#kitten thinks of murder all day

[elfcollector]

[SLEIGHT OF HAND] Mimic his trick and make the ring disappear.

#gamingnetwork #vgedit #videogameedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #bg3edit #bgedit #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 tav #tav #briar bellegarde #the dark urge #she might be plagued by thoughts of violence and killing. but she likes kids :) #the smile is so 'kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day' #especially thanks 2 the spattered blood

[charger-lens]

#kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #kotallo #horizon forbidden west #hfw #my edits #my gifs #horizonedits #kotalloedits

[nanomooselet]

Episode Nine: Millions Knives

Knives is firmly among my favourite characters. Adore him, fascinated by him, need to hit him over the head with a baseball bat.

The thing about Knives is that he lies constantly. I think he's so used to lying that he's come to believe himself truthful and sincere. To be fair to him, his emotions are very sincerely felt - I think they rattle his teeth, actually - but I don't think he understands them, even in hindsight. I don't think he understands the emotions or responses of others, either. They make no intuitive sense to him. So he rationalises reactions he doesn't expect as weakness, error or corruption to avoid admitting to himself where the problem might lie, and considers them only on those terms. Which must be terribly, terribly isolating, and it means he also lies to himself.

I suppose it's not a secret that I see a lot of myself in Vash - the guilt, the distance, the way he exaggerates his reactions around others - but there's a little bit of Knives there too. Enough that I feel sympathy. But I also recognise parts of him that aren't in me at all; they were a sickness I didn't realise I had, or the voices of people I wish had known better.

So my feelings about him are complicated, to put it mildly. I remember after watching the finale I had simultaneous urges to wrap him in a blanket and beat him to death with a tire iron, and that hasn't really changed. It's a difficult state of mind.

He's a great character.

Such a sweet, sad scene from a character we saw being so vicious. The notes begin slow, faltering - loneliness, hesitation. Perhaps even regret? And then Vash enters in his memory and adds his voice, and while it's still a little awkward, the notes themselves seem to smile along with him. Knives has learned over time to play the song himself, but it's still incomplete without Vash. The room is ridiculously huge, which makes Knives in the centre even tinier and lonelier than he'd otherwise be; the distance of the long-shot also conceals that he sits just a little further to the right than he needs to, so the realisation is slow. There's a lot of empty space. It looks like the room is unfurnished besides the piano and bench, with some random debris scattered around. How long has he been staying here? How long has he sat on that bench, trying to fill all that emptiness? Around him, beneath him, humans do human things and he is indifferent. He permits it only because soon none of it will matter.

I have to wonder what it is that Conrad got for Knives that made Knives look so pleased. Can't help but consider it ominous.

Also, Luida wasn't the only member of the SEEDs crew to pass on a haircut.

They have very similar clothes, too. That must have been an interesting shopping trip.

I spent literal hours combing through all my references trying to figure out if that was SEEDs Ship Five the city was built in, and I don't think so - Ship Five had human passengers and July was built in a Plant carrier. (So much for "I made sure the Plant ships would survive.") So at least we're spared the twist of the knife (sigh) it would have been to know somewhere in among all these withered Plants might be the twins' birth mother or the one who greeted them with Rem - but Jesus V. Saverem Christ, that doesn't make it better.

Knives, y'know - I do get why you killed those men. I really do. Humans are not innocent of this horror. Humans are not angels. Humans are survivors. We're also unfortunately greedy, short-sighted and brutally indifferent to those we don't perceive as part of the ingroup, especially when desperate. Even if you're willing to overlook this callous, casual abuse of living beings - and I wouldn't be - this is a recklessly unsustainable approach. Almost like a decision one might make in panic out of misfiring instinctive urge to seek safety? Not that I'm implying anything about your decisions.

And so when he sees Vash Knives immediately blames all of humanity when Knives bears at least a portion of the blame himself. There would always be casualties in such wide-scale destruction, even among those he intended to spare. Nor did he seem to do anything to protect the Plants aboard the crashed ship (likely because it would require relying on more humans), though it's obvious they would be vulnerable. But there's no way he can take responsibility for the deaths of his own kind on top of everything else he's done... though truly we're also our own worst advocates.

I'm sure they were happy to be useful.

Maybe Knives should have thanked the technician who said that to him before his death, because what he said made Knives so very angry. Anger, for Knives, is strength, and strength is certainty. A frightened little boy is sorry that he killed his mother and drove his brother away. A frightened little boy couldn't do this. Vash is frightened, of course. Clinging to Rem's skirts, a coward still, years later. Totally lacking conviction. But Knives thought of this. He knows how to work with that too.

Interesting that when Vash felt unworthy of the people of Home, he took off the coat they gave him to give it back. Knives, though, he snatches the gift he gave Vash straight out of his hands. If he's learned to play a duet alone he doesn't need Vash to do this either. He doesn't need Vash. It'd just be nice! You know. Not to have to rely on himself all the time!

His stupid little face and its utter bafflement. Where is this coming from? Vash isn't like this! I don’t remember it being like this! What could possibly have changed?

Knives intended to keep his calm throughout this confrontation. You can watch him visibly gather himself when he notices Vash enter; take a deep breath, push his hood back - it's why he went from kneeling to standing. It's like he can't be vulnerable, or even ask for comfort, but I swear if he'd just asked Vash for a hug instead of stabbing people the series would have ended there. Instead he tips further and further over the edge, refusing to reach out for help on terms other than the ones in his head, which he refuses to explain. And the moment a variable he can't control enters the situation, his first and only reaction is to violently remove it.

(Poor Luida must have no idea what the hell is going on. Although I bet this reunion explained a lot with hindsight.)

Why do you point that gun at me? Even though I saved you?

That's really the question Knives needs to consider the answer to himself, and he's not going to. Instead he imposes a time limit (and I'm starting to think when it ran out, that was when the Eye of Michael got into gear, so it's been around for approx. forty-five years) and runs off to cry in his piano room as though Vash is the one who needs a time-out.

Well.

He does, at that.

There's so much hope in what follows. Compared to Knives's vast hollow space, Vash's little room is so full of warmth and acceptance. He has people who love him and even a solution to the ongoing crisis, albeit an imperfect one - but he has something, he's not just flailing around until the day he catches one too many bullets. He has a goal in healing the Plants and helping people, and he has people who support him in it. And sure, he faces scepticism. Not to mention the parameters he's put on himself (I'll never kill, ever again... I'll figure out a way to save everyone. The humans, Plants... and Nai) which are Dark Souls times Atlus superboss impossible. But even Brad, who once called him a monster, thinks he's in with a chance.

I truly wish I found that more comforting than I did.

#trigun stampede #tristampparty #considering the character is named knives #it's funny this is the first time i've added #tw blood #tw dismemberment #tw strangulation #i have to say teen!shaped knives is my fav knives bc he's so cute #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #vash because your brother is Like That luida's decided you get free ice cream forever #trigun meta #meta: tristampparty episodes

[etapereine]

Getting ready for O Gran Camiño

#jonas says sunglasses stay ON even when it's cloudy outside #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #look at that snazzy new bike 😍 #jonas withdrawals are almost over *everyone cheers* #weather says it's supposed to rain basically every day through the weekend but as long as there's no snow like last year... #jonas vingegaard

[shaydh]

Not to promote violence or anything but if an AI bro started talking to me about AI in real life I think my first instinct would be to roundhouse kick him in the face

#shaydh blathers #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #is about me #luckily for everyone I am small and weak

[hungryblackbird]

Face the prisoner. Consider the implements provided. Then...

>...caress his thighs with the poker's warmth.

#oc: hymnal #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 dark urge #bg3 oc #bg3 spoilers #dark urge #bg3edit #videogameedit #dailygaming #mrdekarios #userfray #gamingedit #my gifs #my edit #pathetic kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day but would like to Not #shadowheart told her to say we'd take over! though i dont know if she intended her to actually follow through... #it's fine tho. she got it under control. she didn't kill him. :-)

[avegetariancannibal]

First thought that leaps to mind when I see pictures of young Hugh Dancy:

It doesn’t matter if he’s not playing Will Graham. He inherently looks like someone who could.

#hugh dancy #Will Graham #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day

[properbastard]

I can't mansplain, manipulate, manwhore my way out of this one, lads,

so murder it is

#; shits and giggles ( mun's antics ) #[ this is all kiran's fault #new pinned post bc it's funny and also stupid #i love the BASTARD one so don't worry i might put it back but for now.................................... murder <3 ] #[ kitten who thinks about nothing but murder all day but it's richard sharpe ] #[ yeah you can reblog this one it's okay ]

[goodobservationshirley]

We exceeded our orders months ago. Surely we must first return home to take counsel with the High King.

#galadriel is a mix between #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #and the 'old man yells at cloud' meme #tropedit #ropedit #the rings of power

[momosandlemonsoda]

OMG YOU GUYS SOMEONE MADE A PODFIC OF MY FIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@annapods recorded a podfic of No Rug to Sleep On or Fish to Eat and it is so so so good! Just, truly amazing! Go listen to it!!!!!

#kinnporche the series #kimchay #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #podfic #podfic of my fic!!!! #omg you guys I am verklempt this is amazing #thank you so much annapods #I love this!!!!

[uselessgaywhovian]

i like that shadowheart’s response to you banging mizora is just like “i’m not actually mad, i just can’t pass up an opportunity to be bitchy to mizora and make you squirm a little”

#shadowheart #baldur's gate 3 #‘now that she’s had a taste of inferior goods’ #local kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day

[waydowntherabbithole]

#kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #resting despair face #huggy always looking like he needs a hug #and a nap #huggy bear #quinn hughes #hockeyedit #.mine

[travellingwiththedead]

For reasons...

#ragnarok netflix #norse teenage angst #laurits seier #no talk me im angy #jonas strand gravli #can we have s3 like right now please and thank you? #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day

[oceandiagonale]

also I was thinking about @kriss-watches-stuff​‘s Spare DeRosa-Protagonist and I have no idea if this is accurate to spare but I DID doodle her yesterday as a warm-up based on her description skjdfhsdjkf

#oceandi speaks #spare protagonist #others' ocs #kriss-watches-stuff #(also used the onion headline 'kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day' because that's one of those old classic memes jdsfksjdfh)

[erridein]

Bhaal's bloody kitten :3

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge #bg3 oc #kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #my oc: mikelle

[lilyharvord]

A compilation you say? Oh helllllll yessss!! How about Cal's pov of when Mare is almost killed in the attack on the mountain pass in War Storm? Or when she ends up outside of the walls snd surrounded by Maven's troops in the battle at Corvium in King's Cage?

You all just want to see him simp, dont you? You all just want to see his inner thoughts be only of Mare, dont you? Folk, read War Storm in the mean time. When he's not thinking about whether or not he should be doing the whole "take back the crown", he's thinking about Mare. XD

#(*ask lily*) #(*shut up lily*) #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #broken throne #post broken throne #marecal #cal calore #listen he is a massive fucking simp #he's like kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day #except its: himbo dumbass thinking of nothing but sexy girl boss future wife all day