I know everyone wants stories with happy endings, and they all hate when the main characters die, and insist well what's the point of the story then, it didn't matter at all! they died!
but.
I don't know. do the stories of those who die at the end not matter at all?
because if that's the case, I have news about the stories told by everyone who has ever lived in this world.
we all die at the end. we are all doomed by the narrative.
lestappen playing padel publicly… rbr and christian posting lestappen content… openly supporting their friendship all of a sudden… do you think christian horner sent max on an extraction mission
Okay, we all know being a demigod is a shit position. Its scary and gets you killed in really nasty ways. But I feel like being a Big Three Kid has to be the shitiest position in all the shit positions.
Like, imagine being Thalia Grace. Your dad is king of the gods, lord of the skies. Led a war to get rid of a tyrant. And the only thing you get is his scorned wife AND brother, who both try to kill you (with one technically succeeding), a drunk of a mother, and brother who you thought was dead. Oh, wait, he’s not dead! No instead he was used as an offering to appease your dad’s wife and help fight in a war and prevent mass destruction.
Or maybe you can imagine being Percy. Son of the sea god, the stormbringer, the earthshaker. You get to live with a disgusting, abusive man for around 6 years. Who smells like literal shit. All because your scent as a demigod is too strong, BECAUSE of who your father is. You see things that you aren’t supposed to see and do things that people can’t do and go years thinking something is wrong with you. That your the problem. Then you get to the one place where you’re supposed to be save. But! Here is the kicker! You’re not! Your uncles hate you and you’ve been accused of stealing a symbol of power. A series of events that will kick off a war, and guess what. You’re a center point for it. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood.
Mhm, but then there’s Hazel. Daughter Pluto, god of the underworld and riches. But that doesn’t really change anything does it? She’s still living in 1930s America, in a red state. One where confederate flags still hang if you go deep enough into the city. She go to a school where the kids are supposed to be just like her! They still don’t like her tho. She’s got no idea who your father is, only that he left her with a parting gift. Only it’s not really a gift. Sure, she can pull rubies and diamonds from the earth, all worth millions. But anyone who’s ever gonna touch it will die. She lives with her mother, a woman gone so mad with greed it kills her. And Hazel, by the way. Laying dead Alaska, inhaling oil. But it doesn’t end there! She can’t have her mother suffering for eternity, can she? The answer is no. Hazel gets to spend the next 70 years in the Fields of Asphodel. It still doesn’t end! Because when she’s brought back to life, she gets to fight in a war against giants, her sad story seemingly never ending.
Nico’s a son of one of the Big Three, one of the most ancient and most powerful. But most people look at him as something bad, something not worth taking a second glance at. Something too look away from, mostly. He’s from the 30s, spent years in a magical time casino with only his sister at his side. She doesn’t stay for long though, she dies soon after they discover their heritage. And he doesn’t remember his mother much, a name without a face. A face without a name. He survived an attempted assassination at 2, though it wouldn’t be the only time his was life was threatened. He clings to his sister, even though she’s dead. He’s the son of the god of the underworld, is he not? There had to be a way, and there is. Only she won’t talk to him, she seems more concerned with communicating with the guy who got her killed instead. She chooses rebirth, and he decides to lay it to rest. She’s not coming back, and he has a war to fight in. (He gets stuck in a jar and forcibly outed a few years later, but that’s a lot to get into for now.)
Jason Grace is a pillar of New Rome, their golden boy, their American boy. He’s a son of Jupiter, a natural born leader. He’s been at camp for as long as he can remember, he wants to be praetor soon. He’s had a rocky start, but maybe he’ll be one of the lucky ones. Retire a veteran and live a long life with Reyna in New Rome. Only that never happened. He has no idea where he is, there’s a girl holding his hand, and she’s cute but it feels wrong. They get attacked and people come in and call him a Greek demigod, familiar, yes, but still wrong. It doesn’t feel right. It doesn’t put things into perspective the way it does for Piper and Leo. He’s goes to a quest to rescue Hera, the name sounds wrong. He nearly dies but at least he remembers who he is. He spends the next 6 months trying to get back home, even though he isn’t too sure on where or what home is. He gets there, eventually, but it doesn’t stop there. He’s dragged on quests and battles and fights in the war but at least he survives it, he’s still there. Apollo needs help, he and Piper give him aid. He gets dumped. He doesn’t get to he a veteran in New Rome. Not with Reyna, not with Piper, not with anybody. He doesn’t get kids or grandkids. No, he gets shot down, another demigod buried.
You could be any one of them, really. Pick your poison, but I guarantee you won’t like any of them. Spending years trying to find a place where you belong, where you feel safe. Only for it to never come.
Percy, who, if you really look at the books, isn’t really all that well liked until he’s at least 2 years into camp. Only to then be sidelined because the courages, brave, fearless daughter of Zeus is back from the dead. Nico, the son of one of the most feared and hated gods. Who has death written all over him, who excludes it so much animals can smell it and humans can sense it, who’s been ostracized and pushed off to the side since he was 10. Hazel, who was treated like disease as soon as she stepped foot on camp soil. Who’s gone her whole life looked as something that’s cursed, that will only bring misfortune, a bad omen.
I'm absolutely loving ur writing style. the fics are so cute that I really wanted to request how would the xh members be when they are jealous <3
Thank you so much for the request and compliments >.< I hope you're still around 4 months later and you'll enjoy this!
XDINARY HEROES WHEN THEY ARE JEALOUS
♬ all members
♬ gn!reader
♬ just fluff
GUNIL:
He's not subtle at all when he's jealous.
He doesn't mind if you're hanging out with other people but he prefers if he can be there too, not to supervise you, he just wants to be with you.
He's also the type to always have an arm around you or hold your hand in public.
So when he sees you with someone else and he senses danger, he will insert himself in the scenario, and makes sure to annoy either the other person or you into leaving.
Reassuring him with words seems to work best when he's jealous, he’s very weak against compliments.
JUNGSU:
He lives and dies for your attention.
So he really dislikes it when your attention is not on him, especially if it's on someone he considers competition.
He will become very pouty and sulky.
You need to make an effort to not only reassure him with words but to give him cuddles and kisses.
He won't let go of you until he's satisfied - at least for a whole day.
GAON:
He doesn't get jealous often, his jealousy doesn't come from clinginess or insecurity.
He mostly gets jealous when you're with someone he thinks has ulterior motives and tries to steal you from him.
The problem is that he won't communicate it well with you because he'll get very upset if you don't believe him and this can easily turn into an emotional argument if you don’t respond well.
He pretends he doesn't care but will watch over you all the time until you realize that he was right or he calms down and apologizes if he was wrong.
He becomes very possessive for a while after this, regardless who was right because you’re so important to him.
O.DE:
He'd get jealous pretty often for someone who hates feeling jealousy.
He loves and craves your attention but knows not to demand too much of it.
He tries to tell himself that you spending time with someone else doesn't mean anything and you still love him the most but his heart just wants you to be with him.
You can easily tell that something is up with him because he starts acting a bit more clingy and needy than usual.
The easiest way to resolve this situation is to indulge him and reassure him. Hearing it from you is a lot more effective than telling it to himself, after all.
JUNHAN:
He's kind of possessive by nature and somewhat insecure.
So when you're with someone else, he'll be slightly offended but immediately tell himself not to overthink.
Then he'll proceed to overthink if this kind of situation keeps going on for a while.
You can tell that something is wrong because he'll get distant - not necessarily because he wants to but he's too caught up in his head and doesn't want it to affect you.
You need to get through to him by all means and show him how much you love him.
JOOYEON:
He's fun because he's clingy, possessive and insecure at the same time! :D
That means he wants your constant attention on him and if you're spending that attention on someone else without a valid reason (based on his judgment), he will throw a tantrum.
You cannot reason with him when he's jealous, he will become as dramatic as possible like the whole world is against him and you hate him???
Let him sulk a bit until he calms down and feels bad for being unreasonable.
Then shower him with all the love that you have for him and is always his.
okay i don't know if the hyperfixation will hold long enough for me to actually write this but au where everything is the same but the waylon house is just a bit more structurally sound. max doesn't die and is like 'thanks for this guys, is that the whole party or?' and everyone just sort of looks at each other like. well we don't want to anger him so what can we say but yes. and so the nerds and max end up hanging out for a night in the waylon house and the worst thing that happens is grace chastity is tempted to have a beer for the first time (she doesn't though. but with max offering it's very hard for her to refuse. or focus lol) max keeps giving them weird backhanded compliments like 'wow you guys are way cooler than you look, how'd that happen' which is not the best but it's way better than being beat up for daring to be in his line of sight, so they'll take it.
so they all hang out for the night, max is like weirdly chill and friendly, eventually he leaves and they're left standing outside the waylon house like. ?? what the fuck??? did we just befriend max jagerman???? the nerds are still apprehensive considering pete still has a black eye, grace is still boiling with religious zeal and repressed lust, and steph still doesn't really like him, but they can't help but remember how he said that trying to prank him was the nicest thing someone's ever done for him. and that just can't be true, considering he's literally the star quarterback and the main character of hatchetfield high, but.... the fact that he felt like it enough says a lot, doesn't it?
so they decide to leave the prank footage to gather dust and figure this was probably the best outcome they could have hoped for. who knows what they'll walk into at school tomorrow? maybe max will become a friend.
Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.
((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))
Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...
Fox.
Now let me explain.
Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?
Fox.
Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?
Fox.
Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?
He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?
Remember when the Audrey villain leaks came out and then we saw the offical c4 and s3 outfit reveals and saw the c4 on the isle and the s3 in an auradon forest and we all thought there had been some sort of time spell where Audrey twisted time and instead of the c4 coming to Auradon it was the s3 so Audrey stayed with Ben and there was a whole adventue to fix the timeline? no? just me? okay
i am WHEEZING doing the quest in the fade where demons turn your friends against you and Fenris just took out Hawke and Anders in one blow. this was NOT a fight he looked at us, swung his sword ONCE and we both went down like a sack of bricks
one warrior vs two mages over in less than a second
EDIT it won't let me add a video in a reblog. I tried like five times to get the exact circumstance of the first screenshot (two wizards one blow) but i guess Anders is smart enough to run away now. still. this fight is over way faster than I can react to it
I swear to god, if they kill Blood Moon again without even trying to help them. I’m tired of them saying Blood Moon doesn’t want to change, it’s because nobody has ever done anything but use them and betray them.
It’s no wonder they don’t trust anyone when all they’ve ever done was be used. They were quite literally brought back to life to be a freaking tool for Jigsaw!
I know it's been analyzed to death at this point, but I rewatched the Sans fight and it's only now occuring to me just how... weird it is to witness??
Like we can talk about lore implications all we want and it'd be fun but when you take a step back for a moment, it's really just. Sans venting at you for about ten minutes straight.
Everything he knows about the timelines, his nihilism regarding resets, going out of his way to call the player out on their motivations multiple times. It's like everything he was repressing in all the other timelines finally broke to the surface, and he still somehow manages to be fairly composed with his word choice.
(He's significantly less composed when he's throwing you around the battle box as fast as he physically can until he just can't do it anymore. All the more evidence that this fight is just him losing it)
But here's the thing. He's also doing his best to get you to give up. And as much as I applaud him for breaking the game's mechanics wide open, disabling invincibility frames and attacking you in the menu... he really fails at making you want to give up.
Because as much as he claims to know "our type," he forgets one crucial detail: we love being told things.
He understands that we're doing the No Mercy route just because we can, but he neglects "curiosity" as a motivating factor. We want to learn more by exploring different routes, and in his frustration, Sans gives us exactly what we want.
(We also get a challenge from him, and what gamer dedicated enough to get past Undyne wouldn't enjoy that)
And that's kind of. Sad, in a way?? Even when he locks us into his turn, he can't stop himself from talking. Everything he does to make us frustrated or bored doesn't work because despite everything, we still like Sans. We want to hear what he has to say. And he has a lot to say that he would normally keep close to his chest otherwise.
I don't know if that's what the dynamic is meant to be like in canon, given how ambiguous Frisk's motivations are and how we don't technically know if there's a "player" involved in the first place, but that's just how it reads to me. And I think Sans having this slightly flawed perception of what the anomaly wants from him is a really interesting angle for his character and the fight as a whole