#and yes this Was an anime aesthetic blog at one point but then i went insane at sea and forgott how to be aesthetic. sory :

[ahungeringknife]

I've been tagged so many times by the nice @aziz-reads I don't have the spoons to tag myself but I should at least fill mine jfc. So this is just... all of them

Out of context line

Nothing got her ready to defend the Earth and all of Sol like having some otters eat right out of her hand and knowing she was directly protecting all life in the System including these cute little animals.

which: girl same

Nine sentences

Shin then set his hands alight and started burning the egragore around him. He didn’t touch the fungus but he did scatter Solar Light and fire into the creeping darkness mycelium. The egragore hissed and sounded like shrill screaming at a distance as it burned away. “Fox! Bear! In here,” Wolf said sternly over comms and Shin had never seen such powerful Guardians run like some scolded children in his life. It took them all day and into the night to burn away the egragore mycelium until it was properly contained back in the ‘clean room’. Eris had come at some point and Wolf had laid into her as well and then Ikora had come because Wolf was yelling at everyone and Wolf had given her some strong words too. Shin had just stayed in the main room of the H.E.L.M. and kept flushing white hot fire through the vents to burn any spores that had taken hold in there or along the H.E.L.M.’s edges. He was staying far away from the scolding but he could hear it from here as Wolf wasn’t doing it over comms. “In case it wasn’t obvious,” Shin said after a while to the rest of Glitterbomb who were cleaning the H.E.L.M. if they couldn’t burn away the spores, “her vacation is over.” “Shut the fuck up, Malphur,” Cat said.

OC take over tag: Rules: for any OCs you’d like, if they stole your phone and got on your tumblr blog, what would they do/post on it?

Wolf: would just look up fanart of anime she likes/knows

Cat: thirst traps, post and look for

This tag was not the one to do directly after a nap. I can't think of anything else. But also I can't see my OCs engaging in social media.

last line tag

She slowly got to her feet, Shin looked up at her. What now? “Ghost, call everyone; the Witness is coming.”

that's the big bad

writing share tag

I already post all my writing I'm just bad at cross posting.

last line tag x2

“I’m old enough to see those words you know,” Magpie said, Shin chuckled as Magpie transmatted him out of the H.E.L.M.

slight context is Wolf signed some VERY rude words and Shin covered Magpie's eye when she did

Favorite things tag

share the top five things I enjoy writing about

Slow burn getting to know each other before they hook up. Not even in a friends/enemies to lovers type way. Or either way I guess. I like the build up.

Dialogue. Love a good snappy dialogue. I have written chapters that is like 85% old men arguing in a room and its one of my fave things

Soul Mates. All varieties. Red string, marks on your body (writing, or images), vision changing, all of the above and any other version you can think of

Queer Platonic relationships. I like... cry? when I think about OCs QP boyfriend and how much they love each other?

Autistic coded characters. I especially love rubbing my autistic hands all over your canon fave; too bad he's autistic now bitch :)

Out of context line x2

Shin had always been a ‘problem’ Hunter as far as Hunters went. Renegade and all that. Osiris didn’t like ‘problems’.

Shin that is the LEAST of it.

one word worldbuilding

Does this world resemble earth? yes

What is a defining characteristic of this world? post-post-apocalyptic

What creatures roam this world? many

Is there a magic that is used? yes

What languages are spoken? some

What is special to this world? Guardians

What makes it fantastical? Light

Is Earth mentioned in this world? yes

What clothing do creatures here wear? armor

Describe the aesthetic sci-fi

Is it similar to another fantasy world? kinda

Give us a brief description of the history killing

What is the government system? Is there one? junta

How about describing some of the diversity? global

What is ideal of this world? redemption

What is a distinct inequality in this world? kinda

Is the world a background or woven into the plot? background

What is the coolest thing about this world? Light

What inspired this world? Destiny

What would you give to go there? nothing

Why would you want to go there? utopia

[doubledyke]

Hi! Lee 7, 12, 14 (yes I want to see more of your fashion aesthetic posts >:3)

heyyyy thank you!

7. what's something the fandom does with this character that i like: i like when people make anything involving lee, tbh. i feel like she doesn't get as much attention as marie and may, for whatever reason. i guess of all the kankers she's a little more mysterious? or maybe, as with all eldest daughters, she just tends to fall by the wayside 😔 lmao who knows but i enjoy what amazingspace-22 does with lee! the way they portray her in their art is fantastic! KEEP LEE TALL!

12. a headcanon i have about lee: i see lee as a vegas girl when she gets older. it's partially due to @owmylasagna-blog fic like me still (everyone go read if you haven't!!), partially bc my granny was a blackjack dealer in reno back in the 70s. i feel like you'd have to have thick skin and a fair amount of cynicism to do that job, especially as a woman. lee is a streetwise bitch who eats men for breakfast, so she'd be great at it. and make some decent money to boot. she eventually ditches PC and moves to NV to work at a casino in some capacity, scamming dirty old men for all their worth and leaving them checking their pockets 😂

14. assign a fashion aesthetic to lee: aw shucks. thanks for expressing interest in my ideas! it's really sweet of you. so i have collections of stuff for every character, i guess if that clarifies anything. the "boards" themselves haven't been made yet outside of the one for rolf and now this one for lee.

i could add jewelry, bags, and other shit but tbh i'm realizing that working with these stupid pngs is a pain in the ass. so i'll probably just end up sharing the collections at some point if i can't find a way to format them in a way that isn't hideous to look at.

but yeah, the future milf shirt is so funny. and of course the tropical button up is very kanker-esque to me. the roller skates cuz i see lee working at or at least frequenting the skating rink where eddy works. lotsa red cuz that's lee's color in my mind. i went with more casual stuff here but there's also plenty of sequins, rhinestones, animal print, glitter, fur and tassels in her closet.

[screwoffdotnet]

☆- graphics sideblog @screwoffdotarchive

☆- visual sideblog @vippeloid

CHURRO ☆ 20 ☆ they he she ☆ mexico 🇲🇽

～⁠(⁠つ⁠ˆ⁠Д⁠ˆ⁠)⁠つ⁠｡⁠☆ not NSFW but pls only follow my main if ur 18+

HIIIII im churro, this is my main blog! i like a lil bit of everything but i also like the Funnies and also Cool Pictures a lot but i mostly reblog Whatever . i dont take this blog vry srsly so its not organized at all. visit my visual blog +archive for a nicer estetik esperience pl0x hehe thanx

( no terf no proship no zionist ) more info past the line:3

☆ bisexual + genderqueer woman ☆ uni student ☆ spanish and english

o⁠(⁠(⁠*⁠^⁠▽⁠^⁠*⁠)⁠)⁠o this blog is like my house! so ya Welcome to mah House ! yea it sucks here. yea we havent gotten fumigation in 5 years. yea.

Anyways i ♡♡♡ Star Trek (tos+tng) , House Md, The X Files, Vocaloid and Pokemon ; my other interests that make me v v happy include : sitcoms, one piece, tloz, and the muppets

im not really here to do anything other than have a few giggles , reblog what makes me laugh and customize my theme ; like i said i dont rb nsfw here but i only want adults on this blog :D if youre reading this peace and love on planet earth!!!!

[ffeynn]

How- how did I just discover your blog? I really like the pale blue aesthetic! Anyways, if it's okay, can I ask for the marine bio club taking their shy fem s/o out on an aquarium date please? Thank u! (and mayhaps a first kiss too pls)

「 aquarium date + first kiss with a shy!s/o: marine bio club 」

a/n: ahh thank you for liking the pale blue and also requesting!! and ofc ofc i love them, i hope i at least can make you smile with this! and the words are around 1.8k if im not wrong but still! im sorry that it gets shorter toward the end anonn

pairings: shinkai kanata, hakaze kaoru, kanzaki souma x shy!reader (seperate)

↬ there wasn’t much of a crowd the day you and kanata went to your aquarium date. maybe even the universe wanted for you two to be off in your own little world, not like the both of you haven’t done so. shinkai was the one who asked you out on a date shortly after you were officially announced as a couple.

☆ walking along the entrance of the aquarium, your eyes immediately brightened up in amusement. it’s been a long time since you visited an aquarium so to have kanata bring you here is perfect. “the aquarium looks nice right? looking at the fish heals me.” he said. you nodded in response, excitement awaits you the more you stepped into the place. all of a sudden, a hand holds out toward your direction.

“h-huh?” by his sudden gesture, you find yourself quite flustered. but not wanting to let kanata wait, you timidly placed your hand over him. he intertwined it with a smile flashed at you. “hehe, now we won’t lose each other.” with that said, you walked to your first exhibition, holding hands with your blue haired boyfriend.

↬ watching how his eyes lit up, the way his mouth curved upward by bits, how he interacts with the marine life inside the humongous tank and how they responded to him so naturally, having your first date at an aquarium truly is the perfect way to start off your relationship.

☆ although that doesn’t mean you’re the only one who feels this. kanata loves how amazed you’re at each marine life you saw, how intently you listened to his words about some fishes and also the way you giggle happily because a guppy swimmed to you from your calls. it would be nice if he can take a picture of you right now, sadly his phone is now being repaired.

well it’s alright then, kanata will just save this sight of you in his mind, he’ll make sure he keeps it well. the sight of you waving at his sea friends with a warm smile on your face, blue shades of lighting surrounding you was more than enough for him to never let himself forget this moment.

↬ it’s a shame that you were already nearing the end of the aquarium, your pace had gotten slower as you lightly swinged your hand which was intertwined with kanata’s. the blue haired stopped on his track, pointing to a flapjack octopus, “that’s flapjack octopus, cute right?” he remembered some days before that you wanted to see said octopus in real life. kanata is glad you seemed to forget that their sweet first date is coming to an end, he doesn’t want to see you sad anymore.

☆ your eyes widened slightly at the rare sight of the octopus, you were so excited to be able to see it for the first time. he lets go of your hand and told you to go up closer, you were such a mysterious being, in a lovely way. for him now, seeing you happy is the best view than seeing any other sea friends of his happy!

while kanata too, doesn’t know where his impulse came from but he took a glance at you. without any warnings, he leaned in straight without hesitation until his lips met yours. you frozened up at your place, obviously startled by it. remember how earlier you said you were quite flustered? now you’re beyond flustered.

“ka- kanata.. you..” poor you, too surprised to even say a coherent sentence. you didn’t make an effort to hide the growing shades of roses on your cheek.

“did you.. not like it? maybe that was too sudden.. I’m sorry.” if it wasn’t for the fact that you can easily notice changes on his expression, no one would know that he feels guilty and gloomy for his love gesture just now.

you panicked at your sad lover and his misunderstanding, “wait kanata no! I, I like it very much!” the moment you realized what you just blurted out, you were sure your face was akin to a tomato.

kanata cracked a smile on his face as he replied to your words of assurement, “ehe, I like it very much too.” oh dear, he’s too dangerous for your poor and timid heart. except you won’t mind him making your heart palpitates out of love.

↬ when he heard that you’ve been wanting to go to aquarium, kaoru was quick to plan a perfect aquarium date in his mind. he was so eager to make you think this was one of the best date you’ve ever gone to but at the same time he’s panicking. sure, kaoru has gone on a few dates at the aquarium but this is you! he’s going on an aquarium date with you! he wants to make it more special!

☆ you looked at your watch and wondered if ever your lover will come to the date. did he suddenly have work to do? just when you were about to call him, a rushed footsteps could be heard from afar.

“soー sorry.. I was too caught upー” he stopped his words the moment you caressed his back as a way to tell him to calm down. before he explains whatever reason it was for his late arrival, you told him to catch his breath first. besides, the mini bouquet he’s gripping seems to give out the answer.

↬ you took out your phone to take a selfie of you and the scenery of the marine life swimming around. despite being shy to ask kaoru to be in the selfie along with you, you asked him, “hey kaoru, do you want to take a selfie together?”

☆ without any thinking made, kaoru took your request positively. happily if I must point it out. he bent himself down to fit into your camera, the close proximity maybe did make your ears red. it’ll be nice if kaoru didn’t see your reddening ears. “one.. two..” and on the count of three, you clicked the button.

you thought the picture would probably look nice if it weren't for the fact that kaoru suddenly kissed your cheek when your finger clicked the button. now the only thing you’re thinking of is how red you must be from the abrupt kiss. in some way, kaoru is thankful that you’re hiding your face from him or you would’ve seen just how he’s more flustered even if he’s the one who initiates it.

↬ around the exit for the aquarium, there was a souvenirs shop. kaoru took a plushie of a sea animal that he remembered you saying is your favorite and rushed to you who’s waiting outside the shop after he paid for it.

☆ he took a few seconds before calling out to you, let the guy soften down when he saw you pat the small bouquet he bought for you. if you’re going to smile that way whenever he gives you a small bouquet then kaoru is willing to do it everyday.

and if your smile gets as cheerful and happy as this, if your eyes will brighten up more than ever akin to a star, then he will buy you lots and lots of plushies. a gift from kaoru to you; so that he’ll always be in your mind. just like you never leaving his. so out of the spur of the moment, he asked if he can kiss you. you looked up to meet his eyes and before kaoru could say anything about his question to not let you feel uncomfortable, you answered with a yes. take the lead kaoru, your s/o is letting you kiss him.

kaoru probably had created many different scenarios of your first kiss but outside of an aquarium souvenir shop is not one of them. vacant of people around them, you took this rare chance to put away your things, hold kaoru’s forearms, tiptoe on your feet and left a 5 seconds kiss on his lips. after constantly being on the teased side, seeing your boyfriend so flustered with love was fun. the kiss felt sweet too. not like you were any better. this was the first time you’ve ever done that.

↬ how do you go to an aquarium date? usually in an aquarium, souma will just walk around, admiring and studying the marine life inside the tank. but what if you thought that was boring? this is a date, while he’s content with just walking around with you beside him, talking about all the sea lifes.. what about you? and despite him being embarrassed, he lowered his pride and asked for help from the people around him. (his akatsuki senpais gives really good advice! as expected of them!)

☆ at the first place, when you caught hints of souma worrying over if you’ll feel content with just walking around with him, you almost snorted. really, what was he mulling about, just knowing that you’re going to be with him is enough to make a bashful smile up your face. now that you and him are dating, you really wish he would know that and you’ll tell him that during your awaited aquarium date.

fast-forward to when the two of you were already inside the date location. just before you and souma started venturing into the place full of sea lifes, you found yourself holding your breath when you asked the purple haired, “do you.. want to hold hands?” souma wants to hold hands with you too! he wants even if he was inexperienced with affections. and he would never wish to see you disappointed.

for the greater, we’ll just feign ignorance to the growing blush on the both of you.

↬ you were doing exactly what he thought would make you feel bored but the joyous expression you have says otherwise. souma glanced at his hand which hasn’t left yours since then, your hand in his was perfect. like it was meant to be holding one another. the nervousness he felt while starting his day today was subdued by the time you’ve spent with him.

☆ “um.. souma?” he responded to your call almost immediately with a voice that seemed more warm than before. you turned your head toward him and looked straight in his light purple eyes, “you see, it doesn’t matter where or how, as long as I’m with you, I’ll always be happy with that.”

ending your words, you instantly looked elsewhere. souma never expected you to mutter those words to him, he appreciates you for that. you were right and that fact goes the same way with him. souma also loves how shy you become after saying those kinds of things, it makes his heart swell with adoration. the hand holding yours was tightening his hold yet it feels more calm.

↬ somewhere in the aquarium, tucked from public’s eyes, souma with his face covered in pretty red was still in disbelief. your lover being in such a situation, it helps soothe your own bashfulness too.

☆ with souma, he always makes sure to have your consent first before doing anything. that goes the same with kisses, more precisely a first kiss. he was surprised with himself too from his own little selfish request but there was this urge to lay a kiss on your lips. “may.. I kiss you?” he said, requested, asked, whatever it is, the only answer you’ll give will never change.

and again, somewhere in the aquarium, tucked from public’s eyes, souma cupped your cheek with one hand and leaned in. the process was slow, he looked into your eyes with his face dusted of rose shades. the kiss also felt long despite lasting for a quick 3 seconds.

[transsexualhamlet]

Because you have many lgbtq+ Ships, do you maybe know some mangas with actually lgbtq characters?

Yes, I do! There aren't a ton that suit my tastes out there, since a lot of manga that are actually lgbt are just focused on romance, which is very boring to me. But for questions like this, I always recommend No. 6.

I've done it more than a few times on this blog before, but I will do it again lmao.

It's older, the anime came out in 2013, but it's actually one of the first animes to feature a same-sex kiss. It's based off a manga which is based off a light novel. I'd say the manga has a FAR superior art style to the anime, but the anime is also very good and has wonderful colors, soundtrack, and generally it's just. It's really good.

It's set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, about 100 years after nuclear war left only six spots on earth habitable. Leading scientists and politicians then decided to build six huge cities on those spots, burning down all the original forests and literally killing all of the natives, yknow, great stuff /s. They continue to be awful to the native population, experimenting on them to get the Magic From The Region etc it's pretty awful.

So the story is set in + around the 6th city. The main character, Shion, lived a rather priveleged life inside its Heavily Policed walls labeled as a gifted student until at 12 he meets Nezumi (literally Rat) who basically climbs in his window with a bullet wound and goes "hey yall just escaped from being experimented on let me sleep here or i'll kill you" and shion just goes "HOT" and lets him have a sleepover. Nezumi than Completely And Utterly Radicalizes him but has to flee the next morning.

The police find out about this, don't like it, he gets kicked out of the rich neighborhood and designated to trash duty lol. Yeah also then four years later parasitic bees start coming out of nowhere, (yeah) and Nezumi comes back gayer than ever and starts beating the shit out of police officers and yeets Shion. They become gay. Shion starts a life of crime. It is wonderful.

That's like, kind of a bad synopsis of everything that's going on in this show, here's some other points you might want to know:

-Nezumi literally does drag and I love that for him

-best dynamic aka aggressive one gets soft and soft one gets aggressive

-they have the cutest scene where Nezumi and Shion dance together it's so pretty and the music is so good

-obligatory character goes through traumatic event and comes out with white hair moment

-Shion has a GirlBestFriend who keeps trying to flirt with him and he's sooooo gay and she sooo does not get it

-um, the power of singing to bees i guess

-They have a really cool girl who's implied to be trans too so there's that, I love her so much

-there's a lot of lore that goes into this one, seriously it's so good and has all the right messages about stuff, yknow, it is a sci-fi fantasy and you have to take that into consideration but it genuinely talks about class stratification, mass incarceration, policing, government taking advantage of native lands and peoples, a lot of that heavy stuff

In general, it's kind of supposed to be a cute aesthetic show but it kind of went overboard with all the symbolism and like, as they should!

[image description: first image is the cover of the light novel No. 6, displaying two boys standing against a dystopian city surrounded by a giant wall. The boy in the background is light skinned and tall with a blue ponytail, a tattered cloak and leather jacket. The boy in the front is shorter, has pale skin and red eyes, white hair and a red stripe winding around his neck and face. He is wearing a long jacket. Second image is the cover for the second volume of the manga with the same two boys in a manga art style with a beehive looking building transparent in the background. End image id]

:)

[windstormwielding]

How did you come up with Kotaro's zanpakuto? (i really love the bird theme of his attacks!) did you go through a lot of changes when coming up with names, abilities, and the general concept?

{ ooc } bUCKLE UP KIDDOS ‘CAUSE IT’S TIME FOR SOME LONG OVERDUE GODDAMNED KŌTA META-

Kōta’s zanpakutō was essentially conceived out of my own love for great big storms and heavy winds – and yes, I have a story to go with that! On one occasion many years ago, I hopped on a bus to visit a friend in town, but I was ill-prepared in that it was about to rain heavily and I had jack shit but a jacket. No raincoat and not even an umbrella. I thought I would make it there on time, buuuuut evidently, I did not. It already started raining and thundering hard by the time I walked out of the bus and had to walk a few blocks by myself.

And honestly, Plouton, looking back? I would not have changed a single little detail that day. Those several minutes I spent outside at the mercy of a live thunderstorm left such a huge impression on me! The incessant rain keeping me tethered to the ground, the sheer volume of deafening thunder cracking so hard and so loudly that the air around me quaked... pair that with times I’ve enjoyed feeling myself at the mercy of heavy winds, or even the smell of the outside after rain falls...

...pretty much all of that served as the biggest source of inspiration behind the wind and storm-oriented zanpakutō, and I wanted Kōta to embody that himself.

Besides, aside from Senna herself in Memories of Nobody, the Gotei 13 lacked a dedicated air-manipulating shinigami barring Kensei’s unique take on the topic with Tachikaze, and we’ve only seen antagonists use this power (Dordoni of the Arrancar within the main story, Kariya if you want to go filler with the Bounts... whom I’ve honestly forgotten about prior to creating Kōta WHOOPS) in the traditional sense. Not to mention, air as an element is SUPER malleable and there’s so much you can do with it if you get creative?? So, given we’ve got some real powerful element-leaning shinigami already with water (lbr Kaien would’ve been a beast had he not been nixed), fire (Yama), snow (Tosh), and electricity (Sasakibe), why not keep adding to the idea?

With that, we’ve got the main concept locked down. Powers and general theme? Check. Bird-like zanpakutō spirit? Check. Defined attacks? ...noooooot quite there yet—in fact, those were a fairly late addition well after the blog reboot. As for what led to it, this never took off since the other mun blipped on an indefinite hiatus, but our thread would have likely turned into a fight thread between our muses and uh...

...yeah, I realized named techniques are kind of an important thing to have, especially when writing within the context of an action-oriented series like Bleach. It wasn’t just about the cool factor, but having a readily available kit for reference (for myself, my writing partners, and folks reading in) was a must, not to mention it helped better define just what his main friggin’ weapon is capable of like those of most of the existing cast. In case a fight thread does come around in the future, it’d be an ideal thing to have ready to go and bring him further up to par with other fighters!

Just like that, I subjected myself to extra homework. Coming up with the moves themselves came to me simply enough, in seeing how air was played with in other media I was familiar with (key ones being Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda, and Avatar: The Last Airbender) and fashioning some of my own spins on top of some original ideas. I knew I wanted to lean hard on the bird motif since his zan spirit is a tengu, and given the wide variety of things the element of air/wind can do, I thought to make full connections between the two by theming each special move after certain species of bird! Creating those moves and naming them were the easy parts.

Naming them, that is, in English. Naming them all in Japanese was, by far, the hardest part. Why? Parce que je ne suis pas japonais, et aussi parce que je ne parle pas la langue, you see. On top of language barriers, the Japanese tongue operates on a whole other set of rules, compared to the Latin/Germanic-based ones I’ve grown used to with English, French, and (at one point) German. I did take some Japanese classes as an elective back in university, but that was only in first year – my own understanding, as a result, was threadbare and surface level at best, so that was not going to get me anywhere. I did not want to half-ass it with romaji and I love Bleach too much to not want to do these ideas justice.

I am a stickler when it comes to detail and canon-compliance, so getting the naming right by abiding to the proper conventions as best as I possibly could became my topmost priority. Google Translate was not going to fly because lord knows it’s no good without proper context between wholly different languages in English and Japanese, and it only gets wilder once you throw Chinese into the mix, given I’m supposed to use kanji. Thus, the name of the game here turned out to be “reverse engineering,” and I had to go in accepting I probably wasn’t going to get it 100% right the first time.

“What rules do zanpakutō names and special attack names follow?” “How do I apply on- or kun-reading in spelling out a group of certain kanji?” “Where are the common denominators in those rules that I can identify?” “Which language conventions have I already picked up from watching god knows how much anime over the years that I can replicate?” “Which set of words best conveys this particular English word that has no direct Japanese translation?” “How does [x] roll off the tongue? Does it sound right and fluid enough, or does it still feel super stilted and weird?” It was a loooooooot of this until I was finally satisfied with each individual end result!

Tl;dr: Jisho.org and Wikipedia were godsends during this whole process. I also want to thank @tigrextoque who gave me some helpful pointers after the fact!

ALSO... the ones on the Battle Info page aren’t even all of the ones I’ve thought about. Because I’m a glutton for punishment apparently, I purposely went and submitted a request for a certain ask meme on an ask meme source blog, JUST so I could play around with more ideas that came or would come to mind. This time, however, it was through the form of COMBINATION ATTACKS (which, by virtue alone, are honestly peak awesomeness). Those that implicated other shinigami got new bird motifs to meld the aesthetics of both muses, while I did get a couple of Quincy ones (with their referenced attacks actually using romaji as a base! Whoo-hoo for saving me the effort!) as a bonus to mix things up!

I’ll link them all right here (and later on the Battle Info page) for your convenience:

Noboru no mai, Shiro Fukurō (騰の舞・白梟, Rising Dance, Snowy Owl), with Rukia Kuchiki

Ahōdori Kyōka: Flying Battery (群烏強化: フライング バッテリー, Albatross Strengthening: Flying Battery) with Bambietta Basterbine

Muragarasu Kyōka: Galvano Volley (群烏強化: ガルヴァノ ボレー, Flock of Crows Strengthening: Galvano Volley), plus upgraded variant Muragarasu Kyōka: Galvano Storm (群烏強化: ガルヴァノ ストーム, Flock of Crows Strengthening: Galvano Storm), with Candice Catnipp

Hagetaka Rinbu (禿鷹輪舞, Vulture Round Dance) with Rangiku Matsumoto

Senkō-fū: Kitsutsuki (穿孔風: 啄木鳥, Drilling Wind: Woodpecker) with Nemu Kurotsuchi

Gyaku-fū Fūsa: Benizuru (逆風封鎖: 紅鶴, Headwind Blockade: Flamingo) with Byakuya Kuchiki

Hikuidori Hinshō (火食鳥 頻傷, Cassowary Frequent Cuts) with Ueno Chie​

Yes, “Flying Battery” was a deliberately written Sonic the Hedgehog reference. No, I will never apologize for that.

...might I reblog that meme again in the future though...?

...probably not right away.

So, uh... Plou, I should probably apologize for giving you a lot more than you likely bargained for, but hey, I just didn’t want to leave any stone unturned! Thank you so much for sending me your three questions, I enjoyed writing these little deep dives into my Bleach OC, and thanks for taking interest in Kōta! I hope all of my responses have been both enlightening and to your satisfaction.

[what-is-your-plan-today]

Leave No One Behind Ch8: Of Fireflies And Men

Co written with @icanfeelastormbrewing​

Episode Summary: It’s the morning after the night before, and Ari and Hannah start to wonder just how they’re going to keep their reconciliation under-wraps. Especially when Ari is fighting to keep his possessive, jealous streak under control…

Episode Warnings: Bad Language words. Smut (NSFW no under18s)

Episode Pairings:  Ari Levinson x OFC Hannah Horowitz

Song for Episode:  Africa by Toto 

A/N: Yes, we know this song isn’t from 1980 but we don’t care. It fit the aesthetic so run with it…the amount of other plot holes from this film we’ve fixed, we think we’re allowed this one! As always, we love to hear your thoughts and comments so hit us with a re-blog and leave a review!

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It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do. I bless the rains down in Africa. Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Ari blinked. Something had woken him up. Something that was tickling his nose. It took him a few seconds but once his mind had stirred itself into something resembling consciousness, he realised that Simon was curled up around his head on his pillow, the animal’s tail laying straight across his face.

What the fuck is the fucking dog doing on my fucking bed?

And then he remembered, he wasn’t in his bed.

Ari grinned as the memory of the previous nights activities came flooding back and with a stretch, he unceremoniously shoved Simon out of the way. The dog gave a huff at the disturbance then, in what Ari assumed was retaliation, stood up and walked down his chest. Ari gave a hiss and a curse as Simon’s nails scratched him slightly (yup, definite revenge for moving him) before he reached the spot by Ari’s feet, giving him a filthy look. Ari raised an eyebrow at the dog and gave a scoff before he turned to look at Hannah who was lay on her side facing him. It wasn’t quite daylight outside- clearly very early morning, but in the dim light he could see her long hair had fallen slightly over her face. He smiled to himself as he reached out and tucked her hair behind her ear. She stirred a little at his touch, wrinkling her nose slightly and taking a deep breath. Ari settled down on his side and slipped an arm under her neck to pull her closer. She moved again, mumbling something that he didn’t quite catch.

“It’s early Firefly, go back to sleep” Ari’s own voice was groggy as he kissed her head and closed his eyes, quite happy to just bask there, feeling her skin pressed against his. It was deadly silent, there were no sounds from outside bar the ocean. Ari’s mind began to stray, wondering to himself what time it actually was, trying to figure out how long he could actually stay there before he ran the risk of getting caught heading back to his own hut. But… would it really be that terrible if they did get caught?  It would certainly get it over and done with and avoid them having to sneak around like a pair of naughty teenagers. But, as soon as he had thought that he realised that despite what he felt, he couldn’t and wouldn’t put Hannah under that kind of pressure with Sammy, not yet. She had to decide how and when they told everyone. Ari must have dozed off for a little longer as the next thing he knew, he was coming back round to Hannah gently kissing along his jaw line, her lips ghosting over his beard. He sighed.

“Morning Firefly”

“Buenos dias, Mi lobo.” She replied, and he felt her lips curl into a smile against the whiskers that adorned his face, an action he mimicked. Because that Spanish phrase he did know, he’d heard it enough once upon a time. And fuck, the sound of her voice, gravelly with un-use due to sleep…

“I missed that.” He murmured with a satisfied sigh, eyes still closed

“What?” Hannah questioned.

“Your sexy Spanish accent.”

“I wasn’t aware I lost it.” She quipped back.

Ari cracked one eye open and looked at her “Don’t be an ass, Han, you know what I mean.”

Hannah pulled back and propped herself up on her elbow, looking at him. “Did you just call me an ass”

“It suits you.” Ari grinned cheekily, his hand wandering down under the covers and he giving a slap to one of her butt cheeks. Hannah squealed a little and jumped.

“Oww! Ari you little shit!”

She went to hit his chest and Ari started laughing, the two of them giggling like a pair of school kids as he deflected the playful attempts she was now making to cuff him round the head or wherever else she could hit him, until he grabbed her wrists and flipped them both, pinning her to the mattress, arms held above her head.  At that point he stopped dead as a low rumble came from the bottom of the bed. Simon was growling.

“Shhhhh, Simon, shut up!” Hannah chastised him, glancing down.

“When did he get so protective?” Ari looked at her.

“He’s always been like that, you just weren’t paying attention.” Hannah looked back at him “He nearly bit Jake a couple of times when you were away.”

Ari felt a flash of annoyance at what exactly that meant and his hands tightened slightly around her wrists. “What did that beach fuckboy do to upset the dog?” he asked.

Hannah arched an eyebrow at his sudden darkening demeanour, choosing to ignore it. “Nothing much, he only threw his arm round my shoulder, but Simon went mad. Looked like Sammy.”

Ari said nothing, just looked at her. Hannah could see he was fighting with something. She was well aware how possessive he could be, not that she gave a shit, she had always been able to work it to her advantage.

“He better keep his hands to himself.” Ari grumbled.

“Now who’s being territorial?” Hannah looked at him.

At that, Ari suddenly became aware of the tightening grip he had on her wrists and loosened his fingers a little, dropping his head. ”I know, I know, sorry.

“Well, you fucked me good last night and Simon didn’t seem to care so I wouldn’t worry.” Hannah teased “Clearly he recognises you as the alpha.”

Ari looked at her, all of a sudden painfully aware that he was on top of her, both of them naked, and it’s was getting him very aroused.

“Damned straight I am.” he whispered, rolling his hips and rocking up against her, causing her breath to catch a little.

“Yes.” she replied, a little moan slipping from her lips as he rocked again “Yes, you are…”

Ari’s mouth pressed to hers in a searing kiss as his hands slid up her arms, lacing his fingers through hers, keeping her hands pressed into the pillow at either side of her head. His lips strayed here and there, kissing the corners of her mouth or dipping down to her jaw and neck but always making their way back, claiming her mouth as his own, his tongue gently brushing against hers with none of the urgency of the night before. Hannah let out a sigh, as the arousal between her legs was growing with every second, and when his lips caressed the spot under her ear, the sensation made her whole body burn. She let out a low keen and his lips returned to hers, a moan of his own slipping into her mouth.

His fingers flexed slightly against hers as he pushed himself up slightly and down, his lips trailing the path down her sternum before he gently licked around the curve of her breast. The softness of his lips was creating a soothing contrast to the scratch of that fucking beard Hannah loved so damned much and as he sucked at her nipple, she groaned loudly, rolling her head back on the pillow at the sensation, her hips bucking upwards, pressing against him.

“Fuck, Firefly…” he seethed out, making her grin. He was rock hard now and fucking aching to be buried inside her. He moved his head to nuzzle at her neck with his nose again, his tongue tracing a path from her collar bone to her ear, his teeth nipping at her skin before he used his thighs to part hers even more. He lined himself up, and without taking his eyes off hers he pushed into her, causing Hannah to release a shuddering gasp. Above her, Ari his head dropped once he was fully seated, his arms shaking slightly as he dropped down to his elbows, his hands tightening around hers.

After a moment or two he started moving his hips, slowly, Hannah’s name falling from his mouth and, as she met the movement of his hips with hers she couldn’t help but sigh his name herself, his eyes still locked on hers and she felt her chest swell as she saw he was looking at her with the same need and want she’d seen the night before. His blue eyes had turned to midnight, his expression intense and focused entirely on her.

“God, do you have any idea how beautiful you are?” he whispered as he picked up his pace, burying his face into her neck. Hannah gently grazed his ear with her lips, every inch of their bodies pressed as close as they could get. The air was punctuated with breathy cries, moans and groans and when Hannah tipped her hips up again, Ari brought his lips back to hers plunging his tongue into her mouth. He could tell from the way her breathing was growing shallower and how her entire body was trembling that she was close. He pushed deeper, rolling his hips as opposed to thrusting and she let out a loud, broken, shaky cry of his name as her legs grew rigid. The heat in her belly exploded and she could hear nothing but the blood pumping in her ears as she succumbed to her orgasm, her entire body feeling like it was floating as she could feel nothing but the wave of pure pleasure as it washed over her.

“Shit, Firefly…” Ari’s breath was ragged as he thrust through, the feeling of her as she tightened around him again and again was heaven and he picked up his pace, chasing his own end.

As the world righted itself around her finally, Hannah tilted her face round so her nose brushed against his and she whispered to him softly.

“Let me see you…”

He groaned again, but pulled his head up and she locked her eyes on to his as he bit his bottom lip, eyes fluttering shut as his rhythm stuttered. He let out a groan and his fingers tightened around hers as he came. Hannah let out a gasp at the feeling and he pitched forward to bury his face into her hair, his body slumped on top of hers, his full weight resting on her as he came down from his high.

Hannah wriggled her hands free of his as her heart pounded with pride and affection and her own pleasure as she ran her fingers through his hair and down his back, pressing soft kisses around his temple. As they lay there in silence, Hannah’s hands trailing softly up and down his spine, Ari knew he could happily stay there all day, just laying with her, but he knew that wasn’t an option. Shifting slightly, he moved so he was propped up on his elbows and dipped his head to kiss her softly.

“I should go before someone busts us.” He said, resting his head against hers.

“Would it be that bad if they did?” Hannah replied, almost a little wistfully

That surprised Ari a little. He pulled back to look at her. “Not to me.” He shook his head. “I don’t care. I’d tell the entire damned world Firefly, but I’m thinking of you.”

Hannah sighed as she weighed up the various scenarios, all of them ending in the same way- Sammy’s inevitable melt down.

Ari gently cupped her face in his large hands “Listen, sweetheart. It’s up to you. Tell me what you wanna do and how you wanna do it. I’ve got you.”

Hannah looked at him, choking up a little, and suddenly, those 3 little words flashed into her brain. Thankfully to her, before her mouth could blurt them out they were startled by voices on the beach. They both paused, listening, and then letting out a little sigh of relief as they realised it wasn’t any of the team, just a few of the guests. It was still early but Hannah remembered the tourists were leaving today so they probably want to catch one last sunrise over the bay.

“I have to go before it’s too late.” Ari said again, his voice laced with apology. Hannah nodded, but he could tell she was conflicted. Deciding not to make it any worse he pulled out of her, gave her another soft kiss and untangled himself from the covers. As he stood up and located his shorts, he could feel Hannah’s eyes on him. He felt like shit, he really did, and this wasn’t helped when once he had pulled his shorts up, he turned to see her sat up in the bed, all doe eyes and flushed cheeks, the sheets held to her chest, hair spilling messily round her shoulders.

Fuck, he really, really didn’t want to go.

He leaned over, grabbed her face in both his hands and kissed her, hard, his lips working against hers, tongue once more sweeping around the roof of her mouth, leaving her breathless. With a groan he pulled away, running his nose against hers.

“If I don’t leave now, I’m never leaving…” he sighed.

“It’s ok.” Hannah assured him “Go, I’ll see you at breakfast.”

Ari stood up straight and headed for the door, his hand reached for the handle and he looked over his shoulder at her as she lay back in the bed. Hannah watched him as he opened his mouth to say something, but shut it again before he gave her a soft smile and turned, opening the door a crack. He poked his head out, checked the coast was clear and in a flash he was gone.  

Hannah lay still, just basking in the stillness of the morning, smiling to herself until the voices outside started to get louder, more and more people gathering on the beach. Simon started making a fuss to go out so with a sigh she climbed out of bed, grabbed Ari’s t-shirt which he had forgotten about, and slipped it on, his smell washing over her. She walked to the door and let Simon out, knowing he would go take a pee in his usual spot by the rocks on the shore and then, once he had said hello to the guests and received his usual fuss and loves, he would make his way up to the main area to find food. With a stretch and a sigh, rolling her shoulders she made her way to the bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror as she walked through the door. She grinned at her reflection, the memory of the previous night and earlier that morning rolling in her head, making her bed hair seem sexier than it usually would be, but then her grin slipped as she noticed a mark on her neck.

Fuck.

She snapped her head to the right and leaned closer to the mirror. Yup, there was no mistaking that, he’d given her a goddamned hickie.

“For fucks sake Levinson!” she groaned, whipping off his t-shirt, letting out another curse as she saw the finger shaped marks on her hips.

“Guess it’s the one piece.” she grumbled to herself before she climbed into the shower.

Once done she dried off, dressed in a navy blue and white nautical striped bathing suit and slipped on a white vest top and pleated pink skirt over the top before she set about concealing the offending bruise on her neck as best she could, leaving her hair down as extra coverage. She grabbed a wide brimmed sun hat, her aviators and left her hut, locking the door behind her before she began to make her way down to help with breakfast service, nodding to a few of the guests as she walked.

Max, who was walking along the beach spotted her and giving a wave and a shout he jogged over. “You look like a femme fatale in a spy movie.”

Hannah grinned, “Morning to you too Maxwell.”

Together they headed up to the resort and Hannah took up her role a Rosa, helping Rachel (or Angela) with the breakfast service. It was a simple enough job and they swept through it, everyone served and provided with some food in 20 minutes.

When Ari arrived they were just finishing up serving the last guests meaning that they could finally sit down to eat themselves. Ari plopped down next to Max and Sammy, arm leaning on the chair back. He looked around and spied Hannah chatting to a few tourists at a table. His eyes scanned her up and down, as she smiled at the guests, nodded and then grinned, walking away. He watched her until she walked into the kitchen before he turned and reached for the coffee pot, pouring himself one as Max was talking to Sammy about something to do with one of the diving boats. He wasn’t paying attention though, his mind was elsewhere, on last night and this morning to be exact.

Hannah and Rachel then emerged with a large plate of toast and fruit for their table. The girls sat down, Hannah opposite Ari and just as she was reaching over for some toast Sammy spoke

“Did you sleep well Ari?”

Ari almost choked on his coffee “What?”

“You looked relaxed.” Sammy shrugged, “Well, more than you did yesterday, you know after the long day you had with flights and travelling…”

Hannah looked down, her hair flopping forward to cover her face

“I mean you looked whacked when you went to bed…” Sam continued before Hannah cut in.

“Sammy, can you pass me the coffee?” she asked, attempting to take the attention off Ari. But to be fair, he seemed to be coping fairly well as he smiled and leaned back in the chair.

“Slept like a baby Sammy.” He stated calmly “Returning to the sea air must have taken it out of me.”

At that point Max started to chuckle and Ari looked at him, pondering what exactly he knew. Max looked at Ari before he glanced away, the smirk on his face, and Ari took a deep breath. Max couldn’t know, at worst he could suspect so…

Ari glanced at Hannah who was avoiding all of them, concentrating on the ocean as she chewed her food.

“Earth to Hannah…” Max teased and she turned to him, narrowing her eyes.

“What?”

“How did you sleep?”

“Well I got in bed…” she replied, nonchalantly “and closed my eyes.”  At that various chuckles rang out round the table “Thanks for your concern.”

“Anyone care how I slept?” Sammy asked. Ari let out a snort and turned to his best friend

“I care buddy. How did ya sleep Sammy?”

Sam grinned “Well.”

Ari’s eyes flicked to Hannah who was busy looking at Rachel. Ari’s followed her gaze and turned to the blonde and saw she was flushing a little.

NO fucking way!!!

He looked back at Hannah who’s own eyes had widened a little, a smirk on her face before she cleared her throat, looking around and frowning a little.

“Where’s Simon?”

“More to the point where’s Wolf?” Max asked.

“I don’t care about him.” Hannah waved her hand “He’s probably currently wondering how he sneaks out of a room without waking up whichever one of those girls he ended up with. That or he’s swimming…”

“Which girls? The ones that were eye fucking Ari on the beach yesterday?”

Ari scoffed and shook his head before he then realised that meant Max was watching him yesterday on the beach. Ari’s eyes flicked to Hannah who looked at him, the same realisation on her face.

Fuck, just how much did Max see?

Ari cleared his throat “No, that’s not…they weren’t…”

Hannah, grinned “They so were Lobo.”

Sammy pat Ari’s shoulder “Still got it eh Guy?”  Then he gave a wicked grin “Is that why you slept so well?”

Hannah let out a sigh and rubbed her temple at the same time Ari groaned

“Shut up Sammy.”

Max simply grinned, looking at everyone round the table, simply having a ball at what was going down.

“Ok seriously, where is my dog?” Hannah mumbled.

At that point, perfectly timed, Jake wandered in, his hair wet, T-shirt slightly damp, clearly having been for a morning swim. Simon was hot on his heels.

“There, panic over Hannah.” Sammy nodded “The mutt is following the little mermaid”

Jake looked pointedly at Hannah as he approached the table “Red, sort your dog out. He’s been clinging to me since I bumped into him before.”

As Hannah watched, Simon went straight to Max, his normal snack source and Max grinned, handing him a piece of toast.

“Did you sleep well Mr Le Bone?”

And then Ari actually did choke on his coffee.

“You ok pal?” Sammy asked, patting his back. Ari nodded, waving him away

“Yeah, that just went down the wrong hole to so speak.”

Max started to chuckle again and at that point Hannah decided it was all getting out of hand.

“Loop, what did you mean Simon’s clinging to you?” She asked, looking at Jake “He normally just wants to chew your stuff.”

“Just being a general needy bastard. He kept brushing against my leg till I got in the ocean. And then lay there waiting for me to get out, and did the same all the way here.” Jake sat down in the seat next to Max and Simon moved towards him, his toast eaten and then, as the group watched he moved, latched his front legs around Jakes leg and began to hump him.

“Mother fuck…he’s fucking my leg!” Jake yelled “Red, get him off!”

As Max, Ari and Sammy all fell about laughing, Hannah shot up and dragged Simon’s collar, pulling him away.

“NO! Simon, bad dog!!!” she said, her voice cracking into a few snorts and giggles as she did so.

Max at this point started banging the table with his palm, snorting, before he pointed at Jake “I told you, you needed to get laid.”

Simon sat by Hannah’s leg, head cocked to the side, whining.

“Simon, stop!” she shook her head.

“You’re his bitch Jake.” Max continued,

“Shut up you ass hole!” Jake shot back.

By this point, Sammy and Ari were both in tears, laughing hysterically.

“What’s gotten into him?” Rachel said, in between chuckled “He’s never done anything like that before.”

“He’s a smart little bastard.” Max wiped his eyes “Yesterday after watching me and Sammy paint he picked up on of the brushes and started rubbing it on the wall.” Ari’s laughter abruptly died. He glanced at Hannah who looked at him, slack jawed. Ari internally chastised himself for thinking something so ridiculous. Because the dog isn’t mimicking him, surely not. He’s a fucking dog!

Rachel frowned as she saw Hannah’s expression. “What is it?” she asked, before she looked at Ari whose eyes met hers. He saw Rachel’s face slide into an understanding expression and she shut her mouth as she stood up.

“Ok, I’ll take him out, I need to speak to a few of the guests anyway, let them know when they can check out. Come on Doggy.”

“Doggy!” Max snorted, banging his hand on the table again, his laughter loud.

“Oh will you shut up Max!” Hannah spluttered at the same time as Jake threw a piece of toast at him.

“You’re having far too much fun Max.” he shook his head.

Max grinned as he picked up the toast “This has been the best breakfast ever.” He took a huge bite “You guys are tops!”

***** The guests finally left just before 10 am and as they waved them goodbye, although neither of them would admit to it, Ari and Hannah were relieved to get rid of the group of women that had been watching them at the beach the day before. They had had enough with Simon's quirks and Max's constant sniggers and knowing looks to be watching out for any of the tourists to pass a comment that the members of the team, especially Sammy, could interpret as them being together.

As the bus pulled away, the group grinned at one another, silently congratulating themselves for yet another successful cover as a functioning hotel. The thing that had started as an emergency decision the day of their first mission had unwittingly resulted in the perfect cover despite the scepticism of most of the people back at HQ in Tel Aviv. And Ari found himself thinking it wouldn't be a bad retirement gig once he was finally ready to hang his Agency life up.

Seeing as the next group of tourists wasn't due to arrive until the next morning, the group was free to do whatever they wanted with their time and after the events of the previous night, a few more options had been added to the catalogue for some of them anyway. But first things first, as they were now able to speak freely, which they hadn't been since Ari returned with Ethan and Isaac’s back-up, they took the opportunity to discuss the next mission in a bit more depth.

They had three weeks until the next new moon on a Friday. Ari informed them all that the idea was to basically follow the same plan as last time and gave Sammy a look when he saw him open his mouth to remind everyone of the unexpected road control during their first mission. With that in mind, Ari suggested that maybe they find a different meeting point, perhaps a little further down and a slightly different route to the cove. This would likely take longer but would prevent them from running the risk of becoming predictable for any possible monitoring from Colonel Ahmed. The team, including Sammy, agreed, all of them nodding as they poured over a map, pointing out potential options before they settled on one secluded but rocky spot surrounded by tall trees.

"Ok. I’m gonna head to speak to Kabede and then I’m going into Port Sudan." Ari said once everything was settled. 

He avoided looking at Hannah as he didn't want her to tag along. As much as he was aching to spend some alone time with her, he needed to get her birthday present. So he glanced at Rachel instead, giving her a pleading look which she seemed to instantly understand.

"I could do with going to Port Sudan. I have some letters to post for the kids." she happily offered, taking the hint.

Ari nodded “Sure.” and then looked at Hannah through the corner of his eye, he didn't dare to meet her face straight on. As he had predicted she stood still, arms folded, the expression on her face was unreadable to many, but crystal clear to him. 

What the fuck, Ari?

"How about the rest of us go diving?" Jake suggested, once the trip to Port Sudan was settled. "Nah man, I’m gonna chill on the beach and do absolutely zilch. Been a busy few days." Max joked.

"That’s the best idea you’ve ever had." Sammy agreed with Max, patting him on the shoulder.

"Beers and sand…I love this job." Max grinned.

"Suit yourselves. Red?" Jake shrugged before asking Hannah. Hannah pondered Jake's offer for a minute, avoiding Ari's gaze like the plague, before she shrugged "Yeah sure, sounds good." Ari felt the heat rising in his neck and blood pumping in his ears. Ok, now he was pissed. What the hell was she thinking? He didn't trust Jake around her, despite Simon's growling at Jake whenever he felt the man was overstepping, but he knew he couldn't make a fuss. Instead, he used everything in him to try conceal the rage that was coursing through his veins. If being a Mossad agent had its perks, learning how to keep a straight face was definitely one of them. 

Hannah's eyes locked with his this time, her chin jutting out defiantly. He could tell she was pissed at the fact he hadn’t offered to post Rachel’s letters himself and take her instead, like he did last time, and Ari knew this was her way of firing a shot back.

Oh Firefly, you’re playing a dangerous game…

In Hannah’s eyes, the point she was making was perfectly valid. There hadn't been any alone moment. No kiss, no touch, nothing since he sneaked out of her room that morning and here he was, passing up an opportunity for the pair of them to spend some time together, alone, away from the resort.

Fuck you, Lobo. she thought at the apathetic expression on her lover's face.

Hannah turned to Jake "Wanna go a bit further round the cove? I’ve not been down there yet?" She asked as she stood up.

"Whatever you want Red, I’m all yours." he replied, raising his arms in a surrender gesture. A smug smile on his face.

Ari’s hands tightened a little on the back of the chair as he watched her leave. Fully aware he was in danger of giving himself away he stood straight up, running his hand through his hair and looked at Rachel.

"Shall we go?"

"Sure. Give me 5 mins to get my stuff." 

Ari nodded and the pair headed out of the room, Rachel following Ari's murderous strut.

"Hey, bring us back some of that good food? You know the baklava and the olives you got last time." Max shouted to the pair.

"Do you think about anything but your stomach?" Ari asked, stopping in his tracks and turning to look at him.

"Well, another part of my body sometimes, yeah." he grinned, making Ari roll his eyes.

***** After a quick meeting with Kabede, at the designated location in a small village halfway between the resort and Port Sudan, where he was introduced to Rachel, they headed back out to the city. 

Ari was driving but his mind was still on Hannah and Jake. Surely after their night together she couldn't really still think they were merely playing at this? Her deliberate attempts to annoy him had fucking worked, and he was more pissed at her stupid little games than anything. He was beyond annoyed and it never once occurred to him that she may have had her own reasons, that she could be acting out of spite at his actions. His arrogant, stubborn mind wouldn't allow for it. 

"Stop clenching your jaw, your teeth are grinding and it goes right through me." Rachel finally said after a while. 

She had been stealing glances at him all the way so far, he’d felt her eyes burning into him as he had fallen silent once they left Kabede, his eyes remaining fixed on the road but slightly blinking with the thoughts racking his brain. 

"What?" Ari asked, snapping out of his head.  "I’m not clenching my jaw…"

 Rachel rolled her eyes "Whatever."

 Ari sighed "Sorry, it’s just…"

 "She wanted to come with you, Ari. She’s probably wondering why I’m here and she isn’t." Rachel said, anticipating his thoughts once again.

 "Because I want to get her a damned birthday gift." Ari said, raising his voice a little bit and not bothering to ask Rachel how she knew what he was thinking about.

 "I thought that might be it." she chuckled "But how is she supposed to know?"

"I guess…but that doesn’t mean she has to play stupid little mind games." Ari said, suddenly not so convinced Hannah was merely being a brat after all. "Ok back it up Ari. Why is she playing mind games? And why does it bother you all of a sudden? You’re the king of head fucks yourself, Levinson." Rachel told him, this time looking at him with a stern expression.

 He glanced sideways at her but couldn't come up with a suitable comeback, she was right. However, what she didn't know was that the game rules had changed as of the previous night. Their night. Yet, instead of voicing what was really on his mind he blurted out something else.

 "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"

"You know damned well what it means? I’m a Mossad agent too, don’t try and outsmart me." she said, clearly starting to lose her patience.

 Ari chuckled at that "And one of the best I know. But don’t forget who’s boss here."

"I knew it." she snorted. "You’re a control freak Ari, everyone knows that, and you don’t like the fact she’s not behaving."

 Ari looked at her with a frown, before he turned his eyes back to the road.

"I got news for you, Guy, she’s not that innocent little 21 year old anymore." Rachel said after shrugging, not taking her eyes from the road.

At that Ari snorted, and couldn’t help but think back to the night before as he flashed Rachel a smug grin "I know."

“Ok" she laughed. "So are we talking about why Simon is suddenly so keen on fucking Jake’s leg?" "You tell me, you’re the Mossad agent." Ari bit back, shooting her a side glance. "Maybe he saw you and Sammy…" he saw her blushing. “You know, for an agent that’s a really shit attempt at not showing your cards, Reiter."

Rachel was the one to snort this time, this game of spies they were suddenly playing was proving more difficult than convincing a bunch of Japanese tourists she was a German hotel manager, and she fell silent for a moment before she spoke again "You can’t prove anything Levinson, the dog wasn’t in my hut."

"So it was your hut?" he drawled, flashing a cheeky grin at her "Shit, Ari!" she protested, slapping his arm. "Good for you Rachel, really." Ari said after laughing heartily.

 "Oh come on, you’re just glad you got something on Sammy for when he finds out you’re fucking his little sister." she said with feigned irritation but with a wide a smile.

Ari cocked his head to the side a little as he looked at the road, smirking.

 "Ok, so that’s part of it, yeah, I’m not gonna lie, it’s perfect. So thank you." he finally conceded and she rolled her eyes. "Although I’m not stupid enough to think that’s going to stop him exploding." he confided in her, his tone becoming serious this time.

 "He’ll come round. He has to. He doesn’t have any right over Hannah’s life. She’s a grown woman, not a child. You should keep that in mind as well."  Rachel gave him a look at that final piece of advice but he didn't reply. He just nodded absent-mindedly, he knew she was right.

 They got to Port Sudan little over 30 minutes later. Ari parked the car as Rachel put the scarf over her head. Together they walked through the streets, heading to the souk. As they were meandering around the stalls Rachel looked at Ari.

"So are you telling me what you’re getting her?"

 "You’ll see." he said with a huge grin, Levinson trademark.

After wandering a little more Ari finally located the stall he was looking for. Rachel saw him slow his pace and stop as his eyes roamed the different objects on display. To his relief, the necklace he had spotted when he had been with Hannah, was still there. He gently picked it up, examining it as it lay in his palm. It was a white gold necklace which held an amber and white gold pendant in the shape of a firefly. He had already made up his mind about it being the perfect gift for his girl, but when the man explained to him, assisted by Rachel due to his rudimentary English, that the amber stone was special as it charged with sun rays and shone at night, almost like a real firefly, he was an utter gonner. 

 He haggled with the man for a bit. Mostly out of custom, not wanting to be rude, but he was determined to take the necklace with him no matter how much he had to pay. 

Rachel, who had been slack jawed at the necklace when Ari showed her, was especially amazed at the expression on Ari's face as she translated what the buyer was telling him. This was a side to Ari Levinson she had suspected existed but had never been able to confirm. The thoughtfulness behind it all was just overwhelming.

"I’m impressed Ari." she said gently.

Ari simply smiled as he took the necklace from the man once it was paid for and wrapped in brown paper, thanking him in Arabic.

"Shall we go get the Max snacks?" he asked. 

Rachel snorted and nodded. They then headed towards the food market and once they had grabbed some stuff for the evening, Rachel turned to Ari before asking with a side smile.

"You wanna grab a drink or get back to her?"

Ari sighed but smiled "You’re a pain in the ass."

"I guess that means you wanna go back." she smiled back at him.

Ari knew there was no point denying it. Rachel could read him like a book. In fact she could read everyone like that. It was the reason he had chosen her for the mission after all. And he would be lying if he said he wasn't glad there was at least one person, Hannah aside, he didn't have to hide his feelings to.

They headed back to the car and Rachel was pleased to note that Ari's mood had changed considerably as they drove back to the resort. He was clearly satisfied, having pushed whatever niggling doubts he had out of his mind and excited at the same time having found his gift and at the prospect of getting home. Rachel was low-key glad she didn't have to knock more sense into that stubborn head of his again all the way back. Brooding Ari could be too much to handle in a reduced space.

Then, when they were a few miles out from the resort the heavens literally opened. 

"What the fuck." Ari groaned, his eyes wide open as he glanced up at the sky.

It was absolute downpour preceded by a bolt of lightning and a scary clap of thunder. Whilst the team had seen the odd shower during the months they had been there, there had been nothing like this, not even remotely. The road ahead was beginning to fade behind a curtain of rain and it was almost impossible to see. Rachel leaned forward trying to identify the road in front of them as Ari gripped the steering wheel.

"Shall we stop?" he asked.

Almost as soon as the words were out of his mouth there was another huge clap of thunder. Is that a yes or a no? Ari thought while looking at the sky through the windshield. 

"We’re not far out and this doesn’t look like it’s gonna stop any time soon, just slow it down and take it easy." Rachel ordered more than suggested.

Eventually, slowly but surely, they made it to the resort in the pouring rain.

*****

Jake, Hannah, Sammy and Max were chilling in the hotel. They were alone, bar the staff, but as there were no tourists to cater for they were kicking back with a drink. Conversation was flowing, Hannah and Jake filling the other two in on what they’d seen diving and how the area further down the cove held a few underwater caves which they were planning on exploring. As the familiar jokes and laughter were being exchanged, Simon suddenly stood up from where he had been laying at Hannah’s feet, wagging his tail and perking his ears. He trotted a little across the tiles towards the beach and started barking in the ocean's direction.

"What’s up Simon?" Hannah asked, as she brought her glass to her lips.

But she never got to drink from it as there was a flash of lighting, a clap of thunder and then the heavens suddenly opened over the resort. The four of them jolted up from their chairs and rushed to the end of the porch not minding the chairs that had fallen back in the process.

"Whoooa, are you seeing that? Holy shit!" Jake hollered over the loud sound of the rain as it battered on the roof of the resort.

"That’s the rain in Africa….now we’ve seen it." Sammy said, grinning and nodding.

Max chuckled at Sammy's comment and looked at Hannah who smiled at him.

The rain was pooling on the sand, running in little streams towards the ocean, and as Hannah, Sammy and Max stood at the archway at the rear of the resort, Simon let out another bark as once more a huge clap of thunder rolled over them followed by a huge flash of lightning which streaked across the sky over the ocean.

The 4 of them were utterly mesmerised, falling silent simply watching the show in front of them. It was beautiful, nature at its finest. At one moment Max disappeared, Hannah turning to watch him go and then a few moments later the sounds of Africa by Toto started playing out of the stereo. 

Hannah grinned and then turned to Sammy, grabbing his hand.

"Come on Sammy, just like when we were kids…" she exhorted, giving his hand a sharp tug and pulling him out from under the shelter onto the beach into the heavy rain.

Sammy, unexpectedly grinned, letting his sister drag him out happily. Jake and Max exchanged a look before they too followed. All 4 of them stood there on the beach, faces turned up to the rain, their eyes squinting shut a little and within minutes they were soaked to the skin.

"I told you, this is paradise." Jake exclaimed.

Max looked at him and grinned, the memories of the day they had set foot on the resort for the first time, all those months ago, and Jake uttering those same words as he spotted the sea in front of them coming back to his mind.

Ari himself was sodden thanks to getting out of the car, his shirt sticking to his torso and hair dripping down his face. Not that he cared, the first thing in his mind upon pulling up had been checking up on Hannah, and the rest of the team by extension. He had told Rachel to go get changed so as not to catch a chill, and he had headed to the rear of the resort where they could hear the team's voices, leaving a dripping path on the floor behind him, the sound of music and laughter growing louder as he went. Eventually he reached the archway which led to the beach and leaned up against the sandstone, watching the four of them getting soaked on the beach.

The chorus to the song struck up and Hannah turned to Sammy who grinned at her as the four of them started to sing along, too engrossed in their performance to notice Ari watching them with a huge smile plastered on his face. When an oblivious Jake dropped his arm round Hannah’s shoulder as she flicked her soaked hair from her eyes, Ari felt his gut clench. The vision of his girl under the rain, her dripping clothes clinging to her body in a way he could even discern her round ass under her pleated skirt, being held by another man was about to send him into overdrive. But once again he couldn't make a fuss and he took a deep breath, remembering Rachel words earlier on the drive to Port Sudan. He couldn't let dominant, protective Ari come out unless Hannah summonsed it so, deciding to subtly, or rather not, let them know he was there he started to sing as well.

 "It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you….” He raised his silky voice so that it could be heard among theirs.

At the sound of Ari's singing Hannah wheeled round and their eyes met, her smile almost splitting her face in half. Her wet hair was sticking to her face, the sodden fabric of her blue strappy top was clinging to her every curve as the water trickled over her skin. They were still gazing into each other's eyes, taking each other's bodies in when another flash of lighting lit up the ocean behind them. Ari gulped and turned to nod at the others, tearing his eyes away from Hannah before they flickered back as she sang the next line of the song back to him.

"There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever dooo."

"174 to be precise." Max shouted to the sky, his eyes closed. 

They all grinned at him before in synch they all belted out the next line “I bless the rains down in Africcaaaa...” as Ari stepped out from the rear porch to join them on the sand. 

Hannah instantly reached out behind her, holding her hand out for him to take, which he happily did before singing the final line of the chorus.

"Gonna take some time to do the things we never had…"

She turned to face him, the grin still stuck on her face as she gave his fingers a little squeeze before they both tilted their faces towards the sky, the heavy, warm rain beating down on them, their eyes closed as their laughter was lost in the thunder.  

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Yashahime Trailer Analysis - Full Breakdown + Theories

Video -

https://youtu.be/ebFV15yPO6U

The Yashahime - Princess Half-Demon Official Trailer came out August 7th Japan Time like Kaoru Wada had teased for us on the Otakon Livestream. Here we will read off of what was posted on the VIZ Media Official Website "The anime’s been announced, but now you can sink your canines into some more juicy tidbits about the show. The anime stars Towa and Setsuna, the twin daughters of Sesshomaru who get separated in a forest fire. Towa ends up in modern times and is raised by Sota Higurashi, Kagome’s little brother. Ten years later, they are reunited, but Setsuna is a demon slayer with no memories of her sister. Joined by Moroha, Inuyasha and Kagome’s daughter, they set off on an adventure to regain their missing past." https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/yashahime-princess-half-demon-arrives-in-october You guys will be able to watch Yashahime on VIZ Media's Website and AnimeLab.com when it's released.

First Impressions - @officialkagome​ : “I can tell the Rumiko has a lot of influence in the writing because key points and moments are conveyed just as they were in the Final Act. I believe it's going to be condensed like in the Final Act, but maybe only at first. Focusing on the girls but still including that bonus chapter. I definitely appreciate the animation, it's very aesthetically pleasing.”

Yes, the animation is being directed by the same person who did The Final Act, Sachiya. They also were the same person that did the Adult SessRin artwork that sold it on a calender. Which I actually own. I'm glad for them to return and do the animation. As it makes sense in the continuity. The animation in fact looks even improved further than what we had since the Final Act! Definitely one of my favorite animation directors next to Kumiko.

As I mentioned in my previous video, I talked about the extra chapter "Since Then" that took place after The Final Act. It was made because of the Tsunami that happened in Japan many years ago. A long time ago, I also wrote a post saying if we continued to show our support for the official streams on VIZ Media's website and still showed interest in the series that they would make this into an episode. Back in 2018 Anime Boston it was hinted about the staff wanting to have Rumiko allowed them to make more anime if we continued to show interest. When we got ahold of the scans for the AniMage and AniMedia magazine scans we could confirm that they have been talking about a sequel since the ending of The Final Act.

In the InuYasha Special Chapter 559 "Since Then" Kagome was living in the feudal era with InuYasha for six months. We have a half year time skip. Life in the Feudal Era so far had been peaceful. InuYasha and Miroku were tracking minor youkai that was released from a seal by a landslide, and discover that the demon actually was originally sealed away by Kikyou shortly before she met InuYasha. So we can say over atleast 53 years ago. The youkai is called Ne no Kubi or Root Head in the official VIZ Media subtitles for the trailer - and it was seeking the Shikon no Tama, not realizing it is already destroyed due to being sealed away for so long. Ne no Kubi attacks Kagome, because she clearly looks like Kikyou, but she wounds its head with a sacred arrow and InuYasha kills it with Tessaiga. During it Sesshoumaru appears to protect the village because Rin is there. We can see shots during the trailer that all take place here from this chapter.

For all those Westerners out their that use the term "canon", yes Yashahime is in Fact "canon" to the original timeline continuity. Rumiko Takahashi has been confirmed to have written the foundation story for Yashahime, and has been working closely over the scripts with Sumisawa. It is officially licensed and in no where near being a fanfiction. Remember, canon was a term that was invented by Westeners because of Christianity. Regardless, this sequel is happening. I have so much to talk about this new trailer that it feels like even after I'm done with this video, more ideas are still going to keep popping up in my head.

Towa is seen fighting another school student. She's known for her martial arts. She kicks this guy in the head. She says "You know, you should take my advice and let me go." Talking about her possible abduction. "Things won't be so hot when my friends get here." I think she's talking to the man in the Feudal Era from the first trailer. That's when Moroha and Setsuna break into save Towa. Then it's talking about Root Head from Chapter 559. However says "Root Head was a demon slain by InuYasha and his friends." I don't know if she's talking after it was slain. But Root Head was in fact originally sealed by Kikyou before she met InuYasha. A possible change or retcon from the Manga considering Rumiko's involvement in this. Sesshoumaru is then saying the same lines that he says from the manga "Root head... A worthless piece of vermin. Except..." If we reference the manga he's actually supposed to say Except, and then "It's too persistent."

Root Head gained the powers of the Tree of Ages (Goshinboku). This is the same Goshiboku that InuYasha was sealed on, seeing the arrow mark. If we slow down this footage you can tell that Roothead is growing in the roots of the Goshinboku. It created a passage from the Feudal Era to present day. Sucked through that passage, Towa was torn from her twin sister, Setsuna, and thrown into the present day.

But I think that is talking about AFTER Root head was slain again from it reawakening after the landslide. My guess is that IF everything does continue on the manga like normal from Chapter 559. But during the time it was reawakened it had already made a portal through a tree tunnel like it describes as in Towa's translated description that a fire happens, and everyone scatters. Even during the livestream from Otakon Kaoru Wada mentioned the fire. Towa goes to escape from the fire and finds that specific portal that sends her to the modern era. Unless they want to push the time skip further than 6 months allowing them time to have the kids. Towa is in Reiwa period, that means it's either 2019 or further making it overall a 20 year time skip since chapter 559. I expect that they have kids in a six year time skip that would make sense since they are all 14. The Tree tunnel is described in Towa's description, that means that we pretty much have a second Well. Considering the well was already made from the same type of wood as the Goshinboku was as it was talked about in the first movie. Now imagine if we had three different eras or even that certain events had changed because of this.

Here we see an Adult Souta and 4 year old Towa when he found her in the Modern Era. They're talking in front of the Sacred Tree. Towa's robe pattern is clearly based on Sesshoumaru's belt.

It looks like Souta wanted to pat Towa on the head, but Towa was scared - Then we see Towa brushing her teeth and Souta's daughter. Who looks strikingly similiar to Hitomi. I hope he married her.

Ten years have passed since the Higurashi family took Towa in. It shows Towa talking to Souta's Daughter in front of the tree. In the next shot, she's wiping the blade from her sword. In the narration Towa says "Don't worry! I can handle this." It shows Towa looking up from the original Trailer, where she's abducted. Wearing that patterned robe and the hint of the Lily flowers in the background. She says "Your big sister's pretty strong!" I think she's talking to Souta's daughter as if referencing herself. She picks up her History book and winks. Now it shows Setsuna and Moroha fighting by a waterfall. This is definitely reminding me of some InuYasha VS Sesshoumaru scenes from the past. "My name is Setsuna. I have nothing more to tell you..." "And the reason you die here." Setsuna's eye glows similar to InuYasha's when they found out he had the black pearl inside his right eye that lead to the Inu no Taishou's grave. Everyone has been trying to figure out if there is a special thing showing in her eye. I'm not so sure but I gave it a try as well. I looked at a few pictures of the gravesite and this one seemed to be the best one.

Though I am skeptical of this. Hosenki's son explained it would take roughly 100 years for him to master the process of making one. When InuYasha had returned to his father's grave for the second time, the pearl was somehow able to give him visions of his troubled past as a way to warn him that he wasn't supposed to be there a second time. Now if we think about it, remember how Setsuna has problems with her memories? Maybe in this moment it is a black pearl, and it's showing her flashbacks helping her remember or perhaps she was given an imperfect black pearl that is causing her memory loss.

Moroha is seen sitting down picking her ear. "With this rouge, I become Beniyasha, Destroyer of Lands!" Moroha has her bow, a good nod to her mother Kagome. "Tremble before the bloodthirstydawn!" Now the rouge doesn't always have to mean lipstick, it depends on the context on which it's taken. The rouge could also mean red, the red clothing that she's wearing. If she is going to be wearing lipstick, it would be cool if they somehow were able to magically bring back the lipstick that was once Izayoi's that was given to Kikyou. I know it was destroyed, but you never know. I like the idea of her having InuYasha and Kagome's locket too from the second movie. In the past I always had the idea of their child having that locket. Maybe she's heard about InuYasha as a story or legend, and is calling him "Beniyasha". So she's pretending to be him in a way, along with the bow on her head representing ears like him.

It shows Towa in the modern era, fighting some guys. She's wearing something on trapped onto her back. Could it be her sword, or something else? My wife mentioned that in Japan, open carry of swords is legal.  So I went to double check.

Yes, this is definitely got to be her sword and that she is wearing a sword bag. It has yellow tassels.

I also noticed that there is a symbol at the bottom of her sword bag. It looks like it could be a pinwheel or the Kagome symbol. There are two different versions of the Kagome symbol. 6 pointed and 8 pointed.

"A new wind blows into the Feudal Era." We can see the Dragon symbol on Moroha's sword even more closely. The Dragon is wrapped around an arrow. During the Otakon Live stream Kaoru Wada stated that all three of the girls are the half-demon princesses. Meaning that Moroha would still be called a half-demon regardless of having less demon blood percentage especially during that era. "The Half Demon Princesses are here!"  Moroha is fighting a Mistress Centipede. Is this the same Mistress Centipede from the beginning of InuYasha, that corpse was already in the well? If we remember, Sango has fought Centipede demons before but they weren't a Mistress Centipede. She would be killed for the third time. The Mistress Centipede shown in the trailer has three eyes, while the original one has two.

It shows Hisui, Sango and Miroku's son in his demon slayer armor while riding Kirara. Throwing Hiraikotsu! One thing that stood out to me was the prayer beads around his left arm.

I don't think he has Wind Tunnel but it seems to be a reference to his father Miroku. Considering Miroku has given Kagome prayer beads to wear before. Maybe even Hisui has spiritual powers as well. It also appears that he has Sango's sword as well!

Kohaku, all grown up and he's exactly how I imagined him. It seems like he has a scar on his nose. Maybe it's from wearing his demon slayer mask or from getting cut in a battle. He has the weapon he gets from Toutousai in the last episode of the Final Act. Moroha and Setsuna are battling. Could this be the same waterfall that Kikyou bathed at?

Moroha and Setsuna running off, Towa watching them. A guy knocked out in the background, Spider Lily pattern on the backwall, and a knocked out guy next to where the wall was bashed in. Just like how it was in the first trailer we were shown on the Otakon Live Stream.

Finally, Moroha is using her bow and yes she indeed has priestess spiritual powers like Kagome does! It looks like she's still fighting Mistress Centipede as you can see in the background. The attack is called "Heavenly Arrow Barrage". Similar name to InuYasha's Adamant Barrage.

It shows Setsuna using her Naginata. The Naginata is the weapon that can control wind as stated in her profile when her colors were announced! Much like InuYasha's Bakuryuha, or Kouga's Cyclone. It also reminds me of Sesshoumaru when he was fighting InuYasha inside the Black Pearl at the Inu No Taishou's Grave.

Feudal Fairytale - Yashahime Princess Half-Demon Towa takes out her sword and charges while saying "Setsuna! I'll save you!" Yashahime - Coming this October. October 3rd 2020

When we look at the image that came with the announcement. A few things caught my eye, Kagome and Rin are not seen in the picture. Sesshoumaru and InuYasha are both by the Sacred Tree. Speculating that maybe they're trapped in another dimension, or between times since Root Head was able to take the Goshinboku's power. I wonder if something like this happens, could this give Kagome the ability to not age? I'm still for my theory that she shouldn't age because she wasn't born yet, the same way her items were unaffected by Kaguya in the second movie when she froze time. People think InuYasha is holding something, no that is his forelocks and the shading on the tree. No, there is no secret image in Towa's blue sword attack. But hey we get a better look at Hisui's prayer beads on his arm.

There is a new character, everyone speculates to be Shippou and unsure of the character's gender. Looking at the HD picture.

The character has green eyes, dark red hair and purple eyeshadow. It sort of reminds me of Shippou or Ayame's possible child with Kouga. I would have said it was Takechiyo in a human form since Raccoons and Foxes are known to shape shift. But Takechiyo has blue eyes. It's not Jinenji, has blue eyes - Though I think it could be a new character. Could be boy or girl. Determining their gender is something I'm on the fence about atleast by the physical sight of it. Their body seems flat and rugged with torn sleeves, but wearing makeup. There's alot of males who wear makeup in InuYasha. Their attire also seems to be the kind that is most commonly worn by males. But Towa also is another character that dresses male. This character clearly has a weapon. More than likely a sword. Something that's interesting about this picture is that Towa's sword is shaped like Tessaiga in the picture when she's doing her special attack. It zig zags upward like a staircase into the sky - as if representing time passed. You notice it when you realize the other characters are actually not standing on something.

Seems like we are all looking forward to October 3rd for the airing of Yashahime.  If you want to see more posts about Official InuYasha News, Artworks, Merchandise, my own personal views and analysis on the series - Be sure to subscribe.

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Star sign: pisces

Height: 5′ 2.5″

Birthday: March 12th

Favorite bands/artists: Oh gosh... this changes on like a daily basis... Sleeping At Last, The Paper Kites, and Ben Rector have been recent jams

Song stuck in my head: I haven’t had one today, but yesterday So Yesterday by Hilary Duff randomly popped in my head and I was able to sing like all the lyrics despite not having heard it in YEARS haha

Last movie: Soul (I told myself I’d watch more movies this year and I haven’t watched one yet this year...)

Last show: Schitt’s Creek (and yes I’m already rewatching cause I need happiness)

When did I create this blog: 2019? Technically I made a blog back in 2014 because one of my professors had wanted us to use it for something class related but then that ended up not happening and I have no clue what the login information was for that haha

How it's going: Today’s going better! The year was off to a rough start cause five family members tested positive, but I just got my negative results this morning! So that was a good way to start my day, especially cause that means I can keep my vaccination appointment tomorrow! not even going to talk about what went down at the capitol yesterday cause i can’t with that right now

What I post: mostly the 100, but truthfully I’m all over the place haha

Aesthetic: mmm... oversized jean jackets, black combat boots, reading books on a rainy day, autumn walks in the woods, taking pictures with my tongue out (no, I haven’t dropped that habit since high school) what even is an aesthetic someone needs to tell me mine cause i never know how to answer this

Last thing I googled: the “đ” so that I could properly spell Nađa’s name haha

Other blogs: Nah... y’all are subjected to whatever I like

Following: a lot of really cool people! ❤️<< same

Followers: I have some? I’m not sure how to answer this haha

Average sleep: 7-9 hours? Depends on if I’m hooked watching something and can’t stop haha

Lucky number: 12

Instruments: lol no << okay same. but also I once joined the school band (which was barely existent) my freshman year of high school cause they were taking a trip to Cedar Point (an amusement park) and needed more students and all my friends were in band in middle school so they had something to play. I walked in and told the teacher I couldn’t play anything but wanted to go and she said “I think we have a cowbell in the storage closet” and that’s how I became the cowbell girl in the band for a few weeks. And yes, someone did scream “more cowbell!” at me while we performed at the park.

What i'm wearing: black leggings and a college sweatshirt I stole from my sister years ago don’t ask me if this is the same thing i wore yesterday because the answer will be yes

Dream job: I don’t have one? I’m almost 27 and still don’t know what I want from life so I’m just taking everything day by day

Favorite animal noise: cat’s purring? or little hedgehog squeaks or baby sea lion squeaks! I die at videos that have those

Random: I recently found out that the way my family spells our last name is WRONG. Like my great-grandfather had a different spelling and now I feel like I’ve been living a lie

Favorite song: I’m bad at favorite questions... umm The Black and White by the Band CAMINO cause it never fails to get me jamming and singing along wholeheartedly haha

Last book: finished? The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell. currently reading (so technically the last thing read)? Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Top 3 fictional universes i want to live in: Harry Potter, Jurassic Park (but like before everything goes to shit... I just wanna see dinosaurs), whichever universe has an alive and healthy and happy Bellamy Blake (looking at you @wreck-jroth-club to fulfill this answer)

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About Vespertine

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I’m alright with either she/her or he/him, they/them is also fine. Apparently, that was big enough clue-in for the poor reading comp crowd, so while I feel it is not of importance, I’m nonbinary, yes.

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Honesty and openness are policies.

And in the spirit of that, I repeat; you can fucking do better, tumblr RPC!

[thatdamnokie]

so, as everybody knows, our man, the lovely mark strong, turned 57 this past august 5th

since the kingsman films have had a huge influence on several aspects of my day-to-day life (gee, wonder what group of people i could be referring to...), i decided to sit down and do something i’ve been thinking about since getting my medical card earlier this year: getting high as a kite and watching them back-to-back.

to celebrate mark’s birthday, i decided to do another running commentary post like the one i did for rocknrolla ages ago, under the cut. it’s a pretty similar style, which is to say not necessarily super coherent and might be hard to understand if you’ve never seen the movies. D:

there are some mentions of the roanoke society, but not many.

if even just one person finds this mildly entertaining for four seconds, then i’ll have done my job. there is a lot of cursing and this is NOT spoiler-free.

enjoy~

edited 9.1.20 to correct typos and such, please remember that i was Not Sober while i wrote this lmao

how many times have i watched these movies at this point? i don’t even know.  

i always liked the nifty like—retro arcade marv opening animation

and the thing with the tapes! we love book-ending devices!

kingsman: badass motherfuckers worldwide incorporated

like why was merlin even with them? i understand why lee and james would be there, but merlin, was he not acting quartermaster then?

i have SO MANY FEELINGS about lee unwin

i think it haunts harry and merlin more than anyone thinks, but these are fun spy movies so we just don’t talk about trauma and shit, don’tcha know

don’t look at how merlin tears up and tell me he doesn’t drink about it *HEAVILY* later

it’s such a stark contrast to see the 1990s interior vs. what it’s like when eggsy’s grown :(

michelle baby i’m so sorry. you deserved better than this.

and BABY EGGSY

omg. like this scene is both heartbreaking but is also adorable.

colin firth has gd anime legs, that dude had to straight up unfold himself as he stood up lmao

aaannnnd swooping logo, whooooo, goin’ over some mountains~

and mark hamill, ladies and gentlemen!

this whole thing with james deciding to kinda go rogue makes me wish that we knew more about his backstory as well. like, is this james being james, or was this a weird one-off situation and he was just unlucky?

YES unlucky. nobody could plan for the hurricane of sleek destruction that is gazelle

who has one of my favorite aesthetic designs as a villain (although i guess i’d put her more on maybe henchman level? but idk, it seems like valentine looked at her more as a partner, less like an assistant? and they had a very interesting chemistry together too, like i would’ve added more valentine x gazelle scenes)

i would LOVE to be this chill about just—draping blankies over bodies

blankies over bodies sounds like a cool band name

DIBS you guys can’t have it

i am SO GLAD samuel l. jackson gave valentine a lisp!

valentine, to me, does fit a lot of the usual spy movie villain tropes

but since this movie doesn’t take itself super serious, it’s more fun than annoying

and we never hear about any of the other knights?? like

half of this is just gonna be me whining for additional footage that there just wouldn’t have been room for realistically lmao

michael caine, you are lovely

MARK STRONG, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN

WITH LEGS THAT DON’T QUIT AND AN ACCENT THAT I’D DIE FOR

i’m an embarrassment

like let’s all stop and thank god that mark didn’t have time to learn the welsh accent

not that i would’ve been disappointed, because all accents are good accents on this blog

but at this point i can’t imagine merlin as—not scottish

“try picking a more suitable candidate this time”

arthur you DICK

like were you this cold-blooded when lee died, you fuckin’ reptilian-ass son of a bitch

no wonder you were charlie’s pledge person thing

and enter the fabulous taron egerton, stage left!

DEAN you are DISGUSTING

god, michelle, you need better friends, if you were my bro this entire relationship would’ve never happened

;-; and eggsy’s so sweet with his sister! i know there probably wasn’t “room” for it but i AM glad that there are scenes showing that family is one of eggsy’s kinda “core values”or whatever you want to call it

dude is a hufflepuff through and through imo

can you imagine eggsy as a villain? we would be so fucked. he’s sly, he’s smart, he could’ve made life v e r y difficult for lots of people if he really wanted to

but look at him with the squad!

eggsy’s just like the british version of a good ol’ boy

this car scene is some dukes of hazzard bullshit (ramp-jumping and fun car horn aside)

if butterflies are harry’s main symbolic critter, would foxes be eggsy’s? or would it be a pug instead? i guess that’s like asking if harry would be either a butterfly or a cairn terrier, like mr. pickle. let’s say both.

this fandom is pretty on top of character associations like that

you get symbolic associations! YOU get symbolic associations! EVERYONE gets symbolic associations whether they’re actually in the canon or not! don’t have any? don’t worry, we’ll assign you at least one!

the guy playing the interviewing officer is ALSO the patriarch in the witch which i didn’t realize until—like, a while after

and it was while @circlesofbone​ was visiting, and we were just “oh, okay, guess we can’t escape this cast at all, this is fine”

“your father saved my life.”

harry you’re such a fucking peacock, waiting all posted up and posing so you’ll look cool

you big doofus

i’d kill to be inside his head during this first conversation with eggsy though

like is eggsy like lee? is harry seeing lee the entire time he’s talking to his son, in his mannerisms, how he carries himself, how he speaks?

or is eggsy the opposite? which—i don’t know if that would somehow be sadder?

there’s just a lot going on in the background of this bit that’s left up to interpretation

“although i’m sure it’s well-founded—“

harry’s just so casual about this entire thing, nobody’s that casual without practice

harry you rabble-rouser, what kind of life have you led

“manners. maketh. man.”

our timeless motto, my flowers

kingsman STILL to this DAY has some of the most well-choreographed fight scenes i’ve ever seen??

like yeah the church scene but even just this initial bar fight

harry could’ve been a dancer

in a way i guess he already is

like he moves so fluidly and gracefully, it is BONKERS

colin you did so good! i’m so proud!

the way eggsy’s just O.O

whether or not you ship hartwin, like, you gotta admit, that was hot

and his BODY LANGUAGE, he’s sitting like RAMROD straight, this poor dude lmao

nobody prepares you for a situation like that in public school is all i’m saying

harry, exiting stage left like a suave, smooth motherfucker

remember when iggy azalea was relevant

ugghhhh i hate this part

“I WASN’T WITH NO ONE”

can you imagine being harry hart listening to your dead friend’s son getting the shit beat out of him

like, surely he heard the cleaver, he knows dean was going to fucking gut eggsy right?

listen to how cold and icy his voice gets, oof

yeah, he’s pissed, and dean is lucky

PARKOUR

ugh, i want to go to london ;-; i want to walk in front of the shop and visit harry’s house and kiss cute english boys

i’d like to think harry’s super excited to show eggsy everything but he’s gotta keep it dialed back because “decorum”

the way eggsy pauses though

“come on.”

and he says it so softly.

if i was eggsy, i’d be nervous, too.

but i didn’t realize how quickly harry tries to give off signals like “hey there’s no reason to be scared.”

“like my fair lady?” “well, you’re full of surprises.” <3 one of my favorite sceneeesss.

harry’s voice is so soothing but eggsy is so freaked out by the elevator that he’s just—there’s no room for anything else beyond processing the elevator lmao

“how deep does this fucking thing go?” asking the real questions

aannnddd KINGSMAN BULLET TRAIN

i’d like to think they have like soft jazz or something playing in there

and then they get to the hangar and there are obviously a buuuuunch of people out on the tarmac that we just—never hear about? i just assume they’re all like technical officers or maybe other agents

“your father had the same look on his face. … as did i.”

harry is already rooting for him.

“late again, sir.”

that. brogue.

fuck, i could listen to him talk for hours, scottish accents are my favorite thing

#squadgoals

not a very diverse cast :/

the body bag speeeeech

and of course nobody was in any actual danger, but merlin doesn’t want them to know that so he becomes mr. hard as steel, i am emotionally stoic at all times, do not test me you bunch of rugrats

“classic army technique.”

ROXY

ROXY I WANT TO JUST HOLD YOU IN MY ARMS TT.TT

aannnnddd charlie, also

who we might’ve found sympathy for if we knew aaannyytthiinnggg else about his backstory

like, could he just be Like That, yeah

but most people i know who are assholes like that are that way because their parents were first /shrug/

can hardly fault the dude for turning out like that when poison was all he was given to drink

anyone else a hundred percent positive they would’ve drowned in the first trial

i would absolutely have panicked and bit it

but then again, i’m not kingsman material, i’m roanoke

and if this is the exact same test that merlin and harry went through, does that mean there might be some weird drowning trauma hidden back in there that’s just ANOTHER thing we’re not gonna talk about?

(yes the correct answer is yes)

god that’s such an american response to the problem though

glass can’t cause problems if it’s in a million pieces!

“yeah you can wipe those smirks off your faces…”

i wonder if there was ever a situation where a trainee actually drowned

and i don’t mean like amelia, i mean some poor kid who just failed the test

merlin knows how to put the fear of god in people though!

and mark strong, very handsome, yes, very scary, also yes

he and colin both look like they’re 80 percent leg in every single scene

harry literally had brain matter smatter ALL OVER HIS FACE and still somehow had the mental facilities to be aware of those dudes, leave a bomb and dive out of a window (and then escape said dudes)

billy badass, y’all

“just get it done.” okay, i took back what i said earlier, maybe he does see her as more of an assistant, less than a partner. their relationship is weird.

the puppy scene!

“it’s a bulldog innit?”

YASSSS the golden trio

because of what happened with our other canon charlie has become a weird character for me to watch, like, yeah, i “watch” charlie be himself in tss but the charlie i “see” is like—”our” charlie.

“bollocks!” and then he just runs with jb in his vest, makes me smile

aannddd we see valentine’s super cool factory

harry your hair gets so long <3

“water!” wow, who wants to bet that the fact he was instantly screaming means that maybe he’s gonna have some stuff to talk about in therapy later

roxy baby i’m sorry they made you hold the balloon and have to trust these dumbasses to not shoot you on accident

i would trust roxy to not shoot me

i love, love love valentine’s house

it’s gorgeous

set design is always such a cool way for filmmakers to include details about a character using pure aesthetics and i’m such a slut for it

tilde!

see also: one of the characters done the WORST by these movies imo!

the fact that she not only says no, she says no with enthusiasm and gets blatantly pissed, is one of the best insights we get into tilde’s character and then it just—gets wasted

like it takes three steps and then gets mowed down in the hallway like her guards

i would never be given the opportunity to be asked if i wanted an implant but i draw the line at having stuff put into my neck

awwww harry’s so proud!

that finger point “yeah, see, be more like your uncle”

merlin is SO TALL

“a bit much innit?”

he’s just—tapping a normal clipboard

… nobody wanna talk about how that’s a normal clipboard

anyway

i also love how they show him in professor sweaters for the beginning acts of the movie

definitely a softer aesthetic than one would guess for a dude who apparently did field missions sometime within the past decade or so, but i also have a theory that lee’s death directly contributed to merlin maybe being the man behind the screen as opposed to afield

because trauma is a thing but this is a FUN movie so we’re NOT gonna talk about it

“you’re gonna be all right. you’re top of the class!” this was the scene that made my mom a reggsy shipper

regardless of how you feel about them as a couple, their friendship is one of the best things about this movie, along with their dynamic with charlie, asjdnaskdjna WHY could we not have had a trio movie instead

eggsy you show-off “lemme just throw my arms up and dip outta this plane like it’s not a big deal”

roxy you can do it!

ugh, there goes my baby, off to have a near-death experience under merlin’s immediate supervision lmao

“good girl, rox, glad you made it!”

guys, they’re just kids.

i love this big group scene because it reminds us that these are just young folks, still

“my, my, you’re all very cheerful...”

“rufus, come on!” dude eggsy—and not even just eggsy, charlie and rox too--at least made an attempt at teamwork. you get points for that bro

but man, for all they know, they’re about to beef it in a very permanent way, i’d be freaking out too

merlin getting caught up in the drama

because again, he’s supposed to know that eggsy has a parachute

i think he wasn’t prepared for these two to get that close to not making it and that’s why we see him break face and drop his mug

*WHAM*

i HATE the sound of them landing

it’s not like you can hear bones breaking but it hurts me, guys

and then there were three

plus one daddy long legs quartermaster

“if you have a complaint you come here and you whisper it in my ear.”

yes SIR

“you need to take that chip off your shoulder.”

merlin coming’ in with the tough love portion of the kingsman core squad

there’s no reason for me to think harry’s persona was inspired by cruella de ville somehow but i do anyway

she reveals the mcdonald’s and valentine is just :D

idk if he was expecting a specific reaction or was just excited to see a reaction period

valentine is definitely a fun villain, which, given the tone of the movie, makes sense, it’s all supposed to be fun

one of the reasons i love kingsman is that it’s like, this golden ray of goofy cinematic fuckery in a world of grim!dark remakes and other superhero/spy films who are presented as more serious stories

“and thank you for such a—happy, meal.”

harry got a puppy smile

but see, then, here at his house he’s a lot more relaxed with gazelle! like, patting her butt, etc.

maybe what we see of their relationship is dependent on setting, because valentine himself has it compartmentalized?

perrrrrrhaps

“and i am never, EVER GOING TO AGREE!”

tilde, you deserved better, and i think all the weird hate you get from our ohana is unfair

you don’t twist a runner’s ankle before the race starts and then get mad when they don’t win

your story was mishandled from the beginning

asmr: hanging out with the golden trio watching worrying news in the kingsman trainee bunker room

the way he says “biblical sense” lmao

i have never been able to figure out if the way he says that line is supposed to infer spiritual respect, or lack of it, but i might be looking too into it

“it’s an acquired taste, mate.”

what—what would you even do if you were at a club and three people as hot as taron, ed and sophie all came up and start talking to you at the same time

like i know the target got up and left pretty quick because of the training exercise

but i’d be doing it because i’m ugly and if three hot people are all talking me up at a bar something is Bad and Wrong

which—the CAHONES on both eggsy and roxy

they both literally said “yeah i’m willing to die for this organization that hasn’t even given me a permanent place yet, what of it”

look at harry’s dimples in this scene, he is fighting a huge grin, he’s SO PROUD

i know that charlie’s response is supposed to be just more fodder into the “charlie hesketh is a tool” fire

but given that i’m not unconvinced that his home life wasn’t super shitty, like—

idk, this makes this scene a lot less fun to me. it makes it sad.

like, maybe charlie didn’t even want to be there deep down, maybe this was all for like, arthur, or his dad, or some other person he looked up to

and the way merlin looks when he tells charlie to go home, the way that he’s kinda grimacing? i’m wondering if he’s along the same kind of feeling. he’d know more about charlie’s history

have i also mentioned how much i love harry’s war room?

“YES harry!”

an evil plan is being born!

“true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

eggsy is still in his club clothes, so like—has he slept? y’all let those kids sleep after fucking drugging them, right? … guys?

“—when one is popping ones cherry.”

and eggsy is just CHEESING he is SO EXCITED

am i the only one who wants to learn more about the store clerk guy though?

he’s like the one person around who’s legit just there to run the shop

has no idea about any of the spy stuff happening

his name is donald, he’s married with three children and has two spaniels he loves

“THAT is sick.”

i would KILL for this room.

i don’t need anything in here for any reason but still

foreshadowing, foreshadowing, foreshadowing, more foreshadowing—

harry is such a NERD

“put it back, eggsy.”

the amount of self-control it would take to not have a sudden change in expression in that moment, omg

i wonder how THAT gets trained up in kingsman

“i guarantee it.” ha, get it, it’s a reference to that one commercial

“y’all—talk so funny.”

and this all means that they had a contact at that hat shop and got all that info to them before valentine got there, and somehow made sure he did end up buying a hat that they could also successfully put a bug on, how deep does this goooooo

“jack bauer?”

it says a lot about eggsy that out of all the jb’s it could’ve been, it was jack

uggghhhhhh of course they HAD to do this scene with eggsy with arthur

obviously harry couldn’t do it

i just think most of us would NOT be fans of arthur at this point in the movie, we’re all rooting for eggsy, like, he needs this moment with this other character because we gotta drive home that he’s an asshole

also—would have absolutely failed that test

and i’m not sorry at all

“welcome to kingsman--lancelot.”

i was really happy that it was a female agent who ended up getting the handle

aannddd more echoes of past scenes, man, nobody can say that this crew wasn’t intentional with their cinematography

when eggsy rolls the window down you can see his chest moving up and down, like, he is MAD

dean you asshole

so no wonder he gets so pissed that the car suddenly decides “nope, no, we’re not doing this, c’mon”

this entire conversation at harry’s house is—tense

and you don’t pick up on it the first time, i don’t think, but uh

i’m seeing it now

harry’s not just mad, he’s hurt, and eggsy’s furious but he’s also maybe regretting his actions.

it’s these two men who are rapidly trying to figure out their headspaces and trying to figure out how to navigate this situation with each other

and the way eggsy tries to apologize ;-;

kentucky is a beautiful state, actually

ohhhhhh y’alllll

we’re at the churrrccchhhh

we’re gettin’ closer to the coolest part of the movieeeee

it’s telling that gazelle was trying to make sure that they’d be safe

“… so hail satan, and have a lovely afternoon madame.”

the most metal lines colin firth has ever uttered on camera

the siren noise after it’s switched on bothers me in a way i can’t quite articulate

it might be because i have silent hill-colored trauma, who knows

FREEEEEE

BIIIRRRDDDDDDD

THE GREATEST ACTION TRACKING SHOT IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA

but then eggsy and merlin are reacting aaaanndddd it’s—a lot less fun

because you realize that they’re watching their bro mercilessly slaughter innocent people and not stopping

and still not stopping

and still not stopping

but plot twist, i’m really glad they kept the track going, because if they’d suddenly picked *this* part of the scene to get serious, that would’ve brought the mood down so low that i don’t think there would’ve been any bouncing back

i just

how do people exist who aren’t attracted to harry hart

that man is a machine

and colin worked so hard to be able to do the scene himself, and that work SHOWS, that man cuts a FIGURE

i don’t know how they managed to somber it up just the right amount, either? maybe because they waited for the “fun action sequence” to be over so there wouldn’t need to be noise that had to be masked by a fun rock track?

“… what did you do to me.”

i cannot imagine what harry was feeling in that moment.

the way he spoke it was like he didn’t even have time to be afraid to die

“that tends to happen when you shoot somebody in the head. feels good, right?”

“no, it does not feel good!”

i love that exchange because we normally hear the opposite.

also—whiplash.

mark has this way of expressing grief without showing any—blatant signs.

like merlin’s not especially tearful, or crying, but his eyes look MASSIVE. and SAD. and he has just the tiiiiiniest tremor in his voice.

and eggsy, dude, like, we’ve all had it come on us really quick and suddenly it’s like your chest is pumping like a piston and when did it get so hard to breathe?

ARTHUR you REPULSE me

like look at how egssy’s shoulders sag when he realizes that arthur isn’t on his team

and in a way, this is eggsy’s final test as a kingsman trainee, imo

do you realize how quickly he had to assess what was happening and figure out what to do, all without arthur noticing?

“you are all alone. it is all up to you. remember all you have learned. good luck.”

it’s a very—almost horror-esque situation from that pov

and he passed with flying colors to go on his first true mission, because after he puts on the suit, that’s his visual cue of graduating, if that makes sense

that’s the knight putting on his armor.

“i’d rather be with harry. thanks.”

“so be it.”

*click*

me: *laughing at arthur’s big dumb stupid head*

… man i’d love a replica of that decanter and glasses set though

not to mention that eggsy recognized the flaws in arthur’s character and weaponized them, which is a whole other level of shit that isn’t necessarily easy; he knew that arthur carried the kind of pride that would leave him open

god, he looks so exhausted though when rox has him at gunpoint.

i think he was being pretty serious, about harry

sick helipaaaaaaad

that thing looks vaguely like a rock-‘em sock-‘em robot but in pieces though

more grandpa sweaters <3

man. you can see roxy swallow, you know she’s scared, but then she just sets her jaw and—

roxy baby you are the best i love you

i like the vintage vibe of the mountain lair

i think that’s another visual poke at the aesthetic themes of some of the older, og spy flicks out there

merlin looks SO LANKY walking back to the plane for some reason??

he stays until the last second for roxy. that’s love right there.

“a bespoke suit always fits.”

which can be good spiritual life advice too but that’s a separate conversation

“what the fuck is WRONG with you people?”

and his fuckin’ disco ball

uuggggghhhhh his speech reminds me of so many… “public figures” that i dislike

even though it’s obviously a bad thing that the chips are everywhere, i appreciate that phones and such are being shown in a positive manner (like, michelle talking to someone in the park, people at a ball game taking selfies, people at the beach, etc.) because i get so sick of that anti-tech boomer humor tbh

and the big reveal of eggsy in his suitttt

A KNIGHT IS BORN

“how’s the view?”

“hideous.”

you’re allowed to be crabby baby, you just let it out.

“lookin’ good, eggsy.”

“feelin’ good, merlin.”

merlin is so calm heading into the fortress and i don’t know if it’s because he’s very, very good at compartmentalizing and that’s genuinely how he is at the moment or if he’s that way through extreme self-control and effort

he can rock a pilot’s uniform though

just like eggsy can rock a suit

they’re both so handsome, help

i also wonder how eggsy’s feeling right then

like, i’d imagine that the pressure of having to perform a role to literally save the world would be enough to distract him from the bite of grief

that’s—probably enough to distract everyone, tbh

i a hundred percent believe there are breakdowns we don’t see

i wonder if eggsy told tilde he’d spoken to lindstrum(sp?) after everything was said and done

like, that’d be some kind of weird foreshadowing in hindsight

this scene is anxiety-inducing in a big way so to distract myself i imagine roxy as a mech pilot

dude i’d totally watch sophie in a role like that, like, let her be in a movie like pacific rim, she’d kick ass

and now we have The Chaos

otherwise known as that point when Everything Is Happening All At Once All The Time

also a thing that doesn’t exist in spy movies: hearing damage

because like his voice is right in eggsy’s ear and without it he’d have a LOT harder time surviving

imagine being an agent, merlin trying to talk to you, but something either hits your ear or goes off right next to it and suddenly it’s just silent

SYSTEM FAILURE

YAAASSSSS

WE WIN

GGOOOAAAAALLLLLL

THE AUDIENCE IS DOING THE WAVE

except JUST KIDDING

The Chaos 2 Electric Boogaloo!

merlin with a huge gun: hot, also, very scary

eggsy is just 10000% done

“this is mine. i’ll show you yours.”

i wonder who e man was supposed to be that valentine called.

like is that a reference to a real person that i just did’t catch?

… elon musk? maybe? idk

eggsy slides like a gd anime character

when he uses the rainmaker, it’s just like harry’s protecting him from somewhere else

(oh—wait, technically kentucky, i guess)

“merlin, i’m fucked.” you can hear the anger there. not only did he fail, but he—and everyone else—is about to die

but this? this is the pinnacle of eggsy showing himself as a kingman agent

he was staring death straight in the mouth and STILL

SOMEHOW

REMEMBERED THE IMPLANTS

so i guess if i say that the moment when he puts on the suit is when he becomes a true agent, then maybe this is the moment when he becomes galahad.

*bobs head to pomp & circumstance*

i remember getting a huge kick out of how colorful they made this

because in real life you know a bunch of people literally blowing up would be like—DISGUSTING

viscera everywhere

no fun rainbow mushroom clouds

“i’ve always wanted to kiss a princess.”

ANOTHER knight reference, very clever matthew

mmmmm Do Not Like that noise

aaaannndddd *that* line

which—maybe that’s mr. vaughn’s sense of humor, or what he thinks the sense of humor his core demographic has, idk

but it always kinda rubbed me the wrong way

the mass brawl scenes are edited so like--jarringly compared to the other fight scenes in the movie

that’s probably for a reason

also, a showdown to the tune of something disco: kind of another trope homage

this shot of gazelle is so sick, i love everything about it, she is so cool

this entire fight with eggsy is awesome tbh

we got a little bit of what gazelle can look like in combat earlier with tilde’s guards, but now we get this epic showdown seeing her at her full potential against someone who’s actually a challenge

and the way valentine is shouting for her to kick his ass from upstairs and yelling encouragement lmao that’s how real friends act when there’s a fight

daisy ;-; ugh, that’s the visual gutpunch that makes it juuuuuust serious enough by reminding us of the stakes

which is why it’s fitting that then we see the Slo-Mo K.O.

and that smile with the fun little chimes in the back, lmao

and eggsy, quick on his feet again byyyy being quick on gazelle’s feet—foot—whatever

man, impalement deaths are always fun.

coulda done without the vomiting but that’s also one of valentine’s quirks that makes him different from a cookie cutter villain

aaannddd have a heavy sigh from merlin

that dude needs a full-body massage and a drink

“is this where you say some really bad pun?”

reminder: i love that this movie is self-aware! i could not picture a super serious kingsman movie! i just picture something depressing!

there had to have been a better option besides—this, for this eggsy/tilde ending scene

i’m not saying i’m mad it ended with them fucking, i’m mad that the extent of the joke was anal and that was it.

also the idea of my boss possibly seeing me having sex would have me a little more concerned about the hardware on my face, but okay??

aannddd the tapes.

gah, we love visual throwbacks!

we love being able to see that despite all this growth and change, family remains very important to eggsy—he hasn’t changed into a different person, he has grown more into himself than ever before! THIS! THIS is eggsy unwin!

… GET READY FOR IT

time for tgc! (and to get into my roanoke feels, maybe, this is the nexus where our canons connect)

the BAGPIPES

okay

i did not stop to consider how unpleasant this was going to be to watch stoned but we’re gonna power through it and get through it together

if i cry i cry

the way the music swells into the main theme <3

and the perfect reveal for our boy eggsy!

reflected in gold, looking sharper than broken glass

and SUDDENLY CHARLIE

the pacing in tgc leads me to believe that matthew had huge plans for this movie, and a lot of cool stuff probably ended up on the cutting room floor for time

i also love that they brought charlie back

i love his voice box and his cool robot arm

and i’m not just saying that because it made it super easy to blend him into our canon, either, this is like—charlie’s evil twin in terms of his new aesthetic, the contrast is really cool

YYAASSSS THIS SCENE

WITH PRINCE PLAYING??

*CHEF’S KISS*

like we are IMMEDIATELY thrown back into the gold parts of it all, like how physics is a little broken so we can do cool shit like have a knockdown drag-out fight all within the space of a small cab

i wonder what would’ve hurt charlie worse—being thrown onto his organic side, or having all his weight land on his metal arm if it hadn’t disattached

but then he’s up and standing so i guess we’re fine?

MERLIN! <3

otherwise known as the character entrance that literally changed my life

i try not to think about it too much or i get weirded out

ANYWAY

(and to think i almost never even saw the movie)

Sick Car Chase, Bro

and as an american, like, everything’s on the opposite side to me, it’s stressful to watch a little bit

“i seem to remember in your training you were rather good at holding your breath.”

man, that’s uh—kind of a macabre thing to say, merlin

just a little bit

i’m not even gonna attempt to hold my breath to see if i’d survive this scene just assume i’m dead in that universe

we all live in a kingsman subarmine, a kingsman submarine, a kingsman submarine~~

“not boasting, but i trained him well enough that even he wouldn't mess that up.”

merlin are you okay??

gah, i love that chest-deep laugh though.

is it real love if they won’t crawl through the sewer to get to your house in time

i love that harry’s house looks basically the same

i know they talk about eggsy not wanting to change anything in the novelization but i haven’t read it yet so I’m not a hundred percent sure what all is in there

and we still get to see him hanging with his friends, and his girlfriend, like, this dude is still all about the family

“wwwwOOOOO!”

i love this group so much omg

for as much as he’s galahad, he’s still eggsy

the transition in the weed bag looks super cool

… oh, i guess watching this while high makes the main storyline hit a bit different

welp

i love that poppy is an aesthetic slut and really doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s opinion about how she makes her space

like, “i want a big 50s-style diner with a gourmet kitchen that i can cook people in, soooooo i’m getting one”

it’s also refreshing to see julianne moore in a bad guy role!

not that i’m super familiar with her filmography but i feel like i’ve mostly seen her cast as like a good guy?

i could be wrong

awwwww jet and bennie!

there’s so much to love about this set

cannibalism and the fact that she bulldozed jungle to build all this aside (suspend that belief!)

the breakfast sceeeeeene

it’s so bittersweet, for obvious reasons

and it’s more evidence that he’s not super ready to move on into new territory yet, like making new memories with tilde that ring close to home

“i wish i could have met him.”

and the way he has to turn away, ugh.

eggsy. i’m sorry.

tilde, i’m sorry, too. you had good intentions, but they lost against his pain.

michael gambdon! the new arthur we didn’t know we wanted until we got him.

charlie had a moral glo-down, it’s fine, happens to everybody

FFFFFF his imitation of merlin lmfao

man, poor charlie, like

you wake up, you can’t make a sound, your arm has been blown off and your family’s dead

like his reaction to that entire scenario isn’t entirely unrealistic, i’m just saying

also LOOK AT ROX

omg everyone in this movie can wear the FUCK out of suit, y’all

man, i’ve gotten a few tattoos that were exquisitely painful—i can’t imagine how much it would suck to do it with literal molten metal

dude this means clara laid on her stomach and probably screamed at the floor as she got hers D:

this kinda—riffs off of hannibal, a teeny-tiny bit

like we’re so overloaded with the aesthetics and behavior of a certain character so it’s like, we forget about the much darker parts untillllll there’s a mood change and we’re looking at that dude’s legs, to the burger this other dude puts in his mouth, and thinking “oh, oh dear, ew”

i love eggsy in the orange jacket <3 snaps for the wardrobe crew across this series.

tilde’s face, omg, she was heart-eyeing so bad. and like, that little proud nod at her dad (who was of course being Like That on purpose)

and roxy, coming in in the clutch, you are tonight’s MVP

uggghhhhh i hate this part

because again, it’s just--a bunch of bad shit colliding outside of anyone’s control

(it was also really jarring seeing the war room with blank walls the first time i watched this)

like—granted, you should maybe not touch stuff that’s not yours, but…

like we *just* saw eggsy and brandon in a very casual, intimate scene with each other, how can anyone get angry with brandon?

this is all stress-inducing

i remember being in the theater watching this and feeling like i was watching some awful slow motion car wreck and i couldn’t look away

idk what other story i would’ve wanted to see but i was NOT a fan of Sudden Death For Christmas, especially concerning roxy!

and poppy is such a *bright* villain, not just because of taste but because of her personality, which is another weird thing to have next to the cannibalism

gaaahhhh charlieeee your arm is so cooooool

this shot is gorgeous and incredibly depressing.

what do you do?

gah, and the way merlin comes out of the dark, like

i probably would’ve drawn a gun on him too

“you think *i* would?”

this scene shows 1. how much he trusts eggsy to not shoot him, and/or 2. how good merlin is at compartmentalizing, because this is an even bigger blow than harry’s death, and he’s following the protocol like it’s an art form

i hope that we see some reference to this safe in the next movie, that’d be a cool way to tie the narratives all together

“i suppose that must be upper class humor. … i don’t get it.”

reminder, merlin is working class.

if you’re a ho for this fandom and went and bought this whiskey specifically because of this movie clap your hands *clap clap*

and they proceed to just get HAMMERED

“country rooaaddsss… take me hoooooome…”

another reminder: kentucky is a beautiful state!

i would love to tour a whiskey distillery, that’d be super cool

“shame it’s not scotch”

again, with his weird night vale clipboard.

who would win: two highly-trained kingsman agents vs. one (1) cowboy

channing tatum, ladies and gentlemen!

“y’all look damn sharp!”

i am forever gonna be mad we didn’t get more of tequila in this movie, and not just because of roanoke either, but like, “that dog don’t hunt,” whatever he has in his mouth sealed a leak in a barrel, and it took him all of two minutes to incapacitate both eggsy AND merlin? hello??

i’m glad we’ll get to see more of him in the another movie.

“you know why the measurement of alcohol is called proof?”

just dumping it on their laps, so disrespectful

“—and you can go fuck yourself.”

eggsy fucking just giggling.

these two doofuses

also it’s hot to see merlin be sassy ngl

“HARRY!”

these guys have been fast thinkers in stressful situations but as it turns out, people being unexpectedly not dead can kinda fuck with your day

aaannddd halle berry, everybody! i love ginger ale omg

(and so does merlin, he is instantly enchanted)

;-; this reunion scene

i don’t know how colin manages to be two completely different people at once

like there’s a huge difference between former agent galahad and harry hart the lepidopterist and i can’t explain it

i really, really hope we see at least one little hint at kinsman’s relationship with statesman in the new movie, i just think it’d be really cool

in roanoke canon, there’s an office rumor that the nanobot tech used by statesman was influenced directly by the same technology developed by dr. wernicke in the outlast games. i still think it’s one of my better crossover ideas.

also

god bless whoever decided to get elton john involved with all this?? because i was DELIGHTED

i love poppy’s wardrobe as much as i love her weird 50s-land in the jungle

i also really love the main statesman theme? it reminds me of all those fun epic westerns

jeff bridges! :D

champ vaguely reminds me of my dad

“can you imagine us in the tailor business?”

and he’s super quick with the questions. my headcanons for champ are all over the place but one that i really like is that he was maybe a sheriff or in law enforcement before being recruited by statesman.

aaanndddd pedro pascal, everybody!

otherwise known as *another* character that this movie did dirty, that’ll probably come up in this later

imagine being harry hart, not remember all of yourself, and suddenly your entire room just—fills with water

that had to have been so terrifying, and it was just as hard for merlin to watch (and possibly remember something unpleasant)

and like

that sounds like SUCH bullshit, too, like “yeah we thought if you came close to drowning it would help”

which, is that what merlin meant, no, but is that what harry heard, probably

enter jb the second ;-; <3 sweet baby

tilde’s trying so hard. i see you!

aha, penis jokes.

and all of the unnecessary weird festival stuff, uuggghh

there are so many different things they could have done, like, all of this is just weird from the get-go

first of all, whiskey striking out? hello?? saying no to a man like mr. pascal???

not realistic

the way whiskey takes a shot as he walks away lmao, relatable

and poor clara, like, it’s not like she was asking for any of this D:

hmmmmmmm don’t know how i feel being a stoner watching other stoners get this blue rash thing when i know it kills some of themmmmmmm

i love charlie in his newsboys cap!

poppy has a little bit of a point. like, booze is way more dangerous than pot, as is tobacco. like i would never advocate anyone try meth or heroin, but i think weed and some hallucinogenics get bad wraps.

seeing a dude get torn in half in the reflection of elton john’s sunglasses is the surprising bit of gore we need to remember that oh, yeah, the villain isn’t fun, she’s a murderer

uuggghhhh the TENT SCENE

and, look, i’ll defend tilde forever, but i did NOT like the weird marriage ultimatum. i still think it’s a dick move, like, in that situation either decide to trust your boyfriend or break up with him

the tent interior is super cool-looking

and like, man, he tried, he tried to bounce D:

/sigh/ work hazards, i guess

mmmmmm we don’t need any of what’s happening on screen right now so i’ll just sit patiently and wait for it to be over

and like, there’s nothing funny about merlin and ginger being able to hear everything that’s going on, it’s so grosssss, poor ginger has to have heard some shit before to be so nonchalant about it

everything about this sucks

and then he tries going to the one person who he needs the most and having to deal with him still existing in some state between alive and dead

his body is here

but harry is not

“maggots turn into flies, perhaps you mean larvae!” :D he is SO CUTE

but this entire conversation, with harry still not remembering and eggsy trying so hard to reach him through the fog, is so depressing

like, i’d need a drink too

*and* a joint

i’m seeing my coping mechanisms on screen here folks

the way he comes up with the idea is kinda ingenious though

like, he’s looking at stuff to make himself bummed on purpose, but therein he finds the thing he needs to fix the issue

harry’s smile when eggsy hands him the puppy TT.TT

and then eggsy just becomes a stone cold motherfucker with no emotions

“no one’s sick enough to shoot a puppy!”

hi, flashback!harry

and as SOON as he remembers himself, it’s like his eyes are different, something about him looks like it did before kentucky

“… eggsy.”

one of my favorite movie hugs

and eggsy has to stand on his tiptoes because harry’s so tall

like yeah merlin and harry’s reunion isn’t as overtly emotional, but there’s definitely a sense of joy and relief there.

harry my baby ;-; much better with the sunglasses (and merlin was so close to telling him he looked spectacular)

“now is that any way to welcome a visit from outta town, moonshine?”

he! tried! to! defend! harry!

i hate that jack got a villain story line!

we could’ve had something so much better and infinitely more compelling!

“hurrrr durrrr morgan you just like redemption arcs because you don’t want anybody being a villain permanently” i also like them because sometimes that’s better writing, y’all sit down

“that is NOT what i call a kentucky welcome.”

i love so many things happening in this scene, like

we get to see whiskey kick ass, like yassss gimme those sweet action sequences and give us some character development by showcasing his fighting style

and also NOBODY shits on harry for not being able to handle the situation. both eggsy and merlin were like “dude we’re still celebrating the fact that you’re alive tbh it’s fine if you’re not back up to speed right this second”

you can really tell that this was penned by british people writing american slang because having grown up in the southern half of the u.s. i have never ONCE heard ANYONE say shit like “i feel like a tornado in a trailer park” lmao

and poppy’s fun little death threat infomercial, so great

“what have you done to me you FUCKING BITCH” oof, that’s a mood

!!!!! gonna be honest i kinda forgot that bruce greenwood plays the president

okay but save lives, legalize isn’t an entirely bad idea tbh

hnnnnnnng the scenes about people not being able to get into the hospital hits different in the year of our lord 2020 huh

… y’all i’m being weirded out by all this hospital scenes, this is unpleasant

i, too, wish i could pull a tequila and just be slipped into a chilly coma until shit wasn’t so fucked up

“the fact is, this presidency has won the war on drugs!”

THIS SCENE!

look, y’all can come into my inbox and call me a pothead, or a lazy stoner, or some third insult, but this dude’s VP is bringing up some very, VERY important points when it comes to any kind of discussion about drug use in the u.s.

am i drug-friendly, sure, but i’m more friendly to the notion that we stop demonizing addicts/users

harry looks fucking SCANDALIZED when he sees champ spit into his spittoon thing

i don’t think whiskey even brought up harry not being ready to return to the field in an insulting manner, he literally just saw him get his ass beat in a bar, but eggsy’s faith and loyalty are up there in the category of unstoppable force/immovable object, so here we are

am i the only one curious about the whole charlie x clara thing? because he’s definitely grown up a bit by tgc, and i wanna know how much of that might be because of clara

and he MISSES, e for effort harry

“so sorry about this—“ WHAM

and now that guy can say colin firth busted his face with a fire extinguisher, which is very cool

“*you’re* wu ting feng?” “… yes?”

“you motherFUCKER” ohhhhhh charlie maaaaaad

ginger and merlin though, #couplegoals

the only person more pissed off about the hallucinations than everyone else is harry

imagine remembering that you’re one of the top people in your field and you just keep seeing imaginary butterflies everywhere

like, yeah, i’d be pissed at not being able to do what i knew i was capable of, too

if it wasn’t careening towards a random retirement center, getting stuck in a wildly rotating gondola thing could be fun

nice tuesday afternoon activity

i would loved to have seen more galahad/whiskey field stuff

“you’ve got to be fucking kidding me—“

meanwhile, in the continuing adventures of eggsy and jack: shit goes from bad to worse like a formal spiral only going downward

their expressions as their both just SCREAMING always make me laugh

”that’s the first decent shit i’ve had in three weeks.” <- as does that line, that old dude’s just telling it like it is

eggsy’s comment about the antidote just reminds me of when boromir looks a the ring and says something like “all this for such a tiny thing”

dun dun DUN what are THOSE? hints that whiskey may not be who we think he is??

great. so excited about that. i say, rolling my eyes into the sun

“i’ll fix their wagons.” no one says that matthew!

i. love. this. scene. because now we get cool gun tricks AND the second most metal thing that happens with a lasso in this movie (we’re coming up on the most metal thing)

like please please PLEASE show us more lasso tricks in the statesman movie

“well thank fuckin’ christ i didn’t need any backup.” i wonder if whiskey’s acting angrier than he actually is to throw off the fact that he might’ve caught harry’s glance at him betraying suspicion

RIP jack

imagine the timeline where whiskey was never a bad guy and harry hart just blew a dude away for NO REASON

now THAT would be an interesting movie

because harry and eggsy, for all they went through in the first film, never had a conflict where it was harry in the position of mangling the ropes up

but of course eggsy would never, never tell merlin what happened because he’s still ultimately on harry’s team

damn, charlie, literally blowing up your girlfriend seems kinda extreme

“THIS is vital!”

and here we get to see the biggest difference between merlin and ginger

now, i know there’s extra stuff in the novelization about their relationship and i can’t talk about it because i have no idea what’s in the book

but!

i DO still headcanon as merlin quitting fieldwork after lee’s death

his comment is either what he genuinely believes, or maybe what he fashioned his beliefs into after stepping down from his field role, and ginger is just as sincere in her desire to break into that aspect of working for statesman

it’s like seeing the same character but in two points in time, and it’s really cool

that balance would’ve also been a fun aspect of their romantic relationship to explore but alas! ’twas not to be

colin and mark could both play slenderman

look at those limbs.

gracious.

also this facetime scene with eggsy and tilde T.T

that has to be so terrifying to watch when you know the steps of death and what they look like as they get closer

but it also puts a fire under eggsy though

“i’m leaving with, or without you.”

and of course they’re both gonna go because that’s NOT characteristic eggsy behavior based off of how we know he views family/squad

that’s how they know he’s being for cereal

uugggggGGHHHH and THAT FORESHADOING

stacey pruitt, attorney at lawwwww

hmmmmmmmmm

what does this conversation between poppy and the president remind me of

gonna just sigh into the void

and now we have harry and eggsy on the jet along with the BIGGEST LIE harry hart has ever told in his LIFE

kingsman and statesman aesthetics at least tend to be the same color schemes. lotta golds, yellows. browns.

eggsy, yeah, it’s a bummer your gf dumped you, but this relationship wasn’t very well-developed or written so i’m not as bummed as i could be

“… and in that moment, all i felt was loneliness and regret.”

harry shut the FUCK UP

you felt NOTHING??

you weren’t thinking of, gee, i dunno, EGGSY? or MERLIN?? your MOM???

like these lines from him just seem to come out of left field and i can’t even halfway suspend my belief long enough to come close to believing him

like mr. hart you just gonna be like that in front of jesus and everybody????

so, yeah, of course he’s on board with saving tilde! because he recognizes (apparently just right that second) that “having something to lose is what makes life worth living”

and i don’t know if they felt like there need to be some weird, deeply contrasting reason for harry to swing around to being in support? or something?

like

i’m forever pissed about this characterization and i don’t even know if i’m expressing my anger in a way that makes it easy to understand lmao this is fine, i’m fine, literally not a single person in this fandom ever believed those lines anyway, it’s fine

moving on

... and even if they WERE true then honestly that just makes me more excited about butterfly knife, because that means that harry acknowledged both the bad side of the coin, and also the side with rae on it (which would mean seeing her for who she was and also recognizing his feelings for what THEY were) and drew the ultimately correct conclucision that love! is! always! worth! it! let that shit in like a welcome guest in the home of your heart, and they will stay as long as you let them!

as SOON as he wakes up ginger looks a thousand percent done lmao

and the “process” that they use to wake people up or whatever is—interesting

because all it is, is trauma turned into a tool which is kind of a weird concept to see in a “fun spy movie” imo

and this is one of what i feel were like only what, two? glimpses we get into whiskey’s Tragic Backstory

and the other scene isn’t a glimpse it’s just straight up exposition in his dialogue :/

jack, i’m sorry, you deserved better than this as a character

i’m sure the name “silver pony” is a reference to something but i don’t know what

“lookin’ GOOD merlin!” “feelin’ good, eggsy.”

ladies and gentlemen when i tell you that i lost my pool-noodle mind seeing him put on that suit watching this in a theater, i--

ANYWAY

because now that i have the horrible burden of having seen these movies a million times

i know it’s more symbolic

he stays in sweaters so long, as an agent of the background, because he walked a man to his death

so it figures when he puts the armor back on for the first time in ages

he walks to his own

uuuggghhhh the minesweeper

i hate this

i hate it

i hate everything about the feelings i’m having while this is happening

*beep-beep*

“you move, we die.”

i HATE IT

but like, i don’t know, how preferable is this to the end scene we almost got, which was merlin dragging his newly-legless corpse through a doggy door?

because it’s been literally multiple years and i still have no fucking idea

they’re both horrible in their own terrible, awful ways

damn, matthew, it’s not often someone manages to come up with multiple versions of a thing and have every version be so gut-wrenchingly horrific, i’m truly impressed and completely disgusted

“do as your told!”

god

everyone just going through twenty shades of Bad Feelings in the space of fifteen seconds here in the jungle

and colin and taron do this thing where it’s like—their eyes go dead? like, there was a light here, it’s gone now

it SUCKS

oh

oh no

ALMOST HEAVEN

WEST VIRGINIA

… fuck

LIFE IS OLD THERE

OLDER THAN THE TREES

“… singing?”

this sucks.

this sucks this sucks this sucks

MOUNTAIN MAMAAAAA

TAKE ME HOOOOME

COUNTRY ROOOADDSSSSS

*THUNK*

and he even took off his glasses before he hit him, he had his end coming towards him and he was still a gentleman

TAKE ME HOOOME

COUNTRY RROOOOAAAADDDSSSSS

his EYES AT THE END

FUCK

… okay i had to get up and go for a lil’ walk

anyway

(and again, roanoke canon, fucking fixing’ shit left and right, because we’re the goat)

harry and eggsy look MURDEREROUS

MERLIN SAID KNOCK YOU OUT

it DID make the grand ending fun action scene a lot more satisfying

because like, without merlin there, that means harry and eggsy get to go full feral

poppy you big idiot you just robbed them of all their motivation to show any kind of restraint and now everybody’s gonna get blown up

except for those dudes who get kicked by elton john

which would be an HONOR first of all

(the part where eggsy’s using his gun and shield vaguely reminds me of the specialist, @bloodofthepen​)

and harry and eggsy just—they’re drift compatible! that’s it! the teamwork! the grace! the flow! my god!

eggsy vs. charlie: round like 4 if you count the first movie

it was also satisfying to see charlie’s new arm in action

we love fun robotics and gadgetry in this house

colin firth is really just not afraid to throw himself full force down a bowling lane huh

ugh, seeing charlie slam eggsy over and over again makes my chest hurt

the sound mixing on all these films is top notch which isn’t always a good thing T.T

ROCKETMAN~~~

that shit will never NOT be funny

a wild elton john appeared!

eggsy is indestructible, he can walk off anything

but charlie, charlie i feel really sorry for, imagine being attacked by a superior version of your own limb, i.e. something that you can’t exactly quickly remove from yourself, that would be TERRIFYING

harry + elton = dream teaaaammmm

“darling if you save the world, you can have a backstage pass.”

i love you elton john :(

i would have been the most OBNOXIOUS hype man in the background of the entire kingsman vs. poppy land face-off

“let’s make this fair.” eggsy you’re fuckin’ cheeky

and poor harry, all that lank just getting tossed like noodles

i thought the robot puppers were very cool

“for the record charlie i’m more of a gentleman than you’ll ever be.”

mmmmmm do NOT like this death for charlie

SUPER glad we fixed it

and another scene where i can’t stand the sound mixing T.T it makes me cringe every time

“i don’t consider genocide especially lady-like.”

and are we gonna talk about how merlin knew how to make heroin?

… no?

nobody wanna talk about that?

ugh that houndstooth dress is so PRETTY though

high!poppy is weirdly comedic for all of two seconds and then it stops being funny real fast

whiskey D:<

this is so dumb

this is all so, so dumb

“our agencies were founded to uphold peace, to protect the innocent—“

there’s that nobility again

is what happened to whiskey fucked up, yes

i’m not saying we have to completely remove that from his story

i just

literally anything but this would have been preferable

and then HOT DOG it’s one of my favorite shots in the movie with the whip where harry’s just chucking it away from his face like a bamf, YES

how great is this cover, let’s be honest

like, i’d be lying if i said i didn’t enjoy this scene visually

plus

HARRY GETTING PEGGED RIGHT IN THE FACE WITH A FRYING PAN

gracious

it’s one fluid tracking shot, so kinda in alignmentment with what we’re used to

some people get annoyed with repeated junk but when you can do it THIS WELL you can get away with anything

D:

but then jack

you did NOT desert that

yes, you were in dire need of an attitude adjustment but jesus

“this is for you, merlin.”

/ugly sobbing/

and tilde is all betterrrrrr ;-;

you guys did itttttt

COUNTRY ROOOAAADDSS

TAKE ME HOOOOOOMMEEEE

TO THE PLAAAAAACCCEEEEE

I BELOOOOONNGGGG

and the scene with jamal and liam T.T #wholesomecontent

poor tequila, after i knew that you would have a bigger role in another movie, i was less annoyed by the fact that they iced you so quick into the story

#FOX2020

“… now we’re brothers, working side by side.”

spoiler alert i actually love champ’s toast

“y’all shittin’ in high cotton now” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???

and ginger becomes the new whiskey like she always wanted T.T

merlin is proud from heaven (or london, depending on which canon)

iiiiiii have mixed feelings about the whole wedding scene, which is probably because i take HUGE issue with the weird proposal ultimatum thing that happened earlier

but the way eggsy says “not a doubt in my mind,” he says it so seriously and i remember that tilde almost died

there was such good intention packed into this couple that was so badly written that i just

augh

“but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

there’s ***merlin! lmao i see you dude, they did you dirty

look

i was pissed off about a lot of things that happened in this thing but i was honestly hype seeing tequila at the very end walking into the tailor shop

like, yeah, i’ll stick around to see what happens in this universe but i’m gonna complain the whole time

GO JACK RABBIT

RUNNING THROUGH THE WOODS

and again, i almost didn’t see this movie.

… i think about that morgan sometimes.

hope she’s doin’ okay.

…

she’s probably not. D:

[razanartuk]

about me tag game thing

i was tagged by the wonderful @nothingunrealistic! thank you very much ily <3

under read more bc i was not capable of keeping my answers brief this time around

why did you choose your url?

this...was supposed to be a short explanation but it turned into quite a tale so strap in i guess because we are going on a ride. back in 2017 i was just getting into musical theatre rp and i was still feeling too shy to really talk to anyone ooc so i would just wait for people i wanted to interact with to post starter calls so i could just do things in character with them the easy way. So i did this with my friend cam, who posted a starter for me using a lyric from If I Could Tell Her. she linked the song so i could listen to it, so i did and i went ‘wait a minute, is that Ben Platt from Pitch Perfect?? (and other things too, but i only recognized his voice at the time bc of the acappella girl movies)’ and yes it certainly was.

i had zero idea what the plot of Dear Evan Hansen was about at that point, and for some reason based off Just That One Song and the poster art of who i assumed was Some Guy in a Polo Shirt i started to think it was about some jock guy who broke his arm and had an emo/goth friend who had either died or gone missing under mysterious circumstances. also i intuited that Evan had a crush on his friend’s sister but he couldn’t tell her that directly or his emo friend would kick his ass. so i was like mostly wrong, but a little bit right.

oh and i knew jared and alana were characters from the show bc cam said that they were i think?? but i had no idea what their role was. so after listening to if i could tell her, i listened to good for you and all i really got out of that was that evan the apparently not-jock guy had done...something... that really hurt jared and alana. and at that point i finally decided to go look up a plot synopsis and i found out i was waaay off base. but honestly this is why cast recordings should include scene dialogue in the songs bc otherwise you just get soundtracks like dear evan hansen where the songs have like. zero context. we really just go from waving through a window to for forever to sincerely me without like. any reason as to what is happening huh. It’s honestly not a surprise anymore that all those people on twitter had no idea the plot isn’t about gay teenagers.

anyways. cam was writing jared and she made a post at one point about wishing somebody would write alana and i was like ‘oh i could do that!’ (after i had actually Seen a bootleg and finally knew what the whole story was, of course) so i made a multimuse rp blog featuring alana beck, nabulungi hatimbi, chloe valentine and some other characters, and cam started sharing her headcanons with me that alana is trans, jared and alana were close friends when they were little kids but they sort of drifted apart as they got older and their priorities in life changed, jared was the first person alana came out to when she realized she’s trans, etc.

one night i started talking about wanting to pick a more theatre-relevant url for my blog and trans-[character name] urls were getting pretty popular, and at least 3 of the friends i made through rp had changed theirs to coordinating trans-[character name] and i think it was cam suggested i should make mine be trans-alana so i did. eventually i realized the unhyphenated version was available so i changed it to transalana with no hyphen and i have lived here ever since. sometimes i think about changing it but i feel like transalana has become a part of My Brand and i am not so great with coming up with cool names for things.

any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

in theory, i have sideblogs... i don’t really use them, but of the ones i do have, there is:

emsbookblog - this was supposed to be where i would post excerpts of the book that i’m working on, but i think i did that maybe one time roughly 2 years ago and then promptly forgot about it/got nervous about my writing and was scared to share anything else. the rest of the stuff that is there is assorted writing tips. i don’t really know what to do with it now. i probably should post all my little thoughts about em and anita and caleb there instead of infodumping on my main from time to time, but if i do that then i have to promo a sideblog and direct people over to it which is always annoying to me when i could just do it on this blog which is much easier

dearnovelhansen - this is basically no longer used, but was a sideblog i made specifically to talk/complain about the novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen which was about 3 years ago?? maybe? i can’t be trusted to understand the passage of time. but to summarize: i thought it was an honor just to have the story be made more accessible since many of us couldn’t see the stage performance, but i hated a lot of the creative liberties that were taken. my main grumbles are that everyone who isn’t evan or connor is done so dirty in the novel. connor’s still kind of done dirty in the book, but not as much as like. heidi, alana, jared, and zoe are.

horseisle3 - this one was meant to be a place where i could just enthusiastically post screenshots from hi3, but instead it turned into a blog where i occasionally reblog other players’ hi3 content and bitch about how bad the game admins are bc hi3 is the tumblr famous (infamous?) homophobic horse game. the game where it was once okay to call your club store the gulag bc according to their head of hr, ‘it’s just a russian word for prison’ but you can’t say ‘im gay’ without somebody accusing you of corrupting young children who play the game. unfortunately there aren’t very many good interactive horse games out there, so this one is still about as good as it gets. it’s either that or star stable and i don’t care about star stable.

mlaenie - i’ve had this url saved for i don’t even know how long. way way way back in the day when i wanted to escape from the clutches of the onceler fandom i abandoned my first blog where i basically had an alter ego i guess?? and i decided to just be myself on the new blog. i don’t fully remember who came up with it, but one of my sister’s mutuals suggested that if you scrambled the letters in your name you could come up with aesthetic-looking urls. so lauren’s url became lrauen, and to match with her mine became mlaenie, which i abandoned on tumblr after about a year or so? but have continued to use as my main username on twitter, reddit, youtube, xbox, steam, and discord. i barely ever use any of these accounts aside from twitter, steam, and xbox, but yeah. so i’ve decided to try and turn this empty sideblog into a place for video game thoughts maybe. we’ll see how long it lasts this time around.

how long have you been on tumblr?

i made my first tumblr account in december of 2010, but i didn’t understand how to use it at all or how to customize my theme to look cool and unique so i quickly abandoned it. i made a new account in september of 2011 after some kids at school and my sister told me i should and i have been trapped here with varying degrees of activity/inactivity ever since. i have witnessed the rise and fall of the lorax/onceler fandom, hyperfocused on lord of the rings, star wars and back to the future all at the same time, and for the past 4 years i’ve mostly been a musical theatre blog with assorted other fandom stuff mixed in. i feel i have seen everything and nothing, but mostly i’m just tired and bored.

do you have a queue tag?

no bc i don’t use a queue. i’ve tried using it in the past but i irrationally feel pressured to sustain a coherent theme to queued posts and my brain simply does not vibe with that so i just don’t use it at all anymore. Instead i instantly reblog or post several unrelated thoughts in succession and then don’t post again at all for 3 days. the way god intended

why did you start your blog in the first place?

my very first blog was intended to be a place for me to post all of my petz 5 animals’ profile info, but i didn’t have any understanding of how coding worked at all and i don’t think i really wanted to learn, either. so it just sat there, unused. my second attempt at blogging was as a classic rock fandom person, so as you can probably imagine i was pretty pretentious about ‘modern pop’ vs the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, the monkees, and so on. and then i slowly devolved into a lorax fandom blog and everything went to shit so i made a new blog for lord of the rings/the hobbit which later evolved to include star wars and back to the future blogging. and then for the past 4 years i’ve been mainly a musical theatre blog with other random stuff i like thrown haphazardly into the pot. wonderful.

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because my url is transalana and two of my most prominent lgbt headcanons are that alana beck is trans and a lesbian. i gotta be shouting out @kinqmike though bc she’s the one i adopted the trans alana beck headcanon from in the first place!

why did you choose your header?

in 2017 i was hyperfixating on Dear Evan Hansen (and Be More Chill, but there weren’t many gif-able videos then considering it ran for a month in New Jersey in 2015 and there was only one yet-to-resurface 35 minute bootleg) so i just grabbed a random gif off of google. i really should get to replacing it with a new header of my own though. i just don’t know what i should do for it.

what’s your post with the most notes?

i have lost track of how many notes it has (i think it’s somewhere around 200 now?) but when Will Roland and George Salazar performed Two Player Game on Good Morning America, i posted a screencap of their Jeremy and Michael along with that one quiz answer meme that says stuff like ‘i want to see it grow up healthy’. i didn’t tag it with any ship names or anything because i was anxious about having it show up in the tags, but somebody who reblogged it from me did tag it as boyf riends and i firmly believe it took off because of that. i don’t think i make posts that are relevant enough to amass thousands of notes, even by accident. which is probably a good thing bc if i did i would have to block so many of them.

how many followers do you have?

on this blog? 175 according to the counter. how many of those are still real people and how many are bots and abandoned accounts? i have no idea.

how many people do you follow?

i try to keep it somewhere around 200. i think i’m sitting at 180 right now but i kind of need to go through and clear out the really inactive blogs.

have you made a shitpost?

let’s think about this for a second. i’ve been on tumblr for nearly 10 years. you might even be able to say i’ve made more than one. they’re just not what you would call...popular shitposts.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ post?

that stuff makes me so incredibly anxious that i have to fight the urge to want to yeet my laptop or mobile device through the closest window whenever i read it, so i try very hard to avoid any sort of ‘if you don’t reblog this, i’m judging you’ posts. i find them very manipulative and not particularly helpful

do you like tag games?

yeah babey!! i just frequently forget to do them, but please know that if you have ever tagged me in a tag game i felt incredibly touched by the gesture and the @mention even if i completely forgot to do the thing afterward

do you like ask games?

i do! but also rip to literally anyone who has ever sent me an ask meme bc it takes me so long to answer them. i’m still working on a micro fic prompt from a few weeks ago. also, horrified to realized that it has in fact been a few weeks and not 3 days anymore.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i don’t know that any are tumblr famous as a whole. but probably @neverheardnothing

do you have a crush on a mutual?

in any sort of romantic connotation? no. not that i’m aware of. there are mutuals that i have friend crushes on where i want to be friends with them but i get so anxious when it comes to meeting new people that usually nothing ever comes of it. i’m really not good at small talk or other casual conversation either which, as you may or may not be able to imagine, sucks. i just wanna skip over all of the awkward introductions and ‘hey how are you, how is life, what are you doing with yourself?’ stuff. not because i don’t care about it. i do, but i think most of my friends/the people i want to be my friends are also depressed and anxious so asking these basic questions about life tends to uh. make us all nervous. and i don’t do much with my life so i always have the most boring answers anyways.

i’m not tagging anyone officially bc the @ thing has just completely given up on me at this point, but if you want to do it, go for it. and then say i tagged you so i can read it c:

[fatesdeepdive]

Entry 1: Anticipation

Introduction

What is your most anticipated game? Not the upcoming game that you’re excited about, the game that, more than any other, made you count down the days until its release. No game has ever made me as excited for its release like Fire Emblem Fates did.

Fire Emblem Fates was first announced in January 2015. Back when that trailer was first released, I was still obsessively playing through Fire Emblem Awakening, the game Fire Emblem Fates was meant to be a successor for. The trailer hooked me and I eagerly waited for more information on this bold new entry into the Fire Emblem series. The trailer showed a battle between two armies, a monster destroying a castle, a woman dancing, and a duel between two swordsmen. Between these clips, the trailer showed a return of Awakening’s gameplay, the addictive gameplay that’d taken away hundreds of hours of my free time. This trailer told us nothing, leaving me eager to learn more about this new story.

As the months went on, it was announced that Fates would tell the story of two kingdoms at war. More interestingly, the player would be given the opportunity to choose which kingdom to support, adding a layer of moral ambiguity and complexity to the story. I loved this concept and had no doubts it would be executed perfectly. The game released in June 2015 in Japan, but American fans had to wait until January of the next year to play it.

I bought the game as soon as it came out.

And I loved it. I played through all three routes half a dozen times each. For about six months, Fire Emblem Fates was the main game I played.

I haven’t played Fates in four and a half years. I don’t know why I went from spending multiple hours each day playing it to dropping it and never going back. I’ve played Awakening about once a year since then, but I haven’t gone back to Fates for some reason.

Since its release, Fates has gained a certain...reputation among the Fire Emblem fanbase. Put bluntly, it’s widely considered to be the worst Fire Emblem game. And, to be honest...I can kinda see why. Looking back, the game’s writing was filled to the brim with problems. But still, I can’t bring myself to hate the game like other Fire Emblem fans. I still remember asking my mom to preorder it for my Christmas present when I was fifteen. I still remember devoting hours of my life to this game.

So, I’m left with this quandary. Who should I trust? Other fans, or the memories of my youth? Is Fates really as bad as people say? Well, I kinda want to figure that out for myself. And I think the only way to figure this out is to obsessively play the game.

Over the next few months, I’m going to do a deep dive through Fire Emblem Fates and post my thoughts on this blog. I’m going to go through every chapter, every support conversation, every part of this game to answer the question: is Fire Emblem Fates a good game?

Opening Cutscene

Booting up my copy of Birthright for the first time in years, I’m greeted with an opening cutscene containing much of the footage from the trailer. It’s worth noting that the two armies from the trailer have very different aesthetics, one being heavily influenced by feudal Japan and one being heavily influenced by medieval Europe. The transition from the battle to the woman dancing is done by zooming out, revealing that this battle is actually taking place inside a painting. I actually really like this, it shows that the hostilities that this game is centered on have been going on for a long time.

Another thing to note: the song the dancing woman is singing has been translated into English. I’ll be going through the Lost in Thoughts All Alone’s lyrics and analyzing them when they appear in the actual story. The dance scene leads into circling shots of two families; judging from their different styles and fancy clothing, they are presumably related to the two kingdoms at war. The eastern family has a red and white color scheme, while the western one has a black and purple color scheme.

After that, the camera pans into a deep chasm until it arrives in a land of floating castles and islands, which looks interesting. Next, the opening cutscene shows the dancer in a lake, being choked by a large dragon-like creature. As the creature pushes her further underwater, its scales turn into light and fade away, turning into a humanoid form. Finally, the trailer shows the two swordsmen clashing as the dancer freaks out, setting her up as being an in-between that doesn’t want this conflict to grow. Her necklace flies off as she panics and lands in a pool of dark blue water, bringing us to the main menu.

The opening cutscene, like the trailer, hooked me in and made me excited to play this game. Even though I know that the game is going to bungle the story beats it sets up, I’m still excited to dive right it.

While staring at the dark title screen, which features only the quiet sound of waves for background noise, I get a strange hint of nostalgia. It’s a weird type of nostalgia, though. When I replied Awakening last fall, it felt familiar and comforting. Coming back to Fates, it doesn’t feel familiar. I recognize it, and it’s nostalgic, but it isn’t comforting. It’s like nostalgia for something I’ve forgotten, if that makes sense.

Character Creation

Jumping in, I am presented with three settings each for two types of difficulty. Normal/Hard/Lunatic control the strength of enemies, while Phoenix/Casual/Classic determine whether or not units come back to life. I’ll be checking out the other difficulties in a later entry, but for now, I create a Normal/Casual save file. Yes, it’s taking the easy path. But I barely remember this game and am playing it on a deadline, I don’t have the time to restart every level multiple times.

Next comes the character creator. We’re shown the player Avatar standing at the bottom of a lake and given the ability to customize gender, build, hairstyle, hair decoration (if a girl), hair color, face, scars, and voice. None of the options look bad, but the fact that it’s just choosing from a set list of faces is a bit disappointing. Understandable, considering the fact that these assets are drawn in, but that just raises the question of why there needed to be customization in the first place.

A few oddities about the character creator: hairstyles are sorted on two axis chart of Stylish/Simple vs Wild/Slick for boys and Long/Short vs Cute/Wild for girls. I don’t have time to go into each hairstyle, some are better than the canon versions, some are absolutely ridiculous, some are just boring. The short build is the canon design for Male Corrin while the tall build is canon for Female Corrin. This is probably for the best, because Short Girl Corrin looks like she’s eight. Finally, while both choices have three voice choices, two of Male Corrin’s choices are played by Cam Clarke (Corrin’s other male voice is Yuri Lowenthal, while Female Corrin’s voices are performed by Danielle Judovits, Marcella Lentz-Pope, and Stephanie Lemelin). Later games featuring Corrin stick with Clarke and Lentz-Pope.

I flip a coin and end up deciding on Female Corrin. I go with the generic design, because I really don’t care enough to customize her. Speaking of design, Corrin’s design is a mixed bag. Regardless of player choice, Corrin always wears the same outfit: a grey, black, and white suit of armor with a blue cape. Corrin’s generic hair color is also grey, but like a pinkish grey. I do appreciate Corrin being associated with grey, gold, and blue, making them visually appear to be between worlds, but I personally think the armor looks too complicated, looking more like a striped suit than actual armor. I also don’t get why it has a neck cuff.

Also, Corrin is barefoot. Always. This does give Corrin a sort of animalistic appearance, but that design element isn’t present anywhere else in Corrin’s design. Fire Emblem Awakening was kinda infamous for the fact that none of its characters had feet on their models and I get the vague feeling this game is overcompensating.

Next, we get to the details that actually matter. Name (I went with Corrin, because it’s the canon name and I don’t relate to this character at all), Birthday, Boon, Bane, and Talent. Boon and Bane determine stat growths, but they are labeled by personality traits instead of the actual stars, which is both more immersive and slightly annoying. I made Corrin Quick and Unlucky. Talent determines what Classes are available to you. I didn’t care, so I spun it randomly. It landed on Mercenary.

Prologue: The Ties that Bind

Now that we have our character created, let’s start the game. The game starts with the dancer singing Lost in Thoughts All Alone at the shore of a lake before walking into the lake and sinking below the waves. The song continues as she goes underwater, which means she must be amazing at ventriloquism. As she goes deeper underwater, ruins start to appear, floating in the water. The dancer swims into a bright light and disappears.

Smash cut to the Western prince riding on a horse, commanding an army as they charge into battle. The Eastern prince charges through his army, wielding a sword surrounded by lightning. The anime cutscenes in this game are beautifully animated and incredibly cool to watch. The Eastern prince introduces himself as Ryoma of Hoshido and challenges the Western prince, Xander of Nohr, to a duel. Xander accepts and charges into battle, wielding a sword surrounded by shadowy purple fog. The two clash as the cutscene ends.

We then see Corrin and a Hoshidan Pegasus Rider named Hinoka fighting an enemy, This fight is rendered as an actual game cutscene. Side note, the fact that this scripted battle features Hinoka guarding an attack for Corrin is a great way to foreshadow that mechanic. Hinoka mentions that Corrin looks distracted and reassures her, pointing out that all of Corrin’s siblings are here.

The game then moves onto introducing basic mechanics. If you move your cursor away and look at the other units on the battlefield, you’ll notice that all of them have unique names and designs. Fire Emblem Fates shows both armies off to you during the prologue, which is really interesting. Still, it must be noted that the Nohrian Units are marked as enemies and the Hoshidan Units are marked as allies. This isn’t super important now, but keep it in mind.

Between turns, Ryoma asks Xander why he’s invading and mentions a cowardly attack. Xander tells him to surrender and the two fight some more, both doing decent damage. The camera pans over to Xander’s siblings. The youngest of them, Elise, mentions that, due to a bridge collapse, they can’t get over to Corrin. Her older sister, Camilla, tells her not to worry, because their royal blood allows them to manipulate dragon veins. Camilla moves over to the river and a fireball flies out of her, striking the river and evaporating it. The third of Xander’s siblings, Leo, tells Elise to stay back as they attack the Hoshidans. The Hoshidan royals remark that Camilla’s use of a dragon vein means she’s royalty and the Hoshidan prince Tamuki smirks, saying that he’s always wanted to use a Nohrian royal as target practice.

The two armies of named characters start fighting and a Nohrian general named Hans shows up with an army of reinforcements. He then refers to his own army as cannon fodder and says king Garon sent him to kill them all, because he’s very obviously an evil person. A Hoshidan general shows up and we get some more tutorials as Corrin and Takumi beat up a single redshirt. And then the level just ends.

Corrin and the Hoshidan royals run up to the bridge to help out Ryoma. Xander calls out to Corrin, happy to have found her alive and well. He beckons her to come back to her family, which angers Ryoma, who shouts that Corrin is his sister. Xander counters, saying that Corrin is HIS sister. The other royals argue over which family owns Corrin and Hinoka states that the Nohrians kidnapped her. Xander points out that the Nohrians raised Corrin since she was a child and are her real family. As the two families fight over Corrin, the screen fades to white and we hear voices yelling for Corrin to wake up.

The prologue features some good teaching of mechanics, some bad teaching of mechanics, and an introduction to the game’s plot. It introduces two countries at war and Corrin, a bridge between the two that is caught up in this war. I just have one question.

What even is this chapter? It isn’t in media res, the actual point in the game this chapter is playing off of happens differently. The fact that it cuts to Corrin waking up implies that it’s a premonition of the future, but Corrin can’t see the future in other parts of the game. At least, I don’t remember that ever happening. Sure, this chapter introduces the plot, but it does it in such a confusing way.

Awakening did something similar to this, admittedly, but Awakening is a game about time travel. That scene happened, just in a different timeline. Awakening’s use of media res both set up the plot and helped foreshadow the game’s main twist.

Also, the Hoshidans are allies and the Nohrians are enemies. In a game about a morally grey conflict between two sides made up of real, suffering people, it’s not great to start out by calling one of them evil.

These two traits, aping Awakening without knowing why it worked and failing to be a morally grey story, are going to become much more apparent as the game goes on...

[xaxtonx]

Hello! 👋 First of all, your blog is amazing! I really love it and the aesthetic of it! I just wanted to ask what is a “draconic witch”? Your bio made me very curious! (If you don’t want to say it it’s totally fine, I was just curious to know 😊) Anyway, hope you have a wonderful day 🖤

A draconic witch is a type of witch. Before I continue on what a draconic witch is, let me provided a quick history lesson on the word witch itself.

The word “witch” derives from the Old English words “wicca” (masculine) and “wicce” (feminine ). This later became “wicche”, in Middle English, which meant the same thing as “wicca” and “wicce”, but didn’t distinguish between the genders, being used to refer to both men and women.  However, over time, using “wicche” to refer to men became less and less common, being replaced by synonyms such as “wizard”, “warlock”, and “sorcerer” due to how media and fantasy works began to use those terms. This is also around the time when different groups thought witches and magick do not exist because we went into hiding and because of the rise of science.

By the 16th century, the spelling had changed from “wicche” to “witch” and, by this time, the word was almost exclusively used to refer to women. But in witchcraft today it is once again somewhat common to use “witch” to refer to both men and women.

In witchcraft there are different types of witches. There are for example cosmic witches, necromancy witches and cooking witches just to name a few. This can act as a way to classify what is the main purpose, practices and talents of a witch. Note that it is not necessary for a witch to adopt one of this titles nor do every witch take on one of this titles. Also, a witch can take on more than one title. It is more of a way to pin point what is/are the main types of magick they practice.

For example cosmic witches often live by the moon phases. They know the ins and outs of their sun sign (zodiac sign) or moon sign. While a necromancy witch practices necromancy. They often use the Ouija board in their practices or cemetery dirt for spells/rituals. Cooking witches practice cooking witchcraft. They know what herbs represent what (at least more than the average witch). They also make their own recipes or “potions” for various topics.

I classify myself as a draconic witch. Draconic witchcraft, though, is not like other types of witchcrafts. It is one of the hardest and most challenging types. Not just anyone can practice it, and it most cases one have to change a lot about themself in the process. As a draconic witch I receive help from dragons in my practice (yes, they exist just not on this plane). For a draconic witch a dragon is very much like a god. We give them offerings. And no, we don't sacrifice children/people/animals instead we make them a meal they would like. Every dragon is different and likes different things. They help guide us in return. To be honest, draconic witchcraft is dying. Most of the practice is lost because those who created it and have done it in the past did not write it down. Now the remaining draconic witches are trying to get as much information as we can to hopefully save it. But it is hard because if someone follows a religion which says that they must put their god before anyone else (like Christianity does and yes there are Christian witches) then they can not follow the draconic path. Dragons are far more powerful than any one of the gods or goddesses. It is also hard because dragons speak in riddles. They are not always physically present in this plane. Although they are extraordinary. Dragons do not trust humans for we had killed and hunted not only them but many creatures like them in the past. The draconic path is challenging but rewarding. When you earn a dragon’s trust... it's amazing. I've seen a dragon in real life, I had a dragon speak to me. That is what a draconic witch is.

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Mafia au-Part one

Summary: When an unassuming artist saves a man’s life at the shooting at the gallery, he ends up in the midde of the war between two mafias and as he gets dragged deeper into the whole thing, he soon learns the line between the sides and right and wrong blur more than he expected.

Pairings: Dominik Livaković/Bruno Petković, Luka Modrić/Šime Vrsaljko mentioned

Word Count: 1832

Warnings: knife throwing, I guess death? Only in a dream tho, blood, (ya know what, just be prepared for violence in general in this fic), making out

Notes: Finally, a mafia au is here! I am really excited about this and I hope y’all like it. Also, if you didn’t see my previous posts about this, there are three aesthetics with more info about this on my blog. Anyways, I hope y’all like it

The day wasn't warm to begin with, but the cold, February wind chilled to the bone. It wasn't stopped by the high fence that prevented outsiders to see the inside of the training field.

 And yet, Livi's palms were sweating, and he was gripping the knife in his hand way too forcefully. He wondered if he could snap it in half if he gripped it tighter.

 "Livi. Breathe. And just throw the knife. I can catch it," Luka said nonchalantly, as if it was such an easy thing to do.

 It wasn't that Livi didn't know how to throw a knife. He was taught how to handle both knives and guns since he was a child. Throwing a knife with the intention of it ending in someone's skull well...that was a different story.

 "Unless you'd prefer we exchange places this second, I recommend you throw that knife. Now." 

 With a deep breath, Livi closed his eyes and let the instinct of habit take over. Lovre's advice came back to him, as clearly as the day he said them.

 It doesn't matter who or what you are throwing the knife at. It's important how you throw it." 

 Lovre wrapped his hand around Livi's raising it so it was in height of Livi's head.

 "You should know how much force to use by the heaviness of the knife."

 Livi concentrated on the cold feel of the handle, of how it's weight felt in his hand.

 "Then you focus on the target-imagine it as a red dot."

 Red dot. No skin, no bones, no piercing brown eyes. Just the red dot.

 And...throw it."

 The knife flew through the air, and for a second, it was as if the time slowed. 

 He watched as the knife cut straight through the air to towards his target. Livi was suddenly filled with dread-straight throw with a deadly accuracy. He should have threw the knife with a spin. 

 It happened in a split second-Luka's hands moved impossibly fast-and he stopped the knife between his palms.

 Livi relased a breath he didn't know he was holding. 

 Luka lowered the knife, and caught Livi's gaze again, evaluating him. It was unnerving, especially since Livi has known him for two years now. At first, he hoped it was a thing that will pass and that Luka will stop looking at him as if he is trying to figure out all of his secrets and weaknesses.

 Then again, better Luka than Dalić.

 "Good throw. Now you only need to learn to catch it that way as well."

 Livi's face twisted and he resisted the urge to bite at his nails.

 "I just learned how to catch a knife by the handle. I am not sure if-"

 "But that only works if the knife is thrown with a spin doesn't it? And if your first instinct was to throw it straight then...we both know Lovre won't do it any other way either."

 Livi never failed to flinch at Lovre's or Suba's name being brought up. It was a bad habit. and he didn't failt to notice the way Luka's eyes traced the small motion, as if he was testing him to see if he would still have the same reaction.

 Thankfully, Šime came to distract Luka and end his misery for the day. Or at least Livi hoped so.

 "While I am sure you are having fun torturing a baby of the team-"

 "I am not even the youngest one here!" Livi protested.

 Šime shot him an amused smile, but otherwise ignored him.

 "You are going to be late to an important thing that I cannot talk about."

 Luka rolled his eyes.

 "You weren't even supposed to know about it. But yes, I am coming. Just let me put the knives away."

 "I am sure Livi can take care of that. I wanted a minute to talk to you."

 Šime smirked, gently tracing the scar on Luka's exposed shoulder. Luka shivered and Livi quickly looked away, clearing his throat.

 Luka instantly stepped away from Šime and Livi could swear he was blushing. It was almost fascinating how easily Šime could melt away Luka's cold calculation that he seemed to otherwise have at all times.

 Well. Almost at all times. There was one moment in particular that Livi remembered, when Luka showed and said more than he wanted.

 It was few days after Livi defected and was trying to get used to the news environment. The memory came to him easily, despite being painful. He went through those memories often, scared they will fade and that he will slowly forget how he ended up here in the first place. Why he ended up here in the first place.

 It's not anybody was cruel to him after he joined them. Quite the opposite. And even Modrić-or Luka as he was told to call him-came to talk to him at one point. 

 "I know you were close with Subašić before you joined us. If you already had to trade your life from someone else's, at least you did it for someone who deserved it."

 Livi raised his head, studying him. Despite the fact that Livi was sitting, Luka still seemed quite short compared to him. And yet, there was something about him that just screamed "dangerous" from all the angles.

 "Is this your way of saying he is a good man?"

 Luka chucked, shaking his head. 

 "None of us would be in this kind of business, especially not that high up, if we were good men. No, Suba isn't the good man,"

 Luka paused, locking his eyes on Livi's, peering into his soul, in a way. 

 "But he is a loyal one. So, if you already had to take a fall for being loyal, at least you did it for someone who would do the same for you."

 Livi's eyes stinged, and he looked away. This just reminded him that he will never see Suba again. Or if he will, he won't see him as a man who raised him. He will be the enemy.

 "I used to be close to him as well," Luka continued, grabbing Livi's attention again.

 "What happened?"

 Luka smiled and Livi was reminded of an wounded animal, baring it's teeth in defense.

 "Unlike you, I didn't leave to protect his life. I did it to protect mine." 

 Livi didn't dare to ask any further questions, despite a hundred of them being on a tip of his tongue. 

 That night, his dream involved him holding a gun, with his finger on a trigger. But it was Suba that he was aiming at, and while he knew he should pull the trigger, he stood there, frozen.

 The sound of the gunshot rang through his ears, but it didn't come from his gun. Livi turned his head and saw Luka holding a gun. He shot Livi a smile-it held no warmness and all terror before he spoke.

 "You will have to do a lot of things to protect yourself Livi. Better get used to it."

 Suba's blood was deep, dark red. It soaked through Livi's jeans as he fell to his knees, and stained his fingers. 

 When he woke up, he washed his hands and brushed his teeth several times, but the taste of cooper lingered. He didn't fall asleep again that night.

Livi blinked, realizing he missed one part of the conversation, and that Luka was putting his blazer on. He and Šime shared one more meaningful look Livi couldn't decipher and then Luka turned to him.

 "Clean the knives and out them away. We'll continue tomorrow."

 And with that and a salute from Šime, they were gone.

 Livi sighed, quickly gathering the knives and bringing them to the building. As he walked through the familiar hallway, Livi spent a few moments pondering over the irony of how beautiful and well lit the whole establishment was.

 When you imagined a place where mafia members frequented and had some of their weapons you would probably see a cold, dark place, far away from everything. Which is stupid, considering the fact that these things were usually hidden in plain sight.

 Livi reached the weaponry, and started cleaning the knives one by one, easily falling into the soothing habit.

 After a few minutes though, he heard the door open and quick, sure steps approach him. H knew who it was before the other man even opened his mouth.

 "I thought I'd find you here," Bruno said, looming above him.

 Livi put away the last knife and stood up, trying to minimize the height difference as much as possible. He knew, logically, that Bruno wouldn't hurt him, but a part of him wanted to be prepared and on equal footing in case something did happen.

 "What are you doing here?"

 Bruno smiled, lazily stretching his hand until it cupped Livi's face and stroked it with his thumb. Livi unconsciously leaned into it, fighting against his inner voice screaming that he shouldn't be doing this.

 "Can't I just drop by when I want to see my badass boyfriend?" Bruno whispered, brushing his lips against Livi's.

 Livi snorted, but chased after Bruno's lips for another kiss before answering.

 "Well, said boyfriend isn't complaining...but you could persuade me to not tell Luka you are snooping around."

 Bruno pulled him closer but left just a breath of space between their lips. Livi's heart was pounding, and Livi concentrated on that, rather than the voice in his head.

 You are leading him on. You don't even know which side you are loyal to anymore. How could you even-

"Well that can be arranged," Bruno said and kissed him, stopping Livi's thoughts from spiraling further.

 However, after a few moments Livi's phone pinged, signalling he got a message. Livi froze. It wasn't the sound of a message from the phone he used every day. It was from the old one that he kept in his bag and used only for...

 "What's wrong?"

 Livi ignored the question and Bruno's narrowed eyes as he opened his bag and fished out the phone. He had one unread message from unsaved number, but the one he recognized. And even if he didn't only one person contacted him through this phone.

 There is going to be a shooting at the gallery at the main square. You might want to warn Luka before it's too late.

Dread pooling in Livi's stomach and his mind raced. Why would Luka be at the gallery? What kind of shooting? How did Posavec know about this?

 And most importantly, if Livi was to warn Luka, how would he explain how he knew about it?

 Livi glanced back at Bruno, considering his options.

 You'll knew you had to choose, sooner or later. Your loyalties can't always be dancing on a line between them.

Livi made a decision. He just hoped it would be the right one. He turned back to Bruno.

 "I need your help with something. It's about Luka, and you can't tell anyone."

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OC Playlist Meme - Saarai (of course)

I was tagged by @thehighground​ (thank you! :D) this one was super fun!! I was caught between the twins of who I should do for this one, Saarai won because she is my favourite and her 70-song playlist was basically made for memes like this (yes, you heard me, 70. No it’s not a typo. Yes I have a slight, maybe, problem with her being my favourite LOL) 👍

I’ve shared all their playlists at various points, if you search up the “swtor oc theme songs” and “oc playlist” tag on the blog you should be able to find them! Or if you want links to the full playlists drop me a line and I can link you to them no problem! :D

Just the one this time cause this one’s pretty long, if I get tagged again tho I’ll do Ni’kasi next! :D

I shall tag (if you feel like it, no pressure as always!) @abyssal-space​ @stratosara​ @anchanted-one​ @pauletta-00​ @hypnowinnermugpeach​ and anybody else who wants to have a go, this one’s super fun! Long post so under a cut! <3 gonna pop the content warning up here to: TW for mention of past abuse/manipulation and parental abuse in one of the songs in case ya wanna avoid it. there’s a warning above the specific section as well if you wanna read the rest and just skip that song, up to you!

♦️  Their intro theme: Up The Wolves - The Mountain Goats

“I’m gonna get myself in fighting trim, scope out every angle of unfair advantage. I’m gonna bribe the officials, I’m gonna kill all the judges! It’s gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage!! Our mother has been absent, ever since we founded Rome. But there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.”

♦️  Their own favorite song: DARKSIDE - Shinedown

(She has to set a good example with being one of the leaders of the Alliance (especially because her saying “don’t do that” is the only reason her sister and Aria don’t go for their new Jedi allies - at least to start with, before the Alliance y’know, bonds and becomes a proper coalition!). But learning to trust Jedi was still hard for her after what they did to her people, and I feel like if it existed in the verse she’d find it relatable and listen to it a lot.)

“Can you hear me, am I speaking clearly? Are you star-struck or just made of stone? Block out the actors, and all these bastards. That took all the fun out of rage and revenge.”

♦️  Their boss battle theme: Castle - Halsey

(it was difficult to pick one for this one, she has quite a few in her playlist that I consider her “boss battle” songs for various points in her life/the two different verses. But I think this one is the most universal! :D)

“I’m heading straight for the castle. They wanna make me their Queen. And there’s an old man sitting on the throne there sayin’ that I ‘probably shouldn’t be so mean.’ I’m heading straight for the castle...they got the kingdom locked up. And there’s an old man sitting on the throne there sayin’ ‘I should probably keep my pretty mouth shut!’.”

♦️  Their love song: (one for each of her main ships, but again, they have whole playlists because I use playlists to “set the mood” of the character/ship while I write. Pro writing tip, do it. It helps [nod nod] <3)

For Zephyrverse/Sash: Heaven’s Gate - Fall Out Boy

“And in the end if I don’t make it on the list, would you sneak me a wristband? Or would you give me, give me, give me a boost? Give me a boost over heaven’s gate. I’m gonna need a boost, cause everything else is a subtitute for your love. Give me a boost over heaven’s gate.”

For Subterfugeverse/Lana & Koth: The Last Of The Real Ones - Fall Out Boy

“I know this whole damn city thinks it needs you, but not as much as I do. As much as I do...Cause you’re the last of a dying breed, write our names on the wet concrete. I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me. I’m here in search of your glory, there’s been a million before me, that ultra-kind of love you never walk away from. ”

♦️  Their sad times song: Bruno Is Orange - Hop Along (tw: mention of abuse/manipulation, parental abuse)

“ ‘Bruno, what happened to your good sense?!’ I broke down ‘That man was good!!’ ‘I bet he works for the government!’ Did you hear about that mother, broke her daughter’s legs in two and said: ‘It’s too dangerous out there to walk so I have to save you!’ ”

♦️  A song that fits their aesthetic: Woman King - Iron & Wine

“Black hoof mare. Broken leg. Eye on the shotgun shell. Age old dog. Hornet’s nest. Built in the big church bell. Hundred years, hundred more. Someday we may see a woman king, sword in hand, swing at some evil and bleed.”

♦️  A song that reminds them of a better time: Downhill - Lincoln

(though most of this song has sad undertones to it, this part in particular would remind her of the short time she had with her father when he was alive, when he would take the twins outside and sit them on his lap to look at the stars <3)

“Cause you were the first one to show me the stars. And they don’t mean much to me, but I still wonder where you are. Some nights I still try to find you, relative to constellations. And all your relatives are still on vacation, or so I heard from a friend...”

♦️  A song that calms them down: 10,000 Enemies - Emeli Sandé

(headcanon that this is a song their mother D’leah used to sing to her and her twin, Ni’kasi, when they were children hiding out on Rishi and it stuck with her.)

“I hear the sweetest sound, blowing from the North. It says ‘don’t panic now, what’s mine is yours...’ I hope 10,000 times you tell me the truth. Cause now there’s much to do. I trust in you. I shall be free...I shall be free. We shall be free.”

♦️  A song that gets them hyped up: Young And Menace - Fall Out Boy

“We’ve gone way too fast for way too long. And we were never supposed to make it half this far. And I’ve lived so much life, lived so much life. I think that God is gonna have to kill me twice.”

I’m assuming this section is meant to mean a song the character would associate with each season? So I hope I’ve interpreted that correctly, I wasn’t really sure what else it was referring to. So that’s what I’m doing LOL

♦️  Spring: Thunder - Imagine Dragons

“Just a young gun with a quick fuse. I was uptight, wanna let loose. I was dreaming of bigger things and wanna leave my own life behind. Not a yes sir, not a follower, fit the box, fit the mold, have a seat in the foyer. Take a number, I was lightning, before the thunder.”

♦️  Summer: The Times They Are A’Changin’ - Fort Nowhere

(a.k.a the time of year where everything went to hell for her, though she uses it to remind her of how far she’s come once she’s older and more at peace with everything that happened so it’s positive in the end!)

“Come gather round people, wherever you roam. And admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth saving, well you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone. For the times, they are a’changin’.”

♦️  Autumn: Dragon - Built By Titan feat. Skyborne

“When I was younger, I had a dragon. We would fly away to places you can’t imagine. And this is a story, of a lonely island. And a boy who found a way to become a lion.”

♦️  Winter: Youth - Glass Animals

(Winter is when Ty was born so it’s a mixed bag of trauma-induced depression (See “sad-times” song above), missing her twin and being sad about what happened but also wanting to make sure Ty never has to experience what she did and just wanting him to have a safe & happy life, so. This song kinda fits that.)

“Boy, when I left you you were young. I was gone but not my love, you were clearly meant for more than a life lost in the war. Oh, I want you to be happy, free to run get dizzy on caffeine, funny friends that make you laugh and maybe you’re just a little bit dappy.”

♦️  The song that plays while they’re lying on the ground bleeding out in a Walmart: Everything You Ever - Neil Patrick Harris (from Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

“So your world’s benign. So you think justice has a voice? And we all have a choice? Well now, your world is mine.”

♦️  The song that would play each morning if they’re stuck in a time loop: Ends Of The Earth - Lord Huron

“ Oh, there's an island where all things are silent, I'm gonna whistle a tune. Oh, there's a desert that size can't be measured; I'm gonna count all the dunes.”

♦️  The song they’d listen to while robbing a Wendy’s: Pork Soda - Glass Animals

“Somebody said I’m a fucking slum, don’t know where I belong. Maybe you’re fucking dumb, maybe I’m just a bum. Maybe you’re fucking scum, don’t you go psycho chum.”

♦️  The song they’d accidentally introduce to people in medieval times if they were a time traveller: The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show.

(Also not accidentally, she has a silly side and she’d probably play this one for the LOL’s to see who got it or who got mad. She’d totally learn the dance moves and do those too XD)

“ The blackness would hit me And the void would be calling Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again.”

♦️  The song they’d play in the middle of the night when their neighbors are being too loud: Blood // Water - grandson

("Do you think if I play a really loud, aggressively threatening song they’d shut the fuck up? I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna try it.” XD).

“You’ll never get free, lamb to the slaughter, what you gon’ do when there’s blood in the water?!”

♦️  The song that plays at their funeral: Sax Rohmer #1 - The Mountain Goats

“Ships loosed from their moorings capsize and then they're gone. Sailors with no captains watch a while and then move on. And an agent crests the shadows and I head in her direction. All roads lead toward the same blocked intersection. And I am coming home to you. With my own blood in my mouth...yes I am coming home, to you. If it’s the last thing that I do.”

♦️  The song that plays when it’s revealed that they faked their death: Joan of Arc - Arcade Fire

“You’re the one that they used to hate but they like you now. And everything that goes away will return somehow....first they love you, then they kill you, then they love you again...and then they love you, then they kill you, then they love you again.”