#doesnt speak actually im simply speechless

[itskaist]

Hark, A Herald

Gabriel Vidal as painted by dearest friend @reapersmarch

[wickedpact]

i feel like we’ve absolutely had this conversation before but i can’t be bothered to actually check if we have- but there’s So Much “nicky isn’t good with words” content (and like, i don’t completely hate it in uses of maybe aus where nicky hasn’t been alive for nearly 1,000 years) but the thing is is that canonically, we’ve seen nicky be scary good with words. like i will die on the nicolò “acts of service to show love” di genova hill. but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to use his words!! he might not say as much but when he does speak there is a certain... weight behind his words? he says things with a purpose and a meaning. even if it may seem he’s saying something casually, there’s so much behind it??? but again, i’m just working with the movie as my source, and we only saw a very uhh?? brief bit of their lives so really we need a sequel to explore all this more. - 2ta

you 🤝 the same fucking braincell 🤝 me

when we were talking about nicky being both reserved and Not Reserved like.. idk a couple weeks ago i Almost made another post that i typed up at like 3 in the morning and then saved as a draft (bc it was three in the morning ofc)

i never posted it but it was like the same fucking thing you just said. like. nicky is not only good with words and good at expressing himself, but i also think of him as pretty social

like tldr

1. nicky is, like you said, Good at talking 2 ppl. Scary good. there are multiple instances through the movie of nicky shutting someone The Fuck Up via just talking to them a little. i mean in the train scene he gets andy (ANDY!!! stubborn andy!!) and book (BOOK!!! the guy who greatly benefits if they dont go after another immortal!!) to concede to his point abt nile after saying like 3 sentences to them. he strikes kozak speechless. he makes merrick run scared from his own lab. nickys GOOD with words and good at expressing himself and good at talking to people & good at making people agree with him, even if they wont admit it

2. i think its kind of pointed that in the scene where he says hello to the little girl in s. sudan, hes in the back of the group? like, we’re shown andy, book, and joe all passing the sudanese people without saying a word. nicky is the only one who greets them, despite the fact that it wouldve been hardly rude to not to.

so hes not only good with words, but hes also social. he says hi to strangers he passes in the street. tho a lot of interpretations of joe and nicky have joe being the social one and nicky being the introverted/awkward/shy one, i actually think of nicky as the more social between the two, and honestly maybe even the most social of the group. book and andy dont exactly strike me as gushing extroverts

altho i have to admit i think of them all at least slightly extroverted (i mean joe at least was a merchant. theres no way he could be Bad with people). i just think of nicky as just a little Bit More social

like. consider a diagram i made like 3 weeks ago

theyre both social. nickys just. a little more.

3. ik weve all talked endlessly abt nicky being a priest but like... being a priest is a social job. idk how Priesthood(TM) has changed between now and the 1000s but i doubt that particular facet has changed. priests are involved in their community. the whole point of being a priest is talking to people. i assume nicky chose to be a priest, thus his chosen career was a social one that involves talking to people as a core aspect.

& i agree that its definitely up in the air regarding whether younger nicky/ au nicky would be social/good at expression or not. However it always feels silly when joe is like.. the same exact guy circa 1100 as he is in 2020 but nicky is radically different in terms of how he expresses himself and his social habits. same goes for aus.

i mean. at the end of the day, im not the fandom police, and i dont ever wanna give off the impression that im like.. trying to tell fic authors what to write bc i get thats annoying as hell.

(and i mean i get it. nicky talks softly, doesnt have Marwan Kenzari’s Expressive Eyebrows, and is shown to be a bit of a bookworm. shy/introvert!nicky is a easy conclusion 2 come to. i simply Dont agree with it)

[houseki-no-suffering]

Some additional thoughts on ch 81

i know ive already written a few analysis about this last chapter but there are a few things that id still like to mention, starting with the artbook because this

this is a free ticket to uncanny valley. chibi gems? a smiling cinnabar? a happy yellow diamond? genki phos laughing like a happy child, surrounded by the love of their people, flowers, rainbows, stars and frilly things? 

this is the creepiest thing ichikawa has pulled out of her pencil since the cairnmea wedding night. ill be having nightmares about this for months.

but yeah back to the actual chapter

“How long as that been there?” 

Yeah. that’s a legitimate question. more so when you think that goshe hasnt been around the other gems much (they say so themselves when they say they havent touched a gem in a long time, which im also very curious about cause thats a pretty specific thing to say), so they have been with the lunarians. 

why havent they noticed this building for 220 years then? has aechmea been keeping padparadscha away from the gems on purpose?

this reminds me of how padpa’s fingers break when they pull out one of their replacements. 

gems of the same kind shouldnt break when touching, so why did padpa’s finger shatter when they touched a piece of themselves? it could be a symptom of a general weakness due to shinsha’s mercury, the same weakness that makes it so padpa cant stand up on their own or it could also mean that the synthetic gem used to repair padpa has some downsides to it

now to phos. 

it pains me to no end to see phos reduced in this state. a literal monster, barely human-shaped just when we know they have become human. which is too ironic not to be on purpose. during this chapter phos reminds me almost of a scared animal or an infant (which would make sense if theyre indeed being reborn as a human, even on a simply metaphorical level)

like a spider or an insect, a wounded animal, phos just runs away, crawling toward the cave. they dont speak, they dont even shout. they barely look themselves anymore.

Naked, running away without uttering a single word, it looks like they lost the ability to think and feel complex emotions, like they have reversed to some primordial state of the self and of the mind. will acquiring the seventh treasure mean that phos has to re-learn to do a lot of things? are they literally being reborn? 

also, during this chase they lose so many pieces of themselves. half their head is gone, the agathe legs are gone almost completely, a huge part of their metal is scattered around the school and the island and so a huge number of phosphophyllite fragments. it makes me wonder if phos’ silence during this chapter and the way they run away without thinking is connected to reaching a point of non return in their journey.

we know that the more pieces of themselves they lose, the less similar to genki phos they’ll be. they are losing so much of that precious phosphophyllite that makes up less than 40% of their present body, and yet their torso, the only part of phos that is still the original phos, is the most intact.

yet phos is still conscious enough, ‘phosphophyllite’ enough to recognize the cave and reach out to their old notebook. 

i dont know what phos wanted to find in it, why they tried to pick it up. maybe they only hold a faint memory of what happened more than 322 years ago, maybe they forgot about cinnabar and their promise, and yet they look sincerely sad when the notebook breaks.

the notebook and the cave are symbols of phos’ promise and the fact that cinnabar is there no more and left the notebook behind are symbols of cinnabar moving on from phos’ words and finding purpose on their own. 

i think it’s very significant that, even if it was cinnabar who left the notebook behind, it is phos who breaks it, just like they broke cinnabar’s trust.

finally id like to point out that rutile runs toward padparadscha to catch the piece of synthetic gem. they dont refuse the ‘gift’, they dont act hostile.

padpa is doing for them what rutile tried to do themselves in chap 70, when they tried to carve out padpa’s synthetic replacements. rutile is just speechless, shocked. they run towards padpa, they catch the piece and then they sink to the ground, overwhelmed by emotions. 

just like padparadscha doesnt hate rutile, rutile doesnt hate padparadscha. their obsession with padpa wasnt intentional and they still care a great deal about their former partner.

this last panel looks like the final stage of a battle, the end of a war and possibly of rutile and padpa’s arcs. padpa’s body is lying on the ground like a dead knight and rutile is crouched near them, hugging a piece of padpda to the chest, silent, defeated by emotions.

[spideypparkers]

OK BUT IMAGINE THIS: A FEMALE FRIEND WHO HELPS SPIDEY EACH NIGHT AND IS 10/10 BEHIND IT AND DOESNT CRY OVER IT AND SHIT AND SUPPORTS HIM AND ONE NIGHTHE SHOWS UP AT HER WINDOW WHICH ISNT WEIRD BC HE USUALLY SHOWS UP WHEN HE'S HURT AND SO SHE KINDA FREAKS AND SHE OPENS THE WINDOW AND HE RIPS OFF HIS MASK AND JUST LOOKS AT HER FOR A MIN AND THEN HE LITERALLY JUMPS INSIDE AND LIKE TACKLES HER ONTO THE BED I JUST IM SO THIRSTY FOR PETER -THE KINKY ANON

kinky anon i’m ,,,, speechless

you have infires inspired me wow this got really… kinky i am sorry i had to put it under a read more

“peter,” you breathed, not sure if you were actually awake or simply dreaming. peter stood in front of you, his mask clasped in a gloved fist, his eyes boring into yours.

before you knew it, he was gripping your arms and the two of you were toppling onto the bed, the mattress creaking uncomfortably underneath you with the added force. you’d squeezed your eyes shut when you felt yourself falling backwards, but when you reopened them to look into peter’s dark eyes, you felt your heart jump and lodge itself in your throat. his gloved fingers danced across your bare arms until they were wrapped around your wrists. you were effectively pinned to the bed.

“peter?” you repeated, your voice breathy and quiet. “but how–”

“i couldn’t help myself,” he mumbled, cutting you off. peter’s eyes darted down to your lips, which were parted in shock, and your face heated up. you kept your eyes locked on his, intent on watching everywhere he looked. you felt him shift on top of you until he had you completely trapped underneath his body, with no way to escape.

not that you’d want to.

his face came closer and he nudged the tip of his nose against yours, making your breath hitch.

“god, do you know how long i’ve wanted to kiss these lips?” he whispered, his breath fanning over the very lips he was talking about. you bit your bottom lip and he groaned, dropping his head to the crook of your neck. “don’t do that,” he demanded.

you immediately stopped.

when he looked up and noticed how obedient you had been, a strangled noise was dragged out of his mouth and your breathing quickened.

“are you going to be a good girl for me?” he whispered, his pupils blown so wide you couldn’t tell where his irises began. you started to speak, but he cut you off with a rough kiss, smashing his soft lips to yours. he kissed you until you squirmed uncomfortably, needing to breathe. he moved back with an obscene ‘pop’ and had to bite back the smirk at your expression. “i didn’t tell you that you could speak,” he told you darkly, squeezing your wrists in warning.

you bit your lip and swallowed, nodding. you curled your hands into fists, watching peter’s every move.

“good,” he breathed out, his voice pitched low and husky. he slowly released your wrists in favor of caressing his fingers down the sides of your body. “now be a good girl for me and keep your hands up above your head like that.”

and that’s all for now, I’M SORRY EVERYONE