#in search of her father

[twinwound]

mary shelley writing about a monster rejected and abandoned by its creator and dedicating it to her own father i need to smoke a blunt with her i need to give her head

#there are parallels even in the creature’s journey to geneva to find frankenstein and matilda’s fantasies of a pilgrimage across the world #in search of her father #searching for eden finding yourself in hell #the fall into monsterous womanhood #and so on

[nerdpoe]

Little Zuko and little Azula love Lu Ten. They love Lu Ten so much, they successfully smuggled themselves into Lu Ten's baggage when Lu Ten left to go fight.

Lu Ten, meanwhile, finds out that his little cousins snuck along for the ride way too late.

He knows they're gonna lose the fight.

He isn't about to let a couple of little kids die like that, murdered by Ba Sing Se soldiers too hyped up by war.

He may have been prepared to put his own life on the line, but he's not sacrificing Zuko or Azula's. But he also knows that if he flees the field with them, then Ozai will absolutely use that as an excuse to "punish" his own children.

Lu Ten does not want to know what that punishment entails. He is, in fact, more terrified by whatever it may be than the literal war raging outside his tent.

So.

So.

He swallows his pride for his country, his love for his father, and his dreams of being a successful general.

He grabs the kids, fakes his death, and runs.

#atla au #atla #lu ten #azula #zuko #zuko and azula raised by a stressed and trying lu ten #iroh still grieves #but during his journeys he realizes that lu ten probably isn't dead #but he steers clear of where he thinks lu ten went because he doesn't want to lead ozai to him #he has the order watch over them from afar #ozai still had his father killed #but his meeting was interrupted by ursa instead #so he challenged her to agni kai #and scarred her #and ursa is the one banished from the fire nation in search of the avatar #iroh went along with her #but she intends to help the avatar destroy the fire nation #since it is the one that took her son and daughter #story prompt

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 116

Give Battinson robins but it’s DCxDP style with ghosts. 

His kids are… technically not from his world and technically not alive either, but that doesn’t stop him from adopting them. Even if he wasn’t aware of them being literal ghosts for the first few hours of encountering them. 

How did they get here? Well, you see, sometimes child ghosts will run into each other, and they’ll form their own little friend groups. Or family groups. Especially if they lack a guardian. Who would tell them not to mess with natural portals. 

Or to kidnap a phantom to play with them, but hey he’s enjoying himself too and has a puppy! The bestest boy!

Bruce was not prepared for some sort of energy-thing to open and spit out a good half a dozen children. Nor was he prepared for these children to all have powers, or for another child (thankfully a teen) to fall into the cave a few weeks later. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #battinson #prompts #Dick died alongside his parents when the line snapped #Barbara died to the mob when her father refused to be bribed #Jason died out in the cold on the streets after surviving for a year #Cass died after escaping her father- training for killing doesn’t always translate to training for survival #Tim died from neglect alone in his parents’ home while it was covered up #Steph died before her mother tried to get help with her addictions #Duke died from an attack in the narrows #Damian died from a ‘trainer’ who wanted revenge against Talia & Ras #Danny was searching for his ghost friends with Cujo's help but tripped #It all worked out though #Bruce sobbing to Alfred: Why are there so many hurt children #Bruce grabbing all of them including Danny: My children now #He gets horrifyingly good at picking up stealth what with his kids being literal ghosts #Gets a bit of a mom sense for whenever they're doing something they shouldn't #Some idiot: I shall kill the Robins! #Batman: #Y'know what the robins deserve star cores #with big bro space core danny #god can you imagine if battinson became liminal lol

[princeparadiso]

what could have been

#qsmp baghera #qsmp #qsmp tilín #tílin #baghera #my heart is broken ill never be the same #this was my first time ever seeing the old eggs at the same time as baghera #and baghera loved tilín so IMMEDIATELY guys #they immediately reminded her of pomme #she stayed by their side all of the side searched for them talked to them #she promised them she would take good care of their father for them #she said she didn't care she had three children now and that pomme would have loved tilín so much #im so heartwarmed yet heartbroken #how wonderful they were

[aldoodles]

Recognition

#httyd books #THESE KIDS LOVE EACHOTHER SO MUCH GAAAH I LOVE FRIENDSHIP #no one freakin look at me I am so emo about these kids #their reunions!! #fighting tooth and nail to do good in a world burning to the ground— the fact that hiccup and camicazis separate searches for fishlegs #bring them back together again. that she’s the ONLY ONE who’s recognized him so far #when his own father didn’t #she stares her friend in the face and pushes away his disguise #fishlegs on the bring of death gathering all the strength he has to call out I just #*brink #also hiccups lack of braids and Fishlegs lack of braid is bc they’ve been apart for a year and didn’t have eachother to do their hair oK #book!hiccup #camicazi #book!fishlegs #fishlegs no name #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #how to train your dragon books #doodles #al chatters #my art #how to train your dragon #these are prob not accurate I did not consult the book for them

[ride-a-dromedary]

*lies on the floor thinking about how Halsin still thinks about his mom and dad*

something something no matter how old someone is, they were someone's baby once

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #the only things we know is that halsin remembers his father's face enough that he is able to see that he resembles him in the mirror #that his mother knew him better than anyone else (and still holds that title according to him) #and that they're both dead #something something i think halsin misses home a lot - or whatever was once his home that time ago #it's such a small thing but i genuinely think halsin is one of those cases that was prematurely separated from his family #and has just been searching for a root to grab hold of ever since #it's also interesting to hear when immortals or long lifers muse on their parents because it does point #to the fact that regardless of how formidable they are now - regardless of what they've accomplished and how much they've seen #they are flesh and blood like any other #i talked about this before but i will talk about it again actually #it's the displacementTM #if you followed me for anything other than this elf man i apologizetm (not) #but also connect it with shadowheart being separated from her parents - i'm drawing lines

[invinciblerodent]

... so does anyone have any clue on how undeath is supposed to affect elven souls?

Because I have been building my own elf character, and thinking about this a lot, and it's a thought that just will not leave me (hard not to think about this with an Astarion romance), so it's time for another one of my navel-gazey thinkpieces i guess lol.

Like, my main source is Mordekainen's Tome of Foes, and that book states clearly that elven souls are immortal. Their numbers are more or less fixed, or rather "capped" (that's why they haven't "outbred" every other race even with their long lifespans), and each elf currently living is the reincarnation of an elven soul that's already been to Arvandor (their afterlife) at some point, and then returned in a new body. That's why they have such few children: because a birth is as much a joy as it is a sorrow. It's both the arrival of a new life, and the death of another- either decades, centuries, millenia past, or as soon as barely a few months ago.

As a quick and dirty run-down for those who don't really want to wade into the lore (I don't blame you, it's murky in there), early in their lives and when they are nearing death are the times when elves are most intimately connected to their previous lives, and in their sleep-trance (their "Reverie"), these individuals can call upon memories of those past lives. The young elves relive exclusively the experiences and adventures of their immortal soul until their second or third decade- then, slowly, those memories become interspersed with those from their current life (the First Reflection, the first time that happens, marks the start of their "adolescence" of the mind essentially- they are physically fully mature by then), until roughly the end of their first century, which is when their access to these primal memories is cut off. From that point forward, the elf loses access to their previous lives. This is called the Drawing of the Veil, and from that point forward, the elf may only relive events from their current life in their trance, right until they start nearing the end of their natural lifespans some 600 years later.

This is all fairly clear in the case of a living elf.

But what happens if that immortal elven soul, that's so intimately interconnected with the afterlife and the very passage of time, finds itself suddenly housed in an undead, unaging, immortal body? How does that change things?

It's got to change things, no?

Like this is such a specific thing, I don't believe specifically elven intelligent undead (that is also a protagonist about whose soul we are supposed to care) has been written about super extensively in the sourcebooks, but my guess personally is that the moment of undeath, it... severs the bond of the soul to Arvandor. This is not unrealistic, as that bond can break for many reasons: Drow for one are never invited back and die true deaths with no way to be reincarnated, and so do elves who have turned to gods outside of the Seldarine. (.... that also means that, with the drow's propensity for casual murder, the number of elven souls available for rebirth is in a constant and steep decline, but that's a whole other thing.) (I've no clue what this means for the Seldarine drow. I wanna say that they can gain admission back, but that's just me being an optimist, I've no recollection of a source literally confirming or denying that.)

This loss of the primal memories, it's said to be a traumatic experience in itself, even if it comes naturally, as just part of the elven life cycle, and it coming on the heels of such a profound upheaval of one's life (such as being turned into a vampire), it may just be the least of the person's worries... but it would explain some things in a way that goes beyond the traumatic experiences of Astarion's current life.

If that moment of being cut off were to happen before the elf would naturally lose their ability to access primal memories, I assume that they would... be forced to more or less "grow up" (at the lack of a better term) in an instant. And to be denied roughly half the time you would have otherwise had for regaining experiences and memories from your past lives, it's got to leave one a bit... emotionally stunted, when compared to a living elf of a similar age, who had time to go through their natural life cycle as one should.

(Which, it's not a huge reveal that I believe our guy to be emotionally immature, and a bit stunted in his emotional growth. That's, like, clear, and I don't mean to say anything to the effect of "ooooh, he was so youuuung, still an uwu baaaaby---" no, we're unequivocally talking about a fully grown, adult man lol, but specifically in the case of how this all relates to this weird trait of elves, it's still interesting to think about this odd dissonance that... may very well exist between a living- and an undead elf.)

Hell, my personal little theory is that elven intelligent undead (like vampires, who do retain a soul within their bodies) specifically, while they do go into a trance and have dreams/nightmares/memories of their current lives, may just even lose the ability to recall events from their pre-undeath life (beyond conventional memory, meaning that they can't strengthen those memories and are bound to eventually forget them) as well, as evidenced by Astarion not remembering his own face, or what color his eyes were once. (You can't tell me that while he was alive, he didn't spend a shitton of time looking at his own face. If he could relive pre-undeath memories, he'd know these things, or would be able to recall them if he wished.)

There would be something... strangely tragic, in this kind of isolation, for an elf. By becoming a vampire, you'd become undead first, and an elf.... somewhere way, way, way down the line.

As a fairly young undead elf, you're somehow simultaneously ancient, adolescent, and middle-aged, and also pretty much confined to a singular existence of nothing but pain and abuse, with memories of a distant childhood slowly fading just out of reach, knowing that... this, this is just your soul's lot now. That a significant part of your fey heritage, your very ancestry as well as part of your immutable essence, has been torn from you in just one moment, in exchange for preserving this current life, as a simulacrum of itself. And now there is no next life, because this one is one without a natural end, and Sehanine Moonbow will now never invite your immortal soul back to Arvandor to be reborn, because it's been cut off from you, and your very body is holding you hostage. Six, sixteen, or sixty centuries can come to pass, and still nothing is going to change... unless you die, in which case you're just dead, like any non-elven creature.

Anyway, there's no real point to this, or a conclusion to be drawn, beyond just... fuck, man, they couldn't have made this fucker more of a tragic figure if they tried.

(...... Fun fact, Silvanus is not part of the Seldarine. So unless he maybe turns to worship Rillifane Rallathil instead, Halsin's soul would not be reincarnated either. But he seems to have made that decision himself and he seems content, so I'm guessing he's just cool with it.)

(I'm not fucking touching half-elves now, you can't make me, that's such a fucking can of worms oh my god)

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #to think that i was just searching for elvish pet names when i fell down this rabbithole huh #squirrel plays bg3 #(yeeesh i did find one I like) #(c'mon now; it's their shared native language; he just hasn't used it in a long time- of course she's gonna make use of that) #(especially since she herself only ever had the chance to speak it with her father too) #(let me tell you; the dictionaries I've found are LIGHT on words of affection) #(it's almost as if DnD is not a dating sim?????? weird) #(edited only to fix a word repetition btw)

[sboochi]

Little Mermaid inspired AU!

Drawing fish people is fun :)

#it contradicts what I drew but I was thinking snow would make a deal with the sea witch (regina) #and she gets a pair of legs to search for her father on the surface #but in exchange she must make someone genuinely fall in love with her #regina curses her to also become skinnier so that's a bit of a problem when everybody is so fixated on her body and not her personality #red shoes and the seven dwarfs #red shoes and the 7 dwarfs #my art

[aflockofravens]

I want... to care for her

#rei suwa #you beautiful tragic motherfucker #the end of episode 11 is kiiiiilllllliiiing me #he just wants so badly to be her daddy #ever since ep 1 he's just been searching for some sort of emotional bond to give his life meaning #it's why he picked up the stray #it's why he didn't fight Kazuki when he brought Miri home #he is so desperate for a family #he let a complete stranger move in and take over his life #we're gonna be Miri's fathers #definition of 'if he wanted to he would' #get you a man who will give up being an assassin to raise an orphan with you #this goes for Rei Suwa as well as Kazuki Kurusu and Loid Forger #new type unlocked apparently #i don't even want kids but i love accidental father figures i guess #kazuki kurusu #buddy daddies #my last remaining brain cell

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Been thinking about the debate scene and how differently Scary chanting "our dads suck" (with Norm) hits now that we know which dad she was probably talking about.

#I know what Beth said but Scary has trauma actually #<- not blaming Beth I just think that line gets misconstrued for nefarious purposes a lot #dndads #scary marlowe #dungeons and daddies #(I'm talking about the whole “searching for the trauma that justifies her feelings” thing she said in that one teen talk) #I think Scary has difficulty feeling like her feelings surrounding her father are valid? #not what this post is about but #been on my mind #maybe I'll elaborate when I'm not half asleep #^ regarding the post- perhaps it was obvious from the beginning that she probably wasn't talking about TJ... #But we still lacked the context to really understand why she was so angry #“baba she's clearly talking about TJ when she says x” yeah yeah you're probably right #I haven't listened to the earlier episodes in a while #but regarding this part... well this is how I feel on the matter #I FEEL IT IN ME BONES

[1pcii]

SHADAHKNKAS saw u in the notes of some kuina posts and that made me realize that there is simply a bond with kuina and tashigi fans, who may even often be the same fan, because AOUGHHH KUINA I CARE HIM SO MUCH episode 19 literally changed me forever. swords + gender struggles are all you need to hook me on a character sometimes Maybe. the whole greatest swordsman promise... sob. also. something about zoro promising his name will reach the heavens and trans kuina. which made me think.. what if kuina and The trans fear of dying then having your deadname on your tombstone that you can't do anything about because you're dead. kuina dying before they even get to figure everything out and all of a sudden he's just known as kuina forever, and then zoro making a name for himself in kuina's honor or something idk (i like zoro's backstory) (KUINA )

THERE ISS. people who theorise that they are secretly related or the same person or direct parallels are so close to getting it but don't imo (no shade to those theories tho, I just personally find them narratively unsatisfying).

like they are parallels in that kuina is symbolic of the sexism people suffer and tashigi is an adult woman who has come out the other end sword swinging but ultimately so unsure of herself as a result. also the (trans)genderisms, we are all hand in hand 🤝.

MAN KUINAS STORY BROKE ME DOWN ON A BASE LEVEL AND REWIRED NY BRAIN. I had to take a break from reading just to let it soak in it's so good, a swordsmans promise indeed, that scene was beautiful, I love zoro the world's first a accidental feminist <3. zoro carrying on her dream with his will never not have me in hysterics.

FUCK YEA THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I have soo many thoughts about baby!zoro and kuina and trangenderism. egg kuina cis zoro, egg kuina STEALTH TRANS ZORO ABSVDJFBKSHDKDN <333.

little baby zoro looking at his grave with the uncontrollable urge to carve out those letters. to carry and rearrange them and make sure they get back to him in the afterlife spelling 'worlds greatest swordsman'.

trans kuina makes me so emotional because ultimately I don't know if they were canonically trans but it's my FAVOURITE 'what if' for them. they never really got to be anyone outside the dojo masters daughter. the failure of a heir and the girl who beat zoro 2001 times. who would they have been if they got to grow up? come to terms with themselves and unlearned all that heavy, painful biases pushed onto them? as a transmasc who's studying into a (cis)male dominated field myself ik, the feelings of 'betrayal' and 'proving misogynists right' and imposter syndrome and inadequacy issues and perfectionism they might've gone through,,, sobbing my eyes out HE MEANS EVERYTHING TO MEE.

zoros backstory is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the manga idc how 'simple' it was it's still beautiful.

#kuina being the greatest swordsman of heaven and zoro being the greatest in hell. and they're besties and everything is good and nice :') #I fucking love him so much it's insane #him and zoro and koushiro are such interesting characters it's kinda a shame all ppl rlly focus on is the mundanity of their death and #how it 'sets a tone' and establishes a sence or mortality for zoro #like those things are important but let's talk about HER TOO!!! #the girl who wanted to be a 'boy' for her dream #who started out in self hatred but could've maybe grown to love of masculinity when exposed to healthy example of it #and I learning the internalized misogyny implanted by his father from within #psii.txt #text #ask #the-neighbours-kid #shimotsuki kuina #<-ooh using the official character tag for organising so if you see this in tag search I have a zero tolerance for ppl calling me or anyone #else a misogynist for having this hc. EPS my fellow transmascs who know what we're talking about #I will just block you #anyway cookie TY FOR SENDING THIS ASK YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE KUINA... SHAKING UR HAND RN THEY ARE SO FUCKING GENDER 🤝🤝🤝 #trans headcanon #trans kuina #trans zoro

[girltomripley]

You're crumbling up just to see, afraid that you'll be just like me

In The Angel's City x Films pt. 1

#image sequence is because nadia first searches deven to work on her screenplay but they become almost father and daughter at the end <3 #itac #i need to draw parallels where there are none #nadia core #deven core

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Half-siblings.

That's it; that's the post.

#extemporize back chat #sister and brother from different mothers #still one of my fav familial hcs #big buddy little buddy vibes fr #jemima always knows what plato wants to say without him having to say anything at all #he's extremely patient with her to an almost fault #i like to think that they weren't *positive* at first that they shared a dad but that they both had suspicions #due to wibbly wobbly corrupted blood stuff #and they weren't directly told (electra included) until later on even long after they'd sussed it out #team you look just like your father and that can occasionally be disheartening depending on who you ask at what time #anyway this post has no point only them <3 #also you like how i have to gif search my own gifs

[lullybaju]

It's already April and i'm happy to tell that i'm not only halfway through the The Count of Monte Cristo, but i'm already past the 1000th page - about chapter 77. HELL YEAH!

Anyway, apart from the man who plans and controls every aspect of his existence in a way to give life to his revenge, there's a selected bunch of aristocratic people in 1830s Paris, who are acting as if a big cockroach is flying over their heads, that i would love to share here my thoughts about.

Roses are red, violets are blue and Albert is still annoying, Franz is still a promising supporting character and Maximillien and Valentine are boring as fuck, like the most of romantic core of novels. However, as a protagonist he is, Albert kept developing his character and showed few more layers of himself by proving to be a kind of a late modern Narcissus - and a freudian case - as he explained that he doesn't intend to marry any woman because his mother is the most perfect of them all.

De Villefort family and Danglars family are the two cores of the big four traitors that caught my attention the most. M. de Villefort is the strongest villain and his family is the most villainous - especially Héloïse de Villefort, who is trying to kill almost the entire family by poisoning them with poison she compounds by herself - but the Danglars family are the one serving villainous taste of entertainment: they are the fabulous mix of the stupid greedy husband, the adulterous wife and the pretentious "i'm not like other girls" teen daughter. They don't have the best plans, but they do have the people!

As a dark horse, Benedetto or Andrea Cavalcanti rises by being a character who plays a character... in a character. He's so layered that i think he competes directly with Albert for secondary protagonism at second half of the novel - and with great potential to beat him. Does Benedetto or Andrea Cavalcanti really know who are him? Certainly not. Unfortunately, his multiversed personality entirely seems to love pursuing dumb scam plans.

#after all i said above i must confess i kinda felt sad for franz being kind of forced to know how his father was killed and who did that #he's that smart friend of the erratic protagonist #and he's not a greedy fcked up fiance! thanks dumas #btw i know love doves are dumb but i can tell you it's less stressful to follow his ex-bride's foolish steps than her lover's foolish steps #max is military and the adult of their whole situation c'mon! #Ps i can't believe m. de villefort was so naive in his search of monte cristo's life! #i bet he didn't fully believe in those stories but got stuck with them- #-since they were the only stories he knew that didn't - apparently - came straight out from monte cristo's mouth #the count of monte cristo #monthly book appreciation #books