#arthur is coping

[stateofdreaming14]

Okay okay okay fic idea where it's a Arthur returns au where he climbs out of the lake the exact person who died all those years ago except that everyone else (bar Merlin ofc) has reincarnated Everyone else are completely modern in the way they talk and interact with the world and Arthur just has to take that in stride

Anyway all of this to say that I had a vision of Uther with recently returned memories like, "let me get this straight. You got married to a women and STILL never had an heir? I should have known letting that treasonous twink into our household was a bad idea". Shakes head, deeply serious. Like the complete vibes of the behind the scenes pics of Uther doing modern things but Arthur is basically having a huge culture shock every time the man opens his mouth and everyone else is unhelpful bc they're just laughing hysterically

Modern Uther reading Arthur to filth and revealing everything about how he always knew Arthur liked men with the utter shamelessness of the average modern parent (fairly cool with it but WILL say some off color things) and teasing Arthur for being too chicken to make a move on someone that literally everyone assumed he was already bedding

IDK if literally anyone else would find this funny but I just would love to see Arthur dealing with everyone he loves being ever so slightly different in the way they talk and act and sometimes it's like they're all in on a joke that he doesn't understand... Maybe I just take joy in seeing Arthur get shaken up a bit actually 😂 love when he gets blushy and embarrassed

[eggnogtoast]

orthur morgin

[pinep-ne]

charthur to soothe the soul ☀️

[capesch-arts]

"You can't change who I am. No matter how many times you try to twist my memories into what you want."

You're not supposed to break my- you fucking pest, Arthur Lester!

(in which Arthur Lester wakes up from the King's attempt to rewrite his memories).

Inspo for this piece 👇 (I tried not to trace this one-on-one. There's technically other arts that I referenced for the rendering and panelling, but I forgor to save it on my phone).

If anyone knows where it's from or who's the artist, pls do tell. Thx h

[chialattea]

Oh so YOU GUYS can monologue for hours but my man yorick tries to have a nice conversation after regaining his ability to speak AND YOU GANG UP ON HIM???? I see how it is!!! The double standards are crazy!!!

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

Turns out what was really in Oscars letter was just the Jurgen Leitner rant named swapped to be Scratch

[mydirtyvalentine]

received the greatest amount of psychic damage the first time i listened to the bedrock

[scooterscoob]

[a moment of solace]

[deadlittledogs]

Messy dynamic chart LOL

[arch-aeology]

he may be a mass murderer, but he pays his damn child support

(tumblr I am begging you not to eat the image quality)

[stottlemorgan]

I wrote this to cope before my appointment yesterday but it's sweet so here, sweethearts. Tw for panic attacks, anxiety.

Arthur rests his palm against your chest, his rough skin kissing your own. You're fuzzy eyed, your gaze drifting in search of some form of solace. Your chest rises and falls irregularly, soft and short, then strangled and marginally longer, and swiftly back to struggle.

"It's alright, darlin'. It's alright." He murmurs, taking his other hand and running his fingers through your hair, feeling the sweat coalescing at your temple. His brow furrows, his lips pressing firmly together as he watches your glassy eyes flutter.

A small, strained sound escapes you and Arthur bites down on a cooing sound as he intently watches your face slacken further with panic. Instead, he shushes you gently, his thumb coming to rub small circles into your forehead.

"Needs no explainin', just breathe. With me, c'mon." He takes a slow, exaggerated, deep breath in, hoping the sound will draw you out from within the haze and follow along.

But instead your skin prickles with goosebumps, a sluice of boiling heat and vicious cold flushing through your insides.

"Darlin'... Darlin'-" Arthur's hand moves from your chest to rest against the side of your neck, his thumb pressing a little. He feels your pulse throbbing angrily beneath your steadily sweating skin.

With a quiet exhale in an attempt to dislodge the unease and worry balling tightly in his throat, he slowly moves. He ghosts an arm around your waist and brings the other to take one of your hands in his. He starts to guide you to the edge of camp, towards somewhere less busy.

Your free hand weakly waves a little to him, your eyes wide, a silent urgence, asking what he's doing.

"Easy now," He whispers, helping you walk, your limbs heavy as your mind so frustratingly forces your energy into your pounding heart and painfully tense shoulders. "I'm jus' takin' you to the horses, nowhere too far. Vevina'll snort a laugh outta you. Plus, I ain't given her a snack in a while."

(Vevina is Arthur's horse in my playthrough)

[potato-lord-but-not]

John being cold all the time (I’m projecting) and Oscar’s a walking furnace n he’s there to give me I mean give John cozy warm cuddles (I miss my wife)

[lurker2773]

Characterization for the Hex if the Operator were sent back instead of the Drifter

I like to think about what 1999 could have been if the Lotus sent the Operator back to follow Entrati and not the Drifter. I know it makes the most sense from a character development standpoint to send Drifter, but the Operator is a much more experienced and capable (lorewise) warframe combatant with countless years of practice under their belt - it'd have been equally pragmatic to send the Starchild to 1999 to make sure whatever needs to get done in there happens and have the drifter get trained up and acclimated to the Origin system where there are other tenno to rely on to make up for inexperience and general rookie-ness.

So instead of the Hex getting a grown-ass person with magic void powers from the future, they'd get to have a war veteran trauma child - bonus points if that child is nonverbal or refuses to speak directly to them, and the Hex have to interact with them through the KIM.

And also, consider that most players from a gameplay standpoint habitually keep their Operators cloaked to prevent them from getting shot once they leave their 'frames to do whatever - canonically, the Operator and Drifter don't have a time limit on cloak, I don't think. The Hex are basically never even going to see the kid, and that could be more terrifying. Imagine seeing a puppet version of what you could be, dangling from the strings of some invisible, intangible thing with superpowers and magic lasers coming out of their hands.

Imagine mid mission Arthur turns to look at the weird and mysterious time-travelling entity and just sees a collapsed Baruuk on it's knees or frozen completely still in a weird position before it suddenly zooms about thirty meters away midair and starts straightening itself back out again in ways that joints shouldn't move in before slamming into the ground and rushing headlong into a crowd of Scaldra to 'build melee combo,' whatever the hell the demon child means by that.

Here's the meat of the post, though - the Hex (and newcomers like Flare and Kaya) can play the Context(TM) game like they do with Drifter through KIM and slowly piece together that this is a magical child soldier with a bodycount larger than all the people they've ever collectively laid eyes on, and then react in interesting ways that would lend interesting characterization.

Eleanor and Arthur would be horrified, probably, and Arthur might start talking down to the Operator because it's 'just some kid' who's clearly in over their head. Most of it's concern, but I think some small amount would be bruised pride - how could some kid be better at killing than a trained soldier?

Aoi would be heartbroken at the revelation that their new ally is a child soldier - how could anyone let that happen to them? How sick do you have to be to make children kill whoever the government pointed at with techno-organic corpses?

And Quincy would definitely be fucked up in the head for a few days after he figures it out - that could open up some opportunities for more characterization given his soft spot for kids. Would he try to keep up his aloof act, like he does with the Drifter, or immediately discard it to try and comfort a child that has already made peace with their ridiculous capacity for murder?

Amir might do something similar to Arthur, but more patronizing than hostile - he means well, but this is a kid. If Amir himself feels out of his depth in the current situation and he's an adult, then surely a child would feel even worse than he does about killing a person.

I think Lettie would be the most chill of the original Hex, though. She's jaded enough that she'd be concerned, but would probably decide that it's not really any of her business - especially considering just how talented the Operator is at mass homicide.

Velimir and Minerva could also be really interesting. On the one hand, they could see little bits of Rusalka in the Operator, but that could also lead to coddling or 'replacement goldfish'-like behavior not unlike how I imagine Amir's reaction would have been.

Flare would have been the first to know. One wayward comment from Lizzie calling the Operator demon-child or something of the like, and they'd have put it together pretty quickly after that.

Kaya would just be glad there's someone else who understands being underestimated by older people just because they're younger.

[dilf-luvr-4evr]

So funny to think about if Arthur married someone religious (me)

Like imagine them going to the doctor after trying to get pregnant and what do you know! She is!! And then she’s like “oh thank God!” And then Arthur’s like “thank God? You mean thank me? 🤨” like genuinely asking…..

The kid picks up on saying Goddamnit as a toddler and it made Arthur CACKLE until wife slowly turns to him with the rage of God Himself and he’s like 😨

Her setting food on the table and then praying before eating but his hands are already taking food 😭 she slaps him and he’s just like “I’m starving ☹️”

Once he joked by praying before eating pussy and then she slaps him again and leaves him to sleep as he apologized 😭

He probably dgaf about going to church but maybe doesn’t like her going to town by herself so he openly sleeps during Sunday service 😔

Maybe she likes to sing church songs around the house and it gets stuck in his head and he’ll sing them sometimes without realizing

He made John SWEAR to never tell her about the time they stole the church’s wine supply…… he was really drunk okay :(

But by God if someone EVER tries to steal her beloved gold cross necklace??? They will have to deal with her devil of a husband themself <3

[leaveslikefeathers]

chopping onions with a clingy cat entity

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Smthn about escapism and why someone (me) might choose to stay with Kinito even tho he was a bit mean and also didn’t like that u had freewill lol

Also a little bit of thinking abt how Kinito and the Player Who Stays (the Stayer???) share a lot of parallels (working hard to deserve nice things, crippling loneliness, selfish reasons for clinging to one another, self awareness, dissatisfaction/disappointment with their respective realities leading to them idealizing the concept of each other, etc etc)

(The song lyrics are from ���Woof woof’ by ARTHUR. It took a few listens to rlly appreciate it, now it scratches my brain in v nice ways)