#Made To Serve Series

[jimmythejiver]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Relationships: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia, Cor Leonis/Ignis Scientia, Somnus Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia, Clarus Amicitia/Regis Lucis Caelum, Clarus Amicitia/Cor Leonis/Regis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia/Noctis Lucis Caelum, Prompto Argentum/Loqi Tummelt, Ardyn Izunia/Noctis Lucis Caelum, Noctis Lucis Caelum/Loqi Tummelt Characters: Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Cor Leonis, Prompto Argentum, Somnus Lucis Caelum, Clarus Amicitia, Regis Lucis Caelum, Optimus Lucis Caelum | The Wise, Ignis's Father, Loqi Tummelt Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Not for Prompto Stans, Alternate Universe, fantasy in a modern setting, No Royal Family, Mafia AU, Slow Burn, will they won't they, Major Worldbuilding on top of Canon, Dragoons as a Race, Same Level of Magic as the Source, Fictional Religion & Theology, FFII lore, final fantasy vii characters - Freeform, Compilation Final Fantasy Characters, gratuitous cameos, Twin Somnus and Ardyn, Past Sexual Abuse, Codependency, Sexual Coercion, Dubious Consent, Exhibitionism, Implied Incest, Power Dynamics, Power Imbalance, betrothal, wedding ceremony, Holidays, offscreen murder, onscreen murder, Massacre (off screen), Torture & Interrogation, Initiation, Mutilation (discussed), Blasphemy, Body Horror, Scarification, Cult ceremony, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Unprotected sex isn't a tag?, Grooming Language Series: Part 5 of Made To Serve (Juice Bar AU) Summary:

It's the Ignis and Somnus show and everybody is forced to tune in and watch. Unable to turn the channel or cancel, it'll be up to Ignis to wake up out of this nightmare. With many guns pointed his way, he'll need more than a blade to Jump out of the way.

Gladio and Noctis find themselves in the starring roles of their own nuptial drama, pushed along by The Family and their own stubbornness. What Gladio doesn't realize as he lays wide awake at night is that his closest allies never fail him even when he fumbles his own Trials.

It is a wonder Gladio and Ignis are even on the same side, as both are opposed in how to approach their singular goal: protect Noctis, even from himself. Perhaps their clashing methods aren't so out of sync when they both catch the eye of a one winged angel and a ruthless heir of a media empire. While the two try to get ahead of the game, waiting in the wings is a fifteen bladed pair of them, ready to oversee the processions and take His place as the head of the household.

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The start of what I think is the best book in the series. Savor a taste or don't, we're taking a hiatus for about a month to catch up on rl stuff. It's been an exhausting year.

[almondpiglet]

happy new year!!! redrew another one of my favorite mp100 official art wahoooo

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

if colin morgan ever saw the shit that I post about him, he would arrest me immediately

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

[majkatten]

every day i wonder how my life would be different if theyd just given sera the yolandi hair

[respectthepetty]

Jack and Joker's first episode is premiering at a theater in Thailand and LOOK AT THE POSTER!

[darkshrimpemotions]

Thinking about how Izzy blames himself for so much that isn't his fault and eating my own hands about it.

[kipperdoodler]

broo this acheron mf lost as hell 😭😭 how she in space

[lazysunjade]

I R E L L I A N |

pov: you're the mc in an otome game. the third route tells the story of Irellian, a flower spirit with the tempestuous nature of spring. he is both soft and gentle, but in a snap moment can become stormy and unforgiving, so take care to speak politely. Irellian is well-liked and sought after, and enjoys most attention. he adores gifts and flatteries and will wear both with great pride.

[shiori8]

Di Angelo Siblings

Sooo, to absolutely no one's surprise the new Percy Jackson reboot kicked me into full-blown pjo brainrot mode again lol. I saw these super cute fits and some vintage photos of Venice alleyways floating around on Pinterest and was consumed with the need to draw the Di Angelo siblings in them (it's probably wildly "historically and geographically" inaccurate for them, but we're just going to have to deal with the fact that I'm dumb and uncultured xD It's the vibes™ that count, okay!)

Psst, wanna see something cringe😂? Found this old sketch of them from one of my first forays into digital art years ago:

And to quote past-me "I can barely look at the old one, but at least that means I improved, aye?"😂

[sunflowerrex]

I kinda botched the perspective on this one but this is the first time I’ve successfully drawn abs and I REALLY love the shading on this so imma post it anyways 🫶🏻

(Sorta?) Eli vanto but if Eli Vanto was an imperial air defense officer who happened to have team bonding on a beach somewhere or something along those lines. He also worked out waaaay too much in prep for said air defense position

I reaaaaallly wanted to draw muscles so sorry. I’ll also quit it w the glasses w the next one so sorry

[jimmythejiver]

Chapters: 50/50 Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia, Cor Leonis/Ignis Scientia, Somnus Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia, Clarus Amicitia/Regis Lucis Caelum, Clarus Amicitia/Cor Leonis/Regis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia/Cor Leonis, Ardyn Izunia/Noctis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia/Noctis Lucis Caelum Characters: Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Cor Leonis, Prompto Argentum, Ignis Scientia's Uncle, Loqi Tummelt, Ardyn Izunia, Clarus Amicitia, Regis Lucis Caelum, Somnus Lucis Caelum, Optimus Lucis Caelum | The Wise, Ignis's Father Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Not for Prompto Stans, Alternate Universe, fantasy in a modern setting, No Royal Family, Mafia AU, Slow Burn, will they won't they, Major Worldbuilding on top of Canon, Dragoons as a Race, Magic Revealed, Same Level of Magic as the Source, Fictional Religion & Theology, Strippers & Strip Clubs, Supper Clubs, Sartorial, gratuitous cameos, Past Sexual Abuse, Codependency, Twin Somnus and Ardyn, Sexual Coercion, Dubious Consent, Exhibitionism, Implied Incest, Power Dynamics, Power Imbalance, Meditation, Demisexuality, Polyamory Negotiations, Puns & Word Play, betrothal, FFII lore, Body Horror, offscreen murder, Massacre (off screen), Torture & Interrogation, Initiation, Mutilation (discussed), Blasphemy, Scarification, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Unprotected sex isn't a tag?, Pool Sex, Grooming Language, Cult ceremony Series: Part 3 of Made To Serve (Juice Bar AU) Summary:

Some victories are hard won, while some losses fall harder.

Ignis Scientia knows this better than anyone fighting for his father's freedom and bad business buyouts. Gladio Amicitia has no idea how far and how deep this goes until it's too late. What are these two roommates to do when they're at each other's throats, looking out for their newfound family while up against The Family?

Love will survive, but it might not look the same.

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It is finally finished. Creepy end, eh.

[feelingtheaster99]

I finally finished the end of the last season of Teen Wolf this week, and I almost wish I didn’t because I think the Season 6A plot would’ve been a better ending

[saggitary]

Ahsoka Series 1x5 Spoilers

A lot of people have mentioned how jarring it was for them to see young Ahsoka in the most recent episode because it put into perspective just how young Ahsoka actually was when she became the Padawan Commander of the 501st. It makes perfect sense why it is only really hitting us now because we are seeing her as a real person. This isn't to say that animated Ahsoka wasn't real, she was just, well, animated (and the first 2 seasons of The Clone Wars wasn't the best animation known to man either). She was a child just like many of us were when we watched her for the first time. We were young just like she was, we laughed at the droids and we counted the droids cut down just like Anakin had Ahsoka do.

Now we finally have a live-action Ahsoka Tano and she is an adult just like many of us are now. That same adult Ahsoka was dropped right back into the Clone Wars but now the veil of fun and lightheartedness has been stripped away... for her and for us. She might not have noticed how messed up her situation was when she was young because Anakin did his best to protect her from that.

Throughout the whole flashback scene, they kept placing Ahsoka next to Anakin or in front of him, having her run among the adult clone troopers, even showing how the injured clone trooper's hand completely covers her smaller one because they wanted us to see how small and how young she was.

She sees all the injured troopers just as we did and she knows that it was her mistakes that caused that damage. She sees how fucked up it all was because she couldn't make mistakes now without losing lives. It brought us right back to the Storm Over Ryloth arc when Ahsoka lost almost her entire fighter squad because of her mistake.

(There is also that little bit of knowledge that all of that death, all that trauma and darkness was for nothing in the end as well)

[lesbos-crossings]

ofc everyone is entitled to their own opinions about the ofmd finale/quality of the season (which i think we can generally agree was facing pacing/funding issues)

BUT seeing all the different perspectives is so funny to me bc you can really tell who has lived through genuine “bury your gays” and queer-hostile writing like some of y’all gotta be JOKING

[itbmojojoejo]

Nana...mi?

....I...hm...

...my feeling's on this loss. I will forever mourn that king, and I will not forgive the author for 'the shibuya incident' arc.