#(and anyway it's CERBERUS)

[egophiliac]

couple more quickies, because I gotta work through my Shroud-family feelings before I can even begin to process the Diasomnias, please bear with me 🙇

anyway, I couldn't decide which composition I liked better, so I did both!

[koulakoukoula2003]

Felt the need to post some screenshots of this beautiful man

Bonus: the team glaring at cid for almost crushing the tiny bronco

[sefirots]

crescents

[lunarrolls]

this is what my current theory about ashton’s primordial bullshit boils down to it’s incredibly self explanatory. no i haven’t watched calamity why do you ask

[sapphim]

obsessed with Shepard dying and being reconstructed by Cerberus. waking in a body you don't recognize, free of scars, a clean slate, unlived in. minor tweaks here and there, "upgrades" unasked for, cybernetic or bioengineered. 20/10 vision, too crisp and clear. a more efficient liver. old L3 biotic implant replaced with cutting-edge technology. forcibly assigned übermensch. have you been cloned, or merely Ship of Theseus'd? if they cloned you once, would they do it again? could you be activated as a sleeper agent? would you have any way of knowing? they say that paranoia is a sign of reaper Indoctrination. is it really paranoia if you have good cause?

[crisp-art]

FF7 25TH STREAM SOOOONNN

EDIT: HOLY FUCKNIEJEHEODBEBDK FF7 FANS EATIN

[irljmart]

Hades and their scary guard dog

[shokupanda]

🟢 now that im on break from uni heres a quick scribble of green fortnite dogi cerberus again

[halebobgr]

sketch of the babygirl between work

[justanotherlostgrl]

Tell me why the Hades I was expecting was not the Hades we got

Also, Crusty? He was indeed Crusty, but I was not expecting the secret entrance there

I am flabbergasted. The flashback with little Percy don't touch me im emotional

"Hold fast mom" yeah, i think if you ripped my heart out and smash it on the ground and then stomped on it it would've hurt less

I was biting my nails the whole episode i was losing my mind trying to see where it was going

[ghcstcd]

my biggest dilemma to date: wanting to hang off of Anne’s snoot like a monkey bar or to leave her alone and not do the former because she’d probably give me the worst afterlife possible if I do it

You might be right...

Tip jar // Art is better shared. Please reblog

[solradguy]

aside from sol, who do you play as in guilty gear

order sol

Jk jk lol In Strive I'm probably just as good with I-No as I am with Sol and every now and then I'll play Sin but I'm not very serious about learning him. In +R I literally only play Sol and HOS lmao.... Sometimes in Rev2 I'll play Sin and Johnny, though I've been lazy about practicing with them lately.

I wish +R I-No was as forgiving as Strive I-No but she's got a lot of tricky buttons that are hard to do on a gamepad and she's really easy to punish on mistakes... +R Johnny and Slayer are fun, I just don't ever play them

[stardustedknuckles]

If Caleb sent Essek there instead of using sending, etc, it seems like he sees her as an enemy.

Eh. I think sending your war criminal bf to your vaguely evil (affectionate) ex implies a certain amount of trust in the ex. I think invoking the name Bren was meant to establish a baseline of.... If not trust, a signal that they're on the same side. Essek very likely was being sincere when he said to not panic, even though it was also the code phrase. It's just that. He knew what it would take to subdue her AND where to find her. And to come disguised to better get the drop on her.

I feel like it's more "putting a bread clip on a cat's scruff so you can weigh it" but the implications behind why are nothing short of extremely funny to me to guess at. I imagine like.

"I need you to take these adventurers to Astrid to ask her something. You know how she is, so I trust you will prepare accordingly," he said in Wizard.

"But of course," Essek replied, understanding the assignment perfectly.

What I'm STILL chewing on is why it has to be Astrid as the Aeor contact and not. You know. ESSEK.

I'm very excited to get her reaction to him next ep, truly.

[indilaras]

Cerberus Squad!

ID: a drawing of Vera (Garnet), No. 21 (XII), and Noctis from Punishing Gray Raven. 21 is closer to the camera, grinning and wide-eyed, one hand covered by her sleeve raised up. To her side is Noctis, also grinning, one fist by his hip and the other to his chest. Vera is behind them, sitting on a wall, one leg over the other. She is holding out one hand to the viewer and smiling confidently, while the other hand is holding her banner-spear as it rests on her shoulder. Behind the trio is an early morning sky with clouds, and soft red light is shining on them. End ID.

[terracyte]

hades 2 announcement has eaten my brain so. how about a zag for old times sake? or a new character you’re excited for 💖

good boys with the goodest boy!!!!!!

[its-your-mind]

can I. JUST SAY.

There is so much power in the ability to laugh at the things that terrify you, the things that caused you your deepest wounds and traumas and insecurities

And not in a “haha that was actually always just a foolish trivial thing” and not in a “my fear was never necessary, how silly of me,” but in a “my only perspective on this for years was from below as I cowered before it, trying desperately to protect myself, and now I am slowly learning that it is possible to see this thing from a different angle.”

Caleb imagined the moment he would see Trent again millions of times, in millions of permutations. But the thing about trauma is that it’s almost impossible to imagine confronting its source as anyone but the person you were when you were hurt. And Caleb had been a child, alone, and Trent was the only authority figure with any sway over his life.

It is possible to imagine a student striking back against a cruel and abusive teacher. It is possible to imagine a powerful mage tracking down and punishing a lone fugitive ex-apprentice.

But Caleb isn’t alone anymore, and he’s not subject to Trent’s authority in nearly the same way.

In the moment when Caleb and Trent saw each other again, Caleb was a member of a group of powerful, capable adventurers who had recently thwarted the actions of a dangerous cult of a Betrayer God. He was accompanied by an Expositor of the Cobalt Soul. He was vouched for by an Archmage member of the Council of Tal’dore. He had been part of a successful infiltration into the enemy Dynasty, and had come out with the favor of their Queen.

Caleb might not be as powerful as Trent, either politically or magically, but he’s also not a naive young student from a farming village anymore. He has allies. He has a family. He has power. He is not someone who can be easily made to disappear.

And while Caleb may not have internalized that quite yet, Trent clearly has, and more importantly, the rest of the Nein have.

They all stepped in around Caleb as a show of support and protection and strength as soon as they saw Trent coming close. “This one isn’t yours to control anymore,” they’re saying. “If you want him, you’re going to have to go through us.”

And they’re still listening, still validating Caleb’s fear and assuring him that they’re with him and that they’re going to keep him safe, but they understand how hard this must be for him, and he can just say the word and they’ll all leave Rexxentrum behind.

But they’re also adding chocolate and pastries to the list of demands they have for the Cerberus Assembly for future meetings. They’re mentioning the Happy Fun Ball, by name, to Ludinus Da’leth. Jester is offering to hold official parlay meetings in a volcano. Caduceus is telling Trent he doesn’t know what the word “caustic” means.

And all of a sudden… Caleb is able to step out of the protective and submissive position he’s held towards Trent and the Cerberus Assembly for his whole life. Not entirely, and not permanently, but… his new family just being there, being who they are even when surrounded by these powerful and terrifying people from his past…

All of a sudden, some of the shadows fade away, and yes, Trent is awful and horrible and has had too much control over Caleb’s life, and yes the Cerberus Assembly is powerful and far-reaching and has agents all over the world, but Jester can still baffle Ludinus, and Caduceus can still read Trent like a book, Beau can still be blunt and direct, Yasha can still make herself a threat, Nott can still be sly and inconspicuous, and Fjord can still sweet-talk through interactions with dangerous people.

All of a sudden, Caleb is not alone.

Things aren’t better. He’s still broken and hurting and scared. But now, as he watches his friends square up next to him against his past with the same irreverence they give to everything else, he’s able to take small steps. Call Trent out on his cowardice. Offer a greeting to Eadwulf. Ask Ludinus direct questions about the intentions of the Cerberus Assembly.

He’s not safe, none of them are safe, but they are together, and that makes them powerful. That makes them dangerous. That makes them a threat. And all of a sudden, the looming presence of Trent Ikithon starts to recede back into Caleb’s past. Not gone, not forgotten, not excised… But past. Not here. Not now. Not surrounded by these people who will stand around him and behind him and beside him as he faces down the people that haunt his past.