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lee-scribbles-and-doodles · 3 years

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S3 ep4

LEEEEETS GOOO!

Girl Stinky fighting Grandpa for Sal's honor 😍

So many Sams😲

Can the narrator pls shut up

"After they yanked it away they turned their attention on us." "actually I think they were more interested in me."

"Looks like it's time to boil the haggis" I love u Grandpa Stinky

"Need any help?" "No, I've been dreaming of this for years." *Continues to shoot Sam clones*

Skunkape loosing his mind

Oh geez, the dogglegangers kidnapped him

Girl Stinky still denying her obvious relationship with Sal

Oh hey I can make toast... Never mind then 😕

"Ah, I remember when I was a toaster."

Max and Grandpa are having a little too much fun shooting the clones

Why does Stinky have a picture of the DeSoto???

Well, the plan to turn into the DeSoto failed

I really didn't need to read minds to figure out how to get out, but I guess it was a good way to remind players of the tunnel

"Max is so powerful now... Soon he won't even need a partner."

Ew, Grandpa wants to sell clone meat 🤢

Sam struggling to not eat a fudgcicle is super relatable

Oh the tunnel is blocked. Knowing Girl she probably has a backup

I knew it.

"Happiness is a warm gun." "My gun is always warm... and a little bit moist." WHAT

*Gives clone a peanut butter ball* "Ew. It has peanut butter dog mouth. I hate when I do that."

Haha I made Sam eat a peanut butter ball now he's doing that dog lip smack thing

Oh hey, we can take a fudgcicle now. ...Oh, I know what to do!

Presidential Alert: The Stinky's are fighting!

Why does Girl Stinky's tunnel lead to a cloning facility?

The clone Sam approves of Sam's outfit

He stole Sam's hat!!!

"That's strange." yeah, you think!?

"--unholy army of sexually provocative Sam clones" What you just call them Max 👀

Cthulu tenticles!!!

They have spikes

"I'm thinking of a number between--" "Potato!" "That's uncanny."

Sam

"Momma sure does love a nicely turned Sam gam."

This episode is quickly turning into Max repeatedly saying how hot he thinks Sam is 👀

I guess let's explore the tunnels

Ooh the museum

Doctor Norrington? We get to meet him?

Nope :(

When they jumped back into the tunnels Max raised his hands up and Sam picked him up 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰

Back through the tunnels

The shadow physics are all messed up

Boscotech!

Harry and Superball are trying to contact Momma. Can she not appear anymore?

Queen? Where are you?

"Keep your eyes peeled, Max." "Ugh, that's disgusting, Sam."

"What do you know about these scary--" "But dashing!" "--toy stealing Sam clones." oh max

"So you don't know where Momma Bosco is?" Sam says with a huge sad face

Superball my love

Max smokes Cuban cigars

"Yes sir, quite the coinkydink."

"I'm going to stand over here and try to shake off the memory of you saying balliwick." *,Literally stands in corner shaking his arms side to side* Max. I love you

*Harry insults Sam* *Max jumps to his defence*

"I'm afraid the contents on my mind is classified, sirs."

I'm going to find Sal

The hat thief stole the car!!!

Buster Blaster!!!

"Max." "that's what they call me at the manipedi." The boys get manicurs

I can't get to Sal or Buster Blaster because of the clones :(

Look a buster blaster's future and he's just floating through space shouting "This is totally awesome!"

Back to Stinky's

Flint Paper!!!

Flint's mind is just noir narrative... As it should be

Girl Stinky realized Max has been reading her mind

Sam and Max role-playing as Flint and Girl has me laughing

Girl tied Sam up into her lies

The fact that the boys don't realize who Mr. S is is astonishing

Great I have to find a cake. Back to Sal?

The clone Sam hugging the stuffed Bunny 🥰

Sam was doing the same to Max 😍

Love for legomorphs is stored in the dna

Oh hey I missed Charlie the first time

Max shares the creeped out feelings Charlie gives me. Good

Sal knows how to cook 💖

Sal is an artist 🥰

I love Sal

OMG is there actual blood on the cake

No! Don't eat Max!

Sam got a kiss from Stinky, lucky dog. I can't tell if he's surprised or grossed out 😂

Flint and Max are disgusted by the kiss

Oh to be kissed by Girl Stinky... or Sybil... Or Momma Bosco.

Sal doesn't want to kill. Good man

Girl and Sal are my new otp

Oh no, power het couple are possessed

Ok, I'm going back to boscotech for now to mess with Harry now that I have Charlie

Max really hamming it up

Oh hey, Max actually summoned Momma

Agent Superball just teleported?!

What is going on with him?

Also he has OTHER superiors

Momma are you hiding something?

"mmm-mm-mm, those shorts sure don't leave anything to the imagination, do they?"

Was Max right, does Momma have a thing for Sam?

Lol she was lying.

She seems to feel guilty about selling her cloning machines.

Max don't you dare mention the poppers in front of me!!!

It's pretty obvious it's Papierwaite

I like it when she spins

Oh, are we going to track down Bosco to get more DNA for her new body?

I'm going to take to Buster Blaster

"Hey, you wouldn't happen to know anything about those Sam clones running around?" "THOSE ARE REAL?" "Yeah." "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!"

He gave us a letter to give to Momma from Bosco.

"See ya Buster." "I AM BECOME DEATH!"

Sam called Bosco "baby Bosco"

Oh hey, I probably should have tried reading Papierwaiite's mind already

Sam picked Max up so he could type in the code

Ew, Norrinton is a chest burster cthulu

Everyone keeps making fun of Sam's weight :(

Max's reaction to Norringron's grandson being named Junior is great

I used the destabilizer to look for the weapon and now Sam is crying profusely

That Romeo and Juliet reference tho

He's fine now

Well that was a lot of trial and error

Got the new toy and killed the tentacles

Time to get Momma a new body

Momma is bald. That's fine

Love that she's fully clothed even though that doesn't make any sense

Yay shooting things!

Oh no we made Sal fall

Momma is so excited to telport

Aw, she held Max's hand while Sam patted his head ❤️

She punched out Girl! Go Momma!

Ha, we made the clones dance.

Yay, we figured out where the toybox is.

AAAAH

I knew Charlie was going to be evil!

I hate evil dolls

The clones knocked the boys out

We're at the statue of liberty now???

Ew, she's got tenticles

Charlie wants to be reunited with Junior. Can't let that happen since it'll cause the apocalypse

Max is more concerned for Sam than the world

Charlie kidnapped Norrinton

Sam is still struggling against the thrall

Oh hey, got Charlie to let Sam talk

Let's mess with the sheet music

The liberty puzzel was fun

Oh shit, did Charlie just kill Norrington and Papierwaite

Ooooh, Max is all glowly

Ok, that last puzzel was kinda easy

Sam got his hat back!

Max, oh no he fell

Sam looked so scared

Oh Max, scared us for no reason

Oh God, he's scaring us for real now

OMG is this because he swallowed some demon yolk?

He's so big and Cthulu-y now!!!

Shut up narrator!

"Well, this is new." oh Sam

Wait the episode just ends there!?

Gaaahd now I have to stay up and play the next one or die from suspense.

After credits scene... Did we kill Sal!? Nooo!!!!

#sam and max #freelance husbands #sam & max #sam and max freelance police #sam & max freelance police #freelance police #grandpa stinky #girl stinky #sal s&m #momma bosco #papierwaite #agent superball #lee plays sam and max

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deliciousdetectivestranger · 3 years

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Posting 2nd chapter of my story, do tell me what you guys think.

You are the Mirror of My Soul

“Kit, can you hear me?”

Someone was calling out to him. Kit’s body ached all over while his head kept screaming at him to lie low and safe then act. He should heal himself but he was exhausted.

“Wake up please, Kit.”

This person was persistent and very much inconsiderate to not care about his situation. Kit reached out to grab a pillow whether to bury his head under it or to smother this annoying alarm clock he didn’t know but his hand found grass instead. He went taut as he tried to figure out where he was and suddenly cold wind slapped him in the face as he heard leaves rustle and wings flap.

“Christopher Jonathan Herondale!”

The person shook him and Kit fell into their arms. They were some kind of warrior given on their impressive physique, which made him even more alert until he noted their scent. Wild forest and open sky, a little bit of magic, and a hint of steel made Kit go lax with relief.

“Ash. Ash is that you?”

A shuddering relief went through the person’s body when Kit opened his eyes and stared into familiar green eyes.

“Thank goodness! I was so worried that you might be in a coma.”

“What happened?” Kit asked as he moved to stand up.

“What happened? What happened?” Ash let out a ‘can you believe this guy’ laugh.

“Repeating yourself is not going to answer my question and you will look like someone who has lost his marbles.”

Ash glared at him. “What happened is at the parley you and I fought for the crown of Seelie Court.”

“Yep. I do remember kicking your ass.”

“And then I blasted you with hellfire.” Ash continued as if hadn’t heard Kit. He had quite practice.

“A true fae. Cheating when it wasn’t suspected.”

“We are part-fae and part-shadowhunter. We have to fight with both of our heritages and use them to our utmost advantage. Plus, it’s not like you didn’t use your powers. We arrived here because you teleported us.”

“I was just following your lead.” Kit said with a sweet smile. At Ash’s glare he added, “Okay, you didn’t cheat. You looked for a loophole and used it.”

Ash opened his mouth to say something but a shadow passed over his young face and he sat against a tree with a loud thump.

Kit eyed him and this time asked him in a gentle tone, “What happened after I teleported us?”

“You teleported us nearly 630 feet in the sky. I flew us out with my wings and summoned vines to cushion our landing. I don’t know what happened at the parley but chaos, doubts, suspicion, threats will be high.”

Kit didn’t care about what happened at the parley. He could dwell on it later; Ash was more important.

“Then why are you in such a mood?” When Ash didn’t answer, Kit purposefully began to egg him, “Are you worried what the Seelie court will think? They will think you’ve been kidnapped by me. And the Alliance will think I’ve been kidnapped by you. It’s going to be an amusing blame game and I thoroughly plan on enjoying it.”

“Shut up! I don’t understand how you are finding this funny.”

Kit sat before Ash and took off the golden band, twirling it in his fingers. “I am not hurt Ash.” Ash flinched. “I would tell you if I were and if you had hurt me I would totally make you bow and scrape to my smallest wishes while I recuperate from my wounds." Seeing Ash ignore everything he said Kit continued in a sharp tone, "You listen to me and you listen well.”

“I understood that reference.” Ash instinctively muttered receiving a smile from Kit.

“We were fighting in the parley not as Kit and Ash but as The First Heir and The Seelie Prince. Every bit of it was real from the fight to your hellfire attack and my teleportation. But I know you weren’t ever going to hurt me. You won’t. Ever. And I know this just as you know you won’t ever be in danger from me.”

“You don’t get it. You lay there unmoving and I thought I had gone overboard with my act. I had killed you. I had truly become a Morgenstern, ruining lives of those who love us.”

And that was the crux of the matter. Arawn’s experiments and Annabelle Blackthorn’s maddening devotion had etched into Ash that no one will ever love him for who he was. His mother avoided him, too busy in her plans of uprising and weary of this unfamiliar son. Janus loved him for himself but Ash had realised that Janus' love for Clary was actually obsession which if not stopped would become fatal for everyone, and his love towards Ash was morphing into what Annabelle had showered him for those long years in Thule. He had hated her and he had begun to hate Janus as well but was there anyone in his life who truly loved him?

He had once escaped from the cottage at the Borderlands when Janus had gone to visit the Seelie Queen. He had found himself in the mortal world but it was strange to a boy raised in Faerie and a dystopian AU. Janus had started his shadowhunter training but there had never been lessons on mundanes. Panicked and weary of unknown attacks Ash had quite literally run into the one person on whom his Perfect Love didn’t work. Kit. Ash had been drawn towards this wondrous boy but had soon left for the Borderlands. One thing was clear whatever Kit would ever feel for Ash it would be true but did Ash dare to risk being like Janus and be obsessed with him?

The resolution hadn’t lasted for long with curiosity leading him to Kit again. Kit had been suspicious of him but then he was curious too. They had become acquaintances you didn’t want to meet, reluctant companions because there was something familiar in each other, accomplices against demons and finally friends who laughed, fought, shared secrets such as their problematic heritage (also Ty Blackthorn and Dru Blackthorn. They both had agreed they were in a hopeless situation.) and most of all understood each other better than anyone else.

“Except you didn’t and I didn’t create a shield because I knew you wouldn’t.” Ash turned his head away. “Look at me when I am talking to you Ashton.” Ash glared at him. Kit loved to more syllables to Ash’s name because according to him Shadowhunter names were long so they could be turned into nicknames and they were recognised by those nicknames. So, Kit had to find out Ash’s real name and if Ash found it bothersome, he could just tell Kit his name. It annoyed Ash endlessly but not as much as Kit’s other habit.

“I won’t even ask you to stop as you never listen.”

“Hey! I listen to you just fine.”

“And while we are on the topic, did you have to bring up my age at the parley?”

Kit smiled innocently and those who didn’t know him wouldn’t have doubted him at all. When Emma and Julian had returned from Thule, they had confessed all to the Blackthorns, and Kit, Cristina, Kieran, Alec, Magnus, Jace, and Clary. Their regrouping with Mark, Cristina, Kieran, Clary, and Jace was also discussed in detail. So, Kit had known a lot about Ash when they had first met and one of those things had been that Ash was near to the age of Mina, Max, Rafael, and Tavvy. Bossing Ash around was one of Kit’s favourite things to do, of course when the mood struck Kit also made Ash take the responsibility “because you’ve grown up so much in such short time”. Kit liked to say it was their thing, Ash heartily disagreed.

“Moving on, I know you ever won’t hurt me voluntarily or consciously. Ash, what about me? I have more powers than you. You think I don’t worry.” Ash glanced at him from the corner of his eye. “And if we are going to talk about living up to our last name then remember Herondales go crazy in love just as much as Morgensterns in the thrall of power. Both are dangerous.”

Kit took a deep breath and continued, “You were kept hidden because of your heritage just like I was. Janus may love you now but at first, it was because of Clary. How different is that from me? Tessa and Jem originally took me in because of Will.” Ash made a noise of protest. “Yes, they love me for me now but it doesn’t change that at first, they wanted to protect the Lost Herondale.”

“And if you are plagued by the fact that Perfect Love makes it impossible for them to love you on their terms then remember me. I am here for you. I always will be. Just like you will be for me. I have my fair share of insecurities too, no one had ever loved me until Tessa and Jem.”

“We make such a troubled pair, don’t we? A boy who believes no one can love him genuinely and a boy who believes he can’t be loved.”

“You are a mirror of my soul. Forged by our experiences, expectations of our powers, embodiments of our ancestry but never forget that we chose each other.”

Ash smiled as if the weight of the world had lifted from his shoulder at Kit’s words. Kit placed Ash’s golden band on his own head.

“Gold on gold looks gaudy. You need another metal for your band.”

Kit looked concerned at the idea of not being refined. He looked at the sky and realised dusk had tip-toed on them. He thought back to the mayhem running rampant in Shadow World and sighing wiped the back of his left hand to dispel a simple but quite unbreakable spell. Ash mimicked the action on the right side of his temple. Hidden beneath spells were twin runes.

“Well, then shall we raise hell, my Parabatai?”

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fuckingfinwions · 3 years

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This Fingon trying to strangle Maedhros AU reminded me of one of my own AUs that exists only in my obsessive thoughts. Hope you don’t mind if I ramble a little. (Wow, this got too long. I’ll send it in three asks, so it wouldn’t be too long of a wall of text).

It takes place early in Beleriand. Maedhros is rescued, Himring is established, Maedhros and Fingon are in a loving relationship. But eventually Fingon gives in to the demands for an heir and decides to marry. He is devastated, but he tells Maedhros they have to end their relationship for the greater good and because he’s not going to cheat on his future wife. Maedhros is like yeah no, you’re only mine, but he doesn’t say that out loud. He tries to convince Fingon in every way, talks with Fingolfin, does everything he can, but no use. Fingon is heartbroken and apologetic but firm.

Left with no choice, Maedhros simply kidnaps Fingon and hides him away in a prison/dungeon he has built specifically for this purpose somewhere close to Himring but secluded enough, so people don’t go there. No one knows about this except a few former thralls that have escaped Angband. They are super loyal to Maedhros because he was the only one to accept them (and also they fear him).

Fingon is in shock at first. He can’t believe Maedhros would do this to him. Maedhros keeps apologizing, but he’s still keeping Fingon in chains and locked up. Fingon pushes him away when Maedhros tries to initiate sex and Maedhros respects it. (At first. Eventually, he gets tired of waiting and getting rejected every time and just forces Fingon. Of course, he rationalizes it in his head as something that he needed to do and that Fingon will understand one day. He keeps on doing that and it becomes easier. He starts keeping Fingon naked, so he won’t lose time on undressing him, he keeps him plugged up, so he won’t lose time on opening him, often he leaves a gag in his mouth, and slowly his attitude towards Fingon goes from a loving partner to a sex slave owner. He doles out frequent punishments for transgressions and comforts Fingon when he breaks down.)

Fingon is fighting. He keeps fighting for years. He hopes that someone will find him, but decades pass and no one does. No one knows where he is. The crown prince has just vanished. It is assumed he has been captured by Morgoth, but no demands come from him. Fingolfin barely stops himself from charging to Angband to demand his son back. (1/3)

(Putting the rest under a cut for length)

Fingon tries to escape many times. He almost succeeds sometimes, but Maedhros’s people are always there and bring him back. (He gets punished for his attempts, of course, with increasing severity.) He realizes that Maedhros is very possessive of him and tries to get rid of his guards by telling Maedhros that one of them tried to rape him. Maedhros calls the guard and kills him on the spot right in front of Fingon’s eyes, who yells horrified that he has lied, but it’s too late. Maedhros later punishes Fingon for lying and for “making” him kill an “innocent person”. Fingon’s lie also comes with the disadvantage that now Maedhros won’t believe him if he says the guards are abusing him unless there is evidence. The guards use their chance to rape and torture Fingon because they are bored and because they’re mad that their friend died because of Fingon. And unlike Maedhros, who tries to make the sex good for Fingon, they aren’t gentle about it. They are allowed to discipline Fingon if he acts out, so they have a way of explaining the marks they leave on him, though they always eliminate the evidence of rape. When Fingon tells Maedhros about this, Maedhros thinks Fingon is making it up like he did with the first guard and punishes him, so Fingon just stops complaining. Fingon gets desperate enough that he decides to kill Maedhros. He has tried to convince the guards to let him free, has promised them anything they want, but they are too afraid of Maedhros. Fingon believes that with Maedhros gone, he will be able to convince the guards. So he acts pliant with Maedhros to make him lower his guard and tries to strangle him during sex. In my head it’s a very intense scene. Fingon has weakened during the decades of captivity, but he’s putting all his despair and anger in the fight, and Maedhros is taken by surprise at first, so Fingon almost kills him. But then Maedhros hits him on the side of his face with his metal hand. Fingon gets dizzy, Maedhros gets free and crawls away, then kicks Fingon in the stomach and in the face. (The guards are away because Maedhros doesn’t want an audience while he’s having sex.) They are both on the ground, coughing and groaning in pain. “You will regret this,” Maedhros promises hoarsely. “Kill me then!” Fingon cries. “Do it! Kill me now!” He truly wants to die at that moment. He’d rather die than live like this. He’s sobbing and simultaneously cursing Maedhros and begging him for death. Maedhros is also crying from shock and the realization that Fingon just tried to kill him. He feels betrayed! (The gall of him!) (2/3)

Maedhros takes a few days to recover and returns to punish Fingon. He drinks a special potion to be able to get it up because he’s not sure he can maintain an erection while he’s hurting his partner. Fingon feels a tinge of satisfaction when he sees the edges of the bruises beneath Maedhros’s high collar and hears his raspier than usual voice. But his happiness doesn’t last long. Maedhros impales Fingon, tied up and helpless, on his cock and squeezes his throat while pounding into him. He lets go just seconds before Fingon can actually die and lets him recover for a moment before repeating it. He keeps doing it until Fingon is near death, and Fingon is terrified because even though he wanted death, he didn’t want it this way and at some point, he’s convinced that he’s going to die on Maedhros’s cock, Maedhros’s hands around his throat. Maedhros doesn’t finish inside his ass but shoves his cock in Fingon’s bruised throat. There’s no gag but Fingon doesn’t even have the strength to bite. He’s just trying not to choke to death until Maedhros comes. “Now you know what it feels like,” Maedhros says when it’s over. Fingon, only half-conscious, asks (somehow because he’s barely able to make a sound) if Maedhros knows what it feels like to spend decades chained up. Maedhros says that he knows it very well, and that Fingon should count himself lucky that he’s Maedhros’s prisoner and not Morgoth’s. I don’t know yet how it’s going to end. Maybe someone finds Fingon or he escapes, or Maedhros has a change of heart and lets him go, or his mind gets broken and Maedhros takes him to Himring and keeps him in his room (no, not this one, or I’ll break my own heart). Anyway, sorry for this. This is the first time I’m writing this down. I hope I didn’t bother you much. (3/3)

Ooh, private sex dungeon that is also a literal dungeon. I bet most of Himring would even put up with Maedhros keeping Fingon prisoner if he did want him closer, but I suppose more people is more chances for someone to tell or accidentally let it slip.

Oh wow, I love how Maedhros continues to comfort Fingon even after he's stopped caring about Fingon's right to refuse sex or wear clothes or control his body. Very much "We're still boyfriends even though I'm keeping you prisoner, right?"

now Maedhros won’t believe him if he says the guards are abusing him unless there is evidence. Perfect. Gets Fingon gangraped while still being completely under Maedhros's control, and with Maedhros possessive and refusing to share Fingon in any way.

Fingon's attack! Go Fingon! And I love how Maedhros feels betrayed - he only ever hurts Fingon when necessary (such as to punish Fingon for an escape attempt), and here Fingon is trying to kill him! Totally ungrateful, doesn't Fingon know how much crueler Maedhros could be but is choosing not to?

So Maedhros shows him cruel. Wow. The detail of Maedhros taking viagra-equivalent, because this is as much about punishing Fingon as about Maedhros's sexual pleasure.

he’s convinced that he’s going to die on Maedhros’s cock, Maedhros’s hands around his throat. This whole scene is great, but this line is especially wonderful.

So Maedhros is the one to bring up the similarities in their imprisonment. I doubt he'd be as casual about it if Fingon had been the one to compare Maedhros and Morgoth.

Also, I wonder if Fingon stops cooperating at all with sex after this, biting and kicking and trying to get away. Maedhros will tie him up of course, but the sex is less pleasurable when Maedhros has to be constantly keeping an eye out for attack.

But, you know, strangling Fingon half to death got him to stop resisting a "blowjob" once...

(Anon, do you have a blog? Or an ao3? Because I'd love to read more of your ideas!)

#dark!maedhros #other people's fic #this is very very good #also osanwe is vaguely defined enough that it's perfect for communication when one character is unable to talk #just say that thoughts come through at times of extreme emotions or something #Fingon/Maedhros strangulation au

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thekindmagic · 7 years

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(1) German Anon :) I just read your opinion on the ending and I really like it. I think the three are alive as well. i too read about the camping being in the afterlive and well lets just say in the german version its quiet clear (in my opinion) that it's before they go to Lucis. But I do have a question I'd like to hear your opinion : in his last scene in the void Ardyn "turns" into a Deamon ( like loosing Voice etc.), why do you think it happened exactly then why didn't he succumb before?

Hello again, GermanAnon!! :)

I’m so glad youliked my opinion on the ending?? It’s really interesting that it seems clearerin German that the camp scene wasn’t in the afterlife… I love how thelocalizations can lean towards different interpretations!

I know it’s been acouple days since you sent this - I wasn’t ignoring you, I promise, just tryingto come up with a good answer to your question…

To be reallyhonest?? I… don’t completely understand Ardyn’s storyline. A lot of thebackground information I’d need to dig into him as a character is(intentionally or unintentionally) left out of the game. Other people who havespent more time thinking about him could probably give you more insight on thisone…

I can still give yousome thoughts, though!

First of all, Ardynhas clearly been waiting for the Chosen King for a long, long time. And then, even when Noctis ischosen at age five, Ardyn waits fifteen more years, until he’s an adult. (20 isthe age of majority in Japan.) And then, once his plans are set in motion, hewaits ten more years, for Noctis tobecome a True King with a divine stamp of approval.

It's… a little hardfor me to believe he does all this just because he wants a fair fight? This isthe same guy who stabs Luna while she’s down, who twists Ravus into a daemonout of petty revenge, who impersonates and kidnaps and (apparently) tortures Promptojust to make Noctis angry. This is not a guy who’s overly concerned with GoodForm. (There’s some nice poetic irony in turning people into daemons when hestarted out healing people from daemonic influence, too… He’s good at thisvillain thing.)

If he was truly justtrying to get back at the gods and the royal line, why not just kill Noctis asa child? Or shit, kidnap him? (Anybody know Stephen King’s “Storm of theCentury”?? Where [spoilers] the evil magician guy takes the little boy andraises him as his apprentice, and his dad sees him years later and barelyrecognizes him? Imagine that AU with Ardyn and Noctis…) Either of these planswould have the added bonus of proving how shaky and fallible the divine edictswere.

There were just SOMANY ways to fuck up this prophecy, so many ways that are SO MUCH EASIER thangoing out of his way to ensure Noctis is grown and trained and motivated tokick Ardyn’s ass. I like to thinkArdyn is a little more complex than he lets on. I don’t think he was waitingall this time to kill Noctis. I think he was waiting all this time to see ifNoctis could kill him.

Think trial bycombat? Way back when, we had honor duels to decide who was right - bothparties risked their lives to prove their conviction, and the gods or the truthor what have you was supposed to protect the honest one. In this case, themetaphor takes it one step further, because before they have their finalconfrontation, both of them have to literally givetheir lives to prove they’re serious.

I think Ardyn wasplanning this duel for 2,000 years. I think he was at war with himself all thattime, hating both what he’d become and the ones who’d turned him into it,trying to make himself believe he was completely innocent and justified. But hedoesn’t believe that. He can’t. Because if he’s to be believed - and I don’tsee why we shouldn’t take his word on at least this much, because all signspoint to him truly being a king of Lucis - he was a good person. He was aleader and a healer, he was a caring man who took darkness inside himselfwillingly to help others. You can twist and bury that, but you can’t erase it.That part of him has to know that, regardless of whether or not his anger isjustified, the things he’s done with it are NOT.

Watch the way hereacts to Luna trying to heal him? He relaxes his hand when she touches him.For just a second before he hits her, he looks unsure. And then he turns hisback to her, looks down at his arm before he taunts back. It’s the only time hesnaps and loses his composure, which means Luna gotto him with her suggestion that he was “in thrall todarkness,” that he might “know peace.” She knows his story, orat least enough of it. And Ardyn doesn’t know how to react to her compassion,because he’s genuinely not sure whether he wants or deserves it.

He’s waited so long,trapped without a way to die, just stuck in his hatred and pain… Part of himwanted revenge, yes, but only if it would validate him, only if he could strikedown the gods’ magnificent champion and prove to himself that fate could be WRONG,that the gods had made a mistake with him and he was justified in hisbitterness. But part of him just wanted it to be over. Part of him wantedsomebody else to hate him as much as he hated himself, to be the king hecouldn’t be, and to judge him for everything he’d done.

Now, to get aroundto your actual question: With this sort of two-faced, contradictory thing in mind, I thinkArdyn is choosing to show the face we see in game, but I think his daemony faceis his real one. We know he can control his appearance - if he’s hiding the effectsof the daemonic influence, that plays into his shame at what he is, and it alsoechoes the fear of being cast out again like he was by his citizens at the verybeginning of his story. He seems so in-control, but he’s really hiding thewhole time. He’s waiting for Noctis to reveal the truth, one way or another.

And Noctis does. Atthe very last, whether you think the boys are alive or dead, Noctis issurrounded by the people who’ve brought him here; he’s embraced and relied onlove in his weakest moments until it filled him up and carried with him intodeath. Ardyn bows at the beginning of this confrontation, his old performativeself, but when he sees the undeniable love and goodness Noctis is bringing tothe table, what a genuinely good person and good king he is… He shakes hishead, but he realizes he’s already lost this fight. In that moment, he figuresout he’s completely alone, that he’s the bad guy no matter what kind of personhe started out as. He can’t hold his illusion anymore, not even to himself.He’s completely aware he’s about to die, and he’s going to die hissing andspitting like the daemon the world has made him. That’s why he gets so angrywhen Luna touches him again - he doesn’t want her healing light damn it, hedoesn’t want compassion or redemption! If the gods have won the day through Noctis,if he can’t have his revenge or even pretend that he deserves it, then shit,come on, it’s been thousands of years - he just wants to die.

…Wow, I hadn’tthought about him in-depth before. That’s actually really heartbreaking.

#asks #German Anon <3 #Ardyn Izunia #I... have no idea if I got him right at all??#or if this is all old news and everyone's already covered this stuff #I genuinely have not spent much time thinking about his character until now...#(also: I know this ask took me a while to respond to)#(if anybody ever wants to send me another message to make sure I got their first one I'm totally good with that!)#thanks so much for the question - this was fun to think about!! :)#my stuff #Ardyn #FFXV #Final Fantasy #XV

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With the news that Matt Lauer was fired from his job this morning over sexual misconduct, I wanted to take the time to address what’s going on with all of these accusations being thrown around. To be clear, I support all of these people coming forward disclosing their very real, very damaging, experiences about the seedy under belly of Hollywood. Even if the assaults occurred 70 years ago, the trauma that person carries is still relevant and they still deserve to be heard, even if the legal statute has long been expired. That’s why when R. Kelly was accused of pissing on that little girl, I stopped supporting his music. Kells has always been into young girls. Always. He married Aaliyah when she was 16 or some sh*t and he has a goddamn ego the size of Texas so why is it so farfetched to believe he’d record himself pissing on a little girl? That sh*t is power, not affection. He peed on that girl because the rush of being able to do it, turned him on. The power he had over that girl is what aroused him, not the act. That sh*t is f*cked up. Forget the fact that he had hard drives upon hard drive upon hard drives loaded with child pornography. No, R. Kelly was tried and acquitted because public opinion dictated he was “too good” to be a scumbag. Fast forward to present and he apparently keeps sex slaves now. Like, that kind of behavior is a direct escalation of him getting away with pissing on that teenager all those years ago.

Then there’s Bill Cosby. This Jell-O pudding pot, church sweater wearin’ ass, Heathcliff Huxtable scumbag has been drugging and raping women for almost a half century. He’d hit them with the ‘Ludes and these women would wake up with Cosby literally on top of them, inside of them. My dude, that’s the textbook definition of date rape. Seriously, Cosby would roofie chicks and then just carry on like nothing happened. For decades. Decades. Because he was Bill Cosby. Because he had that power behind his name. It took Hannibal Burress telling a joke in passing about this to even be a thing. Eventually, one by one, these women came forward, most for a second of third time. See, these victims weren‘t silent, they were silenced. Being Bill Cosby has a certain way about it that keep the people you victimized, often people looking to gain fame and recognition in an industry that you dominate, quiet. But, because of Hannibal, women found their voice to speak up. And it was LOT of women. Cosby has been accused by 57 women since the 60s, I think, of rape. 57. That’s almost a yearly assault. Look, I get it. Maybe not all of these women have a case. Maybe all of them., But those numbers are WAY too high for there not to be an issue. I subscribe to the principal of where there’s smoke, there’s fire and that right there is the most smoke ever. Mathematically, he had to have assaulted at least handful of these women and even one is unforgivable. And we have that admission from Cosby, himself. In a sealed deposition (which was unsealed for his retrial a couple of months back) Cosby out right admits he drugged and raped a woman. He did that. But because the case was settled, one of the stipulations was that she never speak out and this admission doesn’t go public. But it did. So how is Cosby still a free man? He’s an admitted rapist and, very likely, as serial one, too. How does a predator like that not rot in a cell? Because he’s Bill Cosby. This is a man that had aspirations of buying NBC or whatever before all of this happened. When you got clout like that, you get o do what you want apparently. When you’ve done what Cosby’s done, you get a pass because of how much you’ve enriched the community. Hypo shouldn’t but apparently, in the eye of the public, you do.

How about the mother of all PR nightmares, Harvey Weinestein. This is a guy that not only raped a tone of women by using his clout as a producing wunderkind in Hollywood, but would get into physical altercations with cats who disagreed with him. He as a f*cking abusive psychopath and everyone knew it! Tina Faye wrote jokes about it into 30 Rock! Seth McFarlane went in on the dude during his stint as Oscar host! There were all sorts of NDAs signed and payouts dropped. And not just for his brazenly rampant sexual assaults but for just general emotional, physical, and mental abuse. Cats in -house at Miramax and The Weinstein Company have had to deal with his violent outbursts and disrespect for years. Even his own goddamn brother has a story about Harvey literally beating him into submission! This asshole would never have been allowed to continue what has become a 4 decade crusade of just plain predatory behavior. Dude’s thrall of abuse is so grand, it’s capturing and sinking other star’s careers. Glazing over the fact that the Weinstein Company, itself, is in a bad way because of all of this sh*t, Ben Affleck had to do damage control because, as people looked into Harvey, he started to look not so dope. Matt Damon, too, had to come out and distance himself from some inappropriate behavior. F*cking Quentin Tarantino admitted he knew the rumors, heard the stories, but never witnessed the actions first hand so he let it slide. Cat enabled Weinstein to continue his rampage by staying silent. What does Harvey do? Hire a PR company to clean house. Never mind the fact that he’s raped a bunch of women for decades. Never mind the fact that he’s a documented abusive boss. Never mind the fact that he’s a very real monster who abused the sh*t out of his position, unapologetically. Never mind all of that .Instead, he just goes intro rehab and vows to take down Trump or some sh*t. Really? You’re a serial predator, dude, you don’t get a pass just because you sought “help” in Arizona. Help you never really accepted. Help you bailed on in a week. Help you ultimately don’t believe you need. And that’s the rub; Harvey Weinstein doesn’t believe he’s done anything wrong. He thinks the movie industry needs him. He thinks because his company has all of these accolades, and awards, and classic films, that he’s had a hand in so many Oscars and can make or break a career, that he deserves all of the things. He believes because he IS Harvey Weinstein, that he’s ENTITLED to do these horrific thing that he’s been exposed doing. To him, this is how you do business. To him, the fact that he can make your career is more than enough compensation for you to drop your panties and bend over. But it’s not. It never is. And a decent f*cking human being would understand that. But Harvey Weinstein is NOT a decent f*cking human being. He’s a goddamn predator scumbag that deserves to be castrated. Fuck your contribution to the history of Hollywood. You’re entire legacy now is the fact that you had to rape women because none of them wanted to be with you.

The list goes on and on. I mean Roman Polanski anally raped a 13 year old back in the 70s,admitted to doing it, and then fled the country because he didn’t like how harsh his punishment was. That mother*cker has been a fugitive for decades but he still gets to make movies. He still gets American releases. Asshole has even won an Oscar, as a pedophile fugitive. When Cory Haim was 13. he was raped by Charlie Sheen. He was quoted as saying that Charlie convinced him that this was an open secret in Hollywood, that someone has done it to Charlie when he was young. This was just the way of the business. Haim being 13, didn’t understand and took Charlies illegal, disgusting, and lascivious behavior as true affection and fell in love with him. He said they had one more sexual encounter when he was 16 and Charlie cut him off after that. It was then he understood Charlie Sheen cared. Even though Haim , himself, was in love with Charlie Sheen, he understood Charlie would never reciprocate those feelings. Charlie, of course, denies all of this and so does Haim’s mother but she does seem to take issue with Michael Jackson a little bit. And that in itself is a whole bag of worms. That cat had an entire secret room devoted to child pornography and bondage equipment built into Neverland Ranch. That’s a thing. He openly admits to getting the kids he hung out with drunk on wine he had in soda cans. He called it his “Jesus Juice”. Michael Jackson was a predator .He assaulted and molested children, I believe that in my heart of hearts. But no one talks about it. Or, at least, no one seriously talks about it because, 1. He dead and 2. He’s Michael Jackson. This man made Thriller. Surely his contribution to the arts is enough to looks passed the fact he sexually victimized untold amounts of children in his lifetime. Then there’s Louis C.K. and his disgusting masturbation in front of women or Bryan Singer’s world famous twink parties where he more or less seduces young boys with a very particular body type in to sex (seriously, you should hear the story behind how that Sheridan kid got the role for Young Cyclops in Apocalypse. It’s ridiculous) with him in order to be in one of his films or the fact that Donald Trump went to trial a month before his inauguration for kidnapping and raping a 14 year old girl along side a known, convicted, pedophile who went the jail fir the exact same thing. How about those three times James Van Der Beek was molested or that agent that walked up to Terry Crews and literally fondled his dick in front of his wife with no fear of reprisal or the way Ben Affleck treated Hilary Burton, on camera, when she worked for MTV or how Kevin Spacey attempted to rape a 14 year old boy in the late 80s, only to have him come out of the closet while dismissing and distracting from his victim’s very real claims or that whole disgusting and very sad situation Brett Ratner has gotten into. I mean sad, as in the actions he’s taken during the accusations are just real sad, not that I have sympathy for his sudden notoriety. Dry humping chicks until climax is just the saddest thing I have ever heard, man. All of the kink shame. All of it. Oh, also, Russell Simmons apparently raped a girl while Ratner watched. The f*ck, man?? These things don’t exist in a vacuum and are inexcusable. Cats in positions of power have been doing this type of sh*t for as long as someone was in charge of someone else and it’s disgusting. You can’t reduce people to things and treat them however you want. That’s common decency and, for far too long, cats have gotten away with it because the weight of their “art” as it is, outweighs people’s lives. How f*cked up is that logic??

Look, I adore Pulp Fiction. Inglourious Basterds is one of my all-time favorite film. Hans Landa, and Christoph Waltz’s performance therein, is one of the best I have ever had the pleasure to witness. Tarantino put his foot in that flick. Doesn’t mean Weinisten gets a pass for brutalizing women because he funded that flick. He doesn’t get a pass because he’s more or less supported Tarantino’s genius every step of his career. I love the fact that Bill Cosby had the wherewithal to use his clout and bring a black family to television that didn’t live in the projects or a junk yard or some other inner city cliché. I love the fact that Fat Albert is a thing and that Jell-O pudding pops are delicious. But that doesn’t mean he gets a pass for raping 57 women. Yo, 12 Play is a classic album and will go down in history as a true classic but that doesn’t mean R. Kelly gets to skirt the fact that he’s a pedophile and rapist. Just because you make, or had a hand in making, dope sh*t, doesn’t ,mean you get to do whatever you want, to whoever you want. Your legacy isn’t going to be all of those Grammys or Oscars. It’s not going to be all of those SAG awards or Platinum albums. Your legacy is going to be one of violence, cruelty, and exploitation. You are a criminal and rapist. It doesn’t matter how much you’ve contributed to the culture. You don’t get a pass for your atrocious behavior just because you made dope sh*t. You are a scumbag and you deserve everything coming to you, be it career ruin or legitimate prison time. F*ck who you think you are or what you deserve. You’re less than the dirt on the bottom of my shoe and I hope you rot away in your alienation and/or time served.

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