wondering whether i should like. talk about my situation at all?
(okay i ended up rambling in the tags so here they are)
i just want to say that im terrified. everyone i know, everyone i care about, could be dead right now. i have no way to know. its so scary. everything i know has been ripped away from me and im just. scared. i miss having a normal life and im sick of this. its been more than 3 weeks and i dont know when itll ever end. nowhere is safe and i dont know if my house is okay and i just want everything to be normal again
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Going through Fall of Reach again at 3x listening speed on my way to and from work this week because I guess this is how my life is now.
Say what you will about how it's just okay-tier gamer fiction because it is, but. But. It 100% establishes the duality of John's capability as a soldier and his vulnerability as a human person.
The earnestness of the character is lain out here, in our earliest non-game source, and I think that's so important to why I ended up caring so much about him. It's always been there. John's a weird dude because the UNSC brutally shaped him, cultivating that sincerity and feeding it with belief that everything being asked of him is necessary, he's the only one that can do it, and if he doesn't then the consequences for everyone he's trying to protect will be terrible.
No ego. No malice. All sacrifice for other people, because other people are what matters to him. John's loyal to the UNSC because it's what he knows, and the UNSC is his only source for information about how this is his purpose and the correct way to perform it. He is carefully and deliberately isolated in order to preserve this.
This is why it's possible to view him as a decent person, despite loyalty to the UNSC and our understanding of how fucked up the UNSC can be. Because of the lengths Halo goes to in order to establish John's sincerity and this fucked up violent kind of innocence, it's possible to want better for him and hope that somehow, someday he'll finally get to understand it all and maybe be okay. We can believe that if he ever did have and accept all the pieces, John would be able to adjust his view of the world and come to a place where he'd make choices that prove he's worth liking.
...Even if we know the odds of that are very, very against him getting that chance, and it's horribly sad.
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so it turns out i don’t need music to go to sleep but i do need music to wake up, else my brain replicates it incredibly loudly in my own head
this isn’t what’s just happened but if you know rex tremendae from mozart’s requiem. you will understand my fear when that’s the main thing i heard for a full dream and upon waking up
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ooouuuuuu eds dazai YES!!!! one time i dislocated my kneecap by sitting down wrong and my parents took me to the er but while they were getting ready to do tests i popped it back in on accident, i feel like dazai would absolutely do that to mess with people.
OH HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY DO WEIRD BONE THINGS ON PURPOSE TO FUCK WITH PEOPLE. i tthink its even funnier when its on accident though bc hes like.
i forgot what atsushi looks like. but like. i love the idea of him simply doing dislocations, subfluxes, and hyperflexing on purpose and on accident sooo much and people cant tell whats on purpose or not after a certain point. dazai emergency room and walking out of there perfectly fine my LOVE
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