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crazy that they deleted this scene

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decided to have a lil fun and add another, humanity's strongest soldier.

same reference used

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Favs from each fandom (nobody asked)

Dragon Age: Solas (that's p much it, I'm obsessed with his storyline)

RDR2: Arthur & John (love p much everyone except Micah and Dutch tbh)

BG3: Lae'zel, Gale, Astarion, BARCUS WROOT🗣️🗣️🗣️

Skyrim: Paarthurnax

Witcher III: Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer (lowkey idk how anyone could pick Triss)

Overwatch: I main Ana and Cass :)

D&D: as the DM my favorite NPC was in our first campaign when we were still learning. We played Lost Mines of Phandelver and there was some random goblin named Droop that my friends adopted. I loved doing his silly little voice and they started dressing him in all the cool loot they found and thus renamed him Drip.

AOT: loooooooove Levi and Reiner they're so incredibly tragic and I'm obsessed with them

JJK: Yuji and Megumi (they're boyfriends, change my mind) also Yuta is a very compelling character

Berserk: obviously Guts and Casca (LET THEM BE HAPPY) Puck is fun too and I despise Griffith ("may his name be forgotten") but he's a very well-written and interesting villain

KNY: okay this is probably the longest list . . . in no particular order: Tanjiro, Inosuke, Rengoku, Giyuu, Genya, and Sanemi

Dororo: Hyakkimaru, Jukai, Dororo, and Mio

Chainsaw Man: Denji is one of my favorite characters of all time, also love Power and Aki :(

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i recently tried to learn to edit, this is my only attempt so far and it took HOURS and is pretty unimpressive. i don’t know if i want to try again but if anyone has tips i’m all ears

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been rereading berserk while on a break and man this might still be one of my favourite kisses in.... any form of media?

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inosuke and aoi is currently added to my kny fav ship 😍 look at the way inosuke is smilinggg

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His mama

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Oh nothing, just Hyakkimaru’s special way of showing affection

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It's actually wild how often fandoms erase the effects of ideological grooming.

Take Tahomaru from Dororo (2019).

This is a teenage boy raised in a cult-like ideology of false prosperity, taught that:

"Daigo's land cannot exist without Tahomaru."

"Tahomaru cannot exist without Daigo's land."

"Hyakkimaru is cursed. His existence brings famine, disease, and chaos."

"Killing Hyakkimaru is not murder—it's duty, it's nobility, it's sacrifice for the greater good."

That's not just parental pressure. That's indoctrination.

Tahomaru is being fed propaganda his whole life—crafted to make him believe that his only value is in preserving a kingdom built on someone else's suffering. And when he starts to crack under that pressure, the system just tightens its grip.

And yet, a lot of English-speaking fans just write him off as "evil" or "jealous."

They miss:

The tragedy of a child being told his brother's pain is necessary.

The horror of a system so warped it turns a teenager into a self-righteous executioner.

The fact that Tahomaru was loved only conditionally—as long as he upheld the lie.

This is the same pattern we see in:

Gabi Braun (Attack on Titan): indoctrinated to hate her own people in the name of "good Eldians."

N (Pokémon Black and White): groomed by Ghetsis to become the voice of a cult-like liberation movement he didn't fully understand.

Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan): traumatized by the double life forced on him by the Marleyan regime.

Akito Sohma (Fruits Basket): enabled, isolated, and told she was the "God"—but only if she controlled and punished others.

Kurozumi Orochi (One Piece): groomed by Kurozumi Higurashi to seek revenge on Wano and the Kozuki clan in the name of his clan.

Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender): groomed by Ozai to be a weapon of the Fire Nation.

It's not about excusing harm. It's about understanding how systems create monsters—and victims—in the same breath.

Tahomaru didn't "turn evil."

He was groomed into tragedy.

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I FOUND IT GUYS

does anybody have a clip of when rook tells solas “and now varric’s hurt” and solas says “varric . . .”

i just finished the game for the fourth time but i still crave the angst😭

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Solas would have had an easier time with everything if he’d made friends with the Spirit of Therapy

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damn. just realized that there is a repeated visual motif of solas bent over in physical agony representing the crushing weight of his guilt and shame throughout his murals

which is later reflected during the culmination of that same cycle of regret, with the same exact body language, even grasping at his chest or head in the same way as his depiction in the murals

and then i remembered the full meaning of "solas"

and in the end, bolstered by the inquisitor's words, he does

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Levellan held Solas’ hands when they kissed so that he would not grab that ass in-front of everyone.

Because we all know that man’s hands are always gabbing ass and or gravitating to grab ass

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'in all thedas i never expected to find someone who could draw my attention from the fade'

gurl he was saying he's glad he's not a spirit so he can be with you in this way. the man who never wanted to be a person, who was traumatised and twisted from the process of becoming and experience of living as one, is glad, for the first time, that he has a body, because it's how he can have you

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does anybody have a clip of when rook tells solas “and now varric’s hurt” and solas says “varric . . .”

i just finished the game for the fourth time but i still crave the angst😭