#cain and abel trope

[blazerwyvernmaster]

Gavin and Geline

Gavin and Geline are the twin heirs of House Gilden of Vanar. Gilden is known for its military might and incredible cavalry, so of course, the two trained to be cavaliers.

Growing up, Gavin was often treated with less favor and care than Geline. He was treated harshly and forced to become self reliant. Even his teachers never really focused to heavily on him, their reasoning being that he must have been more capable and did not need to much help.

Geline's like was filled with constant coddling and praise. While she was allowed to fight and train, she always felt like she was constantly being held back because people thought she was weak and frail. She rarely saw a day where she was treated normally.

The two envied each other. Gavin wanted to be shown more love and affection, and Geline wanted to be trusted seen as competent. And despite Geline's attempts to forge a relationship between her twin brother, Gavin seemed to want to avoid her.

Eventually, Gavin grew tired of being mistreated and left. Geline, worried about her brother and also wanting out, left with him. The two joined the Silver Lances later.

Gavin, while kind, doesn’t tend to make many friends easily because of his blunt and maybe even rude behavior. Above all else, he aspires to succeed at everything he does, and hates the idea of failure. Gavin is extremely harsh to slackers and those who receive unwarranted praise, and rookie fighters,This has caused him to resent his twin, Geline. Gavin tries to force them to grow stronger or avoid them altogether. He admires those who are stronger than him and looks up to them, hoping to be as strong one day.

Geline is more upbeat, sociable and cheerful. She enjoys caring for her friends and any animals she can find. Geline also has a fear of failure, but also fears being seen as a burden to her allies. She gets in training where ever she can and seems to hope she can impress people around her. Especially her brother. She feels like she has to try and repair their relationship in some way or another.

They're my Cain and Abel trope for TC. Gavin has more strength and skill and has an affinity for lances. Geline has more speed and defense and had an affinity for swords.

Fun right?

#fantasy #my ocs #fire emblem #srpg #trpg #writblr #gachaoc #hero forge #dnd #tc #Tathylia Chronicles #cavalier #cain and abel trope #christmas cavaliers

[hunkydorybaby]

my favorite flavor of sibling is Betrayal

#e tu brute goes so hard #something abt betraying the ultimate bond of sibling hood is so crazy #I know Brutus and Julius aren’t siblings but they have that bond ok #ides of march #Brutus and ceaser #cain and abel #sibling rivalry #sibling betrayal #betrayal #tropes #arcane #jinx league of legends #vi league of legends #stanford pines #stanley pines #gravity falls #eda the owl lady #Lilith too #toh #the owl house #mp100 #shigeo kageyama #ritsu kageyama #mlp #my little pony #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #Caleb toh #Phillip toh

[dr-george-ordell]

FOUNDER - O5-1 - AARON SIEGEL

@kimandpasta

Cain, José Saramago/Song of the Insensible, Andrew Kozma.

#another time #franklin siegel #aaron siegel #sibling tragedy is my favourite trope #scp foundation #scp #scp fanfiction #scp fanart #scp fandom #art #traditional drawing #traditional art #traditional sketch #pencil art #writing #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction fanart #ao3 #abel and cain #web weaving #o5 1 #o5 1 the founder

[drewtanakagf]

yah so cain and abel parallels. everyone give it up for cain and abel parallels

#yet the calore brothers are an awesome subversion of the trope. cal doesn’t die #maven does #cal is abel in thsi case revered trusted the flame while maven is the shadow cast off to the side #i think its just more impactful that cal has to deal with the fact that despife all hes done for maven it wasn’t enough #it never was going to be enough #bc while cain was bitter and wanted abel to suffer abel loved and trusted him still #STILL!! throughout!!! despite!!! #so no. abel doesn’t die. cain does. the love wasnt enough to save abel and it wasn't enough to save Maven #maven calore #cal calore #red queen #red queen series #I NEED to make a calore brothers web weave 😩

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Despite everything he tried, the Inspector was unable to

prevent Romulus from killing Remus, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the creation of the Roman Empire.

#Inspector Spacetime #Cain and Abel (trope) #Cain and Abel #the Inspector (character) #Romulus (mythical person) #Remus (mythical person) #Romulus and Remus #despite everything he tried #the Inspector was unable #to prevent #Romulus killing Remus #it had to happen #setting into motion #a chain of events #that led to the creation of #the Roman Empire #myth #foundation myth #foundation of Rome

[krakensdottir]

A scene I wanted to address, because I think we need to, because there is some understandable concern over this.

So, Aziraphale's first taste of human food... he goes pretty nuts. He eats it as fast as he can get it down. He can barely stop to breathe. And I can see why that evokes the Greedy Fat Person trope for some.

Given that Gaiman is no fan of fatphobia, I'm pretty sure that's not the intent. But I won't lean on that. I'll go further, and explain what that scene evoked for me, and see if it makes sense to anyone else.

(To preface, I'm a fat person with blood sugar problems who DOES eat like a starving animal and has 0 shame about it. So I'm not just Not Seeing It because of skinny privilege etc. To get that out of the way.)

So first off, of course, it's his first EVER attempt at eating human food. The absolute lack of moderation could be explained by that alone. But I think it's significant that it's specifically meat.

Those who are familiar with the Old Testament know what I mean when I say that God is carnivorous. It's the entire reason he was a bitch to Cain and not to Abel. The Abrahamic god was one of many at the time that accepted burnt animal offerings, before later revisions attempted to wave that away because oops, it sounds too pagan. Flesh of livestock was a common and expected offering, and burning it assured that the smell and smoke and 'essence' would rise to the heavens.

With that in mind, consider what the taste of meat would do to an angel. What it might awaken in them, the first of God's creations?

Maybe it's the monster-lover in me, but I didn't see a fat man gobbling food. I saw an inhuman ancient entity of immense power that only disguises itself as a man, briefly succumbing to a primal and Earthly urge. It wasn't comical to me. It was almost frightening, in a very intentional way. Rarely do we see through the human guise in this series, see just how eldritch these ethereal beings really are, especially Aziraphale. But here he is, ripping almost uncontrollably into the flesh of another life-form with ominous music and thunder overlying the whole scene, and a demon staring at him with intense satisfaction and fascination throughout.

That's what I took from it. If I had to guess, I'd say that's closer to the intent. Again, partly from knowing the author, but also from the way the scene is shot. We're watching an angel partake in literal pleasures of the flesh for the first time, taking formerly living matter into his body. I can totally vibe with Crowley's reaction, tbh.

#go s2 spoilers #good omens #I know we know they're not human but I think the implications of that are often missed #and I think it's VERY significant to understanding the tone of this scene

[sword-dad-fukuzawa]

trigun is so obscenely Christian and unfortunately perverse depictions of Christianity with violent subversions and inversions of specific tropes is my personal crack cocaine. you just have to whisper “there’s a character who’s a Jesus allegory but also he’s tortured about it and also he’s doing it because he feels guilty not because of divine command and also he’s Cain but also Abel and and and and” and I’m gone

#trigun

[curseanon]

The Issue with Eden Polycule

So I wanted to articulate my thoughts on a relationship that ive seen in fandom spaces and lots of fan art or fanfiction. I don’t have any opinions or problems with Adam/Eve/Lucifer/Lilith, but I feel like there are some implications and tropes that we should be more careful about when it comes to Eve/Lucifer/Lilith or even just Eve/Lucifer. Before getting into it though, just a disclaimer: this post is not about polycules in general. It’s not my cup of tea personally, but ship whatever you please! This post is just me rambling about my own thoughts. Feel free to have your own interpretations. ALSO! None of this justifies Adam’s behavior. He is responsible for his decisions, including his cruelty towards people, language, and his decision to essentially wage mass genocide each year. And this post isn’t to say that this relationship drama is the sole reason why he ended up doing exterminations.

1. I don’t really like portrayals that have Lucifer/Lilith (L/L) sleeping with Eve and having her cheat on Adam, especially when it takes place in Eden. I’m afraid Vivzie might have this narrative take place in HH, but doing so does a real disservice to Eve’s (and Lucifer’s if he acted alone) character by having her be willing to cheat, and also does a disservice to Adam by having him be cheated on for reasons that are probably not entirely his fault. Not to mention a lot of media where this happens often has the tone of just “haha let’s cuck Adam twice,” which comes off to me as petty and unfair. Not only is it not a funny joke, but it essentially reinforces and justifies Adam’s misogynistic tendencies later. Especially the ideas that women are promiscuous, always willing to cheat and be unfaithful. The narrative would do nothing to disprove this if BOTH of Adam’s wives did in fact cheat on him.

2. Another thing about Eden. Lilith was Adam’s first wife, literally created for the purpose of being his partner. This is also pre-Apple, meaning that Adam has no concept of right vs wrong. The way he acts, if he truly was controlling and mean and the story book wasn’t exaggerating (which I doubt), is entirely the programming of the angels and the way they tolerate or enable his behavior. Assuming we went with the theory that Adam never ate the apple, it’s the same situation with Eve if she left him and/or cheated with L/L. The way I see it, Lilith’s cheating on Adam is not justified, even if she disagreed with Adam on certain things.

3. I also want to note that cheating on one’s partner is not a justifiable punishment for Adam’s behavior. Whether pre or post apple (now assuming he did eat it), I see it as fighting fire with fire, and all it usually does is create even more hostility and problems than if the person just clearly broke off the relationship first. L/L/E runs the risk of inadvertently encouraging unfaithfulness in relationships and marriages as solutions to a problem, but this is rarely the case. As stated earlier, it only makes Adam justified in acting the way he does. And with that justification, is he really in the wrong for how he treats women? What reason does he have to change his behavior if he is right about them? I could probably accept both wives leaving him if the purpose is to justify Adam’s behavior and not just mock him, to show how morality is not just black and white and the villains sometimes have justifiable reasons for thinking the way they do. But it still seems very shallow on Lilith and Eve’s parts.

4. This part is just my opinion on L/L/E, but I don’t find the idea of Eve getting with the people who caused her to lose Eden very convincing. L/L are the reasons her and Adam were cast out of the garden and made to live for centuries laboring to survive, farming cursed ground and painfully delivering several children. Not to mention the bringing of sin and death into the world, losing Abel at the hands of his brother and Cain being cast away to wander the Earth. All the suffering she faced in life and the suffering of all of her descendants, all of humanity. Her sleeping with Lucifer makes no sense to me unless he seduced her (when she was more naive, maybe even pre-apple) intentionally, either for the purpose of hurting Adam or if he did just love her also, which makes him complicit in ruining someone’s marriage. None of this fits with Lucifer’s character, a malewife who adores his Tall Queen and comes off to me as being very loyal. The idea of open marriage is better, but Adam does not seem like the type of guy who likes to share anything, and his marriage is very clearly between Adam and Eve. That controlling personality indicated by the story book leads me to see him as likely having some jealousy and possessiveness (though not in extreme ways).

5. The only other option is Lucifer sleeping with Eve after her death and if she goes to hell, since we know Adam and Eve lived a thousand years married together on Earth, starting humanity. But I don’t see any reason for this. We need much much more information about Adam and Eve’s relationship and all four of their relationships’ to each other in general first before we can talk more about this. But until then, I don’t see any reason to break up Adam and Eve unless there’s some importance to it in the narrative. For me, I see Adam’s womanizing in heaven as a sign that Eve is probably not in heaven. And thinking that he’ll never see her again because “Hell is forever,” he eventually becomes bitter and jaded over thousands of years and decides that his relationship with Eve must be over then. Possibly the same case with Eve in hell, somehow leading up to sleeping with Lucifer. But considering she’s no where to be found with L/L and Lucifer only references her once, there seems to be zero indication of anything between them.

6. To briefly touch on the idea that once in heaven, Eve eventually left Adam because of his horrible personality and womanizing. This is still possible, but it seems like WAY too big of a personality shift to go from married and raising a family for a thousand years to suddenly being a massive asshole and a philanderer. Something must have happened that magnified all the worst aspects of his personality. There’s no way he is the same today as he was in Eden or on Earth. If he is, that’s just shitty lazy writing on Vivzie’s part and Adam is nothing but a one dimensional villain with no depth at all. Massive waste of a character with huge potential.

Tl;dr This post is already too long so I’ll just summarize everything. Although I agree that Adam is definitely an arrogant and annoying villain, Lilith and Eve cheating on adam is unjustified imo, there is no reason for Eve to cheat on Adam or leave him at all from what we can tell now, and her having any relationship with Lucifer also makes no sense considering what his choices turned her life into. But let me know your thoughts on all this, if there’s some point you want to make or a disagreement on something else!

#hazbin hotel #eve hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel eve #hazbin eve #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin adam #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel lilith #hazbin lilith #hazbin lucifer #adam x eve #eden polycule #hazbin headcanons

[literalite]

character/story influences tag

rules: write up a blurb or make a visual collage of the people or characters (from books, TV shows, movies, etc.) that inspired your story and/or OC, either visually, personality wise, or just a general vibe

thanks for the tag @tricoufamily :DD i am tagging @gunthermunch @lucidicer @itsmariejanel @orphyd @goldenwaves this is FUN u should do it. thank u

medias/characters meet me in the woods: man in the dark (paul auster), orlando (virginia woolf), lord huron's entire discography, specifically meet me in the woods and the ghost on the shore, the godfather 1972 (barely), age of adaline 2015, the old guard 2020, this specific cc cross, and reading homer's the iliad in my final year of high school. somehow don't go where i can't follow: the raven cycle (maggie stiefvater), his dark materials (philip pullman), adventure time 2010-2018, mitski’s bury me at makeout creek album, next of kin by alvvays, bite the hand by boygenius, matilda (roald dahl) (jokingly), horrible no good homoerotic teenage friendships, the chosen one trope, and this post by tumblr user @/louisegluckpdf. also my life which explains why the aesthetic is completely disjointed RIP violent affairs (with @lucidicer): nbc hannibal, bones and all 2022, arachnids, ethel cain’s preacher's daughter, sir chloe’s i am the dog album, mine and olli's deranged combined mental energies mutually focusing on t4t cannibalism  vinny reign: matt murdock (netflix daredevil), joel miller (tlou), the fallen angel painting by alexandre cabanel, caravaggio paintings, catholic guilt, arsonist’s lullabye by hozier caleb vatore: those italian twinks that renaissance artists kept referencing to paint religious figures, dorian gray, orlando, timothee chalamet (LMAO), the reveal that the noo don’t kill yourself you’re so sexy guy is a twink [redacted] morrow: gojo satoru, howl pendragon (studio ghibli), jay gatsby, kageyama shigeo and also a bit of reigen arataka (mp100), ronan lynch and gansey (the raven cycle), eden's entire discography, birdcage by novo amor, mercy by sir chloe, myself ophelia griffin: ophelia painting by john everett millais, blue sargent (the raven cycle), clairo, phoebe bridger's discography, strawberry blonde and your best american girl by mitski, clairo’s immunity album, the first crush i ever had manny pluto: yotasuke takahashi (blue period), tbh a lot of blue period in general, alhaitham (genshin impact), adam parrish (the raven cycle), a hint of geto suguru, working for the knife by mitski nayef al karim: spiders, abel AND cain, julian slowik (the menu 2022), hannibal lecter (yes obvious i know but moreso the focus on fine dining as opposed to the psychology), stewy hosseini (succession), inbred by ethel cain

#this is the THIRD version of this post because v1 got posted by accident while it was half finished so i hastily privated it #and then the second got erased because my tumblr decided to save the wrong version and wiped all my progress #this literally took me days to think through please appreciate LMAO #dgwicf outtakes #meet me in the woods #violent affairs #vinny #caleb #a* #ophelia #manny #nayef #seph.txt

[crescentroscs]

sasuke week 2023 // day seven: happy birthday sasuke!

July 23rd

[ID: Four blue-purple gifs themed around Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto.

First gif: two gifs blended together, an older Sasuke with a sword and a younger Sasuke with a kunai. White text reads: "Happy Birthday Sasuke Uchiha"

Second gif: three wide gifs stacked, each displaying a Sasuke-themed song. The top one shows "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Them against a young Sasuke. The middle one shows "Anything" by an Unkindess against an early Shippuden Sasuke. The bottom one shows "Children of the Empire" by Weyes Blood against a late Shippuden Sasuke.

Third gif: four smaller gifs, each displaying a trope related to Sasuke paired with an appropriate scene. "VILLAINOUS BREAKDOWN" has a laughing Sasuke; "SHŌNEN RIVAL" has a young Sasuke and Naruto; "TRAUMATIC SUPERPOWER AWAKENING" has Sasuke awakening his Mangekyou Sharingan; "CAIN & ABEL" has Sasuke and Itachi the night of the massacre.

Fourth gif: Baby Sasuke with a confetti animation. White text reads "7/23" with the head of chibi sasuke to the right of it wearing a party hat.

End ID]

#sasukeweek2023 #naruto #narutoedit #userblues #usergif #anisource #IT LOOKS SO BLUE I'M SORRY PURPLE TRUTHERS #i made this in like two days and you can tell but #it be like that sometimes #sasuke uchiha #*mine

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

i'm pretty sure this is how toga sees herself (but, of course it's because of how society saw her) - a grotesque parody of a femininity. the last two chapters were about how toga was unable to actually love herself, hence why she asked ochako if ochako thinks she is cute and has that relieved look on her face when ocha tells her that she's the cutest. she wants to like herself and be happy with the way she is.

On the risk of sounding idiotic, I'm to say that the League of Villains is my favorite part of bnha for the way Horikoshi sells what essentially is a group of unadaptaded social failures to the readers.

On the risk of sounding pretentious, allowe me to apply terms like "mythological" to the symbolism of the League of Villains, terms like "visceral" to the emotional execution of their arcs. By that of course I'm referring to the archetypes Horikoshi chooses to select for them, the tropes he plays with. The oldest son who despairs when his father denies him his heritage. The young maiden who is lovely and joyful but by her power is perceived as an ugly evil hag. They boy king chosen and named by misfortune.

But so much more.

Horikoshi assigns the metamorphosis trope to Tomura so it can symbolize his awakening to real evil, but he simultaneously uses the same image to stablish AFO'S influence over Tomura, nothing but a butterfly on a spider's web. Patricide and matricide and horror offsprings, kids that work as bad omens, men that look like living corpses and later bloom in beauty representative of malice.

He uses motifs like the maiden, the mother, the crone on Toga, themes of monstrous femininity as perceived by society. Cannibalistic sparrows bursting out of her belly in dreams, Toga shaving her skin and it melting all around her every time she shapeshifts, the very-on-the-face picture of Toga as a twisted old witch towering over Ochako. Female emotions naturally perceived as threats for being irrational or erratical. Obsessive love and apparent vanity guiding her actions.

Dabi's the jealous brother, the fallen prince, he's the orphic messenger emerging from the depths of the underworld to share the judgment of the Hades. He's called a demon. All the Frankenstein references, his desperation among ice and snow, the liturgical aspect of the name he choose: Dabi, cremation. Horikoshi dresses him in white to go to the final battle, changed the color of his hair like the changing of seasons, made him cry blood.

When the Leagues of Villain suffers, the pannels look almost biblical, ritualistic. It's the mythos of it all, for me.

Like when Curious held a bloody Toga in her arms, speaking of martyrs and journalistic storytelling, Toga made some sculpture from the renaissance for the way her limbs hanged, the light illuminated her. She was Jesus Christ dead on Virgin Mary's arms in that panel, cold, lifeless, tragic. She's the fallen angel coleric eyes staring at her enemies from over her shoulder/arm. She's Judith with the head of Holofernes, she's the "witch" getting burn on Salem for something though they saw thought they heard throught did happened.

It's the stigmata on Tomura's hands, the father (AFO), the son (Tomura) and the holy spirit of them both (the original quirk of AFO himself). He's the demigod proving himself on trials so he can obtain the blessing of his divine father. He is the twice orphan coated in darkness when the triumph finally comes. He got an town kneeling in front of him, swearing loyalty; he is a prisoner of his own body, his entire life is surrounded with hands as if to remind it how there was no one to save him now or then, except for the devil he had to make a deal with.

Dabi is Icarus, wings on fire falling to the ocean, he is the son of Icarus, repeating his mistake once again. He is Phaeton on Helios chariot, burning as he descends, threatening as he rides to burn the heavens and freeze the earth. He's Cain trying to kill Abel, he is Esau, fighting to get his birthright back. He's the prodigal son, he's Lazarus coming back to life, he's Judas himself selling Twice for what he thought was a good deal, he's the angel raining fire on the sins of men.

On the risk of losing my mind, those are not only vehicles of the narrative to convein meaning, but it's also what them (Tomura, Dabi, Toga and all the members of the League of Villains), have been feed by society. I deeply apologize for ranting on your ask, anon, but you're so right it inspired me.

We know Horikoshi made a whole point of telling us AFO is obsessed with comic books and most recently, he presented through a flashback of the League the idea that the internal storytelling of bnha is quiet important to the development of the plot. Heroes and villains are a narrative the enemy used to create to identify their rivals, something that later evolved from comics to real life. When Toga rejects taking a name, it's the same as when she rejected becoming just a story for Curious to write or AFO to guide. When All Might and every other hero talks about the League, is always on those weird narrative guidelines.

So what Ochako does is rejecting that narrative creates by society, getting pass all the lies and all machinations and judgement and prejudices and all the expectations, so she can finally reach the real Toga. Similar to how we see Endeavor asking Touya to tell him how he feels. He wants to hear it from him, to listen and comprehend now that he's ready, he is getting rid of all that cultural baggage that's not working, cleaning the dirt from his eyes. And what Deku is yet to do: find Tenko among all the darkness and barriers AFO created on Tomura and pull him out.

Touya, Toga, Tomura, they were deep within the narrative, incapable of saving themselves 'cause they were incapable of seeing past their trauma and hurt. Therefore, the importance of the UA kids recognizing the falsehood of the morals of the hero society and changing those in time to save not only the world, but the victims such beliefs had left.

HOLY SHIT THIS BECAME AND IMPROVISED META SORRY ANON. YOU DID NOT ASK FOR ANY OF IT OMG. YOU WERE ONLY ANSWERING MY TAGS ON A PREVIOUS POST. SORRY SORRY

#I have two modes: either I don't respond at all or I write an entire small book as a response #sorry :( #shan's asks #bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #league of villains #lov #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha 393 #toga himiko #dabi #tomura shigaraki #toya todoroki #touya todoroki #tenko Shimura #bnha manga spoilers

[itsjaywalkers]

hi!! you said fake dating was your fav trope - do you have any fake dating fic recs?? tysm!!

ofc i do!! u guys know i'm a library of jeggy fic recs atp.. but okay, some of my absolute favs are:

blue and yellow skies by my beloved @alarainai

lights out, hearts out by my dear @regkitek

operation walburga's arbitrary no kissing ever rule by my love @courfee

of bluebells and deception by the lovely @lucy-andreas

when cain kills abel by the brilliant @avorra (this is one-sided fake dating which is SO FUN and SO HEARTBREAKING)

fake it til you make it! by the amazing @maybebabyplease

king of my heart by my baby @pupmotif

(i also have a few in my tbr that look absolutely delightful but since i haven't read them yet i chose not to include them but !! yes all of these are incredible nonnie, i can't recommend them emough <3)

#asks #anons #fic rec

[jessaerys]

if i'm being totally honest part of the reason why m-ttm-llo gets on my nerves (well it gets on my nerves in a fun angry dopamine hit kind of way. i love getting mad about it the stakes are SO low and a girl’s gotta get their hatearade somewhere) is because i AM a void-cigarettes-sex-drugs-cars-violence girlie. it's my hardboiled inner monologue i have a phd in griminess i love to write characters smoking seventeen cigarettes in the rain and shoving guns inside mouths phallically. so it's not like i don't GET the appeal because i do. it's incredibly easy to write, it’s universally sexy, it is flexible and forgiving — grittiness comes pre-packaged with a veneer of depth because (well we don’t have time to get into the history of american media). unfortunately underneath all of the fanon heavy lifting it is all aesthetic dust bunnies without substance when half the ship is an original character (matt is whatever you want him to be and the usual characterization of ‘just some guy’ appeals to the quintessential teenage boy next door who’s a bit witty trope to counterbalance mello's, well, everything) and the other half of the ship is more often than not wildly mischaracterized because if we know one thing from canon is that mello’s life revolves around beating near. our blessed understanding of mello's place in the narrative vs their barbarous creative liberties. like! what about black vs white what about being two halves of the same thing what about together we can surpass him. what about my brother broke my rib one morning and gave me half his orange in the evening. what about the machiavellian seedy underworld disgraced heir in all of his grimy fucked up fallen-from-grace streetsmart glory lifting his eyes up to a cold sterile skyscraper that fades into the clouds and the pristine boyking held prisoner within it wanting nothing but to stain the throne his entire world revolves around with his ugly fierce humanity; to break into the prince's tower and grind his face in the dirt, to free him, defile him. what about having known a boy only to be blinded years later by the knifeedge divine wrath of a naturalborn godkiller instead, pointing a gun at him anyway. look at me, why won’t you look at me. what about i don’t know where you end and i begin. what about then i guess i’m going to have to do it, what about the point where mello becomes aware of his place in the narrative and runs towards it to the bitter end. what about the relentless adversary turned unholy disciple by the festering devotion he could not excise. turned dirty-handed enforcer paving the way for the godtouched oracle to accomplish what neither of them ever could on their own and in that way finding release and grace. the softness and despair of adding up to a greater whole and yet both dying for it, one in body, the other in spirit. what about cain and abel. stick figure violence what! about! cain! and! abel! where was i going with this post it got wildly out of hand. oh yeah stream i'm your man by mitski on itunes

#SORRY #DEATH NOTE

[eesirachs]

can you say anything about cain? where did he go wrong? did he not offer the best he had, same as abel? why wasn’t it enough? was that going to happen from the beginning, is there really anything he could have done differently? i know i’m not supposed to but i’ve always felt bad for cain, ever since I was kid and first heard the story. maybe I've always been scared that im just like him

cain is accident(al), in this pericope. he falls outside the gaze (וַיִּ֣שַׁע) of hashem, not scorned but not seen at all. but hashem's ocular fixation on the younger brother is not value-neutral, and not special to genesis. it was the lot of the younger brother, in the ancient near east, to be beloved by gods. enki and enlil, osiris and seth. on and on, one brother, older, more somber, attached often to vulgar crafts like sacrifice, or dry land, is un-remembered by the gods. even in the tanakh, the favoring of a younger brother is not isolated: jacob, joseph. this was case, symptom, trope, however you want to call it: it was the way of this ancient world to forget one brother, and in doing so, make patriarch (or victim) of another. this won't be legible to us, so removed from patrilineality as we are. so it was nothing cain did. he fell victim only to the ways in which the bible dreamed of other co-equal texts, and of being like them

#ask #also bible knew that one day supernatural writers would need inspiration so it threw them the fattest bone

[paladin-tourney]

Paladin Tourney - Preliminary Poll #1 (Fire Emblem)

Melady (Fire Emblem) vs. Cain (Fire Emblem) vs. Titania (Fire Emblem) vs. Finn (Fire Emblem) vs. Camus/Zeke/Sirius (Fire Emblem) vs. Frederick (Fire Emblem: Awakening)

Propaganda:

Melady

Literally will do anything for her princess. She betrayed her kingdom and had to kill her lover because of how loyal she is to princess Guinivere. Also she rides a wyvern, which is badass, and she’s an s tier unit gameplay wise.

Cain

He’s one of Marth’s most loyal knights and serves him until death. Started the “Cain and Abel” archetype, which is a recurring character trope within fire emblem. Also he can promote into a class named paladin.

Titania

She used to serve as a knight for the kingdom of Crimea but became deputy commander of the Greil mercenaries. She’s super cool, very useful in combat, has a huge axe, and is a mother like figure to the other mercenaries. Also her class is literally paladin.

Finn

Will do anything for his lord and lady including raising their son after their deaths. Dude sacrificed so much just so Leonster (his kingdom) gets restored.

Camus/Zeke/Sirius

This guy loses his memory and changes his identity a lot, doesn’t mean he isn’t a good paladin tho!

Frederick

literally paladin class, eternally suffering fantasy babysitter trope, extremely broken in early game!!! iconic, i love paladins who are always suffering for who they’re pledged in service to, “pick a god and pray”

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THE GEMINI HEIST ☆ a novel by Chay Luna

it’s a job that will take trickery... and trust.

GENRE: adult; space opera; heist

THEMES & TROPES: trust. betrayal. a hint of cyberpunk. be gay do crime (in space). oops! all queer women. crewmates to almost-lovers to rivals to ???. Cain and Abel levels of sibling rivalry. idiots to lovers. intergenerational cycles of hurt. daddy AND mommy issues. not the healthiest relationships. if you’re looking for wholesome found family content, you won’t find it here. maybe i had a little too much fun giving everyone tragic backstories.

WARNINGS: to be updated.

SYNOPSIS:

In the lawless expanse of the open stars, Captain Leo Callisto of the Sirens, a crew of thieves and smugglers, is struggling to make ends meet and keep her star ship afloat after the crew’s spy, Zeya, double-crossed her and led most of the crew to desert. With only two loyal but inexperienced people-- anxious and naive mechanomedic Gabi and brawny but impulsive Euna-- opting to stay, the jobs they can take are few and pay little, and Leo’s reputation as a leader is waning.

So when a reclusive, eccentric art collector offers her a ridiculous sum to steal a valuable statuette from a powerful oligarch family, Leo is up for the challenge. With the reluctant help of runaway heir Illiana, the remaining Sirens gear up for their toughest job yet: infiltrating the highly-guarded House of Dyonas.

But with secrets being kept, trust rapidly dissolving, and old enemies resurfacing to pick at still-fresh wounds, they’re going to need more than their skills and wits to get out of there with their prize.

CHARACTERS:

Leo Callisto. 28. she/her. captain of the Siren with a fortune to make and a grudge to settle.

Gabriola “Gabi” Franco. 21. she/her. rookie mechanomedic for the Siren who’s been exiled from her home planet.

Euna Li. 24. she/her. the muscle for the Siren crew who’s struggling to pay off a very expensive cybernetic arm.

Illiana Dyonas. 23. she/her. runaway heir of a powerful family caught up in a nasty sibling spat.

Zeya Kade. 27. she/her. former spy for the Siren crew gone rogue.

LINKS: wip tag | wip page | character intros | excerpts | to be updated

#writeblr #wip intro #wip gemini heist #don't ask me why i made this banner look like a movie poster #i got carried away teehee