him revolves around that word and the baggage people have with it. i know george repeatedly used it when it concerns him, but i obv do not think that means his arc is as simple as going from bad to good in a linear fashion. but it is about transformation imo. if it was just about a perspective shift/recontextualization then why would george make him lose the thing that defined him in every way and allowed him to detach himself from everything? it is also not an elaborate trick and a subversion of “redemption arcs”, that is also a reductive and cynical read of it to me. his nuances are never discussed beyond “bad guy is good guy now” or “guy is tricking u he is still stagnant.” imo his motivations evolve, his relationship with the self evolves, his relationship with abstract concepts he craves such as honor, love & knighthood evolves, he evolves: he is one of the characters that is in constant motion, he is always on a journey, he is rarely at a standstill after he leaves the dungeon in acok. it makes me so sad that nothing new is said about him atp other than fandom going in circles about this one word, especially bc i think he is at a key transitional point again right now. i think his arc is about tearing down the “brave golden knight” image in every way until you are left with nothing but harsh reality and a broken cripple. it is tearing apart facades & personas. and then it is the story of what one can make of oneself then. it is about grueling moral dilemmas and the making of choices. and then finally it is about the idea of confrontation for someone who has always been incredibly afraid of it and repeatedly chose to run away inside instead. george deliberately made it so he can no longer do that. that must lead somewhere.
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Whumptober day 21: Coughing up blood
“They are not dead. They are not dead. Right? They cannot be dead. I did not kill them. I did not tell the joltiks to kill them!” After speaking so much, Emmet could not catch his breath and he clutched at Ingo’s coat lapels, eyes pleading with the man as he coughed weakly.
from THE fic ever, The Good In Me by @ingo-ingoing-ingone
VERY painful but in probably the BEST way imaginable. it hurts me but it feels so so good. it's written so SO very well.
anyway. i CANNOT BELIEVE i forgot to post this earlier 🤦
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