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theostrophywife · 6 months

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when i tell ya'll i SCREAMED

#the roommate #the writing and banter in this book is top tier #and it's only the second chapter wtf #library: the roommate

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somegrumpynerd · 18 days

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How absolutely wild must it have been for Nightmare to have like, minimum-to-no contact with mortals for hundreds of years and then the first two he has any regular close interactions with are Killer and Dust.

Like he must have a book in his castle somewhere of all the observations he kept like he was studying a new species

#UTDR #UTMV #Nightmare Sans #Killer Sans #Dust Sans #I could probably ramble for a while about the effect Killer had on him alone #But imagine being hurt by the world and carrying the grudge for hundreds of years while you wreak havoc all by yourself #And then you get one (1) roommate and he's so strange and unhinged but not at all what you expected #And then you get a second and he's so different again it's like they're different creatures even though they came from the same root world #And you get a third and he's a little more grounded but still has such wild needs and stipulations #By the time he got Cross he was probably onto his 3rd book of observations #If you dig around in Nightmare's library or office long enough I just know you can find at least one book where he's noted down what all hi #boys need and like and hate and what they refuse to do and how to handle them #Like someone leaving super detailed instructions for the care of their pampered beloved pet #Anyway Killer loves to joke to the other 3 that they should be nice to him because he ''let Nightmare adopt them''#and he's not entirely wrong #Anyway I need to go to bed so I can work all day tomorrow (rip) goodnight gang!!

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nyctictea · 1 year

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The Quiet Section

#my art #nyctic arts #genshin impact #alhaitham #kaveh #kavetham #haikaveh #digital art #fan art #alhaitham genshin #kaveh genshin #*shoves them together like kids do with dolls*#this is beyond self indulgent #fellas is it gay to kiss your rival/roommate #what if we made out in a corner of the most esteemed library in the world? haha jk unless

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iridescentmirrorsgenshin · 13 days

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Alhaitham and Kaveh - not 'friends' but 'roommates'

(This is a reworked excerpt taken from my Haikaveh essay! If you're interested you can check it out here or as a pdf <3)

Due to Chinese game restrictions, explicit mentions of homosexuality or overt queer references have resulted in less implicit ways of conveying queer relationships or characters. Therefore, same-sex characters in romantic relationships are assigned the platonic status of “best friend” or “friends”.

As such, these restrictions can be used as guidelines in establishing queercoding within Genshin Impact. It is of note, however, that this rule does not mean that all characters who are canonically “friends” are in a romantic same-sex relationship. Differentiating between same-sex couples and platonic friends (who have all been assigned the label ‘friends’) can be done by identifying particular care undertaken to ‘style’ characters. This is done so by queercoding, as in, using taboos linked to queerness; references which point to romantic connotation; or omitting certain details which casts obscurity on the nature of their ‘friendship’.

Alhaitham and Kaveh’s relationship has been styled in this way, as although various titles have been given to their relationship status, there has been no definitive term supplied overall. Alhaitham tells the Traveller that the two are “roommates”, with Kaveh confirming this, although stating that they “used to be friend(s), but not anymore”.

Within Kaveh’s Character Stories, their history as “best friends” is a painful one of separation, which can be seen as akin to a break-up, and despite their lack of status as ‘friends’, the two share an intimate knowledge of the other that no other character is privy too.

Condensing their relationship down to ‘roommates’ is an oversimplification that the narrative challenges the player to question.

This is achieved through their rapport with each other, seen within Alhaitham purposefully goading Kaveh, something which he cannot be seen to do persistently with any other character, as well as Kaveh’s unique reactions to Alhaitham, which present a side to him unlike which can be observed in his interactions with others. Additionally, the two mention the other without them present, as Alhaitham mentions Kaveh unprompted twice within the Archon Quest and once within his Story Quest, and Kaveh is prone to discussing Alhaitham with those who are aware of them living together, as Collei observes: “Seems like you always include him in the conversation, even when he isn’t here…”

When the two confirm themselves to be roommates, this is immediately followed by Paimon asking Kaveh if they are friends, to which Kaveh does not give a definitive answer too. When Paimon asks Alhaitham the same question in the Archon Quest, Alhaitham evades the question, and turns it back on Paimon, who notes that “[she] doesn’t know. That’s why [she’s] asking,” to which Alhaitham then describes Kaveh as his roommate. Although, this still is an evasion of Paimon’s initial question, Alhaitham neither denies nor confirms their friendship status. The status of their relationship is constantly called into question, for the characters they interact with, and for the player.

This casts an ambiguity over their relationship which aligns with Chinese gaming regulations in regard to same-sex couples, which in turn, points to a certain ‘styling’ of relationship which differs from general platonic friendships within the game. Where both platonic friendships and same-sex relationships can only be openly dubbed as ‘friendship’, signifiers must be present in order to differentiate these platonic friendships from the non-platonic.

Obscurity of relationship status can be used to do so – where characters are not explicitly “friends”, but are evidently tied to each other in some way, more than their assigned platonic status. Here, Kaveh and Alhaitham are irrevocably connected beyond their “roommate” status, and although they are not currently described as “friends”, they used to be, “best friends” according to Kaveh’s Character Stories, which creates a gap for interpretation.

The player is encouraged to interpret the reason for the two’s parting of ways, along with the reason for their current rapport. Although Kaveh asserts that there is a mutual “disdain” between the two, Kaveh observably talks about Alhaitham enough for Tighnari to assert: “No dinner with Kaveh is complete without a few words about Alhaitham." Rather than out of disdain, it can be surmised that Kaveh talks about Alhaitham due to the fact that he cares, as he states that the reason he has so many troubles regarding his work is because he cares so much about it.

When paralleled with his troubles with Alhaitham, being that Alhaitham finds a way to “infuriate” him every time they talk, it can be inferred that Kaveh’s approach to dealing with his work is the same as to how he deals with Alhaitham.

If Kaveh’s assertation that the “disdain” between the two of them was true, then there is no basis for him to talk about Alhaitham as much as he does. This is due to his attitude in caring about something results in him verbally expounding the problem, the same behaviour he exhibits when dealing with Alhaitham. By his own reasoning, if Kaveh did not care about Alhaitham, he would not be so “infuriate[d]” by his words.

In turn, the player can see Alhaitham’s care of Kaveh manifest in his concern for Kaveh’s wellbeing within A Parade of Providence. In this sense, the rapport the two have currently which the narrative prompts the player to question can be explained. The two hold a mutual concern and care for the other, but due to elements in their past, they cannot address this, and thus it goes unspoken. The same can be said about the explicit status of their relationship, as no canon label applied to the two can truly explain their relationship, with ‘roommates’ being a clear oversimplification of their bond, and always followed up with the question of their friendship.

Alhaitham and Kaveh’s status as ‘friends’ is disrupted, not only due to the canon ending of their friendship in the past, but also in the current narrative of the game due to this refused label. Alhaitham and Kaveh do not adhere to the status of ‘friends’, either evading it (Alhaitham) or outright denying it (Kaveh), however, their bond remains central to each of their respective narratives, so much so that their differing viewpoints are integral to the other.

Alhaitham and Kaveh have been designed so that they are integral to each other, and the obscurity of their relationship acts as a signifier that their bond is not of a typical platonic friendship.

In Chinese gaming restrictions regulating platonic bonds and romantic bonds between same-sex characters as strictly ‘friendship’, Genshin Impact can be seen to subvert this in order to queercode. By creating an obscure bond between a same-sex relationship, a bond which the game constantly calls into question, a silence has been generated as to what the status of the relationship really is. The depth to Alhaitham and Kaveh’s relationship and the unspoken nature of it alludes to the queer taboo, in that its inability to be definitively labelled generates an otherness than that of an easily understood platonic bond.

#haikaveh #kavetham #alhaitham #kaveh #haikaveh meta #genshin meta #how have i just properly clocked that the library scene and kaveh saying the thing about caring are in the SAME hangout ending #i feel like im chewing on sawdust #i am wringing out every instance of heavy traces of homosexuality in the writing of these two #they make me crazy insane #they are deliberately avoiding labels #theyre not friends or roommates theyre a secret third thing #homosexual - but you didnt hear this from me!!#also im gonna be posting about a parade of providence at some point #because it owns my being #its one of my fav parts from the essay hehehe

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persnickety-doodles · 2 years

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So for my College AU, I wanted to draw a short comic where Korra offers Asami a tour of her dorm, since they have a few hours to spend before Asami leaves for her student org meeting.

As expected with these two, things get a little heated before Kuvira (Korra’s lovely roommate and local tired law student) apologetically interrupts.

I may doodle the whole thing, but idk here’s this doodle for now. 😅

#korrasami #persnickey doodles #Alicia draws #Asami has a shirt underneath!! I swear! it’s just a nude color #nude-ish color #i used to work in my 1st university's law library #and those law students LIVED there #so i imagine Kuvira would be in the same boat #korra often gets the room to herself #and hardly expects her roommate #korrasami college au #lok #avatar

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moonys-library · 3 months

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Some girls watched beauty and beast and wanted the prince, I watched it and wanted the Library

#library #beauty and the beast #bookshelf #bookish #bookworm #books #acotar #caraval #crescent city #shatter me #the american roommate experiment #aaron blackford #aaron warner #the cruel prince #kingdom of the wicked #throne of glass #from blood and ash #bookstore #book shop

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simpfornegan · 1 month

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but have any of us considered the jacemond au that could save us all?

#nerdy loner aemond with his equally nerdy but well known social butterfly boyfriend jace #everyone kinda sits and wonders how their relationship even works #aemond’s impulsive and temperamental with insults for days #while jace is charming and sweet unless provoked into being otherwise #they bicker as a form of foreplay #and share stolen kisses in the library #but the most fun happens in the dorm rooms during their study dates #bouns points if jace’s roommate comes back to aemond all tuckered out in jace’s bed while jace is just sitting at his computer desk #in aemond’s sweats and his ‘this is how i roll’ t-shirt and causally going ‘hey’#like he didn’t ride that man to sleep #jacemond #jaemond #aemond x jacaerys #aemond targaryen #jacaerys velaryon #modern au

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transingthoseformers · 6 months

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Au where somehow Megatron and Optimus somehow end up renting the same apartment together and that that's how they met

So far my excuses are going for librarian!Optimus pax (just roll with it) and Megatron being in medical school

A lot of it is fanfiction tropes, IDW designs, and Riot ship magic

#maccadam #transformers #megop #megatron #Optimus prime #orion pax #<same guy #i could not commit okay #Megatron having trouble finding a certain uncommon textbook only to find it on his table the next friday #Optimus found the relevant datapad wedged between bookshelves at the library he works at #definitely a no war au #it's an idealized version of the education system let's roll with it #I'm doing this for the ''and they were roommates'' jokes

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yes-i-read-sappho · 25 days

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BSD 114 Spoilers

So I have a theory about Fyodor's ability in light of the new chapter: I think it's body swapping.

More specifically, I think that whenever he is injured (or maybe specifically dying, which would be supported by the title of the chapter which is the Latin word for "resurrection") he can steal the body of someone else. The condition of death or being near death is already present to some degree in Yosano's ability, so it is not unheard of in the BSD universe. If nothing else, this would explain how he's been able to live for so long.

In this specific chapter, this seems to be hinted at while Sigma is in Fyodor's memories after the guard seemingly "kills" Fyodor. In this scene, it is clear that something happens to the guard after Fyodor is "dead," and I argue that it is a consequence of Fyodor's ability, with killing him potentially being the condition required to activate it.

I also think the fact that, after this scene, the chapter immediately transitions back to the present timeline with the shot of the helicopter is incredibly telling. To me, this suggests that what happened in the past that Sigma is witnessing is the same strategy being used by Fyodor in the present.

The idea that what his ability does is body swapping is supported by the reveal at the end of the chapter that his corpse is not actually him (or at least does not look like him anymore):

Finally, if Fyodor's ability is in fact related to body swapping, this would explain the manifestation we see in Dead Apple of his ability as a second him. This is a bit more of a stretch seeing as other abilities manifest as copies of their wielder (Kunikida, Yosano, Fukuzawa etc.), but this explanation for Fyodor could even explain why his ability doesn't attack him the way all the others do.