henry telling joel the story of how he informed fedra about the leader of the resistance so he could get the medicine he needed to save sam, and seeing joel's entire face and demeanour change as he starts to understand who henry is and how similar they both are. joel initially not trusting henry because he's a rat, but once the full context is given to him, he tells henry it's not fair on him for so many people to want him dead for what he did. joel not questioning why henry would betray so many people for his brother, because he knows he would do exactly the same thing in his place. henry DIRECTLY making joel ask himself the question "what is more important: the world, or the one person you love? your honour, or your family? when it comes down to it, how many people will you hurt to make sure she's safe?", and you can just see that joel immediately knows the answer.
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Human: Gosh, Hephaestus stop with your architecture facts.
Aphrodite:*death glare*
Human: A-and tell me more about what are you building
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mike telling will it's not his fault he doesn't like girls and will destroying castle byers to symbolize the loss of not only childhood innocence and what was but also the loss of his most treasured safe space. mike threw that back in his face—his biggest, most sacred and unspeakable truth; the one that's haunted his entire life and damned him to this—and he specifically ripped their photo down the middle while calling himself stupid and tore everything down because god dammit he WANTED to play dnd with mike forever and never get girlfriends because they were supposed to go crazy TOGETHER and being friends was the best thing they'd EVER done and now castle byers can't be his safe space anymore because it's been tainted. there's too much mike. there's too many reminders of his stupid, stupid dreams. it's no longer a safe harbor—it's just a reminder of his naivety, his childish dream that someone like him could ever get what he wants. and he's clearly still hurt by that because we knew previously that will trusted mike more than any other party member and even his family. he told him first about everything with the upside down and he was there through every part of his possession. will loves mike more than anyone, but after that rain fight he just doesn't trust him with that stuff anymore. "because what if they don't like the truth...?" with that knowing, searching glance. because he WANTS to tell mike. even now, after everything, he still wants to be honest with him. to be himself with him again. he's DYING to and we know that because will doesn't like to lie, least of all to mike, but he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't so he rips the band-aid off and confesses under his own sister's name. an ugly compromise because he can't keep lying and he can't keep listening to mike think so lowly of himself but he can't be honest either. because he doesn't trust that mike will still like him afterward. if mike said that to him before he knew, what would he say after will confirmed it? like. GODDDDD THE ANGST OF IT ALL.....
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if that were the case then serizawa would be the only person aside from asagiri that knows directly what mob went through.
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but also: imagine being tharkay, having befriended this shining perfect golden example of a gentleman officer with his unthinking belief in the system and faith in the righteousness of the empire and surety of his own role in it, and not even a year later, from somewhere faraway on the continent, in transit while herding more dragons to britain for him, hearing that he has committed treason and been sentenced to die
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*Hestia seeing Ares stare at Aphrodite and Hephaestus dancing*
Ares: I'm alone. Aren't I? I'm meant to be alone.
Hestia: Kid... it’s not that bad. It's scary. You're on your own. But the cool news is your own now.
Ares: I don't get it.. I love her auntie.
Hestia: Come here, darling boy. I'll show you the wonders of being on your own.And doing what you want without zero fucks to give
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hi hello i shamefully still have not read flight of the heron But i do love uh roman naming conventions. if you're looking for a praenomen for a Keith have you considered Kaeso? it would be a little bit old fashioned by the period of your setting but also it contains the elusive letter k in latin :-)
salve! (sorry, couldn't help myself.) thank you for this message! I'm pleased to see that I haven't driven off my followers with my incessant flight of the heron all day all night.
ah, yes, Kaeso! it's funny you should mention it, as I was considering today polling my 3 followers who are patient enough to indulge my whims with whether or not I should consider that name. it's been one of my top contenders lately, mostly so that I wouldn't be faced with writing a story in which the main character was given the Roman equivalent of... idk, John. I initially dismissed Caeso over fear that people would mispronounce it as queso, but I think the K-spelling works better, if I can convincingly get away with it (I may put in a pronunciation thing to remind people that it's more like kai-so than kay-so.) the fact that it's old fashioned is something that can be worked into the story. in canon Keith's name is fairly unusual and comes from the surname of his father's best friend, and the Windham family in real life seems to have had a bad habit of surnames as first names (*points at the multiple individuals by the name of Wadham Wyndham*) — so suffice to say I can claim his family is a stuffy old gens who haven't added any new praenomen to the list since the Republic.
thank you for your message! I really appreciate your suggestion, and I suspect that it will stick :-)
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Numair’s only been here for like, a few pages, but he’s already getting more “screen time” than Daine’s gotten in all 4 books. I love Tamora’s style of writing, where she doesn’t always go into specifics...but it’s been really grating to have Daine mentioned, called for, and then not even speak b/c she’s there & gone in 2 sentences T_T
Still, I’m happy to at least have Numair here for now
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