more on hollow mind but gosh. do you ever think about how the catts almost got themselves killed TWICE
like I've already talked about eda's requiem but. they almost got destroyed in hollow mind
like assuming that belos knew before this point what has happening (if you look at the pit of potions he uses to trap the palisman souls, 3/9 of the potions are actually arrows. and actually look like the way he changed the cats positions during the draining spell) he could have been anticipated this
i see him still choosing his child form to trick them all, because it's the only one that would work, but it's likely darius whips out an Abomination child leash (like the ones with a harness) and is like 'wonderful, show us around' and belos just. let's it happen. the humiliation will be worth it when he gets to traumatise darius
once they're exposed to the palisman souls, eber probably takes charge because they're the head of beast coven, and while it leaves to find supplies to properly trap 'belos', raine and darius are left to find anything about the day of unity, with darius left on babysitting duty :]
they're probably trying to find a way to reverse sigils, or the source of their power, so while they are both present for the memories of the previous golden guards (the collared ones), for plot convenience they are both in the collector memory but raine leaves after we see the collector but BEFORE he mentions the grimwalkers.
darius hears the conversation and when raine agrees to split up to find more information on the collector, darius takes kid belos aside to be like '...show me where he is'
meanwhile, eberwolf has found out that the palismen souls are not belos and they both RUN to contact raine. raine starts preparing the exit spell while eber runs to get darius
meanwhile, darius and belos have been seeing all the grimwalker deaths, and they finally land at the darius's golden guard. blah blah belos reveals himself and monologues, darius tries to kill him on the spot, and belos starts like. mocking him on his impulsiveness
as in, darius appears to be cold and calculating, but he's really an emotional guy (see him staging a fight with raine but getting genuinely upset when they ruined his cloak, and him making an excuse on the spot JUST to take hunter's cloak bc he can't bear to see his golden guard's name disrespected like that) and it's probably what this golden guard killed!
darius only stops fighting when belos says that if he's murdered without a fair trial, what's going to happen to hunter? there would be a MASSIVE power vaccum, and while raine and eber could definitely hold their own, hunter's only political strength comes from his relation to belos. the coven heads would tear him apart.
darius pauses, but wuh oh! he's right in front of the petrification device!! the palisman souls swoop in to save him last second, but get petrified in the process, achieving the same effect for Belos as in the original hollow mind
raine activates the return spell and begins to drag them back to reality, belos says something snarky like 'see you at the day of unity :]' and boom! they're back at reality!
JESUS CHRIST YOURE ON A ROLL
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So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this
Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.
So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"
It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead
Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.
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