#edgelord... 2!!!!

[lightishlilac]

Chat help I'm brainrotting over UTMV againnnnn

[mafuyuakgae]

you're already a ghost to him (2/2)

[aprito]

sos month day 10: rivalry

let's be real, the pool of other people fighting for sakura's (romantic) attention is not that big. in fact, it's just those three. and they're very insistent on making their distaste for the latest member of the pool known!!

bonus

[buqbite]

part 1 (on VA and being better than humans)

part 2 (on welt and being just a human)

[highfantasy-soul]

So Vel's monologue in s2e6 is to me what Luthen's monologue in s1 was to seemingly everyone else.

I rolled my eyes through Luthen's monologue where he aggrandized himself and made himself out to be the most specialist, put upon, sacrificial martyr who has ever existed (while talking to an actual spy who has to pretend to be a high ranking Imperial every second of every day of his life). "I burn my life for a sunrise I'll never see" sounds cool, but what the fuck does that actually mean? What is he really doing and is it justified or does he just use that excuse to shunt any responsibility or accountability for his shitty actions? Making sure no one can question him because he's 'actually the one sacrificing things, so just do as I say'?

His big 'call to action' for Lonnie was "I'm actually sacrificing way more than you are, so suck it up". I repeat: he's saying this to an actual spy who has to pretend to be an Imp every second of every day of his life while Luthen can put on disguises at will and relax in his shop with people who know him and he can talk freely to about what he's doing - all things Lonnie 100% cannot ever do. [Luthen really reminded me of Cody Walsh for D20s Unsleeping City 2 and all the edge-lord guys like that who think they're just so cool and 'walk the darker path other's can't handle' [cue the wind machine though a trench coat and dyed black hair fluttering in front of an anime boy's scarred face]]

Vel's was so much more impactful to me because she didn't make it about herself, she didn't even make it about the cause. She made it about what's important: people and how they treat each other. The real, present, cost that has just been paid not in some grandiose way, but will impact the person forever. She was right there risking her life for a bunch of people she didn't know. She was boots on the ground with someone she loved, helping the Ghor because they both believe so much in aiding those fighting oppression, they took the risk. And because of it, Cinta was killed - not by the Empire, but by the very people they were out to help. But Vel doesn't make herself the victim - she empowers the new Rebel to go forward and take action even without her direct guidance.

"I'm not going to say 'remember this', because I don't have to. This is on you now. This is like skin. You're taking her with you wherever you go for the rest of your useless life."

This is the cost that he now knows not just in theory, but in reality. It's not a mistake one walks away clean from - he will take this with him and the seasoned veteran confirms it for him. She doesn't need to be there to remind him of it and hold it over him - he'll do that himself.

"She was a warrior. She is everything you have daydreamed about."

The Ghorman rebel /wants/ to do good. He fucked up and he knows it. They are inexperienced and refused to listen to the advice of those who have done it before - they thought they knew best and that they were the big bad revolutionaries. But it was Cinta who was the warrior, not them. All they did was daydream until that night.

"She was a blooded, fearless warrior who's loss will be mourned in ways you will never understand. She was a miracle. And you? to die like this because of you. Some whining, simpering, foolish child?"

Vel puts him in his place, but doesn't aggrandize herself in this moment - she doesn't even refer to herself at all. It's all about Cinta and the kid who killed her. She's shoving a mirror in his face and making him look into it. She's making sure it's known just how loved and valuable Cinta was and giving him a reality check about how much growing he has to do.

"Don't you dare cry. You'll make up for this forever."

She doesn't just say 'oh poor me, look at what I just lost' she gives the rebel a call to action. She tells him to dry his tears, face his mistake, and set to making it right. Not because she's sacrificing so much so he's got to as well. But because if he wants to really make a difference, if he really wants to be what he thinks he is, he needs to follow Cinta's example and work every day to make what he thinks he is a reality.

There's such a massive difference between someone who's in the trenches with you - leading you, but also working side by side and risking their lives for you and your people, giving you a tongue lashing for a real mistake you made that cost someone their life and pushing you forward to atone for it (Vel) and someone ordering you into extremely dangerous situations from the safety and comfort of a city penthouse and after years of valuable service, when you ask to leave and take a safer job for you and your family, they decide you're too valuable to THEM and try to make themselves the victim to guilt you into continuing to follow their orders (Luthen).

Vel didn't tell the Ghor rebel that he was going to have to serve under her leadership for the rest of his life in order to make up for it - she empowered him to take it upon himself to make up for it in whatever way he could. She didn't push him to do it for herself, she did it for Cinta, for the Ghor, for the galaxy, but really, for the rebel himself. She put aside her own ego to push someone to keep going after a terrible mistake and to become the person he wanted to be in spite of his current self without her having to stand over him to make sure he was still following through.

I wish people gave the other characters their roses instead of just focusing on Luthen and his shitty, shitty 'leadership' style. They're buying Luthen's crap - the crap that says 'this is the only appropriate way to run a rebellion, I'm the only smart one, the only one who's strong enough to do what needs to be done, the only one who can handle choosing what to sacrifice - caring about people is WEAK!'

I need more people to call Luthen's methods out (thank you Cassian in ep 6 for telling him off) so I know who I can trust in a real revolution - because let me tell you, I don't trust Luthen for shit and I'd run far, far away from him and those who think like him in a rebellion. Vel though, she's cool. She's got her priorities right.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

honoring my 13 year old self by drawing gabriel reyes in 2024

[makoredeyes]

Pick(axe) Your Battles >.>

Ya'll this started from a joke. Starting to see that Warlock chest piece from the Warlord's Ruin dungeon getting to be kind of popular as a reference item for Felwinter (which is correct and good the man deserves to be draped in furs) but you always see that kind of goofy climbing or ice pick that comes attached vanish. But no, I say let the man keep it he'd use it, but maybe not always for it's intended use HEH.

I definitely see Felwinter as the resourceful type that will have his standard kit that he keeps with him, sure, but will 10000% pick up a crow bar (or an ice pick, or an old steering wheel, or a fucking brick...) and fight with it if that's what's hand, and he'll freaking win with it, too.

The Nova Bomb is just insult to injury :3

[hcnnibal]

You have probably been sent this before but I don’t even need to say who

i wish i was special

[crusaderguy]

Imagine you're breaking into someone's house and then they pull out the fucking edgelord's skullmaster automatic splinter shitter 9,000.

I want this, gimme, I can be definitely be trusted with one of these and won't storm into the IRS headquarters in full military grade armor from the 41st century while on omega level steroids that make me less and less human.

[see-arcane]

Having just finally listened to the new The Magnus Protocol and getting introduced to Needles the 'What Do You MEAN I'm Not Scary Enough!?' Avatar of Sharp Poking, I have to say right now that I know in my heart of hearts that he must have so many terrible nicknames among the other avatars

"Hey, Pinhead, how goes the phone spam?" <- stings because originally he chose 'Pinhead' on purpose to reference Hellraiser, but absolutely no one got it until he spelled it out and by then the name was ruined

"What's up, Prick?" <- lowest effort, but still goads him into raising a single massive darning needle middle finger in response

"Kebab, can you hold onto this for me?" <- said before having assorted foods speared on him; fruits, sausage, cheeses, etc. Takes forever to pluck everything off. Even worse when someone just ambushes him with a down comforter and pillows

"This you?" <- no name involved, but always a prelude before being shown a picture of a porcupine

Just. There is no way this faintly jingling pile of pointy things has any respect among the rest of the bogeymen in this universe. I love it

[chai-en-kaadhale]

kagurabachi is so funny bc everyone keeps looking at this one guy and being like Yes My Life Purpose Is Now Found And It's This Emo Dude

[tanis-drawings-2point0]

sorry but I just cant get over the fact that without the full context scratch sounds like THEE edgiest oc in the planet, like imagine you're saga and alex and the guy who disappeared for 13 years drops this on you as a side mission he had once, id be like what the fuck bro...

[icedjuiceboxes]

There's something poetic about Emily's journey beginning with betrayal and when faced with another betrayal chooses forgiveness.

And you can argue corvo goes through the same journey but I think there's an important distinction that corvo /spared/ Daud’s life. He didn't forgive him. He just let him live, especially after daud begged for it. And the betrayal from the loyalists ended up with them all dead from infighting.

But when Meagan confesses to Emily and reveals shes billie lurk, and only when Emily is low chaos, Emily is faced with a choice of her own free making.

Billie, the first ally she makes after she loses everyone. The person who introduced herself as a friend of Sokolov’s, a mutual of theirs to gain trust. The person that Emily intimately gets to know over their travels to the point of joking around, complaining about each other habits and picking up on subtleties.

Billie doesn't beg for her life. There's no difference if she lives or doesn't. The betrayal wasn't an act of hate against Emily. Emily could kill Billie and it's only be taking an eye for an eye.

But Emily forgives Billie. Emily sees Billie for what she is and what she could be, and not for what she's done. Emily, to her core, is a character about forgiveness and second chances and hope.

[genkii05]

🔥little challenge proposed by a guy on twitter

✨️ . @deejamariart

[imperial-refuse]

Fuck it. Manga-fies Your RP Thread.

Vyrgyl Daante and Vesper Maamba belong to me Arcayd Macine and Kharmi Merdir belong to @hemo--havoc

[jessalynny]

My fiancé started another run, and as per usual Shadowheart and Astarion were being extra catty— and then my hand slipped