reverse unpopular opinion for....aw heck, go ahead with Rhea for this one as well
This might as well be a part 2 to the previous Rhea ask so :D
I find Rhea to be so compelling for several reasons, one of the biggest being the inherent contradiction that she is very much capable of caring, loving and trusting others, sometimes with some insane gestures when you realize their meaning behind them (ie. Saving Jeralt's life by giving him her blood thus risking outing herself because of it, letting Catherine keep Thunderbrand despite the fact it's the one Relic she could safely recover- implicitly trusting her with one of her family's remains without any obligation to do so, risk angering a noble house to give Cyril a better life and treating him like her son in all but name)... And yet she cannot, for the life of her, bring herself to be honest with them.
Something fascinating I noticed about Rhea is that she ironically seems to prefer people who are blunt with her, because look at the people she's closest to - Seteth spends all of Part 1 openly questioning her, Flayn is constantly on the verge of accidentally outing herself, Cyril is so direct and honest he sometimes accidentally comes off as rude (Shamir too even if she's not as close to Rhea) and Catherine wears her heart on her sleeve.
Heck, all of them are either not that religious or outright non-believers, which ironically I believe helps reassure Rhea they love her because of who she is as a person and not because she's the archbishop, especially given how much she implies to find the position incredibly alienating.
And isn't that just so fascinating? That she is more than capable than loving others and caring for them risking her own personal safety, she appreciates people being honest with her.... But cannot, will not be entirely honest with them in turn.
Because make no mistake, that right there is Rhea's true fatal flaw: her compulsive need to keep everything a secret.
From the big but understandable stuff that would get her and her family scrapped for parts if it became public to downright pointless shit to hide like not liking hot drinks, and it's the one trait that screws her over the most, between being the reason Jeralt left (since she didn't tell him ANYTHING about what happened with Byleth so he assumed the worst and fled) and the thing preventing her from making connections as deep as she actually wants (like even just telling her loved ones how much they mean to her), as well as getting the support she actually needs. And because she feels she has to bear everything on her shoulders, she crumbles under the weight because no matter how hard she tries, she will never be good enough.
In that sense the role of archbishop is a sort of mask to her. It's definitely a part of her, but also something she has sort of burrowed into like a safety net preventing her from being true to herself. Because that'd mean making herself vulnerable, in more ways than one. To say nothing about putting her surviving family and remnants of her dead kin to jeopardy.
If she were to open up she'd be... More lively, I think. Definitely sillier if Heroes is any indication, and arguably more willing to take a direct approach in helping people. And definitely more loved and happier.
And perhaps, one day she'd realize she doesn't need to bring her mom back to fix Fódlan. She's not doing it alone anymore, after all.
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Did Jason open up his trauma to Jazz? Since she is the group team mom
Oh my Ancients, yes. She cracked that boy open like a walnut. It took a bit, but Jazz reminds him somewhat of Barbara and Harley, so he warmed up to her fairly quickly overall. She really taught him what it's like to have a big sibling(sorry, I love Dick but he was a shit older brother before Jason died).
Jason will talk to Jazz about things he'd never say to anyone else. He actually opens up to Ember and Kitty too, but they're more for when he wants someone to cry with and to have get all enraged on his behalf. Jazz is who he talks to when he wants to fix it.
It wasn't always like that. He had to learn how to differentiate. Had to learn when he needed help, when he had things that needed to be fixed. He had to unlearn the emotional constipation and phobia of talking about his feelings he learned from Bruce too. But Jazz is used to dealing with teenage boys who won't admit they're hurting even on pain of death. She's good at subtly working their pain out and helping them confront it. (She learned a lot from helping Danny and from her Psych classes so she's more crafty about it too)
Jazz is one of the biggest reasons Jason is as stable and emotionally healthy as he is. He's not healed completely. He won't be until he gets closure with Bruce and the Joker. And there's some things that will always stick around. Trauma leaves scars. But without Jazz, we wouldn't have the Jason we do in TKAHRK we'd have someone far closer to the Jason from UTRH.
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"cannot continue"
In the first conversation with Eros, about who he is, he says, "I preferred Cupid, but Pan had to be the trickster and spread those stupid stories." So stories are apparently how idols change. No wonder they didn't change for the millennia that they were in hiding and nobody was telling (or changing) stories about them. Or they don't remember their history which is no longer being told in stories. This thread continues in the epilogue: (Either) Aphrodite is doing well surrounded by "adoring masses"- presumably because there are now stories being told about her.
Eidolon literally means "a representation of an idealized figure".
Freddie says in the context of Persephone, how it would suck if people thought your story ended at [whatever arbitrary point in your past] even though you continued living. Dialogue with every single person in the club before you meet Persephone makes it a point to note how she's scary, how angry, how everyone's afraid of her.
Once you get through to her, though, she wants to actively help. She jumps to "we" so fast. She actively helped Calliope before they ever became friends, she helped Chastity, she goes out of her way to change things, all the way back to what happened with Hades. She says, "I changed", but as long the story is that she's Hades' wife, the change cannot take, even if she killed him, she couldn't become the Queen.
I think it's the other way round too. Without stories, I don't think Idols can change. And other than the inherent commentary, this has fascinating implications for the future of this world. They're affected by peoples' beliefs (of course, they're gods), they're out in public, and for the first time in so long, they are GOING to change.
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the ppl saying amaterasu is majestic and graceful are wrong btw. sure yeah half of the time she is. i’ll give you that. regular wolves don’t control the elements by using their tails as paintbrushes and they don’t instantly grow flowers everywhere they step. but this is the same wolf who digs up people’s turnips and smashes their stuff and steals things and bites and grabs people when necessary. ammy smells bad and doesn’t like getting in the water. ammy stole a lady’s clothes while she was bathing. ammy blew up a whole gatepost settlement on the other side of a bridge. all the other animal gods in this game have humanoid intelligence and speak and act with grace but ammy in particular is mute and incredibly stupid and silly just like your average dog is. they drew a butthole on her character model for no necessary reason. do you remember golden fury and brown rage. c’mon guys be real
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my good works
a lil pinned post with links to my fics, primers, etc
personality analysis via the mountain goats
alex albon
the coroner’s gambit
baboon
george russell
get lonely
wild sage
lewis hamilton & nico rosberg // tallahassee
daniel ricciardo // beat the champ
sebastian vettell // we shall all be healed
max verstappen // the sunset tree
charles leclerc // the life of the world to come
primers
the george’s dad post
everything you never wanted to know about albon pets
2023 in galex
charles' art collection
fics
any kind of favour (alex/george, alex/george/carmen, toxic threesome verse)
somebody desperate (george/alex, sex pollen phone sex)
hairpin turns (george/alex, amnesia)
new rules next week (george/alex, art world au)
filthy beach follow-up
summer drinks sequel
nothing to fight with (george/alex)
brighter than diamonds (george/toto, series)
both hands tied on the wheel
the sound of gears and moving water
a trail of burnt things
ski au cinematic universe
there was not even silence in the mountains (charles/pierre)
it wasn't yet the spring (max/daniel)
daniel pov ficlet
george/alex ficlets
new years eve phone sex
it wasn't fair of george to ask
blindfolds
breakup
george is keen
toxic hotel threesome with carmen
art appraisal as foreplay
cat george
rocky horror
building a cat tower
charles/damiano ficlets
in the recording booth
backstage at a concert
charles/alex ficlets
cats the musical AU: part one, part two
other ficlets
george/toto/alex: heat crisis
max/alex: biscuit offer
christian/toto: I have it printed out
george/toto: totol control
george/charles/alex: talented mr ripley au
scotty/daniel/max: when on international waters…
playlists
family dog core (a daniel/scotty dog-themed playlist)
alex
george
fancam
about today (mercedes & brazil)
she used to be mine (charles & ferrari)
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@mythicalmagical-monkeyman @hyperfixation-tangentopia @cryptidwithaninternetconnection @filijester i saw that kui mulang (wolf guy from season 4) had a girlfriend/wife and i just fucking ran with that idea
i am character developing her god help me
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