#but with both still being hunters

[sylenth-l]

For anon who wanted Shiro/Tevis - here you go 👀 

#destiny #destiny the game #destiny 2 #my art #art requests #shiro-4 #tevis larsen #it's umm #shevis #i guess?? #anyway #they give me some serious titan/hunter vibes #but with both still being hunters #win-win situation for me honestly

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

#rain world #rw shipping #tagging that just cause this is explicitly about that even though I usually dont do shipping stuff #with that said i dont even think this particular interpretation of a possible dynamic needs to be romantic its just kinda #about companionship in general. companionship thats going to absolutely shred an already unstable slug emotionally but thats #the point. friendship and love in spite of the unavoidable ending #just noticed this is like 80% theme analysis and 20% 'these go together just trust me' #but also theyre both girls because i want them to and also because im channeling hornet from hollow knight #who made me so deeply ill that my rain world tags still havent outcompeted my Hk tags because i drew her so much. so so much. #hunter is hornet coded to me and artificer is like if angela and gebura from lc combined into a deeply fucked up ferret #also i did tag the poll because they kinda inspired this but also. i wasnt gonna put all this out here WITHOUT a readmore thats embarassing #but i guess this is propaganda for a ship already seen as popular but like... idk i think theres something to it even as someone #who did literally slap them together originally because they were both red slugcats i considered girls. predownpour so we didnt have anythi #anyway hi tag readers i have so much work to do im being bad by writing about gay slugs. i need to get myself together #its so late this might just be nonsense bwaaaaaaa

[thelilylav]

We only see each other at funerals

(On Jason, Thalia, Nico, Bianca, and their parallels/connections)

The Titan's Curse (Rick Riordan), @/anxiousmaya_, Right Now (Gracie Abrams), The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan), Joan of Arc (Mary Gordon), The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan), Episodes Toward and Elegy for Halley's Comet (Lindsey Drager), Jason Grace (Riordan Wiki), The Gods Show Up (Michael Kinnucan), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), What the Living Do (Marie Howe), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), Planet of Love (Richard Siken), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), Tangerine (Nolune), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), I Bet On Losing Dogs (Mitski), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/abhorarchive (Twitter), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), Seventeen (MARINA), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/rollercoasterwords, The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), @/the-overanalyst, Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley), Grit (Silas Denver Martin), Softcore (The Neighbourhood), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Frost (Mitski), @/moonbends, I'm Your Man (Mitski), Sun Bleached Flies (Ethel Cain), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Three (Sleeping At Last), My Art

#nono you don't understand it's about the siblings #it's about how thalia lost jason once only to get him back and lose him again #it's how jason and bianca both walked into their deaths with their eyes wide open #it's about zeus trying to kill nico and bianca and him doing nothing to stop jason from dying #it's about thalia being in the hunters and nico hating her but he knows how to grieve with that kind of loss #so he'll help her. for jason. for bianca. because no one deserves to mourn a sibling alone #like these four barely interact but they're soooo connected i could go on forever #i'm so sad thalia and nico never actually got a scene together after the burning maze #and ALSO #it's about the fact that reyna is one of the most (if not the most) important people left in their lives #LIKE #do you think thalia found out how close nico and reyna were and started watching her more closely #because every person the two of them have shared has ended up six feet under #so reyna gets annoyed with how protective thalia is but she doesn't stop her bc part of her can tell thalia needs it #and nico constantly checks to make sure reyna's life force is still strong #bc he never wants to be caught off guard by a death again #ok im done now i promise #the trials of apollo #trials of apollo #nico di angelo #reyna ramirez arellano #reyna avila ramirez arellano #web weaving #fanart #my art tag #thalia grace #jason grace #percy jackson #percy jackson fanart #bianca di angelo

[redrobin-detective]

Which Danny Phantom episode had the Coolest idea but the Worst execution

#danny phantom #like we all know DP as a concept was So cool and so underutilized #but what eps boil your blood because of HOW WASTED the idea was #for me its a srs toss up btw memory blank and masters of all time #MB could have been a great exploration of what if showing that dannys powers did have meaning and helped people #not to mention him taking control of the narrative and choosing himself to get his powers #butttt masters of all time could have been such an interesting exploration of why vlad is how he is the nature of being a halfa #and how both vlad/jack and fundamentally different people #(See my idea where halfa jack and maddie still marry and danny is born with his powers and vlad is a vengeful human hunter out to get them) #phans plz put in the tags why certain episodes destroy your souls! #Also sorry if I didnt include your worstie #I had only 12 spaces so I picked the 12 most egregious examples imo

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I've always felt that it'd be Killua who initiates the first hug we see between him and Gon

#i have my reasons for this #i feel like i'm in the minority though... i know gon is honest and much more emotionally expressive #but he's not actually more tactile than killua #i... i actually do think that it's killua who initiates much of the contact between them (fistbumps and poking and hand on shoulder) #if i'm not mistaken anyways #and he's very tactile with alluka and nanika (carrying + hugs + handholding) #granted that's his sister(s) but still. killua is far from touch averse - his getting embarrassed is a cute trait to be sure #but i do think he'll get a bit better at accepting that kind of thing once he's had some time with alluka and nanika #a lot of that does come after all from his feelings of unworthiness - and now that his sisters need open affection after so long being alon #he's going to have to gain at least some comfort with giving and receiving love #gon and mito go for hugs either at the same time or mito initiates. gon hugs leorio in the scene right after he's revived #but idk idk i just feel like he won't be the first to initiate a hug with killua especially since i suspect he still feels quite guilty #i think it would show growth on both their parts. not to mention it'd be very sweet to have gon a bit blindsided + happily surprised #as he's the one typically honest and forthright with appreciation and compliments while killua is. not. lmao #i think he should receive a nice hug from his best friend. and then i think they would both know it's gonna be ok. :') #storyrambles #hunter x hunter #hxh #killua zoldyck #gon freecss #this is so sappy. what's wrong with me. this is what they do to me.

[turochamp]

my au where theyre open season because i thought about it and liked it

#dungeon meshi #open season #kabru #laios touden #side note: did you know elliot is probs a whitetail deer and the rest of the deer in open season are most likely mule deer #here ive made laios a mule deer and kabru is obvi a blackbear like kermode bear maybe. he doesnt have the same boog backstory #but they would both have analogous backstories like laios gets kicked out for being a lyra heartstrings humanfanboy or something #oh also shaw is the winged lion and he still hits laios-deer with a truck even tho hes a bigass muledeer bc he has a bigger truck #in this i do think kabru is much more reluctant than boog to return but laios is way enthused for it #like the elliot drinking coffee scene with more weight or smth idk imagine shaw is a beautiful but evil 'big game hunter'=poacher #shaw as the winged lion i mean you have to imagine the cartoonish villain style im thinking like the villain from the missing lynx #doodles #ENJOY ALL #labru #boog as marcille would also work but i adamantly believe in open season as a gay romcom so i will not be making her kiss laios #i just dont think thats true

[effei-s]

the ungodly yell i let out when i saw this:

CAAAAANOOOOON

#why is no one talking about chrollo being meteor's poster child? #both being favored by the elders as a child and posessing meteor's signature tool of retribution as an adult #hxh #hunter x hunter memes #hunter x hunter #chrollo lucilfer #THERE'S SO MUCH LORE I STILL NEED TO KNOW

[goferwashere]

Can’t make a whole fic out of this one cut scene (well yes I can but I’m very busy rn) but for my AU I’m just picturing a scenario between SMM and Don where Don is still on bad terms with Joe and doesn’t know how to fix it. He’s more annoyed than actually upset, with basically no remorse for his actions.

He doesn’t treat Joe with the respect of an equal (clearly) and— being a fellow monster, he asks how he keeps “his human” (dragon chan (his BOYFRIEND)) “in line”.

Oh boy does that set Macho off.

He is geniunely upset because he loves him and that’s why they’re together?? Like

“He’s mine, but he’s not mine.”

The fact that Don viewed Joe as more of a pet than a friend becomes very apparent to Macho. And that is very eye opening for him.

Don views all monster-human relationships that way, and the fact that he would ever think of him and Dragon that way made him sick.

Macho is rightfully pissed off and tells Don that… you know… that’s his problem. Joe obviously figured that out in some capacity and doesn’t like being treated that way.

Don blows him off at first, but once he sits and thinks about it for a while, the gravity of how he’s been treating him all this time sets in. He goes into a full on panic.

also sorry if you don’t want to be tagged in this @oohbuggypie since it’s not a whole fic or anything but I know you were curious about everything that happened between Joe and Don in my fic so here’s a lil insight 👁️👁️

#punch out #punch out!! #punch out monster hunter au #don flamenco #super macho man #smm #punch out wii #my writing #also I promise part two is still being made #I’m almost done I swear #Don acts like a clingy ex boyfriend it’s hilarious 🤣 (it is not hilarious) #bro they’re both going through it 😈 #also sorry if you didn’t want to be tagged buggy #I’m just happy that you show interest in my silly little au

[northern-passage]

This is something that's been on my mind, and trying to find the right way to word it has been rough so I'm going to just give it a shot.

Will being friends or rivals with the companions affect our Hunter's chances of curing themselves of the Vel Rot? Would I have to befriend everyone to get the best chance of it being cured?

I'm hoping it won't work like that. It's clear that each character is confronting their own problem and the Vel Rot is the Hunter's, so where we stand with them shouldn't affect our chances of success.

But I wanted to ask just for a confirmation. Or a cryptic answer in case this borders on spoiler territory, lol.

i won't speak on curing the rot, but i'll say that the friendship/rivalry mechanic's main purpose is just to track how you treat the companions, and it will impact your relationship with that character and how it plays out over the course of the game.

there's already been a bit of branching with Lea specifically when it comes to how they respond to a rival hunter versus a friendly hunter; but neither locks you out of anything.

beyond that, you can lose humanity points for being cruel to your companions. this is a separate variable from the rivalry/friendship one (it's the humanity stat bar on the character page). and you can also regain some humanity by spending time with & speaking to your companions and forging those relationships, whether they be a rivalry or a friendship.

#hopefully this makes sense? #like you can have a rivalry with someone without necessarily being cruel #and still end up with both the hunter and the other character growing to respect each other #even if they dont necessarily. Like each other. lmfao #ask #anonymous

[drbtinglecannon]

My conflicted feelings on Hunter's interpersonal relationships

#toh hunter #toh willow #toh darius #huntlow #willow park #i am thrilled for hunter crushing on/admiring willow!! so very sad darius raine & eber didnt get to help him after hollow mind :( #still hoping we can get dadrius later i just cant imagine how those three didnt find him when he ran off unless they purposely didnt follow #i get why they wouldnt for fear of blowing their covers but also it was stupid not just cuz hunter is a kid & was traumatized but they #needed the info he saw. so like? idk maybe hunter just wasnt entirely upfront to gus about that either maybe they did find him but #he refused to go to the owl house & they didnt have anywhere so he was like 'hexside' & darius & raine being alumns were probably like #'kay hide here in the school also if bump finds you he acts like a hardass but is a pushover' #idk given how darius acted hearing hunter was in there & how they needed that info & also theyre responsible adults it feels strange #they wouldnt try to help hunter unless they legit couldnt find him but idk how he wouldve been able to outrun/escape them #regardless as bummed as i am about that detail i am actually extremely happy hunters friends care so much about him & that hes at hexside #toh labyrinth runners #actually wait hunter hiding in the stage/theatre area specifically tracks well with darius raine & eber found him but couldnt house him #cuz darius & raine as alumns who were also def theatre kids back in the day both know how to get to that spot & that itd be dead #*desperately trying to get my hands on all the interpersonal relationships* #tc posts #toh

[youmakemestrong]

i’ve been so angry about it for hours now and i just need to rant about it for a second because jesus christ could they have picked a WORSE person to “dissolve” the position of?

matt bragg was literally responsible for so many built maps in the golden age of AH and for many years after. he built minecraft maps and golf maps and curated GTA maps to make quality videos out of

the man provided so much content for this fucking company AS A FAN and continued to expend so much energy building things for content/even in this past year being like The main old school AH member guiding the newer members in games for them to just THROW HIM IN THE GARBAGE for fucking budget cuts or whatever

i hope warner brothers burns to the fucking ground for what they’ve done in various other parts of their company and especially for what they’ve done to rooster teeth, and completely for what they’ve done to matt bragg

#i've met him twice and both times he was the sweetest human being i've ever met in my life #he's good #he's so good and they tossed him out #i'm so fucking angry for him #i haven't been this angry since they tossed andy blanchard to the curb as well #i was never a believer of the 'rooster teeth is dying' people #but goddamn rooster teeth is DYING and i'm not going to give them my money anymore and it'll be going into the AH members twitch accounts #i do think matt will be fine as a full time twitch streamer purely bc people are genuinely angrier now than they were about ryan #always picked on never respected in fucking deed #anyway #thats all #i'm angry and upset and i love matt bragg so much #ah #rt #achievement hunter #rooster teeth #sam says shit #good post op #i guess #i'm still angry

[wkngsnds]

I really like the idea of there being chaos (funny chaos, not trauma chaos) but Hunter and Willow cannot be bothered because they’re just too busy cuddling having a picnic with their palisman like feeding each other fruits and pastries and drinking some non-alcoholic, caprisun-esque Apple Blood

Everyone’s trying to reach them but their penstagram and crystal balls are set to Do Not Disturb, they are not accepting crow calls at this time. Hijinks? No thank you. Schemes and Plots? Absolutely not. Their friends got into avoidable shenanigans? Too bad. They’re soaking up the peace, talking about nothing and everything while giving small smooches. They are about to take a nap in each other’s arms. Everything else comes after

#huntlow #I love the idea that Huntlow is shy when it comes to proper intimacy #like surface level flirting is easy (even for Hunter who is a bit more awkward than Willow but still makes her blush) #but actual romantic intimacy? they’re excited but they also both need to take it slow #hunter’s need is a little more obvious but remember Willow was bullied for years for being a late bloomer #so I would imagine she needs time to accept someone does genuinely feel that way about her

[meownotgood]

ex bf aki ex bf aki ex bf aki

ex boyfriend aki... I feel like if you decided to break up he'd be extremely respectful of your decision and try to avoid you as much as he can to give you space (and because it pains his heart every time he sees you). but even though it doesn't seem like it, he spends every day missing you and regretting the mistakes he made, wanting to just get the courage to ask you to be his again.

#it's clear as day whenever you see him that he still loves you #he always has this hurt look on his face but his eyes are still filled with so much warmth #he wishes he could be with you again #he'd give up everything in order to make that happen #his job as a devil hunter ended up being a huge source of stress for the both of you #but he wants to tell you that he's changed his mind and he'd gladly quit for you #more than anything he wants you to be happy #he's there for you when you need him to be and nothing more #ask mags

[kerryweaverlesbian]

I wish we had more Sam and Claire scenes, maybe there will be more further into season 11, because the fact that they were both abandoned by destiny. Is making me vibrate on frequencies henceforth unknown to man.

#“IT'S OKAY. I GOT TO KNOW [MY DEAD MOM] LATER I LIFE.” #IT'S MAKING ME CRAZY #sam went from being Thee luke skywalker of the series to having no mytharc for like 5 seasons #like yeah he was involved with the supernatural but he was getting flicked out of the room for people to talk to dean about dean's unwanted #magical destiny #the dean smith and sam wesson episode very clearly states that it is intrinsic to sam to want to believe in destiny and fate and #being born for something greater #and now that he's settled into his life - he tells both Charlie and his imaginary friend that he LIKES being a hunter #when the possibility of a Greater Purpose is still so enticing to him #and I think Claire would be the same. she's very easily manipulated or at least she has been so far. #to say 'your suffering was worth something' and not the reality of 'your suffering happened. full stop.' is very powerful to both of them #sam supernatural #claire supernatural

[crimeronan]

watching alfie become catastrophically enamored with lunter over the course of thanks to them was so fucking funny i LOVE showing toh to new people. everyone gets something slightly different out of it. and it is Literally Always Hilarious.

#there's nothing funnier than a relationship that has half your friends going 'oh theyre like brother and sister :3' #and half your friends yelling 'KISS. KISS. KISS. THEY NEED TO KISS RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD WHEN WILL THEY KISS' #me? i'm right in the middle baybey. best of both worlds i write them being super weird in ways that defy the usual dynamics. #the most essential thing in my luz hunter writing is that no matter where u stand on the sibling-to-romance spectrum #i want it to feel weird. not like i tripped and ended up in some boring '''just friends''' territory between the two dynamics #but that they are far too bizarre and tangled up together for both the romance And sibling truthers. gotta feel a little wrong for both. #and also a little right. their secret fourth thing (being completely fucking crazy people together. something is wrong with them) #i should get up and go grocery shopping now that ive napped a little. is this a risky post. we're not still doing bad faith ship wars right #lunter is good honestly i'm just never going to ship it without amity and/or willow there too. i dont do monogamous ships when i could not. #toh #horrible mindscape trauma pals

[quietwingsinthesky]

i guess it doesn’t make sense in leviathan!charlie verse for her to be keeping her mom alive in her coma, BUT. consider: leviathan!charlie who keeps human!charlie alive after she nearly killed her. halfway through her first meal on earth, and she got flooded with human!charlie’s memories and thoughts and it was so unlike the blind hunger of purgatory that she couldn’t handle it. but she can’t save human!charlie’s life, she went too far before she stopped and now human!charlie’ll never wake up, but she can’t let her go either, can’t face that becoming this version of herself cost someone else so much. someone she remembers being. someone she is in more ways than one. but also isn’t in even more.

#even better. sam and dean being forced to confront this. #that their friend. who they love and have helped out and let stay in their bunker. she’s still a leviathan. she is still a killer. #dean ‘once someone kills once they’ll do it again’ having to confront that especially #leviathan!charlie is so joyful and carefree and always on the move because if she ever stops she will be crushed by the weight of her past. #so just like regular charlie. but add a few thousand years more history in purgatory to it. #in this au the guy she hunts down as dark!charlie could either be the guy who killed human!charlie’s parents #(its both vengeance for the girl she destroyed in becoming. but also its borrowed its for herself its grief that isnt really hers that shes #using as an excuse for violence anyway.) #OR. dark!charlie hunts down other leviathans who have also settled down to be human. because she wouldn’t be the only one. #but she can’t face them and how they took their lives any more than she can face hers. theyre all guilt of the same sin. #if the winchesters won’t put her down for hers. if she’s their exception. well. she can’t let any other leviathan live. #because what if they kill again. (dean says that she won’t. she kills every week as a hunter. as a soldier in Oz.) #leviathan!charlie #charlie bradbury #spn