#chosen ones are protected

[prideprejudce]

AU Reds Poster: Alicent joins Rhaenrya as her advisor and wife after escaping her father's influence.

She escapes Kings Landing with Helaena and her grandchildren just in time. Unfortunately, her father has already sunk his teeth into her two sons who are ready to fight for their right to the iron throne. How will Alicent choose between her family and her beloved Rhaenyra when the time comes?

#alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent x rhaenyra #rhaenicent #rhaenyra x alicent #house of the dragon #hotd season 2 #im sorry the posters just looked so good next to each other and alicent looks like she's gazing at rhaenyra with worry #basically alicent had an epiphany after viserys died (him screaming about the chosen one crap didn't happen) #but her father already had the ball and floor moving for the crown and to overthrow rhaenyra #and alicent had a dream or prophecy that told her that the greens would destroy the entire kingdom and her family including their lineage #she tried to convince aegon to leave with her too but he was already drunk on power and not listening to her anymore #so she goes to find rhaenyra to play peacemaker and diplomat and reluctantly joins team red #but then aemond kills luke and things go to shit #helaena is then betrothed to jace to protect both her and her grandchildren #and she basically serves as rhaenyra's conscious and calm to her storm through the war #in the end daemon gets exiled after killing aemond and betraying rhaenyra's orders #otto is killed for treason and aegon forfeits the crown for his life #jace and helaena rule after rhaenyra one day passes and wives live happy together #it makes sense because I say it makes sense

[thecobaltmonk]

there is something so good about kit not really having a choice to be elora's protector (although she has accepted it) and jade having so many different choices she could make but she always chooses to be kit's protector.

#so often do you get the story about the chosen one and the protector #but you never get to see who protects the protector when they are too busy protecting the chosen one #i just really love them #tanthamore #willow spoilers #willow #idk if this even makes sense im running on 2hr of sleep

[imminent-danger-came]

I was rewatching s2 last night, and ohhh man mk looks over mei so much it's not even funny. times mei has been ignored:

maybe you need to really listen! (during the blindfold ep)

mk just? grabs stuff she's using out of her hands all the time? (video game ep)

maybe you shouldn't skip the tutorials? (video game ep again)

the way he addresses her in dumpling destruction and then immediately pushes her aside for tang

i honestly remember it lowkey kinda bothering me on first watch but now it's REALLY egregious on rewatch. are you scared? I'm so scared. do you WANT to end up like shadowpeach MK

2x03 is so rude because the whole fucking episode they're like "MK you don't listen" and it's so true. He doesn't. Pigsy literally points it out again at the end of 4x14 with the whole sun screen bit:

Pigsy: "Tch, don't bother, I've been telling him that for years but he LITERALLY never listens." Sun Wukong: "Yep! That's how we role."

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THEY'RE SO FUCKING RUDE. "That's how we role." We. We????? Wukong and MK???? Like WHATEVER. FINE. (("I told you going against the Jade Emperor was a bad idea, but no. Wukong doesn't listen to ANYONE! He just does whatever he wants" Like shut up. Shut up!))

MK gets so stuck in his own head ("You're all stuck up in your own head! None of this is your fault!" +1 to the MK ignoring Mei counter from 4x08) and I think that really contributes to his s2 scramble to get more powerful.

LIKE:

MK: "Stop? Now? Never! I just have to try harder. It's just like the Monkey King said! *laughs manically* I just need to get stronger!"

(2x06 Game On)

VS

MK: "Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be!" Macaque: "Wukong didn't think so, he always felt he had to be stronger—more immortal."

(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)

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(Bonus thing between eps 2x03 and 2x06, look at 0:42 in this video for MK hearing Mei but not listening to her. Because of course that's what he would do. *head in my hands .png*)

The terrible s2 choices both Wukong and MK make in relation to their friends is just absolutely delicious after 4x11. Like, OH. This has been a lifelong pattern of Wukong's—paranoia is one of his fatal flaws (paired with his terrible communication and self-sacrificial nature), and while he had the power to stop LBD before he still feel's the need to go after the Samadhi Fire to stop her now, and to protect MK.

Hold on look at this parallel that I don't know what to do with:

MK: "Ugh, I can't do it!"

Mei: "It's alright MK—you did it before, you'll do it again!" Sandy: "Yeah! Maybe it's like Monkey King said: the power will come when you need it most!"

(3x04 The Winning Side)

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MK: "What! But you said the Samadhi fire was the only thing that could stop her!" Sun Wukong: "I KNOW WHAT I SAID! But I've beaten her before I'll- I'll do it again! Mei was right—I need to stop dragging you into my fights, all of you."

(3x10 The Samadhi Fire)

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Wukong and MK's reach for power inspires a lot of fear in me! It does! Because, well, MK's current reach for power is going to lead him to his Monkey Form, and uh:

Like I'm scared. I'm scared!

"All doomed to play a role in tearing this world apart!" ; "This is Azure's utopia, and this barren wasteland is the price he paid to build it." ; "I'd do anything for my friends! But at the cost of the world?" "I'm sorry pal, ain't NOTHIN' worth that price!"

#I've said it once and I'll say it again: 2x06 is one of the MOST retroactively mean episodes #Game motif. The callback that 4x10 does. Whatever the fuck is going on with the MK and SWK parallels in that ep #I hate lmk's exchange theme I hate it. Like FUCK #Anyways #asks #wlw-wukong #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk MK #lmk SWK #lmk Sun Wukong #lmk analysis #lmk theme: exchange #fuckasdfoqweg #Sandy saying ''Helping my friends is more important than anything in the world!'' in 2x08 vs #''I get it! I'd do anything to help my friends! But at the cost of the world?'' in 4x13 is SICK. SICK IT'S SICK #Sometimes it's like. Hmmm. ''If you aren't doing everything in your power to help your friends you are nothing!'' #''I'd watch my sword shatter 1000 times so long as I used it to protect the ones I care about'' #I'm telling you Mei would choose MK over the world. I'M TELLING YOU #MK'S ALREADY CHOSEN MEI OVER THE WORLD (thank you 3x10) AND PIGSY/TANG/SANDY OVER THE WORLD (4x02) #MK really went: ''Oh releasing this curse could end the world? Well I'll risk it for my friends!'' and I went ''ohhhh nooooooooo'' #WE ARE IN SOME DEEP SHIT IN S5 #And Wukong? Lol of course he's choosing the people he cares about over the world. No surprise there. #He's like ''yeah I'll go fight the jade emperor to finally be strong enough''. If eamk theory proves true he like #Chose MK over the world initially #And he was totalllyyy willing to sacrifice LBD's child host to protect his friends (MK)/the world #I'm. AUGHGHG. #''It's what he would do if he had to. That's the hard part of being a hero!'' OKAY BUT MEI WOULD YOU DO THAT SO EASILY IF IT WERE MK #ME THINKS NO #ME THINKS YOU WOULD NOT

[hugsandchaos]

Sky thinks little birds are adorable, so you can’t tell me Danny wouldn’t tell him about crows. How they’re one of his world’s more intelligent animals, how they can mimic human speech, how a flock of them is called a murder and a duo is called an attempted murder. Their usual behaviors and how they’ll tell other crowd if you’re a good person. Twilight pokes his head in the room and went “They do what now?” when he overheard that. Then Danny would tell them about ravens, and the differences between them and crows.

And I also think it’d be funny for the Links to realize “Holy shit, that bird just actually spoke” when they flock around Danny and say “hi” to him. To make it twice as good, crows and ravens usually attack the hero in some games, so I can imagine the birds not letting them close to Danny.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #linked universe #linked universe x ​danny phantom #Danny phantom x linked universe #the crows and ravens love him #precious halfa child who protects people and loves space #and gives treats #he just sits there with crows on his shoulders and lap and goes “I’m the chosen one.

[patheticblorbloscholar]

I want a scene that parellels the moment Jake is saved by Eywa. Neytiri doesn't shoot her bow because the seeds are following Jake. Just follow me here, what if she finds out Quaritch is still alive because Spider confesses he saved him from the wreckage. He couldn't let the man die even after everything and she reacts terribly. Horrified he runs, seeking safety through the forest he knows so well and Eywa[in all her mysterious glory] sends a storm of seeds and covers Spider. For the only force Neytiri has ever listened to is her.

#Give me the angst #sully family #sully family saga #spider sully #Spider sully formally Socorro #james camerons avatar #avatar the way of water #miles spider socorro #miles spider sully #Eywa's chosen ones #Its known he will be blessed #She loves him #She will protect him #Neytiri will come to see him #avatar 2 #neytiri #Neytiri and Spider #Neytiri and Jake #The parellels #the fucking parellels

[theguardianace]

can we talk about emurui and how they think they’re selfish for having dreams

#emu… she thought she was so selfish for wanting to save the wonder stage… #to protect her grandpas dream and the park he worked so hard to build…. #and rui who thought it was a moral failing to want to be loved so badly #to find a way to let them follow their dreams without ever separating #emu who decided to be selfless and let them all go #but who’s selfishness rubbed off on others and made the ones who gave up on dreaming begin again #the brothers who thought all hope was gone but have chosen to believe in the impossible once again #to be selfish again. #rui who already thinks he’s a monster deep down and follows his selfish wish. who saves his love. #they’re both so selfish and so stubborn and it’s only because of that that their dreams can shine. #good for them.

[bafflement]

Sometimes RWBY annoys me

Ozpin was a tragedy. The terrifyingly young headmaster of arguably the most famous of the Huntsman academies, shoved into the place he was in solely because of Ozma.

People conflate them, but they're not actually the same person. Ozpin hates himself, even after death... but there's no real evidence that Ozma does.

He's horrified that he's taking over Oscar because that was never meant to happen, he hoped to be the last just as much as previous Ozcarnations did... maybe even more, considering where he was and the protectiveness he feels for his students. Oscar, given a few years, could so easily be a Beacon student, after all.

He ran, he locked himself away and yet that still wasn't enough to stop the merge. OZPIN did not ask Jinn the question shown and we don't even know just when he was given the particular information that that even happened. Should he have shared it? Yes, maybe. But then again, he'd only known team RWBY and what's left of team JNPR for about a year when they all jumped him for not telling them and we do have canon proof that when he trusts people [Lionheart and Ironwood] they can and do betray that trust for their own reasons.

What's worst? He's fighting a war he no more signed up for than Oscar did, yet everybody seems very set on blaming him, as the last Ozcarnation, for the sins of them all.

Ozpin might be the voice, but that's merely because he was the last. EVERY incarnation of Ozma is a tragedy, it's one of the shittiest reincarnation methods in fiction. 'You'll never be alone', no, but the process gives the new host exactly no choice in the matter.

Basically... Oscar is a victim, but so was Oz. And it's quite likely he might not even have been in double digits when it happened.

#ozpin #ozpin protection squad #ozpin is not ozma #blame ozma #stop blaming ozpin #actually no blame the brothers #immortality sucks #especially this sort #never alone my ass #parasite #ozma not oz #weight of the world #when the chosen one has no choice #this poor man #it isn't his fault #but everybody blames him #anyway #god of darkness #god of light #rwby #the brothers suck

[nikki-rook]

If you’re going to choose a man to spend the rest of your life with, pick one who’s favorite doctor who character is Rory Williams

#it really does show the character of the person #if he likes the dude who protects the love of his life for centuries then you can’t have chosen a terrible bad one #doctor who #dw #text #Rory Williams

[spite-and-waffles]

Trying to drag real-world ethics into the Batverse is a bad faith argument when absolutely nothing in the Batverse has any ethical or moral standing in the real world.

Real world evils that claim death tolls:

- billionaires

- cops

- vigilanteism

- copaganda (crime-fighting as a genre is libertarian copaganda)

- prison industrial complex

- war on drugs

- child soldiers

- policing entities without democratic or civic transparency or oversight

- finding acceptable targets for your personal trauma and visiting what you believe is justified violence on them

But all of that is fine and good and acceptable as conceits of the universe, EXCEPT the question of "should this rich white guy who appoints himself the protector of the innocent due to the failures of the legal system, actually do something about this guy who keeps killing because of the failure of the legal system?" THAT is somehow above challenge or question. Never mind that turning the concept of "legal incompetence", meant to protect the most vulnerable population in a society, into a loophole for fictional mass murderers is violent ableism and copaganda. Forget taking a deep dive into why exactly killing is bad, or how far a value system can go before it becomes self-serving, or storytelling imperatives or any of that. The only reason any of us could ever take Jason's side (re: the Joker) is that we, in real-life, think that "bad guys should die". Instead of the fact that because nothing works as it should in the Batverse, the Joker's continued existence actively cheapens any moral code that allows it.

You can take whatever side you want to, but get off that horse and actually engage with the question, or fuck off with the dudebros who think "killing a serial killer makes you as bad as a serial killer" has any actual ethical basis.

#i'm so fucking done with this grandstanding and moralizing #jason and bruce are both moral absolutists driven entirely by personal trauma #and yes jason is a bad guy. i like him as a bad or morally grey guy #but it drives me nuts that y'all can't see how bruce is very far from being a 'good' guy #he doesnt kill anyone even the joker not because he considers joker's life sacred #but because he's afraid he'll snap and start killing everyone else #this is not the behaviour of a stable and noble man #if you're so close to the edge that having to kill for any reason will send you on a killing spree #then you're fundamentally unfit for your chosen vocation #jiminy jesus christ #also? a child deserves a parent who will kill to protect or avenge them #if someone took my baby from me and they kept getting out and killing other people's babies #that guy would be dead and I'd be in jail #and it would be worth it #the lowest possible bar for loving a child #but then he fails his kids in every other way too so why not this one #anti bruce wayne #jason todd #bat meta #fandom wank #spite waffle

[i3utterflyeffect]

victim pretends to be Dark's friends to manipulate them and take advantage of their loneliness, thus keeping them loyal as they work towards a common goal

YESSS. victim is very good at manipulating people and dark is in a situation that is PERFECT for that. Lonely, freshly hurting from a betrayal, wounded, and in dire need of help...

Victim knows better than anyone that it's the perfect setup for someone to fall right into line when given a little bit of aid.

#tommy's stickmen tag #it's very unfortunate that dark has no awareness of these kinds of things. cons of being a superpowered being with no friends #(except for the one you were literally programmed to kill) #they've never been this weak before so they're kind of desperate for some form of protection as well #they kind of just assume the way victim acts is normal #esp since they fought with chosen a decent amount even before #with victim it just so happens to happen more. in their eyes anyway

[aerithisms]

the thing about them eating jackie is that it's like. well. she's already dead and they have no food. if i was them i can't say that i wouldn't! and if you read stories of real world instances of cannibalism like the flight 571 crash the show is inspired by, that was their real life logic. they had no choice; it was eat or die. they even talked about it and realised that if they died they would want to get eaten to sustain the other survivors. so i get it when the yellowjackets showrunners say that eating someone is not the most transgressive thing that happens in the show because in their circumstances it's very forgivable. there are real life people who did this and still live in society because we understand

#blahs #yellowjackets #yj spoilers #what's interesting to me is the way the show has chosen to depict it as this feast and loss of control #whereas in reality the boys on flight 571 were extremely civilised about it #they carefully butchered the meat and rationed it out and tried to protect each other from knowing who it was they were eating #which is very far off from what the show is doing with shauna specifically hungering for jackie to Become One with her #and the spiritual belief system they're constructing to justify themselves and to cope

[howaboutwedont]

i had a dream where willow was the chosen one and mick was her osirian and i just. imagine the CHAOS that would ensue.

#house of anubis #real reason mick left for australia is he couldnt be with the chosen one #willow sensing auras and vibes and shit is part of her chosen one powers #she was also just protected from sinnerification by the chosen one powers i guess

[planet-poptropica]

⋆ More doodles of...her!! I’m still trying to figure out some aspects of her design, like her Defense mode. Also, she has a name now thanks to @/popping-tropics! Her name is Mellori! ⋆

⋆ This name was too cute not to go with. Raven is truly a papa bird now. ⋆

#poptropica #ai merlin #ai mellori #my doodles #merlin and mellori #m and m!! #you think she's tall now #she gets bigger in her defense mode #i'd like to think that mellori is so protective of merlin because #she also went through a face of cluelessness and wanting to make friends #but it failed because people were intimidated by her #so she embraced that but won't ANYONE do that to merlin #there is only 3 people she cares about #merlin #her papa #and edgar #that's it #she will not even get near the chosen one #and that sense of sweetness in her early stages #is only shown to those 3 people #but yee #sheeee

[lloydssillyblog]

#animation vs animator #ava #avm #alan becker #ava dark lord #ava chosen one #ava the second coming #dad dark and chosen hc #dark is protective of his kid #spoilers??? #idk

[mothheart]

Zelda struggled so hard to get her sealing/light powers to awaken in botw and only could do it when she saw Link about to die for her and made sure he was taken to the shrine of resurrection before she made the journey to the lost woods alone to entrust the master sword to the deku tree so it was ready for link when the time came. Making the journey back to hyrule castle and facing Ganon alone knowing she would be stuck there for so long while Link came back from the brink

And in totk she struggled to master her time power to go back to her time and resorted to desperate measures to ensure Link would get the master sword in the future and save everyone despite knowing she would lose herself in the process

I don't have anything special to say I just can't stop thinking about this

#its interesting. it makes me wonder if this is just going to be a unique struggle for botw/totk zelda or if as time goes on that #her reincarnations will continue to lose their connection to the goddess/their ability to harness their sacred power #can you imagine. idk how likely it is. just something that ive been thinking about #anyway. she also just feels a lot more like a person to me. idk. more relatable. you know #she went through so much #sorta unrelated but her and link being free of the shackles of expectations put on them at such a young age and #still choosing to travel with one another #link choosing to protect zelda and try to find her and save her not because he has to but because he wants to #mineru calling him her chosen protector and its true. she overcame the resentment towards him in botw yes but also #they finally had a chance to just live a normal life. more or less. for at least a few years. to actually just. see one another as people #idk what im getting at. its just so. #[muffled sobbing] #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #theyre so special to me forever and ever. #miles rambles

[grimalkinmessor]

NO BECAUSE YES ALL FOR ONE TAKES CARE OF YOICHI BECAUSE HE SEES HIM AS SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO HIM BUT HE ALSO TAKES CARE OF HIM AS A PRIEST TAKES CARE OF A SHRINE DO YOU UNDERSTAND DO YOU GET IT

#LOSING IT PLZ #PLZ I NEED YOU TO SEE THE DIVINE DEVOTION THIS MAN HAS ALONG WITH THE POSSESSIVENESS #THE GIVING UP OF CLOTHES TO SHIELD THE FEET OF HIS CHOSEN PATRON #HIDING HIM AWAY AS SOMETHING PRECIOUS TO BE PROTECTED AND REVERED #DECORATED IN FINE CLOTHES AND JEWELS EVEN WHEN HE HIMSELF IS IN SQUALOR #DO YOU SEE THE V I S I O N DO YOU SEE IT #afofa #bnha #boku no hero academia #all for one #shigaraki yoichi #first one for all holder #being insane about them again