2. Scars [and a realization]
Do you know how children don't know of the pain a scar brings? It might just be me, but i got conscience pretty late of how to get a scar you needed to get hurt and to get a BIG scar you needed to get REALLY hurt. I don't think Kid!Lloyd sees that yet.
HEYY nothing like a bittersweet comic to start our morning right? Let's all pretend it's still october 2, just this once.
If you're curious abt where this situation came from, it came from one of my au's!
I don't talk a lot of them, but for context, Lloyd managed to get himself spawn in the past weeks before the green ninja was even figured out. Nobody recognizes him and while i have him wear his mask on the au, here it was removed just for aesthetic purposes. So if you imagine him with the mask on during this, it would be canon.
But basically, nobody knows he's Lloyd and they're just excited to have the green ninja around, kid!Lloyd is less thrilled about it (having the suspected murderer of your father near, he completed the prophecy so,, does that to you) but they bond sometimes, when K!Lloyd isn't busy pranking his older self.
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What's your favourite clothing item/accessory that the system owns?
Well soon it will be the inquisitor cape I intend to sew for myself. But as of right now...I don't know that I have one. Which is possibly the reason for my frequent malaise. I like being shrouded in mystique and glamour.
If our black wingtip shoes weren't so scuffed and demolished, they'd be my favorite. </3
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Intro/Investigations Part one
Oh hey new Ace Attorney Fancase is out!
Been a while since I’ve last written something so I hope it’s okay, it’s mainly a self indulgent story anyways though but still
I might add visuals later but for now it’s all words
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BROTHERS
The river Weser ran between the Roman and Cheruscan forces. Arminius came to the bank and halted with his fellow chieftains:— "Had the Caesar come?" he inquired. On receiving the reply that he was in presence, he asked to be allowed to speak with his brother. That brother, Flavus by name, was serving in the army, a conspicuous figure both from his loyalty and from the loss of an eye through a wound received some few years before during Tiberius' term of command. Leave was granted, and Stertinius took him down to the river. Walking forward, he was greeted by Arminius; who, dismissing his own escort, demanded that the archers posted along our side of the stream should be also withdrawn. When these had retired, he asked his brother, whence the disfigurement of his face? On being told the place and battle, he inquired what reward he had received. Flavus mentioned his increased pay, the chain, the crown, and other military decorations; Arminius scoffed at the cheap rewards of servitude.
They now began to argue from their opposite points of view. Flavus insisted on "Roman greatness, the power of the Caesar; the heavy penalties for the vanquished; the mercy always waiting for him who submitted himself. Even Arminius' wife and child were not treated as enemies." His brother urged "the sacred call of their country; their ancestral liberty; the gods of their German hearths; and their mother, who prayed, with himself, that he would not choose the title of renegade and traitor to his kindred, to the kindred of his wife, to the whole of his race in fact, before that of their liberator." From this point they drifted, little by little, into recriminations; and not even the intervening river would have prevented a duel, had not Stertinius run up and laid a restraining hand on Flavus, who in the fullness of his anger was calling for his weapons and his horse. On the other side Arminius was visible, shouting threats and challenging to battle: for he kept interjecting much in Latin, as he had seen service in the Roman camp as a captain of native auxiliaries.
Tacitus Annals 2.10-11
there's a lot going on in there! Arminius switching to Latin is a detail that always makes me feel a deep kind of sadness, especially with how it's preceded by mention of their mother. I wonder what she thought of what became of her sons, on opposite sides of everything but still, inescapably, brothers. even when they want to kill each other. there sure are a lot of fucked up and unhappy brothers around. and Arminius asking about Flavus' injury............I also had a whole thing typed out about the horror of imperialism and colonization and the trauma of assimilation but I think this sets the tone better
Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest, Adrian Murdoch
and also this, just for fun
(ibid)
this post is already a mile long, so lets add another mile to it: a little scene at the start of their conversation! tfw you go in for a hug and your younger brother who also ended up being taller starts roasting your hair style
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