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metalhoops · 1 year

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Nancy Wheeler always wanted something. That was her secret. It was the one thing that no one knew about her because she hardly knew how to explain it to herself. It was like being hungry for something other than food. It was illogical, incomprehensible and all the things Nancy had never let herself be.

She prided herself in being capable and competent. This manifested in different ways across the years. In the days before her best friend’s death, she had prided herself in her grades, her appearance, and her capability to somehow charm the once acclaimed ‘ladies' man’ Steve Harrington.

After that, things got messy, and her world changed. Her friend died, and she hadn’t been able to stop it. She’d learnt how to use a gun to keep herself and those she loved safe. She redefined capability, using it to encompass roles like ‘fighter’ and ‘protector’.

She realised she’d never loved Steve, not really, not in the way she should. Steve was funny. He knew how to make her laugh, sweep her off her feet, and make her feel special. No one had done that for her before. She’d lived in a crowded house that always felt empty. Steve understood that. Her mother and father had been dancing around each other since she was born. Even as the eldest child, she’d never felt special, not until Steve.

Then there was something about Jonathan. He’d been kind and compassionate. He’d been something Steve wasn’t. She didn’t want to be with Jonathan because of any external forces. Dating Jonathan wouldn’t turn heads or make the other girls in school look her way with something akin to envy. But it might fill that gaping hole of want. Jonathan understood her. He saw her for who she was and he’d loved her for it. No one had ever done that before. Steve had come close, but he hadn’t seen her. He’d seen the possibility of a white picket fence and a family.

Nancy knew if she went for that life, she’d be just like her mother. A woman filled with ambitions and dead dreams. A woman who got glassy-eyed when gazing out of her bedroom window, as though envisioning herself opening the glass and soaring free or falling to her death, impaled on the same white picket fence that’d sprung up like a field of daisies the day Nancy Wheeler was born.

For a while, Jonathan had been enough. Until he wasn’t. She didn’t know who owned the blame for the demise of their relationship. It happened slowly, maybe when he moved to California, possibly before that. They were two continents drifting apart. He left in his wake the same old familiar aching hole of want.

She applied for colleges, worked on her journalism, and freelanced for a couple of local papers outside of Hawkins, ones where women were allowed a seat at the table. It helped. She was done trying to impress others. She wanted to impress herself.

She felt more at home in her body while she was moving, but when she came home, either to her estranged family house in Hawkins or to her silent student dorm room, she felt the hole once again. That was when Steve asked her to move in with him.

She wanted to say no. She wasn’t going to do it to herself or Steve again. She didn’t want to give him hope. He was always in love with her. It waxed, waned and morphed like the moon, but the love was always there. Yet, to her surprise, he shook his head, showing her he’d also changed in their time apart.

“Not just with me, Nance. Robin and Eddie are coming too. There’s enough room. It’s gotta be lonely sometimes hauling up all by yourself.”

Nancy couldn’t think of a good enough reason to say no. So she didn’t.

What she hadn’t expected was how much she would enjoy having someone to come home to. The house was never quiet. Eddie would play his guitar at all hours of the night and morning. Ever since the group had made the mistake of getting Steve a record player for his birthday, he’d blast his music while cooking or cleaning. She couldn’t go a week without waking up to Toto’s Africa. A prospect that’d once petrified her, had somehow managed to bring her such comfort. Then there was Robin. Robin was never quiet. She was always talking to Nancy.

Nancy had gotten used to her childhood home, where they ate together at mealtimes but remained silent. The place where, when she asked about someone’s day, she’d get a one-word response and a thousand-yard stare. When she asked Robin about her day, the girl told a novel-length, detailed account, filled with wild hand gestures and, more than once, illustrations.

Nancy had come home late after spending the day at the library trying to complete a paper for her Intro to Communication and Journalism course. She was surprised to find Robin home alone, sprawled out in front of the T.V. watching what appeared to be a French Film.

“Where’s everyone?” Nancy asked, letting her bag thud to the floor as she positioned herself on the armrest of the couch.

“Watching a movie at the drive-in. I said I couldn’t go since I’m sick, real bummer.” Robin faked a cough, then winked at her, sitting up and making room for Nancy. When she didn’t move quickly enough, Robin pulled her closer.

The girl was clearly faking it. For what end, Nancy could guess. She knew Steve and how he acted when he was in love. He and Eddie had been mooning over one another for months. At first, it’d surprised her. She’d tried to deny her intuition, unsure why the concept of Steve liking Eddie made her feel naked. Nancy had always been progressive. It didn’t bother her that Steve or Eddie liked men, but it made the old, odd ache within her burn.

“Do you think they’ll finally work it out?” Nancy questioned, watching as a flicker of surprise, followed by an air of mischief fell over Robin.

“Oh, Steve knows he’s got it bad for Eddie,” Robin confided, a cheeky grin spreading over her lips. Their faces were very close. Her eyes were blue, flecked with greys and greens, perfect in their imperfection.

“He’s been waxing poetic to me for the past month. You thought listening to him talk about girls was bad? At least I can relate to that. Listening to him gush about Eddie kinda makes me want to puke. I mean Steve’s all ‘his hair looks so soft and curly, Robby.’ what am I meant to do with that? To me, Eddie’s just... I don’t know, our gremlin roommate that lives in our walls. I like the guy, but I don’t know what Steve sees in him,” Robin admitted with a laugh.

She slung a hand around the back of the couch and absentmindedly tangled one of Nancy’s curls around her finger. Oh. Nancy liked that more than she should. Robin smelled like green apple shampoo, pen ink and poor decisions.

Nancy was good at noticing things. She wanted to be an investigative journalist, and it came with the territory. She’d heard Steve mention how Robin had the habit of talking too much when she liked a girl.

Nancy also noticed how Robin looked at her, the way her eyes lingered when she came out of her bedroom in her nightdress. Her eyes had scraped over Nancy’s shins, calves and the hollow space beneath her clavicle. All the new exposed flesh she usually kept hidden. It shouldn’t feel intimate, but it did. She’d seen drawings of her likeness amongst the clutter on the kitchen table and knew who they’d belonged to. Robin was good at drawing. She wondered if the girl would ever consider doing comics for the papers. It’d be nice to work with her around.

Nancy knew Robin was talking, but she didn’t hear a word of it, distracted by the stray strand of sandy hair, caught in Robin’s lip gloss. Nancy was smart, smart enough to know nothing good could come of acting on what she was feeling. She leaned forward anyway, brushing the hair back behind Robin’s ear, watching her go still.

“How’d you get that?” Robin asked, capturing Nancy’s hand, trailing her finger over the scar cut across her palm. It was too close to another night, another possibility of love, another stupid decision by Nancy Wheeler.

“It doesn’t matter,” Nancy breathed, pulling back from Robin’s hand.

“Robin, can you do me a favour?” Nancy asked, but before she had time to reply, Nancy pushed forward.

“Don’t fall in love with me,” she warned, her voice small but deathly serious.

Robin pulled back as though slapped, looking at the woman before her with wide eyes, seeming like a creature ensnared in a trap. It’d come out all wrong. Nancy was never good with this kind of thing.

“I hurt everyone that loves me,” she amended.

“So please don’t fall in love with me, because I don’t want to hurt you.”

Robin blinked owlishly at the girl before leaping to her feet and pacing before Nancy and the TV.

“Holy shit,” she breathed as she paced. Robin’s body never felt at home staying still either. Nancy opened her mouth to say something, but it was drowned out by another bout of ‘holy shit’.

“You like me, Nance,” Robin exclaimed, gesturing an upturned palm between the two of them.

“You have to like me. Otherwise, you wouldn’t say that. And I mean, why the hell would you say that?” Robin ran a hand through her hair before huffing and sitting back down across from Nancy, taking her hands into her lap. They were both shaking. To her credit, Robin didn’t touch the scar again.

“It’s not your fault. What happened between you and Steve. You know that right?” Nancy hadn’t expected that. Robin was always on Steve’s side for everything, they were best friends.

“I broke his heart, too. He’s told you that, right?” He had.

“That’s different,” Nancy reasoned.

“Just because a relationship doesn’t work out doesn’t mean it was pointless. It’s like... I don’t know, having a crush on Tom Cruise,” Robin reasoned, instantly losing Nancy.

“Alright, bad example. What I mean is back in high school, I had a major crush on Tammy Thompson. Don’t give me that face. Steve has said everything you could say. The point is, looking back at it now we never would’ve worked. She was a total flake. She was pretty but I’d drive her up the damn wall, like, could you imagine Tammy Thompson letting me talk about Italian Neorealism for two hours? No. But you did.” Robin nudged Nancy’s shoulder as though to prove a point.

“Anyway, I’m getting sidetracked. The point is, I realised I liked girls because of Tammy Thompson, so liking her wasn’t a waste of time. You changed Steve and Steve changed you, same with Jonathan. It’s made you who you are, Nance and who you are is a total badass, that I really, really like. So please don’t tell me not to fall in love with you. It’s not fair. You won’t hurt me, but even if you do, I think it’d be worth it for us to try.”

Nancy never had learned to shut Robin up, but she suddenly had an idea.

She leaned forward, placing a shaking hand on Robin’s cheek and crashing their lips together, sleek, sticky, glossed lips smacking together, tasting of strawberry, feeling like home.

Maybe the third time was the charm.

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wakeupthemembersofbylernation · 1 year

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All the explicit love triangle imagery on the show (this isn’t even all of the examples):

Bonus: Kaypeace’s brilliant video from 4 years ago

Am I a joke to you?

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #mike wheeler i know what you are #stranger things love triangle #hmm I wonder what it is in particular about Will/Mike/El that leads you to not see it as a love triangle #can’t quite put my finger on it #also thinking that Dustin stood more of a chance with Max than Will does with his best friend is HILARIOUS #oh I’m sorry I forgot that Mike is Elsexual #which is why he struggled for two seasons to tell El he loves her and needed a romantic pep talk from his platonic bestie to do so #got it #milkvan is the height of romance #and this isn’t a love triangle #no love triangle imagery to see here #just some classic unrequited love #he SAID he and Will were just friends #didn’t you hear him?#the whole roller rink heard him #Mike wheeler the heterosexual king

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nicollekidman · 2 days

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if your central throuple isnt so enmeshed as to functionally be One Being and you’re gonna talk about teams get OUT of my face

#a distinct separate phenomenon from a love triangle like HELLO #three headed dragon and the body is tennis #i would let her fuck me with a racket. and she did! bc tennis was the whole Thing #the final tashi / art scene my GOD

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drivingoutintothesun · 2 years

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When you started crying, baby, I did too, but when the sun came up, I was looking at you.

Nancy Wheeler looking at Robin Buckley part 3, part 2, part 1

#i had to finish these gif series with taylor swift lyrics #that's my whole personality i just HAD to #also duffers stop being cowards challenge #get nancy out of the love triangle her true love is right here #btw i HATE how dark the upside down is #and how tmblr absolutely ruins the quality #stranger things #stranger things 4 #ronance #robin x nancy #nancy x robin #robin and nancy #nancy and robin #robin buckley #nancy wheeler

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ladykyriaa · 2 months

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I just know Jinshi's punching air rn (also considering what's probably going to happen there he'd probably lose his mind)

#i love the jinshi maomao rikuson discourse sm im not even joking #not bcs the whole love triangle thing (but tbf there's never really been one anyway)#just that the kind of shit and dynamic they're always exposed to lmfao #the apothecary diaries

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oriocookie · 5 months

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the mark of a good love triangle is how easily it can be turned into polyamory

#this post is about many things #but most importantly:#the book of life #and #mia and me #this does NOT apply to the hunger games. that was a whole different thing with symbolism and all that shit #the post is about love triangles for the sake of romantic relationships

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emblazons · 1 year

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I really like fictional couples that actually enjoy spending time with each other. It seems like such a simple, mundane thing. It feels like such a basic thing, but it’s something that I actually don’t see that often. insp. (x)

#byler #miwi #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #this post is dedicated to my multi-fandom otp soulmate Bre / magentamee #but also:#can I just say that gif making is an art I need to master #because photoshop and I…we are not friends #but for byler…anything lmao #this QUOTE tho #the whole thing is such a perfect commentary on this love triangle tbh #I’m going to master gifs and do the whole thing I promise lmao #the me tag #my gifs #xoxo stranger girl

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gottagobackintime · 1 year

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We know that Ted hates tea, he brings it up again this episode. And yet he ends up drinking it and as a result he has an epiphany (in that scene there are bi colours and him inside an upside down pink triangle). And he seemingly had a good experience because he drank that tea (consider also that Beard says the drugs didn’t work, so it was just the tea that made Ted feel great (if we're not thinking that Beard is so used to taking this kind of drug that he needs more of it and it did actually work for Ted)).

Let me now take you to a movie. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This movie is known for being a queer Sherlock Holmes adaption, although perhaps not as explicit as you’d want it to be. But it’s still a queer Sherlock Holmes adaption. There is a scene in that movie where a man tries to convince Sherlock to sleep with a woman so that she can have a perfect child. Sherlock tries to get out of it and asks if there aren’t other clever men they could choose from. The man says that they have tried and one of them was Tchaikovsky. When talking about Tchaikovsky the man says that it didn’t work because women aren't Tchaikovsky's glass of tea. Sherlock then says that he is not a free man and implies that he and John are in a relationship. The man is surprised and ends up asking: “You mean, you and Doctor Watson… he is your glass of tea?” To which Sherlock answers “If you want to be picturesque about it”. Tea is queer.

Two random scenes about tea, surely that doesn't mean anything? Perhaps not, but let's not forget that we got a reference to Sherlock Holmes from Trent the very same episode. He says to Colin: “I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction”. But he ends up admitting that he knew about Colin because he saw him kissing a guy. A very John Watson thing to do. Trying to be like Sherlock but he isn’t, but he has his own set of skills. Then we can't forget that both Trent and Watson are writers, and both of them are writing about a man they love admire.

So, Ted drinks a glass of tea and ends up having a positive experience, with bi colours and queer symbols. Tea is queer, Ted didn't want tea before but perhaps now he does?

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #tedependent #tedtrent #does this make sense??#I just randomly remembered tplosh and the whole tea being queer thing #also one hell of a coincidence that trent just happens to reference sherlock holmes in the same episode #this added with the damn triangles and trent and colin sitting by a gay monument made out of triangles and mentioning pink triangles #well...#I am going insane I swear #but I love it!#anyway bi ted is true #nicole watches stuff

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nnon-but-cwnancydrew · 3 months

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Imagine if instead of Nancy, Tristan's love interest was George

Maritime family for like three generations or something before Victoria fucked up

Nick clearly knew Tristan in 4x01 greeting him warmly. And nick's only been co boss of the claw for like. 6 months. George has been working at the claw since she was a teen to support her sisters.

If Fanson wasn't going to be endgame in the show anyway then give George a love interest she had chemistry with (but that they really had any in the show but the potential was staggering and also not to sound mean but Tristan was only here for this one season. They could've gotten an actor leah lewis had chemistry with.) instead of that one off law classmate of hers that contributed nothing to the plot

(obviously I am very much still endgame Fanson after the events of the show. Growing separately before growing back together and all)

The ANGST of George being the one to call to the sin eater in S4B/the episode of Nancy and her Crossbow

The relatability between them for not being able to leave Horseshoe Bay before in their life (George because of her sisters and financial situation, Tristan because of the curse)

Most importantly it doesn't mess with the main ship in the final fucking season. They have enough of their own problems without adding a goddamn love triangle

#There's probably more examples but ive yet to rewatched the show as a whole yet #Truly the most important thing to me is that nace was less. Stupid? Stupid in the last season of the show #Do i think there should be a love triangle at all in the last season? Absolutely not but if we must them stick Tristan somewhere else #I actually can't remember if George and Tristan had any solo scenes together but fuck it we ball #if Fanson couldn't be together by the end and if the show at least have some fun with it #Lily jade was a very fun character and I absolutely agree with all their decisions in the show truly an icon #Like dammit #nancy drew cw #cw nancy drew #george fan #tristan glass #ned nickerson #fanson #nancy drew #ace hardy #ace [redacted]#bess marvin #nace

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givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 1 year

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I don't think I've ever really cared about shipping in my life. I'm generally just cool to go with the flow. If something is written well or drawn well then I'm for it.

But I will say. The DC writers trying to push Jon/Irey and Damian/Irey tire me. I am not impressed with the dynamics going on there and the idea of Irey being in the middle of a love triangle is contrived and upsetting.

I felt safe before because Irey is 9, Jon is an adult with a boyfriend and Damian is a teenager. DC wouldn't let that happen. I knew the shipping going on behind the scenes but everything was fine. It couldn't happen.

But then we got alt universe Supersons. The same age as Irey. And Irey blushing at them.

Suddenly everything was very much not okay.

Again, I'm generally cool with whatever but I'm putting my fucking foot down at this one.

No.

I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD.

NO.

#i will fucking fight people on this one #NO #JFC NO #because i know Adams' end game here. He hinted at future Irey being married to Damian and they have that whole bickering thing going on rn #and Jon and Irey have that whole crush situation and im like ?????? fucking NO #look. Irey does not exist to be a love interest. she is nine years old. and she certainly doesn't need to be in a fucking love triangle #ALSO NO! SHES NOT MARRYING A BAT!!#ARGH #let her exist because shes a child and then eventually (when the time is right) she can have her first crush on Tai as god intended #its not hard #Irey in the future was all 'teehee. dad you hate my husband' and im just... this is the only goddamn time i condone a shovel talk #but like... follow through Wally. follow through with the goddamn threats. erase that mother fucker from existence #im physically ill at the thought of that marriage

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vitiligoduncan · 8 months

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How Duncan and Courtney should've broken up

#total drama #tdi duncan #total drama duncan #total drama island #td duncan #Duncan is the picture obviously #i wish they made Duncan like stand up for himself instead of making the whole love triangle thing

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chirpsythismorning · 1 year

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📝 💐 🛼 💔⏪️💭🧊🌄❤️‍🩹

More Than Words by Extreme

previous ⏪︎ now playing ⏩ next back to playlist

#bizarre love triangle playlist #stranger things #el hopper #el's pov #okay so basically this song sort of captures el's series long realization coming to a head #which is that she never needed to hear mike say i love you for it to be real #she needed to feel it based on his actions #i don't necessarily think she was going to break up with mike here #because arguably she already dumped his ass with that from el letter #HOWEVER i do think she was prepared to solidify her concerns and how she feels now #maybe her hope was to rid mike of his misery and try to meet him on his level and put all of this fake nonsense to rest #with them both coming to the decision mutually that it would be better for them to focus on being friends #bc she will always want that even if mike is too much of a peabrain to realize that it's even an option for them (yet)#he's giving her all these signals up to this point that he does not have romantic feelings for her #it was never about him not being able to say i love you (tho it contributed in that he avoided it)#it was the fact that she needed to hear it at all to believe it that cemented their permanent romantic fallout #a consistent parallel between the endgame couples is that none of them ever say i love you out loud #bc they show it! and the other person knows as a result!#which follows the whole 'show dont tell' rule #el basically broke up with mike in vol 1 and was prepared to not see him for a long time or ever again #but then they were reuniting and she was so relieved that didn't have to be the case #and yet mike isn't kissing her #he's not saying he loves her #he's stalling #but i think el takes it as him respecting her decision to finally call it quits via her from el letter and that maybe he's matured since s3 #but then he's rambling and dancing around his words #and you can literally see the pity start to be written all over her face #it's as if she's realizing he's going to try to mend their romantic relationship AGAIN even tho she can tell his heart isn't in it #she looks confused and almost disappointed #then abruplty romeo is interrupted

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triangle-strategy-notes · 6 months

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Lyla, Booker, Tenebris, Sorsley, and Exharme Concept Art

Concept/reference art for Lyla, Booker, Tenebris, Sorsley, and Exharme. Translation notes and text id beneath the cut.

Translation notes:

Gonna be real haha, I kinda gave up on the note that's pointing to the sash. The handwriting style is a little disjointed/vague, and I wasn't able to tell what exactly the characters were. But there seemed to be some reference to "inner" there, so I made reference to that.

The comment about Booker being an assassin might have been something more like "Booker plays the role of an assassin" or "Booker acts the part of an assassin" (with the implication that he's not literally an assassin).

Tenebris's name in Japanese is phonetically "Enigma." His name is probably the one that changed the most in the Japanese -> English localization.

Text id:

[id: The first image is of the full first page. It has portraits of Lyla, Booker, and Tenebris. There is another caption with an English translation of the caption on the first page. The first part reads, "I feel like Tenebris is the correct way to dress the Saints (lol). Everybody else dresses up too much. (Tatsuaki Urushihara)". The second part reads, "I was in charge of finishing Lyla. She is a wonderful character with many subtle gold elements. I like the fact that she's holding the blade of the dagger, which seems to show her mad-scientist-esque personality. (Rina Yoshiura)". The next image is of the full version of the second page, with several WIP drawings of Lyla, Exharme, Sorsley, and Booker. The next two images are English translations. The page is titled "C5House_Mad_Scientist." There is an image of Lyla walking toward the viewer, with some bowing men behind her. These men are labeled "Homunculi". Next to an image of Exharme and Sorsley, there is a diagram of their hooded capes and the purple sash they both wear. The same drawing is repeated below it, but with slightly different designs; Sorsley has a turban and Exharme has shorter, lighter brown hair. There are also beta designs of Lyla and Booker next to them. Lyla is labeled "Shaman", Booker is labeled "C1 House Subordinate", Sorsley is labeled "C1 House Head", and Exharme is labeled "C2 House Head." At the end of the page there is are some illustrator's notes. The first reads, "Since Booker turns out to be an assassin, we had him wear black gloves to give the impression of a professional killer. (Tatsuaki Urushihara)" The second reads, "Is this the rough draft for Lyla and the Hyzante characters? I thought Lyla was very nice from the first draft, and I think she ended up being a good character in terms of the story. (Yasuaki Arai)". /end id]

#triangle strategy #triangle strategy artbook #ts artbook character ref sheets #lyla viscraft #booker peynorth #tenebris mistel #sorsley ende #exharme marcial #lots of booker! I wonder if he wasn't supposed to be a bigger character at some point #and seeing all of the saints like this really makes me wish that more of them had survived the game #lyla is a favorite of mine and I really love the way they did her whole arc #but sometimes I'm like. who put her back in charge of things!!!!! let her rest!!!!!!!#I think she'd be down to just kinda vibe after everything that happened #kamsell and exharme on the other hand I think would've jumped at the chance to lead #I'd have to go back and watch the liberty ending but I think exharme straight up says he shares a lot of serenoa's goals #but he's just really particular about getting the glory for it #interesting stuff though. I love good villains and the saints are really really cool ones

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