Charles Rowland is a stronger person than me because if my best friend dressed up all nice to try and tell me they had feelings for me and their waist looked that good in a fucking sweater I think I would simply cease to be able to form words at all for the rest of the conversation
also how did he not cop a feel like?? Charles your hands are constantly on Edwin all the time anyway??
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Did you have any foreknowledge that Anakin would become Darth Vader? I feel like even if you had Revenge of the Sith must have been quite an experience
Lmao I didn't know that until I came across this gif here in tumblr:
'oh damn'
That said, because of that gif, I did know he was going to be one of the most iconic and recognizeable villains of cinema by the time I started to watch the movies. But, my knowledge of what would happen was very, very narrow, I was very in the dark about it lol
Is easier to point out the things that I knew when starting the movies than the ones I didn't:
-He would lose his limbs (I did not know how, I didn't know he literally burned. And I only knew that he loses his limbs because my partner )
-He kills kids (and that I knew just because a meme that my hubby had to explain to me, but I didn't know the circumstances. In fact, what I pictured was much worse LOL)
-He kills(? Padmé (I asked my hubby if he and Padmé divorced, and he just decided to throw that spoiler at me like "no, he kills her accidentally" without further context and I was like...oh woah okay...I...generally don't like villains that kill their wives but i'll still check that out)
-Samuel L. Jackson is in these movies! :D
-HE IS LUKE'S FATHER OMG OMG AND IS TWINS OMG LEIA?? ...Wait don't Leia and Luke kiss- Oh okay
And sufficient to say: ROTS still destroyed me emotionally, what a trip. But I had a blast watching these movies, and it was also a blast watching the Original Trilogy after that! I was so, so stunned about the end of ROTJ, because seriously I always thought Luke kills Vader even when my interest on SW was below zero.
And no, I still don't know how at 24 i managed to know so little about Star Wars SJNKJNSDF
What I thought would happen in these movies was that my guy here was going to be just this cool merciless villain from about the get-go and we would just met him as an adult already. Like, he would be this dark jedi working by himself ruining the order from the inside, going into murders on weekends and blame someone else for fun, the war would be his doing, and being creepy towards everyone included his wife was probably his hobby, idk, you get it, your basic 'cool lonely villain', like maybe a Sauron of sorts.
And then George Lucas tackled me with... this
Hey, I'm not complaining.
My hiperfixation on Anakin and Star Wars helped me a lot with my depression, truth be told!
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orpheus and eurydice: a dbd essay
Orpheus and Eurydice is a tragic love story, they call it love at first sight and marry after Orpheus returns from an expedition but she unfortunately dies from a snake bite. Orpheus travels to the underworld and begs Hades to let him take Eurydice back with him, Hades agrees but on the condition that Orpheus cannot look at her until they are both back into the light and so their journey begins. Orpheus relies on Eurydice's footsteps alone to know she is following him and after a long journey they finally make it out, however Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice too early as she had not made it into the light yet which leads to her being taken back into the underworld forever.
Charles, without knowing the entire story, compares him and Edwin to this tragic tale. As they are travelling out of hell, Edwin stops him to confess his love which lead Charles to asking it this were 'one of those Orpheus and Eurydice' moments to which Edwin has to explain it ended in tragedy and Charles to reveal he never finished it.
Despite Charles having never finished this story he knew the main parts: Orpheus and Eurydice were in love, Orpheus would travel to the underworld to bring her back, Orpheus couldn't handle being apart from Eurydice and that Hades allows Orpheus to bring Eurydice back. Charles knew all of this, and with him and Edwin standing on the stairs to Hell, couldn't help but compare their situation to that or Orpheus and Eurydice.
Charles didn't fully understand his own feelings at this point but he knew that there was no one he loved more than Edwin, no one else he would go to Hell for and that no one is more important to him than Edwin, and so it only made sense that he bring up the one love story he knew could relate, the love story where Orpheus travels to the underworld just for Eurydice, the story in which Orpheus can't bear to be without his one true love he will do anything to bring her back. This in many ways suggest that even without Charles fully understanding it, he truly loves Edwin in the same way Edwin loves him.
Charles and Edwin's story almost goes backwards to Orpheus and Eurydice's, They meet each other in their deaths but they immediately decide that they want to spend eternity with each other and so they spend thirty years together before Edwin is tragically dragged back to Hell. This leads Charles to bargain so he can go to Hell and save Edwin which then leads to Edwin confessing his love on the stairs of Hell. The stories share many similarities but also a fair few differences, the key one being theirs ends happily while Orpheus' and Eurydice's ends tragically, and so it only makes sense that they were compared to each other.
Edwin loves Charles with his entire being, Charles is the best person he knows and is the only person he seems to truly feel comfortable around, they met just after Edwin escaped Hell and despite him not believing he's good with people he very quickly grew on Charles. A lot of Edwin's story revolves around him figuring out his own emotions, his attraction to boys but more importantly what love is for him. He grew up in a time period where public displays of affection, even with a man and woman, were frowned upon and then he died at age sixteen and was stuck in Hell for seventy years. Edwin doesn't know what love is or what it means to him and so a lot of his storyline follows along him figuring it all out. He grows to find out that he is in love with his best friend and he needs him to know, he knows there's a chance doesn't feel the same but he still needs him to know.
Edwin knows the story and Orpheus and Eurydice, he knows it ends tragically but he also knows that it is still a love story. He knows all of this and he listens to Charles, immediately after he confesses his love, compare them two too that story. Edwin knows Charles doesn't feel the same, or at least not yet, but he also knows that Charles compared them to one of the greatest tragic love stories and so while Charles may not replicate the feelings he at least knows that Charles values him just as much as he values Charles.
Charles comes from a time period where being queer was more of a thing but still not widely accepted, he lived at a time where they existed but they were still often the victims of hate crimes and he grew up during the AIDS pandemic so being queer wasn't the best thing still. He also unfortunately grew up with an abusive dad who wanted Charles to be perfect, Charles would promise his dad he would do better and be better so it's no wonder that Charles doesn't fully understand his own feelings. Charles is most likely bisexual but he has yet to figure out his feeling regarding that and yet he still compared him and Edwin to one of the most famous tragic love stories.
Charles may not completely understand his feelings but he does know that Edwin is 'the most important person in the world' to him, that he is the only one he would ever go to hell for and so to him it was a perfect story to compare them too. Charles proceeds to tell Edwin they have 'literally forever to figure out the rest' because while he doesn't claim to be in love with Edwin back he knows how important Edwin is to him and he knows that there is something else to it.
Orpehus and Eurydice were soulmates, they were made for each other and Orpheus could not bear to live without Eurydice which led to him travelling to the underworld for her. Edwin ad Charles are soulmates, they met at the worst times in each others lives/deaths and they chose to spend eternity with each other all the same, they knew the couldn't live without each other and so Charles travels to Hell just to bring Edwin back.
these two stories have so many similarities its almost impossible not to connect them, two people who are made for each other, who cannot live without each other and who are prepared to go to great lengths just got be with each other once again.
along with similarities they're also so different. They're both tragic loves stories but in different ways, Orpheus and Eurydice ends tragically meanwhile Edwin and Charles begin tragically. Orpheus and Eurydice are separated by death meanwhile Charles and edwin are brought together by it.
Orpheus and Eurydice are the perfect tragic love story to compare Edwin and Charles to because it's the only one that really encapsulates their story so well. Charles has a lot to figure out in terms of his feelings but he knows for sure that he loves Edwin and that he couldn't live without him and so he travels to Hell just to bring him back and lucky for him he succeeds.
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whats your favorite killugon hc?
Ahh this has been sitting in my inbox bcus I wanted to think abt how to answer mostly bcus I simply can't choose just one so here's a few:
Killua will be a lil taller and thinner than Gon when they grow up
Gon w freckles <33
Killua lowkey hates Ging but would be civil w him for Gon's sake
Hurt/comfort is my jam, love love the idea of them tending to eachother's wounds (if you have any fics for this one pls pls slide it over )
I think they should beat each other up a lil bit bcus strong feelings, but they would never actually fight/hurt each other
Also self indulgent but put older Killua in a crop top
I could prob keep going its so hard to pick!! Sorry if this is a lot omfg ty for asking abt them <33 my children
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