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kaeyachi · 1 year

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Being an Alberich means planning to perfection.

Even after the fall of their nation, their clan still upholds that belief.

And so, he planned to perfection.

Every single page on their written history is burned to a crisp, ensuring that no one could fully trace the plot back to them so easily.

Careful maneuvering around Teyvat ensures that no one would recognize him and his son should they do a search.

And then there is the storm that is bound to arrive soon, if the gray skies are to be trusted.

The storm will surely last long, and it will wash away his footsteps, his scent, and his image from any wandering eyes. They will not be able to track him down as soon as he leaves his son.

He notices his son from the corner of his eyes, glancing at him. His tiny (too tiny) hands fiddle with the edge of his worn-out cloak in anxiety, aware of what is to come.

Kaeya, his dearest son Kaeya... he is smart, brave, and strong. He will be an amazing spy. It's just... he was just so young...

Still, they had no one else who could do it, and so, he equips the child with as much knowledge as he possibly could.

He taught him how to speak, read, and write in common, gave him basic skills for any sort of weapon, and showed him how to plan like a leader of a nation.

He believes that his son, as young as he is, is ready for the mission.

What he worries for is everything else about his son.

Kaeya is a wonderful and loving soul - a kind-hearted child. He would catch his son watching the world with awe and wonder in his eyes. Everything about Teyvat fascinated him. He could hear the light clanking in his child's pockets, full of trinkets he had collected on their journey to Mondstadt.

He has scolded his child about those trinkets because they make too much noise, yet the child stubbornly keeps them ( his child instead learned to be silent). He is not immune to his child's begging eyes. He lets the child keep the trinkets.

He wonders if he would have spoiled his child in another life with shiny trinkets and pretty shells.

Perhaps in a perfect life, Kaeya would have been the perfect son, and he would have been his son's perfect fa-

Thunder and lightning put a stop to his thoughts.

Now was not the time to dream.

Love and kindness are risks to their plans, especially for the role his child has to play.

A spy has no space for a heart. A heart could get you killed.

He tells this to his son. The boy nods, mildly in confusion, unsure of what he means just yet. His son would understand someday.

The first few drops of the rain start to pour.

He is an Alberich with a perfect plan.

He is not a perfect father.

He never could be the moment their nation fell.

His heart is plagued with fear for his son and anger at the archons - at Celestia - for forcing their hands to do such tactics.

He glances at a distance instead of at his son to make the child know that the hatred was not for him. Kaeya has to know the hatred is not and never will be for him.

He hopes Kaeya could forgive him for this, but he is their only hope.

The rain grows stronger. He leaves without turning back. He feels the stare of his child haunt him anyway.

#kaeya #kaeya alberich #genshin impact #kaeyas dad #alberich clan #how to tag a character with no name?#please note that i think this man is mildly insane btw #i do not think his plan is perfect #i do not think he should have left his child like that #and i do not think revenge plots should have a child involved #think of it as a mildly more sane clothar #which isnt saying much tbh #i think khaenriahns are entitled to mild insanity tbh #kaeya headcanons #alberich clan headcanons #id like to think that just like kaeya his father has a sense of unsureness to everything as well #also i added a couple of stuff from canon #planning like king regent antforas alberich amirite #and i implied the plan wasnt perfect the moment i mentioned ALL their information was burned. we all know it wasnt #kaeya lowkey being the symbol of the perfect plan being ruined thru that sentence #coz his dad assumes the plan is going according to plan while his child unknowingly already ruined it from there due to emotions hehe #also ive taken the notion of perfection from clothar and kaeya himself #clothar kept calling the cryo herald a perfect being #very strict about plans going to perfection as well and so the steps had to be perfect too #kaeya himself is a perfectionist in a sense that his missions have to end in success no matter the cost #he would talk with shady people and risk his knights lives on a mission if it ensures completion to his tasks #also i just realized how long this post is... AND THEN I ADDED MORE IN THE TAGS HEHE #oh wait one more thing!#his fathers eyes have a faraway look to them so kaeya knows his father was not looking at him #thought to incorporate the thought process here too

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cat-soap-opera · 1 year

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ok but i do think its interesting how sometimes it feels like a character in warriors cant just be an asshole, they have to be evil or an abuser

#mod posts #this is mostly abt the fandom but im sure it applies to the writing itself in some cases #n i mean like they cant just be an asshole they have to have like... some kinda trauma to make them like that #n when that trauma is healed theyre no longer an asshole u know #like no ones an asshole just bc they werent told 'no' as a child enough #n now think theyre entitled to act as they please n suffer no consequences for it #ya know

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ninjasmudge · 9 months

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people really will say shit like 'the fic i found hasn't updated in a whole month so i think its been abandoned which is a shame, i wanted to read more' like where do you even get the nerve

#this definitely isnt abt my fic dw #this is me seeing other people start talking about fics in past tense if they havent updated in a little while #as if fic writers are your content creators that are writing for you and need to do it every day to keep the algorithm happy #ao3 doesnt have an algorithm and tiktok and other social media really really does rot your brain #like its a very specific level of anger that arises in me when i see people demanding shit for free constantly from random strangers #just because you liked something they made you think your entitled to tell thrm what to do? to demand more?#to tell them what to invest their time in when most of them have full jobs??#theres not many things in life that get that deep anger from me but people like that really do #shark talks #l #for me its usually when i post a comic and some idiot is like 'part two?' in the replies immedietly its like. u didnt even reblog #or say you liked it. its a standalone comic what fuckin part 2 do you even want?#you dont even know youre just so used to demanding things like a child that you do it automatically

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rowan-guerrins · 2 months

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people on tiktok well on all social media sites actually will loudly critique the fact some people (especially those who only watched the movies) “didn’t get the point of the hunger games” and then turn around and say gale is the worst person in the universe and treat him like he’s a monster, and that all these traits are innate characteristics completely isolated from the circumstances in which he lived and the people around him. like girlie i think maybe YOU didn’t get the point here either.

#obviously this isn’t to say you need to or were “supposed to” like gale #there are a lot of good reasons to criticize him. esp wrt his sense of entitlement to katniss.#but he’s not supposed to be a Villain™️#like he’s a poor traumatized (brown coded) boy whose very valid anger was used to groom him into a perfect soldier.#kind of almost like it’s a critique on the militarization of young boys. esp those who are underprivileged.#which doesn’t excuse his actions & it doesn’t mean you have to like him #but it’s enraging when people act like he is a heartless monster who is unredeemable or whatever. like. oh that’s not….#bonus points if they babygirlify cato and clove (and marvel and glimmer) and cry about how they’re just kids #+ “they were only the way they are bc of the capitol 🥺”.#like yes it’s a big point that they were kids groomed to be child soldiers because the capitol pressured and “rewarded” career districts #to churn out child soldiers and whatnot. but that. ok.#truly just how do you hold the belief that to an extent excuses them or at least makes them sympathetic—#—but then not extend that empathy to gale. side eye.#esp bc a lot of the stuff is taking potshots at gale to uplift peeta/everlark.#like. uh! okay!#obligatory disclaimer i don’t actually like gale. however i am at my limit on weird and bad and inconsistent takes on him.#yeah he sucks. almost like that’s because he was horrifically oppressed by the captiol + then was groomed to be the ideal soldier by coin.#crazy how that’s the point.#and AGAIN. doesn’t EXCUSE what he does. but it’s important to acknowledge bc it v much contextualizes who and what he is and does.#the hunger games #gale hawthorne #i don’t think i need to tag this in the anti tag but lmk

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nightingaletrash · 11 months

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I'm probably going to enjoy the new Fable whether or not they've decided to go with the destruction of the Hero's Guild as the main plot hook, but I'm obsessed with the idea of playing as a child survivor of the event anyway.

Every day you get up and are told that you're special. You train day in and day out to hone your powers, to build the skills you need to become a Hero, and then you go to bed sore but content. One day, the people of Albion will be begging for your help or your mercy. You're a Hero, and therefore you're special. The commonfolk are beneath you, as is the duty to morality. Good and evil, right and wrong - no one has the right to force you to adhere to any of these concepts. It's no one's place to decide what a Hero should be, save for the Hero themself. And one day, you'll get to choose what kind of Hero you'll be.

But then, one night, while lying in your bed with your aching bones and dreams of greatness, you smell smoke. There's screaming and fire. And sure enough, you see your home burning before your eyes. The Heroes you aspired to become, to overtake some day, are being mowed down and massacred by the ordinary people you've been taught to look down upon. The people who are less than you, who aren't special. They're here, and they're burning and killing everyone and everything they come across, and you have no choice but to run for your life. Because you're special. And they'll surely kill you if they catch you.

#nightingale rambles #fable #fable 4 #ugh the potential of this idea #because at the end of the day... the heroes guild was awful and the guildmaster got what he deserved (an axe in the chest)#but from the viewpoint of a child survivor... they wouldnt necessarily see the awfulness and hypocrisy of the guild #its their entire world. their home their family. everything.#seeing it destroyed would ve deeply traumatising on its own. growing up and later realising that 'wow this fucking sucked actually'#would add a whole new layer to it #its about challenging the inherent entitlement and right of birth that heroes are granted just for being what they are #and being born to the right families and bloodlines #and realising that the institution that raised you was actually inherently toxic

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salt-and-pepper-priest · 1 year

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Ok who else expected kiriona to go ‘my father will hear about this’ in Nona the Ninth.

I mean she’s the love of my life and all but her Draco malfoy vibes were off the charts.

#she was all ‘my father has made my bones as strong as titanium…’#and her whole ‘I am the child of god’ rant #but she does deserve a bit of entitlement after everything that’s happened to her #don’t get me wrong #tlt #the locked tomb series #the locked tomb #gideon nav #nona the ninth #kiriona gaia #kiriona the first #john gaius #ntn #tlt spoilers

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eviltothecore13 · 11 months

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...Did I just see someone, in 2023, claiming that the Wesker project was "a CSA allegory"?

I mean, at least they're not claiming that it's definitively canon that he was actually sexually abused, but...

*Why?*

Like. The thing the Wesker project is most obviously an allegory for is the various kinds of indoctrination that bigoted groups use to convince their members they're superior/entitled to greatness/etc because of their race or nationalitity or anything else (not that I'm saying Umbrella or Wesker work along racial lines at all, because we know they don't, but *as an allegory*). I can't find *anything* explicitly stated in canon that is about sexual abuse, but I can find a lot about indoctrination and raising him to believe he was superior--and a lot about him being incredibly privileged all his life with phrases like "the best education money can buy."

There's no *need* for anything remotely resembling sexual (or physical) abuse to take place in Wesker's backstory. (Or emotional abuse of the "you're worthless, you're pathetic" etc kind I sometimes see depicted in fics--again, the point of the project is to convince him he's *superior!* And its canon result was someone described in official materials as "confident", who genuinely believes he's superior and is never shown to doubt himself! I do think his upbringing was emotionally *distant*/not focussed on emotions because it was only concerned with success and power and that he wasn't close to anyone except Alex and later Will--but the idea of him being constantly berated and mocked and bullied just goes against both the goals of the project, and the effect we see it's had on him. Being mocked and insulted throughout your childhood does not generally *improve* someone's confidence or their opinion of themselves!)

The goals of the project are to create someone who is physically strong and capable (note, it does NOT say anywhere in canon that he was exposed to any of the viruses, or physically experimented on in any way, until 1998--it says there were "tests of endurance" which Alex according to the English translation viewed as "hellish", though in the Japanese files it's more like "rigorous training to improve their mental and physical abilities". Either way suggests more an elite/extremely challenging and difficult perhaps military-esque physical training program, rather than "strapped to an operating table and injected with stuff". Prior to 1998 there is *zero* canon indication that he was anything other than human with a lot of training physically.), highly intelligent, academically successful, ruthless, ambitious, a good leader, and fully convinced of the ideology that they are superior beings and the majority of people are inferior etc.

Starving someone, beating them, sexually abusing them, keeping them *so* isolated that realistically they would panic in a social setting/struggle to hold a conversation rather than being a highly charismatic and confident master manipulator who's very skilled at figuring people out and getting them on his side (like, I don't think he was around people enough to *form close relationships* with anyone other than Alex as a child, but he needs to have had a reasonable amount of interaction with a variety of people to develop the skills at leadership and at manipulating people, deceiving them, gaining their trust, getting them to like him, etc that he canonically has to a high degree! he is not going to acquire those skills if he is locked up in a cell in an underground lab), are all either unnecessary or outright counterproductive to these goals.

We know that, on average, even though only 13 of the hundreds got past the final stage of selection (and yes, it is confirmed to be multiple stages of selection and not "they're the only ones who survived to adulthood" as I've seen some people claim) to be given the virus, the Wesker children were generally more successful than the average person. (We can tell this just because 13 out of a few hundred were considered just as good as Wesker--who got a PhD at 17. That is more people, in the space of a short time, getting a PhD at 17 than IRL achieved that through *the entire 20th century*. And the people who did that IRL weren't doing intense physical training on top of that... or for that matter learning to become leaders or master manipulators. The project wasn't successful at creating loyalty or obedience to Spencer, but it *was* successful at seemingly everything else.)

Sexual and physical abuse *do not* make the victims more successful on average than people who were not abused. They tend to lead to children doing *less* well academically (very hard to learn when under stress and even more so if also in physical pain, difficulty concentrating, memory issues--trauma can lead not just to memory issues *about the trauma* but memory issues about all kinds of day-to-day things...), being physically weaker and less healthy (chronic pain etc from injuries, stress affecting the immune system, shorter and skinnier if they didn't get enough food or if stress affected their appetite etc--note that both Weskers we see are above average height, in Albert's case above average height and muscular even pre-virus, in Alex's case the virus only slowed the progression of her illness and didn't give her superpowers so likely also didn't make her taller, so she is naturally 5ft10 despite having been chronically ill for much of her life... not exactly looking like childhood malnourishment here...), being less confident, socially awkward or anxious or struggling to interact with people (Wesker spent most of his life in leadership positions and was able to get everyone at STARS, without exception--and including people like Chris who generally have problems with authority--to like him and place absolute trust in him), and often burning out/not achieving much later in life because they lack motivation that isn't based on fear of punishment (Wesker is certainly motivated, and has had an extremely successful career and is then very successful with most of his evil plans once he gets into the whole supervillainy thing).

Sexual and physical abuse do not make people stronger. They do not make people more confident. They do not make people more successful. The Wesker Project *did* succeed at doing all these things.

(Yes, some real-life educational/training programs with the stated goal of making people more successful or stronger have had incidents of sexual abuse, because predators join the organisation and exploit their position... but it isn't *beneficial to the program's stated goals*--all other things being equal someone who was abused will generally struggle more to be successful than someone who wasn't--it's a failure of the program, not a case of the program working as intended... the Wesker Project was scientifically designed to set these kids up for success and power and we know *it worked*, not simply in the sense of success in a narrow area like a sport at the expense of a lot of other things, but in terms of being extremely skilled and successful at a huge variety of things and extremely adaptable and fast-learning.)

If you want a villain whose primary purpose in the plot is to be someone you're meant to feel sorry for, or who hates themself, or is depressed, etc... there are so many others in various works of fiction. Wesker is not that character and twisting him into it just seems to be making him into a different character entirely from the one canon portrays.

I know some people just don't care about canon-compliance--not just because of things like people saying "his confidence is fake and would collapse at the slightest challenge" when the official RE4 book (not a noncanon novelisation like SD Perry's nonsense, official canon content) calls him "a confident man" who likes a challenge (and it's not from his POV but from a factual/unbiased narrator), but because I've encountered some *really odd* canon-breaking things in fics that weren't tagged as AU at all. (One of the most nonsensical-seeming to me, and I wish I could spoiler this like on Discord because it does need a tw but uh... tw self-harm... had Wesker portrayed as having frequently cut himself throughout his life, including frequently doing so at STARS, including only a few weeks before the Mansion Incident, explicitly described as cuts on his wrists and forearms... even though *his sleeves are rolled up in RE1* and *you can see there are no scars there*... those kinds of scars can take years to fade, and again, Wesker was physically human at this point, they are not going to vanish in a few weeks.) But I do wish stories portraying Wesker as some kind of angsty victim had a single clear AU tag on AO3 so they could all easily be filtered out when I'm trying to find canon-compliant fics.

This is why most of my Wesker fics have been delayed for a while, I just find this fandom so frustrating at times because half the Wesker fans seem to be fans of a very different character... it's exhausting and makes me feel as if no-one actually appreciates the character I love, as he is depicted canonically in the games I love...

#tw abuse #tw csa mention #tw self-harm #tw fictional abuse #tw fictional child abuse #not every good villain story has to be a story of trauma and abuse #sometimes an interesting and complex character can be made #from a story about entitlement and privilege and arrogance and power #even if the resulting character is less palatable #less 'sympathetic' in a conventional 'oh poor thing needs a hug' sense #resident evil #wesker #albert wesker

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