[Off of my hand. Flew a snow white dove. Watch it disappear into the sun. Your's a halo. For dreams that sounded does. Words are all on the page. And tears and blood.]
Oh man... just realised that when og shen qingqiu left the caves and immedietly had to deal with the whole ass demon attack by himself he had also just finished watching liu qingge kill himself in qi deviation after trying to help him not die, knowing everyone was going to blame him anyways.
Like, failing to save your rival, knowing you're going to be blamed for his death, being the only person with the power and responsibility to defeat an entire demon army while in a presumably delicate place with your own cultivation and physical ability, watching the little sister of the rival you just failed to save lose her fight and apologize to you, and then the brat you stole from your dearly departed rival wins his match instead of dying like you maybe set him up for
Since it feels like all I've done is complain about stuff lately, how about something more fun? I had these GIFs prepped but not rendered when my computer died and now as I'm reinstalling everything, I thought I'd see if my Vegas survived. So, let me present to you... Halo: Reach - Noble Six's adventures with Mongeese!
I was playing Pillar of Autumn for funsies a while back when I realized that, although I could still hear Emile, he wasn't following me on his Mongoose like he usually would've been. I backtracked and something caught my attention from the corner of my eye...
There's usually a spare Mongoose there but, errrr, what was happening here? 👀 So I went into the Theater to catch it from a different angle because, well, I'll show you what I thought I saw in the last GIF in this post. 😲😉
Another angle shows... umm? 👀
Yeah, for some reason (probably me backtracking and hitting the load zone again or something), a second Mongoose spawned out of the first. 👀 (I poked it to see if it was real or not, lol! Yep, it was solid!)
But, honestly, the whole situation abruptly felt cursed so I abandoned all three and went looking for Emile on foot. I found his Mongoose but no Emile. (Apparently he fell off a cliff or something because he eventually just spawned into the next section out of nowhere. 🤷♀️)
Sometimes, Things™ just happen to Emile. 👀👀👀
Anyway, I decided to take his ride and...
But, like I said, I'll show you exactly what I THOUGHT I saw out of the corner of my eye at the start. Yes, I legit made a GIF of this. No, there's no need to thank me. I'm just happy to be able to put this here for your eyeballs to see. Enjoy, friends, as a gift from me to you! 😜
All right, so you've quite possibly seen everything, now that you've seen some frisky Halo Mongeese, lol! 😂
Something something how can you not believe in something higher after seeing the total solar eclipse? How can you not feel even a little in awe of the design of the universe, in awe of whatever had crafted galaxies from stardust and decided to love us enough to allow us to see its crown of silver for at least a few moments? How can you not feel the blessing of existence itself when the planets and stars and other heavenly bodies themselves have come together in the exact positioning to grant us a look at a thing so wonderful it does not feel real?
How can you not love the universe's loving hands shaping the world just so we can experience something so divine?
your kimchay gifset made me wonder if they specifically had the light fixture in the club placed to give chay a little halo. would be kinda fitting with the last moment being one of kim pulling him away from it
that's a good catch, anon! i hadn’t even realized it looked like a halo, honestly. i’d place my bets on it probably being purposeful; he’s the only one situated directly in front of it, and backlighting in general can be used to indicate innocence, which he’s bathed in here. it makes sense, given that chay’s in a situation where his inexperience is glaring and someone is taking advantage of him (see: giving him drugs when he is not sober enough to consent). which is why when kim, all hellbent and leather-clad, swoops in and physically removes him from it, it comes off as both a little chivalric and a little ironic. he’s getting him out of there, but he’s the reason chay chose to put himself in that situation to begin with.
or, you know, it’s simply there to set him out as the focal character of the scene and there’s no symbolism to be found—but given the context, i doubt it!
Dunno if you know abt him but how abt master chief?
oh my god so. ive never played a halo game for the plot, but i do remember playing in some of the custom (?) maps when older cousins would set up the xbox for me. and i remember reading online as a kid that Cortana was a little projection in Master Chief’s helmet and that was like. one of the first instances of g/t my brain CLUNG to and i know NOTHING about these characters but i adored whatever made up narrative like 9 year old me gave them in my head of Master Chief and his Tiny Robot Projection. SO
tiny | average | giant | size-shifter | other
average bc I love the idea of him with tiny Cortana. still know nothing abt these guys but i love them