#betrayals

[mothidocandart]

they need to create more tragically romantic betrayals. Someone gently kissing their loved ones cheek as they tie them to a prison they will never get out of but have to be in “for their own safety.” Someone laying out their neck for their loved one to slash because they are the only one they’d trust to do it. Whatever the fuck Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena did where she kissed Utena’s shoulder and lowered her gently down to the ground while also stabbing her through the stomach. That can never be outdone I think.

[groundbreakingdot872]

Ever think about the fact that Uther fell in love with a corpse?

That Catrina was dead, had already been dead for weeks, when the troll strutted into court wearing her face

And speaking of the origins of their plan- the troll had likely scavenged the estate of Tregor after the invasion minutes after the event, kicking bodies out the way on her instinctual hunt gold

Instead of finding anything valuable, which the bandits had already taken, she found pretty personal belongings, too lesser for a thief... and the lady that they belonged too.

Brutally murdered maybe, but intact enough to be recreated, and impersonated.

Finding her manservant’s body fallen nearby made the idea too easy to conceive, a "Jonas" in hand and the personal items of Catrina ruthlessly ripped away, the plan wealth beyond their imagining was already in motion

And then in the aftermath, of the whole horrid, gruesome, embarrassing affair, when the rumors had died down enough…

Uther must’ve gone quietly, in the early hours of the morning, to visit Catrina’s grave - the real Catrina

Laid flowers, and shed a few private tears over the woman he had never met, but had strong feelings for, perhaps love. Her physique and voice had enchanted him, in more ways than one, and temporarily given him a happy out from the sins of the past

Though it must've unsettled him, that he had fallen for the figment of a woman, not even a ghost, and pledged his entire Kingdom in a heartbeat over a pleasant if pitying face

Although I'm sure the irony, of beloveds coming back to the present, wearing marred faces with a masked intent for vengeance over ghosts of his evils, must have eluded him...

[fandom-official]

Beware the Ides of March 🗡️

[river-sprite]

Reading the Cainsville novels by Kelley Armstrong and feeling absolutely unhinged about our golden boy lawyer man. Have some feral sketches.

Why has no one in the world read this series though?? It's so good, I need to talk about it

[golden-letters]

walk in

@golden-letters

you have no right to barge back in my life again,

scrolling in like you own the place,

like you bought that sofa and did the laundry every night,

you have no right.

don’t text me again,

don’t make me smile again,

don’t do this again because you always barge in when it’s convenient,

convenient,

when i’m happy and you want to take that joy for yourself,

when the tears on my cheeks were wiped by myself,

you barge in,

you have no right to barge in again,

like you own the place.

[launicalucer0]

We’re all growed up now

This looks sporadic but it appears that a love I’ve been looking for found me and my family did something horibbbleeeeeeeee and they can’t admit it.

[phantomoftheshoppera]

She looked up out of her thoughts into the afternoon on the marshes: the sky a cloudless misty blue, reflected in one distant curving channel of water, and the sunlight golden over the dun levels of the reedbeds and among the stems of the reeds. The rare, soft west wind blew. A perfect day. The beauty of the world, the beauty of the world! A sword in my hand, turned against me. Why do you make beauty to kill us, my Lord?

Ursula K. Le Guin, Betrayals (collected in Outer Space, Inner Lands)

[zu-writes]

AkeSumi

Alternate Universe - Fantasy and Magic

Rated T (for language and suggestive themes)

STATUS: Complete

Here's the fic I wrote for the AkeSumi server summer exchange event! I had a lot of fun writing this!

[eskir]

betrayal aftermath - wanderer

after the first:

not that cynical, most likely hasn't processed the first betrayal

he begins to move on after finding niwa, and they grow their little friendship

while he doesn't have a heart anymore, he can still feel his emotions rise in his chest: joy, happiness, and some unknown feeling that's called sorrow. he doesn't know how to process these feeling however.

at night, if he could cry, he would. he remembers his time with his mother, and recalls how she was so close but distant at the same time.

most likely he requires comfort or assurance from niwa at times, late night talks as well.

they both dwell deeper into who he was, and niwa offers comfort: "you're human if you believe it so," and etc. all of these guide scaramouche on the way to releasing his pain

but then tragedy strikes and as it occurs in front of his face, scaramouche realizes that it really wasn't worth it, having to interact with humans. he realizes that the gods are also not to be believed in.

so metaphorically he tears out his heart, so that he will no longer feel that sorrow in his chest anymore

he might view it as a betrayal because they were friends close, and niwa left. scaramouche also probably doesn't know what the circumstances/doesn't understand them.

after the second:

more cynical, but then he meets the child.

previously, he was a child of the shogun, then a friend to another, but now, he's a parental figure of some sorts.

he wants to live a happy life with his child; he wants this child to have the life he never had. but they both know of the illness.

his before, he feels much more joy. he likens this new experience to the one he had with niwa, but, different somehow. he doesn't know how, but it still makes him feel warm inside.

but the feeling of being warm still has hints of cynicism in it; its just like how a happy feeling could arrive when enjoying time with certain people.

when the child dies, it is a betrayal of sorts. when scaramouche stumbles upon the dead body, it is like all those memories were betrayed because all that happiness is now gone.

he burns the house, to burn all the happy memories. if there are no happy memories, then there is no reason to mourn for a lost friend, their memory was burned away. tears most likely streamed down, but did they really

the third:

cynical, he has gone through many betrayals, and now, was he really deserving of all the happiness? or, no, he learns that this happiness cannot last. like in the 3.3(is it the 3.4?) event where the yokai learns that interacting with mortals is painful, but still worthwhile, scaramouche is somewhat stuck there perhaps.

what point is there to interact and feel happiness if all that is left is pain and sorrow in the end?

he becomes distant to the world, and eventually, distance leads to who he is now. perhaps, with the child, he could ignore the feeling of loss and emptiness inside, but that death was enough.

he walks away, hat tilted over him so he does not have to see anything, but the problem is no one can see him. he blocks out everything, because he has no idea on how to cope with these losses, so he ignores them.

vision:

he goes through the motions of processing these betrayals after(guys i didn't do his story quest yet i know im so sorry king), albeit in private. he opens up to nahida first, as she guides him on how to cope and he learns to let go.

he loves. he learns to love who he was before, and slowly reworks the memories. they are tainted, but he is learning to change, to work past what he hated and loved. he goes out and finds closure, and nahida tells him that its fine if he does not want to confront certain things.

most likely cries to that fact, he's happy that he has a supporter, no matter how much he acts. its not acting really though let's be honest. he's happy, and in that moment, being happy with who he is, that's all that matters.

yeah and that's my headcanons, happy birthday wanderer! luv you and wish you the best for the next year, the entirety of scaranation(wanderernation?) wishes you the best. much love, hugs, and kisses from all of us. <3

[books-in-a-storm]

My Library📚

Strange Angels & Betrayals, Lili St.Crow

[dulcidyne]

Two strangers reunite at the edge of the galaxy (7/12)

Rating: Explicit (NSFW) Fandom: Mass Effect, Femshep x Garrus Additional Tags: Mature, Strangers to Lovers, Pre-ME2 AU Alison Gunn was a face Shepard didn’t mind wearing–a cutthroat weapons dealer based out of Ilium with high society aspirations and the low-grade sociopathy to see them through. Alison saw people as trade opportunities and weighed their value to her with an expert and objective eye. Slipping into her was a bit like slipping into a pair of silk designer underwear: a silent shift from the woman who sometimes forgot she had blood crusted under her broken fingernails and woke up most nights twisted up in memories of the dead to the kind of woman who drank dark, expensive wine in wide, bowl-shaped glasses and slept like a baby on satin sheets hours after shooting a man down in cold blood.

Alison was the kind of person who thrived in the Terminus, even if she was made up–manifested from the ether of an expert thief’s imagination and given falsified dental records, e-zine subscriptions, a driver’s license, and half a dozen extranet dating profiles. She wasn’t a hero, wasn’t a villain–not by Terminus standards anyway–was just a shit person with a cruel streak, a knack for manipulation, and the ambition and amorality to put both to good use. Putting on her face was a welcome relief. Hands finally steady, Shepard made her way to the stage where a crowd was gathering and found her target. On A03

[arillusionist]

i feel so bad for saying this since im already criticize the finale sm

but

commander anne had a bunch of flaws

[ehj3]

TEMPUS FUGIT

“At all the more important moments while he was telling his story his face took on a very strange, composite expression. I could only interpret it as one of horror at pleasure of his own of which he himself was unaware. He proceeded with the greatest difficulty.” —Sigmund Freud There were four of “friendships becoming…”  four-fers in the to-do list with 30 or so ideas above them. One I already…

[aurorapicturecompanyinfinite]

Fallen Angels

A New York detective is hired by an angel to uncover if her lover, a notorious figure from the underworld, is betraying her, dragging him into a case where celestial struggles spill onto the streets.

Watch it now!

[waitingforthesunrise]

don’t you love when you’re casually reading a random poem and suddenly come across a line that burrows into your bones and becomes the definition of your heart for the next 17 years

[launicalucer0]

Everytime I try to save myself, I am blocked out, all I have is the hope that someone can come and save me...