#Chernobyl of Hope

[wickedzeevyln]

Ennui

This is where dreams come to die. My personal Chernobyl. No one told me. So, I asked. Past an age of no return where even open mics are shutdown. Worries pile up like Lego bricks and the loose ones are hard on the foot—barefoot literally, and as I pepper the air with expletives gurgling out of my throat, my life flashes before my eyes. Ouch! Tranquility and I are not in speaking terms and my…

[sagawanuno]

[beevean]

I went here into how much Hector's plan in S4E6 makes zero logical sense, but the layers of suckage of this onion keep being unpeeled to reveal even more suckage, in a Mobius strip of pain.

Hector planned to die at Isaac's hands and also to live and escape at the same time. This is profoundly stupid for all the reasons I said in that post. But clearly, his A plan was to die. So, in short, he wanted to:

help with Dracula's resurrection to "atone" for his mistakes; the fact that this would likely lead to him returning to his mass slaughter, something that he opposed in S2, doesn't seem to cross his mind

"protect" Lenore from Isaac's rampage by keeping her in a magical cage

die, leaving his former colleague, his owner/girlfriend and his former Lord alone without a proper apology/closure

if all else fails, set into motion that complicated plan of escaping that took all of his efforts offscreen and rebuild a life outside. or perhaps killing himself with his own hands, who knows anymore

Got that? Okay.

First assumption: how could Hector be sure that the spell would have survived past his death? What if magic in this setting doesn't have ontological inertia? It's said in S2E6 that magic carries intent:

Sypha: I have to be able to see [the castle] to put my intent on it. Alucard: Your intent? Sypha: That's all magic is, Alucard. Changing things in accordance with my intent.

We can assume then that, if the person exercising the intent dies, the magic stops working. I know that Hector, despite his epic "I'm a wizard, not to be trusted" comeback, is not a real wizard, but surely he would know something about magic since it's a topic that fascinates him, right?

Second assumption: if Isaac assaulted the castle thirsty for revenge, how could Hector be sure that he'd spare Lenore? Sure, he has no personal beef with her, but she's still a vampire queen that aided Carmilla and an obstacle. Again, Hector is assuming that the cage will keep existing after his death, so Lenore will still be trapped and not a threat (not that she tried a thing to get free, like turning into mist)... but Isaac can enter that cage. Hector doesn't know Isaac enough to assume that he'd be merciful. The last time they spoke, Isaac still carried a ton of hatred and disdain for everyone, and he wasn't particularly fond of vampires either.

He's also assuming that Lenore, who two months prior beat him to a pulp and slashed him with her claws, would be no match for Isaac. Hector never saw Isaac in combat, by the way. We know he's a Gary Stu and that she's a coward who wouldn't seriously hurt someone if she doesn't have the advantage, ofc, but as far as Hector knows, a human with a dinky knife would totally chop into pieces a super fast, super strong, shapeshifting, pissed off vampire. okay.

Even the idea that Hector took into account that Isaac would bring an army of Night Creatures is flawed, because Isaac himself was surprised when he realized he could just do that for himself. Until then, both of them made Night Creatures only under orders, and took one year to create a sizeable army. And that's not mentioning that Hector had to guess that Isaac would go on a slaughtering rampage on an absurd scale to make said army in two months. And if he was willing to kill a shitton of innocents just to give himself a leg up, why in the fuck would he spare Lenore??? Again, Hector has no idea that Isaac found Enlightenment a few days prior the assault of the castle! Can you imagine S2 Isaac leaving Lenore alive out of courtesy for Hector, the same man he looked down on and spoke to like a stupid child? Because I can't, and neither should he!

Third assumption: did Hector even consider about how his beloved Lenore would feel? So let's assume that Hector was right, and Isaac would have killed him but spared her in a bizarre showcase of honoring the wishes of a man who ruined his life (Isaac stopped thinking so, Hector certainly didn't, since he wanted to "atone"). Okay. So Lenore would have been the only survivor of a dead castle. She would have lived on, for eternity, with the crushing failure of not being able to protect her home. She would have watched as Isaac slaughtered Hector in front of her eyes and then went to kill Carmilla, perhaps Striga and Morana too if they returned and attacked him in retailation. She would have lost everything, her home, her friends, and her slave/boyfriend who chose to die and leave her alone, and chose to make her watch everything. And, if Hector really assumed that the magical cage would have kept existing past his death to keep Lenore safe and harmless, then she would have been stuck there, Hector's corpse rotting under her eyes, until she starved to death, which at this point might have been more merciful!

Hector banked on all of this happening. This is what he was genuinely expecting to happen.

And what happened in reality is only marginally better, because he lived on... to then aide Isaac into killing Carmilla and destroying Lenore's life anyway. And then keeping her trapped with him out of a horribly misguided sense of caring. (Lenore, being Lenore, probably missed the incredible irony in all of this, just as she missed how bitchy she'd look when she chose to kill herself and leave Hector alone with his trauma. more likely, it's just the sanitized writing)

Now, obviously, I'm not asking for a victim of abuse to care about his abuser's poor feefees. The show did that enough already. As I detailed here and here, in a vacuum Hector showed Lenore the mother of all middle fingers, and I should be satisfied. But the story framed this whole scene, of Lenore running to Hector to hide him somewhere safe (without thinking of removing the ring to free him from the confines of the castle, naturally: reminding us that she trapped him, and the way she did it, would make her look bad 🙂 except that now she looks even worse because she did jack and shit to truly make up for how horribly she treated her "pet") and Hector protecting her at the cost of his life, as tragically romantic. I'm meant to be touched, that Hector thought of her safety before his own, aww they really do love each other and he forgave her for abusing and raping him and mocking his trauma because her puppy dog eyes were just too cute 🥺

Lenore raping Hector into slavery for the sole purpose of keeping a pet, even when he became useless to the plan and he would have accepted to belong to her anyway, is deeply selfish. Lenore only talking about her woes and dismissing Hector's is deeply selfish. Hector planning to force Lenore to live on in grief is deeply selfish. Hector forcing Lenore in a "cage", useless and depressed, just to have some company in his miserable life is deeply selfish (deserved, don't get me wrong, but he had no malice in doing so so it's not even cathartic). All of this could have been elaborated on and showed a toxic relationship between two horrible people who don't know the first thing about love and did nothing but cheat and lie and ruin each other's lives under the pathetic desire of being cared for. Those two should fucking despise each other by the last episode! Have some genuine drama already!

But the shippers wouldn't have been happy, so here, have this absolute clusterfuck of a plan that was not thought for more than 5 seconds, for the sake of giving a bone to both Lenector fans and even N!Isaactor fans, with the whole "cutting the finger" and "absolving Hector of the sin of being stupid" thing. Look at this! Look at how the writing bends because the writer knows what is supposed to happen and how to forcibly smooth any conflict!

... and I didn't even touch that stupid ass escape channel that breaks every sense of logic and only exists to make Isaac's life even easier than it already is i hate it i hate everything - and you know what, it's even stupid from a Lenector perspective, because you're really telling me that Hector planned to both "protect" Lenore from Isaac (not considering how she would have been driven insane by grief, but whatever at this point) and also to run away leaving her alone under the mercy of Isaac, or even Carmilla, since she was going mad to the point that Lenore was lowkey scared of her? bruh??????? is it too much to ask for one (1) consistent character in this joint 😭

[woodfrogs]

can we please not start a nuclear conflict rn im kind of busy 😭😭😭

[octaviusphd]

i should probably outline all the stuff i specifically exclude from my portrayal bc it's more specific than what i INclude but like. otto is primarily influenced by some 616 comics that i like with heavy references to year one (sans some timeline and continuity errors), insomniac/1048, and least of all raimiverse/96283 (but i DO use his interest in nuclear energy as a Main Timeline/Character Point because it's replicated in yr1). it's a big amalgam of things i like, excluding the things i dont... good luck trying to get me to make a more detailed post about it that's scary idk. HOWEVER if there is interest in a specific verse ex. 96283, i'm not opposed at all if it's specified; this just tends to be the default otto that lives in my head

do you understand

[oddfamiliar]

Happy anniversary to one of the greatest movies ever made!

[kalied0skull]

I'm watching chernobyl on prime right now, I think I'm gonna ride this hyper fixation for a bit, what do you think would happen if you died or radiation poisoning, I love you

well i mean i think if i died of radiation poisoning... I'd probably be dead

crazy concept right

[creatureprofessor]

it is by will alone i set my scheme into motion. i will re-timecode & finish proofreading and correcting the hungarian subtitles for ep1. and then i unleash it on my parents on the weekend. let's see how it goes!

[chernobylchronicles]

My honest reaction when my professor said that I have to start writing my article all over again:

YOU ARE A WILD MAN

@fuerst-von-argot pls i thought that this day will be amazing but it was not

[party-pixie]

i JUST changed all of my blogs' themes and you're telling me we might ACTUALLY have to jump ship soon?????????

[deangreenofficial]

please everyone welcome baby Chernobyl Hope and her twin sister Aztec Genocide!

[wicked-wkd]

Damn haha you're so obsessed with that bad internet person someday all that attention you're giving them is gonna transmute into them turning into a good person huh?

What? You're not giving them attention because you want that? It's just cheap entertainment to watch a real life bad person do bad things to other real life people?

Have you ever heard of hannibal? The girlies love that, how about you watch that instead of wasting your time and moral standards?

[comicsmithy]

Well. Good!

[swagging-back-to]

i hope they never stop.

america never shouldve had a good reputation but i hope now, no matter what we do, every country will view us as the laughing stock we are.

i hope theyre hesitant to initiate trade deals and ally with us, because they don't want to be associated with such a pathetic country.

i hope our visas hold no power. i hope our leaders hold no power. i hope we lose resources. i hope we are invaded and annexed.

i hope death to this country because the people in it are nothing. they are NOTHING.

I hope they know other countries are pointing and laughing at us

[shadythetortie]

Hello everybody! Hope you are all doing well. If you arent, I hope it gets better and maybe this little mystery baby case will cheer you up a bit.

I give some of my duck eggs to schools in the area to hatch every spring for their classrooms. Last Friday, one of the teachers messaged me.

"Sooo we have a duck with an unusable 3rd leg lol"

My first reaction is of course, what the fuck. Asked for some photos and lo and behold...

Yeah that looks like 3 legs!

I looked through the forums and most of the other cases of 3 legged birds didnt seem to do very well so I said we will see how it does overnight and fingers crossed its just the leg. Also depends on where the leg is attached if it will cause issues, if anything else has malformed or doubled, etc. So I didnt get my hopes up.

However, the next morning, it is doing well!

She sent a short clip of it and it can stand up and walk, though that leg doesnt seem to move at all. She decided to hold onto it over the weekend and will give it back with the rest of the babies when she returns them next week. The schools generally keep the chicks for two weeks for the students to play with and they end up being the friendliest birds ever.

So everyone, meet Cher (Chernobyl)

Her students named it Chernobyl because of the mutations that radiation damage causes. I thought it was hilarious!

I am excited to see how it grows and what happens. We do have an avian vet a few hours away that did Daisy's phallus amputation surgery last year (Daisy did great after surgery but passed away on Apr 1 because my geese decided to martyr him. The geese are rehomed now) so if this baby needs anything we can get it fixed. Hopefully when it is bigger!

[odairmultiverse]

Sunsetz - Cigarettes after sex

➜Park Humin x fem!reader

"After last night, you started to feel weird. It must be nothing, right...?"

English is not my first language, so there might be grammar mistakes. Enjoy!!

It all started this morning.

His arms evolved around your waist. You have been awake since an hour ago, but something in the comfort of his arms makes you stay longer.

It's just the connection after last night. Were you two showed love in ways beyond words.

Due to university, the moments together felt like gold, finding time for each other was very difficult.

But your relationship with him was still there, like the first day you two started dating.

You started to draw soft patterns around his arms, his tan skin making contrast against yours.

Lost in thought, you closed your eyes, feeling the moment.

What didn't feel the moment was your stomach. It was the main reason you're awake.

There was a knot inside your stomach, but it wasn't like last night.

This one didn't get you butterflies and excitement. This was like Chernobyl inside you.

You tried not to give it much attention, but the sounds that were coming out, that was not good.

Humin seemed to feel how you moved around uncomfortable.

"What's up, Angel?" He hummed against your neck, still half asleep.

"Min, I have to go to the bathroom" You said, freeing from his arms.

He frowned a bit but didn't say anything.

As you make your way towards the sink, your head is fuzzy, seeing everything blurred and moving slowly, the kind of slow that was making your stomach twisted.

When you arrived, you opened the sink, letting the cold water touch your hands, and then your face.

Each water drop from your face, you feel it, in fact you were feeling everything.

How your breath was heavier than usual, Humin shirt against your skin, the cold tiles beneath your feet.

Your face in the mirror was pale, your eyes almost closed, your lips parted.

"Angel, is everything okay? You been there for ten minutes, " Humin said through the door. "Im going to enter"

Then he opened the door, sneaked a bit, and when he saw you standing at the sink, he made his way towards you.

He pattered the top of your head. "You're not feeling well?" His voice soft came out as he placed one string of your head behind your ear

You simply nodded. Humin took your shoulder and made you sit on the top of the bathroom. He kneeled in front of you.

"Is because of last night, was I too god?" He joked, trying to light up the mood.

And it worked, for a moment, you left a small laugh that he heard, but as soon as it came out, the pain did as well.

Then one thought appeared in your mind, was that possible?

You opened your eyes and looked at him scared

"Wha-What wrong?" He said with the same expression as you

"No, it can't be," you said more like trying to convince yourself than actually saying something

"What can't be, Angel?"

You didn't answer him. You weakly got up and opened one of the cabinets, searching for something.

A pregnancy test

Humin eyes wide open. "Do you really think -"

"I hope not." You cut him off, scared to hear him saying something related to the possibility of you being pregnant

✶

You two were now sitting on the floor, waiting for the test result.

You were hugging your legs, your chin on top of your knees.

Him on the other side, was with his legs lazily spread open on the floor, his back against the wall.

"I don't know why we are so nervous," you said, breaking the silence. "Im sure we are not going to become parents today." You looked at him, waiting for him to reply with something similar.

"Yeah, yeah, we use protection and all the measures needed," he replied, but you noticed on his tone that he was nervous, you dared to say, even scare.

"Humin..." The alarm that you set up ringed, meaning that time has passed and the result were ready.

Humin and you stood up with shaking hands you grabbed the test.

"Whatever the result are, im going to stand next to you," He said, interlinking his fingers to yours

You looked at him grateful. Having him next to you was making this less scary than you imagined.

When you finally looked at the result it came out with a straight line.

Negative.

You left out a laugh, more relaxed than minutes ago.

Humin looked at you, still not understanding the results.

"it's negative." You smiled at him. "It means im not pregnant." You showed him the result

He smiled the same way as you, letting a satisfied sound.

Humin grabbed you by your waist and lifted you up, spinning around.

"It's the best news of today. I don't think im ready to be a dad just now. " he placed you down "Lets celebrate this by eating a king-size breakfast, " Humin exclaimed, grabing softly your hand."May you accompany me this beautiful morning, my princess?"

You laughed, admiring his way to change mood so quickly. "Today and always my charming prince" You reply with the same tone as him.

Forgetting about the scare of moments ago, you two made your ways towards the kitchen to enjoy that today was not the day you two were welcoming a pregnancy.

That day will arrive eventually, just not today.