#they also love murdering innocent people and even children so they have completely lost their humanity in their thirst for revolution!

[river-of-wine]

I know I’ve mentioned this plenty of times before but I’m still kind of annoyed by how the fanbase just kind of completely declawed the four lords and placed the entirety of the responsibility for their wrongdoings on Mother Miranda.

The Baker family are great, I love them, they’re an incredible unit of antagonists who are intended to be very sympathetic, at least for the most part. Jack and Marguerite in particular have lost all control over their minds and their bodies, turning into extremely violent murderers and cannibals who threaten and attack their own family, kill anyone unfortunate enough to come across them and, especially in Marguerite’s case, lose complete autonomy over their own bodies. Marguerite turns into a walking bug hive who’s only purpose is to feed her family and birth her new children. Jack is an unstoppable murderous force of patriarchal violence who has so much fun chasing down and harming his victims, which in the Daughters DLC includes even his own daughter. The exception to this is obviously Lucas, who has been cured of his infection and his acting of his own free will. All of this is caused by Eveline, everything Jack and Marguerite do controlled by her, and yet Eveline is just as sympathetic as the rest of them. She’s a ten year old girl. Even Jack, who has watched his family and their victims suffer because of her infection, doesn’t seem to hold any of it against her. She just wants a family of her own, after all. It’s a complex and tragic situation.

The four lords, while I suppose being similar in structure, are not the Baker family. Not in dynamic, not in character, not in the kind of tragedy that they embody. I could talk for a while about just how completely different they are, but I don’t know if I really need to.

The Baker family are so tragic because they were just innocent bystanders trying to help a woman and a little girl they found in a shipwreck out in a storm. That’s the only reason they ended up in the situation that they were in. While the lords have similar origins, being victims of Mother Miranda’s experiments to bring her daughter Eva back, an important distinction between them is that in the case of the lords, all four of them are still acting of their own free will. Yes, Mother Miranda has undeniable power over them. She leads the cult they are part of, she has control over the village, she is their superior. However, I really dislike when every negative action by the lords is pushed onto her, as if the lords are not all grown adults who are for the most part acting independently of her.

With Alcina, she is the head of her own extremely brutal crimes. I think a lot of people have forgotten quite how horrifying the situations of the maidens are, possibly due to the prevalence shipping between Alcina and the maidens, and though we have minimal information what we do know is very frightening. Alcina uses her work force like livestock, draining them for their blood in a cellar full of horrific torture devices, and leaves their corpses to shamble around, armed and ready to attack any unwanted guests that have slipped out of the daughter’s clutches so that Alcina still doesn’t have to do her own dirty work, given how highly above everyone but Mother Miranda she appears to view herself as. While yes, Alcina does need human blood to survive, her methods are brutal, and none of this has been enforced upon her by Mother Miranda. Similarly to Jack on occasion, she takes a great deal of pleasure in hurting and attacking Ethan as he runs from her. Additionally, everything she does to Ethan is against Mother Miranda’s request. While yes, it is retaliation after he killed Bela, the part I often see people leave out is that Alcina is equally as upset that he entered her property and was attempting to steal from her, and she isn’t just after him to kill him.

Alcina has also been an active participant in aiding Mother Miranda with at least one experiment, considering that I’d how she got her daughters. While I’m sure her strong admiration for Mother Miranda and Mother Miranda’s power over her has absolutely had an affect in this, that’s not something I’ll deny, Alcina is still a grown woman and in her written entries about this shows no qualms about her participation in this. Her general attitude towards others, using young women as a good source and turning men into scarecrows, also leads me to believe that she does not exactly care who gets hurt or taken advantage of when it comes to her and Mother Miranda’s personal endeavours.

Donna and Moreau are the two more sympathetic people within the four lords, but they are not innocent. To start with Moreau, he’s desperate for Mother Miranda’s approval, as well as the other lords. He’s insecure and lonely, and he’s doing what he has been instructed by Mother Miranda when it comes to protecting the flask. However, he does also take quite a bit of joy in trapping Ethan in the reservoir and swimming after him with the intention to eat and kill him. Moreau though, given his conditions and circumstances, is the one I think is the least to blame for what he does.

Donna is hard to discuss because we know so little about her. Her parents are dead, as well as whoever Claudia was to her, she communicates through Angie and she can cause those who enter her house to hallucinate. According to Mother Miranda, Donna is severely mentally ill and that is what has made her an unfit vessel. I think a lot of people took this to mean that Donna is unaware of what she is doing, that the hallucinations she is showing Ethan are frightening, but after having been a fan of this game for years I just can’t agree with that anymore. Donna intentionally lures Ethan into her house with visions of his supposedly dead wife. Donna is going after fears she likely knows Ethan has, making him relive Mia’s death, take apart a mannequin of her, listen to her voice panic over something being horribly wrong with Rose, all building towards the horrifying baby that chases him through the house. There is no way Donna doesn’t understand how what she is showing Ethan is distressing, especially when you consider that, given how she can make herself appear and disappear at will within Ethan’s vision and that Angie is sitting in the hallways stationary and unspeaking, Donna was likely close by Ethan at all times and could see and hear his frightened reactions to what she was intentionally showing him.

Donna’s death is upsetting, but Ethan was not just chasing her down and killing her. Donna was attacking him, or at least she was controlling her dolls to do so. It’s still a hallucination, but Ethan doesn’t know that. When faced with a threat that is keeping you trapped and trying to end your life, you will likely try to get away or try to fight back, as Donna is doing to Ethan after he starts to attack her and Ethan is doing to Donna when he thinks his life is still in danger. I would also like to remind everybody that Donna communicates through Angie. What Angie is saying, that’s Donna. Angie doesn’t talk or move once she’s dead, it is Donna who controls her.

Lastly, Heisenberg. I think Heisenberg is the one of the four most entrenched in headcanons. Headcanons are fine, I am never in this post trying to suggest they aren’t, but my issue comes in when people use them to try and change the canon of the game. For example, it’s fine to believe that Heisenberg was experimented on by Mother Miranda as a child, but that isn’t canon. It’s fine to believe that Heisenberg mourned the deaths of his siblings, but that isn’t canon. The opposite is, with Heisenberg not viewing the cult as an actual family and being very openly mean to all three other lords, even Donna and Moreau who seemingly haven’t done anything to slight him. While his goal of killing another Miranda is a very understandable and sympathetic one given what she has done to him, using a six month old baby as a weapon and trying to bring her father into the mix only to try to get him killed when he denies him is not. I cannot overstate quite how little Heisenberg actually cared for Ethan and Rose’s safety when it came to his goal, and given that we are playing as Ethan, Rose is the priority.

Heisenberg has built an army of corpses he has presumably stolen and desecrated. This is kind of fucked up actually, and done completely independently of Mother Miranda. He also puts Ethan through a very dangerous lycan gauntlet before he even reaches the factory, which makes it even stranger to me that people seem to interpret Heisenberg’s deal as something that would have benefitted both him and Ethan and as if he ever had Ethan’s safety in mind.

All four of the lords have tragic aspects to them and there are definitely reasons to sympathise with all four. They’re victims of Mother Miranda, who knows they will all be killed. She wants them to be, giving her less to deal with by the time she has Eva back. They never meant anything to her. Not Alcina or Moreau, who were desperate for her attention. Not Donna, suffering from her unspecified but apparently severe mental illness. Not Heisenberg, who was seemingly her favourite creation. However, all of them are grown adults who do their own bad things independently of her.

And it’s fine to still like them. It’s fine for them to be your favourite character. It’s fine to have happy or nice headcanons about them or want to kiss them or be their friend or to want them to have survived. It’s fine to like characters who do shitty things. It’s to be expected in a game series like Resident Evil. It’s a horror game series. People are going to do bad things.

I just find it so boring when people take away all their bite. What makes a character like Lady Dimitrescu so fun it’s that she’s completely over the top. She’s campy and ridiculous, her castle layout makes no sense, she’s got three kids made of swarms of flies dressed like a set of goth triplets, she’s a lesbian who’s castle is full of naked statues of women, she turns into a big dragon and laughs maniacally while flying around and trying to eat you. She’s evil and it’s fun. It’s the same with Heisenberg. He’s a campy show off with a fun voice and a massive hammer he never actually uses. He can control metal. He looks like a cowboy. He pronounced Miranda in a funny way. He talks to you over an intercom while trying to get you killed. They’re fun and evil and they fight over who gets to kill Ethan like they’re two little kids. It’s absurd.

What makes a character like Donna so scary is that she’s silently working in the shadows, unassuming at a first glance and unseen for most of the time in her house. She is the least threatening of the four upon first glance, and yet she has undeniably the most frightening part of the game. Pretending as if Donna is completely unaware of what she is doing and babying her like she is an incapable child waters her down completely and takes away from the effectiveness of her character.

Villain characters are great! They’re very often the highlight of the story they are in, and they aren’t real! The four lords especially are often so completely exaggerated in what they do as well. It’s fine to like villains! It doesn’t make you bad! Characters can be bad people and you can still like them!

It’s just frustrating seeing a group of very fun and exciting villains, all designed with different aspects of horror, all over the top and campy and stupid and fun, all doing their own set of fucked up things, watered down to a set of poor innocent victims who have never done any wrong ever. If you want Jack and Marguerite, take Jack and Marguerite. Lady Dimitrescu loves killing and eating women and Karl Heisenberg turns corpses into soldiers. They’re bad people and they do comically exaggerated bad things. If you can’t stomach liking a character like that, horror is probably not the genre for you. Unless it’s Resident Evil 7, I suppose, but apparently tall women aren’t hot when it’s Marguerite Baker crawling on the walls.

#I just wanted to ramble abouts the four lords they’re fun as villains and I’m really bored of how their edges keep getting rounded off #resident evil 8 #re8 #lady dimitrescu #donna beneviento #salvatore moreau #karl heisenberg #resident evil 7 #re7 #jack baker #marguerite baker #eveline baker

[bonefall]

Any thoughts on Nettlepaw? The apprentice who helps Mapleshade out and tells her Frecklewish saw/knew her kits drowned? He's a complete nothing later but he sits in my head as the one clan cat willing to show compassion to a mother who just lost her children, and I wonder how he felt when she went on to murder his clan mates. Because the obvious way, he feels bad and hates her. But I could also see the opposite, where he sees it a hypocritical of Oakstar to cry for murder after his son's drowning, then be horrified his daughter was injured/killed by a mother whose children died because of him. Idk, I like that he's one of only two people to reach out to help Mapleshade and I think he deserves some more attention

I have a really strong headcanon that Nettlepaw is actually the brother of Flowerpaw, the apprentice who died trying to save Birchface from the river. I really like the idea that the simple reason he helped Mapleshade in that moment was because he was so very tired of hearing about innocent people dying.

So... who cares if Ravenwing is going to be upset I lost some herbs, or my mentor might make me pick ticks off the elders? I can't do this anymore. Please, let there just be a small moment of kindness. Even if it doesn't last.

In BB, Nettlepaw is the son of Beetail, the deputy. He also happens to be the half-brother of Birchface and Frecklewish.

Beetail's first mate was Shinecloud, who is the sister of BB!Oakstar. She fell from a tree, and Oakstar helped raise his nespring with Beetail in her absence.

Eventually, Beetail fell in love with Dawnfeather, and Flower and Nettle came along. The two were close with their older half-siblings, it was a happy blended family.

So when Flowerpaw and Birchface died in the same night, it was a devastating blow. Nettlepaw took it better than Frecklewish did, though.

He's got Dawnfeather, alive and well at the moment. Frecklewish lost her brother, the one who remembered their mother.

So Nettlepaw doesn't really know how to help, even though he wants to. Superficially it looks like the same kind of grief, but it's very different underneath.

When Mapleshade's kittens came around, everything looked so much brighter. It was like Frecklewish was her old self again.

I don't see Nettlebreeze as being a very abstract thinker. He's not particularly poetic or eloquent, he's very straightforward and honest in how he assesses the world. The code is the code... but it's very sad that Mapleshade is all alone and the children are dead. It's not right.

Something feels wrong that the kittens lived thinking he was their half-uncle, and died thinking he hated them now. That the answer to so much death was even more death. And, sadly, it's not about to get any better.

Sad character, basically. He yearns for kindness in a cruel world, just before a rampage that will take his last sibling from him, and with the Crusades looming on the horizon.

#better bones au #BB!Nettlebreeze #Darkstar's Commandment

[nativehueofresolution]

marius justifies his decision to groom armand for vampirism by basically saying armand was doomed before he met marius, so then anything marius did to him could only be a form of salvation. compare his agonizing over turning bianca to the plans he hatched for grooming armand over years for his role.

when thinking about why it's acceptable to do this to armand and not bianca or botticelli (lol), marius tells himself there's no loss here- armand was already marked for slaughter, a 'child utterly lost to life who could be reclaimed specifically for the blood'.

yet, he also seems very taken with the idea that armand is angelic and innocent - someone he mold into his brand of killer, unlike bianca, who was already a murderer.

he romanticizes armand's starvation and poor health to make him the picture of an innocent child, and the fact he's enslaved means marius can pretend he's rescuing him. he even toys with the idea that armand could 'earn' his freedom and leave if he was good enough, though he is at least self aware enough to admit he wouldn't have actually done it. he has poor enough circumstances marius can tell his conscience he's giving armand a better life and yet is enough of a blank slate that marius can mold him into his idea of a perfect companion.

and he expects this lack of ties and familiarity with death will make armand detached from humanity, perfectly set him up for vampire life. but it doesn't, not how marius wants. when armand reunites with his family and is deeply moved, marius is taken aback, and seems disturbed armand has a difficult time parting with them.

he becomes obsessively jealous of armand's father, admitting he expected armand to "look upon his family with detachment" and didn't know how to handle the fact that his power and wealth somehow did not outweigh familial attachment. the idea that armand loves his father more than him eats away at marius, though it soothes his ego some that armand never tries to leave despite his melancholy.

still when they return, marius scraps his plans of taking armand to see akasha and enkil. he needs to be 'more advanced', 'more wise', and 'more nearly perfected'. he begins to doubt armand is taking in his lessons on philosophy and civilization and instead muses that it might take centuries for armand to reach the level of detachment from humanity marius would like to see. and when bianca admits armand confided in her about the secrets of vampirism, he 'trembles with rage' - even though the fact she knows is what allows bianca to save marius's life!

ironically, armand does become incredibly detached from humanity when he's with the children of satan, but then marius feels he's too detached because he no longer feeds on the evil doer.

like armand truly can't win with marius. he's too attached and not worthy of meeting akasha because he still misses his family and is too involved with humanity. ok, now he's too detached and has no concern for human life, so he's a lost cause not worth saving. it fits with the way marius constantly describes armand as either a saintly angel or a perfect devil, never a person. he completely wrote off armand, but somehow decided, without meeting him, lestat (!!) has proven himself enough for marius to spill all his secrets to.

but the real kicker is that, while the whole 'just kill only bad people!' light yagami logic is never thoroughly interrogated in the series, the one who comes the closest to offering a critique... is marius! and he tells it to armand!! after the banquet slaughter, armand, looking for reassurance after the massacre he just witnessed, asks marius if all the people he killed were evil. and marius basically says 'i'd say so, but who am i to judge? it's all just justifications for my appetitie' and then points out that bianca could be called evil (and let's remember he did threaten her in front of armand earlier that evening and armand threatened to commit suicide if marius followed through and killed her!). indeed, she fits the bill of the 'evil doers' he normally kills, having murdered multiple people. but he spares her because he likes her. and yet... no reflection from marius, no consideration of how telling armand one of the people dearest to him could be called evil might create a disconnect. none of this humility when he is leaving armand to centuries of misery in the cult that indoctrinated. it's the same thing marius himself said - his moral judgments are really just pretenses for him to excuse his tastes, and he decided armand was no longer to his.

#the vampire armand #iwtv #kaitlin speaks

[morganaas]

A Jacopo Bearzatti analysis

Analysis that inspired me to write, Please read them

The story of Jacopo is that of a man that wagers everything on his ambitions, he seeks the strength to protect the ones he loves but it’s that very strength that ends up destroying himself and everyone around him.

The question of why Jacopo loves Morgana so much that he would do anything to protect her lies in a Requiem for innocence.

In the festival as Jacopo recalls the events of his childhood in the slums to Morgana we see a connection form between the two. Since they were children both Jacopo and Morgana were forced to experience the cruelty of the world far too early.

Morgana at the cruel hands of Lord barnier, and Jacopo in the slums forced to survive day to day in a place riddled with crime and murder. Jacopo even as a child could not keep his hands clean, he admits to Morgana "

I bet I'm completely irredeemable in your eyes. I've stolen, lied, deceived, and even killed people...

"Even as a child, my hands were not free from blood."

Jacopo is a man who had been corrupted by the world, and the one thing keeping him tied to the world, from descending deeper into hell was Morgana. Jacopo's love for Morgana is is what defines him. And what defines his love is not physical, but a romantic platonic love of Morgana.

Jacopo's reason for loving Morgana initially is unknown, but with the white haired girl(The manifestation of Morgana's innocence) we can piece together that Jacopo's love initially comes from him seeing the innocence he once had in Morgana. But through the time he spends with Morgana at the brothel he came to love the girl Morgana and understand his own feelings. A lot of this is shown to us through the short story A Slice of Sweet Serenity in times long lost I and II, this short story tells the tale of Morgana and Jacopo, and how their romance forms.

A story lies in the title" A Requiem for Innocence", a Requiem is defined as a dirge for the dead, meaning a solemn chant for the death of innocence. Requiem for innocence begins with the piece Mozart's Requiem in D-Minor Sequence VI Lacrimosa (A famous dirge lamenting the day of Judgement about forgiveness) as it shows Morgana suffering at the hands of barnier. Innocence is associated with Morgana and it later materializes as the white haired girl.

The story of Requiem is just as much the tragic tale of Jacopo as it is a tale of Morgana losing her innocence and becoming the witch we love.

Jacopo in playing the role of the lord denies his own feelings, and buries them all, condemning himself to the fate of the lord.

And putting the nail in Morgana’s coffin, up until his final moments Jacopo kept up the facade of lord Barnier so much that he accepts the sins of the Lord, and becomes the object of Morgana’s hatred.

“ You’re the cruelest man in the whole world "

With the line “ I killed the young man “ He denies the possibility of becoming that young man, going as far as to say the young man he once was is no longer alive, killed at the hands of Lord Barnier.

Jacopo however doesn’t have the strength to just forget the pleasant memories he had with Morgana. Nor does he have the strength to tell Morgana he is the slave boy. In a moment of vulnerability Jacopo tells Morgana who is oblivious his grievances, about the love he had for her, and the regrets he has.

When Jacopo chooses to bear the sins of Barnier along with his own, this tragedy lies in the fact that Jacopo was Morgana’s one source of happiness in her life.

Jacopo the source of all Morgana’s joy in life is also the cruel man who destroyed everything she loved, the Brothel, the slave man, her very life and joy was taken by him.

“Not only did I fail to protect anything, I destroyed the one thing I cared about most with my own two hands. That’s all I ever managed to do. This isn’t the world I wanted to show you at all. I of all people should have done everything in my power to ensure those good days never ended.”

“For as long as I’ve had the throne, a part of my wanted to say, “I’m done. I have no need of this anymore” But every time the thought rose to my mind it was pushed back down by a refrain of, “So you’d led all that work go to waste? Everything you sacrificed to get here? In reality it wasn’t pride or a desire to hold onto my power that stopped me from doing this sooner. But the fear that everything I had worked so hard for would be for naught.

But now that I saw death looming over her…

It was clear that only greater, more crushing despair awaited me.

It would break me utterly and I would end up abusing my people even worse than Barnier had.”

Upon Jacopo’s death Jacopo’s forced to face the blood on his hands, the death of all those he cared about, and even the death of Morgana. He sees that all his efforts were utterly meaningless. As he finds himself dying alone he thinks back on those simple days of joy and remembers what Morgana said do him that day

“I don’t want to see the world. All I want…

Is to

find our home..”

Jacopo’s final thoughts are

“I never needed to reign supreme. I never needed to favor the masses. All I needed to do was go looking for that little pocket of tranquility.“

Jacopo dreams of a different world upon his death, a world where he chose Morgana, a world where an ordinary boy and an ordinary girl journey to find their home. In other words Fragments

“

This is what I could have had if I’d made the right choices.. What I wanted… more than anything in the world.

“

Jacopo's soul lives through the events of the third door, and the thousand years in the decrepit mansion, never truly forgetting the pain he caused the girl Morgana, nor the sins of his life. Jacopo sees himself as irredeemable, and has resigned himself to his curse.

With these desires burned into his soul, Jacopo exists solely to atone for what he’s done to Morgana, even accepting the curse she has placed on him. Prepared to spend eternity in the mansion if Morgana wishes it.

With the events of requiem we know how deep the bond between Morgana and Jacopo is.

In door 3 Jacopo is reconstructed( body and soul reincarnated) without memory of his past life into a new life cursed to end in tragedy. Jacopo's tale is a tragic one with many references to the Shakespeare tragedy Othello.

Jacopo plays the role of Othello, an immigrant who rose up in society because of his ambitions, and the weight put on him by his father and country. The white haired girl plays the role of Desdemona as she is virtuous to a fault, a women of unfaltering Christian values.

Maria will play the role of Iago, Othello's companion who he trusts, but ultimately the one to betray Othello and bring about his demise.

Our story begins with a similar tragedy, Jacopo in pursuit of his ambitions neglects his wife the white haired girl for a reason unknown to us. At first we are lead to believe Jacopo is naturally cruel man, but the story soon shows us the reasons for Jacopo's actions. It is revealed to us that rumors of the white haired girl being unfaithful are in circulation from the machinations of Maria, the Iago in our story.

Jacopo is deceived into believing the white haired girl has been unfaithful, by Maria manipulating the letters of hers directed at Jacopo to be to other men.

This feign of deception culminates into Jacopo Imprisoning the white haired girl in order to protect his image. Instead of talking to the white haired girl and facing the truth of the situation, he choose to ignore it and to accept the lie that Maria told. In this life and the last, communication and ambition lead to his fall. It is only at the ending that Jacopo realizes Maria's deception, and the innocence of the white haired girl.

This is when the ending of Othello and the ending of door 3 differ, in the Shakespeare play Othello kills Desdemona and himself in a rage of jealously oblivious to the truth. In door 3 Jacopo is made to live alone in constant search of the white haired girl who disappeared the day earlier, with only a note of her love to remember her by. It is only in losing the things he loves most that he recognizes the value they hold.

Jacopo grows old surrounded by wealth but constantly thinking back to the day the white haired girl left in regret. As many decades past Jacopo thinks to himself "Was Michelle really her name ?" His soul never forgetting Morgana, and connecting Morgana to the white haired girl. White haired girl is the manifestation of Morgana's innocence and saintliness lost in requiem, and the innocence that Jacopo first noticed in Morgana.

Dive into Lost I and the nature of the Soul in Fata Morgana

The Cursed Mansion is a desolate place, where sorrow and misfortune gather in the form of decrepit darkness. All darkness in the mansion is a result of past tragedy and deep regrets, originating from the death and curse of Morgana. The watchtower in the mansion illustrates this since the place of the greatest tragedies and the darkest place in the mansion through all eras.

Jacopo and Giselle in I. Lost feel sorrowful as they climb the tower, since their souls experienced great tragedy from that tower. Jacopo could never forget what he did to Morgana, and Giselle could never forget her memories of happiness with Michel. When both ascend the tower they’re struck by the frail sunlight entering the desolate tower. The tower is a place with one opening , which light pierces through, this could be a reminder that salvation will never come, or this could be a symbol of hope that salvation will come. Light in Fata Morgana is associated with fond memories of the past & hope.

FROM I. LOST

"But bathed in the glow of the moon, her hand stretched out to take his--before she realized what happened.

They had both lost those they cared about most. And when their fingers touched- He saw a bright, spirited young woman with an infectious smile. And she saw a kindhearted and sometimes sarcastic young man.

Giselle and the slave, vestiges of their long-forgotten selves, bursting forth for the tiniest, most insignificant of moments.

"Michel, to tell you the truth, I wanted nothing more than to descend these stairs with you, hand in hand.

"Morgana, to tell you the truth, I wanted nothing more than to go back to those days when I could still take your hand.

By the time the head maid had made it across the collapsed stairs, the shadows of their old selves had disappeared without a trace.

Only the maid who always wore a smile and the forlorn businessman remained there in the tower. A faint connection had formed between them, though -a shared solation and emptiness. An empathy, as similarly damaged souls. But that too would fade in time, their connection as fleeting as an autumn night. "

'The sun's light even reaches this deep, dark corner of the world. I mean, of course it does, but.…. I dunno, for some reason, it seems particularly bright today”

Next will be the topic of fragments, and what this moment is for Jacopo and Morgana.

#the house in fata morgana #fatamoru #ファタモルガーナの館

[depressed-bitchy-demon]

I'm shaking. sobbing. eating wet cement.

man I love fnaf crossovers!

been thinking that'd be very funny if people in twst became, like, lore obsessed gremlins (much like it happened to an entire part of the internet a couple years ago) and they started getting into it, not just surface level, I'm talking matpat level of brainrot. and it's like, one of the funniest things about fnaf is that you enter this fandom and start getting into it, it's a but fun, it's a bit silly. but when you get really deep in, you start getting to the real things. the mourning of what should have been, the sadness for a lost family, the destruction of the innocence of children. you know. the deep end.

Holy shit you put what I was thinking when I thought of this crossover into better words than I could ever.

I love the idea of the MC being another Afton and trying to tell the tragedy of their family and everyone else involved as a video game in this completely different world where would be little to no (legal) consequences because of the possibilities for both angst as the cast of TWST maybe realize the silly little horror game series their friend made was in fact stuff they lived through and actually experienced and also the hilarity of these series of games being so utterly ridiculous to them because they HAVE ghosts in the TWST world, ghosts would never act with that much murderous intent (well, minus Eliza but even then she just wanted to marry her dream guy even if a side effect of said marriage was death). Not to mention the commentary on corporations and how little they value their lowest workers in the games.

But yeah Idia Shroud is MatPat confirmed (Ortho is worried about his sanity but glad he’s going outside, even if it’s only to ask MC why the hell the robot soup is using a man as a skinsuit).

Anywho, feel free to talk to me about this AU anytime! I love hearing people’s thoughts about it : D

#twisted wonderland #twst #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #Afton!Yuu #just rambling #TWST x FNAF

[kingambroseflycatcher]

So I've been watching A Shop for Killers with a friend, and I just wanted to talk about it for a sec. More accurately complain about it.

The show had a strong start I will say. Maybe just the first two episodes... I liked Jinman and Jian, they were giving us reasons to like the characters while keeping Jinmans full story secretive. Cool. Love Father/daughter relationships! I know Jinman is Jians uncle but still, you get the idea.

By episode 4 I still felt kinda lost. I started to realize that these flashbacks they've been showing is the memories Jian lost? I wish we were discovering her memories with her, rather than the show just. Telling us what the memories were. Around this time I found out that the show was only going to be 8 episodes and I was like?? I'm half way done and I still barely know anything because the show is 80% flashbacks???

Now. The real problems I started having was with the new episodes that released yesterday. ESPECIALLY with episode 6. Suddenly they decide to never show the main female lead, and they decide to make it completely military propaganda. They showed us this absolutely horrible person killing innocent southeast Asian civilians. Sure he's meant to be creepy, but he's also supposed to be seen as badass. Jinman is meant to look like the "hero" of it all which continues to push that copaganda shit.

It is completely insensitive to be releasing this show while the genocide in Gaza is happening right now. It was completely insensitive to show innocent civilians and children of oppressed groups in that country being brutally murdered. They didn't even humanize these people either, they were just there to be blown up and shot by some military guy. Literally what made them think this was a good idea. What.

Some cherry on tops is the fully Korean guy wearing locs and the Thai character not even being acted by a Thai actor. I know damn well there are MANY Thai men that can speak Korean that they could have hired instead. Oh but the Southeast Asian innocents being brutally killed? Yeah they're acted by real Southeast Asian people. Why? Because you wanted to see them be killed but the one that lives can't be acted by an actual Southeast Asian actor? Fucking stupid. This whole show has been ruined and I will not be watching it anymore.

#I had high hopes too #I was excited.... um #Only watched it for Dongwook #and I think they only hired him as a cashgrab #clickbait even #because what made them think Dongwook had the face for some rugged military man #I think dongwook needs more serious nonromance roles #but not this shit #a shop for killers #sfk

[sketching-shark]

Why do people defend six eared macaque lol I don’t think he actually deserves to have a redemption arc after everything he’s done in monkie kid and the og novel lol.

WATCH OUT BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO BE MEAN TO A MONKEY ON MAIN but hhhhhh I'm guessing it's partially a result of the current culture-wide obsession with/insistence on redemption arcs no matter what & the way that redemption arcs are increasingly used as a stepping stone to get two characters who hate each other into a romance.

In this particular case I also think Monkie Kid so far only showing Macaque's side of the story in regards to his relationship with Sun Wukong & its depiction of the monkey king as a deeply flawed individual whose actions could easily be interpreted as him just being an unthinking fumbling dumbass who never grew out of his unthinking fumbling dumbass ways also lends itself to fandom-ish tendency to brush aside the bad actions of the blorbo d'jour so that their eventual inclusion into team good guy seems less jarring. Like if Macaque sucks but SWK actually sucks even more then in context Macaque has the moral high ground & as such he can't justifiably be called out for anything by SWK or can't be called out by any other character unless they're also going after the monkey king. And indeed in Monkie Kid we've had SWK get yelled at by many character for being stupid & destructive & I don't remember that ever happening with Macaque outside of Qi Xiaotian's "What's wrong with you?!" after the shadow simian had just uhhhh kidnapped & mind-controlled his loved ones before forcing them to beat up Qi Xiaotian while he watched and laughed (X_X).

I've also seen a number of people argue that Monkie Kid and Journey to the West should be considered two completely different stories and fair enough to some extent (like yea SWK probably shouldn't have the past of smashing tons of humans and yaoguai into "meat patties" in a children's cartoon lol). Buuuuuuut I do suspect that a lot of this stance is about justifying a rewrite so that Macaque could be an innocent monkey before getting involved with SWK rather than dealing with the violence he deliberately chose to inflict on the Mt. Huaguoshan monkeys & SWK himself in the og classic. In addition, I do think that, especially for a western audience, a lot of people simply DON'T KNOW about what the Six Eared Macaque did in Journey to the West. Like I've said before that one of my current favorite parts of being in the online JTTW fandom is seeing people go from "oh people are exaggerating about the monkey king's trauma" to "oh dang actually the monkey really did go through it" after they've read some of Wu Cheng'en's work, but my general sense is that at present many people know about these characters through Monkie Kid more than through Journey to the West, and as such aren't aware of the stuff LEMH pulls or even that his entire thing was making himself SWK's doppelganger in an attempt to murder-replace the monkey king and get all the glory for completing the journey for himself. Any translation of a work often means that a lot of context will be lost, and I think that can be particularly true when you're only aware of/been exposed to a child cartoon manifestation of a character, especially if you don't have access to at least a good translation of the work they originally came from.

ANYWAY those are my general impressions about the matter, and I still maintain that lego show Macaque would be best served by either staying a shifty dude or having a "redemption without forgiveness" narrative arc in which he does decide to become a better person but does so without being forgiven by team monkie for everything he put them through. If anything such an arc might help him start developing into his own character rather than forever remaining the jerk violently obsessed with getting one over the monkey king.

#monkie kid six eared macaque #monkie kid #monkie kid sun wukong #also i think it's funnier if they keep the swk & lemh relationship closer to the og classic of #macaque being viciously envious of the monkey king & the monkey king being like #'jealously is a disease binch get well soon' *bonks you to death*

[connoisseursdecomfort]

Chapter 73

Some observations and speculations on following chapters  (manga spoilers ahead, obviously)

1. In Chapter 72 we compare Billy with Loid, both as a person and as a father. In Chapter 73, the conversation between Billy and Biddy reminds me of the interactions between [redacted] and his father, but in a reversed way. Father and child disagree on an issue. Both fathers were “wrong” - [redacted] did become a damn good soldier, and Billy ends up joining the Red Circus. Both fathers were also right - it took that long and that many for [redacted] to understand war is indeed bad; and it took most probably only one day for Billy’s family to be completely ruined. Both parents tried hard to protect their children, and both failed because things are always out of their control.

2. I was hoping that Yuri could save Anya, but now it seems impossible. UNLESS he is motivated enough to ignore his wound and rush to the other site and stop all the SSS agents, getting everyone out of the bus and drive the bus into the river (I know, the tires are slashed). Well. I was thinking maybe Yor would come, but it’s getting late, and Loid is probably on his way home and driving a vehicle into a river is something extremely spy-y. Yor, on the other hand, could kick the bus into space...

3. But you know what, I think it would be Mr “Elegant” Henderson and Anya persuading Billy what he’s doing is wrong, and Billy who in turn stops the others. Or, I dunno, as much as I sympathise with Billy, I kinda think he would die stopping the Red Circus from bombing the bus and everyone will feel sad for him - he couldn’t stop his daughter going to that protest, he couldn’t stop the government murdering innocent people, but at least for once, maybe he could stop both the SSS and the Red Circus and protect the children. And tbf if he is caught by the SSS it would be way worse.

4. Yor and Loid still haven’t appeared. I won’t be surprised the next chapter starts with them catching wind of it. To be honest I suspect Yor and Loid have already received the news by the time Yuri gets shot - Endo didn’t include their reactions in this chapter because he was probably busy with so many other stuffs, i.e. season two and the movie, he doesn't have enough time to make the chapter long enough to properly get Twiyor back into the story.

5. If it is indeed Henderson who saves the day, maybe we would ultimately get a glimpse into Henderson/Martha’s backstory (aka do they also have daughters children whom they’d lost due to war), in contrast to panels in which children reunite with their parents. Ok mainly a super dramatic Blackbell household reunion.

6. I honestly think chances are Yuri would move into the Forger household and there would be a major bonding arc after this arc - A. Yor would probably want to take care of her baby brother; and B. Yuri could receive a punishment for going against the SSS policies/ decisions regarding this incident. Even a backstory arc.

Oh, last but not least, merry Christmas. I love how Endo is giving us a chapter ending with a cliffhanger as a Christmas gift when we are all kinda expecting him to take a break. Honestly I would do that too if I have to work at Christmas.

#spy x family #chapter 73

[themovieblogonline]

"The Lost King" at 58th Chicago International Film Festival Is Charming Film

“The Lost King” is the story of Philippa Langley and, as its synopsis says:  “In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with skepticism by experts and academics. THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's history”. I remember when the newspapers of September 12, 2012, carried the news of the discovery of the body of Richard III buried beneath a parking lot in the town of Leicester in the U.K. I doubt if anyone not a resident of that particular city knew the behind-the-scenes story of how, exactly, Richard III came to be found, through the efforts of an obsessed member of the online Richard III Society, who would not give up her quest. Ultimately, as scripted by co-star Steve Coogan in collaboration with Jeff Pope, it is a lovely tale with many messages for us in this age of disinformation. Coogan, it should be noted, also plays Philippa’s husband, John Langley, opposite the wonderful Sally Hawkins, the female lead from “The Shape of Water.”. The film makes the point that “if you get in first with the first lie, and repeat it often enough,” the truth gets lost in the shuffle. And Philippa, for one, does not like it when people put people down. She is determined to gather hard evidence to refute the bad things said throughout history about Richard III, especially in Shakespeare’s play of the same name. Philippa points out that “People find out one thing about you and that’s all that they can see.” She also informs us that it was Richard III over 500 years ago, who, during his brief reign (1483-1485) as the last Plantagenet king of England posited the principle of British law “suspects are innocent until proven guilty.” Philippa’s family, consisting of John Langley (well-played by Steve Coogan, who also co-wrote the script with Jeff Pope) and her two sons, are at first bemused by Philippa’s obsession with her task. One of her sons says, “If I had 2 sons, I would first make sure they had something to eat before I went off searching for Richard III.” The family comes around, however, even chipping in monetarily. Husband John reminds Philippa that he once sold his rare collection of Sex Pistols memorabilia to finance a new kitchen for her, so the affection the two share for each other and their children actually get a needed renewal and boost from Philippa’s new-found passion. The entire idea that one’s reputation can be intentionally sullied because of the motives of others is examined within the framework of this film. Philippa feels that Richard III is not the monster Shakespeare made him out to be in his play, was not responsible for the murders of his nephews in the Tower of London and that researchers should “take the evidence and study it to draw conclusions, not the other way around.” Husband John agrees in principle, saying, “I’m sure Mother Teresa occasionally left the lid off the milk and Genghis Khan occasionally picked up bits of litter.” So much for the character assassination of anyone at any time in history, and a vote for doing one’s homework in getting to the truth. Ultimately, Philippa’s consulting with the University of Leicester, (much as was limned in the film “Nine to Five,”) leads to men taking the credit for work done by a woman. In this case, the University of Leicester, which was initially dismissive, tries to take almost complete credit for the remarkable find. When it becomes clear that the body found under the car park in the chapel area of what was formerly Greyfriars Church really is Richard III, Philippa suffers from not being recognized for her hard work, but she is awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth in 2015. Not only the head wound he sustained in the Battle of Bosworth (the last King of England to be killed in battle), but also the DNA examination of Richard’s successors done by John Ashton Hill, (not to mention the evidence of scoliosis of the spine) would all prove conclusively that this was his skeleton, the body of a former King of England. It disproved the incorrect theory that Richard III’s ashes had been scattered in a nearby river. Philippa then fought for the royal coat of arms to be emblazoned on Richard III’s final resting place, over the objections of others. Stephen Frears who is a twice Oscar-nominated director and holds the David Lean Chair of Fiction Direction at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield is more than equal to the task of directing this thoroughly enjoyable film. I hope he scores a third Best Directing Oscar nomination for his efforts. The 81-year-old Frears previously gave us “The Grifters” and “The Queen,” for which his directing was Oscar-nominated. He is also the visionary who directed “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988), “High Fidelity” (2000), and the Meryl Streep vehicle “Florence Foster Jenkins” (2016). The music (Alexandre Desplat and the London Symphony Orchestra) and cinematography (Zac Nicholson) all combine to create a seamless story with relevant messages for our time. It premieres on November 4, 2022. Read the full article

[crashstanding]

Well, I think it’s time for me to share my Volo playlist and have a giant thing under the cut of why each song is there

Playlist (Youtube):

And the Song list, complete with some lyrics and reasonings:

1) The Hell of It

This one is here because I think it’s both Volo at himself ( Nothing matters anyway, And that's the hell of it ) and also people who are pissed at him ( And though your music lingers on All of us are glad you're gone )

2) Kafuka

Who was it that opened this rift? Who was it that opened this wound? The god of all that is clean[2] speaks, ”You’re filthy. There’s no hope for you.”

3) Patchwork Eden

Destroy to start anew, destroy to start anew; dispose of the children unfavorable to us The dreams we dreamt, the kindled "ideals," they're given a seed - "Thank you kindly."

The sleepless city, the sorrowful rain; what do they wait for? A pseudomiracle The unending nights, the dazzling past; what do they seek? A pseudomiracle 

4) Arandano

Okay I probably have a better reason for this somewhere, but it’s here because I felt it in my jellies and also “Child who is tortured into murdering“ is Volo Core in my heart

“Keep playing all the way to the end“ A sprouting future Murder

5) Spider Thread Monopoly

This is another Jellies song, combined with the story the song is based on... Also Sasakure.uk is a Volo Artist. It sounds like him!!

Whoever you are, even if you are a helpless idiot, I had already collected ”love” akin to a die that was about to be torn into a thousand pieces I shouted, “This thread is my aim!” to the cloud(spider)’s treasonable intent (thread) that I rejected, ah —I could do nothing but to cling onto it

6) People Eater

My fave interpretation of Volo is “He’s always meant to use the Protag and yet felt bad because he started to care“ and this feels like it

I think there's something wrong with me Why can't I just live happily?

Why do you still believe in me? And I'm baffled why you choose to stay with me You're completely free, yet you refuse to leave

7) Toes

I'm a man, I'm a twisted fool My hands are twisted, too Five fingers, two black hooves

8) Praise

A song that’s praising a false life and happiness in death. This is my personal favorite translation

9) The Fallen

I think Volo deserves a little ferality, as a treat

So they say you're troubled, boy Just because you like to destroy All the things that bring the idiots joy Well, what's wrong with a little destruction?

10) Laplace’s Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

Have you ever died in a nightmare? Woke up surprised you hadn’t earned your fate?

11) Mercy Down

Yea-ah, it’s getting biblical now You better pick your weapons up And throw your mercy down

12) Bloody Mary

Okay listen, this is mostly here because this song fucks most severely. But also “Turn the top of the food chain into the prey“ gives me some sort of “Volo’s the last of the Sinnoh people p much and wants to tear out the throats of the clans“

13) Lower One’s Eyes

This has similar vibes to the one above for why it’s here. But also the Lesbian Jesus/Judas fanfiction song really does suit Volo. Especially his vibes towards the Protag, Giratina, and Arceus

Curtain call, the final act, so say your prayers So long to you beloved traitor Innocence has died, Wilted by your lies "Let's break you from this cage", But you never came to set me free I'm whispering, still standing in the rain, Nothing will change, I'm praying the same thing every day I've lost my faith and myself all the same, It's too late to be saved

14) Silver Platters

I've seen this before As you try to mitigate your fear of being normal Just step through the portal No need to be cordial You could be immortal If you take the risk Could you take the risk?

15) Salt

Volo trans, next song

16) Credits Song for my Death (Orchestral Cover)

It’s about the vibes

17) Gira Gira

Volo redemption arc does live in my heart, even if it takes him a century. I think he deserves to love himself and the world

Give love, the flowers bloom in mud But not a soul is exactly  how they seem, never be, never see Ah, how pretty is the world I don’t belong But still I’m shining on

18) An Unaware Drunkard

Yeah, but before that redemption arc, he needs a flop arc

19) Envy Baby

Hi! I wanna people save. ...all right? Out of the way, love

20) Outer Science

Okay listen, Maniacal villain Volo is a fun idea sometimes, that’s what this is here for. He gets to go a little apeshit as a TREAT... he also gets to break the fourth wall :)

How pitiful to live and die

Time and again you all defy

Though it will end the same, you keep resetting the game

Remiss and pain all aflame

Crying, howling, ever writhing

21) Rebirth

Okay listen, this song is probably only ever going to make sense for Volo in my head and in the capacity of Lagtrain. But I think it works, self despairing and hatred, a little bit of hope...

A strangely pleasant feeling from cutting off connections and losing my own safety,    the next victim appears in a room that can't be unlocked and I open my heart of all melancholic words.    I wonder if I make sense of these feelings, could I understand the things of this world?    Once I'm able to make sense of this pain, will I understand what comes after?     It's better to let your tears dry,    and then will you travel on without wavering?    Or be reborn once again?    Then like that, you'll be happy    as you'll have done nothing wrong.    (Probably).

22) Mitsubachi

Also about the vibes

C’est l’esprit de la ruche (It’s the spirit of the hive) Let the flowers bloom Avec une puissance terrible (With tremendous power) Transforming the scenery with vivid colours Le goût du bonheur (The taste of happiness) But the world we live in Tu ne veux même pas y croire (You just won’t believe in it) Doesn’t even try to believe in us

#babbles #I have Mentol Ilenesses #AKA I think exclusively in music and I love doing this shit #Anyways here we go #And if you want more vibes for a specific thing #feel free to jump into my ask box

[jasontodding]

i really have never seen anything quite like the power of fandom continuing to show up and make excuses for absolute pos male characters because they’re objectively ~~attractive.

ohhhhh poor nick goode !! so pressured by his family’s expectations !!! if you read between the lines deep down he obviously still loved ziggy !!!

like…. my god. i shipped them too in 1978, but that was before we found out that he and his entire family knowingly lived off a deal their ancestor made that continuously sacrificed people year after year from the “wrong side of town”, all in the name of keeping sunnyvale the quintessential seat of wealth and prosperity.

that abundance was built off the literal blood sacrifice of people who unwillingly lost their lives all because the greed of one bloodline. because solomon goode wanted more.

nick was 110% content to let things continue on as they were- dooming hundreds of ordinary citizens to lifetimes of bad luck and misery and tragedy, all so his own family could selfishly continue to prosper like they had for years. ziggy probably lived for years with what had happened at camp nightwing weighing on her. the paranoia, the drinking, the obsessiveness- all signs of major PTSD. you don’t let someone you love live like that. ziggy saw her sister die in front of her, sacrificing herself because cindy thought she could stop the curse and give her sister a good life- a life of freedom from the “curse” they all believed sara fier put on shadyside. he brought her back to life, he wanted her. wanted her with a kind of selfishness that let her live in a nightmare long after the ambulance drove her out of camp nightwing. because she told him it was the curse, and was probably so hurt when nothing came of it. when everyone just assumed tommy went crazy, killed his girlfriend and a bunch of others. she probably felt broken and betrayed and a thousand other things, on top of living with the memory of the flashes of knowledge she received when her blood dripped onto sarah’s hand bone- stuff she didn’t even fully understand. nick could’ve validated her. nick could’ve supported her, backed her up. but nick said absolutely nothing. nick did nothing. NICK CHOSE TO SAY AND DO NOTHING, because in reality, he knew it was all realer than real- knew that his own ancestor was the originator of the curse, that the goode family kept it going from solomon up until then and even beyond that afterwards.

in 1978, ziggy said to him, “do you believe me?”. and he looked her right in the eye, while fellow campers, innocent people were being murdered and said “yes”, knowing FULL WELL HIS FAMILY WAS THE REASON THOSE CHILDREN WERE BEING SLAUGHTERED. just because they were deemed a necessary sacrifice to continue the unceasing prosperity of sunnyvale, and had the bad luck of being from the shadyside. while she was covered in blood and begging him to believe her, he already knew what was happening and why.

maybe some part of nick faltered at the sheer violence and carnage his family wreaked over time. maybe he had times where he doubted everything that was happening- but the fact is, people died because of him and his family. cindy died. but ziggy made it. becuause ziggy was pretty, because he liked her, because he thought she was different than the other people from shadyside, the ones he and his family deemed as expendable for their own gain.

but it’s like the widow said- making a deal with the devil is a CHOICE.

nick lived in the wealth his bloodline provided him. nothing that was earned, just built off the literal blood sacrifice of others. nick CHOSE to continue that. he wasn’t asking probing questions to deena, sam, simon, kate, and josh because he wanted to get down to the truth of what really happened- BECAUSE HE ALREADY KNEW. he just wanted to know how close they were to the truth. the truth of how much blood was on his and his family’s hands.

he called deena a d*ke, would’ve ended ziggy no matter how much of a crush he had on her, just to continue the whole frickin’ thing. to keep it going. he was just as selfish and greedy as solomon was.

nick goode was evil, but he had a pretty face, right? so viewers will keep searching for a reason for even a modicum of good in him. young nick and ziggy were adorable, so people can’t accept that he CHOSE to hurt her. like ziggy would ever fucking be okay with this man getting away with it all- she may have liked nick, but she LOVED her sister.

stop doing ziggy a disservice by trying to find some sort of overly multidimensional spin on nick. i’ll admit, i had a moment after i finished all 3 movies where i was like, damn, it sucks ziggy and nick didn’t make it, they had chemistry. and then i wanted to slap my hand on my forehead, because i was completely missing the point. fear street has an unexpected beauty to it because of the love characters have for each other- deena and josh, cindy and ziggy, sara and hannah, etc. it’s unselfish and pure and stubborn and all encompassing, it drives them and those characters would do so much for the ones they love.

nick’s “love” for ziggy, if you can even call it that, was not that type of life. it was selfish, and it was based on lies. even though she had a prickly exterior, ziggy obviously cared for others- hell, sheila strung her up and burned her and she still went back and risked her life to help her. nick presented as if he was also that way, as well as an outsider in his own life, someone who didn’t fit in. and maybe nick didn’t. maybe nick really struggled deep down with the curse. but in the end, nick made choices. just like solomon made the choice to deal with the devil, nick chose to let ziggy live in self-doubt and fear. nick chose to be selfish, to protect his family’s own interests.

you can still have chemistry with people who suck, that’s the catch of life. monsters can have attractive faces too. but to try to dive deep into nick’s character like he was eternally stuck as the conflicted teenage boy who wasn’t sure if he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, even when he held a gun to ziggy’s head… ugh.

stop making excuses for the fucked up shit male characters do. they may look good, they may have been possible love interests, but why on god’s earth would you blatantly ignore the fact that someone like nick CHOOSE to continue the cycle solomon started so many years ago??

why is it so important to find reasons to explain away nick’s abhorrent behaviour? because teen nick and ziggy were cute? you can acknowledge that but still be able to point out nick’s deceit, his selfishness.

idk man this phenomenon is… troubling to say the least.

#fear street #fear street spoilers #ziggy berman #nick goode

[linkspooky]

The Dragon - Megumi and Geto

Geto and Megumi are both the black wolves, the yang in their relationship with Gojo and Yuji respectively. However they are also parallels to one another. Both of them represent the black yang, both are deeply emotional people, and both are also partners and secondary to the strongest sorcerer of their generation. Geto who was the part of the strongest duo along with Gojo, and also Megumi who was the one who saved, and continues to protect Itadori even after he swallowed Sukuna’s finger. They also tend to be associated with serpents (Megumi - Oboro the snake, Geto summons a dragon). More under the cut. 

1. It’s Always the Quiet Ones

Gojo and Yuji are introduced as a teacher and student duo from the start of the manga so their connection between each other is already apparent. Geto and Megumi have never met each other, however, there are already several parallels between them. 

Megumi and Geto are characters who are more concerned with “the right thing to do” rather than saving everyone in front of them. Yuji and Geto are very self involved individuals. They’re more focused on themselves. Yuji and Gojo both have this central goal of becoming the strongest, and for different reasons. Gojo because he’s such a staunch individualist whose goal is to be the best version of himself he can be, and Yuji because he needs that strength in order to save people. 

Gojo and Yuji are people who think about themselves first and foremost. Megumi and Geto are people very concerned with everyone around them. It’s Megumi and Geto who consider the consequences of their actions and how it will affect others. (Teenage Gojo) and Yuji tend to be quite irresponsible with their power. They want to be strong, but they don’t really think about how they want to use that power to impact the world around them. Because they as people are not overly concerned with the world. Yuji only thinks about saving people immediately in front of him, and Gojo mostly thniks about himself. 

It’s that old adage about power and repsonsibility. With great power comes great responsibility. However, the duos Megumi / Yuji and Geto / Gojo are both two halves of the same person. Gojo and Yuji are both the powerhouses of that duo, however it’s Geto and Megumi who are concerned with how to use that power responsibility for others. 

There are several parallels betwen Megumi and Geto. Starting with their Curse Techniques. Megumi and Geto both use summoned entities in order to fight for them while Gojo and Yuji are powerhouses who fight their enemies head on. Megumi and Geto summon powerful creatures to do most of the fighting for them. 

They both seem to be second strongest after their respective partners. Geto is second strongest after Gojo, and Megumi is second strongest after Yuji. However, at the same time it’s implied that both of them intentionally hold themselves back. That their cursed techniques could be used for much more than they are currently capable of. 

A ten shadows loser is capable of overpowering the limitless user with a six eyes. However, it’s implied by Gojo constantly that Megumi is someone who constantly holds himself back, because unlike Gojo his number one priority is not being the strongest. 

Geto at the same time is someone who is made out to be not as strong as Satoru Gojo, but at the same time, it seems someone like Getwo is way better at using his body to his full potential than he is. At the same time Getwo also comments that Geto would have won, if he had not ordered his forces to pull back. Geto lost because he’s more concerned with other people, Geto and Megumi are both people who hold themselves back because they prioritize people over themselves. 

As awful as Geto is. As wrongheaded. As much of a murderer he is. He’s not a selfish person who can sacrifice his family for the sake of his goal. If only he were a little more selfish, if only he loved people a little less, he probably would not have been broken by the world in the same way he did. One more important parallel between the two of them is unlike Gojo and Yuji, Megumi and Geto seem to be really aware of the harshness and unfairness of the world around them and really affected by it. 

Of course, Gojo is aware the Jujutsu world is corrupt too, and he’s affected by it in his own way, but he’s never pushed to a breaking point like Geto was. Gojo simply isn’t as invested in other people as Geto is, it doesn’t make Geto or Gojo better as a person it just makes them different and their priorities different. 

Geto and Megumi’s reflections of the world mirror one another. Their reflections of the world always revolve around the sentiment that the world is fundamentally unfair, no matter how just the two of them try to be. Remember, the key word for both of them is righteousness. They are responsible people who try and obsess over doing the right thing. 

Megumi refers to Jujutsu sorcerers as merely a cog in the system getting grinded down. Which is exactly what we witness happens to Geto. It’s because the fact that Jujutsu Sorcerers are treated as nothing more than disposable cogs in this great wide system, and they’re treated this way even as children that causes Geto to break to the extent that he does, becoming a broken cog. 

Merely doing their duty as a Jujutsu Sorcerer isn’t enough for either of them. Geto begins with believing that what he’s doing he’s doing out of a sense of duty. He begins believing that he’s doing the right thing. They both come to a question of who they are supposed to save as Jujutsu Sorcerers. However, Megumi and Geto both witness a complete innocent suffering. A person that they describe as a good person, a person that they tried to protect, only to fail to protect them and watch that person. For Geto it was Riko, for Megumi it was Tsumiki.

Geto witnessed Rika die just after he promised to protect her as the strongest. Megumi only accepted Gojo’s offer to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer in the future because he thought it would help give him money to take care of Tsumiki. They both try to protect someone, and fail, and it makes their efforts seem pointless. After that point they question what their role in things even is. It left them questioning everything. 

The final parallel between Geto and Megumi is that they’re both reasonable and rational on the surface. They’re both people always seeking a reason in things. It’s Geto of all people who is the person to tell Gojo that they can’t just do whatever they want because they’re powerful, they need responsibility, reason to chain their actions to. Geto becomes Gojo’s tether. Megumi is Yuji’s tether. In a way, both Gojo and Yuji were saved by their respective partners. Geto stopped Gojo from killing so many people, and Megumi saved Yuji at the beginning of the manga allowing him to become a cursed sorcerer rather than being executed right away at the start of the manga. However, at the same time both Megumi and Yuji have these deep and dark emotions unaddresssed that they can’t hold back with reasons. 

Geto and Megumi carry lots of dark emotions and hurt feelings inside of them, and rather than trying to deal with them they tend to repress them in order to keep appearing as the rational and responsible for one. However, on the flip side of things, it means that they both have a tendency to flip. The thing about repressing these very angry, and hurt emotions is that repressing them does not make them go away. It merely causes them to pile up until the weight becomes unbearable and they break. 

Geto and Megumi handle their emotions in the same way, and all of their hurt feelings tend to come from the same place. It’s not that Megumi and Geto hate people. In fact they love people. Megumi and Geto expect people to be much better than theyare. They expect the world to be a good place. ANd, when the world turns out to be not what they expected to be they’re not just disappointed they’re mad. 

Megumi believes in good, compassionate people. He feels the world should be kinder to good people, he believes those people should be allowed a little happiness. He wants to protect people like Yuji and his sister because he sees a goodness in them he can’t see in himself. Megumi, always sees the best in the people he meets, that’s why he’s disappointed when he’s faced with the worst of them. 

The same way that Megumi belives in good people, Geto believes in his connections to his comrades and to other people. Geto goes about it the wrong way entirely, but what he wants from the bottom of his heart is just a world where jujutsu sorcerers don’t have to be killed as teenagers. He, just like Yuji, wants the world to be a better place then it is currently. It’s just Geto has taken radical action to make that chane, whereas Megumi is fighting small battles one fight at a time. 

They’re both characters whose hearts are in the right places. They both have good intentions. However, the unchecked emotions of both characters makes Geto a bomb, and Megumi a land mine waiting to explode. As good as they are, they’re full of dangerous bad feelings. They’re both living embodiments of the phrase “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” 

Geto represents the dangerous person that Megumi could become, while at the same time his partnership with Gojo shows what Megumi can make of himself if he opens himself to others. Geto decided to leave and try to fix the world on his own. Geto decided to try to hold all that weight on his shoulders until he broke, and then he broke away from Gojo. Geto and Gojo were clearly set up as a duo. They were meant to find balance with one another. However, they just couldn’t be together. They were both too busy trying to save the world alone, they didn’t know how to be together, and didn’t know how to be kids. 

Megumi and Yuji are another strongest duo. Another second to chance to find the balance between each other that Gojo and Geto couldn’t find. Megumi is seriously off balance, and doesn’t know how to balance saving people with his sense of righteousness but that’s what Yuji is for. The two of them have the potential to break part like Gojo and Geto did, but they also have the potential to find true balance in one another. 

#megumi fushigoro #fushigoro megumi #suguru geto #geto suguru #getou suguru #suguru getou #itadori yuji #itafushi #satosugu #jjk meta #jujutsu kaisen meta #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen theory #jujutsu kaisen daily #jjkdaily

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The Volturi are the good guys and Bella is the up-and-coming villain

I’m on my computer for this as I know it might be long, but bear with me (insert Emmett pun here) 🐻

So wait - the Volturi are the good guys? But didn’t SM write them as the bad guys? 

Well, yes, SM did write Aro and co in as the antagonists of the series, but bear in mind that originally she didn’t write most of New Moon to happen, or the entirety of Eclipse. There was Twilight and Forever Dawn, which we’ll sadly never read. Her vision of the Volturi and their role as the evil villains who wanted to separate Edward and Bella became distorted as she had to flesh them out more and show their role as the governing body.

Then she wrote the Illustrated Guide and revealed their history and the horrors of the world without their authority; with the Romanians being as brutal as they were, the constant terror humans lived with and the fracturing of the world into many unstable and violent vampire-ruled empires (plus with way more children of the moon running about, probably as far west as - at least - central Europe). 

When the Volturi were coming to power they were laughed at with the idea of their law, a significant reason the Romanians didn’t take them seriously. But now they are extremely popular.

This isn’t just because Aro created vampires to go out and sing his praises. Volturi rule has been a blessing for both humans and vampires.

For humans it’s the obvious: they are not living their lives in fear, they are not subject to massacres (except if caught in newborn warzones), their population has been able to grow and expand, modern medicine and technology have been able to flourish, society is much more stable, people need to flee areas much less (if ever) so they can stay put and complete research/live to meet their grandkids/etc, and not have to serve a vampire in the local castle. 

For vampires it’s actually quite similar: with the human population growing to as large as it is today when at the time the Volturi came to power it was (estimated to be) only 210 million globally, vampires have been able to grow to even greater numbers also, and feed more often than before. If a vampire 2000 years ago killed 5 people in a town it would be an outrage the humans would certainly have noticed, however kill 5 people in a place as big as London, LA, Paris, Singapore, Bucharest... it would likely not be noticed very much, if at all (depending on who you kill).  

Humans like to measure things in percentages. Those 5 people is a huge number to a town of 2000 - that’s 0.25% of the whole town’s population. It would be talked about, and relatives of the dead/missing would all know each other. Yet kill those 5 in a city of 12 million (as is London), that’s only 0.00004167% of the population. And chances are, the dead humans’ families don’t even live in the area (or could be in another country entirely) never mind know each other to realise there was a mass murder.

So vampires, as long as they hide from humans, as is the only law (besides no immortal children or consorting with werewolves), they have a lot more freedom nowadays than they did before the times of the Volturi. There are so many people that they can easily get lost in a crowd, move internationally, and not be pressured for allegiance by a local vampire warlord (before meeting Aro, Caius ran afoul of the Romanians, and he barely escaped with his life).

With there only being one authority, and one that does not interfere with your day-to-day life, is a dream come true. As long as they don’t break this law that is very easy to abide by, they can do whatever the f*** they want.

Carlisle would have never been able to get a job as a doctor if he was known to be a vampire, nor could any of the Cullens have entered education of any form. They’d be stuck sneaking into libraries after closing, and googling. Edward would have never met Bella (neither would Edward’s ancestors have immigrated to America - in fact, Europeans may have never discovered America in the first place. The whole Cullen coven aside from Carlisle might never have been born).

So what the Volturi have done (despite many of them having not-so-savoury personalities corrupted by hunger for power or violence) is bring peace to the world, get rid of tyrants, increase the food supply, allow a greater amount of freedom, and the first kind of trials and justice ever seen in their world. Sure, Aro uses trials to find new talent, but it’s still a world away from before.

Which leads me on to the events of Breaking Dawn, and Bella.

So. Maybe controversial, but: the Volturi did absolutely nothing wrong in Breaking Dawn.

They turned up thinking a serious crime had been committed. They stopped to talk (which Vladimir certainly never would have done!), considered the evidence and processed new discoveries and discussed their legality, decided there was no crime to punish, and left with only the informant dead. Yes, Irina had been innocent in the way that she strongly had believed she had been telling the truth and her memories must have presented good enough evidence to Aro initially, but their witnesses had come to see justice being served, and in the vampire world that is execution. Aro could have continued with prosecuting the Cullens for something he now knew was false, or execute Irina instead.

(Side note: she did kind of deserve it too. She didn’t bother to check her evidence, she wanted revenge for Laurent’s death so her accusation wasn’t coming from a place of good intentions but instead she was willing to have her friends and family killed for Laurent. She was also forcing Aro into a position where he had to prepare himself to kill Carlisle, whom we know he cherishes. Remember also that Aro turned down Laurent’s application to the Guard because he’d followed the Romanians for a while, so he won’t have been entirely trusting of Irina anyway, her having been Laurent’s mate).

Anyway. Onto Bella.

So Aro’s impression of Bella after New Moon seems to be positive. Why? Well, through Edward’s thoughts he saw that Bella was able to keep The Secret. He had heard how much she wanted to be a vampire. In addition, Marcus showed him how strong Edward and Bella’s bond is. Both of them knew, that if E & B’s love was almost as strong as Marcus and Didyme’s, that no matter what Edward currently said or thought about Bella being turned it was invalid. If Bella were dying, he would turn her for sure, which happened. Then the obvious, that Edward had already proven he could not live without her.

Bella was trustworthy and probably going to be turned. Alice showing proof was just a formality so Aro could say he had evidence rather than admit he’d just made assumptions (and Alice having had that vision may act as proof that his assumption was correct).

Therefore, from Aro’s perspective, Bella was a human who wanted to become immortal so much that she would rather die than not, and she was already following his law. She was no issue. 

Yet.

Bella, knowing the law, should have been very grateful that she was left alive. Edward not being executed and she not being killed or forcibly turned on the spot... Aro had been very nice to them.

And again, in BD, he was very nice to them. Some people will inevitably say that he was weak in not killing them all. I mean, they stood beside Vladimir and Stefan! They have an army of wolves fundamentally opposed to vampires! Aro has lost Good Reputation Points by sparing the Cullens. He held as close to a trial as vampire society has ever had, and rightfully pronounced the Cullens innocent.

So shouldn’t Bella like him? He has spared her life and the lives of her loved ones more than one, and proven that he can be spoken to and conversed with properly and is willing to admit he was wrong. With Aro, we know it’s important to look more at what he does than what he says, and what he has done is be very kind to the Cullens (though who knows about the future?).

Yet Bella was creeped out by him when they met and interpreted him as a threat to Edward’s life. As she loves Edward, she’s always going to be of this mind, and first impressions are important.

Vampires are stuck with the mindsets they had when turned. An example of this is Esme, who was turned after her baby died and she tried to die too. She is permanently feeling maternal. She was turned only days after giving birth. Before knowing this, Bella even describes her as maternal and the mother of the family. Huilen also has a lot of care for Nahuel, being his aunt, because of her love for Pire, and while she was dying, Pire begged Huilen to raise him. Joham does not seem to have this parental love for his son and daughters; he never really knew Pire and was never affected by her love for Nahuel, and did not meet him until years after he was born. He’s only genetically a parent. He doesn’t have the protective mindset. When he was turned, he was a curious scientist (in fact, it was even why his creator turned him). He sees the world and people as things to study.

Anyway.

When Bella was turned, all she was thinking about was Renesmee. She begged Edward to get the baby out and didn’t care for her own life.

And she will be forever stuck in this high alert, must-protect-my-baby mode. Then for weeks as a newborn vampire, she was thinking of Aro as a threat and preparing to fight him. Compounding that, he was a threat to her daughter.

Both of these things will have had a significant effect on who she will have become after her newborn phase ended. It is impossible for Bella to ever like Aro now, even if she tried.

Her dislike of him, and willingness to fight against him, will be forever engrained in her brain.

This is dangerous.

Bella found the Romanians weird, but she didn’t dislike them per se. She would probably be willing to stand with them against the Volturi again.

We can take an educated guess and assume that sometime they will rise up again - and Bella might stand with them (though I highly doubt any of the other Cullens would).

Bella was not a problem for Aro until she stood beside Vladimir and Stefan. 

Here is this vampire who can block most of his coven’s gifts, stuck with an intense dislike of him, who he has seen with his own eyes stand with his enemies. He has every right to be nervous now. Her love for her mate is almost as strong as Marcus’s bond to Didyme - how strong is her bond to Renesmee? Likely more. Aro knows the threat in that. He knows that Bella may be viewing him in the way Marcus feels when he thinks of taking revenge on whoever killed Didyme.

Nobody wants the Romanians back in power. Those who lived under their reign and those who have heard first hand stories told to them all know very well that life under Vladimir would be horrible, brutal, awful for all beside his close coven members (though considering he had a very large coven that was often squabbling amongst itself, it was probably miserable for a lot of them too).

But Bella is young. She has no memory of the world before the Volturi, and knows no one with first hand experience of that world other than the Volturi. She will have heard that it was horrible, but she has no emotional or personal connection to the near-ancient past, and vampires who lived during that time are disappearing. No one lives forever.

Then, she is American. Like Garrett, she values freedom, and the Volturi are the only oppressive vampire force either of them has ever known. Despite them being the least oppressive in vampire history, Bella and Garrett haven’t experienced the alternative. They are a government that is at times harsh, is corrupt, and executes people. They go to war and they obliterate their enemies. Bella doesn’t see that the Volturi is the least bad government her world is ever going to get, and that they’ve granted her so much freedom. She is unable to see that because, in her youth, she has nothing to compare them against.

By standing against the Volturi, Bella isn’t just standing against Aro, Caius, and Marcus. She is standing against the peace they have brought between vampires, against humans living without fear, against modern civilisation itself. She stands a representative of the next world order, and Aro can sense it.

#bella swan #bella cullen #aro volturi #volturi #the volturi #the volturi coven #volturi coven #edward cullen #esme cullen #pire twilight #huilen twilight #nahuel twilight #Joham twilight #garrett twilight #irina twilight #Irina Denali #carlisle cullen #cullen family #cullen coven #THETWILIGHTSAGA #twilgihtsaga #twilightsagaedit #twilight renaissance #twilight revival #twilight renewal #twilight resurgance

[norman891]

Little Children DO love Hook! (some never stop loving him)

A lie has been perpetrated for years, by literature, plays, and films. And I am tired of it. Peter is not the sweet, fun-loving, innocent child Disney and others would have us believe.  So, I’m here to dispel the myth, the lie… that no little children love Captain Hook. That is not true. I did, still do. I’ll bet many of you do also, even though we’re not little children anymore.

Pan fits the definition of the classic narcissistic sociopath. He doesn’t care if what he wants to do is good or evil, playful or harmful, it’s all about Peter’s immediate gratification. It doesn’t matter whether he’s basically kidnapping children from this world and taking them to Neverland because he wants friends or someone to take care of him or killing (thinning out) lost boys who have begun to grow up, or murdering (yes, murdering) a pirate for sport. I don’t believe Peter is nearly as innocent as history and Hollywood would have us believe. He is utterly lacking in compassion for anyone. Cruel acts are merely jokes to him, with no thought given to the consequences, the pain, and suffering his sport has caused  

Because of this, Peter is every bit as dangerous, wicked, and treacherous as Hook is at his worst, yet people give him a pass because he’s a child and supposedly doesn’t know any better. He is still painted as the hero even though Barrie himself stated that he never intended for Peter to be a heroic figure.

I despised Peter Pan with as much fervor as I loved Captain Hook, as I still love Hook. Obviously, more a few people along the way thought I was weird: my classmates, my friends, and even my parents. But I didn’t care, still don’t and I’m almost fifty-seven now, not the little five-year-old boy who cried when Mom read me J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” and read the line: Thus perished James Hook.  I’m the grown man who still gets a knot in his stomach when I’m watching the 2003 version and Hook goes to the crocodile. I literally grieve for someone who does not exist.

I am positively obsessed with the character, the man. Yes, he is a wicked pirate, a very dangerous man even before Peter Pan committed mayhem upon him and hacked (Yes, hacked) his right hand off and fed it to a gargantuan crocodile, along with a clock ensuring Hook is in a state of constant torment. I’ll acknowledge that Hook is an extremely violent, treacherous, devious man. Conversely, he is a gentleman, elegant, a connoisseur of art and music, a man of feelings. He is also a very lonely man, desperately so. He is isolated and friendless, maybe by design, maybe not. And he is also very fragile in his own way. He is just able to keep it together most of the time in front of his crew and Pan. I realize he is unstable, but I believe that is through no fault of his own.

Try to put yourself in Captain Hook’s boots. Try to imagine the pain, the agony, the terror at watching your hand mangled and crudely amputated as a prank. Try to feel the fear of bleeding out, of dying; the accompanying infection and fevers, the pain of repeated debridement of the wound, the shock at realizing your body is not complete anymore. Not to mentions the sheer humiliation that all this is the work of a ten-to twelve-year-old boy who taunts you mercilessly, and everyone knows it.

Add to that, Hook now has the crocodile to deal with, something I consider even more cruel than the amputation. He has no escape from the beast, not a moment of peace, not even in his sleep. So, he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety attacks, and has probably had several nervous breakdowns due to all the distress he has suffered at the hands of the eternal boy, Peter Pan. If he was not insane before arriving in Neverland, Peter had certainly driven him quite mad. It’s a wonder the man didn’t commit suicide or at least try – but James Hook does not give up. He will have his revenge, his justice. He has the tenacity of a terrier (If you’ve ever had a Jack Russell Terrier, you’ll understand). Living in both physical and mental pain and anguish, Hook fights relentlessly. I admire that.

Somehow, we who loved Hook as children, and understand him and his motives, picked up on all this when we were but children. I think that makes us all special. We were not odd, confused children. We were, and still are, enlightened. We recognized true evil when we saw it, regardless of how Hollywood and literature tried to tell us otherwise. We saw and see Hook for what he was at his core: a lonely, damaged, frail man who refuses to give up no matter how many times Peter cheats him out of his victory or leaves him utterly humiliated. We had compassion for that man when so many had none, and I think that makes us pretty awesome.

#captain hook #no little children love me #peter pan #children do love captain hook

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Ugh. Kingsmen goes on again with the “Kaiser was a mad warmonger who wanted and started the war almost all by himself” myth. I didn’t mind the movie making the three royal cousins all the same age to have them playing as children for dramatic and comedic effect but the German villainy cliche was disappointing. Not surprising, mind you, just disappointing. Unlike WWII, WWI was not completely the Germans’ fault.

-Also, ignoring the Nicky-Willy correspondence to make it seem as if Tsar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm hadn’t cared nor tried to stop the war. I am obviously not saying they did nearly enough or everything they could have but they were not indifferent buffoons either. They literally have a fictional secret society made up of rich war profiteers in the freaking movie as the villain, why the hell is it not used more to explain the origins of the war?

-And of course only the English and their monarch are super innocent angels here because of course they are. The historically accurate British concentration camps in South Africa at the beginning of the movie were just an “opsie” footnote.

-Also, Rasputin tried to warn the Tsar AGAINST that awful shitstorm of a war. He helped the poor and Jewish people, who were awfully oppressed in the Russian Empire. Other than loving to fuck, which might have even been greatly exaggerated according to some historians, he was a generally decent guy. But I guess he looks creepy or whatever and makes for a good villain so who cares if it would have been way cooler to subvert the audience’s expectations with a historically accurate twist.

Again, disappointed but not surprised.

I am only halfway through so I might be pleasantly surprised in the end.

-Also, fuck them if they don’t use their goofy historically inaccurate mumbo jumbo to make it so the ninja Kingsmen save the Romanov children from being murdered in the end, I swear…. like, I doubt it but if you are going to be historically inaccurate you should use your historical inaccuracy for good (Don’t mind me I am just an OTMAA fan, I doubt they are going to appear much in the movie anyway but still, I am salty already about the fact their fates won’t be mentioned).

Loving the concept and the aesthetics though. A Kingsmen movie set in WWI? Sign me up. The two father and son characters are likeable so far as well.

Edit: Oh, so now the villains are villains for trying to take Russia out of the war? A poor country who had lost thousands of soldiers and was barely prepared for that carnage? Seriously? Who wrote this, early 20th century “Rasputin and the Empress are lovers and German spies!!!” Russian yellow press propagandists? Also, the Russians literally marched for bread and peace during the February revolution, now they are coincidentally on the side of the villains without meaning to or what? Such a bad message in my opinion…

On the other hand, very good concept with the father not wanting his son to go to war because he is traumatized by it. Just subtle criticism of colonialism but something is something. Already invested in this.

Too bad so far they haven’t committed enough to the pacifist message even though WWI movies are a perfect opportunity to do so. Like seriously, it is all about ENGLAND and how it is bad for Russia to be out of the war because it affects ENGLAND negatively and who cares about the Russian peasants dying I guess because the Scottish villain hates ENGLAND and only wants to destroy ENGLAND. This when the first victims of the war were the Serbians. I think it would have made more sense if the villain had been trying to destroy all European powers, and even going with the “sympathetic villain” angle this would have made sense since Russia, England, France, Austro-Hungary and Germany all held colonies or at least oppressed people of other ethnicities. It would make sense that someone who has been a victim of imperialism would want to destroy all nations involved in it even if by immoral means such as war that kills common people and not the actual culprits. Another option would be putting emphasis on how much money arms’ dealers with zero allegiances make during wartime and how sometimes they pull strings in the government or influence the public in favor of war for this very reason.

This, however, is far too complex and wouldn’t allow the writers to single out Germany as the sole villain or use their accents for villainous comedic relief so I guess not…

Edit 2: And of course, the absolute myth that the Tsar was even considering pulling out of the war *eye rolls* Tsar Nicholas believed in the allied cause wholeheartedly. He was a honorable fool.  Almost real life’s version of Ned Stark. Often said to have been a good man but a bad leader.  He would have never done that. 

"Reality is more interesting than fiction" is a bullshit lie repeated by many angry historians whenever they review historically inaccurate movies or series, but in this case it might very well be true. Alexei's very real hemophilia and the fascinating mystery of how Rasputin managed to either heal his attacks or convince Alexandra he was capable of doing so is replaced in this movie with Rasputin poisoning the poor child on purpose to "evily" *checks notes* convince Nicholas to pull Russia out of a bloody war that had little to do with Russia, was being fought for typical "muh honor" reasons, had already killed thousands of peasant and working class Russian soldiers, and would soon turn the nation into a starving chaotic mess in part due to the fact its transportation system failed because of the ongoing conflict. Too ridiculous to bear.

A little side note away from the main topic but after this I don’t want more pop historians or college dissertations saying that Alexei “muh unfairly received much more attention than his poor sidelined-by-history female sisters who are the only ones truly in need of having their stories told!!” Like seriously, the poor kid was such a kind soul, especially later in life, but most only know him for being sick and “causing” the revolution almost all by himself with his illness (Which is of course simplistic and dumb), having beautiful and much more talked about older sisters, being a plot device in pieces of fiction such as this, and being spoilt and bratty as a small child, something thousands of children as well as his much more popular sister Anastasia also were without being villainized or sidelined for it.  Being reduced to your chronic illness and even then having the effects it had on yourself ignored and instead having everyone focus on how it made everything bad for OTHER people by historians is hardly “receiving attention” or “having your story told”.  They ALL should have their stories told thank you very much.

Ok, end of side note.

Of fucking course they are not going to mention how Saint England, the hero of this story, refused the Tsar and his family assylum after the revolution despite him having been a faithful and committed ally to England throughout the entire war who even refused a separate peace with Germany because that would not have been "honorable" without the English being involved. The English pretty much used him and his nation for man power and then abandoned him and labeled him a "weak" leader once he was no longer useful.

Of course they are not going to mention Germany's peace offers. Did they have some harsh conditions? Sure, the Germans were as stubburn and guilty and full of shit. Could it have been worth it to give those peace offers a chance so that the war had been cut short and thousands of lives spared? I don't know. Fucking maybe.

Also, it is funny because there is a conspiracy theory that says the English intelligence did indeed have something to do with Rasputin's murder because they feared he would try to convince the Tsar to pull out of the war. But I guess here they are the heroes for doing so. So much for an anti-war movie.

Also 2. Lenin was the one who in fact did everything he could to take Russia out of the war, helped by the Germans, who British writers love to make villains of, AND he was an even more morally dubious character than Rasputin. But he is also loved even today and it would have been far too controversial to make him a villain (And *cough* *cough* he was not "scary" looking enough) so I bet the writers didn't DARE to go there.

I beg you writers, if you want villains with creepy German accents for your goofy spy action movies, please, please, set your movie in WWII or at least in Belgium or German South West Africa. Very few people know about the Herero genocide by the German colonialists.

Edit 3: Also, I know what you are thinking. No, I don't care this is a goofy Kingsmen action movie that is not trying to be serious nor historically accurate. I know they are mainly trying to be entertaining. They could have been that AND chosen better WHERE to place the inaccuracies and creative liberties to make for a better story. Just as goofy and with as many unrealistic action sequences or unlikely scenes where the main characters meet real historical ones, which I love, but with more substance and a better message. This just doesn't do it for me for reasons already mentioned, and it is not like the moviemakers were not to some degree trying to have substance. The main characters dig at imperialism, greed and its role in war is hinted at, etc. But it is not enough, it is so sloppily and half-way done I would have preferred for the movie to be a straight up comedy or parody, which it wasn't, it simply wasn't because there were themes hidden in there that the writers didn't fully commit to because the plot just didn't help.

Edit 4: That Rasputin scene was funny and creepy in a good way, I don't doubt he was an unsettling individual to be around even in real life. Too bad the set up was dumb as hell. The "heroes" being "heroes" for trying to murder a man who is trying to stop the war (I know he did more than that and his objectives are others here in the movie but you get what I mean, the message is bad, stupid and it is very disturbing the writers chose this plot path considering the very real theory that exists involving the British intelligence in Rasputin's murder).

I am a sucker so loved the fight choreography though, it was unbelievable and AMAZING, and the concern the son had for his almost murdered father was moving. I really do dig the characters. This review is me basically whining about the movie's wasted potential.

Edit 5: Ok, spoke too early. There is Lenin, omg this is so goofy lol.

Edit 6: It rubs me the wrong way how they talk about "saving lives" when literally all they are doing is either pulling more countries into the war or stopping others from leaving that mess. That is literally all they are doing. Helping win the war? Sure they are! Saving lives? That is VERY debatable. Where are the peace negotiations? Where are the actual attempts to infiltrate the Germans and convince them, to ask them for a cease fire? Where is the Red Cross work the main character did at the beginning of the movie? This is what I don't like about this movie. The Kingsmen are supposedly the first independant intelligence agency. Why the hell then are all their actions in service of the government? I get still taking into account England's interests before everything, that is their country after all, but for a suposedly independant organization they sure don't think outside the box nor do anything different from what other agencies would.

The worst part is the inconsistent anti war montage of Conrad training for the army. What is the point of that if they have already established the Kingsmen are doing nothing for peace negotiations and that the only way for the war to stop is for the allies to win?

Also, as a Mexican, the drama of the Zimmermann telegram scene makes me laugh out loud because we were in the middle of a Civil War back then, we were so not a threat to the United States lol.

Edit 7: Nice action scenes. Good. Stick to that lol.

Also, good on them for showing the side effects of war. Conrad, baby :(

Edit 8: Super spoiler ahead. More spoilery than all the spoilers I have already given lol.

Wow, they actually made one of the main characters die. Heartbreaking and not at all what I wanted for the character, who had potential, but all things considered, the only brave and realistic choice the movie has made so far.

The father's reaction was sad as well.

Still annoyed by the mixed messages. There is no glory in war they say, except all the main characters have tried to do is win, not stop the war by trying any means at hand, which includes working on peace offers.

Edit 9: No way Lenin himself is the one who makes Nicholas abdicate. This is "History: Youtube comment version."

It is like they are trying to be historically inaccurate on purpose at this point, and not because it serves an important purpose in the story, whether dramatically or comedically, but because it makes it simpler. Why not have a character briefly explain what actually happened in Russia then? How there were food shortages and riots, Nicholas's train was stopped by the generals who didn't want him anymore, the Provisional Government was formed and fell in less than a year when Lenin took power during a coup, etc. I will say it again, this movie is so goofy, and I know it was realistic and portrayed the horrors of war accurately, but after Conrad's death the heart of the movie, which was the father-son relationship, is gone. I don't really look forward to seeing what happens next but I will do it because I hate leaving movies unfinished.

Edit 10: This movie should be called: "American interventionism is good, actually".

Edit 11: More action scenes, sniper girl and machete action guy, yay! STICK TO THAT!!

Edit 12: And we are on to the villain reveal, which is meh. Generic but not bad. Would have been so much more satisfying in a better movie.

Edit 13: In the end the villain is killed by the main character, which mind you, I don't care about those stupid "If you kill murderers, torturers and abusers then you are just like them" bullshit kid's show sermons, but in this movie they made it a clear attack against pacifism. So weird.

Yay, thousands of Americans are going to die now in a war thousands of miles away that has nothing to do with them, what a happy ending!! *eye rolls*

I am just so underwhelmed with this film, I guess it is because I expected so much from it. Silly me.

I recommend it though. Nice action. Wish it had remained a full action-comedy/parody but instead it is a film that doesn't even know what its fucking genre is. It is irreverent and pokes fun at history one second and then the next they are trying but failing to take imperialism and war profiteering seriously. They have scenes where they humanize the Germans and the main character criticizes the Versailles Treaty in the end but the thought of a mission to negotiate with or infiltrate them never even crossed the main characters' minds throughout the movie. In a serious historically accurate war movie I can see why not, but this is what a good use of artistic liberty would actually be.

The main kid just fucking dies and I understand now why I hate it so much other than the fact I generally hate main character deaths: This is not a serious WWI film. It can't freaking decide whether it wants to take the historical aspect of its plot seriously. This is supposed to be an action film with unrealistic yet satisfying battle scenes where the heroes always win, and it is most of the time, so why doesn't it go through with that promise? The death wouldn't have bothered me as much if they had also tried to be a serious historical movie that makes use of artistic license ONLY when it serves the story and not just as a "lol we are also a parody of WWI leaders btw" , but they didn't, because they didn't take the historical aspect seriously enough and so the tragic character death seems out of place, a freaking joke even at first, and almost a red herring in this goofy historically inaccurate unrealistic-action-sequences-packed movie where the Tsar, the Kaiser and the King are played by the same actor just for the lols.

Plus the father says there is no glory in war because his kid died and then the next second they are celebrating the fact American kids will die as well (yay?). Which one is it? The inaccuracies are there for no reason because most aren't even funny, honest mistakes, ~cough they aren't self indulgently used to save OTMAA cough~, or even serve a purpose in the story.

Someone needs to write a fix it fic because this had so much freaking potential. Conrad has to live though.

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Dark Side Of The Moon Ch. 2 - Dark! Loki x Reader

Chapter 2: “On The Run”

Chapter Summary: Even though you can’t help feeling drawn to the lunatic that looks like your deceased lover, you try to surpress your feelings and flee to find your friends.

Warnings: Loki is fucking crazy, Violence, Torture, Jotun! Loki, Mentions of Death, Abuse, Unhealthy Relationship, Mentions of Rape

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“And the shark, it has tears,

And they run down its face.

But the shark lives in the water -

So the teardrops one can’t see.”

- Rammstein - Haifisch

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“She died through my hands.”

That sentence replayed over and over in your head, forming a continuous loop as you silently formed those words with your own lips.

“It’s not him!” you called out to yourself, since your reason had seemingly disappeared ever  since you first saw the person that was a perfect copy of the man you once loved.

You were rolling around on the bare floor, shivering as you softly punched your head to not get lost in thought again. The emperor didn’t even have the basic decency to give you any clothes back, only having the Citauri throw you into an old dungeon to keep you prisoner - or whatever he’d plan to do with you.

That man was so different of your Loki.

And the timeline both of you were currently in had exceeded your worst expectations, making you wonder if fate just wanted to torment you.

In this universe, Thanos never even got so far as to collect all of the Infinity Stones. Loki Laufeyson had won the battle of New York and took over this world, then somehow double-crossed and killed the Titan. So right now, he possessed the power of the Tesseract, as well as the Cascet of Ancient Winters. For what reason he kept that Jotun relic was unknown, probably out of nostalgic sentiment you assumed.

Afterwards, the God of Mischief had killed his brother Thor in bad blood, as well as torturing Natasha - the exact way he threatened her back in your world, when he was in his cell. Clint was still his servant, as it seemed. You had seen him when they took you to his cell.

He couldn’t get rid of all the Avengers, however - even though their current location was unknown. They were in hiding for many years now, probably trying to get their hands on the other Infinity Stones. 

Also noticeable was the fact that this universe had neither Hela, nor Captain Marvel - so one good and one bad thing to compensate for each other. Not that they’d be a match for Loki in his current form anyway...

And there was no Dr. Strange on this version of Earth, your last bit hope to escape disappearing as you learned about this fact.

That much was all you had learned by now, mainly through tricking and manipulating some of your guards into giving you information.

All in all, you only knew for sure was that this world’s Loki was a terribly trong, murderous sociopath, intoxicated by power and loneliness.

And you had become the focus of the little emotion left in him.

It was hard trying to surpress all the voices and memory submerging in your mind. So there was nothing left for you except for rolling up into a ball, lying on the cold floor as you prepared to be washed over with sadness and guilt once again.

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“Would you help me recieve the greatest honor by becoming mine and mine only, Lady Y/N?”

How could you ever forget this moment?

Back on the Asgardian refugee ship, your Loki had asked you that very question, now popping up in your mind once again.

Every detail was still as bright as daylight, preserved deep into your heart.

You clearly remembered the small, green box he had summoned out of thin air, presenting you a plain but still incredibly beautiful ring. The golden piece of jewlery formed a snake eating itself - a symbol of infinity and wholeness.

It was just his way of being thoughtful.

“I-I prepared this a while go, to be precize...but I never thought of being worthy” he had stammered and you found yourself speechless, admiring that very scene playing in front of your eyes. “A-Anyway, after all that happened, I realized that all moments I spent happy, were when I was with you. I don’t want to lose you again, Y/N! And I feared, well...that it might be too late to ask someday.”

It was most unjust that this most blissful moment would be interrupted by a great rumbling shaking through the whole spaceship - and even before Thor would crash Loki’s proposal, both of you were aware just what kind of danger you would have to face soon:

Thanos.

Your numbers had already been decimated by Ragnarok, all that’s left being some civilian refugees, injured and traumatized. The only ones capable of fighting left were Loki, Thor, Heimdall, you and the Hulk.

Yet all of your struggles were to no avail, only able to watch and scream and bag at the Titan, so he’d at least spare those innocent lives as he mercilessly slaughtered woman and children alike.

“Fucking monster!” Pulling out a gun, your mind went completely blank as you gave it some last, desperate attempt to save or avenge just anyone.

No bullet would even come close enough to pierce his skin, as Ebony Maw would deflect them to hit yourself and people close to you. “I’m not the only one you should see responsible for this outcome” Thanos scoffed.

“What do you mea-” Your voice got swallowed by a pained groan as you saw Loki, kneeling in front of Thanos and revealing the one thing he was after:

The Tesseract.

“You......took it?!?” The only thing managing to escape your throat was a high-pitched yell as Loki’s face contorted in disappointment and regret - just now realizing that he had put you all in danger.

They would’ve never went after you if it wasn’t for him. He had doomed his race, failed you and what was left of his family.

“How could you put us all in danger?! I thought you had changed! You swore it with your life, Loki! That you loved me more than you desired power!”

No answer.

Instead, the god would prepare one of his speeches, directing words of undying fidelity at Thanos and his arms. And even though it was meant to be lies, a play to make the threat feel save, every single word hit your heart like knives.

“How could I ever marry someone like you?!” feeling as if Loki most recent, selfish act was suffocating you, you could only whisper - yet he understood very clearly, the facade dropping in an instant.  “I-I hate you...traitor...”

If only you knew that those would be the last words you’d ever direct at him...

Loki materializes a dagger, desperately trying to make up for his biggest mistake yet, and at least save you, the light of his cursed existence, and the only thing he had ever done in his life full of wrongs.

But Thanos looked right through the charade from the very beginning, using the stones to trap Loki in their hold - and then, grabbing the god’s throat.

“You have what you want, Thanos!” Thor tried to bargain, “There’s even less than half of my race left. Please, just let us go!”

“Oh, I will” he spoke stony, then shifting his attention to the god in his hands. “But first, I’ll do you a favor and erase that disgraceful pest all of you were too weak to take care of.”

As he was struggling for air, gasping uncontrollably as he tried to free his neck from the Giant, Loki’s glare wandered to you - and when your eyes met, both of your hearts skipped a beat.

He smiled. In the face of death, the last thing he wanted you to remember was the good things after all.

And seeing the ring on your finger, how couldn’t he? Loki knew you were about to say yes - and knowing this was more than enough for someone like him.

After all, the God of Mischief was used to happiness being taken away from him as soon as he thought it to be okay to open up to someone.

But you were safe. That’s all that counted for him!

It was like his eyes were telling you “It’s gonna be alright. I’m sorry, Y/N...I love you.”

You don’t remember much after that, having a mental breakdown as you had to watch the love of your life perish - and forever thinking about how you had turned him down just seconds before.

A part of you had died with him back then.

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The creaking sound of the cell’s door made you jump from your dream - but the person which entered was one you had never seen before.

A monster.

It’s silhouette very much resembled Loki, yet his skin was painted in a dark shade of blue, with thin linings carved across his whole body. He had fangs and even horns coming out of his temple to add at that.

The beast’s eyes were shining in a threatening red, glistering contrastful in the dark hallway. But the worst were those black irises, absent of any form of compassion - there seemed to be only rage, confusion and hate.

“Fuck!” you screamed, terrified and fearing for your life. Shuffling until your back hit the wall of a corner of the room, you defendingly put your arms in front of yourself. “Go away! Don’t to-ouch me!”

Loki cleared his voice as he put the Casket away, not making any efforts to revert his outer appearance back to ‘normal’. He had admired it on his way to your cell, like he’d do many times a day when he was reminiscing about the day he learned about his heritage...

...and how he had killed Odin, his adoptive father, with that very relic, afterwards clearing the universe of that despiseful race of the Jotunn - making him the last of his kind.

“Oh my” a dark voice finally declared, “Seems like ‘your’ Loki never dared to show you his true form. Pathetic.”

No, that wasn’t completely true. Your lover had at least told you back then. But when did you ever have the time to talk things over and heal, being dragged from one fight to another?!

The Jotunn felt great joy as he towered over you, gleefully watching your naked body cowering to his knees, covered in goosebumps and shaking heavily. Your breath was clearly visible while you tried to cover your shame as best as you could, wary glare never leaving the abomination that was just lurking right in front of you.

“Wha- OUCH!” you hissed as the Frost Giant took ahold of your wrist, monitoring the pain spreading across your face as his touch would frostburn any skin he was touching with ease.

Loki grinned menacingly as he let go off of you, admiring his handywork as the first layer of your skin had already died, crumbling away to reveal your pink flesh.

“Oh, how I missed that” he explained, much to your surprise ripping a piece of his own clothing apart to cover the wound with it. “Your kind is so easily broken. It’s always fascinating to watch.”

“Just kill me already, you freak!”

Well, Loki had in fact spent hours after hours thinking about how to handle you, and yet he couldn’t decide. Obviously he would’ve killed you right away if it was otherwise, but he still had a soft spot for you somewhere deep in his heart, after all.

And it upset him more than he’d ever admit. So he tried to assert his dominance, to ease the feeling of weakness and loss of control.

“I’m only doing you a favor, woman.” The god would touch your cheek, making you flinch away - but this time, it wouldn’t hurt. Never would he dare to scar this most beautiful face!

“The man you loved was just the same as me, yet it seemed he wasn’t completely honest with you. What you are seeing right now is the form of a Frost Giant...the monstrosity you chose to love.”

“L-Loki…”

It was no surprise that he saw tears filling the rim of your eyes - yet out of a whim, you pulled your arms around his neck, tears wetting his robe. He gasped, unable to act in any way as he stiffened in the pose.

That was by far not the reaction he had been expecting - and he surprised you as well. You had thought him to instantly shove you away, beat you agaib or even bite - but he just kneeled there, not daring to make a move.

"Why?” Now his voice was much softer, pained even. “I’m a monster. I hurt you. So why?”

“I’m so sorry” you whimpered, words being interrupted by heavy sobbing. “I try to fight it, I really do. But I just can’t, I-I”

“Aren’t you afraid?”

“How could I be? It’s you, Loki...no matter what you look like.” Eventually, you’d face him again, wiping the tears out of your face when for another moment, you made yourself forget that this was a completely different person. “I was just surprised, that’s all. Letting me see this form out of nowhere...”

“Y/N, I’m not the same as him” he retorted, knowing very well what it’s like to lose oneself in daydreams and illusions to ease the pain of loss. His sight wandered around the room instead of your face, stating “I did horrendous things, dear. Tormented and killed countless. It’s unforgiveable.”

“So did he” you stated, even though you knew those two Loki’s couldn’t be compared. “And you should already know: I feel dead inside, ever since he died.”

“You really loved him, didn’t you?” When you nodded confidently, Loki sighed ashamed, reluctantly touching your wrist again. A warm magic would flow through you, healing the wound in no time. “I wish she had felt the same for me...”

For a while, both of you were plainly sitting in uncomfortable silence, with Loki even lending you his cloak to warm yourself up.

“It’s not him” you told yourself once again. “It’s not him. It’s not him. IT’S NOT HIM!!! That man is dangerous and instable. He can’t be trusted!”

And then, finally, you dared asking, cutting through the thick air:

“What exactly happened to me, in this world?”

Loki’s face contorted in agony, rubbing his face as if in deep pain. “Is this really necessary? I already told you. She died because of me.”

“More details would be nice” you retorted bluntly, not really caring if he was to have a violent outburst again. Curiosity got the better of you at that moment.

The emperor’s voice was low and husky, and just now you realized how damn tired he looked - with dark rings under his eyes, and more pale than you had ever remembered him.

The weight of his sins sure had taken a stroll on that sensitive man.

"I saw the ring” he uttered deeply affected, “That’s something I could only dream of. Thinking about it, I think she never really loved me in the first place. Or maybe she just grew tired of my lies. Understandable, I have to admit...”

“Yes, it was quite the opposite, even” he continued after a long, strained breath of his. “She hated me. Joined the Avengers and tried to kill me, several times. Only years later I learned about the truth: Already far in the past, back on Asgard, she betrayed me. After I fell off the Bifrost, she thought myself dead - and consoled herself by bedding my brother. I had to kill him, I-I-I just had to!”

Loki’s hands were shaking so frantically you could feel it from over there, mad eyes darting over your physique to take in your reaction. “After they finally lost, I took her prisoner. Seven months of trying to make her mine, no matter the methods. Mind-controlling her would not be satisfying. So I tortured her, played games with her sanity, and- I’d rather not speak about how else I violated her.”

“You, wha-” Now you were the one shivering in horrid anticipation, “You raped me...?”

No answer. Instead he just finished this disastrous story.

“One day, I went to her cell like I always did. I hoped once her mind was broken she’d stop struggling to be mine. But she never did. You Y/N’s are quite the fighters, as it seems.”

“Wha- wwhat happened to me...I mean, ‘her’?”

A loud whine escaped his vocal cords as he hit the wall right next to your face, making you suck in a pained breath.

“She used her chains to hang herself. There was nothing I could do. Ever since then I knew I’m cursed to inflict pain on anything I hold dear.”

"D-Don’t give me that self-pitying bullshit” you wanted to shout at his face - but the cramping in your heart as well as the hyperventillation made talking impossible.

How could one do something like that to a person they claimed to love?!

“Go” you whimpered, already shuffling away from him and he could hear anguish and fear drop out of every vocal, and he realized you were having a panic attack. “Please!”

Loki closed his eyes, letting out one last, deep sigh. He knew he owed you that much.

“Very well.”

That whole night, you spent crying and screaming to your hearts avail, unable to process your current situation and newfound knowledge.

So that would be your life from now on? Being hurt mentally and physically, frostburnt and hurt and violated against your will - all while looking at a face that remembered you of happier days?

Never!

Things were just like that evil Loki said: You are a fighter!

And if you couldn’t help that crazy man, you would at least help yourself! The Avengers are still out there, somewhere. You needed to escape and help them!

How could you have been so blind all those years?

Loki - your Loki - would have never wanted to you give up. He’d want you to survive and live your life to it’s fullest, trying to make the best out of everything you’ve got.

Just like he always did. That much you had learned from him.

“I’m sorry, Loki. If I die, I can’t even remember you...I love you…”

Breaking out succeeded faster than you could ever think it would take - because when you’d finally get out of your fetal courl and wandered across the cell, you realized Loki didn’t properly close the heavy steel door back when he rushed away from you.

“It’s not him. There’s no helping that man. I have to find my friends, I-”

Still shocked and scared and traumatized, you didn’t even realize that someone was watching you, not even questioning that the hallways were oddly empty.

You sneaked out of an open window, bare feet feeling the morning dew as you shook away Lokis cloak and ran as fast as your feet could carry you.

There was it - the fence.

No one could tell you what kind of world would await you outside of that property as you swiftly avoided some guards, rushing through the all so beautiful garden.

But as soon as you reached out to climb the railing, you felt someone balling a fist in your hair, harshly holding you back and causing you to stumble and fall.

“I thought you to be different…” an all too familiar voice grumbled. Loki didn’t even want to hear any apology or excuse, kicking your guts so heavily that you had to throw up, cramping on the ground.

“Don’t you dare to run away ever again!” he now yelled furiously, "She tried it too...so damn.many.times…!”

But before you could even respond, he suddenly began to cry uncontrollably. “I thought you would stay. Do you think I like to do this?!”

His voice was laced with grief and regret, yet he kept on forming countless bruises on your body. “Why can’t you fucking love me, hel?!”

You didn’t know how long his violent crying fit lasted, with him weeping as he let off some steam on your helpless self.

There was no trace of the hurt, regretful man left you talked to in your cell earlier. After being finished, having reclaimed a fraction of composure, Loki pressed your face in between his hands, ripping on your mangled body to face him.

“Fate gifted me another chance to possess you, Y/N. And I will form you into a magnificent pet, I promise.”

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