i just. i just…FUCK. i just really want harrowhark to go sicko mode when she realizes john has the power to resurrect whoever he wants he just chooses not to and even after learning about his own blood daughter he still doesn’t resurrect her he just makes her a construct. i would be alecto-levels of grief-stricken-enraged if my childhood nemesis/guard dog/whipping girl/codependent lesbian situationship that i lobotomized over/suicide-pact soulmate/only friend was suddenly here but not here haunting her own dead body and the only reason she’s present is because she was made into a fascist killing machine for a man with a power kink, and she’s not even happy about it but she’s going through the motions because all she knows of love is to be useful. (forever your sword.) and if i was harrow and i died and then came back to myself after switching bodies with the human cage holding the earth’s soul and realized all of this, i think i too would be accompanying the earth’s soul on her shoulder to go kill a man with eclipse-eyes and criminal levels of nonchalance. y’know. the one who guarded g1deon but not me, lord. the one who was so sure i had never seen that which lies insensate and with stilled mind, lord, who did not realize i was a lock and there was a key in the shape of a girl, lord. the one who looked me dead in the eye and told me i could never have my cavalier back, lord. the cavalier who came back haunted and empty and incomplete by your hand, lord.
i’m so team ‘harrowhark saves gideon for real this time not because she wants her cav but because she wants her other half’ i might lose my mind about it
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Scar pulled his punches in the cactus ring.
"You can't know that for sure-" yes, I absolutely can. Scar isn't terrible at PvP—he's not the best, but he knows the basics of how to aim and hit. He does objectively well in the Battle of Dogwarts. He understands the rhythm of a fight. His biggest weakness isn't his skill, it's his tendency to get overwhelmed by the chaos of a battle.
And the cactus ring? Not a battle. It's just Grian, who Scar doesn't even look at. You can see it from both perspectives—Scar doesn't aim, he doesn't have a rhythm, he just hits repeatedly and nonsensically.
And Grian notices.
GRIAN: Go!
SCAR: I'm ready, here we go!
[Fight begins]
SCAR: Oh, oh it hurts so bad.
GRIAN (indignantly): Scar!
SCAR: I'm getting you, I'm getting you good!
GRIAN (laughing): I don't think you are.
Grian's indignant "Scar!" is because he can tell that Scar isn't trying. And you know what? After that, Grian doesn't try as hard. He goes into the fight expecting a fight, and is met with an opponent who clearly isn't trying to hurt him. Grian hits Scar with two crits initially, then completely ignores an obvious chance to do so a couple seconds later, when he jumps down from a block to land next to Scar and then hits him.
Grian does still win, though. He does eventually start trying again, because one of them has to win, and Scar made the decision to give him the victory right from the start. Grian recognizes that Scar wants him to win. So he fights hard again when Scar's health starts to get low, to get it over with for the both of them.
And that's when he tells Scar he's sorry.
The worst part?
In Scar's very last moments, he starts to fight back.
When he gets to about a heart and a half, his hits start to become more desperate as he realizes he is actually about to die, and regardless of the fact that he's okay with Grian winning, that's scary. As he's on death's door, he actually crits Grian, and his last words are "no, no, no, no!"
He doesn't blame Grian, though. Because when he asks for a life in the very beginning of Last Life, Scar gives it to him.
In a strange way, Last Life parallels 3rd Life. At the very beginning, Grian takes a life from Scar as a prank. In neither situation does he intend to hurt Scar—he didn't think the creeper would kill him, and he was going to return Scar's life until he learned he started with six. In the end, he still does. The difference is that Last Life shows us a Grian with no remorse, and what 3rd Life could have been like if he'd never pledged himself to Scar. Double Life follows that up with a world where they're forced to be together, rather than Grian choosing to protect Scar.
The one through line in all of this? Scar trusts Grian with his life, and in the end, Grian loses it—not out of any malice, but because, as we learn in Limited Life, he's him.
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#1142: ranty ranty
i've the weirdest reason to like hl:
late 19 century means beаuxbatons had plenty of people from the russiаn empire and if you're aiming to create the tournament you'll basically have a rundown on the differences between the english, the--
uh huh huh
The Greatest Storyteller Of The MillenniaTM made it harder to write about other schools for magic because you just explain to me what should a person think of the entire CONTINENT to give europe only 2 schools for magic? just imagine beаuxbatons in the beginning of the 19th century or in the middle of the century. throw in koldоtvoretz and have your hair falling off your head because this lump of land has always been roughly 7000 kms in length from west to east; yet it has 1 (ONE) school for magic. durmstrаng is a private school and should had been The North (or Germany?) except Bulgaria is Greece's next door neighbour. honestly I WANT TO SCREAM and so here is my hot take opinion on it all: hp is such a western gaze if u ask me
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Let me chew you out a little, since we have a couple minutes (Patreon)
[Panel 1]
Prismo: *mumble* *mumble*
[Panel 2]
Prismo: *mumble*
[Panel 3]
Simon: Hmph. “Just because it’s in your head-”
[Panel 4]
Simon: “-Doesn’t mean it’s yours,” huh?
[Panel 5]
Simon: Give me all the responsibility with none of the privileges?
[Panel 6]
Simon: And then you get mad at me for trying to pick up your slack?
Prismo: Hey...
[Panel 7]
Simon: Clearly you already expect that much from me!
[Panel 8]
Prismo: Hey, hey! I did the best with what I had! I didn’t expect any of this!
[Panel 9]
Simon: And yet you didn’t even consider telling me, so we could’ve avoided this?
[Panel 10]
Prismo: It’s not like I could’ve just- taken it out! I was locked out!
[Panel 11]
Simon: You could’ve done something!
[Panel 12]
Simon: Instead you let my life spiral around this thing, kept me tethered to Ice King’s Madness-
[Panel 13]
Prismo: Fionna and Cake are real thou-
Simon: NOW you tell me! After I find out for myself!
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