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shivroyslut · 1 year
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cheleanor // good old-fashioned lover boy
for marion’s @toppinghughdancy creator event (day 5), congrats on 1k!!!
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moonymoonbeam · 1 year
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someone who has read my policeman the book and watched the movie PLEASE talk to me I simply want to engage with it past harry styles involvement 😭
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barnbridges · 6 months
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not to be that person, but henry and marion are absolutely the only two people that understand bunny's not... normal which goes unsaid in both relationships but is why they are such comfortable and nonperformative ones. someone understands theyre being deceived, nonmaliciously, and just accepts that its a matter of survival.
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gunpowderdtim · 6 months
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i wonder what me and @miralines rpverse ouatisblr would look like
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🌅 atypicalarielien follow 🔁 antiroyalribbons follow
🤡 normalpeopleonly follow
dni if you think that freckles luck should in ANY way be involved in goverment. i mean she's a rose red why should we ever trust that? theyre all monsters i thought this was well established when they FUCKING KILLED US FOR 30 YEARS??? wtf
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🥀 antiroyalribbons follow
uh freckles luck did NOT spend 30 fucking years fighting for the rebels for you to call her a rose red. she's made it clear she's just a normal person dozens of times what is WRONG with you
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🤡 normalpeopleonly follow
she's still a fucking clone. they put chips in their brains, did you know that? theyre all mind controlled and shit why should we ever fucking trust one. with fucking government programs. i dont care if she 'seems' 'normal' she's just a rose red. i dont get why they didn't kill them all anyway
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🥀 antiroyalribbons follow
SHE'S A WAR VETERAN?????? BRUH. you owe your freedom to her she helped kill the fucking king?????
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⚫ zanti-deactivated02334432
I think mentioning she assisted the new regime is unnecessary. RR-11678 betrayed the crown in 4395. I think either way she should be shot. Rose Reds, especially defective ones are a hazard. She betrayed the king once. If the new "president" Marion Belle were any sort of intelligent she would have her killed. She betrayed once. She could do it again.
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🥀 antiroyalribbons follow
oh now the crown loyalists are here. @normalpeopleonly look what you attracted. this is why we shouldn't give people like op energy
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🌅 atypicalarielien follow
bros stop reblogging this it has captain luck fucking id in it she's said like twice to stop spreading that information further...
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🌅 atypicalarielien follow 🔁 zanti2 follow
🌅 atypicalarielien follow
you guys ever think about how hot rose reds are 😳🏳️‍🌈
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🪙 zanti2 follow
they are not people.
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🌅 atypicalarielien follow
motherfucker you made an alt just to harass me i get it you're a crown loyalist why dont you go suck coles dick. oh wait. he's dead. maybe you should join him
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🥀 antiroyalribbons follow
everyone should read Althea Black's new book: The Army With a Single Face: Firsthand Accounts of Rose Reds in the Crown War. it really puts the whole war from the perspective of a rose red into mind. really fucked up.
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🟥 realredhood follow 🔁 antiroyalribbons follow
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crazy how president marion belle and her husband are getting divorced... guess that's what the war ending does do a relationship
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🟥 realredhood follow ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
its because belle sucks ass lmafo
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🪫 ravenousrebeliousraven follow
RED HOOD?????
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🥀 antiroyalribbons follow
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only on sptumblr do we get war veterans gossiping about divorses. i guess. also is this government secrets or
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🟥 realredhood follow ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
:3
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🌅 atypicalarielien follow
can't believe that people threw rocks at fucking Rose Prince on the beach like. what. she's not a giant literally look at her stature..... this was like 3 miles from my house hell world can i move to fucking mulberry or some shit
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🟥 realredhood follow ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
if i get 100k notes ill leak crown and rebel documents on my sptwitch
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hauntedfalcon · 7 months
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"he has no one to come home to" oh is that right? then what do you (marion) call being soothe by the strong embrace and tender caresses from your childhood friend who was nearly in tears over the thought of losing you huh? you buried your head into his chest? was that not a home provided for you??? were you not home in that moment as you returned his hug and it was according to you it was the strongest hug you ever gave Sean?? dont look at me, im having a moment seeing that gif set again
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make-your-own-evil · 1 year
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could I request hcs for norman bates with a shy s/o?
yes you could 👀
note: feel free to reblog my work! just please give credit where credit is due :)
Norman Bates x Shy!S/O
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welp, youre going to have to confess first because he's not doing it
even if your werent shy, becoming norman's s/o is quite the accomplishment with all of the hurdles you would have to jump through
ya know with the whole "all women are whores except for mother" thing
if his s/o doesnt actually identify as a woman that would create a rather interesting loophole for his *ahem* urges
regardless of gender or sexual identity, any possible s/o would need the approval of mother or rather "norma"
a shy and timid thing like yourself for her shy and timid son? hmm.. this could work... maybe
theres a video of introverted dogs going to a dog park where theyre all standing completely still not doing anything and thats kind of how i imagine this would go
he actually did pretty well at first asking marion to eat with him so i would assume that he wouldnt have too much of an issue initiating things
the two of you are blushing, stuttering and mumbling messes. theres an awful lot of socially awkward tension between you too
but it almost feels comfortable?
whats something that you two could do that doesnt involve talking to or looking at each other?
a movie!
he's not taking you OUT to the movies, youre watching a movie on the tv with him. on the couch. a good two feet apart. not moving.
he would ask you if there was anything he could get you every 15 minutes
oh god is that a kissing scene? god dammit now his face is red... and yours is too
out of the corner of your eye you can see him making quick glances, shifting his weight and flexing his fingers while youre sitting with him
tries to eventually scoot closer to you
movies over! that was fun! goodnight!
being norman's shy s/o would require a lot of patience. in a way its probably for the better since he wouldnt feel as intimidated as he would with someone who wasnt as shy as he is
if you dont mind that he's as shy as you are or that his mother wants you dead then go right ahead! he can be a big sweetheart 💕
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littlegreenfag · 7 months
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psycho psaturday: i love that tony's whole embodiment of norman speaks so much information about who he is as a character, that he almost seems to me like a Real Guy amongst the rest of the fictional cast. like, i think a lot about the line "oh I do, but I say I don't" not the line so much itself as the tone and delivery, the kind of choked and bitter way he says it and laughs, compared to the relatively smooth and even sincere tone as he lied just 2 lines earlier "i was born in mine, i dont mind it anymore." its so small but pierces me every time. or say, the way he scrunches his shoulders and tenses up like a little kid in the doorway of the bathroom as he looks at marion's body. idkkkk everyone i talk to irl has such a different conception of him than i do and i feel like nobody Sees the little details that were obvious to me on my very first watch that he's not some twisted fucking cycle path who loves killing and is happy to have this weird oedipal relationship with his dead mother. like hes fucked up in sooo many ways but he is not a "psychopath"!! i guess im asking if theres another moment or detail that stood out to you that seems sooo obvious and yet contradicts the Pop Culture Image of who he is as a character
and do u have a nice picture that i could put as a watch face and have a silly little norman to look at on my silly little wrist
UGH YESSSS
you make such astute observations about him, oh my goodness. you’re like the Number One Normanposter on this website, and i still can’t fucking believe that you’re one of my mutuals that’s insane to me fjsjjfjs
and yeah! he’s nothing like the kubrick-staring psychopath that people make him out to be! he’s full of so many emotions, he feels things so deeply, he’s just so painfully REAL. like you could reach right through the screen and hug him. the title of the movie is Psycho, but he isn’t even a psycho! he’s a guy with a great smile, a nice personality, a goofy sense of humor— and yeah, he needs extensive therapy, but he isn’t a psycho!
the moment that really stood out to me was just the fact that he invited marion to eat dinner with him. he didn’t do it for any malicious reason, he wasn’t trying to flirt with her or anything, he just genuinely wanted somebody to eat with him! how long do you think it had been since he had eaten with somebody? ough, i just care about that man so much.
anyways, here’s your norman picture, from that dinner scene!
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everyone’s like “ooh, taxidermy! that’s a creepy hobby!” but like, come on! taxidermy was a perfectly acceptable hobby to have back then! and hey, you know what? i’m glad he’s got a hobby. i’m glad he’s found something that he likes to do, something that brings him a little joy. that’s really nice. man i think about him a lot. like, what music did he listen to? did he ever go to the movies? what kind of stuff did he read? but i digress. anyways, happy Psycho Psaturday!
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hikari-ni-naritai · 2 months
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What would be Violet's favorite food and/or snacks? (you can also take this as a prompt for all your girls, if you're feeling up to it)
hmmmm that is a GOOD question.... for a proper meal, i think she'd really like pizza. you can eat pizza clockwise SO easily! its so much harder to eat like, a plate full of disparate items clockwise. theres a lot of precise cutting and if youve got anything that doesnt hold its shape, youre fucked. pizza's round, it's cut already, and you can put basically anything on it! she wouldnt want it greasy though. she needs a dry ass crust. as for snacks... i think violet would really like hard candies. in a perfect world she would have a big jar full of individually wrapped candies and every night she'd sort them by colour. she would have a serious love/hate relationship with the sheer number of flavours that come in red. strawberry, cherry, watermelon, lime, fruit punch. its confusing when youre trying to keep things orderly!
and since u asked.......
hikari - ive said this before but hikari's a massive sweet tooth. her favorite snack is cheesecake with the eorzean equivalent of strawberries. her favorite non-sweet food is .... hmmm.. she's got a taste for fish but i think her favourite is mammoth. they used to hunt them on the steppe before her tribe was killed off and then make skewers with the meat. reminds her of home<3
aoi - aoi likes cappuccino and coffee cake. for a meal, she'll just have a light salad thanks. (she has a lot of cake waiting for her back at home, hikari made it)
lia - food isnt really one of lia's special interests so she doesnt have much in the way of opinions on it. as a general rule, if shes eating out somewhere she'll always try to order something she hasnt tried before. over a thousand years and several universes, she's tried a LOT of things. her current go-to, having exhausted all the options at every diner and tavern in the city after several hundred years of living there, is the 'sandwich of the day'. which is whatever sandwich theyre selling at her favorite tavern. as for a snack, she'll just have tea back at home.
nest - literally anything cooked over a campfire. as snacks, anything sweet cooked over a campfire.
valyrie - valyrie is too pragmatic to really have a favorite but she does relish the times when she gets to eat a fancy expensive dinner in a super high-end place. shes wildly out of place but her outfit makes her look like she fits in if you dont look too closely. as for snacks... is whiskey a snack?
dr marion - what the fuck does this woman eat. hang on let me try to catch this fish for 10 minutes real quick. ok i did not manage to think of anything. i think dr marion focuses so much on proper nutrition that she doesnt actually care what anything tastes like. eating right is the first step to claiming immortality for ourselves in rebellion against god. she doesnt snack.
cassidy - hmmm. cassidy honestly mostly just misses her wife's cooking. frankly, it wasnt very good, she was just the least bad at cooking of the two, but yknow. tasted like home. she made a particularly bad chicken with cranberry sauce dish and they both used to laugh about how bad it was (WAY too sweet for a dinner dish) but she misses it like you wouldnt believe. as for snacks, something salty that you can munch on? like cashews, if she could get her hands on them.
adela - as a shambling corpse, adela doesnt need to eat. when she was alive, she particularly enjoyed butchering the best cow of the town she just conquered and eating it in front of the farmer who raised it (while using his wife as a chair). as a snack, perhaps a tall glass of the blood of her enemies?
elyria - elyria likes street food! anything a guy sells you from a cart is basically perfect. if she can get crepes, thats ideal. yknow they make crepes that arent sweet? i had crepes in baltimore on a field trip in a real french type place. they sold some lovely savoury crepes. as i recall, most of my classmates had like. half of one. but i ended up with two. emily likes food. so anyway, elyria's favorite meal is a meat and veggie crepe, and her favorite snack is a sweeter one with fruits and chocolate and cream.
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c-kiddo · 1 year
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i adore pumat sol and it depresses me that so many people see him as a punchline or a joke (i feel like i know why, he's fat and has a "silly" accent), so it makes me happy that someone else genuinely likes him as a character!
aw : ( yea, agree about reasons why. he is kinda a silly character a lot of the time and th way the simulacrums are played is definitely funny. but also he's a cool character too, i like the way matt puts in details about him (and lots of npcs) like where he lives having every surface covered in things, and also its interesting to me that he does work for the assembly due to being mentored by oremid hass (i checked th wiki lol, i wouldnt have known his name), but decides to sell something he was meant to give to the assembly to tmn and clearly isnt happy to work for them now. idk i think thats interesting to see someone who's involved with the assembly that isn't one of the actual members and so kinda know that its completely fucked but they cant do much for fear of their job/life. he gets scared when he tells tmn too much info about hass for example . thats inch resting to me. . .. also .idk he's just early campaign npc comfy to me :-3 like, same as marion and kiri and bryce like i said before .. also he made basically a fantasy fidget spinner so thats funny too. just cool and neat and fun but also o_ o hey wtf matthew mercer
(also, tangent, but i looked on the wiki and i didnt realise that pumat sol is an annex for the cerberus assembly .huh. did not know that was a title, but its the people directly below the 8 main mages.. to be fair i dont rly remember details of the assembly/wizard stuff too well bc my brain is full of savalirwood lore and aeor lore lol. but anwya the other two annexes listed are vence nuthaleus and zana deelio, whomst are vry much not having a good time ksnjnkjs)
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thealmightyemprex · 1 year
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is so damn good
Well my Spielbergqathon has entered the 80's ,with one of the most iconic action franchises of the 80's ,the Indiana Jones series ,starting with Raiders of the Lost Ark
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In this 1981 film Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is an archeologist /adventurer who is out to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do
So Indiana Jones is a childhood favorite franchise for me.I actually dont know which Indiana Jones film is my favorite cause as a kid ,if I watched one,I HAD to watch all three (This is before Kingdom of the Chrystal Skull ) . So what makes this watch through unique ,Is I will be viewing the Indiana Jones films in the context of Spielbergs filmography instead of as a whole .So happy to report of the Spielberg films I have watched so far .....Its at the head of the pack
Raiders is just such a fun film ,it is a thrillride .The film is full of great action.Like if you love good action,this film is for you..Like the famous boulder scene,where our hero is outrunning a boulder......There is a shootout in a burning bar ,a fun chase through the streets (With an amazing bait and switch joke ),a fist fight with a burly mechanic and ana amazing car vs Horse chase .You also get great set pieces like a tomb full of snakes (I am not a snake person so that scene always creeped me out ),Indy being chased by a boulder and of course the finale
THe film also has elements of the supernatural and that was always an appeal to me of this series.Its funny there isnt anything too mystical till the end ,but it doesnt feel unearned ,because the way the Ark is talked about ,you know something is gonna happen.I wont spoil the finale,but it is awesome and frankly terrifying ,it feels like something out of a horror film
We have three main villains .The least interesting is Colonel Dietrich ,Wolf Kahler does a good job being the voice of authority but of the three villains I kind of forget he is in the movie .Belloq is really our main villain ,a rival archologist to Indy .A oppurtunistic man ,he is in it to observe the power of the Ark .Paul Freeman is perfect in the role ,he is a great contrast to Indy ,the refined villain in white suites who firmly believes in greater powera to our more scruffy skeptical hero .Also love his piercing eyes and the excitement in his voice when he describes the Ark as a "Radio to God ".The most memorable villain however is Ronald Laceys performance as Toht .He's actually not in the film alot and doesnt say much ,but good lord is he creepy . Toht is a sadistic Gestapo agent ,LAcey is able to capture this slimey quality ,that is almost Peter Lorre esque (REally brings to mind Lorre in All Through The Night ).
The supporting cast is all great ,with memorable appearences by Alfred Molina (In his first role )George Harris and William Hootkins .Denholm Elliot brings a warmth as Museum curator Brody . The best supporting character has to be Sallah ,Indys friend played by John Rhyse Davies , he brigngs a sense of levity and warmth to the film and to be frank.....Hes the character who I think has the best lines ,my favorite being "Aasps! Very dangerous.....You go first."Plus everytime he sings it just makes me smile
Karen Allen plays Indy's love interest Marion .Theres a toughnbess and sense of humor to her that makes her stand out .My favorite scene with her is where she is getting drunk with Belloq ,while she is hiding a knife so she can plan an escape
An now we get to Indy who I can best describe as James Bond but combined with a Humphrey Bogart character .He bit of a scruffier and scrappier action hero and Harrison Ford was kind of the perfect choice ,being tough but able to convincingly look like he is in danger ,which just makes us root for him even more
OVerall this is such a damn good action movie ,highly reccomended
@ariel-seagull-wings. @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @princesssarisa @goodanswerfoxmonster @themousefromfantasyland @filmcityworld1 @the-blue-fairie @theancientvaleofsoulmaking
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marionscriptions · 2 years
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꒦꒷ encounter. ꒷꒦
SYNOPSIS 𖦹 maybe agreeing to go along with your friend's friday night plans wasn't such a bad idea after all...
CHARACTERS 𖦹 arashi narukami, gender-neutral!reader (no pronouns used)
MARION’S NOTES 𖦹 my brain couldn't come up with any other titles so i hope that 'encounter' suffices. i have not written proper dialogue for arashi before so hopefully she isn’t majorly out of character.. ALSO sorry about the length, i ran out of ideas </3 part 2 to this post. (F/N = friend's name)
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You were most definitely lost.
People surrounded you from every angle and direction and your head throbbed, undoubtedly the start of a long, painful headache. You winced at the thought of how horrible you would feel once this was all over.
To make a long story short, (F/N), a friend of yours, thought that it would be a bright idea to drag you to a night market near Yumenosaki. You immediately lost them to the large crowd, and... here you were, trying to wade through this sea of people without bumping into anyone. With your luck, you'd probably be able to get out of here within an h—
Ah!
Your foot got caught on a crack in the sidewalk and you went tumbling down to the ground, your face meeting the concrete within seconds, and you winced at the dull ache that spread across your face.
People stepped around you, trying not to step on your feet or hands, but paid you no mind otherwise. Sighing, you dusted the gravel off of your palms and knees as you tried to sit up. Your nose stung, but other than that, you would probably be fine... 
You tried to sit up, but a hand suddenly presented itself in front of you.
Wait, a hand?
"Oh my, are you okay?" a voice (presumably the owner of the hand) asked you, voice tinged with concern. You paused for a moment (due to embarrassment, you mostly assumed) before you merely nodded as you took the person's hand. It was only after you steadied yourself that you got a glance at your 'savior'.
The pretty girl from the live... it was her. If your memory served you right, Arashi was her name. How embarrassing..., you internally sulked. To be saved by the pretty girl that you kind-of-had-a-crush-on felt nothing short of flustering and embarrassing. So much for trying to look calm and collected in front of her...
"Oh? Is something the matter? It's not very polite to leave a pretty girl hanging, you know~?"
Right... you didn't exactly respond to her question. Clearing your throat, you managed out an "Yeah, I'm okay. Sorry about that."
"What a relief~ It looked like you took a nasty fall...” 
"Yeah, but I should be fine... Thank you." You gave her a soft smile, praying that she couldn't detect how nervous you looked. "I don't want to hold you up or anything.”
"Ah, but it's no problem! I'm just here with a few friends, so it's really not burdening me or anything~♪" she responded. Her words reassured you in some way. Her voice was cheerful but soft, in contrast to her powerful voice onstage.
“Same here,” you responded. “I’m here with my friend, (F/N), but I lost them in the crowd...”
“Oh, speaking of which...” Arashi started, taking your right hand in hers. “I’m sure that Izumi-chan wouldn’t mind too much if you came along with us.”
...Were you dreaming? Being able to spend time with not only the idol that you had a kind-of-crush on, but her friends that also happened to be idols that you looked up to? What were the odds?
"You don’t have to if you don’t want to, of course!” Arashi reassured, her grip on your hand loosening. “I’m sure that we’ll see each other around again...”
“Hmm...” you trailed off, pondering your options. Surely (F/N) wouldn’t mind... right?
“I actually don’t mind at all,” you settled on, trying to contain your excitement and nerves.
Arashi’s face lit up at your answer. “Oh, how wonderful!”
Hastily, you sent a text message to (F/N).
(NAME) im with someone right now, dont worry about me
(F/N) who (NAME) that isnt rlly reassuring u better be safe >:/
Stifling a giggle at their protective nature, you turned your phone off and put it back in your pocket before looking at Arashi again. “So... where to first?”
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barnbridges · 6 months
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not to be that person, but henry and marion are absolutely the only two people that understand bunny's not... normal which goes unsaid in both relationships but is why they are such comfortable and nonperformative ones. someone understands theyre being deceived, nonmaliciously, and just accepts that its a matter of survival.
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spadeinasuit · 3 months
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IM MAKING DESIGNS I PROMISE I JUST NEED TO GET IT OUT SO I DONT FORGET AGAIN.
ok so. In my slenderverse. Slender and Offender are siblings. And Splendor and Marion (my oc) are half siblings and kids of Offender
More under the cut
Slender is a guy from the 1930's called Anthony. Anthony had a pregnant wife. A younger brother. And a best friend, Tim. He was a well known Tailor in his area, so he still had people coming in for clothed during the depression cause he made shit for cheap.
Now his wife gets sick. Like deathly sick. And he knows that she's probably not going to make it so he goes out into the street and starts begging God or something go save his family and keep them safe
Something In the crossroad appears. It looks like an angel but the streetlight is impeding its view it promises he will. But Anthony only gets home in time for his wife to pass.
Angry he goes outside and screams at the angel or got that cursed him. The creature returns and punishes him for his "entitled attitude" he soon after gets his face shot off by tim (great grandfather of masky Tim) dying for the first timr
So the way the slenders work is with every death they look less and less human slowly gaining their individual powers. slendermans power is control. He can influence actions. Without control the other slender "interfeirence" (presents itself in slender sickness) every one around them will loose their minds and die.
He also gained a hunger. Souls of the recently deceased usually satisfys it. So he uses those who are "monsters" like him to do the dirty work for him. He's just a Tailor. He can't fight.
Offender(Adam) is literally only worth a paragraph for plot shit. He died in a rose bush and that's why he's rose themed. He is the father of Splendor and Marion. He is not good to them. No one likes him and no one should. He has the power to lure people and persuade. Different than Slender cause it doesn't help slender sickness
Splendor (Jake) was born in the 1950's and raised by a single mother unknowing he was a slender. Looking human until about the 1970's In the acrobatics show he fell. His tentacles are ribbons with bells at the ends.
He tries to stay away from Slender and all his family. Using his power to blend in to continue being an acrobat. He is extremely skinny and will only feed on criminals.
Lastly my oc. I will make a full post on them soon.
Marion(morgan) was born in 1999 and died in 2005 being left in oil and the position of their injuries left them to have horns and black inky tentecles. Their power is to literally see. Everything.
Eventually they get sick of all the harm caused by slender and finds a way to actually kill him. Transferring his power to themself they slowly get more power hungry seeking the powers from the other slenders and the creature that caused them in the process. Killing them all and ending Slenders completely in 2056.
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hauntedfalcon · 7 months
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Yknow its funny to me that I think it was most people's instinct - including my own - that the ot3 would happen between Sean and Jean first before approaching Marion to bring him into the fold. But thinking on this episode, it's looking more like Jean and Marion would bring Sean into the fold and him being very confused about it. Confused in a way that he feels undeserving. Might even take it more like 'oh im here to supply more fun, not to have the fun' and perform as a service top or bottom depending on the circumstance. And they have to tell him that no this is a romantic endeavor you idiot we love you and want you here with us all the time, even when you are hurting, Mr. 'I'm taking care of everyone so dont nobody dare try to take care of me' Finnerty
I am scrubbing back through the VOD right now and absolutely reeling at how exceedingly bisexual it is that it takes one minute of game time after regaining consciousness in Jean's arms before Marion calls for Sean and they make a let's-hold-Marion sandwich
this episode rocked the axis of all three of them in my mind. like. the interactions Jean and Marion had in episode one had this almost schoolkid innocence to them, and I think a lot of the bottom table trio shippers, including me, wanted to play with the chemistry of Jean and Sean first and toss in the sweet romantic secret sauce of Marion after.
but?? Jean witnessed and then forgot (or willfully blocked out) her dad performing an exorcism on Marion as a child? and he clearly did NOT forget her and started a somewhat ambiguous but obviously romantic relationship with her in which she has already touched his scar??
the angles of care here? episode two started what, a handful of days after the first episode? Jean still has a funeral to plan, but taking care of Marion is clearly a welcome distraction and when she's not actively doing that, she's looking out her window for EONS surveillance and having flashbacks to her dad dying. (to talk about later: the decision to have Zehra play Jinnah's father in Marion's dream, holy shit)
the fact that she now has a skill on her character sheet that lets her detect the "ailment, stress, or loss a person has in their life"??? oh boy, oh god, detecting sure isn't the same thing as fixing, is it? :))))))))))))))
and Sean?? the isolation? "I don't have anything. I don't have anything." "the last thing I need is anyone to come fucking take care of me." Sean's posture in the Silverslip chapterhouse when Jean was holding Marion?? genuinely, to your point, the only way they're going to get that man into bed and subsequently into a relationship is by making him feel useful.
if they all live that long, of course :)
om nom nom nom nom. tonight we feast, and tomorrow I start drafting a "three times Jean and Marion invited Sean over, and one time he said yes" fic. because you know what can fix the way that episode ended?? healthy polyamory!
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brazenautomaton · 1 year
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Say more on the antimemetics division ending? I dont know what you mean by the Goku thing (I read the whole series of stories very fast recently, and haven't watched any dragonball but know a decent amount about it through osmosis)
Goku has nothing to do with it and that's the point,
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so the guy Adam gets all the way to the super vault where what's his face is hiding, right, and he's like "Ah, I'm a blob now! I have the machine! I've been waiting for the key to the super meme that can defeat 3125! Even though memes are ideas I will not explain this idea! But oh no, you don't have the key to the super meme! Only Marion did!"
So Adam is injected with a science fiction drug that brings her back in his mind, and she becomes the super meme. She ascends, beats 3125 with a fight that is more like doing math than a fight, and goes off to become a star looking down on us.
None of these things have anything to do with the traits of the characters we've seen or the ideas that have been present in the story. This meme, this idea that is so powerful it defeats 3125, is handwaved away in a summation. Adam doesn't get back Marion because he was connected to her, knew her, was affected by her even without his memory, or anything that made his character traits relevant. He got her back by being injected with a science fiction drug. Marion doesn't defeat 3125 by showing off anything about her personality -- she doesn't beat it by, say, inserting herself in with no memories because you're as good as you get on your first day. She doesn't cynically and bluntly deconstruct the logical flaws in its composition the way she has so many other things. She doesn't reveal she realized something about what she'd been doing to set this up without remembering it. There isn't even a call back to any of the other stories where she learns something and then someone dies and she has to amnesticize herself and the whole thing is pointless. The thing she does to win has nothing to do with anything that she is, or anything in the story. The story just tells us she can be the core of the super meme, and then she beats it, and it's like doing math, and there is no detail, and it is not linked to anything we know or saw, and then she vanishes to be a star.
Now imagine this. Adam gets to the secret vault with Doctor Blobulous. And Doctor Blobulous says "I have a way to ascend a meme up high enough to beat 3125, but I need the core of the idea that can beat 3125! You aren't the one who has it, but someone does!" And he injects Adam with the science fiction drug, and Adam sees Goku. From Dragonball. And Goku rises up into space to fight 3125, and he shoots it with the biggest energy blast ever, and 3125 is blasted into the Sun and dies, and Goku flies off to the galaxy to save other planets in danger.
That ending makes exactly as much sense as the real one. It has exactly as much to do with the preceding story as the real one. In fact, it would be slightly more valid, because Goku is the idea of a hero for a lot of people on this planet, and Marion isn't, and Goku represents an ideal to them, and Marion doesn't, and Goku solves problems by flying into space and blasting, and Marion doesn't.
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A youth that looks up to the castmember mentions that they hope to find a lover that suits them as well as Marion and LI suit each other They then ask how they KNEW Marion was their ideal lady - how do they respond? ...maybe in Geoff's case, someone dear to Marion asksso they dont immediately get told to mind their own biz haha
I'm afraid I really can't answer this one. Too spoileriffic of the romantic development in the game. (Nice try on Geoff, though! He still wouldn't answer - the only person besides Marion who knows is the one who figured out what was going on before Geoff did, heh heh.)
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