The Darkling literally put Alina in A COLLAR.
SHE IS HIS PET. UNDER HIS OWNERSHIP???
Like okay there’s symbolism and quiet manipulation. Then there’s THIS. It’s so loud and in your face. He violated her, her powers and body. He chained her up to use as a slave.
AND GENYA. He might not have known what type of abuse she would endure, but he knew what kind of people he was handing her over to and that’s exactly the point. The power imbalance. She was a little girl and he didn’t give her a second thought. She was surrounded by men who tore her apart with a lift of a finger. With inaction.
Some of y’all just shrug and move on for aesthetics and I truly don’t get it???
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I just love that Iris’ main pawn ends up looking exactly like her mother but the voice is different and it’s all wrong and all horrible to her. A constant reminder of her grief she must carry around with her. She can’t stand to look at her main pawn at first and when her pawn dies the first time, she leaves her in the rift for a very long time and goes about her life as Arisen on her own.
But eventually, after coming across quil wandering aimlessly in her world, she asks him to join her and breaks down and summons her main pawn, finally naming her after her mother.
But when all of the events are said and done, phaesus, quil and Iris all suffer grief twice over when pawn Gwyn sacrifices herself for a better world.
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it honestly tiCKLES me every time i think about the beginning of s2 and how it’s repeatedly emphasised by canon that buck’s a lil obsessed with eddie at the start askdjfs like it’s not just “oh here’s a new best friend for buck - they’re gonna hang out and be bros and have each other’s backs!” it’s literally just buck over and over again showing the audience that he thinks eddie is the Coolest and Nicest person ever and did you know he’s also a Really Great dad and his kid is super adorable???????????
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in an au where panem still had modem music, what if sejanus was just really into angsty angry stuff. like he comes home from school and blasts linkin park for hours. he was an emotional teenager with like one friend at best and i think we should give that man some bmth or ffdp or something
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If Rodion had to pick an Identity to use, she'd have to pick her Kurokumo one.
Sure, it wasn't like Dieci, with its near-comical strength, nor was it like Rosespanner, who could knock even the steadiest of opponents off-balance, but when Dante first set her Kurokumo Identity over her? Something clicked.
It was as if the world felt right again.
Unfortunately, that... rightness didn't last forever; once the run, be it to supply fuel for the Mephistopheles or a Mirror Dungeon, was over and Dante rescinded their Identities, the hole that her other self filled came back.
It was... upsetting, of course, but she knew it was a stopgap solution to her predicament. Didn't mean she couldn't grouch about it, even though she never outwardly voiced those complaints.
(And maybe, a small part of her murmured in the dead of night, maybe she simply missed when times were simpler. A time where she felt unstoppable, slashing at her enemies with a wild grin and whirling across the battlefield with the grace of a dancer, hollering taunts over hordes of opponents and challenging them to send their strongest...
It hurt to know that no contract the company gave her would ever get her back there.)
Besides, 'The Kurokumo Clan' had a nice ring to it; Calling your Syndicate "The Dark Cloud" in her nati saku the Fourth Language of The City was definitely badass.
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I swear to god if you call Good omens queerbait I am going to rip off your scalp and insert the definition of queerbait into your skull
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ace/riddle/floyd - nonary game
"We shouldn't trust him," says Ace, whose voice is a little rueful and whose watch reads 6; "Like, c'mon, when did he do a single thing that made any sense while we were in that room with him?"
Never, if Riddle's being honest--which is exactly why he can't shake the trepidation lingering in the hollows of his chest. Floyd is erratic, the type to get bored and wander off in the middle of a death game, and that means at this very moment on a whim he might be pressing Ally with just a single point left on his bracelet--or he might very well be pressing Betray.
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