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This first battle would set the tone.
It would set the tone, and send a message. Not to Morath.
Impress us, Hasar had said.
So she would. So she'd picked the golden armor and her battle-crown. And waited until dawn, until that siege tower slammed into the battlements, before unleashing herself.
To keep the men here from breaking, to wipe away the fear festering in their eyes.
#Queen of Terrasen#Aelin Ashryver Galathynius#Aelin Galathynius#and she didn’t even need magic to do it#her and Elide just being queens#really all of them#her cadre#Kingdom of Ash quotes#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Hasar#for Terrasen#to the Queen#a symbol#hope#Queen and Assassin#and never a damsel#she puts the damn in damsel#Malas Heir at Dawn#golden#no more whispers#they used to shout my name now they whisper it
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"What's all this gotta do with me?"
"I just- I think I need someone a little more neutral, a little more persuasive, and you look like you're.. uh.."
#HE SMILEDDDD#mr “I kill people I'm a bad man” whenever there's a damsel in distress:#he'll bitch and moan and roll his eyes but he'll never say no#silly ol' arthur#:)#neutral and persuasive you say? 🤨#how interesting#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick gifs#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption gifs#oh arthur
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Do you think vessels sometimes look at damsel and think, "This is what I could have been if the world didn't mark me as a monstrosity before I even began to live. This is something I always yearned for but never deserved. I should have been her but I never was and never will be"
#The only ones to not have any ounce of envy are razor and advy - they are quite content with themselves#and MAYBE patd with escape ending. she seems to accept the necessity of those sorrows and move on.#other happy endings princesses would feel regretful for how things turned out#and damsel is such a good reminder of how it could be better. of how they could be better.#(but they never could. and it's not their fault)#and don't let me start on less unfortunate ones-#slay the princess#stp vessels#stp damsel#quoqueanalysis
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thinking about fresh genin, poorly adjusting to ninja life, iruka and all out of fucks to give, emotionally numb, absolutely worst candidate ever to be in a relationship anbu kakashi. oh the tragedy, the manipulation, the "fuck you! you dont get say that i'm yours when you're never here!" the power imbalance, the infantilization, the othering, the ostracization, the damseling. ooooh they're so fucked up and it leaks like toxic radioactive waste to everyone around them. they're in love and it infuses everyone with cheer. they break up before iruka makes chunin. they see each other on the street and have to pretend like their arms dont twitch to hold each other, like they dont know each other inside and out, like their hearts don't reside in the other's chest.
#hnng need to go lay down#holy shit im going insane#anbu!kakashi and genin!iruka is genuinely one of my favorite aus#i love when the love turns into devotion and the devotion turns into treason#i love when anbu!kakashi says he loves iruka but the 'love' is thinly veiled obession#and that obsession obvi turns into love but it's obsession for wayyyy to long and thereby fucks up the relationship#love when anbu!kakashi unconsciously infantilizes and damsels iruka#love when iruka puts kakashi on such high of a pedestal he's not even in love with the actual guy anymore#love when iruka falls in love with an ideal and pretends he's in love with the guy#love when kotetsu and izumo and gai are choking on the toxic sludge leaking from this 'relationship'#love when tsunade gets involved in the worst way possible fucking up the entire jonin squad + koizu's plan to slowly put adult!kkir#who have been to therapy and have worked out the worst of their issues back tgt#she's thinking this is a case of a superior taking advantage or a bad domestic case and the entirety of kkir's friend group are#considering mutiny. bc she wasnt there!!! when they were at each other's throats and using sex as sub for love and when they were the only#things that calmed each other down and when kk never treated irk with respect and irk made kk never feel like enough#she wasnt there and she doesnt know@!!!!#naruto#hatake kakashi#kakashi hatake#iruka umino#umino iruka#kakairu#kkir#kkiru
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tong playing little seduction games with a man currently experiencing a hundred years of horniness at once, and who is also at full confidence in a speedo is. just so fun of him. i'm having the time of my life and so is fluke gawin caskey
#god blessim#i love this for him more than i can believe but just as much as i expected#babygirlism. damselism. minxism. incredible never thought i'd see the day#my golden blood#liomsa
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So I have been reading "My Loneliness is Killin Me (Baby)" and it has been stirring up my desire to write an Omegaverse cannon Divergence Steddie fic like gasoline thrown on a already lit bonfire.
So OF COURSE that means I have to brainstorm this fucker somewhere so I am taking you along for the ride.
We are making Omegaverse weird again and going back to the foundations of the genre. Slick butts. I love the new (I know not really new but still) take on Omegas and Alphas being intersex, and I certainly enjoy reading them but I have a craving that will not be denied so back to slick butts and butt babies we go. I have my reasons for this and it also relates to female alphas not having a Knot but a Lock (this comes from a conversation with my dearest friend Fishie a good few years ago about a series of books that use this concept that has never left my head)
Steve is a late bloomer, he has been unpresented through nearly all of high school and while he was with Nancy. Everyone is adamant his body is just biding its time before flooring him with a presentation rut the size of America because they are so certain he will be an Alpha.
Cue them all being wrong.
Post Season 2's week from hell for Steve, between his heart getting shattered, meeting and bonding the Party (his puppies), dealing with the Demodogs, followed by the plate to the head concussion and protecting the pups in their hairbrained plans for the tunnels. It should come as no surprise when he is thrown into the most painful presentation heat of the fucking century.
Following a second week from hell for Steve that was his heat, once he is lucid enough to breathe, think, and not just be trapped in heat and dreams (nightmares so many goddamn nightmares) his goes hunting for a solution to the nightmares.
Obviously that is going to inevitably lead him to Eddie. Eddie who is parked up after school off road in the woods on the trail towards Skull Rock and Lovers Lake.
I feel what is most natural to happen is something akin to Hidden in the Woods by @thepossummoldypasta EXCEPT as fairytale and incredibly cute as that fic is and you should absolutely go read the fuck out of it!!! my take will be different but the scenario similar.
Cue Eddie unintentionally getted dragged into Steve Harrington's life and the aftermath of UD shenanigans well before Spring 86.
I am considering the following possibilities as well for shits and giggles (I say considering like the liar I am all of the below will be appear):
Accidental temporary bonding (likely through being scent mates and getting scent drunk on a newly presented Omega/ the first Alpha scented post presentation heat)
The revelation of Steve's no good very bad never around Parents. And a whole lot of their treatment leading Steve to have issues with following his instincts. Because he was never taught, he never learned and now he is the complete opposite designation everyone and their dog seemed to be manifesting for him. Despite that he loves being Omega solely for the knowledge he can now have and build that family he's always dreamed of and he doesn't actually need anyone else to make it happen if need be (he will have pups with or without a mate social expectations be fucking damned, he was raised to be an Alpha so is very much aware of all he needs to protect himself and any puppies he has and not to mention raise any alphan pups on his own).
Since this is pre Robin the equally as heartbreaking revelation that Steve Harrington has no Pack besides the 3 puppies he adopted on sight during his first week from hell in 84. (Don't worry the other 3 puppies come later they are not safe from adoption).
Non-sterotypical A/B/O actions from Steve as an Omega*. I personally headcannon that Omegas are prone to going absolutely feral in the protection of their loved ones or pups. Like put an Omega’s pups into danger and they will rip, tear, scratch, spit and bite. They will fight as dirty and as scrappily as they need to in the defence of those they consider their own. * Additionally I like to hc that Omega’s obviously do not always come as the more petite or fragile even if that may be what is considered the most conventionally attractive socially. So let your omegas be built heavier, they are the capable of carrying pups after all, so they can have wider hips and thicker thighs but also broader shoulders for being able to physically carry the pups too. Let them be strong and capable.
Now with the above that means I also am considering to have bumbling over the top mother henning Steve while he gets used to his more over powering instincts. This means none of the pups are safe from forced grooming sessions and constant scenting and sometimes when required cuddle piling. Stevie boy is going to be completely succumbed to feeding and providing for all the kids much to the amusement of most of their parents (Ted Wheeler can go jump).
Dustin is going to cop it the worst, enter Claudia Henderson who takes one look at Steve and just force adopts him. They have a guest room that sits vacant and is more a storage space then anything, she starts cleaning it out the minute he leaves her place for the first time since she met him. Dustin both loves this idea and hates it because his mom is just as bad as Steve is without the instinctual driving force, so the idea of them all living together is both incredibly warm and cosy but also startlingly smothering (don't worry Dustin, Steve will get better once his new instincts and hormones settle down.)
Upside down fam wise I am adding Claudia and Wayne to the mix of genuine adults in the know. FIRSTLY In this fic-to-be Claudia is a former ER Doctor turned ObGyn, turned NICU nurse because the stress of the job got to her especially with all of Dustin's health scares as a kid. Therefore my reasoning is the UD fam need an on call medic who actually knows what the fuck they are doing. SECONDLY Wayne is potentially a Korean (will have to check dates and do some age calculations) AND Vietnam War Vet, he knows his fucking shit about war, about fighting in unfamiliar territory etc. Also I just want more adults who care about Steve in the know and able to support him. Don't get me wrong I Fucking ADORE Hop as Steve's Dad and I may have plans to include that too, but my boy needs all the adults love and guidance he can get.
And because I am an absolute WHORE for angst with a happy ending and hurt/comfort there will be plenty of emotional turmoil, physical Steve whump (he looks soo pretty covered in blood), mental and emotional torture followed by so much love - platonic, romantic, familial you name it.
It will probably be mid to slow burn Steddie if I am honest even with the accidental bonding. That is just going to force them into constant close proximity. They will dance around each others feelings for a while all whole procrastinating breaking the bond because if they are honest neither of them wants to. But I am too impatient to drag that shit out to season 4 events, so Eddie will likely lose his shit while Starcourt is happening and when he finds Steve probably while they are throwing fucking fireworks at the Mind Flayer, is going to stop the dancing real fucking quick when they are outside with the EMTs.
E:"I almost lost you tonight"
S: "I mean yeah but I'm fine?"
E: "Like hell you're fine Princess! You were fucking trapped and tortured by Russians and I would never have known what happened."
S "is this about the bond nearly breaking?"
E: "Yes this is about the bond nearly breaking sugar!"
S: "Sorry, I know they said it would hurt a bit but I figured it would be worth it for the freedom it would give-"
E: "and what if I don't want that hmm? What if I am happy with the way things are going?
[Cue Eddie's rambling fired up angry flustered confession that leaves Steve winded but warm. He never thought Eddie could ever really want him as a proper bondmate after they accidentally trapped themselves into a scent induced bonding. There will be confessions on both sides of long distance interest, yearning and pining since like they were puppies themselves because I can't help myself so I shall indulge myself decadently with all my favourite headcanons and tropes.]
And to finish off this 2 hour fucking ramble in the early hours of the morning, it will be titled Red Strings.
Because I am a romantic and live for soulmate content so I will be absolutely indulging in that too.
And if they end up with little red tattoo like marks that are two halves of a whole that appear when they accidentally bond well that's for me to know and you to find out.
UNTIL THEN I NEED FUCKING SLEEP!
#stranger things#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#steve x eddie#omegaverse#my omegaverse headcanons#omegas dont need protecting like damsels they are the ones more likely to rip out your throat#omega steve harrington#alpha eddie munson#Steve is the protector of his pack while Eddie is the provider/mediator#truly this is non trad a/b/o dynamics because there is an oversaturation of omega steve being breakable like glass#that man has taken so many hits for the pups he is not mafe of glass he is made of steel which bends and warps but never truly breaks#eddie is the provider because of his creativity he is capable to making any situation work and that is what Steve needs#he doesnt need physical protection he needs an endless supply of support and affection he needs to be loved and loved unconditionally#that being said yes this will still have Italian!Steve#it will also have good cook better baker Steve without the Bonus for this fic#eddie is gonna be a provider in a soft dom sense too#eddie can make a meal out of anything and often will when steve is stretched too thin#eddie protects steve by keeping him mentally/emotionally/physically healthy and of cojrse only stepping in with claw and fang when necessary#Red String fic#thistle musings#saving for later
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Doodles of my fan-princess, the Rockstar. Instead of escaping the cabin she wants you to join her band. You get her if you walk down the stairs and start beatboxing
#slay the princess#stp#art#stp nightmare#stp adversary#stp prisoner#stp damsel#stp burned grey#the long quiet#i have another fan princess who is more 'serious' but maybe another day also she only possibly exists as a R&G reference#the sad thing about making fan princesses is knowing you can never top clown princess gamer princess or cowboy princess#i think her accompanying voice is either a) voice of the Stan#(only communicates via princess fancams)#b) voice of the connoisseur#(he's like an obnoxious rock purist dudebro who definitely does NOT secretly like the princess' music)#or c) voice of the soundcloud rapper#(he speaks in verse and wants to join the band to help further his career (and for the company))#(voice of the groupie was considered but dismissed for being too similar to smitten)#pls ignore how garbage the shading on tlq's body is i think drawing these made my carpal tunnel come back#also considering an idol group fan princess who functions as like a hivemind#like if stranger was a little dumber#actually we don't really have a hivemind princess do we? Stranger sort of almost was one#and in Wild *you* are the hivemind#i drew tlq way too small here so im deciding Rockstar is one of the BIG princesses#also for the classic Princess Spookiness^tm I'm deciding that her sunglasses are actually her eyes#or she doesn't have eyes underneath#pick your poison
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there’s just something about a man that is so different in public from how he is with you at home like yall aren’t gonna look at mr I barely crack a smile and think “he literally reads to the woman he loves every night” but he DOES. ILY SECRET LOVER BOYS!!!!!
#ily pisces Venus men they will never make me hate you#a man who is always secretly looking for a damsel to save my beloved
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I made this like last year when I had a six month long obsession with Journey to the West (read it please!), I feel like this was too funny to not put out there

It’s stupid but please enjoy.
#tang sanzang#is litterally just a damsel in distress the entire book#this actually took up so much of my life#I wrote a 136000 word story(fanfic?) because I loved it so much#never finished it though#I got angry trying to research bath beans#that’s litterally why I quit#ancient soap#there was litterally no definitive explanation for what they were or how to make them#when I learned earlier this year I litterally cried I was so happy#art#journey to the west#sun wukong
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AU where the Shifting Mound doesn't snatch the Damsel so soon and you have to deal with the repercussions of existing past "Happily Ever After" with a voluntarily undeveloped Sweet Love Interest™.
(also, yippee finally found a way to put my 2 interests together!!)
(absolutely incomprehensible ramble under the cut.)
Okay so I'm going to make this as understandable as possible for the uninitiated, whether it be for the Moomin comic strip or the franchise at large.
The plushie the Damsel is holding is that of the Snork Maiden (or just Snorkmaiden), the girlfriend/love interest for the main character, Moomintroll. Now, Snorkmaiden is an interesting and largely misunderstood character, especially when it comes to her comic version where she's a bit of a "promiscuous" character who oftentimes ditches Moomintroll for another man when she sees fit, this is where the misunderstanding lies.
Snorkmaiden haters will dismiss this (if they were to read the comics, because in all honesty they aren't that widely considered or even read in the fandom) as an addition to her general unlikeability as an "obstacle" to the fandom's main gay ship between Moomintroll and his best friend, Snorkmaiden sympathizers will leap to justify this with the good ol' It Was Heteronormativity All Along, which is a very... Honestly lazy reading/justification of her character which doesn't hold up under scrutiny. I, however, have an obviously superior reading of her character (/not serious)
Snorkmaiden simply has a very different definition of romance or at least wants to gain something different out of the concept of romance as opposed to the general public perception built up around it, one which even Moomintroll can't even begin to grasp.
What she gets out of romance, and where it begins and ends for her, is the adventurous fall and honeymoon of it, and each new man she gets into a relationship with is thematically appropriate to the adventure/problem of the week that she and her boyfriend's family are currently facing. When she goes to the French Riviera she starts dating a rich actor because it is a tourist shoreline city where all the celebrities go, when she finds herself in the wintery unknown (she and the Moomins usually hibernate through it, they're creatures like that) she catches a crush on a professional winter sportsman, when she decides to live a hedonist life because some self-proclaimed prophet came in and told everyone to she decides to start it by running away with someone new, when she gets a job as a secretary she falls in love with a coworker who is really interested in accounting, so on and so forth. Even with Moomintroll, they fell in love upon her introduction and Moomintroll signifies a new life in the valley in which they currently live in.
And in the end all of these new romances fall apart either due to unfortunate circumstances, Moomintroll's jealous intervention or her simply becoming disinterested eventually, and in the end of all of them she returns to Moomintroll, as per formulaic comic strip storytelling. (I must mention that Moomintroll also falls in love with other women based on their looks, and he also fell in love with Snorkmaiden because he thought she was pretty, so, he's not that much better really)
This is a repeating cycle, one that Snorkmaiden is simply incapable of breaking out of due to the conventions of her narrative. No matter what she tries, where she goes, who she gets with, she'll always end up back in Moomintroll's arms whether he "earns it back through chivalry" or she runs back to him much to her previous chagrin. It's a self-fulfilling cycle too, in one comic it's shown that she's so used to Moomintroll's behavior that it sours her current relationship with an already bad partner even further. If she was capable of Truly Leaving then she stopped being capable at that point. Snorkmaiden is stuck with a long-term boyfriend when she normally strives in a short-term relationship.
She's also deeply entrenched in romance tropes and loves to roleplay them with Moomintroll, and especially loves them when she thinks they're real, these tropes she fancies usually tend toward kidnapping (and not alot of rescuing) or romantic sacrifice such as dueling or... Romeo and Juliet. These things are extensions of her ideas on what romance is, more about the short-term thrill than the long-term contentment.
Of course, with most Moomin media having a child demographic as opposed to the adult newspaper readers of the comics, Snorkmaiden's character in adaptations of these stories get presented without the depth or the means for that depth, as she gets presented as either a somewhat boring playdate to Moomintroll with grand, childish ideas of romance or a naggy girlfriend whom the writers try to make feminist but ultimately fails to deliver on anything subversive or substantial.
How this ties into the Princess is the cyclical nature of it all, the choices with no branching ends, the new experiences with seemingly no development, the change and then the sudden stop. And with the Damsel in particular it is the reduction of such an interesting and intriguing person full of potential to a cutout of a simple Love Interest. All that anguish is suddenly washed away into something more palatable, a parody of a fairytale princess, a goodness so pure that it is sickening, no motivation behind the eyes except for one simple goal.
Now. Don't get me wrong, the Damsel is my favorite princess, between the Adversaries and the Towers and the Witches and Wilds, the Damsel is the one which captivated my singular interest, becaus I'm not immune to her trappings of adorable beauty and saccharine sweetness with no other motivation than to make her hero happy, I believe that it's a combination of the player's desire for her to be a normal princess they can have a happy ending with but also her willfully stripping herself out of guilt of what she's done to the player.
She stripped herself of any real personhood just to make us happy, and that is the purest motivation anyone can have, really, a terribly misguided one but the sentiment is immeasurable. I pity her and I love her and I want her to be so genuinely happy because of what she's gone through but I know very well that she's incapable of that because the decisions the player chose made her that way, she is made incapable of genuine happiness without total dependence on the player's feelings and that really breaks my heart.
It breaks my heart when she's reduced to a crappy middle school anime drawing when she's put through the pressure of getting interrogated or being told strange things about what would make the player happy.
It breaks my heart when she's finally free but then immediately met with the coldness of the Shifting Mound and thought that coldness was happiness.
It breaks my heart when she accepts her second death with tears in her eyes and a smile because she thinks that's what made the player happy, and yet somehow she couldn't accept it as a real decision the player made on their own because in the first time she was warned that they were possessed, so the only conclusion she could come up with was that the cabin was causing this pain and so as the Grey she decides to burn the whole place to the ground and stare at you lovingly until her face melts away.
It breaks my heart that the Grey is in a wedding dress, on top of that.
She's so desperate to cling onto the first person to show her kindness that she seems to have become broken over it. She's so terribly tragic that I can't help but keep thinking about her and the million heartbreaks knowing that she's so lovely and selfless but she wasn't Real anymore.
I want her to have a massive fairytale wedding like at the end of Disney's old Cinderella movie and live forever with some physical manifestation of Voice of the Smitten. I want her to come back to personhood and cry and not be snapped like a twig over it. I want the Damsel to be happy in any way she seems fit to be but I know that can never happy, both by the nature of the game but also in the very programming of her character.
She is trapped, whether it's in the cabin, her own circular mentality or as part of the Shifting Mound, she's incapable of of being really free as her own person unless you count the ending of us leaving with the no-blade blade starter princess.
... And that's why I think she should hold a massive Snorkmaiden fair prize won by her darling new butch knight girlfriend.
#moomins#moominvalley#art#moomin snorkmaiden#the snorkmaiden#snorkmaiden#slay the princess#stp fanart#stp princess#stp protagonist#stp damsel#the damsel#voice of the hero#voice of the smitten#I like to think the Princess (kind of in general but maybe not?) has freckles but since she's never been exposed to the sun in-game#she doesn't develop them there. BUT. Since in this AU the Damsel actually goes outside and there's a sun..... :)#stp spoilers
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Smitten and Damsel now, gotta get my designs in before the next contest and princess week (which is in august but theres so many princesses)
Smitten:
Avian - so very pink, it was rare even in the time that avians lived for them to be brightly colored. usually designated for aristocracy... not that any one alives remember that
He/she - likes most feminine terms except when it comes to like Knight and prince. would be prefer to be called damsels Aletheas dashing prince or her galant knight, otherwise shes Alethea's wife/girlfriend/lady lover etc
Beguiling Voice - when he speaks people listen and he can get anyone to do anything, kinda like charm person, friends or bardic inspo from dnd depending on the context
he has no memories of the HEA path but does have nightmares abt it the most. Alethea remembers it perfectly tho but isnt gonna bring it up in case it upsets him
when they both meet up w the rest of the voices and vessels, shes very overwhelmed in the other princesses presences. trying to balance the love he has for all of them and the belief he needs to be completely devoted to Alethea causes her a lot of insecurities. none of which he talks to alethea abt cuz she doesnt want to upset them
cant fly v well but pretty good at gliding and using her wings to gain more air during her jumps
Damsel Alethea
Human - Mage, specifically a soul mage where as Prism was a arcanaic mage. the big difference is prism pullz on the threads of reality already there where as Alethea pulls on the threads within them. its harder it control and far more volatile. obvs fire themed
They/them - projection beam go, it takes them so long to figure it out, another voice has to tell them gender is bullshit. up until then when it was just them and smitt they felt they had to be the woman in all this
fire form and beguiling voice - similar to smitt but theyre less aware of it for a while and take even longer to figure out how to stop
the first vessel and voice pair they meet is nightmare and paranoid bscause they werw in the ballroom of the palace. then cheated and razor soon after that. followed a little while after by Cold and Lethe.
Nightmare fucking hates them, and everything they represents, tries to kill them by pushing them in a spring they camped near once. Razor doesnt really hate them (it cant really hate anyone) but does love drama and hurting people. Para had to pull alethea out because they dont know how to swim. afterwards para yells at nightmare and theres a whole drama w that thatll be outlined in their post
Lethe finds them interesting and with their firey soul she can possess them with out them getting hypothermia. cold was expecting to not like them or at most think they were dumb, but on a scouting mission it learned to see them as something wiser than they let on around others. he likes them after that
While cheated and para were the ones who helped them with their gender, they actually got their name way before that when they read a diary in an abandoned house. it was diary of a woman and mentioned her daughter named Alethea who became a knight a long time ago
Smitten and Damsels playlist
#stp#slay the princess#stp voice of the smitten#stp damsel#stp voice designs#i forgot their taaaags#but fuck this took a while#i just never liked how damsels face turned out#and ignore how badly framed their name is cuz i forgot what name i was gonna give damsel like seconds before finishing this#i wanted something with H E A in it cuz heas themes of ignoring what u want#in order to keep everytjing the same and happy and even keel#is like big for these two#and also is me prjecting a lot#which is why i made them nonbinary#there would be a whole confrontation from the other voices and vessels abt how they need to be honest abt things that are upsetting#that life isnt always happiness and its okay to bring unplessant things to ur partner if theyre important to u#alzo i think damsel should get to be an arsonist#as a treat
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I will always defend u kagiura akira
#i could send screenshots of me defending him bc i actually do#genuinely dont get how anyone could hate his character i just dont#hes done nothing wrong in his life /j#i love u kagi-kun#but deadass tho#never got hating half of a series#hes literally half of the series#if u hate him sm stop reading htk...#and interacting with it#also i notice kagi haters view hirano as this damsel that has to constantly defend himself from the fire breathing dragon (kagi)#have u read the manga yet or#have you SEEN hirano taiga#he IS the firebreathing dragon#<- jk somewhat#but yeah#love u kagi#muah#kagiura akira
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I think the main thing that makes Edelstans' version of Edelgard so annoying is that she ultimately has every ounce of agency stripped out of her, by people who insist that they're "making her grow" into a character they already made her out to be from the start. We get told that Edelgard has this amazing character arc, and then are presented with a Mary Sue with no discernable flaws and/or who makes no substantial mistakes.
This Edelgard is perfect out the box, no discolorations or tears to be seen. She just has a bit of dust, but the doll itself is flawless. And that is, in the end, what ruins her. She’s not prideful and arrogant, she’s not stubborn and narrow-minded, she’s not manipulative and deceitful, she’s not violent and abrasive, she’s not nationalistic and imperialistic, but nor is she fearless and confident, she’s not ambitious and resolute - she has none of her character flaws or boons, because they make her too full of agency. They drive her to choose to do anything; they're not forces outside of her control that make her do things that she would just never, ever do were the WORLD not so broken and flawed.
The few "flaws" Edelstans begrudgingly allow her are only meant to further endear her to the player. She’s childish, but only because she’s oh so traumatized and that should be accepted as who she is and not something to grow out of (nor something that is truly wrong of her to be even in her 20's). She’s self-unaware, but only because the world made her unsure of who she really is, which is a perfect little angel. The only "mistakes" she makes are because others failed her; Byleth and the Black Eagles fail Edelgard in the Holy Tomb, that wasn't her fault, they didn't ensure her that they could be trusted, for example.
Claude and Rhea have flaws - real flaws, that aren't "they just don't wove themselves enuff." Dimitri makes mistakes - real mistakes, that aren't "he twusted the wrong people and got hurt fwom them." They are allowed to misstep and stumble, to steer off of a purely good path due to actions that they chose to make, they get to grow as characters. But any imperfection found in the Edelstan Edelgard is only due to her environment, not her own nature. Narratively, she never does any wrong; anything bad she ever does is really someone else's fault.
She’s just a little flower plucked of all her thorns, safe and easy to pick up and admire, weak, meek and too innocent and pure for this dirty dirty world, coveted by all for her perfection and beauty.
Which is just so... boring? And annoying? That literally no matter what happens to her or what she herself does, it's never a result of Edelgard doing something but something being done to Edelgard? UNLESS it's a purely good action, then suddenly she has all the agency in the world and should be responsible for it? It's so clear that this Edelgard is one that is sanitized of any pesky little flaw that could make people dislike her or like her in the "wrong" way (because liking villains for being villains Is Wrong), and that is ironically the exact reason why she's so insufferable.
Like, it's almost kinda hard to explain why having a character choose to be an asshole is so much more engaging to watch than having a character be entirely reactive UNTIL they can get Good Noodle Stars because.... yeah? Of course? Because there's more meat to bite into whenever a character makes a choice - whether kind or spiteful, whether good or bad - over someone else forcing a character to do something.
"Edelgard believes in imperialism because she has been raised in and agrees with a culture that believes itself to be the rightful 'owner' of the continent due to it being the progenitor country, and she genuinely believes Fodlan would be better if back under this 'glorious' reign of Adrestia, even despite her being around those outside of Adrestia for almost a year" says so much about her AND Adrestia. "Edelgard DOESN'T believe in imperialism, it's just that everyone else is doing so badly that they FORCE her to kill them or otherwise get rid of them" says things about the ones DOING things badly, MAYBE, but all it says about Edelgard is that she Doesn't Like Bad Things. Or, oh so much deeper, it says she likes *gasp* Good Things! How brave, how stunning! And before you can try to say "Well maybe Edelgard went to violence so quickly because she views fear and control to be the best way to force a society into being 'good' over trying to convince people peacefully," the Edelstan Edelgard is already packaged with "Edelgard went to war first because literally everyone MADE her go to war because THEY wouldn't let anything else work."
"Edelgard tried to assassinate Dimitri and Claude at the very beginning of the game because she wanted to make her eventual war go way easier" turns into the infamous "Edelgard was just trying to scare THE TEACHER away to get JERITZA installed in their place, and CLAUDE ruined it by running away; she wasn't ACTUALLY trying to hurt anyone." "Edelgard let Remire be massacred because - like she literally said she would - she was willing to sacrifice her people's lives in service of her higher cause" turns into one of "TWS forced her to be compliant" or "Edelgard definitely didn't know anything because she would have stopped it had she known." "Edelgard directly assisted in Flayn's kidnapping because TWS having more tools to work with means she gets more weapons to fight with" turns into "She was forced to do that." "Edelgard helped hide Kronya among the student populace even as she kidnapped students and mutated them into Demonic Beasts because it will help in giving her Demonic Beasts to work with in the war" turns into, you guessed it, "Edelgard was forced to do that." "Edelgard sent her army and Demonic Beasts onto either her direct Black Eagle classmates or otherwise innocent students to stop them from stopping her from getting Crest Stones to use in her upcoming war"? Oh, a surprise! "She HAD to do that, because OTHER PEOPLE were going to take the Crest Stones if she didn't!"
She was forced to, she wasn't hurting/trying to hurt anyone, she didn't do anything wrong - if her actions lead to people getting hurt and/or killed, those are the exclusive reasons allowed as to why she did it. These reasons being excuses to alleviate her of any accountability, not genuine explanations that still demand her to take accountability.
Meanwhile, Rhea distorted history to keep her and her family safe - which in verse is said to be something she was still wrong to do, and which in verse she ADMITS was wrong of her to do. Dimitri was absolutely willing to torture Randolph because he viewed the guy as less than human and felt him getting such inhumane treatment was justice - which he directly takes accountability for to Randolph's remaining family. Claude weaseled up to Byleth because he felt he could use them for his own ambitions - which he owns up to and grows out of doing. Regardless of context explaining why they did this or that, they did this and that. They own their actions and are responsible for them, no one else. And, you know, because they own their actions, they can, uh. Grow from said actions? Look back on what they did and go "huh, shouldn't have done that, I will choose to not choose to do those actions again"?
Like I'm sorry but you can't choose to not get fucked by literally the entire damn world and that's what makes Edelsue so fucking boring and uninteresting and annoying. All of that meticulous planning Edelgard did for years to enact this war, in this interpretation, boils down to "she didn't do shit, everyone else did, she was just forced to be the fall guy." Any action that isn't squeaky clean in moral whiteness has nothing to do with her agency and that sucks ass
#edelgard discourse#just to be safe#like this is pertaining to SPECIFICALLY the way a shit ton of edelstans try to portray Edelgard's character to be#as in she's this perfect angel who never did wrong and never IS wrong and was FORCED by the WOLRD to be a MEANIE in their meta of her#Canongard being an asshole who rarely if ever owns up to the shit she did makes sense cuz she's a villain. villains are going to Villain#but yeah it's just SUPER annoying to see this female character chock-full of agency and drive get reduced down to#sniveling damsel who is just a poor little girl and NEEEEEEDS Byleth to SAVE HER from the EVIL WORLD that BULLIES HER#because LITERALLY NO ONE *LETS* HER be the good girl she is deep down inside. like. bruh
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Me 30 minutes ago: My arts gotten so much better, I can totally make badass dynamic anime poses!
Me now:
...no I cannot.
This is what I get trying to draw my blind Stan crawling across the ground in search of his brother at, what is supposed to be, a bottom left to top perspective angle 😂
Because some jerk that kidnapped and bound Ford cheated during a fight and tripped him, before blasting awful techno music in a strong echo-y room (like an auditorium or something), so Stan's reverberation sensing doesn't work and he's overwhelmed, just like Ford is who's had his muffs ripped off and is shouting Stan's name in a panic.
It was a tiny comic idea that was gonna have the kiddos helping them out but oof, clearly not working right now. Gotta hone those anatomy proportions and foreshortening skills more x_x
#gravity falls#gravity falls au#blind and deaf au#stanley pines#stan pines#before anyone says anything about damsel in distress ford#there was no portal shenanigans#he never learned badass combat skills only survival skills such as moss direction and how to find water and poisonous flora/berries etc#guy never got in more boxing practice but did help stan with his by confirming direction as stan learned to sense reverberations#they are both still very much separate brawns and brains just like as kids due to never separating in life
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Day 7, the Razor! She was the last route I got on my first playthrough, which was one hell of a way to end the game
#slay the princess#stp#stp razor#art#something i love about each princess design in-game is how they use shapes#razor of course is drawn with all of these sharp angles#damsel has more soft shapes while pris is a bit more angular#its simple but its really fun#my first playthrough i knew i was on the last route bc of shifty's dialogue#id been trying to play with the mindset of 'pretend you're going in blind'#but since it was the last route i was like 'whatever i want to see the cute ghost girl from the demo'#but then after stabbing her there was an option id never seen before#and so. knife wife.#(i'd only watched the VERY early demo. Razor wasn't in that one)#honestly it was a fun pallete cleanser after apotheosis
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Day 4 SuperheroxVillain IchiLaw
Law: Uh… Stealth black is that you?
Ichiji: ?!. In his mind, he can’t decide if he should be offended by this or be just outright confused and baffled at this point.
#one piece#vinsmoke ichiji#one piece law#ichilaw#Ichiji x Law#ichiji#trafalgar law#my art#vinshippingweek2024#vinsmokeshippingweek2024#It will never not stop being amusing to me having Law getting rescued like damsel and being held like an absolute princess.#I’m sorry they’re my silly loser man even as a couple I can’t take them fully seriously because they’re such dorks to me.#I love this ship so much don’t judge me. OvO’)#Also fun fact I did all the line-art with a dip pen and did the rest digitally. Which is the reason why this took so long to finish.#As you can tell I really like this funny ship. I put my all into this one as well. OvO)
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