In light of me being obsessed with House saying he started to see Benny as a son, House is a hypocrite in calling Yes-man a vanity project cause while Vegas is clearly his vanity project with all his plans for it, there’s something more subtly vain about trying to rewrite and recreate an hypothetical heir in his image that he clearly would’ve done with Benny as he does it with you.
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It must have been horrifying for Aegon, Aemond, and Helaena in the years before the dance, all three of them experiencing varying levels of heightened paranoia and unrest every single day.
Viserys was sicky-looking even in ep 6, and the chance of him dying (even then) was pretty high. I can’t imagine that uncertainty breeding anything but fear and worry among everyone.
From their inception, the kids lived in this constant “flight or fight” state, not knowing if Rhaenyra would ever return to the Red Keep, not knowing if Daemon would just turn up at the gates and demand their heads, not knowing if one day Viserys would just disinherit them at the request of his ‘only child.’
Aegon getting drunk every night because the alternative would be thinking of his (very likely) visit to the executioners block; Aemond throwing himself into every lesson, every practice fight with Criston, every flight with Vhagar, because he knows that this period of peace is a farce; Helaena flinching at every touch and sound because she simply doesn’t know whether that’s a friend, or whether the beasts have finally caught up with her.
Alicent going to bed each night, knowing that in the morning, her children’s heads might decorate the walls of the Keep. That one day, she’ll go into Helaena’s rooms and find her missing; that Aegon may never return from his visits to the city; that Aemond may just take the fight to Dragonstone just to end the painful wait that Rhaenyra has (unknowingly, which makes it worse) subjected them all to.
That if her father messes up again, Viserys will send him away (again), that she’ll be alone (again) in a castle that doesn’t want her (again), without allies or friends (again).
Can you imagine living in that state for a week, let alone two decades?
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okay so camerons whole 'no no no house you totally have feelings for me' plot is super weird and uncomfortable but also the writers did all of a sudden decide that chase is actually the worst human being alive so .
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I don’t write Hobie as someone struggling with addiction because he’s black i write him like that because of nearly everything ELSE about him, both movie and comic-wise, but because he’s black he’s more likely to have be targeted by companies/people pushing/forcing more drugs onto him even if he’s trying to quit, and then denied the help he needs and demonized for it, which makes him struggle more with it. u get what i’m saying??? It’s like how i don’t write Miles G. as more aggressive and cold because he’s black, but because of his general life situation. But because he’s black, other people in his life might’ve reinforced these ideas that he was naturally going to behave this way, and you can only hear something about yourself so much (and at a young age too) before you begin to believe it, even a little, and then don’t see reason to fight it even if it’s not true. sorry if i’m not explaining this too well, but you see what i mean????
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Victor is such an interesting character to me and I don’t ever know if I can fully put into words on how complex he truly is.
But his quest for immortality is something that I can’t just help but feel more sympathetic towards to, because I don’t think it’s truly something he wanted of his own accord as a child. His father was a cruel and unfair man, constantly threatening to disown his son for not wanting to grow up too soon; for not spending his life to pursue immortality. And it’s just so saddening to see that flashback because Victor was happy, he was friends with Sarah and her parents were kind to him! But he couldn’t have that due to his father’s influence and he was cruel to Sarah because of that.
Even when she did forgive him, Victor still saw that moment between him and Sarah as an opportunity to interrogate her over the cup— but yet he realised it was too late to fix things after she died. Quietly attending her funeral and reminiscing while looking at a painting of her.
And at the end of season two where Nina passes on his father’s message and gives him the ring, seeing Victor sit there and silently grieve his lost childhood and process his father’s last words— the dawning realisation that his quest for immortality was over. There wasn’t anything else at this point.
His father was a coward, apologising when it was far too late and yet also continued to blame him even after his passing.
I think that’s why he’s practically unhinged in season three, he’s desperate to complete a quest that has been going on for far too long, kidnapping students and threatening them— but his desperation is his hubris and that’s what seals his fate when he becomes a sinner.
Man,,, something about seeking immortality is just so saddening because not only you lose everything around you, but you lose yourself too.
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we just played a session of our campaign which was like the first HUGE arc finale, and I can only summarise it by saying that nemja's evil ex survived being barbequed by the most powerful magic source in the world because we teleported him away with us, 3 characters got powers / memories back that they didn't have access to since the start of the campaign and nemja's kids (yeah he stole some kids) very likely died a really horrible and cruel and undeserving death and none of these things are on the top 10 of Insane Things That Happened This Session
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thinking about how one of the last things john ever tells dean is an admittance that the way he treated him was fucked. & of course this destroys dean and makes it so much harder for him to come to terms w his death right after and with his childhood in general bc he’s spent his entire life chasing after johns approval. he’s spent his entire life telling himself that the way he was treated was okay and justified and that their childhood was good because he could handle it and he was strong enough and that was how it had to be. he’s worshipped john as a hero and seen nothing wrong with any of it. because he’s had to. his entire life is built around this idea there’s nothing else. he’s his dads perfect soldier and punching bag and wife-replacement and suddenly his dads gone & he said he’s sorry and that he shouldn’t have treated dean that way. what the hell is he supposed to do now.
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