i frequently think about kristophs black psyche locks and how its the first time phoenix sees locks like them, and how its secrets that the person arent even aware theyre keeping, and how breaking the locks forcefully can make the person suffer psychological damage. like kristophs final breakdown, also akin to the first case where kristoph tells apollo to break phoenix and his testimony
i also frequently think about [insane rambling under the cut]
i also frequently think about how kristoph never really truly made any attempts on phoenixs life. Yes, obviously kristoph ruined phoenixs career which might as well been his life, and he most certainly tried to frame him for murder, but during the 7 years of their relationship kristoph never tried to kill phoenix directly. he killed like 2 people and tried a third but he never made an attempt on phoenixs life, even when he probably could’ve tried the night he killed zak gramarye/shadi smith. you could argue that he gave phoenix the nail polish, but the thing is that 1) there was a chance that it wasnt actully poisoned, especially considering that he probably didnt have any opportunity to prepare it and he used it on his own nails, 2) there was absolutely no guarantee that phoenix would ingest the nail polish let alone use it OR give it to someone else. you could argue that it was some last resort (if it was actually poisoned), but by this point kristoph is aware that phoenix is investigating and pointing towards him so he was practically handing him evidence, even if it couldnt really be used well in court, it connected kristoph to vera just enough. kristoph had enough reason and enough repulsion towards both zak and phoenix, so why did he kill zak and just try to get phoenix out of the way? maybe it was easier and maybe it would prevent fingers from pointing towards him, and considering that he was going to defend the case he would have been put in a good spot to manipulate the trial. idk i think theres more rattling around in my brain but its just what i think about a lot post is done <3
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IC: "Ha, when I look back at the early entries in my grimoire, I realize just how far I've come... can you believe at one point, I struggled to learn one of the most basic arcanima spells?
Oh, look, I even ranked it three stars... no, no I don't think that's right anymore."
She takes her free hand, patting the numerous pouches hanging off her belt, before finally procuring a quill and a small ink bottle with a chipper "a-ha!" Inking the quill, she unceremoniously scratched out the offending rank, putting below it a rank of a single star.
"Ah, much better."
((credit where it's due: the blank book background is a template from dougitdesign on deviantArt!))
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Your regularly scheduled Starlight Strider Kirby headcanon:
Adeleine’s paintbrush is a comfort item to her. She’s had it since before ending up on Pop Star, and is the only tangible memory left of her old home, since the others are just… long lasting aversions to snow
She’ll use other brushes when needed, but she loves that one. It isn’t the cause of her strange power (that seems to stem from her human spirit), but she prefers it over anything else because of how special it is to her. Sometimes, she’s even found sleeping with it! She’ll often wake up covered in paint splotches and not know why until she realizes she was holding it like a stuffed animal. She also uses it when she has nothing to do with her hands, flipping it back and forth, or touching the bristles, or pretending to paint something when she isn’t actually painting
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"We're kinda fucked up, huh?"
“Yeah, I guess so. Two fucked up peas in a fucked up pod.”
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Paul and Emma have different ways of coping with surviving the end of the world.
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i finally finished a paulkins!!! this one is ~5.8k words and isnt even a third the length of my behemoth fic in the works hhhhh
this one (and all my wips lbr) have been haunting me for months and the writers block has been so real but i finally finished this one and im proud of it !!
happy birthday to our collective dad Nick Lang :D
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ok but be fr. like genuinely. do you think the poets might disagree?
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