hi so I was walking home yesterday and I just started thinking about the loop in Moonlight where Link spent MONTHS bonding with Revali only for it to all be erased and like. on top of everything else what must that feel like??? I imagined Link turning to Revali to reference something that happened to them during that loop only to remember that this Revali was never there for that and I just aaaaaaaaa
So uh yeah.... Moonlight just. lives in my brain most of the time even though it's been months since I last read it
Oh goodness, loop 5!Revali, I have so much to say about loop 5!Revali.
Zelda may have been the one to blow up the castle, but Revali was the metaphorical dynamite that blew the plot wide open. If not for Link taking the risk to tell him and Revali encouraging him to test the parameters of the loop (for, admittedly, selfish motivations), it would have taken much longer for Link and Zelda to make any headway. There’s a reason that chapter is titled dynamite the dam on the flow.
For better and for worse, that iteration of Revali cast a very very long shadow on everything that came after. He is the reason that Link goes to seek out Revali first in the next loop and then last in the one that comes after that (because he isn’t worried about Revali’s reaction — he believes he already knows how he’ll react).
But he’s also the reason why Link feels so betrayed by Revali’s actions in loop 7 (when Revali and Daruk fired the cannons despite Link asking them not to). He’s why Link has such a hard time forgiving Revali for it, which did loop 9!Revali (the one where Link died) absolutely no favors.
Loop 5!Revali is Link’s Lost Lenore. He’s the version of Revali he compares all other iterations to, and he can’t quite reconcile why their actions seem so different. And here’s the clincher:
Every version of Revali would have acted exactly like every other version, if placed in the same situation.
5!Revali would have done the same thing as 7!Revali would have done the same thing as 9!Revali and vice versa, because they’re all Revali. There is no difference between them.
It took Link quite a while to fully come to terms with that (until the very last chapter, even), and it’s something that haunts Revali even beyond the end of the story. He knows there are versions of himself he doesn't remember but Link does (7 most of all). When we get to nebulas and novas, that’s definitely going to be a part of it!
(As for the scenario you imagined? Yeah, that 100% absolutely happened and it's exactly as painful as you think.)
i don't go here but from everything i've seen izutsumi dungen meshi is like a catgirl but instead of the starting point being "anime woman" it's "Lisa Patrikeyevna illustration" and they worked their way backwards from there
The last chapter of my mlp infection AU! Thank you to everyone who followed along. Some final thoughts on my twitter @cracklewink if anyone's interested : )
Dp x dc AU - If the Internation Space Station orbits the Earth 16 times a day, then so does the Watchtower.
Danny’s on track to move out of his parent’s house and move to Gotham for college (He swears that Sam bribed the board to let him in- and she wasn’t even going to that university!) but the dorms don’t open for another three days and he cannot wait to escape. Seeing his parents try to perfect yet another weapon to use against him while he changed out the ecto filters on the portal was too much. He’s completely over the idea of staying when he already has everything packed and ready to go.
The solution? Take all his boxes into his haunt in the Ghost Zone, leave them there and then spend some time in camping in space. He’s already explored the Infinite Realms enough to be bored of it for a minute (not to mention he wants to avoid getting more ‘favors’ to do from Clockwork) and hell, he just wants to see some stars.
He grabs his tent, a sleeping bag and all the food and things he could need and brings it into the atmosphere with him. Keeping it all tethered to him, Danny stays in a fixed position above Gotham (Cause that’s where he’s going next, duh) and treats himself to some quality Me-time.
Only problem is that several times a day he has to make himself intangible while he lets satellites and things pass through. Easy enough and honestly pretty interesting to observe as a wannabe engineering student.
He doesn’t know when exactly it happened the first time- but it turns out the Heroes of Earth all congregated in a satelite office building? It was bigger than the ISS! What the heck!?
Going intangible but not invisible, the JL spot Danny and are incredibly confused how an ‘Alien’ teen just happens to appear in their meeting rooms disappearing at the rate (slowly but surely) of the Watchtower moving through space. Was that camping gear? How was he roasting a marshmallow? Did propane camping stoves even work in space??
16 times a day they get the opportunity to ask Danny a few questions. He mostly ignores them or gives them joke answers. Eventually Martian Manhunter phases through the Watchtower to join him.
They talk about how hard transition periods in life can be and having strained relationships with family. J’ohn returns to the watchtower on its next cycle and reports that the kid is just fine, being an adult is just a hard thing to do.
ok everybody block dnp on all socials they have eyes everywhere. they know way to much. those omniscient fuckers are always watching. no one is safe.
like what do you MEAN you know about those stupid “real voice” compilations and people absolutely clowning about jumpcuts and smudged whiskers and what do you MEAN you’re aware of those 2009 phan theories people still debate to this day? what happened to “i don’t check my indirects” “i don’t go on the tags”?? i bet you’re lurking RIGHT NOW reading this very post. all men do is lie. can’t trust anyone 😤😪
when i get my hands on Liam O'Brien i'm making him pay all my therapy bills
like. LIKE. look at his face. the sudden surprise as jester invades his space and proceeds to RUTHLESSLY unravel and acknowledge his pain after the traumatic events of the day, the way he's so carefully tucked away all emotions and tried to move on without worrying the group. look how quickly the layers all crumble away, how emotional and vulnerable and small he looks, how for a second we see Caleb Widogast without all his layers. if i had any power at all to do so i would give this man a thousand oscars and then ask for a milion dollars to compensate for the emotional damage he has wrought me