#she dies in the story lol

[stargazeraldroth]

Did I just spend almost all of my morning coming up with a half-assed overview for a fanmade update idea? Yes. Do I regret it? Not really, but this biology exam is glaring daggers at me, and so is my grade in the class. But anyway, even though this should be obvious, nothing in this thing is CANON except to my OWN characters. Just a little disclaimer.

Anyway, as I said, this is how I imagine an update for my St. Pastry Order and Parfaedia Detective Agency OCs would be. I split the update into 3 separate parts, each with its own new mechanics and events, and tried to format it similar to if it was a legitimate release.

With that being said, not everything is solid in how a legitimate release would be. This was purely for fun.

~Main Event~

The first part of the update- called the “Eyes of the Order” update- would start a new storyline which takes place in the city of Parfaedia. In the opening of the story, players are introduced to a character named Cinnamon Sugar Cookie, a scholar at the Parfaedia Institute who has been working on a research paper regarding the origin of Cookies and their connection to the Witches. This NPC is then interrupted by a silhouetted figure, where the scene cuts to black. This is the introduction to the update’s main event.

The main event is a murder mystery where players must gather clues by completing sets of missions and interviewing potential suspects for reports. As players progress through the event, they’ll follow along the main characters of the update- Chocolate Torte Cookie, Candy Apple Cookie, and Creme Brulee Cookie- as they search for the culprit behind Cinnamon Sugar Cookie’s crumbling. This storyline also has three main antagonists- Lemon Meringue Cookie, Key Lime Cookie, and S’mores Tart Cookie- three Shadow Sisters of the St. Pastry Order. In addition, there is a side antagonist- Berliner Cookie- who appears later in the storyline.

This event and storyline brings players the return of two previously released characters, Almond Cookie and Pastry Cookie, as well as some Ovenbreak characters as NPCs, such as Walnut Cookie.

~First Part~

New Cookies: Chocolate Torte Cookie (Epic, Magic, Middle), Candy Apple Cookie (Epic, Charge, Front).

New Magic Candy: Almond Cookie, Pastry Cookie.

New Treasures: Lead Detective’s Briefcase (Epic), Investigator’s Magnifying Glass (Rare).

New Mechanics: Additional Tower of Sweet Chaos trays, new decor added to the Parfaedia Fantasy theme, new bonds added.

New Events: Chocolate Torte Cookie & Candy Apple Cookie’s featured banners, Murder Mystery/Investigation event Pt. 1, Detective Agency’s Daily Login Gifts.

~Second Part~

New Cookies: Lemon Meringue Cookie (Epic, Ambush, Middle), S’mores Tart Cookie (Epic, Support, Rear).

New Treasure: Holy Palmier Crest (Epic).

New Mechanics: New decor added to the St. Pastry Order theme, St. Pastry Order resonant toppings added (I hate resonant toppings tbh-), new Cookie House designs added.

New Events: Lemon Meringue Cookie & S’mores Tart Cookie’s featured banners, Murder Mystery/Investigation event Pt. 2, The Order’s Daily Login Gifts.

Mileage Shop: Chocolate Torte Cookie and Candy Apple Cookie Soulstones.

~Third Part~

New Cookies: Key Lime Cookie (Epic, Defense, Front), Berliner Cookie (Epic, Bomber, Middle).

New Mechanics: New decor added to the St. Pastry Order theme, new bonds added.

New Events: Key Lime Cookie & Berliner Cookie’s featured banners, Murder Mystery/Investigation event Pt. 3, Squirrel Shop, Pastry Cookie’s Vigilante Arc Real (a side story to the main storyline of the update, featuring Pastry Cookie as the main character and Berliner Cookie as the main antagonist),

Mileage Shop: Lemon Meringue Cookie and S’mores Tart Cookie Soulstones.

#cookie run oc #i love making ocs #i should write the actual story at some point #that could be fun #lemon meringue cookie my baby #also you might notice creme brulee cookie isn't featured #that's because she's an npc #she dies in the story lol #and yes i hate resonant toppings #they feel unnecessary to me #but since they exist i'm using them #pastry cookie magic candy when

[lilithpleasant]

#mine #ts2 #sims 2 #the sims 2 #sims #simblr #briar #walrider legacy #i guess shes ready to get back out there and date again! #but the arcade had only........ family members #i guess all my townies died via story progression #so i had the game generate a fresh batch after this lol

[shadowgirl-noa]

So glad @redspringstudio keeps us well-fed as we wait for the full release. Here's Lyssa's flower- the Hairy Buttercup! This style was harder to replicate for me, sadge

Predictable? Maybe. But if the boot fits...

#i like to headcannon that the buttercups bloomed on the day she was born #and her mentor knew her mother who died in childbirth so thats how she ended up living with her teacher #and she tells her this story #kinda like how my mom always tells me the first thing she did with me when they got home was place me along the blooming daffodils #and take a pic #so i always associate them with my birth lol. so now lyssa gets that but TRAUMA! #touchstarved game #touchstarved lyssa

[quixoticanarchy]

a petty complaint but still: to the various posts i’ve seen about how Aragorn disrespects Lúthien by summing up her entire life and legacy as “she died” - that’s movie Aragorn. book Aragorn sings his nine-stanza song about Beren and Lúthien, gives a quick history lesson of the First Age, credits Lúthien with rescuing Beren from Sauron, explains how they successfully stole a Silmaril together, and then how Beren dies and she follows him and gets him back, before they both die. and then he explains how her heritage lives on! like slander book Aragorn for the things he actually does, if you want, but not for giving Lúthien short shrift in his story. that’s on the movies

#tolkien loved this damn story he's going to make aragorn monologue about it. not write lúthien off with two words #the movies are playing up their 'aragorn fears arwen dying for his sake etc etc' thing so of course in that version #he'd focus on what mortality cost her #but in the book he's like naming all her descendants and telling tales of her + beren's feats like he *wants* to be part of this story #also he's literally her descendant himself - he mentions the kings of númenor even. and he's trying to rp beren in his own life #lúthien's story very much means more to him than her death #it doesn't end with 'she died' that misses the point so hard! which the movies did but aragorn in this instance does not #clearly i am critical of the movies. and the books lol whenever warranted but in this case noooo stop saying aragorn said this #aragorn #luthien #lord of the rings #tolkien #skravler #lotr

[brittlebutch]

forgive any incomprehensibility but the notion that the world can be cleanly split between the two immutable categories of 'the neurotypical' and 'the neurodiverse' ignores the reality that any person can at any point for any reason be arbitrarily 'diagnosed' by a 'professional' and shuttled between categories with no regard for the notions of 'accurate traits' or 'specific symptoms'. nice dichotomy what lies outside of it? you understand me?

#N posts stuff #i'm reading some old issues of 'Phoenix Rising' and a line in one of the articles really caught me #''we are questioning the very foundation of psychiatry which uses mental illness; which is often just behavior that is judged strange #by some usually conventional middle-class-standard of morality'' #also thinking about that post i reblogged yesterday claiming that 'posture sway' is a Symptom of adhd like. #Embracing the pathologizing of average behaviors VS the like. weaponizing of diagnoses against 'undesirables' #idk am i making sense? lol #like people talk about this re: disability - the notion that anyone can become disabled at any time but that's usually in the context #of like. 'anyone is one bad accident away from being disabled' but Neurodiversity in particular does not even require that much #another Phoenix Rising tells the story of a woman who like. got a little sick at work and diagnosed as 'stress' and prescribed a #heavy tranquilizer that caused side effects no one had told her about; she got confused at her appointment and her subsequent #panic got her involuntarily committed as psychotic where they upped the medications and gave her ECT until the combo #caused so much brain damage that she seized and died. bc she threw up at work one day. the categories are not immutable and #the people who define them have agendas. who benefits from buying into this dichotomy? you understand what i'm saying? #anti psychiatry

[samarecharm]

Random question about the “they should make persona for people who like good games” post. Do people think the persona series is that bad? I know they aren’t perfect but I wouldn’t call them bad games.

I had a wholeass essay written out before i realized im too tired to make it sound coherent. AND my only experience is p 4 and 5, so my opinion on it means jack shit. All i can say is that the most recent titles suffer from bad writing. (And repetitive gameplay, but thats a different issue). Be it poorly written characters and dialogue, or poorly written interactions and plot, it is hard to take some of the stuff in the more recent games at face value. One could argue that that just means the game is subpar, not necessarily bad, but thats subjective; bad means different things to different people. And i say this as someone who thinks this game is Not the best but still found it incredibly engaging and entertaining.

#chattin #i am the kind of person to write video essay length posts on games that disappointed me LOL #so i am the wrong person to ask #remember that when thinking about the quality of a game; you should ask urself #who is the target audience? is it accessible to this audience? do i need an outside source to keep up with this game ? (like a guide) #if its in a series; what does it do to separate itself from the others? #is the writing okay? characters? interactions( #? #insensitive content ? #how is it handled? the game may me okay for me but can I have my fat friends enjoy this game??? #can i have my trans friends and gay male friends enjoy this game??? #who can i recommend it to? my sister is unable to process all of the social links and requirements for these social links #so she just. doesnt do it. she IS the target audience bc she likes rpgs #and she likes the story and characters. but its too overwhelming #and the social links would be overwhelming regardless of the difficulty #are u meant to enjoy the game in one playthrough or across multiple runs?? #is it WORTH it to do those runs? for a game that has ‘choices’ it is painfully linear #and it confuses people who are trying to follow the rules (do things in my free time to build confidants) #when theyre unable to actually hang out w confidants bc of a rush of mandatory scenes #velvet room fusions are a pain and overly complex #and the game stops being about making a good build #and it starts to become ‘make a shadow null to everything bc the game will keep instakilling you’ #forcing a game over when ur main character dies is ALWAYS bad to me i will swear by this #u make more interesting builds when u arent scared of a gameover #weh. rambling #the game is as bad or good as u want it to br #people clearly love it; we talk about our faves all the time. but how many of us are replaying a game meant to be replayed. not many.

[rotisseries]

"she met a pinecone's fate" was hysterical the first time around and it's still funny but the longer I think about it the more unsure I actually am about the line

#it just feels so. callous. or like. it doesn't FEEL callous cause it's not portrayed that way and you laugh and I'm still laughing #but like. it's callous that is a callous thing to say and it's not like percy doesn't have dickishness to spare #but on this specific thing? really? he's not like that #like. this is after being told the full story so he knows what happened to thalia #and his response to effectively hearing about how this girl died for her friends and not just any friends but the people he's with rn #is “she met a pinecone's fate” a like. dismissive joke about what happened to her #like in the books percy empathizes with thalia's situation he feels for her it's tragic it's a somber moment😭😭 #she was a demigod more powerful than the others she was hunted even more than they usually are (percy relates) #and she died for her friends (definitely something percy relates to and would value lol) #and on TOP OF THAT. to say this in front of grover and annabeth? who clearly loved her a lot?? #like. percy doesn't like annabeth atp but he doesn’t hate her enough to be crossing those sorts of lines?? #and GROVER. is literally his best friend. can you not figure that thalia's death probably weighs on him #oh wait I just remembered at that point in the episode he doesn't know grover was with them lol sorry ignore that bit #anyway. like I get it it's funny and they have a lightly antagonistic relationship in ttc so it's funny!! #like haha he's ALREADY getting his digs in!! #but. idk. feels a bit mean :/ #pjo #pjo tv #dropping episode 3 thoughts mere hours before episode 4 lmao #I'm not gonna be able to watch 4 tonight though lol

[cathedralcomic]

i just learnt about the bat thing- everything alright?

yep! all done with my series of vaccinations lol

#ask #at first i was worried i overreacted but then read a story about someone who had the exact same thing happen to her and she died. SOOO LOL! #glad i got vaccinated

[simgerale]

how do we feel about an 1800s (ish) old west story with a vampire still trying to get over losing the one she loved?

#sim edit #brona #after regal is officially over of course #gosh i've been putting off editing the last two posts of it because i just..... i don't know if i can accept that it'll be done lol #but i will finish it! #in the meantime i've beeen thinking about brona's story for a while now #very much contemplated not ever posting about it #i thought.... this one dies with me #but. i want her to find love again #i can't leave her to wither like she desires #she's has hundreds of years to dwell but no more!!!! #well.. if anyone is interested (^: #it would be a lot of work tbh #i've got to historical-ify chestnut ridge (whenever i decide to update) and download lots more cc and mods #which means i'd need to sort through regal mods and figure out what i want to bleed over #there's some hairs and dresses and possibly build/buy #anyways it's a lot of work but #let me know your thoughts

[snakesinsocks2005]

Man. What is with me and making fucked up bitches with blood-lust

#my first legitimate oc with a backstories this nf oc- nightstrike. she was the classic Dangerous Killer Female Beast Lady with issues #i vaguely remember making her part of a wiped out nf clan called the uh- trimwings? secluded on a island? i sadly dont remember more of her #besides her getting killed after bitting off kore than she could chew in a dragon fighting tournament. she had a nf boyfriend who was an oc #of a friend of mine called red dust. her whole story evolved from one fun roleplay with her meeting him. it escalyed into this intense dram #and ah yes. fawnclaw. my beloved edgy wc oc #only ONE of my mutuals could remember him heheh #he was like. a combo of purpledudefnaf and billdycodegf before i even got properly into either fandom. he got ran over by a car and died #he had kits with said mutuals wf oc and thos4 kits grew up to have major issues. esp one i specifically fucked up #sorry owl. edgy sadboy bitch #and erin!!! my love!!!my sad fail girl just a guy monster lab creature. mwah mwah #shes noticeably alot more tide-ily drawn next to fawn and nightstrike as i like to think ive out alot more thought into her origins #her as a person. and her motivations #oc tag #please ignore any annoying midtakes in the tags lol

[cream-and-tea]

nightmare, secret, and wound for the character(s) you think have the most interesting answers!!!

~Morri (@memento-morri-writes)

Not Nice ask game here! (all of these questions are pallasbait so i’m going to get that out of my system and answer all three for them lol)

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pallas has a pretty messy relationship with the concept of sleeping in the same way that they have a pretty messy relationship with most Basic Human Needs, so they really only sleep when they absolutely cannot stay awake any longer. but if i’m being honest they’ve repressed everything they could have nightmares about SO hard that they don’t really have bad dreams and if they do they don’t remember them when they wake up. they do have one extended nightmare sequence in the book as i’ve planned it but that happens when they’re actively bleeding out + their entire worldview is crumbling, so it’s really a way to show the way all of their Repression Level 5000 Mental Blocks have started to break down lol

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

this is kinda hard to answer because pallas hate hate haaaaates being Perceived in any meaningful capacity, so their view of what counts as “secret” is massively skewed lol. if they had their way no one would be able to access any information about them without going through a fifty step vetting process and a blood oath binding them to never repeat any of it (which isn’t to far off from what they actually do tbh).

apart from one Super Huge Spoiler Thing i think the thing that pallas wouldn’t want ANYONE to know is that they aren’t anywhere NEAR as secure in themself/their position as everyone thinks. they put a lot of effort into coming across as Cool and Detached and Cruel, so to have anyone see past that would be absolutely devastating. because if someone could look and see how much what pallas does is eating them alive they might try to question it and bring them out of it and force them to—GOD forbid—self reflect for once. they’ll take hatred and fear over pity any day.

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

heyyyyy character i have with the highest pain tolerance!!!! super powerful bloodflesh magic + incredibly taxing training (to put it mildly) + intense healing factor + functional immortality will do that to you!! due to uhhhhh All Of That pallas’s general response to being wounded is to walk that shit off unless it’s directly preventing them from completing their mission, which is a pretty high threshold. you know that they’re my specialist little guy because they’re constantly being battered physically mentally AND emotionally through the whole story. just put through the absolute ringer. it’s actually kind of hard to choose a worst one bc of that, but i’m gonna say that worst emotional/mental wound happened a year before the start of the book when their best friend nina Died supersuper hard and worst physical wound happens in book two when [REDACTED] [REDCATED]’s them ❤️

#oh pallas #oh pallas pallas pallas #sorry that these are so long i just think about them sooooo much #thank you for that there’s nothing i love more then talking about what’s wrong with this guy lmao #regarding the second one this is the root of exactly why pallas cannot STAND fiver #bc fiver knows enough and has seen enough and knows what they are and just point blank REFUSES to hate them for it #pallas goes ‘haha im scheming i’m so evil’ and fiver goes ‘okay. how does that make you feel?’ and pallas throws up and dies #and calliope evokes the same kind of discomfort because she’s Just Like Them For Real but she also hates them and #wants to kill them with his teeth. which is INFINITELY preferable in pallass mind lol #wip: ghost story #creme gets an ask #pallas

[cetology]

hsr is so fun when u dont have the misogynists bitching in ur ear abt how much better the guy characters are

#theyre like…renfeng is the only canon hsr ship!!! are yall fuckinh stupid. #bronya and seele just existing in the game is canon idc #theres like so many wlw relationships thay are canon too but no one plays their stories 💀💀💀💀 #like jinglius stroy eas basically abt how she went crazy after her gf died and everyone made it about renfeng #story was* #same w yukongs story lol why do hsr fans hate women #ok rant over

[theodore-lasso]

So like certified bad day. My grandma died this morning and now I'm sick???? Bro come on

#bonus points for. the only photos of me w my Grandma are from me under 8 years old #so like. i wasnt close to her at all but death is v triggering for me w how badly my parents fumbled the bag w grief when i was growing up #brief context. mum got mad at me that my v close friend died like a week after her dad died bc she couldn't do two things at once #so everyone rallied around her in her grief and i went to two funerals and like ??? rotted i guess. #dad was in his painkiller era lol #anyway so im probably not gonna go to the funeral bc im just gonna be triggered the whole time #im less grieving her as a person and more grieving the fact that i never really. had grandparents. #like i barely ever saw her #even though i lived in the same city as her #i googled her name earlier and found out she wrote a chapter in a book about domestic abuse #and thats really the most ill ever know about her #i wanna read the chapter but idk #if it turns out that my grandpa was abusive and then my grandma left my mum and aunt with him by themselves to move to bali #im probably not gonna be thrilled #anyway even thats basically just closer to learning stories about people i dont know #wouldnt it have been nice to have. a family

[wethecelestial]

they should invent a grief thats uncomplicated and purely cathartic to experience. has anyone thought of this before

#cw death #not to be ungrateful that when i get tired of 'feeling guilty abt putting off ur trip to go see family until the summer bc u didn't want to #have to deal w international travel over winter break and now ur grandma who u haven't seen in 8 years is dead' i can distract myself with #'being furious that your family wasn't going to tell u she died until u came home for the summer' or 'giving urself a headache abt whether #you're even allowed to be upset that she died when u grew up hearing stories abt how horrible she was to ur mom' or #'being irrationally and unfairly jealous that your dad has multiple siblings who could all take turns checking in on her and sitting with #her in the hospital bc u definitely will not get that when ur parents die' or 'getting paranoid abt how ur OTHER set of grandparents #might die and/or go fully blind before u get to see them (also for the first time in 8 years) this summer' #like. not to be ungrateful to have so much enrichment to choose from in my enclosure #but have we considered just like.....being sad. and that's it. #lmao literally as i was writing this my mom texted me 'it's already happened just move on' so BACK TO SQUARE ONE! #anyways like it's fine lol. we (obviously) were not close. and also she was a full 98 years old lmao like it was her time. #but also truly. what goes on lol

[twpsyn-who]

Soulmates AU in which when your soulmate is in a situation that can result in their death you get to see through their eyes. Like, I don't know how to explain this- it kind of flashes between what you see and what your soulmate sees. You know those edits where there's a scene going on and there's another one faded in the background happening at the same time? Similar to that. The idea is that you get to see what your soulmate sees too, on top of what you're seeing.

Now, this AU but JeanMarco. With Marco asking the others where's Jean, just for him to start seeing a corpse right in front of his eyes not even a second after asking. Seeing through Jean's eyes as he's trying to get hold of that gear and stuff. And once Jean's safe, once it clicks that you know his best friend is his soulmate Marco can't wait for them to graduate so he can you know tell him that.

Then, you know. That happens. And Jean is so fucking confused because he keeps seeing Annie crying, looking down on him. Only when Annie starts getting off the gear, when his soulmate starts moving around trying to get away he starts panicking, starts moving around faster than before. And maybe he's too late. Or maybe he shows up in time and kills the titan. I don't know. That's not where I'm trying to get, but to the second option AKA Marco pulling an UNO reverse on Annie because he's a smart sneaky bastard like that and being like 'Hey you can't kill me, my soulmate will know it was you' which makes her stop trying to take off his gear. Reiner keeps telling her to do it, Bertholdt keeps yelling about that titan coming closer, but Annie... she has seen things, at some point. Flashes of moments that weren't hers, happening right in Trost- right in that moment. And she didn't give them too much thought until that moment, until it got confirmed that it has nothing to do with her titan powers.

'What do you mean by that?' she asks, because she needs to know more. Because she wants to know more. And Marco starts explaining how it works. Tells them that he has found his soulmate, that they will put all the blame on them for his death. Reiner doesn't believe him, keeps insisting that he's playing them around - he, and anyone born and raised on Marley, has never heard of something like that before, it doesn't exist - but Annie tells him to shut up and to let Marco go. Cue to the plot of any fic in which Marco doesn't straight up die after finding up their secret.

Anyway I don't know man, just,,, We need more soulmate aus for JeanMarco. That's an order.

#When I wrote this my mind was to Mina x Annie like straight up I was like 'Yeah Mina's Annie's soulmate and she saw her dying' but my brain #liked to remind me that you know Armin has a nerd death experience too. So it can go either way guys the idea is that Annie's soulmate l #either died in Trost or was close to dying #Some little things I daydreamed about while waiting to get home to finish this post (more like little details for the au than anything #else) : Only Eldians can have a soulmate aka only subjects of Ymir. Marley being the racist motherfucker they are aren't aware of the whole #soulmate thing. That's why Reiner Berthold and Annie has no clue something like that exists they didn't get taught about that. Meanwhile #everyone on Paradis knows about soulmates kind of hard not to when many SC die on a basic lol. Is something normalized for them #Also another little detail would be that a Titan Shifter can't see during their shift. Aka Eren didn't see through Mikasa's eyes during #Trost despite her being near death at some point(s) (I'm thinking about when Titan Eren punched that Titan coming for Mikasa but honestly? #She was in danger when Eren lost control too). So yeah that's all I have for now #I think it also make sense a little for some soulmate thing to occur on top of the titan powers given the whole 'love story' between Ymir #and King Friz (or whatever his name fuck that guy- in a nonsexual way). So yeah we should totally play around with the concept of soulmates #more #This post is a mess but I started it at like 11 pm and finished it at 6 pm let me be man. My sleep deprived mind came out with this one #I make no promises to actually write something with this - I'll have to re-watch the first two season and kind of update as I watch the #other seasons so yk. Low chances. But feel free to use this as you please haha. Go wild guys. It doesn't even need to be JeanMarco yk #Like Annie seeing Mina die with her own eyes??? And her thoughts process for the whole time once she finds out she was her soulmate #Or ykyk Historia Witnessing Ymir's death??? Nicolo losing his shit over seeing that little girl shoot his soulmate??? LEVI SEEING FLASHES #OF BIG ASS STONES THROWN AROUND #Man actually you can play around with Levi so much like we have Petra too and Hange and- #Regardless #aot jean #aot marco #aot #jeanmarco #Aot JeanMarco #jean kirstein #jean kirschstein #marco bodt #marco bott

[scionshtola]

enw/6.0 spoilers below the cut

i’m trying to get back into the island fic frame of mind which necessitates thinking about z*nos bc half the things cori is struggling with post enw are related to him. they can’t cast bc of his whole body switcheroo, and when they try to cast it takes them back to that day, trapped in another’s body, desperately dragging themself across the snow to save their friends. and his death weighs on them too, not bc they feel guilty but bc after everything he did to them—hurting shtola back in sb, stalking them throughout enw, projecting onto them and failing to see them as their own person or anything more than a mirror (literally not their own person but a reflection of him), the body swapping!—they only feel relief that he’s dead.

cori is generally a kind and empathetic person and i do a lot of hand waving wrt the amount of killing the wol does—first bc i do think the game is a bit unserious about it frequently except when it suddenly decides to be and secondly bc it just fits her character. she is “the shot that never misses but never kills.” she is not baha blasting two nameless cult members in rak’tika, etc. so any time she does really kill is i think a big deal for her.

but with his death…they have just been so tired and terrified and not wanting anything to do with him but to be left alone. they didn’t want his help at all with endsinger but didn’t feel in a position to turn him down. they didn’t want to fight him in the end but again didn’t feel in a position to reject him—what would he really do if they said no? what would he do to them or to their friends or to anyone else if they let him go? especially if they stayed behind and were not there to stop him.

maybe he’s changed and just wanted to help but they don’t believe that. they don’t trust him, and why would they? but there’s a part of them, later, that wonders if that should matter. if it should matter whether or not his intentions were just or pure or true when he did the right thing anyway. and they wonder what it says about them that they were so quick to disregard that and to feel such relief—almost happiness—at his death.

there’s a quote from the second book in the masquerade series that i think about a lot when i’m thinking about this situation cori is in.

Was goodness still good if you hewed to it out of tactical necessity? Was there, Baru wondered, any difference between being good and pretending to be good for your own gain, if you took the same actions in the end? Was there any difference between telling the truth unconditionally, and deploying the truth in service of your agenda, if you told the same truth? Maybe the Oriati thought so. Maybe the difference between truth-for-itself and tactical truth was the only difference that mattered. Maybe the most crucial and subtle distinction in life was the difference between someone who was truly good and someone playing at goodness to gain power.

ultimately i think cori comes to the same conclusion as the last sentence—it does matter why he did it. now they just have to figure out how to live with the judgment they made, and a decision they made when they thought they were going to die.

#here’s my disclaimer that this is just how cori views it and not like. me not understanding what the point is etc #or me being upset with the story in any way lol it’s given me a lot of good stuff to think about re: cori! #she just really hates z*nos ahdjdksk #sorry for the asterisk btw i’m just not trying to show up in the search. mutuals only post if they care to read it #ugh i want to work on island fic so bad but it’s so much 😭😭 #(it’s v long domt feel bad if u don’t read it i just mostly needed to get it out before i imploded) #i need a text post tag #oc: corisande ymir #my phone died while i was about to post this and i was like this is what i get for trying to have real thoughts ahdjsksk