#she destroyed his trust in her

[mewtwo24]

Not to be That Guy but like.

Am I the only one that can't stop thinking about how Tianlang-Jun says about Luo Binghe that he pretends to be cold-hearted like his mother. The hint of fondness there, the heartache in that utterance.

Like it drives me absolutely insane. Imagining her putting on a front of strength, cold and driven and unrelenting. Why does TLJ say that about her. Did she secretly look for solutions that meant reconciling with demons instead of hurting them when her sect wasn't looking? (I wonder this because I feel like his weird fondness for SQQ would lowkey track if it's connected to the woman he once loved.) Did he mean that she was tasked with basically assassinating him and she fell in love with him instead (re: failed step one)? Did he mean that she was fond and doting in her own way (e.g. conceding he was attractive, paying for his exploits and humoring him)? Did he mean that, like LBH, she thought that power would be the thing to protect her--and that it was disguising a person who was deeply and privately wounded? All four????? I don't need sleep I need a n s w e r s

Did she know about the Huanhua Palace Master's skeevy ass intentions before she met TLJ? Or did those only come to significant light after she fell in love with TLJ? Is that why she never anticipated that level of betrayal, because initially she had no intention of being with anyone romantically? And HHPM just assumed she would be under his thumb forever?? Was she furious at her own indiscretion or did she try to use the pregnancy as a bargaining chip, a way to try to stop the immortals of Cang Qiong Mountain from attacking TLJ (plus the bonus of marriage entrapment no takesies backsies this is where LBH gets it from)? Did she try to use that claim on her to dissuade HHPM from his covetous advances, framing herself as tainted so that she could finally escape? Did she dream of a life by TLJ's side, far away from Cang Qiong Mountain?

Like. Literally every single permutation of what this could mean guts me to hell. Do you ever just cry about tianxi because I--[loud bawling noises]

#svsss #tianxi #tianlang jun #su xiyan #like this shit keeps me awake at night #i'm trying to put fic ideas together and every time i go back to that line i just #find myself trying to parse and hone out su xiyan's mannerisms/personality #zzl's descriptions help a great deal but i also love that they're limited in the sense that #1. zzl was clearly scared shitless of/disconcerted with her LMFAO #2. he was suspicious of her (as a cultivator fundamentally) and its fascinating that TLJ did not seem to share this suspicion at all #or one could argue tlj just didn't care beyond his attraction and glee being around her jkahglfdskjhsfkhjg #there is also the hilarious implication that part of what turned tlj on so much about sx is the fact that she could prbly kill him #tlj really said 'i love a woman who can and WILL kick my ass' #'none of that soft power seduction shit manhandle me or nothing' #like he always believed deep down--or at the very least wanted to believe--that she loved both him and lbh dearly #i'm not usually the fix-it fic type but the Way I Need To See Su Xiyan Destroy Huanhua Palace Master's Entire Life. #i just want sx and her boytoy to live happily ever after is that so wrong? #i also think of that person (im so sorry tumblr user i dont rmr who u are at the minute) that said there had to be trust between tlj and sx #because YES. ABSOLUTELY. I AGREE. AND I WANT IT FOR ME #don't mind me just the usual descent into madness anytime i think too hard about svsss #i need to outline damn you airplane and your refusal to expand on LBH's juicy ass backstory #ill never forgive the chinese (joke)

[theimpossiblescheme]

Staging concept: Ophelia carries around a book that she uses to press different flowers and plants. At one point we see her actually pressing one of the flowers Hamlet's given her before, and we get the impression that she wouldn't part with this book for the world. During the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, Hamlet rips the book out of her hands, and she goes diving after it to make sure he didn't damage it. And during her final "mad scene", she starts tearing out the relevant pages (rosemary, pansies, fennel, columbines, etc.) to give to everyone present. Laertes is the only one to get the significance of his sister giving away parts of her prized possession, and it adds an extra layer to his grief.

#Some extra foreshadowing and a way to organically work in the book she's given in Act 3 Scene 1... #Listen I have a lot of feelings about how to stage Ophelia's final scene--for me it needs to be about *her*grief first and foremost. #It's so grossly easy to play it voyeuristically but this is a young woman who's been let down by everyone she thought she could trust #and now she's come to her lowest point where nothing feels like it matters anymore. #And that needs to hit the other characters present like a truck--they could have done something to actually *help* her #instead of using her for their own agendas but they didn't. #And for Laertes especially... that's his baby sister and he wasn't there for her and now he's watching her destroy something she loves. #Maybe he tries to give her the page back but she pushes it at him and there's a moment of agonizing eye contact between them #where he knows she still loves him but she's never felt so betrayed by everyone and there's nothing he can do to make it right. #hamlet #ophelia #shakespeare #the schemer speaks

[coconut530]

LET THE DIVORCE ENSUE

#Nevermore #Nevermore Webtoon #Webtoon #Well well well another piece of media for this already hectic day (hi all Magnus Protocol and Malevolent fans in here :) ) #Back after the week ~ #Ohhhh Prospero you had so much trust in her with that key like I would’ve been a little concerned #Monty really you laughing now like bruhhhh #OOOOH PROSPERO GOING OFFFF ON HIM CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYY #oop he fainted #He’s ✨unresponsive✨ #“If only we were so lucky” SAVAGE PLUTO #OOP LENORE INITIATING SECRET MEETING TIME #SOMEONE SAID ANNABEL HEARD SEDUCE WHEN LENORE SAID TRUCE AND THEY’RE RIGHT #Ada and Will being clumsy with him omg #Posh besties have only a thin string of trust between them now #More French I love it when Duke speaks french #“I’m all yours” ANNABEL HONEYYYYYYY #I SURE HOPE SHE DOESN’T KILL HER SHE DOESN’T HAVE THE GUN BUT WHO KNOWS #OH NO IT’S THE EPISODE BEFORE 96 EVERYONE PRAY FOR US FREE READERS I KNOW FP PEOPLE SAID IT DESTROYED THEM SO AHHAHAHAHAHAH #OKKKK NOW I’M GONNA GO LISTEN TO THE FINALE OF MALEVOLENT AND TRY NOT TO DIE #OK. BYE

[hayaku14]

kuroba toichi you need to stay dead or im going to fucking kill you myself

#you sick son of a bitch #if you truly love your son you wouldnt be alive #it's bad enough that you basically left the mantle for your teenage son to take up but you actually being alive???????? #you just out there living your life while your son is destroying his relationships chasing after something that you started???????? #his very motivation is your death and it's not even real??? the utter fucking betrayal??? #and maybe being kid has kade him a better magician and has helped him find out more about himself #but he shouldve been able to have a choice if he even wanted to be kid at all it shouldnt have been a responsibility pushed upon him #AND IF YOU ARE FUCKING ALIVE AND YOU'RE JUST WATCHING YOUR SON RUNNING AWAY FROM THE POLICE WITH PRIDE INSTEAD OF GUILT YHEN YOU CAN #GO FUCK YOURSELF #Honestly the worst #also that theory that maybe chikage is travelling the world because she KNOWS toichi is alive and she's with her elevates this fuckery into #a whole different level #anyway go read cuethesun's tomorrow and the next day #good fucking food and bad parent chikage and toichi enjoyers will be pleased ;> #lol #dc prattles #as much as i want happy everybody is alive kuroba family #i need touichi and chikage if she knows too to feel the repercussions of their horrible parenting and i need kaito to be able to let himself #feel the hurt and betrayal that he is justified to feel even if he is happy that his dad is alive #but i dont trust gosho to handle that nicely if anything i think hes gonna just handwave it and wont address it properly #anyway my point is i just need more hurt and angry kaito also if shinichi is there im happy #sorry i sneaked in a kaishin i cant stop the brainrot unfortunately theres no cure 🤚😔 #ALSO DONT GET ME STARTED WITH BAD PARENT KUDOS OOOOOHHHH

[hueberryshortcake]

thought about lena de spell too hard. [bursts into flames]

#girl who spends her whole life alone except for someone who only sees her as a weapon. #girl trained to hate and destroy a man and his entire family but as she gets closer to them they grow to genuinely care about her #and every time she sees them she's haunted by the knowledge that when they fall it will be her fault #she finally works up the trust in them and love for herself to try to ask for help and magica takes away all her autonomy #scrooge promises her theyve just got to make it to the other side of this and she'll have a place in his family #and then she BASICALLY DIES IMMEDIATELY AFTER #but like she comes back and she gets a real #almost normal family #with parents who love her and some crazy little sisters and she like has sleepovers and makes bracelets and goes to her sister's events #and is also an extremely powerful magician

[merge-conflict]

wip wednesday

“Being haunted by Johnny is one thing, but being possessed?” She shook her head. “There’s no cutting they could ever do to get him out. They’ll never trust me again. They’ll say the person you made that promise to is dead, and they wouldn’t be wrong.” She smiled crookedly. “I don’t want that, Goro. I never wanted that.”

He hadn’t thought she would ever actually say it out loud. She’d spent all her time shacked up with Takemura telling him what he wanted to hear and being an obedient little cog. Maybe she did have some backbone after all, even if it was just looking for an excuse to die. At least she wanted to do it on her own terms. He could work with that.

Takemura, on the other hand, looked like he’d just been slapped. “That will not happen.”

“If I survive whatever it is they plan to do with me, I’d be a lab rat for the rest of my life. They’re never going to let the only halfway successful test of the relic tech walk free.” V was calm and detached, like she was talking about someone else.

“V–“

“The decision is made,” she interrupted, standing abruptly. He could have held onto her, but he didn’t, letting her brush off his hands. “You can either accept it, or not.”

She walked away without waiting for his answer, although if Johnny had to guess she didn’t want to hear him either way. That was why she’d said it like it was some verdict handed down from God: the decision is made. More corpo doublespeak bullshit. Her favorite technique for distancing herself from everything she didn’t want to think about.

#wip wednesday #I ATE'NT DEAD #johnny somehow an expert on people deluding themselves huh #I think goro would fight harder but he knows he'll never be trusted the same way again either. and he thinks that's fair for him #but he doesn't want to acknowledge valentine has always been lost from the beginning and there are some things you just can't fix #when everything you serve and believe in can't be stopped from destroying what you've come to love on your own #you know? #does she deserve the dignity of choosing her own end? the loyalty of trying to save her (yet trap her)? and what about after? #how could he ever let johnny live in her body? even if she says that's what she wants? #where is the line between love and possession and what say does he have based on how little he's been able to give her back? #is his sworn responsibility to arasaka greater than the personal debt he owes? how do you survive being torn in two? #and there's no good answer is there. that's cyberpunk babyyy

[speedyowl152]

Something i find fun, if Adrien and Félix are sentimonsters, is Adrien's feather allergy. Aside from the dramatic irony.

An allergy is where the body incorrectly labels an object as a threat, and the immune system reacts, or even dangerously overreacts, in ways which could be threatening to the person it's trying to protect.

If Adrien is a senti, then he's made from a feather, that's his soul. His allergy is targeting something that is already part of his being and biology. That means it's not an allergy, it's an autoimmune disease.

Allergies are genetic, as are predispositions to autoimmune diseases, and Adrien and Félix are genetically identical, though we don't know if Félix shares his allergy. It's possible it hasn't been activated yet. His odds of developing this could be heightened by a bunch of factors; illnesses, food, sunlight.

I'm excited to see if he'll share it or not, if being around duusu will be good for him (someone who understands, to befriend and vent to like Plagg is for Adrien) or bad for him (y'know, a health hazard).

Adrien having an autoimmune disease, maybe he's on immunosuppressants, maybe he's not. I think that could further explain some of Gabriel's actions, not justify them but make them make a little more sense.

After all, the feathers are in the rings, maybe that's a small part of why he hasn't been given his yet. Maybe it's part of why Gabriel has so little physical contact with him, he could give his kid a rash or worse.

If your kid has a weakened immune system and your wife is dying or gone, trying to keep that kid inside, reducing his and your own contact with people, especially other kids - because kids spread diseases like wild fire. I get it. It makes me feel really bad for them. Adrien doesn't even understand what his father's protectiveness is about, besides just losing Emilie. And Gabriel can't even begin to have that conversation with him without everything coming out. About why his feather allergy is such a big deal, about papillon and his wife.

Anyway I'm just thinking about how he ended up letting him go to school. About how he let Nino give him a party but absolutely would've been advising for it to be outside in the open air rather than letting a load of strange children into his clean house.

He really wasn't that bad of a dad at the start. But Nathalie's right, he's getting worse and worse. And I'm worried about how he'll cope and what he'll do without her, now that Adrien is the only close person to him that he has left. Beyond whatevers going on with Tomoe anyway.

#i dont like villains who are evil because theyre evil. theres always logic and understanding behind it #and i like how with miraculous you only need a few hcs for the villains to make sense and be human #chloe and lila are messed up from the absense of their parents. chloes spoilt and lonely #and lilas learnt she can manipulate her way to whatever she wants because her parents dont care enough to check. shes lonely too #and she gets rewarded everytime her manipulation works in her favour. its why she keeps doing it. #she makes friends the only way she knows how when she feels so different being constantly uprooted and neglected #félix has his life and freedom under threat. hes been working from the start to free himself #all while watching lb & cn destroy his kin everyweek. as his uncle controls his brother and keeps making new sentis to be sent to die #and gabriels the kind of person who simply cannot be trusted to hold power alone. and fundementally misunderstands other people #he doesnt know how to empathise and now he wields an emotion detecting miraculous he never needs to try. #its making him more and more self centred as his confidence is continuely knocked by children and time continues to pass without emilie #and hes managed to find a way to become even more alone #and nathalie just wants to do her best by the agrestes because shes come to love this family as if it were her own #and now shes realised enabling gabriel has only made things worse for everyone involved #i just. i like that stuff where theres logic beyond revenge on an accident or just sheer malice #where there isnt one root of all evil character #ml spoilers #ml s5e2 spoilers #ml s5e1 spoilers #evolution spoilers #multiplication spoilers #sentimonster theory #dont come at me to tell me im enabling abusers or being ableist or something okay #i literally have an autoimmune disease. i literally had 5 diseases at once last week. #i hate crowds and im crushingly lonely living in the closet at my parents #i will kin adrien and shove headcanons on him with hope itll end happily when they win as much as i please and you cannot stop me #hes immunosuppressed too i just called it ive manifested it get absolutely fucked #i wanna go to school/work and make friends and gain the courage to slowly claim back my identity for myself #and i will live that through a fictional 15 year old cat boy if i want. fight me. #own post

[vicontheinternet]

Y’all doing a lot talking but y’all can still acknowledge that what cate did break Andre’s trust.

#you have to admit that he had to have had a lot of trust in her to put her ungloved hand to his cheek #like not only was that crossing a boundary but destroying his trust in her #he said he’d never trust her again which I highly doubt it she has him wrapped around her pinky #ppl talk abt how cate need a hug from someone that’s not manipulating her or isolating her (the dean or her mom) but she had it with andre #after she had it with luke #andre anderson #cate dunlap #gen v spoilers #gen v prime #gen v #gen v amazon

[littlegalerion]

I realized, playing as Heyleth, that:

1.) Astarion truly isn't romancing you in Act 1. It's very obvious he is a walking red flag that is trying to manipulate you. From the moment he first meets you, he's already doing so. He just gets a "pass" because "oh so pretty and sassy!"

2.) Gale is absolutely romancing you in Act 1. And he's taking it somewhat slowly. Though not as patient as Wyll, but then again Gale in Act 1 is under the impression he could explode at any moment. But it's very obvious you've caught his eye, genuinely, and you're giving him his faith back, both in himself and in the world not being a totally corrupt place.

3.) Resisting a Wyll or Gale romance is the hardest thing in the world.

#heyleth is holding out for the implied emperor romance ending #it makes the most sense for her #her soul needs ro be destroyed and death wont be enough #becoming a mind flayer will destroy her soul yet still allow her to live in a sense #shes basically in a situation like karlach #you will see #im more open with spoilers because Ive literally talked heyleth up for 2 years now #if ya know you know #but balduran is definitely her type #perhaps even her thiramin 👀 #but shed pair well with gale or long game astarion too #while her and wyll get along makos ruined warlocks for her #makos has a ruined a LOT for her #probably her only turn off to gale #his confidence unnerves her as it reminds her of makos #the emperor is much more calm and collected even when overindulging with his ego #she absolutely does not trust her guardian but shes been around plenty of weirder shit #she knows when even a monster is being genuine in that its aware you need each other for survival #not even close to her first time #heck not even her first mind flayer shes forced to trust for the sake of dire stakes #'people are mad about him? ...have they met an actual evil mind flayer and been forced to work with them?' #'they wouldnt survive a red wizard' #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #18+ only #bg3 spoilers #astarion #gale of waterdeep

[pricemarshfield]

shadowheart seeing tav fully accept her evil god as evil and having only JUST enough faith in him to trust he won’t control her even if she strays from his stated goals, and being proven RIGHT, all the while shadowheart that thing with her hand: i’m sure this isn’t causing any issues for me at all

#tav and shadowheart are best friends and tav has a hundred approval with her and i do still think shadowheart hates her a bit. hates that #she DOES hate tav when tav has been nothing but kind but THEN. tav has the space to be doesnt she. shadowheart didnt. where was that #divinity for HER. i think shadowheart should get to just punch tav right in the face for it. no one even called her out for worshipping #talos who ALSO wants the world destroyed. tbf she did convert later but not till like late act 3 #lmao what if they didnt Know until then. oh the trust issues. oh thats delicious im accepting it as tav’s canon #my life rn #hi its been awhile since we had a i cant shut up and its 3am night. hi :)

[klaeusmoved]

How would you rate your siblings from your most to least favorite

curious anons, always accepting!

ㅤㅤ❛ an interesting ask, given that i have hated them all at one point or another. but i suppose their ranking would be rebekah, elijah, freya, kol. ah, and then finn. silly me, nearly forgot about him. ❜ he will not be elaborating or explaining.

#but i will: #rebekah ofc bc she's his baby sister and she mostly stuck by him through everything. she's always been his fave tbh #even when he 'hated' her #elijah bc klaus relies on him despite everything and actually cares about what he thinks and cant imagine his life without him #freya bc while they had a bumpy start and he originally saw her as basically an interloper he came to truly trust and love her #and while he 'oh so secretly' adores his younger brother his relationship with kol remained kinda bumpy till the end #ignore his blustering about finn; he was still his big brother and klaus still loved him #but i dont think he could ever truly forgive him for siding with their mother and trying to destroy their family. anyway fjdsla #answered.

[othercrossee]

Btw yes I am making kamado sorta a villain in the au, in the game he was so pathetic about protecting the village he rather sent out a 15yo child out in the wilderness after using them for his own gains, left to die and rot if volo didn't help them

#z rambles #hes so caught up in his own goal and his past to look around himself who he hsd been casually exploiting and in this case #its the dorm presidents who are still students yet treated like an employee for the entire school years #its even worse knwoing theres TEACHERS in the dorm concil who doesnt do equally as much as the president #and irida is young. her entire thing is that she was forced to grow up too fast and shes so tired she doesnt let herself rest due to it #unlike irida. adaman actually doesnt overload himself with work cuz he trusts his council members to do their fair share #irida is too prideful and shes too anxious to rely on others. she rather overwork hersslf to death if it leads to that #kamado doesnt care as long as the job is done #and when a very real dangerous thing happened he doesnt call off the hunt altho adarida told him to do so #*he was not one to bent rules after petty remarks* they were questioning his status and decision. he was the director for a reason #and it seems irida took that to heart. of course. only you kmow the best ill do my part eveb if it means dooming myself #cant help it cant you? just another task she needs completed and be validsted in how responsible she is for her position #for the greater good wpuldnt you risk yourself as well? your livelihood? your youth? your life? #was death really sth she cpuld casually accept #obv it isnt entirely kamados fault why irida is the way she is. eveb in later chsoters hes proven to be rsther stuck in his own shoes #why not fit into another size for a try? #the ghost of the two children hikari snd rei would surely show him incase we couldnt. exploited and dying in battle out in the danger? #theyd kmow a thing or two about teaching old men too stubborn in their ways to see the risk theyve taken #why risk for the greater goods when theres other ways thst doesnt require such things to begin with? #were you gonna let your own trauma and memories destroy others too? were you? #and god did that rang thru maybe not just for one. someone else def need to hear that for herself #were she gonns ket her own trauma and memories destroy others....and subsequently herself in the process? #it almost feel like her entire life could burst open at the seams. at its foundation #maybe for her the treasure hunt isnt too special. especially when your entire life feels as if youd been hunted from the beginning #spirit school au #HOW R PEOPLW FINDING THIS?? its just so ranfom??? #2024 op here excuse me dkjakd

[wereh0gz]

Issue 62 good

#ramblings #idw sonic spoilers #it's so chill compared to the previous arcs. it's a nice breather from all the intensity #amy and knuckles' friendship is so cute. they're besties!! amy is one of the few ppl knux trusts on the island!!! #they're everything to me #also. mimic in his catboy era #he's like genuinely kinda cute as a cat tho. i have to keep reminding myself that he's not actually a nice kitty dude #seeing clutch again is nice i actually kinda like as a villain #he's interesting. he doesn't want to dominate or destroy the world he just wants to run his evil business and that's so epic of him actually #also also. lanolin is tired. mood honestly #poor tangle isn't allowed to play with her pingpong paddle but like honestly can't blame lan for being annoyed by it #it'd be pissed too if someone kept playing with something like that right next to my head #ok i'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks this but i feel like they're hinting at amy having some connection to the echidnas? #like she might be part echidna or something #idk but it would be cool if they did something with that #i actually read the issue yesterday but at midnight so like. i couldn't do words then lmao #but i loved it it was so much fun

[krohft]

It’s the way Jacob could have prevented hundreds of deaths if he’d just told Lara where the source was for me

#don’t try me on this #he knew she would be going after the atlas the SECOND one of his own mentioned it to the trinity soldier. #he knew there was no persuading her. #AND he knew Trinity knew about it. #so WHY wouldn’t he just tell her where to go while Ana was busy losing men to the athanatoi ? #they could have been HOURS ahead of trinity. #like 💀💀💀 #my man use your noggin … #he knew Lara by then #and he knew she wouldn’t publicize the source once she understood the gravity of the situation #i just . he didn’t have to die he just did because 1) he dug his heels in and 2) he wanted her to figure it out herself #i mean granted it took her way longer than it should have 💀 #he wasn’t exactly vague in his diary entries … she could have figured it all out a LOT sooner than she did #did he just want her to have some dopamine bc she figured out how to work the atlas? #because if so ??? was it worth trinity just grabbing it ? #they likely never would have found it if he hadn’t had lara run and retrieve it #ana would have spent days looking for it !! #they could have destroyed it and be done with the whole thing before trinity even knew what had happened #this legit makes me mad #i get he didn’t entirely trust her with it but she was obviously the better option? #AND she listened to him ???????? #AND HE KNEW SHE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO FIND IT EITHER WAY #it’s maddening #💀💀💀💀

[the-force-awakens]

I'm just once again thinking about how like. obvious. and frankly open they were abt the intentions for poe's character, motivations, character arc, and stuck to it well enough that the comics managed to ACCURATELY foreshadow multiple beats in the rise of skywalker despite predating it —

and yet the fanbase went shocked pikachu when their fanon interpretation of him was immediately nixed.

#i was thinking abt his tlj arc again bc of a very depressing thought i had about it last night fjsjdkdksksk #but specifically in the context of oscar saying in the tfa press that it's important to poe to prove himself/his loyalty to the resistance #and then the poe comics doubling down with terex POINT BLANK lampshading that he can't resist playing hero #y'know? and oscar's comments about how tlj is him grappling with learning to go from heroic pilot to leader #and i just. it's done so well actually because he gets SLAMDUNKED in leia's place? he is literally grounded by the narrative bc black one #is destroyed. and he just... immediately falls back into leader mode. like it's THERE it's always BEEN there he's always been capable of it #poe just doesn't think he measures up. everyone ALWAYS forgets that the big failure/defeat that's suppose to happen for a character in #a sequel happens to poe in tfa within the first /12/ minutes of the movie. being a heroic pilot isn't enough. running back into the fire #isn't enough. he gets captured. he can't save tekka. can't save the villagers. #they learn the location of the map. but it IS enough to stop starkiller. #and it is enough to destroy the dreadnaught (which saves their asses thanks to the later ambush) but it comes at a cost: he still loses #people when he truly believed he wouldn't. #but what else is there for him to do besides throw himself in harm's way constantly to protect the light? to fight every battle the first #order throws at him??? #standing back and watching people get hurt? maybe eventually sliding into complacency (like every authority leader he's served under before #leia did)? #but no he gets grounded and he's. thrown into leia's shoes. he covers her hand with his and thinks about what she would do and her theme #still plays softly as he goes through with finn and rose's plan. he stays behind just like leia's always done. had to trust two operatives. #by the time they're loading onto the transports leia's already smiling proudly/fondly at him and he gets his rank back almost immediately #at crait in the novelization (and he's leading things as much as Leia is) #(in the movie). #when he turns around and says ‘follow me’ hes falling on instinct!! hes more confident in that instinct to lead!! #by the time tros rolls around its a fear of not being /as good as leia/ and being unable of doing it /without her/ and leading on his /own/ #that frightens him. not the actual act of leading itself. #i just love him so much #i love him /SO/ much he doesn't get enough credit #or respect. instead we get books bashing him for having a clear arc that allows him to grapple with learning to go from one thing to #another in war (which is glossed over in other media) #or for completely contrived reasons. or have a book that does it's best to just rehash his arc in tlj but terribly with bonus 'people beat #beat him up/tells him he should be dead/calls him arrogant/etc.

[mejomonster]

I finished final fantasy vii rebirth and. Some mixed opinions.

The main good points: as a Sequel to original FF7? Its good. The women are all written well (which was a concern considering Kairi and Lunafreya in past games), and everyone was in character just fleshed out more (with 2 slight exceptions). What the game did best was accomplish an open world game, world spanning adventure, stick fairly well to some main highlights from original ff7 (which is what people wanted for ages) and with new stuff thats fun if you like the world, very little wasting of player time (so much better than ff7 remake). It did open world well, pacing well, side quests and mini games well, characters well, combat well, and overall gave the feel of what square enix was maybe Hoping and Wishing to successfully accomplish in a mainline game for years but either hasnt been able to achieve on a technical level or fumbled in the past. (So no time wasting dungeons like ff7 remake, fleshed out open world with stuff you enjoy doing so more than ff15, open world so more than ff13, and combat that feels like things theyve learned and improved on well). How it feels to play? Great, fast paced, no dead time, all enjoyable game you came to play. (With the exception maybe of Cait Siths box mandatory mini game and the aerith in ancient temple magic platforms thing but they both werent too difficult to push through if you dont enjoy them).

The bad? Mostly... if you treat Rebirth as a SEQUEL to original ff7, these arent major issues. They just annoy me as a player of the original ff7 game. Because i know plenty of people will ONLY play ff7 Remake and Rebirth etc, and never know the original characterizations. So 2 characters were slightly unlike their original ff7 selves, and instead more like their Advent Children (and general non ff7 appearances) selves: aerith and sephiroth. Sephiroth's character being NOT like ff7 originals is more irritating personally. Because yeah... i get it. As a sequel to original ff7, this Remake/Rebirth Sephiroth might be from the future (so he is Advent Children esque version of himself), hes had time post losing his way to really get all mysterious and hyperfocus on cloud and be a looming vague pest. But the thing is... in the original ff7 the reason we learn hes used to be a SOLDIER war hero, is so the cast and you are confused why he kills Shinra people. Then you and the casy figure: well cloud remembers sephiroth finding out hes a monster cause of shinra, justifiable for sephiroth to hate shinra. Unflrtunately Sephiroth also decided to hate ALL HUMANS. Then you later find out maybe Jenovas controlling Sephiroth/one with him etc. But the key here is you find out at some point in original ff7 that sephiroths goal is mainly Destroy World because Hes not Human. Rebirth... does not clarify this very important and very BASIC point ever. Maybe it assumes its so basic that as a ff7 fan you should know.. but plenty of new players wont. Rebirth clarifies yes sephiroth may be Jenovas kid... but the whole MOM, im an ancient like Jenova! Oh Jenova isnt an ancient oh well fuck humans anyway! Either way fuck humans ill kill them all! None of those Very basic sephiroth motives are clarified much. I felt Rebirth did good explaining the Gi and the black materia. But to make Sephiroths motives so vague, why he wants to end the world SO VAGUE, why hes in clouds head (the black robes are everywhere but the game HINTS theure sephiroth clones but never actually spells it out eevn though its a BASIC KEY DETAIL). Now... because Rebirth is a sequel, it makes sense... if hes Advent Children Sephiroth he already knows he isnt an ancient, knows hes Jenovas kid, knows he wants to fuck with Cloud specifically now and the world generally but not necessarily so singlemindedly desperate to just kill all humans. So yes, Sephiroth is in character for his future self... but i feel like even with him less SINGLE MINDED and freshly with Jenova, clarifying some basics of his Original old timeline motives... would be helpful to new fans. So it annoyed me. I think the biggest Not Good writing decision in Rebirth was to never fucking clarify Sephiroths original basic goal: im not human like mom, hate humans, kill world. I suspect the writers either thought players KNEW so hinted instead of being on the nose (but to new players theyll just be CONFUSED), or they plan to explain those basic things in game 3. Which seems stupid to me and shouldve been explained earlier.

And Aerith. As a sequel? She remembered the other timeline which explained some moments she was calmer than original ff7. She forgot, then toward the end of Rebirth she seems to have remembered the other timeline again and that she needs to die and X happens etc. So her being calmer based on the plot they wrote for Rebirth? Makes sense. However... i deeply miss her Original FF7 personality where as an Ancient she freaks out a bit LIKE sephiroth, paralleling him, that shes not human, a freak, that it all rests on her as only one ancient left. Their overwhelm parallels each other. Aerith is more scared in original ff7 of being the only ancient, of what it means, of finding out more. That fear is slightly there in Rebirth but WAY LESS. its only a little in cosmo canyon and almost gone in the Ancient Temple. In ff7 expanded universe theyve changed her character over time to a calmer wiser goddess type like in Advent Children, and so yes in Rebirth when she remembers the alrernate timeline it makes sense she'd be calmer like her future self. However... i miss original ff7 aerith. I miss her initial shock, loneliness, fear of the weight on her shoulders, not being sure what to do. Her and Sephiroth, because of Rebirth writing them to know more, act more like their future selves and so. While it is in character and logical to the Rebirth plot. Its also sad to me that anyone who only plays Remake and Rebirth simply wont see what they were like WHEN these revelations were brand new shocks to them, forcing them to react and grow and fear. I dont think Aerith is written bad, i just think because this game is in reality is a Sequel im just personally mourning that it didnt have that as much of the original Aerith's personality who was afraid and discovering. Mostly her Rebirth personality is similar to original ff7s. But in some high tension moments shes way calmer and wiser than in the original. I miss getting to see some of that before to after character growth.

Oh and. The aerith dies scene. Does it make sense in context of Rebirth written as a sequel? Sure. Is it impactful? Not as much as the original. In Rebirth, theres a scene where Cloud is losing control and listening to Sephiroth and attacks Tifa, causing Tifa to fall into mako. That scene is high stakes and emotional and lands WELL. Later in Rebirth, when Aerith actually dies, Cloud has not lost control and isnt the one who killed her. Its fine, as a sequel to ff7 i get the choice to make him able to stop himself from hurting her. But it does make the scene less impactful: now cloud will NOT be blaming himself for her death, will not be struggling with the guilt and fear, and will not be as terrified of losing control again. Since he wasnt the one who attacked her. And since he saw her ghost/something post death, hes not even sad or grieving her. He thinks shes fine. These 2 things will result in a WILDLY DIFFERENT cloud moving forward than the original ff7 one who very much was distraught and horrified he did that. So like... as a sequel its fine these changes were made. But death wise... i wouldve prefered like, cloud drops her from up high qhile struggling with whispers, or doesnt get to her in time and sephiroth stabs her when shes too far away. The way Rebirth did it, cloud was near her, she gets stabbed anyway. It seemed to me almost like the writing was trying to vaguely or softly kill her, like somehow making it vague would make it hurt less. Yeah it did hurt less... but id rather if a character i love dies that its a Worthy Scene for them to die in. A strong meaningful scene that makes me cry, that felt like the loss it is. The Rebirth scene... couldve done its plot as intended and just make Cloud farther away or something and it wouldve been better to me. Maybe the writing point was Cloud thinks its fine, and its still not, and he cant even feel distaught because he cant tell if she died or if things are fine? Thats the only angle i can see where maybe the death scene did what the writers wanted? Anyway. Aeriths moms death made me sob, Aeriths death did not. It is what it is. I feel like Tifa, crying in my heart off screen, the game acting like Cloud like its fine and it looks fine to him but im confused like Tifa aa to why hes (the game) treating it that way. Lol.

Overall? Um 4/5. 8/10? Really solid square enix game, Amazing as far as final fantasy 7 SEQUELS go. It has one main weak spot in treating Sephiroth fully mysterious when a few clarifying details could help the game stand on its own Better (and make Sephiroth a stronger enemy character instead of a vaguer one). The other weak spots are more my personal preference and mourning the parts of ff7 original i miss and had wished were in this, but as this is a Sequel in a parallel timeline i dont feel the parts effect Rebirth on its own merit. It IS the best Square Enix game ive played in ages, at least since Final Fantasy X or XII. I thought it was better than FF13, FF15, definitely better than ff7 remake (i hate time wasting dungeons and bad pacing its a dealbreaker), and than kh3 (although kh3 was quite good for a kh sequel). I get to play FF16 next, which will hopefully be as good as Rebirth or better! Since its also on the PS5 and clearly from Rebirth, the square enix main team can do excellent combat, open world, level design, mini games, side quests, and good pacing now. So i'll just have to see if ff16's story is better. And i am guessing it hopefully will be, since Rebirth as an ff7 sequel has some weirdness to its plot quite typical of ff7 extended universe stories like Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. Whereas ff16 is a brand new plot, so they have nothing preventing them from a tight excellent written story except themselves. I am curious how BIG ff16s world will be though. Because ff7 Rebirths world was MASSIVE and very full of stuff, tons of mini games, cool stuff to find or do or little character side quests. If ff16 also takes me 60 hours to beat the main story its gonna be thw longest final fantasy main title ive ever played.

Rebirth is very replayable if you enjoyed it. I will probably replay ff7 original soon.

#final fantasy vii rebirth #ff7r #lb #rant #oh and shipping discourse lol: if you ship tifa x aerith? GREAT TIME #tifa mourns aerith more than cloud does. tifa aerith ARE IN LOVE. great time for me as an aerti fan and ot4 fan #i do think in theory the writers had aerith x cloud scenes more in Rebirth since aerith dies at the end. and predict game 3 will have #more tifa x cloud scenes. so itll be even by the end. i think everything was in character tho tbh #(in my opinion anyway) #like. aerith x tifa x cloud x zack i ship and they clearly all CARE for each other. zack loves aerith but also saved cloud #when aerith likes cloud. zack is big enough to be happy for aerith and want her to have what SHE wants. #cloud loved zack and was so fucked emotionally when zack died he convinced himself he WAS zack. tifas his childhood crush. aerith likes him #and he gradually does like her back too. (clouds very not interested in crushes tho tbh. hed happilt be in ot3 with #tifa and aerith or ot4 with zack or ot3 with barret too if they just told him to be) #and tifa loves cloud but wisely isnt sure how he feels OR whats going on mentally with him. and is focusing on building trust #that cloud will communicate with her BEFORE getting romantic (shes wise we should all copy her). and she loves aerith. which is goof #cause cloud isnt giving aerith some care she Needs. but Tifa always does give aerith that support. #tifa knows aerith likes cloud. so tifa simply is likinv her 2 crushes (happy to be in an ot3 if aerith and cloud would start it) #but tifas shy and slow going ans values friends MORE so shes not making any major moves until she knows the other 2 aerith and cloud #are emotionally stable (and theyre lol not) #and now shes grieving aerith so :/. my point is: all the romance is written very in character #very similar to original ff7. and if ur a tifa AND aerith as characters fan like me? #its really NICE to have 2 main woman leads in a game (with romance even) who are full characters ON THEIR OWN #and really well written and with relationships outside of cloud. (again... after lunafreya and kairi #i was worried tifa or aerith as love interests might get written BAD or flat or destroyed writing wise #by some shitty square enix writer *cough* who tends to butcher woman characters if theyre love interests) #so im super glad i could just enjoy tifa and aerith #also as a Non romance lover. i enjoyed that Rebirth focused HEAVY on friends but had very little actual romance #flirting yeah sure. but aerith and tifa never even kissed cloud in my playthrough (yay for me) #their crushes are just side details they mention to be direct and communicate (wise of them) but the romance isnt the main point