willy wearing those new year glasses except it’s 2014 ones bc they ran out of 2024…
sorry this is not quite the pizza you ordered But im working with a timeline here. so i went back in time 10 years. happy new year 2004
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So many saying:
"Oh! Why do all the other romances in the epilogue get kisses while Astarion gets just hugs! Where is our kiss?!?!"
I think you're missing the point...
For non-ascended Astarion, nothing is more fitting or more perfect than that hug. Why?
This is a man that had been abused for over 200 years. A man who was forced to use his body to lure people against his will. A man who tells you that he has used his body sexually and otherwise that just the act of sexual intimacy has been tainted for him.
In Act 2, as he tells you all this, allowing an extremely vulnerable side of himself to be shown to you. Asking for reassurance that he was more than a cheap tool. What does Tav/Durge do?
They hug him. Hold him tightly. And the Vampire has no clue what to do because he, in 200 years, has never been touched like that unless it had sexual implications. For the first time, he is being touched for pure, vulnerable intimacy and love. And in that moment, he accepts the safety of your arms, and holds you. Craving not a touch of lust, but love.
So yes, a hug is far better than a kiss in my regard. At the end of the day, no matter what, he wants to feel that safe feeling of your arms. No expectations, just pure love.
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i keep thinking about zuko during the day of black sun, starting down his father who's goaded him into staying by torturing him with details of his missing mother, only to use that opportunity to try and kill him again.... only for Zuko to use a technique Ozai did not even know possible, flowing through motions that are distinctly not firebending demonstrating a power so different and deeper than Ozai could ever fathom... idk man just zuko
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i wish more fics would bring up that time Robin!Jason crawled through a giant pile of decomposing bodies to rescue Batman while he had a major panic attack and then proceeded to be the only thing motivating Bruce to make his way out of there instead of choosing suicide by cult leader
EDIT: I did it myself >:)
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Thinking about how Jotaro Kujo is The Tragic Character™️ of JJBA. Araki simply cannot let that man be happy. He fr said “you can fit so much trauma into this bad boy”!
His entire life was so tragic that we all knew he was going to die, eventually.
His Mother’s life was endangered and on the journey to save her he gains significant trauma from people trying to KILL him and then lost three friends at the ripe old age of 17.
He goes to University, meets a woman he falls in love with, and has a kid. realizes that as long as there’s a threat of enemy stand users wanting revenge for Dio his family will never be safe so he has to leave his family behind and distance himself.
Became a older brother/father figure to Josuke but had to leave him because he knew he would bring enemy stand users into that poor boys life- the only Joestar that had a somewhat of a shot at being normal.
Then in part 5 it’s revealed that when he got separated from Polnareff, Diavolo paralyzed Polnareff. He’s probably carrying guilt from that. He’s also probably stressed asf at first that the son of the vampire who tried to adamantly kill him is just out there somewhere. Thank god Giorno took after Jonathan 😭.
Then in part 6, he had to face his failures as a father, understanding that he didn’t deserve and probably would never get Jolyne’s forgiveness, but it’s so clear to me that Jotaro wanted to be there for her. But of course, to him, the only way he can protect people is to push them far away from him. He never learned that he is stronger in numbers because whenever he was in numbers, someone he loved got hurt.
Jotaro never understood he deserved the happiness of a loving family.
He couldn’t even save his daughter (and he dies believing that Jolyne hates him because he knows he’s a shit father AND WAS OK WITH IT AS LONG AS SHE GOT TO LIVE 😭😭😭) in the process.
He’s a Greek Myth type of sadness.
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Immense shout out to Ben Galpin and the sound design @re-dracula applied to his dialogue for this entry. Never before would I have thought the words:
"We four?"
Could sound so much like a gun being cocked. The same way I never thought the words:
"I want to consult with Mina."
Could sound like someone mentally whetting a knife.
Really, all of Galpin's deliveries--when not addressed in absolute sweetheart mode to Mina--had just the right amount of steadily sharpening ice and steel just under the surface, absolutely helped by the subtle soundscape underneath. The same way Quincey keeps his own little motif, Jonathan is now getting little surges of something cold and taut. Still polite! Still thanking God (note the tension as he says it) for Mina's peaceful sleep!
But you can hear and almost feel that he is one (1) frayed nerve away from getting very, very uncivil with Van Helsing and company if he catches one more whiff of the same bullshit that got Mina put in danger in the first place. Bravo, 5/5 kukri blades.
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