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stillcarmine · 6 months

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Well I done did it now. Got 15k and counting of fic with this premise+ valdangelo angst+ platonic (?) seaspark+ the winner of this poll here for consequences of resurrection. Now being posted on Ao3.

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"I'll be right back," Nico mutters, standing up to follow after Leo. He slides into the bookshelf's shadow, sure that Will is protesting at him using his powers so soon after the battle.

Emerging in the hallway beside a lamp right as Leo passes it, he says, "I get that you don't want to work with me, let alone go on a whole quest with me, but you can't do this."

"Can't go help my brother with his project?" Leo asks, not breaking stride as he rounds a corner to the living room.

"You know what I mean," Nico bites out. "Punish me if you want, but don't take it out on-"

He cuts off when Leo comes to an unexpected stop in the doorway and Nico almost runs into him.

Turning, Leo looks at him with an incredulous expression. "I'm not punishing you, di Angelo, sweet Jesus."

Nico feels his face flush, but he asks, "Oh, really? Then why won't you actually talk to me?"

"Because I don't want to?" Leo asks, like this should be obvious, and well, that stings. He starts walking again.

As Leo opens the front door, Nico steps out onto the porch after him and checking that there's no one around to overhear, he says, "I know this isn't what you were expecting to come back to, but I haven't- I didn't- we never agreed to anything on the Argo."

Leo doesn't stop walking as he says, "You're right, no promises broken or anything, I'm not mad at you."

"Stop lying," Nico hisses, following him down the steps onto the lawn.

"I'm not," Leo says, and he sounds like he means it. "I get it, man. We weren't anything, and you met someone you wanted to be with, and that's fine."

Leo actually glances over his shoulder to meet his eyes at this, and he looks genuine.

Nico's steps falter and he sounds embarrassingly small as he asks, "Then, why won't you just talk to me?"

"Because I don't want to," Leo says, this time as a statement. "I get it, okay, but that doesn't mean I want the details. Just- leave it alone, man."

And Nico can't take another step after him when he walks off.

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Leo feels the first sensation of burning in this life as he walks from the lawn, tears forming at the corners of his eyes, forcing his head to stay high even as his face tries to crumble.

We weren't anything, and you met someone you wanted to be with, and that's fine.

The words are simple and true.

Nico had agreed with them, even if passively.

And god, the honesty of that hurts.

The lunch bell rang while he was still in the prophecy meeting, so the cabins and the green are empty.

The other phrases he'd discarded saying come to mind as he walks toward Cabin Nine.

I didn't mean as much to you as you meant to me.

You wear your heart on your sleeve, but I showed you mine and you didn't understand how much that meant to me.

You used me as a stepping stone to who you actually wanted.

I was just a rest stop on your way.

#did a screen shot cuz a reblog wouldn’t show up in the tags from what I understand #when your situationship uses your death to bond with someone else and then starts dating them despite knowing you’re alive again #leo valdez #nico di angelo #percy jackson #hoo #toa #heroes of olympus #valdangelo #the fucked up repercussions of resurrection #there is so/angelo but I’m not tagging bc 1) I don’t go there and 2) it’s not really focused on them #like it’s not a them story if that makes sense #I’m using seaspark bc it’s the cutest name for Leo and Percy I’ve seen thanks to the op

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stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage · 11 months

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Okay I thought I was done but apparently I'm not. I need to talk more about this banter you can get during the Legacy DLC between Aveline and Warden Carver because it makes me want to scream.

Aveline: I'm glad you found a place with the Wardens. Carver: Well, it's not the city guard, but it'll do. Aveline: Carver... it wasn't the place for you. Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I? Aveline: Well...

In my last post, I talked about how Aveline had no place telling the guard to refuse Carver's application, regardless of if he was "right" for the job or not. But I believe he would've made a great guard, and getting that job not only would've provided for him and his family during a desperate time, but would've prevented him from either fate of becoming a warden or a templar. He was unfairly robbed of a chance to prove himself because Aveline believed he wasn't right for the guard.

This is one of the banters I brought up but didn't go too in depth about. At this point, it's been between 3-6 years since Act 1, depending on if you decided to do Legacy in Act 2 or Act 3, and every line here is important.

Carver's response to Aveline saying she's glad he "found a place" with the wardens is so telling. Not being accepted by the guard is still on his mind after all this time. He wouldn't bring it up if it didn't still bother him, and implies that he still would've preferred the guard over the wardens.

Which... yeah. Listen, I'm a dedicated "Carver joins the Grey Warden" player. I don't like leaving him behind to become a templar, and I certainly don't like him dying. For me, the Grey Wardens are the best outcome he has. It’s where he seems the happiest and finds the most fulfilment, and it fits well with how I play my Hawke. But it obviously has some tragic issues.

Like the fact that becoming a Grey Warden only delayed his inevitable death within the Deep Roads. Eventually his Calling will come, and Carver will go back down there and fight until the darkspawn eventually kill him. I'm sure that's not traumatic to think about given he was a soldier at Ostagar and then watched Bethany die at the hands of an ogre. Oh, and there's the whole nightmares and voices thing.

Carver didn't choose this life for himself. It was either this or death, but a "what if?" still lingers in his mind about the city guard.

Something Aveline ruined for him.

And continues to ruin.

Aveline: Carver... it wasn't the place for you.

You hear that? In the distance? That's me screaming.

I must reiterate; what makes Aveline believe it's her place to tell Carver whether or not the city guard was right for him? Why did she think she should get a say in whether or not the guard takes him? What's made it HER call?

And still, after all this time has passed, she believes it wasn't right for him and she's unwilling to consider otherwise. Maker forbid she do some reflection and question if she was in the right for interfering at all, too!

Carver is standing right there before her, proving everything she said about him wrong, and she just doubles down. There's no reason to say this to him unless she's trying to remind him of his place; he's a Grey Warden, and she's Guard-Captain of Kirkwall's city guard. But c'mon, Aveline, he's hardly a threat to your precious guard anymore given the whole dedication to killing darkspawn thing he has now.

Maybe if you paid more attention to the threats within your guard, Kirkwall would be a safer place with less murder going around? Just saying!

But isn't that how it's always been? Aveline putting him in his place, making sure Carver remembers she's always outranked him?

Carver: Did you approve my application? Aveline: I can't make you a guard, Carver. Carver: We were both soldiers. Why won't they take me? Aveline: I was an officer. And I follow orders. Carver: [laughs] No you don't. Aveline: I also think of others before myself. You seem tired of that, and that's dangerous. Carver: Just when it's not my choice. You told them not to take me, didn't you? Aveline: Yes.

That he should remember who he's talking to?

Carver: I'm surprised you still travel with us, Aveline. Aveline: Carver, don't. Carver: You're ever so busy with the guardsmen. It must be a burden to slum with the refugees. Aveline: It's oddly comforting that you insult me like I'm family. Carver: That wasn't... no, I didn't mean that. Aveline: I know. But you should be glad that's how I took it.

That she's in charge?

Aveline: Your form's sloppy, Carver. Stiffen up or the darkspawn will take your blade. Carver: Right. I'll keep that in mind. Aveline: And you're angry, why? Carver: You didn't fare any better than I did the last time we faced darkspawn. Aveline: If they take your blade, people die. That's not happening again. Stiffen up. Carver: Yes ma'am.

Oh, and she used to spy on him [and Hawke].

Aveline: I don't like some of the people you've been associating with, Carver. Carver: Talk to my brother/sister. He/She's the one in charge. Aveline: Maybe, but I know you get around. This city's full of people who are dead set on ending badly. I don't want to see you end up the same way. Carver: Would asking you to stop spying on me help in the least? Aveline: No.

That's their banter.

But sure, she's glad he found a place in the wardens. I don't think she's being ingenuine when she says that, but I think it's a little more complicated than a mere "congrats on doing well, I knew you could do it."

But Carver's response? Oh Maker's ass. It actually hurts me.

Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I? Aveline: Well...

I... what can I even say?

He accepts it, but you can tell it hurts to do so. It DID cost a lot. More than Aveline will ever understand. And it doesn't matter now! He can't become a guard now anyway, so what would be the point in him disagreeing with her? Carver acts as the bigger person here because he does get it, even if Aveline doesn't.

But it's that last part... that last damn part... Don't be alarmed, that screaming you hear is still me.

Here's the deal; Carver acknowledges that he could be an ass back in Act 1. Hell, he acknowledges it IN Act 1. For example, when you talk to him after finding your grandfather's will, he's an ass to you about Bethany no matter what you say.

But y'know what? You can be the biggest piece of shit to him and have Hawke literally call him a "lazy brat with a chip on his shoulder," and Carver will still be the one to be apologetic for what he said and attempt to explain his feelings.

"Brother/Sister... I feel... I don't know. It's like Mother taking things out on us. She was just scared. I don't have a place in the life she's trying to bring back…"

Carver can be an ass, but he's aware of that and actively tries to change his behavior. If you bring him and Fenris with you on the Mark of the Assassin DLC, there's a moment where Carver says, "You still don't like me? I've tried to change." And if you bring Varric, he once again acknowledges that he used to be an ass.

BUT... that being said. If you don't remember, "I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I?" is referencing back to this conversation in the barracks of Act 1:

Hawke: This must be a very different pace from serving King Cailan. Aveline: It's just one more change, though. The real end for me was Ostagar. What about you Carver? You were there. Do you feel something similar? Carver: No. Aveline: All right, then. Bit of a tit, your brother.

Now, I've already expressed my beef with Aveline over insulting Carver in the middle of the barracks just because he doesn't agree with her view point on Ostagar... but consider the fact that Carver says nothing. He just lets her insult him without a complaint! Carver Hawke, who tends to complain! And he says nothing!

Not only that, but he actually internalized that insult enough that years later he's able to repeat it back to Aveline word for word, and all she has to say is, "Well..."

This isn't the same thing as him reflecting on his past behavior and acknowledging his flaws. This is Carver accepting a snide jab Aveline made that hurt him because apparently he was wrong for not wanting to discuss any trauma Ostagar left him with as openly as she does.

Oh, and don't forget that any other companion you brought along dogpiles on, too!

Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I? Aveline: Well... Varric: No shit. Fenris: Insufferable. Isabela: Legendary. Anders: Maker, yes. Sebastian: I've heard as much. [If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality] Hawke: Spoiled, annoying, thick-headed, brattish little nitwit of a... oh, have we stopped?

Y'all ever wonder why he's so on edge or hostile with the other companions?

Also, I have to point out that Merrill is the only companion who doesn't say anything in agreement if she's there. In fact, across all their banter, Merrill's never been rude or insulting toward him. All she does is ask him if he's talking dirty to her and compliments him on what a great sworder he is. It's pretty obvious why Carver develops a crush on her, c'mon.

But to wrap this up-

This banter strikes a nerve due to how telling it is about both characters involved.

Carver has grown and done what he can to improve himself, but there's regret that lingers, a longing for a better life he could've had if given a chance. Maybe he would've failed, maybe he would've succeeded. But there's nothing he can do now, so he looks forward, just as he's always wanted to do. He's a damn good Grey Warden who wants to do right.

Aveline remains stagnant. She hasn't changed, nor has she improved, and maybe she would if she could figure out how to dislodge her head from her own ass. She still believes she was in the right to tell the guard not to accept Carver's application despite knowing the Hawke's were desperate and that Fereldan refugees couldn't find work. She knew Carver's a skilled soldier who fought at Ostagar just as she did. The guard wasn't the place for him so she's in the right to deny him any chance. Aveline knows best.

And y'know what, I think all I have left to say is...

Fine, Aveline. You're right. It wasn't the place for him.

Carver was too good for your city guard.

#dragon age 2 #da2 #carver hawke #aveline vallen #dragon age #aveline critical #okay i promise i'll shut up now and stop picking on aveline and find something else to talk about #even though my beef list is still incredibly long but we'll save that for another day since i'm just so salty about her right now #and i just have a lot to say about carver and how wronged he was like i know it's just a few bits of banter but put the bits together #and they tell a whole story y'know? in case it wasn't clear carver's one of my favorite characters in da2 #and so much about his banter with aveline gets to me #again it doesn't matter if you think he was right for the guard or not my point is that aveline had no right to block him #from a potentially great job ESPECIALLY after all the hawkes did for her... y'know like helping her get outta fereldan #and getting into kirkwall and helping her expose jeven for being a corrupt bastard that led to her promotion as captain #sure aveline step on everyone's backs and hands and then wonder why they aren't climbing as fast as you #carver hawke deserved better than this #aveline got an easy promotion to guard captain and a sexy new husband and never had to face real repercussions for her mistakes #and all carver got was the taint in his blood #he and merrill never even had a chance to get together and i'm not okay with that >:[

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catchyhuh · 7 months

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(if you want to, elaborate in the tags. this is an ongoing study)

#does not necessarily corelate to your role in the story either you could be like one of jigen's exes here #i have some thoughts on the undiscussed repercussions of being a gotw once but its making me curious. what do the Masses say #lupin iii #lupin the third

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pyrriax · 10 months

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#haunted ecosystem #tagging this as pandora #au: where the dust settles #potential title: to and from the autumn #but honestly i dont feel like titling this #i had some thoughts about pandora and decided i may as well just make this lol #canine imagery. fire. the typical when it comes to him #not a lot of art / photos with this one since nothing really Fit #two pieces from 'a place called home' (the extended version) and one from 'when rats catch cats'#i may write linearly but the imagery goes back and forth #the fire burns brighter at the start #and it fades into the fog of denied hatred #im still debating whether i lean more into the hatred aspect or if i let it be more of a subtlety #side note: with the proper / full version of chapter 20 wtds is 80k words #that's fucking WILD #it's funny how the further into the story we get the more bastardized his character becomes #he becomes what is needed to survive; like he always has #and god if im not looking forward to showing how bad the repercussions for that are #no main tags with this one :3 #normally id make a bit of a poem / dialogue piece for these #but i think it wraps itself up nicely

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mossghosst · 1 year

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when ya squad small but y’all all crazy !!!!! /ref

#mcsm #minecraft story mode #mcsm fanart #minecraft story mode fanart #mcsm lukas #lukas mcsm #petra mcsm #mcsm petra #I LOOOVVVEEE ACCESS DENIED SOO MUCH #still the best episode tbh #i heart possessed characters #i love seeing my blorbos be evil but then they get no repercussions #mossghosstdrawings

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black-and-yellow · 1 year

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Reading ur tags about aizawa being kind of a jerk makes me think like, I hope it's some kinda twist that he's just repressing his feelings and lashing out with anger/resentment/being a jerk because he didn't use any outlets for dealing with his friends deaths

Cuz it's true his vibe changed, I just hope it's for a reason

And doing something like that^^ wouldn't justify it, but it would make it feel realistic imo

Mans is emotionally constipated and has gone through a lot of trauma, so though it doesn't surprise me exactly that he's being a jerk, I hope there's a breaking point or something

Yeah, I mean, that maybe is it, since it happened around the shirakurogiri arc, but I honestly don't know if Horikoshi thinks that deeply about his characters.

I will be happy if it's eventually addressed and he can be a good character again, but I kinda doubt it will? It's not him as a character I have a problem with it's the writing it just feels . bad.

I also don't know if Midnight's death will actually ever be addressed in any meaningful capacity. There was no reason for her to die except for a moment of shock value.

My solution for all of this is make the Loudspeaker AU canon.

#aizawa IS shown to care about Mic #so why suddenly change him so he doesnt #i feel like the explanation for his behaviour would only ever be 'thats just how he deals with grief '#and like ok. but. thats not good x #maybe show how his friends are effected by him neglecting their feelings if thats the hill you wanna die on #this is like if i wrote a story where the mc is upset about something so he stabs his mum #and then i just say 'yeah that's just how he deals with trauma'#and there was never any repercussion #that may be an exaggeration but #you can't just have a character be horrible n say its ok cause he sad #sorry for being based x #im not that mad about this i promise ive touched grass before #i just like to complain sometimes #this is why Vigilantes and the light novels are superior #maybe i just dont like Horikoshi lol he do give me the creeps a bit #he's probably a nice guy but i get some weird vibes

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collarful-clover · 1 month

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i think instagram just recommended your page to me!! i didn’t interact bc it’s a personal account but!

It was the rabbit hole Kaito art wasn’t it lol

It’s fine if you interact I’m already getting bombarded with notifs from posting it I won’t notice in the slightest. Just don’t open the comments for your sanity

#my main posting place is on insta anyways. i remember to post on tunglr less than 1/3rd of the time and I refuse to touch Twitter #and I talk to myself a lot on my story #I think it’s less embarrassing to have tumblr mutuals find me on insta than insta moots finding me on tumblr #bc on insta I atleast pretend to be a normal amount of insane #but on tumblr I will just say shit with my full chest bc I KNOW there won’t be any repercussions #tagged post #asks !!#off anon

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naughtynanzhu · 10 months

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sooo many oppenheimer takes from people who didn't see the movie. like totally valid to not want to see it, but saying it's 3 hours of glorification when you have no idea how or why things were handled the way they were (in the film)... please.

#wanting them to show the aftermath is totally valid but at the same time the way they handled the dropping of the bomb #was to show how it literally didnt affect usamericans #like it was just breaking news that excited people and then they moved on bc they literally didnt care about the japanese #like it was anticlimactic on purpose #there was the scene where the scientists including oppenheimer were shown pictures/video of what happened to people and were horrified #but didnt show the audience #like they didnt gloss over that it had horrible repercussions #idk i think sometimes theres a difference between telling a horrific story and spewing propaganda #and just bc its horrible or you dont like it doesn't make it the latter lmao

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lolottes · 1 year

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Amity Park / Central City

Well, idea from a dream, it's a bit stupid but also a bit funny? at least the first part. I haven't really seen anything like it yet in the gonna share.

So we have a lot of history where Amity Park is native to the DC universe. But the circumstances' the fact that no ligeur ever comes, often because they are praying for prank alerts and are neglected by Flash or in rarer cases Green lanthern, other times, they arrive at some time after the events after the facts and the battle of the day has not made a trace and updates the computer to respond automatically to the distress call. It also doesn't help that we agree to place Amity Park in Illinois and... There's a (significant) DC character in Illinois??? I don't feel like it ^^' (if I'm wrong don't hesitate to tell me)

But what if ...

But what if Amity Park is small part of a DC city? Well given the title you would have understood, and if Amity Park was a piece of Central City.

I mean the potential joke that flash is always occupied by a more classic attack during or just ignores the more everyday cases like boxy, because let's be honest, who would take a description of boxy seriously, especially if you really don't believe to the ghost and that the first 2-3 times you arrive after the fact...

Now let's imagine about Impuse. He knows Dan's future, making him live connected to a virtual world was a way to protect him from it. Then the future / his present is modified. Nobody but people able to play with the timeline remembers. Which is very very few people. He travels into the past / our present and then hears one of the allerts. He's totally freaked out, especially since his flash mentor doesn't react to it at all. The first time he thinks it's just a coincidence... Come another alert. He goes there alone and finds Danny on a roof. Danny tired to the bone at the edge of a mental crack, alone in the night with a termos in his hand, several fresh wounds and even more old ones.

Danny's logo is very recognizable and when he straightens making it visible, Impulse makes the connection with Dan, Dan the fuching plague that razed the world after playing overshadowing the JL and their villain!

But he's also a teenager like him...alone...ignored by his own mentor, his grandfather...holding back tears in the middle of the night. Then once enough to calm down take off and go home. Impulse follows him, changes his path (this explains something in addition to confirming the age). Still stunned, Impulse sees him pull out a first aid kit and bandage himself. In the dark, without a sound, the gestures manifestly semi-automatic at this stage. Impulse leaves not being sure what to think about it yet.

And one thing is clear. He needs to talk about it or at least at least confront his mentor. Whatever prevented or delayed Dan, it could still happen. It would be be their fault. They would be have deserved it.

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