#darkside arc

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres/techniques: anime horror

[izzystizzys]

“ - but have you ever considered, I don’t know, not sucking all the time? Just a thought.”

It takes the combined grips of Nuisance and Hound to keep the wriggling, snarling body beneath Fox from throwing him off its back. With three years’ practice of having to fix his own rickety desk chair over and over again, the movement merely ruffles the proverbial fringe on his helmet.

“And I don’t mean that as an insult, necessarily. Well, I do a little bit. But also I have some amount of empathy for the no doubt immense amounts of trauma that had to go into the creation of something so dysfunctional as you, on a very personal level, so have you considered going to the root of that in a way that’s like… useful? Instead of wasting it all on kriffing Kenobi, I mean. Look at the guy. All he does all day is drink tea and commit warcrimes. I bet he knits for fun. Bit of an embarrassing nemesis, don’t you think?”

“I”, says Kenobi, then pauses. The space between his eyebrows is creased with uncertainty, and he looks deeply torn between continuing rocking the shaking Duchess of Mandalore against his chest from his corner of the throne room and re-activating his lightsaber to continue losing his fight against the Darksider Fox is currently sitting on. “I feel like I should object to some part of that, but I’m not entirely clear on what. Or how this happened, again. Isn’t Mandalore a few star systems from your purview, Commander?”

“Probably the warcrimes”, mutters Nuisance underneath his strained breath.

“About as far from my supposed assignment as yours, General”, says Fox a little louder.

Kenobi twitches. Fox cannot claim to know which of them does it. Both, maybe. Probably.

“I will - taste - your - flesh!”, heaves out Darth Maul, snarling and hissing.

“Oooh, kinky!”, calls Grids, from the corner where she’s got her stun-setting aimed at the other Zabrak, currently passed out cold. Fox sighs deeply. He knew he shouldn’t have taken those three - any combination of Grids, Hound and Nuisance in a room together usually spelled chaos.

Unfortunately, it also spelled competence. The Basic alphabet can be funny that way.

The point being: as of some months into the war, one of Fox’s assigned tasks is the surveillance of all GAR-wide communication. All command-class staff theoretically got that memo, but no one seems to have read the fine print where that includes both professional and personal communication, as well as any and all comm devices registered or suspected to be registered to that person. Especially not one Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala.

The point further being, if that sounds both immensely impractical and sort of terrifying in a democratic supposedly non-surveillance state, you’d be bang on the credits, and to Fox’ eternal chagrin the singular person in this whole useless army who’s spent the second of thinking necessary for that conclusion.

The final point being, when one frantic General’s mad dash across the Galaxy to rescue his teenage sweetheart from the spectre of his supposedly dead nemesis crosses his desk on its way to the Chancellor’s inbox, it doesn’t take much time for him to block any and all trace of it across the digital space of the GAR commboard and take matters into his own hands.

“ - which is why I told Thorn to suck it up and be in charge for a few days, and also why you’re still alive, your Highness, very welcome, was no trouble at all”, he concludes, drily. The Duchess stares the wide-eyed look of someone attempting to reconcile clones with ‘sentience’ or perhaps ‘personality’ in her head, but won’t say it outright.

Or the look of someone who’s just been violently overthrown and nearly murdered, perhaps, Fox allows.

“Um -“, Kenobi hedges, blinking rapidly.

“And the reason you’re still alive, probably. You’re welcome for that too, by the way”, Grids calls from the back of the throne room, cheekily.

“Alright”, says Kenobi, loudly. There’s color back in his deathly-pale cheeks, Fox notes, even if that color is a lot of red. It doesn’t fade very gracefully into his beard. “Opinions on whether or not I had everything under control notwithstanding -“

“You really didn’t”, Hound supplies helpfully.

“ - opinions notwithstanding, I am admittedly still lost on why you’re now sitting on Darth Maul and attempting to, to - jeer at him, Marshall Commander!”

“We’re not jeering, we’re trying to create a safe space and lay the groundwork for more open communication”, Fox says, primly.

Maul screams into the ground, attempting for the umpteenth time to rear up and visit great violence upon Fox, which admittedly has him rattling in his crosslegged seat atop his back.

Kenobi raises a perfectly plucked eyebrow. “Safe space?”

“He’s restrained and not stabbing anyone, I personally feel much safer than before”, Grids muses. “Watch the teeth though, Hound. Little biter.”

Indeed. Fox’s right greave will have to be replaced posthaste.

“And anyways, the point isn’t to jeer at him, it’s to make clear that he’s focusing his energy in the wrong places and could be doing much better things with his admittedly not-great life”, Fox adds, shifting to cast a pointed look down at Maul. The Sith is panting open-mouthed into the durasteel floor, sharp teeth gnashing wildly as his piercing yellow eyes shine with barely restrained rage. “I’m just saying - aim higher. You aren’t seeing the forest for the Kenobis, Maul. Can I call you Maul?”

“I will feed you your own entrails”, yowls Maul.

“See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Right now, I’m an easy target to focus all that built-up rage on, but is killing me really going to help you achieve any of your goals? No! Think about it - when it all comes down to it, who sent you on that mission to Naboo in the first place? Who made sure the Jedi and, by extension, Kenobi would be there to kill you? Who used you as a dejarik piece and then cast you aside the second you outlived your usefulness?”

Beneath him, Maul slowly stills in his struggle, still panting heavily. Hound and Nuisance don’t let it deter them in their vigilance, because they’re damn good vod’e and possess an ounce of common sense.

“And, look, I get it. I could spend the rest of my life punching every civilian who spits on me in the streets and it would even be satisfying. I could hit back the Senators who think of clones as easy targets. Or - I can aim my sights at who’s on top. And I think you know who I mean, because you know as well as I do the same damn man has ruined both our lives.”

Kenobi makes an alarmed noise, and Maul an interested one - not that Fox is going to let him walk out of this place awake. Still, he tilts his head in a way he hopes conveys his helmeted grin successfully to non-vod, as well as the bloodlust behind it. “You’re also welcome for the fact that the Chancellor won’t have heard of your spontaneous resurrection yet, by the way. You’ll retain your element of surprise instead of gambling it away on petty revenge on Kenobi.”

“He cut me in half!”

“He killed my master!”

Fox waves their protests away.

“Also, that’s treason!”, Kenobi adds, sputtering. Fox grins. Kenobi purses his lips, and continues. petulantly, “…do you have any proof?”

“So. Much. Proof”, says Nuisance, dreamily. “Like, do you want it alphabetically or by date?”

Which is when the Duchess, of all people, bursts out into barking, crazed laughter.

“You - you’ve certainly given yourself an edge in that fight, Marshall Commander”, she wheezes, brushing tears from her eyes. Fox raises his eyebrows at her, which she somehow seems to be able to tell, because she gestures at the clunky handle dangling from his belt.

“What, this old thing?” He unclasps the black rectangle from its hook, holding it up in the air. Maul stills strangely beneath him, and Kenobi goes ghostly pale again. Fox is starting to get a bad feeling.

“I took it off Viszla and beat him over the head with it. I figured he’d taken it off a Jedi cadet or something. What? Why are you looking at me like that?”

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Which Death would you Rather Meet????

(I can't move Testament's Hair in SFM for some reason...)

[daylighteclipsed]

“All this time, I’ve tried to push the darkness away…”

[edenchoir]

✥ the mask is off, I'm finally free ✥

In which the Warrior of Darkness, finally accepts Fray's offer to run away together and live a life of their own choosing. Set up for Tural for M'lai.

Her deciding factor is and always has been, one living shadow.

[queenie-ofthe-void]

Star Wars: The Acolyte

Episodes 1-5: This is fine

Episode 6: fuckfuckfuckfuck! reylo sleeper agent activated kicking my feet and squealing OH MY GOD YEEEEEEEES

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

QUESTION: How was the Chancellor not impeached after that entire Zillo Beast deal-y? like,,,, a huge part of courscant was destroyed and thousands of lifes were lost and yea he did it to "strengthen the clones armour" (cap, I think but whatever), but the Jedi warned him SO MANY TIMES TO NOT BRING THE ZILLO BEAST TO COURSCANT and dude was just like "lol trust me bro"??? like WHAT??

Also the entire senate just didn't know this was happening until the beast was destroying the city, like that is not democracy anymore, HOW DID HE NOT GET FIRED RIGHT THEN AND THERE

bonus:

Rex being like "a lot of the generals (Anakins) plans involve falling" was brilliant

bonus bonus: in the first part when anakin and mace stun the beast and then mace is like "you sure it worked?" and anakin just goes "yea. you go first." I'M HOWLING --

[howlingday]

Hey Ruby, why don't you get a secondary weapon as well. In fact, i have a perfect selection for you and jaune.

They're called mercy & redemption. Twin pistols of a great warrior. They'd look great for a lovely couple like yourselves

(Darksiders 2)

Ruby: Crescent Rose is all the weapon I need.

Jaune: And, uh, we're not a couple. We're just friends.

Ruby: Yeah, we're not together like that. Well, we're together, just not together-togeth- Oh god...

Jaune: We, uh, we should go...

[thewittyphantom]

Someone with a lot of time on their hands gave every Duel Links character the Joey chin face.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/105zoy9/i_decided_to_give_every_character_in_the_game_the/

[viralarcadian]

please elaborate on steve im very curious and know literally nothing ab his source

he's steve burnside from resident evil code veronica!

the long and short of code veronica is that claire redfield (one of the protagonists from RE2) gets caught infiltrating an umbrella location (evil company behind all the zombie outbreaks and horrible human experiments) and sent to their private prison, owned by one of umbrellas founding families (the ashfords) and literally the first night she's there an outbreak happens. steve is also there, and for the most part he's off doing his own thing and only very briefly a playable character. the reason HES there is because his dad worked for umbrella and sold company secrets, and for that they shot his mom in the head and dumped both him and his dad in the private prison. he ends up shooting his dad later bc he became a victim of the outbreak and got zombie'd

w/o going too much into the larger aspects of the plot regarding the ashfords, the second half of the game takes place in an antarctic umbrella base, and steve gets captured there, gets infected by the villains, and turns into a monster. he very briefly tries to kill you, but then regains his senses and saves your/claire's life at the cost of his own, and dies.

he's a very.. divisive character among RE fans, despite literally only appearing in this game (and technically in a retelling in a later game). a lot of people found him annoying bc of his voice in the original, bc he almost gets himself killed in an honestly stupid way such that the player is forced to drop everything and save him, bc he has an attitude and comes off as a tryhard, and bc there's been a rumor for literal decades that he was a last minute replacement for leon, the other protagonist from RE2, and so came to be thought of as an inferior copy of a better character

granted he's not. handled well. he flits in and out the story and doesn't really contribute much in terms of being an active presence, and the bit where he nearly kills himself bc of his own actions when the solution is right in front of him doesn't exactly leave a good impression.

but he's also just a regular teen who got dragged into all this against his will. he's a scared high schooler trying to put up a front both bc he doesn't want to look lame in front of the girl he has a crush on, and because if he doesn't he'll start screaming and never stop

[engagemythrusters]

yo do you think Vader executing Fox was just a little bit payback for Fives?

[thebunsquad]

Hey everybunny~ #BunSquad After a few months of silence, we are finally back. Let's go over all the videos we are planning to put out for the rest of the year. 

[manguaiya]

knives is my pet freak

[ct-hardcase]

looking up squ*d g*me stuff in the tag and I get getting attached to doomed characters (trust me, I get it), but the amount of series I look at tags for that are just in complete denial that characters die and refuse to engage with those series on that level boggles the mind like why are you watching the "this is a tragedy and people die" media if you don't want to at least engage with that to a certain extent

[sad-trash-hobo]

You know what. I get why Anakin went to the darkside. You're gonna show me the Phantom Menace and hear Qui Gon tell Anakins mother that he isn't there to free the slaves, just pick up her son on a whim. And then to have him go and return Jabbas son, JABBAS SON, back to him? After he was owned by Gardulla? And no one says that that was inappropriate to have him do. And then in the Zygeria arc for Anakin to be upset about slavers, as he should, and Obi Wan tell Ahsoka that Anakin and his mother were sold into slavery so it's a touchy subject for him. He wasn't even sold into slavery. He was born into it! And this was Obi Wan, Anakins supposed brother? Shocking that Anakin would feel so betrayed and undervalued that he would go to the dark side. Anakin shouldn't have ever been a jedi. He should've been in therapy on Naboo with his wife. I love you Obi Wan, but you really did fail and I also hate you, in this essay I will-

[nym-wibbly]

Were they actually planning to write Castiel out of the story at this point?

The whole Supernatural season 6 'Cas-going-darkside via a road paved with good intentions' arc aggressively signposts a permanent swansong, like he was either meant to die and stay dead or... I dunno. Stay darkside and appear once a season from now on as guest antagonist to twist the knife in the Winchester feels?

And then he's absent for most of the following season and comes back at a really odd point in the season for a recurring character to... recur... after that exit in 7x02. And with the oddest handwave about where he's been. Then he's around for keeps 'til the end of the run. It's... odd!

I watched Supernatural knowing for sure that Misha Collins stuck around 'til the end (and little else), so I've had this cognitive dissonance thing going on ever since Cas/not-Cas exploded with black ooze in S7. Help?

Tell me a thing that you know and I don't, please, old hands of the SPN fandom? What went on there?

UPDATE: Thanks to @searchingcassiopeia I now know that this was an unforced error/own goal. And that I'm not going bonkers because this was indeed written as a swansong.