Once again thinking about the connection between Duncan and the Grim Reaper. Imagine him, cloaked in black as he wonders the world searching for lost souls and claiming them as his own once their old life has ended and taking them for himself to sacrifice them in his war against the ancient evils. This great and valiant man with poison in his blood and the demon's song in his mind, a valiant knight slowing being eaten by the sickness he seeks to kill. A ghost who listens to the song at night and searching for warriors - for sacrifices - to give the blood the evil ones call for. Flee should you see him. Let the smell of his rotting mind ward you away and let not those cold steel gauntlets claim you. May the reaper find you before he does for the death will grant rest but a warden will send your soul to war as it dies.
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25 rejected edeleth fluff ideas
here are some edeleth stories i thought a lot about but did not write. if anybody wants to actually write one of these, be my guest (and also pleeeeease send me a link, i'm desperate for content about Them Girls™)
byleth takes edelgard on a fishing trip and she has an absolutely abysmal time
edelgard makes a valiant attempt to corral byleth's atrocious fashion sense ahead of a formal event
byleth teaches edelgard swear words
edelgard tries some of those weird herbs rhea used to give students to relax; byleth is more than happy to babysit
byleth does edelgard's taxes. she's wearing her goofy professor glasses. it does something weird for edelgard
edelgard takes byleth on a date to the opera and byleth cries the whole time
byleth reads a work of fiction for the first time ever. it's a horror story. she did not like it. edelgard reads her something nicer.
edelgard gets byleth to pose for a portrait and shows it to her
byleth has to give a speech at a big event and is a nervous wreck. edelgard has been waiting all her life for this coaching opportunity
edelgard tries to teach byleth how to draw (she is very bad at it)
byleth cannot for the life of her figure out which fork is used for what purpose at this fancy dinner. edelgard covers for her
edelgard goes all out to celebrate byleth's birthday on the day byleth thought was (read: randomly chose as) her birthday, not her actual birthday; byleth doesn't have the heart to tell her
byleth brings edelgard various souvenirs from her travels around the country. edelgard tries not to be so soft over it, even though they're… not all hits
edelgard attempts to make dinner and botches it beyond salvation. they get takeout.
byleth will not shut up about this cute house she saw when she was out on a mission and how nice it would be for them to "have something like it one day." edelgard arranges to buy the place
edelgard sees byleth in a dress uniform and cannot stop swooning
byleth is being relentlessly pursued by a suitor who won't take a hint and edelgard challenges the idiot to a duel
edelgard decides she will learn to swim. it goes poorly, to say the least, but she manages in the end. as it turns out, getting to see byleth in a swimsuit is a good motivator
byleth gets caught kissing edelgard by hubert. the resulting conversation is unpleasant for everyone. ferdinand, meanwhile, is overjoyed
edelgard is having a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day. she chews byleth out over nothing and immediately feels awful about it. byleth forces her to take the rest of the day off to chill
byleth is going away for a month-long mission. both girls are inconsolable. they write each other letters literally every day.
edelgard really puts somebody on blast in a council meeting. byleth gets stars in her eyes
byleth concocts a very, very elaborate story about some kind of summit in faerghus; she and edelgard leave enbarr for two weeks to attend. surprise: there's no summit, it's a spa retreat
edelgard arranges a "normal date" where they go out in town in disguise and do very boring things like run errands, look at furniture, buy socks, etc.
doropetra-edeleth double date
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Suddenly fucked myself up badly thinking about Hellman's Relic 2.0 trials and like... at a place as fucked as Arasaka, where they apparently had an abundance of dead "host" bodies to experiment with (who wants to bet with me: ex-employees fallen out of favor and enemies taken out by Counterintel and similar departments, amongst others?), wondering if potentially they *always* or at least more than once used copies of Johnny's engram to implant into these "hosts"? Having him wake up and die in those bodies that weren't his over and over again as some form of messed up eternal punishment for him meddling in their affairs so long without getting caught. But then he did, and Saburo was like, "you've been nothing but trouble, I'm gonna use you now to secure my own immortality in the long run, so that your sorry life finally has a real purpose".
Like, they "collected" netrunners' engrams with Soulkiller to make use of in a very practical sense, but what's Johnny Silverhand's engram *really* be good for (sorry Johnny)? Apart from making an example of him as a glorified human guinea pig, the most awful thing you could probably do to someone hating Arasaka as much as he did.
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KEVIN!!! IS!!! A!!! CREATION!!! OF!!! HIS!!! ENVIRONMENT!!!
since all the girlies are talking ab kevin i relistened to triptych and !!!
kevin is just cecil if the angels hadn’t stepped in. cecil is just kevin if strex hadn’t fought him so physically.
like DUH cecil ofc u like kevin pre-strex, he’s just you!!! kevin’s whole monologue about family and desert bluffs and community radio is 100% a monologue cecil could have given. no wonder kevin refers to you as an old friend- you’re the same person but of different circumstances!!
the life that the old kevin imagines for himself- a life without strex- is the life that cecil gets to lead. all because of circumstance, circumstance neither of them could really control. while cecil is allowed to remain, is saved by an otherworldly presence, kevin has to fight, fight with everything that he is until who it is all gone. until he is shaped into something else against his will. kevin is a tragedy of circumstance.
i also find it significant that old kevin says he hasn’t heard from cecil in a long time- that he hasn’t heard from anyone, that the future is desolate, that he is an ancient thing. has he outlived cecil? seemingly immortal cecil- are these circumstances that made kevin what he is the same circumstances that make him outlive everything? is the loss of “sentient heat”, of himself, the very thing that allows him to remain?
dniosqdnwekndj kevin !!!!
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do you still plan on drawing them in much ado about nothing? 👀👀👀 i would like to see it
oh my god YES i absolutely still plan to draw them in much ado, i just got distracted by doctor who but i pinky prommy they are coming
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