#FATE DOES NOT CONTROL YOU

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

//very slight LMK S4 spoiler implications (MK dealing with fate and shit)

Mei: MK, that won’t happen-!

MK: but fate says I’m destined to hurt people!

Red Son: oh, so NOW you care about fate, noodle boy?!?

Red Son: in all circumstances, we should have been fated to be enemies- forever! our ancestors hate each other for good reason, and we should have too.

Red Son: but you two were so horrendously stubborn, you changed that. changed everything that i had been taught, everything i worked for, everything i should have been- and you're just going to sit here and tell me that you're afraid of fate?!?

Red Son: i did NOT go through you destroying my plans left and right, training Mei to reforge the Samadhi Fire, and you both endlessly harassing me to hang out, to tell me that you can't change this story! morons, both of you.

MK:

Mei:

Mei: what he said! >:D

[speakofcompersion]

240712 NeverNever Fanmeeting - Taemin Guilty ♥︎

[cori-randomstuff]

[shrews-art]

I could write a whole essay about how Victor Vale and Kell Maresh are two sides of the same coin, opposites yet somehow similar when it comes to their relationship with pain

[1tsjusty0u]

HER ENTIRE ARC IS ABOUT HATING LINK. THATS THE ONLY DEVELOPMENT AND REALIZATION SHE MAKES IM GOING TO TURN INTO AN OYSTER AND BECOME AN INVASIVE SPECIES ON A DIFFERENT CONTINENT

[oflgtfol]

"i, as a woman, feel like i don't have autonomy in a patriarchal society. oh i know the solution - let's say my lack of autonomy comes from the fundamental fucking universe itself instead of just being a social construct!! that solves everything!!"

[itsmistyeyedbi]

This might be a silly question but...do anyone of your detective's believe in fate? Why or why not? Did their view of it change after meeting Unit Bravo and experiencing the events of the twc books?

[llycaons]

'jiang cheng would like a strong woman' have you considered she would probably not like him

[crepuscular-haze]

FINE ILL DO IT MYSELF (I needed this chorus on my dash because it’s been in my head on loop for days now)

[darabeatha]

/ A.sclepius having Lichtenberg scars somewhere in his body from his myth when Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt― (x)

[fellhellion]

Hm. Something I’ve been thinking about (since I never shut up about Miguel apparently) is the idea that maybe there’s not supposed to be, to his understanding of what happened, a singular canon event that he breaks when dipping dimensions, it’s more the idea that he “breaks” canon by no longer being present to carry out his own canon events, by wanting something outside of what was apparently predestined to him, and the universe punished him for it.

I broke [canon] once myself, he says, but he doesn’t name the event even as the examples he pulls up are labelled.

Perhaps the “event”, as the characters perceive it, could just be something as simple as by virtue of replacing alt!Miguel he negated the intended effect of the man’s death upon the world around him.

But I just wonder. Because the way Miguel speaks of this to Miles portrays his own wanting for something different as being what he thinks invoked that destruction.

“We all want to live the life we wish we had, believe me I’ve tried. And the harder I tried, the more damage I did. You can’t have it all, kid.”

I wanted something more, but Spider-Man’s fate is set. Any and all events, regardless of their nature. And defying that fate, trying to live a life beyond what it asked of me killed people.

If you alter your course from canon in any way, you hurt people.

[sammygender]

some of my most random fucking original characters from half-baked story ideas i have yet to fully develop are the most tragic ones to ever exist. like yeah the people from my current work are pretty fucked up but they don’t inspire as much pain in me as when i think about citydale characters. min truly and genuinely makes me want to cry

[nosferatufaggot]

While I'm talking about things no one else in my life agrees with; I hope they never find my murderer. I am going to be so upset if I get killed in some heat of the moment attack. If my killer hasn't been methodically planning out my demise for years out of a sheer disdain for me, I don't want it. Unless you are commited to killing me and are smart enough to get away with it, you aren't allowed to kill me. If you are on Google searching how to do it, buying all the necessary items mere days in advance, and leave your shoe print outside my door, you don't deserve to kill me.

[orpheusilver]

thinking about a game where the player has a secret internal stat that tracks them on a spectrum from fate to chance but ingame the character serves some entity representing luck and people just refer to it as stuff like fate or chance in dialogue and treat the terms interchangeable. meanwhile youre being silently tracked and judged on a spectrum between seemingly identical extremes and it alters the game slightly and theres no immediate reason why. would that be fucked up or what

[liliallowed]

when starrail pulls a deltarune

[isaacathom]

hang on lemme cook

the short of it is that this kingdom is being absolutely ravaged by a chaos mage. the way chaos works in this setting is it can only be redirected, not destroyed, and it often takes the form of this crackling purple lightning, with strong concentrations of it forming these terrifying tornados. for some reason, the chaos mage is strangely unaffected, and seemingly immortal.

in some small town, a brother and sister are both mages. through some means, the brother acquires this ancient golden coin (either as an heirloom or through shenanigans), which it turns out has the power to absorb chaos.

but, again, it can't be destroyed. the chaos has to go somewhere. the way the coin works, i figure, is by absorbing the chaos into the wielder. the first time he uses it it absolutely nearly kills him, but repeated use sort of inures him to the effects of chaos, but also is absolutely doing some Fascinating shit to him.

as an aside, the difficult thing with this would be making it clear that the thing that turns him into a villain isn't like, chaos poisoning, but his personality lmao

but he gets stronger and stronger as he faces more of the chaos mage's manipulated chaos, and having access to all that chaos inside himself incentivises him to learn how to use it as well. like disarming someone and stabbing them with their own sword.

except, of course, the Chaos Mage is practically immune to the effects of chaos, and has been rendered immortal by it. warriors and mages have tried to defeat him the Usual Ways, and have found no luck.

so how do you defeat the Chaos Mage?

by taking the ancient coin and using it to absorb all the chaos from inside him, stealing from him the reservoir of his magic and also the power that has made him immortal. you render him mortal. you kill him.

but only the kid, inured as he is to chaos, could possibly stand a chance of successfully absorbing that chaos. if someone else, like his sister, tried to do it, the chaos entering her body would kill her before it leaving would kill the Chaos Mage.

and so the brother slays the chaos mage, in the process claiming his power.

which means the brother is now immortal, and practically immune to the effects of chaos, while also being the only person who could possibly wield the coin to defeat him. Oh Fuck.

now there is a way that this COULD end well. if the brother voluntarily gave up his power, travelled to some distant realm of storm to unleash the chaos from inside him, then he would lose that immortality, and a decent amount of his chaotic immunity, while still being an unfathomably powerful mage.

but he won't. of course he wont. because the brother has come to the conclusion that, with his power over chaos, he could Fix things. he could make things Right. he could manipulate chaos to remake the world in his image. He has become the Chaos Mage.

its not the inherent nature of chaos that has done this. its the way those around him have responded to this skillset of his, the hero worship he was granted by many as the only person standing between them and the Chaos Mage. his instinct to take charge, to give orders. uhoh!

so he won't give up his power. and noone can take his power from him.

his sister, who long ago figured out that the chaos mage was her brother, somehow, is thus incentivised to, regretfully, fulfill the loop. the chaos mage was her brother, thousands of years older, full of chaos, without the coin, and yet with identical memories of their childhood together. there must be a way to turn her brother into that man. she must be able to send him Back.

however that is, its not that important. she has to trick him to get it to work. she would have told him, prior to the showdown with the chaos mage, that she thought they were the same. he would have used his defeat of the chaos mage as proof that they weren't.

she has to get the coin off him, and she has to send him back.

i imagine it probably involves preying on his ego. convincing the king or whatever to hold a great ceremony granting the brother some title. the sister finding some way to take the coin away from him. in the middle of the ceremony unleashing this spell on him. having to watch his expression change from an arrogant glee to confused horror to bitter rage. and whoosh.