Albatross Snippet
"Wasn't good enough to look at alive," Jason exhaled, horribly quiet, "Still not good enough dead?"
Dick stared down at his putrid coffee. Bitterness seemed to have taken over his senses- hated taste in his mouth, the sound of Jason's voice- like nothing else existed.
"Fuck you," Dick enounciated clear despite the lump in his throat. "Fuck you for dying, fuck you for lying, and fuck you for leaving."
His voice didn't shake. Vehemence tasted shitty too.
Slumping all at once into the crooked booth across from him, Jason seemed to nearly fall. "Dick."
He made it half a minute, watching yellow light highlight the coffees oily sheen. Pink circles on diner ceramic, two chips. Less than forty seconds- he had to look.
And Jason was just Jason. Handsome. Tired. Physically arresting as the night Dick had really met him. Freshly shaved jaw, a half days bruise ever so slightly discoloring. Not an open wound or an adolescent ghost, a shape in the dark holding Dicks hand as tightly as he'd held onto all his secrets.
Not exactly the same, but enough, pushing all the air from Dicks lungs because it could never, ever be the same.
"You cut your hair."
Quiet. Furious. Not at all relieved.
Delighted.
Jason blushed. Faint, not unapparent, not to Dick, just a little bit of pink on those broad cheekbones. Too sudden to blame the cold.
"And you let yours grow," Jason said, after too long a beat, gripping the table edge. He swallowed, all of Dick's anger seeming to condense down on watching stress play out on his person. "Alf giving you shit yet?"
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I’m in SHAMBLES
Echos Act 2 Week 1 spoilers below
Why does Bungie bully the old gay men?! “YOUR OSIRIS?”?!?!?! REALLY?!?!?! The identity crisis was bad enough but to realize he was RIGHT? That hurts.
This relationship was already riddled with lies from Savathun. Now this? Really Bungie?!You want us dead?! The worst fucking part is I have read fanfics with the tablet version. That is what I know. To know that isn’t what Saint remembers? It’s killing me.
And the worst part is I personally think Osiris knew. He is all about the fact that it doesn’t matter (and good cause they’ve had enough angst, let the old men be happy) but it’s the tiniest but much. They are fundamentally the same, but there are little differences.
I wonder if Osiris knew the Saint we pulled out wasn’t the ‘real’ Saint. I wonder if he purposefully ignored or even flat out lied about the little differences in experiences if Saint brought them up. I wonder if that’s why he took so long to talk to Saint after we pulled him out of the Infinite Forest (as far as I am aware, please correct me if I’m wrong). Because he had to come to terms with the fact that ‘his Saint’ was dead. Really dead. and now Saint has to do the same.
However it’s objectively worse for Saint. Yes, Osiris had to come to terms with ‘his Saint’ being dead. Saint has to come to terms with the death of his entire reality. Again I wonder if he ever mentioned something in a conversation with someone and the other person didn’t remember. Ikora. Zavala. Shaxx. Things he distinctly remembers, but for the others it was just a little to the left, or even didn’t happen at all.
That shit is going to keep me up at night. Food for thought.
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The duality of loving this little clip with Bojan because I just love their friendship and I'm so happy they had a good time
And hating it because it's gonna reinforce the toxic shipping behaviors in too intense fans 🙃
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I really need to be cleaning my room but. fanfiction I'd write if I had time but I Do Not
There are several ghiralink fic storylines that are along the lines of "Link gets exactly what he thinks he wants and turns out it isn't really what he needs" (whether real or a dream-state) that have him taking Ghirahim's sword and gaining complete control over him and the themes are of personhood and power and complacency. be careful what you wish for type things. A few that are Ghirahim killing Link/Link losing and realizing he would rather have him alive and fighting instead of dead/given up because it was more fun than way, but usually end up being sad. oh well I guess for the former and teaming up with Link to defeat Demise for the latter.
What I want to write is the themes of scenario 1 but role reversed so it's like scenario 2 with Ghirahim having the "this isn't what I wanted" moment. Ghiralink adds, usually as a joke, a level of "if I can't kill you, maybe you could join me ;)" and I want to write more or less Link doing that, Link being a perfect subservient extension that does everything he wants him to and he doesn't regret it (he can't), but Ghirahim having the realization that he doesn't want someone who is nothing more than an object for him to use. A doll. A sword.
And then, how Link has guilt over Fi and the Master Sword and his role as hero and how Hylia controls him but he's no better than her, Ghirahim realizing Link is now what he is to Demise and rethinking his own position. Is this what Demise thinks of me. Is that why he treats me the way he does. And he takes his anger out on Link but Link can't fight back anymore. Link doesn't want to fight back anymore, and not in a depressed it's hopeless kind of way, but in the same way Ghirahim accepted Demise pulling the sword out of his chest.
When Ghirahim is empty and goes isn't this what you wanted, Link can genuinely say no because he has a hero's heart and conscience and never meant for anyone to get hurt. When Link goes I am what you made me, Ghirahim has to face that fact that yes, he is, and he is made in my image, and I do not want this anymore.
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Seeing some debate on if in game henry being an ink version of him makes the time loops less evil and imo it makes it even MORE evil. He was given false memories of a life he never lived, been put through hell and back ever since creation and has no hope of any other purpose in the world. He was literally MADE to suffer. And he isn't even the henry that had left joey, just some replica he made to take his anger out on with no regards to that person's wellbeing
Just because he's made of ink doesn't mean he's any less alive. He still feels things, still has thoughts and opinions, still conscious, he is a living being. No, just because he isn't the real guy doesn't make it less cruel. Its just as, or even more so, a disgusting and evil thing to do to him
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god the fact that louis and lestat keep claudia so sheltered despite her literally being a murderer is sooooo compelling like they really are a family she is their daughter but….the fact that that sheltering and withholding of information is partly what caused things to go wrong to begin with….the way their desire to treat her the way they do ultimately just causes her pain…the fact that both in human and vampire affairs she’s completely innocent and at their mercy and of course they are both so….unprepared in many ways for this situation and like…..the fact that even as she grows older, she was turned as their child and thus they don’t see her as their equal, they see her as their daughter. there’s always going to be this imbalance of power where she’s forced to rely on them for so much and like….it’s so compelling….she’s so compelling and I am so sad
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does lime ever cry about anything or is angry more of his emotion? cause in all the childhood limochi comics mochi seems to be more the overflowing emotional one and lime is the more repressed on even back then. does that change at all ?
good catch!!! youre correct little mochi was VERY much the cry easy child. even if it was a little inconvenience or when she was angry the tears would flow!! not that she was a whiny brat but any time she got upset she couldnt stop the tears lol
and yes lime channels his negative emotions into anger. baby lime was very "haha REAL men dont cry!!!" type and even as he got older he recognizes "okay yeah everyone cries no big deal hahah" but theres still that underlying mindset. that being said hes a very dry anger type, so it takes a lot to actually get tears to come out, usually the only people hed ever cry for or to is his family + mochi.
the only time we actually SEE him cry is whatever the point is where all his pent up resentment about mochi leaving all of them without any word or warning comes out!! and as SOON as his eyes start watering he just freezes he cant even get anymore words out once he gets to that point
(and actually tried to up and run once the tears started but mochi wouldnt let him. and thats the only time we see lime cry -w- )
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