#the rivalry still lives!

[blue-rose-soul]

For hazbin hotel au: what if alastor arrives at young age? Let say an incident which both he and his ma die at same time but because of his heritage, he got sent to hell, forced to survive in the streets until he meet Charlie and the rest of the hotel residents. How do you think will happen if he meet Lucifer?

Oh, so an AU of the AU? Sounds fun! Let me think...

Well, my first thought is that Alastor's demon form would be fairly different, since it's so closely tied into the manner in which he died. Buuuuut... I really like him as a deer demon, so I'm going to handwave that away. I'm also going to have him keep his powers associated with radio, despite him not yet having become a radio host, with the justification that listening to the radio shows together with Nicaise and making her laugh by perfectly imitating the radio man's accent were such fond memories for him they carried over to his demon form.

Ultimately, this version of Alastor still becomes the Radio Demon. But unlike the Alastor who died as an adult, nobody knows what the Radio Demon looks like. He's a mystery, known only for his radio broadcasts and striking down Overlords from the shadows. So when this little red kid with deer ears shows up on Charlie's doorstep introducing himself as the Radio Demon, she and Vaggie are understandably skeptical.

That skepticism dies when he blasts Sir Pentious's airship right out of the sky.

Alastor still brings in Niffty and Husk - two of the only people who know who the Radio Demon really is - still fixes up the building, and still acts as the facility manager. But everyone involved in the hotel keeps his identity a secret, at his request.

When Lucifer arrives at the hotel, he's in sheer disbelief that the hotel's manager is this tiny kid. Never mind Alastor frequently pointing out that he's around a hundred years old now. That doesn't really clarify anything for Lucifer who's several millennia old. He's less of a condescending jerkass to Alastor at first, seeing him as a kid, but Alastor doesn't take kindly to being treated like a child. So Alastor does what Alastor does and prods under Lucifer's armor. He starts throwing himself at Charlie, hanging off her arm, acting like a precocious kid and interrupting Lucifer's attempts to bond with her while shooting the King of Hell smug looks.

Charlie finds it a bit weird given Alastor usually acts more like an adult, but she does think it's kind of cute so she allows it. Lucifer is furious. He frequently refers to Alastor as, 'that damn brat,' and casually picks him up and teleports him to other rooms of the hotel for 'a time out' and generally treats Alastor like he's a nuisance, not a member of the hotel staff.

And then... Alastor's parentage comes out.

Lucifer is just as awkward with the childlike version of Alastor as he is with the version who died as an adult. That awkwardness just manifests differently. He keeps trying to make amends by treating Alastor as though he's an actual kid, lavishing him with gifts, inviting him on trips, so on and so forth. Alastor really doesn't think he should have to decline a trip to Lu Lu World more than once. Charlie tries to step in on his behalf, but she's not so great at dealing with Lucifer's awkwardness either.

One of the most insulting gifts is a pet, similar to Razzle and Dazzle, who is supposed to keep Alastor safe.

Alastor explodes.

He died when he was ten and he's been keeping himself safe ever since then, thank you very much! He was strong enough and clever enough to become one of the most feared Overlords in the Pentagram, all without ever showing his face once! And it's been over a hundred years since then! If Lucifer wanted to be his dad, he's about a century too late!

Unfortunately, one of the downsides of being stuck in a child's body is that sometimes his adult emotions are too big for it. All the anger and frustration comes out as tears, which only makes Alastor that much angrier. Lucifer tries to offer comfort, to pull Alastor into a hug, but Alastor melts into the shadows before Lucifer can even touch him.

#ask #anonymous #Hazbin Hotel #the Devil's Bastard AU #kid Alastor AU #the poll results are in! #although this is a spinoff AU... #I started writing out the whole history of kiddo Alastor waking up in Hell and rising to become the Radio Demon #including him making a deal with someone who HATES Lucifer #then I realized I was going off topic #but some other changes that come with Alastor dying as a kid: #he never met Mimzy when she was alive. they might have crossed paths in Hell but she doesn't come running to him for protection #since she doesn't know Alastor IS the Radio Demon #Vox still has his obsession with the Radio Demon #but since they never met face to face and never became friends it's more of a straightforward rivalry #Vox has no clue who Alastor is and doesn't care #kid Alastor is friends with Rosie still #she doesn't know how powerful he is but she has some guesses #she treats him a bit like a stray cat who swings by her shop every so often stays a few days begs for treats then dips #Rosie has offered to let Alastor live with her permanently but he refused #since Alastor didn't attend the Overlord meeting in person he didn't learn about the exorcist's death the same way #his shadow attended and reported to him later #and he went to investigate Carmilla himself later on #his relationship with Niffty is mostly the same #Husk doesn't like kiddo Alastor drinking and keeps trying to stop him #with no success #They're relationship is pretty similar to canon but Husk is the tiniest bit sympathetic #since Husk can just look at the age that Alastor died at and know how badly that must have fucked him up

[michyeosseo]

Do you know why she is honored as goddess? Bedridden for a long time due to her incomplete celestial roots... a deity everyone thought could not be saved... Lord Xingzhi came to take to the Extranatural Heaven. And cured her. Therefore, the Divine Realm's Heavenly Lord gave her a title: Luotian Goddess – blessings from the sky. The girl blessed by the [ancient] gods.

Li Jia Qi as YOULAN

THE LEGEND OF SHEN LI (2024) 1.17-1.19

#cdramaedit #cdrama #the legend of shen li #li jia qi #jackie li #与凤行 #theverylasttofu #took until week two but our girlie lamu came to spice the party ahhhhhhh welcome home baby #that cfensi round-up that one year kinda pointed out a unique talent out of her infinite charms: #can convincingly imitate a medieval painting #idk the specifics but whatever was reworked with her soul made her keen to the three realms' worth of situationship #or truth intuition is her goddess power to begin with *shrugs* #had a preface... excited even about comedy showcase aka her one-sided love rivalry negl i believe in you girls! #youlan's ~attitude~ + quick temper? give the sweetie actual similar friends and not some simps that only revere her being healed #i do believe she'll come around re: misplaced attachments. a bit frightful by way of millenia coma but y'know #let peachkins live and do the cultivation thingy #(did i mishear furongjun - brother appeases sister with 'huang jie'? that's their most normal display rofl) #that said i thought the immortal troops were big gossips but the divine denizens are slowpoke sanctimonious giant snails #and if this was all heaven edition of pass-the-message #they're definitely losing #but it's ok youlan you still and will always be my bébé

[allastoredeer]

RADIOSTATIC THEORY/HEADCANON/WHATEVER

So we all saw that picture Vox had of Alastor (the one where it was obviously taken with the both of them toward the end of episode 8). And I’ve seen theories about them being something like friends before their falling out.

And it just got me thinking, what if Alastor was interested in the more modern technology Vox was developing. He saw the potential in it. Or was at least intrigued.

But as that technology progress, much like a lot of capitalistic, corporate sludge entertainment nowadays, it starts get lifeless and formulaic. It starts lacking passion.

And Alastor out here, with his radio where all you have to captivate your audience is sound, gets disgusted with it. There’s no capturing the audience. There’s no passion in it. This corporate entertainment follows a formula that creates the same generic, easy to consume content.

And, hating the way Vox’s technology is growing and creating the equivalent of entertainment sludge in Alastors eyes, starts distancing himself from it. So when Vox asks him to join the Vee’s, Alastor is very blunt in his rejection and does sugar coat WHY he’s not interested.

Which pisses Vox off because, essentially, Alastor is insulting all that he’s built and cultivated, and he starts claiming Alastor is just too stuck in the past and he needs to keep up with the times. Thus, their falling out/fight happens, and bitter feelings are harbored well after that friendship (or whatever that relationship) fell apart.

As I’m still on the radiostatic train (one-sided or otherwise) I think it just adds so much delicious potential and drama. I am rolling this around in my head and I love it.

Whether this is true or not (probably not) I think I might ingratiate this into my canon. It’s just so much fun to think about.

#this bitter little rivalry they have going on intrigues me #and the obsession Vox has is just #so good #I Can totally imagine him being pissed about how Alastor viewed his technological enterprise #but also still having romantic and/sexual feelings for him #and it’s just boiling under his skin until it becomes this obsessive endeavor that lives in his brain constantly #and Alastor just sees this soulless modern entertainment #and despises it #where’s the FLAIR? #where’s the pizzazz! #where’s the entertainment? #the passion? #with radio all he has to work with is sound #it takes SKILL to keep someone’s attention without visual stimulation #no one tell him about podcasts #anyway I love thinking about it #it’s fun #hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin alastor #the radio demon #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #staticradio #radiostatic

[dizzybizz]

i keep coming up with relationship dynamics for stardew farms i don't have the energy to start.

#plagued by the ideas #and guy is still my no.1 and all so.... theyre just gonna live in my head for now.... but one day i will romance harvey as the scariest mf #in town or have a really onesided rivalry with maru.... one day. it will happen one day. #stardew valley #sdv

[sidesteppostinghours]

having a normal time this fine morning <- is making up an au for an au

#sorry im currently lying in bed merging the becker siblings with my “doesnt jump out the window during heartbreak” au and sobbing violently #that was a solo au for just cyrus and that was bad enough but inserting the siblings into it will genuinely be ruining the rest of my day #ok well. its way happier if all the becker siblings survive #but what Im thinking of is just one/two of them surviving #for cyrus specifically if he survived heartbreak he would keep being a hero #his suicidal tendencies would just be going 📈 #god. ortega finding the two of them again #iirc fawn was found first?? hed lose his shit about it #i think hed still have the puppetmaster scar bcs he was still touched by beartbreak #so hed. probably be equally insane about the two of them as ortega is. maybe more #MAN. HE WOULD HATE THE NEW SIDESTEPS WITH A BURNING PASSION #AND THERES TWO OF THEM. THEYRE MOCKING HIM. WHAT HE FAILED TO SAVE #he wouldnt try to kill them(bcs he still has a strong sense of justice in this au) but hes not above beating the living shit out of them #but like. if cyrus was one of the steps that “died”? hed still be a villain but i genuinely dont know if hed still be a hero hunter #too much pain attached to actively seek out the other sibling #i think people might be a lot more suspicious than they are currently because of his avoidance of the hero step #anyway. @ gideon and idle if you have any thoughts on this. please #i have to know what revenge scar river and present rivalry fawn would do in these situations #cyrus becker(s) #keeping up with the beckers #pulp speaks

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

reason #592 why Carver is my favorite companion in da2: All companions have 2-4 different lines of dialogue they can potentially say if Hawke falls in battle, but Carver has 5 and they're just-

#'carver hates hawke-' bitch where #he's an ass who can lash out and say stupid things but he loves his siblings even when they hurt him or break his heart #and i stand firm that not bringing him on the deep roads expedition *does* break his heart #even at max rivalry on the templar path he still cares about hawke he's just now living with the mistake he made #when his judgement was clouded by hurt and his situation was desperate and he's now trying to lay in the bed he made the best he can #also chantry bullshit trying to brainwash him... can't forget that fun little nugget #anyway i love him. he's my favorite companion and yes it's very unfortunate for me given i spend most of the game missing him sksks #but i manage to max out his friendship and put him on the warden path every time so he's great to bring on dlcs #da2 #dragon age 2 #carver hawke

[aveblr]

superhero character designs i made like two years ago.

#old art #old sketch #digital drawing #character design #small artist #independent artist #my art #afro latino representation #superhero characters for hire #they're two superheros with a sort of rivalry between them because of the way they each practice their heroism #their way of practicing heroism being influenced by their different sociopolitical contexts #story was scrapped but it still lives on #these characters are public domain btw you can adopt them #art #artists on tumblr

[void-botanist]

Trick or treat!

I shall treat you to some Fay fun facts!

She is never getting married again. Marriage is a scam. But how dare you suggest she not be involved in her daughter's wedding

She doesn't get along with Isabel because they're too much alike. Inasmuch as Isabel got her rage modery from anyone it was Fay

She has never hung human teeth in her hair and she's not sure it would fit her suburban wine mom vibe or even where she would get some but she's thinking about it...

Nicea taglist: @kahvilahuhut @malloen8c @outpost51 @writernopal @athenswrites

#she actually quite likes Spinder so at least that's a fight she and Isabel are not having. mostly #I've decided there's somehow an au where she still lives near her ex-husband and his new wife Annette #and she and Annette are locked in a deep backhanded-compliment suburban rivalry #writeblr trick or treat #c: Fay #c: Isabel #wip: nicea

[maulfucker]

Ok so. OC thoughts about Order 66.

Verred and Kuru are with Latros on Coruscant when the order comes out. Verred leaves Kuru with Latros and runs to the Jedi Temple to see what's going on and help people escape. She doesn't come back.

Latros takes Kuru and escapes Coruscant before ships start to get pulled over and checked for hidden jedi

Master Apos was with the younglings, and that's another reason for Verred to go to the temple: to try to help her master one last time

Dji survives by letting its ship get blown up and hiding in the debris until the clones got tired of searching for a corpse. No one ever remembers givins can survive in vacuum.

When he's sure the clones have left he sends a distress signal and hopes for the best. It gets rescued by the Da'ali twins, and asks to stay with them until it can find one of its people

(It doesn't know yet what happened to master Apos and Verred and pretty much every other member of their lineage. He suspects, but he doesn't know.)

The three of them eventually track down and find Kuru (and Latros) so Dji can reunite with the only other survivor of their little family.

Latros and the twins are both bounty hunters, and Dji is a great pilot, so they're like. hey why go our separate ways. why not become a crew.

So in my mind they become something kinda like the Ghost crew from Rebels but with two ships, three pilots, and a decade earlier

bonus thought. Latros is a kinda acquaintance of Maul (he worked for him on occasion before the Siege of Mandalore) and I think it would be very funny for them to meet him, considering the crew is composed of two jedi (bad thoughts on Maul) two mandalorians (complex thoughts on Maul) and Latros (no thoughts whatsoever)

#hm i should make an original post tag #star wars ocs #order 66 #verred ghalla #kuru miin #latros omiss #apos tehr #dji bellutani #viti da'ali #arta da'ali #literally all of them so far..... #there are at least three more still cooking in my brain. at least one of them will probably also die on order 66 #rip my he/him lesbian grayscale jedi i haven't even named or designed you yet and you're already destined to die #well at least there are all the years before order 66 to think about. </3 #considering making a medic who eventually gets picked up by the crew. every crew needs a doctor. even if just to prescribe bacta #also considering having dji and latros have a slight homoerotic rivalry #dji is supposed to be kuru's new master (self-proclaimed) and latros (nightbrother) (uses all aspects of the Force) is a Bad influence #(they're not even jedi anymore it makes literally NO difference) #but also they're middle aged guys in space so why not make them hold hands. while they bicker of course. <3 #(latros is in his 40s and dji is in its 50s or 60s but i think givins live longer than near-humans. or at least they should.) #ALSO considering latros helping kuru turn her lightsaber into an electrified whip (latros's weapon of choice) #so she doesn't have to give up her lightsaber and he gets to teach her how to use a whip for combat #anyways. Thiunking. there are Scenes in my head. i might try to write them. eventually. #my ocs

[britneyshakespeare]

Accordingly, I told Agnes about my declaration of poverty, about the cookery book, the housekeeping accounts, and all the rest of it. "Oh, Trotwood!" she remonstrated, with a smile. "Just your old headlong way! You might have been in earnest in striving to get on in the world, without being so very sudden with a timid, loving, inexperienced girl. Poor Dora!" I never heard such sweet forbearing kindness expressed in a voice, as she expressed in making this reply. It was as if I had seen her admiringly and tenderly embracing Dora, and tacitly reproving me, by her considerate protection, for my hot haste in fluttering that little heart. It was as if I had seen Dora, in all her fascinating artlessness, caressing Agnes, and thanking her, and coaxingly appealing against me, and loving me with all her childish innocence. I felt so grateful to Agnes, and admired her so! I saw those two together, in a bright perspective, such well-associated friends, each adorning the other so much!

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Chapter 39: Wickfield and Heep

#diana rereads david copperfield #i havent been updating this tag bc i havent really had the motivation to make posts but yes im still in happyland rereading this book #AND THAT'S THAT ON THE RIVALRY BETWEEN AGNES AND DORA #seriously it's been 5 years and i still can't get over the stigma ppl attach to dora that i REALLY do not think is supported by the text #dora is an imperfect character. and often in dickens ppl associate imperfection with unworthiness. #dora IS worthy. like i cant get over it. she has all the right friends sympathizing with her #but so much of the audience do not sympathize w her faults or her backstory at all #despite it having sooooo much in common with david's mother. who no one ever argues is supposed to be unsympathetic! #dickens #david copperfield #agnes wickfield #dora spenlow #dora has all the faults that ppl don't care to sympathize with real beautiful young women who have been condescended to all their lives. #she feels incompetent she feels she has no control in anything. her best friend is her dog for a reason #bc jip doesn't expect anything of her but to love and care for him. she is not one of her masters #and for that matter she is less of a master of jip than she is his indulging friend. #in the saddest sense. jip and dora are equals. jip represents all the control that dora has in the world (very little) #and she loves jip. and many ppl love dora. but no one has any more expectations of her than the dog. #ppl accept her subservience. #ppl act like dora is just frivolous and doesn't care about making david's life any easier when she doesn't believe she can help him w thing #like domestic duties. but EVERYONE in dora's life tells david NOT to expect anything of her. #she is only REPEATING what everyone has already been telling her AND him the whole time. she has no self-efficacy #dora spenlow is a tragic heroine. love it or leave it

[soulsilversprings]

Why do I lowkey want to write an idyllic parallel universe longfic where Misty goes on her own trainer journey and never meets Ash 👀

#or like. snippets of what all the main characters' lives would look like if ash didn't exist #misty has so much protag potential tho #she just deserves better man #i think she could still have a great rivalry with gary #arrogant nepo baby who wants to catch em all #and dunks on her for only using one type #until the walls come down and they bond over the fact that shit's been tough for both of them #anyways. misty would LOVE hoenn's water-types send tweet #and she deserves an apprenticeship at the sootopolis gym #not that i have the energy to write any of this but yknow! #rotating it in my mind

[akkivee]

randomly crying about iwasaki-san and hayama-san seeing each other as rivals and the symbiotic friendship that formed because of that relationship 😭😭😭

#this is vee speaking #iwasaki-san was sakakihara-san’s guest on one of his web shows the other day and they were an entertaining pair lol #unrelated to the post lmao but iwasaki-san is very able to be a tsukkomi or a boke depending on the situation #and it’s just kinda funny he defaults to tsukkomi around sakakihara-san lmao #anyway during the show the 9th live came up (obviously lol) #and during rehearsals he was struggling a fair amount with division rep battle actually #besides his own expectations as a performer what was a huge motivator for him #was how even during rehearsals hayama-san was blowing it out of the park and he wanted to keep up 🥺 #and then he mentioned that again during the hangout stream after asanuma-san mentioned being impressed by their rehearsals #with how hayama-san stayed with iwasaki-san during their practices until he felt like he had the lyrics down 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #hayama-san’s a natural on stage and iwasaki-san admires that lol #(hayama-san had his own worries while performing that song too tho he puts a lot of thought into his performances) #and hayama-san has always been envious of iwasaki-san’s top tier rap skills from the beginning #and that’s also helped fuel his own desires to get better at rap lol #i wonder if they still have the nagosaka group chat 😭😭😭😭 #hayama-san mentioned they’d tease each other when they felt particularly upstaged lmao #some ​shounen mcs out here wishes their rivalry was as uplifting and fun as iwasaki-san’s and hayama-san’s lol #c: seiyuu stuff

[cosmic-cd]

thinking about leon again tonight

#cosmo rambles #i need to get back to playing around with the Hazel and Leon get Eeby Deebied to Hisui thing #because i think still the dynamic of leon being very athletic and strategic while hazel is more on the artsy side and is like #more ideal in a support role is really fun #leon willing to go out there and wrestle a garchomp while gushing about how fantastic it is at physical attacking #while hazel sits by and sketches it for the pokedex and makes little notes about what they found in the environment #leon building himself a new team around types he's never tried before and picking the weaker starter to hazel's to give himself a challenge #hazel somehow letting leon goad her into actually taking a rival role against her despite never really having rivals before #unless you count blue making her so so so so mad but that's unrelated. she'll fight him without a pokemon #leon's understanding of battle mechanics and what each pokemon needs to thrive and what it's capable of beyond just its typing delights me #while hazel tends to be like me- less strategic and more about getting those type advantages in LOL #also having two trainers taking on nobles and filling the dex with their own roles to make things smoother is fun #but also because im imagining leon and hazel sitting together as hazel draws and talking as they peacefully watch pokemon from afar #or running for their lives together or riding on wyrdeer's back together #on top of that just. the two of them going to paldea together for a temporary teaching gig and getting swept into things #keeping an eye worriedly on students and Oh God No What Do You Mean the World is Ending. Again #theyll go on a vacation to kalos after this. and because XY has already happened theres no stress there #they just get to get into some mega evolution training. the most stress is red blue and green show up like hiiii #red and leon get into the most heated rivalry imaginable and hazel is being pulled away from her pokepuffs #god this is getting so long. im just thinking so hard im sorry IF YOU READ THIS FAR THANK YOU IM SORRY

[minamotoz]

the way this line had me gagged the first time i watched this episode, like this is a line you hear in an obscure queer indie film

#radio free roscoe #the longer season 2 goes on the longer i am CONVINCED #that travis and ray are in love with each other #which is so funny bc before season 2 ray didnt give ANY queer vibes #maybe thats bc he was always in love with lily #but like for almost all of season 2 hes been completely obsessed w both river piece and travis #even though we're supposed to believe hes still in love with lily #he still feels entirely preoccupied with travis #trying to get in his head . trying to figure him out and learn more about him #even their feud over lilys affections quickly became less about lily and more about the two of them trying to fuck with each other #likeeeeee im not crazy right. there is gay behavior here #not to mention lily dont even gaf about either of them bc shes dating parker #and they go on quirky weirdgirl dates and kiss at flaming lips concerts and go thrifting together #theyre so cute and uncomplicated compared to the intense homoerotic rivalry between travis and ray #like . they are living in each others brains RENT FREE

[persephoneggsy]

I know Marian and Isabela didn't get along, but was it so bad that she didn't come back? Was there no duel? If not, how did Sebastian feel seeing her face off again a qunari over twice her size? If there was no duel, how did Marian handle the fight?

There was a duel - Marian had earned the Arishok's respect (however unintentionally; she's blunt and direct and usually also had Fenris with her, so she was pretty much guaranteed to earn his respect. it wasn't mutual, she hated him and the Qunari), so he offered her the challenge. Not wanting any more bloodshed over what she saw largely as Isabela's fuck up, she agreed. Isabela never came back, though if she did, Marian still wouldn't have forgiven her.

As for the duel itself… I’ve actually been writing a lil something about that. Or, at least the aftermath of it.

:)

Years from now, Varric will tell this story differently.

He’ll say that the soon-to-be-named Champion of Kirkwall stood victorious, her form towering over the fallen Qunari. The Arishok met her gaze, his chin tilted defiantly as he pointed a finger towards her and uttered his last, cryptic words, before finally expiring.

His guards, true to his word, turned and departed without a fight, leaving the Champion to be venerated by the grateful nobles of Kirkwall. Knight-Commander Meredith, however reluctantly, would name Marian Hawke the Champion of Kirkwall, and thus began a new chapter in her illustrious legacy.

It’s a nice tale.

Sebastian remembers it like this:

The fight had been drawn-out and vicious; Marian had to rely on her speed and smaller stature to avoid the Arishok’s lethal attacks, slinging ice at a distance and slashing him with the bladed end of her staff when he got too close.

But Marian, while formidable, was never meant for single combat, and certainly not against a bruiser of a man like the Arishok. When one of his attacks finally connected, it did so brutally — his battle axe sank deep into her side, before sending her flying across the throne room, her body ending its arc abruptly as she slammed into a pillar.

Sebastian remembered that in particular with startling clarity; he wished he didn’t.

Marian was on the ground, soaked in blood and trembling. The Arishok advanced on her, raising his axe for the final blow, his face as stoic as it ever was, betraying no sense of enjoyment or displeasure either way.

And then… Marian flung her hand up, fingertips coated in frost, and the Arishok took a sudden step back. A jagged shard of ice stuck out of his chest, far larger than anything she’d conjured before. He looked down at the shard with shock, stumbling backwards another step, and then another. Finally, he collapsed onto his knees, hands scrambling to tear out the shard.

Marian rose to her feet in the meantime, using her staff to hold her weight. The Arishok looked at her, opened his mouth to speak…

She let out a vicious snarl and raised her staff above her head, cutting off whatever he might have said to her. She swung down, burying the bladed end deep in the Arishok’s skull. She twisted the staff and dug it deeper, glaring at the Qunari with unbridled hatred. Blood poured from his wounds, spilled down his face, from his mouth. From where he stood, Sebastian even saw the moment the light left his eyes.

The Arishok died on his knees, and not too long after, Marian collapsed on the floor.

Before he could register anything else, Sebastian was at her side, cradling her close as he tried to staunch the bleeding. Red liquid flowed from her wound, slipping through his fingers and onto the cold tiled floor. He vaguely recalled the cheers of the surrounding nobles turn into gasps and worried murmurs.

Suddenly Fenris appeared with a cloth, torn from Maker knew where, and joined it with Sebastian's hand against the wound. His face was twisted with grief. Merrill knelt next to him, muttering a spell and waving her hands over Marian’s still body. She wasn’t a proficient healer, not like Marian or Anders, but Marian was unconscious and Anders was gone.

“Please,” Sebastian choked out. He felt his vision blurring. “Please, Marian, hold on. I can’t lose you too, I love you, please…!”

Her pale blue eyes looked up at him, but he didn’t know if she could see him. Her lips twitched, but even speaking seemed beyond her. All she could do was let out a pained wheeze.

Distantly, he heard the doors burst open; the knight commander and first enchanter had arrived. He couldn’t hear what was said — likely the nobles explained what had happened, told them of Marian’s duel with the Arishok, because soon Orsino had joined them on the floor, adding his magic to Merrill’s.

In his arms, Marian shifted. He watched in morbid fascination as the deep gash in her side began to close, flesh and sinew rebuilding with slow but steady progress.

Her breathing evened out from short, shallow gasps, and she sagged into his embrace. She spared him a smile before her eyes slipped closed.

“Marian—!” he began, but a hand at his shoulder cut him off. He looked up, and saw that the hand belonged to Orsino. The elven enchanter gave him a reassuring smile — grim and exhausted, but reassuring nonetheless.

“She’ll be alright,” he said gently. “But she needs rest, and plenty of it.”

“We‘ll take her home,” spoke Fenris, standing up. He offered a hand down to Merrill, who blinked in surprise, but took it without comment, and let him pull her up to her feet. “Sebastian, are you able to carry her?”

“I — yes.” Gingerly, Sebastian gathered her in his arms and stood as well, careful not to jostle her too much. Marian was… surprisingly light. She was a small woman, so perhaps he shouldn’t have been surprised, but, well. He’d never had the opportunity to hold her like this before.

“You will need an escort,” came the imposing voice of the Knight-Commander. Sebastian turned to see her sheathing her blade and approaching them. She looked thoughtful, yet still stern. “Thugs and looters still hound the streets.”

“We’ll be the escort,” Aveline said, the stubborn set of her jaw brooking no argument. Varric nodded beside her, looking unusually somber. Though Sebastian had never gotten along very well with either of them — indeed, neither had Marian — he was grateful for their presence now.

Meredith considered them, then nodded. “Very well. See that Serah Hawke gets home safely; it would not bode well, losing Kirkwall’s new champion.”

Sebastian heard murmurs around them, and finally remembered that the throne room was still full of people. Nobles whispered to one another, some craning their necks to get a look at Marian’s unconscious form. Others looked as exhausted as he felt; some were sobbing, the grief for the day’s events finally catching up to them.

He felt another hand on him, and he looked to see that it was Merrill, this time.

“Let’s go,” she said quietly. Her large eyes flickered from Marian’s face to his. “We all need some rest.”

He nodded. Following behind Fenris and Aveline, with Varric and Merrill trailing behind him, he carried Marian out of the keep, cradling her close, like he feared she would turn to smoke and disappear if his grip was not secure.

Sebastian felt movement, and paused, looking down at her. Marian murmured something indistinct and burrowed her head further against his chest. For the briefest of moments, the anxiety that sat like an anchor in his gut was alleviated. He pressed a kiss to the top of her head, and kept moving forwards.

#ask #breadedsinner #sebhawke #*claps* ya girl wrote something! #my fic #the tl;dr is that marian got pretty lucky but still got her ass kicked and seb realized he couldn't live without her #he spent the whole time with his fingers twitching for his bow but he told himself to trust that marian would survive this #he'd seen her survive so much after all #so regarding isabela #my latest playthrough i was literally like 5-10 rivalry points away from meeting the requirement to getting her to come back #but i had no more opportunities to raise her rivalry by that point #so i accepted it and kept playing #i like to think that because i was so close isabela almost came back #but decided against it at the last second #oh and anders got kicked out by marian after dissent so he wasn't there to heal her :P

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Digging through my files looking for something else and found this stupid-ass thing and laughed at it, so here you go

#FFXIV #Zenos #I was NOT a Zenos fan through most of Stormblood and Shadowbringers #I normally have patience for exactly one fight where you can't actually win #you can just last long enough to trigger the cutscene where you lose #General Beatrix in FF9 was a real anomaly for me still liking her despite TWO such fights #Zenos kept having them and also undoing the consequences of the battles where I actually beat him #BUT... somehow Endwalker turned me around on him #I don't know if it'll make me enjoy more old Zenos content better on this current replay #But I can at least stand to talk about the guy without spitting. #And for the record I do not ship my WoL with Zenos in any way #Siege Zabac has been trying his absolute hardest to just kill this asshole since they first met #Not as like a deep personal rivalry thing but just as... housekeeping #Dude is dangerous and crazy and it's just not good strategy to let someone like that keep on living. #The duel at the end of everything was like... all right you crazy bastard you can have your fight to the death JUST ONCE. As a treat.