#* I have a list of canon characters that will cripple her just by merely existing.

[illholy]

You can't power work away from SUKUNA

█ 𝒖𝒏𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒅 ,     i will always love you ⤿ anonymous.

There's only so much rancid energy her little body can take ! Let her TRY.

[khruseosold]

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT MEME REPOST. DO NOT REBLOG.

FULL NAME: Prince Oberyn Nymeros Martell GENDER & SEXUALITY: Male / Bisexual ETHNICITY & SPECIES: Dornish (Salty), otherworldly good-looking human. BIRTHPLACE & BIRTHDATE: Sunspear,  257 AC. GUILTY PLEASURES: Hey Lottie, they have something in common— more than enough pleasures, and absolutely none he feels guilty over. PHOBIAS: Phobia is a very big word; I’m answering none, well, beyond the fear we all feel in heart regarding family, especially considering what has happened to his sister, niece and nephew. Beyond that, I don’t see another crippling fear. WHAT THEY WOULD BE INFAMOUS FOR: Ah, the famous quote that works a bit too well to answer this with, but we’ll do it anyway because we’re doing a sum-up of canonically confirmed. Let’s see, poisoning his dagger in combat/duel with Edgar Yronwood that led to the Lord’s death, while it was a duel to first blood. Fathering more bastards than even Robert Baratheon himself and bedding regardless of gender. WHAT HAVE THEY/WOULD THEY HAVE GOTTEN ARRESTED FOR: He would’ve been arrested at sixteen already, most likely. Even before the part during which a man died at his hand; the mere concept of dueling in such fashion has long since been banned. But then again, it’s also illegal to walk around armed in any way in numerous western countries— so yes, I mean. CHARACTER YOU SHIP THEM WITH: Speaking serious ships? Ellaria Sand stands very far first and foremost on his end and also in my list in terms of what interests me to write. Beyond that, little reminder that I’m not huge on shipping, so I’m not going to be the one to answer this with tons of options. AU potentials like Cersei Lannister and Oberyn exist, but I won’t lie, a lot of it does stem quite the chemistry Lena and Pedro had (I know, it’s the show, but do you remember the look on his face when she asks if she can show him the gardens and while he answers ‘I couldn’t very well refuse a royal escort’ and in the second that follows? That glance. And Cersei feels it/does a similar thing), But I’ll be approaching it cautiously and with plotting. CHARACTER MOST LIKELY TO MURDER THEM: Listen, we don’t talk about how it was Oberyn who was responsible for his own death. Gregor Clegane never actually won. FAVOURITE BOOK GENRE: There is no proper favorite, although if I had to note one so soon in my writing of him— I’d say either works linked to knowledge that could be practical to him, filling an arsenal of already rather extensive knowledge; or otherwise, perhaps, works of worlds long passed or far out of grasp, although they’d lack in practicality. But I don’t feel like there is a favorite, not yet, I’m not even sure if there would be one, as noting a favorite means that you’ve tried so much already that there’s not much else to touch upon and that contradicts his way of thinking to some extent. LEAST FAVOURITE BOOK CLICHÉ: That big, tall and broad means victory by default. ;) TALENTS OR POWERS: Renowned in combat (go-to weapon in planned battle is an eight feet long spear, equipped with a steel spearhead and spike, but he’s more commonly equipped with a dagger much more suited for closed quarters). Has a very quick-witted tongue that is complemented by being, as quoted ‘quick as a water snake’. While a very knowledgeable man through studies and travel/experience already; he’s well-versed in animal husbandry to an extent, along with some histories of Westeros and Essos at minimum, with at least two of his specializations including poisons and (if one believes Qyburn) magic. Raincheck on the rest? WHY SOMEONE MIGHT LOVE THEM: Because his loyalty, much like his brother’s and family as a whole, is larger than life itself. And as much was proven (despite his confidence also not lacking) when he decided to fight the Mountain, as it was his means to obtain justice for her and her children. Oberyn is very quick-witted, which creates for very strong one-liners that would make you smile in midst of short laughs, sometimes while you can’t help but facepalm. He’s unpredictable, which is a trait that can thrill you to the core as he’ll rarely do the same thing twice. He’s passionate. Passionate about his family, his paramour, his daughters, the knowledge he seeks and the world he travels and wants to experience before he meets his end. WHY SOMEONE MIGHT HATE THEM: See, the thing with Oberyn is that he’s often a man of extremes. So the traits he has that can make you adore him, can also have you dislike him. His sharp tongue is often unwanted and on top of which, very unfitting in  rather tiring (I’m sure Doran has plenty to say about this, or well, most of these). He’s very unpredictable, which can nothing short of thrilling but can also very definitely infuriate you, as you rarely know where you stand or how he’ll react. He’s already quite rash individual by default, add a temper to that mix and you can see why he has quite the reputation. HOW THEY CHANGE: That would indicate that his path changed on some level, or that his view or interests change, while they do but very little if they ever even do in the first place. Throughout his youth (however inseperable he and Elia were, despite how different they were), Oberyn has been described as having been ‘a monstrous young fellow', especially in his teen years, which serves as already quite a ‘starting’ explanation. Oberyn possess a strong energy and drive to him still as he ages, but they are now utilized with a more productive end and means. Although I do suppose he can still be quite the montrous handful if you asked his brother. WHY YOU LOVE THEM: For every single answer I’ve typed above and endless more.

TAGGED BY: @trickstercaptain (I love youuuuu, Lottie) TAGGING: @epiphonoi (for Frank or Dorian, or both if you’re up to it!), @lionhvrted (Ellaria), @killthebxy, @loialte (Steve), @tymptir (Sam!) @wineinthewidow, @praeludio (Arthur), @arcusignis, @truthsecn (Murtagh), @freckledsnack, @afelion (d’Artagnan), @ncthingleft and don’t mind me, but I want to fill this out on Ezio as well, so just as a reminder for myself: @iniziare

[madshelley]

gimmie a quick rundown of which scenes break your heart the most, i'm not sad enough and need the pain.

I love you and this is both the best and worstthing anyone has never asked me, because apparently, I have no clue what a “quick”rundown means.  I also tried very hard tonot make this entirely about Armand and… I failed about midway through. Butin my defense, can you ever be sad enough? No, you can’t.

SO HERE’S THE TOP JUST-A-BIT-TOO-MANY LIST OFHEARTBREAKING VAMPIRE MOMENTS™:

- Louiskilling the Marquis, and both his and Lestat’s reactions to it. Louis draggingLestat to his abusive father’s bed and forcing him to speak forgiveness,despite the fact that Lestat is having an obvious meltdown (“He threw up hishands and let out a terrible roar of desperation.  ‘Damn him! Kill him!’ he said.”/“Lestatdanced like the maddened Rumpelstilskin about to put his foot through thefloor”/ “Never had I seen him so weak and at the same time enraged”), thatLouis, in his lack of information, mistakes for impatience and indifference.Damn dysfunctional vampires with a thing for miscommunication.  If only there was a scene with the two of themdiscussing this in a later book, it would probably make the list too. But,alas.

Rest of the list under cut because of excessively long post that no one’s going to read:

 - Louisdumping Lestat’s ‘body’ in the bog.

“This is Lestat. This is all oftransformation and mystery, dead, gone into eternal darkness. I  felt a pull suddenly, as if some force wereurging me to go down with him, to descend into the dark water and never comeback”.

          For no other reason, but that I feelthis is the prime example of Louis’ tendency to be unable to take control ofhis life and stand up for himself and what he wants, ending up being a passive observerof the most tragic events of his life, lamenting them only when it’s too late.Oh, Louis.

-Armandlying to himself about his relationship with Marius.

“A love so strong hecouldn’t allow me to grow old and die. A love that waited patiently until I wasstrong enough to be born to darkness.”

-I don’t normally care about Madeleine, but thisquote shatters my heart on a daily basis, considering the context in which IwtVwas written.

“And cruelly, surely, I said to her, ‘Did you love this child?’

I will never forget her face then, the violence in her, the absolute hatred.‘Yes.’ She all but hissed the words at me. ‘How dare you!’ She reached for thelocket even as I clutched it. It was guilt that was consuming her, not love. Itwas guilt- that shop of dolls Claudia had described to me, shelves and shelvesof the effigy of that dead child”.

-Armandleaving Louis, unable to bear the loveless, cold partnership anymore, indespair and suicidal. Especially this part of the farewell speech:

“AndI believed I would gather you to me and hold you. And time would open to us,and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave youhappiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain.My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you’re dead inside tome, you’re cold and beyond my reach! It is as if I’m not here, beside you. And,not being here with you, I have the dreadful feeling that I don’t exist atall”.

Armand,the break-up line master. Jesus Christ.

-“Hebent down, pressing his head against my chest and holding my hand so tight thathe caused me pain. The room was filled with the flashing red light of thesiren, and then it was going away.

‘Louis,I can’t bear it, I can’t bear it,’ he growled through his tears. ‘Help me,Louis, stay with me’.”

- Theway IwtV ends in general, with no silver lining or sliver of hope. Lestat andArmand are dying, of old age and despair, Louis is continuing his existencelike a bloodless empty shell, seeing no possibility of recovery or light at theend of the tunnel, and there is no comforting cosmic reason anything is everhappening at all.  Life is pain and youdon’t even die. No wonder IwtV is such a downer to the non-initiated.

- LittleLestat being beaten bloody by his father and brothers.

-“Andwhen we decided to go to Paris, I thought we would starve in Paris, that wewould go down and down and down. It was what I wanted rather that what theywanted, that I, the favored son, should rise for them. I thought we would godown! We were supposed to go down”.

- Armandbegging Lestat and Gabrielle to take him with them and them refusing. I’m notgoing to go into details, I feel this is an obvious one.

Exceptfor these gems:

“Maybeas the years pass, desire will come again to me. I will know appetite again,even passion. Maybe when we meet in another age, these things will not beabstract and fleeting. I’ll speak with a vigour that matches yours, instead ofmerely reflecting it”.

and

“Armandwas a small boy in the doorway, holding the backs of his own arms”.

Theconsistent implication throughout the series that Armand gets cold when he’supset does things to my heart.

- Armand’sadmonition to Lestat that fledglings are bound to despise their makers, simplybecause it’s not true, or at least it doesn’t seem to be in most cases. IsArmand projecting because he’s practically almost incapable of verbalcommunication at this point in his life which makes a hindered mind gift seemlike an unsurpassable obstacle in his mind? Or is he projecting because, onsome level, he knows his relationship with Marius was abusive and probablydoomed? (Spoiler alert: probably both.)

- Mariuscalling Armand his mistake.

-Lestat hearing Armand crying after he pushedhim off the roof:

“Maybe I imagined it, his lastinvitation, and the anguish after. The weeping. I do know that as the monthspassed he was out there again. I heard him from time to time just walking thoseold Garden District streets. And I wanted to call to him, to tell him that itwas a lie I’d spoken to him, that I did love him. I did.”.

- “Uglyfights, terrible fights, finally, Armand broken down, glassy-eyed with silentrage, then crying softly but uncontrollably as if some lost emotion had beenrediscovered which threatened to tear him apart”.

-“Evenin moments of the greatest jeopardy, I knew we would meet before I would befree to die.”

Tell me again how Armand’s suicideattempt in Memnoch was out of character.

-Lestatbelieving that Daniel would have left Night Island with him if he had askedhim. So much theoretical pain.

- It’sa pity that Daniel leaving Armand isn’t technically  ~a scene, because that would make the top ofthe list.

- Everyscene in which Lestat is “haunted” by Claudia in TotBT. It’s not hard to seehow he made the connection between her and the Raglan episode, even with himnever straight-up admitting it to himself. Remember when Lestat still feltcrippling guilt for his worst actions, even subconsciously? Good times.

- David’sturning. But this is not the time to complain about this, it’s canon heartbreakappreciation time!

- Armand’ssuicide attempt in Memnoch the Devil. I’ve already elaborated on this way toomuch, but let’s take a moment to appreciate Lestat screaming Armand’s nameafter him. Take a moment. Thank you.

- Louisobjecting to Lestat being chained to the floor, but being completely dismissed.

- Theentire The Vampire Armand. I can’t let myself elaborate too much on this, as I’lljust be reciting the entire book. I can just open it to a random page and itwill probably be a Top Heartbreaking Vampire Moment:

 Armand’sobvious exhaustion at the beginning of the book, that no one seems to respect. Himscolding himself and admitting to David he feels he’s going mad. A child silentlywishing for death so hard, that Marius heard it amongst the mental voices ofthe entire city. Armand’s entire “relationship” with Marius. Armand having a breakdownat seeing religious imagery, not yet being sure why he has that reaction. Meetinghis parents, especially the broken Ivan. The “Bridge of Sighs” metaphor, Jesus.The ashes of the Palazzo boys. The whole Riccardo horror. Armand trying toconceal his scarred face from Benji and Sybelle, putting all his energy intothe illusion. The shattering feeling of betrayal about the turning of Armand’s “children”by Marius, and Armand’s conviction that it was meant as punishment. Louis beingunable to conceal his relief and joy to see Armand alive. Armand’s bitter, hurtdismissal of his relationship with Daniel as doomed from the start. Armandadmitting that Sybelle and Benji had to coax him out of depressive episodes attimes. Man, did Anne go ham on the pain in this one. Why, mom?

- Specialmention to that one time Marius beat Armand out of “frustration” at him fortaking too long to emotionally get over his visit to Kiev, probably his mostblatantly abusive moment in the book.

“‘You’ve had enough time to grieve and to weep,’ hesaid, ‘and to reevaluate all you’ve been given. Now it’s back to work. Go tothe desk and prepare to write. Or I’ll whip you some more.’”

“He smacked me across the face. I was dizzy.”

Nice going, Marius.

- Secondspecial mention to this little passage, because no one ever talks about it andit makes my heart bleed:

“ I looked off, wanting the quiet, dreamingof bowers suddenly, not in words but in images, the way my old mind would doit, wanting to lie down in garden beds among growing flowers, wanting to pressmy face to earth and sing softly to myself”.

- Thirdspecial mention to this, but only out of context:

“For all the wrongs done you, andthe loneliness you’ve suffered, and the horrors that the world put upon youwhen you were too young and too untried to know how to fight them and then toovanquished to wage a battle with a full heart”.  

- SeeingDaniel in Blood and Gold after all those years. The shock of the degree inwhich his mental stability deteriorated, not objecting to being kept by Mariuslike a child. The terrifying possibilities of how he might have ended up therein the first place. The even more terrifying possibility that it might havebeen the news of Armand’s “death” that pushed him over the edge. How Armandmust have felt about this ‘relationship’.

- I am definitely not done, and yet I’m going to stop ‘cause even I had enough.

Tl;dr: Sad Vampires.