to forgive or forget
more lore for what ive got going on with carnival hero, for those who wanted to know why he doesnt particularly like kinger.
i like to think kinger was working on the code to remove the collars for a hefty amount of time. poor kinger tried so hard to perfect the code to release his people, but it was particularly hard for obvious reasons. he tried it so many times ; and when it finally worked, it was like a miracle. queenie, along with everyone else was overjoyed!
of course, it wasnt entirely perfect. sometimes, things go wrong when you take your excitement for granted. sacrifices get made, sometimes accidentally. the lovely king ends up forgetting about this sacrifice that was made, like he always does. the reason why shes gone fades in his mind like a bruise.
but others dont forget, nor forgive. hero never forgot this unnecessary sacrifice. he understood everything clearly after that. the collars are there for a reason. sometimes its better to be safe, to stay in ones own lane. to stay confined where you belong, where to remain unchanged is promised. for the greater good.
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The thing about focusing on demonic cultivation or his golden core as the lynch pin to Wei Wuxian's downfall or mdzs is that it misses the point of wwx's character and the story's main point. He would have still rescued the wens. It would have gone over about as well even if he had his golden core. He would have been probably still been at odds with and have the cultivation world turn against him. Ultimately the uniqueness of his cultivation actually probably gives him and the wens a fighting chance. Both Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji acknowledge that there's no bright broad path for him to walk on and save the wens at the same time. And that would have probably been true even in an universe where he had his golden core.
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is it just me or does anyone else fall in love with the way rick wrote annabeth in cotg
she's living her best architect life in sodnyc, she doesnt have a physical description, she has a roommate who is her friend, she's a busy person who has to get to classes, she regularly visits the jacksons, she was so sweet, she hyped percy up when he was insecure about being an older stepbrother even though she had so much trauma associated with her step siblings, she tears up when sally complements her, she's the top in all of her classes, she has new hobbies like baking, SHE HAS A FREAKING FANCLUB AND PERCY IS KNOWN TO PPL AS HER COLLEAGUE, she was one of the funniest characters literally i ate up all of her stupid little cheesy puns (its not radioactive, honey!!!!)
i just love to see our girl flourish and i feel like her appearances in trials of apollo and the kane chronicles crossover last book just felt like she was there to be the abeth in percabeth
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thinking again about how the idea of anakin kind of haunts the OT, how he's a story to his son and a ghost to obi-wan, both present and absent whenever darth vader's on screen. he seems like a myth inside a myth, a figure belonging to a lost golden age, a hero story of old. i think it's kinda why the prequels feel so profoundly mythic to me, they're like one step beyond the hero's journey, filling out an implied pantheon in the OT stories. the fall of the republic feels kind of like a titanomachy, battles of an older generation of gods.
it's like anakin is a heroic precursor, whose brief, golden life in the light was coextensive with our brief glimpse in the films of that civilized world that was lost with his fall. that lost identity is just one step higher and beyond into the realm of legend, the realm of the jedi, when the world was good and noble, with honor and justice. darth vader may roam among the OT heroes but anakin lingers in the story as a story until the very end, when he returns to destroy the last of the titanic elder generation, making way for the new age of heroes.
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Rules to break
Villain had fucked up.
They knew it. Hero knew it. The entire fucking city knew it.
It was dumb, too. Textbook-level stupidity. They knew the rules, for heaven's sake. Each and every one of them was written for young villains such as themselves. To no avail, apparently, since they went and got themselves involved in exactly what was forbidden in the rules of entanglement for promising villains.
Rule #1 Make sure your fuckbuddy is not your nemesis.
They are paraphrasing here, but who cares. The meaning's there.
Villain should have known that sexual tension between Hero and them couldn't dissipate out of the blue. It should have been alarming the first time they did not feel it burn them during a fight. Right after their first date, too. What a complete idiot they were... are. They still are.
Rule #2 Make sure you don't get attached to the bloody git.
Yeah, they're paraphrasing again. What's the point of memorising the rules word for word if they've already gone and broken every single one of them? For some unfathomable reason, they never questioned their attraction for Hero. There were other things to worry about once they found out who exactly they were shagging.
Rule #3 Villainy always comes before any attachments.
Did Villain know this rule? Yes. Did they follow it? No. Did they know why? Also no.
Okay, that was a blatant lie. So what? Sue them.
Rule #4 Don't risk your goddamn life to save your nemesis. Even if they ask.
Sure, Hero didn't ask for it either. Villain couldn't sit on their bloody ass and wait for them to get to the point of breaking and begging for help. Not when they saw the way Hero's body crumbled to the floor. Not when it ripped their lungs out of their chest to watch Hero getting beaten like that. And by their joined teams. Fucking hell, Villain was ready for a massacre.
Rule #5 Never join forces with the enemy unless faced with direct and inevitable danger to your life.
Did the rule still apply to them if Villain was on the run with said enemy, unconscious in their car? They didn't know. Probably no.
"You didn't have to do that," the voice catches them off guard. Villain shakes their head, not taking their eyes off the road. "I know you're not exactly excited that it was me."
Villain chuckles darkly at that, still not facing Hero. They pull to the left, taking a side road until they reach a small lake safely hidden in the depths of a forest. The car comes to a halt, but Villain remains silent, so Hero speaks again. "Will you please say something?"
Villain does not. Instead, they turn and lean forward, pulling Hero into their arms. A sigh of relief escapes Hero when Villain leaves a chaste kiss on their temple. Villain lowers their head, pressing their foreheads together and finally meeting Hero's lips.
Rule #6 Making out with the enemy is not a healthy coping strategy.
Oh well. When did Villain ever follow any rules?
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hi yeah so to this day i’m still thinking about the direct aftermath of the betrayal. about how we still don’t know exactly what happened - maybe the movie will give us some backstory! obviously we know the long-term effects of it, but what happened directly after the button was pushed? like did ambrosius realize what he’d done at first? was there instant horror and regret the moment it happened? or did it take a moment to register that he’d blown off ballister’s arm?
and how long did it take ambrosius to realize that the worst mistake of his life had been by design, planned all along? how long before he realized it was never really his fault, but rather the director’s? was it right after he’d stood up in the arena only to find that ballister was still on the ground, or was it a slow reconciliation with the truth that stretched across years?
and about the feud/breakup itself, too - how much of it was pushed by the director and the news, and how much was it ballister himself, rightly angry that he’d been betrayed? how many times did ambrosius try to tell ballister it was an accident before it became clear ballister didn’t believe him, and how many times after that was he just repeating himself over and over? did he ever mention that he’d tried to help, that he’d seen the spreading pool of blood and tried to rush over, only to be held back? did anybody ever find out that beneath the triumphant, untouchable king’s champion was a scared and bitter young knight, forever regretting something that was out of his control from the very beginning? that the price of his victory was so, so much higher than a broken lance and an arm?
what would it feel like, i wonder, to be a golden boy on a pedestal, exalted as a hero but despised by the person who mattered most to you? to be rewarded with fame and glory and a statue in the town square for something you never even meant to do, something that ruined everything? to be celebrated for the worst thing you ever did, crowned king’s champion and gilded in the eyes of the whole kingdom but knowing their approval means nothing compared to the love of the person you’d hurt, someone you’ll probably never get back again because why would you after what you’d done? to get everything you’d ever thought you wanted, at the expense of the one person who mattered most?
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The real fight is about to begin
I was joking/not joking to a couple of people that Genos's next job might be advocacy for cyborgs. The recent batch of webcomic chapters expand on things most chillingly.
In chapter 149, we see Mr. Fuzzy intending to create a world in which unmodified people will not be able to survive:
Earlier, in chapter 147, we see Machine God Eguro explain to Zombieman about a world in which people no longer have free will.
Horrific. This plan needs to fail completely and their cyborgized victims either freed or allowed to perish, depending on what's been done to them. That's no way for a person to live.
However, this world is also full of cyborgs who chose to modify their bodies. They're going to be caught up in the inevitable backlash: either they're going to be seen as victims or as one-time oppressors.
Once he gets done with hunting for Metal Knight and the Rampaging Cyborg, life is only going to get tougher for Genos. His next challenge is already taking form.
Something TV Tropes noted was that if you want your audiences to think a character evil, just make them a cyborg. It has been refreshingly not true in OPM, where it's been more accurately noted that body modification is something a person has to a) really be committed to and b) have the means to do it. The relative societal privilege enjoyed by cyborgs is going to be ended by some very greedy individuals who think that having much means deserving more.
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I got ptjverse brainrot, I hc that if all PROTAGS were girls, they wouldn't be treated any different than they already are now, in the beginning, I feel the guys would definitely take it a step further and just straight up treat them like a dude and it would be so comedic, like imagine Zack, Vasco, Danny and the other guys are going out when Zoe asks to join them, the guys are like "no, it's guys night 😤" and Zoe's like "......then why does Danny get to go🗿" and their response would just be "cause it's Danny🤷" and Danny would probably just roll with it cause why not. They include her in all bro talk, the dumbest shit, everything, and poor Danny has sit through and witness it all like "🗿" idk why it's just so funny to me. I feel like this would happen to a few of the protags.
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