#gil's thoughts

[terraco-07]

Considering writing character analysis stuff for BG3 women since I think they don't get as much love in comparison.

[royaltea000]

he could not control the class 😔

[youmisguidedmartyr]

What if you were born during a WAR and your dad became a STAR and your mum became a BIRD and your people were KILLED and then you and your twin were KIDNAPPED and then your kidnappers either DIED or fucked off to the BEACH and then your twin chose a MORTAL LIFE and then you became a HERALD and then your King got given a really cool RING but there was ANOTHER WAR because SAURON WAS ACTUALLY the RING GUY and then your King DIES and then your wife gets ATTACKED and then she SAILS and then your Foster son falls in LOVE with your DAUGHTER and then there's ANOTHER FUCKING WAR because SAURON IS BACK and then your daughter also chooses a MORTAL fucking LIFE and then you just FUCK OFF TOO but your twin sons didn't make up their MINDS

[fukutomichi]

Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-Galad, Lord of the High Elves Sam Hazeldine as Adar, Lord-father of the Uruks S2.E1 ∙ Elven Kings Under the Sky | S2.E2 ∙ Where the Stars are Strange

[gillionmeowstrider]

absence of warmth.

based off this post by @theratdruid

[humaudrey]

I'm rewatching D1 for fic reasons and this scene just came to me:

Fairy Godmother: If someone hands you a crying baby, do you: A) Curse It, B) Lock It In A Tower, C) Give It A Bottle, or D) Carve Out Its Heart?

Uma: Trick question, because if the baby's parents are villains, you leave them to rot on the Isle where they learn to fend for themselves.

Mal:

Evie:

Carlos:

Gil:

Harry:

Jay:

Fairy Godmother: Uh–

Uma: I mean, you're the heroes, that's what you guys did. So doesn't that mean it's the right thing to do?

Fairy Godmother: Uma, you've done such a good job today, I actually think you should be exempt from this class for the rest of the semester.

Uma: Actually, I think I'll stay.

[olessan]

(x)

[gilbirda]

DPxDC Prompt: Wrong Number Jazz edition

Based on this amazing post I saw

"Danny, it's been a week. Sam said you took the phone with this number. Everything alright?"

"Please. It's been a month now. I just want to know if you are alive."

"I won't look for you. I know I promised. But you promised to check in."

"The funeral was today. They didn't attend, forgot what day it was."

"I miss you."

Jason came back from a Outlaw out-of-the-grid mission finding messages from an Unknown number. A quick check gave him a name and address, and also news about a missing little brother. The more he searched the fishier it all looked.

Good thing he didn't unpack his things yet.

[neversetyoufree]

Alright. Okay.

So the entire time I've been reading VnC, I've been assuming that Noé is the sole known survivor of the Archivistes in a relatively normal way. I've been assuming that something happened to the Archiviste clan within Noé's lifetime, just before his human "grandparents" found him in the snow. Obviously I wondered about what happened—who slaughtered them if they were killed and what else might have happened if they aren't all dead as we've been told, but I never questioned the timeline. I assumed that the Archivistes must have been alive and kicking until recently, even if Noé's last remaining family was living in hiding from the rest of vampire society or something like that.

But. We don't actually know that that's true. We don't know a single thing about the timeline of the Archivistes' extermination other than what Nox says about them having all died "long ago." Noé is nineteen years old, and we have no idea how old Nox is. Could the fifteen to seventeen years between Noé's first adoption and the present day be enough to count as long ago?

This is Jun Mochizuki we're talking about. There is extensive precedent in her work (by way of Pandora Hearts) for characters turning up seemingly out of nowhere, often with no memory, and in Pandora Hearts, these cases never had a simple answer. It was always caused by the time-bending properties of the Abyss.

It is entirely within the realm of possibility for the rest of the Archiviste clan to have died years, decades, or even a century or more before Noé was found by his human grandparents. We don't have precedent yet for anything that messes with time in VnC like PH's Abyss, so I don't know how this could have happened, but I don't think we can fully discount the possibility. The outer bounds of world formula rewriting as a power are yet to be fully explored, so it's hard to say firmly that anything's impossible. There might be a way for Noé to exist in the present even if the rest of his clan was killed well over nineteen years ago (be it by PH style time-bending or by some entirely different mechanism).

It's still possible (and even likely) that the Archivistes died or disappeared less than twenty years ago, but it's not quite the concrete fact that I've been thinking of it as this entire time. It's entirely possible that Noé's backstory contains Mochizuki Timeline Fuckery, and now that I've had that thought, I can't unsee it. The author of Pandora Hearts going out of her way to say that her protagonist was found mysteriously alone and crying with no memory of how he got that way is. conspicuous as hell.

[thesummerestsolstice]

Underrated Eldritch Peredhel: Earendil. Specifically, I love Earendil because he kind of starts out "normal," just being the child of an elf and a man. But then he marries the part-Maiarin Elwing, who's great-grandmother Melian affected her husband so much that he's described as being like a Maia lord afterwards. He steps foot on Aman, which in some of Tolkien's texts also physically changes him. He murders a giant dragon and doesn't die afterwards. He's nearly constantly exposed to the Silmaril. Like you know how Aman's light is supposed to be too much for mortals. And the SIlmarils have the remnants of Aman's light. And Earendil has mortal blood.

This is more headcanon but I also believe that no incarnate would naturally be able to do what Earendil does, sailing through the sky and void, possibly fighting the unknowable creatures in it. Varda had to give Earendil some power for him to be able to be Gil-Estel. I've also seen something about him being gifted wings but I forget where.

Just, imagine Earendil, the young sailor just setting out from Sirion, a man with elvish grace, or an elf with mannish features. And then imagine Gil-Estel, the warrior clad in dragon-scale armor, who's lived with the Silmaril for so long that the light shines from within him now. Who burns with Varda's hallowed radiance, so much that the creatures of the void can't even bear to look upon him. Who trails stardust and smiles with teeth that are just a bit too sharp. Who looks more in place aside Tilion and Arien than he does among elves or men.

I also firmly believe that Elrond was able to visit Earendil on the Vingelot– visiting a flying ship is much easier when you can turn into a bird, after all– and that the magic there also affected him, but that's a different post...

[lilcathsmith]

Love watching CSI because no matter how bad my day is going, Sara Sidle and Nick Stokes are always having a worse one

[terraco-07]

Fully just intending to ramble here so don't expect an articulate essay. I'm just thinking about Shadowheart right now. Also I'll tag but major spoilers below the cut.

The amount of childhood trauma this girl goes through. Not only is she physically and mentally abused she's raised as someone who is supposed to idealize this way of living. Instead of looking and seeing a person across the room she inherently knows every way she could physically bring them harm and a slew of ways she could possibly figure out how to do it emotionally.

It just makes me go insane a little at the thought of how many times she'd probably dread going to the mirror but also maybe welcome it? The thoughts of hurting people would go away, she wouldn't feel that guilt anymore. Wondering what must have been going on inside her mind during all of that. Growing up in a place where she was encouraged to fight and hurt but disciplined for caring for an animal.

I think the fact that she's gone through all of this and still has this core of her fighting it so hard while you travel with her. The way that she can lean into kindness and caring. Things that are basically sacrilegious to Shar. Idk I'm rotating her around in my head and I can just picture this constant fight and confusion. Talk about someone who's constantly at war with themselves, but never stopping moving forward. She's such a survivor, and I love her for it.

[elffromforests]

I love that when Galadriel ponders who Elrond could have gone to with the rings, she says, "It is someone wiser than us whose voice will carry authority even for you, King."

Gil Galad:"it will hurt me .Fuck"

[iminye]

It came to me in a vision

[royaltea000]

teutemp is so funny cuz it’s Gil’s healthiest relationship but only cuz they’re both dead

[proosh]

[both of them sitting in a trench] West I’m not calling you a “good boy” this war is shit