#graceful assassin

[demigoddessqueens]

Happy 268th Birthday Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor!!

#assassin's creed #ac iii #assassin’s creed #assassin’s creed iii #connor kenway #ratonhnhaké:ton #happy birthday king! #he’s beauty #he’s grace #punching Templars in the face

[kirnet]

scouting ahead

#dragon age #grey warden #dragon age origins #warden tabris #dao #mabari #i have a animated gif version too but it ended up being really basic bc i confused my layers so im just gonna keep that as a comm example #this could be rendered a lot more but im tired of it!! #tried to adapt the rogue warden armor so that it wasnt so obnoxiously loud. added the fur bc ferelden cold #added the little leather skirt bit to nod to the some of the other leather armor in the game. added some vials bc shes an assassin spec #and gave her adaia's boots! #oh and some andrastes grace too #minadraws #leilan #azariah tabris

[kiwikipedia]

This is basically how my main Assassins act all the time. Poor Gray and her Murder Family

#Add is also Team Murder Is OK #Fgo #Fate/Grand Order #Fate Grand Order #Fate Go #Fate Assassin #Fate #Shuten Doji #Gray #Li Shuwen #hassan-i-sabbah #King Hassan #Fgo Shuten Doji #Fgo Gray #Fgo Hassan #Fgo Li Shuwen #lord el melloi ii sei no jikenbo: rail zeppelin grace note #lord el melloi ii case files #gray fate #Penguinkiwi Creates

[fiuworks]

i hate you trials of apollo. i know where you live.

#jason grace #heroes of olympus #pjo hoo #trials of apollo #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo spoilers #trials of apollo the burning maze #the burning maze #the burning maze spoilers #jason grace come home i miss you #jason grace defender #percy jackson #percy jackson and the heroes of olympus #i survived jason grace's character assassination and all i got was this shitty tshirt

[goldensunset]

my random unprompted enthusiasm post for the evening

#peach rambles #i flipping LOVE this trope soooo much #for those who don’t get what i’m talking about take kingdom hearts’ org 13 for example #like ‘superior of the in between’ or ‘graceful assassin’ etc they all have their own titles #or simple examples from twewy. ‘the composer’ ‘the producer’ ‘the proxy’ #if i have a cool phrase to call a character then my appreciation for them goes up 500% #even better when these characters actually DON’T have real/other names (at least that we know of) #so they’re literally just known as ‘The [Something]’ #ok this just in: apparently there is a distinction between epithets and titles. however i do not care #because yes i am celebrating both at once in this post #good tropes tag

[thankstothe]

Wedding speech

#house md #robert chase #screencap #s07e17 “Fall from Grace” #guy got divorced once and has more divorce deadbeat energy than the reigning divorce champion - Wilson #well there's assassination there too I guess #but to that i say “euthanasia we all do it” #idk where I'm going with this

[hotontrailler]

The Big List of Isekai Animes I have watched

Konosuba: God's Blessings on this Wonderful World!(S1,OVA,S2,Movie)

Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (S1,S2)

Overlord (S1)

That Time I Reincarnation as a slime (S1)(Not finished yet)

GATE - Thus JSDF Fought There (S1)(Not finished yet)

Mushoku Tensei (S1,S2 Cour 1)

World's Finest Assassin (S1)

Campfire Cooking in Another World (S1)

In Another World with My Smartphone (S1)

The Eminence in Shadow (S1)

Ascendance of a Bookworm (S1)

How a Realist Hero Rebuild the Kingdom (S1)

TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- (S1)

By The Grace of The Gods (S1)

Trapped in a Dating Sim (S1)

The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

The Rising of The Shield Hero (S1)

#isekai #re:zero #mushoku tensei #konosuba #overlord #the rising of the shield hero #gate #that time i got reincarnated as a slime #world's finest assassin #the eminence in shadow #ascendance of a bookworm #tsukimichi -moonlit fantasy- #how a realist hero rebuilt the kingdom #cautious hero #trapped in a dating sim #campfire cooking in another world with my absurd skill #by the grace of the gods #in another world with my smartphone #anime

[ms-rampage]

From Far Cry/Ubisoft's Instagram

#far cry 5 #fc5 #ubisoft #nick rye #grace armstrong #jess black #hurk drubman jr #far cry #jess is lowkey an assassins creed character because of her background #far cry 5 anniversary

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

#there were so many school groups! #a giant one came in RIGHT AFTER i entered lincoln's cabinet room #part of me was screaming 'children i NEED to tell you about all these idiots and their insane drama!' #a smarter part of me understood that would be super weird #so instead i regaled different individuals of my own traveling party after we had the room to ourselves #then at lincoln's tomb we lucked out in getting there during the ten minutes of the day when school groups weren't there #which meant we got a personal tour from a guide who seemed thrilled to have grown-ups to talk to #he and my dad chatted about fishing for a long while in the entry #it didn't feel disrespectful because it totally felt like the kind of conversation lincoln would have understood and joined in on #and then we went on our way but the guide then chased us down to share all the fascinating lincoln stories as we went along #(shout-out to lefty you were great) #and then a school group found us so we made a graceful exit #but outside a teacher was explaining to a different group about how robert was significant in his own right so he's buried at arlington #and the RESTRAINT i showed in not immediately informing them that he was present at three presidential assassinations! it was rather heroic #and then when we toured lincoln's house the guide (who accidentally made it clear he was a revolutionary war buff) #(which made it a bit hilarious he was stuck with lincoln) #asked for questions before we started and someone asked about lincoln's 1860 election campaign! #aka one of my SPECIAL NICHE AREAS OF OBSESSION! #you cannot imagine how desperately i wanted to tell him ALL ABOUT seward and thurlow weed #anyway it was fun to go back now that i actually know stuff about lincoln #but it was also a bit frustrating because now i know how much they leave out #(though there was cool new info and artifacts) #(the blood-stained piece of laura keene's dress was very morbid and very cool) #also it reminded me that i still have that book on the 1860 election i've yet to read and the hype is so real #presidential talk

[gracecarstairss]

the last hours would be better without the gracelet

TW: assault mention in regards to Grace’s ability & her controlling James

This has been on my mind for a while and I wanted to try to articulate it into words. I will be discussing MY PERSONAL OPINION that the gracelet was a cheap ploy at relationship drama, written in a way that makes James and Cordelia’s relationship 100% redeemable.

I’ll be talking about The Midnight Heir, where it is mentioned that James has the bracelet on, but we are unaware of what it means. This was written long before TLH was written and many things have obviously changed, especially Grace and James’s characters and their dynamic. From TMH, without awareness of the bracelet, we are given an extremely different take of Grace that has been given in TLH.

Grace was pictured at first as innocent and tempting (gross) and then after Magnus is leaving the house, she threatens him with a blade after he asks her if she needs help to get away from Tatiana. Her attitude is very different from how she is in TLH, and Magnus comes to a conclusion that Grace kind of led James on a bit, that he declared his love for her, and then she cruelly rejects James.

Let’s talk about if the bracelet did not exist, and The Midnight Heir presumably had the energy that James and Grace originally had before the TLH story changes. If there was no bracelet, and James and Grace’s childhood “love story” was similar, except that James loves Grace FOR REAL, with the bracelet nonexistent. She only leads him on because of Tatiana making her, and to hurt him, she cruelly rejects him and he is heartbroken, acting out the way he does in TMH. This would presumably make him desperate enough to do anything she tells him to do, which is all manipulation to control him for Tatiana. Therefore, there is absolutely no assault, but Grace is not a good person still. I just personally think, and I think many others think this as well, that the assault aspect of Grace’s power has rendered her whole ability unnecessary and, in my opinion, should not have been included in the novel. There is a way to make her a manipulative, terrifying, and cunning enemy without assault, especially if the goal is to give Grace a redemption arc. This could have easily been done by just keeping Grace’s same energy from TMH but just WITHOUT THE BRACELET! (I absolutely hate the ploy of using assault to basically eliminate one of the people from a love triangle and narrow down who the endgame really will be.)

I strongly believe this would have been a MUCH, MUCH better story without the bracelet. However, there is a big reason that I think the bracelet was included. The love triangle would actually be REAL. There would be no way to justify James truly being in love with ONLY Cordelia for his whole life, he would have to truly love Grace, which obviously calls for a love triangle. We know that the Matthew x Cordelia x James love triangle is canon so I don’t know why Grace could not have been involved without the bracelet (and her power in general). I don’t know what it is about “Herondales only love once” but it’s bullshit and I hate it because it’s such an unhealthy ideology. Why not have James truly love Grace and then fall out of love with her and then fall in love with Cordelia? Why? Because Herondales can only love once? Therefore, the bracelet and Grace’s ability were created. It also would probably make the story sadder too because obviously James would be going back and forth between the two girls. I think it is so stupid that there had to be a plot device created in order to make sure James only has been in love with one person.

#I’m in my essay era #i know this is probably controversial #but I just hate the bracelet so damn much #it’s the stupidest cheapest plot point #i know I keep complaining about this and yes I’m a whiner #but I hate the character assassination of Grace #tw assault #grace blackthorn #the last hours #chot spoilers #chain of thorns #chain of thorns spoilers #james herondale #the midnight heir

[ryuvnosuke]

On Valentine’s Day everything seems to have a discount for couples, so why not pretend to be one to save some money and have fun? + tachigin..? 👀 <3

Gin takes his blade firmly with one hand, breath steady, eyes fixed on the objective. For a second, everything is silent. He inhales slowly, deeply, shifts the blade slightly, and awaits for orders.

“Psst. Gin,” Tachihara whispers from his position. They're far away enough for his voice not to ruin the mission immediately, but that doesn't stop Gin from glaring at him, annoyed. One gets used to this, after a while—the constant interruption. Tachihara is good at being talkative without ruining anything, so Gin just gets annoyed because she prefers to work quietly. That's her whole thing. “Hey, listen. On Valentine’s Day everything seems to have a discount for couples, so why not pretend to be one to save some money and have fun?”

Gin blinks repeatedly, frowning, and tilts his head. What the hell is he even talking about?

“Don't look at me like that. I've been trying to tell you this all day,” he complains, still whispering.

Rolling his eyes, Gin shakes a hand. We'll talk about it later, he says with the gesture, and Tachihara sighs.

“Yeah. Of course. Not the best moment,” he admits.

It takes Gin just a second to compose himself. If his heart is beating a little faster than usual, well, that's something that can be addressed later, too.

#grace <3 #drabbles.txt #inviting your coworker to an absolutely-not-a-date while you're working is truly something (you're both assassins) #tachigin

[yonemurishiroku]

Since I’ve been feasting on Prince Nico for quite a while now so today, I’d like to promote my Emperor Jason agenda

in which Jason is the seemingly nice but actually callous and ruthless to the core, whereas Nico di Angelo is a child Jason himself dug up from the 18th floor of Hell and now his secret weapon - who draws a path of the enemy’s flesh and blood so that Jason’s emperor would thrive.

To Jason, a prince who was pushed by the shoulder and pinned on the throne by a golden crown, the empire is nothing but numbing shackles. Nico is the spark of unexpectation he fished out from the recklessness of Hell. Something new. Something truly his.

To Nico, a soul who, until the day of breakaway, had only known of darkness and loneliness, Jason Grace is the light at the end of a tunnel. He has no purpose in this land of the living. He just follows what pulls him along. Jason, that is.

People say the brighter the light is, the darker its shadow is. The Emperor walks on golden stones and silver railings. His weapon hides in the shadows of his glorious cape, silent, protecting, faithful, always.

People don’t like him. di Angelo is everything of dirty secrets and bloody smell. But that’s the exact reason why Jason keeps him close - closer than anyone can ever dream of, including his consort.

And even when it all falls down - because a tyrant, whether a skin or at heart, is never meant to prosper - he is the last one, the only one, who never stops believing in his emperor.

In the light of the raging flame, Jason asks his most faithful companion to end his journey - for he refuses to die by the ashes of an empire he doesn’t want. Nico holds his emperor’s lifeless body, blood on his hands and on Jason’s cloak, watching the columns coming down on them. One by one, burying them both.

#nico di angelo #jason grace #jasico #pjo #jasico au #fanfic talk again bc what’s new anw? #yone rambling #yone prompt #hoo #toa #riordanverse #percy jackson and the olympians #emperor jason #assassin nico #? i guess??? #royal au #I DON’T KNOW HOW TO NAME THIS AU #powerful nico #prince of the underworld #dark jason #dark nico

[fuckmeyer]

hey bestie i'm finally here with that essay about jacob fighting for bella's humanity w/o being a love interest bc the potential that has! he's set up to be the perfect avenue for it! he's the warmth and sun that she loved from arizona; he's the community and family she could be deeply enmeshed in w/ charlie and billy; he's a childhood friend who grew up (which bella's going to lose the potential to do if she becomes a vampire! and she's going to forget that past!); he's someone who fixes up old damaged cars instead of having perfect ones, and they aren't the *same* but they're still good...he's literally thematically everything best abt being human that bella will lose, AND examples of the negatives she sees in humanity, (all the times she thinks abt how the wolves are fragile in comparison to the vampires)...and it would just be SO fascinating to see that played out w/out the romance. it would honestly be even more powerful! bc baked into smeyer's worldbuilding is that vampires prioritize their romantic partners above everything else and having jacob be the true contrast to that where he's a platonic connection that bella genuinely values equally and she has to think abt how becoming a vampire would cut her off from the potential of connections like that!!! i am thinking so many thoughts

BESTIE thank you as always for dropping the Jacob love in my inbox!

you're so right about Jacob being the perfect avenue to explore Bella's doubt about vampirism! the warmth & family & community & LOVE & acceptance & nostalgia she loves about humanity is all embodied in Jacob's character & in their relationship. she likes hand-me-downs & homemade gifts! she likes acts of service! she likes reckless stunts that remind her of her own fragility & weakness! she likes warm sodas & spaghetti dinners! she likes being reminded that she belongs somewhere! & THIS IS JACOB <3

the fact that their relationship isn't utilized to this end (or any end, really) is my biggest problem with Eclipse. Bella drops little hints in the narrative that she's nervous about becoming a vampire. there are so many opportunities— e.g. when Rose tells her story— for her to reflect on what she's giving up.

in the end, she doesn't sum up the argument in a compelling way & doesn't make her choice in a believable way.

in part because the event that kicks off her grand realization that she's not ready (AKA THE CONFLICT OF HER ENTIRE SERIES ARC) is ...graduation

big life event as a catalyst seems to make sense. but how relevant is it to her narrative? & once it's brought up, we don't we see her digging into why she's nervous. what about saying goodbye makes her not ready? what about getting what she wants terrifies her? what does she need to sort through? what plans does she need to make? we're left to wonder what's running through Bella's mind re: the biggest decision of the series...in a first person narrative. no!!!

Jacob, who embodies all these ideals of her humanity, should be the one to push her to this realization. the climax of her internal conflict should be focused around him: losing him physically/emotionally (or both), & everything he represents. there is so much weight that her relationship with Jacob adds to her choice if she's allowed to love him and Edward unconditionally! as a romantic interest, all Jacob's doing is pushing her away.

(& that's why this whole fucking triangle makes no sense. he loves her so much he remembers her from early childhood. he loves her so much he'll sit there for months & pick up her broken pieces. he loves her so much he'll spend every moment just doing silly little hobbies together. he loves her so much he wants to fight for her humanity "until her heart stops beating" AND EVEN AFTER. but he doesn't love her enough to respect her choices or opinions? he doesn't love her enough to know that by being an asshole, he's pushing her closer to death? imo this is where we see stephie's grubby hands moving pieces. Jacob loves her more than he's in love with her.)

& so, because the "i'm not ready" realization is tied to something Bella doesn't give a shit about, the realization that she is ready is equally empty

what makes her decide she's ready to become a vampire is GUILT & FEAR & ANGUISH. she's "ready" to become a vampire because she feels weak & useless. worse, this realization is not touched on as the event (the training sesh) unfolds. she has this realization OFF-PAGE & then shows up to Edward's proposal like "yeah i'm ready to become a vampire but first i wanna fuck :)"

& we're supposed to buy that? girl, you resolved nothing internally. you didn't show us what changed for you. you're making this decision out of fear instead of out of love. & we're supposed to believe this is what little miss "thoughtful & responsible" wants???

it's such a blatant disregard to all the growth she went through & the relationships she developed. you can't just turn Jacob in a fucking asshole & turn the choice into a non-choice & call it day. Jacob deserves better, Bella deserves better, & the readers deserve better!!

MAKE 👏 EVERYONE 👏 SUFFER👏👏👏

(in the name of love!)

#i am WINDED from this post but youre so right and i just want to shout it from the rooftops #you are my ultimate bestie in crime #thank you for the essay #it's so carthartic to talk about & iron out what's wrong with jacobs charcter #bc its so nebulous right #was he assassinated? were his traits in NM simply blown out of proportion? how much flak does he deserve & how much grace should we give hi #tbh even after all i dont think most of rhe fandom realizes just how dirty jacob was done #i just witnessed a discord server convo the other day abt how people who think jacobs charcterization is racist is SUS #LIKE!!!! IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING AMERICAN LIT you would know jacobs charcterization #follows a LONG pattern of anti-native sterotypes in lit- #ok ok ok im not getting on that now i will literally never leave this post #but STILL the boy is just not given enough grace and nuance in this fandom tbh #so to talk about it here with a fanfic master like yourself is a BREATH a fresh air #in conclusion: i love you

[pyra-morgana]

Some of my favorite shots from the new AC Mirage Trailer (X)

#ac mirage #assassins creed mirage #basim ibn ishaq #ac basim #basim #my beloved #the grace #assassin's creed #ac

[bankaizen]

evie + climbing

#evie frye #assassin's creed #assassin's creed syndicate #ac: syndicate #acedit #g.gif #she's so graceful when she free runs 🥰

[losertriangles]

*Astrid beaten, bloodied and bruised, being cornered by a gang of Changelings*

Astrid: *With a smug smirk* Gentlemen, Gentlemen, let's be civil about this. Come on, let's make a deal! You surrender, and you don't die. How does that sound?

Changeling: *Laughs* And how do you intend to kill us?

Astrid: Oh, I can't kill you. *gestures over her shoulder* But my buddy can! Say 'hi' buddy!

Angor: *Drops down behind her with a dagger in hand* Hi.

#Rule number one #Don't fuck with the girl who's been adopted by a killer troll assassin #Toa #Trollhunters #Tales of Arcadia #Astrid Grace #james lake junior #Claire Nuñez #tobias domzalski #Angor Rot #changelings #Magic #Wizards #3below #Changelings done fucked up