#were these big squares ambitious-- perhaps even hubristic?

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emily prentiss, 5x15 public enemy

#emily prentiss #paget brewster #criminal minds #edits #i THIIIIINK i have figured out my most pressing gif issues so here we are #were these big squares ambitious-- perhaps even hubristic? #yes but look how important she is #cmedit

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♥, ϟ, ⚔! Go, GO!

MONSTROUS HEADACANONS! (selectively accepting)

♥ - STAKED - a jarring event, something that changed their life/outlook

Tanba's had a handful of situations like this, but the most glaring one would have to be Nobunaga's invasion of Iga, or the Tensho Iga War. I've talked about Tanba and Nobunaga's invasion a lot on this blog I think, but for reminders, by the end of the invasion, Iga province was completely razed and it's people slaughtered-- the land that Tanba saw as his own, the people he saw as his subjects, all gone. To make matters worse, Tanba's friends and family were among those slaughtered, too, and then after all of it was said and done, he too, met his end in a rather jarring manner.

All in all, the Tensho Iga War was a horrendous affair, and when Tanba was later summoned as a servant, it was a series of events that stuck with him and definitely changed his outlook on life, though not in a positive way-- Tanba had been overly ambitious and hubristic in life, and in light of what happened in the Tensho Iga War, he ended up doubling down on those facets as a servant. Perhaps Tanba's intensifying/leaning into those toxic facets is his way of coping with what happened, his way of trying not to think about/blame himself for all the death and destruction he likely wrought on himself and his people, but change he did-- he went from wanting to just rule all of Japan with his shinobi brethren to, 'no you know what my problem was, I wasn't thinking BIG ENOUGH, I need to rule THE WORLD, yeah, that's it, that's my destiny'.

ϟ - LIGHTNING - something they thought they’d left in the past, returned

Not necessarily something they 'left' in the past but something, or rather, someone, he wasn't expecting to see so soon was Nobunaga, in Chaldea (cue Tanba's FGO verses). One of Tanba's goals was to eventually use the grails to create his ideal world and then set up a rematch with Nobunaga, so he was intending on seeing them at some point, but when they ended up being summoned as a servant it was... troubling for Tanba, to say the least. If the world/humanity wasn't under all the constant threats that kept being flung their way, Tanba would've probably tried squaring up with Nobunaga again and getting his revenge over with, but now he more or less has to suffer their existence for the greater good/the grand scheme of things and wait on that particular goal until the time is right.

⚔ - DUEL - a meeting or relationship that was important to them

The whole collective situation of him bringing together his band of elite fighters and adopted family, the Momochi Eight! Tanba may not have always expressed the warmest feelings to all of them while they were alive, but bringing them all together and leading them was very dear to him, and his relationships with all of them were something special. The same thing goes for Tanba's dynamic with Hanzo Hattori and Saizo Kirigakure, his cherished students that he saw as literal sons to him (even if they may not have seen things exactly that way themselves).

Then of course there's the relationship that Tanba cultivated with Sylvia (or I guess officially the relationship he's still building with her through our main story threads but also like we've talked about them so much and done so many things on the side that we already know how gr8 they are SDHJKGFSDHJGFSDGHJFSDGHJ), which has helped Tanba sort of grow out of his weird emotional shell and really added a bit of color to his life that he didn't know was missing before!!!

#serenesouled #;bury the tongue between the teeth (answered asks); #;the marks of a lost war (headcanon); #//HEY THX FOR SENDING THESE DEAR! UR AWESOME!