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jackieshauna and the graves of your roles in the story

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you should be GRATEFUL. my favorite character commits atrocities so your favorite character doesnt have to. someone has to be slightly villainous and monstrous in order to keep the plot interesting. where is her thank you

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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: VALORANT (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Killjoy/Raze (VALORANT) Characters: Klara Böhringer | Killjoy (VALORANT), Tayane Alves | Raze (VALORANT), Liam Byrne | Brimstone (VALORANT), Original Characters Additional Tags: Alpha Earth and Omega | Mirror Earth Conflict (VALORANT), Established Relationship, Post-Canon, as of patch 9.11, Worldbuilding, Complicated Relationships, Dubious Science, Killjoy-centric (VALORANT), Raze-centric (VALORANT), Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, the inherent intimacy of talking to your alternate self's girlfriend Summary:

“We won’t stop until we’re saved, and you won’t stop until you’re safe." Raze says. "At this rate, if we keep attacking and you keep defending, this war will never end and our worlds will both die. You see that, don’t you? I’m offering you a chance at an armistice. Are you really going to refuse it? Without even hearing what I have to say?”

Would Raze lie about something like this? Would Tayane?

“How?” she finally asks, and even though it is dark, the relief she sees in Raze’s eyes is bright.

or,

Seven years after it first began, the Mirror Earth Conflict comes to an end.

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the most tragic part about agatha all along isn’t the characters’ deaths themselves, but rather the timing of their deaths.

alice, right after breaking her family’s generational curse and creating the possibility of a future she doesn’t have to run from, dies doing her job as a protection witch.

lilia, after finally coming to terms with being a witch and all that it stands for, after finally finding her coven and her people… dies saving them and embracing her identity.

agatha, after spending centuries of her life killing on her quest for power, finally comes to terms with her son’s death and forgives rio. but in doing so, she sacrifices not only quest for power, but her life so that she can save a boy that reminds her of her son.

if these characters were just given more time, they could have overcome their traumas and fears and lived to embrace their lives to the fullest. that thought, what if they lived? is what makes the story a tragedy.

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(spoilers for ep. 7)

the fact that lilia, time and time again, condemns every stereotype regarding witches (broomsticks, covens, etc.) because she herself could never accept what it meant to be a witch. and how this plays so wonderfully into the allegory of queerness and internalized homophobia— rejecting yourself because you fear your true identity.

and, the most tragic part of it all is that just when she’s ready to accept herself and her status as a witch, when she’s ready to accept the support of her coven rather than run from it… she dies. she barely even got to experience it before she gave it up. and it’s tragic, sure, but there’s a beauty to it, too. she died accepting herself— a mercy, if anything.

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honestly, i don’t know what’s more gut-wrenching to believe.

1.) wanda’s hex started weakening immediately after wanda died and distorted enough so that rio could find agatha. the rio we meet in agatha’s detective plot is the real rio, and therefore she helped agatha break the hex and waited until agatha was back in her right mind to break down her door and have a angsty fight and queer reunion

2.) wanda’s hex protected agatha from anybody (including witches, including rio) trying to find her (“no one will bother you here”) until the very end and therefore the rio in agatha’s detective plot wasn’t real and was only imagined because agatha’s mind needed a way to explain the weakening hex and a way to break free. and thus, the first time we meet the real rio is when she breaks down agatha’s front door and they fight (less than 5 minutes after the hex is finally broken— i timed it)

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when i first started watching AAA, i was like “omg this is great! ive never seen this troupe with reversed roles!” because what i always hated most about this troupe was that the grizzled old male character would be loved and mischaracterized by everyone and his young adopted daughter would be hated and loathed for every choice she made that didn’t resolve anything in a satisfactory way. and i was like, “wow, you’re hatred for women holds no bounds. you dont even try to see the reason they do the things they do. you are blinded by false love and all-encompassing loathing.”

and then i watched AAA and i was so excited because i thought things would be different. i thought that because the show was targeted for queer people, specifically lesbians, that we could not only see ourselves in this mentor state, but also further our understanding of the importance of the mentor and protégé’s relationship. but no! its exactly the same! you babygirl-ify agatha as if she’s not someone who took pleasure in killing and is lustful for power! and you hate billy because he dares to challenge agatha! don’t you get it?? the relationship between the protégée and the mentor is vital to the storyline, you cannot understand the mentor’s characterization without accepting the protégée’s existence and influence! you’re hatred is the same, just in a different form!!! you are doomed to the same fate as everyone who has ever hated gwen from ATSV but or mabel from gravity falls or any other female character who dare had complex motives and emotions! do you even hear yourself!!!!

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the thing about hunters and butchers is that they can’t live without each other. who would the hunter sell her game to, if there were no butcher? and how would the butcher get her meat, if there were no hunter?

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fadeshock authors really be out here releasing fics with the YA fantasy novel title theme ([noun] and [noun]) and i eat it up every time. looking at you coffee and cardio. sparks and shadows. sparrows and hawks.

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id just like to mention that because valorant on alpha earth is a secret organization and the entire world thinks jett and phoenix are criminals it’s entirely plausible for any new agent to meet the two of them and go, “holy shit aren’t you the guys who blew up venice.”

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entering a new fandom and rummaging around the top ao3 fics like a kid at the stingray exhibit in the aquarium

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“Rumor has it,” said Tala, walking the line of neutrality and cruelty. “You’re dead.”

Fade slowly moves her hand so that it’s no longer hovering in the air, she grabs the unlit cigarette that hangs between her lips and flicks it away before readjusting so that her hand joins the other one in pressing her jacket tightly against her wound. Her face is grim. She looks exhausted. She looks pathetic.

“Sorry to disappoint,” Fade said.

Or,

Omega Earth's Neon stumbles across Alpha Earth's Fade during a successful mission. They talk.

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i can’t believe they put deadlock in star wars

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we dont see enough galaxsea & skye content do we

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petition to call whatever it is skye and deadlock have going on “naurway” (sounds like australian “no way” and just “norway.”)

it would be horrible to waste this opportunity that was presented to us